Snarky Puppy Is on a Roll: “Free Fall”

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A cinematic new track from the Snarksters, written by keyboard wrangler Justin Stanton.

Snarky Puppy - Free Fall
From ‘Empire Central’ - Available now
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Written by Justin Stanton
Arranged by Justin Stanton and Snarky Puppy

Bob Lanzetti - electric guitar
Mark Lettieri - electric guitar
Chris McQueen - electric guitar
Justin Stanton - Fender Rhodes Mark 8 and Yamaha CP70 electric piano
Bobby Sparks - Hammond B3 organ, ARP String Ensemble, and Minimoog Model D
Bill Laurance - Prophet 10
Shaun Martin - Mellotron, Moog Little Phatty, and Korg Kronos
Zach Brock - violin
Mike “Maz” Maher - trumpet
Jay Jennings - trumpet and flugelhorn
Chris Bullock - tenor sax and flute
Bob Reynolds - tenor sax
Michael League - Minimoog Model D bass
Nate Werth - percussion
Keita Ogawa - percussion
Marcelo Woloski - percussion
Jason “JT” Thomas - drum set
Larnell Lewis - drum set
Jamison Ross - drum set

Jep Jorba - Director / camera operator
David Bretones - Director of Photography / camera operator
Brad Holt - Line producer / camera operator
Andrew Redd - Gaffer / camera operator
Chris Brian - Camera operator
Ranjani Groth - Camera operator
Jun Kang - Camera operator
Emily Holt - Camera operator
Reid Walker - Dolly operator
Joseph Fisher - Dolly Operator

Produced by Michael League and Snarky Puppy
Engineered by Nic Hard, Matt Recchia, and Michael Harrison
Engineering assisted by Skyler Childress, Michael League, and Shakthi Prasad KT
Mixed by Nic Hard
Mastered by Dave McNair
Recorded and filmed March 3-10, 2022, at Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas, Texas, USA
Mixed March 15 - April 7, 2022, at Estudi Vint in Els Prats de Rei, Catalonia, Spain
Photography by Brian Friedman and Jep Jorba
Video edited by Michael League and Jep Jorba
Film consulting by Andy LaViolette
Production managed by Rosanna Freedman
Project managed by Jamie Margulies
Stage assembled by Mason Davis, Matt Recchia, Rosanna Freedman, and Michael Harrison
Graphic design by Claire Morales
Managed by Mike Chadwick Management

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:17:58am

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jeffreyw  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:18:27am

Statler and Waldorf Classic Compilation Awesome

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BigPapa  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:22:08am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:23:55am

Joe Lieberman is using ‘No Labels’ to get his revenge on the Democrats

salon.com

Back in April, I wrote about the potential sabotage of the 2024 presidential election at the hands of the centrist group No Labels. They were signaling that they planned to run a third-party “unity” ticket to satisfy the wishes of the majority of the public who are telling pollsters that they are unsatisfied with what looks to be a replay of the 2020 election. The group already gathered a lot of money, which they are not required to reveal because they claim they are not a political party (even though they are setting up affiliate groups in the states that are calling themselves parties.) They insist they are not trying to be spoilers, but that raises the question of what they are doing. If you ask them, they don’t seem to have any idea.

At the time I wrote that piece it was unclear if they were serious at all. There’s a lot of money to be made in organizing groups like this and the argument is tailormade to appeal to wealthy donors who yearn for things like “entitlement reform” (especially privatization of Social Security and Medicare) and what they call “common sense” solutions to difficult issues like climate change. But it’s not just about the money, that much is clear. The group has actually started holding events to sell their idea of a unity ticket.

On Monday, they hosted one in New Hampshire featuring everyone’s favorite Senate diva, Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia, along with a congenial bucket of warm water, former Republican Utah governor Jon Huntsman. They called their gathering a “Common Sense Townhall,” showing that they have a great sense of humor if nothing else. The GOP is going to run Donald Trump for president, a man who was twice impeached, tried to illegally overturn the election and is now looking at his third indictment in less than a year — and he’s polling very close to Joe Biden. The idea that it’s common sense for any Democrat or moderate Republican to run a third-party candidacy at a time when we are facing one of the most serious political challenges in our history is very dark comedy. There has never been a worse time to do something like this.

One thing is very clear: a No Labels ticket doesn’t have a prayer of winning. So once again, you have to wonder why they are doing it?

So what’s motivating this effort and Lieberman in particular? I think it’s what’s been motivating him ever since 2006 when progressives, tired of his endless centrist posturing, beat him in the primary at which point he became an Independent and never looked back. He caucused with the Democrats for the rest of his career but made it his mission to stab the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the back whenever possible, most famously when he single-handedly killed the Public Option in the Affordable Care Act after supporting it for years.

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BigPapa  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:26:52am

BTW: I enjoyed Barbie but wasn’t expecting to. I expected campy and fantasy and it was, but there was lots of satire and commentary ladled with sharp-witted allegory. The reason I like it was why wingnuts hated it. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling really committed to their parts. I don’t know if I would consider it a musical, but there was a little musical-y parts, which is not my jam, but I found it fun and appropro.

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Thanos  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:27:09am

Meanwhile out in music land, Jason Isbell been delivering truck fulls of shade
huffpost.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:35:10am

re: #5 BigPapa

BTW: I enjoyed Barbie but wasn’t expecting to. I expected campy and fantasy and it was, but there was lots of satire and commentary ladled with sharp-witted allegory. The reason I like it was why wingnuts hated it. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling really committed to their parts. I don’t know if I would consider it a musical, but there was a little musical-y parts, which is not my jam, but I found it fun and appropro.

I’ll see Barbie next week, but it’s my understanding from critic’s reviews that Ryan Gosling damn near stole the show. Seems he has quite the deft touch for comedy.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:36:06am
OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush was an ambitious entrepreneur with a fatal flaw.

With his plan to create a “SpaceX for the oceans,” Rush embodied Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” mantra, pushing innovation to the limits of safety.

Like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, he exhibited the confidence and hubris that is common among entrepreneurs who think the world doesn’t understand what they do, sources told Insider.

Rush was among the five passengers who died on OceanGate’s Titan submersible on June 18 after it imploded on a dive to see the Titanic shipwreck.

The incident came as a shock to the world, but for many industry experts, it was a disaster waiting to happen.

“Few of us ever have a fatal flaw and Rush did,” Arnie Weissmann, the editor in chief of Travel Weekly, told Insider. “He thought he was right or he wouldn’t have gotten in [the submersible] and piloted it, but that was a fatal flaw.”

OceanGate’s CEO wanted to be the Elon Musk of the deep, say former colleagues. His dream was a disaster waiting to happen (Insider)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:38:19am

hello…hello..hello…is there anybody in there?

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:39:24am

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

tailormade to appeal to wealthy donors who yearn for things like “entitlement reform” (especially privatization of Social Security and Medicare) and what they call “common sense” solutions to difficult issues like climate change

Here are the No Labels (plutocratic GOP) ideas to address climate change:
- small, but escalating taxes on carbon energy sources, which will be passed on to consumers
- no support for green energy sources (because government ‘shouldn’t pick winners and losers,’ (but of course no mention of eliminating subsidies for petroleum)
- ‘getting out from under the burden of imported oil’ which means subsidizing domestic producers to produce even more

newhavenindependent.org

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Captain Ron  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:39:41am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:44:17am

These Christians took preacher Robin D. Bullock seriously. Now they’re screwed.

open.substack.com

Robin D. Bullock is another one of those right-wing preachers whose clips evoke more laughter than fear. He’s claimed, among other things, that he saw a dinosaur in Heaven, that Jesus had five houses, and that God lives inside a cube of gelatin.

But Bullock makes plenty of political and theological statements, too, from his perch at Church International in Warrior, Alabama. So when he spreads conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden and COVID vaccines, and says God wants people to join his church, that message actually gets through to people who watch his services online.

Reporter Lee Hedgepeth recently published a truly disturbing article about one Ohio family—Jacob and Tammy Partlow and their two children—that literally sold their house to move closer to Bullock and his Alabama church. They discovered rather quickly, however, that Bullock functions as more of a cult leader who puts himself above God rather than a preacher who can convey biblical messages in an effective way. Once Bullock realized they weren’t interested in worshiping him, he effectively shunned the family, leaving them with nothing to show for their faith.

Now, the Partlows have found themselves rising to challenges made all the more difficult by their experience with the Warrior church. The family, which had been able to make ends meet in Ohio, has found it hard to get by in Alabama, a state whose social safety net has holes so large it’s easy to fall through. Tammy, for example, found out she suffers from multiple sclerosis (MS), a degenerative disease that has already made it difficult for her to walk. And the diagnosis, she said, has become a financial albatross in a state that has refused to expand Medicaid for low-income Alabamians.

The Partlows had stepped out in faith, they told Tread. Now, they’re struggling for food.

The Partlows, we’re told, saw Bullock’s services on YouTube and became hooked. They quickly became donors, giving the church “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars.”

During a recent trip to Florida, they stopped by the church and met Bullock, who told them God wanted them to move to Warrior. So they did. They began attending services in person. That’s when they realized Bullock wasn’t just preaching the Bible.

It’s such a depressing story. It’s not an isolated one either. In fact, Hedgepeth also reported on another woman who moved to Warrior a couple of months ago… only to find herself on the outs with Bullock. 82-year-old Janet Ndegwa moved to Alabama from Pomona, California all because she felt God was calling her to do that. Bullock literally urged viewers to do that in a sermon.

But when she arrived at Church International earlier this week, Ndegwa did not find the open arms she’d expected. Instead, as the sun set over Warrior, the 82-year-old curled up under a street lamp in front of the church with only the concrete to comfort her.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:47:03am

re: #8 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

He actually did achieve his dream of being the Elon of the Deep.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:48:41am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:53:29am

re: #12 Joe Bacon ✅

A lot of what he says is obviously crazy, but how did he find out about the gelatin? That’s a closely guarded secret in the church.
/

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sagehen  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:54:31am

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

So what’s motivating this effort and Lieberman in particular? I think it’s what’s been motivating him ever since 2006 when progressives, tired of his endless centrist posturing, beat him in the primary at which point he became an Independent and never looked back. He caucused with the Democrats for the rest of his career but made it his mission to stab the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the back whenever possible, most famously when he single-handedly killed the Public Option in the Affordable Care Act after supporting it for years.

He’s never stabbed them in the back, not once.

He’s stabbed them just under the ribcage, thrust upward and twisted the knife, while looking them straight in the eyes. Every time.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:55:42am

re: #13 Charles Johnson

He actually did achieve his dream of being the Elon of the Deep.

Elon can only dream of dying on Mars due to massive overconfidence.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 21, 2023 • 11:59:51am

re: #17 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Elon WE can only dream of dying on Mars due to massive overconfidence.

Fify

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:04:44pm

re: #8 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

OceanGate’s CEO wanted to be the Elon Musk of the deep, say former colleagues. His dream was a disaster waiting to happen (Insider)

You would think that people would understand that breaking things 13k feet underwater isn’t a winning strategy, but then again I’m not an innovative tech guy, so what do I know.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:04:51pm

Mastodon

Word came from C&L management Wednesday that our own John Amato had been in a car accident. The email read, “Sounds like he was sandwiched between the Lexus on the right and some other bigass car on the left — Lexus hit him, and then he slammed on brakes and hit the guy on the left, jamming his knee in the process.”

While all of the staff here expressed worry and concern, we knew within an hour that Amato was in the hospital, stable, and having X-rays on his knee.

That’s when we thought about the old car. John’s old BMW is over 20 years old. As one staffer put it, “That’s the fear I live with. Old car from the 90s, please don’t hit me. Because anything will be a total.”

By 6 pm we heard from the man himself:

“The Beamer is dead. Just had my x-rays waiting in hospital room. My patella bone is split in half so I have to get surgery so they can put it back together. Love you guys”

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:05:17pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:05:45pm

Hunter Biden’s attorney files ethics complaint against Marjorie Taylor Greene for showing sexual images

thehill.com

Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Friday, requesting that an ethics watchdog “immediately” initiate a review of Greene’s conduct after she showed sexually explicit photos of Biden at a congressional hearing this week.

In a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), Biden attorney Abbe David Lowell slammed Greene’s actions as “abhorrent behavior that blatantly violates House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct.”

“Now more than ever, the House has a duty to make loud and clear that it does not endorse, condone, or agree with her outrageous, undignified conduct and brazen violations of the standards of official conduct that do not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives,” Lowell wrote.

The OCE is a non-partisan, independent entity previously established by the House that reviews allegations of misconduct involving lawmakers, officers and House staffers and, if warranted, refers matters to the Ethics Committee.

Greene and the OCE did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:06:58pm

Putin’s been having a busy day of housecleaning…


Seems it’s the turn of the Russian ultra-nationalists now. Putin seems to realize that some of his most previously ardent supporters may now well comprise a very serious threat to himself.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:08:42pm

re: #19 No Malarkey!

You would think that people would understand that breaking things 13k feet underwater isn’t a winning strategy, but then again I’m not an innovative tech guy, so what do I know.

It could be with drones, but putting people in the amateur death capsule to test it is insane.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:09:58pm

re: #21 darthstar

That’s a very pretty outfit.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:12:14pm

If Andy wins reelection in November, since he is term limited I could see him throwing his hat in the ring for 2028 and ending up as the VP nominee.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:14:06pm

re: #25 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That’s a very pretty outfit.

Bet it’s one of those duct tape dresses.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:15:34pm

re: #25 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That’s a very pretty outfit.

Agreed. If I ever need a ball gown, I’d like that one.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:20:30pm

re: #19 No Malarkey!

You would think that people would understand that breaking things 13k feet underwater isn’t a winning strategy, but then again I’m not an innovative tech guy, so what do I know.

Common sense? Sounds like you know that.

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Captain Ron  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:21:11pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:28:54pm

Missouri Supreme Court smacks down their Attorney General and orders the Abortion Initiative to appear on the ballot.

alternet.org

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:32:10pm

Luke wrote a waltz dedicated to his friends in Vienna, and it sounds like he borrowed freely from some famous classical pieces. Also, for some reason, I can imagine this being in an anime.

Oh, and he has a knack for finding performance venues:

Valse Bohémienne | DARK ACADEMIA | Luke Faulkner


..

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:33:43pm
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darthstar  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:35:26pm

re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth

He’s investigating a publicly traded company’s wokeness?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:35:26pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅

Missouri Supreme Court smacks down their Attorney General and orders the Abortion Initiative to appear on the ballot.

alternet.org

To be completely accurate, the pro-choice side can begin collecting signatures to get the initiative on the ballot.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:35:50pm

re: #34 darthstar

He’s investigating a publicly traded company’s wokeness?

Gotta find something to spend that corruption money on.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:36:08pm

re: #34 darthstar

He’s investigating a publicly traded company’s wokeness?

He’s been clear that he’s a fascist.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:37:51pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:40:32pm

re: #38 EstebanTornado1963

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tfg loves to choose people who look like they’re from Central Casting.

And since SAG is now on strike, he’s not getting the best even there.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:42:35pm

ummm….

Authorities in Texas want to find out who stuffed a body inside a suitcase and left it on the side of a hill. The luggage was first spotted on Thursday by people who were feeding animals on the ranch in Bexar County, according to Sheriff Javier Salazar.

“There wasn’t really a whole lot of effort to hide the body, other than it was inside of a suitcase,” Salazar said during a briefing with reporters.

Authorities have not been able to identify the body.

“We don’t know anything about the gender of the remains or how long the remains have been out here,” Salazar said.

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:44:31pm

re: #38 EstebanTornado1963

Ah, the “You ain’t got nothin’ on me, copper!” defense. Good luck with that.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:44:50pm

re: #38 EstebanTornado1963

LOL that guy makes Saul Goodman look like Perry Mason. Trump’s so fucked 😄

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:46:00pm
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:46:14pm

re: #40 Backwoods Sleuth

Sounds to me like the body is pretty much fully skeletonized, so that’ll require some serious forensic investigation.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:46:43pm

re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth

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I bet these big corporations never thought the leopards would come eat their face.

Turns out, populism means everyone is game for targeting from those armed with a massive sense of entitlement and rage at all things not them.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:47:16pm
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:48:09pm

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

LOL that guy makes Saul Goodman look like Perry Mason. Trump’s so fucked 😄

when it came to actual law, saul goodman was a fairly good lawyer (imo, ianal).
notwithstanding who his clients were

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:49:12pm
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:58:41pm

Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

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Lilah  Jul 21, 2023 • 12:59:56pm

re: #21 darthstar
Ha!
I just wrote to Randy Rainbow imploring him to lampoon Jason Aldean—and everyone else who thinks that song isn’t Brownshirt-esque—with “Try That in a Ball Gown” as the hook.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:01:33pm

cry mohr

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:05:52pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

A lot of what he says is obviously crazy, but how did he find out about the gelatin? That’s a closely guarded secret in the church.
/

It’s not gelatin. It’s gefilte fish jelly.

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Thanos  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:06:01pm

New from Molly Tuttle’s latest

The First Time I Fell in Love

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:07:09pm

re: #51 Backwoods Sleuth

cry mohr

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A “Trump Spokesperson”.

Let me guess: John Barron.

//

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Mike Lamb  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:07:19pm

re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth

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It remains wild to me that DeSantis thinks this plays to a broad enough audience to even win the GOP primary, much less the general.

The other issue, is that you need to be about 100x more charismatic than DeSantis in order to run as a culture warrior. For fuck’s sake, at least add some nuance to it. A noun, a verb, and “woke” is so fucking stupid.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:10:46pm

apparently he only requires a tiny amount of coverage…

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:11:42pm

re: #55 Mike Lamb

It remains wild to me that DeSantis thinks this plays to a broad enough audience to even win the GOP primary, much less the general.

The other issue, is that you need to be about 100x more charismatic than DeSantis in order to run as a culture warrior. For fuck’s sake, at least add some nuance to it. A noun, a verb, and “woke” is so fucking stupid.

DeSantis has lost support among college educated Republicans who thought he would be a mainstream alternative to Trump, and they saw that instead he intended to run as the most extreme culture warrior in the race.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:12:39pm

re: #56 Backwoods Sleuth

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apparently he only requires a tiny amount of coverage…

Not enough to hang a hat on?

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Unabogie  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:15:07pm

re: #48 Backwoods Sleuth

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And rightly so! How can we possibly allow a professor to teach our brightest minds if they’ve ever advocated that people other than white men work in the newsroom as Jesus commanded?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:18:17pm

re: #48 Backwoods Sleuth

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steve_davis  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:19:34pm

re: #40 Backwoods Sleuth

ummm….

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is it missing a head? Could be beethoven.

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:23:30pm

re: #61 steve_davis

is it missing a head? Could be beethoven.

“Head out on the highway”

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wrenchwench  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:28:28pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:36:41pm

Tony Bennett - Once Upon A Time

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:37:03pm

To Ensure They Never Invite You Back by Bobby LeFebre, poet laureate for the state of Colorado.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:47:23pm

re: #34 darthstar

He’s investigating a publicly traded company’s wokeness?

The attacks the RW launched against Bud Light for a benign ad campaign may have been responsible for the dip in stock value. DeSantis is vile and will definitely use the power of the government to crush any business that dissents from his Nazi outlook on the future of our nation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:50:09pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

A lot of what he says is obviously crazy, but how did he find out about the gelatin? That’s a closely guarded secret in the church.
/

I remember thinking once “What if there had been Jell-O at the Last Supper.?”

Jesus “And this green Jello-O is my body, watch it wiggle!”

And imagine what Holy Communion would sound like: “The body of Christ” *schlurp*

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:50:45pm

ETA - Sorry, I did not connect the earlier comments to this particular performative stupidity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:51:30pm

re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅

Hunter Biden’s attorney files ethics complaint against Marjorie Taylor Greene for showing sexual images

Hunter Biden is as far as I know, not an athlete or a public figure and despite his notoriety, has a claim to a certain degree of privacy.

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silverdolphin  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:52:18pm

re: #48 Backwoods Sleuth

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Destroying the education system is what the GOP wants to do.Here is someone being losing a job because of their views, which are held by the majority of Americans. hisis censorship.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:53:35pm

Jason Aldean’s Pro-Lynching Video Pulled From Country Music Television On Account Of ‘Pro-Lynching’ (Wonkette, July 19, 2023)

Monday, CMT yanked the video for country music singer Jason Aldean’s gross new single, “Try That in a Small Town,” after a few days of collective open-mouthed horror at the offensive images and message.

Aldean’s label, Broken Bow Records/BMG, released the video Friday and it was in rotation on CMT through Sunday, presumably until someone actually watched it.

The video was almost comically offensive. Aldean appears in front of a Tennessee courthouse with the flag behind him. It is the US flag, not the Confederate, so that’s something at least. However, according to Ashton Pittman at the Mississippi Free Press, this is also the site “where a white lynch mob strung Henry Choate up at the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, after dragging his body through the streets with a car in 1927. That’s where Aldean chose to sing about murdering people who don’t respect police.”

(more)

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:54:04pm
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:55:42pm

re: #68 ckkatz

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this is not a thing

…DeSantis says that by signing up a trans influencer as a spokesperson, AB InBev (producer of Budweiser products) might have “breached legal duties owed to its shareholders.” Since Florida’s pension fund holds 682,000 shares of AB InBev stock, DeSantis says he wants the state’s pension fund manager to file suit. We don’t know if the pension fund manager (whose name is Ashbel C. Williams) can be fired by the Governor, but probably not. And if we’re right, then the pension fund manager isn’t going to spend 2 minutes considering this suggestion, since he’d be laughed out of court if he tried it.

Link

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:57:25pm

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:59:26pm

re: #73 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

The state of Florida is going to launch an inquiry into a single, 45-second sponsored Instagram video for a beer company? Really? This is serious government work?

It’s all about making sure that woke dies in Florida even if they have to burn down the state to kill it

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wrenchwench  Jul 21, 2023 • 1:59:27pm

re: #74 Vicious Babushka

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When I saw that at mastodon, my brain went ‘Delicious Babushka’. Maybe it was my stomach.

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cat-tikvah  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:03:13pm

re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember thinking once “What if there had been Jell-O at the Last Supper.?”

Jesus “And this green Jello-O is my body, watch it wiggle!”

And imagine what Holy Communion would sound like: “The body of Christ” *schlurp*

Suzy Eddie Izzard spelled it out

Eddie Izzard - The Holy Communion

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Jay C  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:03:24pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

When I saw that at mastodon, my brain went ‘Delicious Babushka’. Maybe it was my stomach.

Nope… likely your eyeballs.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:03:25pm

A 59-year-old man in Ohio who is well-known for impersonating Mark Hamil’s Luke Skywalker character from “Star Wars” at local charity events was arrested this week on more than half a dozen criminal charges for allegedly trafficking child sexual abuse material online. John Stevens was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with eight counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a report from Cincinnati, Ohio, NBC affiliate WLWT, deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office earlier this month received a tip from a watchdog organization regarding suspicious material being uploaded to the cloud. The case was taken over by the office’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Investigators with the task force were reportedly able to trace the IP address back to Stevens, who was later placed under arrest and booked into the Hamilton County Justice Center

Stevens appeared before a judge at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Thursday morning where Assistant Prosecuting Attorney David R. Wood asked the court to set a high bond amount for Stevens, citing the repugnant nature of the alleged material he uploaded.

lawandcrime.com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:05:26pm

re: #74 Vicious Babushka

OHMAGERD!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:08:17pm

re: #79 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

UGH. That sucks. I really liked that guy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:08:32pm

re: #400 teleskiguy

From the Driftglass article:

anyone to the Left of us is a degenerate threat to civilization, and anyone to the Right of us, no matter how clearly, bugfuck crazy they are, is an ally.

And that’s why if Trump falls, the majority of Republican voters will vote for DeSantis. The answer will always be “who the hell else can I vote for?”

Since that line up there has been the driving force of the Republican Party my entire life, they only can move further right, straight into fascism.

Pat Buchanan and Rev. Pat Robertson may not have won their GOP primary elections, but the party already had a space for an open fascist and a theocrat way back when.

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:08:55pm

I’m seeing some reports about ‘Oppenheimer’ losing audio.

(Toronto, Canada)
Guy says “We’ll try to get it up and running in the next 5 minutes. If not I’ll update you guys as time goes on.”


.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:09:23pm

Health update:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:10:17pm

re: #73 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

this is not a thing

Sure it is. They can run as many “inquiries” as they like. The Culture Wars (tm) must be fought.

It’s not their money. Why do they care?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:12:04pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

UGH. That sucks. I really liked that guy.

I hadn’t heard of him. It’s a shame that Mark Hamill had praised him, of course having no idea what the guy was up to. Monsters walk among us, and some of them seem like really nice people on the surface.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:12:49pm

re: #84 Vicious Babushka

Health update:

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:13:45pm

Trump’s Trial Date Is a Nightmare for Republicans

and the winning comment is:

Just maybe it’s not the best idea to nominate a guy facing dozens of felony charges in the first place. You would think someone may have considered that…instead of cowering in fear of him.

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Captain Magic  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:15:32pm

re: #84 Vicious Babushka

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:15:58pm

re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From the Driftglass article:

And that’s why if Trump falls, the majority of Republican voters will vote for DeSantis. The answer will always be “who the hell else can I vote for?”

Since that line up there has been the driving force of the Republican Party my entire life, they only can move further right, straight into fascism.

Pat Buchanan and Rev. Pat Robertson may not have won their GOP primary elections, but the party already had a space for an open fascist and a theocrat way back when.

probably yes but it wont be enough. (hopefully)
an awful lot of trump supporters would not vote for desantis

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:18:17pm

Authoritarians try to damage institutions. The institutions have to defend themselves. In this case Netanyahu went after democracy. The Air Force Chief is defending the very basis of the Israeli Defense Forces.

MAGA is going after democracy and US institutions, including the military, based upon it here as well.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:18:54pm

re: #90 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

DeSantis has the charisma of a soggy 99cent-store paper towel.

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steve_davis  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:20:51pm

season 2 gangs of london: the mother being alive was a pretty far bridge; the son being alive may be a bridge too far to jump the shark.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:21:14pm

re: #89 Captain Magic

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:21:16pm

re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

DeSantis has the charisma of a soggy 99cent-store paper towel.

from that same link above

Poll after poll after poll shows that voters, even Republican voters, don’t care about anti-wokeness, and largely don’t even know what it means. They like someone who “owns the libs,” yes, but it’s not the same thing. Donald Trump gets it, and he’s not even all that smart. At the same time, poll after poll shows that DeSantis is no threat to the former president, and that the gap is growing.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:21:24pm

re: #83 ckkatz

I’m seeing some reports about ‘Oppenheimer’ losing audio.

(Toronto, Canada)
Guy says “We’ll try to get it up and running in the next 5 minutes. If not I’ll update you guys as time goes on.”

[Embedded content]

“The movie THEY don’t want you to see….or hear parts of.”

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Charles Johnson  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:23:10pm

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:23:14pm

I have informed my daughter that if she can find a cineplex playing Oppenheimer and Barbie at roughly the same time, I will gladly drive her there and watch the former while she enjoys the latter.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:23:41pm

re: #83 ckkatz

I’m seeing some reports about ‘Oppenheimer’ losing audio.

(Toronto, Canada)
Guy says “We’ll try to get it up and running in the next 5 minutes. If not I’ll update you guys as time goes on.”

[Embedded content]

The effects are too good. The EMP took out the sound.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:24:29pm

re: #95 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Trump does not care if he destroys the GOP. I suspect he’d love to go down in history as the guy who does it.

Trump is about Trump. He’s as narcissistic as it gets (for a national political figure.)

He believes (and he may be correct) that he can be elected President even if he has a trial, or multiple trials, going on.

And being in legal trouble is something he’ll use as a fundraising tool.

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Captain Magic  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:25:06pm

re: #94 Vicious Babushka

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:25:29pm

re: #96 Barefoot Grin

“The movie THEY don’t want you to see….or hear parts of.”

Heh, Ben Collins retweeted a guy who had the exact same thought with the same snark feeling as you did regarding the original post -

Ben Collins Retweeted
JokerSince23 @FanSince09 20h

Very suspicious because the last 40 minutes are when Oppenheimer exposes and stops a sex trafficking ring

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TarHellion  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:25:45pm

A little late to the game today. But anytime is the right time for Birbie time.

Gonna check out Oppenheimer tomorrow with a buddy of mine. The theater has a showing with subtitles - which us aging dudes should find helpful. I pretty much watch Netflix, Max, Amazon, etc. stuff with subtitles now anyway.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:29:23pm

re: #12 Joe Bacon ✅

My sympathy is nonexistent for these people. **shrugs**

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Belafon  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:29:49pm

re: #99 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The effects are too good. The EMP took out the sound.

I hear everyone is walking out with a sunburn on one side of their bodies. /

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:30:46pm

Stasi (East German Secret Police) was well known for this kind of stuff. Rearranging furniture when the target was at work. Or taking something obvious one day and returning it the next. Taking a dump in the middle of the living room floor. Etc…

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wrenchwench  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:32:05pm

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:32:43pm

They really don’t like black people voting

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:34:43pm

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trump does not care if he destroys the GOP. I suspect he’d love to go down in history as the guy who does it.

Trump is about Trump. He’s as narcissistic as it gets (for a national political figure.)

He believes (and he may be correct) that he can be elected President even if he has a trial, or multiple trials, going on.

And being in legal trouble is something he’ll use as a fundraising tool.

He has to, because that is how he is paying his legal expenses

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:35:29pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:36:45pm

re: #108 No Malarkey!

They really don’t like black people voting

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Why would they do that? Are they trying to get it to back to SCOTUS or something?

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Belafon  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:36:46pm

re: #108 No Malarkey!

They really don’t like black people voting

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:36:47pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:37:25pm

re: #113 Backwoods Sleuth

Yeah, I’m sure his “producers” made him do that.

Asshole was probably first in line down there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:37:59pm

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trump does not care if he destroys the GOP. I suspect he’d love to go down in history as the guy who does it.

.

The Tea Partiers, the ur-Trumpers, also said they hated all political parties, they just found the GOP the least despicable

They are loyal to Trump because he has managed to maintain his image (to them at least) of the ultimate political outsider. the anti-politician

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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:39:29pm

Mastodon

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CleverToad  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:42:01pm

re: #84 Vicious Babushka

Health update:

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:43:04pm

re: #74 Vicious Babushka

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I just look at that cake and oh it would go so good with a cup of coffee! ❤️

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:44:01pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:44:52pm

re: #84 Vicious Babushka

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Belafon  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:49:26pm

re: #112 Belafon

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Belafon  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:50:18pm

re: #121 Belafon

And what will be fun is enforcing it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:50:34pm

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trump does not care if he destroys the GOP. I suspect he’d love to go down in history as the guy who does it.

Trump is about Trump. He’s as narcissistic as it gets (for a national political figure.)

He believes (and he may be correct) that he can be elected President even if he has a trial, or multiple trials, going on.

And being in legal trouble is something he’ll use as a fundraising tool.

Let him suck all three money out of all races so republicans doing have any kind of war chest available to them anywhere.

And republicans are a minority of voters. MAGA freaks even more so.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:52:44pm

“casualty wire”…JFC

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:52:48pm

re: #119 Backwoods Sleuth

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Yeah that is the most American thing I’ve seen…A Trump Supporter in a mobility device who is probably on Social Security screaming that Trump will come back…and she will gladly vote for Republicans who have said they want to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:52:49pm

re: #113 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

“My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’”

sure they did.

are you an adult?
could you not say ‘no thanks”?

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:53:08pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

I just look at that cake and oh it would go so good with a cup of coffee! ❤️

Zed is enjoying a slice of cake with a cup of coffee right now. It’s his reward for mopping the kitchen floor.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:54:47pm

re: #124 Backwoods Sleuth

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“casualty wire”…JFC

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:55:12pm

re: #126 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Life is grim when you’re in the business of being a perpetually offended victim.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:55:18pm

re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg

Why would they do that? Are they trying to get it to back to SCOTUS or something?

I think so.

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jaunte  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:56:15pm

“But it’s a dry clout.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:56:27pm

The guy was freaking prophetic

Peter Gabriel And Through the Wire

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:56:35pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:58:10pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 2:59:34pm

re: #133 Backwoods Sleuth

Ron thinks Benjy had a Barbie and Ken doll.

I got a feeling Benjy didn’t want this doll because it intimidated him…

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:00:20pm

My daughter went to see the Barbie movie last night with her girlfriends and they laughed nonstop for 2 hours. I asked if she is taking her daughters (ages 10 & 6) and she said, “Oh no, there is too much adult stuff in there!”

I said “There is always some adult content in these movies but kids don’t notice it.”

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:01:02pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅

Ron thinks Benjy had a Barbie and Ken doll.

I got a feeling Benjy didn’t want this doll because it intimidated him…

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When he pulled the string, it called him a “fool” and that made him feel bad.

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Captain Ron  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:02:15pm
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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:02:20pm

re: #136 Vicious Babushka

My daughter went to see the Barbie movie last night with her girlfriends and they laughed nonstop for 2 hours. I asked if she is taking her daughters (ages 10 & 6) and she said, “Oh no, there is too much adult stuff in there!”

I said “There is always some adult content in these movies but kids don’t notice it.”

Cool grandma should take them!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:03:05pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:03:32pm

re: #138 Captain Ron

FOX NEWS ALERT: BIDEN SEEN WEARING SNEAKERS INSTEAD OF DRESS SHOES

tan suits literally pale in comparison

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:03:43pm

re: #138 Captain Ron

So nice to see FAUX have a foot fetish for Biden.

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:05:12pm

My housekeeper didn’t show today because she wasn’t sure if we were still isolating. Looks like i’m changing the bed and cleaning the floors myself again this week. Oh, and then she texts to say I can pay her with Zelle going forward so I don’t have to use up all my checks. (She’s pretty much the only person I write checks to now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:05:33pm

re: #142 Joe Bacon ✅

So nice to see FAUX have a foot fetish for Biden.

More proof that he is unfit for the Presidency?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:06:39pm

re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

More proof that he is unfit for the Presidency?

They can’t handle looking at that nekkid left ankle.

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Belafon  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:10:13pm

re: #145 Joe Bacon ✅

They can’t handle looking at that nekkid left ankle.

Next week, Greene will have it on a poster.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:13:17pm

re: #146 Belafon

Next week, Greene will have it on a poster.

Just wait till a bunch of pulpit pimps start to pray that Joe gets athlete’s foot…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:13:36pm

re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅

Wait till sexy time pics of Marge get leaked with all her dudes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:14:38pm

yeah MTG and her tantric sex guru…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:16:26pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:17:12pm

re: #149 Joe Bacon ✅

yeah MTG and her tantric sex guru…

cage scissoring match with Lauren Bobert

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:21:07pm

So if you’re a 3%er and a 1%er shopping at Walmart that makes you a 4%er? Also, kudos to the cops for using the electric scooter to drag her lazy ass out of the store. She’s probably illegally parked in a handicap spot.

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:22:53pm

re: #134 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

This is the first time I’ve ever cheered for a Trump lawyer to win his argument. Televise the hearings, by all means.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:23:42pm

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

JFC you made me throw up in my mouth.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:24:13pm

re: #154 Vicious Babushka

JFC you made me throw up in my mouth.

THIS.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:24:23pm

re: #152 darthstar

So if you’re a 3%er and a 1%er shopping at Walmart that makes you a 4%er? Also, kudos to the cops for using the electric scooter to drag her lazy ass out of the store. She’s probably illegally parked in a handicap spot.

It’s not illegal to park in a handicap slot if you have a disability tag.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:24:26pm

re: #133 Backwoods Sleuth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:25:59pm

re: #153 darthstar

This is the first time I’ve ever cheered for a Trump lawyer to win his argument. Televise the hearings, by all means.

Our nation is already a bad parody of itself, This would be the biggest goat rodeo ever seen

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:26:25pm

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

cage scissoring match with Lauren Bobert

no…no…no…no…please…no…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:27:45pm

re: #153 darthstar

This is the first time I’ve ever cheered for a Trump lawyer to win his argument. Televise the hearings, by all means.

I’m not sure I like the idea of giving Trump hours and hours of free campaign ads.

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sagehen  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:35:06pm

re: #108 No Malarkey!

They really don’t like black people voting

[Embedded content]

what are the criteria for the Supremes to remove a state’s E.V. from the totals?

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jeffreyw  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:35:38pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:35:39pm

re: #161 sagehen

what are the criteria for the Supremes to remove a state’s E.V. from the totals?

You think the Calvinball court would ever do that to a deep red state?

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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:35:45pm

Got a 2:30 p.m. matinee for Oppenheimer in IMAX (not 70mm, nearest places to me that offer that is DFW or Phoenix metro) Sunday afternoon in Denver metro. Good seats too, not quite dead center but close, three rows up from the rail on the upper tier.

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Belafon  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:36:44pm

re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m not sure I like the idea of giving Trump hours and hours of free campaign ads.

But are you against the idea of Trump giving Biden hours and hours of free campaign ads?

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darthstar  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:38:18pm

re: #165 Belafon

But are you against the idea of Trump giving Biden hours and hours of free campaign ads?

A live trump trial on TV would be a non-stop campaign ad for Democrats from the Governor’s seats down to local county commissioners.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:39:46pm

Like ‘wearing a speedo’: Fox News freaks out over Biden’s sneakers

REALLY? Are they that jealous at FAUX?

Yes they are!

alternet.org

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:40:48pm

re: #167 Joe Bacon ✅

Please tell me Joe has a tan suit in his closet.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:41:49pm

re: #152 darthstar

So if you’re a 3%er and a 1%er shopping at Walmart that makes you a 4%er? Also, kudos to the cops for using the electric scooter to drag her lazy ass out of the store. She’s probably illegally parked in a handicap spot.

I liked how she screamed she won’t shut up and she won’t sit down.

I’m like: “beloved, do you even hear yourself?”

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EPR-radar  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:42:22pm

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

Please tell me Joe has a tan suit in his closet.

It would be clever for Biden to save the tan suit moment for a debate (if any are held this time around).

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EPR-radar  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:44:27pm

re: #166 darthstar

A live trump trial on TV would be a non-stop campaign ad for Democrats from the Governor’s seats down to local county commissioners.

That’s how it works in normal reality, the one we all inhabit.

In right wing alternate reality, a Trump trial on TV would be nonstop campaign ads for Republicans running against the “deep state”.

The election in 2024 is to decide which version of reality will prevail.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:48:19pm

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BeachDem  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:52:57pm

re: #95 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

from that same link above

I think Hunter at kos describes DeSantis best:

Sweet merciful crap, has this guy ever had a moment of joy in his life? His every public appearance stinks of a man who’s still angry over being potty-trained as a toddler, a man who’s spent his whole life since that moment seething with resentment at his mom, and Big Toilet, and society at large. The man makes Hannibal Lecter look like a quirky free spirit…

we’re now seeing fresh reports about how DeSantis will be “rebooting” his campaign, just you wait and see. What will be the focus of this new reboot? Apparently the DeSantis camp has decided their candidate wasn’t enough of a preening fascist asshole, so they’re going to up his preening fascist asshole traits to “still mad about Bud Light” levels. Yeah, that’ll bring the voters in. What Republican voters really want is someone who can pivot from being super-duper mad at the Walt Disney Company to being super-duper mad about an international beer conglomerate.

dailykos.com

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wrenchwench  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:55:05pm

re: #172 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

That should work, he’s beside himself.

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jeffreyw  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:56:51pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:57:34pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 3:57:45pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:01:26pm

re: #177 ckkatz

[A video with millions of views purports to show Joe Biden telling a child, “You’re one sexy kid.”

But the clip’s audio has been manipulated to add that line. The president made no such remark in the original recording the minor’s mother posted to TikTok.

meanwhile the GOP’s leading candidate has admitted that he used his prerogative as organizer of the Miss Teen World contest to wander about backstage spying on dressing rooms…

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teleskiguy  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:06:16pm

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:07:42pm

re: #179 teleskiguy

Bob Odenkirk:
“I will only memorize lines written by a person”

Their long game is to have real actors replaced by AI generated CGI, just like uber is only there to set up the network for self-driving cars

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:07:49pm

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

meanwhile the GOP’s leading candidate has admitted that he used his prerogative as organizer of the Miss Teen World contest to wander about backstage spying on dressing rooms…

Which, as you well know, is why Trump does it. To try and move it from a valid observation of his behavior to a “both sides” thing.

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:09:03pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:11:27pm

Even though PowerBall reset its jackpot back to the starting value, MegaMillions is still big money, verging on real money.

$720M annuitized, $232M in California after taxes for present cash value.

Buy your tickets while they are hot!

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:19:18pm

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

Please tell me Joe has a tan suit in his closet.

And he’s been practicing his terrorist fist bump and is ready to reveal it in public any time.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:19:28pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:19:40pm

Putin may have a few vulnerabilities in the Black Sea as well.

Even without shooting, there are insurance and major carrier declining to participate issues. Suddenly selling gets more expensive and delivery becomes less certain. Which could drop the price of Russian oil even further.

If there is shooting, a lot of Russian might have to go via a different route. Raising costs further.

From the Western position, allowing Russian oil onto the market keeps oil prices lower and reduces Saudi control. So that is okay. The goal is to ensure that Russia doesn’t benefit or make any money.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:24:05pm

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

Please tell me Joe has a tan suit in his closet.

Please tell me Joe puts mustard on his hamburger.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:27:24pm

re: #177 ckkatz

And trump actually telling an 8 year old girl he’d be dating her in 10 years… no reaction whatsoever from the MAGAts.

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wrenchwench  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:27:27pm

Gödel, Escher, Bach author Doug Hofstadter on the state of AI today

Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI

A dazzlingly fast chatbot cannot replace the authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.
By Douglas Hofstadter

I watched and read those yesterday. Lots of overlap and divergence. The video covers more than AI.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:27:27pm

re: #184 sizzzzlerz

And he’s been practicing his terrorist fist bump and is ready to reveal it in public any time.

That Fox clip of whatever dunce said “A terrorist fist jab??!!” back in the 2008 campaign is the last time I have ever watched anything on that network. (Other than the 2012 election results in a restaurant stuffed with Republicans)

Edit: The dunce was E.D. Hill.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:32:00pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:33:06pm

re: #190 Ace Rothstein

That Fox clip of whatever dunce said “A terrorist fist jab??!!” back in the 2008 campaign is the last time I have ever watched anything on that network. (Other than the 2012 election results in a restaurant stuffed with Republicans)

E.D. Hill

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:33:16pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:33:20pm

re: #192 Backwoods Sleuth

E.D. Hill

Edited.

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Captain Ron  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:36:28pm
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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:37:48pm

As DeSantis attacks US corporations and works to drive down their value.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:38:04pm

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EPR-radar  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:40:12pm

re: #193 ckkatz

The debate about using nuclear bombs at the end of WWII has always seemed very simple to me.

IMO it was inevitable that nuclear weapons would be used in war, and the way the history worked out there were two (and only two) possibilities:

1) Limited use at the end of WWII.

2) Massive use at the start of WWIII.

For once, the better path was taken. One point I’m curious about (but have never researched) is that the argument here could have been made with full force in 1945. Are any of the relevant decision makers back then on record as thinking this way?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:40:31pm

re: #189 wrenchwench

AI will be the end of us.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:41:46pm

re: #173 BeachDem

Meanwhile in the real Florida, Lots of people who voted for DeSantis are about to find out that yes, the leopards have come to eat their face too. Lots and lots of white renters.

winknews.com

DeSantis rips control of rent regulations away from local governments and gives absolute control to rental owners across the state.

Rents about to explode. Insurance companies leaving Florida. Housing costs out of control and the highest price inflation rate in the country. Not to mention a severe lack of construction workers and produce workers directly because of anti-immigrant efforts.

But at least Bud Light and Disney are no longer threats to our very existence. Priorities.

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EPR-radar  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:42:04pm

re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

AI will be the end of us.

Everything will be the end of us if Republicans are allowed to fester unchecked.

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wrenchwench  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:42:28pm

re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

AI will be the end of us.

Hofstadter seems similarly alarmed. I was surprised.

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EPR-radar  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:46:00pm

re: #200 Florida Panhandler

Republicans in office are actively and openly increasing misery in places they rule, because that misery can always be blamed on Democrats.

There’s remarkably little historical precedent for this level of propaganda in action.

E.g., I imagine even Nazi party loyalists in the 20s and early 30s would have had second thoughts if Hitler had made the WWI reparations issues objectively worse for Germany.

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ckkatz  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:52:07pm

re: #198 EPR-radar

The debate about using nuclear bombs at the end of WWII has always seemed very simple to me.

IMO it was inevitable that nuclear weapons would be used in war, and the way the history worked out there were two (and only two) possibilities:

1) Limited use at the end of WWII.

2) Massive use at the start of WWIII.

For once, the better path was taken. One point I’m curious about (but have never researched) is that the argument here could have been made with full force in 1945. Are any of the relevant decision makers back then on record as thinking this way?

My understanding was that US Strategic planners looked at the option of invading the Japanese Islands. And calculated the cost at tens of millions of Japanese casualties and a million American casualties. And a required time frame of well over a year.

Versus forcing the Japanese surrender without invasion. Reducing the timeframe and the amount of casualties and destruction.

And decided for the second option.

As you point out, I suspect that the planners were secondarily worried about the plans of the Soviet Union after the German surrender. And were aware that using the Atomic bomb might consider the Russians to rethink any plans for going to war.

My father, in the American Army in Germany, noted that the Russians dug in, fortified and adopted a fairly warlike posture while facing his unit. When asked, my father told his superiors that “We could take them out.” Of course he also talked about getting so drunk with Russian and other American officers that when the partiers came to and drank a little water because they were dehydrated, they were immediately drunk again.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 21, 2023 • 4:58:04pm
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sagehen  Jul 21, 2023 • 5:19:27pm

re: #204 ckkatz

My understanding was that US Strategic planners looked at the option of invading the Japanese Islands. And calculated the cost at tens of millions of Japanese casualties and a million American casualties. And a required time frame of well over a year.

Plus, as long as the war continued, Japanese troops were raging across China, Korea, Indonesia, etc., killing a minimum of 10,000 civilians a day. Every day. When the Emperor surrendered and called those troops home, that stopped.


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