A Bad Lip Reading Remix: “EVEN MORE TWILIGHT”

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Jacob struggles as Edward and Bella take things to the next level.
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00:06 — Bella wants more food
00:19 — The wedding
00:46 — The reception
00:59 — A tender moment between Bella and Jacob
01:25 — Sensuality
01:36 — A riddle
01:56 — A consummation
02:13 — Jacob speculates
02:40 — Jacob introspects
02:47 — Bella wants to play
03:13 — Jacob’s friends
03:34 — A confrontation
04:01 — Edward finds out
04:18 — Outro

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:32:04pm

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:34:33pm

I’m in a boat between Singapore and Thailand, but birbies fly everywhere.(Not bad after 18 hours in a jumbo jet.)

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Jay C  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:38:37pm

re: #1 Backwoods Sleuth

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Well, you know what they say about men with large heads, right….????

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They wear large hats!!!!

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sagehen  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:39:26pm

re: #2 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I’m in a boat between Singapore and Thailand, but birbies fly everywhere.(Not bad after 18 hours in a jumbo jet.)

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jaunte  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:39:34pm

re: #1 Backwoods Sleuth

“Our brains are so terrifically oversized, we have to keep inventing things to want, to buy,” Vonnegut said with a shudder. “If you think of the 8 million people of greater New York charging out of their houses every day in order to monitor the planet, it is a terrifyingly destructive force.”
latimes.com

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:42:27pm

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:42:50pm

Playing with the polarization of the airplane window.

(It’s all clouds, just after sunrise, over the eastern Philippines. And it took forever to upload, so don’t expect many more before I get back.)

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:44:35pm

There’s always a document trail…some just take 3 years to surface.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:44:44pm

re: #4 sagehen

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:49:24pm

re: #1 Backwoods Sleuth

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He has no understanding of evolution by natural selection. This is almost Lamarkian in its view (ie giraffes have long necks because they stretch). The fetus does not know how it will be born. And c-sections are really never done because the baby has a big head.

But we have evolved a way for big brained babies to get out the birth canal. Thatis not having a fused skull so it is very maleable.

Heck, I think the major problem is not large skulls but shoulders that are too wide. The infant needs to make all sorts of contortions to get the shoulders past the canal.

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Captain Ron  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:50:43pm
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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:52:42pm

I’m no expert but this looks like a fairly large explosion.

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:53:59pm

re: #1 Backwoods Sleuth

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Gah, he’s even less educated than I thought.

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nines09  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:55:08pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:59:25pm

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 3:59:50pm

Here come the gag orders…

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:01:22pm

Like a human GPS, he guided Britain’s first special forces across the vast Sahara for hit-and-run raids on enemy bases in the battle against Rommel’s forces.

. . . Mr. Sadler was intrigued by desert navigation. “What amazed me,” he told Mr. Rayment, “was that even with the vast, featureless expanses of the desert, a good navigator could pinpoint his exact location by using a theodolite, an air almanac and air navigational tables, and having a good knowledge of the stars.”

nytimes.com

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:01:30pm

Jury foremen don’t normally take 15 ballots…

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:03:53pm

re: #14 nines09

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I just got a call from one of my old friend/customers, who still shops at the store I used to own. He recently told the new owner that he has crossed the $50,000 mark in spending at that store. He’s 6’4”, and I sold him a bike that fit, and here we are. He was usually a truck driver while I was there. He’s retired now (1 year older than me).

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He told me, last time I talked to him, that he drove ‘outlaw’ for the 30-some years of his career. He was raising 2 boys who got bigger than him. He said that’s where all his money went first, and second on bikes.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:06:31pm

re: #18 darthstar

Jury foremen don’t normally take 15 ballots…

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He’ll be excused from jury duty before void dire.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:15:54pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

Heck, I think the major problem is not large skulls but shoulders that are too wide. The infant needs to make all sorts of contortions to get the shoulders past the canal.

That’s what happened with my youngest son, midwife had to reach in a do a shit-ton of manipulation for him to come out. 😹

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:23:51pm

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:26:04pm

I’d never considered pilots to be hot until now…

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Captain Ron  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:27:25pm
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Nerdy Fish  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:27:46pm

re: #23 darthstar

I’d never considered pilots to be hot until now…

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Did you ever watch Stargate: SG-1? Captain Samantha Carter (USAF)…

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:30:41pm

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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:31:57pm

re: #22 Backwoods Sleuth

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I hadn’t been paying much attention, but the care facility she was at basically abandoned her. Her son found her with sores, and she died of an “infection”. Probably sepsis.

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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:33:28pm

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calochortus  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:41:23pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

He has no understanding of evolution by natural selection. This is almost Lamarkian in its view (ie giraffes have long necks because they stretch). The fetus does not know how it will be born. And c-sections are really never done because the baby has a big head.

But we have evolved a way for big brained babies to get out the birth canal. Thatis not having a fused skull so it is very maleable.

Heck, I think the major problem is not large skulls but shoulders that are too wide. The infant needs to make all sorts of contortions to get the shoulders past the canal.

I recall my surprise at the birth of my first-born. Yes, the head, but then the shoulders slipping through one at a time. They were…large. Also Mr. C enjoyed moving those infant skull plates (gently) around until they fused.

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jeffreyw  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:44:35pm

The Brothers Sun on Netflix is worthy of your time.

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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:47:26pm

Except we gotta wait until November:

Arcane: Season 2 | First Look | Netflix

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nines09  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:48:46pm

Spoke with my Philly homie today, Luke, and it was a good day, and I was reminded of him discovering the Strawberry Fields (Canadian festival)
Drove up from Philly in a Pontiac Bonneville muscle machine. Tried to figure out where and how to hide our hash/weed/powder as we approached what I later learned was Thousand Island/Gananoque crossing.
Four of us, and the customs was a lesson in working together.
Passed cash back and forth because you needed X amount of money to prove you could be able to visit and NOT steal food/gas/lodging/etc.
We had tickets, you had to show them.
Now your money….
Got through and it was the first time I had heard of Alice Cooper.
Son of a Bi…..
He did this song as the finale and he ran around the stage swinging a chicken.
I am not making this up, and we were very high but he swung a live chicken, feathers flying off screaming “BLACK JU JU BLACK JU JU BLACK JU JU” for about 3 minutes or five days, not sure in the end, and my head exploded. I think it was 2AM and we was toast.
The kicker was after I moved from Philly and got a Bunky Big Rig job and then drove truck to deliver to Lindsay Ontario, I went by a sign on RT 35 and it sank in I had been here before.
Holy Cow.
Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, will blow your mind….I saw him numerous times, got more and more theatrical. But he killed it.
Had a friend who saw him outside an orange grove in Florida with his original band.
Big boys.
Some in the crowd threw oranges onto the stage. Alice Cooper had very big guitarists. One went up to the microphone and said : “Stop throwing oranges or I will come down there with my axe.”
They stopped.

Nite nite Lizards.

ALICE COOPER - I’m Eighteen & Black Juju

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:50:29pm

re: #25 Nerdy Fish

Did you ever watch Stargate: SG-1? Captain Samantha Carter (USAF)…

Fiction doesn’t count.

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:51:55pm

Steve Scalise is getting stem cell treatment that he voted against.

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TedStriker  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:52:53pm

re: #25 Nerdy Fish

Did you ever watch Stargate: SG-1? Captain Samantha Carter (USAF)…

Oh, Amanda Tapping… such bad, bad thoughts.

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calochortus  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:56:43pm

re: #34 darthstar

Steve Scalise is getting stem cell treatment that he voted against.

But at least it will keep him away from Congress for a month.

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nines09  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:58:43pm

re: #34 darthstar

Steve Scalise is getting stem cell treatment that he voted against.

If he needed an abortion, he’d have it.

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 4:59:06pm

re: #21 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

That’s what happened with my youngest son, midwife had to reach in a do a shit-ton of manipulation for him to come out. 😹

I hope there were no complications. From just checking over 2% of vaginal births present with the shoulder stuck against the mother’s pubic bone. When the shoulder gets trapped, proper actions must be taken quickly, like before the next contraction, or there can be permanent damage. It is primarily for this that we need properly trained practitioners because they have to confidently assess, move in and do the right maneuvers. Not a time for hesitation.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:00:29pm

re: #32 nines09

I was born about two hours from Gananoque (pronounced Ga-nah-knock-way if anyone is curious). I’ve spent a lot of time in the 1000 islands area and been over that border crossing many times.

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:01:54pm

re: #36 calochortus

But at least it will keep him away from Congress for a month.

We’ll have an even house split while he’s gone.

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mmmirele  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:03:02pm

re: #38 silverdolphin

I hope there were no complications. From just checking over 2% of vaginal births present with the shoulder stuck against the mother’s pubic bone. When the shoulder gets trapped, proper actions must be taken quickly, like before the next contraction, or there can be permanent damage. It is primarily for this that we need properly trained practitioners because they have to confidently assess, move in and do the right maneuvers. Not a time for hesitation.

It’s things like this that make me generally against home birthing, because of the very real possibility that things could go south between one contraction and the next. I think being in a hospital birthing center is probably the best way to go. Too many women are going with poorly-qualified midwives and then there are the ones who insist they need no help. “Stunt birthing,” I call it, and it has had VERY bad outcomes. The whole point of birth is that mother and baby get through the process alive, not that mom has some sort of experience in a birthing pool or the ocean or whatever.

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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:04:45pm

If you don’t mind refurbished, you can get an 8 inch kindle fire for $25 or a 10 inch for $40.

computers.woot.com

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nines09  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:05:08pm

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

Me too. Actually spent a few nights in Alexandria Bay. Bridge is a trip in a squal. The islands have so many coves and inlets. Had a group of Canookers who came down to party with us. We got them so loaded it was legend.
Where were you born, if I may ask?

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calochortus  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:08:29pm

re: #41 mmmirele

It’s things like this that make me generally against home birthing, because of the very real possibility that things could go south between one contraction and the next. I think being in a hospital birthing center is probably the best way to go. Too many women are going with poorly-qualified midwives and then there are the ones who insist they need no help. “Stunt birthing,” I call it, and it has had VERY bad outcomes. The whole point of birth is that mother and baby get through the process alive, not that mom has some sort of experience in a birthing pool or the ocean or whatever.

Yeah, I had my kids in the early ’80s and hospitals were just starting to do birthing centers and the like. The hospital where I had my first didn’t have that, and honestly, having had that baby I realized that it didn’t matter much whether I was in a beautiful, relaxing room or lying on a couple bales of hay. (My second came so fast I was lucky to make it to the hospital before he popped out, so no real options there…) Fortunately both births were uncomplicated, but I sure wasn’t going to risk anything by not having all possible medical facilities right there.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:10:04pm
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland are investigating after commentators joked on a right-wing television station that migrants should be sent to Auschwitz or be tattooed or microchipped like dogs, and some companies have pulled advertising from the broadcaster.

The remarks were made over the past week by guests on TV Republika, a private station whose role as a platform for conservative views grew after the national conservative party, Law and Justice, lost control of the Polish government and public media.

During its eight years in power, Law and Justice turned taxpayer-funded state television into a platform for programming that cast largescale migration into Europe as an existential danger. The state media broadcast conspiracy theories, such as a claim that liberal elites wanted to force people to eat bugs, as well as antisemitic and homophobic content and attacks on the party’s opponents, including the new Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Spreading hate speech is a crime under Polish law. While public TV stations were shielded from market and legal pressures under the previous government, TV Republika now faces both.

IKEA said it was pulling its advertising from the station, prompting some conservative politicians to urge people to boycott the Swedish home goods giant. Other companies, including Carrefour and MasterCard subsequently said they were pulling their ads, too.

Companies pull ads from TV station after comments on tattooing and sending migrants to Auschwitz (AP)

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EPR-radar  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:14:21pm

re: #45 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Is it too much to ask for a version of conservatism that doesn’t intrinsically rely on hate speech?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:17:18pm

re: #46 EPR-radar

Is it too much to ask for a version of conservatism that doesn’t intrinsically rely on hate speech?

Yes!

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nines09  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:24:19pm

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

I was born about two hours from Gananoque (pronounced Ga-nah-knock-way if anyone is curious). I’ve spent a lot of time in the 1000 islands area and been over that border crossing many times.

I had said before I worked for Anchor Motor Freight hauling GM cars and trucks. There was what they called a “railhead” at Wellesley Island where pick up trucks made in Oshawa were trucked in. I worked out of the other end north of Niagara Falls at Lewiston NY as my domicile. Wellesley Island was a small breaker point.
All gone. Done. Doubt there is even footprints left.

nite all

snow coming and I am looking forward to it because I do not have to play in it.
I might regret saying that….
Take care

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:29:41pm

re: #38 silverdolphin

He is fine. He’s a rocket scientist; literally, aerospace engineering. And that is why we are happy we had a midwife.

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JC1  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:33:38pm

Ex-rock musician arrested after human remains found in search for his missing girlfriend
Theobald “Theo” Lengyel, 54, was charged with murder in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, 61, who was last seen Dec. 3 in California.

nbcnews.com

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retired cynic  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:36:05pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

He has no understanding of evolution by natural selection. This is almost Lamarkian in its view (ie giraffes have long necks because they stretch). The fetus does not know how it will be born. And c-sections are really never done because the baby has a big head.

But we have evolved a way for big brained babies to get out the birth canal. Thatis not having a fused skull so it is very maleable.

Heck, I think the major problem is not large skulls but shoulders that are too wide. The infant needs to make all sorts of contortions to get the shoulders past the canal.

I can assure you that in horses, it’s the shoulders!

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austin_blue  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:37:24pm

re: #51 retired cynic

I can assure you that in horses, it’s the shoulders!

And a breach position.

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sagehen  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:41:55pm

re: #25 Nerdy Fish

Did you ever watch Stargate: SG-1? Captain Samantha Carter (USAF)…

Pretty sure Jack O’Neill was also a USAF pilot; Teal’c flew a number of alien spaceships.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:42:01pm

re: #51 retired cynic

I can assure you that in horses, it’s the shoulders!

Large animal husbandry.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:43:26pm

re: #43 nines09

I was born in Ottawa.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:44:33pm

re: #53 sagehen

Pretty sure Jack O’Neill was also a USAF pilot; Teal’c flew a number of alien spaceships.

Jack was retired from USAF until they brought him back; Teal’c was a pilot; all of Stargate was under USAF command, so most of the humans on the show were airmen and airwomen. This was not necessarily true of the spin-off shows.

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teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:45:23pm

bsky.app

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:52:06pm

re: #41 mmmirele

It’s things like this that make me generally against home birthing, because of the very real possibility that things could go south between one contraction and the next. I think being in a hospital birthing center is probably the best way to go. Too many women are going with poorly-qualified midwives and then there are the ones who insist they need no help. “Stunt birthing,” I call it, and it has had VERY bad outcomes. The whole point of birth is that mother and baby get through the process alive, not that mom has some sort of experience in a birthing pool or the ocean or whatever.

My late husband was born at home with a broken collarbone. Snowstorm, 1939. I worked with a guy who had no use of an arm since a birth accident. I don’t know anything about the circumstances.

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retired cynic  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:52:26pm

re: #52 austin_blue

And a breach position.

Yes, I can tell you stories about that! Upside down is not a problem, normally. You just have to rotate the foal. haha. The last foaling I did, the foal had one foreleg bent back at the knee, and it made to shoulders too wide to get through. Fortunately, it was not a tough correction because I’m not that strong, and was well into my 60s then. Now I just enjoy them on the computer.

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sagehen  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:52:52pm

re: #56 Nerdy Fish

Jack was retired from USAF until they brought him back; Teal’c was a pilot; all of Stargate was under USAF command, so most of the humans on the show were airmen and airwomen. This was not necessarily true of the spin-off shows.

On Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard was most definitely a pilot. The rest of the main team were not, but some of the supporting and background characters also flew Puddlejumpers.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 5, 2024 • 5:57:06pm

re: #20 BeenHereAwhile

He’ll be excused from jury duty before void dire.

Doubtful. Why waste a peremptory challenge if he’s never actually selected for the jury?

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:03:47pm

Stainless steel dragonflies don’t mind the weather …

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mmmirele  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:07:48pm

re: #61 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Doubtful. Why waste a peremptory challenge if he’s never actually selected for the jury?

Yeah, why would they do that? Just because he’s an ex-congressman doesn’t mean he won’t be excused. Heck, I’m an ex-lawyer and I haven’t gotten excused; I’ve ended up on the jury as the foreperson! He should go through voir dire and have to go through all the questioning.

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Jay C  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:07:57pm

re: #45 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Companies pull ads from TV station after comments on tattooing and sending migrants to Auschwitz (AP)

What’s the Polish equivalent of FAFO?

Might make a good call sign for the station’s new management.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:09:46pm

re: #11 Captain Ron

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:12:02pm

I’ve started a Picture a Day project - at least one photo every day with my Leica M 240 & my Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton Aspherical LTM lens starting ton 1/1/2024 till 12/31/2024 - so far, honestly, that’s the best one. Still it’s more about the discipline of forcing me to shoot every day than it is about the photos. Well, this one of a mural in town from yesterday wasn’t bad either …

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:12:48pm

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Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:18:47pm

If I were a bettin’ man, which I ain’t, I’d bet that the wingnut majority in the Supreme Court is going to say the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to the orange fuhrer.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:20:29pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

If I were a bettin’ man, which I ain’t, I’d bet that the wingnut majority in the Supreme Court is going to say the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to the orange fuhrer.

I think there’s probably 50/50 odds here. They haven’t been willing to show him any favors to date. I still think the strongest probability is that they punt this until the general election, at which point they’ll finally be forced to put their cards on the table.

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JC1  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:25:43pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

He has no understanding of evolution by natural selection. This is almost Lamarkian in its view (ie giraffes have long necks because they stretch). The fetus does not know how it will be born. And c-sections are really never done because the baby has a big head.

But we have evolved a way for big brained babies to get out the birth canal. Thatis not having a fused skull so it is very maleable.

Heck, I think the major problem is not large skulls but shoulders that are too wide. The infant needs to make all sorts of contortions to get the shoulders past the canal.

If larger headed babies are more likely to survive a C-section birth than a natural birth, then wider use of C-sections will lead to larger average sized heads.

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:27:50pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

If I were a bettin’ man, which I ain’t, I’d bet that the wingnut majority in the Supreme Court is going to say the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to the orange fuhrer.

What bothers me the most about this is the fact that everyone is (rightly) assuming that the conservative majority is trying to think of how to punt on this issue without looking like the corrupt pieces of shit that they are. There will be no restoring of their image as a sacred institution if they actively participate in the dismantling of our democracy…and may they fail miserably if they choose to do so.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:28:29pm

With right wingers it always seems to get down to phrenology.

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darthstar  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:28:46pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:28:54pm

Karma stung him.

He voted against stem cell research and now…

Steve Scalise has to undergo a stem cell transplant…

cnn.com

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TedStriker  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:33:35pm

re: #56 Nerdy Fish

Jack was retired from USAF until they brought him back; Teal’c was a pilot; all of Stargate was under USAF command, so most of the humans on the show were airmen and airwomen. This was not necessarily true of the spin-off shows.

In the depths of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex (home to parts of NORAD and Space Command over the decades, with an extremely fictionalized version of its “war room” being a character of its own in WarGames, as well), no less.

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TedStriker  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:35:42pm

re: #75 TedStriker

A bit of trivia about that:

In Stargate SG-1 and its spin-offs, Cheyenne Mountain houses “Stargate Command”, a top-secret unit of the United States Air Force that uses the titular Stargate to explore other planets.[78] In recognition of the series’ close relationship with the real-life Air Force, there is now a broom closet in the real Cheyenne Mountain Complex called “Stargate Command”.[79]

en.wikipedia.org

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piratedan  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:36:10pm

re: #69 Nerdy Fish

I think there’s probably 50/50 odds here. They haven’t been willing to show him any favors to date. I still think the strongest probability is that they punt this until the general election, at which point they’ll finally be forced to put their cards on the table.

I think we’re going to find out, just how beholden the Conservative justices are to their “owners”, by their owners I’m talking about Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo and those funding the Federalist Society. If they believe that Trump is an anchor, they’ll ditch him and not look back. If they believe that they can peacefully coexist in DJT’s ownership with the Russians, Chinese and Saudis, they’ll do everything that they can to salvage him. If there’s a way to thread the needle to “harm” him but not derail him they may choose that, but unsure on just how they pull that off.

The real issue is, if they jettison Trump, who do they replace him with that gives them any chance of winning? I suspect that they prop him up and continue to ride the tiger thinking that they are somehow free from slipping in bathtubs or falling from windows.

My fear is that they will “go for broke” knowing that sentiment is against them but not giving a shit that they may not just trigger a US civil war but a world war. Up to now, the mushy middle has played fair and played by the rules, if its shown that the game is so rigged that you can’t win by fair play then its only a matter of time that the terrorism starts getting returned back onto them. The right has shown that fear and terror CAN influence outcomes and I suspect (don’t condone it mind you) that certain people are not going to find themselves as untouchable as they believe.

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:41:57pm

re: #70 JC1

If larger headed babies are more likely to survive a C-section birth than a natural birth, then wider use of C-sections will lead to larger average sized heads.

Unless those babies don’t live to reproduce because their mom died in a c-section. The death rate is higher for both mother and baby. Also, head size at birth would need to be genetic in origin.

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:48:36pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

My late husband was born at home with a broken collarbone. Snowstorm, 1939. I worked with a guy who had no use of an arm since a birth accident. I don’t know anything about the circumstances.

One of the most common problems that arises from the shoulder getting stuck is lack of oxygen and the paralysis of the arm. One of the reasons that corrective actions must be made quickly.

In today’s litigious society, the lawyers would ask why a c-section was not done and probably clear a large settlement. One of the reasons OB/GYN pay such high insurance premiums.

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jaunte  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:50:39pm

re: #67 darthstar

The designer was on guard against casual uprooting.

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sagehen  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:51:12pm

re: #56 Nerdy Fish

Jack was retired from USAF until they brought him back; Teal’c was a pilot; all of Stargate was under USAF command, so most of the humans on the show were airmen and airwomen. This was not necessarily true of the spin-off shows.

The Marines weren’t USAF; they’re Navy (some pretty good crossover fanfic, wherein the JAG team and/or NCIS are more than a little concerned that so many marines are sustaining hideous injuries and/or dying under a mountain 1000 miles from the nearest ocean). And by season 6, there was a Russian gate team and an on-site Russian general who seemed to act as Hammond’s adjunct.

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:51:24pm

re: #46 EPR-radar

Is it too much to ask for a version of conservatism that doesn’t intrinsically rely on hate speech?

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:55:12pm

re: #63 mmmirele

Yeah, why would they do that? Just because he’s an ex-congressman doesn’t mean he won’t be excused. Heck, I’m an ex-lawyer and I haven’t gotten excused; I’ve ended up on the jury as the foreperson! He should go through voir dire and have to go through all the questioning.

I can think of some great questions….

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 6:56:58pm

re: #63 mmmirele

Yeah, why would they do that? Just because he’s an ex-congressman doesn’t mean he won’t be excused. Heck, I’m an ex-lawyer and I haven’t gotten excused; I’ve ended up on the jury as the foreperson! He should go through voir dire and have to go through all the questioning.

Oh the cases I have been on and when I’ve been a foreperson…I am just waiting to hit the big 7-0 when I can use my diagnosis of diabetes to opt out of jury service…

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TedStriker  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:02:22pm

re: #81 sagehen

The Marines weren’t USAF; they’re Navy (some pretty good crossover fanfic, wherein the JAG team and/or NCIS are more than a little concerned that so many marines are sustaining hideous injuries and/or dying under a mountain 1000 miles from the nearest ocean). And by season 6, there was a Russian gate team and an on-site Russian general who seemed to act as Hammond’s adjunct.

Well, yeah, SG-1’s producers had to keep things fresh by adding new forces/teams into the series, but, IIRC, in the original movie and the beginning seasons of the show, Stargate Command was strictly under USAF control (civilians, such as Jackson and Teal’c, notwithstanding).

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:02:57pm

re: #34 darthstar

Steve Scalise is getting stem cell treatment that he voted against.

Don’t worry, he’s still against it for you.

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:03:47pm

re: #34 darthstar

Steve Scalise is getting stem cell treatment that he voted against.

The ads write themselves

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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:07:45pm

re: #69 Nerdy Fish

I think there’s probably 50/50 odds here. They haven’t been willing to show him any favors to date. I still think the strongest probability is that they punt this until the general election, at which point they’ll finally be forced to put their cards on the table.

IMHO, emphasis on the H…

No way in hell is this or almost any Supreme Court going to stop a demonstrably “popular” (gag) choice from running.

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:11:16pm

re: #84 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh the cases I have been on and when I’ve been a foreperson…I am just waiting to hit the big 7-0 when I can use my diagnosis of diabetes to opt out of jury service…

I missed out on being on a grand jury in LA, because I was in college in Redlands without a car, and would have had to get up at 2 AM to take a Greyhound in. But there was a guy who wanted to get out, claiming poor hearing. He was in the back of the room, and the judge was calling on people with their hands up. This guy got called, told the judge he couldn’t hear well enough, and the judge said, ‘I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you’ so the guy repeated himself, and the judge said, ‘Apparently you could hear me. Please stay.’

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:14:22pm

I fully expect the corrupted court to vote 5-4 to overturn the Colorado decision and order Trump on the ballot claiming that Congress never passed legislation to enable section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Oh and they’ll go even further and repeat the same bullshit that they used in Bush V Gore that this is only a one-off decision.

They do not care about the rule of law. Their sole purpose is to use every trick to keep Republicans in power.

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Sherlock Hound  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:15:33pm

re: #89 wrenchwench

I missed out on being on a grand jury in LA, because I was in college in Redlands without a car, and would have had to get up at 2 AM to take a Greyhound in. But there was a guy who wanted to get out, claiming poor hearing. He was in the back of the room, and the judge was calling on people with their hands up. This guy got called, told the judge he couldn’t hear well enough, and the judge said, ‘I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you’ so the guy repeated himself, and the judge said, ‘Apparently you could hear me. Please stay.’

It’s happened to me once. But I had a legitimate hearing loss. It came out when they called my juror number, and I couldn’t understand it. That’s really what kills me, being in the back of the room and not understanding a thing.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:17:43pm

The latest from that son of a CENSORED.

‘We have to get over it’: Trump responds to Iowa school shooting during speech

Former President Donald Trump reacted to the shooting at the high school in Perry, Iowa, during a commit-to-caucus event in Sioux Center on Friday evening — and used an eye-catching turn of phrase.

“It’s horrible to see that happening,” said Trump. “It’s just horrible. So surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it.”

YOU KNOW WHO CAN’T GET OVER IT YOU PIECE OF SHIT?

THE PARENTS OF THE SIXTH GRADER THAT WAS KILLED!!!!

alternet.org

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:19:46pm

re: #90 Joe Bacon ✅

I fully expect the corrupted court to vote 5-4 to overturn the Colorado decision and order Trump on the ballot claiming that Congress never passed legislation to enable section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Oh and they’ll go even further and repeat the same bullshit that they used in Bush V Gore that this is only a one-off decision.

They do not care about the rule of law. Their sole purpose is to use every trick to keep Republicans in power.

That is what I expect to happen. And the Court will continue to lose respect with the American people. The Court is making itself too obvious in its need to keep the rich happy.

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Mattand  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:19:50pm

Can someone please explain to me how the fuck getting elected President makes you immune from all laws and exempt from the Constitution?

How being POTUS means you are not an officer of the US government?

Jesus Fucking Christ on rocket-powered Big Wheel…

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:20:24pm

re: #91 Sherlock Hound

It’s happened to me once. But I had a legitimate hearing loss. It came out when they called my juror number, and I couldn’t understand it. That’s really what kills me, being in the back of the room and not understanding a thing.

Accommodations could be made, I would think.

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Mattand  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:20:44pm

re: #93 silverdolphin

That is what I expect to happen. And the Court will continue to lose respect with the American people. The Court is making itself too obvious in its need to keep the rich happy.

The Court doesn’t give two shits because they answer to no one except their sugar daddies.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:23:04pm

re: #96 Mattand

The Court doesn’t give two shits because they answer to no one except their sugar daddies.

The Sleazy Six answer to only one person—Leonard Leo and his quest to turn the US into a Catholic theocracy.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:25:39pm

re: #94 Mattand

Can someone please explain to me how the fuck getting elected President makes you immune from all laws and exempt from the Constitution?

How being POTUS means you are not an officer of the US government?

Jesus Fucking Christ on rocket-powered Big Wheel…

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teleskiguy  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:29:47pm

Joe Biden’s speech at Valley Forge was great.

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:30:22pm

re: #96 Mattand

The Court doesn’t give two shits because they answer to no one except their sugar daddies.

The lower the respect for the Court goes, the more likely that one of the Court reforms gets passed. And then the gravy train goes away. (I’m a fan of the overlapping 18 year terms with new members every 2 years. Congress could pass this by legislation, including a provision that the Supremes do not have jurisdiction over this law.)

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:31:32pm

re: #88 Rightwingconspirator

IMHO, emphasis on the H…

No way in hell is this or almost any Supreme Court going to stop a demonstrably “popular” (gag) choice from running.

So many arguments as to why its gonna be ok to not follow what is “sacred” and arguably black letter law

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:33:31pm

re: #69 Nerdy Fish

I think there’s probably 50/50 odds here. They haven’t been willing to show him any favors to date. I still think the strongest probability is that they punt this until the general election, at which point they’ll finally be forced to put their cards on the table.

If they rule on the merits of the case, I think there’s a decent chance they might uphold the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision.

Thomas is corrupt, Alito is a crank, so you can bet the farm they’ll vote with Trump.

Gorsuch, on the other hand - a so-called “originalist” and “textualist,” - ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applied to trans people.

I can’t see Roberts voting to overturn Colorado, because I think he’ll look at the language of Sec 3 of the 14th Amendment and remember what Trump did on January 6th. While acknowledging the argument that Trump was not convicted of Insurrection (let alone indicted for it), he’ll also remember the Potter Stewart test - “I know it when I see it” - and conclude that Trump did commit insurrection against the US.

Gorsuch and Roberts and the three liberal justices, add up to five votes, which is all that is needed to uphold the Colorado decision.

Furthermore, don’t be surprised if Kavanaugh doesn’t vote with this majority, at least in part. Whatever you want to say about him, he’s gone against type more than once (notably, joining the liberals and Roberts in an anti-trust case against Apple.

I’m not predicting this, but it’s not an unlikely scenario, in my view.

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:34:17pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon ✅

The Sleazy Six answer to only one person—Leonard Leo and his quest to turn the US into a Catholic theocracy.

So we change the makeup of the Court. Making the seat at the Court an 18 year term, overlapping every 2 years for the 9 members (who become emeritus judges after the 18 years if they wish) can be done by legislation, including a Article III provision saying the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over this law The Constitution only guarantees them a lifetime appointment to the Federal Courts, not to a seat in the chambers of the Supreme Court.

I think this could well happen in the next 10 years.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:34:31pm

Irony……
US Oil and Gas Assc.

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:37:35pm

re: #104 Dave In Austin

Irony……
US Oil and Gas Assc.

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So if prices spike $1-2 right before the election you’ll set everyone straight that Biden had nothing to do with it?

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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:38:39pm

re: #101 Dangerman

Yeah. How much we need this guy out of the electoral picture conflicts with what we need as decades go by.

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:43:17pm

re: #104 Dave In Austin

Irony……
US Oil and Gas Assc.

[Embedded content]

Liars

Analysis from the Department of the Treasury indicates that SPR releases last year, along with coordinated releases from international partners, reduced gasoline prices by as much as 40 cents per gallon.

Sounds like he did have something to do with it. .

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:43:53pm

Holiday gift
Pasta shaped like runners and sneakers

We nibbled on they tiny pesto feet

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:47:37pm

re: #105 Dangerman

So if prices spike $1-2 right before the election you’ll set everyone straight that Biden had nothing to do with it?

I have a sneaking suspicion that Biden has thought of that. Maybe have a backdoor deal with the Saudis? They are trying to move away from oil as their only energy product with storng green energy efforts.

Or maybe something even smarter?

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:50:11pm

re: #108 Dangerman

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Holiday gift
Pasta shaped like runners and sneakers

We nibbled on they tiny pesto feet

Hey, have some memes for dessert.

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:50:28pm

One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry.” — Associated Press, January 5, 2024.

Ffs it coulda been the nyt pitchbot

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:55:53pm

Andrea Junker • 9h @strandjunker.bsky.social

Anybody else still curious who planted the pipe bombs, disabled Mike Pence’s key card, removed the panic button in Ayanna Presley’s office, and shared the locations of non-reinforced Capitol windows?
Jan 5, 2024 at 12:31PM

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 7:58:21pm

Donald J Trump is an adjudicated rapist, and credibly accused Pedophile, he also faces other charges related to his violent and dishonest behavior

Joe Biden is none of those things.
he is 3 years older.

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Egregious Philbin  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:01:14pm

Damn, this happened on Alaska Airlines tonight PDX-ONT. The plugged non functional exit door on a brand new (October 2023) 737 Max 9 blew out after take off. Injuries, no deaths, no one was sitting next to that.

kptv.com

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:12:36pm

Rude pundit

When You Say Trump Should Be Allowed to Run for Office, You Sound Like a Fucking Idiot

Jesus fuck, stop being such pedantic idiots about whether or not Donald Trump should be prohibited from holding public office. The fucking 14th Amendment is absolutely fucking clear that he shouldn’t be allowed near an election. And yet we keep having these pearl-clutching debates about what it means, how it’s the end of democracy, and other assorted shit. No, it’s the way the country avoids our stupid electoral system and our stupid voters putting a madman into office…again.

Look at these insane arguments:

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Jay C  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:14:12pm

re: #114 Egregious Philbin

Damn, this happened on Alaska Airlines tonight PDX-ONT. Depressurized, brand new plane, everyone is OK.

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kptv.com

Did this happen?

images.app.goo.gl

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:14:28pm

re: #114 Egregious Philbin

Damn, this happened on Alaska Airlines tonight PDX-ONT. Depressurized, brand new plane, everyone is OK.

[Embedded content]

kptv.com

Looks more like a door blew out, than a window.

An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to return to Portland International Airport on Friday evening after a window section appeared to have been destroyed in flight, according to news reports and social media posts filed by rattled passengers.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:16:16pm

My mom suffered from dementia in the last five years of her life. Thankfully, she never got to the point where she didn’t recognize any of us, or remember her own name, etc, but she did reach a point where she’d start talking about something and then veer off on some nonsensical tangent, as Trump does here.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these digressions didn’t become more pronounced.

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:17:40pm

Once I stopped laughing my ass off, even I who doesn’t see colors so well can see that’s not even red.

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Sherlock Hound  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:25:30pm

Tomorrow:

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:26:02pm
“Chapter 28

The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they’re not.

And somewhere in the shadows behind them - who?

Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Dangerman  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:27:03pm

re: #118 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

My mom suffered from dementia in the last five years of her life. Thankfully, she never got to the point where she didn’t recognize any of us, or remember her own name, etc, but she did reach a point where she’d start talking about something and then veer off on some nonsensical tangent, as Trump does here.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these digressions didn’t become more pronounced.

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Constitution doesn’t mention dementia specifically or competence at all. //

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Egregious Philbin  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:29:02pm

re: #117 wrenchwench

Its the non used exit door which is supposed to be plugged. Not sure if this is going to be on Boeing or Alaska, but…I really don’t care for the product Boeing puts out these days. They are a mess of a company…and where is their manned space capsule? Two poor unmanned launches, the first astronauts to fly that are brave…

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:39:27pm

re: #123 Egregious Philbin

Its the non used exit door which is supposed to be plugged. Not sure if this is going to be on Boeing or Alaska, but…I really don’t care for the product Boeing puts out these days. They are a mess of a company…and where is their manned space capsule? Two poor unmanned launches, the first astronauts to fly that are brave…

It wasn’t made in Everett, was it?

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JC1  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:42:08pm

re: #123 Egregious Philbin

Its the non used exit door which is supposed to be plugged. Not sure if this is going to be on Boeing or Alaska, but…I really don’t care for the product Boeing puts out these days. They are a mess of a company…and where is their manned space capsule? Two poor unmanned launches, the first astronauts to fly that are brave…

A lot of their issues can be traced back to when they ditched Seattle ~20 years ago to cut costs. Bean counters taking over an engineering firm.

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:45:31pm

re: #124 wrenchwench

It wasn’t made in Everett, was it?

Oooh, yes it was. Everett and Renton.

I’m thinking a riveter took one break too many. I had 4 of those guys in a bicycle tune up class, but those particular 4 are retired by now.

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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:51:08pm

(Title stolen from Anne)
Friday Evening Open Thread: Repubs in Disarray, Michigan Edition

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 5, 2024 • 8:57:43pm
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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:15:33pm

re: #104 Dave In Austin

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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:16:44pm

re: #128 DodgerFan1988

I’m gonna have to watch it now.

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Captain Ron  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:17:08pm
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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:21:48pm

re: #128 DodgerFan1988

Is that real?

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:26:00pm

Fu*king youth hockey. What a godforsaken waste of time, resources and air. I’m not sure what’s worse the drunken brats or their children…

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Captain Ron  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:37:11pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:37:41pm

re: #61 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Doubtful. Why waste a peremptory challenge if he’s never actually selected for the jury?

YMMV

Just my guess based on 10 years of observing federal and state criminal trials as paralegal from jury selection to verdict.

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:43:14pm

re: #134 Captain Ron

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So many have not read Matthew 7:15-20

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

Everything Trump touches dies. All who help him suffer. Does that sound like a good tree or a bad tree?

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Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:43:55pm

re: #128 DodgerFan1988

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Because they love stories about vigilante justice that involves beating the shit out of the “bad guy” and “heroes” who are written with flawless powers of deduction that mean they never attack innocent people and every person they do attack deserved it. And they’re cool with cops being written as corrupt, useless, or stuck-up bureaucrats so long as there’s one or more “good ones” who support the vigilante in his quest for “justice.”

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Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2024 • 9:55:49pm

re: #133 William Lewis

Fu*king youth hockey. What a godforsaken waste of time, resources and air. I’m not sure what’s worse the drunken brats or their children…

The drunks in my opinion. If you have a pack of responsible, sober adults running the show then the kids are usually packed off the moment they start getting rowdy and you have an easy time. But instead you get a pack of overgrown kids who think it’s your job to babysit their crotch fruit and so take the opportunity to sit in the lobby and get blitzed on cheap booze for the night.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:06:35pm

re: #136 silverdolphin

So many have not read Matthew 7:15-20

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

Everything Trump touches dies. All who help him suffer. Does that sound like a good tree or a bad tree?

Unfortunately, his poison also damages those who oppose him and may prove to be lethal to the survival of our nation.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:11:14pm

re: #136 silverdolphin

So many have not read Matthew 7:15-20

The real Bible of the Religious Right is Atlas Shrugged with The Turner Diaries tossed in as well.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:12:55pm

re: #140 Joe Bacon ✅

The real Bible of the Religious Right is Atlas Shrugged with The Turner Diaries tossed in as well.

Don’t forget Mein Kampf.

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Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:19:27pm

re: #140 Joe Bacon ✅

The real Bible of the Religious Right is Atlas Shrugged with The Turner Diaries tossed in as well.

I’m fond of pointing out that the MAGAt only teach from the Old Testament because they like a mean, spiteful “God” who’s every bit as bigoted and angry as they are. And that the only Jesus they know is the guy who trims the hedges on Saturdays.

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:23:33pm

re: #138 Targetpractice

The drunks in my opinion. If you have a pack of responsible, sober adults running the show then the kids are usually packed off the moment they start getting rowdy and you have an easy time. But instead you get a pack of overgrown kids who think it’s your job to babysit their crotch fruit and so take the opportunity to sit in the lobby and get blitzed on cheap booze for the night.

While shouting their “funny” jokes.

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:25:43pm

re: #140 Joe Bacon ✅

The real Bible of the Religious Right is Atlas Shrugged with The Turner Diaries tossed in as well.

The old testament and the new testament of the Fascist Right in ‘Murca. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to which is which…

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:26:35pm

re: #141 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Don’t forget Mein Kampf.

Too many big words in it.

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Belafon  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:28:26pm

re: #145 William Lewis

Too many big words in it.

Jesus spoke English, why couldn’t Hitler?

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Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:37:20pm

re: #143 William Lewis

While shouting their “funny” jokes.

And leaving a mountain of empty cans and/or stacks of empty pizza boxes that they will leave everywhere around the lobby when they finally stagger off to their rooms for a short coma.

Though some are courteous enough to give you a helping hand…by grabbing whichever garbage can their bleary eyes sighted first and cramming it so full that the act of liberating the bag runs the very real risk of ripping it and leaving the lobby anointed with the aroma of stale beer.

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William Lewis  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:46:13pm

re: #147 Targetpractice

And leaving a mountain of empty cans and/or stacks of empty pizza boxes that they will leave everywhere around the lobby when they finally stagger off to their rooms for a short coma.

Though some are courteous enough to give you a helping hand…by grabbing whichever garbage can their bleary eyes sighted first and cramming it so full that the act of liberating the bag runs the very real risk of ripping it and leaving the lobby anointed with the aroma of stale beer.

Just had them ask for a trash bag and they’re attempting to pick up their cans. Be interesting to see how many they miss though.

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wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2024 • 10:50:41pm

re: #148 William Lewis

Just had them ask for a trash bag and they’re attempting to pick up their cans. Be interesting to see how many they miss though.

The Bottle Bill (10 cent refund) makes a huge difference.

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silverdolphin  Jan 5, 2024 • 11:36:25pm

I fully expect the corrupt court to lie. Maybe say the President is not mentioned in Section 3 so he is exempt. That would be a lie because this exact question was asked during the Senate debates on the Amendment and the answer was that the President is covered under the officers clause. The President had been called an officer since the beginning of the Republic.

And these debates also show that the Section was not just about the Civil War. They actually removed anything that set a time limit. They knowingly wanted it to apply to any insurrectionist. So for the Court to use this excuse, they would have to lie.

So this is the lie I expect they will use. The amendmenrt says the unlawful acts would be that Trump “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [the United States] , or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

The Calvinball guys will just say he is not an insurrectionist and did not give aid or comfort. And this will be the lie that destroys the Court.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 5, 2024 • 11:42:08pm

re: #150 silverdolphin

I fully expect the corrupt court to lie. Maybe say the President is not mentioned in Section 3 so he is exempt. That would be a lie because this exact question was asked during the Senate debates on the Amendment and the answer was that the President is covered under the officers clause. The President had been called an officer since the beginning of the Republic.

And these debates also show that the Section was not just about the Civil War. They actually removed anything that set a time limit. They knowingly wanted it to apply to any insurrectionist. So for the Court to use this excuse, they would have to lie.

So this is the lie I expect they will use. The amendmenrt says the unlawful acts would be that Trump “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [the United States] , or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

The Calvinball guys will just say he is not an insurrectionist and did not give aid or comfort. And this will be the lie that destroys the Court.

No. This will be the lie that destroys our nation. The media will not call the Court out on this. And Trump may indeed be elected. And that will be the end of us.

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EPR-radar  Jan 5, 2024 • 11:57:52pm

re: #150 silverdolphin

The Calvinball guys will just say he is not an insurrectionist and did not give aid or comfort. And this will be the lie that destroys the Court.

That would be a bit too blatant, IMO. It would be easier for these assholes to just decide that disqualification under the 14th amendment requires a conviction for insurrection.

But it is telling that we’re all considering how these SCOTUS pricks (R) will fuck things up, with no attention at all paid to the exceedingly remote possibility that they will do the right thing and disqualify Trump as the traitor he is.

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Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2024 • 12:26:47am

re: #152 EPR-radar

That would be a bit too blatant, IMO. It would be easier for these assholes to just decide that disqualification under the 14th amendment requires a conviction for insurrection.

But it is telling that we’re all considering how these SCOTUS pricks (R) will fuck things up, with no attention at all paid to the exceedingly remote possibility that they will do the right thing and disqualify Trump as the traitor he is.

I could see that as a way for the hard-right half of the bench to appease both Trump and Roberts, declaring that the question of whether or not Trump is an insurrectionist is a matter for a criminal court to decide. That although A14S3 makes no mention of convictions for insurrection, the courts have generally agreed that one cannot be punished for a crime for which there is no conviction following a fair and just trial. And until such a conviction, Trump cannot be punished under S3 and is eligible to appear on the ballot in every state. Again, this isn’t a ruling on whether or not he’s an insurrectionist, we’re just saying he’s not for the purposes of overturning the lower court ruling. Oh, and we’re filing this under Bush v. Gore so we can change our minds the moment a Democrat gets tossed from a ballot for any reason.

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William Lewis  Jan 6, 2024 • 12:55:46am

Well, they finally went to bed. The noise level is finally sane and I can clean up behind them. Yay me?

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silverdolphin  Jan 6, 2024 • 12:58:40am

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

No. This will be the lie that destroys our nation. The media will not call the Court out on this. And Trump may indeed be elected. And that will be the end of us.

Maybe so. Maybe this is why there are so few intelligent species in the galaxy - destroyed, not by nuclear war, but instead unable to deal with the complexity that living in their own waste products eventually produces - a degraded environment unable to sustain the level of civilization needed to continue.

But I listened to Biden’s speech live and have some real hope if he can keep this up we will win big time, He called Trump a liar, a fraud, a loser. Those left marks. And what he left unsaid was as important:

Biden nearly drops F bomb while slamming Trump

What kind of sick…(long pause)/ My God!!

We all filled in the pause. And it made us laugh.

He was mad as hell and not going to take Trump anymore. And not take Tuberville who he referred to several times simply as Tommy. No Senator or last name. He was not nice and respectful of those who hold no respect for our troops or our Constitution.

Biden started with

America made a vow: Never again would we bow down to a king.

And ended with

We’re the only nation in the world that’s come out of every crisis stronger than we went into that crisis. And that was true yesterday. It is true today. And I guarantee you will be true tomorrow.

It was one of the most raw and emotional political speeches I have ever heard a major politician make. Nothing sounded like it had been tested or worked over by marketers. Several times he had to stop and collect himself before his emotions took him off course, like they have in the past.

I could be way off but I think this speech could be as important a kick off speech as Lincoln’s Cooper Union one was. That speech sent Lincoln into the White House. Hope this one does the same for Biden.

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silverdolphin  Jan 6, 2024 • 1:03:11am

re: #152 EPR-radar

That would be a bit too blatant, IMO. It would be easier for these assholes to just decide that disqualification under the 14th amendment requires a conviction for insurrection.

But it is telling that we’re all considering how these SCOTUS pricks (R) will fuck things up, with no attention at all paid to the exceedingly remote possibility that they will do the right thing and disqualify Trump as the traitor he is.

You bring up an interesting point. Because if they did have the courage to call Trump a traitor and keep him off of the ballots, it would make an interesting historical book end to the cowardly decision that started us on this path 23 years ago with Bush v Gore.

Which is why I do not expect them to have that courage.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 1:43:58am

re: #68 Charles Johnson

If I were a bettin’ man, which I ain’t, I’d bet that the wingnut majority in the Supreme Court is going to say the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to the orange fuhrer.

Almost certainly. What I’m wondering is, on what grounds will they restore Trump to the ballot? Back when Republicans were suing to keep Obama off the ballot based on birther nonsense, I was of the view that the issue wasn’t justiciable; the Constitution gave the Electoral College and Congress the authority to decide who would be President, not the courts. So I’m inclined to think lack of justiciability may be grounds they use on insurrection.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 1:51:24am

re: #103 silverdolphin

So we change the makeup of the Court. Making the seat at the Court an 18 year term, overlapping every 2 years for the 9 members (who become emeritus judges after the 18 years if they wish) can be done by legislation, including a Article III provision saying the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over this law The Constitution only guarantees them a lifetime appointment to the Federal Courts, not to a seat in the chambers of the Supreme Court.

I think this could well happen in the next 10 years.

But not until the Democrats control both the House and the White House and have at least 50 votes in the Senate to reform the filibuster. Odds are the GOP will regain control of the Senate in November, even if Biden is reelected and the Democrats regain the House majority.

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Targetpractice  Jan 6, 2024 • 2:02:07am

re: #157 silverdolphin

You bring up an interesting point. Because if they did have the courage to call Trump a traitor and keep him off of the ballots, it would make an interesting historical book end to the cowardly decision that started us on this path 23 years ago with Bush v Gore.

Which is why I do not expect them to have that courage.

It’s not really courageous, it’s about the only way (IANAL) could see his lawyers having any hope of overturning the lower court ruling. That insurrection is a criminal matter that must be addressed in federal and not state courts, that he has (so far) not been tried and convicted of plotting or participating in an insurrectionist act, and until such changes A14S3 does not apply to him.

But I instead expect them to do what they do, which is follow his demands that they argue to the judge that he is our God-King and they lack the standing to challenge his right to retake the throne and rule us until the day his children succeed him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 2:27:30am

re: #54 BeenHereAwhile

Large animal husbandry.

So in Dutch “vokken” is the word for breeding.
The word for horse is “paard”, the plural being “paarden”

So there was a joke about the Dutch President, whose English was notoriously deficient, meeting John F. Kennedy and stating “I vokk animals!”
To which JFK replied “Pardon?”
And received the response “Yes, horses!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 2:28:50am

re: #67 darthstar

Rarely do you get to see the roots of post boxes like these ones waiting to be re-potted.

I thought those were the motors for the mini-tardis drive

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silverdolphin  Jan 6, 2024 • 2:50:59am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

But not until the Democrats control both the House and the White House and have at least 50 votes in the Senate to reform the filibuster. Odds are the GOP will regain control of the Senate in November, even if Biden is reelected and the Democrats regain the House majority.

I did not mean to imply this would happen this election cycle. Making those sorts of changes will take years I expect. But we are in the end game now of a new political party system being formed in the US. When we are done, things should settle down more, just as they have in the other 6 systems - with one party in strong control for 20-30 years. These changes can come then to fix things.

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silverdolphin  Jan 6, 2024 • 3:05:24am

re: #160 Targetpractice

It’s not really courageous, it’s about the only way (IANAL) could see his lawyers having any hope of overturning the lower court ruling. That insurrection is a criminal matter that must be addressed in federal and not state courts, that he has (so far) not been tried and convicted of plotting or participating in an insurrectionist act, and until such changes A14S3 does not apply to him.

But I instead expect them to do what they do, which is follow his demands that they argue to the judge that he is our God-King and they lack the standing to challenge his right to retake the throne and rule us until the day his children succeed him.

I think, in truth, the likeliest thing they will do is punt. Section 5 plainly says “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” They will say that this is a place for Congress to determine what an insurrectionist is and enforce the matter.

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William Lewis  Jan 6, 2024 • 3:09:10am

re: #163 silverdolphin

I did not mean to imply this would happen this election cycle. Making those sorts of changes will take years I expect. But we are in the end game now of a new political party system being formed in the US. When we are done, things should settle down more, just as they have in the other 6 systems - with one party in strong control for 20-30 years. These changes can come then to fix things.

Presumes that there isn’t a successful coup first. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one just yet given the utter corruption of of SCOTUS and the GOP.

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William Lewis  Jan 6, 2024 • 3:37:59am

So been reading this now 30 page thread at one of my favorite camera sites about a fellow from Australia who, on a whim, bought a ticket to take a van tour of the US for three weeks from California to the east coast and back in 1979. He documented his trip with his camera and a a pile of Kodachrome.

Lots of wonderful photos. obviously. But what I had missed till this morning was an opening anecdote about how as he’s getting ready to go to the airport, his camera jammed so he goes to the Nikon service center to hopefully get it quickly fixed. No joy. He has to buy a then brand new Nikon FE but he does get it duty free. He also buys 60 rolls of 36 exposure Kodachrome 25 for his trip which just boggles the sales clerk. They stuff it all into a lead lined X-ray proof hand carry case and he just makes his plane with enough time to start chatting up a young lady also on his tour 😎

On the flight he opens the case to load film into his new camera and discovered that the the clerk apparently forgot to put the film on the sales receipt: all 60 rolls for free. Hope the clerk didn’t get into trouble over it!

Good reminder to grab adventures and enjoy them when and where you can 😊

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 3:58:11am

re: #165 William Lewis

Presumes that there isn’t a successful coup first. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one just yet given the utter corruption of of SCOTUS and the GOP.

They learned a lot of lessons from 2020 and realize they have to ramp up the chaos, misinformation and violence in order to get the next attempt to succeed.

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silverdolphin  Jan 6, 2024 • 4:13:41am

re: #165 William Lewis

Presumes that there isn’t a successful coup first. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one just yet given the utter corruption of of SCOTUS and the GOP.

I am pretty sanguine about the American people. And I simply do not think a coup would succeed for long. Not only are we very large in terms of both area and population (we are third in the world in those things and second in number of time zones we encompass - 11), but we also have more political power dispersed away from a central government than other countries. States and cities/counties control a lot of political power. It would be very hard to move all the levers of power from DC.

For example, there simply are not enough military to subdue the population, even assuming that 100% of the Army goes along with the coup (Not likely). Based on numbers derived from peace-keeping forces used in other countries, 40 soldiers per 1000 civilians would be need to have a 75% chance of winning a counterinsurgency. So, an Army of about 1 million could subdue about 25 million. That takes care of California. If every police officer in the US was conscripted, they could subdue New York.

But remember there are more Democrats in Florida and Texas than any other state except California. The size of the counterinsurgency to subdue America would need close to 15 millon troops to have a 75% chance of winning. And this does not include the complex logistics of moving troops and supplies around such a large country.

But I really do not want to see if my view is correct. Which is why are focus every day should be on destroying the GOP.

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silverdolphin  Jan 6, 2024 • 4:25:35am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They learned a lot of lessons from 2020 and realize they have to ramp up the chaos, misinformation and violence in order to get the next attempt to succeed.

I do not believe it could succeed in any real sense. There simply are not enough military, even if 100% went along, to subdue the American people. Based on data from real actions, our entire Army would have a 75% chance of succeeding in a counterinsurgency in …. California. That’s it. Not any left over to control Texas and Florida which have more Democrats each than New York.

And the logistics of moving that many troops around such a large country in area as the US are mind boggling. They could try but enough of the American people will fight back to make it moot. IMHO

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William Lewis  Jan 6, 2024 • 4:45:25am

re: #168 silverdolphin

I am pretty sanguine about the American people. And I simply do not think a coup would succeed for long. Not only are we very large in terms of both area and population (we are third in the world in those things and second in number of time zones we encompass - 11), but we also have more political power dispersed away from a central government than other countries. States and cities/counties control a lot of political power. It would be very hard to move all the levers of power from DC.

For example, there simply are not enough military to subdue the population, even assuming that 100% of the Army goes along with the coup (Not likely). Based on numbers derived from peace-keeping forces used in other countries, 40 soldiers per 1000 civilians would be need to have a 75% chance of winning a counterinsurgency. So, an Army of about 1 million could subdue about 25 million. That takes care of California. If every police officer in the US was conscripted, they could subdue New York.

But remember there are more Democrats in Florida and Texas than any other state except California. The size of the counterinsurgency to subdue America would need close to 15 million troops to have a 75% chance of winning. And this does not include the complex logistics of moving troops and supplies around such a large country.

But I really do not want to see if my view is correct. Which is why are focus every day should be on destroying the GOP.

How many Americans are actually willing to risk their Laz-y-boy and TVs? That’s the real question. I think that when you start talking to the younger kings, the the ones with little and who don’t think they have any chance of getting anything, those are the ones you’ll see out there causing the billionaires to be worried - as has historically been the case. Boomers OTOH are fat, lazy and conservative and all too often are the epitome of “Fuck you, I’ve got mine.”.

And there are always plenty of people who, as The Clash put it

You grow up and you calm down
You’re working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown
And working for the clampdown

So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 4:46:18am

re: #169 silverdolphin

I don’t think it will succeed except (I fear) in the sense that it will result in a massive bloody electoral catastrophe for all America and not just the GOP.

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 4:49:48am

re: #128 DodgerFan1988

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What made those guys think he was on their side to begin with?

They didn’t read any of the books

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 4:52:25am

re: #136 silverdolphin

So many have not read Matthew 7:15-20

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

Everything Trump touches dies. All who help him suffer. Does that sound like a good tree or a bad tree?

Oh I’m not a tree at all. I’m Dorothy Gale from Kansas.

It’s been one of those mornings

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:15:04am

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

No. This will be the lie that destroys our nation. The media will not call the Court out on this. And Trump may indeed be elected. And that will be the end of us.

i have my own opinions on what the court could, should, or might actually do. i’m keeping my powder dry for now cause it’s all speculation.

to the specific point, if they say he’s eligible for the office, i think everything changes.

his support on the right won’t go up. there’s almost no one on the fence waiting for that decision.

i think, just like what Dobbs did, it infuriates and motivates more on the left.
i think he loses decisively.

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darthstar  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:15:33am

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darthstar  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:26:15am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:29:50am

Remember when the darkest attack on our nation was by Al Qaeda.

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:31:11am

re: #178 darthstar

Remember when the darkest attack on our nation was by Al Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda never set out to overturn an election and usurp power.

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:31:36am

re: #153 Targetpractice

I could see that as a way for the hard-right half of the bench to appease both Trump and Roberts, declaring that the question of whether or not Trump is an insurrectionist is a matter for a criminal court to decide. That although A14S3 makes no mention of convictions for insurrection, the courts have generally agreed that one cannot be punished for a crime for which there is no conviction following a fair and just trial. And until such a conviction, Trump cannot be punished under S3 and is eligible to appear on the ballot in every state. Again, this isn’t a ruling on whether or not he’s an insurrectionist, we’re just saying he’s not for the purposes of overturning the lower court ruling. Oh, and we’re filing this under Bush v. Gore so we can change our minds the moment a Democrat gets tossed from a ballot for any reason.

imo punishment requiring conviction doesnt hold

not being eligible for an office is not a punishment.
losing eligibility is not punishment either

if a US citizen left the country for 15 years, that person is not eligible to be president. that is not a punishment.

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:43:09am

re: #175 Dangerman

i have my own opinions on what the court could, should, or might actually do. i’m keeping my powder dry for now cause it’s all speculation.

to the specific point, if they say he’s eligible for the office, i think everything changes.

his support on the right won’t go up. there’s almost no one on the fence waiting for that decision.

i think, just like what Dobbs did, it infuriates and motivates more on the left.
i think he loses decisively.

re: #177 darthstar

Like this

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 6, 2024 • 5:50:41am
New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) is suing 17 charter bus companies for their role in an effort by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to send an estimated 30,000 migrants to the city and overwhelm its public assistance programs, a court move that marks the latest clash between the red-state governor and his blue-city targets.

The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday, seeks at least $708 million from the transportation companies, what New York City says is the approximate cost of sheltering and caring for the tens of thousands of people who have been sent there since the spring of 2022.

msn.com

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Oblongatis  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:18:02am

re: #25 Nerdy Fish

She got hotter as a Colonel.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:19:26am

Well I wake up, cup of coffee #1 and what do I see on AlterNet when I wake up?

1) Jamie Raskin sounds the alarm that Trump will pardon everyone convicted of crimes in the attempted coup and turn them into his thug militia

alternet.org

‘How dangerous is that?’ Dem lawmaker sounds alarm over Trump unleashing new violence

As the country observes the third anniversary of the Capitol riot, Trump has promised that “we’ll be looking very, very seriously at full pardons” which is casting a dark cloud over what could happen if he is re-elected in November.

As the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington is reporting, “The scope of Trump’s pardon pledge is astonishing both for its quantity and quality. The former president has made clear that - should he be confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate and go on to triumph in the November election - he would contemplate pardoning every one of those prosecuted for their participation in the insurrection.”

Noting that NPR has reported that those convicted on felony charges who are pardoned would not be banned from owning weapons again, Pilkington added that Rep. Jamie Raskin (R-MD) recently told a crowd, “How dangerous is that?”

Raskin elaborated, “Trump is out there saying he’s going to pardon people who engaged in political violence, who bloodied and wounded and hospitalized 150 of our officers,” before adding, “Now he wants to pardon the shock troops of January 6, so he will have this roving band of people willing to commit political violence and insurrection for him.”

The Guardian report adds, “Trump’s statements on possible pardons are in keeping with the general stance towards the insurrection he has expressed over the past three years. He has repeatedly described the attack as a ‘beautiful day’ and those who took part in it as ‘great, great patriots’ who since their arrests have become ‘hostages.’”

2) A thug who threatened to kill Swalwell is out of jail and he’s running as a Republican for office

PA man imprisoned for death threat against Eric Swalwell announces run for Congress

alternet.org

A man who left a message threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) and his staff with AR-15 rifles is now seeking to become Swalwell’s colleague in the US House of Representatives.

According to journalist Katherine Swartz, 23-year-old Joshua Hall of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania — who was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison in 2022 for making threats to kill a member of the United States Congress — filed his official candidacy papers with the Federal Election Commission on Friday evening.

“I deserve a second chance as anybody does, and I still want to be able to make a positive impact,” Hall said, who is on probation through 2026.

In an interview with Swartz, Rep. Swalwell responded to Hall’s campaign announcement, saying “it is absurd that someone who threatened to use his assault rifle to kill me spent just over a year in jail is now free from prison.”

Yeah…I really need to go to the gym to decompress…

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Belafon  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:21:55am

1D Packman. The Ghost can’t go through the tunnel, but the power up pellet doesn’t last very long.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:28:12am

A large portion of this comment thread is a cesspit of hate site links to ex-twitter.

Instead of posting that live ex-twitter link can you please:

1. Link the actual article in that ex-tweet from ex-twitter link instead?
2. Or post a screen snip of the ex-tweet if the tweet itself is the news?
3. Or pop over to Mastodon, Blue Sky or most other social media sites and get the post from there instead?

It really only takes a few seconds longer, usually under a minute.

Every time you post an ex-twitter live link here you are boosting and helping a hate site’s SEO reach, if you want bad media to prosper, just keep propagating it because it’s easier.

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:29:19am

re: #166 William Lewis

They stuff it all into a lead lined X-ray proof hand carry case and he just makes his plane with enough time to start chatting up a young lady also on his tour 😎

On the flight he opens the case to load film into his new camera and discovered that the the clerk apparently forgot to put the film on the sales receipt: all 60 rolls for free. Hope the clerk didn’t get into trouble over it!

Good reminder to grab adventures and enjoy them when and where you can 😊

And here I thought the story was going to end with “the young lady gave me her address, I went 150 miles off my previously planned route to visit her on the trip. She’s now my wife of 41 years…”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:31:05am

re: #186 Randall Gross

A large portion of this comment thread is a cesspit of hate site links to ex-twitter.

Instead of posting that live ex-twitter link can you please:

1. Link the actual article in that ex-tweet from ex-twitter link instead?
2. Or post a screen snip of the ex-tweet if the tweet itself is the news?
3. Or pop over to Mastodon, Blue Sky or most other social media sites and get the post from there instead?

It really only takes a few seconds longer, usually under a minute.

Every time you post an ex-twitter live link here you are boosting and helping a hate site’s SEO reach, if you want bad media to prosper, just keep propagating it because it’s easier.

Every link to Shitter puts cash in Sleazy E’s pocket. Kill the links.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:32:08am

bsky.app

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:32:44am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:32:58am

re: #189 Randall Gross

Dang.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:34:37am

re: #191 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yeah, that anti vaxxer stuff is gonna be the death of us.

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Belafon  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:34:40am

re: #188 Joe Bacon ✅

Every link to Shitter puts cash in Sleazy E’s pocket. Kill the links.

Where’s he getting the money from?

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:35:42am

re: #168 silverdolphin

The size of the counterinsurgency to subdue America would need close to 15 millon troops to have a 75% chance of winning. And this does not include the complex logistics of moving troops and supplies around such a large country.

But I really do not want to see if my view is correct. Which is why are focus every day should be on destroying the GOP.

And in the meantime, there’ll be enough civilian-on-civilian violence, and such a high death toll, that when the dust settles there’ll suddenly be the political will to institute serious gun control.

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:40:57am

re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Al-Qaeda never set out to overturn an election and usurp power.

Um… not here they didn’t. Elsewhere it’s another story.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:40:57am

Big arrests of longtime J6 fugitives!

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silverdolphin  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:45:13am

re: #170 William Lewis

How many Americans are actually willing to risk their Laz-y-boy and TVs? That’s the real question. I think that when you start talking to the younger kings, the the ones with little and who don’t think they have any chance of getting anything, those are the ones you’ll see out there causing the billionaires to be worried - as has historically been the case. Boomers OTOH are fat, lazy and conservative and all too often are the epitome of “Fuck you, I’ve got mine.”.

And there are always plenty of people who, as The Clash put it

One of the reasons I believe things are changing is that the Boomers, who have always been pretty conservative, are dying off. The millennials/Gen Z will be over 40% of the voting age popultion in this year’s election. That will get larger. And they support Democrats 2:1 over Republicans.

The youngsters will save us once again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:46:00am

re: #184 Joe Bacon ✅

Well I wake up, cup of coffee #1 and what do I see on AlterNet when I wake up?

1) Jamie Raskin sounds the alarm that Trump will pardon everyone convicted of crimes in the attempted coup and turn them into his thug militia

In other words, he would replace the Deep State with a Criminal State

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Dave In Austin  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:46:06am

re: #182 Shropshire Slasher

Hopefully these Transportation Companies will quit doing these when they start feeling the legal pinch.

They are not in business to pay legal fees.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:48:58am

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:49:09am

re: #181 Dangerman

Like this

and this:

today’s electoral-vote.com Reader Question of the Week

S.P. in Harrisburg, PA, asks: You ran a question several weeks ago about what is it about Trump that his supporters like. I would like to ask the opposite: What is it about Biden that his supporters like?

read some of the responses. it’ll take less than 5 minutes.

if tfg is deemed eligible for the office*, people who think like this will not idly sit by. nor will they take up guns and riot in the streets, etc. they will do what needs to be done (at least for this election). they will organize and rally and vote. even moreso than they already are.

if the supremes duck, punt or evade, the people will get the job done.

*this is the only test that matters. campaigning/raising money (FEC), primary ballots, general election ballots are all distractions from the fundamental issue: eligibility for the office

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:51:15am

re: #199 Dave In Austin

Hopefully these Transportation Companies will quit doing these when they start feeling the legal pinch.

They are not in business to pay legal fees.

and they wont get any help from the governor

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:51:38am

Someone has some mads over this…

bsky.app

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:52:13am

re: #200 Nerdy Fish

Embarrassing.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:52:50am

bsky.app

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:53:37am

re: #90 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh and they’ll go even further and repeat the same bullshit that they used in Bush V Gore that this is only a one-off decision.

You get a law! And you get a law!

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 6, 2024 • 6:59:21am

re: #196 No Malarkey!

Big arrests of longtime J6 fugitives!

Good.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:03:55am

Did anyone else see On The Brink last night? It’s an ABC news special hosted by Diane Sawyer. It is about abortion and the stories of a group of women who needed pregnancies terminated or die and what they suffered as a result of these insane legal requirements or outright refusal of treatment. It needs to be required for morons in congress who dont understand basic human anatomy let alone pregnancy and childbirth. It was a rare program that let women tell their true stories of how cruel and unnessecarily mean this whole mess is.

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wrenchwench  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:04:40am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:04:57am

re: #203 Randall Gross

Someone has some mads over this…

Seems like AI anti-plagiarism technology should be easy enough to install.

I really think that we are going to see our educational system turned on its head soon: Students will receive instruction at home from GPT Chat Bots and then come to school to do their homework and write papers in a controlled Internet environment.

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jeffreyw  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:05:21am

Good morning!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:05:32am

I have to laugh. I have one forecast that is telling me that it will start snowing in 31 minutes. I have another one saying it will begin in the afternoon. And outside my house is it gray and overcast. So far I am sticking to the front window forecast.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:09:25am

Sleeting here in the DMV.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:11:21am

Mastodon

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:16:56am

re: #213 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Sleeting here in the DMV.

Every time you post that I think you are at the Department of Motor Vehicles here in NY. I know lines can be bad, but if you go to the one in Ballston Spa before noon, no lines no waiting.

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:29:47am

re: #201 Dangerman

and this:

today’s electoral-vote.com Reader Question of the Week

read some of the responses. it’ll take less than 5 minutes.

Here is the question for next week:

G.R. in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, asks: One commenter on a recent New York Times article wrote: “No one in the 247-year history of our nation has done as much damage to our civil society as Trump has done in less than a decade.” Maybe this commenter is right, but… who else might be in contention for that “honor” and why?”

Submit your answers here!

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:33:36am

re: #178 darthstar

Remember when the darkest attack on our nation was by Al Qaeda.

from that article:

Jan. 6 Capitol riot: By the numbers

1,265 defendants charged in all 50 states, including the nation’s capital.

452 have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and 123 have been charged with using a deadly weapon or causing injury to an officer.

1,186 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted area and of them, 116 carried a deadly or dangerous weapon.

71 defendants were charged with destruction of property; 56 with theft.

Over 300 defendants were charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding or attempting to do so

57 have been charged with conspiracy, whether it was conspiracy to obstruct Congress, law enforcement, or some combination of it. The “corrupt” aspect is now being debated in the courts and could find its way before the U.S. Supreme Court this year.

139 contested trials where defendants were found guilty.

718 people who pleaded guilty and at least 213 of whom pleaded guilty to felony charges while 505 pleaded guilty to misdemeanors

749 people have been sentenced for their actions on Jan. 6

467 have been sent to jail including the founders of some of the nation’s most politically extreme groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

…

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Decatur Deb  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:36:22am

re: #218 sagehen

More To Come

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:37:45am

re: #215 Shropshire Slasher

Every time you post that I think you are at the Department of Motor Vehicles here in NY. I know lines can be bad, but if you go to the one in Ballston Spa before noon, no lines no waiting.

yes!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:38:54am

re: #215 Shropshire Slasher

re: #220 Dangerman

Heh. 😹

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:39:00am

re: #218 sagehen

from that article:

Jan. 6 Capitol riot: By the numbers

1,265 defendants charged in all 50 states, including the nation’s capital.

452 have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and 123 have been charged with using a deadly weapon or causing injury to an officer.

1,186 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted area and of them, 116 carried a deadly or dangerous weapon.

71 defendants were charged with destruction of property; 56 with theft.

Over 300 defendants were charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding or attempting to do so

57 have been charged with conspiracy, whether it was conspiracy to obstruct Congress, law enforcement, or some combination of it. The “corrupt” aspect is now being debated in the courts and could find its way before the U.S. Supreme Court this year.

139 contested trials where defendants were found guilty.

718 people who pleaded guilty and at least 213 of whom pleaded guilty to felony charges while 505 pleaded guilty to misdemeanors

749 people have been sentenced for their actions on Jan. 6

467 have been sent to jail including the founders of some of the nation’s most politically extreme groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

…

0 reps or senators

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:42:59am

re: #208 A Mom Anon

Did anyone else see On The Brink last night? It’s an ABC news special hosted by Diane Sawyer. It is about abortion and the stories of a group of women who needed pregnancies terminated or die and what they suffered as a result of these insane legal requirements or outright refusal of treatment. It needs to be required for morons in congress who dont understand basic human anatomy let alone pregnancy and childbirth. It was a rare program that let women tell their true stories of how cruel and unnessecarily mean this whole mess is.

CNN tonight has a 2-hour documentary called “American Coup: the January 6th Investigation”.

My cable channel guide describes it as “the January 6th Commnittee analyzed every evidence, uncovering the former President’s seven-part scheme to overturn to results of a legal and valid election. Jake Tapper examines the fac…” (and then the cable guide ran out of characters, but you get the idea.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:48:02am

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A Mom Anon  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:49:38am

re: #223 sagehen

I was actually surprised in a good way on the Diane Sawyer program. They also talked to the men, the fathers and partners of many of the women there and all of them said that men need to step up and be advocates and just learn some basic biology. They covered a lot in the hour, but they did a decent job of laying out serious reality, and it is not as rare as a lot of people think.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:50:33am

re: #217 sagehen

Here is the question for next week:

G.R. in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, asks: One commenter on a recent New York Times article wrote: “No one in the 247-year history of our nation has done as much damage to our civil society as Trump has done in less than a decade.” Maybe this commenter is right, but… who else might be in contention for that “honor” and why?”

Submit your answers here!

I don’t know the history of pre-Civil War America well enough to know if there was any particular individual who more than anyone else enflamed the secessionist movement, but if such an individual existed that is the only person I can think of who could contend with Trump.

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:53:55am

re: #226 No Malarkey!

I don’t know the history of pre-Civil War America well enough to know if there was any particular individual who more than anyone else enflamed the secessionist movement, but if such an individual existed that is the only person I can think of who could contend with Trump.

How about Father Coughlin?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:53:57am

re: #158 No Malarkey!

Almost certainly. What I’m wondering is, on what grounds will they restore Trump to the ballot? Back when Republicans were suing to keep Obama off the ballot based on birther nonsense, I was of the view that the issue wasn’t justiciable; the Constitution gave the Electoral College and Congress the authority to decide who would be President, not the courts. So I’m inclined to think lack of justiciability may be grounds they use on insurrection.

It was nonsense because Obama was born in Hawaii. But it was definitely within the Court’s purview if he had been born outside the United States.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 7:54:06am

re: #226 No Malarkey!

I don’t know the history of pre-Civil War America well enough to know if there was any particular individual who more than anyone else enflamed the secessionist movement, but if such an individual existed that is the only person I can think of who could contend with Trump.

John C. Calhoun

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:03:02am

One forecast says it is snowing in Philly (probably in Center City). Another forecast says it is hazy (I think someone needs to clean the lens). My front window overcast.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:04:17am

re: #175 Dangerman

i have my own opinions on what the court could, should, or might actually do. i’m keeping my powder dry for now cause it’s all speculation.

to the specific point, if they say he’s eligible for the office, i think everything changes.

his support on the right won’t go up. there’s almost no one on the fence waiting for that decision.

i think, just like what Dobbs did, it infuriates and motivates more on the left.
i think he loses decisively.

The popular vote yes — just like last time — might even be more substantial. But I wouldn’t count on the Electoral vote. Voter suppression will be the name of the game.

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nines09  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:07:52am

Well the snowfall prediction totals here have been 3 inches to axle deep to a Ferris wheel. Says it will start at 1PM EST here and go all night into tomorrow. Then Tuesday is another system that will bring who knows what. Not going anywhere, snug as bugs in a rug. Hope where you are, your storm treats you well. Should make some football games tomorrow interesting.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:08:30am

re: #180 Dangerman

imo punishment requiring conviction doesnt hold

not being eligible for an office is not a punishment.
losing eligibility is not punishment either

if a US citizen left the country for 15 years, that person is not eligible to be president. that is not a punishment.

If the person had been a resident for 14 years before then, wouldn’t they qualify?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:08:40am

re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter

The popular vote yes — just like last time — might even be more substantial. But I wouldn’t count on the Electoral vote. Voter suppression will be the name of the game.

Voter intimidation in the form of armed polling place vigilantes - put that together with Stand Your Ground legislation and we will have a Constitutional crisis-sized clusterf*ck on our hands.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:08:48am

re: #227 sagehen

How about Father Coughlin?

He was a precursor to the likes of Rush Limbaugh in the hate radio field, but he never became a preeminent political figure or incite a violent coup.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:12:42am

re: #194 sagehen

And in the meantime, there’ll be enough civilian-on-civilian violence, and such a high death toll, that when the dust settles there’ll suddenly be the political will to institute serious gun control.

I doubt it. Not in the current NRA-run United States. They literally don’t care how many deaths are due to guns, even when it’s their nearest and dearest.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:15:26am

re: #226 No Malarkey!

I don’t know the history of pre-Civil War America well enough to know if there was any particular individual who more than anyone else enflamed the secessionist movement, but if such an individual existed that is the only person I can think of who could contend with Trump.

I did a little internet research and found Edmund Ruffin, a fire-eater who wrote a novel in 1860 that promoted the secessionist movement. He certainly wanted to inflame secessionist sentiment, but I don’t have enough information to know how influential a figure he was. In contrast, there can be no doubt that Trump is the Adolf Hitler of the MAGA fascist movement, though the groundwork to create the field of hate that Trump reaped was sown over the course of decades by figures such as Limbaugh, Murdoch and Ailes.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:17:42am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

John C. Calhoun

And Trump’s hero, Andrew Jackson. He succeeded where Trump lost.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:19:53am

re: #238 Decatur Deb

And Trump’s hero, Andrew Jackson. He succeeded where Trump lost.

He could at least claim to be a war hero and not a bone-spur pussy chaser.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:25:17am

re: #214 Randall Gross

….”After that, w Scalise out, GOP will have a bare bones 218-seat majority”

Not really bare bones, it’s 218 - 213. So 5 seats unless the Dems manage to convert several Republicans to their cause. And I wouldn’t count on Dean Phillips as being a reliable support for the Democrats.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:25:45am

re: #238 Decatur Deb

And Trump’s hero, Andrew Jackson. He succeeded where Trump lost.

Of course Calhoun and Jackson were bitter rivals, and when South Carolina threatened to secede over tariffs in the 1830s, Jackson took a very strong stand against secession.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:27:40am

re: #232 nines09

Well the snowfall prediction totals here have been 3 inches to axle deep to a Ferris wheel. Says it will start at 1PM EST here and go all night into tomorrow. Then Tuesday is another system that will bring who knows what. Not going anywhere, snug as bugs in a rug. Hope where you are, your storm treats you well. Should make some football games tomorrow interesting.

We have a chance of a few inches, but seemingly nothing out of the ordinary for around here this time year. In fact we have not had much snow at all. I worry more about icing, but the road crews do a fair job with that also.

Action Recommended
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Issued By
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Affected Area
Mercer and Allegheny Counties

Description
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING…

WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 4 inches.

WHERE…Mercer and Allegheny Counties.

WHEN…From 7 AM this morning to 10 PM EST this evening.

IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.

Please report snow or ice accumulations by calling [no phone numbers allowed], posting to the NWS Pittsburgh Facebook page, or using Twitter @NWSPittsburgh.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:28:05am

re: #241 No Malarkey!

Of course Calhoun and Jackson were bitter rivals, and when South Carolina threatened to secede over tariffs in the 1830s, Jackson took a very strong stand against secession.

It’s not secessionism, but he radically changed the old aristocratic order, with little regard for the Constitution and USSC.

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A Cranky One  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:36:54am

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BeachDem  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:44:42am

Jeff Tiedrich says it so well:


Nikki Haley’s week ended as clownishly as it started.

what the fuck is this word salad? I keep staring at it and I’m stunned by its incoherence. it’s just words, apparently shit out at random. you could swap out anything it would make just as much sense.

we have to deal with the roast beef that is motor oil.

we have to deal with the paramecium that is glockenspiel.

we have to deal with the moron from South Carolina who is running for president.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:45:55am

We have to deal with the bone-spurs that are sexually transmitted diseases.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:47:33am

re: #217 sagehen

Here is the question for next week:

G.R. in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, asks: One commenter on a recent New York Times article wrote: “No one in the 247-year history of our nation has done as much damage to our civil society as Trump has done in less than a decade.” Maybe this commenter is right, but… who else might be in contention for that “honor” and why?”

Submit your answers here!

Pruneface Reagan.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:48:25am

I am seeing these floating white things. Opps. I think it is snow flurries.

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jeffreyw  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:54:29am

bsky.app

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:55:45am

re: #249 jeffreyw

Don’t laugh I didn’t buy any of those items.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:57:01am

re: #245 BeachDem

Apparently Nikki uses RedhatGPT.

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JC1  Jan 6, 2024 • 8:58:27am

re: #78 wrenchwench

Unless those babies don’t live to reproduce because their mom died in a c-section. The death rate is higher for both mother and baby. Also, head size at birth would need to be genetic in origin.

There’s random variation due mostly to recombination, but also due to mutation, in everyone. The same couple can have 20 kids, and unless some are identical siblings, they’ll all have slightly different head sizes (along with differences in all other traits).

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:01:03am

Arrest warrant issued for Valley troll Ethan Schmidt-Crockett

The days of the anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ+ serial harasser avoiding jail time might be coming to an end.

phoenixnewtimes.com

After notorious alt-right troll and serial harasser Ethan Schmidt-Crockett pleaded guilty to a criminal trespass charge in Scottsdale on Oct. 26, he did what he does best — ignored the law.

He violated the plea terms, according to court records, and a warrant for his arrest was issued on Tuesday.

Scottsdale prosecutors slapped Schmidt-Crockett with two misdemeanor charges for disorderly conduct and trespassing in June 2023. The charges came several weeks after the alt-right troll caused a disturbance at the Congregation Beth Tefillah synagogue, although the disorderly conduct charge eventually was dropped.

Less than a year before, Schmidt-Crockett posted a video of himself saying, “We’re gonna be going hunting for the Jews.”

The terms of Schmidt-Crockett’s Oct. 26 plea deal were 11 months of unsupervised probation, the successful completion of an anger management class and payment of more than $600 in fines and court fees, according to court records. If the 26-year-old does not complete probation, he will be ordered to serve 30 days in jail.

As of Thursday, neither the Scottsdale Police Department nor the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office had arrested Schmidt-Crockett.

In early December, Schmidt-Crockett failed to pay the fines associated with his Oct. 26 plea deal, causing his case to be referred back to a Scottsdale prosecutor. On Dec. 20, the prosecutor filed a petition to revoke Schmidt-Crockett’s probation.

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JC1  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:03:58am

re: #136 silverdolphin

So many have not read Matthew 7:15-20

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

Everything Trump touches dies. All who help him suffer. Does that sound like a good tree or a bad tree?

Of course ALL prophets are false, including the one warning about them, so it’s a very confusing situation 😂.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:08:20am

First it was TexAssHole Dan Patrick saying he wants to ban Biden from the Texas ballot and now…

DeSantis admits he’s ‘looking’ for ‘credible case’ to ban Biden from Florida’s 2024 ballot

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis recently admitted that he was “looking” into ways he could ban President Joe Biden from appearing on the Sunshine State’s 2024 presidential election ballot.

The Messenger reported that DeSantis remarked while campaigning alongside Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) that following Colorado and Maine’s disqualification of former President Donald Trump from their states’ Republican primary ballot, the GOP was in a “tit for tat” on ballot access that was “just not gonna end well.” The term-limited Florida governor hinted at using the influx of immigrants at the Southern border as justification to disqualify Biden.

alternet.org

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JC1  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:10:34am

re: #182 Shropshire Slasher

msn.com

So he’s suing bus companies for… Bussing people? WTH????

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:14:08am

re: #256 JC1

So he’s suing bus companies for… Bussing people? WTH????

For involvement in human trafficking.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:15:27am

MAGA Mike Johnson hands Trump an assist by delaying Biden speech

On the third anniversary of the attempted coup at the nation’s Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) finally extended an invitation to President Joe Biden to deliver the annual State of the Union address to Congress and the nation.

For this year’s address, coming in a presidential election year, Johnson has pushed the date well beyond the traditional time frame for a national address, scheduling it for days after Super Tuesday.

In his formal invitation to the president, Johnson wrote, “It is my solemn duty to invite President Biden to address a Joint Session of Congress on March 7th to report on the state of our union.”

That date comes just days after voters in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia vote on their party’s presidential nominees for the general election in November.

During Donald Trump’s single term, he gave his State of the Union speech on 2/28, 1/30, 2/5 and 2/4 — each date falling in line with the speech traditionally being given in mid-January to early February.

During President George W. Bush’s two terms, he gave his national address six times in January and only once in February.

With CNN reporting that Biden is expected to contrast his record with Trump’s, the speech delay gives a boost to the Republican frontrunner after the 15 Super Tuesday states have already gone to the polls.

As Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman noted, “Latest SOTU in a century. And only the second time in the last 20 years SOTU has been scheduled for March.”

Axios also noted the late date, reporting, “Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has invited President Biden to deliver the State of the Union address on March 7, days after Super Tuesday, when more than a dozen states will hold nominating contests.”

rawstory.com

I’m surprised that Speaker Jesusbot didn’t invite Trump to give the State Of The Union address.

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JC1  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:16:36am

re: #257 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

For involvement in human trafficking.

That’s a stretch, and I hope that it’s laughed out of court.

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Belafon  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:17:06am

re: #215 Shropshire Slasher

Every time you post that I think you are at the Department of Motor Vehicles here in NY. I know lines can be bad, but if you go to the one in Ballston Spa before noon, no lines no waiting.

Ballston Spa. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time, since 1993 when I did Navy Nuclear Prototype training up there.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:17:17am

re: #237 No Malarkey!

I did a little internet research and found Edmund Ruffin, a fire-eater who wrote a novel in 1860 that promoted the secessionist movement. He certainly wanted to inflame secessionist sentiment, but I don’t have enough information to know how influential a figure he was. In contrast, there can be no doubt that Trump is the Adolf Hitler of the MAGA fascist movement, though the groundwork to create the field of hate that Trump reaped was sown over the course of decades by figures such as Limbaugh, Murdoch and Ailes.

It seems the most prominent fire-eater was Robert Barnwell Rhett, publisher of the Charleston Mercury and nicknamed “the father of secession.” I therefore nominate Mr. Rhett as the rival to Trump as the person causing the most civil damage in American history.

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nines09  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:18:18am

re: #242 Eventual Carrion

Central Pa will get hammered in spots. All depends on wind speed and direction. Starting here now, and might get to an inch an hour around I-80 line. I’m not far from that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:20:19am

re: #257 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

For involvement in human trafficking.

In some states it is be illegal for a bus line to take a pregnant woman across state lines to obtain an abortion.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:22:29am

re: #259 JC1

That’s a stretch, and I hope that it’s laughed out of court.

You can’t mislead and bus migrants. You understand that it’s not OK, yes?

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LadyBehir  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:22:31am

re: #262 nines09

North of I-80 here. The projections are still all over the place. The grocery store wasn’t too bad. Mostly people doing the weekly type shopping. I may use this storm as an excuse to have a fire and be extra cozy.

Re: politics….F TFG.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:23:41am

re: #264 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

You can’t mislead and bus migrants. You understand that it’s not OK, yes?

The bus company would likely plead that they were just filling orders, so to speak…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:23:58am

National Weather Service:
weather.gov

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Belafon  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:24:21am

re: #256 JC1

So he’s suing bus companies for… Bussing people? WTH????

Because Abbott and DeSantas are playing games with the people who they are putting on the busses, sending them to those places without their understanding, and dumping them without any resources. Texas can handle them because the federal government spends money here for that purpose.

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Belafon  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:25:38am

re: #266 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The bus company would likely plead that they were just filling orders, so to speak…

They got paid to do it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:26:43am

re: #269 Belafon

They got paid to do it.

“filling orders”, not following orders

but they will likely try to claim that to them it was just another charter and they had no idea of what was behing it all

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:28:18am

re: #170 William Lewis

How many Americans are actually willing to risk their Laz-y-boy and TVs? That’s the real question. I think that when you start talking to the younger kings, the the ones with little and who don’t think they have any chance of getting anything, those are the ones you’ll see out there causing the billionaires to be worried - as has historically been the case. Boomers OTOH are fat, lazy and conservative and all too often are the epitome of “Fuck you, I’ve got mine.”.

And there are always plenty of people who, as The Clash put it

You grow up and you calm down
You’re working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown
And working for the clampdown

So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now

Or - The Clash again:

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row?

[Chorus]
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you’ll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton

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nines09  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:29:27am

re: #265 LadyBehir

It’s got everything. Snow/sleet/freezing rain/ and wind in some places. It’s a craps table.
You’re aware of I-80 being the “Magic Line” in winter storms. Glad I’m home. First significant snow brings out all the crazies. “Why they going so slow? What’s th……”OHMYGODJESUSHOLDONNNNNNNNN…”

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Captain Magic  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:29:38am

Trump to Iowa voters during campaign stop: “Get over” Iowa school shooting.

theguardian.com

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:29:41am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In some states it is be illegal for a bus line to take a pregnant woman across state lines to obtain an abortion.

And I seem to remember some proposal in some state for it to be against the law to transport an illegal. Of course I think that was just meant for individual little people.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:30:39am

re: #262 nines09

Central Pa will get hammered in spots. All depends on wind speed and direction. Starting here now, and might get to an inch an hour around I-80 line. I’m not far from that.

Fool that I am, I relied on my phone to tell me that snow was not expected here till next week. So what happens, I awaken to a steady snowfall this morning, with about 2 inches accumulation as of now. Given the temperature will remain above 32 for the next few hours, my guess this will all be gone by tonight — and certainly by tomorrow.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:31:45am

re: #268 Belafon

Because Abbott and DeSantas are playing games with the people who they are putting on the busses, sending them to those places without their understanding, and dumping them without any resources. Texas can handle them because the federal government spends money here for that purpose.

This right here. Maybe Texas needs to give up some of that money to wherever they are shipping these people to?

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:41:50am

re: #260 Belafon

Ballston Spa. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time, since 1993 when I did Navy Nuclear Prototype training up there.

I drive by that every day on my way to and from work.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:44:45am

On that, I braved the onslaught of people in the grocery store, blocking aisles and meat counters with their bodies permanently attached to their shopping carts, and I am off to survive snowmageddon. Beef stew tomorrow, with extra shroomage.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:49:17am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:49:31am

Uh oh!

Another TV Preacher caught doing THE WILD THING?! 🤔

Famous Preacher T.D. Jakes Denies He Attended Sex Parties With Diddy

thedailybeast.com

Bishop T.D. Jakes has palled around with Oprah and Obama, but his association with the rapper has turned into a holy headache.

When Sean “Diddy” Combs accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from BET in 2022, the rapper gave shoutouts to supporters who “lifted me up in prayer.” Among them were Kim Porter, the late mother of his children, and his ex-girlfriend and R&B artist Cassie, who filed a sexual assault lawsuit against him last year that was so disturbing it came with a trigger warning.

“Prayer works. I’mma pray for y’all. Pray for me. Let’s pray for each other,” Diddy told the crowd at the 2022 BET Awards. The mogul added, “I was in a dark place for a few years. I have to give a special thank you to the people that was really, like, there for me.”

He then named one famous helper in particular: megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes.

In recent weeks, the Texas preacher has been at the center of a social media rumor mill accusing him of appearing at Diddy’s sex-charged parties. One TikTok user’s video circulating the unconfirmed accusations has 1.8 million views.

Jakes obliquely addressed the controversy in a Christmas Eve sermon, advising his flock at The Potter’s House Church in Dallas to “log off.”

“All of you who expect me to address a lie, you can log off,” Jakes said to applause. “I will not use this sacred day and this sacred pulpit to address a lie when I have a chance to preach a truth.”

“But there will be a time,” he continued. “So you can stop dragging people and arguing with people and fighting and just log off… There is no show here.”

At another point, Jakes said, “The worst that could happen, if everything was true, all I gotta do is repent sincerely from my heart. There’s enough power in the blood to cover all kinds of sins. I don’t care what it is, the blood would fix it.

“But I ain’t got to repent about this. All I got to do is step over top of it.”

According to Christian media site the Roys Report, other videos also claim that Jakes groomed a former mentee.

A spokesperson for Jakes denied the claims spreading on Black Twitter and TikTok.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:49:41am

re: #242 Eventual Carrion

We have a chance of a few inches, but seemingly nothing out of the ordinary for around here this time year. In fact we have not had much snow at all. I worry more about icing, but the road crews do a fair job with that also.

Action Recommended
Execute a pre-planned activity identified in the instructions

Issued By
Pittsburgh - PA, US, National Weather Service

Affected Area
Mercer and Allegheny Counties

Description
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING…

WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 4 inches.

WHERE…Mercer and Allegheny Counties.

WHEN…From 7 AM this morning to 10 PM EST this evening.

IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.

Please report snow or ice accumulations by calling [no phone numbers allowed], posting to the NWS Pittsburgh Facebook page, or using Twitter @NWSPittsburgh.

Been snowing fairly hard the last few hours here just north of Pittsburgh. As previously commented this is not unusual weather for here this time of year. Things will just be gummed up for a day or two until the roads are cleared. And I expect it will melt off fairly rapidly in any case.

Floof Cat finding it sort of interesting to watch. More interesting is the birds sheltering in the cedar tree that grows next to the balcony.

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JC1  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:51:43am

re: #268 Belafon

Because Abbott and DeSantas are playing games with the people who they are putting on the busses, sending them to those places without their understanding, and dumping them without any resources. Texas can handle them because the federal government spends money here for that purpose.

I get that. I don’t get how bus companies are legally or financially culpable, unless the bus companies are involved in fraud or something else illegal. The bus companies just seem like the wrong target.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:54:43am

It is snowing but it is melting as soon as it hits the ground.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:55:18am

re: #283 PhillyPretzel ✅

It is snowing but it is melting as soon as it hits the ground.

I’m sure that latter part will change quickly. That’s when it gets dangerous.

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nines09  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:55:21am

re: #265 LadyBehir

Talking to one of the few sane neighbors yesterday. We both are looking forward to our not so sane neighbors posting signs supporting insanity come November.
You have to be a complete stooge or a Evangelical zealot, or maybe just a total racist piece of rotting offal to hoist hate in your yard.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 9:58:36am

Just as Republicans expected, newly released video of J6 demonstrates it was a peaceful day of tourist activities at the Capitol.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:02:32am

re: #282 JC1

I get that. I don’t get how bus companies are legally or financially culpable, unless the bus companies are involved in fraud or something else illegal. The bus companies just seem like the wrong target.

To a degree it’s trying to stop it by harassing the lower tier people instead of trying to deal with the root cause. Which is easier to do since the transportation companies can more easily decide that the legal costs of fighting the case(s) are more trouble than it is worth to them and they stop taking the charters from Florida and Texas.

And to NYC that is easier legal work than trying to sue Texas and Florida directly. That would definitely drag out and in the meanwhile probably not slow DeSantis or Abbott one bit since it will be the state’s lawyers dealing with it and not them. And I doubt NYC would be able to get a stay preventing the practice while the legal cases are dragging out.

So, if one looks at it this way the efficient course for NYC is to harass the transportation companies since that looks more likely to achieve an effect all the much sooner. They probably should be acting on both fronts at the same time if they were looking for a long term solution. (Also needs to be considered that NYC is looking at this simply as a PR thing and thus wants quick results and doesn’t care otherwise.)

Caveat: Above references to cities and states means their current administrations and not their entire populations.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:03:33am

re: #285 nines09

Talking to one of the few sane neighbors yesterday. We both are looking forward to our not so sane neighbors posting signs supporting insanity come November.
You have to be a complete stooge or a Evangelical zealot, or maybe just a total racist piece of rotting offal to hoist hate in your yard.

I always look at the signs and bumper stickers as a convenient self-applied “As asshole drives this vehicle” identification.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:04:30am

Alabama Man this time…

Shoppers in disbelief as man does a naked ‘cannonball’ dive into Bass Pro Shop aquarium

businessinsider.com

A 42-year-old man was arrested in Leeds, Alabama after diving into a Bass Pro Shop aquarium naked, according to local police, WAFF 48 News reports.

The man crashed his car, disrobed, and executed a daring plunge into the store’s massive aquarium on Thursday night.

Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin said the incident left shoppers in the town just outside Birmingham in disbelief.

Video taken by bystanders showed the man do a “cannonball” dive into the aquarium and later stand under the waterfall, reported al.com

Irwin noted that the man spent about five minutes in the water before officers arrived on the scene.

He exited the water to confront two police officers, only to dive back into the aquarium.

Evedntually, the man climbed over the side of the aquarium, falling to the concrete floor below, where he appeared unconscious, said al.com. Law enforcement swiftly apprehended him and handcuffed the naked man, who, when he regained consciousness, started to struggle with officers.

He was charged with public lewdness, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assault on police, two counts of criminal mischief, and two counts of reckless endangerment.

DON’T LOOK, ETHEL… 😵‍💫

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nines09  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:06:09am

re: #288 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yes. But it was depressing seeing how many showed that. Proudly.
Masons emblem with red/white/blue Punisher decal besides an AR-15 decal with Trump Pence 2020 bumper sticker and FJB decal and a monkey behind the wheel.

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Unabogie  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:08:54am

re: #259 JC1

That’s a stretch, and I hope that it’s laughed out of court.

I think your confusion lies in your perception that what’s being bussed around are not objects called “illegals,” but human beings.

Once you see them as actual people, it all makes sense.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:10:37am

Smashing Pumpkins auditioning for new guitarist
deadline.com

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Captain Ron  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:13:01am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:15:34am

re: #293 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]

He says the things we’re thinking!

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Unabogie  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:19:27am

re: #294 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

He says the things we’re thinking!

He tells it like it is!

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:19:28am

Now United and Alaska airlines have grounded their 737 max 9’s

bsky.app

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:19:58am

re: #293 Captain Ron

Pants

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sagehen  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:20:25am

re: #261 No Malarkey!

It seems the most prominent fire-eater was Robert Barnwell Rhett, publisher of the Charleston Mercury and nicknamed “the father of secession.” I therefore nominate Mr. Rhett as the rival to Trump as the person causing the most civil damage in American history.

Do you think Rhett Butler was named after him?

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:22:51am

re: #233 Hecuba’s daughter

If the person had been a resident for 14 years before then, wouldn’t they qualify?

I was not sure when I wrote it.
I think you’re right.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:24:03am

re: #298 sagehen

Do you think Rhett Butler was named after him?

Possible, though in the movie Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler was anti-secession; I never read the book.

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BigPapa  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:29:22am

Wassup Lizards. I did the job-a-change-a-roo and was computer swapping and generally hamajang. Start New Gig on Monday. New year, new gig, new… underwear? Why not.

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Randall Gross  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:30:46am

bsky.app

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:30:47am

re: #296 Randall Gross

And now the Feds are grounding all 737’s as per the AP.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:30:52am

re: #301 BigPapa

Wassup Lizards. I did the job-a-change-a-roo and was computer swapping and generally hamajang. Start New Gig on Monday. New year, new gig, new… underwear? Why not.

Congratulations on the new job.

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:31:24am

re: #258 Joe Bacon ✅

MAGA Mike Johnson hands Trump an assist by delaying Biden speech

On the third anniversary of the attempted coup at the nation’s Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) finally extended an invitation to President Joe Biden to deliver the annual State of the Union address to Congress and the nation.

For this year’s address, coming in a presidential election year, Johnson has pushed the date well beyond the traditional time frame for a national address, scheduling it for days after Super Tuesday.

In his formal invitation to the president, Johnson wrote, “It is my solemn duty to invite President Biden to address a Joint Session of Congress on March 7th to report on the state of our union.”

That date comes just days after voters in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia vote on their party’s presidential nominees for the general election in November.

During Donald Trump’s single term, he gave his State of the Union speech on 2/28, 1/30, 2/5 and 2/4 — each date falling in line with the speech traditionally being given in mid-January to early February.

During President George W. Bush’s two terms, he gave his national address six times in January and only once in February.

With CNN reporting that Biden is expected to contrast his record with Trump’s, the speech delay gives a boost to the Republican frontrunner after the 15 Super Tuesday states have already gone to the polls.

As Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman noted, “Latest SOTU in a century. And only the second time in the last 20 years SOTU has been scheduled for March.”

Axios also noted the late date, reporting, “Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has invited President Biden to deliver the State of the Union address on March 7, days after Super Tuesday, when more than a dozen states will hold nominating contests.”

rawstory.com

I’m surprised that Speaker Jesusbot didn’t invite Trump to give the State Of The Union address.

Biden can give the sotu anytime he wants.
Schumer could invite him to give a talk
Then he can walk into the house in March and do it agsin, reinforce it, or say thanks but we took care of this a month ago
Of course meantime Johnson would cancel the invite

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Decatur Deb  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:33:57am

re: #289 Joe Bacon ✅

Alabama Man this time…

He was charged with public lewdness, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assault on police, two counts of criminal mischief, and two counts of reckless endangerment.

DON’T LOOK, ETHEL… 😵‍💫

“Grand Raggedness and Attempt to Go Naked”, as my Army buddy used to say.

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:34:03am
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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:34:22am

re: #261 No Malarkey!

It seems the most prominent fire-eater was Robert Barnwell Rhett, publisher of the Charleston Mercury and nicknamed “the father of secession.” I therefore nominate Mr. Rhett as the rival to Trump as the person causing the most civil damage in American history.

I’m noticing the need to dig to find an answer
No one with notoriety like tfg.
Like a Hearst or Benedict Arnold.
Maybe that’s because were living through it.
Or maybe its cause he’s the worst one ever.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:34:53am

If it were colder outside there would be a layer of white on the ground.

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:35:37am

re: #266 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The bus company would likely plead that they were just filling orders, so to speak…

Maybe the first time.
Not after that.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:43:38am

re: #305 Dangerman

Biden can give the sotu anytime he wants.
Schumer could invite him to give a talk
Then he can walk into the house in March and do it agsin, reinforce it, or say thanks but we took care of this a month ago
Of course meantime Johnson would cancel the invite

IIRC, Biden doesn’t even have to do an address. He can decline the BS date politely and send a letter. A Big Fucking Letter.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:43:56am

re: #308 Dangerman

I’m noticing the need to dig to find an answer
No one with notoriety like tfg.
Like a Hearst or Benedict Arnold.
Maybe that’s because were living through it.
Or maybe its cause he’s the worst one ever.

A totally different take….. maybe it was John Brown whose actions led to the dissolution because he made it clear that there were many in the north who were willing to fight against the evil of slavery instead of just accepting it.

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Dangerman  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:44:27am

re: #311 Decatur Deb

IIRC, Biden doesn’t even have to do an address. He can decline the BS date politely and send a letter. A Big Fucking Letter.

Indeed but in an election year he won’t give up the opportunity

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Decatur Deb  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:45:49am

re: #313 Dangerman

Indeed but in an election year he won’t give up the opportunity

He can read the letter on every network—the real audience.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:48:03am

re: #309 PhillyPretzel ✅

If it were colder outside there would be a layer of white on the ground.

Snow started falling here just a little while ago. It will stick as our ground is cold already. We still even have some patches left from the last little snowfall. It has been cold, just not a lot of snow at all.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:50:12am

re: #314 Decatur Deb

He can read the letter on every network—the real audience.

Send the letter, release it early to the public. Then go if the invite doesn’t get canceled.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:52:15am

re: #298 sagehen

Do you think Rhett Butler was named after him?

He apparently was, more or less.
Alicia Rhett, who played India Wilkes in Gone With the Wind, was Robert Rhett’s great-granddaughter.
A 1939 Selznick news release claimed that Margaret Mitchell herself had chosen Rhett Butler’s first name

because “Since earliest Colonial days, the Rhett family has occupied a prominent position in the South generally, and, more particularly, in and around Charleston, S.C.”

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JC1  Jan 6, 2024 • 10:56:37am

re: #291 Unabogie

I think your confusion lies in your perception that what’s being bussed around are not objects called “illegals,” but human beings.

Once you see them as actual people, it all makes sense.

Regarding your comment about my confusion: GFY.

Are you saying that bus companies should refuse to bus people?

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LadyBehir  Jan 6, 2024 • 12:36:33pm

re: #272 nines09

I am home. Huskies are loving it so far. I really should train them to pull a sled/wagon. So far we have an inch of the white manure.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 6, 2024 • 4:19:25pm

re: #318 JC1

Regarding your comment about my confusion: GFY.

Are you saying that bus companies should refuse to bus people?

chill the fuck out

The bus companies aren’t just “busing people”, they are cooperating with an illegal activity and taking money from a government agency (Texas) to do so.
AND, those bus companies (and airline companies) are being facilitated by Texas Gov Abbott’s donors and friends who own those transportation companies.

BTW, they are NOT illegals, they are immigrants, refugees, just looking for asylum.

Just stop with the bullshit apologetics for the bad guys.


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