The Bob Cesca Podcast: Fascism Goes Mainstream

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Fascism Goes Mainstream — Today is all about the Fascism Files. The legacy news media has finally started reporting on Trump’s fascism. Trump echoes Hitler by calling his political enemies “vermin.” Trump allies are pre-screening loyalists to fill 54,000 government jobs, all intended to let Trump do whatever he wants, including remaining in office. Trump circulates post calling for citizen’s arrest of Letitia James and Judge Engoron. Jenna Ellis says Trump never intended to leave office, and Sidney Powell describes what Trump’s staffers told him about the election. Trump’s plans for camps and deportations. Ohio Republicans are attempting to stop Issue 1. QAnon insurrectionist plans to run for Congress. With Buzz Burbank, music by Circe Link & Christian Nesmith, Nick Lutsko, and more!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:45:27pm

DJT has already told his supporters that “protecting” ballot boxes is more important than voting. This message is addressed to people who own a large share of America’s guns and live in open-carry and concealed-carry states.

What do we expect such a message to result in?

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Jay C  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:51:51pm

So, I have C-SPAN open in another window to check on the progress of the House’s vote on the CR to continue funding the government, and weirdly, Speaker Johnson appears to be absent (as do what seems to be something like 90% of the members): they’re blithering away about amendments to the Resolution (which seem, mostly, to have been stuck in by Andy Biggs (AZ) - so hopefully, will be dismissed out of hand).

Democracy Inaction……*

*no typo

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:52:10pm

A lot of calls to a very unhappy sheriff.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:53:23pm
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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:54:04pm

re: #2 Jay C

So, I have C-SPAN open in another window to check on the progress of the House’s vote on the CR to continue funding the government, and weirdly, Speaker Johnson appears to be absent (as do what seems to be something like 90% of the members): they’re blithering away about amendments to the Resolution (which seem, mostly, to have been stuck in by Andy Biggs (AZ) - so hopefully, will be dismissed out of hand).

Democracy Inaction……*

*no typo

the real work of government rarely happens on the floor of the legislature.

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:54:26pm

2024: Flush the Fascists.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:54:59pm

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:55:27pm

More people than at any Trump rally.

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:57:53pm

re: #8 Vicious Babushka

More people than at any Trump rally.

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About the same as the Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity—and many of the same people, I’d bet.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 1:58:24pm

LOL

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:03:27pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:06:06pm

re: #10 Backwoods Sleuth

Always fucking high school with these people.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:07:54pm

When I was a kid this was the time of the year when you could go to Kaufmann’s department store in Pittsburgh and get those special Hazelnut Thumbrprint Cookies.

Sadly Macy’s gobbled up Kaufmann’s and eventually closed all of their stores.

But the recipe for those delicious morsels lives on…

Ingredients
1 cup hazelnut flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1 orange, zested
1/4 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon orange juice, plus more, to taste
1/2 cup chocolate-hazelnut spread
flaky salt, to taste, for serving

Step 1 -
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2 -
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 3 -
In a large bowl, whisk the hazelnut flour, the all-purpose flour, the pastry flour, the orange zest, and the salt together.
Step 4 -
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the butter and the sugar and beat, scraping the sides as needed, on medium-high speed until it is light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
Step 5 -
With the mixer still on medium-high, add the vanilla and 1 teaspoon of the orange juice.
Step 6 -
Reduce the mixer speed to low.
Step 7 -
Add the flour mixture, 1/2 cup at a time, to the butter mixture and mix, scraping the sides as needed, until it is incorporated and comes together into a soft dough. If the dough is too dry, add the extra orange juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, and mix until the desired consistency is reached.
Step 8 -
Roll the dough into balls, about 1 tablespoon per cookie, and place them on the prepared baking sheet.
Step 9 -
Use your thumb to make a 3/4-inch-wide indentation in the center of each ball, ensuring your thumb does not touch the bottom of the pan. If the edges of the cookies start to crack, use your fingers to gently smooth the edges together.
Step 10 -
Bake the cookies until they are lightly puffed on top and golden on the bottom, about 12-15 minutes.
Step 11 -
Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Step 12 -
Spoon the chocolate-hazelnut spread into a pastry bag and evenly pipe it into the indentation of each cookie.
Step 13 -
Serve the cookies lightly sprinkled with the flaky salt.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:08:05pm

re: #11 Backwoods Sleuth

Dude’s compensating.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:09:59pm

We still get DMs from working with the indivisible.org on the Doug Jones campaign. Today’s message: “It’s Giving a Sh*t Tuesday!” They’re still clinging to “gentility” by a thread.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:10:46pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:11:48pm

re: #16 Backwoods Sleuth

Why isn’t he breast feeding?

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:12:34pm

re: #13 Joe Bacon ✅

Kaufmann’s had a very Pittsburgh attitude to booze. They served me Creme de Menthe over ice cream when I was 9.

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Jay C  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:15:41pm

re: #5 KGxvi

the real work of government rarely happens on the floor of the legislature.

True, but they DO have to show up in person, eventually. The word must have gone for the Reps to stop drinking working and head for the floor, the Chamber is starting to fill up.

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gocart mozart  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:15:43pm

The longer version is even more pathetic

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:15:57pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

Kaufmann’s had a very Pittsburgh attitude to booze. They served me Creme de Menthe over ice cream when I was 9.

Remember those thumbprint cookies—sometimes they were in orange, strawberry, apricot, raspberry and those beloved hazelnut flavors! Mom would buy a couple dozen and we’d just feast on them with a cup of Mom’s Constant Comment tea or Dad’s A&P Bokar Coffee.

A&P has been gone for years and I haven’t seen Bigelow’s Constant Comment tea in years…😪

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:19:05pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

The longer version is even more pathetic

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If Republican wackjobs got tasered like sovereign citizens at a courthouse, this would stop.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:21:59pm
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:24:24pm

re: #22 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

For a little while. They would try it again.

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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:24:36pm

re: #19 Jay C

True, but they DO have to show up in person, eventually. The word must have gone for the Reps to stop drinking working and head for the floor, the Chamber is starting to fill up.

most of the time these “debates” don’t actually have many members present. They show up when a vote is called, cast their vote, and leave. This might be one of those vote-a-thon situations because Biggs is apparently trying to defund every agency one-by-one.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:25:29pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

The longer version is even more pathetic

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Somebody needs to lay off the HGH and Steroids!

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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:25:33pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Always fucking high school with these people.

nah, most of these twits probably got shoved in lockers when they were in high school

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:26:51pm

re: #27 KGxvi

I think you are right. Now they think they have a chance to “get even.”

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Jay C  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:27:01pm

re: #25 KGxvi

most of the time these “debates” don’t actually have many members present. They show up when a vote is called, cast their vote, and leave. This might be one of those vote-a-thon situations because Biggs is apparently trying to defund every agency one-by-one.

Yeah, so far the amendments which they have decided to bring up are all narrowly-defined de-funding motions. I.e., the usual GOP bullshit.
And so far they’re all getting whiffed away in short order….

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:27:06pm
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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:28:59pm

re: #30 Backwoods Sleuth

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And OSHA to $0.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:30:52pm

So The Marvels debuted with a thud )
($46 Million opening weekend against a budget of $270 million). That means every recent MCU film aside from Guardians of the Galaxy 3 has underperformed.

Superhero movie fatigue is real, and it’s costing Disney millions.

And DC…well, let’s not even get into that train wreck.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:31:19pm

re: #31 Decatur Deb

And OSHA to $0.

JFC.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:32:23pm

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

JFC.

Just posturing, but this asshole thinks it’s a good idea in an election year.

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Semper Fi  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:32:49pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

DJT has already told his supporters that “protecting” ballot boxes is more important than voting. This message is addressed to people who own a large share of America’s guns and live in open carry and concealed carry states.

What do expect such a message to result in?

Maybe ballot box confiscation under the guise of “protection.”

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gocart mozart  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:32:53pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:33:30pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

So The Marvels debuted with a thud )
($46 Million opening weekend against a budget of $270 million). That means every recent MCU film aside from Guardians of the Galaxy 3 has underperformed.

Superhero movie fatigue is real, and it’s costing Disney millions.

Oddly, I think adolescent males like their superheroes to be men.
Personally, I’d rather look at an attractive woman than the men of the Avengers.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:34:02pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

So The Marvels debuted with a thud )
($46 Million opening weekend against a budget of $270 million). That means every recent MCU film aside from Guardians of the Galaxy 3 has underperformed.

Superhero movie fatigue is real, and it’s costing Disney millions.

That’s part of the reason that Deadpool 3 will be the only Marvel movie next year.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:35:17pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:37:50pm

re: #35 Semper Fi

Maybe ballot box confiscation under the guise of “protection.”

Didn’t they plan to kidnap voting machines in 2020? But not at gun point IIRC…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:37:56pm

re: #37 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Oddly, I think adolescent males like their superheroes to be men.
Personally, I’d rather look at an attractive woman than the men of the Avengers.

Yeah. In addition, Brie Larson is definitely not popular with the anti-woke crew.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:37:57pm

re: #37 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Oddly, I think adolescent males like their superheroes to be men.
Personally, I’d rather look at an attractive woman than the men of the Avengers.

Including adolescent males in their 30s, as the owner of the fitness place I used to go was back when the first Captain Marvel movie came out. He wasn’t going to go see it because the hero was a woman.

Now, imagine a movie where the main characters are a white, an African-American, and a Pakistani-American.

I liked the movie, but except for the very end and the end credit, the movie suffered from not having a bigger story to tie into. Kind of like when the creator of QC doesn’t have an idea of what to do with his characters.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:38:44pm

re: #39 Backwoods Sleuth

Wait. WHAT? Why cancel Biden ads???

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:40:50pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

So The Marvels debuted with a thud )
($46 Million opening weekend against a budget of $270 million). That means every recent MCU film aside from Guardians of the Galaxy 3 has underperformed.

Superhero movie fatigue is real, and it’s costing Disney millions.

And DC…well, let’s not even get into that train wreck.

Gee, who da thought putting out dozens and dozens of basically the same movie for years and years would cause people to become tired of them? I got bored when they introduced the Avenger whose superpower was doing card tricks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:41:04pm

re: #37 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Oddly, I think adolescent males like their superheroes to be men.
Personally, I’d rather look at an attractive woman than the men of the Avengers.

Remember the Incel outrage at Mad Max Fury Road for its strong female lead characters?

Hey, if you wanna get your date to go see a Mad Max movie, then give her some strong female lead fantasies to go with the your souped-up car crashes and flame-spouting guitar fantasies.

But don’t expect those dateless wonders to grasp such an approach.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:41:41pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

DT thinks he will hurt Joe by having Joe’s ads cancelled. DT probably threatened Univison.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:42:16pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:43:33pm

re: #39 Backwoods Sleuth

Wade Davis is not a known wingnut (is he?) so I don’t know what exactly Trump had to do to cause that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:46:10pm

This is a big coup for the GOP:

Univision, the Spanish language news giant, shifts its approach to Trump

The reversal has shocked Democrats — who are preparing a massive ad campaign to brand Trump as hostile to Latino interests — and some journalists inside Univision, who think that the past week has demonstrated the heavy hand of their new corporate bosses. The Mexican media company Grupo Televisa, which has long fostered a close relationship with Mexican political leaders, merged with Univision in 2021.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:46:38pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait. WHAT? Why cancel Biden ads???

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gwangung  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:48:03pm

re: #42 Belafon

I liked the movie, but except for the very end and the end credit, the movie suffered from not having a bigger story to tie into. Kind of like when the creator of QC doesn’t have an idea of what to do with his characters.

Actually, I thought that a plus and not a minus.

Have fun, have an adventure and not force a connection.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:48:04pm

re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember the Incel outrage at Mad Max Fury Road for its strong female lead characters?

Hey, if you wanna get your date to go see a Mad Max movie, then give her some strong female lead fantasies to go with the your souped-up car crashes and flame-spouting guitar fantasies.

But don’t expect those dateless wonders to grasp such an approach.

That might give them ideas and make them less submissive. The man is supposed to save the woman, and be her hero. They don’t want that strong female woke garbage.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:48:17pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

So The Marvels debuted with a thud )
($46 Million opening weekend against a budget of $270 million). That means every recent MCU film aside from Guardians of the Galaxy 3 has underperformed.

Superhero movie fatigue is real, and it’s costing Disney millions.

And DC…well, let’s not even get into that train wreck.

And losing money at that rate, Disney will have to stop producing these movies in, oh, 70 or 80 years.

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Captain Magic  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:49:12pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

Can you say, Box Office Bomb?

I knew you could….

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:49:49pm

re: #50 Backwoods Sleuth

I can see Trump in red, white, and blue spandex doing lucha libre.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:50:30pm

re: #35 Semper Fi

Maybe ballot box confiscation under the guise of “protection.”

most everyone completes a paper ballot that is scanned immediately, or uses a touch screen device.

how many places have actual ballot boxes that you put your form in to be counted ‘later’?

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:50:41pm

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:51:25pm

re: #55 Decatur Deb

I can see Trump in red, white, and blue spandex doing lucha libre.

ducha libre

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:52:37pm

Trans Boy Returns To Lead Role In ‘Oklahoma!’ After Outcry At Sherman School Board Meeting

In a packed meeting, over 60 people spoke in support of Max, a trans boy barred from playing a lead male role. The school board then relented, issuing an apology and reinstating Max to the role.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:53:04pm

re: #56 Dangerman

most everyone completes a paper ballot that is scanned immediately, or uses a touch screen device.

how many places have actual ballot boxes that you put your form in to be counted ‘later’?

Our machines do that scanning, but then the paper ballots are recovered and secured—by the sheriff. That’s normal, and the poll workers I observed are religious about it. As a Dem watcher, I was asked to sign over the box seals.

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Captain Magic  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:53:42pm

re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:54:55pm

re: #59 Belafon

Trans Boy Returns To Lead Role In ‘Oklahoma!’ After Outcry At Sherman School Board Meeting

We’re Just a Board That Cain’t Say “No”

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gocart mozart  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:55:51pm
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Florida Panhandler  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:56:56pm

re: #50 Backwoods Sleuth

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Does not one Latino even remember the literal Latino-filled Concentration camps Trump set up just 4 years go? It’s like an entire demographic being encouraged to actually allow leopards to eat their faces all over again.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:57:43pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

Damn. Poland fucking loves us.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:58:01pm

re: #60 Decatur Deb

Our machines do that scanning, but then the paper ballots are recovered and secured—by the sheriff. That’s normal, and the poll workers I observed are religious about it. As a Dem watcher, I was asked to sign over the box seals.

right.
after the fact.

these people have a simplistic, antiquated idea how voting works in 2023. they do not know how the process works.
or what batch, control and audit totals are.
or have any clue all the duplication, checks and balances background work the poll workers do to ensure nothing ‘leaks’ into the process.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 2:59:06pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn. Poland fucking loves us.

Gotta celebrate that Polish love!

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:00:07pm

re: #64 Florida Panhandler

Does not one Latino even remember the literal Latino-filled Concentration camps Trump set up just 4 years go? It’s like an entire demographic being encouraged to actually allow leopards to eat their faces all over again.

It’s not about what any Latino believes now. It’s about what those with money want them to think.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:00:17pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

What did we do to Hungary to make them not like us?

We stole the election from DJT, of course…

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:00:26pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn. Poland fucking loves us.

Germany has forgiven the 8th Air Force, but Australia will never forgive Crocodile Dundee II.

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gocart mozart  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:02:57pm

In other trials today.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:03:20pm

In a bipartisan vote, the House has passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to avert a government shutdown just days ahead of a Friday deadline.

The vote passed 336-95. The bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass.

In his first test as the newly-appointed speaker, Johnson pitched a two-step government plan that he described as a “laddered CR” or continuing resolution that would keep the government funded at 2023 levels.

Johnson leaned heavily on his Democratic colleagues after dozens of Republicans opposed his plan.

The bill now goes on to the Senate for approval. Senate leaders have indicated they support the bill.

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sagehen  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:03:25pm

I still haven’t forgiven Canada for Celine Dion and Justin Bieber.

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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:05:04pm

re: #56 Dangerman

most everyone completes a paper ballot that is scanned immediately, or uses a touch screen device.

how many places have actual ballot boxes that you put your form in to be counted ‘later’?

California mails everyone a ballot now and every county has drop boxes you can slip them into. You can even check online to see if it has been picked up and processed.

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:06:16pm

Some of you may remember that I stumbled into Dave’s Guitar Shop in La Crosse yesterday. Fun fun place.

This is what I had me drooling …

Squire “Paranormal” Jazzmaster XII - a neat looking, feeling, playing & sounding (well, to this barely competent hack of a guitarist 🤣) 12 string guitar for under 5 Franklins. It’s no Rickenbacker but it’s not a fly-by-night Amazon thing from Eprey either. I know what I’m going to be saving my pennies for now. Here’s a YouTube review that gives a quick idea of what it’s like.

Squier Paranormal Jazzmaster XII Review: Is it Worth It?

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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:06:53pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

Hungary is showing the effects of having a strongman authoritarian in charge.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:07:00pm

re: #64 Florida Panhandler

Does not one Latino even remember the literal Latino-filled Concentration camps Trump set up just 4 years go? It’s like an entire demographic being encouraged to actually allow leopards to eat their faces all over again.

The ones in the US - got theirs.

They don’t care about the others, especially the other from countries of lower culture.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:08:22pm
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Semper Fi  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:09:04pm

re: #56 Dangerman

most everyone completes a paper ballot that is scanned immediately, or uses a touch screen device.

how many places have actual ballot boxes that you put your form in to be counted ‘later’?

I voted early for 2020 election and rather than mail it in I drove it to a designated collection location. I was one of a long line of cars (handed to attendant thru window who walked it a few feet to the box) each car stopping in turn to vote while remaining in the car.

Thanks for recipe.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:09:43pm

re: #77 BeenHereAwhile

The ones in the US - got theirs.

They don’t care about the others, especially the other from countries of lower culture.

Except at round up time, they’ll all look the same to those doing the rounding up to send to the camps

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:10:21pm

re: #73 sagehen

I still haven’t forgiven Canada for Celine Dion and Justin Bieber.

Yeah, but we’re also responsible for Ryan Reynolds, Keanu Reeves and Alex Trebek.

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EPR-radar  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:11:18pm

re: #77 BeenHereAwhile

The ones in the US - got theirs.

They don’t care about the others, especially the other from countries of lower culture.

That’s not actually true, with pest holes like TX trying to give their cops the ‘right’ to haul anyone to the border for any reason at all, presumably to be bodily kicked out.

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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:11:22pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but we’re also responsible for Ryan Reynolds, Keanu Reeves and Alex Trebek.

we’re still not giving back the Cup

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BeachDem  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:11:40pm

re: #21 Joe Bacon ✅

Remember those thumbprint cookies—sometimes they were in orange, strawberry, apricot, raspberry and those beloved hazelnut flavors! Mom would buy a couple dozen and we’d just feast on them with a cup of Mom’s Constant Comment tea or Dad’s A&P Bokar Coffee.

A&P has been gone for years and I haven’t seen Bigelow’s Constant Comment tea in years…😪

bigelowtea.com

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aatharuv  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:12:20pm

re: #80 Backwoods Sleuth

Except at round up time, they’ll all look the same to those doing the rounding up to send to the camps

Maybe someone needs to remind people about Project *Insert racist anti-Hispanic term here*. Lots of genuwine U S Citizens deported to Mexico.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:12:38pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but we’re also responsible for Ryan Reynolds, Keanu Reeves and Alex Trebek.

And Rush, which is a point of discussion for me, never really liked them.

And I guess they cannot help it that 2112 was another one of those albums you could not escape in the dormitories at Indiana University in 1976…you could walk up and down the corridors of McNutt Hall at any time of day or night and hear it coming from any number of towel-stuffed doorways.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:13:01pm

re: #74 KGxvi

California mails everyone a ballot now and every county has drop boxes you can slip them into. You can even check online to see if it has been picked up and processed.

yup and you dont have to wait till election day

this is what i’m saying. what are they gonna ‘protect’?

and will mail in ballots, the controls over batch processing that stuff is also quite rigorous.
there’s no faith in the system because tfg and the Rs created the narrative.

left alone, it mostly works.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:13:56pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but we’re also responsible for Ryan Reynolds, Keanu Reeves and Alex Trebek.

Leonard Cohen
Ian and Sylvia
Loreena McKennit
McGarrigle Sisters
Bonnie Dobson

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:14:12pm

re: #80 Backwoods Sleuth

Except at round up time, they’ll all look the same to those doing the rounding up to send to the camps

Like the story from Sophie’s Choice: her father was a pro-fascist professor but got rounded up and deported along with all the rest.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:15:05pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

Leonard Cohen
Ian and Sylvia
Loreena McKennit
McGarrigle Sisters
Bonnie Dobson

Gordon Lightfoot makes up for a dozen Celine Dions

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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:16:17pm

re: #87 Dangerman

yup and you dont have to wait till election day

this is what i’m saying. what are they gonna ‘protect’?

and will mail in ballots, the controls over batch processing that stuff is also quite rigorous.
there’s no faith in the system because tfg and the Rs created the narrative.

left alone, it mostly works.

The more I think about it, the more I think that the dog whistle is for someone to show up at a polling place with an AR-15 on election day. Which, sadly, we can’t exactly take off the table.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:17:51pm

re: #91 KGxvi

The more I think about it, the more I think that the dog whistle is for someone to show up at a polling place with an AR-15 on election day. Which, sadly, we can’t exactly take off the table.

Which realistically, we can expect all over the fucking place.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:17:53pm

re: #77 BeenHereAwhile

The ones in the US - got theirs.

They don’t care about the others, especially the other from countries of lower culture.

Way outside my experience.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:19:13pm

re: #56 Dangerman

most everyone completes a paper ballot that is scanned immediately, or uses a touch screen device.

how many places have actual ballot boxes that you put your form in to be counted ‘later’?

Twin Falls, Id.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:19:17pm

Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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No, but seriously: Trump promoting calls for citizen arrests of judges and prosecutors is goddamned dangerous given his lunatic fans. I’m not saying that this absolutely meets the Brandenburg test for incitement (intended and likely to cause imminent lawless action) but it’s a colorable argument.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:19:46pm

re: #91 KGxvi

The more I think about it, the more I think that the dog whistle is for someone to show up at a polling place with an AR-15 on election day. Which, sadly, we can’t exactly take off the table.

That would not work the way the Bad Guys expect. Might create some interest in elections.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:19:58pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

Leonard Cohen
Ian and Sylvia
Loreena McKennit
McGarrigle Sisters
Bonnie Dobson

Mike Myers, Dan Akroyd, Phil Hartman, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short

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sagehen  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:20:27pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but we’re also responsible for Ryan Reynolds, Keanu Reeves and Alex Trebek.

and Kiefer Sutherland, and Cirque de Soleil.

On the other hand, William Shatner.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:20:37pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

Leonard Cohen
Ian and Sylvia
Loreena McKennit
McGarrigle Sisters
Bonnie Dobson

k.d. lang
Brandi Carlile

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:21:44pm

re: #50 Backwoods Sleuth

The Republican Governor of Texas has placed saws in the water to prevent Latino migrants from entering his state. Trump separated Latino migrant families and put children in kennels. Trump began his campaign in 2015 by attacking Mexican migrants. Yet, Univision is rewarding Trump for claiming that migrants are polluting the blood of Americans.

Wow. This is beyond outrageous.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:22:08pm

re: #98 sagehen

and Kiefer Sutherland, and Cirque de Soleil.

On the other hand, William Shatner.

Jennifer Granholm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:22:14pm

Neil Young and Joni Mitchell > 10,000 Justin Biebers

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:23:01pm

re: #73 sagehen

What’s wrong with Celine Dion? She has a unique, powerful voice and isn’t controversial in the least. I enjoy many of her songs.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:23:52pm

re: #84 BeachDem

bigelowtea.com

I’m glad to see Bigelow’s Constant Comment still available.

And I just thought I’d search for A&P Bokar coffee. I know that a company picked up 8 o’Clock Coffee after A&P went out of business.

WOW! Bokar has been resurrected by a store in Burbank!

verdugocoffee.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:24:24pm

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:24:40pm

re: #103 Patricia Kayden

What’s wrong with Celine Dion? She has a unique, powerful voice and isn’t controversial in the least. I enjoy many of her songs.

Her music is like nails on a chalkboard for me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:24:40pm

re: #103 Patricia Kayden

What’s wrong with Celine Dion? She has a unique, powerful voice and isn’t controversial in the least. I enjoy many of her songs.

She is talented and I guess she cannot be held personally responsible for The Heart Goes On being universally inescapable for years, not just in dormitory halls, but in every Easy Listening music station, shopping mall and elevator in Western Civilization

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:25:05pm

re: #97 Backwoods Sleuth

Mike Myers, Dan Akroyd, Phil Hartman, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short

Hey. Trying to make Canada look good, here!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:27:17pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but we’re also responsible for Ryan Reynolds, Keanu Reeves and Alex Trebek.

And…Captain Kirk…

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:27:39pm
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KGxvi  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:29:03pm

Michigan court decision says Trump can stay on the ballot

Similar to the Minnesota ruling, the Court said the primary is different than the general and that the question of him being on the general election ballot is not ripe. However, I am not really a fan of this bit:

The inappropriateness of the judicial branch resolving these questions, tendered by Section 3ofthe Fourteenth Amendment, includes that the judicial action of removing a candidate from the presidential ballot and prohibiting them from running essentially strips Congress of its ability to “by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such a disability.” Also, it takes the decision of whether there was a rebellion of insurrection and whether or not someone participated in it from the Congress, a body made up of elected representatives of the people of every state in the nation, and gives it to but one single judicial officer, a person who no matter how well intentioned, evenhanded, fair and learned, cannot in any manner or form possibly embody the represented qualities of every citizen of the nation-as does the House of Representatives and the Senate. Nor is that judicial officer provided the “power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article,” Section 5.

The Courts, it seems, do not want to actually touch this issue. I can sort of understand that. But I wonder if Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton, or George W Bush decided to try and get on a primary ballot, if the courts would not bar them from doing so. It’s the same legal principle at play.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:29:35pm

Borb from the top.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:31:09pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:31:29pm
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BeachDem  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:33:06pm

anadian sre: #104 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m glad to see Bigelow’s Constant Comment still available.

And I just thought I’d search for A&P Bokar coffee. I know that a company picked up 8 o’Clock Coffee after A&P went out of business.

WOW! Bokar has been resurrected by a store in Burbank!

verdugocoffee.com

Also at Amazon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:34:09pm
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Jay C  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:35:01pm

re: #98 sagehen

and Kiefer Sutherland, and Cirque de Soleil.

On the other hand, William Shatner.

And Lorne Greene!

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:35:15pm

re: #91 KGxvi

The more I think about it, the more I think that the dog whistle is for someone to show up at a polling place with an AR-15 on election day. Which, sadly, we can’t exactly take off the table.

Makes me wonder what most of those kids would think though if when they showed up and found me already there with my AK on my lap and a Cav Stetson on my old grey head… 😈

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:36:24pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:37:39pm

re: #80 Backwoods Sleuth

Except at round up time, they’ll all look the same to those doing the rounding up to send to the camps

‘it’ll always happen to someone else.’

My brother, now retired, had a Mexican business partner when they owned 100+ stores.

Juan asked me one day, “do you know why there are no rich Mexicans?

. . .

“Because when they get money, they become Spanish.”

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:37:55pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:39:14pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:39:57pm

re: #113 Dangerman

this morning in Republicans

— one House R accused another of sucker punching him
— a senator challenged a witness to a fistfight as people gasped
— the Oversight chair called a Dem member a “smurf” and repeatedly called his line of questioning “bullshit”

these are toddlers

They see themselves as performance artists

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:40:14pm

re: #103 Patricia Kayden

What’s wrong with Celine Dion? She has a unique, powerful voice and isn’t controversial in the least. I enjoy many of her songs.

And her video for Deadpool 2 was hilarious.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:40:26pm

re: #82 EPR-radar

That’s not actually true, with pest holes like TX trying to give their cops the ‘right’ to haul anyone to the border for any reason at all, presumably to be bodily kicked out.

‘it’ll always happen to some one else.”

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:42:06pm

re: #110 Backwoods Sleuth

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silverdolphin  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:42:34pm

re: #118 William Lewis

Makes me wonder what most of those kids would think though if when they showed up and found me already there with my AK on my lap and a Cav Stetson on my old grey head… 😈

I did a little reading and found out that many, many polling places in multiple states were worried about people with firrearms showing up - in 2020. Even Texas does not allow guns within 100 feet of a polling place unless it is by an officer or the polling judge. It is a felony to attempt to bypass the rule. Many states put an armed officer as a sargeant at arms to ‘welcome’ people and prevent intimidation.

And this is something that the people responsible for securing our polling places think about a lot, spend time watching social media about and make detailed plans about what to do. So I don think people will be surprised by any half-assed approches Trumpers take.

Unless it is a bigger conspiracy than we think ;-) But then again as seen by the revelations of what they plan to do if they win or the leak of the profer tapes,, they cannot keep their mouths shut.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:45:45pm

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:47:53pm

re: #103 Patricia Kayden

What’s wrong with Celine Dion? She has a unique, powerful voice and isn’t controversial in the least. I enjoy many of her songs.

And in one on one on talk shows. Celine has a great sense of comedic timing.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:52:36pm
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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:55:03pm

re: #127 silverdolphin

I did a little reading and found out that many, many polling places in multiple states were worried about people with firrearms showing up - in 2020. Even Texas does not allow guns within 100 feet of a polling place unless it is by an officer or the polling judge. It is a felony to attempt to bypass the rule. Many states put an armed officer as a sargeant at arms to ‘welcome’ people and prevent intimidation……

In one of our county’s deep rural precincts (firehouse) an armed sheriff’s deputy dropped by a couple times during the long day. In a sense that could be reassuring, but with our state’s history it could also be seen as intimidating in itself. Basically depends on whose side is carrying.

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Semper Fi  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:55:13pm

re: #127 silverdolphin

I did a little reading and found out that many, many polling places in multiple states were worried about people with firrearms showing up - in 2020. Even Texas does not allow guns within 100 feet of a polling place unless it is by an officer or the polling judge. It is a felony to attempt to bypass the rule. Many states put an armed officer as a sargeant at arms to ‘welcome’ people and prevent intimidation.

And this is something that the people responsible for securing our polling places think about a lot, spend time watching social media about and make detailed plans about what to do. So I don think people will be surprised by any half-assed approches Trumpers take.

Unlss it is a bigger conspiracy than we think ;-) But then again as seen by the revelations of what they plan to do if they win or the leak of the profer tapes,, they cannot keep their mouths shut.

I can’t help but think Trumper’s have a plan. The orange man himself is spouting what he intends to do once he’s president again. In my mind there should be millions of R’s who will not vote for him because of who he is and all we’ve learned since 1/6. Should be a resounding “D” victory. Regardless of all that, I hope we D’s have a plan too.

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TedStriker  Nov 14, 2023 • 3:57:25pm

re: #73 sagehen

I still haven’t forgiven Canada for Celine Dion and Justin Bieber.

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but we’re also responsible for Ryan Reynolds, Keanu Reeves and Alex Trebek.

re: #98 sagehen

and Kiefer Sutherland, and Cirque de Soleil.

On the other hand, William Shatner.

re: #117 Jay C

And Lorne Greene!

And Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis… and Mike Myers.

I like me some Wayne’s World and Austin Powers, but Myers just should have retired to a tropical island instead of making the execrable The Love Guru… he deserved to have his career implode after that godawful mess.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:01:04pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:02:26pm

re: #131 Decatur Deb

In one of our county’s deep rural precincts (firehouse) an armed sheriff’s deputy dropped by a couple times during the long day. In a sense that could be reassuring, but with our state’s history it could also be seen as intimidating in itself. Basically depends on whose side is carrying.

Yeah. Most states allow officers to carry even if off duty.But they are not allowed to intimidate by pulling the gun out or displaying it. In many states, they have lawyers on call for citizens to complain about electioneering and intimidation. These people have shown that they take their jobsseriously,even wen Republican.I would not be surprised at all to find that there are detailed plans on what to do if someone shows up with an AR15.

Now whether those plans are effective is another thin but itis not too likely they will be completely surprised by a new tactic unthought of. But of course, a crazy prson could likely stillwreck havoc but it would unlikely be asystemic attack.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:03:03pm
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Ace Rothstein  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:04:26pm

re: #99 wrenchwench

k.d. lang
Brandi Carlile

Rush

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:05:09pm

re: #127 silverdolphin

I did a little reading and found out that many, many polling places in multiple states were worried about people with firrearms showing up - in 2020. Even Texas does not allow guns within 100 feet of a polling place unless it is by an officer or the polling judge. It is a felony to attempt to bypass the rule. Many states put an armed officer as a sargeant at arms to ‘welcome’ people and prevent intimidation.

And this is something that the people responsible for securing our polling places think about a lot, spend time watching social media about and make detailed plans about what to do. So I don think people will be surprised by any half-assed approches Trumpers take.

Unless it is a bigger conspiracy than we think ;-) But then again as seen by the revelations of what they plan to do if they win or the leak of the profer tapes,, they cannot keep their mouths shut.

While literally true in terms of the written law, but when I was living in small town America, I’d rather have my own rifle in my truck than trust that Deputy Bubba believes in the same Constitution that I once swore to defend. Now in a middling sized city I feel a little more comfortable. My PPK/S carried in a good inside the waist holster with with a vest over top and a spare mag in my pocket (and a current CCW permit) will suffice to keep my paranoia about the right wing in check.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:06:45pm

re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth

One last thing….Teamsters never back down to bullies.

Wife was a Teamster (retail book sales at a Doubleday on 5th Ave, NYC).

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:06:50pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:07:11pm

re: #139 Decatur Deb

Wife was a Teamster (retail book sales at a Doubleday on 5th Ave, NYC).

I was a Teamster back in the 80s

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:08:55pm

re: #141 Backwoods Sleuth

I was a Teamster back in the 80s

Fraternally, Teamsters sort of sucked. They broke our picket line at GE Louisville during a 101 day strike.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:09:35pm

re: #59 Belafon

They reported on this on WFAA, and the protests, which were are being led by students. More things where the young are learning that they will have to stand up for their rights.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:17:17pm

The bar is open

Floof cat abides (2016 photo)
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:17:20pm

re: #140 Backwoods Sleuth

I’d say the chances of a brawl on the House or Senate floor are high if Trump gets re-elected.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:19:16pm

re: #142 Decatur Deb

Fraternally, Teamsters sort of sucked. They broke our picket line at GE Louisville during a 101 day strike.

Mr. w helped SEIU get on the Stanford campus, and had to work against the bosses and the Teamsters. Competition. Somebody vandalized his motorcycle afterward.

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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:21:28pm

Long fuckin’ day at work…just got home. Saw the end of a clip on MSNBC about Fani Willis asking for a protective order after the proffer statement videos were released…was she asking for protection for Sidney Powell? Seems like the obvious answer is to remand Trump into custody until the trial is over so he can’t use social media to stir up domestic terrorists.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:21:39pm

re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg

I’d say the chances of a brawl on the House or Senate floor are high if Trump gets re-elected.

Between Republicans

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gocart mozart  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:22:16pm
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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:24:22pm

re: #148 Patricia Kayden

Between Republicans

Why are Democrats letting Republicans beat each other up? CNN talks to a few select white undereducated assholes in an Iowa diner to find out after these messages from our sponsor - Lifelock.

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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:30:16pm

re: #149 gocart mozart

I did a shit ton of mushrooms and never on my wildest trip did I see a talking baby

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:30:41pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:35:26pm
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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:37:10pm

Anyone in the LA area looking for a slightly bullet riddled limousine? Only 6,000 dollars.


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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:38:23pm

re: #154 darthstar

Anyone in the LA area looking for a slightly bullet riddled limousine? Only 6,000 dollars.

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Apparently it’s from a Brad Pitt movie coming out next year. Bullet holes don’t enter the cabin….bummer.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:39:51pm

re: #155 darthstar

No blood to clean, either.

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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:40:40pm

Be a muppet.

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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:41:16pm

re: #156 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

No blood to clean, either.

Takes all the joy out of the new vehicle smell it could have had.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:44:14pm

re: #157 darthstar

Be a muppet.

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Everyone on stage for the Hawaiian number!!

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:45:10pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 14, 2023 • 4:57:15pm

for JustJay

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:08:05pm

re: #158 darthstar

Takes all the joy out of the new vehicle smell it could have had.

Don’t have to worry about that first scratch.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:18:50pm

re: #161 Backwoods Sleuth

for JustJay

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Awww. 💔 Thanks!

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sagehen  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:23:18pm

re: #160 jaunte

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IIRC, Univision has been trying to do this for a long time. The Bush admin spent 8 years refusing. Then the Obama admin spent 8 years refusing. And I guess the Trump admin spent 3-1/2 years refusing.

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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:29:25pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:30:13pm

While waiting for the Dr. woman next to me looking at the news turns to her companion and says, “What’s the difference between a gigolo and Clarence Thomas?”

“Gee, I don’t know”

“You actually get a bit of pleasure from a gigolo.”

do not laugh…do not smirk…suppress it…but that is funny as all hell…and so true…

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:30:31pm

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:30:43pm

re: #166 Joe Bacon ✅

You should make friends with that woman. She’s a keeper.

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teleskiguy  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:32:54pm

Mastodon

The Big Lebowski (1998) - The Bereaved Scene | Movieclips

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Semper Fi  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:35:45pm

re: #144 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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By golly I can still do the Schweppes but that’s about all…too many years have gone by.

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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:37:05pm

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darthstar  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:39:49pm

I’m loving the new light fixture above the counter. Not loving the fact that my wife wants something similar for the new place. Shooting for consignment shop things for that place.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:41:43pm

re: #172 darthstar

I’m loving the new light fixture above the counter. Not loving the fact that my wife wants something similar for the new place. Shooting for consignment shop things for that place.

Check out your local? Habitat for Humanity “ReStore”. It’s their sort of thing.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:43:38pm

YouTube is trying another shitty tactic to get you to watch their shitty ads. I am seeing videos in my “recommendations” that are nothing but ads for products that I will never buy, and even if I try to remove the ad-vid from my recommendations it just pops right back up.

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teleskiguy  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:47:48pm

So, as it turns out, Dad had very specific instructions for his earthly remains. We’re to climb this mountain, Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, and toss them off this cliff at the summit.

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silverdolphin  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:49:02pm

re: #174 Vicious Babushka

YouTube is trying another shitty tactic to get you to watch their shitty ads. I am seeing videos in my “recommendations” that are nothing but ads for products that I will never buy, and even if I try to remove the ad-vid from my recommendations it just pops right back up.

This is why I do not believe that many companies based on ad revenue to survive will actually survive.They care about their advertisers, not their users. They further the enshittification of their platform by rent-eeking behavior rather than helping their users.

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Semper Fi  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:51:11pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

So, as it turns out, Dad had very specific instructions for his earthly remains. We’re to climb this mountain, Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, and toss them off this cliff at the summit.

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A perfect place for that plan…I like it. Will present weather conditions allow?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:54:43pm

re: #170 Semper Fi

By golly I can still do the Schweppes but that’s about all…too many years have gone by.

I’m pretty fond of the Reed’s Ginger Beer since they have a sugar free variant with a nice strong ginger kick to it. it also goes well with most of the gins as well.

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:57:25pm

re: #94 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Twin Falls, Id.

The state of Massachusetts uses paper ballots, and a marking machine for the disabled, which I use.

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Captain Ron  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:57:32pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

Check the wind first.

My dad’s ashes were spread between the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:57:53pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

So, as it turns out, Dad had very specific instructions for his earthly remains. We’re to climb this mountain, Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, and toss them off this cliff at the summit.

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My father’s ashes ended up scattered in a number of locations with the majority interred next to his parents in western PA. Travelled with my mother for a bit of the trip where she was carting baggies of ash to this or that spot. All of which were connected in some way to activities he did during his life.

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EstebanTornado1963  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:58:20pm

re: #180 Captain Ron

Check the wind first.

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My dad’s ashes were spread between the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Big Lebowski - Scattering Donny’s ashes

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2023 • 5:59:43pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

So, as it turns out, Dad had very specific instructions for his earthly remains. We’re to climb this mountain, Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, and toss them off this cliff at the summit.

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I have simple instructions. Have the VA cremate me and stuff my cremains in whatever niche is available at the veterans cemetery about an hour north of here. Cheap for my family (the tax payers foot the bill for the work I did in the 80’s & 90’s) & easy peasy on everyone. Plus Episcopalian chaplains are easy to find. Tell him to use rite one and it’ll sound just like a funeral in a thousand B westerns… Ashes to ashes my friends 😈

You know why that was? The US Book of Common Prayer was public domain so Hollywood didn’t have to pay anyone to use it for marriage or funeral rites. Pretty much everyone knows the outlines even if they never stepped foot in an Anglican church!

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sagehen  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:08:03pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

So, as it turns out, Dad had very specific instructions for his earthly remains. We’re to climb this mountain, Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, and toss them off this cliff at the summit.

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um… how high is this mountain? how steep is the ascent?

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:09:44pm

re: #181 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

My father’s ashes ended up scattered in a number of locations with the majority interred next to his parents in western PA. Travelled with my mother for a bit of the trip where she was carting baggies of ash to this or that spot. All of which were connected in some way to activities he did during his life.

Some people want to spread their loved one’s ashes at the Happiest Place On Earth.

Why Disney Fans Are Spreading Loved Ones’ Ashes at Theme Park

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Charles Johnson  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:10:06pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

So, as it turns out, Dad had very specific instructions for his earthly remains. We’re to climb this mountain, Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, and toss them off this cliff at the summit.

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srsly?

seems a bit risky

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:10:31pm

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Charles Johnson  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:11:49pm

My mom’s ashes were scattered at a place she loved on the island of Oahu.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:12:27pm

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of people who watch Newsmax.

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:12:55pm

re: #184 sagehen

This site says the routes are 7.5 - 8.0 miles, 3,000 elevation gain.
14ers.com

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:14:03pm

Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she’s a Christian now because that fuckin’ skydiving baby got to her:

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:15:49pm

re: #191 goddamnedfrank

Very appropriate that “woke ideology” has a high fiber diet.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:15:51pm

re: #191 goddamnedfrank

So when is she going to show up on the right wing megachurch circuit?

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:17:19pm

re: #191 goddamnedfrank

If you ask anyone the question “what unites us?” and the response is “God is dead,” consider calling an ambulance.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:18:03pm

re: #191 goddamnedfrank

Yes, it made news in the Atheist Youtuber circles.

Ali is doing the cultural-Christianity bit.

Many people who self-declare as “Christians” are really doing the cultural-Christianity bit.

Ali’s arguments are what justified the various Crusades. Now, they were really about riches and power, like all wars. But the public justification was to save Christianity.

I have never met Ali, and will not attempt to diagnose her.

It does strike me that she did not properly account for the programming of her youth, though. She knew she was abused and good for her for recognizing that and acting on it.

But as children we are trained to think in certain ways, and god-thinking is one of them.

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Semper Fi  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:21:37pm

re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’m pretty fond of the Reed’s Ginger Beer since they have a sugar free variant with a nice strong ginger kick to it. it also goes well with most of the gins as well.

Never drank or heard of Reed’s until now but your description interests me.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:22:04pm

Anyone who claims they are upholding “the Judeo-Christian tradition” are throwing up a non-entity.

It’s not a real thing in history.

It’s an assertion made in today’s culture wars.

Christianity is what happened when Jewish apocalyptic types ran into trouble with Rome.

By nature, Christianity is an end-times religion.

And what will Ali do when her newly reunited Christian empire starts killing witches, which the Law of God demands?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:23:22pm

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

Some people want to spread their loved one’s ashes at the Happiest Place On Earth.

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It was all nature/outdoor activity locations. My father liked to fish and hike. And also got into sailing as well. So ashes ended up on top of at least three mountains in Oregon, New York, and Pennsylvania. Two oceans. A couple of rivers and creeks as well.

Topped off by the container that was interred was a nice rosewood humidor he had owned. He’d also smoked for years but did eventually quit in the 1980s.

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CleverToad  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:24:31pm

re: #181 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

My father’s ashes ended up scattered in a number of locations with the majority interred next to his parents in western PA. Travelled with my mother for a bit of the trip where she was carting baggies of ash to this or that spot. All of which were connected in some way to activities he did during his life.

We buried half of my mom’s ashes with my dad in Fort Logan Natl Cemetery. Some of the rest got scattered along the Bear Lake Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park — five kids, two sons-in-law, a bunch of grandkids and two great-grands walking the trail in a snowstorm on June 24th. We had to scrounge every mitten in the house to equip everyone. I only made it a short way, then me and my lousy knees and my sweet husband had to limp back to the car. The rest of the crew made it, even the two-year-olds.

One of the granddaughters hiked up Flattop in Rocky Man Natl to scatter a few on one of Mom’s favorite trails.

One of my sisters took a few to Glacier Natl Park in Montana where Mom used to go as a kid growing up in Great Falls in the 30’s.

Another sister took a pinch to Hawaii where Mom had had a chance to go during WWII and never made it, always regretted it.

They asked us if we wanted to add a short inscription to her side of the headstone in Fort Logan — it says “HEADED FOR THE HILLS”

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:25:32pm

My sister and I spread our parents’ ashes in the back yard of the house they lived in for 60 years. We didn’t tell the new buyers.

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Jay C  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:39:31pm

re: #192 jaunte

Very appropriate that “woke ideology” has a high fiber diet.

Maybe so, but even rejecting it hasn’t prevented Ali from producing copious amounts of fecal matter. I suppose it’s lost on her that of the ideologies she takes such pains to dismiss/reject, it’s that Western “woke-ism” (even though she conveniently ignores defining exactly what it is) that carries the greatest level of tolerance for criticism. As she should well know, too public a rejection of Islamism, can, in the wrong environment, end up separating one from one’s head: too-open critics of “The System” in Russia or China might find themselves relocated to some insalubrious prison camp; and that “Christian” societal framework she seems to admire so much is only removed from Inquisitions and witch-burnings by a relatively short timespan (and a notable application of “woke” reformism in the last couple of centuries). Whereas here in moral-fiber-deficient Wokeistan, the worst that might happen to her is what? Troll attacks online…?

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:39:47pm

You know the tune.

@stevesteverers.bsky.social

I heard there was a secret cord
The baby’d pull if you loved the Lord
But you don’t really want to save it, do ya

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:39:54pm

Mom and Dad wanted their ashes mixed together.

Major objections from multiple people over that.

So my sane brother and law took matters into his own hands, got an extra urn and put half of Mom and half of Dad in the extra urn and then took Dad’s urn and poured Mom’s remaining ashes in it. He carefully disposed of Mom’s original urn so both urns were interned in the same plot.

Proud of him.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:40:22pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

So, as it turns out, Dad had very specific instructions for his earthly remains. We’re to climb this mountain, Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, and toss them off this cliff at the summit.

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1/2 of my late wife Rebecca’s ash’s were spread in the rose garden of the local Community College that she loved. . The other half was spread from the Perrine bridge over the Snake River. It’s now coming up on the three year date of her passing, The pain of her loss is still there.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:44:50pm

The “Christian baby” shitposts (I’m not calling them “memes”) are the stupidest thing that I have seen all day.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:49:52pm

re: #202 jaunte

You know the tune.

@stevesteverers.bsky.social

I heard the baby was Damien. Do you really want to save him?

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Amory Blaine  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:52:10pm

re: #75 William Lewis

sweetwater.com
😬😎

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EstebanTornado1963  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:52:31pm

Emerson poll that you’ll hear nothing about on the news shows

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teleskiguy  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:53:07pm

re: #184 sagehen

um… how high is this mountain? how steep is the ascent?

14,318 ft. The climb is Class 2, good trail to the top. If you don’t have a high clearance 4X4 the route is quite long, over 14 miles round trip.

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teleskiguy  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:55:05pm

re: #186 Charles Johnson

Believe it or not, the risk is much lower than you think. There is a good trail all the way to the top and if need be when we toss the ashes over I’ll have my brother-in-law there who’s a world class mountaineer, he can bring a rope and belay me.

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Jay C  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:55:39pm

re: #208 EstebanTornado1963

Emerson poll that you’ll hear nothing about on the news shows

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While the “trial heat” numbers seem reasonable*, what is the polling base for those “primary” figures? Any particular state? Or just “Democrats” everywhere?

* though SRSLY, 8 fucking percent for Bobby Coconuts??

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:56:30pm

re: #208 EstebanTornado1963

Emerson poll that you’ll hear nothing about on the news shows

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Trump’s going to keep saying the things Hitler said. His support can only fall from here.

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teleskiguy  Nov 14, 2023 • 6:59:58pm

I’ve climbed Uncompahgre Peak twice, once under a full moon. I know what I’m getting into. 🙂

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:02:56pm

Wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see Vivek Ramaswamy follow in Ali’s footsteps and announce his conversion to Christianity in a bid to secure the VP slot under Trump. It’s all about the bully / toady gang mentality, and being as close to the dominant in-group as possible.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:03:11pm

the shit coming out of Trump’s mouth reminds me of Grandma Bacon’s absolute hatred of Father Coughlin. During the Depression Grandpa and Grandma took boarders in. One time a man made a fatal mistake of tuning in to that racist’s broadcast and Grandma gave it to the guy with both barrels. She detested Coughlin and Grandpa hated him even more since that bigot opposed the CIO and called for strikebreakers to break every CIO organizing drive.

Coughlin put out a paper called “Social Justice” which just oozed with hatred of Jews and he slandered FDR as Franklin Rosenfeld. He finally went too far when he embraced Hitler and said we were going to war with the wrong side.

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retired cynic  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:09:31pm

re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’m pretty fond of the Reed’s Ginger Beer since they have a sugar free variant with a nice strong ginger kick to it. it also goes well with most of the gins as well.

I’m a real fan of Reed’s diet Ginger Beer. It’s great for tummy settling.

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ipsos  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:16:43pm

re: #207 Amory Blaine

sweetwater.com
😬😎

The most redeeming thing about having in-laws in Fort Wayne is being able to spend time at the Sweetwater retail store.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:19:35pm

re: #183 William Lewis

I have simple instructions. Have the VA cremate me and stuff my cremains in whatever niche is available at the veterans cemetery about an hour north of here. Cheap for my family (the tax payers foot the bill for the work I did in the 80’s & 90’s) & easy peasy on everyone. Plus Episcopalian chaplains are easy to find. Tell him to use rite one and it’ll sound just like a funeral in a thousand B westerns… Ashes to ashes my friends 😈

You know why that was? The US Book of Common Prayer was public domain so Hollywood didn’t have to pay anyone to use it for marriage or funeral rites. Pretty much everyone knows the outlines even if they never stepped foot in an Anglican church!

Do you mean the 1945 edition of The US Book of Common Prayer?

I got my copy in 1955.

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retired cynic  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:21:24pm

re: #215 Joe Bacon ✅

the shit coming out of Trump’s mouth reminds me of Grandma Bacon’s absolute hatred of Father Coughlin. During the Depression Grandpa and Grandma took boarders in. One time a man made a fatal mistake of tuning in to that racist’s broadcast and Grandma gave it to the guy with both barrels. She detested Coughlin and Grandpa hated him even more since that bigot opposed the CIO and called for strikebreakers to break every CIO organizing drive.

Coughlin put out a paper called “Social Justice” which just oozed with hatred of Jews and he slandered FDR as Franklin Rosenfeld. He finally went too far when he embraced Hitler and said we were going to war with the wrong side.

My family hated Father Coughlin as being EVIL. And the more I’ve heard about him, he earned it all.

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retired cynic  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:21:55pm

re: #216 retired cynic

I’m a real fan of Reed’s diet Ginger Beer. It’s great for tummy settling.

It’s also very tasty if you like ginger (which I do!).

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:31:59pm

Good night Lizards.

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silverdolphin  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:32:43pm

re: #219 retired cynic

My family hated Father Coughlin as being EVIL. And the more I’ve heard about him, he earned it all.

All the Hitler shit was said from the Teleprompters. He read it off very poorly, like he always does. This was not some extemporaneous crap like usual. This was planned. So I expect we will get a Nuremberg rally early next year.

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mmmirele  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:43:01pm

re: #21 Joe Bacon ✅

Remember those thumbprint cookies—sometimes they were in orange, strawberry, apricot, raspberry and those beloved hazelnut flavors! Mom would buy a couple dozen and we’d just feast on them with a cup of Mom’s Constant Comment tea or Dad’s A&P Bokar Coffee.

A&P has been gone for years and I haven’t seen Bigelow’s Constant Comment tea in years…😪

Hunh. I’ve seen Constant Comment at my local Sprouts (cheaper version of Whole Paycheck) and a quick check on the interwebs says Bigelow Tea still makes it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:44:35pm

re: #223 mmmirele

Hunh. I’ve seen Constant Comment at my local Sprouts (cheaper version of Whole Paycheck) and a quick check on the interwebs says Bigelow Tea still makes it.

I’m going to check out Sprouts this weekend. Ralphs and Vons/Albertsons in my part of town haven’t stocked Constant Comment Tea in years.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:49:14pm

re: #222 silverdolphin

All the Hitler shit was said from the Teleprompters. He read it off very poorly, like he always does. This was not some extemporaneous crap like usual. This was planned. So I expect we will get a Nuremberg rally early next year.

So was it Stephen Miller who crafted this speech? Definitely someone who wanted unambiguous reference to Hitler’s orations.

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2023 • 7:58:01pm

re: #218 BeenHereAwhile

Do you mean the 1945 edition of The US Book of Common Prayer?

I got my copy in 1955.

The one Hollywood mainly used was the one from 1892, though 1928’s became popular too. The one you have was the revision from 1928, slightly tweaked in 1945, that was then ignored until 1979 when the new book set off serious culture wars that are pretty much over (time won - the young’s don’t remember anything else 😉 ). Essentially the ‘79 book has the 28 stuff (rite one) and modern language versions (rite two). Almost no one pays attention to rite one anymore except in the break away “Anglican” churches and they’ll use that 1945 book you were given instead anyway (essentially indistinguishable).

Hope that made sense; had a couple of brews.

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:00:50pm

re: #223 mmmirele

Hunh. I’ve seen Constant Comment at my local Sprouts (cheaper version of Whole Paycheck) and a quick check on the interwebs says Bigelow Tea still makes it.

Every hotel I’ve worked at has stocked the Bigelow version of it. Nasty but popular tea. I bring my Yorkshire Red from home to drink in the middle of the night.

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silverdolphin  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:04:01pm

re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter

So was it Stephen Miller who crafted this speech? Definitely someone who wanted unambiguous reference to Hitler’s orations.

Considering his spokesman, Steven Cheung said this:

“Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

I think it is more than just Miller. I htink it is a definite plan pervading all aspects of his campaign.hey have made the decsision to go full Hitler and not even hide it.

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silverdolphin  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:10:13pm

Democrats sympathize more with Israel than with Palestinians

Even young Democrats are about even on whether they support Israel or Palestine. But the really interesting number - by 62-31%, Democrats approve of Biden’s handling of the conflict so far.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:13:28pm

re: #228 silverdolphin

Considering his spokesman, Steven Cheung said this:

I think it is more than just Miller. I htink it is a definite plan pervading all aspects of his campaign.hey have made the decsision to go full Hitler and not even hide it.

The favorite term of the Trump cult is to accuse those who support democracy of having TDS. I do know a couple of people who are Trump supporters who either don’t discuss their rationale at all outside of their cult or who want to retain a relationship with me and restrict their conversations to other topics. One of them only posts memes on FB, most of which are totally or mostly non-political or which support reduced taxes.

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:23:05pm

re: #230 Hecuba’s daughter

On TDS:
That bmaz person at emptywheel has accused some of the other commenters of Trump derangement syndrome, which makes me question his judgement.

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gwangung  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:29:58pm

re: #231 jaunte

On TDS:
That bmaz person at emptywheel has accused some of the other commenters of Trump derangement syndrome, which makes me question his judgement.

That’d be typical of folks steeped in privilege and insulated from ever being touched by oppression.

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silverdolphin  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:36:35pm

Shit. Shit. Shit. I started showing symptoms of COVID (congestion, fever) on Nov. 3. Got of Paxlovid on the 4th and was symptom-free by Nov 8 and tested negative twice over the weekend.

Well, looks like rebound time. Lots of congestion and I tested positive again. Really messes up my week. I have a dentist’ appt tomorrow that will have to be rescheduled. And I have not seen my grandaghter for over 2 weeks and will likely be another 2. Damn.

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retired cynic  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:37:25pm

re: #233 silverdolphin

I’m really sorry!

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Captain Ron  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:45:54pm

re: #233 silverdolphin

Did you get the latest Covid shot?

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Targetpractice  Nov 14, 2023 • 8:47:44pm

re: #229 silverdolphin

Democrats sympathize more with Israel than with Palestinians

Even young Democrats are about even on whether they support Israel or Palestine. But the really interesting number - by 62-31%, Democrats approve of Biden’s handling of the conflict so far.

Now how can that be when we keep getting constantly bombarded with stories about how this bad faith asshole or that back bench House member is outraged that Biden has not sent troops to kick the Israelis out of Gaza by now?

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The Ghost of a Flea  Nov 14, 2023 • 9:02:14pm

re: #201 Jay C

that “Christian” societal framework she seems to admire so much is only removed from Inquisitions and witch-burnings by a relatively short timespan (and a notable application of “woke” reformism in the last couple of centuries).

Ali is speaking the language of the colonial project: a synthesis of Christian virtue ethics, “Enlightenment” values, and nationalism that coincidentally create a license…nay, a moral imperative…to impose hegemony.

When she talks about the brutality of China or Russia contrasted with the past of the “West” it’s with the full understanding that said past was brutal…that brutality was simply directed outward, towards the zone of un-people, and thus does not count.

This has always been the paradox of the New Atheists: to defend Western values we must create an exception to the Western values such that Wrong People can be controlled and punished. It’s a classic conservative argument—people are not equal, therefore morality must include position—and the borders they set of in-group and out-group rapidly just became the borders of the global north.

This is yet another socialism of fools, but it’s also that weird thing Lady Macbeth thing that the global north does where you’re not supposed to follow-through and look at who benefits and who does the maintenance on all these backwards, poor, religion-infested places.

You know, exactly the way that collective guilt for 9/11 could span a billion Muslims but not several thousand US intelligence apparatchiks who gave a bunch of money and training to fundamentalists because the alternative was too much feminism and secularism in MENA.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 14, 2023 • 9:05:02pm

re: #217 ipsos

The most redeeming thing about having in-laws in Fort Wayne is being able to spend time at the Sweetwater retail store.

I’ve drooled over their website on occasion, especially the acoustic guitars and the electronic keyboards. Does their store inventory match all the instruments they have online? It is a real effort to keep my credit card in my wallet when I browse those creamy Martins and luscious Taylors.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 14, 2023 • 9:10:38pm

re: #231 jaunte

On TDS:
That bmaz person at emptywheel has accused some of the other commenters of Trump derangement syndrome, which makes me question his judgement.

It would make me believe that he supports Trump; only Trump supporters launch that accusation against others.

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mmmirele  Nov 14, 2023 • 9:17:41pm

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Rush, which is a point of discussion for me, never really liked them.

And I guess they cannot help it that 2112 was another one of those albums you could not escape in the dormitories at Indiana University in 1976…you could walk up and down the corridors of McNutt Hall at any time of day or night and hear it coming from any number of towel-stuffed doorways.

My law school cubicle was 2112. I loved it for the Rush album.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 14, 2023 • 9:39:21pm

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Rush, which is a point of discussion for me, never really liked them.

And I guess they cannot help it that 2112 was another one of those albums you could not escape in the dormitories at Indiana University in 1976…you could walk up and down the corridors of McNutt Hall at any time of day or night and hear it coming from any number of towel-stuffed doorways.

50 years ago at Pitt—Genesis, Bowie, Jethro Tull, Mc Carney & Wings, Ohio Players and a bizarre guy by the name of Jobriath who was supposed to be the next Bowie…but he sure flamed out fast…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2023 • 10:12:24pm

re: #241 Joe Bacon ✅

Jobriath was one of the first openly gay rock musicians and an early victim of the ‘80s AIDS epidemic (died 1983).

You can find some of his music on YouTube.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 10:16:43pm

I’ve finished the first five chapters of A People’s History of the United States, and it seems less a people’s history than Zinn’s list of grievances against the government. If you didn’t know most of what’s already been published of US history, this really wouldn’t help much.

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retired cynic  Nov 14, 2023 • 10:20:55pm

re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

poor guy… lucky more of those early risk-takers weren’t lost… we had a good friend who pursued a very risky life-style in the 80s… and he died in the 90s. our friend drove us nuts, continuing long after he knew he had it, especially with very young men. my husband stayed in contact, but I just could not bear that behavior: it was the same as manslaughter, in my book. It just made me ill when he would drop by with a “young friend”. I just wanted to vomit.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2023 • 10:22:23pm

re: #243 Belafon

I mean, he complains about how Hamilton’s setup of the Central Bank is there to benefit the wealthy, but his analysis provides no understanding as to why the party of wealthy industrialists has been trying to close the bank for a century.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2023 • 11:41:20pm

The latest on sorting out our early Homo sapiens ancestors in Africa:

CARTA: Exploring the Structure of Our Origins in Africa


..

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No Malarkey!  Nov 15, 2023 • 1:31:43am

Fani Willis expects Trump’s trial to last through election day, possibly into 2025. So Trump is going to be sitting in an Atlanta courtroom throughout next year’s campaign!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 15, 2023 • 2:21:57am

re: #247 No Malarkey!

Which trial comes first: the one in DC or the one in Georgia?

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TarHellion  Nov 15, 2023 • 2:44:48am

After yesterday’s pitched battle, pleased to return to the Land of Milk and Birbie

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 15, 2023 • 3:23:33am

It’s still better than yesterday. I could’ve gotten the birbie, if I hadn’t jumped at the first word that came to mind.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 3:48:19am

Birbie lucky guess.
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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 3:50:02am

Mastodon

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:00:36am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:05:03am

re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

Jobriath was one of the first openly gay rock musicians and an early victim of the ‘80s AIDS epidemic (died 1983).

You can find some of his music on YouTube.

Like Klaus Nomi.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:06:13am

re: #253 Thanos

This woman is distraught enough after loss of her child, but for Wingnuts that’s not enough.
When you elect zealots, you get prosecutions of miscarriages.

“Once you are pregnant (even by rape) you womb belongs to the Fatherland!”

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:17:51am

How to normalize misogyny through incels, it started with gamergate

bsky.app

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:25:46am
A new Emerson poll in New Hampshire finds Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential primary with 49%, followed by Nikki Haley at 18%, Chris Christie at 9% and Ron DeSantis at 7%.

49% vs 18%
meaningless unless tfg drops dead. and maybe not even then.

‘the media’ still thinks this matters

although desantis last of ‘em at 7 makes me grin

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:37:37am

bsky.app

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:42:07am

re: #248 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Which trial comes first: the one in DC or the one in Georgia?

Master Calendar of Trump Court Dates: Criminal and Civil Cases

justsecurity.org

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:48:38am

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:48:45am

re: #259 Thanos

Master Calendar of Trump Court Dates: Criminal and Civil Cases

justsecurity.org

it amazes me that we need this!
that there’s so much to keep track of

and for an ex president, no less.
who likely will be the R nominee again and while this is happening

yeah. this is fine.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 4:54:18am

this is no victory
mike johnson did himself no favors.
all he did is move the date.

he made zero progress on the actual fight over the budget

now we gotta watch him choreograph this idiotic two-step dance.
think anything’s gonna change between now and January and/or February?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 5:00:43am

re: #262 Dangerman

this is no victory
mike johnson did himself no favors.
all he did is move the date.

he made zero progress on the actual fight over the budget

now we gotta watch him choreograph this idiotic two-step dance.
think anything’s gonna change between now and January and/or February?

the year on the calendar

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 5:26:26am

re: #262 Dangerman

this is no victory
mike johnson did himself no favors.
all he did is move the date.

he made zero progress on the actual fight over the budget

now we gotta watch him choreograph this idiotic two-step dance.
think anything’s gonna change between now and January and/or February?

Expect more Republican macho man insanity.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 5:28:16am

‘Blatantly unconstitutional’: Nikki Haley ripped for ‘fascist’ proposal to outlaw anonymity on social media

alternet.org

During a Tuesday, November 14 appearance on Fox News, 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley made a proposal that has been drawing a great deal of vehement criticism online: abolishing anonymous social media accounts.

The former South Carolina governor and ex-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations described anonymous social media accounts as a “national security threat” and proposed that platforms like X, formerly Twitter, and Facebook be required to verify the identities of all users.

“When I get into office,” Haley told Fox News, “the first thing we have to do — social media companies, they have to show America their algorithm. Let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing.”

Haley argued that her proposal, if carried out, would promote greater “civility” online. But her critics slammed it as a recipe for authoritarianism.

One of those critics was far-right Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk, a Donald Trump loyalist.

Kirk, on Twitter, posted, “Nikki Haley says ‘every person on social media should be verified by name’ for the sake of ‘national security.’ Nice try, Nikki. Anonymous speech is a core part of free speech — which the founders would know, since many of them (including Alexander Hamilton and James Madison) wrote anonymously.”

MAGA Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running against Nikki in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, tweeted, “@NikkiHaley is *openly* pushing for the government to use private tech companies to censor speech. This is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and straight out of the Democrats’ playbook. Any politician who thinks it’s OK for the government to use the private sector as its censorship bureau shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the White House.”

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darthstar  Nov 15, 2023 • 5:44:02am

re: #173 Decatur Deb

Check out your local? Habitat for Humanity “ReStore”. It’s their sort of thing.

it’s a regular stop these days.

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darthstar  Nov 15, 2023 • 5:45:01am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the year on the calendar

Primary season.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 5:49:20am

re: #265 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Blatantly unconstitutional’: Nikki Haley ripped for ‘fascist’ proposal to outlaw anonymity on social media

alternet.org

During a Tuesday, November 14 appearance on Fox News, 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley made a proposal that has been drawing a great deal of vehement criticism online: abolishing anonymous social media accounts.

Nobody on either Right or Left is going to support that.

btw, Germany does not do burner phones. In order to purchase a phone and get even a prepaid SIM card installed, you have to give your name and your registered address.

The latter being something nobody on the Right or Left would support in the USA.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:08:51am

Maria Bartiromo barreled through warnings to boost ‘wackadoodle’ lies

Well that’s her Standard Operating Procedure!

rawstory.com

A new book claims that Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo single-handedly gave birth to the “Big Lie” that Donald Trump used to justify his efforts to overturn his election loss and which cost Fox Corp. nearly $800 million.

Fox boss Rupert Murdoch decided to send the vanquished president a message - you lost, get over it - within an hour of Fox News projecting on Nov. 7, 2020, that Joe Biden had won the election by directing an editorial to be published in the New York Post giving point-by-point directions on managing the defeat, according to excerpts of Brian Stelter’s new book Network of Liespublished by Politico.

“Get Rudy Giuliani off TV,” the editorial advised. “Ask for the recounts you are entitled to, wish Biden well, and look to the future.”

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott told Lachlan Murdoch she would circulate that editorial around the network, and the hosts of “Fox & Friends Weekend” were told Nov. 8 to stay away from election fraud claims, but Bartiromo took to the airways immediately afterward with an episode devoted to baseless conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems - which came from a highly questionable source.

“This episode is worth analyzing in detail because Bartiromo’s source was so unhinged; because the segment foreshadowed months of smears; and because it provided a predicate for the ‘Big Lie’ that Trump continues to promote to this day,” Stelter wrote. “Six in 10 Republican voters say they believe the 2020 election was ‘stolen’ from Trump. But ‘stolen’ how? One day after Biden became president-elect, Bartiromo used her Fox megaphone to tell a story that Trump and the heartbroken MAGA base embraced, to the detriment of Trump’s party and the country writ large.”

David Clark, the Fox executive who oversaw weekend programming, warned Bartiromo the day before not to book Rudy Giuliani due to his “bizarre” conspiracy theories about the network allegedly aiding Biden, but the host ignored him and asked her producer Abby Grossberg to warn the former New York City mayor not to bash Fox News on air.

“It’s also a pretape,” Grossberg told Bartiromo, “so if it goes completely off the rails, we could always try to cut.”

But the episode’s other guest, attorney Sidney Powell, proved to be even more problematic.

“What they didn’t know was that Powell’s Dominion smear was rooted in a ludicrous email from one random, especially unglued Trump fan,” Stelter wrote.

Dominion’s legal team reviewed hundreds of thousands of emails during their ultimately successful defamation suit - which cost Fox News $787.5 million - and found those costly claims were based on a single email dated Nov. 7, 2020, from an unhinged Trump fan named Marlene Bourne, who sent a message called “Election Fraud Info” to Powell, Fox host Lou Dobbs and pro-Trump activist Tom Fitton, and then forwarded by Powell to Bartiromo.

“Parts of the three-page email were, by Bourne’s own admission, ‘wackadoodle,’” Stelter wrote. “She claimed to be ‘internally decapitated’; she described having visions; she said, ‘The Wind tells me I’m a ghost.’ She said some things that were easily debunked: For example, that Roger Ailes and other ‘owners of the major US media outlets secretly huddle most days to determine how best to portray Mr. Trump as badly as possible.’ It was a supremely well-kept secret, indeed, since Ailes died in 2017 — and he hadn’t owned Fox, he’d just acted like he did in his CEO role. The email also asserted that former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia ‘was purposefully killed at the annual Bohemian Grove camp … during a weeklong human hunting expedition.’”

Instead of deleting the missive and ignoring it, Bartiromo instead sent it to Grossberg and then replied to Powell, indicating she had spoken to Eric Trump, the ex-president’s son, and described Bourne’s email as “very imp info.”

“Bourne’s ‘wackadoodle’ email was germane for two reasons: It was chock-full of equally loony claims about Dominion, and it was the only message referencing Dominion in Bartiromo’s and Grossberg’s inboxes prior to Powell’s live shot on their show,” Stelter wrote. “In other words, it was Patient Zero in the coming contagion that would infect all of Fox and the GOP.”

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:15:24am

re: #265 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Blatantly unconstitutional’: Nikki Haley ripped for ‘fascist’ proposal to outlaw anonymity on social media

alternet.org

During a Tuesday, November 14 appearance on Fox News, 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley made a proposal that has been drawing a great deal of vehement criticism online: abolishing anonymous social media accounts.

The former South Carolina governor and ex-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations described anonymous social media accounts as a “national security threat” and proposed that platforms like X, formerly Twitter, and Facebook be required to verify the identities of all users.

“When I get into office,” Haley told Fox News, “the first thing we have to do — social media companies, they have to show America their algorithm. Let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing.”

Haley argued that her proposal, if carried out, would promote greater “civility” online. But her critics slammed it as a recipe for authoritarianism.

One of those critics was far-right Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk, a Donald Trump loyalist.

Kirk, on Twitter, posted, “Nikki Haley says ‘every person on social media should be verified by name’ for the sake of ‘national security.’ Nice try, Nikki. Anonymous speech is a core part of free speech — which the founders would know, since many of them (including Alexander Hamilton and James Madison) wrote anonymously.”

MAGA Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running against Nikki in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, tweeted, “@NikkiHaley is *openly* pushing for the government to use private tech companies to censor speech. This is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and straight out of the Democrats’ playbook. Any politician who thinks it’s OK for the government to use the private sector as its censorship bureau shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the White House.”

How would she make it apply to Non Americans?
Twitter doesn’t stop at the border

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:16:21am

re: #269 Joe Bacon ✅

“In other words, it was Patient Zero in the coming contagion that would infect all of Fox and the GOP.”

They were already infected, this is just what brought the disgusting pustules of hatred to the surface

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darthstar  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:25:53am

re: #269 Joe Bacon ✅

I wonder how much Fox paid Stelter to frame Maria for the whole shit show they promoted on every fucking show from that day forward? Sorry, but one whacked out host isn’t the source of everything that happened after the election.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:35:53am

re: #273 darthstar

I wonder how much Fox paid Stelter to frame Maria for the whole shit show they promoted on every fucking show from that day forward? Sorry, but one whacked out host isn’t the source of everything that happened after the election.

Just like the recent Israel/Hamas conflict does not fully account for all the expressions of Islaophobia and Antisemitism we are seeing.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:36:02am

re: #273 darthstar

True. One source is DT and all of the people who supported him. That is a lot of misinformation that needs to be waded through to find out what really happened.

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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:44:22am
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William Lewis  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:50:57am

Pity. Yet another story about a company I used to like.

At REI, a Progressive Company Warns That Unionization Is Bad for Vibes

Last year, during a mandatory meeting of employees at a Manhattan REI store, a manager ticked off a list of what he called “serious red flags” about the union trying to organize the company’s employees. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has suffered a decline in membership and revenue, he said, which should be concerning. What’s more, he said, “they’ve allocated barely any revenue to social impact,” according to an audio recording of the gathering reviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek. “Compare that to our $6.3 million to nonprofit partners in 2021 alone.”

Some employees found that criticism strange: In their eyes, the union itself is a social impact organization, one that helps advance the sort of values that drew them to work at REI in the first place. “We are living the co-op values by doing this,” says one of them, Claire Chang. “Coming together to unionize as workers is 100% aligned with what REI says they are.”

Employees at eight of REI’s roughly 180 US stores, starting with the Manhattan one, have voted to unionize over the past two years with the RWDSU or other chapters of the United Food & Commercial Workers, seeking a say in issues such as safety, scheduling and benefits. But—like their newly unionized counterparts at amazon.com, Apple and Starbucks—none has gotten close to negotiating an actual union contract with the company. On Nov. 14, the UFCW filed cases with the US National Labor Relations Board, accusing REI of refusing to negotiate fairly at stores across the country. It’s the latest volley in an escalating dispute in which each side accuses the other of violating the humane values that are core to the retailer’s brand.

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mmmirele  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:57:47am

re: #265 Joe Bacon ✅

I really *really* hate waking up in the morning and agreeing with Charlie Kirk. Really hate that.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 15, 2023 • 6:58:28am

So, earlier today, I was coming back home and I found me one of these…

Canon Prima Super 105X camera 35mm film

…in the dumpster. So I thought to myself, “What the hell” and took it upstairs.

I reckon the original owner threw it away because the battery door latch, a small plastic piece that slides in behind the battery door, was broken. However, that was an easy fix. A little superglue (and steady hands) and the piece went back together with no problem.

Found a local store that sells the battery for about $3 bucks, a CR123A three volt lithium cell, popped in it - and it all seems to be working fine. There was a still a roll of film in the camera with about 12 exposures remaining, so I took a couple photos to make sure the shutter was working properly.

We still have a one-hour photo shop here in Ostrava, so I’ll run through the rest of the roll, then see how it turns out. Hopefully, there’s nothing hinky on the previous photos (that thought occurred to me, LOL).

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:00:42am

re: #279 Dr Lizardo

Congratulations. You’ve just disrupted a GRU dead drop.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:00:53am

re: #279 Dr Lizardo

So, earlier today, I was coming back home and I found me one of these…

[Embedded content]

…in the dumpster. So I thought to myself, “What the hell” and took it upstairs.

I reckon the original owner threw it away because the battery door latch, a small plastic piece that slides in behind the battery door, was broken. However, that was an easy fix. A little superglue (and steady hands) and the piece went back together with no problem.

Found a local store that sells the battery for about $3 bucks, a CR123A three volt lithium cell, popped in it - and it all seems to be working fine. There was a still a roll of film in the camera with about 12 exposures remaining, so I took a couple photos to make sure the shutter was working properly.

We still have a one-hour photo shop here in Ostrava, so I’ll run through the rest of the roll, then see how it turns out. Hopefully, there’s nothing hinky on the previous photos (that thought occurred to me, LOL).

Blackmail can be a lucrative career

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:00:56am

re: #276 lawhawk

Just so we’re all clear: Criticizing Israel’s government is not antisemitic but “supporting” Israel only because you’re waiting for the Rapture to happen so all the Jews burn in Hell is.

This is a nuance that is lost in much of the discussion of policies and attitudes toward Israel and Judaism.

Those Fundamentalist Christians are a fucking death cult.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:01:24am

re: #279 Dr Lizardo

We must have a readout on the contents of those pictures. I hope for a full report (and no jail time for you!) 🤣

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jeffreyw  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:01:54am

Good morning!

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:02:47am

Today’s electoral-vote mentions that Trump could fire his lawyers as a delay strategy, and asks: “Then what happens? Would the judge refuse to let him fire the lawyers?”

The answer to that question, surprisingly, can be yes! Lawyers must ask leave of the court to be dismissed from a case. Judge Chutkan could absolutely say, “Aw, hell nah, you guys aren’t getting off that easy, you will stay and you will complete this trial because your client is attempting to use your dismissal as a delay tactic.” That is actually a thing that happens specifically in the circumstance where a defendant is attempting to delay proceedings with frivolous dismissals. So if you’re worried that Trump is going to run out the clock by dismissing his lawyers and then demanding that the court let him find new ones, wait for them to get clearance to work on his case and get them up to speed, then dismiss them again just before the court-ordered time frame runs out - rest easy. The court has options to prevent lawyer-shopping as a delaying action.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:03:03am

re: #277 William Lewis

Pity. Yet another story about a company I used to like.

At REI, a Progressive Company Warns That Unionization Is Bad for Vibes

REI’s ideal self-image is one of a company that is so in tune with its employees that a union would only interfere.

And my ideal unicorn shits pistachio ice cream.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:04:11am

re: #284 jeffreyw

Good morning!

Cheezebus Christ!

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Dave In Austin  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:04:36am

High Level Cheeses……

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:05:43am

re: #280 Decatur Deb

re: #281 Dangerman

re: #283 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Yeah, I’ll admit not knowing what’s on the current roll (aside from the three photos I took off my balcony) does make me a little nervous. Maybe it’d be better just to shoot the rest of the roll, toss it, and pick up a 24-exposure roll of fresh film. Might even go for some B/W 35mm film, which I can find here at our local camera shop, and do some arty shots around downtown Ostrava.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:05:47am

re: #285 Nerdy Fish

I suppose that Trump can dismiss his lawyers, but then he will have to proceed on his own without them until he finds replacements, he cannot expect to be given any extra time…

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Captain Magic  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:06:46am

re: #281 Dangerman

Reminds me of the “Blackmail” sketch from Monty Python.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:07:16am

re: #289 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, I’ll admit not knowing what’s on the current roll (aside from the three photos I took off my balcony) does make a little nervous. Maybe it’d be better just to shoot the rest of the roll, toss it, and pick up a 24-exposure roll of fresh film. Might even go for some B/W 35mm film, which I can find here at our local camera shop, and do some arty shots around downtown Ostrava.

NO NO NO! You’ve piqued our interest. You must have them processed now! Give the clerk the backstory. He or she will likely be curious, too.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:08:10am

When you say
“Cheese is Cheese” (like the Papa John’s commercials)
Real fast….

It always comes up as “Jesus Cheese”.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:08:17am

re: #290 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I suppose that Trump can dismiss his lawyers, but then he will have to proceed on his own without them until he finds replacements, he cannot expect to be given any extra time…

Or, as I said, the judge can literally tell them, “As officers of the court, I am ordering you to be his court-appointed representation.” I’m a bit murky on the details of payment if the client wants to change representation and the court refuses to allow it, but I recall a case where it has happened in recent memory from Lawsky, I think. I’d have to do some adept searching to find it, though.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:08:42am

Drive the cheese bus into the crack at Grindavík and create the Fondue from Hell (literally)

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:09:30am

re: #285 Nerdy Fish

Today’s electoral-vote mentions that Trump could fire his lawyers as a delay strategy, and asks: “Then what happens? Would the judge refuse to let him fire the lawyers?”

The answer to that question, surprisingly, can be yes! Lawyers must ask leave of the court to be dismissed from a case. Judge Chutkan could absolutely say, “Aw, hell nah, you guys aren’t getting off that easy, you will stay and you will complete this trial because your client is attempting to use your dismissal as a delay tactic.” That is actually a thing that happens specifically in the circumstance where a defendant is attempting to delay proceedings with frivolous dismissals. So if you’re worried that Trump is going to run out the clock by dismissing his lawyers and then demanding that the court let him find new ones, wait for them to get clearance to work on his case and get them up to speed, then dismiss them again just before the court-ordered time frame runs out - rest easy. The court has options to prevent lawyer-shopping as a delaying action.

i read some stories about this ‘tactic’ a few months back.
they all said pretty much “fat chance it would work”

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:09:30am

re: #258 Thanos

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bsky.app

The Republicans will also shut down government agencies reporting on things like illegal abortion rates, deadly pregnancies and how catastrophic generally it is going for women’s health.

Women’s life expectancies and overall quality of life will drop at an alarming rate under Trump’s Fascist America.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:09:41am

re: #289 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, I’ll admit not knowing what’s on the current roll (aside from the three photos I took off my balcony) does make a little nervous. Maybe it’d be better just to shoot the rest of the roll, toss it, and pick up a 24-exposure roll of fresh film. Might even go for some B/W 35mm film, which I can find here at our local camera shop, and do some arty shots around downtown Ostrava.

My cubicle mate died while on travel (and in the middle of a messy divorce). I was given the traditional task of cleaning out his office stuff honestly and intelligently. One of the clerks really, REALLY, wanted the 35mm camera in his desk. Wouldn’t do it, but I gave her the cartridge.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:10:30am

re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

REI’s ideal self-image is one of a company that is so in tune with its employees that a union would only interfere [put ideas into their heads].

And my ideal unicorn shits pistachio ice cream.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:11:04am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Cheezebus Christ!

What Would Cheeses Do?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:12:21am

re: #300 Dangerman

What Would Cheeses Do?

melt

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:12:56am

re: #292 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

NO NO NO! You’ve piqued our interest. You must have them processed now! Give the clerk the backstory. He or she will likely be curious, too.

it’s gonna be cat pix.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:15:34am

re: #294 Nerdy Fish

Or, as I said, the judge can literally tell them, “As officers of the court, I am ordering you to be his court-appointed representation.” I’m a bit murky on the details of payment if the client wants to change representation and the court refuses to allow it, but I recall a case where it has happened in recent memory from Lawsky, I think. I’d have to do some adept searching to find it, though.

for each case, tfg has a team of lawyers. he cant have the exact same problem with all of them and then fire them all at the same last minute for the same cause.

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:15:52am

re: #278 mmmirele

I really *really* hate waking up in the morning and agreeing with Charlie Kirk. Really hate that.

Charlie Kirk agrees with you.

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William Lewis  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:17:24am

re: #279 Dr Lizardo

So, earlier today, I was coming back home and I found me one of these…

[Embedded content]

…in the dumpster. So I thought to myself, “What the hell” and took it upstairs.

I reckon the original owner threw it away because the battery door latch, a small plastic piece that slides in behind the battery door, was broken. However, that was an easy fix. A little superglue (and steady hands) and the piece went back together with no problem.

Found a local store that sells the battery for about $3 bucks, a CR123A three volt lithium cell, popped in it - and it all seems to be working fine. There was a still a roll of film in the camera with about 12 exposures remaining, so I took a couple photos to make sure the shutter was working properly.

We still have a one-hour photo shop here in Ostrava, so I’ll run through the rest of the roll, then see how it turns out. Hopefully, there’s nothing hinky on the previous photos (that thought occurred to me, LOL).

Be sure to tell the lab that it was a “Found Film” 😎 Otherwise, Excellent save!!! 👍

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:17:41am

re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What Would Cheeses Do?

melt

only some…

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:19:05am

re: #305 William Lewis

Be sure to tell the lab that it was a “Found Film” 😎 Otherwise, Excellent save!!! 👍

If there’s something illegal on the film, there’s a duty to get it developed so it can be turned over to the authorities.

See, easy justification.

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William Lewis  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:20:46am

re: #289 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, I’ll admit not knowing what’s on the current roll (aside from the three photos I took off my balcony) does make me a little nervous. Maybe it’d be better just to shoot the rest of the roll, toss it, and pick up a 24-exposure roll of fresh film. Might even go for some B/W 35mm film, which I can find here at our local camera shop, and do some arty shots around downtown Ostrava.

If you’re worried, sure. I’d get it developed personally. Then, being in the Czech Republic I’d stick a roll of Foma Pan 400 in it to really give it a test. Locally made (to you) high quality black and white film 🥰

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BigPapa  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:21:56am

re: #288 Dave In Austin

High Level Cheeses……

I’m in to 8D cheese.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:22:32am

re: #305 William Lewis

Be sure to tell the lab that it was a “Found Film” 😎 Otherwise, Excellent save!!! 👍

I would tell the lab straight-up I found the camera, got it working, and the first 11 photos were from whoever tossed it.

Yeah, I’m pretty happy with it. I haven’t used a 35mm camera in a long, long time. Thankfully, 35mm film is still available here, either Kodak, Fujifilm, or for black & white film, Kentmere (never heard of them before).

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:23:21am

re: #308 William Lewis

If you’re worried, sure. I’d get it developed personally. Then, being in the Czech Republic I’d stick a roll of Foma Pan 400 in it to really give it a test. Locally made (to you) high quality black and white film 🥰

There is/was a website dedicated to reuniting people with their lost images—involved some fun detective work and had a good success rate.

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BeachDem  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:23:53am

re: #265 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Blatantly unconstitutional’: Nikki Haley ripped for ‘fascist’ proposal to outlaw anonymity on social media

alternet.org

Yeah, Nikki’s a real genius when it comes to cyber security. Why, when she was governor, nobody would have thought of massive identity theft/hacking from state files. Oh, wait:

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s public statements in the wake of an unprecedented security breach at the South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) are being challenged by industry experts.

“The governor’s comments reflect unawareness of data security practices and are not at all reassuring,” network security Avivah Litan told Computer World.

Litan was referring to Haley’s claim that South Carolina was following “industry standard” practices when it failed to encrypt Social Security data that was stolen earlier this year by hackers presumed to be affiliated with an Eastern European crime syndicate. Beginning on August 27, more than 3.6 million Social Security numbers and nearly 400,000 credit and debit card numbers were stolen from the agency. Additional data - including individual tax return records - may have also been stolen, although Haley’s administration isn’t sure of the extent of the damage.

“To tell you (that) now would be guessing,” Haley told reporters this week.

How reassuring …
fitsnews.com

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:25:30am

re: #308 William Lewis

If you’re worried, sure. I’d get it developed personally. Then, being in the Czech Republic I’d stick a roll of Foma Pan 400 in it to really give it a test. Locally made (to you) high quality black and white film 🥰

I looked up that Fomapan 400…that’s some nice black and white film. I’ll have to see if it’s carried locally.

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BigPapa  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:26:59am

re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is a nuance that is lost in much of the discussion of attitudes toward Israel and Judaism.

Those Fundamentalist Christians are a fucking death cult.

The rabid Israel-loving evangelicals are not nuanced in the importance of Israel but if you listen they occasionally slip. Just the other night I saw that Father Coughlin was getting too Nazi-loving and anti-Semitic and that’s when the Pope clipped him. Today’s hate preachers occasionally drop the mask.

Today’s right-wing culture warriors view Israel conflict as a weapon in their rabid anti-liberal culture wars. Every time they rant about anti-Semitism it’s to weaponize it, real or imagined, into a cudgel to browbeat the left. They love anti-Semitism, especially when the left does it, or when they can claim the left does it.

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:27:54am
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William Lewis  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:28:01am

re: #310 Dr Lizardo

I would tell the lab straight-up I found the camera, got it working, and the first 11 photos were from whoever tossed it.

Yeah, I’m pretty happy with it. I haven’t used a 35mm camera in a long, long time. Thankfully, 35mm film is still available here, either Kodak, Fujifilm, or for black & white film, Kentmere (never heard of them before).

Kentmere is Ilford’s low rent brand. It’s good quality but they use less silver in the formulation of the emulsion to hold down the cost. This also tends to make it a little less contrasty which can be good or bad, depending. Camera like that one, it’s probably a fine fit if you can’t find any Foma Pan. I’d still suggest ISO400 speed to start just to give extra exposure latitude when you’re not 100% sure yet how well it works.

Kodak makes all the color (even if it’s labled Fuji, sigh). The 200 is just Kodak Gold. The Fuji 400 is at least tweaked by Kodak to Fuji’s specs - unless the box is labled “Superia” and sez Made in Japan. THEN it’s the good stuff and is the best amateur color film on the market.

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BigPapa  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:29:24am

re: #315 Belafon

This is why it’s Bad for Biden.

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Lilah  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:29:35am

re: #99 wrenchwench

Isn’t Brandi Carlile from Seattle?

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:31:20am

Speaking of actually progressive corporations, I’m pimping the hell out of Penzy’s Spices. They just sent us an email on their newest offer: “Vanilla for Vermin”. Their whole, long, ad is worth the read.

spices.penzeys.com

“When they dehumanize—Cooks do the opposite.”

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:33:40am

re: #280 Decatur Deb

Congratulations. You’ve just disrupted a GRU dead drop.

“Moscow Rules”

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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:33:55am

re: #315 Belafon

It’s not a soft landing. It’s an ongoing brisk walk that continues to show strength despite all the prognosticators claiming recession is just around the corner and the economy is doomscrolling by.

The facts don’t match what they say, but they keep saying it anyways.

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jeffreyw  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:34:09am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:36:06am

re: #314 BigPapa

The rabid Israel-loving evangelicals are not nuanced in the importance of Israel but if you listen they occasionally slip. Just the other night I saw that Father Coughlin was getting too Nazi-loving and anti-Semitic and that’s when the Pope clipped him. Today’s hate preachers occasionally drop the mask.

Today’s right-wing culture warriors view Israel conflict as a weapon in their rabid anti-liberal culture wars. Every time they rant about anti-Semitism it’s to weaponize it, real or imagined, into a cudgel to browbeat the left. They love anti-Semitism, especially when the left does it, or when they can claim the left does it.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:36:09am

re: #316 William Lewis

OK, that’s all excellent info to know. Thanks.

I think the last time I used a 35mm camera would’ve been sometime in the early 2000s. Granted, this Canon is pretty much a point and shoot, but it seems to be a very well-made little camera and I know that Canon is a good name in photography with a solid reputation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:37:42am

re: #314 BigPapa

Today’s right-wing culture warriors view Israel conflict as a weapon in their rabid anti-liberal culture wars.

Israel has legal abortion, gay marriage, women in the military, etc.

Those are facts they like to skim over…

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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:39:24am

re: #325 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Israel has legal abortion, gay marriage, women in the military, etc.

Those are facts they like to skim over…

All in the service of bringing about the Rapture and watching the Jews burn while the End Times rages on.

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:40:51am

re: #322 jeffreyw

File this under Bullsh—:

Fire OS is a fork of Android based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it’s far from the same thing. The Fire Max 11, a 2023 device, is running Fire OS 8, which is based on Android 11, released in 2020. As Roettgers points out, Fire TVs sold in 2023 are based on Android 9, from 2018. While an Android base provides a relatively familiar entry for developers that already have Android apps, rebuilding the AOSP project—meant to support a wealth of different devices and carrying years of technical debt—seemingly became frustrating enough for Amazon to push toward an in-house solution.

Amazon’s tired of their users being able to use Android apps.

Edit: Yes, the article speculates that at the bottom, but it’s pretty much the only reason.

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austin_blue  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:43:16am

re: #144 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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I hope you have proper Mule Cups…

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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:44:12am
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jeffreyw  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:44:26am

YouTube

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:45:00am

re: #251 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Birbie lucky guess.
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William Lewis  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:45:02am

re: #324 Dr Lizardo

OK, that’s all excellent info to know. Thanks.

I think the last time I used a 35mm camera would’ve been sometime in the early 2000s. Granted, this Canon is pretty much a point and shoot, but it seems to be a very well-made little camera and I know that Canon is a good name in photography with a solid reputation.

I did a little online snooping. Looks like a really good basic point and shoot. You can do a lot with a camera like that - the only ones possibly any better were the Olympus Stylus ones. Enjoy it and it will do well for you 🙂 I look forward to your pictures.

Tip - if they offer the service, get scans and online uploads instead of prints. Around here that’s cheaper. Then when you want a print of something (I actually did yesterday) you can go back and just get that one or two done.

Time to go run errands and grab my Nikon rangefinder on the way out the door. Bright sunny day, supposed to be 60F/16C today - nice for mid November in Wisconsin.

Later folks!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:45:10am

re: #328 austin_blue

I hope you have proper Mule Cups…

my daughter got me a set for Xmas last year

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cat-tikvah  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:45:29am

re: #319 Decatur Deb

Speaking of actually progressive corporations, I’m pimping the hell out of Penzy’s Spices. They just sent us an email on their newest offer: “Vanilla for Vermine”. Their whole, long, ad is worth the read.

spices.penzeys.com

While you’re on their website, read “About Republicans”. The early principled stance they took against Trump and the craven GOP made me a customer for life.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:46:29am

re: #327 Belafon

File this under Bullsh—:

Amazon’s tired of their users being able to use Android apps.

the only reason i bought a fire was I could sneak in google play store and then load *my* favorite apps

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Decatur Deb  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:47:13am

re: #334 cat-tikvah

Yup.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:47:17am

re: #329 lawhawk

Since DT made such a huge fuss over Hunter’s laptop and even threatened Ukraine that if they could not produce it he (DT) would not help them. I think he may have a chance at getting the subpoena.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:47:39am

re: #328 austin_blue

I hope you have proper Mule Cups…

I don’t actually. And don’t entertain or drink enough to have a great desire to get any. Norm for me is a couple of fingers of gin into a pint glass and then pour the entire small bottle of mixer on top.

I don’t add ice or anything since the mixer bottles are kept in the fridge and I keep a small bottle of whatever gin I am usually currently drinking in the freezer. Mules usually add simple syrup but I skip that in my ad hoc drinks to avoid the calories. (I consider the alcohol itself my “cheat” towards excess sugar/carbs for the day.)

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:48:38am

If you think that I don’t know about the little tricks you’ve played
And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way
Well, here’s a poke at you
You’re gonna choke on it too
You’re gonna lose that smile
Because all the while

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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:51:47am

re: #318 Lilah

Isn’t Brandi Carlile from Seattle?

Yes. I almost looked her up first….she must have been hanging out with Canadians or something…

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:52:48am
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cat-tikvah  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:52:54am

re: #336 Decatur Deb

AND their products are wonderful!

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:55:45am
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jeffreyw  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:56:50am

re: #327 Belafon

File this under Bullsh—:

Amazon’s tired of their users being able to use Android apps.

Edit: Yes, the article speculates that at the bottom, but it’s pretty much the only reason.

We bought a couple of Amazon Fire tablets but gave up on them prior to those that allow easy integration of the Google Play store. I still have one of the first gen Fire tablets. Might be a collector’s item one day!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:57:07am

Anyone surprised at this?

rawstory.com

Trump team files for mistrial over clerk’s ‘unprecedented role’ in fraud case

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Unabogie  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:57:14am

re: #341 gocart mozart

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When two liars contradict each other, how do you even try to figure out the truth? I assumed Qevin accidently bumped the guy until he opened his mouth. Now I think he should be prosecuted for assault.

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2023 • 7:57:38am
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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:00:25am

re: #345 Joe Bacon ✅

No, and it will not survive the laughter of the appellate division, let alone the Court of Appeals. It will not be sustained, and there’s no evidence of actual wrongdoing as clerks in NY help the judge draft the ruling and this is standard operating procedure across NY courts.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:06:16am

re: #297 Florida Panhandler

The Republicans will also shut down government agencies reporting on things like illegal abortion rates, deadly pregnancies and how catastrophic generally it is going for women’s health.

Women’s life expectancies and overall quality of life will drop at an alarming rate under Trump’s Fascist America.

If the GOP has control of both the presidency and Congress, it will drop dramatically under any modern Republican administration since they will all outlaw abortion nationwide.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:07:55am

re: #348 lawhawk

No, and it will not survive the laughter of the appellate division, let alone the Court of Appeals. It will not be sustained, and there’s no evidence of actual wrongdoing as clerks in NY help the judge draft the ruling and this is standard operating procedure across NY courts.

Judge Engoron has even told Chris Kise and Alina Habba that he would be inviting the clerk to write an Order to Show Cause if they filed this motion, so when this inevitably gets kicked down by the appellate courts, they will also be facing sanctions for being assholes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:17:14am

HEY FOLKS! WATCH OUT FOR THEM THERE WHITE BUSSES!

GOP rep. rants theory at FBI director: ‘Ghost buses’ filled with informants incited Jan. 6

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) suggested the FBI sent “ghost buses” filled with informants to incite the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday, Higgins peppered FBI Director Christopher Wray with questions about his agency’s role in Jan. 6.

“If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically no,” Wray insisted.

“Are you familiar with, you know, what a ghost vehicle is?” Higgins asked. “Director, you’re director of the FBI, certainly should. You know what a ghost bus is?”

“A ghost bus?” Wray replied. “I’m not sure I’ve used that term before.”

Higgins said a ghost bus was a “common” term referring to an unmarked vehicle “that’s used for secret purposes.”

“These two buses in the middle here, they were the first to arrive at Union Station on Jan. 6,” Higgins said, pointing to a photo. “I have all this evidence. I’m showing you a tip of the iceberg.”

At that point, a Democrat on the committee noted that Higgins was out of time. But the Republican lawmaker ranted on.

“I note that other members across the aisle have been granted time, and I object to my question being closed,” he said. “This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman, and these buses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters and deployed onto our Capitol on Jan. 6.”

Your day is coming, Mr. Wray,” he added.

Rep. Clay Higgins rants about ‘ghost buses’ from Jan. 6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:18:37am

And what did the protesters leave on the floor of the ghost busses?

-ghost bus turds!

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:20:01am

re: #352 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

*WHACK!*

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:20:34am

re: #351 Joe Bacon ✅

This sounds like someone who is taking a creative writing course and it does not look like they are going to pass it.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:21:30am

So, looking up a bit about this camera I’ve found, they’re selling in the neighborhood of €130 (about $140 USD).

ohsocult.com

Basically, someone threw away $140 for what was an easy repair job. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what the issue was with the battery door latch and how to fix it.

Well, like they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. 😎

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:23:17am

re: #354 PhillyPretzel ✅

This sounds like someone who is taking a creative writing course and it does not look like they are going to pass it.

Someone needs to tell that freak that we know who rides a white bus…his parents when there was a notice in the bus that said WHITES FRONT, COLOREDS REAR…

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:23:45am

re: #80 Backwoods Sleuth

Except at round up time, they’ll all look the same to those doing the rounding up to send to the camps

Born In East L.A. (1987) - Official Trailer

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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:24:45am

re: #258 Thanos

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Making medication abortions less available does not prevent any abortions. It changes the method.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:24:50am

This coming Christmas Eve will be the 55th anniversary of what is perhaps the most iconic photograph taken from space. Captured during Apollo 8’s trip around the Moon, it shows the Earth rising above the Moon as the spacecraft cleared the limb during one of its orbits. Can you see your house?

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:25:17am

re: #359 sizzzzlerz

This coming Christmas Eve will be the 55th anniversary of what is perhaps the most iconic photograph taken from space. Captured during Apollo 8’s trip around the Moon, it shows the Earth rising above the Moon as the spacecraft cleared the limb during one of its orbits. Can you see your house?

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My house, like I myself, did not exist in this photograph.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:26:38am

re: #360 Nerdy Fish

My house, like I myself, did not exist in this photograph.

Mine would be invisibe through the smog (EPA was not established until 1970)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:28:46am

Damn. Apology at :30.

BBC apologises as presenter mistakenly says Israel is ‘targeting medical staff and Arab speakers’

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:29:53am

re: #345 Joe Bacon ✅

Anyone surprised at this?

rawstory.com

Trump team files for mistrial over clerk’s ‘unprecedented role’ in fraud case

i dont think that word means what they think it means

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:31:14am

re: #363 Dangerman

i dont think that word means what they think it means

of course they know but their base doesn’t and the press don’t care

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:34:38am

re: #348 lawhawk

No, and it will not survive the laughter of the appellate division, let alone the Court of Appeals. It will not be sustained, and there’s no evidence of actual wrongdoing as clerks in NY help the judge draft the ruling and this is standard operating procedure across NY courts.

they think it’s ‘unprecedented’ because *they* had no idea this is how things work

this is common for trump
he reacts this way all the time when he finds out something isnt the way he thought or *should* be, or doesnt work to his favor

what do you mean i cant…
- put the military at the border
- redirect this hurricane with a sharpie
- fire all the Asst AG’s until i get one i want…

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:35:06am

Does anyone know anything about the story that buses hired by the Jewish Federation refused to transport travelers from Detroit to the rally? Apparently the buses were hired by the organization for those who planned to attend yesterday’s rally and the drivers refused.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:36:40am

Hmmmmmmmmm…I wonder what he means by that???????

What a class act…

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:37:16am

re: #351 Joe Bacon ✅

“These two buses in the middle here, they were the first to arrive at Union Station on Jan. 6,” Higgins said, pointing to a photo. “I have all this evidence. I’m showing you a tip of the iceberg.”

“i have this pile of stuff” is not “i have all this evidence”

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:38:28am

re: #351 Joe Bacon ✅

curious that also zero of them were arrested

did the DC police know who was who?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:39:13am

re: #369 Dangerman

curious that also zero of them were arrested

did the DC police know who was who?

They had a secret handshake…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:42:38am

re: #370 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They had a secret handshake…

keep it on the DL—they’re all Masons…

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Jay C  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:47:32am

re: #351 Joe Bacon ✅

“These two buses in the middle here, they were the first to arrive at Union Station on Jan. 6,” Higgins said, pointing to a photo. “I have all this evidence. I’m showing you a tip of the iceberg.”

At that point, a Democrat on the committee noted that Higgins was out of time. But the Republican lawmaker ranted on.

“I note that other members across the aisle have been granted time, and I object to my question being closed,” he said. “This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman, and these buses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters and deployed onto our Capitol on Jan. 6.”

The first thing that came to my mind reading this was Captain Queeg ranting on and on about his strawberries…. except Queeg was a fictional character; and unfortunately, Rep. Higgins (well, AFAWCT) is real.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:54:29am

re: #366 Hecuba’s daughter

Does anyone know anything about the story that buses hired by the Jewish Federation refused to transport travelers from Detroit to the rally? Apparently the buses were hired by the organization for those who planned to attend yesterday’s rally and the drivers refused.

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:55:26am

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austin_blue  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:56:01am

re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

my daughter got me a set for Xmas last year

Proper!

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 15, 2023 • 8:56:05am

I got several emails from Jewish orgs inviting me to participate in this rally but since I have agoraphobia & terrible fear of crowd crush, rallies are not my thing.

So glad that I opted out of that shitshow.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:03:39am

re: #373 Vicious Babushka

Thank you!!

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:06:44am
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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:07:05am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:09:18am

re: #378 gocart mozart

If Dad were still alive he’d call it the Cyberfucked.

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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:09:38am

re: #378 gocart mozart

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Slap a roof rack on there. Nice and low, even I would not need a step stool. Carry the wife and kids, as well as the bicycle.

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:10:20am


Elon Musk should look in the mirror if he wants to see a real butcher.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:14:51am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:14:58am

re: #378 gocart mozart

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I’ve never really understood why anyone would want one of these trucks/vehicles with the mini-open bed. Not enough room for a bicycle or to carry a few 2x4s. And open to the elements compared to just having the fully covered back of the comparable SUV (or station wagon if you go far enough back.)

They have also tended to just be ugly looking cars as well in my opinion.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:16:47am

re: #383 Backwoods Sleuth

Do Nothing House has decided to take a few weeks off. I guess some of the committees will still be active, but not doing much useful work either in my estimation.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:17:16am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:20:38am

re: #345 Joe Bacon ✅

Anyone surprised at this?

rawstory.com

Trump team files for mistrial over clerk’s ‘unprecedented role’ in fraud case

Another thought on this

He used the filing to put the clerk’s name and photo in a public document. He isn’t seeking a mistrial. He’s seeking a stochastic assassination.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:20:50am

Not fighting in public is “politically correct”.
Not fighting on the job is “politically correct”.
Not coming to blows over things posted on the Internet is “politically correct”.

Do we see a trend here?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:23:21am

re: #383 Backwoods Sleuth

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Dizzy  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:24:52am
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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:25:25am

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:37:24am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:39:58am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:44:30am

re: #351 Joe Bacon ✅

When there’s something strange
in the voting booths,
Who you gonna call?
Ghost buses!

/

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gocart mozart  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:49:38am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:49:56am

alleged adults:

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:51:17am

re: #367 Joe Bacon ✅

Hmmmmmmmmm…I wonder what he means by that???????

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What a class act…

Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man.

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Dangerman  Nov 15, 2023 • 9:58:44am
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BeachDem  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:00:31am

re: #396 Backwoods Sleuth

alleged adults:

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As Jeff Tiedrich was relaying all the idiotic goings on in Congress, when he asked his spouse which was better, “the House needs a referee” or “the House needs a kindergarten teacher,” thought about it for a moment, and answered “the House needs a nun with a ruler.”

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:01:02am

re: #388 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not fighting in public is “politically correct”.
Not fighting on the job is “politically correct”.
Not coming to blows over things posted on the Internet is “politically correct”.

Do we see a trend here?

Same Conservatives who called black people “violent thugs.”

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piratedan  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:02:53am

re: #351 Joe Bacon ✅

any bets that the transportation referred to by Rep Higgins were arranged by and used by MAGA supporters? Just following along with the GOP honored tradition that every accusation is a confession.

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:12:55am

Mastodon

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:16:12am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:23:40am

re: #401 piratedan

any bets that the transportation referred to by Rep Higgins were arranged by and used by MAGA supporters? Just following along with the GOP honored tradition that every accusation is a confession.

Well we know that Slappy T’s wife and Charlie Jerk chartered a lot of busses for MAGATS to participate in the coup.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:26:23am

re: #403 Thanos

So basically they’ve told the Senate: “Pass our CR or you’ll be screwed.”?

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:28:32am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:30:40am

re: #406 Vicious Babushka

I am not surprised. The IDF said they have been doing this for a long time.

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Teukka  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:32:36am

re: #406 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

“Everyone knows you can’t have metal close to MRI machines, of course it’s fake!”

Click to Reveal

While in reality, the risk of metal decreases rapidly, like 15-20 m away, it’s relatively safe.

Just watch, they’ll try that one.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:34:15am

re: #407 PhillyPretzel ✅

I am not surprised. The IDF said they have been doing this for a long time.

ISISREAL IS DOING ALL TEH WAR CRIMES!!!!11!!! THAY ARE TEH MOAST RASSICT OF ALL TIMJES!!! BIB IS WORSE THEN HITLER, STALIN, MAO, POL POT & GENGISS KAHN!!!1!! BIBI DID 500 HOLOCAYUSTS TO TEH PALESTINIANS!!!! HE IS TEH WURST HUMASN IN HISTORRY!!!!!!11!!! DEATH TO ALL JUICE.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:34:49am

Yeah that would really work in a D-Day scenario you disgusting Putinista!

even though this is a parody we know this asshole would say that.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:35:59am

re: #410 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah that would really work in a D-Day scenario you disgusting Putinista!

[Embedded content]

Is Poe’s Law at work here?

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Belafon  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:36:40am

re: #410 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah that would really work in a D-Day scenario you disgusting Putinista!

[Embedded content]

It says parody at the bottom.

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Teukka  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:37:06am

re: #409 Vicious Babushka

ISISREAL IS DOING ALL TEH WAR CRIMES!!!!11!!! THAY ARE TEH MOAST RASSICT OF ALL TIMJES!!! BIB IS WORSE THEN HITLER, STALIN, MAO, POL POT & GENGISS KAHN!!!1!! BIBI DID 500 HOLOCAYUSTS TO TEH PALESTINIANS!!!! HE IS TEH WURST HUMASN IN HISTORRY!!!!!!11!!! DEATH TO ALL JUICE.

Unironically, even…

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rhuarc  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:37:16am

Nevermind…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:37:47am

re: #410 Joe Bacon ✅

It would be nice if we could revive Eisenhower to spook the heck out of Tuberville. I was going to say something else but I will settle for spooking him.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:39:40am

re: #411 Vicious Babushka

Is Poe’s Law at work here?

When you have to wonder (like I did until I saw Parody), there’s a big, big problem.

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lawhawk  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:40:22am

re: #395 gocart mozart

See and raise on MTG dumbfuckery, courtesy of a hearing with FBI Director Wray (a Trump appointee):

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:41:36am

re: #397 Belafon

Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man.

“born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin’ down Highway 41”

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:43:30am

re: #385 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Do Nothing House has decided to take a few weeks off. I guess some of the committees will still be active, but not doing much useful work either in my estimation.

The moral of this sad tale is that, if you inherently incapable of doing the right thing, or doing anything at all, then don’t even try.

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William Lewis  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:43:57am

re: #410 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah that would really work in a D-Day scenario you disgusting Putinista!

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Saddest part is how believable it is given the fact that the slime ball never served and has no understanding of what it really entails.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:48:43am

re: #420 William Lewis

Maybe he should get a taste of what it is about.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:52:03am

re: #417 lawhawk

See and raise on MTG dumbfuckery, courtesy of a hearing with FBI Director Wray (a Trump appointee):

[Embedded content]

I’d say you’ve got the nuts.

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piratedan  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:52:43am

re: #405 Eclectic Cyborg

my understanding that it was a clean CR sans foreign aid. So small chance of the Senate holding it up

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:54:57am

re: #249 TarHellion

After yesterday’s pitched battle, pleased to return to the Land of Milk and Birbie

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Same here

Click to Reveal

Wordle 879 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:56:02am

Ya think?! NYT with a master of the obvious analysis piece.


bsky.app
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Thanos  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:57:57am

bsky.app

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 15, 2023 • 10:59:49am

re: #426 Thanos

I guess they do not understand what the word compromise means.

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TarHellion  Nov 15, 2023 • 11:02:19am

re: #425 Thanos

Ran next to another story headlined: “Study shows air necessary for humans to breathe”

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Markm1960  Nov 15, 2023 • 11:05:24am

re: #427 PhillyPretzel ✅

I guess they do not understand what the word compromise means.

Sure they do. Compromise to them means that they will allow democrats to vote for the shitty freedom caucus bills with zero input from the dems.

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Jay C  Nov 15, 2023 • 11:12:04am

re: #426 Thanos

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bsky.app

What it sounds like is that the Free Dumb Caucus is royally pissed off; having discovered that they cannot, after all, completely control either the Republican caucus, or the House in general, and, like angry toddlers denied some demand, are going to start yelling and throwing things. I mean, I’m sure they are going to try to dress up their tantrums in high-minded rhetoric about “principles” and all, but it’s still a tantrum.
Quite telling though, that to them, Speaker Johnson’s most-heinous sin appears to be “cooperating with Democrats”, I.e. acknowledging that the Opposition party even exists….

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2023 • 11:27:21am

re: #280 Decatur Deb

Congratulations. You’ve just disrupted a GRU dead drop.

Might have pictures of TFG watching prostitutes peeing on a bed.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2023 • 11:30:12am

re: #292 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

NO NO NO! You’ve piqued our interest. You must have them processed now! Give the clerk the backstory. He or she will likely be curious, too.

I second this

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2023 • 12:32:07pm

re: #399 BeachDem

As Jeff Tiedrich was relaying all the idiotic goings on in Congress, when he asked his spouse which was better, “the House needs a referee” or “the House needs a kindergarten teacher,” thought about it for a moment, and answered “the House needs a nun with a ruler.”

I had one of those in first grade.

Click to Reveal

That’s me, front row 2rd from right.

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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2023 • 12:36:21pm

re: #433 Eventual Carrion

I had one of those in first grade.

[Embedded content]

Dress Up for picture day, or is that everyday wear?

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 15, 2023 • 12:46:33pm

re: #434 wrenchwench

Dress Up for picture day, or is that everyday wear?

Catholic school, everyday wear. Once you moved to the bigger school (at 4th grade) it was school uniforms. Then off to the HS it was ties or a sweater over a collar shirt.

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wrenchwench  Nov 15, 2023 • 12:59:55pm

re: #435 Eventual Carrion

Catholic school, everyday wear. Once you moved to the bigger school (at 4th grade) it was school uniforms. Then off to the HS it was ties or a sweater over a collar shirt.

When I was in public school, it went;

no pants (dresses)
no jeans (nice pants)
no cutoffs
not that short


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