Gorgeous New Live Track From Julian Lage: “Nothing Happens Here”

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1
wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:11:38pm

Oh, boy! Music!

Mastodon

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austin_blue  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:13:53pm

re: #154 gocart mozart

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Tucker:

Backpfeifengesicht

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:25:52pm

AFAIK Parler and 8Chan are still around, but I’m not going to go looking for them.

Controversial domain registrar Epik has been acquired by Registered Agents Inc. (RAI) to enhance its offerings of services to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

However, Epik is widely known for hosting far-right and neo-Nazi websites such as 8chan and self-labelled ‘free-speech’ social network alternative, Parler.

A statement released by the company noted, “epik.com is now forging a new path catering to entrepreneurs and businesses seeking top-tier registered agent and domain services.”

Epik says it has made changes to its terms of service during the companies latest ICANN accreditation review to “rid its platform of violators” resulting in the company removing “a handful of problematic clients.”

This will apparently help Epik, “focus on rebuilding trust with its small business and entrepreneurial clients” although its tarnished reputation and history may still be an operational hurdle.

The world’s most controversial domain registrar has a new owner — and apparently it is “forging a new path” (TechRadar)

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jeffreyw  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:28:26pm

YouTube

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:28:47pm

Democratic Candidate for New York’s 21st Congressional District. Current Rep is Magat Elise Stefanik.

link:
Steven Holden’s X feed

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:30:58pm

I’d love to see Stefanik lose her seat.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:32:04pm

re: #6 darthstar

I’d love to see Stefanik lose her seat.

Her office, too.

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:33:04pm

re: #4 jeffreyw

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Video

Seen em all

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aatharuv  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:35:22pm

re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter

But then doesn’t that mean that those states are theocratic? So maybe theocracy on a state-by-state basis depending on the state religion.

We know that when GOP Americans talk about theocracy, they generally talk about Christian theocracy. Or when speaking in doublespeak, theocracy is good when it’s Christian theocracy, and theocracy is doubleplusungood when talking about Muslim (or any other Theocracy).

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:35:24pm

Current GOP fiasco in Montana US Senate Race. (Democrat Jon Tester)

Link:
Audrey Fahlberg post on Xitter

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EstebanTornado1963  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:36:29pm

For that charlatan from the last thread hoping for a civil war

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aatharuv  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:36:39pm

re: #10 ckkatz

That doesn’t look good for us, if Trump is endorsing someone the NSRC is also endorsing.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:39:46pm

re: #11 EstebanTornado1963

For that charlatan from the last thread hoping for a civil war

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Respond to them by saying you assume they’re an enemy of the US and they can kindly go fuck themselves.

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:40:24pm

re: #12 aatharuv

That doesn’t look good for us, if Trump is endorsing someone the NSRC is also endorsing.

I suspect that the roster of candidates who have the money, interest and competence to run for Senator may be a bit thin. Rosendale apparently lost against Senator Tester the last time around.

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wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:42:21pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:43:14pm

re: #14 ckkatz

Tester is fairly well liked in Montana. Incumbency helps. It’ll be close because a lot of people vote party line, but the state has seen an influx of people who relocated the last few years from places like California, so anything is possible.

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darthstar  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:43:37pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

Thanks…I think I will have a tequila.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:43:45pm

re: #12 aatharuv

That doesn’t look good for us, if Trump is endorsing someone the NSRC is also endorsing.

Read that again. Trump is backing one horse, the GOP itself the other.

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:43:48pm

This is good, I think?

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ipsos  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:45:42pm

re: #6 darthstar

I’d love to see Stefanik lose her seat.

I would, too. But the reality on the ground here in upstate NY is that as part of the NYS Dems’ attempt to claw back some of the close seats it lost in the last round, the newest maps are being drawn in a way that will give Stefanik a very very safe R district, while rejiggering other upstate districts to give Ds a much better chance.

It’s way more valuable to throw $$ against truly vulnerable Rs like Claudia Tenney in central NY or the other swing seats on LI and in the Hudson Valley, where Dems have a very good chance of winning and thus winning back the House.

Claw back a net three or four D gains in those swing seats and we get a long way toward relegating Elise to a powerless minority role. That’s a better strategy than throwing money at a well-meaning newcomer who’s going to get crushed no matter what.

(Same thing with the inevitable challengers to MTG and others in extremely safe R seats.)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:45:57pm

re: #19 Dangerman

This is good, I think?

I hope that’s true.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:46:23pm

re: #21 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Me too.

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nines09  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:46:56pm

re: #6 darthstar

I’d love to see Stefanik lose her seat.

I’d be happy hearing she fell down a flight of stairs.

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:47:05pm

re: #10 ckkatz

Current GOP fiasco in Montana US Senate Race. (Democrat Jon Tester)

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Link:
Audrey Fahlberg post on Xitter

Mike johnson, genius politician

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) endorsed Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) in this year’s U.S. Senate race in Montana, even though Rosendale isn’t an official candidate yet (he’s expected to become one over the weekend). Yesterday, however, Johnson reversed course and said that he’s not endorsing Rosendale and that, in fact, he never endorsed Rosendale.

Link

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:47:44pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

And the Weeknd -

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (Lyrics)

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:48:12pm

re: #19 Dangerman

This is good, I think?

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It’d be great, if I could actually see any of the details.

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aatharuv  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:48:58pm

re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Read that again. Trump is backing one horse, the GOP itself the other.

From twitter:

Trump announced Fri afternoon he’s backing businessman Tim Sheehy.
NRSC recruited Sheehy to avoid repeat of ‘18, when Rosendale lost to Tester

From the linked National Review article:

Rosendale’s entrance in the race was undercut Friday afternoon when former President Donald Trump announced that he will back wealthy businessman, former Navy SEAL, and political newcomer Tim Sheehy, whom the National Republican Senatorial Committee had endorsed early on in the race to avoid a messy GOP primary in one Senate Republicans’ best pickup opportunities of the cycle.

It looks like Trump and the NRSC are endorsing the same person, Tim Sheehy.

Rosendale allies argue that support from Washington Republican is viewed as circumspect by base GOP voters.

So Rosendale argues that the GOP base (for now), might prefer him.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:50:37pm

re: #24 Dangerman

LOL at this.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) endorsed Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) in this year’s U.S. Senate race in Montana, even though Rosendale isn’t an official candidate yet (he’s expected to become one over the weekend). Yesterday, however, Johnson reversed course and said that he’s not endorsing Rosendale and that, in fact, he never endorsed Rosendale.

All Republicans are pathological liars, example infinity plus one.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:51:05pm

re: #24 Dangerman

Mike johnson, genius politician

Link

“I was for him, before I was against him.”

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:52:41pm

re: #26 Nerdy Fish

It’d be great, if I could actually see any of the details.

It looks like Cannon is being such a jackass Smith may have enough ammunition to get the 11th circuit to boot her off the documents case. Cannon is literally trying to get witnesses etc. murdered by Trump cultists.

On the other hand, being a fuckwit seems to be a job requirement for way too many Federal judges.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:53:12pm

re: #19 Dangerman

She would be perfect for a judicial career in Venezuela.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:53:41pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

“I was for him, before I was against him.”

Johnson: “I was for him. But then Trump shat in my skull and told me who I support, so now I’m against him.”

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:54:52pm

re: #19 Dangerman

Lawhawk mentioned this a couple of threads back:
re: #249 lawhawk

Ianal, so really cannot assess this but Norm Eisen had a thread on it that ended with:

Link to thread:
Norm Eisen thread on Smith motion

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:56:15pm

re: #30 EPR-radar

I’ll wait for the details to pop up elsewhere so I can see them; I’d be very surprised if she left herself open to being removed from the case. I feel like that’s an awful lot of wishful thinking from people who have wanted her off the case from the get-go (which technically includes myself).

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:58:23pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

“I was for him, before I was against him.”

But I was never for him

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 4:59:32pm

re: #33 ckkatz

Lawhawk mentioned this a couple of threads back:

Ianal, so really cannot assess this but Norm Eisen had a thread on it that ended with:

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Link to thread:
Norm Eisen thread on Smith motion

Thx

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:00:09pm

re: #34 Nerdy Fish

I’ll wait for the details to pop up elsewhere so I can see them; I’d be very surprised if she left herself open to being removed from the case. I feel like that’s an awful lot of wishful thinking from people who have wanted her off the case from the get-go (which technically includes myself).

She’d have to know she was doing that and I’m not sure she does.

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nines09  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:01:00pm

re: #25 ckkatz

This here….NSFW Slammed me back when I first heard it. Feeling down? Want to scream? Just drive a bit with this and sing that mutha

gotta go

The Weeknd - Wicked Games (Official Video - Explicit)

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ipsos  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:02:34pm

My bigger nightmare fuel for the Senate right now is Maryland, where former R governor Larry Hogan is now running.

apnews.com

He’s popular and could be the only R who could possibly win that seat, which of course the Ds absolutely cannot afford to lose.

Imagine we somehow hold Arizona with Gallego and Montana with Tester, inevitably lose WV, and would be 50-50 with Harris to keep breaking ties - but somehow Hogan wins MD and now we’re 49-51.

Having said that: Hogan has a very hard path to thread. He’s not at all MAGA, so he’s not going to have any enthusiasm from what’s now the institutional GQP. If elected, he’d be on the same mushy-middle wavelength as Murkowski and Collins, which would just add to the gridlock.

And Maryland has been so blue in federal elections that just because Hogan is a decent guy and well liked, it shouldn’t be enough for voters who understand the consequences of an R-controlled Senate.

Still hoping for a miracle somewhere - Cruz pissing off enough Texans to tip that seat our way, maybe?

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wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:10:19pm

re: #39 ipsos

[…rtwt…]

Still hoping for a miracle somewhere - Cruz pissing off enough Texans to tip that seat our way, maybe?

Beto came close. Close got him nothing, but it may indicate momentum.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:12:09pm

re: #37 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

She’d have to know she was doing that and I’m not sure she does.

It’s more that whatever she does has to be really egregious to get her kicked off the case. They don’t throw judges off cases just for getting repeatedly reversed on appeal.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:12:28pm

The Alt-Right Playbook: The Reverse Gish Gallop

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:12:38pm

re: #39 ipsos

That’s right, Ben Cardin announced that he is retiring at the end of his term. Aren’t Democrats Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Tom Carper of Delaware also retiring? And of course Manchin. Romney is the only Republican voluntarily retiring this cycle.

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Unabogie  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:12:53pm

Deep thought for the day: Calling a cop “Ugly Betty” in Spanish is legal and protected speech, and they are not allowed to arrest you, manhandle you, or otherwise do a goddamn thing to you for saying that. It’s not a crime to insult the police, even if they act like it is.

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TedStriker  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:13:57pm

A bit of a break, with all the funk:

Super Strut

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:15:00pm

re: #44 Unabogie

Deep thought for the day: Calling a cop “Ugly Betty” in Spanish is legal and protected speech, and they are not allowed to arrest you, manhandle you, or otherwise do a goddamn thing to you for saying that. It’s not a crime to insult the police, even if they act like it is.

Off-feo-sir Sensitivo.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:15:35pm

re: #41 Nerdy Fish

It’s more that whatever she does has to be really egregious to get her kicked off the case. They don’t throw judges off cases just for getting repeatedly reversed on appeal.

Do we really have to see witnesses vs. Trump die via stochastic terrorism before the judiciary can do the right thing?

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ipsos  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:17:26pm

re: #43 ckkatz

That’s right, Ben Cardin announced that he is retiring at the end of his term. Aren’t Democrats Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Tom Carper of Delaware also retiring? And of course Manchin. Romney is the only Republican voluntarily retiring this cycle.

Delaware is as safe as it gets - I think their at-large Congresswoman, Lisa Blunt Rochester, is the Democratic candidate. Michigan shouldn’t be a problem either, especially given how dysfunctional their Republican party is right now.

It would be awesome if we had a viable Utah candidate, but that doesn’t look likely.

And we also have to hold a swingy Nevada seat. It’s as tough a year as we get, unfortunately.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:17:48pm

re: #47 EPR-radar

Do we really have to see witnesses vs. Trump die via stochastic terrorism before the judiciary can do the right thing?

No; if Smith has a good case for this, it’ll get reversed on appeal. What I’m saying is, Smith can go over her head time and again, even on the same case, and they still won’t remove her. The judicial system gives judges tremendous latitude; and unless it can be clearly proven that her decisions have unfairly biased the case against the State, she’s not going anywhere. Emphasis on unfairly, because showing a seeming bias against the State is expected if the State has a crappy case.

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:18:07pm

re: #38 nines09

Had not heard that one before. Nicely done. But definitely NSFW. Thanks for posting!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:18:12pm

re: #3 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

God I hate corporate-speak so fucking much.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:21:03pm

Jason Aldeen has decided he’s the arbiter of who gets to go to Toby Keith’s funeral, stating that Garth Brooks isn’t welcome.

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:23:33pm

re: #45 TedStriker

Currently listening to this.

I probably have not listened to it since the mid 1970s. Interesting how time changes how I perceive and understand music. (Of course, it’s not me; I’m completely unchanged since the 1970s. Not…)

Thanks for posting!

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:26:19pm

re: #48 ipsos

Delaware is as safe as it gets - I think their at-large Congresswoman, Lisa Blunt Rochester, is the Democratic candidate. Michigan shouldn’t be a problem either, especially given how dysfunctional their Republican party is right now.

It would be awesome if we had a viable Utah candidate, but that doesn’t look likely.

And we also have to hold a swingy Nevada seat. It’s as tough a year as we get, unfortunately.

The Senate is always a problem, since it is a natural fortress for the GOP, and by far the least democratic power center in the US system of government.

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:33:40pm

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:33:45pm
As part of his Don Quixote-like quest to avoid criticism, Attorney General Merrick Garland has binged on special counsel appointments throughout his tenure at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Now, following a string of debacles, including allowing Special Counsel John Durham to continue his useless four-year probe of the Mueller investigation—elevating the Hunter Biden prosecutor, David Weiss, to special counsel status after a half-decade of investigation—Garland’s hand-picked Special Counsel Robert Hur has produced a report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified information that rivals former FBI Director James Comey’s infamous political hatchet-job on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Hur concludes what everybody already knew—namely that no criminal charges are warranted in Biden’s handling of classified materials—but gratuitously slams Biden’s fitness for office by describing him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” By allowing this unprofessional, partisan dig to be published, Garland plays right into the hands of former President Donald Trump and the extreme right’s ageist attacks on the president.

Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Report on Biden’s Classified Documents Is Partisan and Unprofessional (DailyBeast)

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:36:07pm

re: #56 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Honestly, WTAF is up with Garland? He’s not a Republican, but he still can’t seem to get his head out of his ass.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:41:27pm

re: #41 Nerdy Fish

It’s more that whatever she does has to be really egregious to get her kicked off the case. They don’t throw judges off cases just for getting repeatedly reversed on appeal.

But didn’t the circuit actually correct her for sometime egregious she did last time? If Smith cites NatSec and witness intimidation, it might do it.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:42:35pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

But didn’t the circuit actually correct her for sometime egregious she did last time? If Smith cites NatSec and witness intimidation, it might do it.

Let’s just say we all had better get every Democrat out to vote in November.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:45:47pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

But didn’t the circuit actually correct her for sometime egregious she did last time? If Smith cites NatSec and witness intimidation, it might do it.

See my #49. The judicial system isn’t really built for bad faith; or rather, the interests of case continuity run at odds to the idea that a judge could be acting in bad faith. Until she shows her hand clearly enough to prove that she is definitely acting against the State out of favoritism or some other malicious intent, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will give her the benefit of the doubt, because it’s still faster and more efficient for them to suffer multiple appeals on these matters than to assign the case to a new judge and have to start all over from scratch.

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JC1  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:46:07pm

re: #57 EPR-radar

Honestly, WTAF is up with Garland? He’s not a Republican, but he still can’t seem to get his head out of his ass.

Biden shouldn’t have appointed him. Dems need to be stop talking the higher ground while Trump and MAGA are a thing.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:46:21pm

I like emptywheel, she seems to understand most things, but has a big blind spot when it comes to Merrick Garland.

I do not agree that this is the way things *had* to play out. At all.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:48:24pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

I like emptywheel, she seems to understand most things, but has a big blind spot when it comes to Merrick Garland.

I do not agree that this is the way things had to play out. At all.

I’ve also been suspicious of her because of her association with the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” promoting bmaz. She’s made some good points and some dubious points, but on the whole, I’m willing to listen to her, with a generous pinch of salt.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:49:26pm

re: #57 EPR-radar

Honestly, WTAF is up with Garland? He’s not a Republican, but he still can’t seem to get his head out of his ass.

I have to say, I’m starting to think his not getting a SCOTUS seat may have been…I don’t know what. I was going to say better but then I think about Beer bong and the handmaid with a side of gorsucks. Fuck.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:50:18pm

re: #64 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to say, I’m starting to think his not getting a SCOTUS seat may have been…I don’t know what. I was going to say better but then I think about Beer bong and the handmaid with a side of gorsucks. Fuck.

No, Garland would’ve been better than any of those, but we could’ve done a lot better than him even in 2016.

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TedStriker  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:51:30pm

re: #52 Belafon

Jason Aldean has decided he’s the arbiter of who gets to go to Toby Keith’s funeral, stating that Garth Brooks isn’t welcome.

Shit, Aldean’s ass was in middle school when Brooks broke big with “Friends in Low Places”; Brooks is goddamned country royalty, so Aldean can just STFD and STFU.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:54:31pm

re: #64 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to say, I’m starting to think his not getting a SCOTUS seat may have been…I don’t know what. I was going to say better but then I think about Beer bong and the handmaid with a side of gorsucks. Fuck.

IMO, everything seems to point to the Garland pick being a real attempt by Obama at a compromise judicial nomination — i.e. a Democrat who may as well be a Republican, on the court he could have ended up being like Justice Kennedy.

IMO there was a reason one GOP Senator said at the time “If Obama nominates Garland, of course we’ll confirm him.”

But I agree with the general point that it is no longer acceptable for Democrats to make these concessions to Republicans. Republicans are the absolute enemy, and must be thoroughly defeated before they kill us all.

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Unabogie  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:54:58pm

re: #63 Nerdy Fish

I’ve also been suspicious of her because of her association with the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” promoting bmaz. She’s made some good points and some dubious points, but on the whole, I’m willing to listen to her, with a generous pinch of salt.

I read that they had a brief falling out and I was set to return to that site, but he’s back. I can’t post there anymore because bmaz blocks everything I write after I exposed his bad faith comments. I have no use for people who act that way.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:55:38pm

President Obama nominated Garland for the SCOTUS because he seemed like someone who might be acceptable to the Republican Party, but was still basically a squishy liberal. The Republicans canceled him anyway, of course, but now we have the squishy liberal.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:59:10pm

re: #68 Unabogie

I read that they had a brief falling out and I was set to return to that site, but he’s back. I can’t post there anymore because bmaz blocks everything I write after I exposed his bad faith comments. I have no use for people who act that way.

If someone argues dishonestly, they are dishonest.

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piratedan  Feb 9, 2024 • 5:59:13pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

I think Garland is probably a very good lawyer, but he’s made some extremely politically naive decisions. I do take exception that Hur is his fault, Hur did what he did, and exposed himself to be the partisan hack that he is. I think Garland’s mistake is not reviewing his statement and report before letting Hur release anything to the media.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:00:38pm

re: #66 TedStriker

Shit, Aldean’s ass was in middle school when Brooks broke big with “Friends in Low Places”; Brooks is goddamned country royalty, so Aldean can just STFD and STFU.

Aldean is a POS. He’s one of THOSE christians. Married, cheated on his wife, married the mistress days after the divorce and was all righteous about the whole thing. He gives me the creeps.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:02:36pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

President Obama nominated Garland for the SCOTUS because he seemed like someone who might be acceptable to the Republican Party, but was still basically a squishy liberal. The Republicans canceled him anyway, of course, but now we have the squishy liberal.

Squishy liberal is extremely generous if you ask me.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:04:33pm

re: #66 TedStriker

Shit, Aldean’s ass was in middle school when Brooks broke big with “Friends in Low Places”; Brooks is goddamned country royalty, so Aldean can just STFD and STFU.

I told my wife he has no clue what Keith’s and Brooks’ relationship was and he needs to stay out.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:05:49pm

re: #74 Belafon

I told my wife he has no clue what Keith’s and Brooks’ relationship was and he needs to stay out.

He thinks he’s the hot shit because he’s one of the Republican Party’s latest culture war icons. He doesn’t realize that their pop culture darlings don’t even get their 15 minutes of fame, and they’ve already moved on from “Try That in a Small Town.”

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TedStriker  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:08:43pm

re: #74 Belafon

I told my wife he has no clue what Keith’s and Brooks’ relationship was and he needs to stay out.

re: #75 Nerdy Fish

He thinks he’s the hot shit because he’s one of the Republican Party’s latest culture war icons. He doesn’t realize that their pop culture darlings don’t even get their 15 minutes of fame, and they’ve already moved on from “Try That in a Small Town.”

Oh, you know Aldean’s pulling this shit because Brooks very much leans left.

I may live in Nashville, but I don’t stay up-to-date on the new hotnesses on Lower Broad and Music Row; however, Jason Aldean can kiss my liberal redneck ass.

Fuck. Him.

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A Three Hour Tour  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:11:58pm

re: #66 TedStriker

Shit, Aldean’s ass was in middle school when Brooks broke big with “Friends in Low Places”; Brooks is goddamned country royalty, so Aldean can just STFD and STFU.

May the Heavens open and the avenging ghost of Johnny Cash descend to surround Jason Aldean in a Burning Ring of Fire.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:13:30pm

re: #76 TedStriker

Oh, you know Aldean’s pulling this shit because Brooks very much leans left.

Oh, absolutely, but the reason why he thinks he has the right to butt in is because he thinks he’s the arbiter of What’s Really Country (tm). When in reality, he’s just a discarded has-been who hasn’t realized that fact yet.

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TedStriker  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:16:14pm

re: #78 Nerdy Fish

Oh, absolutely, but the reason why he thinks he has the right to butt in is because he thinks he’s the arbiter of What’s Really Country (tm). When in reality, he’s just a discarded has-been who hasn’t realized that fact yet.

Jason, you’ll never be the legend that Garth Brooks is… and you know that, deep down.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:22:52pm

re: #8 Dangerman

Seen em all

All but Sabata which I’d never heard of. Fortunately, my library has it in their video collection. Got it on hold.

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William Lewis  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:25:51pm

Modern Country - the only branch of music that is so shitty as to make Modern Pop sound good.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:26:32pm

re: #76 TedStriker

Oh, you know Aldean’s pulling this shit because Brooks very much leans left.

I may live in Nashville, but I don’t stay up-to-date on the new hotnesses on Lower Broad and Music Row; however, Jason Aldean can kiss my liberal redneck ass.

Fuck. Him.

And the reason Brooks leans left is he cares about other people, accepts them for who they are, and doesn’t shun people just because they don’t always agree politically. He considers himself conservative, but the right moved really far right.

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jaunte  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:28:13pm

re: #81 William Lewis

They’ve severely limited their topic list:
tasteofcountry.com

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:28:55pm

re: #81 William Lewis

Modern Country - the only branch of music that is so shitty as to make Modern Pop sound good.

Which includes people like Jason Isbell and Luke Combs.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:29:09pm

Oh, and Jelly Roll.

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William Lewis  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:32:52pm

re: #84 Belafon

Which includes people like Jason Isbell and Luke Combs.

That’s where the 90% rule comes into play. AKA Sturgeon’s Law.

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CleverToad  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:36:54pm

re: #60 Nerdy Fish

See my #49. The judicial system isn’t really built for bad faith; or rather, the interests of case continuity run at odds to the idea that a judge could be acting in bad faith. Until she shows her hand clearly enough to prove that she is definitely acting against the State out of favoritism or some other malicious intent, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will give her the benefit of the doubt, because it’s still faster and more efficient for them to suffer multiple appeals on these matters than to assign the case to a new judge and have to start all over from scratch.

Curious to hear from the law lizards on this one. Without implying bias on this judge’s part, is there a way to say “Please assign this complex and critical case to a judge who’s out of training pants?”

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:37:13pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

But didn’t the circuit actually correct her for sometime egregious she did last time? If Smith cites NatSec and witness intimidation, it might do it.

The special master iirc

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:40:19pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

I like emptywheel, she seems to understand most things, but has a big blind spot when it comes to Merrick Garland.

I do not agree that this is the way things *had* to play out. At all.

electoral-vote.com today

And finally, there’s one other person worthy of mention, and of criticism, before wrapping this up: AG Merrick Garland. Garland appointed a special counsel here—when one was probably not called for—to avoid looking “political.” He picked a staunch Republican for the job—when he really should have been looking for someone whose politics are not known—to avoid looking “political.” He released the report—even though its editorializing violates DoJ policy and thus is basis for withholding release—to avoid looking “political.” And now, the whole mess has become enormously political. Biden cannot ask for Garland’s resignation right now, as it would look like Saturday Night Massacre, redux, but he would be entirely justified in doing so given how badly the AG has mishandled this whole matter.

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Dangerman  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:43:08pm

re: #80 sizzzzlerz

All but Sabata which I’d never heard of. Fortunately, my library has it in their video collection. Got it on hold.

All of it fun stuff

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Mattand  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:52:01pm

re: #64 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to say, I’m starting to think his not getting a SCOTUS seat may have been…I don’t know what. I was going to say better but then I think about Beer bong and the handmaid with a side of gorsucks. Fuck.

Weird, I was just thinking about Garland not getting on SCOTUS earlier today and came up with pretty much the same idea. He’d probably be fucking over Democrats via siding with the conservative judges left and right.

I’ve mentioned it before, but I read something years ago that basically Garland was nominated by Obama as pretty much a dare/“Fuck you” to McConnell. Supposedly, Mitch told Obama there’s no way he’d nominate a “moderate” like Garland, and Obama called his bluff.

And, as always, a major “Fuck you” to Merrick Garland for dragging his fucking feet in dealing with this.

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Cheechako  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:53:17pm

When Biden is re-elected, he will be accepting Garland’s resignation.

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Mattand  Feb 9, 2024 • 6:54:26pm

re: #76 TedStriker

Oh, you know Aldean’s pulling this shit because Brooks very much leans left.

I may live in Nashville, but I don’t stay up-to-date on the new hotnesses on Lower Broad and Music Row; however,Jason Aldean can kiss my liberal redneck ass.

Fuck. Him.

LOL, we godless liberal East Coast not-real-Americans thank you for your service.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 9, 2024 • 7:04:09pm

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Captain Ron  Feb 9, 2024 • 7:39:40pm

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 9, 2024 • 7:43:33pm

re: #82 Belafon

And the reason Brooks leans left is he cares about other people, accepts them for who they are, and doesn’t shun people just because they don’t always agree politically. He considers himself conservative, but the right moved really far right.

I have a lot of friends like that. They’re conservative, but not wackos. Trump scares the living shit out of them, and they voted for Hillary and Biden, and will vote for Biden again in the Fall. They (myself included) grew up with Reagan, and can not believe how batshit insane the GOP has become.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 7:54:58pm

We’re watching Joni Mitchell’s performance at the Grammy’s, and Jacob Collier played the piano for her.

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retired cynic  Feb 9, 2024 • 7:56:52pm

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BeachDem  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:03:02pm

re: #79 TedStriker

Jason, you’ll never be the legend that Garth Brooks is… and you know that, deep down.

I love Garth Brooks and I’m no country fan. Seen him in concert—he is great. And we could watch him at the Kennedy center show when Kelly Clarkson sang The Dance a million times.

Kelly Clarkson’s #KCHonors performance of “The Dance” for Garth Brooks is one for the ages.

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wrenchwench  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:10:38pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:27:33pm

re: #98 retired cynic

Pretty sure this is a Herman cartoon by Canadian cartoonist Jim Unger.

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:38:21pm

re: #95 Captain Ron

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The whole thing made me think of past “interviews” we’ve seen between “very serious” journalists and famous dictators. It’s almost always the same: The journalist sits there acting as if he’s not talking to a crazy nutter because all he can think about is one day telling his grandkids that he sat across from a murderous thug without blinking…yet from the dictator’s perspective, it might as well be a lunch meeting.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:38:31pm

I don’t know if this was previously reported but the world renowned conductor, Seiji Ozawa passed away on February 6 at the age of 88. Ozawa’s longest lasting position was with the Boston Symphony where he led the orchestra for 29 years. Among his other notable postings were with the Tanglewood orchestra, the San Francisco symphony and the Vienna State Opera. He may be best remembered for leading the performance of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy from his Ninth Symphony during the opening ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:48:45pm

re: #102 Targetpractice

Well; you gotta tread lightly interviewing a dictator. Be too harsh on him and you’ll never interview anyone again.

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silverdolphin  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:49:16pm

Democrats Worry Caricature of Biden Is Setting In

Dark Biden has this. The SOTU speech will be the most watched one ever, as millions tune in to see if the caricature is right. I’ve listened to his speeches and they capture a lot of the emotion, empathy and anger of the man himself. He will be fine and impress all those people who would not have watched before.

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silverdolphin  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:52:48pm

Political onlookers show ‘astounding’ Biden double standard by highlighting GOP gaffes

Sure there may be a narrative about Biden but the one about Trump is easier and highlights other important things. The media hates to be called out on double standards and may very well not both sides things with lots of Trump gaffes. Which are always worse than Biden’s.

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Jay C  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:55:46pm

re: #105 silverdolphin

Democrats Worry Caricature of Biden Is Setting In

Dark Biden has this. The SOTU speech will be the most watched one ever, as millions tune in to see if the caricature is right. I’ve listened to his speeches and they capture a lot of the emotion, empathy and anger of the man himself. He will be fine and impress all those people who would not have watched before.

We have any idea of who’s been saddled tasked with the official Republican response to the SOTU? Dog knows what sort of gibbering nonsense it’s likely to be…

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silverdolphin  Feb 9, 2024 • 8:56:05pm

‘Yikes’: Internet erupts after ‘Dementia Trump’ makes several verbal slip-ups at NRA rally

This may be the next step - the MSM starts to catch this and write about how Biden may make 1 flub in the same time Trump makes 10.

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jeffreyw  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:06:50pm
Peacock will stream the Chinese adaptation of The Three-Body Problem / The streamer nabbed the rights to Tencent’s adaptation of the series, which will premiere on February 10th — more than a month before Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.

So not 3 versions, Peacock will stream the same thing Prime has right now, Netflix version will be a different take.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:12:59pm

re: #105 silverdolphin

Democrats Worry Caricature of Biden Is Setting In About Everything

Stop worrying folks, and punch back.

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sagehen  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:13:40pm

re: #109 jeffreyw

So not 3 versions, Peacock will stream the same thing Prime has right now, Netflix version will be a different take.

I’ve been watching it on PBS.

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nines09  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:14:23pm

Jason Aldean can’t touch this. Red Clay Strays.
I think he’s channeling sumtin.

Devil In My Ear by The Red Clay Strays

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:14:55pm

re: #105 silverdolphin

Democrats Worry Caricature of Biden Is Setting In

Dark Biden has this. The SOTU speech will be the most watched one ever, as millions tune in to see if the caricature is right. I’ve listened to his speeches and they capture a lot of the emotion, empathy and anger of the man himself. He will be fine and impress all those people who would not have watched before.

My best suggestion to anybody wailing about a caricature of Biden as forgetful or compromised because he makes verbal slip-ups is to direct them to Google to look up articles pre-2020 about Biden as a “gaffe machine” who the pundit class didn’t take seriously as a presidential contender.

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EPR-radar  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:22:36pm

re: #113 Targetpractice

My best suggestion to anybody wailing about a caricature of Biden as forgetful or compromised because he makes verbal slip-ups is to direct them to Google to look up articles pre-2020 about Biden as a “gaffe machine” who the pundit class didn’t take seriously as a presidential contender.

If Biden didn’t have his gaffes, there would be something else the media would latch onto. Any D candidate and office holder simply has to plan for a relentlessly hostile media.

It still ticks me off that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 with nearly every apparent proximate cause of that loss being some kind of media driven bullshit. The only thing real in that mess, AFAIK, is that her campaign apparently took the rust belt for granted.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:26:48pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

God I hate corporate-speak so fucking much.

As with all modern dialects its purpose is to inhibit communication rather than enable it.

It also helps the power remain with the people speaking the dialect.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:27:05pm

re: #92 Cheechako

When Biden is re-elected, he will be accepting Garland’s resignation.

That’s what I was just thinking as well - Garland’s out during a second-term Cabinet reshuffle, which is not at all uncommon when it comes to a second-term POTUS.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:28:18pm

re: #41 Nerdy Fish

It’s more that whatever she does has to be really egregious to get her kicked off the case. They don’t throw judges off cases just for getting repeatedly reversed on appeal.

I’m confused about this situation; guy on twitter said:

In the last minute today Judge Cannon in a paperless order told Special Counsel Jack Smith to hand the documents over to Donald Trump and the defendants under seal by end of day tomorrow.

Is that true? What does it mean if the order is paperless? Is it still enforceable? Is there some record of it?

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Captain Ron  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:29:48pm
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Romantic Heretic  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:33:27pm

re: #94 Joe Bacon ✅

Mike Flynn is why I decided Heinlein’s idea of ‘public service for franchise’ idea is bullshit.

There’s absolutely no way to guarantee someone cares about the nation they live in.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 9, 2024 • 9:42:05pm

re: #65 Nerdy Fish

No, Garland would’ve been better than any of those, but we could’ve done a lot better than him even in 2016.

Obama nominated him because he thought the McConnell Senate might possibly approve him. We couldn’t have done better in 2016 — because someone better would have had no chance of confirmation. But then McConnell proved that even the most moderate Democratic nominee was DOA, despite Republicans previously saying that a Garland would get their approval.

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:08:02pm

re: #119 Romantic Heretic

Mike Flynn is why I decided Heinlein’s idea of ‘public service for franchise’ idea is bullshit.

There’s absolutely no way to guarantee someone cares about the nation they live in.

He’d fit perfectly in the film universe, as it’s written as deliberate satire where the only worthwhile officers tend to die while the utter fucking morons rise up through the ranks by being either devoted ideologues or total kiss-asses…which is true to pretty much every authoritarian regime throughout history.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:08:08pm
A 50-year-old Houston resident has been sentenced for using interstate communications to threat, kidnap or injure, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.

Tiffani Shea Gish aka Evelyn Salt pleaded guilty Nov. 9, 2023.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner has now ordered Gish to serve 37 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release. At the hearing, the court heard additional evidence about mental health problems and that Gish had previously left threatening messages for various government agencies. In handing down the sentence, Judge Hittner noted that he was concerned for the safety of the public and protecting the judiciary.

“Upholding the rule of law is one of the main priorities of the Department of Justice, and that means protecting public servants from violence,” said Hamdani. “Holding Tiffani Gish accountable for her threats to assassinate a federal judge sends a strong message that we have no tolerance for those - who often hide behind a far-off keyboard or phone line - seeking to undermine our democratic institutions by threatening the safety of the people who help those same institutions thrive.”

On Sept. 1, 2022, Gish left three threatening voicemails on the chamber’s telephone of a U.S. district judge from Florida. In the messages, Gish claimed to be a member of several military combat units, trained and familiar with weapons of war.

In the first message, she said the victim was marked for assignation and would get a bullet in the head. Gish then reiterated the same threat in two subsequent messages and used expletives when adding that she had ordered snipers and a bomb to the victim’s house and would to throw a bullet to the victim’s head.

Gish will remain in custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.

FBI and U.S. Marshals Service conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Schammel prosecuted the case.

justice.gov

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:10:05pm

I’m placing a marker on this to see if it is confirmed by other sources.

MuellerSheWrote Xitter post

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:15:28pm

And apparently some other folks have noticed Garland’s long delay in dealing with tfg.

Jonathan Lemire post on Xitter

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ckkatz  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:20:11pm

G’nite! Pleasant lizard dreams to all!

And remember, after Caturday comes:

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:28:51pm

Oh no!

Off Brand Orbán says if he isn’t elected Biden will change the name of Pennsylvania?

To What?

Obamasylvania
Zeppomarxsylvania?
Kamalasylvania?
RevAlSharptonsylvania?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:31:24pm

re: #126 Joe Bacon ✅

Sounds like Trump’s sundowning…..again.

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Belafon  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:34:16pm

re: #126 Joe Bacon ✅

Vaginylvania

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:35:08pm

re: #124 ckkatz

And apparently some other folks have noticed Garland’s long delay in dealing with tfg.

[Embedded content]

Jonathan Lemire post on Xitter

And MAGAts are responding by claiming that proved that the investigations into Trump were all politically inspired.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 9, 2024 • 10:37:17pm

Whoa—I just look at that screenshot I posted and I’m wondering why the QAssholes aren’t melting down seeing Their MESS-iah standing in front of a bunch of Illuminati Admiralty Court Versions of the American Flag?

In recent years, a non-historically-based conspiracy argument used by tax protesters is that an American court displaying an American flag with a gold fringe is in fact an “admiralty court” and thus has no jurisdiction. Courts have repeatedly dismissed this as frivolous. In United States v. Greenstreet, the court summarized their finding to this argument with, “Unfortunately for Defendant Greenstreet, decor is not a determinant for jurisdiction.

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2024 • 11:06:29pm

re: #124 ckkatz

And apparently some other folks have noticed Garland’s long delay in dealing with tfg.

[Embedded content]

Jonathan Lemire post on Xitter

Garland’s a career bureaucrat, same as Comey and Mueller were. That means a career of avoiding sticking your neck out too far and taking big risks because if they failed to pay off then it was your ass. Not your boss, not his boss, not even your boss’ boss’ boss, it was your ass that was going out the door with the contents of your desk in a cardboard box. And even if it pays off, the best you can hope for is a good performance review and perhaps a bigger desk.

Comey deliberately drug out the Buttery Mails investigation and then raked Hillary over the coals twice while keeping an investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia secret, Mueller went out of his way to avoid stating the fucking obvious about his report by hiding behind decades old DOJ OLCs, and now Garland’s drug his feet on investigating Trump while anybody named “Biden” is getting the Roto-Rooter treatment. And all of this was to try to avoid accusations of “playing politics” only to be accused anyway by Repubs who think the DOJ are supposed to be their attack dogs.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 9, 2024 • 11:24:45pm

re: #47 EPR-radar

Do we really have to see witnesses vs. Trump die via stochastic terrorism before the judiciary can do the right thing?

Probably, yes.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 9, 2024 • 11:30:17pm

re: #64 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have to say, I’m starting to think his not getting a SCOTUS seat may have been…I don’t know what. I was going to say better but then I think about Beer bong and the handmaid with a side of gorsucks. Fuck.

Garland would definitely been better than Kavanaugh, but that’s a very low bar.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 9, 2024 • 11:33:49pm

re: #87 CleverToad

Curious to hear from the law lizards on this one. Without implying bias on this judge’s part, is there a way to say “Please assign this complex and critical case to a judge who’s out of training pants?”

No, I don’t think so.

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William Lewis  Feb 9, 2024 • 11:38:38pm

Christ on a fucking crutch. The hockey drunkards just broke out a fresh 30 pack of lite beer.

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2024 • 11:44:40pm

re: #135 William Lewis

Christ on a fucking crutch. The hockey drunkards just broke out a fresh 30 pack of lite beer.

Meanwhile, it’s after 2am here, so the drunkards are making their way back to the hotel. FML

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Targetpractice  Feb 9, 2024 • 11:54:30pm

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ericblair  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:00:37am

In international relations, “realism” just means simping for dictators.

Putin watchers are pretty convinced that yes, Putin has been smelling his own farts for so long that he believes all this fairy tale crap, and has utterly no intention of letting any part of Ukraine exist as a free independent state.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:09:53am

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:10:09am

re: #138 ericblair

It’s pretty clear that Putin has fallen prey to his own delusions. Any sense of realism or pragmatism is now long gone.

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Targetpractice  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:10:43am

re: #138 ericblair

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In international relations, “realism” just means simping for dictators.

Putin watchers are pretty convinced that yes, Putin has been smelling his own farts for so long that he believes all this fairy tale crap, and has utterly no intention of letting any part of Ukraine exist as a free independent state.

He wanted to be another tsar but instead has become another Stalin, a simple-minded thug who slowly dissolves into a piss-dribbling old man while the country falls apart around him due to corruption and cronyism.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:52:58am

re: #139 No Malarkey!

The Israeli government has lost me. It is clear that Bibi is not interested in getting the hostages released, probably because he will just blame Hamas if the IDF kill any more of them. What Hamas did was what I expected them to do because they are terrorists. I did not expect Israel to behave like they have, I expected more civilized behavior from their government.

Monsters on both sides are killing innocent people. My heart is with the innocent who are suffering and dead.

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:36:51am

Finally got them rousted off to their rooms.

Now to empty all the trashes, move the furniture back to where they belong, disinfect everything, and mop the floors (especially the puddles of beer).

Had a family needing to leave early due to a flight and they were… unamused… by the crowd in the lobby though they’d seen the same kind before and we commiserated with each other.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:43:59am

Your Next Wordle is doing some strange things to putatively intelligent people’s mental processes.

Click to Reveal

Derpes, or How to Turn a Guaranteed Three into a Four.

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SibData: 3,3,4,5,X

I failed to move that first yellow in my second guess. Pity the X: she entered the same word twice, accidentally, and broke a 255 streak.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:28:59am

Ingenuity’s last flight landed it in Valinor Hills.

Mastodon

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ericblair  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:33:08am

A summary of how completely fucked up Trump rallies are, which is completely ignored by the media:

Since the media refuses to report on it, let me share what happens at a typical Trump speech:

1. He comes out to the playing of the “January 6 Anthem” song which he recorded with some of the most dangerous J6 rioters in jail.

2. He brags how his song with the J6 rioters gets more downloads than Taylor Swift (it does not)

3. He spends a few minutes talking about passing cognitive exams, and how the audience would not pass the exam, but because he is really smart (he is not) he is able to ace the exam.

4. He praises Viktor Orban, the leader of Hungary, who Trump says is the most respected leader in Europe (he is not).

5. He praises President Xi and says he is very strong and rules over 1 billion people with an iron fist and Hollywood couldn’t find an actor as tough as President Xi.

6. He praises Putin and says people say it’s a bad thing he gets along with Putin but he thinks it’s a good thing.

7. He makes weird noises reenacting lifting weights with a trans woman and he says “mommy I can’t do it. Mommy. Ughhh, uhh, mommy help me.”

8. He says he doesn’t like seeing President Biden at the beach and says he has a better body than Biden (he does not)

9. He talks about his hatred of windmills and his hatred of electric cars. He says he would rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks however.

10. He praises the J6 insurrectionists and calls them hostages.

11. He whines about his court cases, attacks prosecutors, judges, and witnesses, and then praises “the great Alphonse Capone” and brags he was indicted more than Capone.

12. He quotes Hitler and says immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.

13. He says he wants to be a dictator on day 1.

14. He plays QAnon music, audience members often make QAnon sign with their hands, and he talks about how America is a failing nation.

15. He does a weird dance and leaves.

The thread has the video receipts in case you think he’s exaggerating.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:36:51am

re: #119 Romantic Heretic

Mike Flynn is why I decided Heinlein’s idea of ‘public service for franchise’ idea is bullshit.

There’s absolutely no way to guarantee someone cares about the nation they live in.

On the other hand, it would have kept DJT out of office.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:37:36am

re: #146 ericblair

9. He talks about his hatred of windmills and his hatred of electric cars. He says he would rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks however.

In respect to the sharks’ digestive system, this is acceptable. But it must be wind/solar generated electricity.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:43:54am

Bah. Too many options.
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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:49:24am

I don’t normally post X, but L O fucking L

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Targetpractice  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:53:44am

re: #146 ericblair

[Embedded content]

A summary of how completely fucked up Trump rallies are, which is completely ignored by the media:

The thread has the video receipts in case you think he’s exaggerating.

So yeah, he’s basically your crazy, racist uncle who keeps getting invited to Thanksgiving because despite the older folks insisting that they don’t agree with what he says, you’ll see them nodding along when he starts in about “illegals stealing all the jobs” and “cheap Chinese crap!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:56:06am

re: #151 Targetpractice

So yeah, he’s basically your crazy, racist uncle who keeps getting invited to Thanksgiving because despite the older folks insisting that they don’t agree with what he says, you’ll see them nodding along when he starts in about “illegals stealing all the jobs” and “cheap Chinese crap!”

nodding out of politeness. many people are simply non-confrontational

to the point of allowing fascism to take over

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:16:48am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

nodding out of politeness. many people are simply non-confrontational

the point of allowing fascism to take over

Then again, I really can’t imagine some rando Trumpite having some epiphany at one of his rallies and suddenly blurting out, “Hey, you’re full of shit, old man!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:26:56am

re: #153 Dr Lizardo

Then again, I really can’t imagine some rando Trumpite having some epiphany at one of his rallies and suddenly blurting out, “Hey, you’re full of shit, old man!”

I have written off 30% of the electorate.

The winning strategy in 2016 was to make sure that their people got out in droves while generating enouth apathy and indifference among the remaining voters to keep them at home.

The big change in 2020 was the disastrous way that the President handled Covid, which got Democratic voters out in record numbers.

In 2022 it was Dobbs and in 2024 it will likely be his multiple indictments/convictions and his thinly veiled threats of instituting fascism.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:30:49am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have written off 30% of the electorate.

The winning strategy in 2016 was to make sure that their people got out in droves while generating enouth apathy and indifference among the remaining voters to keep them at home.

The big change in 2020 was the disastrous way that the President handled Covid, which got Democratic voters out in record numbers.

In 2022 it was Dobbs and in 2024 it will likely be his multiple indictments/convictions and his thinly veiled threats of instituting fascism.

I’d say “thinly veiled” is a bit of an understatement. He chalks up it as “Just kidding!” but only a complete fool would believe that. And like you, I’ve written off about 27% of the electorate to the crazification factor - that some 27% of the population is hopelessly batshit insane.

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Targetpractice  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:31:06am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

nodding out of politeness. many people are simply non-confrontational

the point of allowing fascism to take over

The Trump years taught us that the people we thought were doing it simply out of politeness often harbored their own racist views, they just weren’t brave enough to voice them out loud until the crazy uncles started bellowing them out loud in public and faced no real pushback.

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ericblair  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:35:42am

re: #153 Dr Lizardo

Then again, I really can’t imagine some rando Trumpite having some epiphany at one of his rallies and suddenly blurting out, “Hey, you’re full of shit, old man!”

That’s what happens, though. If you listen to people’s conversion stories, it’s some one last piece of bullshit that pushes them over the edge. They don’t yell out like that, but they just decide they’re done and leave.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:38:47am

re: #157 ericblair

That’s what happens, though. If you listen to people’s conversion stories, it’s some one last piece of bullshit that pushes them over the edge. They don’t yell out like that, but they just decide they’re done and leave.

That’s a good point and we’ve definitely seen things like that happen sporadically at Trump’s rallies.

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Targetpractice  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:47:50am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have written off 30% of the electorate.

The winning strategy in 2016 was to make sure that their people got out in droves while generating enouth apathy and indifference among the remaining voters to keep them at home.

The big change in 2020 was the disastrous way that the President handled Covid, which got Democratic voters out in record numbers.

In 2022 it was Dobbs and in 2024 it will likely be his multiple indictments/convictions and his thinly veiled threats of instituting fascism.

COVID was the tipping point for way too many white suburbanites for Trump to win back in 2020. Before COVID, they sat in a warm little cocoon of obliviousness, the kind of people who would respond to discussions about the latest Trump scandal or total fuck-up with “Oh, I don’t follow politics” or excuse his actions with “Oh, I’m sure he had a reason.” The ones who are in such denial about reality that they will agree readily that “illegals” getting paid under the table are why wages are so low or that “cheap Chinese junk” is why American manufacturing collapsed. The ones who’ve grown up being told that living to excess is as American as Ma and Apple Pie and anybody who says differently is trying to take all that is “good” in their lives away from them. The ones who slapped yellow ribbon magnets on their bumpers and would ritually belch out “I support the troops!” when confronted with the reality of the “War on Terror” being a slow-rolling disaster.

Then COVID happened, the reality showed on their doorsteps, and the angry little man on TV they’d consented to running their lives had no answers. And suddenly, the only person they could blame was themselves.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:50:44am

re: #159 Targetpractice

COVID was the tipping point for way too many white suburbanites for Trump to win back in 2020. Before COVID, they sat in a warm little cocoon of obliviousness,

Without Covid, I am convinced that DJT would have been re-elected: the economy was humming along just fine and people were so inured to his babblings that it did not put them off enough to get out in enough numbers to unseat him.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:55:38am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Without Covid, I am certain that DJT would have been re-elected: the economy was humming along just fine and people were so inured to his babblings that it did not put them off enough to get out in enough numbers to unseat him.

I agree. The COVID pandemic killed his Presidency. He had a good chance of getting re-elected but his typically Trumpian ham-fisted response to it sealed his fate.

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Targetpractice  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:56:32am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Without Covid, I am certain that DJT would have been re-elected: the economy was humming along just fine and people were so inured to his babblings that it did not put them off enough to get out in enough numbers to unseat him.

I have no doubt whatsoever that, without the pandemic in 2020, he would have won by either a thin margin or possibly even one wide enough that the race was over on Election Night. You could see the set-up for it in 2019, his followers replying to others bitching about the latest fuck-up or scandal with “How’s your retirement account?” or “How much did you get back in taxes last year?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:03:07am

And had hydroxychloroquinie or Invermectin turned out to be the least bit effective against Covid, he would probably have not only been re-elected, but praised as the great Avatar and Savior of America from the Chinese Virus.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:04:54am

Caturday drive time ditty, I hope you enjoy!

Sports Team - Happy (God’s Own Country)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:09:07am

re: #164 Shropshire Slasher

video rather reminiscent of Safety Dance, but not the music.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:34:18am

Article is from Monday, let’s see how well Dean Phillips does February 27th in Michigan.

Biden challenger Dean Phillips vows to stay in race as ‘a mission of principle’
Minnesota congressman says president ‘in a terrible position’, citing his poor polling performance on a number of topics

Democratic presidential challenger Dean Phillips defended continuing his long-shot campaign despite a disappointing third-place finish in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, saying it was “a mission of principle”.

Phillips also argued that Joe Biden remains “in a terrible position” in his pursuit of a second term in the White House despite his dominance in the Democratic presidential primary, citing his poor polling performance with the general public on a number of topics.

The Minnesota congressman’s remarks about remaining in the race for the Oval Office came on Sunday during an appearance on MSNBC’s The Weekend.

Another guest on the show asked Phillips “what the hell are you doing” and “what’s being served here” with his presidential run, especially after Biden captured 96% of the votes cast in the previous day’s South Carolina primary. Phillips collected less than 2% of the vote and finished behind Williamson, a self-help author.

“You got an incumbent president of your party who’s pulling 96% of the vote in a very important state like South Carolina - [who] will pull a significant number of votes in subsequent states,” the former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said to Phillips. “So what does your path look like at this point and why?”

Steele said Phillips, 55, was also prolonging narratives about the 81-year-old Biden’s age.

After Michigan, there are 14 States holding primary elections on March 5th.
theguardian.com

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:41:01am

Nice touch from the Alabama Air National Guard:

Alabama Air National Guard’s ‘Red Tails’ wing shows off new fighter jets

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:41:29am

I think she should parachute in!!!

Taylor Swift needs to get from Tokyo to Las Vegas this weekend.

Chances are she’ll be using a private jet to get from Japan’s capital — where she is performing Saturday night — to Sin City, where boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs are playing the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday afternoon.

The pop superstar certainly won’t be the only person using that mode of transportation to get to an event that attracts people of great importance, fame and wealth.

So where are all of those planes going to park?

Hopefully Swift or whomever makes such arrangements for her thought of that well in advance because Vegas is completely booked this weekend when it comes to parking spots for private jets.

msn.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:42:34am

re: #167 Decatur Deb

Nice touch from the Alabama Air National Guard:

Alabama Air National Guard’s ‘Red Tails’ wing shows off new fighter jets

“DEI is compromising our military readiness!”

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:43:16am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Compromised the shit out of the Luftwaffe.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:43:28am

Chowder heads, start your spoons!!!
I really want to try the Reuben chowder.

SARATOGA SPRINGS - More than 80 restaurants are entered in the 25th Chowderfest in Saratoga Springs and throughout the county. Chefs and their kitchen staffs are preparing to serve more than 100,000 samples from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, and two Saratoga County chefs are looking to defend their 2023 People’s Choice awards.

West Ave. Pizza and Mario Cardenas won with his proven ravioli chowder last year in the 3,000-to- 4,000 bowls served category, and Mikey Smith, chef at The Mill on Round Lake, won with The Balboa Chowder, a Philly cheesesteak chowder with Philly cheesesteak eggroll garnish, in the 500-to- 750 bowls served category.

dailygazette.com

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nowherenorth2  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:47:22am

Late the convo. Was asleep.
I live in stefaniks district in northern ny, in the county with the largest land size and smallest population. This area…is…well it is a Republican playground and their favorite area.
It is economically destitute, starting to lose major manufacturing jobs in the late 1990’s and hitting the nail on the coffin for most under George W.
Education is not seen as a priority as there are family farms and military and trades for options. Local people have bought the kool aid from Fox and other far right sources and drink it happily. 2 examples :
I had a sheriff investigator tell me that Texas was the safest place due to guns, and that inner cities were a jungle of chaos and violence because of “those people.”
There was a letter to the editor of the major newspaper for the area where a gentleman said Biden was ruining the economy and area with socialism , which “gives the power to the hands of the few, along with the money as well” and that taxation is theft.
Another person argued the civil war was only about states rights.

There is fort drum in the county next to us, which is where Stefanik spends most of her time when here spreading lies.
The confederate flag is displayed proudly by many along with trump flags.
Our county legislators wasted time and money on sending the county attorney to help with this 2nd amendment case before the Supreme Court and also arguing with the CIS over not being a sanctuary county.
There are many here who are racists, and try to fight with the local reservation, the alwasasne mohawk reservation on the st Lawrence river
They hate taxes and believe in privatization. The board here openly tries to kill social programs.

Basically it is a Republican dream and Stefanik only cares about fort drum and parading her lies around stating that democrats are the real enemies.

The only solace is the CBC because that is real news. But many don’t watch it because it isn’t ‘merica

Sorry for the rant.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:49:59am

Love or hate OJ, it is a reminder for African American men should get a yearly physical to find prostate cancer early.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin apologized this week for not being more transparent about his prostate cancer diagnosis, acknowledging that the news had not only affected him but also shocked many others, “especially in the Black community.”

“It was a gut punch,” Austin said Thursday at a news briefing.

The diagnosis — which was made public Jan. 9, about a week after he had been hospitalized with complications from cancer surgery, blindsiding even the White House — has renewed public discussion around prostate cancer in the Black community.

Why does it appear to be so prevalent in black men, how soon is too soon to seek screening, what are the early symptoms and when is an appropriate time to tell loved ones?

All men are at risk for prostate cancer, the second most common cancer among men in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2024, there will be nearly 300,000 new cases of prostate cancer and just over 35,000 deaths.

snip

Black men in the U.S., Khanna said, are two times more likely to die from prostate cancer than white men.

“Not all prostate cancer is lethal, but we have seen that black men do have a higher risk of dying from prostate cancer,” he said.

nbcnews.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:51:00am

I still cannot get over how we went from “taxation without representation is tyranny” to “taxation is theft”

or how we went from “Slavery was not the only reason for the Civil War” to “Slavery had nothing to do with the, um, War Between the States (or rather the War of Northern Aggression)”

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:53:22am

re: #164 Shropshire Slasher

Caturday drive time ditty, I hope you enjoy!

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In a bit of synchronicity, Wife just told me about this PBS background vid she was catching—sources of your music video.

pbs.org

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:53:23am

re: #172 nowherenorth2

I live in Saratoga County, lived here most of my life. This area is not economically destitute, far from it.

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ipsos  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:14:39am

re: #176 Shropshire Slasher

I live in Saratoga County, lived here most of my life. This area is not economically destitute, far from it.

Nor is it the area the OP.was talking about. That’s St. Lawrence County, which is all the things as described - economically troubled, deep red politically, loaded with racism and resentment, and prime Trump territory.

Stefanik figured out how to become exactly what that area would rabidly support, which was a 180 from what she was as a more conventional pre-Trump college Republican. There’s no shortage of articles from former friends and colleagues marveling at how much she “changed.”

(Me? I think she’s always been an opportunistic chameleon who will say or do anything for a taste of power, and the “old” Stefanik her friends thought they knew was just another facade that got her into Harvard before she discarded it on the way to whatever was next. No different from a JD Vance or Louisiana’s John Kennedy.)

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steve_davis  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:16:51am

re: #4 jeffreyw

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I will give Eastwood props. He’s the first person I’ve seen in a long time who knows how to carry a calf/large dog, though it’s actually easier if you lock your hands together. Takes some of the weight off your upper arms.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:19:55am

re: #177 ipsos

I have a camp in Wanakena and a lot of family in St. Lawrence county and I don’t see what you do, but good luck with that.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:25:22am

re: #179 Shropshire Slasher

I have a camp in Wanakena and a lot of family in St. Lawrence county and I don’t see what you do, but good luck with that.

Not surprising since you see the world vastly differently than most people here. I can only assume that is the same in the real world.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:31:04am

re: #180 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Not surprising since you see the world vastly differently than most people here. I can only assume that is the same in the real world.

We do see the world differently, and I am glad to hear your viewpoints in this world.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:32:15am

Bad kitty.

Deschutes County Health Services has confirmed a case of human plague in a local resident. The individual was likely infected by their symptomatic pet cat.

“All close contacts of the resident and their pet have been contacted and provided medication to prevent illness,” said Dr. Richard Fawcett, Deschutes County Health Officer.

Symptoms of plague usually begin in humans two to eight days after exposure to an infected animal or flea. These symptoms may include a sudden onset of fever, nausea, weakness, chills, muscle aches, and/or visibly swollen lymph nodes called buboes.

If not diagnosed early, bubonic plague can progress to septicemic plague (bloodstream infection) and/or pneumonic plague (lung infection). These forms of plague are more severe and difficult to treat. Fortunately, this case was identified and treated in the earlier stages of the disease, posing little risk to the community. No additional cases of plague have emerged during the communicable disease investigation.

According to Oregon Health Authority, plague is rare in Oregon, with the last case reported in 2015. It spreads to humans or animals through a bite from an infected flea or by contact with an animal sick with the disease. The most common animals to carry plague in Central Oregon are squirrels and chipmunks, but mice and other rodents can also carry the disease.

deschutes.org

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:38:42am

re: #182 Shropshire Slasher

I remember a hantavirus outbreak in Eastern Oregon, back in the 1990s. Didn’t know they had Yersinia pestis, too.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:50:50am

Mayo Cat – Hellmann’s Big Game :60

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ipsos  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:56:04am

re: #179 Shropshire Slasher

I have a camp in Wanakena and a lot of family in St. Lawrence county and I don’t see what you do, but good luck with that.

You might consider adding the excellent reporters at North Country Public Radio to your media diet.

northcountrypublicradio.org

northcountrypublicradio.org

I’m in the Rochester area but do some contract work in the North Country, and when you get to recognize the symbolism of the III Percenters and other extremists, you start to see a LOT of them up that way, as soon as you start up 81 out of Syracuse and especially once you’re past Watertown.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:02:18am

Featuring Jellyroll.

DON’T FORGET UBER EATS

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Rightwingconspirator  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:15:28am

Happy Caturday!
Gorgeous in our mountains this early morn.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:21:27am

re: #187 Rightwingconspirator

Beautiful.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:22:30am

re: #144 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle is doing some strange things to putatively intelligent people’s mental processes.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:25:48am

I usually try a different strategy here, but I changed it up today. It paid off.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 966 2/6*

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:34:43am

The latest in right wing thought…

Why you should never retire

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

Yeah. Flip burgers at the McDonalds till you drop dead at 95…

economist.com

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:35:39am

re: #191 Joe Bacon ✅

The latest in right wing thought…

Why you should never retire

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

Yeah. Flip burgers at the McDonalds till you drop dead at 95…

economist.com

Jesus. At this rate, I’m imagining they’ll be finding ways to put those vaunted fetuses they find so precious to work. Literal “cradle to the grave” thinking.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:37:51am

re: #189 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

re: #190 Nerdy Fish

Well done both of you!

I par’d.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:38:56am

Oops… Touched Post by accident.

Par.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:42:29am

re: #191 Joe Bacon ✅

The latest in right wing thought…

Why you should never retire

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

Yeah. Flip burgers at the McDonalds till you drop dead at 95…

economist.com

I hate to say this but my uncle retired early-ish. Probably in his 60s. Played golf, didn’t do a whole lot, and he told me he was sorry he did. His mind started to go. We were going somewhere he’d been before and he didn’t recognize it and he felt early retirement was not good for him.

Personally, I don’t see me retiring. I was unemployed for a year and bored out of my mind. I’m much happier when I’m really mentally busy.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:49:17am

re: #90 Dangerman

All of it fun stuff

Just keep in mind that the Sabata films are trying to be goofy to certain degree.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:50:03am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still cannot get over how we went from “taxation without representation is tyranny” to “taxation is theft”

or how we went from “Slavery was not the only reason for the Civil War” to “Slavery had nothing to do with the, um, War Between the States (or rather the War of Northern Aggression)”

When your position has to be right, any argument will do.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:52:11am

re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I hate to say this but my uncle retired early-ish. Probably in his 60s. Played golf, didn’t do a whole lot, and he told me he was sorry he did. His mind started to go. We were going somewhere he’d been before and he didn’t recognize it and he felt early retirement was not good for him.

Personally, I don’t see me retiring. I was unemployed for a year and bored out of my mind. I’m much happier when I’m really mentally busy.

One of my students here still works at a local financial firm; he’s 69 years old and the reason he’s working is so he doesn’t go out of his mind in retirement.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:53:32am

re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I hate to say this but my uncle retired early-ish. Probably in his 60s. Played golf, didn’t do a whole lot, and he told me he was sorry he did. His mind started to go. We were going somewhere he’d been before and he didn’t recognize it and he felt early retirement was not good for him.

Personally, I don’t see me retiring. I was unemployed for a year and bored out of my mind. I’m much happier when I’m really mentally busy.

I cannot afford to retire. I will have to keep working, even if only part-time, until I physically or mentally cannot any longer. As long as I can walk, I can give guided tours along the Rhine, that is good excercise and the interaction is generally fun and stimulating.

Translating/proofing will probably start to fall by the wayside as my language skills start to deteriorate.

And I will be playing music until they pry the instruments from my cold, dead hands.

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:54:20am

Don’t be a Sucker needs to become viral again. Amazing to me just how accurately they understood fascism in 1945. Well, not so amazing as 10s of millions of people died in order to gain that understanding.

We must stop it from happening again.

Don’t Be a Sucker

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:57:01am

re: #200 silverdolphin

They had us read It Can’t Happen Here in High School History class, and one of things that President Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip does to consolidate power is to declare war on Mexico.

I swear, it’s like DJT is going through the playbook page for page…

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:05:36am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They had us read It Can’t Happen Here in High School History class, and one of things that President Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip does to consolidate power is to declare war on Mexico.

I swear, it’s like DJT is going through the playbook page for page…

Of course he’s gonna steal someone else’s ideas
he’s never had an original thought of his own…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:06:25am

re: #191 Joe Bacon ✅

The latest in right wing thought…

Why you should never retire

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

Yeah. Flip burgers at the McDonalds till you drop dead at 95…

economist.com

Ummmmm…….. Along with my usual prep work, I also actually like flipping broiling burgers and being on the fryers. Better than sitting in front of my computer doom scrolling Twitter all day.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:06:51am

re: #202 Dangerman

Of course he’s gonna steal someone else’s ideas
he’s never had an original thought of his own…

All of his shitty fascist ideas are spoon-fed to him by Stephen Miller and others. He doesn’t want these things except inasmuch as they secure power for himself so he can stay out of jail.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:09:57am

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

I remember a hantavirus outbreak in Eastern Oregon, back in the 1990s. Didn’t know they had Yersinia pestis, too.

It’s endemic in rodents in the western US (not squirrels, though).

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:11:49am

re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

.Personally, I don’t see me retiring. I was unemployed for a year and bored out of my mind. I’m much happier when I’m really mentally busy.

Whereas I retired nearly ten years ago, and I haven’t gotten bored yet. Too many places to see, too many books to read.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:13:26am

re: #206 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Soonish. Too many models to build. Not enough time while I’m working.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:20:59am

This little guy was fiddly, but not to difficult.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:24:39am

I found out a customer of my uncle’s died a few years ago. He was an economics professor and highly respected. I googled him and found on CSPAN some testimony he gave before a committee on the minimum wage in 1995. His opening statement is going along nicely and then he said something about that every time the minimum wage has been raised it resulted in a recession. Uh…..

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:27:36am

We should see how salient Dobbs remains in the special election Tuesday to replace George Santos. The GOP candidate supports the reversal of Roe, but says she opposes a national abortion ban. A win by the Democrat, who resigned this seat to lose to Hochul in the Governor’s race, will be another step closer to regaining control of the House, which is critically important since Trump will be trying to get Congress to reverse Biden’s electoral victory next January if Trump loses.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:28:14am

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:28:57am

Love my air fryer

Good morning!

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:31:20am

re: #208 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

OMG is that a La Cornue in the back?

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:32:42am

re: #206 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Whereas I retired nearly ten years ago, and I haven’t gotten bored yet. Too many places to see, too many books to read.

I worked for 43 years with 3 weeks being the most time off in one stretch before retiring 2-1/2 years ago. I’m definitely not bored yet and I plan on never working for anyone again.

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:38:39am

Mastodon

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:40:41am

re: #213 darthstar

OMG is that a La Cornue in the back?

La Canche - five burners with a French plate, two electric ovens, one gas, warming oven, and a plancha. Delft tile on the backslash. Storage under the gas oven.

My baby
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Mike Lamb  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:42:38am

re: #161 Dr Lizardo

I agree. The COVID pandemic killed his Presidency. He had a good chance of getting re-elected but his typically Trumpian ham-fisted response to it sealed his fate.

He could have survived COVID if he didn’t turn masking into a political issue.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:45:39am

re: #216 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

La Canche - five burners with a French plate, two electric ovens, one gas, wamning oven, and a plancha. Delft tile on the backslash.

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Beautiful color. Seriously expensive stove meant for someone who knows how to cook, hopefully, not for somebody who just wants to show it off like Steinway 9-foot concert grand piano in the home of people who don’t play.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:46:33am

re: #216 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

La Canche - five burners with a French plate, two electric ovens, one gas, warming oven, and a plancha. Delft tile on the backslash. Storage under the gas oven.

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Beauty. We saw an almost new La Cornue at the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store a few weeks ago - $8,000 (about half price). I said the timing was wrong as our place is not ready for it, but jesus it was a hard decision.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:47:09am

re: #218 sizzzzlerz

Been cooking since I was a wee lad. It’s one of my other avocations.

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Randall Gross  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:48:08am

Mastodon

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Randall Gross  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:49:49am

Mastodon

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:50:31am

re: #219 darthstar

Beauty. We saw an almost new La Cornue at the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store a few weeks ago - $8,000 (about half price). I said the timing was wrong as our place is not ready for it, but jesus it was a hard decision.

I looked at them, too, nice stoves - great price, too bad timing was wrong. I was enamored with the yellow and went there.

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:50:31am

mastodon.sdf.org

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gocart mozart  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:51:10am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:53:02am

re: #217 Mike Lamb

He could have survived COVID if he didn’t turn masking into a political issue.

He panicked over the damage it would do to the economy. Failed to understand that people will rally around a President even in times of economic hardship if they are demonstrating resolute leadership.

Which is something he could not do nor could he find or appoint people to do it in his name. Instead it was all denial and then deflection and dissembling.

And it was deadly. Especially to those members of his base who believed all the denialism and dismissiveness. Until they died.

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Jay C  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:53:20am

re: #216 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Seriously cool appliance there (and the fine color is just a bonus).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:54:30am

re: #227 Jay C

Seriously cool appliance there (and the fine color is just a bonus).

Less enamored of the color but that is a dream combo of features.

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Egregious Philbin  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:56:48am

Waiting on the rain to pass to do my beloved Saturday morning bike ride. Its cold out there, 46 degrees, but should warm up a bit more in the next hour. Not doing a 30 mile trip today, just 8 miles to the pub for lunch and a few good beers. My wife went riding earlier and got caught in a cold rainy shower…I can wait, she has things to do today.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:58:50am

Had a ten month lead time on building it. I swear they must have gone out to mine and smelt the ore, gather the pigments for the enamel, and then it was assembled by Dames Blanches.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:59:48am

re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Less enamored of the color but that is a dream combo of features.

Yeah, not for everyone. But I love bright saturated colors.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:00:06am

re: #229 Egregious Philbin

Waiting on the rain to pass to do my beloved Saturday morning bike ride. Its cold out there, 46 degrees, but should warm up a bit more in the next hour. Not doing a 30 mile trip today, just 8 miles to the pub for lunch and a few good beers. My wife went riding earlier and got caught in a cold rainy shower…I can wait, she has things to do today.

No rain today, so I’m heading out shortly. As usual, I have no idea how far I’ll ride.

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Semper Fi  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:03:28am

re: #230 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Had a ten month lead time on building it. I swear they must have gone out to mine and smelt the ore, gather the pigments for the enamel, and then it was assembled by Dames Blanches.

I believe it…nicely done.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:03:31am

re: #231 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Yeah, not for everyone. But I love bright saturated colors.

Then I would have it in blue

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:05:25am

re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Then I would have it in blue

My cabinets are blue 😹

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:06:05am

re: #230 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Not to take away from the toy insect…that was cool too.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:07:03am

re: #236 darthstar

Not to take away from the toy insect…that was cool too.

I appreciate the stove comment with so little info.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:08:02am

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

It’s pretty clear that Putin has fallen prey to his own delusions. Any sense of realism or pragmatism is now long gone.

Except they are waiting for the return of Trump who will turn Ukraine over to him without a second thought. Nothing delusional about that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:10:54am

re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter

Except they are waiting for the return of Trump who will turn Ukraine over to him without a second thought. Nothing delusional about that.

They helped get him elected in 2016, and are going to try again this year.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:16:10am

BAND-MAID just dropped a live video:

BAND-MAID / Unleash!!!!! (Official Live Video)

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:16:54am

An old US Army M-60A3 tank on display in front of a VFW post near my parent’s farm where I had breakfast with some co-workers this morning. I was assigned on them in the army in the early 80’s in Germany so it was fun to see.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:18:54am

re: #216 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

La Canche - five burners with a French plate, two electric ovens, one gas, warming oven, and a plancha. Delft tile on the backslash. Storage under the gas oven.

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This is such a flex, with the color coordinated grinder too!

Just epic levels of flex and culinary drip.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:20:57am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Failed to understand that people will rally around a President even in times of economic hardship if they are demonstratig resolute leadership.

See, there’s the problem right there.

Trump? Resolute leadership?

J Jonah Jameson Laughing - Spider-Man (Bluray version)

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:21:34am

re: #241 William Lewis

An old US Army M-60A3 tank on display in front of a VFW post near my parent’s farm where I had breakfast with some co-workers this morning. I was assigned on them in the army in the early 80’s in Germany so it was fun to see.

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It would, of course, have been unimaginably devastating and horrible, but it’s still interesting to speculate how NATO forces would’ve match up with the Warsaw Pact if a general war had broken out in Europe during the Cold War. If the performance of the Russian army in Ukraine is any indication, I don’t think it would’ve gone well for the Warsaw Pact.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:22:35am

re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter

Except they are waiting for the return of Trump who will turn Ukraine over to him without a second thought. Nothing delusional about that.

That’s a roll of the dice. If it fails and Trump crashes and burns, then he’ll have to quickly rethink his strategy - whatever that might be.

Presumably, a delusional one.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:23:06am

re: #243 Dr Lizardo

See, there’s the problem right there.

Trump? Resolute leadership?

way too much work

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:24:19am

re: #244 No Malarkey!

It would, of course, have been unimaginably devastating and horrible, but it’s still interesting to speculate how NATO forces would’ve match up with the Warsaw Pact if a general war had broken out in Europe during the Cold War. If the performance of the Russian army in Ukraine is any indication, I don’t think it would’ve gone well for the Warsaw Pact.

But it would have left large parts of Germany a charred pile of rubble and if they went with tactical nukes, large parts of it would still be uninhabitable.

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mmmirele  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:25:44am

I woke up this morning and didn’t want to roll out of bed because it’s cold for the Phoenix area (45F), it’s cloudy, it’s damp (90% humidity) and it’s GLOOMY because of the FOG.

At least my brother didn’t have to go to the hospital overnight. His injured and still healing foot started swelling yesterday and he called me last night to let me know he might go to the hospital. He didn’t, and he texted me this morning that the swelling was way down. It has been over 9 weeks since he got the blister that started all this.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:26:40am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But it would have left large parts of Germany a charred pile of rubble and if they went with tactical nukes, large parts of it would still be uninhabitable.

Yes, it would’ve been terrible, and I’m very glad the Soviet Union fell relatively peacefully.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:30:04am

Just in case no one mentioned it: Happy Lunar New Year. It is the Year of the Dragon.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:30:40am

The media is obsessing about Biden’s mental acuity, while Trump can’t get anyone’s name right.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:31:22am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

Yes, it would’ve been terrible, and I’m very glad the Soviet Union fell relatively peacefully.

That was the basis of the anti-war and disarmament movement in Germany, namely that regardless of the outcome, Germany would lose: the Warsaw Pact’s initial attack would have probably reached the Rhine, the NATO counterattack would then have thrown them back to the Oder and from then on it would have been a see-saw battle of grinding attrition.

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:35:27am

re: #244 No Malarkey!

It would, of course, have been unimaginably devastating and horrible, but it’s still interesting to speculate how NATO forces would’ve match up with the Warsaw Pact if a general war had broken out in Europe during the Cold War. If the performance of the Russian army in Ukraine is any indication, I don’t think it would’ve gone well for the Warsaw Pact.

We expected them to lead with nerve agent and to go nuclear shortly after. It would not have been anything like Ukraine.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:36:21am

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That was the basis of the anti-war and disarmament movement in Germany: regardless of the outcome, Germany would lose: the Warsaw Pact’s initial attack would have probablyed reach the Rhine, the NATO counterattack would then have thrown them back to the Oder and from then on it would be grinding attrition.

An interesting point of debate is that, while nuclear weapons would unleash unspeakable devastation if used, their very existence may have prevented all out conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, which could’ve killed millions. Parapharsing the movie Oppenheimer, once atomic weapons had been used, we understood and feared them, and kept the peace.

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:36:49am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But it would have left large parts of Germany a charred pile of rubble and if they went with tactical nukes, large parts of it 90% would still be uninhabitable.

Fixed that for you.

Nena was an optimist.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:37:53am

re: #253 William Lewis

We expected them to lead with nerve agent and to go nuclear shortly after. It would not have been anything like Ukraine.

Thank dog that didn’t happen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:38:57am

re: #255 William Lewis

Fixed that for you.

Nena was an optimist.

The wind turbines at the head of our valley were built using abandoned missile silos as foundations.

The whole area would have been plastered into glowing glass.

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:39:09am

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:44:22am

re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The wind turbines at the head of our valley were built using abandoned missile silos as foundations.

The whole area would have been plastered into glowing glass.

I think I visited that base when it was still a missile post - one of the guys I was in high school with was a Pershing Missile crewman. Funny how life is like that…

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:48:00am

re: #144 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle is doing some strange things to putatively intelligent people’s mental processes.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:48:02am

For your weekend viewing pleasure, here’s one you might want to watch before it’s gone:
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, from 2000. This one has a bit of an alternate-history flavor, as the Big G’s previous attacks have forced the Japanese government to relocate the capital city to Osaka. Directed by Masaaki Tezuka.

Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus | Full Movie |

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:50:06am

Singapore greets the new year.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:50:08am

Not only did the insurrectionists have guns on January 6, one of them was fired. There is a very good chance MAGA will bring their AR-15s to D.C. next January, a big reason why it would’ve been preferable if SCOTUS had enforced the Insurrection Clause against Trump.

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:50:53am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:51:01am

re: #216 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

La Canche - five burners with a French plate, two electric ovens, one gas, warming oven, and a plancha. Delft tile on the backslash. Storage under the gas oven.

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THAT is a thing of beauty. I’m drooling. Damn. That puppy is fine!

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:55:36am

Wandering to bed. Later all.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:57:04am

re: #242 goddamnedfrank

This is such a flex, with the color coordinated grinder too!

Just epic levels of flex and culinary drip.

And the blue and yellow color combo is beautiful. It’s like spring every morning.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:01:42am

The end result of Milton Friedman and his Chicago Boys love for Pinochet.

MAGA Warms to a Murderous Chilean Dictator

Augusto Pinochet’s perceived enemies were drugged, hooded, and tossed into the sea by helicopter. Some of Trump’s fans—including a GOP congressman—find that worthy of praise, or at least humor.

Anthony D’Esposito, a congressman from New York, posted a picture on X last week of an undocumented immigrant flashing two middle fingers after being arraigned for allegedly assaulting two NYPD officers. “We feel the same way about you,” D’Esposito wrote. “Holla at the cartels and have them escort you back.” But Republican Congressman Mike Collins took it a step further: “Or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back.” His post was flagged as violent speech, but it was allowed to stand on the grounds that “it may be in the public’s interest for the Post to remain accessible.”

Collins probably considers his statement a joke intended to communicate his views of migrants, and it is best not to overreact to behavior that is designed to provoke. But his post also reflects the mainstreaming of authoritarianism in the GOP. Since at least 2016, members of the Proud Boys—the extremist group that Trump told to “stand back and stand by” in the event he lost the 2020 election—have worn shirts with slogans like “Pinochet did nothing wrong” or “Pinochet’s Helicopter Rides.” Now a Republican in Congress is repeating them.

During Augusto Pinochet’s rule in Chile, more than 1,000 people were “disappeared”: abducted by the state, never to be seen by their families again. More than a hundred of those were drugged, hooded, and tossed from helicopters to sink into the ocean. Given the debate about whether Trump and his movement are fascist—a debate Trump has fueled by describing immigrants as “poisoning the blood” of the country and promising that he would be a dictator on “day one” who would “root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin”—you might expect comparisons to Pinochet to come from his critics. That they come from admirers instead reflects the unsettling and bizarre ways that Trump is seen by his supporters (as Pinochet was by his) as the savior of Western, Christian civilization against its enemies from within.

newrepublic.com

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steve_davis  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:01:58am

re: #217 Mike Lamb

He could have survived COVID if he didn’t turn masking into a political issue.

never forget, he managed to kill more of his voters in those swing states than the ultimate difference in votes was.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:04:15am

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:11:22am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:12:30am

re: #271 A Cranky One

Eh. No Thanks. I am not interested.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:12:55am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising. There was a chapter that read like, and probably was, a report on the effect of a Soviet chemical attack on NATO.

Specifically it was a report on the effects of such an attack on East Germany. Something like half the population would be gone, with important parts of the human infrastructure like paramedics, firefighters and police dying in larger percentages than civilians. Epidemics created by huge piles of rotting corpses would follow. Impossible to keep civil order in such circumstances of course.

It would be necessary to import tons of insect larva so crops could be fertilized. And like mines some of the persistent nerve agents would remain deadly for years.

It was a frightening thing to read.

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:14:27am

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:16:49am

re: #254 No Malarkey!

IMO the important part about atomic weapons is that they endangered the powerful as much as the meek. World leaders were much less enthusiastic about war when it was likely they would be radioactive dust.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:19:52am

re: #259 William Lewis

I think I visited that base when it was still a missile post - one of the guys I was in high school with was a Pershing Missile crewman. Funny how life is like that…

Just across the river from us up the Wispertal, there is a major Bundeswehr supply depot, which also would have been a major target.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:20:20am

re: #262 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Singapore greets the new year.

Looks just like Chinese New Year to me…

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:21:04am
Hungary’s conservative president has resigned amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government.

Katalin Novák, 46, announced in a televised message on Saturday that she would step down from the presidency, an office she has held since 2022. Her decision came after more than a week of public outrage after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon in April 2023 to a man convicted of hiding a string of child sexual abuses in a state-run children’s home.

“I issued a pardon that caused bewilderment and unrest for many people,” Novák said on Saturday. “I made a mistake.”

Novák’s resignation came as a rare piece of political turmoil for Hungary’s nationalist governing party Fidesz, which has ruled with a constitutional majority since 2010. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Fidesz has been accused of dismantling democratic institutions and rigging the electoral system and media in its favor.

apnews.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:21:18am

re: #204 Nerdy Fish

All of his shitty fascist ideas are spoon-fed to him by Stephen Miller and others. He doesn’t want these things except inasmuch as they secure power for himself so he can stay out of jail.

No — he shares that outlook and that’s why Miller is one of his chief advisors. His demanding the death penalty for the Central Park 5 certainly preceded his association with Miller by decades. He is a dyed-in-the-wool racist and anti-Semite. He isn’t a theocrat or a pro-lifer. But a fascist, definitely.

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sagehen  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:22:09am

re: #168 Shropshire Slasher

I think she should parachute in!!!

msn.com

I’m guessing she has all sorts of personalized assistance to help her with this. There’ll be a helicopter from the Tokyo concert to the airport (does Tokyo not usually have helicopters on that route? No matter, for Tay Tay they’ll make an exception). At the airport, her plane will have done all the pre-flight and been warming up so they can take off the minute she gets there. In Vegas, she’s got reserved parking for her jet (she’ll deplane as soon as she touches down, no need to wait until the plane is parked) and get into a waiting helicopter. Again, usual protocols don’t apply — they’ll land that chopper right at the stadium entrance.

The whole world wants Taylor to get there in time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:23:58am

re: #278 Dr Lizardo

Novák’s resignation came as a rare piece of political turmoil for Hungary’s nationalist governing party Fidesz, which has ruled with a constitutional majority since 2010. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Change the party’s name from Fidesz to Fiddlersz

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:24:35am

re: #278 Dr Lizardo

Huh?

I thought Orban was President of Hungary.

EDIT: My bad. He’s Prime Minister. I forgot seniority between those positions varies by nation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:25:31am

re: #280 sagehen

The whole world wants Taylor to get there in time.

The Deep State apparatus will be in high gear to get their key asset to the game….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:27:08am

re: #282 Eclectic Cyborg

Huh?

I thought Orban was President of Hungary.

EDIT: My bad. He’s Prime Minister. I forgot seniority between those positions varies by nation.

Yes, in France, for example, the President has broad powers, whereas in Germany the President is little more than a symbolic figurehead. In Russia, the powers depend on which of the two offices Putin is currently occupying.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:29:10am

re: #279 Hecuba’s daughter

No — he shares that outlook and that’s why Miller is one of his chief advisors. His demanding the death penalty for the Central Park 5 certainly preceded his association with Miller by decades. He is a dyed-in-the-wool racist and anti-Semite. He isn’t a theocrat or a pro-lifer. But a fascist, definitely.

He will gladly work with theocrats but to him, Corinthians are the guys who make leather and he has certainly paid for multiple abortions over the course of his paramilitary career in the jungles of the New York dating scene…

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:29:52am

re: #282 Eclectic Cyborg

Huh?

I thought Orban was President of Hungary.

EDIT: My bad. He’s Prime Minister. I forgot seniority between those positions varies by nation.

Yeah, head of government vs head of state. Like many parliamentary democracies, the head of government (in this case, Orbán) is the real power while the head of state is generally a more ceremonial position.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:30:45am

re: #286 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, head of government vs head of state. Like many parliamentary democracies, the head of government (in this case, Orbán) is the real power while the head of state is generally a more ceremonial position.

The United States is more the exception rather than the rule in that the head of government and the head of state are the same office/person.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:36:08am

MAGA Star Running for Office Raised Tons for Charity—and Then Sat on the Money for Years

Conservative influencer C.J. Pearson raised about $170,000 for Black-owned businesses in 2020. He never really doled it out. And now he’s running for office.

Oh and he was one of those fake Trump electors in Georgia—adding that to his MAGAT credentials

At just 21 years old, C.J. Pearson boasts a lengthy record in the public arena. After going viral as a preteen for his self-taped takedown of Barack Obama, he has climbed the ranks of the right wing’s activist-pundit class, amassing hundreds of thousands of fans and a prominent perch at the conservative content platform PragerU.

Now, Pearson is hoping to add another line to his resume: Georgia state lawmaker.

The Augusta native is a candidate in a special primary election on Tuesday to fill a vacancy in a safely Republican state House district just outside his hometown. And even though he’s up against two other legitimate Republican contenders in the primary, Pearson is getting attention from huge platforms like Fox News—and characteristically projecting brash confidence.

“I couldn’t care less about race but in 10 days, the youngest black lawmaker in the country will be a MAGA Republican,” he has posted on X to his nearly 500,000 followers.

But there’s a particular aspect of Pearson’s history that he might prefer to avoid talking about—one that raises questions about his fitness for public office.

In the wake of riots over George Floyd’s murder in 2020, Pearson launched a GoFundMe page billed as a rescue effort for Black-owned businesses that had suffered damage in the unrest.

“This is an opportunity for conservatives to show the black community that we stand in support of them, capitalism, and the sacrifices they made to become entrepreneurs in the first place,” he wrote on the page.

The effort ended up raising roughly $170,000 in just a few days. Pearson said he would partner with a nonprofit, the Georgia Association of Minority Entrepreneurs, to distribute those funds as grants to needy businesses.

Nearly four years later, however, it remains unclear exactly how much of that money was actually directed to businesses that could have benefited from the funds, according to annual federal tax filings for the nonprofit.

What is clear is that only a small portion of the initial GoFundMe haul was put to use, leaving the nonprofit still sitting on most of the money it raised in 2020…and that cash is in CJ’s bank account like any other True MAGAT Grifter!

thedailybeast.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:36:12am

re: #287 Nerdy Fish

The United States is more the exception rather than the rule in that the head of government and the head of state are the same office/person.

We are also not a parliamentary system.

One of the things that led to Hitler’s rapid accession to power is that the Presidency was made very strong, because the Monarchists had an eye to reinstating a Kaiser.

Hitler as Chancellor had very limited powers, which is why the other parties thought that they had him effectively “sidelined”.

But when Hindenburg died (after having signed the Enabling Act), he simply declared that there was nobody who could possibly fill his shoes and left the office vacant while permanently assuming all the powers granted to him through the Enabling Act.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:36:39am

re: #269 steve_davis

never forget, he managed to kill more of his voters in those swing states than the ultimate difference in votes was.

And his delay in dealing with the disease was due to his belief that it was blue states that would be the main victims; he literally did not care if residents of New York or California perished.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:38:04am

re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Right, I meant among countries in the world, not among countries with parliamentary systems. I realize my statement wasn’t clear on this point.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:39:31am

re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Hitler pretty much just merged the offices of Chancellor and President, proclaimed himself Führer, and that was that. All nice and legal, as per the Enabling Act.

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:45:13am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:46:04am

re: #292 Dr Lizardo

Hitler pretty much just merged the offices of Chancellor and President, proclaimed himself Führer, and that was that. All nice and legal, as per the Enabling Act.

Yeah and if Trump gets his way he will merge the Presidency with Messiah and proclaim himself Gawd’s Anointed King.

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:46:08am

re: #290 Hecuba’s daughter

And his delay in dealing with the disease was due to his belief that it was blue states that would be the main victims; he literally did not care if residents of New York or California perished.

Let’s not forget how his administration told states not to depend on the federal government for PPE supplies, respirators etc., forcing states to order them individually, then diverted (stole) some of those supplies to distribute elsewhere.

businessinsider.com

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sagehen  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:46:50am

re: #244 No Malarkey!

It would, of course, have been unimaginably devastating and horrible, but it’s still interesting to speculate how NATO forces would’ve match up with the Warsaw Pact if a general war had broken out in Europe during the Cold War. If the performance of the Russian army in Ukraine is any indication, I don’t think it would’ve gone well for the Warsaw Pact.

Except the Soviet equipment back then wasn’t 40 years old with no maintenance. They’d have been much better than today’s Russian army.

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:47:59am

post.news

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:49:29am

re: #280 sagehen

I’m guessing she has all sorts of personalized assistance to help her with this. There’ll be a helicopter from the Tokyo concert to the airport (does Tokyo not usually have helicopters on that route? No matter, for Tay Tay they’ll make an exception). At the airport, her plane will have done all the pre-flight and been warming up so they can take off the minute she gets there. In Vegas, she’s got reserved parking for her jet (she’ll deplane as soon as she touches down, no need to wait until the plane is parked) and get into a waiting helicopter. Again, usual protocols don’t apply — they’ll land that chopper right at the stadium entrance.

The whole world wants Taylor to get there in time.

It’s Vegas. She could land in an airfield (likely less fanfare for her) in the desert (minutes from the strip, catch a helicopter and land on the roof of what hotel penthouse she’s staying in.

She has a million options that fame and money offer.

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:51:52am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:54:05am

Newly released video appears to show Trump supporter firing gun during Jan. 6 riot

John Emanuel Banuelos was previously identified by NBC News as a Jan. 6 rioter who told police he had a weapon that day. New footage appears to show him firing it.

Newly unearthed footage from Jan. 6, 2021, appears to show a rioter — a man identified in an NBC News story nearly two years ago — firing a gun into the air outside the Capitol during the attack.

Online sleuths who have aided in hundreds of Jan. 6 prosecutions say he is the same man they identified to the FBI who is currently individual No. 200 on the bureau’s Capitol Violence page, which he first appeared on three years ago. Videos and photographs from the Capitol on Jan. 6 showed him with what appears to be a gun in his waistband. As NBC News previously reported, that man, John Emanuel Banuelos, told Salt Lake City police that he was at the Capitol and had been captured on film with a gun. “I was in the D.C. riots,” he told the investigators, according to a police transcript. “I’m the one in the video with the gun right here.”

Banuelos has not been arrested or charged in connection with Jan. 6; the Salt Lake City police had arrested him in connection with the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Christopher Thomas Senn in a park on July 4, 2021.

“Man, should I just tell the FBI to come get me or what?” he asked Salt Lake City police officers, according to a police transcript. Weeks later, Banuelos called an investigator with the department and “talked about going where Donald Trump sent him,” apparently referencing the Capitol, according to a police record. The Salt Lake City DA’s office did not pursue a case against Banuelos, who claimed self-defense in Senn’s death.

Now, footage released by another Jan. 6 rioter appears to show Banuelos firing the gun into the air twice during the chaotic scene on the west side of the Capitol, as rioters battled with police. Online sleuths also surfaced U.S. Capitol Police surveillance footage previously released in connection with another Capitol attack case that shows the man they’ve identified as Banuelos appearing to fire the gun. They found multiple other videos in which the gunshots can be heard.

nbcnews.com

But that doesn’t matter to Leonard Leo’s Six Puppets on the Corrupted Court. They see nothing wrong with that.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:55:46am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:58:04am

re: #299 A Cranky One

A rare photo of Gamera on his lunch break.

On the subject of Gamera, if you’ve never seen Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, you really need to because it’s not only the absolute best entry in the Gamera film franchise, it’s perhaps one of the best kaiju films ever made.

Gamera is bona fide terrifying in this one.

Gamera 3, la revanche d’Iris | Fantastique, Science Fiction | Film complet en français

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:58:31am

re: #300 Joe Bacon ✅

Newly released video appears to show Trump supporter firing gun during Jan. 6 riot

John Emanuel Banuelos was previously identified by NBC News as a Jan. 6 rioter who told police he had a weapon that day. New footage appears to show him firing it.

Newly unearthed footage from Jan. 6, 2021, appears to show a rioter — a man identified in an NBC News story nearly two years ago — firing a gun into the air outside the Capitol during the attack.

Online sleuths who have aided in hundreds of Jan. 6 prosecutions say he is the same man they identified to the FBI who is currently individual No. 200 on the bureau’s Capitol Violence page, which he first appeared on three years ago. Videos and photographs from the Capitol on Jan. 6 showed him with what appears to be a gun in his waistband. As NBC News previously reported, that man, John Emanuel Banuelos, told Salt Lake City police that he was at the Capitol and had been captured on film with a gun. “I was in the D.C. riots,” he told the investigators, according to a police transcript. “I’m the one in the video with the gun right here.”

Banuelos has not been arrested or charged in connection with Jan. 6; the Salt Lake City police had arrested him in connection with the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Christopher Thomas Senn in a park on July 4, 2021.

“Man, should I just tell the FBI to come get me or what?” he asked Salt Lake City police officers, according to a police transcript. Weeks later, Banuelos called an investigator with the department and “talked about going where Donald Trump sent him,” apparently referencing the Capitol, according to a police record. The Salt Lake City DA’s office did not pursue a case against Banuelos, who claimed self-defense in Senn’s death.

Now, footage released by another Jan. 6 rioter appears to show Banuelos firing the gun into the air twice during the chaotic scene on the west side of the Capitol, as rioters battled with police. Online sleuths also surfaced U.S. Capitol Police surveillance footage previously released in connection with another Capitol attack case that shows the man they’ve identified as Banuelos appearing to fire the gun. They found multiple other videos in which the gunshots can be heard.

nbcnews.com

But that doesn’t matter to Leonard Leo’s Six Puppets on the Corrupted Court. They see nothing wrong with that.

HE WAS JUST EXERCISING HIS 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS IT WASN’T AN ISSURECTION1!11!!!!!!!

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:00:13am

re: #302 Dr Lizardo

A rare photo of Gamera on his lunch break.

On the subject of Gamera, if you’ve never seen Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, you really need to because it’s not only the absolute best entry in the Gamera film franchise, it’s perhaps one of the best kaiju films ever made.

Gamera is bona fide terrifying in this one.

[Embedded content]

To quote MST3K:

Gamera is really neat
He is full of turtle meat
We love eating Gamera!

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:01:07am

re: #268 Joe Bacon ✅

There is a sizable Pinochet fan base at Free Republic. It overlaps a lot with the devoted Franco fan base.
There was a mighty howl of protest from right wing congress types when President Carter cut off military sales to Chile in 1977. This was led, of course, by Senator Jesse Helms, who never met a fascist he didn’t like. Oddly, helicopter parts were exempt from the embargo on the grounds that they were required for search and rescue in the Andes. Chilean Air Force helicopters had rescued the survivors of Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, the famous “Miracle of the Andes” incident that was the basis for the movie Survive!.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:01:19am

re: #300 Joe Bacon ✅

He just fired into the air. In America we all do that.
/Yee-Haw

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piratedan  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:04:55am

re: #299 A Cranky One

Happy Birthday Gamera!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:13:00am
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Mattand  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:18:42am

re: #91 Mattand

And, as always, a major “Fuck you” to Merrick Garland for dragging his fucking feet in dealing with this.

I got my first downvote in forever for this comment.

I’ll take hurting a Garland stan’s feelings by stating the obvious any frigging day, thankyouverymuch, LOL

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:20:55am

Beautiful day here in Saratoga Springs NY. Took out the Goldwing for a toot and purchased some T-bone steaks for grilling tonight.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:23:44am

re: #309 Mattand

I got my first downvote in forever for this comment.

I’ll take hurting a Garland stan’s feelings by stating the obvious any frigging day, thankyouverymuch, LOL

Just want to mention that down dings are often inadvertent — fat finger syndrome on phones.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:27:50am

re: #309 Mattand

I got my first downvote in forever for this comment.

I’ll take hurting a Garland stan’s feelings by stating the obvious any frigging day, thankyouverymuch, LOL

Don’t forget to claim that on your W-2.

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jeffreyw  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:30:23am

Mastodon

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sagehen  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:31:41am

re: #308 Eclectic Cyborg

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:35:24am

re: #292 Dr Lizardo

Hitler pretty much just merged the offices of Chancellor and President, proclaimed himself Führer, and that was that. All nice and legal, as per the Enabling Act.

And the Monarchists, whose long-term goal was to put a new Kaiser in place with strong Parliamentary powers, unwittingly greased the skids for him.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:38:06am

re: #128 Belafon

Vaginylvania

Vulvavania

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:40:13am

re: #316 Sherlock Hound

How about Hersheyvania?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:40:28am

re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The German conservatives of the Weimar Era thought they could restrain someone they saw as an unsophisticated, vulgar bumpkin with minimal effort.

Easily the worst political miscalculation in modern history.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:40:34am

re: #300 Joe Bacon ✅

“There were no guns except the guy who shot Ashley Babbit for no reason!”

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:41:32am

re: #308 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

That 3rd animal could be challenging. Alligator? Crocodile? Caiman? Lizard? Any of the above?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:48:06am

Was out east in Bedford, PA yesterday to have lunch with one of my cousins who lives there. Was really nice weather for walking around a small town and for the drive time as well.

Ate lunch at a restaurant in an old tavern outside of Bedford that was built in 1762.

Interior of Jean Bonnet Tavern
Gas station in Bedford

Another piece of highway Americana I saw but did not stop at is “The Big Coffee Pot” A small building that is a 15’ tall coffee pot that used to be a small store and was originally built next to a cafe along US 30.

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danarchy  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:50:59am

re: #52 Belafon

Jason Aldeen has decided he’s the arbiter of who gets to go to Toby Keith’s funeral, stating that Garth Brooks isn’t welcome.

The only place I can find a mention of that is a shitty satire site and snopes says it isn’t true.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:52:03am

The siren song of the Girl Scouts is ensnaring me.

I must go and surrender to the temptation of THIN MINTS!


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