In Which the Supreme Court Declares Donald Trump the Loser

PoliticsDecember 2020 • Views: 25,924

Donald Trump’s attempt to use the legal system to seize power after losing the 2020 election ends here.

Bye Don.”Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another Stateconducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissedas moot.” pic.twitter.com/O4D1S01kyT

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 11, 2020

“All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”This is the end.My only friend, the end.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 11, 2020

It was 9-0. Not even Trump’s three handpicked justices were willing to co-sign the ludicrous mess his legal team cooked up.

They apparently take their jobs and legacies much more seriously than the craven bootlicking Republicans in Congress. Who knew?

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588 comments

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 4:29:47pm

What a nice Friday gift to the Constitution!

makeitstop Dec 11, 2020 • 4:29:58pm

Allen West calls for secession.

The @TexasGOP is out with a statement in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, all but calling for secession:

“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.” pic.twitter.com/4bB3gk88t4

— Adam Kelsey (@adamkelsey) December 12, 2020

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Dec 11, 2020 • 4:30:42pm

re: #97 makeitstop

Secession was always the backup plan if their first plan of installing an authoritarian theocracy failed in the US.

re: #2 makeitstop

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 4:30:55pm

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 4:31:28pm

It’s like winning the election all over again.

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 4:31:40pm

Not a single judge actually sided with him, even the 2 dissenters.

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 4:32:44pm

WOOT, I say, and WOOT again.

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 4:33:26pm

re: #6 Nyet

Not a single judge actually sided with him, even the 2 dissenters.

The entire Supreme Court is nothing but a bunch of swampy, liberal, deep state, anti-American socialists…

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 4:33:35pm

Cannot understand why this woman and the 125 others who believe the election was rigged even want to even take part in such a mockery of a sham.

Shouldn’t they refuse to serve out of principle? https://t.co/msMgMQPUlH

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) December 12, 2020

Black Knighting Intensifies.

PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 4:33:53pm

I will be cautiously optimistic. This is good but I think DT will try a few more times to have the election overturned.

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 4:34:41pm

re: #9 jaunte

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Black Knighting Intensifies.

The Supreme Court does not decide the winner of the election.

Unless it does.

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 4:35:09pm

re: #2 makeitstop

Allen West calls for secession.

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Allen West missed the news today? 106 Congress Critters signed on?

Was this written yesterday so he could get an early jump on his superspreading weekend?

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 4:35:37pm

Charles Johnson Dec 11, 2020 • 4:35:44pm

Aw, this kraken’s no fun. It fell right over!

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 12, 2020

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 4:36:02pm

re: #13 Nyet

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how it started how it’s going pic.twitter.com/MiDhqxMkDm

— RThockey (@RThockey) December 8, 2020

makeitstop Dec 11, 2020 • 4:36:31pm

re: #11 b.d. (We Won!)

Unless it does.

But boy, were they hoping SCOTUS would. And if they had ruled for Trump they’d be calling it over right now.

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 4:37:13pm

re: #15 b.d. (We Won!)

Above? The Double Supreme Court, no?

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 4:37:14pm

Trump is only a part of the bigger problem.

The entire GOP is corrupt and seditious as fuck. Every last motherfucking one of them.

Not a one who signed on to this suit should be seated in Congress under the 14th Amendment. Let them litigate that to the Supreme Court.

The treasonweasel GOP must be investigated and prosecuted for their criminal conduct, and the DOJ must take a no holds barred approach. Special prosecutors and devote an entire branch of the SDNY/EDVA (hello Rocket Docket) to get this going.

This was entirely predictable from a legal standpoint - there was no standing, the claims were preposterous, and yet the entire GOP was more than willing to go down the rabbit hole because Trump said he won.

They weren’t doing this because they were blackmailed. They did it because they’re fucking fascists who saw this as an opportunity to go all in.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Dec 11, 2020 • 4:38:34pm

re: #18 lawhawk

Trump is only a part of the bigger problem.

The entire GOP is corrupt and seditious as fuck. Every last motherfucking one of them.

Not a one who signed on to this suit should be seated in Congress under the 14th Amendment. Let them litigate that to the Supreme Court.

The treasonweasel GOP must be investigated and prosecuted for their criminal conduct, and the DOJ must take a no holds barred approach. Special prosecutors and devote an entire branch of the SDNY/EDVA (hello Rocket Docket) to get this going.

This was entirely predictable from a legal standpoint - there was no standing, the claims were preposterous, and yet the entire GOP was more than willing to go down the rabbit hole because Trump said he won.

They weren’t doing this because they were blackmailed. They did it because they’re fucking fascists who saw this as an opportunity to go all in.

Yep. Time for some sedition charges. They can start with Allen West.

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 4:38:55pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Every last GOPer and right wing lunatic who thought this was the Kraken and that they were winning seem to forget that the Kraken was absolutely and totally defeated by Perseus in the myths - turned to stone by Perseus using the Medusa head.

Sure, release the Kraken sounds badass, right until you remember that it gets pretty quickly/easily defeated.

makeitstop Dec 11, 2020 • 4:39:18pm

LOL

To those who donated to the Trump campaign to support these frivolous lawsuits: Welcome to Trump University.

— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) December 12, 2020

gocart mozart Dec 11, 2020 • 4:39:54pm

Loser

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) December 12, 2020

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 4:40:06pm

The GOP is no longer a legitimate political entity.
It’s a cancerous growth that, unless excised, will one day spell doom for your country, and not only it.

Dr. Teddy's Person Dec 11, 2020 • 4:40:24pm

re: #9 jaunte

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Black Knighting Intensifies.

Al Gore could not be reached for comment.

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 4:42:00pm

And while I’m at this, I’m pissed that not a single court to date has imposed sanctions/costs and disciplinary action on these fucking right wing lunatics who brought these suits.

That’s the proper response from the judiciary. That they couldn’t even properly form a case, meet the requirements as to form, failed to state a cause of action, lacked evidence, and otherwise couldn’t argue their way out of a prelaw classroom.

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 4:42:36pm

How the heck is this even possible?!?! One thing for certain I will not be voting again, it’s just not worth it!

Why, thank you.

PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 4:44:45pm

Now my question is can these so-called elected officials do something in Congress.

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 4:44:57pm

So much for all the hoo-hah that Miss Barrett, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would make the slightest difference. Thanks to them, Clarence Thomas and Alito, we have no 5-4 Court but a 9-0 Court.

Sweet tears.

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 4:45:11pm

re: #20 lawhawk

Every last GOPer and right wing lunatic who thought this was the Kraken and that they were winning seem to forget that the Kraken was absolutely and totally defeated by Perseus in the myths - turned to stone by Perseus using the Medusa head.

Sure, release the Kraken sounds badass, right until you remember that it gets pretty quickly/easily defeated.

It helps when you’ve got a horsie with wings.

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 4:46:09pm

re: #23 Nyet

The GOP is no longer a legitimate political entity.
It’s a cancerous growth that, unless excised, will one day spell the doom for your country, and not only it.

GOP delenda est.

A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 4:46:29pm

re: #17 Nyet

Above? The Double Supreme Court, no?

The Sooper Sekrit Sitizens’ Supreme Court with Doug Llewellyn and Marshall Rusty Burrell.

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 4:46:44pm

re: #29 austin_blue

And Harryhausen. That always makes things better.

PrairieQueen Dec 11, 2020 • 4:48:11pm

re: #2 makeitstop

Allen West calls for secession.

He can eat a bowl of dicks. Everything they have done is in violation of their duty to uphold the Constitution and piss all over states that voted blue, never mind the depth of dishonesty.

Romantic Heretic Dec 11, 2020 • 4:48:17pm

re: #29 austin_blue

It helps when you’ve got a horsie with wings.

Also a mirror and a sharp blade.

Jay C Dec 11, 2020 • 4:48:55pm

So if I am counting correctly, this is the 58th election-related suit the Trump campaign has filed and failed? With, I think, just one “victory” (and that one on a virtually irrelevant issue)?

I think there is one more StateSC case pending in (?) WI (?)

Sherlock Hound Dec 11, 2020 • 4:49:18pm

re: #2 makeitstop

Don’t let the door hit you…

Dave In Austin Dec 11, 2020 • 4:49:42pm

Grifters Weekly (Special Christmas Grift Edition)

— And The Wind Cries: “I LIKE CUCUMBERS! ANYONE?” (@DaveoutofAustin) December 12, 2020

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 4:49:46pm

Dragging down the whole damn party to stay out of jail is a theme. https://t.co/Zq69D3eBXL

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 12, 2020

The whole damn GOP is a criminal conspiracy.

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 4:50:14pm

re: #35 Jay C

So if I am counting correctly, this is the 58th election-related suit the Trump campaign has filed and failed? With, I think, just one “victory” (and that one on a virtually irrelevant issue)?

I think there is one more StateSC case pending in (?) WI (?)

I think you’re right. 1 for 58. 1 for 59?

Either way, that’s a failure rate approaching 100%. It’s currently at 98.3%

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 4:50:24pm

re: #32 lawhawk

And Harryhausen. That always makes things better.

Well, sure!

Maybe the Patriots will sow their seed and expect the Army of the Dead to spring to their aid…

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 4:50:30pm

All three Trump appointees have revealed themselves. GO ahead ad pack the court Biden, the constution is over and the SCOTUS is already filled with leftist political activists anyway.

Thinking of it, that’s exactly what should be done.

PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 4:50:37pm

re: #36 Sherlock Hound

DT’s fingernails will catch at the door casings as he is being removed from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

makeitstop Dec 11, 2020 • 4:50:40pm

re: #37 Dave In Austin

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Dosen’t anyone in that family know how to stand normally?

aatharuv Dec 11, 2020 • 4:51:10pm

re: #15 b.d. (We Won!)

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Hooray for not destroying the Republic.

But it looks like they’re still going to allow Trump to execute someone.

Moments after denying Texas’s bid to overturn the Biden election, the Supreme Court denied a stay of execution to federal inmate Alfred Bourgeois, over dissent of JJ. Sotomayor and Kagan.

Dr. Teddy's Person Dec 11, 2020 • 4:51:29pm

re: #37 Dave In Austin

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Fascists’ Home Journal

Dave In Austin Dec 11, 2020 • 4:51:41pm

re: #43 makeitstop

Christmas with Wank and Skank.

— Joe Voted For Biden (@joemac1114) December 11, 2020

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 4:51:58pm

re: #2 makeitstop

Allen West calls for secession.

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Allen West still has the Florida licence plates on his car and he’s touting Texas secession.

BeachDem Dec 11, 2020 • 4:52:12pm

re: #35 Jay C

So if I am counting correctly, this is the 58th election-related suit the Trump campaign has filed and failed? With, I think, just one “victory” (and that one on a virtually irrelevant issue)?

I think there is one more StateSC case pending in (?) WI (?)

Well, the Kraken team still has a case ongoing, I think. Oh, and they have Spider/Spyder, who, we come to find out is NOT a military intelligence expert (surprise, surprise)

Records show that Merritt is an Army veteran and that he enrolled in a training program at the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion, the unit he cites in his declaration. But he never completed the entry-level training course, according to Meredith Mingledorff, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence, which includes the battalion…”He kept washing out of courses,” said Mingledorff, citing his education records. “He’s not an intelligence analyst.”

His separation papers, which he provided to The Post, make no mention of intelligence training. They show that he spent the bulk of his decade in the Army as a wheeled vehicle mechanic.

washingtonpost.com

Sherlock Hound Dec 11, 2020 • 4:52:27pm

re: #23 Nyet

And another thing…

Do these folk think if they succeed in overturning the election the rest of us would just say “Fine, steal democracy & install your dictator”? A Mike Floss lyric comes to mind: “They ain’t stop makin guns when they made yours.” Not endorsing violence. But it would be predictable.

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) December 11, 2020

Dr. Teddy's Person Dec 11, 2020 • 4:53:07pm

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 4:55:05pm

re: #43 makeitstop

Dosen’t anyone in that family know how to stand normally?

Dude, when you snort enough Peruvian Marching Powder that Bob Marley falls out of your left nostril, that is normal.

Dr. Teddy's Person Dec 11, 2020 • 4:56:22pm

A Confederacy of Dunces https://t.co/zv1bJmKrZD

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 12, 2020

Dr. Teddy's Person Dec 11, 2020 • 5:01:14pm

When Trump gets to rage-tweeting tonight, I wonder if he’ll drop some dirt on Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. We might find out who paid off Judge Beer’s debt.

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 5:03:33pm

Le cope, it hurtz.

LISTEN UP FOLKS.

HOW MANY PEOPLE DID YOU HEAR SAY TEXAS SUIT WAS LAUGHABLE? THAT OUR SCOTUS WOULD REJECT IN A HEART BEAT? FOR TRUMP’S LAWYERS TO GET 2 OF BEST JUSTICES TO GIVE IT LEGITIMACY MEANS THESE LAWYERS SHOULD GET CREDIT FOR GETTING CLOSE.

KEEP BEING CREATIVE.

— EconChick/IntelChick (@MikayesFiona) December 12, 2020

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 5:06:29pm

Treasonous fuckers:

Wow lol pic.twitter.com/hrftOIgBH1

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) December 12, 2020

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:07:38pm

‘A republic, if you can keep it.’ - attributed to Ben Franklin

Whew, dodged that bullet…..

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:07:50pm

Reminder: In April 2009, after @BarackObama’s inauguration, Texas Republicans split 48%-48% on secession. @SecretaryPerry hinted we’d leave if Obamacare passed. But it all fizzled, because when secession talk starts, businesses leave. It is a business-killer.

— Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal (@BudKennedy) December 12, 2020

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 5:08:34pm

Future proves past, Q likes saying.

Well, the GOP has sure proven all those calling it fascist correct.

jamesfirecat Dec 11, 2020 • 5:09:10pm

re: #57 jaunte

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Businesses know the first state to secede is going to get a few cruise missiles lobbed at it to make it rethink that decision.

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:09:22pm

Texas Republicans split 48%-48% on secession, completely forgetting about defense contracts and military bases. These people are not smart.

bratwurst Dec 11, 2020 • 5:09:46pm

re: #55 lawhawk

Treasonous fuckers:

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Rather than write one, can I just ask each of you to compose your own “Diamond & Silk call to arms/2020 bingo” joke in your head? I am not feeling up to the task and yours will probably be better than what I’d come up with anyway.

Thanks and happy Hanukkah!

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:10:09pm

re: #59 jamesfirecat

The threat of no pro football is enough to break any succession movement.

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:10:21pm

re: #60 jaunte

Texas Republicans split 48%-48% on secession, completely forgetting about defense contracts and military bases. These people are not smart.

Nah, we just really hate Oklahoma that much…

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 5:10:24pm

It has always been a projection.

OK then. From now on just cheat in elections. Cheat like there’s no tomorrow. The penalties are light and that’s only if/when they actually care to investigate.

Stuff ballot boxes

Do not report how many ballots you have until after Democrat strongholds report 100%.

Ballot harvest

Get our operatives in charge of the counting

Throw out Democrat poll watchers

Administratively cancel Democrat votes

Just win at all costs. There are no laws. It’s only about obtaining and holding power.

61 posted on 12.12.2020, 00:44:55 by FLT-bird

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:11:50pm

re: #63 b.d. (We Won!)

North Texas and the panhandle hate Oklahoma because no one can tell them apart.

Jay C Dec 11, 2020 • 5:12:29pm

re: #48 BeachDem

Well, the Kraken team still has a case ongoing, I think. Oh, and they have Spider/Spyder, who, we come to find out is NOT a military intelligence expert (surprise, surprise)

His separation papers, which he provided to The Post, make no mention of intelligence training. They show that he spent the bulk of his decade in the Army as a wheeled vehicle mechanic.

washingtonpost.com

So Team Kraken thought they were bringing in Captain America, but got Beetle Bailey instead? Smooooooth…

FWIW (little, I’m sure), I think the Trumpsters actually have three “courtroom victories” in their quixotic judicial crusade: the PA “segregated ballots” case, and a couple of lower-court procedural rulings in (I think) MI and NV (?). But they have been most-definitely goose-egged where it counts: ALL of their serious* “election-fraud” cases have been generally been tossed at the lowest level, and the higher courts (State and Fed’l) have shown NO interest, AFAICT, in reversing anybody’s decision.

*serious in the sense of “filing action”, certainly not in content.

garzooma Dec 11, 2020 • 5:12:57pm

re: #2 makeitstop

Allen West calls for secession.

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Jay C Dec 11, 2020 • 5:15:57pm

re: #55 lawhawk

Wow lol pic.twitter.com/hrftOIgBH1

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) December 12, 2020

Where is the Military??
Reviewing their plans to parade at President Biden’s Inauguration?

gwangung Dec 11, 2020 • 5:17:01pm

re: #68 Jay C

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Where is the Military??
Reviewing their plans to parade at President Biden’s Inauguration?

Where these bozos paying attention to what the brass was saying in summer?

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:17:31pm

Enjoy a state without the democratic cities of Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. We ain’t going to be part of Trumplandia. We don’t worship politicians as Gods. We just want to live our lives outside of an autocracy. So, go ahead and go. But leave us out of it.

— Kurt “Masks Save Lives” Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) December 12, 2020

And try setting up a nation without a port city.

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:19:17pm

You’d think after the 50th time a court throws out one of these lawsuits, people would realize that their favorite MAGA Twitter pundit might not be worth following for accurate and reliable information. https://t.co/PLkCLtGf8b

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 11, 2020

It’s over, Greg.@Newsmax needs to stop reciting fan fiction and start reporting on reality. https://t.co/CNhhyJODVS

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 12, 2020

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 5:19:43pm

re: #70 jaunte

Even in states like Texas, the majority of people live in urban areas and GDP is concentrated in same. You’d have a horseshoe of secessionist fuckers around Houston to Dallas to San Antonio and Austin.

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 5:20:36pm

re: #64 Nyet

It has always been a projection.

Da, and the date/time stamp seems to smell somewhat of, how to say nicely…, borscht and shots of vodka.

jamesfirecat Dec 11, 2020 • 5:21:16pm

re: #72 lawhawk

Even in states like Texas, the majority of people live in urban areas and GDP is concentrated in same. You’d have a horseshoe of secessionist fuckers around Houston to Dallas to San Antonio and Austin.

Unlike last time, anyone who goes along with it looses their right to vote for the rest of their lives at the bare minimum.

teleskiguy Dec 11, 2020 • 5:22:13pm

MAGA is taking it well.

Tweets by CopingMAGA

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:22:13pm

This is the first time I’ve breathed easy in over a week or so. The great American experiment in democracy was very close to being over and there are no backsies.

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:22:17pm

re: #72 lawhawk

Trying to imagine the U.S. going along with losing 1-10 because the Waller County militia says they can’t drive through.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Dec 11, 2020 • 5:23:14pm

re: #23 Nyet

The GOP is no longer a legitimate political entity.
It’s a cancerous growth that, unless excised, will one day spell doom for your country, and not only it.

It is time for international human rights sanctions against the Republican Party and its supporters. Do not admit them onto your soil, bar them from new business, begin divestment proceedings against existing business, boycott their products and services, indict their media demogogues under the Julius Streicher precedent.

Eventual Carrion Dec 11, 2020 • 5:25:57pm

re: #9 jaunte

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Black Knighting Intensifies.

Funny, you guys were just fine when the SCOTUS gave it to Bush. These mental midgets have the memory of a goldfish it seems. No they depend on the idiots not to remember, they themselves are just lying sacs of shit.

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:26:20pm

re: #72 lawhawk

Even in states like Texas, the majority of people live in urban areas and GDP is concentrated in same. You’d have a horseshoe of secessionist fuckers around Houston to Dallas to San Antonio and Austin.

If Texas would have invested in a public education system that was based in reality and not conservative dogma then maybe they wouldn’t have needed all of those liberal Californian, New York & assorted other blue state transplants to fill the good jobs that have turned Texas bluer?

The GOP is reaping what they have sown

Nyet Dec 11, 2020 • 5:26:55pm

The Supreme Loser’s twitter Storm is almost upon us.

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:28:02pm

Rudy Giuliani says Trump’s reaction is to look at other options. He says there’s nothing that would prevent them filing these cases in district court pic.twitter.com/UEjy2lNzBx

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) December 12, 2020

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 5:30:51pm

re: #82 jaunte

Filing these cases in District Courts? With what fucking evidence? There is none. With what grounds? What’s the cause of action? Who has standing? Mootness?

The election is over. Trump fucking lost. And they’re still pushing this nonsense and shredding the rule of law and the Constitution.

I want people prosecuted and disbarred over this. Rudy first and foremost.

PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 5:30:53pm

re: #82 jaunte

DT lost in the Supreme Court and now he is going to the District Courts. That makes no sense at all.

austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 5:30:54pm

re: #77 jaunte

Trying to imagine the U.S. going along with losing 1-10 because the Waller County militia says they can’t drive through.

That run from San Antone to El Paso is gonna look a lot like something out of Mad Max.

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:30:59pm

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King live

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 5:32:14pm

re: #85 austin_blue

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - The chase begins (1/10) (slightly edited) [4K]

Witness me!

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:32:15pm

SEE YOU IN TRAFFIC COURT

b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:33:11pm

re: #83 lawhawk

Filing these cases in District Courts? With what fucking evidence? There is none. With what grounds? What’s the cause of action? Who has standing? Mootness?

The election is over. Trump fucking lost. And they’re still pushing this nonsense and shredding the rule of law and the Constitution.

I want people prosecuted and disbarred over this. Rudy first and foremost.

I am not a lawyer but is starting at the Supreme Court and working yourself down the ladder a common winning strategy?

A Cranky One Dec 11, 2020 • 5:33:19pm

PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 5:33:40pm

re: #88 jaunte

Hmm. Does DT want a $300 fine or something higher?

Eventual Carrion Dec 11, 2020 • 5:34:40pm

re: #55 lawhawk

Treasonous fuckers:

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Where is the military, those losers and suckers?

Sir John Barron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:35:13pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel

DT lost in the Supreme Court and now he is going to the District Courts. That makes no sense at all.

The Plan was always to lose bigly to get to the supreme court, lose there, so they could return to the district court, or the state legislatures, or to the city streets and rural byways or….

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Sir John Barron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:35:59pm

re: #82 jaunte

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other options being considered are to watch Netflix or take up bird watching

lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 5:35:59pm

re: #89 b.d. (We Won!)

I am not a lawyer but is starting at the Supreme Court and working yourself down the ladder a common winning strategy?

Not normally no.

But the core problem here is one of standing. The Supreme Court found that Texas had no standing to sue. That doesnt’ change even if the case originated in the District Court.

Inter-state suits can originate in the Supreme Court because the Constitution provides the Supreme Court with original jurisdiction over disputes between states.

No standing means those district courts can’t suddenly find that Texas had standing when the Supreme Court said no. No means no.

🌹UOJB! Dec 11, 2020 • 5:36:02pm

re: #72 lawhawk

Even in states like Texas, the majority of people live in urban areas and GDP is concentrated in same. You’d have a horseshoe of secessionist fuckers around Houston to Dallas to San Antonio and Austin.

The admission bill for Texas had a provision that it could be divided into as many as 5 states.

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:36:28pm

When all three branches of government have “failed” you maybe what you’re trying to do is dumb and illegal https://t.co/FyikSXYRRZ

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) December 12, 2020

A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 5:36:32pm

re: #88 jaunte

SEE YOU IN TRAFFIC COURT

Night Court.

Jay C Dec 11, 2020 • 5:37:01pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel

DT lost in the Supreme Court and now he is going to the District Courts. That makes no sense at all.

Oh, yeah, the Courts are going to LOVE seeing Old Drippy and Team Kraken showing up plugging their threadbare “conspiracy” cases: you think the judges are going to have a quick conference with the bailiffs to make sure the courtrooms are locked -tight- if they even THINK Rudy is likely to show up?
What’s their next venue? Traffic Court?
Judge Judy?

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A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 5:37:34pm

re: #91 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. Does DT want a $300 fine or something higher?

“Fifty dollars and time served. Next case, Mac?”

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:37:43pm

😂🤣😂🤣😂 https://t.co/WN0GYuzevV

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) December 12, 2020

The sorest loser.

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Sir John Barron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:38:08pm

re: #68 Jay C

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Where is the Military??
Reviewing their plans to parade at President Biden’s Inauguration?

oh, i’m sure the military is patiently waiting for D&S to call them and give the order

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PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 5:38:08pm

re: #99 Jay C

Judge Judy would throw DT and Co out before they came into her court room.

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jamesfirecat Dec 11, 2020 • 5:38:25pm

re: #97 jaunte

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Ooh! Ooh! Does she go into detail on Donald Trump’s moral failings?

Because you know he’s the guy in charge of the Executive Branch of the government so it can’t really have massive moral failings without it being his fault!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 5:39:13pm

Very “small child telling their parents they’re running away from home” vibes abound here https://t.co/QNa502NeQ5

— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) December 11, 2020

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:39:16pm

re: #95 lawhawk

Not normally no.

But the core problem here is one of standing. The Texas found they had no standing to sue. That doesnt’ change even if the case originated in the District Court.

Inter-state suits can originate in the Supreme Court because the Constitution provides the Supreme Court with original jurisdiction over disputes between states.

No standing means those district courts can’t suddenly find that Texas had standing when the Supreme Court said no. No means no.

Thanks! If I see Rudy, I’ll let him know that!

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austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 5:39:29pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel

DT lost in the Supreme Court and now he is going to the District Courts. That makes no sense at all.

It does in Trumpland:

He’s a fighter! He don’t give up!

Like my daddy said before he passed out in the sty and the hogs ate him, Trump is a Real Man! MAGA!

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A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 5:39:53pm

re: #101 jaunte

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The sorest loser.

” it’s his party and he’ll tweet if he wants to… “

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A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 5:40:31pm

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

Judge Judy would throw DT and Co out before they came into her court room.

Judge Jeanine.

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Eventual Carrion Dec 11, 2020 • 5:40:32pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel

DT lost in the Supreme Court and now he is going to the District Courts. That makes no sense at all.

You just watch, I’ll take this to a lower court.

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lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 5:41:14pm

re: #106 b.d. (We Won!)

Just a fix to my statement (addressing typo):
The Supreme Court found that Texas had no standing to sue. That doesnt’ change even if the case originated in the District Court.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 5:41:33pm

re: #98 A Three Hour Tour

Night Court.

Bull!

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Sir John Barron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:41:35pm

re: #104 jamesfirecat

Ooh! Ooh! Does she go into detail on Donald Trump’s moral failings?

Because you know he’s the guy in charge of the Executive Branch of the government so it can’t really have massive moral failings without it being his fault!

she probably means the military, which won’t do its job to make war on American citizens.

114

Sir John Barron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:41:52pm

re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Bull!

i see what you did there

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teleskiguy Dec 11, 2020 • 5:41:54pm

#NowPlaying Lesley Gore > I’ll Cry If I Want To > It’s My Party https://t.co/nWgjrN5lA5

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 12, 2020

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:42:03pm

re: #62 jaunte

The threat of no pro football is enough to break any succession movement.

Plus leaving would force Dallas to give up the “America’s Team” moniker.
////

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A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 5:42:11pm

re: #110 Eventual Carrion

You just watch, I’ll take this to a lower court.

“The People’s Court” sax riff starts.

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:42:45pm

re: #102 Sir John Barron

oh, i’m sure the military is patiently waiting for D&S to call them and give the order

General Diamond and Admiral Silk should go right now and muster their patriotic troops to stop the Demon of Delaware!

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Sir John Barron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:42:54pm

re: #97 jaunte

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the calls are coming from inside the house

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A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 5:42:57pm

re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Bull!

“Eeeeeew-kay. “

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:44:24pm

re: #116 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Plus leaving would force Dallas to give up the “America’s Team” moniker.
////

Jerry Jones is the NFL version of Donald Trump

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Rightwingconspirator Dec 11, 2020 • 5:44:26pm

Anybody else noticed the same folks talking up the many who survive COVID with just a fever and chills with a cough are some of the first to decry side effects in the vaccine that are at or below that level of suffering or pain? LOL. A lot like being against abortion and gun control.

123

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:45:52pm

re: #113 Sir John Barron

Looks like the law and the military are still actual professions, despite the political hacks trying to convince everyone otherwise.

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:46:22pm

ahem

Pelosi: “The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions.”

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) December 12, 2020

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:47:10pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel

DT lost in the Supreme Court and now he is going to the District Courts. That makes no sense at all.

Except as a way to maintain “hope” and the associated grift.

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PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 5:47:28pm

re: #124 b.d. (We Won!)

Is she going to give them what the heck for?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 5:48:26pm

I’d be a little more worried if I thought these guys wouldn’t get winded climbing the stairs from the basement.

— keenanvil (@keenanvil) December 12, 2020

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:49:55pm

World carbon dioxide emissions drop 7% in pandemic-hit 2020 (from @AP) https://t.co/7Ufjkm1piZ

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 11, 2020

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 5:50:21pm

re: #126 PhillyPretzel

Is she going to give them what the heck for?

I know it is like a sternly worded letter from someone they despise but it is on the record from the Speaker of the House. It did not pass unnoticed, that is an improvement from the past.

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PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 5:51:42pm

re: #129 b.d. (We Won!)

At least it is a step in the right direction.

131

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:52:16pm

Now Republicans are trying to hold up on paying Milwaukee County for a recount.

I thought these costs had to be pre-paid. What’s this committee doing stealing the money? https://t.co/w5Oa0VAkgl

— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) December 12, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Dec 11, 2020 • 5:54:14pm

re: #131 jaunte

Of course. DT did not get what he wanted; they do not get their money.

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austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 5:55:38pm

re: #126 PhillyPretzel

Is she going to give them what the heck for?

Hopefully, what she is not going to give them is their Seats back until they grovel and atone which would include self-flagellation and denouncing colleagues in public.

Now that would be a popcorn event.

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Semper Fi Dec 11, 2020 • 5:56:28pm

re: #131 jaunte

Now Republicans are trying to hold up on paying Milwaukee County for a recount.

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The GOP should abide by the recount contract. Sue.

Ugh! There is a contract, right?

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:56:49pm

re: #133 austin_blue

A public renunciation of their actions, contrite statements of regret, and such.

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 5:58:16pm

re: #134 Semper Fi

I hope Milwaukee County saw what happened to the Trump campaign debts to El Paso and other cities, and protected themselves.

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 5:59:05pm

Appalling. It’s what I have come to expect from R…

— Duchess (@BBG1573) December 12, 2020

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A Three Hour Tour Dec 11, 2020 • 5:59:18pm

re: #135 jaunte

A public renunciation of their actions, contrite statements of regret, and such.

Immediate resignation from their Congressional seats.

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bratwurst Dec 11, 2020 • 5:59:56pm

I KNEW IT!!!! pic.twitter.com/x9547rcZgH

— Kurt “Masks Save Lives” Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) December 12, 2020

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 6:04:55pm

re: #71 b.d. (We Won!)

You’d think after the 50th time a court throws out one of these lawsuits, people would realize that their favorite MAGA Twitter pundit might not be worth following for accurate and reliable information. https://t.co/PLkCLtGf8b

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 11, 2020

You built this, Frank. You helped create the monster that may still yet destroy our nation. It will be interesting to see our brother’s reaction tomorrow — though I won’t bring it up, given that this whole coup attempt has me on edge. And it may not be until January 6 that we know that it is officially over.

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Jay C Dec 11, 2020 • 6:07:19pm

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

Judge Judy would throw DT and Co out before they came into her court room.

Though the thought of Judy Scheindlin going to town on Rudy and his bogus BS is a pleasant one to contemplate…..

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 11, 2020 • 6:10:12pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:12:15pm

From free republic. This escalated quickly.

Sorry, you’re right. It was the three Trump appointees who stabbed us in the back. So now I do believe that “Justice” Kavanaugh, whom we all fought so hard for to less than no avail, did in fact rape that woman.

144

William Lewis Dec 11, 2020 • 6:12:36pm

For all the vets, here’s a great halloween comic I missed at the time…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:13:15pm

re: #142 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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Barefoot Grin Dec 11, 2020 • 6:13:55pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

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Awesome Firesign reference.

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 6:15:02pm

In the entire history of the United States Congress, 20 Members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and 5 from the House of Representatives (of which, 17 for siding with the Confederacy). Time to add to the numbers, @SpeakerPelosi. #Seditious127

— Annie 🐾 #BLM (@SaucyAtTheGate) December 12, 2020

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lawhawk Dec 11, 2020 • 6:15:20pm

Media roundup:

Which one is different from the rest. Fox. They don’t even bother to point out Texas and GOP was intent on subverting election and trying to invalidate votes for millions - a fascist overthrow of govt. pic.twitter.com/Cpod45GjY3

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) December 12, 2020

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Belafon Dec 11, 2020 • 6:16:12pm

re: #121 b.d. (We Won!)

Jerry Jones is the NFL version of Donald Trump

Jones has three Superbowl rings.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 6:17:34pm

re: #132 PhillyPretzel

Of course. DT did not get what he wanted; they do not get their money.

My impression is that Trump paid but the Wisconsin legislature does not want to reimburse the costs in the Democratic counties that did the work. They would rather use the funds in GOP districts. So on brand for Trump supporters.

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 6:18:07pm

re: #149 Belafon

Jones has three Superbowl rings.

Donald Trump became POTUS, which is harder? If Trump had Jimmy Johnson then he’d be going for a 3rd term…….

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 11, 2020 • 6:19:49pm

re: #145 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Dec 11, 2020 • 6:22:05pm

re: #147 jaunte

#StopTheSeating

As we play The Aliens & Seditions Game in Congress, a fun note: In 1861, 11 senators and 3 representatives were expelled for supporting the Confederacy and not acknowledging Lincoln’s legitimate election.

Have a good Friday.

— Keith Gaddie 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 (@GaddieWindage) December 11, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:24:25pm

re: #152 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Dec 11, 2020 • 6:25:45pm

#Seditious126

Just sayin’

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:25:57pm

BREAKING: Trump has filed an emergency lawsuit to overturn the results of the Time Magazine Person of the Year after losing to Joe Biden

— Travis Allen 🇺🇸 (@TravisAllen02) December 11, 2020

157

makeitstop Dec 11, 2020 • 6:27:28pm

We’re probably going to see a lot of these this weekend.

pic.twitter.com/hRdFXdPv6Y

— Rep. Bruce Westerman (@RepWesterman) December 12, 2020

Nope. You own this shit.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:30:54pm

Nope. Fuck you. You’re a traitor. No take backsies on sedition. Sorry.

Come together?!?! Let’s come together now that we’ve failed to overthrow the government. GTFOH

— Sara B (@sbi0414) December 12, 2020

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 6:32:30pm

NEW: Surveillance video of protestors getting run over. Six people hurt, no arrests. (Video provided to us by Premium Barbershop chain). @NBCNewYork pic.twitter.com/p5VqoddeCj

— Adam Harding (@HardingReports) December 11, 2020

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 6:33:28pm

DEVELOPING: 6 protestors struck tonight in Manhattan. Police talking to driver of car. @NBCNewYork pic.twitter.com/BWV41zhaLD

— Adam Harding (@HardingReports) December 11, 2020

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 6:34:29pm

re: #142 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:35:41pm

Loeffler and Mitch did that. https://t.co/TkJQP9wFbL

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 12, 2020

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 6:37:18pm

Today’s Covid numbers, all states reporting on time.

164

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 6:39:48pm

Turns out that Trump’s SCOTUS appointees are cowards who are more loyal to Hugo Chavez and the ChiComs than to him. What a twist, @PressSec!!! https://t.co/kHaUTouMHQ

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 12, 2020

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 6:40:49pm

Another theory about Trump’s refusal to concede: He cannot stand to lose the limelight. He dominated the public stage from the day he came down the escalator. He was now facing the likelihood he wasn’t going to be getting much coverage; instead it would be Biden/Harris all the time. This whole effort besides his hope of outside chance at victory and mucho grifting opportunities was merely to shift attention away from Biden and keep it on him.

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retired cynic Dec 11, 2020 • 6:41:34pm

re: #165 Hecuba’s daughter

And he has had lots of attention every day since.

167

DodgerFan1988 Dec 11, 2020 • 6:44:09pm

LOL. Even the Parlerphiles are sensing something is fishy… 🐟😂 pic.twitter.com/qGTGqrSZbo

— Parlertakes (@parlertakes) December 12, 2020

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teleskiguy Dec 11, 2020 • 6:44:49pm

First tweet since the Supreme Court dick-slapped Fuckface. And… it’s a three minute video of him bragging about covid vaccines.

pic.twitter.com/ofLq3OMicv

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 6:45:45pm

re: #167 DodgerFan1988

Trump University: you pay until you drop out.

170

Jay C Dec 11, 2020 • 6:48:37pm

re: #169 jaunte

Trump University: you pay until you drop ~~out~~ dead.

171

Dave In Austin Dec 11, 2020 • 6:48:41pm

So I visited Parler to see how MAGA was handling the SCOTUS ruling. Not. Good. pic.twitter.com/XyfK8rfoUt

— MomJovi (@MomJovi) December 12, 2020

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV Dec 11, 2020 • 6:51:14pm

re: #166 retired cynic

And he has had lots of attention every day since.

while Biden quietly organizes to govern

173

prairiefire Dec 11, 2020 • 6:51:42pm

Handel’s Messiah Choir!

174

garzooma Dec 11, 2020 • 6:52:45pm

Bloomberg: Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Gains FDA Emergency-Use Authorization

175

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:55:43pm

re: #174 garzooma

Bloomberg: Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Gains FDA Emergency-Use Authorization

Tainted by Trump’s demand to approve it today or resign.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 6:56:34pm

re: #175 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Tainted by Trump’s demand to approve it today or resign.

And don’t get me wrong. I’d take it but I’d much prefer the Moderna vaccine.

177

Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 6:59:25pm

I’m pretty sure Amazon Prime Video paid a high school student to design their Windows 10 App. Total suck, the browser interface is better.

178

A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 11, 2020 • 7:09:29pm

re: #175 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Tainted by Trump’s demand to approve it today or resign.

Fortunately, DT stuck his hand in AFTER their expert committee voted unanimously to approve it. And I’ll take the first vaccine that becomes available to me.

179

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 7:10:44pm

Expect the 126 Republicans to vote against accepting the Electoral College results. https://t.co/1ZWh844cYB

— techweenie 🌊 (@techweenie) December 12, 2020

And if they do, I hope Democratic leadership stops playing nice.

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 7:15:33pm

Hearing that the threat of having to listen to Ted Cruz is what made the SCOTUS turn down the case.

181

Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 7:15:57pm

Western media claims Russian missile tests mean Moscow preparing for NUCLEAR WAR… as US fires Tomahawks from warshiphttps://t.co/igNBNHbPgw pic.twitter.com/49BPBlPjrf

— RT (@RT_com) December 11, 2020

Meh. Actually we didn’t even notice.

182

Sherlock Hound Dec 11, 2020 • 7:17:10pm

re: #117 A Three Hour Tour

“The People’s Court” sax riff starts.

Cue “COUNTERSUIT FILED” chyron.

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stpaulbear Dec 11, 2020 • 7:19:54pm

re: #179 jaunte

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And if they do, I hope Democratic leadership stops playing nice.

You better not watch this evening’s Adam Schiff’s interview on MSNBC then..,

184

plansbandc Dec 11, 2020 • 7:19:59pm

Manhunt Deadly Games about Richard Jewell is quite good. It’s horrible what they did to him, but it’s definitely worth watching.

185

jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 7:20:24pm

The mood is good over on Parler pic.twitter.com/ibmagtThL8

— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) December 12, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:21:23pm

re: #183 stpaulbear

You better not watch this evening’s Adam Schiff’s interview on MSNBC then..,

What’d I miss?

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danarchy Dec 11, 2020 • 7:22:20pm

Thought I would pass this along, I know there are a couple gamers here. Looks like Epic is giving away a couple of their older games this week. Haven’t played them but I hear that Pillars of Eternity was pretty good.

epicgames.com

188

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:22:24pm

re: #185 jaunte

That is a thing of beauty!!

189

DodgerFan1988 Dec 11, 2020 • 7:22:33pm

Thanks to the genius of science, the historic success of Operation Warp Speed, and the bold action of the Trump Administration, this should mark the beginning of the end of this terrible chapter.

What an announcement. https://t.co/MgQyeXLCss

— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) December 12, 2020

Already taking credit.

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retired cynic Dec 11, 2020 • 7:23:35pm

re: #189 DodgerFan1988

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Already taking credit.

b@stard

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:24:25pm

Double-barreled CNN home page on one of the biggest Friday nights of the year pic.twitter.com/2MRBfwLzrn

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 12, 2020

192

Colère Tueur de Lapin Dec 11, 2020 • 7:26:42pm

Freeper thread on SCOTUS ruling is over 1500 responses

*Snork*

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 7:27:04pm

re: #185 jaunte

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The Anti-matter Greenwald:

@LeftAccidental pic.twitter.com/rUkHAiG9dq

— Danny (@danny____d) December 12, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:28:38pm

re: #192 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Freeper thread on SCOTUS ruling is over 1500 responses

*Snork*

The butthurt is glorious.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:29:25pm

re: #193 b.d. (We Won!)

The Anti-matter Greenwald:

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If only Milo had that clout.

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 7:29:25pm

re: #193 b.d. (We Won!)
Threatening as a crawdad.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 11, 2020 • 7:29:35pm

re: #179 jaunte

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And if they do, I hope Democratic leadership stops playing nice.

I hope they refuse to seat them before the vote is taken. How’s that for not playing nice?

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 7:30:22pm

I imagine Parler right now must just be a giant cloud of Cheetos dust and B.O. filled with actionable death threats and enough misspelled words to level a dictionary factory.

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) December 12, 2020

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 7:30:36pm

re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If only Milo had that clout.

Glenn is doing his best to make sure they will soon be equals.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:31:41pm

Go away newt.

—@POLITICO Scoop: Former House Speaker @NewtGingrich signs on to back @GavinNewsom recall effort https://t.co/vFwXEH61f5

— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) December 12, 2020

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 7:32:40pm

re: #197 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

I hope they refuse to seat them before the vote is taken. How’s that for not playing nice?

What about something simple before seating them in Congress?

Something like making every member sign an affidavit that they were elected in a free and fair election before being sworn in?

202

A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 11, 2020 • 7:33:02pm

re: #189 DodgerFan1988

Leader McConnell
@senatemajldr
Thanks to the genius of science, the historic success of Operation Warp Speed, and the bold action of the Trump Administration, this should mark the beginning of the end of this terrible chapter.

Genius of science, yes. For the rest of it, that lying POS is a lying liar and he can fuck right off.

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retired cynic Dec 11, 2020 • 7:33:13pm

re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Go away newt.

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And there’s another one.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:35:56pm

re: #199 b.d. (We Won!)

Glenn is doing his best to make sure they will soon be equals.

The world should be so lucky.

205

Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 7:38:22pm

@Cleavon_MD has been an amazing source of compassion and truth from the frontlines. He doesn’t sugarcoat the truth and has consistently called out AZ leadership for their lack of action.

— Dazzle420 (@Dazzle420) December 11, 2020

Because information is the danger. This is our Chernobyl.

Every lie owes a debt to the truth.

— Soopervillain 🇺🇸 (@soopervillain) December 11, 2020

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plansbandc Dec 11, 2020 • 7:38:45pm

Milo has been and always will be a massive twunt.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 11, 2020 • 7:39:55pm

re: #205 Dread Pirate Ron

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He shouldn’t have a problem finding work elsewhere. Lots of covid casualties among health care professionals, unfortunately.

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steve_davis Dec 11, 2020 • 7:40:06pm

This goofy cat waits until I’m starting to drift off to sleep and then pole vaults her way onto the bed using me as the landing spot. She just stuck a four point landing on me. Scared the crap out of me. Not to worry. I know how wonderful she must find it, having lived at least one winter outdoors when she was abandoned by a couple in the complex going into rehab, to find herself snuggled down in the layers of duvets, afghans, and sheets I like to use to keep my feet warm.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:43:31pm

I had this ready to go. pic.twitter.com/CsEDgpEgmX

— Joe Carlin (@joe_nca) December 12, 2020

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gocart mozart Dec 11, 2020 • 7:49:31pm

“The Trump Case and the Problem of Standing”
- Amy Cony Barrett, 69 Noto Dames L. Rev. 1421 (2020) pic.twitter.com/x6Qip0D7ID

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) December 12, 2020

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 7:49:53pm

Think I’m going to put my flag out tomorrow.

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 7:51:18pm

re: #210 gocart mozart

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I forgot who said it but every picture of the Trumps look like they just learned how to stand about an hour ago.

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plansbandc Dec 11, 2020 • 7:51:51pm

re: #208 steve_davis

That cat has you wrapped around her paw. It’s quite sweet. <3

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Dec 11, 2020 • 7:52:46pm

re: #211 b.d. (We Won!)

Think I’m going to put my flag out tomorrow.

I feel like I did in November all over again. Can’t wait to see Biden and Harris take the oath.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 7:56:41pm

This account cracks me up.

In a stunning move, @zainvelji has added texture, colour and a vibrant succulent for the 10/10. @PnPCBC @dotesndaisy @nenshi https://t.co/MG1Wzrvoll pic.twitter.com/ya45GlPcdp

— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) December 12, 2020

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makeitstop Dec 11, 2020 • 7:58:09pm

re: #212 b.d. (We Won!)

I forgot who said it but every picture of the Trumps look like they just learned how to stand about an hour ago.

And those macho sons are decidedly pear-shaped. Candy-asses.

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 8:02:09pm

C’mon, it all makes perfect sense.

He ends on the most magnificent con of his life: convincing 1/3 of America that there is no democracy, that he will still be president. President of a partitioned country.

A scam for the ages.

His masterpiece.

— Steve Brodner (@stevebrodner) December 12, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 11, 2020 • 8:02:48pm

The New York Times reports that the FBI reviewed a laptop and an external hard drive that Trump allies said belonged to Hunter Biden and “found nothing to advance” a federal investigation of Biden. https://t.co/xyEAdNxzGk pic.twitter.com/UCWhJZHZOi

— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) December 12, 2020

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Jebediah, RBG Dec 11, 2020 • 8:04:51pm

re: #2 makeitstop

Allen West calls for secession.

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Isn’t that fucker a war criminal, or am I remembering wrong?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:05:05pm

re: #207 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

He shouldn’t have a problem finding work elsewhere. Lots of covid casualties among health care professionals, unfortunately.

That’s going to hurt us for a long, long time. There is going to be severe PTSD.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Dec 11, 2020 • 8:05:39pm

re: #185 jaunte

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austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 8:06:25pm

re: #216 makeitstop

And those macho sons are decidedly pear-shaped. Candy-asses.

The boys are succeeding, and the Old Man trying, to get that Tits Forward MBA Stance going on.

Ivanka looks like she’s suffering from morning sickness.

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 8:06:40pm

Search: republicans congratulate Biden
twitter.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:06:49pm

The months of bitter argument between Britain and the EU over the level playing field have focused on five points https://t.co/bQ5D4TzqX5

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 12, 2020

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Ace-o-aces Dec 11, 2020 • 8:09:00pm

PARDONS ARE FOR CLOSERS!

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 12, 2020

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plansbandc Dec 11, 2020 • 8:09:25pm

We might be able to dig out of some of our shit and salvage something recognizable, but England? No dawg. England is well and truly fucked.

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Ace-o-aces Dec 11, 2020 • 8:12:13pm

It turns out the real storm was the friends we made along the way….

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 12, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:12:20pm

Nah, trump is gonna hand out pardons like candy. You get a pardon and YOU get a pardon. The entire admin is nothing but criminals top to bottom.

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) December 12, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 11, 2020 • 8:14:17pm

FBI says amateur sleuths cracked the Zodiac Killer’s 340 cipher after 51 years https://t.co/lk0CouI1bq pic.twitter.com/X3wiTaSxyc

— The Hill (@thehill) December 12, 2020

#Breaking - Our statement regarding the #Zodiac cipher: pic.twitter.com/cJCtlDEbMw

— FBI SanFrancisco (@FBISanFrancisco) December 11, 2020

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The Ghost of a Flea Dec 11, 2020 • 8:14:32pm

re: #217 jaunte

Nah.

Trump’s riding a wave that started during Nixon.

Yeah, it’s a scam, but it’s not his magnum opus brilliant scam that deserves acknowledgement for it’s craft.

Much like how pretty much everything Hitler gets credit for he lucked into or someone else did the work…these people attain great power and do great damage not because they have any actual qualities that make them good at something, but are so empty that they appear to be everything to their audience.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:14:45pm

I did something wrong in life. My kids aren’t named after anyone.

Picture of my pet and what she is named after https://t.co/ECK1i0VYSb pic.twitter.com/YSrbmPMqyD

— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) December 12, 2020

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stpaulbear Dec 11, 2020 • 8:15:00pm

re: #186 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’d I miss?

Link to the video is in my comment. Schiff was a bit too “why can’t we all get along” for how I’m feeling tonight.

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 8:15:29pm

re: #229 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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FBI says amateur sleuths cracked the Zodiac Killer’s 340 cipher after 51 years

You’re finally going down Ted Cruz!

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 8:17:07pm

Oh, definitely call your dream country the CSA, that’s just good branding. https://t.co/pcNQg8t3na

— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) December 12, 2020

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makeitstop Dec 11, 2020 • 8:17:10pm

re: #232 stpaulbear

Link to the video is in my comment. Schiff was a bit too “why can’t we all get along” for how I’m feeling tonight.

Might be a head fake.

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The Ghost of a Flea Dec 11, 2020 • 8:17:22pm

re: #230 The Ghost of a Flea

Nah.

Trump’s riding a wave that started during Nixon.

Yeah, it’s a scam, but it’s not his magnum opus brilliant scam that deserves acknowledgement for it’s craft.

Much like how pretty much everything Hitler gets credit for he lucked into or someone else did the work…these people attain great power and do great damage not because they have any actual qualities that make them good at something, but are so empty that they appear to be everything to their audience.

…and I stand by this by suggesting a look at Trump’s business scams.

They’re fucking basic; they work, but they require no particular craft of intelligence.

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plansbandc Dec 11, 2020 • 8:18:27pm

I sincerely hope they figure out who the Zodiac Killer is or was. I think he’s dead, but It would sure be nice to solve that one. After the Golden State Killer was found, most people thought this one would be coming soon. But not yet.

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Ace-o-aces Dec 11, 2020 • 8:19:33pm

re: #234 jaunte

pic.twitter.com/pAZNaPvXAZ

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 11, 2020 • 8:19:48pm

Evening again, Lizardim. So what’s happened since the SCOTUS door-slam?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:20:41pm

re: #232 stpaulbear

Link to the video is in my comment. Schiff was a bit too “why can’t we all get along” for how I’m feeling tonight.

Missed that. Thanks.

WAY too “take the high road” and getting along.
Fuck that. Make them pay for their seditious actions. GAH!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:21:44pm

re: #235 makeitstop

Might be a head fake.

I hope so. That was way too kumbaya for my tastes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:24:26pm

re: #239 thedopefishlives

Evening again, Lizardim. So what’s happened since the SCOTUS door-slam?

Allen West is being an ahole.

Trump blew off his own Xmas party.

Parler is having a meltdown.

Milo had vowed to bring down the Republican party.

Just an average Friday. 😂😂

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thedopefishlives Dec 11, 2020 • 8:26:04pm

re: #242 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Allen West is being an ahole.

Trump blew off his own Xmas party.

Parler is having a meltdown.

Milo had vowed to bring down the Republican party.

Just an average Friday. 😂😂

In order, then:

1) Fuck him.
2) Fuck him too.
3) Fuck all those guys in particular.
4) Good luck, have fun, and oh, yeah, for good measure, fuck him too.
5) It’s 2020, you’re not far wrong.
6) Oh, there is some news: Apparently, “Spyder” has been unmasked at last.

I WAS RIGHT!!!!

Sidney Powell’s mystery witness REALLY DID FLUNK OUT OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL!!!

I am literally laughing so hard I’m crying. https://t.co/xYaqz0zyaP

— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) December 12, 2020

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Ace-o-aces Dec 11, 2020 • 8:29:10pm

pic.twitter.com/kVVtvn6liX

— Fredrick Brennan (@fr_brennan) December 12, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:29:21pm

We live in the dumbest of times.

Here’s a thread with some more details on “QArmyJapanFlynn”https://t.co/J7lqqWAAom

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) December 12, 2020

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 8:30:41pm

re: #245 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why on earth would they be into Flynn?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:32:08pm

Siri, show me a tweet that didn’t age well. https://t.co/wLI7AMZnmN

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) December 12, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 11, 2020 • 8:32:21pm

re: #243 thedopefishlives

In order, then:

1) Fuck him.
2) Fuck him too.
3) Fuck all those guys in particular.
4) Good luck, have fun, and oh, yeah, for good measure, fuck him too.

scarface quits his job

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 11, 2020 • 8:32:33pm

re: #246 jaunte

Why on earth would they be into Flynn?

Dumbest. Times.

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Ace-o-aces Dec 11, 2020 • 8:32:38pm

Whooooooo

Milo’s got the feelie-feels on Parler right now. He mad-mad at Daddy Donald Trump. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/shNe7Itcf4

— qwatch.org (@QWatch_org) December 12, 2020

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austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 8:32:44pm

re: #230 The Ghost of a Flea

Nah.

Trump’s riding a wave that started during Nixon.

Yeah, it’s a scam, but it’s not his magnum opus brilliant scam that deserves acknowledgement for it’s craft.

Much like how pretty much everything Hitler gets credit for he lucked into or someone else did the much…these people attain great power and do great damage not because they have any actual qualities that make them good at something, but are so empty that they appear to be everything to their audience.

It’s a quibble, but I’ll disagree. Both had/have charismatic personalities. They both could have been Fire and Brimstone preachers and done quite well. They both view(ed) the world as a hellhole in the present that only they could fix.

And it worked very well for both of them until Hitler had Barbarossa fall to pieces when his tanks had their tracks welded into the winter ice and Drumpf had his economic “miracle” die in a developing winter pandemic. Followed by Spring, and Summer, and Fall, and Winter again when he was absolutely incapable of accepting reality and taking action.

In that, he was just like Hitler after Stalingrad which gave the Russkies breathing room to ramp up production.

The Russian winter and the Global Pandemic were Black Swans which were fatal to Hitler and Drumpf because neither of them could accept what had happened and admit fault.

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thedopefishlives Dec 11, 2020 • 8:33:26pm

re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg

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I’ll see you that and raise you: Christmas Vacation’s Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass

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stpaulbear Dec 11, 2020 • 8:33:38pm

re: #231 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I did something wrong in life. My kids aren’t named after anyone.

My Halley (passed away 1.5 years ago):

brave miss Halley

What she’s named after (because of the marking on the top of her head):

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b.d. (We Won!) Dec 11, 2020 • 8:35:01pm

re: #250 Ace-o-aces

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Tear down the GOP Milo! Whatever we can do to help let us know, your cash is accepted here.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 11, 2020 • 8:35:04pm

re: #243 thedopefishlives

In order, then:

1) Fuck him.
2) Fuck him too.
3) Fuck all those guys in particular.
4) Good luck, have fun, and oh, yeah, for good measure, fuck him too.
5) It’s 2020, you’re not far wrong.
6) Oh, there is some news: Apparently, “Spyder” has been unmasked at last.

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I have to add, it’s the first time in a long time there’s been a Friday news dump I enjoyed.

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thecommodore Dec 11, 2020 • 8:35:33pm

re: #18 lawhawk

Trump is only a part of the bigger problem.

The entire GOP is corrupt and seditious as fuck. Every last motherfucking one of them.

Not a one who signed on to this suit should be seated in Congress under the 14th Amendment. Let them litigate that to the Supreme Court.

The treasonweasel GOP must be investigated and prosecuted for their criminal conduct, and the DOJ must take a no holds barred approach. Special prosecutors and devote an entire branch of the SDNY/EDVA (hello Rocket Docket) to get this going.

This was entirely predictable from a legal standpoint - there was no standing, the claims were preposterous, and yet the entire GOP was more than willing to go down the rabbit hole because Trump said he won.

They weren’t doing this because they were blackmailed. They did it because they’re fucking fascists who saw this as an opportunity to go all in.

The GOP has been drifting in this direction for decades, accelerating with the rise of Limbaugh et al and Fox News, flooring it during the Obama era, and turbocharging it in the Trump era.

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William Lewis Dec 11, 2020 • 8:37:01pm

re: #243 thedopefishlives

In order, then:

1) Fuck him.
2) Fuck him too.
3) Fuck all those guys in particular.
4) Good luck, have fun, and oh, yeah, for good measure, fuck him too.
5) It’s 2020, you’re not far wrong.
6) Oh, there is some news: Apparently, “Spyder” has been unmasked at last.

FLUNK OUT? That takes a special kind of stupid, that course was bloody simple and all the tests were open book. Ok, I am saying this as the guy who was #1 in his class but still we didn’t have any one fail to pass it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 11, 2020 • 8:38:31pm

Spyder was a TDP awardee

Click to Reveal

Trainee Discharge Program

In court filings, Sidney Powell cited a former “military intel expert” to claim foreign actors compromised voting systems.

Except the expert was an IT consultant who never completed his entry-level Army intelligence training.https://t.co/mF3xyrLcg2 https://t.co/fgCIY3j2Ug

— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) December 12, 2020

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Dave In Austin Dec 11, 2020 • 8:38:39pm

The Supreme Court will rule in favor of Texas!

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) December 11, 2020

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stpaulbear Dec 11, 2020 • 8:39:06pm

re: #242 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trump blew off his own Xmas party.

I wonder how the guests are going to feel when they find that even though Trump didn’t show up, CV-19 did.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 11, 2020 • 8:39:35pm

re: #253 stpaulbear

My Halley (passed away 1.5 years ago):

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Looks just like my Scout, who has also left us.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 8:40:23pm

re: #244 Ace-o-aces

He doesn’t include the possibility of Congress rejecting electors and thereby throwing the election into the House for President and the Senate for Vice President!

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William Lewis Dec 11, 2020 • 8:41:58pm

re: #258 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Spyder was a TDP awardee

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Oh for pity’s sake. “Unable to adapt to military life” I’m guessing.

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jamesfirecat Dec 11, 2020 • 8:42:39pm

re: #251 austin_blue

It’s a quibble, but I’ll disagree. Both had/have charismatic personalities. They both could have been Fire and Brimstone preachers and done quite well. They both view(ed) the world as a hellhole in the present that only they could fix.

And it worked very well for both of them until Hitler had Barbarossa fall to pieces when his tanks had their tracks welded into the winter ice and Drumpf had his economic “miracle” die in a developing winter pandemic. Followed by Spring, and Summer, and Fall, and Winter again when he was absolutely incapable of accepting reality and taking action.

In that, he was just like Hitler after Stalingrad which gave the Russkies breathing room to ramp up production.

The Russian winter and the Global Pandemic were Black Swans which were fatal to Hitler and Drumpf because neither of them could accept what had happened and admit fault.

I don’t think we can really call Russia having a cold winter in 1941 a “Black Swan” event on the same scale as a global pandemic. Russia having first “Mud Times” when rains turn their roads to impossible mud puddles and then really cold winters after that was pretty much something you could set your calendar (if not your clock) to.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 11, 2020 • 8:44:45pm

His brother was George H Thomas Cat; “Thomas” for short.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 11, 2020 • 8:45:26pm

@questauthority You might get a negative kick out of this: The GOP candidate for WA, who lost by 545k votes, has filed a lawsuit alleging fraud (in the mostly blue counties, what a surprise)… And well.. it’s a kraken style suit: https://t.co/mR6burkx4n

— KNakamura of the Twilight (@KoihimeNakamura) December 12, 2020

“subsidiary corporation,” or “constitutionally mandated executive office,” what’s the difference pic.twitter.com/4IkW97OVLu

— UberMitch (@UberMitch) December 12, 2020

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Egregious Philbin Dec 11, 2020 • 8:47:25pm

My dog Veruca is a spoiled bitch, she is named after a spoiled bitch…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 11, 2020 • 8:50:43pm

Current cat pairing.

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thedopefishlives Dec 11, 2020 • 8:51:38pm

re: #257 William Lewis

FLUNK OUT? That takes a special kind of stupid, that course was bloody simple and all the tests were open book. Ok, I am saying this as the guy who was #1 in his class but still we didn’t have any one fail to pass it.

And then you realize that this man was dumb enough, not only to put himself in as a key contributor to the Quacken, but to admit IN A MEDIA INTERVIEW that he didn’t read the lies he was signing his name to…

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Belafon Dec 11, 2020 • 8:54:43pm

re: #262 Hecuba’s daughter

He doesn’t include the possibility of Congress rejecting electors and thereby throwing the election into the House for President and the Senate for Vice President!

Which requires both chamber to refuse them for them to not count.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 8:54:54pm

re: #269 thedopefishlives

And then you realize that this man was dumb enough, not only to put himself in as a key contributor to the Quacken, but to admit IN OPEN COURT that he didn’t read the lies he was signing his name to…

Well, the 17 AGs who signed on to the Texas lawsuit clearly didn’t read it either. It would be wonderful if someone could work on disbarring these attorneys.

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 8:55:31pm

Trump cannot handle it https://t.co/fUCbSONlau

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December 12, 2020

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Ace-o-aces Dec 11, 2020 • 8:55:34pm

Um, the Great Recession ended in 2009.
In 2009 Trump was hosting the third season of “Celebrity Apprentice”. pic.twitter.com/tZcEPWKf7i

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 11, 2020 • 8:56:42pm

re: #270 Belafon

Which requires both chamber to refuse them for them to not count.

Yup. From this point forward, the duly appointed electors of the states are the final word according to the law. If the Senate rejects them and the House approves them, it still defaults to the electors appointed by the certification process. Joe Biden WILL be President on January 20, 2021. The only question remaining is how many people will eventually be arrested for this whole charade.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 8:57:19pm

re: #270 Belafon

Which requires both chamber to refuse them for them to not count.

I’m not saying it’s possible — only that it should be included on that list, only to be struck out when it doesn’t happen!

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 8:59:26pm

You would think Maralago and golf was a death sentence.

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austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 8:59:26pm

re: #264 jamesfirecat

I don’t think we can really call Russia having a cold winter in 1941 a “Black Swan” event on the same scale as a global pandemic. Russia having first “Mud Times” when rains turn their roads to impossible mud puddles and then really cold winters after that was pretty much something you could set your calendar (if not your clock) to.

Yes, that’s normal a normal winter in 1941/1942 and the Battle of Moscow hurt the Wehrmacht.

But the winter of (Southern Front, Case Blue) 1942/43 was brutal and destroyed several German Corps and Army units around Stalingrad. Troops didn’t have sufficient gear, engines froze, logistics lines were shot to shit. It was a disaster, but Hitler could not admit his failure.

The fact that he was as crazy as a shithouse mouse by that time didn’t help.

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thedopefishlives Dec 11, 2020 • 9:01:36pm

re: #271 Hecuba’s daughter

Well, the 17 AGs who signed on to the Texas lawsuit clearly didn’t read it either. It would be wonderful if someone could work on disbarring these attorneys.

You can imagine my lack of surprise when Keith Ellison (MN AG) signed on against the Texas case. As a Muslim and former Congresscritter, he knows exactly how much asshattery he was up against.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Dec 11, 2020 • 9:04:27pm

1-800-BUY-CLUE, illiterate Parler snowflakes. https://t.co/lKOkaeWNpn

— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) December 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:05:06pm

I just wrote a letter to my regional newspaper. I timed it for this hour so it hopefully appears in the Sunday edition.

So, State Attorney General Doug Peterson and Representative Adrian Smith signed on to the Texas lawsuit to deny the voting rights of four other states.

Aside from me wanting to know how much state tax money and employee time was wasted on this quest because Texas doesn’t like the way other states vote, I want to know why Mr. Peterson didn’t care the filing contained complaints from two non-existent states; New California and New Nevada.

Is Mr. Peterson arguing that non-existent states can nullify the votes in existent states, or does he simply not read court filings before signing onto a case? Either answer disqualifies him from being a lawyer, much less Nebraska’s Attorney General.

Why are representatives such as Mr. Smith so intent on overthrowing an election because they didn’t get their way? Do they hate the voters that much?

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austin_blue Dec 11, 2020 • 9:05:12pm

I’m off to sleep.

A long but very satisfying Friday.

As far as anyone who was in involved in the Texas suit, I hear that a new expansion is being planned for a certain circle in hell.

Sweet scaly dreams.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Dec 11, 2020 • 9:06:59pm

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mr. Peterson didn’t care the filing contained

Typo?

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teleskiguy Dec 11, 2020 • 9:08:50pm

My new congress critter did an interview with a fucking nazi scumbag.

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 12, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Dec 11, 2020 • 9:09:08pm

re: #279 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Trumpers have never learned to spell:

users calling for succession tonight

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jaunte Dec 11, 2020 • 9:09:25pm

People going to the White House Christmas parties realize there’s a risk this moves to the taking hostages phase, right?

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 11, 2020 • 9:09:33pm

re: #283 teleskiguy

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Sebastian Gorka is still a thing? Putin hasn’t polonium’d him already???

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KingKenrod Dec 11, 2020 • 9:17:02pm

How Zodiac was cracked:

Let’s Crack Zodiac - Episode 5 - The 340 Is Solved!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 11, 2020 • 9:18:51pm

Thread

I’ve learned there are some excellent dog scotus gifs… https://t.co/vtJh6u4oLP pic.twitter.com/vkGU0X3mtI

— Haleigh Hoffman (@HaleighHoffman) December 12, 2020

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Belafon Dec 11, 2020 • 9:21:32pm

Tucker Carlson, who has the highest-rated program on a channel that purports to be in the news business, did not mention the Supreme Court decision once tonight on his show.

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 12, 2020

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Targetpractice Dec 11, 2020 • 9:23:08pm

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Belafon Dec 11, 2020 • 9:25:58pm

The same things we do the whole year: be kind to our friends and families, take care of our neightbors, and buy them gifts we think they would like. We don’t have amone season for being nice.

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) December 12, 2020

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teleskiguy Dec 11, 2020 • 9:28:15pm

Sorest loser in loserdom.

….that, after careful study and consideration, think you got “screwed”, something which will hurt them also. Many others likewise join the suit but, within a flash, it is thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought. A Rigged Election, fight on!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Dec 11, 2020 • 9:29:22pm

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🌹UOJB! Dec 11, 2020 • 9:31:15pm

Parler’s Pity Pizza Party is happening NOW!

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thecommodore Dec 11, 2020 • 9:31:44pm

re: #149 Belafon

Jones has three Superbowl rings.

Jimmy Haslam is the Donald Trump of the NFL. He escaped prosecution in the Pilot Flying J fraud case {which was Trumpy as fuck), but his mismanagement of the Browns (until this year) his been epic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:32:07pm

re: #185 jaunte

I hope the FBI is paying attention.

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🌹UOJB! Dec 11, 2020 • 9:33:38pm

Milo is too stupid to remember that Lincoln and Sherman didn’t have nukes…

Milo, I think we’re going to have to pass on your suggestion. pic.twitter.com/hmpCRk2elS

— 🌻ICTi 🏴‍☠️ (@ICTi2020) December 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:39:03pm

re: #201 b.d. (We Won!)

What about something simple before seating them in Congress?

Something like making every member sign an affidavit that they were elected in a free and fair election before being sworn in?

“My election was free and fair, it’s the other guy running for President on the same ballot which wasn’t fair.”

I’m pretty sure you can’t make a new representative do anything other than take the prescribed affirmation/oath.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:41:52pm

re: #205 Dread Pirate Ron

According to YRMC’s Facebook page there was a misunderstanding and that Dr. Gilman is still employed with them.

— Daniel Smith (@Dbooneinc) December 12, 2020

I have no way to look at Faceborg to verify if this is true.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:42:44pm

re: #206 plansbandc

Milo has been and always will be a massive twunt.

Since he’s here on an “O” visa and has no visible work, can we deport him after Biden and Harris take over?

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thecommodore Dec 11, 2020 • 9:45:05pm

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“My election was free and fair, it’s the other guy running for President on the same ballot which wasn’t fair.”

I’m pretty sure you can’t make a new representative do anything other than take the prescribed affirmation/oath.

Can’t they all be censured? I believe that’s what the House did with the “You lie!” guy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:45:27pm

SC rejects sedition, Nunes has COVID…it would just take a random lightning strike square in Mitch McConnell’s nuts to make this Friday a trifecta!

— Hanon Ondricek (@hanonondricek) December 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:47:23pm

re: #301 thecommodore

Can’t they all be censured? I believe that’s what the House did with the “You lie!” guy.

They can’t be censured before they take the affirmation of office, at least not the new members, because they aren’t members yet.

I’m not sure if you can do a mass censure because IANAL. A censure is just a public condemnation anyway, which has no legal force.

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gocart mozart Dec 11, 2020 • 9:48:13pm

https://t.co/MCW6e7aUPD

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) December 12, 2020

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Belafon Dec 11, 2020 • 9:48:16pm

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They can’t be censured before they take the affirmation of office, at least not the new members, because they aren’t members yet.

I’m not sure if you can do a mass censure because IANAL. A censure is just a public condemnation anyway, which has no legal force.

It’s not even a yellow card.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 9:56:10pm

re: #96 🌹UOJB!

The admission bill for Texas had a provision that it could be divided into as many as 5 states.

Of course, conservatives even lie about this.

It ignores the federal Constitution, which prohibits dividing a state without the approval of that state legislature and the federal government.

Additionally, the relevant clause for Texas Accession reads:

Third - New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution; and such states as may be formed out of the territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise Line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State, asking admission shall desire; and in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri Compromise Line, slavery, or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.

Texas Divisionism (Wikipedia)

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Dave In Austin Dec 11, 2020 • 10:03:36pm

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thecommodore Dec 11, 2020 • 10:08:45pm

Interesting thread. I know a lot of Dems and lefties are leery of the Lincoln Project (myself included) because they aren’t sure of what their long term intentions are, post-Trump. But a coalition like this, taken carefully and in good faith might neuter the GOP over time.

I would like to officially reach out to @AOC on behalf of the @ProjectLincoln in defense of democracy. We disagree on many issues and that is ok in our view. Btw, we don’t look down on waitresses. We admire them. We are all the types of guys who always tip at 50% or more.

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 12, 2020

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 10:17:25pm

Trump is working on something big.

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:18:18pm

re: #243 thedopefishlives

In order, then:

1) Fuck him.
2) Fuck him too.
3) Fuck all those guys in particular.
4) Good luck, have fun, and oh, yeah, for good measure, fuck him too.
5) It’s 2020, you’re not far wrong.
6) Oh, there is some news: Apparently, “Spyder” has been unmasked at last.

I have - let me be VERY clear:
Nothing but respect for someone who serves, and I’ve got huge respect for anyone who goes downrange the way this guy did.

But this is NOT REMOTELY someone Sidney Powell could have ethically presented to the court as an expert in anything.

— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) December 12, 2020

Nope. No respect. He could have refused Sidney Powell. More likely, since Ms. Powell doesn’t know every vet, he went to her.

The likelihood here is he put himself forward to participate in a mockery of the justice system and democratic elections by lying.

Veterans do not automatically get respect because they were veterans, even combat veterans (if that is what this guy is).

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jamesfirecat Dec 11, 2020 • 10:19:02pm

re: #308 thecommodore

Interesting thread. I know a lot of Dems and lefties are leery of the Lincoln Project (myself included) because they aren’t sure of what their long term intentions are, post-Trump. But a coalition like this, taken carefully and in good faith might neuter the GOP over time.

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I find it hard to believe that there is anyone out there who actually always tips at 50% or more, but that said, we could strike up an alliance with the USSR to defeat Hitler, and well the Lincoln project people are a lot better than Stalin.

I’m not sure how much better the far right GOP/Trump currently is than Hitler if he/they were given a free hand…

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 11, 2020 • 10:19:40pm

re: #299 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Dec 11, 2020 • 10:19:43pm

re: #308 thecommodore

I have been wary of the Lincoln Project, but at the same time I have cheered there absolute ruthlessness. That said, I can get behind this and I hope AOC accepts.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 11, 2020 • 10:24:08pm

So, nothing finer than waking up here in Europe to see that SCOTUS tossed out the laughable lawsuit from Texas. The howls of impotent rage from the MAGAts are indeed music to my ears. And as I briefly mentioned yesterday, while doing my side-hustle online English tutoring, I spoke with a young woman from Vietnam who was very well informed on the American judicial and political system, and it turned out exactly as she predicted - that the Texas lawsuit was baseless and without merit.

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Kilroy was here Dec 11, 2020 • 10:26:11pm

Now, Trump is not even the President of the United States Total Landscaping

— Exploding Trumppopotamus Singh MD 🌊 (@LabyrinthWeaver) December 12, 2020

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Targetpractice Dec 11, 2020 • 10:26:16pm

re: #314 Dr Lizardo

So, nothing finer than waking up here in Europe to see that SCOTUS tossed out the laughable lawsuit from Texas. The howls of impotent rage from the MAGAts are indeed music to my ears. And as I briefly mentioned yesterday, while doing my side-hustle online English tutoring, I spoke with a young woman from Vietnam who was very well informed on the American judicial and political system, and it turned out exactly as she predicted - that the Texas lawsuit was baseless and without merit.

Yeah, but like football coaches who bitch about how the refs fucked them out of a win, the MAGAts in the WH are whining that the USSC bench didn’t give them a hearing and thus this case didn’t fail on the “merits.” Hence why Ghouliani is now saying they’ll refile in a district court in order to attain standing.

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A Cranky One Dec 11, 2020 • 10:28:17pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:35:28pm

Orlando Sentinel.

Note they say “particularly Republicans”:

We apologize for endorsing U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, who wants to overturn the election | Editorial

We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election for Congress.

We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy.

During our endorsement interview with the incumbent congressman, we didn’t think to ask, “Would you support an effort to throw out the votes of tens of millions of Americans in four states in order to overturn a presidential election and hand it to the person who lost, Donald Trump?”

Our bad.

Trust us, some variation of that question will be asked of anyone running for Congress in the future, particularly Republican candidates whose party is attempting to upend the way we choose a president.

(italics mine, more at the link)

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thecommodore Dec 11, 2020 • 10:38:49pm

re: #313 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I have been wary of the Lincoln Project, but at the same time I have cheered there absolute ruthlessness. That said, I can get behind this and I hope AOC accepts.

I do too. A healthy democracy needs at least two functioning parties committed to making it work to survive long term, and we’ve drifted a long way from that. I like and admire AOC a lot, and while I’m taking a “trust but verify” approach with the LP, their ads were brutal, and they are the kind of very smart people we need if we’re going de-Trumpify and de-stupidify the GOP long term. I’ve listened to their podcasts over the past few months, all the people involved seem to be the real deal. But I need to hear them acknowledge that the roots of Trump go back to people that many of them worked for and promoted. I need to hear them fully acknowledge the role racist dog-whistling played in winning over voters (before Trump turned into a bullhorn), from Nixon, through Reagan (especially), and Bush 41 and 43 and to fully renounce the religious right and its misogynistic and anti-LGBT bigotry, along with “Christian nation” bullshit before I can get totally on board with them. For now, I’m content to appreciate their work in dethroning Trump, and their commitments to defeating Trumpism going forward.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:40:02pm

re: #308 thecommodore

Interesting thread. I know a lot of Dems and lefties are leery of the Lincoln Project (myself included) because they aren’t sure of what their long term intentions are, post-Trump. But a coalition like this, taken carefully and in good faith might neuter the GOP over time.

That is a good thread.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:46:39pm

re: #282 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Typo?

No, it wasn’t a typo, though it could have also been Mr. Peterson didn’t know.

Even if he didn’t know (presumably because he didn’t read it), that would still mean he didn’t care.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:47:57pm

re: #283 teleskiguy

Sebastian Gorka didn’t beat Beto O’Rourke. For that, Gorka would have had to run against him.

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Dave In Austin Dec 11, 2020 • 10:48:33pm

Huh??

It seems that legally @AndrewCMcCarthy was right. #Scotus ruled overwhelmingly that Texas lacks “standing.” But who can reasonably say that fraud and unlawful voting procedures in the key swing states have no deleterious impact on legal voters in all the states? #TexasLawSuit

— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:50:59pm

Perhaps this should be sent to @LeftAccidental

A new architectural paradigm for the 21st century is one in which we are safe, prosperous, and aligned with a healthy, clean environment. An ethos in which we move away from make, take, and waste, to one where we regenerate. https://t.co/agDWFgtiBF

— Jeff Fortenberry (@JeffFortenberry) December 12, 2020

Anyway, any thoughts about the Supreme Court ruling today? https://t.co/yVRXOEUsme

— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) December 12, 2020

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Dave In Austin Dec 11, 2020 • 10:51:02pm

It’s the holiday hat that makes this a particularly tasty brand of Schadenfreude. https://t.co/rVcixthM6I

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) December 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:52:04pm

re: #323 Dave In Austin

Huh??

Convicted felon says what? Who can say that Texas gerrymandering doesn’t have a deleterious effect on other states, not to mention Texas voters.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 10:59:31pm

(4:50)

Last January I was sworn in for my first term in Congress.

So, what have we accomplished since then?

Let’s take 2(ish) minutes to review. pic.twitter.com/Q2Xgp48rTN

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 11, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 11:03:14pm

Dear @realDonaldTrump

Pro tip: Don’t expect favors from people with lifetime appointments.

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) December 12, 2020

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Dec 11, 2020 • 11:07:40pm

Disco apologetics (they don’t know what “debacle” means either):
Nowadays, disco and the Bee Gees are widely beloved. But that sure wasn’t the case 40 years ago

Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on July 12, 1979. This violent debacle is a convenient summary of the backlash disco faced, and is often cited as the music’s terminus, which it wasn’t.

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 11:14:14pm

re: #329 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Disco apologetics (they don’t know what “debacle” means either):
Nowadays, disco and the Bee Gees are widely beloved. But that sure wasn’t the case 40 years ago

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It’s 2020 and disco still sucks.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 11, 2020 • 11:16:40pm

re: #328 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Pro tip: Don’t expect favors from people with lifetime appointments.

Sort of true EXCEPT for a judge who wishes to retire and be replaced by someone who represents the same political ideology. That was one of the motivations for Sandra Day O’Connor’s vote in Bush v Gore.

When, in 2000, the networks began calling the election for Al Gore, O’Connor, at a party held by friends, blurted out, “it’s over,” and rose from her seat before the television in disgust. Her husband, John O’Connor, explained to the other guests that she wanted to retire and of course did not want to turn over her seat to a Democratic president. Six weeks later, she cast the critical fifth vote to stop the recount of the Florida ballots and guarantee the White House for the Republican.

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Jack Burton Dec 11, 2020 • 11:34:46pm

re: #328 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Especially those who can be impeached for *any* reason at all if you can get the votes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 11, 2020 • 11:41:45pm

re: #330 Dread Pirate Ron

It’s 2020 and disco still sucks.

Be careful or I’ll have to break out that can of Libby’s pineapple for a pizza.

(2011, 3:37, Donna Summer)

Donna Summer - Stamp Your Feet

(1975, 4:11, Electric Light Orchestra)

Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down (Audio)

(1975, 3:11, KC & the Sunshine Band)

KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight (HQ with lyrics)

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 11:42:43pm

It’s raining in the bay area for the second time this season!

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gwangung Dec 11, 2020 • 11:42:50pm

Asian American Georgia lawmaker slices, dices flays Trump affidavit for “forgery.”

This is quite a takedown of the Trump campaign’s list of allegedly illegal voters from Georgia State Rep Bee Nguyen. pic.twitter.com/xNLTrCY8GJ

— Zach Purser Brown (@zachjourno) December 11, 2020

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Dread Pirate Ron Dec 11, 2020 • 11:47:46pm

Thais version of the album has several songs that were not on the original 8-track.

YouTube

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wrenchwench Dec 11, 2020 • 11:56:24pm

re: #329 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I thought of this today at work when a nice, instrumental version of ‘Silent Night’ was playing on the PA, and suddenly a voice spoke over it; Security check to section c. Security check to section c.

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Targetpractice Dec 12, 2020 • 12:07:54am

re: #323 Dave In Austin

Huh??

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The new legal “theory” by MAGAts is if red states don’t like the results of a presidential election, then their voters are being “disenfranchised” by states that did not vote for the Repub candidate.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 12:10:03am

Wyoming has nation’s third-highest rate of COVID-19 nursing home deaths (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Governor Mark Gordon finally implemented a statewide mask mandate in Wyoming, along with limits on public gatherings, restaurants, and bars.

Wyoming’s rate of COVID-19 nursing home deaths ranks third in the nation, according to information released Thursday by the AARP.

There were nearly three such deaths for every 100 nursing home residents in the state during a four-week period that ended Nov. 15, AARP’s figures show. Only South Dakota (4.82) and Montana (3.12) ranked higher for nursing home deaths per 100 residents during that time.

Nationally, the rate for that period was 0.78.

Wyoming’s nursing home death rate remained well below the national average until this fall, when it spiked, the AARP’s database shows. That spike mirrored a statewide surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths that began in mid-September. Of late, that surge has begun to ebb, though health officials warn that it could rise again due, in part, to holiday gatherings and travel.

(more)

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 12:15:37am

How convenient!

Sorry, you’re right. It was the three Trump appointees who stabbed us in the back. So now I do believe that “Justice” Kavanaugh, whom we all fought so hard for to less than no avail, did in fact rape that woman.

99 posted on 12.12.2020, 00:48:10 by laconic

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 12, 2020 • 12:15:59am

re: #334 Dread Pirate Ron

It’s raining in the bay area for the second time this season!

I had to open the umbrella when I was coming back from my errands.

More rain, please.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 12:20:33am

re: #323 Dave In Austin

Huh??

There are a whole lot of conservatives in that thread trying to make comparisons to slavery over the court rejecting the case 9-0.

Dred Scott didn’t have standing either. The American people no longer have standing.

— John Jorgensen (@jorgyusa) December 12, 2020

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EPR-radar Dec 12, 2020 • 12:20:56am

re: #338 Targetpractice

The new legal “theory” by MAGAts is if red states don’t like the results of a presidential election, then their voters are being “disenfranchised” by states that did not vote for the Repub candidate.

Basically, Republicans think only votes by Republicans should count.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

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EPR-radar Dec 12, 2020 • 12:22:17am

re: #342 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I see that wingnuts have reached the “carrying their own crosses” stage of their self-pity party.

Fuck them all.

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Targetpractice Dec 12, 2020 • 12:24:40am

re: #344 EPR-radar

I see that wingnuts have reached the “carrying their own crosses” stage of their self-pity party.

Fuck them all.

Some of them finally moved from the bargaining (“WE COULD WIN THIS IN THE COURTS!!!”) stage to the depression (“THIS IS THE WORST THING EVAH!!!”) stage. Sadly for the nation, most will never manage to make it to the acceptance stage.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 12:25:32am

re: #344 EPR-radar

I see that wingnuts have reached the “carrying their own crosses” stage of their self-pity party.

Fuck them all.

Credit: Dyson, The Age

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Targetpractice Dec 12, 2020 • 12:30:27am

re: #343 EPR-radar

Basically, Republicans think only votes by ~~Republicans~~ whites should count.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

FTFY

Virtually every county they’ve tried to challenge or outright reject has been one where whites are in the minority. And one of the biggest figures for vilification in their failure to retain Georgia this year has been Stacey Abrams. All you have to do is look at the short-lived controversy in MI, where two white members of a four member county certification board first voted against certification, and then one suggested that the white suburbs be certified but the black majority Detroit be denied certification due to “irregularities.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Dec 12, 2020 • 12:36:49am

The Christmas Waltz (Simple Acoustic version)

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 12:38:06am

Ali is losing it on twitter.

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ericblair Dec 12, 2020 • 12:44:46am

re: #345 Targetpractice

Some of them finally moved from the bargaining (“WE COULD WIN THIS IN THE COURTS!!!”) stage to the depression (“THIS IS THE WORST THING EVAH!!!”) stage. Sadly for the nation, most will never manage to make it to the acceptance stage.

Might be a good thing to suggest to Republicans that those JUDGES, the ones for which they held their noses and voted in the disgusting pig, turned out to be worthless. They failed, they were traitors, and it was a huge mistake to believe Republican politicians about anything. Republicans were lied to, and they need to stay home in elections to punish the liars.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 12:47:25am

re: #338 Targetpractice

The new legal “theory” by MAGAts is if red states don’t like the results of a presidential election, then their voters are being “disenfranchised” by states that did not vote for the Repub candidate.

To which the only appropriate response is….

laugh harder

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ericblair Dec 12, 2020 • 12:48:34am

As someone who once covered SCOTUS, it’s been frustrating to see Trump and allies treat it like a local zoning board where if you pack it with the right people, you can get your development approved.

— James Oliphant (@jamesoliphant) December 12, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 12:52:00am

It was 9-0. Not even Trump’s three handpicked justices were willing to co-sign the ludicrous mess his legal team cooked up.

They apparently take their jobs and legacies much more seriously than the craven bootlicking Republicans in Congress. Who knew?

Because they knew this would involve opening up a judicial can of worms that would allow states to sue each other over issues like gerrymandering, voter suppression, law enforcement, abortion access, gun laws, etc…

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Sherlock Hound Dec 12, 2020 • 12:55:07am

re: #352 ericblair

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More like, Trumpers thought that they could shout people up. My phrase is deliberate: People in zoning meetings here, and nationwide, yell at other people until they get something cancelled or changed.

That’s our Republicans.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 12:55:10am

re: #34 Romantic Heretic

Also a mirror and a sharp blade.

and the ultimate Dead Head

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 1:04:27am

I earlier wrote that the worst we would see in such a case is 1-8, Thomas being the outlier. It’s nice to see that even he has enough common sense/decency when it comes to such basic basics, since it was 9-0 on relief (7-2 on mere procedure, which is ok).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 1:12:41am

re: #323 Dave In Austin

seems that legally
AndrewCMcCarthy was right. Scotus ruled overwhelmingly that Texas lacks “standing.” But who can reasonably say that fraud and unlawful voting procedures in the key swing states have no deleterious impact on legal voters in all the states

and who can say that gerrymandering and voter suppression/exclusion in some states does not have a deleterious effect on the political balance of power in Congress? Who can say that lax gun laws in some states does not have a deleterious effect on gun violence in other states? Let us start a litiginous Civil War!

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 1:12:42am

re: #340 Nyet

Well from not on my official position is that Kavanaugh definitely raped all those women. If he’s going to embrace the left after they said that then I guess he did it after all.

156 posted on 12.12.2020, 00:52:24 by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 1:13:43am

re: #329 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Disco apologetics (they don’t know what “debacle” means either):
Nowadays, disco and the Bee Gees are widely beloved. But that sure wasn’t the case 40 years ago

I was a Bee Gees fan before disco.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 1:18:42am

re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was a Bee Gees fan before disco.

One of my all-time favorite reaction videos….

Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive FIRST TIME HEARING THIS!!

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Targetpractice Dec 12, 2020 • 1:19:10am

re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was 9-0. Not even Trump’s three handpicked justices were willing to co-sign the ludicrous mess his legal team cooked up.

They apparently take their jobs and legacies much more seriously than the craven bootlicking Republicans in Congress. Who knew?

Because they knew this would involve opening up a judicial can of worms that would allow states to sue each other over issues like gerrymandering, voter suppression, law enforcement, abortion access, gun laws, etc…

I suspect that that was one of the factors in bringing this case, getting that foot in the door where states could sue other states for “unconstitutional” laws and rules. Because once you’ve set that precedent, even if the case that started it all ended up failing on the “merits,” then the USSC bench has effectively announced open season on all “socialist” laws and policies.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 1:25:45am

Milo has completely lost it. Scroll down a bit. It’s hilarious.

parler.com

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DodgerFan1988 Dec 12, 2020 • 1:32:20am

Acting Head of ICE Resigns After Just Months on the Job https://t.co/RSTdwFZ28Y

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) December 12, 2020

Send his ass to the Hague.

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Dave In Austin Dec 12, 2020 • 1:49:44am

re: #362 Nyet

Milo has completely lost it. Scroll down a bit. It’s hilarious.

parler.com

Well that was a vile ride…….

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 1:51:51am

re: #364 Dave In Austin
Conservatives having a normal one.

MILO
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@Milo
4 hours ago
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Impressions
64399
If you’re still a Q believer, please kill yourself, many thanks

Patriotmom
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@Beachhousecreations
4 hours ago
How about we kill you instead

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 1:53:40am

RELEASE THE TURDUCKEN!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 1:53:58am

re: #365 Nyet

Conservatives starting to figure out they’ve been lied to, by the GOP, by Milo, &c.

Some time ago I predicted they would turn on each other when they figured it out. Since then, they’re attacking FOX News, other Republican politicians, &c.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 1:57:30am

re: #362 Nyet

Milo has completely lost it. Scroll down a bit. It’s hilarious.

parler.com

Milo has not lost it. He knows what he is doing, consciously creating a sensation because that is what he lives for and thrives on.

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Targetpractice Dec 12, 2020 • 1:57:33am

re: #367 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservatives starting to figure out they’ve been lied to, by the GOP, by Milo, &c.

Some time ago I predicted they would turn on each other when they figured it out. Since then, they’re attacking FOX News, other Republican politicians, &c.

It’s been commented on so many times before, but it really does feel like the end of some despotic regime in a third world banana republic.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 1:59:40am

re: #369 Targetpractice

It’s been commented on so many times before, but it really does feel like the end of some despotic regime in a third world banana republic.

I am thinking more of Ceaucescu coming out on the balcony of his Presidential Palace and starting his final speech with “These are dangerous times…” and the crowd drowning him out with chants of “Temesvar! Temesvar!” (the site of a massacre perpetrated by his security forces)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 1:59:51am

LOL

Jerry Falwell Jr. has had a change of heart. See, back in October he sued Liberty University for defamation, alleging that his former employers had been cahootsing with the Lincoln Project and other “anti-evangelical forces” to ruin his good name.

No, we didn’t make that up! Read it for yourself.

First Jerry Falwell Instagrammed that lovely photo of himself drinking “black water” with his wife’s assistant. Then a pool boy with whom he and his wife had been keeping company gave reporter Aram Roston a whole mess of texts and recordings which sure implied that Falwell had been a willing observer of his wife’s dalliances. And then, after the Liberty Board demanded Falwell’s resignation as university president, David Nasser, Liberty’s head of Spiritual Development, gave an address to the student body in which he said, “We open the semester with a series of revelations about Jerry Falwell that can only be described as shameful. That’s OK, by the way, to say it. It’s OK to call sin, sin. Paul says in Ephesians: Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather, expose them. It is shameful to even mention what a disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible.”

And that right there is defamation, at least according to Ol’ Jerry.

Or it was, until this week when he decided that he was just too bored with the whole thing to bother going forward with discovery. Which has nothing whatsoever to do with his wish to avoid answering questions about the truth or falsity of the allegations under oath. Perish the very thought! Jerry just needs a “time out.”

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Jerry Falwell Jr Unsuits. No, Come Back! (Wonkette)

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 1:59:54am

re: #369 Targetpractice

It’s been commented on so many times before, but it really does feel like the end of some despotic regime in a third world banana republic.

Yep - that magic moment when the rats turn on each other.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 2:10:04am

I was expecting this. This douchecanoe has been regional news in both Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle.

Wyoming Department of Health doctor resigns after calling COVID-19 vaccine a biological weapon (Casper Star-Tribune)

A Wyoming Department of Health doctor who at an event last month suggested COVID-19 was created by Russia and China to spread communism across the globe has resigned from the state agency, a department spokesperson said via email Wednesday.

Dr. Igor Shepherd was the readiness and countermeasures manager for the Wyoming Department of Health. At a Nov. 10 event in Loveland, Colorado, Shepherd shared a debunked conspiracy theory about the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine, saying it had been developed as a biological weapon and would reprogram a person’s immune system. Shepherd was introduced as a health department employee.

“The Wyoming Department of Health has accepted Igor Shepherd’s resignation. We decline to comment further on this personnel matter,” Wyoming Department of Health Spokesperson Kim Deti said via email Wednesday morning.

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Targetpractice Dec 12, 2020 • 2:17:29am

re: #370 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am thinking more of Ceaucescu coming out on the balcony of his Presidential Palace and starting his final speech with “These are dangerous times…” and the crowd drowning him out with chants of “Temesvar! Temesvar!” (the site of a massacre perpetrated by his security forces)

Nah, feels more like Berlin, April ‘45. That all the months of promises that the Bolsheviks are being brought to ruin, and that the Allies are spilling their blood on a wall of German iron, were total bullshit meant to prevent total panic. There will be no salvation by scores of wunderwaffes or battered powers offering to agree to Hitler’s terms. Hell, the little they see of the Fuhrer is of a broken man, his body visibly ravaged by age and disease, only confirms that the war effort is soon to be lost. That pounding sound on the horizon isn’t defensive units driving the Russians back, it’s the sound of artillery pounding those units flat. And it’s getting closer every day…

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Decatur Deb Dec 12, 2020 • 2:20:05am

Went to bed after a nice schadenfreude toddy. Waking up to waffles with schadenfreude topping.

After the inauguration and dancing in the streets, there is a lot of work to do. We are at least 2 points behind.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 2:31:08am

The Rapid City, SD Journal has a long article about dipshits threatening city or county officials all across rural American for deigning to consider mask orders or other restrictions to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

In South Dakota, the mayor of Rapid City said City Council members were harassed and threatened over a proposed citywide mask mandate that failed this week even as intensive care units across the state filled with COVID-19 patients.

The tensions are flaring amid an epic surge in U.S. deaths, hospitalizations and infections over the past several weeks.

Meanwhile, Gov. Kristi Noem was at a rodeo in Texas. She has allowed legislative meetings over computers rather than in person.

In Helena, Republicans who control both chambers of the Montana Legislature denied a request by Democratic lawmakers to require masks be worn inside the Capitol during the legislative session next month.

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Tensions rise over masks as virus grips smaller US cities

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV Dec 12, 2020 • 2:49:12am

re: #370 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am thinking more of Ceaucescu coming out on the balcony of his Presidential Palace and starting his final speech with “These are dangerous times…” and the crowd drowning him out with chants of “~~Temesvar! Temesvar~~!” “remdesivir! remdesivir!” (~~the site of a massacre perpetrated by his security forces)~~

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 2:49:59am

This is a very significant turning point in a certain sense.
People show their colors.
Anyone in the next few years opens their mouth, it should be looked up whether they supported the Trumpofascist attempt to steal the election.
If they did, they should not be reasoned with, only metaphorically stomped into the ground with their own words.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 2:51:26am

Gov. Greg Abbott tells supporters he’s considering placing law enforcement for central Austin under state control https://t.co/5gTVWWEAOg via @TexasTribune

— Mark S. Getzfred (@marknyt) December 4, 2020

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 3:03:00am

let the hate flow through you

I can’t believe I supported the guy. Now I wish Balsey Ford had ruined his career and life. He deserves HELL!

— President-elect DSB (@daniela1029) December 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:03:57am

re: #378 Nyet

This is a very significant turning point in a certain sense.
People show their colors.
Anyone in the next few years opens their mouth, it should be looked up whether they supported the Trumpofascist attempt to steal the election.
If they did, they should not be reasoned with, only metaphorically stomped into the ground with their own words.

If I owned a business, it would definitely be a “no” for hiring. You don’t even need to ask the question, since so many people willingly give up their opinions in places like Facebook and Twitter.

Just bin the application if you see a bunch of Trump supporting nonsense. Politics, it turns out, is not a protected class.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 3:04:49am

Can a Lizard with twitter give her a clue?

After the SCOTUS has proven to us they’re traitors, Trump should PACK THE COURTS himself adding 6 justices and replacing the 7 traitors that today tossed the TX case.

— President-elect DSB (@daniela1029) December 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:09:15am

Local news:

In the county paper today, Messiah Lutheran Church (the church across the street from me) is modifying their annual Christmas dinner/fundraiser.

Instead of everyone having dinner together in the church hall, they will have drive-up service or volunteers to deliver to your home (if you live in eastern Morrill or western Garden Counties). The pastor will be there for people who wish to speak with her or have a short prayer or other comfort.

They will be using the street between the church and my house for staging the deliveries, so I will move my car off the street to the front of my house. (I normally do that for big events at the church when I know about them.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:11:01am

re: #382 Nyet

Can a Lizard with twitter give her a clue?

She should just be mocked mercilessly.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:13:33am

Ben Shapiro is a moran, part eleventy billion:

The vaccine is 95% effective in preventing you from getting the virus, and also mitigates the severity of the disease. 99% of those who actually get covid-19 will survive. pic.twitter.com/Ep8tMBG311

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 8, 2020

Math and statistics, how do they work?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:17:46am

re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I need to look into it more…. But I’be been hearing this morning of side effects of making women sterile. Anybody hear about this? Or have sources?

— Jordan Archuleta (@JordanArchule18) December 8, 2020

Sources: Antivaxxer morons.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 3:18:57am

delish

-Drinkup4 91 points 10 hours ago +95 / -4
Add Kavanaugh to the list too. We all fought for him. I hope they enjoy sharing the bench with 20 other justices.

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-IncredibleMrE1 [S] 54 points 9 hours ago +55 / -1
I gave him and Gorsuch each their own post.

Fuck you, Brett. We all fought for you, and this is how you thank us.

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-iPissExcellence 26 points 9 hours ago +26 / -0
He has bitch written all over him. Just look at this dumbass smile.

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-DrWinningBigly 16 points 9 hours ago +16 / -0
I always said he reminds me of Stevie from eastbound and down.

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-iPissExcellence 8 points 9 hours ago +8 / -0
Yes! That’s exactly who he looks like!

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 3:19:21am

re: #384 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She should just be mocked mercilessly.

Isn’t that what I said? //

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 3:21:29am

uh oh

Super_degenerate 66 points 9 hours ago +70 / -4
Can someone please explain to me why Trump is always appointing these backstabbing deep state shitbags every time? It’s almost comical at this point.

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-leahcim 50 points 9 hours ago +52 / -2
The pattern is starting to become undeniable. I want to hear Trumps explanation for people like Barr, and Wray and all the rest.

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-banditbandit 24 points 9 hours ago +27 / -3
I chalk it up to poisoned advice from the traitors who have infiltrated the admin.

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-TonyGucciano 4 points 3 hours ago +5 / -1
Too many mistakes in same direction. I wonder if he played us. Operation warp speed vaccines for all.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 3:23:48am

Quoc01 36 points 10 hours ago +42 / -6
NEVER TRUST A SCHOLAR. THEY USE THEIR OWN TRUTH TO MANIPULATE FOR THEIR AGENDA.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Dec 12, 2020 • 3:27:03am

The Coventry Carol - London Chamber Orchestra

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steve_davis Dec 12, 2020 • 3:28:30am

re: #75 teleskiguy

MAGA is taking it well.

[Embedded content]

this is great! the best part is that I have to believe at least some of the “burn it all down: republican party betrayed us” folks are trolls, but they’re having a marvelous effect.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:30:22am

Daniel Mantey - ‘Nowell sing we’ - (Englsih Medieval Carol, recorder & hurdy-gurdy)
(1:30)

Daniel Mantey - ‘Nowell sing we’ - (Englsih Medieval Carol, recorder & hurdy-gurdy)

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John Hughes Dec 12, 2020 • 3:39:19am

re: #226 plansbandc

England is well and truly fucked.

Dragging Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland down with it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 3:44:42am

re: #394 John Hughes

Dragging Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland down with it.

One reason that Scotland voted against independence in 2014 is that it would have left them outside the EU with no guarantee of being let back in.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:55:14am

re: #395 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One reason that Scotland voted against independence in 2014 is that it would have left them outside the EU with no guarantee of being let back in.

Also:

David Cameron has revealed that he suggested to the Queen’s private secretary how the monarch could influence the outcome of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, before she went on to make an intervention that was widely seen as helping a faltering pro-union campaign.

Cameron, as prime minister, was on a weekend break at the Balmoral estate in the Scottish Highlands in September 2014 when a YouGov survey put the campaign for Scottish independence in the lead for the first time.

(more, The Guardian, September 18, 2019)

David Cameron sought intervention from Queen on Scottish independence

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 3:59:55am

The Christian love flows in Iowa:

Iowa synagogue vandalized on first day of Hanukkah (Des Moines Register)

DAVENPORT, Ia. — Police in eastern Iowa are investigating the vandalism of a synagogue in Davenport that occurred on the first day of Hanukkah.

Someone used red spray paint to scrawl a New Testament biblical citation at an entrance of Temple Emanuel on Thursday afternoon, television station KWQC reported.

The citation “John 8:44” was painted on a wall near the temple doors. The verse recounts Jesus telling his critics that they are the spawn of the devil.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 4:07:06am

More from the Des Moines Register to consider if you bought toys for children for Christmas (or other) presents.

Leaked reports: Feds pulled toy police from ports, safety checks plunged in COVID-19

The federal safety inspectors who protect kids from dangerous and deadly toys were not standing guard for nearly six months while this year’s holiday gifts entered the U.S. by the shipload.

Princess palaces and playhouses, water guns and tricycles landed on store shelves and front doorsteps without the usual security checks for lead, chemicals or choking hazards.

Government leaders had secretly sent home the nation’s toy police.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission pulled its inspectors from ports around the country in mid-March because of the threat of COVID-19. Leaders of the federal agency made the decision in private, without a warning to consumers or full disclosure to Congress, then continued the shutdown at the ports and a government testing laboratory until September, USA TODAY has found. That included spring and summer months that were their inspectors’ busiest last year.

That’s because CPSC now works for corporations, rather than the people, under conservatism.

The CPSC did not flag a single toy at the ports between June and July for poisonous lead levels, one of the most frequent violations, internal records show. In August, port inspectors reported their total monthly activity amounted to 47 screenings for all hazards — less than 2% of a typical month before the pandemic hit.

As of this month, the records show inspectors still were not working in five of the 18 ports they normally patrol, including major commerce hubs in Chicago, New York and Savannah, Georgia.

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Consider any toys this year you bought for children carefully.

Shoppers have no way to differentiate good products from any bad items that slipped in. Experts fear it could take years to discover the dangers allowed into American homes.

Big-name national retailers and distribution companies have imported tens of thousands of shipments during the pandemic. The retail industry says it does not rely on CPSC to keep consumers safe. Importers and manufacturers are required to monitor their own products and inform the government when they find hazards.

In an interview with USA TODAY, the CPSC’s acting chairman, Robert Adler, said broadcasting its port playbook would have invited companies to exploit the system. The agency’s commissioners had a chance to weigh in on the decision that he said prioritized keeping employees healthy.

It’s the media’s fault, not the CPSC’s fault. A conservative will always deflect blame to someone else rather than take responsibility.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 4:17:28am

re: #398 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

An internal email sent to staff three days earlier, titled “Everyone,” was more direct: “CPSC employees working at the ports are instructed to perform all duties from their home worksite.”

Adler told USA TODAY the agency alerted the public with communications such as pop-up notices on its website that recall remedies might not be continuing as usual.

He said the agency must also weigh the harm that could come if companies know its blind spots and take advantage of them.

“Why would we tell consumers?” Adler asked.

(emphasis mine)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Dec 12, 2020 • 4:19:27am

The Rudest Christmas Song Ever …? NSFW

..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 4:31:28am

So it turns out I found a YouTube video of my mother and late step-father’s group CrossRogues playing in a sports bar in Elk Grove, Illinois.

“Lucas Morgan” is my mother’s stage name; she is behind the hammered dulcimer. My step-father is on the right.

(4:59)

CrossRogues - Johnny Jump Up

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John Hughes Dec 12, 2020 • 4:33:13am

re: #335 gwangung

It’s only with strong scrutiny that we can be completely confident in our findings

… Scrutiny that we couldn’t be arsed to do ourselves.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 4:40:42am

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 4:45:35am

-Reddit_is_for_cucks 8 points 11 hours ago +14 / -6
She has psycho eyes.

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-ProdigalSon1997 9 points 11 hours ago +9 / -0
I’ve seen this from the start. I’ve been creeped out by it all this time

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-Flipbarryfromreddit 9 points 10 hours ago +9 / -0
Yep! Her voice is horrible too! Deadass frightening

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-Southern_Belle 3 points 10 hours ago +3 / -0
Check my comments.

I’ve been saying I wasn’t sure about her: she has crazy eyes.

But she was picked and I said I’m not sure but I will reserve judgment.

Y’all, please learn to look at the eyes.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 4:46:06am

BlackLivesMurder 7 points 11 hours ago +19 / -12
I fucking told you. All you had to was see that she adopted niglets from a different country. That’s virtue signaling at the fullest extent

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-ProdigalSon1997 10 points 10 hours ago +12 / -2
Thank you for being brave enough to use that word.

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-BlackLivesMurder 10 points 10 hours ago +13 / -3
I’m done idgaf anymore

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-ProdigalSon1997 8 points 10 hours ago +9 / -1
It can only be kept in for so long, I know. I’ve said that we should go after low income communities first because they are the lazy leeches of society that have robbed millions from the government and wasted our resources without doing their part to contribute back to this country. They think they are so special and entitled and that they can play victim status to get away with anything. I say no to that shit!

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 4:49:44am

re: #405 Nyet

HispanicCatholic4T 5 points 11 hours ago +8 / -3
Dumb bitch is stealing Haitian children to drink their blood.

Have fun while you can, traitorous ****.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 4:50:37am

re: #406 Nyet

-KimJung-Un 5 points 11 hours ago +11 / -6
You can see it in this ****s eyes she’s a rat demon. I called it the day this tramp was appointed. Just look at her. Every fucking picture of her is the same look a guilty person has after they’ve done some fucked up shit and they’re thinking about it 24/7. Just like that faggot cuck cocksucker Kavanaugh and the ultimate cuck Roberts.

Fuck this bitch. I don’t know what Trump was thinking he picked the biggest rats to the bench and now he hasn’t said a damn word about what the fuck just happened after posting two days ago that “texas is the big one”.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 4:55:37am

-Clarence_Thomas 34 points 11 hours ago +35 / -1
Fuck ACB

Fuck Roberts

Fuck Gorsuch

Fuck Kavanaugh

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-T_DforTrump2020 17 points 9 hours ago +17 / -0
BRETT KAVANAUGH IS A RAPIST.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 4:55:55am

re: #407 Nyet

re: #406 Nyet

re: #405 Nyet

re: #404 Nyet

So they sound nice.

I wonder how many FBI agents are assigned to Parler?

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Ace-o-aces Dec 12, 2020 • 4:57:28am

You don’t really understand that metaphor, do you.

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 12, 2020

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jamesfirecat Dec 12, 2020 • 4:58:38am

re: #369 Targetpractice

It’s been commented on so many times before, but it really does feel like the end of some despotic regime in a third world banana republic.

Ehh, we were lucky enough to manage to dethrone our wanna be dictator without needing to fire a shot, which is a privilege most banana republics don’t get.

(“He seized power in a bloodless coup, all smotherings!”)

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Ace-o-aces Dec 12, 2020 • 4:59:35am

pic.twitter.com/l6dKplnOjq

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 12, 2020

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 5:00:56am

re: #408 Nyet

re: #412 Ace-o-aces

Yeah, they’re taking this….about how I expected they would. IOW, they’ve completely lost their shit.

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John Hughes Dec 12, 2020 • 5:01:34am

re: #411 jamesfirecat

Ehh, we were lucky enough to manage to dethrone our wanna be dictator without needing to fire a shot, which is a privilege most banana republics don’t get.

Uh, 300,000 dead from COVID-19, hell, even a few actually shot and killed by gun toting sickos…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 5:05:57am

re: #413 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, they’re taking this….about how I expected they would. IOW, they’ve completely lost their shit.

I fear that there will be violence. I hope it is sporadic and not systematic or organized.

But I can well imagine that there will be a number of craven cowards simply trying to prod the Biden administration into countermeasures so they can whine about how fascist and totalitarian the President is in his response

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 5:16:26am

re: #415 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I fear that there will be violence. I hope it is sporadic and not systematic or organized.

But I can well imagine that there will be a number of craven cowards simply trying to prod the Biden administration into countermeasures so they can whine about how fascist and totalitarian the President is in his response

I don’t doubt there will be violence, unfortunately, but most likely it’ll be sporadic in nature.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:22:21am

coolhandcuke 13 points 12 hours ago +14 / -1
I’m ready to fight. Violence is looking like the only way right now. And for someone who was raised by hippie liberals that’s saying something.

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-LegacyOfWinning 1 point 10 hours ago +1 / -0
Amen! I’ll stand by you and die (kill) for this great nation!

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:23:42am

re: #417 Nyet

-Nat_Libertarian 35 points 12 hours ago +35 / -0
It means the tree of liberty is thirsty

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-Based_Trumpster 10 points 12 hours ago +10 / -0
It fucking died of thirst.

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-KickingPugilist 5 points 12 hours ago +5 / -0
Trump planted a seed from that tree that sprouted. It needs some watering, though. Too much salt as of late.

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-Nat_Libertarian 5 points 12 hours ago +5 / -0
Better water it then

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-dipshitlibs 8 points 10 hours ago +8 / -0
DO NOT START ORGANISING ANY ARMED OR OTHERWISE VIOLENT ACTION ON THIS WEBSITE bros. It’s an inadvertent honeypot, being a subpoena away from giving you away.

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-Mr_Mike 3 points 10 hours ago +3 / -0
In person NO PHONES

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 5:23:57am

re: #416 Dr Lizardo

I don’t doubt there will be violence, unfortunately, but most likely it’ll be sporadic in nature.

spastic, spasmodic and spuzz-soaked

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 5:24:35am

re: #418 Nyet

swamp mangroves never lack for water…

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:28:55am

-blindambition 5 points 11 hours ago +5 / -0
French type revolution…Politicians heads on pikes….Start “liberating” politicians wholesale and this shit will end

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-VapingTrumpsPiss 5 points 12 hours ago +6 / -1
Time to burn everything.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Dec 12, 2020 • 5:30:42am

re: #231 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I did something wrong in life. My kids aren’t named after anyone.

My black- cat, Nyx, is named after “the Greek goddess (or personification) of the night.”*

* — copypasted from Wiki.

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steve_davis Dec 12, 2020 • 5:33:44am

re: #251 austin_blue

It’s a quibble, but I’ll disagree. Both had/have charismatic personalities. They both could have been Fire and Brimstone preachers and done quite well. They both view(ed) the world as a hellhole in the present that only they could fix.

And it worked very well for both of them until Hitler had Barbarossa fall to pieces when his tanks had their tracks welded into the winter ice and Drumpf had his economic “miracle” die in a developing winter pandemic. Followed by Spring, and Summer, and Fall, and Winter again when he was absolutely incapable of accepting reality and taking action.

In that, he was just like Hitler after Stalingrad which gave the Russkies breathing room to ramp up production.

The Russian winter and the Global Pandemic were Black Swans which were fatal to Hitler and Drumpf because neither of them could accept what had happened and admit fault.

everybody always talks about stalingrad. the germans lost something like 1.5 million troops trying to take leningrad. the only reason they didn’t is because the elite panzer corps that was spearheading the attack got held up when russian factory workers went out and met them with old rifles. it isn’t that the panzer corps couldn’t have rolled over them, but the resistance wasn’t expected, and the general was cautious. it bought the russians just enough time to turn the battle into a years-long siege. russians can be some bad-assed motherfuckers when it’s demanded.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:38:13am

-4DChessBaby 4 points 8 hours ago +9 / -5
stfu Trump said it right here

This wasn’t part of the plan, he joined this case which means advisors also told him to do it….So SCOTUS fucked everyone tonight and should be arrested for treason

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:40:12am

-PlasmaNoire 23 points 12 hours ago +26 / -3
I got downvoted for calling out acb supporting blm. I hope those cuckservatives enjoy ccp crow. Trump shouldve looked for the farthest right judge he could find and put them on the sc

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-America_2020 17 points 12 hours ago +19 / -2
Well you got a point. She did adopt 2 black kids

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-halcyondream 3 points 4 hours ago +3 / -0
Not only adopted two black kids, but imported them from shitholes. She could have at least adopted domestic black kids.

Then she cried about George Floyd… yeah if the Republican party wasn’t filled with useless dullards they would have vetoed the nomination themselves then and there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 5:41:26am

Thing is, people will support a leader even in times of economic crisis if he shows resolve and demonstrates that he is working hard to help the country recover.

But Trump was struck like a deer in the headlights. I think part of it was fear that he would lose his revenue streams to his heavily-leveraged properties, and declaring bankruptcy to banks in Russia, China or Azerbaijan would look really bad.

And part of it is just that he is incapable of leadership or of finding and delegating competent people to act in his name.

But let us not forget: had it not been for the Covid crisis, he probably would have won the election.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 5:42:08am

re: #410 Ace-o-aces

🤦🏼‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Programming note: We need a [very large] or a [huge] modifier for responses to truly dumb Twitter comments.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:43:38am

-chesswhilehigh 2 points 6 hours ago +2 / -0
She said that it was fair to allow BLM riots while still locking down everyone else and shutting down businesses. Never trust a woman to do a man’s job.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 5:43:50am

re: #414 John Hughes

Uh, 300,000 dead from COVID-19, hell, even a few actually shot and killed by gun toting sickos…

In addition to several synagogues shot up by “patriots”

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:44:49am

dthb4communism 28 points 11 hours ago +31 / -3
White women should not have black kids

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:45:34am

re: #430 Nyet

-Junionthepipeline 6 points 10 hours ago +8 / -2
The kids were the tip off.

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-FedUpAndReady 3 points 7 hours ago +3 / -0
The kids should have tipped off anyone with a semblance of sense.

The pro-lockdown judgement should have tipped off everyone, sense or not.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 5:46:16am

re: #425 Nyet

The Beltway press would tell you that you need to reach out to such people to try to understand them or meet them halfway.

Don’t call them racists though, because that might force them to vote for someone like Donald Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 5:48:26am

re: #432 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Beltway press would tell you that you need to reach out to such people to try to understand them or meet them halfway.

Don’t call them racists though, because that might force them to vote for someone like Donald Trump.

They only became racists because you called them racists (for saying and doing racist things).

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:48:32am

re: #430 Nyet

dthb4communism 28 points 11 hours ago +31 / -3
White women should not have black kids

“dthb4communism 6 points 10 hours ago +7 / -1
I’m attending stop the steal rallies. I’m being a good looking, tall, optical young man showing off our movement. I’m shirking the mask, and being honest to people about race/ gender/ America First foreign policy, and presenting those things with benevolence and confidence so they think they’re the weirdos if they disagree. What about you, tough guy? Probably less than that.”

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:49:35am

-_fuckallofyou_ 11 points 11 hours ago +14 / -3
I got so much shit for calling that whore… well a whore. She’s a fucking ****. Never liked her, anyone who carries around trophy negroes makes me sick.

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-BladesOfSteel2020 -4 points 10 hours ago +2 / -6
It might just be me, but she kind of also gives off “pedo vibes”.

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-PensivePatriot 1 point 8 hours ago +2 / -1
Oh please.

The judicial whiplash we’re inflicting on ourselves over ACB would be hilarious if it didn’t make us look so bad for extolling her confirmation as the saving of this nation, and her refusal to hear this case as its exact opposite.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 5:54:51am

Panhandle Public Health District has not updated the weekly positivity rate for my area since November 29.

On that date, it was rising through 58.6%.

Total deaths now stand at 95.
My county is at 7 (+1)

Active cases: 1,512

The same three villages have had no cases.

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Florida Panhandler Dec 12, 2020 • 5:55:00am

re: #379 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Because Texas just can’t get enough of fascism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Dec 12, 2020 • 5:56:33am

Someone turned on the sun, so I guess it’s time for me to go to bed.

I’ll catch y’all later.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:57:50am

-Dinosaurguy 2326 points 14 hours ago +2386 / -60 (edited)
War it is.

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-AngliaMercia 790 points 14 hours ago +892 / -102
We kill now

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 5:59:43am

-Nightjar 7 points 13 hours ago +7 / -0
I know this is a pro-Trump website, but people here love the guy too much. Either he is a terrible judge of character or he is a closet leftist. He’s absolutely left of center on economic issues openly.

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-VoidWanderer 3 points 11 hours ago +3 / -0
Trump is a Kennedy era democrat. That makes him “right leaning” at this point but it doesn’t change what he is. That was fine because for all of Kennedy’s faults he at least tried to do more right than wrong by the country to the point that the CIA assassinated him. Trump is the same way in that he’s trying to do more right than wrong.

He’s used to people around him doing what they can to make the company grow because they benefit when it does. He’s not used to people around him screwing him over because they profit when the country is weakened. That’s the problem everyone here is now blatantly aware of. It doesn’t matter if Trump is doing everything he can when everyone around him that he needs to rely on is out to sink the country for their own benefit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 6:07:47am

re: #434 Nyet

“dthb4communism 6 points 10 hours ago +7 / -1
I’m attending stop the steal rallies. I’m being a good looking, tall, optical young man showing off our movement. I’m shirking the mask, and being honest to people about race/ gender/ America First foreign policy, and presenting those things with benevolence and confidence so they think they’re the weirdos if they disagree. What about you, tough guy? Probably less than that.”

I like tall opticians who are shirking masks…

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Mike Lamb Dec 12, 2020 • 6:12:29am

re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ben Shapiro is a moran, part eleventy billion:

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Math and statistics, how do they work?

I could be wrong, but I think Shapiro is actually correcting the dipshit in the Tweet he was responding to.

I shall now go bathe.

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jeffreyw Dec 12, 2020 • 6:14:25am

Good morning!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 12, 2020 • 6:15:04am

re: #329 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Disco apologetics (they don’t know what “debacle” means either):
Nowadays, disco and the Bee Gees are widely beloved. But that sure wasn’t the case 40 years ago

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I was there that night, at the ballpark. It was crazy. 😂😂 I’ve got pictures somewhere… First a few people on the field, them a few more, then a whole bunch more. We sat in our seats and watched the craziness.

Steve Dahl was in a mission because his prior employer went from rock to disco. Like overnight. He hated disco. I always loved it. I loved rock, too. And jazz, blues. I like pretty much everything but country and gospel.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 6:18:13am

We used to go to the cheap seat Saturday matinees in Hammond, Indiana. I remember watching Saturday Night Fever when it first came out, not really knowing what it was about, just going along because it was something to get out of the house.

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A Mom Anon Dec 12, 2020 • 6:29:42am

re: #398 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is why my niece in Maryland is getting story books and a newborn Baby Gund teddy bear as gifts for her new baby boy. Everyone else was buying her a shit ton of newborn/premie clothing (he weighed in at exactly 5 lbs at birth) which he will outgrow in a few months, along with all kinds of toys which he wont be able to play with for awhile. Its never too early to start reading to a child, so Aunt AMA will be making sure the little dude has his own library.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 6:33:14am

re: #445 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We used to go to the cheap seat Saturday matinees in Hammond, Indiana. I remember watching Saturday Night Fever when it first came out, not really knowing what it was about, just going along because it was something to get out of the house.

Hammond was kind of far out for my family to roam; I think I went that way maybe once or twice as a teenager.

Morning Lizardim.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 6:38:12am

Oh, sweet baby Jesus, here we go AGAIN.

Good evening, #lawtwitter and others interested in frivolous election litigation.

It’s 2020, time is a very flat circle, and we have ourselves - wait for it:

A birther lawsuit.https://t.co/cYcMeedEPc

— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) December 12, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 12, 2020 • 6:39:28am

The fascist terrorist organizations Trump told to “stand by” are going to take this as a call to arms. Expect terror attacks.

WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

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makeitstop Dec 12, 2020 • 6:39:32am

So, it looks like Twitter has disabled certain functions on Trump’s tweets about the election where there’s misinformation. Can’t like or retweet ‘em.

Who is a worse governor, @BrianKempGA of Georgia or @dougducey of Arizona??? These are two RINO Republicans who fought against me and the Republican Party harder than any Democrat. They allowed states that I won easily to be stolen. Never forget, vote them out of office!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

I WON THE ELECTION IN A LANDSLIDE, but remember, I only think in terms of legal votes, not all of the fake voters and fraud that miraculously floated in from everywhere! What a disgrace!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

You hate to see it.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 12, 2020 • 6:41:40am

re: #448 thedopefishlives

Oh, sweet baby Jesus, here we go AGAIN.

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Orly Taitz’s time has come again!

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Barefoot Grin Dec 12, 2020 • 6:44:00am

re: #447 thedopefishlives

Hammond was kind of far out for my family to roam; I think I went that way maybe once or twice as a teenager.

Morning Lizardim.

I lived for many years in Indiana (Lafayette and Bloomington) and drove up I-65 to I-90 on the way to see my sister in Chicago too many times to mention. But I don’t think I ever stopped in that area (maybe once in Merrillville). That stretch of northwest Indiana just seemed so post-industrial harsh to me; and I know that’s not fair having grown up in a town that looks like shit from the interstate.

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Belafon Dec 12, 2020 • 6:44:14am

re: #450 makeitstop

So, it looks like Twitter has disabled certain functions on Trump’s tweets about the election where there’s misinformation. Can’t like or retweet ‘em.

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You hate to see it.

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Good. Slow this down.

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Belafon Dec 12, 2020 • 6:45:25am

When you lost the election a month ago, but still find ways to lose over and over again, almost daily, for the entire month thereafter—I think there’s a Hanukkah joke in there somewhere.

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 12, 2020

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A Mom Anon Dec 12, 2020 • 6:46:05am

So last night the husband and the kid went to see a band a close family friend is in. The club had a stage set up outside and masks were required. On the way over there they stopped to pick up an old friend of ours we hadn’t seen in awhile. His wife had breast cancer last year and had to have a double mastectomy. They have turned into right wing lunatics,even moreso than I ever knew. He showed my husband pics of them in Valdosta at a Trump rally whenever that was, a week or so ago. No masks, no distancing, just happy as two stupid brain dead clams. I was, and should not have been stunned. Her immune system is compromised from chemo and radiation FFS. Her hair still hasn’t grown back FFS. Her 80 yr old mom lives with them and they have a 22 yr old son who is on the autism spectrum and has bi-polar disorder, among other issues. My husband told him to just STFU about Trump because there is no way in hell it would remain civil. And he’s pissed, he said if he had known that shit he wouldn’t have bothered asking the guy to come along. ALL of my friends are like this now. ALL OF THEM. Which is why I have no friends anymore. I cannot bring myself to be accepting and kind anymore with this shit. Last time my husband was hospitalized not a single one of them bothered to show up at the hospital or even call to see if we were ok. I’d rather have no friends than friends like this. It wasn’t always this way, but the right wing politics this group developed over time is just disgusting. They’ve become spoiled, selfish, tribal as fuck and mean. That’s the shit I have a hard time forgiving, same crap happened to my parents and siblings. I’m just glad my husband and son have been smart enough to flip off the assholes in their lives who do this shit. I can’t forgive the GOP and all their fear mongering horseshit for any of this. Ever. They belong on a historical ash heap and used as an example of how NOT to act like a decent human being.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 6:47:29am

re: #452 Barefoot Grin

I lived for many years in Indiana (Lafayette and Bloomington) and drove up I-65 to I-90 on the way to see my sister in Chicago too many times to mention. But I don’t think I ever stopped in that area (maybe once in Merrillville). That stretch of northwest Indiana just seemed so post-industrial harsh to me; and I know that’s not fair having grown up in a town that looks like shit from the interstate.

You’re actually not wrong. If you got a closer look at the haunts I spent my formative years visiting - Valparaiso, Merrillville/Crown Point (basically twin cities, literally separated by one stretch of road), Hammond - they were extensions of Gary in all but name. “Going into town” was a functional task, not something we did for amusement or to see something cool or exciting, but a dedicated trip to get something or do something and then come back home.

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 6:48:51am

OT My house smells wonderful. I am roasting a head of garlic.

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Belafon Dec 12, 2020 • 6:49:36am

Good night! 🗽 https://t.co/2WtDUVsRtI

— Arizona Democratic Party (@azdemparty) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 6:51:02am

re: #457 PhillyPretzel

OT My house smells wonderful. I am roasting a head of garlic.

Expecting vampires?

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Belafon Dec 12, 2020 • 6:51:16am

NEW — Trump has gotten increasingly angry with both the FDA and the COVID vaccine makers, openly asking aides if Pfizer is sabotaging him and if it’s run by Democrats https://t.co/83SKR1hAr9

W/ @swin24

— Sam Stein (@samstein) December 12, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 6:54:01am

re: #459 thedopefishlives

No. I will be trying a hummus recipe.

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Belafon Dec 12, 2020 • 6:54:30am

A milestone in the #pandemic : over 250,000 genomic sequences frm #COVID19 cases shared via @GISAID. What started w/sharing the 1st genomes of a mysterious #coronavirus, frm China CDC on Jan 10, thru GISAID, continues. And it led to the @pfizer #vaccine.https://t.co/bDRZ0IDXEK

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 11, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Dec 12, 2020 • 6:54:35am

re: #456 thedopefishlives

You’re actually not wrong. If you got a closer look at the haunts I spent my formative years visiting - Valparaiso, Merrillville/Crown Point (basically twin cities, literally separated by one stretch of road), Hammond - they were extensions of Gary in all but name. “Going into town” was a functional task, not something we did for amusement or to see something cool or exciting, but a dedicated trip to get something or do something and then come back home.

There’s the Star Plaza!

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 6:55:06am

re: #461 PhillyPretzel

No. I will be trying a hummus recipe.

Oh, that sounds fun. I’m not a hummus person, but Mrs. Fish and the fishspawn all love it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 6:55:55am

Whelp, I know what Fox News is going to be talking about for the next four years. Every commentator is going to be trained to say “*Doctor* Jill Biden” with the same emphasis on *Doctor* that they used on Barack *Hussain* Obama.

— Alex (@arg11) December 12, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Dec 12, 2020 • 6:57:56am

100% agree:

It’s still baffling how Twitter can do what it does with Trump’s account to prevent the spread of misinformation—but refuse to take the basic step of labeling lies as “false,” rather than “disputed.”

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 12, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 6:58:53am

re: #447 thedopefishlives

Hammond was kind of far out for my family to roam; I think I went that way maybe once or twice as a teenager.

Morning Lizardim.

I was from Brunswick, NW Gary, Hammond was the next city west of us along US 30

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 6:59:56am

re: #452 Barefoot Grin

I lived for many years in Indiana (Lafayette and Bloomington) and drove up I-65 to I-90 on the way to see my sister in Chicago too many times to mention. But I don’t think I ever stopped in that area (maybe once in Merrillville). That stretch of northwest Indiana just seemed so post-industrial harsh to me; and I know that’s not fair having grown up in a town that looks like shit from the interstate.

It lived up to its reputation and more.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:00:39am

re: #467 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was from Brunswick, NW Gary, Hammond was the next city west of us along US 30

The closest “large” city to me on the map was Valparaiso. I lived just a few miles off the I-65 corridor southeast of Merrillville/Crown Point and southwest of Valpo.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:01:07am

re: #456 thedopefishlives

You’re actually not wrong. If you got a closer look at the haunts I spent my formative years visiting - Valparaiso, Merrillville/Crown Point (basically twin cities, literally separated by one stretch of road), Hammond - they were extensions of Gary in all but name. “Going into town” was a functional task, not something we did for amusement or to see something cool or exciting, but a dedicated trip to get something or do something and then come back home.

And driving to State Line Liquors in Calumet City, IL, on Sunday to buy booze (Indiana was dry on Sundays back then)

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 7:02:17am

re: #465 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Her doctorate is in Education and in my humble opinion I would call her Doctor. She earned it. :)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:02:50am

re: #471 PhillyPretzel

Her doctorate is in Education and in my humble opinion I would call her Doctor. She earned it. :)

This will be their new “Pocahontas”.

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 7:03:53am

re: #464 thedopefishlives

The hummus recipe comes from Cook’s Country (aka Cooks Illustrated).
cookscountry.com

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:06:28am

re: #470 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And going to Calumet City, IL, on Sunday to buy booze (Indiana was dry on Sundays back then)

Nobody in my family drank, so I didn’t know that, though it makes sense for Indiana. I went to college in east central Indiana and the Christian private university I attended banned dancing. Yes, as seen in Footloose.

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makeitstop Dec 12, 2020 • 7:06:36am

What’s going on here?

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio appears to have been invited to the White House. Pic from his Parler account this morning. pic.twitter.com/aQ0u4RgoFz

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:08:14am

re: #475 makeitstop

What’s going on here?

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Trump’s armed insurrectionists appear to have a mad that the SCOTUS has declined to install their God-emperor as President-for-life.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:09:00am

re: #475 makeitstop

Bad news for Fox: the guy with this sign has ditched them in favor of something called “Worldview Weekend” pic.twitter.com/7CrrKl3qAJ

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 12, 2020

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV Dec 12, 2020 • 7:09:43am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:09:52am

re: #474 thedopefishlives

Nobody in my family drank, so I didn’t know that, though it makes sense for Indiana. I went to college in east central Indiana and the Christian private university I attended banned dancing. Yes, as seen in Footloose.

Our bluegrass band used to play “underground” dances for a Baptist youth group in Tempe, Arizona. They were not allowed to meet at the church, so they would rent a hall elsewhere…

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Belafon Dec 12, 2020 • 7:10:53am

In related news, in the time of chimpanzees he was a monkey. https://t.co/sy0CsD5L9m

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:11:38am

re: #479 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our bluegrass band used to play “underground” dances for a Baptist youth group in Tempe, Arizona. They were not allowed to meet at the church, so they would rent a hall elsewhere…

How DARE you contribute to the delinquency of our youth. Encouraging such scandalous behavior, you should be ashamed of yourself.

…Damn, I’ve still got it all these years later.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:13:08am

re: #481 thedopefishlives

How DARE you contribute to the delinquency of our youth. Encouraging such scandalous behavior, you should be ashamed of yourself.

…Damn, I’ve still got it all these years later.

Yes, Baptists are not allowed to fuck standing up because it might lead to dancing…

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 7:13:32am

Roasted Garlic :)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:16:39am

Driver charged for plowing through protesters in Manhattan ICE demonstration https://t.co/mh2TPTmRW0

— larry mcshane (@lmcshanenydn) December 12, 2020

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A Mom Anon Dec 12, 2020 • 7:16:52am

re: #483 PhillyPretzel

I’ve become a big fan of caramalized onions, especially sweet onions like Vidalia. It takes awhile but it is so worth it.

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Barefoot Grin Dec 12, 2020 • 7:18:40am

re: #470 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And driving to State Line Liquors in Calumet City, IL, on Sunday to buy booze (Indiana was dry on Sundays back then)

And on election day!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:18:40am

never seen Twitter do this before. Much stricter engagement with 3 Trump tweets this morning pic.twitter.com/TddOPuk3um

— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 12, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 7:18:53am

re: #485 A Mom Anon

Yes. They are good. :)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:19:23am

re: #486 Barefoot Grin

And on election day!

Only until the polls closed.

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Barefoot Grin Dec 12, 2020 • 7:20:15am

re: #474 thedopefishlives

Nobody in my family drank, so I didn’t know that, though it makes sense for Indiana. I went to college in east central Indiana and the Christian private university I attended banned dancing. Yes, as seen in Footloose.

Hanover? Taylor?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:20:36am

Don Jr announced as ‘founding journalist’ at new company that will ‘make news credible again’https://t.co/hpHGaPFumH

— Raw Story (@RawStory) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:21:12am

re: #490 Barefoot Grin

Hanover? Taylor?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:25:57am

re: #487 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

hard not to get the impression they’re just making this up as they go along

— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 12, 2020

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Ace Rothstein Dec 12, 2020 • 7:25:59am

re: #487 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Fat fuck should’ve been banned years ago.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:26:42am

re: #493 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Spineless cowards, the lot of them.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:26:46am

re: #491 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Oh. Good luck with that.

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Barefoot Grin Dec 12, 2020 • 7:27:31am

re: #492 thedopefishlives

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:29:11am

fourth incumbent in 140 yrs to lose is still mad https://t.co/N6xWphlIuY

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 12, 2020

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jaunte Dec 12, 2020 • 7:31:29am

re: #491 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Putin hasn’t finished using the Trump family to screw with us.

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 7:31:35am

re: #498 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This is why one does not pick an egomaniac for president.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:32:22am

re: #497 Barefoot Grin

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A Mom Anon Dec 12, 2020 • 7:32:50am

re: #493 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

For the life of me I cannot understand why Trump is so intimidating to these people. When I look at him I see a pathetic coward who runs his mouth and has no clue how stupid he is. He’s pathetic, weak and has no clue at all about the job he’s in now (or the ones before it). The guys who own and run Twitter and Facebook have more business acumen and are certainly smarter than he is, not to mention shit tons richer with access to the best legal minds out there. Do they really think everyone is going to leave them and go to Parler or whatever right wing failure of an alternative they come up with next? Even the idiots who flounced from twitter and Facebook never totally left. I do not get why it’s so hard to call this shit what it is.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:35:27am

re: #502 A Mom Anon

For the life of me I cannot understand why Trump is so intimidating to these people.

I can only assume it is a business decision that is based on a number of factors, including Trump’s popularity and his position as an elected official.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:37:08am

re: #502 A Mom Anon

For the life of me I cannot understand why Trump is so intimidating to these people. When I look at him I see a pathetic coward who runs his mouth and has no clue how stupid he is. He’s pathetic, weak and has no clue at all about the job he’s in now (or the ones before it). The guys who own and run Twitter and Facebook have more business acumen and are certainly smarter than he is, not to mention shit tons richer with access to the best legal minds out there. Do they really think everyone is going to leave them and go to Parler or whatever right wing failure of an alternative they come up with next? Even the idiots who flounced from twitter and Facebook never totally left. I do not get why it’s so hard to call this shit what it is.

It’s simple: Trump’s tantrums get them business. They want him to keep posting his shit on their platform, because it instantly makes headlines. Even for years after he leaves office (voluntarily or otherwise), his tweets will continue to be front and center, because he will be a disgraced former President and people still hold former Presidents with some kind of regard.

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Barefoot Grin Dec 12, 2020 • 7:37:20am

re: #501 thedopefishlives

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:40:45am

Also, apparently Brexit is starting to get a little hairy:

Reports 4 Royal Navy gunboats are being prepared to be sent to guard the UK’s waters from EU trawlers, if there’s no new agreement over fishing rights,bringing in legislation to allow the Navy to board foreign vessels& arrest fishermen amid fears of clashes in the English Channel

— Zora Suleman (@ZoraSuleman) December 11, 2020

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Jay C Dec 12, 2020 • 7:41:01am

re: #503 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can only assume it is a business decision that is based on a number of factors, including Trump’s popularity and his position as an elected official.

Yes, and probably based (unlike Trump’s tweets) on some basic facts:

1. He’s still President Pathetic Coward, and can’t be completely ignored.
2. President P.C. still has a loud and large fanbase who can (and will) get pissed if they ban The Orange Anus (delusionary wingnuts they may be, but they still all have two eyes which might fasten on ads).
3. They REALLY don’t want to get into issues of regulation of their media - from either side.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 12, 2020 • 7:42:16am

re: #502 A Mom Anon

Trump is sue happy. No company wants to spend money on lawsuits.

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jaunte Dec 12, 2020 • 7:42:23am

The treason continues:

Flynn calls this “a crucible moment in our history” and tells people not to be too “bent out of shape” at recent SCOTUS rejection of Texas case, because there are still avenues being pursued.

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 12, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:43:43am

Vincent Fusca — the man many QAnon believers claim is JFK Jr in disguise — is here. People are shouting “JFK” at him and asking for selfies. pic.twitter.com/ryCD4gU8OY

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 12, 2020

Michael Flynn arrives to big cheers, flanked by former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who claims he’s leading an army of hackers to prove the election was stolen. pic.twitter.com/du79AOB7iT

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 12, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 12, 2020 • 7:44:40am

re: #503 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can only assume it is a business decision that is based on a number of factors, including Trump’s popularity and his position as an elected official.

As much as I hate it, tRump is president. I don’t see how they can block him. We’d see what happens if he out and out called for violence, then he should be deactivated. Not that Twitter would but that would at least give them cover.

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A Cranky One Dec 12, 2020 • 7:47:40am

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 12, 2020 • 7:48:54am

re: #498 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 7:50:53am

They couldn’t even take the time to google “yellow tartan”?

Is the red accent in the MacLeod not within their tastes? pic.twitter.com/QOUlvfR4Xg

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) December 12, 2020

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:51:47am

TIL that once upon a time, the British went to war with Iceland over fishing rights, and lost. (Link goes to Wikipedia)

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 12, 2020 • 7:54:55am

re: #515 thedopefishlives

TIL that once upon a time, the British went to war with Iceland over fishing rights, and lost. (Link goes to Wikipedia)

Britannia rules the waves! / Has anyone heard what they are going to do about the Irish border? That is what really worries me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:56:06am

re: #516 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Britannia rules the waves! / Has anyone heard what they are going to do about the Irish border? That is what really worries me.

More like what the Irish (North and South) are going to do about their own border…

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:56:11am

re: #516 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Britannia rules the waves! / Has anyone heard what they are going to do about the Irish border? That is what really worries me.

From what I heard, they’re putting the border in the Irish Sea, basically giving the middle finger to Northern Ireland so that they don’t disturb the Good Friday Accords.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 7:57:38am

re: #518 thedopefishlives

From what I heard, they’re putting the border in the Irish Sea, basically giving the middle finger to Northern Ireland so that they don’t disturb the Good Friday Accords.

What does that mean for Northern Ireland, that they are still in the EU for trade purposes?

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 7:58:15am

re: #519 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What does that mean for Northern Ireland, that they are still in the EU for trade purposes?

Effectively, yes.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 12, 2020 • 7:58:28am

re: #518 thedopefishlives

From what I heard, they’re putting the border in the Irish Sea, basically giving the middle finger to Northern Ireland so that they don’t disturb the Good Friday Accords.

If I understand correctly, tomorrow is the drop dead date to get a Brexit deal done.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 8:00:09am

Should’ve started earlier. https://t.co/KAlyKKi0cK

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) December 12, 2020

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Renaissance_Man Dec 12, 2020 • 8:00:49am

re: #504 thedopefishlives

It’s simple: Trump’s tantrums get them business. They want him to keep posting his shit on their platform, because it instantly makes headlines. Even for years after he leaves office (voluntarily or otherwise), his tweets will continue to be front and center, because he will be a disgraced former President and people still hold former Presidents with some kind of regard.

I really don’t think that’s it. It’s not simple numbers - Trumpers are a minority in even this country. Yes, they are a very vocal minority, but in sheer numbers, any media company would get more numbers by simply engaging with the majority. The reason must be more ideological. Specifically, the few people that make editorial and narrative decisions are more philosophically aligned with the autocrats, and the culture at these companies is aligned with the dominant US culture, where the worldview of mediocre white people is ‘normal’, and everyone else is ‘abnormal’.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:02:29am

re: #520 thedopefishlives

Effectively, yes.

So why don’t they just join the rest of Ireland?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:04:18am

re: #523 Renaissance_Man

I really don’t think that’s it. It’s not simple numbers - Trumpers are a minority in even this country.

It is also fear of litigation and that if they treated Trump they way they ought to, the GOP would come after them for anti-trust violations. They see it as a small price to pay for their unassailable monopoly.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 8:05:13am

re: #524 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So why don’t they just join the rest of Ireland?

That is an excellent question, although I imagine the answer lies somewhere in the long political history of the two areas.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:06:58am

re: #526 thedopefishlives

That is an excellent question, although I imagine the answer lies somewhere in the long political history of the two areas.

Of course, but at this point, I can imagine that the Republic of Ireland would grant them near-autonomy just to “reunite” the country. And it would be a better deal for them than what Britain has just stuck them with.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV Dec 12, 2020 • 8:07:18am

just ran a half marathon training run at marathon paces
came in a few minutes under
now if only i can do it for twice as long in february…

but you don’t want to hear about that

a new visitor showed up just as i came back from the run
looks like a green heron
(we haven’t named it yet)

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Jay C Dec 12, 2020 • 8:08:38am

re: #524 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So why don’t they just join the rest of Ireland?

Isn’t it because still - several centuries on - they’re still stuck on the Catholic-Protestant thing??

And on a more worldly level: in a lot of (non-political) ways NI HAD “joined the rest of Ireland” via the now-former common EU membership. Yet, IIRC, the pull of “unionism” seems to have still been strong enough for Ulster’s political structure to support Leave - even if the population in general was lukewarm.

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nines09 Dec 12, 2020 • 8:11:14am

re: #524 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So why don’t they just join the rest of Ireland?

Because this is the reality in Northern Ireland?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 8:14:48am

82,000,000 is still more than 75,000,000

Maybe this is why you keep bankrupting companies

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) December 12, 2020

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:15:18am

re: #345 Targetpractice

Some of them finally moved from the bargaining (“WE COULD WIN THIS IN THE COURTS!!!”) stage to the depression (“THIS IS THE WORST THING EVAH!!!”) stage. Sadly for the nation, most will never manage to make it to the acceptance stage.

Wonder how many of them could be traced back to “get over it snowflake!” comments in early- to mid- November of 2016.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 8:16:05am

re: #532 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Wonder who many of them could be traced back to “get over it snowflake!” comments in early- to mid- November of 2016.

All of them, Katie.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:16:40am

Llre: #531 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

7 million people. Half of the states don’t have populations that big. This election wasn’t close. It wasn’t a landslide but it was and is a repudiation of Trump and a good win.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:17:03am

re: #532 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Wonder who many of them could be traced back to “get over it snowflake!” comments in early- to mid- November of 2016.

All of them.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward! Dec 12, 2020 • 8:19:45am

re: #443 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

Homegrown tree ornaments

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:20:01am

re: #357 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

seems that legally
AndrewCMcCarthy was right. Scotus ruled overwhelmingly that Texas lacks “standing.” But who can reasonably say that fraud and unlawful voting procedures in the key swing states have no deleterious impact on legal voters in all the states

and who can say that gerrymandering and voter suppression/exclusion in some states does not have a deleterious effect on the political balance of power in Congress? Who can say that lax gun laws in some states does not have a deleterious effect on gun violence in other states? Let us start a litiginous Civil War!

Armies of lawyers clashing in the border states. Raids into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Ended in part by the firm of Sherman & Thomas making destructive trips to Meridian and then across Georgia and the Carolinas!

We shall take a nap in the Georgia Statehouse

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 8:21:13am

re: #534 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Ll

7 million people. Half of the states don’t have populations that big. This election wasn’t close. It wasn’t a landslide but it was and is a repudiation of Trump and a good win.

He also rounded up from 74.222 million
So, I rounded up Biden’s from 81.282 million

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:26:03am

re: #531 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Remember Trump insisted that he actually won the popular vote in 2016 and nobody took him to task over the fact that he was unable to produce a shred of evidence to back up that claim.

So of course he is going to insist much the same in 2020…

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mmmirele Dec 12, 2020 • 8:28:27am

re: #445 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We used to go to the cheap seat Saturday matinees in Hammond, Indiana. I remember watching Saturday Night Fever when it first came out, not really knowing what it was about, just going along because it was something to get out of the house.

Reminds me of being dragged to Star Wars (the original, now Episode IV) by my sister, not understanding the looooong line, not understanding any of it. Three years when The Empire Strikes Back came out, I was in line for the first showing. I saw it ~65 times that summer (1980).

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 8:28:27am

In the midst of all the legal hubbub around Donald J. Trump, it’s easy to forget that there are other right-wing slimeballs around. In such news, Jerry Falwell, Jr. has decided he doesn’t want to do discovery in his defamation lawsuit against Liberty University (link goes to Wonkette). Probably because he doesn’t want everyone to know exactly what he and his wife and several unnamed others have actually been up to.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:30:16am

re: #540 mmmirele

Reminds me of being dragged to Star Wars (the original, now Episode IV) by my sister, not understanding the looooong line, not understanding any of it. Three years when The Empire Strikes Back came out, I was in line for the first showing. I saw it ~65 times that summer (1980).

I really enjoyed that film, but my enthusiasm declined with each new iteration and now I only watch them because my kids are into the saga.

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PhillyPretzel Dec 12, 2020 • 8:31:35am

re: #540 mmmirele

Same here. I was dragged to Star Wars by my mom. When we finished seeing it we loved it and when Empire came out we were in line to see it on the day it opened.

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thedopefishlives Dec 12, 2020 • 8:31:40am

re: #542 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I really enjoyed that film, but my enthusiasm declined with each new iteration and now I only watch them because my kids are into the saga.

Recently, their off-main-series stuff has been much better - Rogue One was top-notch, I loved the hell out of Solo even though I heard it got mixed reviews, and nobody can seem to say a bad thing about The Mandalorian.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 8:32:40am

VSS Unity not making it to space today

ABORT! VMS Eve released Unity, but engine shutdown shortly after ignition.https://t.co/iCQ11JFAZn pic.twitter.com/6S5LCrNuE6

— Chris B - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) December 12, 2020

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 8:33:06am

re: #460 Belafon

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jaunte Dec 12, 2020 • 8:34:40am

Metaxas announces that Trump will be doing a helicopter flyover in Marine One.

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 12, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:34:50am

re: #544 thedopefishlives

Recently, their off-main-series stuff has been much better - Rogue One was top-notch, I loved the hell out of Solo even though I heard it got mixed reviews, and nobody can seem to say a bad thing about The Mandalorian.

Some of them are okay, but they do not generate the same level of enthusiasm or interest (on my part) that the first one did.

I remember wondering back then if, some 50 years later, those movies would look as outdated and corny as Buck Rogers or early 60’s science fiction, but they have held up well technically and conceptually, which says a lot about the people who made them and the work they put into it all.

And we still hear explosions in space…

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 8:35:03am

re: #466 Barefoot Grin

100% agree:

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Or just put, “59 judges said this is false”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:35:41am

re: #549 Eventual Carrion

Or just put, “59 judges said this is false”

Including nine on the Supreme Court…

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 8:41:58am

re: #471 PhillyPretzel

Her doctorate is in Education and in my humble opinion I would call her Doctor. She earned it. :)

That’s part of the problem with some of these mental midget. They hear doctor and automatically think a medical doctor. Our local college president is Dr. SoAndSo (name withheld to protect the innocent), and his doctorate is in education also. We all call him Dr. SoAndSo (not to his face of course).

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 8:43:24am

re: #474 thedopefishlives

Nobody in my family drank, so I didn’t know that, though it makes sense for Indiana. I went to college in east central Indiana and the Christian private university I attended banned dancing. Yes, as seen in Footloose.

The christian high school I graduated from in Mississippi didn’t have dances either.

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Nyet Dec 12, 2020 • 8:43:49am

re: #549 Eventual Carrion

Or just put, “59 judges said this is false”

Many more if we count all the “panels”.

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Axolotl Dec 12, 2020 • 8:43:50am

re: #544 thedopefishlives

Recently, their off-main-series stuff has been much better - Rogue One was top-notch, I loved the hell out of Solo even though I heard it got mixed reviews, and nobody can seem to say a bad thing about The Mandalorian.

Rogue One was a solid movie that almost stands on its own.

My daughter and I lost interest in the Mandalorian halfway through the first season. Take out all the star wars references and it was hard for us to see what was compelling about it.

Even if it is a franchise I like, I expect the content to be good enough to stand on its own. There is A LOT of good/great content out there today. We are in the golden age of series with a wealth of options.

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jaunte Dec 12, 2020 • 8:44:37am

one consequence of the fact that our popular historical understanding erases roughly 1870 to 1932 from public memory is that many Americans have a distinctly warped view of how resilient american democracy actually is https://t.co/re1YYq17cl

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) December 12, 2020

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:45:01am

re: #536 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Western good morning!

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Sweet gum. I know lots of runners and bicyclists who hate those things immensely.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:47:01am

re: #541 thedopefishlives

In the midst of all the legal hubbub around Donald J. Trump, it’s easy to forget that there are other right-wing slimeballs around. In such news, Jerry Falwell, Jr. has decided he doesn’t want to do discovery in his defamation lawsuit against Liberty University (link goes to Wonkette). Probably because he doesn’t want everyone to know exactly what he and his wife and several unnamed others have actually been up to.

That would probably have been a double own goal since I’m sure some dirt that neither side wants to see the light of day would turn up on the university’s side as well.

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 8:47:12am

re: #483 PhillyPretzel

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Roasted Garlic :)

The wife has decided to give gumbo a shot today, she is out there chopping at the vegies she sent me to the store for. We’ll see how it goes this first time around.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 12, 2020 • 8:50:07am

Do we change the party moniker for all the representatives and senators who backed the coup from (R) to (SW) [Seditious Worm] from now on?

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jamesfirecat Dec 12, 2020 • 8:50:29am

re: #554 Axolotl

Rogue One was a solid movie that almost stands on its own.

My daughter and I lost interest in the Mandalorian halfway through the first season. Take out all the star wars references and it was hard for us to see what was compelling about it.

Even if it is a franchise I like, I expect the content to be good enough to stand on its own. There is A LOT of good/great content out there today. We are in the golden age of series with a wealth of options.

What’s compelling about the Mandalorian without talking about Star Wars is…

A: The emotional journey of a man thoroughly unprepared to be a father none the less having to try his best to fill that role because he doesn’t trust anyone else to do it and isn’t coldhearted enough to let a child go unprotected.

B: It is a classic western serial of our protagonist drifting from town to town needing to resolve some particular problem at each town. See old shows like Maverick or Have Gun Will Travel. The scene in the first episode of season 2 when he rides into the town on a bike and everyone looks on wearily is very very western from what I can tell, likewise the entire “we need to get the natives and the townsfolk to team up against a bigger threat” trope.

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gwangung Dec 12, 2020 • 8:52:33am

re: #560 jamesfirecat

What’s compelling about the Mandalorian without talking about star wars is…

A: A man thoroughly unprepared to be a father none the less having to try his best to fill that role because he doesn’t trust anyone else to do it and isn’t coldhearted enough to let a child go unprotected.

B: It is a classic western serial of our protagonist drifting from town to town needing to resolve some particular problem at each town. See old shows like Maverick or Have Gun Will Travel. The scene in the first episode of season 2 when he rides into the town on a bike and everyone looks on wearily is very very western from what I can tell, likewise the entire “we need to get the natives and the townsfolk to team up against a bigger threat” trope.

A fair amount of revisionist takes about native rights and just who the oppressors are lurks in there, too.

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Romantic Heretic Dec 12, 2020 • 8:56:26am

re: #554 Axolotl

The Expanse!

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Rightwingconspirator Dec 12, 2020 • 8:56:56am

re: #559 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Do we change the party moniker for all the representatives and senators who backed the coup from (R) to (SW) [Seditious Worm] from now on?

Seen this?
The Onion

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jamesfirecat Dec 12, 2020 • 8:57:49am

re: #561 gwangung

A fair amount of revisionist takes about native rights and just who the oppressors are lurks in there, too.

The Mandalorian handles Tusken Raiders more respectfully than any of the other mainstream Star Wars works (the first Knights of the Old Repbulic game went into their culture a lot but I’m not sure that qualifies as “mainstream” at the moment), but that does invalidate your argument.

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Jay C Dec 12, 2020 • 8:57:55am

Can we haz nu thred plz?
550+ comments is stressing my poor iPad (even in Spy mode)
KTHX

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 9:03:55am

re: #560 jamesfirecat

Click to Reveal

The Mandalorian also gave us Boba Fett the way all of us all imagined him to be.

I’ve noticed that Favreau and Filoni have also been sneaking in some Extended Universe stuff, using The Mandalorian as a back door.

Spoiler tag for those not caught up yet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 12, 2020 • 9:04:53am

This is so cool!

This is NOT a Simple Puzzle, it’s much Greater than that, This is a Story to be Told…

Get it here 👉 https://t.co/EjTwho8nry pic.twitter.com/DBqMCUCCJ9

— Tarda Enjoy (@TardaEnjoy) December 11, 2020

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 9:05:36am

re: #503 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can only assume it is a business decision that is based on a number of factors, including Trump’s popularity and his position as an elected official.

Or they know what Putin has on them and they know tRump knows also. A large sword hanging above their heads.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 12, 2020 • 9:06:09am

re: #565 Jay C

Can we haz nu thred plz?
550+ comments is stressing my poor iPad (even in Spy mode)
KTHX

Change your view in Spy to snow 50 or 100 comments then refresh periodically.

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jamesfirecat Dec 12, 2020 • 9:07:04am

re: #566 Dr Lizardo

The Mandalorian also gave us Boba Fett the way all of us all imagined him to be. I’ve noticed that Favreau and Filoni have also been sneaking in some Extended Universe stuff, using The Mandalorian as a back door.

I’m currently around 3 episodes behind, the last one I saw was the one where we finally saw character XXXX in live action, discovered that someone is working for YYYY and we learned ZZZZ’s real name so please post in moderation based on that.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Dec 12, 2020 • 9:07:28am

re: #568 Eventual Carrion

Or they know what Putin has on them and they know tRump knows also. A large sword hanging above their heads.

I hope with all my might that sword falls heavily upon their traitorous heads.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 12, 2020 • 9:08:08am

re: #570 jamesfirecat

I’m currently around 3 episodes behind, the last one I saw was the one where we finally saw character XXXX in live action, discovered that someone is working for YYYY and we learned ZZZZ’s real name so please post in moderation based on that.

Oops. Sorry about that. I’ll switch it to a spoiler tag.

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 9:08:41am

re: #510 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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It’s like a Renaissance Festival, but without all the talent.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Dec 12, 2020 • 9:09:43am

The reason the right does all of their crazy, dishonest, dangerous stuff, from terrorist incitement to carrying guns into government offices, to filing frivolous lawsuits, is the lack of pushback, the lack of any cost to them if their depredations fail. This must change.
re: #448 thedopefishlives

Oh, sweet baby Jesus, here we go AGAIN.

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As a cyber systems expert, let me nudge my legal friends: get ahead of this rapidly emerging neo-sovereign citizen threat. Get courts to sanction. Make abusers bear profound cost for attacking the judicial system. Can’t treat them as honorable actors as they come to overwhelm.

— RedCybernetic (@RedCybernetic) December 12, 2020

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Dec 12, 2020 • 9:10:49am

re: #563 Rightwingconspirator

Seen this?
The Onion

No I hadn’t.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Dec 12, 2020 • 9:10:59am

IJS… pic.twitter.com/3Fkrb64iAY

— CSM Rocky L. Carr (@SDDCCSM) December 12, 2020

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 12, 2020 • 9:11:48am

re: #442 Mike Lamb

I could be wrong, but I think Shapiro is actually correcting the dipshit in the Tweet he was responding to.

I shall now go bathe.

Agree with you completely. This is one of the few times when Ben wasn’t a “moran”.

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Axolotl Dec 12, 2020 • 9:14:01am

re: #560 jamesfirecat

What’s compelling about the Mandalorian without talking about Star Wars is…

A: The emotional journey of a man thoroughly unprepared to be a father none the less having to try his best to fill that role because he doesn’t trust anyone else to do it and isn’t coldhearted enough to let a child go unprotected.

B: It is a classic western serial of our protagonist drifting from town to town needing to resolve some particular problem at each town. See old shows like Maverick or Have Gun Will Travel. The scene in the first episode of season 2 when he rides into the town on a bike and everyone looks on wearily is very very western from what I can tell, likewise the entire “we need to get the natives and the townsfolk to team up against a bigger threat” trope.

Agreed on those comparisons. It is a very common formula.

I would compare Mandalorian to Firefly. They were harboring a fugitive from planet to planet all while fighting bad guys.

Firefly did not have the advantages that Mandalorian does. It created its own immersive universe and memorable characters.

It stood on its own merits.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 12, 2020 • 9:15:48am

re: #465 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

this is probably the worst thing i’ve read all year https://t.co/HRLKZtr6Je

— bring on the dancing horses (@inthefade) December 12, 2020

The comment section of that article was highly critical of Epstein’s arguments. Although a few agreed, most felt it was truly offensive, that it shouldn’t have been published, or that it reflected Epstein’s personal feeling of inadequacy because he doesn’t have an advanced degree. While WSJ is a wingnut publication, it is a more literate one and so are its readers.

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plansbandc Dec 12, 2020 • 9:16:43am

re: #484 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Well of course it was a Karen.

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Axolotl Dec 12, 2020 • 9:19:27am

re: #562 Romantic Heretic

The Expanse!

Great book series. I really liked the series but it went off the rails after the first season and I had to force myself to watch it.

I thought the Prime series put it back on track and would watch it even if I didn’t read the books.

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nines09 Dec 12, 2020 • 9:21:00am

One of the nicer folk that I live among.

He did this on what they call the Golden Strip in Williamsport Pa.
Third street.
Hard guy.

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jamesfirecat Dec 12, 2020 • 9:22:11am

re: #578 Axolotl

Agreed on those comparisons. It is a very common formula.

I would compare Mandalorian to Firefly. They were harboring a fugitive from planet to planet all while fighting bad guys.

Firefly did not have the advantages that Mandalorian does. It created its own immersive universe and memorable characters.

It stood on its own merits.

I feel that the Mandalorian manages to stand on its own merits pretty with the Star Wars references being neat little side treats, like how having knowledge of Marvel comics enriches but is not necessary to enjoy the MCU films, but inevitably your mileage will vary.

Also Firefly was very much an ensemble show while Mandalorianhas only two main characters, one of whom has to communicate more or less completely non-verbally.

To be clear I like/love Firefly, my family somehow wound up with like three copies of show on DVD to go with our one copy of Serenity, but it differs from the Mandalorian in more than just creating its own universe.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 12, 2020 • 9:25:29am

re: #523 Renaissance_Man

I really don’t think that’s it. It’s not simple numbers - Trumpers are a minority in even this country. Yes, they are a very vocal minority, but in sheer numbers, any media company would get more numbers by simply engaging with the majority. The reason must be more ideological. Specifically, the few people that make editorial and narrative decisions are more philosophically aligned with the autocrats, and the culture at these companies is aligned with the dominant US culture, where the worldview of mediocre white people is ‘normal’, and everyone else is ‘abnormal’.

The question isn’t whether they are a minority, the question is their presence on social
media. Only about 20% of the adult population even uses Twitter, and about 2/3 of these are male. Twitter’s interest is in those who use their product — you cannot engage with a majority of the population, when in fact that majority has no interest in spending their time with what you’re selling.

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Eventual Carrion Dec 12, 2020 • 9:27:43am

re: #547 jaunte

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Yes, counting algorithms always get screwed up by … counting. See it all the time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 12, 2020 • 9:38:31am

re: #584 Hecuba’s daughter

The question isn’t whether they are a minority, the question is their presence on social
media. Only about 20% of the adult population even uses Twitter, and about 2/3 of these are male. Twitter’s interest is in those who use their product — you cannot engage with a majority of the population, when in fact that majority has no interest in spending their time with what you’re selling.

I get enough Twitter indirectly here…

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retired cynic Dec 12, 2020 • 9:44:19am

re: #514 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Proud boys with beer bellies in weird kilts. ROFL!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Dec 12, 2020 • 9:53:57am

re: #567 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is my present (the chameleon) to my son, the puzzle builder,this year.

Spy Auto

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