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1
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 7, 2024 • 7:59:01pm

Rock-a-bye your baby…with the Dixie Swastika…

Kari Lake delivers Senate stump speech with Confederate flag in background

Lake was seen addressing supporters in a campaign event who packed into the Trumped Store in Show Low, Arizona, with a Confederate flag draped on the wall behind her, The Guardian reported.

“So many incredible patriots in Heber-Overgaard, Show Low and the White Mountains,” Lake said when she spoke at the shop, according to the outlet who observed the footage. “America is stepping up. Arizona is stepping forward. It’s time to save this great Republic. I’m honored to be in this fight with all of these amazing patriots.”

rawstory.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:11:30pm

previous thread

re: #49 Joe Bacon ✅

Jesusbot relative posts this…

They could have posted her previous video “Trump Won” (or the whole album of the same name).

She claims all the proceeds from sales will go servicemen and women, without specifying how or what organisations.

I smell another Christian liar and grifter.

She started her Christian singing career in 2013, singing typical Christian contemporary music, until she went round the bend in 2023. I imagine for those who like Christian contemporary music, she dragged along her fan base into her delusions about Trump.

I am unable to find any song of hers which charted in Christian contemporary song listings.

en.wikipedia.org

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:12:05pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

The Trumped Store
azcentral.com

The amount of crap with his name on it is likely to surpass the total tonnage of all U.S. presidential candidate swag.

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Semper Fi  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:16:30pm

Kari Lake’s behavior is getting bizarre. Trying desperately to bring attention to herself I’m thinking. Auditioning for VP??

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mmmirele  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:16:47pm

re: #3 jaunte

The Trump Store
azcentral.com

The amount of crap with his name on it is likely to surpass the total tonnage of all U.S. presidential candidate swag.

In 2020, there was a Trump pop-up run by a couple in a Trump wrapped RV parked at a former gas station on the southwest corner of the intersection of University Dr. and Lindsay Rd. here in Mesa. A not-related popup was on the northeast corner of Brown & Recker Rds. Both popups moved out pretty quickly after it became clear Trump had lost in Arizona (not even waiting for the Saturday declaration). There were probably more around the Valley, but I didn’t travel around to see them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:18:27pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

Lake was seen addressing supporters in a campaign event who packed into the Trumped Store in Show Low, Arizona, with a Confederate flag draped on the wall behind her, The Guardian reported.

I googled this so you don’t have to. The store is exactly what you think it is.

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:19:08pm

re: #5 mmmirele

I was thinking the political ephemera collector market is going to regard this stuff as the equivalent of AOL cds.

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:20:23pm

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social

The subject line of the most recent Trump fundraising email. More fodder for my argument that the defining feature of Trumpism is the way it has ground down Occam’s Razor to a tiny nubbin in the minds of the MAGA millions. Ah yes, each week when Biden attends mass he’s plotting how to kill millions.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:24:16pm

White House proclamation, today.

A Proclamation on Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2024

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For people across America, our flag is a reminder of our Nation’s founding principle. It stands for the sacred idea that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. Our flag is also a reminder of our shared calling: to stand for the ideals our country was founded on — democracy, freedom, and justice for all. On Flag Day and during National Flag Week, we take pride in the promise and purpose represented by our Nation’s flag.

Our country’s flag was created in 1777, when America was still a new idea. Americans flew it at their homes during the Revolutionary War as brave troops fought for our country’s independence from British rule — representing the resolve and resilience of our Nation’s 13 colonies with 13 stripes and stars. As our Nation evolved, so too did our flag — with every new star added to Old Glory, we were reminded that the work of forging a more perfect Union never ends.

Ever since, our flag has served as a source of pride and inspiration. It has flown high on many battlefields, acting as a beacon of light and purpose at home and around the globe. It flies over military cemeteries where our country’s service members have been laid to rest, reminding us of the unmoving faith they had in our Nation and the ultimate sacrifice they made. It flies over buildings, classrooms, and courthouses ‑- across small towns, in big cities, and around the world — a constant reminder that democracy begins and will be preserved in the habits and the hearts of ordinary people and that we all share a responsibility to stand up for it each and every day.

Across the country, Americans are writing the greatest comeback story our Nation has ever known. They are finding new ways to lead America into a future of possibilities, helping build a democracy with dignity — one worthy of our dreams. On Flag Day and during National Flag Week, we honor all that the flag means to the American people and continue working to ensure that America is a land of possibilities for all. No matter how dark the night, Americans will always pursue our Nation’s North Star — our flag will always be there.

To commemorate the adoption of our flag in 1777, the Congress, by joint resolution approved on August 3, 1949, as amended (63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of each year as “Flag Day” and requested the President issue an annual proclamation calling for its observance and for the display of the flag of the United States on all Federal Government buildings. The Congress also requested, by joint resolution approved June 9, 1966, as amended (80 Stat. 194), that the President issue annually a proclamation designating the week in which June 14 occurs as “National Flag Week” and calling upon all citizens of the United States to display the flag during that week.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 14, 2024, as Flag Day and the week starting June 9, 2024, as National Flag Week. I direct the appropriate officials to display the flag on all Federal Government buildings during this week, and I urge all Americans to observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by displaying the flag and honoring all of our brave service members and revering those who gave their last full measure of devotion defending our freedoms. I encourage the people of the United States to observe with pride and all due ceremony those days from Flag Day through Independence Day, set aside by the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a time to honor the American spirit, to celebrate our history and the foundational values we strive to uphold, and to publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:26:09pm

re: #4 Semper Fi

Kari Lake’s behavior is getting bizarre. Trying desperately to bring attention to herself I’m thinking. Auditioning for VP??

She eliminated the Vaseline camera filter so Trump can recognise her.

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:29:47pm

re: #4 Semper Fi

Kari Lake gave Senate campaign speech in front of a Confederate flag

azcentral.com

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:31:32pm

re: #5 mmmirele

Show Low Arizona is mostly populated by crack heads, cheap ass elderly people who can only afford to live there, and kids under 18 desperately waiting to get out.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:32:26pm

re: #8 jaunte

As opposed to Trump who will start WWIII. Sorta/

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:38:40pm

re: #12 Egregious Philbin

Show Low Arizona is mostly populated by crack heads, cheap ass elderly people who can only afford to live there, and kids under 18 desperately waiting to get out.

I’ve been to Heber Overgaard (mentioned in post#1).

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:39:43pm

re: #13 Romantic Heretic

I think this is Trump’s way of promising he’ll “get along” with Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un.

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piratedan  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:41:27pm

re: #14 wrenchwench

beautiful area that is populated by a LOT of summer homes for those well to do, who live in the Phoenix metro area, to escape the heat in the summer and ski in the winter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:42:42pm

from down below

re: #109 Joe Bacon ✅

Someone please tell the New York Times that there really is a Republicans in Disarray problem!

theguardian.com

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Despite the mounting calls for his resignation from within his own party, Williams has so far suggested he plans to stay in his role. He told USA Today earlier this week that members of Colorado Republican Party’s leadership “make no apologies” for their public statements.

“We make no apologies for saying God hates pride or pride flags as it’s an agenda that harms children and undermines parental authority, and the only backlash we see is coming from radical Democrats, the fake news media, and weak Republicans who bow down at the feet of leftist cancel culture,” Williams said.

In the email that initially sparked the controversy, Williams wrote that with the arrival of the month of June (which the LGBTQ+ community celebrates as “Pride month”), “the godless groomers in our society want to attack what is decent, holy, and righteous so they can ultimately harm our children.” A separate tweet from the Colorado GOP’s official X/Twitter account showed a gif of a fire with the text “burn all the #Pride flags.”

Representative of US House District 5 (Colo. Springs). Hate rhetoric in a place where a gay nightclub was shot up and where the American Family Association is located trying to subvert the Air Force Academy? I can’t possibly imagine why he’d sell more hate.

And of course the GOP leadership (according to him) doesn’t make apologies. Conservatives don’t apologise.

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:43:41pm

re: #16 piratedan

beautiful area that is populated by a LOT of summer homes for those well to do, who live in the Phoenix metro area, to escape the heat in the summer and ski in the winter.

After snow birds, there’s haboob birds?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:44:45pm

re: #110 Dangerman

The self described shit poster already copped that it was all made up

Good. Now arrest him for tampering with the trial.

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:49:32pm

re: #14 wrenchwench

Its nice if you have a weekend cabin and you don’t mix with the locals..

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:50:34pm

re: #3 jaunte

The Trumped Store
azcentral.com

The amount of crap with his name on it is likely to surpass the total tonnage of all U.S. presidential candidate swag.

Not to mention, surpass the amount of dog turds left on neighbor’s front lawns across the country in one year by weight and by value.

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:52:06pm

re: #16 piratedan

I’d rather drive/fly to San Diego/Carlsbad and get an air bnb for several days. Same thing with Rocky Point, Mexico. I am alarmed at the prices for places there now, back in the day, we would drive there, then drive out on the sand to a hundred yards or so from the high tide and just plop down sleeping bags. Same spots are now 30 story condos.

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Jay C  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:53:37pm

re: #7 jaunte

I was thinking the political ephemera collector market is going to regard this stuff as the equivalent of AOL cds.

Naaah: the latter could at least be used as coasters…

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2024 • 8:56:36pm

re: #20 Egregious Philbin

Its nice if you have a weekend cabin and you don’t mix with the locals..

I was a local in Silver City, NM, where a lot of Tucson refugees went.

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piratedan  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:02:39pm

re: #18 wrenchwench
The Mogollon Rim country (Cottonwood to Springerville) is about 20-25 degrees cooler than Phoenix metro, so yeah, they head up to escape the heat. So you’re either doing pretty well or in the service industry catering to those folks. Not a lot of industry up there except for tourism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:09:21pm

re: #172 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

As I said earlier, nonsense. It’s easy to take him out of context, and his ideas won’t fit into a tweet. The far righters actually skimmed some of his work some years back and decided he was one of them… then dropped him like a hot potato when they featured him on their teevee shows and found out what he actually thought.

Don’t be like the wingnuts.

Well, maybe he’s not a racist. He just carries a helluva lot of water for them.

Has Anti-Racism Become as Harmful as Racism? John McWhorter vs. Nikhil Singh (Reason, November 30, 2018. McWhorter argued in the affirmative in the debate.)

It’s Time to End Race-Based Affirmative Action (NYT Opinion, January 28, 2022)

‘Microaggression’ Is the New Racism on Campus (March 21, 2014, Time)

John McWhorter Argues That Antiracism Has Become a Religion of the Left (Review of the book “WOKE RACISM
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America” By John McWhorter (NYT Review of Books, October 26, 2021)

The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility (The Atlantic, July 15, 2020)

‘Racist’ Technology Is a Bug—Not a Crime (Time, September 12. 2016)

The Difference Between Racial Bias and White Supremacy (Time, November 29, 2016, in his own words arguing the term “white supremacy” is hate speech)

I’m satisfied he’s a racist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:13:27pm

Rachel Maddow announced her second season of “Ultra” will air June 10.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:14:46pm

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m satisfied he’s a racist.

Again, nonsense, but you have to actually read past the clickbait headlines — or maybe even crack one of his books — to know what he has to say.

That is all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:15:23pm

re: #29 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Again, nonsense, but you have to actually read past the clickbait headlines — or maybe even crack one of his books — to know what he has to say.

That is all.

Most of those are his writing and opinions.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:16:08pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Most of those are his writing and opinions.

And of course you’ve actually read all of them.

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Targetpractice  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:17:57pm

re: #8 jaunte

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social

Ah yes, Trump the peacemaker, the man who’s made clear he will:

- Force Ukraine to surrender to Russia on the hollow “promise” of no future aggression, after which he’ll basically abandon the Ukrainian people to their fate

- Weaken NATO by withdrawing from the alliance and either removing our Armed Forces from Europe or withholding time-critical support for petty reasons/extortion

- Start an economic war with China that will cripple our economy while giving them incentive to go ahead with further aggressive expansion (i.e. invade Taiwan) because they’re fucked either way

- Alternate between provoking N. Korea and joining L’il Kim for some lovely play dates in foreign locales and some light ball fondling before coming back to the States to tell us how amazing a guy he is

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:18:34pm

re: #15 jaunte

I’m guessing one of those people will call for a new Berlin Conference. Won’t that be fun?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:19:29pm

My excitement for the afternoon: When I was backing my car out of the garage, a chittering sound suddenly arises behind me in my vehicle. I probably should have stopped then but was driving to my sister’s only a mile away. When stopped at a light, could finally look behind me and Surprise!!! there was a cicada walking next to my rear window. When it got into my car, who knows? Maybe yesterday at some point? My windows are closed. In any case, after pulling into my sister’s driveway, I managed to grab hold of a very reluctant cicada and released it into the “wild” of my sister’s yard.

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:20:51pm

re: #34 Hecuba’s daughter

My excitement for the afternoon: When I was backing my car out of the garage, a chittering sound suddenly arises behind me in my vehicle. I probably should have stopped then but was driving to my sister’s only a mile away. When stopped at a light, could finally look behind me and Surprise!!! there was a cicada walking next to my rear window. When it got into my car, who knows? Maybe yesterday at some point? My windows are closed. In any case, after pulling into my sister’s driveway, I managed to grab hold of a very reluctant cicada and released it into the “wild” of my sister’s yard.

She’s going to make you regret that in 17 years.

/

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:20:54pm
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jaunte  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:21:07pm

re: #34 Hecuba’s daughter

a chittering sound suddenly arises behind me in my vehicle

I’m so glad for you it wasn’t a raccoon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:23:03pm

re: #31 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

And of course you’ve actually read all of them.

I have not read his books on linguistics either, before he became a libertarian wingnut.

Do you think anti-racism is as harmful as racism? (his words in his article)

Do you think “white fragility” is a condescending term? (his words)

Is racist technology only a bug and “not a crime?” (Nice conflation by him. It is well-documented that racial bias assumed in the design of equipment and software has real-world harms to minority members of society, from medicine to arrests.)

Is “microaggression” the new racism? (His words)

You can be both a well-known academic (his linguistic work) and still be a racist.

I’ll move on, though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:33:01pm

Last month, CBS News reported Rep. Troy Nehls wears a Combat Infantryman pin on his lapel he is not entitled to.

‘It’s Really Shameful’: House Republicans Accuse Rep. Troy Nehls of Stolen Valor Over Military Award Pin (NOTUS, June 6, 2024)

“A May investigation found Nehls’ Combat Infantryman Badge was revoked in 2023. He still wears the pin.”

House Republicans are accusing Rep. Troy Nehls of “stolen valor” for continuing to wear a lapel pin for infantrymen or Special Forces who fought in active combat.

“It matters. As a former commander, it matters what you wear on your uniform,” Rep. Ryan Zinke, a retired Navy SEAL, told NOTUS. “And if you didn’t earn it, you shouldn’t wear it.”

Nehls wears a Combat Infantryman Badge pin from Afghanistan on his suit jacket, right under his 118th Congress pin. A CBS News investigation in early May found Nehls’ Combat Infantryman Badge had been revoked from his service record in March 2023 because he served as a civil affairs officer and it was mistakenly awarded. Only Infantry or Special Forces soldiers engaged in combat can receive the badge.

Rep. Wesley Hunt, also from Texas, wears a similar pin on his lapel, the Combat Action Badge. It’s what the Army awards to everyone who “engaged with the enemy,” even if they weren’t Infantry or Special Forces. “That’s ridiculous. That’s stolen valor,” Hunt said when hearing about Nehls.

Nehls defended his military record in the wake of the CBS News investigation and a Pentagon and U.S. Army review of his service record. That review stated that Nehls had one Bronze Star — not the two he has claimed — and is not allowed to wear the Combat Infantryman Badge. Nehls posted photographs and paperwork for two Bronze Stars on his X account last month.

“The Department of Defense (DoD) claims I was awarded only one Bronze Star. Wrong. I have two,” he said in the post. Nehls did not respond to NOTUS’ request for comment on him continuing to wear the CIB pin.

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TedStriker  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:34:52pm

re: #37 jaunte

I’m so glad for you it wasn’t a raccoon.

Or Toonces…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:36:30pm

re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

.I’ll move on, though.

As will I. But not before mentioning that this site is full of complaints about click-bait headlines (NYT), which turn out to say something other than what the headlines say. It makes the cynic in me wryly amused to watch people repeatedly use the same “arguments” themselves. When it’s something they want to believe…

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jaunte  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:38:43pm

re: #41 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

That seems to be the business McWhorter is in, arguing that this nation’s problem with race isn’t as big as some people are making it out to be.

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Targetpractice  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:39:30pm

re: #36 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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The whole thing smacks of the kind of arguments that were made after Comey’s infamous “reopening the investigation” letter “leaked” to the press, the idea that he was afraid that if he sat on the story until after the election and Hillary won then he’d be accused of “interference” in the election.

Or, in this case, Merchan is worried that Trump’s lawyers might bring this up during the appeals process as his withholding evidence from them, so he sent a letter now that does little more than “inform” them in order to squash any accusations that he knowingly withheld information from the defense. Not that it makes any difference what his intentions really were, because no amount of proof to the contrary will end accusations that “the fix was in” and the conviction a “fraud.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:43:29pm

re: #41 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

As will I. But not before mentioning that this site is full of complaints about click-bait headlines (NYT), which turn out to say something other than what the headlines say. It makes the cynic in me wryly amused to watch people repeatedly use the same “arguments” themselves. When it’s something they want to believe…

Whatever the New York Times does, I was only pointing out (aside from the Review of Books article), the opinion pieces were written by him.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:51:08pm

Not quite as bad as the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese theft in Italy which netted €785,000 in over three thousand cheese wheels, but peculiar nonetheless.

Huffington Post, June 7, 2023

Nearly 3,000 Boxes Of Legos Seized, 2 Arrested In Alleged Organized Theft Ring

Probably shouldn’t keep hitting the same target for your thefts.

Two California residents were arrested in connection with what police referred to as a “Lego theft ring” that stole thousands of dollars worth of the toys, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Friday.

Richard Siegel, 71, and Blanca Gudino, 39, were arrested Wednesday after a retailer identified Gudino as a suspect in a series of thefts at a San Pedro store in December 2023, according to the announcement.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:51:38pm

re: #35 wrenchwench

She’s going to make you regret that in 17 years.

/

Her property is already home to hundreds of these little guys!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:58:20pm

(1:08)

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2024 • 9:58:20pm

One day last week, I thought I heard a cicada for a few seconds, twice. Other than that, nothing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:04:44pm

re: #42 jaunte

That seems to be the business McWhorter is in, arguing that this nation’s problem with race isn’t as big as some people are making it out to be.

IMO, McWhorter seems more interested in being a contrarian since that’s where you get the publicity and interviews. He fails to address what is actually happening in our nation — the impact of Christopher Rufo, and the Republican efforts to turn back the clock in a wide range of areas. I watched the video that Charles posted downstairs and I think he is being totally dishonest in his take on the issues, at least based on what was shown in the interview.

ETA: Maybe my language is too harsh — but he is definitely making arguments to boost book sales, and a milder tone would fail to accomplish that.

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Semper Fi  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:06:49pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

One day last week, I thought I heard a cicada for a few seconds, twice. Other than that, nothing.

Upding for: I thought I heard a cicada.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:08:21pm

How far out past the Oort Cloud is a Jesusbot relative?

This far out…

I can only handle so much stupid…I got to call it a night and sign off…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:14:33pm

Wonkette, today

Vermont Cops Traumatize Students With Surprise Fake Mass Shooting

A group of 20 students touring a police station in Burlington, Vermont, as part of their forensics class were possibly scarred for life on Wednesday when the cops went and staged a fake shooting of the sort in which kids these days have grown up fearing they will die. Fun!

According to witnesses, the students were listening to a detective deliver a presentation on crime-solving when they suddenly heard screaming. Two women ran into the room, followed by a man in a ski mask with a gun. What sounded like very real gunshots rang out as kids dove for the floor and tried to text their parents.

“I’m shaking and crying because I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I’m gonna get shot,’” one student told Seven Days Vermont. “It felt so real.”

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Semper Fi  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:15:32pm

re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅

How far out past the Oort Cloud is a Jesusbot relative?

This far out…

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Yes, it is far out. It’s something Trump does so well he believes it himself…just proclaim whatever and keep doubling down on it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:18:33pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

One day last week, I thought I heard a cicada for a few seconds, twice. Other than that, nothing.

Quite loud in areas in our neighborhood — and definitely by my house and my sister’s! But nothing going in in much of Chicago proper, such as where my niece and her family reside.

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Targetpractice  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:25:55pm

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(1:08)

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And the Prussian aristocrats thought that they could control the little lippy artillery corporal and so giving him an otherwise ceremonial position in the government was the best idea because it would get his frothing pack of followers on their side…

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wrenchwench  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:37:13pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:37:24pm
It’s an interesting moment in Nebraska politics. The Republican Party is in disarray: the old guard Death Eaters, who have all the money, have been pushed out of party leadership by the gremlins they fed after midnight, and the party is advancing a slate of candidates that range from entry-level panty checkers running for Board of Ed positions to Dracula Caillou trying to keep the U.S. Senate seat he was appointed to by his pocket pet, who is currently inhabiting the governor’s mansion. The opposition party in this deeply red state is always going to be fighting an uphill battle, but 2024 presents rare opportunities for Democrats and other contenders.

Yet it appears that no opportunity should go unsquandered for the Nebraska Democratic Party. One Republican running for re-election this year is Deb Fischer, a barely sentient human cabbage currently in her eleventh year of occupying a seat in the U.S. Senate. So to defeat Fischer, the Nebraska Democratic Party has put forward…. no one. They produced not a single candidate to challenge a Republican incumbent who has the resume and charisma of a tepid gas station hot dog.

That is quite the dereliction of duty, but it’s okay, because an independent candidate, Dan Osborn, is running against Fischer. And while we don’t agree with Osborn’s platform 100%, this is finally a candidate who is running to represent working people. He checks almost all the boxes and certainly all the boxes that can be checked by a viable statewide candidate in Nebraska. What’s more, it actually looks like he can win.

And here is where the Nebraska Democratic Party steps in: to fuck it up.

On May 15, the day after some pretty promising results in some of the primary races, the chair of the NDP publicly tweeted that Dan Osborn had lied to the NDP about wanting their endorsement, and that now that he had jilted them, the NDP would be running a write-in campaign.

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No Opportunity Unsquandered (Seeing Red Nebraska)

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:42:23pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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No Opportunity Unsquandered (Seeing Red Nebraska)

I am making a monthly contributions to the Dan Osborn campaign. Thank goodness ActBlue provides the option.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:46:20pm

This might be worth checking out (Alliance, Nebr. Times-Herald, June 5, 2024)

Former Alliance Resident Julie Ushio will provide a lecture about Early Japanese Settlers on the High Plains at noon on Saturday during the grand opening of the Japanese Hall at the Legacy of the Plains Museum in Gering.

Ushio will share the stories of Japanese immigrants to the United States who came to call Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming their home and how the communities grew around them. Ushio’s family operated the Alliance Cleaners for 65 years, and were members of the Japanese Hall.

The Japanese Hall, which was constructed in Scottsbluff in the early 1900s, provided a space for Japanese immigrants to come together.

When the building was scheduled to be torn down, Vickie Sakurada Schaepler, who coordinated the project, wrote grants and secured the funding needed to secure the building, which was moved to the Legacy of the Plains Museum in December of 2019.

The Grand Opening of the Japanese Hall at the Legacy of the Plains Museum in Gering will take place on June 8, with a ceremony set to begin at 10 a.m. The event is free to the public, including admission to the museum.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 10:47:46pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

I am making a monthly contributions to the Dan Osborn campaign. Thank goodness ActBlue provides the option.

I’ve put a cheque in the mail a couple weeks ago.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 7, 2024 • 11:01:31pm

re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve put a cheque in the mail a couple weeks ago.

There has been very little polling, but it appears that Osborn has a real shot.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 11:15:53pm
GILLETTE — The Biden administration’s proposal to end federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin will have “grave” and “drastic” consequences for Campbell County, the nation’s largest coal supplier and a bulwark of Wyoming’s economy for the past 50 years, residents and local officials say.

If implemented, the proposal will destroy the livelihoods of thousands of miners and their families here and gut the community’s economy, Gillette resident George Dunlap said.

Coal industry a no-show at Campbell County event to rally against federal leasing ban

Cheyenne Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, four hours ago

We’d also quit having coal trains rumbling through our town shaking our infrastructure and homes apart over here in Nebraska.

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Targetpractice  Jun 7, 2024 • 11:20:45pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Coal industry a no-show at Campbell County event to rally against federal leasing ban

Cheyenne Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, four hours ago

We’d also quit having coal trains rumbling through our town shaking our infrastructure and homes apart over here in Nebraska.

Won’t anyone think of the people building buggies and making horse whips?!

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gwangung  Jun 7, 2024 • 11:25:56pm

re: #31 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

And of course you’ve actually read all of them.

You are not…making a good case for him.

If he has a good case, you should be able to replicate the reasoning and lay it out for us.
And be able to defend it to a small degree.

Well?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 7, 2024 • 11:25:59pm

Writer doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. This probably deserves a response.

Letter to the Editor: Writer describes current government as Socialist (Scottsbluff Star-Herald, May 24, 2024)

I recently saw a documentary based on Eric Metaxas’ book, “Letter to the American Church.”

Eric’s emphases were on Hitler and on Mao. Socialist type governments (Nazis, Communists) cannot abide Christianity or other religions. The government should receive all obedience. I believe our present government is socialist.

In Hitler’s Germany there were approximately 18, 000 Evangelical pastors. Of these approximately 3000 (the “Confessing Churches”) stood for Biblical truth, against Hitler.

The Church should still stand for truth, and against tyranny.

In the U.S., some individual churches are dropping at least some of the basic beliefs of Christianity; some entire denominations are doing so. “Christianity Today,” the magazine founded by Billy Graham, has so strayed from the basic tenets of Christianity that it recently had an article that suggested that Christ was Asian. The Catholic Church is experiencing some division due to doctrinal questions.
People are also reading…

This administration does not like Christians. Protesters who cause mayhem are rarely arrested. Christians who peacefully protest at abortion clinics are arrested, face prison time. Christians are believed to be a threat.

Socialist governments also seek to separate parents from children. Metaxas stated: Mao had children tattle on parents, who were then executed; Hitler had his Hitler Youth.

Here, “separation” from parents is being done in several ways. In some areas girls can have an abortion without knowledge or permission of their parents. Some children can undergo sexual transition, again without permission or knowledge of their parents. To break parent morality teaching, books on explicit sex and gender are being pushed on children too young to face such topics.

Socialist governments also use division, distrust, chaos, to have eventual control. A few examples follow:

Criminals in some areas are considered more important than victims. Criminals are let out to commit more crime.
Illegal immigrants are also considered more important than us; funds needed for our people are used for them.
Racism is being fomented, in schools, businesses, the military. We who are White are considered “oppressors.”
Nationally, we have a seeming two-tiered justice system, Republicans are treated more harshly than Democrats; there is the never ending attempt to keep Trump from becoming president again.
Lastly, our president is appeasing our many enemies. Will we lose our freedom through tyranny and/or through war?

Kaaren Grimminger, Scottsbluff

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Targetpractice  Jun 8, 2024 • 12:03:12am

re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Writer doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. This probably deserves a response.

Letter to the Editor: Writer describes current government as Socialist (Scottsbluff Star-Herald, May 24, 2024)

It’s a rather pathetic, poorly-run totalitarian socialist state where people like “Karen” can have their long whines about society not conforming to their narrow-minded beliefs published in a major newspaper free of worry that secret police agents will be round her home to either beat her into a confession for her “crimes” against the state or simply shooting her in the street for disparaging the Leader’s name.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 8, 2024 • 12:04:29am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So I responded to that Gish Gallop.

I noted a few things:

The Confessing Churches were riven with their own internal conflict, because their theology did not recognise separation of church and state. Thus they could not oppose the regime.

The Nazis (fascists) and Stalin (communist) were no more socialist than North Korea is a Democratic Republic. The name is not what defines the government.

American Christian Socialist pastor Rev. Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.

Eric Metaxas is not a reliable source for neither Christian nor secular history.

We’ll see if they print it. They sure let her go way over the four hundred word limit. They didn’t let me though.

It would be really nice if someone a bit more progressive started buying or opening local news outlets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:05:20am

re: #16 piratedan

beautiful area that is populated by a LOT of summer homes for those well to do, who live in the Phoenix metro area, to escape the heat in the summer and ski in the winter.

My sister and bro-in-law built themselves a modest family cabin in Pine, Arizona. I miss the place since they sold it and moved away.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:10:36am

re: #42 jaunte

That seems to be the business McWhorter is in, arguing that this nation’s problem with race isn’t as big as some people are making it out to be.

When Obama was elected, I thought a lot of Right-Wingers would point out that he was proof of the American Dream being a reality: namely that regardless of your background, if you work hard enough and apply yourself, you can attain the highest elected office in the land.

But that would’ve entailed acknowledging (even grudgingly) his accomplishments along the way.

And they just could not bring themselves to do that, so they made him out to be a Manchurian Candidate Affirmative Action Baby and Islamist/Satanic Monster - anything to not admit that he might have actually earned it on his merit alone.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:14:27am

re: #56 wrenchwench

made by the US War Department at the end of WWII, a discussion between a regular Joe who almost gets seduced by a fascist street preacher, and a Hungarian immigrant who tells him this is how Hitler started, in detail

then came the Red Scare and the wave of Anti-Communist propaganda and Fascists were left alone and even seen as partners in the Crusade Against Bolshevism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:21:20am

CBC, June 5.

You’d think the hospital foundation would look up who this guy is before they booked him for a comedy fundraiser.

The entire audience was aghast at Rob Schneider’s “jokes” at the Four Seasons Hospitals of Regina Foundation fundraiser. He was cut off in the middle of his set and asked to leave.

The Hospitals of Regina Foundation issued a second apology reiterating they were appalled by the “comedian’s” set of racist, misogynistic, transphobic, and antivaxxer “jokes.”

Tynan Allan says he attended the Hospital of Regina Foundation’s Four Seasons Ball fundraiser on Saturday to support various health care causes, but left the event disgusted by the evening’s entertainment.

Allan said comedian Rob Schneider’s set included transphobic, misogynistic and anti-vax jokes. Allan said he was horrified by the content as a Black, queer person who works in equity, diversity and inclusion.

“Everyone in the room was groaning, saying, ‘What is going on?’ Like whispering to themselves. Not a single laugh at times,” Allan said. “It was just very apparent how uncomfortable everyone felt and how unacceptable the things he was talking about were.”

The Hospitals of Regina Foundation said Schneider was asked to end his performance early once it became clear “the performance did not meet the expectations of our audience and our team.”

Schneider immediately left the stage and the organization issued “an unconditional apology” to the guests at the fundraiser.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:31:54am

In Canada, something which gets lost in Operation Overlord: The Italian Campaign was part of the preparation. The Allied Command believed by attacking Italy they would cause the Axis powers to spread their forces more thinly, making the assault on Normandy easier.

The Canadians and Newfoundlanders (then a separate country) became known as “D-Day Dodgers.”

Eighty years ago as the Allied invasion of western Europe began off the shores of Normandy, France, and eventually freed the continent of Adolf Hitler’s grip, a pop culture reference emerged.

For the Allies who had been fighting in Italy, they came to be known as D-Day Dodgers.

“I think the idea got around that they somehow got off easy not being there on D-Day or not being there during that big heavy battle, but the reality is that they have been fighting very hard in Italy,” said Julie Thomas, the chief curator at the Army Museum Halifax Citadel.

The Italian Campaign began in July 1943. By fighting in southern Europe, the Allies believed it would spread German manpower and make it easier to take western Europe on D-Day — June 6, 1944.

The concept of D-Day Dodgers is especially relevant in the region because about three-quarters of the units that served in the Second World War from the Maritimes and Newfoundland fought in Italy.

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Why some Allied troops fighting in WW II were dubbed D-Day Dodgers (June 6, 2024)

“For soldiers fighting in Italy, ‘the idea got around that they somehow got off easy’”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:38:19am

Progress has its victims:

1968: How COMPULSORY PURCHASE reshaped a TOWN | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:49:30am

This song starts out snarky and gets really dark at the end. (3:23)

D-Day Dodgers - Hamish Imlach

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sagehen  Jun 8, 2024 • 1:54:24am

re: #63 Targetpractice

Won’t anyone think of the people building buggies and making horse whips?!

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they’ll be unable to attend the meeting because, sadly, the entire delegation’s kneecaps were broken in a melee with the whale oil producers’ lobby.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  Jun 8, 2024 • 2:20:25am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Eric Metaxas is not a reliable source for neither Christian nor secular history.

But have you read all of Metaxas’ books?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 8, 2024 • 2:55:39am

re: #76 Lancelot Link Returns!

But have you read all of Metaxas’ books?

LOL

I’ve seen “Veggie Tales” (for which he wrote). Does that count?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:06:20am

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL

I’ve seen “Veggie Tales” (for which he wrote). Does that count?

My Billy Graham Baptist mother-in-law got those videos for my kids. I made sure to put them all in context before we watched them.

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William Lewis  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:11:58am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My Billy Graham Baptist mother-in-law got those videos for my kids. I made sure to put them all in context before we watched them.

I minded them less than a lot of the claptrap out there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:12:02am

Italy was a disastrously bad place for the Allies to fight: the hilly, broken terrain made it nearly impossible to play their biggest trump: namely superiority in air and mechanized forces, and greatly aided the defense.

Gains were measured a few miles at a time and at each at great cost.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:22:00am

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

Central Italy, you mean.

Sicily was very straightforward, and southern Italy fell pretty quickly.

Plus, once Mussolini fell from power it was only the Germans calling the shots.

I like others wonder if the war could not have been over sooner if the western Allies just stopped in southern Italy and concentrated more on the rest Europe.

But here again is where Churchill was really letting his ego over-ride military strategy.

Indeed, a lot of the war in Europe seems to have been Churchill trying to force his will onto the Americans.

Lots of odd things about the war, I think. That may be true of all wars.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:42:44am

I’m going to trundle off to bed.

Though they predicted rain and thunderstorms yesterday for us, we didn’t get them. As the weather line moved over central Nebraska, they were swept with severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hail. Some areas got as much as six inches of rain. Those storms are moving across Kansas and Missouri now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:43:10am

re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

…

I like others wonder if the war could not have been over sooner if the western Allies just stopped in southern Italy and concentrated more on the rest Europe.

But here again is where Churchill was really letting his ego over-ride military strategy.

Indeed, a lot of the war in Europe seems to have been Churchill trying to force his will onto the Americans.

Fortunately, Churchill had sane and reasonable people like Lord Alanbrooke on his staff to help mitigate some of his more addled plans and initiatives.

Remember, he was the man who gave us Gallipoli.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:45:18am

The owlets still haven’t fledged yet and are currently asleep in the box.

The parents on the other hand are getting some quality time to hunt together as well as harass their benefactor who just wants coffee on the deck.
In th past couple of days (nights) they have taken to regular attacks to the back of my head.

Hats on backwards.

I know what he’s thinking. I’ve dodged him/her twice already this morning

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:53:24am

re: #81 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:56:43am

Some breaking news:

Israel says it has rescued four hostages alive from Gaza.

They are in a good medical condition, Israeli authorities said.

The hostages, who were captured by Hamas from the Nova music festival in October, were named as Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40.

In a joint statement, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces), ISA (Israel Securities Authority) and Israel Police said: “The hostages were rescued by the IDF, ISA and ‘Yamam’ forces from two separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat.

“They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre for further medical examinations.

“The security forces will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home.”

It’s the largest such recovery since the war with Hamas began on October 7.

news.sky.com

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steve_davis  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:57:22am

Watched Under Paris last night. Meh.

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Targetpractice  Jun 8, 2024 • 3:59:48am

re: #88 steve_davis

Watched Under Paris last night. Meh.

About on the same level as a “Made for Syfy” film?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:00:31am

re: #88 steve_davis

Watched Under Paris last night. Meh.

So, it’s just “meh”? Not even “so bad it’s good”?

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Decatur Deb  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:01:21am

Nearby official hasn’t learned from the Mayor of Amity Island.

“It’s exceedingly rare to have three victims in one day,” Adkinson said. “This is not something were you shut beaches down for a week because, quite frankly, you can be back in the water and no incidents for 30 years.”


2 Florida shark attacks in 90 minutes critically injure woman, teen girl; 3rd in stable condition

al.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:02:50am

re: #91 Decatur Deb

Nearby official hasn’t learned from the Mayor of Amity Island.


2 Florida shark attacks in 90 minutes critically injure woman, teen girl; 3rd in stable condition

al.com

JAWS (1975) Scene: “It’s a Great White”/’Eating Machine.’

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:03:13am

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

So, it’s just “meh”? Not even “so bad it’s good”?

Just The Meg “meh”?

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Dave In Austin  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:05:04am

re: #91 Decatur Deb

So the bite was on for an hour and a half then Boom! It shut off.

Yeah, been there…

😉

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:05:45am

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just The Meg “meh”?

Well, at least The Meg had Jason Statham punching a shark.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:07:24am

I am waiting for a film about the Polar Vortex scooping up bears and dumping them on downtown Winnipeg: Grizzlard

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:10:54am

Rumors - and I must emphasize that - on Israeli and Palestinian social media indicate that Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’ military wing, was killed during the operation in Nuseirat to liberate the four Israeli hostages. Unconfirmed thus far, but if it bears out, a big “get” for the IDF.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:10:57am

re: #94 Dave In Austin

So the bite was on for an hour an a half Ted then Boom! It shut off.

Yeah, been there…

😉

Pilots from Ft Novosel often zip down to PCB on training flights. They bring back wild high-angle shots of the shark population just offshore. Still, bees kill far more Americans in a year, just not as spectacularly.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:12:29am

re: #98 Decatur Deb

Pilots from Ft Novosel often zip down to PCB on training flights. They bring back wild high-angle shots of the shark population just offshore. Still, bees kill far more Americans in a year, just not as spectacularly.

Would be more interesting if they did not kill but rendered us undead: Zombees

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:15:20am

Most TV shows and cinema releases hold no appeal to me these days.

I guess I’m getting old.

And I’ve observed this: looking around YouTube, it seems the past year or so there has been a noticeable shift in channels which are doing “reactions”, and to what they are reacting.

The Korean and Japanese anime stuff still attracts a lot of people doing reactions.

The number of people trying to ride the fame of the top movies/franchises of the early 2000s seems to have peaked a couple of years ago, though.

I check out many channels, and have noticed their subscriber numbers either holding steady, or the views on their new uploads not being as large as videos in past years.

There are still a great many channels who put out mind-numbingly stupid short videos - if I let YouTube give me suggestions (by not logging into Google) there are still videos that get millions to tens of millions of views.

The content is particular bad, though, and I can only believe that young people in some far off land (India?) are just clicking through videos all day.

Franchise fatigue is quite evident for entertainment. And the reviewers and reactors are noticeably trying to pump releases that don’t get as many views as prior productions.

Superhero franchises are a bore.

It’s perhaps just me, but even big budget productions seem boring to me.

I’ve tried for a year to watch season 2 of _The Wheel of Time_ but I get about 7 minutes into the first episode and just find myself not caring about the characters so I stop.

I’ve not bothered to watch season 2 of _Foundation_ , though I found season 1 to be beautifully produced.

And speaking of first rate productions, _Rings of Power_ season 1 was beautifully done but again I found myself not drawn into the characters, save for the halflings and they don’t appear to be much in season 2. So I find myself just not caring about the new season coming up.

Lots of money spent on top notch productions in those shows…. but none of them compel me to watch.

There’s a lot to be said for a quirky production that doesn’t have tens of millions of dollars per episode to spend on fancy graphics.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:19:16am

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And speaking of first rate productions, _Rings of Power_ season 1 was beautifully done but again I found myself not drawn into the characters, save for the halflings and they don’t appear to be much in season 2. So I find myself just not caring about the new season coming up.

Between the unconvincing CGI and the unrelatable characters, the only reason I watched RoP was for the Tolkein background lore.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:22:15am

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Between the unconvincing CGI and the unrelatable characters, the only reason I watched RoP was for the Tolkein background lore.

I didn’t find any issues with the production. Some of the scenery was stunning, better than any other TV show I’ve watched.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:25:02am

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

When I was 20, this seemed one of the great movies. Turning 80, it’s much better.

imdb.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:34:28am

re: #103 Decatur Deb

Bergman could never exist in today’s corporate entertainment complexes.

If you read statements by any of the CEOs of the big media companies they only care about branding, franchise names.

That’s why Marvel and DC have been beaten to death. And Star Wars and Star Trek. Etc.

Being different is not what a corporation wants.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:35:20am

¡Hola mundo!

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Decatur Deb  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:37:16am

re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Bergman could never exist in today’s corporate entertainment complexes.

If you read statements by any of the CEOs of the big media companies they only care about branding, franchise names.

That’s why Marvel and DC have been beaten to death. And Star Wars and Star Trek. Etc.

Being different is not what a corporation wants.

Great indie stuff is still out there, and the accumulated treasure of the XX Cent.
Kanopy is pushing the classics this month, including Wild Strawberries.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:43:32am

re: #97 Dr Lizardo

Rumors - and I must emphasize that - on Israeli and Palestinian social media indicate that Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’ military wing, was killed during the operation in Nuseirat to liberate the four Israeli hostages. Unconfirmed thus far, but if it bears out, a big “get” for the IDF.

Speaking locally, IDF senior officials said they have no idea where this story is coming from. Different language than what they’d be saying if they knew but couldn’t comment yet.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:52:00am

Great deck time this morning………

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 8, 2024 • 4:54:38am

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steve_davis  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:01:28am

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

So, it’s just “meh”? Not even “so bad it’s good”?

Yeah, I came in with too high expectations. “Like a modern Jaws.” Said by people who have no idea why the old Jaws worked.

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TarHellion  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:14:50am

Watched Hit Man last night. Breezy good fun. Glen Powell is outstanding.

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steve_davis  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:16:07am

Grandpa, sometime in the late 40’s, early 50’s. It’s hard to explain to people with smartphones why photography was both more brutal and more rewarding back before a smartphone would automatically focus everything and shoot it at 3200 ISO.

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:23:22am

Mastodon

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steve_davis  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:23:58am

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Most TV shows and cinema releases hold no appeal to me these days.

I guess I’m getting old.

And I’ve observed this: looking around YouTube, it seems the past year or so there has been a noticeable shift in channels which are doing “reactions”, and to what they are reacting.

The Korean and Japanese anime stuff still attracts a lot of people doing reactions.

The number of people trying to ride the fame of the top movies/franchises of the early 2000s seems to have peaked a couple of years ago, though.

I check out many channels, and have noticed their subscriber numbers either holding steady, or the views on their new uploads not being as large as videos in past years.

There are still a great many channels who put out mind-numbingly stupid short videos - if I let YouTube give me suggestions (by not logging into Google) there are still videos that get millions to tens of millions of views.

The content is particular bad, though, and I can only believe that young people in some far off land (India?) are just clicking through videos all day.

Franchise fatigue is quite evident for entertainment. And the reviewers and reactors are noticeably trying to pump releases that don’t get as many views as prior productions.

Superhero franchises are a bore.

It’s perhaps just me, but even big budget productions seem boring to me.

I’ve tried for a year to watch season 2 of _The Wheel of Time_ but I get about 7 minutes into the first episode and just find myself not caring about the characters so I stop.

I’ve not bothered to watch season 2 of _Foundation_ , though I found season 1 to be beautifully produced.

And speaking of first rate productions, _Rings of Power_ season 1 was beautifully done but again I found myself not drawn into the characters, save for the halflings and they don’t appear to be much in season 2. So I find myself just not caring about the new season coming up.

Lots of money spent on top notch productions in those shows…. but none of them compel me to watch.

There’s a lot to be said for a quirky production that doesn’t have tens of millions of dollars per episode to spend on fancy graphics.

I can remember reading Foundation years ago, and in reality, it’s a really slim idea. A guy making use of psychohistory to try to keep an empire from falling apart too quickly. But that’s basically it. It’s otherwise pretty generic pap from the pulp days of fiction. They just tried to make way too much with it. It’s kind of like the Martian Chronicles. As a story collection, it’s great. If one remembers that it was written in the early 1950’s, so the kind of odd “retro” vibe to things is really just the way a post-nuclear America tended to view stuff, they’re fun stories. But when they try to get remade into grand science fiction for the screen, it just doesn’t really work all that well.

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:24:55am

re: #111 TarHellion

Watched Hit Man last night. Breezy good fun. Glen Powell is outstanding.

Watched the trailer for that. May subject the missus to it.

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Dangerman  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:28:36am

I asked last week about tfg and the son of Sam law.

The relevant law here would be the New York State Son of Sam law since, of course, it was a New York State prosecution. The original state law—which, as chance would have it, was also the first Son of Sam law—was struck down on First Amendment grounds. The updated law, passed in 2001, requires that a convicted felon notify the victims of crimes in nearly all circumstances where they (the felon) receive $10,000 or more. Then, the victims have the opportunity to sue for the money, if they can make the claim that their suffering is being used to generate profit.

In general, the law is applied when the crimes in question are violent in nature. Since Trump’s crime was not violent, and since there is no real victim to notify, the Son of Sam law won’t apply to him. This same question came up with Michael Cohen when he started making money off his convictions, and it had the same answer.

Today’s electoral-vote.com

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Belafon  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:34:34am

re: #105 Dave In Austin

¡Hola mundo!

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This is the in-the-door version of Hooty from the show:

And this is the portable version:

His neck does stretch out.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:41:01am

re: #88 steve_davis

Watched Under Paris last night. Meh.

More like “Bleh.” 😅

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Belafon  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:43:21am

Dolly did a remix 9to5 with Pitbull. This is a lyric video, and someone thinks the images are because it was released for the Datona 500:

Pitbull x Dolly Parton - Powerful Women (Visualizer)

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Dave In Austin  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:44:54am

Mastodon

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ericblair  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:50:23am

What looked like Merkel’s steady hand on the tiller during the Trump maladministration was really an effort to muddle through German politics and change absolutely nothing while conspicuously ignoring the mounting but inconvenient dangers.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:55:00am

re: #121 ericblair

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What looked like Merkel’s steady hand on the tiller during the Trump maladministration was really an effort to muddle through German politics and change absolutely nothing while conspicuously ignoring the mounting but inconvenient dangers.

Kicking the can down the road so that it becomes someone else’s problem seems to be a pretty common fault of politicians.

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ericblair  Jun 8, 2024 • 5:57:54am

And, too bad, sniff sniff, OPEC looks like it’s in a world of hurt and knows it. Like people posted a day or two ago, the Biden administration is actively controlling world oil prices via buying and selling the strategic petroleum reserve (hello to the Economic Instrument of Power). Plus, the huge Chinese push to electrify the car market means their biggest customer is checking out. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of bigoted authoritarian kleptocrats.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:06:11am

re: #106 Decatur Deb

Kanopy is pushing the classics this month, including Wild Strawberries.

Unfortunately my local library does not have Kanopy.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:10:36am

re: #81 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Belafon  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:12:15am
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jeffreyw  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:12:17am

Caturday Camper

Steen’s Pure Cane Syrup

Good morning!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:15:45am

re: #127 jeffreyw

Morning.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:18:55am

re: #128 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Good Morning!!!! 😉

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:19:31am

re: #125 Eventual Carrion

I got it in six, but it was a smooth six…picking up a green letter from right to left until I had a coin flip at 5 & 6.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:23:15am

‘We need to be radical’: Trump’s potential chief of staff wants ‘post-Constitutional’ gov’t

If he wins the election in November, former President Donald Trump’s rumored top pick for his White House chief of staff would likely help him fast-track his plans to consolidate executive power and circumvent traditional checks and balances.

The Washington Post recently did a deep dive on Russ Vought — an avowed Christian nationalist who leads the far-right Center for Renewing America (CRA) — and his openly stated plans to help Trump fundamentally restructure the federal government. The Post cited anonymous sources familiar with Trump’s thinking to report that Vought is under consideration to be selected as the former president’s top deputy, should he defeat President Joe Biden this fall.

Under Vought’s leadership, the CRA has become “a hub of Trump loyalists” according to the Post. The organization is staffed by people like former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who was indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in her Georgia election interference case. Another key CRA staffer is former Trump Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli, whose appointment was eventually ruled illegal by a federal judge. Both men could also have high-profile roles in a potential second Trump White House.

In September of 2022, Vought argued that Americans “are living in a post-Constitutional time,” and called for a philosophy he referred to as “radical Constitutionalism” in order to crush the “deep state” and radically expand executive power. Vought’s school of thought involves unorthodox ways of interpreting the Constitution in order to accomplish far-right political goals. This includes things like declaring the influx of undocumented immigrants to be an “invasion,” then using wartime powers to handle immigration in ways that may be considered illegal.

“We showed that millions of illegal aliens coming across, and Mexican cartels holding operational control of the border, constitute an invasion,” Vought wrote in the essay. “This is where we need to be radical in discarding or rethinking the legal paradigms that have confined our ability to return to the original Constitution.”

Vought and the CRA are also closely tired to the far-right Project 2025 initiative championed by the Heritage Foundation. At the heart of Project 2025 is its 920-page blueprint for a radical restructuring of the federal government, which is entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.” Vought authored the section on “the executive office of the President of the United States.” He’s also reportedly working on his own playbook for the first 180 days of a second Trump administration, which he has so far not publicly released. However, his past writings suggest his first six months as a possible White House chief of staff would be helping Trump gut the federal civil service and replace experienced career professionals with political loyalists and toadies.

According to the Post, Vought helped write Trump’s “Schedule F” executive order, which would have stripped the civil service of numerous employment protection and greatly expanded the number of presidential appointees from around 5,000 to more than 54,000. President Joe Biden notably rescinded that order shortly after taking office.

Republican strategist Tim Chapman told the Post that the relationship between Vought and the 45th president was “a marriage of convenience.”

“Russ has been pursuing an ideological agenda for a long time and views Trump’s second term as the best way to achieve it, while Trump needs people in his second term who are loyal and committed and adept at using the tools of the federal government,” Chapman said.

One project Trump will likely trust Vought with is his stated goal of prosecuting his political enemies. Vought has argued against the DOJ being an independent agency, and insists that it ultimately be run at the direction of the sitting president. He told far-right activist Charlie Kirk on a podcast that he would be in favor of turning the DOJ against law enforcement officials who prosecuted Trump, and insisted the administration’s response to efforts to hold Trump criminally accountable “can’t just be hearings.”

“It has to be investigations, an army of investigators that lead to firm convictions,” he said.

alternet.org

Yet Dr. Phil is dumb enough to believe that he “got through” to Trump to moderate his views.

The folks who put Hitler in power were just as deluded.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:23:44am

re: #64 gwangung

You are not…making a good case for him.

If he has a good case, you should be able to replicate the reasoning and lay it out for us.
And be able to defend it to a small degree.

Well?

I’m not making the case for him at all, why should I? His work is freely available, and the people here are mostly literate, as far as I know. But when I see a “case” against him based on the twitterverse, attacks by disillusioned right-wingers (who found out he wasn’t what they thought) and some headlines, I feel bound to mention that people should actually consider the question before jumping into line with the detractors.

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Belafon  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:37:07am

dailykos.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:48:35am

This might be where the reports of Hamas’ military honcho being killed originated from - it wasn’t Mohammed Deif but this guy:

The IDF announced on Friday night that a senior Hamas General Security Forces commander was eliminated during an airstrike in Rafah on Thursday night.

Salame Muhammed Abu Ajaj was struck by IAF fighter jets under the direction of IDF intelligence, the military reported.

Ajaj was reportedly a leading terrorist in the Hamas General Security Forces in the Rafah area. The IDF stated that he oversaw Hamas military activity and the disruption of IDF operational activity in the Gaza Strip.

jpost.com

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Dr. Matt  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:58:25am

yahoo.com
Alex Jones to Sell InfoWars to Pay $1.5 Billion Debt to Sandy Hook Families

FA has arrived!

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BeachDem  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:59:44am

The pros, cons and odds for 8 Trump VP contenders

If you want to read it, here’s a gift link—

wapo.st

If you want to save time and effort, I can sum it up in 3 words—BUNCH OF LOSERS.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 6:59:57am

Fuckhead is in Beverly Hills🤬

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:03:06am

re: #135 Dr. Matt

yahoo.com
Alex Jones to Sell InfoWars to Pay $1.5 Billion Debt to Sandy Hook Families

FA has arrived!

FA has been his whole life. This is FO.

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:07:33am

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:09:56am

re: #139 darthstar

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An e-bike is not a scooter.

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:11:20am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:14:21am

re: #140 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

An e-bike is not a scooter.

The coastal trail around here is flat and I rarely see e-bikers using their pedals…that’s what makes it funny to me. I know not all e-bikers treat them as scooters.

I have a friend who got knee replacement and then did the Lake Tahoe loop (76 miles) on an e-bike - he said he had 20% of the battery left when he got home - used it on inclines to not overwork the new knee.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:15:12am

re: #141 darthstar

Didn’t render on my phone.

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:15:39am

re: #110 steve_davis

Yeah, I came in with too high expectations. “Like a modern Jaws.” Said by people who have no idea why the old Jaws worked.

“On a besoin de un bateau plus gros!”
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:16:50am

re: #143 Dave In Austin

Try to re-load the page. It worked for me.

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Jay C  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:19:09am

re: #145 PhillyPretzel ✅

Try to re-load the page. It worked for me.

Loaded OK, but I can’t read more than the first line of the embedded post: Putin authorizing strikes of some kind

iPad

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:20:17am

re: #143 Dave In Austin

Didn’t render on my phone.

Putin in a speech implied that Ukraine using US weapons on Russian military targets didn’t cross the red line to trigger a nuclear response.

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jeffreyw  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:20:59am

I just finished Scavengers Reign on Netflix and liked it a lot. It’s also on Max.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:23:34am

re: #148 jeffreyw

The animation has a Heavy Metal feel to it. Pretty neat!

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:25:18am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:25:39am

Happy Saturday!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:30:48am

re: #151 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Beautiful flowers.

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jeffreyw  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:36:19am

It’s Caturday!

Shelter kitties from 2014

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:37:21am

re: #153 jeffreyw

They are so cute.

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:39:30am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:40:38am

Gotta refresh the page for those mas.to posts. Sorry about that. Seattle man kills teen returning BB gun to Big 5 because he ‘had a duty to act’

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:42:27am

And with this post I go to walk the boys.

Mastodon

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steve_davis  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:46:04am

Working my way through scans of old photos my dad put together. I didn’t realize there were documents included.don’t really know the context of this one, but the fact it’s from 1831 kind of intrigued me. Especially to note that people were still signing letters “yr. obt. servnt.” which is really old school.

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SerialUpDinger  Jun 8, 2024 • 7:46:32am

re: #56 wrenchwench

thank you for sharing this - this got my day off to a good start.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:04:26am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

When Obama was elected, I thought a lot of Right-Wingers would point out that he was proof of the American Dream being a reality: namely that regardless of your background, if you work hard enough and apply yourself, you can attain the highest elected office in the land.

But that would’ve entailed acknowledging (even grudgingly) his accomplishments along the way.

And they just could not bring themselves to do that, so they made him out to be a Manchurian Candidate Affirmative Action Baby and Islamist/Satanic Monster - anything to not admit that he might have actually earned it on his merit alone.

John McWhorter was actually making that type of argument back in 2008 before the election, even though he was a member of the Manhattan Institute (which is a red flag in general). See npr.org

Unfortunately, for some reason, he fails to understand (or again, he might understand but he’s trying to keep on appealing to the RW base and improve his book sales) the vile backlash that the election of Obama provoked in this nation. He certainly wasn’t talking about that — the real and vile hatred directed toward Obama and his family.

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:08:07am

re: #142 darthstar

I use my petals all the time. About to go out riding, its only gonna be 109 later today, a cooling trend.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:09:37am

re: #81 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:11:01am

re: #139 darthstar

Really? Don’t shame us who ride ebikes. Look, I’m riding over 3000 miles a year on mine, its not a scooter. I can do a normal 10 mile analog ride, or I can do a 30 ride with some pedal assist. Which one is more fun? I get the same exercise of a 10 mile ride on a 30 mile ride. I’m 60 years old and I’m riding in the heat, and I am enjoying life. Not all of us are built the same, got it?

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steve_davis  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:13:43am

looking through these pics and docs, my ancestors on my father’s side just lived for freakin’ ever. Lots and lots of people who, for instance, were born in 1818 and died in 1914, or went from 1857 to 1951. It’s hard to tell from my mother’s side what my genes are like. Lots of smokers and boozers on that side.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:15:30am

re: #143 Dave In Austin

Didn’t render on my phone.

Open the comment in a separate tab. That’s what I have to do on my iPhone.

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:17:59am

re: #163 Egregious Philbin

Really? Don’t shame us who ride ebikes. Look, I’m riding over 3000 miles a year on mine, its not a scooter. I can do a normal 10 mile analog ride, or I can do a 30 ride with some pedal assist. Which one is more fun? I get the same exercise of a 10 mile ride on a 30 mile ride. I’m 60 years old and I’m riding in the heat, and I am enjoying life. Not all of us are built the same, got it?

I’m not shaming anyone. I’m 60 and I hardly use my Peloton these days as I’ve gotten out of the habit. I also think e-bikes are great. When I visit my mom in Palm Springs I see lots of people out riding and pedal assist works in the heat down there. I still laugh at the kids who use their e-bikes as scooters though, but they probably pedal enough after they burn through the battery.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:19:01am
Norway’s $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday it will vote against ratifying Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, which is up for a shareholder vote next week, after a Delaware judge invalidated it earlier this year.

The fund is Tesla’s eighth-biggest shareholder, according to LSEG data.

Musk’s pay, the largest for a chief executive in corporate America, was approved in 2018, but voided by a judge earlier this year, who said the amount was unfair to shareholders, calling it an “unfathomable sum”.

The fund said it appreciated “the significant value generated under Mr. Musk’s leadership since the grant date in 2018”.

Still, “we remain concerned about the total size of the award, the structure given performance triggers, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk,” Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the operator of the fund said.

In 2018, the fund had voted against the package.

reuters.com

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A Cranky One  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:19:21am

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darthstar  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:20:53am

re: #168 A Cranky One

Crickets and cidadas sing
a rare and different tune
Terrapin station
In the shadow of the moon
Terrapin station

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Captain Ron  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:27:13am

re: #166 darthstar

The best pedal assist is with a torque sensor. You actually have to put some work in to get assistance out of the motor. Cadence sensors don’t care if you just rotate the pedals with no resistance, the pedals work like an on/off switch for the motor. I really don’t like the throttle-jockeys who don’t even pretend to pedal..

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:28:14am

re: #166 darthstar

Well, I’m on my third ebike, my sister and her husband own a shop here, I’ve put about 15000 miles on them since I bought them. They are amazing and they got my ass up and exercising. For most of the year, I put more miles on my bike than my car, working at home helps…

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:33:21am

re: #114 steve_davis

I can remember reading Foundation years ago, and in reality, it’s a really slim idea. A guy making use of psychohistory to try to keep an empire from falling apart too quickly. But that’s basically it. It’s otherwise pretty generic pap from the pulp days of fiction. They just tried to make way too much with it. It’s kind of like the Martian Chronicles. As a story collection, it’s great. If one remembers that it was written in the early 1950’s, so the kind of odd “retro” vibe to things is really just the way a post-nuclear America tended to view stuff, they’re fun stories. But when they try to get remade into grand science fiction for the screen, it just doesn’t really work all that well.

I hated the Foundation series and the underlying premise. The whole notion of predicting the world and every future step was truly upsetting.

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Unabogie  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:33:23am

re: #163 Egregious Philbin

Really? Don’t shame us who ride ebikes. Look, I’m riding over 3000 miles a year on mine, its not a scooter. I can do a normal 10 mile analog ride, or I can do a 30 ride with some pedal assist. Which one is more fun? I get the same exercise of a 10 mile ride on a 30 mile ride. I’m 60 years old and I’m riding in the heat, and I am enjoying life. Not all of us are built the same, got it?

I have three main bikes. An analog, for exercise, an ebike, for going farther or riding the same distances with less work, and a folding bike, to carry with me places. Each has their place in my life and each one gets more use depending on how I feel physically at that moment.

Also, riding an ebike is actually the lowest carbon footprint mode of transportation on earth. Even better than analog biking.

bikeradar.com

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:46:32am

re: #155 darthstar

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:46:50am

Police report: Witnesses tried to warn victims before drownings in Dunbar Lake

Lubbock police have released new details about the drownings at Lubbock’s Dunbar Lake.

They have identified the 41-year-old as Jimmy Lewis Stewart III, but have withheld the 16-year-old’s name.

The temperature reached 92 degrees on Wednesday and witnesses told officers that Stewart and the teenager wanted to cool off in the water.

Witnesses said they knew Stewart did not know how to swim, so they told him not to get into the water. According to the police report, Stewart and the teen told the group they were adults and could do whatever they wanted.

The bodies were recovered about an hour later.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:49:15am

re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Until being different makes money.

That’s all the execs care about, making money.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 8, 2024 • 8:55:18am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Police report: Witnesses tried to warn victims before drownings in Dunbar Lake

The bodies were recovered about an hour later.

Another episode of the ‘You’re not the boss of me!” Society.

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wrenchwench  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:02:27am

re: #173 Unabogie

I have three main bikes. An analog, for exercise, an ebike, for going farther or riding the same distances with less work, and a folding bike, to carry with me places. Each has their place in my life and each one gets more use depending on how I feel physically at that moment.

Also, riding an ebike is actually the lowest carbon footprint mode of transportation on earth. Even better than analog biking.

bikeradar.com

I read the long, complicated article. It gave me stuff to think about. It’s a starting place, using flawed assumptions and not always the best data. I’m having the hardest time with the conclusion you ended with, but I can see the possibility of accuracy in it.

The best is at the end:

While cycling is among the greenest ways to travel, this is just one of many reasons to ride a bike. This article focuses on climate change, but replacing cars with bikes would have many other benefits.

Sustrans, the UK’s sustainable transport charity, outlines a few of them in its 2019 manifesto. These include cutting congestion, addressing health problems associated with sedentary lifestyles, thereby cutting sick days, increasing life expectancy and benefiting the economy, while cutting particulate air pollution - a problem which shortens global life expectancy by an average of 1.8 years according to one study, and has also been linked to an increased COVID-19 death rate.

While electric vehicles will reduce urban air pollution and CO2 emissions dramatically compared to current cars, they cause considerably more pollution than cycling, and won’t solve congestion or the problems associated with sedentary lifestyles.

In fact, they may add to them thanks to electric vehicles’ lower running costs leading to more people driving.

Finally, let’s not forget that cycling is meant to be fun! Most people ride a bike because it’s cheap, convenient, healthy and enjoyable, not just because it’s green.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:03:17am

re: #158 steve_davis

Working my way through scans of old photos my dad put together. I didn’t realize there were documents included.don’t really know the context of this one, but the fact it’s from 1831 kind of intrigued me. Especially to note that people were still signing letters “yr. obt. servnt.” which is really old school.

[Embedded content]

I love the handwriting. It’s clean, uniform, straight, and has all these little flourishes that make it really pop. Unlike today, where most people’s (including me) writing is an illegible scrawl.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:08:08am

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Most TV shows and cinema releases hold no appeal to me these days.

I guess I’m getting old.

It’s been almost 30 years since I stopped watching network TV on a regular basis. Once in a while I would watch cable for shows like The Sopranos and Mr. Show. But anymore it’s just doesn’t get me interested.

Apple keeps giving me a free peek at Apple TV but what they have I just find boring dull and repetitive.

As I’ve posted before Star Wars, Star Trek and even the revival of the Outer Limits, Doctor Who and Twilight Zone just have gone to the well too many times and are just the same plots and themes rehashed over and over again.

It’s also the reason that the Head Razz is going to pull the plug on The RAZZIES and they will come to an end in 2025. There’s nothing original or ground breaking left in movies.

Lately I’ve just started to re-read the Great Books Of The Western World and The Harvard Classics. I find them more interesting than what Hollywood recycles.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:09:18am

In a bit of local’ish news, something went down in Highland Park, IL… the same town where the asshole Trump supporter killed a bunch of people during the 4th of July parade a few years ago.

One brother killed his two other brothers and set their deceased mother’s house on fire, then fled to Missouri. Authorities suspect a dispute over the mother’s property.

abc7chicago.com

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:11:24am

The Federalist contains some deeply, deeply disturbed people, There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel.

Christ on a crutch.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:18:27am

re: #182 Romantic Heretic

The Federalist contains some deeply, deeply disturbed people, There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel.

Christ on a crutch.

The folk$ at the Federali$t gladly follow the “Fal$e Go$pel” of Ayn Rand’$ $elfi$hne$$.

184
BeachDem  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:20:34am

re: #182 Romantic Heretic

The Federalist contains some deeply, deeply disturbed people, There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel.

Christ on a crutch.

Before we get too deep in the weeds, let’s note that The Federalist is Meggie McCain’s hubby’s little dorkfest and is NOT affiliated with the Federalist Society.

185
Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:21:02am

re: #136 BeachDem

The pros, cons and odds for 8 Trump VP contenders

If you want to read it, here’s a gift link—

wapo.st

If you want to save time and effort, I can sum it up in 3 words—BUNCH OF LOSERS.

How about a different three words?

Basket of Deplorables

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gocart mozart  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:26:28am

Zep ‘69

Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times (Danmarks Radio 1969)


Also, Fripp is amazing

The Robert Fripp String Quintet

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BeachDem  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:29:52am

re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg

How about a different three words?

Basket of Deplorables

That has a nice ring to it—perhaps I’ve heard it somewhere before??/

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:42:44am

Sheesh!
Rob Schneider Booted Mid-Set From Another Stage After Attendees Walk Out

Twitter USAER geokaren wrote, “They had Rob Schneider (why?) as “entertainment” who went off on a rants about vaccines, women’s rights, how white men are persecuted.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:45:03am

re: #188 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Sheesh!
Rob Schneider Booted Mid-Set From Another Stage After Attendees Walk Out

Rob can’t understand why the jokes he tells at the Branson Bowling Alley Lounge are panned everywhere else.

190
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:48:46am

re: #189 Joe Bacon ✅

Rob can’t understand why the jokes he tells at the Branson Bowling Alley Lounge are panned everywhere else.

Found this in his bio:

In 2023, Schneider endorsed candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Explains everything.

191
jaunte  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:50:53am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I see Lubbock closed its public pools so taxes could remain lower.
kfyo.com

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:59:24am
193
DodgerFan1988  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:59:30am
194
sagehen  Jun 8, 2024 • 9:59:39am

re: #191 jaunte

I see Lubbock closed its public pools so taxes could remain lower.
kfyo.com

is that better or worse than closing the public pools to keep whisper*black people*whisper from sharing the water?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:02:11am

re: #188 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

How does Rob Schneider keep fucking getting work?

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:03:01am

re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg

How does Rob Schneider keep fucking getting work?

Republicans hire him, not knowing what they’re getting into, only that he’s a conservative icon. Then, when he shits all over them, they act surprised. Rinse and repeat, because Republicans, as an aggregate, are not smart.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:04:14am

re: #194 sagehen

is that better or worse than closing the public pools to keep whisper*black people*whisper from sharing the water?

I don’t think it’s nefarious. Article says most of the pools are in need of expensive repairs so they’re replacing them with splash pads which are more cost effective. One pool will remain open.

198
Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:06:27am
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:09:25am

re: #192 (((Archangel1)))

Is this what that letter is referring to?
littlegreenfootballs.com

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:10:25am

re: #199 PhillyPretzel ✅

Is this what that letter is referring to?
littlegreenfootballs.com

I don’t think that link worked.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:11:36am

re: #199 PhillyPretzel ✅

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Belafon  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:11:49am

re: #183 Joe Bacon ✅

The folk$ at the Federali$t gladly follow the “Fal$e Go$pel” of Ayn Rand’$ $elfi$hne$$.

If you get someone that starts talking about the Federalist going after Dolly, use it as an onramp. “That’s what I’m talking about. See how they out the words together to sound Christian, but go after someone actually doing what Jesus said?” No, you don’t have to believe in Jsus or God, but they do.

203
Hecuba's daughter  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:12:11am

re: #181 GlutenFreeJesus

In a bit of local’ish news, something went down in Highland Park, IL… the same town where the asshole Trump supporter killed a bunch of people during the 4th of July parade a few years ago.

One brother killed his two other brothers and set their deceased mother’s house on fire, then fled to Missouri. Authorities suspect a dispute over the mother’s property.

abc7chicago.com

Murders are rare in HP. Years ago when we lived there, a homeowner was murdered in an upscale development about a mile from us. Never discovered who did it but it was a professional hit.

204
Nerdy Fish  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:12:47am

re: #201 PhillyPretzel ✅

littlegreenfootballs.com

Holy mother of Christ, these people are literally insane.

205
PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:14:41am

re: #204 Nerdy Fish

Is that what Greta’s comment was about?

206
steve_davis  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:14:44am

re: #180 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s been almost 30 years since I stopped watching network TV on a regular basis. Once in a while I would watch cable for shows like The Sopranos and Mr. Show. But anymore it’s just doesn’t get me interested.

Apple keeps giving me a free peek at Apple TV but what they have I just find boring dull and repetitive.

As I’ve posted before Star Wars, Star Trek and even the revival of the Outer Limits, Doctor Who and Twilight Zone just have gone to the well too many times and are just the same plots and themes rehashed over and over again.

It’s also the reason that the Head Razz is going to pull the plug on The RAZZIES and they will come to an end in 2025. There’s nothing original or ground breaking left in movies.

Lately I’ve just started to re-read the Great Books Of The Western World and The Harvard Classics. I find them more interesting than what Hollywood recycles.

if you want something interesting on Apple, try the Drops of God. I thought they did a really nice job of creating a scenario that at first seems ridiculous but that kind of opens itself up to where a daughter is learning how little she actually understood her father, with a revelation towards the end that helps tie everything together.

207
wrenchwench  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:15:48am

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Jay C  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:15:54am

re: #199 PhillyPretzel ✅

Is this what that letter is referring to?
littlegreenfootballs.com

As far as I can tell (not very clearly) the letter Greta Van Susteren posted (and Mike Lee - likely mindlessly - retweeted) seems to have something to do with the NY Courts. So likely some BS over the Trump trial….

209
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:16:59am

re: #141 darthstar

“Putin gives the green light for strikes in Russian territory using Western-provided weapons.”

But he has hinted indirectly at providing Russian weapons for third countries to use to strike the West.

Which would not be entirely without justification if we were to invade another country.

210
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:17:45am

re: #190 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Found this in his bio:

Explains everything.

Schneider headed a Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs fundraiser in West Hollywood a couple weeks ago.

I guess you got to have a brainworm to laugh at his “jokes”

211
PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:18:20am

re: #208 Jay C

Not very clearly are the key words. That is why I asked and I went to Greta’s “x” page and could not find it. Then again I am not too good with “x”

212
Belafon  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:18:40am
Innovative alternatives to rubber could revolutionize the agriculture industry and help us bounce back from rising global temperatures.

According to AP News, Ohio State University professor Dr. Katrina Cornish has been raising dandelions and desert shrubs that produce flexible rubberlike materials, which are then transformed into essential products like medical gloves and trachea tube parts.

These developments continue to follow a positive trend in agriculture across the United States towards utilizing tough, drought-resistant crops in new ways.

yahoo.com

213
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:19:16am

re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I didn’t find any issues with the production. Some of the scenery was stunning, better than any other TV show I’ve watched.

I found the CGI overdone. It does not need to be slapped on with a trowel.

214
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:20:09am

re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg

How does Rob Schneider keep fucking getting work?

Answer—Wingnut Welfare Money.

215
(((Archangel1)))  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:21:29am
216
Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:23:05am

re: #204 Nerdy Fish

Holy mother of Christ, these people are literally insane.

You’re just noticing this now?

//

217
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:23:18am

re: #142 darthstar

The coastal trail around here is flat and I rarely see e-bikers using their pedals…that’s what makes it funny to me. I know not all e-bikers treat them as scooters.

In the Rhine valley, the only flat trails are on the river. If you want to get almost anywhere else, it involves cycling uphill, often at stupid shallow grades that are really tedious to cover. Steep slopes are fine, you just gear down and pump away, but to get up say a 6% grade it is often hard to find a gear that works.

218
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:26:54am

219
austin_blue  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:28:22am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Police report: Witnesses tried to warn victims before drownings in Dunbar Lake

The bodies were recovered about an hour later.

Feckin’ eedjits.

220
Belafon  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:29:11am

Seen at the Hobby Lobby in Norman, Ok:

221
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:29:19am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Police report: Witnesses tried to warn victims before drownings in Dunbar Lake

The bodies were recovered about an hour later.

Darwin Award winners.

222
Jay C  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:29:41am

re: #211 PhillyPretzel ✅

OK: I couldn’t magnify the text enough to read 100% clearly, but I think that letter Greta VS posted on X is something to do with the supposed “biased juror” remark from Trump’s NYS trial. So of course, Dumbass Mike Lee has to crow over it….

“BasedMikeLee”. I can’t help but read that as “biased”; either that or he’s been freebasing (either explanation works)

223
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:33:54am

Dump Alito and Thomas and Cannon - a real grassroots action

Click on the link and file a complaint about these three assholes!

dumpalito.com

It’ll make you feel better! 😊

224
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:34:46am

re: #180 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s been almost 30 years since I stopped watching network TV on a regular basis. Once in a while I would watch cable for shows like The Sopranos and Mr. Show. But anymore it’s just doesn’t get me interested.

I have not owned a functioning TV set since 2012. We use our current TV (not connected to any antenna or cable) as a monitor to watch DVDs or streaming.

225
Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:37:00am

re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I do most of my watching on my iPad Pro these days.

226
JC1  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:38:11am

re: #220 Belafon

Seen at the Hobby Lobby in Norman, Ok:

[Embedded content]

Great movie

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:38:28am

re: #225 Eclectic Cyborg

I do most of my watching on my iPad Pro these days.

When I am alone, that is what I use. The screen is for family viewling.

228
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:43:41am

The “then and now” images on this string are quite remarkable. (Sorry about the “post” tag. It’s fucking impossible to take a clear screenshot on my phone.)
BabelColour


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jaunte  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:51:13am

re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

providing Russian weapons for third countries to use to strike the West.

I think this has always been the practice.

230
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:58:52am

re: #228 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Stuart doesn’t have as many heedless numbskulls as he used to, people pronouncing his images “fake” and “CGI” etc.
They still show up though. One chap, commenting on a portrait of a rather glum looking group from 1949, said the sour expressions were the result of having to hold still for the very long exposure times they had to use in those “early days.” The photo was NINETEEN forty-nine, not EIGHTEEN forty-nine. He had no explanation for how they made movies in those days if each frame took a couple of minutes of exposure. Another pedantic moron insisted that Stuart’s autochromes were impossible because color photography was not invented until 1961. He was quickly gutted, skinned and hung out to dry by the regulars.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 8, 2024 • 10:58:58am

re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter

Yep. They’ve had a tough time as of late.


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