Some More News: America’s Toxic Food System, Featuring Corn

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In today’s episode, we look at America’s food system, why corn is in nearly everything we eat, how factory farms are bad for consumers and the environment, and why capitalism makes it so hard to eat healthy.

Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Erik Barnes
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:46 - How We Got Our Modern Food System
07:55 - Corn.
14:32 - CAFOs
22:55 - Ultra-processed Foods
31:42 - Capitalism Makes It Hard To Eat Healthy
41:01 - Garbage
45:13 - The Politics Of It All

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242 comments
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lawhawk  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:44:16am

Seriously, even coffee has its issues.

There was a report floating around about how completely disgusting pig farms are and the slaughtering practices are barbaric enough, but then the story about how farmers feed entrails and fecal matter to other pigs as a means of disease control left me knowing that not digging on swine was the right move.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:46:10am

I will give up my can of Green Giant Niblets when they pull it from my cold dead hands…

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:46:20am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:46:58am

re: #1 lawhawk

The reckless pursuit of ever increasing profits ruins everything.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:48:11am

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

I will give up my can of Green Giant Niblets when they pull it from my cold dead hands…

Rosebud Frozen Peas

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:48:20am

re: #376 Dave In Austin

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:51:48am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:53:42am

This is greater than Citizen Kane!

Orson Welles | Frozen Peas Animated

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:53:58am

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

“No limits, no limits; you libs have the limits.”

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:54:21am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:56:03am

Brought up.
If you fish and live in SoCal, it’s starting.
seaforthlanding.com

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:58:01am

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 10:58:33am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:01:02am

We need a break. Here’s the first episode of Howdy Doody in 1947.

Howdy Doody Show #1 | Early 1950s

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:04:42am

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:07:09am

re: #15 Backwoods Sleuth

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Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:09:09am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:09:19am
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lawhawk  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:13:34am

Willismas is coming… next week.

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lawhawk  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:15:30am

Meanwhile, in the Projecting like IMAX files of GOP criminality projected on their political enemies:

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:16:08am

re: #18 Backwoods Sleuth

Dumbasses. I look forward to their explanation why they had the right to remain at that mooring when asked to leave.

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lawhawk  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:19:54am

What DeSantis is doing in Florida with prosecutors is exactly what Trump tried doing with electors.

Think about it. DeSantis is overriding the will of the electorate and substituting his own corrupt and incompetent goons over the people that were voted into office.

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Captain Ron  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:25:19am
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Dr Lizardo  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:26:09am

re: #20 lawhawk

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:26:31am

re: #23 Captain Ron

“We will have a presidential candidate who is campaigning from behind bars because he’s being held in contempt of court”

being held for threatening witnesses and ignoring specific guidelines

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Dr. Matt  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:28:21am

re: #19 lawhawk

Willismas is coming… next week.

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Is this enough?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:28:50am

re: #26 Dr. Matt

It might be.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:32:34am

For Josh Meyer - trump Indictments (do not publish) -_- (USA Today accidentally published to MSN)

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Unabogie  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:35:35am

re: #28 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

For Josh Meyer - trump Indictments (do not publish) -_- (USA Today accidentally published to MSN)

Gotta be prepared!

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:41:33am
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No Malarkey!  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:44:59am

A lot of fuckers are going to start finding out next week.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:45:24am

Mastodon

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:46:28am

re: #31 No Malarkey!

A lot of fuckers are going to start finding out next week.

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I am so hoping that Lindsey Graham is among those indicted. I would love to see him enter the FO phase of his political career.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:46:31am

re: #9 jaunte

“No limits, no limits; you libs have the limits.”

5 bass over 14”. That’s the limit.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:48:12am

re: #31 No Malarkey!

A lot of fuckers are going to start finding out next week.

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Meadows won’t get immunity in Georgia unless he already cut a deal. Rudy, Lindsey, other assholes all about to find out.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:49:24am

re: #19 lawhawk

Willismas is coming… next week.

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Fani vs. The Dorky Dozen

Oh it won’t be a fair fight!

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Dr. Matt  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:49:57am

re: #30 Belafon

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FAFO!! Well played!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:50:04am

re: #35 darthstar

Meadows won’t get immunity in Georgia unless he already cut a deal. Rudy, Lindsey, other assholes all about to find out.

Extremely exciting times. I like that we’re being paid back for all the shit the Trumpanzees put the nation through.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:50:15am

re: #30 Belafon

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No Malarkey!  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:50:29am

Another state facing racial gerrymandering suit following SCOTUS’ affirmation of Section 2 of the VRA.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:52:28am

re: #37 Dr. Matt

FAFO!! Well played!

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Sucks to be him.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:52:54am

re: #39 Dave In Austin

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Dr. Matt  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:55:38am

re: #39 Dave In Austin

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The sad reality is there isn’t likely a single Joe Biden policy that adversely affected Craig Robertson. It’s almost a certainty that many of the policies and bills that Biden signed actually benefitted Craig. Craig lost his life because Joe Biden has a “D” after his name and that drove Craig batshit crazy. Good riddance. Another MAGA voter is worm dirt.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:56:42am
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goddamnedfrank  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:57:52am

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 11:59:16am

re: #39 Dave In Austin

GOP Leaders: We have already given two dumbass domestic terrorists to the war and we stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.

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dat_said  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:02:19pm

re: #30 Belafon

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A little bit more information here: fox13now.com

FBI had contacted him in March after he threatened NY County DA Alvin Bragg.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:02:58pm

Could You Pass A PragerU Class In A Florida School?

theonion.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:04:20pm

More from Onion’s expose of Prager U

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:04:24pm

‘Twitter was fined $350,000 for failing to turn over Trump’s data’

@washingtonpost.com

“…Twitter was forced to hand over records from former president Donald Trump’s account to the special counsel investigating the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and pay sanctions for failing to do so more quickly, as disclosed in an appellate court ruling unsealed.”
washingtonpost.com

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:04:30pm

Anyone looking for a rabbit hole collection of custom scientific and workplace calculators?

Due to my age and it being summertime with ~55% humidity, I was looking for a wet bulb temperature calculator to figure outdoor conditions while doing some ongoing landscaping. Current project is 4 CY of mulch. Apparently heat index uses shade temperature as a factor and my landscape work isn’t in the shade. Thus my interest in wet bulb temperature which in turn, is going to become more of a factor in determining future human migration.

Anyway, Omnicalculator is based out of Kraków, Poland. Before using their wet bulb calculator, I read their privacy policy. It appeared to not violate any of my red lines. They have hundreds of custom calculators on site, some showing cite documentation, e.g Biological (allele frequency to dog BMI), chemical, construction, math, physics, statistics, photo and video, as well as Drone Flight Time (Ukraine might be using this one), etc.

But I digress:

omnicalculator.com

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:05:59pm

This asshole had nothing to do with this law right?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:07:23pm

re: #52 EstebanTornado1963

The only chips Michael McCaul is interested in.

Bert Lahr for Lay’s Potato Chips

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steve_davis  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:07:34pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅

We need a break. Here’s the first episode of Howdy Doody in 1947.

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that chimpanzee is in his 80’s now. Freakishly, Howdy Doody is exactly the same age he ever was.

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:08:09pm

re: #52 EstebanTornado1963

This asshole had nothing to do with this law right?

um… he probably voted for it? This was one of Biden “I can so be bipartisan” initiatives.

ETA: Tim Ryan (D, Ohio-13) was the sponsor.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:08:42pm
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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:13:48pm

re: #55 sagehen

That’s my point, probably voted for it , but telling his idiot constituents that it’s “his bill”, which he didn’t have any part in.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:14:47pm

re: #56 Backwoods Sleuth

Fuck house arrest. This is one of the very worst criminals in American history.

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:14:57pm

re: #52 EstebanTornado1963

Blind pig finds chip.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:15:17pm

re: #55 sagehen

um… he probably voted for it? This was one of Biden “I can so be bipartisan” initiatives.

he did

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:16:09pm

re: #58 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

On this special occasion, I think we can find the money to build a Secret Service confinement structure.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:17:34pm

re: #57 EstebanTornado1963

That’s my point, probably voted for it , but telling his idiot constituents that it’s “his bill”, which he didn’t have any part in.

he actually worked with the Democrats to get it passed

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:18:00pm

re: #52 EstebanTornado1963

This asshole had nothing to do with this law right?

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No, he’s behind the bill.

AUSTIN, Texas - Today, U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) — author of the CHIPS for America Act — announced his support for HB 5174, the Texas CHIPS Act, which was introduced by Texas House Appropriations Chairman Greg Bonnen and is under consideration in the Texas House of Representatives.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:18:46pm
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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:19:25pm

Trump’s Allies Prepare for Indictments in Georgia Probe: ‘They’re Coming for Everyone’

@mitchellepner.bsky.social

2/ “The Supreme Court has held that under what’s called the dual sovereignty doctrine, double jeopardy does not protect someone from being charged by any state and the federal government for any particular act,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, explains.
3/ “One of the most important things under any conspiracy statute is that any statement made by any conspirator in furtherance of the conspiracy is admissible evidence against all conspirators. In other words, it’s not hearsay,” says Epner.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:21:41pm

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:21:45pm

Ohio

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:23:38pm

Self-dealer Michael McCaul’s net worth is almost $300 million; he’s already well invested in the semiconductor industry.

Congressman Michael McCaul, who also sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, has been accumulating ASML Holdings NV (ASML:US) stock for over a year now. Since June 2022, Michael McCaul has accumulated between $325,000 to $750,000 worth of ASML stock.
capitoltrades.com

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:26:59pm

re: #30 Belafon

Guess he “tried that in a small town”.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:28:01pm

Mastodon

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Jay C  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:28:25pm

re: #21 jaunte

[RE: Montgomery riverfront brawl]

Dumbasses. I look forward to their explanation why they had the right to remain at that mooring when asked to leave.

Probably something along the lines of:

“Well, we were just having a nice day out on the river, and inadvertently tied up at this dock, when we were savagely attacked by a violent gang of —- umm, People Of Color — who viciously beat us, and then called the police when we tried to defend ourselves…”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:29:28pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

No lie too crazy that this man can pull out of his ass that his followers won’t believe.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:32:58pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

He’ll go after he’s gagged, because his operating theory is both that he has license, and that it’s entirely correct to always escalate because at some point people with…boundaries and ethics…will simply flinch first.

And if he is successfully gagged, he’ll present it as oppression and whine until he feels safe enough to switch back to aggression. His followers will do the same, because they’re all on the same abuser-wavelength: everything must bend to them or it’s an attack, and the correct response is disproportionate and sadistic.

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jeffreyw  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:34:17pm

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:34:59pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

I think that’s what he wants at this point.

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:35:15pm

re: #52 EstebanTornado1963

McCaul was one of 24 Republicans that broke with the Republican leadership and voted for the bill in the House.

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:35:37pm

Twitter is selling off office furniture and signage:
bid.hgpauction.com

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:37:33pm

re: #64 Backwoods Sleuth

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Maybe he can go after what Republicans did to Austin next.

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:38:56pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

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It will take a ball gag with him.

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:39:59pm

re: #79 Belafon

It will take a ball gag with him.

This proposal is thoroughly acceptable.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:42:38pm

re: #72 GlutenFreeJesus

No lie too crazy that this man can pull out of his ass that his followers won’t believe.

They don’t believe anything, they’re nihilists with a vague sense to words must be said to excuse their awful things they want. Fascism…for fascists…is less about a specific belief than what the belief permits. Nazism gave Germans a framework in which they were Awesome People betrayed by easy-to-hurt weirdos and foreigners, not Rubes Like Everyone Else gathering-around a nationalist agenda and asshole Kaiser that fucked them over. Most other fascists do something similar…to follow is to be not just given catharsis and treats, but to be told that this was always your patrimony.

Blood, sugar, and porn rather than bread and circuses.

What Trump supporters will do is accept any pretext from an authority figure that vaguely resembles a culturally-acceptable reason that they can do what they want…

(with the follow-up that they will simply find new authorities when their treats aren’t distributed fast enough)

…which is why they’re standing with their man rather than spinning off to support reactionaries that can’t embody the appetites, the license to do things and have no consequences, that they crave.

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:43:24pm

re: #73 The Ghost of a Flea

He’ll go after he’s gagged, because his operating theory is both that he has license, and that it’s entirely correct to always escalate because at some point people with…boundaries and ethics…will simply flinch first.

And if he is successfully gagged, he’ll present it as oppression and whine until he feels safe enough to switch back to aggression. His followers will do the same, because they’re all on the same abuser-wavelength: everything must bend to them or it’s an attack, and the correct response is disproportionate and sadistic.

What I’m hoping for on Friday is some small measure of justice, finally, in response to Trump’s endless provocations. A stringent protective order with stiff and automatic penalties for any violations would be a good start, but it would have to include an ironclad provision to ensure no further violations after the first (inevitable) violation.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:49:45pm

Mastodon

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:50:08pm

Liberal Redneck - Ohio and the Future of Democracy

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:53:28pm

re: #84 sagehen

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Dr. Matt  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:53:31pm

re: #56 Backwoods Sleuth

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Can’t wait for the DMs to become public. I’m sure they will be fucking awful on every level.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:55:09pm

This is why I’m obsessed with asserting that this is about cruelty, not stupidity.

This pattern works, it touches base with existing heuristics that are used to explain away suffering—and even to enjoy suffering through schadenfreude—and it’s a mistake to view this all as some kind of stumbling comedy.

Every fascist government does the same thing—steal as much shit as possible while claiming it was a necessary step to utopia, for as long as possible even as it fails to produce the structural outcomes promised. This process is buoyed by mythologizing the theft as justice and by finding an endless series of scapegoats to publicly butcher so the fascist audience can expel their frustration. Correcting their rhetoric—which constantly mutates and dwells in the realm of bullshit, beyond “sincere” or “insincere”—is wasted effort.

The mistake people keep making is imagining that it’s some kind of intellectual error on the part of the fascist, when in fact the fascist is making an active choice to destroy meaning and substitute appetite.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:56:17pm

Mastodon

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danarchy  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:57:04pm

re: #52 EstebanTornado1963

This asshole had nothing to do with this law right?

In 2020 he introduced this bill which may or not be related to what finally passed in 2022?

congress.gov

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:57:51pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

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Damn.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:58:25pm

I just got an email from my employer that I to report to work supposed light duty down in South Philly lots. As one can imagine I am not a happy camper. I have informed my sponsor (ward leader) and I will see what he says. I am going to contact a shop steward and see what he can do.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 12:59:22pm

re: #90 The Squire of Logos

Damn.

A lot of the greats are starting to hit their seventies and eighties.

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:00:36pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

A lot of the greats are starting to hit their seventies and eighties.

I know. But it still hurts to lose them, especially when you remember them in their prime (and my prime for that matter).

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:00:45pm

Robbie Robertson, Shine Your Light (Ladder 49)

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:01:23pm

re: #87 The Ghost of a Flea

IMO the intersection between cruelty and stupidity in politics is that willful stupidity is used to justify/excuse/explain cruelty.

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:02:03pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

A lot of the greats are starting to hit their seventies and eighties.

Like the guy running this place?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:03:59pm

re: #96 Belafon

Like the guy running this place?

The lizard blood guarantees him long life.

;)

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:04:57pm

Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:05:03pm

re: #95 EPR-radar

IMO the intersection between cruelty and stupidity in politics is that willful stupidity is used to justify/excuse/explain cruelty.

Note that after the fact fascists (like active ones, not just people stuck in the fascist nation) themselves performatively declare themselves to have been stupid—or beguiled, or preoccupied with other things— as a way of evading consequences.

What they would prefer not discussed is that in their “stupefaction” they still made choices, and those choices both indulged themselves and harmed others.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:08:31pm

re: #19 lawhawk

Willismas is coming… next week.

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I predicted more than 12 last week. You guys are going to owe me. I’ll take payment in pie.

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:08:45pm

re: #91 PhillyPretzel ✅

I just got an email from my employer that I to report to work supposed light duty down in South Philly lots. As one can imagine I am not a happy camper. I have informed my sponsor (ward leader) and I will see what he says. I am going to contact a shop steward and see what he can do.

How’s your wrist?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:13:48pm

re: #33 The Squire of Logos

I am so hoping that Lindsey Graham is among those indicted. I would love to see him enter the FO phase of his political career.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:14:01pm

re: #101 wrenchwench

It is still attached to my arm. It is a fracture and I am to keep the splint on. I have appointments coming up. We will see what can be done.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:15:15pm

re: #39 Dave In Austin

Let’s not let Fox News, et al, off the hook. They are equally as responsible.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:16:10pm

re: #41 darthstar

Sucks to be him.

Not anymore.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:18:09pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:19:33pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

Bad day to be named Robertson.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:21:26pm

re: #52 EstebanTornado1963

This asshole had nothing to do with this law right?

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Guess he voted for it

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Dr. Matt  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:23:20pm

Between his age, morbid obesity, and awful diet, it’s a mystery as why TFG’s heart hasn’t exploded (or stroked out) with all the stress from his massive legal troubles.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:26:10pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:27:00pm

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Between his age, morbid obesity, and awful diet, it’s a mystery as why TFG’s heart hasn’t exploded (or stroked out) with all the stress from his massive legal troubles.

His evil protects him.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:28:21pm

re: #112 EPR-radar

His evil protects him.

Agree. And look at Dick Cheney for more proof.

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:30:33pm

A newspaper that I have freelanced (photography) for for sixteen years is reportedly (not officially, but I have no reason to doubt it) not going to be using any freelancers of any kind anymore. No one at said paper has reached out to me or other photographers to inform us of this. I understand that I am not an employee, but I’m kind of pissed off about not being contacted about this because if I had known I could’ve made other arrangements for other possible clients. Am I wrong?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:32:55pm

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Between his age, morbid obesity, and awful diet, it’s a mystery as why TFG’s heart hasn’t exploded (or stroked out) with all the stress from his massive legal troubles.

Genes play a big role. His father died in his early 90s, and his mom in her early 80s.

I thought this might be the reason Donald wanted to murder the Central Park 5, but his mother was severely injured by a mugger after he ran that ad.

As she grew older, Trump suffered from severe osteoporosis.[4] On October 31, 1991, at 79, she was mugged while shopping on Union Turnpike near her home. She resisted the mugger’s attempt to steal her purse, which contained $14, and was then knocked to the ground and beaten.[23] She sustained broken ribs, facial bruises, several fractures, a brain hemorrhage, and permanent damage to her sight and hearing.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:35:11pm

re: #65 jaunte

Trump’s Allies Prepare for Indictments in Georgia Probe: ‘They’re Coming for Everyone’

@mitchellepner.bsky.social

The Brits dealt with the Scot’s ‘45.

We have our own ‘45 to deal with.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:35:53pm

re: #114 Ace Rothstein

A newspaper that I have freelanced (photography) for for sixteen years is reportedly (not officially, but I have no reason to doubt it) not going to be using any freelancers of any kind anymore. No one at said paper has reached out to me or other photographers to inform us of this. I understand that I am not an employee, but I’m kind of pissed off about not being contacted about this because if I had known I could’ve made other arrangements for other possible clients. Am I wrong?

They probably have their minds focused on the financial problems that led to not being able to afford freelancers anymore. Newspapers have been in trouble for a years now.

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:37:27pm

re: #114 Ace Rothstein

A newspaper that I have freelanced (photography) for for sixteen years is reportedly (not officially, but I have no reason to doubt it) not going to be using any freelancers of any kind anymore. No one at said paper has reached out to me or other photographers to inform us of this. I understand that I am not an employee, but I’m kind of pissed off about not being contacted about this because if I had known I could’ve made other arrangements for other possible clients. Am I wrong?

You’re not wrong. 16 years is a big investment. That kind of regularity has a value of its own.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:43:11pm

re: #79 Belafon

It will take a ball gag with him.

Ok. Pics please.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:43:20pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:46:03pm

businessinsider.com

Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were ‘suppressed’

A veteran FBI counterintelligence agent says his supervisor told him to stop investigating Rudy Giuliani and to cut off contact with any sources who reported on corruption by associates of former President Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower complaint obtained by Insider.

The agent, who served 14 years as a special agent for the bureau, including a long stint in Russia-focussed counter-intelligence, claims in a 22-page statement that his bosses interfered with his work in “a highly suspicious suppression of investigations and intelligence-gathering” aimed at protecting “certain politically active figures and possibly also FBI agents” who were connected to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.

Those figures, the statement claims, explicitly included “anyone in the [Trump] White House and any former or current associates of President Trump.”

The statement, which was prepared for staffers of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was apparently leaked and posted in mid-July to a Substack newsletter. Insider has independently obtained a copy of the complaint and verified its authenticity, but has not corroborated all of its claims.

You can count on Gym Neighbors and Comer Pyle to suppress this.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:52:29pm
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The Squire of Logos  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:55:13pm

re: #114 Ace Rothstein

A newspaper that I have freelanced (photography) for for sixteen years is reportedly (not officially, but I have no reason to doubt it) not going to be using any freelancers of any kind anymore. No one at said paper has reached out to me or other photographers to inform us of this. I understand that I am not an employee, but I’m kind of pissed off about not being contacted about this because if I had known I could’ve made other arrangements for other possible clients. Am I wrong?

Nope. They should have had the courtesy and decency to let you know in a reasonably timely manner.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 1:56:50pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:00:34pm

Mastodon

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:01:48pm

re: #124 Backwoods Sleuth

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My family did a vacation in Lahaina when I was a kid. Other than the beach, the main thing I remember is the shops were full of Hawaiian shirts, sundresses of the same material, and koa-seed and puka-shell jewelry.

We didn’t even go to a luau, or see any hula dancers with flaming batons. Maybe my parents went to that after my sibs and I had been put to bed.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:01:54pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:02:03pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:02:40pm

re: #123 The Squire of Logos

Nope. They should have had the courtesy and decency to let you know in a reasonably timely manner.

Unfortunately, that’s not how a lot of companies roll these days. You either get a terse, boilerplate email or a “Best of luck to you in the future” phone call…at most.

Sometimes you don’t find out you’re out of a job until your badge just stops letting you in the door.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:04:08pm

re: #128 Backwoods Sleuth

It’s often been mused about on here how an all black pro-second amendment rally in a red state would quickly go straight to hell.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:06:11pm

re: #114 Ace Rothstein

A newspaper that I have freelanced (photography) for for sixteen years is reportedly (not officially, but I have no reason to doubt it) not going to be using any freelancers of any kind anymore. No one at said paper has reached out to me or other photographers to inform us of this. I understand that I am not an employee, but I’m kind of pissed off about not being contacted about this because if I had known I could’ve made other arrangements for other possible clients. Am I wrong?

In a stricly legal sense, no. IN a human sense, then they are being massive dicks.

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nines09  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:06:18pm

Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:12:00pm

re: #128 Backwoods Sleuth

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Somebody has a nice contract to supply those useless cameras. I wonder if there’s a contract for someone to monitor them?

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:14:12pm

re: #125 Vicious Babushka

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What else does he put before country? This -> $$$ is the only country he cares about.

F**kin’ Elmo… the eleven year old with a ton of money.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:17:57pm

re: #128 Backwoods Sleuth

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:24:06pm

tonight’s backyard visitor was Bambi:

Bambi

look close! Then Bambi met Thumper:

Bambi meets Thumper
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Teddy's Person  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:24:10pm

With the news of Robbie Robertson’s death, I remembered a conversation I had with an old boyfriend.

Old boyfriend and I are at a bar having drinks. One of The Band’s songs is playing. I’m singing along.

BF: Who is this?
Me The Band
BF: Yes, who is this?
Me (with a little emphasis): The Band
BF: Why are you being an ass? (I’m paraphrasing here)
Me: What the … oh … the name of the people performing this song is The Band.

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:24:27pm

re: #120 Backwoods Sleuth

“Good Republicans” in action, I see.

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:28:19pm

re: #137 Teddy’s Person

Who’s on first? Who.
No, who is on first?
Who is on first.

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:31:26pm

Here’s one good argument against anyone trying the “GOP base voters are decent people that are just being lied to by their media” excuse:

Republican candidates run on performative cruelty, like Abbott’s stunt with the saw blades at the border. In order for that to be politically effective, it has to run, as cruelty, in right wing media, which it does.

Cruelty as entertainment is upstream of nearly all right wing shit.

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:33:42pm

re: #124 Backwoods Sleuth

It’s a good thing Democrats run the state level government in Hawaii. If Republicans ran the state, they would do diddly/squat about the fires and blame the resulting amplified disaster on Hunter Biden and the deep state.

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KingKenrod  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:35:42pm

One of my favorite songs ever, indescribably beautiful. Robbie’s vocal is just perfect.

Broken Arrow

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:35:52pm

re: #140 EPR-radar

Cruelty as entertainment is upstream of nearly all right wing shit.

To follow up on this, there’s a famous line in 1984 about the fascist vision of the future: “a boot stamping on a human face, forever.”

Decent people are horrified at this idea.

US wingnuts are sexually aroused by it, per their training.

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gocart mozart  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:36:53pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:39:56pm

re: #144 KingKenrod

my favorite of the lot

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:40:10pm

re: #139 Ace Rothstein

Who’s on first? Who.
No, who is on first?
Who is on first.

Right.

/

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Even the bot had to admit it was basic luck that even got me the double-bogie today. Oh well, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick….

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steve_davis  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:43:48pm

His best solo. Pitch perfect in tone and note.

To Kingdom Come (Remastered 2000)

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:44:39pm

re: #143 Teddy’s Person

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Video

Ringo will outlive us all.

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:45:29pm

re: #137 Teddy’s Person

With the news of Robbie Robertson’s death, I remembered a conversation I had with an old boyfriend.

Old boyfriend and I are at a bar having drinks. One of The Band’s songs is playing. I’m singing along.

BF: Who is this?
Me The Band
BF: Yes, who is this?
Me (with a little emphasis): The Band
BF: Why are you being an ass? (I’m paraphrasing here)
Me: What the … oh … the name of the people performing this song is The Band.

Who’s on First - Abbott & Costello

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steve_davis  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:46:57pm

re: #151 wrenchwench

Ringo will outlive us all.

Keith Richards has a half-life longer than plutonium.

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:52:06pm

re: #143 Teddy’s Person

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Good lord, what an absolute classic song. I’m sitting here singing along with the cat looking at me like I’ve gone mad.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:52:22pm

re: #152 sagehen

“What’s the name of the band on stage?”

“The Who.”

“The band. The guys playing right now. What are they called?”

“The Who.”

“The musicians up there!”

“THE WHO. They are called the Who.”

“What?”

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Dr. Matt  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:53:56pm

re: #146 gocart mozart

And these “people” are stupid to believe this….all of it.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:55:27pm

re: #156 Dr. Matt

I rather have a Harriet Tubman bill.

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Wile E. Wonka  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:55:40pm

re: #155 Eclectic Cyborg

“What’s the name of the band on stage?”
“No, not The Band! The Who!”
“What, you want me to guess who is on stage?”
“No, the Guess Who isn’t on til later.”
“Then what’s the name of the group on now?”
“The Who.”
“That’s what I’ve been asking you! I wanna know the name of this group!”
“You wanna know the name of the group on stage now?”
“YES!”
“No, Yes isn’t even at this festival!”

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Teddy's Person  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:56:44pm

re: #158 Wile E. Wonka

😂😂😂

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 2:59:18pm
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Belafon  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:00:02pm

This is the story of us trying to get my son out of Texas to the University of Oklahoma.

This morning, I went to air his tires up and noticed a a spot on his tire where he had rubbed against the curb too often. After going to two places to find a tire, Discount tire said they had two, and that I needed a new rim (I did). But then they didn’t have the tire, but they said the tire was structurally sound.

Then, as we’re about to get on the road, I noticed his registration sticker was out. So we got an inspection and a tag.

Finally, on the road. Except…the guy in front of us us driving slow and irratic on the two lane part of Rockwall. We get around him at Farmersville.

The route we are taking allows us to avoid driving through most of North Dallas. We would have jumped on St. Highway 82 at Bells, Tx, and picked up 35 at Sherman. That was, until we came up on a wreck in Farmersville, forcing us on 380, which means we will have to get on I75 in McKinney, which is definitely still the Metroplex.

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gocart mozart  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:03:33pm
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Teddy's Person  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:06:15pm

Boris and Natasha are all in on RFK Jr.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:09:38pm

Re-indicted yet?

Oh ok.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:12:48pm

To impeachment Biden

The memo follows the increasing drumbeat from many House Republicans – and certainly the GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump – to pursue impeachment of the sitting president even without a clear establishment of facts.”

Just change clear to any

Link

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:13:52pm

re: #165 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Well, that’s on brand. We know these fuckweasels don’t care about facts.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:14:41pm

re: #155 Eclectic Cyborg

“What’s the name of the band on stage?”

“The Who.”

“The band. The guys playing right now. What are they called?”

“The Who.”

“The musicians up there!”

“THE WHO. They are called the Who.”

“What?”

Maximun Rock and Roll

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nines09  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:19:05pm

re: #98 jaunte

Beat me to it. I just saw he passed and that song came to mind.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:19:36pm
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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:21:24pm

re: #169 Backwoods Sleuth

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:25:50pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:26:54pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

Hahahahahahahaha…are they fucking serious?!

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:28:46pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

“…Defendant Trump’s personal residences and offices are not lawful locations for the discussion of classified information, any more than they would be for any private citizen,” they wrote in the July filing.

“There is no basis for the defendant’s request that he be given the extraordinary authority to discuss classified information at his residence, and it is particularly striking that he seeks permission to do so in the very location at which he is charged with willfully retaining the documents charged in this case.”
thehill.com.

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:31:01pm

re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg

Hahahahahahahaha…are they fucking serious?!

Let her approve it, then immediately file for recusal.

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:32:30pm

re: #153 steve_davis

Keith Richards has a half-life longer than plutonium.

Keith Richards will be the first and only person to actually confirm proton decay.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:36:00pm

re: #95 EPR-radar

IMO the intersection between cruelty and stupidity in politics is that willful stupidity is used to justify/excuse/explain cruelty.

a lot of folks are still coming around to accepting that it is intentional cruelty and not benign stupidity / idiocy.

because of what it means.
it’s easier to ‘realize’ that the country has been dumbed down and half of it is just ‘stupid’.

it’s harder to accept that north of 40% (or so) of the country are in fact facist in action and thought and association if not in party name.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:38:12pm

WE GOT RAIN!

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Teddy's Person  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:39:28pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

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Captain Ron  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:40:59pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:41:53pm

re: #177 Joe Bacon ✅

WE GOT RAIN!

The remnant of a hurricane, now just a week low pressure system.

We’re a bit too south for the rain but the humidity is up and that makes it unusually uncomfortable down here.

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Mike Lamb  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:42:46pm

re: #164 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Re-indicted yet?

Oh ok.

Re-indicted and it feels so good…
Re-indicted cause we understood…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:47:47pm

Today of course is Nagasaki day. Not something I used to dwell upon, but as I get older I now think that such actions are more telling of not just the US but world affairs.

We make a big deal about this or that bit of violence, and indeed the frothing right-wing loves to play the crime card in every election.

Yet we, collective, are capable of, and guilty of, crimes of such great magnitude that the only way we can deal with them is simply to wait until time takes memory.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:49:57pm

re: #180 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The remnant of a hurricane, now just a week low pressure system.

We’re a bit too south for the rain but the humidity is up and that makes it unusually uncomfortable down here.

sure, just go ahead and ruin Joe’s happy dance…

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:52:35pm

The appropriate response to the poor white folks who did not like a black man telling them what to do: send thoughts and chairs.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:52:56pm
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Vicious Babushka  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:53:54pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:54:11pm
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Captain Ron  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:54:36pm
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:59:06pm

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:59:12pm

re: #179 Captain Ron

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Texas isn’t even on its own yet and already well underway towards being an International Pariah state.

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 3:59:48pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:00:58pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:02:27pm

re: #192 Captain Ron

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Which island is Big Papa on?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:03:04pm

re: #193 Barefoot Grin

Which island is Big Papa on?

the big one. I think.

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steve_davis  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:04:20pm

all right, diablo iii, I’m needing leoric’s shinbone and I’ve been PROMISED I can find it in adventure mode. I did finally get the black mushrooms in the Cathedral to spawn, so there’s hope.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:09:41pm

re: #191 wrenchwench

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I have a pair of Carolina wrens that set up housekeeping in the corner of my living room window. We are now on egg watch.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:12:53pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:13:09pm

re: #185 Backwoods Sleuth

Calling Eastman a loon is a mistake, IMO, since there’s an implication there that his deranged legal takes are the product of mental illness. Eastman is not mentally ill. He is evil, and evil is not a mental illness.

Eastman says what he says because that is what one must say if one is to argue for GOP fascism in the US, as Eastman wants.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:15:19pm

re: #197 Backwoods Sleuth

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:17:18pm

re: #194 I Would Prefer Not To

the big one. I think.

That’s right. West side.

When I think about Lahaina, what I see is the banyan tree downtown. Hoping against hope that it escaped.

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:20:53pm

re: #196 Backwoods Sleuth

I have a pair of Carolina wrens that set up housekeeping in the corner of my living room window. We are now on egg watch.

Yesterday evening I was riding home and just missed a baby birb in the street. It squawked at a high pitch and wiggled its wings at me.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:22:18pm

re: #197 Backwoods Sleuth

Keep in mind that Christie helped Trump to prepare for his debates with President Biden. In other words, he wanted that racist prick to win re-election despite all he did during his horrendous presidency.

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Jay C  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:23:23pm

re: #185 Backwoods Sleuth

From something I read online the other day, it seems the only involvement “the military” was minded to have in Trump’s attempt to overturn the election was to arrest his fat orange ass, and haul him out of the WH onto the street. With a crisp salute to the real C-in-C (Joe) on the way out…..

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:25:14pm

re: #185 Backwoods Sleuth

Quell any riots = kill innocent protesters to gain control over the country. This is fascism.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:25:15pm

re: #202 Patricia Kayden

Keep in mind that Christie helped Trump to prepare for his debates with President Biden. In other words, he wanted that racist prick to win re-election despite all he did during his horrendous presidency.

oh yes…I’m just here for the fight

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:26:19pm

re: #202 Patricia Kayden

Keep in mind that Christie helped Trump to prepare for his debates with President Biden. In other words, he wanted that racist prick to win re-election despite all he did during his horrendous presidency.

There are no good Republicans. There are only bad Republicans who want to violently overthrow US democracy now, and bad Republicans who don’t think the time is right yet for overthrowing US democracy (and mostly hope to accomplish that ‘peacefully’ via their control of media and major institutions).

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:27:20pm

re: #179 Captain Ron

So she’s okay to maim and kill people “to protect the border”? And then they run around talking about Christianity = morality. Monster.

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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:28:03pm

re: #204 Patricia Kayden

Quell any riots = kill innocent protesters to gain control over the country. This is fascism.

It’s worth clicking through to the underlying Right Wing Watch report. Eastman’s ‘justification’ for his crap is the lowest kind of projection — the sort of idiocy you’d find from any moron at a Trump rally.

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Captain Ron  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:31:58pm
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BigPapa  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:32:46pm

I’m safe. Big Island still has fires. Maui is hurting.

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:34:03pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:35:53pm

welcome back to school!

Mastodon

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Nojay UK  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:35:55pm

re: #153 steve_davis

Keith Richards has a half-life longer than plutonium.

Which isotope of plutonium? They all have shortish half-lives which is why no native sources of plutonium are known to exist in any quantity in ore bodies (there may be a few atoms of native Pu-239 resulting from neutron capture of a U-238 nucleus). There’s Xe-124 whose half-life is about 18 sextillion years (1.8 x 10^22 years), that might better fit Keef’s life expectancy. After that there’s always proton decay, maybe.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:36:22pm

re: #213 Nojay UK

Which isotope of plutonium? They all have shortish half-lives which is why no native sources of plutonium are known to exist in any quantity in ore bodies (there may be a few atoms of native Pu-239 resulting from neutron capture of a U-238 nucleus). There’s Xe-124 whose half-life is about 18 sextillion years (1.8 x 10^22 years), that might better fit Keef’s life expectancy. After that there’s always proton decay, maybe.

NEEEEEERD

/s

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BigPapa  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:37:10pm

My coworker lives on Maui and is in Civil Defense. I have some apocalypse porn but don’t think its worth posting. We will all see soon.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:37:48pm

re: #185 Backwoods Sleuth

Eastman needs to not just lose his law license but to spend a good number of years in Club Fed. Double digits might suffice, although I’d prefer triple.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:42:28pm

re: #204 Patricia Kayden

Quell any riots = kill innocent protesters to gain control over the country. This is fascism.

That was supposed to be trump’s militias, the proud boys and 3 percenters.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:43:05pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:47:50pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:50:17pm

I’m getting a contact buzz just watching this.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:54:10pm

re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That was supposed to be trump’s militias, the proud boys and 3 percenters.

In the indictment document, Jeffrey Clark told Patsy Boloney that they were going to invoke the Insurrection Act to call out the actual US military to put down the riots. Now, in the event, that order may have been disobeyed; was it Milley or somebody that said they had no intention of supporting the coup? But it was definitely on the insurrectionists’ radar.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:54:14pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:54:54pm

New update: we stopped at Whitesboro so my wife could catch up with us after getting lost, and now we’re driving towards this:

Yes, we want to go north on the red line.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:55:14pm

re: #221 Nerdy Fish

In the indictment document, Jeffrey Clark told Patsy Boloney that they were going to invoke the Insurrection Act to call out the actual US military to put down the riots. Now, in the event, that order may have been disobeyed; was it Milley or somebody that said they had no intention of supporting the coup? But it was definitely on the insurrectionists’ radar.

Miley told trump to suck eggs. He wanted no part of that.

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:56:53pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 9, 2023 • 4:58:06pm

re: #212 Backwoods Sleuth

welcome back to school!

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A friend returned last Friday from a 16 day trip to central Europe and it appears that everyone in her tour group came down with COVID during the last few days of the tour. She is still having problems breathing and remains very congested, though she thinks her condition is improving. Maybe COVID is now no worse than the flu, but she thinks that this may be her last visit outside the United States. We will have to wait and see how the post-pandemic world settles down.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:00:24pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:00:56pm

re: #221 Nerdy Fish

In the indictment document, Jeffrey Clark told Patsy Boloney that they were going to invoke the Insurrection Act to call out the actual US military to put down the riots. Now, in the event, that order may have been disobeyed; was it Milley or somebody that said they had no intention of supporting the coup? But it was definitely on the insurrectionists’ radar.

In fact, one of the main hopes of the coup plotters was for the Jan 6 mob to lead to enough civil disorder that Trump “would have no choice” but to call out the troops to “restore order”. The main reason this was averted was the wisdom of anti-Trump activists in not showing up for counter-demonstrations on Jan 6.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:01:30pm

re: #228 EPR-radar

In fact, one of the main hopes of the coup plotters was for the Jan 6 mob to lead to enough civil disorder that Trump “would have no choice” but to call out the troops to “restore order”. The main reason this was averted was the wisdom of anti-Trump activists in not showing up for counter-demonstrations on Jan 6.

He said “it will be wild.” We all knew what that meant. We’re not stupid.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:05:21pm

re: #226 Hecuba’s daughter

A friend returned last Friday from a 16 day trip to central Europe and it appears that everyone in her tour group came down with COVID during the last few days of the tour. She is still having problems breathing and remains very congested, though she thinks her condition is improving. Maybe COVID is now no worse than the flu, but she thinks that this may be her last visit outside the United States. We will have to wait and see how the post-pandemic world settles down.

It is not “no worse than the flu.” That is propaganda which endlessly pounded by right-wingers and antivaxxers which has seeped into public discourse.

It is just as dangerous as it was before; we’ve only gotten better at treating the acute symptoms.

Mastodon

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Unabogie  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:14:07pm

Tech recruiter sent me this today.

How are you? Hope your August is going well thus far. I wanted to connect immediately about a high-impact Senior/Lead JavaScript position at a fast-growing product marketplace called publicsq.com

They provide a very specialized service- they connect small and medium-sized business that are Pro-American, Pro-Family Values, and Pro-Freedom with like-minded consumers. Their core values resonate extremely well with their business channel partners, and create a vibrant community of consumers and businesses that believe in our Freedom, Republic, and Constitution.

They are one of the fastest growing apps on the App Store/Google Play and just went IPO! Due to their growth, they seek a Principal JavaScript Engineer- you will build their core marketplace app, and leveraging tools like React, GraphQL, Node, and many other cutting edge tools!

They plan on doubling in size this year alone, and have a great base/bonus/benefits package. Full remote as well .They need someone who shares their same values- that is the most critical piece for them. Interviews happening soon- please let me know the best time/number to connect!

I replied back:

They sound like fascists to me. Hard pass.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:14:17pm

Has there ever been a better name for a Trump ally than Ken Chesebro?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:18:25pm

niterz, lizardz!

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Unabogie  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:21:48pm

He wrote back.

Understood- certainly not for everyone. I will have plenty of other roles that are less political, or at least have a different lens. Would be happy to consider you for those as well.

I replied again.

Honestly, I wouldn’t do business with someone who would ever be associated with people like that.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:22:22pm

re: #234 Unabogie

He wrote back.

I replied again.

Yep. That recruiter would be straight on my “do not answer” list.

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Unabogie  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:22:57pm

re: #235 Nerdy Fish

Yep. That recruiter would be straight on my “do not answer” list.

I was feeling salty. I want people to pay a social cost for going along with the bigots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:22:58pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:23:29pm

re: #234 Unabogie

He wrote back.

I replied again.

An in-the-wild example of the “Nazi bar” problem.

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wrenchwench  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:24:08pm

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:24:39pm

re: #235 Nerdy Fish

Yep. That recruiter would be straight on my “do not answer” list.

Yup. An Anything For Money person is a fascist approver. Persona non grata to me.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 9, 2023 • 5:26:55pm

re: #236 Unabogie

I was feeling salty. I want people to pay a social cost for going along with the bigots.

I absolutely agree. If that recruiter knew that this company they were recruiting for was a “freedom loving” (read: fascist) company, and deliberately chose to work with them, they would not only not get my business, but all of my work contacts would hear that they and their firm should be avoided.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 9, 2023 • 6:36:48pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

Wow! That man is tripping!


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