The Bob Cesca Interview: Rachel Bitecofer

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

Rachel Bitecofer Day — “The Election Whisperer” Dr. Rachel Bitecofer returns to talk about the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden’s campaign strategy, the accuracy of the polls, and we talked about Rachel’s new must-read book Hit Em Where It Hurts: How To Save Democracy By Beating Republicans At Their Own Game – out on February 6 (promotional Amazon link). You can also follow Rachel on her Substack called The Cycle – thecycle.substack.com. Meantime, don’t forget to support this podcast by subscribing us on Patreon – bobcescashow.com. Music by The Metal Byrds.

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nines09  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:07:43pm

instagram.com

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:09:54pm

re: #1 nines09

instagram.com

Participation trophy!

Casey Munster looks like she’s ready to kill the photographer…Jackie O never had to put up with this bullshit.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:14:11pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:22:49pm

re: #2 darthstar

DeSantis is such a weird little freak.

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:23:10pm

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:23:28pm

mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

Explanation of Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla: King of Monsters (1956)…same flick…just add Raymond Burr.

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:24:28pm

re: #5 Dangerman

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:26:25pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:30:25pm

The nightmare we will face if the Trump cult isn’t demolished:

nbcnews.com

The Ecuadorian prosecutor who was investigating an attack at a television station in Guayaquil, the country’s largest and one of its most dangerous cities, was shot to death Wednesday.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:30:25pm

Going in for a colonoscopy tomorrow morning. Getting psyched for the ‘cleanse’ that I start in a few hours. Not going to sleep well tonight. This is the first one where I will get a light anesthetic. The other ones were with light sedation which made the process quite enjoyable. I was really loopy. Guess I talked too much so now they will just knock me out.

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coin operated  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:34:09pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

Going in for a colonoscopy tomorrow morning. Getting psyched for the ‘cleanse’ that I start in a few hours. Not going to sleep well tonight. This is the first one where I will get a light anesthetic. The other ones were with light sedation which made the process quite enjoyable. I was really loopy. Guess I talked too much so now they will just knock me out.

LOL…had one done last year. My doc told me he knocks everyone out so he can get the job done quicker.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:38:15pm

re: #11 coin operated

LOL…had one done last year. My doc told me he knocks everyone out so he can get the job done quicker.

That is what I think also. The first time, they turned the monitor so I could see. They foundone polyp that I think I named Fanks and asked if I could keep him ;-)

To protect my kidneys, I take the 4 liters of GoLytely cleanse, starting at 7 tonight. 8 ounces every 15 minutes. Then spend the night on the toilet. SO much fun

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:39:15pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

It’s supposed to be a social event. Have fun with it.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:41:09pm

re: #12 silverdolphin

That is what I think also. The first time, they turned the monitor so I could see. They foundone polyp that I think I named Fanks and asked if I could keep him ;-)

To protect my kidneys, I take the 4 liters of GoLytely cleanse, starting at 7 tonight. 8 ounces every 15 minutes. Then spend the night on the toilet. SO much fun

I did the horse pills. 6 at night with a few liters of water and six more in the morning with another liter of water. I was like Captain Ahab hunting the white whale…Thar she blows! I’d shout from the bathroom because I want my wife to know what I’m going through.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:41:39pm

re: #13 darthstar

It’s supposed to be a social event. Have fun with it.

Oh I will. Next time I’m going to schedule the procedure for the afternoon. Doing it in the morning is not optimal. The schedule really means I will will not sleep tonight.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:43:28pm

re: #14 darthstar

I did the horse pills. 6 at night with a few liters of water and six more in the morning with another liter of water. I was like Captain Ahab hunting the white whale…Thar she blows! I’d shout from the bathroom because I want my wife to know what I’m going through.

I’ll make sure I check my weight in the morning. Should be a few pounds lighter ;-) But I’m going to miss most of the Habba Comedy Show.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:45:01pm

re: #16 silverdolphin

I’ll make sure I check my weight in the morning. Should be a few pounds lighter ;-) But I’m going to miss most of the Habba Comedy Show.

Put Mastodon on your phone and read the updates from Laffy aloud while they’re doing the procedure. Explain to the docs that there’s some funny shit in this trial as there isn’t any inside of you.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:46:25pm

TIL that talking about our respective colonoscopies is one of the better things social media has to offer.

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garzooma  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:46:39pm

re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter

The nightmare we will face if the Trump cult isn’t demolished:

nbcnews.com

Most countries in the world work this way.

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gocart mozart  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:47:53pm
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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:49:29pm

re: #19 garzooma

Most countries in the world work this way.

Some a lot closer than Ecuador.

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:50:40pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

Going in for a colonoscopy tomorrow morning. Getting psyched for the ‘cleanse’ that I start in a few hours. Not going to sleep well tonight. This is the first one where I will get a light anesthetic. The other ones were with light sedation which made the process quite enjoyable. I was really loopy. Guess I talked too much so now they will just knock me out.

Make sure the doc knows which end is up

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:55:32pm

re: #19 garzooma

Most countries in the world work this way.

Not first world countries….

Bee news

Click to Reveal

Took awhile but actually succeeded today in getting all the words. Thought I was going to be left with one 5 letter word — but persevered (translation: wasted far too much time) and managed after trying a zillion combinations coming up with the word! (PS — zillion has been a Bee word!)

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:57:48pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

Not first world countries….

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Does the 17th largest economy count as first world?

Mexico.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 4:58:35pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

Not first world countries….

Bee news

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Queen Bee baby!

BARBRA STREISAND queen bee

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:00:29pm

doesn’t think it’s needed to secure the border.

Yeah go with that

The both of ya

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:01:59pm

re: #24 wrenchwench

Does the 17th largest economy count as first world?

Mexico.

No — Mexico is not so categorized. I believe the only first world countries in the Americas are:

United States
Canada
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Chile
ETA:Uruguay

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:05:59pm

re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter

No — Mexico is not so categorized. I believe the only first world countries in the Americas are:

United States
Canada
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Chile

Do you know what it’s based on? My internet is too slow to do my own research. I can’t load a Wiki page.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:09:01pm

re: #28 wrenchwench

worldpopulationreview.com

I updated my earlier comment to include Uruguay.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:11:34pm

re: #11 coin operated

Monty Python - Gumby Brain Specialist

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:14:16pm

re: #30 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

[Embedded content]

I dealt with too many fake Gumbys today.

I need the real thing to decompress!

Gumby Show - Moon Trip (1955)

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nines09  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:16:14pm

nite nite lizards have a great tomorrow

MP Gannon and Grace Bowers - Going To California (Led Zeppelin Cover)

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Jay C  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:19:13pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

re: #25 darthstar

QB again:
Though I can’t say I “aced” it, as I had to have a peek at the grid….

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garzooma  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:20:53pm

re: #25 darthstar

Queen Bee baby!

[Embedded content]

Video

YouTube

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:29:43pm

He’s trying for another comeback.

Dennis Kucinich files to run for an Ohio congressional seat.

rawstory.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:30:11pm

re: #33 Jay C

QB again:
Though I can’t say I “aced” it, as I had to have a peek at the grid….

I always have to do the grid. I often have reached genius without it — but definitely needed for anything more.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:30:28pm

re: #25 darthstar

Queen Bee baby!

[Embedded content]

The real deal. Barbra’s beginning. A sleeping bee

Barbra Streisand - A sleepin’ bee

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:30:40pm

Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon, her daughter Coco, what more do I need to say?

Kim Gordon - “BYE BYE” (Official Music Video)

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:31:08pm

re: #37 HRH Stanley Sea

1962

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mmmirele  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:39:56pm

Just sharing a picture of my kitties.

They are really bonded to each other. They may fight, but they can’t stand to be separated (don’t even close a door between them) and I catch them cuddling like this all the time.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:40:58pm

Hey, remember when I said that shooting at a US-owned ship in the Red Sea was going to go really badly for the Houthis? Yeah, umm, so about that:

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:41:35pm

re: #40 mmmirele

Just sharing a picture of my kitties.

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They are really bonded to each other. They may fight, but they can’t stand to be separated (don’t even close a door between them) and I catch them cuddling like this all the time.

Your cats are beautiful animals.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:43:09pm

Guess who just joined the GOP Let’s Get Rid Of Child Labor Laws Chorus?

Marjorie Taylor Greene slams abortion rights because forced births can ‘fill jobs’

rawstory.com

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Wednesday suggested that pregnant women should be forced to give birth to “fill jobs” and solve the “population growth problem.”

Greene made the remarks during a House Oversight Committee hearing on immigration policy.

“Sitting in here earlier, I was listening to the discussion on jobs and that the whole reason claimed by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is that they want to bring in as many illegal aliens as possible, give them amnesty so they can fill jobs in America,” Greene claimed. “And then they talked about that we have a population growth problem in the United States.”

“Well, I think we can all say that if maybe, perhaps, 63 million people weren’t murdered in the womb, we wouldn’t have a population growth problem, would we?” she asked. “That’s not women’s reproductive rights. That’s called abortion. It’s called murder.”

Greene blamed abortion rights for slowing population growth.

“But Democrats claim that we’ve got to replace Americans with illegal aliens to fill jobs,” she said, referring to the theory that immigrants are replacing white Americans.

“That’s their solution,” Greene complained. “And take away jobs from Americans.”

As I posted before the most rabid opponents of abortion are right wing Republican Xtian women...

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:48:00pm

re: #40 mmmirele

Just sharing a picture of my kitties.

[Embedded content]

They are really bonded to each other. They may fight, but they can’t stand to be separated (don’t even close a door between them) and I catch them cuddling like this all the time.

Wombmates is the way to do it. Did you consider three, for a moment?

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jeffreyw  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:48:01pm

Mastodon

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EPR-radar  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:48:07pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

Nazis also thought women needed to produce babies for the benefit of the state.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:48:39pm

Karma is just so naughty when it strikes, isn’t it Bridget?

Floridians Aren’t Letting Bridget Ziegler Forget Sex Scandal

thedailybeast.com

For close to three hours, the public comment period of this week’s Sarasota County School Board meeting focused on Ziegler and her refusal to step down.

Dozens of students, parents, and members of the LGBTQ community appeared at a Florida school board meeting Tuesday to once more demand the resignation of its most controversial member: Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler.

For close to three hours, the public comment period of the Sarasota County School Board meeting focused on Ziegler and her refusal to step down amid the hypocrisy exposed by her and her husband’s three-way sex scandal.

Several students spoke of the way her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric has made an impact on them and others in the district, with one teenager at the podium saying it was their “lifeline” to pretend to be straight, so they wouldn’t face harassment and hate speech.

Another 12-year-old student, who identified as queer and binary, said they were terrified the board, under Ziegler, would continue to pass policies making it harder for them to learn “because of who I am.”

More than a few residents also took aim at Ziegler’s anti-LGBTQ views and opposition to policies supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

“If this is your approach to education, then you are unfit to serve on any board,” John Smeallie, a retired deputy superintendent of Maryland schools, told Ziegler, before adding that she’s failed as a leader by “belittling” and “marginalizing” people who are LGBTQ-plus and “creating fear among students and staff who are part of this community.”

Smeallie then called Ziegler “a hypocrite of the worst order.”

“Despite your attacks on the LGTBQ-plus community, it would appear that you are a part of it. Certainly a B, maybe a plus,” Smeallie said to laughter.

One Sarasota resident, Sarah Kessler, read aloud the lyrics to Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” after fuming that Ziegler remained on the school board, “making it about yourself.”

Tuesday’s meeting was the second time parents and advocates confronted Ziegler at a public forum in the wake of her husband Christian’s criminal rape probe.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:48:40pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Wednesday suggested that pregnant women should be forced to give birth to “fill jobs” and solve the “population growth problem.”

When Trumporrhoids talk about a “population growth problem” they mean A WHITE PEOPLE POPULATION PROBLEM.

Supposedly in the last couple of years there have been more babies of color born in the U.S. than “white” babies. And that is a problem for racists, not normal people.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:54:44pm

re: #37 HRH Stanley Sea

Bon Soir 1962.

I’m listening to her read her autobiography now. Amazing career.

Barbra Streisand - Cry Me A River (Official Video)

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austin_blue  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:55:05pm

Goddamit, Peter Schickele, (PDQ Bach) has stepped on a rainbow and gone to Heaven carrying a left-handed sewer flute.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:55:27pm

re: #17 darthstar

Put Mastodon on your phone and read the updates from Laffy aloud while they’re doing the procedure. Explain to the docs that there’s some funny shit in this trial as there isn’t any inside of you.

That would be excellent. Except they are not sedating me but knocking me out. I guess they do not want the distractions.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:56:17pm

re: #18 darthstar

TIL that talking about our respective colonoscopies is one of the better things social media has to offer.

At least we are not talking about our teeth! ;-)

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:56:33pm

re: #50 austin_blue

Goddamit, Peter Schickele, (PDQ Bach) has stepped on a rainbow and gone to Heaven carrying a left-handed sewer flute.

An all-time great. PDQ wrote a song for Joan Baez, when he wasn’t composing concertos for Horn and Hardart.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:56:43pm

I’m always reluctant to share articles from rawstory because they tend to be exaggerated or sensationalist. Just sayin’.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:58:28pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

I’m always reluctant to share articles from rawstory because they tend to be exaggerated or sensationalist. Just sayin’.

A visit to Raw Story usually bogs my laptop down in ads that force a reboot.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:58:59pm

Looks like a Russian AWACS got splashed the other day. OOPS! That’s an expensive loss! Too bad so sad, Vlad!

Shot down: A-50 - What Happened?

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 5:59:44pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

She’d better go home and start pumping out babbys.

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ipsos  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:00:35pm

re: #47 Joe Bacon ✅

This is the way. Call their shit out, loudly, every time. Don’t let them hide behind the idea that their side is actually the majority.

And then… VOTE.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:03:34pm

re: #58 ipsos

This is the way. Call their shit out, loudly, every time. Don’t let them hide behind the idea that their side is actually the majority.

And then… VOTE.

Funny how things have flipped. The Dems used to be against immigration because they undercut labor wages. Republicans wanted immigrants so they could pay them less.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:04:11pm

Imagine 63 million poor kids asking MTG for school lunches.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:06:16pm

re: #53 Decatur Deb

An all-time great. PDQ wrote a song for Joan Baez, when he wasn’t composing for concertos for Horn and Hardart.

I attended a PDQ Bach performance in the 1970s during which a couple seated in front of me demonstrably got up and left loudly complaining his music wasn’t Bach - what they came to hear.

I wasn’t sure if they were part of the performance or not.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:07:15pm

re: #60 jaunte

Imagine 63 million poor kids asking MTG for school lunches.

What school? Republicans want them working in mills, factories, mines, stockrooms and plants.

Republicans want those little rugrats to earn their lunch with hard work!

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:08:15pm

Poor franchise owners are pleading poverty…don’t believe em.

bsky.app

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:15:07pm

Eight Pound Schrader

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:18:53pm

re: #63 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Poor franchise owners are pleading poverty…don’t believe em.

bsky.app

Californians are resourceful, they’re sure to find sufficient sources of grease, salt and high fructose corn syrup.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:23:09pm

I do not like the Cone of Shame.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:23:17pm

re: #63 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Poor franchise owners are pleading poverty…don’t believe em.

bsky.app

Lovie Yancey would butt-bongo that fool who says the California Minimum Wage Hike is gonna hurt his four Fatburger franchishes.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:24:40pm

re: #50 austin_blue

Goddamit, Peter Schickele, (PDQ Bach) has stepped on a rainbow and gone to Heaven carrying a left-handed sewer flute.

Oh… Well, heaven’s rock and roll band just got a hell of a kink :) I can just imagine Wolfgang A. on Hammond Organ and now with Peter writing for him? Those concert’s will have the angels rolling on the golden floors.

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:25:30pm

re: #65 Decatur Deb

Californians are resourceful, they’re sure to find sufficient sources of grease, salt and high fructose corn syrup.

You’re making me hungry.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:26:10pm

Tomorrow morning I’m skiing with children from Vail Mountain School’s telemark team. I’m gonna coach kids skiing.

weeping a little

My Dad would’ve been so proud.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:27:56pm

re: #63 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Maybe running restaurants that aren’t actually about the food is a bad idea.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:32:06pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

You’re making me hungry.

Yeah now I’m getting hungry for a Fatburger!

When it’s done right ain’t nothing else like it!

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:34:47pm

re: #45 jeffreyw

There are only so many roles for a skull named Yorick.

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:38:15pm

re: #6 darthstar

mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

Explanation of Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla: King of Monsters (1956)…same flick…just add Raymond Burr.

The Americanized version with Burr was the only version of the original Godzilla available outside of Japan until 2004 (why, Toho?), stoking kaiju love worldwide that’s lasted the past several decades.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:41:56pm

re: #75 TedStriker

The Americanized version with Burr was the only version of the original Godzilla available outside of Japan until 2004 (why, Toho?), stoking kaiju love worldwide that’s lasted the past several decades.

Kaiju are just big chickens and we already de-boned that subject this morning.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:42:41pm

re: #76 darthstar

Kaiju are just big chickens and we already de-boned that subject this morning.

That was more than 12 hours ago and you’re still going. I think, at this point, you’re supposed to see a doctor.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:43:00pm

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:43:01pm

re: #74 darthstar

There are only so many roles for a skull named Yorick.

There is a series, Slings and Arrows, largely about Yorick’s skull. A starving Shakespeare company is saved when the dying lead actor bequeaths his fortune, on the condition that his skull is used in all future Hamlet’s.
imdb.com

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:44:53pm

re: #78 darthstar

Was there a holo-deck in the first series? I do not recall. “Computer, end program.” didn’t start until TNG I believe.

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:45:13pm

re: #78 darthstar

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I’m ready to call for a level 5 diagnostic at work. Any opening….

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:45:51pm

Trump Hit Judge Cannon Up For Another Favor In Florida Docs Case

I worry that this is the end of the MAr-a-lago case in Florida. Cannon will, of course, allow this gonzo request. It will delay the trial and, if some classified documents are not produced, she will declare the prosecution in contempt. Time for Bedmionster and DC indictments.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:45:58pm

re: #65 Decatur Deb

In N Out won’t be raising theirs they already pay their employees well lol

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:46:27pm

re: #76 darthstar

Kaiju are just big chickens and we already de-boned that subject this morning.

re: #77 Nerdy Fish

That was more than 12 hours ago and you’re still going. I think, at this point, you’re supposed to see a doctor.

Kaiju > dinosaurs > birds > chickens and turkeys

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:46:35pm

re: #80 darthstar

Was there a holo-deck in the first series? I do not recall. “Computer, end program.” didn’t start until TNG I believe.

one of the animated Star Trek episodes had the Holodeck—The Practical Joker

imdb.com

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:48:13pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

one of the animated Star Trek episodes had the Holodeck—The Practical Joker

imdb.com

And TAS is part of TOS (and overall Trek) canon.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:50:13pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

one of the animated Star Trek episodes had the Holodeck—The Practical Joker

imdb.com

Although it wasn’t called the holodeck, there, and it was operated manually from a console rather than by voice command.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:51:21pm

New Owner Of Baltimore Sun Insults Staff On Day One

And print media becomes even more irrelevant.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:52:42pm

re: #79 Decatur Deb

There is a series, Slings and Arrows, largely about Yorick’s skull. A starving Shakespeare company is saved when the dying lead actor bequeaths his fortune, on the condition that his skull is used in all future Hamlet’s.
imdb.com

Highly recommended.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:52:42pm

You know what my house and Shreveport, Louisiana have in common right now?

At both places it’s 32°F.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:53:28pm

NY Post: * Posts Click-bait article about a dangerous-lookin COVID-19 strain in a Chinese lab *
Commenters: This can’t be true - Community Notes, make this right!
Approved CN: This is false! It’s not a COVID-19 strain, but a different coronavirus.
Commenters: That’s not what we were worried about!

Am I the only one who finds it ridiculous? Seems to me it’s not the Community Notes folks’ job to do investigative reporting, and the only note that got approved was the one that showed the obvious error (Post just had to not include the ‘19’ part in the title).

Edit: looks like the notes all got removed a short while ago, including pending. Got a screenshot from earlier though.

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:54:14pm

re: #87 A Three Hour Tour

Although it wasn’t called the holodeck, there, and it was operated manually from a console rather than by voice command.

TBH, most everything in TOS starships was controlled with actual buttons and switches; voice control of many ship’s functions didn’t really become a regular thing till TNG (with the exception of setting the Enterprise’s self-destruct in The Search for Spock)

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:56:07pm

Completely missed out on the polar vortex here.

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:56:55pm

re: #73 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah now I’m getting hungry for a Fatburger!

When it’s done right ain’t nothing else like it!

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There’s one of those at Firewheel Town Center in Garland. It wasn’t bad. I think Freddy’s is a little better.

The one thing about the Metroplex being in the middle is we have at least one of everything.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:58:00pm

re: #92 TedStriker

TBH, most everything in TOS starships was controlled with actual buttons and switches; voice control of pretty much all ship’s functions didn’t really become a regular thing till TNG (with the exception of setting the Enterprise’s self-destruct in The Search for Spock)

Which was in itself a callback to the self-destruct sequence in “Let That Be You Last Battlefield.”

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:58:43pm

Intolerable cruelty - ‘pro-family’ Republican demands children be kidnapped from their parents

A preview of a GP attack - Democrats are in favor of child trafickking because they do not want families separated at the border so that it can be determined that they are really famil. This was so far out for a lying MAGA that the conservatiove being interviewed laughed. But they are deadly serious.

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2024 • 6:59:32pm

re: #95 A Three Hour Tour

Which was in itself a callback to the self-destruct sequence in “Let That Be You Last Battlefield.”

Ohhh, yeah…

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:00:16pm

re: #96 silverdolphin

It’s pretty much time we went back to the practice of asking Republicans when they stopped beating their wives.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:02:11pm

re: #89 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Highly recommended.

Loved it until the last plot turn.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:02:38pm

The mainstream media coverage of the Iowa caucus this year was pretty infuriating. Sure, let’s expend countless pixels, ink, and time on television breathlessly “debating” the meaning of 100,000 fucking MAGAt goobers putting Fuckface Von Clownstick’s name in a paper bag, in a state that sent Steve King to Congress for 18 fucking years. Utterly meaningless horseshit went down on Monday, but you wouldn’t know it if you watched cable news or read The Washington Post.

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:05:40pm

Mastodon

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Ferdinand  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:05:57pm

re: #93 teleskiguy

Completely missed out on the polar vortex here.

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We had like a 55 degree temp shift in Denver yesterday, -18 early morning but up to 37 in the afternoon

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:06:41pm

re: #73 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah now I’m getting hungry for a Fatburger!

When it’s done right ain’t nothing else like it!

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Crud. I have to go over 24 hours without anything solid. That looks SOOOOOOO good.

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:09:03pm

re: #103 silverdolphin

Crud. I have to go over 24 hours without anything solid. That looks SOOOOOOO good.

When my twin sisters were pre-toddlers, what they had for dinner was whatever we had for dinner, with a spin in the blender.

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Florida Panhandler  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:10:25pm

re: #96 silverdolphin

Intolerable cruelty - ‘pro-family’ Republican demands children be kidnapped from their parents

A preview of a GP attack - Democrats are in favor of child trafickking because they do not want families separated at the border so that it can be determined that they are really famil. This was so far out for a lying MAGA that the conservatiove being interviewed laughed. But they are deadly serious.

Well, Ethnic cleansing is serious business.

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:12:50pm

Rando

That [speaker] Johnson and so many other American evangelicals still support proud rapist/adulterer/racist/liar/bully/crook/traitor Trump further confirms what we already knew: their invocation of moral and religious values as the basis for their political views and actions is a shameless lie. They subordinate their so-called principles in favor of money and political clout, plain and simple.

The one positive aspect of all this is that their moral hypocrisy is now so obvious no one can fail to see it. They are a cancer on both Christianity and conservatism, and men of true principle when it comes to both recognized that long ago.

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.” – Winston Churchill

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:14:47pm

How many days till shutdown?

Well at least the border isn’t an issue any more. Tfg and Johnson both said so.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:19:40pm

re: #71 jaunte

right? Every franchise is just a “investment” it’s not because they want or care about the food it’s just a vehicle to throw money at and write off at the end of the year.

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Egregious Philbin  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:20:54pm

Trump looks worse than an embalmed corpse. He is not gonna live much longer. I’ve seen that look before.

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EPR-radar  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:21:05pm

re: #106 Dangerman

I would argue that braindead MAGAts are the final form of conservatism, after it has shed all pretenses of being civilized.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:21:10pm

re: #73 Joe Bacon ✅

there is only one near us, it is amazing but not cheap.

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EPR-radar  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:21:26pm

re: #109 Egregious Philbin

Trump looks worse than an embalmed corpse. He is not gonna live much longer. I’ve seen that look before.

I’ll keep him in my prayers.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:22:04pm

re: #108 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

The rent and taxes never go down, so the only place to cut costs is food quality, maintenance and worker pay.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:24:24pm

re: #109 Egregious Philbin

Trump looks worse than an embalmed corpse. He is not gonna live much longer. I’ve seen that look before.

I am not sure I want to be so optimistic yet.

/

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Egregious Philbin  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:26:47pm

re: #112 EPR-radar

They are working furiously to build a new wing in hell for him.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:28:10pm

Those open wounds on FVC’s hand touted by Drudge early on? I’m in agreement with QuadCityPat.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:29:55pm

Just found out its going to be a third snow day in Memphis tomorrow 😉 I don’t even want to imagine what it would take to have three snow days in a row off in Wisconsin… 😱

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Egregious Philbin  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:32:42pm

re: #117 William Lewis

After a cold snap here, its gonna be in the mid 70’s here, but me and my wife have the nasty head cold/chest cold thingy. She had it two weeks ago, I got it a week ago and am getting better, and, she got it all over again….womp womp.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:35:33pm

Just checked weather.com and it shows LosAngeles getting showers on Saturday and Sunday with rain on Monday. And the extended forecast shows it’s partly cloudy for the rest of the month.

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EPR-radar  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:37:13pm

re: #116 teleskiguy

There’s always the hope these wounds start to fester.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:40:07pm

re: #117 William Lewis

Never once had a snow day (primary school days 1987-2000), even when it snowed two feet overnight. Eagle County Schools in those days were prepared. Also the district was small, a few hundred kids per school on the buses, and the drivers were excellent (most of them it was a second job, they’re first job was ranching or diesel repair). In recent years there have been more snow days. More students (thousands need to be schlepped around now) and a dearth of good bus drivers.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:42:56pm

In the last 10 or so days it has snowed 8 of ‘em…

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:46:39pm

We went 25 days with no snow at all. Sunny blue skies and cold nights. The snow that was on the ground during that 25 days now has the consistency of sugar. And it’s being piled on by several feet of snow.

And shit like this happens later in the winter.

Avalanche forecasters have a term for this, Deep Persistent Slab problem.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2024 • 7:52:31pm

Now they’re worried about rain/freezing rain/ice tomorrow. That would be major ick on top of 5” of snow in south TN where they don’t have any way to handle it.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:02:39pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

You know what my house and Shreveport, Louisiana have in common right now?

At both places it’s 32°F.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:04:54pm

re: #107 Dangerman

How many days till shutdown?

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Well at least the border isn’t an issue any more. Tfg and Johnson both said so.

Dr Fauci made the Corona virus on Hunter Biden’s laptop after all. It’s all in Hillary’s emails and hand written on Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:06:29pm

re: #116 teleskiguy

Those open wounds on FVC’s hand touted by Drudge early on? I’m in agreement with QuadCityPat.

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Cool, so Trump’s just your garden variety dipshit who doesn’t understand how to function in cold weather.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:10:44pm

Fuck…I knew I was always missing one step…the last corner fold before rolling. This is the best thing I’ve learned since I found out how to roll a joint with one hand while driving.

Mastodon

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Semper Fi  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:22:34pm

re: #128 darthstar

Fuck…I knew I was always missing one step…the last corner fold before rolling. This is the best thing I’ve learned since I found out how to roll a joint with one hand while driving.

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Got it! Thanks.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:35:10pm

re: #70 teleskiguy

A lot of my Dad’s students knew him as “Coach.” They’d call him that in the classroom, he didn’t mind. I saw it.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:35:56pm

Texas refuses to comply with Biden administration’s cease-and-desist letter about border access

They really want a military confrontation. They need to put the Texas Military forces under a seige. especially since I believe the boat launch in the park is the access the Feds use to the Rio Grande. They have a Coast Guard group there to patrol the river.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:36:18pm

re: #127 darthstar

Cool, so Trump’s just your garden variety dipshit who doesn’t understand how to function in cold weather.

No surprise there. After all, he was the guy who initially viewed the solar eclipse without glasses.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:36:41pm

Tonight’s brag on Jot.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:41:13pm

re: #133 jaunte

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:43:59pm

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:44:58pm

re: #134 teleskiguy

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:46:27pm

re: #133 jaunte

Tonight’s brag on Jot.

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:46:56pm

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teleskiguy  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:48:17pm

re: #136 jaunte

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piratedan  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:50:47pm

re: #131 silverdolphin

my question is, if you have a state governor that refuses to acknowledge Federal Authority, what recourse is there to make them comply?

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:52:02pm

re: #10 silverdolphin

Maybe have the SO take a sharpie and write a note as a tramp stamp that says “Abandon all hope ye who enter”.

Good luck and I hope it all comes out well! Well, you know what I mean… ;)

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:54:00pm

re: #137 wrenchwench

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Jay C  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:56:38pm

re: #142 jaunte

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 8:57:47pm

re: #142 jaunte

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 9:00:42pm

Miami Shoes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 9:02:11pm

re: #131 silverdolphin

Texas refuses to comply with Biden administration’s cease-and-desist letter about border access

They really want a military confrontation. They need to put the Texas Military forces under a seige. especially since I believe the boat launch in the park is the access the Feds use to the Rio Grande. They have a Coast Guard group there to patrol the river.

Fox News really wants that confrontation so they can exploit it for all it’s worth.

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wrenchwench  Jan 17, 2024 • 9:27:46pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2024 • 9:46:04pm

re: #147 wrenchwench

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 17, 2024 • 9:59:27pm

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 10:40:41pm

re: #140 piratedan

my question is, if you have a state governor that refuses to acknowledge Federal Authority, what recourse is there to make them comply?

Well, he could federalize the Texas Military Force (I believe all are covered under the same law that federalizes the National Guard) and order them out. Failure to follow a legal order and they get court martialed.

Federalize some National Guard (or the FBI) and set up a siege around the park, not letting anything/anyone in or out. Arrest those who try.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 17, 2024 • 10:43:28pm

re: #119 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah, I was counting on no rain on Monday, as I have a doctor’s appointment.

A week ago the long range forecast for the 22nd was for no rain… now, rain is expected.

But the NWS has also said there is quite a spread in the models, as for precip amount.

And being farther south, we might end up with either no rain, or more rain, than you up in LA.

Still, the long range forecast is for being mostly dry the rest of January.

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2024 • 10:50:36pm

re: #150 silverdolphin

Well, he could federalize the Texas Military Force (I believe all are covered under the same law that federalizes the National Guard) and order them out. Failure to follow a legal order and they get court martialed.

Federalize some National Guard (or the FBI) and set up a siege around the park, not letting anything/anyone in or out. Arrest those who try.

State guards/militias that are outside the federal military command structure cannot be federalized as the National Guard can be (which is how Ike was able to take the Arkansas National Guard out of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation fight in 1957, by federalizing them and ordering them to stay in barracks while he called in the 101st Airborne under the Enforcement Acts to carry out SCOTUS’ desegregation order under Brown v. Board of Education); they are fully under the control of that state’s governor and military command structure.

The Chieftain (Nicholas Moran) has a video about this very subject:
Military Civics: The Many Armies of the United States

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mmmirele  Jan 17, 2024 • 11:08:30pm

My brother just called. He is on the way to the ER.

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silverdolphin  Jan 17, 2024 • 11:11:31pm

re: #152 TedStriker

State guards/militias that are outside the federal military command structure cannot be federalized as the National Guard and Reserves can be (which is how Ike was able to take the Arkansas National Guard out of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation fight, by federalizing them and ordering them to stay in barracks while he called the 101st Airborne in to enforce the desegregation order); they are fully under the control of that state’s governor and military command structure.

The Chieftain has a video about this very subject:
Military Civics: The Many Armies of the United States

The Texax Military forces are made up of Army National Guard, Air Force National Guard and the Texas State Guard. The article I read said it was the Texas National Guard that was doing this so I would expect they could be federalized. But yes, Texas does have a state militia outside Federal control it could mobilize.

The Feds are being allowed access to the boat ramp, which I thought would have been the most obvious interference with Federal agents. I wonder what would happen if they cut and took down the concertina wire blocking access?

I guess we will find out what the DOJ can do?

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2024 • 11:34:00pm

re: #154 silverdolphin

The Texax Military forces are made up of Army National Guard, Air Force National Guard and the Texas State Guard. The article I read said it was the Texas National Guard that was doing this so I would expect they could be federalized. But yes, Texas does have a state militia outside Federal control it could mobilize.

The Feds are being allowed access to the boat ramp, which I thought would have been the most obvious interference with Federal agents. I wonder what would happen if they cut and took down the concertina wire blocking access?

I guess we will find out what the DOJ can do?

Part of me would love nothing better than for President Biden to federalize the TXNG (which would also happen to include Nicholas Moran, whose video I posted above, who is currently a lieutenant colonel in the TXNG’s 1st Armored Division’s HQ at Fort Bliss, IIRC, when not at his day job as director of militaria for wargaming.net). However, another part of me fears that, were federalization invoked, Governor Abbott, through his control of the TX State Guard, would mobilize the State Guard against the federalized TXNG (if they hadn’t been ordered to barracks, as Ike did in in Arkansas in 1957), Border Patrol, and Coast Guard down on the Rio Grande and turn it this into a literal Mexican standoff; the fucking media, especially Fox News, would be ecstatic.

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Cheechako  Jan 17, 2024 • 11:46:14pm

I ran into the Texas State Guard during a assignment years ago for Hurricane Katrina. This was at the old Kelly AFB in San Antone, TX. At that time, the Texas State Guard was an honorary group composed of old, white men and were all Colonels. Never saw any other rank. Liked to parade around wearing fatigues.

The bunch I saw would not be very effective fighters.

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Captain Ron  Jan 17, 2024 • 11:46:15pm

re: #155 TedStriker

A large scale TLAM strike could take out Texas command and control infrastructure.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 17, 2024 • 11:53:58pm

When I was on the table for my colonoscopy, the anesthetist was doing her thing, and the doc started up a conversation like he was actually interested in me. So after he asked me where I was from, said LA and some other babble. The next thing I remember I was in the recovery room. I’m sure they had a good laugh over that

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silverdolphin  Jan 18, 2024 • 12:15:57am

re: #158 EstebanTornado1963

When I was on the table for my colonoscopy, the anesthetist was doing her thing, and the doc started up a conversation like he was actually interested in me. So after he asked me where I was from, said LA and some other babble. The next thing I remember I was in the recovery room. I’m sure they had a good laugh over that

I hitnk that is something they do now. I had a similar thing happen when I was given short-term anesthesia. Better than counting backwards from 100.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 18, 2024 • 12:28:50am

re: #34 garzooma

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That’s what came to my mind when I saw that song name

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Targetpractice  Jan 18, 2024 • 12:38:03am

*sigh*

Our busy-body guest came by earlier in the shift to inform me that she’d heard what she characterized as “child abuse” and wanted to know what I was going to do about it. I tried to tell her that unless I heard or witnessed it myself then there’s not much I can do, which she found insufficient so she decided to call the cops on the room. Cop showed up, spoke to the guest in the room, and then left in under 15 minutes. Since then, she’s been by the desk twice and called me just 10 minutes ago seeking my agreement that she totally heard some kids getting beat and the other guests in the room are covering for the one responsible.

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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 1:03:47am

Obviously a non-biker.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 1:14:38am

re: #18 darthstar

TIL that talking about our respective colonoscopies is one of the better things social media has to offer.

Over a bottle of Italian Swiss Colonoscopy wine

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 1:16:58am

re: #26 Dangerman

“President Trump is not wrong,” Johnson responds. “He and I have been talking about this pretty frequently.”

Translated “President Trump cannot be wrong, he has been threatening me about this quite intensely.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 1:18:38am

re: #46 EPR-radar

Nazis also thought women needed to produce babies for the benefit of the state.

Only ones that were up to racial hygiene standards

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 1:24:59am

re: #126 darthstar

Dr Fauci made the Corona virus on Hunter Biden’s laptop in the basement of the pedophile pizza parlor after all. It’s all in Hillary’s emails and hand written on Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

you omitted important detail

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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 2:16:38am
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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 2:24:03am

YouTube

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silverdolphin  Jan 18, 2024 • 3:39:03am

SCOTUS Extremists Are Ready To Boot Important Regulation Precedent

The SCOTUS will likely release their decision in the middle of the Presidential campaign. And the Congress and the Judiciary have no ability to micromanage any of this. They are not experts yet this ruling would allow climate deniers the ability to stop all mitigations, anti-vaxxers to prrevent new vaccines and medicines.

The chaos created will not be helpful for the Republicans. And, unless we fix it quickly, would destroy humanity.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 3:42:16am

re: #169 silverdolphin

SCOTUS Extremists Are Ready To Boot Important Regulation Precedent

The SCOTUS will likely release their decision in the middle of the Presidential campaign. And the Congress and the Judiciary have no ability to micromanage any of this. They are not experts yet this ruling would allow climate deniers the ability to stop all mitigations, anti-vaxxers to prrevent new vaccines and medicines.

The chaos created will not be helpful for the Republicans. And, unless we fix it quickly, would destroy humanity.

Lawyers I’ve read have varying opinions on the doctrine of Chevron deference, but all agree that while the decision itself may not be correct, the idea that Congress and the courts can - or will - step in to replace the machinery of the administrative state is absurd. The end result is going to be the complete destruction of the centralized federal government, essentially bringing us back to the days of the Articles of Confederation.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 18, 2024 • 3:45:00am

re: #161 Targetpractice

I’m kind of glad that she’s vigilant but she did all she can do. The police came and investigated so that’s that.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 3:47:30am

BAH HUMBUG.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 18, 2024 • 3:49:29am

A little bitter cold drive time music to warm you up.

Ariana Grande - yes, and? (official music video)

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Decatur Deb  Jan 18, 2024 • 3:59:05am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

Lawyers I’ve read have varying opinions on the doctrine of Chevron deference, but all agree that while the decision itself may not be correct, the idea that Congress and the courts can - or will - step in to replace the machinery of the administrative state is absurd. The end result is going to be the complete destruction of the centralized federal government, essentially bringing us back to the days of the Articles of Confederation.

Y’all say that as though it were a bad thing.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:00:36am

re: #174 Decatur Deb

Y’all say that as though it were a bad thing.

Considering that it wasn’t even good enough for the vaunted Founding Fathers, whom the Reich Wing idolize so much…

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Decatur Deb  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:02:14am

re: #175 Nerdy Fish

Jefferson Davis was cool with it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:03:28am

Could’ve had it in two, but I got a par.
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:04:38am

re: #176 Decatur Deb

Jefferson Davis was cool with it.

He is on of their their Founding Fathers, along with Clay and Calhoun

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:05:03am

re: #176 Decatur Deb

Jefferson Davis was cool with it.

Yeah, and we saw how that worked out for him. Fleeing for their life in a woman’s dress is not how I imagine most Republicans think their political career will end.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:06:11am

Now that’s what I’m calling a heckova guess #2! Heckova guess, indeed.

Morning all!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:06:28am

re: #179 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, and we saw how that worked out for him. Fleeing for their life in a woman’s dress is not how I imagine most Republicans think their political career will end.

They might enjoy running around in women’s clothing, but in private…

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:08:16am

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

They might enjoy running around in women’s clothing, but in private…

Among many other things they otherwise condemn out loud.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:10:31am

After a day and a night of freezing rain, we finally got our WInter Wunderland (view out of living room window)

But underneath that fluffy blanket lies a sheet of sheer peril.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:11:21am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:12:25am

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

they are grooming an entire nation to accept fascism and white supremacy

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:37:45am

Ukrainian soldiers struggle with ammunition shortages against Russian forces

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William Lewis  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:38:53am

I am saddened to note that Peter Schickele aka PDQ Bach passed away yesterday. In his memory, I give you this: The 1712 Overture 😎

1712 Overture

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:41:35am

I didn’t know writing a book was a prerequisite for getting elected to the Presidency.

A politician seen as a potential “replacement” for aging President Joe Biden is taking another, somewhat speedy, step onto the national stage by rushing out a book, Page Six is told.

Sources exclusively tell Page Six that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has sold a book — usually seen as a prerequisite for anyone setting out to run for the highest office in the land — that is expected to be on shelves as soon as June.

A publishing insider told us that Whitmer, “just signed a big seven-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster, at auction, for a book to be rushed out as soon as possible.”

Whitmer’s deal comes as her name is increasingly being mentioned as a top-tier contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 — or earlier, if President Biden’s health rapidly declines — a well-connected Democratic source told us.

pagesix.com.

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Targetpractice  Jan 18, 2024 • 4:51:50am

re: #171 Patricia Kayden

I’m kind of glad that she’s vigilant but she did all she can do. The police came and investigated so that’s that.

She called in an anonymous report to the cops about something she did not witness and that was it. The cop showed up with a room number and a vague allegation, could only ask a few basic questions and look around, and then left empty-handed. And all I got out of it was an angry guest wanting to know who it was that called the cops and accused him of abusing his grandchildren.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:00:20am

re: #189 Targetpractice

She called in an anonymous report to the cops about something she did not witness and that was it. The cop showed up with a room number and a vague allegation, could only ask a few basic questions and look around, and then left empty-handed. And all I got out of it was an angry guest wanting to know who it was that called the cops and accused him of abusing his grandchildren.

I guess I wonder what I’m supposed to do in a situation where I think something nefarious is going on. You’ve already told me that you personally need to hear/observe something before you can intervene, but I’m afraid for someone’s life. What do I do?

For the record, I’m empathetic to your pain. I get why it’s annoying to you, and it’s clear that this woman is in the wrong here. I’m trying to ask what she should have done, assuming her fears were valid.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:05:37am

re: #26 Dangerman

DNCC and Biden campaign should be running that as an ad that runs on a loop in every red state - the GOP doesn’t want to solve immigration. They want to break it and keep it broken.

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Targetpractice  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:06:05am

re: #190 Nerdy Fish

I guess I wonder what I’m supposed to do in a situation where I think something nefarious is going on. You’ve already told me that you personally need to hear/observe something before you can intervene, but I’m afraid for someone’s life. What do I do?

For the record, I’m empathetic to your pain. I get why it’s annoying to you, and it’s clear that this woman is in the wrong here. I’m trying to ask what she should have done, assuming her fears were valid.

Call the cops and tell them who you are. Don’t scream “I MUST DO SOMETHING!” and then quietly add “But I don’t want anybody mad at me.” Make the cop’s job easier by giving him 1 or more witnesses he can ask questions and get on the record. She put me on the spot because I already had to lie to the guest about what I knew as the alternative was getting him pissed off with her, but if the cop had come back from the room and asked if I knew who made the call, it could get my ass in trouble with the law to cover for her.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:06:35am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Pretty and pretty awful - frozen rain/ice below everything is the worst kind of weather.

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William Lewis  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:10:20am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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After a day and a night of freezing rain, we finally got our WInter Wunderland (view out of living room window)

But underneath that fluffy blanket lies a sheet of sheer peril.

That’s ick. Time to break out metric (since you’re in Europe) shit tons of salt & sand and wait for it to get above zero degrees C.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:14:17am

re: #191 lawhawk

DNCC and Biden campaign should be running that as an ad that runs on a loop in every red state - the GOP doesn’t want to solve immigration. They want to break it and keep it broken.

again: there are too many parties who have an interest in keeping it broken. They want it to remain illegal but still ensure a steady supply of cheap, easily exploited labor.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:15:26am

re: #194 William Lewis

That’s ick. Time to break out metric (since you’re in Europe) shit tons of salt & sand and wait for it to get above zero degrees C.

It is hovering right around 0°C which is why we got the freezing rain all day yesterday which did not start turning into snow until the wee hours of this morning.

I already went through a 3kg bag of salt

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Decatur Deb  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:25:30am

re: #192 Targetpractice

Call the cops and tell them who you are. Don’t scream “I MUST DO SOMETHING!” and then quietly add “But I don’t want anybody mad at me.” Make the cop’s job easier by giving him 1 or more witnesses he can ask questions and get on the record. She put me on the spot because I already had to lie to the guest about what I knew as the alternative was getting him pissed off with her, but if the cop had come back from the room and asked if I knew who made the call, it could get my ass in trouble with the law to cover for her.

No one saw child abuse, but she did hear noise. The situation should have been handled as a noise complaint. That would have stopped any kid beating for the night. It wouldn’t help the kid next Tuesday.

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Targetpractice  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:42:52am

re: #197 Decatur Deb

No one saw child abuse, but she did hear noise. The situation should have been handled as a noise complaint. That would have stopped any kid beating for the night. It wouldn’t help the kid next Tuesday.

Sadly, it’s no different than if you walked by an apartment or a house and you heard the same thing. You can call the cops, you can make complaints, but unless they’re caught in the act then there’s not much that can be done to resolve the situation.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 18, 2024 • 5:50:28am

re: #198 Targetpractice

There is also the prevailing notion that adding cops to a situation is a good way to make it worse. A victimized kid’s best hope is an alert neighbor, teacher, or ER doc.

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Targetpractice  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:10:14am

re: #199 Decatur Deb

There is also the prevailing notion that adding cops to a situation is a good way to make it worse. A victimized kid’s best hope is an alert neighbor, teacher, or ER doc.

I think what I’m getting at is getting the cop involved really accomplished little more than if I’d gone and checked on the room myself. The conclusion that’s most kind to her is that she brought the abuse to the child to a halt for the night or possibly longer, but the less kind conclusion is she let her imagination run wild and not only falsely accused a 70 year old man of child abuse but also wasted police resources. For all I know, he had the TV turned up too loudly and she overhead a scene from a movie.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:14:41am

Seditious treasonweasel NY Rep Elise Stefanik is busy sucking up to Trump all while floating (and having the media float) the possibility of being his VP.

She’s repeatedly regurgitated the same venomous extremism Trump spews, including calling justly and properly convicted and sentenced 1/6 seditious treasonweasels hostages, and equating the 1/6 convicts with the Hamas held Israeli hostages.

This fucker should get thrown out of Congress for violating the 14th Amendment, and Rep. Dan Goldman introduced a resolution to censure Stefanik (which will go nowhere since the GOP holds a razor thin margin in the House).

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:20:42am

re: #201 lawhawk

How does she help him win over the non-MAGAts? She’s a forced birther, an election denier, she voted against expelling Santos and she lies as much as Trump does. Being a woman isn’t enough to make her useful to his electability.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:22:32am

The Greyboy Allstars - “Got to Get Me a Job” (Official)

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jeffreyw  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:24:33am

chicken dumpling mashed potatos

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:27:19am

re: #204 jeffreyw

If those were Mosque Mice, would they want to talk about Fallahfel?

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:28:31am

re: #202 Patricia Kayden

She’s a Trumpist. That’s all she brings to the table, and she’s such a sycophantic suckup that it is all that matters to a fascist Trump who doesn’t care about anything else. He figures she’ll do whatever he wants, including violating the constitution to keep him in power should he ever get back in the WH and invalidate results of elections in states he wont carry in 2028.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:29:37am

re: #204 jeffreyw

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:33:49am

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:34:13am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:36:14am

re: #208 Patricia Kayden

It is a beautiful thing to see. Go Joe and Jill. :)

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No Malarkey!  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:38:59am

re: #209 Patricia Kayden

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:39:37am

re: #172 Nerdy Fish

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Mike Lamb  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:43:59am

re: #209 Patricia Kayden

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:46:48am

re: #206 lawhawk

She’s a Trumpist. That’s all she brings to the table

That is all she needs to bring. DJT places personal loyalty above all else.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:47:50am

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:48:38am
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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:49:05am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is all she needs to bring. DJT places personal loyalty above all else.

Trump isn’t going to pick anyone who might even remotely act as a restraint on Trump’s fascist impulses. He wants toadies and those who tell him what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear.

You know, like Hitler and his inner circle.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:50:31am

Oldie but…….. Shakin!!

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:54:16am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Translated “President Trump cannot be wrong, he has been threatening me about this quite intensely.”

Johnson is an insurrectionist; he probably initiated the contact to find out what action of his would best help his master.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:54:35am

If you ever want to see a poll that describes “Person A against generic candidate” vs “Person A against Person B” look at where Phillips is compared to Other:

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 6:59:41am

re: #221 Belafon

Like I said before, he’s going to get primaried, and I’m voting for his challenger. He’ll probably find a job representing my district in the state house or something; there’s plenty of Republicans here in the suburbs that’ll vote for him.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:00:04am

re: #188 Shropshire Slasher

I didn’t know writing a book was a prerequisite for getting elected to the Presidency.

pagesix.com.

You mean having a “ghost-written” book, don’t you?

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dat_said  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:09:52am

re: #221 Belafon

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Dave In Austin  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:11:21am

Old World Masters.

Jimmy Herring Band — Matt’s Funk

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:12:06am

re: #215 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Trump wants to help Putin’ score a massive win”

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a good, short explainer about the trouble mikey’s in w/r/t the border

today’s electoral-vote.com

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darthstar  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:16:33am

re: #227 Dangerman

a good, short explainer about the trouble mikey’s in w/r/t the border

today’s electoral-vote.com

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Nice….I like this part…

Over at the other end of the Capitol, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has proactively killed the Lankford/Murphy bill, even before it is finished, saying it has to be his way or not at all. The senators aren’t taking him very seriously, though, and are still trying to put together a bill that can pass the Senate with a large bipartisan majority. Once that is done, they will confront Johnson with the fact that he can’t pass any bill that has a prayer in the Senate and maybe not even a prayer in the House since what the Freedom Caucus wants is not going to get any Democratic votes and maybe not all the votes of the Biden 17.

Some Republican senators are cautiously telling Johnson to pipe down. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said: “I understand the Speaker has got a very tough job and he’s got an unruly constituency of Republicans over there, but it makes no sense to me for us to do nothing when we might be able to make things better and stem the flow of humanity across the border for the next year.” (English translation: “Johnson, if no bill passes Congress it will be your fault.”) Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the #2 Republican in the Senate, said: “It’s not like you have somebody that you’ve worked through a lot of these types of battles in the past [with].” (English translation: “Johnson is a newbie and has no idea how things get done around here.”)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:20:24am

re: #116 teleskiguy

Those open wounds on FVC’s hand touted by Drudge early on? I’m in agreement with QuadCityPat.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:21:21am

re: #229 GlutenFreeJesus

Alpha males don’t wear gloves! My hands my choice!

“I’ll lick that frozen pole if I want to.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:22:18am

Congressional candidate in Colorado GOP primary was arrested for driving drunk, carrying gun in 2022

and he’s running against Klannie Oakley…

denver7.com

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Florida Panhandler  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:23:28am

re: #174 Decatur Deb

Y’all say that as though it were a bad thing.

Various states will quickly threaten violence against other states. I am specifically talking about Texas at least threatening California for sure. Balkanization will happen quickly with some parts of states ripped off to join other states and direct paramilitary action against other states over trade routes and water rights.

This is not dystopian fever dream. Texas has already shown in real life what they want to do with concentration camps, military action against Federal authorities and human trafficking.

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A Cranky One  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:24:30am

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:24:45am

re: #229 GlutenFreeJesus

Another theory is that Trump slipped and fell and bruised his hands while trying to grab on to a railing or something else. That’s also the least extreme explanation for the bruising/welts.

Of course, Trump could claim that it’s stigmata (as suggested by Keith Olbermann in jest) but his base would lap it up.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:24:55am

re: #232 Florida Panhandler

Various states will quickly threaten violence against other states. I am specifically talking about Texas at least threatening California for sure. Balkanization will happen quickly with some parts of states ripped off to join other states and direct paramilitary action against other states over trade routes and water rights.

This is not dystopian fever dream. Texas has already shown in real life what they want to do with concentration camps, military action against Federal authorities and human trafficking.

It’s going to lead to a breakup of the US into at least a dozen pieces.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:26:40am

re: #234 lawhawk

I would not be surprised if he tried that.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:28:08am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

Lawyers I’ve read have varying opinions on the doctrine of Chevron deference, but all agree that while the decision itself may not be correct, the idea that Congress and the courts can - or will - step in to replace the machinery of the administrative state is absurd. The end result is going to be the complete destruction of the centralized federal government, essentially bringing us back to the days of the Articles of Confederation.

They think they’re taking us to 1910.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:28:27am

re: #235 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s going to lead to a breakup of the US into at least a dozen pieces.

Nearly every “what if the South had won the Civil War?” alternate history I have encountered assumes that the Confederacy would remain intact and not split up into individual states or sub-conferacies.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:31:37am

re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Nearly every “what if the South had won the Civil War?” alternate history I have encountered assumes that the Confederacy would remain intact and not split up into individual states or sub-conferacies.

In reality the Confederate States were at each others throats on multiple matters.

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Nojay UK  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:33:01am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

In reality the Confederate States were at each others throats on multiple matters.

I don’t recall who came up with the phrase “sack of rabid badgers” but I’ve kept it in a safe place ever since I first encountered it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:33:42am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

In reality the Confederate States were at each others throats on multiple matters.

Exactly. Although the Confederate Army was desperate for supplies, warehouses in Atlanta were brimming with equipment which the state was reserving for Georgia regiments only.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:34:08am

re: #153 mmmirele

My brother just called. He is on the way to the ER.

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Florida Panhandler  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:34:26am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

Meanwhile, at least four Justices think that they should be the absolute monarchs of America, who answer only to the billionaires who openly bribe them. There is a chance that Roberts and Barrett will determine that they can rule for the Plaintiffs in this particular case without overturning Chevron deference, so let’s keep our fingers crossed.

If you ever want to see what the Federalist Society has been all about this whole time just wait till Trump becomes Dictator on Day 1. Members including SCOTUS will crater to his every whim in order to keep reaping all that juicy billionaire gravy.

Trump’s #1 priority is to be popular. He is a self-absorbed populist, not beholden to traditional rhetoric from Federalist Society wonks. Trump will quickly, on a second-by second basis, issue EOs to counter mundane economic complaints from Trump’s Base esp about $30k pickup trucks, $2 gas, insurance rates, interest rates, etc etc. whether or not those EOs actually are followed through on a long term basis is doubtful, but the very public display of formerly-socialist edicts will prove very popular and Federalist Society cult members will quickly drop all pretense about free market ideology if it means the white man can retain all the power in the country.

Trump is our Hugo Chavez.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:34:47am

Tomorrow’s weather in the Delaware Valley is going to be a mess. Right now the Nat’l Weather Service is calling for 3-5 inches of the white stuff.
forecast.weather.gov

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:37:34am

re: #243 Florida Panhandler

“I must destroy the judiciary since they keep preventing me from helping the average American.”

Just imagine if Biden had said he was going to abolish all student debt even though the Supreme Court ruled he couldn’t.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:37:59am

re: #230 Belafon

“I’ll lick that frozen pole if I want to.”

I triple dog dare you!

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:38:46am

re: #235 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s going to lead to a breakup of the US into at least a dozen pieces.

That’s what Russia has been working on — and they may very well succeed. The world will disintegrate into even more instability, with no hope for the future.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:39:44am

re: #247 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s what Russia has been working on — and they may very well succeed. The world will disintegrate into even more instability, with no hope for the future.

Yeah—just a reminder that the person who led the CalExit secession movement wound up moving to Russia.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:50:06am

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:50:47am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

Lawyers I’ve read have varying opinions on the doctrine of Chevron deference, but all agree that while the decision itself may not be correct, the idea that Congress and the courts can - or will - step in to replace the machinery of the administrative state is absurd. The end result is going to be the complete destruction of the centralized federal government, essentially bringing us back to the days of the Articles of Confederation.

this ‘deregulation’ can lead to something else.

sure environmentally and all, no regs and industries like construction, oil, etc can run roughshod.

but on the other side, say with pharmaceuticals, it wont be the wild west for them.

congress would have to explicitly approve every single specific drug (cause no fda)

aside from the absolute absurdity of the idea - not enough time or expertise, if they dont, it doesnt mean the drug companies can just create and sell a new drug. it means there is no drug..

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 7:52:44am

re: #250 Dangerman

this ‘deregulation’ can lead to something else.

sure environmentally and all, no regs and industries like construction, oil, etc can run roughshod.

but on the other side, say with pharmaceuticals, it wont be the wild west for them.

congress would have to explicitly approve every single specific drug (cause no fda)

aside from the absolute absurdity of the idea - not enough time or expertise, if they dont, it doesnt mean the drug companies can just create and sell a new drug. it means there is no drug..

Won’t stop the drug companies from flooding TV with ads for prescription drugs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:01:36am

re: #250 Dangerman

but on the other side, say with pharmaceuticals, it wont be the wild west for them.

congress would have to explicitly approve every single specific drug (cause no fda)

sort of like Europe before the EU when pharmaceutical companies had to get every drug certified by each separate country they sold it in…

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:07:48am

DOJ report on the Uvalde mass shooting is a damning indictment of the local/state police response, where they didn’t enter the building for 77 minutes.

77 fucking minutes. Instead of acting as though it was an active shooter situation that it was, they treated it as a barricaded persons incident, and the immediacy of responding dropped off.

Officers had many opportunities as the 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, was still unfolding to reassess their flawed response to the shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead, the US Justice Department concludes in a damning new report.

Bursts of gunfire, reports a teacher had been shot, then a desperate call from a student trapped with the gunman could - and should - all have prompted a drive to stop the bloodshed far sooner, the Critical Incident Review released Thursday says.

Instead, it took 77 minutes from when the 18-year-old shooter walked into Robb Elementary School until he was stopped. The carnage remains among the deadliest episodes in America’s ongoing scourge of campus shootings.

Critical failures in leadership among specific law enforcement officers who rushed to Robb Elementary are blamed by the Justice Department, whose 575-page report nearly 20 months after the massacre is the fullest official accounting of what happened, though much already was known largely through CNN investigation.

Despite the billions thrown at law enforcement to train and equip for these very scenarios, we see failure upon failure.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:14:48am

yeouch

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:15:03am

Measles outbreaks occurring despite easily obtainable vaccines.

We can thank Trump and antivaxxers for these outbreaks. Exemptions from vaccinations in kindergarten is at record levels. Outbreaks keep popping up where vaccination rates in the community dip, and herd immunity is breached.

About one in five people in the U.S. who get measles will be hospitalized. Measles can cause serious health complications especially in children younger than age 5 including ear infections, diarrhea, pneumonia, encephalitis (swelling of the brain) and even death, according to the CDC.

The first measles vaccine, a single-dose vaccine, was introduced in the U.S. in 1963. In the decade prior, there were three to four million cases annually, which led to 48,000 hospitalizations and 400 to 500 deaths.

The CDC recommends that people get two doses with the first dose at 12 to 15 months old and the second dose between ages 4 and 6. One dose is 93% effective and two doses are 97% effective.

Antivax misinformation has led to a rise in unvaccinated persons, and it means greater risk of infection for everyone in those communities.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:16:11am

re: #254 lawhawk

DOJ report on the Uvalde mass shooting is a damning indictment of the local/state police response, where they didn’t enter the building for 77 minutes.

77 fucking minutes. Instead of acting as though it was an active shooter situation that it was, they treated it as a barricaded persons incident, and the immediacy of responding dropped off.

Despite the billions thrown at law enforcement to train and equip for these very scenarios, we see failure upon failure.

It’s a damn good thing they didn’t block Border Patrol from the school. The rest of Texas Law Enforcement would have waited for the shooter to fall asleep.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:16:28am

re: #255 Dangerman

oh, apparently that wasn’t even the worst of her day.

At one point, Kaplan recessed while “Ms. Habba can take a moment to review the rules for submitting evidence.”

eta: it was part of this:

Kaplan: No, we are not going to read out loud a document not yet in evidence. We are going to take a break right here to 3:30 and you’re going to refresh your memory about how you get a document in.

When the court resumed session, Judge Kaplan warned Habba once again, “Ms. Habba can’t use documents that are not in evidence.”

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:17:53am

re: #255 Dangerman

Trump was in no way obligated to attend the trial. He chose to do so. That’s on him, not the Court. He can’t force a delay of the court because he can optionally attend.

That’s not how any of this works.

His lawyer Habba is going to get herself sanctioned. Again.

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sizzzzlerz  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:18:30am

re: #254 lawhawk

77 fucking minutes. Instead of acting as though it was an active shooter situation that it was, they treated it as a barricaded persons incident, and the immediacy of responding dropped off.

I guess they must of been waiting for that good guy with a gun to show up. Maybe he was caught in traffic?

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No Malarkey!  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:19:40am

re: #250 Dangerman

this ‘deregulation’ can lead to something else.

sure environmentally and all, no regs and industries like construction, oil, etc can run roughshod.

but on the other side, say with pharmaceuticals, it wont be the wild west for them.

congress would have to explicitly approve every single specific drug (cause no fda)

aside from the absolute absurdity of the idea - not enough time or expertise, if they dont, it doesnt mean the drug companies can just create and sell a new drug. it means there is no drug..

Ending Chevron deference isn’t quite that radical. The FDA will still exist, but the Justices will have the power to overrule any decision they don’t like, unless the law Congress passed is explicit and leaves no room for interpretation. The Federalist Society likes this right now because they dominate the Court, but when the Court was more balanced they liked Chevron deference because it protected the decisions of regulators in GOP Administrations.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:21:35am

re: #260 lawhawk

And Habba’s off to a rough start this morning with repeatedly being shut down by the judge after Carroll’s attorney raised objections to line of questioning.

Habba is asserting that Carroll doesn’t need the money, and that she was being treated as a liar before Trump’s claims, but those were objected for.

She attempted to admit more tweets into evidence, but the judge had had his fill. Each of the objections from Carroll’s lawyer ended in her favor.

Habba continued down the line of questioning to imply that Carroll, a relationship and advice columnist, was open to discussing sexually explicit topics. Each objection shut Habba down.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:21:45am
“If we want to stop a Trump restoration and the promised MAGA dictatorship, it’s going to require building a coalition of people who understand the stakes. And there are no messengers better equipped to convey the peril of a Trump presidency than those who lived it firsthand, on the inside.”

“But wait, haven’t they done that already? Mark Milley posed for a front-page spread in the Atlantic. John Kelly gave a statement to CNN. Others have back-channeled their grave misgivings, off the record, to Puck and Politico.”

“Hard truth: That’s not enough.”

“I talk to Republican primary voters every week in focus groups, and you know what they don’t read? The Atlantic, Puck, and Politico. Fundamentally, the reason they seem unbothered by Trump’s autocratic tendencies is that a lot of them don’t know about them.”

Link

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:22:39am

The schools could do active shooter drills with actual cops. Probably too traumatizing for the cops. Not in their contract.

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silverdolphin  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:22:59am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Exactly. Although the Confederate Army was desperate for supplies, warehouses in Atlanta were brimming with equipment which the state was reserving for Georgia regiments only.

My favorite screwup of a Confederacy vs a Federation is with the telegraph. Lincoln called in the private owners of telegraph lines and they essentially volunteered the use of all their lines. Meanwhle, states did not fight stringing new lines across state boundaries.

The South did. As a consequence, the North had a military unit that strung over 10,000 miles of wire, some during battles, that allowed Lincoln to be a real time commander in chief, directing generals from DC. Lincoln and Grant used the telegraph to discuss Sherman marching to the sea. Sherman sent a telegraph to Lincoln when he succeeded.

Near instantaneous communication that the South could never compete with. Because each state was its own sovereign and could not be made to work for the common good.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:24:06am

re: #182 Nerdy Fish

Among many other things they otherwise condemn out loud.

Just ask the Zieglers about that.

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silverdolphin  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:24:15am

re: #250 Dangerman

this ‘deregulation’ can lead to something else.

sure environmentally and all, no regs and industries like construction, oil, etc can run roughshod.

but on the other side, say with pharmaceuticals, it wont be the wild west for them.

congress would have to explicitly approve every single specific drug (cause no fda)

aside from the absolute absurdity of the idea - not enough time or expertise, if they dont, it doesnt mean the drug companies can just create and sell a new drug. it means there is no drug..

Absolutely right. Drug companies use FDA approval to help protect themselves from liability. No FDA. No protection. No drug.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:24:27am

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:25:35am

re: #262 No Malarkey!

Ending Chevron deference isn’t quite that radical. The FDA will still exist, but the Justices will have the power to overrule any decision they don’t like, unless the law Congress passed is explicit and leaves no room for interpretation. The Federalist Society likes this right now because they dominate the Court, but when the Court was more balanced they liked Chevron deference because it protected the decisions of regulators in GOP Administrations.

hey, i can hyperbole with the best of ‘em

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:25:55am

re: #254 lawhawk

DOJ report on the Uvalde mass shooting is a damning indictment of the local/state police response, where they didn’t enter the building for 77 minutes.

77 fucking minutes. Instead of acting as though it was an active shooter situation that it was, they treated it as a barricaded persons incident, and the immediacy of responding dropped off.

Despite the billions thrown at law enforcement to train and equip for these very scenarios, we see failure upon failure.

From the report:

“For the span of more than 1 hour, between 11:37 a.m. and 12:49 p.m., there were at least 10 stimulus events, including at least six separate instances of gunfire totaling approximately 45 rounds in law enforcement officer presence, as well as officer injuries and the presence of victims. Any one of these events should have driven the law enforcement response to take steps to immediately stop the killing,” the report says.

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gwangung  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:26:39am

re: #268 silverdolphin

Absolutely right. Drug companies use FDA approval to help protect themselves from liability. No FDA. No protection. No drug.

I very much doubt some of the judges realize this or cares.

They rule in their own world and insist the real world change to accomdate (e.g., their ruling on ground water may make legal sense, but it makes no sense in a hydrogeologic sense).

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:28:21am

re: #266 silverdolphin

Near instantaneous communication that the South could never compete with. Because each state was its own sovereign and could not be made to work for the common good.

A nation based on the idea ‘If I don’ wanna I don’ haveta’ can’t last for long.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:29:03am

re: #273 Romantic Heretic

A nation based on the idea ‘If I don’ wanna I don’ haveta’ can’t last for long.

The Republic of Rick

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:29:24am

It gets worse for Habba - losing 10 straight objections during her questioning of Carroll.

Did she strenuously object? Because it certainly looks that way.

This is what happens when you have a completely unqualified attorney engage in a trial situation. Not every attorney does trials, and it takes certain skills and judgments to make that work. Someone can be a great trial or appellate lawyer and suck at other things, and vice versa.

Habba is a real estate attorney who has never dealt with matters like defamation or trials before. Yet she’s leading Trump’s effort.

Trump’s definitely getting what he asked for. His judgment is sorely lacking. The delay tactics are failing, and his lawyers are dropping like flies.

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silverdolphin  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:29:43am

re: #272 gwangung

I very much doubt some of the judges realize this or cares.

They rule in their own world and insist the real world change to accomdate (e.g., their ruling on ground water may make legal sense, but it makes no sense in a hydrogeologic sense).

I think (hope) that Roberts, after Dodd, may realize it might be a bad thing to overthrow Chevron. it depends who else he can bring along.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:31:24am

Naughty me.

I used an anagram generator on Dennis M Prager and came up with…

MR. PENIS DANGER 😵

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:31:55am

re: #277 Joe Bacon ✅

Cousin to Carlos Danger. /deep cut.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:34:31am

If you subscribe to nugs.net I highly recommend the “GreyBoy Allstars” more recent stuff.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:37:20am

re: #272 gwangung

I very much doubt some of the judges realize this or cares.

They rule in their own world and insist the real world change to accomdate (e.g., their ruling on ground water may make legal sense, but it makes no sense in a hydrogeologic sense).

+1

the power and function of the administrative state landed in the executive and stayed there because it worked/works

if it didnt, it would have been abandoned long ago for something else.

we have three branches of government
if the exec is out, then the courts? - of course not. that’s not what they do

congress taking back the responsibility is the only other option.
that means a greatly expanded apparatus behind the 535.

it would have to wind up being the same kinds of people, experts, departments, etc. probably similar structure and function to the current one.
just funneled through Article I instead of Article II

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:37:40am

re: #273 Romantic Heretic

A nation based on the idea ‘If I don’ wanna I don’ haveta’ can’t last for long.

you’re not the boss of me

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Oblongatis  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:37:55am

re: #62 Joe Bacon ✅

If you don’t feed the children, they are smaller and nimbler letting them slip between the machines on the factory floor much easier.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:38:52am

re: #275 lawhawk

It gets worse for Habba - losing 10 straight objections during her questioning of Carroll.

Did she strenuously object? Because it certainly looks that way.

This is what happens when you have a completely unqualified attorney engage in a trial situation. Not every attorney does trials, and it takes certain skills and judgments to make that work. Someone can be a great trial or appellate lawyer and suck at other things, and vice versa.

Habba is a real estate attorney who has never dealt with matters like defamation or trials before. Yet she’s leading Trump’s effort.

Trump’s definitely getting what he asked for. His judgment is sorely lacking. The delay tactics are failing, and his lawyers are dropping like flies.

watch for the jury sending a note to the judge:

can we just vote now?

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:39:24am

re: #277 Joe Bacon ✅

Naughty me.

I used an anagram generator on Dennis M Prager and came up with…

MR. PENIS DANGER 😵

NOT a relation

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sizzzzlerz  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:39:42am

re: #273 Romantic Heretic

A nation based on the idea ‘If I don’ wanna I don’ haveta’ can’t last for long.

Ah, yes. The cousin of “Fuck you, I got mine”.

That’s pretty much what libertarians want, isn’t it?

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Nojay UK  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:41:27am

re: #265 wrenchwench

The schools could do active shooter drills with actual cops.

And live ammunition.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:41:57am

re: #254 lawhawk

One thing that always comes to mind when I’m reading about Uvalde, similar incidents, and the militarization of the police is this quote from General Sir John Hackett

The essence of a soldier is not to kill but to die.

Soldiers die for something. At the very least for the people in their unit.

The militarized police only want to kill. So they rarely put their lives on the line. When they hear the shots they should be thinking, “I’ve got to stop that, even if it means I die. Those kids need me.”

Instead it’s, “I’m not risking my ass. Too bad about the kids.”

I know I’m exaggerating. There are undoubtedly police who think like soldiers. But it’s not encouraged IMO, and too many become LEOs to strut around with big guns.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:44:03am

re: #255 Dangerman

I wonder how long it’s going to be before the judge says, “Bailiff? Kick this stupid bitch in the ass.”

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:45:27am

re: #288 Romantic Heretic

I wonder how long it’s going to be before the judge says, “Bailiff? Kick this stupid bitch in the ass.”

Were it not about a former president, they would have.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:46:17am

re: #250 Dangerman

this ‘deregulation’ can lead to something else.

sure environmentally and all, no regs and industries like construction, oil, etc can run roughshod.

but on the other side, say with pharmaceuticals, it wont be the wild west for them.

congress would have to explicitly approve every single specific drug (cause no fda)

aside from the absolute absurdity of the idea - not enough time or expertise, if they dont, it doesnt mean the drug companies can just create and sell a new drug. it means there is no drug..

Drug companies attest that “our drug/device is safe. Pinkie swear!” And there ya go. Approved..

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:46:32am

re: #282 Oblongatis

If you don’t feed the children, they are smaller and nimbler letting them slip between the machines on the factory floor much easier.

AND when the little kids get hurt or die in industrial accidents…well according to Christopher Rufo it created a job opportunity for another kid…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:47:10am

re: #290 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Drug companies attest that “our drug/device is safe. Pinkie swear!” And there ya go. Approved..

Can you say Thalidomide boys and girls? I knew you could!

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:48:45am

re: #287 Romantic Heretic

One thing that always comes to mind when I’m reading about Uvalde, similar incidents, and the militarization of the police is this quote from General Sir John Hackett

Soldiers die for something. At the very least for the people in their unit.

The militarized police only want to kill. So they rarely put their lives on the line. When they hear the shots they should be thinking, “I’ve got to stop that, even if it means I die. Those kids need me.”

Instead it’s, “I’m not risking my ass. Too bad about the kids.”

I know I’m exaggerating. There are undoubtedly police who think like soldiers. But it’s not encouraged IMO, and too many become LEOs to strut around with big guns.

I think a little military training would have helped in Uvalde. But ‘a little military training’ is not possible. You would have to start with a vetted group who have committed themselves to an extent a civilian is never asked to.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:49:22am

re: #281 Dangerman

you’re not the boss of me

*Eric Cartman*
“Fuck you, I do what I WAAAAAANT!”

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:49:57am

re: #275 lawhawk

Jury sends a note to the judge.

JUDGE: “I have a note from the jury. It says here… Is ‘all the money’ an acceptable amount to award the plaintiff in this case?”

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Jay C  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:51:36am

re: #264 Dangerman

I think you mis-copied one bit from that Bulwark piece: one which I think gets to the core of the “Trump problem” - and one which Ms Longwell seems to obviate in her (otherwise quite correct) focus on the “former officials” approach to defeating Trump and “Trumpism”.i.e.

Hard truth: That’s not enough. I talk to Republican primary voters every week in focus groups, and you know what they don’t read? The Atlantic, Puck, and Politico. Fundamentally, the reason they seem unbothered by Trump’s autocratic tendencies is that a lot of them don’t know about them.

(Some do, and are perfectly fine with it, but that’s a different story.)

Here’s where I call bullshit: if these really are typical “Republican primary voters” - it’s probably that they are “unbothered by Trump’s autocratic tendencies” because they fucking wholeheartedly agree with them - and want to get in on the privileges and power of being loyal supporters of The Autocrat; especially those of being able to punish the Autocrat’s “enemies”.
And it’s probably not just “some”; more likely at least half. Or more.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:57:05am

re: #295 Nerdy Fish

Jury sends a note to the judge.

JUDGE: “I have a note from the jury. It says here… Is ‘all the money’ an acceptable amount to award the plaintiff in this case?”

“My client is broke.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:57:21am

re: #294 A Three Hour Tour

*Eric Cartman*
“Fuck you, I do what I WAAAAAANT!”

vs

“Respect my AUTHORI-TIE”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 18, 2024 • 8:59:01am

re: #292 Joe Bacon ✅

Can you say Thalidomide boys and girls? I knew you could!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Who cares? It’s all about making money. Nothing else matters.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:01:21am

Uvalde report;

Among other problems with the emergency medical response the report identifies:

• “Law enforcement (was) moving injured kids in ways that were probably more harmful,” one responder told investigators;
• Due to communication problems, an ambulance drove past an available helicopter with medics and another traveled at least 15 minutes to get a patient on a flight to a hospital;
• EMS personnel brought one victim out on a stretcher to find their ambulance was missing after a crew from another agency had commandeered it;
• Several students with bullet wounds, grazes and other injuries were directed onto buses to a civic center without having been brought to medics’ attention.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:02:05am

re: #297 Belafon

“My client is broke.”

OK then we shall deed Trump Tower to Ms. Carroll.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:02:18am

re: #295 Nerdy Fish

Jury sends a note to the judge.

JUDGE: “I have a note from the jury. It says here… Is ‘all the money’ an acceptable amount to award the plaintiff in this case?”

The Verdict: (eta: The movie, with Paul Newman)

Your Honour, we`ve agreed to hold for the plaintiff…
and against [the defendants]

But, Your Honour, are we limited on the size of the award?
What l mean, sir…
Are we permitted to award an amount greater than the amount the plaintiff asked for?

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:04:05am

re: #296 Jay C

I think you mis-copied one bit from that Bulwark piece: one which I think gets to the core of the “Trump problem” - and one which Ms Longwell seems to obviate in her (otherwise quite correct) focus on the “former officials” approach to defeating Trump and “Trumpism”.i.e.

Here’s where I call bullshit: if these really are typical “Republican primary voters” - it’s probably that they are “unbothered by Trump’s autocratic tendencies” because they fucking wholeheartedly agree with them - and want to get in on the privileges and power of being loyal supporters of The Autocrat; especially those of being able to punish the Autocrat’s “enemies”.
And it’s probably not just “some”; more likely at least half. Or more.

i didnt read the article
that wasnt in the clip i took from politicalwire.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:07:37am
A New York lawmaker wants the federal government to push a $14 trillion reparations measure.

The measure is touted by “Squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who wants the federal government to be held accountable for slavery and the aftermath of it, according to the Journal News.

Bowman cited the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “space race” endeavor as examples that would make the measure feasible.

“When COVID was destroying us, we invested in the American people in a way that kept the economy afloat,” said Bowman. “The government can invest the same way in reparations without raising taxes on anyone.”

“Where did the money come from?” Bowman said. “We spent it into existence.”

Bowman is among nine sponsors of H.R. 414, which seeks to establish that the US has “a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.”

nypost.com

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gwangung  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:08:17am

re: #300 wrenchwench

Uvalde report;

Jesus. Total, total clusterfuck.

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calochortus  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:10:59am

re: #305 gwangung

Jesus. Total, total clusterfuck.

I wonder how much of the problem was caused by having way too many agencies responding? Sort of like if there are two people in a room and one has something happen, the other goes over and helps, but if there are a dozen people, everyone hesitates and waits for someone else to act.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:11:15am

re: #305 gwangung

Jesus. Total, total clusterfuck.

Only those aged 12 and under followed their training.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:12:29am

re: #306 calochortus

I wonder how much of the problem was caused by having way too many agencies responding? Sort of like if there are two people in a room and one has something happen, the other goes over and helps, but if there are a dozen people, everyone hesitates and waits for someone else to act.

The local leaders, first on the scene, are faulted for not setting up a command and communication system.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:15:54am

I just realized the counter message: “Without DEI, we can only assume that all white men were chosen based on their skin color, not their abilities.”

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calochortus  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:16:18am

re: #308 wrenchwench

The local leaders, first on the scene, are faulted for not setting up a command and communication system.

Of course they should have, but perhaps they felt outranked by some of the other responders? Or maybe they were just incompetent. Or both.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:19:02am

re: #310 calochortus

Of course they should have, but perhaps they felt outranked by some of the other responders? Or maybe they were just incompetent. Or both.

Or scared, it is easy for us to be arm chair generals.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:19:09am

re: #310 calochortus

Of course they should have, but perhaps they felt outranked by some of the other responders? Or maybe they were just incompetent. Or both.

The command and control system is actually built to take that into account as people arrive.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:20:23am

re: #310 calochortus

Of course they should have, but perhaps they felt outranked by some of the other responders? Or maybe they were just incompetent. Or both.

Not one leader until the Border Patrol showed up. Still took half an hour to confront the shooter. Every goddammed one of them was incompetent. They cuffed a civilian who was going to go in and get her own kid (which she did).

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:21:38am

re: #312 Belafon

The command and control system is actually built to take that into account as people arrive.

If they are following their training, they set up command and control no matter what their rank, and as more people arrive, it is formally passed to higher ranked people. I know this as a CERT member and I only ever worry about this when a disaster strikes.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:23:20am

re: #311 Shropshire Slasher

Or scared, it is easy for us to be arm chair generals.

The most scared was the guy who took a bullet and was bleeding from a cut on his ear. I could not say how I would act in that situation, but come on. Some of these guys were Texas Rangers, and did jack shit.

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JC1  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:23:37am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

Lawyers I’ve read have varying opinions on the doctrine of Chevron deference, but all agree that while the decision itself may not be correct, the idea that Congress and the courts can - or will - step in to replace the machinery of the administrative state is absurd. The end result is going to be the complete destruction of the centralized federal government, essentially bringing us back to the days of the Articles of Confederation.

Congress just needs to pass a law stating: yep, we meant it

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:23:39am

In this case, they deserve no “in their defense.” They were law enforcement. The whole system is set up so they can response appropriately. They failed. Kids died.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:25:06am

re: #306 calochortus

I wonder how much of the problem was caused by having way too many agencies responding? Sort of like if there are two people in a room and one has something happen, the other goes over and helps, but if there are a dozen people, everyone hesitates and waits for someone else to act.

It became “a committee”

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:26:01am

I have watched this unfold as a fire truck first responds to a fire. The senior person on the truck is in charge. If the chief shows up, then command is passed to him. If it becomes a large enough fire that multiple jurisdictions respond, a command center is set up and a formal leader is declared.

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darthstar  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:26:17am

re: #315 wrenchwench

The most scared was the guy who took a bullet and was bleeding from a cut on his ear. I could not say how I would act in that situation, but come on. Some of these guys were Texas Rangers, and did jack shit.

That’s just something they can brag about at the bar to impress women…I’m a Ranger! They’re not beat cops or SWAT.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:26:54am

re: #318 Dangerman

It became “a committee”

Except, once again, Incident Command already has this set up. The only thing this committee was set up for was to keep people from responding.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:27:35am

re: #314 Belafon

If they are following their training, they set up command and control no matter what their rank, and as more people arrive, it is formally passed to higher ranked people. I know this as a CERT member and I only ever worry about this when a disaster strikes.

That’s how they do it on TV //

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:28:53am

re: #320 darthstar

That’s just something they can brag about at the bar to impress women…I’m a Ranger! They’re not beat cops or SWAT.

I think it was a local guy who was bleeding. This is from my memory of watching the videos shortly after the shooting. Everybody got out of the hall for a while.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:29:28am

re: #316 JC1

Congress just needs to pass a law stating: yep, we meant it

House Rs to house ds: Yeah well give you back all your drugs but you’ll have to agree to cut social security

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darthstar  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:29:31am

re: #314 Belafon

That was the process on ski patrol as well. First on scene owns it until patrol leadership and then fire arrival takes over if it’s an MCI.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:30:20am

OK, I finished reading the article about the report.

Parents whose children were dead were misled at the civic center-turned-reunification site and at hospitals, it finds: One family member who said they’d been told their child was at the hospital went from staff member to staff member there describing their child, only to be told they were not there - then later finding out the child was deceased and had been at the hospital for hours, unidentified.

I don’t think I’ll read the report itself.

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William Lewis  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:31:38am

re: #311 Shropshire Slasher

Or scared, it is easy for us to be arm chair generals.

I have no fucking sympathy. I remember my fear on the boarder looking at Russians ready to kill me and I did my job for a much smaller paycheck. The ones who aren’t afraid are the dangerous ones. But these are cowards who let their fear control them instead of controlling it and they deserve nothing but contempt.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:31:53am

re: #317 Belafon

In this case, they deserve no “in their defense.” They were law enforcement. The whole system is set up so they can response appropriately. They failed. Kids died.

We’re almost at “you had one job” sorta.

The 77 minutes is a lot like the George floyd 9 minutes. Egregious to the point of unbelievability

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:36:10am

re: #327 William Lewis

I have no fucking sympathy. I remember my fear on the boarder looking at Russians ready to kill me and I did my job for a much smaller paycheck. The ones who aren’t afraid are the dangerous ones. But these are cowards who let their fear control them instead of controlling it and they deserve nothing but contempt.

Does military training enable you to think of others when you are in danger, or is that a quality that one has that gets one in to military training?

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William Lewis  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:37:31am

re: #329 wrenchwench

Does military training enable you to think of others when you are in danger, or is that a quality that one has that gets one in to military training?

Some of both I think. It tends to be there if you are the kind to volunteer but the training brings it out.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:48:29am

Uvalde motivated a lot of people to join Moms Demand Action (for gun sense in America), but not me. It wasn’t until some of the same bullshit happened a few months later at a white Christian school, I thought, ‘It wasn’t because they were brown in Uvalde, some people really don’t care who gets killed.’ Then I joined.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:49:25am
When the history of 2024 is written, DeSantis will earn the distinction of having run the single worst presidential campaign of the modern era. He had all of the money and all of the institutional support, yet he bungled every strategic and tactical decision. He could not manage his organization. He did not display a single moment of competence...

Governor of a not insignificant State

Link

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:50:13am

re: #332 Dangerman

He thought that the War on Woke was the winning ticket

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:50:22am

Ultimate Republican retirement community. Make your reservations now, MAGAts!
Map of Dante’s Inferno

Translation from link (hidden for length)

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Dave In Austin  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:50:29am
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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:53:06am

I was wondering why my LED headlamps on my vehicle seemed dim this morning, it was probably the thick film of salted crusted on top.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:53:14am

re: #335 Dave In Austin

Oklahoma pastor, Keith Holt, and his wife Candi, have been arrested for child abuse & kidnapping.

you’d never suspect it from looking at them…

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:53:14am

NY Times or NY Pitchbot?

Mastodon

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:54:22am

re: #338 Vicious Babushka

NY Times or NY Pitchbot?

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they don’t want to save women or their children.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:56:16am

re: #339 Belafon

they don’t want to save women or their children.

Which is why they should not be allowed to call themselves “pro-life”

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:56:23am

re: #335 Dave In Austin

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Which one of them is trans or a drag queen?

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:56:35am

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

He thought that the War on Woke was the winning ticket

He was wrong

He wrecked Florida for his personal political ambition.

Then when he was given the national chance he choked. crashed and burned. Badly.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:57:27am

re: #342 Dangerman

He was wrong

He wrecked Florida for his personal political ambition.

Then when he was given the national chance he choked. crashed and burned. Badly.

Beaten and humiliated by a Mouse

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 9:59:47am

re: #337 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you’d never suspect it from looking at them…

I thought that too.

Are we bad?

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:00:46am

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Beaten and humiliated by a Mouse

That should have been the tip off

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:01:36am

re: #337 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you’d never suspect it from looking at them…

It’s always the ones you most suspect. That photo just screams “creepy”.

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dat_said  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:03:43am

re: #346 Dr Lizardo

It’s always the ones you most suspect. That photo just screams “creepy”.

I know you’re joking but it’s not always the ones you most suspect (or, at least what society has taught us to “suspect”). There are a lot of pretty people that are predators.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:03:49am

re: #346 Dr Lizardo

It’s always the ones you most suspect. That photo just screams “creepy”.

Give them an accordeon and an autoharp and they could be on one of those Bad Album Covers for devotional Music: “Lord, Take Me the Hard Way”

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Jay C  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:06:50am

re: #344 Dangerman

I thought that too.

Are we bad?

Yeah, I dunno: for myself, I really try to catch any prejudices of lookism when I read the news: but these characters?

I mean, they’re like a low-budget TV director was casting “child-abusing pastor couple from Oklahoma” , and hired these overweight grotesques because they fit the stereotypes exactly.

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KGxvi  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:07:42am

re: #63 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Poor franchise owners are pleading poverty…don’t believe em.

bsky.app

franchises, especially in the food service industry is just a terrible business model for franchisees. the only exception - might MIGHT be - is when you are a multi-multi-millionaire/billionaire and can hire people to run your franchises in a mini-corporate set up. But if you’re trying to be a mom & pop franchisee, it’s a terrible investment.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:09:51am

re: #350 KGxvi

franchises, especially in the food service industry is just a terrible business model for franchisees. the only exception - might MIGHT be - is when you are a multi-multi-millionaire/billionaire and can hire people to run your franchises in a mini-corporate set up. But if you’re trying to be a mom & pop franchisee, it’s a terrible investment.

you are paying a lot of money to be able to display a brand name.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:14:19am

re: #348 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Give them an accordeon and an autoharp and they could be on one of those Bad Album Covers for devotional Music: “Lord, Take Me the Hard Way”

Yeah, indeed.

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KGxvi  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:14:53am

re: #342 Dangerman

He was wrong

He wrecked Florida for his personal political ambition.

Then when he was given the national chance he choked. crashed and burned. Badly.

DeSantis’s entire political career is mostly smoke and mirrors. He first won office in 2012 in a district that went 57.7% for Romney (and he underperformed Romney by half a percent). He won the governor’s office by less than half a percent in 2018. And then won re-election against a terrible Democratic nominee (who used to be a Republican) in an election that saw turn out drop by about 10% and saw the Democratic Party of Florida just be utterly inept. And his approval ratings are underwater in Florida.

Also, it feels like everyone that supported him early never bothered to watch/listen to him give a speech. Dude has negative charisma.

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KGxvi  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:16:57am

re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you are paying a lot of money to be able to display a brand name.

there’s some theoretical advantage to hooking up with a well known and trusted brand name. and some more theoretical advantage if you are new to the industry. but having worked for a franchisee in undergrad and having represented some as a lawyer - I would never advise someone to be a franchisee (with the super rich exception above)

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piratedan  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:17:04am

i wonder if there’s any dotted lines linking the Border Patrol’s response in Uvalde (being the only LEO group that didn’t shame themselves completely) to Abbott’s pushback regarding allowing migrants to die in the Rio Grande and blocking any attempted BP intervention.

If Texas ever does go blue, I’d have to look at the Texas Rangers (Texas Department of Safety) as dubiously as Biden has of the Secret Service.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:20:13am

re: #341 Eventual Carrion

Which one of them is trans or a drag queen?

Both. 😈

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:20:52am

re: #332 Dangerman

Arguably, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz all breath a sigh of relief that they’re no longer on that particular hook.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:23:07am

re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you are paying a lot of money to be able to display a (someone else’s) brand name.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:23:55am

re: #357 lawhawk

Arguably, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz all breath a sigh of relief that they’re no longer on that particular hook.

I still recall how DJT made a remark about how his rallies were exciting while people were falling asleep at Jeb! rallies.

I swear, fifteen minutes later, CNN was airing an interview with a woman who said she had fallen asleep at a Jeb! rally (despite the exclamation mark, I guess)

Those fuckers were letting DJT write their programming for them, they wanted him in the race so bad…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:28:12am

re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Never will forget how CNN locked their cameras on an empty podium waiting for their pal Trump to appear

And they would cut away from Hillary speaking to recite the latest New York Times lies about her e-mails.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:28:23am

re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still recall how DJT made a remark about how his rallies were exciting while people were falling asleep at Jeb! rallies.

I swear, fifteen minutes later, CNN was airing an interview with a woman who said she had fallen asleep at a Jeb! rally (despite the exclamation mark, I guess)

Those fuckers were letting DJT write their programming for them, they wanted him in the race so bad…

Could be fun
Good for ratings
I mean he never could win, right?

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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:28:34am

During a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Donald Trump declared that corn is not a liquid. Trump dubbed corn ‘non-liquid gold’ and took credit for the new term.

Trump: And you know, we have more liquid gold and wealth under our feet than any other nation. We have more liquid gold(oil and gas). More liquid gold. Well, I just met non-liquid gold. You know where it was? Iowa. It’s called corn. They have. It’s not liquid. You have more non-liquid gold. They said, ‘What is that?’ I said corn; they said, ‘We love that idea.’ You know, it’s pretty cool thought, isn’t it? That’s a nickname in its own way. But we came up with a new word, a new couple of words for corn.

This isn’t the first time Trump has been easily impressed with something so simplistic. During a previous speech in New Hampshire, Trump delivered a bizarre rant suggesting he was the first person to notice ‘us’ and ‘U.S.’ were similar and that no one would give him credit for that ‘genius’ discovery.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:29:31am

re: #362 Captain Ron

He yearns for the days of Mazola oil.

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Randall Gross  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:30:09am

re: #254 lawhawk

Next time just say “Leadership Failure” DOJ.

bsky.app

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:30:10am

re: #360 Joe Bacon ✅

Never will forget how CNN locked their cameras on an empty podium waiting for their pal Trump to appear

While Hillary was giving a speech about improving job opportunities for the handicapped.

And then comment on how her entire campaign was based on negativity towards Trump.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:31:33am

re: #362 Captain Ron

During a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Donald Trump declared that corn is not a liquid. Trump dubbed corn ‘non-liquid gold’ and took credit for the new term.

This isn’t the first time Trump has been easily impressed with something so simplistic. During a previous speech in New Hampshire, Trump delivered a bizarre rant suggesting he was the first person to notice ‘us’ and ‘U.S.’ were similar and that no one would give him credit for that ‘genius’ discovery.

Like he’s a stoned teenager with narcissistic whining added on, but a stoned teenager has a lot more potential than Trump has.

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Randall Gross  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:32:18am

re: #362 Captain Ron

During a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Donald Trump declared that corn is not a liquid. Trump dubbed corn ‘non-liquid gold’ and took credit for the new term.

This isn’t the first time Trump has been easily impressed with something so simplistic. During a previous speech in New Hampshire, Trump delivered a bizarre rant suggesting he was the first person to notice ‘us’ and ‘U.S.’ were similar and that no one would give him credit for that ‘genius’ discovery.

This probably resulted from an Archer Daniels Midland contribution…

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dat_said  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:34:49am

re: #367 Randall Gross

This probably resulted from an Archer Daniels Midland contribution…

Product placement hits the presidential campaign trail. Why has no one done this earlier?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:36:36am

re: #368 dat_said

Product placement hits the presidential campaign trail. Why has no one done this earlier?

Someone proposed that politicians should wear overalls like racing car drivers or winter athletes with their sponsors logos swen onto them.

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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:37:54am
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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:39:05am
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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:40:54am

re: #370 Captain Ron

Russian tactics and methods keep showing failures - the Bradley was able to get in to a firing position that allowed its gun to hit the tank, when the tank’s main gun has a greater range. Typically, it’s a Bradley’s antitank missiles that have the range, but the Ukrainians held back and used the gun with dramatic effect.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:43:47am

re: #372 lawhawk

Russian tactics and methods keep showing failures - the Bradley was able to get in to a firing position that allowed its gun to hit the tank, when the tank’s main gun has a greater range. Typically, it’s a Bradley’s antitank missiles that have the range, but the Ukrainians held back and used the gun with dramatic effect.

Assessing that the enemy is stupid, and not wasting missiles when a gun will do shows very good judgement.

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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:44:28am
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danarchy  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:44:31am

re: #364 Randall Gross

Next time just say “Leadership Failure” DOJ.

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bsky.app

I think you overestimate the reach of “the expanse”…

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mmmirele  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:45:52am

re: #338 Vicious Babushka

NY Times or NY Pitchbot?

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The “pro-life movement” never, in the last 50 years, EVER championed a social safety net. Instead, they voted over and over for the people who would shred whatever social safety net was there. In fact, their attitudes towards women are the same as they were half a century ago. I had one of them call me a slut when I was 16 (after I’d had sex ONCE) and I’m pretty sure the same thing would happen today, except that now I’m menopausal.

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Dangerman  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:48:18am

re: #366 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Like he’s a stoned teenager with narcissistic whining added on, but a stoned teenager has a lot more potential than Trump has.

@Acyn
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Trump: We’re going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your— your political beliefs what they do. They want to debank you. We’re going to debank— think of this. They want to take away your country. Electric cars…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:50:39am

re: #350 KGxvi

franchises, especially in the food service industry is just a terrible business model for franchisees. the only exception - might MIGHT be - is when you are a multi-multi-millionaire/billionaire and can hire people to run your franchises in a mini-corporate set up. But if you’re trying to be a mom & pop franchisee, it’s a terrible investment.

Was in a local run coffee shop today in a town about seven miles south of me. They had a poster up along with a petition regarding the former employees of a 4-store coffee chain that used to be in the area. The employees voted to unionize and the chain promptly shut down all four of their stores. Citing, of course, their current inability to be profitable and indirectly blaming the employee demands. My personal suspicion is that the unionization was a response to the management trying to squeeze the employees and/or otherwise abusing them since collective action like that does not stem from a happy workplace.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:50:58am

re: #376 mmmirele

The “pro-life movement” never, in the last 50 years, EVER championed a social safety net. Instead, they voted over and over for the people who would shred whatever social safety net was there. In fact, their attitudes towards women are the same as they were half a century ago. I had one of them call me a slut when I was 16 (after I’d had sex ONCE) and I’m pretty sure the same thing would happen today, except that now I’m menopausal.

The Cult Of The Fetus will endlessly bullshit about love for the fetus BUT once the baby is born they don’t give a rats ass about it. Once a baby’s born it’s YOYO time from the Cult—You’re On Your Own.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:51:11am

re: #377 Dangerman

I just went over to the free dictionary and they do not have a listing for “debank.” DT is making up sh*t again.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:52:26am

re: #368 dat_said

Product placement hits the presidential campaign trail. Why has no one done this earlier?

ADM would rather have him push two products from corn: ethanol and high-fructose corn syrup.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:53:25am

Via @semafor:

JUST IN: More than 40 Senate Republicans — including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — have signed a Supreme Court brief to support Trump’s efforts to stay on the 2024 ballot.

All these seditious treasonweasels who purposefully ignore the Constitution’s plain language - the 14A disqualifies Trump on its face, and it would take an act of Congress to allow him to run.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:53:46am

re: #378 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Was in a local run coffee shop today in a town about seven miles south of me. They had a poster up along with a petition regarding the former employees of a 4-store coffee chain that used to be in the area. The employees voted to unionize and the chain promptly shut down all four of their stores. Citing, of course, their current inability to be profitable and indirectly blaming the employee demands. My personal suspicion is that the unionization was a response to the management trying to squeeze the employees and/or otherwise abusing them since collective action like that does not stem from a happy workplace.

A lot of business models can only work if someone (or multiple someones) is/are exploited at some point in the process.

Capitalism. FUCK YEAH!

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:56:59am

re: #337 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you’d never suspect it from looking at them…

re: #344 Dangerman

I thought that too.

Are we bad?

re: #346 Dr Lizardo

It’s always the ones you most suspect. That photo just screams “creepy”.

It’s always a little discouraging when creepy criminals turn out to actually look like creepy criminals. Stephen “Nosferatu” Miller would be another example. It’s as though all that high minded and sometimes difficult stuff about avoiding stereotypes and generalizations has gone down in flames and the simpletons were right all along. Otoh, there are certainly simpletons who were fooled by these two, as well as by Miller and company, so maybe their perceptions are dumb after all.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:57:50am

I couldn’t imagine being on the front line at 50, let alone 60.

Only Ukrainian men aged between 27 and 60 can be mobilised by draft officers. Men aged between 18 and 26 can’t be drafted, though they can enlist voluntarily.

reuters.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 18, 2024 • 10:59:50am

re: #258 wrenchwench

It’s a damn good thing they didn’t block Border Patrol from the school. The rest of Texas Law Enforcement would have waited for the shooter to fall asleep.

So it took the Feds to stop it because the state law enforcement was either totally incompetent or total cowards. Texans always talk a good game, but when it comes to doing what’s right, they can be relied on to do what’s wrong, at least those who support the GOP,

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danarchy  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:00:29am

re: #380 PhillyPretzel ✅

I just went over to the free dictionary and they do not have a listing for “debank.” DT is making up sh*t again.

It is like deplatforming, but when banks do it.

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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:01:16am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:03:09am

re: #388 Captain Ron

Sugar brother? How long has that been a thing?

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Captain Ron  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:03:46am

re: #388 Captain Ron

Known as Hunter’s “sugar brother,” Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris was key in procuring income sources for Hunter from China and Ukraine, among others.

“Morris gave or loaned at least $4.9 million to cover back taxes and living expenses for the now-53-year-old Hunter, including doling out $875,000 for his novice art and allegedly purchasing his 10% stake in Chinese state-owned investment fund BHR Partners during Joe Biden’s first year in the White House,” the New York Post reported.

Republicans allege that Morris was motivated by politics rather than friendship, and his transactions with Hunter amount to an illegal campaign contribution. As evidence, they point to an email Morris wrote to accountants on Hunter’s behalf, telling them to speed up their work on tax issues to avoid “considerable risk personally and politically.”

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:06:41am

re: #386 Hecuba’s daughter

So it took the Feds to stop it because the state law enforcement was either totally incompetent or total cowards. Texans always talk a good game, but when it comes to doing what’s right, they can be relied on to do what’s wrong, at least those who support the GOP,

Texas has spent a lot of money to train law enforcement to respond to active shooter situations. A lot of that day’s responders had the training in recent years. It’s (past) time to look at that training, see where it failed. The children’s training worked, and it was done by elementary school teachers. Now we know who to put in charge of the cops.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:09:54am

Every person at a school where a shooting takes place should be granted the right to vote. Except the shooter.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:11:15am

re: #390 Captain Ron

Hunter isn’t running for office, so how exactly is this a campaign contribution?

It isn’t.

It’s just projecting like IMAX all while Trump took millions from foreign nationals and agents, and profited from directing the US govt to spend hundreds of millions at Trump businesses.

GOP wont indict on those emoluments, but they think Hunter is the worst crisis to ever hit the nation.

Fuck the GOP.

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dat_said  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:13:32am

re: #393 lawhawk

I sure hope the statute of limitations on illegal campaign contributions has run out, but my dad once bought a six pack of Billy Beer.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:14:09am

Do your own research!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:16:16am

re: #395 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

It’s clearly a lie perpetuated by Big Aqua.

/

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piratedan  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:16:39am

re: #393 lawhawk

I believe that they’re much more cynical than that, I think that Hunter is a means by which the GOP can rail on Joe Biden and nothing more. I think that they could actually give a shit about what he’s done, because its small potatoes and they know it. Just dragging it out to feed more crap to their base and try and blur the lines on what a decent person Biden is. He does have flaws, they are very human ones and he’s learned from a LOT of his mistakes and for some reason they absolutely hate the fact that the Dems have a bunch of these folks in their ranks because it brings into contrast what a complete misogynistic crime show that the GOP is.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:17:01am

re: #395 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Do your own research!

[Embedded content]

How did he survive before he started using the molecule?

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:17:46am

re: #395 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Do your own research!

[Embedded content]

Don’t drink water, fish fuck in it!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:19:20am

re: #399 Eventual Carrion

Don’t drink water, fish fuck in it!

Fish piss and shit in it.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:20:23am

re: #397 piratedan

GOPers are either envious of Hunter’s endowment, or want to be with him (MTG).

That’s why they’re still going on about his pix, and can’t quit him.

/prove me wrong.

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Mattand  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:23:05am

re: #54 Charles Johnson

I’m always reluctant to share articles from rawstory because they tend to be exaggerated or sensationalist. Just sayin’.

OMG, thank you. I felt like I was the only one who noticed that about them. I stopped reading them and Crooks & Liars years ago because of that kind of horseshit.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:24:15am

re: #391 wrenchwench

Texas has spent a lot of money to train law enforcement to respond to active shooter situations. A lot of that day’s responders had the training in recent years. It’s (past) time to look at that training, see where it failed. The children’s training worked, and it was done by elementary school teachers. Now we know who to put in charge of the cops.

It’s all those liberal communist cities using all the money. //

Seriously, though, probably 90% of that is being done in the metropolitan areas of DFW, Houston, San Antonio and Austin. I know that here in the DFW area, because the cities are close enough, large incidents end up utilizing resources from multiple jurisdictions. Because of that, there’s a training that happens I believe every year that involves responders from across the entire region to ensure that they can all function together.

The first year the event occurred, out at Love Field in Dallas, it showed how lousy communications between the responders would have been in a real emergency.

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gocart mozart  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:26:51am
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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:26:59am

re: #403 Belafon

It’s all those liberal communist cities using all the money. //

Seriously, though, probably 90% of that is being done in the metropolitan areas of DFW, Houston, San Antonio and Austin. I know that here in the DFW area, because the cities are close enough, large incidents end up utilizing resources from multiple jurisdictions. Because of that, there’s a training that happens I believe every year that involves responders from across the entire region to ensure that they can all function together.

The first year the event occurred, out at Love Field in Dallas, it showed how lousy communications between the responders would have been in a real emergency.

Specifically, most of the law enforcement from in and around Uvalde had received active shooter training. Including the ones who should have set up command and control. Trainers market their product to anyone who might pay for it.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:27:01am

re: #301 Joe Bacon ✅

OK then we shall deed Trump Tower to Ms. Carroll.

I live for the possibility that an investment group, led by Oprah and Dre, forms a “Dark Money” fund that buys Trump Tower and The Donald’s apartment for a decent price (rather than a dime on the dollar, he gets 12 cents), on the proviso that he be on hand to turn over the keys to his former property with a smile on his face.

And then on the day, the limo door opens up …

… and out pops Barack Obama. Smirking as he struts up to Trump to take away his home.

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jeffreyw  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:31:04am

post.news

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:43:50am

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 18, 2024 • 11:49:22am

re: #408 Joe Bacon ✅

The system is rigged against criminals! This is an outrage?

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austin_blue  Jan 18, 2024 • 12:17:35pm

re: #290 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Drug companies attest that “our drug/device is safe. Pinkie swear!” And there ya go. Approved..

Thalidomide.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jan 19, 2024 • 6:18:00am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Exactly. Although the Confederate Army was desperate for supplies, warehouses in Atlanta were brimming with equipment which the state was reserving for Georgia regiments only.

Sherman’s army gained significantly in numbers during the March to the Sea, the result of local Unionists and freed PoWs joining up. Sherman was able to outfit them largelt from captured state stocks, including blue uniforms stockpiled before the war.


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