We are going to be chasing our tail over Covid, especially thanks to all the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers in America, so this is also indirectly benefitting us.
Operation Underground Railroad… What a group of creepy grifters for Mormon Jesus.
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IT’S GOHMERT! https://t.co/w5KKpFV0iQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
Also have a 2lb slab in dry rub for gravalax.
4lbs of brined salmon. Ready for the cold smoke by Saturday. pic.twitter.com/Pjnp974uwj
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 10, 2021
HELP! I got too close to the side of my Dodge minivan and was instantly grabbed and spread across the surface, completely immobilized by the magnetic attraction of a ton and half of steel! I can barely breathe and the buzzards are starting to circle! Please hurry! AAARGHH!
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) June 10, 2021
Damn.
Two people including a child shot dead at a Publix in Florida and the shooter is also dead according to the police…
re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Look how this key stuck to my cleavage!
Wait… foreign leaders thanking our president for his leadership? That’s new.
re: #8 darthstar
Wait… foreign leaders thanking our president for his leadership? That’s new.
And yet also old.
How come we haven’t heard any stories of vaccinated people being utterly ripped apart while undergoing a MRI?
re: #3 Charles Johnson
And he saw no reason to pass that information on to anyone else, until now.
some excitement at dark-30 yesterday morning in TheBackwoods neighborhood.
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re: #11 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And he saw no reason to pass that information on to anyone else, until now.
Really. Matt Gaetz mentioned it right away!
re: #9 Belafon
And yet also old.
I enjoyed hearing our ambassador to the UN (I think it was her) on the news this morning saying flat out that we hadn’t had any diplomatic direction for the last four years…or something like that. Most critical comment on Trump yet. We need more of this.
re: #8 darthstar
Wait… foreign leaders thanking our president for his leadership? That’s new.
Global confidence in the US president jumped 58 points from Trump to Biden in a dozen major countries https://t.co/hIG1zNQ9ob
— Politics Insider (@PoliticsInsider) June 10, 2021
re: #10 Egregious Philbin
How come we haven’t heard any stories of vaccinated people being utterly ripped apart while undergoing a MRI?
Or being able to pull yourself away from your vaccinated spouse post-hug
Unless you repel and can’t get close enough in the first place
re: #10 Egregious Philbin
How come we haven’t heard any stories of vaccinated people being utterly ripped apart while undergoing a MRI?
It’s a conspiracy of course. Mind you, it’d probably be the opposite - that MRIs are getting ripped apart by the magnetism of those with the vaccinations, but we haven’t heard about that either, for entirely predictable reasons.
NEW: Former RUDY GIULIANI associates PAVEL FUKS & ANDRII TELIZHENKO are sued by an estranged associate of Fuks who alleges Fuks (a developer who once discussed a Moscow project with TRUMP) is “an agent of Russian intelligence services, & a money launderer” https://t.co/D9x149wnMY
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) June 10, 2021
re: #19 Ace Rothstein
I’m a white man who has never experienced systemic racism, therefore it must not exist!
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re: #19 Ace Rothstein
Conroe, TX. WAKE UP AMERICA!!11!!!!
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re: #19 Ace Rothstein
Conroe, TX. WAKE UP AMERICA!!11!!!!
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I guess I should have just accepted all the anti-Semitism I’ve experienced all my life since that Texan says everything is peachy keen!
re: #19 Ace Rothstein
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re: #19 Ace Rothstein
Conroe, TX. WAKE UP AMERICA!!11!!!!
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They mean “go back to sleep.” That’s what the fragile racist white people who do not want change want.
A small number of cases of myocarditis in very young people after the Pfizer vaccine.
re: #16 Dangerman
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I’m sure we will be seeing/hearing (probably by tonight) the predictable caterwauling out of the starboard bilges about how this “proves” Joe Biden is a disloyal sellout and his Administration an utter failure/debacle; with the usual “arguments” (sic) —
1. Who cares what a bunch of stupid dirty foreigners think?
2. If the SDFs like Biden better than Trump, then he (Joe) must be doing something wrong;
3. Repeat Point 1.
I have to admit I would really prefer late night talk show hosts to continue recording in their homes and wear normal clothes instead of fcking suits. Do we really need these outdated conventions? Let’s make a break. Now’s the time.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
The Tokyo Olympics are going to be a disaster. It doesn’t help that tens of thousands of volunteers quit because of the pandemic. Majority of Japanese don’t want to host the games with the pandemic ongoing, and it doesn’t help that only a small percentage of Japanese are fully vaccinated.
Ten thousand Olympic volunteers quit their posts in Tokyo, with the games just 50 days away. https://t.co/t9f5Co626q
— The Nation (@thenation) June 10, 2021
I’m absolutely smacked of gob learning that Japan has vaccinated *checks notes* 3% of its population. That’s absolutely insane.
Costs for the games are probably approaching $30 billion (or twice what they estimated the games would cost), and the country couldn’t afford even that lower number.
I looked at the replies to somebody’s tweet about the magnetic idiocy, and good lord there are a lot of people buying into this happy horseshit.
My western expedition to attend my brother’s wedding ended last night with my return to a rainy Philadelphia.
The train trip to Albuquerque was interesting, but am not sure I’d repeat it for that destination. Sagebrush or juniper/pinon desert gets a but boring after a while. But there were considerable wildlife sightings from the observation car as well; turkey, bison, deer, antelope, elk, fox, and plenty of hawks and smaller birds. (I’d consider a train trip through the Rockies further north for the scenery though.) Flight back was the usual hell of sitting in airports and then 6-8 hours total between two flights of being crammed into a coach seat on a fully booked airliner. (Faster, a touch cheaper, but pretty much enduring things rather than trying to enjoy the train.)
And I really sort of just touched the tips of things in New Mexico. Plenty to still visit or even revisit if I get back down that way. White Sands was pretty awesome and is essentially unique. Santa Fe, Taos, and the Rio Grande Gorge were all interesting to walk about it. And only was in a few museums or parks between Santa Fe and Albuquerque itself. And the hikes in the surrounding mountains with the science team* were fun, but tiring.
Was staying in places via AirBnB the entire trip. I’d rate it well above staying in motels since often I am simply looking for a bedroom and bathroom for overnight stays. I stayed in six different places and had varying experiences. Most were rental places where I never met or saw the people I was renting from and I’d essentially have the run of a house or townhouse. In others I was in a couple’s home and essentially up in the morning drinking coffee with them like a house guest. And the rates were comparable or cheaper than what I was seeing as hotel rates - with fairly good feedback mechanisms for anything I was unhappy with.
Food and beer was pretty good. The green chile obsession is something to get used to. (Though I also got two jars of salsa and some pistachios home with me as well.)
The wedding went off without a hitch.
And Floof Cat is very happy to have the regular staff back on the job.
* - The “science team” is my joke name for doing hikes with some combination of my brother, sister-in-law, and niece. Two geologists and a biologist who specializes in insects is a pretty useful information source on hikes.
re: #28 Jay C
I’m sure we will be seeing/hearing (probably by tonight) the predictable caterwauling out of the starboard bilges about how this “proves” Joe Biden is a disloyal sellout and his Administration an utter failure/debacle, with the usual “arguments” (sic) —
1. Who cares what a bunch of stupid dirty foreigners think?
2. If the SDFs like Biden better than Trump, then he (Joe) must be doing something wrong;
3. Repeat Point 1.
I’ve seen what Trump supporters look like. You can almost smell them through the screen. They do not get to call anyone dirty, and of course the fact that they’re in no position to call anyone stupid has been obvious for years.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
I looked at the replies to somebody’s tweet about the magnetic idiocy, and good lord there are a lot of people buying into this happy horseshit.
I got this vaccination and the only superpower I got was identifying bulkshit from a mile away. /I want my money back… I want a real superpower like control magnetism.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
I looked at the replies to somebody’s tweet about the magnetic idiocy, and good lord there are a lot of people buying into this happy horseshit.
Every stupid thing that uneducated people were into when I was a kid is coming back.
We make zero progress as a whole. It’s just a small subset of smart people who move us forward.
The pandemic is not nearly over.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
I’m concerned that all this talk about how well America is doing with vaccinations is giving people a completely false sense of safety. The pandemic is still raging across the world, new variations are being discovered daily, and we live in a connected world where disease can spread across the globe in a matter of days. Now is not the time to think everybody’s safe.
re: #30 lawhawk
The Tokyo Olympics are going to be a disaster. It doesn’t help that tens of thousands of volunteers quit because of the pandemic. Majority of Japanese don’t want to host the games with the pandemic ongoing, and it doesn’t help that only a small percentage of Japanese are fully vaccinated.
I’m absolutely smacked of gob learning that Japan has vaccinated *checks notes* 3% of its population. That’s absolutely insane.
Costs for the games are probably approaching $30 billion (or twice what they estimated the games would cost), and the country couldn’t afford even that lower number.
I can’t help but think it may be time to put the Olympic games as we know them to rest. I know they are great showcases for amateur athletes but it seems as time goes on they continually get larger and more costly (in terms of both environmental and financial costs) and are infamous for leaving host cities in debt and stuck with a bunch of infrastructure they may not want or need.
Perhaps, smaller, separate competitions in individual sports classes (i.e. track and field, swimming, martial arts/contact sports, etc.) every few years in separate cities that existing infrastructure can handle is the way to go instead of packing the whole world into one city for two extremely long weeks.
re: #34 lawhawk
I got this vaccination and the only superpower I got was identifying bulkshit from a mile away. /I want my money back… I want a real superpower like control magnetism.
My brother says that my superpower is to find parking places.
Which mainly stems from driving in Paris in 2016 and me driving up the hill in Montmatre and finding a parking place right in front of the Basilica.
On this vacation it was getting to a construction area where you had to wait for a “follow me” car to lead you through the 4-mile long zone. We waited for 20+ minutes outbound. On the way back I got there right when the lead car was turning around to lead the next group through.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
I’m concerned that all this talk about how well America is doing with vaccinations is giving people a completely false sense of safety. The pandemic is still raging across the world, new variations are being discovered daily, and we live in a connected world where disease can spread across the globe in a matter of days. Now is not the time to think everybody’s safe.
THANK YOU!!
I agree one million percent. People are letting their guard down way too much. Hell, most people on my social media (and they aren’t just conservatives) are acting like the pandemic is over.
You’re vaccinated? Great, I’m happy for you. I’m vaccinated too. Am I stepping out a little more? Yes, but I’m also still being smart about things. KEEPING PEOPLE SAFE IS IMPORTANT WHETHER YOU ARE VACCINATED OR NOT.
America is doing well but other countries? Not so much. Several Canadian provinces are just coming out of lockdowns. Ask my friends up north how fucking sick they are of this pandemic by now.
A reminder that racism is everywhere.
Argentina’s president says that unlike Mexicans who came from Indians (he meant indigenous peoples) and Brazilians who came from the jungle, the Argentines are European. As if to say that that fact makes his corrupt, economically devastated country somehow better. FUCK. HIM. https://t.co/xoXQEQYRMe
— ✨ Ed🤦🏽♂️ ✨ (@edcitoo) June 10, 2021
re: #24 JOE 🥓
I guess I should have just accepted all the anti-Semitism I’ve experienced all my life since that Texan says everything is peachy keen!
See, the thing is you have privilege because you see reality, not like those poor oppressed white people.
re: #30 lawhawk
The Tokyo Olympics are going to be a disaster. It doesn’t help that tens of thousands of volunteers quit because of the pandemic. Majority of Japanese don’t want to host the games with the pandemic ongoing, and it doesn’t help that only a small percentage of Japanese are fully vaccinated.
I’m absolutely smacked of gob learning that Japan has vaccinated *checks notes* 3% of its population. That’s absolutely insane.
Costs for the games are probably approaching $30 billion (or twice what they estimated the games would cost), and the country couldn’t afford even that lower number.
That’s about the same percentage as India (also around 3% fully vaccinated).
Japan’s Olympic Committee is providing free condoms (which has been done at most recent Olympics), but isn’t providing masks to everyone. They’re not mandating vaccinations for everyone, they’re not giving individual rooms for athletes, and the doctor’s assigned to the various locations are quitting because they’re needed at Japanese hospitals.
I wonder if the IOC’s notorious arrogance has rubbed off on the Japanese Olympic Committee in their determination to hold the Olympics at any cost.
re: #40 Patricia Kayden
My Cuban neighbor in Miami told me Cubans were superior to all other western hemisphere Hispanics because they killed all the Indians instead of intermarrying.
re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t help but think it may be time to put the Olympic games as we know them to rest. I know they are great showcases for amateur athletes but it seems as time goes on they continually get larger and more costly (in terms of both environmental and financial costs) and are infamous for leaving host cities in debt and stuck with a bunch of infrastructure they may not want or need.
Perhaps, smaller, separate competitions in individual sports classes (i.e. track and field, swimming, martial arts/contact sports, etc.) every few years in separate cities that existing infrastructure can handle is the way to go instead of packing the whole world into one city for two extremely long weeks.
The usual suspects always claim that this will be a net benefit for the host city/country, and that they’ll have infrastructure they can use/repurpose after.
Only a handful of games have ever broken even, and Los Angeles is one - mostly because they repurposed/reused prior facilities wherever possible. Some Games have left host cities deeply in debt and are still paying them off - like Montreal. I get the need for the sports competitions, but they just serve to cost the hosts money they’ll never get back in economic benefits.
Koch-and-switch popular.info
Judd Legum
Meet the new Charles Koch. Same as the old Charles Koch.
re: #45 Patricia Kayden
I remember him whenever I hear anyone surprised that Hispanic voters in Florida tend to be conservative.
re: #44 lawhawk
People continuously overestimate how much hosting a sporting event brings in, and underestimate how much building those new facilities costs. It’d be interesting to see a side-by-side of estimates vs. reality for both of those metrics for All-Star Games, championship games, and Olympics (especially) over the years.
re: #32 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That’s pretty much why I plan to take Amtrak round trip to Memphis from St Paul in October. Even switching trains in Chicago is nothing compared to the hell that is commercial aviation.
Important question by Swalwell.
FBI Director Wray’s response is strangely evasive and muddled.@RepSwalwell: “Prior to January 6th did the FBI receive any tips from social media companies about threats to the Capitol?” pic.twitter.com/aaVfWCUlLG— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 10, 2021
re: #27 BlueSpotinAL
A small number of cases of myocarditis in very young people after the Pfizer vaccine.
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re: #40 Patricia Kayden
A reminder that racism is everywhere.
I’ve heard the same from Argentinians before (minus the comments about Mexicans and Brazilians.).
Of course recent genetic studies show that most Argentine’s have native ancestry in at least one line if not both parental lines, and the contribution of Native DNA is, if not as high as it is in Mexico (largely because lots of recent Italian and other European immigration), is still very high.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
I’m concerned that all this talk about how well America is doing with vaccinations is giving people a completely false sense of safety. The pandemic is still raging across the world, new variations are being discovered daily, and we live in a connected world where disease can spread across the globe in a matter of days. Now is not the time to think everybody’s safe.
There are still thousands of Americans dying every week of Covid. It’s not remotely over.
re: #27 BlueSpotinAL
A small number of cases of myocarditis in very young people after the Pfizer vaccine.
How many fatal (AFAIK — none), how many with possible long term consequences (AFAIK — none).
However I do have a terrible pain in the arm I was first injected in, so let’s stop the vaccination campaign now (I think I tore a muscle).
There is no greater comedy finale than Glenn Greenwald looping all the way around to “well, if the government says so, that’s good enough for me.” https://t.co/IA3rE7orex
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) June 10, 2021
re: #31 Charles Johnson
I looked at the replies to somebody’s tweet about the magnetic idiocy, and good lord there are a lot of people buying into this happy horseshit.
Here in France the mythology about that is that you can make your cellphone stick to the arm you were vaccinated in.
It usually works, but for reasons that have nothing to do with vaccination of course.
The HBO Max app is terrible. It loses track of subscriptions via YouTube TV, requiring a logout and log back in to fix, but the app is too crappy to handle the login itself, so you have to use a phone or PC to authorize the app. After doing that, I’m looking at please wait dots that look like they’ll never stop.
How does it keep getting dumber pic.twitter.com/E9qRdXAzVy
— 🦎SwampLizard🦎 (@DiscoTempoJazz) June 10, 2021
re: #44 lawhawk
The usual suspects always claim that this will be a net benefit for the host city/country, and that they’ll have infrastructure they can use/repurpose after.
Only a handful of games have ever broken even, and Los Angeles is one - mostly because they repurposed/reused prior facilities wherever possible. Some Games have left host cities deeply in debt and are still paying them off - like Montreal. I get the need for the sports competitions, but they just serve to cost the hosts money they’ll never get back in economic benefits.
I read an article a few years ago about how all the Rio 2016 infrastructure is ALREADY a complete fucking mess and this was less than FOUR years after those games.
HBO Max app only works with my Apple TV. Does not work on anything else and I keep getting the “not authorized” on every other device even after I log out.
re: #57 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The HBO Max app is terrible. It loses track of subscriptions via YouTube TV, requiring a logout and log back in to fix, but the app is too crappy to handle the login itself, so you have to use a phone or PC to authorize the app. After doing that, I’m looking at please wait dots that look like they’ll never stop.
I primarily use HBO Max on my iPad. It seems to work reasonable well there. My wifes Apple TV on the other hand…
Some people are just trash.
Matt Schembechler, the son of the late University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, said the team’s former doctor, Robert Anderson, sexually assaulted him when he was 10. But when he told his dad about it, the legendary coach did nothing to stop it—and even used violence to keep him quiet, he says.
Famed Michigan Coach’s Son: Dad Punched Me When I Disclosed Sexual Abuse (The Daily Beast)
re: #60 JOE 🥓
HBO Max app only works with my Apple TV. Does not work on anything else and I keep getting the “not authorized” on every other device even after I log out.
Rebooting my Shield after the reauthorization fixed it. I just wish I didn’t have to jump through a lot of hoops to play a movie.
re: #60 JOE 🥓
Weird, I’ve used it on both a Fire Stick and PS4.
re: #49 William Lewis
That’s pretty much why I plan to take Amtrak round trip to Memphis from St Paul in October. Even switching trains in Chicago is nothing compared to the hell that is commercial aviation.
Friends went Amtrak from Birmingham to Chicago. Had to go through New Orleans!
A friend was out today distributing flyers for a vaccine clinic, and at one of her first stops the guy said he didn’t need it, “I’ve been vaccinated by the Holy Spirit!” Welcome to rural Kentucky.
— Teri Carter (@teri_atthepaper) June 10, 2021
re: #67 BlueSpotinAL
Friends went Amtrak from Birmingham to Chicago. Had to go through New Orleans!
Still planning to ride the Coast Starlight later this year round trip from LA to Seattle when they bring the dining cars back with full meal service. I looked at the nutrition data on the “Flexible dining” and it’s too high in carbs.
Next, the Holy Spirit can intubate them. Too many Americans do not understand that religion cannot substitute for vaccines, science, or any kind of research.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 10, 2021
re: #66 JOE 🥓
Naah, Joe; that effect has to be from the Rothschild Space Laser: ordinary 5G rads won’t magnetize plastic tableware…..
re: #69 JOE 🥓
Still planning to ride the Coast Starlight later this year round trip from LA to Seattle when they bring the dining cars back with full meal service. I looked at the nutrition data on the “Flexible dining” and it’s too high in carbs.
I looked at Amtrak for a trip from Chicago to Sacramento a couple of years ago. It cost as much as flying, but would have taken much longer. Fortunately, my friend who lived in Sacramento lives a few towns over now, so I don’t have a reason to fly or take a train.
I’m gonna have to mute this guy. Not worth arguing with someone like this, but he’s absolutely demonstrating my point about a false sense of safety.
This New Yorker says it almost is; no new cases in my circles, plus +95% mask compliance here! Maybe it’s worse where you are, and that’s not good; however it doesn’t mean that those who are vaccinated need to be living in fear like we were a year ago
— Darian Fernando (@darianfernando) June 10, 2021
re: #68 jaunte
“Be sure to mention that to God after the virus kills you. “
re: #74 Charles Johnson
He’ll be fine until Holy Spirit guy comes to town.
re: #75 William Lewis
“I sent you vaccines, I sent you Fauci…”
re: #30 lawhawk
The Tokyo Olympics are going to be a disaster. It doesn’t help that tens of thousands of volunteers quit because of the pandemic. Majority of Japanese don’t want to host the games with the pandemic ongoing, and it doesn’t help that only a small percentage of Japanese are fully vaccinated.
I’m absolutely smacked of gob learning that Japan has vaccinated *checks notes* 3% of its population. That’s absolutely insane.
Maybe they should be near the top of our list for who to give vaccines too.
re: #74 Charles Johnson
Looking at his profile, I’m surprised you didn’t mute/block him earlier.
re: #43 jaunte
My Cuban neighbor in Miami told me Cubans were superior to all other western hemisphere Hispanics because they killed all the Indians instead of intermarrying.
Based upon my experience of living in the city of Miami for three decades - apparently your Cuban neighbor has never met a 3rd generation European Argentinean.
A discussion between the Cuban and the Argentinean as to which is the superior culture would be interesting.
re: #57 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The HBO Max app is terrible. It loses track of subscriptions via YouTube TV, requiring a logout and log back in to fix, but the app is too crappy to handle the login itself, so you have to use a phone or PC to authorize the app. After doing that, I’m looking at please wait dots that look like they’ll never stop.
Fact check: 100% correct.
We chromecast from HBO Max and it never remembers where we are in our bingeing of shows (currently GoT), and restart/reset of the app/page is necessary far too often.
Disney’s app isn’t that much better.
So you think because you don’t see any new cases near you, it’s all over? Well, it isn’t worth arguing with you, but you’re demonstrating my point about a false sense of safety very well.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
re: #80 BeenHereAwhile
I think I heard a couple of those while I was there!
re: #68 jaunte
THE MASQUE OF THE RED STATE DEATH CONTINUES!
re: #75 William Lewis
“Be sure to mention that to God after the virus kills you. “
As the song goes, “He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass”
re: #47 jaunte
I remember him whenever I hear anyone surprised that Hispanic voters in Florida tend to be conservative.
Brigade 2056 will never let them forget.
re: #66 JOE 🥓
Help! It’s True! I’m Magnetized from the 5G Towers!
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Wow! Even plastic sticks to you (with a little piece of tape) 😂
re: #59 Eclectic Cyborg
I read an article a few years ago about how all the Rio 2016 infrastructure is ALREADY a complete fucking mess and this was less than FOUR years after those games.
London and Paris managed to minimize the infrastructure damage from the Games and repurposed or recycled those temporary facilities. Heck, China’s let a bunch of their Beijing facilities go fallow. Athens is epitome of wasted facilities (and we have this discussion every few years - that Athens should be the official home of Olympic Summer games as a boost to their economy instead of having to have competitions and build facilities that are for most part single-use/single purpose for a few weeks at most). End this nonsense about having to scam/hold competitions to see who hosts games, bribes of officials, and then countries that can’t afford to host games spend billions better used on other purposes.
I wish Glenn Beck would crawl back into the toilet where Rush Limbaugh gave birth to him.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) June 10, 2021
Oh shit. I missed this, and now I must get caught up.
Good afternoon, all -
A hearing in the frivolous LOLsuit that the Job Creators network filed against Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association is scheduled to kick off in about 15 minutes. I’m going to be livetweeting the hearing in this thread.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
Israel was in the market for two atomic clocks. Now it’s not https://t.co/ez8wuJfmQh
The lawsuit attempting to compel MLB to host the ASG in Atlanta or else get $1 billion in damages is holding a hearing currently, and it’s going exactly as one would predict.
Good afternoon, all -
A hearing in the frivolous LOLsuit that the Job Creators network filed against Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association is scheduled to kick off in about 15 minutes. I’m going to be livetweeting the hearing in this thread.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
Oooh, no, don’t say “Guess what, it doesn’t matter” to the judge, Howie.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
This isn’t going to end well for the right wing loons trying to get money from MLB or to force the ASG to be held in Atlanta.
Hey, Charles! Fourth contact attempt!
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re: #93 lawhawk
The lawsuit attempting to compel MLB to host the ASG in Atlanta or else get $1 billion in damages is holding a hearing currently, and it’s going exactly as one would predict.
This isn’t going to end well for the right wing loons trying to get money from MLB or to force the ASG to be held in Atlanta.
This part doesn’t bode well.
This judge is so angry at him
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) June 10, 2021
Judge has just pointed out that 48 other states don’t have the game.
Kleinhendler: “But they promised it to us”
Judge: But you’re not Georgia or Cobb County.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
Oops.
re: #58 No Malarkey!
I’m dumber just for having read that. Sigh.
re: #94 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
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where are views 1 through 6? https://t.co/qEu3cEeCRx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
— Frank Lynch (@FLynch2020) June 10, 2021
Here is CNN, pulling a Toobin by pulling out a dick and having us watch it on camera https://t.co/JIpr1tzvGm
— dustin (@vodkasnowflake) June 10, 2021
When you get to the Timecube stage of the argument, you might just want to pack up your stuff and go home.
Judge Caproni is now arguing with Kleinhendler about the nature of linear time.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
My head always translates this as “Moron Label.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
re: #101 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Dude is fucking lucky. Most people wouldn’t HAVE a job to go back to after a stunt like that.
re: #103 Charles Johnson
Every time.
re: #91 Dopamine Fish
It’s going very, very badly for the plaintiff’s attorney.
re: #103 Charles Johnson
D-do these people realize that if the government really wanted to “come and take them”, they absolutely could, at any time? I’d like to see what his little pea shooters do when an M1A1 Abrams rocks up. Or how he fares in a sniping competition with a man who’s trained to hit a man-sized target at 1,000 yards.
re: #95 Dopamine Fish
Kleinhendler was trying to argue that Baseball was intimidating the GA leg. Judge Caproni is pointing out that it’s hard to intimidate them to keep them from doing a thing they had already finished doing. And apparently still is trying to argue this.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
It’s rather fitting that today is also Bobby V day -the anniversary of the day Bobby V got ejected from a Mets game, only to return to the dugout wearing sunglasses and a mustache. Because this is a clownshow of epic proportions.
The judge should rightfully kill this lawsuit and refer for sanctions. The only question is whether they’ll issue the judgment today or wait to issue an opinion (I’m laying odds on waiting a few days to issue the opinion for the record and to make it appeal-proof)..
re: #80 BeenHereAwhile
Based upon my experience of living in the city of Miami for three decades - apparently your Cuban neighbor has never met a 3rd generation European Argentinean.
A discussion between the Cuban and the Argentinean as to which is the superior culture would be interesting.
So, is it anything like Native Virginian vs Native Texan?
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
D-do these people realize that if the government really wanted to “come and take them”, they absolutely could, at any time? I’d like to see what his little pea shooters do when an M1A1 Abrams rocks up. Or how he fares in a sniping competition with a man who’s trained to hit a man-sized target at 1,000 yards.
I’d like to see a yokel with an AR-15 take on a drone. These people are morons, just like we saw on the 6th.
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
When you get to the Timecube stage of the argument, you might just want to pack up your stuff and go home.
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OMFG - I just scrolled through Mike Dunford’s thread on the ASG “case”, and just WOW! I’m not even a lawyer, and I can see that that GA org’s “case” against MLB has holes in it the size of the Chicxulub Crater. Who were their consulting counsel? Kraken & Kraken, LLP??
re: #108 lawhawk
The judge is clearly having none of their shit.
For the nonlawyers:
Yeah, that’s a thing you don’t want the judge to say at you.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
I primarily use HBO Max on my iPad. It seems to work reasonable well there. My wifes Apple TV on the other hand…
Several times my daughter had to cast Wanda Vision from her phone to my tv because I just got the circle of death on my TV’s HBO Max app. It’s worked fairly well otherwise.
Judge: “Wait a minute, you can’t possibly think that.”
That’s a direct quote.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
Judge pointing out that there’s no difference between baseball and a company canceling a new factory because the state won’t change regulatory landscape.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
Apparently there’s no mechanism to launch a lawyer into the sun when they make a claim like this.
Kleinhendler now arguing his “it’s discrimination against Blacks because there are more Blacks in Georgia than Colorado.”
Judge just pointed out that Kleinhendler forgot to allege that the group has minority members at all.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
re: #36 Charles Johnson
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milestone 22 of a 26.2 mile race (or whatever)
(Kleinhendler has no credibility left with this judge. This would be bad for him if everything else that was bad for him didn’t dwarf that.)
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
It’s hard to claim that something doesn’t matter or you can fix it with a new filing, when it’s the critical issue to your case. There’s nothing this nitwit can provide that improves his case. Nothing.
re: #115 Punish Domestic Terrorists
When you need a lawyer, Twitter will probably now become the first place you wanna head to…..
re: #66 JOE 🥓
Help! It’s True! I’m Magnetized from the 5G Towers!
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re: #74 Charles Johnson
I’m gonna have to mute this guy. Not worth arguing with someone like this, but he’s absolutely demonstrating my point about a false sense of safety.
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it’s not like NY is an international hub or nothin’
This New Yorker says it almost is; no new cases in my circles, plus +95% mask compliance here! Maybe it’s worse where you are, and that’s not good; however it doesn’t mean that those who are vaccinated need to be living in fear like we were a year ago
— Darian Fernando (@darianfernando) June 10, 2021
A cafe in San Francisco, belonging to a Jewish store owner, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti last weekend, according to local ABC-affiliate ABC7 News.#SanFrancisco | #Antisemitism https://t.co/wjX9DaDI8z
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) June 10, 2021
re: #112 Dopamine Fish
The judge is clearly having none of their shit.
This is a very entertaining thread!
re: #122 Dangerman
And I’m sure his circles are perfectly representative of the city as a whole. And the country.
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re: #124 No Malarkey!
This is a very entertaining thread!
I’m dying on the inside watching this shitshow unfold. I can’t even imagine what I would say, as a judge, in that situation. Quoting the Billy Madison “I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul” speech just feels wrong.
re: #122 Dangerman
it’s not like NY is an international hub or nothin’
If he’s a public health doctor, fine.
If he isn’t, he should STFU.
re: #98 Charles Johnson
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re: #122 Dangerman
Because everyone knows the freaking New Yorker is an expert source on viral pandemics.
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Y’all can watch the ASG on tv (or not at all) like most Americans who don’t live in one of the handful of cities that has a MLB team.
For a bunch of folks who love to tout businesses should do as they please, they have a hard time when the business doesn’t do what they want.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 10, 2021
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
Considering that NYC has pockets where under 40% are vaccinated, I’d say that’s seriously premature.
No new cases is good. Mask compliance is good. Letting guard down is spectacularly awful b/c new variants are potentially more dangerous. pic.twitter.com/aelWKUFcS3— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 10, 2021
Trump-loving lawyer Lin Wood loses his lawsuit seeking to halt a psychiatric exam by the State Bar of Georgia
The judge said the disciplinary proceeding against Lin Wood should continue without interference from the federal courts.
The MAGA lawyer’s interpretation of the legal doctrine called “abstention” has no basis in law or logic, the judge said.
Link: https://t.co/5Knn4oZiG4 pic.twitter.com/V2RiKtgdYA— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) June 10, 2021
So CNN doesn’t draw the line at wanking in front of co-workers. Good to know. https://t.co/LS6lgCO962
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
re: #49 William Lewis
That’s pretty much why I plan to take Amtrak round trip to Memphis from St Paul in October. Even switching trains in Chicago is nothing compared to the hell that is commercial aviation.
I switched trains twice on the trip. (Useful that Albuquerque was a stop on the daily(?) Chicago-Los Angeles run.) First change was in Pittsburgh and the lay-over was long enough to meet a few friends there for a drink. Second layover was 3-4 hours in Chicago which was long enough to take a walk and get a sit-down lunch before the 24-hour or so run from there to Albuquerque. That layover was no worse than the one I had in DFW yesterday and I like having some cushion simply due to the delays that occur. (Train into Pittsburgh and into Chicago were both about an hour behind schedule.)
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CNN is finding it hard to rub Toobin out.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
re: #125 DesertDenizen
And I’m sure his circles are perfectly representative of the city as a whole. And the country.
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and zero consideration for the havent yet vaxxed or the compromised / can’t tolerate a vaccine
re: #136 Charles Johnson
And CNN just got finished cleaning up all that Santorum
The Fight for the Heart of the Southern Baptist Convention
Frankly I would love to see the Southern Fried Baptists collapse and shatter into pieces at their upcoming convention.
re: #133 Charles Johnson
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nope
i will not be ‘seeing’ jeffrey toobin ever - on cnn or anywhere else
What is it gonna take to get this jerk off TV?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
re: #141 Charles Johnson
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good thing the coffee cup was empty
CNN is finding it hard to rub Toobin out.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
re: #73 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I looked at Amtrak for a trip from Chicago to Sacramento a couple of years ago. It cost as much as flying, but would have taken much longer. Fortunately, my friend who lived in Sacramento lives a few towns over now, so I don’t have a reason to fly or take a train.
Essentially true. The train took longer (2 days verses ~10 hours) and cost about $40 more than the airline ticket. (Both were one-way.)
I was willing to spend the time* to test it out. Pro was that there no security lines**, requirement to be at the airport 2 hours before my flight, more legroom and space in general, plus a true ability to get up and move around a bit. (Plus at some of the stops they announced they would be there at least 15 minutes and you could leave the train and stretch your legs if you wanted.)
* - And a factor was that I live close to an Amtrak stop and thus wasn’t paying parking anywhere. Had to spend to get a taxi home last night from the airport.
** - Amtrak’s approach appears to be that they reserve the right to inspections of luggage and passengers. So I expect they might have teams about who appear to do this.
re: #80 BeenHereAwhile
Based upon my experience of living in the city of Miami for three decades - apparently your Cuban neighbor has never met a 3rd generation European Argentinean.
A discussion between the Cuban and the Argentinean as to which is the superior culture would be interesting.
Joke when I worked in the US Regional HQ of a Brazilian plastics producer was that the only way God could make an Argentinian popular with Brazilians was to make him Pope.
5 minutes of homework… but no, not this braintrust
Charlotte Observer: “County commissioners in North Carolina wanted to send a message to Coke by removing its vending machines from county property after the CEO spoke out against changes to Georgia’s voting laws.”
“But the machines didn’t belong to the Atlanta-based beverage giant. The 12 Coke vending machines… were owned and operated by Coca-Cola Consolidated, an independent bottling company headquartered in Charlotte.”
re: #141 Charles Johnson
Meteor of Death. Or that self reproducing Siberian worm from ancient times…
What if the dinosaurs died out because one day a brontosaurus woke up and said to
Itself…”Hmmmm…Sore throat, cough…I’m good. Hey Steve, check this out.”
Kentucky Supreme Court heard arguments on the legality of Governor Beshear’s pandemic mandates, which all end tomorrow anyway.
They are mad because the mask mandate is going to continue for another 8 hours?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 10, 2021
re: #141 Charles Johnson
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CNN is finding it hard to rub Toobin out.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
81-16: Senate confirms the first Muslim American federal judge in US history Zahid Quraishi, who will serve on US District Court for New Jersey. He is also President Biden’s third judicial nominee to be approved by the Senate. pic.twitter.com/BytqPQnLoQ
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 10, 2021
re: #149 Dangerman
this is all very touching….
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the whole thing was ham handed
we shouldnt be too hard on him
(i’m done now)
So CNN doesn’t draw the line at wanking in front of co-workers. Good to know. https://t.co/LS6lgCO962
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2021
re: #126 Dopamine Fish
I’m dying on the inside watching this shitshow unfold. I can’t even imagine what I would say, as a judge, in that situation. Quoting the Billy Madison “I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul” speech just feels wrong.
I witnessed a federal judge after delivering sentence in a criminal case end the proceedings by saying, ” and may both sides win their appeals.”
re: #150 Dangerman
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Despite opposition from most Republicans, the U.S. Senate agreed 52 to 46 to cut off debate on the appeals court nomination of U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, meaning her confirmation for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is all but assured, USA Today reports.
re: #151 Dangerman
the whole thing was ham handed
we shouldnt be too hard on him
(i’m done now)
Oh come on now, he’s just a working stiff.
/
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh come on now, he’s just a working stiff.
/
when he was, those words were in a different order
CNN SPECIAL …..THIS JUST IN…..BREAKING….TOOBIN WANKFEST AT 8 PM PDT TONIGHT…..TUNE IN AND… THIS JUST IN… BREAKING….
re: #144 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Joke when I worked in the US Regional HQ of a Brazilian plastics producer was that the only way God could make an Argentinian popular with Brazilians was to make him Pope.
And you don’t wanna get some Miami Cubans started on what they think of Brazilians.
e.g. Brazilian character on circa 1980s Hispanic telenovita.
re: #157 BeenHereAwhile
Want see a real scrap? Start an argument between Cubans and Puerto Ricans.
re: #157 BeenHereAwhile
And you don’t wanna get some Miami Cubans started on what they think of Brazilians.
e.g. Brazilian character on circa 1980s Hispanic telenovita.
When I was in Brasil 20 years ago they weren’t fond of Argentinians, but I don’t remember a whole lot of other racism beyond the common “I’m lighter than you so therefore I’m better”. I never could figure out where the Japanese Brasilians fit in that hierarchy.
I think that’s hysterical (the Melania mock I mean) but a better jacket message would have been “all you need is” … being in the UK and all. :)
— Laura Kerr (@LockKerrUp) June 10, 2021
A North Carolina state medical examiner’s report determined the death of Andrew Brown Jr. was a homicide after he was killed by a gunshot to the back of the head by police.Mr. Brown’s death, while tragic, was justified, because Mr. Brown’s actions caused three deputies with the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office to reasonably believe it was necessary to use deadly force to protect themselves and others,” Womble said at a press conference in May.
this is a weaselly and chickenshit standard that ignores some of the basic circumstances of the job
off the top of my head: how about use deadly force
1 - if you are imminently going to die from the threat (it has to be more than subjectively ‘believe’)
and
2- there is no other option
Breaking:
A “Kraken” lawyer who sued Major League Baseball flopped in his efforts to move the All-Star Game back to Atlanta.
This was a massacre.
The judge kept shredding his arguments, in an ongoing hearing.
Developing story, @LawCrimeNews https://t.co/zT2JfOjgg7— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 10, 2021
COVID-19 outbreak closes hotel hosting G7 summit delegation https://t.co/gR07Zqe9Gj pic.twitter.com/KKJTZiH4ib
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2021
re: #164 Dread Pirate Ron
But this pandemic is TOTALLY over now, right?
//
(I’m sure the CTers will be ALL over this)
re: #166 jaunte
My wife got one of those “you missed jury duty so we are going to arrest you if you don’t pay up” calls. If they hadn’t asked for more money than we could immediately muster, she might have bitten, since she got a federal questionnaire in May but never got a summons.
re: #163 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He’s toast:
Moving on to third party standing.
Plaintiff failed to show that either.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) June 8, 2021
re: #169 Eric The Fruit Bat
He’s toast:
There really should be some mechanism for the court to punish clowns for wasting their time.
This is nuts. Nicole Harper was pulled over by an Arkansas state trooper. She pulled to the side, turned on her hazards, and looked for an exit.
He waited 20 seconds and then used a PIT maneuver to flip her car. She was pregnant. pic.twitter.com/hYIg6hVT7W— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) June 9, 2021
Here’s a bit more https://t.co/S1XLq30Z69
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) June 9, 2021
That was brutal.
For the nonlawyers:
Court reporters earn a living by selling lawyers transcripts. This is totally normal practice.
But the way that Judge Caproni reminded Kleinhendler of that was just - WOW.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 10, 2021
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re: #173 Dread Pirate Ron
Okay, so:
1. Not a black woman as you might suspect. (she’s white)
2. The baby survived and is healthy.
3. Fuck Republcians:
Other lawmakers on the committee say police shouldn’t be questioned.
“End of the day when somebody is fleeing I will never question the method police officer uses to stop them,” said Sen. Bart Hester (R-Cave Springs). “I don’t care if it’s 60 miles an hour, I don’t care if its 100 miles an hour, I want them stopped as soon as possible.”
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
Okay, so:
1. Not a black woman as you might suspect. (she’s white)
2. The baby survived and is healthy.
3. Fuck Republcians:
Fucking bootlegging fascist.
Edit. Not you, the slimeball republican.
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
Okay, so:
1. Not a black woman as you might suspect.
2. The baby survived and is healthy.
3. Fuck Republcians:
The police are above the law and their authority as Judge, Jury, and Executioner is absolute. Fucking fascists, man. They’re way out there.
re: #170 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Fancy a curry, he said….”
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
some excitement at dark-30 yesterday morning in TheBackwoods neighborhood.
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Three million dollars in sunk costs, and he had NO insurance?
What a maroon!
re: #175 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
he “edited” the tweet
Hearing over.
Since we’re not at the dismissal stage, yet, the case technically hangs by a thread. Judge Caproni scheduled a conference for next month—”assuming” plaintiff wishes to trudge forward.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 10, 2021
re: #179 Dopamine Fish
The police are above the law and their authority as Judge, Jury, and Executioner is absolute. Fucking fascists, man. They’re way out there.
I’m wondering if the “fleeing suspect” had been Sen. Hester’s wife/sister/daughter, if he would have the same cavalier attitude about police enforcement …
Just gonna drop this here
and walk away
— matthew. (@iAmTheWarax) June 10, 2021
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Nuts.”
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
1. What the hell?
2. OUCH!!
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
This moron shouldn’t be allowed near anything sharper than a dull crayon forever. I…can think of nothing…at all that I need a tattoo of that badly.
re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg
You have to admit, it took balls.
re: #188 DesertDenizen
You have to admit, it took balls.
Trying to decide whether I hate or respect you for that.
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re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
Trying to decide whether I hate or respect you for that.
//
It was low hanging fruit.
The turtle laughed. The lizards laughed. The snake laughed. The field mouse laughed, and Frog laughed.
— Frog and Toad (@FrogandToadbot) June 10, 2021
Hey Kids! It’s time for another episode of Pulpit Pimp Theater!
Religious-right activist Gordon Klingenschmitt warns that the Biden administration is actively recruiting lesbians into the military because “they want a demonic military” to help the Antichrist “rise and take over the world.” pic.twitter.com/fknsFwhki7
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 10, 2021
Lots of posters on Youtube are making exaggerated claims about the current eruption in Iceland… but a neat thing did happen last night as part of the wall lip collapsed and made a big splash:
Some people seem to think the wall collapsed, making the cone shorter. But what happened was part of the large lip built up, a strange thing to make but I gather from all those eruptions a small thing can grow into a big thing, fell under its own weight.
You can see how odd the top of the volcano had become, from this drone footage (it takes a couple of minutes to get to the cone):
re: #171 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
There really should be some mechanism for the court to punish clowns for wasting their time.
There is, but judges are loathe to sanction anything but the most egregious conduct. Until they get sued, then judges say “file a Rule 11 motion!”
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Just gonna drop this here
and walk away
Let me guess…it was the…right one????
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg
re: #188 DesertDenizen
What? None of you have never seen Down Periscope?
re: #198 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Afraid not.
re: #198 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
What? None of you have never seen Down Periscope?
I have but man, it’s been awhile.
re: #199 DesertDenizen
Afraid not.
Lt. Commander Thomas Dodge is being considered for a third time to captain a submarine. He has been previously passed over because of his unorthodox command methods, a “brushing” incident with a Russian submarine, and a genital tattoo that he acquired afterward while drunk on shore leave
It was his dick that got tattooed.
re: #30 lawhawk
Countries that had the chance to isolate, and so avoided the full horror of the pandemic, seen to have fucked up the vaccination.
Never underestimate the stupidly of your fellow man.
Today was catnip trimming day at the greenhouse.
It’s Harry’s favorite day.. pic.twitter.com/nfDc5wCFxx— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) June 10, 2021
re: #202 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
“Think like a pirate. I want a man with a tattoo on his dick. Have I got the right man?”
“By a strange coincidence, you do sir.”
re: #35 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Every stupid thing that uneducated [ ill-educated ] people were into when I was a kid is coming back.
Or perhaps perhaps “anti-educated”.
It isn’t that those people were never “taught”. It’s that what they were taught was wrong.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
I’m concerned that all this talk about how well America is doing with vaccinations
actually America is doing incredibly badly with vaccinations.
The number of vaccinations per day has fallen in a straight line since April. The number of vaccinations per day is among the lowest of the “western” countries.
re: #206 John Hughes
Every stupid thing that
uneducated[ ill-educated ] people were into when I was a kid is coming back.
Or perhaps perhaps “anti-educated”.It isn’t that those people were never “taught”. It’s that what they were taught was wrong.
You can teach the uneducated, but the person who “knows” everything, despite it all being wrong, is a lost cause.
trump doesn’t believe in teamwork . ( unless it’s with Team Putin) pic.twitter.com/DnReZgMnJU
— G (@giancarloqui1) June 10, 2021
re: #200 A Cranky One
— Perfectly Cut Screams (@AAAAAGGHHHH) June 8, 2021
re: #38 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Which mainly stems from driving in Paris in 2016 and me driving up the hill in Montmatre and finding a parking place right in front of the Basilica.
You are a fucking God.
Can’t imagine why you would want to visit that temple to fascist reaction though.
re: #170 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Hey, I don’t remember eating that.
re: #181 austin_blue
Three million dollars in sunk costs, and he had NO insurance?
What a maroon!
welcome to my county where libertarians have loads of freedumb
re: #211 John Hughes
You are a fucking God.
Can’t imagine why you would want to visit that temple to fascist reaction though.
Was actually up there to visit a museum of impressionists and some other stuff in the area. I don’t recall if any of us actually set foot in the Basilica.