WATCH LIVE: Direct Feed of Biden’s 2022 State of the Union and Republican Response

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Here’s the live feed of President Biden’s first State of the Union address. PBS apparently thinks you need to see the Republican response, but you can turn it off if you already know what it’s gonna be. As I type this, there’s a lot of schmoozing going on. Almost as if they don’t fear and despise each other.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:51:10pm

CSPAN, all these Senators right up in each others grills again without masks. There’s one guy with a mask and I can’t tell who it is. It’s better but it’s not over yet fuckos.

Omicron super-spreader event at SOTU.

It’s also putting on public display that politics is just a game to a lot of them.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:52:29pm

Boebert is there, I thought she was one of the ones who refused a test beforehand?

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:53:25pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:53:26pm

re: #1 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

CSPAN, all these Senators right up in each others grills again without masks. There’s one guy with a mask and I can’t tell who it is. It’s better but it’s not over yet fuckos.

Omicron super-spreader event at SOTU.

It’s also putting on public display that politics is just a game to a lot of them.

IIRC there was no mask requirement, but the attendees had to have a negative Covid test right before. Which is what the various GOP folk were whining about.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:53:28pm

President Biden’s going to have some serious Robert Palmer vibes with Pelosi and Harris behind him.

You’re going to have to face it you’re addicted to competent presidents…

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steve_davis  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:55:33pm

I moved my legs so she’d sink down and get the hint I want her to move. Does she look like she getting the hint?

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:55:37pm

I’d love to see Biden open with “The Amazing Race finale isn’t until tomorrow…where the hell is everyone?”

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:56:33pm
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No Malarkey!  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:57:07pm

ESPN Chyron has an agent reporting that Russian NHL players are getting death threats. They should blame Putin.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:57:32pm

re: #3 The GOP is a terrorist organization

The US is energy independent and has been for a few years, but as Psaki said, we can’t tell American companies where they can and can’t sell their oil.

But keep clamoring for nationalization of the energy sector there Hee-Hawley.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:57:34pm

goodfuckingrief, these people

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:57:54pm

“Dealing with immigration” down in 10th place.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:57:56pm

HELLO

Historical moment will have 2 women behind POTUS.

Watch & appreciate - something great.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:58:41pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:59:22pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 1, 2022 • 5:59:58pm

re: #13 HRH Stanley Sea

And a very beautiful thing it is. :)

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:00:09pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:01:05pm

How many republicans are boycotting? and can we get them to stay home forever?

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:01:50pm

re: #4 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

IIRC there was no mask requirement, but the attendees had to have a negative Covid test right before. Which is what the various GOP folk were whining about.

4 Democrats tested positive, and will have to watch on TV from home.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:01:54pm

re: #8 jaunte

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And the obvious solution is to vote for Republicans.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:02:02pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:02:42pm

Eww, Ted Cruz.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:02:45pm

re: #18 I Would Prefer Not To

How many republicans are boycotting? and can we get them to stay home forever?

Not sure but I see Marjorie Trailer Trash and Laurent Boderp. So it’s not all the usual suspects.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:02:48pm

I just saw my Congressperson, Brenda Lawrence, go by wearing Ukrainian colors.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:03:10pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

goodfuckingrief, these people

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I stopped reading after “fake news”…tells you all you need to know.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:04:20pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:04:28pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:04:36pm

re: #24 The Pie Overlord!

I just saw my Congressperson, Brenda Lawrence, go by wearing Ukrainian colors.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:04:37pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:06:47pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:06:57pm

Not liking the viral exposure chances here at all.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:06:59pm

Who is the woman in front of President Biden as he’s walking down the aisle?

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:07:38pm

re: #31 jaunte

Not liking the viral exposure chances here at all.

Everyone in the room got a PCR test before entry.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:08:40pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:09:19pm

re: #22 jaunte

Eww, Ted Cruz.

But unlike Marco Rubio who made it a big deal to announce he wasn’t attending, Ted is here.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:09:24pm

re: #33 darthstar

Everyone in the room got a PCR test before entry.

Maybe.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:09:36pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Me too. I am a bit nervous about it.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:09:38pm

🙌🏿 My President speaketh!! Haven’t watched this in years!

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:10:08pm

re: #32 darthstar

Who is the woman in front of President Biden as he’s walking down the aisle?

wendy something something, a national security something.

looked it up.

Wendy Sherman, Deputy Sec of State.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:10:25pm

re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s just my automatic gag reflex kicking in.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:10:56pm

This happened a couple of days ago. I am from Abilene:

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:11:37pm

Okay…after this I get serious.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:13:20pm
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KingKenrod  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:13:32pm

re: #6 steve_davis

I moved my legs so she’d sink down and get the hint I want her to move. Does she look like she getting the hint?

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I have to keep some treats nearby to entice my cats to move once they’ve snuggled in. If you force them to move, there’s always a price to be paid…

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:13:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:14:56pm

amazing…standing ovations from BOTH sides of the aisle.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:16:11pm

I suck at forecasting. But I suspect a post-speech bump up in the polls for Uncle Joe.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:16:59pm

re: #47 Rightwingconspirator

Same here. I hope Joe get a boost after this SOTU speech.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:17:21pm

re: #47 Rightwingconspirator

I suck at forecasting. But I suspect a post-speech bump up in the polls for Uncle Joe.

He had the whole room standing and cheering. I didn’t know that was possible, but Vlad has offered himself up as a common enemy.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:18:34pm

David-Duke-without-the-publicity spotting.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:19:17pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:20:05pm

re: #49 Punish Domestic Terrorists

He had the whole room standing and cheering. I didn’t know that was possible, but Vlad has offered himself up as a common enemy.

Everything Vlad was most afraid of has happened in the last days. Russia is less secure. Less respected. Less able to have a strong economy. Putin is seen as less of a leader and more as a dictator.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:20:17pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:21:08pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lauren stuff it.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:21:27pm

when biden says urkrian it sounds like iranian. driving me crazy.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:22:04pm

re: #5 darthstar

President Biden’s going to have some serious Robert Palmer vibes with Pelosi and Harris behind him.

You’re going to have to face it you’re addicted to competent presidents…

I would prefer if Harris were somewhere else unmentioned.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:22:38pm

Chuck Schumer, lol

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:23:37pm

GOP won’t applaud American positives

mah shocked face

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:24:09pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chuck Schumer, lol

Chuck needs to work on his timing, for sure.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:24:28pm

And you can tell by their sour faces they’re pissed about it.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:24:30pm

Chuck Schumer got 1600 on his SATs. He’d like everyone to know that.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:25:34pm
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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:27:37pm

OMFG — President Biden, “I told Xi Jinping it’s never a good idea to bet against America.” and the camera pans to Ted Cruz.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:30:42pm

Intel in Ohio. Biden’s team is brilliant.

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:31:36pm

Cynical thought:
Did Intel pay for all that product placement ?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:31:52pm

Every time he says “manafachuring” another Trumporrhoid head assplodes.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:32:16pm

Half-hour in and I see more time spent thanking and recognizing people instead of “I did that…”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:33:55pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

goodfuckingrief, these people

They’re getting roasted. Good.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:34:17pm

re: #64 I Would Prefer Not To

Intel in Ohio. Biden’s team is brilliant.

New Albany, baby!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:34:18pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:35:05pm

re: #61 sagehen

Chuck Schumer got 1600 on his SATs. He’d like everyone to know that.

Just like Massie wants everyone to know he went to MIT! But Schumer is using his position to help Americans; Massie wants to help only the wealthy.

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stpaulbear  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:35:34pm

Joe seems like he’s been either listening or talking to people for the last 36 hours. He’s a little fried, but he’s still my guy.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:36:10pm

Joshua is so cute!!

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:36:48pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:37:11pm

Good job personalizing the drug issue.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:37:13pm

Cotton and Collins snarking.
So mature…

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:37:38pm

And there’s Susan “I’m A Moderate, DAMNIT!!!” Collins having some snarky conversation with Tom Cotton as Dems cheer making drugs affordable.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:37:47pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:38:06pm

This is what a real President sounds like.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:38:44pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cotton and Collins snarking.
So mature…

And Kevin and Mitch look like they have serious digestive issues going on.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:39:18pm

re: #79 PhillyPretzel

This is what a real President sounds like.

This is a president who sounds like a working dad, instead of an oligarch who gets outraged if the price of caviar goes up.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:39:37pm

Tax breaks that aim at those that deserve them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:39:40pm

Biden has done a great job turning the screws on the GOP with this speech.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:40:12pm

re: #83 Eclectic Cyborg

Biden has done a great job turning the screws on the GOP with this speech.

Which means tomorrow will be spent screaming about how they were “attacked” and how he’s so “mean.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:41:14pm

re: #84 Targetpractice

Which means tomorrow will be spent screaming about how they were “attacked” and how he’s so “mean.”

Yeah, the folks walking around in “Let’s go Brandon!” t-shirts aren’t mean at all…

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:41:39pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:42:17pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yglesias is wrong.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:42:32pm

re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg

re: #84 Targetpractice

Yeah, let’s watch the “fuck your feelings” crowd call Joe mean.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:43:27pm

Boebert’s response was already going to be stupid-as-fuck, but after this performance I can’t imagine it’s going to be more than pig grunting.

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William Lewis  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:43:37pm

re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, the folks walking around in “Let’s go Brandon!” t-shirts aren’t mean at all…

/

It’s hard to take seriously an insult that they have to be told what to say because they aren’t smart enough to think of it or have the courage to say what it means.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:44:03pm

This speech makes me want to sing…(I’ll hold back and let Johnny Nash do it)

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:44:12pm

re: #81 Targetpractice

This is a president who sounds like a working dad, instead of an oligarch who gets outraged if the price of caviar goes up.

Doesn’t quite apply to Trump — he would be outraged if the price of McDonald’s rose significantly.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:44:23pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:45:09pm

There’s that “moderate” Collins again, shaking her head at the idea of helping American workers out.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:45:45pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:45:56pm

Susan Collins can’t keep her head from going negative.

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JC1  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:46:09pm

re: #1 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

CSPAN, all these Senators right up in each others grills again without masks. There’s one guy with a mask and I can’t tell who it is. It’s better but it’s not over yet fuckos.

Omicron super-spreader event at SOTU.

It’s also putting on public display that politics is just a game to a lot of them.

Negative tests were required to attend.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:46:13pm

re: #87 jaunte

Yglesias is wrong.

Pretty sure he’s snarking. He does that. A lot.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:46:28pm

Biden to Republicans with this speech:

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:46:43pm

re: #84 Targetpractice

Which means tomorrow will be spent screaming about how they were “attacked” and how he’s so “mean.”

Tbh, Biden’s speech is nowhere near as harsh as it might be: as I hear it, he seems to be trying (and succeed, IMO) to make his points without scathing the Opposition too much.
And at least, it’s not a self-obsessed grievance-fest like a certain Former Guy….

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:47:24pm

re: #87 jaunte

Yglesias is wrong.

Very wrong.

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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:48:01pm
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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:48:07pm

Test to treat - turn up positive, get treatment immediately. Bravo, Mr. President.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:48:20pm

Asshole Scalise.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:48:40pm

re: #102 EstebanTornado1963

Maybe it’s because the guy is black…I’m off Twitter so I can’t ask.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:48:43pm

re: #100 Jay C

Tbh, Biden’s speech is nowhere near as harsh as it might be: as I hear it, he seems to be trying (and succeed, IMO) to make his points without scathing the Opposition too much.
And at least, it’s not a self-obsessed grievance-fest like a certain Former Guy….

Dems - beginning with Biden - need to take the gloves off.

It’s about time we swing the fuck back!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:49:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:50:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:53:21pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:54:28pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

Credit to SNL for the concept.

“Mitch McConnell, seen here watching minorities graduate college…”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:54:36pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:55:04pm

Help workers, help child, help the country: GQP sit on their hands

More money to militarized cops: GQP jump to their feet.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:55:08pm

“Training, not used tanks.”

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:55:26pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

Now I had to dig THIS out again.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:56:18pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s sitting next to Scabies.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:57:24pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:58:01pm

Cruz with weird eye movements when Biden mentions the border

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:58:34pm

some assholes are yelling “build that wall”

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cat-tikvah  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:59:31pm

Were GOPers shouting “Build the Wall”??????

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:59:39pm

Susan unhappy about the mention of Roe v Wade

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 6:59:51pm

And there’s the “moderate” Collins again, now shaking her head to RvW.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:00:02pm

Is it possible?

Am I actually feeling a little optimistic about the future of this country?

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:00:03pm

What is Susan Collins’ main malfunction? (rhetorical question)

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:00:07pm

President Biden made a conscious effort to make a positive speech tonight and he’s nailing it. Yes, he opened with Ukraine, but this is SOT Union, not SOT planet. I like how he gets faster and faster as he rolls through the laundry list all the pundits were fretting about hearing.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:00:21pm

Aunt Lydia.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:00:44pm

re: #80 BeachDem

And Kevin and Mitch look like they have serious digestive issues going on.

All that bile.

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:00:54pm

re: #118 I Would Prefer Not To

some assholes are yelling “build that wall”

Yeah, build it in my wine cellar, and seal the Republicans behind it.

//

I’m speaking rhetorically. I don’t even have a wine cellar.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:01:38pm

re: #126 Patricia Kayden

All that bile.

I hope it burns a 3” diameter hole out their assholes before they can make it to the Senate restrooms.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:01:54pm

re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cruz with weird eye movements when Biden mentions the border

😂 Well, he has to keep the borders open so that he can run to Mexico when the weather gets bad in Texas.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:02:10pm

re: #127 A Three Hour Tour

Yeah, build it in my wine cellar, and seal the Republicans behind it.

//

+1 for the Cask of Amontillado reference.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:03:03pm

re: #127 A Three Hour Tour

You’ll have to lure them in with a cask of tax cuts.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:04:03pm

re: #127 A Three Hour Tour

Yeah, build it in my wine cellar, and seal the Republicans behind it.

//

For the love of God, Montresor!

/

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:05:01pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

Satan

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:05:13pm

re: #131 jaunte

You’ll have to lure them in with a cask of tax cuts.

Tell them it’s on Hunter Biden’s laptop: they’ll come barreling in…

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:05:22pm

Do I hear MTG talking? fucking harpie.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:05:40pm

Fuck Fortunato.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:05:45pm

Both of my idiotic senators (Graham and Tim Scott) look like they’re drifting into unconsciousness. We can only hope…

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:05:47pm

Not sure what she said but I’m sure it was the Fascist from Georgia

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:05:50pm

re: #131 jaunte

You’ll have to lure them in with a cask of tax cuts.

That sounds like it should be a film featuring Leatherface, a chainsaw, and a table of 1040 forms and instruction booklets.

The Taxes Chainsaw Massacre.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:06:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:06:38pm
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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:07:06pm

I just remembered I have a blue and yellow spiral tie-dye that’s perfect for showing my support of Ukraine. Will be my morning dog-walk uniform going forward.

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Mattand  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:07:47pm

re: #127 A Three Hour Tour

Yeah, build it in my wine cellar, and seal the Republicans behind it.

//

I’m speaking rhetorically. I don’t even have a wine cellar.

Shit, you don’t have to seal it. Just tell them there’s a LGQTB+ or non-Caucasian person standing just outside the doorway.

They’ll all die from terror in like 10 minutes.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:08:25pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:08:43pm

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

“They Don’t Need No Education.”

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:08:48pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:08:57pm

Ol’ Joe Manchin looking like he’s sitting through a boring college lecture.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:09:12pm

I like Jill’s dress.

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Captain Ron  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:10:02pm

Turtles can sleep with their eyes open.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:10:14pm

I’d say Mitch looks like his soul has left his body, but that presumes he ever had a soul.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:10:23pm

re: #147 Targetpractice

Ol’ Joe Manchin looking like he’s sitting through a boring college lecture.

Because he has zero intention of supporting Biden’s agenda.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:10:45pm

I’m glad I decided to watch. Biden’s various ticks and stammers makes this so much more human than any president I’ve ever watched. I hated Clinton and had a hard time with Obama in his speeches at times (not content, but delivery). I think this is great stuff.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:11:58pm

re: #152 Barefoot Grin

One of the best SOTU speeches. And now I have to hit the pillows because Have to get up at 5 AM.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:12:10pm

re: #152 Barefoot Grin

I’m glad I decided to watch. Biden’s various ticks and stammers makes this so much more human than any president I’ve ever watched. I hated Clinton and had a hard time with Obama in his speeches at times (not content, but delivery). I think this is great stuff.

It sounded like a good ol’ stump speech, recited from memory or with quick glances down at written notes, rather than simply read from a teleprompter.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:13:12pm

Boebert apparently trash talked Biden after he mentioned losing his son.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:14:00pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:14:05pm

re: #154 Targetpractice

It sounded like a good ol’ stump speech, recited from memory or with quick glances down at written notes, rather than simply read from a teleprompter.

Good point. I hadn’t thought about it in that way. Delivered from the heart.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:15:12pm

So…that’s what a real presidential address feels like. It’s been six years.

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bratwurst  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:15:38pm

I enjoyed this if for no other reason that it was a distraction from the nauseating war porn that has taken over TV coverage of the attack on Ukraine.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:16:36pm

re: #144 jaunte

Classless as always. She is a disgrace to our nation as are those constituents who voted for her. So on brand for the modern Republican Party.

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stpaulbear  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:16:53pm

NPR still has a live mic and you can here everything that’s being schmoozed as Biden works his way through the crowd. This may not end well…

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bratwurst  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:17:51pm

re: #161 stpaulbear

NPR still has a live mic and you can here everything that’s being schmoozed as Biden works his way through the crowd. This may not end well…

It’s on MSNBC too. Seems Biden mostly likes to remind people how long he has known them.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:17:55pm

So are Ohio Republicans going to claim credit for the Intel plant?

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:18:16pm

The best thing that could come from this speech is Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski saying that after listening to the President’s remarks they are changing party affiliation and will support ending the filibuster.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:18:19pm

Pat Leahy with a call back to 1990s tech pulling out his digital camera.

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stpaulbear  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:18:39pm

re: #152 Barefoot Grin

I’m glad I decided to watch. Biden’s various ticks and stammers makes this so much more human than any president I’ve ever watched. I hated Clinton and had a hard time with Obama in his speeches at times (not content, but delivery). I think this is great stuff.

Biden probably hasn’t had a moment’s peace for the last week. He’s earned his frazzle.

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[deleted]  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:19:46pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:20:01pm

re: #162 bratwurst

It’s on MSNBC too. Seems Biden mostly likes to remind people how long he has known them.

Crooked Media was joking that soon Joe was going to say “Do you want to hear a dirty joke?”

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No Malarkey!  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:21:49pm

Off topic, Unforgiven is on HBOMAX. Great movie; Eastwood, Hackman, Freeman and Harris. Hard to believe it’s 30 years old.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:21:52pm

re: #166 stpaulbear

Biden probably hasn’t had a moment’s peace for the last week. He’s earned his frazzle.

No doubt.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:22:17pm

re: #161 stpaulbear

NPR still has a live mic and you can here everything that’s being schmoozed as Biden works his way through the crowd. This may not end well…

Nah…President Biden is fine.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:22:43pm

I’m falling in love with the white-haired woman guiding him through the scrum.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:23:28pm

re: #164 darthstar

The best thing that could come from this speech is Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski saying that after listening to the President’s remarks they are changing party affiliation and will support ending the filibuster.

I want some of what you’re drinking. Or smoking. Or whatevs.

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:23:57pm

re: #172 Barefoot Grin

I’m falling in love with the white-haired woman guiding him through the scrum.

Secret Service.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:24:04pm

re: #154 Targetpractice

It sounded like a good ol’ stump speech, recited from memory or with quick glances down at written notes, rather than simply read from a teleprompter.

Made me think of…

Youtube Video

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:24:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:25:25pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:25:37pm

re: #174 austin_blue

Secret Service.

That’s hot.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:26:28pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

Was it Boebert, MTG or both?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:27:20pm

re: #179 jaunte

Was it Boebert, MTG or both?

could have been either or both of the gruesome twosome

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:27:40pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:28:44pm
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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:28:55pm

re: #176 jaunte

I gotta call bullshit. The SOTU speech is an opportunity for the POTUS to have an hour to tell his enemies to shut the fuck up and call their media whores, whores. Also to speak to the American People from an uninterrupted bully pulpit.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:29:32pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

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And thank god.

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wrenchwench  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:29:47pm

re: #181 jaunte

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Great lyrics. Lemme turn my speakers on.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:31:39pm

What SOTU did Lindsey listen to? Not the same one that I heard.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:32:26pm

re: #186 The Pie Overlord!

retake our streets from criminals

He really doesn’t want us looking in the boardrooms.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:34:03pm

Republican response is brought to you by Botox. Her left eyebrow hasn’t moved since 1992.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:34:13pm

I am not listening to the GOP response, but would be happy to read any takes the rest of you have about whatever lies she’s spewing.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:34:43pm

re: #186 The Pie Overlord!

What SOTU did Lindsey listen to? Not the same one that I heard.

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The USA has been energy independent for years. We’re providing energy to other countries.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:35:25pm

re: #189 Hecuba’s daughter

I am not listening to the GOP response, but would be happy to read any takes the rest of you have about whatever lies she’s spewing.

I put her on mute because she was pissing off my wife. Grandmother of 11 but her forehead is 27 years old.

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:35:50pm

re: #187 jaunte

He really doesn’t want us looking in the boardrooms.

Or in the crawlspace under his house.

//

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:36:09pm

I missed the SOTU, packing for a long needed birthday vacation with my honey. But, I’ll read the news tomorrow as I get ready for a 0600 flight….oy…

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:36:16pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:36:27pm

No listening to republican response.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:36:35pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:36:56pm

“…and that’s why I started taking Prevagen.”

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:37:54pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:38:18pm

re: #196 jaunte

Did they have a Republican from 1994 give the speech?

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:38:38pm

FEAR/GREED/FEAR/GREED/FEAR

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bratwurst  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:39:04pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:42:02pm

Ed. to add

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:42:12pm

When Joe Wilson shouted “You Lie” at Obama, the House voted to censure him for it or some shit.

I expect whichever one of the Derpie Twins thought it was a good idea to insult the President over his dead son will get at least that.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:43:27pm

This governor of Iowa lady is a lying sack of shit. Yes, looters and shoplifters are running free, because liberal judges are letting them out of jails and giving them light sentences. Republicans honored your freedoms by not having covid restrictions.

I can’t with this asshole, she’s a liar with a face full of Botox.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:44:16pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:44:16pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:45:06pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:45:06pm

re: #205 DodgerFan1988

Does she have a Festivus Pole?

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:45:39pm

It’s always either greed or fear. That’s all they got.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:46:41pm

re: #204 A Mom Anon

This governor of Iowa lady is a lying sack of shit. Yes, looters and shoplifters are running free, because liberal judges are letting them out of jails and giving them light sentences. Republicans honored your freedoms by not having covid restrictions.

I can’t with this asshole, she’s a liar with a face full of Botox.

I really can’t watch her—those eyebrows are freaking me out.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:47:39pm

re: #198 jaunte

Depending on how far she has her head up Clownstick’s ass, she might think North Korea and Russia are our allies.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:50:48pm
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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:52:01pm

re: #197 Barefoot Grin

“…and that’s why I started taking Prevagen.”

Jesus…that made me laugh. She was that bad.

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wrenchwench  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:56:14pm

re: #203 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

When Joe Wilson shouted “You Lie” at Obama, the House voted to censure him for it or some shit.

I expect whichever one of the Derpie Twins thought it was a good idea to insult the President over his dead son will get at least that.

Click the little picture icon to see them singing in unison (different song).

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 1, 2022 • 7:56:26pm
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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:01:03pm

re: #186 The Pie Overlord!

What SOTU did Lindsey listen to? Not the same one that I heard.

To quote Lindsey:

We’re not going to be okay unless we change course on the border (1), return to energy independence (2), retake our streets from criminals (3), and show stronger resolve in the face of evil (4).

So, four points! Let’s take a look at them individually:

(1) Change course on the border:

Golly Lindsey, what exactly does this mean? What does a change in course entail? Major fail.

(2) Return to energy independence:

Golly, Lindsey, we haven’t had that since the 50’s, but we could get on that highway tomorrow with a commitment to wind, solar, and generated storage infrastructure that would allow us not to import 9 million barrels a day of oil equivalants.

(3) Retake our streets from criminals:

Isn’t $350 billion enough of an investment for you?

(4) Show a stronger resolve in the face of evil:

What the fuck is this word salad? Whose evil? Can I suggest the Trump wing of he Republican Party? Because I mean, really, that is the most evil minority in the US right now, and needs to be sent to Johnston Island as an alternative for Coventry.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:02:58pm

re: #216 austin_blue

Change course on the border? Start to fine and jail employers of undocumented aliens.

Stronger resolve in the face of evil? Jail Trump.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:04:29pm

So when President Biden said he was going after yachts and luxury apartments of oligarchs do you think that made Trump worry?

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:09:10pm

His family blames “many people” and “the government.” I’d say it was Donald Trump, Republican propagandists who went along with the big lie, and Matthew himself.

Convicted U.S. Capitol rioter from Sharon area dies by suicide (Post Gazette)

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:14:26pm

re: #219 Punish Domestic Terrorists

His family blames “many people” and “the government.” I’d say it was Donald Trump, Republican propagandists who went along with the big lie, and Matthew himself.

Convicted U.S. Capitol rioter from Sharon area dies by suicide (Post Gazette)

Maybe he finally realized that he had been conned and that broke his spirit.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:16:45pm

re: #219 Punish Domestic Terrorists

His family blames “many people” and “the government.” I’d say it was Donald Trump, Republican propagandists who went along with the big lie, and Matthew himself.

Convicted U.S. Capitol rioter from Sharon area dies by suicide (Post Gazette)

Manny Peeple? Trump’s friend?

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:24:38pm

re: #219 Punish Domestic Terrorists

His family blames “many people” and “the government.” I’d say it was Donald Trump, Republican propagandists who went along with the big lie, and Matthew himself.

Convicted U.S. Capitol rioter from Sharon area dies by suicide (Post Gazette)

I have many tears, many many tears for this suicide. Many tears. So Sad. So terribly sad.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:25:57pm

The industrial revolution made killing work at wholesale levels. From the Civil war onward. Dynamite, bigger guns, airpower, and nuclear weapons.

Post WW2 there were a couple of deals, or ideals designed to avoid mass casualties like we had just seen yet again.

One of these was an ending of European and Asian land grabs by way of conquest. The other was nuclear non-proliferation. A failure to manage either of those is a recipe for disaster. A failure of both those goals sets humanity up for the biggest fall since at least the dark ages.

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William Lewis  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:26:19pm

Russian Hit Squad Sent to Assassinate Zelensky ‘Eliminated,’ Ukrainian Official Says

Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said on Ukrainian television on Tuesday that his country received information about a planned assassination attempt on President Volodymyr Zelensky from agents of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).

“I can say that we received information from representatives of the FSB, who today have no desire to take part in this bloody war,” said Danilov, who claimed that the Chechen special forces sent to kill Zelensky had been “eliminated.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:31:15pm

re: #224 William Lewis

Russian Hit Squad Sent to Assassinate Zelensky ‘Eliminated,’ Ukrainian Official Says

Hopefully that is true — both that the hit squad has been eliminated and that there are senior people in the FSB who are against the war and working to undermine Putin’s plans. Maybe the Russian equivalent of the infamous “Anonymous” (Miles Taylor), trying to protect the world from the madman they serve.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:35:11pm

re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter

If they have helpers in the security service, they wouldn’t call fire in on them. It’s more likely dropped there to boost the natural paranoia level to 11.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:37:03pm

re: #226 Decatur Deb

If they have helpers in the security service, they wouldn’t call fire in on them. It’s more likely dropped there to boost the natural paranoia level to 11.

Excellent point!

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:38:09pm

It’s what, 8:30 in Kyiv?

Kyiv abides,

Glory to Ukraine!

I’m for the rack.

God bless the men in the Ukraine, who have balls like brass bells.

I’d like to get a female equivalent, because they deserve it, but I would love some help.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:41:05pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:43:36pm
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aatharuv  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:44:31pm

I was really surprised Marjorie Taylor Derp and Lauren Qbert showed up given the testing requirement unlike Thomas Massie.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:48:25pm

re: #231 aatharuv

I was really surprised Marjorie Taylor Derp and Lauren Qbert showed up given the testing requirement unlike Thomas Massie.

the only reason they were there was so they could shout at the President of the United States. fuck them

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:53:15pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:53:48pm

Coming to a Republican state near you.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:54:53pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 1, 2022 • 8:55:25pm

re: #231 aatharuv

I was really surprised Marjorie Taylor Derp and Lauren Qbert showed up given the testing requirement unlike Thomas Massie.

They weren’t worried. They brought fake penises for the urine test.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:10:41pm

re: #234 jaunte

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Coming to a Republican state near you.

We had tables labeled Republican and Democrat, but either table could handle you. The tables seemed to be primarily for the sample ballot.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:12:29pm

I wonder if Houston adopted this: in Rockwall County, you could vote in any precinct in the county.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:18:06pm

re: #231 aatharuv

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wrenchwench  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:19:00pm

Made me read it 2 or 3 times.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:19:48pm
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electrotek  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:20:26pm

A white supremacist fetishizing Middle Eastern Christians:

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:25:59pm

re: #242 electrotek

Which recent one is he taking about?

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:34:39pm

About those jets that Ukraine was supposed to get, nope:

A proposed deal to allow Ukrainian pilots to fly fighter jets donated by European Union countries has fallen apart.

Over the course of a confusing 48 hours, the EU announced it had brokered an arrangement for member states to allow Ukrainian pilots to start flying their used Russian fighter planes, only to have those countries deny there was any such deal even as Kyiv trumpeted the impending arrival of the jets.

The dissolution of the deal comes as European countries lined up Monday to announce new weapons packages for Ukraine, from anti-armor and anti-air rockets to artillery and medical supplies

Soon after, a Ukrainian government official told POLITICO their country had sent pilots to Poland to pick up the jets and the Ukrainian parliament announced that the planes from Slovakia, Bulgaria and Poland would soon be on their way. But by Tuesday, Bulgaria and Slovakia said there was no deal to send fighters, and the Polish president, appearing at a Polish air base alongside NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, said no planes would be flying any time soon.

politico.com

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retired cynic  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:35:37pm

re: #244 Belafon

damn

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:36:06pm

re: #218 darthstar

So when President Biden said he was going after yachts and luxury apartments of oligarchs do you think that made Trump worry?

If the banks he owes lots of money to are among the sanctioned… he might have caught a break. He “can’t” pay them.

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electrotek  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:37:21pm

re: #243 Belafon

Which recent one is he taking about?

The one in his head evidently.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:37:46pm

The thing about the planes and this thread:

Makes me think that the West needs to get more creative about their support for Ukraine.

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:37:59pm

re: #243 Belafon

Which recent one is he taking about?

Probably the recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh?

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retired cynic  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:39:47pm

re: #249 Jay C

I would have bet the old one. I may just be stupid.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:41:18pm

re: #228 austin_blue

God bless the men in the Ukraine, who have balls like brass bells.

I’d like to get a female equivalent, because they deserve it, but I would love some help.

Every gender has spines.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:47:40pm

re: #243 Belafon

Which recent one is he taking about?

Maybe he’s using European adjectives, they think 100 years ago is recent…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:50:32pm

So if the Russians really have troops in Kharkiv, as claimed (paratroopers I think), we need to come to reality here.

No matter how much we wish the Russians to fail, I think we should not underestimate the nature of this conflict.

I do not accept so many claims by alleged experts saying that the Russians, Putin in particular, have grossly miscalculated.

It is all too easy to think that someone else has to be as rational as your own arguments.

Putin may not mind at all how many Russian troops die.

They are shedding blood for their motherland. Their blood is thus the blood of saints.

Putin may simply believe, and he could be right, that no matter how many sanctions come his way, there will always be Russians who will die for the motherland.

He knows we Americans tire of things quickly. If this thing drags on for a couple of months the public will soon just move on to something else.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2022 • 9:55:14pm

re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

He’s not fighting us, and the sanctions don’t really cost us.

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electrotek  Mar 1, 2022 • 10:02:06pm

re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So if the Russians really have troops in Kharkiv, as claimed (paratroopers I think), we need to come to reality here.

No matter how much we wish the Russians to fail, I think we should not underestimate the nature of this conflict.

I do not accept so many claims by alleged experts saying that the Russians, Putin in particular, have grossly miscalculated.

It is all too easy to think that someone else has to be as rational as your own arguments.

Putin may not mind at all how many Russian troops die.

They are shedding blood for their motherland. Their blood is thus the blood of saints.

Putin may simply believe, and he could be right, that no matter how many sanctions come his way, there will always be Russians who will die for the motherland.

He knows we Americans tire of things quickly. If this thing drags on for a couple of months the public will soon just move on to something else.

Not all of them are Russian, but non-Russian stock from far flung areas of the Federation, such as Chechens and Buryats.

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JC1  Mar 1, 2022 • 10:07:02pm

re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So if the Russians really have troops in Kharkiv, as claimed (paratroopers I think), we need to come to reality here.

No matter how much we wish the Russians to fail, I think we should not underestimate the nature of this conflict.

I do not accept so many claims by alleged experts saying that the Russians, Putin in particular, have grossly miscalculated.

It is all too easy to think that someone else has to be as rational as your own arguments.

Putin may not mind at all how many Russian troops die.

They are shedding blood for their motherland. Their blood is thus the blood of saints.

Putin may simply believe, and he could be right, that no matter how many sanctions come his way, there will always be Russians who will die for the motherland.

He knows we Americans tire of things quickly. If this thing drags on for a couple of months the public will soon just move on to something else.

Kharkiv is like 50 miles from the Russian border, is a Russian speaking city with a large percentage of ethnic Russians. That it still hasn’t fallen is amazing.

Edit. Just double checked. Kharkiv is only 25 miles from the Russian border.

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electrotek  Mar 1, 2022 • 10:18:04pm

I hope the Russian forces that are voluntarily surrendering are not murdered by Ukrainians. Show mercy to them as they have seen the errors of their ways and a lot of them don’t want to be there.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 10:19:48pm

re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Most commentary I’ve read regarding the Russian failure so far assume that the plan on their part was a decapitation strike: Swift, brutal takedown of Kyiv and/or Kharkiv that would capture or kill most of the civilian leadership, replacing them with a puppet government who would quickly signal that the Russian occupation of the nation is legit and call for the standing down of all military forces in the country. And if that was the plan, then it’s been a miserable failure and the Russian Army have paid dearly for it.

Why was that the plan? Probably because of the very reason you feel they’ll win in the end anyway: The people of the West would lose interest and accept Russian victory as “inevitable,” that Ukraine was “always” going to lose and there was no reason to engage in massive sanctions that would cause global suffering if Russia was just going to smugly back as Ukrainian politicians quietly signed instruments of surrender on live TV. Why raise the price of gas across the globe if Russia is sitting pretty on its new conquest?

But now Russia is at a crossroads: Commit to an open-ended military operation in Ukraine to take the whole of the country or accept something less than total victory just to stop the bleeding? Every day of operations is costing a country with a GDP of $1.4T roughly $20B, and that’s assuming that they stay at the current level rather than ramping it up. Meanwhile, their economy is in free fall due to Western sanctions and the noose just gets tighter every day. Meanwhile, the people of Ukraine are resolved to fight to the bloody end to keep their country free and that looks like it might mean a city of 3m reduced to street-by-street fighting for weeks or months.

tl;dr: Putin may destroy Ukraine, but he will not defeat it. And he’s not going to be able to do that any quicker unless he decides to engage in full-scale genocide.

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Teukka  Mar 1, 2022 • 10:47:11pm

re: #146 Patricia Kayden

He knows he’s proper fucked?

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electrotek  Mar 1, 2022 • 10:48:59pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 10:55:49pm

You want to see the fighting in Ukraine come to a less-bloody end? Have the West announce that the sanctions will remain intact even if the Russians manage to force Kyiv’s surrender. That ending the sanctions will be dependent upon Ukraine and Russia reaching a negotiated agreement that sees an immediate end to hostilities, Russia agreeing to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, and Zelensky’s government allowed to remain in power. If things remain as open-ended as they are, then Putin’s going to go-for-broke and pound the country into submission.

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electrotek  Mar 1, 2022 • 11:08:42pm
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Teukka  Mar 1, 2022 • 11:16:43pm
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ericblair  Mar 1, 2022 • 11:18:37pm

“I’ve already written the story, don’t confuse the issue”

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electrotek  Mar 1, 2022 • 11:18:44pm

re: #263 Teukka

Time to take over the Kuril Islands, Japan.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2022 • 11:34:56pm

FFS

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:01:31am

re: #266 Targetpractice

…and why is this a BAD thing?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:05:34am

I am pleased to hear about Russian setbacks in the face of stalwart Ukrainian resistance, but keep in mind:

1) Putin has committed full-on for this invasion. I am sure that he is too much of a cold, calculating SOB not to have contingencies in the event that things don’t go as planned.

2) And yes, it’s early in the game. Americans tend lose their enthusiasm and interest after a few days and I guess Putin is counting on his side of the story getting more airplay.

3) There are plenty of Putinverstehers still out there ready to advance his cause in the Western media

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:06:49am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…and why is this a BAD thing?

“If it can happen to Russia, IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU! BOOGA BOOGA!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:15:07am

re: #269 Targetpractice

“If it can happen to Russia, IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU! BOOGA BOOGA!”

The Russians claim this was an “Antifa” invasion…

“…processing….processing…processing…crackle…fizzz…BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:16:10am

re: #265 electrotek

Time to take over the Kuril Islands, Japan.

Time to reoccupy Königsberg/Kaliningrad, Germany…

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:25:52am

re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am pleased to hear about Russian setbacks in the face of stalwart Ukrainian resistance, but keep in mind:

1) Putin has committed full-on for this invasion. I am sure that he is too much of a cold, calculating SOB not to have contingencies in the event that things don’t go as planned.

2) And yes, it’s early in the game. Americans tend lose their enthusiasm and interest after a few days and I guess Putin is counting on his side of the story getting more airplay.

3) There are plenty of Putinverstehers still out there ready to advance his cause in the Western media

I don’t believe Putin has contingencies, certainly nothing that was planned before this clusterfuck began. If he had, then he would have activated them earlier and with greater enthusiasm than what we’re witnessing. Instead, what we’re likely to see is continued improvisation, only instead of half-assed attempts at surgical strikes and special operations, we’re going to see more of the Russian Army we’re all familiar with: Shelling, unguided rocket strikes, saturation bombings, and potentially even breaking out the chemical weapons if he feels that he can get away with it.

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Captain Ron  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:28:48am

Watching live cams around Kyiv I’m amazed at the lack of traffic lights or stop signs. If you did that in America every car in the country would be wrecked. I still hate roundabouts, and they really suck for pedestrians and bikes.

I finally had a chance for a ride today. First day since my wife had hip surgery a week ago. For a few minutes it was warm enough to ride in just a t-shirt. I’ve missed that. The simple pleasures.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:40:36am

re: #272 Targetpractice

I don’t believe Putin has contingencies, certainly nothing that was planned before this clusterfuck began. If he had, then he would have activated them earlier and with greater enthusiasm than what we’re witnessing.

I am heartened by the news from the war, but my optimism has been too badly battered over the past coupla years not to be very tempered and cautious.

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:42:53am

re: #273 Dread Pirate Ron

Watching live cams around Kyiv I’m amazed at the lack of traffic lights or stop signs. If you did that in America every car in the country would be wrecked. I still hate roundabouts, and they really suck for pedestrians and bikes.

This is how Europe rolls, literally. Most intersections, like minor road to minor road, are uncontrolled. You yield to whoever is to the right when you come to an intersection (unless you’re in the UK or Ireland, where it’s to the left). It gets to be second nature quite fast, but is a real hazard for North American tourists who don’t understand it. Also, no right on red.

I think that technically this is the same rule in North America, but there are almost no uncontrolled intersections unless they’re in the middle of a bunch of cornfields somewhere.

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:43:08am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am heartened by the news from the war, but my optimism has been too badly battered over the past coupla years not to be very tempered and cautious.

And it’s fair to feel that way, but I can’t help but feel that the idea of Putin as the skilled chessmaster who’s playing a long game is too much like the same views of Trump as a skilled conman whose every move was part of a grander scheme. We certainly learned that the latter wasn’t true, and so far nothing about Winter War 2.0 has led me to believe that Vlad went into this with anything but massive overconfidence and no real plan if things went to shit in a hurry.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:50:01am

re: #276 Targetpractice

And it’s fair to feel that way, but I can’t help but feel that the idea of Putin as the skilled chessmaster who’s playing a long game is too much like the same views of Trump as a skilled conman whose every move was part of a grander scheme. We certainly learned that the latter wasn’t true, and so far nothing about Winter War 2.0 has led me to believe that Vlad went into this with anything but massive overconfidence and no real plan if things went to shit in a hurry.

I was surprised that the Russians did have had a fifth column already in place to shut down the telecommunications, transportation and power grids leaving Ukraine open for their troops to land or march in and occupy.

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:50:30am

re: #276 Targetpractice

And it’s fair to feel that way, but I can’t help but feel that the idea of Putin as the skilled chessmaster who’s playing a long game is too much like the same views of Trump as a skilled conman whose every move was part of a grander scheme. We certainly learned that the latter wasn’t true, and so far nothing about Winter War 2.0 has led me to believe that Vlad went into this with anything but massive overconfidence and no real plan if things went to shit in a hurry.

Yes, you can make a lot of bad decisions by overestimating the enemy as well as underestimating it (like in the US Civil War). You can easily get stuck in a defensive crouch instead of taking advantage of opportunities, and almost no one wins a war by hiding in a hole scared of evidence-free what-ifs. There’s a lot less of a psychic cost for being wrong by over-pessimism than being wrong by over-optimism, though, so I understand the motivations.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:53:44am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was surprised that the Russians did have had a fifth column already in place to shut down the telecommunications, transportation and power grids leaving Ukraine open for their troops to land or march in and occupy.

Given the meddling Russia has been doing in the eastern Ukraine since 2014 I expect that the Ukrainian intelligence services have been keeping an eye on that area given that it would have been an obvious area of sabotage previously as part of the separatist movement.

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:53:45am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was surprised that the Russians did have had a fifth column already in place to shut down the telecommunications, transportation and power grids leaving Ukraine open for their troops to land or march in and occupy.

It’s easy to assume that Russian capabilities were overestimated, but it could also be that Ukrainian abilities to fend off such cyberwarfare were underestimated. Certainly it feels like people assumed that the Ukrainian Army itself would not be able to weather the storm.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:58:24am

re: #276 Targetpractice

And it’s fair to feel that way, but I can’t help but feel that the idea of Putin as the skilled chessmaster who’s playing a long game is too much like the same views of Trump as a skilled conman whose every move was part of a grander scheme. We certainly learned that the latter wasn’t true, and so far nothing about Winter War 2.0 has led me to believe that Vlad went into this with anything but massive overconfidence and no real plan if things went to shit in a hurry.

Not a tactician, but dropping paratroopers into a city you don’t control reeks of desperation to me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:58:50am

re: #280 Targetpractice

It’s easy to assume that Russian capabilities were overestimated, but it could also be that Ukrainian abilities to fend off such cyberwarfare were underestimated. Certainly it feels like people assumed that the Ukrainian Army itself would not be able to weather the storm.

True, Ukraine has had a long time to get its anti-hacking/sabotage defenses up.

I am still astounded at how quickly Germany went from being supreme ideological anti-militarist pacifists to pledging to build the strongest military force in Europe.

And Putin has offered the justification for expanding NATO right up to Russia’s borders.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:59:21am

re: #281 steve_davis

Not a tactician, but dropping paratroopers into a city you don’t control reeks of desperation to me.

A Bridge Too Far?

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:02:40am

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

I am still astounded at how quickly Germany went from being supreme ideological anti-militarist pacifists to pledging to build the strongest military force in Europe.

This. Decades of Ostpolitik out the window in a weekend, led by the SPD no less. This is a tectonic shift in European politics with implications for decades.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:04:36am

re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A Bridge Too Far?

Coup de main attacks are a gamble. Can generate benefits far above the forces committed to them. Can be disastrous for same if things go wrong.

If Putin intended a short (2-3 day) invasion than getting control of an airfield there to pour in troops and airmobile mechanized equipment (which the VDV has plenty of) would have put Russian force on the doorstep on the first day. And probably had eased the progress of other advancing forces.

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:05:53am

FYI, since tax season is coming up.

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:06:16am

re: #281 steve_davis

Not a tactician, but dropping paratroopers into a city you don’t control reeks of desperation to me.

My belief for days now has been that the Russian Army badly overestimated their ability to neutralize Ukraine’s AA network in the opening hours of the war. That they had bad/old intel about where SAM and AAA sites were situated and bombarded those first, alongside or immediately before attacking all military airfields where they figured they’d catch most of the Ukrainian Air Force on the ground. Once they’d neutralized those, the paradrops would be initiated into airfields surrounding Kyiv in order to secure those for moving troops into the capital by transport plane. By that point, the tank columns pushing from the north would have either arrived or be near, allowing them to link up with what would be hundreds or thousands of troops in Kyiv to lay siege to the city.

But instead they totally whiffed on knocking out the AA and jets, plus they didn’t really take into account the fuckton of MANPADS already shipped into the country from NATO that would make any aircraft slower than an attack jet vulnerable to interception. So that the first wave of VDV troops were also the only wave airdropped in before the airspace was deemed too hostile to risk further drops. So that the poor bastards that made it into the country were left to fend for themselves.

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:12:58am

re: #287 Targetpractice

My belief for days now has been that the Russian Army badly overestimated their ability to neutralize Ukraine’s AA network in the opening hours of the war.

The clear fact that they had bad intel is amazing too, considering how penetrated the UKR government used to be by Russian spies. Ukraine must have had a very successful mole hunt.

The tank capture situation just gets better:

(“Tank T-54 Dickhead”)

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:14:21am

re: #288 ericblair

The clear fact that they had bad intel is amazing too, considering how penetrated the UKR government used to be by Russian spies. Ukraine must have had a very successful mole hunt.

The tank capture situation just gets better:

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(“Tank T-54 Dickhead”)

Only had one owner: A little old lady who drove it to church on Sundays.

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:19:46am

Sabotage in Belarus. It’s worth keeping an eye on that situation, too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 1:39:57am

re: #288 ericblair

The clear fact that they had bad intel is amazing too, considering how penetrated the UKR government used to be by Russian spies. Ukraine must have had a very successful mole hunt.

The tank capture situation just gets better:

(“Tank T-54 Dickhead”)

“Pizdets” can mean “Dickhead” or simply “kaputt”.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 2:26:55am

Today’s word(le) of the day is Three!

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 2, 2022 • 2:56:40am

re: #292 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Today’s word(le) of the day is Three!

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Me too! But had my first losing quordle — got 3, and would have gotten 4 if there were one more try.

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 3:03:32am

Posting for the cartoon that is going around

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2022 • 3:33:27am

re: #287 Targetpractice

Hell by now the two columns - one to Kyiv & one to Kharkov, should have united south east of Kyiv and be moving south to cut off the UKA fighting the separatists. This… mess… makes no sense at all.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2022 • 3:50:30am

It’s been a week now. Putin has officially entered the Find Out phase of the exercise.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:01:08am

re: #287 Targetpractice

Ukraine also has quite a few 2K22 Tunguska Self Propelled Anti-Aircraft Launchers. So intel on AA positions does not matter too much when they can move (and these can get up to at least 40 mph).

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:11:29am

I see so many videos of captured vehicles. For example, armor being towed by a tractor.
Shouldn’t captured vehicles be immediately killed or defanged?
Isn’t being around a captured Russian vehicle a risky prospect for incoming fire from UA forces? Or your neighbor?
I hope there is a protocol for what to do. At minimum, a Molotov in the hatch should be enough.

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:16:18am

re: #298 Ming5000

I see so many videos of captured vehicles. For example, armor being towed by a tractor.
Shouldn’t captured vehicles be immediately killed or defanged?
Isn’t being around a captured Russian vehicle a risky prospect for incoming fire from UA forces? Or your neighbor?
I hope there is a protocol for what to do. At minimum, a Molotov in the hatch should be enough.

I have heard that the ones we see getting towed are being towed to a scrapper. No verification, alas, but it makes sense.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:20:28am

I’ve watched a few of his Legaltainment (tm) streams the next day, and I might have to watch this one, simply because of its relevance to current events (and I’m curious to see what impact he thinks it’s going to have).

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:20:56am

re: #299 William Lewis

I have heard that the ones we see getting towed are being towed to a scrapper. No verification, alas, but it makes sense.

Oh, I remember that. You remind me of another question. What about the reactive armor on these vehicles? Some reactive armor is an explosive charge.
I worry when I see these pictures.
Don’t get me started on the UA dude carrying an anti-tank mine across the road.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:25:19am

re: #301 Ming5000

Oh, I remember that. You remind me of another question. What about the reactive armor on these vehicles? Some reactive armor is an explosive charge.
I worry when I see these pictures.
Don’t get me started on the UA dude carrying an anti-tank mine across the road.

He’s a smoker. Nothing can kill him.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:26:56am

re: #301 Ming5000

Oh, I remember that. You remind me of another question. What about the reactive armor on these vehicles? Some reactive armor is an explosive charge.
I worry when I see these pictures.
Don’t get me started on the UA dude carrying an anti-tank mine across the road.

The Ukraine is certainly no stranger to Russian reactive armor; don’t they already have some Russian equipment in their military? There are ways to safely remove and replace armor panels, and they probably know what they are. Plus, not being fused devices, they’re probably a bit safer to handle; although you’d still want to be careful not to drop one. As far as the guy with the anti-tank mine, carrying it is no more stupid than carrying a box of fireworks. (Actually, probably less so; smoking with a box of fireworks is HIGHLY DANGEROUS, but smoking around an anti-tank mine is just another day at the office. They’re not going to respond to the little bits of heat in cigarette ash.) The thing’s pressure sensor is designed to trip only when a heavy vehicle goes over it.

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:27:27am

re: #301 Ming5000

Oh, I remember that. You remind me of another question. What about the reactive armor on these vehicles? Some reactive armor is an explosive charge.
I worry when I see these pictures.
Don’t get me started on the UA dude carrying an anti-tank mine across the road.

I’d be more concerned about the ERA though it’s fairly stable - the tankers have to walk in it to get in & out and perform daily maintenance after all.

As long as there’s no booby trap set up, an AT mine is very safe to handle. They require 150 ~ 300 kg pressure to detonate.

Now those goddamn anti-personnel cluster mines? Those little fuckers will blow fingers, hands, feet, etc off just by looking at them cross-eyed.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:38:20am

A jury has been selected and the first trial of a January 6 insurrectionist starts today. This lovely guy threatened to kill his kids if they informed on him.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:45:51am

re: #219 Punish Domestic Terrorists

His family blames “many people” and “the government.” I’d say it was Donald Trump, Republican propagandists who went along with the big lie, and Matthew himself.

Convicted U.S. Capitol rioter from Sharon area dies by suicide (Post Gazette)

He’s from just down the road from me. About 18 miles south.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:49:24am

re: #235 jaunte

What do you mean they didn’t watch the speech?

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:53:34am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Watched the SOTU last night and was sickened by the sheer audacity of GOPers trying to claim that they were supporting Ukraine, when these same white nationalists were busy covering up Trump crimes by refusing to impeach or remove Trump from office over his attempted extortion of Ukraine’s President Zelinsky by withholding weapons critical to deter Russia in exchange for Zelinsky announcing that he’d launch an investigation into Biden despite zero evidence of any wrongdoing.

Trump engaged in crimes.
Trump tried blackmailing Ukraine.
Trump threatened withholding of weapons critical to Ukraine’s sovereignty and security.

The GOP covered this up, but here they were busy waving Ukraine’s colors around as if no one remembered what they did just a few short years ago.

But for me the lasting image from last night was that every time that President Biden talked about creating jobs in America, bringing jobs and manufacturing back to America, about lowering drug costs for all Americans and making all Americans and their businesses pay a fair share, the GOP sat on their asses, or worse - booed.

These fucking treasonweasels are out of touch with facts and reality, and of course you’ve got GOPers rushing to the cameras to claim that Biden is out of touch.

It’s projecting like IMAX. Cruz in particular is pissed, because his chances of ever seeing the WH on anything other than a public tour or at the invite of Biden is vanishing before his eyes. Biden’s restored faith in American strength and security overseas, rebuilding our economy despite GOP obstructionism, and even on energy independence, the GOP can only think of drilling for more oil even as the energy companies in the US are sitting on thousands of unused leases because they know it’s not cost effective to start drilling, let alone produce from those areas because the cost of oil isn’t high enough to get a return on investment. This is even as the oil companies see record profits.

But the GOP opposes shifting our energy consumption to renewables, which would completely defang OPEC and oil producers like Russia from ever holding the world hostage to their whims and price controls (because if you control the supply, you can ultimately manipulate price, so that as demand returns, you can keep prices high (or higher).

Biden’s speech was very good, and his discussion on Ukraine was particularly strong.

That’s why the GOP is caterwauling today, but they’ll still get help from a mendacious media that tries to balance fairy the fact checking.

Take for example the pathetic attempt to fact check Biden’s statement about job creation from NYT:

We know job statistics are kept from the 1930s onward - in that time, Biden’s statement is indisputably true. But for the time period before that, we know it also to be true because the US population size as identified in every census taken by the US government shows that it would be impossible to create that many jobs.

But the Times deigns to claim that this is partially true. That’s how pathetic the media are. And then you wonder why polling numbers around Biden’s job performance are where they are despite the strong economy and even stronger performance holding Putin in check without putting our own troops on the front line by rallying a global response that even brought Switzerland and Sweden out from neutrality to stand opposed to Russian aggression.

Heck, Biden got Switzerland to act when the Swiss still provided safe havens for Hitler and the goddamned Nazis. That’s something.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:54:19am

re: #299 William Lewis

I have heard that the ones we see getting towed are being towed to a scrapper. No verification, alas, but it makes sense.

Ukrainian scrappers are going to be busy for a while.

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jeffreyw  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:57:01am

Good morning!

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 4:59:49am

re: #308 lawhawk

Find a time in US history when it would have been possible to ‘employ’ 6.5 million people in a year. WW1 only ‘employed’ 4.7 million by comparison (pre 1939, right?)

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:03:24am
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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:13:03am

Well, this is going to make Russian vehicle repairmen grateful.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:14:27am

re: #313 darthstar

Well, this is going to make Russian vehicle repairmen grateful.

It’s becoming abundantly clear that, however prepared Russian leadership was for this war, the grunts very much weren’t. And unfortunately (for Putin), to win a war, you need front-line soldiers to be prepared to do their jobs, and not go, “Fuck this, I’m out,” at the first sign of resistance.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:18:16am

re: #314 Dopamine Fish

It’s becoming abundantly clear that, however prepared Russian leadership was for this war, the grunts very much weren’t. And unfortunately (for Putin), to win a war, you need front-line soldiers to be prepared to do their jobs, and not go, “Fuck this, I’m out,” at the first sign of resistance.

Does this count as resistance?

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:19:30am

re: #292 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Today’s word(le) of the day is Three!

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:20:26am

re: #316 Eventual Carrion

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I did the same, actually.

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:20:58am

re: #315 darthstar

Does this count as resistance?

I get the feeling that this is one of those farmer-claimed abandoned vehicles. You can briefly see the tow ropes in the video.
I do not know, but I guess that some smartass content creators pulled the stunt without informing the new owner of the captured vehicle. Just my take.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:23:12am

JWST caught its first image with aligned mirrors.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:26:24am

I start to wonder if the reason the Ukrainians haven’t just ambushed (at least, apparently haven’t ambushed) the hell out of the 40km long convoy is because they’ve determined it is disabled in such a way that it is more useful to let it sit where it’s sitting, creating a giant clog for any units coming up behind it. Maybe the idea is just hey, it’s early March in Ukraine, and these boys are having to spend their time in little cramped tanks, or sitting inside a canvas-flapped truck, because it’s cold as hell outside, and either they’ve run out of gas or they’re going to run out of gas in the process, at which point, even if the equipment isn’t destroyed, just getting a tank running again once it’s run out of gas is something that I’ll bet is a pain in the ass.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:27:46am

Matt’s gone from mildly irritating to full-blown asshole:

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:30:13am
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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:33:52am

10 billion roubles doesn’t sound like much.

Russia will keep local stock trading closed for a third day as its wealth fund prepares to deploy billions of dollars to buy the country’s battered stocks following the invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign-listed shares in Russian companies slumped this week, an indication of how local equities may react to sanctions on the country and its companies when trading eventually resumes. In an effort to buoy its markets, Russia announced it will deploy up to $10 billion from its sovereign wealth fund to buy up local stocks.

(snip)

Depositary receipts of the nation’s biggest lender, Sberbank of Russia PJSC, slumped 93% in London on Wednesday, while the state-run gas giant Gazprom PJSC fell 97%. Rosneft Oil Co. tumbled 70% and Lukoil PJSC declined 98%.

bloomberg.com

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:37:18am

re: #288 ericblair

I’ve got to believe that the US and our NATO allies were instrumental in not only feeding Ukraine with good intel, but in helping identify and cutting out moles who would undermine the Ukrainian effort.

It’s particularly shocking and surprising how badly Russia’s ground forces have botched the invasion. Their logistics are awful, they have not reached objectives, and even their strategic goals are a mess.

I think their strategic goals are a mess precisely because Biden and NATO engaged in next level cyberwarfare and not only identified when/how Russia would attack, but cut off all the supposed excuses for invading by calling out how Russia would try to create a condition that made their invasion more palatable to the world (there are none).

Putin badly miscalculated, but he still thinks he’s got the upper hand and can outlast global will. The economic sanctions will hit hard; and now that Biden’s looking to seize Russian oligarch assets, it’s only a matter of time before the FBI comes a calling at a bunch of Trump owned buildings where those oligarchs have purchased space to legally launder their ill-gotten gains by converting their stolen gains into lawful real estate.

A while back, NY changed its rules to require that the owners of properties be clearly identified, so it wasn’t just some LLC buying it. You would have to identify the specific people who operate the LLC. This adds some transparency.

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:39:09am

There are also so many Russian victims to Putin’s War.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:40:35am

re: #323 Shropshire Slasher

10 billion roubles works out to: $91,598,746. That’s right. That’s just about $91.5 million thanks to the devaluation of the rouble and inflation Putin’s caused on top of global inflation from the recovery from the pandemic.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:42:23am

GMA reported that Russia has shut down its liberal radio stations and has banned the use of “war” and “invasion” from broadcasts.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:43:06am

re: #324 lawhawk

You said ‘lawful real estate’ and Trump in the same paragraph.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:43:50am

re: #326 lawhawk

10 billion roubles works out to: $91,598,746. That’s right. That’s just about $91.5 million thanks to the devaluation of the rouble and inflation Putin’s caused on top of global inflation from the recovery from the pandemic.

An ounce of gold is only 211,000 rubles.

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:56:25am

Thread on impact to Russian commercial aviation. Devastating.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 5:58:01am

happy to read this (I’ll post the link again if the thread rolls over shortly here):

militarytimes.com

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:02:05am

re: #331 steve_davis

happy to read this (I’ll post the link again if the thread rolls over shortly here):

militarytimes.com

If this is accurate, one of the great mysteries of this war is why aren’t the Russians using their much larger Air Force to establish air superiority over Ukraine.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:06:00am
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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:07:12am

[too many guesses]

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:07:36am

re: #325 Ming5000

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:08:09am

re: #332 No Malarkey!

If this is accurate, one of the great mysteries of this war is why aren’t the Russians using their much larger Air Force to establish air superiority over Ukraine.

From what I’m given to understand - and all the standard disclaimers apply; IANAL, IANAS (I am not a soldier), etc. - the Russians intended on knocking out the Ukrainians’ air defenses, but they apparently had very very out-of-date intel. They struck old air defense sites that had long since been abandoned; they struck military airfields with no aircraft. The Russian air force also seems to be suffering from a similar sort of supply paralysis as the army, with planes parked at airfields, not being flown.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:08:34am

re: #325 Ming5000

There are also so many Russian victims to Putin’s War.

This doesn’t look like an army that will be able to engage in a block by block battle to take Kyiv. Which means Putin will have to turn it into rubble with artillery and aerial and missile strikes.

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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:12:06am

re: #311 darthstar

Find a time in US history when it would have been possible to ‘employ’ 6.5 million people in a year. WW1 only ‘employed’ 4.7 million by comparison (pre 1939, right?)

WPA put 8.5 million people to work. Probably not all in the first year, but still.

Coming off an unemployment rate of 25%, there was certainly an enormous applicant pool to draw from. Even if they had to come up with a lot of make-work federal jobs; this wasn’t the economy at large and few of the jobs were private sector, but the people cutting trail and building shelters in the national parks, or decorating the subway stations with mosaics, or the writers collecting Slavery/Civil War testimonies and photographers documenting the dust bowl migrations… that’s a lot of people.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:12:40am

re: #321 Barefoot Grin

Matt’s gone from mildly irritating to full-blown asshole:

That may be his snarky way of saying that since Biden is normal, and not a lunatic, its safe to ignore him.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:14:00am

re: #330 Ming5000

Thread on impact to Russian commercial aviation. Devastating.

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Sanctions - if drafted well - do work.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:17:03am

re: #338 sagehen

WPA put a total of 8.5 million to work over a span of 1933 to 1945. At its peak, a total of 3.3 million were paid out of WPA in a single month, but that’s not a cumulative total.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:17:41am

John Bolton, claps back against the lie that Trump deterred Russia on a Newsmax interview, saying he barely knew where Ukraine was, thought Finland was part of Russia, and thought the US was being too hard on Russian sanctions. news.yahoo.com

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:20:51am

re: #342 No Malarkey!

John Bolton, claps back against the lie that Trump deterred Russia on a Newsmax interview, saying he barely knew where Ukraine was, thought Finland was part of Russia, and thought the US was being too hard on Russian sanctions. news.yahoo.com

Trump’s ignorance deterred Putin - because Putin couldn’t know if Trump would accidentally attack Russia when Trump was trying to attack Greenland! ///

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:22:15am

re: #341 lawhawk

WPA put a total of 8.5 million to work over a span of 1933 to 1945. At its peak, a total of 3.3 million were paid out of WPA in a single month, but that’s not a cumulative total.

I remember back in college in the late 80’s our campus had a number of old sidewalks with “WPA” stamped into them. They were generally still in good condition decades later- a sign of good heavy rebar/concrete and quality work. Modern sidewalks I feel might last 20 years before they’re in need of repair/replace.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:22:25am

re: #337 No Malarkey!

This doesn’t look like an army that will be able to engage in a block by block battle to take Kyiv. Which means Putin will have to turn it into rubble with artillery and aerial and missile strikes.

if ukraine is ostensibly a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to your own people.
if ukraine is not a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to a non aggressor.

it’s getting close to a james bond level sociopath megalomaniac evil super-villain

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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:24:02am

re: #341 lawhawk

WPA put a total of 8.5 million to work over a span of 1933 to 1945. At its peak, a total of 3.3 million were paid out of WPA in a single month, but that’s not a cumulative total.

okay; but howsabout 1942, when the draft called up every able-bodied man 18-34? And all their sisters and wives went to work in defense plants, and we had to recruit trainloads of Mexicans to come be our farmworkers? Surely that adds up to 6.5 million…

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:25:22am

re: #345 Dangerman

if ukraine is ostensibly a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to your own people.
if ukraine is not a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to a non aggressor.

it’s getting close to a james bond level sociopath megalomaniac evil super-villain

Here in the US we have a sizable number of Republicans who would LOVE to be able to to that “to their own people.” I will always remember that noose on the Capitol invasion. It was meant not only for Pelosi and Pence, it was meant for ALL Americans not in line with Trump.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:28:17am
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:29:22am
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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:29:33am

re: #347 Florida Panhandler

Here in the US we have a sizable number of Republicans who would LOVE to be able to to that “to their own people.” I will always remember that noose on the Capitol invasion. It was meant not only for Pelosi and Pence, it was meant for ALL Americans not in line with Trump.

I distinctly remember Bill O’Reilly suggesting the Coit Tower (San Francisco) needed an air strike…

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:29:47am

re: #346 sagehen

okay; but howsabout 1942, when the draft called up every able-bodied man 18-34? And all their sisters and wives went to work in defense plants, and we had to recruit trainloads of Mexicans to come be our farmworkers? Surely that adds up to 6.5 million…

Do you count the draft as a job? Being conscripted into a military removes people from the workforce. Workforce gets expanded by women entering workforce to replace men fighting in the military.

But even as the Times noted, the total is the highest since the data started to be kept in 1939. Since 1939 is before 1942, we know the answer. More jobs created by Biden.

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:30:02am

Thread on the how a map can lead to inaccurate assumptions. The specific example is one we have seen a lot of.

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Mattand  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:31:26am

re: #342 No Malarkey!

John Bolton, claps back against the lie that Trump deterred Russia on a Newsmax interview, saying he barely knew where Ukraine was, thought Finland was part of Russia, and thought the US was being too hard on Russian sanctions. news.yahoo.com

Jesus Christ, between him and Bill Barr and all the other flunkies now throwing Trump under the bus…

It’s amazing how quickly a conservative finds their morals and their backbone when there’s a book deal involved.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:32:03am
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s state auditor has again called for Gov. Kim Reynolds to return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds that were used to pay for 21 governor’s office staff members for three months in 2020.

Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, released a report Tuesday that repeated his recommendation from October 2020 and last December that the funds were improperly used and should be returned.

Sand said in December that the Republican governor not only misspent the federal money but tried to conceal it by passing it through the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

After that report was released, Sand said he finally received in December a 159-page packet of information he had sought repeatedly from the governor’s office to justify use of federal pandemic emergency money for her staff’s salaries.

After reviewing the documentation, he said his recommendation to return the $448,448 remains the same.

Auditor: Iowa Gov. Reynolds must return $450K in COVID funds (ABC News)

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:35:20am

I have all kinds of feels about being a great grandparent. A new generation!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:37:23am

re: #345 Dangerman

if ukraine is ostensibly a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to your own people.
if ukraine is not a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to a non aggressor.

it’s getting close to a james bond level sociopath megalomaniac evil super-villain

Its what Putin did to Grozny back in the Chechnyan war. Doing it in the middle of Europe, the whole world will be watching. If they do this, there is no returning to the community of nations for Russia until Putin is removed and Ukraine is liberated. Russia is going to be plunged into deep poverty and isolated much like North Korea.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:37:32am

re: #355 The Pie Overlord!

I have all kinds of feels about being a great grandparent. A new generation!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:38:50am

re: #348 Patricia Kayden

Omicron has burned through almost everyone who is infectable, so there isn’t much fuel left for the fire, for now.

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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:42:25am

re: #351 lawhawk

Do you count the draft as a job? Being conscripted into a military removes people from the workforce. Workforce gets expanded by women entering workforce to replace men fighting in the military.

But even as the Times noted, the total is the highest since the data started to be kept in 1939. Since 1939 is before 1942, we know the answer. More jobs created by Biden.

If they’re getting a paycheck, it’s a job. Does Bureau of Labor Statistics count them? I’m not sure.

At the height of the war, we had 15 million troops in uniform, on battlefields. Their clothes, parachutes, jeeps, guns, ammo, food, all came from private-sector companies (under federal contract).

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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:47:50am

re: #359 sagehen

If they’re getting a paycheck, it’s a job. Does Bureau of Labor Statistics count them? I’m not sure.

At the height of the war, we had 15 million troops in uniform, on battlefields. Their clothes, parachutes, jeeps, guns, ammo, food, all came from private-sector companies (under federal contract).

ahhh… I looked it up.

Military personnel, federal government employees, retirees, handicapped or discouraged workers, and agricultural workers are not part of the civilian labor force.

This segment of the population is excluded from the civilian labor force because military personnel are not considered as resources available for productive activity. … The institutionalized population includes people in correctional facilities (prisons and jails), mental or psychiatric hospitals, and nursing homes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:50:06am
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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:50:53am
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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:50:54am

At least Paxton didn’t win, but the second choice, ugh:

Meanwhile, Texas’ scandal-plagued attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, was also forced into a runoff after falling well short of a majority in Tuesday’s primary, a battle that will pit him against state Land Commissioner George P. Bush. With most votes tallied, Paxton led Bush, who is the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, by a 43-23 margin

m.dailykos.com

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:51:28am

The coronavirus may infect tissue within the male genital tract, new research on rhesus macaques shows,” the New York Times reports.

“The finding suggests that symptoms like erectile dysfunction reported by some Covid patients may be caused directly by the virus, not by inflammation or fever that often accompany the disease.”

Taegan Goddard politicalwire.com:

If that doesn’t convince men to get vaccinated, nothing will.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:51:41am

re: #353 Mattand

Jesus Christ, between him and Bill Barr and all the other flunkies now throwing Trump under the bus…

It’s amazing how quickly a conservative finds their morals and their backbone when there’s a book deal involved.

They’re all trying to rehab their image, all while they were enabling his misconduct at the time Trump was engaging in the extortion of Ukraine. Bolton was silent. He refused to testify under oath at his first impeachment. Barr was actively helping Trump avoid consequences by short-circuiting Mueller’s report and mischaracterized the report too.

Both of them are culpable and responsible for this, even as they claim Trump was wrong.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:52:02am

re: #359 sagehen

If they’re getting a paycheck, it’s a job. Does Bureau of Labor Statistics count them? I’m not sure.

At the height of the war, we had 15 million troops in uniform, on battlefields. Their clothes, parachutes, jeeps, guns, ammo, food, all came from private-sector companies (under federal contract).

For the purposes of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are only counting jobs in the civilian work force.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:56:10am

re: #365 lawhawk

They’re all trying to rehab their image, all while they were enabling his misconduct at the time Trump was engaging in the extortion of Ukraine. Bolton was silent. He refused to testify under oath at his first impeachment. Barr was actively helping Trump avoid consequences by short-circuiting Mueller’s report and mischaracterized the report too.

Both of them are culpable and responsible for this, even as they claim Trump was wrong.

Bolton absolutely should be held responsible for his wrongdoing. I’m just glad that the Newsmax audience for once got to here some truth about Trump. There weren’t any good people on Trump’s national security team, just like there aren’t any good people working in the Mafia.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:56:55am

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(((Archangel1)))  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:57:00am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:57:34am

re: #293 Hecuba’s daughter

Me too! But had my first losing quordle — got 3, and would have gotten 4 if there were one more try.

That was mine too yesterday. Just one more dang try! :-(

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:58:54am

re: #361 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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21st century war

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 2, 2022 • 6:59:15am

re: #364 Dangerman

Taegan Goddard politicalwire.com:

They won’t get the Pfizer vaccine, but they’ll happily down the Pfizer blue pill like candy.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:00:53am

re: #365 lawhawk

They’re all trying to rehab their image, all while they were enabling his misconduct at the time Trump was engaging in the extortion of Ukraine. Bolton was silent. He refused to testify under oath at his first impeachment. Barr was actively helping Trump avoid consequences by short-circuiting Mueller’s report and mischaracterized the report too.

Both of them are culpable and responsible for this, even as they claim Trump was wrong.

If back then trump was wrong, then as enablers, they were too

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:04:18am

re: #369 (((Archangel1)))

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O/B-noxious

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lizardofid  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:08:42am

re: #363 Belafon

At least Paxton didn’t win, but the second choice, ugh:

m.dailykos.com

While watching GPB’s adds leading up to this primary, with him pandering to trump’s base, I couldn’t help wondering what his grandfather would have thought. And by the way, what the hell part would an AG play in “finishing trump’s wall” anyway?

Oh, good morning

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:12:59am

re: #330 Ming5000

Thread on impact to Russian commercial aviation. Devastating.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:13:14am

re: #374 Dangerman

O/B-noxious

Heathers.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:14:22am

re: #356 No Malarkey!

Its what Putin did to Grozny back in the Chechnyan war. Doing it in the middle of Europe, the whole world will be watching. If they do this, there is no returning to the community of nations for Russia until Putin is removed and Ukraine is liberated. Russia is going to be plunged into deep poverty and isolated much like North Korea.

I would say there would be no returning, even after Putin is removed, until the essential russian government structure is changed. One can hardly say, “Oh, you killed Putin and put another cronie in his place. Well, that solves it!”

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:15:05am

Nothing to see behind the tag, just the Wordle score.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:18:30am

Meh

Wordle 256 5/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:19:23am

re: #379 The Pie Overlord!

Nothing to see behind the tag, just the Wordle score.

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I have one of those.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:20:12am

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:21:56am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

I change mine every time. I’m always going for the one.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:22:11am

How it began vs. How it’s going

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:22:21am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I usually use the same two to knock out all the vowels and most common consonants. Seems to be effective the majority of the time.

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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:22:56am

Posted under the post about the Mykolayiv landing. Apparently by air?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:23:23am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

Random. Whatever my brain decides that morning.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:23:51am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

I have a bunch of different starting words that I use randomly. Their main purpose is to identify vowels.

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cat-tikvah  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:23:54am

re: #353 Mattand

May their whitewashing tomes all end up remaindered, having sold fewer copies than Chris Christie’s.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:24:25am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

I literally use query as my first word.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:25:17am

re: #390 steve_davis

I literally use query as my first word.

Has there ever been a q in the answer?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:25:42am

Sigh. I hate to even post this.

Abramovich has so much power.

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rhuarc  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:26:33am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

I start with “roate” and then “linds” every single time. If I don’t get a lot of letters I then will use “chump”. At that point, I’ve used almost all the most used consonants and I’ve used all vowels.

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lizardofid  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:26:35am

re: #380 HRH Stanley Sea

Meh

Wordle 256 5/6

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⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Sames.

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:27:06am

Annoying today:

Wordle 256 5/6

🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was so pleased when guess #2 gave me the basis for the answer, but I should have made the more-obvious choice thereafter…. Grrr….

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

I use a few “regulars” depending on whether I want to start off by finding/eliminating vowels, or consonants. I tend to shift off on alternate days.

Click to Reveal

One of these days I think Wordle is going to freak everyone out and actually have ADIEU as the solution…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:27:09am

re: #391 wrenchwench

Has there ever been a q in the answer?

If memory serves, the answer to one puzzle was QUIET.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:28:15am

re: #369 (((Archangel1)))

[Embedded content]

The Screeching Harpies

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:28:24am

re: #391 wrenchwench

Has there ever been a q in the answer?

hell, i had query show up as the first word in a quordle yesterday. But I always kill it outright. I know I’ve had others say there are words with more common letters that will serve the same purpose, but for some reason, I like to know that if, for instance, I pull a u, I can ignore the possibility of a q being in front of it. then i use avoid for the second word, mostly, and that kills all the vowels. I’ve never seen a z in a word, interestingly, though zebra is out there waiting for us, I know.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:29:01am

re: #392 HRH Stanley Sea

Sigh. I hate to even post this.

Abramovich has so much power.

[Embedded content]

Why isn’t this being run by the Israeli government?

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:29:10am

Apparent Black Sea Fleet battle plans, grain of salt, obviously. I don’t know if it really implies a 15-day war; it looks like there’s a spreadsheet of 15 days of what could be communication net frequencies and codewords, but doesn’t imply that that lines up with the overall war plan.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:29:11am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

Different word, every day. Today’s was an acquatic mammal. Tomorrow may be a plant-based word. Or an adverb.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:29:16am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:30:04am

re: #385 Eclectic Cyborg

I usually use the same two to knock out all the vowels and most common consonants. Seems to be effective the majority of the time.

What’s your goal? To ensure you succeed in solving it or to solve it in as few guesses as possible?

Curious. Everyone?

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:31:02am

re: #396 Eclectic Cyborg

If memory serves, the answer to one puzzle was QUIET.

remember the day it was curry? I fucking had 3 letters in the right spot starting out, and I couldn’t solve it. that was sobering.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:31:31am

re: #390 steve_davis

I literally use query as my first word.

Always?

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:31:47am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

I rotate between a few different ones. It all depends on how I feel that morning as to which one I try.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:32:24am

re: #378 steve_davis

I would say there would be no returning, even after Putin is removed, until the essential russian government structure is changed. One can hardly say, “Oh, you killed Putin and put another cronie in his place. Well, that solves it!”

If any of his cronies work up the nerve to remove Putin, I imagine they will have a hard time retaining power, much like the Soviet Poltiburo members that tried to remove Gorbachev.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:32:34am

re: #403 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s your goal? To ensure you succeed in solving it or to solve it in as few guesses as possible?

Curious. Everyone?

My goal is to solve it. I’ve never gotten one in fewer than three guesses, but I haven’t missed many overall.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:32:57am

re: #403 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s your goal? To ensure you succeed in solving it or to solve it in as few guesses as possible?

Curious. Everyone?

i just try to solve. there’s nothing about the game that suggests you get any additional reward for solving faster, which is mostly blind luck anyway. My stats indicate I most often solve in 5, a bit less frequently in 4.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:34:36am

re: #409 steve_davis

i just try to solve. there’s nothing about the game that suggests you get any additional reward for solving faster, which is mostly blind luck anyway. My stats indicate I most often solve in 5, a bit less frequently in 4.

The lack of time pressure is the thing that makes it work for me.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:34:40am

Missed this:

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lizardofid  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:36:25am

re: #400 ericblair

Apparent Black Sea Fleet battle plans, grain of salt, obviously. I don’t know if it really implies a 15-day war; it looks like there’s a spreadsheet of 15 days of what could be communication net frequencies and codewords, but doesn’t imply that that lines up with the overall war plan.

That’s very cool. But were I the home team I might have kept that under my hat.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:36:43am

Opening arguments have begun in the first trial of a January 6 insurrectionist. This defendant was a mob leader, so he is facing hard time if found guilty.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:36:49am

re: #403 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s your goal? To ensure you succeed in solving it or to solve it in as few guesses as possible?

Curious. Everyone?

My aim is for as few guesses as possible.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:38:28am

re: #409 steve_davis

i just try to solve. there’s nothing about the game that suggests you get any additional reward for solving faster, which is mostly blind luck anyway. My stats indicate I most often solve in 5, a bit less frequently in 4.

I’m a habitual four banger. I’ll get it in 3 if my second guess gives me a good position letter or two.
First word: random guess
Second (assuming a letter or two): educated guess
Third: first attempt to solve
Fourth: usually have it
Fifth : WTF was I thinking?
Sixth: I should have had coffee first.

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lizardofid  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:38:31am

re: #403 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s your goal? To ensure you succeed in solving it or to solve it in as few guesses as possible?

Curious. Everyone?

Always swinging for the fences.

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Mattand  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:41:06am

re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wordle query…does everyone use the same starting word?

I change mine every time. I read a bunch of “the best starting word” articles and I am like Meh…it’s luck of the draw so I redraw it every day. You?

I start with “raise” and then usually follow with “count”, regardless of the hits on the first guess.

I play across different devices, so I’m not sure what my actual record is, but it’s something like 20-3.The first two losses were because I didn’t bother to read the Wordle instructions, for what that’s worth.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:41:54am

My Wordle strategy: I have the same starting word every day. I play on unofficial “hard mode” - I always have to use the letters I successfully guessed (even though I sometimes mess up, like today, and waste a guess putting a letter into a spot I know is wrong) - so my typical strategy for word 2 is to find a word that eliminates as many vowels and/or common consonants as possible, while still matching whatever I got right in word 1. After that, I’m hopefully close enough to be in guess mode. The worst ones are when I go two guesses without hitting any letters; I use the same two words for this scenario, and it eliminates a lot of common stuff, but it still usually goes into 5 or 6 guess territory.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:43:08am

re: #404 steve_davis

remember the day it was curry? I fucking had 3 letters in the right spot starting out, and I couldn’t solve it. that was sobering.

You just weren’t…hungry enough to solve it that day. (snicker)

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:43:35am

re: #413 No Malarkey!

Not only one of the leaders, but a leader of an armed insurrection to overthrow the government and interfere in the certification process.

Again, this was an armed insurrection where he and the rest of these treasonweasels stormed the Capitol, assaulted law enforcement, and all with Trump’s wink/nod/incitement/support.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:45:08am

re: #409 steve_davis

i just try to solve. there’s nothing about the game that suggests you get any additional reward for solving faster, which is mostly blind luck anyway. My stats indicate I most often solve in 5, a bit less frequently in 4.

I am the queen of 4. The vast majority of my solves are in 4. I am thrilled if I ever get a 3 and sometimes go to 5 (rarely 6).

Quordle, OTOH, always takes all 9. I may have had one at 8 but that may be wishful remembrance.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:46:01am

re: #411 lawhawk

Missed this:

She voted not to censure herself. That’s so adorable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:46:20am

re: #392 HRH Stanley Sea

Sigh. I hate to even post this.

Abramovich has so much power.

This has got to be a major embarrassment to anyone who is not a dyed-in-the wool Nazi anti-Semite Holocaust denier…

But it is a call for decent people to step up, confiscate his fucking assets (and those of other oligarchs) and donate them directly to Yad Vashem IN OUR NAMES

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:47:13am

re: #418 Dopamine Fish

I look at eliminating consonant blends: ph, sl, st, tr, br, gh, ch, nd, nt, etc without necessarily using them in the first word. So something like HOURS if it had nothing would rule out sh, ph, gh, st, tr, pr, br…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:47:52am

re: #415 darthstar

First word: random guess
Second (assuming a letter or two): educated guess
Third: first attempt to solve
Fourth: usually have it
Fifth : WTF was I thinking?
Sixth: I should have had coffee first.

Perfect description!

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Mattand  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:47:57am

re: #420 lawhawk

Not only one of the leaders, but a leader of an armed insurrection to overthrow the government and interfere in the certification process.

Again, this was an armed insurrection where he and the rest of these treasonweasels stormed the Capitol, assaulted law enforcement, and all with Trump’s wink/nod/incitement/support.

You cannot get this across to independents/non-news junkies/normies, whatever label you want to use. People just don’t care. You bring this shit up and they’re like “Well, Democrats are bad, too” or “Hey, my portfolio is fine” or “Stop exaggerating, it wasn’t that bad.” At least in my experience.

We literally have one party openly palling around with Nazis and siding with Putin and Americans just do.

Not.

Care.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:49:53am

re: #424 darthstar

I look at eliminating consonant blends: ph, sl, st, tr, br, gh, ch, nd, nt, etc without necessarily using them in the first word. So something like HOURS if it had nothing would rule out sh, ph, gh, st, tr, pr, br…

I like getting the h out of there.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:50:20am

re: #421 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I missed the Latin word on quordle…went with MATZA instead (I had the A, M, T) to work with. 3,6,8, x. Bummer.

Saturday I missed JUNTO - that pissed me off.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:50:21am

re: #424 darthstar

I look at eliminating consonant blends: ph, sl, st, tr, br, gh, ch, nd, nt, etc without necessarily using them in the first word. So something like HOURS if it had nothing would rule out sh, ph, gh, st, tr, pr, br…

Oooh! That’s a great trick to stuff into my cap. I like that!

I find that Quordling makes my Wordling much sharper. I love Quordle.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:50:52am

re: #427 wrenchwench

I like getting the h out of there.

Does that make it tere then? ;-)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:51:29am

re: #428 darthstar

I missed the Latin word on quordle…went with MATZA instead (I had the A, M, T) to work with. 3,6,8, x. Bummer.

Saturday I missed JUNTO - that pissed me off.

I have had to google some of the words there because I was not familiar with them. That lower right word is always a bitch.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:51:34am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:52:03am

And I must return to work for my last meeting before I am off until Monday.

Thanks for indulging me in my love of all things Wordle.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:54:12am

re: #405 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Always?

yep. every time. it just feels right.

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:56:32am

re: #430 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Does that make it tere then? ;-)

If you can make it tere, you can make it anywere…

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:57:47am

Opening statement for the first January 6 terrorist to be put on trial.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:58:49am

re: #435 darthstar

Holy shit. The FSB may be the reason Putin’s assassination force was destroyed before it could get to Zelensky

That story won’t feed Putin’s paranoia at all.

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KingKenrod  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:58:59am

re: #383 wrenchwench

I change mine every time. I’m always going for the one.

I’ve been using the same starting word…it’s worked out very well so far.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2022 • 7:59:32am

re: #403 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s your goal? To ensure you succeed in solving it or to solve it in as few guesses as possible?

Curious. Everyone?

KNOCK ON WOOD
I haven’t lost yet. I’m trying to solve w/as few guesses as possible. Always use my correct letters. Never waste a guess (unless I fuck up, which has happened)

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lizardofid  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:00:56am

re: #427 wrenchwench

I like getting the h out of there.

I’ve looked around in a few saloons and suddenly felt that way.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:01:58am

Breakfast. Now sit down and eat before it gets cold.

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:02:08am

Holy fuck. Primary school kids getting arrested for protesting against the war.

BBC: Russian primary school children detained for anti-war protest

Gabriel Gatehouse

BBC Newsnight

When I saw reports and photographs on Tuesday suggesting that primary school children had been arrested by police in Moscow for laying flowers at the Ukrainian embassy and holding signs saying “No to war” I refused to believe it was real.

But now it has been confirmed by the Nobel prize-winning newspaper Novaya Gazeta. In an update the newspaper says the children have since been released.

The images show the children with officers behind metal bars, perhaps in a police vehicle, and then in a police station, holding their flowers and placards.

The Kremlin appears to be taking increasingly draconian measures to try to keep a grip on its war narrative.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:02:34am

re: #435 darthstar

Holy shit. The FSB may be the reason Putin’s assassination force was destroyed before it could get to Zelensky

Which indicates that that other information on the invasion could have been leaked as well….

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KingKenrod  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:03:02am

re: #403 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s your goal? To ensure you succeed in solving it or to solve it in as few guesses as possible?

Curious. Everyone?

Solving it is the primary goal. Fewer guesses is icing. However, I will say that solving a puzzle on the 6th guess is pretty satisfying.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:07:52am

re: #443 William Lewis

Those kids will remember this. And they’ll fucking hate Putin and his ilk for it.

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ericblair  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:08:57am

re: #444 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Which indicates that that other information on the invasion could have been leaked as well….

Of course, BIG grain of salt with this for now, since it could be a psyop or simply bullshit. However, with any real effort to unseat Putin, I can’t see us knowing anything until it succeeds or fails.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:10:11am

I have my favorite starting words, which I use randomly.

SE1ZY3Z1R0pZZVRDdFdYU2d2dlNuRUxuakNnZmY0QkV3cENiQnNnQ2ppZWw5WWJIYTdlU2tnc2NpRDF2SGdMSVlCVTdUamFGTkFjZ0tqcWpGUVZGOEcxeVlPdC9oSVdVL2M2WE10Q1k0V1BPbzhYNW94UDBsdXhOY2F4SnJZcFk6OklAxWaSsZkAiJ9yyWZvbKQ=

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:10:22am

re: #447 ericblair

Of course, BIG grain of salt with this for now, since it could be a psyop or simply bullshit. However, with any real effort to unseat Putin, I can’t see us knowing anything until it succeeds or fails.

which I why I also couched it less than definite terms…

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:10:38am

re: #437 No Malarkey!

Opening statement for the first January 6 terrorist to be put on trial.

[Embedded content]

But that BLM protestor that picked up and threw back the tear gas canister needed to be shot, right? He had no right to think “this is enough”.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:11:21am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:11:52am

I want to thank everyone here who makes the effort to hide their Wordle.

I suppose I might take it up some day but for now I only play solitaire online and solve newspaper crosswords

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:13:40am

re: #451 Teukka

I think the FBI and DOJ and Treasury will all be making a lot more visits to Trump Tower, Trump International, and other Trump properties to seize oligarch properties.

And I’m here for it.

Pass the popcorn
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:21:41am

re: #453 lawhawk

I think the FBI and DOJ and Treasury will all be making a lot more visits to Trump Tower, Trump International, and other Trump properties to seize oligarch properties.

And I’m here for it.

[Embedded content]

From your lips to the Mothers ear

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austin_blue  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:23:30am

re: #364 Dangerman

The coronavirus may infect tissue within the male genital tract, new research on rhesus macaques shows,” the New York Times reports.

“The finding suggests that symptoms like erectile dysfunction reported by some Covid patients may be caused directly by the virus, not by inflammation or fever that often accompany the disease.”

If that doesn’t convince men to get vaccinated, nothing will.

Taegan Goddard politicalwire.com:

Many Republican women are all like, “Oh, thank God.”

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:25:49am

BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:28:18am

This is good news, but:

1. It’s still too early to take our foot off the gas.
2. What will happen to the numbers once the unvaccinated who contracted Omicron lose their natural immunity?
3. There remains risk of a new variant. Omicron was never guaranteed to be the last wave.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:31:10am

By same token, this is what Russia will use to justify targeting civilians - that the civilians are no longer civilians but terrorists and combatants. Just watch for that pivot. They’ll justify attacking residential buildings precisely because Ukrainians are resisting Putin’s invasion and refuse to bend the knee.

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:33:05am
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lizardofid  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:33:14am

re: #455 austin_blue

The coronavirus may infect tissue within the male genital tract, new research on rhesus macaques shows,” the New York Times reports.

“The finding suggests that symptoms like erectile dysfunction reported by some Covid patients may be caused directly by the virus, not by inflammation or fever that often accompany the disease.”

If that doesn’t convince men to get vaccinated, nothing will.

Many Republican women are all like, “Oh, thank God.”

So, Pfizer’s got all the bases covered. Genius!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:37:13am

re: #455 austin_blue

The coronavirus may infect tissue within the male genital tract, new research on rhesus macaques shows,” the New York Times reports.

“The finding suggests that symptoms like erectile dysfunction reported by some Covid patients may be caused directly by the virus, not by inflammation or fever that often accompany the disease.”

If that doesn’t convince men to get vaccinated, nothing will.

Many Republican women are all like, “Oh, thank God.”

Republicans reducing abortion by sterilizing themselves.

VWI4TU5QWmRxQnpXZnZQTWdHMW9LcEFtMXFNQXowVjBXcHNIWFZncittaXNGd2NkbENtc2JWc1daaTRuMExVdjo6kJHY5GMiMShz/UIHIuGcwQ==

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:40:45am

Holy shit the Russian UN ambassador is blaming Ukraine for everything. Of course. Nazis! Launchers in residential areas. Hoodlums. Blah blah. Wow.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:40:56am

re: #461 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:44:48am

re: #462 GlutenFreeJesus

Called it.

The Russians are so transparent in their propaganda.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:46:21am

re: #457 Eclectic Cyborg

This is good news, but:

1. It’s still too early to take our foot off the gas.
2. What will happen to the numbers once the unvaccinated who contracted Omicron lose their natural immunity?
3. There remains risk of a new variant. Omicron was never guaranteed to be the last wave.

This is just the ending of the first Omicron surge. There will be future surges of Covid, you can bank on it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:47:41am

re: #462 GlutenFreeJesus

Holy shit the Russian UN ambassador is blaming Ukraine for everything. Of course. Nazis! Launchers in residential areas. Hoodlums. Blah blah. Wow.

The schmuck ambassador to Canada did that yesterday. He was deservedly roasted on Twitter.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:49:06am

re: #463 Eclectic Cyborg

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:51:41am

re: #462 GlutenFreeJesus

Holy shit the Russian UN ambassador is blaming Ukraine for everything. Of course. Nazis! Launchers in residential areas. Hoodlums. Blah blah. Wow.

Can we get confirmation that the Russian Federation UN Ambassador said this?

“Those who prepared the draft resolution incorporated an aggressive language against the Soviet… the Russian federation to belittle it’s legitimate stand based on it’s security concerns and it’s right to protect it’s people from the umm threats.”

Bold mine.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:52:18am

re: #467 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:54:56am

re: #468 Teukka

Can we get confirmation that the Russian Federation UN Ambassador said this?

“Those who prepared the draft resolution incorporated an aggressive language against the Soviet… the Russian federation to belittle it’s legitimate stand based on it’s security concerns and it’s right to protect it’s people from the umm threats.”

Bold mine.

Update. It apparently was the Syrian Ambassador that said that. Or at least his/her translator.

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austin_blue  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:55:15am

re: #465 No Malarkey!

This is just the ending of the first Omicron surge. There will be future surges of Covid, you can bank on it.

We dropped to Stage 3 yesterday P.M.

Halfway home!

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:57:32am

Remembered that I have a Ukraine themed tie-dye.

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:57:54am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 2, 2022 • 8:58:07am

141-5 condemning Russia. 30-some abstentions.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:00:09am

re: #473 jaunte

One would think destroying loan documents will ensure they do not get any payments. Letting the super rich get off with a free yacht or three?

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:01:03am

re: #474 GlutenFreeJesus

141-5 condemning Russia. 30-some abstentions.

Lets see if I can count to five. Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Serbia?

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:01:10am

Thank God drugs were involved.

A 24-year-old Wisconsin woman allegedly killed and dismembered her lover during a drug-fueled sex session — dumping his head and penis in a bucket and his legs in a crockpot.

The brunette seductress, Taylor Schabusiness, then allegedly told police they were “going to have fun trying to find all of the organs,” WBAY reported.

The mutilated victim in the ghastly crime Thursday was a 25-year-old Green Bay man whom investigators have not identified.

On Tuesday, Schabusiness made her first appearance in Brown County Court via video conference on charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.

nypost.com

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:01:41am

re: #475 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Destroying evidence of crimes; not a great way to keep your hedge fund healthy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:03:11am

re: #475 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

One would think destroying loan documents will ensure they do not get any payments. Letting the super rich get off with a free yacht or three?

They saw the collateral damage as totaling more than the bad loan…

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:03:43am

This is why Republicans keep harping on “street crime.”

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:05:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:07:11am

re: #481 jaunte

New: President Biden announces DOJ will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud: “We’re going after the criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans.”

you fucking well know that some of that money found its way to Trump businesses…

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:07:42am

re: #455 austin_blue

The coronavirus may infect tissue within the male genital tract, new research on rhesus macaques shows,” the New York Times reports.

“The finding suggests that symptoms like erectile dysfunction reported by some Covid patients may be caused directly by the virus, not by inflammation or fever that often accompany the disease.”

If that doesn’t convince men to get vaccinated, nothing will.

Many Republican women are all like, “Oh, thank God.”

Anybody going to get a quote from Ben Shapiro’s wife?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:07:45am
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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:09:05am

re: #484 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dude Comrade, Where’s My Tank?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:09:46am

re: #478 jaunte

Destroying evidence of crimes; not a great way to keep your hedge fund healthy.

Couldn’t Credit Suisse get in hot water for telling some of its associates to destroy documents?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:11:09am

re: #480 jaunte

This is why Republicans keep harping on “street crime.”

“street crime” is basically code for “colored people” , never mind plenty of drug dealers and meth heads have white skin.

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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:11:38am

re: #456 William Lewis

BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!

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Some costumes and choreography, that can be their Eurovision entry.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:12:42am

re: #476 No Malarkey!

I think India was at least one of the abstentions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:13:16am

re: #488 sagehen

Some costumes and choreography, that can be their Eurovision entry.

They are already a shoo-in regardless of who they put up.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:13:30am

re: #486 Eclectic Cyborg

Couldn’t Credit Suisse get in hot water for telling some of its associates to destroy documents?

One would think but they all apparently have their own rules (which only apply to the little people, as with everything else).

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lizardofid  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:14:20am

re: #487 Eclectic Cyborg

“street crime” is basically code for “colored people” , never mind plenty of drug dealers and meth heads have white skin.

crack vs. powder.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:14:25am

re: #469 Dopamine Fish

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danarchy  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:15:08am

re: #486 Eclectic Cyborg

Couldn’t Credit Suisse get in hot water for telling some of its associates to destroy documents?

As far as I can tell, these aren’t primary documents, and retention is probably not mandated by anyone. These are documents they send to potential investors or actual investors to prove how good of an investment it is. If they were actually destroying the internal loan documents that would run afoul of probably lots of laws and regulatory bodies. Depending on regulations, retention probably isn’t required on any of the documents in question. Especially if they are over a certain number of years old.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:17:04am

re: #473 jaunte

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Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:17:36am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:18:47am
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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:19:28am

re: #485 Dopamine Fish

Dude Comrade, Where’s My Tank?

This Repo Man sequel needs more Harry Dean Stanton.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:21:04am

Historic Leak of Swiss Banking Records Reveals Unsavory Clients

Credit Suisse, like Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and Wells Fargo before it, is very happy to serve shady motherfuckers.

It’s almost like oligarchs are a group of people that hang out and have common priorities that extend beyond national boundaries.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:22:02am

re: #482 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you fucking well know that some of that money found its way to Trump businesses…

And Gov. Reynolds of Iowa misused covid funds too. She was the GOPer who gave their response. So, imagine their feelings when Biden announced the prosecutor would be looking at that…

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:23:12am

re: #496 Backwoods_Sleuth

In contrast, we had Schumer who stood out of sync with the speech, suggesting that he was paying attention on time delay. /also from Colbert I think.

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Captain Ron  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:23:48am
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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:25:04am

re: #501 lawhawk

In contrast, we had Schumer who stood out of sync with the speech, suggesting that he was paying attention on time delay. /also from Colbert I think.

Schumer probably claps on 1 and 3

///

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:25:41am

2 of the 5 no votes in the UN were…. Drum roll… Russia and Belarus.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:27:04am

re: #460 lizardofid

So, Pfizer’s got all the bases covered. Genius!

they’ve got you coming and going.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:27:35am
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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:28:50am

re: #475 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

One would think destroying loan documents will ensure they do not get any payments. Letting the super rich get off with a free yacht or three?

borrower copies only.
the originals are def somewhere safe, prob in a safe

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:29:45am

And just to swing the discussion back to the important things: like Wordle:
Apparently a lot of fans got bent out of shape about yesterday’s (#255, March 1) puzzle: and have been lambasting the NYT on social media.(rest behind hide button in case anyone didn’t do it)

Click to Reveal

OK, I can understand the complaints about the answer (“RUPEE”) not being an “English word” - fair enough: but what gets me is the seemingly knee-jerk bitching about the NYT being “political”. SRSLY? “political” over WORDLE???
Give.
Me.
A.
Fucking.
Break!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:29:47am

re: #499 The Ghost of a Flea

Historic Leak of Swiss Banking Records Reveals Unsavory Clients

Credit Suisse, like Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and Wells Fargo before it, is very happy to serve shady motherfuckers.

It’s almost like oligarchs are a group of people that hang out and have common priorities that extend beyond national boundaries.

No, really? I am shocked. Absolutely shocked.

Accounts identified by journalists as potentially problematic held over $8 billion in assets.

Asked why so many of these accounts existed, current and former employees described a work culture that incentivized taking on risk to maximize profits.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:30:14am

re: #481 jaunte

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remember at the time, tfg et al pushed to explicitly not require or implement oversight

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:30:31am

re: #458 lawhawk

By same token, this is what Russia will use to justify targeting civilians - that the civilians are no longer civilians but terrorists and combatants. Just watch for that pivot. They’ll justify attacking residential buildings precisely because Ukrainians are resisting Putin’s invasion and refuse to bend the knee.

I mean, they didn’t start bombing civilians until they saw these pictures. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:30:32am
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A Cranky One  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:30:36am

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:30:48am

re: #508 Jay C

It’s spoiler, not hide. Also:

Click to Reveal

“Rupee” is officially listed on dictionary.com. I’m pretty sure Oxford will also concur.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:31:07am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:31:16am

re: #497 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:32:16am

re: #504 GlutenFreeJesus

2 of the 5 no votes in the UN were…. Drum roll… Russia and Belarus.

not censuring your own self is quite the thing these days

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:33:02am
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b.d  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:34:25am

re: #517 Dangerman

not censuring your own self is quite the thing these days

Not abstaining from a vote that they are involved with?

Who do they think they are!? Clarence Thomas!?

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:34:45am

Tallink-Silja, Viking Line and Wasaline refuse to carry Russian goods transports:
ts.fi ts.fi (Finnish)

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:34:45am

re: #497 Backwoods_Sleuth

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:36:17am

re: #508 Jay C

And just to swing the discussion back to the important things: like Wordle:
Apparently a lot of fans got bent out of shape about yesterday’s (#255, March 1) puzzle: and have been lambasting the NYT on social media.(rest behind hide button in case anyone didn’t do it)

[hide] OK, I can understand the complaints about the answer (“RUPEE”) not being an “English word” - fair enough: but what gets me is the seemingly knee-jerk bitching about the NYT being “political”. SRSLY? “political” over WORDLE???
Give.
Me.
A.
Fucking.
Break!

yeah, i got it, but luckily I had other letters in the right places by that point that I was like “what else can it be?” also, I’m guessing curry didn’t start out as an english word either, nor rabbi, and yet they both made it in.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:37:20am

re: #522 steve_davis

yeah, i got it, but luckily I had other letters in the right places by that point that I was like “what else can it be?” also, I’m guessing curry didn’t start out as an english word either, nor rabbi, and yet they both made it in.

It’s almost like English pulls in words from all the cultures its speakers touch, because nobody with any kind of authority gives a fuck what the language looks like, as long as we can all figure out what we’re saying.

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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:39:18am

re: #503 Shropshire Slasher

Schumer probably claps on 1 and 3

///

there’s evidence:

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:40:07am

re: #476 No Malarkey!

Lets see if I can count to five. Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Serbia?

Zelenskyy tweeted out the vote. Russia’s support is limited to Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea and Syria. Even Serbia voted for the resolution.

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:41:32am

re: #523 Dopamine Fish

It’s almost like English pulls in words from all the cultures its speakers touch, because nobody with any kind of authority gives a fuck what the language looks like, as long as we can all figure out what we’re saying.

< Insert Mugging Joke here >

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b.d  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:42:47am

re: #521 HRH Stanley Sea

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that’s funny!

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:43:14am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:43:30am

re: #518 jaunte

The Kentucky General Assembly is advancing a bill to deny state funding to any company disinvesting from fossil fuels.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:45:28am

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:47:16am

re: #444 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Which indicates that that other information on the invasion could have been leaked as well….

We should be publicly thanking Edward Snowden for the Russian intel. Make that little traitorous fucker squirm.

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:48:15am

re: #514 Dopamine Fish

I agree: (and also because the NYT allows names of currencies to count in other of their word-puzzles, so not unusual by their standards): it’s just the “political” criticism I find annoying.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:48:26am
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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:49:47am

re: #530 Teukka

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Well, at least they can still tweet.

Giphy

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:50:00am

re: #533 Teukka

137 Rubles.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:50:29am

re: #533 Teukka

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I’ll give him a hundred million Rubles for it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:50:55am

re: #533 Teukka

That came up earlier.

It is a major embarrassment for anyone who is not a fucking SS Fan and Holocaust denier.

So how about we confiscate his foreign assets and those of his Oligarchic buddies and donate it to Yad Vashem in the name of Civilized Humanity?

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:52:02am

i’m having to withhold Jesse photos until the thread rolls over. She’s incredibly vain, and if she doesn’t get around 20 likes, she worries for the rest of the day that she’s losing her social media position as an Influencer.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:52:03am

Same energy.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:53:19am

re: #539 darthstar

Same energy.

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Somebody with the twitterability send that to Boebus and Gangrene.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:55:43am

re: #540 darthstar

Somebody with the twitterability send that to Boebus and Gangrene.

They wouldn’t get it.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:56:46am

re: #539 darthstar

Same energy.

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My son and I watched Rubber last week, and there are two teenage girls in it, one blonde, one brunette. They would also be a fit for those two.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:56:50am

re: #541 Belafon

They wouldn’t get it.

But their staff will.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:57:53am

re: #543 darthstar

But their staff will.

you mean the unpaid interns who rotate out every 6-10 days?

545
Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:59:00am

New russian propaganda lie

546
No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 9:59:37am
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Ming5000  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:01:09am

Checking in on the bunker

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:01:43am

re: #518 jaunte

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And (as per President Biden’s comments at the SOTU last night), one assumes any electric vehicles the USPS acquires are going to be domestically manufactured. So more “buying American”…

I’m assuming, though, that whatever smog-belchers DeJoy was planning to replace the current fleet with would also be domestic, though with that sleaze, I’d imagine there is a sizeable kickback (or SOME conflict-of-interest) as part of the contract.

549
Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:01:45am

re: #526 William Lewis

< Insert Mugging Joke here >

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:03:02am

re: #545 Teukka

New russian propaganda lie

Indians would not be wanting to leave Kharkiv if it were not under attack

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:03:18am
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sagehen  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:03:45am

re: #533 Teukka

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The 86-year-old admitted that he doesn’t know the exact selling price, but it is thought that, with Chelsea being the seventh most valuable club in world football, they are worth just under £2.5 billion.

I think Mercedes Bezos and Melinda Gates should buy it together. Carli Lloyd would be an excellent coach.

553
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:03:46am
554
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:04:12am

re: #530 Teukka

What does that mean…withheld?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:06:01am

re: #543 darthstar

But their staff will.

Maybe.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:10:58am

re: #549 Targetpractice

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

Theres probably a word for that…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:12:20am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:13:20am

re: #293 Hecuba’s daughter

Me too! But had my first losing quordle — got 3, and would have gotten 4 if there were one more try.

So…I lost another Quordle today. That’s two in a row. I was in such a run, too. 😞

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:15:18am

re: #553 Backwoods_Sleuth

The “hands on the hips” look really makes the pic.

I love boobies so much. I did not know until a couple of weeks ago that there are red-footed boobies. I spent an hour looking at pictures of boobies that day.

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retired cynic  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:17:18am

UPDATE: Indiana’s anti-CRT bill defeated
Judd Legum
popular.info

Education community engagement was evidently the key.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:17:28am

re: #559 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

562
Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:18:09am

re: #560 retired cynic

UPDATE: Indiana’s anti-CRT bill defeated
Judd Legum
popular.info

Education community engagement was evidently the key.

Oh, fishfolk aren’t going to be very happy with that. I wonder if they’ll join the trend of conservatives canceling their home state by moving to Florida.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:19:12am

re: #316 Eventual Carrion

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Teddy's Person  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:20:40am

re: #538 steve_davis

i’m having to withhold Jesse photos until the thread rolls over. She’s incredibly vain, and if she doesn’t get around 20 likes, she worries for the rest of the day that she’s losing her social media position as an Influencer.

Tell Jesse her position is safe with me. Every picture influences me right into a nap.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:20:51am

More on Russian propaganda lines:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:23:06am

re: #561 Dopamine Fish

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

Sorry? I don’t understand.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:23:39am

Any evidence the west is confiscating oligarch property/yachts yet? All I heard is one is selling his properties in London which isn’t exactly punitive.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:23:39am

re: #566 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Sorry? I don’t understand.

It’s a joke; I’m honestly not sure where I picked it up. Carry on.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:23:54am

re: #568 Dopamine Fish

It’s a joke; I’m honestly not sure where I picked it up. Carry on.

Archer.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:24:12am
571
Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:24:32am

Being frogmarched out of Yale? Crickets?

572
No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:26:04am

re: #489 GlutenFreeJesus

I think India was at least one of the abstentions.

Yes, there were 30 abstentions; I just listed the countries that voted no.

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Captain Magic  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:27:28am

re: #569 Punish Domestic Terrorists

re: #568 Dopamine Fish

It’s a joke; I’m honestly not sure where I picked it up. Carry on.

Archer.

My favorite Archer quip:

Archers “Bloody Mary prayer”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:28:57am

re: #569 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Archer.

What’s that?

I’m feeling very blond right now…I don’t understand what’s going on!

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:34:40am

re: #574 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:35:01am

re: #574 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s that?

I’m feeling very blond right now…I don’t understand what’s going on!

The best animated TV show.

577
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:43:41am

re: #575 Dopamine Fish

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 2, 2022 • 10:44:28am

re: #577 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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John Hughes  Mar 2, 2022 • 11:14:37am

re: #265 electrotek

Time to take over the Kuril Islands, Japan.

We are not them.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 11:30:46am

re: #529 No Malarkey!

The Kentucky General Assembly is advancing a bill to deny state funding to any company disinvesting from fossil fuels.

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I’m sure big oil has no money invested in these ‘law makers’

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John Hughes  Mar 2, 2022 • 11:42:40am

re: #290 ericblair

Sabotage in Belarus. It’s worth keeping an eye on that situation, too.

Those look like fucking multiple thermobaric missile launchers, aka “heavy flamethrowers”.

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John Hughes  Mar 2, 2022 • 11:51:00am

re: #308 lawhawk

Heck, Biden got Switzerland to act when the Swiss still provided safe havens for Hitler and the goddamned Nazis. That’s something.

not attempting to denigrate Biden or anything, but don’t forget that Switzerland was under threat of EU economic sanctions at the time*.

(* Actually it still is, but the EU more praying business at the moment)

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2022 • 12:18:46pm

re: #568 Dopamine Fish

It’s a joke; I’m honestly not sure where I picked it up. Carry on.

Possibly Archer?


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