Some More News: DEI, Twitter’s Rock Bottom, and Other News Stories We’re Predicting for 2024

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Hi. Today, we’re predicting everything we can expect to see in the news for the rest of the year. From Aaron Rodgers becoming a right-wing podcaster, to escalating attacks on educators, to… something political… happening around November. Go to ground.news to stay fully informed.

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01:46 - Exhausting News We Can Expect In 2024
03:00 - The Pandemic Is Far From Over
10:40 - A Bunch Of Anti-Genocide Voices Will Be Censored
22:55 - Aaron Rodgers Is Going To Start A Right-Wing Podcast
30:13 - Everybody Will Become A “Pedophile”
40:06 - Twitter Is Going To Hit Rock Bottom
48:18 - D.E.I. Is The New C.R.T.
58:35 - There Will Be Increasing Attacks On Educators
1:04:21 - There’s An Election, Apparently

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198 comments
1
William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:25:10am

Pull up my instagram account.

Notifacation. Cool!

New follower notice.

Check follower … “professional dominatrix” LOL. Ok, I don’t mind that inherently but that’s not my thing, really, I’m just not a sub … < block >

Be nice if I could get a cutie who likes artsy fartsy photos within a reasonable age range of me and not be _too_ far of a drive from here to follow me (for example the really cute, if too young (22 yo), gal from Britain who likes older guys was nice, but Britain? Hard to drive a Silverado Pickup to London! LOL!).

Sigh. Damned if I do, damned if I don’t… HAH!

2
Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:26:13am

I love shopping for gear. It really spruces up the ad spaces.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:26:54am
22:55 - Aaron Rodgers Is Going To Start A Right-Wing Podcast

I’m guessing each episode will last about six minutes.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:40:45am

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:42:02am

From the Republic of Gilead Alabama:


usatoday.com
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steve_davis  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:43:30am

watching from russia with love. got curious about pedro armandaraz’s character and fuuuck, that’s a downer….he knew at the time he had terminal neck cancer, so they shot all his scenes first. the movie shot in april of 63 and he was dead several months later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. they had to use a double for some late-shot scenes. I think it’s wikipedia that mentions he was one of the folks in the Howard Hughes fiasco where they were all rolling around in radioactive sand. the statistics were something like 93 out of 210 dead within 25 years from cancer, but that actually sounds like pretty normal statistics for an age when everybody in the cast was chain-smoking.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:44:56am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

From the Republic of Gilead Alabama:

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usatoday.com

Nobody takes the bible that literally without being fucked in the head.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:46:16am

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:46:50am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

When did the “People of Alabama” make this decision, pray tell? Was there an amendment to the Alabama Constitution that defined these beliefs? Did they elect politicians who explicitly campaigned on these specific points of theology? No? Then this is just, like, your opinion, man.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:47:09am

re: #7 darthstar

Nobody takes the bible that literally without being fucked in the head.

Severe religious indoctrination can close a child’s mind to the real world. They then grow up to be brittle, abusive, Republicans.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:47:58am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

From the Republic of Gilead Alabama:

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usatoday.com

In Alabama it’s still OK to thaw them, raise them, and suffocate them with nitrogen.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:49:43am
Donald Trump’s attorney requested to propose a new judgment on Wednesday in the former president’s civil fraud trial ruling, in which Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump will be fined roughly $355 million.

On Wednesday, Clifford Robert filed a letter in the New York City civil court addressed to Engoron which argues Trump was “deprived” of the chance to speak out against the ruling before it was filed.

According to court records, Roberts requested the chance to propose a “counter-judgment” to Engoron’s ruling, adding that it would be “contrary to fundamental fairness” if not allowed to submit a counter-judgment.

“Defendants therefore request that the Court set a return date for the Proposed Judgment that affords Defendants sufficient time to submit a proposed counter-judgment. To deprive Defendants of the opportunity to submit a proposed counter-judgment would be contrary to fundamental fairness and due process.”

Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s spokesperson via email for comment.

newsweek.com

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:51:15am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:52:21am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

DT is doing what he knows best how to try to wiggle out of making a payment.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:53:07am

FINALLY!

Jim Jordan concedes FBI informant lied about Bidens when confronted by CNN host

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who is chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is refusing to relent in his investigations of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, despite his primary source of information under indictment for lying to the FBI.

On Wednesday, CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju confronted Jordan about whether he still wanted to continue pursuing the Bidens despite FBI informant Alexander Smirnov’s indictment, and his recently unearthed connections to Russian intelligence agencies.

alternet.org

But it won’t stop Gym Neighbors from lying about Joe and Hunter.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:53:10am

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m guessing each episode will last about six minutes.

//

It’s weird but even though I think he’s probably in certain ways worse, I’d rather hang with Favre than Rodgers? I have no doubt that Farve is a criminal and an ass, he’s still a better person than the more recent fellow … 😱😈

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:53:55am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

Trump’s counter judgment: State of New York to pay all attorney fees to the Trump org dating back to its inception, with interest. And to apologize to the Trump org and Donald in particular for the inconvenience. Also, drop the criminal charges for election interference…it makes him look bad.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:54:31am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

newsweek.com

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What the hell even is a “counter-judgment”? I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve never heard of such a legal instrument before.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:54:52am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

newsweek.com

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So that’s what desperation looks like

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:55:41am

re: #19 Dangerman

So that’s what desperation looks like

Vlad has it covered.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:56:04am

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:56:12am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

From the Republic of Gilead Alabama:

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usatoday.com

Yikes!! What does that have to do with the laws in Alabama? You vote R — this is what you get and you deserve. Too bad the minority of Alabamans who are D have to suffer the same fate.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:56:52am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

From the Republic of Gilead Alabama:

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usatoday.com

Does God have a vagina or a penis?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:57:12am

Trump’s doing this BS stunt because he knows he can’t come up with the money by the end of next month, and he’s royally fucked.

It’s ridiculous, but it’s Trump, so of course he’s doing this.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:57:30am

I’m not in Alabama but I don’t doubt my MAGA state leaders are salivating to get the same thing on the books here.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:59:19am

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m not in Alabama but I don’t doubt my MAGA state leaders are salivating to get the same thing on the books here.

It accomplishes two things: De facto banning a bunch of things they don’t like, for one, but for another, it officially makes Christian nationalism the state religion. They’ve been hankering to kill the separation of church and state for a long time now, and this ruling gives them an opening to try to force it in.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:01:06am

re: #21 Dangerman

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He _claims_ he doesn’t cheat at golf.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:01:36am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

From the Republic of Gilead Alabama:

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usatoday.com

From the link:

A religious-tinged Alabama court ruling last week

‘Tinged’ is the hardest-working word this century.

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Jay C  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:01:56am

re: #6 steve_davis

watching from russia with love. got curious about pedro armandaraz’s character and fuuuck, that’s a downer….he knew at the time he had terminal neck cancer, so they shot all his scenes first. the movie shot in april of 63 and he was dead several months later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. they had to use a double for some late-shot scenes. I think it’s wikipedia that mentions he was one of the folks in the Howard Hughes fiasco where they were all rolling around in radioactive sand. the statistics were something like 93 out of 210 dead within 25 years from cancer, but that actually sounds like pretty normal statistics for an age when everybody in the cast was chain-smoking.

Oh, yeah: The Conqueror; one of Hollywood’s classic turkeys, even irking its notoriously eccentric produce (from IMDB):

Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes backed the film financially. He paid to ship 60 tons of soil to Hollywood for retakes, unaware it was radioactive. He later paid $12 million for every existing copy because of guilt after many cast and crew were diagnosed with cancer. He kept a tight hold on the film, not even allowing it to be shown on television, for years. Universal bought the rights to the film in 1979, and according to “The Hollywood Reporter”, it hadn’t been seen by the public for 21 years prior to the purchase (allegedly, Paramount obtained reissue rights in 1974). Hughes reportedly called the choice of the film’s shooting location the worst mistake of his life.

One bit of trivia I’ve never found out is what they did with those 60 tons of “hot” dirt: probably just bulldozed them out onto the RKO backlot….

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:02:22am

re: #26 Nerdy Fish

Remember the last Chief Justice was Roy Moore, who was impeached for installing the 10 Commandments on state property, got himself removed, and won re-election.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:02:27am

re: #27 William Lewis

He _claims_ he doesn’t cheat at golf.

Your confusion, William, is assuming that what you mean by cheat is what MAGA means by cheat.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:03:25am

re: #30 Decatur Deb

Remember the last Chief Justice was Roy Moore, who was impeached for installing the 10 Commandments on state property, got re-elected, and installed it again.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:03:28am

re: #23 Belafon

Does God have a vagina or a penis?

Yes. 😐

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EPR-radar  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:04:06am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

Apparently, there’s a concurring opinion in this case that is even more bug nuts insane regarding the theocracy. I don’t have the time to track it down at the moment.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:04:19am

Mastodon

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:04:34am

Daughter was ill yesterday. Got a CV19 test kit today.
Came up positive. She’s fully vaxxed and was judging a large gymnastics meet last weekend. She says she doesn’t really feel all that bad. Which is great, but it was a large group of parents and kids from a wide area.
Here we go again.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:05:16am

re: #32 Nerdy Fish

Jesus H. Fucking Christ.

The same Roy Moore who, true to the GOP brand, ended up being a sex offender.

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Mike Lamb  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:05:34am

re: #18 Nerdy Fish

What the hell even is a “counter-judgment”? I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve never heard of such a legal instrument before.

There are times when parties will both submit forms of judgment for the Court’s consideration. However, that is typically in the context of a declaratory judgment action where the Court is declaring the two parties rights vis-a-vis each other (for example, interpreting rights under a shareholder agreement). I’ve never heard of a “counter-judgment” in the context of monetary damages.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:05:37am

re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg

The same Roy Moore who, true to the GOP brand, ended up being a sex offender.

I was going to say, that name sounded awfully familiar. So it is the same dirtbag. Color me surprised.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:05:51am

re: #33 Dr. Matt

Yes. 😐

“So God goes by He/Him, and has everything, and you get angry when other people want to choose their own pronouns?”

(That is the royal you, not the Dr. Matt you.)

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:05:56am

re: #38 Mike Lamb

There are times when parties will both submit forms of judgment for the Court’s consideration. However, that is typically in the context of a declaratory judgment action where the Court is declaring the two parties rights vis-a-vis each other (for example, interpreting rights under a shareholder agreement). I’ve never heard of a “counter-judgment” in the context of monetary damages.

That makes a lot more sense, thanks.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:05:57am

re: #82 Belafon

As Tom Nichols said:

Reinforcing my theory that millions of Americans are a bored lumpenbourgeoisie, who wish they were in a movie or anywhere but their own unsatisfying lives.

I feel like this steps over that Americans have been trained by their culture to view themselves collectively and individually as the Main Characters Of The World, and the various strains of reaction and inegalitarian thinking have over the past century refined the sense that Americans are collectively exceptional, but also individually exceptional such that inequality must be accepted as inevitable, into a spear point.

Of course they’re using the image of a paper-thin reactionary power fantasy, their ideas for the past two centuries have been of exactly the same quality, and their “histories” have through revision and curation have been turned into narratives with the same pulpy hedonism.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:07:35am

re: #32 Nerdy Fish

Had to edit that—he was removed by a judicial review, not impeached. When he brought the monument back, it was on private property down the street.

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Mike Lamb  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:08:25am

re: #28 wrenchwench

From the link:

‘Tinged’ is the hardest-working word this century.

Indeed. There is no secular means of justifying the decision that embryos are humans.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:10:25am

re: #23 Belafon

Does God have a vagina or a penis?

If God exclusively had one set of genitals, it’s just super weird that they thought up the other set.

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:11:21am
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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:12:21am

Several years back I was offered a leadership position at UAB. I am so fucking glad I dodged that bullet and said ‘no’.

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Jay C  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:13:52am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

YHGTBFKM….

A “counter-judgment”??
Based on the “unfairness” of Donald Trump not being allowed (or not taking the opportunity, but never mind) to *protest* the award???

Gotta hand one thing to Donald’s team of crack legal-eagles (or is that legal-eagles on crack?): they DO show a lot of creativity coming up with new and unheard-of principles of jurisprudence in arguing his case….

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:14:26am

re: #45 The Ghost of a Flea

“This is a penis. It’s going to fail to function at the funniest possible moment from an objective standpoint.”

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:14:55am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:18:53am

re: #50 jeffreyw

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But they both like hiking which is a very small percentage of any group of coworkers.

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Mattand  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:19:28am

Getting caught up on the Smirnov indictment in the Hunter Biden actual-example-of-a-genuine-poltical-witch-hunt.

Would I be out-of-line to shit all over Merrick Garland for appointing yet another special counsel to fuck over Biden, all because he’s chasing that “I swear I’m neutral, that’s more important than actually prosecuting insurrectionists” dragon?

Any Garland stans out there with hurt feelings have been acknowledged and will be mocked according to height, then age.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:19:55am

Noted scientist weighs in on the AL embryo=live person ruling.

Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’

No. They are not. They are a clump of cells that has the potential to be something.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:19:55am

re: #49 The Ghost of a Flea

“This is a penis. It’s going to fail to function at the funniest possible moment from an objective standpoint.”

There’s also that joke about Adam being happy he can easily pee standing up and then God points out Eve is capable of multiple orgasms.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:20:27am

So the Klanned Karenhood chair of a Virginia school board has ties to right wing militias…

alternet.org

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:20:34am

re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg

The same Roy Moore who, true to the GOP brand, ended up being a sex offender.

Never convicted, except in the court of neighborly opinion.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:21:41am

re: #52 Mattand

Was there special investigator in this case? I thought this was all driven by the House.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:22:40am

re: #53 lawhawk

Noted scientist weighs in on the AL embryo=live person ruling.

Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’

No. They are not. They are a clump of cells that has the potential to be something.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:22:53am

From the AP: Boeing kicks out head of 737 program and picks new vice president of quality.

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Mattand  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:23:03am

re: #57 Belafon

Was there special investigator in this case? I thought this was all driven by the House.

Damn it, I think you’re right.

Oh, well. I saw “special counsel” and went to DOJ. Appreciate the update.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:24:55am

re: #53 lawhawk

Noted scientist weighs in on the AL embryo=live person ruling.

Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’

No. They are not. They are a clump of cells that has the potential to be something.

Alabama Supreme Court is this month’s designated recipient of used menstrual equipment. ‘Every pad a person! Tampons are terrorism!’

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EPR-radar  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:25:48am

re: #45 The Ghost of a Flea

If God exclusively had one set of genitals, it’s just super weird that they thought up the other set.

So, is it men that are made in God’s image or women? We all know the social conservative answer to that stupid question.

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dat_said  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:26:06am

Mike Lindell ordered to pay up the $5M to cybersecurity expert Robert Zeidman, who responded to a contest to prove the pillow executive had not obtained evidence from the 2020 election of election lie.

PDF of court ruling here —>

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:27:22am

re: #23 Belafon

Does God have a vagina or a penis?

You can’t handle the truth.

No, really, if there was a God, I doubt we would understand.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:28:00am

re: #62 EPR-radar

So, is it men that are made in God’s image or women? We all know the social conservative answer to that stupid question.

The prototypical non-binary.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:28:57am

re: #18 Nerdy Fish

What the hell even is a “counter-judgment”? I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve never heard of such a legal instrument before.

It’s what they call it when the “real” argument is “Waaaaa! I don’t wanna!!”

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aatharuv  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:29:17am

re: #70 Backwoods Sleuth

Barry Goldwater was eligible despite Arizona not being a state when he was born there.

(I meant to post this yesterday, but it got left unposted as I was running out to beat traffic.)

Arizona Territory was an “incorporated territory” — a territory to which the full force of the US constitution was held to apply, and would be en route to becoming a state once large enough. All of our remaining territories, except for uninhabited Palmyra Island (which was broken off from Hawaii Territory) are “unincorporated territories” to which only “fundamental” parts of the US constitution apply, and any other grants of rights are given by Congress. For example, no right to a jury trial, but you can’t arbitrarily be taken out and shot (any more than you are in the 50 states+DC).

As to why we have these distinctions….. we had a bunch of Supreme Court cases after the Spanish American war and some other territorial gains called the Insular Cases. Roughly speaking, they said “some people” are just too different, so we can’t apply the full constitution, as “they” won’t understand them. Basically, American had gained a whole bunch of highly populated territories that were mostly non-white and/or non-Christian, weren’t going to become mostly white, and didn’t know what to do with them.

The Phillipine Islands, when they had a local legislature had elected representatives for most of the country except for the “non-Christian Areas — I believe Muslim Mindanao”, which had appointed representatives.

Another idea is that an unincorporated territory could be given its independence or transferred like what happened to the Phillipine Islands or the American sector of West Berlin*.

Congress would determine whether a territory was incorporated implicitly. I’m trying to remember what the criteria were, but one of them might have been “granting of US citizenship to territorial inhabitants”. Strangely enough, though, one would think that would have made PR, VI, GU, and the Northern Mariana Islands incorporated, but they haven’t been. Someone sued to have Puerto Rico declared incorporated, but that went nowhere despite all the times the US government has passed laws that say, “This law or program equally applies to Puerto Rico as if it were a state.’

Hawaii (which was and is majority non-white, but which was effectively ruled by the white planter class) and the territories on the mainland were incorporated. The rest remained unincorporated.

*The American sector of Berlin was technically under ultimate US sovereignty, but delegated most of its power to the local West Berlin administration which aligned its laws to those of West Germany proper and had its own court system. There was one hijacking case which the US used its powers to try under the US constitution under the US District Court for Berlin.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:29:28am

re: #64 Shropshire Slasher

You can’t handle the truth.

No, really, if there was a God, I doubt we would understand.

Thereby refuting the “made in his image means physically made” fallacy.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:30:11am

re: #63 dat_said

Mike Lindell ordered to pay up the $5M to cybersecurity expert Robert Zeidman, who responded to a contest to prove the pillow executive had not obtained evidence from the 2020 election.

PDF of court ruling here —> [Embedded content]

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:30:27am

re: #63 dat_said

I seriously wonder if Lindell is even worth $5 million at this point.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:31:48am

Fucking AZ extremists. Prosecutor in AZ is refusing to extradite a criminal who committed murder in NYC, claiming that Manhattan DA Bragg is weak on crime.

Fuck that fucking AZ lunatic. NYC has a lower crime rate than most of the nation. Crime rate in NYC is lower than in AZ.

Murder rate in NYC is 1/3 that of Phoenix (which is part of Maricopa County). Per capita rate NYC 3.33 per 100k. It’s 9.55 in Phoenix. (Wiki).

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:31:50am

re: #69 Dr. Matt

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Not sure what the point of the face covering is. The guy who created the meme explicitly put himself in it.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:33:25am

re: #72 Belafon

Not sure what the point of the face covering is. The guy who created the meme explicitly put himself in it.

It’s the only gif I could find that was small enough to upload. The original was too large.

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sagehen  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:35:18am

re: #62 EPR-radar

So, is it men that are made in God’s image or women? We all know the social conservative answer to that stupid question.

Maybe God is a shape-shifter; what gender s/he presents as depends on today’s mood.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:35:46am

re: #71 lawhawk

Fucking AZ extremists. Prosecutor in AZ is refusing to extradite a criminal who committed murder in NYC, claiming that Manhattan DA Bragg is weak on crime.

Fuck that fucking AZ lunatic. NYC has a lower crime rate than most of the nation. Crime rate in NYC is lower than in AZ.

Murder rate in NYC is 1/3 that of Phoenix (which is part of Maricopa County). Per capita rate NYC 3.33 per 100k. It’s 9.55 in Phoenix. (Wiki).

“DA Bragg is weak on crime. Therefore, we’re not going to send him the criminals he wants to charge, so that we can perpetuate the stereotype that he is weak on crime.” Nice work, if you can get it.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:36:26am

re: #64 Shropshire Slasher

You can’t handle the truth.

No, really, if there was a God, I doubt we would understand.

I like to think that Ibn Arabi might well have come the closest:

The Unity of Being (Wahdat al-Wujud)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:38:45am

Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’

nbcnews.com

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Jay C  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:42:13am

re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg

I seriously wonder if Lindell is even worth $5 million at this point.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:47:09am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

Bear in mind throughout all this “personhood” and “sanctity of life” hoopla that Alabama is the same state government creating new and interesting ways to kill people.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:48:30am

re: #68 Belafon

Thereby refuting the “made in his image means physically made” fallacy.

You wouldn’t understand. //

zing!
pow!

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:48:39am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:50:34am

GO DARK BRANDON!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:52:00am

re: #81 wrenchwench

Should be climbing the charts on Radio Kiev.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:52:14am

re: #79 Florida Panhandler

Bear in mind throughout all this “personhood” and “sanctity of life” hoopla that Alabama is the same state government creating new and interesting ways to kill people.

pro-life [ proh-lahyf ]
ADJECTIVE
1. Someone who is Pro-Forced Birth and Pro-State-Sponsored Murder.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:52:23am

Keith Boykin
@keithboykin

Ed Clark, who led Boeing’s 737 Max program, is leaving the company after several recent safety failures. I’m confused because Fox News told me that Boeing was only failing because of women and Black people the company hired through DEI.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2024 • 11:59:55am

re: #79 Florida Panhandler

They’ve got themselves a Mal-archy.

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:00:09pm

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:01:39pm

The BBC had to investigate a rape-church before the FBI got interested.

The FBI has launched a probe into a secretive Christian church that was the focus of a recent BBC investigation.

The church has no official name but is often referred to as The Truth or the Two by Twos.
The sect has recently been rocked by a sexual abuse scandal, with the names of hundreds of alleged perpetrators given to a hotline set up for survivors.
An ex-minister who abused a boy in the 1980s told the BBC he had “no reason” to be concerned about the FBI probe.

FBI launches probe into church investigated by BBC (BBC)

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:02:31pm

re: #87 jeffreyw

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You do not want one of them popping up and grabbing you by the hair with their tiny hands while you’re driving.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:03:02pm

Republican busted making massive flip after informant accused of lying to Biden inquiry

Political reporter Aaron Rupar captured Fallon’s 2023 comments — that directly contradict a new statement he made Wednesday on Fox Business.

Fallon is a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY)

rawstory.com

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dat_said  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:03:30pm

Proceedings of the Royal Society: Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foraging

I had a lot of friends in grade school and high school that likely had undiagnosed attention deficit disorders and they unfortunately got labeled as problem children. Happy to see that there are some studies out there suggesting that “disorder symptoms” may actually be linked to optimal behavior in certain contexts.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:03:59pm

re: #87 jeffreyw

Easy fix, strap the kid to the roof…or let him ride up front.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:05:15pm

re: #92 darthstar

Give me back my baby.

Give me back my baby you warthog from hell!

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dat_said  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:05:41pm

re: #92 darthstar

Easy fix, strap the kid to the roof…or let him ride up front.

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Isn’t the roof more appropriate for dogs with bowel issues?

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:08:31pm

re: #91 dat_said

Proceedings of the Royal Society: Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foraging

I had a lot of friends in grade school and high school that likely had undiagnosed attention deficit disorders and they unfortunately got labeled as problem children. Happy to see that there are some studies out there suggesting that “disorder symptoms” may actually be linked to optimal behavior in certain contexts.

My undiagnosed ADD allows me to be a really good programmer because I can mentally shuffle through multiple possible solutions that others can’t. It also leads me here more often than I should be.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:14:31pm

So how many Russian spies are in this picture…who got a hold of those classified documents?

Inquiring minds want to know!

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:15:33pm

re: #85 lawhawk

Keith Boykin
@keithboykin

About.

Mother.

Fucking.

Time.

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Jay C  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:15:52pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

[Embedded content]

So how many Russian spies are in this picture…who got a hold of those classified documents?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Ummmm…. all of them?

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:16:30pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

Who’s the slob in the back?

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:16:38pm

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:16:53pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

[Embedded content]

So how many Russian spies are in this picture…who got a hold of those classified documents?

Inquiring minds want to know!

That’s an advertisement against plastic surgery.

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:18:20pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

Botox waste site.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:19:14pm

re: #91 dat_said

Proceedings of the Royal Society: Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foraging

I had a lot of friends in grade school and high school that likely had undiagnosed attention deficit disorders and they unfortunately got labeled as problem children. Happy to see that there are some studies out there suggesting that “disorder symptoms” may actually be linked to optimal behavior in certain contexts.

Not a ‘dis-order’. Paleo-Attention Order.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:19:27pm

re: #100 nines09

MC81cHMwS005cDJTSWszcjhkSVlXSFlnam1nQUU4NWl6RmhxcU5JZzk4TT06OopnpKqMOI6Nc6VIy57+Piw=

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:21:24pm

re: #102 nines09

Botox waste site.

Refills available on site.

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:27:31pm

re: #105 wrenchwench

I think drag queens might be more attractive than that pile of festering botched surgery. They can take off their costume.
These bimbos are locked in that, and when it starts to sag, hoo boy.
What a sad photo.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:28:15pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

So many pussies, and only two tiny hands…

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:28:38pm

Wearing a mask
on your chin
in a parking lot
today

Is like wearing one of those novelty motorcycle helmets in a no helmet state.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:28:55pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

Someone’s paying $200k every year to be in that picture, and it isn’t the slob in the back.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:30:56pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:31:27pm

No, I got that wrong. $200k to join, and about $20k every year after. Still, way more than the stupid shoes.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:31:28pm

re: #102 nines09

Botox waste site.

75% of them look extraterrestrial.

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:32:53pm

re: #112 Dr. Matt

75% of them look extraterrestrial.

Ghastly

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:33:02pm

Surreal Housewives of Mar-a-Lago.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:33:10pm

re: #111 jaunte

No, I got that wrong. $200k to join, and about $20k every year after. Still, way more than the stupid shoes.

But the cheese grits are exceptional.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:33:32pm

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KGxvi  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:35:21pm

the Yakuza was apparently trying to traffic weapons grade nuclear material from Burma to Iran via Thailand…

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BadgerB  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:38:14pm

re: #23 Belafon

Does God have a vagina or a penis?

Depends, if your personal vision of a monolithic God is one whose ineffable plan is worked through the genitals of rapists then HE is an asshole and I have no interest in subscribing to your newsletter.

If your vision of God challenges us to do better by the other humans around us, to feed the hungry, heal the sick, set free those unjustly imprisoned, grieve with the widow, and (for our own @Vicious Babushka, Mazel Tov!) dance with the bride groom, even if you have to do it on a zoom call, its all good and your choice of gendered pronouns is irrelevant to me.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:40:32pm

DeSantis, Gabbard, Ramaswamy and more: Trump confirms 6 names on his VP shortlist

In a Fox News town hall on Tuesday night, Trump said his list includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.

The front-runner for the GOP nomination, Trump did not produce the names on his own but was rather presented them by town hall host Laura Ingraham, who said audience members suggested them. Ingraham then asked Trump, “Are they all on your shortlist?” Trump answered, “They are.”

It’s possible other names could also be on Trump’s list. There has been speculation, too, surrounding New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, among others.

Trump, 77, said the most important quality he’s looking for in a running mate is someone who could be a great president in the event that something happens to him.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:42:33pm

IRS to crack down on corporate jet use for personal purposes. How much do you want to bet that Trump violated IRS rules on using the plane for personal purposes when he was claiming corporate deductions.

The crackdown comes even as the GOP is trying to again reduce the infusion of funds into IRS compliance efforts. You want to know why? Because it’s chipping away at the hundreds of billions in the tax gap between what is owed and what’s paid.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:43:41pm

It looks floral, of course.

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:43:50pm

re: #119 Dr. Matt

He was regurgitating the names Ingraham presented. He has no clue who is on his short list, but it likely doesn’t include any of those that Ingraham asked about.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:45:07pm

re: #121 wrenchwench

They are very creative. Beautiful hive. Getting the honey from it might be a problem.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:45:53pm

re: #119 Dr. Matt

Trump, 77, said the most important quality he’s looking for in a running mate is someone who could be a great president in the event that something happens to him would be willing to give up their heart, liver, or kidneys in the event that Trump gets sick.

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KGxvi  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:47:21pm

re: #119 Dr. Matt

Trump, 77, said the most important quality he’s looking for in a running mate is someone who could be a great president in the event that something happens to him.

that is kind of the baseline in what a nominee should look for in a running mate.

as for his actual list… DeSantis and Donalds would be difficult because the Florida electors would not be able to vote for either of them (or more funnily, for Trump) under the 12th Amendment:

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves

granted, the way around that is if the GOP has the majority in the Senate, the VP election would be thrown to them and a majority vote would be enough to get it done. but if the Dems hold the majority and vote Harris back into the VP office, then we are dealing with an Adams/Jefferson situation.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:49:57pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:50:26pm
Ed Clark, who led Boeing’s 737 Max program, is leaving the company after several recent safety failures.

Unconfirmed reports state an HR worker removed the door to his office at an inconvenient time and told him to get out.

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steve_davis  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:51:17pm

re: #36 nines09

Daughter was ill yesterday. Got a CV19 test kit today.
Came up positive. She’s fully vaxxed and was judging a large gymnastics meet last weekend. She says she doesn’t really feel all that bad. Which is great, but it was a large group of parents and kids from a wide area.
Here we go again.

this got me reminiscing about the choir outbreak that I thought was in Tennessee but that actually happened multiple times, including March 2020 in Washington state. It seems so bizarre now that just four years ago, the newspaper was reporting that the way the illness spread “suggested what scientists have suspected—that the disease can spread through aerosol droplets.” (that’s not actually the quote, but it’s close). It’s like that time at the start of the AIDS crisis where people were still worried about sitting on a public toilet seat.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:51:42pm

re: #95 Belafon

My undiagnosed ADD allows me to be a really good programmer because I can mentally shuffle through multiple possible solutions that others can’t. It also leads me here more often than I should be.

I have ADD (diagnosed). I find that I can multitask better than a lot of my coworkers.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:51:43pm

re: #124 Belafon

Or someone who could swing at the end of a … when things don’t go his way.

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:53:59pm

re: #53 lawhawk

Noted scientist weighs in on the AL embryo=live person ruling.

Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’

No. They are not. They are a clump of cells that has the potential to be something.

I saw that and my response was audibly blurting a word starting with “b” and ending with “itch”. And yeah, “of course she did.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:54:28pm

OOPS…seems like Jordan, Comer & Company were…

…”RUSSIAN” to judgement…😏

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steve_davis  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:56:52pm

re: #49 The Ghost of a Flea

“This is a penis. It’s going to fail to function at the funniest possible moment from an objective standpoint.”

God: “how will they reproduce?”
(Gabriel, checking to see if his fleshlight has dried before putting the top back on) “Uhm….I have an idea.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:00:52pm

re: #133 steve_davis

That’s very…early Egyptian mythology.

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Mattand  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:03:04pm

re: #134 The Ghost of a Flea

That’s very…early Egyptian mythology.

*Dionysus has entered the chat*

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:05:30pm

re: #128 steve_davis

Even when they knew what to do they did not do it.
I came close to driving a jar of olives into the empty head of a red neck, he sensed my distress and moved away, after his woman friend crowded my wife with no mask on.
Of course she wasn’t wearing a mask because she was “ill”.
He started chirping, I started walking towards him asking why a sick woman was out at this time with no mask on. He garbled some lame ass shit and I kept coming. He started in the other direction. It was short, sweet and loud. As I turned to walk away, the aisle cleared for me.
Youbetcha.
Last time I was in that store. 3 or so years.

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steve_davis  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:06:18pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

[Embedded content]

So how many Russian spies are in this picture…who got a hold of those classified documents?

Inquiring minds want to know!

jesus christ, it’s like one of those national geographic specials where they show us how lifelike the mummies still look after desert burial for four thousand years.

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Teukka  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:09:52pm

👀

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:12:22pm

re: #138 Teukka

👀

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LOL

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:14:13pm

re: #139 Dr. Matt

Can’t approve of nude watersliding. Fiberglass splinters won’t let me.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:14:55pm

re: #139 Dr. Matt

Awwwww Sean Insanity is sooooo jealous!

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piratedan  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:15:43pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅

who knew that exotic dancers had class reunions?

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:18:06pm

MAGA: “Trump had sex with an adult movie actress and then paid her off to be silent before the election? Pfffft. It’s his private business and his money.”

Also MAGA: “Hunter Biden paid for sex with sex workers!?!! IMPEACH!!!11111!!!!!!! ARRESSTTTT!!111!!!!!”

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:19:44pm

re: #143 Dr. Matt

The MAGA’s are desperate to pin something on Joe or his family. Right now they will make up anything to draw people’s attention away from DT.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:27:35pm

re: #4 wrenchwench

They’re not just banning IVF. They’re making having a uterus is probable cause for a crime.

Your uterus belongs to us!!!

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:29:40pm
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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:30:57pm

re: #77 Joe Bacon ✅

Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’

nbcnews.com

NBC missed a moment to wheel out a container of frozen eggs (which would be kept cryogenically, in a big container) and then ask Haley again, “really? would you mind telling me where the babies are?” Maybe with some sort of frozen gas sublimating around the container to give the true effect of YEAH, THEY’RE FROZEN NIKKI.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:31:37pm

re: #51 Belafon

But they both like hiking which is a very small percentage of any group of coworkers.

Unless you are in Germany or Northern England.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:33:34pm

He goes there

Right-wing host wants overthrow of democracy: ‘We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6’

Jack Posobiec, a right-wing host and activist, told a group of conservatives that their goal should be overthrowing democracy because they didn’t get the job done on Jan. 6, 2021.

rawstory.com

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:37:32pm

re: #149 Joe Bacon ✅

He goes there

Right-wing host wants overthrow of democracy: ‘We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6’

Jack Posobiec, a right-wing host and activist, told a group of conservatives that their goal should be overthrowing democracy because they didn’t get the job done on Jan. 6, 2021.

rawstory.com

Submit his comments to the FBI and to every prosecutor still pursuing convictions of insurrectionists.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:37:35pm

re: #143 Dr. Matt

MAGA: “Trump had sex with an adult movie actress and then paid her off to be silent before the election? Pfffft. It’s his private business and his money.”

Also MAGA: “Hunter Biden paid for sex with sex workers!?!! IMPEACH!!!11111!!!!!!! ARRESSTTTT!!111!!!!!”

yeah, but that’s IMPEACH HIS FATHER

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:40:29pm

re: #147 mmmirele

NBC missed a moment to wheel out a container of frozen eggs (which would be kept cryogenically, in a big container) and then ask Haley again, “really? would you mind telling me where the babies are?” Maybe with some sort of frozen gas sublimating around the container to give the true effect of YEAH, THEY’RE FROZEN NIKKI.

forget where the babbies are. here’s a test question:

how do any of them - haley, the judges etc even KNOW that, in fact, these are eggs and they are fertilized?

(yes i know the answer)

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:40:56pm

Mastodon

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:43:35pm

re: #88 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

The BBC had to investigate a rape-church before the FBI got interested.

FBI launches probe into church investigated by BBC (BBC)

Speaking of religiously tinged sexual abuse, I came on an article in El País but went and found one in English so I could share with you.

Former nuns call on pope to launch inquiry into priest they say sexually abused them

Mirjiam Kovac and Gloria Branciani want independent inquiry into Marko Rupnik, who was expelled from Jesuit order in 2023

Two former nuns have called on Pope Francis to initiate an independent investigation into a once-prominent Jesuit artist-priest who they allege sexually abused them, including by forcing them to have threesomes and making them watch pornography so they would “grow spiritually”.

Speaking publicly for the first time, Mirjiam Kovac and Gloria Branciani said the wall of silence surrounding Marko Rupnik, who has been accused by several women of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuses dating back three decades, had finally “crumbled”.

The women are former members of the Ignatius of Loyola community, an order co-founded by Rupnik, whose mosaics adorn the walls of some Vatican chapels and other churches.

“We were all young girls, full of ideals,” Kovac said during a press conference in Rome. “But these very ideals, together with our training in obedience, were exploited for abuses of various kinds: of conscience, of power, spiritual, psychic, physical and often sexual.”

Both women reported Rupnik to senior Catholic church officials in the early 1990s, but claim they were repeatedly rebuffed and dismissed.

Rupnik was excommunicated in 2020 for absolving a woman with whom he had sex; the absolution of a “sexual accomplice” is among the most serious crimes under canon law. But he was reinstated two weeks later after he repented.

The bolding was added by me. Way to get out from underneath real sanctions. One reason why you can’t trust church leaders AT ALL. And there’s a lot more to be found in the article, located here:

theguardian.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:44:25pm

re: #144 PhillyPretzel ✅

The MAGA’s are desperate to pin something on Joe or his family. Right now they will make up anything to draw people’s attention away from DT.

Oh definitely — still recall sometime last year, where a MAGAt (FOAF — no one I know) said on FB that I would be forced to admit my errors when Biden’s role as part of the Biden crime family is proven to the American public. Never saw him apologize for any of his errors — but MAGAts are firm supporters of whatever their criminal leader asserts.

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:45:22pm

If I flush a used condom down the toilet, am I a murderer?

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Egregious Philbin  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:47:48pm

re: #156 nines09

Reminds me of a great PJ O’Rourke quote: “If meat is murder, are eggs rape?”

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:50:12pm

re: #132 Joe Bacon ✅

OOPS…seems like Jordan, Comer & Company were…

…”RUSSIAN” to judgement…😏

You forgot the requisite “…puts on sunglasses” and the “yeeeaahhhhh!!” afterwards.

Hey, I don’t make the rules…

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:50:33pm

re: #157 Egregious Philbin

Had a drinking buddy who would occasionally say as he left, “Time to head home and drown some kids” because he was talking about beating off.

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:52:50pm

re: #156 nines09

If I flush a used condom down the toilet, am I a murderer?

No, but you risk backing up your toilet if you keep doing that sort of thing. Put it in the trash.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:53:30pm

re: #156 nines09

If I flush a used condom down the toilet, am I a murderer?

Do you have any idea what the #1 killer of children is?

Kleenex.

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:54:13pm

re: #161 sizzzzlerz

Socks a close second?

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:54:46pm

re: #160 mmmirele

No, but you risk backing up your toilet if you keep doing that sort of thing. Put it in the trash.

But I do not wear a Maxum.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:55:05pm

re: #156 nines09

If I flush a used condom down the toilet, am I a murderer?

Don’t do that in Alabama…

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:55:53pm

re: #164 Joe Bacon ✅

Ignore the van down the street working on the sewers……

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 1:57:23pm

re: #156 nines09

If I flush a used condom down the toilet, am I a murderer?

Are you female?

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teleskiguy  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:00:08pm

You don’t say.

Slayer to Reunite for Festival Headlining Gigs This Fall | Rolling Stone

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:00:32pm

re: #166 Belafon

But of course. My bad.

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TedStriker  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:01:04pm

re: #156 nines09

If I flush a used condom down the toilet, am I a murderer?

I dunno, but, as for myself, I could have had an army by now…

///

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:07:11pm

Here is the chicken breast, mushroom soup and parm cheese bake I just took out of the oven. It smells great.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:11:08pm

Keep shooting your ignorant mouth off Pulpit Pimp!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:13:41pm

re: #170 Eventual Carrion

Here is the chicken breast, mushroom soup and parm cheese bake I just took out of the oven. It smells great.

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Oh I swear I can smell that right out of the oven and You Got Me HUNGRY!!!!

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:13:59pm

re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅

Keep shooting your ignorant mouth off Pulpit Pimp!

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If he’s honest in the voir dire, no jury duty for you!

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nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:15:12pm

Got to get to stuff. Back in the day because I was fortunate enough to be in he middle of a rock and roll talent explosion, I fell in love with this song.
Cream.
Found out later who the original belonged to.
There were record stores. You could listen.
And to this day I asked musicians, well around here anyway, if they ever heard it.
Nope.
Stunning. Simply stunning.
I worked on that without the advantage of anything but my ear. Pulled it off a few time with the right folk, but……
Allow me.

Cream - Spoonful (Live at Royal Albert Hall 2005)

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sagehen  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:15:59pm

I’ve come to the sad conclusion that each and every person here is a better cook than me.

I can manage bacon and eggs and French toast. Roasted chicken, broiled beef or lamb, Kraft macaroni & cheese, mashed potatoes. It was a grand triumph when I was able to follow mom’s recipes for pot roast and latkes, but I made SUCH a mess I don’t do that anymore.

Other than that… I’m the queen of reheating (when I order delivery, I get 3 or 4 days worth of stuff). Citarella and Zabar’s are my best friends.

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dat_said  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:16:08pm

re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅

If a person has a punchable face and he gets punched in the face & I’m on the jury, she’s going to go free…. because a punchable face is a punchable face.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:16:53pm

re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅

Keep shooting your ignorant mouth off Pulpit Pimp!

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These days, would a defense atty even ask the woman how she was dressed? And the DA not immediately object?

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:17:22pm

re: #170 Eventual Carrion

Here is the chicken breast, mushroom soup and parm cheese bake I just took out of the oven. It smells great.

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Is it just throw those in a dish and put it in the oven?

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:20:04pm

re: #176 dat_said

If a person has a punchable face and he gets punched in the face & I’m on the jury, she’s going to go free…. because a punchable face is a punchable face.

If a christian is on trial for child molestation or child pornography and I’m on the jury, he’s going to the slammer, because a christian is a child molester and pornography reader.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:20:31pm

::: pulling out a huge chocolate sheet cake with chocolate icing :::
Today is my Birthday and all of the LGF lizards are welcome to have a piece of cake.

181
nines09  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:22:01pm

re: #180 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: pulling out a huge chocolate sheet cake with chocolate icing :::
Today is my Birthday and all of the LGF lizards are welcome to have a piece of cake.

Be right there. Put a slice aside, Cooper is 4 years old tomorrow.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:22:30pm

re: #181 nines09

okay.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:23:04pm

re: #178 Belafon

Is it just throw those in a dish and put it in the oven?

For the most part. I cut the boneless chicken breasts in half long wise, so there is actually 3 breasts in there for 6 pieces. Lay them in the baking dish. I put a bit of garlic powder, onion powder and Italian seasoning on them. Then put the condensed mushroom soup over each one. I barely put any water into the condensed soup so it stays pretty thick. Then I shake some parmesan cheese over all of that. Cover dish with foil. 375 for about 25 - 35 minutes. Once chicken temp up to 165 degrees or so it is done.

Pretty straight forward and simple.

184
Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:23:10pm

re: #180 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: pulling out a huge chocolate sheet cake with chocolate icing :::
Today is my Birthday and all of the LGF lizards are welcome to have a piece of cake.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Wish I could send one of these to you because I loved these when I was a kid!

185
PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:24:43pm

re: #184 Joe Bacon ✅

I am a BIG chocolate fan. :)

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:24:54pm

re: #180 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: pulling out a huge chocolate sheet cake with chocolate icing :::
Today is my Birthday and all of the LGF lizards are welcome to have a piece of cake.

Happy BDay!!!

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:26:53pm

re: #180 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: pulling out a huge chocolate sheet cake with chocolate icing :::
Today is my Birthday and all of the LGF lizards are welcome to have a piece of cake.

Happy birthday!

Chocolate inside.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:27:36pm

re: #187 wrenchwench

Sounds good.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:32:36pm

re: #185 PhillyPretzel ✅

I am a BIG chocolate fan. :)

Yeah but the fun thing about a Banana Flip was half of the filling always stuck to the cellophane!

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:32:57pm

re: #175 sagehen

No, I’m probably worse at it than anyone here. I go through a whole list of either minimal preparation or throw it in the oven/microwave foods. Or I just get out a bowl and eat cereal. I can do this since I live alone. I let my brother cook fancy meals for me.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:35:46pm

A couple Friendsgivings ago one of the guys brought a Bob Marley cake for dessert. A scrumptious chocolate fudge cake!

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CleverToad  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:39:17pm

re: #175 sagehen

I’ve come to the sad conclusion that each and every person here is a better cook than me.

I can manage bacon and eggs and French toast. Roasted chicken, broiled beef or lamb, Kraft macaroni & cheese, mashed potatoes. It was a grand triumph when I was able to follow mom’s recipes for pot roast and latkes, but I made SUCH a mess I don’t do that anymore.

Other than that… I’m the queen of reheating (when I order delivery, I get 3 or 4 days worth of stuff). Citarella and Zabar’s are my best friends.

I’m right down there with you, trust me.
Sitting here at the moment knowing that it’s 3:30 so I have to drag into the kitchen soon and fake SOMETHING for dinner. Every. Single. Night. Deciding who to cook is even more stressful than getting out the pans.

I love it when the good cooks around here post a recipe that’s simple enough even I can’t screw it up too bad.

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CleverToad  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:40:51pm

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

For the most part. I cut the boneless chicken breasts in half long wise, so there is actually 3 breasts in there for 6 pieces. Lay them in the baking dish. I put a bit of garlic powder, onion powder and Italian seasoning on them. Then put the condensed mushroom soup over each one. I barely put any water into the condensed soup so it stays pretty thick. Then I shake some parmesan cheese over all of that. Cover dish with foil. 375 for about 25 - 35 minutes. Once chicken temp up to 165 degrees or so it is done.

Pretty straight forward and simple.

oooh, my kind of recipe!

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CleverToad  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:43:06pm

re: #180 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: pulling out a huge chocolate sheet cake with chocolate icing :::
Today is my Birthday and all of the LGF lizards are welcome to have a piece of cake.

Hippo Birdie, and many more!

(scrambling to catch up with the thread, can you tell?)

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Markm1960  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:48:13pm

re: #71 lawhawk

Fucking AZ extremists. Prosecutor in AZ is refusing to extradite a criminal who committed murder in NYC, claiming that Manhattan DA Bragg is weak on crime.

Fuck that fucking AZ lunatic. NYC has a lower crime rate than most of the nation. Crime rate in NYC is lower than in AZ.

Murder rate in NYC is 1/3 that of Phoenix (which is part of Maricopa County). Per capita rate NYC 3.33 per 100k. It’s 9.55 in Phoenix. (Wiki).

Did I miss something in the article? I see where the article mentions that Bragg is black, but I missed the part here they mentioned the AZ DA’s race. Not that race should have nothing to do with the story.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:07:11pm

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

For the most part. I cut the boneless chicken breasts in half long wise, so there is actually 3 breasts in there for 6 pieces. Lay them in the baking dish. I put a bit of garlic powder, onion powder and Italian seasoning on them. Then put the condensed mushroom soup over each one. I barely put any water into the condensed soup so it stays pretty thick. Then I shake some parmesan cheese over all of that. Cover dish with foil. 375 for about 25 - 35 minutes. Once chicken temp up to 165 degrees or so it is done.

Pretty straight forward and simple.

I’ve done similar to that except I’ve use Thai curry simmer sauce. And perhaps some diced potatoes around the chicken to get cooked in the sauce as well.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:33:31pm

re: #88 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

The BBC had to investigate a rape-church before the FBI got interested.

FBI launches probe into church investigated by BBC (BBC)

oh look…they are all white and not a single drag queen or trans person involved

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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:33:15pm

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