Bleachers Official Live Video Rocks Hard: “How Dare You Want More”

Still my mother, still my wheel yeah
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Bleachers performing “How Dare You Want More” in 15 cities across North America on their Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night tour.

Contributions from:
Justin Benoliel
Cory Bermuster
Nelson Campana
Brian Campbell
Brandon Dacosta
Raleigh Gambino
Sebastian Guerra
Stephen Hughes
David Keninger
Josh Koby
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Anna Li
Lisa Mazzotta
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Mike McMillon
John O’Hara
Colin Pagnoni
Hudson Ratzlaff
Tristan Renaud
Steven Robinson
Jacob Schermerhorn
Ignacio Soto
Mike Spinos
Austin Suhr
Nick Swift
Avi Warren
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How Dare You Want More

these steps toward faith i can’t imagine it
pack my suitcase up till i can’t bare it
who am i without this weight on my shoulder
oh god i’m dying to know
but how dare you want more?

how dare you want more?
preacher preacher’s callin’ from the floor

man of secrets two lives that he’s been living in
stolen identity stolen dreaming
who is he if he just go and tell it like it is?
i bet he’s dying to know
but how dare you want more?

how dare you want more?
preacher preacher callin’ from the floor

these steps toward faith so easy for her but
out of mind out of sight i’m trying to find out
who is she without all of this carryin’ fear
oh god she’s still my mother and still my wheel yeah
still my mother still my wheel yeah
still my mother still my wheel yeah
still my mother still my wheel yeah
still my mother cryin’ out how dare you want more?

how dare you want more?
preacher preacher callin’ from the floor

hey lonely wants to stay forever
but tonight we’re gonna do a little better
yeah tonight we’re gonna do a little better
yeah tonight we’re gonna do a little better
wait lonely wants to tear us down now
but tonight we’re gonna drown the sound out
well tonight we’re gonna drown the sound out
yeah tonight we’re gonna drown it out

well how dare you want more?
well how dare you want more?

hey lonely wants to stay forever
but tonight we’re gonna do a little better
yeah tonight we’re gonna do a little better
yeah tonight we’re gonna do a little better
wait lonely wants to tear us down now
but tonight we’re gonna drown the sound out
well tonight we’re gonna drown the sound out
yeah tonight we’re gonna drown it out

#Bleachers #HowDareYouWantMore

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325 comments
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Belafon  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:02:35pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:06:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:10:12pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:13:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:16:15pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:19:06pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:22:17pm

Speaking of outright ugliness flourishing on the internet, some folk are still really upset that brown-skinned people are cast as elves, dwarves, halflings etc. in a Tolkien adaptation:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:25:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:28:14pm

be there or be square:

niterz, lizardz!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:29:07pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:33:22pm

re: #10 The Pie Overlord!

Excellent. 13/10. Just needs some vanilla ice cream.

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jeffreyw  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:40:29pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Excellent. 13/10. Just needs some vanilla ice cream.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:43:03pm

re: #12 jeffreyw

dang

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:43:25pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:48:41pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:49:56pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:55:16pm

President Biden is above telling Trump to go fuck himself…and yet…

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 6:56:37pm

re: #12 jeffreyw

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Oh god…now I have to make a pie…and I was so close to cracking 240 and getting into the 230s…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:00:35pm

re: #15 darthstar

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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:01:33pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:02:58pm

Mel’s trending…apparently he’s not dead…but this is awesome.

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:04:10pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:06:17pm

I’d watch this.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:06:31pm

re: #22 Belafon

She created the situation in the first place!

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:07:07pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:07:31pm

re: #22 Belafon

She saved lives.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:08:15pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:15:12pm

re: #26 darthstar

She saved lives.

Lives that she put in danger, not talking to the administrators until he cheated on her.

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austin_blue  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:16:36pm

re: #27 Crush White Nationalism

Running intense audits on career Fed employees is pretty stupid, especially when they are cops. They are, perhaps, among the last people to bend the rules of taxation because, well, they’re cops.

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:20:24pm

re: #27 Crush White Nationalism

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They’re all serious crimes.
And there are so damn many of them.
And..Crickets…

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:28:27pm
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former Trump supporter to three years of probation and a $7,000 fine for sending an email threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and three other congresswomen.

David George Hannon, 67, also must undergo mental and substance abuse treatment and have no contact with Omar or Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times.

Hannon, who pleaded guilty in April to threatening a federal official, sent the email after the four Democratic lawmakers held a news conference in July 2019 in response to criticism from former President Donald Trump, who said they should “go back” to the “crime-infested places” from which they came.

“He was doing that because Trump told him to,” his daughter, Elizabeth Hannon Dillon, told the judge during the hearing on Wednesday. “He was a Trump supporter and now he regrets it.”

Florida man sentenced in death threat to Minnesota Rep. Omar (AP)

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:28:38pm

For your dining And dancing pleasure

All those Rs with ‘no opinion’, you know what they’re for, they just can’t quite bring themselves to saying it out loud yet.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:34:39pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:36:08pm
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Teukka  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:47:05pm
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Ming5000  Jul 7, 2022 • 7:55:59pm

No offense, but I didn’t know that the Raiders were in Los Vegas until the end of the least thread.
As I said, no offense.

What the fuck year is it anyway?

[What timeline?]

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:00:37pm

Well, it’s ‘22 alright.
Shot:

Chaser:

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:13:46pm

re: #37 Teukka

Well, it’s ‘22 alright.
Shot:

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At least Marburg isn’t airborne.

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:16:59pm

Youtube Video

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Ming5000  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:18:25pm

re: #37 Teukka

Finally, “I got the pox. And, it aint good.” is back. And, it ain’t’ good.

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ckkatz  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:18:37pm

Youtube Video

Exile (Foreign Lands)

Tall mountains and starlit vistas
Faint rivers, fir trees, laurels, myrtles.

My heart, oh my fire, whoever sees
tell her to come to me, not to be late.
My stranger, my love, light and dawn
before all is broken from my sorrow.

Humid valleys and you dragon caves,
wings of eagles and the wind’s black nests.

My heart, oh my fire, whoever sees
tell her to come to me, not to be late.
My stranger, my love, light and dawn
before all is broken from my sorrow.

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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:20:17pm

re: #39 Teukka

I have NHK News on my phone and it’s been blowing up for the last few minutes. (In fact, the way it was blowing up made me think my brother was texting me and getting annoyed I wasn’t responding.) Obviously, if Abe was shot by an assassin, this is going to cause all sorts of *I’m not sure what* in Japan.

I’m going to walk away for a bit because I don’t want to think about this, it’s really upsetting.

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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:24:30pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:26:02pm

re: #39 Teukka

Asahi English headline simply says Abe collapsed and that what sounded like a gunshot was heard.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:27:59pm

Japanese story:

安倍元首相が撃たれる、心肺停止の状態　奈良で演説中、背後から2発

There were two shots. Abe shot, in cardiac arrest.

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:28:03pm

re: #44 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Asahi English headline simply says Abe collapsed and that what sounded like a gunshot was heard.

It’s a developing story, shot from behind at 2 m distance, possibly with a shotgun. Perp, in his 40’s, Nara native, arrested. Media reports Abe is in cardiopulmonary arrest.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:31:41pm

That Asahi Shinbun story has at the bottom a list of attacks (since WWII) on political leaders. Google English translation:

Major incidents in which politicians were attacked
October 1960 Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Socialist Party , died after being stabbed by a right-wing boy during a speech

　January 1990　Hitoshi Motoshima , Mayor of Nagasaki , was shot with a pistol by a member of a right- wing group and was seriously injured.

　　　October Hyōsuke Niwa, former Labor Minister, died after being stabbed by a man at the Ground Self -Defense Force garrison

　March 1992　Shin Kanemaru , Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party , is shot at a lecture

　October 1996　 Mayor Yoshiro Yanagawa of Mitake Town , Gifu Prefecture was attacked at home and seriously injured.

In October 2002,　Democratic Party member Kouki Ishii was stabbed in front of his house by a right-wing group representative and died.

　August 2006　Koichi Kato , former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and his office were set on fire and burned down.

　April 2007　Iccho Itoh and Mayor of Nagasaki were shot dead by a gangster executive

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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:34:00pm
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EstebanTornado1963  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:35:37pm

Mark is a piece of shit


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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:36:57pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:37:41pm

re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Japanese story:

安倍元首相が撃たれる、心肺停止の状態　奈良で演説中、背後から2発

There were two shots. Abe shot, in cardiac arrest.

By which they mean he’s dead.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:39:17pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:39:23pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:39:35pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:40:20pm

re: #51 Crush White Nationalism

By which they mean he’s dead.

I never presume to take anything in Japan at face value.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:41:24pm

Oldie but goodie

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:42:41pm

Padres outfielder got a knee to the neck. They tried to walk him off the field twice. He collapsed twice. I’m fucking livid right now. No neck protocol was followed. Even the team doctor tried moving his head around to check range of motion.

I’ll be surprised if he ever plays baseball again. Awful.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:45:21pm

re: #48 No Malarkey!

Let’s hope it’s more than a gee-let’s-hope-the-states-make-abortion-legal kind of thing.

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retired cynic  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:45:51pm

re: #57 darthstar

How awful! Anyone would know not to do that!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:46:21pm
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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:46:30pm

re: #51 Crush White Nationalism

By which they mean he’s dead.

He’s only mostly dead.

//

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:50:17pm

re: #61 Targetpractice

He’s only mostly dead.

//

He’s not dead, he’s simply pining for the fjords.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:52:40pm
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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2022 • 8:56:59pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:00:25pm

re: #59 retired cynic

How awful! Anyone would know not to do that!

Anyone who isn’t a Padres team doctor.

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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:01:58pm

Credit card scammers must think everybody is as dumb as they are. It’s the only way to explain why a woman who got caught this morning trying to float a fake authorization form would not only try it again, but would do it twice using the same name she called the hotel under this morning when we told her we knew she was trying to scam us.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:02:06pm

That was ugly.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:03:31pm

One tweet should tell you everything you need to know about Abe (but this assumes you know something about the tweeter):

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:03:56pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:08:05pm
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austin_blue  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:08:14pm

Shinzo Abe is (or was) an Old-Line fuck muppet of a defender of Japan’s unbelievably racist past (and present), but he was also a staunch defender of the ties between the US and Japan.

He was an asshole, but for us, a very friendly and reliable asshole.

I have very mixed feelings about this news.

So I’m going to go to bed and see how I feel about it tomorrow. Which I think is lovely advice to everyone.

And by the way, considering that he was shot twice from behind, from a reported 6’ away by a shotgun, he is probably as dead as a boot.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:11:16pm

re: #71 austin_blue

Shinzo Abe is (or was) an Old-Line fuck muppet of a defender of Japan’s unbelievably racist past (and present), but he was also a staunch defender of the ties between the US and Japan.

He was an asshole, but for us, a very friendly and reliable asshole.

I have very mixed feelings about this news.

So I’m going to go to bed and see how I feel about it tomorrow. Which I think is lovely advice to everyone.

And by the way, considering that he was shot twice from behind, from a reported 6’ away by a shotgun, he is probably as dead as dead as a boot.

I’d be very surprised to find his condition upgraded to alive in the morning.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:11:44pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:12:35pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:14:58pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:17:18pm
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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:18:52pm

I’ve been to Japan twice, and I’m completely stunned by the news. Japan has a very strict gun/sword law. Basically, after WWII, pretty much all guns and swords were confiscated and in 1958 a law was passed setting out the terms by which one could possess a firearm or sword. The owner of a ryokan our group stayed with was one of those people—he had a heirloom sword that had come down through generations of his family, and he had a gun to take down local deer, which were then served as a dinner dish at the ryokan. (The deer were pests and the local government wanted them culled to keep them from getting out of hand.)

From reading Japanese police procedurals written by Japanese people, even the detectives keep their guns locked up unless absolutely required. This makes sense to me, because Japan is very crowded and you just don’t want anyone shooting a firearm when there might be dozens or hundreds of people within a few hundred meters of where you’re standing.

Even though Abe is a conservative politician of a populist bent, I could see the LDP (his party) getting behind laws to tighten up gun ownership even more. I’m certainly not going to question that, not when we have idiots running around with guns here.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:21:20pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:34:50pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:36:55pm

Oh dear, my notifications on Twitter are blowing up.

Either I made someone mad, or the crypto-scammers are hitting me harder than usual.

Maybe I’ll look in the morning.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:44:26pm

CNN has been covering the attack on Abe but has now switched to Thursday’s events in London.

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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:45:18pm

re: #81 Hecuba’s daughter

CNN has been covering the attack on Abe but has now switched to Thursday’s events in London.

So they switched from one assassination to another?

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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:47:21pm

I’m watching NHK (usually English but currently in simultaneous translation from NHK Japan). They showed a picture of the gun and I went to find a picture on Twitter. I’m putting the pic behind the button.

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The Japanese Rifle Assn representative said this was not the sound of a rifle, and I would agree. It sounded more like a cannon.

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2022 • 9:51:28pm

re: #83 mmmirele

I’m watching NHK (usually English but currently in simultaneous translation from NHK Japan). They showed a picture of the gun and I went to find a picture on Twitter. I’m putting the pic behind the button.

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The Japanese Rifle Assn representative said this was not the sound of a rifle, and I would agree. It sounded more like a cannon.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:03:08pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:04:51pm

re: #83 mmmirele

re: #84 Teukka

A modified shotgun, I thought someone reported.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:21:04pm

Wordling —

after my very close to fail 6 of yesterday — got a 3!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:25:29pm

re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A modified shotgun, I thought someone reported.

It looks completely improvised. The two tubes do not look thick enough for gun barrels of that (very large) caliber. That could explain the heavy tape wrapping (ie reinforcement). The wires at the back could signify some kind of electronic ignition.

We don’t see it very often in this country, since professionally-designed factory-made guns are so easy to get, but there are many ways to make a workable gun from readily available components.

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ckkatz  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:28:03pm

James Caan apparently giving zero f*cks:

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ckkatz  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:30:01pm

re: #88 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

We don’t see it very often in this country, since professionally-designed factory-made guns are so easy to get, but there are many ways to make a workable gun from readily available components.

I’m thinking that also the US gun laws tend to frown on people who manufacture improvised firearms.

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ckkatz  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:38:50pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:39:39pm

re: #90 ckkatz

I’m thinking that also the US gun laws tend to frown on people who manufacture improvised firearms.

Yes, but certainly no more than countries where improvised guns are more common. The requirements for a Federal Firearms License (Type 7-Manufacturer) are not particularly onerous and are basically the same as an ordinary dealer’s license.

FFL License Requirements:
Be a U.S. Citizen
Be at least 21 years old
Be legally allowed to possess a firearm and ammunition
Have a location for conducting FFL activities ( home-based FFLs are the most popular FFLs in the country)
Ensure that your business activity at that location meets zoning requirements
NOT have violated the Gun Control Act (GCA) or its regulations
NOT lied on your FFL application

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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:42:32pm

re: #91 ckkatz

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Only counts if you shouted “I’M NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY!” at least once a day.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:46:18pm

According to Japanese media sources (Mainichi), ex-PM Shinzo Abe is showing no vital signs after having been rushed to hospital. The suspect, described as a 41-year-old Nara resident, is in custody.

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ckkatz  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:55:00pm

Deleted…

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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2022 • 10:56:27pm

re: #94 Dr Lizardo

Lee is the Tokyo/Seoul correspondent for the Washington Post.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:01:27pm

re: #96 mmmirele

He got shot with a homemade cannon. Personally, I’d be surprised if he survives, but you never know.

I’m curious as to why the shooter targeted Abe; we know he’s former Maritime Self-Defense Forces (basically, the Japanese Navy) but was he trying to send some kind of political message or is he just some irritable psycho who wanted to get into the history books?

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:02:32pm
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Citizen K  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:06:58pm

re: #97 Dr Lizardo

He got shot with a homemade cannon. Personally, I’d be surprised if he survives, but you never know.

I’m curious as to why the shooter targeted Abe; we know he’s former Maritime Self-Defense Forces (basically, the Japanese Navy) but was he trying to send some kind of political message or is he just some irritable psycho who wanted to get into the history books?

The thing that shocks me is the idea that someone would be able to get that close to a former world leader, essentially point blank, and point a weapon at them, much less fire it off, before security could neutralize them.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:07:56pm

re: #98 Belafon

That’s pretty janky. The shooter should consider himself quite lucky it didn’t blow up and kill him instead. And it certainly doesn’t look like the kind of improvised firearm that could stand up to a test-firing; it’s more like a one-and-done sort of thing.

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Jay C  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:09:23pm

re: #100 Dr Lizardo

That’s pretty janky. The shooter should consider himself quite lucky it didn’t blow up and kill him instead. And it certainly doesn’t look like the kind of improvised firearm that could stand up to a test-firing; it’s more like a one-and-done sort of thing.

Unfortunately, one shot is all that’s necessary.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:10:32pm

re: #99 Citizen K

The thing that shocks me is the idea that someone would be able to get that close to a former world leader, essentially point blank, and point a weapon at them, much less fire it off, before security could neutralize them.

Yeah, that’s definitely a security failure. I get it, Japan is easily one of the safest societies on the planet, but that doesn’t mean you can just assume that no one’s going to try to take a potshot at a political figure, especially one as well-known as former PM Abe.

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:16:09pm

It will still take a lot to get it to actually be an amendment, but that isn’t stopping them from doing this.

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:22:02pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:36:29pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 7, 2022 • 11:50:20pm

Shutting down here at the Conspiracy Compound. Good night, gang.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2022 • 12:11:41am

Since the gov’t has not declared Abe dead I think we should not conclude that Abe died.

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2022 • 12:24:14am

re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter

Wordling —

after my very close to fail 6 of yesterday — got a 3!

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I think yesterday was a 5. Today:

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2022 • 12:26:22am

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

While it’s true that he might survive, and I hope he does, this is not a good sign, IMHO:

NARA, Japan (Kyodo) — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is showing no vital signs after being shot Friday by a gunman in the western city of Nara while campaigning for the weekend’s House of Councillors election, a local emergency official said.

mainichi.jp

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2022 • 12:29:22am

Maybe the shooter really did just want to get himself into the history books?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2022 • 1:01:20am

Translation: “According to Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former TBS TV news reporter, news feature producer, and Washington bureau chief who has a close relationship with former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and published an interview book, former Prime Minister Abe has died.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 1:13:11am

re: #41 ckkatz

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 1:18:42am

re: #98 Belafon

The improvised shotgun appears to be two pipes duct taped together with LiPo batteries that served as the primer. The ammunition was also homemade judging by all the smoke the weapon produced.

deadly but not capable of facilitating mass murder

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2022 • 1:21:16am

I wonder if it was on one of those narrow side streets in Nara where the fancy restaurants are.

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Targetpractice  Jul 8, 2022 • 1:30:22am

Alright, at this point the Weather Channel can kiss my ass. For two whole days now, I’ve been told “RAIN’S COMIN’! DON’T MAKE NO PLANS!,” only for the rain to suddenly disappear from the forecast in favor of “partly sunny” or “partly cloudy.” I’m beginning to doubt the very existence of rain.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 1:32:37am

re: #115 Targetpractice

Alright, at this point the Weather Channel can kiss my ass. For two whole days now, I’ve been told “RAIN’S COMIN’! DON’T MAKE NO PLANS!,” only for the rain to suddenly disappear from the forecast in favor of “partly sunny” or “partly cloudy.” I’m beginning to doubt the very existence of rain.

It is like that in our stretch of the Rhine valley. I ignore the forecasts and only trust the weather radar for the next two or three hours. We have a chain of hills that breaks up the weather and sends the storms passing north and south of us.

Even when they get totally soaked, we get at most a few drops.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2022 • 1:58:30am

NHK reporting that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died.

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 2:01:49am

re: #117 Dr Lizardo

NHK reporting that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died.

Wonder if they will name a street after him: Abe Road

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2022 • 2:04:45am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Wonder if they will name a street after him: Abe Road

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 2:57:23am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 3:08:34am

re: #120 Dangerman

These people have a different definition of “winner”.

Just like they like to use the term “alpha” without any idea of what it really means.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 3:11:15am

This was written by Father John Cusick, a priest from Old Saint Pat’s downtown Chicago

I can’t find a link

****************

Thursday Thoughts

“Are mommy and daddy coming soon?”

No, Aiden. And I don’t know how to explain it properly to you. You are so young. You are only 2 1/2. But I was told this: the last act of your daddy’s life was to wrap his arms and body around you so that you might have the opportunity to live a long, happy, and productive life. Your daddy’s arms held you from the earliest moments of your life to the last moments of his.

Your mommy’s and daddy’s arms, hearts, and enormous love are still with you now and forever.

Aiden’s mommy and daddy were slaughtered on the side of a street waiting to celebrate with a parade and celebrate with their son the best of our country.

Slaughtered.

A doctor on the scene of this horror story said that no one should ever see the destruction of a human body caused by the type of weapon used to slaughter Aiden’s mommy and daddy.

The right to bears arms.

That weapon of war was legal. And that is all that matters in America. As long as the weapon was legal (used in an illegal way) the right for Aiden to be wrapped in his parents’ arms appears to be secondary to the right to bear arms (assault weapons) by so many people.

Legal.

Is “legal” the highest standard of living in America? I sure hope not. Slavery was legal, the right to not vote for women was legal. What appears as financial schemes are argued as legal in courts every day.

Mass destruction.

For me, military-type weapons, carried legally, that caused mass destruction have no place among civilians in a civilized society. Some of you who read my words will certainly disagree. Some will say that these legal weapons are carried in the arms of the wrong people. Tell that to Aiden when he is old enough to understand.

A Christian Country.

I am getting tired of hearing people use the mantra that our country is a “Christian” country founded on Christian principles. Can the principles and person of Christ promote hatred, prejudice, violence, and abuse? Jesus Christ was the victim of violence not the promoter of violence.

Heart and soul.

My soul is sad today and my heart is breaking. And I am getting tired of hearing these words: “My thoughts and prayers go out to those victims and their families.” Don’t get me wrong. My thoughts are genuine, and prayers are sincere. They have been for those people since first hearing about the Highland Park massacre. But they are no longer enough. They must be a means to something more. They are not an end.

What more can I do?

I feel so powerless each time I learn about another mass shooting and murder. There were several other mass shootings on the 4th of July this year-two in Chicago. And there will be more and more this year using weapons of mass destruction, weapons of war, that are legal in this “Christian” country.

I have arrived at an idea of what I can do. It will have little impact on the larger society, and it will most likely change nothing. I have no power. But I have my single vote.

Soon I will contact every person running for public office, or their campaign office, and whose names will appear on my ballot this Fall. It won’t take long. I have only one question that requires a one-word answer.

“If elected or re-elected, will you vote to make legal assault weapons and military-style weapons illegal? Yes or no?” I simply want a one-word answer: yes or no. If I get some political babble, and not a one-word answer, I will mark that down as a “no”. If I am invited to go to the candidate’s website, that, too, is a “no”. I will vote only for the “yes” people regardless of political party.

Enough is enough.

The only power I have is my vote.

Yes.

-John Cusick

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Jay C  Jul 8, 2022 • 3:15:34am

re: #117 Dr Lizardo

NHK reporting that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died.

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Video

BBC (among others) has confirmed.

RIP

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TarHellion  Jul 8, 2022 • 3:24:15am

Wordle 384 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Happy to get a 4/6. Nothing too exciting. Just get through the day and enjoy the weekend!

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 3:31:02am

Some drive time music.

Youtube Video

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jeffreyw  Jul 8, 2022 • 4:35:19am

cornbread

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 4:36:12am

looks like brains’n’eggs

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 8, 2022 • 4:42:26am

re: #124 TarHellion

Wordle 384 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Happy to get a 4/6. Nothing too exciting. Just get through the day and enjoy the weekend!

4/6 for me also.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 384 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 8, 2022 • 4:45:24am

I’m an idiot and I genuinely feel stupid for this.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 384 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 4:48:55am

re: #98 Belafon

Looks like two copper pipes with an igniter similar to Estes model rocket igniter. Black powder burns slower, so no pipe explosions but extra smoke.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:06:23am
“With Russia’s military action in Ukraine in its fifth month, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned Kyiv that it should quickly accept Moscow’s terms or brace for the worst, adding ominously that Russia has barely started its action,” the AP reports.

Said Putin: “Everybody should know that largely speaking, we haven’t even yet started anything in earnest.”

The he added a warning for Western countries helping Ukraine: “We are hearing that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. Let them try.”

this first five months of failure after failure, yeah, we meant to do that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:10:37am

What Putin is hinting at is that they have not yet employed tactical nukes…

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:13:50am

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What Putin is hinting at is that they have not yet employed tactical nukes…

Pretty empty threat since Putin doesn’t even know if any of his nukes work, and if they did, Russia would be destroyed just as surely as Ukraine would.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:17:52am
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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:20:12am

a reader from the UK wrote this in to electoral-vote.com

Boris Johnson was always temperamentally unfit to be Prime Minister. His chaotic leadership style, his reliance on lies and bluster, and his unwillingness to follow the rules were well known long before he became leader of the Conservative Party. His party made a devil’s bargain to bring in someone they thought was a winner despite knowing that he was unfit to hold office, hoping that the grownups in the room could keep his worst instincts under control. It was a foolish bargain that has ultimately damaged both country and party. I hope we can move on, and the damage hasn’t perhaps been as bad to our system as the damage that Donald Trump caused to the U.S. system; but both our unwritten constitution and the increasingly tenuous union that holds the four nations of the United Kingdom together remain under considerable strain as a direct consequence of his three years in office.

A period of boring, normal government—irrespective of who’s in power—would be welcome.

that first part is 100% what the R’s did here

the last sentence is what biden’s been trying to do…

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:28:01am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content] Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton’s on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front…

no he didn’t ‘have to’

what he did, in fact, was demonstrate fear

if he was sure and ‘right’ in his judgment, he should be able to face a crowd easily.
instead he slunk out the back - won’t face dissent at all.

he clearly doesn’t have the courage of his convictions to address those he’s just ‘judged’. easier to keep them nameless and faceless

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:31:58am

re: #136 Dangerman

Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton’s on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front…

Were these protestors threatening him harm? Had they erected a gallows? Were they armed? (Well, if they were, then that is because Kavanaugh ruled that open carry is a God-given right just like abortion isn’t)

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:41:06am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:51:11am

Economy created another 372,000 jobs in June. Still impressive monthly total, but slightly lower than job creation has been. No sign of an actual recession yet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:51:21am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

The absolute fucking gall of those SCOTUS shit heels. They should never eat in peace again.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:51:30am

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:53:41am

Article proposes that Facebook is screwed because Zuckerberg is a robot with an EQ of zero who can’t help but fail due to this deficit.

“Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here.”

That’s a powerful sound bite from Mark Zuckerberg directed at Meta and Facebook employees. It was part of broader comments the CEO made at a recent weekly employee Q&A session (which which my Inc. colleague Jason Aten first reported on a couple of days ago). Zuckerberg also announced severe cost-cutting measures and increased pressure on employees to execute as the company braces for tough times ahead.

“If I had to bet, I’d say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history,” Zuckerberg said. “Part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me.”

At first glance, Zuckerberg’s comments may seem like par for the course with a global recession on the horizon. But it actually reveals signs of a major problem, one that could severely damage Meta’s outlook for years to come, namely:

Let’s break down why these comments lack emotional intelligence and empathy—and what lessons you as a business owner can take away from it, to help your company not only survive the next few years, but set itself up for future success.

Mark Zuckerberg Just Made a Huge Mistake. It Could Destroy Meta and Facebook (Inc via MSN)

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:54:20am

re: #131 Dangerman

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:59:03am

re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The absolute fucking gall of those SCOTUS shit heels. They should never eat in peace again.

they make the ruling and then hide

they didnt announce from the bench and read the dissents out loud

they’re afraid

they know the country is not behind them on this, even if ‘the party’ is

and they know that long term they are going to be trashed
like taney’s court
and like the decisions in Dred, Plessy, etc

know what else? Marbury isn’t in the constitution

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 5:59:21am

re: #139 No Malarkey!

Economy created another 372,000 jobs in June. Still impressive monthly total, but slightly lower than job creation has been. No sign of an actual recession yet.

In just six months, the 2022 economy has already matched or exceeded the number of jobs created every year this century except 2014, the year that the “job destroying” Obamacare went into full effect (and actually goosed job creation by injecting billions of dollars into the economy) and last year while we were recovering jobs lost during the pandemic. Over the last year and a half, all of the jobs lost in 2020 have now been recovered.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:03:53am

re: #143 Dangerman

We could have universal healthcare and a massive defense industry, but we have to keep our taxes low or all the jerb creaters are gonna up and move to Gunts’s Galch.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:14:54am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We could have universal healthcare and a massive defense industry, but we have to keep our taxes low or all the jerb creaters are gonna up and move to Gunts’s Galch.

of course
a meme cant cover all the angles //

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:15:25am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

In just six months, the 2022 economy has already matched or exceeded the number of jobs created every year this century except 2014, the year that the “job destroying” Obamacare went into full effect (and actually goosed job creation by injecting billions of dollars into the economy) and last year while we were recovering jobs lost during the pandemic. Over the last year and a half, all of the jobs lost in 2020 have now been recovered.

Another factoid: U-6 unemployment, a broader measure of the unemployment rate which includes underemployment and people who want to work but are discouraged from looking, dropped to 6.7% in June, the lowest level since December 2019, and one of the lowest levels ever recorded.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:16:00am

re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The absolute fucking gall of those SCOTUS shit heels. They should never eat in peace again.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:16:28am

when the inevitable starts

forget rates per 100,000 and go with absolute numbers

annual gun deaths in the US about 40k
in japan TOTAL gun deaths around 20 or so. (that’s not 20k, that’s 20)

part of the story is what this guy had to go through to make the weapon.
and how well protected Abe was, or should have been or needed to be.

But Japan doesn’t have weekly or daily mass shootings like we do, so there’s that.

The real point is of course you wont stop every single gun death.
any more than you’ll stop every single abortion no matter how draconian or absurd you make the laws.

so if we’re ‘trying’ with abortion, why not with guns?

can’t we try and save a few lives? - maybe cut the 40k number in half?

aren’t they ‘precious’?

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:18:45am

re: #149 Dopamine Fish

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im not sure
is this snark by Cohen?

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:19:38am

re: #151 Dangerman

im not sure
is this snark by Cohen?

Yes, it is. Subtle, a bit too much so for many. Replies are pretty evenly split between, “Oh, I get it” and “Whoosh”.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:20:54am

What’s luck got to do with it?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:22:53am

re: #149 Dopamine Fish

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:24:35am

Fox News has done its job.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:26:43am

The late PM Abe was the first recipient of TFG’s “power handshake”

Youtube Video
PM Trudeau was the last time that he tried that stunt:

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:31:02am

re: #150 Dangerman

when the inevitable starts

forget rates per 100,000 and go with absolute numbers

annual gun deaths in the US about 40k
in japan TOTAL gun deaths around 20 or so. (that’s not 20k, that’s 20)

part of the story is what this guy had to go through to make the weapon.
and how well protected Abe was, or should have been or needed to be.

But Japan doesn’t have weekly or daily mass shootings like we do, so there’s that.

The real point is of course you wont stop every single gun death.
any more than you’ll stop every single abortion no matter how draconian or absurd you make the laws.

so if we’re ‘trying’ with abortion, why not with guns?

can’t we try and save a few lives? - maybe cut the 40k number in half?

aren’t they ‘precious’?

We must immediately act to regulate doors, weed, mental health, rap music, transgenderism, lack of prayer in schools, social media, video games, mouthy women, false flag operations and anything else we can imagine might cause gun homicides, with the exception of our precious, liberty protecting guns.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:37:38am

re: #155 No Malarkey!

Fox News has done its job.

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and this, which i posted upthread

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gocart mozart  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:37:46am
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Eventual Carrion  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:39:38am

re: #155 No Malarkey!

Fox News has done its job.

Then so were the protesters outside the restaurant for beer boy.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:41:56am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:42:50am
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:43:11am

OK, I guess.

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William Lewis  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:44:32am

re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Want.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:46:19am

re: #157 No Malarkey!

We must immediately act to regulate doors, weed, mental health, rap music, transgenderism, lack of prayer in schools, social media, video games, mouthy women, false flag operations and anything else we can imagine might cause gun homicides, with the exception of our precious, liberty protecting guns.

we cant even get the regulations we’ve agreed to regulate to work

“There were over 1 million opportunities for someone to buy a gun from a licensed dealer without a completed background check in 2020 and 2021,” NBC News reports.

“In all, 1,002,274 background checks — or 4.2 percent — took longer than three business days in 2020 and 2021, a higher share than any other period since at least 2014… After the third business day, federal law allows dealers to sell weapons while the background check is still pending, which potentially puts weapons in the hands of people who can’t legally own a gun because of mental illness or their criminal history.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:46:42am

re: #160 Eventual Carrion

Then so were the protesters outside the restaurant for beer boy.

again, had they erected a gallows or threatened anyone else’s life?

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:48:31am

With all the seditionist dumbfuckery coming from Michigan’s UP, someone pointed out that Michigan is an upside-down Florida. Peninsula life seems to create radicalized dummies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:49:13am

re: #150 Dangerman

The weapon the fellow cobbled together to shoot Abe would not have been of any use for a mass shooter.

In other words, it was not far removed from the weapons that existed at the time of the Founding Fathers.

Suck on the end of that barrel, Originalists.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:49:20am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:50:39am

re: #155 No Malarkey!

Poll shows 61% of Republicans call Jan. 6 insurrection a ‘legitimate protest’.

The other 39% still think it was an Antifa/BLM false-flag operation.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:52:33am
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Dopamine Fish  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:53:02am

re: #171 Barefoot Grin

The Republican War on Voting continues.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:53:41am

re: #165 Dangerman

we cant even get the regulations we’ve agreed to regulate to work

That three day loophole should be closed, but probably won’t be.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:54:07am

re: #164 William Lewis

Want.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:56:09am

Sugary sweet pop enough to give you the diabeatus!

Youtube Video

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:57:23am

re: #171 Barefoot Grin

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2022 • 6:59:54am

re: #158 Dangerman

and this, which i posted upthread

Which is all good since Republicans are roughly 30% of voters. So…56% of 30% = Sorry old chap, sucks to be you.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:01:21am

Wtf?

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:02:55am

re: #176 Crush White Nationalism

[Embedded content]

Also
The Washington Post reports the court also ruled that voters could not give their completed absentee ballots to others to return on their behalf, a practice disparaged as “ballot harvesting”

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danarchy  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:02:56am

re: #178 Dangerman

Wtf?

Not gonna listen to it, but I am guessing this is because Joe wired a bunch of money to Hunter which he then used for hookers and blow.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:02:58am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:06:43am

re: #181 Belafon

Tough, I don’t imagine that if the UK ever got a government in favor of reentering it would be allowed to do so, since the next time the Brexiteers regained power they would have to go through all that drama all over again. The UK made its bed, and now its going to have to sleep in it.

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BigPapa  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:06:49am

Putin won with Brexit.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:07:44am

Imagine the irony of choking to death on a piece of Life cereal

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:09:20am

Kind of a vile ad

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:10:56am

re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m stunned to hear of Abe’s assassination. Gun violence is exceedingly rare in Japan, but Trump’s reaction is entirely predictable.

BTW, Trump’s use of the honorific President is still true, even though he was twice impeached.

He’s a former POTUS. Should be ex-president. Should be prosecuted. Should be imprisoned for his crime spree.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:10:57am

re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

You can pre-purchase on Steam for $26.99.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:14:57am

re: #133 No Malarkey!

Pretty empty threat since Putin doesn’t even know if any of his nukes work, and if they did, Russia would be destroyed just as surely as Ukraine would.

Bully doing what bullies do.

And empty bluster makes them look weak. Which frightens them even more when the threats are ignored and thus they bluster more and louder.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:15:41am

re: #148 No Malarkey!

Another factoid: U-6 unemployment, a broader measure of the unemployment rate which includes underemployment and people who want to work but are discouraged from looking, dropped to 6.7% in June, the lowest level since December 2019, and one of the lowest levels ever recorded.

One more tidbit from the June jobs report: Black unemployment dropped to 5.8% in June, the lowest level since 2019, which was the only year that Black unemployment was ever lower (as low as 5.4% a couple of months in 2019).

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:16:06am

I just had a scare. My Surface Pro tablet wouldn’t power on. Wiggling the USB cable plugged into it resolved the problem. That thing was far too expensive to fail after only a year and a half of use.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:16:13am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

Civility doesn’t matter to the right until something happens that inconveniences them. Than you see all the hand-wringing and complaints about the lack of decorum.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:16:17am

re: #186 lawhawk

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I’m stunned to hear of Abe’s assassination. Gun violence is exceedingly rare in Japan, but Trump’s reaction is entirely predictable.

BTW, Trump’s use of the honorific President is still true, even though he was twice impeached.

He’s a former POTUS. Should be ex-president. Should be prosecuted. Should be imprisoned for his crime spree.

While true, I’m pretty sure no other ex prez feels the constant need to remind the world they were once prez

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:16:58am

re: #182 No Malarkey!

Tough, I don’t imagine that if the UK ever got a government in favor of reentering it would be allowed to do so, since the next time the Brexiteers regained power they would have to go through all that drama all over again. The UK made its bed, and now its going to have to sleep in it.

They voted on a promise: “wouldn’t it be great if we left” and not on the finished deal, which certainly would never have received a majority of votes.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:16:59am

Recession fears again overblown:

The issue with inflation is easing because gas prices continue dropping. GOP shitposting and talking down the economy with hopes that it’ll screw Democrats in November is based on wishful thinking and obstructionism.

Reality is that the economy continues growth, recovering nearly all the jobs lost under Trump and his disastrous handling of covid and the economic disruptions. Now, we’re seeing continued growth and demand for energy. Russia’s screwed as oil prices also are coming down, which means inflation eases as energy prices are a core factor of inflation (CPI).

Fuck the GOP.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:17:24am

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:17:54am

re: #186 lawhawk

Former Presidents have the right to be addressed as such.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:17:58am

re: #186 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

I’m stunned to hear of Abe’s assassination. Gun violence is exceedingly rare in Japan, but Trump’s reaction is entirely predictable.

BTW, Trump’s use of the honorific President is still true, even though he was twice impeached.

He’s a former POTUS. Should be ex-president. Should be prosecuted. Should be imprisoned for his crime spree.

By way of contrast:

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:20:09am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Former Presidents have the right to be addressed as such.

A failed seditionist President should not be doing that. Trump betrayed the nation.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:20:58am

BTW - Pat Cipollone is currently testifying behind closed doors before the 1/6 Committee.

Today’s a bad day for Trumpworld, which is why Hunter Biden is trending. The higher it trends, the worse things are for Trumpworld.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:22:29am

re: #161 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

[Embedded content]

kavanaugh felt the need to sneak out the back because of what he thought the peaceful protesters *might* do

How do you think Congress et al felt on J6 in the face of actual violence being shown live on national tv?

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BigPapa  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:22:53am

I’ve not seen any discussion on cause of inflation, worldwide. How about resurgent demand post COVID? Inflation would be predictable.

If Trump insists on still being addressed as President we could address him as Guerilla President. Failed Coup President. Work with me people, we can do this.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:25:33am

re: #201 BigPapa

I’ve not seen any discussion on cause of inflation, worldwide. How about resurgent demand post COVID? Inflation would be predictable.

If Trump insists on still being addressed as President we could address him as Guerilla President. Failed Coup President. Work with me people, we can do this.

Twice-impeached President

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:26:21am

re: #201 BigPapa

I’ve not seen any discussion on cause of inflation, worldwide. How about resurgent demand post COVID? Inflation would be predictable.

If Trump insists on still being addressed as President we could address him as Guerilla President. Failed Coup President. Work with me people, we can do this.

Tfg is enough for me

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:28:00am

re: #201 BigPapa

I’ve not seen any discussion on cause of inflation, worldwide. How about resurgent demand post COVID? Inflation would be predictable.

If Trump insists on still being addressed as President we could address him as Guerilla President. Failed Coup President. Work with me people, we can do this.

We’re not post covid. We’re pretending to be post covid as people die from the disease and it’s more contagious than ever before.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:29:36am

re: #135 Dangerman

a reader from the UK wrote this in to electoral-vote.com

that first part is 100% what the R’s did here

the last sentence is what biden’s been trying to do…

The biggest difference is that Boris does not have the undying loyalty of the Tory base nor the Tory Party. He is not working to overturn British heritage and abandon all legal precedents. The Tory Party remains a normal heir to prior generations of Tories. Of course, unlike Trump, Boris could have served for decades — no term limits there. He may be an unprincipled liar and clown, but he isn’t stupid or ignorant.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:29:48am

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BigPapa  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:30:05am

re: #204 Crush White Nationalism

We’re not post covid. We’re pretending to be post covid as people die from the disease and it’s more contagious than ever before.

I agree we’re not post COVID. Society seems to be done with COVID. But it’s not done with us. It finally blew through my family and I. Now we have to worry about future variants.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:34:53am

My daughter is supposed to be working 25 hours a week at a local hotel/restaurant.

But lately she is filling in so many shifts for colleagues with Covid that she is working full-time.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:36:22am

re: #142 Crush White Nationalism

Article proposes that Facebook is screwed because Zuckerberg is a robot with an EQ of zero who can’t help but fail due to this deficit.

Mark Zuckerberg Just Made a Huge Mistake. It Could Destroy Meta and Facebook (Inc via MSN)

I doubt that’s what’s going to bring FB down; it’s the fact that people are losing interest in it. A friend posted that she was quitting FB because she wasn’t seeing posts from those she knew but instead was being overwhelmed by reels, ads, and suggestions of items that might interest her, based on algorithms that clearly do not understand her actual interests. Platforms become popular, engage many viewers, and then just as suddenly fall off the cliff because readers become bored or fads change and something new comes along to take control, temporarily. We are fragmenting as a society and it’s not clear what, if anything, will bring us together.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:37:18am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My daughter is supposed to be working 25 hours a week at a local hotel/restaurant.

But lately she is filling in so many shifts for colleagues with Covid that she is working full-time.

How many times has she had covid? You couldn’t pay me enough to work with the filthy public at this point.

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:39:42am

re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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UPDING FOR THE FRIPPERTRONICS!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:41:37am

re: #210 Crush White Nationalism

How many times has she had covid? You couldn’t pay me enough to work with the filthy public at this point.

not at all, she is vaxxed and boosted. she keeps clear of the public, just works in the kitchen and cleans rooms.

staff is tested regularly.

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darthstar  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:42:56am

Back when I had my previous twitter account I followed this one - she sent Trump a post card every day that had a big peach on the front and read Impeached Forever…then would write a short message on the back that every person who handled the card would read. Glad to see she’s still at it.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:44:11am

re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

not at all, she is vaxxed and boosted. she keeps clear of the public, just works in the kitchen and cleans rooms.

staff is tested regularly.

Nice. So, it’s just coworkers being stupid in their personal lives, where she’s smarter?

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steve_davis  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:44:47am

re: #213 darthstar

Back when I had my previous twitter account I followed this one - she sent Trump a post card every day that had a big peach on the front and read Impeached Forever…then would write a short message on the back that every person who handled the card would read. Glad to see she’s still at it.

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assuming the one for trump reads: “eat dinner im peach?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:46:02am

re: #214 Crush White Nationalism

Nice. So, it’s just coworkers being stupid in their personal lives, where she’s smarter?

Yes, co-worker attended a concert.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:48:19am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They voted on a promise: “wouldn’t it be great if we left” and not on the finished deal, which certainly would never have received a majority of votes.

They lied about how the deal would help the average British citizen, especially in the funding of NHS.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:48:35am

re: #215 steve_davis

assuming the one for trump reads: “eat dinner im peach?”

I’m Peach
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:48:53am

re: #214 Crush White Nationalism

Nice. So, it’s just coworkers being stupid in their personal lives, where she’s smarter?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:50:05am

re: #217 Hecuba’s daughter

They lied about how the deal would help the average British citizen, especially in the funding of NHS.

And the fact that that a hard borer in Ireland is in violation of the Good Friday Accords, while an open border is in violation of Brexit…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:50:10am

re: #126 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:52:02am

re: #129 Dopamine Fish

I’m an idiot and I genuinely feel stupid for this.

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Looks about like mine. The last three, anyway.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:52:28am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They voted on a promise: “wouldn’t it be great if we left” and not on the finished deal, which certainly would never have received a majority of votes.

No, they voted on a pack of lies like the NHS was going to get a shitton of money every month and a bunch of other BS to which the liars admitted to being lies within days of the vote.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:55:11am

re: #223 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No, they voted on a pack of lies like the NHS was going to get a shitton of money every month and a bunch of other BS to which the liars admitted to being lies within days of the vote.

How could they admit to the truth before the vote? After all, then they would have been guaranteed to lose.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:55:46am

re: #223 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No, they voted on a pack of lies like the NHS was going to get a shitton of money every month and a bunch of other BS to which the liars admitted to being lies within days of the vote.

They voted on a lot of empty and unrealizable promises: that the EU was going to bend over backwards and grant them special conditions, that the issue of Northern Ireland was going to somehow magically go away and that the paperwork that is necessary for third-country imports/exports was going to do itself.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 7:58:43am

Kavanaugh was sighted at a Morton’s Steakhouse and protesters let ‘em know it.

Morton’s issued a statement about the whole thing.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:01:31am

re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

That’s from the publisher of Outer Wilds, a very unique game. They may specialize in the unusual.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:02:24am

re: #194 lawhawk

Recession fears again overblown:

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The issue with inflation is easing because gas prices continue dropping. GOP shitposting and talking down the economy with hopes that it’ll screw Democrats in November is based on wishful thinking and obstructionism.

Reality is that the economy continues growth, recovering nearly all the jobs lost under Trump and his disastrous handling of covid and the economic disruptions. Now, we’re seeing continued growth and demand for energy. Russia’s screwed as oil prices also are coming down, which means inflation eases as energy prices are a core factor of inflation (CPI).

Fuck the GOP.

I figure that, because our workforce shrank so much, we’ve got an entire contraction to go through before we even get to a recession. There will be a lot of small businesses close and those employees move into open spots at surviving places before we can even talk about the workforce being affected.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:03:18am

AGAIN

if the protestors outside the steakhouse had been making threatening statements or gestures, that could be construed as a violation of Kavanaugh’s civil rights.

They were just vocally disagreeing with his judgement, not erecting gallows, vandalizing, stealing or defecating on private or government property.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:05:40am

re: #223 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No, they voted on a pack of lies like the NHS was going to get a shitton of money every month and a bunch of other BS to which the liars admitted to being lies within days of the vote.

i posted this yesterday in another context
slightly modified, it’s becoming evergreen

“The strategy is obvious. Promise anything before the election so as to not piss off the part of the electorate we need, then screw them over after the election in order to appease the fire-breathing base.”

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cat-tikvah  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:05:58am

Some positive news:
FACT SHEET: President Biden to Sign Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services
whitehouse.gov

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:07:08am

So, the assassin is in custody, and apparently used a homemade gun to murder Abe.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:07:15am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

AGAIN

if the protestors outside the steakhouse had been making threatening statements or gestures, that could be construed as a violation of Kavanaugh’s civil rights.

They were just vocally disagreeing with his judgement, not erecting gallows, vandalizing, stealing or defecating on private or government property.

the R’s know how to mug for the cameras even as they’re skulking out the back away from the cameras

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:11:00am

re: #233 Dangerman

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danarchy  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:14:00am

re: #194 lawhawk

Recession fears again overblown:

The issue with inflation is easing because gas prices continue dropping. GOP shitposting and talking down the economy with hopes that it’ll screw Democrats in November is based on wishful thinking and obstructionism.

Reality is that the economy continues growth, recovering nearly all the jobs lost under Trump and his disastrous handling of covid and the economic disruptions. Now, we’re seeing continued growth and demand for energy. Russia’s screwed as oil prices also are coming down, which means inflation eases as energy prices are a core factor of inflation (CPI).

Fuck the GOP.

That is almost a bit of a catch 22. Gas prices are dropping because of the risk of recession. Output has not increased substantially, so the future price is building in an assumed decrease in demand due to recession. If the recession doesn’t materialize and output doesn’t increase, gas prices will rebound again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:14:45am

re: #230 Dangerman

i posted this yesterday in another context
slightly modified, it’s becoming evergreen

“The strategy is obvious. Promise anything before the election so as to not piss off the part of the electorate we need, then screw them over after the election in order to appease the fire-breathing base.”

That was what Ronald Reagan did with the Fundamentalist Christians in 1980.

Then he tossed their agenda aside.

But they decided they weren’t gonna get fooled again and started out insinuating their people into all aspects of public life: politics, public administration, education, the military, etc.

It has borne fruits: they have taken over the USAF Academy, imposed their agenda on various school boards, have run of SCOTUS and had one of their own, Mike Pence, a dicky heartbeat away from the Presidency.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:14:51am

re: #232 lawhawk

So, the assassin is in custody, and apparently used a homemade gun to murder Abe.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:16:04am

re: #237 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Right out of a William Gibson novel.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:16:07am

re: #235 danarchy

That is almost a bit of a catch 22. Gas prices are dropping because of the risk of recession. Output has not increased substantially, so the future price is building in an assumed decrease in demand due to recession. If the recession doesn’t materialize and output doesn’t increase, gas prices will rebound again.

And it will be Biden’s fault again for not building more pipelines and opening more public lands to drilling.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:17:24am

re: #232 lawhawk

So, the assassin is in custody, and apparently used a homemade gun to murder Abe.

See Libtards, even if you ban guns, people can make a gun capable of killing uh, one person.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:19:18am

It’s not just the dead and their loved ones who had their lives destroyed on the 4th.

8-year-old boy paralyzed after Highland Park parade shooting: ‘Cooper continues to fight’ (USA Today via MSN)

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:20:11am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:20:23am

re: #240 Crush White Nationalism

See Libtards, even if you ban guns, people can make a gun capable of killing uh, one person.

Just like the ones our Founding Fathers had in mind when they framed the Constitution.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:20:45am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And it will be Biden’s fault again for not building more pipelines and opening more public lands to drilling.

Even as the oil companies are sitting on nearly 10,000 leases spanning millions of acres. They can’t find enough workers to expand refining capacity either, and they don’t want to spend to expand that capacity, because it’s costly.

Also, high energy prices sustain the domestic US energy production/refining capabilities, because it’s far more costly to deliver a barrel of oil in the US produced domestically than it is to get same quality oil from Saudi Arabia. If prices collapse, US production collapse, because pumping costs more than it would be to sell it. That’s why Trump implored the Saudis to cut production during the early pandemic - to keep the price high.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:21:34am

Electrifying…

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:21:38am

re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just like the ones our Founding Fathers had in mind when they framed the Constitution.

In function, extremely close to what our founder had, yes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:23:01am

re: #244 lawhawk

So Trump tried to keep oil prices high and he is a regarded as a hero by people who blame Biden for high gas prices….

only in America

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:24:40am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:24:46am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So Trump tried to keep oil prices high and he is a hero.

FTFY.

(At least to make it reflect the howling conservative base view.)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:24:47am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

I doubt that’s what’s going to bring FB down; it’s the fact that people are losing interest in it. A friend posted that she was quitting FB because she wasn’t seeing posts from those she knew but instead was being overwhelmed by reels, ads, and suggestions of items that might interest her, based on algorithms that clearly do not understand her actual interests. Platforms become popular, engage many viewers, and then just as suddenly fall off the cliff because readers become bored or fads change and something new comes along to take control, temporarily. We are fragmenting as a society and it’s not clear what, if anything, will bring us together.

And their base is old. The kids are on TikTok and others. THEY see Facebook as grandma’s thing. You have no long term business model with a dying user population.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:27:31am

re: #250 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And their base is old. The kids are on TikTok and others. THEY see Facebook as grandma’s thing. You have no long term business model with a dying user population.

I think that’s a big part of why they’re pivoting to VR, which is very popular with young people. They can build profiles on people and show them targeted ads in a virtual world instead of on Facebook.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:30:44am

re: #224 Hecuba’s daughter

How could they admit to the truth before the vote? After all, then they would have been guaranteed to lose.

Exactly. They admitted to them being lies like three days after the vote - which barely passed yet they called a mandate.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:32:36am

re: #252 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Exactly. They admitted to them being lies like three days after the vote - which barely passed yet they called a mandate.

Because no one tars and feathers politicians that lie to them anymore. There needs to be a penalty for misleading the people or grifters will take over your political system like we see in the Republican party.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:35:53am

i will be chewing on this for a while

The problem was never the kind of GUN we allow EVERYONE, but the kind of PEOPLE we allow ANY gun.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:38:16am

The parents are very lucky to be alive. The father recognized the sound of gunfire and got them moving.

Teenage girl receives chilling call after parents are shot, wounded in Highland Park massacre (CBS Chicago)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:42:56am

re: #249 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

FTFY.

(At least to make it reflect the howling conservative base view.)

The answer is always:

More police

More guns

More pipelines

More drilling

More deregulation

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:44:17am

re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The answer is always:

More police

More guns

More pipelines

More drilling

More deregulation

But they’re clearly the Party of Small Government./

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gocart mozart  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:44:27am

The controlling precedent is Falwell v. Hustler aka “The People vs. Larry Flint”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:46:33am

re: #257 Dopamine Fish

But they’re clearly the Party of Small Government./

It depends on where government is to be kept small: certainly not in terms of agricultural subsidies or military bases and production in rural states.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:46:43am

re: #257 Dopamine Fish

But they’re clearly the Party of Small Government./

By which they mean they want to be able to make rivers flammable again if it makes them a few bucks, and want a poor and desperate workforce. It’s a shame that Republican voters vote to be made poor and desperate to please their masters, all while dreaming of being the master one day.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:49:11am

re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The answer is always:

More police

More guns

More pipelines

More drilling

More deregulation

More regulations on doctor/patient relationship

More invasive control of school curriculum

Book bans

More religion in secular life

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2022 • 8:58:06am

re: #232 lawhawk

So, the assassin is in custody, and apparently used a homemade gun to murder Abe.

Yes, literally a home-made double-barreled black-powder hand cannon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:01:03am

re: #262 austin_blue

Yes, literally a home-made double-barreled black-powder hand cannon.

Mass-murder weapon

not.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:03:22am

re: #248 jaunte

Fuck, man. I was hoping to go back to Canada for the first time in over four years to celebrate my birthday next month.

Goddamn Covid… :(

I’m vaxxed and boosted, but still.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:03:25am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Mass-murder weapon

not.

A single assassination can start world wars.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:03:48am

re: #265 Shropshire Slasher

A single assassination can start world wars.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand likes this.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:05:39am
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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:06:08am

re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:06:53am

Also, no shortage of wingnuts trying to pin the Abe assassination on the left..

Kojima is going to face so much hate because of these fake news idiots…

I’m in a chat. Some blithering fool just said “Well, it could be Kojima after all”.
Me: BAKA! *whacks back of head* Aho desu ka? *whacks back of head again* They caught the perp!

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:11:33am

re: #269 Teukka

Also, no shortage of wingnuts trying to pin the Abe assassination on the left..

Kojima is going to face so much hate because of these fake news idiots…

I’m in a chat. Some blithering fool just said “Well, it could be Kojima after all”.
Me: BAKA! *whacks back of head* Aho desu ka? *whacks back of head again* They caught the perp!

That wasn’t the real Shinzo, it was a stand in.

///

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:14:25am

In other news… Am I too fed up with this person because I at first saved this image as “Dim Tool”?

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:15:46am

re: #269 Teukka

Also, no shortage of wingnuts trying to pin the Abe assassination on the left..

Kojima is going to face so much hate because of these fake news idiots…

I’m in a chat. Some blithering fool just said “Well, it could be Kojima after all”.
Me: BAKA! *whacks back of head* Aho desu ka? *whacks back of head again* They caught the perp!

Another one:

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:16:08am

Sigh, Florida Cop…

A Florida police officer was caught drunk on-duty after his colleagues found him swerving down the street in a police cruiser while five times over the legal limit authorities said.

Oscar Mayorga, 25, of the Apopka Police Department was pulled over on July 4 when a local resident saw the car running stop signs and called the cops, saying he was ‘all over the road’.

He is later said to have confessed to drinking three tall boys, leaving him close to five times over the legal limit. Mayorgas was scheduled to work a shift at his local police department that evening, and allegedly said that he’d be fine as long as he left a six hour gap between having drinks and starting his shift.

To blow a 0.391g/210L, or nearly five times the legal limit of 0.08g isn’t just a few drinks. A “light” drinker would be passed out.

dailymail.co.uk

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:17:41am

re: #267 lawhawk

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:17:53am

re: #267 lawhawk

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:19:39am

re: #272 Teukka

Another one:

Also, in case if you wonder who the IRGC account belongs to:
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Iran)

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:19:56am

Watch the video, I think he missed the first shot, plus random woman almost getting run over in the background.

dailymail.co.uk

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:23:24am

re: #265 Shropshire Slasher

A single assassination can start world wars.

“Some of those new automatic weapons can take out 100 Archdukes a minute!”

-Jaroslav Hašek

The Good Soldier Švejk, 1921

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:24:04am

re: #267 lawhawk

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make sure there’s a delay

it’s a trap

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Mattand  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:27:27am

re: #267 lawhawk

His attorney tells @cbsnews - Stewart Rhodes will extend an offer to testify under oath before the House Jan 6 Select Committee.

But Rhodes will insist it be done live and televised.

(Rhodes has already been deposed by committee, earlier this year)

I’m not sure I get this. Either his ass is really in the sling and he wants to publicly take as many people down with him, or he’s going to go hostile witness and try to embarrass the 1/6 Committee on live TV.

I look at someone like Rhodes as completely and utterly willing to martyr himself for Trump. Coopering with 1/6 seems antithetical to a loon like that. Am I being too out there/paranoid with this view?

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Mattand  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:27:54am

re: #279 Dangerman

make sure there’s a delay

it’s a trap

LOL, glad to see I’m not the only one thinking this.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:27:55am

re: #251 Crush White Nationalism

I think that’s a big part of why they’re pivoting to VR, which is very popular with young people. They can build profiles on people and show them targeted ads in a virtual world instead of on Facebook.

Apple is too. I don’t know if Facebook can beat Apple.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:28:51am

re: #234 lawhawk

It’s because Brett puts catsup on his well done steak.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:33:22am

Meanwhile, in Moscow:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:35:05am

re: #279 Dangerman

make sure there’s a delay

it’s a trap

Definitely. He wants to throw a few Heil Hitler’s live on tv. Fuck him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:38:27am

Fundamentalists, be they Orthodox or Protestant in nature, like to see themselves at war with Satan, and so anything they find odious or sinful is immediately the Work of Satan and has to be eradicated.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:39:22am

re: #269 Teukka

Also, no shortage of wingnuts trying to pin the Abe assassination on the left..

[Embedded content]

Kojima is going to face so much hate because of these fake news idiots…

I’m in a chat. Some blithering fool just said “Well, it could be Kojima after all”.
Me: BAKA! *whacks back of head* Aho desu ka? *whacks back of head again* They caught the perp!

The Japanese far left peaked in the early 1970s.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:39:39am

re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Fundamentalists, be they Orthodox or Protestant in nature, like to see themselves at war with Satan, and so anything the find odious or sinful is immediately the Work of Satan and has to be eradicated.

Yep. And Yep.

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cat-tikvah  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:44:57am

re: #226 lawhawk

Kavanaugh and right-wing Justices going to restaurants:
Should be required to book reservation in another state 300 miles away in advance, check in 24 hours ahead of time and return next day in case they change their mind, then have cystoscopy or prostate exam just because before being admitted to dining room. Also be required to view video of cow being slaughtered and butchered into steaks, ribs, chops and hamburger meat and view film of calves caged to become veal.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:46:53am

re: #282 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Apple is too. I don’t know if Facebook can beat Apple.

The only reason they have an advantage right now is Facebook owns oculus. There’s also the fact that Apple VR would run great with Apple products and be incompatible with any other standard.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:50:39am

re: #282 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Apple is too. I don’t know if Facebook can beat Apple.

Facebook isn’t competing with Apple. Apple’s system will be extremely expensive, and Facebook’s is subsidized by Facebook for the masses, so costs half the cost of the lowest priced PCVR system that you buy yourself.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:50:40am
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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:51:13am

re: #283 Shropshire Slasher

It’s because Brett puts catsup on his well done steak.

if this isn’t an outright winner, it’s definitely honorable mention

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:54:12am

If you haven’t read any of N. K. Jemisin’s science fiction, start now.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:55:17am
“Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.’s longtime leader, agreed to pay more than $12 million over the past 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity, an amount far larger than previously known,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Mr. McMahon’s wife, Linda McMahon, helped build the company and was WWE’s chief executive until she stepped down in 2009 for the first of two unsuccessful campaigns for the Senate. She served as head of the Small Business Administration under former President Donald Trump.”

makes paying a one time $130k look like a piker

of course that’s the only one we know about

all in all though, these guys are pigs.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:56:56am

IMPATIENT PEOPLE ON TWITTER: DEMS AREN’T DOING ENOUGH TO EARN MY VOTE!!1!!!

DEMS:

IPOT: NOT ENOUGH! NOT SOON ENOUGH!! NOT VOTING FOR U AGAIN!!!!11

GOP: OH HAI

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2022 • 9:59:10am
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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:02:56am
The Republicans are for free enterprise, but not free people. And that is their fundamental problem.

“For Republicans, it’s businesses that ought to be free of barriers to freely pursue commerce, but citizens must be burdened with barriers to freely exercising their rights, like the right to vote.”

“Businesses must be trusted to act in any way they wish, but women cannot be trusted to make even their own health care decisions.”

“Business must be free to make contractual agreements, but individuals are not free to contract in marriage to whomever they may love.”

“Businesses must be free to take risks, without regard to the size of the consequences, but individuals cannot be free to engage in personal risk-taking - like using marijuana - regardless of how small and isolated the costs may be.”

“They do not understand that you cannot be the freedom party if you want to regulate the most intimate and sacred aspects of people’s personal lives.”

politico jennifer granholm 11/16/12

because

The GOP Is No Longer the Party of Freedom

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:03:17am

re: #298 Dangerman

and

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:05:05am

re: #298 Dangerman

politico jennifer granholm 11/16/12

because

The GOP Is No Longer the Party of Freedom

The GOP hasn’t been the party of freedom since at least Nixon. They did convince some stupid people that freedom means spreading a deadly disease, but they’ve never actually been for freedom during my adult lifetime.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:05:23am

re: #274 Crush White Nationalism

I mean, criminals CAN make demands.

But prosecutors can also tell them to fuck off with said demands.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:08:59am

Another one… And those of you familiar with the-chans-which-must-not-be-named will have a bell rung so hard it gives you tinnitus…

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:09:09am

Well damn it.

My very dear friend left yesterday for 3 weeks in Italy. I received a text from her this morning. She’s positive for covid. I know she’s vaxxed and 1 booster. She wanted a second booster in May because she went to Florida for a graduation. She couldn’t get the second booster b/c she’s under 50. Not sure if she was able to get the second booster in June.

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SerialUpDinger  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:11:29am

If you have not seen this….. OMG

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:12:42am

re: #304 SerialUpDinger

If you have not seen this….. OMG

It’s the previous front page story here.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:13:53am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:15:25am

re: #303 Teddy’s Person

I am only 40. No second booster for me unless the FDA changes its mind or the Omicron shot rolls out in the fall.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:17:09am

From John Pavlovitz on Facebook. It’s long so I’ll hide it.

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An open letter to white evangelicals: We’re done with you.
By North Carolina Pastor John Pavlovitz
Dear White Evangelicals,
I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They’re done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why: They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.
For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a Black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character—all without cause or evidence.
They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him. And through it all, White Evangelicals—you never once suggested that God placed him where he was, you never publicly offered prayers for him and his family, you never welcomed him to your Christian Universities, you never gave him the benefit of the doubt in any instance, you never spoke of offering him forgiveness or mercy, your evangelists never publicly thanked God for his leadership, your pastors never took to the pulpit to offer solidarity with him, you never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.
You violently opposed him at every single turn—without offering a single ounce of the grace you claim as the heart of your faith tradition. You jettisoned Jesus as you dispensed damnation on him.
And yet you give carte blanche to a white Republican man so riddled with depravity, so littered with extramarital affairs, so unapologetically vile, with such a vast resume of moral filth—that the mind boggles.
And the change in you is unmistakable. It has been an astonishing conversion to behold: a being born again.
With him, you suddenly find religion. With him, you’re now willing to offer full absolution. With him, all is forgiven without repentance or admission. With him, you’re suddenly able to see some invisible, deeply buried heart. With him, sin has become unimportant, and compassion no longer a requirement. With him, you see only Providence.
And White Evangelicals, all those people who have had it with you—they see it all clearly. They recognize the toxic source of your inconsistency.
They see that pigmentation and party are your sole deities. They see that you aren’t interested in perpetuating the love of God or emulating the heart of Jesus. They see that you aren’t burdened to love the least, or to be agents of compassion, or to care for your Muslim, gay, African, female, or poor neighbors as yourself.
They see that all you’re really interested in doing is making a God in your own ivory image and demanding that the world bow down to it. They recognize this all about white, Republican Jesus—not dark-skinned Jesus of Nazareth.
And I know you don’t realize it, but you’re digging your own grave these days; the grave of your very faith tradition.
Your willingness to align yourself with cruelty is a costly marriage. Yes, you’ve gained a Supreme Court seat, a few months with the Presidency as a mouthpiece, and the cheap high of temporary power—but you’ve lost a whole lot more.
You’ve lost an audience with millions of wise, decent, good-hearted, faithful people with eyes to see this ugliness. You’ve lost any moral high ground or spiritual authority with a generation. You’ve lost any semblance of Christlikeness. You’ve lost the plot. And most of all you’ve lost your soul.
I know it’s likely you’ll dismiss these words. The fact that you’ve even made your bed with such malevolence, shows how far gone you are and how insulated you are from the reality in front of you. But I had to at least try to reach you. It’s what Jesus would do.
#done John Pavlovitz

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:17:15am

re: #297 jaunte

Overturning Roe v Wade was also a case of no fewer than four SCOTUS nominees telling the Senate that they considered it “settled law” when they damn well knew they were going to overturn it as soon as they had a majority.

Fuckers don’t deserve to eat in peace.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:18:10am

That Biden EO doesn’t stop states from banning abortion, right?

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:19:08am

re: #309 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Overturning Roe v Wade was also a case of no fewer than four SCOTUS nominees telling the Senate that they considered it “settled law” when they damn well knew they were going to overturn it as soon as they had a majority.

Fuckers.

The most aggravating part is that EVERYONE knew that they were lying and were specifically there to overturn our right to privacy, seizing control of women’s bodies from them as the first evil step. It was a charade, and everyone in Congress went along with it.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:19:47am

re: #310 Eclectic Cyborg

That Biden EO doesn’t stop states from banning abortion, right?

No, nothing could do that. The EO basically tells a bunch of federal agencies to emphasize educating people and strengthening what abortion services they can provide, funding and legal resources for providers and patients, and similar.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:20:53am

re: #311 Crush White Nationalism

The most aggravating part is that EVERYONE knew that they were lying and were specifically there to overturn our right to privacy, seizing control of women’s bodies from them as the first evil step. It was a charade, and everyone in Congress went along with it.

It was done in such a way that they can’t be convicted of perjury, because what they said was technically true, and the question was intentionally phrased so that the justices-to-be could answer it in that fashion and not be lying when they later overturned the decision.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:26:31am

re: #313 Dopamine Fish

It also was done so that the GOP senators who confirmed them would not have the issue hung around their ears until it was an accomplished deed.

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SerialUpDinger  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:34:39am

re: #305 Crush White Nationalism

Sorry, apparently not paying attention!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:38:38am

re: #315 SerialUpDinger

Sorry, apparently not paying attention!

I found the fellow more aggravating than funny…but probably for the same reason that I can’t even watch Colbert or Trevor Noah or John Oliver lately: not because I don’t find them funny, but because the topics they are trying to be humorous about are SO massively frustrating and depressingly soul-crushing that even their best efforts to lighten things up fall short.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:38:54am

Do-Something Crowd on SCOTUS overturning Roe/Casey in Dobbs - Biden, do something!

Biden:

Yeah, he’s not only issued statements demanding action, but he’s submitted an EO protecting women’s access to health care. He’s also stumping to expand Democrats’ control of Senate, and looking to gain at least 2 more seats, because that means he’d have the numbers to get around the filibuster.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:39:01am

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:39:25am

Oh… that’s cold….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:40:13am
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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:45:06am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’d translate that differently.

Nepotism Barbie here. I got to meet this powerful guy because daddy wanted to cut deals and thought I could make some side deals that enrich our family more. I had no business being there with accomplished statesmen and politicians, and now need to remind everyone that I’m still around and should have been prosecuted along with hubby for lying on security clearance forms that were rightfully rejected because everyone in Trumpworld was corrupt and compromised.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jul 8, 2022 • 10:45:48am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 8, 2022 • 11:18:08am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sorry not sorry.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 8, 2022 • 11:33:51am

re: #280 Mattand

I’m not sure I get this. Either his ass is really in the sling and he wants to publicly take as many people down with him, or he’s going to go hostile witness and try to embarrass the 1/6 Committee on live TV.

I look at someone like Rhodes as completely and utterly willing to martyr himself for Trump. Coopering with 1/6 seems antithetical to a loon like that. Am I being too out there/paranoid with this view?

No. Insisting on something like smacks of someone trying for a sacrifice play knowing that the optics of whatever lies he spits out will sell so much better than anything the committee says or does in an attempt to stop him. And any punishment levied on him for perjury after he does it will be much less and probably pardoned the moment the GOP has the ability to do it.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 8, 2022 • 11:37:57am

re: #294 jaunte

heh. The person has failed to figure out that if you want a “non woke” history go dig up something written 150 years ago when it was still the mythic West and ordained by God that the whites were meant to conquer the Indians and the Great Plains by whatever means necessary.

(And please ignore those Spaniard-descended people who have already been here for a century or two and those Negroes who are also doing quite a bit of work as well.)


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