John Oliver: Transgender Rights II
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John Oliver discusses the latest round of attacks on transgender rights, what’s at stake, and the filthiest of the “Peanuts” characters.
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BREAKING: DOJ recommends 6 months in prison and a $200K fine for Bannon, who will be sentenced this Friday. This isn’t “a light punishment.” Contempt of Congress charges can carry a max of 1 year in prison and a $100K fine. Bannon will face more prison time for his other crimes. pic.twitter.com/FifLPtyPef
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) October 17, 2022
Today’s weird Wordle was all in the family for us (do NOT click if you don’t want it spoiled!)
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From downstairs
8% inflation totally Biden
8.7% ssa cola increase, nothing to do with biden
re: #230 The GOP is a racist terrorist organization
The voice of the insane traitor:
If you don’t miss President Trump, you don’t love America.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) October 16, 2022
I’ve only got a shotgun, but I’ll try.
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What a hoot it would be if Kanye ended up with both Parler and Candace Owens.
Harrison Ford Joining ‘Captain America 4’ https://t.co/FWd1EmeVcp
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 17, 2022
re: #6 Barefoot Grin
What a hoot it would be if Kanye ended up with both Parler and Candace Owens.
The bigger hoot will be when Black Nationalist talking points and tropes start being plastered all over Parlar. That will be a real hoot seeing the confused reaction of right wing assholes everywhere.
re: #6 Barefoot Grin
What a hoot it would be if Kanye ended up with both Parler and Candace Owens.
Too late. She already married a white, white supremacist who just happens to own Parler, thanks to the evil Mercer family.
re: #10 Skip Intro
Too late. She already married a white, white supremacist who just happens to own Parler, thanks to the evil Mercer family.
marriage means nothing to wingnuts, except other people’s marriages
I know that was an accidental crash into a residential building, but I wonder if the people there now understand what they’re inflicting on Ukraine on a daily basis.
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) October 17, 2022
re: #12 darthstar
“Why would God punish us? He is with us! Clearly those are Devil’s/Ukrainians’ tricks!”
Okay…this made me chuckle. pic.twitter.com/DVWr4IWiz3
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) October 17, 2022
re: #14 darthstar
Pilot decided he didn’t need to check the stove after all.
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Surveillance camera caught the moment of a Russian Su-34 crash in Yeysk. pic.twitter.com/vQ8hDxmlsx
— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) October 17, 2022
This is something you know now. pic.twitter.com/cFHXEFte33
— Author James Fuller (@AuthorJFuller) October 17, 2022
re: #18 Dave In Austin
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According to Wiki:
“The whole nine yards” or “the full nine yards” is a colloquial American English phrase meaning “everything, the whole lot” or, when used as an adjective, “all the way”, as in, “The Army came out and gave us the whole nine yards on how they use space systems.”[1] Its origin is unknown and has been described by Yale University librarian Fred R. Shapiro as “the most prominent etymological riddle of our time”.[2]
The Oxford English Dictionary finds the earliest published non-idiomatic use in an 1855 Indiana newspaper article. The earliest known idiomatic use of the phrase is from 1907 in Southern Indiana. The phrase is related to the expression the whole six yards, used around the same time in Kentucky and South Carolina. Both phrases are variations on the whole ball of wax, first recorded in the 1880s.[3] They are part of a family of expressions in which an odd-sounding item, such as enchilada, shooting match, shebang or hog, is substituted for ball of wax.[3] The choice of the number nine may be related to the expression “To the nines” (to perfection).
Use of the phrase became widespread in the 1980s and 1990s. Much of the interest in the phrase’s etymology can be attributed to New York Times language columnist William Safire, who wrote extensively on this question.
re: #18 Dave In Austin
I keep seeing responses “everyone knows that”. I didn’t. And my war addicted, watches the Hitler/WW2 channel every waking moment he can didn’t know that.
Oh man…Parler screwed the pooch.
^^^ Toldja. Parler literally just gave away for free what he was buying. pic.twitter.com/OhvN7DraQ0
— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) October 17, 2022
Sigh, the health care industry…
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Fox Nations finds another new desperate low:
“The Trial of Hunter Biden” depicts mock trial- now do the “Big Guy” pic.twitter.com/h4PALlkNqF
— 🇺🇲Esau🇵🇷 (@esau7) October 17, 2022
More at: mediaite.com
The entire health-care/insurance sector of our society really has to evolve.
It’s so obvious that a huge amount of labor goes into duplication and unproductive actions.
re: #23 Dr. Matt
Fox Nations finds another new desperate low:
More at: mediaite.com
Looks like Hugh Laurie on that graphic
Who’s teaching these right wing con artists to wave their hands around like this? https://t.co/Tld2AZqsWY
— Charred Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2022
re: #22 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A couple of weeks ago, my wife had a major oral surgery. Well, turns out someone forgot to tell the surgeons office she is diabetic so she got scheduled for 11 A.M. instead of first thing in the morning.
The problem is, she has to fast before the procedure and fasting can be…problematic for someone with diabetes (that’s why diabetics get the earliest possible surgery times)
The easiest solution would be to reschedule but she and I had both taken off work for this and it would be a pain the ass to go through all that again. Not to mention we had some things scheduled out in the near future based on her recovery time from the original procedure date.
Fortunately, she was able to get the procedure on the original day and time and her blood sugar never hit a dangerous level, but she’s been diabetic for years. It’s all over her charts. How the fuck did it get missed?
The CDC bowed to the Trump administration’s demands to change the editorial process of its weekly scientific journal after warnings from then health secretary Alex Azar to “get in line,” Bloomberg reports.
They didn’t quit
Or blow the whistle
They buckled. All of them.
Cowards
re: #26 Charles Johnson
They probably picked it up from their orange God-king. He loves to wave his hands all over the damn place when he’s ranting.
“We’re allowed to have those disagreements.”
Translation: virulent antisemitism is not a deal-breaker for Ben Shapiro. https://t.co/Tld2AZ9pUY— Charred Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2022
That fact comes from “misquoting Jesus” by Dr. Bart D Erman. Beautiful factual history of the Bible from a devout man who became an agnostic after studying how the Bible came together and was no less moral and soulful for discovering these truths
$5 here:https://t.co/CNkgWn7gPu https://t.co/MVv5CJwfEY pic.twitter.com/kRKqZmPtn9— Jonathan Riley (@realJonRiley) October 17, 2022
re: #26 Charles Johnson
Ben is taking lessons from Cocaine Jr.
re: #26 Charles Johnson
really, that baby beard…
Breaking: The Trump Org. charged the Secret Service as much as five times more than the government rate for agents to stay overnight at Trump hotels — in one case charging agents $1,185 a night to stay at the Trump Hotel in D.C. https://t.co/EZCnKNrHBB
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 17, 2022
re: #30 Charles Johnson
We’re allowed to have that disagreement with the anti Semitic bigots on our side, but Illan Omar and other Democrats who have said anti-Semitic stuff must be excommunicated from Democratic party.
Do as I say, never as I do.
re: #28 Dangerman
They got em through incrementalization.
The constant authoritarian bullying wore them down.
This, over and over, the firehose of demands is how a Trump happens.
He couldn’t just blow it up at once.
It took two firehoses.
One to spew the bulkshit. So much you can’t refute it all.
The other was dozens and dozens of tiny transgressions. Each one got let slide.
“Transactional cowardice” someone
wrote.
“A tidal wave of individual little white flags of surrender.”
ZZ TOP BASSIST Dusty Hill, who played with the Texas blues-rock trio for over 50 years, died Tuesday at age 72. His rep confirmed the musician’s death, but said a cause of death was currently unknown.“We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, Texas,” surviving members Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard said in a statement. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature, and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top’. We will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C.’ You will be missed greatly, amigo.”
ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dead at 72 (Rolling Stone)
re: #38 Crush White Nationalism
He died again?
Our oligarchs (maybe they’re ours, who knows) are determined to buy control.
Spending on course to break records - already $1.3 BILLION spent by OUTSIDE groups on 2022 federal midterm elections and still 25 days to go. Thanks to SCOTUS’ Citizens United decision in 2010, escalation is relentless. https://t.co/RhaL6x9CYj
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) October 17, 2022
Striking how much more face time the media are giving Herschel Walker, compared to Raphael Warnock. They can’t help being attracted to the freak show liar.
— Charred Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2022
Just scat now y’all. Just Scat!
Let’s kick this week off with some Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye magic.
Have a great week, everyone. pic.twitter.com/dC2HExWPYa— The Sting (@TSting18) October 17, 2022
re: #38 Crush White Nationalism
ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dead at 72 (Rolling Stone)
He died last year.
Did you know he’s Hank Hill’s cousin? The King of the Hill episode where the ZZ Top members voiced themselves made Dusty Hank’s cousin.
So walker and west
Two “prominent” black, mentally unbalanced “conservatives” doing the bidding of the party of white supremacists.
How well they represent the R’s sick and twisted relationship with African Americans
Ron Johnson, a co-conspirator in the fake electors plot, is already scheming to overturn next month’s Wisconsin election results, using the same law firm that conspired with him before. https://t.co/7oWXIIjCPe
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) October 17, 2022
GOPers are busy shitposting about the economy, claiming that the economy has tanked. It’s done no such thing. The DJIA is essentially unchanged since Biden came into office. It’s declined from the highs thanks to profit taking and inflation (a global thing and something on which the US has done better than OECD average, which is saying something important and yet totally ignored by media outlets that report on financial matters).
Inflation is global, thanks to supply chain, oil prices, and covid. US is better off on all three grounds for the most part. But it’s not immune to oil prices, which are set on markets and where OPEC and Russia can cause price spikes due to war or cutting supply.
Domestic energy companies are having record profits, but aren’t expanding their domestic capacity - sitting on nearly 10k leases across millions of acres of land. They’d rather profit. GOP refuses to shift to renewables, so we’re stuck on fossil fuel paradigm.
Unemployment rates are near all time lows, and inflation is transitory - oil prices are a big reason why inflation is a concern.
More baffling BS from right wing seditionists.
Let’s go out further than that, because here’s where we stand today:
Since taking office, the DJIA has had a rounding error change in value. We can’t ignore what happened under Trump - that entire economy fell off cliff. pic.twitter.com/UpIhXkkPbs— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) October 17, 2022
9%
Nine
🇬🇧#UK, Prime Minister Truss (Conservatives) approval rating poll:
⏬Approve: 9 % (-5)
⏫Disapprove: 70 % (+8)
Among 2019 Conservative Voters:
⏬Approve: 12 % (-9)
⏫Disapprove: 67 % (+9)
Redfield & Wilton Strategies, 16/10/22 pic.twitter.com/TBbwfDZwTM— World Elects (@ElectsWorld) October 17, 2022
re: #48 Dangerman
9%
Nine
What you end up with when a party realizes it doesn’t have to listen to voters.
re: #48 Dangerman
Perhaps she needed more anal**** . /for anyone missing the joke - there was a truncation of analysis in a news headline that went wrong…
re: #51 lawhawk
Perhaps she needed more anal**** . /for anyone missing the joke - there was a truncation of analysis in a news headline that went wrong…
damn those anal beads are everywhere.
re: #50 Belafon
What you end up with when a party realizes it doesn’t have to listen to voters.
9% is close to just her family
The White House called Donald Trump’s attack on American Jews antisemitic after the former president wrote online that American Jews need to “get their act together” and show more appreciation for the state of Israel “before it is too late,” the Washington Post reports.
Because zero Rs did
— Rory Flynn (@rorycflynn808) October 17, 2022
Manhattan Institute:
“…Trump left the White House with the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history and a national debt exceeding 100% of the economy for the first time since World War II. The failure to address unsustainable Social Security and Medicare costs leaves a projected 30-year baseline deficit of $112 trillion.”
Some wonderful bollard history here from @history_alice #WorldBollardAssociation
pic.twitter.com/XgdhC0grzc— World Bollard Association™ (@WorldBollard) October 17, 2022
re: #56 jaunte
“Trump left the White House with the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history and a national debt exceeding 100% of the economy for the first time since World War II. The failure to address unsustainable
Social Security and Medicare costsgiving money to the wealthy leaves a projected 30-year baseline deficit of $112 trillion.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Given the scope of the truly vile antisemitism and white supremacy that ran rampant at his old digs at Breitbart long before he bailed, and among his buddies in his branch of the GOP in general, this is by no means a new thing.
Hello @HerschelWalker you held a gun to your ex wife’s head. That alone is enough for you not to be in law enforcement. Full stop. Those are tokens handed out when you donate money. I’m so sick and tired of your lies.
— lynda (@crazyfamilyomg) October 17, 2022
Despicable. https://t.co/qxtDgIUrLu
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) October 17, 2022
Another grift in progress:
Trump spending $.91 to raise $1 towards his fundraising committee. Lots of overhead.
If this were handled like a charity - it would rate as an F under Charity Navigator rules. Overhead is obscenely high, taking nearly a dollar just to raise a dollar. Of course, when you’re pocketing much of that money on “expenses” such as locating offices in your own buildings, it allows the grift to keep on giving.
re: #4 Belafon
“I really miss him!”
“Then reload!”
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re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fixed it! pic.twitter.com/b5oxENl8LL
— SmackeyCracks 🇺🇸 Sooners ☝️ Just say NO to GOP (@SmackeyCracks) October 17, 2022
The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.
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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived. The fact that those distantly related Indo-European languages had almost the same pronunciation of a single word meant that the word—and the concept behind it—had most likely existed in the Proto-Indo-European language. “If they had a word for it, they must have lived in a place where there was salmon,” explains Guy. “Salmon is a fish that lives in the ocean, reproduces in fresh water and swims up to rivers to lay eggs and mate. There are only a few places on the planet where that happens.”
Is your cat evil-looking enough to be featured in the 2022 @evilbmcats wall calendar? If so, send high-quality photos to blackmetalcats@gmail.com. You have until October 31!🤘🏼
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) October 17, 2022
This is Cyrano, he’s a baby borzoi. He comes from California and would like to lodge a formal complaint with HR about being asked to step on this horrible frozen whatever it is. Totally unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/PdqhBYo2RQ
— Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) October 17, 2022
He is! Cyrano deBorzoiac
— Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) October 17, 2022
re: #41 Charles Johnson
Striking how much more face time the media are giving Herschel Walker, compared to Raphael Warnock. They can’t help being attracted to the freak show liar.
Exactly what they did to Hillary in 2016. Show an empty stage waiting for Trump rather than broadcast a thoughtful policy speech by her. Wait — that makes sense — the average viewer is watching to be entertained and not educated.
A new Ascend Action poll in Oklahoma shows Joy Hofmeister (D) leading Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) in the race for governor, 49% to 41% with 8% still undecided.
Key takeaway: Hofmeister, a former Republican who switched parties to challenge Stitt, is pulling 20% of Republicans surveyed.
This is Thomas. He’s grumpy because he’s been banished to the floating box. Has been here for a full 30 seconds, and he’s about to make it everybody’s problem. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/S5zjM86BNZ
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) October 17, 2022
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
My cats are too cute. But let me let the kibble bowl get low and the orange tabby little one can give some looks.
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah I just heard the phrase “possible snow flurries” on the radio.
The people behind Parler are idiots, but did manage to get a large payday grifting Kanye thanks to Candace Owens.
Today’s media operations fail:
Parler sent an email to all users with 300+ of their verified users CC’d instead of BCC’d
Now hundreds of people are replying and everyone has access to the personal emails of many verified users and Parler investors pic.twitter.com/pjjxJtM6dD— Adam Ryan 🤝 (@AdamRy_n) October 17, 2022
re: #74 Crush White Nationalism
The people behind Parler are idiots, but did manage to get a large payday grifting Kanye thanks to Candace Owens.
So the Nigerian prince has more idiots to contact.
re: #73 Eventual Carrion
Yeah I just heard the phrase “possible snow flurries” on the radio.
Excuse me, Mother Nature? Ummm, no thank you. pic.twitter.com/81LgQBdHCM
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) October 17, 2022
re: #50 Belafon
What you end up with when a party realizes it doesn’t have to listen to voters.
That can easily happen here too; presidential support can collapse in their first year in office but they cannot be replaced until the next presidential election, unless they’ve committed a crime (which doesn’t matter these days); loss of public support isn’t an impeachable offense.
re: #60 (((Archangel1)))
Given the scope of the truly vile antisemitism and white supremacy that ran rampant at his old digs at Breitbart long before he bailed, and among his buddies in his branch of the GOP in general, this is by no means a new thing.
Breitbart was adopted and raised by a Jewish family and apparently remained Jewish throughout his life. Surprising that he was ok with the anti-Semitism.
Tomorrow’s Wordle does not like the idea of shared keyboard and mouse in the office.
BIFF! POW!! WHACK!
Wordle 486 2/6
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Won’t be surprised to see some more 2s.
SibData: 2,3,3,4
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 17, 2022
re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter
That can easily happen here too; presidential support can collapse in their first year in office but they cannot be replaced until the next presidential election, unless they’ve committed a crime (which doesn’t matter these days); loss of public support isn’t an impeachable offense.
You are correct, but in this case, she’s the third prime minister since the last election, and the rules were changed a few years ago so that there’s nothing forcing an election.
re: #80 Dave In Austin
I hate this fucking timeline.
re: #80 Dave In Austin
I can’t copy the picture at work, but this makes me think of the Dragon Ball/Fullmetal Alchemist fusion shirt. I know the image is implying Goku/Vegeta (which, by the way, failed to do anything useful), but the chimera creation is a much better representation.
re: #80 Dave In Austin
toddlers, both of them
Chronologies can be so awkward. https://t.co/aQim2WYO5I
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) October 17, 2022
She really needs to spend more time surfing. Like, a LOT more time. She should take up surfing full time. Everyone would be much happier. https://t.co/2ecQrQ2mLB
— Charred Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2022
re: #86 Charles Johnson
I guess the good thing about Trump is that he’s doing it for purely evil purposes.
But I’m missing the part where Biden has been calling for the extermination of a group of people.
Just In: Per CNN, the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis led by Rep. Jim Clyburn, released its report, saying the Trump Admin “usurped control of CDC communications and blocked health officials from providing accurate information about the virus to the American people.”
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) October 17, 2022
Let’s face it, mainstream media absolutely loves the idea of having Walker auto-generate articles for them for the next six years. https://t.co/Oyy2XntIbb
— Charred Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2022
re: #89 Charles Johnson
It worked with Trump.
re: #86 Charles Johnson
This is part of a FB posting from my braindead Trumpster friend:
To all citizens who still hold their on to the label of Democrat voter.
A leader with courage has emerged and has left a Party that has abandoned everyone.
Her name is Tulsi Gabbard. She is a former congresswoman from Hawaii. She ran for President as a Democrat.
She is believes in our country. She has had the courage to walk away from a political party she sees as dangerous for our Republic.
Watch her statement on YouTube.
If you are confused as what to do, listen to what she is saying.
It is amazing that cult members are so ignorant to think that any Democrat cares to listen to what Tulsi has to say on any topic. But as BigPapa said a few days ago, these people are not gullible, they are liars.
Got an email with the latest news from Humana (we have their Medicare Advantage plan through my husband’s Kroger retiree coverage). Below is one of the articles they’re linking in the newsletter — another indication of big business reflecting American majority rather than Republican priority. (They’d probably switch their stance if Gilead wins and threatens their profit margin, of course, but for the moment…)
National Coming Out Day: How to Show Support
National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11) started in 1988, as a way to raise awareness about the LGBTQ+ community and its civil rights movement, says the American Psychological Association1. According to Gallup2, at least 7.1 percent of adults in the U.S. identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. If you have a friend, family member or loved one who identifies as LGBTQ+, you can show your support any day of the month, but here’s a look at how to go above and beyond.
re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter
Did you reply to him?
re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Did you reply to him?
It’s a she. My reply focused on other comments she made in her screed. I was originally going to say that no Democrat cares about Tulsi but decided to go with a different approach.
Just looked at my health insurance change in costs next year.
Going up by 12%.
I guess I should not moan about it, as I suspect many other plans are worse.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Everything is going up…except wages.
re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s a she. My reply focused on other comments she made in her screed. I was originally going to say that no Democrat cares about Tulsi but decided to go with a different approach.
I basically said that voting Republican meant you wanted to ban abortion, eviscerate Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, were a traitor who supported Putin, etc.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Just looked at my health insurance change in costs next year.
Going up by 12%.
I guess I should not moan about it, as I suspect many other plans are worse.
Which health insurance plan are you with? Mine isn’t changing at all. I have Cigna, which has been pretty good for my family at least.
re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s a she. My reply focused on other comments she made in her screed. I was originally going to say that no Democrat cares about Tulsi but decided to go with a different approach.
Feel free to tell her that as far as this old socialist vet is concerned Tulsi should be deported to Moscow for her support of Putin and Assad.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
Everything is going up…except wages.
My retirement will never keep up with inflation.
Social Security - sort of tries but I think most people will find that as they get older their consumption patterns are such that some of the big ticket items in the CPI are not relevant, but food and rents are.
And food and rent segments are going up faster than the whole of the of the CPI.
re: #47 lawhawk
This morning I read an article in Forbes that blamed inflation on COVID lockdowns. This ‘interrupted the flow of goods’, ‘kept people from working’ or some such.
They did not, of course, note that millions of workers dying would have a worse effect on the economy.
re: #98 Belafon
Mine didn’t really change last year, or much the year before. But in 2023 it seems they are going to make up the difference.
re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s a she. My reply focused on other comments she made in her screed. I was originally going to say that no Democrat cares about Tulsi but decided to go with a different approach.
Wonder what she thinks of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. 😂
Jim McDivitt, astronaut who led Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, dies at 93 https://t.co/Fmct1mruo2 pic.twitter.com/Ud3ANcbEPJ
re: #101 Romantic Heretic
This morning I read an article in Forbes that blamed inflation on COVID lockdowns. This ‘interrupted the flow of goods’, ‘kept people from working’ or some such.
They did not, of course, note that millions of workers dying would have a worse effect on the economy.
There’s no doubt there are supply issues. There’s also no doubt corporations are taking advantage of the situation and price gouging everybody.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
Everything is going up…except wages.
I got my first decent raise in years about a month ago. We moved to a transparent compensation structure so people in the same job doing the same quality of work will move toward the same salary over coming years as people below their midpoint get larger raises. I’ve had to put up with some crazy stuff, but I’m damn lucky to have landed this job where I have a good salary, have already earned a pension, and do not have to deal with the public.
Jrs gun looks like it has a crusades helmet built into it.
Awful. We in the West are becoming numb to these horrific discoveries. Every time another incident like this is discovered there should be new sanctions. Every tiime. https://t.co/pCP3gmZ8Cg
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) October 17, 2022
Doug Mastriano campaign prayer: “We pray God, especially for our state of PA, that we reclaim it in the name of Jesus.”pic.twitter.com/DpeBnJNJ8g
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 17, 2022
gaaah…
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
snip
I’m going to throw Peoria into the mix.
I wanna see the medical records of those dogs, Mehmet
— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) October 17, 2022
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
Uhhh, Fetterman has been pretty transparent about his stroke and recovery, hasn’t he?
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
Everything is going up…except wages.
wages are going up too… just not as fast as expenses.
Meanwhile, in Ron DeSantis’ Florida:
“My neck is broke. I’m paralyzed,” said Craig Ridley from a wheelchair. “You’re bullsh*tting. You’re just trying to get a lawsuit,” responded a corrections officer.
Ridley laid on the floor of his cell for the next five days pleading for help as officers dropped trays of food he couldn’t reach. Just hours before, officers tackled him to the ground, dislocating his neck. A report by the Miami Herald, including details from a 383-page investigation by The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has shined a light on the hidden story of Ridley’s death.
FDLE’s report found Ridley died because of his injuries and starvation. His fellow inmates and family members told investigators his death may have been a cover up.
Ridley was sentenced to a 20-year mandatory minimum on attempted murder charges in 2007. The morning of Sept. 8, 2017, correctional officers got into a struggle with Ridley, tackling him to the ground face first. According to the video footage, he was brought a wheelchair after telling the officers he couldn’t walk. He was taken to solitary confinement and officers propped up him on the cell’s toilet. He fell over, breaking his nose.
An inmate signaled to the officers that Ridley was lying in a pool of his own blood. Ridley was finally taken to see a doctor, Jean Dure, who concluded there was nothing wrong with him and conducted no neurology tests despite the lifeless appearance of Ridley’s limbs and his inability to move on his own, according to the FDLE.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
The sad part is this would actually help DeSantis with his base.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
Meanwhile, in Ron DeSantis’ Florida:
“My neck is broke. I’m paralyzed,” said Craig Ridley from a wheelchair. “You’re bullsh*tting. You’re just trying to get a lawsuit,” responded a corrections officer.
Ridley laid on the floor of his cell for the next five days pleading for help as officers dropped trays of food he couldn’t reach. Just hours before, officers tackled him to the ground, dislocating his neck. A report by the Miami Herald, including details from a 383-page investigation by The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has shined a light on the hidden story of Ridley’s death.
FDLE’s report found Ridley died because of his injuries and starvation. His fellow inmates and family members told investigators his death may have been a cover up.
Ridley was sentenced to a 20-year mandatory minimum on attempted murder charges in 2007. The morning of Sept. 8, 2017, correctional officers got into a struggle with Ridley, tackling him to the ground face first. According to the video footage, he was brought a wheelchair after telling the officers he couldn’t walk. He was taken to solitary confinement and officers propped up him on the cell’s toilet. He fell over, breaking his nose.
An inmate signaled to the officers that Ridley was lying in a pool of his own blood. Ridley was finally taken to see a doctor, Jean Dure, who concluded there was nothing wrong with him and conducted no neurology tests despite the lifeless appearance of Ridley’s limbs and his inability to move on his own, according to the FDLE.
Jail
All of them
And it’ll never happen
We’ve just celebrated the consecutive birthdays of P. G. Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde, two of the funniest writers in the history of our language. But neither of them could have come up with anything funnier than this headline. I mean, bless or what? https://t.co/58ZiTn1T9K
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) October 17, 2022
Galvanized by his idol Ye’s latest antisemitic outbursts, white nationalist Nick Fuentes unleashed his own rant last week telling Jews to “get out fuck out of America”: “You serve the devil. You serve Satan. … I piss on your Talmud.” pic.twitter.com/ymc5NdFxSe
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 17, 2022
re: #123 ckkatz
What are the Mossad nazi hunters doing these days?
This is Milo. He has drastically decreased productivity in the office since starting. Was also named employee of the month. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/NoxdTQOzZR
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) October 17, 2022
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
Milo is chief morale officer. His contribution to productivity can only be assessed long-term.
I should stop stocking up on butter.
The future of one of the Discovery Channel’s most successful franchises is under severe threat following the news that Alaska’s lucrative snow crab fishing season has been canceled.
Deadliest Catch has aired on the network since April 2005 and made stars of veteran sea captains such as Sig Hansen, Keith Colburn and Bill Wichrowski. Its 18th season is currently airing.
re: #123 ckkatz
Galvanized by his idol Ye’s latest antisemitic outbursts, white nationalist Nick Fuentes unleashed his own rant last week telling Jews to “get out fuck out of America”: “You serve the devil. You serve Satan. … I piss on your Talmud.”
I am so confused. How can Ye be the idol of a white supremacist like Fuentes? Don’t these people hate both racial minorities and Jews?
re: #127 Shropshire Slasher
They’ll just start fishing out isopods and call it “Deep Crab.”
re: #128 Hecuba’s daughter
I am so confused. How can Ye be the idol of a white supremacist like Fuentes? Don’t these people hate both racial minorities and Jews?
it’s all just down to owning the libs
re: #21 darthstar
Oh man…Parler screwed the pooch.
Okay, it’s not so bad…they only publicized the emails of their verified users and investors.
Today’s media operations fail:
Parler sent an email to all users with 300+ of their verified users CC’d instead of BCC’d
Now hundreds of people are replying and everyone has access to the personal emails of many verified users and Parler investors pic.twitter.com/pjjxJtM6dD— Adam Ryan 🤝 (@AdamRy_n) October 17, 2022
My friend from Kyiv (born in Donetsk), a speech therapist. On her way to take down drones. pic.twitter.com/QduYxANbT8
— Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇫🇮 🇸🇪 ✙ (@petite_michelle) October 17, 2022
re: #128 Hecuba’s daughter
I am so confused. How can Ye be the idol of a white supremacist like Fuentes? Don’t these people hate both racial minorities and Jews?
I think that you are generous in assuming that they have any logical consistency beyond basic hate.
Good thread on kamikaze drones, coming soon to critical infrastructure near you:
Given interest in the Iranian Shahed-136 (and smaller Shahed-131) loitering munitions now being used at a rapidly increasing scale by Russia in Ukraine, and some of the breathless claims being made about them; a brief thread on what they can and can’t do compared to jets (1/20) pic.twitter.com/BYVCgp5Sht
— Justin Bronk (@Justin_Br0nk) September 26, 2022
re: #128 Hecuba’s daughter
I am so confused. How can Ye be the idol of a white supremacist like Fuentes? Don’t these people hate both racial minorities and Jews?
Hey, he’s just agreeing with him, not letting him use the same restroom or marry his sister.
Lol, I thought you could always deliver weed using Uber, I guess now they get a cut.
Uber Eats announced Sunday that it will deliver cannabis to residents in the Toronto area.
In a statement, the food delivery service said it has partnered with online marijuana marketplace Leafly to deliver from three local cannabis retailers
re: #132 Belafon
I think training the city police and providing them with stinger missiles for drone defense would be a good way to help mitigate these attacks. Stingers are relatively cheap in military terms, and arming regional offices with them would seem like a reasonable plan.
As austin_blue noted out in an earlier thread, Fleetwood Mac has some very good Halloween style songs:
For example, ‘Rhiannon’ (and the follow-on song ‘Angel’) are about a Welsh goddess/witch.
Another one is:
re: #137 darthstar
I think training the city police and providing them with stinger missiles for drone defense would be a good way to help mitigate these attacks. Stingers are relatively cheap in military terms, and arming regional offices with them would seem like a reasonable plan.
ABC evening News had video from the attacks on Kyiv, with police attempting to shoot a drown down with automatic weapons.
re: #101 Romantic Heretic
This morning I read an article in Forbes that blamed inflation on COVID lockdowns. This ‘interrupted the flow of goods’, ‘kept people from working’ or some such.
They did not, of course, note that millions of workers dying would have a worse effect on the economy.
Lockdowns interrupted supply chain to be sure, but when you had significant numbers of covid hospitalizations and deaths at food processing plants, that caused major disruptions. When you saw lots of customer facing positions getting hit hard by covid, that caused people to say FTS and quit jobs where their lives were not valued as anything other than a commodity to be fungible with anyone else. We’re still seeing that fallout as people realize that a lot of jobs are not paying what they should. People quit the workforce entirely, and still others have gone WFH that reorients how cities and regions are coping with the new normal.
Supply chain will ease. Just in time shipping is fine under normal circumstances, but covid pandemic showed all of its shortcomings. Globalization limitations also reared up their head too - relying on far flung distribution channels means that a pandemic can screw up supply unless you can get things local (or vice versa, depending on where you’re at and what you need).
re: #139 Belafon
ABC evening News had video from the attacks on Kyiv, with police attempting to shoot a drown down with automatic weapons.
what goes up…
Powerball is sneaking up on real money again.
If no one wins tonight, next jackpot will be over $500M.
But the cash value is much less, and with annuity rates rising and rising the present cash value is half of the advertised jackpot.
Trump spent 4 years funneling tax payer money into his pockets and Republicans did not say a word. https://t.co/hGVIIv2lhY
— Nunca Trumpismo (@NeverTrumpTexan) October 17, 2022
But now, when it looks like some money might go to other-than-Trumps:
If you are applying for student loan debt relief, you should know that Republicans are now suing the Biden administration to try to stop you from getting that relief.
Only one party is working to help you—your vote matters in this midterm election.— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) October 17, 2022
Seriously, this thread is just dead on balls. Read it. Follow. https://t.co/d4mkjxhenS
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 17, 2022
re: #137 darthstar
I think training the city police and providing them with stinger missiles for drone defense would be a good way to help mitigate these attacks. Stingers are relatively cheap in military terms, and arming regional offices with them would seem like a reasonable plan.
Nah, that would be a good use for the old Vulcan 20mm AAA canons … ////////////
re: #140 lawhawk
The global inflation is caused by many factors but the underlying truth is that more and more people are competing for resources.
That’s why California real estate, and any real estate in major cities and coastal areas, costs so much.
Because people are competing for limited resources.
All those clowns whining about inflation also shout “free market” whenever someone tries to have the government do something.
Well, there is a global market for resources, goods, and services, and that market is reflecting the truth about global resource competitition.
re: #143 jaunte
That’s not true. They said he was donating his salary.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) October 17, 2022
re: #147 Belafon
And they claim sarcasm doesn’t work on Twitter.
Francis Fukuyama: It really is the end of history this time!
Christ. What a dipshit. Like so many ‘conservatives’ he lives in an alternate reality.
re: #149 Romantic Heretic
Francis Fukuyama: It really is the end of history this time!
Christ. What a dipshit. Like so many ‘conservatives’ he lives in an alternate reality.
Should’ve taken his L in the ’90s.
re: #151 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I guess looks can be very deceiving.
debate moderator brings up Tim Ryan’s comment about JD Vance kissing Trump’s ass and asks him to name one issue he thinks Trump is wrong about. Here’s Vance’s response. pic.twitter.com/RxTKikykaS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2022
“You were calling Trump America’s Hitler, and then you kissed his ass, and then he endorsed you” — Tim Ryan to JD Vance pic.twitter.com/IrMpxYVzl1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2022
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
gotta love when they bring the receipts
J.D. Vance mentions Sen. Portman by name in tonight’s debate. Now Ryan is citing Portman by name.
The Portman voter in the spotlight. Bush 41-type Rs who drifted toward Trump but are not all-out MAGA.
Portman’s former chief of staff has endorsed Ryan.https://t.co/HXkbLMXneU— Robert Costa (@costareports) October 17, 2022
JD Vance refuses to specify what exceptions he supports from abortion bans pic.twitter.com/zIPMfU1DVH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2022
re: #152 PhillyPretzel
I guess looks can be very deceiving.
No, no he is super ebil. Just watch out for the terror floof
Half of America never wanted a democracy. They want monarchy 2.0: malevolent edition.
Footage released at the request of NBC News shows the Senate parliamentarian’s office trashed at the U.S. Capitol: pic.twitter.com/cL0pU4Mj5D
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 17, 2022
re: #149 Romantic Heretic
Francis Fukuyama: It really is the end of history this time!
Christ. What a dipshit. Like so many ‘conservatives’ he lives in an alternate reality.
His views may be wrong and too optimistic— but what is particularly conservative about his perspective? He does express concern about the MAGA movement but thinks the bravery of the Ukrainians can save us.
re: #149 Romantic Heretic
Because he believes that the future has to be better.
Call me a doomer, but I do not believe the future has to be better. From all I can gather from history, pre-history, and evolution, the future is not guaranteed to be anything other than in the future.
Fukuyama is from an old school of academic, those who were trained by those who lived through two world wars and believed that a new age was upon mankind.
After all, WWI and WWII had to be the nadir.
That kind of view ignores something very important about life and populations: extinction can be slow and silent.
Not everything ends with a bang.
Continuing my doomer-ness: we really need to think about how to live more simply yet keep what advances have been made.
I voted with Rob Portman to pass a bipartisan bill to keep our kids safe and keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. JD Vance opposed it—that’s too extreme for Ohio. #OHSenDebate
— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) October 17, 2022
meanwhile in Georgia:
Inbox/choose your #gapol fighter:
“Stacey Abrams wants to defund the police”
VS
“Stacey Abrams will give Georgia law enforcement a raise” pic.twitter.com/Qasz6sDujG— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) October 17, 2022
This screengrab encapsulates the last several minutes of the debate, where Libertarian Shane Hazel constantly interrupted Abrams/Kemp while the two traded barbs over education plans. pic.twitter.com/Q0kC0rraAM
— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) October 17, 2022
Imagine the swarm of incels a girl who attended hot girl rooftop pool party would attract in one of those virtual worlds.
Also, nobody left to murder in murder village? Sad.
“There are rarely any girls in the Hot Girl Summer Rooftop Pool Party, and in Murder Village there is often no one to kill. Even the company’s showcase worlds, such as Questy’s, a virtual arcade featured in a Super Bowl commercial earlier this year, are mostly barren of users.”
— Robbie Whelan (@RWhelanWSJ) October 17, 2022
back in Ohio:
His head was so far up Trump’s ass, he just didn’t notice the near-daily mass shootings that resulted in dead children (and adults) that were covered in depth by every news organization in the world. https://t.co/xZ1BHw4OQo
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) October 17, 2022
.@JDVance1: “The Capitol Police are extremely brave.”
Ok, then why did you raise money for the people who sprayed them with bear mace; hit them with flag poles, batons, bike racks, and barricades; tried to gouge their eyes out; and ended up killing 4 and injuring 140 of them?— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) October 17, 2022
re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter
His views may be wrong and too optimistic— but what is particularly conservative about his perspective? He does express concern about the MAGA movement but thinks the bravery of the Ukrainians can save us.
FWIW I don’t share his optimistic views that autocracy is necessarily failing — we have to wait and see. And a GOP victory will give a real boost to autocrats everywhere.
Have you been in an accident that wasn’t your fault? pic.twitter.com/slLwL607uT
— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) March 17, 2022
Trump just told MAGA voters not to vote for the Republican nominee for US Senate in CO. This is why they all kiss his ass. pic.twitter.com/BdIFxnN6ZI
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 17, 2022
Kanye has Buyparler disorder.
— Craig Love (@CraigLo15187569) October 17, 2022
Hey, @HerschelWalker, “yellow” is just wrong. https://t.co/wnkqlZhq7g
— Katie S. Phang (@KatiePhang) October 17, 2022
I’m glad I got to watch the last 20 minutes of that debate. Abrams is good. I hope the Libertarian sucks votes from Kemp.
re: #173 darthstar
“Maybe just cheat off my paper” pic.twitter.com/Gg0mvEQhKl
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) October 17, 2022
After a decade of no accomplishments I can’t blame @RepThomasMassie from hiding from constituents.. https://t.co/oiHljnzX2v
— D K Prater (@dkprater) October 17, 2022
This is adorable https://t.co/vimWEe7oEA
— spooky mental haunted house (but funny) (@jesseltaylor) October 17, 2022
There is a U.S. Senate debate happening in Ohio right now.
Tim Ryan sounds like a U.S. Senator.
JD Vance sounds like someone who would be an asshole to the waiter.— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 17, 2022
NO ONE is walking into an abortion clinic and asking for one at 39 weeks, NO ONE. https://t.co/trn7a9idBh
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) October 18, 2022
Brian Kemp used this reductive and racist trope to describe Stacey Abrams’ nuanced and measured answer about balancing justice and public safety in policing
She’s neither upset or mad and his attempt to frame her that way is despicable #GAGovDebate #Debate pic.twitter.com/Lb4QKjRuoz— Qondi (@QondiNtini) October 17, 2022
NOTHING BETTER THAN THIS! 💯⚽️🤗
pic.twitter.com/uk0WIuSDfF— GoodNewsCorrespondent (@GoodNewsCorres1) October 17, 2022
We get by w a little help from our friends.
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 18, 2022
re: #181 A Cranky One
Zuckerberg is starting to remind me of The Knack, and Facebook is his “My Sharona”.
Anyone remember any OTHER songs by The Knack?
re: #185 So Cal Greek Hippie
When Francisco Franco was still alive.
re: #184 Blind Frog Belly White
The cute girl on the sleeve of the 45 was almost as important to the success of the song as the music…
re: #186 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I was 10 and my dad took me to the bullfight. Grim but my dad was into it…
re: #184 Blind Frog Belly White
Zuckerberg is starting to remind me of The Knack, and Facebook is his “My Sharona”.
Anyone remember any OTHER songs by The Knack?
I had the album tho.
re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter
His views may be wrong and too optimistic— but what is particularly conservative about his perspective? He does express concern about the MAGA movement but thinks the bravery of the Ukrainians can save us.
For me, he demonstrated his ‘conservativeness’ by signing onto PNAC.
The ones that basically laid the foundation for the invasion of Iraq. As the wiki article notes many of the people in PNAC ended up in the second Bush administration,
Elaborately Constructed Shops and Homes Translate Tokyo’s Distinct Architecture into Miniature Models
thisiscolossal.com
From his studio at Skeppsholmen, the small southern island in Stockholm, Christopher Robin Nordstrom constructs precise miniatures of Tokyo’s architecture. Flower shops, hair salons, and neighborhood police stations known as kōban are recreated at 1:20 scale from materials like MDF board, styrene plastic, wood, and brass. The tiny models are both quaint and true to city living: little air conditioners nestle into windows and autumn leaves float across the sidewalk, while trails of rust run down walls and street dirt splatters on doorways and facades.
Nordstrom shares that his dad built model planes and trains throughout his childhood, and after a trip to Tokyo in 2018, the artist decided to try a tiny construction project himself. “I (was) struck by all the small weather houses with amazing patina. Back in Stockholm, I was really tired of just ending up in front of Netflix each night,” he says. “I really wanted a nice kitchen table hobby.”
re: #161 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
To me Mr. Fukuyama’s whole schtick is centred around the belief that humans like freedom.
Generally, they don’t. They like power and will abandon a free society the second they feel that society is responsible for taking power from them.
(glances in the direction of the GQP.)
That miniature slotted angle iron shelf is impressive.
re: #184 Blind Frog Belly White
well, I am a power pop fanboy, so yeah… I know a few, probably the 2nd most well known is “Good Girls Don’t”, with the kicker response line of….. “but I do”, but everyone else… unlikely
re: #116 Blind Frog Belly White
Hi gang! I can’t stay long, but I know there are some Dorango fans out there who will appreciate this. Dory has taken to stealing Rango’s bed, and mostly, he lets her. I took this picture on Saturday.
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