Joshua Redman: Tiny Desk Concert

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Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman is a regular on NPR’s Jazz Night in America, featured on episodes including a tribute to his father, saxophonist Dewey Redman, and a reunion with his former quartet featuring Brad Mehldau, Jazz Night host Christian McBride and Brian Blade. Since his debut in the 1990s, Redman has built a career thoughtfully exploring every crevice of modern jazz and infusing it with the variety of genres he grew up listening to.

Here, Redman presents cuts from his latest album, Where Are We, a medication on the complexities of America, featuring new collaborator vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa. In “Chicago Blues,” Redman’s take on a Count Basie classic, and a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia,” Cavassa and Redman dance over the anchoring grooves from bassist Philip Norris and drummer Nazir Ebo, while pianist Paul Cornish delivers a stunning improvised transition between the two songs. For the final selection, Redman opens with an improvisation on “America the Beautiful.” The traditional, patriotic tune is a stark contrast to the ugly inspiration for the plaintive “After Minneapolis” that follows, about the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The song’s growing maelstrom surrounds Redman’s haunting wails and Cavassa’s mournful interpretation of Redman’s lyrics. Throughout, Redman’s solos serve to illustrate why he is one of today’s best saxophonists.

— Mitra I. Arthur | February 9, 2024

SET LIST
“Chicago Blues”
“Streets of Philadelphia”
“After Minneapolis”

MUSICIANS
Joshua Redman: saxophone
Gabrielle Cavassa: vocals
Paul Cornish: piano
Philip Norris: double bass
Nazir Ebo: drums

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Mitra I. Arthur
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Technical Director: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Maia Stern, Alanté Serene, Michael Zamora
Audio Engineer: Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Estefania Mitre
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Hazel Cills
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#nprmusic #tinydesk #joshuaredman

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382 comments
1
Belafon  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:23:46pm
I understand completely, and even more now that I’ve thought it through, why Biden had trouble coming up with the year of his son’s death.

My son (the little guy on the right) died in 1991. I can say that definitively now because my husband just reminded me. Then he told me he remembers it by adding Maury’s age at death (almost 7) to his year of birth (1984). So he doesn’t really remember the year either. And that lack of memory has been true for both of us for at least 20 or more years.

And yet I remember without hesitation that my older daughter (the funny one on the left) died in 1999. It’s not because it’s more recent. Her death was not recent at all — it was 25 years ago.

So I tried to figure out why the year of my son’s death gets lost but not the year of my daughter’s death.

And then suddenly I put it together with President Biden’s issue about the year also — both my son and Biden’s son were sick for a number of years before their death. My son had a totally debilitating stroke in 1986 (no trouble remembering that year) and suffered from massive disabilities until his death 4+ years later. I remember the exact date of his stroke (though I have no memory of driving to the hospital). But the year of his death just melds into the awfulness that started on Nov 26 (the day before Thanksgiving), 1986 and ended with his death. His death was far less meaningful and not at all as shocking as his stroke and subsequent illnesses, miseries and decline.

Whereas my daughter was just fine until she was killed in a car accident on January 18 (MLK day), 1999. The day stands out as the most awful day of our lives except for the day our son had his stroke. Those are the 2 dates I remember exactly.

Beau Biden was first diagnosed with a chronic and serious illness (not his brain tumor) in 2001. Then in 2010, he was hospitalized for what was said to be a mild stroke. And then in 2013, he got the diagnosis of brain cancer. He died almost 2 years later. Each of those serious illness events takes a toll on everyone who loved him, and the combination of those events and the subsequent illnesses over time blurs the lines between the years.

I would bet that President Biden can easily remember the year (and likely the exact date) of his first wife’s car accident that killed her, their daughter, and put both his sons in the hospital. That was a shocking event. But the year that Beau actually died? It’s so much harder to keep that straight given the awful illness scares over a 14-year stretch.

(BTW, I heard that one of the gratuitous insults in Hur’s report was that Biden said something like “2013 — was I Vice President then — yes.” That was the year of Beau’s fatal diagnosis….)

p.s. BTW, hard as our tragedies have been and much as we miss our Maury and Celia, we are lucky to have two wonderful adult children and a good life.

dailykos.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:31:23pm

Didn’t Trump used to call Biden “Sleepy Joe”?

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:44:00pm

This quote is from an article in today’s NYT titled “Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump”. Talk about journalistic malpractice.

Ben_Ghiat noting that NYT article is classic ‘strongman’ propaganda

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:46:26pm

re: #3 ckkatz

The New York Times begging Trump to be his Völkischer Beobachter

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jaunte  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:46:42pm

re: #3 ckkatz

“Dancing.”

Trump couldn’t get through 10 minutes of a moderate waltz.

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Dangerman  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:49:27pm

re: #3 ckkatz

This quote is from an article in today’s NYT titled “Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump”. Talk about journalistic malpractice.

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Ben_Ghiat noting that NYT article is classic ‘strongman’ propaganda

Q: Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump?

A: NYT

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:50:00pm

If Trump put a microphone to his butt and farted during a rally his crowd would applaud, shout “Praise Jesus” and break out in glossolalia with extreme religious fervor.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:50:04pm

re: #5 jaunte

“Dancing.”

Trump couldn’t get through 10 minutes of a moderate waltz.

His “dance” is a white man’s shuffle. Barely even qualifies as movement. If he took that into a club, he couldn’t get laid even if his pockets were stuffed with $20’s.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:50:36pm

re: #5 jaunte

“Dancing.”

Trump couldn’t get through 10 minutes of a moderate waltz.

That “air punching” thing he does IS NOT DANCING.

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Rightwingconspirator  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:51:28pm

Adobe keeps upgrading Photoshop. AI is making a big difference. In this case, I had taken some moon images through a very pink sunset through thin clouds. The question for me becomes, did I take it too far? I used the the heck out of the AI denoise and the clarity filter.

Crazy Crescent Moon
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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:51:49pm

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

That “air punching” thing he does IS NOT DANCING.

He got that from watching too many episodes of The Price Is Right when someone hit the $1 on the Showcase Showdown Wheel.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:55:13pm

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:55:44pm

re: #10 Rightwingconspirator

Adobe keeps upgrading Photoshop. AI is making a big difference. In this case, I had taken some moon images through a very pink sunset through thin clouds. The question for me becomes, did I take it too far? I used the the heck out of the AI denoise and the clarity filter.

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What was your goal? To capture the moon, or to capture the camera’s view of the moon?

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A Three Hour Tour  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:57:59pm

re: #1 Belafon

I can’t remember whether my father died in 2015 or 2017. It was roughly one year either side of David Bowie’s death. I think it was in 2017, but I always have to check.

I can’t remember the exact date in April 1996 that my mother and maternal grandfather were killed in a nasty traffic accident in Arizona on their way to the Grand Canyon, except that it was between April 7th and the 15th, and was probably on the 9th or 10th.

I can’t remember the day or month in the summer of 2001 that my favorite grandmother passed away, but a few months later, I was relieved that she had passed before the country went through 9/11.

I don’t remember what day in early June, 1980 that the brain tumor finally claimed my maternal grandmother, just that it occurred during final exams of my eighth grade year.

Not remembering the exact dates of close relatives’ deaths is normal for me. I haven’t remembered those dates for decades and I’m only 57. It’s not because of mental decline on my part. Why would I even want to keep the specific dates of their passing in long term memory storage? I’d rather keep other details of their lives in active memory.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 10, 2024 • 6:59:02pm

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jaunte  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:11:48pm

@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social

I really don’t understand how the NYT can write 13 paragraphs about Trump’s claims about NATO nations owing money without mentioning that NATO nations did not, in fact, owe money, were not “in arrears”, and $$$ did not come “flowing in” to NATO after Trump’s threats.

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jaunte  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:12:14pm

Life recreating A Fish Called Wanda.

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Unabogie  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:22:17pm

re: #16 jaunte

@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social

They do this all the time. They report about Trump saying Nikki Haley refused help on Jan 6 without pointing out that even though Trump meant Pelosi, he’s LYING about it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:25:52pm

re: #13 Belafon

What was your goal? To capture the moon, or to capture the camera’s view of the moon?

Or to capture Photoshop’s idea of the moon?

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EPR-radar  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:26:00pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

Ideology, not competence, is the key IMO. The 800 lb gorilla in the room that the mainstream media continually ignores is that Trump and his Republicans are fascists. There’s no way to hide from or evade this conclusion.

Every article in every mainstream media outfit that considers US politics without at least noting “The GOP is a fascist organization with Trump as its Fuhrer, and must therefore be crushed in elections” is a lie by omission.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:40:14pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Didn’t Trump used to call Biden “Sleepy Joe”?

Yes, and I call Trump “Fucking Asshole.”

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:42:52pm

“My husband is currently serving overseas, you orange traitor, but in a month I’m going to endorse you anyway.” -Nikki Haley

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Rightwingconspirator  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:43:30pm

re: #13 Belafon

What was your goal? To capture the moon, or to capture the camera’s view of the moon?

To capture the Moon at that moment… But cameras bring their own look.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:45:31pm

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

The New York Times begging Trump to be his Völkischer Beobachter

They are. They will.

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BigPapa  Feb 10, 2024 • 7:50:32pm

re: #21 Ace Rothstein

Yes, and I call Trump “Fucking Asshole.”

As we all should.

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Belafon  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:05:52pm
Starting this year, employers can match employees’ student loan repayments as 401(k) contributions, a policy that experts say can be a “game changer” for Black women, who have the highest student loan debt on average.

When someone makes a student loan payment, their employer can contribute that same amount of money to the employee’s retirement plan under Section 110 of a federal law known as the SECURE Act 2.0. The policy, which stands for Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement, “permits an employer to make matching contributions under a 401(k) plan, 403(b) plan, or SIMPLE IRA with respect to ‘qualified student loan payments.’”

Signed into law in 2022, the contribution option comes at a time when many Americans are burdened with student loan debt — especially women. Up to 61.4 percent of women with bachelor’s degrees have federal student loans, compared with 52.2 percent of men who hold a bachelor’s degree, according to the Education Data Initiative. The research institution, which focuses on collecting and distributing U.S. education system statistics, reported that Black women have the highest amount of debt — $29,051 — compared with other groups of women.

dailykos.com

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:14:08pm

After Tucker Carlson’s public fellating of Putin I’ve decided to refer to Carlson as ‘Lord Haw Haw.”

A traitor serving an authoritarian asshole.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:40:17pm

re: #26 Belafon

I wish President Biden and VP Harris would toot this particular horn in the Black community. I see too many Black people claiming that President Biden has done nothing for them — including ridiculous celebrities pushing Trump. This law’s impact should be made into an ad.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:48:37pm

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:56:55pm

So, I wake up early here in Europe and see that not only is Trump openly saying that in his view, NATO is merely a protection racket and that if you don’t pony up, he’s gonna break your kneecaps (or better to say, he’ll let Putin do that), but he’s criticizing Nikki Haley because her hubby is currently deployed overseas.

On the latter point, I’d bet something is about to come out regarding Melenia’s absence. Something that Donny knows will be damaging to him. Maybe she’s divorcing him, maybe she’s returned to Slovenia for an “extended vacation” with her boyfriend, whatever.

He is attacking Haley’s husband’s absence so when this bit of news drops, he can just say it’s fake news, or dismiss it as retaliation for what he’s saying.

As always with Trump, it’s not some 5D chess move…Trump is simply a predictable moron who glaringly projects his own fears and insecurities.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2024 • 8:58:50pm

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Nat King Cole - Step Right Up (And Say You Love Me) (Visualizer)




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austin_blue  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:00:14pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Didn’t Trump used to call Biden “Sleepy Joe”?

Yes, but he’s getting his ask kicked by Woke Joe.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:00:31pm

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austin_blue  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:16:33pm

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

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To be fair…

Letterkenny - To Be Fair

We have seen no significant rebound of Polio or Smallpox in 2023.

But, if RFK Jr. has his way, we will see huge increases in 2024.

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EPR-radar  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:20:12pm

re: #33 Patricia Kayden

All those evangelicals that support Trump are, according to their purported beliefs, setting themselves up for eternal torment in Hell.

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EPR-radar  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:22:41pm

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

I wish people would be more accurate with stuff like this. Smallpox isn’t coming back unless there is a security breach at a major power’s germ labs.

So right wing apologists are given an easy way to deflect from the point (i.e., anti-vax stupidity is bad) to irrelevant garbage about smallpox.

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austin_blue  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:23:37pm

re: #35 EPR-radar

All those evangelicals that support Trump are, according to their purported beliefs, setting themselves up for eternal torment in Hell.

Sssssshhhhhh!

That’s Satan’s secret plan!

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silverdolphin  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:27:37pm

Carville: The significance of Biden not doing Super Bowl interview

The fact that Biden isn’t doing the Super Bowl interview and probably won’t debate, says James Carville, “that’s a sign your staff doesn’t have much confidence in you.” And while it’s “never too late” to change candidates, “the later it gets the more confusing the process gets.”

Fuck James Carville. The Clintonites/ Third Way/ Centrists are all out for Biden’s blood now. First Hilary. Now Carville.WHat other Obama surrogate will be next?

Wonder who they want to replace Biden with?

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austin_blue  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:32:39pm

Well I’m positive for Covid again, Goddamit.

This shit is just endemic, and it might just kill us all.

I don’t feel that bad, but it’s just a tremendous pain in the ass.

Night all, I’m sleeping on the couch to try not to reinfect She Who Must Be Obeyed.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:42:50pm

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A Cranky One  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:44:28pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:48:47pm

re: #31 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Video

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Memories of Mom and Dad playing Nat King Cole records. They really loved the way he sang.

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EPR-radar  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:49:37pm

re: #39 austin_blue

I had my first covid case a few weeks ago. Mild (for covid) but still extremely annoying.

Paxlovid worked well for me, so if that’s an option you may want to consider it.

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:51:05pm

re: #39 austin_blue

I’m so sorry to hear this. I hope you have a quick and full recovery. If it is any consolation, this go-around, I know several folks who ended up with a fairly short duration and a relatively light set of symptoms before recovery. In two cases, just a week of symptoms.

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mmmirele  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:57:17pm

Someone in the previous thread asked if Arizona had a runoff provision for US Senate. The answer is no. So yeah, a spoiler like Kyrsten Sinema could siphon off enough votes from Gallego (or Lake, for that matter) to cause the other to get the plurality.

It is unclear whether Lake is actually going to be the GOP candidate. She has a lot of enemies in the GOP.

On a rather different subject (except that the migrants are coming via Arizona and other states into the USA), I found this article to be ZOMG. I knew the number of Chinese nationals crossing the border had shot up significantly. Apparently the same thing is happening with India.

context.news

That’s on top of the usual sources—people fleeing drug regimes all through Central America, the Bukele dictatorship in El Salvador, the Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua, the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela, the “whoever happens to be in charge (no idea) dictatorship in Cuba, etc. etc.. Last year I read an article about Cubans fleeing to Nicaragua because they could get visas there, and then moving further north to Mexico and the USA. Approximately 500,000 Cubans have come to the USA one way or another since 2021. That’s 5 percent of Cuba’s population, which is rather astounding to think about.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:57:50pm

My nephew’s twin girls, Emilia and Valentina…

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 9:58:18pm

Fuckin’ cuties.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:02:28pm
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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:02:34pm

One can only hope.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:04:15pm

I needed to hear some Spinners

[Oh Lord] I Wish I Could Sleep

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:06:12pm

re: #46 darthstar

Grandnieces!!

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:08:04pm

re: #49 darthstar

There may well be some kind of neurological disorder afflicting Putin - the skittling legs, the peculiar way he has to grip a table edge from time to time - but for the life of me, I have no idea what it could be.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:08:43pm

Tonight’s accomplishments:

1040 filed.
1040 form accepted!

CA540 filed.
CA540 accepted!

Scheduled my payment to the CA Franchise Tax Board.

Owe the IRS too, but until I can check my account online I won’t pay. It takes a while after acceptance for the balance to show on the IRS account.

I think I’ve damaged my bank account enough for one night.

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ckkatz  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:11:37pm

re: #34 austin_blue

Heh!

The first bit of the video reminded me of a recent discussion. The Germans, who seem to have a phrase for everything, unsurprisingly have several for the dregs in the bottom a glass or bottle of beer. UWE is one popular expression. Another is spuckschluck.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:13:14pm

re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Grandnieces!!

The grandest…there’ve never been nieces this grand before.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:14:03pm

re: #52 Dr Lizardo

There may well be some kind of neurological disorder afflicting Putin - the skittling legs, the peculiar way he has to grip a table edge from time to time - but for the life of me, I have no idea what it could be.

I just hope it’s fatal.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:16:43pm

Somebody liked two of my posts and looking at them I just realized how different the same body of water looks in different weather.

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:16:44pm

re: #56 darthstar

I just hope it’s fatal.

Eh, life is fatal eventually. But people have been saying shit about him for years and nothing seems to change.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:18:13pm

re: #58 William Lewis

Eh, life is fatal eventually. But people have been saying shit about him for years and nothing seems to change.

I keep hoping some oligarch loses enough money that he wants to take it out on Putin…but there are more Putins in line for the throne.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:21:07pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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sagehen  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:24:07pm

re: #60 darthstar

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I’ll be watching the Puppy Bowl (on Animal Planet Channel). While TIVOing the Superb Owl, so I can fast forward through the game and only watch the commercials.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:28:33pm

re: #61 sagehen

I’ll be watching the Puppy Bowl (on Animal Planet Channel). While TIVOing the Superb Owl, so I can fast forward through the game and only watch the commercials.

The commercials stopped being good after Budweiser dropped the bullfrog act.

1995 Super Bowl Commercial “Bud” “Weis” “er”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:31:45pm

My old iMac keeps chugging along, but the version of OSX I can use is now so out of date that I am forced to buy a new computer.

At a bit of a loss, really.

I argue around and around with myself on what I should buy.

I prefer Macs …. but in the end it’s all a wash… maybe… because it seems all I do anymore is use web browsers.

To browse, of course.

I don’t play with programming anymore.

Nor do I work on a website.

So I have a hard time justifying buying much of a powerhouse of a computer.

Also: seems only us old folk still think of a computer as a thing on a desk. Younger folk, if they want something bigger than their phone, seem to be gravitating to laptops.

But the one thing I know is that I am done schlepping around a laptop. I still have my old 17” I dragged around the world. It still can boot but I don’t use it.

Maybe I should buy one of those fancy new Apple Vision Pro thingies.

I could lay down all day and just immerse myself in some artificial landscape….

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sagehen  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:36:49pm

re: #62 darthstar

The commercials stopped being good after Budweiser dropped the bullfrog act.

How dare you!! The Clydesdales and their golden lab (or is it the golden lab and his clydesdales?) are precious beyond words.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:37:23pm

re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Just bought my MIL a new HP Chromebook for 200 bucks at Costco. Super fast, and assuming you have a gmail account you have all the word processing/powerpoint/other bullshit office apps you need online.

Or buy a cheap windows laptop with 8gb of RAM and put a lightweight Linux distro on it.

It’ll be super fast and stable and you won’t have to worry about major upgrades or patches you have to get pushed to your machine every three months.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:37:49pm

re: #27 Romantic Heretic

After Tucker Carlson’s public fellating of Putin I’ve decided to refer to Carlson as ‘Lord Haw Haw.”

A traitor serving an authoritarian asshole.

I was thinking exactly that too!

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:40:05pm

re: #64 sagehen

How dare you!! The Clydesdales and their golden lab (or is it the golden lab and his clydesdales?) are precious beyond words.

I thought they had a Dalmation….yes, those ads were good, but a little too touchy-feely for a shitty beer.

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:43:10pm

Aw…Bob of Bob’s Red Mill passed…please don’t send flour.

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:43:28pm

re: #36 EPR-radar

I wish people would be more accurate with stuff like this. Smallpox isn’t coming back unless there is a security breach at a major power’s germ labs.

So right wing apologists are given an easy way to deflect from the point (i.e., anti-vax stupidity is bad) to irrelevant garbage about smallpox.

In fact, no one is getting smallpox vaccines these days (except maybe the few who work in high security labs). The disease has been eradicated in nature.

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Targetpractice  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:43:32pm

re: #38 silverdolphin

Carville: The significance of Biden not doing Super Bowl interview

Fuck James Carville. The Clintonites/ Third Way/ Centrists are all out for Biden’s blood now. First Hilary. Now Carville.WHat other Obama surrogate will be next?

Wonder who they want to replace Biden with?

Much like brouhaha about the National Anthem before sporting events, the “traditional” Superb Owl interview is something that started with Dubya that has carried forward because Obama and Trump (with the exception of 2018) thought it was good politics to answer a few light questions before the game. IOW, it’s yet another “tradition” that isn’t even old enough to drink (Dubya did first interview in 2004).

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:44:38pm

re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I was watching a fanedit of the final battle in Ready Player One - and I couldn’t help but notice the eerie resemblance of the OASIS headsets the gamers wear to the Apple Vision Pro. There’s a quick snippet of gamers wearing the headset running down a street, and in the next scene, we see them as Space Marines charging into the battlefield (at 2:13).

We’re not gonna take it - Ready Player One final battle

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mmmirele  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:46:44pm

Oh, update on my brother. The swelling on his injured foot went down significantly and he decided not to go to the ER. I stopped by there this afternoon. He was making a steak sandwich and was not wearing his shoe or his “boot.” Now, remember, he told me that the wound on his foot was *not* red. However, I wandered into the kitchen and looked at the back of his foot and was fairly alarmed. It appears the “boot” is damaging his foot. I took a picture to show him, because it’s not easy to see. (Pic behind the button. It’s not gross, but a bit unsettling.)

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Anyway, if I were a betting woman, I would suspect that his heel is on the verge of an infection. I told him to ditch the “boot” and get a pair of clogs to wear because in my non-medical opinion, it looks to me like he’s going to get a second wound on his heel. But again, I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night. This *scares* me, however.

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prairiefire  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:49:17pm

I’m listening to “Zooropa” and thinking about visiting the sphere.

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prairiefire  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:51:09pm

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darthstar  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:53:35pm

re: #73 prairiefire

I’m listening to “Zooropa” and thinking about visiting the sphere.

We were going to go to a U2 show there…then they announced the Dead & Co shows and I bought a package for one of those weekends. It ain’t cheap. But if you can get tickets only those go for under 200 bucks I believe.

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prairiefire  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:54:31pm

re: #75 darthstar

My sis in law said it was an incredible venue!

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prairiefire  Feb 10, 2024 • 10:57:34pm

Mmm, it does look a bit red.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:07:24pm

re: #72 mmmirele

Oh, update on my brother. The swelling on his injured foot went down significantly and he decided not to go to the ER. I stopped by there this afternoon. He was making a steak sandwich and was not wearing his shoe or his “boot.” Now, remember, he told me that the wound on his foot was *not* red. However, I wandered into the kitchen and looked at the back of his foot and was fairly alarmed. It appears the “boot” is damaging his foot. I took a picture to show him, because it’s not easy to see. (Pic behind the button. It’s not gross, but a bit unsettling.)

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Anyway, if I were a betting woman, I would suspect that his heel is on the verge of an infection. I told him to ditch the “boot” and get a pair of clogs to wear because in my non-medical opinion, it looks to me like he’s going to get a second wound on his heel. But again, I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night. This *scares* me, however.

I’ve had similar — but not as extensive — problems on my feet due to ill-fitting shoes. I bandaged the area and switched shoes.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:17:39pm

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

I thought smallpox was extinct except for samples in labs.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:26:16pm

re: #36 EPR-radar

I wish people would be more accurate with stuff like this. Smallpox isn’t coming back unless there is a security breach at a major power’s germ labs.

So right wing apologists are given an easy way to deflect from the point (i.e., anti-vax stupidity is bad) to irrelevant garbage about smallpox.

I think the poster probably meant chicken pox. Still a dumb mistake though.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:28:24pm

re: #71 Dr Lizardo

So much geek joy in that sequence.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:32:53pm

re: #81 Romantic Heretic

So much geek joy in that sequence.

And probably one of the better uses of a PG-13 F-bomb, too.

“It’s fucking Chucky!”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:36:08pm

re: #65 darthstar

I’m not so much into cheap as I am looking for quality.

Not that money does not matter (he wrote, having just scheduled payment for his state taxes.)

For me screen quality is number 1, and in that regards Apple leads the pack.

The Apple Studio Display is expensive but then again it is intended to be paired with a Mac-body, so there’s that. The ASD includes camera, microphone, speakers, and TB/USB hub.

I’ve already rejected most displays.

And also rejected Chromebook and Linux, because I run software like genealogy databases that require either Windows or macOS.

And I want what I buy to last 15 years. Seems like an impossible task these days.

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William Lewis  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:36:10pm

re: #82 Dr Lizardo

And probably one of the better uses of a PG-13 F-bomb, too.

“It’s fucking Chucky!”

A case where the movie was better than the book.

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prairiefire  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:40:45pm

re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Perhaps just regrettable?

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Semper Fi  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:40:59pm

re: #68 darthstar

Aw…Bob of Bob’s Red Mill passed…please don’t send flour.

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I enjoy Bob’s Steel Cut Oats most mornings. Bob did good.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:41:22pm

re: #84 William Lewis

A case where the movie was better than the book.

Definitely - the film adaptation was a considerable improvement.

IMHO, The Godfather is another example of that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:44:09pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve considered buying this:

eshop.macsales.com

But the Intel architecture will soo be obsoleted by Apple (though the 2020 iMac models probably have until 2026 before they can’t get operating system updates.)

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prairiefire  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:44:53pm

re: #87 Dr Lizardo

Mann’s “Last of the Mohicans.”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:53:37pm

re: #89 prairiefire

Mann’s “Last of the Mohicans.”

And of course, the film adaptation of Jaws - much better than the novel.

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prairiefire  Feb 10, 2024 • 11:57:31pm

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

Yes! With the lens of time, 3 powerhouse actors.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 12:35:54am

re: #91 prairiefire

Yes! With the lens of time, 3 powerhouse actors.

Robert Shaw’s U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue is easily one of the best in film history.

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ericblair  Feb 11, 2024 • 12:38:00am

He is getting more brazen, and will continue to get more brazen. He loves this transgressive power move, and has decided he can push the boundaries because nobody is stopping him. But he’s going to need more and more shock value for that sweet dopamine hit.

So this outrageous crap is going to get significantly worse, and he will be calling for Putin to invade specific allies and whatever he can think of. Most of the rest of the goopers will have hearing and reading problems for as long as they can, of course.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:03:36am

re: #93 ericblair

Many don’t care what he says.

They like the show.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:04:05am

re: #93 ericblair

He is getting more brazen, and will continue to get more brazen. He loves this transgressive power move, and has decided he can push the boundaries because nobody is stopping him. But he’s going to need more and more shock value for that sweet dopamine hit.

So this outrageous crap is going to get significantly worse, and he will be calling for Putin to invade specific allies and whatever he can think of. Most of the rest of the goopers will have hearing and reading problems for as long as they can, of course.

Or they’ll pretend to be on the phone when a reporter asks them about Trump’s comments.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:10:09am

re: #12 Patricia Kayden

Of course, people who have just driven into a crowd of protestors are going to choose R in order to back out over their victims…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:12:11am

re: #18 Unabogie

They do this all the time. They report about Trump saying Nikki Haley refused help on Jan 6 without pointing out that even though Trump meant Pelosi, he’s LYING about it.

Yes, the fact that neither Nancy nor Nikki were responsible for Capitol security gets buried (often intentionally) in the discussion.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:12:29am

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

Or they’ll pretend to be on the phone when a reporter asks them about Trump’s comments.

Their cowardice in failing to stand up to Trump is having an effect. Trump is leading Haley by 58 points among Republicans; he has the support of 76% of GOP voters.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:15:15am

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

On the latter point, I’d bet something is about to come out regarding Melenia’s absence. Something that Donny knows will be damaging to him.

He could write it off over the holidays due to her mother’s illness and death, but that was a fully plausible cover to the fact that she obviously does not want to be seen or associated with him again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:19:31am

re: #48 DodgerFan1988

Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don’t pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.

We need to pin this to the GOP’s lapel so we all know who and what we would be voting for.

How are they spinning their way out of this statement? Or are they embracing it and going full Lindbergh Isolationist?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:21:03am

re: #56 darthstar

I just hope it’s fatal.

or at least debilitating to the point that he can no longer rule.

although the ongoing issue is that anyone who replaces him is likely to be just as bad or worse

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:24:07am

re: #84 William Lewis

A case where the movie was better than the book.

It’s about video games, so video does seem to be the better medium

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:25:02am

re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Many don’t care what he says.

They like the show.

“They just listen to what’s in his heart!”

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wrenchwench  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:30:19am

Mastodon

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:35:02am

re: #27 Romantic Heretic

After Tucker Carlson’s public fellating of Putin I’ve decided to refer to Carlson as ‘Lord Haw Haw.”

A traitor serving an authoritarian asshole.

If your dialect is non-rhotic, as mine is, “Lord Whore Whore” seems fitting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:38:39am

re: #105 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

If your dialect is non-rhotic, as mine is, “Lord Whore Whore” seems fitting.

I recall that in British English “four” and “saw” rhyme, as does “Ride a cock-horse/to Banbury Cross”.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:40:27am

Your Next Wordle does not play in a brass band.

Click to Reveal

Tricksy bastard cliff-diver of a word.

Wordle 967 5/6

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SibData: 3,4,5,5,6

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:57:21am

.


Comptine d’un autre été, l’après-midi





..

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sagehen  Feb 11, 2024 • 1:59:12am

re: #104 wrenchwench

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He cooks gourmet meals for his lizard? With creepy Fear Factor ingredients? OK, that’s just weird.

I knew a guy who made beef stew for his dog, but that was something people could share. This lizard breakfast just isn’t.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 11, 2024 • 2:07:51am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall that in British English “four” and “saw” rhyme, as does “Ride a cock-horse/to Banbury Cross”.

In my corner of the globe, whether “four” (or “faw”) and “saw” rhyme depends on whether the next word begins with a vowel or not. But then if you listen more closely, we may interpolate a soft “r” sound after “saw” if those situations. “I sawr another one.” And it gets curlier (or curlia) from there.

However, “horse” and “cross” only rhyme if you’re trying to sound like the last monarch. “May husband and Ay are very crawss about Anne’s hawss.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:05:10am

Somebody must have gotten through to DJT: he is backing down from his threats of vengeance and retaliation against Biden, at least according to the latest new smax report

“There’ll be no revenge, no revenge,” Trump said. “Does everybody agree? No revenge.”

Those are his words, but we know what’s in his heart…

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:20:22am

Before 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, there was King Kong vs. Godzilla, from 1962. Starring Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yū Fujiki, Ichirō Arishima, and Mie Hama, with Shoichi Hirose as King Kong and Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla. Written by Shinichi Sekizawa and directed by the legendary Ishirō Honda.

Here’s your Sunday creature feature, dubbed into English. Watch it before it disappears!

King Kong Vs. Godzilla | Full Movie HD | ENG DUB |

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:24:21am

re: #82 Dr Lizardo

And probably one of the better uses of a PG-13 F-bomb, too.

“It’s fucking Chucky!”

That one F-bomb is what gave it its PG-13 rating? One? There are other swear words in the film. I’d have thought the PG-13 would have been collective for multiple swear words. That’s not how it works?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:28:23am

re: #113 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That one F-bomb is what gave it its PG-13 rating? One? There are other swear words in the film. I’d have thought the PG-13 would have been collective for multiple swear words. That’s not how it works?

There’s a scale of swear words that can be used in a film for rating purposes. Granted, the usage of such of words can be flexible - it’s pretty much at the whims of the MPAA.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:28:41am

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve considered buying this:

eshop.macsales.com

But the Intel architecture will soo be obsoleted by Apple (though the 2020 iMac models probably have until 2026 before they can’t get operating system updates.)

Have you tried Certified Refurbished from the Apple Store? That’s how I buy all my iPads (I used to get them on eBay but there are perks buying from Apple).

Check there daily as the offerings are always changing.

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Targetpractice  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:29:27am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

There’s a scale of swear words that can be used in a film for rating purposes. Granted, the usage of such of words can be flexible - it’s pretty much at the whims of the MPAA.

Yeah, but the general rule of thumb is that directors aiming for a PG-13 rating are allotted exactly one “fuck” to use for the duration of the film.

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silverdolphin  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:31:10am

re: #110 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

In my corner of the globe, whether “four” (or “faw”) and “saw” rhyme depends on whether the next word begins with a vowel or not. But then if you listen more closely, we may interpolate a soft “r” sound after “saw” if those situations. “I sawr another one.” And it gets curlier (or curlia) from there.

However, “horse” and “cross” only rhyme if you’re trying to sound like the last monarch. “May husband and Ay are very crawss about Anne’s hawss.”

Best example of “Sawr” courtesy of Paul:

Till There Was You (Remastered 2009)

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silverdolphin  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:35:24am

re: #112 Dr Lizardo

Before 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, there was King Kong vs. Godzilla, from 1962. Starring Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yū Fujiki, Ichirō Arishima, and Mie Hama, with Shoichi Hirose as King Kong and Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla. Written by Shinichi Sekizawa and directed by the legendary Ishirō Honda.

Here’s your Sunday creature feature, dubbed into English. Watch it before it disappears!

[Embedded content]

Living in Corpus Christi, I remember seeing this movie at a Drive In. Well, actually, my parents had taken us to see ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” but that movie really bored me so I watched King-Kng vs Godzilla that was showing on the opposite screen.

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silverdolphin  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:37:54am

re: #115 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Have you tried Certified Refurbished from the Apple Store? That’s how I buy all my iPads (I used to get them on eBay but there are perks buying from Apple).

Check there daily as the offerings are always changing.

I second this. I have bought most of my Apple hardware this way for the last 20 years or so. Often some good deals and you can get Applecare+ with them.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:44:09am

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Republicans are going to fully embrace whatever b.s. Trump spews out of his flat behind. It’s a cult.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:46:57am

re: #118 silverdolphin

Living in Corpus Christi, I remember seeing this movie at a Drive In. Well, actually, my parents had taken us to see ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” but that movie really bored me so I watched King-Kng vs Godzilla that was showing on the opposite screen.

I remember first seeing it sometime in the 1970s, when it was on TV. One of the syndicated stations in L.A.

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silverdolphin  Feb 11, 2024 • 3:54:34am

Court ‘Reluctantly’ Dismisses Yelp’s Lawsuit Against Texas, Over Ken Paxton’s Threats Regarding Crisis Pregnancy Centers

God I hate Paxton and wish his indicted ass was in prison. Here we have the state saying that Yellp cannot accurately describe “crisis pregnancy centers” as places that do not provide abortions or have really any medical facilities. And then suing Yelp. So much for the 1st amendment.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:15:10am

That was ugly.
Wordle 967 6/6

Click to Reveal

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🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:20:18am

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:20:33am

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darthstar  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:21:03am

Someone stuck the landing down the beach from us yesterday, apparently.

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:37:20am

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:42:37am

Hawaii disputing Heller, we will see how this goes
A State Supreme Court Just Issued Another Devastating Rebuke of the U.S. Supreme Court

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:43:06am

bsky.app

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:44:21am

re: #128 Randall Gross

Hawaii disputing Heller, we will see how this goes
A State Supreme Court Just Issued Another Devastating Rebuke of the U.S. Supreme Court

Calvinball Court has opened a can of worms. If you throw precedent out then any and all previous cases will eventually generate repeated challenges.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:44:48am

re: #120 Patricia Kayden

Republicans are going to fully embrace whatever b.s. Trump spews out of his flat behind. It’s a cult.

Just get them on record for it. There are plenty of sane people in the USA who will see how dangerously insane and insanely dangerous it is

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:49:09am

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William Lewis  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:51:24am

re: #128 Randall Gross

Hawaii disputing Heller, we will see how this goes
A State Supreme Court Just Issued Another Devastating Rebuke of the U.S. Supreme Court

It won’t.

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:54:56am

Couple found Guilty in El Dorado fire case started by their gender reveal smoke bomb
1.7M Fines, a year in jail, community service because a firefighter died.
laist.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 4:58:19am

re: #135 Randall Gross

Couple found Guilty in El Dorado fire case started by their gender reveal smoke bomb
1.7M Fines, a year in jail, community service because a firefighter died.
laist.com

sounds like they got off easy…

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 5:01:48am

Morning coffee prep ritual
Soothing….

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 5:55:20am

Did I break everything?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 5:57:29am

No. It is Sunday morning.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 11, 2024 • 5:58:31am

re: #126 darthstar

Someone stuck the landing down the beach from us yesterday, apparently.

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As they say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:00:24am

re: #140 sizzzzlerz

As they say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Preferably one you can take off from again.

Especially if hostile natives are involved…

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austin_blue  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:12:08am

re: #44 ckkatz

I’m so sorry to hear this. I hope you have a quick and full recovery. If it is any consolation, this go-around, I know several folks who ended up with a fairly short duration and a relatively light set of symptoms before recovery. In two cases, just a week of symptoms.

Eh…we had done so well, getting jabbed and boosted as early as we could, masking when most didn’t, &c, Then, in September we got an invite to a dear friends 65th B-day party, an old USO Tour vet of SWMBO’s yoot. And we both got it, of course. Did the Paxlovid thing, which was helpful.

This delayed the new Boost for three months, which we got in the 1st week of January. Nine days a go SWMBO had a gig with one of her bands here in town and she felt punky on Monday PM (after hearing that a bunch of people tested positive on Sunday and early Monday morning) and sure enough, Bang!. I didn’t test positive ‘til yesterday morning (started feeling it Friday night) and, well, Bob’s your uncle. Cough, nose running like a winter hose on drip, and no fever so, Naproxen sodium, Benzonatate, and Pertussin.

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Oblongatis  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:16:10am

re: #25 BigPapa

So, say we all.

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:16:12am

bsky.app

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:23:22am

It worries me a bit that Biden is not doing a Super Bowl interview. The Super Bowl is a golden opportunity to talk to tens of millions of Americans who never watch the news; why skip that opportunity unless Biden’s team is genuinely worried that he can’t pull it off. OTOH, I have to assume the Campaign knows what it’s doing. Maybe they are so confident that Trump is such a fatally flawed candidate that victory is virtually certain, so they don’t want to take any chances at all, despite the polling. I’ve looked at the polling, and Trump is only polling in the low to mid 40’s in almost all of them, so what I expect is that the people who don’t like the choice are going to break hard in favor of Biden, because while they may wish they have a younger candidate to choose from, they loathe Trump.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:25:59am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

It worries me a bit that Biden is not doing a Super Bowl interview. The Super Bowl is a golden opportunity to talk to tens of millions of Americans who never watch the news; why skip that opportunity unless Biden’s team is genuinely worried that he can’t pull it off. OTOH, I have to assume the Campaign knows what it’s doing. Maybe they are so confident that Trump is such a fatally flawed candidate that victory is virtually certain, so they don’t want to take any chances at all, despite the polling. I’ve looked at the polling, and Trump is only polling in the low to mid 40’s in almost all of them, so what I expect is that the people who don’t like the choice are going to break hard in favor of Biden, because while they may wish they have a younger candidate to choose from, they loathe Trump.

Could also be that at this point the Biden campaign doesn’t trust any of the media companies to carry out a fair interview and edit it in a fair manner either. The media is not interested in treating Biden fairly. They are interested in generating a horse race to draw ratings and thus are prejudiced to treat Biden unfairly since honest journalism would be painting this election cycle completely differently than they currently are.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:28:03am

re: #93 ericblair

Trump’s concerns with Europe are about money and feelings of inadequacy. Trump projects his own dreams and desires of revenge onto others as complaints.

Trump constantly complains about Europe not paying their fair share. He also has been aware of massive European disdain for him. What this actually means is that Trump wants them to pay him personal protection money once he becomes President again. He could care less about arming themselves. He wants to be paid personally. He wants the ability to stick the knife into all of those who derided him as stupid and boorish.

Trump wants what Putin has- pretty much complete control and authority over a major nation state in order to subjugate, ransack and plunder. Rumors have swirled for years, despite an image of a man of moderate means, that actually Putin is the richest man in the world due to corruption and de facto ownership of government and military facilities and hideaways. Trump wants all of this too.

And our major media is helping him achieve it, as most of these companies have already pivoted to being able to thrive in a fascist dictatorship.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:28:13am

re: #123 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

That was ugly.
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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:28:20am
“As chances rise of a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election race, America’s allies are bracing for a bumpy ride,” the AP reports.

“Many worry that a second term for Trump would be an earthquake, but tremors already abound — and concerns are rising that the U.S. could grow less dependable regardless of who wins. With a divided electorate and gridlock in Congress, the next American president could easily become consumed by manifold challenges at home — before even beginning to address flashpoints around the world from Ukraine to the Middle East.”

as we’ve been saying here for several weeks

Link

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:29:24am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

After seeing how the DC Presstitutes treated Joe this week…F them…G them…HIJKLMNOP them.

The GOP Stenographers showed they loved getting off on trashing him just like they endlessly trashed Bill, Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary ever since she came on the scene in 1991.

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:30:29am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

It worries me a bit that Biden is not doing a Super Bowl interview. The Super Bowl is a golden opportunity to talk to tens of millions of Americans who never watch the news; why skip that opportunity unless Biden’s team is genuinely worried that he can’t pull it off. OTOH, I have to assume the Campaign knows what it’s doing. Maybe they are so confident that Trump is such a fatally flawed candidate that victory is virtually certain, so they don’t want to take any chances at all, despite the polling. I’ve looked at the polling, and Trump is only polling in the low to mid 40’s in almost all of them, so what I expect is that the people who don’t like the choice are going to break hard in favor of Biden, because while they may wish they have a younger candidate to choose from, they loathe Trump.

that and a bunch of other perspectives on the Hur report at today’s electoral-vote.com

In this light, I feel like the decision to not reverse course on the Super Bowl interview was a prudent move, because the temptations to exploit the current turmoil are so great by any network. Also, as some readers have pointed out, a break from politics on Super Bowl Sunday can be refreshing, especially in this election season. After all, as Lewis Black commented once after watching hours of a post-9/11 Super Bowl pregame show on Fox: “I hated freedom.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:32:49am

re: #147 Florida Panhandler

Trump’s concerns with Europe are about money and feelings of inadequacy. Trump projects his own dreams and desires of revenge onto others as complaints.

He does not have any concept of what alliance or partnership mean, to him the entire rest of the world is made up exclusively of shills and/or toadies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:33:50am

This current Superb Owl is already overburdened with political overtones and associations.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:34:19am

A Sunday par. I’ll take it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:35:23am

Who has come out to defend Joe?

Very clear and very focused’: Robert Hur’s assessment of Biden destroyed by Netanyahu

I’m shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Joe Biden’s mental acuity after special counsel Robert Hur questioned it.

During an interview on ABC’s This Week program, host Jonathan Karl noted that Hur had described Biden as an elderly man with a poor memory.

“You’ve known Joe Biden for decades, and you’ve dealt with him a lot over the course of this conflict,” Karl told Netanyahu. “What’s your assessment of him?”

“Well, John, I’ve had more than a dozen phone conversations, extended phone conversations with President Biden,” the Israeli leader replied. “He also came on a visit to Israel during wartime, which is a historic first.”

“And I found him very clear and very focused,” he added. “We managed to agree on the war aims and on many things.”

Note how Presstitute Karl slants his questions.

Netanyahu: Biden ‘very clear and very focused’

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ericblair  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:35:51am

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

He does not have any concept of what alliance or partnership mean, to him the entire rest of the world is made up exclusively of shills and/or toadies.

Neither does Putin, who thinks of NATO as a bizarro world Warsaw Pact with the US as boss and every other nation as minions to be ordered around.

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jeffreyw  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:37:27am

Soup & Sammy

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:41:50am

re: #144 Randall Gross

Thre has always been a Cult of Youth, but it really exploded with the Baby Boomer generation, which was not only large, but had a previously unheard-of purchasing power at its disposal.

That began to determine nearly every aspect of fashion and society and of course, popular entertainment, giving rise to the Cult of Artificial Eternal Youth.

I am just glad that my stodgy old generation produced the kind of music and entertainment that has endured until today. My 21-year-old daughter was just jamming out to a My Chemical Romance cover of A Hazy Shade of Winter…

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:47:40am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall that in British English “four” and “saw” rhyme, as does “Ride a cock-horse/to Banbury Cross”.

Lord Hoe Hoe?

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:48:24am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Thre has always been a Cult of Youth, but it really exploded with the Baby Boomer generation, which was not only large, but had a previously unheard-of purchasing power at its disposal.

That began to determine nearly every aspect of fashion and society and of course, popular entertainment, giving rise to the Cult of Artificial Eternal Youth.

I am just glad that my stodgy old generation produced the kind of music and entertainment that has endured until today. My 21-year-old daughter was just jamming out to a My Chemical Romance cover of A Hazy Shade of Winter…

What has me worried lately is that there is an “us against them” faction in the last two generations — dissing boomers is joke material to some, but there’s also a movement out there to inspire and ignite actual hate, and you can catch overtones of it in the media.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:49:17am

re: #160 Randall Gross

What has me worried lately is that there is an “us against them” faction in the last two generations — dissing boomers is joke material to some, but there’s also a movement out there to inspire and ignite actual hate, and you can catch overtones of it in the media.

Media thrives from stoking senstionalism, even when that means inciting acutal hate and resentment.

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:51:10am

Ruffalo calling for ceasefire
deadline.com

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 6:59:57am

Geneva Mike
2 hours ago edited

I live on the French-Swiss border, and the top story here - by far - is Trump basically promising to destroy NATO and give Putin the spoils. Why the hell is this being ignored in the States? Absolutely shocking

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:01:53am

re: #163 Dangerman

Geneva Mike
2 hours ago edited

I live on the French-Swiss border, and the top story here - by far - is Trump basically promising to destroy NATO and give Putin the spoils. Why the hell is this being ignored in the States? Absolutely shocking

I cannot get over it either. People in the States are so used to just ignoring Trumps outrageous statements as political hyperbole, I guess.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:02:13am

re: #163 Dangerman

Geneva Mike
2 hours ago edited

I live on the French-Swiss border, and the top story here - by far - is Trump basically promising to destroy NATO and give Putin the spoils. Why the hell is this being ignored in the States? Absolutely shocking

It’s definitely the major news here in Czech Republic.

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:03:32am

re: #160 Randall Gross

What has me worried lately is that there is an “us against them” faction in the last two generations — dissing boomers is joke material to some, but there’s also a movement out there to inspire and ignite actual hate, and you can catch overtones of it in the media.

I read this earlier this am

I was at a meeting last night where politics came up and a couple of the younger men (about age 40) there openly supported Putin. This is in rural western North Carolina. I never thought I’d see that here.

It was everything I could do as a Cold War vet to keep from losing my shit.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:04:33am

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

I cannot get over it either. People in the States are so used to just ignoring Trumps outrageous statements as political hyperbole, I guess.

The media are hyper-fixated on creating a horse race, and because Biden would ordinarily be beating the pants off the former guy if they were being compared equally, the media has to do a whole lot of handwaving and sweeping things under the rug for Trump, and a whole lot of focusing on the minor negatives for Biden.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:06:24am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:11:09am

re: #165 Dr Lizardo

It’s definitely the major news here in Czech Republic.

as it would be in any former Soviet Bloc country

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:12:43am

re: #166 Dangerman

I read this earlier this am

I was at a meeting last night where politics came up and a couple of the younger men (about age 40) there openly supported Putin. This is in rural western North Carolina. I never thought I’d see that here.

It was everything I could do as a Cold War vet to keep from losing my shit.

Young people don’t really recall the Cold War. In addition, they see Putin as a bulwark against Global Colonial (((Cosmopolitan))) Capitalism.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:14:39am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

The media are hyper-fixated on creating a horse race, and because Biden would ordinarily be beating the pants off the former guy if they were being compared equally, the media has to do a whole lot of handwaving and sweeping things under the rug for Trump, and a whole lot of focusing on the minor negatives for Biden.

and again, if Biden has to spend even just a few nights in a hospital over a minor condition, we will hear no end of reports on his incapacity to govern.

Should that happen to DJT, we would probably not even find out about it and if we did, it would be chalked up to the stress of running a successful international business empire, campaigning for Presidency and defending himself against a Deep State Witch Hunt.

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:18:56am

Scotus says its *your* job

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:20:30am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

The media are hyper-fixated on creating a horse race, and because Biden would ordinarily be beating the pants off the former guy if they were being compared equally, the media has to do a whole lot of handwaving and sweeping things under the rug lying for Trump, and a whole lot of focusing on the minor negatives for Biden.

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:21:18am

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

as it would be in any former Soviet Bloc or merely sane country

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:23:50am

re: #163 Dangerman

Geneva Mike
2 hours ago edited

I live on the French-Swiss border, and the top story here - by far - is Trump basically promising to destroy NATO and give Putin the spoils. Why the hell is this being ignored in the States? Absolutely shocking

The Corporate Controlled Conservative Press wants Trump back in the White House.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:25:39am

re: #175 Joe Bacon ✅

The Corporate Controlled Conservative Press wants Trump back in the White House.

All the newspapers and TV outlets not owned by millionaires are backing Biden.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:26:47am

re: #174 Dangerman

especially any country bordering on or near Russia

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:27:40am

re: #165 Dr Lizardo

It’s definitely the major news here in Czech Republic.

DT said that in California on a Saturday afternoon (evening on the east coast). Europe is five and six hours ahead of DC and NYC, so that made a good headline for the morning news. The US is just waking up to it (on Super Bowl Sunday as well).

The news isn’t overwhelming everything, but it’s on the “front page” of every major US news service, and I’ve (not) heard DT saying it several times already (I hit the mute button when it starts — I know what he said and don’t care to hear his voice).

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:28:09am

How many hours left until Taylor Swift assumes control over the universe?

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:29:06am

The orange anus says that Russia can attack Europe and the American media yawns. Nothing matters anymore.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:30:04am

re: #180 Ace Rothstein

The orange anus says that Russia can attack Europe and the American media yawns. Nothing matters anymore.

Nothing matters to the CCCP except Biden making a slip at the last press conference. Then they go all in to stick the shivs in him.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:30:55am

re: #178 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

DT said that in California on a Saturday afternoon (evening on the east coast). Europe is five and six hours ahead of DC and NYC, so that made a good headline for the morning news. The US is just waking up to it (on Super Bowl Sunday as well).

The news isn’t overwhelming everything, but it’s on the “front page” of every major US news service, and I’ve (not) heard DT saying it several times already (I hit the mute button when it starts — I know what he said and don’t care to hear his voice).

There is plenty of time to let this sink in. (And he’ll probably double down.) If this doesn’t change the course of the election, the world has changed permanently.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:31:50am

re: #178 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

DT said that in California on a Saturday afternoon (evening on the east coast). Europe is five and six hours ahead of DC and NYC, so that made a good headline for the morning news. The US is just waking up to it (on Super Bowl Sunday as well).

The news isn’t overwhelming everything, but it’s on the “front page” of every major US news service, and I’ve (not) heard DT saying it several times already (I hit the mute button when it starts — I know what he said and don’t care to hear his voice).

Yeah, that was quite the bombshell for Czechs to wake up to here on an otherwise quiet Sunday morning.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:31:52am

re: #182 Decatur Deb

There is plenty of time to let this sink in. (And he’ll probably double down.) If this doesn’t change the course of the election, the world has changed permanently.

We are already living in the New Media Reality.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:32:27am

re: #182 Decatur Deb

There is plenty of time to let this sink in. (And he’ll probably double down.) If this doesn’t change the course of the election, the world has changed permanently.

Not a single Republican will push back on his statements. That’s how rotten they have become.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:32:45am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are already living in the New Media Reality.

And it is not good.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:33:16am

NATO IS NOT A FUCKING COUNTRY CLUB!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:34:20am

re: #187 Ace Rothstein

NATO IS NOT A FUCKING COUNTRY CLUB!

Do not expect DJT to grasp the concept of alliance or partnership.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:34:52am

re: #185 Ace Rothstein

Not a single Republican will push back on his statements. That’s how rotten they have become.

Then let him drag them to the ocean’s bottom.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:35:19am

re: #189 Decatur Deb

Then let him drag them to the ocean’s bottom.

I approve this statement.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:36:48am

As I was saying:

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:36:58am

Let’s see how many of the Sunday AM Talking Heads don’t even bring NATO up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:38:10am

re: #186 Ace Rothstein

And it is not good.

Karl Rove predicted it and outlined it: just control the narrative and the story you tell will be accepted as truth regardless of the facts.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:38:18am

“And I told the European leader I was considering gassing the Jews”

Marco Rubio: “It didn’t happen he was just telling a story”

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:39:06am

re: #191 Ace Rothstein

As I was saying:

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:39:49am

re: #71 Dr Lizardo

It’s not eerie, the headsets in the movie are pretty much what I would expect any headset to look like. The only way you wouldn’t end up with a headset like that is to have a neural jack like something out of Cyberpunk or Ghost in the Shell.

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jeffreyw  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:39:50am

post.news

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:40:00am

re: #191 Ace Rothstein

“Well, that’s not what happened … he was telling a story … he doesn’t talk like a traditional politician … I have zero concern” — Marco Rubio *defends* Trump saying that he’d encourage Russian to attack NATO countries

This is a variant on Kellyanne Conway’s famous “Don’t listen to what he says, just listen to what’s in his heart!”

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:41:57am

re: #191 Ace Rothstein

As I was saying:

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“He was telling a story… he doesn’t talk like a traditional politician.” It’s the same old tired excuse, over and over and over again. And every single fucking time, the media just laps it up like the complicit little lapdogs they are. FUCK.

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Dangerman  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:42:28am

re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is a variant on Kellyanne Conway’s famouw “Don’t listen to what he says, just listen to what’s in his heart!”

Ok, If that’s the new standard then apply it to Biden too

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:44:37am

re: #185 Ace Rothstein

Not a single Republican will push back on his statements. That’s how rotten they have become.

Actions speak louder than words. Congress passed a provision to make it impossible for DT to act unilaterally to leave NATO — this was back when he said the same thing about not protecting NATO in July.

The bipartisan amendment to the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act would not allow the president to withdraw from NATO without congressional approval, requiring two-thirds of senators to vote for withdrawal. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., introduced the amendment alongside Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, which senators adopted in a 65-28 vote.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:45:31am

re: #196 Belafon

It’s not eerie, the headsets in the movie are pretty much what I would expect any headset to look like. The only way you wouldn’t end up with a headset like that is to have a neural jack like something out of Cyberpunk or Ghost in the Shell.

That’ll be the Apple Vision Pro Plus 5. 😄

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:46:26am

I couldn’t find an owl, but here’s a superb elephant for a super Sunday.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:46:35am

re: #201 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I read that last night. But do you think Trump (if he had a majority) would not repeal it?

EDIT: Requires a 2/3 majority to repeal. Never mind.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:48:46am

Also, there is nothing to prevent that asshole from refusing to sign a budget if there is NATO funding in it is there?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:50:32am

re: #200 Dangerman

Ok, If that’s the new standard then apply it to Biden too

You know that it is not a standard, it is a coward’s way of crawling off

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darthstar  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:51:16am

re: #140 sizzzzlerz

As they say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Apparently they got the plane off the beach before the waves could do any damage (surf was strong yesterday) and it’s back on the tarmac in Palo Alto.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:53:35am

re: #205 Ace Rothstein

Also, there is nothing to prevent that asshole from refusing to sign a budget if there is NATO funding in it is there?

(When did we last pass a budget?) Refusing to pass a continuing resolution would mean shutting down the government. Their recent actions suggest that the repugs have figured out that doing that hurts only them.

Sorry to interrupt the doom and gloom narrative.

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A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:54:40am

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darthstar  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:58:16am

Oh, be one…

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 7:58:43am

re: #201 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Actions speak louder than words. Congress passed a provision to make it impossible for DT to act unilaterally to leave NATO — this was back when he said the same thing about not protecting NATO in July.

Like Trump will give a shit what Congress says if he gets back into power.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:00:47am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

Like Trump will give a shit what Congress says if he gets back into power.

He’ll end up doing something so egregious that even Thomas and Alito will be like “What the fuck?” Then he’ll give them the finger and keep doing whatever he wants. He may be impeached, but what 17 Republicans in the Senate would vote to convict?

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:04:42am

re: #212 Ace Rothstein

He’ll end up doing something so egregious that even Thomas and Alito will be like “What the fuck?” Then he’ll give them the finger and keep doing whatever he wants. He may be impeached, but what 17 Republicans in the Senate would vote to convict?

Over/under on Trump invoking the Insurrection Act and ruling as a dictator is 100 days after he’s sworn in, and I’m being generous here.

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:05:54am

re: #201 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Actions speak louder than words. Congress passed a provision to make it impossible for DT to act unilaterally to leave NATO — this was back when he said the same thing about not protecting NATO in July.

When Trump doesn’t send aid to NATO, McConnell will talk about how the executive has their constitutional duty to control the funds and there’s nothing the legislature can do to force him to send aid.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:06:47am

re: #211 No Malarkey!

Like Trump will give a shit what Congress says if he gets back into power.

He doesn’t give a shit what E Jean Carroll says, but he’ll be paying her anyway.

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected. Most of the people commenting here don’t seem to be aware of that.

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:07:18am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

That’ll be the Apple Vision Pro Plus 5. 😄

And then I might actually have to buy one.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:09:31am

re: #208 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

(When did we last pass a budget?) Refusing to pass a continuing resolution would mean shutting down the government. Their recent actions suggest that the repugs have figured out that doing that hurts only them.

Sorry to interrupt the doom and gloom narrative.

Their next opportunity is in 16 days.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:10:02am

re: #214 Belafon

When Trump doesn’t send aid to NATO, McConnell will talk about how the executive has their constitutional duty to co trol the funds and there’s nothing the legislature can do to force him to send aid.

Maybe you could describe the mechanism he would use to stop a payment that’s already been passed by Congress and earmarked for a specific purpose. (He might be able to delay it…)

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected. Most of the people commenting here don’t seem to be aware of that.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:10:08am

re: #201 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Actions speak louder than words. Congress passed a provision to make it impossible for DT to act unilaterally to leave NATO — this was back when he said the same thing about not protecting NATO in July.

Any and all such provisions will go right out the window Jan 2025 should Trump take the White House again. This time he will issue EO at will and dare anyone to contradict him. It has been proven now that Congress and SCOTUS have no real power and authority according to violent-minded Mafia gangsters like Trump. The only real power will be his own Oathkeepers, Proud Boys and personal US Military toadies that will be assembled quickly even before the Oath of Office.

DeSantis has shown the way here in Florida with his own personal Gestapo Florida State Guard that answers only to him. Trump will take this nationwide.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:10:15am

re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“They just listen to what’s in his heart!”

“He talks the way I feel.” - Some Trump supporter.

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:11:16am

re: #215 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Iure he doesn’t give a shit what E Jean Carroll says, but he’ll be paying her anyway.

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected. Most of the people commenting here don’t seem to be aware of that.

I think he’s going to lose bigger than last time, though, like last time, it’ll take longer than election night to know. This age stuff will fade soon, and debate time will really show the status of the two of them mentally.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:12:36am

re: #221 Belafon

I think he’s going to lose bigger than last time, though, like last time, it’ll take longer than election night to know. This age stuff will fade soon, and debate time will really show the status of the two of them mentally.

I don’t think they’re going to debate each other, to be honest. I agree with everything else you said, though. When the chips are down, I think the Democrats will show up.

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A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:13:10am

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:14:10am

re: #218 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Maybe you could describe the mechanism he would use to stop a payment that’s already been passed by Congress and earmarked for a specific purpose. (He might be able to delay it…)

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected. Most of the people commenting here don’t seem to be aware of that.

I agree, but who controls the agency in charge of sending aid? Mine was also a hypothetical about McConnell justifying whatever action Trump takes.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:16:26am

re: #215 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

He doesn’t give a shit what E Jean Carroll says, but he’ll be paying her anyway.

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected. Most of the people commenting here don’t seem to be aware of that.

Take note I said IF he gets back into power. It’s not a foregone conclusion, and we have to do what we can so that it doesn’t happen. What we can do extends beyond election day, because, assuming Trump loses the election, and I think he will, he will attempt another coup.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:17:14am

re: #179 Dangerman

How many hours left until Taylor Swift assumes control over the universe?

I, for one, welcome our new Swifty overlords.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:18:07am

re: #163 Dangerman

Geneva Mike
2 hours ago edited

I live on the French-Swiss border, and the top story here - by far - is Trump basically promising to destroy NATO and give Putin the spoils. Why the hell is this being ignored in the States? Absolutely shocking

I think the fact a lot of Americans have no fucking clue what NATO is or what it does might have something to do with it.

Also, Taylor Swift.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:19:22am

re: #225 No Malarkey!

Take note I said IF he gets back into power. It’s not a foregone conclusion, and we have to do what we can so that it doesn’t happen. We we can do extends beyond election day, because, assuming Trump loses the election, and I think he will, he will attempt another coup.

They will stage the coup during the election by disrupting polling places and seizing voting machines in the name of “guaranteeing the integrity of the election”.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:19:30am

re: #218 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Maybe you could describe the mechanism he would use to stop a payment that’s already been passed by Congress and earmarked for a specific purpose. (He might be able to delay it…)

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected. Most of the people commenting here don’t seem to be aware of that.

Something both you and Trump seem to be confused about is that the US does not make payments into a fund to support NATO. The scenario is that Trump tells Putin that he is free to invade, for example, the Baltic states, Putin does, and then Trump, in his role as CiC, refuses to order US forces to defend our allies.

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Axolotl  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:19:38am

re: #87 Dr Lizardo

Definitely - the film adaptation was a considerable improvement.

IMHO, The Godfather is another example of that.

Absolutely!
Children of Men is another one for me.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:20:16am

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:20:32am

re: #108 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The movie Amalie has some great music. Thanks for posting!

I always had a thing for La Valse De Amalie which used to be big in the Viennese Waltz community.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:23:18am

re: #223 A Cranky One

Karaoke. Godzilla’s one weakness.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:23:55am

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

They will stage the coup during the election by disrupting polling places and seizing voting machines in the name of “guaranteeing the integrity of the election”.

And they will fail.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:24:36am

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

They will stage the coup during the election by disrupting polling places and seizing voting machines in the name of “guaranteeing the integrity of the election”.

I hope someone in the Administration is making plans to counter MAGA terrorism, because I think that is highly likely. I also expect MAGA to attack ballot counting centers in the days after the election.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:26:30am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

And they will fail.

We need to be prepared for that.

Remember how close they came to doing that last time. And they lost

What sort of lesson do you think they learned: “Don’t do it again”?

Nope. The lesson they learned was “Double down!”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:27:51am

re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We need to be prepared for that.

Remember how close they came to doing that last time. And they lost

What sort of lesson do you think they learned: “Don’t do it again”?

Nope. The lesson they learned was “Double down!”

You’re right, we do have to be prepared for that. Being prepared will go a long way towards ensuring their failure.

And then, they will have to be dealt with quite severely.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:28:02am

I guess that I should join in the Superb Owl cartoon festivities. My contribution -

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Axolotl  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:29:15am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

It worries me a bit that Biden is not doing a Super Bowl interview. The Super Bowl is a golden opportunity to talk to tens of millions of Americans who never watch the news; why skip that opportunity unless Biden’s team is genuinely worried that he can’t pull it off. OTOH, I have to assume the Campaign knows what it’s doing. Maybe they are so confident that Trump is such a fatally flawed candidate that victory is virtually certain, so they don’t want to take any chances at all, despite the polling. I’ve looked at the polling, and Trump is only polling in the low to mid 40’s in almost all of them, so what I expect is that the people who don’t like the choice are going to break hard in favor of Biden, because while they may wish they have a younger candidate to choose from, they loathe Trump.

I suspect they like their numbers.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:31:45am

re: #140 sizzzzlerz

If you can walk away from a landing it’s a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day it’s an outstanding landing. - Chuck Yeager

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:32:28am

re: #166 Dangerman

I read this earlier this am

I was at a meeting last night where politics came up and a couple of the younger men (about age 40) there openly supported Putin. This is in rural western North Carolina. I never thought I’d see that here.

It was everything I could do as a Cold War vet to keep from losing my shit.

It’s good to remind people that Putin has targeting solutions for American cities in his nuclear war plans. Of course nowadays you have to scratch your head and wonder if some aren’t seeking to live in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:32:32am

This might be a bit of a hot take, but I suspect that if we’re speculating about the likelihood of election-night and post-election acts of MAGA terrorism, people whose job it is to game out those sorts of scenarios have also speculated along these same lines. I hope I’m not wrong; 1/6/2021 did happen, after all (though a lot of that was willful blindness and inaction, not as much a failure to predict).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:33:16am

re: #241 Randall Gross

It’s good to remind people that Putin has targeting solutions for American cities in his nuclear war plans. Of course nowadays you have to scratch your head and wonder if some aren’t seeking to live in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.

I am sure we have Russian cities still targeted. Old habits die hard.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:34:13am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

Problem here is that the GOP/MAGA strategists have to agree that nothing short of massive elector disruption and chaos is going to allow them to pull out a win.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:34:21am

All the recent talk of ketchup flying through the dining hall of Mar-a-Lardo reminded me of this song from the “Turn of the Century”.

What I did not realize until recently, was that it is a bit of an homage to “The Sugarhill Gang’s” song “Rapper’s Delight”.

So, for a revisit to the vapid songs of the past -

The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:36:01am

re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am sure we have Russian cities still targeted. Old habits die hard.

Of course we do but that reality seems irrelevant to many now, however it’s still highly relevant to almost every geopolitical move both nations make.

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:39:33am

bsky.app

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:40:56am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Young people don’t really recall the Cold War. In addition, they see Putin as a bulwark against Global Colonial (((Cosmopolitan))) Capitalism.

If they do they’re even bigger idiots than I was at that age.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:42:21am

re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Problem here is that the GOP/MAGA strategists have to agree that nothing short of massive elector disruption and chaos is going to allow them to pull out a win.

The thing is, it only takes a handful of MAGAs listening to Trump tell them the vote is being rigged in Philadelphia/Detroit/Atlanta/Milwaukee and they need to show up and “watch” to prevent voter fraud arriving at polling centers, drop boxes or ballot counting centers with their AR-15s for all Hell to break loose.

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mmmirele  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:43:03am

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that was quite the bombshell for Czechs to wake up to here on an otherwise quiet Sunday morning.

El País (Spain) is fronting the Galician regional elections next Sunday. I didn’t search hard, but I didn’t see Trump being mentioned on the front page. That said, Spain is not Eastern Europe.

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:43:38am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

This might be a bit of a hot take, but I suspect that if we’re speculating about the likelihood of election-night and post-election acts of MAGA terrorism, people whose job it is to game out those sorts of scenarios have also speculated along these same lines. I hope I’m not wrong; 1/6/2021 did happen, after all (though a lot of that was willful blindness and inaction, not as much a failure to predict).

The guy who was in charge of stopping it wanted it to happen.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:44:01am

re: #250 mmmirele

El País (Spain) is fronting the Galician regional elections next Sunday. I didn’t search hard, but I didn’t see Trump being mentioned on the front page. That said, Spain is not Eastern Europe.

I’d imagine it’s much bigger news in former Eastern Bloc countries.

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:44:04am

re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Problem here is that the GOP/MAGA strategists have to agree that nothing short of massive elector disruption and chaos is going to allow them to pull out a win.

And massive won’t happen.

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JC1  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:44:45am

re: #70 Targetpractice

Much like brouhaha about the National Anthem before sporting events, the “traditional” Superb Owl interview is something that started with Dubya that has carried forward because Obama and Trump (with the exception of 2018) thought it was good politics to answer a few light questions before the game. IOW, it’s yet another “tradition” that isn’t even old enough to drink (Dubya did first interview in 2004).

Still, it’s great exposure to millions of people who don’t follow politics closely. What’s the downside to doing it?

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:45:09am

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

Or they’ll pretend to be on the phone when a reporter asks them about Trump’s comments.

The MSM is the problem. They gave us Trump in 2016 with their breathless coverage of “but her emails” and they are working overtime to do that to us again. They accentuate every mistake from Biden and ignore the evil of Trump.

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JC1  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:47:21am

re: #107 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle does not play in a brass band.

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Would you please put wordle hints behind the hidden tags? I don’t want spoilers.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:47:32am

re: #254 JC1

Still, it’s great exposure to millions of people who don’t follow politics closely. What’s the downside to doing it?

It would be lost in the noise. Right now, Trump is doing a fine job of publicizing Biden’s virtues.

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A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:47:42am

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:48:04am

re: #107 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle does not play in a brass band.

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Par here;

Click to Reveal

Wordle 967 4/6

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Group: 4,5,5,6

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:48:18am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

This might be a bit of a hot take, but I suspect that if we’re speculating about the likelihood of election-night and post-election acts of MAGA terrorism, people whose job it is to game out those sorts of scenarios have also speculated along these same lines. I hope I’m not wrong; 1/6/2021 did happen, after all (though a lot of that was willful blindness and inaction, not as much a failure to predict).

This. This Administration isn’t going to let what happened on 01/06/2021 reoccur. Any large gathering of MAGAt protesters will be quickly broken up.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:50:32am

re: #241 Randall Gross

There are, because they think they’ll be the guy in the hockey mask.

More likely they’ll be the guy that loses fingers to a razor sharp boomerang.

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A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:51:38am

re: #260 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’m more worried about single individuals who have internalized the hate and lies from the right wing. I can picture shooters gunning down anyone they think is an immigrant or “illegal” alien in line to vote.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:53:25am

re: #232 ckkatz

The movie Amalie has some great music. Thanks for posting!

I always had a thing for La Valse De Amalie which used to be big in the Viennese Waltz community.

It gets airplay on French pop radio from time to time.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:53:45am

Lots of ratfucking going on in social media right now. And it’s only going to get worse:

Christie post on Xitter

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:55:00am

re: #262 A Cranky One

I’m more worried about single individuals who have internalized the hate and lies from the right wing. I can picture shooters gunning down anyone they think is an immigrant or “illegal” alien in line to vote.

That is what stochastic terrorism is all about. It only takes one MAGA with an AR-15 to potentially kill dozens of voters in line and disrupt the election.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:58:40am

re: #241 Randall Gross

It’s good to remind people that Putin has targeting solutions for American cities in his nuclear war plans. Of course nowadays you have to scratch your head and wonder if some aren’t seeking to live in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.

Or weapons are maintained, his are…questionable.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:58:46am

Holy hell. They dug up Rinsed Pubis for the Sunday morning news cycle.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:59:11am

re: #265 No Malarkey!

That is what stochastic terrorism is all about. It only takes one MAGA with an AR-15 to potentially kill dozens of voters in line and disrupt the election.

My county has early in-person voting at county buildings, as well as mail-in voting. My current plan, as in 2020 and 2022, is to use one of those options.

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BeachDem  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:59:15am

re: #178 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

DT said that in California on a Saturday afternoon (evening on the east coast). Europe is five and six hours ahead of DC and NYC, so that made a good headline for the morning news. The US is just waking up to it (on Super Bowl Sunday as well).

The news isn’t overwhelming everything, but it’s on the “front page” of every major US news service, and I’ve (not) heard DT saying it several times already (I hit the mute button when it starts — I know what he said and don’t care to hear his voice).

Only one correction—he said it right down the road from me in South Carolina on Saturday afternoon (I was at a Women’s Day of Action put on by the Democratic Women’s Council, so I was spared for a few hours of hearing his poisonous mouth.) Our local rag’s website started the morning with a gigantic pic of him and several surrounding stories and photo essays. They’ve drawn back a bit, still with multiple stories, but smaller pictures. And, interestingly, here in TRUMP COUNTRY, the main points in the stories were his questioning where Nikki’s husband was and pointing out how much bigger his crowd was than hers was last week. Not a word about NATO in the local stories; only in AP national feeds.

But not to worry,
Rubio dismisses Trump’s NATO comments: ‘Zero concern

because of course…

thehill.com

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:59:20am

re: #262 A Cranky One

I’m more worried about single individuals who have internalized the hate and lies from the right wing. I can picture shooters gunning down anyone they think is an immigrant or “illegal” alien in line to vote.

That is, unfortunately, a very valid concern. Especially in Districts with a large minority population.

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ericblair  Feb 11, 2024 • 8:59:28am

re: #229 No Malarkey!

Something both you and Trump seem to be confused about is that the US does not make payments into a fund to support NATO. The scenario is that Trump tells Putin that he is free to invade, for example, the Baltic states, Putin does, and then Trump, in his role as CiC, refuses to order US forces to defend our allies.

There are civil and military budgets for NATO, which are used to run the headquarters and agencies and pay for common funded programs. These are not very big, about $2.5B per year, but every NATO Nation pays into them and I don’t think there have been any issues about nonpayment.

That’s not what anyone means when they talk about the 2% commitment, and it’s funded by the defense appropriations act so pretty safe.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:00:04am

re: #256 JC1

Would you please put wordle hints behind the hidden tags? I don’t want spoilers.

Yeah, I skip those posts for that reason.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:00:31am

re: #248 Romantic Heretic

If they do they’re even bigger idiots than I was at that age.

Don’t forget what has been happening to the education system in America over the past four or five decades…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:02:35am

Are there really any legitmate Democrats who will vote for Trump?

I would think any who don’t go for Biden would vote Green or third party or some shit instead of Trump.

(yes, I know third party votes are basically votes for Trump.)

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:02:58am

re: #229 No Malarkey!

Something both you and Trump seem to be confused about is that the US does not make payments into a fund to support NATO. The scenario is that Trump tells Putin that he is free to invade, for example, the Baltic states, Putin does, and then Trump, in his role as CiC, refuses to order US forces to defend our allies.

Difficult, when our troops are already there. Do they sit on their hands and not fight if they’re attacked? (The payments I was talking about were for supporting, supplying and paying those forces.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:03:09am

re: #262 A Cranky One

I’m more worried about single individuals who have internalized the hate and lies from the right wing. I can picture shooters gunning down anyone they think is an immigrant or “illegal” alien in line to vote.

DJT already told them that is more important than voting.

The ability to bring about regime change without bloodshed is one of the hallmarks of a modern western democracy, inability to do so is an indicator of a failed state.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:05:40am

re: #230 Axolotl

Absolutely!
Children of Men is another one for me.

The movie lost me completely when they changed the sex of the baby. A fertile male could help replenish the Earth — if women were also fertile, a female could produce maybe ten offspring to be the next generation. And all of them siblings.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:08:07am

re: #221 Belafon

I think he’s going to lose bigger than last time, though, like last time, it’ll take longer than election night to know. This age stuff will fade soon, and debate time will really show the status of the two of them mentally.

Why would Trump even show up for a debate?

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ipsos  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:08:33am

re: #272 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Yeah, I skip those posts for that reason.

I have always read the “Your next Wordle is…” posts as jokes. They rarely, if ever, have given anything away about the actual answer.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:09:19am

***SNORK*** For some reason, I do not believe him…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:09:46am

re: #269 BeachDem

I think I am about to change my references to the Party Without Agency to simply referring to the Party of Bootlickers. And that label is going to get tossed at anyone in my limited social media contacts that starts espousing Republicans. Doubly so when Haley bends the knee and endorses Trump as well.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:10:01am

re: #196 Belafon

It’s not eerie, the headsets in the movie are pretty much what I would expect any headset to look like. The only way you wouldn’t end up with a headset like that is to have a neural jack like something out of Cyberpunk or Ghost in the Shell.

It’s not eerie, but that’s not what all headsets look like either.

One Body features real Pimax headsets, which look very different.

My old Vive Pro looks a lot different too.

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sagehen  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:10:15am

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

Are there really any legitmate Democrats who will vote for Trump?

Define “legitimate”.

There’s people registered in not-the-party-they-prefer if they live in an overwhelmingly tilted jurisdiction, just so they can vote in the primary.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:12:53am

re: #275 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Difficult, when our troops are already there. Do they sit on their hands and not fight if they’re attacked? (The payments I was talking about were for supporting, supplying and paying those forces.)

Trump will be pulling our forces out of Europe, especially eastern europe.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:14:12am

re: #269 BeachDem

Only one correction—he said it right down the road from me in South Carolina on Saturday afternoon (I was at a Women’s Day of Action put on by the Democratic Women’s Council, so I was spared for a few hours of hearing his poisonous mouth.) Our local rag’s website started the morning with a gigantic pic of him and several surrounding stories and photo essays. They’ve drawn back a bit, still with multiple stories, but smaller pictures. And, interestingly, here in TRUMP COUNTRY, the main points in the stories were his questioning where Nikki’s husband was and pointing out how much bigger his crowd was than hers was last week. Not a word about NATO in the local stories; only in AP national feeds.

But not to worry,
Rubio dismisses Trump’s NATO comments: ‘Zero concern

because of course…

thehill.com

And he said the same thing at another rally in Conway, CA. That’s the one I was referring to.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:14:40am

re: #280 ckkatz

Dickhead Junior, “I don’t snort cocaine”

Yeah…he free-bases it…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:16:11am

re: #280 ckkatz

***SNORK*** For some reason, I do not believe him…

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Maybe he smokes it. Or shoots it.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:17:59am

re: #284 No Malarkey!

Trump will be pulling our forces out of Europe, especially eastern europe.

The attempt would raise such a shit storm that they’d still be awaiting departure in 2032.

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that DT will be elected.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:18:53am

re: #286 Joe Bacon ✅

Dickhead Junior, “I don’t snort cocaine”

Yeah…he free-bases it…

re: #287 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Maybe he smokes it. Or shoots it.

GMTA!

And why do I get a mental image of that old Woody Allen cocaine skit? It is the elder failson after all.

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BeachDem  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:19:41am

re: #285 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

And he said the same thing at another rally in Conway, CA. That’s the one I was referring to.

Not to belabor the point, but it was in Conway, South Carolina, not CA.

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:19:45am

re: #282 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s not eerie, but that’s not what all headsets look like either.

One Body features real Pimax headsets, which look very different.

[Embedded content]

To me, that’s different in the same way that Nikes are different than Rebocks. Those don’t look all that different. But I don’t think yours are solving the how to deal with interfacing with the real world.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:19:58am

re: #280 ckkatz

There are prescription drugs that produce similar side effects

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:21:44am

re: #291 Belafon

To me, that’s different in the same way that Nikes are different than Rebocks. Those don’t look all that different. But I don’t think yours are solving the how to deal with interfacing with the real world.

What’s to solve? You take your headset off when doing things locally like a normal VR user.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:21:50am

re: #288 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

The attempt would raise such a shit storm that they’d still be awaiting departure in 2032.

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that DT will be elected.

I’ve made it pretty clear in this thread that I’m well aware of that. I’m just tired of people down playing what a Trump win would mean; there is no reason to think Trump is going to play by the normal rules of politics IF he returns to power.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:24:01am

And on today’s Press The Meat…Mitch Landrieu goes on the attack.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:31:38am

God, people are fucking idiots.

The city of Biloxi, MS has a Mardi Gras night parade every year on the Saturday before Fat Tuesday.

As you might expect, given the popularity of Mardi Gras in these parts, finding parking for the event can be a pain in the ass.

There are train tracks that run east-west through the city less than a mile north of the city center, where the beaches and casinos are.

Last night, not one, not two, but THREE fucking morons parked so close to those tracks that their cars were hit by an oncoming train.

Now thank god no one was hurt, but the train had to stop for an extended period of time and that caused the parade to stop (because the route,
which went over said tracks, was now not accessible) for an extended period.

I hope those three assholes see their insurance go through the damn roof.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:32:18am

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

Are there really any legitmate Democrats who will vote for Trump?

I would think any who don’t go for Biden would vote Green or third party of some shit instead of Trump.

(yes, I know third party votes are basically votes for Trump.)

Don’t know what a legitimate Democrat is.

But there are folks on the far left who are fine with putting tfg back in order to ‘smash’ the system.

And there are those who want to tack further left, even if it breaks the Biden coalition.

And there are those who view anyone to the right of them as lacking purity of ideology who should be shunned and cast out. Even if the ‘impure’ agree with and support our highest priorities.

Personally, I am all in for progressives and working towards a better future rather than some fictional past. But at this point I would like to just have our country and democracy survive long enough to make those improvements.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:33:17am

re: #197 jeffreyw

I love it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:34:49am

re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is a variant on Kellyanne Conway’s famous “Don’t listen to what he says, just listen to what’s in his heart!”

Heart? What heart? Treason, racism, and cruelty are what motivates him. Well, that and money.

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:36:43am

re: #293 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

What’s to solve? You take your headset off when doing things locally like a normal VR user.

You’re describing current limits of the hardware as normal. That not normal. Why do you think the companies have been working on recognizing the hands, and have added support for keyboards? You really think VR, and not AR, is how things will work? The same headset you’re playing games with is also being used in manufacturing and will expand well beyond that, such as into medicine.

Also, we are lazy. If I gave people a choice between a headset they had to take off or one they could leave on, they would choose the latter.

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BeachDem  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:37:30am

re: #297 ckkatz

Don’t know what a legitimate Democrat is.

But there are folks on the far left who are fine with putting tfg back in order to ‘smash’ the system.

And there are those who want to tack further left, even if it breaks the Biden coalition.

And there are those who view anyone to the right of them as lacking purity of ideology who should be shunned and cast out. Even if the ‘impure’ agree with and support our highest priorities.

Personally, I am all in for progressives and working towards a better future rather than some fictional past. But at this point I would like to just have our country and democracy survive long enough to make those improvements.

I use this analogy whenever possible. Said it to a lady in line at the grocery store yesterday who said she dislikes politics and both sides are equally bad. She thought it was a great point. (not sure which side she was on, but seemed to agree that Trump being in town was not anything to celebrate)

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:42:21am

re: #226 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I, for one, welcome our new Swifty overlords.

Let’s not forget she is eligible to run for President this year!

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:46:12am

re: #301 BeachDem

Nicely put!

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:47:08am

re: #296 Eclectic Cyborg

God, people are fucking idiots.

The city of Biloxi, MS has a Mardi Gras night parade every year on the Saturday before Fat Tuesday.

As you might expect, given the popularity of Mardi Gras in these parts, finding parking for the event can be a pain in the ass.

There are train tracks that run east-west through the city less than a mile north of the city center, where the beaches and casinos are.

Last night, not one, not two, but THREE fucking morons parked so close to those tracks that their cars were hit by an oncoming train.

I hope those three assholes see their insurance go through the damn roof.

They’ll probably try and sue the city/railroad for not warning them that they were parking in a dangerous area. “But I didn’t see any signs!!”.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:49:48am

Whatever you think of Steve Schmidt, I agree with his advice here; Trump needs to be relentlessly attacked throughout this campaign and provoked into being the worst version of himself. Steve Schmidt Explains How To Make Donald Trump Lose The Election | The Warning

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:50:05am

re: #294 No Malarkey!

I’ve made it pretty clear in this thread that I’m well aware of that. I’m just tired of people down playing what a Trump win would mean; there is no reason to think Trump is going to play by the normal rules of politics IF he returns to power.

Well you can rest assured that this girl isn’t downplaying what a second tRump win will mean. If that fascist pig wins, I’ll be heading for the Canadian border on Jan 02. I’ve already started researching the requirements to request political asylum there.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:55:53am

re: #306 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Share the information if you can.

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wrenchwench  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:57:59am

re: #306 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Well you can rest assured that this girl isn’t downplaying what a second tRump win will mean. If that fascist pig wins, I’ll be heading for the Canadian border on Jan 02. I’ve already started researching the requirements to request political asylum there.

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Randall Gross  Feb 11, 2024 • 9:58:44am

re: #261 Romantic Heretic

There are, because they think they’ll be the guy in the hockey mask.

More likely they’ll be the guy that loses fingers to a razor sharp boomerang.

If I had an extra upding you’d have it for that Humongous reference.

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sagehen  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:01:17am

The Puppy Bowl pre-game is pretty good (they’ll rerun it a few more times today) — their Eras Retrospective includes the year Michelle, Bo and Sunny Obama promoted the Bowl, the year Snoop and Martha hosted… and of course highlights from Bowls I through XIX.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:01:18am

Missed this yesterday. Starlink may be selling network access to the Russian military. The joys of amoral corporations and billionaires.

Tendar Xitter post

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gocart mozart  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:03:12am
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:03:59am

Yeah it’s getting super fuckin’ weird now.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:05:00am

re: #312 gocart mozart

Whatever faults his campaign may have, I can’t sing the praises of his social media managers enough. They are on point.

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wrenchwench  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:10:03am

Rabbit. Wordle 967 5/6*

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:10:07am

re: #313 goddamnedfrank

Yeah it’s getting super fuckin’ weird now.

LOL Trump is losing his shit at the thought of Taylor Swift endorsing Biden.

You love to see it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:11:09am

27 years ago…Mom’s Birthday…When I got home from work I called to wish her a Happy Birthday…she said she had the flu real bad coughing a lot with her lungs hurting…Dr told her the flu was bad this year…I told her I was sorry that she was under the weather for her birthday…and she needed to just rest and recharge.

It was past midnight when the phone rang…groggy…grabbed the phone and Dad was crying…Mom was gone…massive heart attack…I was groggy…in disbelief…on her birthday?????…she said Dr told her she had the flu…my sister was with Dad saying I needed to get on a plane ASAP…nope it wasn’t a happy birthday…and when I called back the funeral “had to be scheduled on Valentine’s Day”…and a bunch of relatives just didn’t feel like showing up for Mom’s funeral…Ever since then this week has been difficult to get thru…

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:11:57am

re: #280 ckkatz

***SNORK*** For some reason, I do not believe him…

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I like to think if I ever got into cocaine I wouldn’t snort it either. I’d class it up with one of those 1950’s jet injector guns and have an assistant ready to tune me up like a NASCAR mechanic whenever I swing in for a pit stop.

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Captain Ron  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:13:36am

re: #313 goddamnedfrank

Yeah it’s getting super fuckin’ weird now.

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The 2018 Music Modernization Act was the work, in part, of Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, who added key provisions regarding payments to artists by streaming services such as Spotify. Another section authored by former Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley provided for payments to producers and sound engineers.

Trump held a White House signing ceremony for the bill, which was attended by Kid Rock, John Rich, and the Christian band Mercy Me. Kanye West had a luncheon with Trump later that afternoon.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:13:46am

re: #317 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m sorry for your loss. No matter how long ago it was, it still hurts.

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wrenchwench  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:14:54am

re: #256 JC1

Would you please put wordle hints behind the hidden tags? I don’t want spoilers.

If Grunthos is providing clues, they go over my head every single time.

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jaunte  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:15:10am

Briefly glanced at Meet the Press to hear Kristen Welker asking Secretary Mayorkas how he responds to “these serious allegations.”
She is really doing a disservice to the country treating an obvious revenge impeachment attempt as anything but theater.

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wrenchwench  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:15:58am

re: #279 ipsos

I have always read the “Your next Wordle is…” posts as jokes. They rarely, if ever, have given anything away about the actual answer.

OK, it’s not just me.

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jaunte  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:16:18am

Next time, save the “serious” editorializing, Kristen.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:16:38am

re: #323 wrenchwench

OK, it’s not just me.

No, it’s not just you. I think most of us Wordlers are pretty good about spoilering our content.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:17:21am

re: #322 jaunte

Briefly glanced at Meet the Press to hear Kristen Welker asking Secretary Mayorkas how he responds to “these serious allegations.”
She is really doing a disservice to the country treating an obvious revenge impeachment attempt as anything but theater.

Continuing the decline of Press The Meat into Meet The Pre$$titute.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:17:50am

re: #262 A Cranky One

I’m more worried about single individuals who have internalized the hate and lies from the right wing. I can picture shooters gunning down anyone they think is an immigrant or “illegal” alien in line to vote.

One MAGAt cut off his dad’s head a week or two ago.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:19:26am

There’s only one thing I care about when it comes to the Super Bowl

I want Taylor Swift to arrive safe and sound to be with her boyfriend.

And for those who wanted her plane to crash…F them…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:20:16am

re: #328 Joe Bacon ✅

Amen. I agree with you.

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garzooma  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:21:14am

re: #215 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

[…]

By the way, it’s not a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected. Most of the people commenting here don’t seem to be aware of that.

I’ll bite. Who here says it’s “a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected”?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:22:42am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

Whatever faults his campaign may have, I can’t sing the praises of his social media managers enough. They are on point.

Seconded. Whoever runs that account understands the assignment. 💪🏼😎

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:23:53am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

Whatever faults his campaign may have, I can’t sing the praises of his social media managers enough. They are on point.

I got a feeling Big John Fetterman has his gang working on Joe’s Social Media team.

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

re: #332 Joe Bacon ✅

I would not be surprised.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:25:50am

re: #332 Joe Bacon ✅

I got a feeling Big John Fetterman has his gang working on Joe’s Social Media team.

If they call Trump a jagoff, you have a lock.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:27:45am

re: #300 Belafon

You’re describing current limits of the hardware as normal. That not normal. Why do you think the companies have been working on recognizing the hands, and have added support for keyboards? You really think VR, and not AR, is how things will work? The same headset you’re playing games with is also being used in manufacturing and will expand well beyond that, such as into medicine.

Also, we are lazy. If I gave people a choice between a headset they had to take off or one they could leave on, they would choose the latter.

VR and AR will co-exist, obviously, and Apple has not “solved” using an AR headset in the real world. They added murky eyes to the front of a headset.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:29:45am

They’re getting ready for the Big Game with their Secret Weapon—ZEPPO!!!!!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:31:23am

And here’s the opposing team!

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:31:51am

re: #46 darthstar

My nephew’s twin girls, Emilia and Valentina…

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Belafon  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:33:27am

re: #332 Joe Bacon ✅

I got a feeling Big John Fetterman has his gang working on Joe’s Social Media team.

They’re all the same age, and have grown up understanding how to handle it.

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Captain Ron  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:38:12am

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sagehen  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:39:50am

re: #328 Joe Bacon ✅

There’s only one thing I care about when it comes to the Super Bowl

I want Taylor Swift to arrive safe and sound to be with her boyfriend.

And for those who wanted her plane to crash…F them…

She made it to LAX yesterday afternoon; she spent the night in LA and gone to Vegas this morning (players aren’t allowed to spend the night before the game with wives/girlfriends).

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Unabogie  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:42:12am

re: #313 goddamnedfrank

Yeah it’s getting super fuckin’ weird now.

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Donald cannot understand at even a superficial level the idea of holding a position because it’s the right thing to do. Everything to him is about what he gets out of it personally. The idea that you can hold a morality that make you pass up personal financial gain bounces off his tiny mind like pebbles against a mountain.

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silverdolphin  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:42:39am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

Whatever faults his campaign may have, I can’t sing the praises of his social media managers enough. They are on point.

I’ve been following his online accounts. That one tweet had over 2 million views in less than 2 hours.

His rapid response team just put this up. I have some hope it will cut throught the mess.

DNC War room has this:

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BeachDem  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:46:24am

re: #340 Captain Ron

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Is it the angle or something else, but why is Ted’s left arm twice as long and wide as the orange thing’s? And why is there a policeman in the background? And why was Ted at Maragaudy? So many questions.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:46:50am

re: #256 JC1

Would you please put wordle hints behind the hidden tags? I don’t want spoilers.

They’re not hints. Their source is unrelated to the game, and their selection is whimsical.

Click to Reveal

They currently reference plot points from episodes of The Goon Show, a BBC radio comedy from the 1950s often considered a direct precursor to Monty Python.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:47:08am

re: #340 Captain Ron

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“That’s the heavyset muscular man who basks in the adulation of his cultists while using his size to intimidate opponents.” Oh wait no, that’s a larger-than-life cardboard cutout.

The other cutout is Ted Cruz.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:47:15am

re: #340 Captain Ron

Rafael didn’t kiss Trump’s ring.

He was forced to kiss Trump’s ass.

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Unabogie  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:48:17am

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:51:04am

Olsen xitter post

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:51:19am

re: #290 BeachDem

Not to belabor the point, but it was in Conway, South Carolina, not CA.

So the source where I read it (and double-checked it) got it wrong. Whodathunk it? 😏

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:52:58am

re: #294 No Malarkey!

I’ve made it pretty clear in this thread that I’m well aware of that. I’m just tired of people down playing what a Trump win would mean; there is no reason to think Trump is going to play by the normal rules of politics IF he returns to power.

Saying “would do” only takes one more letter than saying “will do”.

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BeachDem  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:56:14am

re: #350 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

So the source where I read it (and double-checked it) got it wrong. Whodathunk it? 😏

And I double-checked to see that there is no Conway, CA—only a Conway Summit mountain pass in Mono County, where I doubt very much the orange thing would have been speaking on Saturday.

Score another one for pedants are us/proofreaders of the world, unite.
(Heh—before I proofed that sentence, I had typed pendants.)

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:56:38am

re: #322 jaunte

Mayorkas should have directed her attention to the bipartisan bill which was introduced in the Senate but soundly rejected by Congressional Republicans. Any “crisis” at the border is Republican-owned.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:58:45am

re: #305 No Malarkey!

You don’t even have to provoke Trump to get the worst from him. He’s clearly going to be the Republican nominee and yet he can’t be gracious towards Haley. He has to viciously attack her - even to the point of now belittling her husband’s military service. He’s a horrible human being.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:59:10am

Jollet xitter post

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 10:59:28am

re: #305 No Malarkey!

Whatever you think of Steve Schmidt, I agree with his advice here; Trump needs to be relentlessly attacked throughout this campaign and provoked into being the worst version of himself. [Embedded content]

He already is the worst version of himself, the problem is that his party and the media are full of aplogists and relativists.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:02:03am

re: #330 garzooma

I’ll bite. Who here says it’s “a foregone conclusion that he’ll be elected”?

Everyone who talks about what he “will do” next year. Assumes facts not in evidence.

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BeachDem  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:03:20am

Also, whoever is handling Jill’s social/email stuff knows how to get the point across:

From today’s email from Jill:

I don’t know what this Special Counsel was trying to achieve. We should give everyone grace, and I can’t imagine someone would try to use our son’s death to score political points. If you’ve experienced a loss like that, you know that you don’t measure it in years — you measure it in grief…

Joe is 81, that’s true, but he’s 81 doing more in an hour than most people do in a day. Joe has wisdom, empathy, and vision. He has delivered on so many of his promises as President precisely because he’s learned a lot in those 81 years. His age, with his experience and expertise, is an incredible asset and he proves it every day.

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jaunte  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:03:31am

re: #353 Patricia Kayden

He may have done that; I didn’t stop to watch after that intro.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:04:24am

re: #347 Joe Bacon ✅

Rafael didn’t kiss Trump’s ring.

He was forced to kiss Trump’s ass.

JB didn’t say which ring

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:04:25am

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:04:38am

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jaunte  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:04:41am

“The Homeland Security secretary knocked senators for blocking a sweeping border agreement last week that was negotiated among a group of bipartisan lawmakers for months.”
usatoday.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:07:43am

re: #355 ckkatz

Rubio on Trump’s NATO statements:

“He doesn’t talk like a traditional politician”

Little Marco is right, he talks like a mob boss;

“Nice little country you got here, shame if something happened to it!”

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:08:56am

Mastodon

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sagehen  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:10:08am

In the skybox at Puppy Bowl — Travis Klawse (in a #87 jersey) and Taylor Sniffed (wearing #13)

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piratedan  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:12:20am

I am so concerned about the border that I fully endorse President Biden drafting a special militia of GOP Congressmen and Senators, supplemented with Fox and Newsmax political correspondents to be stationed on site (perhaps around Pumpville) to protect us during this crisis.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:12:34am

From the Defense Editor of the Economist -

Joshi xitter thread

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:14:06am

I’m confident Joes team has some banger ads lined up for October.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:15:01am

Superb Owl pictures

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:15:44am

re: #368 ckkatz

Well he did say he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:15:52am

re: #369 Eclectic Cyborg

I have not doubt he and his team has that all lined up.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:15:54am

re: #365 Vicious Babushka

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The press isn’t trying to help elect Trump.

They are ALL IN to get him elected.

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ckkatz  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:17:16am

re: #370 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Looks delicious and with the king of cakes! Although things seem to be going a bit sideways. ;)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:17:22am

re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg

Well he did say he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it…

And he still could. Within minutes we would hear about how the victim was a terrorist threat whom Biden let into the country.

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darthstar  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:17:27am

People are memeing up our plane that we had on the beach yesterday.

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darthstar  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:17:46am

re: #362 Patricia Kayden

Want….please provide a link.

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BeachDem  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:24:38am

re: #365 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

Also, George Lakoff’s Truth Sandwich:
1. Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
2. Indicate the lie. Avoid amplifying the specific language if possible.
3. Return to the truth. Always repeat truths more than lies.

Lakoff calls this a “truth sandwich” even though the baloney is in the middle. The position of the lie avoids both primacy and recency effects.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:24:44am

re: #6 Dangerman

Q: Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump?

A: NYT

Absolutely.

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jeffreyw  Feb 11, 2024 • 11:48:10am

re: #361 Vicious Babushka

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It’s not that they’ve learned nothing! They learned that it works. That’s why they’re doing it again.

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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 11, 2024 • 12:02:03pm

re: #126 darthstar

Someone stuck the landing down the beach from us yesterday, apparently.

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They wouldn’t have swam away from ditching in the ocean. The plane would have flipped upside down and sank.

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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 11, 2024 • 12:55:14pm

re: #296 Eclectic Cyborg

God, people are fucking idiots.

The city of Biloxi, MS has a Mardi Gras night parade every year on the Saturday before Fat Tuesday.

As you might expect, given the popularity of Mardi Gras in these parts, finding parking for the event can be a pain in the ass.

There are train tracks that run east-west through the city less than a mile north of the city center, where the beaches and casinos are.

Last night, not one, not two, but THREE fucking morons parked so close to those tracks that their cars were hit by an oncoming train.

Now thank god no one was hurt, but the train had to stop for an extended period of time and that caused the parade to stop (because the route,
which went over said tracks, was now not accessible) for an extended period.

I hope those three assholes see their insurance go through the damn roof.

Our New Orleans tech family takes Mardi Gras week off and goes to an RV site to escape.

My father was a Yat and Catholic as well, and he never went to Mardi Gras. I found this out when I asked him what Mardi Gras was like in the 1920s and 30s.


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