The Bob Cesca Podcast: Barney Rubble Hair

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Barney Rubble Hair — [Explicit Language] Eric Herschmann warned Trump about the top secret files. Trump knows he broke the law. Judge Dearie pressures Trump on declassification. Tiny Trump’s weirdo rally had a creepy Q-themed musical score. We get letters! Tucker Carlson joins Matt Walsh’s crusade against Children’s Hospital. Fake brochures given to migrants. Texas sheriff launches investigation into DeSantis. Republican Jesus. Trump trolled Joe Biden but it backfired. With Buzz Burbank, music by The Metal Byrds, Seth Adam, and more!

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 2:42:28pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2022 • 2:43:00pm

Thread. 5 tweets.

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EPR-radar  Sep 20, 2022 • 2:46:28pm

re: #2 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

This shit is why I have no patience for both-sides motherfuckers. There is no “both sides” when one side is a fascist death cult and the other side isn’t.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2022 • 2:48:00pm

Picking up from downstairs RE: Why is ESPN ignoring the Brett Favre thing when they gave wall-to-wall coverage to the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal?

Well, as with most things in America, there may be a racial component.

At the same time, Michael Vick was an active player in (arguably) the prime of his career when he was arrested (he’d had two of his best seasons, including an appearance in the NFC championship game, in the years prior to the scandal) and was considered one of the more noteworthy players in the league at the time.

Favre on the other hand has been retired for over a decade and has barely been involved with the NFL at all (aside from a few promotional appearances as far as I know) since stepping off the field.

I think in most cases a major scandal involving a current player will draw more interest than one involving a retired player (there are exceptions of course, I’m sure the media would be wall-to-wall coverage if Michael Jordan was arrested for child sex crimes next week).

But despite all this, I’m still of the opinion the racial component is the most likely explanation.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:01:35pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:02:24pm

re: #1 jaunte

THEY. WERE. NOT. UNAUTHORIZED.

They were Asylum seekers who had EVERY FUCKING RIGHT TO BE HERE.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:06:02pm

But but but they’re the party of law and order.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:06:59pm

OMGLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:07:52pm

re: #7 Patricia Kayden

I cannot think of anyone who deserve it more than those two.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:10:12pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

What in the actual hell is he talking about?

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:12:44pm

re: #7 Patricia Kayden

But but but they’re the party of law and order.

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yeah that one !!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:12:54pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

What in the actual hell is he talking about?

He’s ranting at clouds, as usual.

Trump knows his goose is cooked if he can’t foment a reactionary revolution.

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:14:17pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

OMGLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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nailed it

re: #180 Dangerman

they’re already warming up for the inevitable:

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:16:42pm

Texas Republicans say “Have some more methane, Earth.”

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I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:16:45pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

Picking up from downstairs RE: Why is ESPN ignoring the Brett Favre thing when they gave wall-to-wall coverage to the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal?

Well, as with most things in America, there may be a racial component.

At the same time, Michael Vick was an active player in (arguably) the prime of his career when he was arrested (he’d had two of his best seasons, including an appearance in the NFC championship game, in the years prior to the scandal) and was considered one of the more noteworthy players in the league at the time.

Favre on the other hand has been retired for over a decade and has barely been involved with the NFL at all (aside from a few promotional appearances as far as I know) since stepping off the field.

I think in most cases a major scandal involving a current player will draw more interest than one involving a retired player (there are exceptions of course, I’m sure the media would be wall-to-wall coverage if Michael Jordan was arrested for child sex crimes next week).

But despite all this, I’m still of the opinion the racial component is the most likely explanation.

Michael Vick killed dogs with his own two hands. Favre stole money. Both are assholes, but only one murdered dogs.

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sagehen  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:19:22pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

But despite all this, I’m still of the opinion the racial component is the most likely explanation.

That’s certainly a contributing factor.

But also… people really like dogs. A lot more than they like hungry Mississippians.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:19:59pm

re: #16 sagehen

Especially hungry Black Mississippians.

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Targetpractice  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:24:07pm

re: #139 Charles Johnson

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Team Trump is basically wanting the courts to agree that the documents being classified or not is irrelevant, that this is a “document storage/overdue library book” scenario where the FBI overreached by executing a search warrant instead of allowing Donny to keep stringing them along until they either gave up in frustration or started offering him more than others were offering to get the papers back.

Failing that, they want to drag out the litigation of the classified nature of the documents to a future criminal trial where they’ll stand in front of a jury and argue in a totally unashamed fashion that it’s the government’s job to prove Donny didn’t declassify those clearly marked documents rather than his to prove he declassified them in keeping with federal guidelines.

tl;dr: They’re acting like a bunch of ambulance chasers who are trying to argue that their client is the victim and that the system is at fault.

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darthstar  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:25:58pm
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Targetpractice  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:26:18pm

re: #1 jaunte

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GQP: “There’s no money in the budget for anything other than defense spending and tax cuts. We are strapped so tightly that we have to cut all other spending just to avoid economic meltdown!”

Also GQP: “We can totally afford to burn millions weekly staging campaign publicity stunts as part of an overall effort to spend tens of billions ‘securing the border’!”

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gocart mozart  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:27:50pm

Scribd Document

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:28:46pm

re: #18 Targetpractice

The government hasn’t been arguing about the classification until Trump decided to. The government just wants their stuff and Trump says it’s all his.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:31:38pm

TFG is used to bullying people and getting his way in court.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:33:01pm

re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg

Where he usually looses.

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:43:57pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

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Thanks directly to the Governors of Texas and Florida, assisted by compliant Republican Congress toadies, anti-USA propaganda sources inside Venezuela and around the world can now say correctly that it is the United States that commits human trafficking violations, kidnapping, deception against refugees and racist behavior.

They are not wrong. This of course will mean nothing to the MAGA 35%, whose only concern is the humiliation, diminishment and elimination of everyone not them.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:49:38pm

re: #19 darthstar

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Come on Merle

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darthstar  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:51:10pm

re: #26 HRH Stanley Sea

Come on Merle

Merle doesn’t have the lift since he had both knees done. He’ll jump, but only on his terms. Milo is like fuckin’ Tigger.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:52:30pm

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:53:34pm

In other news, the “Stand Your Ground” laws are working exactly as they are intended.

In other words, if you are white, you can stand your ground. If you are not white, go to jail.

news.yahoo.com

100% guarantee if the situation were a white motorist being harassed by a car full of black teens, the authorities would have pinned a medal on him. Forget any prosecution or jail.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:54:03pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Corn on the cob, jello salad, lefse.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:55:10pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Cheese Steaks, Soft Pretzels and Birch Beer.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:56:16pm

re: #24 PhillyPretzel

Where he usually looses.

Hence the adult diapers.

Oh… loses.

Never mind.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:56:28pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

Maple syrup, poutine and Smoked Meat sandwiches.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:58:41pm

re: #18 Targetpractice

They’re acting like a bunch of ambulance chasers who are trying to argue that their client is the victim and that the system is at fault.

I expect that the trial will go down something like this:

Youtube Video

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 20, 2022 • 3:59:26pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Coney Island hotdogs & Vernor’s ginger ale

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darthstar  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:01:50pm

Getting out of Russia is getting expensive.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:01:57pm

Here’s the full quote from Judge Dearie regarding the “declassification” garbage. I hadn’t seen the full statement before, but this… this is exactly how things are SUPPOSED to work.

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:02:00pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Barbecue, fried chicken, Cheerwine

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:03:16pm

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

Roast beef, lobsters, chop suey sandwiches

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:03:54pm

A totally elegant way to center an element in the window horizontally and vertically without knowing either width or height of the element, with pure CSS.

.element {
position: fixed;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
transform: translate( -50%, -50%);
}

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Targetpractice  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:03:55pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

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Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

Country ham, blue crabs, and peanuts.

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dat_said  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:03:55pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

I can answer that question and most people still would likely only have wild guesses -

Küchen, knoephla soup, and fleischkuekle

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:04:32pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Fish tacos, microbrewery IPA, Santa Maria style tri-tip

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:07:42pm

re: #42 dat_said

I could do the same, but it’d be in a more generic fashion: Apples, fresh fish, and beer.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:10:35pm

Try that css code once more and see if it Prism picks it up now:

.element {
<br>  position: fixed;
<br>  left: 50%;
<br>  top: 50%;
<br>  transform: translate( -50%, -50%);
<br>}
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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:15:01pm

It’s nice to have a non-racist President

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:15:14pm

I have had this mixer for 10 years and it is the best! But I still use my 40-year-old Hobart.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:18:32pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:18:53pm

Ha! Still a little work to do on that syntax highlighter, so the code can be edited.

.element {
  position: fixed;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translate( -50%, -50%);
}
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sagehen  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:18:56pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

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Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

Place of my younger years:

Teriyaki pastrami burrito, guacamole pizza, chili cheeseburger.

Place of current residence:

Cheesecake. Egg cream. Bacon, egg and cheese on a roll.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:23:24pm

Chablis, sour dough bread, Dungeness crab.

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Dizzy  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:24:08pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

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Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

Beavertails and poutine.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:24:13pm

….

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Egregious Philbin  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:26:54pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Quesadillas, chimichangas.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:27:41pm

Pho, chicken tikka, tacos, Shiner Bock.

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:27:43pm

re: #37 Dopamine Fish

Here’s the full quote from Judge Dearie regarding the “declassification” garbage. I hadn’t seen the full statement before, but this… this is exactly how things are SUPPOSED to work.

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Trumps lawyers are looking up what prima facia means

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:27:47pm

Pot roast, mashed potatoes, cinnamon rolls on Sunday.

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A Cranky One  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:37:23pm

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Egregious Philbin  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:37:36pm

re: #55 jaunte

Sounds like Silicon Austin!

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:38:14pm

re: #59 Egregious Philbin

Houston and points west!

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:38:24pm

re: #52 Dizzy

Beavertails and poutine.

Soda, heroes, corned beef sandwiches, Ray’s pizza

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:40:50pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

French fries and coleslaw in the sandwich, kielbasa, pierogies.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:42:48pm

re: #57 Barefoot Grin

Pot roast, mashed potatoes, cinnamon rolls on Sunday.

Ohh… Sunday dinner: fried chicken, corn on the cob, apple pie (the crust made with real fat.)

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:43:14pm

Pesto and bacon focaccia
Cauliflower gratin

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:44:26pm

re: #64 Dangerman

That’s dinner…where we are, not where we’re from…

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LadyBehir  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:48:42pm

Middleswarth BBQ chips, cosmos (not the drink), teaberry ice cream, birch beer.

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:48:56pm

Re the migrants suing desantis et al…rando:

“Sending them to an area that is overrun with activist lawyers just to own the libs may not have been the brightest idea.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:56:31pm

re: #67 Dangerman

Re the migrants suing desantis et al…rando:

DeSantis gets to pull the stunt. Florida’s voters get to pay the bill.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 4:59:20pm
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Dizzy  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:00:11pm

This would be nice

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:02:33pm

hi

We’ve had no access to Internet service so I thought I would check in and let everyone know we are still alive (for now). I’ll also create a page for the right-hand column of stuff I took photos of, though I am a crap photographer so don’t judge.

The Nebraska Sandhills Tropical Update on Hurricane Fiona, on location along the path in St. Anthony, Newfoundland.

According to both Environment Canada and the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Fiona is located approximately over the Turks and Caicos Islands. Fiona is over very warm waters and is expected to rapidly intensify to a major hurricane as it accellerates toward Newfoundland.

Environment Canada Hurricane Tracking Map

If the storm follows the track precisely, we will be on the strong side of the storm (circular wind speed plus forward motion). Moreover, wind will drive storm surge into the harbour. (Checks location: I am two metres above sea level three hundred metres from the harbour. Crap.)

This could also put a crimp in the ferry service to Labrador; we’ll have to see. I just called the ferry service and they said they’re keeping an eye on the weather.

In the meantime, tomorrow we are taking an outing to L’Anse au Meadows, the site of a Viking village and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:03:06pm

They had a US postal truck run off an overpass on I75 in Allen, Tx earlier today. It caught on fire, killing the driver. Initial reports seem to indicate he was reacting to another driver.

wfaa.com

(The video for the news feed started with “Beto O’Rourke, abortion extremist” which was annoying.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:05:57pm

remember this recent thing?

Youtube Video

I just found this from six years ago; Ken wasn’t pretending:

Youtube Video

yowser

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gocart mozart  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:07:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:09:12pm
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:11:49pm

re: #56 Dangerman

Trumps lawyers are looking up what prima facia means

Probably the same as prima facie.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:14:47pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:15:09pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:18:39pm

re: #74 gocart mozart

I am dying

bW8zZkZxbytBdHk3dUhSNFVLd3daMGhURmNzYnlPdW5PbG9VVi9ycFczMGNtNU5YNitmUDlaVkVGQTB1QXQ2LzJKSUsyM3p4MDJPeVUyRFFIM3hvM2c9PTo6yVCOAE+QkxYtYM1LaQZHXQ==

Dropkick Murphys - “Going Out In Style” (Official Video)

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A Mom Anon  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:24:31pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

This is one of the right wing sites my brother and dad watch online. OMG what crap. I’m not sure whether it’s heartbreaking or infuriating. Both, which makes me want to smack people with furniture, maybe a random power tool.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:24:48pm

Butterflies and Lighthouses (goes to the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs)

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TedStriker  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:26:16pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

Two words: Hot. Chicken.

(well, actually three, but that third word would just give it all away.)

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ipsos  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:27:18pm

re: #74 gocart mozart

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The cool part of this is that it’s parodying an actual Boston reporter who makes videos like this that have drawn a big following:

And the cooler part is…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:30:08pm

re: #77 jaunte

And there are also the brochures.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:31:40pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:35:15pm

Digging into this old LGF code in such depth has me thinking of ways to improve the overall architecture. It isn’t terrible now, but it could use some better organizing methods.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:35:55pm

The St. Louis story is beginning.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:37:03pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:40:34pm

Lesson learned in Canada.

Do not put a cold cup of Tim Horton’s coffee in a microwave to heat it up again.

The cup will still catch fire.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:40:45pm

Orange juice, fried chicken, & steak.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:41:49pm

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lesson learned in Canada.

Do not put a cold cup of Tim Horton’s coffee in a microwave to heat it up again.

The cup will still catch fire.

My friend, I have questions. All of them.

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:41:56pm

re: #76 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Probably the same as prima facie.

True
I copied it from the tweet so as not to embarass wortman ;-)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:42:01pm

James Taylor’s child haz skillz

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:42:45pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:43:24pm

re: #91 Dopamine Fish

My friend, I have questions. All of them.

I did that yesterday. As it turns out, paper cups will burn even with liquid in them. They then fill your hotel room with smoke and the owner gets annoyed.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:44:16pm
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:44:30pm

re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I did that yesterday. As it turns out, paper cups will burn even with liquid in them. They then fill your hotel room with smoke and the owner gets annoyed.

Yes, I know that. I guess I did not realize that others did not know this. It is a useful lesson for someone who travels.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:45:26pm

re: #82 TedStriker

Two words: Hot. Chicken.

(well, actually three, but that third word would just give it all away.)

The original restaurant being destroyed by fire was a loss of a cultural icon.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:47:24pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hangi.

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:48:02pm

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Learned the hard way about re-heating a Chick-fil-a sandwich at the office. Microwave was sparking bad. Must have been the Flying Spaghetti Monster punishing me for buying something at that heathen outfit! Happened 2 years ago. Have not gone back since!

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Jay C  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:48:52pm

re: #98 BeenHereAwhile

Mystery references, btw: can you enlighten us ?

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:48:54pm

Whoa.

Youtube Video

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retired cynic  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:50:52pm
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steve_davis  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:51:48pm

re: #51 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Sweet potato pie, hi octane sweet tea, and road kill possum on the fancy eating table.

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darthstar  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:52:47pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:52:58pm

So, the DHS will not be protecting poll workers.

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darthstar  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:53:44pm

re: #85 Patricia Kayden

It’s times like this when I wish Trump’s ISP would shut down his social media shithole for lack of payment.

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:57:07pm

re: #106 GlutenFreeJesus

So, the DHS will not be protecting poll workers.

?

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:57:59pm

re: #107 darthstar

It’s times like this when I wish Trump’s ISP would shut down his social media shithole for lack of payment.

I almost feel like at this point, the people who host these things have to be true believers. Anyone doing it for the money is kidding themselves; everybody knows Trump doesn’t pay anybody, ever.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Sep 20, 2022 • 5:59:57pm

Catching up:
On famous local food: lemons, strawberries, salsa
seafood
On microwaves: don’t own one or use them, even on the road. Btw this has the advantage of driving Trumprelative microwave freak absolutely crazy Drink it cold or get it fresh
On arachnids: see photo

Spider on the bbq
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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:04:32pm

re: #108 ckkatz

My bad. Elections officials.

cnn.com

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:05:06pm

re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth

James Taylor’s child haz skillz

[Embedded content]

Video

If you were to plot a curve of the mellowness of JT from when he first came on stage in the 60s to today, you’d end up with a flat, horizontal line. He’s hardly changed except to get older.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:06:22pm

US and the Holocaust on PBS: Part 2 tonight/ Part3 tomorrow night.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:08:14pm
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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:11:28pm

re: #112 sizzzzlerz

Just your typical Tar Hellion! LOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:11:36pm

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:12:40pm
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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:14:20pm

re: #111 GlutenFreeJesus

My bad. Elections officials.

cnn.com

Aha!

Now it makes sense. Thanks for clarifying that.

Yes, it’s a mess. There are a lot of issues all intertwined. Including folks willing to lie cheat and steal.

Added to that is the fact that we have not had to deal with this since Jim Crow days. And it will take quite a while to work out what should be done, who will do it, how to do it, get peoples’ buy in, and then test it out.

Right now, Congress is trying to address this with legislation. Then the Judiciary needs to buy off on it. The question is do we have the time to work it all out.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:14:24pm
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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:14:59pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:15:18pm

Alex Jones’s perverted empire is tumbling down.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:16:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:20:59pm

kinda reminiscent of Blues Brothers

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - S.O.B. (Official)

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:22:52pm

re: #102 Charles Johnson

That looks way too scary. Can’t watch the trailer. Nightmarish

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TedStriker  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:23:23pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

Liquidate the sonofabitch.

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:25:15pm

re: #102 Charles Johnson

Liked Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2. Then essentially straight-to-video schlock. But Doug Bradley made a hell of a living off it.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:25:58pm
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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:31:33pm

re: #110 So Cal Greek Hippie

‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the Spider to the Fly,
“Tis the prettiest parlour that ever did you spy;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I have many curious things to show when you are there.’

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:32:04pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Especially if they get their 34 State houses to call for a Constitutional Convention.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:34:54pm
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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:37:18pm
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TedStriker  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:39:04pm

re: #131 jaunte

Panda in tree, film at 11.

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:40:39pm

US Policy statement:
(We discussed this in an earlier thread.)

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darthstar  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:41:02pm

re: #109 Dopamine Fish

I almost feel like at this point, the people who host these things have to be true believers. Anyone doing it for the money is kidding themselves; everybody knows Trump doesn’t pay anybody, ever.

In a perfect world, Trump would be hosted on a Russian server.

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darthstar  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:41:58pm

re: #133 ckkatz

US Policy statement:
(We discussed this in an earlier thread.)

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Fake referendum is fake. Nobody other than North Korea and Belarus will recognize Russia’s annexations.

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:42:24pm

re: #131 jaunte

Eating just bamboo leaves sucks

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:43:21pm

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lesson learned in Canada.

Do not put a cold cup of Tim Horton’s coffee in a microwave to heat it up again.

The cup will still catch fire.

Lesson learned in Canada. Don’t drink Tim Horton’s coffee. Or eat their food.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:43:39pm

Panda exhausted from splooting spree.

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:44:45pm

re: #136 TarHellion

Eating just bamboo leaves sucks

Eats shoots and leaves?

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:48:08pm
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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:48:09pm
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KingKenrod  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:50:37pm

re: #141 Patricia Kayden

Olympic Gold Medal burn

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:51:13pm

re: #139 ckkatz

Oh, the things I could say about that comment! But this is a family forum! LOL

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:53:00pm
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:54:17pm

re: #140 Dopamine Fish

Oh, it gets even better. Apparently, crazy pillow dude’s lawyer in this lawsuit is none other than superstar dumbass Alan Dershowitz. Because if you’re going to do the crazy thing, you might as well take it all the way to eleven.

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:54:31pm

re: #143 TarHellion

Oh, the things I could say about that comment! But this is a family forum! LOL

Iirc, that was the title of a book about English punctuation. :)

eta: From the book:

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

“Why?” asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

“I’m a panda,” he says at the door. “Look it up.”

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

“Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots & leaves.”

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:57:11pm
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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:58:50pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 20, 2022 • 6:59:16pm

A day late for Speak Like a Pirate day

Youtube Video

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:02:04pm

As in this?

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:06:17pm

re: #114 Patricia Kayden

Federal Tax Evasion charges are coming pronto.

Alex Jones will be going to prison if a Republican is not in the White House in 2025.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:16:12pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:17:42pm

The Ken Burns Documentary is quite something. We are truly a shitty people…… I said to my wife, this is what lies under the thin thin veneers of History we were taught.

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Mike Lamb  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:22:50pm

re: #131 jaunte

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Dali gets inspiration.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:23:23pm

re: #153 Dave In Austin

The Ken Burns Documentary is quite something. We are truly a shitty people…… I said to my wife, this is what lies under the thin thin veneers of History we were taught.

Doesn’t really tee up great thoughts right before bed does it.

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austin_blue  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:25:38pm

We are of the same opinion.

We MUST look at this history, where we allowed so many people to be slaughtered in a genocide. We must stare it in the face and embrace it, because we allowed it, we condoned it. We were complicit in genocide.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece of documentary work. The MAGAts must be hating the shit out of it.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:31:36pm

re: #156 austin_blue

We are of the same opinion.

We MUST look at this history, where we allowed so many people to be slaughtered in a genocide. We must stare it in the face and embrace it, because we allowed it, we condoned it. We were complicit in genocide.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece of documentary work. The MAGAts must be hating the shit out of it.

The press finally turned on Lindburgh and broadcasters against Father Coughlin. Closest we get to that today is TFG losing his twitter account.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:31:56pm

Tropical Update:

Environment Canada has issued a Hurricane Watch for the entire islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island, and the east coast of New Brunswick, along with the south coast of Labrador.

The City of Corner Brook (Newfoundland’s second-largest city, on the west coast) has activated its emergency management system in preparation for Hurricane Fiona.

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austin_blue  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:43:20pm

re: #156 austin_blue

We are of the same opinion.

We MUST look at this history, where we allowed so many people to be slaughtered in a genocide. We must stare it in the face and embrace it, because we allowed it, we condoned it. We were complicit in genocide.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece of documentary work. The MAGAts must be hating the shit out of it.

And please believe this will be the next target of CRT, because of course it will. As the sun rises after the sun sets, this will be the next target of Nationalist Christians (Nat-C’s).

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austin_blue  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:46:51pm

And I’m off to the rack. Night all. Sweet scaly dreams. May the basement of the Denver Airport be a safe-space for us for another night.

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Dangerman  Sep 20, 2022 • 7:54:49pm

re: #151 Florida Panhandler

Federal Tax Evasion charges are coming pronto.

Alex Jones will be going to prison if a Republican is not in the White House in 2025.

It is accepted and implicit now that Rs use the pardon to get their friends out. Not to address actual (not perceived) miscarriages of justices.

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William Lewis  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:06:35pm

re: #156 austin_blue

We are of the same opinion.

We MUST look at this history, where we allowed so many people to be slaughtered in a genocide. We must stare it in the face and embrace it, because we allowed it, we condoned it. We were complicit in genocide.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece of documentary work. The MAGAts must be hating the shit out of it.

Meanwhile on NPR the other day…

In Afghanistan, there are girls secretly being schooled who are reading banned books.

The book they’re reading? “The Diary of Anne Frank”. They’re finding much in common with that young woman and her struggles back in WWII.

In Iran they’re rioting over a woman killed for not wearing the right head scarf.

MAGAts are learning women here aren’t going to let them steal their rights either.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:13:58pm

I’m going to head off to bed. We’ll have a clearer picture of the weather situation and travel tomorrow. Ferry service south to Nova Scotia is cancelled, and ferry service to Labrador may be suspended tomorrow.

I’ll catch y’all later.

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:16:06pm

re: #118 ckkatz

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Egregious Philbin  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:21:19pm

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

Back before Buffett became a hack, a corporation, a bar, a hotel, an old folks home, a cruise ship, a multi millionaire who couldn’t write good music anymore because of all the things he sold out for.

I was a huge fan, but his music never ever grew. My tastes did.

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:25:52pm

This is interesting. The Iranian police are being directly and physically challenged by anti-regime protesters.

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William Lewis  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:33:35pm

re: #166 ckkatz

This is interesting. The Iranian police are being directly and physically challenged by anti-regime protesters.

The regimes next step is live ammo and they’ll either suppress it or start a full on revolution. They finally hit a breaking point.

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sagehen  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:36:32pm

re: #146 ckkatz

Iirc, that was the title of a book about English punctuation. :)

eta: From the book:

Let’s eat, grandma.
Let’s eat grandma.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:37:59pm

re: #168 sagehen

Let’s eat, grandma.
Let’s eat grandma.

“What’s that in the road ahead?”
“What’s that in the road? A HEAD!”

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:39:34pm

re: #167 William Lewis

The regimes next step is live ammo and they’ll either suppress it or start a full on revolution. They finally hit a breaking point.

I wish them the best, but the cities have always been “liberal.” The regime’s strength has always been in the countryside, which put — and keeps — them in power.

Of course it’s been decades since the revolution that let the mullahs in, this might be enough.

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sagehen  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:40:07pm

re: #157 Barefoot Grin

The press finally turned on Lindburgh and broadcasters against Father Coughlin. Closest we get to that today is TFG losing his twitter account.

As soon as Germany declared war on us? Or did they wait until the photos of the concentration camps starting coming in?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:40:40pm

re: #169 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

“What’s that in the road ahead?”
“What’s that in the road? A HEAD!”

Pardon, impossible execute.
Pardon impossible, execute.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:40:58pm

re: #165 Egregious Philbin

Back before Buffett became a hack, a corporation, a bar, a hotel, a old folks home, a cruise ship, a multi millionaire who couldn’t write good music anymore because of all the things he sold out for.

I was a huge fan, but his music never ever grew. My tastes did.

I blew out my flip flop
Stepped on a pop top
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home
But there’s booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on

Wasted away again in Margaritaville
Searchin’ for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame
But I know, it’s my own damn fault.

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Egregious Philbin  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:42:41pm

re: #173 BeenHereAwhile

Great song. Back when he could write.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:44:14pm

re: #174 Egregious Philbin

Great song. Back when he could write.

“But I know, it’s my own damn fault.”

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:47:32pm

re: #168 sagehen

Let’s eat, grandma.
Let’s eat grandma.

The professor wrote the following words on the blackboard:

“a woman without her man is nothing”

Then asked the students to punctuate it correctly.

The guys wrote
“A woman, without her man, is nothing.”

The gals wrote:
“A woman: without her, man is nothing.”

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:50:32pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:51:40pm

re: #100 TarHellion

Learned the hard way about re-heating a Chick-fil-a sandwich at the office. Microwave was sparking bad. Must have been the Flying Spaghetti Monster punishing me for buying something at that heathen outfit! Happened 2 years ago. Have not gone back since!

Did you reheat it in the aluminum lined packaging?

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:53:48pm

re: #102 Charles Johnson

Whoa.

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Reminds me of the graphic novels.

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Captain Ron  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:56:04pm
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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 8:56:50pm
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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:00:18pm
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Jay C  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:03:14pm

re: #181 ckkatz

Six hours and Secretary Pete hasn’t done a damn thing about this.

Hey, c’mon! Give him a break!

Even a clever guy like Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to master the ukulele in just six hours…!

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:06:20pm

re: #156 austin_blue

We are of the same opinion.

We MUST look at this history, where we allowed so many people to be slaughtered in a genocide. We must stare it in the face and embrace it, because we allowed it, we condoned it. We were complicit in genocide.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece of documentary work. The MAGAts must be hating the shit out of it.

You don’t really think MAGAts are actually watching this, do you? And if any are, they won’t draw any comparisons with their anti-immigrant attitudes of today.

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ckkatz  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:16:38pm

re: #167 William Lewis

The regimes next step is live ammo and they’ll either suppress it or start a full on revolution. They finally hit a breaking point.

Yup, the regime is not too concerned about killing a bunch of folks. Particularly if they are ethnic Kurds from the sticks.

The IRGC has an armed civilian militia, the Basij, of 0.5 million or more. These are the guys who murdered Neda Agha-Soltan in 2009. There is also Haydaryan which is sort of the Secret Service is the Mullahs.

By the way, in the first video, at 19 seconds you cans see a passing car ram into the mugged cop’s partner. And as he recovers his stance, he drops several pieces of his equipment which protestors abscond with.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:20:27pm

re: #183 Jay C

Hey, c’mon! Give him a break!

Even a clever guy like Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to master the ukulele in just six hours…!

It’s not as easy as say, learning Norwegian as a second language.

bbc.com

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sagehen  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:22:49pm

So Hulu isn’t going to have Seth Myers anymore (or Fallon, but that’s not such a loss). And on Peacock, it’s not part of the free tier. I’m not paying. I guess I’ll just watch Closer Look and Hashtags on YouTube, and miss most of the guests.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:28:08pm

re: #165 Egregious Philbin

Back before Buffett became a hack, a corporation, a bar, a hotel, an old folks home, a cruise ship, a multi millionaire who couldn’t write good music anymore because of all the things he sold out for.

I was a huge fan, but his music never ever grew. My tastes did.

I know a couple of people whose lives would be ruined if he ever did change.

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CleverToad  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:30:59pm

Catching up.
Very late entry to the food/geography challenge:
BeauJo’s pizza; Palisade peaches; craft beer and marijuana brownies

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:32:44pm

re: #181 ckkatz

If they really wanted to recreate hell it would have been accordians.

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retired cynic  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:38:34pm

re: #190 Barefoot Grin

violins

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Sep 20, 2022 • 9:51:40pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

THEY. WERE. NOT. UNAUTHORIZED.

They were Asylum seekers who had EVERY FUCKING RIGHT TO BE HERE.

It’s nice of them to leave a paper trail of crimes and human rights violations. Ron Deathsentence might very well be “right fucked” now too.

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 10:07:46pm

I dont care for the New Yorker’s take, but being Max Born’s granddaughter is also pretty cool:

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2022 • 10:13:17pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Sep 20, 2022 • 10:17:27pm

re: #180 Captain Ron

I’m curious if Evil Aziz Ansari is going to be willing to commit perjury for just 7.5k

I’d throw my best friend under the bus if I knew he was guilty and tried to pay me off like that, and he isn’t pretending hard to be a billionaire.

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TarHellion  Sep 20, 2022 • 10:39:56pm

re: #178 Belafon

Yep! And nearly broke an office microwave in the process!

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 20, 2022 • 10:39:59pm

re: #195 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I’m curious if Evil Aziz Ansari is going to be willing to commit perjury for just 7.5k

I’d throw my best friend under the bus if I knew he was guilty and tried to pay me off like that, and he isn’t pretending hard to be a billionaire.

Wouldn’t Patel do it to serve his Orange Jesus (to quote Ms Vader)?

And Wordle news: took 4

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JC1  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:00:43pm

Got me another 3/6.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 459 3/6

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:22:50pm

I think an L-100 (civilian C-130) would be the most appropriate aircraft. It lacks creature comforts but these creatures would probably prefer it to federal prison.

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Nyet  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:28:12pm

Here it is, partial mobilization.

meduza.io

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:33:37pm

re: #200 Nyet

I have believed from the start that Putin doesn’t care about immediately being victorious, that he and his circle think they can just go on and on and eventually win in the end.

Am I wrong?

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Nyet  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:40:02pm

re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

He wanted to take Ukraine in a few weeks. Why would you think he doesn’t want to be immediately victorious? That he can’t doesn’t mean that he doesn’t want to.

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Nyet  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:45:35pm

They want to mobilize 300k for now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:50:00pm

re: #202 Nyet

I didn’t mean to imply that he would not have been glad to have immediate victory, just that his belief is that he will win regardless of how long it will take, whatever it will cost.

My basis for that is my belief that losing is not an option for Putin.

Am I wrong?

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Nyet  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:58:34pm

re: #204 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I don’t see this belief contradicting current measures.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2022 • 11:59:49pm

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Youtube Video

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:03:02am

re: #205 Nyet

It’s just that we Americans tend to lose interest after about a week. If something is not resolved by then we move on to something new to tickle our fancy.

So I suspect that many Americans don’t really think about Ukraine now, like they did back in Spring.

I bring this up because we see Americans now complaining about money going to Ukraine. True, the whiners are mostly Trumpers and glibertarians, but if we (the US) have to spend billions of dollars every year to protect Ukraine it will become an American political issue.

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ericblair  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:05:44am

re: #205 Nyet

I don’t see this belief contradicting current measures.

Putin always will try to bully and double down, which works until it doesn’t. And any admission that things are not going well or Russia will not win is likely to put him in grave danger domestically, so that’s not happening. The war will continue until Putin is gone.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:10:22am

re: #208 ericblair

Putin always will try to bully and double down, which works until it doesn’t. And any admission that things are not going well or Russia will not win is likely to put him in grave danger domestically, so that’s not happening. The war will continue until Putin is gone.

The tacit admission is already there. The mobilization is on.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:16:23am

Lol.
“За несколько минут после выступления Путина раскупили все прямые билеты на 21 сентября в Стамбул и в Ереван.”

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ericblair  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:23:34am

re: #209 Nyet

The tacit admission is already there. The mobilization is on.

Tacit, sure, but that’s not how it’s being sold. Russia is fighting the entire West doncha know, and they’ve got 1000 km of front to defend, so they need more soldiers. Of course, they’ve killed 10 Ukrainians for every Russian soldier but Russia still seems to be running out of them and the glorious victories are getting closer and closer to their own border.

Meanwhile, the whole thing started because the West was being mean to Russia and Russia had to liberate the Eastern part of Ukraine by annihilating the Ukrainian state and installing a Russian occupation and laying waste to their cities until the West backs down and lets Russia have it which is totally not terrorism because reasons.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:26:50am

re: #211 ericblair

Which is as clear an admission as you will get, at least until the new Nuremberg. Ex-Soviet people usually know how to read between the lines.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:27:24am

Today was like wading through a swamp somehow.

Wordle 459 5/6

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wrenchwench  Sep 21, 2022 • 12:33:22am

re: #213 Nyet

Today was like wading through a swamp somehow.

Wordle 459 5/6

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I had a slightly smaller swamp.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 459 4/6*

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I made a nice picture.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 21, 2022 • 1:06:37am

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Youtube Video


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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 21, 2022 • 1:14:37am

re: #215 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Helen Merrill doesn’t get enough love. Hardly ever see anyone on Youtube reacting to one of her songs, nor do I remember anyone here posting a recording of her.

One of those talents of the past who just slips through the floorboards of time.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 21, 2022 • 1:16:02am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 21, 2022 • 1:25:03am

re: #217 Patricia Kayden

If CNN did a poll for Jefferson Davis, I wonder what his approval rating would be.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 1:39:50am

re: #213 Nyet

Eh.

Wördl 459 4/6

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Игра Wordle (RU) День #258 5/6

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Отгадайте слово на wordle.belousov.one

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 1:40:51am

re: #214 wrenchwench

Almost the mirror image of my Wördl.

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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 2:00:49am

I’m seeing lightning flashes in the Bay Area. Never a good thing in summer/fall in California. Hopefully the little rain we got and high humidity will give firefighters a chance at knocking any fires down before they get big.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 2:12:15am

re: #7 Patricia Kayden

But but but they’re the party of law and order.

This will be offered as proof of the extent of the Deep State Witch Hunt

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 2:32:03am

re: #46 Patricia Kayden

It’s nice to have a non-racist President

Nobody in the GOP dared call out the racists for fear of alienating the base.

Nobody in the Press dared calling out racism for fear of alienating its target group audience.

Nice to have a President who does not fear the thought of alienating these assholes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 2:56:11am

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Trickle Down might have worked in a completely closed economy in which capital had to be re-invested in the US, and workers hired domestically.

But in a global economy, capital seeks the path of highest return, and if that draws investment and employment abroad, then the American workers see no benefits from it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 2:58:02am

re: #114 Patricia Kayden

Holy shit. The bankruptcy judge is granting the request to have a trustee take over Alex Jones’s infowars.

No more shell-company shenanigans…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 2:59:49am

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Like alcoholics who have their moments of clarity, the GOP knows what it needs to do. But it just cannot bring itself as it is co-dependent with its highly addicted base.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:01:31am

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

A day late for Speak Like a Pirate day

Video

One of my favorite JB songs, but I have to call it A Pirate Looks Back at Forty

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:05:54am

Wendell has now caught up with the thread. You may resume your regularly scheduled posting

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:30:27am

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:44:32am

Meanwhile the gosuslugi website is inaccessible.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:49:19am

Tucker Carlson apparently had himself a normal one last night, equating the Trump-thing to Watergate by… claiming Watergate was an FBI-driven conspiracy against Nixon:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:50:41am

re: #231 Dopamine Fish

Tucker Carlson apparently had himself a normal one last night, equating the Trump-thing to Watergate by… claiming Watergate was an FBI-driven conspiracy against Nixon:

it is a hellacious talking point

next: slavery was forced on white plantation owners by blacks

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:54:02am

re: #152 jaunte

I wonder if you dig into that bill whether you will find Trump or his spawn on that payroll as “legal advisors” or some other thinly veiled pseudo-job since any bill someone else pays is an obvious grift/graft route.

Which would raise the point that Trump does pay his lawyer. When it’s Trump representing himself.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:55:03am

re: #233 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I wonder if you dig into that bill whether you will find Trump or his spawn on that payroll as “legal advisors” or some other thinly veiled pseudo-job since any bill someone else pays is an obvious grift/graft route.

Which would raise the point that Trump does pay his lawyer. When it’s Trump representing himself.

He neither pays nor even listens to his lawyers. Which makes it the most useless job in the world.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 21, 2022 • 3:58:39am

re: #153 Dave In Austin

The Ken Burns Documentary is quite something. We are truly a shitty people…… I said to my wife, this is what lies under the thin thin veneers of History we were taught.

I’ve been sort of amused by the comments on this documentary. I took back-to-back history classes in college on “US and the Holocaust” and “The Holocaust”. The latter included having a concentration camp survivor addressing the class.* And my paper submitted for the one class was about “Canada and the Holocaust” which covered how Canadian immigration acted in the same period. In short, about as badly, but not with the same level of petty vindictiveness like the various US State Department officials acted.

* - This was 1985 or so. More survivors around. And since this was Pittsburgh I would say not as hard to find either.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:00:07am

re: #235 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Look what modern America does with asylum seekers.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:01:19am

re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Look what modern America does with asylum seekers.

To be fair, that’s not really representative of all of us. It’s just that the worst of us have representation in the worst possible places.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:03:22am

re: #237 Dopamine Fish

To be fair, that’s not really representative of all of us. It’s just that the worst of us have representation in the worst possible places.

Remember how popular the America First movement was in the 1930’s.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:14:06am

re: #207 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s just that we Americans tend to lose interest after about a week. If something is not resolved by then we move on to something new to tickle our fancy.

So I suspect that many Americans don’t really think about Ukraine now, like they did back in Spring.

I bring this up because we see Americans now complaining about money going to Ukraine. True, the whiners are mostly Trumpers and glibertarians, but if we (the US) have to spend billions of dollars every year to protect Ukraine it will become an American political issue.

Even though it’s billions that will need to be spent now or later.

Putin’s expansionist plans are not going away. We, and Europe, spend the money stopping him now while he’s on the backfoot with Ukraine, or spend it later when Russia has decided the time is right to gobble up the Baltic states. And the latter time will be more expensive than doing it now.

US isolationist sentiment has always been myopic and short-sighted. They believe the US is self-sufficient (more so than many places, but not as much as they think) and that the US can erect walls and be a perfectly viable hermit state. Which fails domestically since a lot of the US economy runs on trade and enough people know that to understand that you need stability outside the US for that trade network to work smoothly.

Plus there is the feature that the isolationist faction and racist/nationalist faction is pretty congruent. Which leads the isolationists to readily use (and believe) anti-immigration rhetoric. And this rhetoric is unchanging, they simply switch the labels to whatever immigrant group(s) are deemed unworthy or coming to our shores. (It’s moved from Irish to Italians to East Europeans, to Latinos. Asians, blacks*, and Jews have always been on the list.

* - Except as slaves. But we can’t teach that now since it hurts white people’s fragile feelings.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:14:26am

Morning Lizards. Here’s hoping the got the leak problem(s) fixed.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:15:11am

re: #240 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards. Here’s hoping the got the leak problem(s) fixed.

What’s the launch window for today?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:16:53am

re: #241 Dopamine Fish

What’s the launch window for today?

No launch today. This is just a test they’re doing to see if they fixed the problem with the hydrogen leak.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:18:14am

re: #239 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

It is more than Putin’s expansionism: he has signaled that Russia is turning away from the West in general.

We can abandon any plans of expanding trade with them or integrating them further into the broader European/American economic sphere.

They have told us all to fuck off and turned off the gas tap for Western Europe, all but forcing them to increase the rate at which they cut their dependence on non-renewables and imported energy.

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:22:25am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Like alcoholics who have their moments of clarity, the GOP knows what it needs to do. But it just cannot bring itself as it is co-dependent with its highly addicted base.

It hasn’t hit bottom yet

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:23:13am

re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is more than Putin’s expansionism: he has signaled that Russia is turning away from the West in general.

We can abandon any plans of expanding trade with them or integrating them further into the broader European/American economic sphere.

They have told us all to fuck off and turned off the gas tap for Western Europe, all but forcing them to increase the rate at which they cut their dependence on non-renewables and imported energy.

Which I think is going to eventually hand themselves, or at least their eastern territories, to China.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:23:21am

China has expressed some mild discontent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:23:55am

re: #244 Dangerman

It hasn’t hit bottom yet

The problem is that there is no bottom for the base, they are spiraling down to theofascism and not going to admit that they have done anything wrong or illegal along the way.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:24:55am

re: #245 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Which I think is going to eventually hand themselves, or at least their eastern territories, to China.

In the sense that China will become the dominant partner in all areas: culturally, economically and militarily.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:29:30am

re: #246 Nyet

China has expressed some mild discontent.

It’s like that Bon Jovi song, “you give territorial aggression a bad name!”

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:30:41am

re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is more than Putin’s expansionism: he has signaled that Russia is turning away from the West in general.

We can abandon any plans of expanding trade with them or integrating them further into the broader European/American economic sphere, they have told us all to fuck off and turned off the gas tap for Western Europe, all but forcing them to increase the rate at which they cut their dependence on non-renewables and imported energy.

We in the West are gonna need to come up with a new policy of containment regarding Russia.

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:30:46am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The problem is that there is no bottom for the base, they are spiraling down to theofascism and not going to admit that they have done anything wrong or illegal along the way.

Maybe not for the base, because denial is so integral to how they function.

But the party itself could divorce them and find its way into rehab

More likely is a continued pathetic implosion

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:31:22am

I found this article to be very informative, and explains the current fiscal “crisis” well.

politico.com

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:33:20am

I saw this headline

Mike Pence Mum on 2024 Plans

And I thought, ok what did Mother have to say

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:34:05am

re: #251 Dangerman

Maybe not for the base, because denial is so integral to how they function.

But the party itself could divorce them and find its way into rehab

More likely is a continued pathetic implosion

without the base they remain a minority party

or rather, even with the base they are a minority party but still have means to remain in power through disproportional representation…without the solid 30% of Trumpazoids they are irrelevant

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:40:35am

From a new book

McConnell knew many of his rank-and-file were torn over how to handle the situation — and that in their uncertainty, they would look to him for guidance. If he declared the trial to be constitutional, breaking with Trump in the process, he could set the stage for a party mutiny, helping the GOP turn the page on Trump for good. It was an appealing prospect: conviction could enable the Senate to bar Trump from holding office again — and McConnell didn’t ever want Trump in office again.”

“But in all his years as GOP leader, McConnell had never led such a rebellion. And that day, he wasn’t sure he was up to the task.”

Shorter: cowardice

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:45:09am

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told PBS News Hour that Russian President Vladimir Putin must return all land that Russia has occupied, including Crimea

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:47:18am

re: #256 Dangerman

Well, Crimea river!

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:48:15am

This is unconfirmed, to the best of my knowledge, but hardly shocking in light of Putin’s “partial mobilization”:

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:48:20am

When I see photos of the fucking fascist Trumpists seig heiling, all I can see is Another Brick in the Wall and the mindless know nothings who follow an authoritarian who tells them what to say and do and unleashes their inner hate to act on their violent impulses.

This is the GOP. And the GOP is doing nothing to stop it. All the GOP is doing is distracting and deflecting from the fact that they’re out as a white nationalist fascist party.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:49:29am

re: #258 Dr Lizardo

This is unconfirmed, to the best of my knowledge, but hardly shocking in light of Putin’s “partial mobilization”:

Airline tickets abroad will be hard to come by in the first place…

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:50:39am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Airline tickets abroad will be hard to come by in the first place…

I was going to say, where are they going to go? There aren’t a lot of places that will even take the flights.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:51:26am

re: #259 lawhawk

and between the Senate and gerrymandering the house, they are guaranteed to be disproportionately represented. They represent a minority of the population but not of its Congresspeople.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:53:33am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #261 Dopamine Fish

Pretty much the only places Russians can go right now are UAE (expensive as hell), Georgia (the country, of course) and Turkey.

Well, I guess there’s always Pyongyang. LOL.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:54:12am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Well, I guess there’s always Pyongyang. LOL.

Yeah, but even Russians aren’t crazy enough to do THAT.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:55:02am

re: #264 Dopamine Fish

Yeah, but even Russians aren’t crazy enough to do THAT.

Out of the samovar into the wok…

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Mike Lamb  Sep 21, 2022 • 4:57:11am

re: #199 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I think an L-100 (civilian C-130) would be the most appropriate aircraft. It lacks creature comforts but these creatures would probably prefer it to federal prison.

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Investigating a potential crime is unlawful? WTAF?

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:00:36am

re: #218 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If CNN did a poll for Jefferson Davis, I wonder what his approval rating would be.

Or Adolf Hitler.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:01:16am

re: #244 Dangerman

It hasn’t hit bottom yet

What does the bottom even look like? No matter what they do…they manage to do worse.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:02:16am

re: #258 Dr Lizardo

Officially refuted, for what it’s worth.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:02:48am

re: #264 Dopamine Fish

Yeah, but even Russians aren’t crazy enough to do THAT.

About 20 years ago, I answered an ad looking for an English teacher - sent my resume and a cover letter. About three days later, I get a call at home on the landline. My ex picked up, turned white as a ghost, and said to me, “It’s the North Korean Embassy and they want to talk to you.”

They offered me a teaching position. In Pyongyang. Naturally, I told I’d have to consider it and talk it over with my wife. They were quite generous, I have to say; They even offered to have my ex come with me and we’d get an apartment right downtown.

I told my ex and she replied, “WE ARE NOT GOING TO PYONGYANG AND IF YOU SAY YES, I WILL KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP” so that ended what could’ve been a most interesting foray in the world of teaching, LOL.

I called them back and politely declined the offer.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:03:57am

re: #270 Dr Lizardo

I told my ex and she replied, “WE ARE NOT GOING TO PYONGYANG AND IF YOU SAY YES, I WILL KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP” so that ended would could’ve been a most interesting foray in the world of teaching, LOL.

I’m giggling unreasonably hard at the mental image presented here.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:04:37am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Nah, there are quite a lot of others where one can go without visas, if you mean them (those with visas can still use them if they are careful about the entry points). The full list is at Meduza.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:04:55am

re: #269 Nyet

Officially refuted, for what it’s worth.

OK, good to know. Though I suspect that’s probably going to be the next step.

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:05:00am

re: #266 Mike Lamb

Investigating a potential crime is unlawful? WTAF?

investigating us is unlawful

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:05:50am

re: #268 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What does the bottom even look like? No matter what they do…they manage to do worse.

Fundamentalist Theofascist Patriarchy with a Christian Taliban Morality Police monitoring all our thoughts and actions

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:06:12am

re: #268 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What does the bottom even look like? No matter what they do…they manage to do worse.

hope to find out one day

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:06:30am

re: #273 Dr Lizardo

If they wanted to do it, it would have been the first step, but it looks like they want the most “active” elements to leave so they don’t start things in Russia.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:08:56am

re: #271 Dopamine Fish

I’m giggling unreasonably hard at the mental image presented here.

You and me both!!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:09:29am

re: #276 Dangerman

hope to find out one day

Personally, it scares the shit out of me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:11:02am

re: #270 Dr Lizardo

I told my ex and she replied, “WE ARE NOT GOING TO PYONGYANG AND IF YOU SAY YES, I WILL KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP” so that ended what could’ve been a most interesting foray in the world of teaching, LOL.

I have a friend who could have gotten me a teaching position in Kabul as well, but despite the high pay and generous benefits, it was not worth it to me, especially being away from family for so long.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:11:39am

re: #207 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s just that we Americans tend to lose interest after about a week. If something is not resolved by then we move on to something new to tickle our fancy.

So I suspect that many Americans don’t really think about Ukraine now, like they did back in Spring.

I bring this up because we see Americans now complaining about money going to Ukraine. True, the whiners are mostly Trumpers and glibertarians, but if we (the US) have to spend billions of dollars every year to protect Ukraine it will become an American political issue.

These are the same whiners who whine about money going to the middle class rather than the wealthy, or the poor rather than the wealthy, or foreigners rather than the wealthy.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:11:48am

re: #277 Nyet

If they wanted to do it, it would have been the first step, but it looks like they want the most “active” elements to leave so they don’t start things in Russia.

I think that it’s a bit late in the game for a mobilization, even a partial one. Unless the plan is a brisk weekend of training, hand ‘em a Kalashnikov (or a Mosin-Nagant) and tell them, “March…thataway!”

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:17:45am

re: #282 Dr Lizardo

Several weeks, I suppose. I wonder how they will solve the equipment problem.

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:18:33am

re: #283 Nyet

Several weeks, I suppose. I wonder how they will solve the equipment problem.

3D printers

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:28:01am

re: #283 Nyet

Several weeks, I suppose. I wonder how they will solve the equipment problem.

Copious amounts of vodka.

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Jay C  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:36:59am

re: #285 Dopamine Fish

Copious amounts of vodka.

Which has always been the main fuel for the Russian military.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:40:42am

re: #286 Jay C

Which has a,ways been the main fuel for the Russian military.

I can’t exactly say much; as an Irishman, we run on potatoes and whiskey.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:41:43am

Posting this because it’s the best new nickname for TFG I’ve seen in awhile.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:45:55am

re: #288 No Malarkey!

Sippy Cup Caligula, LOL. That is a good one.

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 21, 2022 • 5:53:28am

DeSantis leads Trump in new Florida poll

yahoo.com

Look for the orange man-child to throw a massive hissy fit today against DeSantis.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:06:02am

re: #290 Florida Panhandler

DeSantis leads Trump in new Florida poll

yahoo.com

Look for the orange man-child to throw a massive hissy fit today against DeSantis.

Haven’t followed the situation: has DS already attacked the Cheeto Adolf? He must position himself somehow.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:06:36am

Such a good start.
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Mattand  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:07:48am

re: #288 No Malarkey!

Posting this because it’s the best new nickname for TFG I’ve seen in awhile.

Sippy Cup Caligula

OH.

MY.

GOD.

That is so goddamn funny I just vapor locked.

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jeffreyw  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:11:53am

Good morning!

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TarHellion  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:15:43am

Whether early or late, nothing can stop the birbie run! Today and tomorrow in the 90s - then glorious fall weather by Friday and beyond. Just so thankful we have our little place on the interwebs. Have a great day/evening folks!

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:16:40am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:17:16am

re: #296 lawhawk

Indictment about to drop?

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:21:04am

re: #297 Eclectic Cyborg

Indictment about to drop?

I guess that I will find out *after* I get back from this morning’s dental appointment.

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:21:54am

After all these years, coming up with Trump nicknames is still a thing.

And it’s funny to hear all the new ones.

Donny Dollhands
Sippy Cup Caligula

That’s just from the past day.

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:22:59am

re: #297 Eclectic Cyborg

We will have to wait and see… Gather up ye popcorn and settle in for the morning.

Pass the popcorn
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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:24:18am
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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:26:16am
A new University of Maryland poll finds that 61% of Republicans supported declaring the United States a Christian nation — even though 57% of them also believe such a move would be unconstitutional

It’s anti-American but I support it.

It’s immoral but I support it.

It’s violent and illegal but I support it.

It’s unconstitutional but I support it.

— today’s Republicons

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:27:40am

re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

it is a hellacious talking point

next: slavery was forced on white plantation owners by blacks

Which is actually being said about the hit movie The Woman King.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:27:51am

re: #296 lawhawk

If an indictment against Trump dropped at that presser, it’d be a lovely day indeed.

Youtube Video

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:31:54am

History last night as Aaron Judge tied Babe Ruth with his 60th homer. There’s 15 games left in the season, so it’s not improbable for him to shatter the Yankee and AL record currently held by Roger Maris at 61. He’s on pace to hit 66.

The ML record is held by Barry Bonds at 73.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:33:45am

re: #305 lawhawk

I wonder if Barry “The Asterisk” Bonds will ever get in the HoF?

It’s been about 20 years since all that shit went down.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:33:58am

Regarding that upcoming presser about Trumpworld, it’s probably more likely that NY AG James will announce New York state is going to dissolve the Trump Organization and that the civil investigation has now become a criminal investigation.

That oughta get Trump to post some insane screed on his little blog. 😄

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:34:38am

re: #307 Dr Lizardo

Regarding that upcoming presser about Trumpworld, it’s probably more likely that NY AG James will announce New York state is going to dissolve the Trump Organization and that the civil investigation has now become a criminal investigation.

That oughta get Trump to post some insane screed on his little blog. 😄

That was the speculation I saw on the bird app last night, when the announcement dropped.

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cat-tikvah  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:35:28am

re: #235 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’ve been sort of amused by the comments on this documentary. I took back-to-back history classes in college on “US and the Holocaust” and “The Holocaust”. The latter included having a concentration camp survivor addressing the class.* And my paper submitted for the one class was about “Canada and the Holocaust” which covered how Canadian immigration acted in the same period. In short, about as badly, but not with the same level of petty vindictiveness like the various US State Department officials acted.

* - This was 1985 or so. More survivors around. And since this was Pittsburgh I would say not as hard to find either.

“None is too many.” Attributed to Canadian official when asked how many Jews fleeing the Nazis Canada could take in.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:35:35am

re: #308 Dopamine Fish

That was the speculation I saw on the bird app last night, when the announcement dropped.

It makes sense. Still, Trump will no doubt be apoplectic. And I’m here for it.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:36:36am

re: #310 Dr Lizardo

It makes sense. Still, Trump will no doubt be apoplectic. And I’m here for it.

Any day Donald J. Trump has a bad day is a good day for the rest of us.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:37:03am

re: #301 lawhawk

Heh, was shady back then.

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:37:43am

re: #307 Dr Lizardo

Trumpworld is a bunch of interconnected small business corporations (LLCs, S corps, LLPs), so let’s be careful as to scope - it may be that only some of those companies are disbanded as criminal enterprises, such as the Westchester golf business, or the “Trump Org”. I’d be very surprised if AG James goes nuclear and calls for disbanding all of the businesses as a criminal conspiracy.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:38:02am
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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:38:55am

re: #312 Nyet

Heh, was shady back then.

King was among the first people to ever block me on the bird app, so there’s that.

Because I called him out for his shady nonsense from the get go (Ferguson and the ensuing protests).

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:40:42am

re: #313 lawhawk

Trumpworld is a bunch of interconnected small business corporations (LLCs, S corps, LLPs), so let’s be careful as to scope - it may be that only some of those companies are disbanded as criminal enterprises, such as the Westchester golf business, or the “Trump Org”. I’d be very surprised if AG James goes nuclear and calls for disbanding all of the businesses as a criminal conspiracy.

Yeah, my expectations are pretty low here. There aren’t a lot of times when the government makes a “major announcement” that turn out to be something I’d get out of bed for, especially in New York State, which is over a thousand miles from here.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:41:43am

I think the 1776 group definitely needs to get introduced to smallpox:

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:41:53am

Well this sucks.

ejRWNDNGZkYxemU1VTJtbllwZThDOUViclVsb2pBUEVsbytYa203TUpUQzZlcXMrRExPZ21oRVQ4U0M1Ly9nd2lJN2FyaXdURjFaL0F4NW9NV1JYQjV3YlpjSXlINWhOSUFoRktlSFFkK3VnTkxpN1ZjaFgvbyt3SWc4TXVPUXFtdHRpVW9kTEFMYTVmRW1LQnFwNFhiVGFXb2RLaitvZXBudllFWTdacThZaXFSYUVtbk4xeUNOVUcxOEhpV0w4ZmJib05KMy9pc3dKeFgrSUs3ZktZY3ZSREVxaW1NWDlzY2JaUDVIOVdoWT06Oi9V6gmxJQi7Bh0f68n+5PE=

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:42:03am
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:42:31am

re: #316 Dopamine Fish

I mean, let’s be fair: Clearly, the fact that Mike Lindell was in town yesterday (the lawsuit he filed in St. Paul was notarized in Carver County, which is just to my south) is probably a bigger deal than whatever Tish James is cooking up today.

/////

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:46:06am

OK, off to the store. Gotta pick up a couple things. Back later.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:46:38am

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

perogies, Shoofly pie

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:47:42am

re: #314 Belafon

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9/8/21

In my White House, you’ll always be welcome. You’ll always be welcome. Labor will always be welcome. You know, you’ve heard me say many times: I intend to be the most pro-union President leading the most pro-union administration in American history.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:49:37am

Don’t know if it’s true, but I’m going to laugh just the same:

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The Squire of Logos  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:52:18am

re: #28 Dopamine Fish

Hotdish, lutefisk, deep fried cheese curds.

Where I am from? Cheese steaks and Tastykakes baby!

Where I am now? Hot Brown, Burgoo, Derby Pie. Meh.

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 6:56:25am

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:00:07am

re: #324 Belafon

Don’t know if it’s true, but I’m going to laugh just the same:

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All flights out of Moscow sold out right after Putin’s speech.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:01:09am

It’s going to be almost 90° today and then the temp is plummeting overnight to the 50’s.
It’s going to be a bad pain day.

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austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:02:23am

re: #187 sagehen

So Hulu isn’t going to have Seth Myers anymore (or Fallon, but that’s not such a loss). And on Peacock, it’s not part of the free tier. I’m not paying. I guess I’ll just watch Closer Look and Hashtags on YouTube, and miss most of the guests.

We don’t have cable. We have a digital antenna and get over forty channels in HD.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:05:11am

Alex Jones is THIS CLOSE to understanding how the justice system actually works:

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Ming5000  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:10:02am

re: #54 Egregious Philbin

Quesadillas, chimichangas.

Saw a comic mention visiting Ottawa and having beavertails. Is Ottawa correct?

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steve_davis  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:11:40am

national review refers to martha’s vineyard asylum seekers as “illegal immigrants.” I would as a lawyer be demanding a retraction and apology, with a defamation suit potentially to follow. If I were here legally, I’d be pisssed to have some rag claim otherwise.

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:14:48am

re: #330 Dopamine Fish

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austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:18:02am

re: #218 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If CNN did a poll for Jefferson Davis, I wonder what his approval rating would be.

40%.

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TarHellion  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:21:06am

re: #306 Eclectic Cyborg

Bonds had a HoF case even before his body and his melon began to unnaturally swell. Like McGwire and Sosa, Bonds’ 73 HR season was a joke and a testament to the Steroid Era.

At the same time, Bonds’ plate discipline was incredible. In 2004 - three years after the 73 homers - he walked a record 232 times and got on base nearly 61 percent of the time. In an entire game, he might see 1 or 2 good pitches to hit.

Was he on stuff? No doubt. Did MLB ever formally suspend him? No.

As for Judge, he is having one of the greatest seasons ever for a right-handed batter. The 60 homers sets the AL record for right-side hitters. And the fact that he is 23 homers ahead of his nearest AL rival is a Ruth-ian achievement. Hell, he might even win the Triple Crown.

And he’s a free agent at the end of the season. Pay him. Pay dat man his money!

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:24:27am

re: #335 TarHellion

And he’s a free agent at the end of the season. Pay him. Pay dat man his money!

I didn’t know he was a free agent. That man is looking to earn literally all the money over the next 10 years.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:27:07am

J6 insurrectionist and “Cowboys for Trump” founder who was ousted from public office under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause is appealing to the New Mexico Supreme Court. He is acting as his own attorney. I love it, because when he loses, it could create citable case precedent establishing that the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause applies to modern insurrectionists, not just 19th Century Confederates.

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:28:07am

re: #290 Florida Panhandler

DeSantis leads Trump in new Florida poll

yahoo.com

Look for the orange man-child to throw a massive hissy fit today against DeSantis.

two years out. meh

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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:28:21am

re: #336 Dopamine Fish

I didn’t know he was a free agent. That man is looking to earn literally all the money over the next 10 years.

Has there been a billion dollar contract for a professional athlete yet? Because Judge could be the first.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:29:46am

re: #338 Dangerman

two years out. meh

It will be interesting to see if an indictment of Trump helps or hurts his standing with GOP voters. But yeah, polls this far out are pretty meaningless.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:29:57am

re: #339 No Malarkey!

Has there been a billion dollar contract for a professional athlete yet? Because Judge could be the first.

No, there are only two that are even north of $500M. One of which is an American football player, which surprised me; I didn’t know the NFL had had a contract that large.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:30:18am

en.wikipedia.org

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:31:20am

re: #332 steve_davis

national review refers to martha’s vineyard asylum seekers as “illegal immigrants.” I would as a lawyer be demanding a retraction and apology, with a defamation suit potentially to follow. If I were here legally, I’d be pisssed to have some rag claim otherwise.

an actual oxymoron

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:32:53am

re: #335 TarHellion

He’s 20 ahead of all MLB rivals on homers. He’s 24 up on Mike Trout for the AL lead.

At moment, he’s the AL Triple Crown leader.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:33:40am

re: #342 Dopamine Fish

en.wikipedia.org

Messi’s contract is staggering.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:34:18am

re: #345 No Malarkey!

Messi’s contract is staggering.

I was prepared to say that the biggest contract I knew of was in the low hundreds of millions, since I know there have been baseball contracts in the $250M-$300M range, but when I saw that, my gast was thoroughly flabbered.

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Acemarilllion  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:35:12am

re: #102 Charles Johnson

Whoa.

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Video

The Friz Quadrata Law and Order font is an odd choice for the titles.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:36:17am
349
Hecuba's daughter  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:37:02am

re: #341 Dopamine Fish

No, there are only two that are even north of $500k. One of which is an American football player, which surprised me; I didn’t know the NFL had had a contract that large.

$500M ….

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:37:23am

re: #349 Hecuba’s daughter

$500M ….

GAH, good catch. It was a bit of a night last night.

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:38:04am

A bunch of newspapers have dropped Dilbert because Adams became a crank.
The quality of his work these days is extremely poor.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:38:42am

re: #342 Dopamine Fish

en.wikipedia.org

Interestingly, a lot of baseball contracts near the top of that list.

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:39:50am

re: #351 Crush White Nationalism

Oh, the tyranny of treating people as they prefer.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:40:32am

re: #291 Nyet

Haven’t followed the situation: has DS already attacked the Cheeto Adolf? He must position himself somehow.

That would be a bad move in GOP politics. DeSantis’ best bet is to just let Trump self destruct.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:41:34am

Attorney General Letitia James’ Press Conference

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:42:20am

re: #352 Eclectic Cyborg

Interestingly, a lot of baseball contracts near the top of that list.

My guess is that the relatively low injury rate for baseball players as opposed to football players (American or European variety) probably contributes to teams’ willingness to pay more money over a longer period.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:46:09am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:46:38am

re: #356 Dopamine Fish

My guess is that the relatively low injury rate for baseball players as opposed to football players (American or European variety) probably contributes to teams’ willingness to pay more money over a longer period.

The benefit of not being repeatedly assaulted by extremely large men on game day.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:47:21am

re: #358 No Malarkey!

The benefit of not being repeatedly assaulted by extremely large men on game day.

Precisely so, though the rigors of baseball’s 162-game schedule wreak their own havoc on its players.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:47:38am

re: #357 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I wonder if she is going to seek the death penalty for the Trump Organization?

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:52:16am

re: #190 Barefoot Grin

If they really wanted to recreate hell it would have been accordians.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:52:47am

re: #360 No Malarkey!

I wonder if she is going to seek the death penalty for the Trump Organization?

If corporations are people, then it stands to reason that this is a thing they should be able to do.

/half

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:53:49am

re: #317 Belafon

I think the 1776 group definitely needs to get introduced to smallpox:

Cementing their reputation as petty little people who have gotten their panties in a twist and thus are acting out like petulant children by purposefully interfering with meaningful services.

It might be a sort of civil disobedience protest thing. But if so I think they’ve chosen a very poor target. And in any case they should also be very ready to accept the consequences of their actions as wll.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:54:44am

re: #360 No Malarkey!

I wonder if she is going to seek the death penalty for the Trump Organization?

That would really trigger the tangerine twit. Though I would really prefer an indictment of him and his brats.

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TarHellion  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:57:38am

re: #338 Dangerman

Yeah, I just have a nagging feeling that there is a deeply damaging skeleton in DeSadist’s closet.

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:01:22am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:01:23am

re: #294 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:01:34am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:02:19am

re: #364 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

That would real trigger the tangerine twit. Though I would really prefer an indictment of him and his brats.

She is pursuing a civil suit against the Trump Organization, so she won’t be announcing that. Think of it as an appetizer before we get indictments from Fulton County or a federal grand jury.

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ericblair  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:03:32am

re: #331 Ming5000

Saw a comic mention visiting Ottawa and having beavertails. Is Ottawa correct?

Yes, beavertails are just fried dough with bad-for-you stuff on top.

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:03:44am

Tennessee is tagging non-Christians.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:04:30am

re: #198 JC1

Got me another 3/6.

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Same here. Almost had all the right letters with none in the correct spot, twice.

Click to Reveal

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:04:47am
Shaun King’s nonprofit amassed millions of dollars in donations in the months following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, while its signature project to review and redress prosecutorial injustices in three major U.S. cities floundered—and while King himself and his associates raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation.

Representatives of the Grassroots Law Project produced the 2020 financial reports for the King-led outfit in response to questions from The Daily Beast. These materials have yet to appear in any public records database, and the Internal Revenue Service did not respond to queries about why the King nonprofit did not show up in its online files. But the Grassroots Law Project’s lawyers noted the agency had suffered internal delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inside Shaun King’s Shadowy $6.7 Million Nonprofit (The Daily Beast)

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HRH Stanley Sea  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:06:28am

re: #372 Eventual Carrion

Same here. Almost had all the right letters with none in the correct spot, twice.

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Masterpiece

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TarHellion  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:07:08am

re: #372 Eventual Carrion

Wow! Great start there! Hey at least you got the birbie (someone on here started calling it that and I’ve been running with it)

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Acemarilllion  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:08:29am

“Do NOT cook chicken in NyQuil”
—Serious news anchor, Milwaukee local news

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:11:13am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:11:40am

re: #376 Acemarilllion

[Embedded content]

“Do NOT cook chicken in NyQuil”
—Serious news anchor, Milwaukee local news

I don’t think I want to know…

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:11:57am

The streaming and gaming platform Twitch has been going through some things this week. Over the weekend, it came out that a prominent streamer who made money by streaming himself playing on gambling websites stole something around $300K from his viewers by begging them for loans to cover his gambling debts, leading to two of Twitch’s biggest streamers teaming up to pay back the money he stole. I was surprised that this activity was allowed, but Twitch promptly followed up by announcing that they were updating their policies to ban the practice. Unfortunately, that’s the good news. The bad news is that early this morning, Twitch announced a reorganization of their payment policies to streamers to eliminate the special “premium contracts” they awarded to some of their largest content creators. If that sounds like a good thing to you, it is, but it’s also exactly the opposite of what everybody on the platform wanted; Twitch already doesn’t pay as well as other content platforms, and rather than bumping everybody up to the level of the premium contracts, they decided to take the premium contracts away altogether. This may result in a bit of a mass exodus in the gaming community, as content creators look to make better money on other streaming platforms.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:12:04am

re: #376 Acemarilllion

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“Do NOT cook chicken in NyQuil”
—Serious news anchor, Milwaukee local news

I’ve seen that story here for three days now. Has anyone seen an explanation for why someone thought it was a good idea?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:13:24am

re: #379 Dopamine Fish

Are there any other viable streaming platforms besides Twitch right now? I thought they were by far the biggest dog in the yard.

Also worth noting Twitch is owned by Amazon.

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lizardofid  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:13:41am

re: #380 Belafon

I’ve seen that story here for three days now. Has anyone seen an explanation for why someone thought it was a good idea?

Youtube Video

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:13:51am

re: #381 Eclectic Cyborg

Are there any other viable streaming platforms besides Twitch right now? I thought they were by far the biggest dog in the yard.

Also worth noting Twitch is owned by Amazon.

YouTube Gaming is being kicked around by some people, though I’ve heard it’s not exactly the greatest terms of service, either.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:14:04am

“… Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin … all these people made Russia a great derzhava (state)” — Putin today.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:14:51am

re: #384 Nyet

“… Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin … all these people made Russia a great derzhava (state)” — Putin today.

Bad, worse, and WTF-are-you-kidding-me - that’s who he’s holding up as examples? Dude.

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:17:47am

re: #376 Acemarilllion

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“Do NOT cook chicken in NyQuil”
—Serious news anchor, Milwaukee local news

“do not stand this ladder in shit”

“do not use this hair dryer in the shower”

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:18:37am

re: #385 Dopamine Fish

That’s not even the point. This is a great illustration of the chimeric approach to history, where the Reds and the Whites are both patriots in their own way and we don’t have to choose. “Confederacy and Union made the US great”.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:20:13am

re: #383 Dopamine Fish

YouTube Gaming is being kicked around by some people, though I’ve heard it’s not exactly the greatest terms of service, either.

I know of multiple streamers who left YouTube for Twitch a while back. A number of complaints involved regarding monetization, needing a lot of followers in order to get something close to fair treatment from YouTube, etc. etc. And there also seems to be a lot more trolling in YouTube as compared to Twitch.

(Someone I know who does videos of some niche wargames had a systematic DMCA attack made on his videos. Many were taken down by default and he had a lot of hoops to jump through to get them restored. And he stated that the downtime was essentially most of the period during which he would get compensation for the content.)

I doubt it will be a better solution for them than Twitch.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:22:05am

Okay, I went down the rabbit hole on the Nyquil chicken thing so you don’t have to:

(Reuters) - Cooking chicken in cough medicine NyQuil is not only silly and unappetizing but can also be very unsafe, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, following the “sleepy chicken” TikTok challenge.

A number of videos challenged people to cook chicken in NyQuil, which contains acetaminophen, dextromethorphan and doxylamine, or another similar over-the-counter cough and cold medication, according to the FDA.

Boiling medicine can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways, the FDA said in a notice dated Sept. 15.

“Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs.”

This is not the first time the FDA has warned against social media challenges that use non-prescription medicine.

In September 2020, a similar warning was issued by the FDA after reports of teenagers getting admitted to emergency rooms or dying after participating in the “Benadryl Challenge” on the short-video app.

There are far too many morons in society these days.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:22:06am

re: #388 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

YouTube is pretty toxic, that’s true. It’ll be interesting to see what follows. I don’t know if there’s currently any other player in the market, so maybe it’ll be a situation where they’re unhappy, but just have to grin and bear it.

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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:23:46am

— Daddy, why am I being taken to die on the Ukrainian front?

— Dunno son, I’m not interested in politics.

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:25:49am
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Nyet  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:26:41am

Does AvtoVAZ have sufficient resources to produce 300000 Ladas?

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:27:33am
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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:33:00am
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austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:33:51am

re: #306 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if Barry “The Asterisk” Bonds will ever get in the HoF?

It’s been about 20 years since all that shit went down.

Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, A-Rod…

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:35:23am
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Romantic Heretic  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:36:22am

re: #302 Dangerman

One of the finest examples of doublethink I’ve ever seen.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:37:16am

re: #395 The Pie Overlord!

Let’s recap. We have a former President who is now:

1) Under civil investigation for inciting an insurrection
2) Under criminal investigation for stealing government documents and possibly selling classified secrets
3) Under criminal investigation for illegally interfering in an election
4) The defendant in a civil lawsuit for defrauding investors

Did I get all that right?

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:37:38am

re: #398 Romantic Heretic

One of the finest examples of doublethink I’ve ever seen.

it’s them to a T:
it dont have to make any sense
we just want what we want

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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:38:21am

re: #399 Dopamine Fish

Let’s recap. We have a former President who is now:

1) Under investigation for inciting an insurrection
2) Under investigation for stealing government documents and possibly selling classified secrets
3) Under investigation for illegally interfering in an election
4) The defendant in a civil lawsuit for defrauding investors

Did I get all that right?

i read the other day there are so many felony accusations against trump they started sorting them into seven categories

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:38:43am

re: #395 The Pie Overlord!

Good. Go after that SOB. He’s up to his combover in fraud and everyone knows it. He’s never been anything more than a two-bit real estate shyster in a cheap suit and it’s long past time he paid the piper.

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:39:46am

re: #402 Dr Lizardo

And this suit seems to be covering every shell in his shell game.

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:40:26am
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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:40:43am
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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:41:20am

re: #395 The Pie Overlord!

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sounds like it’s against him personally
and the three kids
weisselberg et al

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:41:50am

Why do I feel like Trump is just going to drag this AG lawsuit out endlessly like all the others?

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:41:57am

re: #404 jaunte

We’re making a criminal referral to the U.S. Dept of Justice.

So I amend my earlier statement: He is a defendant in a civil lawsuit for defrauding investors, and under criminal investigation for the same. Jesus H. Fucking Christ, this man has crimed all the crimes.

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jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:42:31am

re: #407 Eclectic Cyborg

Maybe the RNC will finally get a clue and stop funding his defense.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:42:36am

At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Trump really did shoot someone on 5th Street in New York.

411
Mike Lamb  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:42:40am

re: #333 jaunte

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I predict there is going to be a fuck load of lawsuits for recovery of preference payments and fraudulent transfers.

412
steve_davis  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:43:24am

re: #384 Nyet

“… Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin … all these people made Russia a great derzhava (state)” — Putin today.

russia is a nation that never went through a Reformation, and that has a state-sponsored religion that only exists by being a propaganda arm for the state. They’ve also killed off their intellectual class through various purges over the past 100 years. They’re basically fucked. Imagine living in Columbia, SC and realizing that that’s it for you. No Charleston. No Charlotte up the road. It’s just you, half-a-million rednecks, a petting zoo and a Red Lobster. No, I am not exaggerating.

413
Mike Lamb  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:44:54am

re: #341 Dopamine Fish

No, there are only two that are even north of $500M. One of which is an American football player, which surprised me; I didn’t know the NFL had had a contract that large.

That number for Mahomes is largely funny money, as the entirety his contract is not guaranteed.

414
Alephnaught  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:45:15am

re: #404 jaunte

From the tweet (my emphasis):

With the help of Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and other defendants, Trump variously unlawfully inflated and deflated his net worth by billions to obtain and satisfy loans, get insurance benefits, and pay lower taxes.

They appear to be saying he’s not as rich as he claims to be. He won’t like that…

415
Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:45:16am

re: #407 Eclectic Cyborg

Why do I feel like Trump is just going to drag this AG lawsuit out endlessly like all the others?

Trump will try. But that doesn’t matter. He’s starting to get so much of his stuff tied into just keeping him out of jail that if we can keep people IN office, he will go down.

Edited

416
Jay C  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:46:13am

re: #410 Dopamine Fish

At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Trump really did shoot someone on 5th Street in New York.

Fifth Avenue, but who’s counting….?

417
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:46:30am

arrrgggghhh

i’m loving this but PLEASE STOP CALLING THEM CHILDREN

418
jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:47:04am

re: #417 Dangerman

Save a syllable with ‘spawn.’

419
BigPapa  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:47:29am

re: #418 jaunte

Save a syllable with ‘spawn.’

Fraudgeny

420
Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:47:32am

re: #417 Dangerman

arrrgggghhh

i’m loving this but PLEASE STOP CALLING THEM CHILDREN

I prefer “his spawn from the very bowels of hell itself”.

421
BigPapa  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:49:40am

Tish James not only stuffed her boot up chump’s ass, she’s twisting it around

422
jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:50:00am
423
The Pie Overlord!  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:51:19am

CRY MOAR LI’L WITCH

424
No Malarkey!  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:51:25am
425
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:52:15am

i’m investing in ketchup futures

426
jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:52:17am
427
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:52:35am

re: #423 The Pie Overlord!

Maybe if you spent less time snorting coke and more time paying attention to the world around you, you wouldn’t be in this mess, chief.

428
Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:53:22am

re: #425 Dangerman

i’m investing in ketchup futures

Also invest in the companies that make those little restaurant ketchup packages!

429
GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:54:52am

re: #399 Dopamine Fish

Let’s recap. We have a former President who is now:

1) Under civil investigation for inciting an insurrection
2) Under criminal investigation for stealing government documents and possibly selling classified secrets
3) Under criminal investigation for illegally interfering in an election
4) The defendant in a civil lawsuit for defrauding investors

Did I get all that right?

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO MEEEEEAN?

430
Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:55:00am

re: #426 jaunte

431
gocart mozart  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:55:35am
432
lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:55:41am

re: #414 Alephnaught

Trump has lied endlessly about the valuations of his real estate. He’s done that for decades. He would say it’s worth X if he’s talking to an investor - puffing up the price, and then claiming it was Y, claiming it wasn’t worth nearly as much when tax authorities ask.

He uses whatever number strikes his mood.

433
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:55:46am

re: #429 GlutenFreeJesus

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO MEEEEEAN?

434
Romantic Heretic  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:57:22am

re: #392 jaunte

Unfortunately, the US is not in a good position to complain since they illegally attacked Iraq two decades ago.

Since the main reason for the attack was to end international law it was a definite ‘Mission Accomplished’.

And here we are.

435
Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:01:41am
436
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:02:02am

she is hammering ‘one law for all’

437
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:02:45am

re: #435 Dr Lizardo

A black M and a female Bond would make the wingnuts lose their freaking minds.

438
Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:02:59am

I wouldn’t name the people involved in catching Trump. It puts a target on their backs.

439
BigPapa  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:03:50am

Idris Elba would be a fantastic Bond. Or M. Or anything for that matter.

440
Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:05:23am

re: #437 Eclectic Cyborg

A black M and a female Bond would make the wingnuts lose their freaking minds.

This is the latest Doctor from Doctor Who. Minds will be lost over this as well.

441
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:05:44am

re: #437 Eclectic Cyborg

A black M and a female Bond would make the wingnuts lose their freaking minds.

A female Bond would break so many incels’ brains, it’d be incredible. Even better is that, if the female character continues on the male’s promiscuous sexuality, it would do much to refute the common media portrayal of women as the “more virtuous” sex. Make a female Bond who is a rampaging slut, I dare you. It’d be awesome.

442
Hecuba's daughter  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:05:53am

re: #432 lawhawk

Trump has lied endlessly about the valuations of his real estate. He’s done that for decades. He would say it’s worth X if he’s talking to an investor - puffing up the price, and then claiming it was Y, claiming it wasn’t worth nearly as much when tax authorities ask.

He uses whatever number strikes his mood.

Isn’t this a widespread problem in real estate? Am I being unfair to say that Leona Helmsley was the norm not the exception? Another example of how the wealthy and connected can commit crimes for decades with impunity. The system is gamed to protect them.

443
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:06:20am

re: #440 Crush White Nationalism

This is the latest Doctor from Doctor Who. Minds will be lost over this as well.

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When did they announce that? Clearly, I missed it.

444
austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:06:37am

re: #382 lizardofid

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Video

//

One of She Who Must Be Obeyed’s bands (Diminished Seven- they play Americana) do that tune when John Burnett sits in (He does whenever he’s not on the road for NPR. He is a killer harmonica player and has a fine tenor voice.). The Broken Spoke is in the ‘hood, by the way. Old fashioned Texas honky tonk. A roller rink for cowboys. All hail the ‘04!

445
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:06:48am

re: #438 Crush White Nationalism

I wouldn’t name the people involved in catching Trump. It puts a target on their backs.

they had to have discussed this

446
Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:07:37am

re: #439 BigPapa

Idris Elba would be a fantastic Bond. Or M. Or anything for that matter.

Like I noted in my tweet, the producers are looking for someone in their 30s. But yeah, Idris Elba would make a fantastic “M”. He’s got the gravitas needed for the role and can easily follow in the footsteps of Bernard Lee, Dame Judy Dench and Ralph Fiennes.

447
Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:08:00am

re: #443 Dopamine Fish

When did they announce that? Clearly, I missed it.

theguardian.com

448
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:08:52am

re: #447 Crush White Nationalism

theguardian.com

Ah. Well, that’s cool. You know, I probably heard about it at the time (the article is from May), and then promptly forgot about it in the ongoing rush of life in these United States.

449
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:09:50am

re: #442 Hecuba’s daughter

Isn’t this a widespread problem in real estate? Am I being unfair to say that Leona Helmsley was the norm not the exception? Another example of how the wealthy and connected can commit crimes for decades with impunity. The system is gamed to protect them.

part of what’s different here

- objective measurements - ie square feet
- concurrent professional, independent appraisals that are in cases exponentially different (lower)

personally, i have no idea how deutche or other banks floated loans of that magnitude on compiled financials

450
Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:09:53am

re: #434 Romantic Heretic

Unfortunately, the US is not in a good position to complain since they illegally attacked Iraq two decades ago.

Since the main reason for the attack was to end international law it was a definite ‘Mission Accomplished’.

And here we are.

No, we’re not in a great position, but we didn’t create the 51st state in the Middle East.

451
jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:10:03am

re: #444 austin_blue

I just went to Google maps and looked at the place. Strange to see it flanked by 4 story apartment blocks!

452
lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:12:12am

re: #442 Hecuba’s daughter

Yes, it’s a widespread problem. Valuations are frequently subjective, but if you’re using a value you have to use it consistently across all your reporting on that property - tax valuation and solicitations to investors. You can’t use two wildly different numbers.

Had Trump said the valuation was $750k for his penthouse and reported same to tax authorities, no crime.

That he inflated the cost to investors, but used $750k to tax department, it was evidence of criminal conduct. That he did it across all his different businesses and properties, shows intent to defraud.

453
A Three Hour Tour  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:12:52am

re: #443 Dopamine Fish

When did they announce that? Clearly, I missed it.

Ncuti Gatwa’s casting as the Doctor was revealed on May 8, 2022.

454
Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:16:12am

My cats were getting really nasty with each other today.
One of my two Feliway diffusers had run dry and they were returning to their natural state.

455
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:17:10am

re: #454 Crush White Nationalism

My cats were getting really nasty with each other today.
One of my two Feliway diffusers had run dry and they were returning to their natural state.

Our outdoor cat was observed this morning grabbing a random stick out of the grass and vigorously attacking it. Clearly she needs more entertainment in her life.

456
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:17:51am

re: #452 lawhawk

Yes, it’s a widespread problem. Valuations are frequently subjective, but if you’re using a value you have to use it consistently across all your reporting on that property - tax valuation and solicitations to investors. You can’t use two wildly different numbers.

Had Trump said the valuation was $750k for his penthouse and reported same to tax authorities, no crime.

That he inflated the cost to investors, but used $750k to tax department, it was evidence of criminal conduct. That he did it across all his different businesses and properties, shows intent to defraud.

457
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:23:58am

Well, I have to respect the hustle. The Republican running for our state representative’s seat just showed up at my front door. I declined to have any words with him, and he left with an apology.

458
jaunte  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:24:37am
459
TedStriker  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:25:17am

re: #255 Dangerman

From a new book

Shorter: cowardice

Profiles in courage, indeed.

460
Teukka  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:28:06am

Meme for the day:

461
Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:29:21am

re: #458 jaunte

And she knew exactly what each color meant.

462
austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:29:40am

re: #451 jaunte

I just went to Google maps and looked at the place. Strange to see it flanked by 4 story apartment blocks!

Over 5,000 units (apts/condos) have been added to South Lamar or are being built in the 4 mile stretch from the river to Ben White since 2010. It’s absurd.

463
steve_davis  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:31:08am

re: #421 BigPapa

Tish James not only stuffed her boot up chump’s ass, she’s twisting it around

she not only tossed his salad, she used the buffalo ranch dressing and the jalapeno colby jack up there. not only did he get a coffee enema, the coffee was just off the boil….sorry, just thinking of some high-brow NY Post headlines here.

464
Dizzy  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:31:12am
465
Eventual Carrion  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:31:25am

re: #353 jaunte

Oh, the tyranny of treating people as they prefer.

Just come back with “You say your name is Bob and you want to be called that, but I’m going to refer to you as Dickhead”.

466
Dr. Matt  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:33:36am

Those loud noises you hear coming from Florida right now is Donnie and Junior snorting burrito-sized lines of coke…..followed by plates of ketchup crashing against the dated wallpaper.

467
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:34:34am

re: #458 jaunte

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i’d be surprised that mazars didnt follow all the rules on the compiled financials.
i’m sure the have the documentation to prove it
they likely did not know a lot of this. more than just plausible deniability.

however they clearly knew who they were in bed with.
I would be more surprised that they didnt have lots of discussions over the years about their exposure and how to best protect themselves if/when.

hint: when the need for the first discussion comes up, that’s when it’s time to walk away

i still dont get how the banks relied on representations and compilations, not audits.
and how did they not do their own appraisals?

468
lawhawk  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:36:28am

But the GOP will go out of their way to nominate and reelect Trump, who can’t run a charity or a business in NY, is under multiple criminal investigations, and the GOP would interfere in those prosecutions to cover up Trump crime.

469
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:37:53am

re: #464 Dizzy

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mazars signs the financials.

trump or someone signed the loan docs which may have referred to the ‘accuracy’ of the financials.

and no one, absolutely no one in the trump org managed to get a $180m loan without his direct and intimate involvement.

470
Dr. Matt  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:39:16am

The new standard for “opening a can of whoop-ass”:

471
Teukka  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:39:53am

File under oopsie:

472
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:40:44am

re: #471 Teukka

File under oopsie:

Malwarebytes. That’s a name I haven’t heard in quite some time.

473
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:41:10am
474
Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:45:00am
475
Hecuba's daughter  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:45:03am

re: #467 Dangerman

i’d be surprised that mazars didnt follow all the rules on the compiled financials.
i’m sure the have the documentation to prove it
they likely did not know a lot of this. more than just plausible deniability.

however they clearly knew who they were in bed with.
I would be more surprised that they didnt have lots of discussions over the years about their exposure and how to best protect themselves if/when.

hint: when the need for the first discussion comes up, that’s when it’s time to walk away

i still dont get how the banks relied on representations and compilations, not audits.
and how did they not do their own appraisals?

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What is the worth of a statement that merely reports fantasy numbers provided by your client, with no verification as to the validity of any of the contents? Did their statements clearly assert that nothing has been verified and that their work is essentially worthless?

476
Dr. Matt  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:45:27am

Blocking Google and Youtube will likely increase work place productivity by 200%.

half ////

477
Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:48:34am

re: #476 Dr. Matt

Blocking Google and Youtube will likely increase work place productivity by 200%.

half ////

Is LGF based on Google? //

478
Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:48:36am

re: #468 lawhawk

But the GOP will go out of their way to nominate and reelect Trump, who can’t run a charity or a business in NY, is under multiple criminal investigations, and the GOP would interfere in those prosecutions to cover up Trump crime.

I expect that they’ll be setting up their fraudulent businesses in Florida now.

479
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:48:41am

re: #475 Hecuba’s daughter

What is the worth of a statement that merely reports fantasy numbers provided by your client, with no verification as to the validity of any of the contents? Did their statements clearly assert that nothing has been verified and that their work is essentially worthless?

If the procedures for producing those statements include a corresponding signed release stating that the client has represented the information truly and accurately, then I wouldn’t call them worthless. That’s the sort of thing a company does when they offer a service which could have legal liability if they do try to verify the information being provided to them.

480
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:52:51am

Trump-humpers, in 2016: DRAIN THE SWAMP
AG Letitia James, 2022: Challenge accepted.

481
Hecuba's daughter  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:53:30am

re: #479 Dopamine Fish

If the procedures for producing those statements include a corresponding signed release stating that the client has represented the information truly and accurately, then I wouldn’t call them worthless. That’s the sort of thing a company does when they offer a service which could have legal liability if they do try to verify the information being provided to them.

That the client has “represented the information truly and accurately” or that the client has “confirmed that this is a true and accurate representation of what the client has said to us”?

482
Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:54:01am

re: #471 Teukka

File under oopsie:

483
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:54:58am

a past (and unlikely) future president of the united states is under a bunch of federal and state investigations

a whopper was bombshelled today
while the dollars are huge, basically he’s a fraud, a liar and a thief, and so are his spawn.

and how does a righteous man, a President of the united states deal with this?

He turns to hannity.

484
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:55:09am
485
piratedan  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:56:52am

re: #453 A Three Hour Tour

his performance in Sex Education series is certainly incredible, and his casting is likely to spark the potential for new audiences to find the show.

486
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:57:15am

re: #481 Hecuba’s daughter

That the client has “represented the information truly and accurately” or that the client has “confirmed that this is a true and accurate representation of what the client has said to us”?

The former. Basically, if Mazars told Trump, “We’ll compile your information for you, but you have to sign a piece of paper that says you’re telling us the truth and we disclaim any responsibility if you’re not,” then they’re off the hook, until and unless it’s demonstrated that someone knew something internally and failed to say something.

487
dat_said  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:57:18am

Pay no mind that NYAG agrees with Liz H - he undervalued to commit tax fraud.

488
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:00:30am

Trump did the RICO???

489
Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:00:47am

re: #484 Dopamine Fish

Probably optimistic. But go for it.

490
Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:02:08am

re: #487 dat_said

Pay no mind that NYAG agrees with Liz H - he undervalued to commit tax fraud.

491
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:02:22am

re: #475 Hecuba’s daughter

What is the worth of a statement that merely reports fantasy numbers provided by your client, with no verification as to the validity of any of the contents? Did their statements clearly assert that nothing has been verified and that their work is essentially worthless?

essentially yes. a compilation is one of the lowest levels of service.
it consists essentially of presenting information obtained from a client in an acceptable financial statement format.

- the information in compiled financial statements are the responsibility of management

- the accounting firm does not audit or review, check for accuracy or completeness

- they do not express any opinion or conclusion, or provide any assurance

492
Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:03:29am

re: #480 Dopamine Fish

Trump-humpers, in 2016: DRAIN THE SWAMP
AG Letitia James, 2022: Challenge accepted.

trump - not our my swamp

493
Jay C  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:05:08am

re: #442 Hecuba’s daughter

Isn’t this a widespread problem in real estate? Am I being unfair to say that Leona Helmsley was the norm not the exception? Another example of how the wealthy and connected can commit crimes for decades with impunity. The system is gamed to protect them.

Quite true, fiddling of valuations for various purposes is pretty much SOP in the RE business (and not just the “whales” like Trump), but the hard realities of the markets *usually* act as a deterrent for the worst excesses: and players who fuck up badly enough (I.e. lose too much money for their investors/financiers) typically find themselves contemplating a career change -sometimes from behind bars - in short order.

The main “exception”, though is Donald Trump: his businesses have been known to stink of crooked practices for years: and the “value” of Trump assets has been accepted as an agreed fiction for just as long. AFAICT, it’s only The Orange Anus’s “celebrity” status, BS as it is, that’s kept his gimcrack empire together even this far. IMO, if Trump hadn’t been elected President in 2016, some investigation like AG James’ would probably have happened anyway.

494
A Three Hour Tour  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:05:23am

re: #488 Dopamine Fish

Trump did the RICO???

Perhaps, but Popehat will probably pooh-pooh it.

495
Dopamine Fish  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:07:32am

re: #494 A Three Hour Tour

Perhaps, but Popehat will probably pooh-pooh it.

It’s never RICO. That law was exceptionally engineered, in that it is remarkably difficult to make a case for it EXCEPT in the specific instances for which it was originally designed - mobsters doing mob things.

496
7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:47:28am

re: #341 Dopamine Fish

No, there are only two that are even north of $500M. One of which is an American football player, which surprised me; I didn’t know the NFL had had a contract that large.

Disc golf has a $10m contract!

497
John Hughes  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:48:29am

re: #435 Dr Lizardo

Duh, we’ve already met the new 007.

And, of course, she’s black.

498
John Hughes  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:49:52am

re: #435 Dr Lizardo

Idriss, although great, could never be the new Bond.

He’s not Scottish.

499
Barefoot Grin  Sep 21, 2022 • 1:39:02pm

re: #412 steve_davis

russia is a nation that never went through a Reformation, and that has a state-sponsored religion that only exists by being a propaganda arm for the state. They’ve also killed off their intellectual class through various purges over the past 100 years. They’re basically fucked. Imagine living in Columbia, SC and realizing that that’s it for you. No Charleston. No Charlotte up the road. It’s just you, half-a-million rednecks, a petting zoo and a Red Lobster. No, I am not exaggerating.

Horse Feathers still there?


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