Saturday Morning Funkaganza: The Fearless Flyers IV (Live Album)

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The Fearless Flyers take you to the bridge and drop you off — into some funk.

Vinyl first pressing — hand numbered — on sale this month only. Buy here: diggersfactory.com

00:00 Blue Angels
04:38 Red Arrows
08:35 Patrouille de France
15:26 Frecce Tricolori
19:06 Snowbirds
22:51 Thunderbirds

FF
Nate Smith
Joe Dart
Mark Lettieri
Cory Wong

Produced By
Jack Stratton
Cory Wong

Recording Engineer
Miles Hanson

Mixing And Mastering
Noam Wallenberg

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157 comments
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:57:19am

Side comment from the Bedford trip back and forth on the PA Turnpike is that 3-4 locations that were wall-to-wall Trump stuff a few years back have none of it currently.

I doubt the area has gotten less conservative and my cousin essentially supported that in things she mentioned. However, I also recall a lot of pro-Ukraine signs and flags as well in area before and wonder if the Trump and GQP Putin-worship has been rubbing people the wrong way.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:01:28am

First time I’ve noticed those guitar stands in use. Has everybody been doing it for years?

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:03:47am

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Charles Johnson  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:04:08am

re: #2 wrenchwench

First time I’ve noticed those guitar stands in use. Has everybody been doing it for years?

No, it’s just these weirdos. Pat Metheny uses a stand sometimes so he can quickly switch instruments, but FF has turned it into a look.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:05:18am

Rando1

Remember the outrageous media coverage & reaction after the Fetterman & Oz debate in 2022?

Fetterman went on to win by the biggest margin in the state in an open senate contest in 48 years.

Response rando2

This comparison to Fetterman is on point. The Hur report shines a spotlight on Biden’s biggest weakness, but it doesn’t tell us anything new. Yes, Biden is too damn old, frankly, I’d rather have a younger candidate. But he’s been a good president, and he’s the one who can unite Democrats and appeal to indies better than anyone else on the Dem stage today. And outside of the GOP base, most everyone else recognizes that the alternative of Trump is an utter abyss.

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:06:47am

From last thread-

re: #321 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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.

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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.

I used to drive past that Tavern back in the 1970s-1990s when I was visiting my parents in Pittsburgh while living in the DC area. I always meant to stop and try it. But, to my regret, never did.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:07:15am

And another GOP Congressman jumps the ship!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:08:17am

Dang. I just saw an ice cream truck drive down my little side street.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:12:24am

re: #6 ckkatz

From last thread-

I used to drive past that Tavern back in the 1970s-1990s when I was visiting my parents in Pittsburgh while living in the DC area. I always meant to stop and try it. But, to my regret, never did.

When I was doing Turnpike runs back and forth two years ago setting my move up back to western PA the tavern was a sort of mile stone since it’s easily visible from the Turnpike and is roughly at the halfway point between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:13:47am

re: #7 Joe Bacon ✅

And another GOP Congressman jumps the ship!

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Along with a voting record that makes his statement a humungous lie.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:15:42am

re: #10 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Along with a voting record that makes his statement a humungous lie.

What else do MAGAT Republicans do except lie their motherfathering asses off 24/7?

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:15:46am

re: #1 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Side comment from the Bedford trip back and forth on the PA Turnpike is that 3-4 locations that were wall-to-wall Trump stuff a few years back have none of it currently.

I doubt the area has gotten less conservative and my cousin essentially supported that in things she mentioned. However, I also recall a lot of pro-Ukraine signs and flags as well in area before and wonder if the Trump and GQP Putin-worship has been rubbing people the wrong way.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, I remember that there were a lot of folks whose parents or grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe. Not only in Pittsburgh, but also in the small towns further out in the rural areas. Most of them weren’t farmers/gentry but instead the tradesman (plumbers, electricians, carpenters, welders, etc), small business owners, government workers (letter carriers, game wardens, police) and coal miners.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:17:33am
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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:20:17am

weird how Joe Biden agreed to cooperate, and didn’t melt straight the fuck down and throw a social media shit fit and whine about witch hunts and how unfair it all is. it’s almost as if Joe Biden has nothing to hide, what’s up with that” - Jeff Tiedrich

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:22:42am

re: #8 PhillyPretzel ✅

Dang. I just saw an ice cream truck drive down my little side street.

I’m waiting for the one that makes rounds on my street to start coming around again this summer. I miss my Orange Creamsicles.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:23:32am

Trump is getting ready to shoot his mouth off in South Carolina.

Just waiting for him to tell the crowd that Biden will change the name of their state, too…

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:24:20am

Reupping Joe Bacon’s post from last thread…

re: #323 Joe Bacon ✅

The siren song of the Girl Scouts is ensnaring me.

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

Requires that I also repost a classic meme. (Don’t @ me, it’s in the rules!)

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Jay C  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:24:52am

re: #7 Joe Bacon ✅

And another GOP Congressman jumps the ship!

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I had to go back to re-read that release, since at first glance it looked like Rep. Gallagher was stating that he had chaired the “Select Committee OF the Chinese Communist Party” - which I thought was rather a strange sideline for a Republican Congressman…

Then again, WTF is this “Select Committee”? Are these the same clowns who didn’t know the difference between China and Singapore?

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JC1  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:29:49am

re: #3 Dangerman

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Why on earth did Garlan appoint this hack? Didn’t know any nonpartisan professionals? What a stupid own goal.

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Charmingly Persistent  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:29:58am

My scariest earthquake experience was when I was in LA in 1990 or so. I was driving to work during rush hour and was in stop and go traffic on an overpass in the 10/405 snarl. The overpass started rocking and no one was going anywhere. But California builds for that and everything was fine.

Northridge was much worse but I was gone by then.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:32:03am

re: #19 JC1

Why on earth did Garlan appoint this hack? Didn’t know any nonpartisan professionals? What a stupid own goal.

Because he hasn’t yet learned that appeasement never works, so he appoints Republicans to investigate Republicans and Republicans to investigate Democrats, so as to avoid the appearance of bias.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:33:06am

WTF?

People are actually hoping for Taylor Swift’s plane to crash so she doesn’t get to the Super Bowl…

Nope…Not posting a link.

I’m gonna go and play some chess online…

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:35:01am

re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅

WTF?

People are actually hoping for Taylor Swift’s plane to crash so she doesn’t get to the Super Bowl…

Nope…Not posting a link.

I’m gonna go and play some chess online…

There are, and always will be, a lot of shitty, shitty people in this world.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:35:09am

Mexico Looks to Bypass U.S. Gun Companies’ Special Legal Immunity

[…]

Litigation against gunmakers is almost always tossed out because of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, or PLCAA, a 2005 federal law that protects gunmakers from being held liable for crimes committed with their products.

But the decision handed down last month shows that Mexico’s case differs from earlier lawsuits in two important respects: the violations that the country has accused gunmakers of committing, and the overwhelming amount of evidence it has to support its allegations.

[…]

The lone survivor [the only US case that got past PLCAA], a suit brought by the city of Gary, Indiana, is ongoing.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:36:24am

re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅

That is ridiculous. I am not a Taylor Swift fan but I do not want the woman to be in a plane crash. Just let her do her concert in Tokyo and go to the game.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:37:50am

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

There are, and always will be, a lot of shitty, shitty people in this world.

And 74 million of them voted for Trump in 2020.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:38:29am

re: #25 PhillyPretzel ✅

I assume she already has pretty stringent security, but she’s probably gonna need a little more these days.

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Dizzy  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:47:25am

A classic from a master

YouTube

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:47:32am

re: #25 PhillyPretzel ✅

That is ridiculous. I am not a Taylor Swift fan but I do not want the woman to be in a plane crash. Just let her do her concert in Tokyo and go to the game.

This Taylor Swift thing is a hell of a demonstration of both how this mindset invents enemies for the pleasure of imagining their suffering and how once you buy into reaction it directly follows that other people’s choices and desires are yours to control (because their body is not their own).

Five years ago they could project their positions and desires onto Taylor Swift…not caring in the slightest who she was…but now they feel threatened/diminished so they have to invent a giant conspiracy to explain why she isn’t the person they want her to be.

At times like this I always think about domestic violence, which often amounts to a man hurting or killing a woman because she fails the impossible task of being the imago in his head. Both the conservatives leaning into reaction and those going straight to fascism have in common a sense that if other people do not perform their assigned function, they should be battered into submission or destroyed.

In this incredibly no-stakes, is-not-strategic situation they cannot help but appease that appetite, fantasize about suffering because suffering is, axiomatically, justice when it happens to people they don’t like.

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Jay C  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:55:40am

re: #21 Nerdy Fish

Because he hasn’t yet learned that appeasement never works, so he appoints Republicans to investigate Republicans and Republicans to investigate Democrats, so as to avoid the appearance of bias.

Right: and the results usually turn out the same: Republicans take it as a fundamental assumption that any investigation of any Republican for anything is a baseless, partisan, harassment witch-hunt, and any results* should be summarily dismissed or ignored. And they also follow its corollary: that any Democrat being investigated for anything is to be assumed guilty a priori, and that any exculpatory findings are to be dismissed and denounced as “whitewash”, “cover-up”, etc. Both sides, etc…

*Whether or not the subject of the investigation is actually guilty of, or responsible for, anything is generally irrelevant to GOPers: neither their officialdom or voter base seem to care.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:59:22am

This is pretty funky….

Home Counties - Uptight (Official Video)

Their debut album drops 3 May 2024.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:06:22pm

re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea

At this point in time Taylor Swift is much much bigger worldwide than her first fan base of pre-teen and high school female white Country Music fans.

Since her pivot towards Pop she has greatly widened her fan base to worldwide dominance and now $$ billons in sales. She can at this point tell these racist hicks to basically go fuck themselves and grow her worldwide fan base even more.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:10:10pm
…take you to the bridge and drop you off — into some funk.

George Duke Reach For It

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Mattand  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:22:20pm

re: #8 PhillyPretzel ✅

Dang. I just saw an ice cream truck drive down my little side street.

Mr. Softee?

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sagehen  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:22:23pm

re: #32 Florida Panhandler

At this point in time Taylor Swift is much much bigger worldwide than her first fan base of pre-teen and high school female white Country Music fans.

Since her pivot towards Pop she has greatly widened her fan base to worldwide dominance and now $$ billons in sales. She can at this point tell these racist hicks to basically go fuck themselves and grow her worldwide fan base even more.

when she released her first album 18 years ago, her fan base was mostly pre-teen girls.

But she’s grown up since then. So did they.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:24:01pm

re: #34 Mattand

No. They called themselves Liberty.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:25:13pm

re: #34 Mattand

A Mr Softee truck drives in my Southern California neighborhood on sunny afternoons. I have to stifle the urge to flag them down every time they pass

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JC1  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:27:16pm

re: #25 PhillyPretzel ✅

That is ridiculous. I am not a Taylor Swift fan but I do not want the woman to be in a plane crash. Just let her do her concert in Tokyo and go to the game.

I wouldn’t mind Trump’s plane hitting the side of a mountain with his entire clan onboard.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:28:13pm

re: #32 Florida Panhandler

At this point in time Taylor Swift is much much bigger worldwide than her first fan base of pre-teen and high school female white Country Music fans.

Since her pivot towards Pop she has greatly widened her fan base to worldwide dominance and now $$ billons in sales. She can at this point tell these racist hicks to basically go fuck themselves and grow her worldwide fan base even more.

I’m not really sure how to react.

My point is that we’re beset by a form of reaction that views existing outside their control as injury requiring self-defense.

Taylor Swift is a billionaire, she’ll be fine. But if you’ve been listening to the actual people talking about this…the teenage girls who are her fans might not be, because they’re also being positioned as a kind of non-person political target. And more generally, “these are people who spend all their time imagining that nothing is random and celebrate death and suffering” is a pretty notable thing in and of itself, because it contextualizes shit like…all the actual people dying as byblows of American institutions that have assumed reactionary policies.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:32:25pm

Someone mentioned the actual article yesterday, but I think the last sentence in the tweet is important:

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:39:43pm

Mastodon

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:44:43pm

re: #37 So Cal Greek Hippie

A Mr Softee truck drives in my Southern California neighborhood on sunny afternoons. I have to stifle the urge to flag them down every time they pass

The gal that drives the Ice cream truck down my lane knows I’m a sucker for the creamsicles and stops in front of my place if she see’s my car in the driveway.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:49:45pm

Went out for a long ride and ended up a little lost when I realized my Google maps wasn’t working when the screen was turned off. Turns out I put it on battery saver mode during the ice storm and never turned it back on. So that tiny mistake got me in about ten extra miles than what I had planned.

I’ll say this: Surly bikes are a joy to ride, and they will not let you down. Mine is the Midnight Special and it’s all steel, with 47mm tires, and klunker bars. Love this bike!

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:52:58pm

Bike porn for those who celebrate.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 12:59:16pm

re: #43 Unabogie

Went out for a long ride and ended up a little lost when I realized my Google maps wasn’t working when the screen was turned off. Turns out I put it on battery saver mode during the ice storm and never turned it back on. So that tiny mistake got me in about ten extra miles than what I had planned.

I’ll say this: Surly bikes are a joy to ride, and they will not let you down. Mine is the Midnight Special and it’s all steel, with 47mm tires, and klunker bars. Love this bike!

I sold at least a dozen Long Haul Truckers.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:03:50pm

re: #45 wrenchwench

I sold at least a dozen Long Haul Truckers.

When I started bike commuting I went and tried dozens of bikes. I knew my Giant with rim breaks was not well suited for rainy days, and I wanted something with lots of braze-ons for carrying things. But the first time I rode this bike I was amazed at the cushy feeling. The steel frame and wide tires made it feel like I was just gliding, but the tucked in rear makes it feel fast enough. I went back and tried Kona, and All City, and Treks, etc. Nothing feels quite like it. I added the klunker bars a few months ago and swapped over to the hydraulic brakes and it’s even better.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:10:32pm

re: #46 Unabogie

When I started bike commuting I went and tried dozens of bikes. I knew my Giant with rim breaks was not well suited for rainy days, and I wanted something with lots of braze-ons for carrying things. But the first time I rode this bike I was amazed at the cushy feeling. The steel frame and wide tires made it feel like I was just gliding, but the tucked in rear makes it feel fast enough. I went back and tried Kona, and All City, and Treks, etc. Nothing feels quite like it. I added the klunker bars a few months ago and swapped over to the hydraulic brakes and it’s even better.

I have a handlebar to put on my Trek 30 of 9 (930) with that much rise, not that much sweep, and no crossbar. I got the grips I need yesterday (ESI silicone). Now I just have to do it. And put a bell on it.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:34:14pm

Rally ‘Round the Flag

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:43:48pm

re: #47 wrenchwench

I have a handlebar to put on my Trek 30 of 9 (930) with that much rise, not that much sweep, and no crossbar. I got the grips I need yesterday (ESI silicone). Now I just have to do it. And put a bell on it.

Ooh, nice! Did you put rigid forks on it or do you take it on off-road trails?

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:49:15pm

re: #42 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Creamsicles are very good 😎 and if I was under an Alamo like siege with creamsicle-bearing Santa Anna’s playing their psy-ops clown music, well I would not be Davy Crockett and out I would come with white flag — and wallet

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:52:44pm

re: #49 Unabogie

Ooh, nice! Did you put rigid forks on it or do you take it on off-road trails?

The rigid fork is original. I haven’t hardly gone off-road since my head injury. Always planning on it… There’s a 60 mile trail from here to the coast, with a camping spot in the middle. Planning on it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:54:22pm

re: #50 So Cal Greek Hippie

Creamsicles are very good 😎 and if I was under an Alamo like siege with creamsicle-bearing Santa Anna’s playing their psy-ops clown music, well I would not be Davy Crockett and out I would come with white flag — and wallet

Don’t you remember the final scene of John Wayne’s Alamo?

The surviving civilians are leaving the fort and Santa Ana calls for a Cornetto. (1.45)

The Alamo (1960) - End Scene

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 10, 2024 • 1:56:59pm

Several years old but still funny:

But if they have thin mints, I’m ok with this approach.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:05:07pm

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:14:18pm

Mastodon

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:14:52pm

re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I always fall asleep before then…
My Alamo story: As a young man I got chastened for touching the wall where it was burnt but was told later that night by a San Antonio stripper I could touch her 😎, so it was a fair trade

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:16:29pm

Off to see Wonka with the MIL for her birthday. First in-cinema film since 2019…I know I didn’t go to a theater once Covid came ashore…and we only went to one or two movies a year back then.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:16:32pm

re: #55 darthstar

JFC.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:19:19pm

re: #55 darthstar

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

Huh? That is nuts.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:21:48pm

re: #59 PhillyPretzel ✅

Huh? That is nuts.

Perfectly fine if they reject 5G blood. It sucks that they could choose for their kids.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:22:13pm

All they do is waste time and money.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:25:44pm

re: #50 So Cal Greek Hippie

Creamsicles are very good 😎 and if I was under an Alamo like siege with creamsicle-bearing Santa Anna’s playing their psy-ops clown music, well I would not be Davy Crockett and out I would come with white flag — and wallet

Yep. Every time.

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wrenchwench  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:25:53pm

re: #60 Decatur Deb

Perfectly fine if they reject 5G blood. It sucks that they could choose for their kids.

Violence and stupidity need to be removed from parental rights.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:27:41pm

re: #63 wrenchwench

Violence and stupidity got us down from perfectly nice trees.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:35:08pm

Currently going through some of my late grandmothers things.

Fuck, this is harder than I thought it was going to be. 😢

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Captain Ron  Feb 10, 2024 • 2:58:37pm

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:01:00pm

I hope this bill actually moves forward. But with the rethuglicans in control of the House, it’s probably D.O.A.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:01:05pm

Gee I wonder if the CCCP is gonna mention this at all…or will they continue to stick their shivs in Joe?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:01:43pm

re: #67 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Me too.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:03:09pm

re: #67 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I hope this bill actually moves forward. But with the rethuglicans in control of the House, it’s probably D.O.A.

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You already paid taxes on that once. You shouldn’t be double taxed on your Social Security benefits.

Just remember it was ol’ President Pruneface who started taxing Social Security benefits…

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Jay C  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:04:51pm

re: #68 Joe Bacon ✅

Gee I wonder if the CCCP is gonna mention this at all…or will they continue to stick their shivs in Joe?

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Trump’s comments sound (probably unconsciously) like:
“Yeah, I robbed that bank - but I put the loot away under my mattress and didn’t spend any, so no harm….”

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:06:51pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon ✅

You already paid taxes on that once. You shouldn’t be double taxed on your Social Security benefits.

Just remember it was ol’ President Pruneface who started taxing Social Security benefits…

Some people should be taxed on their ss benefits
especially if they have lots of other income
Taxing ss benefits is a back door way to means testing
The Threshold limits should be appropriate (ie higher than they are)

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:17:12pm

re: #8 PhillyPretzel ✅

Dang. I just saw an ice cream truck drive down my little side street.

Was it playing “Helter Skelter”? (Steven Wright joke)

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:18:06pm

re: #73 Ace Rothstein

No. I do not remember.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:18:53pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon ✅

You already paid taxes on that once. You shouldn’t be double taxed on your Social Security benefits.

Just remember it was ol’ President Pruneface who started taxing Social Security benefits…

Technically that’s not completely true: you paid taxes only on your contribution; your employer contributes a matching amount and you did not pay taxes on that part.

re: #72 Dangerman

Some people should be taxed on their ss benefits
especially if they have lots of other income
Taxing ss benefits is a back door way to means testing
The Threshold limits should be appropriate (ie higher than they are)

Yes —Definitely. It makes sense to tax those who have significant other post retirement income. Currently as Dangerman says, the problem is that the threshold limits for taxing are set too low.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:19:04pm

re: #72 Dangerman

Some people should be taxed on their ss benefits
especially if they have lots of other income
Taxing ss benefits is a back door way to means testing
The Threshold limits should be appropriate (ie higher than they are)

Lift the cap on taxes but keep it in the benefit calculation. Make millionaires pay their fair share.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:20:43pm

re: #67 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I hope this bill actually moves forward. But with the rethuglicans in control of the House, it’s probably D.O.A.

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Will only pass if corporations get massive tax cuts.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:21:58pm

Burchett continues to make a fool of himself.

Note how he displays his big guns to compensate for his teeny tiny pee pee

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:24:14pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon ✅

You already paid taxes on that once. You shouldn’t be double taxed on your Social Security benefits.

Just remember it was ol’ President Pruneface who started taxing Social Security benefits…

Well his tax cuts weren’t going to pay for themselves. //////
Still going to have Fed Taxes withheld on this years S.S. payments.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:24:51pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

Lift the cap on taxes but keep it in the benefit calculation. Make millionaires pay their fair share.

That could work too

I think the reason they did it the through the 1040 is it’s easier to manipulate tax laws…

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:25:42pm

There’s no cap on the Medicare tax so there shouldn’t be one on Social Security either.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:26:06pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

Lift the cap on taxes but keep it in the benefit calculation. Make millionaires pay their fair share.

Never gonna happen, sadly. The wealthy will always stack the deck in their favor.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:26:52pm

re: #81 Ace Rothstein

There’s no cap on the Medicare tax so there shouldn’t be one on Social Security either.

Ace they lifted the Medicare tax cap as part of Obamacare (which is the real fucking reason the Koch Brothers fired up the Teabaggers)

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:28:55pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

Violence and stupidity got us down from perfectly nice trees.

Frankly, leaving the oceans was a mistake.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:30:08pm

Trump encourages Russia to attack NATO allies.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:32:50pm

re: #85 No Malarkey!

Trump encourages Russia to attack NATO allies.

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If you can’t tell us why NATO was created, you don’t get to be President.

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mmmirele  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:34:25pm

re: #32 Florida Panhandler

At this point in time Taylor Swift is much much bigger worldwide than her first fan base of pre-teen and high school female white Country Music fans.

Since her pivot towards Pop she has greatly widened her fan base to worldwide dominance and now $$ billons in sales. She can at this point tell these racist hicks to basically go fuck themselves and grow her worldwide fan base even more.

She’s at a break in her concert tour. Her next stop is Singapore for seven nights, March 2-8. It is a rare performer who can confidently book a 50K venue for seven days. But she has apparently sold out. I expect there are people flying in from all over Asia to see her.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:34:56pm

re: #39 The Ghost of a Flea

I’m not really sure how to react.

My point is that we’re beset by a form of reaction that views existing outside their control as injury requiring self-defense.

Taylor Swift is a billionaire, she’ll be fine. But if you’ve been listening to the actual people talking about this…the teenage girls who are her fans might not be, because they’re also being positioned as a kind of non-person political target. And more generally, “these are people who spend all their time imagining that nothing is random and celebrate death and suffering” is a pretty notable thing in and of itself, because it contextualizes shit like…all the actual people dying as byblows of American institutions that have assumed reactionary policies.

I’ll again mention my theory that much of the fear and rage over her in particular can probably be attributed to her physicality as approaching a kind of Lebensborn racial purity and fertility ideal. Her likeness also plays some role in determining the demographics of her fanbase, which coincidentally tends to resemble the Lebensborn target endpoint population, which is why they’re panicking over Taylor in ways they don’t for equivalent status activist celebrities like Beyoncé and Alicia Keys.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:35:26pm

re: #81 Ace Rothstein

There’s no cap on the Medicare tax so there shouldn’t be one on Social Security either.

Totally different situations. Medicare currently isn’t solvent in the long run. The costs associated with Medicare are independent of the retiree’s income.

For Social Security, the higher the income, the higher the benefit. Do you really want the wealthy to be getting Social Security benefits of a million dollars per year? Correcting the cost problems associated with Social Security is relatively simple, and won’t require total elimination of the cap on wages subject to the tax.

Medicare not so much given that new treatments can be prohibitively costly.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:38:00pm

re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter

Totally different situations. Medicare currently isn’t solvent in the long run. The costs associated with Medicare are independent of the retiree’s income.

For Social Security, the higher the income, the higher the benefit. Do you really want the wealthy to be getting Social Security benefits of a million dollars per year? Correcting the cost problems associated with Social Security is relatively simple, and won’t require total elimination of the cap on wages subject to the tax.

Medicare not so much given that new treatments can be prohibitively costly.

Which is why I want to lift the cap on the FICA Tax BUT KEEP THE CAP IN CALCULATING BENEFITS

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gwangung  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:38:10pm

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

I’ll again mention my theory that much of the fear and rage over her in particular can probably be attributed to her physicality as approaching a kind of Lebensborn racial purity and fertility ideal. Her likeness also plays some role in determining the demographics of her fanbase, which coincidentally tends to resemble the Lebensborn target endpoint population, which is why they’re panicking over Taylor in ways they don’t for equivalent status activist celebrities like Beyoncé and Alicia Keys.

It was a different kind of panic for Beyonce…but I think it all stems from the basic white supremacist impulses that still exist in American culture; the whole thing about Beyonce is fear of a powerful, uncontrolled/uncontrollable Black woman, while Taylor Swift is a powerful, uncontrollable white woman who turns her back on white supremacist power.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:40:13pm

re: #91 gwangung

It was a different kind of panic for Beyonce…but I think it all stems from the basic white supremacist impulses that still exist in American culture; the whole thing about Beyonce is fear of a powerful, uncontrolled/uncontrollable Black woman, while Taylor Swift is a powerful, uncontrollable white woman who turns her back on white supremacist power.

The idea of a woman who is not controlled in some way by a man scares the absolute shit out of the “alpha male” types.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:43:15pm

So The Farting Ex-President let out a real stinker when he questioned where Haley’s husband is and why he’s not campaigning for her.

Answer—Her husband is in the military serving overseas.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:44:41pm

re: #93 Joe Bacon ✅

So The Farting Ex-President let out a real stinker when he questioned where Haley’s husband is and why he’s not campaigning for her.

Answer—Her husband is in the military serving overseas.

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Video

The military that the fat farting orange shitstain hates.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 3:59:58pm

Oh s*%^. The weather map is getting a little too colorful.
weather.gov

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:01:04pm

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Captain Ron  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:12:35pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:18:38pm

re: #97 Captain Ron

Natasha Sinema reverting to her GREEN form

And always remember that GREEN =

Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November!

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:20:17pm

re: #97 Captain Ron

A visit by Biden in October will change that. The 16% don’t know that she’s no longer a Democrat.

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sagehen  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:22:35pm

re: #87 mmmirele

She’s at a break in her concert tour. Her next stop is Singapore for seven nights, March 2-8. It is a rare performer who can confidently book a 50K venue for seven days. But she has apparently sold out. I expect there are people flying in from all over Asia to see her.

Beyonce had the same thing — there were Americans who went to Sweden to see her, because even including plane fare and hotel it was cheaper than buying scalper tickets to an American show.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:23:45pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

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And yet Haley is going to endorse him, right?

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:37:39pm

re: #101 Unabogie

And yet Haley is going to endorse him, right?

I’d love to see her run in the Libertarian party. It is already on the ballot of 36 states. Editted She would suck off a lot of Trump voters. The double entendre was not meant. She would reduce the number voting for Trump. Sorry .

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:38:50pm

re: #102 silverdolphin

I’d love to see her run in the Libertarian party. It is already on the ballot of 36 states. She would suck off a lot of Trump voters.

Well, if that’s the only way to get their votes…

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:42:09pm

re: #94 Ace Rothstein

The military that the fat farting orange shitstain hates.

Cowards always hate the military.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:43:23pm
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Captain Ron  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:44:13pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:48:06pm

Former GOP communications director Tara Setmayer directed her message directly to the New York Times.

“Hey [Times] Where’s your headline about Trump abandoning NATO and encouraging Russia to attack our allies in Europe?” she asked Saturday. “‘In fact I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want…’ Openly encouraging our enemy to attack our allies gets a shrug… But Biden is old so..”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:49:50pm

re: #94 Ace Rothstein

The military that the fat farting orange shitstain hates.

This Gold Star Father has a message for Trump

GO FUCK YOURSELF, ASSHOLE!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:50:59pm

re: #102 silverdolphin

I’d love to see her run in the Libertarian party. It is already on the ballot of 36 states. She would suck off a lot of Trump voters.

Well it looks like Libertarians are talking to Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:53:00pm

There is a double standard
Therefore: fight

The Biden campaign cannot become aggrieved or victimized. They cannot look affronted, angered or defensive. There is no space for weakness of any type. The Biden campaign must brawl and fight and brawl some more. The greatest liability is now in the middle of the ring. It is either true or not. The burden is on the president. A lack of rebuttal will become evidence of truth. Joe Biden has to demonstrate he is able. Period.”

“The election of Donald Trump will portend catastrophe. Everything is on the line.”

“The president has either been smeared or revealed. Either way, he has no choice. He must refute the negative.”

Link

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:57:21pm

DanaHoule Xitter post

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TarHellion  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:57:51pm

Decided to take in the re-release of Dune today on the big, big screen with the full Dolby treatment. Just simply stunning. Could feel the seat vibrating at times. And Rebecca Ferguson absolutely has the most beautiful eyes. Had seen it on its initial release date back in 2021 on HBO/Max after Warner Brothers opted to go that route due to the pandemic. Obviously looking forward to the Part 2 release on March 1.

Family update behind the veil:

Click to Reveal

Finally gained access to Dad’s bank account. He has made multiple withdrawals - including an insanely large one just before Christmas. Just as my brother and I feared. Thankfully, he hasn’t messed with his retirement fund that is through my brother’s company. Dad of course insists his mind is right, though yesterday he called me twice within 20 minutes and had no clue about talking with me the first time. The next steps are to encourage him to limit his driving and allow someone to come and clean the house a couple times per week (that someone also being an in-home care nurse). Just trying to remain vigilant and wondering when the next shoe will drop.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:59:25pm

re: #111 ckkatz

Dear Screw York Times.

Fuck Off.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:59:55pm

Took this opportunity to kick in my first donation to the Biden campaign. More to come.

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Captain Ron  Feb 10, 2024 • 4:59:57pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:02:09pm

re: #115 Captain Ron

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Your Corporate Controlled Conservative Press in full Presstitute Mode for Trump.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:09:41pm

Watching Captain America. This is the Hydra “tank” they captured when Cap rescued the prisoners.

I see where Elmo for his Cybertruck design. Always on the wrong side.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:11:08pm

re: #102 silverdolphin

I’d love to see her run in the Libertarian party. It is already on the ballot of 36 states. She would suck off a lot of Trump voters.

Um,erm.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:11:37pm

re: #115 Captain Ron

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I think we’re seeing a press corp who’s been losing money under a normal government and misses the constant eyeballs that come with chaos and strife. They want Trump back because he makes them rich. It’s obscene.

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:12:02pm

Hillary Clinton says Biden’s age is ‘legitimate issue,’ but he should ‘lean in’ to experience

Not sure she is helping the situation. Andrew Mcabe came out and said that, like Comey’s report, this one likely violates DOJ rules not to shit on someone that is not going to be charged. That is a better approach.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:20:42pm

re: #120 silverdolphin

Hillary Clinton says Biden’s age is ‘legitimate issue,’ but he should ‘lean in’ to experience

Not sure she is helping the situation. Andrew Mcabe came out and said that, like Comey[’s report, this one likely violates DOJ rules not to shit on someone that is not going to be charged. That is a better approach.

I don’t know. Seems like a good answer if you remove the Hill’s spin.

“I talked to people in the White House all the time, and you know, they know it’s an issue, but as I like to say, look, it’s a legitimate issue. It’s a legitimate issue for [former President] Trump who’s only three years younger. So, it’s an issue. I think Biden also should lean into the fact that he’s experienced and that experience is not just in the political arena. It’s like, the stuff of, you know, human experience,”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:22:37pm

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:22:59pm

re: #119 Unabogie

I think we’re seeing a press corp who’s been losing money under a normal government and misses the constant eyeballs that come with chaos and strife. They want Trump back because he makes them rich. It’s obscene.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

-sinclair

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:23:33pm

re: #115 Captain Ron

Was the answer “No”?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:24:39pm

re: #121 Unabogie

I don’t know. Seems like a good answer if you remove the Hill’s spin.

If HRC could envision the reasonably forseeable misuse of her statements, she would be wrapping up her second term in the White House.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:24:44pm

re: #102 silverdolphin

I’d love to see her run in the Libertarian party. It is already on the ballot of 36 states. Editted She would suck off a lot of Trump voters. The double entendre was not meant. She would reduce the number voting for Trump. Sorry .

I think the term you were looking for is “siphon off”.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:25:49pm

re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg

I think the term you were looking for is “siphon off”.

Is that what you kids are calling it now?

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JC1  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:26:03pm

re: #98 Joe Bacon ✅

Natasha Sinema reverting to her GREEN form

And always remember that GREEN =

Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November!

Runoff if anyone doesn’t get over 50%?

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jaunte  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:26:06pm

It’s only Saturday and people are already making disparaging size comments about Libertarians.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:27:09pm

re: #125 Decatur Deb

If HRC could envision the reasonably forseeable misuse of her statements, she would be wrapping up her second term in the White House.

I suppose, but that assumes a level of good faith on the part of the press corp.

“You didn’t build that”

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”

Both of those statements were true and also wildly taken out of context by the media.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:28:11pm

re: #130 Unabogie

Yup.

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:28:14pm

re: #121 Unabogie

I don’t know. Seems like a good answer if you remove the Hill’s spin.

That is kind of the problem. Nuance and subtlety are not very useful these days. They can be spun. Besides her comment about his age being a legitimate concern, it is her criticism about how he is running his campaign and how he could do it better. We need full-throated support that cannot be seen as anything but support. Biden knows how to run his campaign. Why is she denigrating it by saying he does not know how to connect with young people but she has a better idea? She is not part of the campaign so she is just making assumptions and saying things through ignorance that do not help. IMHO

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:28:17pm

re: #128 JC1

Runoff if anyone doesn’t get over 50%?

JC I don’t think Arizona has a runoff provision. Check with mmmirile she lives in Arizona.

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TarHellion  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:28:39pm

re: #122 Joe Bacon ✅

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piratedan  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:29:51pm

re: #133 Joe Bacon ✅

JC I don’t think Arizona has a runoff provision. Check with mmmirile she lives in Arizona.

so do I, i don’t believe there is a 50% provision…..

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:31:37pm

re: #125 Decatur Deb

If HRC could envision the reasonably forseeable misuse of her statements, she would be wrapping up her second term in the White House.

She always was so much better at policies rather than wholesale politics. Campaigning has never been her forte so telling Biden who has run successful campaigns for, what over 50 years, how they should run theirs kinda ticked me off.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:31:57pm

I got a feeling Joe is on the phone with worried European allies right now assuring them that he will not abandon them…unlike The Poots Piper…

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:33:42pm

re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

I got a feeling Joe is on the phone with worried European allies right now assuring them that he will not abandon them…unlike The Poots Piper…

And I bet he gets all their names correct ;-) Maybe we will see some readouts.

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:36:25pm

NATO chief: I’m not worried that Trump will pull out of the alliance

He said this on the 31st. Wonder how he feels now?

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:40:20pm

re: #139 silverdolphin

Funny you should ask. I was just reading an article that seems to indicate a consensus scenario for NATO contingency planning-

Joshi Xitter post

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jaunte  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:43:17pm

re: #140 ckkatz

Russia’s population and GDP continue to decline steadily relative to Europe, so Putin only has a few years.

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jaunte  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:44:12pm

GDP tignad!

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:44:21pm

Some of the new information mentioned by the Danish defence minister may involve statements like these:

Chris Bury Xitter post

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Decatur Deb  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:45:29pm

re: #141 jaunte

Russia’s population and GDP continue to decline steadily relative to Europe, so Putin only has a few years.

It would decline a lot faster if a bunch of GOP House shits would do their jobs.

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:45:58pm

re: #141 jaunte

Russia’s population and GDP continue to decline steadily relative to Europe, so Putin only has a few years.

And Putin is elderly and declining as well.

Plus, he lives in a shark tank. There may be an open window in his future as well.

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jaunte  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:46:02pm

“…Suppose the EU spends 4% of its GDP on defense (4% of GDP is approximately how much the U.S. spends on defense). Because Russian GDP was approximately 10% of EU GDP in 2020, Russia would have to spend 40% of its GDP on defense to simply match EU spending.”
fredblog.stlouisfed.org

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:46:08pm

Trump Forgets What Day it is In Bizarre, Gaffe-Filled Speech

The MSM will not touch any of this. And that is why I no longer have any MSM subscription. I’ve got my prob;ems with Meidas Touch but I check them out every day. Not so the NYT or WaPo.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:51:40pm

re: #147 silverdolphin

Trump Forgets What Day it is In Bizarre, Gaffe-Filled Speech

The MSM will not touch any of this. And that is why I no longer have any MSM subscription. I’ve got my prob;ems with Meidas Touch but I check them out every day. Not so the NYT or WaPo.

The GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 12 with the “Senile Joe” bullshit and the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press is endlessly reciting the latest Frank Luntz talking points for Trump.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 10, 2024 • 5:56:07pm

re: #147 silverdolphin

It’s up to President Biden and his allies to amplify Trump’s gaffes. Put them in ads, talk about them on the morning shows, bring them up every chance you get.

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:07:55pm

I haz a bit of a sad about this.

I grew up on the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Very sad to see it bought up and morphed into… whatever it is today.

Also, I have been watching the professional culture war operatives on NoVa local social media spread nonsense about how there is supposed mass criming and that it is all due to ‘them’. Looking at the statistics, it is, of course, all nonsense.

This phenomenon is not new. During the beginning of the Civil War a lot of Southern milita was motivated that they were protecting their loved ones from the dangers of New York and Philadelphia innercity gangs of Irish immigrants who were supposedly coming to the farms in rural Bugtuck to loot and rape.
—

Stelter Xitter post

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:10:24pm

re: #150 ckkatz

I delivered both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Press for six years. Hurts to see how the Press died and Block morphed the Post-Gazette into just another cog in the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine.

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:11:28pm

re: #149 Patricia Kayden

It’s up to President Biden and his allies to amplify Trump’s gaffes. Put them in ads, talk about them on the morning shows, bring them up every chance you get.

That is happening. Sorry for the Twitter links but that is where the dscussions are happening NOW amongst Biden supporters. I wanted you to be able to see the videos.

The DNC war Room has this, today:

Biden-Harris HQ has this:

The Lincoln Project has this:

Phil Filipkowski:

So many more.

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:13:06pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

The GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 12 with the “Senile Joe” bullshit and the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press is endlessly reciting the latest Frank Luntz talking points for Trump.

Meanwhile, much of the alternate media that youngsters follow are all over Trump’s comments about NATO. This will really begin to filter through because, just like giving up on Ukaine, giving up on NATO will hurt companies doing international trade.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:13:19pm

re: #152 silverdolphin

If you’re hand-wringing, you’re doing it wrong.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:20:32pm

“Hamas a partner for peace” sure, Jan.

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:25:05pm

re: #155 Vicious Babushka

Welcome back!

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:26:16pm

re: #154 Belafon

If you’re hand-wringing, you’re doing it wrong.

No hand wringing. Getting the word out and fighting back. I hope.


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