re: #2 Patricia Kayden
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Evangelical Christians: “Nah, fam, that shit’s for the Jews. We live by the New Testament, the Gospel of White American Jesus.”
TFG: “I never even heard of this Hitler guy. Never met him. I think he was a coffee guy or something”
From below:
re: #87 Joe Bacon ✅
No Labels Party Proposes Effort to Swing Election for Preferred Candidate After Voting Ends
In the unlikely event that no candidate reaches 270 electoral votes come November, centrist group No Labels has floated a reality in which the outcome of the election could hinge not on the will of the voters, but rather on which candidate might be more willing to cut a deal with the group. “It’s possible… that there could be negotiation to create a coalition government where electors get traded between different candidates to get somebody over 270,” No Labels chief strategist Ryan Clancy told NBC News. No Labels co-founder and former Rep. Tom Davis elaborated on the idea: “It could be, for example: ‘We’re going to build a border wall [and] not run deficits.’ Any number of things,” he said, adding that the group could “swing faithless electors over” in spite of the will of the voters.
Yeah, let’s repeat the election of 1986, where after month’s of negotiation, 20 EV from Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina were given to Hayes so he beat Tilden by one EV. He became President - the GOP remained in control of the White House. The greatest percentage of Americans in history voted in that election, over 80% for Tilden but they were ignored. The compromise resulted in the end of Reconstruction and the destruction of minority rights in the US for almost a century.
Yeah, let’s do that. Assholes.
re: #9 Patricia Kayden
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I think someone needs to investigate whether these are modern versions of the Brook Brothers rioters. All designed to create a false narrative trhe press runs with.
Watching Dolly Parton’s Magic Mountain Christmas.
As a self taught curmudgeon I am not a fan of Christmas shows, but Dolly and friends’ Christmas celebration is all right with me.
re: #9 Patricia Kayden
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They get their marching orders from the same guy who is committing war crimes and genocide in Ukraine.
Robin Vos Wins Battle Against DEI, Vows To Kill It Outright
Wisconsin continues to battle for Oklahoma to be chosen the Northern Extension of Texas. Or maybe the Northwest Version of Florida. Just what are their heads made of?
re: #12 BeenHereAwhile
Watching Dolly Parton’s Magic Mountain Christmas.
As a self taught curmudgeon I am not a fan of Christmas shows, but Dolly and friends’ Christmas celebration is all right with me.
the Dick Van Dyke tribute show is pretty awesome too.
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
The Jesus of the New Testament was even more CRT-ish.
“Love thy neighbor as thyself”
“It’s easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God”
“Turn the other cheek”
Jesus once told a rich man to sell all he had and give to the poor.
I could go on and on.
re: #12 BeenHereAwhile
Watching Dolly Parton’s Magic Mountain Christmas.
As a self taught curmudgeon I am not a fan of Christmas shows, but Dolly and friends’ Christmas celebration is all right with me.
For all the fakeness in her physical manifestation on stage, she is as real a performer as one could hope for. And here is her Christmas duet from another real performer - Willie Nelson. Both tremendously liberal. And the song is much more melancholy than expected.
re: #16 Patricia Kayden
The Jesus of the New Testament was even more CRT-ish.
“Love thy neighbor as thyself”
“It’s easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God”
“Turn the other cheek”
Jesus once told a rich man to sell all he had and give to the poor.I could go on and on.
It’s almost as if they have not read the Bible. Of course, being a Christian they have all done their own research. So only read the parts they agree with.
re: #17 silverdolphin
For all the fakeness in her physical manifestation on stage, she is as real a performer as one could hope for. And here is her Christmas duet from another real performer - Willie Nelson. Both tremendously liberal. And the song is much more melancholy than expected.
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Q: Dolly, how long does it take to do your hair? “It takes me 4 hours to get made up to go out to check the mail.” Anyone who knows Dolly, knows Dolly is special.
A: I don’t know, I’m never there.
— John Cole (@Johngcole) December 21, 2023
re: #18 silverdolphin
It’s almost as if they have not read the Bible. Of course, being a Christian they have all done their own research. So only read the parts they agree with.
Jesus is the gateway drug, he’s what they use to get you in the door. Tell you about how he loves everybody, he wants everybody to be saved, and he has a place for you in Heaven. That if you’re a “sinner” then he will forgive you and if you engage in “wicked” acts then he will accept you.
Then you get the pew, you put your fiver in the plate, and instead get served a heapin’ helpin’ of Ol’ Fire & Brimstone about how everybody not sitting next to you is a wicked sinning heathen who’s going straight to Hell…unless they join the flock and pay their dues. What’s that? Jesus? Well, he was a swell guy, but he’s in the New Testament and we’re still crawling through the bowels of the Old Testament. You want that feel-good shit, you need to go back to Sunday School.
re: #24 Targetpractice
Jesus is the gateway drug, he’s what they use to get you in the door. Tell you about how he loves everybody, he wants everybody to be saved, and he has a place for you in Heaven. That if you’re a “sinner” then he will forgive you and if you engage in “wicked” acts then he will accept you.
Then you get the pew, you put your fiver in the plate, and instead get served a heapin’ helpin’ of Ol’ Fire & Brimstone about how everybody not sitting next to you is a wicked sinning heathen who’s going straight to Hell…unless they join the flock and pay their dues. What’s that? Jesus? Well, he was a swell guy, but he’s in the New Testament and we’re still crawling through the bowels of the Old Testament. You want that feel-good shit, you need to go back to Sunday School.
And after that comes the Pulpit Pimp reciting Republican Party talking points…stoking the hate in the congregation…feeding endless red meat GOP talking points tested by Frank Luntz…demonizing LGBTQ+, Jews, Muslims, Immigrants, the poor, disabled and the congregation needs more of the hate like junkies addicted to heroin…
The congressman from Tennessee is being quite specific with his hypothetical…
mediaite.com
Jack Smith will let us all know fairly soon https://t.co/hy6FEaci5a
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December 22, 2023
From a CNN article about the Prague shooting:
Jakob Weizman, a Danish student at the Charles University in Prague, was taking an exam on Thursday when he started hearing gunshots and screams.
His first instinct was shock, he said - he never thought a school shooting would happen near him, in Europe.
“I lived in the US for a very long time, if it would happen anywhere, it would have happened in the US,” he told CNN afterward. “Now it’s spreading like a disease to Europe as well.”
He pointed to a recent spate of shootings elsewhere in the continent, saying: “You see this happen in Denmark, Serbia, and now here. This is incredibly frightening, you know?”
Maybe, courtesy of social media and instant communication worldwide, the gun madness here is infecting the rest of the world. Or violence anywhere infects everywhere.
re: #30 Captain Ron
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Scott Perry’s phone has the answer as to whom Trump called in PA to pressure them to overturn the Biden electors and it probably was ol’ Masterbateriano himself!
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
There’s been incidents of mass violence here in Czech Republic before - the most infamous being a vehicle ramming attack by an 18-year-old young woman in 1973 that left eight dead and a dozen more injured, a disco firebombing that killed 32 back in 1993 (that’s still unsolved, BTW), and a couple of mass shooting incidents, including one at a hospital only about five miles from me here in Ostrava.
Violence is rare in Czech Republic - but when it does happen, it tends to be mass violence.
Czech media is noting that of the dead, almost all of them were young women - which makes me wonder if there’s some kind of incel angle at play.
And of course, most people are wondering how the hell did a 24-year-old have the money to purchase what the authorities are describing as “an arsenal” (about a dozen firearms of various calibers)? Now on that count, I’d be willing to wager he likely came from a pretty well-off family, so money might not have been an object, as it would be for your average Pepa Novák.
re: #29 JC1
The congressman from Tennessee is being quite specific with his hypothetical…
mediaite.com
The crux of his entire bit is this part right here:
And they protect it and they protect the people that that do that. And by doing so, you know, the old honey pot — the Russians do that — and I’m sure members of Congress have been caught up. Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we’ve been seeing out of Congress? Here’s how it works. You’re visiting, you’re out of the country or out of town or you’re in a motel or at a bar in DC and, whatever you’re into - women, men, whatever — comes up and they’re very attractive and they’re laughing at your jokes. And you’re buying them a drink. Next thing you know, you’re in the motel room with them naked.
The whole thing’s a long-winded version of the “They must a’ got to him” conspiracy theory. That bit that wingnuts love to hold onto to explain how their worldview can be so at odds with the way things play out, that court cases that don’t go the way they expected them to means that “somebody” must have “got to” the judge or the jury. A bill didn’t pass and their favorite politician(s) voted against it? “Somebody got to them.” So on and so forth, which is how you wind up with elaborate conspiracies about massive shadowy cabals that control everything and why nothing goes the way you expected it to, because they have plans that contradict yours and will expend ginormous resources to achieve them at your expense.
Hence how some horny old goat who chose to exploit the time away from his wife to get his dick wet and tried to hump anything that stayed still long enough like a drunk teen on Spring Break in Cancun magically becomes the helpless victim of a “honey pot” who “just happened” to wind up on camera in bed with a total stranger.
re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter
Typo — 1876
I swear. I had nothing to drink when I wrote that. Man, 1986 is not even close to 1876. Wonder where I pulled that from.
re: #38 wrenchwench
I have never seen this before. Must have been on after my bedtime.
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The original, sung by Lorne Greene, who may be the William Shatner of his generation when it comes to actors kinda singing.
I say that because he sang the theme song to Bonanza on the B-side of this single. You will hear what I mean.
re: #37 Targetpractice
The crux of his entire bit is this part right here:
The whole thing’s a long-winded version of the “They must a’ got to him” conspiracy theory. That bit that wingnuts love to hold onto to explain how their worldview can be so at odds with the way things play out, that court cases that don’t go the way they expected them to means that “somebody” must have “got to” the judge or the jury. A bill didn’t pass and their favorite politician(s) voted against it? “Somebody got to them.” So on and so forth, which is how you wind up with elaborate conspiracies about massive shadowy cabals that control everything and why nothing goes the way you expected it to, because they have plans that contradict yours and will expend ginormous resources to achieve them at your expense.
Hence how some horny old goat who chose to exploit the time away from his wife to get his dick wet and tried to hump anything that stayed still long enough like a drunk teen on Spring Break in Cancun magically becomes the helpless victim of a “honey pot” who “just happened” to wind up on camera in bed with a total stranger.
Though he’s very specific: “conservatives”
re: #41 silverdolphin
The original, sung by Lorne Greene, who may be the William Shatner of his generation when it comes to actors kinda singing.
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Singing is just sustained talking
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So McDaniel was in on it
Chair of one of the two major parties.
Wow.
Overall there’s probably over 150 people directly involved in this that should be prosecuted
re: #42 Dangerman
Though he’s very specific: “conservatives”
He is, but it really reads more like excuse-making. Either because he’s trying to cover for colleagues who have been bucking the party leadership in recent months to avoid walking the plank over some dick pics…or is trying to soften the oncoming blow when those colleagues show up on Epstein’s friend’s list.
What happens when you drive a tractor trailer loaded with LP Gas into a railroad overpass? FIRE!
An 18-wheel tractor-trailer, carrying what officials believe to be compressed gas containers, rammed into the Maple Avenue bridge in Glenville and exploded, releasing a cloud over the suburban community on Thursday night.
The explosion occurred at approximately 6:34 p.m. The driver, identified late Thursday as 60-year-old Sylvester Basil Jr., of Clute, Texas, suffered third-degree burns on his hands and face. He was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center for treatment.
Police said he failed to recognize the height warning signs and struck the bridge while traveling from Pennsylvania to make a delivery to an unknown location approximately an hour north of the Schenectady County town.
“It’s, by far, the worst bridge hit — by far,” Glenville Supervisor Chris Koetzle said. The town has been the location of numerous bridge strikes at multiple overpasses in recent years.
When I used to DJ way back in the early ‘80’s it was kind of the golden age of Disco and funk, there were so many bands and songs, the groups and hits would come in waves and the forgotten & never heard disco hits outnumbered the ones you heard on the radio by at least a thousand times.
There were so many record companies and off brand underground hits that came and went that nobody could track them really. The club I was at subbed to so many disco record services that they were overflowing with vinyl — we used a huge walk in beer cooler that broke down to shelf them, and those shelves overflowed with cuts from groups you’ve never heard of.
Anyway, I used to occasionally challenge myself to put together a set of unknown songs by going in and grabbing disco LP’s at random off the shelves with my eyes closed. There were quite a few discoveries back then, this is one of the few I still remember.
BREAKING: Biden pardons thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in Washington https://t.co/u84BPL9eTk
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 22, 2023
re: #51 lawhawk
BREAKING: Biden pardons thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in Washington
Good, this is fair and just. He will get no credit for it from the people yelling most about it.
re: #9 Patricia Kayden
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re: #11 silverdolphin
I think someone needs to investigate whether these are modern versions of the Brook Brothers rioters. All designed to create a false narrative trhe press runs with.
They aren’t.
Again, like most things it’s of primary importance to remember the nexus to power, and a Democrat is President, so however we feel about the situation it makes perfect logical sense for the people who believe this is tantamount to genocide to protest the office within their own government with the most leverage to actually change the trajectory of the situation. So that’s what they’re doing.
And whatever label you decide to throw at it things are pretty much fucked when over two Hiroshima bombs worth of explosive ordinance have been thrown into a city half the size of Hiroshima and we’re sitting here blaming the protestors for not protesting the out-of-power Republicans who would be supporting Netanyahu and the IDF even harder if they were in charge. They’re pissed off now and it’s irrational to expect them to cater their protests according to some long term strategy to avoid a worse outcome when our electoral politics have already led to the current political center aligning in foreign policy terms with those right wing interests.
And no, it’s not Putin either that’s pulling their strings, that’s a cop out. These protestors have a long held consistent world view that has absolutely fuck all to do with what Putin wants. I admit that they largely are minimizing Hamas’ war crimes but that’s because they’re doing the same zero sum bullshit equation, only simply based on the raw body counts instead of the number of racist bigoted vocal assholes, that Israel’s unquestioning supporters are doing. But that’s because raw body count, genocidal rhetoric and specific atrocities make for good emotional drivers and not because the zero sum is a valid framework for analysis.
So it’s dismissive to pretend their motivations are being fed to them and that they’re just fools being manipulated by some domestic or foreign bogeymen. These protesters may arguably be going about this the wrong way, they may not be treating politics as a chessboard and thinking three moves ahead, but their motivations organically arise from their own internal positions.
re: #51 lawhawk
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That’s a wonderful early Christmas present for those people, and something the other guy would never do. He’d lock them up for life.
re: #52 ericblair
Good, this is fair and just. He will get no credit for it from the people yelling most about it.
This will be spun as though it affects just a fraction of the people incarcerated for marijuana offenses since the overwhelming majority of drug offenses are tried, convicted, and sentenced under state laws.
The message though is that the federal government is moving towards decriminalization.
Now, if Congress and the government would finally reclassify marijuana out of the current schedule, that would be game changing.
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
Same here. Two possible remaining words once I had the center letter and relevant consonant…coin flip and I lost.
Wordle 916 3/6
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re: #55 Nerdy Fish
That’s a wonderful early Christmas present for those people, and something the other guy would never do. He’d lock them up for life.
The other guy wouldn’t do anything unless he thought he could personally and directly benefit - like knowing that all of them would vote for him.
re: #58 lawhawk
The other guy wouldn’t do anything unless he thought he could personally and directly benefit - like knowing that all of them would vote for him.
I was mostly thinking that Republicans consider themselves “tough on crime,” and he himself has been on the record saying that he wants to execute shoplifters.
re: #51 lawhawk
So he pardoned a J6 participant who smoked a joint in the Capitol building? Whoa.
re: #60 darthstar
So he pardoned a J6 participant who smoked a joint in the Capitol building? Whoa.
I suppose that’s just a partial pardon…guy’s still a trespassing traitor.
re: #60 darthstar
Simple possession. If you were convicted of other crimes, those crimes still run. You can’t get pardoned if you were convicted of possessing another controlled substance for instance.
re: #56 lawhawk
HHS has recommended switching marijuana to Schedule 3, but DEA continues to treat it as Schedule 1.
PCE report beats expectations as inflation continues to ease.
I wonder if presidential lifetime immunity applies to offering bribes to government officials to help overthrow an election…silly me, as we’ll soon find out in Michigan, of course it does.
I’m a little excited about this one as Ronna McRomney could be a co-defendant.
re: #65 darthstar
I wonder if presidential lifetime immunity applies to offering bribes to government officials to help overthrow an election…silly me, as we’ll soon find out in Michigan, of course it does.
I’m a little excited about this one as Ronna McRomney could be a co-defendant.
He has even claimed immunity over crimes he committed before he was President, as he’s appealed the findings in the E. Jean Carroll defamation/rape case on the basis of presidential immunity. The guy literally thinks that once you become President, you are immune from all prosecution for the rest of your life.
re: #66 Nerdy Fish
He has even claimed immunity over crimes he committed before he was President, as he’s appealed the findings in the E. Jean Carroll defamation/rape case on the basis of presidential immunity. The guy literally thinks that once you become President, you are immune from all prosecution for the rest of your life.
To be completely accurate, what he is claiming is that he is immune from civil suit for the defamatory statements he made about Carroll while he was President. Trump of course helpfully repeated those defamatory statements recently, allowing her to sue him for defamation again and eliminating any immunity defense he was claiming.
re: #67 No Malarkey!
To be completely accurate, what he is claiming is that he is immune from civil suit for the defamatory statements he made about Carroll while he was President. Trump of course helpfully repeated those defamatory statements recently, allowing her to sue him for defamation again and eliminating any immunity defense he was claiming.
Ah, okay. I thought he was including the rape finding in there, since that occurred well before he was President.
Yeah why would this country want a high speed rail network when our airports look like this? pic.twitter.com/cS6KplbvVB
— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) December 22, 2023
I guess he hasn’t seen Paddington Station in London, or Gare du Nord in Paris, near Christmas, because they’re actually worse. I think passenger train expansion in the US is a great idea, but it’s not a unicorn farting perfume atop a rainbow.
Dude actually picked the worst time to try this argument, because the Eurotunnel workers went on strike yesterday with no warning, which means no Eurostar trains and no car shuttle service. It was a complete zoo, on one of the heaviest travel days of the year and for lots of people with small kids. So thousands of people were stuck overnight with nowhere to go, and unlike airlines, the train companies absolutely will not put you up in a hotel or give you meal vouchers or anything like that.
re: #68 Nerdy Fish
Ah, okay. I thought he was including the rape finding in there, since that occurred well before he was President.
The important thing is that he’s more fucked with every coming day. Michigan isn’t fucking around and they’re already indicting their crop of fake electors. Next will be the people involved in the bribery scheme. No need to wait for superseding federal charges…we already know those take time. But the tape is enough to do a focused prosecution and send a message before November 2024.
re: #68 Nerdy Fish
Ah, okay. I thought he was including the rape finding in there, since that occurred well before he was President.
I don’t know if it is because it is time barred or because of the lack of evidence, but Trump is not being criminally charged for sexually assaulting Carroll.
re: #69 ericblair
I’ve been through Paddington station a number of times…it’s crowded because it sends/receives a shit ton of people, but the tide flows smoothly.
re: #71 No Malarkey!
I don’t know if it is because it is time barred or because of the lack of evidence, but Trump is not being criminally charged for sexually assaulting Carroll.
No, I know. The finding was under New York’s new law, which allows a civil suit for sexual assault and rape for acts that occurred past the statute of limitations, IIRC. I know he complained bitterly about that finding because the jury didn’t find what he did met the criminal definition of rape.
re: #69 ericblair
Having multiple modes of travel, distributes them better. HSR is able to move more people faster in intracity travel, especially between city center to city center. It works quite well in Japan, Europe (excluding current strike), and along the NEC in the US. Penn Station is still a mess, but it’s also the busiest rail station in the US and Western Hemisphere. That’s saying something.
re: #8 Vicious Babushka
TFG: “I never even heard of this Hitler guy. Never met him. I think he was a coffee guy or something”
I didn’t need to read Mein Kampf, I came to the same conclusions independently!!!
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I didn’t need to read Mein Kampf, I came to the same conclusions independently!!!
There’s been times where I’ve thought about reading it, just to say I’ve read it. But then I’m like, do I really want to end up on an FBI watchlist and have that on my search history for the rest of forever, just to satisfy my curiosity?
re: #63 lawhawk
HHS has recommended switching marijuana to Schedule 3, but DEA continues to treat it as Schedule 1.
Great demonstration of how absurd the scheduling system is. Cocaine is schedule 2.
re: #78 Nerdy Fish
There’s been times where I’ve thought about reading it, just to say I’ve read it. But then I’m like, do I really want to end up on an FBI watchlist and have that on my search history for the rest of forever, just to satisfy my curiosity?
It was read by many of the vets I knew from WWII as a “know your enemy” kind of thing.
re: #78 Nerdy Fish
There’s been times where I’ve thought about reading [Mein Kampf], just to say I’ve read it. But then I’m like, do I really want to end up on an FBI watchlist and have that on my search history for the rest of forever, just to satisfy my curiosity?
Israel has even published an annotated version of it. Which is more than Germany has done to date.
Any annotated version should simply show what happened to Germany over the course of WW2 and include Hitler’s last will and testament where he states that the German People deserve to be exterminated because they were unable to fulfill his racial ideology and plans for domination of all Europe.
No need to repost the offending cartoon - that just gives it attention. The Toronto Sun did screw the pooch though by running it (Zelensky with an exaggerated nose picking Biden’s pocket) and have since stopped using the cartoonist.
re: #66 Nerdy Fish
He has even claimed immunity over crimes he committed before he was President, as he’s appealed the findings in the E. Jean Carroll defamation/rape case on the basis of presidential immunity. The guy literally thinks that once you become President, you are immune from all prosecution for the rest of your life.
He doesn’t “think” or believe anything. Certainly not critically thought out or conceived. He doesn’t do analysis or evolution of ideas.
Its a tactic.
He and /or his team dreamed it up
Because they need a tactic to battle the avalanche that’s about to overtake him
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
From a CNN article about the Prague shooting:
Maybe, courtesy of social media and instant communication worldwide, the gun madness here is infecting the rest of the world. Or violence anywhere infects everywhere.
The head of the Charles University’s Musicology Program was killed in the attack. It’s all over She Who Must Be Obeyed’s Blue Sky feed.
RIP, Dr. Lenka Hlavkova.
re: #54 goddamnedfrank
Yes, the bulk* of them are on the traditional left, and many of them are driven by anti-war at any cost passions. Trying to pretend otherwise heading into an election is not the wisest would be my take.
* like any protest movement that draws a crowd there are certain to be a small amount of inorganic shit heel operatives and manipulators among them waiting for opportunities.
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I didn’t need to read Mein Kampf, I came to the same conclusions independently!!!
When I was an undergrad at Pitt (50 years ago…YEESH!) the YMHA had a series “Know The Enemy” film series. They showed Riefenstahl’s movies along with other Nazi films topping the series with Münchhausen the Nazi answer to The Wizard Of Oz. Those films really shocked me. And then they said if you think it can’t happen here they showed the films of the Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden and the MGM films made to attack the 1934 California Democratic Candidate Upton Sinclair. Oh those last 3 anti-Sinclair films were right out of the Riefenstahl playbook!
re: #73 darthstar
I’ve been through Paddington station a number of times…it’s crowded because it sends/receives a shit ton of people, but the tide flows smoothly.
Bears, right?
re: #89 Dangerman
Bears, right?
And those people are generating a lot less CO2 per mile travelled than the folks at any airport
re: #79 JC1
My ADHD meds are scheduled drugs, its a PITA to get a new script every time to fill it.
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I didn’t need to read Mein Kampf, I came to the same conclusions independently!!!
this is kind of the point, and we all know it
there’s absolutely nothing wrong with reading it
- or the little red book
- or the communist manifesto
- or the unibomber’s manifesto
etc
the problem is something else entirely, which i dont think i have to explain
saying you never read it is a ham-handed way of trying to distance yourself from ideas that other people find abhorrent
doesnt help when you spout the same nonsense anyway. you’re just claiming another source
OH LAWDY!
There’s a Second Sex Video featuring Little Miss Mom For Liberty Bridget!
Cops recover second sex video involving scandal-plagued Moms for Liberty leader: report
Police have reportedly recovered a second sex video involving Bridget Ziegler, a leader of the Moms for Liberty group that is dedicated to banning books that purportedly contain sexually explicit content from schools.
The Florida Trident reports that police recovered the video while investigating rape accusations against her husband, Christian Ziegler, who earlier this month was suspended from his role as Florida Republican Party chairman.
Sources tell the Florida Trident that the new video involves the Moms for Liberty leader “engaging in sexual relations with a woman,” although it’s not known at this point whether it’s with the same woman who accused her husband of raping her.
“In response to a specific public record request for that video, the Sarasota Police Department on Thursday asserted the video was exempt from disclosure due to the ongoing criminal investigation,” writes the Trident. “The video, according to sources, was obtained by police after a search warrant was executed on Christian Ziegler’s cell phone and Google account in November to recover evidence in connection with the alleged rape.”
We were told a recession was coming. Now the economy is booming. Another broken Biden promise.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 26, 2023
re: #98 Dangerman
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Rando:
The economy is going to crash!”
Biden & team work their butts off to prevent a crash/collapse. Economy stabilizes, even gets better.
“What a miracle! No idea why it didn’t crash! Let’s elect Trump because Biden isn’t doing anything
re: #97 HRH Stanley Sea
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Though I’m sure that somebody at City Hall is likely to make that the claim that while the Transit cops’ overtime cost an extra $151M, the City collected $152M in fines from the turnstile jumpers, so…PROFIT!
I’m not binge watching GOP sex videos on my vacation…
Anyone here know anything about 3d printers? I have questions.
Creality Ender 3?
Creality Ender 3 V3 SE?
ELEGOO Neptune 4?
It’s for my son’s birthday and my check came in way way way short today so I’m forced to be cheap :(
re: #101 darthstar
I’m not binge watching GOP sex videos on my vacation…
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BTW, is the gaudy salon in the background of that selfie where I think it is (Mierda-Lago)?
re: #101 darthstar
I’m not binge watching GOP sex videos on my vacation…
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I’m going to be honest, I couldn’t care less about the sex lives of politicians. We’ve already established that these kinds of Christians don’t care about hypocrisy, so it doesn’t matter as far as their electability. Aside from cases of rape or other criminal activity, I’m happy to leave them to do whoever they want, however they want. I’d prefer they extend me the same courtesy, but with Republicans, I’m not holding my breath.
Just when you thought it was over: the Nirvana nekkid bebeh album cover suit is back.
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Another victim of yesterday’s shooting rampage in Prague was Lucie Špindlerová, who was a proofreader/editor of Lidové noviny, the oldest Czech daily newspaper still in print and regarded as a newspaper of record.
re: #104 Nerdy Fish
I’m going to be honest, I couldn’t care less about the sex lives of politicians. We’ve already established that these kinds of Christians don’t care about hypocrisy, so it doesn’t matter as far as their electability. Aside from cases of rape or other criminal activity, I’m happy to leave them to do whoever they want, however they want. I’d prefer they extend me the same courtesy, but with Republicans, I’m not holding my breath.
No.
When Mom’s For Liberty openly attack LGBTQ+ people and ban books for what they say is “unchristian content” It IS Fair Game to expose them when they commit the same acts in private that they go out of their way to denounce in public.
I’m thinking of all the LGBTQ+ people these phony-ass Xtians have hurt and those driven to suicide by their Xtian hate.
re: #37 Targetpractice
The crux of his entire bit is this part right here:
The whole thing’s a long-winded version of the “They must a’ got to him” conspiracy theory. That bit that wingnuts love to hold onto to explain how their worldview can be so at odds with the way things play out, that court cases that don’t go the way they expected them to means that “somebody” must have “got to” the judge or the jury. A bill didn’t pass and their favorite politician(s) voted against it? “Somebody got to them.” So on and so forth, which is how you wind up with elaborate conspiracies about massive shadowy cabals that control everything and why nothing goes the way you expected it to, because they have plans that contradict yours and will expend ginormous resources to achieve them at your expense.
Hence how some horny old goat who chose to exploit the time away from his wife to get his dick wet and tried to hump anything that stayed still long enough like a drunk teen on Spring Break in Cancun magically becomes the helpless victim of a “honey pot” who “just happened” to wind up on camera in bed with a total stranger.
Lots of people, including people here, were making those claims about Lindsay Graham, since he turned from being against Trump to singing his praises.
They must have somethingon him.
Naah. He just has to align himself with the strongest personality in the room.
re: #69 ericblair
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I guess he hasn’t seen Paddington Station in London, or Gare du Nord in Paris, near Christmas, because they’re actually worse. I think passenger train expansion in the US is a great idea, but it’s not a unicorn farting perfume atop a rainbow.
Dude actually picked the worst time to try this argument, because the Eurotunnel workers went on strike yesterday with no warning, which means no Eurostar trains and no car shuttle service. It was a complete zoo, on one of the heaviest travel days of the year and for lots of people with small kids. So thousands of people were stuck overnight with nowhere to go, and unlike airlines, the train companies absolutely will not put you up in a hotel or give you meal vouchers or anything like that.
Comparing Europe and North America in terms of rail travel is a bit of a fool’s errand. The distance scales are totally different. And though both have rail networks the European one has stayed focused on passenger service while the North American side has gone over to freight as a priority.*
And with the US population distribution the main place high-speed rail would be economically feasible is the East Coast corridor of large cities. Which is exactly the same place where the infrastructure cost of replacing/upgrading rail and eliminating at-grade crossing issues would be the most expensive. Building high-speed rail to cross the country would be cheaper to do obviously, but I expect is not economically feasible without extensive federal and/or state subsidies, which are not forthcoming. And even with higher speeds air travel will probably be faster, especially for a East Coast to West Coast hop. (A distance that someone in Europe would probably fly as well.)
* - And after barge/ship rail is still the cheapest way to move stuff. A lot goes by truck, but that is often mixed cargo or short haul from a terminal. And the US highway and truck transportation industry got heavily subsidized in its infancy in order to be competitive with rail and develop the necessary infrastructure. Much as rail was heavily subsidized in the 1800s as it replaced canals and developed its infrastructure.
re: #103 Jay C
BTW, is the gaudy salon in the background of that selfie where I think it is (Mierda-Lago)?
Good catch!
High school Satan club opposed in my area.
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re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And those people are generating a lot less CO2 per mile travelled than the folks at any airport
Yes. The argument that “airports are packed, therefore trains” is dumb, though.
One problem in Europe is that trains are often just as expensive if not more expensive than the equivalent flight. One big contributor to this is the fact that commercial aviation fuel is not taxed in Europe. At all. And all the equivalent train services, such as power, rail usage fees, and all that are fully taxable. Way to encourage green travel, guys.
It’s not surprising, but still shocking, that 42% of likely GOP Iowa Caucus goers like Nazi rhetoric. Only 28% said that Trump parroting Hitler made them less likely to vote for him.
re: #109 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’d really like to see some new high speed electric rail subsidies.
re: #107 Joe Bacon ✅
I get where you’re coming from, but it doesn’t do anything. Originally, it was seen as scandalous, and yes, I know the guy got smote in the FL GOP for the rape allegations. But the Christofascists will simply claim that “it’s in the past,” that they’re “covered by the blood,” and that everyone should move on and forget about it because “that’s what Jesus would do.” If exposing them actually had any meaningful consequences for their positions of power - again, excepting the criminal allegations, which are the only thing that seemingly bear fruit - then I’d be far more willing to excoriate these hypocrites for their indulgences.
re: #115 Nerdy Fish
I get where you’re coming from, but it doesn’t do anything. Originally, it was seen as scandalous, and yes, I know the guy got smote in the FL GOP for the rape allegations. But the Christofascists will simply claim that “it’s in the past,” that they’re “covered by the blood,” and that everyone should move on and forget about it because “that’s what Jesus would do.” If exposing them actually had any meaningful consequences for their positions of power - again, excepting the criminal allegations, which are the only thing that seemingly bear fruit - then I’d be far more willing to excoriate these hypocrites for their indulgences.
You know what we should not do here? Give them any kind of pass for excuses we know they’re going to make.
Yes, they’re going to make those statements. We should cut them off and say “You don’t get to make up standards for other people you don’t have to follow.”
re: #114 Randall Gross
I’d really like to see some new high speed electric rail subsidies.
Start with the Boston to D.C. corridor, one part of the country densely populated enough to make high speed rail economically viable.
re: #116 A Cranky One
lol. I would have mine in my lap along with the gloves.
On the wrong side of the 50-50. Par.
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re: #114 Randall Gross
I’d really like to see some new high speed electric rail subsidies.
Might be interesting. But AMTRAK is a typical target of various political forces. And giving money to the Big 4* to develop it is money that is not going to be effectively used for that purpose.
* - NS, CSXT, UP, and BNSF essentially make up the freight moving cartel in the USA. And their behaviors in recent years have been trending towards profit taking over safety. (To wit, the big derailment in Ohio.) And dealing with them in places where you have to use their services is one where you hope they do not want to alter the deal. A long time nickname for the NS has been “Nazi Southern”.
re: #118 No Malarkey!
Start with the Boston to D.C. corridor, one part of the country densely populated enough to make high speed rail economically viable.
Honestly, we need both types: passenger in dense areas as you propose as well as electric transcontinental freight rail. I’d love to see Congress creating some new rights of way for that. Three corridors coast to coast and three Mexico to Canada would be a good start.
Translation of tweet: Ballistics expertise has shown a MATCH of the weapon that was used in Klánovický les with the weapon that was found in the house where the shooter from the university lived.
‼️Mimořádná zpráva ‼️
Balistická expertiza prokázala SHODU zbraně, která byla použita v Klánovickém lese, se zbraní, která byla nalezena v domě, kde bydlel střelec z univerzity. #policiepp #policiepha— Policie ČR (@PolicieCZ) December 22, 2023
So apparently, the perp from yesterday’s massacre in Prague was also responsible for a shooting incident last week in the forest around the small town of Klánovice, in which a 32-year-old man and his two-month-old infant daughter were shot dead in broad daylight while out for a walk in the woods.
As it was suggested by police last night, last week’s Klánovice double homicide was a dress rehearsal for yesterday’s shooting rampage in Prague.
re: #80 jeffreyw
That dish sounds very Caribbean and looks delicious!!! Never had jerked tilapia before.
re: #74 Nerdy Fish
Statute of Limitations ran out
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Might be interesting. But AMTRAK is a typical target of various political forces. And giving money to the Big 4* to develop it is money that is not going to be effectively used for that purpose.
* - NS, CSXT, UP, and BNSF essentially make up the freight moving cartel in the USA. And their behaviors in recent years have been trending towards profit taking over safety. (To wit, the big derailment in Ohio.) And dealing with them in places where you have to use their services is one where you hope they do not want to alter the deal. A long time nickname for the NS has been “Nazi Southern”.
Yes there’s a lot of “rail as we know it” inertia against it, but we really need high speed clean freight and passenger rail badly.
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’d also like to see BNSF out of business since the great bulk of their haulage is coal.
re: #117 Belafon
You know what we should not do here? Give them any kind of pass for excuses we know they’re going to make.
Yes, they’re going to make those statements. We should cut them off and say “You don’t get to make up standards for other people you don’t have to follow.”
Okay. I’ll buy that.
re: #118 No Malarkey!
Start with the Boston to D.C. corridor, one part of the country densely populated enough to make high speed rail economically viable.
Absolutely, but the longstanding problem there is having a right of way that’s straight enough and flat enough and with no grade crossings to run 200+ mph trains. Amtrak priced that out at $150 billion.
re: #132 Dave In Austin
This will dominate the weekend to be sure. How could it not?
I want to hear Batman’s viepoint on this topic
re: #132 Dave In Austin
This will dominate the weekend to be sure. How could it not?
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re: #132 Dave In Austin
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Let it. There’s no upside for Trump on this one.
He smells of Barber Water and Baby Wipes…..
Chicago Sun Times on Ed Burke
chicago.suntimes.com
Live your life so that your obituary is nothing like this.
Whew chile!!! When they are glad you are dead….😒 pic.twitter.com/UBviOV7NB1
— Tee ‘Openly Black’ Gray🐳 (@niknup21) December 22, 2023
re: #125 Patricia Kayden
That dish sounds very Caribbean and looks delicious!!! Never had jerked tilapia before.
Thanks! I wasn’t sure how to describe it, the fillets were dipped in egg/milk, and breaded with jerk seasoning in the dredge. I’ve been a fan of fermented peppers for a while. Those were all peppers from our patio container garden - jalapenos, serranos, and habaneros. The mango sauce was an Oops! addition, I unscrewed the shaker lid on the wee bottle and proceeded to ‘shake’ some around the edge intending a chef’s artistic drizzle LOL
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Might be interesting. But AMTRAK is a typical target of various political forces. And giving money to the Big 4* to develop it is money that is not going to be effectively used for that purpose.
* - NS, CSXT, UP, and BNSF essentially make up the freight moving cartel in the USA. And their behaviors in recent years have been trending towards profit taking over safety. (To wit, the big derailment in Ohio.) And dealing with them in places where you have to use their services is one where you hope they do not want to alter the deal. A long time nickname for the NS has been “Nazi Southern”.
I believe that about 90% (I can’t find the exact number because Google is broken) of all rail use in the USA is freight, and freighters get track priority over passenger trains.
re: #140 No Malarkey!
Live your life so that your obituary is nothing like this.
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re: #143 danarchy
At the end they say they have forgiven her, but I am not really getting that vibe…
“Lernal passed away… and will now face judgment.” Yeah, they say they’ve forgiven her, mostly so they can claim the moral high ground.
Joe Rogan says a comment about revolutionary airports proves that Biden is incompetent, then they make excuses for Trump when they realize he was the one who talked about revolutionary airports.
MUST-WATCH: @joerogan says people regret voting for Biden and labels him mentally incompetent for talking about “airports during the revolutionary war” — then fact-checks himself… and slowly realizes TRUMP SAID IT. Whoopsy!🤦🏻♂️
More: https://t.co/M8jrmunMMC pic.twitter.com/YbyU2W1wWQ— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) December 22, 2023
The Ghost of Christmas Past made a phone call.
Something called the house phone, and I look up on the TV and the caller ID says it’s Nortel Networks, a company that I left in 2008 and has basically not existed since the mid 2010’s.
re: #145 No Malarkey!
Joe Rogan says a comment about revolutionary airports proves that Biden is incompetent, then they make excuses for Trump when they realize he was the one who talked about revolutionary airports.
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re: #131 ericblair
Absolutely, but the longstanding problem there is having a right of way that’s straight enough and flat enough and with no grade crossings to run 200+ mph trains. Amtrak priced that out at $150 billion.
This is one of the reasons it will take Congressional action - new or expanded right of ways need to be created along with incentives to build. Ideally they would make it a major electric intertie, rail right of way, and fiber right of way.
Apple’s latest AI research could completely transform your iPhone
All the pundits who belittled Apple over AI may be eating crow shortly. It appears that Apple is working on being able to do much of the heavy lifting on an iPhone using Apple chips. Avatar generation in 30 minutes using a single lens camera (and they have legs and can dance) would be amazing. I’m also guessing this will also impact the Vision Pro.
The pardon proclamation:
whitehouse.gov
re: #140 No Malarkey!
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Holy shit. May I never do anything in my life to garner a fraction of that wrath. Yikes!
So follow up on the 3D printer thing. He really wanted the ELEGOO Neptune 3 Pro because a friend owns one and he wanted to bootstrap on that. Amazon is sold out though.
Fortunately I found a pre-owned one for sale by the manufacturer on E-Prey at a considerable markdown.
It’ll get here just in time for his birthday in early January.
Sorry for the substack linkage in the skeet below but sometimes that’s the place the story is
re: #157 Randall Gross
One of the quotes from Moynihan’s substack article:
“Folks who participate in Prager U videos are not stickers for academic integrity.”
re: #45 Targetpractice
He is, but it really reads more like excuse-making. Either because he’s trying to cover for colleagues who have been bucking the party leadership in recent months to avoid walking the plank over some dick pics…or is trying to soften the oncoming blow when those colleagues show up on Epstein’s friend’s list.
Epstein is so yesterday. Most of the crazies were elected when Epstein was old news and are not likely to show up on those lists. What specific votes was he complaining about, anyway?
re: #47 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Used a good start word, should have had a beagle.
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re: #158 darthstar
I totally missed the capybara when I looked at the picture. I only saw it after I read the text.
Vacation in 3 hours. I need it badly.
The 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV Left Me Stranded In Rural Virginia
Cars are now moving computer systems. And bad programming will kill a companiy’s reputation.
re: #162 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I totally missed the capybara when I looked at the picture. I only saw it after I read the text.
Vacation in 3 hours. I need it badly.
I’m on vacation as of now. Going to the post office to drop off our passports for renewal (finally) at 10am, then driving over to the Elk’s Lodge to play a quick 9 holes of golf, then up to the French grocer for some fancy-ass appetizers to heat on Xmas, and then to Bitters & Bottles - the greatest store on earth - to spend a shit ton of money on good bourbons, scotches, and tequilas.
Yeah, I’ve got plans, baby.
re: #163 silverdolphin
The 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV Left Me Stranded In Rural Virginia
Cars are now moving computer systems. And bad programming will kill a companiy’s reputation.
You would like to think that if you build the car the same, and out everything on it the same, that they would all behave the same. But we never really got that out of older cars either. Most of the software written just isn’t as fault tolerant as people can be.
My parents had a big van when I was a kid that had cruise control that would add 1 mph over about every 20 miles of driving. We would just adjust it as we drove.
WaPo ping: UN sec council passes resolution for a fighting pause in Gaza. USA abstains.
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
The MAGATs on reading this: See!? Everyone wants to be American!
re: #165 darthstar
I’m on vacation as of now. Going to the post office to drop off our passports for renewal (finally) at 10am, then driving over to the Elk’s Lodge to play a quick 9 holes of golf, then up to the French grocer for some fancy-ass appetizers to heat on Xmas, and then to Bitters & Bottles - the greatest store on earth - to spend a shit ton of money on good bourbons, scotches, and tequilas.
Yeah, I’ve got plans, baby.
One been on a congee kick lately. I’m gonna make some Chinese chicken soup for the soul after this next meeting. That’s my plan for today I’m its entirety.
re: #86 austin_blue
The head of the Charles University’s Musicology Program was killed in the attack. It’s all over She Who Must Be Obeyed’s Blue Sky feed.
RIP, Dr. Lenka Hlavkova.
Still looks as though they don’t have a motive for the rampage, unless it really was just a desire to kill a large number of people.
re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
Still looks as though they don’t have a motive for the rampage, unless it really was just a desire to kill a large number of people.
Apparently, it really was as simple as that. He straight up hated the world, and wanted to spread the misery before he offed himself.
Reposting this because of the awesome sign.
Really looking forward to finding out the videos were filmed at Mar a Lago
re: #174 darthstar
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So what’s the story with Senator Fetterman going all rogue and slighting Biden?
re: #83 darthstar
Yeah, that’s the Sun, all right. Toronto’s premier drug dealer.
re: #168 PhillyPretzel ✅
WaPo ping: UN sec council passes resolution for a fighting pause in Gaza. USA abstains.
At least we didn’t veto.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is the only news item I could find from yahoo via the hill:
thehill.com
re: #180 PhillyPretzel ✅
This is the only news item I could find from yahoo via the hill:
thehill.com
That, and something about some issue with his Israel policy (headlined as “betrayal of progressive” - WTF??):
OK: Here’s the piece: from the NYT…
TBF, it does make him sound like an undiplomatic asshole (no shocker there), but what this has to do with Biden, I dunno….
re: #182 Jay C
Okay, anything to look like Democrats in Disarray and More Bad News for Biden.
re: #182 Jay C
As usual with any NYT article it wants me to sign in. Also the NYT is into bothsiderism so anything that is negative is bad for Joe.
re: #153 Randall Gross
The pardon proclamation:
whitehouse.gov
Joe has established his proclamation on both the Gregorian calendar, and Biden Time.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-second day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.
I caught a segment on TV about gift giving in the US. Early on, Americans didn’t celebrate Christmas, and a lot generally worked on Christmas day, and gifts were given on New Years. It wasn’t until Americans started celebrating Christmas that the gift giving shifted to Christmas day.
Translation of Tweet: One of the victims of the shooting at the Charles University Faculty of Philosophy is Dr. Jan Dlask, an expert on Finnish and Finno-Swedish literature and Swedish….
Sincere condolences
Jednou z obětí střelby na FF UK je i l Jan Dlask, odborník na finskou a finskošvédskou literaturu a švédštinu….
Upřímnou soustrast 🙏 pic.twitter.com/vPUxZjVwOx— petr fischer (@petrfischer3) December 22, 2023
re: #182 Jay C
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote an article on the topic:
inquirer.com
Personally, this is more like “You’re with us or against us, and if you’re not 100% with us you’re against us.” Politics requires compromises.
And as for “but he aligned himself with Bernie!!!!!” remind me how much legislation, progressive or otherwise, that Bernie has introduced and gotten passed.
It is hard to understand when you’re idealistic. I will be thinking of positive reasons to vote for Democrats when I canvass in 2024. It’s important to know where people are and validate their view if you want them to consider changing it.
But sure, let’s sit this one out…arghgggggg. “Earn my vote!”
ignore this post where I hit the button too soon.
I think the UN abstention is a shot across the SS BiBi’s bow. They are trying to thread a needle.
Deep Fried pizza is a real thing…
re: #192 cat-tikvah
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote an article on the topic:
inquirer.comPersonally, this is more like “You’re with us or against us, and if you’re not 100% with us you’re against us.” Politics requires compromises.
And as for “but he aligned himself with Bernie!!!!!” remind me how much legislation, progressive or otherwise, that Bernie has introduced and gotten passed.
It is hard to understand when you’re idealistic. I will be thinking of positive reasons to vote for Democrats when I canvass in 2024. It’s important to know where people are and validate their view if you want them to consider changing it.
But sure, let’s sit this one out…arghgggggg. “Earn my vote!”
My favorite
explanation:
re: #198 BeachDem
It’s a great explanation, which is why people here in Texas go “that’s why I have a car.”
re: #199 Belafon
It’s a great explanation, which is why people here in Texas go “that’s why I have a car.”
Yes, “public transportation” is simply not a concept to a lot of Americans.
re: #192 cat-tikvah
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote an article on the topic:
inquirer.comPersonally, this is more like “You’re with us or against us, and if you’re not 100% with us you’re against us.” Politics requires compromises.
And as for “but he aligned himself with Bernie!!!!!” remind me how much legislation, progressive or otherwise, that Bernie has introduced and gotten passed.
It is hard to understand when you’re idealistic. I will be thinking of positive reasons to vote for Democrats when I canvass in 2024. It’s important to know where people are and validate their view if you want them to consider changing it.
But sure, let’s sit this one out…arghgggggg. “Earn my vote!”
He’s focused on Fetterman as a local guy. On Dec. 6, he focused on women, in Common Dreams. But not on Post-Roe politics. He writes as though the Women’s Movement started and ended with the Pussy March, and he can’t even spell out ‘pussy’. He looks like a Horse Race promoter.
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She [Vicki Miller, the group leader of Indivisible Philadelphia] also believes talking to voters about the things that affect them personally, like reproductive rights or, if done the right way, the economy, is most important — more so than hyping the Trumpian threat to democracy.
Maybe. But with only 11 months to go, this feels like the political crisis of our lifetimes, and I can’t stop wondering if there is more to be done before Election Day. Voter turnout is indeed the most critical, but should there be protests or maybe teach-ins to raise awareness for that true sliver of undecideds?
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Canvassing is more important than reading the opinion of Will Bunch. My hat’s off to you. Two scraps of paper just fell out of my hat. One says, ‘climate change’ and the other says ‘women’s autonomy’.