The Bob Cesca Podcast: Sleepy Don

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

Sleepy Don — We had a great time at the event for That Time We Ate Our Feelings. New vintage design in the Mall! Trump fell asleep in court on Monday. All the nicknames and memes. The Parker Rules. The truth about Trump and Barron’s graduation. Judge Merchan rules on Karen McDougal’s participation. Clay Travis may have committed jury tampering. What the hell did Trump say about Gettysburg? Trump short-circuited again. Troth Senchul stock continues to implode. Iran’s attack on Israel. The Supreme Court’s latest rulings. Appliance Week has been postponed. With Buzz Burbank, music by Jody Hamilton and Lonny Paul, Karma and the Killjoys, and more!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 3:00:40pm

Warren Oates did it better in that classic Outer Limits episode!

gocart mozart Apr 16, 2024 • 3:01:47pm

Cobb movie 1994 clip 3

Captain Magic Apr 16, 2024 • 3:07:48pm

Fun things about cochlear implants - it makes normal hearing decent, but totally makes listening to music a disaster.

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 3:09:20pm

Seven! Seven jurors got sat today! If Thursday and Friday go like today we’ll have opening instructions on Monday and Mr. Narcolepsy will have to try to keep his eyes open during hours of riveting testimony…against him.

goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 3:16:05pm

re: #3 Captain Magic

Fun things about cochlear implants - it makes normal hearing decent, but totally makes listening to music a disaster.

It’s new, keep working on it, you can adapt. Remember that anything worth doing is worth doing badly because that’s the only way to get better at it.

A professional musician, Massimo has been performing for many years and has completed formal studies in electric and classical guitar.

But when Massimo lost his hearing due to Meniere’s disease, and despite the success of his cochlear implant, his world turned upside down: “I completely lost the ability to correctly pitch music notes, nor could I recognize the music I had played for more than 40 years, or the music of other musicians.”

With perseverance, the guitarist created an online program called Playing Music After Deafness using techniques he developed to help others reconnect with music.

“There would be a lot of musicians around the globe that have lost their hearing and have given up music completely, not realizing that the cochlear implant can offer them the opportunity to continue their musical journey, certainly with limits but not without true rewards.

“I have been able to regain my ability to pitch notes correctly that I had lost completely. Encouraged and inspired by my more than positive results, I strongly felt I had to share my techniques with others,” says Massimo.

Romantic Heretic Apr 16, 2024 • 3:17:42pm

From downstairs.

re: #36 Shropshire Slasher

There was a dreadnought that had a golden shovel bolted to the wall of the engine room. Over it was a sign that said, “Lest We Forget.”

JC1 Apr 16, 2024 • 3:20:06pm

I am shocked that the prosecution didn’t use one of their dismissals on the jury foreman, the guy who professed to watching Fox News.

wrenchwench Apr 16, 2024 • 3:24:42pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

Meniere’s disease

That also takes away the ability to balance.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 3:25:15pm

A couple threads back someone posted that they could no longer get Tide fragrance free powder anymore.

P&G is marketing a substitute called EC-30 on the net that comes in a fragrance free packet—not a gel-pack. I’ve been using the EC-30 Fragrance Free packets for the past couple months doing my laundry and it does a good job with stain removal.

Detailed info at ec30clean.com

Vicious Babushka Apr 16, 2024 • 3:26:50pm

Mastodon

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 3:30:45pm

re: #7 JC1

I am shocked that the prosecution didn’t use one of their dismissals on the jury foreman, the guy who professed to watching Fox News.

Why? He said he watched other sources as well, and watching Fox just means he hasn’t been exposed to all of the facts of the case yet - he’s a blank slate in that regard. Plus he emigrated from Ireland, so he’s not unfamiliar with shady as fuck characters (yes, they exist on the Emerald Isle as well).

He can still get yanked if the prosecution finds more positive looking jurors.

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 3:32:16pm

22.84…another day like today and DJT stock could be in the teens.

Captain Magic Apr 16, 2024 • 3:33:02pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

That’s worth reading, and it may give me some hope - but the loss of understanding music is a big loss with the implant.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 3:33:53pm

Well Rob Schneider bombed out at a GOP gathering…

Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Rob Schneider delivered a comedy set so off-color and off-putting to a group of prominent Republicans late last year that the host cut the performance short and later apologized to attendees, Daniel Lippman reports.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) walked out during Schneider’s performance, which occurred at the holiday gala hosted at the Waldorf Astoria by the Senate Working Group, a networking group for senior GOP Hill staffers, downtown alumni and other corporate and individual members.

The show was supposed to last at least a half-hour, but SWG executive director James Kimmey stopped it within 10 minutes after the comedian made “raunchy” and inappropriate jokes, people present for or familiar with the performance said, including some aimed at Asian people, including a crack about “Korean whore-houses.”

Schneider’s set was “gross and vulgar,” Hyde-Smith’s spokesperson said. “She didn’t have to listen to it and so she got up and left.”

The approximately 150 attendees, which included more than 40 Senate chiefs of staff, received an apology email the next day: “While we do our best to ensure every aspect of our program is professional, courteous, and appropriate, we sincerely regret that the entertainment at last night’s program fell short of that goal,” it said.

SWG said in a statement that Schneider disregarded a verbal agreement he’d made with Kimmey to keep his set relatively clean. Still, Schneider’s brand of edgy-approaching-tasteless comedy has been well documented: Schneider has a “long history of perpetuating racial stereotypes,” according to a 2017 Daily Beast story.

Representatives for Schneider did not respond to a request for comment.

politico.com

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 3:34:16pm

re: #12 darthstar

We should be that lucky.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 16, 2024 • 3:37:13pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

A couple threads back someone posted that they could no longer get Tide fragrance free powder anymore.

That was me.

Not just Tide, but All and even A&H have stopped production of their fragrance free powders.

And the other powders are soon doomed too, I suspect.

Making people buy liquids means selling more detergent per year to the masses. Powders are too efficient.

Captain Magic Apr 16, 2024 • 3:39:36pm

re: #8 wrenchwench

That is one of many symptoms of Meinere’s disease - you may get the spins, and you may not. After my other ear went winky I underwent oxygen compression therapy - sadly, it didn’t work out.

sizzzzlerz Apr 16, 2024 • 3:40:52pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅

Well Rob Schneider bombed out at a GOP gathering…

When one’s punching down jokes offend a crowd of people whose entire political philosophy is built upon punching down, it would behoove one to either seek a new career or new joke writers.

Captain Magic Apr 16, 2024 • 3:43:12pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

The article you posted is from the manufacturer of my implant. Ill dig some more in his article.

TedStriker Apr 16, 2024 • 3:45:53pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

Warren Oates did it better in that classic Outer Limits episode!

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Shit, that was Warren Oates? Always saw that pic memed on, but never knew…

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 16, 2024 • 3:45:53pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

href=”https://EC30CLEAN.com”>ec30clean.com

Thanks for the link.

But I notice how expensive it is, $26 for a box of 30 packets.

And for one person, who does laundry in small batches, a single packet is overkill.

Fun fact: a good detergent (like the old Tide fragrance free) makes a much better solvent for washing dishes than the dish soap sold in bottles. And said detergent is also good for making all-purpose household cleaning solutions (which I do, put into spray bottles.)

Typical soaps for use around the house are intentionally mild, so hoomans do not get “dishpan hands”. But I find the stronger detergents for laundry much better for around the house.

The E30 stuff looks interesting, but it is premium priced.

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 3:47:33pm

re: #15 PhillyPretzel ✅

We should be that lucky.

It has to hurt his investors. And it has to hurt them in a way they won’t forget.

goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 3:48:27pm

re: #13 Captain Magic

That’s worth reading, and it may give me some hope - but the loss of understanding music is a big loss with the implant.

I know. I had to learn to walk twice (hip dysplasia) and my right eye still has some barrel distortion from a macular pucker left over from a papilledema / hypertensive crisis, so I have some very small understanding of how distressing it is to suddenly experience the world through a distorted sense. Which is why I also know that the brain has more adaptability in it than you realize when everything is new and feels awful.

piratedan Apr 16, 2024 • 3:49:38pm

re: #20 TedStriker

the OL had a lot of very memorable faces on their eps, Robert Webber, Edward Platt, Cliff Robertson, Martin Landau, Leonard Nimoy, Martin Balsam… actors had to work and the OL gave the opportunity for some nifty characters and scenery chewing.

Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 3:51:35pm

Alabama

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 3:51:52pm

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Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 3:52:39pm

Meanwhile when you have to turn to Drudge…

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 3:55:19pm

Incel Camino ftw.

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gocart mozart Apr 16, 2024 • 3:56:57pm

The only sensible thing to do with Trump’s “Gettysburg, Wow” speech in Pennsylvania was to make a one-minute documentary film of it. These are all his real words. I added some “bing bongs” at the start. “Never fight uphill, me boys! Never fight uphill.” #FunWithPhotoshop pic.twitter.com/xFQffyCa37

— Randall Stephens (@Randall_Stps) April 16, 2024

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 3:58:08pm

Panzerdouchewagen

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 3:59:05pm

re: #25 Dangerman

At this point, what I really want people to switch to is:

This is not hypocrisy, Evangelicals really believe they are allowed to abuse people.

They will not say it directly, only argue this point by implication, because they want power and need you to give them power.

If you give them power they will use to do and conceal abuse.

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:01:01pm

re: #29 gocart mozart

I guess Meade’s win was fake news and Robrette E. Lea won the battle of Gettysburg for the South?

Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 4:06:59pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅

😂 😂 😂 I’ll confess to liking his movie, “The Hot Chick”, but am dying of laughter at the idea of him pissing off Republicans with his comedy routine.

Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 4:12:32pm

Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 4:12:50pm

re: #31 The Ghost of a Flea

At this point, what I really want people to switch to is:

this is not hypocrisy, Evangelicals really believe they are allowed to abuse people.

I’d agree.
the masses that do memes use “hypocrisy” the same way they’re using ” hush money”

jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 4:19:07pm

re: #32 darthstar

I guess Meade’s win was fake news and Robrette E. Lea won the battle of Gettysburg for the South?

Many people are saying.

jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 4:20:48pm

@bcdreyer.bsky.social

We shouldn’t rule out apoplexy as an ultimate outcome is all I’m saying.

Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com

The optimal situation that I am trying to manifest is the entire apparatus of GOP governance giving Trump everything he wants only for him to kerplatz before the convention. SCOTUS out on a limb, the GOP in his pocket, Putin set and ready…and then nothing. Maximum chaos.

Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 4:21:10pm

BREAKING: Liberal judge Merchan is refusing to let Trump attend the daily church service he enjoys and his very important volunteer work at a soup kitchen for homeless immigrants and refugees. #TrumpTrial

— All Out Of Bubblegum (@BubblegumOut) April 16, 2024

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:22:16pm

re: #37 jaunte

@bcdreyer.bsky.social

Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com

Counsel! Curb your client!

Yeah, that kind of admonishment isn’t going to go over well with Trump.

jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 4:22:49pm

Kerplatz!

Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 4:24:29pm

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:25:44pm

re: #41 Dangerman

He’s got all day tomorrow to rest and get his energy up for Thursday, if he chooses to spend his time wisely.

(Narrator: Trump does nothing wisely)

Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 4:27:31pm

re: #39 darthstar

Counsel! Curb your client!

Yeah, that kind of admonishment isn’t going to go over well with Trump.

This is even worse
The judge doesn’t even have to talk to him directly
Just sit there and direct his lawyer to deliver the bad news

Ace Rothstein Apr 16, 2024 • 4:28:38pm

Trump has zero control over what is going on. It’s a beautiful thing to watch.

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:30:19pm

re: #43 Dangerman

This is even worse
The judge doesn’t even have to talk to him directly
Just sit there and direct his lawyer to deliver the bad news

It’s wonderful. The Defendant will keep his mouth shut or he will face consequences…convey this to your client in whatever way he understands.

A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 4:30:38pm

Good Evening Lizards, I hope everyone is safe, well, and happy. I also always have extra hugs if needed. It’s been a tough week already, so Republicans and The Stupid haven’t been on my priority list. I’ve heard bits and pieces, I’m going to try and catch up some. As long as the walking pile o’ orange goo is unhappy, I am good with that.

My big question beyond getting Trump in jail or permanent vacation in his Florida hell, is: how to we ever get what was Roe V Wade made into an actual law? Why was it not ever codified (is that the word? I have no idea)into an actual law? This needs fixing and I have no clue how that has to happen. Any info for my old lady brain would be much appreciated. I want to support something that can actually work and is run by women with tons of men being involved and standing with us. Tall order I know.

Ace Rothstein Apr 16, 2024 • 4:32:07pm

re: #46 A Mom Anon

I don’t think it was ever codified because there would be no way to ever break a filibuster in the Senate (???).

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:32:14pm

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 4:33:32pm

re: #46 A Mom Anon

Why was it not ever codified

How many times has Congress ever said “The Supreme Court is right, we should codify the thing they just made legal”?

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:35:45pm

re: #46 A Mom Anon

Get the house back in D hands and replace Manchin and Sinema with actual Democrats and they can change the filibuster rules - talking filibusters only would be a huge start - and 51 votes to break it.

Then we codify Roe, protect LGBT youth, ban assault weapons nationwide, launch an assault weapon buyback program (and send those guns to Ukraine), protect the environment, and fuck the GOP.

Targetpractice Apr 16, 2024 • 4:35:47pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅

Schneider’s like Dave Chappelle, one of those aging 90s/00s comics who’s now trying to squeeze out one last little bit of fame by portraying themselves as arch-conservatives who’ve been “canceled” because modern audiences don’t laugh at their jokes and their former audience now wants them to tone down the language around the grandkids. He could retire and live the rest of his life off the residuals from all the movies and TV shows he’s appeared in, but he’d rather instead try to milk that Wingnut Welfare Circuit for one last chance at “fame.”

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:38:46pm

One more forced birth asshole gets what he deserves…

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:41:29pm

Madison Cawthorn’s still a POS.

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Apr 16, 2024 • 4:43:34pm

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 4:43:36pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

Schneider’s like Dave Chappelle, one of those aging 90s/00s comics who’s now trying to squeeze out one last little bit of fame by portraying themselves as arch-conservatives who’ve been “canceled” because modern audiences don’t laugh at their jokes and their former audience now wants them to tone down the language around the grandkids. He could retire and live the rest of his life off the residuals from all the movies and TV shows he’s appeared in, but he’d rather instead try to milk that Wingnut Welfare Circuit for one last chance at “fame.”

They’re the reactionary side of a larger problem with infotainment and the necessity to add smarm into commentary. They’re of a body with Ricky Gervais and Bill Maher, even Jon Stewart and his “aw, I’m the reasonable guy” bit, but it goes back to guys like George Carlin…not what Carlin viewed himself as or precisely intended, but how his performative crassness and strong opinion came to be seen as autheticity.

The now-codified conceit that comedians are truth tellers and philosophers have doomed us to this shit forever.

A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 4:47:11pm

re: #49 Belafon

So how do women get their rights back nationwide then? I guess that whole United part of USA!USA! means jack shit nothing. I think we need people digging through older than dirt laws looking for things that might work for us. I have no idea, but shit like this, even though it no longer has any direct effect on me, matters because this is a symptom of something larger and more evil. It won’t stop with abortion or birth control or lady parts of any sort. The problem is right wing evangelical “christianity” combined with end times “theology”. It’s a money sucking hateful scam that needs to be dismantled, somehow. I know from personal experience, it destroyed my family from around the time I turned 10 til today. I was the only one that rebelled against it, I was the oldest and had my parents who wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor and bought me any book I asked for. Until a friend of theirs in Amway gave my dad a book by Hal Lindsey. Yeah, I’ve had my share of right wing shit. I would like to be a late baby boomer who does something to help, I just have no clue how.

Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 4:50:12pm

re: #56 A Mom Anon

I was just answering why it was never made into law. Get Democrats elected, and they will.

A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 4:50:43pm

re: #50 darthstar

That’s a good plan. A lot of work, but a lot of work has to happen here or nothing at all will.

retired cynic Apr 16, 2024 • 4:51:00pm

re: #45 darthstar

It’s wonderful. The Defendant will keep his mouth shut or he will face consequences…convey this to your client in whatever way he understands.

2 by 4?

retired cynic Apr 16, 2024 • 4:52:15pm

re: #48 darthstar

Work stuff:

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 4:52:15pm

re: #59 retired cynic

That might work.

JC1 Apr 16, 2024 • 4:53:15pm

The weirdest thing to me about Trump’s Gettysburg speech is that he’s wistfully riffing about Lee and is implying that it would have been better if the Union lost. And he’s doing this in Gettysburg PA instead of a place like South Carolina.

He’s really losing it.

Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 4:54:51pm

re: #52 darthstar

One more forced birth asshole gets what he deserves…

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He only got 9 years and he’s in his 20s. He will be out in no time committing more crimes. Hopefully, the Marines will go after him when he’s released from prison.

gocart mozart Apr 16, 2024 • 4:56:39pm

‘judge conflicty-pants I call him, I like to call him judge conflicty-pants-on-fire because he’s so conflicted. Never fight up hill me boys, never fight up hill’

— narcissist chronicles (@narcissistchro1) April 16, 2024

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 4:59:18pm

re: #60 retired cynic

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 16, 2024 • 4:59:30pm

We know what you meant, Tom. We’ve heard it before, and so have you:

“If you elect me President and an anarchist lies down in front of my automobile, it’s going to be the last automobile he’ll want to lie down in front of.”

George Wallace, 1968

A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 5:00:18pm

re: #57 Belafon
It all does go back to that, of course, I’m just trying to figure out how we gain support in places that are half ass holding on to what’s left of women’s rights, like where I am in Georgia. I think there has to be a ton of community outreach in places that aren’t always going to be openly receptive and maybe even hostile towards this effort. That’s the hardest part I think. And the right wing knows this and knows they have minions that will literally pull the trigger, it’s not like it’s never happened. Especially in places where there really aren’t any gun laws that matter.

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:03:03pm

re: #66 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

“We’re going to do to protesters what we let our dictator proxies do to protesters.”

jeffreyw Apr 16, 2024 • 5:03:43pm

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:04:38pm

re: #62 JC1

The weirdest thing to me about Trump’s Gettysburg speech is that he’s wistfully riffing about Lee and is implying that it would have been better if the Union lost. And he’s doing this in Gettysburg PA instead of a place like South Carolina.

He’s really losing it.

Assuming that someone at a Trump rally supports the South regardless of the region you’re in a pretty sound assumption even if everything he said is soup.

BeenHereAwhile Apr 16, 2024 • 5:04:46pm

re: #21 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Thanks for the link.

But I notice how expensive it is, $26 for a box of 30 packets.

And for one person, who does laundry in small batches, a single packet is overkill.

Fun fact: a good detergent (like the old Tide fragrance free) makes a much better solvent for washing dishes than the dish soap sold in bottles. And said detergent is also good for making all-purpose household cleaning solutions (which I do, put into spray bottles.)

Typical soaps for use around the house are intentionally mild, so hoomans do not get “dishpan hands”. But I find the stronger detergents for laundry much better for around the house.

The E30 stuff looks interesting, but it is premium priced.

Two Tide trivia facts:

Smoky Yunick used Tide to clean his race engine blocks as prep before assembly.

Costumers and actors were careful to not wash white clothing or any other white cloth material -.that was going to apprear on screen - with Tide as on film it caused the white material to have a blue tint.

Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 5:06:23pm

washingtonpost.com

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:07:00pm

Oh, and at this point I withdraw my objection to calling him demented.

His speech is getting really bad. It could still just be stress and drugs, but it’s not even the old flow of associated imagery that could just be a narcissist caught up in their own thought process.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 16, 2024 • 5:08:30pm

re: #71 BeenHereAwhile

Two Tide trivia facts:

Smoky Yunick used Tide to clean his race engine blocks as prep before assembly.

Costumers and actors were careful to not wash white clothing or any other white cloth material -.that was going to apprear on screen - with Tide as on film it caused the white material to have a blue tint.

Brighteners in detergents used to be quite common. They still are. That’s why I used the dye-free version of Tide.

Phosphorescence - it makes life brighter!

jeffreyw Apr 16, 2024 • 5:09:13pm

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 5:09:37pm

re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Brighteners in detergents used to be quite common. They still are. That’s why I used the dye-free version of Tide.

Phosphorescence - it makes life brighter!

With ‘bluing for whiteness’…one of my favorite phrases from the laundry wars.

goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 5:10:16pm

re: #68 The Ghost of a Flea

“We’re going to do to protesters what we let our dictator proxies do to protesters.”

Aimé Césaire nailed it when he said fascism is just colonialism applied domestically.

jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 5:10:43pm

“blood and soil for bozos”

“…Sometimes a teenage boy watches Clint Eastwood movies and temporarily adopts it as his whole personality. Sometimes that boy never grows out of it, and grows up to become a U.S. senator.

Sen. Tom Cotton is a rigid right-wing ideologue and a paid-off suit. He’s no populist but has a starving dog’s nose for demagoguery, always hoping to tickle prejudices and ugly impulses for his political profit. He adores power — truly, madly, deeply.

But the most consistent guiding light for his politics has always been his warmongering worship of violence.”

Cheechako Apr 16, 2024 • 5:12:08pm

The Calvinball Court:

Supreme Court seems divided over obstruction charge in Jan. 6 case that may impact Trump and rioters

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:13:29pm

re: #72 Patricia Kayden

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washingtonpost.com

So he successfully anticipated and acted upon the exact opinions of modern conservatives? How progressive.

Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 5:15:53pm

darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 5:16:28pm

Mastodon

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:16:46pm

Proposed heuristic:

Whenever an op ed attempts to shock readers by proposing that surely conservatives could not support a position because of it’s entirely-identifiable problematic history…

…nope, conservatives already know about it and either don’t care or…and I lean more toward that latter at this…are really, really excited by it.

They’re not mad about kid diddling because consent is important, but because kid diddling doesn’t involve the consent of the girl’s rightful owners.

jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 5:17:15pm

@kentremendous.bsky.social

Trump complained to the judge in his criminal porn star hush money trial that he is not allowed to go to the Supreme Court to hear arguments about his immunity claims that would protect him from the riot he caused at the Capitol while President. The fucked up-edness of this moment boggles the mind.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

“Fucked up-edness” is a term we historians only save for the truly colossal dipshitteries, and I’m here to confirm it does apply here.

A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 5:19:35pm

re: #73 The Ghost of a Flea
My dad is in early stages of Alzheimer’s, I think it may be a little past that now. I am not at all sure how a man who was raised by two people who were staunch union workers and supporters, and he himself was a union worker for United Steel back in the day. I blame hyped up end of times scam artists and Amway, and the fucked up part is it fucked them over financially long term. Reverse mortgage is in there along with who knows what else. My mom has softened up quite a bit and we are slowly repairing our relationship, she’s been very supportive of me and a good listener as I navigate the world as a widow.

One day I will make a post about my grandma, she was a badass. One of the first women to be hired and in a union and eventually a union rep for awhile during her years at Anchor Hocking in SE Ohio. When she retired she had her own pension, a savings account and healthcare pretty much paid for. That’s who rescued me when my family kicked me out of their lives when I was 17, even knowing what a brat I could be sometimes, lol.

BeenHereAwhile Apr 16, 2024 • 5:23:11pm

re: #82 darthstar

Today in 1943, 81 years ago: Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.

And then notices unusual effects while he rides his bicycle.

EPR-radar Apr 16, 2024 • 5:24:33pm

re: #83 The Ghost of a Flea

That’s why I often say the right wing view of a woman getting raped is that if they even think it’s a crime (i.e., the perp is not a powerful man), then it’s a property crime with the victim of the crime being the rightful owner of the woman in question. If there is no such owner, then it categorically wasn’t a crime and “she was asking for it”.

Justice Alito, for one, would write shit exactly like this into a SCOTUS opinion. He certainly came close in Dodds.

Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 5:26:16pm

Charles Johnson Apr 16, 2024 • 5:30:06pm

“Will the Supreme Court jeopardize the prosecution of more than 350 defendants involved with Jan. 6, including Donald Trump, by gutting the federal statute that prohibits their unlawful conduct? Maybe so.”

slate.com

Charles Johnson Apr 16, 2024 • 5:33:03pm

We have a sighting of a strange creature from an alternate universe.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 16, 2024 • 5:34:00pm

re: #82 darthstar

Today in 1943, 81 years ago: Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.

Easter will fall on this date in 2028. Scandalous.

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:36:46pm

re: #90 Charles

We have a sighting of a strange creature from an alternate universe.

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Dick Tracy villain energy is strong.

Old Citrus McCrimey. Pithface. Salvatore “Orangefucker” Arancia.

Charles Johnson Apr 16, 2024 • 5:39:18pm

re: #92 The Ghost of a Flea

Dick Tracy villain energy is strong.

Old Citrus McCrimey. Pithface. Salvatore “Orangefucker” Arancia.

Exactly. The Rotten Cantaloupe.

Florida Panhandler Apr 16, 2024 • 5:41:00pm

re: #44 Ace Rothstein

Sleepy Trump having to sit and just be bored to death is the best way to reveal his true self- uninteresting and really quite boring if he has to abide by a set of rules and not simply fling monkey shit all over the place.

The best strategy against Trump is to make him boring. He offers his MAGa cult vulgar spectacle. Thiis his main appeal. Take away his shuck and jive, take away his ketchup stains on the walls, take away his ability to simply eat the chess pieces instead of playing the actual game, and you are left with a doddering know-nothing except for his innate ability to con. He is as an empty a vessel that has occupied human skin and this is being revealed every minute he has to sit there and stew.

Fuck this guy. He is washed up.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 5:41:34pm

One less hate monger in the world.

Beverly LaHaye, an evangelical activist who helped organize a powerful right-wing backlash to the feminist movement, rallying opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion, gay rights and other perceived threats to “traditional family values,” died April 14 at a retirement home in El Cajon, Calif. She was 94.

Her death was announced in a statement by Concerned Women for America, the Washington-based public policy organization she founded and once led. The statement did not give a cause.

While her husband, Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye, preached about the “end times” and made a fortune as a co-author of the best-selling “Left Behind” series of apocalyptic novels, Mrs. LaHaye developed a following of her own as the longtime president of Concerned Women for America, or CWA.

washingtonpost.com

Charles Johnson Apr 16, 2024 • 5:41:35pm

WHAT’S WRONG WITH HIS HEAD? WHY IS IT SHAPED LIKE THAT?

This sketch really captured something essential about the surreal absurdity of the moment.

sagehen Apr 16, 2024 • 5:42:29pm

re: #50 darthstar

Get the house back in D hands and replace Manchin and Sinema with actual Democrats and they can change the filibuster rules - talking filibusters only would be a huge start - and 51 votes to break it.

Then we codify Roe, protect LGBT youth, ban assault weapons nationwide, launch an assault weapon buyback program (and send those guns to Ukraine), protect the environment, and fuck the GOP.

and the voting rights act
and statehood for DC and Puerto Rico

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:42:55pm

re: #93 Charles

Exactly. The Rotten Cantaloupe.

At this point conservatives have two typologies: Dick Tracy villain grotesque and doll-eyed simulacrum from the uncanny valley.

Oh, and “token minority explicitly making money from reading back racism to racists but otherwise normal looking.”

Three. Three typologies.

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 5:45:32pm

re: #95 Joe Bacon ✅

One less hate monger in the world.

Beverly LaHaye, an evangelical activist who helped organize a powerful right-wing backlash to the feminist movement, rallying opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion, gay rights and other perceived threats to “traditional family values,” died April 14 at a retirement home in El Cajon, Calif. She was 94.

Her death was announced in a statement by Concerned Women for America, the Washington-based public policy organization she founded and once led. The statement did not give a cause.

While her husband, Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye, preached about the “end times” and made a fortune as a co-author of the best-selling “Left Behind” series of apocalyptic novels, Mrs. LaHaye developed a following of her own as the longtime president of Concerned Women for America, or CWA.

washingtonpost.com

Scrape the grease off the chute to hell so there’s more heat and friction on the way down.

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steve_davis Apr 16, 2024 • 5:45:49pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅

Well Rob Schneider bombed out at a GOP gathering…

Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Rob Schneider delivered a comedy set so off-color and off-putting to a group of prominent Republicans late last year that the host cut the performance short and later apologized to attendees, Daniel Lippman reports.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) walked out during Schneider’s performance, which occurred at the holiday gala hosted at the Waldorf Astoria by the Senate Working Group, a networking group for senior GOP Hill staffers, downtown alumni and other corporate and individual members.

The show was supposed to last at least a half-hour, but SWG executive director James Kimmey stopped it within 10 minutes after the comedian made “raunchy” and inappropriate jokes, people present for or familiar with the performance said, including some aimed at Asian people, including a crack about “Korean whore-houses.”

Schneider’s set was “gross and vulgar,” Hyde-Smith’s spokesperson said. “She didn’t have to listen to it and so she got up and left.”

The approximately 150 attendees, which included more than 40 Senate chiefs of staff, received an apology email the next day: “While we do our best to ensure every aspect of our program is professional, courteous, and appropriate, we sincerely regret that the entertainment at last night’s program fell short of that goal,” it said.

SWG said in a statement that Schneider disregarded a verbal agreement he’d made with Kimmey to keep his set relatively clean. Still, Schneider’s brand of edgy-approaching-tasteless comedy has been well documented: Schneider has a “long history of perpetuating racial stereotypes,” according to a 2017 Daily Beast story.

Representatives for Schneider did not respond to a request for comment.

politico.com

Rob Schneider delivered a performance so off-color and off-putting that even some Republicans were offended……would be another way of saying that more accurately.

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Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 5:49:13pm

re: #91 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Easter will fall on this date in 2028. Scandalous.

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Charles Johnson Apr 16, 2024 • 5:49:50pm

The database seems to be running much better since its tuneup. Have there been any “service interruptions” in the past day that I didn’t see?

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William Lewis Apr 16, 2024 • 5:49:51pm

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Rightwingconspirator Apr 16, 2024 • 5:49:53pm

re: #94 Florida Panhandler

This cretin has talked crap about so many things we appreciate. Immigrants, veterans, disabled folks, my home state in particular and all things progressive. Very entertaining for his MAGA cult followers.
Now it’s our turn to be entertained by his trials. Civil, criminal, financial and political.

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William Lewis Apr 16, 2024 • 5:50:03pm

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 16, 2024 • 5:50:25pm

Mystery as Texas Man Missing in Occupied Ukraine After Joining Putin’s Army

A U.S.-born fighter with pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine has gone missing, according to Russian-linked media reports, after intensified clashes in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

This past Friday, Telegram channel Mash, which says it is linked to Russia’s security services, said local police in the eastern region were looking for Russell Bentley, a native of Austin, Texas, after he “disappeared” following shelling to the southwest of Russian-controlled city of Donetsk. He was last seen east of the current front line, close to the Kremlin-controlled town of Marinka.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 5:52:33pm

re: #98 The Ghost of a Flea

At this point conservatives have two typologies: Dick Tracy villain grotestque and doll-eyed simulacrum from the uncanny valley.

Oh, and “token minority explicitly making money from reading back racism to racists but otherwise normal looking.”

Three. Three typologies.

The sad thing is they don’t start off that way, it’s a process mediated by chasing the male gaze that produces a vivid spectrum of horrors.

bsky.app

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 5:52:59pm

About that big church in Rockwall, Lakepointe:

tiktok.com

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BlueSpotinAL ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 5:54:06pm

re: #33 Patricia Kayden

😂 😂 😂 I’ll confess to liking his movie, “The Hot Chick”, but am dying of laughter at the idea of him pissing off Republicans with his comedy routine.

Member of the Punch Down on People Party says “I never thought the jokes would punch down on me!”

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jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 5:54:32pm

re: #106 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Hoping for the best.

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 5:55:24pm

social.ironboundsoftware.com

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 5:55:57pm

re: #111 darthstar

social.ironboundsoftware.com

Accompanying image:

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 5:58:56pm

re: #106 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Mystery as Texas Man Missing in Occupied Ukraine After Joining Putin’s Army

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Dudes will literally fly to Russia and get shelled instead of going into therapy

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 5:59:55pm

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

The sad thing is they don’t start off that way, it’s a process mediated by chasing the male gaze that produces a vivid spectrum of horrors.

bsky.app

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Her days with Don Jr are numbered…and it shows. She should have sold herself to a Russian oligarch - she’d have her own small cabin on a lake that only froze for 7 months of the year by now.

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Vicious Babushka Apr 16, 2024 • 6:00:42pm

re: #96 Charles

WHAT’S WRONG WITH HIS HEAD? WHY IS IT SHAPED LIKE THAT?

This sketch really captured something essential about the surreal absurdity of the moment.

He apparently had some cosmetic surgery done on his scalp where the hair was thinning. It did not go well. He blamed Ivana, beat her up and then raped her. (Ivana later testified that he did this to her.)

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 6:01:00pm

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

Dudes will literally fly to Russia and get shelled instead of going into therapy

Putin certainly wouldn’t put an American who volunteered for his army in harm’s way…

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 6:02:09pm

re: #97 sagehen

and the voting rights act
and statehood for DC and Puerto Rico

DC…Puerto Rico’s happy being a territory…just give them some financial support.

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jeffreyw Apr 16, 2024 • 6:05:50pm

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 6:07:44pm

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

Dudes will literally fly to Russia and get shelled instead of going into therapy

Oh fuck this just reminded me of something …

Like, he literally flew to Russia and almost fucking died because he didn’t want to go into therapy and admit his addiction had a mental component.

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 6:09:08pm

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

The sad thing is they don’t start off that way, it’s a process mediated by chasing the male gaze that produces a vivid spectrum of horrors.

bsky.app

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Funny thing is that I wasn’t even thinking of the women, but rather of guys like Hawley and Cotton, who have corpse beetles for pupils.

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Romantic Heretic Apr 16, 2024 • 6:10:07pm

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

Dudes will literally fly to Russia and get shelled instead of going into therapy

Going into therapy would be admitting there’s something wrong with me! Inconceivable!

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 6:12:13pm

re: #109 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Member of the Punch Down on People Party says “I never thought the jokes would punch down on me!”

They laugh at their preferred humor because they see it as aggression. They incapable of laughing at humor that targets them because they see it as aggression.

They don’t so much feel mirth as whatever it is a tick feels when it latches on to a mammal.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 6:24:30pm

re: #119 goddamnedfrank

BTW this also ties pretty heavily into my thesis about the compartmentalization of human intelligence, Peterson being a practicing psychotherapist and all. He knows better, but he’s high on hubris and his supporters are all patriarchal atavists who despise psychology, so now he has to become a kind of anti-psychologist and dance for their amusement. It’s the same weird role Musk finds himself in, a purveyor of all electric cars who desperately courted the approval of the far-right, who generally despise electric cars. And no rant of mine on this subject would be complete without mentioning Ben Carson going to the My Pillow dipshit for COVID advice because what.the.fuck‽

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 16, 2024 • 6:25:06pm

re: #22 darthstar

It has to hurt his investors. And it has to hurt them in a way they won’t forget.

But his investors will blame those who tried to take him down, not Trump. As Trump said, he could should someone on 5th Ave and not lose any voters — and he could leave followers destitute, but they will blame the “Demoncrats” not Trump and his minions who promoted the stock.

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Charles Johnson Apr 16, 2024 • 6:26:51pm

Every day, dozens of these in our contact inbox.

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I’m writing to express my admiration for the high-quality and in-depth
content on your website.

I’m reaching out to discuss Potential Collaboration Opportunities, such
as Featured Article Collaboration, Link Swap with High Ranked Websites,
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with the right one?

Best
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“James” is writing to us from the Punjab region of Pakistan.

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 16, 2024 • 6:34:02pm

re: #27 Dangerman

Meanwhile when you have to turn to Drudge…

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Drudge turned against Trump in 2020 and I don’t think he ever returned to the fold.

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BeenHereAwhile Apr 16, 2024 • 6:34:57pm

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teleskiguy Apr 16, 2024 • 6:47:43pm

re: #126 Hecuba’s daughter

Drudge turned against Trump in 2020 and I don’t think he ever returned to the fold.

I’ve definitely been visiting Drudge a little more than I did in years past. I stopped pretty much altogether after Obama was elected. Before that it was a go-to, it was Drudge that introduced me to LGF via his radio show.

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 6:56:38pm

re: #124 Hecuba’s daughter

But their friends and family will know that they’re fucking idiots.

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Rightwingconspirator Apr 16, 2024 • 7:03:08pm

re: #102 Charles

The database seems to be running much better since its tuneup. Have there been any “service interruptions” in the past day that I didn’t see?

There was a post I tried to put under private yesterday that would not post. So I did a little editing and posted publicly. littlegreenfootballs.com

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 7:06:20pm

social.jtworld.net

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 7:07:18pm

re: #131 darthstar

social.jtworld.net

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls - article in the Atlantic… Behind a paywall.

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darthstar Apr 16, 2024 • 7:08:57pm

Why did this person get excused?

Mastodon

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A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 7:10:08pm

re: #118 jeffreyw

A new gardening idea. I just need the sign, I have the plant life.

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Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 7:11:33pm

re: #127 BeenHereAwhile

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Unfortunately Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results

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Dangerman Apr 16, 2024 • 7:14:36pm

Wait. He’s a what? He changed what????

Miller: The most stylish president and first lady in our lifetimes are Donald Trump and Melania Trump. Donald Trump is a style icon. He changed American fashion in The Apprentice. People spent the next 10 years trying to dress like him pic.twitter.com/ZpQs9ZnuWG

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 17, 2024

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jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 7:17:57pm

re: #136 Dangerman

“The largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”

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BeenHereAwhile Apr 16, 2024 • 7:22:10pm

re: #135 Dangerman

Unfortunately Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results

“Just for fun.”

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BeenHereAwhile Apr 16, 2024 • 7:24:52pm

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 7:26:25pm

re: #136 Dangerman

Wait. He’s a what? He changed what????

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As usual, Count Fuckula is lying thru his fangs.

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Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 7:26:46pm

re: #106 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

To avoid being banned from LGF, I won’t say what I hope happened to him.

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jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 7:27:08pm

re: #139 BeenHereAwhile

This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.

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A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 7:30:32pm

re: #136 Dangerman
I would be curious to see CTs/MRIs of these MAGA brains and what the hell is or isn’t going on in there. Are there in common abnormalities? Or is this all about just the choice to be a greedy sociopathic/and or psychopathic? Or a combo? Trauma? I have this annoying need to understand at least in part WTAF of things. Like if we knew some stuff about this, maybe we could fix the stuff we can fix to make things hurt less? Less trauma and shit like that has to be a good thing, yes?

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 7:31:51pm

Sounds just like my Jesusbot relatives…

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Rightwingconspirator Apr 16, 2024 • 7:33:00pm

re: #136 Dangerman

Aaaand we got this gem.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) spoke to reporters during his weekly press conference on Tuesday and labeled himself a “wartime speaker” governing at a time “comparable to the Civil War.”

It must be hyperbole season.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 7:33:05pm

re: #132 darthstar

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls - article in the Atlantic… Behind a paywall.

Maybe online newspapers should have a page that it just ads, another for obituaries, and a comics section. Maybe every Sunday they could just include an entire section that is coupons and big ads.

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jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 7:34:02pm

re: #145 Rightwingconspirator

He’d better avoid charging uphill with just a one soldier advantage.

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EPR-radar Apr 16, 2024 • 7:35:22pm

re: #145 Rightwingconspirator

LOL at Speaker Pigfucker of the Pigfucker party being a war time leader.

Republicans are beneath contempt. It really is that sucking simple.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 7:36:42pm

Screwdy endlessly lied at that brainwashing center

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 7:36:54pm

re: #143 A Mom Anon

I would be curious to see CTs/MRIs of these MAGA brains and what the hell is or isn’t going on in there. Are there in common abnormalities? Or is this all about just the choice to be a greedy sociopathic/and or psychopathic? Or a combo? Trauma? I have this annoying need to understand at least in part WTAF of things. Like if we knew some stuff about this, maybe we could fix the stuff we can fix to make things hurt less? Less trauma and shit like that has to be a good thing, yes?

Pathologizing awful racist people only serves the ends of racism by both giving them an excuse they don’t deserve and legitimizing a weapon (eugenics) they’re eager to use against the disabled.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 7:37:17pm

Trying to get my son an off-campus apartment (actually he’s renting one of the four rooms in the apartment with three other men) for next year. I applied in my name. They required a Zillow application. That was as bad as a car loan.

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 7:38:48pm

re: #139 BeenHereAwhile

Always going to use any pretext to drop a FI video on here.

This is Financial Advice

I don’t think the entirety of Trumpism is a cult, because there’s too many players who are acting in what’s clearly rational if amoral self interest…but aspects of it are cultish. Right now, we’re looking at group that’s working almost identical to Superstonks, right down to a bunch of discourse starting on WallStreetBets.

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teleskiguy Apr 16, 2024 • 7:41:13pm

Hunter S. Thompson, if he were around today, would have certainly died of heart failure after all the cocaine he ingested keeping up with politics in the United States.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 7:46:26pm

re: #136 Dangerman

Would it be inappropriate to say that “news” orgs shouldn’t allow crack-addled monkeys on camera?

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teleskiguy Apr 16, 2024 • 7:47:54pm

I see this first criminal trial breaking Fuckface Von Clownstick in ways none of us can even imagine.

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A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 7:48:34pm

re: #150 goddamnedfrank

I know, it’s not at all pretty and I hesitated but went forward. I don’t mean to make them not human because they are, but this crap comes from somewhere and I don’t know how to counteract this so it doesn’t become what seems to be an almost contagious rush by a fairly significant number of humans who want to destroy everything with regard to no one, sometimes not even themselves in the long run. For what? Humans make so little sense to me a lot of the time. I do not get why we continually, through most of our history, have made life harder when it really didn’t have to be.

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BeenHereAwhile Apr 16, 2024 • 7:48:41pm

OT:

Mastodon

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JC1 Apr 16, 2024 • 7:50:16pm

re: #143 A Mom Anon

I would be curious to see CTs/MRIs of these MAGA brains and what the hell is or isn’t going on in there. Are there in common abnormalities? Or is this all about just the choice to be a greedy sociopathic/and or psychopathic? Or a combo? Trauma? I have this annoying need to understand at least in part WTAF of things. Like if we knew some stuff about this, maybe we could fix the stuff we can fix to make things hurt less? Less trauma and shit like that has to be a good thing, yes?

Some studies suggest that conservatives on average have more active fear centers.

MAGA behavior is more cultish than conservative. Cults seem to run across the ideological landscape. It’s just hyperactive tribalism.

With that said, I’m not a shrink, and don’t I want to pretend to be one.

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A Mom Anon Apr 16, 2024 • 7:56:03pm

re: #158 JC1

I think my brain is in a weird place these days. I am recovering from some medical stuff too and I can’t be outside because mold, pollen and just general crap in the air is triggering my immune system to do some weird shit. And a sick GSD who is also blowing her coat. Lots of time to think about people being awful and ways to make it stop.

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jaunte Apr 16, 2024 • 7:56:14pm

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com

After the day in court, Trump headed to Harlem to do some campaigning. Per NYT reporter Michael Gold, as the pack of journalists, campaign staffers, and NYPD stood waiting for Trump, a woman passed by and shouted, “What are all these unseasoned french fries doing in my neighborhood??”

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 7:56:32pm

re: #143 A Mom Anon

I would be curious to see CTs/MRIs of these MAGA brains and what the hell is or isn’t going on in there. Are there in common abnormalities? Or is this all about just the choice to be a greedy sociopathic/and or psychopathic? Or a combo? Trauma? I have this annoying need to understand at least in part WTAF of things. Like if we knew some stuff about this, maybe we could fix the stuff we can fix to make things hurt less? Less trauma and shit like that has to be a good thing, yes?

I don’t think there’s some kind of physical problem with MAGA.

The problem is mostly cultural: MAGA is an entirety logical extension of a variety of American self-myths. We are exceptional, we are heroes, capitalism is both a moral force and divine, whiteness is virtue but also strength. There’s a bunch of New Thought, which mixes spirituality and material acquisition, but also 90s post-Left Behind versions of dispensationalism that merge Christian gnosis and American patriotism, but do so within a framework set by the John Birch society…so tack “and cryptofascism” to those last two. To say nothing of everything we’re watching being continuous with taking right-wing shock jocks from the 90s seriously, or how all of this stinks of the lingering American fixation on eugenics from a century ago.

I mean, since the 90s conservatives have been deliberately injecting more and more fascist rhetoric into their discourse. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that using a bunch of “Protocols” rhetoric to justify anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment preceded a social lurch towards the fash, but it’s just as relevant that conservatives never actually purged the “actually the fash are good because they’re anti-communist” part of the party because if you got rid of that and the Birchers you’d have like five dudes mostly into jerking off at Stone Mountain by moonlight.

Previously this manifested as media assholes, but with the hit to American self-image that resulted from our failed wars and the 2008 financial collapse, fascism has entered the equivalent of Phase 2 of syphillis: it’s not hiding in the body any, the nose has dropped off. Nation’s having issues, fascism is the socialism of fools, and America’s worked really hard to educate people that you can’t solve problems through collectivity.

It’s like running hog lagoon water through an distillation rig.

All of that, plus the basic function of conspiracy theories as explanations for bad outcomes that exclude the most obvious causation of bad outcomes. You know…rich people fucking around and delegating the finding out to the rest of us. Sure, capitalists could prove Karl Marx wrong by just not turning everything into capital, but that would mean less money slower, so the alternative is to do the crimes while blaring dubstep remixes of the classic conspiracy platters.

There’s also the depressing reality that there are at least two types of MAGA, cynical and tragically earnest. There are a bunch of Trump voters that are pushing a button because they know that he’s just going to shunt capital to the bourgeoisie faster, and are willing to perform any paean or abasement to get that dollar. There are ideologues doing the same thing: Stephen Miller is an earnest fascist but a cynical MAGA, and therefore everything he says must be channeled through the filter of “this shit would say anything to justify what he wants.”

The cynical afflict the more earnest type who are desperate, experience real suffering and privation, but due to American mores cannot conceptualize of collective uplift and thus can only repeat the tropes the culture teaches them: great men save people, rich people are virtuous and intelligent, foreigners and weirdos create depravity that disrupts normal, moral people’s lives. These people still suck, but there is a sadness to their suck because if they’re weren’t rubes—and always remember, rubes are defined by their want, not their intellect—they could posit other methods of uplifting themselves. Cynical fuckers make rubes by hurting people until they’ll pick the stupid, easy-looking choice, just like predators find already-vulnerable people to abuse and exploit.

The reality is that you can’t fix these people’s brains, you can only improve their lives enough that they won’t be as vulnerable to get gulled and/or scare them until they drop the idea that the can just bloody everyone else to get what they want.

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sagehen Apr 16, 2024 • 7:58:11pm

Elect Clowns, Expect A Circus

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piratedan Apr 16, 2024 • 8:00:56pm

re: #162 sagehen

I wonder if there are any actual crimes in there, I suspect not. It’s all theatre

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 8:06:22pm

re: #157 BeenHereAwhile

Only related to the picture, but I still love looking at the wind turbines on I35 in Oklahoma every time we pass them going to and from OU.

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Jay C Apr 16, 2024 • 8:13:32pm

re: #163 piratedan

I wonder if there are any actual crimes in there, I suspect not. It’s all theatre

IIRC, the most the House idiots could come up with is that some DHS policy or other about immigrants instituted in Mayorkas’ tenure violated some Federal law or other, and thus Heinous Treason or whatever….

Yeah: “theater” of a sort: in the same sense that a circus is: IMO, designed basically to provide the RW media machine with more outrage fodder - because even if the Senate (i.e. Chuck Schumer) can’t find some way to “dismiss the charges”, there is no chance in hell that Mayorkas will be removed: so the RWNJs can have yet another “Deep State Conspiracy” to froth about… til the next one.

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 8:22:24pm

Also, since the 70s the world has been operating under neoliberal parameters, and neoliberalism has no answer for systemic problems because it posits that there is no society, only individuals, and has inculcated in most developed countries that all moral-and-correct action is driven by individual initiative, and all decline is a failure of personal morals and/or the axiomatically wrong (amoral and incorrect) attempt of collective uplift.

Since this is all bullshit—neoliberals in power absolutely use systems and institutions to create an ongoing, exploitative imbalance between the developed (colonizing) nations and the developing (formerly colonized) nations but also to fuck over domestic labor rights—when systemic crisis arrived neoliberalism could only propose finding and punishing malefactors…and in vivo neoliberals like Thatcher and Reagan immediately hit the “blame minorities and do class warfare” buttons because if your goal is simply to concentrate capital at the top, among the good people (shades of eugenics again), then there’s no reason not to play on easy mode.

[“Nice” neoliberals like Bill Clinton just kept the theme of meritocracy and punishment of the unproductive without being racist about it, but were/are still doing class warfare. Which is coincidentally why Macron should be pelted with shoes.]

Neoliberalism has consistently left the back gate open for fascists: kleptocrats are perfectly willing to sink their developing nation in return for compensation, and neoliberals are willing to trade cash and guns and cover for the task of turning an entire nation into a sweatshop, and fash are thieves with an aesthetic of Great Men that neolibs jive with. We’re now at the point where people used to convenience built on this extraction process are proposing: but what if we just did the same thing internally?

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 8:32:54pm

I finished craftinginterpreters.com yesterday. The book, which you can also buy, covers creating two interpreters: A tree walking interpreter in Java, and a stack-based bytecode interpreter written in C with a built-in garbage collector that handles functions, closures, and classes. It would need more to be a fully developed language, but you will kind of feel like you can do it when you read it.

The fun thing was writing this:

This is a recursive implementation of computing a Fibonacci number, which is very slow but useful for timing purposes. The implementation from the book runs this in half the time the equivalent Python code does for the numbers I tested, 20, 30, 35, and 40; the last took about 13.7 seconds in the implementation and 26.3 seconds in Python. Pretty impressive for something written in part just to teach implementing an interpreter.

Edit: Had to turn the code into an image. The less than sign was corrupting the display for some reason.

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Patricia Kayden Apr 16, 2024 • 8:39:34pm

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 16, 2024 • 8:40:48pm

Mike Lindell’s ‘financial condition’ prompts Smartmatic to request court hearing

Voting machine company Smartmatic has requested a status hearing due to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s deteriorating financial condition.

Smartmatic filed the 5-page motion Tuesday after a series of defamation claims initiated by U.S. Dominion, Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems against Lindell and My Pillow regarding their statements about the 2020 presidential election.

In a counterclaim, Lindell accused Smartmatic of participating in a conspiracy with Dominion. The court dismissed those claims in 2022, but it never decided what fines Lindell and his lawyers would be required to pay.

According to the filing, Lindell and My Pillow were “millions of dollars in arrears” to their former legal representatives, raising concerns about their ability to fulfill financial obligations

“Given the recent representations about their financial condition, including the need to hire new counsel, Smartmatic is concerned about its ability to collect the fees and costs incurred,” Smartmatic counsel J. Erik Connolly stated in the motion.

The request for a status conference aimed to prompt the court to act on the pending proceedings and determine the amount of fees owed to Smartmatic under the 2022 order.

The voting machine company first filed a defamation lawsuit against Lindell in 2022 following similar legal action by Dominion.

” Mike Lindell knows exactly what he is doing, and it’s dangerous … Mr. Lindell knows he can sell xenophobia. He knows he can sell conspiracy theory … And of course, Mr. Lindell — ‘the MyPillow Guy’ — knows he needs to sell pillows to keep and increase his fortune. Mr. Lindell saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity following the 2020 U.S. election,” Smartmatic’s lawsuit stated.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 8:45:01pm

re: #168 Patricia Kayden

I was thinking about this the other day: They set up the system to convince people that they needed to go to school, and then the enshittification happened that turned it into giving more money to the rich.

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mmmirele Apr 16, 2024 • 8:52:21pm

re: #108 Belafon

About that big church in Rockwall, Lakepointe:

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Well, it’s not part of the Association of Related Churches (I checked). IT IS part of the Southern Baptist Convention. However “The Church of Eleven 22” is not part of ARC or the SBC, but I can’t tell who it is a part of. Anyway, not sure which other group these guys are part of, but the program of church planting was the one used by the ARC.

Josh Howerton, in any case, is a jerk, besides poaching some other guy’s sermon to do an apology. His church has become a man cave.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 16, 2024 • 8:58:48pm

I’ve tried getting to the show 3 Body Problem.

But I find myself stumbling over the characters.

The writers tried to have smart scientists but the characters are not like scientist that I have known.

I finally made it through episode 1, and the beginning of episode 2, but the little voice in my head keeps screaming NO! in too many scenes.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 9:01:39pm

re: #171 mmmirele

Well, it’s not part of the Association of Related Churches (I checked). IT IS part of the Southern Baptist Convention. However “The Church of Eleven 22” is not part of ARC or the SBC, but I can’t tell who it is a part of. Anyway, not sure which other group these guys are part of, but the program of church planting was the one used by the ARC.

Josh Howerton, in any case, is a jerk, besides poaching some other guy’s sermon to do an apology. His church has become a man cave.

My parents go there, but I think they would like to find another church. The one good thing about the church is that it isn’t hostile towards gays and minorities, but I think they would prefer one where they are not as surrounded by those that leave their red hats at home on sunday, but I’m not quite sure how to find a more liberal church in the area. They don’t really want to travel that far, and definitely not cross Lake Ray Hubbard to get to a church.

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 16, 2024 • 9:03:01pm

re: #170 Belafon

I was thinking about this the other day: They set up the system to convince people that they needed to go to school, and then the enshittification happened that turned it into giving more money to the rich.

I can’t speak generally, but when my cohort was going to college the loan structures were very clearly a trap that 18-year-olds didn’t have the financial chops to understand, and that was nineties. I had some hard conversations with peers who couldn’t read a financial statement as well as I. Some of them are still digging out.

Encouraging people to go to college was itself a kind of trap, too, because what resulted was a bunch of skilled labor sectors having so much labor supply that those with labor demand could start negotiating down compensation. Within a decade this wasn’t even a domestic problem, but people with degrees in STEM being forced to negotiate versus immigrants with similar credentials but even less bargaining power (with their compensation being interlaced to parameters of their visa), creating a downward spiral. A decade after that everything was remote, and you could maybe have your job if you were willing to commute to a manufacturing facility in Jakarta or Guandong.

This actually matches what happened as literacy and numeracy became common as result of public schooling: companies initially supported education because it drove down the cost of training office laborers, but as those skills became ubiquitous office labor itself was just…devalued further and further until it was no longer something compensated or acknowledged as a specialization organizational above manual labor. Now we’re at the point where tasks are both automated and Taylorized that literacy/numeracy matter far less, and as such the support structure for public education is slowly being pulled out. The white/blue collar distinction is an artefact of a bygone time, a kind of fossil of enshittification.

That we now hear a bunch of enshittifiers call for the prioritization of trade schools (not an entirely bad idea if trade work was valued according to it’s necessity for social function and rewarded accordingly), it’s likely that they’re saying it because they anticipate a future in which skilled manual labor that has a service component is something they want devalued but can’t devalue by outsourcing or automation (yet).

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BeachDem Apr 16, 2024 • 9:05:55pm

re: #136 Dangerman

Wait. He’s a what? He changed what????

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People spent ten years buying one ill-fitting blue suit? Say what??

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 9:09:26pm

re: #175 BeachDem

People spent ten years buying one ill-fitting blue suit? Say what??

Except David Byrne did it first.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 9:17:36pm

Now I can start one of my “rest of my life” projects: Learning a whole lot of physics and the math that goes with it.

I have some things to do, like figuring out a plan for books to read and other material to look at, and I want to document it online, hopefully giving others the ability to do it as well. So that means a little bit of web programming (in the same what that the book I just finished is a little bit of writing an interpreter), along with the other things.

My other projects include being a husband, learning Spanish and the trumpet, and trying to get the house ready to sell at some point.

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William Lewis Apr 16, 2024 • 9:27:58pm

re: #177 Belafon

Now I can start one of my “rest of my life” projects: Learning a whole lot of physics and the math that goes with it.

I have some things to do, like figuring out a plan for books to read and other material to look at, and I want to document it online, hopefully giving others the ability to do it as well. So that means a little bit of web programming (in the same what that the book I just finished is a little bit of writing an interpreter), along with the other things.

My other projects include being a husband, learning Spanish and the trumpet, and trying to get the house ready to sell at some point.

Learning Physics? Here you go then:

Caltech’s Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy and The Feynman Lectures Website are pleased to present this online edition of

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Sherlock Hound Apr 16, 2024 • 9:28:41pm

re: #141 Patricia Kayden

To avoid being banned from LGF, I won’t say what I hope happened to him.

There are just some people whom one needs not wish them harm: They’ll get it all by themselves. To quote the Burma-Shave poem I saw many threads ago. “Death didn’t draft him/He volunteered”.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 9:32:41pm

If engineering more and more debt into the education system over time was the first jaw of the trap, then making the healthcare system dependent on employment was the second. Because until the ACA (as ridiculously crippled as it is) came into existence it just wasn’t possible to get coverage as an independent contractor with no employees if you had a pre-existing condition. The system creating the very weaknesses in its working class that it then exploits for control, to prevent turnover and enable further abuse like lower wages, time theft & union busting.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 16, 2024 • 9:33:53pm

re: #177 Belafon

My experience, a long long time ago:

When working on problems I often gathered with some of my fellow physics students, and we’d work through some homework problems together.

In a large room in the physics building, long abandoned for anything other than the physics undergrads to hang in.

Two points:
1) it took many hours per week to work through problem sets;
2) a cohort of fellow students really helped when I needed a clue here and there.

The standard first year text at that time, and even today, was the Halliday and Resnick series.

We used the abridged one volume edition, while today’s versions are multi-volume (to sell more books at hundreds and hundreds of dollars per student.)

Fortunately the old physics texts are still fine and buying used ones (or finding them online, free at certain mysterious websites sitting behind Russian servers) is a way to save a lot of money.

Also: used the Eisner and Resnick text on Modern Physics for the second year. Not available anymore but one can find them used (silver color cover edition.)

Textbooks are not fun to read, but a good textbook will have plenty of examples and explanations.

There are no good YouTube playlists, in my opinion of course, that can take the place of an actual classroom experience.

At least for physics.

There may be YouTube math playlists for analysis (calculus, complex variables, differential equations) but I have not looked for those. And a class in linear algebra will really help.

I think hands of experiments still matter. There are many science class demonstration bits and pieces available for sale. And for beginning E&M, building circuits is a thing that may help and also getting tools (like the modern equivalent of the old oscilloscope) may keep the fun in the learning.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 9:40:54pm

re: #178 William Lewis

Learning Physics? Here you go then:

Caltech’s Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy and The Feynman Lectures Website are pleased to present this online edition of

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Part of my studies and the website will include when to read the chapters in those. While I like having books, the online ones have been updated with corrections. But they’re also not necessarily in the order that some of the books go in, so I want to treat them as lectures when I an anyone else get to a particular topic.

The other thing about my website, including the names of all of the books that I plan on using, is a bunch of links to resources on the internet, such as that.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 9:50:48pm

re: #181 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I will add some of your suggestions to what I am planning. Here’s some of what I know so far:

A lot of books actually have solution manuals out, where problems are worked out. I will be recommending as many of those as I can when they are otherwise equivalent to another good book. Thomas’ Calculus, Taylor’s Classical Mechanics, Elementary Differential Equations by Boyce, and A First Course in General Relativity all have solution manuals.

I am going with older editions, especially with the books that come out like every year or every other year. Those that come out frequently don’t change that much. And luckily there are more sites than just Amazon to find books. While the total price will be quite a bit for all of the books, it will take long enough to get through the books that saving a little at a time (I estimate something like $5 a week) should get you enough to get the next set of books in most cases. The first two books on calculus and physics should take you a year to get through.

Also for Taylor’s Classical Mechanics, I found a youtube channel where a guy has worked through a whole bunch of the problems.

Now yes, it would be nice to have other people to talk about solving problems, and maybe enough people will want to do it that I can set up something like a discord channel. But I might also just set up pages on something like mathexchange. But it starts out as one person.

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mmmirele Apr 16, 2024 • 10:00:11pm

re: #173 Belafon

My parents go there, but I think they would like to find another church. The one good thing about the church is that it isn’t hostile towards gays and minorities, but I think they would prefer one where they are not as surrounded by those that leave their red hats at home on sunday, but I’m not quite sure how to find a more liberal church in the area. They don’t really want to travel that far, and definitely not cross Lake Ray Hubbard to get to a church.

It’s not hostile, but it’s also not accepting, much less affirming. It just doesn’t come up because LGBTQIA people aren’t going there (or if they go there, they’re very firmly in the closet). It’s part of the SBC, whose leadership is pretty much a club for white men. I would never recommend that an LGBTQIA+ person attend ANY Southern Baptist Church for so many reasons, starting with the child abuse cover up.

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wrenchwench Apr 16, 2024 • 10:16:38pm

re: #177 Belafon

Now I can start one of my “rest of my life” projects: Learning a whole lot of physics and the math that goes with it.

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William Lewis Apr 16, 2024 • 10:19:04pm

PS a google search on “Halliday and Resnick” gives a pdf of the 10th edition on the 4th result. Just in case anyone would be interested … < Whistles Innocently >

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 10:32:33pm

Also, because at some point there just won’t be a lot of ways for people self-studying to get to things like a particle accelerator or spectrometers, I will be including resources for doing scientific computing and simulations with python, like using numpy and scipy.

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retired cynic Apr 16, 2024 • 10:32:55pm

re: #157 BeenHereAwhile

OT:

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I know where he took that. Between Jacksonville and Springfield, Illinois. ‘Cause I pass it on my way to appointments in Springfield, and I know he and Blue Gal live in west Springfield.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 10:35:58pm

re: #186 William Lewis

I won’t be encouraging people to look for books this way, but I’m not their teacher, just hopefully a guide.

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Belafon Apr 16, 2024 • 10:43:28pm

re: #184 mmmirele

It’s not hostile, but it’s also not accepting, much less affirming. It just doesn’t come up because LGBTQIA people aren’t going there (or if they go there, they’re very firmly in the closet). It’s part of the SBC, whose leadership is pretty much a club for white men. I would never recommend that an LGBTQIA+ person attend ANY Southern Baptist Church for so many reasons, starting with the child abuse cover up.

If you know of a good way to find a church that would be more acceptable and accepting, let me know, please.

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teleskiguy Apr 16, 2024 • 10:48:35pm

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt - Remastered

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William Lewis Apr 16, 2024 • 10:51:00pm

re: #189 Belafon

I won’t be encouraging people to look for books this way, but I’m not their teacher, just hopefully a guide.

I do because i grew up with parents (and a gf with parents at) a uni that rented text books so that students didn’t get ripped off for thousands every semester. That’s a grift up there with Diaper Don.

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EPR-radar Apr 16, 2024 • 11:04:37pm

re: #177 Belafon

Now I can start one of my “rest of my life” projects: Learning a whole lot of physics and the math that goes with it.

I have some things to do, like figuring out a plan for books to read and other material to look at, and I want to document it online, hopefully giving others the ability to do it as well. So that means a little bit of web programming (in the same what that the book I just finished is a little bit of writing an interpreter), along with the other things.

My other projects include being a husband, learning Spanish and the trumpet, and trying to get the house ready to sell at some point.

That’s a nice project. I switch between my various hobbies, and one of them is being armchair mathematician. One result of that is an essay on equation solving that basically squeezes the juice out of a single example to lead up to Galois theory. If I ever get it into final form, I’ll have to look for a way to post it online. Perhaps the arXiv takes tutorial type material like this, in addition to original research (which this most certainly isn’t).

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 11:22:58pm

Of course the entire point is that people like Cotton will never be prosecuted because of Wilhoit’s Law, conservatives get to have a monopoly on street violence.

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Which is deeply relevant to how our institutions are failing in this moment, how the NYT and the Washington Post are actively enabling transphobia, working with bad faith actors like Chris Rufo and stochastic terrorists like Chaya Raychik to shut down marginalized voices. It’s why USC preventing their valedictorian from speaking, purely on the basis of terroristic threats from violent islamophobes, is such a horrible and indefensible decision. Particularly for a University whose Latin motto literally translates as “Let whoever earns the palm bear it”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 16, 2024 • 11:30:36pm

re: #194 goddamnedfrank

❤️‍🔥💯

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 16, 2024 • 11:32:22pm

re: #192 William Lewis

I do because i grew up with parents (and a gf with parents at) a uni that rented text books so that students didn’t get ripped off for thousands every semester. That’s a grift up there with Diaper Don.

Indeed. The fourth edition is available on ebay for about $20 - &30, though, and a pdf of a very large, 700-odd page book would be very hard to work with. (I don’t think much of physics at that level has changed a lot, even though it’s 40 or 50 years old.)

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goddamnedfrank Apr 16, 2024 • 11:33:13pm

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silverdolphin Apr 16, 2024 • 11:37:26pm

Just got through watching “Argylle”. Fun, pulpy, genre movie. The actors were well cast, it was as delightfully over the top as the director’s other movies, such as Kickass and KingsMan, and it is obvious all involved were having a great time.

One fun thing. It has Samuel L. Jackson in it. Watch it to the end and realize that at its heart it is like an alternate universe version of a movie Jackson made 27 years ago (he was in 5 of them that year but you’ll figure it out.)

Watch it at Apple TV+.

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ckkatz Apr 16, 2024 • 11:58:38pm

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teleskiguy Apr 17, 2024 • 12:08:21am

Ditch Croaker - Hebba Ho

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Odie Hugh Manatee Apr 17, 2024 • 12:18:09am

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

The sad thing is they don’t start off that way, it’s a process mediated by chasing the male gaze that produces a vivid spectrum of horrors.

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I saw a comment with that pic saying that Steven Tyler was looking pretty rough at 76 years old…lol!

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No Malarkey! Apr 17, 2024 • 1:24:40am

re: #172 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve tried getting to the show 3 Body Problem.

But I find myself stumbling over the characters.

The writers tried to have smart scientists but the characters are not like scientist that I have known.

I finally made it through episode 1, and the beginning of episode 2, but the little voice in my head keeps screaming NO! in too many scenes.

Not everything is for everyone; if there is something about the show that prevents you from suspending your disbelief and enjoying the show, don’t watch it. It’s ok; there is more entertainment to watch than any mortal being can experience in one lifetime, so don’t waste what time you have on stuff you don’t like.

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No Malarkey! Apr 17, 2024 • 1:35:01am

re: #190 Belafon

If you know of a good way to find a church that would be more acceptable and accepting, let me know, please.

I might suggest checking for a Metropolitan Community Church, or a Unitarian Universalist Church; obviously I don’t know how traditional a church and its theology has to be to suit your parents. Many Black churches also have more progressive politics, if your parents wouldn’t feel uncomfortable at a majority Black church.

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William Lewis Apr 17, 2024 • 2:09:27am

re: #202 No Malarkey!

Not everything is for everyone; if there is something about the show that prevents you from suspending your disbelief and enjoying the show, don’t watch it. It’s ok; there is more entertainment to watch than any mortal being can experience in one lifetime, so don’t waste what time you have on stuff you don’t like.

It’s like me and “For all Mankind”. I can’t get past the idea that they could have ever gotten the N-1 to be anything other than a bomb, even if Korolev had survived. Even if they had gotten that … thing … into orbit, they wouldn’t have gotten to the moon and back, alive, before Apollo 11, not given what we know about the Soviet space program.

Without that suspension of disbelief, the show is utterly unwatchable for me.

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William Lewis Apr 17, 2024 • 2:13:16am

re: #203 No Malarkey!

I might suggest checking for a Metropolitan Community Church, or a Unitarian Universalist Church; obviously I don’t know how traditional a church and its theology has to be to suit your parents. Many Black churches also have more progressive politics, if your parents wouldn’t feel uncomfortable at a majority Black church.

It can be possible to find a liberal Episcopalian parish if a main line protestant church is more to their liking. But do avoid anything associated with the “Anglican Church in North America” 🙄 Trust me on that one 🤣

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steve_davis Apr 17, 2024 • 2:21:49am

re: #180 goddamnedfrank

If engineering more and more debt into the education system over time was the first jaw of the trap, then making the healthcare system dependent on employment was the second. Because until the ACA (as ridiculously crippled as it is) came into existence it just wasn’t possible to get coverage as an independent contractor with no employees if you had a pre-existing condition. The system creating the very weaknesses in its working class that it then exploits for control, to prevent turnover and enable further abuse like lower wages, time theft & union busting.

My insurance runs 900 bucks a month, which is more than my rent and auto insurance combined. If not for aca I would have no insurance.

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steve_davis Apr 17, 2024 • 2:22:34am

re: #205 William Lewis

It can be possible to find a liberal Episcopalian parish if a main line protestant church is more to their liking. But do avoid anything associated with the “Anglican Church in North America” 🙄 Trust me on that one 🤣

(Sigh) a liberal Episcopal parish…..

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sagehen Apr 17, 2024 • 2:50:08am

re: #203 No Malarkey!

I might suggest checking for a Metropolitan Community Church, or a Unitarian Universalist Church; obviously I don’t know how traditional a church and its theology has to be to suit your parents. Many Black churches also have more progressive politics, if your parents wouldn’t feel uncomfortable at a majority Black church.

also, the Black churches have the BEST choirs.

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sagehen Apr 17, 2024 • 3:08:01am

tonight on TCM, 8pm EDT:

Guys and Dolls.
story by Damon Runyon
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
starring young, skinny Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando.

Frank Sinatra, Stubby Kaye, and Johnny Silver - “Guys And Dolls” from Guys And Dolls (1955)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 3:32:02am

Well.
Wordle 1,033 4/6

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Shropshire Slasher Apr 17, 2024 • 3:51:59am

Happy humpday! A little drive time music.

Badfish - A Tribute To Sublime - Smoke Two Joints (Live)

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 3:52:46am

After reading this, all I gotta say is this Brazilian remake of Weekend at Bernie’s looks….really weird.

brazilreports.com

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Shropshire Slasher Apr 17, 2024 • 3:57:35am

A little local news happening today.

Craig N. Ross Jr. is due back in court on Wednesday to be sentenced. He faces 47 years to life in prison after being convicted of kidnapping a Greenfield girl from Moreau Lake State Park last fall in a case that drew national attention.

dailygazette.com

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 4:01:08am

re: #213 Shropshire Slasher

A little local news happening today.

dailygazette.com

Given that Mr. Ross is already 47 years old (given his DOB mentioned in the article) I’d say that getting 47 years in the slammer is life in prison. He’d be 94 when released, and that’s well beyond average life expectancy.

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Lancelot Link Returns! Apr 17, 2024 • 4:01:22am

re: #213 Shropshire Slasher

Not transgendered. Go figure.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 4:06:55am

Partridge.

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William Lewis Apr 17, 2024 • 4:08:22am

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

Given that Mr. Ross is already 47 years old (given his DOB mentioned in the article) I’d say that getting 47 years in the slammer is life in prison. He’d be 94 when released, and that’s well beyond average life expectancy.

Oh, he won’t be. American prisons? I’d be surprised if he makes it 10 years between the shitty pretense of health care and the worse food plus his conviction type.

We jail people who treat animals like we as a nation treat prisoners.

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Shropshire Slasher Apr 17, 2024 • 4:15:19am

Oops, sorry, could we have that back?

NASA completed analysis of an object that hit a Florida home in March and determined it was the remains of debris released from the International Space Station two years earlier.

In an update to the agency’s website, NASA said the hand-sized chunk of metal came from a pallet of nickel hydride batteries that were jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021 after new lithium-ion batteries arrived to the station.

The debris that hit the home in Naples weighed less than 2 pounds, and was determined to be a stanchion that was part of the support equipment in space used to mount the batteries onto the cargo pallet.

Made out of Inconel.

yahoo.com

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 4:19:08am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 17, 2024 • 4:25:00am

56 years ago, prescient?:

1968: Is this the FUTURE of TELEVISION? | Tomorrow’s World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

..

If only home tapes were actual silver on acetate, then the quality would have been much better than VHS.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 17, 2024 • 4:26:16am

re: #220 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

… anything you want when you want

We’re still bored.

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Shropshire Slasher Apr 17, 2024 • 4:29:56am

re: #220 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

56 years ago, prescient?:

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If only home tapes were actual silver on acetate, then the quality would have been much better than VHS.

I think the commercials on tv are pretty well produced. I also hear there is other programming being offered.

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 4:42:56am

New American Dictionary:
“Unconstitutional” (adjective): Anything Republicans don’t like. Bears no relation to that long, boring document with some difficult words in it. https://t.co/1BSBthgbMo

— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) April 16, 2024

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 4:48:26am

Biden on Twitter said that if Donald Trump’s Trump Media stock “drops any lower he might do better under my tax plan than his,”

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William Lewis Apr 17, 2024 • 4:54:21am

I’m almost half way through Season 5 of Lucifer now. They certainly took their time getting the couple actually into bed after a long enough tease. Waiting for the bumps I’m sure are still there since there is over a season and a half left 😎 Love the Michael plotline, can’t wait to see where that mess is going to go. Little blatant with Ella’s too good to actually be good bf this late in the season though.

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 5:00:49am

re: #46 A Mom Anon

Good Evening Lizards, I hope everyone is safe, well, and happy. I also always have extra hugs if needed. It’s been a tough week already, so Republicans and The Stupid haven’t been on my priority list. I’ve heard bits and pieces, I’m going to try and catch up some. As long as the walking pile o’ orange goo is unhappy, I am good with that.

My big question beyond getting Trump in jail or permanent vacation in his Florida hell, is: how to we ever get what was Roe V Wade made into an actual law? Why was it not ever codified (is that the word? I have no idea)into an actual law? This needs fixing and I have no clue how that has to happen. Any info for my old lady brain would be much appreciated. I want to support something that can actually work and is run by women with tons of men being involved and standing with us. Tall order I know.

Codify means putting something into law (in some states, the statutes are called codes). Roe wasn’t codified because at the time everyone understood the interplay between court cases and existing laws. Some states had statutes/constitutional provisions that did this - or laws that were invalidated precisely because Roe overturned them (supremacy clause). But no federal law was enacted that made Roe the law of the land, because Roe was the law of the land (superseded/revised by Penn v. Casey and subsequent cases that modified how Roe/Casey applied to abortions).

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 5:17:00am

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, a tradition that began in 1993.

Beauvoir, the historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the governor’s proclamation.https://t.co/dMDWFZdqlq

— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) April 15, 2024

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 5:17:01am

re: #224 Dangerman

Biden on Twitter said that if Donald Trump’s Trump Media stock “drops any lower he might do better under my tax plan than his,”

President Biden’s one-liners don’t get nearly the amount of attention they deserve. And the best Yawnni can come up with is a recycle of ‘Crooked Hillary’ where he brilliantly substitutes the name Joe for Hillary…a rapier wit, that one…

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Belafon Apr 17, 2024 • 5:18:18am

President Biden: If Trump’s stock in his Truth Social company drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his pic.twitter.com/WElHDI5YoO

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 16, 2024

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 5:19:12am

re: #224 Dangerman

Biden in PA:

A man came up to me with tears in his eyes, that he’s losing everything and needs to be bailed out. Biden said, I’m sorry Donald, but the student loan bailout doesn’t apply to business debts. /paraphrasing

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danarchy Apr 17, 2024 • 5:25:13am

They are apparently doing a Naked Gun remake with Liam Neeson. Not exactly the first name that pops into my head when I think comedic genius, but maybe he has impressive range.

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Decatur Deb Apr 17, 2024 • 5:25:18am

re: #227 lawhawk

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi….

Moonshine, rape and the lash.

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jeffreyw Apr 17, 2024 • 5:29:01am

part of a big assed lasagna

Good morning!

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Randall Gross Apr 17, 2024 • 5:29:19am

New tune from the Jr. Beatles (McCartney / Lennon)

Primrose Hill

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 5:30:31am

re: #231 danarchy

They are apparently doing a Naked Gun remake with Liam Neeson. Not exactly the first name that pops into my head when I think comedic genius, but maybe he has impressive range.

True, but don’t forget that Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor prior to Airplane! and Police Squad! and the Naked Gun films that came after that.

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Decatur Deb Apr 17, 2024 • 5:31:35am

MULTITASKING: Our state government has found time to purge 1/5 of the state’s poorest from health care funding. They did that at the same time as purging the voter registration rolls.

Number of Alabamians removed from Medicaid approaches 200K as unwinding continues
al.com

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 5:36:35am

re: #236 Decatur Deb

State with among the worst health outcomes in the nation, decides to hit bottom and keep digging (graves).

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Randall Gross Apr 17, 2024 • 5:36:55am

naked campaign ploy - Biden to triple tariffs on Chinese aluminum and steel.
ft.com

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Florida Panhandler Apr 17, 2024 • 5:36:59am

re: #236 Decatur Deb

MULTITASKING: Our state government has found time to purge 1/5 of the state’s poorest from health care funding. They did that at the same time as purging the voter registration rolls.

Number of Alabamians removed from Medicaid approaches 200K as unwinding continues
al.com

Conservative playbook 101: create conditions of social and economic misery in order to create the ability to blame “the other” for everyone’s problems. ..and then Conservatives offer the only solution. - elimination of the other.

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 5:40:29am

Par, and fuck you, wordle, for resetting my streak again…I can’t remember the last time I got skunked. I did miss a day about 5 months ago and that reset me to one, but I’ve not missed a day since.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Apr 17, 2024 • 5:45:04am

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

The sad thing is they don’t start off that way, it’s a process mediated by chasing the male gaze that produces a vivid spectrum of horrors.

bsky.app

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Fascinating how this converges with drag queens and how that may affect why some men find them fascinating yet icky.

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 5:46:42am

Judge Merchan indicates that the opening statements should start Monday, given that we’ve gotten 7 jurors seated, and should be able to get the remaining 11 (includes the alternates).

That increases the chances that the trial concludes before Memorial Day.

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 5:47:59am

re: #241 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Fascinating how this converges with drag queens and how that may affect why some men find them fascinating yet icky.

I’ll bet she loves that pic.

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 5:50:35am

re: #242 lawhawk

Judge Merchan indicates that the opening statements should start Monday, given that we’ve gotten 7 jurors seated, and should be able to get the remaining 11 (includes the alternates).

That increases the chances that the trial concludes before Memorial Day.

There will be no defense witnesses. Defense will move to dismiss when the prosecution is done, saying they didn’t prove anything, at which point the prosecution should ask, “Were you not paying attention? The jury was.”

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Shropshire Slasher Apr 17, 2024 • 5:52:06am

Gotta love cars with their planned obsolescence, and gotta love this guy going above and beyond to help an elderly couple out with the radio in their car.

‘14 Chevy Impala - Battery Dies Overnight - Part I

‘14 Chevy Impala - Battery Dies Overnight - Part II

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 5:54:12am

re: #231 danarchy

They are apparently doing a Naked Gun remake with Liam Neeson. Not exactly the first name that pops into my head when I think comedic genius, but maybe he has impressive range.

Liam Neeson can do the straight deadpan Leslie Nielson did - and they have the same initials…of course, now with OJ dead that role needs a replacement.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 6:01:19am

re: #246 darthstar

Liam Neeson can do the straight deadpan Leslie Nielson did - and they have the same initials…of course, now with OJ dead that role needs a replacement.

Dave Bautista.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 6:01:23am

re: #244 darthstar

There will be no defense witnesses. Defense will move to dismiss when the prosecution is done, saying they didn’t prove anything, at which point the prosecution should ask, “Were you not paying attention? The jury was.”

Wait, did the defense miss that 24-hour deadline to mark exhibits? Are they seriously going to go into a criminal trial with no actual defense, other than cross-examining prosecution witnesses? That seems like an incredibly poor strategy.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Apr 17, 2024 • 6:03:27am

re: #204 William Lewis

It’s like me and “For all Mankind”. I can’t get past the idea that they could have ever gotten the N-1 to be anything other than a bomb, even if Korolev had survived. Even if they had gotten that … thing … into orbit, they wouldn’t have gotten to the moon and back, alive, before Apollo 11, not given what we know about the Soviet space program.

Without that suspension of disbelief, the show is utterly unwatchable for me.

I found the FAM book to be unreadable.

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garzooma Apr 17, 2024 • 6:10:05am

re: #231 danarchy

They are apparently doing a Naked Gun remake with Liam Neeson. Not exactly the first name that pops into my head when I think comedic genius, but maybe he has impressive range.

This was pretty funny:

Liam Neeson Auditions For Mall Santa Claus

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 6:13:54am

re: #248 Nerdy Fish

No, but it is very unlikely that Trump’s legal team will put on witnesses of their own. After all, prosecutors are calling all of Trump’s people that have knowledge of the events involved, can speak to the papers involved, and the financial transactions that were ultimately approved by Trump himself.

Defense teams are under no obligation to call any witnesses. They can attack the veracity of the prosecution witnesses (who are all Trump/former Trump people). They can state that the prosecution didn’t meet its burden, and leave it at that.

Of course, it might not be the best strategy, but it is one to be sure.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 6:18:35am

re: #251 lawhawk

Defense teams are under no obligation to call any witnesses. They can attack the veracity of the prosecution witnesses (who are all Trump/former Trump people). They can state that the prosecution didn’t meet its burden, and leave it at that.

Of course, it might not be the best strategy, but it is one to be sure.

Yeah, I knew they could do that, and in some cases, it may be the right strategy - namely, ones where the state has no real case. No need to complicate things by bringing in witnesses they can cross-examine, if their own witnesses don’t even prove their case. But there’s a reason why the state has a 95% conviction rate, and it seems foolhardy to challenge the government in court in a case like this and not have anything on your side other than, “The state didn’t meet its burden.”

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 6:24:32am

re: #252 Nerdy Fish

Ok, so let’s consider who Trump can call as witnesses:

Weisselberg? He’s a prosecution witness as CFO, a convicted felon, convicted for perjurying himself to cover up further Trump crimes.
Eric Trump?
Junior?
Ivanka?

Who can prosecutors call:
Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford)
David Pecker (National Enquirer)
Keith Davidson (Daniels’ lawyer)
Michael Cohen (a convicted felon, and Trump’s coconspirator on one of the charges he went to prison for)
Dylan Howard (also at National Enquirer)
Jeff McConney (Trump Org Controller)
Hope Hicks (former Trump presser)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 17, 2024 • 6:28:44am

Want to make sure I have it straight is that the charges mainly have to do with Trump campaign funds being used to pay Stormy Daniels silence money? And then covering up of same via conspiracy and using the National Enquirer staff to squash reporting since it’s illegal use of funds.

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 6:33:07am

re: #254 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Want to make sure I have it straight is that the charges mainly have to do with Trump campaign funds being used to pay Stormy Daniels silence money? And then covering up of same via conspiracy and using the National Enquirer staff to squash reporting since it’s illegal use of funds.

The trial is characterized/headlined as being the hush money case for paying off a porn star.

The charges and the trial will actually address that the payments to Daniels were purposefully mischaracterized to cover up their true nature of interfering in the election by getting the National Enquirer to kill the stories coming out against him and to push other stories more favorable to him. Trumpworld falsified business records regularly in order to cover up their true purpose (and in furtherance of other criminal acts - making this felony conduct).

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 6:35:07am

re: #235 Dr Lizardo

True, but don’t forget that Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor prior to Airplane! and Police Squad! and the Naked Gun films that came after that.

So glad I read ahead first…

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 6:42:16am

As Bob Menendez heads to trial in his corruption case, his defense strategy seems to be:

blame his wife.

Gold Bars Menendez wants to blame the criminal conduct on all of this.

The Democrat’s line of defense was filed in secret with a federal judge in January. The document were made public on Tuesday after the news media fought to make the documents public.

In those documents, Menendez’s legal team wrote that if the senior senator from New Jersey were to take the stand, his story would clear him of the allegations he accepted any bribes — but that story could implicate his wife Nadine. The lawyers stated that she kept information from him and he was apparently unaware of what she had been doing, leading him to believe nothing illegal was occurring.

As if that somehow excuses the gold bars. Explain the gold bars.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 6:46:08am

re: #257 lawhawk

That is why he is blaming his wife. He cannot explain them.

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sizzzzlerz Apr 17, 2024 • 6:46:51am

re: #232 Decatur Deb

Moonshine, rape and the lash.

Yay, Mississippians, y’all have much to celebrate and be proud of!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 6:48:22am

Well what have we here??????

MAGA ‘election integrity warrior’ accused of forging signatures: lawsuit

In Arizona, far-right State Sen. Austin Smith has often accused Democrats, without evidence, of trying to steal elections. The MAGA Republican, a leader of the Arizona Freedom Caucus and a prominent figure in radio host Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, has repeatedly called for “election integrity” and accused Democrats of opposing it.

But according to Arizona’s KJZZ-FM — a National Public Radio (NPR) station in Phoenix — a complaint filed in the Maricopa County, Arizona Superior Court alleges that Smith forges signatures needed to qualify for the ballot in 2024 and run for reelection.

KJZZ’s Camryn Sanchez reports that the complaint “alleges that nine pages of signatures Smith gathered appear to be written by the same person and look like Smith’s own handwriting.”

alternet.org

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 6:49:34am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

The felons are in the house.

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jeffreyw Apr 17, 2024 • 6:50:17am

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 6:52:01am

re: #262 jeffreyw

lol. Half of me would love to see the reply to that one. The other half of me does not want to see it.

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sizzzzlerz Apr 17, 2024 • 6:56:43am

re: #219 Dangerman

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 7:12:05am

re: #180 goddamnedfrank

If engineering more and more debt into the education system over time was the first jaw of the trap, then making the healthcare system dependent on employment was the second. Because until the ACA (as ridiculously crippled as it is) came into existence it just wasn’t possible to get coverage as an independent contractor with no employees if you had a pre-existing condition. The system creating the very weaknesses in its working class that it then exploits for control, to prevent turnover and enable further abuse like lower wages, time theft & union busting.

These flaws in the healthcare system preceded the contemporary debt problem of education. It should have been solved years earlier but our devotion to a particularly rapacious form of capitalism had prevented any serious attempts at dealing with it. Though Nixon did have a proposal that Ted Kennedy rejected — but those were the days that Medicare was still new and Democrats thought something better was possible.

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jeffreyw Apr 17, 2024 • 7:14:04am

I got thrown out of my local park for arranging squirrels by height.
They didn’t like my critter sizing.
bsky.app

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Targetpractice Apr 17, 2024 • 7:16:02am

re: #253 lawhawk

Ok, so let’s consider who Trump can call as witnesses:

Weisselberg? He’s a prosecution witness as CFO, a convicted felon, convicted for perjurying himself to cover up further Trump crimes.
Eric Trump?
Junior?
Ivanka?

Who can prosecutors call:
Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford)
David Pecker (National Enquirer)
Keith Davidson (Daniels’ lawyer)
Michael Cohen (a convicted felon, and Trump’s coconspirator on one of the charges he went to prison for)
Dylan Howard (also at National Enquirer)
Jeff McConney (Trump Org Controller)
Hope Hicks (former Trump presser)

Well, who could really take the stand and testify that Trump’s the victim of a conspiracy between the City of New York, the White House, and the Democratic Party to destroy his presidential campaign?

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 7:20:55am

re: #267 Targetpractice

Well, who could really take the stand and testify that Trump’s the victim of a conspiracy between the City of New York, the White House, and the Democratic Party to destroy his presidential campaign?

Yep. Trump’s gonna have to overrule the advice of his attorneys and take the stand in his defense.

That should go swimmingly. I’m sure the jury will come to see Donald’s take on the whole thing and unanimously vote to acquit him.

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dat_said Apr 17, 2024 • 7:21:47am

re: #267 Targetpractice

Well, who could really take the stand and testify that Trump’s the victim of a conspiracy between the City of New York, the White House, and the Democratic Party to destroy his presidential campaign?

Me! I’ll do it!!! *cough*

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 7:22:18am

re: #267 Targetpractice

Alex Jones, Bannon, or any of the other Q types are not on the official witness list. /

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 7:23:00am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

Yep. Trump’s gonna have to overrule the advice of his attorneys and take the stand in his defense.

That should go swimmingly. I’m sure the jury will come to see Donald’s take on the whole thing and unanimously vote to acquit him.

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To be fair, it doesn’t have to be unanimous except for his ego. They can get a hung jury with just one obstinate Trump-humper who refuses to see reason and only wants to do something to stop the Deep State from persecuting their Dear Leader. Though that would bolster the state’s argument for removing Republicans from the jury pool when they re-try the case later.

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coin operated Apr 17, 2024 • 7:23:38am

re: #254 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Want to make sure I have it straight is that the charges mainly have to do with Trump campaign funds being used to pay Stormy Daniels silence money? And then covering up of same via conspiracy and using the National Enquirer staff to squash reporting since it’s illegal use of funds.

Trump Corporation funds were used to pay off Stormy and bury the story that would be harmful to Trump, the candidate. That is considered an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign, because burying the story had value to the campaign. Not disclosing that was a crime. Trump then tried to hide the Trump Corp payout by falsifying business records, itself another crime.

Basically, Trump committed one crime in furtherance of another crime…that’s what elevates his conduct to felony status.

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JC1 Apr 17, 2024 • 7:24:39am

re: #231 danarchy

They are apparently doing a Naked Gun remake with Liam Neeson. Not exactly the first name that pops into my head when I think comedic genius, but maybe he has impressive range.

Leslie Nielsen didn’t start off as a comedic actor either.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 7:24:45am

re: #271 Nerdy Fish

Although, since this is a criminal trial, doesn’t jeopardy attach? So a hung jury would, in fact, prevent him from being retried, and thus equate to a de facto acquittal?

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Dave In Austin Apr 17, 2024 • 7:26:58am

And then there were 2

Mastodon

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JC1 Apr 17, 2024 • 7:27:03am

re: #240 darthstar

Par, and fuck you, wordle, for resetting my streak again…I can’t remember the last time I got skunked. I did miss a day about 5 months ago and that reset me to one, but I’ve not missed a day since.

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Did you create a login? That helps with keeping the streak going. Without a login streaks sometimes end randomly.

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JC1 Apr 17, 2024 • 7:30:18am

re: #256 Dangerman

So glad I read ahead first…

Me too 😂

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 7:31:27am

re: #210 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Well.
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TarHellion Apr 17, 2024 • 7:31:38am

re: #274 Nerdy Fish

“Hung jury” is a phrase we have created to mean a mistrial by lack of unanimity. FFVCS certainly could be retried because no verdict has been rendered. In fact, former attorney turned baseball blogger Craig Calcaterra has suggested FFVCS’ best strategy would be to do whatever he could to get a mistrial

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 7:32:11am

re: #274 Nerdy Fish

Although, since this is a criminal trial, doesn’t jeopardy attach? So a hung jury would, in fact, prevent him from being retried, and thus equate to a de facto acquittal?

No. A hung jury allows for a retrial.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 7:40:35am

re: #279 TarHellion

re: #280 lawhawk

Thanks. I seem to recall seeing some TV moments where a mistrial or hung jury ended the case, but I think that’s at the state’s discretion whether they want to retry or not, correct?

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 7:41:26am

re: #218 Shropshire Slasher

Oops, sorry, could we have that back?

Made out of Inconel.

yahoo.com

That could have killed someone.

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TarHellion Apr 17, 2024 • 7:42:18am

“That dead cat appears to be bouncing, Jim.”

“Why would it be doing that, Bones?”

“Dammit, Jim, I am a doctor, not a cultist stock trader!”

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 7:44:27am

@kenwhite.bsky.social

My favorite thing is when clients just completely make shit up and then get mad at you because the shit they made up isn’t right

Whine for breakfast. He’s not going to make it.

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 7:46:00am

“Unlimited strikes” has been DJT’s life so far.

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b.d. Apr 17, 2024 • 7:47:40am

re: #283 TarHellion

“That dead cat appears to be bouncing, Jim.”

“Why would it be doing that, Bones?”

“Dammit, Jim, I am a doctor, not a cultist stock trader!”

Somebody is buying the hell out of that Trump stock. It is already 2/3s past its daily average volume within the 1st hour and 15 minutes.

Biden made fun of the stock yesterday, Trump probably told Lara at the RNC to empty the coffers and buy stock so he wouldn’t be laughed at. It is a legitimate campaign expense and people should donate more to the RNC. //

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 7:54:37am

Day old curly fries… Not as crispy as when they’re hot and fresh out of the fryer.

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Mike Lamb Apr 17, 2024 • 8:01:10am

re: #287 darthstar

Day old curly fries… Not as crispy as when they’re hot and fresh out of the fryer.

Day old fries are why air fryers were invented.

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Decatur Deb Apr 17, 2024 • 8:04:18am

Publix Restaurant Fries in an air fryer come out right on the Mickey D’s gold standard. And you get to control the salt.

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 8:05:05am

re: #281 Nerdy Fish

Thanks. I seem to recall seeing some TV moments where a mistrial or hung jury ended the case, but I think that’s at the state’s discretion whether they want to retry or not, correct?

Correct. A hung trial - part of what can be called a mistrial - allows for the retrial of the defendant. It depends on how quickly a court schedule can accommodate the parties, and get the witnesses subpoenaed. Depending on the source of the hung jury, prosecutors can decide to go forward with a retrial, or end their prosecution at that point.

It’s also useful to point out that a jury could reach unanimous decisions on some charges, but hang on others. This happens in complex cases where there are a lot of charges, and the jury can’t agree on some vital aspect to one or more of the charges. Often, the judge will send the jury back to break the deadlock, but will sometimes relent when other charges are brought back unanimously (guilty or not guilty).

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Jay C Apr 17, 2024 • 8:05:32am

re: #286 b.d.

Somebody is buying the hell out of that Trump stock. It is already 2/3s past its daily average volume within the 1st hour and 15 minutes.

Biden made fun of the stock yesterday, Trump probably told Lara at the RNC to empty the coffers and buy stock so he wouldn’t be laughed at. It is a legitimate campaign expense and people should donate more to the RNC. //

Either this, or massive short-covering. Or some combination thereof.

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 8:06:59am

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 8:09:12am

re: #284 jaunte

Further discussion by White here in the NYT:

nytimes.com

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jeffreyw Apr 17, 2024 • 8:10:42am

Mastodon

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 17, 2024 • 8:12:22am

re: #210 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Well.
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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 8:12:56am

re: #276 JC1

Did you create a login? That helps with keeping the streak going. Without a login streaks sometimes end randomly.

And lose my ability to periodically complain? Pshaw…

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 8:14:57am

re: #232 Decatur Deb

Moonshine, rape and the lash.

The words that first come to mind when Mississippi is mentioned is “Mississippi Burning”. An evil state run by evil people. When Democrats were in charge, the Democratic party had 2 branches: the Northern one that believed in equal rights and the Southern one who represented the heirs of the Confederacy. The contemporary GOP is nothing more than the old Dixiecrats, except the evil is nationwide.

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 8:15:44am

re: #284 jaunte

@kenwhite.bsky.social

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Unlimited strikes! We should be able to reject jurors until 2025!

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sagehen Apr 17, 2024 • 8:20:27am

re: #231 danarchy

They are apparently doing a Naked Gun remake with Liam Neeson. Not exactly the first name that pops into my head when I think comedic genius, but maybe he has impressive range.

edit:

someone beat me to Liam Santa.
So here’s Liam Easter Bunny

Youtube Video

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Unabogie Apr 17, 2024 • 8:22:49am

If you had unlimited strikes on jurors, then every criminal would just keep striking them for the rest of their lives.

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 8:25:43am

re: #250 garzooma

This was pretty funny:

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re: #299 sagehen

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I get to upding it again! (yes, upding is a verb)

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 8:28:15am

Occasionally you hear a name that’s perfect for the job they do.

“…According to Max Vigilant, director of Harris County Public Health’s Mosquito Control division, the agency is expecting a higher number of cases involving mosquito-borne diseases over the next few months…”
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2024/04/16/483761/harris-county-officials-are-expecting-an-influx-in-mosquito-borne-diseases/

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 8:36:45am

re: #302 jaunte

Occasionally you hear a name that’s perfect for the job they do.

We need more Max Vigilants. We have a lot of jobs needing some.

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 8:38:00am

re: #240 darthstar

Par, and fuck you, wordle, for resetting my streak again…I can’t remember the last time I got skunked. I did miss a day about 5 months ago and that reset me to one, but I’ve not missed a day since.

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 8:43:04am

Here’s another reminder:

Trump’s on trial for charges that already sent Michael Cohen to prison (as part of the plea deal in federal court). In other words, this isn’t some bogus legal theory, or wildly exaggerated claims. Michael Cohen went to prison for furthering the criminal conspiracy by lying on business records relating to campaign finance requirements. Trump is the Individual-1 referenced.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 17, 2024 • 8:45:52am

Clinging to life in the south Pacific.

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 8:48:36am

I went to a presentation yesterday by a husband/wife team who are a scientist/artist team, talking about the Gila River. They had made some medallions to place in special locations along the river, some of which were hard to get their truck/Airstream trailer to. The last one was so frustrating, they threw the medallion in the river. I wanted to shout out, ‘You jerks!’, but I did not. I was disappointed by the lack of science, and the lack of art. And then I feel like the jerk for thinking they are jerks.

Then I went to a union meeting. More disappointment. I’m such a hard-to-please, picky old jerk.

Old People

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BeachDem Apr 17, 2024 • 8:50:40am

re: #299 sagehen

edit:

someone beat me to Liam Santa.
So here’s Liam Easter Bunny

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Then there’s Liam on Derry Girls—so dry and so funny.

Liam Neeson Faces His TOUGHEST Challenge Yet | Derry Girls Season 3 | Channel 4

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 8:51:11am

re: #307 wrenchwench

No you are not hard to please. You just know a scam when you hear or see one.

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 8:55:19am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

Yep. Trump’s gonna have to overrule the advice of his attorneys and take the stand in his defense.

That should go swimmingly. I’m sure the jury will come to see Donald’s take on the whole thing and unanimously vote to acquit him.

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It is certainly possible that some prosecution witnesses will throw themselves on the sword for Trump. Depends on how loyal or fearful they are of him when testifying in public.

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 8:57:20am

re: #308 BeachDem

Loved the Derry Girls series.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 17, 2024 • 8:58:01am

Found this poem going through some of my old files. Written in 2017.

BUREAUCRACY

Sorry sir, you’re here too soon.
Please sit in our waiting room.
Listen for when your number’s called.
It may be awhile, after all.

Be sure to fill out the forms with care,
and take time to mark in every square.
If you miss even a single one,
Your chances of success are done.

Try to ignore the unpleasant smell,
and the guy speaking loudly on his cell.
You must realize that on the whole,
Such things are outside our control.

When will it be done? We cannot say.
You understand we have our rules and ways?
We realize there’s a lot at stake,
but half our people just went on break.

Two hours later, front of the line.
About to be done with wasting time.
We can clearly see your nerves are fraught,
but it appears that you have missed a spot.

To the back of the line to make your correction.
Believe us, it’s for your own protection.
No jumping ahead, as the rules dictate.
Once again sir, you’ll have to wait.

We sense your patience is quickly fleeting,
but any anger would be self defeating.

Finally back up front, with forms composed.
But then you see it: OFFICE CLOSED.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 8:58:25am

Every accusation is a confession, part ∞

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Decatur Deb Apr 17, 2024 • 8:58:37am

re: #305 lawhawk

The greatest valuere: #311 darthstar

Loved the Derry Girls series.

“They’re crackers in their wee beekeeper kits.”

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BeachDem Apr 17, 2024 • 9:00:29am

re: #311 darthstar

Loved the Derry Girls series.

One of my alltime favorites. I’ve watched the whole series at least 5 times. Never fails to entertain. (Sister Michael and Uncle Colm just kill me)

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 9:00:30am

re: #313 Joe Bacon ✅

Every accusation is a confession, part ∞

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She seems nice.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 17, 2024 • 9:01:29am

Steve Lawrence can’t catch a break. This is two deaths in two months.

Grammy-Winning Crooner Steve Lawrence Passes Away at 88 (12 hours)
msn.com

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Decatur Deb Apr 17, 2024 • 9:03:08am

re: #315 BeachDem

One of my alltime favorites. I’ve watched the whole series at least 5 times. Never fails to entertain. (Sister Michael and Uncle Colm just kill me)

Sister Michael and her Protestant opposite number at the ecumenical outing…

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goddamnedfrank Apr 17, 2024 • 9:04:03am

bsky.app

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 9:05:55am

re: #317 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Steve Lawrence can’t catch a break. This is two deaths in two months.

Grammy-Winning Crooner Steve Lawrence Passes Away at 88 (12 hours)
msn.com

And Carol Burnett is still working at 90.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 9:07:18am

re: #317 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

re: #320 wrenchwench

en.wikipedia.org

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BeachDem Apr 17, 2024 • 9:09:19am

re: #318 Decatur Deb

Sister Michael and her Protestant opposite number at the ecumenical outing…

at 2:19—classic

The Best of Sister Michael | Derry Girls

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GlutenFreeJesus Apr 17, 2024 • 9:16:44am

re: #319 goddamnedfrank

They should leave town too because them
Immigrants already named it El Cajon. 😂

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 9:17:19am

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi.

Elton John - Burn Down The Mission (BBC In Concert 1970)

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BeenHereAwhile Apr 17, 2024 • 9:22:34am

re: #248 Nerdy Fish

Wait, did the defense miss that 24-hour deadline to mark exhibits? Are they seriously going to go into a criminal trial with no actual defense, other than cross-examining prosecution witnesses? That seems like an incredibly poor strategy.

Not to mention it would appear to totally kneecap chances of sucessful appeal.

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GlutenFreeJesus Apr 17, 2024 • 9:25:10am

Damn. Trump’s stocks are up today. I guess when you hit bottom the only way is up.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 9:26:57am

re: #326 GlutenFreeJesus

Hmm. I think someone is buying them to make DT happy.

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BeenHereAwhile Apr 17, 2024 • 9:29:28am

re: #265 Hecuba’s daughter

These flaws in the healthcare system preceded the contemporary debt problem of education. It should have been solved years earlier but our devotion to a particularly rapacious form of capitalism had prevented any serious attempts at dealing with it. Though Nixon did have a proposal that Ted Kennedy rejected — but those were the days that Medicare was still new and Democrats thought something better was possible.

And Ted Kennedy subsequently rejected Carter’s healthcare legislation.

(Not a fan of Ted Kennedy)

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 9:29:38am

re: #326 GlutenFreeJesus

Damn. Trump’s stocks are up today. I guess when you hit bottom the only way is up.

Dead cat bounce. It won’t last. There’s been no news that would increase its value.

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Mike Lamb Apr 17, 2024 • 9:30:48am

re: #326 GlutenFreeJesus

Damn. Trump’s stocks are up today. I guess when you hit bottom the only way is up.

Yup. During an off day from the trial when he’s going to be watching TV all day.

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 9:35:19am

re: #329 darthstar

Dead cat bounce. It won’t last. There’s been no news that would increase its value.

Manipulation by people with deep pockets. Leonard Leo, Peter Thiel, the Saudis, Elon — any one of these could do this with their spare change.

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 9:39:18am

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
*
10s
We really need to be able to upload video. Raskin and Comer are screaming at each other over impeaching Biden and it’s a sight to see

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gocart mozart Apr 17, 2024 • 9:42:02am

Jaco Pastorius performing “The Chicken” with guitarist John Scofield and drummer Kenwood Dennard live in 1985. pic.twitter.com/eC0zOHXMhQ

— The Jazz Estate (@thejazzestate) April 17, 2024

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 9:45:18am

Comer is such a fool.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 17, 2024 • 9:46:29am

re: #327 PhillyPretzel ✅

Hmm. I think someone is buying them to make DT happy.

May just be bargain hunters sniffing for a deal.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 9:47:17am

re: #334 jaunte

Comer is such a fool.

At the risk of being taken to task, he’s a Republican; of course he’s a fool.

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 9:48:41am

re: #293 lawhawk

Further discussion by White here in the NYT:

nytimes.com

White: The rule of law is not a deus ex machina that will save us from ignorance, prejudice and laziness. It’s not designed to, and is certainly inadequate to, fix our terrible politics. For that matter our political system might not be equipped to reject a populist like Trump. John Adams wrote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” He was probably talking about shared communal values rather than religious dogma. Without a shared set of values about what we expect from a leader, our system is probably not capable of defeating a tyrant.

McCord: Trump has exposed the weaknesses of a system that is based at least in part on the expectation that most people — both the governed and the governing — will seek to abide by the rule of law. But when someone like Trump comes along, we see that our system is slow and inefficient.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 9:49:01am

re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg

That too.

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 9:50:21am

What is your reason for impeaching Biden?

“You’re about to find out very soon.”

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 9:51:09am

re: #339 jaunte

What is your reason for impeaching Biden?

“You’re about to find out very soon.”

Sure, in two weeks.

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darthstar Apr 17, 2024 • 9:53:00am

re: #339 jaunte

What is your reason for impeaching Biden?

“You’re about to find out very soon.”

When I know you’ll know.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 9:53:16am

re: #339 jaunte

They want to do it because they can. They also want to make a big show out of doing something.

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 9:54:49am

re: #308 BeachDem

Then there’s Liam on Derry Girls—so dry and so funny.

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that was a great little show

didnt like it at all at first

then i really, really liked it

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 9:57:39am

And here we go…..

Facing a divided party and pressure to act, House Speaker Mike Johnson rolled out three bills Wednesday to provide assistance to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, with the hope of holding final votes on Saturday.

The bills represent a major test of Johnson’s ability to navigate a thicket of political and global challenges with a wafer-thin majority. And it comes as Johnson, R-La., faces a serious threat to his gavel from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

Johnson’s biggest challenge is Ukraine funding, an issue that has bitterly divided the GOP. He has been squeezed by conservative security hawks who want to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s aggression and by an empowered isolationist wing that is feeding off former President Donald Trump’s criticism of NATO and prior Ukraine aid measures.

Multiple Republicans say they oppose any funding for Ukraine, meaning that a significant share of Democrats will be required to carry that measure over the finish line.

nbcnews.com

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Captain Ron Apr 17, 2024 • 9:58:14am

pic.twitter.com/MFSmaRqpiC

— F#$k Musk (@BoothNinja) April 17, 2024

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 10:01:53am

re: #322 BeachDem

at 2:19—classic

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‘it’s actually quite funny’

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 10:02:58am

re: #327 PhillyPretzel ✅

Hmm. I think someone is buying them to make DT happy.

tfg not in court today
djt stock goes up

ever see em in the same room at the same time?

hmmmm

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BeachDem Apr 17, 2024 • 10:12:13am

re: #343 Dangerman

that was a great little show

didnt like it at all at first

then i really, really liked it

And I will say, arguably, the finest final scene evah!

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nines09 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:14:47am

re: #345 Captain Ron

Thoughts and prayers…

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 10:14:57am

re: #347 Dangerman

tfg not in court today
djt stock goes up

ever see em in the same room at the same time?

hmmmm

Or maybe this is the insurrectionist version of Dumb Money. Really enjoyed that film.

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 10:17:59am

Wow — clicking on the avatar here and the response is almost instantaneous — not like the recent very sluggish performance. Some update to the code or the database?

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 10:18:58am

re: #348 BeachDem

And I will say, arguably, the finest final scene evah!

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JC1 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:20:03am

re: #326 GlutenFreeJesus

Damn. Trump’s stocks are up today. I guess when you hit bottom the only way is up.

Typical dead cat bounce.

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steve_davis Apr 17, 2024 • 10:21:20am

re: #315 BeachDem

One of my alltime favorites. I’ve watched the whole series at least 5 times. Never fails to entertain. (Sister Michael and Uncle Colm just kill me)

outrageously funny series. yes the passive-aggressive principal nun is just wonderful.

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Decatur Deb Apr 17, 2024 • 10:23:43am

re: #348 BeachDem

And I will say, arguably, the finest final scene evah!

The first series, yes. The girls aged too much for the sequel.

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 10:23:57am

Nightwasher alert.

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steve_davis Apr 17, 2024 • 10:25:59am

re: #322 BeachDem

at 2:19—classic

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LOL! “You will go far in life, Jenny…..but you will not be liked.”

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A Cranky One Apr 17, 2024 • 10:26:19am

re: #351 Hecuba’s daughter

Wow — clicking on the avatar here and the response is almost instantaneous — not like the recent very sluggish performance. Some update to the code or the database?

Our host mutated the hamsters to make them faster.

Some will claim that he fixed some issues with database queries, but we know the truth.

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Decatur Deb Apr 17, 2024 • 10:26:57am

re: #356 jaunte

Nightwasher alert.

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Good lord, it’s a hangar queen.

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 10:27:01am

@notdred.bsky.social

The Cybertruck car wash thing is even worse than you think. Even though they created a “Car Wash Mode”, simply driving through a car wash voids the warranty EVEN IF YOU USE CAR WASH MODE

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jaunte Apr 17, 2024 • 10:28:25am

@ozmodiar.bsky.social

For the curious, this is apparently what car wash mode does:

“closes all windows, locks the charge port, and disables windshield wipers, Sentry Mode, and walk-away door locking”

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 10:28:31am

re: #360 jaunte

@notdred.bsky.social

Wait, what the fuck?

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 10:31:10am

re: #360 jaunte

@notdred.bsky.social

LOL, Elon’s masterstroke vehicle is a POS. Rushed into production off a hare-brained idea he probably had after watching Blade Runner high on Special K. 😄

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 10:31:18am

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nines09 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:31:45am

re: #356 jaunte

CLEAN ALL DEAD BUGS OFF IMMEDIATELY AS REMAINS MAY EAT THROUGH THE METAL.
NOT REMOVING DEAD BUGS VOIDS WARRENTY.

I can see that happening to that joke of a product.

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A Cranky One Apr 17, 2024 • 10:32:06am

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 17, 2024 • 10:32:27am

re: #359 Decatur Deb

re: #360 jaunte

re: #362 Nerdy Fish

::: checks wallet to see if I still have my SEPTA key card :::

::: Yes I still have it and it is valid :::

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 10:32:57am

re: #366 A Cranky One

“The Trouble with ~~Tribbles~~ Tupperware”.

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steve_davis Apr 17, 2024 • 10:33:09am

re: #328 BeenHereAwhile

And Ted Kennedy subsequently rejected Carter’s healthcare legislation.

(Not a fan of Ted Kennedy)

Nixon’s plan, not Carter’s.

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nines09 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:33:45am

re: #364 Joe Bacon ✅

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steve_davis Apr 17, 2024 • 10:33:51am

re: #329 darthstar

Dead cat bounce. It won’t last. There’s been no news that would increase its value.

it’s all just shorts cashing in and then reloading.

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Shropshire Slasher Apr 17, 2024 • 10:34:36am

re: #356 jaunte

Nightwasher alert.

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Unfortunately I found out the hard way that using Rain-X (orange colored) windshield washer fluid causes the sensor in the washer reservoir to malfunction.

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 10:36:25am

re: #370 nines09

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Works vertical or horizontal

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sizzzzlerz Apr 17, 2024 • 10:36:58am

re: #360 jaunte

@notdred.bsky.social

Well, I read Musk-a-teer wanted to void the warranty if you drove his truck within a city block of a car wash. Something about harmful vapors spewing forth from said washes. Lawyers cornered him in his secret extinct volcano hideout and convinced him otherwise.

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Randall Gross Apr 17, 2024 • 10:37:04am

X/Twitter’s Nazi problem is not new, but it does appear to be growing. Mike Masnick with the latest
www.techdirt.com/2024/04/17/w…

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— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) Apr 17, 2024 at 12:34 PM

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Nerdy Fish Apr 17, 2024 • 10:37:52am

re: #374 sizzzzlerz

Well, I read Musk-a-teer wanted to void the warranty if you drove his truck within a city block of a car wash. Something about harmful vapors spewing forth from said washes. Lawyers cornered him in is secret extinct volcano hideout and convinced him otherwise.

Also known as “water vapor,” a thing that literally occupies a fair portion of our atmosphere. Fucking morons.

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sizzzzlerz Apr 17, 2024 • 10:38:39am

re: #361 jaunte

@ozmodiar.bsky.social

Guess they forgot to program in the “don’t dissolve into a pile of rust” mode.

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nines09 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:38:50am

Tesla Cyber Truck Alert.

BIRD DROPPINGS ON CAR WILL VOID WARRENTY IMMEDIATELY.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 17, 2024 • 10:38:58am

re: #375 Randall Gross

Didn’t Elmo already tell advertisers to go fuck themselves?

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 10:39:12am

re: #374 sizzzzlerz

Well, I read Musk-a-teer wanted to void the warranty if you drove his truck within a city block of a car wash. Something about harmful vapors spewing forth from said washes. Lawyers cornered him in is secret extinct volcano hideout and convinced him otherwise.

Time for a remake.

Car Wash

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nines09 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:40:31am

re: #378 nines09

Tesla Cyber Truck Alert.

BIRD DROPPINGS ON CAR WILL VOID WARRENTY IMMEDIATELY.

TESLA CYBER TRUCK UPDATE.
DRIVING VEHICLE IN RAIN WILL VOID WARRENTY AND LEAD TO SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF DRIVETRAIN.

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Randall Gross Apr 17, 2024 • 10:40:54am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

Didn’t Elmo already tell advertisers to go fuck themselves?

Every time recently that a media outlet has pointed out the growing Nazi problem, Elon has sued, so Mike is wondering if he will sue NBC next.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 17, 2024 • 10:41:03am

The only person who talks about wanting unlimited immunity for presidents is Donald Trump. And the fact that the Republican Party has taken that position because of their slavish obeisance to Trump is a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/Yz4ZnnySET

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 17, 2024

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JC1 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:41:53am

re: #360 jaunte

@notdred.bsky.social

I don’t think that that’s accurate. The manual just states that damage due to a car wash is not covered by warranty. I don’t think that that’s any different than any other car: if the car wash scratches the heck out of the paint, it’s not like GM or Ford will cover it either.

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Jay C Apr 17, 2024 • 10:43:52am

re: #363 Dr Lizardo

LOL, Elon’s masterstroke vehicle is a POS. Rushed into production off a hare-brained idea he probably had after watching Blade Runner high on Special K. 😄

Agree about the “hare-brained” part, but wasn’t the Cyberjunk in development for a while?
ISTR it being “introduced” (to a great deal of mockery and derision, btw) a couple of years back. And, unfortunately (though expected, seeing as it’s Elon) they didn’t substantially improve it…

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sizzzzlerz Apr 17, 2024 • 10:44:51am

re: #380 wrenchwench

Time for a remake.

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That was a funny movie. I haven’t seen it in ages. I need to see if its streaming somewhere or if my library has it.

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 10:46:01am

re: #386 sizzzzlerz

That was a funny movie. I haven’t seen it in ages. I need to see if its streaming somewhere or if my library has it.

$3.99 at youtube. I think that’s more than I paid at the theater.

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 10:46:23am

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 10:47:45am

re: #386 sizzzzlerz

That was a funny movie. I haven’t seen it in ages. I need to see if its streaming somewhere or if my library has it.

Richard Pryor, George Carlin AND the Pointer Sisters. No remake possible. Original it is.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:48:39am

re: #388 Dangerman

Two billion to invest for the Saudi’s, I think. Something that could end with a bone-saw if he loses their money.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 17, 2024 • 10:50:10am

re: #386 sizzzzlerz

That was a funny movie. I haven’t seen it in ages. I need to see if its streaming somewhere or if my library has it.

Amazon Video, Tubi, Apple TV, Google Play…
This one is not hard to find.

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 10:53:19am

re: #390 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Two billion to invest for the Saudi’s, I think. Something that could end with a bone-saw if he loses their money.

Yup

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sizzzzlerz Apr 17, 2024 • 10:53:43am

re: #387 wrenchwench

$3.99 at youtube. I think that’s more than I paid at the theater.

Turns out my library does have it so I put it on hold. I also reserved Stripes which I haven’t seen in as about as long. I was reminded of it when I saw it on my youtube feed.

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Dave In Austin Apr 17, 2024 • 10:56:48am

geologypage.com

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 10:57:27am

The New York Times reports that Melania Trump — who was visibly furious with her husband after the first reports broke that her husband paid a porn star “hush money” — is now supposedly “angry” with the “disgrace” of a criminal trial playing out in Manhattan.

of course its effing humiliating
Any wonder she’s not sitting behind him?

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 17, 2024 • 10:58:24am

re: #383 Eclectic Cyborg

But it’s not obeisance, it’s opportunism.

People like Mitch McConnell have been talking about how to game the US system to create de facto Republican monopolization of power for decades. The gaming of Supreme Court appointments was an explicit, you-can-track-the-paper-trail conspiracy. Trump is providing a pretext to experiment with another kind of monopolization of power, but this isn’t new or different in substance from what they’ve done distantly.

The thing to understand here is that conservatives want power more than they want to preserve institutions, and will rapidly change their theories of how institutions should be structured if they can posit an alternate structure that captures more power for longer.

This goes all the way back to “states’ rights”—a bad faith position only taken to justify the institution of slavery—but it’s important to notice that the thing retained is “we deserve power” and the thing that transforms is “how institutional power should in theory be assigned.” All their legal theories affirm a consequent.

It wasn’t too long ago that conservatives presented themselves as for small government…a statement that involved devolution of power to states or even counties…but that wasn’t an ideal they genuinely believed in, just a calculation that if power was assigned that way it would produce their preferred outcomes. Even the push for privatization amounts to capturing power for conservative ends, because more than anything else American conservatives want to assign power to capital-holders: it is better that you governed by your bank, your landlord, and your insurance company than by any political institution that might guarantee rights or liberties.

But in the era of Trump conservatism has reversed because it sees a path to fully capturing the power of governance far faster, without dismantling useful coercive structures: rigging the courts, stopping the legislature from functioning, and asserting a unique theory of executive license.

If this fails, they’re not going to stop because it’s not about Trump, it’s about any method of capturing power. The next theory…including ones that just straight up are about coups and secession…will also affirm the consequent that their kinds of people should have unchecked power.

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Eventual Carrion Apr 17, 2024 • 10:59:01am

re: #380 wrenchwench

Time for a remake.

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Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues

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lawhawk Apr 17, 2024 • 10:59:34am

re: #395 Dangerman

Which is why everyone should realize that Trump did all the things alleged by prosecutors (and a whole lot more).

He can’t even get his wife to buy into the BS and have her stand by him while at trial - undermining the claims that something happened (it most certainly did).

The kicker is that had he never done anything to silence the women he cheated on Melania with, there’d have been no crime and no one would be focused on this trial.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 17, 2024 • 11:00:01am

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Dangerman Apr 17, 2024 • 11:06:44am

re: #396 The Ghost of a Flea

But it’s not obeisance, it’s opportunism.

People like Mitch McConnell have been talking about how to game the US system to create de facto Republican monopolization of power for decades. The gaming of Supreme Court appointments was an explicit, you-can-track-the-paper-trail conspiracy. Trump is providing a pretext to experiment with another kind of monopolization of power, but this isn’t new or different in substance from what they’ve done distantly.

The thing to understand here is that conservatives want power more than they want to preserve institutions, and will rapidly change their theories of how institutions should be structured if they can posit an alternate structure that captures more power for longer.

This goes all the way back to “states’ rights”—a bad faith position only taken to justify the institution of slavery—but it’s important to notice that the thing retained is “we deserve power” and the thing that transforms is “how institutional power should in theory be assigned.” All their legal theories affirm a consequent.

It wasn’t too long ago that conservatives presented themselves as for small government…a statement that involved devolution of power to states or even counties…but that wasn’t an ideal they genuinely believed in, just a calculation that if power was assigned that way it would produce their preferred outcomes. Even the push for privatization amounts to capturing power for conservative ends, because more than anything else American conservatives want to assign power to capital-holders: it is better that you governed by your bank, your landlord, and your insurance company than by any political institution that might guarantee rights or liberties.

But in the era of Trump conservatism has reversed because it sees a path to fully capturing the power of governance far faster, without dismantling useful coercive structures: rigging the courts, stopping the legislature from functioning, and asserting a unique theory of executive license.

If this fails, they’re not going to stop because it’s not about Trump, it’s about any method of capturing power. The next theory…including ones that just straight up are about coups and secession…will also affirm the consequent that their kinds of people should have unchecked power.

(Or I coulda bolded the whole thing)

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sagehen Apr 17, 2024 • 11:16:00am

re: #394 Dave In Austin

geologypage.com

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does that remind anybody besides me of’

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Markm1960 Apr 17, 2024 • 11:21:01am

re: #390 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Two billion to invest for the Saudi’s, I think. Something that could end with a bone-saw if he loses their money.

He won’t lose it, he has his eye on 100m shares of DJT media stock. He’s been told that $2b is a bargain.

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 17, 2024 • 11:23:23am

re: #402 Markm1960

He won’t lose it, he has his eye on 100m shares of DJT media stock. He’s been told that $2b is a bargain.

As I said earlier, the stock price could rise if the Saudis made the “investment”.

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jeffreyw Apr 17, 2024 • 11:33:26am

re: #401 sagehen

does that remind anybody besides me of’

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It has a Georgia O’Keeffe vibe.

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wrenchwench Apr 17, 2024 • 11:41:56am

re: #401 sagehen

does that remind anybody besides me of’

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It does now.

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