And Now, Something Beautiful: Tank and the Bangas & Friends, “What the World Needs Now”

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“In January, Yahoo gave us the opportunity to call some of our artist friends in New Orleans to help us record ”What The World Needs now” and it was one of the most powerful moments I’ve ever experienced in a room full of artists. It was so New Orleans. The voices of the children, the poets, the different tones and textures of all the artist was truly transforming. I believe that everyone can testify how high the emotions ran this particular day. It’s my hope that people will become moved, active, and use love in their weaponry in fighting for what they believe Sn right.” - Tarriona Tank Ball

Thanks to:
Alexis Marceaux
Alfred Banks
Anjelika Joseph
Daniel Abraham Jr.
Danny Abel
David Shaw
Etienne Stoufflet
Franklin Davis II
Harmony Ball
Jonathan Johnson
Joshua Kagler
Maggie Koerner
PJ Morton
Rahim Glaspy
Samuel Crafts
Sasha Masadowski
Sha’condria Sibley
Sunni Patterson
Tia Henderson
Tracci Lee
Harmony Ball
Micah Johnson

Recorded at: Marigny Studios by Paul McDonald
Mix/Mastered by: Bob Brockman (Bob Bassy)
Music Supervisor: Josh Rabinowitz

#love #neworleans #BLM

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411 comments
1
PhillyPretzel  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:25:34pm

Tuck Frump

2
I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:26:00pm

re: #1 PhillyPretzel

Tuck Frump

Thank you.

3
LadyBehir  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:26:34pm

I know I’m not first, but, close enough.

FUCK TRUMP.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:27:52pm

re: #1 PhillyPretzel

Tuck Frump

What about my Mother In Law?
//

(Mrs. FBW’s maiden name was Tuck)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:28:06pm

re: #3 LadyBehir

I know I’m not first, but, close enough.

FUCK TRUMP.

Sometimes you just have to let it out.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:31:57pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:31:57pm

re: #5 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Sometimes you just have to let it out.

SO SAY WE ALL!!!

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:33:02pm
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Unabogie  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:38:10pm

Hi guys!

FUCK TRUMP!

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:38:58pm

Next stop, Infowars.

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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:40:40pm

re: #10 teleskiguy

Next stop, Infowars.

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That b*st*rd!

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:40:49pm

re: #10 teleskiguy

Oy Vey. This is worse than a nightmare.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:43:12pm

re: #12 PhillyPretzel

Oy Vey. This is worse than a nightmare.

At this point, it just seems like another Monday. I mean, what bad actor HASN’T Trump met with?

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:47:58pm
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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:50:00pm

re: #10 teleskiguy

Next stop, Infowars.

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“We’re never going to win if white people are afraid to shoot.”
“The cops are doing a pretty good job -“
“Shh. You’re not supposed to say that out loud.”

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:50:19pm

President Donald Trump on Monday rejected pleas from Tulsa, Oklahoma, not to risk aggravating coronavirus risks by holding a rally there, announcing he wants to triple the crowd to 60,000 people.

“We have a 22,000 seat arena, but I think we’re also going to take the convention hall next door and that’s going to hold 40,000,” he told reporters at the White House.

He was responding to criticism from the local Tulsa newspaper and a top public health official in the city about his election campaign rally, which is scheduled for Saturday and comes as Oklahoma is seeing a recent increase in COVID-19 cases.

“This is the wrong time,” the Tulsa World newspaper said in a bluntly worded editorial.

“We don’t know why he chose Tulsa, but we can’t see any way that his visit will be good for the city.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:52:05pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

The guy either believes coronavirus is a hoax, or believes he’s cured it. Do you REALLY think you’re going to convince him?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:52:42pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Okay, it’s a little thing. But when Trump says, “We have a 22,000 seat arena”, and every bit of information says it’s 19,000 and some, I always wonder - why does he have to lie about EVERY SINGLE GODDAM THING? I mean, what’s the pathology? What goes on in his head when he says shit like this?

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:54:21pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

“We don’t know why he chose Tulsa, but we can’t see any way that his visit will be good for the city.”

The universe takes 99 years, but it will punish.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:54:45pm

re: #18 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s like him cashing that 13 cent check. He takes any “advantage” no matter how small.
motherjones.com

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:55:18pm

re: #17 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The guy either believes coronavirus is a hoax, or believes he’s cured it. Do you REALLY think you’re going to convince him?

Trump is the junkie who’s started seriously jonesing, willing to use somebody else’s works even though he knows it might infect him.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:56:09pm

re: #18 Blind Frog Belly White

Okay, it’s a little thing. But when Trump says, “We have a 22,000 seat arena”, and every bit of information says it’s 19,000 and some, I always wonder - why does he have to lie about EVERY SINGLE GODDAM THING? I mean, what’s the pathology? What goes on in his head when he says shit like this?

He wants that nice round 60k number. Guessing the actual number would be around 56k.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:57:08pm

re: #21 Blind Frog Belly White

On top of which, as the front half of a centaur, he lacks empathy for humans, so he doesn’t really care if they get sick.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:57:49pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:58:39pm

re: #22 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

He wants that nice round 60k number. Guessing the actual number would be around 56k.

Yeah, but you know that, as the night follows the day, tomorrow it’ll be a 24,000 seat arena and another one of 50,000.

Or, hell, later tonight.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:00:32pm

re: #24 teleskiguy

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There are people who think they don’t need a license to make their own fireworks. You can readily identify the ones who survive by the missing digits on their hands.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:01:40pm

re: #26 Targetpractice

There are people who think they don’t need a license to made their own fireworks. You can readily identify the ones who survive by the missing digits on their hands.

Brings back the memory of my pyrotechnics instructor, back when I became a licensed pyro, telling stories about the local rednecks buying 16” mortars, setting them up on top of the bluff, and punting them over the edge after lighting them.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:02:07pm

If you actually watched the video above it’s you crying, not me.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:02:13pm

re: #24 teleskiguy

“Is it necessary for us to social distance as the experts for so long had said? I think a lot of people could argue against that.”

Oh, sure. But then you can find people who argue that the earth is flat and NASA faked the moon landing, and 9/11 was an inside job, and Michelle Obama is a man. Finding people who will argue one way or another is not how you determine the truth of something.

But this does tell you that Eric married a sociopath. He better continue to be at least partially valuable to her.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:03:13pm
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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:04:02pm

re: #29 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, sure. But then you can find people who argue that the earth is flat and NASA faked the moon landing, and 9/11 was an inside job, and Michelle Obama is a man. Finding people who will argue one way or another is not how you determine the truth of something.

But this does tell you that Eric married a sociopath. He better continue to be at least partially valuable to her.

Yeah, you can find someone who is willing to argue the other side of virtually any topic. Though you shouldn’t be surprised if many of those folks wear tin-foil on their heads and keep looking around for things that aren’t there.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:09:04pm

re: #31 Targetpractice

Yeah, you can find someone who is willing to argue the other side of virtually any topic. Though you shouldn’t be surprised if many of those folks wear tin-foil on their heads and keep looking around for things that aren’t there.

It’s why science doesn’t revolve around debate, because there’s always someone to argue any point.

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thecommodore  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:11:52pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:14:07pm

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A Mom Anon  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:14:26pm

re: #33 thecommodore

So tell us how you really feel, lol. Good Job! These fucking people break everything and then cry and tantrum because nothing works. On purpose. The hell with them all.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:14:50pm

re: #24 teleskiguy

If you hang around Trump long enough, you turn into him.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:17:14pm

I wonder is there’s a name for the inverse of the “Bandwagon Effect”. In this case, I wonder if there will be some kind of ‘snowball’ effect of people running from Trump. After last weeks CNN poll with Biden up by 14, Scott Rasmussen (no longer associated with his old company) released a poll showing Biden up by 12.

At some point, if this keeps up, Republicans will become more willing to buck him, because his coattails will be negative.

I mean, it’s a lot to hope for, but you gotta have hope, right?

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:18:31pm

re: #37 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder is there’s a name for the inverse of the “Bandwagon Effect”. In this case, I wonder if there will be some kind of ‘snowball’ effect of people running from Trump. After last weeks CNN poll with Biden up by 14, Scott Rasmussen (no longer associated with his old company) released a poll showing Biden up by 12.

At some point, if this keeps up, Republicans will become more willing to buck him, because his coattails will be negative.

I mean, it’s a lot to hope for, but you gotta have hope, right?

I hope they do it soon enough that Trump can attack everyone of them.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:20:02pm

re: #37 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder is there’s a name for the inverse of the “Bandwagon Effect”. In this case, I wonder if there will be some kind of ‘snowball’ effect of people running from Trump. After last weeks CNN poll with Biden up by 14, Scott Rasmussen (no longer associated with his old company) released a poll showing Biden up by 12.

At some point, if this keeps up, Republicans will become more willing to buck him, because his coattails will be negative.

I mean, it’s a lot to hope for, but you gotta have hope, right?

The Repubs have sort of locked themselves into a very unenviable spot: They wrapped themselves around Trump when they thought he was going to win, but now can’t unwrap themselves for fear that their base will abandon them. So they’re left trying to BS people into believing they’re “independent” and playing up what few “achievements” they may have without mentioning Trump’s name.

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Mike Lamb  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:20:05pm

re: #33 thecommodore

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Nothing says principled jurisprudence like whining that a judge didn’t “deliver”.

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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:21:33pm

re: #37 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder is there’s a name for the inverse of the “Bandwagon Effect”. In this case, I wonder if there will be some kind of ‘snowball’ effect of people running from Trump. After last weeks CNN poll with Biden up by 14, Scott Rasmussen (no longer associated with his old company) released a poll showing Biden up by 12.

At some point, if this keeps up, Republicans will become more willing to buck him, because his coattails will be negative.

I mean, it’s a lot to hope for, but you gotta have hope, right?

I’m thinking ‘rats jumping from the sinking ship’, but those rats can’t recognize a floating fat raft as a soon-to-be sinker.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:22:35pm
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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:22:36pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:23:07pm

re: #41 wrenchwench

I’m thinking ‘rats jumping from the sinking ship’, but those rats can’t recognize a floating fat raft as a soon-to-be sinker.

Not yet, but at some point there will be blood in the water, if you don’t mind me mixing metaphors.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:24:30pm

re: #33 thecommodore

“to deliver Supreme Court victories to social conservatives”

Talk about a sugar high.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:25:34pm
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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:29:44pm

re: #46 jaunte

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What’s this “we” shit, Larry? The rest of us remember when you insisted that this outbreak was “contained” and there was no further danger. That was almost 4 months and nearly 119,000 deaths ago.

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:31:24pm

re: #46 jaunte

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The fuckers want to kill us all.

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danarchy  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:32:53pm

re: #18 Blind Frog Belly White

Okay, it’s a little thing. But when Trump says, “We have a 22,000 seat arena”, and every bit of information says it’s 19,000 and some, I always wonder - why does he have to lie about EVERY SINGLE GODDAM THING? I mean, what’s the pathology? What goes on in his head when he says shit like this?

Does the 19000 include additional seating on the arena floor? Can’t do that for a game, but it is pretty standard for a political rally. Unless there is some kind of pandemic going on, then you would have to be an idiot to try to pack extra people in…

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BeachDem  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:39:26pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

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Good article about that:

People involved with Clearview appear to have gone to great lengths to conceal their links to the company and each other. Johnson, for instance, does not appear on any of the incorporation documents and has left little public trace of his association with Ton-That beyond a Facebook post. But multiple far-right sources who know Johnson told HuffPost that he and Ton-That were in close contact at least as early as 2016, and that Johnson told them he was working with Ton-That on facial recognition…

Video and private messages obtained by HuffPost confirm that Johnson and Ton-That were collaborating on far-right schemes in 2016; by early 2017 at the latest, they were in contact about scraping social media platforms for the facial recognition business.
huffpost.com

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:39:39pm

The arena Fuckface Von Clownstick wants to do his Klan rally in has all events cancelled *through July.*

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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:39:39pm

There was the best part of a roll of TP on my lawn. Failed prank, or sign of Divine Approval?

At any rate, I scooped it up before the rain.

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:40:23pm

re: #49 danarchy

Does the 19000 include additional seating on the arena floor? Can’t do that for a game, but it is pretty standard for a political rally. Unless there is some kind of pandemic going on, then you would have to be an idiot to try to pack extra people in…

Exactly. There are seats, and then there is sports ball space on the floor. Sports ball space is where Drumpf wants them packed in like sardines. It’s where people who follow him across the country in RV’s congregate. Lotsa “Fuck Your Feelings!” and “Lock Her Up!” t-shirts down there. First in line. His loudest fans. The biggest roars. He lives for them, and they live for him.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:42:56pm

re: #53 austin_blue

Exactly. There are seats, and then there is sports ball space on the floor. Sports ball space is where Drumpf wants them packed in like sardines. It’s where people who follow him across the country in RV’s congregate. Lotsa “Fuck Your Feelings!” and “Lock Her Up!” t-shirts down there. First in line. His loudest fans. The biggest roars. He lives for them, and they live for him.

And now, they can die for him.

Trump is making Jim Jones look like a piker.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:43:10pm

re: #51 teleskiguy

The arena Fuckface Von Clownstick wants to do his Klan rally in has all events cancelled *through July.*

Yeah, most every major social event here in Va Beach has been canceled through at least the middle of July, if not into August or beyond. All the music festivals, the July 4th fireworks displays, and most of the conventions have either been shit-canned or postponed to “a future date.”

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:44:12pm

re: #55 Targetpractice

Yeah, most every major social event here in Va Beach has been canceled through at least the middle of July, if not into August or beyond. All the music festivals, the July 4th fireworks displays, and most of the conventions have either been shit-canned or postponed to “a future date.”

All concerts at Red Rocks have been cancelled or postponed until next year.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:45:20pm

re: #54 Blind Frog Belly White

And now, they can die for him.

Trump is making Jim Jones look like a piker.

He’ll carry them to the gates of Valhalla! They shall ride eternal, shiny and chrome!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:46:39pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:51:08pm

re: #55 Targetpractice

Yeah, most every major social event here in Va Beach has been canceled through at least the middle of July, if not into August or beyond. All the music festivals, the July 4th fireworks displays, and most of the conventions have either been shit-canned or postponed to “a future date.”

Yes, but will Max, Dusty, Brain, Lacudra, Patience, Velma, Waldo, Jinx, Ernie, and the rest of the monsters be able to party in Pungo at the end of October?

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:55:39pm

re: #59 A Three Hour Tour

Yes, but will Max, Dusty, Brain, Lacudra, Patience, Velma, Waldo, Jinx, Ernie, and the rest of the monsters be able to party in Pungo at the end of October?

That’s a very good question right now. Given that the current prediction is 200,000 deaths by the beginning of October, it’s questionable if we’ll even have a Halloween this year.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:57:30pm

re: #58 The Pie Overlord!

A petition to replace a statue of R. E. Lee with GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus in Richmond has almost 50,000 signatures. Oderus, real name Dave Brockie, called Richmond home for many years. He sadly died of a heroin overdose in 2014. Bandmates and fans gave Oderus a Viking funeral.

Oderus Urungus Viking Funeral Flaming Arrow Shot, GWAR-B-Q 2014

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:59:32pm

re: #31 Targetpractice

Yeah, you can find someone who is willing to argue the other side of virtually any topic. Though you shouldn’t be surprised if many of those folks wear tin-foil on their heads and keep looking around for things that aren’t there.

they are crackpots
do not legitimize them or boost their signal

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:00:27pm
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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:01:35pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If a team does sign him, the screeching from the wingnuts will be audible on Mars.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:02:01pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:02:06pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ooh that’s gonna make “some people” really mad….chortle, snort, snicker 🤭…..

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stpaulbear  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:02:42pm

re: #37 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder is there’s a name for the inverse of the “Bandwagon Effect”. In this case, I wonder if there will be some kind of ‘snowball’ effect of people running from Trump. After last weeks CNN poll with Biden up by 14, Scott Rasmussen (no longer associated with his old company) released a poll showing Biden up by 12.

At some point, if this keeps up, Republicans will become more willing to buck him, because his coattails will be negative.

I mean, it’s a lot to hope for, but you gotta have hope, right?

Not one of Graham Nash’s most stellar songs, but it fits Trump pretty well.

King Midas In Reverse

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:04:22pm

I suspect if I check the usual suspects, the calls for Goodell’s resignation have only gotten louder.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:05:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:07:47pm

oh

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:09:28pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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Yes, and it’s the “White Man’s Burden” that he had to “civilize” those he forced into slavery, right Louie?

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:09:48pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

If a team does sign him, the screeching from the wingnuts will be audible on Mars.

AMD the team that does will sell so many shirts they’ll be able to buy a new stadium.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:10:30pm

re: #71 Targetpractice

Yes, and it’s the “White Man’s Burden” that he had to “civilize” those he forced into slavery, right Louie?

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“the blessing of slavery…”

good fucking grief

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:11:02pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

Using the word “blessing” helps Louie put the support of Heaven behind the wrongs.

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stpaulbear  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:12:12pm

re: #72 Belafon

AMD the team that does will sell so many shirts they’ll be able to buy a new stadium.

But they’ll use the money to lobby for a state or city funded stadium instead.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:13:33pm

re: #72 Belafon

AMD the team that does will sell so many shirts they’ll be able to buy a new stadium.

Don’t forget we’ll get the usual wingnut “boycott” where they buy up a bunch of the jerseys to burn and claim that that will “hurt” the team.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:13:42pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:15:37pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

New: A federal judge in Alabama has blocked certain state voting restrictions (incl. witness/photo ID requirements for absentee ballots) for a runoff election next month, citing COVID-19 risks …

Remember that that is a Republican-only primary runoff. We’ll see how the general is handled in Nov.

The Alabama League of Women Voters and ACLU have lawsuits active to force easing of tight absentee voting rules.

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:15:44pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:17:50pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wow, it’s almost as if Kaepernick was right all along.

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Mattand  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:23:44pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

If a team does sign him, the screeching from the wingnuts will be audible on Mars.

There was a minor rumor that the Eagles might look at Kapernick a while back when they were having QB problems. I remember thinking there’s no way anyone could ever take that seriously. I’ve been to enough Eagles games over the decades to see the fans up close and personal.

Let’s just say a black man protesting police brutality by kneeling during the National Anthem would not go over well with that particular slice of Philly.

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BeachDem  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:27:04pm

re: #76 Targetpractice

Don’t forget we’ll get the usual wingnut “boycott” where they buy up a bunch of the jerseys to burn and claim that that will “hurt” the team.

As Jacqueline suggests on Kimmy Schmidt (Season 3 Episode 10)

To the owners, every $250 jersey the protesters burn is just more cash to line their pockets. So Jacqueline’s solution is simple: Change all the team names to offensive monikers, from the Kansas City Islams to the Jacksonville Hillarys, and rake in the cash from an America that’s “angry about everything.” It’s a sharp take on both the greed of the real-life league (which is actually facing declining viewership, sinking ad revenue, and Kaepernick’s jersey selling well) and on a larger corporate culture that’s happy to sow division if it’s good for the bottom line. The Washington Gun-Takers may be a comic creation, but they’re not too far off from our current politics-as-sport reality, from which massive corporations are all too happy to profit.

vulture.com

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:27:46pm

rando

This is like a bad episode of the Brady Bunch where Bobby steals a goat and hides it in mom’s closet and it eats all her expensive clothes.

Except by “Bobby” I mean president incompetent man-baby.

And by “steals a goat” I mean allowed a horrible virus to spread unchecked.

And by “eats all her expensive clothes” I mean a horrible plague resulting in many painful unnecessary deaths

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:29:22pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:31:50pm

wrt earlier discussion today

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:32:36pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:32:53pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:41:18pm

re: #86 Patricia Kayden

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calochortus  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:42:01pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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Huh?

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:44:20pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:45:22pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:45:40pm

re: #85 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

wrt earlier discussion today

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I hope so, but I don’t know how Joe Manchin feels about reforming the filibuster.

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calochortus  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:47:18pm

re: #91 Patricia Kayden

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He seems nice.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:48:03pm

re: #91 Patricia Kayden

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These racists just don’t learn, do they? It’s good they keep exposing themselves on viral videos.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:49:07pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:50:57pm

This comic followed me after this tweet. Seriously, he is one of the top ten Jeff Goldblum impersonators in the tri-state area

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A Mom Anon  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:51:45pm

re: #91 Patricia Kayden

Enough of this shit keeps happening, and maybe, just maybe, some people might check themselves before they wreck themselves. And maybe some of the rest might just scurry back under the rocks they came from.

I’d like to follow up on some of these assholes too, see if the world is forgiving and they find and settle into new jobs or if the crap follows them around. Or if OANN hires them as pundits.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:53:13pm
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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:55:22pm

re: #98 Patricia Kayden

Oh, they can lose their tax exempt status. That’s fine by me, too.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:58:19pm

Don’t know mom, the picture was just cute:

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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 7:58:24pm

re: #99 retired cynic

Oh, they can lose their tax exempt status. That’s fine by me, too.

Both.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:00:59pm
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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:02:48pm

“…Hard to overstate the magnitude of this loss for religious conservatives.”

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:05:36pm
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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:06:09pm

re: #92 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I hope so, but I don’t know how Joe Manchin feels about reforming the filibuster.

My view is this: it’s time to end it. If people don’t like the laws being passed, vote them out of office. Quit hiding behind the other party saving you so you can be pure.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:07:01pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:10:40pm

re: #106 goddamnedfrank

Next on Fox Lifestyle:

The Potato Famine Diet.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:12:07pm

re: #107 Decatur Deb

Next on Fox:

The Potato Famine Diet.

Tulsa wasn’t as bad as everyone thinks.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:12:16pm

From downstairs:
re: #111 teleskiguy

re: #116 jaunte

I have no idea what that’s supposed to trigger.

Isn’t Ben Shapiro mocking those who voted for Trump and believed that Gorsuch was the reward? And, instead, Gorsuch, for once in his life, voted to support rights for those who were not white conservatives. So Gorsuch betrayed these white conservatives.

I assume that these GOP justices will quickly regain their conservative creds when they vote to conceal Trump’s records from the authorities because, as President, he is above the law.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:14:33pm

One of the vigilante protectors of a conquistador statue shot someone with his pistol; victim taken to hospital.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:16:19pm

One man shot during protest in Old Town Albuquerque
abqjournal.com

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:17:09pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:17:52pm

re: #103 jaunte

And somehow Rod doesn’t realize how fucked up that is. It’s an actual admitting that the only win for them is to destroy the lives and rights of others. Like their only joy is in spite.

They all need to turn in their Bibles and crosses, their fish bumper stickers and their bullshit pro-life posturing and go fuck off too.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:19:24pm

Fuckface Von Clownstick’s baseless ANTIFA fear-mongering has had real life consequences.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:23:06pm

re: #105 Belafon

My view is this: it’s time to end it. If people don’t like the laws being passed, vote them out of office. Quit hiding behind the other party saving you so you can be pure.

I’m not as supportive of the notion of abandoning the filibuster, especially given that means there is no check on a 51 vote majority representing less than 20% of the population. There is something toxic about the Senate and its 2 votes per state, regardless of the population of the state. I do support returning to the old rules requiring Senators to actually speak on the floor to maintain the filibuster. The Senate strikes me as a fatal flaw in the structure of our government.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:23:33pm

re: #111 jaunte

One man shot during protest in Old Town Albuquerque
abqjournal.com

My wife was watching the live stream of the protest. Immediately messaged the daughter to see if she wasn’t there. She decided to stay home tonight at her place near UNM, but was also watching the livestream.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:35:26pm
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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:43:44pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:49:17pm

re: #118 Dread Pirate

Oh no.

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plansbandc  Jun 15, 2020 • 8:52:26pm

re: #104 gocart mozart

Elephants are such amazing creatures. I think they are very smart and wise beings. Wish we would treat them better than we do.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:01:54pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:02:53pm

What a dingus.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:13:17pm

For those who want to…Make Bathrooms Great Again!

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:19:30pm
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Ace-o-aces  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:37:34pm
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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:40:04pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

Apparently Hoan Ton-That also hangs with Richard Spencer & Mike Cernovich & that crowd. I wouldn’t be surprised if he helped out with the Trump re-election campaign.

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BigPapa  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:48:58pm

re: #125 Ace-o-aces

Should help them against the Rona

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2020 • 9:55:50pm

re: #125 Ace-o-aces

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Personally, the first thing that comes to mind is that cop who fabricated a hoax about how a Starbucks barista wrote “Pig” on his cup, only for it to turn out that the bastard had lied to try to drum up sympathy for the department.

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plansbandc  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:06:48pm

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BigPapa  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:09:49pm

Gorka and his giant head at the VOA? Geezuz H.

I say this as a People of Large Domes: I don’t claim him for our tribe.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:13:20pm
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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:14:25pm

re: #130 BigPapa

Gorka and his giant head at the VOA? Geezuz H.

I say this as a People of Large Domes: I don’t claim him for our tribe.

He has a head made for radio.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:36:57pm
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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:41:38pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:43:18pm

re: #133 teleskiguy

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BigPapa  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:53:43pm

re: #132 Dread Pirate

He has a head made for radio.

Hat tip to Lee Rodgers back in the day when I was a Glibertarian. He always said “I have a face made for radio.”

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:24:04pm

Coronavirus was released from a silicon valley biolab to force people to stay home and drive customer demand to the new restaurant delivery services like GrubHub and DoorDash.

Think about it…..

Uh huh!

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BigPapa  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:26:53pm

re: #137 Dread Pirate

Coronavirus was released from a silicon valley biolab to force people to stay home and drive customer demand to the new restaurant delivery services like GrubHub and DoorDash.

Think about it…..

Uh huh!

Do the research.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:47:34pm

I’m seeing as yet unconfirmed reports from Albuquerque people (one a state Senate candidate, another the moderator of a local PBS public/political affairs program, plus additional Twitter tweets) identifying tonight’s gunman as the 30 year old right-wing gun-nut son of a former Bernalillo County sheriff who ran unsuccessfully for Albuquerque City Council last year. (The 30 year old son ran for City Council, not the dad in law enforcement.)

I’m not yet seeing anything from official news channels confirming this information.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:54:01pm

YouTube

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:57:09pm

re: #139 A Three Hour Tour

I’m seeing as yet unconfirmed reports from Albuquerque people (one a state Senate candidate, another the moderator of a local PBS public/political affairs program, plus additional Twitter tweets) identifying tonight’s gunman as the 30 year old right-wing gun-nut son of a former Bernalillo County sheriff who ran unsuccessfully for Albuquerque City Council last year. (The 30 year old son ran for City Council, not the dad in law enforcement.)

I’m not yet seeing anything from official news channels confirming this information.

If that is indeed the case, and if he’s charged with a felony and he’s successfully prosecuted and convicted, well…..guess he won’t be voting for Trump this November. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:59:46pm

Oh crap.

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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:00:33am

Suspected he was one of the Ammosexual Sovereign Shitheads but may be he was a run of the mill gunfucker and the ASS actually cordoned him off to wait for the PD. So that would be good. Developing.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:03:19am

re: #142 teleskiguy

Kaesong is where the inter-Korean Liaison Office is located. Maybe Kim Yo-jong followed through on her threat from the other day to demolish the building.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:04:22am

re: #144 Dr Lizardo

Kaesong is where the inter-Korean Liaison Office is located. Maybe Kim Yo-jong followed through on her threat from the other day to demolish the building.

Yep. Looks like Kim Yo-jong did indeed follow up on her threat.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:04:28am

re: #143 BigPapa

Suspected he was one of the Ammosexual Sovereign Shitheads but may be he was a run of the mill gunfucker and the ASS actually cordoned him off to wait for the PD. So that would be good. Developing.

Local PBS guy thinks gunman was freelancing nutjob not actual member of militia. ABQ peeps seem to regard suspected gunman as an annoying crackpot at City Council meetings.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:07:35am

re: #145 Dr Lizardo

BTW, that raises a question. Who’s running North Korea? Kim Jung-un or his sister, Kim Yo-jong?

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:07:47am
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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:10:56am

re: #148 Ace-o-aces

some people are so fucking stupid it makes me want to kill myself because I’m the same genus.

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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:11:10am

re: #146 A Three Hour Tour

Local PBS guy thinks gunman was freelancing nutjob not actual member of militia. ABQ peeps seem to regard suspected gunman as an annoying crackpot at City Council meetings.

Yes, the Lone Wolf Crackpot may not be associated with the Metalstorm Boogaloo Militia crackpots who may have detained the Lone crackpot until PD arrived.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:11:20am

re: #144 Dr Lizardo

Kaesong is where the inter-Korean Liaison Office is located. Maybe Kim Yo Jong followed through on her threat from the other day to demolish the building.

It’s now just after 3 A.M. in the White House. Is Trump ready for that proverbial phone call?

Of course he isn’t.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:13:25am

Pile onto this that COVID-19 effect in North Korea probably isn’t known to any degree outside of their internal knowledge. And odds are it’s pretty bad.

Which provides another reason that whomever is running North Korea might want an external distraction going right now.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:13:28am

re: #151 A Three Hour Tour

It’s now just after 3 A.M. in the White House. Is Trump ready for that proverbial phone call?

Of course he isn’t.

He’ll never be ready. Hell, North Korean artillery could start shelling Seoul in the next 30 minutes and Trump would probably just go hide under the covers.

Or more likely, in the toilet with his phone.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:14:40am

re: #151 A Three Hour Tour

It’s now just after 3 A.M. in the White House. Is Trump ready for that proverbial phone call?

Of course he isn’t.

He’s so stupid he’ll think Kim bombed South Korea and will be ready for a full retaliatory nuclear strike on Pyongyang before his generals talk him back down from the precipice.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:15:19am

hi

Panhandle Public Health District hasn’t updated the so-called dashboard since Thursday. I’m not sure if they’re having problems, or if they caved to Gov. Ricketts’s rush to kill us all in Nebraska.

The state has not updated its so-called dashboard either.

For Wyoming (the state only gives demographic data on those who have a positive test):
health.wyo.gov

Lab confirmed + probable: 1,079 (+19)
Doubled since May 14 (accellerating)
Most by age: 19-29, then 40-49
By ethnic group: White (49.5% of lab confirmed), then Native American (31.4%)
Tested positive and hospitalised: 11.1% (may be incomplete)
Contracted from a known case: 49.9%
New tests: -459 (???)
Recovered: 838
Deaths: 18 (no change since June 9)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:16:21am

re: #142 teleskiguy

Oh crap.

I guess they are trying to make a statement.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:21:16am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:24:24am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, threatened to “collapse” (IOW, demolish) the building the other day. Looks like she’s followed through on that.

So…..who’s running North Korea? Kim Jong-un - or Kim Yo-jong? I have a difficult time imagining that Kim Yo-jong could simply issue an order to demolish that building without Kim Jong-un’s permission. The only way she could do this is if Kim Jong-un is utterly incapacitated - or dead - and she’s taking over as North Korea’s Supreme Leader.

I would expect that we’d soon see some kind of press conference or national address from Kim Jong-un in light of this event. If he’s still among the living and reasonably healthy, that is.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:35:31am

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:40:11am

Trip to Scottsbluff tomorrow. My wife and I are combining things so we’re not out as long.

I have to go to the hospital for a routine appointment. While routine, it can’t be put off until a safer time.

We’ll go ahead and get some shopping in while we’re there.

We’ll also drop by Nebraska Tire to order new rear tires for Maxwell the Smart. The tread is down to the wear bars and coronavirus won’t give us an extension.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:42:45am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:46:33am

re: #161 goddamnedfrank

So maybe Kim Yo-jong is a fan of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica? Wonders never cease.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:52:53am

This feels like it might become a thing.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 12:54:42am

re: #163 goddamnedfrank

So, who had “China goes to war with India” and “New North Korean leader goes hog wild” on their 2020 bingo cards?

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:05:45am

That’s just what we needed, a bunch a fucknut motherfucking cocksplats exploding around the world at once. I swear this is the worst end-of-times miniseries ever!

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:06:46am

I’m pushing my 3 beer limit tonight!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:14:50am

re: #165 Dread Pirate

That’s just what we needed, a bunch a fucknut motherfucking cocksplats exploding around the world at once. I swear this is the worst end-of-times miniseries ever!

Multiple crises kicking off around the world pretty much simultaneously.

And I give you the President of the United States of America….

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:26:29am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:32:45am

re: #168 Dread Pirate

Is that Ron “We need the gold standard” Paul?

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:33:43am

Luap Nor, himself.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:40:27am

YouTube

Did I learn of this song from LGF? I can’t think of any other source for the bookmark.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:41:43am

It looks like the regional newspaper isn’t going to run my letter to the editor on the need for a free press and the recent police attacks in other states on journalists.

The last letter they ran was June 13, a remark about an old photograph run in the paper when telephone service was first installed here.

That letter called out racist stereotypes, as evidenced in the photograph and still around today.

It then called on an appeal to God to end racism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:45:14am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:51:45am

A moran weighs in on Megan Hunt:

Nobody “ships people in from the Panhandle to set broken bones.” That’s why we have hospitals here. I know we’re a bit behind the times around here, but doctors do know how to set a broken bone here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 1:59:22am
In a new trial there are hints, but no proof, that a wriggling intestinal parasite might help fight multiple sclerosis.

The lowly hookworm has for years been proposed as a potential treatment for multiple sclerosis, or MS, and other autoimmune disorders.

But the first clinical trial testing the potential benefits of the parasite against MS has produced decidedly mixed results, according to the report published online June 15 in JAMA Neurology.

Hookworm treatment did not cause any decrease in the brain lesions associated with MS, compared with patients who received a placebo, the findings showed.
RELATED Mindfulness may ease the emotional burden of MS

However, “there were some hints of a potential beneficial effect,” said researcher Dr. Cris Constantinescu, a professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

The group treated with hookworm experienced an increase in T regulatory cells, which balance the immune system and prevent autoimmune diseases, the researchers said.

“The immune response went in the direction that is good for MS treatment,” Constantinescu said. “A larger trial would be needed, perhaps of a longer duration. Higher doses may have a more pronounced effect.”

(more)

upi.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:02:37am

NYPD disbands plainclothes anti-crime units (UPI, fifty minutes ago)

June 16 (UPI) — New York Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea has announced that he will be disbanding the police department’s elite anti-crime units whose plainclothes officers target violent crime throughout the city.

Shea told reporters Monday during a press conference that effective immediately roughly 600 officers from those units will be transitioned to other departments in an effort to update the force for modern policing, describing the move as a substantial cultural change to foster trust with the community.

(more)

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:05:12am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Remember back around Mar-Apr, when the wingnuts were like “We can’t keep the economy closed forever, so we have to make peace with people dying!” And how folks responded with horror and called them “ghouls,” “monsters,” and other names for even thinking the public would be okay with people dying in order to maintain public health and security?

Yeah, I think we can say with confidence that they won that argument. When it comes to a choice between people dying and summer vacations, we’re willing to sacrifice grandma to get a tan.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:07:56am

re: #177 Targetpractice

“People die of poverty!” is a common counter argument.

Which is not quite the case,: they die from lack of proper nutrition, shelter and health care which are associated with poverty in our society. But that is as much a matter of political and moral choice as an economic inevitability.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:09:02am

re: #177 Targetpractice

Remember back around Mar-Apr, when the wingnuts were like “We can’t keep the economy closed forever, so we have to make peace with people dying!” And how folks responded with horror and called them “ghouls,” “monsters,” and other names for even thinking the public would be okay with people dying in order to maintain public health and security?

Yeah, I think we can say with confidence that they won that argument. When it comes to a choice between people dying and summer vacations, we’re willing to sacrifice grandma to get a tan.

They will only care when it’s their own grandmother, then they’ll blame someone else in the grand conservative tradition of personal responsibility.

By the way did anyone in the European contingent of LGF leave a package behind on a Swiss train? They are looking to return it to the owner.

Officials seek owner of $190K worth of gold bars left on Swiss train (UPI)

The prosecutor’s office in Lucerne says the gold was found in October 2019 but they have not been able to return it to its rightful owner. They are now appealing to the public for help.

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:10:41am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They will only care when it’s their own grandmother, then they’ll blame someone else in the grand conservative tradition of personal responsibility.

By the way did anyone in the European contingent of LGF leave a package behind on a Swiss train? They are looking to return it to the owner.

Officials seek owner of $190K worth of gold bars left on Swiss train (UPI)

The prosecutor’s office in Lucerne says the gold was found in October 2019 but they have not been able to return it to its rightful owner. They are now appealing to the public for help.

Gold bars left on a Swiss train? Are they sure the owner isn’t a Mr. “I.M. Anazi”?

//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:11:33am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

By the way did anyone in the European contingent of LGF leave a package behind on a Swiss train? They are looking to return it to the owner.

Officials seek owner of $190K worth of gold bars left on Swiss train (UPI)

.

would be interesting to know what the gold in those bars was used for before they got melted down

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:12:44am

re: #180 Targetpractice

Gold bars left on a Swiss train? Are they sure the owner isn’t a Mr. “I.M. Anazi”?

//

They might also be baiting a criminal or something. “Hey, you forgot this.” They only say that the owner has five years to claim it before it is forfeit to the state.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:13:40am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

By the way did anyone in the European contingent of LGF leave a package behind on a Swiss train? They are looking to return it to the owner.

Holy shit, I was wondering where I’d misplaced that! Glad to hear the police found it. Guess I’d better go that sorted out.

😄

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:16:35am

Well, I’m going to hit the rack now. Trip to town later today. Catch y’all later.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:16:55am

re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They might also be baiting a criminal or something. “Hey, you forgot this.” They only say that the owner has five years to claim it before it is forfeit to the state.

My ex GF moved with her hubby to Douglas, Arizona, near the Mexican border. I have heard that they have found a number of abandoned coyote vehicles, mostly sturdy 4WD Nissan Pathfinders and the like on their property, where they have been driven until they run out of gas.

They report them to the police, and if nobody comes to claim them after 60 days, they get to keep them. And nobody ever does…

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ericblair  Jun 16, 2020 • 2:27:46am

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

Holy shit, I was wondering where I’d misplaced that! Glad to hear the police found it. Guess I’d better go that sorted out.

😄

It’s probably mine: I do that all the time. Once I spilled a whole bucket of bitcoin on the front seat of the car and it took forever to get it all out.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 16, 2020 • 3:25:57am

Jazzy Cocktail Playlist

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John Hughes  Jun 16, 2020 • 3:37:12am

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

NYPD disbands plainclothes anti-crime units (UPI, fifty minutes ago)

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Peelian principles, #9:

To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 16, 2020 • 3:42:17am

re: #188 John Hughes

Peelian principles, #9:

This seems an odd move. Unless, with the repeal of the laws hiding disciplinary records this is some sort of preemptive move before a lot of shit hits the fan.

I somehow have doubts this is being done solely to act as a improvement in the police force being seen as more community-oriented or acting primarily for the benefit of the citizens. Just me being cynical I guess.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 16, 2020 • 3:57:37am

re: #189 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

This seems an odd move. Unless, with the repeal of the laws hiding disciplinary records this is some sort of preemptive move before a lot of shit hits the fan.

I somehow have doubts this is being done solely to act as a improvement in the police force being seen as more community-oriented or acting primarily for the benefit of the citizens. Just me being cynical I guess.

For a guess, and assuming the police leaders are fairly straight, it looks like they found a cultural problem within those units that couldn’t be fixed with minor surgery.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:03:56am

re: #190 Decatur Deb

For a guess, and assuming the police leaders are fairly straight, it looks like they found a cultural problem within those units that couldn’t be fixed with minor surgery.

Quote in article for the NYPD commissioner.

“We can do it with brains. We can do it with guile. We can move away from brute force,” he said, adding these units, at the orders of their superiors, were responsible for a disproportionate number of misconduct complaints and shootings.

And the head of the union bitched about it immediately using the usual rhetoric.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:05:25am

Banana in it’s native environment

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Decatur Deb  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:07:35am

re: #191 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Quote in article for the NYPD commissioner.

And the head of the union bitched about it immediately using the usual rhetoric.

There is a problem in disbanding a unit like that: Are you gaining control by breaking up internal rot, or are you spreading rot to the receiving units?

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steve_davis  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:09:33am

re: #67 stpaulbear

Not one of Graham Nash’s most stellar songs, but it fits Trump pretty well.

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the 4 Way version is better.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:15:58am

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

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“DO YOU KNOW WHO MY DADDY IS!”

“No, but let me call your mom and see if she remembers.”

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Teukka  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:19:04am

Sorry if this got posted already:
Troll level: EXPERT

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Teukka  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:27:03am

re: #196 Teukka

Sorry if this got posted already:
Troll level: EXPERT

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Addendum: Ze original tweet:

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SteelPH  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:34:12am

re: #197 Teukka

The idiocy of these people is utterly mindboggling.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:37:17am

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

“Armed friendlies”

I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that the shooter and the rest of his gang will walk.
Protester In Albuquerque Wounded During Shooting At Rally Over Removal Of Statue

The Albuquerque Journal reports that the shooting occurred as a man in a blue shirt was pushed onto the street and protesters began advancing toward him. First, he pulled a can of pepper spray from his pocket and sprayed it and then appeared to pull a gun and fired five shots, the newspaper said. “The man who was shot appeared to have been one of the individuals advancing on the man in the blue shirt,” the paper said.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:37:27am
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Teukka  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:39:09am

re: #198 SteelPH

The idiocy of these people is utterly mindboggling.

Yeah. More often than not, I react to their attempts at forging documents and infiltrating with utter disbelief, to the extent that I keep wondering “what is this intended to divert attention from” and “what are they hiding”. It’s so noisy that, sadly, someone can take the opportunity to slip in under the noise floor. And I see it extends beyond forgeries and infiltration…

*Cues “Yakety Sax”*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:43:16am

re: #125 Ace-o-aces

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:53:52am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A Mom Anon  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:54:11am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

And now since the address of the restaurant is out there, how long will it be before some asshole goes in there and hurts or threatens the employees there? This shit can get people hurt or killed.

Edit: I see I am not the only one who had that thought upon hearing all this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:57:24am
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Dave In Austin  Jun 16, 2020 • 4:57:49am

Seb Gorka May be the new voice of Voice of America.
What could possibly go wrong…..

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jeffreyw  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:04:51am

Katie, fresh from the groomer and feeling pretty!

Good morning!

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:06:45am

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I got an alert from ESPN last night that the Steelers may be looking to talk to him. That should send Rush Limpdick into a rage.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:07:45am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My ex GF moved with her hubby to Douglas, Arizona, near the Mexican border. I have heard that they have found a number of abandoned coyote vehicles, mostly sturdy 4WD Nissan Pathfinders and the like on their property, where they have been driven until they run out of gas.

They report them to the police, and if nobody comes to claim them after 60 days, they get to keep them. And nobody ever does…

No kidding. What do they do with them? Can they get ownership docs and sell them?

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:11:07am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So my instincts were right and it was cops looking to gain sympathy through a hoax before being forced to admit the truth.

Shocker./////

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:17:08am

This is a thread that amazed me. She’s the showrunner for Gray’s Anatomy. That’s fine brutally honest admissions.

We all have a past.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:17:33am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

There was still bleach in the shake.

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Teukka  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:19:29am

More and more signs that people are seeing both the writing on the wall, and that it reads “Vade retro me, Satanas”:

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:19:41am

re: #157 goddamnedfrank

Fascinating how the police were able to apprehend an armed White guy who had just engaged in violence without killing him. Hmmmm.

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:19:53am

re: #212 Shropshire Slasher

There was still bleach in the shake.

From the way the cops are telling it now, they could smell the bleach and saw something in the shake that didn’t look right…but they drank them anyway.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:22:37am

re: #215 Targetpractice

From the way the cops are telling it now, they could smell the bleach and saw something in the shake that didn’t look right…but they drank them anyway.

So it’s the policemen’s fault?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:25:55am
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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:26:44am

re: #216 Shropshire Slasher

So it’s the policemen’s fault?

Well, since they say they could smell bleach and the drinks didn’t look right to them, I’d have to say yes. Unless you believe the unnamed employee forced them to drink.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:31:44am

re: #212 Shropshire Slasher

You know this how? And who in the hell would drink anything that smelled like bleach? The police chief walked this way back, saying there was no crime. I don’t think this even happened at this point. Either there was bleach in the drinks or wasn’t there’s not much wiggle room here. What it has done is put employees in danger for nothing.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:33:16am

re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Music to my ears.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:34:26am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

The employees should sue the PD. This is outrageous.

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stpaulbear  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:35:11am

re: #218 Targetpractice

Well, since they say they could smell bleach and the drinks didn’t look right to them, I’d have to say yes. Unless you believe the unnamed employee forced them to drink.

I wonder if they were stupid enough to believe Trump that a little bleach would help protect them against covid.

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Teukka  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:35:25am

Yo, ITSec Lizardim!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:39:18am

Very weird numbers in this article.

Anyone else think so?

In the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, around 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and were compared with more than 4,000 who did not receive the drug.

For patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%. For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.
Lead researcher Prof Martin Landray says the findings suggest that for every eight patients treated on ventilators, you could save one life.

For those patients treated with oxygen, you save one life for approximately every 20-25 treated with the drug.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:42:17am

re: #223 Teukka

I’d have them check the newsgroup comp.risks around that period.

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Teukka  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:45:42am

re: #225 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’d have them check the newsgroup comp.risks around that period.

Message forwarded to tweeter.

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:46:55am

I’ve never been so thirsty that I chugged a drink that did not smell or look right. If someone handed me a shake that had enough bleach in it that I could smell such without looking for it, then I’d hand that sucker back.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:50:20am

re: #219 A Mom Anon

I’d also go out on a limb here and say that most fast food and retail businesses these days have security cameras not just watching customers but the employees as well. So maybe, and this is a maybe here, the police saw the video of the employee making the shakes or drinks and found nothing wrong.

The possibility also exists that something was being cleaned nearby with bleach (and the stuff for industrial use is much stronger than the household stuff we buy) and that overwhelmed the smell and taste senses and they thought it was their food. Which is dumb and panicky but here we are.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:52:07am
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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 16, 2020 • 5:52:15am

re: #227 Targetpractice

I’ve never been so thirsty that I chugged a drink that did not smell or look right. If someone handed me a shake that had enough bleach in it that I could smell such without looking for it, then I’d hand that sucker back.

I’m going to have to disagree with you. Shake shack gives you a shake with a cover on it, you plunk your straw in and take a sip. Most of the time you don’t realize something is bad once it gets to the back of your tongue. This happened. It wasn’t a hoax. The police determined there was no criminal intent. A mistake.

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:01:37am

re: #230 Shropshire Slasher

I’m going to have to disagree with you. Shake shack gives you a shake with a cover on it, you plunk your straw in and take a sip. Most of the time you don’t realize something is bad once it gets to the back of your tongue. This happened. It wasn’t a hoax. The police determined there was no criminal intent. A mistake.

What happened? The original claim that these cops were deliberately poisoned, one which is still being retweeted? Or the “update” hours later where they had to admit that they had no evidence that the original claim was true?

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:04:47am

Don’t know about Shake Shack, but years ago when I worked in restaurants we used metal rings to contain the shake contents when blending. It’s possible, if they use rings, that they weren’t properly rinsed before reuse.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:11:58am

re: #231 Targetpractice

One other possibility, and this is pure speculation on my part. One of the tweets damning Shake Shack mentioned a 100K company donation to BLM. Could have been a motive to target them. Again, just a thought I had when reading that Twitter thread.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:15:08am

re: #233 A Mom Anon

One other possibility, and this is pure speculation on my part. One of the tweets damning Shake Shack mentioned a 100K company donation to BLM. Could have been a motive to target them. Again, just a thought I had when reading that Twitter thread.

Given recent police behavior in various cities across the country, I wouldn’t dismiss this possibility.

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:15:21am

Seeing several people on Twitter noting that the “sources” in the NYPD, they’re blaming an improperly cleaned machine for introducing the chemical into the shakes, yet there’s no other victims other than these three cops.

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plansbandc  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:16:54am

re: #200 Dave In Austin

Disturbingly lovely.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:18:00am

re: #236 plansbandc

LOLOLOL.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:23:35am

Since this has 7.1M views, many of you have probably already seen it, but it was new to me. The locale is apparently Cedartown, Georgia or nearby. The funniest part is the way the woman completely loses it when the victim calls her a crackhead——apparently a bullseye. Great comments, seriously foul language.
BTW, I am not comfortable with the “Karen” appellation, since there are nice people with that name, though the behavior so designated certainly needs to be exposed.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:27:08am

re: #124 Dread Pirate

I watched a snapper rip a 2x4 to shreds. Respect their authori-tay

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plansbandc  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:28:43am

Particularly Klassy Karen there.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:28:58am

Yeah, that’s it’s “stinger”. I have never seen this insect before.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:30:18am

That was quick. Why are they letting foreigners in? I’m at a loss.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:31:24am

re: #128 Targetpractice

Personally, the first thing that comes to mind is that cop who fabricated a hoax about how a Starbucks barista wrote “Pig” on his cup, only for it to turn out that the bastard had lied to try to drum up sympathy for the department.

Super Troopers (4/5) Movie CLIP - Dimpus Burger (2001) HD

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:34:37am

re: #241 Shropshire Slasher

Yeah, that’s it’s “stinger”. I have never seen this insect before.

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Would appear to be one of these, a “giant ichneumon wasp.”

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jeffreyw  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:37:45am

re: #244 Targetpractice

Would appear to be one of these, a “giant ichneumon wasp.”

“Stump Stabber” - sounds like he belongs on the Group W bench.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:37:54am

re: #244 Targetpractice

Would appear to be one of these, a “giant ichneumon wasp.”

Thank you I really appreciate the link on the “stump stabber”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:44:12am

re: #224 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.

Yeah, not that impressive. Sure, if you’re one of the small group who were saved with the drug you’ll be grateful.

But while there appears to be several thousands patients in the study, the reported improvement are “statistically significant” as by the standards of such medical tests, yet the significance is not that impressive according to the standards used in other sciences. There’s still a not-unreasonable chance that the difference between the drug-takers and the placebo group is simply a random fluctuation.

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:44:38am

I will note that Pat Lynch was pretty Johnny-on-the-spot, making it to the hospital in time to “check-in” on the three cops and give a statement to the press before the “investigation” seemed to have begun.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:44:54am

A new poll has Trump leading Biden in Arkansas by two points. In Arkansas!

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:47:02am

Ignore the Puritarians:

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:47:41am

re: #249 NO SMOCKING GUN!

A new poll has Trump leading Biden in Arkansas by two points. In Arkansas!

I saw that. Wonder if that’s a trend. If Biden is within the MoE in Arkansas, Trump could be going down in the biggest landslide in a long time.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:47:42am

This is just sad no matter how you look at it. They are charging the white idiots, great, but let’s get real, there’s no way to spin this well.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:48:11am

re: #250 Belafon

Ignore the Puritarians:

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I do and I sleep better.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:49:19am

re: #247 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yeah, not that impressive. Sure, if you’re one of the small group who were saved with the drug you’ll be grateful.

But while there appears to be several thousands patients in the study, the reported improvement are “statistically significant” as by the standards of such medical tests, yet the significance is not that impressive according to the standards used in other sciences. There’s still a not-unreasonable chance that the difference between the drug-takers and the placebo group is simply a random fluctuation.

Who’s the Mengele who determines who gets the real stuff vs the placebo? I can’t wrap my head around studies like this.

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:50:30am

re: #249 NO SMOCKING GUN!

A new poll has Trump leading Biden in Arkansas by two points. In Arkansas!

538’s polling average had Donny down to 40.8% approval, which is roughly where he was last October. For those who many not remember those ancient times, that was the period where he was getting his ass kicked in the polls for stonewalling the House’s Ukraine investigation as they were beginning to hit pay dirt.

And it’s also less than a point away from his next most recent low mark, namely the shellacking he took in the press last January for the post-midterm government shutdown where he tried to leverage power he totally lacked against a House leadership that saw he was only hurting himself.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:50:53am

re: #252 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is just sad no matter how you look at it. They are charging the white idiots, great, but let’s get real, there’s no way to spin this well.

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That’s a couple counties over from where I am. I’ve passed through it visiting my brother at VT.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:51:28am

re: #250 Belafon

Ignore the Puritarians:

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As I’ve mentioned, Twitter isn’t real life.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:52:20am

re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

As I’ve mentioned, Twitter isn’t real life.

Yep.

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gwangung  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:53:47am

re: #255 Targetpractice

538’s polling average had Donny down to 40.8% approval, which is roughly where he was last October. For those who many not remember those ancient times, that was the period where he was getting his ass kicked in the polls for stonewalling the House’s Ukraine investigation as they were beginning to hit pay dirt.

And it’s also less than a point away from his next most recent low mark, namely the shellacking he took in the press last January for the post-midterm government shutdown where he tried to leverage power he totally lacked against a House leadership that saw he was only hurting himself.

So basically, he’ll rebound when the masses forgets his blunders, awaiting his next disaster…

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:54:33am
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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:54:43am

re: #259 gwangung

So basically, he’ll rebound when the masses forgets his blunders, awaiting his next disaster…

That’s certainly one way to look at it. But that’s a pretty steep climb by this point.

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Nojay UK  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:55:25am

re: #254 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The “real stuff” can be actively harmful, the placebo theoretically never causes additional harm. It’s a crapshoot, sometimes literally — I’ve taken part in randomised trials (non-medical) where one of the experiment team rolled a D20 to decide which cohort I was going to be in. Before you ask there were five cohorts, as I found out later and a regular D6 wasn’t going to work to make a selection for that number.

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:55:50am

re: #259 gwangung

So basically, he’ll rebound when the masses forgets his blunders, awaiting his next disaster…

When the coronavirus vaccine is found and people return to restaurants and shopping, which we know will happen in the next 4.5 months.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 6:59:19am

Way I see it is this. We know a pandemic can impact us. We have seen notta from the administration about preventing this from happening again. Oh and China’s leaders made it known they prefer four years of Trump because he helps their anti US propaganda. So Trump can’t even try “But Chyna fears me”

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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:00:43am

It’s certainly possible that Donny could find a way to A) deal with the outbreak in a way that slows or stops the current wave of new infections, B) address the economic crater in such a way that he erases all the job losses and gets us back to where we were in Feb, and C) push police reform in such a fashion that it satisfies both sides of the issue.

It’s also possible that Somalia announces tomorrow to have not only discovered a commercially-viable means of fusion energy, but is prepared to share the knowledge with the entire globe for no cost whatsoever. It’s exceedingly unlikely, but it could happen.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:02:45am

re: #265 Targetpractice

Aliens.

Donny will announce that we have captured creatures from another planet.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:03:17am

re: #266 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Aliens.

Donny will announce that we have captured creatures from another planet.

Some of them I assume are good people.//

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:03:36am
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Targetpractice  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:03:46am

re: #266 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Aliens.

Donny will announce that we have captured creatures from another planet.

Weyland Yutani called, they want their business strategy back.

//

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John Hughes  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:05:17am

re: #254 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Who’s the Mengele who determines who gets the real stuff vs the placebo? I can’t wrap my head around studies like this.

If it’s a real double-blind trial nobody decides, you roll the dice.

I find your use of the name “Mengele” in this context somewhat inflammatory.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:06:05am

re: #148 Ace-o-aces

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Funny, I opened the image in a new tab and full size it is only one star. These people are fucking insane. He also says something along the lines of “At least in Florida it is a dry heat”, WTF?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:07:01am

re: #268 Belafon

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Yeah I’m sad to say but this is still going to linger years from now.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:07:39am

re: #271 Eventual Carrion

Funny, I opened the image in a new tab and full size it is only one star. These people are fucking insane. He also says something along the lines of “At least in Florida it is a dry heat”, WTF?

Florida? A dry heat? Well I’ve got tundra here in the Appalachians to sell you.

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John Hughes  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:08:29am

re: #273 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Florida? A dry heat? Well I’ve got tundra here in the Appalachians to sell you.

Well, maybe, compared to Liberia…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:09:01am

re: #274 John Hughes

Well, maybe, compared to Liberia…

Florida is famous for being humid.

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:09:11am

re: #254 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Who’s the Mengele who determines who gets the real stuff vs the placebo? I can’t wrap my head around studies like this.

In a trial like this, I doubt they selected a placebo group because we already have a group of people that didn’t take it: Those who were infected before the trials began. What they will do is carefully, but randomly select from those who have been infected so that the group represents the population at large.

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John Hughes  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:09:35am

re: #275 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Liberia is not the driest place on earth.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:10:04am

re: #277 John Hughes

Liberia is not the driest place on earth.

I know but saying FLA is a dry heat is wrong.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:10:22am

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

So, who had “China goes to war with India” and “New North Korean leader goes hog wild” on their 2020 bingo cards?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:11:50am

Dr. Frankenstein continues to complain about his monster:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:12:44am

re: #262 Nojay UK

The “real stuff” can be actively harmful, the placebo theoretically never causes additional harm. It’s a crapshoot, sometimes literally — I’ve taken part in randomised trials (non-medical) where one of the experiment team rolled a D20 to decide which cohort I was going to be in. Before you ask there were five cohorts, as I found out later and a regular D6 wasn’t going to work to make a selection for that number.

I get that. But in this case we’re talking about very sick people (the only ones this steroid is being used to target). Who decides who has the potential to live or die?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:14:56am
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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:17:23am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:17:41am

re: #270 John Hughes

If it’s a real double-blind trial nobody decides, you roll the dice.

I find your use of the name “Mengele” in this context somewhat inflammatory.

I meant it to be inflammatory. This study was done on people who are very sick… Like close to death sick. It’s incomprehensible to allow some to randomly die if they might have been saved.

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John Hughes  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:18:01am

re: #278 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I know but saying FLA is a dry heat is wrong.

I was making a joke. From someone in Liberia (yes, I know the Russian troll was not in Liberia) maybe Florida does look like dry heat.

Liberia average humidity 80.7%
Florida average humidity 74.5%

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:18:28am

re: #283 The Pie Overlord!

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Poll today out of Michigan looks encouraging.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:19:06am

re: #285 John Hughes

I was making a joke. From someone in Liberia (yes, I know the Russian troll was not in Liberia) maybe Florida does look like dry heat.

Liberia average humidity 80.7%
Florida average humidity 74.5%

Fair enough. Sorry sometimes joking doesn’t translate for me.

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:20:06am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:21:10am

re: #288 Ace-o-aces

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Yeah I’ve had icky tasting soda. Accusing the employees of poisoning? JFC

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John Hughes  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:21:16am

re: #281 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I get that. But in this case we’re talking about very sick people (the only ones this steroid is being used to target). Who decides who has the potential to live or die?

But that is not what is being decided. There is a medication. It may make things better, worse or have no effect. Before doing the trial you don’t know which it will be.

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John Hughes  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:24:40am

re: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I meant it to be inflammatory. This study was done on people who are very sick… Like close to death sick. It’s incomprehensible to allow some to randomly die if they might have been saved.

But who is Mengele? The person who gives a possibly deadly medication to gravely sick people, killing them all, or the person who withholds a possibly life saving medication from gravely sick people, killing them all?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:27:29am

tre: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I meant it to be inflammatory. This study was done on people who are very sick… Like close to death sick. It’s incomprehensible to allow some to randomly die if they might have been saved.

This is true for any medical study; they don’t know whether the alternative improves outcomes or worsens outcomes. There is no other way to determine whether the new treatment is an improvement. The rule is “First, do no harm”. It’s not as though they were providing no treatment to the patients getting the placebo — they were providing the standard treatment and the trial was designed to determine when the alternative was better. They were not trying to harm anyone.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:28:00am

re: #273 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Florida? A dry heat? Well I’ve got tundra here in the Appalachians to sell you.

Humidity right now 80%

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:28:27am

re: #275 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Florida is famous for being humid.

We’re an effing swamp!

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:30:58am

re: #294 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

We’re an effing swamp!

When I was still in Navy schools down in Orlando in 92, there was a two week stretch in June or July where it rained every day at 3pm for 10 minutes. That was when classes let out and we were all trying to get back to our barracks.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:31:54am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:33:23am

re: #295 Belafon

When I was still in Navy schools down in Orlando in 92, there was a two week stretch in June or July where it rained every day at 3pm for 10 minutes. That was when classes let out and we were all trying to get back to our barracks.

Still does

Standard summer Florida forecast
Hot, humid, chance of afternoon thunderstorm
(Chance my ass)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:35:56am

re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter

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This is true for any medical study; they don’t know whether the alternative improves outcomes or worsens outcomes. There is no other way to determine whether the new treatment is an improvement. The rule is “First, do no harm”. It’s not as though they were providing no treatment to the patients getting the placebo — they were providing the standard treatment and the trial was designed to determine when the alternative was better. They were not trying to harm anyone.

I know that. I just can’t wrap my head around people who are likely to die being given a placebo. We’re in extraordinary times. They’ve started doing human trials on vaccines without all the usual standards. Yet these people who are at deaths door are randomized. It seems cruel. And how do you tell their families “sorry, your dad was in the wrong group. our condolences.”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:37:58am

Biden up 6 points in Florida.

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A Cranky One  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:38:29am

In a properly done study, even the doctors don’t know who is getting the medication under test and who isn’t. This reduces any bias in the study, to help ensure that the medication is the primary variable.

As already noted, before the study you can’t tell if the medication will help, harm or have no affect. So there is risk if you are in the study group.

There have been cases where a trial medication clearly makes a significant positive difference and the trial is stopped and all patients given the medication.

There are also cases where the trial medication doesn’t help and in fact may hurt the patients. See hydroxycloroquine…

Bottom line: without blind studies, how can you tell if the meds hurt or help?

Edit to fix typo

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A Cranky One  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:41:04am

re: #298 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I know that. I just can’t wrap my head around people who are likely to die being given a placebo. We’re in extraordinary times. They’ve started doing human trials on vaccines without all the usual standards. Yet these people who are at deaths door are randomized. It seems cruel. And how do you tell their families “sorry, your dad was in the wrong group. our condolences.”

You’re overlooking the other possibility: sorry but the experimental medication we gave your grandpa killed him.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:42:11am

re: #299 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Biden up 6 points in Florida.

Gotta keep the foot on the pedal but those are very encouraging numbers. And I honestly can’t see things getting better for Trump. He keeps on exposing what we’ve long known ehre.

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retired cynic  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:46:15am

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retired cynic  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:46:52am

Sorry, the whites blew out in the shade.

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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:47:20am

re: #302 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Gotta keep the foot on the pedal but those are very encouraging numbers. And I honestly can’t see things getting better for Trump. He keeps on exposing what we’ve long known ehre.

No quarter. A squeaker will not be good enough. Utter electoral annihlation is the only remedy. Banishment to backwoods to dance with their snakes and play with their guns. Complete removal from all levers of power.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:48:43am

re: #305 BigPapa

No quarter. A squeaker will not be good enough. Utter electoral annihlation is the only remedy. Banishment to backwoods to dance with their snakes and play with their guns. Complete removal from all levers of power.

Yeah I don’t want any doubt.

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retired cynic  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:49:31am

re: #305 BigPapa

No quarter. A squeaker will not be good enough. Utter electoral annihlation is the only remedy. Banishment to backwoods to dance with their snakes and play with their guns. Complete removal from all levers of power.

Backwoods Sleuth won’t like your description!

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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:53:00am

re: #307 retired cynic

Backwoods Sleuth won’t like your description!

Not All Backwoods!

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:53:59am

re: #305 BigPapa

No quarter. A squeaker will not be good enough. Utter electoral annihlation is the only remedy. Banishment to backwoods to dance with their snakes and play with their guns. Complete removal from all levers of power.

Any win prevents RGB from getting replaced by a right-wing hack. A trounce will allows Democrats to start fixing a few things.

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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:55:04am

Backwoods by Red Hot Chili Peppers

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:55:23am

re: #309 Belafon

Any win prevents RGB from getting replaced by a right-wing hack. A trounce will allows Democrats to start fixing a few things.

Also increases our number of Senators. The Presidency is the prize (steak) but Congress are the potatoes and greens.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:56:07am

Put it this way. More Dem Senators means we don’t have to rely on Manchin as much to be a determining vote.

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Nojay UK  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:59:14am

re: #298 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I just can’t wrap my head around people who are likely to die being given a placebo. We’re in extraordinary times.

Back when the first series of retroviral drugs were being tested for HIV patients there was a great outcry about offering some sufferers a placebo. A black market developed where some folks in the trials swapped drugs around to get at least some of the “good stuff” but not enough to make a real difference, compared samples etc. and this fucked up the testing so much it took years before a reliable TESTED drug regimen for HIV could be developed and prescribed to sufferers.

They’ve started doing human trials on vaccines without all the usual standards.

The standards are still being adhered to, the normal time intervals are being compressed and a lot of Stage 2 and Stage 3 planning is being done now rather than waiting for the results of the first limited tests to become available. It’s possible these early human vaccine trials will turn out to be:

A) Bad i.e. the prototype vaccine sickens or even kill people
B) Inconclusive i.e. the vaccine has no effect on the progression of the disease
C) The vaccine works! Yay!

Only in the last case does the planning, effort and expenditure of preparing for Stage 2 (testing on 100,000 people) and Stage 3 (starting mass manufacture of billions of doses) of any particular vaccine being developed pay off. Since this is a war then wasting a few billion dollars, even a few hundred billion on prepping for vaccines that don’t pan out is a fart in a hurricane, comparatively speaking.

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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 7:59:38am

Winning of the Presidency is the first of many things that need to happen.

The left needs to think like the right did: Long game, localities, court stacking. That’s why I have no patience for progressives playing chicken right now: get the fucking fascist bastard out of the picture then we can wrassle about bumping the needle further.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:01:34am

re: #312 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Put it this way. More Dem Senators means we don’t have to rely on Manchin as much to be a determining vote.

More Dem Senators means that if Biden wins but gets the typical midterm Congressional bounceback, Republicans will have to work that much harder to regain control.

As it is, the GOP will be on defense in 2022, trying to hold on to seats it gained only narrowly in 2016.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:02:12am

re: #314 BigPapa

Winning of the Presidency is the first of many things that need to happen.

The left needs to think like the right did: Long game, localities, court stacking. That’s why I have not patience for progressives playing chicken right now: get the fucking fascist bastard out of the picture then we can wrassle about bumping the needle further.

Hell Governor Northam is probably tempermentally the most conservative Dem that we’ve elected since Warner but his agenda has been quite progressive. Why? We gave him a Dem majority in the legislature that Warner, Kaine, and McAuliffe never got. The thing that a lot of Democrats missed after electing Obama was preserving the majorities that were won in the state houses and in Congress in the years leading up to and after Obama won.

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lawhawk  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:02:22am

re: #18 Blind Frog Belly White

Okay, it’s a little thing. But when Trump says, “We have a 22,000 seat arena”, and every bit of information says it’s 19,000 and some, I always wonder - why does he have to lie about EVERY SINGLE GODDAM THING? I mean, what’s the pathology? What goes on in his head when he says shit like this?

He doesn’t care about any facts and spews nonsense. His sycophantic cronies and enablers just tell him what he wants to hear, and he continues to dissemble and lie about everything.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:04:08am

re: #315 i(m)p(each)sos

More Dem Senators means that if Biden wins but gets the typical midterm Congressional bounceback, Republicans will have to work that much harder to regain control.

As it is, the GOP will be on defense in 2022, trying to hold on to seats it gained only narrowly in 2016.

If she doesn’t have a role in Biden’s administration. I want Val Demings to run against the original water weirdo. Ditto Mayor Bottoms in Georgia. Not sure who else is up in 2022. Neither of my Senators are up that year. Warner is up this year and Kaine just won re-election wto years ago.

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:07:35am

In case you were fretting that Trump might try to be president to all America:

Impeached president Donald Trump promised last week that he was going to do away with four centuries of American “bigotry and prejudice” in no time, that he’d take care of it “very quickly and very easily.” Easy peasy. On Tuesday he’s going to show us how with his new executive order on policing. The problem is, it doesn’t actually sound like he’s really got a problem with the “racism” part of the whole deal.

“The overall goal is we want law and order, and we want it done fairly, justly, we want it done safely,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “But we want law and order. It’s about law and order. But it’s about justice also, and it’s about safety.” Translation: It’s about making sure cops can still bash heads with impunity. He also told reporters that his props for this signing will be law enforcement officers when he announces it, and that he took suggestions for the order from law enforcement agencies. So, yeah, racism over because it will be “very comprehensive.”

dailykos.com

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:09:07am

re: #319 Belafon

In case you were fretting that Trump might try to be president to all America:

dailykos.com

He’ll just do what he always does. Offer some empty rhetoric and self congradulate himself on Twitter. As Biden has said, this isn’t a fairy tale.

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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:09:15am

Random thoughts:

Confederacy lasted 4 years. Trump’s presidency, if he loses, will last 4 years.

If women run shit there will be less dick swinging contests.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:10:03am
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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:10:30am

I really hate to give Trump props for anything, but his election finally got Democrats off their butts. In 2018, Texas finally ran someone against every state and federal representative, and this year they’re running someone in every office. Florida is joing in:

Unfuckingbelievable, but it’s done. I don’t think this has ever been done before, but there is now a Democratic candidate running in every state legislative race in Florida!!

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lawhawk  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:11:48am

re: #125 Ace-o-aces

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.

Pat Lynch and the PBA and the Detective’s Union rolled their jump to conclusions card directly to intentional felony assassination of a cop. They didn’t wait for an investigation, let alone outcome.

It’s all Lynch has ever done in his entire career. Any action by a cop is automatically excused and any action against a cop is automatically assumed and treated as an attempted assassination.

There’s no retraction of their online statements, and no apologies to Shake Shack. It’s as though we’re supposed to ignore that the first move by the union is to assume intentional actions. And it encourages the rank and file to think that people are an enemy of the cops. It’s all about the mindset of the union and the rank and file. They assume any action is felony conduct against a cop.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:12:13am

re: #323 Belafon

I really hate to give Trump props for anything, but his election finally got Democrats off their butts. In 2018, Texas finally ran someone against every state and federal representative, and this year they’re running someone in every office. Florida is joing in:

I just hope it becomes a permanent trend. I expect 2022 to be a year where the midterms will likely favor the Republicans due to precedent but we can limit the damage too. And hell there’s no reason why we can’t do what the Republicans did two years ago and actually increase in the SEnate.

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retired cynic  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:12:39am

re: #313 Nojay UK

Wasn’t this what Bill Gates was trying to do: have factories start production on the most promising vaccine candidates without waiting, so that when the ONE was chosen, that production was already under way?

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:15:21am

re: #207 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Local resident, observing all traffic rules
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BigPapa  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:17:35am

re: #324 lawhawk

There’s no retraction of their online statements, and no apologies to Shake Shack. It’s as though we’re supposed to ignore that the first move by the union is to assume intentional actions. And it encourages the rank and file to think that people are an enemy of the cops. It’s all about the mindset of the union and the rank and file. They assume any action is felony conduct against a cop.

This is the toxic culture of Thin Blue Line, Us vs Them, Civilization against The Savages. It’s a mentality of war, conflict, attrition. It kills people and hurst many more.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:23:11am
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sagehen  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:23:42am

re: #326 retired cynic

Wasn’t this what Bill Gates was trying to do: have factories start production on the most promising vaccine candidates without waiting, so that when the ONE was chosen, that production was already under way?

Not start production; building the factories. So production can start immediately when they know which one. Because each of the candidate vaccines, if chosen, will require a factory with specific unique configuration, so they’re preparing for all the possibilities.

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jeffreyw  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:26:39am

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retired cynic  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:27:34am

re: #331 jeffreyw

Oh, nom!

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:28:03am

re: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I meant it to be inflammatory. This study was done on people who are very sick… Like close to death sick. It’s incomprehensible to allow some to randomly die if they might have been saved.

On the other hand, the stuff might have made things worse, they didn’t know. That’s why there are blind trials.

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Nojay UK  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:31:35am

re: #326 retired cynic

Gates only said he (meaning the Gates Foundation, I expect) was going to fund about half a dozen production facilities, that’s hardware, consumables, technicians, working spaces etc. based on preliminary results, even before initial human testing began. That’s different to actually developing a proven working vaccine.

Normally new vaccine development goes through a number of carefully graduated steps (computer analysis, in-vitro, animal tests, initial human tests, mass human tests, carefully monitored release to consumers) with each test gapped by a months-long review and analysis process before moving on to the next step if it is deemed appropriate — having some or all the test subjects turn blue and explode usually means the next stage is not progressed with. For COVID-19 vaccine a lot of corners are being cut, a lot of the fat in terms of time trimmed out. This may be a bad thing, it may cause real problems which in hindsight we should have avoided since those reviews and analyses are deemed to be important in normal circumstances but we can’t wait.

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jeffreyw  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:31:43am

re: #330 sagehen

Not start production; building the factories. So production can start immediately when they know which one. Because each of the candidate vaccines, if chosen, will require a factory with specific unique configuration, so they’re preparing for all the possibilities.

I bet there are ways to maximize utility, modular construction and such. There must be commonalities among the range of possible configurations. I think it would be an interesting study.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:33:06am

Who had “Tucker Carlson reports that a Rasmussen poll shows that BLM is 19 points more popular than the President” on their 2020 bingo card?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:36:02am

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retired cynic  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:37:19am

What has the Trump administration done with a half-trillion dollars? by Catherine Rampell, WaPo

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plansbandc  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:39:05am

re: #331 jeffreyw

NOM

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:40:29am

So, anyone know if Fox News ignored the big LGBTQ win in SCOTUS, or did they explode in homophobic and transphobic rage?

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:46:38am

re: #336 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Who had “Tucker Carlson reports that a Rasmussen poll shows that BLM is 19 points more popular than the President” on their 2020 bingo card?

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It gets the racists angry.

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Nojay UK  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:48:39am

re: #335 jeffreyw

There are reportedly over a hundred different vaccine development programs being carried out around the world, using at least half a dozen approaches — RNA, viral capsule protein coating sensitivity, attenuated virus, inactivated virus etc. These different types of candidate vaccines each need very different equipment, feedstocks, handling and processing machinery, packaging lines and so on.

A specific vaccine type such as inactivated virus might well be able to share common hardware for several different possible vaccines but we don’t know which KIND of vaccine will be the first to reach full-scale production, at least not yet. That’s why building all the factories now, basically one for each type of possible vaccine is considered a good idea. Once the bugs are worked out we can build a lot more of the right kind of factory.

Longer term, SARS-CoV-2 is not going away. The first vaccine(s) are likely to be less effective than the followup vaccines we’ll develop over the next five to ten years — they’ll provide higher levels of protection, their protection will last longer than the first lifebelt vaccines we hope to see rolled out to the general public early next year.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:48:45am

re: #318 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

If she doesn’t have a role in Biden’s administration. I want Val Demings to run against the original water weirdo. Ditto Mayor Bottoms in Georgia. Not sure who else is up in 2022. Neither of my Senators are up that year. Warner is up this year and Kaine just won re-election wto years ago.

Barr is up in NC, and that could be a Democratic pickup. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. Pat Toomey in PA. Ron Johnson in WI. Rob Portman in OH. If you want to dream bigger, Roy Blunt in MO and Jerry Moran in KS.

Democrats will have to defend their two pickups from 2016, Tammy Duckworth in IL and Maggie Hassan in NH. One of those will be easy…

Oh, and Arizona will be in play again - whoever wins the Kelly-McSally special this year gets to run again for the full term in 2022.

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jeffreyw  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:48:56am

MrsJ managed a shot of this Zebra Swallowtail flitting about the butterfly bush she coaxed up from seed planted 2 years ago.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:53:30am

re: #343 i(m)p(each)sos

Also in 2022? Grassley in Iowa, Luap dnaR in Kentucky, Todd Young in Indiana, Kennedy in Louisiana, Tim Scott in SC. Unlikely pickups, but you never know.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:55:08am

re: #345 i(m)p(each)sos

Also in 2022? Grassley in Iowa, Luap dnaR in Kentucky, Todd Young in Indiana, Kennedy in Louisiana, Tim Scott in SC. Unlikely pickups, but you never know.

Thanks. Yeah we’re going to be busy in 2022 and that’s fine. Virginia politics have taught me that every year is an election year. We and New Jersey have gubernatorial races. No idea who I will be backing in that race as Northam is term limited but it’s going to be packed.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:56:08am

re: #345 i(m)p(each)sos

Also in 2022? Grassley in Iowa, Luap dnaR in Kentucky, Todd Young in Indiana, Kennedy in Louisiana, Tim Scott in SC. Unlikely pickups, but you never know.

One or more may decide it’s not worth it to run. A big win in November would almost guarantee this.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:57:48am

re: #347 I Would Prefer Not To

One or more may decide it’s not worth it to run. A big win in November would almost guarantee this.

Grassley is getting up there in age. God I would love to beat Luap dnaR. I really blame his father for a lot of the stupidity I see with how a lot in my generation talk about politics.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:59:10am

re: #347 I Would Prefer Not To

One or more may decide it’s not worth it to run. A big win in November would almost guarantee this.

If there’s a serious GOP rout this November, I could see a jittery Republican Senator or two announcing they won’t seek re-election in 2022.

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jeffreyw  Jun 16, 2020 • 8:59:29am

re: #342 Nojay UK

There are reportedly over a hundred different vaccine development programs being carried out around the world, using at least half a dozen approaches — RNA, viral capsule protein coating sensitivity, attenuated virus, inactivated virus etc. These different types of candidate vaccines each need very different equipment, feedstocks, handling and processing machinery, packaging lines and so on.

A specific vaccine type such as inactivated virus might well be able to share common hardware for several different possible vaccines but we don’t know which KIND of vaccine will be the first to reach full-scale production, at least not yet. That’s why building all the factories now, basically one for each type of possible vaccine is considered a good idea. Once the bugs are worked out we can build a lot more of the right kind of factory.

Longer term, SARS-CoV-2 is not going away. The first vaccine(s) are likely to be less effective than the followup vaccines we’ll develop over the next five to ten years — they’ll provide higher levels of protection, their protection will last longer than the first lifebelt vaccines we hope to see rolled out to the general public early next year.

Yes. It makes good sense to take the shotgun approach to this virus, given that it has been identified and sequenced. I was musing about preparing for the next pandemic, studying engineering solutions, identifying commonalities, researching production techniques, adapting known processes. All of this is fertile ground.

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plansbandc  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:02:55am

RIP: Jerry Corbetta. North Denver boy who’s back round was as a virtuoso on the accordion he started playing keyboards and joined a few Denver-based bands. The Moonrakers was one of them, and in ‘67-‘68 Jerry led a locally popular five piece band “The Half Doesn’t” that drew crowds in Denver’s “3.2” beer bars like the “La Pichet” that served up 3.2% / low-alcohol beer and live music to Colorado’s 18-year-olds.
In 1968, Corbetta and guitarist Bob Webber formed the band Chocolate Hair, along with drummer Myron Pollock and bassist Bob Raymond. The band, having signing to Liberty Records, changed the name to Sugarloaf. The singles “Green-Eyed Lady” (co-written by Corbetta) and “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” hit the Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 in 1970, and No. 9 in 1975 respectively, while their eponymous debut album (1970) reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200 album charts. Both “Green-Eyed Lady” and “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” were co-written by Corbetta

Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady (Original Song HQ) 1970 SUGARLOAF “Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You” 1975 HQ

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:04:49am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:08:01am

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:08:13am

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:10:07am

And now for some incredible cuteness.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:10:46am

re: #64 Targetpractice

If a team does sign him, the screeching from the wingnuts will be audible on Mars.

If Kap fails, the glee from the white supremacist fucksticks will be intolerable.

Wonder if the opposing DBs will be *just* a step slow in coverage against Kap, as kind of a “F.U.” to the fatass whiteboy racists who thump their chests and brag about ‘MURRIKA NUMMER ONE!’

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Jay C  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:12:02am

re: #343 i(m)p(each)sos

Barr is up in NC, and that could be a Democratic pickup. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. Pat Toomey in PA. Ron Johnson in WI. Rob Portman in OH. If you want to dream bigger, Roy Blunt in MO and Jerry Moran in KS.

Democrats will have to defend their two pickups from 2016, Tammy Duckworth in IL and Maggie Hassan in NH. One of those will be easy…

Oh, and Arizona will be in play again - whoever wins the Kelly-McSally special this year gets to run again for the full term in 2022.

Yeah, I had run through this a few months ago, and had thought that the Senate map for 2022 was looking fairly good for Team (D): I just did again and think I was right: the (R)s will be defending 20 or 22 seats, and the (D)s just 12. And the (D) seats seem to be mainly in reasonably secure “blue” states. If anyone cares, here’s the full list, with current incumbents:

REPUBLICANS:
AL - Shelby AK - Murkowski AZ* - (inc) AR - Boozman
FL - Rubio GA-B* (inc) ID - Crapo IN - Young
IA - Grassley KS - Moran KY - Paul LA - Kennedy
MO - Blunt NC - Burr ND - Hoeven OH - Portman
OK - Lankford PA - Toomey SC - Scott SD - Thune
UT - Lee WI - Johnson

DEMOCRATS:
CA - Harris CO - Bennet CT- Blumenthal HI - SChatz
IL - Duckworth MD - Van Hollen NV - Cortez Masto
NH - Hassan NY - Schumer OR - Wyden VT - Leahy
WA - Murray

* GA - B and AZ incumbents will be winners of Specials this year.

Some races are going to be hopeless, of course, but a popular Admin and decent campaigning could probably flip a couple more seats.

ETA: Sorry, Lizards: I swear I carefully arranged the Senators in neat columns: only to fall victim to (I suppose) auto-formatting…

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nines09  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:14:01am

Cooper back from the vet. Got his rabies shot and they love him and he loves them.
Now he’s pooped. Action picture later.

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stpaulbear  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:14:43am

re: #351 plansbandc

RIP: Jerry Corbetta. North Denver boy who’s back round was as a virtuoso on the accordion he started playing keyboards and joined a few Denver-based bands. The Moonrakers was one of them, and in ‘67-‘68 Jerry led a locally popular five piece band “The Half Doesn’t” that drew crowds in Denver’s “3.2” beer bars like the “La Pichet” that served up 3.2% / low-alcohol beer and live music to Colorado’s 18-year-olds.
In 1968, Corbetta and guitarist Bob Webber formed the band Chocolate Hair, along with drummer Myron Pollock and bassist Bob Raymond. The band, having signing to Liberty Records, changed the name to Sugarloaf. The singles “Green-Eyed Lady” (co-written by Corbetta) and “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” hit the Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 in 1970, and No. 9 in 1975 respectively, while their eponymous debut album (1970) reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200 album charts. Both “Green-Eyed Lady” and “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” were co-written by Corbetta

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The touch-tone phone in ‘Don’t Call Us’ was dialing the phone number of the record exec that they were dissing in the song. He had to change his number.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:14:58am

re: #349 Dr Lizardo

If there’s a serious GOP rout this November, I could see a jittery Republican Senator or two announcing they won’t seek re-election in 2022.

I think there are a bunch of them who could see the writing on the wall. Grassley is the obvious one, but Murkowski is another possibility, as are Kennedy and Crapo. On our side, Blumenthal and Leahy might be ready to retire, too.

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plansbandc  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:15:06am

re: #355 The Pie Overlord!

Jey6jYvoZymQ1nuivNdtlbiqvpOI5jVXUeQVH7fzZBo=

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:16:55am

re: #358 nines09

Cooper back from the vet. Got his rabies shot and they love him and he loves them.
Now he’s pooped. Action picture later.

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I’ve seen dogs poop before, no actions shots needed.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:21:10am

re: #357 Jay C

Yeah, I had run through this a few months ago, and had thought that the Senate map for 2022 was looking fairly good for Team (D): I just did again and think I was right: the (R)s will be defending 20 or 22 seats, and the (D)s just 12. And the (D) seats seem to be mainly in reasonably secure “blue” states. If anyone cares, here’s the full list, with current incumbents:

REPUBLICANS:
AL - Shelby AK - Murkowski AZ* - (inc) AR - Boozman
FL - Rubio GA-B* (inc) ID - Crapo IN - Young
IA - Grassley KS - Moran KY - Paul LA - Kennedy
MO - Blunt NC - Burr ND - Hoeven OH - Portman
OK - Lankford PA - Toomey SC - Scott SD - Thune
UT - Lee WI - Johnson

DEMOCRATS:
CA - Harris CO - Bennet CT- Blumenthal HI - SChatz
IL - Duckworth MD - Van Hollen NV - Cortez Masto
NH - Hassan NY - Schumer OR - Wyden VT - Leahy
WA - Murray

* GA - B and AZ incumbents will be winners of Specials this year.

Some races are going to be hopeless, of course, but a popular Admin and decent campaigning could probably flip a couple more seats.

ETA: Sorry, Lizards: I swear I carefully arranged the Senators in neat columns: only to fall victim to (I suppose) auto-formatting…

Thanks. Yeah that list looks like there are a few that could be won. No Dems that I’d particularly worry about but a lot ca change between now and 2022 obviously.

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plansbandc  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:21:12am

re: #359 stpaulbear

That’s so cool. ++

Loved any and all Denver/Colorado artists that hit.

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lawhawk  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:21:53am

Reupped because it’s true - and it needs to happen.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:25:01am

re: #351 plansbandc

RIP: Jerry Corbetta. North Denver boy who’s back round was as a virtuoso on the accordion he started playing keyboards and joined a few Denver-based bands. The Moonrakers was one of them, and in ‘67-‘68 Jerry led a locally popular five piece band “The Half Doesn’t” that drew crowds in Denver’s “3.2” beer bars like the “La Pichet” that served up 3.2% / low-alcohol beer and live music to Colorado’s 18-year-olds.
In 1968, Corbetta and guitarist Bob Webber formed the band Chocolate Hair, along with drummer Myron Pollock and bassist Bob Raymond. The band, having signing to Liberty Records, changed the name to Sugarloaf. The singles “Green-Eyed Lady” (co-written by Corbetta) and “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” hit the Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 in 1970, and No. 9 in 1975 respectively, while their eponymous debut album (1970) reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200 album charts. Both “Green-Eyed Lady” and “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” were co-written by Corbetta

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To Tidewater Virginia peeps, the opening instrumental portion of “Green-Eyed Lady” was long used to underscore the title sequence for our local hosted horror movie program.

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lawhawk  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:26:33am

The picture that accompanies the tweet speaks volumes - heavily armed white guys who have to be cleared before the situation can be safely addressed. Entitled white guys who think that they can go around with their long guns and intimidate protesters.

These militia types are domestic terrorists. Make no mistake that when you carry those guns and protest the protesters, the whole point is that you’re doing so with intent to intimidate with the guns present.

Would they have the same messaging if they didn’t have the guns present? Doubtful.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:28:49am

re: #367 lawhawk

The picture that accompanies the tweet speaks volumes - heavily armed white guys who have to be cleared before the situation can be safely addressed. Entitled white guys who think that they can go around with their long guns and intimidate protesters.

These militia types are domestic terrorists. Make no mistake that when you carry those guns and protest the protesters, the whole point is that you’re doing so with intent to intimidate with the guns present.

Would they have the same messaging if they didn’t have the guns present? Doubtful.

Two weeks ago was the first time I’ve ever seen the open carry nuts in the flesh. I didn’t let them intimidate me but I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of assholes with guns using their guns to intimidate people.That ain’t freedom.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:29:36am

JFC

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:31:05am

re: #369 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

Yet he has no problem calling the FBI corrupt and deep state when they investigate his legions of scumbags.

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:31:16am

I’m listening to Jason Isbell’s new album and this line made me laugh: This used to be a ghost town, but even the ghosts got out.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:32:48am

re: #371 Belafon

I’m listening to Jason Isbell’s new album and this line made me laugh: This used to be a ghost town, but even the ghosts got out.

There’s a great line from Jason’s old band, Drive By Truckers in the song “Thoughts and Praysrs” that I love.
The Flat Earthist realized as he flew through the skies
The curve of the horizon as he fell
He saw the world was round just before he hit the ground
And gravity called out to close the deal

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:33:26am
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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:33:30am

re: #369 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

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There were some twitter threads a couple days ago about what happens to cops that report corruption. Most police departments don’t get rid of the bad ones, they torture the good ones into submission.

His EO is meaningless since the federal government doesn’t have much control over local forces. And if he withholds military equipment, good.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:34:19am

re: #367 lawhawk

You would think that cops and their unions would stand up more to demand demilitarizing the stupid general public. This crap makes their job more difficult, whether some will admit it or not. The police could do more to help with this issue, is there a reason they can’t legally?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:38:57am

You know some people think Harris being a former AG/DA and Demings being a former sheriff is a disavantage but I don’t see it that way. These are both women who have worked within law enforcement either on the enforcement side or prosecution side. Trump has no authority on law and order. He ain’t even a fucking lawyer. He’s just a loudmouth asshole who shouts LAW AND ORDER.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:40:35am
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William Lewis  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:42:22am

re: #375 A Mom Anon

You would think that cops and their unions would stand up more to demand demilitarizing the stupid general public. This crap makes their job more difficult, whether some will admit it or not. The police could do more to help with this issue, is there a reason they can’t legally?

They don’t care if white folks have guns.

They only care if they can kill with impunity. That goes back to the slave catchers that are the real origin of the Police and the 2nd Amendment in America.

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wrenchwench  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:43:15am

re: #367 lawhawk

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The picture that accompanies the tweet speaks volumes - heavily armed white guys who have to be cleared before the situation can be safely addressed. Entitled white guys who think that they can go around with their long guns and intimidate protesters.

These militia types are domestic terrorists. Make no mistake that when you carry those guns and protest the protesters, the whole point is that you’re doing so with intent to intimidate with the guns present.

Would they have the same messaging if they didn’t have the guns present? Doubtful.

From the link:

“This sculpture has now become an urgent matter of public safety,” the mayor said of the statue of Juan de Oñate. “In order to contain the public safety risk, the City will be removing the statue until the appropriate civic institutions can determine next steps.”

I like his style.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:43:23am

OFFS

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:43:25am

re: #369 The Pie Overlord!

He should read about Detective Serpico.

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nines09  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:45:51am

re: #367 lawhawk

It’s going to blow up one day and those snake flag fucks will be the reason.

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:46:03am

I would not classify Reunions as a country album.

Isbell’s wikipedia page ends with this:

Isbell has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, since 2011.[20][61][62] He is an Atlanta Braves fan and a Democrat.[63][64] In November 2017, Isbell was asked on Twitter, “Why do we have to inject politics in every aspect of our life can’t we just enjoy the music and the football games?” He responded, “Until you are the one being treated unfairly, that’s easy to say.”[65]

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:46:09am

“School choice” is a dog whistle for all those whites-only “Christian” schools that sprouted after public schools became integrated in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. Black students are generally not accepted by those schools except for a handful of “tokens.”

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Teddy's Person  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:46:35am

re: #380 The Pie Overlord!

OFFS

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Betsy Devos is working overtime to fulfill the Republican dream of destroying public education. After all, an uneducated serf is a docile serf.

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:47:34am

re: #385 Teddy’s Person

Betsy Devos is working overtime to fulfill the Republican dream of destroying public education. After all, an uneducated serf is a docile serf.

She’s shooting for Separate but Equal.

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wrenchwench  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:48:02am

re: #380 The Pie Overlord!

OFFS

[“we’re fighting for school choice, which really is the civil rights [issue] of all time in this country.”]

Or it is the anti civil rights issue of all time. He can’t remember, doesn’t care.

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Jay C  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:54:20am

re: #375 A Mom Anon

You would think that cops and their unions would stand up more to demand demilitarizing the stupid general public. This crap makes their job more difficult, whether some will admit it or not. The police could do more to help with this issue, is there a reason they can’t legally?

Not “legally”, I’m guessing; probably more “culturally”. Used to be (not all THAT long ago) that police organizations tended to be in the forefront of those lobbying for sensible gun-control measures (quite understandably, since they’re the ones who will be dealing with the consequences of a “militarized” Stupid General Public) - but I think those days are gone. Of course, not ALL cops are bigoted RW gun-nut/militia types: but I think enough of them (particularly outside the big cities) are -or know someone who is (likely in their own families) - that it’s going to permeate the culture of the Blue Tribe. No one is going to benefit by overtly pushing for “gun control”*; nor likely to want to jeopardize the bonanza of expensive bang-bang toys the Federal government showers on their departments.

*”gun control” as interpreted via RW dogma as “unconstitutional disarmament of white people via forcible involuntary confiscation” - the only permissible interpretation.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:56:58am

re: #386 Belafon

She’s shooting for Separate but Equal.

She wants Separate but doesn’t give a shit about Equal.

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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:57:39am

re: #389 The Pie Overlord!

She wants Separate but doesn’t give a shit about Equal.

Neither did the judges when the original ruling came down.

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wrenchwench  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:57:58am

re: #389 The Pie Overlord!

She wants Separate but doesn’t give a shit about Equal.

Same as it ever was.

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jaunte  Jun 16, 2020 • 9:58:57am

Trump with a 14 words shout-out.

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:03:48am

re: #254 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Who’s the Mengele who determines who gets the real stuff vs the placebo? I can’t wrap my head around studies like this.

It’s done by computer and the clinicians never see the list. Only the architects of the study, the governing IRB and the project biostatisticians get to break the veil and see exactly who was on what. With the percentage who die in a ventilator already so high the barrier for initial IRB approval is going to be a lot lower.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:04:12am

You just know that if they were white, he’d already be fired and awaiting trial…

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:07:07am

it’s still early, Texas or California could still take the lead.

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lawhawk  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:09:01am
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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:11:51am

re: #396 lawhawk

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So, what he’s saying is that we can take the statues, melt them down, and make new ones with them, honoring people like Harriet Tubman. //

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jaunte  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:14:27am
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wrenchwench  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:17:11am

re: #398 jaunte

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I’m appreciating it the best way I know how.

Staying home. Reading about it.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:18:40am

re: #394 (((Archangel1)))

You just know that if they were white, he’d already be fired and awaiting trial…

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I grew up a mile from a shopping center. We’d take shortcuts to get through the neighborhood all the time. I don’t think the cops ever so much as gave us a warning let alone pulled a gun.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:19:04am

re: #305 BigPapa

No quarter. A squeaker will not be good enough. Utter electoral annihlation is the only remedy. Banishment to backwoods to dance with their snakes and play with their guns. Complete removal from all levers of power.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:19:26am

re: #369 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

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then what are they waiting for?

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Jay C  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:20:48am

re: #402 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

then what are they waiting for?

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Testing on their milkshakes.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:21:46am

re: #374 Belafon

There were some twitter threads a couple days ago about what happens to cops that report corruption. Most police departments don’t get rid of the bad ones, they torture the good ones into submission.

His EO is meaningless since the federal government doesn’t have much control over local forces. And if he withholds military equipment, good.

‘calling, advocating, encouraging’
meaningless bullshit unless there’s funding
so you drop it in congress’s lap?

you had no problem finding funds for wall building

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:23:29am

re: #384 The Pie Overlord!

“School choice” is a dog whistle for all those whites-only “Christian” schools that sprouted after public schools became integrated in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. Black students are generally not accepted by those schools except for a handful of “tokens.”

…for funneling taxpayer $ to all those whites-only….

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:30:12am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:30:14am

re: #209 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No kidding. What do they do with them? Can they get ownership docs and sell them?

They declare them found property and resell them

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Dread Pirate  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:30:37am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:31:11am

A new Public Policy Polling survey in Georgia:

Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 48% to 46%.

In the U.S. Senate race, Jon Ossof (D) barely leads Sen. David Perdue (R), 45% to 44%

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:32:21am
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Belafon  Jun 16, 2020 • 10:33:27am

re: #408 Dread Pirate

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I really don’t want to hear that about bathrooms.


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