The Bob Cesca Podcast: My Soul Is Terrifying

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

My Soul Is Terrifying — Trump says American reporter held hostage in Russia won’t be released until he’s elected. Did he cut a deal with Putin? Ukraine will fall if Trump wins. Why we need to brag about Biden’s successful record on the economy. Trump is inciting violence against Democrats again. Mar-a-lago filing indicates more obstruction of justice. Sam Alito’s Appeal to Heaven flag. Biden AI voice imagines the Supreme Court granting presidential immunity. Kaitlan Collins sticks it to Ted Cruz. Clint Webb for Senate. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Razorhouse, Robinson and Rohe, and more!

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 4:52:23pm
Southlake’s Carroll ISD filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Biden administration’s recent changes to Title IX that extended protections to LGBTQ+ students, court records show.

The lawsuit comes after the Carroll ISD board of trustees voted 7-0 after an executive session during a board meeting May 15 to “proceed with litigation against all necessary parties related to proposed changes to Title 9 and their effect on Carroll ISD,” according to a social media post by the district.

Carroll ISD is represented by the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which also worked to overturn Roe v. Wade, pro bono in the litigation.

The changes to Title IX, the law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance, clarify that it also protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

“The final regulations promote educational equity and opportunity for students across the country as well as accountability and fairness, while empowering and supporting students and families,” the U.S. Department of Education said in a statement announcing the changes in April.

“For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nation’s schools free from sex discrimination,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in a statement in April. “These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights.”

In the new lawsuit, Carroll ISD alleges, “the Department of Education has redefined the word ‘sex’ in Title IX to include ‘gender identity.’”

wfaa.com

Their arguments suck especially since they want to eliminate Title IX all together.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 23, 2024 • 4:56:05pm

Not a fan of this show at all, but I might watch this season.

Jon Lovett, Pod Save America Co-Host and Former Obama Speechwriter, Cast on Season 47 of Survivor

Season 47 of Survivor will have a familiar face among its cast: Jon Lovett!

During a preview for the next installment of CBS’ long-running hit that aired on Wednesday, May 22, the podcaster, comedian and former presidential speechwriter was featured among the competitors vying for the million-dollar prize and title of sole survivor.

“I have no outdoor skills. What am I doing here?” said Lovett. “I went camping as a cub scout. I threw up and went home!”

The star follows in the footsteps of other notable personalities who have competed on the show, including White Lotus creator Mike White, Facts of Life actress Lisa Whelchel, SWV singer Taj Johnson-George, Country singer Whitney Duncan, football coach Jimmy Johnson and a slew of athletes like Brad Culpepper, John Rocker, Danny McCray, Julia Landauer, Elizabeth Beisel and Steve Wright (among many others).
Lovett wrote speeches in the Obama administration for three years before transitioning into a popular career in podcasting. He began with The Ringer’s political podcast Keepin’ It 1600 before co-founding liberal media company, Crooked Media. The Long Island native is a regular on their flagship podcast Pod Save America and since March 2017 has hosted the panel show Lovett or Leave It.

people.com

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William Lewis  May 23, 2024 • 4:59:22pm

I give thanks for my lack of a tv so the that I was unaware that dreck was still on. HOW can it be a season 47???

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 5:00:42pm

re: #3 William Lewis

I give thanks for my lack of a tv so the that I was unaware that dreck was still on. HOW can it be a season 47???

Because a number of reality shows do multiple “seasons” in a year.

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Unabogie  May 23, 2024 • 5:05:36pm

re: #1 Belafon

wfaa.com

Their arguments suck especially since they want to eliminate Title IX all together.

These people are a threat to freedom. They want their religion (which is White Christian Nationalism) to control everyone else, with them at the top of the food chain. I wish more people were treating this election with the alarm it deserves.

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EPR-radar  May 23, 2024 • 5:05:51pm

re: #1 Belafon

wfaa.com

Their arguments suck especially since they want to eliminate Title IX all together.

All conservative arguments are axiomatically dishonest, example infinity + 1.

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gocart mozart  May 23, 2024 • 5:06:06pm

Famous presidential quotes

“Water”
- Donald Trump

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2024 • 5:07:58pm

I’m a skier. Born in ‘82. I see climate as existential. It could wipe out my way of life, in my lifetime.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 23, 2024 • 5:16:14pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

Famous presidential quotes

“Water”
- Donald Trump

Trump has 18% support among Black voters.

That’s a pretty low percentage of insane people for any group.

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 5:17:29pm

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 5:19:07pm

From a high school friend on Facebook:

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Charles Johnson  May 23, 2024 • 5:20:10pm

re: #10 Belafon

This one gets a genuine LOL out of me.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 23, 2024 • 5:24:54pm

re: #84 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sorry I just trashed a long response to you by not hitting CTRL+C properly.

Honestly I’m not up to redoing it…I’ve been typing for at least an hour in response to the last three posts your directed towards me, and I just want to acknowledge that I saw what you said but I don’t think I have it in me to redo it all. Apologies.

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EPR-radar  May 23, 2024 • 5:26:07pm

re: #9 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

That’s a pretty low percentage of insane people for any group.

18% black support for Trump is frankly unbelievable. 8-12% of blacks voting Republican is the range in US presidential elections from 1992-2020, with 2008 and 2012 being outliers on the low side (4% and 6%).

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2024 • 5:30:00pm

re: #13 The Ghost of a Flea

What was posted was a lot. I took it all in. I, too, have my own pipelines to people in their 20s and 30s. There is a palpable dread, even among the more idealistic ones playing in the mountains.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 23, 2024 • 5:30:13pm

re: #1 Belafon

I’m sure it’s a shock to find out this school district is in Texas.

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2024 • 5:33:45pm

Once again my ISP is being flaky as all hell. I blame the wind (it’s been windy).

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Jay C  May 23, 2024 • 5:33:48pm

re: #11 Belafon

From a high school friend on Facebook:

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Nice place: but are Gomez and Morticia going to want to sell?

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EPR-radar  May 23, 2024 • 5:33:49pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

What was posted was a lot. I took it all in. I, too, have my own pipelines to people in their 20s and 30s. There is a palpable dread, even among the more idealistic ones playing in the mountains.

“business as usual” (or only small reforms thereof) is unacceptable, and I think the D establishment doesn’t get that.

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 5:34:50pm

Paid an extra $75 a night to see the ball.

Swag bag is nice…black duffel bag with a poster and they’re shipping us all a vinyl presssing of Aces Back to Back

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Charles Johnson  May 23, 2024 • 5:34:50pm

What nobody in the media seems to want to discuss about Trump’s announced plan to deport TENS OF MILLIONS of people is that if enacted it will inevitably result in violence and mass murder. A mass deportation like this would not be peaceful.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-24T00:34:10.000Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 23, 2024 • 5:38:34pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

That is EXACTLY what the nutjobs want. They are itching to shoot brown people.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 23, 2024 • 5:39:13pm
Student Speaker Dramatically Goes Off-Script at Harvard Graduation

A Harvard University student speaker put the institution on blast Thursday morning when she dramatically went off script during her commencement address to slam the school for punishing more than a dozen of her peers for their activism.

Shruthi Kumar, the Harvard senior chosen to deliver the English address, sharply reprimanded the university leaders during her time at the podium. During her speech—which was titled “The Power of Not Knowing”—Kumar drew out a piece of paper containing off-script remarks hidden up the sleeve of her crimson gown.

“As I stand here today, I must take a moment to recognize my peers—the 13 undergraduates in the class of 2024 that will not graduate today,” Kumar told the crowd. She was referring to the 13 students who had been denied the opportunity to walk at commencement over the sanctions they’d received for participating in campus pro-Palestinian protests.

“I am deeply disappointed by the intolerance for freedom of speech and their right to civil disobedience on campus,” she continued. “The students have spoken. The faculty have spoken. Harvard, do you hear us?”

“Harvard, do you hear us?” she repeated.

In response, Kumar received a standing ovation from the crowd, including some of the faculty. The rest of her remarks covered the war in Gaza, the experience of being doxxed for her views, and what she characterized as attacks on free speech and free expression.

thedailybeast.com

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Charles Johnson  May 23, 2024 • 5:40:50pm

Another one I just confirmed based on someone’s search over on Twitter about whether the U.S. has ever had a Muslim president.

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2024-05-23T23:48:45.019Z

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EPR-radar  May 23, 2024 • 5:41:18pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

That’s part of the larger dereliction of duty of the US mainstream political media.

They are supposed to act in the public interest as a quasi- 4th branch of government to inform people of relevant information.

Well, what could be more relevant to US politics than the fact that the Republican party is a shit-pit cesspit of Satan utterly dominated by one of the worst people in recorded history? And that it has been working its way to this sorry state of degeneration for many decades?

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2024 • 5:42:27pm

Why yes, it’s snowing above 9,000 ft. again.

One of those rare years where CDOT can’t get Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park and Independence Pass between Aspen and Twin Lakes open in time for Memorial Day.

They did get Guanella Pass between Georgetown and Grant open today.

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EPR-radar  May 23, 2024 • 5:44:21pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Why yes, it’s snowing above 9,000 ft. again.

One of those rare years where CDOT can’t get Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park and Independence Pass between Aspen and Twin Lakes in time for Memorial Day.

They did get Guanella Pass between Georgetown and Grant open today.

I still remember the 10’ snow banks on Trail ridge road one year on a late May/early June family road trip. Clearing that must be a hell of a job.

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Charles Johnson  May 23, 2024 • 5:48:17pm

I for one love these little mini-concerts Bob Schneider do.

THURSDAY ONE SONG CONCERT - ‘Modern Woman’

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 23, 2024 • 5:48:49pm

Eads Bridge today:

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2024 • 5:51:41pm

re: #27 EPR-radar

I still remember the 10’ snow banks on Trail ridge road one year on a late May/early June family road trip. Clearing that must be a hell of a job.

They’re big this year! This was taken on 18 May by Ginger Kendall Brainard.

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 5:56:36pm

I saved almost $200 on tequila by stopping at the airport liquor store on the way to the taxi and buying a bottle there for $75. I hate that about the Strip…everything is way overpriced and the people who stay here accept it as part of the experience…Saw a receipt from the EDC event last week where someone paid $1995 for a bottle of Clase Azul…that shit’s normally $169 (still not cheap but a 13x mark up?). Tomorrow, when the missus goes to visit a client site, I’ll take an uber to an off-strip casino where I can play $10 tables and make a couple hundred bucks last an afternoon.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 23, 2024 • 5:57:23pm

re: #20 darthstar

Incredible. Enjoy the show, sneak a couple of pix for us. + diary of the experience. Heh.

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 5:58:39pm

re: #32 HRH Stanley Sea

Incredible. Enjoy the show, sneak a couple of pix for us. + diary of the experience. Heh.

Will do. Going to swing by Shakedown street and see what home-made goods are on offer tomorrow…or maybe I’ll get the missus to walk out there with me tonight.

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Charles Johnson  May 23, 2024 • 5:59:27pm

I see there are finally some Democrats calling for investigations into whatever the fuck Samuel Alito is into.

Hey, thanks for waking up.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 23, 2024 • 6:00:40pm

re: #20 darthstar

Paid an extra $75 a night to see the ball.

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Swag bag is nice…black duffel bag with a poster and they’re shipping us all a vinyl presssing of Aces Back to Back

Does the ball light up at night?

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2024 • 6:01:22pm

re: #31 darthstar

Back in 2016 I made the mistake of buying a fifth of Jameson at 6 a.m. in the hotel, that fucken bottle cost me $200.

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Patricia Kayden  May 23, 2024 • 6:06:32pm

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 6:06:42pm

re: #35 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Does the ball light up at night?

It’s lit up all the time.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 23, 2024 • 6:11:36pm

re: #39 darthstar

It’s lit up all the time.

Please take pics when it’s dark. It looks cool!

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Patricia Kayden  May 23, 2024 • 6:14:22pm

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EstebanTornado1963  May 23, 2024 • 6:16:40pm

re: #39 darthstar

What hotel you at?

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Charles Johnson  May 23, 2024 • 6:23:10pm

I’m confident the appeals court will reverse this because a witness committed purrjery.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-24T01:18:40.000Z

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Charles Johnson  May 23, 2024 • 6:23:32pm

mmf

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piratedan  May 23, 2024 • 6:31:15pm

re: #31 darthstar

depending on what moves you, you could always head down to Fremont Street and play some of the old casinos and when needed step out and watch the light show or people watch as old Vegas is decidedly less surbibian in clientele than the new strip.

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goddamnedfrank  May 23, 2024 • 6:38:47pm

My favorite one yet.

— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2024-05-24T01:25:02.126Z

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Patricia Kayden  May 23, 2024 • 6:47:32pm

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goddamnedfrank  May 23, 2024 • 6:51:10pm

Sorry, it was good knowing y’all, but we gotta burn the internet to the ground:

Hey guys, this is some bullshit

— Daniel Radosh (@radosh.bsky.social) 2024-05-24T01:40:48.960Z

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TedStriker  May 23, 2024 • 6:53:13pm

re: #48 goddamnedfrank

Sorry, it was good knowing y’all, but we gotta burn the internet to the ground:

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 7:00:59pm

Food porn…Wakuda…big eye tuna toast and black and red pepper Kinmedai…


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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 23, 2024 • 7:17:35pm

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EPR-radar  May 23, 2024 • 7:25:40pm

re: #51 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

True as far as it goes, but the analogy needs a raging wildfire behind all three cars which the slow car is too slow to outrun.

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DodgerFan1988  May 23, 2024 • 7:29:13pm
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Patricia Kayden  May 23, 2024 • 7:29:39pm

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 23, 2024 • 7:30:35pm

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Patricia Kayden  May 23, 2024 • 7:34:18pm

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Patricia Kayden  May 23, 2024 • 7:34:57pm

re: #53 DodgerFan1988

😂 😂 😂
Yes. The answer is yes.

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 7:37:35pm

re: #48 goddamnedfrank

Charles, why do links I copy here have to contain information about this site? It makes it a pain to share with others.

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Florida Panhandler  May 23, 2024 • 7:37:50pm

re: #14 EPR-radar

18% black support for Trump is frankly unbelievable. 8-12% of blacks voting Republican is the range in US presidential elections from 1992-2020, with 2008 and 2012 being outliers on the low side (4% and 6%).

The current right wing scam con targeting black men and instilling a sense of resentment and pure misogyny is being effective to an extent. The dishonest “concern” the right wing has for black men in regards to current male/female dynamics in the age of social media plays upon longstanding cultural upheaval yet offers no solution other than white male Christian rule in the end. We will see how effective this targeting of black men plays out in the actual Election. The realization their resentment is being played upon by those who would love the thought of shipping them all “back to Africa” or to the bottom of the ocean or simply incarcerating them for prison/slave labor has to occur at some point.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 23, 2024 • 7:40:19pm

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Dangerman  May 23, 2024 • 7:41:18pm

re: #51 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

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Red’s my favorite color, so…

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 23, 2024 • 7:44:45pm

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

@RitaBrentComedy Drops the GOSPEL VERSION of “Bleach-blonde, Bad-built, Butch body”!!!

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 7:44:56pm

I’ve mentioned my youngest son looking for a job and he said so far he’s had to deal with four chatbots for the online applications.

Edited: My phone either doesn’t know chatbot or doesn’t like it when they’re mentioned.

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wrenchwench  May 23, 2024 • 7:45:35pm

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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She’s in drag. She’s not a cowboy.

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2024 • 7:54:25pm

One of the heaviest fucken songs ever…

#NowPlaying Nailbomb > Point Blank > Wasting Away youtu.be/75TZQ0d8HOA

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness The Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T02:46:38.677Z

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 23, 2024 • 7:54:26pm

re: #53 DodgerFan1988

Yeah but this is inauthentic performance for a social media audience that wants to be racist but also needs to pretend to self-defense of their culture and thus must deilberately create offense through disingenuous parsing of any available stimulus.

It’s like when a abusive husband arrives home in a bad mood and stalks about trying to find a pretext to unleash on his wife and kids: the very act of assuming the performance is authentic…even if the “authentic” reaction is embarrassing or even shameful…grants the abuser license.

Bridgette Gabriel wants to give her audience what they want: the titallation of outrage, the pretext for racism but also the pretext for a total culture system in which whiteness is the only acceptable representation of personhood.

The audience understands what is being offered and will in turn suspend their factual understanding of what a play is because that isn’t important compared to the long term project of making their nipples hard with pleasurable contempt as they imagine how ugly and stupid it is to have nonwhites doing Shakespeare.

Neither the poster nor their respondents care about Shakespearean canon, only that Shakespeare can be weaponized to promote whiteness—an amorphous, deliberately-hollow construct that actually strips away regional European culture to invent a synthetic “nothing but the best bits” luncheon-meat bloc that is effectively the culture of nowhere and no-one…including it’s defender, who don’t give two tugs of dead dog’s cock what counts as quality literature because they’re incapable of perceiving media as anything but a confirmation of their own superiority.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 23, 2024 • 8:04:28pm

re: #38 Patricia Kayden

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

re: #54 Patricia Kayden

Trifecta!

Whoa, the lady is on a roll.

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 8:06:48pm

Authorities are investigating the death of a soldier from North Texas as a homicide after she was found dead Saturday in a Tennessee home near Fort Campbell.

Clarksville police officers responded to an ambulance call about 8:30 p.m. in the 900 block of Tiny Town Road, the department stated in a social media post. Inside the home, officers found a dead woman and detectives with the department’s special operations homicide unit responded, police officials wrote.

Authorities ruled her death as a homicide and are actively investigating, the post stated. On Tuesday, police officials identified the woman as 23-year-old Katia Duenas-Aguilar. She was a soldier stationed at Fort Campbell, about 5 miles northwest of where police responded.

Duenas-Aguilar, who is from Mesquite, was assigned to the Army’s 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) as a member of its combat aviation brigade, division officials wrote in a Tuesday news release. According to the Army, the 101st Airborne Division is the only air assault division of the military branch.

dallasnews.com

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Vicious Babushka  May 23, 2024 • 8:29:18pm

re: #53 DodgerFan1988

Never mind that. Does she realize that in Shakespeare’s day, the role of Juliet was played by a dude?

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Targetpractice  May 23, 2024 • 8:35:20pm

re: #69 Vicious Babushka

Never mind that. Does she realize that in Shakespeare’s day, the role of Juliet was played by a dude?

Dear Zod, don’t anybody clue them in to kabuki theater.

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Vicious Babushka  May 23, 2024 • 8:42:12pm

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  May 23, 2024 • 8:48:40pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

This one gets a genuine LOL out of me.

I had a German shepherd who quickly figured out that if I threw a boomerang correctly so it would return to me, he would sit and wait its return.

If i threw it incorrectly so it would not return, he would chase it down and retrieve it.

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sizzzzlerz  May 23, 2024 • 8:49:15pm

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

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That’s only a throwback to the 70’s. Phone numbers from the 30’s to the 60’s would be DI5-6789.

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mmmirele  May 23, 2024 • 8:55:43pm

re: #4 Belafon

Because a number of reality shows do multiple “seasons” in a year.

They should call them “series” like British TV shows and Japanese anime. That makes more sense in my mind. As an Old, a TV season to me means “a television program that started in September and concluded in May.” You know, as God intended it to be. These new things should be called “series.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 23, 2024 • 9:00:58pm

re: #74 mmmirele

They should call them “series” like British TV shows and Japanese anime. That makes more sense in my mind. As an Old, a TV season to me means “a television program that started in September and concluded in May.” You know, as God intended it to be. These new things should be called “series.”

Old enough to remember back in the 50s when TV shows did 39 episodes a year and then there were either reruns or a “summer replacement series”. Gradually they reduced the number of shows to now they make as few as 22 if a series is OK’d for a year…

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 23, 2024 • 9:06:31pm

re: #71 Vicious Babushka

Texas doctor who said nine-year-olds can safely give birth appointed to maternal mortality committee | Texas

Sick.

Just. Plain. Sick.

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Captain Ron  May 23, 2024 • 9:06:57pm
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wrenchwench  May 23, 2024 • 9:27:33pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 9:30:06pm

The White House hosted the Kenyan president and his wife. I suspect Brad is a lot less conservative than other country singers we’ve heard about:

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 9:31:35pm

Took me a minute, but this is pretty funny. Gotta see the mouse’s expression in the third frame.

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DodgerFan1988  May 23, 2024 • 9:38:47pm
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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 9:43:54pm

Alito was bad today. Thomas was worse: “In Thomas’s world … a person should not be able to challenge a state legislature’s redistricting decisions in either state or federal court.” www.lawdork.com/p/the-robert…

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2024-05-24T04:00:34.397Z

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 9:44:23pm

Show tomorrow night…I won’t imbibe, but I’ve read that people who have have had a great experience in the Sphere.

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 9:46:07pm

Shawn Fain rocks.

— Ron Hogan (@ronhogan.bsky.social) 2024-05-22T17:50:54.567Z

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Belafon  May 23, 2024 • 9:49:45pm

My White Christian Nationalist flag has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my White Christian Nationalist flag.

— Sean Scott (@oraclesean.com) 2024-05-24T02:29:53.272Z

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 9:52:44pm

Guess who I ran into today!

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 9:53:26pm

re: #86 darthstar

Guess who I ran into today!

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Fuck that’s small.

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 9:55:00pm

They do have a guitar signed by the Grateful Dead (when Jerry was still alive to sign it)…only $60,000. My wife is steering me to a litho of a Peace concert with Pooh and Piglet (unframed ~ $225…)…she does budget better than I do.

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wrenchwench  May 23, 2024 • 9:59:04pm

Mastodon

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William Lewis  May 23, 2024 • 10:02:24pm

re: #47 Patricia Kayden

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And spray margarine? Or cheese wiz (ewww!)

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retired cynic  May 23, 2024 • 10:07:04pm

re: #29 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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My great grandfather (mother’s paternal grandfather) worked on building the Eads Bridge. He fought during the Civil War (on the Union side), came home and had trouble finding work. I believe he cut timbers for it in the forests of southern Illinois, but I don’t know for sure. I have his cane, a plain simple dark hook. He could not have been very tall, as I have shrunk to 5 feet, and can still use. Hands have work it smooth. I’m proud of him.

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darthstar  May 23, 2024 • 10:10:58pm

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Targetpractice  May 23, 2024 • 10:17:14pm

re: #84 Belafon

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Funny how, once post-COVID wage growth slowed down, the constant whining about people who wanted more money being the cause of inflation died out…

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wrenchwench  May 23, 2024 • 10:27:08pm

That tree on the flag at the top looks like the one used by the Citizens Party (USA) in the 70s/80s. I tried to find a pic, but DuckDuck is all over my search thingy and Google won’t let me in, even when I make them the default. So I found a box with a file, and one small B&W of that tree, over the words CITIZENS PARTY. Too much trouble to scan & share. It looks just like the one at the top, except all black. With different words.

The Citizens Party was to the left of the Democrats, but not very much. I was at their convention in San Francisco, and I remember a woman at a meeting talking about the youthful left fringe of the group, and how they could be used. I was disgusted, but as a youthful person to her left, I kept my mouth shut. I did too much of that.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 23, 2024 • 10:44:15pm

Another great pick by the GOP

Republicans in Minnesota just endorsed Royce White, a former NBA player and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist, for the Senate race against Democratic incumbent Amy Klobuchar. But it turns out he is hiding a lot of skeletons in his closet.

White, up to this point, is best known for wearing the words “Trump Won” on his head during the Big 3 League games in 2023 and for proclaiming that women these days “have become too mouthy” in an interview with Trump strategist Steve Bannon. But that’s not all — he may have broken campaign finance law in a very colorful way.

According to The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger and Mini Racker, “At five in the morning one week after Republican Royce White lost his 2022 Minnesota congressional primary, his campaign shelled out more than $1,200 in donor funds to a vendor 1,800 miles away not typically associated with political expenses — an all-nude strip club in Miami, Florida, called ‘Gold Rush Cabaret.’ That is just one among dozens of outlandish but previously unreported payments that The Daily Beast has identified from White’s 2022 Federal Election Commission filings. Several campaign finance experts characterized some of the expenses as potentially illegal spending.”

White, for his part, claims these were all legitimate campaign expenses.

But there are more bizarre expenses White has claimed in his filings, the report continued: “The Daily Beast reviewed White’s 2022 primary campaign reports and found numerous items that boggled legal experts. The unusual expenses include a total of more than $100,000 in mysterious wire transfers and checks reported as paid to the campaign; hefty tabs at spicy nightspots; getaways at posh hotels in at least seven states; thousands of dollars in limousine services; unexplained cash withdrawals; eye-popping purchases from electronics, sporting goods, clothing, and musical instrument retailers; and the DribbleUp smart basketball training app that White himself admitted might be personal use.”

Personal use of campaign funds can rise to the level of a crime. Former Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), another large supporter of Trump, pleaded guilty to corruption charges in 2019 for a hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal uses for campaign money through falsified records, including extramarital sexual liaisons with lobbyists.

thedailybeast.com

Just waiting for Pulpit Pimp Fucked Up Franky Graham Cracker to endorse this ass.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 23, 2024 • 10:45:38pm

re: #94 wrenchwench

That tree on the flag at the top looks like the one used by the Citizens Party (USA) in the 70s/80s. I tried to find a pic, but DuckDuck is all over my search thingy and Google won’t let me in, even when I make them the default. So I found a box with a file, and one small B&W of that tree, over the words CITIZENS PARTY. Too much trouble to scan & share. It looks just like the one at the top, except all black. With different words.

The Citizens Party was to the left of the Democrats, but not very much. I was at their convention in San Francisco, and I remember a woman at a meeting talking about the youthful left fringe of the group, and how they could be used. I was disgusted, but as a youthful person to her left, I kept my mouth shut. I did too much of that.

Memories of Barry Commoner’s 1980 Citizens Party campaign where he was torpedoed when he made a commercial that included the word…Bullshit…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 23, 2024 • 10:46:13pm

So the Nightcafe competition for Friday is Chibi fruit or vegetables.

My entry was rejected:

nightcafe submission Chibi Fruitcake
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wrenchwench  May 23, 2024 • 11:20:01pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 24, 2024 • 12:33:26am

Oh those goldfish:

How massive, feral goldfish are threatening the Great Lakes ecosystem

..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 24, 2024 • 1:20:54am

Emergency meeting of the village board last night.

The chairman was unavailable so I was in charge.

Two items: report on the outage of the water system today. (I had normal water pressure at my house at 4AM when I washing dishes, but by 10AM there was no water pressure at my house.) For some reason, the water system controller board was off-line. The telephone warning system was out as well. Restored by manually running the water pumps to fill the tower while the controller re-booted.

More important and the reason the meeting was called:

The sale of the general store was completed. As such, their liquor license went dead on completion of the sale. The meeting was to reissue the license to the new owner.

Without objection, the resolution passed.

The city park tonight has been taken over by Mennonite campers from Kentucky. (The village allows overnight camping and use of the outdoor kitchen equipment.) Earlier in the day I went to the general store, also swarming with Mennonites, who gave me the side-eye when I indulged in vices of buying rum, lotto tickets, and cigarettes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 24, 2024 • 1:35:55am

re: #94 wrenchwench

Well, this looks like it should be a vexillology post.

The Pine Tree Flag has a long history in New England.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 1:40:18am

re: #80 darthstar

Took me a minute, but this is pretty funny. Gotta see the mouse’s expression in the third frame.

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I don’t get it. I used to play Battleship…but I still don’t get it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 1:50:55am

And I start the day with a birdie in the sky.

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William Lewis  May 24, 2024 • 2:01:57am

re: #102 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I don’t get it. I used to play Battleship…but I still don’t get it.

sonar…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 2:14:04am

re: #104 William Lewis

sonar…

OOOOOOOHHH! Thank you!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 24, 2024 • 2:19:12am

re: #80 darthstar

Took me a minute, but this is pretty funny. Gotta see the mouse’s expression in the third frame.

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That was sort of the IJN viewpoint by mid-1943 when engaging in night combat with the USN during WW2. Once the USN commanders started figuring out how to apply radar information* to their decisions the Japanese advantages due to their emphasis and training on night combat evaporated.

* - Including the introduction of the CIC (Combat Information Center) where all the incoming radar and other information could be plotted and viewed to aid in decision making.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:16:51am

The Appeal to Heaven Flag is a symbol from the Revolutionary War
The Confederate Battle Flag is an expression of Southern Culture and Heritage
The Swastika is a Hopi and Hindu symbol of peace.

and you can’t tell me otherwise because I have my hands over my ears and am shouting “Na na na na!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:18:22am

re: #9 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

That’s a pretty low percentage of insane people for any group.

I believe it is even lower among Native Americans.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:21:09am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

That is EXACTLY what the nutjobs want. They are itching to shoot brown people.

“They aren’t innocent, they are here!”

Was just watching an episode of Sharpe last night showing British cavalry wading into striking workers with their swords, and that was their reasoning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 24, 2024 • 3:22:36am

Shameless page promotion to the right-hand column:

An Appeal to Heaven

The history of pine tree symbolism in North America.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:23:11am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Another one I just confirmed based on someone’s search over on Twitter about whether the U.S. has ever had a Muslim president.

it is true but only in the very broadest sense, as his father and step father were born Muslim.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:24:32am

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

and their background in public service

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 24, 2024 • 3:27:24am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:31:28am

re: #66 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah but this is inauthentic performance for a social media audience that wants to be racist but also needs to pretend to self-defense of their culture and thus must deilberately create offense through disingenuous parsing of any available stimulus.

Fine, historically, white people played the original Romeo and Juliet. If you want to be truly historically accurate, it was an all-male cast with the men in drag, so go chew on that awhile..

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 3:31:41am
New York Times: “Ever since he vaulted to the leadership of the Republican Party eight years ago, the same Republicans who once deemed him a ‘kook,’ a ‘pathological liar’ and a ‘delusional narcissist’ nonetheless have come around to endorse handing him the nuclear codes. Even many of those who called him out for trying to overturn an election that he lost are now willing to entrust him again with the future of American democracy.”

Self awareness not a big thing at the NYT

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 3:34:50am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“They aren’t innocent, they are here!”

Breonna Taylor
Roger forston

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:35:20am

re: #90 William Lewis

And spray margarine? Or cheese wiz (ewww!)

both useful for backpacking as they do not melt or go bad for long periods

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 3:37:41am

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Shameless page promotion to the right-hand column:

An Appeal to Heaven

The history of pine tree symbolism in North America.

That was very good reading. Thank you!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 24, 2024 • 3:39:15am

re: #118 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That was very good reading. Thank you!

De nada. I serve to live, or something like that. /s

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Patricia Kayden  May 24, 2024 • 3:51:27am

re: #79 Belafon

Brad Paisley was a big Obama supporter and even wrote a song when he was elected.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 3:55:17am

re: #121 Patricia Kayden

Brad Paisley was a big Obama supporter and even wrote a song when he was elected.

I don’t recall him being boycotted by Country music stations…

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steve_davis  May 24, 2024 • 3:55:32am

re: #31 darthstar

I saved almost $200 on tequila by stopping at the airport liquor store on the way to the taxi and buying a bottle there for $75. I hate that about the Strip…everything is way overpriced and the people who stay here accept it as part of the experience…Saw a receipt from the EDC event last week where someone paid $1995 for a bottle of Clase Azul…that shit’s normally $169 (still not cheap but a 13x mark up?). Tomorrow, when the missus goes to visit a client site, I’ll take an uber to an off-strip casino where I can play $10 tables and make a couple hundred bucks last an afternoon.

Yeah, if you can play the table all afternoon, the pit boss will probably comp you a couple of Wendy’s coupon flyers :-)

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Patricia Kayden  May 24, 2024 • 3:59:17am

re: #99 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I looked up if wild goldfish can be eaten but apparently it’s not recommended

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Patricia Kayden  May 24, 2024 • 4:00:24am

re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Didn’t hear about that either. Not a Country Music fan so it could have happened but I didn’t hear about it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 4:04:50am

re: #125 Patricia Kayden

Didn’t hear about that either. Not a Country Music fan so it could have happened but I didn’t hear about it.

I gave up on commerical country after the Dixie Chicks Cancel Culture Fest.

(but they didn’t call it that back then)

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Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 4:18:40am

Process of elimination, one by one.

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sagehen  May 24, 2024 • 4:33:15am

re: #121 Patricia Kayden

Brad Paisley was a big Obama supporter and even wrote a song when he was elected.

He’s close friends with Seth Meyers.

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Randall Gross  May 24, 2024 • 4:53:41am

Movies explained:
“The Eternals” from Marvel Studios was about a group of doctors performing an abortion to save the life of the mother planet.

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-24T11:30:18.246Z

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 5:06:14am

Kabosu, famous dog behind Doge meme, has died

Kabosu, the Japanese dog who inspired the Doge meme and influenced internet culture for more than a decade, died Friday after a long illness, according to her owner. She was 18 years old.

Her owner, Atsuko Sato, said Kabosu passed away at 7:50 a.m. on Friday when she fell into a “deep sleep” at her home in Japan. “Kabosu is at rest now,” she wrote in a message she shared online.

“Through the window, the soft light was shining in. Outside the window, birds were singing on a beautiful morning,” Sato wrote in Japanese. “As I caressed her, as if she was sleeping, she passed away quietly.”

“Everyone who loved Kabosu, thank you very much. Kabosu was the happiest dog in the world. And I was the happiest dog owner in the world,” she added.

bnonews.com

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lawhawk  May 24, 2024 • 5:11:51am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Mass deportations. Of who exactly.

It’s not just people who are undocumented. He’s going to go after anyone who isn’t a white person who isn’t native born American born to white parents.

That means this fucking lunatic white nationalist fascist authoritarian GOP party is going to go after my son. And the sons and daughters of other adoptive parents who grew their families from children of color who may not have parents who are American citizens.

It’s not like Trump or the GOP care about due process and the rule of law. They’re just going to do it, to thunderous applause of white people who have never been within 500 miles of a US border, let alone the Southern border and who hardly ever travel beyond their state border or visit another country when they’ve lived in a homogenous white community all their lives and hardly ever see a person of color.

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jeffreyw  May 24, 2024 • 5:34:27am

Good morning!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 5:35:08am

Violent criminals love Donald Trump.

Brooklyn rappers accused of murder conspiracy join Donald Trump at Bronx rally

Two surprising guests joined Donald Trump onstage at his Thursday night rally in the Bronx.

Rappers Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow — who were indicted last year as part of an investigation into a vast murder conspiracy by two Brooklyn gangs — exchanged warm words with the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in Crotona Park.

Sheff G, known to the government as Michael Williams, was out on bail set last month at $150,000 cash or $1 million bond for conspiracy charges and multiple counts of murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the case covering 27 different acts of violence — including a dozen shootings.

His protege Sleepy Hallow, whose legal name is Tegan Chambers, was out on bail set at $200,000 cash or $150,000 bond for conspiracy charges.

nydailynews.com

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darthstar  May 24, 2024 • 5:40:04am

re: #130 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 5:43:25am

They picked the guy on the left to be the villain in the third season of Reacher:

He’s 7’2”.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 5:53:29am

re: #135 Belafon

They picked the guy on the left to be the villain in the third season of Reacher:

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He’s 7’2”.

Why? There are plenty of pics where he has clothes on.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 6:04:44am

re: #136 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

The days when a tall actor has to stand up just to get the role are gone. The TV execs are looking for a certain type. Heaven knows what it is but they are looking for it.

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Oblongatis  May 24, 2024 • 6:05:54am

re: #53 DodgerFan1988

Makes perfect sense: There are certain roles/activities/jobs that only white people can assume. Not racism mind, you just conforming to 18th century cultural norms for western European, the true seat of all that is good and righteous in the world. Why would minorities complain they still get to play Othello.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 24, 2024 • 6:06:27am

re: #133 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

They want pardons. And they’ll probably get them should he win.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 6:11:10am

re: #129 Randall Gross

With that one male doctor who thinks it should be carried to term.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 6:16:07am

re: #137 PhillyPretzel ✅

The days when a tall actor has to stand up just to get the role are gone. The TV execs are looking for a certain type. Heaven knows what it is but they are looking for it.

According to the book the season is based on, he has to be bigger than Reacher. And I don’t know if you have seen the guy who plays Reacher (not Tom Cruise), but he’s already big.

re: #136 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Why? There are plenty of pics where he has clothes on.

It was one of the first pics I found. And he’s a bodybuilder.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 6:18:56am

re: #141 Belafon

Tom Who? And I have not seen the series Reacher. Actually my reference was to Peter Mayhew who as you know was Chewbacca in Star Wars.

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dat_said  May 24, 2024 • 6:18:59am

re: #99 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Oh those goldfish:

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A few years ago someone dumped a number of small goldfish into the neighborhood pond (25 acres of open water, mostly 4 to 5 feet deep with one small area maybe 10 feet deep). They were big enough to spawn.

I was very confused one day when I saw an osprey overhead with very orange feet. Then the next day I saw the same osprey dive and come up with something orange and it finally dawned on me what it was - about a foot-long goldfish. Took about a year and a half for the osprey, great blue herons, and egrets to clear the lake. Can’t easily hide in 4 ft water if you’re bright orange.

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lawhawk  May 24, 2024 • 6:20:56am

re: #139 GlutenFreeJesus

They want pardons. And they’ll probably get them should he win.

Trump can’t pardon someone for state crimes if he gets to the WH. He can only pardon on federal crimes.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 6:25:32am

re: #142 PhillyPretzel ✅

Just for comparison, the guy on the left is Alan Ritchson, who’s playing Reacher in Amazon Prime series. He’s six 6’3”, close to what people say the books describe. On the right is 5’7” Tom Cruise, who played the movie version of the character.

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 6:26:04am

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

both useful for backpacking as they do not melt or go bad for long periods

Yeah, plastic will do that. //

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 6:30:09am

re: #145 Belafon

As I said before Tom Who? I am not a fan of Mr Cruise.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 24, 2024 • 6:33:36am

re: #144 lawhawk

Right. I’m sure these guys have committed many federal crimes that have yet to be discovered. Plus. He will bully the state governor.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 6:33:56am

re: #137 PhillyPretzel ✅

The days when a tall actor has to stand up just to get the role are gone. The TV execs are looking for a certain type. Heaven knows what it is but they are looking for it.

Ritchson tried out for Thor, and thought he would get it due to his size. I guess he didn’t count on Kemmeth Branaugh being there, who wanted someone who could do more than be big. He went and took some acting lessons after that.

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Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 6:38:19am

Re the Black/White casting for R&J:

imdb.com

Juliet lives on to today as a Black bisexual vampire. That ought to push all the buttons.

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steve_davis  May 24, 2024 • 6:39:14am

finally gotten to the nuts and bolts part of the reviewer training for the AI gig. I immediately see a host of reasons why the methodology isn’t going to work in producing a premiere large language model, but hey, the pay is good. I’ll do what I can to not help create some kind of overlord. I may for the first time in a very long while actually generate an article for LGF giving my thoughts from a completely non-technical side of things as to why generative AI is bullshit.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 6:40:17am

From the AP: Top UN court orders Israel to stop its military offensive in Rafah.

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Eventual Carrion  May 24, 2024 • 6:44:17am

re: #102 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I don’t get it. I used to play Battleship…but I still don’t get it.

Bat echo location

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 6:44:32am

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b.d.  May 24, 2024 • 6:48:34am

re: #53 DodgerFan1988

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New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown?
A production at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater faced criticism because a nondisabled actor plays the scheming king.

nytimes.com

OK, I give up. People b*tching that there is a non-Italian cast as Juliet and the exact polar opposite group is b*tching that they hired a person that wasn’t disabled to play Richard III.

The same guy wrote both of these too!

I think it is best to avoid all of this nonsense…..:)

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 24, 2024 • 6:52:52am

re: #152 PhillyPretzel ✅

From the AP: Top UN court orders Israel to stop its military offensive in Rafah.

OR ELSE!!!!!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 6:54:05am

re: #156 GlutenFreeJesus

All of us know Israel is not going to stop in Rafah.

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gocart mozart  May 24, 2024 • 6:57:36am
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Eventual Carrion  May 24, 2024 • 6:58:32am

re: #113 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Birb.
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A Cranky One  May 24, 2024 • 7:00:08am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 7:02:14am

re: #160 A Cranky One

That is a good one. :)

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William Lewis  May 24, 2024 • 7:02:38am

re: #150 Decatur Deb

Re the Black/White casting for R&J:

imdb.com

Juliet lives on to today as a Black bisexual vampire. That ought to push all the buttons.

I _WANT_ to see that movie. Even if it is a horrible failure, that is a exquisite concept worth rewarding.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 24, 2024 • 7:05:28am

It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war - and there’ll be no peace until we call it out

It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war - and there’ll be no peace until we call it out
Husam Mahjoub
Husam Mahjoub

The Emirates is arming and supporting one side in the conflict, but UK and US officials have shied from confronting it
Fri 24 May 2024 06.00 EDT
Last modified on Fri 24 May 2024 07.07 EDT

The war in Sudan has become one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crises in the world. In a little over a year of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), there have been 6.8 million people internally displaced, 2 million fleeing the country, and 24.8 million, almost half the population, in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

The United Arab Emirates is the foreign player most invested in the war. In fact, without its direct and all-around support, the RSF would not have been able to wage war to the same extent.

Sudan is key to the UAE’s strategy in Africa and the Middle East, aimed at achieving political and economic hegemony while curbing democratic aspirations. Since 2015, it has sourced fighters from both factions to join its conflict in Yemen. It is the primary importer of Sudan’s gold and has multibillion-dollar plans to develop ports along Sudan’s Red Sea coast. By supporting the RSF in Sudan, it has undermined the democratic transition that followed the 2019 ouster of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s dictator for 30 years.

Upon the outbreak of war, it reportedly established logistical operations to send weapons to the RSF through its networks in Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda and the Haftar and Wagner militias. It has reportedly disguised armament and supplies as humanitarian aid. In addition, RSF business, finance, logistics and PR operations are carried out from the UAE. Injured fighters are reportedly airlifted to be treated in an Abu Dhabi military hospital. And Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), the RSF commander, is said to have visited a few African countries on board an Emirati airplane belonging to a company owned by an Emirati royal and adviser to the president.

I’m still learning about the Sudanese conflict but the RSF are the Janjaweed. Same guys that did for Darfur a decade ago.

The Middle Eastern monarchies are doing glow-up PR pieces for their states in Eumerican media about how they’re becoming progressive, but in practice they’re regional powers playing exactly the kind of dirty pool that cranks up the casualties.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 7:06:02am

re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And I start the day with a birdie in the sky.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 7:11:02am

re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Another one I just confirmed based on someone’s search over on Twitter about whether the U.S. has ever had a Muslim president.

it is true but only in the very broadest sense, as his father and step father were born Muslim.

Which is to say not true at all, since no-one is born a muslim, you have to declare yourself one.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 7:13:08am

re: #155 b.d.

I get the idea, but I do think there’s a limit to how far you can go on some of that. That’s the point of actors, but there are also fewer big roles for disabled people to play.

I am imagining this casting call though: Henry VIII can only be played by people who have broken backs, a plus if you’ve started a church and had some of your wives killed.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 7:15:05am

re: #53 DodgerFan1988

Now would be the perfect time for Romeo and Juliet to be played by men. It could even be meta: have two acting companies battling it out for the right to put on Romeo and Juliet, but the lead Romeo’s have fallen in love with each other.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 7:17:23am

re: #167 Belafon

Actually that has already been done. In Shakespeare’s time all of the actors were men.

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A Cranky One  May 24, 2024 • 7:17:52am

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Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 7:23:09am

re: #162 William Lewis

I _WANT_ to see that movie. Even if it is a horrible failure, that is a exquisite concept worth rewarding.

Seems to be on Pluto (subset of Tubi?). Production values were quite good.

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 7:27:48am

Iron level is good so they’re gonna siphon a pint of blood

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 7:30:59am

Happy Friday!

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Unabogie  May 24, 2024 • 7:31:45am

re: #158 gocart mozart

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In Biden’s America, these three criminals are so immune from justice they can strut around on a stage and no one arrests them.

IMPEACH!!!

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 7:31:50am

re: #168 PhillyPretzel ✅

Actually that has already been done. In Shakespeare’s time all of the actors were men.

That’s the point, that it was originally played by men. Or maybe change it so that the man playing Romeo in one group falls in love with the man playing Juliet in the other.

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Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 7:34:23am

re: #166 Belafon

I get the idea, but I do think there’s a limit to how far you can go on some of that. That’s the point of actors, but there are also fewer big roles for disabled people to play.

I am imagining this casting call though: Henry VIII can only be played by people who have broken backs, a plus if you’ve started a church and had some of your wives killed.

The task of the casting director is to choose actors that put asses in seats or eyes on the advertising. If that works with Denzel Washington as a Spanish grandee or Kiri Te Kanawa as a Japanese maiden, that’s wonderful.

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 7:42:32am

re: #173 Unabogie

In Biden’s America, these three criminals are so immune from justice they can strut around on a stage and no one arrests them.

IMPEACH!!!

Judge a man by the company he keeps.

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wrenchwench  May 24, 2024 • 7:49:21am

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 7:50:57am

re: #155 b.d.

Followed by:

nytimes.com

OK, I give up. People b*tching that there is a non-Italian cast as Juliet and the exact polar opposite group is b*tching that they hired a person that wasn’t disabled to play Richard III.

The same guy wrote both of these too!

I think it is best to avoid all of this nonsense…..:)

R3 makes his final exit dashing off stage while shouting for a horse so he can ride into battle. How disabled can he be?

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 7:51:33am

Have the “Shakespeare Players” be a group consisting of men and women, and have the “Shakespeare Traditional Actors Reserve” be all men.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 7:55:20am

re: #179 Belafon

And you could either go with the super-tragic ending, or you could have both actors quit so that the other’s group gets the deal, thereby rendering both groups unable to perform.

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sagehen  May 24, 2024 • 7:56:51am

re: #163 The Ghost of a Flea

The war in Sudan has become one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crises in the world. In a little over a year of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), there have been 6.8 million people internally displaced, 2 million fleeing the country, and 24.8 million, almost half the population, in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

But there’s no Jews to blame, so university students don’t care.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 7:58:46am

re: #181 sagehen

But there’s no Jews to blame, so university students don’t care.

There are no Jews involved, so the media doesn’t care.

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gocart mozart  May 24, 2024 • 7:59:07am

This tweet is currently breaking the internet.

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Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 7:59:41am

re: #183 gocart mozart

This tweet is currently breaking the internet.

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Almost 6 years old, and still evergreen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 7:59:52am

re: #146 Dangerman

Yeah, plastic will do that. //

Wine in boxes, canned cheese & margarine spray are fine for camping but not for everyday use.

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lawhawk  May 24, 2024 • 8:00:17am

Fox News: Trump rally in the Bronx had 25000 people.
Reality: If he got 2500 it was probably a lot. The NYPD claims he got about 3200 based on overhead surveillance, and his rally permit allowed 2500. It was puny in size, but it wont stop Fox or Trump to exaggerate.

Besides, even if you allow his BS claim to stand on its own, he managed 25,000 out of 8 million NYers, most of whom are Democrats and voted overwhelmingly against him in 2016 and 2020.

Fact is, he was always going to lie about his audience size. It’s what he does. Fox is there to amplify it.

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sagehen  May 24, 2024 • 8:01:13am

re: #182 Belafon

There are no Jews involved, so the media doesn’t care.

There used to be a bunch of Jews in Sudan… but Israel airlifted them out to make aliyah. Same for the Ethiopian Jews.

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sagehen  May 24, 2024 • 8:04:21am

re: #186 lawhawk

Fox News: Trump rally in the Bronx had 25000 people.
Reality: If he got 2500 it was probably a lot. The NYPD claims he got about 3200 based on overhead surveillance, and his rally permit allowed 2500. It was puny in size, but it wont stop Fox or Trump to exaggerate.

Besides, even if you allow his BS claim to stand on its own, he managed 25,000 out of 8 million NYers, most of whom are Democrats and voted overwhelmingly against him in 2016 and 2020.

Fact is, he was always going to lie about his audience size. It’s what he does. Fox is there to amplify it.

If they counted everyone within 400 yards… it’s the Bronx. There’s a lot of buildings and a lot of people live there. Probably 25,000 or so.

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Semper Fi  May 24, 2024 • 8:06:54am

re: #152 PhillyPretzel ✅

From the AP: Top UN court orders Israel to stop its military offensive in Rafah.

I don’t remember, did the ICJ have anything to say about Russia bombing the hell out of Ukraine? I must have missed that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:08:08am

re: #160 A Cranky One

That was me carrying a 60-liter sack of potting soil up the steps today

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calochortus  May 24, 2024 • 8:08:32am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Wine in boxes, canned cheese & margarine spray are fine for camping but not for everyday use.

Wine in boxes is perfect to keep around for cooking wine precisely because it keeps well in the fridge.

Yeah, I know, never cook with a wine of lesser quality than what you drink. Except that I find it really hard to believe that once it’s been “reduced to a glazy film” or in the oven for an hour, you’re going to notice the difference. Maybe if you’re pouring it in at the very end, but even so, I suspect middle of the road wine won’t be noticeably different from your good stuff in that application.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:11:42am

re: #165 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Which is to say not true at all, since no-one is born a muslim, you have to declare yourself one.

Of course. But in the eyes of a MAGAt brain or Fundamentlist, anyone born to a Muslim parent is immediately infected with heathenism and has to be eradicated.

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gocart mozart  May 24, 2024 • 8:13:29am

re: #183 gocart mozart

Perhaps I should have looked at the date first.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:16:01am

re: #191 calochortus

Yeah, I know, never cook with a wine of lesser quality than what you drink. Except that I find it really hard to believe that once it’s been “reduced to a glazy film” or in the oven for an hour, you’re going to notice the difference. Maybe if you’re pouring it in at the very end, but even so, I suspect middle of the road wine won’t be noticeably different from your good stuff in that application.

My neighbor (who does not drink) has a cellar full of wine bottles, most all white Rieslings, all at least 20 years old. Useless for anything but cooking. He is moving out soon so I am going to bo help myself to yeveral years’ worth of cooking wine stock.

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darthstar  May 24, 2024 • 8:16:18am

Was commenting last night about how a hotel filled with heads is the new campground and apparently today’s the day the Dark Star Jubilee starts…I haven’t camped in a tent at a music festival in 20 years, but this does look like a good time.

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gocart mozart  May 24, 2024 • 8:16:40am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:17:53am

re: #195 darthstar

Yeah, my last camp-out festival was Fairport Convention at Banbury, England in 1997.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 8:18:10am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not unless he is taking the wine with him.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 8:18:33am

re: #181 sagehen

But there’s no Jews to blame, so university students don’t care.

Which side in Sudan do we give billions in military aid to?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:19:14am

re: #198 PhillyPretzel ✅

Not unless he is taking the wine with him.

they are just sitting there gathering dust. he told me I can help myself

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 8:20:38am

re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That works. :)

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Semper Fi  May 24, 2024 • 8:20:43am

re: #196 gocart mozart

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His rally was loaded with sheeple!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:21:02am

re: #202 Semper Fi

His rally was loaded with sheeple!

MaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGA

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 8:21:05am

re: #189 Semper Fi

I don’t remember, did the ICJ have anything to say about Russia bombing the hell out of Ukraine? I must have missed that.

Somebody has to actually try to bring a case to the ICJ. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin.

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Dizzy  May 24, 2024 • 8:22:29am

re: #199 Scottish Dragon

Which side in Sudan do we give billions in military aid to?

Red Herring
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danarchy  May 24, 2024 • 8:25:54am

re: #199 Scottish Dragon

Which side in Sudan do we give billions in military aid to?

We certainly provide lots of military support and sales to the UAE and they seem to be the ones making that ongoing conflict as bad as it is.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:26:22am

re: #206 danarchy

Our “moderate” Arab allies

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 24, 2024 • 8:26:50am

The original tweet is still up at the moment.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 8:29:59am

re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg

Get a screen shot of it.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 24, 2024 • 8:30:08am

re: #181 sagehen

But there’s no Jews to blame, so university students don’t care.

I wager good money you’ll find more college students pissed about Sudan than any other kind of American. Ironically, the person talking about Sudan on this board is doing so precisely because he used to be a university student doing teach-ins on international issues.

The sampling error you’re making…well, two of them…is that nobody gives a shit about the protesting and advocacy on university campuses that regularly happens, so it rarely gets coverage unless the press deems the subject relevant, and the general standard of “relevance” is whether the US is an active agent in the thing being protested.

It’s the standard “you don’t matter and are over-sensitive, I won’t listen” or “you’re so loud I’m entitled to not listen” dichotomy that’s played out year after year.

And frankly this entire “but people don’t care if it’s Jews” thing is gross…because it on one hand it’s documentable that people do care and protest stuff consistently, it’s just that those protests have consistently been dismissed as elitist or naive and given no further coverage, for example the first time violence in Darfur was protested…and on the other the people that don’t care about blowing up many varieties of Muslims for twenty years are posing as though they have some kind of moral high ground when their consistency…that it is acceptable to saturation-bomb some kinds of people because of collective guilt, but not others, guess the criterion…points to something less than moral outrage as a motive.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 8:31:17am

re: #205 Dizzy

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WRONG

The entire reason for protests is to force a public entity to change a policy. That is what protests try to do!

There are no means by which protests can change ANYTHING in Sudan because we have a negligible relationship with very little or investment or military aid. Universities don’t have endowment portfolios in Sudan. Lockheed Martin doesn’t sell anything to them.

What the fuck is the point of a protest that by definition cannot have a goal in changing behavior?

Think for a minute at least before you accuse me of red herring bullshit.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 24, 2024 • 8:32:42am

Catching up

On festival camping: The last time I did such a thing was US Festival 1983 the one where Van Halen discombobulated and them and David Bowie got a pissing contest over who would make the most money and all the other artists came out and played ferocious set basically going screw you to Van Halen, and David Bowie.

Also featured U2 as a 9 AM day 3 act. It was amazing it was a super high energy show always remember

coming home. I pulled out of the parking lot and was listening to KMET 94.7. And the song Radar Love from Golden Earring comes in just as I enter 210 Freeway for the 95 mile drive to Ventura. And I still don’t understand this fully but somehow I reached the Johnson Drive exit in Ventura just as the song was ending and I was in a piece of junk Monte Carlo so it’s not like I was doing any radar love style driving😎. My twilight zone story

On the Dead and Company show: Looks like an awesome time. Enjoy but I will likely not go to Las Vegas anytime soon. Will play a set of Dead songs and do a shot of Loss Leader tequila (Dobel Diamante ($26 a bottle) here in the garage in your honor

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 8:34:30am

The second plumber is having a bad time, and is working without the assistants and walkie talkies the first had.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 8:36:42am

re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Of course. But in the eyes of a MAGAt brain or Fundamentlist, anyone born to a Muslim parent is immediately infected with heathenism and has to be eradicated.

Are you saying that you’re a MAGAt brain? Because that IS what you said, unqualified.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 8:37:43am

re: #206 danarchy

We certainly provide lots of military support and sales to the UAE and they seem to be the ones making that ongoing conflict as bad as it is.

When you start trying to go with political entities that are 1 or more steps away from the problem, the link gets harder to define and explain, much less to mobilize ppl for since you now have a couple dozen or more nations all contributing to the Gulf states that then feed into Sudan.

1985: Boycott South Africa! Easy to understand
1985: Boycott France and Israel for selling arms to South Africa! That’s a much harder case to sell.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:39:46am

re: #214 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Are you saying that you’re a MAGAt brain? Because that IS what you said, unqualified.

I meant only in the broadest sense, to the MAGATs it is definitive and irreversible

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Hecuba's daughter  May 24, 2024 • 8:40:56am

re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And I start the day with a birdie in the sky.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 24, 2024 • 8:48:01am

Nope. I’ll stick with REAL Hawaiian Kona…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 8:48:10am

re: #215 Scottish Dragon

When you start trying to go with political entities that are 1 or more steps away from the problem, the link gets harder to define and explain, much less to mobilize ppl for since you now have a couple dozen or more nations all contributing to the Gulf states that then feed into Sudan.

1985: Boycott South Africa! Easy to understand
1985: Boycott France and Israel for selling arms to South Africa! That’s a much harder case to sell.

“Boycott US universities for investing in companies that do business with Israel” is, apparently, not a hard sell.

(It actually is, the demonstrations were loud and shiny, so they got lost of coverage, but they didn’t really attract large numbers.)

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 8:51:03am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Wine in boxes, canned cheese & margarine spray are fine for camping but not for everyday use.

oh certainly
i am not a snob
still i laugh at wine/boxed, cheese/canned, margarine/sprayed, etc

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:51:46am

re: #219 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

“Boycott US universities for investing in companies that do business with Israel” is, apparently, not a hard sell.

(It actually is, the demonstrations were loud and shiny, so they got lost of coverage, but they didn’t really attract large numbers.)

They got touted as proof that Colleges are cesspools of liberal moral and intellectual decadence.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 8:52:23am

re: #220 Dangerman

oh certainly
i am not a snob
still i laugh at wine/boxed, cheese/canned, margarine/sprayed, etc

I will even eat hot dogs if they are roasted over a fire on a stick at a picnic or campsite

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 8:54:19am

re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Of course. But in the eyes of a MAGAt brain or Fundamentlist, anyone born to a Muslim parent is immediately infected with heathenism and has to be eradicated.

they know how religious indoctrination works

they experience it in their own homes growing up and likely practice it on their children today

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wrenchwench  May 24, 2024 • 8:55:21am

2nd anniversary of Uvalde’s shooting. I got an email from a victim who now works with Moms Demand Action. While reading that, I had the thought that the shooter went through Active Shooter drills at the school he shot up.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 24, 2024 • 8:55:41am

re: #131 lawhawk

Mass deportations. Of who exactly.

It’s not just people who are undocumented. He’s going to go after anyone who isn’t a white person who isn’t native born American born to white parents.

That means this fucking lunatic white nationalist fascist authoritarian GOP party is going to go after my son. And the sons and daughters of other adoptive parents who grew their families from children of color who may not have parents who are American citizens.

It’s not like Trump or the GOP care about due process and the rule of law. They’re just going to do it, to thunderous applause of white people who have never been within 500 miles of a US border, let alone the Southern border and who hardly ever travel beyond their state border or visit another country when they’ve lived in a homogenous white community all their lives and hardly ever see a person of color.

There are many people who are well-traveled and educated who support this proposal. Racism, ignorance, cruelty and nationalism are not exclusively the purview of the poorly educated only.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2024 • 8:56:13am

This is kinda horrible. My commuter train hit and killed somebody on the way in. RIP, whoever you are. Van Nuys area…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 8:57:21am

re: #226 Rightwingconspirator

That stinks.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 8:57:31am

re: #224 wrenchwench

2nd anniversary of Uvalde’s shooting. I got an email from a victim who now works with Moms Demand Action. While reading that, I had the thought that the shooter went through Active Shooter drills at the school he shot up.

Those drills can only work against an external attacker. How often are the attackers external rather than classmates that have become monsters?

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 8:59:22am

re: #219 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

“Boycott US universities for investing in companies that do business with Israel” is, apparently, not a hard sell.

(It actually is, the demonstrations were loud and shiny, so they got lost of coverage, but they didn’t really attract large numbers.)

Who was boycotting? The students were still attending and the universities had investments in Israel that could be changed.

With the UAE etc, I have no idea if any major school has endowment funds invested in the Gulf States, but now the link become increasingly tenuous since you are making indirect action at best. I’m certainly not opposed to it, because fuck the Gulf States. Ppl typically don’t get out in the streets for second order causes of action however. If anybody can find the right hook, hell yeah. Do it.

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A Cranky One  May 24, 2024 • 8:59:31am

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Dizzy  May 24, 2024 • 9:01:43am

re: #211 Scottish Dragon

WRONG

The entire reason for protests is to force a public entity to change a policy. That is what protests try to do!

There are no means by which protests can change ANYTHING in Sudan because we have a negligible relationship with very little or investment or military aid. Universities don’t have endowment portfolios in Sudan. Lockheed Martin doesn’t sell anything to them.

What the fuck is the point of a protest that by definition cannot have a goal in changing behavior?

Think for a minute at least before you accuse me of red herring bullshit.

The point of the pro-hamas protests is the destruction of Israel, not a change in behavior.

You’re point is refuted by the pro-hamas demonstrations that are not US centered, and in countries that give little or nothing to Israel militarily or otherwise. They all have the same message: only Israel is to blame.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 9:02:19am

re: #230 A Cranky One

This bee does not buzz; it meows.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:03:06am

re: #231 Dizzy

The point of the pro-hamas protests is the destruction of Israel, not a change in behavior.

You’re point is refuted by the pro-hamas demonstrations that are not US centered, and in countries that give little or nothing to Israel militarily or otherwise. They all have the same message: only Israel is to blame.

OK I’m just ignoring you from this point to maintain comity. Enjoy your day.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:05:17am

re: #223 Dangerman

they know how religious indoctrination works

they experience it in their own homes growing up and likely practice it on their children today

I know any number of Muslims in Germany who were born and raised Muslim, observe Muslim holidays and certain traditions but are not Muslim in any other sense, just like most of the Christians here.

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Jay C  May 24, 2024 • 9:06:27am

re: #226 Rightwingconspirator

Bummer.
Pedestrian? Bike? Car?

Trains can be deadly: the very first scheduled passenger train involved a fatal accident, and that was in 1830…

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 9:14:05am

re: #235 Jay C

Bummer.
Pedestrian? Bike? Car?

Trains can be deadly: the very first scheduled passenger train involved a fatal accident, and that was in 1830…

Some people decide to have an impact on other people when they kill themselves, so they step in front of a passenger train. It happened a few times back when I used to have to take a train to a city to work.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:14:28am

re: #233 Scottish Dragon

OK I’m just ignoring you from this point to maintain comity. Enjoy your day.

ha ha ha

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:14:44am

May thy glue drip and spatter

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Dizzy  May 24, 2024 • 9:14:51am

re: #233 Scottish Dragon

OK I’m just ignoring you from this point to maintain comity. Enjoy your day.

You can do whatever you want, including being pissed off and not engaging with my arguments. Hope you have a better day.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:15:40am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

ha ha ha

Hope springs eternal and I’m an optimist (ducks lightning bolt)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:16:09am

re: #239 Dizzy

You can do whatever you want, including being pissed off and not engaging with my arguments. Hope you have a better day.

ooh that stings! But now the lyrics to “I hope you have the time of your life” by Green Day start to make more sense

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A Cranky One  May 24, 2024 • 9:16:24am

If you lizards make me stop the car…..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:16:53am

re: #242 A Cranky One

If you lizards make me stop the car…..

Don’t make me come upstairs!!!

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:17:00am

re: #242 A Cranky One

If you lizards make me stop the car…..

Timmy keeps touching me!

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Vicious Babushka  May 24, 2024 • 9:17:56am

re: #178 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

R3 makes his final exit dashing off stage while shouting for a horse so he can ride into battle. How disabled can he be?

So disabled that he had special armor made to accommodate his disability.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 24, 2024 • 9:18:47am

re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Of course. But in the eyes of a MAGAt brain or Fundamentlist, anyone born to a Muslim parent is immediately infected with heathenism and has to be eradicated.

Don’t Muslims believe that a child is automatically Muslim if one of their parents is Muslim?

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Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 9:19:02am

re: #245 Vicious Babushka

So disabled that he had special armor made to accommodate his disability.

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“My kingdom for a horse,” because holy shit, that guy wasn’t walking anywhere. Running off-stage was for dramatic effect, not a historical re-enactment.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 9:19:30am

re: #239 Dizzy

In response to this blanket statement from you:

The point of the pro-hamas protests is the destruction of Israel, not a change in behavior.

Here’s an actual reason:

At Brown University, school officials and student-protest organizers reached an agreement last week that ended that encampment on campus, in exchange for a possible future divestment from Israel by the school.

“The University agreed that five students will be invited to meet with five members of the Corporation of Brown University in May to present their arguments to divest Brown’s endowment from ‘companies that facilitate the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territory,’” the school said in a statement.

newsweek.com

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:21:02am

re: #245 Vicious Babushka

So disabled that he had special armor made to accommodate his disability.

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Yeah there were a lot of folks who thought Shakespeare made him disabled as a visual cue for his villainy. In the White Queen TV series, Richard III is portrayed as entirely sound in body. It was a hell of a shock when he was exhumed from beneath a parking lot alley.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 24, 2024 • 9:21:06am

I’m guessing all the AI companies have something buried in their TOS that basically says “You can’t sue us if our AI tells you to do stupid shit and you do it.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:22:16am

re: #246 Hecuba’s daughter

Don’t Muslims believe that a child is automatically Muslim if one of their parents is Muslim?

Could well be, but again, there is religious belief, religious practice and then there is everybody’s individual conscience and faith

which is the main reason God gave our Founding Fathers the Divine Wisdom to keep Church and State separate so religious and doctrinal squabbles do not immediatley blow up into matters of law and policy (although they sometimes do)

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 9:23:32am

My HR department enrolled the whole company in classes about manipulating others, then immediately sent out a note saying it’s a mistake.

I think they meant to just teach the managers to manipulate us.

Titles:
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
To Master Influencing, Make a Plan
Magic Words: The Science and Secrets Behind 7 Words That Motivate, Engage, and Influence | Tim David
How to Influence in a Meeting

And the more harmless-sounding Overcoming Disempowerment.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:23:39am

re: #250 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m guessing all the AI companies have something buried in their TOS that basically says “You can’t sue us if our AI tells you to do stupid shit and you do it.”

If you take advice from AI you deserve what you get.

Just like if you get your news and information from your FB feed

254
Joe Bacon ✅  May 24, 2024 • 9:25:19am

How brainwashed can you get?

This brainwashed…

255
Hecuba's daughter  May 24, 2024 • 9:25:55am

re: #236 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Some people decide to have an impact on other people when they kill themselves, so they step in front of a passenger train. It happened a few times back when I used to have to take a train to a city to work.

OTOH — People who are running late often ignore warnings just so they can catch a train.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:26:28am

re: #254 Joe Bacon ✅

Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?

257
jeffreyw  May 24, 2024 • 9:27:21am

Lake monster sighting:

Mastodon

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Jay C  May 24, 2024 • 9:28:15am

re: #249 Scottish Dragon

Yeah there were a lot of folks who thought Shakespeare made him disabled as a visual cue for his villainy. In the White Queen TV series, Richard III is portrayed as entirely sound in body. It was a hell of a shock when he was exhumed from beneath a parking lot alley.

IIRC (dubious), physicians’ analyses of Richard III’s skeleton indicated that even though he had pronounced scoliosis, it was a lateral kind that would not have prevented him from riding a horse - or fighting on one - and might not have been that noticeable in a casual meeting.
Though of course, as one of his (and History’s) Designated Villains, Shakespeare had to characterize “Crookback Dick” as being as deformed as possible…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 9:30:31am

re: #233 Scottish Dragon

OK I’m just ignoring you from this point to maintain comity. Enjoy your day.

Ignore me too! Because the “from the river to the sea” signs I kept seeing at the local encampment trouble me and make me uneasy for some weird reason. (And among the pictures of the victims it would have been nice to have seen one of just one single dead hostage.)

It is still possible to oppose IDF brutality without going all the way to claiming that Israel was to blame for Hamas’s attacks. Yes, I heard that too.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:31:16am

msn.com

Just awful.

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Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 9:31:50am

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

OTOH — People who are running late often ignore warnings just so they can catch a train.

See, for example, the YouTube video “Dumb Ways to Die,” originally produced by Metro Trains Melbourne in Australia as a public service announcement for paying attention at train crossings and stations, but quickly evolved into an enormous meme that spawned its own brand, complete with mobile games.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 9:31:59am

re: #254 Joe Bacon ✅

How brainwashed can you get?

This brainwashed…

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Unrestrained Christianity is a nightmare. You need a strong civil society to set limits on all brands of religious people, and to encourage them to put reality first, or there’s no limit on how far they’ll go in rolling back progress. The restrained Christians of the liberal democracy I grew up in are not like the unrestrained Christians of the Republican party.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 24, 2024 • 9:33:30am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Wine in boxes, canned cheese & margarine spray are fine for camping but not for everyday use.

I buy box-o-wine to cook with…

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Eventual Carrion  May 24, 2024 • 9:34:29am

Perfect! Connections

Click to Reveal

Connections
Puzzle #348
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Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 9:35:01am

re: #263 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I buy box-o-wine to cook with…

In our house, boxed wine is a cheap source of alcohol for when we want to get properly drunk. It’s somewhat akin to the story of Jesus turning the water into wine; as the story goes, He made the wine so good that the host of the party said, “Yo, my guy, usually we serve the good wine first and then roll out the cheap stuff when people are somewhere between “plastered” and “completely fucking hammered.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:35:21am

re: #259 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Ignore me too! Because the “from the river to the sea” signs I kept seeing at the local encampment trouble me and make me uneasy for some weird reason.

…von der Maas bis an die Memel…

From the Meuse (in France) to the Memel (between Lithuania and Belarus)

-a line from Deutschland über alles

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 9:36:09am

re: #258 Jay C

IIRC (dubious), physicians’ analyses of Richard III’s skeleton indicated that even though he had pronounced scoliosis, it was a lateral kind that would not have prevented him from riding a horse - or fighting on one - and might not have been that noticeable in a casual meeting.
Though of course, as the Designated Villain, Shakespeare had to characterize “Crookback Dick” as being as deformed as possible…

Also while playing the loser of the civil war in the land of the winners.

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 9:38:08am

re: #219 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

“Boycott US universities for investing in companies that do business with Israel” is, apparently, not a hard sell.

(It actually is, the demonstrations were loud and shiny, so they got lost of coverage, but they didn’t really attract large numbers.)

im gonna guess (yes - no data) that most universities investment committees dont directly invest ‘in companies’. they likely invest in funds. it’s safer and easier. those funds invest in companies.

to specifically target individual companies to own - is very expensive to do. you have to monitor their behavior as well as their financial performance. it could be very costly to divest when a whiff of a ‘bad practice’ emerges even if the valuation is good.

it becomes clear very quickly that almost all ‘investing’ is interrelated. there’s no way to carve out a country. certainly not cleanly, or i might add, financially safely.

and trying to find a ‘pure/clean’ fund is also a fools errand. define ‘doing business with’. what business sectors? military adjacent only? then decide what the threshold is that matters.

this is the same twice removed problem discussed above only here it’s investments and not countries.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 9:39:06am

re: #226 Rightwingconspirator

This is kinda horrible. My commuter train hit and killed somebody on the way in. RIP, whoever you are. Van Nuys area…

Suicide by train? I used to have a train engineer (driver) friend who said that was a pretty regular occurrence.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:39:38am

Ya think?! 30 years of Northern Ireland should have been enough to convince anyone how this happens.

NEW: Biden officials have become increasingly concerned that Hamas has been able to recruit during wartime — thousands over the last several months - allowing thee group to withstand months of Israeli offensives

x.com

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sizzzzlerz  May 24, 2024 • 9:39:59am

re: #263 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I buy box-o-wine to cook with…

Most cooking shows I watched always caveat their choice of wines to using a wine to cook with that you would drink.

I don’t think I’d would cook with boxed wines either.

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 9:40:51am

re: #238 Scottish Dragon

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May thy glue drip and spatter

it said ‘non-toxic’

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:40:52am

re: #271 sizzzzlerz

Most cooking shows I watched always caveat their choice of wines to using a wine to cook with that you would drink.

They probably get paid to do so.

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 9:42:39am
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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 9:42:42am

re: #250 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m guessing all the AI companies have something buried in their TOS that basically says “You can’t sue us if our AI tells you to do stupid shit and you do it.”

but we still have to tell you not to blow dry your hair in the shower.
or not to stand your ladder in a pile of shit.
or not to stick your hand in a rotating fan
or

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 24, 2024 • 9:42:48am

re: #268 Dangerman

im gonna guess (yes - no data) that most universities investment committees dont directly invest ‘in companies’. they likely invest in funds. it’s safer and easier. those funds invest in companies.

to specifically target individual companies to own - is very expensive to do. you have to monitor their behavior as well as their financial performance. it could be very costly to divest when a whiff of a ‘bad practice’ emerges even if the valuation is good.

it becomes clear very quickly that almost all ‘investing’ is interrelated. there’s no way to carve out a country. certainly not cleanly, or i might add, financially safely.

and trying to find a ‘pure/clean’ fund is also a fools errand. define ‘doing business with’. what business sectors? military adjacent only? then decide what the threshold is that matters.

this is the same twice removed problem discussed above only here it’s investments and not countries.

This. Also, the Chancellor at Cal pointed out that her administration has no say in investments of University funds — but it would have been problematic to hang out in front of the Office of the President — right downtown in Oakland.

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A Cranky One  May 24, 2024 • 9:43:15am

re: #271 sizzzzlerz

Most cooking shows I watched always caveat their choice of wines to using a wine to cook with that you would drink.

I don’t think I’d would cook with boxed wines either.

Gee, I only used 1/2 cup of this fine wine to make the meal.

What to do with the rest. What to do…

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 9:44:43am
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sizzzzlerz  May 24, 2024 • 9:45:50am

re: #254 Joe Bacon ✅

How brainwashed can you get?

This brainwashed…

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And the beatings you will receive during your marriage are merely his way of reinforcing his lessons while bringing you closer to jesus.

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darthstar  May 24, 2024 • 9:47:28am

Robert Plant, 1977, taking a break between shows to kick a soccer ball around with some kids in the only shorts he had with him…a Speedo. Apparently he wasn’t pleased with the photographer who took this.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 9:48:19am

re: #257 jeffreyw

Lake monster sighting:

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Or wet Afghan Hound.

You decide.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 9:48:29am

re: #280 darthstar

Robert Plant, 1977, taking a break between shows to kick a soccer ball around with some kids in the only shorts he had with him…a Speedo. Apparently he wasn’t pleased with the photographer who took this.

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Speedo happens now and zen.…

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Hecuba's daughter  May 24, 2024 • 9:49:41am

re: #264 Eventual Carrion

Perfect! Connections

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Here too

Click to Reveal

Connections
Puzzle #348
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Abandoned it — and then tried again hours later. Got yellow immediately — but just didn’t see the other relationships.

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Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 9:50:11am

re: #271 sizzzzlerz

Most cooking shows I watched always caveat their choice of wines to using a wine to cook with that you would drink.

I don’t think I’d would cook with boxed wines either.

We drink wine like the Italians do—no snobbery. The best glass I ever had was in a pizzeria in Pavia. It cost about 0.8 Euro. Like most vino di tavola, it probably was brought to the cafe from a cooperativa, where it was pumped into the cafe’s 40 ltr jerobam from a stainless steel pump totally indistinguishable from a gasoline pump.

We drink 2 kinds of wine—a glass of box wine in the evening or a bottle of “snob wine” for celebrations.

285
Joe Bacon ✅  May 24, 2024 • 9:51:28am

Accused Murderer-Rapper Out On Bail Appears At Trump Rally

Sheff G, a major leader in the Crips gang, is facing time in prison after he shot at people in broad daylight and bragged about it on social media. And of course he shared the stage with a proud Trump.

crooksandliars.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 9:51:45am

re: #260 Scottish Dragon

msn.com

Just awful.

Good job, Bibi. You made sure you and your country came across as the villains. People vastly remember how many Israelis were murdered.

He really needs to go to prison for his OTHER crimes. Shit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:52:05am

re: #275 Dangerman

but we still have to tell you not to blow dry your hair in the shower.
or not to stand your ladder in a pile of shit.
or not to stick your hand in a rotating fan
or

or “remove child before washing” laundry tags

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:54:11am

re: #284 Decatur Deb

We drink wine like the Italians do—no snobbery. The best glass I ever had was in a pizzeria in Pavia. It cost about 0.8 Euro. Like most vino di tavola, it probably was brought to the cafe from a cooperativa, where it was pumped into the cafe’s 40 ltr jerobam from a stainless steel pump totally indistinguishable from a gasoline pump.

We drink 2 kinds of wine—a glass of box wine in the evening or a bottle of “snob wine” for celebrations.

I am lucky to live in a winemaking region where you can go right to the vintner’s and get an outstanding bottle for around 8 euros (used to be more like 6 euros)

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 24, 2024 • 9:55:47am

re: #275 Dangerman

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are some fans where you can touch the “blades.”
amazon.com

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steve_davis  May 24, 2024 • 9:56:46am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Wine in boxes, canned cheese & margarine spray are fine for camping but not for everyday use.

Hey, I got Pinot Grigio in a box in the fridge. Don’t be bad mouthin’ the Gridge!

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sizzzzlerz  May 24, 2024 • 9:58:03am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

or “remove child before washing” laundry tags

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 9:58:05am

re: #289 PhillyPretzel ✅

There are some fans where you can touch the “blades.”
amazon.com

grrrr ;-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 9:58:15am

re: #290 steve_davis

Hey, I got Pinot Grigio in a box in the fridge. Don’t be bad mouthin’ the Gridge!

IO am talking about my own tastes, to each their own

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 24, 2024 • 9:58:34am

Wording for you fine folks…

We watch tv and often see people drinking alcohol; a shot of bourbon or scotch at the end of the day or a glass of wine when they cube hike or with a meal (at home), and I’m curious…

How often and under what circumstances do you drink?

295
Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 9:58:47am

re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am lucky to live in a winemaking region where you can go right to the vintner’s and get a decent bottle for around 8 euros (used to be 6 euros)

Our immediate wine was pretty bad—resinous, but they would drop it at the door like an old-style milkman. If we wanted Soave, we would take a jerobamo to Soave. If we wanted Valpolicella, we would drive a little farther.

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A Cranky One  May 24, 2024 • 10:00:14am

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 10:01:23am

re: #296 A Cranky One

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Bassists are Soylent Green. We all know that.

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Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 10:04:17am

re: #294 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wording for you fine folks…

We watch tv and often see people drinking alcohol; a shot of bourbon or scotch at the end of the day or a glass of wine when they cube hike or with a meal (at home), and I’m curious…

How often and under what circumstances do you drink?

I drink 6 servings of wine or beer in 7 days. It’s rigidly controlled because I had a lot of bad drunks in my family. Wife didn’t, so she has 1-2 glasses of wine some nights.

Two glasses for me is an exceptional celebration, 3 is a party.

299
Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 10:06:05am

re: #294 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wording for you fine folks…

We watch tv and often see people drinking alcohol; a shot of bourbon or scotch at the end of the day or a glass of wine when they cube hike or with a meal (at home), and I’m curious…

How often and under what circumstances do you drink?

I drink 2-3 times per week, almost more as an established ritual at this point than for any particular reason. When I do drink, I drink a fair amount, though not nearly as bad as I used to do, where I would literally drink until I couldn’t (i.e. blacked out). Most often, it’s a way to loosen up and forget about the troubles of this life for a short while.

300
William Lewis  May 24, 2024 • 10:07:47am

re: #299 Nerdy Fish

I drink 2-3 times per week, almost more as an established ritual at this point than for any particular reason. When I do drink, I drink a fair amount, though not nearly as bad as I used to do, where I would literally drink until I couldn’t (i.e. blacked out). Most often, it’s a way to loosen up and forget about the troubles of this life for a short while.

I’ve taken to Delta 9 gummies for that purpose. Easier on the liver.

301
Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 10:08:54am

re: #300 William Lewis

I’ve taken to Delta 9 gummies for that purpose. Easier on the liver.

I should, and when I go to the doctor for my physicals, I make sure to have my liver numbers checked. They’ve been good so far; if they start to go south at all, I’m quitting the bottle entirely.

302
Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 10:10:19am

When we left Italy, my friend gave me a bottle of 12 yr old grappa. It’s half-empty now, and it’s 55 yr old grappa.

303
7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 24, 2024 • 10:13:07am

I go through about a pint of vodka daily, in the evenings.

304
Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2024 • 10:14:19am

re: #302 Decatur Deb

When we left Italy, my friend gave me a bottle of 12 yr old grappa. It’s half-empty now, and it’s 43 yr old grappa.

Lol. Bartenders would not like you much.

305
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 24, 2024 • 10:14:32am

re: #294 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wording for you fine folks…

We watch tv and often see people drinking alcohol; a shot of bourbon or scotch at the end of the day or a glass of wine when they cube hike or with a meal (at home), and I’m curious…

How often and under what circumstances do you drink?

on special occasions.

I live in a winemaking region in a country renowned for its beer, but beer makes me feel bloated and wine gives me a sour stomach. So I rarely drink more than a glass of either.

My daughter does not drink, and I generally do not like to drink alone. On the other hand, if I want to socialize , I have to drive to get most anywhere and I do not drink and drive at all. Not even one drink.

That probbly comes fro living in Moscow, where there is a 0.00
limit. I got used to that, and when I came back to Germany, I recall having one beer and driving and noticing the difference and not liking it, so I gave up the practice.

If I am drinking for effect, then I go for clear spirits (vodka, tequila, gin or white rum) I still have a bottle of Patron anejo I got for my birthday last year and only just finished the bottle of vodka I fetched for Christmas and New Year’s festivities.

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Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 10:16:54am

re: #303 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

I go through about a pint of vodka daily, in the evenings.

That’s probably enough to do some harm (or prolong your life if you’re in a shitty situation).

307
Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 10:18:12am

re: #304 Rightwingconspirator

Lol. Bartenders would not like you much.

Granddaughter2 has parlayed her degree in Musical Theatre into a job tending bar.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 24, 2024 • 10:21:05am

re: #303 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

I go through about a pint of vodka daily, in the evenings.

Sounds like you’re an alcoholic. You’ll live longer and healthier if you switch to weed. I’ve seen the devastation that drug testing moving people to alcohol did to my friends. Alcohol is not a good drug.

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Romantic Heretic  May 24, 2024 • 10:22:22am

re: #254 Joe Bacon ✅

Jesus, lady! BDSM is about informed consent.

You’re just being a doormat, not a sub.

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Nerdy Fish  May 24, 2024 • 10:24:46am

I have no intention of killing myself slowly by pickling my liver in booze. I ain’t about that.

311
sizzzzlerz  May 24, 2024 • 10:26:09am

re: #304 Rightwingconspirator

Lol. Bartenders would not like you much.

What does it taste like after sitting in an opened bottle for 31 years?

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Sherlock Hound  May 24, 2024 • 10:26:56am

re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

MaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGA

“Hold still!” ///

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 24, 2024 • 10:29:15am

New in PN: “If Trump returns, it’s likely he and his minions will push to abolish the 22nd Amendment and its max of two terms for presidents — in fact Project 2025 is already scheming to do just that. Don’t have to take it from us. Listen to the man himself.”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social) 2024-05-24T13:18:17.561Z

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Semper Fi  May 24, 2024 • 10:29:53am

re: #204 Scottish Dragon

Somebody has to actually try to bring a case to the ICJ. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin.

True. Admittedly, I sometimes miss some things when I vent.

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danarchy  May 24, 2024 • 10:30:36am

re: #271 sizzzzlerz

Most cooking shows I watched always caveat their choice of wines to using a wine to cook with that you would drink.

I don’t think I’d would cook with boxed wines either.

I don’t drink wine, gives me migraines, but it is my understanding that for table wines that are not meant to be aged, boxed wine is a far superior packaging method in just about every way. Because of the way it is decanted it can stay fresh for weeks after opening, no chance of cork taint, the box protects the wine from light that can deteriorate it etc.

316
Eventual Carrion  May 24, 2024 • 10:31:19am

Enormous lithium reservoir under Pennsylvania

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 10:32:13am

re: #302 Decatur Deb

When we left Italy, my friend gave me a bottle of 12 yr old grappa. It’s half-empty now, and it’s 55 yr old grappa.

My grappa (dangermoms dad) lived to 94

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Belafon  May 24, 2024 • 10:33:44am

re: #316 Eventual Carrion

Enormous lithium reservoir under Pennsylvania

Sodium based batteries are starting to enter production. While they don’t have the energy density of Lithium, Sodium is easier to get to and can be charged very rapidly. Hopefully we’ll get to where we’re not having to dig up lithium.

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 10:36:47am

re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg

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“New in PN: “If Trump returns, it’s likely he and his minions will push to abolish the 22nd Amendment and its max of two terms for presidents “

Well if there’s no enabling legislation …

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Hecuba's daughter  May 24, 2024 • 10:43:29am

re: #294 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wording for you fine folks…

We watch tv and often see people drinking alcohol; a shot of bourbon or scotch at the end of the day or a glass of wine when they cube hike or with a meal (at home), and I’m curious…

How often and under what circumstances do you drink?

I do not drink and have never indulged. I did have a sip of wine during the wedding ceremony, as part of the ritual. Hate feeling I’m not in control.

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Dangerman  May 24, 2024 • 10:45:08am

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terraincognita  May 24, 2024 • 10:47:18am

re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg

Considering Trump is facing a life ending prison sentence if he loses the election, he will willingly burn down DC before he allows this to happen. Don’t think that there may be possible violence; it is a guaranteed outcome to a movement that has let to have become out of control by politics, the judiciary and American society in general.

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Scottish Dragon  May 24, 2024 • 10:47:46am

re: #321 Dangerman

There’s some truth to that, yeah. I’ve blocked far, far more GENOCIDE JOE!! guys with Palestinian flags and hammer/sickle emojis than just about anyone else.

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Decatur Deb  May 24, 2024 • 10:57:11am

re: #311 sizzzzlerz

What does it taste like after sitting in an opened bottle for 31 years?

Haven’t tasted it in years—I’m supposing it tastes better than when opened. The color has gone from clear to slightly gold. It’s 100 proof, so it’s more a matter of feeling it than tasting it.


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US Military M17 & M18 Pistols Causing Unintentional Discharges Documents detail U.S. soldiers shot by their own Sig Sauer guns; military says no reason for concern Around lunchtime on Feb. 8, 2023, inside an administrative office at Fort Eustis in Virginia, a sergeant with the Army’s 221st Military ...
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