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I may or may not be avoiding actual real work at the moment…
— Mike Donohue (@barelysushi.bsky.social) 2024-05-14T19:17:57.957Z
re: #4 Belafon
Yes. This happened. For fucks sake.
Kid Rock performing at his concert in the bed of the Duke Of Hazzards General “E” Cybertruck! 🔥@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/AJbWTz2C0P
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Later…
Crockett arguably had the most memorable comment after the committee ruled that Greene’s personal attacks on her were allowed.
“I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling: If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?” she said.
Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) responded with visible confusion:
“What now?”
re: #160 danarchy
The things mentioned all happened, the implication they are connected is dubious.
The read out of the conversation with Putin show it was about the Siberian wildfires ongoing at the time and trade policy.
The whitehouse was in the midst of trying to replace the DNI at the time and the list of “Top Spies” were all top paid bueaucrats not undercover assets.
Unfortunately, I am not at all sure that, thanks to the lack of security discipline in the Trump administration, the Russians DIDN’T get the undercover assets anyway.
re: #8 teleskiguy
Yes. This happened. For fucks sake.
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Well at least the accelerator pedal didn’t get stuck…
re: #10 gwangung
Unfortunately, I am not at all sure that, thanks to the lack of security discipline in the Trump administration, the Russians DIDN’T get the undercover assets anyway.
How accurate/complete would the readout from the Trump WH be? Was the conversation recorded so that it’s possible for someone with the appropriate clearance to hear the entire conversation? After all, when Trump had the infamous Helsinki meeting, my impression was that the conversation was basically between Trump, Putin, and Putin’s translator and that there were no senior US diplomats present for the conversation. Or is that wrong?
re: #8 teleskiguy
Yes. This happened. For fucks sake.
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When I first saw the picture, I immediately thought “Yeah, their warranty is now toast.”
Then I saw who was involved and realized that Elmo would personally sign off on any repairs for this “truck” in perpetuity.
You can sum up the entirety of the good and bad things about the American character in the stories of two Mt. St. Helens victims: David A. Johnston, the pioneering volcanologist who was killed making scientific observations, and Harry R. Truman who was a dumb old dipshit who refused to evacuate.
— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social) 2024-05-18T16:02:30.801Z
The celebrity sex therapist praised by one of the world’s leading feminists who had sex with dozens of clients - and is now accused of abusing one with his ‘laser beam penis that burns up trauma’
re: #16 A Cranky One
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It doesn’t matter how well the economy goes, the Beltway media are devoted to their narrative and will not shift from it for fear of being accused of (*gasp!*) “bias”!
Mediamatters even had an article the other week about how the media who’s been reporting for the past two years that recession is gonna happen “Any Day Now!” are now reporting that the same experts are trying to cover their asses by suggesting that we instead are slipping into (*ominous music*) stagflation! Yes, despite low unemployment, strong job growth, and inflation down below half of what it was when Biden took office, it’s not dropped below 1% and GDP slipped a bit in the first quarter of the year, so obviously this is the worst economy since Carter.
re: #17 JC1
The celebrity sex therapist praised by one of the world’s leading feminists who had sex with dozens of clients - and is now accused of abusing one with his ‘laser beam penis that burns up trauma’
re: #8 teleskiguy
Kid Rock performing at his concert in the bed of the Duke Of Hazzards General “E” Cybertruck!
American popular culture has gone beyond being a bad parody of itself.
re: #17 JC1
The celebrity sex therapist praised by one of the world’s leading feminists who had sex with dozens of clients - and is now accused of abusing one with his ‘laser beam penis that burns up trauma’
Is it circumcised? That would make it a Jewish laser beam penis.
re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
American popular culture has gone beyond being a bad parody of itself.
We didn’t just go beyond a bad parody, we lapped the fuckin’ thing and are coming around for another pass.
re: #24 Targetpractice
We didn’t just go beyond a bad parody, we lapped the fuckin’ thing and are coming around for another pass.
Yeah, the first time around was back in the 90’s when I turned on CMT and watched a video of Kenny Chesney’s “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy”…American Country Music was doing full-on Soviet Socialist-style odes to tractors and tractor drivers, and didn’t even notice.
The summit to date is the MAGAs with their “Real Men Wear Diapers”…but I am sure they will outdo that soon enough.
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah, the first time around was back in the 90’s when I turned on CMT and watched a video of Kenny Chesney’s “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy”…American Country Music was doing full-on Soviet Socialist-style odes to tractors and tractor drivers, and didn’t even notice.
The summit to date is the MAGAs with their “Real Men Wear Diapers”…but I am sure they will outdo that soon enough.
I started to make a Vanilla Ice joke, then I did a Google search and found out that he’s more authentically “from the streets” than Mr. Robert Ritchie is.
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Signing in briefly with a non-controversial post (primary election results in Nebraska).
In the Republican Primary, each US House representative faced off against MAGA-supporting Republicans. Donald Trump explicitly endorsed Rep. Don Bacon’s (NE-2) challenger. The state GOP, along with Sarpy and Douglas County GOP, endorsed the challenger to the four-term Representative. Rep. Bacon never wins by more than about a thousand votes in general elections. He will face state senator Tony Vargas (D) in November in a rematch—he barely edged Vargas in the last election.
In the presidential primary, Nikki Haley took more than 20% of the vote in NE-2 (Omaha), the notorious swing district. NE-2 went for Biden in 2020.
In the Unicameral, legendary Civil Rights leader Ernie Chambers (I) leads state Sen. Terrell McKinney (D-District 11) by twenty-one votes. They both advance to the General Election, knocking off the Republican challenger.
In the US Senate race, Sen. Deb Fischer beat her MAGA challenger with 80% of the vote. She has no Democratic challenger, so she will win reëlection.
Sen. Pete Ricketts also knocked off his MAGA challenger (he is filling the remaining term of former Sen. Ben Sasse). In the Democratic primary, Preston Love ran unopposed, so he will face Sen. Ricketts in November.
Locally, all three incumbents advance in the village board election. (The other two incumbents including me are not up for reëlection this year.)
Of note, in recent elections, Republican turnout in the General Election runs north of 80%, Democratic turnout runs about 18%.
In NE-1 (Lincoln), Rep. Mike Flood (filling the remaining term of convicted felon former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry) will fight a rematch against former state Senator Carol Blood.
The reason Donald Trump and the state GOP endorsed Rep. Bacon’s challenger is because he voted for President Biden’s infrastructure bill.
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The next step is obvious.
The MAGAts will loudly - and publicly - defecate in their adult diapers.
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of note, in recent elections, Republican turnout in the General Election runs north of 80%, Democratic turnout runs about 18%.
Hey, ‘Mouse, nice to see you back here!
And yes, the GOP learned in 2016 that apathy and indifference are the best forms of voter suppression. It did not work for them in 2020 but they are hoping that people will have forgotten by November.
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The reason Donald Trump and the state GOP endorsed Rep. Bacon’s challenger is because he voted for President Biden’s infrastructure bill.
Idiot should’ve just taken the infrastructure money and then boasted about it as if it were a GOP initiative.
An interesting anomaly of Omaha is the city of Carter Lake, Iowa. Carter Lake (part of IA-4) is surrounded on three sides by Omaha and the fourth by the Missouri River. The river changed course, resulting in that section of Council Bluffs winding up on this side of the river. Carter Lake seceded from Council Bluffs in the Thirties. There is no land connexion between Carter Lake and the rest of Iowa.
In the 2020 election, Vice President Mike Pence came to Carter Lake (KMTV, Omaha) to campaign, being the first national politician to do so. It will be interesting to see if either candidate or their surrogates do so in this election.
rivers often make lousy borders
especially as you can’t build a fence right in the middle of them
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
rivers often make lousy borders
especially as you can’t build a fence right in the middle of them
Texas did (well, floating bouys with sawblades).
Federal law notes gradual changes in river course do not affect state boundaries (the boundary follows the river). The case Nebraska v Iowa was the first time a challenge came up because a river jumped course by several miles.
There was another case between the states in the Seventies of a Carter Lake businessman charged with an Iowa state crime. He claimed he was a Nebraska resident in that case. The Supreme Court ruled “nope.”
re: #31 Lancelot Link Returns!
Sung to Melanie Safka’s “Brand New Key?” Holy horrible parody, Batman.
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hey, ‘Mouse, nice to see you back here!
AQnd yes, the GOP learned in 2016 that apathy and indifference are the best forms of voter suppression. It did not work for them in 2020 but they are hoping that people will have forgotten by November.
That may change this time around.
Protect the Right to Abortion Constitutional Amendment is certified for the ballot.
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That may change this time around.
Protect the Right to Abortion Constitutional Amendment is certified for the ballot.
In 2020 it was DJT’s disastrous handling of the Covid pandemic that got the apathetic and indifferent out to vote.
This time it will be abortion, contraception and IVF that motivate the voters.
DJT is trying to distance and backpedal and insist it is all a “states’ rights” issue, but the pro-lifers have tasted blood and are going to push for nothing less than a national abortion ban (to be followed by a national contraception ban and mandatory medical inspections of all childbearing-age women leaving or re-entering the country), not to mention book bans, teaching bans on racial history, trans bans, the end of gay/interracial marriage and gay couples adopting, etc…
So yeah, vote GOP, vote third-party protest and it is Welcome to Gilead Idiocracy 451
Politico: Will Trump pivot if re-elected President?
It’s impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office. By all accounts, Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign, suggesting he learned something from his slapdash first campaign and his 2020 reelection loss. The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Jesus Christ, how can you even begin to suppose that a guy like that is about to - or is able to change his approach and his entire personality, which forms the basis of nearly all his policies?
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jesus Christ, how can you even begin to suppose that a guy like that can change his approach and his entire personality, which forms the basis of nearly all his policies?
Bending over backwards to stick your head up your ass in order to appear neutral.
re: #40 No Malarkey!
8 years later and they keep holding out for the “pivot” that will magically transform him into being “presidential.”
Waiting for Godot would be faster.
re: #44 Targetpractice
8 years later and they keep holding out for the “pivot” that will magically transform him into being “presidential.”
Waiting for Godot would be faster.
Part of it is indirectly admitting that they cannot believe what an inept dilettante he has been the whole time and that it really has to change before he destroys the entire GOP
re: #39 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In 2020 it was DJT’s disastrous handling of the Covid pandemic that got the apathetic and indifferent out to vote.
This time it will be abortion, contraception and IVF that motivate the voters.
DJT is trying to distance and backpedal and insist it is all a “states’ rights” issue, but the pro-lifers have tasted blood and are going to push for nothing less than a national abortion ban (to be followed by a national contraception ban and mandatory medical inspections of all childbearing-age women leaving or re-entering the country), not to mention book bans, teaching bans on racial history, trans bans, the end of gay marriage and gay couples adopting, etc…
So yeah, vote GOP, vote third-party protest and it is Welcome to Gilead Idiocracy 451
Assuming the Ambulatory Fecal Stain doesn’t duck the debate next month, it’s going to be absolutely hilarious to watch him attempt to tap dance around this and other topics on which his view has “evolved” since leaving office. Doubly so to watch him try to do it and insult Biden in the 2 min (I assume) time limit.
re: #46 Targetpractice
Assuming the Ambulatory Fecal Stain doesn’t duck the debate next month…
He always has the option of claiming that Biden’s Deep State Witch Hunt has somehow made it impossible for him to prepare or attend.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
🤦♂️
Are they analysing a different Donald Trump?
“In the multiverse, there is certainly a Donald Trump guided by loftier principles whose conduct has been unimpeachable. Is it possible that that Donald Trump will step through a wormhole and assume office if Trump is elected President? It is impossible to know without giving Trump a mandate to pivot first.”
Welcome to Spring, where fifty degree swings in temperature in the Nebraska Panhandle are normal.
After my oak tree blew down last week (the core was rotted) and managed to miss my car, the church, but not my house (though no damage), and $1,100 to remove it from my yard and the street, we went the other day to a garden shop to buy plants to decorate the stump.
I also planted two Northern white pines (the other ones I planted died).
There is flooding in Southwestern Germany along the Saar River, the Rhine is up but nowhere near flood stage. But our lovely spring weather has turned to showery but at least warm
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Welcome to Spring, where fifty degree swings in temperature in the Nebraska Panhandle are normal.
After my oak tree blew down last week (the core was rotted) and managed to miss my car, the church, but not my house (though no damage), and $1,100 to remove it from my yard and the street, we went the other day to a garden shop to buy plants to decorate the stump.
I also planted two Northern white pines (the other ones I planted died).
Glad to hear your house wasn’t damaged!
There was another word I wanted to put in there, but I figured that one was not on the NY Times editor’s list.
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re: #52 No Malarkey!
Glad to hear your house wasn’t damaged!
The tree missed my 2013 Smart car by about a metre.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The tree missed my 2013 Smart car by about a metre.
If it had been any bigger, it would have been totalled…
My wife is considering filing as a write-in candidate to try to knock one of the Republicans off the village board.
I was knocked off by a write-in candidate in 2018 but regained my seat in 2022, so it’s possible.
All seats are at-large, top three are elected this round.
It is legal for spouses or relatives to serve in the same political body in Nebraska, but they must abstain from votes which could benefit them. When my wife was the public library director, I would abstain on approving her pay cheque.
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I occasionally look at the electricity generating stats for France and I note that right now they’re producing a lot of electricity from hydro, courtesy of the French Alps. Hydroelectricity is often produced on a use-it-or-lose-it basis, if lots more rainfall is predicted then it’s better to use the penstock water to make money than dump all that lovely potential energy over the spillways to no (financial) benefit.
The UK is currently (no pun intended) importing the maximum amount of electricity (1.4GW) via its link to Norway which is heavily invested in hydroelectric generating plants.
re: #57 Nojay UK
France still loves its nuke plants, though, which prove around 70%, of its power generation, which is one reason why they are so tetchy about the Wagner Group being so active in Niger, with its uranium reserves.
re: #53 Nerdy Fish
There was another word I wanted to put in there, but I figured that one was not on the NY Times editor’s list.
Wholly lack-of-vowels, Batman! (5/6)
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re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
France still loves its nuke plants, though, which prove around 70%, of its power generation, which is one reason why they are so tetchy about the Wagner Group being so active in Niger, with its uranium reserves.
Nebraska Public Power District (my electric supplier) uses about everything you can. Gas, oil, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, hamster wheels, Gilligan on a bicycle generating electricity for the Professor, &c.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
France still loves its nuke plants, though, which prove around 70%, of its power generation, which is one reason why they are so tetchy about the Wagner Group being so active in Niger, with its uranium reserves.
Oh dear… uranium is as cheap as chips and readily available from many sources, from Australia to Canada to Kazakhstan and a few other places in between. In extremis it can be extracted in industrial quantities from seawater but it’s cheaper right now to dig it up or leach it from underground ore bodies. Some US mines in Utah and Arizona are ramping up yellowcake production in anticipation of an increase in demand worldwide.
Niger and a lot of other West African nations have historical links to the old French Empire and there are still many financial and social connections between the Old Country and the African nations.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wholly lack-of-vowels, Batman! (5/6)
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re: #62 Nerdy Fish
Good morning, my friend. It’s good to see you here. Of course, I have been seeing you over at the other place, but we missed you at this place.
I’m sorry but I’m going to have to go to bed. The sun is coming up.
I have been reading here all along, though.
re: #61 Nojay UK
Niger and a lot of other West African nations have historical links to the old French Empire and there are still many financial and social connections between the Old Country and the African nations.
Especially financial.
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Nebraska Public Power District (my electric supplier) uses about everything you can. Gas, oil, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, hamster wheels, Gilligan on a bicycle generating electricity for the Professor, &c.
You can tell when you’ve crossed the border from Germany into France because the houses on the far side no longer have solar panels on them. Southwest Germany is one of its sunniest regions and the government is really pushing solar conversion with tax breaks.
re: #61 Nojay UK
Sounds like a good market to simply irradiate twinkies in the microwave and sell them as yellowcake…
Sunday Morning Holler Songs.
I had to change out the Arlo on the Owl
Box this morning after 150 shots last night. I have a permanent ladder set up for this purpose. I forgot to put my hat on and one of them promptly and rightfully beaned my old ass halfway up the ladder. No harm no fowl… She’s back with teh babies. 3 owlets. 1 egg turned out to be a non viable.
re: #69 jeffreyw
Gilead Idiocracy 198451
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating.Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather condition in the area. There had been heavy rain reported with some wind.
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Long time no see old friend. Please come back soon. We miss you. And good luck with the write-in campaign.
re: #69 jeffreyw
You hit the nail on the squarely on the head.
re: #76 Vicious Babushka
But Trump supporters said the lengthy pause was intentional.
“He is pausing for effect. He is also wrestling with some sadness, due to the disastrous state of his beloved country,” one person wrote.
Another wrote: “Anyone who’s watched a Trump rally knows he was pausing for the music.”
They will forever be ready to step up and offer excuses for what he says or does, or in this case what he did not say or do.
re: #76 Vicious Babushka
He probably just need to take a break to pee.
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“He is pausing for effect. He is also wrestling with some sadness, due to the disastrous state of his beloved country,” one person wrote.
They will forever be ready to step up and offer excuses for what he says or does, or in this case what he did not say or do.
I suggest that he was merely pinin’ for the fjords.
re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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What is all this noise about the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi making a “hard landing?”I already have the AP CBS and NBC reporting this news. The AP article says one government official called it a “crash.” I guess we have to wait to find out more information.
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re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Good to hear from you! Hope all is well. Counting down to retirement on 6/30/24!
re: #72 Vicious Babushka
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Politico: Will Trump pivot if re-elected President?
No.
Any questions?
Yes.
Will we see that same thing in today’s New York Times...or tomorrow’s?
Trump blasted for suggesting Biden ‘would have been given the electric chair’ at NRA convention
Fartzilla dropping a hint to his rabid disciples…
🚨 DEVELOPING STORY:
A helicopter carrying a local governor, foreign minister, and president of the Islamic Republic of Iran has made “a hard landing” in fog in the East Azerbaijan region of Iran, near a village named Uzi*. No communication with aircraft, general area of incident located. Emergency session of Tehran govt called according to local media.
*: I’m not making this shit up, really.
re: #98 Teukka
See my #88. I agree with you.
re: #99 PhillyPretzel ✅
See my #88. I agree with you.
So noted.
Anyways, Lizardim, prayers that whoever replaces them (if it comes to that) are more amiable to the rest of the world.
re: #98 Teukka
🚨 DEVELOPING STORY:
A helicopter carrying a local governor, foreign minister, and president of the Islamic Republic of Iran has made “a hard landing” in fog in the East Azerbaijan region of Iran, near a village named Uzi*. No communication with aircraft, general area of incident located. Emergency session of Tehran govt called according to local media.*: I’m not making this shit up, really.
Still not much in the way of details: reportedly, bad weather (just thinking, MAYBE related to the “hard landing”?!?) is hindering rescue efforts.
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In NE-1 (Lincoln), Rep. Mike Flood (filling the remaining term of convicted felon former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry) will fight a rematch against former state Senator Carol Blood.
The reason Donald Trump and the state GOP endorsed Rep. Bacon’s challenger is because he voted for President Biden’s infrastructure bill.
Super good to see your pixels!!
re: #96 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I wonder why they’re speaking Russian….
I never watch videos with the sound on. Maybe they’re on holiday?
re: #104 darthstar
I never watch videos with the sound on. Maybe they’re on holiday?
I paused it at the end to zoom in on the road sign and it’s not in Cyrillic.
re: #104 darthstar
I never watch videos with the sound on. Maybe they’re on holiday?
I’m pretty sure they’re speaking Portuguese. It sounds a bit like Russian:
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Yeah, he’ll pivot. He promised to be a dictator on day one. That’s the pivot. You fucking idiots.
I wonder which republican wrote that. Not enough to read it, just enough to wonder.
re: #42 No Malarkey!
Bending over backwards to stick your head up your ass in order to appear neutral.
Politico isn’t exactly neutral. Never has been.
No communication with aircraft? “Hard landing?” Yeah, like 200 feet per second hard. They’re goners.
Helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi crashes, local media reports
re: #40 No Malarkey!
The media has been telling us a pivot may be imminent for the last NINE FUCKING YEARS.
re: #109 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
No communication with aircraft? “Hard landing?” Yeah, like 200 feet per second hard. They’re goners.
Helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi crashes, local media reports
I thought that there’s been communication with some of those onboard.
re: #109 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
The AP report did mention that one official used the word “crash.”
“Sudden and unanticipated contacted with the ground.”
Morning Lizards.
“Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body” Sorry I had to…. 😂 pic.twitter.com/weCuFVPGbD
— TN Brando (@Tn_Brando) May 18, 2024
re: #113 BeenHereAwhile
There’s a lotta man hours in fabricating the finish on that car.
The post reads:
Frankie🌻
@foreverfrankie.bsky.social
Rae Ripple of Big Spring, Texas, spent years fighting to break the cycle of toxicity that she grew up in. Art and welding opened doors that as a young adult she never thought were possible.
This was from about one minute ago:
The helicopter crashed close to a copper mine called Sungun. It’s located in between Jofa and Varzaqan in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran and it’s roughly between 70km (43 miles) to 100km (62 miles) away from the city of Tabriz, one of the largest cities in Iran and also the city that the president of Iran and foreign minister were headed toward.
The Iranian Red Crescent says they have deployed 14 separate teams to the region… as of now the teams arrived to the area, however not to the specific spot where the helicopter just crashed. The reason for that they say, is the harsh weather conditions.
re: #112 PhillyPretzel ✅
The AP report did mention that one official used the word “crash.”
As of last report rescuers aren’t able to get to the crash so they don’t know the status of the helicopter or the people on it.
re: #111 JC1
I thought that there’s been communication with some of those onboard.
Yeah, that was in the CNN story but the Iranian official’s statement about “contact” seems suspiciously vague and could refer to something like a cell phone ping. I was persuaded by the consensus of the reports that there had been no “communication,” which would suggest no actual conversation as proof of survival..
re: #124 No Malarkey!
Iran is going to blame Israel, aren’t they.
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you, that such a thought would cross your mind! 😄
re: #124 No Malarkey!
Iran is going to blame Israel, aren’t they.
Almost without a doubt. They once accused Israel of using trained squirrels to spy on them, so sabotaging a helicopter is no stretch at all.
re: #127 Teukka
“Zionist” village, mountain or fog. Or pilot.
Or a Sinister Zionist Plot that convinced the President and Foreign Minister to travel on the same helo…
Or that the pilot was blinded by a zap from the Rothschild Space Laser.
re: #129 Jay C
Or a Sinister Zionist Plot that convinced the President and Foreign Minister to travel on the same helo…
“THOSE DARN JEWS, ALWAYS MAKING US DO THINGS WE KNOW WE SHOULDN’T!!” or something along those lines.
Yikes! The spy-squirrel story is part of a whole genre of conspiracy theories:
Israel-related animal conspiracy theories
Sharks, hyenas, dolphins, you name it, the nefarious Zionists have hatched plots with it.
Apparently, nobody paused for a second and said, “You know guys, this is batshit crazy.”
(Btw, Autocoronavirus insisted on rendering “batshit” as “catsuit.” Took 3 tries to get it right.)
In 2007 the Iranian army arrested a team of 14 “spy squirrels” found near a nuclear enrichment plant. Officials said they succeeded in apprehending the suspects “before they were able to take any action”.
🚨Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was on the radio after the helicopter crash…and the windscreen, instrument display, controls, seats…almost everywhere 😳
Too soon?#Iran— Tarquin 🇺🇦 (@Tarquin_Helmet) May 19, 2024
Honestly, I don’t think that was Trump glitching, although he has glitched plenty and has made up words as his brain devolves into mush. I think he was drawing it out for dramatic pause in his ridiculous way.
My main observation is that his “speeches” have added all of these musical cues, like the “J6 Choir” and the soaring strings, and no one is pointing out how creepy and cultish that is. No other politicians do this. It’s not normal. It’s bizarre.
::: watching Nature: Saving the Animals of Ukraine :::
re: #135 Unabogie
Trump never has been an actual politician.
He’s always been a con man and entertainer / reality TV star. Everything he does is about the performance.
On some levels he’s like a fascist Andy Kaufman.
Weather conditions are so bad the rescuers can’t even reach the crash site.
I’m estimating Raisi’s survival odds as a snowball’s chance in hell.
Iranian officials: President Raisi’s helicopter involved in ‘very concerning’ crash
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, with officials later saying the situation was concerning.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather condition in the area. There had been heavy rain reported with some wind. An Iranian official later told Reuters that “we are still hopeful, but information coming from the crash site is very concerning.” The official said that the lives of Raisi and other officials on board are considered “at risk.”
re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, that was fun. Not. 5/6
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The woman who solved in 5 made a mistake with word 4 — and it turned gold because it identified the actual word. If she hadn’t made the mistake, it would have taken her 6.
The President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi as well as Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were involved in a “Significant Helicopter Crash” earlier today while Traveling back from a Diplomatic Meeting in Azerbaijan. The Crash is believed to have occurred in a Heavily Forested Area… pic.twitter.com/mrFfBMSVXl
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 19, 2024
re: #142 (((Archangel1)))
Yeah, pretty sure there’s no survivors.
Today’s Wordle is an Argh instead of a Birdie simply cause I didn’t trust my initial instinct…
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Today’s Worldle should be ridiculously easy to anyone who’s ever look at a globe…
#Worldle #849 (19.05.2024) 1/6 (100%)
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re: #138 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump never has been an actual politician.
He’s always been a con man and entertainer / reality TV star. Everything he does is about the performance.
On some levels he’s like a fascist Andy Kaufman.
I’m just waiting for Trump to do his Fat Vegas Elvis impersonation.
I’ve already seen the Velvet Trump portraits and I needed half a bottle of Visine® to recover…
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
…..
In the US Senate race, Sen. Deb Fischer beat her MAGA challenger with 80% of the vote. She has no Democratic challenger, so she will win reëlection.
Good to see you!! What about Dan Osborn? He was sending me requests for money(just like several dozen others throughout the country, many of whom I never heard of). So he’s not in the race for Senate? I tend to be reluctant to contribute to primary out-of-state candidates since I think that residents in the state should decide which Democrat is best for them.
re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter
Good to see you!! What about Dan Osborn? He was sending me requests for money(just like several dozen others throughout the country, many of whom I never heard of). So he’s not in the race for Senate? I tend to be reluctant to contribute to primary out-of-state candidates since I think that residents in the state should decide which Democrat is best for them.
If you are going to contribute to out-of-state politicians, you should make them to candidates who actually have a chance of winning so that your money isn’t wasted.
Wellness milkfluencers. Tokyo Rose in the fight against viruses.
Raw milk is more dangerous than ever. So why are sales surging?
“Anything that the FDA tells our customers to do, they do the opposite.”
re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅
And what would the Sunday Gasbag Shows be without an encore from J. Dickhead Vance?
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re: #151 Dangerman
Sure
Foxconn
There were even pictures//
Not that J. Dickhead failed to mention the big GM plant closure in Lordstown Ohio while Fartzilla was in the White House!
re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, that was fun. Not. 5/6
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Not as fun as my X/6 :-)
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re: #155 Belafon
“Don’t leave your chicken on the counter for a day and eat it raw.” - FDA
We could say “Go to it”, but they will be a pathway to get the bug into the general population.
(Usage note: The term ‘milkfluencer’ as used in the UK seems to be a bunch of good guys pushing nutrition. The nutcases are US home-grown.)
Oh, boy…
Iranian Red Crescent Spokesperson: “The weather condition at the site of the accident is so bad that three of our rescue workers have now gone missing.”
Mom was into raw milk in the 70s. After all our little lives on reconstituted non-fat dry milk, it was very good. Very creamy.
re: #144 Joe Bacon ✅
I’m enjoying these sycophants going all in on Psychophancy for Fartler.
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Anyone who suggests that he won’t be immeasurably worse and destructive to our nation is either gaslighting or is a moron. Politico should be ashamed of itself for publishing such nonsense. Oh wait, they are part of the MSM effort to get Trump re-elected, aren’t they?
re: #162 wrenchwench
Mom was into raw milk in the 70s. After all our little lives on reconstituted non-fat dry milk, it was very good. Very creamy.
Unpasteurised milk — “Tastes great, not many dead.”
re: #53 Nerdy Fish
There was another word I wanted to put in there, but I figured that one was not on the NY Times editor’s list.
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Ha, I did use it. Figured it would get rejected but it took it as a valid word.
re: #86 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Could be worse.
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So I read football boy’s screed word for word. It’s classic Christian Culture Warrior Persecution Victimhood hurr durr durr with lots of references to COVID, godless society, Women need to be Women and Men need to be Men, etc.
It’s as bad as you though it was. But I love the irony of this quote:
I am certain the reporters at the AP could not have imagined that their attempt to rebuke and embarrass places and people like those here at Benedictine wouldn’t be met with anger, but instead met with excitement and pride. Not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the Holy Ghost to glorify him. Reading that article now shared all over the world, we see that in the complete surrender of self and a turning towards Christ, you will find happiness. Right here in a little town in Kansas, we find many inspiring laypeople using their talents.
This is what you call pre-mad: being mad in preparation for when you will be mad. Persecution fantasy at it’s finest.
re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter
Anyone who suggests that he won’t be immeasurably worse and destructive to our nation is either gaslighting or is a moron. Politico should be ashamed of itself for publishing such nonsense. Oh wait, they are part of the MSM effort to get Trump re-elected, aren’t they?
In addition to “dictator from day one”…
re: #159 Dr Lizardo
Oh, boy…
Meanwhile we are being forewarned about possible Derechos moving across the Midwest, yeah, everything is fine….
re: #166 Nojay UK
Unpasteurised milk — “Tastes great, not many dead.”
If it was no good, calves would be dropping left and right. //
re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅
Trump blasted for suggesting Biden ‘would have been given the electric chair’ at NRA convention
Fartzilla dropping a hint to his rabid disciples…
Paul Pelosi could have died from the attack by a Trump supporter. O’Reilly incited a viewer to murder an abortion doctor. This is a deliberate call to action by Trump; after all, during a 2020 debate, he tried to kill Biden by attempting to infect him with a disease that was especially lethal to the elderly. The world would be in a far better place today if Trump had perished from COVID.
The batteries are for the remote, obviously ☺️
— War and Peas 🧿 (@warandpeas.bsky.social) 2024-05-19T16:33:17.676Z
Deadpool comes out July 26th in the US, and tickets go in sale tomorrow. This will probably be the biggest MCU event since Endgame.
2028
I’m going to just leave this here… pic.twitter.com/Wlhgp164JW
— Candice (@candice_counsel) May 19, 2024
re: #178 Dave In Austin
May we have his name please?
re: #179 PhillyPretzel ✅
May we have his name please?
That’s Illinois Governor Jay (“JB”) Pritzker.
And, also IMO, one of the better Democrats on the political scene today.
re: #156 Eventual Carrion
Not as fun as my X/6 :-)
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re: #167 Eventual Carrion
Ha, I did use it. Figured it would get rejected but it took it as a valid word.
Wordle accepts all valid 5 letter words but only 2309 are possible solutions. The wordlebot analyzes words from that perspective.
re: #170 Dangerman
In addition to “dictator from day one”…
As I expected my Jesusbot relatives are now saying Trump can serve 2 more terms as President because they’re not consecutive with his first term…
re: #176 Dave In Austin
2028
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Maybe if he were 150 pounds lighter, 5 inches taller, and not Jewish — based on other types of bias in our society.
I don’t think I will, actually. pic.twitter.com/0pFZ4i0PPj
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) May 19, 2024
re: #135 Unabogie
Honestly, I don’t think that was Trump glitching, although he has glitched plenty and has made up words as his brain devolves into mush. I think he was drawing it out for dramatic pause in his ridiculous way.
My main observation is that his “speeches” have added all of these musical cues, like the “J6 Choir” and the soaring strings, and no one is pointing out how creepy and cultish that is. No other politicians do this. It’s not normal. It’s bizarre.
He was glitching. That was not normal.
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