The Bob Cesca Podcast: Itchy D*cks

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

Itchy D*cks — The House Oversight Committee’s clown show and Lev Parnas’s testimony. Jared Moskowitz called the Republicans’ bluff. Trump is broke and Letitia James has her eyes on Trump’s Westchester golf resort. The national security implications of Trump’s debt. Save America PAC spent more than it took in last month. Mark Levin is outraged! Charlie Kirk’s post-election threat. Don Lemon vs Elon Musk. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Freekbass, Kompromat, and more!

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138 comments
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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:32:17pm

re: #1 The Ghost of a Flea

Saudi Arabia: Repressive draft penal code shatters illusions of progress and reform

There were illusions?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:36:14pm

re: #1 The Ghost of a Flea

Hate to say this but both parties cozy up to Saudi Arabia regardless of its awful human rights record. I thought that Khashoggi’s murder would have changed our relationship with the Saudis but nothing has changed.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:47:19pm

“Here is why this is bad news for Biden”

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:47:42pm

Lemon butter salmon pasta and salad

Cracking a bottle of Cava.
Either in anticipation of James next week or just cause Thursday

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:48:35pm

re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus

Oops. 🤪

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:49:10pm

re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus

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“Here is why this is bad news for Biden”

What the Australian stock market has to do with the price of tea in China, I’ll never know.///

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ericblair  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:50:28pm

re: #6 GlutenFreeJesus

Oops. 🤪

If you put it like that, 401k’s are way down.

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:51:06pm

re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus

[Embedded content]

“Here is why this is bad news for Biden”

Upside Down

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:52:06pm

::: Horace and Dolly get married :::

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:55:08pm

re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus

[Embedded content]

“Here is why this is bad news for Biden”

The capitalists figured that one out during the Obama years: “Wall St vs Main St,” i.e. the constant whine that stock markets recovering from and surpassing the Great Recession meant little because it wasn’t being reflected in job creation or higher wages. The same asshats who tell you when stocks rise during a Repub’s presidency that it doesn’t matter if you’re not seeing that in your pocketbook because it went to your 401K instead.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:55:40pm

re: #6 GlutenFreeJesus

Oops. 🤪

You never told us you were visiting Australia.

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:56:34pm

Men at Work Down Under HQ

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:57:54pm

re: #2 Targetpractice

There were illusions?

Enough illusions we’re still selling them guns and bombs.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:59:24pm

Coriolis Effect Simpsons

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 21, 2024 • 3:59:46pm

re: #1 The Ghost of a Flea

Saudi Arabia: Repressive draft penal code shatters illusions of progress and reform

They still like to sell us the notion that the Saudis are some sort of “moderate” Muslims (because their princes used to party with the Bush brothers).

Even after it turns out that Bin Laden and 15 of the 18 9/11 assailants were Saudis. Or that they actively promote the teaching of Wahabism, a highly anti-American, anti-Western form of Islamism.

All of which should make it clear that they are not at all moderate. They are simply currently on our side of many aspects of Middle Eastern politics, but that is merely a matter of economic interests and political expediency.

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:00:28pm

re: #14 The Ghost of a Flea

Enough illusions we’re still selling them guns and bombs.

It’s been that way since Moby Dick was a minnow: Our “allies” pretend to give a shit about things like liberty and freedom and we pretend to hold such things dear as we ship them billions in American-made weapons.

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:00:29pm

re: #14 The Ghost of a Flea

Enough illusions we’re still selling them guns and bombs.

That should stop.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:02:25pm

re: #18 wrenchwench

That should stop.

Should, and in a just world, it would. But because too many people are too invested in keeping the Saudis happy for reasons, it won’t.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:02:52pm

re: #14 The Ghost of a Flea

Enough illusions we’re still selling them guns and bombs.

re: #18 wrenchwench

That should stop.

They need them to destroy the guns and bombs we are selling the other guy.

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JC1  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:04:02pm

re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They still like to sell us the notion that the Saudis are some sort of “moderate” Muslims (because their princes used to party with the Bush brothers).

Even after it turns out that Bin Laden and 15 of the 18 9/11 assailants were Saudis. Or that they actively promote the teaching of Wahabism, a highly anti-American, anti-Western form of Islamism.

All of which should make it clear that they are not at all moderate. They are simply currently on our side of many aspects of Middle Eastern politics, but that is merely a matter of economic interests and political expediency.

Rather than dumping a trillion dollars into Iraq, we should have spent it building nuclear and solar power.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:04:27pm

From last thread.

re: #125 The Ghost of a Flea

These Gun-Shooting Robot Vehicles Are the Future of Urban War

I’m surprised no one posted this meme.

RoboCop (1987) - ED-209 Scene | Movieclips

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:04:58pm

They do make a good argument for giving the vote to seven year olds.

Saudi Arabia’s draft Penal Code codifies the death penalty as a primary punishment for a spectrum of crimes, ranging from murder to rape to non-violent offenses like apostasy and blasphemy, in violation of international law. The draft code allows child offenders to be executed for certain crimes and sets the age of criminal responsibility at a shockingly low seven years. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, which Saudi Arabia is a state party to, recommends that the minimum age of criminal responsibility be no lower than 12 years.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:05:11pm

re: #21 JC1

Rather than dumping a trillion dollars into Iraq, we should have spent it building nuclear and solar power.

Or two trillion into Afghanistan.

We could have self-flying solar cars by now

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Decatur Deb  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:06:32pm

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or two trillion into Afghanistan.

We could have self-flying solar cars by now

With doors that open.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:10:37pm

re: #25 Decatur Deb

With doors that open.

even after you inadverdently fly one into a pond

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Decatur Deb  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:12:31pm

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

even after you inadverdently fly one into a pond

A self-driving/flying car wouldn’t do that. Unless it gets drunk.

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:16:05pm

It would be nice if Amnesty International had a word for hand removal that was a bit stronger than ‘regressive’ (penultimate paragraph of the amnesty link):

The draft code also continues to allow regressive corporal punishments, which could include flogging and amputation of hands, for crimes such as adultery and theft. Corporal punishments are a form of torture and other ill-treatment and are prohibited under international law.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:18:39pm

re: #3 Patricia Kayden

Hate to say this but both parties cozy up to Saudi Arabia regardless of its awful human rights record. I thought that Khashoggi’s murder would have changed our relationship with the Saudis but nothing has changed.

If 9/11 didn’t change our view, nothing will

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:21:37pm

re: #29 sizzzzlerz

If 9/11 didn’t change our view, nothing will

Our view of 9/11 needs to change. It can happen.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:30:30pm

re: #13 Targetpractice

It hit me just recently that that is a reggae song. 😂

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:38:53pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

Tennessee Senate passes bill based on ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theory: What to know | The Tennessean

No more crop dusting allowed.

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:38:53pm

re: #3 Patricia Kayden

Hate to say this but both parties cozy up to Saudi Arabia regardless of its awful human rights record. I thought that Khashoggi’s murder would have changed our relationship with the Saudis but nothing has changed.

The oil embargo changed our relationship with the region and there’s only one way to change that.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:40:30pm

Once the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, we should have packed up and left. Nation building is impossible there.

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darthstar  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:43:32pm

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2024 • 4:59:31pm

@cougarspider.bsky.social

Uh-oh! Daddy Trump is home and he’s really *mad*!

I can smell the flopsweat from all the way in Colorado. He’s shitting bricks. We’re gonna get some glorious early 2 AM Monday morning poop tweets. Stay tuned.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:01:01pm

re: #37 teleskiguy

@cougarspider.bsky.social

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I can smell the flopsweat from all the way in Colorado. He’s shitting bricks. We’re gonna get some glorious early 2 AM Monday morning poop tweets. Stay tuned.

If I recall correctly, the statute of limitations “win” he refers to is the reason why Ivanka isn’t having to fork over some of Jared’s $2B in Saudi blood money. And the Court found that none of that had anything to do with Trump himself, the organizations, or Tweedledumb and Tweedledumbass.

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Charles  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:03:33pm

I have a virtual server on a box in a rack somewhere that I haven’t accessed in a while; it’s been nothing but a default nginx homepage for a while. So I wanted to use it again, and looked at the Cloudflare security panel and WHOA look at all those attempted breaches from the “Russian Federation.”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:04:14pm

re: #39 Charles

I have a virtual server on a box in a rack somewhere that I haven’t accessed in a while; it’s been nothing but a default nginx homepage for a while. So I wanted to use it again, and looked at the Cloudflare security panel and WHOA look at all those attempted breaches from the “Russian Federation.”

They’ll turn anything into a bot, if they can get their grubby hands on it.

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Charles  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:06:41pm

Whitest Kids U’ Know: Rip Your Dick Off

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Charles  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:11:13pm

Whitest Kids U’ Know: Sex Robot

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:12:20pm

The agency also is piloting a program for people to file their taxes directly to the agency without the help — or cost — of private commercial software.

Werfel said more than 50,000 people in 12 states have started using the new Direct File system to complete their taxes. The free online tool is available for people with very simple W-2s and who claim a standard deduction for their federal income taxes.

The Direct File rollout has drawn some consternation from commercial software firms like Intuit, as well as Republicans who argue there are free filing programs that already exist.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:15:32pm

re: #19 Nerdy Fish

Should, and in a just world, it would. But because too many people are too invested in keeping the Saudis happy for reasons, it won’t.

Atheists could use the House of Saud as exhibit one that a Just & Loving God doesn’t exist, well certainly not one that has any interest in humanity…

Reminds me, I get to start season 3 of Lucifer tonight. That season 2 ending was interesting!

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Unabogie  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:16:13pm

re: #43 Belafon

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I’d love to hear why it’s better for people to rely on “free” programs instead of just making life better for people with less hassle and worry.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:19:04pm

re: #45 Unabogie

I’d love to hear why it’s better for people to rely on “free” programs instead of just making life better for people with less hassle and worry.

Because, to Republicans, the free market is better than government intervention. Doing good things for people isn’t a capitalist value.

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Jay C  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:23:14pm

re: #46 Nerdy Fish

Because, to Republicans, the free market is better than government intervention. Doing good things for people without somebody making a buck off of it somewhere isn’t a capitalist value.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:24:32pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

Tennessee Senate passes bill based on ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theory: What to know | The Tennessean

Big, gub’mint conspiracy ✅

Tennessee ✅

Republican authors of the bill ✅

Move along. Nothin’ to see but derp

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:26:01pm

ACLU renews warning for New Mexicans traveling to Texas

A controversial Texas law that is the focus of an intense legal battle could soon become one of the toughest immigration measures in the country. Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court kept the policy in play, a federal appeals court blocked it Tuesday.

The policy allows law enforcement in Texas to arrest immigrants illegally crossing from Mexico. Although it’s on hold for now, some are putting out a warning to any New Mexican traveling to Texas.

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gocart mozart  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:28:30pm

Did you know there’s a Tim Pool gif?

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mmmirele  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:32:21pm

re: #41 Charles

I am in a weird mood, obviously. I was screaming with laughter and also crying too.

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:34:53pm

Have a lizard.

Chameleon

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Charles  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:35:05pm

re: #51 mmmirele

I am in a weird mood, obviously. I was screaming with laughter and also crying too.

WKUK can be intense.

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:35:12pm

re: #46 Nerdy Fish

Because, to Republicans, the free market is better than government intervention. Doing good things for people isn’t a capitalist value.

And TurboTax offering a free version means they’ve got you hooked when they need to charge. When they’ve gotten you used to then automatically pulling in tax information, is it worth switching?

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:36:07pm

re: #50 gocart mozart

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:38:17pm

re: #55 Belafon

extra rights

I’m convinced this is anti-trans shorthand for “I too want to hang out with female athletes but they won’t let me.”

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:40:14pm

If you pay attention eztaxreturn•com is a good free service, they haven’t charged me any money to file my federal return over a number of years. In Colorado you can file the state return for free through the state website.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:44:30pm

re: #56 jaunte

I’m convinced this is anti-trans shorthand for “I too want to hang out with female athletes but they won’t let me.”

Nah, it’s more like, “I want to dance around in pretty dresses and makeup, but my dad says that makes me a pervert.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:47:55pm

re: #42 Charles

46 years at the agency and I’ve actually dealt with people who talk like the Sex Robot…

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:49:22pm

re: #56 jaunte

I’m convinced this is anti-trans shorthand for “I too want to hang out with female athletes but they won’t let me.”

Sort of, but it’s more along the lines of Tim saying “you don’t see me asking to use the male bathroom.”

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:51:58pm

re: #59 Joe Bacon ✅

46 years at the agency and I’ve actually dealt with people who talk like the Sex Robot…

You get a real cross section, lacking only the undocumented.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:54:48pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

You get a real cross section, lacking only the undocumented.

Understatement…

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 21, 2024 • 5:56:14pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

Honestly. How do these people dress themselves without injury?

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:01:15pm

re: #50 gocart mozart

Translation of Tim Pool’s statement: I don’t like that I no longer have the power to insult or assault people whose existence I don’t understand and do not like.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:01:45pm

re: #54 Belafon

And TurboTax offering a free version means they’ve got you hooked when they need to charge. When they’ve gotten you used to then automatically pulling in tax information, is it worth switching?

My taxes are too complicated for the “free” government version — and though there are some irritating kinks, I like its pulling in information from prior years and its being able to download information from various sources. I also decided I’d rather pay the extra money to have them do my Illinois taxes instead of using the free software that Illinois provides to all. Just makes life simpler and the process faster.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:04:19pm

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:05:05pm

re: #49 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

ACLU renews warning for New Mexicans traveling to Texas

I wonder how long it will take for some ignorant turd of a West Texas deputy (excuse the redundancy) to throw a Guamanian or Puerto Rican in jail for not having proper immigration documents?
I had a Guamanian friend when I lived in Lubbock. He said he was asked for his green card virtually every time he applied for a job, and once when he tried to buy a gun.
I havent applied for a job in quite a few years but I’ve occasionally been asked for proof of immigration status a couple of times when I had to list my birthplace (Salisbury, England) for some reason. In the old days, my California driver license was good enough but I have heard that it is much, much worse today, with various paranoid morons demanding birth certificates, social security cards etc.
On another front, I’ve noticed conserva-liars starting to claim that “illegals” are enlisting in the US armed forces in large numbers. This would be part of a general trend among RWNJ traitors to discredit the “woke” US military out of one side of their mouths while they pretend to worship it out the other. I wonder why?

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:07:07pm

re: #67 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I wonder how long it will take for some ignorant turd of a West Texas deputy (excuse the redundancy) to throw a Guamanian or Puerto Rican in jail for not having proper immigration documents?

Don’t even have to go that far; what do you want to bet some racist AF deputy will try to deport a Native American?

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:10:25pm

re: #68 Nerdy Fish

Don’t even have to go that far; what do you want to bet some racist AF deputy will try to deport a Native American?

It’s going to be a “ask forgiveness not permission” setup is my guess.

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gocart mozart  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:10:54pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:11:32pm

Whitest Kids You Know - Moon Bears

Okay I’m hooked.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:11:58pm

re: #69 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s going to be a “ask forgiveness not permission” setup is my guess.

Yep, that’s the point of the law, to give officers qualified immunity because “there’s no way Deputy Fife could’ve known that the person he was arresting wasn’t in the country illegally, they refused to present appropriate paperwork.”

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Decatur Deb  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:12:57pm

re: #69 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s going to be a “ask forgiveness not permission” setup is my guess.

It will be the job of a revitalized Department of Justice to make sure that forgiveness is hard to get.

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Charles  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:15:55pm

So, if being “anti-woke” means you’re upset and angered by simple human decency, fuck you. We all need to stop putting up with this bullshit.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:20:53pm

re: #74 Charles

So, if being “anti-woke” means you’re upset and angered by simple human decency, fuck you. We all need to stop putting up with this bullshit.

It amazes me that so many people have convinced themselves that it is not only good and proper, but also holy and righteous, to be complete and utter assholes to people they don’t like and to wish them dead.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:24:24pm

Kentucky down 5 with 2:00 left. They lose, I think Calipari sleeps with the fishes.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:25:08pm


“Blood and Soil”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:26:41pm

re: #75 Nerdy Fish

It amazes me that so many people have convinced themselves that it is not only good and proper, but also holy and righteous, to be complete and utter assholes to people they don’t like and to wish them dead.

It’s because they’re affirming the consequent: they want things and therefore those things are good, proper, holy, and righteous.

If you follow this type of asshole through the ages, you can actually see the process of re-assembling the ideology to address new appetites, over and over.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:27:45pm

re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s because they’re affirming the consequent: they want things and therefore those things are good, proper, holy, and righteous.

If you follow this type of asshole through the ages, you can actually see the process of re-assembling the ideology to address new appetites, over and over.

Sorta funny how the “still, small voice of God” always says what you wanna hear, innit.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:29:26pm

re: #79 Nerdy Fish

Sorta funny how the “still, small voice of God” always says what you wanna hear, innit.

“God wants me to fuck your wife”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:30:16pm

re: #80 The Ghost of a Flea

“God wants me to fuck your wife”

Wasn’t that David Koresh’s big schtick?

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:30:46pm

Secure borders. A country that produces a $28T annual economy is going to have a lot of people from abject poverty want to come here and it’s impossible to stop them all. When Elmo speaks of secure borders, he means “All these ill eagles will become Democratic voters.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:31:32pm

re: #81 Nerdy Fish

It’s practically a fixed indicator of a certain kind of asshole across time and ideology.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:31:51pm

re: #82 Ace Rothstein

“When Elmo speaks of secure borders, he means “All these ill eagles will become Democratic voters.”

If we do it right.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:52:07pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Welcome, cuisine artists of all nations.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:54:42pm

Here we go. Charlie Jerk called for 1/6 Part 2

alternet.org

Christian nationalist and far-right political activist Charlie Kirk, a top influencer and Trump ally, urged supporters at a faith-based event on Sunday to “fight” if Donald Trump doesn’t win the 2024 presidential election.

“I want to make sure that we all make a commitment that if this election doesn’t go our way, the next day we fight,” Kirk told the audience at “Freedom Night,” hosted by Pastor John Randall.

“It’s a very important thing,” Kirk added before saying, “a lot of people don’t want to hear that. They say, ‘What do you mean it doesn’t go our way? It has to go our way. We have to win.’ I agree.”

Kirk is a member of the highly-secretive Council for National Policy, a purveyor of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie,” and has repeatedly promoted the false claim that U.S. elections are “rigged.”

Pastor Randall, of California’s Calvary South OC, had told Kirk, “I know on the minds of these freedom loving people tonight is the election. We were talking tonight before about some of the things that are going on and what you were sharing and I was listening, I found encouraging talk about this upcoming election how important this is, how critical this is, and what the church can be doing to make a difference. So well, you know, so that this doesn’t happen again.”

Randall is another Pulpit Pimp all in with the Dominionist shit.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:58:21pm

re: #80 The Ghost of a Flea

“God wants me to fuck your wife”

Jim Jones:
God wants me to fuck you and your wife.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:58:23pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 6:59:46pm

re: #75 Nerdy Fish

It amazes me that so many people have convinced themselves that it is not only good and proper, but also holy and righteous, to be complete and utter assholes to people they don’t like and to wish them dead.

I have seen people overwhelmed by their duty as a patriot to denigrate the Spanish language, in New Mexico.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:00:26pm

re: #88 Vicious Babushka

Memories of Mama making beautiful afghans…

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:00:45pm

Jennifer Rubin WaPo today

Four-time indicted former president Donald Trump suffered arguably his worst loss(es) in any criminal matter this week when, in his New York trial for alleged falsification of business records, Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled against him in virtually all of his motions to exclude evidence. By contrast, the judge largely granted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s motions to exclude evidence for trial that Trump believed might be exculpatory. That does not bode well for Trump’s chances to avoid conviction when the case goes to trial, likely in a few weeks.

last paragraph:
Merchan showed himself to be a serious judge who will not indulge Trump’s antics nor allow the trial to devolve into a spectacle. The case will be tried on straightforward law, and on the mound of evidence Bragg has accumulated. Based on these rulings, Trump should be quaking in his boots.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:01:07pm

re: #88 Vicious Babushka

Latest project, considering I have multiple projects going on at various stages. This is an afghan. #knitting #crochet

Ain’t no idle hands here.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:04:46pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:07:25pm

re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They still like to sell us the notion that the Saudis are some sort of “moderate” Muslims (because their princes used to party with the Bush brothers).

Even after it turns out that Bin Laden and 15 of the 18 9/11 assailants were Saudis. Or that they actively promote the teaching of Wahabism, a highly anti-American, anti-Western form of Islamism.

All of which should make it clear that they are not at all moderate. They are simply currently on our side of many aspects of Middle Eastern politics, but that is merely a matter of economic interests and political expediency.

For most of our relationship with the KSA, their extreme religiosity and their monarchism were a plus and we were active funder of propagating Islamic conservatism to the tune of about 1 trillion between the end of WW2 and 2001.

Lacking an understanding of how to do “anti-communism” in the Islamic world the US leaned into the same kind of cultural conservatism they applied in other countries…Catholics dictators in Iberia and Latin America, White ethnonationalists in Africa, etc…primarily giving money to the KSA to then distribute throughout MENA and Central Asia (Af-Pak, and eventually post-Soviet CA states) to conservative governments and organizations that pared away at secularists, more liberal forms of Islam, and journalists. But America has done the same thing independent of the KSA. We supported Zia ul Huq who built the madrassas the Pakistani part of the Taliban was fostered in.

The twist is that once you set up fundamentalism as a norm, fundamentalists can start refining their own theology in ways that don’t mesh with your political needs: most fundamentalists that become insurgents and terrorists are as much anti-monarchist as they are anti-democracy, because they’re by-the-book and the book in question means you build a caliphate (as in, no secular governance with a leader that is the head of the ummah). A great deal of the history of modern Saudi Arabia is the monarchy using carrots and sticks to keep it’s own population of fundamentalists alternately appeased and castigated: for example, responding to the assault on the Ka’aba with a special forces attack, but then spending years implementing conservative reforms to appease fundamentalists. Much of the endorsement of mujihadeen overseas is a way of redirecting energy that could viably go to revolution.

None of this is about political ideology, it’s about present money and future money: we’d give rockets to a rabid monkey if we thought they could slow down the expansion of notions like “trade unions are good” and “hey rich people steal shit via politicians.” Styling the KSA as “moderating” has been a thing for little time, and is entirely a function of PR flacks trying to keep up with the zeitgeist: we’re now in a connected world where Islamic conservatism is…ugly and quaint in equal measures, and in the US associated with terrorism…and therefore you have on one hand the Thomas Friedman gushing and on the other NEOM jackassery.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:08:08pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:09:22pm

re: #37 teleskiguy

@cougarspider.bsky.social

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I can smell the flopsweat from all the way in Colorado. He’s shitting bricks. We’re gonna get some glorious early 2 AM Monday morning poop tweets. Stay tuned.

Statute of Limitations! Now we’re really getting desperate.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:09:42pm

Another favorite musical of mine.

A Night At The Opera.

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LadyBehir  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:11:31pm

re: #59 Joe Bacon ✅

Hey, thought of you when I had to deal with my husband’s benefits this week. The guy on the other end of the phone was very nice and helpful. Hope the guy I will be dealing with in May is as good.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:12:50pm

re: #86 Joe Bacon ✅

And we’re going to fight back to defend our win, Charlie. I doubt the police will be so restrained if they have to deal with MAGAts at the Capitol again.

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:15:02pm

“Everything”

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:15:09pm
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darthstar  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:17:06pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:20:00pm

re: #100 Dangerman

Did that include the cemetery Ivana is buried in?

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:20:56pm

re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Did that include the cemetery Ivana is buried in?

I thought she was buried on one of his golf courses.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:21:46pm

re: #90 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of Mama making beautiful afghans…

I have taken up craft again & it has done wonders for my mental health.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:21:58pm

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

Trump googling “tax breaks for fractional burials”

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:22:29pm

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darthstar  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:23:34pm

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

I thought she was buried on one of his golf courses.

She was buried in New Jersey at Bedminster. Burying her in New York at one of his properties would have been too respectful.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:24:15pm

A pied-a-terre in New York.

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darthstar  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:27:37pm

Ty Cobb thinks Aileen isn’t long for the bench…

Mastodon

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:27:46pm

He buried her near the goats to get a tax break.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:28:38pm

re: #110 darthstar

Her crazy eyes are worse than Amy Barrett’s.

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:28:55pm

Bobby McFerrin’s daughter Madison.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:29:09pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

Her crazy eyes are worse than Amy Barrett’s.

She gives Michele Bachmann a run for her money.

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darthstar  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:30:23pm

re: #37 teleskiguy

Oh, add this to the context of his rant and yes…he is, as lawhawk so eloquently put it, fooked.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:32:59pm

re: #98 LadyBehir

😌

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:33:36pm

re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Did that include the cemetery Ivana is buried in?

Jersey I thought

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:35:17pm

re: #115 darthstar

Oh, add this to the context of his rant and yes…he is, as lawhawk so eloquently put it, fooked.

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If Trump wasn’t running for President, his obvious move at this point would be to file for bankruptcy. Speaking of his campaign the Republican Study Committee dropped a golden ticket in Biden’s lap by proposing an increase in the Social Security retirement age, a proposal that has 9% support among REPUBLICANS, voucherizing Medicare, and a national ban on IVF. With the massive warchest he’s building, Biden will be able to blanket swing states with ads about the GOP’s plan to kill Grandma.

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:41:51pm

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) just one day before he is set to leave Congress, sent a message to his party’s current leadership.

Buck, who previously said he is quitting Congress because Republicans have a “personal” grudge against him and the House of Representatives is “dysfunctional,” has signed a discharge petition circulated by House Democrats that would force the chamber to hold a vote on military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan — which GOP leaders have broadly opposed.

“Buck, whose resignation from Congress takes effect on Friday, told reporters ‘we’ve got to fund Ukraine and help people who are yearning for freedom,’” said the report.

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darthstar  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:42:36pm

re: #118 No Malarkey!

If Trump wasn’t running for President, his obvious move at this point would be to file for bankruptcy. Speaking of his campaign the Republican Study Committee dropped a golden ticket in Biden’s lap by proposing an increase in the Social Security retirement age, a proposal that has 9% support among REPUBLICANS, voucherizing Medicare, and a national ban on IVF. With the massive warchest he’s building, Biden will be able to blanket swing states with ads about the GOP’s plan to kill Grandma.

Well, at least the GOP has a platform this year.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:47:49pm

re: #120 darthstar

Well, at least the GOP has a platform this year.

We all have a duty to work until we die so that Elon Musk can get a desperately needed tax cut after a court denied him his $56 billion Tesla bonus.

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Jay C  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:48:46pm

re: #118 No Malarkey!

If Trump wasn’t running for President, his obvious move at this point would be to file for bankruptcy. Speaking of his campaign the Republican Study Committee dropped a golden ticket in Biden’s lap by proposing an increase in the Social Security retirement age, a proposal that has 9% support among REPUBLICANS, voucherizing Medicare, and a national ban on IVF. With the massive warchest he’s building, Biden will be able to blanket swing states with ads about the GOP’s plan to kill Grandma.

I really don’t understand the rationale (if one can even apply that term to today’s Republicans) behind releasing such a seriously unpopular set of proposals - and to a “third rail” issue like Social Security, no less - with the GOP stamp all over it IN AN ELECTION YEAR. And it’s only March! I can kinda-sorta understand tossing the anti-abortion shit in there to keep the Jesus-jumpers onboard; but an outright national ban on IVF (another enormously-badly-polling idea)??
I hope the Biden-Harris people are going to be all over this soon: that, at least, won’t be wishful thinking: I’ve seen a lot of political campaigning over my (mumble, mumble) years, and the B-H 2024 effort is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.

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Jay C  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:51:19pm

re: #119 Captain Ron

So if Ken Buck’s resignation takes effect, and he leaves Congress, does his signature on the Discharge Petition still count?

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KingKenrod  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:57:23pm

re: #123 Jay C

So if Ken Buck’s resignation takes effect, and he leaves Congress, does his signature on the Discharge Petition still count?

Yes, until his replacement is elected

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 21, 2024 • 7:58:01pm

re: #122 Jay C

I really don’t understand the rationale (if one can even apply that term to today’s Republicans) behind releasing such a seriously unpopular set of proposals - and to a “third rail” issue like Social Security, no less - with the GOP stamp all over it IN AN ELECTION YEAR. And it’s only March! I can kinda-sorta understand tossing the anti-abortion shit in there to keep the Jesus-jumpers onboard; but an outright national ban on IVF (another enormously-badly-polling idea)??
.

Never interfere with an enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself.

Please proceed, GOP.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:02:17pm

re: #122 Jay C

I really don’t understand the rationale (if one can even apply that term to today’s Republicans) behind releasing such a seriously unpopular set of proposals - and to a “third rail” issue like Social Security, no less - with the GOP stamp all over it IN AN ELECTION YEAR. And it’s only March! I can kinda-sorta understand tossing the anti-abortion shit in there to keep the Jesus-jumpers onboard; but an outright national ban on IVF (another enormously-badly-polling idea)??
I hope the Biden-Harris people are going to be all over this soon: that, at least, won’t be wishful thinking: I’ve seen a lot of political campaigning over my (mumble, mumble) years, and the B-H 2024 effort is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.

We are freaks; most people don’t think about the presidential election until after Labor Day. That is when Biden will carpet bomb the swing states with advertisements.

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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:03:29pm

re: #118 No Malarkey!

[…]Biden will be able to blanket swing states with ads about the GOP’s plan to kill Grandma, Mom and little sister.

Added for accuracy.

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:05:24pm

re: #122 Jay C

I really don’t understand the rationale (if one can even apply that term to today’s Republicans) behind releasing such a seriously unpopular set of proposals - and to a “third rail” issue like Social Security, no less - with the GOP stamp all over it IN AN ELECTION YEAR. And it’s only March! I can kinda-sorta understand tossing the anti-abortion shit in there to keep the Jesus-jumpers onboard; but an outright national ban on IVF (another enormously-badly-polling idea)??
I hope the Biden-Harris people are going to be all over this soon: that, at least, won’t be wishful thinking: I’ve seen a lot of political campaigning over my (mumble, mumble) years, and the B-H 2024 effort is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.

There isn’t one

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:06:33pm

re: #122 Jay C

I really don’t understand the rationale (if one can even apply that term to today’s Republicans) behind releasing such a seriously unpopular set of proposals - and to a “third rail” issue like Social Security, no less - with the GOP stamp all over it IN AN ELECTION YEAR. And it’s only March! I can kinda-sorta understand tossing the anti-abortion shit in there to keep the Jesus-jumpers onboard; but an outright national ban on IVF (another enormously-badly-polling idea)??
I hope the Biden-Harris people are going to be all over this soon: that, at least, won’t be wishful thinking: I’ve seen a lot of political campaigning over my (mumble, mumble) years, and the B-H 2024 effort is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.

This is the end result of the extreme gerrymandering the GOP has pulled off. Drawing lines to maximize their political power has the side effect of boosting true believers winning primaries by going as far right as they can. So they are effectively insulated from overall public opinion. Which is why these Radical Xtian Republicans have dug their heels in to go for the kill on Social Security and Medicare.

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A Cranky One  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:06:43pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:09:08pm

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:11:44pm

re: #115 darthstar

Oh, add this to the context of his rant and yes…he is, as lawhawk so eloquently put it, fooked.

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That was my hope this morning that the judge would apply.

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:13:34pm

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:13:45pm
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Belafon  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:18:36pm

We got another heavy rain this evening, and are under a flood watch until around noon Saturday.

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Dangerman  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:20:48pm

Tfgs gonna be unmasked. For the naked emperor that he is. His empire will be laid bare for all to see what it is , isn’t and never was.

This is gonna happen while he’s still alive. He’s gonna watch it happen. Impotent to do anything about it.

it’ll be what he’s thinking about whenever he starts to contemplate his imminent death. That everyone saw the truth of the fraud.

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austin_blue  Mar 21, 2024 • 8:40:51pm

re: #2 Targetpractice

There were illusions?

They were never illusions.

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Mattand  Mar 22, 2024 • 7:06:03am

re: #44 William Lewis

Atheists could use the House of Saud as exhibit one that a Just & Loving God doesn’t exist, well certainly not one that has any interest in humanity…

I usually start closer to home with things like Sandy Hook and Uvalde.


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