Some More News Asks: Are Men Okay?

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Hi. Today, we’re taking a look at American men – are they in crisis? Why do they turn to misogynistic manosphere creeps like Andrew Tate? What else can we offer them besides anger and contempt?

Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by David Christopher Bell
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:55 - Why Young Men Feel Lost
08:37 - The Quest To Keep Men “Manly”
20:36 - Men seeking answers in the worst possible place
28:06 - The Fake “Return To Tradition”
34:07 - It always leads to Nazi stuff
39:52 - A few minutes on Andrew Tate and other scammers
50:59 - Fixing men’s circumstances
55:43 - Replacing the patriarchy with something other than the patriarchy
1:03:42 - Cody gives raw… advice to young men

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204 comments
1
Randall Gross  May 22, 2024 • 11:16:36am

How Christian Nationalist are taking their anti-trans hate to the shareholder meetings - from Townhall, a formerly Heritage now Salem Communications site, no link because I will not propagate that shit site.

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T18:13:14.316Z

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Shropshire Slasher  May 22, 2024 • 11:17:48am
Tens of thousands of rural, conservative eastern Oregon residents are so frustrated with their liberal urban neighbors they’ve decided they can no longer even share a ZIP code.

The “Greater Idaho Movement” would shift the Oregon border 200 miles west, a secession effort aligning the conservative farming, ranching and logging communities of eastern Oregon with their like-minded neighbors to the east. A dozen counties in eastern Oregon have already approved the plan, and voters in Crook County and the county seat of Prineville are considering the nonbinding measure with results due Tuesday.

usatoday.com

3
BlueSpotinAL ✅  May 22, 2024 • 11:19:01am

re: #533 Dangerman

got tadpoles in the new hydroponic trough

i’ll be putting a finer screen over the pump

Fuckin’ frogs, man.

4
jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 11:22:25am

Men would have better mental health if they would stop listening to people telling them that they’re collectively victims.

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 11:24:22am

Conservative victims, promising punishment that never comes without boomerangs, trying to move borders, hoping for a security wall, threatening secession, flying the flags of their radical sects…

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 11:24:53am

The fuckery never ends with these people.

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 11:26:05am

re: #594 Shropshire Slasher

When is the last time a sitting President raided the former President’s home?

You made a lot of good will with the Catskill game farm
Don’t jeopardize it now! ;-)

And the answer is when was the last time it was necessary?

Plus, believe it or don’t, the “sitting president” had nothing to do with it

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 22, 2024 • 11:28:30am

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

I am not sure of the laws of Ohio and their primaries/caucuses but I do know in PA one can write in a candidate.

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 11:29:27am

re: #3 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Fuckin’ frogs, man.

Precisely

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 11:30:23am

re: #594 Shropshire Slasher

When is the last time a sitting President raided the former President’s home?

Uh. You do realize that it wasn’t Biden who raided Trump’s crime center, right? That this was a decision by the Justice Department because Trump stole a LOT of classified documents, and was keeping them in that “home?” Are you really going to try to spread that bullshit here?

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 11:31:02am
collectively victims

And also hyper-individual, tactical patriot victims.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 11:32:10am

The plumber just left after extracting a $630 cheque to replace my outside spicket, even though it was recently replaced in January. Behind the bar is why that cost us money under a putative warranty work.

Click to Reveal

First, $75 to come out sixty miles to my house.

On the day we left for Texas in February, the temperature was -4°F / -20°Commie.

The week before we came back in April, there was a massive blizzard here, and the temps got down to -20°F / -28°Commie.

The line which goes to the spicket goes up against gravity to the spicket, and the cutoff valve in the cellar slowly leaks. That’s what I suspected happened: a slow trickle of water pooled in the line, and the line split when it froze.

The repair was to replace the spicket, replace the line with the new plastic stretchy plumbing, and $300 cost for the cutoff valve inside the cellar (those things are friggin’ expensive). He also added a second drain line at the low point along with another valve, so the line can be drained when it’s not in use.

They charged 50% for the labour, resulting in the final bill.

In the mail today from the Veterans Administration, my latest lab results. Ugh but some humour.

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 11:32:44am

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

The fuckery never ends with these people.

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Wants to be the next MTG.

Does he think the dems are stupid. Cowering in a corner whadda we do??
They hold the nomination vote early
Or they sue. And if they sue, they win.

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 11:35:39am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Uh. You do realize that it wasn’t Biden who raided Trump’s crime center, right? That this was a decision by the Justice Department because Trump stole a LOT of classified documents, and was keeping them in that “home?” Are you really going to try to spread that bullshit here?

And negotiated for months about it in bad faith
And he lied about not having them..as did his “lawyer” (indicted yesterday)
And ignored a subpoena iirc

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 11:37:33am

Trump is the apex, bull goose loony victim.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 22, 2024 • 11:38:03am

re: #14 Dangerman

And negotiated for months about it in bad faith
And he lied about not having them..as did his “lawyer” (indicted yesterday)
And ignored a subpoena iirc

Let’s try and stay focused of the Standard Protocol of FBI agents which “includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.”

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 22, 2024 • 11:38:10am

re: #2 Shropshire Slasher

usatoday.com

If they’d stop being abusive assholes, that frustration at people who are kind would dissipate.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 22, 2024 • 11:38:56am

re: #17 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

If they’d stop being abusive assholes, that frustration at people who are kind would dissipate.

Those pesky coastal elites.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 22, 2024 • 11:40:56am

re: #16 Shropshire Slasher

Let’s try and stay focused of the Standard Protocol of FBI agents which “includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.”

You’ve fixated on some Republican propaganda and expect us to focus on that? Do you understand why people here get frustrated by the propaganda you swallow and repeat without engaging your brain?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 22, 2024 • 11:41:26am

re: #18 Shropshire Slasher

Those pesky coastal elites.

What? Are you smoking crack today?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 11:47:07am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Uh. You do realize that it wasn’t Biden who raided Trump’s crime center, right? That this was a decision by the Justice Department because Trump stole a LOT of classified documents, and was keeping them in that “home?” Are you really going to try to spread that bullshit here?

And more have been found at Merde-a-Lago yesterday.

If I’d taken a single Confidential or Secret document home without very good reason and permission, I’d be in Ft. Leavenworth for the rest of my life.

More Classified Documents Found At Mar-A-Lago—Including In Trump’s Bedroom—After FBI Search, Filing Reveals (Forbes)

And no, it wouldn’t have been the “sitting President” prosecuting me. It would have been the military justice system.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  May 22, 2024 • 11:47:38am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 22, 2024 • 11:47:57am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Uh. You do realize that it wasn’t Biden who raided Trump’s crime center, right? That this was a decision by the Justice Department because Trump stole a LOT of classified documents, and was keeping them in that “home?” Are you really going to try to spread that bullshit here?

That dickhead is a fucking troll. Every. Single. Day.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 11:50:20am

re: #16 Shropshire Slasher

Let’s try and stay focused of the Standard Protocol of FBI agents which “includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.”

I suggest you stay focused on using your brain and learning to recognize when you’re being played by bullshit propaganda. Or maybe you do recognize it, and like it.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  May 22, 2024 • 11:50:55am
raid
1 of 2
noun
ˈrād
Synonyms of raid
1a: a hostile or predatory incursion
b: a surprise attack by a small force
2a: a brief foray outside one’s usual sphere
b: a sudden invasion by officers of the law
c: a daring operation against a competitor
d: the recruiting of personnel (such as faculty, executives, or athletes) from competing organizations
3: the act of mulcting public money
4: an attempt by professional operators to depress stock prices by concerted selling

Which one of these applied to the FBI search of Merde-a-Lago?

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 11:53:48am

“What Donald Trump said, falsely suggesting his political opponents are out to kill him, is beyond the pale and is the stuff that leads to political violence,” Schumer said.
abcnews.go.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 22, 2024 • 11:55:11am

re: #26 jaunte

Chuck is right. DT is going all out on the lies.

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BeachDem  May 22, 2024 • 11:55:34am

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

The fuckery never ends with these people.

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Ohio lawmakers are confident President Joe Biden will be on the November ballot, but how exactly that will happen remains the question. The fix won’t happen through the legislature, said Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens, R-Kitts Hill, and Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, during separate gaggles Tuesday morning.

“There’s just not the will to do that from the legislature,” Stephens said.

Russo said she was skeptical the fix was ever going to happen in the legislature.

“We’ve seen the dysfunction here in this place,” she said … I think at this point, you’re probably going to see either, you know, some sort of inner party effects or perhaps court action…”

“Even Alabama, their legislature was able to get this right,” Russo said.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 11:55:35am

re: #16 Shropshire Slasher

Let’s try and stay focused of the Standard Protocol of FBI agents which “includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.”

That was a Trump lie. He wasn’t even at Merde-a-Lago when they served the warrant on his staff (it was not a raid).

They waited to serve the warrant until he was out-of-town, to avoid the appearance of ordering around or cuffing a former president.

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 11:55:56am

re: #27 PhillyPretzel ✅

“Poland threatens the eastern borders of the Reich.”

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gocart mozart  May 22, 2024 • 11:56:08am
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EPR-radar  May 22, 2024 • 11:57:37am

re: #16 Shropshire Slasher

Let’s try and stay focused of the Standard Protocol of FBI agents which “includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.”

Why should intelligent people focus on lying Republican propaganda?

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lawhawk  May 22, 2024 • 11:58:44am

re: #27 PhillyPretzel ✅

Chuck is right. DT is going all out on the lies.

Because it’s dawning on him that by this time next week, he could be a convicted felon and facing incarceration based on the judge’s statements following the verdict.

34 felonies. Watch for a clean sweep on all 34. And because of his complete unrepentant nature, combative attitude towards the Court and the rule of law, Merchan could have him remanded to custody pending sentencing.

Anyone who isn’t Trump would be facing that outcome. So, when you hear all this blathering BS about two standards and double standards on the rule of law and justice in the Trump case, this is what Trumpists want everyone to ignore. Trump would be in jail pending trial in the classified docs trial, and therefore all the other cases would be subordinate to that case.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 22, 2024 • 12:00:53pm

re: #33 lawhawk

Exactly.

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Semper Fi  May 22, 2024 • 12:00:58pm

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The plumber just left after extracting a $630 cheque to replace my outside spicket, even though it was recently replaced in January. Behind the bar is why that cost us money under a putative warranty work.

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gocart mozart  May 22, 2024 • 12:01:54pm

Some proto-punk from Small Faces

The Small Faces - Montage-Debut at the Marquee.mpg


and now some jazz

collibosher……..♥ small faces

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 12:01:54pm

re: #18 Shropshire Slasher

Those pesky coastal elites.

You mean all the Republican senators and representatives educated in Ivy League schools? Those coastal elites?

The coastal elites in Spokane, Wash. who are bellyaching over this nonsense with Idaho? The place right now Idaho doctors are fleeing to and women have to get proper treatment because every maternity ward in Idaho is now shuttered for lack of physicians? Those coastal elites?

Coastal elites like former Nebraska US Senator Ben Sasse, now in charge of the University of Florida, implementing Gov. DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” and “bathroom trans panic” bills?

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Jay C  May 22, 2024 • 12:03:26pm

re: #28 BeachDem

What a clownshow (even by the abyssal standards of “Republican-controlled Statehouse”)!

Up to me, I’d find someone (State Dem Chair?) to cobble up a suit re President Biden’s ballot access, then go forum-shop for some judge who will be guaranteed to rule in their favor, then use said opinion to go ahead and get Joe on the ballot, as he should be. The Dems can crow over their “victory”, The GOP can just shrug and blame “the courts”.

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 12:04:14pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

The fuckery never ends with these people.

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I’d say that this effort would get shut down quickly by federal courts, but….

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retired cynic  May 22, 2024 • 12:06:27pm

re: #594 Shropshire Slasher

When is the last time a sitting President raided the former President’s home?

When is the last time a former President absconded with piles of government documents, including hundreds of top secret and special top secret documents, and refused to give them back? I bet that number is right at ONE. Perhaps that is the question you should be asking, and thinking about.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 22, 2024 • 12:08:09pm

Texas and gun purchase issue

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lawhawk  May 22, 2024 • 12:15:03pm

I seem to recall that every few years there’s a story about how this group in one of the western states - CA, ID, WA, OR, want to secede from their state to join another state or form their own new state.

It’s the same nonsense each time too.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 12:15:24pm

Bluesky has DMs!

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 12:15:41pm

re: #40 retired cynic

When is the last time a former President absconded with piles of government documents, including hundreds of top secret and special top secret documents, and refused to give them back? I bet that number is right at ONE. Perhaps that is the question you should be asking, and thinking about.

Dude is showing his ass. You have better things to do than attempt to engage a bad faith actor in good faith.

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retired cynic  May 22, 2024 • 12:16:16pm

re: #44 Mike Lamb

Dude is showing his ass. You have better things to do than attempt to engage a bad faith actor in good faith.

Not today, I don’t.

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Nerdy Fish  May 22, 2024 • 12:19:41pm

re: #42 lawhawk

I seem to recall that every few years there’s a story about how this group in one of the western states - CA, ID, WA, OR, want to secede from their state to join another state or form their own new state.

It’s the same nonsense each time too.

Minnesota wanted to do that too, and join the Dakotas. As you said, it’s the same performative nonsense, over and over.

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Jay C  May 22, 2024 • 12:20:09pm

The Mrs. just showed me a “breaking news” vid about Judge Aileen Cannon reportedly being removed from the Trump documents case via a ruling by the 11th Circuit? Anyone know anything about this?
Real? Old news? BS?

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 12:21:30pm

Congress Has Made Fully Obscuring Aircraft Ownership Information A Reality

Curiously data privacy for the rest of us not just keeps decreasing, but people are currently arguing for how we need to give LEOs more power to warrantlessly monitor people because terrorism.

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Nerdy Fish  May 22, 2024 • 12:21:40pm

re: #47 Jay C

The Mrs. just showed me a “breaking news” vid about Judge Aileen Cannon reportedly being removed from the Trump documents case via a ruling by the 11th Circuit? Anyone know anything about this?
Real? Old news? BS?

This is the second time it’s come up. As far as I’m aware, it hasn’t even come before the 11th Circuit yet. I also would expect my Bluesky feed to be positively exploding; as far as I can tell, all quiet on the western front, so I’m going to call shenanigans.

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dat_said  May 22, 2024 • 12:22:16pm

re: #46 Nerdy Fish

Minnesota wanted to do that too, and join the Dakotas. As you said, it’s the same performative nonsense, over and over.

What’s funny is the western side of ND considers Fargo and Grand Forks and NDSU and UND as being “eastern elitists”.

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lawhawk  May 22, 2024 • 12:22:23pm

re: #47 Jay C

The Mrs. just showed me a “breaking news” vid about Judge Aileen Cannon reportedly being removed from the Trump documents case via a ruling by the 11th Circuit? Anyone know anything about this?
Real? Old news? BS?

BS - any change in the assigned judge would appear in the courtlistener (because there’d be related motions, decisions, etc.):

courtlistener.com

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No Malarkey!  May 22, 2024 • 12:25:27pm

Good news, negative headline, because negativity gets clicks.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 12:25:49pm

re: #50 dat_said

What’s funny is the western side of ND considers Fargo and Grand Forks and NDSU and UND as being “eastern elitists”.

The capacity to pare people into finer and finer segments of good wholesome people versus strangers from over there is infinite…particularly if you’re incentivized to do it because it’s the only explanation for discomfort and alienation you’ll accept.

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dat_said  May 22, 2024 • 12:29:04pm

re: #53 The Ghost of a Flea

The capacity to pare people into finer and finer segments of good wholesome people versus strangers from over there is infinite…particularly if you’re incentivized to do it because it’s the only explanation for discomfort and alienation you’ll accept.

Sure, if you want to get all intellectual about it, but those *spit* dirt farmers on the east side know nothing about the manly and rugged life led by the west side oilmen and ranchers.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 12:32:15pm

re: #54 dat_said

Sure, if you want to get all intellectual about it, but those *spit* dirt farmers on the east side know nothing about the manly and rugged life led by the west side oilmen and ranchers.

One village over: they do things the wrong way, but you’ll only grumble if your kid marries one of them.
Two villages over: probably thieves and perverts.
Three villages over: absolutely thieves and perverts.
Four villages over: werehyenas.

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 12:32:16pm

re: #52 No Malarkey!

Good news, negative headline, because negativity gets clicks.

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Or, “Biggest US Retailers Cutting Prices as Shoppers Sick of Price Gouging”.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 12:33:45pm

re: #54 dat_said

As scion of East Oregon ranchers…admittedly those people are just feudalists in denim.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 12:33:59pm

re: #35 Semper Fi

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 12:34:21pm

re: #47 Jay C

The Mrs. just showed me a “breaking news” vid about Judge Aileen Cannon reportedly being removed from the Trump documents case via a ruling by the 11th Circuit? Anyone know anything about this?
Real? Old news? BS?

Unfortunately, not real.

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retired cynic  May 22, 2024 • 12:35:13pm

The woman who started the “Biden tried to assassinate Trump” thing, according to a comment on WaPo’s article about it, is Julie Kelly, married to John Kelly Jr, a lobbying for agribusiness giant, ADM. She has been doing things like this since 2015. Her big thing has been fighting the International Agency for Research on Cancer because of their work on glyphosate. Amazing. Roundup. (Pers. note: my husband had bladder cancer attributed to farm chemicals. It was not fatal, fortunately, but he lost almost all of his bladder.) The IARC says they have received “a pattern of consistent but misleading reports” once they classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. So she’s on my bad list anyway.

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darthstar  May 22, 2024 • 12:42:47pm

So did Cannon throw out Trump’s case in Florida? Or will this get the SCOTUS to release their decision on immunity?

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lawhawk  May 22, 2024 • 12:46:01pm

re: #61 darthstar

It’s not on the calendar, but it hasn’t been adjudicated. The supposed rationale is that Cannon didn’t want to gum up her calendar waiting for SCOTUS to rule on the immunity claims.

But it hasn’t been dismissed or otherwise tossed.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 12:49:20pm

re: #62 lawhawk

It’s not on the calendar, but it hasn’t been adjudicated. The supposed rationale is that Cannon didn’t want to gum up her calendar waiting for SCOTUS to rule on the immunity claims.

But it hasn’t been dismissed or otherwise tossed.

Right, she just did what needed to be done to make sure it won’t happen before the election.

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wrenchwench  May 22, 2024 • 12:51:56pm

Hey, snout fans:

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  May 22, 2024 • 12:54:17pm

So did succeed in getting Queen Bee today

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wrenchwench  May 22, 2024 • 1:02:08pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 1:07:22pm

re: #8 PhillyPretzel ✅

I am not sure of the laws of Ohio and their primaries/caucuses but I do know in PA one can write in a candidate.

Let me guess—Mr. Sleazeball will declare that any write-in votes for Biden are invalid.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 22, 2024 • 1:10:47pm

re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅

I am sure he will try.

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sizzzzlerz  May 22, 2024 • 1:10:53pm

re: #42 lawhawk

I seem to recall that every few years there’s a story about how this group in one of the western states - CA, ID, WA, OR, want to secede from their state to join another state or form their own new state.

It’s the same nonsense each time too.

Drvie through far northern California and you’ll see evidence with signs promoting the state of jefferson. I’ve seen them for 20 years or more, there, all faded and decaying on the roofs of barns and falling-over road signs along I-5. AFAIK, promoters have never gotten beyond those to placing a ballot initiative on the docket because they know they’d be squashed like bugs.

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Patricia Kayden  May 22, 2024 • 1:11:35pm

re: #2 Shropshire Slasher

Why don’t they move to Idaho? Ridiculous people.

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gocart mozart  May 22, 2024 • 1:20:32pm
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JC1  May 22, 2024 • 1:22:44pm

OpenAI announced a multi year deal with News Corp.
Oh boy.
openai.com

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 1:23:33pm

re: #70 Patricia Kayden

Why don’t they move to Idaho? Ridiculous people.

Because the people that want this imagine themselves as regional oligarchs by entitlement, and want to “secede” to a state where they feel the state’s central power will enhance their regional power.

It’s not about having a community with shared values, it’s about having power to make your community do what you want. Moving means giving up that power.

And somewhere in here you get into the “feudalists in denim” aspect of this: throughout the US West you have people that hold most of their capital in the form of land, and have an anachronistic understanding of hierarchy in which land ownership is a kind of superior class that should not be constrained by “town people” who are seen as interlopers that shouldn’t have franchise. Interconnection with far-away cities…who represent a different kind of capital-based hierarchy that can generate more clout than land-holding…is intolerable. This results in stuff like the Sagebrush Rebellion and kind of shit the Bundys get up to.

(this is a precise and intentional inversion of the actual settlement of the US West: small settlements came first, massive farms and ranches came after and effectively did the same thing as the Enclosure in Europe…taking all the commonwealth and privatizing it. The current movement is in no small part ressentiment that the US government stepped in and nationalized a bunch of land that was earmarked to be divided up like chunks of Westeros between cattle barons, mine operators, and Deseret nationalists.)

It’s regional oligarchy for the kind of people that shot at Wyatt Earp.

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Patricia Kayden  May 22, 2024 • 1:24:23pm

re: #28 BeachDem

So are Democrats in Ohio going to wait until the last minute to file a lawsuit or do it now so that the courts can litigate and decide this long before the ballots are finalized?

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Nerdy Fish  May 22, 2024 • 1:26:02pm

re: #71 gocart mozart

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It’s tradition that the Prime Minister addresses the media from Downing Street outside Number Ten. Also, it’s an apt metaphor, with him getting absolutely soaked.

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No Malarkey!  May 22, 2024 • 1:26:14pm

In Kentucky’s primaries yesterday, far-right “Liberty” Republicans made some gains against establishment Republicans, proving they aren’t just a Northern Kentucky thing. Led by congressman Thomas Massie, they believe in Covid, vaccine and election denial theories, oppose aid to Ukraine, and are extremely homophobic and anti-trans. One GOP moderate lost primarily because he voted against an anti-trans bill which his opponent, named Thomas Jefferson (really) made the #1 campaign issue.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2024 • 1:28:58pm

re: #30 jaunte

“Poland threatens the eastern borders of the Reich.”

They attacked the German radio station at Markgleiwitz! Since 5.45, we have been returning fire!!!

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No Malarkey!  May 22, 2024 • 1:29:32pm

re: #71 gocart mozart

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Tories looking to suffer their biggest setback on July 4 since 1776.

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Florida Panhandler  May 22, 2024 • 1:31:05pm

re: #74 Patricia Kayden

So are Democrats in Ohio going to wait until the last minute to file a lawsuit or do it now so that the courts can litigate and decide this long before the ballots are finalized?

Hold off and let the Republican assholes hang themselves.

Let the conspiracy-minded usual Trump clown show contingent stew about how they can spin an actual in-your-face political hack job by banning Biden from the ballot. Should make for entertaining sound bites and trip over your own clown shoes series of gaffes and direct public contradictions all while leading up to the final leg of the Election.

Don’t count on any utterly corrupt current SCOTUS ruling. But do expect actual pitchforks and torches accosting Republican assholes on a daily basis. They will cave from cowardice, not from any sort of honor.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2024 • 1:34:13pm

Is there anything to prevents the Democrats from moving up the date of when they nominate Biden, at least on paper (it being a given anyways)?

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Nerdy Fish  May 22, 2024 • 1:34:17pm

re: #79 Florida Panhandler

Here’s the thing: If the Democrats take it to court, the corrupt clowns on the Calvinball Court will just delay it until after the election, then rule in favor of Biden: “Oh, he should’ve been on the ballot, but we just couldn’t get around to it in a timely fashion. Ooooops.” I still think it’s just procedural shenanigannery, in the end, but it’s starting to get real fucking annoying dealing with these obstructionists who are determined to take whatever petty swipes they can at the lawfully elected President.

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Nojay UK  May 22, 2024 • 1:35:02pm

re: #75 Nerdy Fish

It’s tradition that the Prime Minister addresses the media from Downing Street outside Number Ten. Also, it’s an apt metaphor, with him getting absolutely soaked.

There was a short gap in the rain, they set up the podium and Sunak came out of Number 10 and began his suicide note by wittering on about how much good the Conservatives had done for the nation over the past few years. The heavy rain started again, “giein’ it pelters” as they would say in my old home town. No time for an umbrella, no chance of breaking off and doing it again so eventually he got to the good bit and told us what we already knew, that this Parliamentary session was toast and the election was going to be in early July.

The visuals probably lost the Tories another ten seats in the upcoming slaughter.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 1:36:40pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve brought this up a couple of times, of the DNC’s foolishness in holding their convention so late.

There is nothing to prevent the DNC from nominating Biden >before* that date, other than the DNC’s own arrogance.

Yes, I say arrogance.

The whole deal about the Chicago convention is to play to one particular segment of the Democratic Party’s base.

Which is fine - parties have to do that - but to do so in light of now more than one state pointing out that the DNC’s nomination will be too late to get Biden on the ballot.

This is not Republican f*ckery as much as just general American foolishness regarding elections.

There is legitimacy to the criticisms (usually by the extreme leftwing of the party) that the DNC establishment feels entitled to their ways and their position.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 1:37:23pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

edited

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 1:37:45pm

re: #52 No Malarkey!

Good news, negative headline, because negativity gets clicks.

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That’s one of the oldest tricks in the book.

Headine A: 20% of college students will see higher tuition fees next year

Headline B: New report suggests 4 in 5 college students will not see cost increases in 2025

Same data. Different spins.

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No Malarkey!  May 22, 2024 • 1:40:15pm

re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is there anything to prevents the Democrats from moving up the date of when they nominate Biden, at least on paper (it being a given anyways)?

It’s important, because even though Trump will win Ohio, there is a critical US Senate race there, and Democratic turnout could be hurt if Biden is not on the ballot.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 1:42:17pm

re: #86 No Malarkey!

It’s important, because even though Trump will win Ohio, there is a critical US Senate race there, and Democratic turnout could be hurt if Biden is not on the ballot.

This. Very much this.

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BeachDem  May 22, 2024 • 1:44:03pm

re: #74 Patricia Kayden

So are Democrats in Ohio going to wait until the last minute to file a lawsuit or do it now so that the courts can litigate and decide this long before the ballots are finalized?

Hard to say. My most political Dem friend in Columbus thinks DeWine will fix the mess—not sure why she thinks that, but she doesn’t seem worried about it and feels confident Joe will be on the ballot.

I don’t think he’ll take Ohio anyway, but I think it’s important that he be on the ballot for Sherrod Brown’s sake among others.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 1:44:22pm

re: #76 No Malarkey!

In Kentucky’s primaries yesterday, far-right “Liberty” Republicans made some gains against establishment Republicans, proving they aren’t just a Northern Kentucky thing. Led by congressman Thomas Massie, they believe in Covid, vaccine and election denial theories, oppose aid to Ukraine, and are extremely homophobic and anti-trans. One GOP moderate lost primarily because he voted against an anti-trans bill which his opponent, named Thomas Jefferson (really) made the #1 campaign issue.

Yeah, I don’t talk politics in open spaces any more, it’s genuinely been getting worse since the time a dude marched out of his house to scream at my Mom for voting for a Muslim as she did a morning walk.

I posted this Judith Butler quote the other day because it pretty much feels like my life:

Talking to people involves the realization that QAnon talking points have been adopted in slightly-watered-down versions because they’re gnosis—questioning their premises is immoral (are you a pervert or a terrorist?) but also axiomatically Wrong. It’s simply impossible to discourse with people because they’re innoculated against proof and reasoning.

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No Malarkey!  May 22, 2024 • 1:44:51pm

The correct answer to all of these questions is “none of your fucking business.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2024 • 1:45:22pm

re: #86 No Malarkey!

It’s important, because even though Trump will win Ohio, there is a critical US Senate race there, and Democratic turnout could be hurt if Biden is not on the ballot.

The RNC sees it as fair turn around for Colorado trying to kick Trump off the ballot for being a seditious treasonweasel

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 1:49:49pm

re: #90 No Malarkey!

The correct answer to all of these questions is “none of your fucking business.”

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Goddamn. That’s some eugenics bullshit right there.

The small government folks want the state to decide whether or not a woman has enough kids?

Makes perfect sense. 🙄

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Belafon  May 22, 2024 • 1:52:57pm

re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The RNC sees it as fair turn around for Colorado trying to kick Trump off the ballot for being a seditious treasonweasel

Where the Supreme Court said they couldn’t do it.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 1:57:28pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

Goddamn. That’s some eugenics bullshit right there.

The small government folks want the state to decide whether or not a woman has enough kids?

Makes perfect sense. 🙄

Like, observe that conservatism constantly points to “traditional” social structures that incorporate absolute authority…”the family,” “church,” “the military”…as guides for what society should prioritize and realize that it hasn’t been otherwise since President Garfield was shot.

Government is supposed to be small because it’s the back-up force for existing power structures, not because individual liberty is valued such that non-intervention constrains government size.

Small government means letting alone slave owners but providing laws to ensure their “property” can’t liberate themselves. Small government is doing Banana Wars and turning the couped nation over to private interests rather than starting a full colonial occupation. Small government means it’s no business of anybody else how hard a man hits his kids…or his wife…or his servants.

The government exists to add formal enforcement power to existing hierarchies, that’s what conservatism has been since it was a justification for monarchy that countered the philsophies that motivated the French Revolution.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 22, 2024 • 1:57:40pm

re: #90 No Malarkey!

The correct answer to all of these questions is “none of your fucking business.”

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Or “My body, my choice”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2024 • 1:58:14pm

re: #93 Belafon

Where the Supreme Court said they couldn’t do it.

Their Supreme Task in 2024/25 will be to produce rulings that help ensure that DJT wins a second term

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Decatur Deb  May 22, 2024 • 2:00:28pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve brought this up a couple of times, of the DNC’s foolishness in holding their convention so late.

There is nothing to prevent the DNC from nominating Biden >before* that date, other than the DNC’s own arrogance.

Yes, I say arrogance.

The whole deal about the Chicago convention is to play to one particular segment of the Democratic Party’s base.

Which is fine - parties have to do that - but to do so in light of now more than one state pointing out that the DNC’s nomination will be too late to get Biden on the ballot.

This is not Republican f*ckery as much as just general American foolishness regarding elections.

There is legitimacy to the criticisms (usually by the extreme leftwing of the party) that the DNC establishment feels entitled to their ways and their position.

When Alabama’s SoS tried his version of this, an early certification of Biden’s win was proposed. He rejected anything other than the convention result.

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Randall Gross  May 22, 2024 • 2:02:26pm

So how exactly do DM”s in Bluesky work? Investigating….

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silverdolphin  May 22, 2024 • 2:03:56pm

Democrat Punished On House Floor For Accurately Saying Trump Is On Trial

Not only are Democrats not allowed to speak facts about Trump but they can be silenced from any more debate and their words removed from the record simply for stating facts, such as “Trump has been indicted.”

BREAKING NEWS: House Floor Forced To Completely Stop After McGovern & Houchin Clash Over Trump Trial

Sounds like fascism to me.

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Randall Gross  May 22, 2024 • 2:04:59pm

So this is a screen I found

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Semper Fi  May 22, 2024 • 2:05:09pm

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 2:07:49pm

Hey Charles,

Any progress on the rate limiting thing with Bluesky?

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Jay C  May 22, 2024 • 2:08:41pm

re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter

So did succeed in getting Queen Bee today

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Randall Gross  May 22, 2024 • 2:10:20pm

Here is the thread on how Bluesky DM’s work

Direct Messages (DMs) are now available on Bluesky!

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Randall Gross  May 22, 2024 • 2:12:52pm

Some people are bellwethers because through them you can see which winds from the right are blowing hardest, and which horses are just stalking… while they can be irritating, it’s good to keep a few around so we knows what is going on.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2024 • 2:18:31pm

re: #105 Randall Gross

Some people are bellwethers because through them you can see which winds from the right are blowing hardest, and which horses are just stalking… while they can be irritating, it’s good to keep a few around so we knows what is going on.

Like our buddy Dark Falcon

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 22, 2024 • 2:18:47pm

re: #100 Randall Gross

YOU’RE USING COCONUTS!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 2:19:20pm

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

Like our buddy Dark Falcon

There’s someone I haven’t thought of in a while.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 2:20:56pm

NY Times tomorrow: A professor who specializes on judicial ethics at NYU said: “No reasonable person can infer that Justice Alito would have assumed that the confederate flag would be offensive to some. And the Punisher logo simply reflects an interest in a popular comic book character.”

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T21:12:20.970Z

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 2:21:22pm

Another January 6 flag, at Alito’s beach house this time.

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Egregious Philbin  May 22, 2024 • 2:22:30pm

Alito….fucking talibornagain christian nationalist zealot.

Seriously…fuck this clown.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 2:23:01pm

re: #110 Charles Johnson

Another January 6 flag, at Alito’s beach house this time.

And Slimy Sammy doesn’t care. He’s above the law just like Slappy T.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2024 • 2:23:10pm

Alito could’ve flown a red and black swastika flag and apologists would simply insist that it is a Hopi/Hindu symbol of peace.

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gocart mozart  May 22, 2024 • 2:23:47pm
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darthstar  May 22, 2024 • 2:26:54pm

re: #114 gocart mozart

Is that even the same street Trump Tower is on?

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 2:27:24pm

Supreme Court Justice Alito’s Beach House Displayed ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag - The New York Times

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-22T21:25:43.000Z

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Patricia Kayden  May 22, 2024 • 2:29:31pm

Just heard on Nicole Wallace’s show that Nikki Haley has endorsed Trump. What a spineless troll she is.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 2:29:46pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

Ok…what’s next involving Slimy Sammy?

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KGxvi  May 22, 2024 • 2:29:57pm

re: #2 Shropshire Slasher

I wouldn’t put too much stock in the Greater Idaho movement. The better half’s parents live in Malhuer County and she was living up there for a couple of years as well, so I’ve spent some time there.

The election for Malhuer had a turnout of 35% and the vote was like 3000-2500. I don’t think there is actually the support that people think there is, even if there’s a sense that the state government in Salem ignores the eastern half of the state.

Also, a lot of those border counties have a lot of weed businesses that are contributing to the cities and counties that will suddenly no longer be able to do business if they became part of Idaho.

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darthstar  May 22, 2024 • 2:31:03pm

Alito’s a freak.

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Randall Gross  May 22, 2024 • 2:31:06pm

re: #107 GlutenFreeJesus

YOU’RE USING COCONUTS!

Yes but what’s the speed of….

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darthstar  May 22, 2024 • 2:31:44pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

Ok…what’s next involving Slimy Sammy?

Another day, another flag.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 22, 2024 • 2:32:39pm

re: #82 Nojay UK

There was a short gap in the rain, they set up the podium and Sunak came out of Number 10 and began his suicide note by wittering on about how much good the Conservatives had done for the nation over the past few years. The heavy rain started again, “giein’ it pelters” as they would say in my old home town. No time for an umbrella, no chance of breaking off and doing it again so eventually he got to the good bit and told us what we already knew, that this Parliamentary session was toast and the election was going to be in early July.

The visuals probably lost the Tories another ten seats in the upcoming slaughter.

LOL! And good!!

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 2:35:24pm

This is so bad.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 22, 2024 • 2:35:50pm

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s someone I haven’t thought of in a while.

I actually thought of him a couple of days ago when dealing with someone else who just believes whatever they’re told to believe.

Some probably significant number of people just believe whatever an authority wants them to believe. That’s been freaking me out lately with the election coming up and polls saying people want to reward a criminal who betrayed the nation by making him President again.

I’m pretty much continuously at a low-level freakout that can flare up when terrible news comes in. I am not the laid-back person I was in 2016.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 2:36:44pm

Those two assholes MUST GO!

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 2:38:18pm

re: #99 silverdolphin

Reality must be suspended and hurtful statements of reality must be removed from the record.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 2:39:31pm

Now watch the firestorm when the court rules 5-4 that Trump and ONLY Trump has total immunity for everything he has done.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2024 • 2:40:08pm

re: #125 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I’m pretty much continuously at a low-level freakout that can flare up when terrible news comes in. I am not the laid-back person I was in 2016.

My optimism is shot. I live expecting the worst, at least when it regards the upcoming election.

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No Malarkey!  May 22, 2024 • 2:40:13pm

re: #117 Patricia Kayden

Just heard on Nicole Wallace’s show that Nikki Haley has endorsed Trump. What a spineless troll she is.

It was inevitable; she wants to run in 2028.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 2:41:54pm

re: #117 Patricia Kayden

Just heard on Nicole Wallace’s show that Nikki Haley has endorsed Trump. What a spineless troll she is.

Was there ever any doubt she wouldn’t?

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Jay C  May 22, 2024 • 2:41:57pm

re: #115 darthstar

Is that even the same street Trump Tower is on?

Yep. Fifth Avenue and East 56th St.
They got that right, at least.

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TedStriker  May 22, 2024 • 2:42:18pm

re: #130 No Malarkey!

It was inevitable; she wants to run in 2028.

Haley wants VPOTUS first as a stepping stone (and perhaps to fall right into the top job when the hamberders finally catch up to Mango Mussolini), I’m sure.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 2:44:58pm

re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg

Hey Charles,

Any progress on the rate limiting thing with Bluesky?

I forgot to contact them, but I just posted a question about it at their repo.

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No Malarkey!  May 22, 2024 • 2:45:18pm

Alito doesn’t care that we know he is biased; he won’t recuse from anything.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  May 22, 2024 • 2:46:13pm

re: #135 No Malarkey!

Alito doesn’t care that we know he is biased; he won’t recuse from anything.

After rulings where he blatantly lied about the FACTS of the case, no wonder.

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Belafon  May 22, 2024 • 2:48:09pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yeah, I guess thinking that Ohio woukd do the same thing they did for Republicans in 2020 is clearly an error. In 2028 they can schedule their convention the same day as the GOP.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 2:48:54pm

re: #133 TedStriker

Haley wants VPOTUS first as a stepping stone (and perhaps to fall right into the top job when the hamberders finally catch up to Mango Mussolini).

And she will NEVER be nominated because the MAGATS will NEVER forgive her “treachery” for daring to challenge Gawd’s Anointed King.

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Belafon  May 22, 2024 • 2:52:22pm

re: #114 gocart mozart

Twitter nuked the community notes on that one.

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 2:56:18pm

re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter

So did succeed in getting Queen Bee today

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EstebanTornado1963  May 22, 2024 • 2:58:36pm

Ugg, Nicole Wallace fawning over that rat fucker James Comey 😡

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 2:59:43pm

Regardless of your position on gun control, I don’t see how anyone can honestly believe “citizens should have a right to bear arms” and “possession of a firearm alone should be enough cause for police to instantly kill you” can coexist as rules. It just makes no sense.

— Jason Pargin, author (@jasonkpargin.bsky.social) 2024-05-13T19:02:53.322Z

At some point we’re going to have to take the extra step of acknowledging that the stated rules are riddled with unstated assumptions, and change can only happen by stating them aloud and then stripping them out.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:01:01pm

Not for nothing, Alito’s flag is the same Christian nationalist flag Mike Johnson’s got outside his office.

— Jeff Lazarus (@jlazarus.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T21:32:01.627Z

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 3:01:12pm

re: #110 Charles Johnson

Another January 6 flag, at Alito’s beach house this time.

I’m sure his wife was still pissed off that about the signs his neighbor in Virginia put up. Nothing to worry about.

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Nerdy Fish  May 22, 2024 • 3:01:33pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

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I’m sure this is just fine. Nothing to see here, move along.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 3:03:38pm

The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely

“NASA will share more details once we have a clearer path forward.”

arstechnica.com

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 3:03:52pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve brought this up a couple of times, of the DNC’s foolishness in holding their convention so late.

There is nothing to prevent the DNC from nominating Biden >before* that date, other than the DNC’s own arrogance.

Yes, I say arrogance.

The whole deal about the Chicago convention is to play to one particular segment of the Democratic Party’s base.

Which is fine - parties have to do that - but to do so in light of now more than one state pointing out that the DNC’s nomination will be too late to get Biden on the ballot.

This is not Republican f*ckery as much as just general American foolishness regarding elections.

There is legitimacy to the criticisms (usually by the extreme leftwing of the party) that the DNC establishment feels entitled to their ways and their position.

My guy…this is absolutely 100% Republican fuckery.

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 3:05:48pm

re: #142 The Ghost of a Flea

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Didn’t take them too long to arrive at “The n***er had it coming!”, did it?

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 3:06:15pm

The actual fear I have for AI is that it’s going to be the Great And Powerful Oz from our fundamentally-corrupt enforcement agencies.

We’re already justifying surveilling and killing people with opaque declarations of confidence that turn out to be black boxes with nothing on the inside. But with the pre-existing cultural understanding of computers as lacking human fallibility…expressedly part of the current hype cycle…the power of a computational black box to create the pretext of justification while rendering the logic of justification near-impossible to follow for already unjust systems just can’t be discounted.

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Eventual Carrion  May 22, 2024 • 3:06:24pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

The fuckery never ends with these people.

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Just for grins Biden should file as a write-in candidate.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 3:10:40pm

re: #148 Mike Lamb

Didn’t take them too long to arrive at “The n***er had it coming!”, did it?

It’s horrifying watching them work backwards to find the reason.

One of the few pages I’ve ever done on LGF was documenting the pipeline from conservative social media to conservative outlets that Trayvon Martin was buying Skittles to make lean.

This doesn’t even make sense, you use Jolly Ranchers to make lean, but it’s a detail that allows those that want the shooting to be just to feel confirmation that the dead person deserved it and thus the whole situation could be dimissed without thought. The absolute pettiness of it still stands out to me: everything about the dead black man must be rendered suspect.

I’m dabbling in Judith Butler lately and I’ve run into the idea of abjectification…where you render a person not into a thing, but a kind of being that is outside of norms and thus can be used or harmed without triggering internal or social upset. I didn’t know the term before but it’s the thing I’ve been obsessing about for years…the process you can see people do of confabulating a story such that the dead people just don’t bear notice.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:11:30pm

Fuck the Supreme Court. Alito shoudn’t even qualify for a low level security clearance. bsky.app/profile/adam…

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T21:31:51.136Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 3:11:57pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

With these people in power, we are a de facto Christian Nation.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 3:12:06pm

Our 21st century reality:

Our Shirts Are Garbage | Climate Town.


..

What I do know is this: It’s been many years now since I’ve been able to rely on brand names like Hanes or FotL to get good t-shirts. They offer many kinds of t-shirts but the quality on all but the most expensive is really, really low.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 3:14:33pm

re: #147 Mike Lamb

My guy…this is absolutely 100% Republican fuckery.

But no more so than, say, some very wealthy person exploiting legal means of having shell companies to hide wealth. Said rich person is following the law, even if it is odious.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 22, 2024 • 3:14:34pm

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s someone I haven’t thought of in a while.

I thought of him earlier today when someone in the thread below brought up Kevin Williamson.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:15:36pm

re: #154 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What I do know is this: It’s been many years now since I’ve been able to rely on brand names like Hanes or FotL to get good t-shirts. They offer many kinds of t-shirts but the quality on all but the most expensive is really, really low.

I’ve been getting my t-shirts for years from Eddie Bauer. They have the best fit and durability, and very good quality cotton. Not the cheapest but not super expensive either.

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 3:15:42pm

re: #142 The Ghost of a Flea

At some point we’re going to have to take the extra step of acknowledging that the stated rules are riddled with unstated assumptions, and change can only happen by stating them aloud and then stripping them out.

the generalized law enforcement position seems to be it’s easier to just kill people than to prevent them from getting guns in the first place.

if they are that fearful of everyone, if they think everyone has a gun and can kill them in an instant, if that’s how they approach their job, then they should be 100% behind leading the fight for reasonable gun accountability. not even draconian confiscation, control and registration, etc. just reasonable stuff that could make them less fearful in their work.

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 3:16:47pm

re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But no more so than, say, some very wealthy person exploiting legal means of having shell companies to hide wealth. Said rich person is following the law, even if it is odious.

Considering they’ve granted accommodations to the GOP in the past on this exact issue, your analogy doesn’t apply. This is pure fuckery with absolutely nothing backing their position.

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 3:18:08pm

re: #158 Dangerman

the generalized law enforcement position seems to be it’s easier to just kill people than to prevent them from getting guns in the first place.

if they are that fearful of everyone, if they think everyone has a gun and can kill them in an instant, if that’s how they approach their job, then they should be 100% behind leading the fight for reasonable gun accountability. not even draconian confiscation, control and registration, etc. just reasonable stuff that could make them less fearful in their work.

1) Given the state of the law on an officer’s use of lethal force, they 100% believe it’s just easier to kill people.

2) They aren’t fearful. They go into law enforcement hoping to be able to kill someone.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:18:35pm

Just made a change that I think may help with Bluesky embeds. When I refresh the page they’re all loading now.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 3:20:03pm

Trump suggests he is open to states restricting access to birth control

www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20…

— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner.bsky.social) 2024-05-21T16:33:48.444Z

The thing about “conservatives” is that if you follow their behavior rather than their self-description, the pattern that forms is that they will devolve or evolve who holds what power opportunistically, with no regard for “size” of government.

For years their goal was privatization of the state because that gave coercive power to capital holders they view as the most important holders of franchise…the people that “deserve” representation by government. But this wasn’t an ideological commitment it was what seemed like the best viable strategy. Conscience laws were a similar experiment in atomizing antiabortion and anti-queer sentiments.

With the process of judiciary capture working in their favor, they’re now willing to explore more involved state intervention in the lives of individuals, but aren’t confident enough to simply throw it immediately to the federal level. Hence we’ve returned to states’ rights…which has always been a cynical, strategic division of power.

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 3:20:19pm

re: #154 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Carhartt K87 pocket tees are good.

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 3:21:57pm

re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But no more so than, say, some very wealthy person exploiting legal means of having shell companies to hide wealth. Said rich person is following the law, even if it is odious.

some wealthy persons use the law.

others abuse it. they speed, knowing they are speeding, merely hoping to not get caught.
then when they get nabbed, they claim it’s ‘unfair’ because ‘everyone does it’.

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Eventual Carrion  May 22, 2024 • 3:23:09pm

re: #8 PhillyPretzel ✅

I am not sure of the laws of Ohio and their primaries/caucuses but I do know in PA one can write in a candidate.

I checked Ohio election law, they can if they declare they are running as a write-in candidate. Probably so they can dismiss counting all the written ins for “Mickey Mouse”, “Mike Hunt”, “Haywood Jablowme” and “Wilma Fingerdew”.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:24:17pm

DMs on Bluesky will not be “end-to-end encrypted” until we are able to do some more protocol work.

We have very careful access controls within our systems.

If you’re extremely privacy conscious, I’d recommend using Bluesky DMs to share your Signal accounts!

— Paul “Frazee” 🦋 (@pfrazee.com) 2024-05-22T20:29:47.664Z

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Dangerman  May 22, 2024 • 3:24:22pm

re: #160 Mike Lamb

1) Given the state of the law on an officer’s use of lethal force, they 100% believe it’s just easier to kill people.

2) They aren’t fearful. They go into law enforcement hoping to be able to kill someone.

of course you’re right but they cant say that on an application.
that’s why i framed it as of course they are there to protect and serve

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 3:25:41pm

re: #159 Mike Lamb

Considering they’ve granted accommodations to the GOP in the past on this exact issue, your analogy doesn’t apply. This is pure fuckery with absolutely nothing backing their position.

If the IRS decided not to enforce some tax rule because, say, they are understaffed and don’t want to spend an entire staff-year running down some esoteric violation, does that mean the IRS should not actually enforce tax laws in the future if they are better staffed?

It’s one thing to jump up and down and declare we are a nation of laws (as is done when trying to pin down Trump, for example), but then it is ok to skip some law because, well, the other guy does it?

I have no fondness for the GOP, Ohio or otherwise.

But sloppiness on the part of any party, in this case the DNC, is not something to keep doing.

Here is what minorities know: they have to be extra careful in following laws because they will be scrutinized more closely by the society (and the enforcement arms.)

I think the DNC does not really, really understand that.

I think the DNC is lazy, arising from too much entitlement. It’s not just this issue (of ignoring state laws/rules) but on several issues.

The entire abortion thing blew up because elected officials didn’t want to do the work (politically risky work) of encoding abortion rights into laws, instead relying on a 1970’s SCOTUS ruling.

Political parties fail when they get too big, too entrenched in the status quo.

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teleskiguy  May 22, 2024 • 3:28:48pm

Nikki Haley getting ready to show up to a Manhattan courthouse tomorrow.

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness The Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T22:27:26.937Z

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Mike Lamb  May 22, 2024 • 3:31:52pm

re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If the IRS decided not to enforce some tax rule because, say, they are understaffed and don’t want to spend an entire staff-year running down some esoteric violation, does that mean the IRS should not actually enforce tax laws in the future if they are better staffed?

It’s one thing to jump up and down and declare we are a nation of laws (as is done when trying to pin down Trump, for example), but then it is ok to skip some law because, well, the other guy does it?

I have no fondness for the GOP, Ohio or otherwise.

But sloppiness on the part of any party, in this case the DNC, is not something to keep doing.

Here is what minorities know: they have to be extra careful in following laws because they will be scrutinized more closely by the society (and the enforcement arms.)

I think the DNC does not really, really understand that.

I think the DNC is lazy, arising from too much entitlement. It’s not just this issue (of ignoring state laws/rules) but on several issues.

The entire abortion thing blew up because elected officials didn’t want to do the work (politically risky work) of encoding abortion rights into laws, instead relying on a 1970’s SCOTUS ruling.

Political parties fail when they get too big, too entrenched in the status quo.

Again—the difference here is that the SOS specifically granted an accommodation for this exact scenario for the GOP in the past. This isn’t “prosecutorial discretion”. It’s unequal, arbitrary enforcement of the law.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 3:32:14pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

re: #163 jaunte

Thanks.

I can shop around for high-quality shirts… but I guess my unhappiness is that I still have t-shirts from more than 20 years ago, that while well worn still hang together.

Bought some shirts the past couple of years from the big brands… and in the first or second washing a hole appears in a couple of them.

I never had that happen in the good old days.

Also, as the video I posted points out, there is a great likelihood that any shirt we buy today was made of low quality material and/or used near-slave labor to make.

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:32:38pm

Well, hello, I think I may have fixed the problems with bluesky embeds.

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darthstar  May 22, 2024 • 3:32:38pm

re: #169 teleskiguy

The check cleared.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 3:33:35pm

re: #170 Mike Lamb

Again—the difference here is that the SOS specifically granted an accommodation for this exact scenario for the GOP in the past. This isn’t “prosecutorial discretion”. It’s unequal, arbitrary enforcement of the law.

Granted the SoS is being a dick.

But as I tried to argue, minorities know they have to walk a straighter line than the majority.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 22, 2024 • 3:35:24pm

re: #154 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I get my t-shirts from Gorilla Wear a Dutch company that makes great workout clothing.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 3:35:41pm

re: #158 Dangerman

the generalized law enforcement position seems to be it’s easier to just kill people than to prevent them from getting guns in the first place.

if they are that fearful of everyone, if they think everyone has a gun and can kill them in an instant, if that’s how they approach their job, then they should be 100% behind leading the fight for reasonable gun accountability. not even draconian confiscation, control and registration, etc. just reasonable stuff that could make them less fearful in their work.

Personally I think what we’re watching will LEOs is part of the post-9/11 alteration of cop training in ways that confirm and approve the notions that cops are soldiers engaging in an occupation.

There don’t have to be formal rules about how cops kill because the implicit systemic norms inform who is among the occupied and thus inherently suspect. Sometimes cops overstep and kill somebody not rendered abject, or behave so openly egregiously, that a consequence must be created to avoid actual insurgency. Formal accountability systems create means for the occupied to defend themselves legally and, ultimately, physically, and therefore are contrary to the actual intention of policing: the free exploitation of the occupied while limiting their self-determination.

This generates the paradox of American gun ownership in which “gun owners” will justify anything the police do as necessary and practical until the police do it to them…because “guns” are just a kind of microcosm for caste distinction and the biggest injustice is the cops treating the high caste people like the low castes.

Hence every single car dealership owner’s wife or county ombudsman screaming “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM” in handcuffs while filmed in vertical video.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 22, 2024 • 3:39:32pm

Alito had a pine tree flag that said “appeal to heaven” at his beach house.

*oops*

Missed #152

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BeachDem  May 22, 2024 • 3:40:30pm

re: #169 teleskiguy

Comment at the WaPo, says what I’ve been saying all along.

That’s who she is- a rank opportunist without a moral compass (unless it’s politically expedient to have one).

And, since I haven’t had occasion to post it in awhile—Nikki personified:

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 22, 2024 • 3:41:29pm

re: #176 The Ghost of a Flea

Addendum: the same people that like violent cops make excuses for war crimes. Troops and police exist to harm people they don’t like first and foremost, and constraints on action are obstacles to that, the only important objective.

Hence the bafflement about the idea of PTSD in both groups: how could doing a good (and fun) thing cause distress?

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 22, 2024 • 3:42:35pm

*SPLAT* Haley said she will vote for Trump.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 22, 2024 • 3:46:12pm

re: #161 Charles Johnson

Just made a change that I think may help with Bluesky embeds. When I refresh the page they’re all loading now.

On mobile, too?

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:47:42pm

[ accidental repost deleted ]

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2024 • 3:47:55pm

Here’s a good primer on the meaning behind the flag that Alito flew, and a discussion of how the ideas behind the seven mountain mandate justified the J6 insurrection.

tldr - Alito is absorbed in some serious white Christian nationalist extremism.

open.spotify.com/episode/1CvX…

— Ian Carrillo (@iansociologo.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T22:37:18.367Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 3:50:08pm

re: #172 Charles Johnson

Well, hello, I think I may have fixed the problems with bluesky embeds.

They look good to me! You really are the best. 💪🏼😎

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jaunte  May 22, 2024 • 3:51:59pm

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

clarence thomas, off to the side, wipes the sweat off his brow, relieved that the attention is on somebody else for the moment

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EPR-radar  May 22, 2024 • 3:59:25pm

re: #170 Mike Lamb

Again—the difference here is that the SOS specifically granted an accommodation for this exact scenario for the GOP in the past. This isn’t “prosecutorial discretion”. It’s unequal, arbitrary enforcement of the law.

Of course it’s Republican ratfucking.

That said, it is still stupid for the DNC to give Republican ratfuckers such an easy ratfucking opportunity.

This is war, and the D party establishment doesn’t really seem to get that.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 22, 2024 • 4:04:19pm

For the third season of Reacher, they needed an actor to play a character described in the book the season is based on as so big he intimidates Reacher. They found Olivier Richters.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2024 • 4:05:06pm

re: #187 EPR-radar

Of course it’s Republican ratfucking.

That said, it is still stupid for the DNC to give Republican ratfuckers such an easy ratfucking opportunity.

This is war, and the D party establishment doesn’t really seem to get that.

Cynical me believes that is because the big-wigs just shuttle from party to party in swanky Manhattan high-rises, or vineyards north of SF Bay.

This is not the time for lethargy among party apparati.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 22, 2024 • 4:05:53pm

re: #140 Dangerman

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Hecuba's daughter  May 22, 2024 • 4:07:50pm

re: #141 EstebanTornado1963

Ugg, Nicole Wallace fawning over that rat fucker James Comey 😡

He learned his lesson way too late — Last night on Alex, he expressed his conviction that it was crucial to re-elect Biden.

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Belafon  May 22, 2024 • 4:11:36pm

re: #170 Mike Lamb

Again—the difference here is that the SOS specifically granted an accommodation for this exact scenario for the GOP in the past. This isn’t “prosecutorial discretion”. It’s unequal, arbitrary enforcement of the law.

For a reason. Not because they flipped a coin or we’re understaffed. This is entirely a political move.

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EPR-radar  May 22, 2024 • 4:14:12pm

re: #191 Hecuba’s daughter

He learned his lesson way too late — Last night on Alex, he expressed his conviction that it was crucial to re-elect Biden.

It’s remarkable that a Republican can learn at all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 4:14:27pm

re: #2 Shropshire Slasher

The so-called “Constitutional Sheriff” of Weld County, Colorado tried the same thing a couple years ago, arguing against the liberal commie socialists in Denver. A petition was circulated by the county commission for Weld County to secede from Colorado in 2013, which failed. (It turns out the very rural northeastern county needs funding from the state.) Six of eleven counties voted against the ballot proposition including Weld.

They tried again in 2021 under the banner of “Weld County WY,” saying they wanted to join Wyoming. Gov. Mark Gordon (R-WY) said “we would love that.” Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) said “keep your hands off Weld County” to him in response.

Weld County has been trying to secede since 1858. It was created when the corner was lopped out of the Nebraska Territory to create Colorado territory, creating the Nebraska Panhandle. It was extremely sparsely populated as was the rest of western Nebraska, so there was not much pushback from Nebraska Territory about it. The first attempt at secession in 1858 started immediately after gold was discovered on the South Platte River.

The county seat is Greeley, with 108,000 people. Greeley has two colleges. The liberal city of Greeley is outnumbered 2/1 by rural wingnuts.

Like many conservative governments, Weld County obfuscated their illness and death numbers during the Republican Plague.

Weld County borders:

Kimball County, Nebraska - northeast
Logan County - east
Morgan County - east
Adams County - south
City and County of Broomfield - southwest
Boulder County - west
Larimer County - west
Laramie County, Wyoming - northwest

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 22, 2024 • 4:14:50pm

re: #192 Charles Johnson

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 22, 2024 • 4:15:21pm

I’ve often pondered how much money I could make if I had no ethics or morals like these people.

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darthstar  May 22, 2024 • 4:18:26pm

re: #188 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

For the third season of Reacher, they needed an actor to play a character described in the book the season is based on as so big he intimidates Reacher. They found Olivier Richters.

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Dude’s fuckin’ huge.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 22, 2024 • 4:18:47pm

re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg

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I’ve often pondered how much money I could make if I had no ethics or morals like these people.

It’s not unethical to grift Trump supporters. It hasn’t even been a grey area since the coup attempt. That’s money that might otherwise go to Trump or the GQP.

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Markm1960  May 22, 2024 • 4:34:10pm

re: #191 Hecuba’s daughter

He learned his lesson way too late — Last night on Alex, he expressed his conviction that it was crucial to re-elect Biden.

That’s why he’s going to write in dick Cheney.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 5:25:15pm

[moved to next thread by me]

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mmmirele  May 22, 2024 • 5:28:28pm

re: #18 Shropshire Slasher

Those pesky coastal elites.

I’m not a “pesky coastal elite.” I live in fucking flyover country.

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austin_blue  May 22, 2024 • 6:54:14pm

re: #111 Egregious Philbin

Alito….fucking talibornagain christian nationalist zealot.

Seriously…fuck this clown.

Please, Opus Dei Fanatic. He’s Catholic. We have our own euphemisms for fucknut fascists in Judges Robes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 22, 2024 • 8:12:28pm

[moved by me to the next thread]


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