It’s always amazing to see how completely demented and viciously hateful the modern conservative movement has become.
Jordan Klepper hits CPAC to talk to die-hard Trump supporters, then heads to Hungary to find out why conservatives are interested in the “Trump before Trump” Viktor Orban.
Piers Morgan, being Piers Morgan:
Very dumb (ironically) thing for @PressSec to say, especially given how badly her boss is doing. Few journalists hold this struggling administration to better account than @pdoocy https://t.co/Oe0b6W6pSI
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 15, 2022
re: #1 Captain Magic
Maybe Doocy doesn’t just sound like a “stupid son of a bitch”, maybe he IS a stupid son of a bitch.
That 15 year old at CPAC reminds me of a kid I knew in high school in the 1970s; the first Ayn Rand fanboy I ever encountered.
re: #1 Captain Magic
Piers Morgan, being Piers Morgan:
We can all see that Doocy is a clown. Is this a stupid white nationalist thing?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 15, 2022
For Good Friday:
What is the Easter Bunny’s favorite music?!?!
Hip-hop
Members of the Stupid Son of a Bitch Club are required to stick up for each other. https://t.co/bKpO6zHxlm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
re: #1 Captain Magic
Piers Morgan, being Piers Morgan:
Your desperation at finding yourself irrelevant is showing.
— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) April 15, 2022
re: #8 PhillyPretzel
I posted this in the previous thread and I will repost it here. These are the silk (yes I am allergic to the real ones) sunflowers I have in my window for Ukraine.
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Looking for an arrangement for the Moscow. Perhaps Sea Anemones.
re: #3 jaunte
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
re: #1 Captain Magic
Piers Morgan, being Piers Morgan:
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Peter Doocy faps to repeats of WH Pressers…
WTF? Did the Russian ships try to avoid getting too close when they heard the mayday calls?
Ukrainian Coast Guard: Russian Black Sea fleet failed to rescue Moskva crew despite efforts made https://t.co/ZKX392PeI2 #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/tgXCht2MLN
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) April 15, 2022
re: #10 Romantic Heretic
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Walden did it for me
Apropos of the end of last thread
Odds of Getting Laid Off at Historic Lows
“New claims for unemployment benefits are trending at their lowest levels since 1968, a sign of how few layoffs are happening in the tightest labor market in half a century,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Job security today, by some measures, is even better than it was in the economic halcyon days of the late 1960s.”
re: #7 William Lewis
That stupid SOB/wanker works for Murdoch, so it sorta comes with the territory.
Pentagon: Two Ukrainian Missiles Struck Russian Ship - https://t.co/UaBMNAOJke pic.twitter.com/i4y2d9Fpjo
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 15, 2022
I hate Power BI so much that I’m thinking about changing jobs. The entire rest of my department already resigned over being forced to use the software. I can only put up with so many connection failures and errors with no indication of what the error is until I snap.
Well, Putin has successfully stopped the progress of the ring of fiberglass ponies.
Russia has shelled rides in an amusement park in Kharkiv.
No fun is allowed in the Empire of Evil. pic.twitter.com/ADx2XfZYuV— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 14, 2022
re: #21 darthstar
Why would you bomb an empty park? Just for shits and giggles?
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
Why would you bomb an empty park? Just for shits and giggles?
Russian: Watch me blow the crap out of that ferris wheel.
Ukrainian: Dude, you have no tank (launches Javelin).
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
Why would you bomb an empty park? Just for shits and giggles?
Because Putin sent you to die, and you want to lash out and do some damage on your way out of this world.
re: #25 Dangerman
This is what it looks like when a Republican governor sabotages supply chains in order to hurt a sitting Democratic president. pic.twitter.com/R3BulX1WtQ
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) April 14, 2022
re: #28 Dangerman
Savage.
The American Trucking Association left ZERO doubt about how they feel about Gov. Greg Abbott’s “wholly flawed” border-clogging inspection “scheme.”
In one page statement they called it flawed, senseless and misguided. pic.twitter.com/cUBDBf3Fns— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) April 15, 2022
Progressives really need to hammer this message home. Cons are jumping all over the fact that inflation is here and it’s hurting people. Their solutions are BS but people will vote for them unless progressive groups offer BETTER solutions. What’s the @OntarioNDP plan?
— KrazyBird (@KGE_hockeyfan) April 7, 2022
re: #27 dharmamark
I was just starting to learn that in my old job. It didn’t seem too well designed…
For a developer it’s horrible even when everything goes right because the UI is clunky and slow, and meant to be used by end-users to make their own reports. Several of the end-users making their own reports also resigned.
It’s not senseless, though.
It’s a deliberate attempt to harm a sitting president by sabotaging the supply chain of the United States. It’s absolutely unconscionable. https://t.co/7iHZCLGVsl— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
This is a form of terrorism. https://t.co/DKPD0sEMoJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
re: #32 Charles Johnson
It’s not senseless. It’s right-wing extremists attacking the United States because they think that will win them office even after their failed coup attempt, allowing them to continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the nation.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 15, 2022
re: #5 Shropshire Slasher
For Good Friday:
What is the Easter Bunny’s favorite music?!?!Hip-hop
What do you call a train service for red-heads only?
-Ginger Rail
“Clean coal” https://t.co/g6rMIdSFDU
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) April 15, 2022
It’s when you build a coal power plant that costs as much as a nuclear plant, then it doesn’t actually work so you fuel it with natural gas anyway. https://t.co/rzvJDW4csr
— Alex Z (@AZinCLE) April 15, 2022
Fox in SLC has reported on Mike Lee’s role in the coup plot.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
What’s the facial justification for this? Why hasn’t suit been brought under the plenary power of the Feds to regulate interstate commerce?
re: #39 Mike Lamb
What’s the facial justification for this? Why hasn’t suit been brought under the plenary power of the Feds to regulate interstate commerce?
Could they possibly be letting it backfire on Abbot?
More likely, just takes the government a while to get their asses in gear.
re: #33 Eventual Carrion
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Of her bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were her tubes:
Nothing of her that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something crushed and burned.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring her knell:
Fuck you.
(Hark! now I hear them) —Fuck yourself to hell..
re: #43 Decatur Deb
You are so good. Just wanted you to know.
re: #10 Romantic Heretic
When I was 14, I was reading Stephen King and Douglas Addams during study hall.
So I lived across from a parking lot, where I kept my car except on Tuesdays and Fridays when it was used for a farmer’s market.
So I woke up like Arthur Dent on Green Thursday morning (the day before Good Friday) to see a tow truck carting off a car, and nearly dropping my cup when I saw it was my car being towed off.
You see, due to Good Friday, they had moved the Friday Market to Thursday. I ran out in my bathrobe with wet hair and managed to flag down the truck in time.
Just as well, as it was not my car, as such (mine was in the shop) but one from work that I had unofficially borrowed from the Warehouse…
I never did get the hang of Thursdays, Green or otherwise.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
In about 3 years it will likely become a matter of national policy if not the law itself that cynical stunts like Abbott’s supply chain sabotage will be required to be framed as another failure of the Democrats and socialism itself. The right wing always transmits their intended actions beforehand. This is a manifestation of their arrogance and overwhelming entitlement.
When Republican Party minders are in control of all media within the entire US it will be required that the remaining Democratic strongholds and cities be blamed for everything and should be attacked. These attacks will come in the form of not only unending propaganda by a compliant major media (“access, et al”) but also physical actions like trucker blockades, train blockades, and right wing militia vehicle operations involving actual violence. Count on it.
The killer was the only suspect, and has since died. The good news is that he died under 50 of heart failure. I’d like to think it was the stress of waiting to be caught for all those years that did it.
Hawaii Police Solve Cold 1994 Case Murder of Exotic Dancer Strangled to Death in Her Own Apartment (Law & Crime)
re: #31 Punish Domestic Terrorists
For a developer it’s horrible even when everything goes right because the UI is clunky and slow, and meant to be used by end-users to make their own reports. Several of the end-users making their own reports also resigned.
I was once asked to evaluate some software that was being pushed as a way to automate certain tasks. It was being pushed by senior management.
I ended up writing a white paper which basically argued that the tool wasn’t appropriate for the task.
I was stunned to learn that the white paper was being widely distributed by management. Seems that I wasn’t the only one with issues about using the tool and folks just wanted justification to not adopt it.
I was even more stunned when the lead engineer of a 250 employee department deploying the tool called to thank me.
He told me that the executives hadn’t listened to his concerns.
The tool was eventually discarded.
And I wasn’t fired for pushing back against the push to deploy it.
re: #34 Punish Domestic Terrorists
and its NOT just that… Abbott’s actions are indiscriminate in who they affect and are done with only with one goal in mind, to hurt the administration. If he’s painfully impacting all Americans, then they can depend on the 4th estate to faithfully report that there are supply chain problems and conveniently leave out what those causes might be. Implying that it’s the Administration’s fault for lack of oversight.
If a kid is riding down the sidewalk on his bike and someone else comes up and sticks a tree branch in his spokes, the 4th estate will gladly tell you that the bike rider crashed and leave it up to reader to determine what happened.
Went down the rabbit hole of the Black sea, looks like that Russian Warship will be preserved for a very long time.
A Greek merchant ship dating back more than 2,400 years has been found lying on its side off the Bulgarian coast.
The 23m (75ft) wreck, found in the Black Sea by an Anglo-Bulgarian team, is being hailed as officially the world’s oldest known intact shipwreck.
The researchers were stunned to find the merchant vessel closely resembled in design a ship that decorated ancient Greek wine vases.
The rudder, rowing benches and even the contents of its hold remain intact.
“It’s like another world,” Helen Farr from the expedition told the BBC.
“It’s when the ROV [remote operated vehicle] drops down through the water column and you see this ship appear in the light at the bottom so perfectly preserved it feels like you step back in time.”
Although the warship may not be deep enough to be in the anoxic waters.
re: #50 A Cranky One
I was once asked to evaluate some software that was being pushed as a way to automate certain tasks. It was being pushed by senior management.
I ended up writing a white paper which basically argued that the tool wasn’t appropriate for the task.
I was stunned to learn that the white paper was being widely distributed by management. Seems that I wasn’t the only one with issues about using the tool and folks just wanted justification to not adopt it.
I was even more stunned when the lead engineer of a 250 employee department deploying the tool called to thank me.
He told me that the executives hadn’t listened to his concerns.The tool was eventually discarded.
And I wasn’t fired for pushing back against the push to deploy it.
I love that story, but it’s too late where I am. We’re in deep, and just have to hope for improvement over time.
re: #34 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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It’s not senseless. It’s right-wing extremists attacking the United States because they think that will win them office even after their failed coup attempt, allowing them to continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the nation stupid people that support them.
(yes and the rest of us too)
Madness
Just madness
In n Out has a tomato wrap option on their burgers
and you fucking westerners call my ppl terrorists… the fuck is this pic.twitter.com/odpV4rFM0F— Ahmed Al Assliken (@assliken) April 15, 2022
Having been overswept by a wave of NOSTALGIA, it suddenly recurs to me that 1986-ish was a time when I read not only the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, but also Stephen King’s “It”, “The Bachman Books”, all the contemporarily-available Stephen King short story collections, and (IMPORTANTLY) The Book of the Subgenius. Just a normal okay 12 year old doing normal okay 12 year-old things.
re: #37 Dread Pirate Ron
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“Clean coal” https://t.co/g6rMIdSFDU
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) April 15, 2022
re: #42 retired cynic
Could they possibly be letting it backfire on Abbot?
More likely, just takes the government a while to get their asses in gear.
you can be sure they knew about it within the first 30 minutes
I remember when “free speech” was a progressive, forward-thinking movement that overcame puritan restrictions on things like profanity and nudity.
Now it’s been co-opted by the right to mean “the right to say any horrible shit we want, anywhere, without consequences.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So I lived across from a parking lot, where I kept my car except on Tuesdays and Fridays when it was used for a farmer’s market.
…
your car was used as a farmer’s market? ;-)
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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Me: Could you make your fries not suck?
In n Out: Screw you! How about trying our new tomato replacing the bun burger option?
re: #61 b.d
Me: Could you make your fries not suck?
In n Out: Screw you! How about trying our new tomato replacing the bun burger option?
kfc
since around 2010
two chicken breasts instead of a bun
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Madness
Just madness
Let’s replace the bun with something wet and slimy. Customers will love it!
re: #53 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Sounds like the proverbial “doomed to succeed”.
Manager at #Kentucky steakhouse flew Ukrainian flag atop restaurant to support country’s fight for democracy—then hateful messages flooded in, @washingtonpost rpts; “I hope that Ukrainian flag is gone”; “I prefer my steak without a side of Nazi”: https://t.co/PMJRDmoZCP
— Mark Albert (@malbertnews) April 15, 2022
Ben Ashlock thought he had settled things with a customer complaining about the Ukrainian flag atop the Kentucky steakhouse he manages.
Ashlock had opened up to the man about his personal connection to the war-torn country: He and his wife had adopted a teenage son from Ukraine three years earlier and forged friendships in the process. When Russia invaded, he wanted to show his support.
The 41-year-old general manager of a Colton’s Steak House & Grill franchise figured that was it.
It wasn’t. About a half-hour later, hate started coming from all fronts — the restaurant’s phone, Facebook page and reviews on Google. Over the past week, the firestorm has kept raging in Bardstown, a city of about 13,500 in central Kentucky. Ashlock, describing himself as an uncontroversial person, said he had planned to keep the flag up until Russia left Ukraine.
“I would love to take the flag down … because that would mean that they’re not at war anymore,” he said.
Bardstown, KY
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
Putin’s propaganda channels into red America are alive and well.
Brand: Trumpeter
3.5 out of 5 stars2 Reviews
Trumpeter 1/350 Scale Russian Moskva Missile Cruiser
Currently unavailable
We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.
Going for a walk? Study says minimal exercise can lower risk of depression (USA Today)
Of course if you’re already dealing with clinical depression, you’re not going to be motivated to get some exercise.
I really don’t think Elon Musk is going to take over Twitter. I think it’s a dumb billionaire’s publicity stunt. He’s trolling the world.
U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer (D) will appear on the June Democratic primary ballot, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday, reversing a district court decision that found Finkenauer failed to qualify, the Des Moines Register reports.
Finkenauer was saved by a Republican-supported election law enacted last year that provided specific instructions about when objections to candidates’ nominating petitions will be upheld.
unintended consequences
dem uses our rule that was supposed to hurt dems
re: #71 Charles Johnson
I really don’t think Elon Musk is going to take over Twitter. I think it’s a dumb billionaire’s publicity stunt. He’s trolling the world.
Cheapen the brand so he can start his own.
People give Trump far too much credit.
Republicans have hated a lot of those people for many years now. Stupid Donald Trump is just a symptom of the rot on the American-right.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 15, 2022
re: #71 Charles Johnson
I really don’t think Elon Musk is going to take over Twitter. I think it’s a dumb billionaire’s publicity stunt. He’s trolling the world.
Twitter isn’t going to let it happen.
Twitter adopts ‘poison pill’ measure that could thwart Elon Musk’s takeover bidhttps://t.co/9GBt2UFdDJ
— Susan Schulte (@schulterr) April 15, 2022
re: #70 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Going for a walk? Study says minimal exercise can lower risk of depression (USA Today)
Of course if you’re already dealing with clinical depression, you’re not going to be motivated to get some exercise.
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.” ― Steven Wright.
Christians should be the first ones wearing masks in a pandemic, the first ones condemning dictators, the first ones welcoming refugees, the first ones opposing police brutality, the first ones declaring that black lives matter—not the last ones.https://t.co/3oh0izyCYt
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) April 15, 2022
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
Should be if right-wing Christians didn’t exist. As it is, I always expect the worst from them, starting with greed and short-sightedness, right up to insurrection and even murder.
re: #75 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Twitter isn’t going to let it happen.
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Twitter shareholders’ meeting is coming up. The board could get voted out. From a strictly financial performance perspective, Twitter’s board has been a disaster. Prior to Musk buying shares, Twitter was trading at a lower price then on the day it went public 8 years ago. Most other tech companies grew in value by a lot in that time; NASDAQ quadrupled in value. Twitter languished.
re: #80 JC1
Twitter shareholders’ meeting is coming up. The board could get voted out. From a strictly financial performance perspective, Twitter’s board has been a disaster. Prior to Musk buying shares, Twitter was trading at a lower price then on the day it went public 8 years ago. Most other tech companies grew in value by a lot in that time; NASDAQ quadrupled in value. Twitter languished.
That assumes twitter is providing something of value. If it provided a valuable product or service , it would be a better investment. The market never lies.
Great.
Having the guy who wants to own Twitter validate the smooth brained Pizzagater is just a little too on the nose. pic.twitter.com/MFHJepmBgP
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) April 15, 2022
The Word(le) of the Day, the day being Tomorrow, is all a bit meh, really.
Wordle 301 5/6
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The Lab-Leak Hypothesis Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth - Scientific Americanhttps://t.co/NzrrEfjtFQ pic.twitter.com/yOFMIJi5Nq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
Spoiler: he’s about to make things even worse. https://t.co/SxNQrnHs19
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
re: #87 Charles Johnson
Bookmarked. Interesting.
re: #81 EstebanTornado1963
That assumes twitter is providing something of value. If it provided a valuable product or service , it would be a better investment. The market never lies.
Twitter is providing something of value. The number of users shows that (even if you assume that half the accounts are bots). But the high user base and engagement is not translating into revenue and profit growth.
At the airport. Plane delayed by an hour. One of the boarding pass scanners just announced that people who don’t obey masking rules can be permabanned from flying with them (this is new — I hope they make it “permabanned from flying,” unless maybe after five years and a suitable penance).
I am nearly falling asleep here, and if I fall asleep, I’ll miss the boarding call.
That is all.
The GOP is very concerned about the radical left & Disney grooming their children & corrupting their poor little defenseless minds.
Meanwhile, I present MAGA: The Party of Family Values
Truly a precious sight to behold. I assume this was taken in church.#DemVoice1 #Fresh pic.twitter.com/t2buU1NzLF— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@JewishResister) April 15, 2022
Chag Sameach! Nacho is celebrating his first Passover today! pic.twitter.com/XMPOJrBxQD
— Kalhan (@KalhanR) April 15, 2022
re: #88 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Sneaky way Ukraine distracted Russian warship Moskva (news.com.au)
The drone was most likely used to actually locate and identify the ship so that it could be fired on. So as not to engage possible commercial vessels in the Black Sea
re: #56 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Having been overswept by a wave of NOSTALGIA, it suddenly recurs to me that 1986-ish was a time when I read not only the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, but also Stephen King’s “It”, “The Bachman Books”, all the contemporarily-available Stephen King short story collections, and (IMPORTANTLY) The Book of the Subgenius. Just a normal okay 12 year old doing normal okay 12 year-old things.
i’m old enough to remember when the bachman books were by a guy named bachman, complete with a jacket photo.
President Joe Biden and the first lady earned $610,702 during their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes.
It’s the second year Biden has released his tax returns from the White House. https://t.co/OkYjNKbBIG— The Associated Press (@AP) April 15, 2022
re: #101 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Just like a sitting President is supposed to do.
re: #81 EstebanTornado1963
That assumes twitter is providing something of value. If it provided a valuable product or service , it would be a better investment. The market never lies.
counterpoint: tulips.
re: #103 sagehen
counterpoint: tulips.
They had and have a value. A fad for tulips led to their being overvalued for a while. The market never lies, but it sometimes has temporary issues.
This never ends well in the movies
A mysterious leaden sarcophagus discovered in the bowels of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral after it was devastated by a fire will soon be opened and its secrets revealed, French archaeologists said https://t.co/n4eNAUHVVf pic.twitter.com/U7beEPpSmp
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 14, 2022
The insanity grows.
Anti-vaccine “Vaccine Police” leader Christopher Key, who falsely believes drinking your urine cures Covid-19, has now moved on to “injecting [his own] urine into [his] body” and encouraging his followers to do the same.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) April 15, 2022
re: #108 No Malarkey!
The insanity grows.
Drinking it wasn’t working, so obviously it was the manner of administration that was wrong.
African brisket using whatever seasoning is available for Ashkenazi non-gebrokers. Red pepper flakes & jalapenos & of couse there’s maror. pic.twitter.com/w5o6JwORMr
— Liddle Matzah Brei 🇺🇦🌻🌈 (@Pie_Overlord) April 15, 2022
I’ve posted this before & I’ll say it again. Covid is not fake & often not mild. An antivaxer Tr*mp fan neighbor got it last November before the Omicron wave. He was hospitalized & on a ventilator. Survived that, but he now has interstitial lung disease. 45 & has 3-5 years left.
— Janice Claire 💙🌻🇺🇦 (@JaniceClaire14) April 15, 2022
re: #91 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Liz Sheridan Dies: ‘Seinfeld’ Mom & ‘ALF’ Actress Was 93 (Deadline)
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— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 15, 2022
re: #105 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
They had and have a value. A fad for tulips led to their being overvalued for a while. The market never lies, but it sometimes has temporary issues.
The market can remain irrational longer than any investor can remain solvent. Plus insiders always have their advantages.
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Daisy caught at the crime scene. Not too concerned looking is she? 😄 pic.twitter.com/87KztcKmGE
— Lynn Martinson (@LynnMartinson65) April 15, 2022
Scott Pruitt — Trump’s EPA administrator who resigned amid a five-month whirlwind of ethics scandals and at least 18 federal investigations — would like to run for Senate now. https://t.co/QExIcudT5m https://t.co/vxpTnrxzY1
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 15, 2022
A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.#dog #quote pic.twitter.com/bM0pUvqkvj
— Ernie and Berti (@Berti_and_Ernie) April 15, 2022
I know so many great people who came from Texas or live there now but JFC that state government.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth
It was self defense
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) April 15, 2022
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Madness
Just madness
In n Out has the worst burgers. Like worse than McDonald’s. I do not get the adoration. At all.
re: #121 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
In n Out has the worst burgers. Like worse than McDonald’s. I do not get the adoration. At all.
When they first opened they were really great. Last time I went, you’re right - not special any more.
re: #115 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Someone should get to the bottom of why these 93-year-olds are dying. Was it Hillary Clinton? I’m just asking questions.
Worse, Hunter Biden’s laptop has gained sentience and grown arms and legs and has embarked on a serial killing spree targeting nonagenarians.
No one suspects a normally inanimate object of being a murderer.
Unless it’s a possessed doll or one of those cymbal-clanging monkey toys.
Historic agreement signed with Governor @mrikelme of Coahuila to increase border security.
While Biden and Congress refuse to step up, Texas is taking unprecedented action to secure our state and our country. pic.twitter.com/eYAhxylqXw— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 15, 2022
Abbott takes over foreign policy from the feds
re: #123 A Three Hour Tour
Worse, Hunter Biden’s laptop has gained sentience and grown arms and legs and has embarked on a serial killing spree targeting nonagenarians.
No one suspects a normally inanimate object of being a murderer.
Unless it’s a possessed doll or one of those cymbal-clanging monkey toys.
Maybe Hunter’s Laptop is one of those Evil Computers from the Sci-Fi/Horror trope bin: sending links to unwary victims who are immediately Dooooomed….
After all, it already seems to have infected vast numbers of American wingnuts with obsession bordering on insanity: knocking off a couple of elderly actresses is probably just a small step up….
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You are embarrassing the state of Texas (like who even thought that was possible?) with your border stunts. You pissed off the truckers by closing the border, and now you’re pretending to set US policy? Idiot.
— Sean McCabe (@sean_s_mc) April 15, 2022
Love this. 💕 Such a film is long overdue, glad Hallmark is leading the way. 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/tajiaMM4xU
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 15, 2022
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Abbott takes over foreign policy from the feds
Would the federal government be out of line to prosecute him for impersonating a federal officer?
re: #109 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Drinking it wasn’t working, so obviously it was the manner of administration that was wrong.
Lethal sepsis and multi-organ failure after accidental injection of urine in a drug addict
moron
John Kennedy: “The Biden Admin is being run by a bunch of wokers. It’s easy to recognize the wokers. They hate George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potatohead. The wokers also hate America, and they want to beat the crap out of it.” pic.twitter.com/HeiEenR82w
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 15, 2022
#InvictusTeamUS & Team Ukraine had a welcome event at the US Embassy The Hague. The teams were joined by special guests and dignitaries, including US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. #IG22 @InvictusGamesNL pic.twitter.com/Z9wD52gdzQ
— Invictus Team U.S. (@InvictusTeamUS) April 15, 2022
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
He knows he’s lying about everything. So does Laura. They want power and telling the truth isn’t going to get them there. The sad thing is that people tune in to be told these absurd lies so they can feel like good people while being assholes.
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
While Ivy League educated Senator Forgets His Teeth plays to the base, it’s worth mentioning that the Wokers in his Qrackhead party hate green M&Ms & Mickey F’ng Mouse.
Not to mention- the cultists in his party literally tried to knock the crap out of America.
It was called Jan 6 pic.twitter.com/P0G1hUzVSu— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) April 15, 2022
re: #133 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He knows he’s lying about everything. So does Laura. They want power and telling the truth isn’t going to get them there. The sad thing is that people tune in to be told these absurd lies so they can feel like good people while being assholes.
I know it’s not the kind of political campaigning that Democrats can get away with, but Republicans really are fucking evil, and Democrats should be able to run by correctly calling Republicans evil because of the evil shit that Republicans actually do.
Thanks for nothing, mainstream media.
Every single guitarist on the Candyrat label:
THE SNOUT https://t.co/udXKHZZpyg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 15, 2022
something for the guys (who are still 12 years at heart)…
Legendary Italian actress Claudia Cardinale was born OTD in 1939. Forget Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris, THIS fight scene between Claudia and Brigitte Bardot is the greatest fight in the history of cinema. Enjoy.
Goodnight, stay safe and may your god go with you. pic.twitter.com/ijyUFI7HWB— The Sting (@TSting18) April 15, 2022
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
something for the guys (who are still 12 years at heart)…
and you know who you are…
It’s official. Donald Trump just called me “dangerous” to Republicans in a “tough race” and threw his support behind JD Vance.
Vance is a Silicon Valley elitist and a phony, and we’ll beat him come November.— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) April 15, 2022
re: #129 darthstar
Would the federal government be out of line to prosecute him for impersonating a federal officer?
“Prosecution” of anything Abbott does would go about the same as any other Republican officials/high level MAGA seditionist and traitors… meaning pretty much no legal action or repercussions for Abbott’s political stunts and illegal activities at all.
It seems our present justice system starting with the DOJ all the way down to Manhattan DAs are intent on not only surviving a predestined Republican Party supermajority win in 2024, but positioning themselves to thrive in our new upcoming authoritarian MAGA Utopia. Gone is any sort of notion of ethics, rule of law or common decency based on the lack of arrests, prosecutions or prison sentences except for the very bottom MAGA rubes. In place of justice our legal overlords seem intent on their own personal positioning ahead of our impending utterly corrupt and ideologically backwards autocracy.
Expectations of blanket Presidential Pardons for everyone and everything involved in 1/6 is increasingly likely IMO along with Executive Orders bypassing Congress and the DOJ to arrest and “prosecute” Pelosi, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and other high profile Democrats in 2025 despite woeful evidence standards and sham testimonial “witnesses”. The average American either has no clue or is just fine with what is about to happen and our legal system is running for cover already in their current failing to follow through with the rule of law and throw Trump and his cohorts in prison.
Can I just leave this tweet here for posterity reasons…”I sunk your battleship”!! 👍🤣🤣😭 pic.twitter.com/N92DMbCP4a
— 🇺🇦 Mitch Wayne 🌊🤟💉 (@madwldgrp) April 15, 2022
re: #141 Florida Panhandler
you are, without a doubt, the most pessimistic person I know.
re: #141 Florida Panhandler
There will never be a more perfect example of “justice delayed is justice denied” than if the GOP ringleaders of 1/6 escape justice because the investigations moved so slowly that Republicans were able to get back into power to kill the investigations.
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL
#BREAKING: In a statement, Trump described Vance as “the candidate most qualified and ready to win in November.”
“We cannot play games. It is all about winning!” he wrote.https://t.co/b7DZy9bA3k— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 15, 2022
He got a follow from David Simon
You made your bed. https://t.co/9lWSeHE7I7
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 15, 2022
still thinks he is in charge of foreign policy
Just signed a border security agreement with Gov. @fgcabezadevaca of Tamaulipas.
In light of Biden ending Title 42, Texas has reached border security agreements w/ ALL neighboring Mexican states.
We will not tolerate the endless stream of illegal immigrants crossing the border. pic.twitter.com/Sz4zRgkaSw— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 15, 2022
and
TT: Abbott ends inspections that clogged commercial traffic at the border. #TXLege #IRED https://t.co/u6sho6eqPc
— Rafael Anchía (@RafaelAnchia) April 15, 2022
Texas has lost about $470 million a day due to the slowdowns caused by Gov. Abbott’s policy to add his own vehicle inspections after they cross the US-Mexico border, the economic research firm Perryman Group estimates. https://t.co/FvV1fXLFT5 w/ @nachoaguilar
— Sergio Martínez-Beltrán (@SergioMarBel) April 15, 2022
This also means that consumers will feel the impact of Abbott’s inspection policies whenever buying groceries. Produce might cost more.
The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas warns “food shortages will rise as we head into Easter.” https://t.co/FvV1fXLFT5— Sergio Martínez-Beltrán (@SergioMarBel) April 15, 2022
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
still thinks he is in charge of foreign policy
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And WTF are these Mexican states going to do that hasn’t been done before this?
re: #143 sagehen
you are, without a doubt, the most pessimistic person I know.
My wife said the same thing the evening before Trump was elected when I told her he was going to win over Hillary.
Talk of civil rights is, of course, just an excuse to cancel those who “they” don’t like. pic.twitter.com/82TU5MzWsy
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) April 15, 2022
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
still thinks he is in charge of foreign policy
wonder how the Mexican federal government feels about one of its governors signing treaties with Texas…
Jerry’s TV mom died today.
Liz was always the sweetest, nicest TV mom a son could wish for. Every time she came on our show it was the coziest feeling for me. So lucky to have known her. pic.twitter.com/ae9TDHQILU
— Jerry Seinfeld (@JerrySeinfeld) April 15, 2022
The head of Customs and Border Protection says Greg Abbott didn’t coordinate with federal officials before busing migrants to D.C.
“Gov. Abbott is taking actions to move migrants without adequately coordinating with the federal government and local border communities.”— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 15, 2022
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
There needs to be a way to arrest Republican shitbirds that do the kind of crap Abbott is doing.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
something for the guys (who are still 12 years at heart)…
Never meddle in a catfight - you may never know when they start kissing…
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And my question is why are the feds letting Abbott do all this shit and not saying or doing anything to stop him? Argggghhh.
re: #158 Captain Magic
Never meddle in a catfight - you may never know when they start kissing…
Have you heard cats fucking? 😬
[Sir David Attenborough narrates]
“While most cacti thrive in the blistering heat of the day, there is one variation which inexplicably blooms only at night. Botanists know it as the Cactaceae Pepronius. And it is glorious.” pic.twitter.com/QtUIo6F6XR— The Alex Nevil (@TheAlexNevil) April 15, 2022
Because of the = sign?
— DeSantistan resident (@CajaKelly) April 15, 2022
re: #159 BeachDem
And my question is why are the feds letting Abbott do all this shit and not saying or doing anything to stop him? Argggghhh.
If Abbott wants to make a mistake, let him make a really big mistake.
“We’re going to ensure that Florida has the highest-quality instructional materials aligned to our nationally-recognized standards,” said Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran. “Florida has become a national leader in education under the vision and leadership of Governor DeSantis.
Florida schools ranked 25th for 2022.
LOL at John’s intro to this song
re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth
I noticed more empty shelves when shopping yesterday.
Fucking Greg Abbott, man.
re: #162 Dread Pirate Ron
DeSantis praised the banning of math textbooks.
”I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law,” DeSantis said after Corcoran found 21% of math textbooks “incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT.”
Of course he did. An educated person is the natural enemy of Republicans.
Also of note: The article does not explain WHAT the GOP found that caused them to flag these textbooks.
re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
Math books are banned? Are they trying to turn us into a country of idiots?
TRUMP: Fuck you, Josh.
MANDEL: Harder, daddy, harder!— Division Bell (@A_Division_Bell) April 15, 2022
re: #159 BeachDem
And my question is why are the feds letting Abbott do all this shit and not saying or doing anything to stop him? Argggghhh.
I think most of what Abbott is doing is rather meaningless theater and the Feds know it.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
I didn’t realize Peter Dinklage was that old.
re: #175 Eclectic Cyborg
I think most of what Abbott is doing is rather meaningless theater and the Feds know it.
Not “meaningless” at all, IMHO, just a big-stage campaign stunt.
Which will (to our nation’s disgrace) likely prove profitable.
Alright guys. Jesus has been placed in the tomb and will rise sometime early Sunday. Anything goes!
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
now I’m sad
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A favorite. These words in particular give me chills every time I hear them:
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
I still have not settled “final arrangements” with my daughter. She wants me buried beside her mother in Lubbock. I prefer cremation with the ashes scattered on Pikes Peak, and a memorial stone at the site in Lubbock. I guess it’s up to her, since I won’t be there to make a final decision and she will.
re: #177 Jay C
Right. I meant “meaningless” in the sense that it ultimately changes nothing about U.S. Foreign policy.
My favorite part of this is the current Republican governor getting mad at Common Core elements in the state’s textbooks when Common Core elements were introduced to the state’s textbooks by orders of a previous Republican governor. pic.twitter.com/ocBFmvy5Ca
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 15, 2022
The math textbooks promote division.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 15, 2022
re: #179 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
A favorite. These words in particular give me chills every time I hear them:
I still have not settled “final arrangements” with my daughter. She wants me buried beside her mother in Lubbock. I prefer cremation with the ashes scattered on Pikes Peak. I guess it’s up to her, since I won’t be there to make a final decision and she will.
If she will not respect your wishes, perhaps consider a different executor?
re: #175 Eclectic Cyborg
I think most of what Abbott is doing is rather meaningless theater and the Feds know it.
Except:
At a time when supply chains are already stressed by pandemic-related disruptions, disruption to trade between the U.S. and Mexico would be damaging to both countries. The CEO of the Texas International Produce Association told The Washington Post that Texans would start seeing empty produce shelves this weekend if Abbott didn’t back down.
And also:
Greg Abbott’s “war on international commerce” is a fraud and violates a number of federal laws. Biden should tell him to cease and desist or charge him and prosecute him. Dems must stop being so sweet to these authoritarian bullies! https://t.co/XTRz3R3v9v
— John W. Dean (@JohnWDean) April 15, 2022
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
If she will not respect your wishes, perhaps consider a different executor?
I could do that, but I want to respect her wishes. She was 16 when she lost her mom and it still weighs pretty heavily on her after 23 years.
re: #183 BeachDem
Ah, yes. Not so meaningless then.
re: #181 gocart mozart
I’m waiting for universities to stop accepting applicants that come from schools in these states.
(I wish…)
re: #184 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I could do that, but I want to respect her wishes. She was 16 when she lost her mom and it still weighs pretty heavily on her after 23 years.
Totally get that but I mean the whole deal with getting named executor means you are being trusted to carry out the wishes of the deceased, among other things.
re: #178 Barefoot Grin
Alright guys. Jesus has been placed in the tomb and will rise sometime early Sunday. Anything goes!
Was this some sort of early Sous-vide cooking experiment?
//
re: #173 PhillyPretzel
Math books are banned? Are they trying to turn us into a country of idiots?
Trying? They succeeded a long time ago.
re: #173 PhillyPretzel
Math books are banned? Are they trying to turn us into a country of idiots?
FYI, Set Theory and the concepts of Infinity (amongst other concepts) have long been targets of right wing religious zealots.
Son of former VT GOP chair arrested w/ arsenal, including bomb-making material & a “White Power” assault rifle, after informant warns of plans to kill Black people & Democrats, which he openly admits to police, anticipating civil war. https://t.co/wLmKAX8BeW
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) April 15, 2022
Revised Florida Math textbook problem:
“If Timmy runs over four protesters and shoots three more as they try to escape, how many Liberals did he own that day?”
/
re: #190 Florida Panhandler
FYI, Set Theory and the concepts of Infinity (amongst other concepts) have long been targets of right wing religious zealots.
That’s one way to avoid the embarrassment of the Venn diagram of Republicans, bigots, idiots and willfully stupid cranks being 4 overlapping circles.
re: #191 gocart mozart
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Hillard told police that he amassed the weaponry to protect himself from “Antifa” or “other Democrat-affiliated extremist groups,”
Shaking my damn head…
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
If she will not respect your wishes, perhaps consider a different executor?
I prefer to read this as EXecutor not exECutor.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
If she will not respect your wishes, perhaps consider a different executor?
Can’t speak for Shiplord, but when I leave, I really do not care what happens to this current container, other than let whatever can be recycled be used.
Otherwise, I’m good with being compost or whatever.
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
Can’t speak for Shiplord, but when I leave, I really do not care what happens to this current container, other than let whatever can be recycled be used.
Otherwise, I’m good with being compost or whatever.
whatever makes the survivors happy, I’m OK with because funerals and whatnot are all about the living
the dead really do not care.
re: #141 Florida Panhandler
“Prosecution” of anything Abbott does would go about the same as any other Republican officials/high level MAGA seditionist and traitors… meaning pretty much no legal action or repercussions for Abbott’s political stunts and illegal activities at all.
It seems our present justice system starting with the DOJ all the way down to Manhattan DAs are intent on not only surviving a predestined Republican Party supermajority win in 2024, but positioning themselves to thrive in our new upcoming authoritarian MAGA Utopia. Gone is any sort of notion of ethics, rule of law or common decency based on the lack of arrests, prosecutions or prison sentences except for the very bottom MAGA rubes. In place of justice our legal overlords seem intent on their own personal positioning ahead of our impending utterly corrupt and ideologically backwards autocracy.
Expectations of blanket Presidential Pardons for everyone and everything involved in 1/6 is increasingly likely IMO along with Executive Orders bypassing Congress and the DOJ to arrest and “prosecute” Pelosi, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and other high profile Democrats in 2025 despite woeful evidence standards and sham testimonial “witnesses”. The average American either has no clue or is just fine with what is about to happen and our legal system is running for cover already in their current failing to follow through with the rule of law and throw Trump and his cohorts in prison.
Gotta say there’s much in what you say. What’s that old saying? If it looks like a…
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