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The Bob Cesca Podcast: Random Penguins

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

Random Penguins — Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump’s New York fraud trial. Buzz has updates throughout the show. Trump hit with more contempt charges, then violated his gag order again on Troth Senchul. Trump in a cage. Hush money logged as “legal expenses.” Kristi Noem’s big lie about meeting Kim Jong Un. David Plouffe’s cynical cash-grab with Kellyanne Conway. Jon Stewart says Biden shouldn’t be president. Republicans filing a lawsuit to stop vote counting in Nevada. Oil executive charged with conspiring with OPEC to fix prices. With Buzz Burbank, music by Firefall, Our New Autumn, and more!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 7, 2024 • 3:12:32pm

Ace Rothstein May 7, 2024 • 3:16:37pm

A bar in San Francisco in 2013.

Ace Rothstein May 7, 2024 • 3:17:42pm

Walkway between the two buildings of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Ace Rothstein May 7, 2024 • 3:18:22pm

Punisher. Late one night walking to a bar.

Backwoods Sleuth May 7, 2024 • 3:21:21pm

mom update:

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Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 3:22:13pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

mom update:

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 7, 2024 • 3:23:01pm

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 7, 2024 • 3:25:37pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

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Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 3:31:20pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

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CleverToad May 7, 2024 • 3:40:34pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

mom update:

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Mike Lamb May 7, 2024 • 3:41:39pm

Trump saying the Daniels’ Affair was fully litigated in the 2016 election is some wild shit considering the whole point of this current trial is that he covered the Affair precisely to avoid it being an election issue.

Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 3:42:44pm

re: #11 Mike Lamb

Trump saying the Daniels’ Affair was fully litigated in the 2016 election is some wild shit considering the whole point of this current trial is that he covered the Affair precisely to avoid it being an election issue.

It was litigated? Funny, I feel like I’d remember a court case involving a Presidential hopeful and a porn star. Or is he saying that because his “fixer” “fixed” things, that should’ve been the end of it?

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 3:45:24pm

Looks like Cannon got her orders.

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jaunte May 7, 2024 • 3:46:33pm

re: #13 darthstar

Receivers of stolen national secrets applaud.

Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 3:46:53pm

re: #13 darthstar

Looks like Cannon got her orders.

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And from reading the various threads on Lawsky, her own order basically says, “Yeah, I created this problem, I have no clue how to fix it, so I’m just going to punt because fuck you, that’s why.”

jaunte May 7, 2024 • 3:55:36pm

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Jay C May 7, 2024 • 3:57:08pm

re: #12 Nerdy Fish

It was litigated? Funny, I feel like I’d remember a court case involving a Presidential hopeful and a porn star. Or is he saying that because his “fixer” “fixed” things, that should’ve been the end of it?

I’m guessing that Trump’s notion of “the issue was litigated by the election” is more along the lines of “I won the election, so fuck you”, since we have seen ample proof that Donald assumes that being President gives said electee absolute and permanent immunity from - well, pretty much anything.

CleverToad May 7, 2024 • 4:00:50pm

Five years today since we lost Mom.
A year and five days since we lost my brother-in-law.
No, Facebook, I do not want to share the memories your mindless algorithms are ‘suggesting’ on my timeline, thank you. The dates are engraved on my heart, the family and friends who know why don’t need a reminder.

(At least two sites, Ancestors and one of the e-card companies sent an email saying one can opt out of their Mother’s Day offers. I’d say that shows sensitivity but it’s probably just pushback. I took ‘em up on it anyway to encourage the practice.)

Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 4:02:49pm

re: #13 darthstar

Ace Rothstein May 7, 2024 • 4:03:56pm

re: #19 Patricia Kayden

She has to be fucking him.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 7, 2024 • 4:06:30pm

re: #20 Ace Rothstein

She has to be fucking him.

She’s a Federalist Society crook.

piratedan May 7, 2024 • 4:06:56pm

re: #19 Patricia Kayden

well, he’s certainly getting some pro quo after his quid, that’s for sure.

jaunte May 7, 2024 • 4:07:21pm

re: #20 Ace Rothstein

Some of those bribed SCOTUS justices aren’t getting any younger.

Captain Ron May 7, 2024 • 4:07:27pm

Trump claims these issues were “fully adjudicated by the Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election.”

The first WSJ story on the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels didn’t land until January 2018. pic.twitter.com/VKFLjlyurh

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) May 7, 2024

jaunte May 7, 2024 • 4:11:26pm

c.im

jaunte May 7, 2024 • 4:11:47pm

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Sherlock Hound May 7, 2024 • 4:12:18pm

re: #22 piratedan

well, he’s certainly getting some pro quo after his quid, that’s for sure.

She’s giving him the quo!

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 4:12:45pm

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 7, 2024 • 4:13:13pm

re: #24 Captain Ron

It’s also not how criminal prosecutions work. Trump’s not a smart man. He’s a bold man, who says a lot of nutty things.

Charles Johnson May 7, 2024 • 4:13:15pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

mom update:

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Ace Rothstein May 7, 2024 • 4:14:54pm

re: #29 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s also not how criminal prosecutions work. Trump’s not a smart man. He’s a bold man, who says a lot of nutty things.

He’s without question the dumbest person to ever be president. I mean, it’s not even debatable.

nines09 May 7, 2024 • 4:23:38pm

Belafon May 7, 2024 • 4:23:56pm

re: #20 Ace Rothstein

She has to be fucking him.

Naaah, she’s just getting money from other fascists.

austin_blue May 7, 2024 • 4:27:01pm

Well, shit:

cnn.com

Look likes it’s open season on little girls now by the usual “Dedicated Youth Professionals”.

Romantic Heretic May 7, 2024 • 4:31:36pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 4:31:57pm

Short fuse is getting shorter…won’t be long before Trump loses his shit in court.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire May 7, 2024 • 4:34:15pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

mom update:

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Glad to hear that she is in good spirits and wishing her a speedy recovery. I will light a candle for her tonight and send healing thoughts her way.

Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 4:35:33pm

re: #17 Jay C

I’m guessing that Trump’s notion of “the issue was litigated by the election” is more along the lines of “I won the election, so fuck you”, since we have seen ample proof that Donald assumes that being President gives said electee absolute and permanent immunity from - well, pretty much anything.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 7, 2024 • 4:35:56pm

re: #36 darthstar

Short fuse is getting shorter…won’t be long before Trump loses his shit in court.

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Good. I’m hoping for a stroke, myself.

Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 4:43:40pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

mom update:

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Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 4:43:47pm

re: #39 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Good. I’m hoping for a stroke, myself.

Oh, God, can you imagine what’ll happen if he dies? The wharrgarbl deep state derp will be thicker than Donald J. Trump’s arteries.

Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 4:44:07pm

re: #40 Dangerman

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*WHACK!*

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire May 7, 2024 • 4:47:29pm

re: #39 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Good. I’m hoping for a stroke, myself.

A stroke would be good. But a Scanners moment would be just plain awesome.

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goddamnedfrank May 7, 2024 • 4:48:42pm

re: #36 darthstar

Short fuse is getting shorter…won’t be long before Trump loses his shit in court.

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Trump really starting to look like one of those leftover hot dogs on the rollers at 7/11

Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 4:52:03pm

threads.net
Testing to see if Threads videos embed here. Nope.

Eclectic Cyborg May 7, 2024 • 4:52:36pm

I have a really shitty relationship with my mom and I fucking hate Mother’s Day.

If neither of those statements are true for you, you are lucky.

goddamnedfrank May 7, 2024 • 4:53:13pm

Like, you know that hotdog is from the morning shift and it is now eleven thirty pm why is it still there mr 7/11 guy?

Vicious Babushka May 7, 2024 • 4:53:23pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

mom update:

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(((Archangel1))) May 7, 2024 • 4:55:25pm

Much better.
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jeffreyw May 7, 2024 • 4:55:56pm

Backwoods Sleuth May 7, 2024 • 4:56:41pm

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 4:57:09pm

re: #39 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Good. I’m hoping for a stroke, myself.

Me too. Just a big enough one to shut him up so he’s forced to sit there and he can’t even scowl at witnesses.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 7, 2024 • 5:02:17pm

re: #41 Nerdy Fish

Oh, God, can you imagine what’ll happen if he dies? The wharrgarbl deep state derp will be thicker than Donald J. Trump’s arteries.

I can live with that.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 7, 2024 • 5:04:41pm

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

Like, you know that hotdog is from the morning shift and it is now eleven thirty pm why is it still there mr 7/11 guy?

Spinning in the spit, getting older and more wrinklier with every rotation.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 7, 2024 • 5:06:16pm

This must be pretty easy, since I was able to solve it (I am not good with puzzles)
Solution:

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Unabogie May 7, 2024 • 5:09:04pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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steve_davis May 7, 2024 • 5:13:12pm

re: #43 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

A stroke would be good. But a Scanners moment would be just plain awesome.

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Let him audition for the drums with Spinal Tap, or keyboards with the Dead.

GlutenFreeJesus May 7, 2024 • 5:15:24pm

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 5:15:33pm

re: #57 steve_davis

Let him audition for the drums with Spinal Tap, or keyboards with the Dead.

I remember when the keyboard player from Dark Star Orchestra died…I said to my friends, “These guys take being a Grateful Dead cover band to a new level.”

(((Archangel1))) May 7, 2024 • 5:16:00pm

re: #49 (((Archangel1)))

Much better.

… And today’s is nowhere as good.
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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 7, 2024 • 5:16:03pm

It’s 72F with mostly sunny skies and a tornado watch here.
It looks like the fun doesn’t start until the early AM hours.

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 5:25:13pm

I want one of these.

Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 5:29:44pm

re: #62 darthstar

I want one of these.

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I wonder what kind of frame they put that on. That’s hilarious. And probably a better product.

Hecuba's daughter May 7, 2024 • 5:29:55pm

re: #15 Nerdy Fish

And from reading the various threads on Lawsky, her own order basically says, “Yeah, I created this problem, I have no clue how to fix it, so I’m just going to punt because fuck you, that’s why.”

She knows exactly what she did — it was a deliberate effort to make sure that Trump never faces consequences for treason.

Charles Johnson May 7, 2024 • 5:31:57pm

tfw you spent several days transferring this giant app you’ve been working on to a new server, setting everything up from scratch, mongodb, mariadb, firewall, nginx, ssh keys, the latest php and python and node/nvm, ouch my brain hurts but there’s more

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-08T00:31:04.000Z

Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 5:38:27pm

Sherlock Hound May 7, 2024 • 5:43:28pm

re: #43 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Cue Duke Nukem “Heh, heh, what a mess!”

Maybe Donald can have a diaper blowout. If he’s going to be confined, just WHO will get the responsibility of changing him?

Sherlock Hound May 7, 2024 • 5:46:00pm

re: #56 Unabogie

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 5:47:39pm

Nikki Haley’s been keeping Trump south of 79% consistently…

google.com

Charles Johnson May 7, 2024 • 5:48:19pm

What’s next for Bluesky? We’re working on some of your most requested features:

DMs, video, improved Custom Feeds, better anti-harassment features, and a new login tool called “OAuth”

Check out the roadmap here: bsky.social/about/blog/0…

— Bluesky (@bsky.app) 2024-05-07T23:53:56.683Z

Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 5:48:34pm

EPR-radar May 7, 2024 • 5:48:56pm

re: #66 Patricia Kayden

“Republicans against Trump”. LOL.

I’ll welcome their votes against the Witless Fucking Cocksplat, should that happen, but there is no pathology in Trump that is not generic Republican.

For example, judge Loose Cannon (R) is presently fucking things up for Trump’s benefit in the documents case because covering for the crimes of other Republicans is just what Republicans do, and it has been that way for decades, long before Trump.

Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 5:49:07pm

re: #71 Patricia Kayden

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 7, 2024 • 5:50:20pm

re: #71 Patricia Kayden

Geez. All it needs is the word “for.”

jaunte May 7, 2024 • 5:50:33pm

re: #71 Patricia Kayden

Tails, the Magazine for Adventurous Carnivores.

TedStriker May 7, 2024 • 5:50:34pm

re: #32 nines09

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jaunte May 7, 2024 • 5:52:33pm

“I thought this is what you wanted, if you ever wanted to get out of that trailer park.”

Spare some thought for how grotesque (and dirt-common) this attitude is coming from any man who thinks he has a money and power advantage over a woman.

Hecuba's daughter May 7, 2024 • 5:53:41pm

re: #69 darthstar

Nikki Haley’s been keeping Trump south of 79% consistently…

google.com

Meaningless unless those voting for other candidates refuse to vote for Trump in November and, even better, vote for Biden.

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 5:55:22pm

EPR-radar May 7, 2024 • 5:56:31pm

re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter

Meaningless unless those voting for other candidates refuse to vote for Trump in November and, even better, vote for Biden.

Best of all is if they don’t vote for any Republicans at any level, but that’s a pipe dream.

Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 5:56:49pm

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 5:57:15pm

Contractor working on our house up at the river sent me a video of a large cluster of bats in the stairwell leading outside. So it looks like I’ll be ordering a bat box and putting it up on the outside wall.

Semper Fi May 7, 2024 • 5:57:51pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

mom update:

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Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 6:02:43pm

re: #52 darthstar

Me too. Just a big enough one to shut him up so he’s forced to sit there and he can’t even scowl at witnesses.

He must stay alive and be able to participate in his defense. Else the cases will go away and we can’t have that

Joe Bacon ✅ May 7, 2024 • 6:05:09pm

re: #36 darthstar

Short fuse is getting shorter…won’t be long before Trump loses his shit in court.

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Don’t forget that Poopy Pants told Crackhead Mike that he’s willing to go to jail!

EPR-radar May 7, 2024 • 6:06:08pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

Don’t forget that Poopy Pants told Crackhead Mike that he’s willing to go to jail!

Offer accepted.

But the Witless Fucking Cocksplat is the Greatest Liar of All Time.

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:07:00pm

One of the foreplay questions Trump apparently asked Stormy was if she ever got any STDs while making movies.

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:08:12pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

Don’t forget that Poopy Pants told Crackhead Mike that he’s willing to go to jail!

re: #86 EPR-radar

Offer accepted.

But the Witless Fucking Cocksplat is the Greatest Liar of All Time.

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:10:34pm

Nikki keeps inching up toward 22%…I’m hoping the last areas to come in are metropolitan and skew toward Haley.

TedStriker May 7, 2024 • 6:11:24pm

re: #34 austin_blue

Well, shit:

cnn.com

Look likes it’s open season on little girls now by the usual “Dedicated Youth Professionals”.

The BSA (the soon-to-be Scouting America) has had female youth and co-ed units in some form or fashion for at least 25-30 years in the Exploring and Learning for Life programs. What was new a few years ago was allowing female youth to join the “mainline” Boy Scouting and Cub Scouting programs (albeit with co-ed Cub packs being an option, but with only single-gender Scouts BSA troops) and, from all of seen and heard and experienced (having events with female Scouts BSA troops competing with the boys from my troop, as well as our charter org’s Cub pack that feeds into ours having female members), things seem to be going well. I had a feeling that National would eventually rebrand as gender-neutral if the “grand experiment” went well and, as an Eagle Scout and Scouter who’s been in the BSA for 37 out of my 49 years, I have no problem with that at all; it’ll take some getting used to, but the official switchover is next February.

Like with the Catholic and other churches who have also had massive accounts of CSA, which the BSA has had to come to terms and deal with as well, I get that a lot of people can’t help but paint the entire thing with the broadest brush they can find and say “burn it all down, it’s all suspect, it’ll never change”. I can’t speaking for the Catholic Church, but Scouting’s youth protection policies have been majorly overhauled over the past several years and, as a volunteer Scouter, it is my job to not only protect the youth in my charge, but any youth in Scouting that I can, while doing my best to try to give them a good program.

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:11:44pm

Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 6:12:06pm

re: #40 Dangerman

I wanna thank everyone for allowing me to inject a little levity and accept it with good spirit

;-)

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 7, 2024 • 6:15:56pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

Don’t forget that Poopy Pants told Crackhead Mike that he’s willing to go to jail!

As with everything trump, it’s a lie.

Joe Bacon ✅ May 7, 2024 • 6:18:59pm

Jay C May 7, 2024 • 6:20:01pm

re: #89 darthstar

I’m no expert, but IMHO, it says something that a second-tier candidate who dropped out of the race several weeks (months?) back is still pulling 20% in the partisan primary.
Of course, Nikki Haley is the candidate who came in second to “None Of The Above” in one race, but still…

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:20:20pm

Follow me for more DIY advice…

darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:21:45pm

re: #95 Jay C

She took almost 20% last week as well. So long as 1 in 5 Republicans refuse to vote for Trump IN THE PRIMARIES, the chances those numbers will hold in the general are pretty good.

Charles Johnson May 7, 2024 • 6:21:56pm

re: #87 darthstar

One of the foreplay questions Trump apparently asked Stormy was if she ever got any STDs while making movies.

He’s conscientious.

TedStriker May 7, 2024 • 6:23:36pm

re: #96 darthstar

Follow me for more DIY advice…

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Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 6:25:22pm

re: #96 darthstar

Follow me for more DIY advice…

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“Hey, why does the circuit breaker keep popping?”

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:26:32pm

Mastodon

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TedStriker May 7, 2024 • 6:26:48pm

re: #100 Nerdy Fish

“Hey, why does the circuit breaker keep popping?”

Followed soon by:

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Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 6:27:28pm

re: #102 TedStriker

Followed soon by:

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“Why did the house burn down, Todd?”
“I don’t know, MARGOT!”

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Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 6:28:07pm

re: #98 Charles Johnson

He’s conscientious.

But wouldn’t/didn’t use a condom himself.
He “trusted” what she said….

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TedStriker May 7, 2024 • 6:29:09pm

re: #103 Nerdy Fish

“Why did the house burn down, Todd?”
“I don’t know, MARGOT!”

Oooh, nice Christmas Vacation pull there…

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:29:09pm

re: #99 TedStriker

QUE HORA ES!

Que Hora Es? Part 1

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Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 6:29:10pm

re: #100 Nerdy Fish

“Hey, why does the circuit breaker keep popping?”

Phone was plugged in all night and it didn’t charge. Huh.

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Jay C May 7, 2024 • 6:29:54pm

re: #96 darthstar

Follow me for more DIY advice…

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Have 911/EMS* on speed-dial??

Two questions from the peanut gallery:
1. What keeps the (what looks like metal) clip from going live/shorting out?
2. wouldn’t the clip wire prevent the USB plug from fitting flush with the socket? (Or is that how it gets around Question 1?)

*And/or the Fire Department

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Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 6:31:12pm

re: #105 TedStriker

Oooh, nice Christmas Vacation pull there…

My parents have a pair of custom T-shirts with the actual quote on them. It’s one of our favorite Christmas movies.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 7, 2024 • 6:31:26pm

Crackhead Mike continues on his winning streak!

‘Must be broke’: Mike Lindell drops seized cell phone lawsuit against Justice department

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has dropped his lawsuit against the Justice Department for seizing his phone, court records show.

In a new court order reported by Politico’s Kyle Cheney on Tuesday, Minnesota-based U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud granted Lindell’s motion for dismissal.

“Based on the Stipulation for Dismissal without Prejudice filed by Plaintiffs Michael J. Lindell and MyPillow, Inc., and Defendants United States of America, Attorney General Merrick Garland, the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, and FBI Directory Christopher Wray, ECF No. 93, IT IS ORDERED that the action is DISMISSED without prejudice, and without costs, disbursements, or attorneys’ fees to any party,” said the order.

Some commenters on social media speculated that he might be dropping the lawsuit because he’s out of money — Lindell’s allies have stated that he is “losing everything,” as he faces suits of his own for defamation from various entities he has accused of election rigging, and as retailers stop carrying MyPillow products amid the fallout from the controversy.

rawstory.com

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:32:10pm

re: #100 Nerdy Fish

“Hey, why does the circuit breaker keep popping?”

I worked at a hardware store in high school and took a plug cord, twisted the ends together, and plugged it in. Blew out the entire electrical department. Guy who managed the department told me I was lucky I didn’t fry myself.

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:33:15pm

Mastodon

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EPR-radar May 7, 2024 • 6:34:54pm

re: #112 darthstar

“Israel’s criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel’s last and best chance at bringing the hostages home”

I literally cannot even imagine NYT or WaPo coverage like this of Trump even now, let alone while he was still in office.

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Nerdy Fish May 7, 2024 • 6:35:46pm

re: #111 darthstar

I worked at a hardware store in high school and took a plug cord, twisted the ends together, and plugged it in. Blew out the entire electrical department. Guy who managed the department told me I was lucky I didn’t fry myself.

3-phase 120V is nothing to fuck around with. I don’t even take chances; when there’s an electrical project in the house, that breaker goes off before I take anything off, and doesn’t get touched until everything’s put back together.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 7, 2024 • 6:36:18pm

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 6:39:48pm

re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg

Great day in court! America learned I talk about STDs as foreplay and like to get spanked with magazines that have me and Ivanka’s face on the cover! And you can’t spell magazine without MAGA!!!

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Florida Panhandler May 7, 2024 • 6:45:48pm

re: #13 darthstar

Looks like Cannon got her orders.

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That Supreme Court seat Trump has in his back pocket …she can just taste it already…

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Hecuba's daughter May 7, 2024 • 6:52:26pm

re: #95 Jay C

I’m no expert, but IMHO, it says something that a second-tier candidate who dropped out of the race several weeks (months?) back is still pulling 20% in the partisan primary.
Of course, Nikki Haley is the candidate who came in second to “None Of The Above” in one race, but still…

A race where Trump’s name did not appear on the ballot. So his supporters had no real option except “None of the above”.

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Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 6:52:28pm

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

3-phase 120V is nothing to fuck around with. I don’t even take chances; when there’s an electrical project in the house, that breaker goes off before I take anything off, and doesn’t get touched until everything’s put back together.

And that’s why the pond is all 12v

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Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 6:53:06pm

re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg

Didn’t think I could hate anyone more than I hated Reagan and George W Bush but here we are. I dread who Republicans will glom onto after Trump. It only gets worse.

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Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 6:53:22pm

re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg

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He is compelled to lie

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EPR-radar May 7, 2024 • 7:06:33pm

re: #120 Patricia Kayden

Didn’t think I could hate anyone more than I hated Reagan and George W Bush but here we are. I dread who Republicans will glom onto after Trump. It only gets worse.

Fucking this. These two things are true:

1) It is literally unimaginable how a Republican candidate for president could be more of a rancid piece of shit than Trump, and

2) It is absolutely inevitable that the next Republican candidate for president will be more of a rancid piece of shit than Trump

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GlutenFreeJesus May 7, 2024 • 7:08:46pm

JD Vance in 2028 I bet.

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EPR-radar May 7, 2024 • 7:10:09pm

re: #123 GlutenFreeJesus

JD Vance in 2028 I bet.

Sooner or later Peter Thiel will try to make one of his tools president. Vance in 2028 could be that occasion.

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sizzzzlerz May 7, 2024 • 7:10:51pm

re: #111 darthstar

I worked at a hardware store in high school and took a plug cord, twisted the ends together, and plugged it in. Blew out the entire electrical department. Guy who managed the department told me I was lucky I didn’t fry myself.

Now that’s what I like! Someone what don’t listen to those pointy-head “scientists”. A guy’s gotta do his own research, donchaknow.

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 7:11:43pm

re: #125 sizzzzlerz

Now that’s what I like! Someone what don’t listen to those pointy-head “scientists”. A guy’s gotta do his own research, donchaknow.

It was a short lesson, to be sure.

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Belafon May 7, 2024 • 7:12:33pm

A Dallas priest is accused of inappropriately touching two children, police said Tuesday.
Ricardo Reyes Mata, 34, a priest with the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, was arrested Monday on two counts of indecency with a child, Garland police said in a statement. Two children reported the inappropriate contact after the priest visited a home in Garland, police said. Detectives are working with the Dallas diocese.

Good job, Church, on cooperating. Now cooperate on prosecuting white men as well.

dallasnews.com

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Belafon May 7, 2024 • 7:13:36pm

re: #126 darthstar

It was a short lesson, to be sure.

You were a take-charge kind of guy back then.

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sizzzzlerz May 7, 2024 • 7:16:10pm

re: #126 darthstar

It was a short lesson, to be sure.

But a memorable one

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silverdolphin May 7, 2024 • 7:21:54pm

re: #113 EPR-radar

“Israel’s criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel’s last and best chance at bringing the hostages home”

I literally cannot even imagine NYT or WaPo coverage like this of Trump even now, let alone while he was still in office.

This is why I changed my subscription from the WaPo to Haaretz. They actually have apoint of view that is defensible. Not the boith sides of our papers.

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Dangerman May 7, 2024 • 7:24:22pm

re: #126 darthstar

It was a short lesson, to be sure.

Shocking!

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JC1 May 7, 2024 • 7:29:49pm

re: #122 EPR-radar

Fucking this. These two things are true:

1) It is literally unimaginable how a Republican candidate for president could be more of a rancid piece of shit than Trump, and

2) It is absolutely inevitable that the next Republican candidate for president will be more of a rancid piece of shit than Trump

I think that most of the MAGA movement will fade away once Trump is dead. We just gotta survive until then.

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teleskiguy May 7, 2024 • 7:36:16pm

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Belafon May 7, 2024 • 7:38:36pm

re: #132 JC1

I think that most of the MAGA movement will fade away once Trump is dead. We just gotta survive until then.

Trump is definitely a mix that the Right will have trouble replicating:
1. Racist (not that hard for them)
2. Willing to be in the same room with poor people
3. Plays both rich and poor at the same time
4. Speaks “Woe is me and my broke down truck” without being either threatened or owning a truck.
5. Loves attracting attention.

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sagehen May 7, 2024 • 7:39:05pm

re: #90 TedStriker

The BSA (the soon-to-be Scouting America) has had female youth and co-ed units in some form or fashion for at least 25-30 years in the Exploring and Learning for Life programs. What was new a few years ago was allowing female youth to join the “mainline” Boy Scouting and Cub Scouting programs (albeit with co-ed Cub packs being an option, but with only single-gender Scouts BSA troops) and, from all of seen and heard and experienced (having events with female Scouts BSA troops competing with the boys from my troop, as well as our charter org’s Cub pack that feeds into ours having female members), things seem to be going well.

What does this mean for Girl Scout Cookies?!?!

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Belafon May 7, 2024 • 7:40:06pm

re: #135 sagehen

What does this mean for Girl Scout Cookies?!?!

Nothing. Liberal families will continue to put their girls in Girl Scouts. Conservative families will finally put their girls in a scouting program.

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The Ghost of a Flea May 7, 2024 • 7:49:17pm

re: #132 JC1

I think that most of the MAGA movement will fade away once Trump is dead. We just gotta survive until then.

I disagree because I think he’s more of a figure that grants permission than a figure that attracts loyalty. His followers are people that, for example, get mad when he brings up his participation in Covid vaccine creation and threaten to disengage: he can disappoint them

When he dies his supporters will seek other people that grant the same permissions.

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The Ghost of a Flea May 7, 2024 • 7:54:27pm

re: #90 TedStriker

You know, if the Scouts has created clear, open accountability structures that’s actually a great thing.

Commitment to safety and guardianship is a process not a state, and what makes for a good institution is one that lays out how it’s system works clearly and shows its work.

I mean, it’s now at the ongoing part in which they have to keep doing it, but it’s still better than the alternate…constantly gesturing toward abstraction and symbols indicating that the old signifiers of their reliability can stand in for actual doing the work of being reliable.

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silverdolphin May 7, 2024 • 7:54:38pm

Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe

Of course they did. And hopefuly the employee who came forward and notified management has a long and healty life.

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Hecuba's daughter May 7, 2024 • 8:02:19pm

re: #133 teleskiguy

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Wishing you a very Happy Birthday and wonderful year!

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:04:12pm

re: #117 Florida Panhandler

That Supreme Court seat Trump has in his back pocket …she can just taste it already…

That’s his ass and her tongue is up it.

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William Lewis May 7, 2024 • 8:05:23pm

re: #139 silverdolphin

Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe

Of course they did. And hopefuly the employee who came forward and notified management has a long and healty life.

What was that about a diagnosis of a really rare aggressive form of cancer? ///////////////

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:05:34pm

re: #139 silverdolphin

Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe

Of course they did. And hopefuly the employee who came forward and notified management has a long and healty life.

Bring back the 707…also, it sounds good in a song.

Youtube Video

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goddamnedfrank May 7, 2024 • 8:12:16pm

re: #137 The Ghost of a Flea

I disagree because I think he’s more of a figure that grants permission than a figure that attracts loyalty. His followers are people that, for example, get mad when he brings up his participation in Covid vaccine creation and threaten to disengage: he can disappoint them

When he dies his supporters will seek other people that grant the same permissions.

Also, the underlying drivers of increasing world population and runaway climate change aren’t going away. Trump was just a horror show PT Barnum whose shape kind of snapped neatly into the gaping wound in America’s skull. A bunch of would be successors have already squeezed themselves through Enigma of Amigara Fault like holes chasing that shape and will do so again if necessary to become whatever this country’s diseased id requires.

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dat_said May 7, 2024 • 8:14:06pm

Chicago SunTimes: Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ is one of the decade’s worst movies

The latest entry in the brand-name genre is Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix movie “Unfrosted,” an astonishingly unfunny, deeply weird, live-action cartoon that is so clear-the-room dreadful it almost plays like a horror movie.

The review is brutal but pretty much explains why Seinfeld was preemptively complaining it’s impossible to be funny because of “woke”.

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Patricia Kayden May 7, 2024 • 8:16:13pm

re: #145 dat_said

O-o!! Now he’s going to complain incessantly about being canceled. He should stick to a comedy show with a great ensemble staff.

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:19:32pm

re: #146 Patricia Kayden

O-o!! Now he’s going to complain incessantly about being canceled. He should stick to a comedy show with a great ensemble staff.

Jerry Seinfeld was never very funny…okay, maybe a little Dennis Miller funny…but he has always punched down with his comedy, which makes him, well…an asshole. So of course his ‘unfrozen’ skit is going to be a flop…might as well have a romance with the Dilbert guy and Catturd2.

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:21:40pm

HOLY FUCKING SHIT…90% reporting and Trump still can’t break the 79% threshold…good…fuck that guy.

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Egregious Philbin May 7, 2024 • 8:25:55pm

re: #127 Belafon

Not a drag queen, go figure.

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Egregious Philbin May 7, 2024 • 8:27:02pm

re: #147 darthstar

Jerry could never handle it when Gilbert Gottfried and Bobcat Goldwaithe made fun of him.

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goddamnedfrank May 7, 2024 • 8:29:11pm

New particle just dropped.

Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:29:16pm

Mastodon

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:30:04pm

re: #151 goddamnedfrank

New particle just dropped.

I resolved the gluon particle problem when I installed a bidet during Covid.

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goddamnedfrank May 7, 2024 • 8:33:23pm

Jerry Seinfeld met Shoshanna Lonstein in a public park and got her phone number when she was 17 and he was 38.

That’s why he hates woke

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:34:45pm

re: #154 goddamnedfrank

Jerry Seinfeld met Shoshanna Lonstein in a public park and got her phone number when she was 17 and he was 38

That’s why he hates woke

He was barely 123% her age…

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IngisKahn May 7, 2024 • 8:38:52pm

re: #155 darthstar

223%

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:41:29pm

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No Malarkey! May 7, 2024 • 8:42:11pm

re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅

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In the battle for the sexual predator vote, Trump obviously has a big edge, but RFK Jr scored a key endorsement from Kevin Spacey. With OJ dead, all eyes turn to Bill Cosby for his endorsement!

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 8:42:13pm

re: #156 IngisKahn

Okay, okay…yes, 223% her age..I suck at math.

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Sherlock Hound May 7, 2024 • 8:51:35pm

re: #87 darthstar

One of the foreplay questions Trump apparently asked Stormy was if she ever got any STDs while making movies.

“Theirs or yours?”

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No Malarkey! May 7, 2024 • 8:51:49pm

re: #123 GlutenFreeJesus

JD Vance in 2028 I bet.

One thing for sure is that, assuming that Trump doesn’t seize power this year and shoot, imprison or exile all of his potential opposition, the presidential field in 2028 will be the largest in decades, if ever, because there will be a huge number of ambitious candidates from both parties running with no elderly incumbent blocking them. Almost every governor and senator under age 80 will at least think about throwing their hat in the ring.

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Belafon May 7, 2024 • 8:53:30pm

re: #157 darthstar

I would definitely spend some money going after those voters. If they’re willing to make that kind of effort to voice their objection to Trump, they may be persuadable. I wouldn’t make it the priority mission though. If you have to choose, organize to get more Democrats out to vote.

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Belafon May 7, 2024 • 8:55:19pm

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff will convene a panel in Atlanta on Tuesday focused on the role men can play in advocating for more access to abortion rights, according to sources familiar with the plans. https://t.co/FqbeZ3MzoB

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) May 5, 2024

Mark Kelly is one of the most moderate Democratic Senators. For him to plainly answer the filibuster question with a “yes” means if we go into 2024 with a trifecta, it will happen. We will codify Roe v. Wade into law.

You can’t pretend like you don’t understand the stakes. https://t.co/9pA0fgd3y6

— That Well-Adjusted Biden Guy (@What46HasDone) May 6, 2024

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Sherlock Hound May 7, 2024 • 8:58:22pm

re: #129 sizzzzlerz

But a memorable one

“Don’t sell yourself short!”

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silverdolphin May 7, 2024 • 9:02:19pm

Judges Boycotting Columbia Defend Decision Based On Outright Lie

I think it will be good for ANY lawyer to not be a clerk for any of these 13. They seem to be the worst.

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mmmirele May 7, 2024 • 9:02:50pm

re: #130 silverdolphin

This is why I changed my subscription from the WaPo to Haaretz. They actually have apoint of view that is defensible. Not the boith sides of our papers.

Yeah, I’m going to let my WaPo subscription lapse at the end of the year. Maybe I’ll pick up another Spanish-language newspaper (besides El País). I subscribe to the Guardian as well. Oh, yeah, that ¿Qué hora es? video is about my speaking ability, not my ability to read a book or newspaper in Spanish. Yeah, I probably should get a tutor.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 7, 2024 • 9:04:20pm

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darthstar May 7, 2024 • 9:10:26pm

re: #162 Belafon

I would definitely spend some money going after those voters. If they’re willing to make that kind of effort to voice their objection to Trump, they may be persuadable. I wouldn’t make it the priority mission though. If you have to choose, organize to get more Democrats out to vote.

the Lt Gov of Georgia coming out this week and saying that he wasn’t only not supporting Trump but was endorsing Biden as a ‘Conservative Republican’ is a huge hit.

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silverdolphin May 7, 2024 • 9:11:13pm

re: #166 mmmirele

Yeah, I’m going to let my WaPo subscription lapse at the end of the year. Maybe I’ll pick up another Spanish-language newspaper (besides El País). I subscribe to the Guardian as well. Oh, yeah, that ¿Qué hora es? video is about my speaking ability, not my ability to read a book or newspaper in Spanish. Yeah, I probably should get a tutor.

Yeah. The Guardian took my NYT money several years ago. And I also support the Texas Tribune. Good modern newspaper devoted to the truth. So far.

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Romantic Heretic May 7, 2024 • 9:14:43pm

re: #144 goddamnedfrank

Upding for a mention of one of the most disturbing Junji Ito manga of all time.

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Sherlock Hound May 7, 2024 • 9:17:09pm

re: #166 mmmirele

Yeah, I’m going to let my WaPo subscription lapse at the end of the year. Maybe I’ll pick up another Spanish-language newspaper (besides El País). I subscribe to the Guardian as well. Oh, yeah, that ¿Qué hora es? video is about my speaking ability, not my ability to read a book or newspaper in Spanish. Yeah, I probably should get a tutor.

If you get serious with Spanish grammar, Laura Lawless has a website known as Lawless Spanish, which offers grammar lessons and spaced repetition tests. A six-month subscription is reasonable in price. This is a spinoff of her Lawless French program that I used to learn French. The drillings are repetitious, but I did learn French grammar unconditionally; French is now with me forever.

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Dr Lizardo May 7, 2024 • 9:23:01pm

re: #170 Romantic Heretic

Upding for a mention of one of the most disturbing Junji Ito manga of all time.

It’d also make a fantastic short anime.

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William Lewis May 7, 2024 • 9:24:43pm

re: #154 goddamnedfrank

Jerry Seinfeld met Shoshanna Lonstein in a public park and got her phone number when she was 17 and he was 38.

That’s why he hates woke

That and the fact that he was never funny? (sorry, never liked the show.)

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mmmirele May 7, 2024 • 9:27:38pm

re: #139 silverdolphin

Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe

Of course they did. And hopefuly the employee who came forward and notified management has a long and healty life.

Reminds me of a brief discussion we had at work today about execs cutting staff

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mmmirele May 7, 2024 • 9:33:24pm

FYI, please be aware of this scam and keep in mind the maxim, “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is.”

Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests

Carmen Aguilar García, Sarah Marsh and Philip McMahon

Wed 8 May 2024 00.00 EDT

More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China.

An international investigation by the Guardian, Die Zeit and Le Monde gives a rare inside look at the mechanics of what the UK’s Chartered Trading Standards Institute has described as one of the largest scams of its kind, with 76,000 fake websites created.

A trove of data examined by reporters and IT experts indicates the operation is highly organised, technically savvy - and ongoing.

Operating on an industrial scale, programmers have created tens of thousands of fake web shops offering discounted goods from Dior, Nike, Lacoste, Hugo Boss, Versace and Prada, as well as many other premium brands.

Published in multiple languages from English to German, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian, the websites appear to have been set up to lure shoppers into parting with money and sensitive personal data.

However, the sites have no connection to the brands they claim to sell and in most cases consumers who spoke about their experience said they received no items.

Link: theguardian.com

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William Lewis May 7, 2024 • 9:38:17pm

re: #174 mmmirele

I don’t even need all that many zeros to get excited. I misplaced a minus sign on the daily audit the other night and ended up -$200,000 off. For a 99 room hotel, that’s a smidge much for one night 🤣 Fairly easy to find and fix that one though 😈

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silverdolphin May 7, 2024 • 9:49:25pm

How Israel Can Still Win the Ultimate Victory Over Hamas and Iran

Brings up how the proposed defense treaty members were all involved in bringing down the Iranian attack. If Netanyahu can be convinced to accept, not only does he become a hero but he also makes Israel’s defense against Iran a multinational proposition.

Normalization of relations between SA and Israel. Mutual defense treaty. access to US munitions. India Middle-East economic Corridor. That would transform the ME.

Hope it could happen.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 7, 2024 • 10:03:22pm

I’ve mentioned before that Ukraine is probably the world center for the scale model building hobby. The war effort has impeded this activity, obviously, but it continues on a reduced scale and is a useful source of foreign exchange.
I got this formidible looking piece of laser cut plywood today, straight from Kyiv. If I can manage it, this will eventually be assembled into a precision jig for building model airplanes. It also has a bulging bag of nuts, bolts, screws and metal scales and other hardware that I have yet to identify.
There seem to be potentially infinite adjustments and settings.

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No Malarkey! May 7, 2024 • 10:13:39pm

re: #165 silverdolphin

Judges Boycotting Columbia Defend Decision Based On Outright Lie

I think it will be good for ANY lawyer to not be a clerk for any of these 13. They seem to be the worst.

Well, if you are a christo-fascist Federalist Society member looking for a fast track onto the federal judiciary the next time a Republican is President because you are eager to strip Americans of their constitutional rights and impose a theocratic state on the country, this is bad news if you were planning to attend Columbia. But fuck them.

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BeenHereAwhile May 7, 2024 • 10:20:07pm

re: #68 Sherlock Hound

$2 dollar bills are not common, but dollar coins are still in circulation.

One of the family carries $2 bills to give as tips.

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No Malarkey! May 7, 2024 • 10:29:05pm

re: #180 BeenHereAwhile

One of the family carries $2 bills to give as tips.

I haven’t seen one in years.

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Hecuba's daughter May 7, 2024 • 10:37:51pm

re: #180 BeenHereAwhile

One of the family carries $2 bills to give as tips.

My BIL does that too! And a girl friend and I were passing a $2 bill between us the past week, when reconciling costs.

OT — this evening I got into a brief disagreement with a FOAF who posted on FB that she no longer trusted Joe Biden, had no one to vote for, and was hoping that Jeff Duncan would run in 2028. I was shocked by her comment and pointed out he was an election denier; she objected and told me to read an article. Turned out she meant Geoff Duncan, not Jeff Duncan! Still a Republican but at least one that cares about this nation.

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teleskiguy May 7, 2024 • 10:41:13pm

Mastodon

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JC1 May 7, 2024 • 11:59:42pm

re: #134 Belafon

Trump is definitely a mix that the Right will have trouble replicating:
1. Racist (not that hard for them)
2. Willing to be in the same room with poor people
3. Plays both rich and poor at the same time
4. Speaks “Woe is me and my broke down truck” without being either threatened or owning a truck.
5. Loves attracting attention.

Decade of The Apprentice convinced people that he’s a savvy businessman.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 12:08:22am

61 years ago, the ancestor to the Apple Vision Pro, and the Borg, was revealed:

1962: The TELEVISION SET You Can WEAR | Tonight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 12:09:32am

re: #132 JC1

I think that most of the MAGA movement will fade away once Trump is dead. We just gotta survive until then.

But MAGA is just a mutation of the “Tea Party” scam, which itself was just refreshed JBS crap.

This stuff never ends, because it plays on the baser nature of humans.

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JC1 May 8, 2024 • 12:14:35am

re: #186 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But MAGA is just a mutation of the “Tea Party” scam, which itself was just refreshed JBS crap.

This stuff never ends, because it plays on the baser nature of humans.

Trump brought out a lot of people that were never in the tea party or jbs. Yes, it’s the same stupid schtick, but he got way more votes in 2020 than the jbs or tea party ever did.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 12:19:46am

re: #18 CleverToad

My mom and two older sisters were never present on Facebook. Makes it easier.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 12:21:33am

re: #24 Captain Ron

Trump claims these issues were “fully adjudicated by the Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election.”

The first WSJ story on the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels didn’t land until January 2018.

Remember DJT’s unsubstantiated claims that he would have won the popular vote in 2016 if Hillary had not allowed and encouraged millions of illegal votes against him?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 12:31:17am

re: #161 No Malarkey!

One thing for sure is that, assuming that Trump doesn’t seize power this year and shoot, imprison or exile all of his potential opposition, the presidential field in 2028 will be the largest in decades, if ever, because there will be a huge number of ambitious candidates from both parties running with no elderly incumbent blocking them. Almost every governor and senator under age 80 will at least think about throwing their hat in the ring.

And the GOP candidate will be the one who can position themself as the farthest right and the most conservatively ideologically unassailable (gun rights, anti-abortion, anti-woke, abolish taxes and regulations)

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No Malarkey! May 8, 2024 • 12:53:47am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And the GOP candidate will be the one who can position themself as the farthest right and the most conservatively ideologically (gun rights, anti-abortion, anti-woke, abolish taxes and regulations) pure

Not necessarily. One reason Trump won the GOP primary in 2016 is that he promised not to cut Social Security or Medicare, while also being the most extreme on immigration. I think that whoever came come across as the most authentic (in base voters eyes) populist will win, and its impossible to guess at this time who that might be.

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No Malarkey! May 8, 2024 • 12:57:38am

Biden Administration pauses bomb shipment to Israel out of concern the bombs would be used in Rafah. I guarantee you Trump would not do that.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 1:04:43am

Birb today. Note I used the same correct letter in the same incorrect place in guess 2. I guess I’m going to be stupid today. Yay me.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 1:09:38am

re: #187 JC1

Trump brought out a lot of people that were never in the tea party or jbs. Yes, it’s the same stupid schtick, but he got way more votes in 2020 than the jbs or tea party ever did.

The “Tea Party” was never a real party, so it never had any viable candidates on the national stage.

It was an astroturfed insurgency, to revert American politics via revanchism and bigotry.

The energy for the Tea Partiers was fueled by the melanin in Obama’s skin.

The GOP establishment put up Romney against Obama and the Tea Partiers were most definitely not going to vote for a rich Mormon.

If Trump had run in 2012 he may have beat Obama.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 1:10:58am

Elvis Presley - Milkcow Blues Boogie (Official Audio)

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No Malarkey! May 8, 2024 • 1:17:45am

re: #194 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The “Tea Party” was never a real party, so it never had any viable candidates on the national stage.

It was an astroturfed insurgency, to revert American politics via revanchism and bigotry.

The energy for the Tea Partiers was fueled by the melanin in Obama’s skin.

The GOP establishment put up Romney against Obama and the Tea Partiers were most definitely not going to vote for a rich Mormon.

If Trump had run in 2012 he may have beat Obama.

I think President Obama would’ve crushed Trump like a bug. President Obama was popular with the majority of Americans, and Trump never has been.

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No Malarkey! May 8, 2024 • 1:21:48am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 1:28:08am

re: #197 No Malarkey!

You mean like how DJT won the 2016 even though he lost and insists that he won the 2020 election even though he lost, and how he won the court cases for sexual assault and bank fraud even though he lost?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 1:29:23am

re: #194 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The “Tea Party” was never a real party, so it never had any viable candidates on the national stage.

It was an astroturfed insurgency, to revert American politics via revanchism and bigotry.

The energy for the Tea Partiers was fueled by the melanin in Obama’s skin.

The GOP establishment put up Romney against Obama and the Tea Partiers were most definitely not going to vote for a rich Mormon.

If Trump had run in 2012 he may have beat Obama.

Wasn’t Ginni T deeply involved in the Pee Party? I seem to recall…

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TedStriker May 8, 2024 • 1:29:24am

re: #136 Belafon

Nothing. Liberal families will continue to put their girls in Girl Scouts. Conservative families will finally put their girls in a scouting program.

As easy as it is for you to say “Girl Scouts = liberal” and “BSA = conservative”, it’s not always that cut and dry. I will grant that the BSA as an organization, with the majority of charter orgs being or having been churches and a belief in some sort of Creator being a linchpin of both the Scout Oath and Law, has traditionally skewed “conservative”, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the membership has to be. But, one of the big reasons why National allowed girls to join Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting/Scouts BSA was that there was enough demand where sisters of those already in the program wanted to do what their brothers did in Scouting (and also partially because the Mormons pulling out of the program nationwide because of National’s actions in addressing the CSA problems put a huge dent in membership and finances); we already had a lot of that when Exploring went co-ed decades ago, because there were young women who joined to go do things like hiking, backpacking, and other high-adventure activities that their local Girl Scouts units weren’t doing, even if they didn’t already have male family members involved with Scouting.

Both the BSA and the GSUSA have community service as cornerstones of their respective programs and this is where a lot of the “Girl Scouts = liberal” and “BSA = conservative” argument comes in: the GSUSA’s brand of community service can be seen as “softer”, with a much greater emphasis on social issues, especially those that affect girls and young women, and empowerment. As someone has fancies himself to be a liberal, I have absolutely no problem with that and think that girls/young women should choose the program that fits best with what they want to do.

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 1:40:40am

re: #200 TedStriker

While there is much to that, there is the simple reality - for me - that I saw BSA briefly as a cub scout and wanted to nothing to do with it. I enjoy the outdoors. I hunt. I camp. Yeah, liberal but patriotic and even have a certain form of religious belief.

But I consider that particular organization to be hopelessly corrupt and refused to allow my son to go anywhere near it, even had he wanted to. If he’d wanted that type of social group, I’d have found him a 4H club instead.

No matter what they try to name it or lipstick they try to put on it, the only way things will get better is the day it goes away for good.

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TedStriker May 8, 2024 • 1:48:00am

re: #201 William Lewis

While there is much to that, there is the simple reality that I saw BSA briefly as a cub scout and wanted to nothing to do with it. I enjoy the outdoors. I hunt. I camp. Yeah, liberal but patriotic and even have a certain form of religious belief.

But I consider that particular organization to be hopelessly corrupt and refused to allow my son to go anywhere near it, even had he wanted to. If he’d wanted that type of social group, I’d have found him a 4H club instead.

No matter what they try to name it or lipstick they try to put on it, the only way things will get better is the day it goes away for good.

I know I’ll never change your mind or anyone else’s, but, if I had to hazard a guess, the Scout leaders you dealt with back in the day failed you and every boy in their care and were not worthy of the position. I’m younger than you (I was in elementary school when you were in the Army in the 80s, IIRC), but I’m sorry for that, FWIW.

That’s really all I have to say on that.

/off to bed

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Patricia Kayden May 8, 2024 • 1:53:48am

re: #196 No Malarkey!

Agreed. President Obama beat McCain and Romney quite handily. I don’t see Trump beating him at all. Trump was able to beat Secretary Clinton because some on the left had an irrational hatred of her. I have friends who told me that they hated her but held their noses and voted for her anyways. Sadly, too many purity ponies refused to vote and allowed Trump to win the Electoral College.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 2:09:00am

re: #203 Patricia Kayden

Agreed. President Obama beat McCain and Romney quite handily. I don’t see Trump beating him at all. Trump was able to beat Secretary Clinton because some on the left had an irrational hatred of her. I have friends who told me that they hated her but held their noses and voted for her anyways. Sadly, too many purity ponies refused to vote and allowed Trump to win the Electoral College.

And Comey and Cambridge Analytica (fuck you Zuch) micro targeting states for the EC win.

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No Malarkey! May 8, 2024 • 2:17:12am

Indianapolis columnist barred from covering Caitlin Clark and her team after seeming to hit on her during a press conference. He is in his late fifties and she is a 22 year old rookie.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 3:07:12am

re: #205 No Malarkey!

Indianapolis columnist barred from covering Caitlin Clark and her team after seeming to hit on her during a press conference. He is in his late fifties and she is a 22 year old rookie.

While clumsy AF, I’m not sure that’s really hitting on her. That’s not what I walked away from reading the exchange.

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 3:16:15am

re: #206 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

While clumsy AF, I’m not sure that’s really hitting on her. That’s not what I walked away from reading the exchange.

Yeah, my feeling too.

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 3:24:28am

re: #206 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

While clumsy AF, I’m not sure that’s really hitting on her. That’s not what I walked away from reading the exchange.

It reads like an old person’s attempt to resonate with a young person. Awkward, yes. Borderline, also yes. I think the Indianapolis Star is just paranoid, but to be honest, I also don’t blame them; because things can go from “borderline” to “holy fucking shit call the cops” in a real hurry.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 3:26:11am

Those radical Vermonters:

Vt. House greenlights bill requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damage

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 3:31:28am

Wow. That was a word.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 3:31:32am

damn i hate that picture up top
it is all kinds of creepy

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steve_davis May 8, 2024 • 3:36:29am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

3-phase 120V is nothing to fuck around with. I don’t even take chances; when there’s an electrical project in the house, that breaker goes off before I take anything off, and doesn’t get touched until everything’s put back together.

lol! Remembering the maintenance guy who installed the new washer. “I wonder why there’s no cover over this…” he mutters moments before sparks come off the screwdriver he’s moving around under the base. A lot of well meaning men have died after muttering “I wonder why.”

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 3:37:32am

How about a bit of a classic for some tunes?

Johny B Goode original Chess 78 RPM (1957)

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 3:37:49am

re: #212 steve_davis

lol! Remembering the maintenance guy who installed the new washer. “I wonder why there’s no cover over this…” he mutters moments before sparks come off the screwdriver he’s moving around under the base. A lot of well meaning men have died after muttering “I wonder why.”

As an engineer, the standard phrase in my profession is, “That’s interesting.” It signifies that someone has found a thing that they 1) don’t understand, and 2) have an immediate and intense desire to investigate aid fix. This can lead to… unfortunate results in some of the more physical branches of engineering.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 3:40:59am

EU Climate Change Service: World experienced hottest April on record | ANC

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ May 8, 2024 • 3:41:26am

Took forever.
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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 3:47:20am

Some hump-day, morning thunderstorm, drive time music to get your ass outta bed! It is going to be a good day!!!!

“new body rhumba” - LCD Soundsystem

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steve_davis May 8, 2024 • 3:54:56am

re: #208 Nerdy Fish

It reads like an old person’s attempt to resonate with a young person. Awkward, yes. Borderline, also yes. I think the Indianapolis Star is just paranoid, but to be honest, I also don’t blame them; because things can go from “borderline” to “holy fucking shit call the cops” in a real hurry.

Yes, that was as awkward as the old men who wander around the library because senior living is nearby, hitting on the librarians in their oafish manner. “Stay in your lane!” I want to shout, but I’m nearing sixty which means they’ll be in my lane if they stay in theirs.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 3:56:53am

on jerry seinfeld and the age gap thing

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 4:02:31am

The Peanut Butter Falcon is playing now on Netflix, I recommend watching it.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 4:03:01am

re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember DJT’s unsubstantiated claims that he would have won the popular vote in 2016 if Hillary had not allowed and encouraged millions of illegal votes against him?

He never explains how.
Or can point to one single illegal vote

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 4:10:28am

re: #203 Patricia Kayden

Agreed. President Obama beat McCain and Romney quite handily. I don’t see Trump beating him at all. Trump was able to beat Secretary Clinton because some on the left had an irrational hatred of her. I have friends who told me that they hated her but held their noses and voted for her anyways. Sadly, too many purity ponies refused to vote and allowed Trump to win the Electoral College.

And they did a lot to convince people that there was no difference between the candidates, why bother to vote at all. Apathy and indifference are the most effective forms of voter suppression.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 4:14:24am

re: #221 Dangerman

He never explains how.
Or can point to one single illegal vote

Of course not. In 2016 he was just preaparing the ground for his inevitable popular vote loss in 2020…and he came within a hair of pulling it off.

Had it not been for Covid and the overwhelming pro-Biden turnout plus a handful of GOP state election commissioners who still had a few shreds of country-over-party integrity left, he would have succeeded.

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Belafon May 8, 2024 • 4:14:40am

re: #200 TedStriker

I figure someone would point out that the dividing line isn’t quite that. One of the families I know with their daughters in Girl Scouts is conservative. But I do know families whose boys are in scouting but not their daughters.

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Belafon May 8, 2024 • 4:16:09am

re: #209 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Those radical Vermonters:

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Oil companies sue Vermont in South Trxas.

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Belafon May 8, 2024 • 4:21:14am

I know the bald nepo babies @AGSNYT (family has owned the paper since 1896) and @nycscribe (dad was the CEO of Staples) are crying rn https://t.co/vR702LoADI pic.twitter.com/2N4qYxTOP2

— Banana Fiefdom (@TonyMoonbeam) May 8, 2024

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 4:27:11am

A little local, but still quite important.

A local woman, who beat ovarian cancer twice, is focusing her efforts on research and improving the lives of patients. Meg Wilkinson, of Rexford, started her own advocacy group called The Omentum Project and enlisted a team of volunteer researchers to look at an organ that is rarely studied.

In 2014, a routine checkup for Wilkinson turned into a life changing diagnosis. Doctors told her she had ovarian cancer, and she underwent surgery. “It was a full hysterectomy, also the cancer, and then this organ no one has ever heard of,” said Wilkinson.

The organ she is referring to is called the omentum, which lines the stomach and helps with the immune and digestive systems. “It has a tendency to gather cancer cells, and that’s why they remove it,” Wilkinson explained.

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The study is seeking 400 women in total: 200 with an omentum and 200 who had their omentum removed during a surgical procedure. Participants are asked to eat a certain amount of popcorn in one sitting, all in the name of science.

news10.com

theomentumproject.org

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 4:27:51am

…the Constitution gives power over both taxation and regulation of foreign commerce to Congress, which complicates the extent to which the president can impose tariffs through executive action. Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s top trade counselor, has said publicly that the former president could invoke one of two legal theories to justify a ‘universal’ tariff on all U.S. trading partners.”

creating ‘legal theories’ to justify doing what you want

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 4:28:28am

So we are getting the big payoff after a long winter: a whole week of 70-ish and sunny.

I tell people coming to Germany that the best time to visit is May/early June or September/early October

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 4:29:21am

re: #228 Dangerman

creating ‘legal theories’ to justify doing what you want

Very much in the conservative spirit of Constitutional Originalism.

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 4:31:17am

C’mon everybody!

Sesame Street: Elmo Slide

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 4:31:23am

remember this?
Trump, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Xi’s US Foxx.Conn’s rep.

“President Biden will travel to Racine County, Wisconsin, on Wednesday to unveil a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence data center,” Axios reports.

“It’s another high-profile announcement from the president on how he’s helping to create jobs with private sector investment — but with a twist.**”

“He’ll be taking a not-so-subtle shot at former President Trump in the same location where Trump touted a $10 billion Foxconn facility, which he called the ‘eighth wonder of the world’ seven years ago.”

“That facility was scaled back and never fully materialized.”

** yeah, the ‘twist’ is it’ll actually happen

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 4:38:57am

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

So we are getting the big payoff after a long winter: a whole week of 70-ish and sunny.

I tell people coming to Germany that the best time to visit is May/early June or September/early October

Very very true, especially in northern Bavaria. I remember it well. A lovely time for weekends at a beach with a rack of half dunkel hefe-weiss & half spezi from the nearest local brewery. 😎

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 4:50:05am

re: #232 Dangerman

remember this?
Trump, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Xi’s US Foxx.Conn’s rep.

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** yeah, the ‘twist’ is it’ll actually happen

That is just TOO funny 🤣🤣🤣 I hope that little incompetent Scooter Walker’s watching and realizing he’ll always be a nothing.

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Dizzy May 8, 2024 • 4:54:33am

WTF?

R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brainhttps://t.co/KivB09SuCw

— Current Status (@currentstatus) May 8, 2024

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 4:55:28am

re: #208 Nerdy Fish

It reads like an old person’s attempt to resonate with a young person. Awkward, yes. Borderline, also yes. I think the Indianapolis Star is just paranoid, but to be honest, I also don’t blame them; because things can go from “borderline” to “holy fucking shit call the cops” in a real hurry.

💯

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 4:56:56am

re: #235 Dizzy

What’s the difference between RFK Jr’s brain and a bottle of tequila?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 4:58:51am

re: #236 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It reads like an old person’s attempt to resonate with a young person. Awkward, yes. Borderline, also yes. I think the Indianapolis Star is just paranoid, but to be honest, I also don’t blame them; because things can go from “borderline” to “holy fucking shit call the cops” in a real hurry.

on my way to becoming a senior gent, I have grown aware of situations where I simply want to pay a compliment to a younger woman without sounding creepy.

Unfortunately “you remind me of my daughter” has come to have rather unsavory connotations lately

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Dizzy May 8, 2024 • 5:01:20am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What’s the difference between RFK Jr’s brain and a bottle of tequila?

Tequila serves a purpose.

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 5:01:37am

re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

as a senior gent, I am also aware of situations where I simply want to pay a compliment to a younger woman without sounding creepy.

Unfortunately “you remind me of my daughter” has come to have rather unsavory connotations lately

Only if you hand her a rolled up magazine first? ///

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 5:03:14am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What’s the difference between RFK Jr’s brain and a bottle of tequila?

Alcohol is an enjoyable poison, RFK jr is simply poisonous…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 5:03:28am

re: #235 Dizzy

WTF?

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Well, that might explain things.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 5:04:13am

re: #235 Dizzy

WTF?

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This is the first time his behavior has made any sense. Major physical brain damage explains everything he’s said and done.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 5:05:12am

re: #239 Dizzy

Tequila serves a purpose.

“Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Hillary Clinton walk into a bar…”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 5:05:39am

re: #239 Dizzy

Tequila serves a purpose.

you are sober the next day

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Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 5:08:42am

re: #243 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This is the first time his behavior has made any sense. Major physical brain damage explains everything he’s said and done.

Someone check Trump’s CT scan.

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 5:09:14am

US. Pauses Weapons Shipments to Israel over Rafah concerns
nbcnews.com

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 5:10:57am

re: #246 Decatur Deb

Someone check Trump’s CT scan.

Trump’s brain has the biggest and best lesions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 5:20:15am

re: #248 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Trump’s brain has the biggest and best lesions.

American Lesions!!!

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Markm1960 May 8, 2024 • 5:24:23am

re: #232 Dangerman

remember this?
Trump, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Xi’s US Foxx.Conn’s rep.

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** yeah, the ‘twist’ is it’ll actually happen

My son was in college in 2018 and went toTaiwan for an engineering conference/competition. While there he was offered a job with Foxcon. He’d spend two years in Taiwan training and then be transferred to Wisconsin. Thank god he didn’t go that route,

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 5:26:25am

We just had a torrential downpour with hail, some pieces nearly quarter sized.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 5:27:42am

re: #251 Randall Gross

We just had a torrential downpour with hail, some pieces nearly quarter sized.

Quarter of a Man

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 5:28:19am

Don’t know who Mr. Kuroda is, but he clearly loves roses:

【Private Residence】Mr. Kuroda’s Residence 2024. 黒田庭 2024 #4khdr

..

Shows how a dedicated gardener can make use of every square inch of property.

Japan gets a lot of rain and can support lush landscapes.

Here in SoCal it is almost impossible. Still, people can make much better use of their properties. Typical residence here is both wrongly planted and under planted.

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 5:29:32am

If you encourage a behavior, you will have more of it.

Public drug use became illegal in British Columbia once again on Tuesday, after the federal government granted the province’s request to scale back its drug decriminalization pilot.

The change represents a major policy climbdown for the provincial NDP government more than a year into the three-year pilot program with Ottawa that is aimed at tackling the deadly overdose crisis.

msn.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 5:31:32am

re: #254 Shropshire Slasher

If you encourage a behavior, you will have more of it.

msn.com

This is a medical/mental health issue as well as a social/criminal issue, unless you address it as such, you are just playing whack-a-mole.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅ May 8, 2024 • 5:38:14am

re: #235 Dizzy

WTF?

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RFK, Jr clearly has brain worms the doctors missed.

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 5:39:23am

Clydesdale foals
riverfronttimes.com

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DodgerFan1988 May 8, 2024 • 5:43:19am

Why is Elon Musk a kleptofascist supporter of Russia?

Musk is a longtermist. He’s concerned with the future of humanity for thousands of years to come. It’s why he wants to colonise Mars.

That sounds admirable, but in the hands of a super-rich narcissist like Musk, it is the…

— Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #PATH #FBPE (@nickreeves9876) May 7, 2024

Elon Musk and eugenics. https://t.co/XjR0d5mMyW

— Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #PATH #FBPE (@nickreeves9876) May 7, 2024

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 5:43:41am

In Detroit, Kamala Harris Touts Fed Funds to help Smaller Businesses Bridge to Electric Fleets
www.bridgemi.com/michigan-gov…

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T12:43:11.787Z

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 5:49:07am

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 5:53:28am

What Donald Trump’s version of “quite well” means: https://t.co/8rBMdJFUVg pic.twitter.com/SW2qL7jmLa

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 8, 2024

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Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 5:53:49am

re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I also don’t know who Mr. Kuroda is, but I would very much like to see that for myself one day.

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 6:02:39am

Cybertruck visits Nantucket…parks on sidewalk (pissing off locals) gets stuck on beach (to the joy of locals).

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 6:03:25am

- Plus if you don’t support exceptions for rape/incest, that means you don’t give a damn about the most violent violation of a woman’s body short of murder

- anx in states like Louisiana, a father can rape his daughter and force her to give birth to the baby.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 6:04:45am

re: #258 DodgerFan1988

A few months ago Sabine Hossenfelder posted a video about longtermism, including Trump, and how she was not happy with it.

As a German she can see it for what it is: a Fourth Reich.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 6:06:20am

re: #264 Dangerman

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- Plus if you don’t support exceptions for rape/incest, that means you don’t give a damn about the most violent violation of a woman’s body short of murder

- anx in states like Louisiana, a father can rape his daughter and force her to give birth to the baby.

Rape is not a violation of her rights, it is a violation of the rights of her father/husband.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 6:08:01am

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

Rape is not a violation of her rights, it is a violation of the rights of her father/husband.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 6:08:14am

New Apple TV show. Released today.

Jennifer Connelly Praises Joel Edgerton and Explains Her Multiple Roles in Dark Matter

Dark Matter continues what Apple TV+ honestly does best — smart, polished, and expansive science fiction. Whether it’s Foundation, Constellation, or Invasion (they don’t all end with that suffix, promise), sci-fi has a real home at Apple TV+. The latest show is an adaptation from Blake Crouch, who has had previous work adapted to television (Wayward Pines, Good Behavior). He’s in charge of most of it here, and that’s a good thing, with Dark Matter being the best televisual translation of Crouch’s work.

The series follows a man named Jason (played by Joel Edgerton) who gets abducted from his reality and thrust into an alternate one, where he no longer has a family but is a rich and famous scientist. In this world, he has created a sort of life-size Schrödinger’s box which can put a person (or a cat) in the quantum state of a superposition, in which every possibility is accessible. Except, it’s not so easy to simply visit different parallel worlds. And so, Jason embarks on an Odyssean attempt to return home to his reality, with his son, his job, and his wife.

That wife is played by Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly, who also appears in multiple other realities as variations on her character, Daniela. Connelly spoke with MovieWeb about the sci-fi drama and its existential questions.

movieweb.com

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 6:09:55am

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 6:14:34am

Just think what a difference the Mike Pence endorsement could make!

Mastodon

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lawhawk May 8, 2024 • 6:20:05am

We get a break from Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan today, as it is a scheduled day off.

Think my eyes still need another dose of brain bleach to combat the visuals conjured up by yesterday’s legal doings.

And no, I’m not talking about the sex bits, or even that Trump pictured Stormy as his daughter Ivanka.

I’m talking about Loose Cannon delaying the classified docs trial indefinitely because she admits she doesn’t have a clue what she’s doing, but will delay on behalf of Trump thanks to the say so of the Federalist Society whispering in her ear.

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 6:21:23am

Definitely disappointed with their fashion sense.

The anti-Israel encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan was cleared away Tuesday evening — after dozens of protesters were arrested for refusing to shut down their rally.

NYPD officers in riot helmets and carrying zip ties moved in on the crowd of hundreds just 10 minutes after announcing that those who failed to vacate the West 27th Street campus would be charged with trespassing.

nypost.com

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lawhawk May 8, 2024 • 6:23:46am

RFK Jr. claims that he had testing done and they found that the worms had eaten part of his brain.

Yup. That tracks. Too good to fact check.

And his claims also remind me of this song:

Waiting For The Worms

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 6:26:41am

Called it, they didn’t want mom and dad to know there was alcohol on the boat.

The family of one of two teen boys facing felonies for dumping drums of trash into the Atlantic Ocean at Florida’s annual Boca Bash issued an apology after their son turned himself into the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).

Now-viral drone footage shows the teens hefting two trash bins filled with bottles and other plastics over the railing of their fishing vessel as they speed away from the boozy water gathering on April 28.

As the boat of partiers zoomed away into the choppy waters of the Boca Raton inlet, the video pans out to the spread of debris left floating in their wake.

nypost.com

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Egregious Philbin May 8, 2024 • 6:26:49am

re: #273 lawhawk

American Politics 2024….

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 6:28:10am

Damn, another one! Billy Joel, Hannity, and now Drew!

There will be one less celebrity in the Hamptons this summer if Drew Barrymore finds a buyer for her ritzy East End place on Long Island.

The 49-year-old host of “The Drew Barrymore Show” just listed the converted barn estate is listed for $8,450,000.

Barrymore, bought the 1.7-acre Sagaponack estate in 2019 for a reported $5.5 million and remodeled the house.

nypost.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 6:41:34am

re: #276 Shropshire Slasher

It was almost four centuries ago that the Dutch settled on Long Island. (Including some of my ancestors.)

Four centuries from now Long Island will not be quite so long, made smaller due to sea level rise.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 6:43:12am

New moniker for RFJ Jr.

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain [HQ]

(on the one hand, it is not nice to make fun of someone’s medical condition, but this would not have become public knowledge if he had not chosen to run for President)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 6:43:47am

Will Long Island still be inhabited (by humans) in the year 2424? (Sounds like a Zager and Evans song.)

I suspect so, but with at least one order of magnitude fewer people.

The population of the greater NYC area will have moved farther inland.

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jeffreyw May 8, 2024 • 6:47:52am

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 6:49:28am

re: #280 jeffreyw

could I get my order with a fried egg on the side?

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 6:52:56am

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 6:54:06am

Lying.
Its all I know

Trump last night posted a meme in which a former Wharton professor calls Trump “the smartest student I ever had.”

The actual alleged quote, as relayed by a close friend of the late professor in 2017:

“Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that ‘Donald Trump was… pic.twitter.com/TjVmnI6Eal

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) May 8, 2024

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 6:57:10am

HOLY WRATH OF KHAN, BATMAN!

‘Literal brain worms’: Critics shocked by report neurologist removed parasite from RFK Jr.’s head

Back in 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was suffering memory loss. And people close to him, according to the New York Times’ Susanne Craig, feared he might have a brain tumor — as his uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), had died of brain cancer in 2009.

But Craig, in an article published on May 8, reports that RFK Jr. — now an independent presidential hopeful — didn’t have a tumor in 2010. After conducting tests in 2012, a New York City neurologist, according to RFK Jr., believed the abnormality “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

“Now an independent presidential candidate,” Craig explains, “the 70-year-old Mr. Kennedy has portrayed his athleticism and relative youth as an advantage over the two oldest people to ever seek the White House: President Biden, 81, and former President Donald J. Trump, 77…. Still, over the years, he has faced serious health issues, some previously undisclosed, including the apparent parasite.”

Craig adds, “For decades, Mr. Kennedy suffered from atrial fibrillation, a common heartbeat abnormality that increases the risk of stroke or heart failure. He has been hospitalized at least four times for episodes, although in an interview with The Times this winter, he said he had not had an incident in more than a decade and believed the condition had disappeared.”

alternet.org

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Eventual Carrion May 8, 2024 • 6:57:54am

re: #60 (((Archangel1)))

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 7:00:27am

re: #284 Joe Bacon ✅

Joe at 81 is far healthier than DT or RFK Jr. Hmm. I rather have Joe as President.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 7:00:58am

re: #244 Dangerman

“Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Hillary Clinton walk into a bar…”

That’s impossible to read on a phone. Yikes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 7:01:24am

re: #246 Decatur Deb

Someone check Trump’s CT scan.

Trump has syphilis brain rot.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 7:06:02am

re: #288 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

and do not forget his junk food diet.

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 7:07:33am

He’s getting away with it. Again.

Georgia’s court of appeals agrees to hear the Trump defendants’ interlocutory appeal of the judge’s decision not to kick Fani Willis off the Fulton County RICO case (because of her romantic entanglement with another prosecutor), effectively indefinitely postponing another Trump trial.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T13:55:44.604Z

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 7:08:41am

You know, there was a period of time where I actually believed something substantially punitive would happen to this man. I was wrong. I’m sorry. The rich and powerful - even the perceived rich and powerful - can do whatever they want. It’s only us little people that suffer consequences for our actions.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 7:08:42am

re: #264 Dangerman

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- Plus if you don’t support exceptions for rape/incest, that means you don’t give a damn about the most violent violation of a woman’s body short of murder

- anx in states like Louisiana, a father can rape his daughter and force her to give birth to the baby.

Exactly what I’ve been saying all along. If you put any morality into removing a parasitic clump of cells, you’ve already lost.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ May 8, 2024 • 7:12:12am

re: #265 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

She now has an asteroid named after her - Hossie, what she was call while I school.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 7:13:35am

re: #291 Nerdy Fish

You know, there was a period of time where I actually believed something substantially punitive would happen to this man. I was wrong. I’m sorry. The rich and powerful - even the perceived rich and powerful - can do whatever they want. It’s only us little people that suffer consequences for our actions.

I was trying not to be too negative in my thinking and in my postings here, but these are trying times for one’s relationship to one’s inner Cassandra.

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Eventual Carrion May 8, 2024 • 7:14:17am

re: #82 darthstar

Contractor working on our house up at the river sent me a video of a large cluster of bats in the stairwell leading outside. So it looks like I’ll be ordering a bat box and putting it up on the outside wall.

You need to add a belfry and keep them up there.

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Eventual Carrion May 8, 2024 • 7:15:16am

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

Don’t forget that Poopy Pants told Crackhead Mike that he’s willing to go to jail!

Yeah, just like Hannity was going to let them waterboard him.

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A Cranky One May 8, 2024 • 7:16:32am

I’ve got landscapers here moving a bunch of large rocks, mulching the gardens, mowing and doing a safety trim on the very large Siberian elm in the front yard. Also adding cables on the tree 4 places to prevent some splits getting larger.

Tree is old, probably over 90 years old. Trying to keep it healthy and safe (some large dead branches high in the tree).

Still trying to adjust to the idea of hiring folks. I usually do everything myself. But with bad shoulders I can’t do so.

Sigh.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 7:24:17am

Q used to write the storm is coming, the storm is coming…

By the sounds of what Stormy said…No, she didn’t…

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 7:28:17am

Chickenshit former House Speaker can’t admit he’ll likely vote for President Biden, but he still got in an okay jab at Trump.

Mastodon

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 7:28:58am

re: #298 Joe Bacon ✅

Q used to write the storm is coming, the storm is coming…

By the sounds of what Stormy said…No, she didn’t…

Ouch.

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 7:29:44am

LOL

“Rogan Was Right” - Chris Cuomo BLASTS CNN’s Attack of Joe Rogan For Taking Ivermectin

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 7:31:43am

re: #295 Eventual Carrion

You need to add a belfry and keep them up there.

Thinking about building them a castle, actually.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 7:33:48am

re: #302 darthstar

Cool. I am probably wrong about this but don’t bats eat mosquitos?

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 7:37:52am

“Does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?”

He probably did…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 7:38:57am

re: #304 Joe Bacon ✅

“Does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?”

He probably did…

Colbert commented on that today in his monologue: “Well, it was an open-casket funeral…”

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 7:39:26am

re: #303 PhillyPretzel ✅

Cool. I am probably wrong about this but don’t bats eat mosquitos?

Yes they do, and as we’re next to a slow flowing river, having bats will be a major benefit.

Obviously, once I put it up I’ll also have to put up a bat-cam so I can catch the little buggers entering and exiting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 7:42:36am

re: #306 darthstar

Yes they do, and as we’re next to a slow flowing river, having bats will be a major benefit.

Obviously, once I put it up I’ll also have to put up a bat-cam so I can catch the little buggers entering and exiting.

We have lots of bats around here, one hangs out at our street lamp in the evenings, I sometimes sit and watch it flying back and forth.

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Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 7:50:29am

re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Birb today. Note I used the same correct letter in the same incorrect place in guess 2. I guess I’m going to be stupid today. Yay me.

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wrenchwench May 8, 2024 • 7:50:54am

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Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 7:58:51am

Well….😲

A bear is believed to have dragged the body of a western Massachusetts crash victim out of his car on Sunday, State Police say.

Investigators say 31-year-old Daniel Ducharme, of South Hadley, was likely killed as a result of the crash on Route 91 south in Hatfield. Police said the evidence suggests he was “either fully ejected or partially ejected and later dragged from the car by the bear.”

Another driver called police at 11 a.m. on Sunday when they noticed a car in the woods off the side of the road. Troopers found a “heavily damaged” 2016 Honda Civic among the trees.

Troopers saw bear in woods at crash scene

“When first responders reached the scene, the deceased male occupant of the vehicle was outside the car and a bear was observed in the woods in the vicinity of the scene,” State Police said in a statement. “Evidence suggests the bear at some point had made contact with the victim’s body.”

cbsnews.com

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austin_blue May 8, 2024 • 7:59:38am

re: #73 Nerdy Fish

And people laugh at me for using Oxford commas.

“A panda, walks into a bar, eats, shoots and leaves.” is a book I own.

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Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 8:01:18am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And they did a lot to convince people that there was no difference between the candidates, why bother to vote at all. Apathy and indifference are the most effective forms of voter suppression.

Let’s not forget the integral role Comey played in damaging Hillary, starting with his original press conference that demeaned her, while exonerating her of any crimes.

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jeffreyw May 8, 2024 • 8:05:06am

My friend Ty came in first in the Beijing marathon, but he wasn’t given the gold medal. The Chinese refused to recognise Ty won.

— DocAtCDI (@docatcdi.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T13:31:00.870657Z

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 8, 2024 • 8:05:25am

Whew.

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 8:07:41am

I would bet you see this same downward trend across all the states.

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T14:43:04.184Z

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Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 8:08:17am

” It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you, especially when all of the sleazebags, lowlifes, and grifters that you oppose are allowed to say absolutely anything that they want. It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and false statements be made against you knowing that if you respond, even in the most modest fashion, you are told by a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge that you will be PUT IN PRISON, maybe for a long period of time. This Fascist mindset is all coming from D.C. It is a sophisticated hit job on Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME!. Judges Engoron and Kaplan, also of New York, are equally Corrupt, only in different ways. What these THUGS are doing is AN ATTACK ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND OUR ONCE GREAT NATION ITSELF. OUR FIRST AMENDMENT MUST STAND, FREE AND STRONG. “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!’

He really seems to be daring Merchan to jail him.

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calochortus May 8, 2024 • 8:10:33am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but Merchan is the only person involved in the trial that he is allowed to say thing about.

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 8:30:32am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

” It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you, especially when all of the sleazebags, lowlifes, and grifters that you oppose are allowed to say absolutely anything that they want. It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and false statements be made against you knowing that if you respond, even in the most modest fashion, you are told by a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge that you will be PUT IN PRISON, maybe for a long period of time. This Fascist mindset is all coming from D.C. It is a sophisticated hit job on Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME!. Judges Engoron and Kaplan, also of New York, are equally Corrupt, only in different ways. What these THUGS are doing is AN ATTACK ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND OUR ONCE GREAT NATION ITSELF. OUR FIRST AMENDMENT MUST STAND, FREE AND STRONG. “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!’

He really seems to be daring Merchan to jail him.

We can all certainly hope!

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A Cranky One May 8, 2024 • 8:32:04am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 8:32:52am

re: #318 Shropshire Slasher

It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you

Freedom of SPeech i not unfairly taken when it is used to threaten or intimidate people, which is the point of this gag order. It is limited in scope to the duration of this trial and to those directly involved in it.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 8:36:44am

re: #319 A Cranky One

I agree. That is a perfect picture of DT.

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Jay C May 8, 2024 • 8:42:40am

re: #310 Dr Lizardo

Investigators say 31-year-old Daniel Ducharme, of South Hadley, was likely killed as a result of the crash on Route 91 south in Hatfield. Police said the evidence suggests he was “either fully ejected or partially ejected and later dragged from the car by the bear.”

So basically the ursine equivalent of Uber Eats??

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Sherlock Hound May 8, 2024 • 8:52:16am

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

So we are getting the big payoff after a long winter: a whole week of 70-ish and sunny.

I tell people coming to Germany that the best time to visit is May/early June or September/early October

That’s much like New England. Our “nice weather” switch turns on in mid-May and turns off in mid-July as it gets oppressive. Late August, the nice weather turns on and runs through the end of October. On coastal Massachusetts, it’s nice once you get through the 45 degrees F sea breezes in May and June.

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danarchy May 8, 2024 • 8:56:22am

re: #317 calochortus

Yeah, but Merchan is the only person involved in the trial that he is allowed to say thing about.

well, him and Bragg

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 8:57:25am

I was on amazon looking for a replacement cup for my InstantPot. I found them for $6.99 and I also found this:
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I am not going to buy it since I do not need it.

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Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 8:58:25am

re: #322 Jay C

So basically the ursine equivalent of Uber Eats??

Ubear Eats.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 9:05:57am

Speaker Mike Johnson: “We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it’s not been something that’s easily provable. We don’t have that number.”

Sounds legit. pic.twitter.com/UpYazQkahX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2024

“We may be making shit up…then again, we may not be.”

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Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 9:07:31am

re: #243 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This is the first time his behavior has made any sense. Major physical brain damage explains everything he’s said and done.

Definitely — if true, it explains his behavior. But it doesn’t explain why so many are supporting him or Trump — maybe it reflects widespread brain damage among the American public.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 9:08:02am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

He is beating that drum again to make MTG happy (and also DT).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 9:09:19am

re: #306 darthstar

Yes they do, and as we’re next to a slow flowing river, having bats will be a major benefit.

Obviously, once I put it up I’ll also have to put up a bat-cam so I can catch the little buggers entering and exiting.

Yes please!!!

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lawhawk May 8, 2024 • 9:09:51am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

So, we’re spewing bulkshit like it’s on sale at Costco, but zero evidence to substantiate.

They just feel it, so it must be true.

You know what I feel? These fuckers belong in a mental asylum, because nothing they say is remotely related to reality. They just repeat this same crap endlessly so their minions come to believe it.

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The Ghost of a Flea May 8, 2024 • 9:12:35am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

“We may be making shit up…then again, we may not be.”

“We can find the evidence if you give us unlimited, opaque, power and ask no follow-up questions.”

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Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 9:13:05am

re: #328 Hecuba’s daughter

Definitely — if true, it explains his behavior. But it doesn’t explain why so many are supporting him or Trump — maybe it reflects widespread brain damage among the American public.

The supporters are brainwashed, not brain damaged (though there may be some overlap).

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 9:13:51am

re: #328 Hecuba’s daughter

Definitely — if true, it explains his behavior. But it doesn’t explain why so many are supporting him or Trump — maybe it reflects widespread brain damage among the American public.

He’s passionate about stupid causes. That’s inspiring to a lot of people.

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Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 9:14:50am

re: #331 lawhawk

So, we’re spewing bulkshit like it’s on sale at Costco, but zero evidence to substantiate.

They just feel it, so it must be true.

You know what I feel? These fuckers belong in a mental asylum, because nothing they say is remotely related to reality. They just repeat this same crap endlessly so their minions come to believe it.

We would have to refit several states for the asylum space. Some would volunteer.

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 9:15:18am

Mastodon

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wrenchwench May 8, 2024 • 9:18:04am

re: #335 Decatur Deb

We would have to refit several states for the asylum space. Some would volunteer.

I think we could reopen the gates at Malheur. No weapons.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 9:18:07am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

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Speaker Jesusbot lying for de Lawd

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 9:21:14am

What a fucking idiot.

The unnamed Russian woman had been in a relationship with Black after meeting in South Korea, the ministry said. When she returned to Vladivostok, they had kept in touch online.

Black arrived in Vladivostok on April 10. They had an argument of some sort at her home, the ministry said.

“After he left, the girl discovered money was missing and turned to the police for help,” the ministry said. “Police officers found the suspect in one of the city hotels. He had purchased airline tickets and intended to fly home.”

Russia’s Izvestia newspaper cited an unidentified source as saying that he had beaten the woman and stolen 200,000 Russian roubles ($2,200).

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 9:23:51am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s the heart of their ideology now: “illegals” cause all the problems.

It’s all the GOP has.

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 9:25:03am

When you’ve lost Newsmax….

Mastodon

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 9:25:51am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

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He also knows, intuitively, that god exists.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 9:26:30am

re: #341 darthstar

When you’ve lost Newsmax….

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She thought it was OK to lie about everything if you’re a Republican. That’s supposed to be OK.

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 9:30:07am

re: #343 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

She thought it was OK to lie about everything if you’re a Republican. That’s supposed to be OK.

It’s okay if you are Trump because it’s expected.

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The Ghost of a Flea May 8, 2024 • 9:32:33am

re: #333 Eclectic Cyborg

The supporters are brainwashed, not brain damaged (though there may be some overlap).

On the contrary, the supporters are overconfident that they understand the world so completely that they’re closed to not only discourse but to epistemological inquiry. They started this way—mostly as antivax people—RFK is just selling the product they want to consume: that they are smart about vaccines and health, that medicine is entirely a scam, that America can be “great again” through simplistic formulas that will bring people together and a lot of Kennedy mythos.

If hubris and cruelty defines the Trump supporters, hubris and self-righteousness defines the RFK supporter…but they two forms of overweening arrogance will talk with one another more than they’ll talk to any alternative. As profoundly self-involved people who loudly or quietly believe themselves better than their peers, they are expressing the same conceit…they know best…in slightly different mediums.

This is what happens when you treat information as a market structure: people are convinced that their ideas are valid because they have spent time and energy consuming them. That conspiracy thinking lifts away from what is provable doesn’t deter people, nor does the lack of specificity, because they’ve been trained to understand themselves as capable of and entitled to discern truth without showing their work.

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 9:33:32am

It’s spreading rapidly among cows. It’s also infecting skunks, mountain lions and red foxes.
Yet as the highly contagious avian flu affects mammals across the US, just one human case has been reported so far.

But that’s probably only because there is extremely limited testing of people underway to detect it. State governments and farm owners have kept Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teams from conducting on-the-ground investigations that would offer a fuller picture of the prevalence of the virus in humans.

finance.yahoo.com

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William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 9:34:26am

re: #335 Decatur Deb

We would have to refit several states for the asylum space. Some would volunteer.

Not asylum. Coventry.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ May 8, 2024 • 9:40:37am

Apple Destroys Vintage Instruments in Tone-Deaf New Commercial for iPad Pro

The promotion has already started receiving backlash on Twitter, with users pointing out the glaring metaphor at play. “Just an astonishingly perfect representation of what the tech industry is doing and an illustration of the massive gap between how the purveyors see it and how horrifying everyone else finds it,” wrote one user

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Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 9:41:07am

Our back patio is a 12X30 screen-house. A couple years ago a chipmunk came in through the dog door, lost his way, and chewed a 2-inch hole in the back wall.
Last year a pair of wrens built a nest in the 5-gallon bowl of shamrocks, and they’re out there right now building another. With the shade and limited cat access, they have a perfect environment

Getting set now for another month of careful watering.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 8, 2024 • 9:47:23am

re: #325 PhillyPretzel ✅

I was on amazon looking for a replacement cup for my InstantPot. I found them for $6.99 and I also found this:
amazon.com
I am not going to buy it since I do not need it.

An excellent accessory for those on a diet. Take your appetite away immediately.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 9:48:33am

re: #348 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Apple Destroys Vintage Instruments in Tone-Deaf New Commercial for iPad Pro

I just watched the ad and holy hell. Yeah, totally tone deaf and offensive to creators.

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 9:51:53am

I didn’t know this was a thing.

London’s BEST CRASHES EVER #redbullsoapboxrace #londoncrashes #soapboxracecrashes #london

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 9:52:02am

re: #287 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s impossible to read on a phone. Yikes.

they do have a phone version of the page but you have to go in on the main page of the day. it’s in the upper right

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Eventual Carrion May 8, 2024 • 9:53:59am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

“We may be making shit up…then again, we may not be.”

Yes, but it seems every time we find illegal votes it is from repubs.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 9:54:43am

re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

“We may be making shit up…then again, we may not be.”

mikey:

one case. point to ONE case.

Speaker Mike Johnson: “We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it’s not been something that’s easily provable. We don’t have that number.”

Sounds legit. pic.twitter.com/UpYazQkahX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2024

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 9:56:55am

re: #348 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

When I saw it I thought it the perfect analogy for what we call “AI” today, the generative tools and LLM.

Destroy the real, reduce it to a fraction of reality, and pass it off as something shiny.

Yeah, it was tone deaf. But perhaps Freud may have something to say about whoever made it.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 8, 2024 • 9:57:03am

Leis are an art form in the Australs.

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Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 9:57:37am

re: #346 Shropshire Slasher

finance.yahoo.com

How appalling! Exactly how a lethal disease can take hold in a population when those with authority block any investigation.

We are fortunate that, so far, the current variant of avian flu in the United States does not appear to spread among human populations by airborne particles nor does it appear (so far) to have serious health effects on humans infected.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 9:59:11am

re: #358 Hecuba’s daughter

Every incubator (i.e., animal) presents another opportunity for the virus to mutate to something that humans can much more easily catch.

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steve_davis May 8, 2024 • 10:14:45am

re: #310 Dr Lizardo

Well….😲

cbsnews.com

pulled him out in what context? car on fire? bear’s a hero.

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Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 10:16:23am

re: #360 steve_davis

pulled him out in what context? car on fire? bear’s a hero.

OTOH, maybe the bear was thinking, “Wow, flambé! What luck!”

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 10:19:13am

re: #361 Dr Lizardo

OTOH, maybe the bear was thinking, “Wow, flambé! What luck!”

Assuming the guy was dead on impact, as the excerpt suggests, the bear was likely thinking something along the lines of, “Hmm. Easy access to a free meal.”

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GlutenFreeJesus May 8, 2024 • 10:21:41am

If Noem was a guy, she wouldn’t be called out so much.

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Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 10:23:08am

re: #363 GlutenFreeJesus

If Noem was a guy, she wouldn’t be called out so much.

And she might not be governor.

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dat_said May 8, 2024 • 10:23:56am

Goosies

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lawhawk May 8, 2024 • 10:24:58am

re: #355 Dangerman

Despite presenting this to the press, the press couldn’t respond to Johnson with that very question:

Identify a single case where one person who was in the country voted illegally, let alone a pervasive effort by undocumented persons to vote in any election anywhere.

It’s not provable because it isn’t a thing. It hasn’t happened. Anywhere. Or at any time.

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Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 10:27:25am

re: #359 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Every incubator (i.e., animal) presents another opportunity for the virus to mutate to something that humans can much more easily catch.

Still remember Preston’s 1995 The Hot Zone, a true story about a highly virulent airborne Ebola that was 100% lethal among monkeys in Reston, but the human immune system treated it like a mild cold. Humans were infected but had no problems. So — it can go either way. And we won’t know until it happens which way it will change. From the disease’s view of survival (not that diseases have views), something that is mild but easily spread is a more effective path than something highly lethal.

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Romantic Heretic May 8, 2024 • 10:28:02am

re: #307 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was visiting a friend of mine who had just moved to a farmhouse. There were bats doing what you just described.

His cat who had never seen a bat before was watching with an expression that said, “I don’t know what they are but I want one.”

My friend looks at his cat and says, “Look, Diablo. The perfect cat food. Birds and mice in one convenient package.”

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 10:28:05am

re: #366 lawhawk

Despite presenting this to the press, the press couldn’t respond to Johnson with that very question:

Identify a single case where one person who was in the country voted illegally, let alone a pervasive effort by undocumented persons to vote in any election anywhere.

It’s not provable because it isn’t a thing. It hasn’t happened. Anywhere. Or at any time.

It is an article of faith among the Republicans that voter fraud is easy, widespread, and entirely perpetrated by Democrats. And I use the phrase “article of faith” very literally, as it is a truism to which they cleave despite a complete lack of evidence in its favor, and in the face of a mountain of evidence against it. Republicans simply cannot believe that our elections are free and fair, lest it call into question their belief in a silent majority, the “people of the land,” the common clay of the New West - you know, morons.

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Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 10:29:00am

re: #366 lawhawk

Despite presenting this to the press, the press couldn’t respond to Johnson with that very question:

Identify a single case where one person who was in the country voted illegally, let alone a pervasive effort by undocumented persons to vote in any election anywhere.

It’s not provable because it isn’t a thing. It hasn’t happened. Anywhere. Or at any time.

It could happen in Alabama, by accident. Registration is by affidavit, voter ID is not airtight.

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Romantic Heretic May 8, 2024 • 10:29:20am

re: #367 Hecuba’s daughter

Yeah. A virus that kills its host quickly is a failure.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 10:30:07am

Steve Albini, Iconic Rock Producer for Nirvana and The Pixies, Dies at 61
Steve Albini, a legend of rock n’ roll who produced albums for Nirvana, PJ Harvey, and The Pixies, as well as his own music, has died at 61.

Albini also performed with his band Shellac, which is preparing to release its first album since 2014 later this month.

No additional info at thedailybeast.com

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Romantic Heretic May 8, 2024 • 10:32:54am

re: #313 jeffreyw

Quelle surprise.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 10:37:45am

re: #369 Nerdy Fish

It is an article of faith among the Republicans that voter fraud is easy, widespread, and entirely perpetrated by Democrats. And I use the phrase “article of faith” very literally, as it is a truism to which they cleave despite a complete lack of evidence in its favor, and in the face of a mountain of evidence against it. Republicans simply cannot believe that our elections are free and fair, lest it call into question their belief in a silent majority, the “people of the land,” the common clay of the New West - you know, morons.

Always an upding for that sage observation

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 10:41:52am

re: #370 Decatur Deb

It could happen in Alabama, by accident. Registration is by affidavit, voter ID is not airtight.

And if it did, by accident, what would the Rs have to bitch about? Its alabama

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Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 10:42:54am

re: #375 Dangerman

And if it did, by accident, what would the Rs have to bitch about? Its alabama

Yup. An illegal Dem vote here would be all risk, no gain.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 8, 2024 • 10:45:59am

Wow! I thought DPRK News had disappeared for good, but here they are, funnier than ever.

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Vicious Babushka May 8, 2024 • 10:46:01am

re: #367 Hecuba’s daughter

Still remember Preston’s 1995 The Hot Zone, a true story about a highly virulent airborne Ebola that was 100% lethal among monkeys in Reston, but the human immune system treated it like a mild cold. Humans were infected but had no problems. So — it can go either way. And we won’t know until it happens which way it will change. From the disease’s view of survival (not that diseases have views), something that is mild but easily spread is a more effective path than something highly lethal.

I read that, and I just finished reading the latest John Sandford novel, in which a band of eco-terrorists manage to create a version of Marburg virus that is as infectious as measles.

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 10:46:16am

re: #132 JC1

I think that most of the MAGA movement will fade away once Trump is dead. We just gotta survive until then.

Before Maga, they were the tea party, before the tea party they were the biggest patriots fighting the clash of civilizations, before that they were Ron Paul’s YaFF, Pat Buchanan’s brigade at the WTO demonstrations in Seattle and Portland, and before that they were Reagan & Buckley’s Young American’s Foundation (YAF.)

They do not go away - they just reinvent themselves and rename. While they might tone things down a bit if Trump loses, they aren’t going to go away or change much.

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gocart mozart May 8, 2024 • 10:54:11am

Lot of great testimonials pouring out. RIP Albini. https://t.co/XSxV0GisbR

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) May 8, 2024

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 10:54:52am

re: #379 Randall Gross

It’s the same story that gets recycled over and over.

Which is why I don’t believe anyone who claims they have a solution to our politics.

We humans evolved to need others…. but only a small tribe.

We just don’t do bigger groups well.

I think we should be grateful that we have any working government at all.

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silverdolphin May 8, 2024 • 10:57:20am

re: #378 Vicious Babushka

I read that, and I just finished reading the latest John Sandford novel, in which a band of eco-terrorists manage to create a version of Marburg virus that is as infectious as measles.

Luckily, we should have an effective one-shot vaccine against Marburg soon to go along with the very effective vaccine against Ebola. Both use recombinant viruses that are either replication deficient or attenuated and present specific antigens to the immune system.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 10:57:55am

The best we should hope for:
1) a general comity that prevails, most of the time at least;
2) a ruler who is not a tyrant.

If you got those you’re doing as well as a massive group of people can do.

Anyone who tries to promise that they can fix all the things wrong is a wanna-be tyrant.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 11:00:29am

Today on the Campaign Trail:

Biden - in Wisconsin announcing major tech initiative that is creating 1000s of high paying jobs.

Trump - at Mar-a-Lago for an event with people who bought his Trump Superhero NFT cards.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 8, 2024

Everything you need to know about the two candidates in a nutshell.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 8, 2024 • 11:01:50am

I see that the Ted YouTube channel recently posted a stand-up by Andrew Yang.

As usual he claims he can solve what is wrong with our politics.

Somehow, for someone who claims to be so smart, he misses the fact that he can’t get any traction in American politics.

In the end he’ll jump on the conspiracy train, I expect.

He’ll find some nefarious group (among the usual choices) who he thinks is suppressing him.

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 11:03:24am

re: #379 Randall Gross

Before Maga, they were the tea party, before the tea party they were the biggest patriots fighting the clash of civilizations, before that they were Ron Paul’s YaFF, Pat Buchanan’s brigade at the WTO demonstrations in Seattle and Portland, and before that they were Reagan & Buckley’s Young American’s Foundation (YAF.)

They do not go away - they just reinvent themselves and rename. While they might tone things down a bit if Trump loses, they aren’t going to go away or change much.

If you wanted to put in the effort of following all of the historical begats I’m sure you could find movements and philosopher apologists for tribal feudalism strung together in similar purpose through history all the way back to Rome if you wanted.

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Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 11:15:32am

PSSST! New Thread ————->>>>>>

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No Malarkey! May 8, 2024 • 11:16:13am

re: #207 William Lewis

Yeah, my feeling too.

What you can’t see is that he made the heart sign with his hands to her, and of course you can hear him ask her to make it to him. He even acknowledged he acted inappropriately.

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