Postmodern Jukebox Feat. Wild Bill: “Stayin’ Alive” (Ragtime Rockabilly Cover)

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Some mighty fancy double bass slingin’ from Wild Bill here. And I do mean slingin’.

Stayin’ Alive by The Bee Gees (Ragtime Rockabilly Swing Cover) by Postmodern Jukebox ft. Wild Bill
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The electrifying Nashville singing bassist Wild Bill takes center stage — with his trusty bass fiddle — in this ragtime-meets-rockabilly country / western remake of The Bee Gees’ classic, “Stayin’ Alive” (from the 1977 film, ‘Saturday Night Fever.’)

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334 comments
1
Patricia Kayden  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:01:34pm

He loves the poorly educated.

2
darthstar  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:13:42pm

Nice to be home again…sunny, 65…pleasant and warm. When we got to Petaluma it was 92 degrees outside…when we got to the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge it was 67 and there was a blanket of fog across the bridge - you could see the two bridge towers and Sutro antenna behind it poking out. Temp dropped a degree every 15 seconds as we crossed and it was 62 degrees at the toll booth.

We call that Outside Lands weather as the concert was this weekend.

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:14:36pm

Mastodon

4
Charles Johnson  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:23:09pm

The server hamsters at several Mastodon sites seem to be on strike today.

5
silverdolphin  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:23:31pm

From below.

re: #110 wrenchwench

Recumbents. First, stationary. Then with 3 or 4 wheels.

My son just suggested the same thing. Off to the inter webs!!

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:24:03pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

The server hamsters at several Mastodon sites seem to be on strike today.

The Universeodon admins said they were doing a migration today, and it wound up introducing several queuing issues that they’re working to mitigate.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:25:47pm

From downstairs —

re: #196 Vicious Babushka

It was a billing error.

Yep. The actual order was for $282 — and it was a shock to the woman when she learned of the discrepancy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:30:29pm

Learn something every day — was wondering where Zuckerberg posted his comment on the Musk fight — and it was Threads! Wonder if he’s the only user there.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:30:47pm

Rhiannon Giddens: “Julie” (original)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:32:00pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

The server hamsters at several Mastodon sites seem to be on strike today.

Proboscidea never really liked small rodents, so I thought.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:33:48pm

RFK Jr stated he would sign a 3 month abortion ban, showing he is not so much running for President as he is grifting the right. x.com

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:40:39pm

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:40:41pm
“The only Election Interference that took place in Fulton County, Georgia, was done by those that Rigged and Stole the Election, not by me, who simply complained that the Election was Rigged and Stolen,” Trump steamed on Truth Social. “We have Massive and Conclusive Proof, if the Grand Jury would like to see it.”
uproxx.com

The sixty court cases he lost would like to see it!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:41:46pm

Two threads ago (I’m slow):

re: #312 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Jews with typical small arms of the time might well have repelled the first group of collaborationist police who came to round them.up. With luck, they might do the same to the local militia who arrived next. They would not have stopped the panzer grenadiers who came after that.
It took the largest armies ever raised and a 3 year non-stop bloodbath to finally crush Hitlers troops and free the surviving captives.

Sort of how the Defence of the Polish Post Office went down in 1939.

On the day of the attack, fifty-six people were in the Post Office, mostly employees.

The attack was initially police and paramilitaries. As the resisters held out repelling first the frontal attack on the Post Office and then the sappers from the sides, the Wehrmacht opened fire on the complex with howitzers while a battleship in the harbour pounded them with naval artillery.

The Germans finally drove out the defenders by pouring a railcar full of gasoline into the main building’s basement and setting it alight. They shot the man coming out carrying a white flag of surrender.

After the others surrendered, the Gestapo arrested them and some four hundred other people and tortured them during their interrogations. Most of the people involved in the resistance were tried in a military tribunal and immediately executed afterwards.

Six escaped from the Post Office, though two were captured.

The idea that Jewish people with small arms could possibly resist captors in a concentration camp is ludicrous on its face, and even insults the intelligence of Republicans’ own supporters.

Polish Post Office and Museum
Weapons Used to Defend the Gdansk Post Office
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:52:12pm

re: #5 silverdolphin

From below.

My son just suggested the same thing. Off to the inter webs!!

Look into utahtrikes.com That’s where I got mine. Great company.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:55:33pm

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

On Monday, Abha Khanna and other lawyers will be arguing to a federal court in Alabama that the state’s congressional map remains illegal under the Voting Rights Act.
As she told me, Alabama’s behavior shows “the need for Section 2 is greater than ever, alive and well.”
lawdork.com

“…There’s no dispute this is not a performing map, there’s no dispute this does not provide the remedy that the district court called for. It is disheartening, to say the least, that the legislators of Alabama — even upon multiple defeats in court — could not stomach the idea of even entertaining a second opportunity for Black voters.

It is even more disheartening, that instead of just saying the legislators couldn’t get the votes to do it, “Court, now it’s up to you,” they are stridently going back to the court to say, “You got it wrong in the first place. And not only are we not able to draw the map, we’re not willing to draw that map, and we don’t think should make us draw that map in the first place. And we’re going to take this up again. And we’re going to we’re going to fight you on every ruling that you already made. We’re going to fight you on every finding that have already been established by this court and affirmed by the Supreme Court, because come hell or high water, Alabama will not provide Black voters an equal opportunity to elect their candidate of choice.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:57:28pm

Youtube removed the ability to add a Short to a playlist, of course, when it made it unable to play a Short as a regular video.

So now there is no way to make a Playlist that is made of Shorts.

Unless I’m wrong. Anyone know how?

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 13, 2023 • 5:58:00pm

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Two threads ago (I’m slow):

Sort of how the Defence of the Polish Post Office went down in 1939.

……..

The idea that Jewish people with small arms could possibly resist captors in a concentration camp is ludicrous on its face, and even insults the intelligence of Republicans’ own supporters.

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I’m not sure about that. Craig Robertson was the model of a gun-owning MAGA and apparently believed he could stand up to the government agents who were asking him to surrender.

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:02:22pm

Is it time to say Fuck Donald Trump yet? Fine, I’ll start.
FUCK DONALD TRUMP in green

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:03:50pm

Youtube also announced that they will roll out even more changes to Shorts and regular videos.

Apparently Youtube doesn’t want to feed other sites’ traffic, taking people away from Youtube.

So Youtube is going to change things about links people put into their videos.

They are doing this under the color of protecting users from scammers… but it also keeps people from clicking away from Youtube.

Youtube is already the #1 streaming source ON TELEVISION. Not on computer screens, but on regular TVs (obviously “smart” TVs).

The other day I noticed that the WSJ had a front page headline about Disney having to raise their streaming prices because so many people have canceled Disney+. The headline obviously played into the right-wing anti-Disney movement.

In reality, the problem is across the board for streaming services.

Besides Youtube, the other service in ascendance (but not as quickly as Youtube) is Prime Video.

Other streamers are likely to need consolidation over the next couple of years. The ones that are losing billions of dollars, like Peacock, need to find a new life.

Anyway, Alphabet is really pushing monetization niches in Youtube and if that means making Youtube less friendly for us old-timers then so be it, I guess.

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:09:17pm

re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I like Prime. I pay 99 dollars a year for free shipping and a shit-ton of videos on demand (wait…that’s now $130 a year? or $140?…oh well). I tried YouTube subscription but it didn’t work for me…I still pay fucking Disney+, Apple+, Roku, Britbox, and others I can’t remember (on top of my xfinity/Comcast bill) for shit I never watch as it is.

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Cheechako  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:18:18pm

For those of us who are curious:

Why this year’s record glacial outburst flood likely won’t be Juneau’s worst

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mmmirele  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:19:01pm

Either the church my ex-bf goes to is the closest to Anderson’s cult outfit, or it’s the UMC next to Arizona State. I’d actually bet money that if we were able to pry open Anderson’s otherwise empty cranium, he’s reacting to something done at ex-bf’s church, because they’ve been very openly supportive of LGBTQIA+ involvement in United Methodist life. This UMC and another up in Fountain Hills are regularly attacked by other, much more conservative churches who say they’re not Christian. Yay.

(Ex-bf used to be Catholic and one of his brothers is a priest. But the Catholic church got far too conservative for him and that, combined with the continued drumbeat of priestly sex abuse scandals, sent him off to this UMC.)

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steve_davis  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:22:20pm

thought I’d get around to watching season 13 (?) of Doctor Who with the female doctor. What an absolute clusterfuck. Story starts with the Doctor and assistant having to escape from some death trap created by a creature who we later discover is actually trying to save a human he’s “bonded” to. Then we jump to a scene where some psychic is imprisoned in a force field of some kind, which then breaks down while it is being checked by some security personnel, because hey, why not send two people to do what a robotic entity could do way more cheaply and safely. Then the universe is being eaten by a “flux” and some of the potato-head aliens whose name I can’t remember—Silorians, maybe?—seem to be enjoying the idea that the flux is eating the universe, in spite of the fact that they are presumably part of our universe. Oh, and I forgot there was some brief scene set in 1810 where some workers are mining something. I gave up after the potato-headed aliens. It just felt like that Batman movie with Dr. Freeze that was like Batman on crack.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:25:47pm

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mmmirele  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:33:41pm

re: #21 darthstar

I like Prime. I pay 99 dollars a year for free shipping and a shit-ton of videos on demand (wait…that’s now $130 a year? or $140?…oh well). I tried YouTube subscription but it didn’t work for me…I still pay fucking Disney+, Apple+, Roku, Britbox, and others I can’t remember (on top of my xfinity/Comcast bill) for shit I never watch as it is.

I have Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. I am not a huge TV/movie watcher. I do watch a lot of vids on YouTube. I go through a regular thing about dumping Hulu, but then Trump does something and it’s like WHERE’S MY MSNBC?! Oh yeah, that and they had the entire run of Chainsaw Man’s first season and I binge watched it one Friday afternoon/evening. Or you can watch the still somewhat violent but impossibly wholesome (seriously, it is that) Spy x Family, also on Hulu. Or One Punch Man. Or My Hero Academia. All of which are popular Japanese anime set in alternative worlds of various types. But they all have ads. I don’t like the ads. Please stop with the ads. Thanks.

(Chainsaw Man is a very violent and creepy Japanese anime and it’s completely messed up. But it’s a great watch as long as you keep in mind it would very definitely get an R for violence here in the USA.)

ETA: I just turned on Ayman on MSNBC and he was talking about how Kari Lake is going to run for Senate here in Arizona.

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Captain Ron  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:40:39pm

This post really triggered the MAGAs.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:42:28pm

@marcelias.bsky.social

As we begin another week of potential indictments, please take a minute to reflect on the unique role Republican lawyers played in the conspiracy against democracy.

Trump, Five Lawyers and Their Conspiracy Against Our Democracy
democracydocket.com

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:42:29pm

re: #27 Captain Ron

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This post really triggered the MAGAs.

The thought of voting for someone because we like their ideas and policies, and not because we worship the ground he walks on, really seems to bother them.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:43:20pm

re: #27 Captain Ron

I want to hear Gina’s Trump Praise song.

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wrenchwench  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:43:48pm

I forgot to wordle, then I forgot to post it. It’s a four. Some things are reliable.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 785 4/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh, look. A whiff.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:43:54pm

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:46:26pm

re: #27 Captain Ron

I have several items with President Obama and/or Michelle Obama on it. However, I don’t feel the need to wear or carry around these items in public. I also have a book of photos by Pete Souza about the Obama years. I don’t need to advertise the fact that I love the Obamas. And my vote shows that I fully support President Biden. I don’t need to imprint myself with his image in public to show that.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:48:26pm

re: #27 Captain Ron

Closest I’ve got is a ‘Kamala’ bus sticker.

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2023 • 6:51:47pm

I forgot to take a picture on my way out, but the movie theater in Monte Rio ( open Friday, Saturday and Sunday) is showing Barbie next weekend and they were painting the sidewalk and front of the building pink for the occasion.

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austin_blue  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:10:22pm

re: #9 Backwoods Sleuth

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An American treasure.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:10:50pm

re: #69 jaunte

“…Michael Popok of Legal AF analyzes why Evan Corcoran the disgraced lawyer for Trump at Mar a Lago who will be a lead witness for the prosecution showed up at the new Trump arraignment, what it signals for Trump and what it means for the prosecutions next steps.”

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This is a criminal defense attorney’s worst nightmare.

Subpoenaed to be a witness for the US in a federal criminal trial.

Trump’s latest criminal defense attorneys are fully aware by now, ETTD.

The smarter ones have withdrawn from representation.

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A Three Hour Tour  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:11:33pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

The thought of voting for someone because we like their ideas and policies, and not because we worship the ground he walks on, really seems to bother them.

I don’t worship ANYBODY.

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:12:13pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

The thought of voting for someone because we like their ideas and policies, and not because we worship the ground he walks on, really seems to bother them.

When Biden is wrong, I say so.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:22:29pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

Ruth Ben-Ghiat does a great job of explaining the phenomenon in Strongmen.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:32:38pm

re: #33 Patricia Kayden

I have several items with President Obama and/or Michelle Obama on it. However, I don’t feel the need to wear or carry around these items in public. I also have a book of photos by Pete Souza about the Obama years. I don’t need to advertise the fact that I love the Obamas. And my vote shows that I fully support President Biden. I don’t need to imprint myself with his image in public to show that.

I had to make an emergency run up to Oklahoma to get my son’s phone fixed. On the trip I saw a Trump Store and someone flying a giant Trump 2020 flag. There is nothing like that for Clinton, Obama, or Biden.

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austin_blue  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:32:59pm

Seriously! I’d like an answer from anyone who made a non-commercial purchase of food greater than $1,000, in a grocery store, that did not include liquor or was associated with a self-funded wedding reception.

Go!

re: #190 Nerdy Fish

I’ve never had a grocery bill even approach $1000. If you’re spending $2800 on groceries, you’re either buying tons of expensive and rare ingredients, or you’re trying to feed a family of 15. Either way, it’s not a crisis normal middle-class people will resonate with.

Tell me what you bought to achieve a $1000 grocery bill.
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:33:35pm

re: #42 austin_blue

Answered at the top of the thread: It was a billing error. Computer turned a $282 grocery bill into $2820.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:33:52pm

re: #38 A Three Hour Tour

I don’t worship ANYBODY.

Memories of Dad losing his temper when he was at my aunt’s home and saw her prayer altar with a big picture of Pruneface Reagan on it. She actually prayed to Pruneface because her Pulpit Pimp said he “had a vision” that Reagan sat next to The Big G in Hay-Venn.

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mmmirele  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:38:12pm

re: #43 Nerdy Fish

Answered at the top of the thread: It was a billing error. Computer turned a $282 grocery bill into $2820.

I had that happen once. A $62 check to pay off American Express was MICR-coded to $620. I bounced five checks as a result. This happened while I was undergoing the final investigation to be cleared to take the Texas Bar. I remember having to go down to First Interstate Bank and tell them bluntly that if they didn’t FIX the problem yesterday, I was not going to be able to take the bar and I would sue them. It got fixed.

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austin_blue  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:39:29pm

re: #43 Nerdy Fish

Answered at the top of the thread: It was a billing error. Computer turned a $282 grocery bill into $2820.

Not what I was asking.

The question was, “who has had a $1,000 grocery bill that was purely domestic?”

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:42:34pm

re: #45 mmmirele

I had a 7500 Lira ($13 at the time) toll charge in Italy interpreted as a $7500 charge on my visa and when I was on the return trip I had to call Visa from my rental car at the French border to get them to clear the toll going back through the tunnel to Turin.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:46:19pm

re: #47 darthstar

Ouch. Not fun.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:47:10pm

Wrong Marx //

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sagehen  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:47:30pm

re: #38 A Three Hour Tour

I don’t worship ANYBODY.

Not even Bruce Springsteen?!?!

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austin_blue  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:48:16pm

So, I am assuming that no one on this board has ever spent $1,000 on a purely domestic grocery purchase, not including liquor.

And if you have purchased that much liquor, we need to talk.

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retired cynic  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:48:21pm

re: #49 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

ROFL!

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mmmirele  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:51:02pm

re: #51 austin_blue

So, I am assuming that no one on this board has ever spent $1,000 on a purely domestic grocery purchase, not including liquor.

And if you have purchased that much liquor, we need to talk.

There might be people in my area, those who happen to have a half-dozen kids or more, who spend a couple hundred bucks a week on groceries. I could probably spend less on groceries but I happen to be addicted to diet Coke. And I need to run over to the grocery store and spend money on more diet Coke to feed my addiction.

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retired cynic  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:52:17pm

re: #53 mmmirele

There might be people in my area, those who happen to have a half-dozen kids or more, who spend a couple hundred bucks a week on groceries. I could probably spend less on groceries but I happen to be addicted to diet Coke. And I need to run over to the grocery store and spend money on more diet Coke to feed my addiction.

Coke Zero here.

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darthstar  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:54:23pm

re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg

Ouch. Not fun.

ten minutes at a toll booth speaking broken French to the booth guy and English to Citibank on my cell phone…got through it.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:57:42pm

re: #41 Belafon

When I was in Myrtle Beach, I came across a Trump store. Couldn’t believe it. So ridiculous. But it is a cult so **shrug**.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 13, 2023 • 7:58:57pm

re: #26 mmmirele

Don’t forget the Ghost Stories anime on Prime. One of the funniest things I’ve ever watched.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:00:35pm

re: #33 Patricia Kayden

I have several items with President Obama and/or Michelle Obama on it. However, I don’t feel the need to wear or carry around these items in public. I also have a book of photos by Pete Souza about the Obama years. I don’t need to advertise the fact that I love the Obamas. And my vote shows that I fully support President Biden. I don’t need to imprint myself with his image in public to show that.

I only have Wonkette shot glasses with Ruth Bader-Ginsberg’s picture and the text “I dissent.”

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:00:43pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅

I thought Christians believed that it was blasphemous to worship human beings because they’re only supposed to worship God. I guess not.

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CleverToad  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:04:39pm

re: #54 retired cynic

Coke Zero here.

Cherry Coke Zero here.
But I like it less after the recent formula change, and I’m damned if I spend $8.99 for a 12-pack which is the non-sale price. That’s two ways to weaken my addiction, I only buy now when there’s a sale that puts it to less than $5.

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austin_blue  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:05:15pm

re: #53 mmmirele

There might be people in my area, those who happen to have a half-dozen kids or more, who spend a couple hundred bucks a week on groceries. I could probably spend less on groceries but I happen to be addicted to diet Coke. And I need to run over to the grocery store and spend money on more diet Coke to feed my addiction.

Well, this is my point, that a random fuckwit can post how she spent $2,800 in a single trip to her local Kroger’s and it’s all because of Joe Biden’s Inflation Disaster.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:05:59pm

re: #51 austin_blue

So, I am assuming that no one on this board has ever spent $1,000 on a purely domestic grocery purchase, not including liquor.

And if you have purchased that much liquor, we need to talk.

The most we ever spent was $600 (not on booze). Our very large grocery bills come from going to the Commissary at FE Warren AFB and loading up. After that we usually don’t have to go grocery shopping for a long time.

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austin_blue  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:14:04pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The most we ever spent was $600 (not on booze). Our very large grocery bills come from going to the Commissary at FE Warren AFB and loading up. After that we usually don’t have to go grocery shopping for a long time.

Yes! That’s the story I want to hear!

You live in a remote area. You have access to a military Commissary (cheap!) that is quite a trek for you. You do a month’s shopping and pay $600.

It’s not $2800 for a drop in at a Kroger’s is it?

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wrenchwench  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:18:16pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:20:35pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:21:51pm

re: #65 wrenchwench

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How would something mom out of a toaster?

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:23:07pm

re: #55 darthstar

ten minutes at a toll booth speaking broken French to the booth guy and English to Citibank on my cell phone…got through it.

I Love Lucy Down the Line of Translation

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wrenchwench  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:32:04pm

re: #66 Belafon

How would something mom out of a toaster?

If it won’t pop out, mom unplugs it and flips it, over the sink.

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:32:23pm

re: #27 Captain Ron

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This post really triggered the MAGAs.

It’s 2012 all over again, with the TPers convinced that there’s no way Obama can be winning in the polls because they don’t see yard signs, they don’t see ballcaps, they don’t see people bowing and worshiping at altars to his greatness, so obviously the pollsters are “skewing” the numbers in his favors.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:35:13pm

My wife is talking me through making dinner since she can’t stand.

So far it’s brutal.

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Belafon  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:37:03pm

re: #68 wrenchwench

If it won’t pop out, mom unplugs it and flips it, over the sink.

From my son: Momming is where the toaster calls it by its full legal name to get it to come out.

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EPR-radar  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:38:50pm

re: #61 austin_blue

Well, this is my point, that a random fuckwit can post how she spent $2,800 in a single trip to her local Kroger’s and it’s all because of Joe Biden’s Inflation Disaster.

Conservatives lie all the time, and anyone bellyaching about “Biden’s inflation” is either a conservative or a useful idiot for conservatives.

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austin_blue  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:38:51pm

re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife is talking me through making dinner since she can’t stand.

So far it’s brutal.

Wait, what?

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:39:19pm

re: #71 Belafon

From my son: Momming is where the toaster calls it by its full legal name to get it to come out.

There’s Jiffy Pop popcorn…but no Jiffy Mom popcorn?

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:41:58pm

Just some random FYI: To most service sector employees, the phrases “I’m going somewhere else” or “I’ll never come here again” generally will generate no more than an eyeroll and perhaps a insincere faux-apology. Doubly so if you frontload such “threats” by bitching about “I spend/spent X amount of dollars here!” And anybody who tries any variation of “I PAY YOUR SALARY!!!” can fuck all the way off.

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EPR-radar  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:44:52pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

Here’s why I’d never make it in a public-facing service job — I would be unable to resist the temptation to say “Is that supposed to be a threat?, because that sounds more like a promise to me.” when some asshole customer threatens to take their business elsewhere.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:46:42pm

As Inferno Grew, Lahaina’s Water System Collapsed
The reader’s comments are insightful:

(no paywall)

nytimes.com

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:46:45pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

Just some random FYI: To most service sector employees, the phrases “I’m going somewhere else” or “I’ll never come here again” generally will generate no more than an eyeroll and perhaps a insincere faux-apology. Doubly so if you frontload such “threats” by bitching about “I spend/spent X amount of dollars here!” And anybody who tries any variation of “I PAY YOUR SALARY!!!” can fuck all the way off.

Yup. Had a freak get upset at getting an accessable room the other night because it was all we had left. He stormed out complaining that we’d put him in a cripple’s room and that he’d leave a horrible review. Like I GAF? I’m more curious about how he got so triggered by grab bars in the bathroom.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:49:53pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

Just some random FYI: To most service sector employees, the phrases “I’m going somewhere else” or “I’ll never come here again” generally will generate no more than an eyeroll and perhaps a insincere faux-apology. Doubly so if you frontload such “threats” by bitching about “I spend/spent X amount of dollars here!” And anybody who tries any variation of “I PAY YOUR SALARY!!!” can fuck all the way off.

“I’m good friends with the owner.”

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EPR-radar  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:49:58pm

re: #78 William Lewis

Yup. Had a freak get upset at getting an accessable room the other night because it was all we had left. He stormed out complaining that we’d put him in a cripple’s room and that he’d leave a horrible review. Like I GAF? I’m more curious about how he got so triggered by grab bars in the bathroom.

It’s pretty easy to fill in the blanks here — this asshole is almost certainly a fascist, and fascists usually view disabled people as defectives that should be purged from society to strengthen the Volk.

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KingKenrod  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:50:25pm

I was a daily diet coke drinker - by my guess, I was drinking 8-12 bottles a day, for about 30 years. 500-800 mg caffeine a day by my calculations.

About 4 years ago, I started breaking out in hives, for no apparent reason. I started taking allergy shots, which controlled it (without the shots, the hives would never go away). I kept drinking the diet cokes.

Then last November, I had a small stroke - no disability, just some wonky coordination problems for a few hours. During my hospital stay I resolved to quit drinking diet coke - it took about 7 days to get over over it, had severe headaches from withdrawal.

But I stopped taking the allergy shots too. And guess what? The hives never came back. The hives (and maybe the stroke) were my body’s way of telling me to knock it off with the fucking diet cokes. My diet otherwise hasn’t changed, I still eat stuff with artificial sweeteners, so I’m pretty sure it was the caffeine.

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wrenchwench  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:50:34pm

re: #74 Sherlock Hound

There’s Jiffy Pop popcorn…but no Jiffy Mom popcorn?

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momcorn

momsicles.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:56:16pm

re: #80 EPR-radar

It’s pretty easy to fill in the blanks here — this asshole is almost certainly a fascist, and fascists usually view disabled people as defectives that should be purged from society to strengthen the Volk.

I’d be delighted to take that room. It’s a weird flex because even fascists get old and infirm; it’s just that, like Greg Abbott, no one else deserves accommodations.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:58:29pm

re: #82 wrenchwench

momcorn

momsicles.

I’ll buy some soda-mom.

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EPR-radar  Aug 13, 2023 • 8:58:49pm

re: #81 KingKenrod

I had a bad habit of drinking way too much Dr. Pepper, which ended abruptly after a dentist visit. You do not want to be the patient where the dentist shows off your dissolved teeth to the hygienist as an example of what the acids in soda can do over time.

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EPR-radar  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:01:40pm

re: #83 Sherlock Hound

I’d be delighted to take that room. It’s a weird flex because even fascists get old and infirm; it’s just that, like Greg Abbott, no one else deserves accommodations.

IMO the irrationality by the asshole customer is likely driven by some kind of personal purity bullshit — as if being disabled is somehow contagious.

As always, fascists don’t think, they emote.

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:02:12pm

re: #78 William Lewis

Yup. Had a freak get upset at getting an accessable room the other night because it was all we had left. He stormed out complaining that we’d put him in a cripple’s room and that he’d leave a horrible review. Like I GAF? I’m more curious about how he got so triggered by grab bars in the bathroom.

In my case, it’s an elderly guest who likes to bitch at me about things over which I have no control (this week: a broken door lock) that is inconveniencing her. And every time she does this little routine, it’s to growl about how “how much [she] is paying to stay here,” leaving me little choice but to pretend that I care instead of reminding her that we’re a hotel and she’s free to GTFO at her leisure. Like most of them that do this song and dance, the reality is that we’re the only place in their price range and they know it.

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:04:45pm

re: #86 EPR-radar

being disabled is somehow contagious

Ding ding ding.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:06:15pm

re: #83 Sherlock Hound

Same. I often appreciate the additional space and amenities a disabled room provides, even as a healthy person.

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Captain Ron  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:10:10pm

I just saw a flas of lightning to the east of me. It struck in Antioch. Wind has jumped to 15 MPH and it clouded up two hours ago. Rain expected in two hours.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:11:39pm

re: #89 Eclectic Cyborg

Same. I often appreciate the additional space and amenities a disabled room provides, even as a healthy person.

I’m on my town’s disability and we are sometimes asked what percentage of units should be accessible.

My only answer: “All of them!”

When the average new housing unit in my town is expected to last 50-60 years and pass through several residents in its lifetime, I won’t apologize for taking such a hard line.

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:13:38pm

re: #79 Eclectic Cyborg

“I’m good friends with the owner.”

I had someone try that on the GM up in Hayward while the Owner was talking to the GM… Hilarity ensued ;)

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:17:02pm

re: #81 KingKenrod

I was a daily diet coke drinker - by my guess, I was drinking 8-12 bottles a day, for about 30 years. 500-800 mg caffeine a day by my calculations.

Similar story except it was Pepsi. Nowhere near the same consumption rate but strong enough to elevate my A1c level into the diabetic range. Now there are a number of factors that can do that but mainlining that much sugar had to be a major factor. In any case, I quit drinking sodas the day I got that result and haven’t touch one in over 10 years now. Sodas are evil, I says. There are no convincing reasons why somebody should be drinking one.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:23:58pm

. .  .  . So at the age of 54, when many people begin thinking more about retirement, Mr. Chang instead put himself on a path to turn his insight into a reality. The engineer left his adopted country, the United States, and moved to Taiwan where he founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC. The company does not design chips, but it has become the world’s biggest manufacturer of cutting-edge microprocessors for customers including Apple and Nvidia.

[…]

Over a recent three-hour discussion in his office, Mr. Chang made it clear that he identifies as American — he obtained his U.S. citizenship in 1962 — at a time when the company he founded is at the center of a technological Cold War between the United States and China. Even as the rivalry for tech leadership intensifies, he does not give China much of a chance for semiconductor supremacy.

“We control all the choke points,” Mr. Chang said, referring collectively to the United States and its chip-making allies such as the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. “China can’t really do anything if we want to choke them.”

nytimes.com

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jaunte  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:32:29pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:54:38pm

I have a dream but I do not think it is possible (and any lawyer tell me if I am wrong). I have read Garland’s letter describing Weiss’ appointment to Special Counsel. He can investigate the Hunter Biden events but also can investigate any other things that come up in that investigation.

What I would love is Weiss to be able to expand the investigation to any relative of a sitting VP or P receiving money for access. Not just Hunter but now include Kushner, Ivanka, and the sons. By making him special councel he could expand it to go after them.

I don’t think this could really happen as special counsel does not have quite the ability to travel far afield like procesutors did with Clinton. Unless Trump/Kushner/ et al. came up in Ukraine briberies. But I can dream.

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 9:54:49pm

re: #94 BeenHereAwhile

. .  .  . So at the age of 54, when many people begin thinking more about retirement, Mr. Chang instead put himself on a path to turn his insight into a reality. The engineer left his adopted country, the United States, and moved to Taiwan where he founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC. The company does not design chips, but it has become the world’s biggest manufacturer of cutting-edge microprocessors for customers including Apple and Nvidia.

[…]

Over a recent three-hour discussion in his office, Mr. Chang made it clear that he identifies as American — he obtained his U.S. citizenship in 1962 — at a time when the company he founded is at the center of a technological Cold War between the United States and China. Even as the rivalry for tech leadership intensifies, he does not give China much of a chance for semiconductor supremacy.

“We control all the choke points,” Mr. Chang said, referring collectively to the United States and its chip-making allies such as the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. “China can’t really do anything if we want to choke them.”

nytimes.com

That’s been the tale in the tech press for awhile now, that China continues to struggle to do more than copy Western chip designs, that Western embargoes have only made that struggle worse since they can’t even order parts directly from foreign chip companies, and all the hair-on-fire stories about China on the precipice of surpassing the West in chip manufacturing ignore that quantity does not equal quality. Basically it’s the same situation we saw in the 20th century, where Western press would lose their minds over every new example of “Soviet superscience” only to then learn that what wasn’t pure propaganda was so far past the safety margin that it was killing men left and right.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 13, 2023 • 10:32:51pm

re: #81 KingKenrod

It’s Diet Squirt soda for me. Probably because Dad would buy a case of Squirt at a time. When he would go drinking with coworkers his buddy Mike Percelli always kept a six pack of Squirt cold for him Others would drink Iron City or Genoese Cream Ale but Dad drank a bottle or two of Squirt.

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sagehen  Aug 13, 2023 • 10:37:21pm

re: #96 silverdolphin

I have a dream but I do not think it is possible (and any lawyer tell me if I am wrong). I have read Garland’s letter describing Weiss’ appointment to Special Counsel. He can investigate the Hunter Biden events but also can investigate any other things that come up in that investigation.

Things like… Giuliani, and Trump trying to extort Zelensky, and Lev Parnas, and what they did to the Marie Yovanovich…..

All of which is most definitely connected to Hunter Biden events and Trump’s actions related thereto.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 13, 2023 • 10:39:35pm

re: #73 austin_blue

Wait, what?

Dinner’s over now. T-bone steak with salad and flavoured mashed potatoes.

My wife instructed me through all the steps (I can broil a steak, but she wanted certain seasonings and told me how to do that).

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silverdolphin  Aug 13, 2023 • 10:41:23pm

re: #96 silverdolphin

I have a dream but I do not think it is possible (and any lawyer tell me if I am wrong). I have read Garland’s letter describing Weiss’ appointment to Special Counsel. He can investigate the Hunter Biden events but also can investigate any other things that come up in that investigation.

What I would love is Weiss to be able to expand the investigation to any relative of a sitting VP or P receiving money for access. Not just Hunter but now include Kushner, Ivanka, and the sons. By making him special councel he could expand it to go after them.

I don’t think this could really happen as special counsel does not have quite the ability to travel far afield like prosecutors did with Clinton. Unless Trump/Kushner/ et al. came up in Ukraine briberies. But I can dream.

It might not even have to include the kids. Turns out that, of course, the original impeachment dealt with trying to bribe Ukraine to get them to investigate Hunter and Burisma. As said at the time::

Specifically, they suggest that Trump was conditioning the release of nearly $391 million in Congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine upon Ukraine’s publicly announcing a criminal probe into, among other things, the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. That probe would necessarily cast a pall on a former director there, Hunter Biden, who is the son of Joe Biden, then the front-runner to become Trump’s Democratic opponent in the next presidential election. (Joe Biden was also the Democratic candidate who was then performing best against Trump in head-to-head straw polls.)

So, if in the course of investigating Hunter, Weiss produced strong evidence that Trump tried to corruptly bribe Ukraine (and we know he did) to connect Hunter and Burisma ina corruptin scandal that did not exist, could he now investigate that as a special counsel? Because I know he would not have been able to do that as a normal DOJ prosecutor.

Maybe my dream has a small chance.

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silverdolphin  Aug 13, 2023 • 10:48:05pm

re: #99 sagehen

Things like… Giuliani, and Trump trying to extort Zelensky, and Lev Parnas, and what they did to the Marie Yovanovich…..

All of which is most definitely connected to Hunter Biden events and Trump’s actions related thereto.

OMG. I was just preparing a post answering my own question about this. It all absoluteluy does connect and could be better used by a special counsel than a normal prosecutor. and it would explain why the GOP is freaking out over Weiss as a special counsel.

Pleeaasssee!

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mmmirele  Aug 13, 2023 • 10:51:01pm

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

When I was in Myrtle Beach, I came across a Trump store. Couldn’t believe it. So ridiculous. But it is a cult so **shrug**.

Here in Mesa, we had some Boomers in a massive bus parked on the southwest corner of University and Lindsay for a couple of months in the runup to the election. Ironically, the district went Democratic for the first time in something like a half-century. I probably have pictures of that abomination somewhere. And, if memory serves, there was a pop up Trump store on the northeast corner of Brown and Recker at about the same time (which is on the way to my mother’s house). I seem to recall those people had one of those rental sheds (the same kind that pop up during firework season in July and December), the kind you shove all your stuff in at the end of the day and then come back and put it out the next morning. They too disappeared not long after Trump’s election defeat.

And yeah, it is a cult. There are people in the neighborhoods who have Trump flags up, and some of them actually say, “Fuck Joe Biden.” I mean, seriously, people, I watch my language outside of my house because there are kids around here, and then you guys just go full bore with F bombs. I guess it’s just the hypocrisy they’re proud of.

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 10:57:34pm

re: #96 silverdolphin

I have a dream but I do not think it is possible (and any lawyer tell me if I am wrong). I have read Garland’s letter describing Weiss’ appointment to Special Counsel. He can investigate the Hunter Biden events but also can investigate any other things that come up in that investigation.

What I would love is Weiss to be able to expand the investigation to any relative of a sitting VP or P receiving money for access. Not just Hunter but now include Kushner, Ivanka, and the sons. By making him special councel he could expand it to go after them.

I dom’t think this could really happen as special counsel does not have quite the ability to travel far afield like procesutors did with Clinton. Unless Trump/Kushner/ et al. came up in Ukraine briberies. But I can dream.

Honestly, it strikes me as boilerplate language, that Garland is so done with GQP buffoonery in their “investigations” that he’s giving Weiss carte blanche in writing simply so he can tell the press anytime somebody like Comer whines about Hunter being “shielded” that Weiss has the authority to look anywhere and everywhere the investigation takes him but that does not include random snipe hunts where the evidence does not exist.

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mmmirele  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:00:28pm

re: #87 Targetpractice

Like most of them that do this song and dance, the reality is that we’re the only place in their price range and they know it.

How much is a room? Just wondering. It’s the (very) low season here and rooms (before taxes) at branded places are at $88/night. (I know this because my nephew, his wife and their baby are coming out in two weeks so that my mom can meet one of her great-grandchildren. She’s paying for this trip.)

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silverdolphin  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:00:47pm

re: #104 Targetpractice

Honestly, it strikes me as boilerplate language, that Garland is so done with GQP buffoonery in their “investigations” that he’s giving Weiss carte blanche in writing simply so he can tell the press anytime somebody like Comer whines about Hunter being “shielded” that Weiss has the authority to look anywhere and everywhere the investigation takes him but that does not include random snipe hunts where the evidence does not exist.

I think that is likely the real point as it shelters him from Congressional attempts to constrict Weiss. I just would love to belive there is also some 3D chess moves being made here also ;-)

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Captain Ron  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:06:33pm
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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:08:32pm

re: #103 mmmirele

Here in Mesa, we had some Boomers in a massive bus parked on the southwest corner of University and Lindsay for a couple of months in the runup to the election. Ironically, the district went Democratic for the first time in something like a half-century. I probably have pictures of that abomination somewhere. And, if memory serves, there was a pop up Trump store on the northeast corner of Brown and Recker at about the same time (which is on the way to my mother’s house). I seem to recall those people had one of those rental sheds (the same kind that pop up during firework season in July and December), the kind you shove all your stuff in at the end of the day and then come back and put it out the next morning. They too disappeared not long after Trump’s election defeat.

And yeah, it is a cult. There are people in the neighborhoods who have Trump flags up, and some of them actually say, “Fuck Joe Biden.” I mean, seriously, people, I watch my language outside of my house because there are kids around here, and then you guys just go full bore with F bombs. I guess it’s just the hypocrisy they’re proud of.

I actually respect the ones who say F Joe better than the ones that say “Let’s Go Brandon” because that’s as silly a euphemism as is possible. That said, it’s still not much respect 😱🤣

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:08:33pm

re: #106 silverdolphin

I think that is likely the real point as it shelters him from Congressional attempts to constrict Weiss. I just would love to belive there is also some 3D chess moves being made here also ;-)

No offense, but we’ve been hearing that whole “Garland has wheels within wheels going on, be patient and he’ll take down the whole foul lot.” And then we learned just last month that the FBI was dragging its feet on the NARA requests for getting back documents and only started taking Jan 6th accusations seriously after the Dems held their hearings. The reality is that if Trump had quietly gone into retirement as Dubya did, the DOJ would have been happy to ignore him for the rest of his sad and pathetic life.

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:09:24pm

re: #105 mmmirele

How much is a room? Just wondering. It’s the (very) low season here and rooms (before taxes) at branded places are at $88/night. (I know this because my nephew, his wife and their baby are coming out in two weeks so that my mom can meet one of her great-grandchildren. She’s paying for this trip.)

It varies from day to day, but this time of year we average around $120/night on weekdays and $180+/night on weekends.

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:26:19pm

re: #110 Targetpractice

It varies from day to day, but this time of year we average around $120/night on weekdays and $180+/night on weekends.

We’re similar but can end up higher on the weekends, especially for our kitchenette rooms - those can hit $250+/night.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:27:29pm

re: #111 William Lewis

We’re similar but can end up higher on the weekends, especially for our kitchenette rooms - those can hit $250+/night.

I will not whinge again about paying $30 a night for a room around here. /s

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:38:43pm

Nago, Okinawa

*Tried to do a photo but it won’t rotate correctly. I’ll try again later.

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William Lewis  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:40:07pm

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I will not whinge again about paying $30 a night for a room around here. /s

There’s a place down the highway about a mile and half that charges $65/night. Of course, the cops show up for drugs and violence nightly and the city has been fighting to shut it down for years…

When I came to town to interview for my first position with this company, I had to stay there for various reasons (not the least of which was my father and step mother had Covid). It was one of the few times I have been very glad to have my CCW permit … O_O

No, didn’t need it that night but it was definitely one of the places I’ve been where I felt it was appropriate.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:41:12pm

re: #113 Barefoot Grin

Nago, Okinawa

*Tried to do a photo but it won’t rotate correctly. I’ll try again later.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:43:51pm

The posters in the windows say “Gender Equality,” “Save Article 9 and use it in diplomacy,” “We must face the climate crisis,” “Protect workers’ rights”: it’s the local office of the Japan Communist Party.

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Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2023 • 11:55:12pm

re: #111 William Lewis

We’re similar but can end up higher on the weekends, especially for our kitchenette rooms - those can hit $250+/night.

We’re sort of in that twilight period between July 4th and Labor Day, when prices just sort of meander up and down because the corporate sales office is going off what we were doing in terms of business this time last year instead of actually following the trends. Plus we’re not right on the beach so we can’t charge the prices they can, especially when the idiots who’ve never heard of Google Maps get here and realize they’re still a 15-20 min drive from the Oceanfront. When I worked at a hotel on the Oceanfront, prices usually started around $180-200/night for a standard room and could be double that for a suite on a summer weekend.

And yes, there were plenty of morons who’d swear they’d just got done driving 12 hours non-stop, were absolutely bone-tired, and had spent an hour looking for a hotel room in the dead of night…but still thought it was outrageous that we were charging $180/night.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 14, 2023 • 12:54:35am

.


King’s March



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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 14, 2023 • 1:18:08am

Back from watching Season Three’s premier of “Only Murders in the Building.”

Hint: The new murder occurs in the building.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 14, 2023 • 1:25:46am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Spoilers!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 1:30:58am

re: #38 A Three Hour Tour

I don’t worship ANYBODY.

Fundamentalism, as we see in Evangelical Christians (or, for example, Hassidic Jews), often places great emphasis on making a public display of one’s devotion and faith.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 1:49:57am

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

The thought of voting for someone because we like their ideas and policies, and not because we worship the ground he walks on, really seems to bother them.

He is perceived as the ultimate anti-politician for those who are fed up with politics as usual. That is what has allowed him to get away with things that would have wreckied the campaign or even the career of any other professional politician.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 1:52:23am

re: #82 wrenchwench

momcorn

momsicles.

Momular Mechanics

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 14, 2023 • 2:12:22am

re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Anti-politician? Trump was very pro-Republican when it came to stuffing SCOTUS and federal courts with right wing (mostly unqualified) judges. He also passed pro-Republican tax cuts for the mega rich and implemented extreme anti-immigration policies (such as separating migrant families, banning migrants from several Muslim countries). He took America out of international agreements which right wingers didn’t like (such as those for climate change).
I don’t see how he was an anti-politician. He wasn’t a politician until he was elected but he did everything the right wing wanted him to do. That’s why they’re still supporting him now, for the most part.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 14, 2023 • 2:15:02am

We have broken the record low for August 14. It is currently 44°F / 7°Commie.

By Wednesday we’ll be back above 100°F for a daytime high; today it’s supposed to be 78°F.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 2:27:07am

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

he sells himself as the anti-politician and lots of people buy into that image

People who also hate Republicans but tolerate them because they are the Party of Trump.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 14, 2023 • 2:28:05am

Trump is a lawless grifter.

Mastodon

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TarHellion  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:03:37am

Had to think this one over before salvaging the par

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:15:48am
Richy Palalay so closely identifies with his Maui hometown that he had a tattoo artist permanently ink “Lahaina Grown” on his forearms when he was 16.

But a chronic housing shortage and an influx of second-home buyers and wealthy transplants have been displacing residents like Palalay who give Lahaina its spirit and identity.

A fast-moving wildfire that incinerated much of the compact coastal settlement last week has multiplied concerns that any homes rebuilt there will be targeted at affluent outsiders seeking a tropical haven. That would turbo-charge what is already one of Hawaii’s gravest and biggest challenges: the exodus and displacement of Native Hawaiian and local-born residents who can no longer afford to live in their homeland.

apnews.com

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:17:11am

And for a Monday morning reminder that nothing is perfect…

Metric - Nothing Is Perfect (Official Video)

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:21:27am

They say it wasn’t gas related, but I find that hard to believe.

Five people were killed and several others injured in a house explosion Saturday in Plum, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The explosion destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others, authorities said.

A person who was initially unaccounted for after the explosion was among the five dead, officials said Sunday. Police have not yet publicly identified the victims, but officials said one of the victims was an adolescent.

A little before 10:30 a.m. Eastern time Saturday, 911 dispatchers received a call that multiple houses were on fire due to an explosion. Responding officers and firefighters arrived to find “people trapped under the debris,” Allegheny County officials reported.

Four people were initially confirmed dead in the incident, Allegheny County officials reported on social media. The fifth fatality was confirmed during a Sunday press conference. Three others were hospitalized, two in stable condition and one in critical condition.

In all, 57 firefighters were treated on scene for minor issues — many of them for heat exhaustion.

cbsnews.com

for what it is worth:

Mike Huwar, president of Peoples Gas, said gas service was shut off to the Rustic Ridge neighborhood by 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Gas crews checked for gas leakages following the explosion and determined the gas system had been “operating as designed.” Huwar said no timeline had been established for returning gas services to the area.

wtae.com

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:23:34am

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:24:45am

Lol, there is a joke in here somewhere.
I hope those robo-taxis are self cleaning, going to need a few more trees on the rear view mirror.

Ever thought about getting down and dirty in a robotaxi? Want to light up a cig or a joint on the drive home from the club? You’re not alone.

As autonomous vehicles become increasingly popular in San Francisco, some riders are wondering just how far they can push the vehicles’ limits—especially with no front-seat driver or chaperone to discourage them from questionable behavior.

For some, that’s a welcome invitation to test the autonomous vehicles’ limits. Megan, a woman in her 20s, took her first robotaxi ride on a recent late-night excursion. It was also her first time having sex in a driverless vehicle. The Standard is not providing exact dates of the riders’ debauchery to protect their privacy but has verified the rides took place through documentation. Names have been changed because of the riders’ privacy concerns.

sfstandard.com

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steve_davis  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:27:51am

re: #82 wrenchwench

momcorn

momsicles.

No such thing as momcorn. There’s a glass ceiling that keeps it from being promoted to kernel.

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:29:07am

Soo… If Zuck knocks Melon Husk out, will it be a Zuckerpunch? 🤔

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:34:02am
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steve_davis  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:34:41am

re: #132 Shropshire Slasher

They say it wasn’t gas related, but I find that hard to believe.

cbsnews.com

for what it is worth:

wtae.com

Meth lab? Right wing kook building a fertilizer bomb in the basement?

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:37:01am

re: #138 steve_davis

There is a ring video, utterly unbelievable.

However, the housing development does sit on top of an abandoned mine near to shallow oil and gas wells - some which are still in active production.

dailymail.co.uk

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:38:12am

re: #137 DodgerFan1988

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“Tell everyone you’re a racist fuck without saying you’re a racist fuck”…

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:56:02am

re: #137 DodgerFan1988

Why are we talking about anti-woke people as if they’re brand new? The backlash against the Civil Rights movement has been active since the 1950s. This is just a continuation of the anti-Black racism that has existed in this country since slavery. Nothing is surprising or new.
Our side has to be more aggressive in pushing back. It’s obvious that racists are trying to erase Black people from public spaces and distort the way our history is taught to minimize how racism is understood.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 3:59:32am

re: #28 jaunte

@marcelias.bsky.social

Trump, Five Lawyers and Their Conspiracy Against Our Democracy
democracydocket.com

I could spend hours reading stuff he’s written there. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the link!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:30:28am

re: #78 William Lewis

Yup. Had a freak get upset at getting an accessable room the other night because it was all we had left. He stormed out complaining that we’d put him in a cripple’s room and that he’d leave a horrible review. Like I GAF? I’m more curious about how he got so triggered by grab bars in the bathroom.

I had an accessible room when I was in NYC some years ago. It was better laid out as there was more walking room around the bed (standard NYC hotel rooms are usually very, very small) and the bathroom was 6x the normal size with a walk in (roll in) shower that was fabulous.

Is the room clean with no bugs? I’m good.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:37:07am

I was VERY confused by this word.

Click to Reveal

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:45:07am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Back from watching Season Three’s premier of “Only Murders in the Building.”

Hint: The new murder occurs in the building.

At some point I’d be thinking… This place is too dangerous. It’s time to move!

I’m toying with getting Disney+ just for this show.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:46:53am

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

Anti-politician? Trump was very pro-Republican when it came to stuffing SCOTUS and federal courts with right wing (mostly unqualified) judges. He also passed pro-Republican tax cuts for the mega rich and implemented extreme anti-immigration policies (such as separating migrant families, banning migrants from several Muslim countries). He took America out of international agreements which right wingers didn’t like (such as those for climate change).
I don’t see how he was an anti-politician. He wasn’t a politician until he was elected but he did everything the right wing wanted him to do. That’s why they’re still supporting him now, for the most part.

Trump was a puppet. He has no political values other than power. He did what he was “advised” to do by people who are political.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:54:22am

re: #143 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I had an accessible room when I was in NYC some years ago. It was better laid out as there was more walking room around the bed (standard NYC hotel rooms are usually very, very small) and the bathroom was 6x the normal size with a walk in (roll in) shower that was fabulous.

Is the room clean with no bugs? I’m good.

My feeling as well. I like the grab rails too!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:55:06am

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

I was VERY confused by this word.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:56:18am

Well, work calls. Bbiab.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 4:59:45am

Gas jumped $.32 overnight at the local QT.

Who’s milk did we piss in now?

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steve_davis  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:02:48am

listening to the first album by Heads Hands & Feet. This in intriguing! Albert Lee is someone I’ve never really listened to. I think he went country and just fell out of my typical listening range.

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:09:27am

re: #150 Dave In Austin

Gas jumped $.32 overnight at the local QT.

Who’s milk did we piss in now?

Prices had fallen too far for their own good. I had seen them as low as $3.29.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:11:30am

re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is perceived as the ultimate anti-politician for those who are fed up with politics as usual. That is what has allowed him to get away with things that would have wreckied the campaign or even the career of any other professional politician.

They seem to have forgotten the purpose of politics because all he’s doing is milking them for legal fees and giving/getting them nothing.

Scotus will be transient. Some temporary balance of power maybe.

But he’s trashed the party’s image and medium term chances pretty good

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:15:40am

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

When I was in Myrtle Beach, I came across a Trump store. Couldn’t believe it. So ridiculous. But it is a cult so **shrug**.

There’s a “patriotic” Trump store just a little ways north of me on PA 8.

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:17:12am
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Thanos  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:19:48am

We finished up “Joe Pickett” season two & then moved to “The Bear” — that season two Christmas ep was very triggering, my home growing up was somewhat like that with 4 different relatives always trying to be the histrionic center of attention, and trying to top each other with their over the top theatrical bullshit and pecking to establish hierarchy.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:31:11am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It just occurred to me that Hunter Biden is the modern version of Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy. Billy was seen as a detriment to Jimmy’s presidency and Billy apparently became a registered foreign agent for Libya. He also had an alcohol addiction.

I think there’s parallels to Jimmy’s situation too - Hunter had an addiction and has had business dealings with foreign entities/persons that may have been questionable.

There’s no evidence of any of this affecting US policy or the President’s foreign policy choices. There’s plenty of evidence that Jimmy and Joe both deeply care(d) for their brother/son, respectively.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:32:37am

Just saw a short video: “being Norwegian is just like being Finnish except without being drunk, and without being weird, and with fjords.”

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:33:09am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:38:16am

re: #152 Belafon

I paid $3.17 at the same station yesterday and saw it as low as $3.07 in Cedar Park.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:38:20am

re: #146 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trump was a puppet. He has no political values other than power. He did what he was “advised” to do by people who are political.

To an extent. He was a loose cannon a lot of the time, though. Prevented a lot of damage but caused damage in other places as well

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:40:56am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

To an exztent. He was a loose cannon a lot of the time, though. Prevented a lot of damage but caused damage in other places as well

Yes, but those ideas came from somewhere. To the point: He doesn’t have an original political idea in his head. All the damage he caused, came from more savvy minds like Tom Fitton or others. They may not have been direct political advisers in the White House, but he read what the crazies out there were saying, and demanded that his people Do Something (tm).

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:42:13am

re: #162 Nerdy Fish

Yes, but those ideas came from somewhere. To the point: He doesn’t have an original political idea in his head. All the damage he caused, came from more savvy minds like Tom Fitton or others. They may not have been direct political advisers in the White House, but he read what the crazies out there were saying, and demanded that his people Do Something (tm).

He literally cannot string together a cohesive thought

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:43:36am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

To an extent. He was a loose cannon a lot of the time, though. Prevented a lot of damage but caused damage in other places as well

His sheer incompetence led to not advancing his regressive extreme agenda. Putting sycophantic suckups in key positions instead of competent professionals. Putting nepotism picks instead of partisan knowledgeable experts who understand the legislative process. He treated everything as if he was king and his word was final, when it is never that way in the American system of governance.

He spent more time on Twitter than doing his fucking job.
He spent more time golfing than most anyone ever elected to the WH.
He spent more time enriching his businesses and violating the Constitution than anyone else in history.

Each of these were disqualifying and were expected from the outset precisely because he never had any intention of running for the betterment of all Americans. He cared only about enriching himself and the billionaire class.

Where his agenda was most successful was due in large part to McConnell packing the courts on his behalf. Of course, now he’s slamming McConnell despite McConnell being the guy who did more to advance the GOP agenda than anyone else in the past 20 years.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:47:15am

re: #157 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It just occurred to me that Hunter Biden is the modern version of Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy. Billy was seen as a detriment to Jimmy’s presidency and Billy apparently became a registered foreign agent for Libya. He also had an alcohol addiction.

I think there’s parallels to Jimmy’s situation too - Hunter had an addiction and has had business dealings with foreign entities/persons that may have been questionable.

There’s no evidence of any of this affecting US policy or the President’s foreign policy choices. There’s plenty of evidence that Jimmy and Joe both deeply care(d) for their brother/son, respectively.

I am also in the NY metro area at the moment (JFK), and they’ve been drilling that dry hole for about 15 years now. The idea that they could find something significant on squeaky clean Joe Biden is laughable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:51:55am

re: #162 Nerdy Fish

Yes, but those ideas came from somewhere. To the point: He doesn’t have an original political idea in his head. All the damage he caused, came from more savvy minds like Tom Fitton or others. They may not have been direct political advisers in the White House, but he read what the crazies out there were saying, and demanded that his people Do Something (tm).

“Build the Wall”

That was just a talking point and grift magnet from the very get-go.

Anybody who, as DJT claims, has “experience with large-scale building projects” would have immediately appointed a planning commission to draft design and engineering studies, economic and environmental impact statements as well as preparing a proposed budget and timetable.

Did any of that happen?

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:53:07am
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TarHellion  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:55:32am

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:55:46am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No.

They got some companies to build “sample” wall designs.

The one he picked turns out to be easy to scale, cut, climb, or tunnel beneath.

It was also easy to fall over in high winds, wash away in floods, and doesn’t stop anyone from overstaying a visa, which is how most undocumented persons remain undocumented.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:58:44am

re: #155 Belafon

Talk about someone who is doing “the lord’s work”.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 5:59:22am

re: #156 Thanos

We finished up “Joe Pickett” season two & then moved to “The Bear” — that season two Christmas ep was very triggering, my home growing up was somewhat like that with 4 different relatives always trying to be the histrionic center of attention, and trying to top each other with their over the top theatrical bullshit and pecking to establish hierarchy.

Are those both based on CJ Box’s books?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:00:44am

re: #157 lawhawk

There’s no evidence of any of this affecting US policy or the President’s foreign policy choices. There’s plenty of evidence that Jimmy and Joe both deeply care(d) for their brother/son, respectively.

Caring had been bred out of conservatives.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:00:52am

re: #169 lawhawk

No.

They got some companies to build “sample” wall designs.

The one he picked turns out to be easy to scale, cut, climb, or tunnel beneath.

It was also easy to fall over in high winds, wash away in floods, and doesn’t stop anyone from overstaying a visa, which is how most undocumented persons remain undocumented.

The specs clearly called for “big and beautiful” with a “big beautiful door” in it for people we actually want to let in.

And the budget was clear: all work billable to the Mexican Government

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:09:35am

GOP lawmakers cited Noah’s Ark to justify harming refugees with circular saw blades

Never trust lawyers who write, “If one takes the Book of Genesis literally…”

For the second time in a week, a Biblical myth has made its way into a courtroom. This time, Noah’s Ark was cited in a brief meant to justify Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest attempt to kill off refugees.

You may have seen in the news that circular saw blades were inserted between buoys in the Rio Grande. Besides the senseless cruelty of it all, the Rio Grande is under federal control, not state control, so now there’s a legal battle over whether Texas officials have any right to place the buoys and death blades in the river.

So how does the Bible enter the picture?

In an amicus brief filed on behalf of several Republican lawmakers by the Texas Public Policy Foundation on Wednesday, attorneys attempted to counter the government’s claim that the river is navigable (even if some parts currently aren’t) by claiming the Book of Genesis says the entire world was once covered with water. By that logic, the Republicans argued, the government could claim jurisdiction over everything. That would be silly! So take that, Dems!

What’s even more troubling is that the Christian lawmakers are doing all this to justify harming people risking their lives to cross the border in an effort to find safety. The GOP doesn’t give a damn what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, but they will break out their bibles in an instant if it means hurting brown people.

open.substack.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:11:32am

re: #163 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

He literally cannot string together a cohesive thought

Otoh

Ronald Reagan Is Really Dead

The three legged Republican stool is demolished

In effect, Trump managed to pull off a hostile takeover of the Republican Party by telling its voters that they are victims of the deep state and he would exact vengeance for them. …. Trump basically remade the Republican Party in his own image in a short 8 years, a pretty stupendous feat, when you think about it. Anyone who says Trump is not a brilliant politician hasn’t been paying attention

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:17:31am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:18:06am

re: #176 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:19:38am

Firearms are leading cause of death in Tennessee kids

Something Tennessee Republicans are proud of

Children are dying at higher rates from gun violence in Tennessee than the rest of the nation, an ongoing geographic disparity that has only widened in recent years and one that most gravely impacts the state’s Black families, whose children and teens are being killed by firearms at twice the rate as white kids.

The data tracking child deaths in Tennessee between 2017 and 2021 was released as part of an annual report compiled by the Tennessee Department of Health with the assistance of district attorneys, child welfare advocates, elected officials and other experts who regularly meet in teams to review the deaths of Tennessee kids year-round.

The report this year was released just ahead of a special legislative session called to address public safety after a lone assailant fired 152 rounds inside a Nashville Christian school, killing three nine-year-old children and three adults in less than 15 minutes, according to police.

The report focuses on all causes of child deaths among kids 17 and younger, finding that the overall mortality rate from all causes — accidents, suicides, premature births, other medical conditions and murder — in Tennessee is nearly twice the national average.

Gun deaths among kids, however, have increased by significant rates; by 2021, Tennessee’s rates of firearm deaths among children were more than 36% more than the national average.

In 2021, the latest year analyzed, 67 Tennessee children died by homicide. Fifty-three of the victims were Black, a rate four times as high as white children.

“Child health is a critical indicator of a society’s well-being,” the report noted. The burdens of homicide among Tennessee children is higher among Blacks, males and children aged 15 to 17, with firearms being the leading means of lethality.”

alternet.org

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:20:39am

Happy Monday everyone.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:21:18am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:24:38am

re: #178 Joe Bacon ✅

Firearms are leading cause of death in Tennessee kids

Something Tennessee Republicans are proud of

Did the GOP also not pas legislatioin forbidding the Surgeon General from addressing gun violence as a health issue?

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ericblair  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:26:38am

Trump is constitutionally (heh) incapable of shutting up. This is absolutely witness tampering in direct contravention of instructions. He will continue to do this unless and until he is locked up. And that would be a five-gallon-popcorn-bowl event right there.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:28:49am

re: #178 Joe Bacon ✅

Firearms are leading cause of death in Tennessee kids

Something Tennessee Republicans are proud of

alternet.org

Since “kids” arent buying the guns themselves (yet) this is 100% the fault of adult Tennesseans

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:36:27am

Arkansas education department nixes AP African American Studies course at last minute

Chalk up another win for Smoky Eyes.

arktimes.com

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:37:50am

re: #182 ericblair

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Trump is constitutionally (heh) incapable of shutting up. This is absolutely witness tampering in direct contravention of instructions. He will continue to do this unless and until he is locked up. And that would be a five-gallon-popcorn-bowl event right there.

That is “FNCNN”?

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jeffreyw  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:38:07am

Good morning!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:39:23am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Did the GOP also not pas legislatioin forbidding the Surgeon General from addressing gun violence as a health issue?

At the Federal level yes.

At the State level no.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:40:11am

re: #185 Dr. Matt

That is “FNCNN”?

Fox News CNN, I assume meant to be a dig at Faux News and the fact that they betrayed him in 2020 by calling the election for Biden before his perfect coup conspiracy had played out.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:43:56am

re: #182 ericblair

I’m okay with this…soon a witness will have a close encounter with a trump supporter (recorded telephone death threat if they testify), demand witness protection, and the courts will be forced to remand him into custody. I wouldn’t want to be that witness, but it’s probably going to be a necessary step in the process of holding him accountable.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:45:06am

re: #188 Nerdy Fish

Fox News CNN, I assume meant to be a dig at Faux News and the fact that they betrayed him in 2020 by calling the election for Biden before his perfect coup conspiracy had played out.

FFS. What a manchild.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:48:09am

re: #190 Dr. Matt

FFS. What a manchild.

I guess the other option is “Fake News CNN”, I don’t know where Duncan went. Either way, this is related to the Georgia case, so I don’t know if this will necessarily spark Judge Chutkan’s ire. The judge in Fulton County might have a few words to say about it, though.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:53:07am

Florida is creating a fascist state where cops now can justify any pullover by claiming that they’re looking for undocumented persons. In fact, they can racial profile to further that goal.

DeSantis and the GOP are going to make it a crime to drive while being a POC or driving with a POC in the car, because if you’re not white, you’re far more likely to be pulled over and harassed by cops.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 6:59:25am

re: #192 lawhawk

I’d also point out that the state isn’t going to crack down on businesses that hire undocumented workers - primarily agricultural businesses - because that would be a financial hit to agribusinesses across the state that their lobbying has thwarted.

Rather, they’ll go after individuals who aren’t lobbying to get breaks and favorable treatment by the law.

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Thanos  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:01:36am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:05:44am

re: #187 Joe Bacon ✅

At the Federal level yes.

At the State level no.

They certainly would at Tennessee level

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:06:02am

Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash “ROASTS” Jason Aldean from the Past

Johnny Cash ROASTS Jason Aldean from the Past

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:06:26am

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

Anti-politician? Trump was very pro-Republican when it came to stuffing SCOTUS and federal courts with right wing (mostly unqualified) judges. He also passed pro-Republican tax cuts for the mega rich and implemented extreme anti-immigration policies (such as separating migrant families, banning migrants from several Muslim countries). He took America out of international agreements which right wingers didn’t like (such as those for climate change).
I don’t see how he was an anti-politician. He wasn’t a politician until he was elected but he did everything the right wing wanted him to do. That’s why they’re still supporting him now, for the most part.

He was a reality star created by NBC as the epitome of a successful businessman. Our brother routinely extols his brilliance in business. He captured the old Dixiecrat loathing for minorities and regurgitated it to a willing audience eager for the return of the good old days of the 1950’s. Also, during the 2016 campaign, he really did have speeches (maybe modeled after Hitler’s My New Order?) that captured the anxiety of working class America.

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:09:09am

re: #194 Thanos

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:14:40am
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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:15:20am

Meanwhile, back in Russia…

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:19:25am

re: #27 Captain Ron

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This post really triggered the MAGAs.


Imagine thinking a t-shirt, flag, or a bumper sticker is somehow evidence of support and popularity.

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A Cranky One  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:19:58am

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Nojay UK  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:20:00am

re: #198 sizzzzlerz

Many years ago I made a Barbie-sized wheelchair for a friend’s daughter so she could match her favourite doll (not actually a Barbie(tm) doll, just that size) to her own wheelchair. I’d guess there’s a Barbie wheelchair doll these days but back then recognising disabilities wasn’t a thing.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:23:28am

*chef’s kiss*

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:24:03am

Mastodon

But in kicking the case back to state court, Hellerstein went much further than just saying that federal laws here don’t preempt New York state laws. He actually emphasized that the DA doesn’t even need to prove the underlying crimes that bump it up to felony status—like tax dodging or election fraud.

“The only elements are the falsification of business records, an intent to defraud, and an intent to commit or conceal another crime. The People need not establish that Trump or any other person actually violated [New York or federal election laws,]” Hellerstein wrote. “Trump can be convicted of a felony even if he did not commit any crime beyond the falsification, so long as he intended to do so or to conceal such a crime.”

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:25:38am

re: #204 lawhawk

*chef’s kiss*

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It’s good to see some local officials getting indicted with Trump - sends a message to would-be foot soldiers that they FA at their own expense and FO at it as well.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:27:32am

re: #204 lawhawk

*chef’s kiss*

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Oh, Lordy, there are TAPES!

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:28:34am

re: #129 TarHellion

Had to think this one over before salvaging the par

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:31:16am

re: #179 darthstar

Happy Monday everyone.

How are you feeling?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:35:49am

re: #203 Nojay UK

Many years ago I made a Barbie-sized wheelchair for a friend’s daughter so she could match her favourite doll (not actually a Barbie(tm) doll, just that size) to her own wheelchair. I’d guess there’s a Barbie wheelchair doll these days but back then recognising disabilities wasn’t a thing.

+1000 👍👍

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Jay C  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:43:07am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

Oh, Lordy, there are TAPES!

Aren’t there usually?

One (probably unexpected) side-effect of living in the Age Of Tech: an awful lot (way more, I’m certain, than we’d really like) of what we do is being recorded - *somewhere*…

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:54:45am

re: #211 Jay C

Aren’t there usually?

One (probably unexpected) side-effect of living in the Age Of Tech: an awful lot (way more, I’m certain, than we’d really like) of what we do is being recorded - *somewhere*…

All the video isn’t going to stop crimes, but it sure as fuck makes it easier to find those that commit them.

That’s also the double edged sword when it comes to perceptions of crime. All that video makes it seem like crime is out of control, but crime videos just reveal the crimes that have been occurring for a long time out of public scrutiny and media consumption.

It goes against the fact that crime rates are down broadly speaking, and that places like NYC are safer, especially from gun violence, than deep red states.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:55:30am

re: #174 Joe Bacon ✅

LOL the Noah story doesn’t even appear until the Babylonian Exile period. Of course, the fundies sure as hell don’t wanna hear that inconvenient fact.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 7:59:03am

re: #213 Dr Lizardo

LOL the Noah story doesn’t even appear until the Babylonian Exile period. Of course, the fundies sure as hell don’t wanna hear that inconvenient fact.

Even with TexASS lawyers calling David Barton as their “expert witness”! 😵‍💫

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:00:11am

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:00:22am

re: #186 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

A cleaned up version:

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wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:04:35am

Another 4!

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With another whiff!

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jeffreyw  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:05:23am

re: #216 Teukka

A cleaned up version:

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Nicely done, thank you.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:07:34am

Media outlets suck as they just regurgitate and spew GOP talking points uncritically. The headline should be that the GOP are trying to distract from Trump’s impending 4th indictment in yet another courtroom by saying that they want to impeach Biden, but can’t identify any specific crime or misdemeanor that is an impeachable offense.

There’s nothing Biden has done that rises to impeachable offense. Nothing.

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:08:40am

re: #218 jeffreyw

Nicely done, thank you.

Found one of the original posters, an attorney dealing with complaints against employers :3

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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:08:46am

re: #95 jaunte

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On the Tweed River! Beautiful country

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:11:18am
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:12:05am

re: #148 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You??

POTENTIAL SPOILER!

Really… No clicky if you haven’t done it yet.

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More than one person had never heard the word used and wasn’t even sure it was a word

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:13:33am

re: #219 lawhawk

Jon Karl is just another GOP Stenographer. Remember how that Presstitute lied about Benghazi endlessly.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:14:29am

re: #222 lawhawk

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Yep, they have several ways of removing the obstacle. They choose not to. It’s the whole party that’s gone rotten and threatens America.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:14:51am

re: #216 Teukka

Filled with parsley but they forgot the sage, rosemary and thyme…

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:15:52am

re: #174 Joe Bacon ✅

GOP lawmakers cited Noah’s Ark to justify harming refugees with circular saw blades

Never trust lawyers who write, “If one takes the Book of Genesis literally…”

For the second time in a week, a Biblical myth has made its way into a courtroom. This time, Noah’s Ark was cited in a brief meant to justify Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest attempt to kill off refugees.

You may have seen in the news that circular saw blades were inserted between buoys in the Rio Grande. Besides the senseless cruelty of it all, the Rio Grande is under federal control, not state control, so now there’s a legal battle over whether Texas officials have any right to place the buoys and death blades in the river.

So how does the Bible enter the picture?

In an amicus brief filed on behalf of several Republican lawmakers by the Texas Public Policy Foundation on Wednesday, attorneys attempted to counter the government’s claim that the river is navigable (even if some parts currently aren’t) by claiming the Book of Genesis says the entire world was once covered with water. By that logic, the Republicans argued, the government could claim jurisdiction over everything. That would be silly! So take that, Dems!

What’s even more troubling is that the Christian lawmakers are doing all this to justify harming people risking their lives to cross the border in an effort to find safety. The GOP doesn’t give a damn what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, but they will break out their bibles in an instant if it means hurting brown people.

open.substack.com

Also in The Bible: Slavery, endorsed as endemic and somewhat regulated.

…Just a taste of what “Biblical Constitutionalists” have in store for this country, or what territories they end up in control of.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:17:44am

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Jay C  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:17:49am

re: #219 lawhawk

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There’s nothing Biden has done that rises to impeachable offense. Nothing.

“Presidenting While Democrat”
Heinous offense enough….

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:17:56am

BTW, I missed this, but SBF was remanded to custody on Friday after violating terms of his bail. He’ll be spending time at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in NYC while awaiting trial.

The reason for the bail revocation? Witness tampering/intimidation involving his former gf and business partner.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:18:39am

re: #222 lawhawk

Because of the GOP. GOP leaders are silent; they aren’t telling him to quit blocking the appointments of military officials.

The GOP are weak on national security, and we can trace this to Trumpism and GOP selling out to Putin’s bidding.

They are holding military personnel policy hostage: Tooterville is blocking all promotions until they abolish “abortion holidas” , i.e., medical leave for female service members stationed in states where that form of medical care is not available.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:20:28am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Fundamentalism, as we see in Evangelical Christians (or, for example, Hassidic Jews), often places great emphasis on making a public display of one’s devotion and faith.

Don’t “for example” Hasidic Jews. We pray indoors, not in the street. Wearing our traditional clothing outside is not a “public display of devotion and faith” (only G-D can see the extent of one’s “devotion & faith”).

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:20:30am

re: #230 lawhawk

BTW, I missed this, but SBF was remanded to custody on Friday after violating terms of his bail. He’ll be spending time at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in NYC while awaiting trial.

The reason for the bail revocation? Witness tampering/intimidation involving his former gf and business partner.

A lot of people are making the obvious comparison to another guy who’s threatening witnesses. The other guy should be in custody too, but it doesn’t work that way in America.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:20:30am

re: #162 Nerdy Fish

Yes, but those ideas came from somewhere. To the point: He doesn’t have an original political idea in his head. All the damage he caused, came from more savvy minds like Tom Fitton or others. They may not have been direct political advisers in the White House, but he read what the crazies out there were saying, and demanded that his people Do Something (tm).

Let’s not forget that his entire FP is not derived from standard GOP thought; it’s clearly based on the advise from his BFF Putin. It remains astounding that the Republican establishment has accepted this radical revision without criticism. For now, most still support Ukraine — but another Trump term and our alliances with be upended permanently.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:20:38am

re: #227 Florida Panhandler

In an amicus brief filed on behalf of several Republican lawmakers by the Texas Public Policy Foundation on Wednesday, attorneys attempted to counter the government’s claim that the river is navigable (even if some parts currently aren’t) by claiming the Book of Genesis says the entire world was once covered with water. By that logic, the Republicans argued, the government could claim jurisdiction over everything. That would be silly! So take that, Dems!

Time to file an amicus brief citing Jar-Jar binks and his race of aquatic Gungans

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:22:10am

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Time to file an amicus brief citing Jar-Jar binks and his race of aquatic Gungans

“Yousa betta let them immigrants pass now, okeday?”

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:24:48am
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jaunte  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:31:22am

re: #237 Dave In Austin

She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade.
time.com

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:32:51am

re: #238 jaunte

I saw that….

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retired cynic  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:35:20am

re: #204 lawhawk

*chef’s kiss*

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The author of the tweet had a followup, that there is no evidence Sidney Powell herself was in the room. Just associates of Sidney Powell.

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Unabogie  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:36:24am

re: #238 jaunte

She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade.
time.com

Under His Eye.

Jesus fucking christ, these people are monsters.

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retired cynic  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:36:32am

Fani takes the lemons he gives her and makes lemonade!

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:38:44am

She rounded the bases of American Nazism:

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:39:13am

re: #240 retired cynic

If she received any of that stolen data, she’s on the hook as well. If she directed them to take it, then you’ve got her on conspiracy to interfere in election certification and tampering with state computer systems (federal and state charges).

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retired cynic  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:41:19am

re: #244 lawhawk

Agree! It was just that his first tweet said she was present. And maybe she was! But surely she would have had enough sense to keep out of there personally?/

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Jay C  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:43:10am

re: #245 retired cynic

Agree! It was just that his first tweet said she was present. And maybe she was! But surely she would have had enough sense to keep out of there personally?/

That phrase has to do a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to any discussion involving TFFG, or his creatures…

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:43:34am

Yeah, any other defendant would see bail revoked.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:44:27am

re: #245 retired cynic

Agree! It was just that his first tweet said she was present. And maybe she was! But surely she would have had enough sense to keep out of there personally?/

I know you’re sarcastic, but she’s already a not-yet-indicted co-conspirator in the DC charges. It wouldn’t be beyond the realm of plausibility for her to get sucked into the Georgia RICO charges based on this meeting alone, and some semblance of plausible information that they were there at Sidney’s direction or she was involved in the handling of the information they obtained.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:44:53am

re: #237 Dave In Austin

😂😂😂 trying to reach these posts on the xitter and it just opens the app to where I’m at and doesn’t redirect.

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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:45:37am

re: #157 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It just occurred to me that Hunter Biden is the modern version of Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy. Billy was seen as a detriment to Jimmy’s presidency and Billy apparently became a registered foreign agent for Libya. He also had an alcohol addiction.

I think there’s parallels to Jimmy’s situation too - Hunter had an addiction and has had business dealings with foreign entities/persons that may have been questionable.

There’s no evidence of any of this affecting US policy or the President’s foreign policy choices. There’s plenty of evidence that Jimmy and Joe both deeply care(d) for their brother/son, respectively.

Remember Billy Beer?

Can we expect Hunter Smack?

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:45:53am

Did I read this correctly that if Trump is convicted in Georgia he can not run for any office again?

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:46:47am

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:48:29am

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:49:00am

re: #251 Ace Rothstein

Did I read this correctly that if Trump is convicted in Georgia he can not run for any office again?

I doubt that very much.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:50:18am

re: #251 Ace Rothstein

Did I read this correctly that if Trump is convicted in Georgia he can not run for any office again?

Never been tested before, but it should be under the 14th Amendment.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Argument against is that Trump’s state charges are not a 1:1 to what the Amendment states.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:51:27am

re: #130 Shropshire Slasher

Hawaii Lahaina Housing Prices

apnews.com

To buy property in Bermuda, one has to obtain an Acquisition License from Bermuda´s Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs. The Acquisition License fee is at 15% of the purchase price for condominium units, and 22% for houses. Also, the property in question should have and an Annual Rental Value (ARV) of at least US$153,000 or greater for houses, and at least US$32,400 for condominium units. The required minimum ARV is determined, and regularly assessed, by the Bermuda Government. Property falling under this category may only be purchased by a foreigner if it is being sold by a Non-Bermudian owner.

Bermuda houses and villas
Another restriction is: interested non-residents can only acquire condominium units in “special development areas” approved for foreign ownership. Also, Non-Bermudians are banned from acquiring undeveloped land. An exemption is only given to Non-Bermudian spouses and children of Bermuda nationals.

Ordinarily, the Bermuda Government requires purchases of real estate by Non-Bermudians to be in the name of an individual or individuals, while foreign companies or corporations are not ordinarily permitted to buy residential real estate. Other restrictions include: not being able to rent out or sub-divide the property unless specific permission is obtained from the Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety. Generally speaking, you cannot remain on the island once you lease your home.

When a property has been chosen, and a price negotiated, a sales agreement is prepared and executed. Simultaneously, the buyer is required to place a 10% deposit which is held in escrow until the transaction is closed.

After scouting and negotiating, it is necessary for any Non-Bermudian to apply through a Bermuda law firm in the prescribed form to the Bermuda Government´s Minister of Labour & Home. The consideration fee is US$1,152, which is refunded if the application is successful. Though the sales agreement entered into by a Non-Bermudian will be conditional upon the grant of the purchaser´s license to acquire the particular property, the consideration fee is a cost incurred should the application be denied.

Bermuda beachfront luxury vacation homes
The Bermuda Government approval process may take anywhere from two to six months. Once approval has been granted for the purchase, the fee (22% of the estimated ARV) is paid by the purchaser and the license is released.

While applying for the license and waiting for its approval, the transfer of property will proceed, and the lawyer will do a title search. When all the conditions of the sales agreement have been met, the Planning Department will do a search to determine if any illegal development has taken place on the property being acquired. This usually takes a month or so. Make sure that this search is completed before the transaction is closed, because once the property is in the buyer´s possession, the buyer becomes responsible for it.

globalpropertyguide.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:52:57am
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Teddy's Person  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:53:24am

re: #222 lawhawk

This strategy worked for the SC. Next up, Magatizing the military.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:57:05am

It took 5 tries to guess this “word”

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 8:57:35am

re: #257 Joe Bacon ✅

Dear Georgia Law Enforcement,

Please read the following from TFG:

“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. Please don’t be too nice.”

Sincerely,
America

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:00:33am

re: #249 GlutenFreeJesus

The lead….

The follow:

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Unabogie  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:00:59am

re: #257 Joe Bacon ✅

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He’s insane, but so are the millions of Americans who see this and want to put this lunatic in charge of the country again.

It’s pure madness.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:02:29am

re: #250 austin_blue

Remember Billy Beer?

Can we expect Hunter Smack?

Legal Weed. “Hunter’s Spliffs”.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:10:46am

re: #247 lawhawk

If I were the GA prosecutor, I’d genuinely seek detention until trial. Trump is clearly too much of a risk. Throw him into the Fulton County jail. They can set up a part of a cellblock as a maximum security area, if they don’t have a max area already.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:12:28am

re: #200 darthstar

Meanwhile, back in Russia…

A chyron at the top of the news company SIA-PRESS Center building in SURGUT Russia reads: “Putin is huylo and a thief, 100 rubles for a dollar, you’re f***ing crazy.”

2600 strikes again!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:13:13am
“Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday said he would support a federal ban on abortion after the first three months of pregnancy, but his campaign later said he ‘misunderstood’ the question” Politico reports.

‘presidential’ material

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Captain Ron  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:13:54am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:14:18am

polar opposite of the feds

Axios: “Georgia law requires that cameras be allowed during judicial proceedings with a judge’s approval. Cameras are seen as an important aspect of transparency.”

“A judge would need a compelling reason — such as a juvenile victim or witness — to bar them… Neither are likely to apply.”

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Unabogie  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:14:48am

re: #266 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

‘presidential’ material

Give him a break. He thought the question was, “how would you gaslight voters in the most obvious way possible?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:15:12am

re: #263 Dave In Austin

Legal Weed. “Hunter’s Spliffs”.

Oval Office-grade coke

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:17:28am

all your questions about the Georgia Grand Jury system answered


What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Georgia Indictment of Trump

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:17:31am

re: #268 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

“such as a juvenile victim or witness — to bar them…” Would that also apply to a juvenile defendant?///

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:17:53am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:19:15am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:21:50am

pathetic
desperate
impotent

it must suck when people think you dont deserve special treatment

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:22:45am

re: #272 Nerdy Fish

“such as a juvenile victim or witness — to bar them…” Would that also apply to a juvenile defendant?///

The fish has a good point.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:24:57am

re: #275 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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pathetic
desperate
impotent

it must suck when people think you dont deserve special treatment

Kicked dog is yelping. Needs a Star Wars meme…”Listen to the fear…let the fear flow through you… give in to the pathetic side.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:24:59am

Will he be indicted again today?

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:25:10am

re: #275 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

LOL he’s scared shitless. You love to see it.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:26:40am

re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg

Will he be indicted again today?

Probably tomorrow. 20 people possibly getting indicted along with him. This will take a little while to collate and staple together.

Today is all about anticipation.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:28:22am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:29:13am

Midnight Cowboy, 1969

Joe Buck
Enrico (Ratso) Rizzo

apparently they knew back in 1969 what’s gonna happen in Georgia, likely this week

MP4 Video

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:30:15am

Nail this prick!

California Bar Says It’s Not Buying Eastman’s Rationale For Delay, Citing Recent Interviews

The California State Bar responded to Trump coup attorney John Eastman’s request to postpone disbarment proceedings against him, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith’s latest indictment of Donald Trump is not a good enough reason to delay the license trial.

Bar authorities in California also accused Eastman of hypocrisy in his requests to delay proceedings, citing Eastman’s recent, revelatory series of interviews with Tom Klingenstein, the Chairman of the Trumpite Claremont Institute.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Disbar that prick today!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:33:58am

re: #277 darthstar

Kicked dog is yelping. Needs a Star Wars meme…”Listen to the fear…let the fear flow through you… give in to the pathetic side.”

he’s used to getting what he wants.
he plays the ‘im special because’ card well. he thinks he deserves special treatment, always.
it sucked for him that the (omg) three times he’s been arrested so far he was mostly treated like everyone else

it sucks for him he has no way to stop Willis

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wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:34:37am

re: #275 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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pathetic
desperate
impotent

it must suck when people think you dont deserve special treatment

Yesterday, I finally figured out who my neighbor is yelling at many mornings. When he yells, ‘Get the fuck out!’ and ‘Leave me alone!’ he’s talking to the pain in his back.

Trump’s typing reminds me of that.

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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:36:59am

re: #276 darthstar

The fish has a good point.

He usually does.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:38:38am

re: #274 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I hope they let Trump have a phone in prison, those posts are going to be fucking awesome

Sometime in the not too distant future:

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:39:20am
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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:42:01am

re: #286 austin_blue

He usually does.

That’s the nicest thing anybody’s said about me.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:42:14am

TFG lost his bid for the Manhattan judge presiding over his criminal hush-money prosecution to recuse

he’s gonna keep doing that

if he did it to Cannon, then i’d say give him a new Manhattan judge.
that’ll never happen
but karma would be a worser replacement ;-)

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gocart mozart  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:44:38am
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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:47:44am

re: #289 Nerdy Fish

That’s the nicest thing anybody’s said about me.

Well, you deserve it. You’re a nice person and we appreciate you.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:48:48am

Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in for goodness sake!
Take me in, oh tender woman
SSSighed the sssnake…

Mastodon

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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:51:11am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in for goodness sake!
Take me in, oh tender woman
SSSighed the sssnake…

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Red Tailed Boa. Pretty Snek.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:51:44am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in for goodness sake!
Take me in, oh tender woman
SSSighed the sssnake…

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God that makes me angry…….

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:54:22am

Trump is going to stroke out before any of his trials start. That would be terrible.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:54:55am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in for goodness sake!
Take me in, oh tender woman
SSSighed the sssnake…

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Someone leave their pet snake in the basket??

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:56:50am
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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:56:58am

re: #295 Dave In Austin

God that makes me angry…….

Well, they didn’t just dump it in the woods (or in the Everglades!).

It’s obviously been well taken care of. It’ll be adopted pretty quick, I should think.

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Unabogie  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:56:59am

re: #292 austin_blue

Well, you deserve it. You’re a nice person and we appreciate you.

I’m mostly a lurker here but I concur. Almost everyone here is Good People™.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:57:00am

re: #282 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Midnight Cowboy, 1969

Joe Buck
Enrico (Ratso) Rizzo

apparently they knew back in 1969 what’s gonna happen in Georgia, likely this week

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this is getting no love.
i am depressed.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:57:27am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in for goodness sake!
Take me in, oh tender woman
SSSighed the sssnake…

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Snake pickup in aisle 7.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:57:46am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Looks like someone forgot their pet when they got done with shopping. That being said, how the hell do you forget something like that?

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:57:53am

re: #296 Ace Rothstein

Trump is going to stroke out before any of his trials start.

Honestly, I’d rather see that more than anything else.

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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 9:59:42am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:01:07am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in for goodness sake!
Take me in, oh tender woman
SSSighed the sssnake…

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The snake replies, “Hey! Cut me a break! I ain’t a real venomous viper like Trump!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:02:22am

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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:02:37am

re: #303 Dr Lizardo

Looks like someone forgot their pet when they got done with shopping. That being said, how the hell do you forget something like that?

It got dumped with malice aforethought (or maybe just good old-fashioned ennui).

“I never thought it would get THIS big!”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:04:23am

re: #217 wrenchwench

Me too. This was super annoying

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:05:41am

re: #308 austin_blue

It got dumped with malice aforethought (or maybe just good old-fashioned ennui).

“I never thought it would get THIS big!”

When getting a pet, DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK. If you can’t be bothered, you don’t deserve a pet.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:06:02am

I got a bluesky invite code, and since everyone here seems to have one already, I invited one of my favorite Twitter people to accept it.

Here is Michael W. Twitty on Bluesky: koshersoul.bsky.social

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:07:10am
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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:09:46am

re: #305 lawhawk

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Jay C  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:10:24am

re: #297 Dr. Matt

Someone leave their pet snake in the basket??

Yeah: I’m no herpetologist, but that doesn’t look to me like the sort of snake one is likely to find in Iowa (?)

re: #303 Dr Lizardo

Looks like someone forgot their pet when they got done with shopping. That being said, how the hell do you forget something like that?

“Karen, did you make sure Slithy was back in his basket?”
“No, Mom: I thought you did….”

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:10:32am

re: #308 austin_blue

It got dumped with malice aforethought (or maybe just good old-fashioned ennui).

“I never thought it would get THIS big!”

Unfortunately, could well be the case.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:11:00am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:11:23am

re: #275 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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you know what, save all that great ‘evidence’ for your trial

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:11:35am

re: #303 Dr Lizardo

Looks like someone forgot their pet when they got done with shopping. That being said, how the hell do you forget something like that?

I cannot believe someone would take their snake into a store while shopping. Have to believe it was deliberately abandoned. Either that or it was a pet that previously escaped its home.

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BigPapa  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:12:23am

I don’t see indictments before Thursday, even early next week. They’re still calling in people. However, I wouldn’t put it past Fani to keep up interviews while the indictments drop to manage the circus. Putting up the traffic controls early was smart.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:13:50am

😂🤣😂🤣😅😆😅🤣🤣

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:15:04am
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lawhawk  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:15:53am

re: #321 Dave In Austin

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:17:54am

re: #319 BigPapa

I don’t see indictments before Thursday, even early next week. They’re still calling in people. However, I wouldn’t put it past Fani to keep up interviews while the indictments drop to manage the circus. Putting up the traffic controls early was smart.

The wide consensus seems to be on tomorrow, but I suppose we’re all going to have to just be patient and wait for the event. It could be any time between now and September.

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Teukka  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:19:17am

WTELF!?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:20:14am

re: #206 darthstar

It’s good to see some local officials getting indicted with Trump - sends a message to would-be foot soldiers that they FA at their own expense and FO at it as well.

And if Trump goes down and is no longer around to puff and threaten to protect them the toadies will suddenly be a lot less secure.

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wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:20:14am

re: #311 Vicious Babushka

I got a bluesky invite code, and since everyone here seems to have one already, I invited one of my favorite Twitter people to accept it.

Here is Michael W. Twitter on Bluesky: koshersoul.bsky.social

Thank you! Small typo, Michael deserves clarification: Michael W. Twitty.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:23:16am

re: #219 lawhawk

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Media outlets suck as they just regurgitate and spew GOP talking points uncritically. The headline should be that the GOP are trying to distract from Trump’s impending 4th indictment in yet another courtroom by saying that they want to impeach Biden, but can’t identify any specific crime or misdemeanor that is an impeachable offense.

There’s nothing Biden has done that rises to impeachable offense. Nothing.

My MS-based newsfeed does just that. If you just scan headlines - and they are all clickbait junk outside of some of the local news - it would make one think the Democrats/Biden are in as much hot water as Trump. I imagine Fox and the conservative liar network is ten times worse.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:25:12am

re: #319 BigPapa

I don’t see indictments before Thursday, even early next week. They’re still calling in people. However, I wouldn’t put it past Fani to keep up interviews while the indictments drop to manage the circus. Putting up the traffic controls early was smart.

And a signal

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:25:52am

re: #283 Joe Bacon ✅

Nail this prick!

California Bar Says It’s Not Buying Eastman’s Rationale For Delay, Citing Recent Interviews

The California State Bar responded to Trump coup attorney John Eastman’s request to postpone disbarment proceedings against him, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith’s latest indictment of Donald Trump is not a good enough reason to delay the license trial.

Bar authorities in California also accused Eastman of hypocrisy in his requests to delay proceedings, citing Eastman’s recent, revelatory series of interviews with Tom Klingenstein, the Chairman of the Trumpite Claremont Institute.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Disbar that prick today!

And then throw his ass in prison for at least 20 years.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:28:18am

re: #287 Dr. Matt

Sometime in the not too distant future:

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Teddy's Person  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:30:05am

re: #281 Backwoods Sleuth

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Aspyn gets ALL the treats!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:34:22am

re: #312 Teukka

Everyone has aspirations.

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piratedan  Aug 14, 2023 • 10:58:19am

re: #298 lawhawk

how about HA! (Hilarity Abounds!)?

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 14, 2023 • 11:02:27am

re: #312 Teukka

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Fun Fact of the Day

3 US States already have a larger economy individually than all of Russia. California, Texas and New York are already larger than Russia each on their own. It is estimated that in 10 years Florida and Illinois will also leap past Russia.


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