Hania Rani -- Hello: Live Session in the Mountains

Hania Rani — Hello: Live Session in the Mountains

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Music by @haniaranimusic
Directed by Neels Castillon

dancer — Kristián Mensa
drums — Wojtek Warmijak
double bass — Ziemowit Klimek

production company — Motion Palace
producer — Louis Arnoux
executive producer — Ariane Cornic
production coordinator — Sandrine Laveau
cinematographer — Eric Blanckaert
1 AC — François Gallet
2nd AC — Adrien Stefas
production designer — Romain Quartier
art director — Vincent Perrin
runner — Zoé Lazzaroni
runner — Elie Varraz

sound engineer / live record — Miche Moreno
mix — Greg Freeman
mastering — Norman Nitzsche
tour manager — Bernard Ambroziewicz
driver — Tomasz Milewski
driver — Michał Żagan
artist managers — Monika Ignaczewska & Carlo Garrè (!K7 Music)
drum kit – Polmuz Drums

editor — Sébastien Rouquet
colorist — Sylvain Canaux
camera rental — RVZ
sound recording equipment — MADLOC

Many thanks to — Manon Lazzaroni, Sébastien Lazzaroni, Estelle Rudelle,
Jacky Ruffier, Mairie de Courchevel, Aymerick Mermoz, Florent Hazucka, Kelly Piano, Saint Louis.

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William Lewis Jun 5, 2023 • 2:38:51am

If this monday morning you want to understand just how deeply ingrained the habit of ART really is to genus Homo, then read this web blog

A look at the intentional markings of Homo erectus

Josephine Joordens and colleagues describe the utilization of freshwater mussels by ancient humans at Trinil, Java. The Trinil fossils were recovered by Eugene Dubois beginning in 1891, from the same site that produced the famous skullcap, tooth and femur that he named Pithecanthropus erectus. This set of hominin specimens was collected from an ancient river terrace, together with thousands of fossil bones of other animals, and the shells of a number of mollusc species. Joordens and colleagues worked with that original collection of shells to understand whether the hominins, which we now call Homo erectus, could have been using these aquatic resources.

The study has two interesting findings. First, the shells show that Homo erectus was a discerning mollusc predator. The most common shell in the deposit is of a freshwater mollusc called Pseudodon vondembuschianus, and the collection of 166 individuals includes mostly large individuals from a varied range of river habitats, indicating that they were concentrated in this area by the gatherers. Out of these individual molluscs, a third show characteristic small puncture marks in the shell at just the point where a predator would need to sever the adductor muscles that hold the shell closed. It seems that the ancient humans were systematically using a shark tooth or similar pointed tool to pierce these shells, opening them and eating the mussel inside.

Second, Joordens and colleagues found a shell with a geometric pattern incised on its surface:

TarHellion Jun 5, 2023 • 2:42:31am

Rediscovering the birbie touch

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 5, 2023 • 2:42:44am

Sending a text message via shell phone?

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 5, 2023 • 2:44:46am

From BBC:

Oil prices rise as Saudi Arabia pledges output cuts

They still love Jared

silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 3:08:08am

So what if Biden trips up? On the political stage his footwork is the fanciest seen in decades

“Yet he is already being regarded by many Democrats, and some Republicans, as significant a Democrat president as Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. He is dramatically changing the face of the US around Democrat priorities - reindustrialisation to support blue-collar jobs and wages, wholeheartedly fighting climate change, investing massively in science and education, doing more for the poorest and, not least, rejuvenating the US’s decaying public infrastructure.”

Both FDR and LBJ had huge majorities in both houses. Biden is thus more significant.

silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 3:17:26am

Don’t Expect to See Biden Debate During Primaries
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No incumbent president has participated in a primary debate since the first modern debate was held in 1948, even when presented with high-profile primary challengers.”“

Let the idiots (ie RFK Jr.) bray.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 5, 2023 • 3:19:27am

re: #6 silverdolphin

Don’t Expect to See Biden Debate During Primaries
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Let the idiots bray.

Are there any high-profile primary challengers?

And there would be no point in a debate between DJT and Biden.

Recall that Trump did not even see fit to attend his successor’s inauguration.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 5, 2023 • 3:21:03am

re: #5 silverdolphin

“Yet he is already being regarded by many Democrats, and some Republicans, as significant a Democrat president as Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson.

He is simply doing a competent job after four years of clusterfuck.

silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 3:23:21am

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Are there any high-profile primary challengers?

And there would be no point in a debate between DJT and Biden.

Recall that Trump did not even see fit to attend his successor’s inauguration.

Well, some stupid poll apparently has 20% of Democrats supporting RFK Jr while 65% think Biden is too old to run for office so expect the press to try and make at least RFK Jr. high profile. The problem for him is that any high profle story writes itself - he is nuts and funded by the Republicans. Reporters love stories that write themselves.

silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 3:25:45am

Exclusive: Ukraine has cultivated sabotage agents inside Russia and is giving them drones to stage attacks, sources say

That has to scare Russia spitless.

silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 3:29:03am

Debt ceiling winners: Vulnerable lawmakers turn lemons into lemonade

This is why they were happy to move any further debt debacles until after the elections. Those vulnerable Republicans that live in districts won by Biden did not want to have to do this again. As did a lot of other Republicans because they knew it would be a devastating election issue.

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 3:33:31am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 5, 2023 • 3:38:54am

re: #9 silverdolphin

Well, some stupid poll apparently has 20% of Democrats supporting RFK Jr while 65% think Biden is too old to run for office so expect the press to try and make at least RFK Jr. high profile. The problem for him is that any high profle story writes itself - he is nuts and funded by the Republicans. Reporters love stories that write themselves.

RFK is not a serious candidate. What about Kanye West?

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jun 5, 2023 • 3:54:26am

re: #9 silverdolphin

Well, some stupid poll apparently has 20% of Democrats supporting RFK Jr while 65% think Biden is too old to run for office so expect the press to try and make at least RFK Jr. high profile. The problem for him is that any high profle story writes itself - he is nuts and funded by the Republicans. Reporters love stories that write themselves.

I also think that Biden is too old, and wish the Democrats had someone else to field against the inevitable GOP nominee.

BUu right now Biden is the best choice being put forward.

steve_davis Jun 5, 2023 • 3:57:33am

re: #5 silverdolphin

So what if Biden trips up? On the political stage his footwork is the fanciest seen in decades

Both FDR and LBJ had huge majorities in both houses. Biden is thus more significant.

Democratic….God DAMN it.

ericblair Jun 5, 2023 • 4:05:50am

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

From BBC:

Oil prices rise as Saudi Arabia pledges output cuts

They still love Jared

I think we’re getting to a point where these output cuts, even if they manage to pull them off, become counterproductive. Keeping gas prices high was one thing when there was no gasoline alternative, but now it’s one factor pushing migration to electric and alternative fuels.

At some point, there may be a race to dump oil at any price onto the market. If the providers really see the end of petroleum as a fuel, they may decide they can sell it now for whatever they can get or else in a few years it stays in the ground and is worth $0.

No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 4:19:49am

re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I also think that Biden is too old, and wish the Democrats had someone else to field against the inevitable GOP nominee.

BUu right now Biden is the best choice being put forward.

Based on the results I have seen, President Biden is definitely not too old.

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 4:21:38am

re: #17 No Malarkey!

Based on the results I have seen, President Biden is definitely not too old.

I don’t think he’s too old in the sense of being incapable. I would say he’s too old in that I hesitate to have someone on the wrong side of an actuarial table in the highest office in the country. However, as long as a reasonable selection is made for a Vice President, I don’t see anything specifically wrong with it.

No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 4:39:05am

re: #18 Nerdy Fish

I don’t think he’s too old in the sense of being incapable. I would say he’s too old in that I hesitate to have someone on the wrong side of an actuarial table in the highest office in the country. However, as long as a reasonable selection is made for a Vice President, I don’t see anything specifically wrong with it.

President Biden is in excellent health, certainly much better health than FDR was in when he ran for a fourth term in 1944, and according to the actuarial tables, he can expect to live another 8.5 years.

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 4:43:54am

re: #19 No Malarkey!

President Biden is in excellent health, certainly much better health than FDR was in when he ran for a fourth term in 1944, and according to the actuarial tables, he can expect to live another 8.5 years.

Fair enough, then. Thanks for looking that up; that actually changes my mind.

No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 4:51:12am

re: #20 Nerdy Fish

Fair enough, then. Thanks for looking that up; that actually changes my mind.

Thanks! And of course, the actuarial table is the life expectancy on average. Since President Biden is in good health, has good habits and has access to the best doctors in the world, his actual life expectancy is probably well into his nineties, not that that matters, since he can only serve one more four year term.

No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 5:08:39am

This isn’t creepy at all.

They achieved this by using the Dreamer algorithm, which allowed the robot to continuously learn. This represents a significant advancement in robotics, as it enables robots to learn and adapt to real-world environments more efficiently and effectively. https://t.co/hcxqS1xiLo

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 1, 2023

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 5:13:40am

re: #156 JC1

Looks like the Poles aren’t taking the PiS BS laying down.
cnn.com

Where have we heard lines like this before?

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s government denies subverting any democratic norms and says its aim is to protect traditional Christian values against liberal pressures from the West and to make the economy more fair.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 5:16:54am

re: #22 No Malarkey!

Robot abuse. Whacking the doggo to knock it over.

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 5:17:56am

re: #24 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Robot abuse. Whacking the doggo to knock it over.

This is how we get the robot apocalypse. Have we learned nothing from all the sci-fi movies?

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 5:19:28am

re: #160 JC1

How can I quickly send some money to my friend in Thailand? How much will it cost me?
Edit: PayPal is now in Thailand. Wasn’t the case the last time this situation came up.

Bank wire. Western Union. Credit card deposit. If time is not of the essence, international money order.

No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 5:21:49am

A lot of people love his comedy, but an expert on auto pollution he ain’t.

According to Mr. Bean, the biggest problem with fossil fuel cars isn’t, you know, all the pollution. It’s the fact that we “throw them away after 3 years”…

Not sure he’s heard of the used car market. Or for that matter climate change.

Did a barrel of oil write this article? pic.twitter.com/TDcADwTMdY

— Dr. Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) June 5, 2023

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 5:45:17am

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Are there any high-profile primary challengers?

And there would be no point in a debate between DJT and Biden.

Recall that Trump did not even see fit to attend his successor’s inauguration.

Woke up turned on the phone and see The Washington Post pumping up Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr.

They will do anything to weaken Joe to put Trump back in…

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 5:50:04am

re: #27 No Malarkey!

A lot of people love his comedy, but an expert on auto pollution he ain’t.

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So he really is Black Adder…

ericblair Jun 5, 2023 • 6:04:38am

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Bank wire. Western Union. Credit card deposit. If time is not of the essence, international money order.

Wise and Revolut fintech banks. Lowest cost and can do them on your phone (except in Nebraska :-)). You can send and receive money as domestic baht transfers at the same speed as “normal” ones. I use them between USD, euros, and pounds and it works well.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:14:08am

re: #167 Belafon

How many of the blue check replies are about her dad being with Epstein?

I didn’t see any. Today’s talking point for the parrots to get a cracker is trans children being mutilated, which is all over that thread from Chelsea Clinton.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:18:49am

re: #10 silverdolphin.

Exclusive: Ukraine has cultivated sabotage agents inside Russia and is giving them drones to stage attacks, sources say

That has to scare Russia spitless.

This is not a link. You pasted the text in the URL part.

jeffreyw Jun 5, 2023 • 6:21:29am

A Well Done Ham & Cheese

Good morning!

GlutenFreeJesus Jun 5, 2023 • 6:22:04am

Australian woman pardoned for the deaths of her 4 children after having spent 20 years of a 30 year sentence in prison. Ends up 3 of the children had a genetic mutation, and the 4th a neurological disorder which likely lead to their deaths.

nbcnews.com

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 6:22:52am

One theory for why “non-churchgoers now rule the GOP”

A recently Washington Post column suggests non-churchgoers have sway over the Republican Party. That misses a bigger point.

open.substack.com

“Non-churchgoers now rule the GOP,” says the headline on a recent Washington Post opinion piece by data columnist David Byler. The idea is that the Republican Party is no longer dominated by the most devout Baptists, Catholics, and white evangelicals. Rather, it’s the people who rarely or never attend church who make up the largest slice of the GOP.

Why go to church to get you latest brainwashing when Fox News and the rest of the 24/7 Republican Bullshit Machine brings it into your home?

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:23:51am

re: #30 ericblair

Wise and Revolut fintech banks. Lowest cost and can do them on your phone (except in Nebraska :-)). You can send and receive money as domestic baht transfers at the same speed as “normal” ones. I use them between USD, euros, and pounds and it works well.

Well, you can use cell phone apps in Omaha, Lincoln, and Sidney.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 6:26:38am

Twitter Hit by Staggering 59 Percent Drop in U.S. Ad Sales: Report

Gee that’s a shame.

thedailybeast.com

Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue has plunged dramatically in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover of the site, according to The New York Times. The newspaper reports that an internal Twitter presentation showed that the company’s American ad sales in the five weeks from April 1 into early May stood at $88 million—a whopping 59 percent lower than the same period a year earlier. Unnamed current and former employees said Twitter’s ad sales staff are worried that advertisers may have throttled their spending out of concern about an increase in hate speech and pornography on the platform, along with a surge in advertisements on the site for cannabis products and online gambling. Six ad agency executives said their clients continue to limit their Twitter spending out of confusion about Musk’s changes to the site, as well as “inconsistent support from Twitter and concerns about the persistent presence of misleading and toxic content on the platform.”

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 6:28:11am

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

Unnamed current and former employees said Twitter’s ad sales staff are worried that advertisers may have throttled their spending out of concern about an increase in hate speech and pornography on the platform, along with a surge in advertisements on the site for cannabis products and online gambling.

I wonder if there’s also a concern about the rise of crypto ads and crypto spam. I know Saint Elno believes in crypto, but advertisers aren’t fooled by the scams.

Florida Panhandler Jun 5, 2023 • 6:30:02am

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

Twitter Hit by Staggering 59 Percent Drop in U.S. Ad Sales: Report

Gee that’s a shame.

thedailybeast.com

Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue has plunged dramatically in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover of the site, according to The New York Times. The newspaper reports that an internal Twitter presentation showed that the company’s American ad sales in the five weeks from April 1 into early May stood at $88 million—a whopping 59 percent lower than the same period a year earlier. Unnamed current and former employees said Twitter’s ad sales staff are worried that advertisers may have throttled their spending out of concern about an increase in hate speech and pornography on the platform, along with a surge in advertisements on the site for cannabis products and online gambling. Six ad agency executives said their clients continue to limit their Twitter spending out of confusion about Musk’s changes to the site, as well as “inconsistent support from Twitter and concerns about the persistent presence of misleading and toxic content on the platform.”

“Advertisers don’t want to be associated with a self-absorbed, fascist-friendly nut job Billionaire” would have probably been more succinct and accurate.

ericblair Jun 5, 2023 • 6:30:13am

India, the world’s third-highest emitter & most populous nation, hits pause on new plans for coal plants for the next five years while committing to growing its renewables sector. This is a significant step toward a clean energy future!https://t.co/yAV8h82TXO

— Al Gore (@algore) June 5, 2023

Sounds like good news to me, from the guy who really was robbed of the Presidency.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:30:38am

re: #35 Joe Bacon ✅

One theory for why “non-churchgoers now rule the GOP”

A recently Washington Post column suggests non-churchgoers have sway over the Republican Party. That misses a bigger point.

open.substack.com

“Non-churchgoers now rule the GOP,” says the headline on a recent Washington Post opinion piece by data columnist David Byler. The idea is that the Republican Party is no longer dominated by the most devout Baptists, Catholics, and white evangelicals. Rather, it’s the people who rarely or never attend church who make up the largest slice of the GOP.

Why go to church to get you latest brainwashing when Fox News and the rest of the 24/7 Republican Bullshit Machine brings it into your home?

“Weekly or more” and “Less than weekly, but sometimes” in that poll adds up to 56%. More than half are churchgoers. The last category is “seldom or never,” which is the remaining 42%. “Seldom” is a churchgoer. All of these would still be religious believers (almost exclusively Christians).

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 6:32:53am

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Weekly or more” and “Less than weekly, but sometimes” in that poll adds up to 56%. More than half are churchgoers. The last category is “seldom or never,” which is the remaining 42%. “Seldom” is a churchgoer. All of these would still be religious believers (almost exclusively Christians).

Par for the course for the Post.

GlutenFreeJesus Jun 5, 2023 • 6:33:26am

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:35:10am

re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅

Par for the course for the Post.

Had they asked the question “are you an atheist/agnostic” that percentage in the GOP would be way lower than the national average.

“Churchgoer” also is somewhat a biased polling term, since Jews, Hindus, Muslims, &c don’t go to church. The poll still biases “Christian” as “normal.”

ericblair Jun 5, 2023 • 6:35:17am

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Weekly or more” and “Less than weekly, but sometimes” in that poll adds up to 56%. More than half are churchgoers. The last category is “seldom or never,” which is the remaining 42%. “Seldom” is a churchgoer. All of these would still be religious believers (almost exclusively Christians).

The other wrinkle here is that “evangelism” is now really a social designation, not a denominational one. I would bet that a good fraction of people who describe themselves as evangelical rarely or never go to church, they just vote GOP and panic about wokeness.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 6:41:34am

‘Walmart Melania’: Casey DeSantis loudly backs her husband’s message of ‘division and dehumanization’

rawstory.com

Yeah, that shoe fits…

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 6:42:18am

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Weekly or more” and “Less than weekly, but sometimes” in that poll adds up to 56%. More than half are churchgoers. The last category is “seldom or never,” which is the remaining 42%. “Seldom” is a churchgoer. All of these would still be religious believers (almost exclusively Christians).

Of course, the implication is that a “non-churchgoer” is someone who does not religiously attend church, in the manner I did when I was a teenager. By this metric, I would be a “non-churchgoer,” despite attending on a fairly regular basis and volunteering in key roles on the church’s production staff. That seems like a very biased metric to put into a headline.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:44:16am

re: #45 ericblair

The other wrinkle here is that “evangelism” is now really a social designation, not a denominational one. I would bet that a good fraction of people who describe themselves as evangelical rarely or never go to church, they just vote GOP and panic about wokeness.

I can’t say, as I don’t know how to calculate the numbers for various denominations (I’m not sure they do either).

There are a lot of Christians who say they are opposed to “organised religion” but they are still Christians.

Evangelicals do hit all the major points of being a Christian: God created the world and all in it, they believe in Jesus as the Son of God, the sacrifice by God of Jesus for the atonement of sins after a period of preaching the Good News around the Levant, &c.

The “end times” stuff they tack on (at least to this outsider) seems no different than things other churches tack on to the basic beliefs. (Many Christians will say Mormons aren’t real Christians when the real issue to me seems they don’t like the LDS’s version of Jesus.)

🔧-wench Jun 5, 2023 • 6:45:56am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:47:07am

“Non-churchgoers now rule the GOP,” according to recent data.

Will that change anything? Nope! Here’s my theory for what’s happening: https://t.co/wM6J7STAXM pic.twitter.com/E8oh3InOID

— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) June 5, 2023

BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 6:50:25am

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

el Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Senator Robert Kennedy, fifty-five years ago tonight, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles:

USA’s Machiavelli, although I’m not aware that RFK ever wrote any comedies, carnival songs, or poetry.

jeffreyw Jun 5, 2023 • 6:52:25am

The last time I heard a sermon in person at a church service was in the summer of ‘68 when my AIT platoon was marched to the chapel because it was our turn to attend.

Jay C Jun 5, 2023 • 6:52:28am

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

Twitter Hit by Staggering 59 Percent Drop in U.S. Ad Sales: Report

Gee that’s a shame.

thedailybeast.com

Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue has plunged dramatically in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover of the site, according to The New York Times. The newspaper reports that an internal Twitter presentation showed that the company’s American ad sales in the five weeks from April 1 into early May stood at $88 million—a whopping 59 percent lower than the same period a year earlier. Unnamed current and former employees said Twitter’s ad sales staff are worried that advertisers may have throttled their spending out of concern about an increase in hate speech and pornography on the platform, along with a surge in advertisements on the site for cannabis products and online gambling. Six ad agency executives said their clients continue to limit their Twitter spending out of confusion about Musk’s changes to the site, as well as “inconsistent support from Twitter and concerns about the persistent presence of misleading and toxic content on the platform.”

Yeah, tragic, innit….????

And (though I should probably go read the NYT piece in between word games), no mention of the technical issues Twitter has suffered - and may suffer worse - since Musk’s takeover.

ETA: OK, read it: and yeah: mostly about the content, and nothing technical: and no hint of any fears about the whole site crashing and burning one of these days…

Though the NYT’s lede graf is (probably unintentionally) black-humor-ish:

Elon Musk recently said Twitter’s advertising business was on the upswing. “Almost all advertisers have come back,” he asserted, adding that the social media company could soon become profitable.

Nice header for an article about how “almost all advertisers” are fleeing.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:52:36am

re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From his article, taking a swipe at non-conservative Christians.

A new Republican Party might emerge — thick with Christian symbolism, light on religious practice and ecumenical in its culture wars. This Republican Party would be less pious and polite. But it might be able to win more elections.

I think that’s mostly accurate, but I also don’t think that’s a “new” Republican Party. That’s what they’ve been for years now. They speak in Christianese but don’t give a damn about salvation. Jesus is nothing more than the GOP’s mascot. They see religion as a tool to consolidate political power. That’s not about to change unless Christian leaders who don’t want to see their faith coopted by a single political party finally accept the fact that they’re being used and manipulated and speak out against the GOP’s excesses.

But that would require courage, and many pastors have already shown that they possess none of it. Condemning Republican cruelty and speaking out against their idiotic policies—by supporting vaccines, embracing refugees, or acknowledging our nation’s inherent racism—would alienate too many members of their congregations, which would ultimate affect their bottom line and possibly their job security.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 6:57:45am

Today’s breakfast of champions: Chili waffles. (My wife made homemade chilli last night, which I’ve popped into waffle bowls she made. Add some hot peppers and maple syrup and we’re good to go. On second thought, no syrup.)

darthstar Jun 5, 2023 • 6:57:48am

Meow…also got a listless bogie

Mastodon

No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 6:58:02am

SOP for Republicans to flip the script and make stuff up. Data shows that transgender kids who don’t get the care they need have high rates of suicide, so Haley flips the script and lies that they cause suicide in cis girls. It works because their lies are almost never challenged

— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) June 5, 2023

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:00:34am

re: #52 jeffreyw

The last time I heard a sermon in person at a church service was in the summer of ‘68 when my AIT platoon was marched to the chapel because it was our turn to attend.

I last heard one at Mass at the funeral of our village attorney’s mother about three years ago.

GlutenFreeJesus Jun 5, 2023 • 7:03:16am

re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reality: they’re massive hypocrites who use a religion they don’t truly believe in to suppress others they don’t approve of.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 7:06:10am

re: #49 🔧-wench

Birb, here.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:08:48am

I need to pop out to the store for smokes, bread, and check my lotto tickets. I’ll be back, you poor devils.

Dave In Austin Jun 5, 2023 • 7:11:53am

Yup……

“Shiny Happy People” is horrific. No other way to describe it. Whatever you’ve heard of the Duggar Family, I promise it’s so much worse. And exceptional timing for this documentary to drop while evangelical extremists stir an anti-LGBTQ moral panic.

Massive content warning.

— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) June 5, 2023

jeffreyw Jun 5, 2023 • 7:13:17am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Today’s breakfast of champions: Chili waffles. (My wife made homemade chilli last night, which I’ve popped into waffle bowls she made. Add some hot peppers and maple syrup and we’re good to go. On second thought, no syrup.)

So I was on a southern California beach and there were waffles all over it. Then I realized I was in Sandy Eggo.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 7:16:37am

re: #63 jeffreyw

Thwack

Dave In Austin Jun 5, 2023 • 7:16:38am

re: #63 jeffreyw

So I was on a southern California beach and there were waffles all over it. The I realized I was in Sandy Eggo.

Belafon Jun 5, 2023 • 7:18:37am

re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is simply doing a competent job after four years of clusterfuck.

The legislation he has managed to get passed is way beyond competent, though. Most presidents manage to get one piece of significant piece passed each term. He got multiple in the first two years. And then got this debt deal, which increased the number of people on SNAP, passed with Republicans in charge of the House.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:18:50am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I need to pop out to the store for smokes, bread, and check my lotto tickets. I’ll be back, you poor devils.

Trip cancelled. My wife wants to go into to town for the market later, so I’ll do that stuff then.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:20:28am

re: #62 Dave In Austin

Yup……

LOL, someone was confused about what Ms. Clymer was talking about and asked her about it.

but what then would I tweet about if not my core fluency?

— Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava (@purenoumena) June 5, 2023

mmmirele Jun 5, 2023 • 7:21:43am

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can’t say, as I don’t know how to calculate the numbers for various denominations (I’m not sure they do either).

There are a lot of Christians who say they are opposed to “organised religion” but they are still Christians.

Evangelicals do hit all the major points of being a Christian: God created the world and all in it, they believe in Jesus as the Son of God, the sacrifice by God of Jesus for the atonement of sins after a period of preaching the Good News around the Levant, &c.

The “end times” stuff they tack on (at least to this outsider) seems no different than things other churches tack on to the basic beliefs. (Many Christians will say Mormons aren’t real Christians when the real issue to me seems they don’t like the LDS’s version of Jesus.)

I’m just going to point out that you get a LOT of pushback from Evangelicals if you say you’re a Christian but you don’t go to church. And then you get quoted Bible verses like “forsake not the assembling of yourselves together” (Heb. 10:25) plus a lot of “are you really Christian if you don’t go to church”? So, no, If you’re openly Christian, but you don’t go to church, and then add in on top that you don’t think being LGBTQIA+ is a terrible, terrible sin, well, yes, of course Evangelicals are going to question your “salvation.” (I don’t even want to talk about how I don’t care about the Evangelical version of “salvation.” I just don’t.)

In any case, since it’s Pride Month, I’ve taken to asking anti-LGBTQIA+ types on Twitter when they plan on teaching consent, because Evangelicalism doesn’t teach consent, to wit:

Look, when church leaders teach women and girls that our bodies are not our own and that we have to give up our bodies whenever our patriarchal overlords demand (1 Cor 6:19-20, 7:1-6), yeah, all sorts of terrible things happen. Y’all need to clean up your own problems!

— Dee “Little Cults Everywhere” Holmes 🇺🇦 (@mmmirele) June 4, 2023

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:23:48am

re: #62 Dave In Austin

Yup……

Where does this documentary appear? I’m reading its entry on IMDB but I can’t seem to find it. Is it a theatrical release, or television?

Jay C Jun 5, 2023 • 7:26:01am

re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Where does this documentary appear? I’m reading its entry on IMDB but I can’t seem to find it. Is it a theatrical release, or television?

Apparently only on Amazon Prime. (streaming)

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:26:13am

re: #69 mmmirele

I can’t see what you responded to: The account owner limited who could see their tweets.

Teaching consent in evangelical churches is practically non-existent, but it ain’t that great in other churches either.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:26:58am

re: #71 Jay C

Apparently only on Amazon Prime. (streaming)

Ah. A limited release to a small minority of the country then.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:28:49am

re: #59 GlutenFreeJesus

Reality: they’re massive hypocrites who use a religion they don’t truly believe in to suppress others they don’t approve of.

I suppose they could be like the Crusaders who used a religion they did truly believe in to suppress others they don’t approve of.

Plus it’s not my place to judge whether they “truly believe” in their religion or no. If they say they do, as far as I’m concerned, they do.

jeffreyw Jun 5, 2023 • 7:30:00am

Blueberry Banana Bread

Not quite yet at room temp but I didn’t wait for that.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:30:11am

re: #62 Dave In Austin

Yup……

Not this I suppose (3:57)

R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People (Official Music Video)

Dave In Austin Jun 5, 2023 • 7:32:06am

re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What Jay said…. Fucking Arkansas…

Dave In Austin Jun 5, 2023 • 7:36:23am

Shiny Happy People all around…… LOLOL

A Christian “influencer” with 100,000 followers finds out about the Bible’s references to gang rape in Judges 19:22-30.

She didn’t even make it to the part where the woman returns to the man after being sexually abused by a large crowd only for him to chop her up into 12 pieces. pic.twitter.com/bJwVC8boiM

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) June 5, 2023

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 5, 2023 • 7:37:03am

re: #16 ericblair

I think we’re getting to a point where these output cuts, even if they manage to pull them off, become counterproductive. Keeping gas prices high was one thing when there was no gasoline alternative, but now it’s one factor pushing migration to electric and alternative fuels.

At some point, there may be a race to dump oil at any price onto the market. If the providers really see the end of petroleum as a fuel, they may decide they can sell it now for whatever they can get or else in a few years it stays in the ground and is worth $0.

There will always be a demand for oil. However, if it’s not being used as a fuel the demand is much less. So it will never be worth $0. But if the world demand drops heavily due to alternate energy sources the existing wells and infrastructure can probably supply most of the remaining needs (lubricants, plastics*, etc.) The USA could probably get by on the Texas/Oklahoma etc. production.**

* - And places like Brazil are already producing “green” polyethylene and polypropylene based on renewal sources (sugar cane leftovers). Not as cheaply as oil-based feedstocks, but they are getting there.

** - And there are still lots of low-rate producing wells about. I recall seeing a well in the parking lot of a McDonald’s in Bradford, PA. Dates to the 1870s and still produces a barrel or so of oil a day.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:40:59am

Why do you have a pedophile symbol in your name?

— Terry Davis (@ZeNoticing) June 5, 2023

I don’t see a Latin cross in her name. He must be confused.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:45:04am

re: #78 Dave In Austin

Shiny Happy People all around…… LOLOL

“What’s going on in this day and age?” Since when is the Old Testament “this day and age?”

Betcha she doesn’t drop her faith either. She’ll go to an apologetics Website or on-line apologists who will “explain” that passage to her and she’ll be fine with it.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:48:44am

(0:56, a couple hundred comments follow)

This is so obnoxious pic.twitter.com/XrLsRztyLj

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) June 5, 2023

Unabogie Jun 5, 2023 • 7:51:37am

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t see a Latin cross in her name. He must be confused.

I don’t get it. What is the supposed symbol of pedophilia? And how does this exonerate Huckabee from palling around with some truly sick people?

Unabogie Jun 5, 2023 • 7:52:50am

re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(0:56, a couple hundred comments follow)

Is this that “shoving it down our throats” I’ve been hearing so much about on Fox?

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 7:53:06am

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Let me guess—the Ukrainian flag symbol is now linked to pedophiles?

Those nuts are cracked…

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:53:25am

re: #83 Unabogie

I don’t get it. What is the supposed symbol of pedophilia? And how does this exonerate Huckabee from palling around with some truly sick people?

The Ukrainian flag. Fascist chuds have been using that, when the Latin Cross is a far more accurate indicator.

Hecuba's daughter Jun 5, 2023 • 7:54:38am

re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I also think that Biden is too old, and wish the Democrats had someone else to field against the inevitable GOP nominee.

BUu right now Biden is the best choice being put forward.

Did someone already post a link to this NyTimes article? A both sides view on Biden’s mental acuity, with support for those arguing that he is

OTOH:

Yet people who deal with him regularly, including some of his adversaries, say he remains sharp and commanding in private meetings. Diplomats share stories of trips to places like Ukraine, Japan, Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia in which he often outlasts younger colleagues. Democratic lawmakers point to a long list of accomplishments as proof that he still gets the job done.
……..
Aides say it is clear he actually reads the briefing books because of the questions that follow. “There’s no one who is better at asking questions to get to the bottom of an issue, calling your bluff, asking the tough questions,” said Stefanie Feldman, the White House staff secretary. “He asks just as tough questions today as he did 10 years ago.”

Some who accompany him overseas express astonishment at his ability to keep up. When Italy’s new leader pushed for a meeting while the president was in Poland, he readily agreed to add it to the already packed schedule. During a trip to Ireland, people with him said he was energized and wanted to talk at length on Air Force One rather than rest.

OT Other Hand;

Polls indicate the president’s age is a top concern of Americans, including Democrats. During a recent New York Times focus group, several voters who supported Mr. Biden in 2020 expressed worry, with one saying: “I’ve just seen the blank stare at times, when he’s either giving a speech or addressing a crowd. It seems like he loses his train of thought.”

Unease about Mr. Biden’s age suffuses Democratic circles. One prominent Wall Street Democrat, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid offending the White House, noted that among party donors it was all anyone was talking about. At a small dinner earlier this year of former Democratic senators and governors, all of them in Mr. Biden’s generation, everyone at the table agreed he was too old to run again. Local leaders often call the White House to inquire about his health.
…..
Aides limit exposing the president to news media interviews when he could make a politically damaging mistake. He has given just a fourth of the interviews Donald J. Trump did in the same time period and a fifth of Mr. Obama’s interviews — and none at all to reporters from a major newspaper. Mr. Biden has not given an interview to the news department of The Times, unlike every president since at least Franklin D. Roosevelt other than Dwight D. Eisenhower. And in the past 100 years, only Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon have subjected themselves to as few news conferences.

The article also critiqued Trump on age-related issues.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:55:39am

re: #84 Unabogie

Is this that “shoving it down our throats” I’ve been hearing so much about on Fox?

The point is to be the main character in the Oppression Olympics.

They get to claim how persecuted Christians are because they got kicked out of the mall for disrupting businesses.

All in love of course: They claim they are vitally interested in saving people from Hell, and the Great Commission (1 Peter 3:15) demands Christians spread the Gospel everywhere.

If I was making an argument for a “true Christian,” I would argue that not following 1 Peter 3:15 puts you in peril.

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 7:57:25am

The weather keeps teasing thunderstorms, but it’s been hot and dry for the past week, with only minimal rain on occasion. We were very underwater to start the spring season, but now we’re rapidly approaching the flip side of the equation and could use a bit more.

Hecuba's daughter Jun 5, 2023 • 7:58:17am

re: #20 Nerdy Fish

Fair enough, then. Thanks for looking that up; that actually changes my mind.

The question is not life expectancy — but for how many of those years are you limited by serious cognitive impairment.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 7:58:43am

re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter

I am not concerned about Mr. Biden’s age. He is a capable politician. In the unlikely event that something happened, Ms. Harris is also a capable politician and quite able to step in to continue with governance.

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 7:59:26am

re: #90 Hecuba’s daughter

The question is not life expectancy — but for how many of those years are you limited by serious cognitive impairment.

He’s showed no signs of slowing just yet; for all the Republicans’ talk of “Sleepy Joe” and hints at dementia, he did just completely outmaneuver them in the debt ceiling brinksmanship games over the last month.

silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 8:01:22am

re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

.

This is not a link. You pasted the text in the URL part.

That is what a bit of insomnia will do. Here is the correct link.

Exclusive: Ukraine has cultivated sabotage agents inside Russia and is giving them drones to stage attacks, sources say

dat_said Jun 5, 2023 • 8:01:30am

I amused myself by reading the comments on a ND subreddit post. Young person posted positive comments on her experience so far of spending the summer in Grand Forks ND. Locals went wild with this little bit of affirmation and acknowledgment. Apparently, her expectations were set pretty low prior to her arrival only to find out *gasp* there are things to do and decent people.

What amused me the most though were the couple of bits of Fargo bashing (“Fargo is too big for its own good”) and the mini thread about how the restaurant in Grand Forks doesn’t serve real knoephla soup. Fargo too big!!!! And, if you are traveling across the state, the easiest to access and one of the best knoephla soup is at Fried’s Family Restaurant west side of Mandan on I-94. No where near as good as my mother’s knoephla soup but still damned good soup.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 8:02:33am

It’s hard to repair relationships when you passed laws that hurt women and LGBTQ people and public schools this year so good luck with that. https://t.co/lQjcgvteJe

— Lori Storbeck (@LoriStorbeck1) June 5, 2023

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 8:04:27am

‘Not in school!’: TV host outraged that kids learn about deodorant in puberty lessons

rawstory.com

Now why is a right wing snowflake so upset about deodorants?

I guess she thinks “Right Guard” isn’t right wing enough…

silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 8:07:38am

re: #15 steve_davis

Democratic….God DAMN it.

I saw that too but figured he was a Brit and did not know better. But looking him up a bit, he and his editor should have know better. Time to write the Guardian a letter, Monty Python style?

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 8:09:18am

re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Where does this documentary appear? I’m reading its entry on IMDB but I can’t seem to find it. Is it a theatrical release, or television?

Prime Video Exclusive, I think.

Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 8:10:22am

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Not in school!’: TV host outraged that kids learn about deodorant in puberty lessons

rawstory.com

Now why is a right wing snowflake so upset about deodorants?

I guess she thinks “Right Guard” isn’t right wing enough…

They want schools to stick to Readin’, Writin’, ‘Rithmetic, and White American Jay-zuss. Parents should be responsible for teaching their kids how to be clean (aside from morally, that obviously has to be forced on kids through schools).

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 8:10:51am

re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg

It is. If you go to the opening page of amazon it is advertised there.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 8:12:29am

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Not in school!’: TV host outraged that kids learn about deodorant in puberty lessons

rawstory.com

Now why is a right wing snowflake so upset about deodorants?

I guess she thinks “Right Guard” isn’t right wing enough…

For fuck sakes. I remember my fifth grade teacher telling our class about deodorant. None of the kids (or parents as far as I know) really gave a shit.

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EstebanTornado1963 Jun 5, 2023 • 8:12:46am

I will never trust this guy.

“3. Then right-wingers like me came along and inflamed those fears & concerns.“
I believe that you may be reformed into a sane person, but I also believe that if you were still in office, you would be in lockstep with the MAGATS. I’ve seen enough of you on TV back then to know.

— EstebanTornado (@ETornado1963) June 5, 2023

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sagehen Jun 5, 2023 • 8:12:50am

re: #75 jeffreyw

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Not quite yet at room temp but I didn’t wait for that.

Needs chocolate chips.

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🔧-wench Jun 5, 2023 • 8:13:48am

re: #103 sagehen

Needs chocolate chips.

We all do.

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Barefoot Grin Jun 5, 2023 • 8:15:43am

re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg

Prime Video Exclusive, I think.

My sister subscribed to Prime in order to watch things like Columbo with my dad, but I have a big problem with constant buffering. Not sure of the issue. Sometimes after restarting it improves somewhat. No problem with Hulu.

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jeffreyw Jun 5, 2023 • 8:17:30am

re: #103 sagehen

Needs chocolate chips.

no lie told

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 8:18:02am

re: #101 Eclectic Cyborg

For fuck sakes. I remember my fifth grade teacher telling our class about deodorant. None of the kids (or parents as far as I know) really gave a shit.

I learned about deodorant watching Katy Winters!

Secret Deodorant Hay Winters TV Commercial

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 8:18:47am

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Not in school!’: TV host outraged that kids learn about deodorant in puberty lessons

rawstory.com

Now why is a right wing snowflake so upset about deodorants?

I guess she thinks “Right Guard” isn’t right wing enough…

Evangelicals and other right-wing Christians have opposed deodorant for decades.

The real arguments are three:

1) scented deodorants go against the Bible’s admonition against perfumes.
2) deodorants in general cover up God’s perfect body by masking its function.
3) Scents (or lack of) can cause attraction in the opposite sex (a sin)

Businesses have been sued over this before by requiring employees to use deodorants. The courts have sided in favour of this being a religious practices for decades. Courts cannot say what is a “true” religious belief because then the government is arbitrating what is a “real” religion falling under I Amendment protection.

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calochortus Jun 5, 2023 • 8:18:54am

re: #101 Eclectic Cyborg

For fuck sakes. I remember my fifth grade teacher telling our class about deodorant. None of the kids (or parents as far as I know) really gave a shit.

Yeah. They really don’t have much to discuss with 5th grade boys, so it’s “Take a shower. Use deodorant.” With luck the girls get some useful information about menstruation.

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Jay C Jun 5, 2023 • 8:19:40am

re: #83 Unabogie

I don’t get it. What is the supposed symbol of pedophilia? And how does this exonerate Huckabee from palling around with some truly sick people?

That orange square??
In any case, it sounds like a pretty desperate (and lame) attempt at deflection: no examination of the subject: just an insulting dismissal using the buzzword-of-the-day….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 8:23:08am

re: #110 Jay C

That orange square??
In any case, it sounds like a pretty desperate (and lame) attempt at deflection: no examination of the subject: just an insulting dismissal using the buzzword-of-the-day….

The orange square represents protest against gun violence and the call for reforms.

When you see an orange and blue square together, they signal a person who is on or supports OnlyFans or PornHub. (Orange and blue are PornHub’s colours.)

An orange pumpkin is an atheist. (From wingnut pastor Tommy McMurty calling out Jimmy Snow saying he had a sexual fetish for pumpkins: Atheists around the world started putting a pumpkin in their names.)

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 5, 2023 • 8:23:40am

re: #102 EstebanTornado1963

I will never trust this guy.

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I am not certain that if he remained in Congress he would have been in lockstep with the MAGAts. He may have been more in line with the Cheneys and Kinzingers — full onboard with the Trump domestic policy but opposed to Trump’s foreign policy. That is the one area where he has been consistent since December 2016.

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A Cranky One Jun 5, 2023 • 8:24:17am

re: #40 ericblair

Sounds like good news to me, from the guy who really was robbed of the Presidency.

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calochortus Jun 5, 2023 • 8:24:51am

re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Evangelicals and other right-wing Christians have opposed deodorant for decades.

The real arguments are three:

1) scented deodorants go against the Bible’s admonition against perfumes.
2) deodorants in general cover up God’s perfect body by masking its function.
3) Scents (or lack of) can cause attraction in the opposite sex (a sin)

Businesses have been sued over this before by requiring employees to use deodorants. The courts have sided in favour of this being a religious practices for decades. (Courts cannot say what is a “true” religious belief because then the government is arbitrating what is a “real” religion falling under I Amendment protection.

Ummm, don’t clothes cover up the God’s perfect body too? God seems perfectly happy about that, and I don’t recall any admonitions against deodorants in the bible, so it seems like a weak argument.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 5, 2023 • 8:24:59am

re: #45 ericblair

The other wrinkle here is that “evangelism” is now really a social designation, not a denominational one. I would bet that a good fraction of people who describe themselves as evangelical rarely or never go to church, they just vote GOP and panic about wokeness.

They do believe in spreading the word. The word is “OBEY”.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 5, 2023 • 8:28:08am

re: #56 darthstar

Meow…also got a listless bogie

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For the Russians and separatists “Leopards ate our faces” has an entirely different meaning than the meaning in the US.

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gocart mozart Jun 5, 2023 • 8:28:56am

Is this erasing history by changing the name of a street to make it more woke?

— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) June 5, 2023

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dat_said Jun 5, 2023 • 8:30:27am

BREAKING: Trump’s lawyers just spotted by @CBSNews entering the Justice Department, per @RobLegare who is on site… comes as sources tell me the special counsel is moving toward a charging decision in the classified documents case

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 5, 2023

Muted anticipation on my part, being Midwestern and all.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 8:30:59am

re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Evangelicals and other right-wing Christians have opposed deodorant for decades.

The real arguments are three:

1) scented deodorants go against the Bible’s admonition against perfumes.
2) deodorants in general cover up God’s perfect body by masking its function.
3) Scents (or lack of) can cause attraction in the opposite sex (a sin)

Businesses have been sued over this before by requiring employees to use deodorants. The courts have sided in favour of this being a religious practices for decades. Courts cannot say what is a “true” religious belief because then the government is arbitrating what is a “real” religion falling under I Amendment protection.

I just read (in a book by Tuvia Tenenbom) that Hitler Youth Girls were taught to avoid perfume and deodorant because these were “invented by Jews” to cover up their “Jew stink” and True Aryan Maidens are born naturally good-smelling, so they don’t need these “Jew products”

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silverdolphin Jun 5, 2023 • 8:33:53am

I went to the source to get a nice listing of Biden’s top acomplishments. Job growth alone should get him another term. Even here he makes it clear that Harris is included.

The Biden-Harris Record

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 8:35:41am

re: #114 calochortus

Ummm, don’t clothes cover up the God’s perfect body too? God seems perfectly happy about that, and I don’t recall any admonitions against deodorants in the bible, so it seems like a weak argument.

According to the story in Genesis, after eating from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve covered up their nakedness from shame. It was that which tipped off God that they had disobeyed him (though they couldn’t know disobedience was wrong without the knowledge of good and evil) because he did not make them ashamed of nakedness.

Since then, wearing clothing is the acknowledgement of the so-called original sin.

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 8:36:04am

re: #102 EstebanTornado1963

I will never trust this guy.

EstebanTornado
@ETornado1963
Replying to @WalshFreedom
“3. Then right-wingers like me came along and inflamed those fears & concerns.”
I believe that you may be reformed into a sane person, but I also believe that if you were still in office, you would be in lockstep with the MAGATS. I’ve seen enough of you on TV back then to know.

Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 8:37:08am

Only a few hours left until George Santos has to cough up the names of who posted his bail.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 8:38:08am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

Only a few hours left until George Santos has to cough up the names of who posted his bail.

My money is on Harlan Crow.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 8:38:11am

re: #118 dat_said

I ain’t holding my breath just yet. This could be nothing more than a procedural meeting.

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gocart mozart Jun 5, 2023 • 8:38:45am

🤜🤛 https://t.co/Ek3FQPmjos

— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) June 5, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 5, 2023 • 8:39:06am

re: #122 BeenHereAwhile

Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle.

Then Paul imposed all his sex hangups on the nascent Christian faith.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 5, 2023 • 8:39:34am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to the story in Genesis, after eating from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve covered up their nakedness from shame. It was that which tipped off God that they had disobeyed him (though they couldn’t know disobedience was wrong without the knowledge of good and evil) because he did not make them ashamed of nakedness.

Since then, wearing clothing is the acknowledgement of the so-called original sin.

But, of course, a woman not wearing a lot of clothes in a modest manner is being wanton and a temptress of men. So they can’t win the case either way.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 8:40:17am

Just phenomenally stupid people running around this world, kept alive only by the grace of those more intelligent. pic.twitter.com/C3g6Z6nzA1

— Cav: Alpha Cure Head (@CombatCavScout) June 5, 2023

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 8:40:36am

Justices take up “Trump Too Small” trademark case

It has been more seven years since Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, claimed in a presidential debate that then-candidate Donald Trump had “small hands.” On Monday the justices agreed to weigh in on a trademark dispute that arises indirectly from that comment - specifically, from Steve Elster’s efforts to register the phrase “Trump Too Small” so that he could print and sell t-shirts bearing that phrase. The case, Vidal v. Elster, was the only grant on the list of orders released from the justices’ private conference last week.

Elster contended that the phrase was intended to “convey[] that some features of President Trump and his policies are diminutive.” But the Patent and Trademark Office rejected Elster’s application. It relied on a federal trademark law, Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act, that prohibits the registration of a trademark that uses the name of another living person without that individual’s permission.

The PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board upheld the PTO’s decision, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed. It ruled that relying on Section 2(c) to prohibit Elster from registering the “Trump Too Small” phrase would violate the First Amendment. When it comes to trademarks, the court of appeals explained, the government does not have an interest “in restricting speech critical of government officials or public figures.”

The Biden administration came to the Supreme Court in January, asking the justices to review the Federal Circuit’s decision. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued both that the lower court’s ruling is wrong and that the Supreme Court normally grants review when a federal appeals court strikes down a federal statute.

The case will likely be argued in the fall, with a decision to follow sometime next year.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 8:41:36am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I ain’t holding my breath just yet. This could be nothing more than a procedural meeting.

From reading the follow-on tweets, that’s essentially what it is. Trump’s attorneys are going to the DOJ to hear what the DOJ plans to charge him with, and to hear arguments from the lawyers why they shouldn’t (i.e. do they have any prima facie evidence that the DOJ doesn’t yet know about that might alter the equation). Otherwise, it sounds like the indictments, although later than many theorized, are forthcoming.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 8:43:45am

Imagine claiming that a few Bible verses on human sexuality are literal divine commands from God for all of society, all while claiming the +3,000 verses calling for the care of immigrants, the marginalized, the oppressed, and the poor should just be a personal choice.

— Rev. Benjamin Cremer (@Brcremer) June 5, 2023

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calochortus Jun 5, 2023 • 8:47:03am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to the story in Genesis, after eating from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve covered up their nakedness from shame. It was that which tipped off God that they had disobeyed him (though they couldn’t know disobedience was wrong without the knowledge of good and evil) because he did not make them ashamed of nakedness.

Since then, wearing clothing is the acknowledgement of the so-called original sin.

Yes. So why can’t using deodorant fall into the same category?

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calochortus Jun 5, 2023 • 8:50:38am

Anyway, time to go do something mildly constructive.
BBL

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dat_said Jun 5, 2023 • 8:51:25am

re: #122 BeenHereAwhile

Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle.

My Catholic high school religion teacher (a priest) was not amused when I suggested that’s exactly what a roman spy would do.

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 8:51:31am

It’s about upholding the constitution — here, read the ruling (by a Trump judge), you might learn something: https://t.co/uSokYxwRsC https://t.co/P2YAzpZO2W

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) June 5, 2023

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 8:52:52am

re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth

Is it amazing how so many of these people who fellate the Constitution have no idea how it actually fucking works?

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 8:54:48am

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Then Paul imposed all his sex hangups on the nascent Christian faith.

And IIRC, the writings of Paul - who never met Jesus - quote him as saying, “do this in rememberance of me.” None of the Gospels include this phrase.

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sagehen Jun 5, 2023 • 8:56:54am

re: #122 BeenHereAwhile

Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle.

And how long did it take before people began to trust it was a real transformation and not just faking it?

Remember, Glenn Beck tried for a minute (early in the Biden admin) to paint himself as having changed; nobody believed him, and it didn’t take long at all before he reverted to being the Glenn Beck we all knew.

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sagehen Jun 5, 2023 • 8:59:04am

re: #126 gocart mozart

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 9:00:14am

re: #139 sagehen

And how long did it take before people began to trust it was a real transformation and not just faking it?

Remember, Glenn Beck tried for a minute (early in the Biden admin) to paint himself as having changed; nobody believed him, and it didn’t take long at all before he reverted to being the Glenn Beck we all knew.

Apparently Paul was better at rebranding than Glenn Beck.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 9:02:59am

‘We will not hire Jews’: Prominent LA lawyers busted for blatant anti-Semitism

forward.com

Two attorneys who until recently worked at big-name law firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith have been exposed for making years’ worth of anti-Semitic comments in emails to one another.

In emails between the two that were obtained by Forward, attorneys John Barber and Jeff Ranen are seen to routinely mock Jews and, in one exchange, even said, “we will not hire Jews” in response to a letter of recommendation they had received.

The pair also used the word “Jew” as a verb to denote stinginess with money.

“I might be able to Jew them down,” wrote Ranen in one email where he discussed getting a hotel to lower its prices.

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dat_said Jun 5, 2023 • 9:04:10am

re: #141 BeenHereAwhile

Apparently Paul was better at rebranding than Glenn Beck.

He did manage to deflect the distrust - 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 (New International Version)

13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 9:05:05am

re: #139 sagehen

And how long did it take before people began to trust it was a real transformation and not just faking it?

Remember, Glenn Beck tried for a minute (early in the Biden admin) to paint himself as having changed; nobody believed him, and it didn’t take long at all before he reverted to being the Glenn Beck we all knew.

It did take him a while. What eventually happened was, after he regained his sight, Christians were still scared of him; but he showed up with some church leaders, and they went, “Hey, guys, this is Paul, he’s seen Jesus, we cool now,” and eventually the word spread.

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lawhawk Jun 5, 2023 • 9:05:25am

re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg

Is it amazing how so many of these people who fellate the Constitution have no idea how it actually fucking works?

Their understanding of the Constitution starts and stops with the 2A, and their right to impose their views on everyone else by trampling all over the 1A.

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 9:05:46am

levelbot
@levelbot@mastodon.social
dry wit levels are currently at 15% but fluctuating wildly

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Captain Ron Jun 5, 2023 • 9:06:18am

Never change, Chicago pic.twitter.com/v2hf9V2Bxb

— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) June 5, 2023

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 9:07:55am

re: #147 Captain Ron

As a former Chicagoland resident, my brain automatically translated that sign the way they meant it, before I even realized how it might be construed.

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Captain Ron Jun 5, 2023 • 9:13:04am

YouTube

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The Ghost of a Flea Jun 5, 2023 • 9:14:45am

Babylon bee be like people compare people too liberally to nazis and then compare a homeless dude to a dictator who ran an entire country

— President-Elect Toguro (@PresidentToguro) May 6, 2023

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 9:15:03am

re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg

Is it amazing how so many of these people who fellate the Constitution have no idea how it actually fucking works?

I’d go a step further. They haven’t read it and as such are hypocritical chuds. Maybe that was baked into your comment, but I wanted to make it explicit.

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 9:15:38am

arstechnica@mastodon.social
Ars Technica
@arstechnica@mastodon.social
Here’s what happens when you send a NASCAR stock car to Le Mans

Fears that the big V8-powered stock car would be slow proved very ill-founded.

arstechnica.com

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jun 5, 2023 • 9:22:58am

re: #12 Nerdy Fish

What a word, what a word.

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 9:23:42am

Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
The DNS is operationally an abomination, a nightmare, a house of cards, the Pit of Despair. Woe be to those who touch it or even go near unless willing to supplicate deeply and fully to its hellish demands, and so condemn one’s soul to eternal pain.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 9:25:59am

re: #152 BeenHereAwhile

arstechnica@mastodon.social
Ars Technica
@arstechnica@mastodon.social
Here’s what happens when you send a NASCAR stock car to Le Mans

Fears that the big V8-powered stock car would be slow proved very ill-founded.

arstechnica.com

That was a great article, and emphasized that the major roadblock (heh heh) to stock cars racing on non-oval courses is aerodynamics. This is already quite well known; NASCAR has multiple road courses on its annual schedule. Back when the Indianapolis Motor Speedway used to host stock cars on its main track, then known as the “Brickyard 400” (though apparently it got a sponsored name near the end of its existence, unsurprisingly), they did a comparison of the 5.8L V8 and the 2.2L twin-turbo V6 powering the different cars, and found that while the American design at the time lacked many of the refined features of the IndyCar series engines, they both developed similar power and had similar performance characteristics throughout their power bands. A stock car is no slouch.

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Thanos Jun 5, 2023 • 9:26:07am

If you haven’t tried Oded Tzur then you should, this is great morning music to play while you do your daily chores.

The Lion Turtle

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Orange Impostor Jun 5, 2023 • 9:27:44am

New wrinkle on the group of immigrants that were flown from El Paso, TX to Sacramento, CA last week - if true, then Ron DeSantis is going full fascist as he has ZERO legal authority regarding the borders of a different state than his.

California investigating whether migrant flight came from Florida

State Attorney General Rob Bonta said that the migrants who were dropped off in Sacramento without any prior arrangements “were in possession of documentation purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is probing whether migrants flown by private plane to Sacramento on Friday without prior arrangements in place had been sent from Florida.

“We are investigating the circumstances by which these individuals were brought to California,” Bonta said in a statement Saturday. “We are also evaluating potential criminal or civil action against those who transported or arranged for the transport of these vulnerable immigrants.”

“While this is still under investigation, we can confirm these individuals were in possession of documentation purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida,” he added. “While we continue to collect evidence, I want to say this very clearly: State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting.”

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Thanos Jun 5, 2023 • 9:28:23am

also, I should have posted this Saturday, but here it is now instead of on June 3rd

Ode To Billie Joe

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 9:29:33am

re: #157 Orange Impostor

So, what happened here? Florida bussed them to El Paso and then flew them to CA from there?

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No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 9:33:55am

There is a good chance Trump wouldn’t admit guilt even to stay out of prison, and would prefer to gamble on a trial instead.

If he pleads guilty to a felony, part of the plea agreement must be that he, his campaign and his surrogates can’t start lying that he is really innocent afterwards. I want him to go to prison, but given his status he may not get time even if convicted at trial.

— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) June 5, 2023

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Orange Impostor Jun 5, 2023 • 9:38:12am

re: #159 Eclectic Cyborg

So, what happened here? Florida bussed them to El Paso and then flew them to CA from there?

No, the immigrants crossed the border near El Paso, and were flown by jet to Sacramento, and had paperwork they had was from the state of Florida. ALL kinds of shady there.

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Targetpractice Jun 5, 2023 • 9:39:30am

re: #160 No Malarkey!

There is a good chance Trump wouldn’t admit guilt even to stay out of prison, and would prefer to gamble on a trial instead.

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As soon as I saw “plea deal” being discussed elsewhere, my assumption is that Trump is trying to get his lawyers to thread a very fine needle: Avoid actual jail time but allow him to walk out of the courthouse insisting that he’s not guilty of anything more than “process crimes.”

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Dave In Austin Jun 5, 2023 • 9:46:00am

Have we found out who financed George Santos yet?
Those records are supposed to be unsealed today.

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piratedan Jun 5, 2023 • 9:46:32am

re: #161 Orange Impostor

all part of the performative cruelty of the GOP, Florida needs immigrants to keep labor costs down, so instead of shipping “their own”, they use Florida Tax Payer dollars to grab ‘em from Texas, put them on a private charter and then drop them on an unsuspecting charity in California (yeah, there’s a subtle message!) and then put the word out on how “they’re sticking it to the libs!” by using these people as pawns. Just like they do with the military, they don’t give a shit about the people, they’re just tools to use for their messaging in order to get other hateful people to vote for them.

We do have issues… cheap labor keeps costs down, and there’s a steady stream of deadly cruelty happening in Central America (we share some of the blame for that too!) and so there’s a stream of people who are willing to work at anything in order to put food on the table and plenty of employers are willing to take advantage of that in everything from construction to fast food franchises. Instead of allowing this hard work as a gateway to citizenship, the GOP wants to keep them as 2nd class citizens and indentured labor for a lifetime.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 9:48:38am

uh, you already melted it down Chris! Go grab your golden parachute…

Chris Licht vows to ‘fight like hell’ to stop CNN ‘meltdown’

In the wake of a piece in The Atlantic that painted a brutal portrait of CNN CEO Chris Licht, the network’s boss is now trying to reassure employees that he plans to “fight like hell” to win back their trust

thedailybeast.com

‘CNN Is Not About Me’—uh, it’s all about you, Nero since you fiddled while it burned down….

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 9:49:51am

… and the crowd goes mild. https://t.co/UrBXbt1XO5

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 5, 2023

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 9:50:10am

re: #163 Dave In Austin

Have we found out who financed George Santos yet?
Those records are supposed to be unsealed today.

I think he has until 4 or 5 pm

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Dave In Austin Jun 5, 2023 • 9:50:29am

Cornell West is running for President on a 3rd party ticket.

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Orange Impostor Jun 5, 2023 • 9:50:29am

re: #160 No Malarkey!

There is a good chance Trump wouldn’t admit guilt even to stay out of prison, and would prefer to gamble on a trial instead.

If I were on Jack Smith/DOJ team, I would be adding one additional stipulation to any plea deal. If Trump does agree to the deal to stay out of Federal prison, since these charges are directly related to his time in the White House, he is to agree to never again run for, nor to be appointed to any political office at the federal level. If he refuses, then he gets to roll the dice in Federal court.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 9:54:26am

re: #165 Joe Bacon ✅

uh, you already melted it down Chris! Go grab your golden parachute…

Chris Licht vows to ‘fight like hell’ to stop CNN ‘meltdown’

In the wake of a piece in The Atlantic that painted a brutal portrait of CNN CEO Chris Licht, the network’s boss is now trying to reassure employees that he plans to “fight like hell” to win back their trust

thedailybeast.com

‘CNN Is Not About Me’—uh, it’s all about you, Nero since you fiddled while it burned down….

Chris, my guy. Your staff held an impromptu, behind-your-back staff meeting to discuss walking out en masse. You were taken by surprise by the strong negative reactions, despite literally everyone telling you beforehand what a bad idea the Trump town hall was. You appear shaken by the realization that your sudden pivot to the right, to “both-sides” journalism, hasn’t brought in any new viewers and has alienated almost all your old viewers - despite, again, literally everyone telling you that this is exactly what was going to happen. Why should anyone trust you, or your company, ever again?

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Targetpractice Jun 5, 2023 • 9:54:44am

It’s gonna be the standard Trump legal defense: “Putting him on trial would be more trouble than just cutting a deal.” That a plea deal gives “everybody” what they want: It allows Smith to put the case to rest and move on to less demanding cases, it allows Trump to avoid the messiness of a court battle, and it lets the Feds stick a feather in their cap by “bringing him to justice.” Why spend a year or more dragging this through the courts knowing that no matter how big a win they secure half the country will hate them when they can take an easy “W” now and put the whole mess to bed?

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 9:56:02am

I’m also announcing that I have decided not to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024.

Because what a shitshow, and also, ewww.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 5, 2023

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Jun 5, 2023 • 9:56:22am

re: #168 Dave In Austin

Cornell West is running for President on a 3rd party ticket.

Is he an accelerationist now?

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 9:56:46am

The cryptobros are having a bad day.

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 9:58:05am

re: #167 Backwoods Sleuth

I think he has until 4 or 5 pm

5 PM EDT. Four hours to go.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Jun 5, 2023 • 9:58:30am

re: #174 Nerdy Fish

The cryptobros are having a bad day.

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I’m just glad that I have a weed store two miles from home and have no need for crypto anymore.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 10:01:42am

re: #168 Dave In Austin

Cornell West is running for President on a 3rd party ticket.

Of course he is. He’s in a competition with RFK Jr to be this year’s Jill Stein.

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Jay C Jun 5, 2023 • 10:03:15am

re: #163 Dave In Austin

Have we found out who financed George Santos yet?
Those records are supposed to be unsealed today.

Well, they have until 5:00pm, so I’m guessing that if Curious George’s lawyers are going to present the names, they will probably arrange for it to be delivered at exactly 4:59, so as to try to beat a news dump today….

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 10:04:26am

it’s definitely happening… he just posted this and is completely freaking out #TrumpIndictment pic.twitter.com/sGZAViPCvD

— Red Painter, just Red on 🐋 (@Redpainter1) June 5, 2023

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KGxvi Jun 5, 2023 • 10:04:27am

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Are there any high-profile primary challengers?

And there would be no point in a debate between DJT and Biden.

Recall that Trump did not even see fit to attend his successor’s inauguration.

Even with high profile challenges, I don’t think an incumbent president has participated in a primary debate. Ford didn’t in ‘76, Carter didn’t in ‘80, Bush didn’t in ‘92.

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KingKenrod Jun 5, 2023 • 10:04:33am

Smith is investigating the stolen election as well as the Mar-a-Lago stolen documents, right? The idea that he is ready to cut a deal with Trump seems way premature. Seems like he would be cutting deals with the fake electors first.

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Teukka Jun 5, 2023 • 10:04:48am

Let’s talk about what happened in the skies near DC….

My hunch is a cabin depressurization leading to diminished followed by loss of consciousness of the pilot and passengers. The track after the U-turn near NY is a straight line, suggesting autopilot in control, and the last piece of the track is a perfect circle segment, very much like the 2022 Baltic Sea Cessna Citation crash, which also was due to loss of cabin pressurization.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 10:04:53am

re: #178 Jay C

Well, they have until 5:00pm, so I’m guessing that if Curious George’s lawyers are going to present the names, they will probably arrange for it to be delivered at exactly 4:59, so as to try to beat a news dump today….

And to give those who will be named a chance to get ahead of the possible fallout.

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 10:06:18am

Trump lawyers Jim Trusty, John Rowley and Lindsay Halligan leave the Justice Department after spending nearly two hours in a meeting with law enforcement officials. AG Garland was NOT part of the meeting, per @KenDilanianNBC

h/t @bacallaooo pic.twitter.com/JQGtG47Jia

— Daniel Barnes (@dnlbrns) June 5, 2023

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 10:06:35am

re: #179 Backwoods Sleuth

Keep on yelling DT and may hang yourself with your own words.

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 10:07:29am

re: #185 PhillyPretzel ✅

Keep on yelling DT and may hang yourself with your own words.

His lawyers - having just emerged from the DOJ meeting - will undoubtedly stop at the liquor store for a fresh bottle. I can’t imagine what it must be like to defend a guy who has absolutely no filter and is also guilty as all fuck.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:08:00am

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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— 🌈The Where True Love is Movement 🏳️‍⚧️ (@WhereTrueLoveIs) June 4, 2023

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No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:08:43am

Lawyers got the bad news. Roll out the indictment. Hide the ketchup. pic.twitter.com/XuVQbAbx6K

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 5, 2023

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jun 5, 2023 • 10:08:54am

re: #171 Targetpractice

It’s gonna be the standard Trump legal defense: “Putting him on trial would be more trouble than just cutting a deal.” That a plea deal gives “everybody” what they want: It allows Smith to put the case to rest and move on to less demanding cases, it allows Trump to avoid the messiness of a court battle, and it lets the Feds stick a feather in their cap by “bringing him to justice.” Why spend a year or more dragging this through the courts knowing that no matter how big a win they secure half the country will hate them when they can take an easy “W” now and put the whole mess to bed?

That argument might float if one of the issues weren’t violations of the espionage act. But what he did there — keeping, showing around, and possibly selling highly classified documents — has so many ramifications (including internationally) that I don’t think it will be possible to avoid charging him, and a plea deal would have to include some pretty serious jail time. IMHO. (And we haven’t gotten to the insurrection part yet, but some of DTs self-appointed minions are doing hard time….)

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dat_said Jun 5, 2023 • 10:09:28am

re: #165 Joe Bacon ✅

uh, you already melted it down Chris! Go grab your golden parachute…

Chris Licht vows to ‘fight like hell’ to stop CNN ‘meltdown’

In the wake of a piece in The Atlantic that painted a brutal portrait of CNN CEO Chris Licht, the network’s boss is now trying to reassure employees that he plans to “fight like hell” to win back their trust

thedailybeast.com

‘CNN Is Not About Me’—uh, it’s all about you, Nero since you fiddled while it burned down….

I read that Atlantic piece. It actually seemed (to me anyway) that the author really tried hard to make Licht look good. Stuff about how he was right about CNN needing to be more balanced and stuff about how Licht cannot recover because he made too naive missteps. It just reads as a brutal portrait because he couldn’t hide how much a thin-skinned martinet Licht actually is.

The examples of what Licht considers “unbalanced coverage” are not enough airplay on the Wuhan lab creating COVID, how fed officials lied about masks when at the beginning of the crisis there was a shortage and prioritized health care professionals, and how we can’t know how for sure how many people died of COVID because so many went into the hospital and got labeled as COVID deaths.

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 10:10:55am

Four people — a pilot and three passengers — were killed after a plane that flew over the nation’s capital crashed in Virginia on Sunday. https://t.co/04gX9PWwzT

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 5, 2023

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Orange Impostor Jun 5, 2023 • 10:11:21am

re: #179 Backwoods Sleuth

Note to Donald Trump:

See Nixon, Richard M. regarding August 1974 when he resigned the Presidency to avoid an impeachment trial and subsequent pre-emptive pardon by Gerald Ford to avoid indictments and likely conviction. Funny how you didn’t bother to mention that one.

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The Ghost of a Flea Jun 5, 2023 • 10:11:59am

Nikki Haley discussing trans girls in kids sports: “How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker room. And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year.” pic.twitter.com/rA2lD06yVe

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 5, 2023

I realize I’m on a Francis Dolarhyde-worthy repetitive tear (DO YOU SEE?!)

_{(this is meta-funny because if you’re into William Blake paintings)}

but…this is how people with power that want no accounting of how power is used explain the operation of the world: all problems emanate from Bad Kinds of People; this has to be true because the alternative is that the status quo doesn’t function as they claim it functions; and if it weren’t true then nothing works like they claim and their power has no moral or functional basis.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s cynical or sincere, the rhetorical process runs the same way: you have to engage with actual problems superficially, and you have to find the acceptable culprit that can be harmed so that your in-group fellows achieve catharsis. Everything becomes theater.

This isn’t stupidity or ignorance, it’s a resolve that the world can only be fixed through cruelty structured by caste designations, identifying who must be hurt how much, who should contained within a demimonde, who should be allowed to suffer and die, and who can be arbitrarily killed.

But to keep this system floating you can’t genuinely engage with systemic problems, so the people you’re supposedly “protecting” and in community will continue to suffer. Constant moral panic is thus necessary.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:12:01am

Come for the food,
stay for more food.

— Liddle Cherry Pie🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) June 5, 2023

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No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:13:30am

re: #105 Barefoot Grin

My sister subscribed to Prime in order to watch things like Columbo with my dad, but I have a big problem with constant buffering. Not sure of the issue. Sometimes after restarting it improves somewhat. No problem with Hulu.

I had those kind of problems until I bought a google device to boost my wireless internet connection, and now it rarely happens

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 10:16:18am

re: #194 The Pie Overlord!

Come for the Pastrami and Stay for the Half-Sour Pickles! 😉

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 10:17:08am

re: #105 Barefoot Grin

re: #195 No Malarkey!

I usually download the movie/show and then watch it.

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KGxvi Jun 5, 2023 • 10:18:41am

re: #177 Joe Bacon ✅

Of course he is. He’s in a competition with RFK Jr to be this year’s Jill Stein.

This doesn’t strike me as an election cycle where third parties are going to get a lot of traction. Biden has an 80% approval rating with Democrats. Usually when third parties or primary challenges happen it is because the incumbent is unpopular across the board and especially within his own party.

GHW Bush was probably somewhere around 65-70% among Republicans in early 1992, and his approval ratings dropped steadily during the campaign.

In 2000, I think a lot of people viewed GW Bush and Al Gore as mediocre options at best.

And in 2016, neither nominee was particularly popular.

Trump’s never been popular. And Biden, despite his flaws, isn’t terrible. Most likely we are going to see third party candidates get their typical 2% combined.

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aatharuv Jun 5, 2023 • 10:19:25am

re: #166 Backwoods Sleuth

Mike Pence is less likely to enter the debates than Vivek Ramaswamy according to politico. That is really pathetic for a former Vice President, when compared to an until recently very obscure (if wealthy) businessmen.

politico.com

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 10:20:33am

re: #188 No Malarkey!

1850 BOXES!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Jun 5, 2023 • 10:20:44am

re: #194 The Pie Overlord!

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Not when that food does not include bacon.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 5, 2023 • 10:22:25am

Speaking of watching Prime, as this month I’m doing the Prime thing I decided to watch Three Thousand Years of Longing as Prime is pushing it.

I thought it fine, but I think many people won’t enjoy it, at least those people who want mainstream action/superhero movies.

It’s an odd movie.

But visually pleasing.

Here’s a screenshot I took as it struck me as just right for many reason:

3000 Years of Longing

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Dr Lizardo Jun 5, 2023 • 10:23:23am

re: #179 Backwoods Sleuth

That reads to me like he’s found out he’s gonna be charged under the Espionage Act.

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No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:25:47am

re: #199 aatharuv

Mike Pence is less likely to enter the debates than Vivek Ramaswamy according to politico. That is really pathetic for a former Vice President, when compared to an until recently very obscure (if wealthy) businessmen.

politico.com

VEEPs almost always win their party’s nomination when they run for President. The last one who didn’t was Dan Quayle. Gore and Biden both did since, and Bush, Mondale, Humphrey and Nixon did before.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:25:51am

re: #201 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Not when that food does not include bacon.

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Barefoot Grin Jun 5, 2023 • 10:26:48am

re: #173 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Is he an accelerationist now?

My wife worked for the Bernie campaign in 2016 and so I got to go to a closed reception for workers after a rally in Manchester, NH. Dr. West was there to kind of introduce/endorse Bernie. I wonder if he’ll follow the trajectory of other Bernie supporters who will relentlessly target Democrats for criticism without ever mentioning Trump and the GOP…..

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Backwoods Sleuth Jun 5, 2023 • 10:26:59am

Cats in S.T.E.M. pic.twitter.com/cItvvbODaA

— cats with jobs (@CatWorkers) June 5, 2023

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No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:27:32am

re: #202 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of watching Prime, as this month I’m doing the Prime thing I decided to watch Three Thousand Years of Longing as Prime is pushing it.

I thought it fine, but I think many people won’t enjoy it, at least those people who want mainstream action/superhero movies.

It’s an odd movie.

But visually pleasing.

Here’s a screenshot I took as it struck me as just right for many reason:

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I like visually pleasing movies; I’ll have to check it out.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 5, 2023 • 10:27:41am

If we are going to be obliterated by an object impacting Earth, you can watch it live here:

Youtube Video

..

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 10:27:43am

re: #204 No Malarkey!

VEEPs almost always win their party’s nomination when they run for President. The last one who didn’t was Dan Quayle. Gore and Biden both did since, and Bush, Mondale, Humphrey and Nixon did before.

Yes, but in those cases, the President is usually not able to run. In this case, the President will run, barring a plea agreement that keeps him from running or a… permanent ineligibility.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 10:28:45am

re: #205 The Pie Overlord!

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Turkey Bacon or Crispy Pastrami…except for the times Dad fell off the wagon and had that urge to slice SPAM very very thin, fry it till it was crispy…

212

The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:28:56am

Jewbelong is reaching out to secular Jews without mentioning any kind of religion.

They claim their mission is to fight anti-Semitism.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jun 5, 2023 • 10:31:10am

re: #205 The Pie Overlord!

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Also beef bacon is a thing. Not the same as the stuff we know and love, but just as tasty.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:32:01am

re: #213 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Also beef bacon is a thing. Not the same as the stuff we know and love, but just as tasty.

I have enjoyed vegan “facon.” It’s actually quite good.

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dat_said Jun 5, 2023 • 10:32:03am

re: #188 No Malarkey!

The “Little Joey got away with stealing a Snickers bar that fell into his pocket when he bumped the counter display and the later returned the bar to the store manager. Why are you not letting me steal cars?” defense will work well.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 10:32:35am

re: #214 The Pie Overlord!

I have enjoyed vegan “facon.” It’s actually quite good.

Memories of Betty Crocker’s Bac-0’s…

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Nerdy Fish Jun 5, 2023 • 10:33:07am

re: #214 The Pie Overlord!

I have enjoyed vegan “facon.” It’s actually quite good.

Never tried that, but I’ve had several varieties of plant-based “impossible” beef and chicken, and those were all, at a minimum, above average. Some of the frozen veggie burger patties we’ve had were comparable to real beef patties with cheap ground beef, even.

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Barefoot Grin Jun 5, 2023 • 10:33:28am

re: #195 No Malarkey!

I had those kind of problems until I bought a google device to boost my wireless internet connection, and now it rarely happens

Thanks, I need to look into it (though I’m only here for one more week, so might turn over to my sister who will move back down here for awhile).

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No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:35:24am

re: #210 Nerdy Fish

Yes, but in those cases, the President is usually not able to run. In this case, the President will run, barring a plea agreement that keeps him from running or a… permanent ineligibility.

It has been a very long time since a former President ran. I think Teddy Roosevelt was the last one to do so.

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:35:38am

re: #217 Nerdy Fish

Never tried that, but I’ve had several varieties of plant-based “impossible” beef and chicken, and those were all, at a minimum, above average. Some of the frozen veggie burger patties we’ve had were comparable to real beef patties with cheap ground beef, even.

We went to a dairy restaurant in Florida and Zedie enjoyed the “impossible cheeseburger.” He said the burger tasted & had the mouthfeel of a regular burger. He also said, having never had a cheeseburger before, that he couldn’t understand the appeal, that the cheese did not add anything to his enjoyment of the burger.

221

🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Jun 5, 2023 • 10:36:45am

re: #220 The Pie Overlord!

We went to a dairy restaurant in Florida and Zedie enjoyed the “impossible cheeseburger.” He said the burger tasted & had the mouthfeel of a regular burger. He also said, having never had a cheeseburger before, that he couldn’t understand the appeal, that the cheese did not add anything to his enjoyment of the burger.

He’s probably been denied cheeseburgers for his whole life. People like what they’re used to.

222

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 5, 2023 • 10:37:26am

re: #221 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

He’s probably been denied cheeseburgers for his whole life. People like what they’re used to.

Yep. Also, the right cheese on the right bun with the right burger CAN make a big taste difference.

223

ipsos Jun 5, 2023 • 10:37:58am

re: #196 Joe Bacon ✅

Come for the Pastrami and Stay for the Half-Sour Pickles! 😉

Full sours. The only way to go.

224

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Jun 5, 2023 • 10:38:25am

This kind of scene is much more familiar from my childhood than towering skyscrapers or the neatly trimmed suburbs you saw on TV. This is what much of America really looked like in the 50s and 60s, especially in smaller towns but also in much larger ones, as seen here in Houston.

225

No Malarkey! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:38:48am

It may be starting.

Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar says today Ukrainian troops have made significant advances north and south of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblasthttps://t.co/hDdffjvFEY

— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) June 5, 2023

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The Pie Overlord! Jun 5, 2023 • 10:38:54am

re: #223 ipsos

Full sours. The only way to go.

If you buy a jar of half sours they will turn into full sours within a week or so.

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lawhawk Jun 5, 2023 • 10:39:02am

re: #194 The Pie Overlord!

Jews - we celebrate everything with food.
Jews - we memorialize everything with more food.

228

lawhawk Jun 5, 2023 • 10:39:41am

re: #226 The Pie Overlord!

If you buy a jar of half sours they will turn into full sours within a week or so.

The Mrs. likes new pickles. I prefer the full sours. I just have to wait 2-3 weeks and they’re all mine.

229

jaunte Jun 5, 2023 • 10:39:44am

Begun, the pickle wars have.

230

sagehen Jun 5, 2023 • 10:45:50am

re: #180 KGxvi

Even with high profile challenges, I don’t think an incumbent president has participated in a primary debate. Ford didn’t in ‘76, Carter didn’t in ‘80, Bush didn’t in ‘92.

Those high profile challenges are arguably the whole reason those are one-term presidents.

I worked for the Ford campaign in 76, and OMG did we hate Reagan with the white-hot passion of a thousand burning suns. He didn’t just cost Ford re-election, he killed the entire moderate wing of the party. Killed it dead.

231

Targetpractice Jun 5, 2023 • 10:48:52am

re: #227 lawhawk

Jews - we celebrate everything with food.
Jews - we memorialize everything with more food.

As my Jewish friends like to tell me, most Jewish holidays can be summarized as “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!”

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sagehen Jun 5, 2023 • 10:52:01am

re: #194 The Pie Overlord!

Come for the comedians, stay for the extra holidays. (include a good Purim meme, “2-day Halloween with mandatory drinking”)

233

Eventual Carrion Jun 5, 2023 • 10:55:52am

re: #115 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

They do believe in spreading the word. The word is “OBEY”.

Yep. Their idea of freedom is the freedom to do what they say and act as they specify.

Religious freedom = I can’t do that, it is against my religion.
Religious freedom != YOU can’t do that, it is against MY religion.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 5, 2023 • 11:09:21am

re: #220 The Pie Overlord!

We went to a dairy restaurant in Florida and Zedie enjoyed the “impossible cheeseburger.” He said the burger tasted & had the mouthfeel of a regular burger. He also said, having never had a cheeseburger before, that he couldn’t understand the appeal, that the cheese did not add anything to his enjoyment of the burger.

Several delis here in Los Angeles offer Mrs. Goldfarb’s Unreal Pastrami and Corned Beef. They let me taste samples and to me it’s just not the same.

235

A Three Hour Tour Jun 5, 2023 • 11:31:45am

re: #83 Unabogie

I don’t get it. What is the supposed symbol of pedophilia? And how does this exonerate Huckabee from palling around with some truly sick people?

Presumably the flag of Ukraine. One of the people on Charlotte Clymer thread went after someone else supporting Clymer attacking the Duggars for having the symbol for Ukraine alongside their Twitter handle.

If you support Ukraine and trans people, you’re apparently a pedophile to these trolls.

If you support Christian grifters who actually do molest children, you’re good with their God.

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 12:01:26pm

re: #158 Thanos

also, I should have posted this Saturday, but here it is now instead of on June 3rd

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That’s one of the songs if I hear it - I’ll stop and listen to the end.

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BeenHereAwhile Jun 5, 2023 • 12:10:00pm

re: #168 Dave In Austin

Cornell West is running for President on a 3rd party ticket.

Vote for The Magic Black candidate.

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Eventual Carrion Jun 5, 2023 • 12:28:24pm

re: #153 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Agreed.

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quite, 5/6

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 5, 2023 • 1:36:47pm

re: #155 Nerdy Fish

That was a great article, and emphasized that the major roadblock (heh heh) to stock cars racing on non-oval courses is aerodynamics. This is already quite well known; NASCAR has multiple road courses on its annual schedule. Back when the Indianapolis Motor Speedway used to host stock cars on its main track, then known as the “Brickyard 400” (though apparently it got a sponsored name near the end of its existence, unsurprisingly), they did a comparison of the 5.8L V8 and the 2.2L twin-turbo V6 powering the different cars, and found that while the American design at the time lacked many of the refined features of the IndyCar series engines, they both developed similar power and had similar performance characteristics throughout their power bands. A stock car is no slouch.

What part of one is still “stock” however?

Spy Auto

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