The Bob Cesca Podcast: Peacockumentary

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

Peacockumentary — Peter Navarro reported to prison today. Trump can’t find anyone to post his bond in the New York fraud case. The Trump team calls posting bond “a practical impossibility.” He’s an even bigger national security threat now. Trump threatens a “bloodbath for the country” if he loses the election. The context for Trump’s threat. Trump’s use of code language. Trump never deserves the benefit of the doubt. Mike Pence refuses to endorse Trump. Judge Merchan establishes rules for Trump during the New York election interference case. With Buzz Burbank, music by The Bitter Elegance, Michael McDermott, and more!

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gocart mozart Mar 19, 2024 • 2:45:47pm

Update:

Peter is settling in.

He’s been assigned to an 80-person dormitory and is already making a few friends.

He had a pleasant lunch with Tazorface and Bubba, where he engaged in a vigorous discussion about the pros/cons of disrupting the peaceful transfer of power.…

— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) March 19, 2024

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 2:47:23pm

…

prairiefire Mar 19, 2024 • 2:48:36pm

re: #2 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Cozy kitchen!

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 2:49:36pm

My latest Lego build. In a repro green glass C&O water jug from White Sufer Springs, WV.

gocart mozart Mar 19, 2024 • 2:53:03pm

pic.twitter.com/G10HTXHvLn

— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) March 19, 2024

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 2:54:39pm

Does it really need to be said that attempting to overturn an election and subvert the peaceful transfer of power is not, and cannot be, considered “official duties.”

Former President Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that he is absolutely immune from criminal charges stemming from his attempts to subvert the 2020 election, the New York Times reports.

From the brief: “The president cannot function, and the presidency itself cannot retain its vital independence if the president faces criminal prosecution for official acts once he leaves office.”

Jay C Mar 19, 2024 • 2:55:22pm

From last thread:
re: #157 Randall Gross

“There is definitely more disorder in cities than there was five years ago” said one expert. “People confuse disorder and crime”.

Who is this “expert”, and WTF is he talking about? “Disorder”?
My guess they’re referring to the fact that the homeless (de-housed, most likely, due to distortions in the housing market) aren’t being properly inobtrusive/invisible: I live in Manhattan: an urban area that has been in one or another condition of “disorder” for 250 years or so; not much has changed here….

Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 2:56:26pm

re: #6 Dangerman

Does it really need to be said that attempting to overturn an election and subvert the peaceful transfer of power is not, and cannot be, considered “official duties.”

Difficulty: Sam Alito.

Romantic Heretic Mar 19, 2024 • 3:02:37pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

Jesus, lady! Get your fucking addiction treated. Therapy would also be helpful.

gocart mozart Mar 19, 2024 • 3:04:13pm

Sometime it hits me that the Republican party is led by a guy from Queens who is trying to make bail.

— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) March 19, 2024

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 3:04:15pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

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Pretty sure there is no mention of American political parties in the bible

And I mean anyone’s bible

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 3:07:15pm

Randall Gross Mar 19, 2024 • 3:09:09pm

re: #7 Jay C

From last thread:

Who is this “expert”, and WTF is he talking about? “Disorder”?
My guess they’re referring to the fact that the homeless (de-housed, most likely, due to distortions in the housing market) aren’t being properly inobtrusive/invisible: I live in Manhattan: an urban area that has been in one or another condition of “disorder” for 250 years or so; not much has changed here….

He’s a criminologist from U. Chicago, he doesn’t cite any evidence, or give examples.
Roman is his name.

CleverToad Mar 19, 2024 • 3:10:16pm

re: #4 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

My latest Lego build. In a repro green glass C&O water jug from White Sufer Springs, WV.

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That is lovely! And amazingly intricate

Randall Gross Mar 19, 2024 • 3:10:21pm

bsky.app

William Lewis Mar 19, 2024 • 3:11:39pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

Benji, no matter how much you try to suck up to them, if your buddies ever get the power they want, you’ll be among the first ones dead because you’ll no longer be a useful idiot. That’s reality.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 3:13:10pm

re: #13 Randall Gross

He’s a criminologist from U. Chicago, he doesn’t cite any evidence, or give examples.
Roman is his name.

There’s your answer—University of Chicago a right wing think tank where Milton Friedman trained the Chicago Boys to plunder Chile after Pinochet had his Kissinger sponsored tea party…

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 3:17:51pm

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

Difficulty: Sam Alito.

@MuellerSheWrote

Trump argued to SCOTUS today that without presidential immunity, the threat of prosecution would prevent them from being able to do their jobs. But then also says “no other president in history has been charged with crimes.” Undercutting his own stupid argument.

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 3:28:05pm

I’m going to post this video every day until the election

pic.twitter.com/XMlr4yPleZ

— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) March 19, 2024

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 19, 2024 • 3:30:25pm

re: #19 Dangerman

I’m going to post this video every day until the election

Do it while you can: by the next Presidential election cycle, AI will have progressed enough that video evidence will be indistinguashable from fake contrivances.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 3:30:52pm

re: #16 William Lewis

Benji, no matter how much you try to suck up to them, if your buddies ever get the power they want, you’ll be among the first ones dead because you’ll no longer be a useful idiot. That’s reality.

Milton absolutely nailed something when he put “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” in the mouth of the cosmos’ primal villain.

It’s more important to Ben…and a bunch of his conservative buddies…that they dictate the terms of Jewishness than that Jews in general be safe. If you follow his actions rather than his avowals, , Ben has for years used arguments that amount to “but antisemitism is viable if it’s against Bad Jews” and shows no intention of stopping.

The basic lie of conservatism is that within the past can be found a pure strain of “tradition” that can be revived and thus make society function more smoothly. No such thing exists, and thus conservatisms must actively curate what is “true tradition” by defining the interior of the collective they stand for in ways that exclude and silence the plurality of vision and experience that is the reality of culture: ideas are not solid and are infinitely mutable.

For most of history the problem of orthodoxy was solved not through discourse, but through violence: the preeminent strains of Christianity did not win arguments, they arrayed armies and set their competitors on fire. Nation identity was created top-down by forbidding regional practices under color of law. Whiteness is a scam in which membership requires wrist-deep participation of the subjugation of nonwhites.

To define the past, and thus the future, you must possess the power of exclusion. Shitheads like Shapiro are rhetoricians of exclusion that aspire to have coercive force of their own, or to get under someone with goons in classic court-philosopher fashion. This is a classic Type of Shitty Person that transcends culture and era.

Nationalists despise most of their fellow citizens, white supremacists constantly shed embarrassing white individuals and groups, religious chauvinists—like Hindutva people or Islamic fundamentalists or Meiji-era state enforced Imperial Shinto—set hard internal boundaries that excise entirely viable hermeneutics and theologies.

gocart mozart Mar 19, 2024 • 3:33:26pm

“As their respective party’s 2028 nominees head toward a November showdown, both Mr. Pritzker (D) and Mr. Lecter (R) face lingering questions about their unhealthy eating habits.”
- New York Times @DougJBalloon pic.twitter.com/dkQYXaA6ib

— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) March 19, 2024

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 3:33:52pm

Criswell Bacon predicted a couple years ago that Trump wanted to evict the Palestinians from Gaza to create The Trump Gaza Plaza

And Now…THIS…

thedailybeast.com

Kushner Pitches Moving Palestinians Out of Gaza’s ‘Valuable’ Waterfront

And the Little Lord Privy Steal went further!

He said, When asked if Israel should allow a Palestinian state, Kushner said it was a “super bad idea.”.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has offered his own solution to the mass bloodshed and displacement in Gaza: some good, old-fashioned real estate development.

During an interview with Tarek Masoud, the faculty chair of Harvard’s Middle East Initiative, Kushner proposed moving Palestinians to Israel’s arid desert region to “clean up” Gaza’s “valuable” waterfront.

“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable to—if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said, without clarifying who exactly would profit off such a project. He added that the area could’ve had great potential if “all the money” in Gaza had gone into “education and innovation,” instead of its tunnel network and munitions.

Kushner’s statement comes on the heels of warnings from the United Nations that the people of Gaza are facing an “imminent famine” as Israel continues its offensive.

Kushner suggested displacing the remaining Palestinians from the “valuable” waterfront, and dropping them in the Negev desert.

“I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there, I know that that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that that’s a better option to do, so that you can go in and finish the job,” he said. The Jewish Virtual Library describes the Negev as “oppressively hot” and “filled more with dirt, rocks and canyons, which are no less forbidding” than sand dunes.

When asked about concerns that Palestinians would be prohibited from returning to Gaza, Kushner said, “I am not sure there’s much left of Gaza at this point.”

Kushner clarified that he didn’t know if Israeli officials were seriously considering displacing Palestinians to the Negev.

“I’m sitting in Miami Beach right now, and I’m looking at the situation and I’m thinking: what would I do if I was there?” Kushner said.

When asked if Israel should allow a Palestinian state, Kushner said it was a “super bad idea” and would “essentially be rewarding an act of terror.”

Ace Rothstein Mar 19, 2024 • 3:35:30pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

He could also be underwater because the vultures in the real industry will low-ball the value of the properties to get them at bargain basement prices. They are circling overhead eager to pluck at his carcass and get buildings for less than they are worth. OTOH, his net worth without that consideration may be negative — or a fraction of his assertions.

Welcome to capitalism, fat orange asshole.

Eclectic Cyborg Mar 19, 2024 • 3:36:44pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅

Sure, let’s kick the brown people off their land and start building resorts and high rises.

This sounds a bit familar…

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 3:39:42pm

re: #21 The Ghost of a Flea

And the problem with using exclusion to get ‘the right people’ is that you need to constantly exclude more and more to maintain and refine purity.

Patricia Kayden Mar 19, 2024 • 3:40:12pm

Belafon Mar 19, 2024 • 3:42:09pm

re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Do it while you can: by the next Presidential election cycle, AI will have progressed enough that video evidence will be indistinguashable from fake contrivances.

The difference will be in proving where you took it, which will lead back to a few news outlets being reputable.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 3:42:49pm

re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅

If you read the article, the UofC guy Roman is saying that people perceive crime as going up erroneously because they also erroneously view disorder as danger.

This doesn’t solve the question of what amounts to disorder…but I’d also observe that the stated 77% of people that think crime is going up is not people in cities, but people polled nationally that whose working knowledge is what they see in media, which strongly suggests that the perception of more crime amounts to…Americans viewing all kinds of shit as amorphously dangerous because it is unfamiliar to their suburban (but convinced they’re rural) lifestyle.

So…protests, but also homelessness, but also just big crowds of people being boisterous.

I realize that’s a guess, but I’m trying to demonstrate that the semantic gap isn’t necessarily malicious, and (anecdote is not data) I’m doing so in a way that’s consistent with my own experience being from a small town where everyone expected going to UofC in Hyde Park for college was a death sentence. White people in suburbs in the US have an absolute conviction that the rest of the world is a place where terrible things happen constantly, to the point of being more weather than tragedy, and cling to that notion such that they only ever hear that things in unfamiliar places are getting worse.

(Sidebar: seven years ago I went to Prague and a large number of people I know were afraid I’d be harmed by terrorists. I tried to assuage them by telling the biggest risk I was facing was bottle services scams at any of the clubs that were on the town’s huge stag party circuit. You literally cannot convince Americans the rest of the world isn’t just different genres of horror movie)

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 3:45:16pm

There’s a cardinal on my window sill
Male

That’s not a metaphor

Can’t get a pic. It’ll fly.

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 3:46:40pm

DodgerFan1988 Mar 19, 2024 • 3:48:41pm

Pay close attention to the echoes of history as they reveal their true identity today. pic.twitter.com/4k7PpqvgrE

— Kenny Akers (@KeneAkers) March 19, 2024

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 3:49:15pm

re: #31 Dangerman

The fuckin’ wild thing is when you start noticing the shit the “everything is tyranny” people don’t call tyranny.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 19, 2024 • 3:50:40pm

re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea

What some may think of as “disorder” may simply be change.

We humans don’t like to change, especially as we get older.

Some folk might find the increase in Spanish spoken at their local market as “disorder”.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 3:52:54pm

re: #26 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And the problem with using exclusion to get ‘the right people’ is that you need to constantly exclude more and more to maintain and refine purity.

Last thing Hitler did before taking a bullet was announce that all the Germans had fucked up so bad they deserved what was coming.

So many of these volkisch fuckers would rather everything burn than admit they didn’t have the right or the gumption.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 3:55:06pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What some may think of as “disorder” may simply be change.

We humans don’t like to change, especially as we get older.

Some folk might find the increase in Spanish spoken at their local market as “disorder”.

Periodically we have Indians take over a local business and they’ll be another round of “are the Gujaratis, speaking Gujarati and blatantly being Hindu, actually Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists?”

CleverToad Mar 19, 2024 • 4:00:17pm

First World Problems, Scammers Division:
Just to make life a little more complicated, someone just tried to run a check for $1800.00 through our credit union checking account. Recipient is a name I don’t recognize, payee address is a single-family house in Freeport MN where I don’t know anybody. It’s quite a detailed copy of one of our personal checks with our full address given; account number is correct but check number is way off. Printed rather than handwritten so looks sort of like a cashier’s check but the credit union says a cashier’s check they issued would NOT have our address on it. Signature nothing like ours, of course. Memo says MISS ROSE PAYMENT 2024. We don’t keep that much in checking so the attempt failed but the amount of info is alarming. Haven’t even written a check on this account since last November, I just use the debit card. We have to go in tomorrow to close and reopen our accounts, o joy o rapture, and hope this doesn’t screw up my SocSec auto-deposit next week.

My brother-in-law says his brother got an unexpected cashier’s check for about $1800 a few weeks ago from someone he didn’t know, also a Minnesota address. Wells Fargo confirmed it was a fake check — he googled the address and it’s a Trader Joe’s. 😳 Luckily his brother didn’t cash it, no idea what would have happened if he had.

New scam sweeping the nation? Now I’m wondering if it was the scammer or a gullible addressee who tried to cash it. Either way, I’m glad it didn’t clear (and the credit union will take off the $30 rubber check fee since it’s fraud).

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 4:00:51pm

A few days after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential primary on March 6, veteran media executive and Haley backer Harry Sloan got a call from movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, who asked Sloan to help President Joe Biden take on Donald Trump in the general election,” CNBC reports.

“Sloan agreed to help raise money for Biden’s reelection effort and try to reel in Republican-aligned business leaders to get behind the president.”

“Sloan is among at least half a dozen former Haley bundlers who have decided to help Biden — and not Trump — since Haley ended her campaign

A Cranky One Mar 19, 2024 • 4:02:16pm

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 4:08:05pm

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 19, 2024 • 4:10:25pm

Mastodon

austin_blue Mar 19, 2024 • 4:11:44pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

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Huh, has Ben ever considered that HE’S the bad Jew?

Dr. Matt Mar 19, 2024 • 4:19:44pm

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 19, 2024 • 4:19:45pm

Mastodon

Patricia Kayden Mar 19, 2024 • 4:23:16pm

re: #38 Dangerman

Didn’t Trump tell Haley supporters to kick rocks? Glad that some of them paid attention.

gocart mozart Mar 19, 2024 • 4:25:12pm

All good. pic.twitter.com/t9ipZbq16S

— Grumpy Sociologist (@OhHowByronic) March 19, 2024

jaunte Mar 19, 2024 • 4:27:00pm

Little Feat New Delhi Freight Train

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 19, 2024 • 4:27:47pm

The pro-nuclear-power channel Decouple Media put up a discussion about how AI may be the driver to build more nuclear plants:

Will Nuclear power AI?

The idea is that current electricity use does not spur new nuclear, but the need for bigger server farms coupled with the need for few emissions may guarantee the cash flow needed to build new nuclear.

Microsoft and Google, for example, could order billions of dollars of electricity, said billions being consumed by the nuclear power industry.

I just sort of roll my eyes at this. I consider “AI” to be more a net negative than a positive, as far as climate change is concerned.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, could all locate their server farms in the sunniest parts of the planet and run off of solar.

But I guess if you want to place a server in Canada and you’re far away from hydro your option is nuclear?

William Lewis Mar 19, 2024 • 4:30:21pm

re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The pro-nuclear-power channel Decouple Media put up a discussion about how AI may be the driver to build more nuclear plants:

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The idea is that current electricity use does not spur new nuclear, but the need for bigger server farms coupled with the need for few emissions may guarantee the cash flow needed to build new nuclear.

Microsoft and Google, for example, could order billions of dollars of electricity, said billions being consumed by the nuclear power industry.

I just sort of roll my eyes at this. I consider “AI” to be more a net negative than a positive, as far as climate change is concerned.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, could all locate their server farms in the sunniest parts of the planet and run off of solar.

But I guess if you want to place a server in Canada and you’re far away from hydro your option is nuclear?

The only way nuclear will help this is if Fusion turns from “10 years away” to reality.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 19, 2024 • 4:32:43pm

re: #49 William Lewis

The only way nuclear will help this is if Fusion turns from “10 years away” to reality.

50 years away.

jaunte Mar 19, 2024 • 4:32:55pm

@joshuajfriedman.com

Mexico says it will not accept deportations from Texas

Full statement from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
gob.mx

“…México cuestiona también disposiciones legales que afecten los derechos humanos de las más de 10 millones de personas de origen mexicano que residen en Texas, generando ambientes hostiles en los que la comunidad migrante esté expuesta a expresiones de odio, discriminatorios y de perfilamiento racial.”

Mexico also questions legal provisions that affect the human rights of the more than 10 million people of Mexican origin who reside in Texas, generating hostile environments in which the migrant community is exposed to expressions of hate, discrimination, and racial profiling.

Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 4:33:02pm

re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

One consideration about your proposal of “just put your servers in the sun” is latency. The reason why there are data centers in multiple cities worldwide is to give global clients a way to serve their stuff and not have it take half a second for every request. Could they do better than they are doing, absolutely. But locations for data centers are pretty constrained by transport infrastructure (see previous discussion on moving hard drives or SD cards full of data around with planes and trucks), and proximity to people.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 19, 2024 • 4:36:08pm

re: #52 Nerdy Fish

Apple keeps promising to roll out AI with the goal of having low-energy use because the processing is local (on your own machine), compared to remotely.

Part of the reason for this is privacy.

Allegedly the biggest computing cost for AI is the training.

Training could be done in the Sahara, powered by the sun.

Regardless, the global information enterprise, if it goes whole hog into AI as is anticipated, will demand more energy.

Romantic Heretic Mar 19, 2024 • 4:37:01pm

re: #33 The Ghost of a Flea

When people talk about tyranny they mean ‘things not working the way I want.’

If they live in an actual tyranny that hurts the people they believe deserve to be hurt well, that’s all right then.

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 4:39:11pm

Mexico says it would not “under any circumstances” accept the return of any migrants to its territory from the state of Texas. “Mexico is not required to accept deportations of anyone except Mexican citizens.”

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 4:40:07pm

re: #44 Backwoods Sleuth

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Damn!

Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 4:41:09pm

re: #55 Dangerman

Mexico says it would not “under any circumstances” accept the return of any migrants to its territory from the state of Texas. “Mexico is not required to accept deportations of anyone except Mexican citizens.”

And I’m guessing the burden will be on the Texas officials doing the deporting to prove they are a Mexican citizen and are being deported legally.

jaunte Mar 19, 2024 • 4:41:13pm

Magats shocked to learn other countries defend their own sovereignty.

Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 4:43:00pm

re: #57 Nerdy Fish

And I’m guessing the burden will be on the Texas officials doing the deporting to prove they are a Mexican citizen and are being deported legally.

This affects anyone who migrated through Mexico but is not a citizen. My guess is that’s a lot

Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 4:43:28pm

re: #59 Dangerman

This affects anyone who migrated through Mexico but is not a citizen. My guess is that’s a lot

The vast majority of the so-called “illegal” immigrants are asylum seekers from further south, so, yes.

Romantic Heretic Mar 19, 2024 • 4:43:50pm

re: #55 Dangerman

This is likely to be Texas’s response.

Of course your realize, this means war!

jaunte Mar 19, 2024 • 4:44:26pm

Chris Geidner:

“…Sotomayor was blunt about the effects of her colleagues’ action.

“Texas can now immediately enforce its own law imposing criminal liability on thousands of noncitizens and requiring their removal to Mexico,” Sotomayor wrote, joined by Jackson. “This law will disrupt sensitive foreign relations, frustrate the protection of individuals fleeing persecution, hamper active federal enforcement efforts, undermine federal agencies’ ability to detect and monitor imminent security threats, and deter noncitizens from reporting abuse or trafficking.”
lawdork.com

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 4:46:24pm

re: #62 jaunte

Chris Geidner:

That’s kind of the point of the legislation.

Dr. Matt Mar 19, 2024 • 4:48:35pm

If anyone wins the megamillions tonight, and wants to troll Diaper Donnie, 454$ million in pennies would weight 250,224,668 pounds.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 19, 2024 • 4:48:37pm

re: #57 Nerdy Fish

And I’m guessing the burden will be on the Texas officials doing the deporting to prove they are a Mexican citizen and are being deported legally.

The Texas authorities will start dumping them right in the neutral ground on the border. They don’t care about these people and if they die there of exposure they would deem that acceptable.

Pressure then moves to the US or Mexican governments handling them. And Texas will interfere with the US Border Patrol attempting to do so.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 4:49:06pm

re: #58 jaunte

Magats shocked to learn other countries defend their own sovereignty.

They understand the law the same way creepy rich megapastors understand the Bible: yeah, there’s a bunch of rules, but those are for other, less important people.

They’re not going to be humbled by this, they’re going to get excited because now they get to be more angry and more resentful, in turn giving them more permission to do something awful.

“We tried to reasonable (with our unreasonable thing), now you made us do (even more unreasonable thing they’re absolutely turgid to try)”

GlutenFreeJesus Mar 19, 2024 • 4:49:52pm

If I were Mexico I’d stop enforcing anything outgoing from their side of the border. And shut down anything going into from Texas.

Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 4:50:15pm

re: #65 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The Texas authorities will start dumping them right in the neutral ground on the border. They don’t care about these people and if they die there of exposure they would deem that acceptable.

Pressure then moves to the US or Mexican governments handling them. And Texas will interfere with the US Border Patrol attempting to do so.

What “neutral ground”? They’re most likely to toss them (figuratively or, distressingly, completely literally) in the Rio Grande! That’ll show those illegals; we may not be able to get you all the way to Mexico, but you’ll have to crawl back through our razor wire and finger-lopping buoy saws, and then we’ll throw you in a good old-fashioned Texas prison for 20 years for your trouble!

Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 4:50:44pm

God, I’m so fucking pissed right now. I hate hate HATE that this has to be my generation’s legacy.

jaunte Mar 19, 2024 • 4:52:28pm

re: #67 GlutenFreeJesus

Too much cross-border trade.

Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 4:55:13pm

“Here you go, kids. I did my best, but apparently all my peers, and my parents’ peers, are fucking neanderthals who chose their antiquated religious quackery over the basic ideals of humanity, so… good luck, don’t die in a fire or drown in the ocean.”

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 19, 2024 • 4:55:29pm

re: #68 Nerdy Fish

What “neutral ground”? They’re most likely to toss them (figuratively or, distressingly, completely literally) in the Rio Grande! That’ll show those illegals; we may not be able to get you all the way to Mexico, but you’ll have to crawl back through our razor wire and finger-lopping buoy saws, and then we’ll throw you in a good old-fashioned Texas prison for 20 years for your trouble!

My presumption is that there is some sort of buffer along the land border between the two countries’ border posts. And that the Texas authorities will dump them beyond the US post, but quite yet actually in Mexican territory. Which makes it a US-Mexico issue since Texas is not a sovereign country with recognition internationally despite Texas trying to act that way.

US would then need to start leveraging Federal charges on the people dumping the asylum seekers and those ordering them to do so. Which will be a court mess for a number of years and might well trigger a few armed confrontations as well.

A scenario like this reminds me somewhat of a few sieges during the Middle Ages where the besieged city’s military expelled a bunch of civilians from the city in order to make their supplies last longer. And the besiegers would not let them through the siege lines. So they got to sit in the middle to starve and die of exposure.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 4:55:41pm

What coming is some version of “we have no obligation to help them not die” and/or “they are convicts and will have no rights as convicts.”

Florida Panhandler Mar 19, 2024 • 4:56:41pm

re: #44 Backwoods Sleuth

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Here it is. Abbott now has his cover for restarting his concentration camps in Texas. Paxton preparing the legal work now.

Unabogie Mar 19, 2024 • 5:00:11pm

Honestly, if I’m a foreign spy service, why on earth wouldn’t I invest in a boat and festoon it with Trump flags? You get invited on the grounds where the secret intel is sitting in boxes in the bathrooms.

talkingpointsmemo.com

“Sir, can I use your bathroom?”

Charles Mar 19, 2024 • 5:00:59pm

Jared Kushner has an idea to solve the Middle East’s problems: build luxury resorts on Gaza’s “valuable” beaches.

Of course, he’d have to get rid of those troublesome Palestinians first, so he suggests rounding them all up and dumping them in the Negev desert.

He actually said this shit in public.

jeffreyw Mar 19, 2024 • 5:03:08pm

YouTube

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:05:40pm

re: #76 Charles

Jared Kushner has an idea to solve the Middle East’s problems: build luxury resorts on Gaza’s “valuable” beaches.

Of course, he’d have to get rid of those troublesome Palestinians first, so he suggests rounding them all up and dumping them in the Negev desert.

He actually said this shit in public.

Now there’s one person I’d be okay if Prince Bone Saw decided was a liability.

Belafon Mar 19, 2024 • 5:06:45pm

re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Training could be done in the Sahara, powered by the sun.

Computer systems generate a massive amount of heat, so dropping them in the dessert would cause problems.

If we were awesome as a people, we would fill the place with solar and run power transmission lines everywhere.

Charles Mar 19, 2024 • 5:07:45pm

There’s plenty of room in the Negev desert, after all.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 5:09:58pm

re: #78 darthstar

Now there’s one person I’d be okay if Prince Bone Saw decided was a liability.

I’m always kind of hoping the Basque Space Program starts handling international payloads to compete with SpaceX.

No Malarkey! Mar 19, 2024 • 5:10:17pm

Texas’ plan to conduct its own foreign policy has run into a hitch.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 5:13:11pm

re: #62 jaunte

Chris Geidner:

“…Sotomayor was blunt about the effects of her colleagues’ action.

“Texas can now immediately enforce its own law imposing criminal liability on thousands of noncitizens and requiring their removal to Mexico,” Sotomayor wrote, joined by Jackson. “This law will disrupt sensitive foreign relations, frustrate the protection of individuals fleeing persecution, hamper active federal enforcement efforts, undermine federal agencies’ ability to detect and monitor imminent security threats, and deter noncitizens from reporting abuse or trafficking.”

Folks, May I present to you the White Power Supreme Court remade in the image of Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society:

Decatur Deb Mar 19, 2024 • 5:15:54pm

If I were Ted Cruz, I’d keep my original birth certificate in my back pocket…oh, wait.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 5:16:13pm

re: #80 Charles

There’s plenty of room in the Negev desert, after all.

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“We left them is unlivable conditions, we technically didn’t kill them” is one of those strategies that monsters—be that individuals or whole mechanized systems—regularly arrive at.

As I said last thread, fascists, like Pokemon, have a very limited move set.

A Three Hour Tour Mar 19, 2024 • 5:16:51pm

re: #76 Charles

Jared Kushner has an idea to solve the Middle East’s problems: build luxury resorts on Gaza’s “valuable” beaches.

Of course, he’d have to get rid of those troublesome Palestinians first, so he suggests rounding them all up and dumping them in the Negev desert.

He actually said this shit in public.

But anti-Biden Tumblr leftists act as if a second Trump Administration will be better for Palestinians than so-called “Genocide Joe.”

Of course, how many of them are actual Leftists and not foreign-backed disinformation operatives (or tools thereof) is up for debate.

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:19:53pm

Come on Nikki - get Trump under 70%….

Mastodon

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:23:11pm

DodgerFan1988 Mar 19, 2024 • 5:23:18pm

If you want to know why Elon Musk hates Joe Biden and therefore wants to destroy America as we know it, take a moment and see what Biden had to say in 1986 about Musk’s Apartheid state of South Africa. It’s very insightful into the deep hatred Musk has today for Biden. @AP pic.twitter.com/YyRmqyDk10

— Mr. Reynolds (@MrReynolds52) March 19, 2024

Nojay UK Mar 19, 2024 • 5:23:38pm

re: #80 Charles

There’s plenty of room in the Negev desert, after all.

Every now and then some bright Green sparks suggest that the solution to Europe’s energy needs could be met by planting millions of solar panels in the Sahara desert and connecting the European states with big cables across the Med to carry the Sun’s ecologically-sound bounty to the consumers thereof. There might also be a terawatt-hour or two of storage involved but that wouldn’t cost any money, apparently.

When asked what the locals and owners of the Sarahan ecotopia’s land might think about this idea the usual answer is “Who?” The possibility that a 21st century Nasser or Qadaffi or Khomeini might come to power in the region and issue blackmail threats to cut the cables unless the price per solar kWh is vastly increased is foreign to their thinking. Worst case they might consider the United Fruit solution.

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:24:51pm

If 1 in 4 Republicans won’t vote for Trump in Ohio, Ohio is going to be a toss up.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 5:24:56pm

Ohio Republicans seem to like Mr. Adult Friend Finder so far!

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 5:26:15pm

re: #86 A Three Hour Tour

But anti-Biden Tumblr leftists act as if a second Trump Administration will be better for Palestinians than so-called “Genocide Joe.”

Of course, how many of them are actual Leftists and not foreign-backed disinformation operatives (or tools thereof) is up for debate.

Much like with drone warfare casualties, “we’re killing less people than a hypothetical fascist who talks about killing everybody” is not the cool and calculated rhetorical thrust liberals think it is.

It’s up there with “I’ve forced sex on less horses than Steve, the immortal professional horse rapist with supernatural law enforcement evasion abilities.”

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 5:27:00pm

re: #90 Nojay UK

Every now and then some bright Green sparks suggest that the solution to Europe’s energy needs could be met by planting millions of solar panels in the Sahara desert and connecting the European states with big cables across the Med to carry the Sun’s ecologically-sound bounty to the consumers thereof. There might also be a terawatt-hour or two of storage involved but that wouldn’t cost any money, apparently.

When asked what the locals and owners of the Sarahan ecotopia’s land might think about this idea the usual answer is “Who?” The possibility that a 21st century Nasser or Qadaffi or Khomeini might come to power in the region and issue blackmail threats to cut the cables unless the price per solar kWh is vastly increased is foreign to their thinking. Worst case they might consider the United Fruit solution.

So what you’re saying is that in future we could have the relationship with the Saudis over solar panels we currently have with them over oil.

Captain Ron Mar 19, 2024 • 5:27:46pm

re: #88 darthstar

It is a crane fly. It is a lawn pest.

Jay C Mar 19, 2024 • 5:27:49pm

re: #87 darthstar

Come on Nikki - get Trump under 70%….

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I’m sure that it won’t be much noted by the media, but I think it’s telling that even with Trump as the more-or-less confirmed nominee, there’s still a non-trivial percentage of GOP voters who just won’t fucking vote for him…

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:30:51pm

re: #92 Joe Bacon ✅

Ohio Republicans seem to like Mr. Adult Friend Finder so far!

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Nice…I was hoping Sherrod Brown would have an easier path to reelection.

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:31:48pm

re: #96 Jay C

I’m sure that it won’t be much noted by the media, but I think it’s telling that even with Trump as the more-or-less confirmed nominee, there’s still a non-trivial percentage of GOP voters who just won’t fucking vote for him…

He’s at 80% in Florida - losing 20% of Republicans there would also be noteworthy.

darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:33:46pm

re: #98 darthstar

He’s at 80% in Florida - losing 20% of Republicans there would also be noteworthy.

And Kansas has entered the chat.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 5:33:57pm

Don’t forget: Even if Republicans won’t vote for him in the primaries, they will vote for whoever has the (R) next to their name in the general. Our main hope is that those who have grown disillusioned with his schtick will stay the fuck home.

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:37:22pm

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 5:37:28pm

Super weird that Eumericans have adopted a position of being victimized by dictators when their leadership tends to be on the “supply” side of dictators.

Maybe don’t be Samuel L Jackson in that one movie and genetically engineer man-eating sharks smart enough to escape from your shark laboratory.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 5:38:12pm

And Decision Desk has called the Ohio GOP Senate Race for…

YOU GUESSED IT FOLKS!

MR. ADULT FRIEND FINDER

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 5:39:08pm

Speaking of the first Spaniard in space, check out how literal the “fascists only have four moves” bit gets:

Openly germanophile in his articles written for the Mundo magazine during the first part of World War II, after the turn in the conflict against the Axis Powers in 1943, he modulated his hostile discourse towards the Allied Powers in those pieces; finally, after the defeat of the Axis, he had wholly replaced the message attacking the liberal democracies by a merely anti-Soviet one. A defender of the idea that the victory of the Francoist side in the Civil War had happened “despite” an alleged international conspiracy against the former, years later, in the 1950s, he insisted again: “this is precisely the Spanish problem, Spain wants to implement the Good, and the forces of Evil, unleashed upon the world, try to prevent her from doing it”

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:39:45pm

Memories…

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Captain Ron Mar 19, 2024 • 5:44:04pm

re: #105 darthstar

Memories…

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You cauterize wounds?

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jaunte Mar 19, 2024 • 5:48:04pm

re: #105 darthstar

This looks like the first panel of a Florida Man story.

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 5:48:12pm

re: #106 Captain Ron

You cauterize wounds?

The original vape system.

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 5:49:09pm

re: #102 The Ghost of a Flea

Or, you know, Zardoz guns and weapon systems over every tinpot motherfucker with a decent mine or the ability to mouth the word “Communist” while beating the brains out of someone with a steel pipe.

(yes, “zardoz” is a verb now)

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Charles Mar 19, 2024 • 5:57:16pm

re: #109 The Ghost of a Flea

One of the strangest films to ever slip through the cracks.

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Dragonomics Mar 19, 2024 • 5:57:55pm

re: #88 darthstar

Isn’t that a crane fly? I’ve never seen one in a flower. In some species the adults don’t eat. They have more important matters to attend to.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 19, 2024 • 6:04:19pm

Looks like Trump is gonna need a reverse mortgage loan.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 6:05:49pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

Looks like Trump is gonna need a reverse mortgage loan.

Hmm wonder if he can pay the bill by selling Mar A Lardo?

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Ace Rothstein Mar 19, 2024 • 6:08:50pm

This decision by SCOTUS about the border is going to result in many deaths. All part of the plan.

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Captain Ron Mar 19, 2024 • 6:11:28pm

re: #113 Joe Bacon ✅

Hmm wonder if he can pay the bill by selling Mar A Lardo?

It is worth a billion dollars isn’t it? Florida should raise his property taxes to reflect that valuation.

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Unabogie Mar 19, 2024 • 6:12:54pm

re: #115 Captain Ron

It is worth a billion dollars isn’t it? Florida should raise his property taxes to reflect that valuation.

A billion five. He said it. Now tax him that way.

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teleskiguy Mar 19, 2024 • 6:15:36pm

re: #105 darthstar

Totally did this when I lived in Steamboat, not gonna lie.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 6:18:16pm

I had to turn off MSNBC. Cannot handle Trump saluting while the recording of those thugs sing The Star Bangled Banner.

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teleskiguy Mar 19, 2024 • 6:18:32pm

Now we have whole ass bongs and torches and a whole plethora of cannabis concentrates to choose from.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 6:19:45pm

The shops in Los Angeles started stocking Cheech & Chong’s Cruise Chews.

I’m so tempted to buy another jar of them…

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Captain Ron Mar 19, 2024 • 6:28:08pm

re: #120 Joe Bacon ✅

The shops in Los Angeles started stocking Cheech & Chong’s Cruise Chews.

I’m so tempted to buy another jar of them…

I’m really liking Uncle Arnie’s cannabis infused drinks. Their Blueberry Nite Cap is my favorite. 100 mg. in a 2 oz bottle. It’s neck size makes for fairly accurate 10 mg. sips. There is also markings on the bottle for each 10 mg. dose. I like 50 mg. minimum.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 19, 2024 • 6:29:22pm

“Grandpa, how did we end up at war with Mexico?”

“Well Timmy, it all started with a horrible person who sat in a wheelchair…”

Seriously, though. I hope DHS is watching this closely. We all know Abbott does not give two shits what Mexico thinks and WILL try to send these people back regardless.

He’d probably be happy to see them all drown in the Rio Grande.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 6:31:37pm

re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg

“Grandpa, how did we end up at war with Mexico?”

“Well Timmy, it all started with a horrible person who sat in a wheelchair

It sounds better in the original Spanish.///

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Ace Rothstein Mar 19, 2024 • 6:33:22pm

re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg

Lots of gunshots too.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 6:34:03pm

re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg

“Grandpa, how did we end up at war with Mexico?”

“Well Timmy, it all started with a horrible person who sat in a wheelchair

And his sidekick the crooked Attorney General!

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Dave In Austin Mar 19, 2024 • 6:35:17pm

re: #121 Captain Ron

And here in Texas I had to re-up from the guy around the corner. Same as it ever was.

But the funny thing is that it in packaging from CA.

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William Lewis Mar 19, 2024 • 6:35:31pm

Just got done with the DnD for the night, trying to trace a murder suspect, a female elf (who may be a disguised drow) into a cave and getting ambushed by a drider. Which is a suspiciously low level enemy for our party. Hmm. THAT worries me. Fight starts next week 😉 Whee!

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Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 6:37:11pm

re: #127 William Lewis

Just got done with the DnD for the night, trying to trace a murder suspect, a female elf (who may be a disguised drow) into a cave and getting ambushed by a drider. Which is a suspiciously low level enemy for our party. Hmm. THAT worries me. Fight starts next week 😉 Whee!

Very nice. I’m glad you’re having a great time.

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 6:39:41pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

Looks like Trump is gonna need a reverse mortgage loan.

You need a shit-ton of equity for that

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 6:40:26pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

Looks like Trump is gonna need a reverse mortgage loan.

I don’t think Joe Namath & Tom Sellick can help him with that! 😏

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William Lewis Mar 19, 2024 • 6:41:35pm

re: #121 Captain Ron

I’m really liking Uncle Arnie’s cannabis infused drinks. Their Blueberry Nite Cap is my favorite. 100 mg. in a 2 oz bottle. It’s neck size makes for fairly accurate 10 mg. sips. There is also markings on the bottle for each 10 mg. dose. I like 50 mg. minimum.

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Bought some 10mg Delta 9 gummies the other day. Plan to try one tomorrow morning. Can’t get regular THC in WI so the D9 will have to do for now.

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 6:43:04pm

Mrsdm is home!!!

Did I seem miserable?

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Charles Mar 19, 2024 • 6:44:59pm

Pretty amazing to see Donald Trump coming right out in public calling for a violent right wing takeover of the federal government.

But here we are, y’all.

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 6:47:56pm

re: #127 William Lewis

Just got done with the DnD for the night, trying to trace a murder suspect, a female elf (who may be a disguised drow) into a cave and getting ambushed by a drider. Which is a suspiciously low level enemy for our party. Hmm. THAT worries me. Fight starts next week 😉 Whee!

Is this some computer language I never heard of?

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 6:54:23pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 6:55:01pm

Nearly half of Haley voters in Ohio say they’d back Biden: Preliminary exit polls

At the end of the day, 19% [of all R primary voters in ohio] say they wouldn’t support Trump in November, with 11% of that number preferring Biden and 8% saying they wouldn’t vote for either. Nationally, 6% of Republicans voted for Biden in 2020. Nonparticipation by some Republicans would be a further risk for Trump.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 19, 2024 • 6:55:27pm

re: #133 Charles

You talking about the bloodbath thing or did he say more crazy shit tonight?

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sizzzzlerz Mar 19, 2024 • 6:56:04pm

re: #105 darthstar

Memories…

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Apparently not in my world. what the heck is going on there?

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 6:57:00pm

re: #110 Charles

One of the strangest films to ever slip through the cracks.

Permanently seared into my brain.

That, and that robot with the freeze gun from Logan’s Run.

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 6:57:02pm

re: #133 Charles

Pretty amazing to see Donald Trump coming right out in public calling for ~~a violent right wing takeover of the federal government.~~ a lot of his supporters to get their asses thrown in jail for a decade while their trucks and boats are repossessed and their womenfolk hook up with other white trash.

But here we are, y’all.

FIFY

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 19, 2024 • 6:58:18pm

That Kim Jong Un rocket launch spectacle looks fake as fuck. 😂

bbc.com

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 6:58:20pm

New shit-stirring proposition:

The obvious edits on Kate Middleton photos are there to mask the inobvious ones.

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 6:58:33pm

re: #138 sizzzzlerz

Apparently not in my world. what the heck is going on there?

Heat two butter knives and put a little bit of hash between the blades and then use a paper towel tube to breathe in the goodness.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 6:58:47pm

re: #136 Dangerman

Nearly half of Haley voters in Ohio say they’d back Biden: Preliminary exit polls

That has the potential to be huge.

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 6:59:44pm

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

That has the potential to be huge.

I’ve been pointing this out for the last two hours!!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 19, 2024 • 7:01:32pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

Looks like Trump is gonna need a reverse mortgage loan.

Except you need equity for that.

Sorry you orange shit goblin. Suck it.

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 7:01:46pm

re: #136 Dangerman

Nearly half of Haley voters in Ohio say they’d back Biden: Preliminary exit polls

A 10% drop in GOP voters voting for the GOP nominee would be a seismic shift in the general.

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William Lewis Mar 19, 2024 • 7:05:18pm

re: #143 darthstar

Heat two butter knives and put a little bit of hash between the blades and then use a paper towel tube to breathe in the goodness.

Huh. Never heard of that trick. We just bent up a soda can, poked some holes in the bend for the hash, made a carb hole in the side, flame to the hash, in haled through the drinking hole. Usually we used our rank insignia pins to poke the holes so they’d be small enough not to be a problem.

1980’s Europe. Afghan “black bubblegum” as we called it. Hash laced with opium. The Taliban financed their jihad against the Soviets with it and we were “highly” pleased to help them… well, I only did once. That shit was too good. Scared the piss out of me. Worse than the fear of urine tests or prison, I liked that high too much.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 7:06:42pm

re: #145 darthstar

I’ve been pointing this out for the last two hours!!

It’s one thing for them not to vote for him in the primary. Any spineless coward can punch a ticket for their preferred candidate in a meaningless election, and then grit their teeth and vote for the bad guy in November. Hell, we have Democrats who do that every 4 years. But coming right out and saying they won’t vote for him, or will even vote for the Democrat… Yikes.

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William Lewis Mar 19, 2024 • 7:12:11pm

re: #147 darthstar

A 10% drop in GOP voters voting for the GOP nominee would be a seismic shift in the general.

And the ones in that exit poll are just the ones willing to say it out loud. How many more are looking at their kids, their wallets and everything else and starting to worry?

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Markm1960 Mar 19, 2024 • 7:14:55pm

re: #148 William Lewis

Huh. Never heard of that trick. We just bent up a soda can, poked some holes in the bend for the hash, made a carb hole in the side, flame to the hash, in haled through the drinking hole. Usually we used our rank insignia pins to poke the holes so they’d be small enough not to be a problem.

1980’s Europe. Afghan “black bubblegum” as we called it. Hash laced with opium. The Taliban financed their jihad against the Soviets with it and we were “highly” pleased to help them… well, I only did once. That shit was too good. Scared the piss out of me. Worse than the fear of urine tests or prison, I liked that high too much.

We’d cut a small piece, stick it on a pin and light it. Once lit we’d cover it with a clear beer mug, still in my possession, and when a nice cloud built up we’d slide the mug to the edge of the table and take a nice hit. By the time we’d hit it the smoke would be cooled.

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 7:18:25pm

re: #145 darthstar

I’ve been pointing this out for the last two hours!!

I was just helpin’

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Semper Fi Mar 19, 2024 • 7:19:19pm

re: #141 GlutenFreeJesus

That Kim Jong Un rocket launch spectacle looks fake as fuck. 😂

bbc.com

Looks that way to me as well, F as F.

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darthstar Mar 19, 2024 • 7:25:38pm

Tonight in “What Peter Navarro is not having for dinner”…

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 7:26:21pm

re: #133 Charles

Pretty amazing to see Donald Trump coming right out in public calling for a violent right wing takeover of the federal government.

But here we are, y’all.

AND The Corporate Controlled Conservative Press CONTINUES to gloss his threats over saying “oh he doesn’t really mean it!”

The latest example from Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post shredding crocodile tears that her beloved Trump’s fine is just tooooooooooooooooo much. I refuse to link to that piece of crap.

Me? That fine should double every day…

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 19, 2024 • 7:31:50pm

re: #143 darthstar

Heat two butter knives and put a little bit of hash between the blades and then use a paper towel tube to breathe in the goodness.

You get better smoke control by putting a small wad of marijuana or a small stone in a chillum and then the hash.
Do it old school.

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 7:40:51pm

re: #155 Joe Bacon ✅

AND The Corporate Controlled Conservative Press CONTINUES to gloss his threats over saying “oh he doesn’t really mean it!”

The latest example from Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post shredding crocodile tears that her beloved Trump’s fine is just tooooooooooooooooo much. I refuse to link to that piece of crap.

Me? That fine should double every day…

The fine is correct because the jury said so
The bond rules are state law. The same for everybody
You don’t like it? Don’t commit massive fraud.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 19, 2024 • 7:41:04pm

Their band name is “Epidemic of Dryness” https://t.co/HH9z2v2UUA

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2024

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 7:41:43pm

re: #156 BeenHereAwhile

You get better smoke control by putting a small wad of marijuana or a small stone in a chillum and then the hash.
Do it old school.

Whose school? //

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Dangerman Mar 19, 2024 • 7:42:29pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Let me talk to you about a 15 week abortion ban…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Mar 19, 2024 • 7:42:43pm

Connection is still decent, so here’s a flower with Fakarava’s lagoon in the background.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 7:44:08pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

What church do those guys sing in?

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jeffreyw Mar 19, 2024 • 7:52:06pm

re: #154 darthstar

Tonight in “What Peter Navarro is not having for dinner”…

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Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 7:54:13pm

Well now ain’t this a match made in Hell?

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 19, 2024 • 7:55:05pm

Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order

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retired cynic Mar 19, 2024 • 8:01:34pm

re: #161 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Connection is still decent, so here’s a flower with Fakarava’s lagoon in the background.

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LOVE IT!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 8:01:53pm

re: #163 jeffreyw

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I tell you Brother Jeffrey that the Lawd is laying it on my heart to send Brother Navarro a care package from Langer’s Deli

goldbelly.com

But Lord Cthulhu is telling me F Him make him eat Punishment Loaf! 😈

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jaunte Mar 19, 2024 • 8:02:41pm

@vpsreports.bsky.social

Jason Phillips, the other half of the Proud Boys associated January 6th Capitol rioter duo called Oreo Express, is dead after drinking and driving for Saint Patrick’s Day and crashing a Tesla. He and his passenger, who also died, weren’t wearing seatbelts
kmph.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 19, 2024 • 8:05:12pm

Here’s the order and Judge Oldham’s dissent: pic.twitter.com/B3VnOdqsB2

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 20, 2024

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 19, 2024 • 8:06:06pm

re: #168 jaunte

@vpsreports.bsky.social

Jason Phillips, the other half of the Proud Boys associated January 6th Capitol rioter duo called Oreo Express, is dead after drinking and driving for Saint Patrick’s Day and crashing a Tesla. He and his passenger, who also died, weren’t wearing seatbelts
kmph.com

OK I’ll forward my nomination of that fool to the Darwin Awards Committee.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 19, 2024 • 8:08:12pm

re: #169 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Would they stop jerking us around already?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 19, 2024 • 8:14:58pm

re: #171 Nerdy Fish

Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Would they stop jerking us around already?

Among other things, this sends a *very strong* signal that the panel is likely to *deny* Texas’s application for a stay pending appeal. So #SB4 will remain blocked *indefinitely,* unless *Texas* persuades #SCOTUS to put it back into effect.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 20, 2024

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 19, 2024 • 8:22:05pm

re: #159 Dangerman