The Bob Cesca Podcast: Sliders and a Pfizer

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

Sliders And A Pfizer — [Explicit Language] Correction on the Rudy FBI story; That pathetic Trump video in Mar-a-lago; Lin Wood thinks Trump is still in the Oval Office; The GOP vs Liz Cheney; Republicans are trying to steal credit for the American Rescue Plan; Pelosi strikes back; There’s apparently a second Steele Dossier; Josh Duggar pleads not guilty to child pornography charges; The possibility of herd immunity; Vaccine shedding; Facebook likely to reinstate Trump; With TV’s Buzz Burbank; Music by Blame It On Rebekkah and Elijah Bone; and more!

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nines09  May 4, 2021 • 3:04:33pm

Upstairs

re: #182 nines09

Junior Wells.
Quite a lineup.
Killer CD
Nite all
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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 3:18:06pm
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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 3:19:58pm

From downstairs, regarding the “keeping an open mind” version of both-siderism:

The thing is that after spending enough time gathering and weighing evidence, it is judgement time. And my conclusion for Republicans is this:

1) The Republican party is utterly worthless. It has no fixed principles other than lower taxes on the rich and less business regulations, both of which are beyond superfluous in the kind of corporate dominated plutocracy the US currently is.

2) Realizing that getting votes for their real agenda is difficult, Republicans have embarked on a decades-long propaganda campaign to transform the party into moral monsters, where sociopaths at the top lead the seething resentful masses of the GOP base via the most perfect propaganda operation in history.

3) Trump is properly understood as the inevitable consequence of the GOP’s ongoing degeneration into a reactionary fascist death cult.

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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 3:21:13pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

What kind of shitbird does a “well, actually” about a genocide?

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 3:22:01pm

Do not work for or vote for Republicans.

“…Doe first began working in the Idaho Statehouse a year ago, helping with legislative committees under the Legislature’s high school “page” program.

She came back this year as an intern, hoping to prepare for a future career in government. She said she agreed to von Ehlinger’s dinner invitation because she was hoping to network and was excited to go to a restaurant that cost far more than what she could afford on her near-minimum wage salary.

After dinner, von Ehlinger brought her back to his apartment rather than her car because he said he’d forgotten something. Once there, Doe said, he pinned her down and forced her to perform oral sex, despite the fact that she said “no” in several ways and froze. Doe is petite, and von Ehlinger is bigger, she said.

“He has a collection of guns. Fight or flight was never an option,” she said.

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lawhawk  May 4, 2021 • 3:24:50pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

The definition of genocide is precisely what happened to Armenians.

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 3:25:59pm

re: #4 EPR-radar

What kind of shitbird does a “well, actually” about a genocide?

These shitbirds contradicting their own book!

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 4, 2021 • 3:27:40pm

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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 3:29:07pm

re: #7 No Malarkey!

Not really a contradiction. These idiots view it as a genocide of Christians, as opposed to a genocide of Armenians.

On further thought, it looks like I’m shooting from the hip here.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 4, 2021 • 3:29:55pm
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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 3:32:10pm

re: #8 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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I can’t wait to see McCarthy and McConnell face…

THE ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT PRESIDENT!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 4, 2021 • 3:33:16pm

If we all become giants, it will be much easier to stomp the GOP out of existence.

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KGxvi  May 4, 2021 • 3:35:01pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

The official legal definition of genocide (per the UN Convention on Genocide):

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1.Killing members of the group;
2.Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3.Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4.Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5.Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

The only “difficult” thing about understanding genocide is admitting someone committed it. I mean, it’s not too difficult to argue that the US and Canada committed genocide against Native Americans/First Nations.

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 3:36:42pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

If we all become giants, it will be much easier to stomp the GOP out of existence.

ABC Land of the Giants promo 1968

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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 3:38:09pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 4, 2021 • 3:44:37pm

re: #10 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Not the Onion: “Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit against Secret Service for Records of Biden White House Dogs after Biting Incidents”

Oy.

“The public has a right to know the details about any incident in which Secret Service personnel were injured by President Biden’s dog,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “We have no doubt that Major and Champ are good dogs but politicians and bureaucrats can’t be trusted.”

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aatharuv  May 4, 2021 • 3:47:51pm

re: #9 Dangerman

re: #13 Belafon

re: #47 ericblair

(From the previous thread, because I was driving someone to her second shot of the vaccine.) I can’t disagree with any of it. I do believe there are many ways that we can do to reduce the perverse incentives that currently prevent us from talking about wealth taxes, or increased estate taxes, because of the secondary implications.

- If companies are worried about over concentration, they should contractually require certain employees with enough stock to cause problems if they have to sell to do the appropriate rigmarole so that their heirs don’t have to liquidate large percentages of company stock.

- Instead of selling stock, they can hand public stock in to some government-controlled entity, that will manage sales to maximize tax revenues. Other countries have sovereign wealth funds to manage government owned investments. But they’re usually resource-rich countries which need revenue for after their oil runs out.
But we had TARP. TARP was for stabilizing troubled assets. One can definitely disagree with the priorities and morals of the program* — it stabilized the financial assets, but didn’t say buy out or hold troubled _mortgages_, allowing people like Steve Mnuchin and Tom Barack to profit off of the misery of millions who had been fleeced by a predatory banking system. However, it showed that the government can own significant amounts of securities for a limited time in a competent manner.**

As far as company stock in retirement plans — I’m fairly sure companies have to tell employees that if company stock, or a security derived from it were an option in their retirement, they need to warn their employees about the risk of non-diversification. I’m not sure if this started before or after Enron.

*And on a related note not enough of the people who got us into the mess in 2008 were punished.

**Hell, we could even give companies a choice — if you want owners of your stock to be able to give stock in kind for tax payments, rather than selling to pay their taxes, they need to meet certain criteria of accountability, compensation,….

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Belafon  May 4, 2021 • 3:51:45pm

I’m going to have to remember this point:

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 4, 2021 • 3:56:49pm

re: #18 Belafon

I’m going to have to remember this point:

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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 4:05:19pm

For those who don’t understand the importance of the Oxford comma.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 4:06:15pm

re: #20 darthstar

Merle Haggard, man. What a life.

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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 4:07:04pm

re: #21 jaunte

Merle Haggard, man. What a life.

I got to see him play live with Kris Kristofferson before he died. I had no idea they were married. Duvall was never going to last.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:07:35pm
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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 4:09:13pm

re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m surprised that lawyer would want the public humiliation again.

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Dangerman  May 4, 2021 • 4:09:46pm

re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth

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we just watched the trial of the chicago 7

and some of that is pretty damn close

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 4, 2021 • 4:11:27pm

re: #24 darthstar

I’m surprised that lawyer would want the public humiliation again.

He has to try. Legal ethics demand it. If he doesn’t at least put in the effort, no one’s going to want him to defend them, and it leaves open an argument for the defendant himself to appeal based on ineffectiveness of legal counsel.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:11:44pm

the rest of the thread is nutz.
I liked this bit:

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austin_blue  May 4, 2021 • 4:13:41pm

re: #20 darthstar

For those who don’t understand the importance of the Oxford comma.

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Yup. That old Oxford comma keeps you outta heaps of trouble

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 4, 2021 • 4:14:16pm

re: #20 darthstar

For those who don’t understand the importance of the Oxford comma.

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I always liked Mandela.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 4:14:29pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

“The bear didn’t endorse John Cox, who lost the last governor’s race by 24 points, unless not eating him counts as support”
theguardian.com

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KGxvi  May 4, 2021 • 4:15:24pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

A bear licking his genitals is a pretty perfect image for the California Republican Party and their dumb little recall campaign.

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JC1  May 4, 2021 • 4:16:32pm

Continuing from the previous thread regarding biological immortality. People could still die from trauma, just wouldn’t die from old age, disease or cancer. That future is coming if we don’t blow ourselves up first, and IMHO it’s closer than most people realize. It’s a difficult engineering problem to solve, but between things like CRISPR and better weak AI, actual progress will be made in our lifetime. I don’t think that such a future would be a bad thing. It would force everyone to think more about the long term.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 4, 2021 • 4:17:57pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

The bear is cleaning himself

Wouldn’t you if you could? 😂

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Mattand  May 4, 2021 • 4:18:09pm

re: #3 EPR-radar

From downstairs, regarding the “keeping an open mind” version of both-siderism:

The thing is that after spending enough time gathering and weighing evidence, it is judgement time. And my conclusion for Republicans is this:

1) The Republican party is utterly worthless. It has no fixed principles other than lower taxes on the rich and less business regulations, both of which are beyond superfluous in the kind of corporate dominated plutocracy the US currently is.

2) Realizing that getting votes for their real agenda is difficult, Republicans have embarked on a decades-long propaganda campaign to transform the party into moral monsters, where sociopaths at the top lead the seething resentful masses of the GOP base via the most perfect propaganda operation in history.

3) Trump is properly understood as the inevitable consequence of the GOP’s ongoing degeneration into a reactionary fascist death cult.

Pretty much where I’m at.

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retired cynic  May 4, 2021 • 4:18:17pm

re: #33 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Not that way.

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KGxvi  May 4, 2021 • 4:22:56pm

re: #32 JC1

Continuing from the previous thread regarding biological immortality. People could still die from trauma, just wouldn’t die from old age, disease or cancer. That future is coming if we don’t blow ourselves up first, and IMHO it’s closer than most people realize. It’s a difficult engineering problem to solve, but between things like CRISPR and better weak AI, actual progress will be made in our lifetime. I don’t think that such a future would be a bad thing. It would force everyone to think more about the long term.

That was one of the themes in the Giants series by James Hogan. An alien race had created a means of immortality. But the side effect was that their culture just sort of stopped for a bit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:23:34pm

there’s a Ron Jeremy joke there somewhere…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:24:43pm
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austin_blue  May 4, 2021 • 4:25:43pm

re: #31 KGxvi

A bear licking his genitals is a pretty perfect image for the California Republican Party and their dumb little recall campaign.

Yeah! A Democrat would have gotten all up in the bear’s face and yelled “Tag! Quit licking balls! It’s unseemly! Hey! Is that a *hard-on*? Bad Tag!”

No more self-awareness than a…well, you know the rest.

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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 4:26:02pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

No instant Parler link?

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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 4:26:58pm

Also, I like that Trump’s new social media site is just a page extension on his fundraising site.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 4, 2021 • 4:27:21pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What happens if you try to tweet?

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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 4:29:02pm

re: #42 HRH Stanley Sea

What happens if you try to tweet?

It works - that’s the same popup I get from other pages.

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KGxvi  May 4, 2021 • 4:29:58pm

So, there’s a GOP sponsored poll that shows the recall at 50/50 proposition. Of course, they aren’t releasing the crosstabs or the questions, so how much we can actually trust this poll is… well, not much.

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plansbandc  May 4, 2021 • 4:33:08pm

re: #33 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Reminds me of that old joke:

Two guys see a dog licking it’s nuts. The one guy says to the other, “I wanna do that.” The other guy says, “Don’t you think you should pet him first?”

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A Three Hour Tour  May 4, 2021 • 4:34:13pm

re: #11 🌹UOJB!

I can’t wait to see McCarthy and McConnell face…

THE ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT PRESIDENT!

Well, after the Two Mile Island nuclear reactor experienced the Pepsi Syndrome, President Carter was transformed into the Amazing Colossal President. His “little yellow booties” didn’t protect him when he went into the irradiated reactor room to check things out for himself since, after all, he was a nuclear engineer. I’ll never forget the special report hosted by Fwank Weynolds and Wodney Dangerfield..

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Charles Johnson  May 4, 2021 • 4:35:07pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 4, 2021 • 4:35:37pm

from downstairs:

re: #172 sagehen

I’m sure I’ve seen a SF movie where they can upload their minds into the body of whatever good-looking 22-year-old they’ve kidnapped for the purpose…

2015 film “Self/Less”

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ipsos  May 4, 2021 • 4:36:37pm

So if Twitter banned TFG from tweeting, they should be blocking any attempts to tweet out stuff from his new yelling-at-people blog site, right?

Right?

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PhillyPretzel  May 4, 2021 • 4:37:51pm

re: #49 ipsos

Hopefully.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 4, 2021 • 4:38:21pm

re: #48 Hecuba’s daughter

from downstairs:

2015 film “Self/Less”

2005 film Skeleton Key

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:38:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:40:27pm
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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 4:41:37pm

Good to see some movement in the Giuliani case.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 4, 2021 • 4:42:33pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

What is the one simple trick that makes other employers hate you?

Paying your employees more than the competition does.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 4:43:42pm

I will build a giant squid statue for just $200k.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 4:44:12pm

Plus shipping.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:44:23pm
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DesertDenizen  May 4, 2021 • 4:44:33pm

re: #55 A Three Hour Tour

What is the one simple trick that makes other employers hate you?

Paying your employees more than the competition does.

Happy employees are more productive and provide better service. Best path to happy employees is to pay them more. Reasonable expectations is number two. That’s why In n Out employees are so nice. They get paid well and there’s a lot of them on shift, unlike most fast food places.

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plansbandc  May 4, 2021 • 4:46:16pm

Every time I see yet another bullshit argument that the stimulus and unemployment is killing businesses, I want to scream.

Get a better business model. Pay people a living wage. Give people benefits. Make sure the work environment is safe.

Also, the pitiful amount of stimulus and unemployment given to folks during a deadly plague is not keeping people away from working.

Unsafe working conditions and shit wages are. Who wants to risk their life for that.

Boohoo. No one will work for me. Fuck off.

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DesertDenizen  May 4, 2021 • 4:49:50pm

re: #60 plansbandc

Every time I see yet another bullshit argument that the stimulus and unemployment is killing businesses, I want to scream.

Get a better business model. Pay people a living wage. Give people benefits. Make sure the work environment is safe.

Also, the pitiful amount of stimulus and unemployment given to folks during a deadly plague is not keeping people away from working.

Unsafe working conditions and shit wages are. Who wants to risk their life for that.

Boohoo. No one will work for me. Fuck off.

If your business model requires slave wages (defined here as a non living wage that requires a worker to receive government subsidies) your business deserves to die just like the Confederacy that relied on a slave based economy.

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plansbandc  May 4, 2021 • 4:51:14pm

re: #61 DesertDenizen

Exactly.

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teleskiguy  May 4, 2021 • 4:52:31pm
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PhillyPretzel  May 4, 2021 • 4:53:50pm

re: #63 teleskiguy

Do we really have to look at that?

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plansbandc  May 4, 2021 • 4:54:02pm

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teleskiguy  May 4, 2021 • 4:54:48pm

re: #64 PhillyPretzel

Like his buddy Rick Perry, he’s a comer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 4:56:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 5:03:40pm
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BeenHereAwhile  May 4, 2021 • 5:08:50pm

re: #22 darthstar

I got to see him play live with Kris Kristofferson before he died. I had no idea they were married. Duvall was never going to last.

After he won the 1984 Oscar for Best Actor in “Tender Mercies” Robert Duvall recorded a C&W album in Nashville produced by Chips Moman.

Robert had a good voice and feel for the genre; and was a pleasure to work with.

As good as the album was, it was never released due to record company partnership disagreement.

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 5:11:45pm

Sure Josh! You’ll run to Brazil and shack up with Glenn G!

Josh Duggar claims he ‘has a widely-recognizable face’ — so he’s not a flight risk and deserves bail

tmz.com

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mmmirele  May 4, 2021 • 5:20:25pm

Blargh. Nothing like coming to LGF and seeing Sex Pest, molester of sisters, alleged downloader of child porn, schmoozer with the asshats of the Right, in front of my face.

(“Sex Pest” is what Josh Duggar is called on reddit’s r/duggarsnark and r/fundiesnarkuncensored.)

I hope you all had a great day otherwise!

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Charles Johnson  May 4, 2021 • 5:25:27pm
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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 5:26:33pm

re: #31 KGxvi

A bear licking his genitals is a pretty perfect image for the California Republican Party and their dumb little recall campaign.

Speaking in which.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 4, 2021 • 5:30:32pm

re: #70 🌹UOJB!

As we reported … Duggar’s been charged with receiving and possessing child pornography.

This was my presumption immediately upon hearing of the arrest. For any Duggar this ought to be the default presumption if they are arrested.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 4, 2021 • 5:33:19pm

nd re: #24 darthstar

I’m surprised that lawyer would want the public humiliation again.

The new discovery means that Chauvin’s attorneys will step up the number of visits to Chauvin in jail.

Which means more billable hours, although it will probably be some associate billing the “Mr Chauvin needs someone to talk to” hours. Eric Nelson being busy working on Chauvin’s appeal.

The publicity will generate more fund raising for Chauvin’s appeal; “if necessary, we’re going to take it all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.”

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Charles Johnson  May 4, 2021 • 5:36:52pm
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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 5:39:34pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

No, not higher taxes on billionaires

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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 5:40:01pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

IMO stuff like that is $ tens of billions of found money in terms of funding useful stuff — the estate tax is literally the best tax there is.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  May 4, 2021 • 5:42:00pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Everyone in California who knows John Cox, including other scummy rich business assholes, think his last name is appropriate.

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 5:43:51pm
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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 5:44:00pm

re: #79 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Everyone in California who knows John Cox, including other scummy rich business assholes, think his last name is appropriate.

It would be tragic if the bear he’s using as a prop got out of control and mauled him — because the bear would be put down.

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Dangerman  May 4, 2021 • 5:44:35pm

re: #33 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wouldn’t you if you could? 😂

Andrew dice clay…”I’d never leave the house”

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Dangerman  May 4, 2021 • 5:45:41pm

re: #41 darthstar

Also, I like that Trump’s new social media site is just a page extension on his fundraising site.

cheapest way

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 5:46:11pm
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Charles Johnson  May 4, 2021 • 5:46:19pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 4, 2021 • 5:48:59pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

Microsoft has invested extremely heavily into their developer infrastructure in the last 5-6 years. Ever since around 2015, that investment has paid dividends, as Visual Studio and asp.net quickly became a top-tier enterprise development environment. Microsoft’s Azure cloud provider offerings have expanded rapidly, as well. It’s less prevalent than AWS in the enterprise space, but I’ve used it extensively and it has some very powerful capabilities.

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danarchy  May 4, 2021 • 5:51:04pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

What good would a leash be on a bear be anyway? Unless it was tethered to the ground or something, but I think leash sort of implies a person on the other end.

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 5:51:56pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

I don’t understand anything you wrote, but it’s funny because Microsoft apparently did something not crappy.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 4, 2021 • 5:52:25pm

Well, had the new (expensive) swamp cooler installed this morning to replace our old, rusting, definitely on its last legs model, so we’re ready for the summer.

And, after an abortive attempt to get started on our taxes late last week - I seriously procrastinated this year - I’ve finished the Federal and will do the State tomorrow. Slightly smaller refunds for us this year, but whatcha gonna do?

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 5:53:48pm

I hate anti-vaccers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 5:54:07pm
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retired cynic  May 4, 2021 • 5:55:09pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

He needs a baseball mitt.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 5:56:27pm
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 4, 2021 • 6:03:58pm

re: #89 A Three Hour Tour

Well, had the new (expensive) swamp cooler installed this morning to replace our old, rusting, definitely on its last legs model, so we’re ready for the summer.

And, after an abortive attempt to get started on our taxes late last week - I seriously procrastinated this year - I’ve finished the Federal and will do the State tomorrow. Slightly smaller refunds for us this year, but whatcha gonna do?

I treated myself to a professional tax preparer this year. I forgot about withholding for my social security, so I paid quite a chunk more than last year. On the other hand, I earned more last year… and nowhere to spend it. So I’m well set up for traveling once it’s possible.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 6:05:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 6:17:28pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 6:18:56pm
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b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 4, 2021 • 6:20:25pm

re: #77 No Malarkey!

No, not higher taxes on billionaires

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If Biden called it the Bezos tax he might even get a republican to vote for it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 4, 2021 • 6:25:04pm
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A Cranky One  May 4, 2021 • 6:35:42pm

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A Cranky One  May 4, 2021 • 6:40:39pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

They claim they used the funds for pandemic relief but they were just squiding.

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A Mom Anon  May 4, 2021 • 6:41:32pm

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Ace Rothstein  May 4, 2021 • 6:46:54pm

re: #41 darthstar

Also, I like that Trump’s new social media site is just a page extension on his fundraising site.

CONTRIBUTE.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 4, 2021 • 6:53:12pm

re: #102 A Mom Anon

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austin_blue  May 4, 2021 • 6:53:28pm

re: #103 Ace Rothstein

CONTRIBUTE.

FEED ME! FEEDING ME MONEY IS FEEDING MY EGO!

FEED ME IF YOU LOVE ME!

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2021 • 6:53:54pm

re: #101 A Cranky One

They claim they used the funds for pandemic relief but they were just squiding.

Speaking of which, Kushner should be indicted.

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Belafon  May 4, 2021 • 6:56:05pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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VSCode is a post-Gates product, when the developers could actually develop on any platform they chose and could link to non-Microsoft products.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 6:59:08pm
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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 7:01:38pm

What should we call news personalities with commercial real estate investments?

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austin_blue  May 4, 2021 • 7:03:38pm

re: #109 jaunte

What should we call news personalities with commercial real estate investments?

Very smart thieves.

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 7:07:58pm

re: #109 jaunte

What should we call news personalities with commercial real estate investments?

Jaredjerkoffs.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 7:09:04pm

re: #110 austin_blue

Someone on twitter just recently speculated that some of the pressure to “get back to normal” was probably coming from people that big corporations were renting from, before those corporations decided they didn’t really need all that office space.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 7:09:31pm

And associated REITs.

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A Mom Anon  May 4, 2021 • 7:12:09pm

Also, it has been raining here pretty much nonstop for over two days. 13 inches. We get maybe an hour or two where it stops and then it’s back with a vengence. Storms with thunder and lightening. Cleo doesn’t bark at sirens or even the dog barking next door, but she is terrified of thunder and lightning as we have found out since this freaking monsoon started. Rain doesn’t bother her, but the rest is not her favorite. You really haven’t lived til you’ve spent the day with a stressed out mess of a GSD. Even her calm down treats aren’t helping. She finally laid down with the hubby on the couch and stopped pacing the floors for hours on end.

It’s probably a good thing my tummy is tore up from stress or I would begin drinking, heavily.

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A Mom Anon  May 4, 2021 • 7:13:31pm

re: #109 jaunte

Compromised assholes?

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The Pie Overlord!  May 4, 2021 • 7:17:48pm
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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 7:34:11pm

re: #116 The Pie Overlord!

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The Anti-Key and Peele.

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Dave In Austin  May 4, 2021 • 7:35:52pm
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austin_blue  May 4, 2021 • 7:36:01pm

re: #112 jaunte

Someone on twitter just recently speculated that some of the pressure to “get back to normal” was probably coming from people that big corporations were renting from, before those corporations decided they didn’t really need all that office space.

Possible. But not if the Big Corps signed a long-term lease. But if a lease is up, Poof!

Again, this is Capitalism, red in truth and claw.

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austin_blue  May 4, 2021 • 7:38:10pm

re: #116 The Pie Overlord!

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Raffie and Jumbo?

Orangie and the Brain?

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A Mom Anon  May 4, 2021 • 7:46:44pm

re: #116 The Pie Overlord!

Two Assholes at a Table.

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plansbandc  May 4, 2021 • 7:47:40pm

A cry from the wilderness…

Maybe put the orange anus under private tags? I really really hate seeing his pic.

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 7:48:01pm

re: #116 The Pie Overlord!

Insane Clown Posse.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 4, 2021 • 7:50:42pm

re: #116 The Pie Overlord!

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Dick and Snorty

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 7:55:53pm

I missed this when it came to Pittsburgh…

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 7:58:29pm

re: #108 jaunte

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 8:05:19pm

re: #125 🌹UOJB!

Windsor Bold, for that authentic 1970’s effect!
fonthaus.com

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 8:07:26pm

re: #125 🌹UOJB!

Kristy McNichol really should have gotten higher billing than Breaded Pork Cutlet, though.

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retired cynic  May 4, 2021 • 8:09:54pm

re: #128 jaunte

I assume “dead injun crossing” has been renamed??

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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 8:11:10pm

re: #129 retired cynic

The parody alert is flashing.

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CleverToad  May 4, 2021 • 8:14:03pm

re: #102 A Mom Anon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 4, 2021 • 8:15:37pm

re: #76 Teddy’s Person

I put my address in the NYT’s “Do You Live in a Political Bubble” thingy.

Here are my unsurprising results: You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 14 percent of your neighbors are Republicans.

I live in a Republican bubble. Only 17% of my neighbours are Democrats.

Good news though: The nearest place with a roughly equal mix of Democrats and Republicans is only 133 miles away (Fort Collins, Colo.)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 4, 2021 • 8:22:41pm

re: #128 jaunte

Kristy McNichol really should have gotten higher billing than Breaded Pork Cutlet, though.

I don’t know. Word is it was a pretty damn good pork cutlet

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 8:24:38pm

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plansbandc  May 4, 2021 • 8:25:30pm

re: #134 🌹UOJB!

Oh dear dog. Is that really real or is that a photochop??

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retired cynic  May 4, 2021 • 8:27:46pm

re: #135 plansbandc

I got caught on the previous one. Photochop.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 8:28:30pm

re: #134 🌹UOJB!

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He put on a good show in Reno.

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 8:29:08pm

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 8:31:05pm
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jaunte  May 4, 2021 • 8:32:09pm

re: #138 🌹UOJB!

Baked Nebraska: words to conjure with.

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wrenchwench  May 4, 2021 • 8:35:16pm

re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I don’t know. Word is it was a pretty damn good pork cutlet

And it could play a role. Or was it roll…

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Hecuba's daughter  May 4, 2021 • 8:35:44pm

re: #90 No Malarkey!

I hate anti-vaccers.

So my Trumpster FB “friend” posts a comment that, besides telling parents not to vaccinate their children, also asserts that children don’t infect adults. I was sorely tempted to express my surprise that she received a medical degree during the pandemic, but instead just challenged that assertion with a link to a webmd article. Misinformation is the calling card of anyone associated with the Trump cult.

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darthstar  May 4, 2021 • 8:38:12pm

re: #83 Dangerman

cheapest way

It’s what you do when you don’t have any money.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 8:39:14pm

5.43” of rain in our area for the whole season. Small fires are breaking out along the roads. We’re also already hitting 90+ degree days. Summer is going to suck.

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wrenchwench  May 4, 2021 • 8:44:02pm

I hope that when I get my #2 shot tomorrow, it will get this out of my head: Funky Cold Moderna.

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retired cynic  May 4, 2021 • 8:45:20pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 4, 2021 • 8:51:45pm

re: #137 DesertDenizen

Their Jay-Zuss doesn’t sound very Christ-like, but I’m a atheist, so what do I know?

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 8:51:45pm

Newest Pennsylvania Historical Landmark!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 4, 2021 • 9:02:28pm

re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron

The usual deniers are again denying reality.

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Targetpractice  May 4, 2021 • 9:08:53pm

re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg

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It’s worse than that: Asshats like Rouzer do not believe there should be a minimum wage at all, that the existence of one is detrimental people who want jobs because it artificially inflates the cost of labor, and that businesses should be free to pay “whatever the market will bear.”

If anything, they think workers should be angry at the existence of a minimum wage because it means no matter how hard you work, you’ll still be paid the same as the slacker who always shows up late and doesn’t take his job seriously. What’s that? Give you a raise? Sorry, you’ll have to wait for your annual performance review, and then another 3-6 months for home office to approve it. Now remember to duck when the next customer chucks their burger at you because the tomato was cut “too thick.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 4, 2021 • 9:12:29pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 9:18:44pm
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Targetpractice  May 4, 2021 • 9:20:45pm

By the way, that last bit wasn’t a joke, that shit really did happen:

You can go onto Youtube, Twitter, TikTok, and other platforms to find plenty of instances of fast food employees getting bombarded with abuse and treated like total shit. And that was before they also had to worry that each interaction with a customer might either force them to stay home without pay for weeks or possibly lead to hospitalization and/or death.

Not only do MAGAts think those people shouldn’t be paid more than $7.25/hr, many actually think they’re already being overpaid because “Any idiot can flip a burger!” Funny how they whine up a fuckin’ storm when those idiots refuse to flip the burgers…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 4, 2021 • 9:28:14pm

Traditions

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Amory Blaine  May 4, 2021 • 9:31:29pm

Microsoft released this for free awhile back. I just started playing around with it but it looks really useful.
flow.microsoft.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 4, 2021 • 9:41:01pm

re: #13 KGxvi

The official legal definition of genocide (per the UN Convention on Genocide):

The only “difficult” thing about understanding genocide is admitting someone committed it. I mean, it’s not too difficult to argue that the US and Canada committed genocide against Native Americans/First Nations.

Which also fits the Trump Maladministration.

5.Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 9:54:25pm

re: #153 Targetpractice

It has become clear to me that the foul idea that the less someone earns the less worthy they are as a human being is deeply entrenched in US society (this is why I absolutely despite the term “net worth” BTW).

IMO many customers at fast food places (and retail in general) see themselves as being intrinsically better than the employees there, and will seize on any excuse to act like an 18th century French aristocrat.

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 10:06:17pm

re: #157 EPR-radar

Memories of the 1976 New York Senate campaign when Jim Buckley went into a McDonald’s and asked for their house chablis…which Moynihan used in his stump speeches…

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Mattand  May 4, 2021 • 10:08:24pm

re: #148 🌹UOJB!

Newest Pennsylvania Historical Landmark!

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So it turns out I had been driving past Four Seasons Landscaping off and on over the last 15 years, whenever I was cutting through Northeast Philly to avoid traffic jams on I-95. There’s actually a really good BBQ place about 200 yards north of Four Seasons.

For the non-Philly Lizards, I cannot stress how batshit it was to chose that business and that area for Guilliani and Trump to make their last stand in PA. That section of State Road is highly industrial and one of the least picturesque in all of the city.

About a mile up the road from the landscaper is a prison, FWIW.

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Targetpractice  May 4, 2021 • 10:08:26pm

re: #157 EPR-radar

It has become clear to me that the foul idea that the less someone earns the less worthy they are as a human being is deeply entrenched in US society (this is why I absolutely despite the term “net worth” BTW).

IMO many customers at fast food places (and retail in general) see themselves as being intrinsically better than the employees there, and will seize on any excuse to act like an 18th century French aristocrat.

They feel that way because businesses have conditioned them to act that way. Anybody who has ever worked in the service industry has experienced at least one time in their careers where they were facing an angry customer and trying to follow company policy, only for a supervisor/manager to jump in front of them and do whatever it took to satisfy the ego of that customer.

Why is that? Because the rise of social media and online review sites has made feedback almost immediate and the ability to damage a business’ reputation all the easier. Gone are the days when word of mouth was the stock in trade, now you have to worry that some dipshit who got a free meal and coupons for future meals will still go onto Yelp! and slag you because your dining experience was “ruined.” Even the “well-meaning” folks will still damn with faint praise, such as lauding the staff service while declaring their hotel room as “disgusting” and saying they’ll never stay there again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 4, 2021 • 10:13:14pm

re: #18 Belafon

I’m going to have to remember this point:

Remember this one. All conservatives lie. The sign is an altered photograph.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 4, 2021 • 10:18:22pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

That would have been some amazing footage if the bear had mauled the candidate on live television.

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sagehen  May 4, 2021 • 10:21:20pm

it’s been 2 weeks since my 2nd shot, so I could eat indoors at restaurants again…

but y’know, the expanded sidewalk seating that every restaurant in town has built up, and now it’s getting warmer, I think I’ll still eat outside as much as possible. I like the natural light, the people watching of pedestrians, I’ve even come to enjoy the traffic noises having missed them for so long.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 10:24:29pm
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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 10:25:13pm

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That would have been some amazing footage if the bear had mauled the candidate on live television.

It would have been tragic, because the bear would have been killed.

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🌹UOJB!  May 4, 2021 • 10:29:55pm

re: #164 Dread Pirate Ron

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Are we finally going to see the GOP split with Cheney & Kinziger taking a dozen folks out of the GOP caucus and become an Independent bloc?

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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 10:31:54pm

re: #166 🌹UOJB!

Are we finally going to see the GOP split with Cheney & Kinziger taking a dozen folks out of the GOP caucus and become an Independent bloc?

Probably not. Every Republican can be bribed, and the GOP donor class has deep pockets.

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Targetpractice  May 4, 2021 • 10:34:10pm

re: #164 Dread Pirate Ron

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What’s really driving the ouster:

Other Republicans are worried the party will lose a powerful asset by dumping Cheney.

“They need a Liz Cheney in there somewhere. They need to show to the non-Trump Republicans, who they need in the suburbs, that the party has the welcome mat out for some Republican voters who are maybe not completely sold on Trump and ended up defecting,” said Davis. “On the other hand, you’ve got to have leaders working together, not across purposes.”

“She took her vote [to impeach Trump],” he added. “I think it behooves her not to rub it in every opportunity she gets.”

Translation: “We only want her as a token, she’s not supposed to have an opinion!”

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 10:41:09pm

re: #168 Targetpractice

What’s really driving the ouster:

Translation: “We only want her as a token, she’s not supposed to have an opinion!”

Just like they told businesses to fall in line with Republican thinking.

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sagehen  May 4, 2021 • 10:46:00pm

re: #165 EPR-radar

It would have been tragic, because the bear would have been killed.

it’s not even the right kind of bear. that was not a grizzly.

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EPR-radar  May 4, 2021 • 10:49:33pm

re: #169 Dread Pirate Ron

Just like they told businesses to fall in line with Republican thinking.

This is the GOP establishment — the most intrinsically authoritarian group of shitbirds since the aristocrats that got their heads cut off in the French Revolution.

Of course they want to go back to the good old days where they told the GOP base what to think via Fox News and all was right with the world. IMO Trump better have a damn good food taster in his Mar-a-Lago rathole, since loose cannon Trump is the main threat to that imagined state of happiness.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 4, 2021 • 10:54:42pm

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John Hughes  May 4, 2021 • 11:19:32pm

re: #172 Dread Pirate Ron

The quote: “this is a competitive market”.

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Targetpractice  May 4, 2021 • 11:27:25pm

re: #173 John Hughes

The quote: “this is a competitive market”.

Wingnuts never see it that way. Or if they do, they believe that the businesses that don’t raise their wages will come out on top when the “free money” ends and people are forced to go back to work. That the companies which raise wages now in order to attract workers will be at a disadvantage in a few months because they’ll have to raise prices in order to pay those higher wages, allowing the companies which stick to poverty wages to gobble up all the demand for “cheap” goods/services.

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John Hughes  May 4, 2021 • 11:41:53pm

re: #174 Targetpractice

Because authoritarians don’t (can’t) understand capitalism. They see employment as serfdom.

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Targetpractice  May 4, 2021 • 11:47:52pm

re: #175 John Hughes

Because authoritarians don’t (can’t) understand capitalism. They see employment as serfdom.

That’s certainly what they’ve worked to reduce it to. The story of conservatism in the 20th century has been the continued effort to undo all the achievements of the Progressive Era while convincing the common folk that doing such is not simply “beneficial” but downright “American.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 4, 2021 • 11:53:20pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  May 4, 2021 • 11:57:27pm

“Critical Race Theory”

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EPR-radar  May 5, 2021 • 12:09:01am

re: #178 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Critical Race Theory is a 21st century version of ‘communism’ — an all-purpose right wing bogeyman to rile up the infinitely reprogrammable meatheads of the GOP base.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 5, 2021 • 12:09:46am

re: #176 Targetpractice

That’s certainly what they’ve worked to reduce it to. The story of conservatism in the 20th century has been the continued effort to undo all the achievements of the Progressive Era while convincing the common folk that doing such is not simply “beneficial” but downright “American.”

It’s not the “working class” that supports this. I can’t remember the exact numbers, but people with incomes of $50,000 or less went heavily for Biden. It was the more prosperous who supported DT, and who are the core support of the repugs. The people who stormed the Capitol were the comfortably well off, as we have many times noted.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 12:17:50am

re: #175 John Hughes

Because authoritarians don’t (can’t) understand capitalism. They see employment as serfdom.

Despite all the lip service they pay to the Work Ethic and the social/moral value of labor, they see employees as another commodity to be bought as cheaply as possible and disposed of as soon as they are no longer needed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 12:20:27am

re: #178 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

“Critical Race Theory”

“PC”, “Woke”, “Cancel Culture”…all just buzzwords that they use to build straw men so they can knock them over for us in a display of their rhetorical prowess.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 12:34:55am

re: #126 Dread Pirate Ron

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 1:14:55am

re: #140 jaunte

Baked Nebraska: words to conjure with.

Good desert bakery in Omaha.

foodnetwork.com

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John Hughes  May 5, 2021 • 1:28:22am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

they see employees as another commodity to be bought as cheaply as possible

nope, not as cheaply as possible — cheaper than that.

As cheaply as possible makes sense — it means a living wage, or more if you can’t find enough workers at that price. Tories want to pay less than the market price for workers because they are more interested in hierarchy than economics.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 1:32:04am

We have a lake monster in the Nebraska Panhandle, something like the Loch Ness Monster.

It is the Alkali Lake Monster, in Hay Springs. As you might surmise, it is more tall tale than evidence.

This Small Nebraska Town is Home to a Shockingly Big Monster Tale (Only in Your State)

Everyone has heard of the famous Loch Ness monster and the various sea monsters some people think inhabit the world’s oceans. You may not know, however, that Nebraska has its very own lake monster…a huge, stinky creature blamed for eating livestock and anything else in its path.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 1:36:23am

re: #142 Hecuba’s daughter

So my Trumpster FB “friend” posts a comment that, besides telling parents not to vaccinate their children, also asserts that children don’t infect adults. I was sorely tempted to express my surprise that she received a medical degree during the pandemic, but instead just challenged that assertion with a link to a webmd article. Misinformation is the calling card of anyone associated with the Trump cult.

How would a child with a communicable disease not be able to spread it? Ask her how that works.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 5, 2021 • 1:37:47am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 1:40:57am

re: #188 Dread Pirate Ron

The Ideal Biblical Family is one in which the Patriarch tends the herds all day while the wife/mother stays home and raises the children to love and fear The Lord.

They are not prepared to accept any deviation from God’s Plan.

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2021 • 1:52:37am

re: #188 Dread Pirate Ron

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The GQP still want it to be 1955 where the family man with a high school diploma in hand works a 40 hour work week at the local auto plant making enough in a single paycheck to not only keep his wife in nylons and new shoes on his kids feet, but can also afford a home in suburbia with a big yard, brand new mid-range family sedan, all the latest gadgets around the house, and still have money left over for Junior’s college fund and perhaps a week’s vacation once a year.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 5, 2021 • 1:53:48am

re: #190 Targetpractice

.. and vote against everything that will give them that.

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John Hughes  May 5, 2021 • 1:59:46am

re: #190 Targetpractice

No, that’s what they say they want. To see what they really want you have to observe their behaviour, and as the Dread Pirate points out their actual actions work to produce the exact opposite of that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 2:06:25am

re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron

5.43” of rain in our area for the whole season. Small fires are breaking out along the roads. We’re also already hitting 90+ degree days. Summer is going to suck.

We’ve had 4.2” for the calendar year.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln Cropwatch

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 5, 2021 • 2:10:02am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’ve had 4.2” for the calendar year.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln Cropwatch

Is that a lot or a little for you? We only get rain in the winter. The recent July-June average is about 17.9”, It was around 22” when I first moved here in the 60s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 2:13:42am

re: #149 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The usual deniers are again denying reality.

I’ll definitely get my science from a rando on Twitter named Mystic Baba.

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2021 • 2:15:43am

re: #192 John Hughes

No, that’s what they say they want. To see what they really want you have to observe their behaviour, and as the Dread Pirate points out their actual actions work to produce the exact opposite of that.

What they really want is the 1955 that exists in Norman Rockwell paintings and Leave It To Beaver, a fictionalized past where “those people” lived on the other side of the train tracks and had to be out of town by sundown, where womenfolk only ventured out of the house to attend church and buy the week’s groceries, where young boys were always getting into scuffles because that made “men” out of them while little girls were being prepared for their futures as wives, and where everybody was a Godfearin’ Christian who would sooner swallow broken glass than utter something scandalous like “equal rights” or “desegregation” in public where the neighbors could hear them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 2:17:20am

re: #194 Dread Pirate Ron

Is that a lot or a little for you? We only get rain in the winter. The recent July-June average is about 17.9”, It was around 22” when I first moved here in the 60s.

We’re slightly above average for precipitation through April.

US Climate Data for my village

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 2:17:33am

re: #196 Targetpractice

where womenfolk only ventured out of the house to attend church and buy the week’s groceries,

Because husbands had union jobs that guaranteed a living wage that could support a family.

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Nojay UK  May 5, 2021 • 2:18:12am

Britain is starting to plan the rollout of booster vaccinations for COVID-19 for at least some of the population starting in September. This would be for people who were already vaccinated during the spring and early summer, with over-50s the main target group. The idea is that older people are more at risk of serious illness and deaths if there is a third wave of infections this winter as the modellers believe.

The booster shot may be a different vaccine from the one individuals have received previously. There is research going on at the moment to try and determine whether this hybrid approach to choosing the booster shot provides noticeably better protection.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 5, 2021 • 2:26:57am

re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because husbands had union jobs that guaranteed a living wage that could support a family.

The Republicans convinced their voters that Unions are bad and “Right To Work (and be fired for no reason)” is good.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 2:36:55am

re: #200 Dread Pirate Ron

The Republicans convinced their voters that Unions are bad and “Right To Work (and be fired for no reason)” is good.

Because Individual Freedom and Personal Initiative mean the right of individuals to negotiate one-on-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services.

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EPR-radar  May 5, 2021 • 2:37:36am

re: #200 Dread Pirate Ron

The Republicans convinced their voters that Unions are bad and “Right To Work (and be fired for no reason)” is good.

The Taft-Hartley act was passed in 1947 by Republicans over Truman’s veto, with enough Congressional Democrats in on it to deal with the veto.

Unions have been on a controlled descent into terrain since then. Among other things, Taft-Hartley is what lets states pass ‘right to work’ laws.

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Patricia Kayden  May 5, 2021 • 2:39:37am

re: #200 Dread Pirate Ron

The Republicans convinced their voters that Unions are bad and “Right To Work (and be fired for no reason)” is good.

Unless we’re talking about police unions which protect killer cops. Those unions are perfectly fine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 2:40:24am

re: #203 Patricia Kayden

Unless we’re talking about police unions which protect killer cops. Those unions are perfectly fine.

or other “professional associations” like the AMA or the Bar Association

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steve_davis  May 5, 2021 • 3:28:11am

re: #33 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wouldn’t you if you could? 😂

As George Carlin said, if he could do that, he’d never leave the house.

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John Hughes  May 5, 2021 • 3:34:49am

re: #196 Targetpractice

Once again I contend that is what Republican politicians say they want, but it is clearly not what the actually want. It might be what Republican voters want, but I don’t really believe that either.

In both cases what they really want is hierarchy. Republican politicians want to be on top of the heap, free to do whatever they want to do — steal, rape, kill. Republican followers, like all RWAs, want to be able to shit on people who are not members of their group and to live in “stable” hierarchical societies.

(“Biologists have a word they use to describe stable systems, that word is ‘dead’” said someone or other).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 3:38:04am

re: #206 John Hughes

The USSR had its Nomenklatura class: these people were exempt from the justice system and could only be indicted, tried and convicted by their fellow Party members.

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Barefoot Grin  May 5, 2021 • 4:09:48am

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just a prawn in the game of life…..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 4:31:49am

Prawntosaurus

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 4:36:08am

Via News Thump, a UK satire site.

Snow White found dead in castle after refusing to sign a consent form

Snow White has been found dead in a castle today after refusing to sign a consent form allowing Prince Charming to bring her back to life with a kiss.

The rotting corpse of Ms White was discovered earlier today by a number of dwarves alongside a hastily prepared form of consent, unsigned by the princess and a sobbing Prince Charming, who was arrested by authorities shortly after on suspicion of manslaughter.

Describing the scene, officer Simon Williams told us, “It’s a tragedy, and what makes it worse is that it could have easily been avoided.

“Our enquiries have led us to believe that Snow White could indeed have been saved, by a kiss from Prince Charming, her true love, which would have woken her from her sleep and no doubt saved her life.

“But he needed written consent, obviously, as she was fast asleep - but she just refused to sign, mainly because she was under spell and unable to wake up.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 4:41:16am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just goes to show that White Guys from the Noble Classes are the most discriminated segment of society…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 4:43:17am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 4:47:03am

re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If only a scientist would rise up and declare guns have caused 6 blood clots they’d be banned in 24 hours.

It’s a bit more nuanced than that: lots people are looking for reasons to reject the vaccines, on one end of the spectrum (which overlaps) those who are wary of Big Pharma and Western Medicine, those wary of Big Government and Big Tech, those who think that hydoxycholoroquinie and bleach would work if we only gave them a chance and those who think it is all just a socialist hoax and no worse than the flu.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 4:49:07am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think it was just meant as snark.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 4:49:48am

Thread, eleven tweets, predicting Trump will return to Facebook and why (because Facebook wants him back).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 4:54:58am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

again, I will be surprised if they don’t reinstate him. Not doing so would violate every rule of modern Capitalism…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 4:56:10am

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I think it was just meant as snark.

that, too. but a shallow snark

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Patricia Kayden  May 5, 2021 • 5:05:01am

re: #188 Dread Pirate Ron

So forced birthers prove once again that they care nothing for mothers or children but only want to control women’s bodies. Good to know.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 5:30:30am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 5:32:48am

re: #219 lawhawk

What’s frustrating me about all this shenanigannery is, what can we even do? The GOP is in the midst of a blatant power grab, passing and signing all sorts of things that actual voters don’t want but are designed purely to keep them in power indefinitely, and it seems like little ol’ me up here in happily Democratic Minnesota can’t do anything except sit and watch as the rest of the country burns around me. It’s infuriating.

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Barefoot Grin  May 5, 2021 • 5:38:47am

I think we’re all agreed that Glenn has no moral consistency, but this great thread is less about Glenn himself and more about the coordinated campaign to create moral panic over “wokeness” by the right. As Imani says, being “woke” means something important and specific to Black activists and others finding a political voice for justice, and that demonizing it—especially with regard to white allies—is the new “N-clang lover.”

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b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 5:54:10am

Is there any group at all the the GOP isn’t pissing off?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 5:54:37am

re: #222 b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)

Is there any group at all the the GOP isn’t pissing off?

Themselves.

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DodgerFan1988  May 5, 2021 • 5:55:42am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 5:58:07am

re: #222 b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)

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DodgerFan1988  May 5, 2021 • 6:05:36am
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b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 6:08:57am

re: #226 DodgerFan1988

There’s a freaking shock.

Time for the wingnuts to boycott Facebook, again.

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b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 6:13:44am

I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A KANGAROO COURT?!

thread

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 5, 2021 • 6:14:27am

re: #226 DodgerFan1988

Yeah - but they have to review their decision in 6 months, tho:
oversightboard.com

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DodgerFan1988  May 5, 2021 • 6:15:21am
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b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 6:15:43am

re: #229 Eric The Fruit Bat

Yeah - but they have to review their decision in 6 months, tho:
oversightboard.com

Plenty of time for him to start acting Presidential! I sense a corner turning!

I’m fine with the wingnuts getting re-pissed every 6 months.

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No Malarkey!  May 5, 2021 • 6:16:00am

re: #227 b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)

There’s a freaking shock.

Time for the wingnuts to boycott Facebook, again.

But what is the proportionate response to inciting a fascist coup?

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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 6:16:28am
While Washington reporters are busy asking whether President Joe Biden is living up to his promises to reach across the aisle, far more Americans think it’s congressional Republicans who are failing the bipartisanship test.

In a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, fully 67% of respondents say GOP leaders in Congress are doing too little to compromise with Biden, while just 22% called their approach “about the right amount” and 10% said they were doing too much.

Meanwhile, most Americans—51%—say Biden is compromising “about the right amount” with Republican leaders, while 39% say he’s doing too little and 9% say he’s compromising “too much.”

So overall 60% of Americans say the president is either executing the right amount of bipartisanship or too much of it.

m.dailykos.com

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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 6:17:30am

re: #230 DodgerFan1988

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“It’s more complicated than that…” (see earlier comments).

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 6:19:36am
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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 6:20:18am
Alejandra Juarez, the undocumented military spouse cruelly deported by the previous president despite outcries from legislators and advocates, will soon be returning home to the United States. Orlando Sentinel reports that the Biden administration has granted the mother of two U.S. citizen daughters humanitarian parole.

“This is the moment I’ve been waiting for,” Juarez told the Sentinel. She’s expected to arrive to Florida on Saturday—just in time for Mother’s Day. “Once inside, I’m going to keep fighting and hopefully there’s a way I can find a permanent solution, but this is great,” she said.

m.dailykos.com

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No Malarkey!  May 5, 2021 • 6:21:50am

re: #236 Belafon

m.dailykos.com

Elections have consequences. Let’s hope we never elect a monster President again.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 6:23:10am

So, they’ll keep reviewing Trump’s ban every six months despite the fact that his actions are unchanged, he’s unrepentant, and continues to spew the lies.

Meanwhile, FB allows links to his “blog” to circulate without any warnings despite the fact that those too violate the TOS.

FB is broken. It has always been broken, and despite all the calls that FB is liberal, the reality is that FB algorithms have allowed right wing fever swamps to overwhelm all other messaging and allow the lies to spread across the planet.

As others will note, the original purpose and intent of FB was for Mark Z to rate the hotness of other students (women) at Harvard and to creep on them - but make it in such a way that they could monetize the data, and make it as though you’re willingly sharing all this info for “free”.

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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 6:23:43am
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jeffreyw  May 5, 2021 • 6:27:28am

Good morning!

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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 6:29:09am
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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 6:31:48am
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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 6:32:00am
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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 6:32:03am

wait till trump posts on his blog page that who needs facebook because i have this blog page.

it’s really pathetic to watch a not particularly savvy cheapskate operate

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 6:33:32am

re: #222 b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)

Is there any group at all the the GOP isn’t pissing off?

Last time I checked, “Constitutional Carry” (a phrase they made up) does not appear in the Bible and is not a “God-given right.”

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gocart mozart  May 5, 2021 • 6:35:11am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 6:35:29am

Moran weighs in on the Texas GOP:

Another conservative who has not read the Constitution (or the Bible). “God” appears nowhere in the Constitution.

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 6:35:34am

Hillary should post happy pictures to Facebook 23 times today.

And

What kind of a loser do you have to be to be banned by FB?
Literal serial killers have FB accounts.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 6:37:45am

re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Moran weighs in on the Texas GOP:

Another conservative who has not read the Constitution (or the Bible). “God” appears nowhere in the Constitution.

They’re referring, of course, to the Declaration of Independence, where it says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” What they seem to keep getting wrong, obviously, is that this is the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution; that the Declaration does not explicitly reference the Christian God, but merely uses the phrase “their Creator” to describe some unknowable concept; and that the rights described mention Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, none of which involve guns save for that guns make taking away those inalienable rights much, much easier.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 6:39:57am

re: #226 DodgerFan1988

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 6:46:32am

re: #250 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 6:54:51am

re: #241 Belafon

Helen Kennedy

If Fox News were around in 1955, we’d still have polio.

This smallpox vaccine! It leaves a permanent scar, a literal Mark of the Beast! No one should be taking their children to get this vaccine from the literal pits of Hell!

Prayer is all you need to prevent smallpox (and if you get it, you obviously didn’t pray correctly).

Don’t let these liberal commie socialist Jooooooooos mark your children for the Devil.

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A Cranky One  May 5, 2021 • 6:59:38am

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stpaulbear  May 5, 2021 • 6:59:40am

re: #232 No Malarkey!

So Facebook has to create a black-and-white policy itself within six months. The board isn’t going to allow them to brush off decisions to someone else or just plain punt. Zuck may actually have to take a stand beyond his commitment making buckets of money for doing as little as possible.
Glad for now that Trump is still banned. The board seems to have made the right decision for today. Trump can rot on his blog.
Imagine how horrid today would be if they’d voted to remove Trump’s ban. I’ll take this sliver of a win today.

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 7:00:44am

re: #243 Belafon

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liberty means the ability to mostly do what you want and be left alone
liberty includes the ability to mostly not do what you don’t want
liberty does not include telling others how to use their liberty

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Hecuba's daughter  May 5, 2021 • 7:05:39am

re: #176 Targetpractice

That’s certainly what they’ve worked to reduce it to. The story of conservatism in the 20th century has been the continued effort to undo all the achievements of the Progressive Era while convincing the common folk that doing such is not simply “beneficial” but downright “American.”

Conservatives are trying to turn “progressive” into an insult, just as they did with “liberal”. It’s important to fight back whenever they make this attempt; otherwise we will have a generation of Americans who somehow believe that progress is evil and destructive.

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 7:05:52am

re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Moran weighs in on the Texas GOP:

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Another conservative who has not read the Constitution (or the Bible). “God” appears nowhere in the Constitution.

unalienable is the declaration of independence
though points for the correct unalienable and not inalienable
we wont go into mismatching singulars and plurals

and of course the DOI is not law

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 7:07:05am

re: #250 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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$160,000,000 in presidential campaign ad revenue, that’s why

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 5, 2021 • 7:08:39am

re: #256 Hecuba’s daughter

Conservatives are trying to turn “progressive” into an insult, just as they did with “liberal”. It’s important to fight back whenever they make this attempt; otherwise we will have a generation of Americans who somehow believe that progress is evil and destructive.

Progressive, as opposed to them being Regressives.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 5, 2021 • 7:11:49am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Despite all the lip service they pay to the Work Ethic and the social/moral value of labor, they see employees as another commodity to be bought as cheaply as possible and disposed of as soon as they are no longer needed.

It’s not labor they admire; it’s those who manage to acquire/maintain wealth through investments and managing assets, rather than innovation and providing services to the 99% of American citizens.

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 7:13:01am

Note how not one single Democrat has the backbone to say they are a liberal. This is due to Old Fart Bush and Fat Ass Ailes turning that word into an insult.

Sure would be nice to see Democrats get a backbone and stand up to the QAP…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 7:15:24am

re: #249 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

They’re referring, of course, to the Declaration of Independence, where it says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” What they seem to keep getting wrong, obviously, is that this is the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution; that the Declaration does not explicitly reference the Christian God, but merely uses the phrase “their Creator” to describe some unknowable concept; and that the rights described mention Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, none of which involve guns save for that guns make taking away those inalienable rights much, much easier.

My creator(s) were my mother and father. That’s how I take the line in the Declaration.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 7:17:44am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My creator(s) were my mother and father. That’s how I take the line in the Declaration.

However you want to take it, that’s fine. The point is that it’s not “God”, in the literal Christian sense of the word, and that the rights granted thereunder are not the Constitutional rights. The rights guaranteed by the Constitution are granted by the Constitution of the United States, and the government it duly establishes, and they can be restricted or even outright taken away by said government by following the proper practices established in the Constitution for such purpose.

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 7:18:48am

Josh nails it!

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Hecuba's daughter  May 5, 2021 • 7:21:03am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How would a child with a communicable disease not be able to spread it? Ask her how that works.

She was probably just regurgitating what she heard from Tucker or some other luminary of RW media.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 7:21:25am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 7:23:04am

re: #263 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

However you want to take it, that’s fine. The point is that it’s not “God”, in the literal Christian sense of the word, and that the rights granted thereunder are not the Constitutional rights. The rights guaranteed by the Constitution are granted by the Constitution of the United States, and the government it duly establishes, and they can be restricted or even outright taken away by said government by following the proper practices established in the Constitution for such purpose.

That and the Declaration was not a document intended for the colonists here; it was a document declaring our stand to the other nations of the world (particularly Europe). Those nations largely had state religions, and the people of those nations were almost entirely Christian.

The true stance of the Founders can be found in Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli of 1796. It was passed by unanimous consent of the Senate, a veritable who’s who of the founders at the time.

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 7:25:59am

woodpecker outside my window

gonna be around for a while it seems

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sagehen  May 5, 2021 • 7:26:01am

re: #256 Hecuba’s daughter

Conservatives are trying to turn “progressive” into an insult, just as they did with “liberal”. It’s important to fight back whenever they make this attempt; otherwise we will have a generation of Americans who somehow believe that progress is evil and destructive.

Pro and con are opposites
that fact is clearly seen.
If progress means to move forward
then what does congress mean?

— Nipsey Russell

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darthstar  May 5, 2021 • 7:26:43am
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darthstar  May 5, 2021 • 7:27:42am

I’m glad facebook didn’t allow Trump back on their platform. He’s still attacking people via his willing idiots in the media.

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darthstar  May 5, 2021 • 7:28:15am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 7:33:33am

re: #221 Barefoot Grin

Glenn Greenwald has come out and said that “woke” has no objective definition…then he goes on to re-define it to fit his own polemic terms.

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No Malarkey!  May 5, 2021 • 7:34:16am

re: #238 lawhawk

So, they’ll keep reviewing Trump’s ban every six months despite the fact that his actions are unchanged, he’s unrepentant, and continues to spew the lies.

Meanwhile, FB allows links to his “blog” to circulate without any warnings despite the fact that those too violate the TOS.

FB is broken. It has always been broken, and despite all the calls that FB is liberal, the reality is that FB algorithms have allowed right wing fever swamps to overwhelm all other messaging and allow the lies to spread across the planet.

As others will note, the original purpose and intent of FB was for Mark Z to rate the hotness of other students (women) at Harvard and to creep on them - but make it in such a way that they could monetize the data, and make it as though you’re willingly sharing all this info for “free”.

I think if FB decides to permanently ban TFG in 6 months, they don’t have to keep reviewing it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 7:34:44am

re: #226 DodgerFan1988

“The Board has upheld Facebook’s decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account.”

Whell hot giggity da-yum. Did not expect that and I must admit that I am pleased.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 7:35:08am

re: #270 darthstar

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 7:36:41am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 7:36:58am

I must have missed the part in the Beatitudes where Jesus said: “Blessed are those who are armed to the fucking teeth.”

/

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darthstar  May 5, 2021 • 7:37:28am

Update on the fam:
Mom got drunk - we didn’t try to stop her though my sister did pour half her bottle of wine down the sink when she wasn’t looking - only takes one glass anyway and she’s buzzed. She asked me to get her suitcases from the garage (bed doesn’t arrive until tomorrow, so they can’t move in until Friday) and she filled them up so they’ll be ready. She said she’s going to go along with it (because we’re making her) and we gently shot that down…again. But she’s more resigned to it. These things usually take about 2-3 days for her to accept. I’ve been here for six so this was harder.

Going to pack some of the extra furniture of theirs which my sister has here and put it in their room, as well as a big mirror (adds depth) and a few comfort items. When the bed arrives tomorrow my brother and sister will have to take care of it. I’m headed home this afternoon.

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No Malarkey!  May 5, 2021 • 7:39:04am

re: #266 lawhawk

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darthstar  May 5, 2021 • 7:40:49am

re: #280 No Malarkey!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 7:41:10am

re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg

I must have missed the part in the Beatitudes where Jesus said: “Blessed are those who are armed to the fucking teeth.”

/

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 7:42:00am
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No Malarkey!  May 5, 2021 • 7:42:32am

re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg

I must have missed the part in the Beatitudes where Jesus said: “Blessed are those who are armed to the fucking teeth.”

/

If God didn’t want us armed, he wouldn’t have given Adam an AR-15!

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 7:44:35am

re: #268 Dangerman

woodpecker outside my window

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im guessing this is the pair

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No Malarkey!  May 5, 2021 • 7:46:18am

re: #279 darthstar

Update on the fam:
Mom got drunk - we didn’t try to stop her though my sister did pour half her bottle of wine down the sink when she wasn’t looking - only takes one glass anyway and she’s buzzed. She asked me to get her suitcases from the garage (bed doesn’t arrive until tomorrow, so they can’t move in until Friday) and she filled them up so they’ll be ready. She said she’s going to go along with it (because we’re making her) and we gently shot that down…again. But she’s more resigned to it. These things usually take about 2-3 days for her to accept. I’ve been here for six so this was harder.

Going to pack some of the extra furniture of theirs which my sister has here and put it in their room, as well as a big mirror (adds depth) and a few comfort items. When the bed arrives tomorrow my brother and sister will have to take care of it. I’m headed home this afternoon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 7:46:21am

re: #283 🌹UOJB!

The US Supreme Court should overturn the Facebook’s “Oversight Board’s” “ruling” which upholds the outlawing of the 45th President of the United States from social media.

This is a big tech, corporate oligarchy without standing and it’s gone too far. Enough is enough.

“Outlawing” the ex-President from social media?

Granted, sites like FB, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube have a de facto monopoly, but that is something to address as a trade issue, not a matter Free Speech

And unlike broadcast media, there are very low financial hurdles to establishing an Internet presence, and nearly unlimited channels to use.

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darthstar  May 5, 2021 • 7:46:39am

re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That gun is so tiny Jesus couldn’t get it to his shoulder without dislocating an elbow…and his trigger finger would be in front of the barrel.

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b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 7:47:48am

re: #283 🌹UOJB!

THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ALSO OVERRULE
THE HORRIBLE RUBBER V. GLUE DECISION!!

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The Pie Overlord!  May 5, 2021 • 7:49:08am

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

I hope you don’t mind if I brag about my grandkids:

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 7:51:55am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The US Supreme Court should overturn the Facebook’s “Oversight Board’s” “ruling” which upholds the outlawing of the 45th President of the United States from social media.

This is a big tech, corporate oligarchy without standing and it’s gone too far. Enough is enough.

“Outlawing” the ex-President from social media?

Granted, sites like FB, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube have a de facto monopoly, but that is something to address as a trade issue, not a matter Free Speech

And unlike broadcast media, there are very low financial hurdles to establishing an Internet presence, and nearly unlimited channels to use.

i dont agree they have a de facto monopoly
as you say there are many other platforms - which means competition and substitutes.
there is virtually no barrier to entry - say unlike electricity or 20th century telephone lines/poles. especially if you create a ‘better’ product or presence or experience.

what they have is an established audience
some might call that a customer list

no one has a ‘right’ to someone else’s customers

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 7:53:17am

re: #270 darthstar

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bratwurst  May 5, 2021 • 7:53:33am

(Note the source of this!)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 7:53:35am

re: #284 No Malarkey!

If God didn’t want us armed, he wouldn’t have given Adam an AR-15!

“Jesus would not have been crucified if he and his disciples had been properly armed!”

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 7:55:50am

re: #293 bratwurst

You could throw Ted Cruz and Ben Shapiro in that mix (both Harvard), and it’s still indistinguishable.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 7:57:20am

re: #277 lawhawk

Genocide by who though? The BJP government’s disastrous response, or are they going to go after hospital administrators and physicians?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 5, 2021 • 7:57:30am

re: #240 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 7:58:07am

re: #291 Dangerman

i dont agree they have a de facto monopoly
as you say there are many other platforms - which means competition and substitutes.
there is virtually no barrier to entry - say unlike electricity or 20th century telephone lines/poles. especially if you create a ‘better’ product or presence or experience.

what they have is an established audience
some might call that a customer list

no one has a ‘right’ to someone else’s customers

It’s taken me a while to actually come to terms with this. You’re absolutely right, but it’s counter-intuitive to anyone who doesn’t really understand how the free market works. People tend to think that “barriers to entry” mean that it has to be easy for a company to swoop in and get as big of a customer list as they want.

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Dizzy  May 5, 2021 • 7:59:29am

re: #290 The Pie Overlord!

Yasher koach. Beautiful, even out of tune.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:02:52am

One hour ago in the Omaha World-Herald:

Outbreak in Kearney nursing home proves value of COVID vaccines

On the surface, the news sounds alarming: More than half the residents of a Kearney nursing home recently contracted COVID-19, even after the vast majority already had been vaccinated.

But rather than casting doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines, the unusual outbreak at the central Nebraska care facility stands as proof that shots work.

While 23 residents tested positive for the deadly virus, only two ever showed any symptoms, which were mild and quickly cleared.

In short, the vaccinations protected the home’s vulnerable residents.

(more)

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 5, 2021 • 8:03:04am

I see being banned by Facebook as the digital equivalent of getting thrown out of a Denny’s

Ok if for making too much noise and disturbing the other customers

Ok to ban for multiple dine and dash events

Not ok to ban solely because of who the customers are

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 8:04:04am

re: #296 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Genocide by who though? The BJP government’s disastrous response, or are they going to go after hospital administrators and physicians?

The reports indicate that they’re holding the state governments responsible. They indicated that there was sufficient oxygen supplies, when that was not true.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:04:48am

The outbreak is believed to have been caused by vaccine-shy workers in the convalescent home.

The early April outbreak at the Good Samaritan Society-St. Luke’s facility in Kearney is one of only two large nursing home outbreaks documented nationally in the wake of widespread nursing home vaccinations. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 21 issued a report on a similar outbreak in Kentucky.

Health officials say the two outbreaks show the importance of convincing hesitant nursing home workers to get vaccinated. It’s believed the Nebraska and Kentucky outbreaks were precipitated by unvaccinated workers bringing the virus into the homes.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 5, 2021 • 8:04:53am

re: #256 Hecuba’s daughter

Conservatives are trying to turn “progressive” into an insult, just as they did with “liberal”. It’s important to fight back whenever they make this attempt; otherwise we will have a generation of Americans who somehow believe that progress is evil and destructive.

We seem to have already produced a generation that thinks Republicans are morons — I wouldn’t worry too much.

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JC1  May 5, 2021 • 8:05:23am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Via News Thump, a UK satire site.

Snow White found dead in castle after refusing to sign a consent form

(more)

Silly premise anyway. A kiss wouldn’t be enough to dislodge a piece of an apple from someone’s throat. Clearly the kiss was a euphemism for more action.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 8:05:24am

re: #281 darthstar

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:06:27am

re: #291 Dangerman

i dont agree they have a de facto monopoly
…

no one has a ‘right’ to someone else’s customers

They have most of the market sewn up but that does not mean that they have any great deal of power or influence to prevent others from establishing themselves.

That is at the heart of most anti-trust issues

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A Mom Anon  May 5, 2021 • 8:06:53am

re: #290 The Pie Overlord!

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John Hughes  May 5, 2021 • 8:07:42am

re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Needz moar gunz.

And tactical shit.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 5, 2021 • 8:07:49am

re: #257 Dangerman

unalienable is the declaration of independence
though points for the correct unalienable and not inalienable
we wont go into mismatching singulars and plurals

and of course the DOI is not law

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Jefferson’s draft was “inalienable,” but when the Declaration was printed in broadside, the printers changed it to the standard-at-the-time “unalienable.”

Take your pick.

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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 8:07:49am

re: #291 Dangerman

i dont agree they have a de facto monopoly
as you say there are many other platforms - which means competition and substitutes.
there is virtually no barrier to entry - say unlike electricity or 20th century telephone lines/poles. especially if you create a ‘better’ product or presence or experience.

what they have is an established audience
some might call that a customer list

no one has a ‘right’ to someone else’s customers

We would have to create an entire new section of law to deal with companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Spotify, and Twitter, and I’m not sure how you’d do it. All the law currently protects is if they tried to use their power to prevent competitors, and there’s no reason for them to even try to block a competitor. That is a kind of monopoly power, but it would be very hard to define legally.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:07:58am

re: #301 So Cal Greek Hippie

I see being banned by Facebook as the digital equivalent of getting thrown out of a Denny’s

Ok if for making too much noise and disturbing the other customers

Ok to ban for multiple dine and dash events

Not ok to ban solely because of who the customers are

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They make it sound like Trump is being banned entirely for his politics and not for repeatedly and egregiously violating the TOS.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 8:08:29am

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

They have most of the market sewn up but that does not mean that they have any great deal of power or influence to prevent others from establishing themselves.

That is at the heart of most anti-trust issues

Right. A monopoly is a company that can exert its influence to prevent competitors from getting established in their market. If Facebook leveraged its platform to degrade the user experience for people who used competing products, that’s anti-competitive behavior. As it is, anyone can stand up a Facebook “competitor”, they just need to make a better product and get it advertised effectively enough.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:09:19am

re: #313 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Right. A monopoly is a company that can exert its influence to prevent competitors from getting established in their market. If Facebook leveraged its platform to degrade the user experience for people who used competing products, that’s anti-competitive behavior. As it is, anyone can stand up a Facebook “competitor”, they just need to make a better product and get it advertised effectively enough.

Look at how successful Parler and Frank were…oops, bad examples. They sucked from the get-go, but that had nothing with Facebook putting pressure on them to fail.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 8:10:26am

re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Look at how successful Parler and Frank were…

By any objective measure, Parler was actually surprisingly successful. That it turned into a cesspool of right-wing hatred, leading to poor uptake among the general population, was simply the inevitable result of the platform literally being designed to host nazis.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 8:13:10am

re: #315 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

By any objective measure, Parler was actually surprisingly successful. That it turned into a cesspool of right-wing hatred, leading to poor uptake among the general population, was simply the inevitable result of the platform literally being designed to host nazis.

Most people like the idea of unfettered free speech, until they experience it, and find out that trash will take over every time because most people do not want to experience their deranged hate.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:14:55am

re: #305 JC1

Silly premise anyway. A kiss wouldn’t be enough to dislodge a piece of an apple from someone’s throat. Clearly the kiss was a euphemism for more action.

I think they’re riffing on Ted Cruz complaining.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:16:14am

re: #315 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

By any objective measure, Parler was actually surprisingly successful. That it turned into a cesspool of right-wing hatred, leading to poor uptake among the general population, was simply the inevitable result of the platform literally being designed to host nazis.

It was no run unless there were libruls around to own…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:16:19am

re: #317 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I think they’re riffing on Ted Cruz complaining.

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Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 8:18:47am

re: #41 darthstar

Also, I like that Trump’s new social media site is just a page extension on his fundraising site.

I signed up there to be notified whenever tRump posts something new. I feel sorry for the person named Fuck You with the email address EAT@MYASSHOLE.COM that I used.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:20:06am

re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So it is a reaction to a New York Post bit of righteous indignation over somebody’s review of a Disney ride making it sound like Biden is going to ban Snow White as part of the Green New Deal.

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Jay C  May 5, 2021 • 8:22:29am

re: #306 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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OK, it’s a Charlie Kirk tweet, so (unless printed on soft paper so you could wipe your ass with it) useless nonsense, but what does he expect the “Supreme Court” to do (or even be able to do) about FB’s TOS practices? Maybe I’m being overly optimistic, but I have a hard time imagining that even this SCOTUS is going to want to overturn the fundamental legal basis of the private-enterprise Internet just to assuage the butthurt of RWNJs over being “banned” for lies and seditious incitements…

Though I imagine Kirk’s ideal scenario is probably more like one of the hack winger Justices issuing some Writ From On High forcing Facebook to reinstate the Orange Anus - to “own the libs”, of course…..

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b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 8:23:45am

If Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas, Kavanaugh or Barrett don’t step in immediately to overturn the Facebook decision then they are as big a RINOS as Roberts and should be impeached!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:24:03am

re: #322 Jay C

It is part of painting a bigger narrative that Big Tech also conspired to help “steal” the election from Trump.

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Mike Lamb  May 5, 2021 • 8:26:26am

re: #108 jaunte

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Contrast the mocking coverage of people that remain concerned about the pandemic with that of anti-vaxxers. The coverage of the latter is all about understanding them and trying to reach out to them. No mocking, despite their ridiculous stances.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:26:28am

Opinion piece in the Omaha World-Herald. This resolution will be debated at noon Central in the Unicameral today.

For over 100 years the League of Women Voters has relentlessly advocated for voting rights and policies that protect democracy. It is from this experience that we are deeply disturbed by the April 23 introduction of Legislative Resolution 107 by State Sen. Mike Groene for both its content and how it was brought to the floor of the Legislature.

LR 107 begins by accusing the federal government of a coordinated plot to usurp all states’ rights. It haphazardly pulls incomplete phrases from the U.S. Constitution to “support” a handful of highly politicized issues including guns, abortion, religion, sexuality, voting access, land use, and vaccinations. We find Section 5 regarding the election process particularly concerning. Leaning into the false narrative that the recent election was fraudulent despite countless fact-based reports otherwise, LR 107’s authors assert the state’s power to suppress voter access through ID requirements, record purging and restrictions in voter supports.

We live in challenging times facing a pandemic, an uneasy transition of power, an individual versus collective rights debate, and a reawaking to systemic racial discrimination and violence. We encounter divisive language everywhere: the media, workplaces, even friends and neighbors. Whether by intention or negligence, it is inappropriate and unacceptable for our state leaders to fan the flames by not speaking against LR 107.

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Midlands Voices: Nebraska lawmakers should reject this radical resolution

Sen. Groene (Wingnut-North Platte) is our legislature’s bomb-thowing back bencher.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:27:39am

re: #325 Mike Lamb

Contrast the mocking coverage of people that remain concerned about the pandemic with that of anti-vaxxers. The coverage of the latter is all about understanding them and trying to reach out to them. No mocking, despite their ridiculous stances.

Whatever it takes to get their asses vaccinated.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:28:37am

Conservatives care about “regular order” until they don’t.

In addition to its disquieting content, how LR 107 arrived on the floor of our Unicameral legislature is atypical. Proposed legislation goes through a well-established process which relies heavily on committees, allowing a subset of senators with “subject-matter jurisdiction” to act as policy gate keepers. Nebraska citizens, as members of the second house, may provide commentary on proposals. With LR 107, the manipulation of this process causes our concern to turn to alarm. Instead of being referred to the Government Committee, the appropriate committee considering its content, the drafters referred LR 107 to the Executive Committee, which manages the work of the Legislature. Why?

To pose that question and resolve the misassignment, State Sen. Megan Hunt introduced a motion on April 29 to re-refer LR 107 to the appropriate committee. She reported that one of LR 107’s lead writers, State Sen. Steve Halloran, explicitly stated a political decision was made to send the resolution to the Executive Committee because he feared the Government Committee would not move it forward due to previous “split votes on bills,” which we interpret as bills related to voter suppression and campaign financing. In response, State Sen. John McCollister, who serves on both the Executive Board and Government Committee, stated publicly that LR 107 was incorrectly assigned.

Sadly, the motion to re-refer failed and LR 107 waits to be moved forward in the lawmaking process. It appears Unicameral leadership has circumvented the checks and balances of legislative procedure.

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Mike Lamb  May 5, 2021 • 8:29:02am

re: #268 Dangerman

woodpecker outside my window

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We just had to remove one that had taken up residence inside the exterior wall of the master bedroom.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 8:29:23am

re: #289 b.d. (Cry Louder Wingnuts!)

THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ALSO OVERRULE
THE HORRIBLE RUBBER V. GLUE DECISION!!

If Finders V. Keepers goes down, we riot.

//

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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 8:29:37am

re: #326 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Opinion piece in the Omaha World-Herald. This resolution will be debated at noon Central in the Unicameral today.

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Midlands Voices: Nebraska lawmakers should reject this radical resolution

Sen. Groene (Wingnut-North Platte) is our legislature’s bomb-thowing back bencher.

The voting section of the constitution explicitly states that the federal government can make changes to voting that the states have to follow.

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 8:29:42am

re: #310 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Jefferson’s draft was “inalienable,” but when the Declaration was printed in broadside, the printers changed it to the standard-at-the-time “unalienable.”

Take your pick.

wait…
it changed with transcription?
i wonder if that happened with any other old book //

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 8:30:29am

re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They make it sound like Trump is being banned entirely for his politics and not for repeatedly and egregiously violating the TOS.

because the first is a no no
the second makes it all personal responsibility

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:31:45am

re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg

If Finders V. Keepers goes down, we riot.

//

Mitch McConnell has already repeatedly negated Fool-me-once-shame-on-you

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 8:34:18am

re: #301 So Cal Greek Hippie

It’s one thing to be thrown out of a Denny’s…but to be thrown out of a Waffle House one must be a Superasshole.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:40:16am
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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 8:40:42am

re: #331 Belafon

The voting section of the constitution explicitly states that the federal government can make changes to voting that the states have to follow.

yeah and Section 6103(f)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code reads ‘shall furnish’ [tax returns].

how did that work out?

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 8:41:00am

re: #320 Eventual Carrion

I signed up there to be notified whenever tRump posts something new. I feel sorry for the person named Fuck You with the email address EAT@MYASSHOLE.COM that I used.

I was tempted to sign up as “Hugh G. Rekshon” which is something Trump never had according to Stormy…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:44:24am

re: #338 🌹UOJB!

I was tempted to sign up as “Hugh G. Rekshon” which is something Trump never had according to Stormy…

Stum P. Mushroom

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(((Archangel1)))  May 5, 2021 • 8:45:16am

Greetings from Israel, where Netanyahu’s leadership and career has just leaped forward.
And by forward I mean straight off a cliff and at the start of a LOOOOOONG way down…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 8:46:57am

re: #340 (((Archangel1)))

Greetings from Israel, where Netanyahu’s leadership and career has just leaped forward.
And by forward I mean straight off a cliff and at the start of a LOOOOOONG way down…

Isn’t this like the third straight election where he has failed to assemble a coalition? What will it take for Israel to be rid of this odious asshole?

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 8:47:31am

re: #340 (((Archangel1)))

Greetings from Israel, where Netanyahu’s leadership and career has just leaped forward.
And by forward I mean straight off a cliff and at the start of a LOOOOOONG way down…

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This is what happens when the proportional threshold is so low that every crackpot party can get a seat.

The threshold needs to be raised to 5% which would eliminate a bunch of the splinter parties from sitting in the Knesset.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 8:49:50am

re: #342 🌹UOJB!

This is what happens when the proportional threshold is so low that every crackpot party can get a seat.

The threshold needs to be raised to 5% which would eliminate a bunch of the splinter parties from sitting in the Knesset.

You would think that Israel of all countries should be aware of what became of the Weimar Republic…

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 8:52:03am

re: #340 (((Archangel1)))

Greetings from Israel, where Netanyahu’s leadership and career has just leaped forward.
And by forward I mean straight off a cliff and at the start of a LOOOOOONG way down…

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Again… They’re doing this *again*.

Bibi hasn’t managed to form a proper government in a couple of years (and several election tries). He’s overseen a caretaker government for the past year and change because he couldn’t get to 61 seats in the Knesset. Neither could anyone else.

Will this time be different with the Mount Meron disaster fresh on everyone’s mind given that the government gave the Haredi the green light despite known risks?

It’s Bibi, so nothing is a given.

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cat-tikvah  May 5, 2021 • 8:52:16am

re: #284 No Malarkey!

Homer Simpson - If Jesus had a gun

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 8:53:10am

re: #344 lawhawk

So this is election #4, #5 or #6 coming for Israel to form a stable government?

Sorry, I’ve lost count…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 8:53:35am

pphd.org

26,011 people in the Nebraska Panhandle (and Grant County) have been fully vaccinated now, about 30% or so.

The weekly positivity rate is 5.3% (down from its peak of 64.4% on November 1).

There have been no new cases since May 1. Two people are in hospital.

The risk level has been dropped to the line between moderate and low.

Half the towns are at low risk, and three are at no risk (including mine).

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cat-tikvah  May 5, 2021 • 8:55:08am

re: #290 The Pie Overlord!

Kvelling encouraged!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 8:55:54am

re: #346 🌹UOJB!

So this is election #4, #5 or #6 coming for Israel to form a stable government?

Sorry, I’ve lost count…

I think the next one would be #4.

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 8:56:58am

re: #347 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Meanwhile, Los Angeles County is now moving to the Yellow Tier, least restrictive category. More places will allow more people to dine, work out and attend.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 8:57:35am

re: #342 🌹UOJB!

Changing the threshold would not alter the outcome here. The Israeli government has never had a majority party with 61 seats. It’s always had a coalition government of one form or another, and the election rules were designed to make sure that voices were heard across the political spectrum. Raising the threshold would not change fact that Likud remains the dominant pluralistic party with a significant lead over Yesh Atid. But Yesh Atid has a better chance of forming a coalition than Likud.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 8:58:50am

re: #347 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

pphd.org

26,011 people in the Nebraska Panhandle (and Grant County) have been fully vaccinated now, about 30% or so.

The weekly positivity rate is 5.3% (down from its peak of 64.4% on November 1).

There have been no new cases since May 1. Two people are in hospital.

The risk level has been dropped to the line between moderate and low.

Half the towns are at low risk, and three are at no risk (including mine).

Our cases have been on the decline again, after a brief surge up to around 2000 new cases/day, we are down to about half that. We are up to 59% of adults with at least one dose, and 45% who have completed the series. I’m looking to see if they have rate statistics to see if we are running up against a wall of vaccine hesitancy, but I remember seeing a map the other day that showed the strong effectiveness of MN’s vaccination messaging, as something like 3/4 of the state’s counties had something over 80% willing to receive the vaccine, so I doubt it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 8:59:13am
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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 8:59:17am

Establishment GOPers are making it clear that they’re going to roll over and give the Trumpist insurrectionists control over the party.

GOP delenda est.

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cat-tikvah  May 5, 2021 • 9:00:04am

re: #332 Dangerman

See “you shall not murder” versus “you shall not kill”…

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 9:01:58am

re: #355 cat-tikvah

See “you shall not murder” versus “you shall not kill”…

But the Tiny Penis Club interprets that as “It’s OK to kill as long as you are a white man with a gun!”

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cat-tikvah  May 5, 2021 • 9:03:54am

Biblical mistranslations:
See also: “A young woman will conceive” versus “a virgin will conceive”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 9:04:07am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 9:04:31am

re: #354 lawhawk

Establishment GOPers are making it clear that they’re going to roll over and give the Trumpist insurrectionists control over the party.

GOP delenda est.

It had been a lie-based party for a long time now. Making a pathological liar President, then going down this rabbit-hole when he couldn’t accept his loss was inevitable. If not for racism, they’d be done.

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cat-tikvah  May 5, 2021 • 9:04:47am

re: #356 🌹UOJB!

Well everything and everyone is threatening so it’s simply a matter of self-defense/stand your ground
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 9:05:21am

Local political news:

Two women got mad at the mayor of Kimball for some reason, so they filed a recall petition.

They then had second thoughts after the petition was approved by the state secretary of state and they’d already gathered signatures.

Now they want to withdraw the petition, and some of those who signed it want to withdraw their signatures.

There is no provision in state law to withdraw a recall petition once it’s been approved to circulate.

On such a petition, you have twenty days to collect signatures. The only way to stop the petition now is to stop collecting signatures to cause the petition to fail.

The mayor was still required to file a rebuttal to the petition (of sixty words or less).

Now the county attorney is involved to see if the petition can be withdrawn (it can’t).

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(((Archangel1)))  May 5, 2021 • 9:05:24am

re: #341 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Isn’t this like the third straight election where he has failed to assemble a coalition? What will it take for Israel to be rid of this odious asshole?

Fourth, after a year-long “COVID emergency” unity government, that Bibi sabotaged in late December.
And there won’t be a fifth (warning: lengthy explanation follows).
To form a coalition government in Israel, a prime minister needs the support of parties accounting for 61/120 parliament seats.
Bibi needed it before and failed, repeatedly.
Lapid already officially has close to that with the Jewish-left, the Arab parties and Lieberman’s secular-right party. On top of that, two anti-Bibi right-wing parties, one led by former-Likud minister Gideon Sa’ar (an ally-turned-enemy of Bibi) and another led by minister Naftali Bennet (a long-time personal enemy of Bibi, who worked with Lapid in the past and announced he has no problem being in a Lapid-led government) face almost certain political annihilation in the next elections. Neither can risk not joining the “change and healing government” Lapid has been assembling in recent days.

On top of that, leaders for one of the Ultra-Orthodox parties have stated that there are no ideological reasons to reject a Lapid government, and may join just to avoid losing political power while in the opposition.

It’s true that it ain’t over till the fat lady sings, but from the looks of it, Mrs. Netanyahu’s grand solo at the Israeli opera is just days away…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 9:06:52am

Couldn’t pay the bill. Forgot wallet.
No pockets…

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 9:07:58am

re: #354 lawhawk

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Establishment GOPers are making it clear that they’re going to roll over and give the Trumpist insurrectionists control over the party.

GOP delenda est.

cheney appears to be positioning to be the sole occupant of the never-trump lane.
i cant think of anyone else right now who’s neither a bit player (amash) or a joke (pence) or not in the game

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Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 9:08:06am

re: #188 Dread Pirate Ron

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Well you know those Mexicans want to be lazy and come here to collect welfare, and also take all our jobs. So at least their (fucked up) “logic” is consistent (ly terrible). Catch-22 deja vu

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 9:08:11am

re: #362 (((Archangel1)))

OK, so I understand how the Knesset works generally, but how does this tie in with the Prime Minister? Your post stated that the President has tasked the opposition party with assembling a coalition government, does this mean that Bibi will get the ouster? Or is he effectively a lame duck until some other event happens?

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Dave In Austin  May 5, 2021 • 9:08:20am
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Mike Lamb  May 5, 2021 • 9:10:17am

re: #358 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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It will be interesting to see how this impacts Peloton. They handled the news of the incidents really poorly. I own one of their bikes and use it on the regular (3x to 4x per week when it isn’t nice enough to ride outside in the mornings). Peloton users can be a bit cultish and I get how that can be a turnoff, but until now, the equipment, classes, etc. have been really good.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 9:11:22am

re: #367 Dave In Austin

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Dr Lizardo  May 5, 2021 • 9:11:32am

re: #362 (((Archangel1)))

And if IIRC, Bibi is desperately trying to avoid the slammer - and using his political position to do so.

Looks like time’s running out for him.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 9:12:44am

I really don’t give a shit what crazy yacht lady thinks.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 5, 2021 • 9:14:09am

re: #350 🌹UOJB!

Meanwhile, Los Angeles County is now moving to the Yellow Tier, least restrictive category. More places will allow more people to dine, work out and attend.

That’s another reason I am glad I left my job. Elko County has lifted occupancy levels to 100%, 3 ft social distancing and left the masking requirement in place. Meanwhile the majority of guest come from a County/State (Twin Falls, Id.) that has a rather dismal vaccination rate as well as being anti-mask.

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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 9:14:35am

big drama in woodpecker land today

a black bird - probably a grackle or somesuch came along and fought one of
woodpeckers then took over the hole in the tree

the two woodpeckers flew off

the black bird sat in the hold poking its head out for a bit then apparently left

because the woodpecker is back in the hole, now poking its head out

im guessing there were no eggs or chicks yet when the marauder squatted for 30 minutes

all’s well again (for now)

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 9:15:57am

I kinda figured this was coming sooner rather than later.

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(((Archangel1)))  May 5, 2021 • 9:16:01am

re: #342 🌹UOJB!

This is what happens when the proportional threshold is so low that every crackpot party can get a seat.

The threshold needs to be raised to 5% which would eliminate a bunch of the splinter parties from sitting in the Knesset.

Absolutely.

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You would think that Israel of all countries should be aware of what became of the Weimar Republic…

I’ve been making this exact argument for decades, literally.
In the 2021 elections, 13 parties made it past the 3.25% threshold.
Out of a whopping THIRTY NINE.
The only solace this time is that the 26 parties that didn’t make the cut represented a small percentage of lost votes this year (only ~1.2%). But the distribution and ensuing political chaos remains harmful all the same.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 9:16:40am
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Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 9:17:58am

re: #367 Dave In Austin

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‘reopen’?
wait..
schools arent ‘open’?
they’re not operating? not teaching?
they dont have expenses, salaries, datacomm costs?
supplies, materials, software etc etc?
they’re not gonna have to make changes to buildings and classrooms?

are you really a complete idiot?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 9:19:50am

This is the civil case for tearing down the DC church’s BLM sign.
The church has retained professional counsel. Expensive professional counsel.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 9:21:37am

re: #366 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

OK, so I understand how the Knesset works generally, but how does this tie in with the Prime Minister? Your post stated that the President has tasked the opposition party with assembling a coalition government, does this mean that Bibi will get the ouster? Or is he effectively a lame duck until some other event happens?

Party in power typically has first shot at forming govt. The President in Israel’s sole job is to get knesset to form a government. If the party in power can’t form a coalition government, President goes to next party in size/strength to give them 30 days. Then, if they can’t, there’s another 30 days where they can try to hash out a coalition, and if that fails, new elections are called.

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wrenchwench  May 5, 2021 • 9:23:05am

re: #363 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Couldn’t pay the bill. Forgot wallet.
No pockets…

Lizard wrangler! Wrangle that lizard!

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 9:23:43am

re: #379 lawhawk

Party in power typically has first shot at forming govt. The President in Israel’s sole job is to get knesset to form a government. If the party in power can’t form a coalition government, President goes to next party in size/strength to give them 30 days. Then, if they can’t, there’s another 30 days where they can try to hash out a coalition, and if that fails, new elections are called.

Right, that I get. So I guess, then, if Lapid is able to assemble a coalition, that coalition would put forward an individual who would assume power as the next Prime Minister?

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🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 9:24:11am

re: #378 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This is the civil case for tearing down the DC church’s BLM sign.
The church has retained professional counsel. Expensive professional counsel.

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So which Sugar Daddy will pay Enrique’s fines—Mercer, Koch, Adelson or Fries?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 9:24:57am

re: #377 Dangerman

‘reopen’?
wait..
schools arent ‘open’?
they’re not operating? not teaching?
they dont have expenses, salaries, datacomm costs?
supplies, materials, software etc etc?
they’re not gonna have to make changes to buildings and classrooms?

are you really a complete idiot?

Yes, she’s an idiot. She’s retweeting the Wall Street Journal op-ed saying the same thing.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 9:26:51am

re: #381 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Lapid would then become the next PM, as he’s the leader of Yesh Atid.

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DesertDenizen  May 5, 2021 • 9:26:54am

re: #382 🌹UOJB!

So which Sugar Daddy will pay Enrique’s fines—Mercer, Koch, Adelson or Fries?

China.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 9:27:45am

re: #378 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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The Pie Overlord!  May 5, 2021 • 9:30:02am
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Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 9:30:25am

re: #226 DodgerFan1988

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I’ll be damned, Facebook grew a pair (or at least their arbitrator board did).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 9:30:58am

Thread, six tweets.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 9:31:12am

re: #387 The Pie Overlord!

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 9:31:21am

re: #384 lawhawk

Lapid would then become the next PM, as he’s the leader of Yesh Atid.

Ah, I missed that it was an individual and not the party. And that confirms my suspicions. Thank you for the information.

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DesertDenizen  May 5, 2021 • 9:32:06am

re: #390 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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And that they’re a fascist death cult who brook no dissent.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 9:35:14am

re: #380 wrenchwench

Lizard wrangler! Wrangle that lizard!

I read that “Lizard Wranglers ® “

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 9:35:21am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 9:35:28am

re: #382 🌹UOJB!

So which Sugar Daddy will pay Enrique’s fines—Mercer, Koch, Adelson or Fries?

Adelson is dead so safe to assume it won’t be him.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 9:36:12am

Better get your sleep in now

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 9:37:38am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 9:38:10am

re: #396 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Better get your sleep in now

When I was younger, I always preferred a quiet room to sleep. Now, I need some kind of ambient noise (usually a fan) or I go nuts.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 9:39:44am

re: #398 Eclectic Cyborg

When I was younger, I always preferred a quiet room to sleep. Now, I need some kind of ambient noise (usually a fan) or I go nuts.

Is that because of tinnitus? Silence can be unpleasant for me for that reason.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:39:50am

re: #357 cat-tikvah

Biblical mistranslations:
See also: “A young woman will conceive” versus “a virgin will conceive”

Whether Jesus had “siblings” or “cousins”

The entire dogma of the Perpetual Virginity of the Holy Mother depends on that translation.

There was a famous bit during the debate over posting the Ten Commandments in public buildings. George W. Bush came out in favor. Some journalist, obviously a smart-ass with a couple semesters of comparative religion under his belt, asked him which version should be posted.

“The standard one,” Bush answered without giving any further elaboration.

I am pretty sure that in his mind he meant the King James Translation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 9:40:09am

Oh brother. r/WallStreetBets is at it again.

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Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 9:40:53am

re: #242 Belafon

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Really. What part of another country saying, “Fine you don’t want to carry a verification that you were vaccinated, stay the fuck out.” don’t they understand?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:41:00am

re: #354 lawhawk

Establishment GOPers are making it clear that they’re going to roll over and give the Trumpist insurrectionists control over the party.

GOP delenda est.

Without the Trump Base they could never assemble enough votes to remain in power. And they are certainly not going to try to appeal to other groups.

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Mike Lamb  May 5, 2021 • 9:41:24am

re: #397 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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But other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 9:42:05am

(video, 4:32)

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cat-tikvah  May 5, 2021 • 9:42:40am

re: #400 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Nah, let’s go with the original. In Hebrew.

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Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 9:43:56am

re: #243 Belafon

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“Your mask is making me uncomfortable”. Well

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wrenchwench  May 5, 2021 • 9:44:39am

re: #393 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I read that “Lizard Wranglers ® “

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Some lizards may want the tail covered, also. Others will want their safety-detach system fully operational.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 9:45:11am

re: #399 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Is that because of tinnitus? Silence can be unpleasant for me for that reason.

I do have mild tinnitus but I think my change in sleep habits can be attributed to my wife. When we first moved in together she insisted on running a fan overnight because that’s what she’d been doing for years. I didn’t really care either way so I went along with it. I guess my body has just adapted to that now.

410
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 9:45:25am

re: #407 Eventual Carrion

“Your mask is making me uncomfortable”. Well

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“Your mask is making me uncomfortable.”
“Your lack of a mask is making me uncomfortable. Who’s more important here, you or me?”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 9:45:27am

re: #389 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:46:00am

re: #377 Dangerman

“teachers unions spent more than $40 million in the 2020 cycle to elect Democrats. And labor leaders are getting a fabulous return on that investment. The Covid-relief law… allocates $123 billion for public schools, with no requirement that districts first reopen…”

There are 3.5 million teachers in the USA so that means each one of them spent an average of around $114…probably less than you spend on a pedicure, Betsy…

413
DesertDenizen  May 5, 2021 • 9:46:28am

re: #402 Eventual Carrion

Really. What part of another country saying, “Fine you don’t want to carry a verification that you were vaccinated, stay the fuck out.” don’t they understand?

In my international travel experience, there is a certain sort of American traveller who expects other countries to bend over backwards for them and to do things the US way. These are the same assholes that will argue that vaccine passports don’t apply to them because they’re ‘Muricans. And they won’t be vaccinated, for the same reason.

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lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 9:47:24am

re: #411 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

yee-roh.

415
lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 9:47:46am

Love to see that hot Fox on Trumpist action.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:48:11am

re: #396 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Waiting in the wings: Scientists say trillions of cicadas will emerge from 15 U.S. states after spending 17 years underground.

Those aren’t cicadas, those are 5G transmission cells.

(When this appears on QAnon you can say it started here)

417
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 5, 2021 • 9:48:21am

re: #413 DesertDenizen

In my international travel experience, there is a certain sort of American traveller who expects other countries to bend over backwards for them and to do things the US way. These are the same assholes that will argue that vaccine passports don’t apply to them because they’re ‘Muricans. And they won’t be vaccinated, for the same reason.

The “Ugly American” stereotype lives on.

418
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 9:48:59am

re: #414 lawhawk

yee-roh.

eye-noh

419
jaunte  May 5, 2021 • 9:50:14am

re: #414 lawhawk

yee-roh.

ντονέρ

420
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 9:51:19am

re: #414 lawhawk

yee-roh.

sand-wich

421
Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 9:51:36am

re: #255 Dangerman

liberty means the ability to mostly do what you want and be left alone
liberty includes the ability to mostly not do what you don’t want
liberty does not include telling others how to use their liberty

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Religious freedom = I can’t do that , it is against my religion.

Religious freedom != YOU can’t do that, it is against my religion.

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DesertDenizen  May 5, 2021 • 9:52:02am

re: #417 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The “Ugly American” stereotype lives on.

My favorite was waiting to clear customs to leave Brasil, in a particularly long line while the Brasilians breezed through their own dedicated line since the process for them was much simpler. A large group of American missionaries (as declared by their shirts) were loudly complaining about why those people got to use a short line and they had to wait. They insisted they should be able to use the fast lane because they were Americans. No other rationale, just that they were Americans and therefore shouldn’t have to wait.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:52:13am

re: #413 DesertDenizen

In my international travel experience, there is a certain sort of American traveller who expects other countries to bend over backwards for them and to do things the US way.

You see Brits like that on holiday, they address the staff in English right off the bat and then repeat themselves even louder if they the staff does not understand.

424
wrenchwench  May 5, 2021 • 9:53:34am

re: #419 jaunte

ντονέρ

One of my proudest achievements when I was in Greece was when I learned to say ‘I do not speak Greek’ so well, nobody would believe me.

Ed. to add: In Greek.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 5, 2021 • 9:53:59am

I’m going to waddle off to bed. Catch y’all later.

426
Dave In Austin  May 5, 2021 • 9:54:18am
427
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 9:54:19am

re: #423 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You see Brits like that on holiday, they address the staff in English right off the bat and then repeat themselves even louder if they the staff does not understand.

When Mrs. Fish and I were in Rome, we felt a bit self-conscious for being “those Americans” who showed up at a restaurant at 11:00 AM wondering why they weren’t open yet. Well, yeah, because the city barely even gets moving until like 1 in the afternoon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:55:10am

re: #424 wrenchwench

One of my proudest achievements when I was in Greece was when I learned to say ‘I do not speak Greek’ so well, nobody would believe me.

That is as much Finnish I will ever learn, or rather “Puuhutko Englantia?” (Do you speak English?)

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Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 9:55:37am

re: #416 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Those aren’t cicadas, those are 5G transmission cells.

(When this appears on QAnon you can say it started here)

We’re vaccinating them now?

430
Belafon  May 5, 2021 • 9:56:02am

re: #420 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

sand-wich

Greek taco.

431
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:56:06am

re: #427 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

When Mrs. Fish and I were in Rome, we felt a bit self-conscious for being “those Americans” who showed up at a restaurant at 11:00 AM wondering why they weren’t open yet. Well, yeah, because the city barely even gets moving until like 1 in the afternoon.

Or Americans who go to dinner at a Spanish restaurant at 8pm and wonder why they are not serving yet…

432
wrenchwench  May 5, 2021 • 9:57:07am

re: #428 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is as much Finnish I will ever learn, or rather “Puuhutko Englantia?” (Do you speak English?)

I can still say, ‘Where is the train to Athens?’ That’s come in handy. Never.

433
Mike Lamb  May 5, 2021 • 9:57:13am

re: #428 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is as much Finnish I will ever learn, or rather “Puuhutko Englantia?” (Do you speak English?)

Finnish kids are all taught like 4 languages, since hardly anyone speaks Finnish. You can find something that both you and they speak eventually…

434
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:57:32am

re: #430 Belafon

Greek taco.

In Germany, they say “gyros” with pretty much the Original pronunciation, but for that they totally butcher “gnocchi” (Gnotschi)

435
Dr Lizardo  May 5, 2021 • 9:58:41am

re: #411 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

“Keh-bahb”.

436
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 9:59:03am

re: #431 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or Americans who go to dinner at a Spanish restaurant at 8pm and wonder why they are not serving yet…

At least we had the decency to understand and deal with it, instead of being the asshole Americans who complained about it. There was also a lovely little place across the square from the Pantheon that served breakfast at like 10:30, which was nice.

437
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 9:59:08am

re: #433 Mike Lamb

Finnish kids are all taught like 4 languages, since hardly anyone speaks Finnish. You can find something that both you and they speak eventually…

That is another reason.

I like Finland, a good buddy lives there and I enjoy visiting and could imagine having a vacation cabin on a lake with a sauna and all but could never, ever imagine living there.

Not for the cold, I grew up in the Midwest where the extremes are nearly as extreme but for the extremes of daylight or lack there of and for the extremes of alcohol consumption.

I had two shots of vodka at Easter and that comprises nearly half of what I have consumed so far all this year.

438
lawhawk  May 5, 2021 • 9:59:20am

re: #435 Dr Lizardo

“Keh-bahb”.

Schwarma.

439
🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 10:00:35am

re: #395 Eclectic Cyborg

Adelson is dead so safe to assume it won’t be him.

But his wife is alive

440
Dave In Austin  May 5, 2021 • 10:01:08am

re: #396 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

441
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 10:02:44am

CNBC reports that a federal judge has just struck down the CDC’s moratorium on evictions. Let the clusterfuck commence!

442
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 10:03:29am

re: #441 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

CNBC reports that a federal judge has just struck down the CDC’s moratorium on evictions. Let the clusterfuck commence!

Labor shortages in the fast food industry are now a thing of the past!!!

443
Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 10:04:25am

re: #441 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

CNBC reports that a federal judge has just struck down the CDC’s moratorium on evictions. Let the clusterfuck commence!

Let me guess: Trump appointee?

444
b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 10:04:31am

I will be very disappointed if Liz Cheney goes away quietly and without burning the place down to the ground, that goes against everything her family stands for.

445
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  May 5, 2021 • 10:04:50am

re: #443 Eclectic Cyborg

Let me guess: Trump appointee?

Done in one.

446
So Cal Greek Hippie  May 5, 2021 • 10:04:53am

re: #411 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The view from So Cal:
If spittle ain’t coming out of the back of your throat, you are not pronouncing “gyro” correctly…

447
Dave In Austin  May 5, 2021 • 10:08:28am

re: #439 🌹UOJB!

But his wife is alive

She was alway alive. And she’s always been in charge.

448
The Pie Overlord!  May 5, 2021 • 10:10:59am
449
A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 5, 2021 • 10:14:46am

re: #357 cat-tikvah

Biblical mistranslations:
See also: “A young woman will conceive” versus “a virgin will conceive”

This is from the Septuagint, the Greek translation (by Jews) of the bible, so “alma,” which has no connotations of virginity became “parthenos,” which does.

But there really wasn’t another good word to use in translating it.

450
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 5, 2021 • 10:16:22am

re: #106 No Malarkey!

Speaking of which, Kushner should be indicted.

There’s a very good sub thread under that one. And yes, it’s equally infuriating.

451
Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 10:18:28am

re: #448 The Pie Overlord!

I’m looking forward to the idiots who circumvent Trumps ban by posting his lies from his blog to social media getting themselves banned. It will be an “outrage.”

452
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 10:19:49am
453
A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 5, 2021 • 10:20:17am

re: #373 Dangerman

big drama in woodpecker land today

a black bird - probably a grackle or somesuch came along and fought one of
woodpeckers then took over the hole in the tree

the two woodpeckers flew off

the black bird sat in the hold poking its head out for a bit then apparently left

because the woodpecker is back in the hole, now poking its head out

im guessing there were no eggs or chicks yet when the marauder squatted for 30 minutes

all’s well again (for now)

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When the juncos were nesting in the laundry room, they would fly away (and chirp anxiously from a distance) whenever a human came in. Even when there were eggs or chicks there.

454
🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 10:21:50am

As if I wasn’t getting enough bad luck today…

Rocket debris from China’s space launch is on its way back to Earth — and scientists have no idea where it will fall

alternet.org

455
Punish Domestic Terrorists  May 5, 2021 • 10:22:49am

re: #450 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

>) Putin ordered Trump to destroy the US from the inside out

Probably not. Trump’s a useful flattery-driven idiot. He’s not smart or brave enough to be intentionally destroying America from the inside. He’s just that much of a fuckup that making him President was extremely destructive to the nation.

456
cat-tikvah  May 5, 2021 • 10:23:41am

re: #449 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

And voila! Inerrant proof text!

457
Eclectic Cyborg  May 5, 2021 • 10:25:27am

re: #454 🌹UOJB!

As if I wasn’t getting enough bad luck today…

Rocket debris from China’s space launch is on its way back to Earth — and scientists have no idea where it will fall

alternet.org

Can we hope for Mar-A-Lago?

/

458
b.d. (Old School Cheney Hater)  May 5, 2021 • 10:26:36am

re: #454 🌹UOJB!

As if I wasn’t getting enough bad luck today…

Rocket debris from China’s space launch is on its way back to Earth — and scientists have no idea where it will fall

alternet.org

Why didn’t they steal some of our re-entry technology?

459
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 5, 2021 • 10:27:48am
460
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 5, 2021 • 10:31:54am

re: #190 Targetpractice

The GQP still want it to be 1955 where the family man with a high school diploma in hand works a 40 hour work week at the local auto plant making enough in a single paycheck to not only keep his wife in nylons and new shoes on his kids feet, but can also afford a home in suburbia with a big yard, brand new mid-range family sedan, all the latest gadgets around the house, and still have money left over for Junior’s college fund and perhaps a week’s vacation once a year.

Worse, IMO. Republicans do not want women to have providence over their own lives. They want women to be reliant on a man, any man, no matter what (beatings are Okie dokie). They’ve outright said that.

461
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 5, 2021 • 10:35:35am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thread, eleven tweets, predicting Trump will return to Facebook and why (because Facebook wants him back).

Facebook said no. But Trump doesn’t need either Facebook or Twitter. His entire platform was explicitly desigo to allow his cult followers to post his comments on other platforms under their accounts thus skirting his own ban.

Well that and the $$$ grift.

462
Charles Johnson  May 5, 2021 • 10:36:46am
463
Dangerman  May 5, 2021 • 10:39:17am

re: #394 lawhawk

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Will there be a separate “only vaccinated today” section?

464
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 5, 2021 • 10:40:59am

re: #454 🌹UOJB!

As if I wasn’t getting enough bad luck today…

Rocket debris from China’s space launch is on its way back to Earth — and scientists have no idea where it will fall

alternet.org

Devo Space Junk

465
danarchy  May 5, 2021 • 10:41:00am

re: #459 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I had one of those, actually I had 2 of those because I left the first one in a cab in NYC.

466
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 5, 2021 • 10:42:57am

re: #268 Dangerman

woodpecker outside my window

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TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

Dangerman’s life for the foreseeable future.

467
🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 10:46:42am

re: #448 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

Awwwww…she can’t figure that out…

468
Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 11:08:10am

re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They make it sound like Trump is being banned entirely for his politics and not for repeatedly and egregiously violating the TOS.

Yep. I got kicked out of Golden Corral because I had on a Biden shirt, not because I took a shit on the salad bar.

469
sagehen  May 5, 2021 • 11:16:48am

re: #413 DesertDenizen

In my international travel experience, there is a certain sort of American traveller who expects other countries to bend over backwards for them and to do things the US way. These are the same assholes that will argue that vaccine passports don’t apply to them because they’re ‘Muricans. And they won’t be vaccinated, for the same reason.

And when someone they’re speaking to doesn’t understand English… they speak louder. Because that’ll help.

470
🌹UOJB!  May 5, 2021 • 11:18:21am

re: #468 Eventual Carrion

Yep. I got kicked out of Golden Corral because I had on a Biden shirt, not because I took a shit on the salad bar.

Memories of a bunch of couple Golden Corrals in the Los Angeles area which were shut down due to vermin infestation. No way in hell would I ever step foot in one!

471
sagehen  May 5, 2021 • 11:18:46am

re: #424 wrenchwench

One of my proudest achievements when I was in Greece was when I learned to say ‘I do not speak Greek’ so well, nobody would believe me.

I can say “where is the train station?” in 7 languages.

472
sagehen  May 5, 2021 • 11:28:04am

re: #427 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

When Mrs. Fish and I were in Rome, we felt a bit self-conscious for being “those Americans” who showed up at a restaurant at 11:00 AM wondering why they weren’t open yet. Well, yeah, because the city barely even gets moving until like 1 in the afternoon.

when I was in Rome, staying at a youth hostel, a dozen of Americans convinced a local restaurant to stay open 2 hours past their normal closing time when we explained that Thanksgiving was a feast day back home and we wanted to eat A WHOLE LOT OF EVERYTHING.

473
sagehen  May 5, 2021 • 11:36:26am

re: #454 🌹UOJB!

As if I wasn’t getting enough bad luck today…

Rocket debris from China’s space launch is on its way back to Earth — and scientists have no idea where it will fall

alternet.org

please, dear god, let it land on Mar-a-Lago.

474
sagehen  May 5, 2021 • 11:38:48am

re: #466 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

TAP TAP TAP.

Dangerman’s life for the foreseeable future.

when it starts sending messages in Morse Code, that’s when he’ll know he’s in trouble.

475
Eventual Carrion  May 5, 2021 • 11:58:32am

re: #448 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

I know. When I saw it was a “blog” I went there specifically to get kick off because of my comments. But alas, no where to comment or interact. So I just put some crap in the entry boxes for notifications of new posts by TFG and left it at that.


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