A Stunning Performance in Paris: Roni Kaspi, “Feels”

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Roni Kaspi is another one of the young breed of players who seem to have been born with all the talents of their ancestors but are taking music (jazz, pop, whatever) to its next logical step. She is a manic pixie jazz monster.

A seulement 23 ans, elle est l’une des batteuses les plus en vue du moment !

Vous l’avez probablement découverte sur « Shifting Sands » le dernier album d’Avishai Cohen, entendue aux côtés de Jesus Molina, Miguel Zenon ou peut-être aperçue sur les réseaux sociaux en train de réharmoniser des tubes de Britney Spears… Roni Kaspi, cette jeune musicienne originaire de Tel Aviv synthétise à merveille cette nouvelle génération et l’esprit de cette émission où cohabitent Tony Williams, Louis Cole et James Blake. De passage à Paris pour l’enregistrement de son premier album, elle s’installe dans notre studio en compagnie du pianiste Auxane Cartigny et du bassiste Noé Berne.

L’émission en podcast : bit.ly

Google translation:

At only 23 years old, she is one of the most prominent drummers of the moment!

You probably discovered her on “Shifting Sands” the latest album by Avishai Cohen, heard alongside Jesus Molina, Miguel Zenon or perhaps seen on social networks reharmonizing hits by Britney Spears… Roni Kaspi, this young musician from Tel Aviv wonderfully synthesizes this new generation and the spirit of this show where Tony Williams, Louis Cole and James Blake coexist. While in Paris for the recording of her first album, she settled into our studio with pianist Auxane Cartigny and bassist Noé Berne.

The podcast show: bit.ly

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:30:30pm

Another astounding jam.

Jesús Molina - Night In Tunisia

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:31:07pm

The bass player looks like he’s hanging onto a speeding train for dear life.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:33:35pm

Her playing reminds me of Steve Gadd with Chick Corea.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:34:17pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

The bass player looks like he’s hanging onto a speeding train for dear life.

Hey, I’ve been there too!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:35:03pm

Gee who wouldn’t want to play a 1/6 Storm The Capitol Board Game?

newsweek.com

Come one insurrectionist, come all… for a rootin’-tootin’ time to play “Stop the Steal” the board game.

On the three-year anniversary of Jan. 6, a game titled “Storm the Capitol” will debut to give competitors a chance to prevent President-Elect Joe Biden from a peaceful transfer of power, first reported by Newsweek.

For a price point of $64.99, buyers can “relive one of the funniest days in American history” and replay the infamous events where five people lost their lives.

Players can either pretend to be Patriots or suit up in riot gear as Capitol Police.

“Storm the Capitol is the world’s first board game based around the events of January 6, 2021,” reads the description on the game’s website. “Take control of one of 6 Patriots as you battle through the Capitol, collecting ballots, taking hostages, and fighting the police.”

“Or play as the Capitol Police and use every means at your disposal to prevent the Patriots from getting to the roof with enough ballots to Stop the Steal.”

Invented by the makers of TrueAnon, a political podcast hosted by Brace Belden and Liz Franczak and produced by Yung Chomsky, it is intended for four to seven players at once who should be adult age with the line: “Definitely 18 years and up.”

According to Newsweek, the show notched the ninth-ranked podcast on Patreon.

“This game is for every single person in America, on every single side of every single political issue,” Belden said, according to the outlet.

The strategy if you’re going to be a Patriot is to breach the Capitol Building and roam room to room while being dealt various “event” cards.

The outlet suggests the aim is to collect 100 ballots and make it to the final room, where former President Donald Trump is waiting in a chopper and together they flip the results or “or ratify the real results of the 2020 election” to gain the ultimate victory, Newsweek reported.

newsweek.com

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:40:00pm

Roni Kaspi is a manic pixie jazz monster if i’ve ever seen one

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:41:41pm

Jesús Molina - Night In Tunisia

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:42:23pm

No, not that one again. This one.

Roni Kaspi - ‘Why Does’ (Official Video)

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silverdolphin  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:49:44pm

Whom Americans think Biden and Trump favor in the Russia-Ukraine and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts

What is fascinating about this poll is that the people’s views on Ukraine, Russia, Israel and Ukraine almost exactly match how they think Biden favors each. This demonstrates what I have always said is Biden’s superpower - he knows where the people are.

Look at how many people support Palestine - 12%. And how many people think Biden favors Palestine - 12%. 38% of American favor Israel. 34% think that Biden supports Israel.

So, no matter how the Amerrican people feel about these 4 countries, they appear to think that Biden feels the same way.

Trump is way off. Everyone believes that he supports Russia and cares nothong about Palestine. The only ones who think the same are Republicans.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:54:29pm

Wow!

Birthers are now going after Haley!

Just waiting for Orly Taitz to resurface!

False claims question Haley’s eligibility to serve as US president

CLAIM: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is ineligible to be president because her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Haley is a natural-born U.S. citizen who is eligible to serve as president. The former ambassador to the United Nations was born on Jan. 20, 1972, in Bamberg, South Carolina, according to information on her official website when she was governor of the state.

THE FACTS: With the Iowa caucuses just two weeks away, some on social media are erroneously claiming that Haley, who served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, cannot legally hold the country’s highest office.

“Nikki Haley is Constitutionally ineligible to be President….or Vice President,” reads one post on X, formerly Twitter, that had received approximately 6,900 likes and shares as of Tuesday. The post links to an article that argues Haley is ineligible because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born.

apnews.com

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:55:43pm

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:56:12pm

Turned on MSNBC.

Horse race politics.

Nope.

[ click ]

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:59:52pm

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

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Interesting scam, a lot like Chuck C. Johnson’s Wesearchr Nazi-funding site. Substack is Wesearchr somewhat sanitized, and scaled up to monetize.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:01:24pm

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

Rufo will stop at nothing to burn down the country to establish his Anarcho-Captialist wet dream.

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IngisKahn  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:17:01pm

Yikes, I just read the update on the plane fire.

cnn.com

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:23:31pm

re: #15 IngisKahn

Yikes, I just read the update on the fire.

cnn.com

I saw another minor detail that the Coast Guard plane had been told to hold short by the ATC. It’s looking more like the Coast Guard plane was out of position - perhaps not familiar with the airport or their location within it - and the big heavy had no way of knowing what was about to unfold.

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:27:58pm

re: #16 Nerdy Fish

I saw another minor detail that the Coast Guard plane had been told to hold short by the ATC. It’s looking more like the Coast Guard plane was out of position - perhaps not familiar with the airport or their location within it - and the big heavy had no way of knowing what was about to unfold.

They paid for that mistake. :(

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:32:27pm

He’s celebrating a court win…

A U.S. district court judge on Tuesday dismissed most of the civil counts against former President Donald Trump and several others for their alleged role in the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died while defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Sicknick’s parter, Sandra Garaza, filed the lawsuit last January, alleging wrongful death, conspiracy to violate civil rights, two counts of negligence under an anti-riot law in Washington, D.C., and a claim under the D.C. Survival Act.

But on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, dismissed three out of the five counts—leaving only the conspiracy to violate civil rights charge and the D.C. Survival Act claim.

The move is likely a win for Trump and his fellow defendants, though the lawsuit will still move forward with the core allegations on which it was filed.

thedailybeast.com

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:41:11pm

re: #18 Joe Bacon ✅

Let them have that one. They can’t win them all.

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silverdolphin  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:46:53pm

Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules

Yep, the crazy 5th says that the abortion laws means women must die in Texas emergency rooms. This is what the GOP wants.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:49:19pm

re: #20 silverdolphin

Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules

Yep, the crazy 5th says that the abortion laws means women must die in Texas emergency rooms. This is what the GOP wants.

And that decision was from a Trump appointee who belongs to that fine outstanding Xtian organization The Federalist Society.

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teleskiguy  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:49:43pm

re: #20 silverdolphin

This is insane. And it’s only going to get more insane. The insanity quotient is exponentially rising.

Ugh.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:51:36pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

This is insane. And it’s only going to get more insane. The insanity quotient is exponentially rising.

Ugh.

Christians are getting to the point where they’re going to be out in the streets shooting people who don’t act sufficiently pious. Under His eye.

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cat-tikvah  Jan 2, 2024 • 6:52:12pm

re: #20 silverdolphin

Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules

Yep, the crazy 5th says that the abortion laws means women must die in Texas emergency rooms. This is what the GOP wants.

EMTALA (enacted by Saint Ronny Reagan) begs to differ.
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:02:24pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

Christians are getting to the point where they’re going to be out in the streets shooting people who don’t act sufficiently pious. Under His eye.

Just spreading that very special Xtian love the only way they know how…

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teleskiguy  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:05:05pm

For the first time since my arrest for DUI in October 2019 my car insurance bill is billed at normal people driving. It’s way less than my cell phone bill, yesterday it used to be more.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:09:25pm

re: #20 silverdolphin

Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules

Yep, the crazy 5th says that the abortion laws means women must die in Texas emergency rooms. This is what the GOP wants.

Imagine how much you have to hate people to do something like this.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:09:35pm

re: #20 silverdolphin

Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules

Yep, the crazy 5th says that the abortion laws means women must die in Texas emergency rooms. This is what the GOP wants.

I had a miscarriage in 1980. I was hemorrhaging badly and went to the ER. I had to wait for over an hour and during that time the chair I was sitting on was soaked in blood. When I was finally called to triage they saw the puddle on the chair and took me in right away for an emergency D&C. If I did not have that procedure I would not be sitting here right now.

This is going to happen to a woman in Texas and she will bleed to death.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:10:56pm

re: #28 Vicious Babushka

And they’ll be like, “She deserved to die, for the righteousness of our cause.” It’s religious zealotry of the worst kind. I’m going to use a phrase that might go to some dark places, but dare I say: It’s not a culture war, it’s a cultural Crusade. These people are literal fucking Crusaders.

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:17:23pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

And they’ll be like, “She deserved to die, for the righteousness of our cause.” It’s religious zealotry of the worst kind. I’m going to use a phrase that might go to some dark places, but dare I say: It’s not a culture war, it’s a cultural Crusade. These people are literal fucking Crusaders.

It will happen to the child of someone who wasn’t otherwise paying attention, and then a lot of people will finally pay attention. It won’t happen to a rich person’s daughter because money can find a doctor who will do it.

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silverdolphin  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:18:52pm

re: #28 Vicious Babushka

I had a miscarriage in 1980. I was hemorrhaging badly and went to the ER. I had to wait for over an hour and during that time the chair I was sitting on was soaked in blood. When I was finally called to triage they saw the puddle on the chair and took me in right away for an emergency D&C. If I did not have that procedure I would not be sitting here right now.

This is going to happen to a woman in Texas and she will bleed to death.

I am so glad you were able to get the medical care you needed. I am so worried that what you predict will happen. We need to do all we can to vote out every single Republican and return choice back to Americans. Enough people have already died unnecessarily in this battle (ie COVID). We have to fight to make sure that as few as possible die in the future.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:19:47pm

re: #30 Belafon

It will happen to the child of someone who wasn’t otherwise paying attention, and then a lot of people will finally pay attention. It won’t happen to a rich person’s daughter because money can find a doctor who will do it.

This White Christian Woman Staunchly Opposed Abortion. Then Her Daughter Died Needing One. By Maggie Haberman

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:20:56pm

A few of my RW acquaintances (even people I thought would know better) are going all in on:

OMG TAYLOR SWIFT IS TEH DEVIL!

It may be time to sever some relationships.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:22:40pm

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

A few of my RW acquaintances (even people I thought knew better) are going all in on:

OMG TAYLOR SWIFT IS TEH DEVIL!

It may be time to sever some relationships.

Taylor Swift has been “the devil” ever since she first danced onto a stage wearing those little outfits and that outrageously flirty makeup. The politics are just the latest ruse.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:27:17pm

Mastodon

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aatharuv  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:30:37pm

re: #30 Belafon

It will happen to the child of someone who wasn’t otherwise paying attention, and then a lot of people will finally pay attention. It won’t happen to a rich person’s daughter because money can find a doctor who will do it.

re: #32 Nerdy Fish

This White Christian Woman Staunchly Opposed Abortion. Then Her Daughter Died Needing One. By Maggie Haberman

The Irish people seemed to be horrified enough by the death of a Brown woman due to her lack of ability to have an abortion to actually allow abortions.

However, the plague of mass shootings has had very little impact in getting real gun control legislation in the more than 25 years since Columbine, so I’m pessimistic as to whether one death is enough to tip the scale for abortion rights in this country.

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silverdolphin  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:31:08pm

re: #34 Nerdy Fish

Taylor Swift has been “the devil” ever since she first danced onto a stage wearing those little outfits and that outrageously flirty makeup. The politics are just the latest ruse.

In 2015, I came to really appreciate what a badass Swift is. Up til then, she had never shown her belly button, wearing outfits that covered up her midriff. Then in 2015, she all of a sudden appeared in outfits showing her belly button. Why?

On vacation, she had seen that paparazzi with long telephotos had take pictures of her in her bikini, showing the belly button. She was pissed that they invaded her privacy and did not want them to profit off of doing that by selling the pictures.

So she gave several magazines free interviews, telling them she was dropping the no-belly button rule, appearing in outfits showing her belly button, meaning that the pictures taken at her vacation were worthless.

Very smart. No wonder the GOP is afraid of her.

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aatharuv  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:33:49pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

And they’ll be like, “She deserved to die, for the righteousness of our cause.” It’s religious zealotry of the worst kind. I’m going to use a phrase that might go to some dark places, but dare I say: It’s not a culture war, it’s a cultural Crusade. These people are literal fucking Crusaders.

This really reminds me of the (I believe JW) pamphlets where they celebrate the children who die rather than accept blood transfusions.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:33:49pm

re: #36 aatharuv

Irish Catholics have a conscience and emotions. American Evangelicals have neither.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:35:29pm

re: #39 Nerdy Fish

Irish Catholics have a conscience and emotions. American Evangelicals have neither.

But then there are others like Martin Mullen who endlessly pushed abortion bans in the PA legislature back in the 70s.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:36:03pm

re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

Wow!

Birthers are now going after Haley!

Just waiting for Orly Taitz to resurface!

False claims question Haley’s eligibility to serve as US president

CLAIM: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is ineligible to be president because her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Haley is a natural-born U.S. citizen who is eligible to serve as president. The former ambassador to the United Nations was born on Jan. 20, 1972, in Bamberg, South Carolina, according to information on her official website when she was governor of the state.

THE FACTS: With the Iowa caucuses just two weeks away, some on social media are erroneously claiming that Haley, who served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, cannot legally hold the country’s highest office.

“Nikki Haley is Constitutionally ineligible to be President….or Vice President,” reads one post on X, formerly Twitter, that had received approximately 6,900 likes and shares as of Tuesday. The post links to an article that argues Haley is ineligible because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born.

apnews.com

This is the argument John Eastman used against Kamala in his disgraceful article in Newsweek during the summer of 2020. These people are trying to eliminate birthright citizenship and, with this despicable SCOTUS, anything is possible.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:36:30pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:48:48pm

I guess they couldn’t get a Ouija board working.

Jesse Watters had a tarot reader give Trump predictions on his program tonight…

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:51:08pm

re: #36 aatharuv

The Irish people seemed to be horrified enough by the death of a Brown woman due to her lack of ability to have an abortion to actually allow abortions.

However, the plague of mass shootings has had very little impact in getting real gun control legislation in the more than 25 years since Columbine, so I’m pessimistic as to whether one death is enough to tip the scale for abortion rights in this country.

Maybe the death of a wife or daughter of a high profile Republican might change someone’s mind — except they will always be able to secure a safe abortion. Savita Halappanavar died because it was too dangerous to transport her to the UK where such procedures were legal. But the wealthy and the powerful always avoid the consequences of the rules they implement to harm the rest of us.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:51:22pm

re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

Good. Don’t vote for her then. President Biden beat Trump before and can beat him again.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:53:28pm

re: #44 Hecuba’s daughter

Maybe the death of a wife or daughter of a high profile Republican might change someone’s mind — except they will always be able to secure a safe abortion. Savita Halappanavar died because it was too dangerous to transport her to the UK where such procedures were legal. But the wealthy and the powerful always avoid the consequences of the rules they implement to harm the rest of us.

Didn’t Mitt Romney have a close relative who died from a “back-alley” abortion?

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:54:38pm
EMTALA
Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules

cms gov medicare/regulations-guidance
(Page Last Modified: 09/06/2023 04:51 PM)

Pursuant to the preliminary injunction in Texas v. Becerra, No. 5:22-CV-185-H (N.D. Tex.), HHS may not enforce the following interpretations contained in the July 11, 2022, CMS guidance (and the corresponding letter sent the same day by HHS Secretary Becerra):

(1) HHS may not enforce the Guidance and Letter’s interpretation that Texas abortion laws are preempted by EMTALA; and

(2) HHS may not enforce the Guidance and Letter’s interpretation of EMTALA—both as to when an abortion is required and EMTALA’s effect on state laws governing abortion—within the State of Texas or against the members of the American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) and the Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA).

cms.gov

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:54:53pm

I’m guessing there are at least two to three Swifties for every MAGAt.

The nutcases aren’t gonna win this one.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:55:38pm

re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg

A few of my RW acquaintances (even people I thought would know better) are going all in on:

OMG TAYLOR SWIFT IS TEH DEVIL!

It may be time to sever some relationships.

I don’t think Swift cares. I’m hoping that her advocacy will result in millions of young people getting politically active and voting for Democrats . I know none of her songs but love her for being outspoken and influential in a good way.

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:55:43pm

re: #39 Nerdy Fish

Irish Catholics have a conscience and emotions. American Evangelicals have neither.

The Roman church still preaches social justice and many of the faithful still believe it. That swayed them in in Ireland much to the shock of the anti-abortion hardliners but not to those like the current pope who don’t consider it as critical a teaching.

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:56:10pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

I guess they couldn’t get a Ouija board working.

Jesse Watters had a tarot reader give Trump predictions on his program tonight…

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All Kissinger would reply on the Oujia board was “hot in hell.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 7:59:17pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

I guess they couldn’t get a Ouija board working.

Jesse Watters had a tarot reader give Trump predictions on his program tonight…

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I had to pull this from my saved stack…

23 cuckoo bird calls in 50 seconds - Cuckoo Clock ‘Coo Coo” Compilation

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sagehen  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:01:20pm

re: #49 Patricia Kayden

I don’t think Swift cares. I’m hoping that her advocacy will result in millions of young people getting politically active and voting for Democrats . I know none of her songs but love her for being outspoken and influential in a good way.

Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:02:40pm

re: #37 silverdolphin

In 2015, I came to really appreciate what a badass Swift is. Up til then, she had never shown her belly button, wearing outfits that covered up her midriff. Then in 2015, she all of a sudden appeared in outfits showing her belly button. Why?

On vacation, she had seen that paparazzi with long telephotos had take pictures of her in her bikini, showing the belly button. She was pissed that they invaded her privacy and did not want them to profit off of doing that by selling the pictures.

So she gave several magazines free interviews, telling them she was dropping the no-belly button rule, appearing in outfits showing her belly button, meaning that the pictures taken at her vacation were worthless.

Very smart. No wonder the GOP is afraid of her.

Tsylor Swift is wicked intelligent, and gets the show.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:03:24pm

re: #51 Belafon

All Kissinger would reply on the Oujia board was “hot in hell.”

Oh now I got to pull the TMW cartoon of Kissy In Hell!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:11:10pm

Right now I need a maximum dose of Marxism…from all 4 Brothers…

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:17:40pm

re: #46 Vicious Babushka

Didn’t Mitt Romney have a close relative who died from a “back-alley” abortion?

Ann Keenan. That was in 1963 before it was possible to get a legal abortion in this nation. There weren’t many options even for those with financial resources.

One prominent case was that of Sherri Finkbine who had taken thalidomide during her pregnancy before knowing the damaging effects it would have on a fetus. She had to travel to Sweden to get an abortion in 1962.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:20:39pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

Kill them all. God shall know his own.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:22:26pm

re: #50 William Lewis

The Roman church still preaches social justice and many of the faithful still believe it. That swayed them in in Ireland much to the shock of the anti-abortion hardliners but not to those like the current pope who don’t consider it as critical a teaching.

Maybe elsewhere, but how many American Catholics adhere to those beliefs? A vast majority of religious white Catholics voted for Trump in 2020. According to a Pew poll, it was 63%.

ETA: Among all white Catholics it was 57%.

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 8:52:38pm

re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter

Maybe elsewhere, but how many American Catholics adhere to those beliefs? A vast majority of religious white Catholics voted for Trump in 2020. According to a Pew poll, it was 63%.

ETA: Among all white Catholics it was 57%.

I don’t consider anyone who votes for Trump to be faithful. YMMV.

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mmmirele  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:03:16pm

re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg

Imagine how much you have to hate people to do something like this.

Women. Hate *women*.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:03:29pm

I’m not sure whether my wife counts as lapsed-Catholic or ex-Catholic, but she was educated in Catholic schools and got her undergraduate degree from a certain conservative Catholic university outside Dallas that produced James Eastman a few years earlier (and Brent Bozell years before that). Young secular protestant-raised atheist me got the hell out of that place as quick as I could. She stayed for the entire four years.

She was liberal with a strong social justice bent and emphasis on individual conscience. In the late eighties/early nineties, her abortion position was that, although she could not see herself seeking one for herself, abortion had to be kept a legal option for women in general. She thinks that St. Paul and the Church hierarchy are particularly messed up and wrong on matters of sex and sexuality.

Although she will attend funeral masses for dead relatives, she hasn’t taken Communion since the early nineties. She’s shaped by Catholicism, but in a way that paleo-Catholics and trad-Caths wouldn’t appreciate, and doesn’t buy into the theology.

She thinks that pre-Vatican II Catholicism did a particularly nasty job screwing up her late mother and her mother’s family, so we keep a wary distance from the more conservative members of her mother’s family.

She also refuses on principle to donate to her undergraduate institution’s alumni fund.

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mmmirele  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:06:27pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

And they’ll be like, “She deserved to die, for the righteousness of our cause.” It’s religious zealotry of the worst kind. I’m going to use a phrase that might go to some dark places, but dare I say: It’s not a culture war, it’s a cultural Crusade. These people are literal fucking Crusaders.

Thing is, these people are just not radical enough, at least according to the abolitionists, who want to ban all abortions. ALL ABORTIONS. They do not want the abortion procedure to be available for any pregnancy. Oh, and they want to execute any woman who obtains an abortion. So this bunch is even more nasty than just your average anti-abortion fanatic, who might have some small exceptions for abortion and certainly doesn’t want to execute any women, but has no problem with doctors, assistants, etc.

They’re all a sick, sick, savage bunch.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:06:37pm

re: #60 William Lewis

I don’t consider anyone who votes for Trump to be faithful. YMMV.

The term Pew used was “religious” — based on on frequently they attend services. How do you define religious? Father Coughlin was a devout priest who spread anti-Semitism and evil. Pat Buchanan was a devout Catholic. We always want to think that those who are serious about their religious faith somehow have been inspired to be better people but I don’t think that our lived experience and human history supports that in general.

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mmmirele  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:10:05pm

re: #38 aatharuv

This really reminds me of the (I believe JW) pamphlets where they celebrate the children who die rather than accept blood transfusions.

I know that at least here in the USA, unless the child is very close to legal age and can express his/her (deluded) intentions to a judge, that child is getting a blood transfusion, parents or no. The dodge that hospitals, parents and the JW leadership have tacitly agreed upon is that the hospital gets a court order and takes custody of the child to give the blood transfusion. Parents and the JW leadership may protest, but they let it happen, because bringing a GREAT DEAL of attention to the situation will remind people that Jehovah’s Witnesses will kill children with their harebrained beliefs on blood transfusion.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:31:14pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

Yes, too often a pweson’s faith becomes an excuse to be a dick to other human beings rather than a guideline to being a better person.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:39:39pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

The term Pew used was “religious” — based on on frequently they attend services. How do you define religious? Father Coughlin was a devout priest who spread anti-Semitism and evil. Pat Buchanan was a devout Catholic. We always want to think that those who are serious about their religious faith somehow have been inspired to be better people but I don’t think that our lived experience and human history supports that in general.

Don’t forget the most vile Catholic—William F Buckley Jr.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:45:52pm

re: #61 mmmirele

Women. Hate *women*.

I still SMDH seeing how my sisters, nieces and grandnieces are all rabid anti-abortion. My oldest sister would have died if she had not gotten a late-term abortion because the fetus had died. Yet that turned her into a vicious opponent of abortion to the point she engaged in harassment of doctors and clinic workers. The older she got the more rabid she became.

My nutso aunt also picketed clinics and engaged in blocking access to clinics.

All of them are radical right wing Xtians that absolutely turned me against even setting foot in a church.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 2, 2024 • 9:59:58pm

So the stupid XL Bully law in the UK just went into effect and I’m so sad. It’s such bullshit. Y’all can google it.

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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 10:17:41pm

Sometimes it’s fun to come in late in the evening and scroll up and read comments and replies out of context.

Oh, and I just saw that Ramaswamy isn’t skipping the last debate…he didn’t qualify.

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Captain Ron  Jan 2, 2024 • 10:38:04pm
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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 10:40:54pm

re: #71 Captain Ron

For those of us who can’t/won’t follow on Xhitter?

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sagehen  Jan 2, 2024 • 10:49:27pm

re: #72 William Lewis

“Every Ukrainian downing of Russian hypersonic Kh-47M2 Kinzhal with the Patriot missiles will improve the Patriot missile intercept algorithm - and increase accuracy for all Patriot systems, a benefit for the US, the rest of NATO, and other Patriot AD users. The same goes for any RUS aircraft that is shot down. Data quality is high because it is live tested; it is not a desk job or theoretical calculation; this is data from a successful intercept. The value of the data is really high as it can kick the success rate in the long run from, let’s say, 85 % to 99 % against a type of target, so if RUS in a continued war launches 20 low-yield tactical nukes using 47M2 Kinzhal against NATO targets, with improved data likely no missile makes it to target. If the data had been unimproved - 3 would have made it through AD and detonated. Therefore, providing UKR with Patriot missiles is an investment in any provider’s defense and gives high defense ROI as the improved algorithm upgrades its existing systems.”

IOW, us sending them Patriots to use is really them doing us a big favor.

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 10:51:24pm

re: #73 sagehen

IOW, us sending them Patriots to use is really them doing us a big favor.

Thank you, yes, I agree, that data is priceless and will save enormous numbers of lives in the future.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 2, 2024 • 11:52:40pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

We always want to think that those who are serious about their religious faith somehow have been inspired to be better people but I don’t think that our lived experience and human history supports that in general.

This is one of those preconceived notions that the pseudoreligious play off when they seek special legal and judicial favors and status. Then they whine that it does not apply to other “cults” or to Satanism or Islam.

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TarHellion  Jan 3, 2024 • 2:35:56am

Blind squirrel finds birbie every now and then.

Dose of back to reality at the office yesterday. Powering through semi-annual and annual reports, along with some grant apps. And hoping to at least see a snowflake or two before it changes to rain this weekend.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 928 3/6*

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2024 • 3:16:24am

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silverdolphin  Jan 3, 2024 • 3:22:52am

Apple Vision Pro imminent, with launch rumored at end of January

I do not usually buy 1.0 versions of anything but I will do my damnedest to grab one of these babies. I’ve been saving up Apple Cash for just such a purchase.

And I believe that the date is imminent because I have seen a ton of Meta ads on youtube since CHristmas. They seem to think that they might have some competition soon.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 3:29:04am

re: #78 silverdolphin

Apple Vision Pro imminent, with launch rumored at end of January

I do not usually buy 1.0 versions of anything but I will do my damnedest to grab one of these babies. I’ve been saving up Apple Cash for just such a purchase.

And I believe that the date is imminent because I have seen a ton of Meta ads on youtube since CHristmas. They seem to think that they might have some competition soon.

Vision? I’d rather get & view the world 12 squares at a time through this…

Sigh. If it’s still there on 1/19, my wallet might well be in trouble…

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2024 • 3:57:28am

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 3, 2024 • 4:00:57am

Sitting here trying to think of words that fit, and suddenly it comes to me.

Click to Reveal

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ericblair  Jan 3, 2024 • 4:10:35am

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

The term Pew used was “religious” — based on on frequently they attend services. How do you define religious? Father Coughlin was a devout priest who spread anti-Semitism and evil. Pat Buchanan was a devout Catholic. We always want to think that those who are serious about their religious faith somehow have been inspired to be better people but I don’t think that our lived experience and human history supports that in general.

I always thought of religion as a personality amplifier. If you are a good person, you will find a framework to help you do good in the world. If you are a greedy control freak, you will find a preapproved structure and justifications to literally lord over others and take everything they have.

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Randall Gross  Jan 3, 2024 • 4:11:59am

Rescue efforts still underway
Japan Earthquake Death Count Rises To 62, Officials Warn Of More Quakes

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 4:26:03am

And there are levels of religion.

First of all the cultural aspect: I consider myself culturally Christian because that reflects my upbringing and the morals I have learned and adapted. I observe Christian holidays and accept the role that Christianity played in our history and culture.

Then there are the true believers who observe the rules more closely but not strictly and would never seek to force them on others.

Then there are those who feel they must strictly obey all religious decrees and doctrines and that laws should be created to aid in enforcing them even among non-believers.

And then the there are the radical fundamentalists who seek to eradicate non-believers and/or make it impossible for them not to believe.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 3, 2024 • 4:45:37am

Meanwhile, in Iran…

Two explosions killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens near a cemetery in Iran where a ceremony was being held to mark the 2020 death of the country’s top commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone attack, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday.

Iranian state television reported a first and then a second explosion during the ceremony in the southeastern city of Kerman, saying at least 20 people had been killed.

The semi-official Nournews said “several gas canisters exploded on the road leading to the cemetery”. A local official was quoted by Iranian state media as saying “it is not yet clear whether the explosions were caused by gas cylinders or a terrorist attack”.

State TV showed Red Crescent rescuers attending to wounded people at the ceremony, where hundreds of Iranians had gathered to mark the anniversary of Soleimani’s death. Some Iranian news agencies said at least 50 people were wounded.

“Our rapid response teams are evacuating the injured… But there are waves of crowds blocking roads,” Reza Fallah, head of the Kerman province Red Crescent told state TV.

reuters.com

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Randall Gross  Jan 3, 2024 • 4:50:40am

bsky.app
Here’s a link to the Times of Israel article
timesofisrael.com

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 5:48:38am

Italy debates the merits of pineapple on pizza!

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2024 • 5:59:29am

re: #87 No Malarkey!

N Italy has served “Pizza Hawaiia” (pineapple and ham) as long as anyone can remember. They blame it on the German tourists crowding Lake Garda.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:02:54am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We’re currently in thrall with the possibility that we get a Noreaster over the weekend, which might result in the first measurable snow in Central Park in over 700 days. That’s almost 2 years without an inch of snow or more falling. We’ve gotten trace amounts during that time, totaling about 2.3 inches, and some spots have gotten even less than that. Global warming yo.

Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers explicitly stated that they don’t care that Trump committed insurrection; Christina Bobb said as much and hope that voters ignore that Trump engaged in insurrection, violated the 14A and any number of federal laws. He’s hoping enough think Trump and GOPers are above the law.

They’re explicitly stating the obvious - Trump is a fucking white nationalist fascist.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:06:12am

Neil Cavuto reads his hate mail, showing just how stupid Fox viewers are.

foxnews.com

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:07:23am

re: #88 Decatur Deb

N Italy has served “Pizza Hawaiia” (pineapple and ham) as long as anyone can remember. They blame it on the German tourists crowding Lake Garda.

They gave us the Nazis and pineapple on pizza.
/

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:15:30am

re: #90 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Neil Cavuto reads his hate mail, showing just how stupid Fox viewers are.

foxnews.com

Well that was interesting……

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:20:49am

Bwhahaha… when the tarot card reader is the harbinger of bad things, when they’re supposed to be saying Trump’s in for a heck of a good year, you know Fox is off the rails.

This is hilarious. This is also pathetically awful. Both can be true at the same time. Fox is all about the agitprop and misinformation, so it’s entirely appropriate that one of their leading propagandists has a tarot card reader on to make claims about how well Trump’s going to do this year.

So of course the first card she pulls from the deck is death.

Wont matter for the know nothing base. They’ll spin it as though it means good news for Trump (he’ll die before they ever convict him of anything?!)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:21:13am

re: #88 Decatur Deb

N Italy has served “Pizza Hawaiia” (pineapple and ham) as long as anyone can remember. They blame it on the German tourists crowding Lake Garda.

That is where I first even heard of the combination. “Toast Hawaii” is a German invention of the 60’s: American style cheese-slices on white toast bread with ham, pineapple and a maraschino cherry.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:21:41am

re: #91 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

They gave us the Nazis and pineapple on pizza.
/

And only one has endured to this day…

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:25:04am

re: #89 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We’re currently in thrall with the possibility that we get a Noreaster over the weekend, which might result in the first measurable snow in Central Park in over 700 days. That’s almost 2 years without an inch of snow or more falling. We’ve gotten trace amounts during that time, totaling about 2.3 inches, and some spots have gotten even less than that. Global warming yo.

Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers explicitly stated that they don’t care that Trump committed insurrection; Christina Bobb said as much and hope that voters ignore that Trump engaged in insurrection, violated the 14A and any number of federal laws. He’s hoping enough think Trump and GOPers are above the law.

They’re explicitly stating the obvious - Trump is a fucking white nationalist fascist.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:25:47am

re: #92 Dave In Austin

Well that was interesting……

They think someone reporting the news is “boring,” and love the ranting liars.
There are a lot of proudly stupid people commenting under a version of the video from someone too stupid to post a video to YouTube. These morons are scary.

Neil Cavuto reads his hate mail: ‘Embodiment of evil!’ #shorts

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:26:21am

Ribs & Chips

Good morning!

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:26:31am

Definitely has those cute little murder eyes!

Small, but feisty!

Utah’s Hogle Zoo welcomed an eight-month-old black-footed cat, Gaia, who is considered to be the deadliest cat on the planet.

“At just 8 months old, she is small in size but large in her feisty personality,” the Salt Lake City-based zoo said on Dec. 28.

The adorable petite species, listed as the smallest species of a wild cat in Africa, is known for its amazing survival abilities — recording a hunting success rate of 60%, according to Smithsonian Mag.

Utah’s Hogle Zoo brought in Gaia after being briefed by the Black-Footed Cat Consortium for breeding purposes.

There are only a total of 29 black-footed cats in the Consortium, but with successful breeding — the Zoo believes it will “significantly contribute to the program.”

nypost.com

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:26:36am

re: #93 lawhawk

Baby got her Wig-Hat on!!

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:27:19am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And only one has endured to this day…

And one is making a resurgence

sad that its not clear which is which

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:27:19am

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is where I first even heard of the combination. “Toast Hawaii” is a German invention of the 60’s: American style cheese-slices on white toast bread with ham, pineapple and a maraschino cherry.

Ya’all are making me hungry for some Spam Musubi. Mmmm…

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:30:32am

Steven Moffat, my favorite modern Doctor Who show writer and creator of Sherlock, wants to create a British version of the West Wing, to add to the list of shows they copy from us. I wonder how close the ratio is to 50-50.

deadline.com

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:31:58am

re: #103 Belafon

Steven Moffat, my favorite modern Doctor Who show writer and creator of Sherlock, wants to create a British version of the West Wing, to add to the list of shows they copy from us. I wonder how close the ratio is to 50-50.

deadline.com

Better sign Larry the Cat.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:32:21am

And, unlike American counterparts, BBC isn’t backing down on including a trans character in the specials: deadline.com

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:34:04am
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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:36:33am

re: #51 Belafon

All Kissinger would reply on the Oujia board was “hot in hell.”

And also “Rush won’t shut the fuck up!”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:37:59am

re: #90 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Neil Cavuto reads his hate mail, showing just how stupid Fox viewers are.

foxnews.com

I was unaware that Cavuto was one of those very rare Fox broadcasters who made a real effort of being fair and balanced. Good for him — but the comments on his jacket were totally accurate. Was sorry to hear that he is struggling with MS. I do wish him well, especially operating in the den of vipers that surround him. They probably pay him very well.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:38:03am

re: #96 Dangerman

There is one small grain of reality here: Had DJT not enetered politics, he would most likely still be getting away with all the crimes he was used to getting away with until he entered office.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:40:48am

re: #101 Dangerman

And one is making a resurgence

sad that its not clear which is which

Nazis would ban taco trucks and replace them with pineapple pizza trucks.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:40:50am

re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter

I was unaware that Cavuto was one of those very rare Fox broadcasters who made a real effort of being fair and balanced. Good for him — but the comments on his jacket were totally accurate. Was sorry to hear that he is struggling with MS. I do wish him well, especially operating in the den of vipers that surround him. They probably pay him very well.

He chuckled at the jacket comments. I think he knows he earned those, and included them to lighten the segment.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:40:55am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is one small grain of reality here: Had DJT not enetered politics, he would most likely still be getting away with all the crimes he was used to getting away with until he entered office.

True. But then our nation would not be facing an existential crisis. At least not at this point.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:43:05am

re: #111 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

He chuckled at the jacket comments. I think he knows he earned those, and included them to lighten the segment.

The jacket might look handsome on a horse pulling that Hansom cab.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:43:30am

re: #112 Hecuba’s daughter

True. But then our nation would not be facing an existential crisis. At least not at this point.

True. DJT insists that this is all a political witch hunt.

There is a political component but that has more to do with the fact that he chose to enter politics and highly raise his profile and his potential to do harm through his misdeeds and not necessarily with any sort of selective persecution.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:47:59am

re: #89 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We’re currently in thrall with the possibility that we get a Noreaster over the weekend, which might result in the first measurable snow in Central Park in over 700 days. That’s almost 2 years without an inch of snow or more falling. We’ve gotten trace amounts during that time, totaling about 2.3 inches, and some spots have gotten even less than that. Global warming yo.

Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers explicitly stated that they don’t care that Trump committed insurrection; Christina Bobb said as much and hope that voters ignore that Trump engaged in insurrection, violated the 14A and any number of federal laws. He’s hoping enough think Trump and GOPers are above the law.

They’re explicitly stating the obvious - Trump is a fucking white nationalist fascist.

Trump isn’t even pretending he doesn’t plan to be a fascist dictator anymore. He and his cabal are completely open about their plans to suppress dissent by force, engage in ethnic cleansing and open concentration camps, shut down critical media and criminally prosecute political opposition. I remain optimistic that the people grouchy about Biden now will break heavily in his favor once he is the nominee and they focus on the race and the choice they are being asked to make.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:48:29am
At least 103 people have been killed and 170 wounded after two explosions rocked a ceremony that was being held to mark the 2020 assassination of Iran’s top commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone attack.

The first explosion was quickly followed by a second close to a cemetery in the southeastern city of Kerman where thousands had gathered to mark the four-year anniversary of Soleimani’s killing.

Harrowing video showed scores of bloodied victims lying on the floor as others stumbled away from the blast scene close to the Saheb al-Zaman Mosque where Soleimani is buried in what Iran has described as a ‘terrorist attack’.

dailymail.co.uk

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:49:05am

re: #79 William Lewis

Vision? I’d rather get & view the world 12 squares at a time through this…

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Sigh. If it’s still there on 1/19, my wallet might well be in trouble…

That looks like a 3D camera for aliens that have one eye above the other. A concept so alien I couldn’t get an AI image generator to produce anything but an alien with two eyes side by side.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:51:35am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:52:23am

re: #118 Dangerman

Nail on the head.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:56:35am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is one small grain of reality here: Had DJT not enetered politics, he would most likely still be getting away with all the crimes he was used to getting away with until he entered office.

I like to think the cosmos is karmic.
If he never ran, all other things would not be equal
He or his fam would have done something or something would have happened or come to light that prompted increased scrutiny and actual investigation

A danger can dream

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:59:02am
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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:00:42am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

True. DJT insists that this is all a political witch hunt.

There is a political component but that has more to do with the fact that he chose to enter politics and highly raise his profile and his potential to do harm through his misdeeds and not necessarily with any sort of selective persecution.

Politically motivated doesn’t mean you didn’t do it
And in this case it’s not an “it”. its at least 91, closer to 200 “its” currently being litigated.
I would not be surprised if more came

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:01:13am

re: #120 Dangerman

I like to think the cosmos is karmic.
If he never ran, all other things would not be equal
He or his fam would have done something or something would have happened or come to light that prompted increased scrutiny and actual investigation

A danger can dream

Indeed, but Trump and his family have been criming for decades without suffering any real consequences. All of the felonies he is currently charged with are directly related to his campaigns for President or due to his having been President, giving him the ability to steal national security secrets. He would probably still be doing The Apprentice now if he hadn’t won the election in 2016.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:01:52am

Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:02:28am

re: #119 PhillyPretzel ✅

Nail on the head.

“Don’t listen to his words, listen to what is in his heart!”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:05:05am

re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Don’t listen to his words, listen to what is in his heart!”

His heart is vile and 10^50 sizes too small. No, I didn’t do the math for a Planck length.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:05:11am

re: #124 Dave In Austin

so many songs but this is my personal favorite

Buffalo Springfield- Bluebird

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:05:12am

re: #117 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That looks like a 3D camera for aliens that have one eye above the other. A concept so alien I couldn’t get an AI image generator to produce anything but an alien with two eyes side by side.

Hah! Good description. Looking down through the waist level finder people might think I was an alien and ignore me though so that’s probably more of a plus than a minus.

In case you really don’t know anything about Twin Lens Reflex cameras, Da Wiki has a nice article on them. That one is a mid ‘50’s version of the classic Rolleiflex which was and is the finest expression of the type. I have the slightly older Rolleicord III which was the cheaper ($149 vs $300 in 1953 so $1600 vs $3500 today) amateur model. Don’t _need_ the fancier model but when has that ever mattered?

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:05:17am

I put a lot of the disaster that is Trump on Cy Vance and his refusal to prosecute Trump’s kids for real estate fraud. He took campaign contribution from Trump fixer Mark Kasowitz and dropped the real estate fraud case relating to Trump’s SoHo hotel project.

Had that prosecution been taken to its conclusion, the reality of the Trump financial fraud would have been exposed much earlier and Trump would have been caught up in those prosecutions personally and directly.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:15:02am

Japanese authorities: the Coast Guard plane wasn’t cleared to be in same space as the Japanese Airliner, causing the crash that resulted in 5 deaths of Coast Guard crewmembers and several injuries. Miraculously, no one aboard the A350 died.

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:16:04am

European NATO members strike deal to buy up to 1,000 Patriot missiles
reuters.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:17:28am

re: #131 jeffreyw

European NATO members strike deal to buy up to 1,000 Patriot missiles
reuters.com

Why this is bad news for Biden.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:18:00am

re: #131 jeffreyw

Good of Ukraine to do the product demo.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:19:49am

re: #131 jeffreyw

European NATO members strike deal to buy up to 1,000 Patriot missiles
reuters.com

Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing shareholders are drooling this morning.

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sizzzzlerz  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:22:12am

re: #121 Dave In Austin

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My faves:

Helplessly Hoping
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Might as Well Have a Good Time
Southern Cross

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:23:51am

Things I could do without - ads from “toasty heater” on youtube. They run incessantly, and they’re such a complete scam, especially when you consider that they are running two separate origin story ads about these “heaters”.

The first is a NASA engineer that needed to heat parents’ home after a Michigan blizzard. The second is a high school student who needed to heat school after heat went out.

Both are total bulkshit, especially when you consider that the product is essentially a small plug in space heater. It’s a wonder that no one has sued to shut them down as a scam.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:24:00am

re: #133 Decatur Deb

Good of Ukraine to do the product demo.

Nothing quite like a live fire exercise to whip up the sales teams. It’s even better than the the one from 65-73 since it’s being done by other people’s kids /////////////////////////// (as many as you need to get the hint)

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:24:03am

re: #131 jeffreyw

European NATO members strike deal to buy up to 1,000 Patriot missiles
reuters.com

George H. W. Bush: “Take THAT, you Soviet bastards!”

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Teukka  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:29:59am

re: #130 lawhawk

Japanese authorities: the Coast Guard plane wasn’t cleared to be in same space as the Japanese Airliner, causing the crash that resulted in 5 deaths of Coast Guard crewmembers and several injuries. Miraculously, no one aboard the A350 died.

Runway incursion or in-air?

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:31:36am

re: #139 Teukka

Runway incursion it looks like.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:32:22am

re: #139 Teukka

Runway incursion or in-air?

Runway. There is dramatic video of passengers evacuating and fleeing the burning airliner.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:34:23am

re: #139 Teukka

Runway incursion or in-air?

Runway. The airline crew pulled an insanely great evacuation driil and saved everyone on that Airbus, I would have bet real money against them.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:36:39am

3/6 morning

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:37:34am

re: #142 William Lewis

BBC credits the crew, and the unusually sane response of the passengers:

bbc.com

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:38:21am

re: #73 sagehen

IOW, us sending them Patriots to use is really them doing us a big favor.

Nothing better than real world testing.

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Unabogie  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:40:31am

re: #144 Decatur Deb

BBC credits the crew, and the unusually sane response of the passengers:

bbc.com

I was just thinking about this. On most flights in the US, people would insist on pulling their stuff from the bins or pushing their way out. The only way everyone survives is by moving fast, single file, and leaving everything but the people and pets on the plane.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:41:25am

re: #142 William Lewis

Runway. The airline crew pulled an insanely great evacuation driil and saved everyone on that Airbus, I would have bet real money against them.

Sounds like the main question left is why, exactly, the Coast Guard plane was on the runway. Passengers said the landing itself was normal, so the impact must’ve occurred down-runway. They could’ve gotten lost in the darkness and blundered onto the runway on accident.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:42:33am

re: #146 Unabogie

There was a plane fire a few years back in Russia - and a lot of the passengers died because other passengers insisted on getting their carry-on bags out of the overhead compartments, blocking the aisle and hindering evacuation.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:43:58am

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Unabogie  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:44:16am

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

There was a plane fire a few years back in Russia - and a lot of the passengers died because other passengers insisted on getting their carry-on bags out of the overhead compartments, blocking the aisle and hindering evacuation.

The parallels there with our Covid response are striking.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:45:31am

SOS offices were emailed a message that bombs have been planted at state capitols. The Kentucky state Capitol has been evacuated while the dogs sniff for bombs.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:45:41am

re: #150 Unabogie

The parallels there with our Covid response are striking.

Don’t listen to the cabin attendant—she’s part of the Deep State.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:46:23am

Aand another birbie! Good start to the year — I hope it’s an omen.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:46:50am

re: #146 Unabogie

I was just thinking about this. On most flights in the US, people would insist on pulling their stuff from the bins or pushing their way out. The only way everyone survives is by moving fast, single file, and leaving everything but the people and pets on the plane.

The only thing I’d care about losing in a situation like that is my Leica or my Rollei and it would be around my neck during the flight to take photos along the way. Wouldn’t need to grab anything. Even those are easy enough to replace just G**d**n expensive for a usually broke boy like me. Things are things. Real wealth is biological.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:47:28am

re: #147 Nerdy Fish

Sounds like the main question left is why, exactly, the Coast Guard plane was on the runway. Passengers said the landing itself was normal, so the impact must’ve occurred down-runway. They could’ve gotten lost in the darkness and blundered onto the runway on accident.

Many airports now have a runway incursion prevention system to prevent these kinds of incidents. Even still, there were 1300+ incursions in the US alone at 520 US airports in FY 2022 alone.

Worst hotspots in US: ABQ, ADS, BOS, CMI, CRQ, DVT, EWR, and FCM.

Of these, ADS, BOS, and EWR are the busiest of the bunch.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 3, 2024 • 7:52:36am

re: #155 lawhawk

There was also an accident I was reading about recently where the airport turned that system off to avoid false positives from animals and birds. Which, to me, I wouldn’t want to fly into one of those on a landing approach, either…

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:04:26am

re: #154 William Lewis

Real wealth is biological.

Looked up what I was remembering. Lois McMasters Bujold “Mirror Dance”. Aral thinks he’s dying, thinks Miles is dead and that Mark is about to be Count Vorkosigan. “All true wealth is biological” meaning you can’t buy love, friendship or family. You can buy things. But you can’t buy wealth. Would that the Mango Moron had learned that lesson once upon a time.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:05:09am

re: #136 lawhawk

Things I could do without - ads from “toasty heater” on youtube. They run incessantly, and they’re such a complete scam, especially when you consider that they are running two separate origin story ads about these “heaters”.

The first is a NASA engineer that needed to heat parents’ home after a Michigan blizzard. The second is a high school student who needed to heat school after heat went out.

Both are total bulkshit, especially when you consider that the product is essentially a small plug in space heater. It’s a wonder that no one has sued to shut them down as a scam.

Here is what you can do. Download UBlock Origin and install it on your browser. Click on the little icon for UBlock at the top of the browser and select the gear icon for “Settings.” From the tab menu at the top, select “Filter lists” tab. Click on “Purge all caches” Then click “Update now.”

This will reactivate the enshittification blocker on YouTube.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:05:44am

re: #157 William Lewis

But you can’t buy wealth. Would that the Mango Moron had learned that lesson once upon a time.

He achieved notoriety, which he cannot distinguish from fame or admiration.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:14:33am

Oklahoma…. Again,

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:20:00am

My dedicated reader (kindle) is discharging a little faster than usual. Tonight I am going to turn off the wi-fi and hopefully that will help preserve the battery. Meanwhile I revived my fire hd 8 just in case the reader goes haywire.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:22:09am

re: #86 Randall Gross

Nah. I can’t agree with this at all. This is why although I support Israel, I cannot stand Netanyahu and other right wing Israelis. They’re idiots.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:24:17am

re: #162 Patricia Kayden

Nah. I can’t agree with this at all. This is why although I support Israel, I cannot stand Netanyahu and other right wing Israelis. They’re idiots.

Most Israelis can’t stand Bibi or other right wing extremists. The apathy/inability of the Israeli center and center/left to coordinate and combine to stop the right wing extremism under Bibi and the right wing fascists in Israel mirrors much of the problem with US politics as well. It’s not recognizing the threat, and not doing enough to stop it.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:25:11am

DOJ is seeking a six month prison term for Ray Epps, who is widely believed by his fellow insurrectionists to be an FBI plant. If the judge doesn’t sentence him to serve any time, they will believe the fix was in and that the conspiracy theory has been confirmed.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:25:35am

re: #155 lawhawk

Many airports now have a runway incursion prevention system to prevent these kinds of incidents. Even still, there were 1300+ incursions in the US alone at 520 US airports in FY 2022 alone.

Worst hotspots in US: ABQ, ADS, BOS, CMI, CRQ, DVT, EWR, and FCM.

Of these, ADS, BOS, and EWR are the busiest of the bunch.

We used to use visual aids when there was a vehicle or aircraft using the runways for other than takeoff or landing. Something like a red strip holder that goes over the flight plans of the planes in the departure line up on the countertop. But then, I’ve had trainees move that marker out of the way to clear another plane for takeoff while there was another plane on the runway. (Of course the trainer overrides this)

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:27:28am

re: #164 No Malarkey!

DOJ is seeking a six month prison term for Ray Epps, who is widely believed by his fellow insurrectionists to be an FBI plant. If the judge doesn’t sentence him to serve any time, they will believe the fix was in and that the conspiracy theory has been confirmed.

Wouldn’t it be funny if he somehow was given the longest sentence yet? Heh!

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:30:05am

Just because. A couple of beers, a couple of shots & the rock is loud in my headphones…

Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang (Official Music Video)

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Florida Panhandler  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:30:58am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Another astounding jam.

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Bizarro Matt Damon can really tickle those ivories.

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Jay C  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:30:59am

re: #129 lawhawk

I put a lot of the disaster that is Trump on Cy Vance and his refusal to prosecute Trump’s kids for real estate fraud. He took campaign contribution from Trump fixer Mark Kasowitz and dropped the real estate fraud case relating to Trump’s SoHo hotel project.

Had that prosecution been taken to its conclusion, the reality of the Trump financial fraud would have been exposed much earlier and Trump would have been caught up in those prosecutions personally and directly.

Not quite sure about this. Yeah, Vance’s dropping of the Trump Chelsea case* (which Junior and Ivanka were fronting) was a disgustingly corrupt deal for sure, but given the general level of shit NYC RE developers generally get away with - and the lengthy timeframes these cases usually take to get resolved - it’s unclear (well, IMO anyway) whether more-vigorous prosecution in this instance would have significantly impacted Trump’s business dealings more than they did. Maybe, maybe not: it still should have been pushed - and Vance’s actions still stunk, but given that it was a “Trump Project”, TFG would have probably dealt with a serious suit in his usual manner: i.e., lawyer up, spin it out forever, and offer to settle for pennies on the dollar. Trump SOP…

* IIRC, the deal was just typical of The Donald’s RE business: looking to “launch” Junior and Ivanka in the RE biz, he set them up to front a BFD residential project. Unfortunately, the historic building they were set to gut/renovate was “landmarked”, and its rebuilding needed planning permission, which, typically, Donald had forgotten to get ahead of time, and (even more typically) couldn’t get done retroactively: so the project had to be cancelled, and deposits from future “residents” returned.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:32:46am

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:35:26am

Florida Surgeon General Ladapo, the dangerous antivaxxer crank appointed by DeSantis in his bid to get to Trump’s right on vaccines (fat lot of good that did him), is now recommending that no-one use mRNA vaccines “to protect the integrity of the human genome,” just in time for the Iowa Caucuses. The vaccines do not interact with human DNA.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:38:11am

re: #171 No Malarkey!

Florida Surgeon General Ladapo, the dangerous antivaxxer crank appointed by DeSantis in his bid to get to Trump’s right on vaccines (fat lot of good that did him), is now recommending that no-one use mRNA vaccines “to protect the integrity of the human genome,” just in time for the Iowa Caucuses. The vaccines do not interact with human DNA.

We must protect the purity of our bodily fluids. Which is why I drink only rainwater and pure distilled grain alcohol.

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cat-tikvah  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:44:07am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We must protect the purity of our bodily fluids. Which is why I drink only rainwater and pure distilled grain alcohol.

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coin operated  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:47:00am

re: #171 No Malarkey!

Florida Surgeon General Ladapo, the dangerous antivaxxer crank appointed by DeSantis in his bid to get to Trump’s right on vaccines (fat lot of good that did him), is now recommending that no-one use mRNA vaccines “to protect the integrity of the human genome,” just in time for the Iowa Caucuses. The vaccines do not interact with human DNA.

Weapons-grade stupidity on display

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:54:56am
Former President Donald Trump won’t face repercussions over the way he appears to have used federal prison guards to intimidate his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, jailing and silencing him in 2020 ahead of his tell-all memoir about the billionaire’s mob-like behavior,” the Daily Beast reports.

Preview of what could will happen if he’s reelected

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BeachDem  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:56:09am

It appears that the Cletus safaris have now moved from midwest diners to South Carolina Zen Asian Fusion Restaurants.

Over plates of fried rice and Mongolian beef, they brainstormed how to improve the GOP’s pitch to minority voters, who have in many ways recoiled from polarizing and at times inaccurate comments on race and history that former president Donald Trump, Haley and other prominent Republicans have made in recent years.

Rev. Samuel Rivers Jr., who is Black and has been involved in South Carolina’s Republican Party for years…felt frustrated that this was even a topic of conversation.
“The guy who said Black people benefited from slavery, that is more outrageous,” he said, elbowing Friddle, who is White, “but I’m not going to talk about another Republican.”

Sandra Goodman, who is White, plans to vote for Trump. While Goodman did not believe Haley needed to say slavery caused the Civil War, she said she hopes “it hurts her because she’s running up against our man, Trump.”

Progress??

Gift link
wapo.st

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 8:57:41am

re: #175 Dangerman

Preview of what could will happen if he’s reelected

If Trump is reelected, there will be no “adults in the room” to tell him no. This time, he will staff his administration entirely with fascist toadies eager to turn America into the Fourth Reich.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:03:53am

re: #174 coin operated

Weapons-grade stupidity on display

You elect an idiot for governor he’s gonna appoint idiots like himself

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:05:29am

Colonoscopy prep for me today.

*insert mumbling noises here*

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:05:51am

re: #177 No Malarkey!

If Trump is reelected, there will be no “adults in the room” to tell him no. This time, he will staff his administration entirely with fascist toadies eager to turn America into the Fourth Reich.

Yup
He learned that much from last time

And he’s also got less to lose now

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:06:50am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Colonoscopy prep for me today.

< insert appropriate mumbling here >

So things are looking up early in this new year

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:07:43am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Colonoscopy prep for me today.

*insert mumbling noises here*

Start early…

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wrenchwench  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:19:29am

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:26:10am

re: #177 No Malarkey!

If Trump is reelected, there will be no “adults in the room” to tell him no. This time, he will staff his administration entirely with fascist toadies eager to turn America into the Fourth Reich.

Oh, that’s easy to deal with. I just can’t talk about it here… < Whistles Innocently >

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wrenchwench  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:27:56am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:35:14am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Colonoscopy prep for me today.

*insert mumbling noises here*

Hide a plastic dinosaur then narrate the journey like David Attenborough. Don’t let them put you under.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:39:39am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

True. DJT insists that this is all a political witch hunt.

There is a political component but that has more to do with the fact that he chose to enter politics and highly raise his profile and his potential to do harm through his misdeeds and not necessarily with any sort of selective persecution.

He wasn’t anticipating that a large segment of the American public would jump on the Trump train. He was doing it to elevate his brand and then discovered that 40% of American voters were white supremacists with no ethics or morality and were eager for a candidate that represented their views.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:40:00am

Why, yes, I’m in a mood. How can you tell?

The School of Rock - The Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg (My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down) 720pHD

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:40:13am

re: #186 darthstar

Hide a plastic dinosaur then narrate the journey like David Attenborough. Don’t let them put you under.

I appreciate a twisted sense of humor.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:45:07am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:46:07am

re: #190 Backwoods Sleuth

Bad times for Bibi. Good.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:47:07am

re: #143 Eventual Carrion

3/6 morning

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:48:53am

re: #149 Eventual Carrion

Perfect! Connections

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Like most people, would never have gotten the purple group if it weren’t the default.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:49:49am

re: #153 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Aand another birbie! Good start to the year — I hope it’s an omen.

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wrenchwench  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:55:29am

Mastodon

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 3, 2024 • 9:58:48am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Been there. Done that.

Hated it!

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JC1  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:03:13am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is one small grain of reality here: Had DJT not enetered politics, he would most likely still be getting away with all the crimes he was used to getting away with until he entered office.

Yep, it’s amazing what a 25k donation to an AG candidate will do…

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Randall Gross  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:03:37am

re: #162 Patricia Kayden

Not sure what you are saying here since it’s a mixed skeet, you don’t agree with the relocation, or you don’t agree that it’s genocide ethnic cleansing?

For the record I think the call to “relocate” Palestinians is something that could be calling for war criming and probably should go to trial if it occurs.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:05:19am

More Republican Family Values!

radaronline.com

South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan Admits To Relationship With Lobbyist, Asks For Estranged Wife to Be Gagged From Speaking About Divorce

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nines09  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:06:55am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

One of my friends was diagnosed early last year with colon cancer. He never went for any Colonoscopy.
I’ve had 3. Sure it’s not pleasant, but consider the things you are tempting not getting interior movies.
His chemo has ended, and there is shadowing, might be a scar, who knows…. They will monitor him. Not sure how much was removed in length.
I was shocked he never went. I’ve had 3. Had some polyps both benign and pre cancerous removed.
My mother had to wear a bag. Not pleasant. You do not want that. Trust me.
Good for you.
Break a leg.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:07:27am

re: #199 Joe Bacon ✅

More Republican Family Values!

radaronline.com

South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan Admits To Relationship With Lobbyist, Asks For Estranged Wife to Be Gagged From Speaking About Divorce

Well, yeah, the wife must keep quiet. /

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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:07:46am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Colonoscopy prep for me today.

*insert mumbling noises here*

get it done, not another one for 10 years if clear.

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wrenchwench  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:09:20am

Birbie. Wordle 928 3/6*

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nines09  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:10:35am

re: #202 EstebanTornado1963

Repeat performances are determined by age. My last one was 3-4 years ago and I was told it might be my last because of my age. I was afraid to ask….

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:11:38am

Oh, my, this is a Gorgeous live performance from WAY before the video became popular. IIUC this was the first time they performed the song in NYC at all.

Glorious. Just glorious.

Til Tuesday - Voices Carry - 3/26/1986 - Ritz

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:12:22am

re: #202 EstebanTornado1963

get it done, not another one for 10 years if clear.

I’ve got one coming up in a month or so. My doc says it will be my last: “If they don’t find anything now, something else will probably kill you.”

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nines09  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:13:04am

re: #206 Decatur Deb

That’s what I heard without asking.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:14:07am

re: #206 Decatur Deb

I’ve got one coming up in a month or so. My doc says it will be my last: “If they don’t find anything now, something else will probably kill you.”

Sounds like what they say about prostate cancer nowadays. I won’t let them touch it ;)

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No Malarkey!  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:23:09am

re: #200 nines09

One of my friends was diagnosed early last year with colon cancer. He never went for any Colonoscopy.
I’ve had 3. Sure it’s not pleasant, but consider the things you are tempting not getting interior movies.
His chemo has ended, and there is shadowing, might be a scar, who knows…. They will monitor him. Not sure how much was removed in length.
I was shocked he never went. I’ve had 3. Had some polyps both benign and pre cancerous removed.
My mother had to wear a bag. Not pleasant. You do not want that. Trust me.
Good for you.
Break a leg.

I had mine last year; good for a decade!

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:25:51am

re: #200 nines09

One of my friends was diagnosed early last year with colon cancer. He never went for any Colonoscopy.
I’ve had 3. Sure it’s not pleasant, but consider the things you are tempting not getting interior movies.
His chemo has ended, and there is shadowing, might be a scar, who knows…. They will monitor him. Not sure how much was removed in length.
I was shocked he never went. I’ve had 3. Had some polyps both benign and pre cancerous removed.
My mother had to wear a bag. Not pleasant. You do not want that. Trust me.
Good for you.
Break a leg.

VA will only do the little wipe your stool on the paper test unless you 1) have bad family history or 2) fail that test. Just wish that one didn’t squick me so badly…

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Mike Lamb  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:27:19am

re: #166 William Lewis

Wouldn’t it be funny if he somehow was given the longest sentence yet? Heh!

Which would also be evidence of the conspiracy.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:39:00am

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CleverToad  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:43:58am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

Colonoscopy prep for me today.

*insert mumbling noises here*

Sending sympathy!

My husband is scheduled for his on the 23rd, looking forward to it with no enthusiasm. (I had to do mine last year, so I’m off the hook for awhile). Now just hoping it will hold off from snowing that day — really don’t want to have to reschedule.

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CleverToad  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:47:01am

re: #186 darthstar

Hide a plastic dinosaur then narrate the journey like David Attenborough. Don’t let them put you under.

Husband has hundreds of plastic dinosaurs. Don’t put ideas into his head,

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CleverToad  Jan 3, 2024 • 10:51:20am

re: #212 Backwoods Sleuth

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m0nkeyb0y  Jan 3, 2024 • 12:35:41pm

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

There was a plane fire a few years back in Russia - and a lot of the passengers died because other passengers insisted on getting their carry-on bags out of the overhead compartments, blocking the aisle and hindering evacuation.

This community has helped me develop my own theories of the MAGA mind. It appears to me that in the dynamic amongst the assembled kooks, cranks and cons that compose it, the cons create a feedback mechanism to intensify the Dunning-Kruger tendencies leveraged deliberately by the GOP for electoral success.

In this environment their Base’s tendencies have created a particularly selfish, malignant ignorance that makes us all vulnerable as we try to shop, drive, work and live with these people.

This stark example of Japanese survival via selfless cooperation compared to the tragedy (this one?) of Russia’s hyper-masculine, me-first, you’re-not-the-boss-of-me attitude is, sadly, unsurprising.


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