The Bob Cesca Podcast: Vonshitzinpants

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

Vonshitzinpants — Carol Burnett’s symmetrical nostrils. Kristi Noem attempts to rehabilitate her failing career by lying on Sean Hannity’s show. Republicans voted to remove protections for gray wolves. Florida’s six week abortion ban is in effect. The Arizona law has been repealed, but there’s a catch. The pro-Palestinian protests and why there aren’t pro-democracy protests given the Trump threat. Kaitlin Collins vs JD Vance. Trump on Gaza refugees. Joe Biden on peaceful protests. Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s second term plans. Republicans are pro-cancer. Trump’s second contempt hearing. Trump glitched on the word “infrastructure.” With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Dreamkid, Freekbass, and more!

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goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 2:58:48pm

Ironically, this article proclaiming its identification of a “new” phenomenon shares its exact title—and much of its argument—with a work from 50 years ago. In 1974, Arnold Forster and Benjamin Epstein of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published the book The New Anti-Semitism, warning of a novel form of anti-Jewish animus emerging from the left, and singling out particular groups, such as Arabs and Black Americans. Their argument conflated anti-Zionism and antisemitism. In the intervening years, over a dozen books and articles with “new antisemitism” in their title have been published. The main argument is consistent: there is a new increase in antisemitism, which has a new source—leftist social movements. Typically, the concept is revived each time Israel’s repression of Palestinians leads to another wave of international criticism: For instance, texts on the “new antisemitism” proliferated around the turn of the millennium after Israel’s reprisals following the Second Intifada prompted a global outcry and a fresh mobilization of diasporic Jewish dissent.

Despite this long history, each time, pieces like Feldman’s present the “new antisemitism” as though the term has just been coined. Indeed, they barely quote or acknowledge each other: Of pieces we reviewed on the “new antisemitism” by 40 different authors published since the turn of the 21st century, we found no references to the 1974 book. The result is a mystification of history and context—in this case, the “new antisemitism” conceals its own genealogy as a concept and thereby constructs a sense of urgency. It depends, as well, on other ahistorical accounts, such as the omission of the longstanding tradition of the anti-Zionist Jewish left. In this worldview, history is being constantly restarted, and leftist movements are posited as an ever-emerging threat.

This kind of attempt to ahistorically cast a dynamic as “new” is a common feature of a “moral panic,” a phenomenon long theorized by scholars. In fact, much of the “new antisemitism” conversation maps onto the classic features of a moral panic. The sociologist Stanley Cohen, who articulated the first theory of “moral panics” in the late 1960s, summarized their main elements in the introduction to the 2002 third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics:

They are new (lying dormant perhaps, but hard to recognize; deceptively ordinary and routine, but invisibly creeping up the moral horizon)—but also old (camouflaged versions of traditional and well-known evils). They are damaging in themselves—but also merely warning signs of the real, much deeper and more prevalent condition. They are transparent (anyone can see what’s happening)—but also opaque: accredited experts must explain the perils hidden behind the superficially harmless (decode a rock song’s lyrics to see how they led to a school massacre).

The discourse around the “new antisemitism” shares this three-part structure. First, the theory’s proponents acknowledge that antisemitism has a long history as a mode of hatred and discrimination. Yet there is an explicit attempt to present it as new, modifying its meaning so it can be specifically marshaled to support the Israeli state. Secondly, this “new antisemitism,” the argument goes, is bad in itself, but it is also a warning sign of other social ills—most of all, of the dangerous radicalization of the left, and of the impending rise of other forms of hate. And, finally, the rise of antisemitism is posited as self-evident, clear for anyone to understand; yet the source of antisemitism is presented as opaque, such that expert analysts of the “new antisemitism” are required to reveal the purported threats of left-wing movements.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ May 2, 2024 • 3:17:15pm

And I knew there was a new thread - sheesh

re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea

This stems a company pitching bug eating …

A major hurdle that food companies (in the US) need to get past is cross-reactivity with shellfish antigens. And one that will not be solved soon.

darthstar May 2, 2024 • 3:35:56pm

If only Michael Cohen had a truck handy, he could have saved Trump 130,000 dollars…

Mastodon

The Ghost of a Flea May 2, 2024 • 3:44:05pm

re: #2 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And I knew there was a new thread - sheesh

A major hurdle that food companies (in the US) need to get past is cross-reactivity with shellfish antigens. And one that will not be solved soon.

I responded downstairs but I’ll repeat myself: that’s fascinating new information.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 2, 2024 • 3:45:39pm

re: #2 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And I knew there was a new thread - sheesh

A major hurdle that food companies (in the US) need to get past is cross-reactivity with shellfish antigens. And one that will not be solved soon.

LGF Pages, October 2012:
Man Collapses, Dies After Winning Roach-Eating Contest in Broward
Poor guy bugged out.

sizzzzlerz May 2, 2024 • 3:46:40pm

Now appearing nowhere else before in this sorry story: Cricket, the puppy, was dangerous, a threat to her children, and to livestock. Excuse me, it wasn’t dangerous, rather, it was extremely dangerous. My mistake. Anyhoo, as a result, Kristi, bravely took this danger, er…, extremely dangerous pup, er…, working dog, to the gravel pit, where she faced the demon and blasted it back to the hell from whence it came.

At last, the truth comes out and our national nightmare is over.

sizzzzlerz May 2, 2024 • 3:55:05pm

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

LGF Pages, October 2012:
Man Collapses, Dies After Winning Roach-Eating Contest in Broward
Poor guy bugged out.

Meh. What I want to know is, what happened to the snake?

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ May 2, 2024 • 4:02:28pm

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Sad. The LGF archives have a plethora of interesting stuff.

But we don’t need the damn FDA interfering with capitalism…

Unabogie May 2, 2024 • 4:11:55pm

From downstairs:

re: #55 Dangerman

my idiot governor

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Regarding lab-grown meat:

There can be no good argument against eating it if people want to eat meat but object to killing animals. The party of “freedom” has no business telling other people what they can eat, especially something that harms no one to produce.

It’s no different from the people suing over soy milk being called milk, or Impossible Burger being called burgers.

People always complain that vegans are trying to force our way of life on others, but the opposite is actually true. There are no places in America where meat is banned, but there are places where meat substitutes are.

Belafon May 2, 2024 • 4:13:26pm

PhillyPretzel ✅ May 2, 2024 • 4:14:57pm

re: #10 Belafon

Perfect.

goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 4:16:56pm

Cool cool cool:

An officer entering Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday evening to break up a pro-Palestinian demonstration fired his gun inside the hall, in an incident that is now under review by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office a spokesperson confirmed Thursday evening.

The gun fired did not appear to be aimed at anyone and no one was injured, said Doug Cohen, a spokesperson for Bragg’s office, who said the office’s Police Accountability Unit is reviewing the shooting, which it does as a matter of policy.

Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate vicinity when the shooting occurred.

…

In multiple television and radio appearances, as well as a press conference Wednesday morning, Mayor Eric Adams praised the NYPD’s “precision policing” and made no mention of the shooting.

Ace Rothstein May 2, 2024 • 4:19:35pm

Gnome, your sad, sorry story that you thought would endear you to the MAGAt base, uh, backfired in your face.

The Ghost of a Flea May 2, 2024 • 4:20:41pm

re: #9 Unabogie

Yes and that’s the point: their freedom axiomatically includes the right to remove options from other people and that is heroic and just.

I mean…deSantis is pretty much declaring that if you’re eating a burger you’re a hero fighting a sinister world conspiracy. Imagine how banal and self-involved you have to be to smear that much self-importance onto a mundane, if pleasurable, act.

This is even ideological, it’s just shared narcissism with a lobbying wing.

EPR-radar May 2, 2024 • 4:22:47pm

re: #13 Ace Rothstein

Gnome, your sad, sorry story that you thought would endear you to the MAGAt base, uh, backfired in your face.

I still think her gross story has an audience of one, and we won’t know that verdict until Trump picks his running mate.

EPR-radar May 2, 2024 • 4:24:55pm

re: #14 The Ghost of a Flea

Like everything else in conservatism, this is ancient history. E.g., Reagan yanking the solar panels off the White House.

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 2, 2024 • 4:25:31pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

So some idiot had his booger hook on the bang switch and demonstrated why we say there are no “accidental discharges”, only negligent ones.

If I were Unquestionable Ruler of the Universe, that would be a firing offense (no pun intended) but I’d be surprised if Officer Fife even gets written up.

Ace Rothstein May 2, 2024 • 4:26:12pm

re: #15 EPR-radar

I still think her gross story has an audience of one, and we won’t know that verdict until Trump picks his running mate.

“Why couldn’t you have killed a cat? No one likes cats.” - Trump, probably.

Shropshire Slasher May 2, 2024 • 4:26:16pm

He didn’t break the record, but did it faster than anyone in a Tesla.

Paul Johnson, an ultra-runner and veteran, finished his route from LA to NYC this week, totaling 3,000 miles. He ran through parts of St. Charles County earlier this month.

Johnson raised $500,000 for the Team Red, White & Blue nonprofit organization, according to his Instagram page.

While in St. Charles County, several runners joined him for a distance along Route N Route N in Cottleville in windy and rainy conditions.

Johnson began on March 1 in Los Angeles with hopes of breaking the transcontinental record of 42 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes. He completed his route in 52 days, 2 hours and 29 seconds, according to his website.

spectrumlocalnews.com

Nerdy Fish May 2, 2024 • 4:26:57pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

The gun fired did not appear to be aimed at anyone and no one was injured, said Doug Cohen, a spokesperson for Bragg’s office, who said the office’s Police Accountability Unit is reviewing the shooting, which it does as a matter of policy.

Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate vicinity when the shooting occurred.

How long until this gets proven to be a lie?

goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 4:31:07pm

re: #20 Nerdy Fish

How long until this gets proven to be a lie?

I mean, there’s no version of it that possibly looks good, and letting one fly when there were NO protesters present to even constitute a mistaken threat is arguably worse.

darthstar May 2, 2024 • 4:32:14pm

PhillyPretzel ✅ May 2, 2024 • 4:32:51pm

re: #22 darthstar

Distribute the gas masks.

Nerdy Fish May 2, 2024 • 4:35:11pm

re: #21 goddamnedfrank

I mean, there’s no version of it that possibly looks good, and letting one fly when there were NO protesters present to even constitute a mistaken threat is arguably worse.

I’m sure they’ll make up a credible threat for the purposes of qualified immunity. Because cops lie. That’s what they do.

Shropshire Slasher May 2, 2024 • 4:39:52pm

A GoFundMe established in recognition of UNC students who protected the campus’ American flag during Tuesday’s protest raised close to $300,000 in the first 12 hours.
As of 4:40 p.m. Thursday, the total has climbed to more than $$450,000.

“When we went in, we said, we will not let the headline of this day be ‘An American flag falls at UNC,’” said freshman Jason Calderon, who was one of several students who held up the flag Tuesday.

cbs17.com

William Lewis May 2, 2024 • 4:44:02pm

re: #24 Nerdy Fish

I’m sure they’ll make up a credible threat for the purposes of qualified immunity. Because cops lie. That’s what they do.

ACAB

retired cynic May 2, 2024 • 4:44:37pm

re: #18 Ace Rothstein

“Why couldn’t you have killed a cat? No one likes cats.” - Trump, probably.

Hey now!

Boots takes her turn in the Rocking Chair.

William Lewis May 2, 2024 • 4:46:28pm

re: #25 Shropshire Slasher

cbs17.com

As a vet, I’ll simply say this - the flag is nothing but a piece of cloth. I appreciate it. I have taken many photos of it. Often it stirs me.

BUT:

It is _not_ the freedoms I swore to defend. When people started conflating the flag with freedom, the battle was already half lost.

darthstar May 2, 2024 • 4:46:35pm

re: #27 retired cynic

Hey now!

Boots takes her turn in the Rocking Chair.

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This is all fine and comfortable, but may I eat your liver?

Shropshire Slasher May 2, 2024 • 4:47:32pm

Dunny in his new Catio

darthstar May 2, 2024 • 4:50:05pm

Apparently MTG did make a MUGA hat to mock Speaker Johnson…the St. Javelin people picked it up and are now selling MUGA (Make Ukraine Great Again) hats to generate money for troops and drones and shit.

I disagree with this because MAGA was born out of an effort to overthrow our government, and MUGA could easily be coopted by Putin-friendly assholes who wish to do the same in Ukraine.

I know…I’m probably being paranoid…but I don’t trust Republicans or their gimmicks even when they are appropriated for good.

Teddy's Person May 2, 2024 • 4:50:29pm

re: #10 Belafon

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The second one in line looks like a fluffy Teddy before a grooming (in days gone by).

Speaking of Teddy, younger Teddy was never a gassy dog, but holy moly, old-man Teddy farts like a Trump.

Teddy's Person May 2, 2024 • 4:52:48pm

re: #27 retired cynic

Hey now!

Boots takes her turn in the Rocking Chair.

Boots: What is this “takes her turn” thing you speak of

Shropshire Slasher May 2, 2024 • 4:52:59pm

Knocked Brittney Spears off the front page!

An NYPD officer fired his gun while storming Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday night during the operation to oust anti-Israel protesters who illegally took over the building.

The cop did not appear to aim the weapon at anyone, and no one was injured, said Douglas Cohen, a spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.

nypost.com

Teddy's Person May 2, 2024 • 4:54:51pm

re: #29 darthstar

This is all fine and comfortable, but may I eat your liver?

with some fava beans and a nice chianti

retired cynic May 2, 2024 • 4:55:31pm

re: #29 darthstar

She is my Eartha cat who sleeps in the crotch area, but at night time. She has not threatened my liver to date.

jeffreyw May 2, 2024 • 5:00:08pm

Dad Joke of the Day:

The best way to keep a pig safe
is to dress it all in black, because
Batman protects Goth ham.

#DJotD 🐷🦇🤵‍♂️

— c0nc0rdance (@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T22:52:45.621Z

goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 5:01:43pm

The unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza hasn’t been seen since World War II, the UN says

— Unofficial AP News (World) Bot (@apnews-world-rss.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T23:44:39.480278+00:00

Belafon May 2, 2024 • 5:05:09pm

re: #28 William Lewis

As a vet, I’ll simply say this - the flag is nothing but a piece of cloth. I appreciate it. I have taken many photos of it. Often it stirs me.

BUT:

It is _not_ the freedoms I swore to defend. When people started conflating the flag with freedom, the battle was already half lost.

Which is one of many reasons I want the Pledge to go away.

Belafon May 2, 2024 • 5:05:41pm

re: #31 darthstar

And gay was an insult.

Lancelot Link Returns! May 2, 2024 • 5:06:40pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Cool cool cool:

In multiple television and radio appearances, as well as a press conference Wednesday morning, Mayor Eric Adams praised the NYPD’s “precision policing” and made no mention of the shooting.

Reminds me of the “exquisite precision” shown in a certain ongoing bombing campaign

TedStriker May 2, 2024 • 5:06:49pm

re: #37 jeffreyw

Lancelot Link Returns! May 2, 2024 • 5:08:27pm

re: #37 jeffreyw

“Get out” says Cary Grant

TedStriker May 2, 2024 • 5:09:45pm

re: #43 Lancelot Link Returns!

“Get out” says Cary Grant

jeffreyw May 2, 2024 • 5:10:26pm

via

Sherlock Hound May 2, 2024 • 5:12:27pm

re: #10 Belafon

I wonder how Michael Vick is doing?

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Sherlock Hound May 2, 2024 • 5:13:46pm

re: #37 jeffreyw

(World’s loudest rimshot!)

William Lewis May 2, 2024 • 5:14:39pm

re: #39 Belafon

Which is one of many reasons I want the Pledge to go away.

I used to sit during it in Jr & Senior High. Got me a lot of crap. The same shitbirds really couldn’t comprehend it when I was later an Army volunteer. They wanted their patriotism spoonfeed and I’m sure they’re all good little MAGAts today.

TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 5:15:28pm

Checking in to see that FFVCS is still farting, Nerdy Fish is still nerdying, and Noem keeps digging.

TedStriker May 2, 2024 • 5:16:01pm

re: #45 jeffreyw

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jaunte May 2, 2024 • 5:16:46pm

re: #50 TedStriker

A 44! That’s huge.

TedStriker May 2, 2024 • 5:18:17pm

re: #51 jaunte

A 44! That’s huge.

Blew him clean in two, I heard…

mmmirele May 2, 2024 • 5:19:21pm

re: #25 Shropshire Slasher

cbs17.com

Why do they need $450K? This is just performative patriotism and I am completely unimpressed. Flag worship is up there next to Bible worship and Trump worship as things I am against. If I was more devout, I’d say all this was worship of false gods, but nobody’s going to listen to a middle-aged white woman who doesn’t attend church saying this. *shrug* I can still think it.

Unabogie May 2, 2024 • 5:20:42pm

re: #53 mmmirele

Why do they need $450K? This is just performative patriotism and I am completely unimpressed. Flag worship is up there next to Bible worship and Trump worship as things I am against. If I was more devout, I’d say all this was worship of false gods, but nobody’s going to listen to a middle-aged white woman who doesn’t attend church saying this. *shrug* I can still think it.

It’s the same crowd who opposes Ukraine aid because “why don’t we take care of veterans and children here?”

So naturally, they send their money to rich wingnuts.

TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 5:21:48pm

re: #36 retired cynic

Just to let you know, Eartha is always thinking, “If I were just a bit bigger. If I were just a bit bigger. If I were just a bit bigger…”

IngisKahn May 2, 2024 • 5:24:26pm

re: #55 TarHellion

We’ve all thought that. Right? …right?

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 2, 2024 • 5:27:22pm

re: #50 TedStriker

Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, AZ.

Charles Johnson May 2, 2024 • 5:34:17pm

re: #53 mmmirele

Why do they need $450K? This is just performative patriotism and I am completely unimpressed. Flag worship is up there next to Bible worship and Trump worship as things I am against. If I was more devout, I’d say all this was worship of false gods, but nobody’s going to listen to a middle-aged white woman who doesn’t attend church saying this. *shrug* I can still think it.

“Performative patriotism,” also known as grifting! 😏

Charles Johnson May 2, 2024 • 5:36:27pm

Where would the conservative movement be without blatant pandering to and grifting from down-ballot racists?

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-03T00:35:56.700Z

jaunte May 2, 2024 • 5:37:31pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Paying for their little rung in the hierarchy.

goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 5:38:33pm

re: #53 mmmirele

Why do they need $450K? This is just performative patriotism and I am completely unimpressed. Flag worship is up there next to Bible worship and Trump worship as things I am against. If I was more devout, I’d say all this was worship of false gods, but nobody’s going to listen to a middle-aged white woman who doesn’t attend church saying this. *shrug* I can still think it.

Shhhh, let the rubes be grifted. From the GoFundMe page:

John Noonan is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Susan Ralston.

Watch, those ~~kids~~ frat boys are going to get a McDonalds lunch at Mar a Lago while Susan ends up with a new guest house.

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 2, 2024 • 5:41:16pm

re: #50 TedStriker

The Ballad of Boot Hill

TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 5:41:40pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

These would be like the same racists who would come out to counter-protest anti-South African apartheid rallies when I was a student at UNC back in the 1980s.

steve_davis May 2, 2024 • 5:44:56pm

re: #27 retired cynic

Hey now!

Boots takes her turn in the Rocking Chair.

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Jean Wilkes Boots, perhaps?

Belafon May 2, 2024 • 5:45:12pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

“Performative patriotism,” also known as grifting! 😏

And my fellow Rockwall residents on Nextdoor went nuts when I called the giant flag on the giant flagpole the city put up performative patriotism.

steve_davis May 2, 2024 • 5:46:34pm

re: #36 retired cynic

She is my Eartha cat who sleeps in the crotch area, but at night time. She has not threatened my liver to date.

only because there have been no fava beans available.

goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 5:48:20pm

execute ICC man-trap protocol

— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T00:35:52.644Z

jeffreyw May 2, 2024 • 5:51:16pm

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retired cynic May 2, 2024 • 5:54:58pm

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Details of the Horsehead Nebula in Unprecedented Resolution
thisiscolossal.com

Check out the mane, flying back from the crest of the neck. Neat!

TedStriker May 2, 2024 • 5:55:14pm

Ars Technica: UHF in UHD: Weird Al’s cult classic movie will get its first 4K release

Fuck. Yeah.

retired cynic May 2, 2024 • 5:56:08pm

re: #33 Teddy’s Person

Boots: What is this “takes her turn” thing you speak of

I like to photograph my cats in that chair, but they have to go there on their own.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 2, 2024 • 6:02:22pm

re: #69 retired cynic

Always amazed by all the background galaxies in these JWST images.

Those galaxies are so vastly more distant than the nebula or the local stars in that image.

Romantic Heretic May 2, 2024 • 6:08:32pm

re: #1 goddamnedfrank

Can’t say I’m surprised. Humans have always preferred mythology to history.

goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 6:13:44pm

Heroes walk among us. This one is named FaZe CuMdUmPsTeR.

— Best of Hasbara (@bestofhasbara.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T14:46:28.327Z

Somewhere in a refugee camp in Gaza a child is taking a photo while holding a sign that says “thank you faze cumdumpster”

— Ghassan (@ghassandwich.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T15:00:31.694Z

It’s so heartening to see the goofy left take a real stand while the “serious” people hang on the sidelines and scold

— Best of Hasbara (@bestofhasbara.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T15:05:36.314Z

Charles Johnson May 2, 2024 • 6:20:19pm

Where would the conservative movement be without blatant pandering to and grifting from down-ballot racists?

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-03T00:35:56.700Z

Charles Johnson May 2, 2024 • 6:20:40pm

Sure would be horribly ironic if the US, arguably the greatest experiment in democracy ever attempted, suddenly flipped over, surrendered, and chose to become an authoritarian religious monarchy, not long after electing the first black president.

Could we please not do this?

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-03T01:19:23.934Z

EstebanTornado1963 May 2, 2024 • 6:24:02pm

Has anybody posted this earlier today?
NY Times🤦‍♂️
nytimes.com

Charles Johnson May 2, 2024 • 6:26:50pm

re: #77 EstebanTornado1963

Has anybody posted this earlier today?
NY Times🤦‍♂️
nytimes.com

The New York Times gives op-ed space to a messed-up Christian nationalist weirdo who used to be affiliated with “First Things,” the right wing Catholic site that hosted Gateway Pundit.

The Ghost of a Flea May 2, 2024 • 6:26:53pm

re: #77 EstebanTornado1963

I don’t think so, I read it earlier and just can’t deal with the internal contradictions of someone so squarely established and privileged being presented as an outlaw…but then I remember who the target audience for the presentation is and decided my time would be better spent seeing which gin goes best with vanilla ice cream.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 2, 2024 • 6:32:17pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

The piece is a classic defense-of-the-dictator: he may be a bad guy but he’s doing it for a greater good.

It’s part of the theological training: how to defend a god who orders genocide and plans eternal torment for transient sins.

Charles Johnson May 2, 2024 • 6:33:34pm

Today, the New York Times gave op-ed space to a straight-up Christian nationalist weirdo who used to be affiliated with “First Things,” the right wing Catholic site that hosted Gateway Pundit, to praise Donald Trump as an agent of “a higher law.”

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-03T01:32:23.256Z

The Ghost of a Flea May 2, 2024 • 6:37:41pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

Translation: he’s a rebel who’s going to really knuckle under and give people that already have power even more power.

jaunte May 2, 2024 • 6:42:38pm

re: #77 EstebanTornado1963

He’s an inspirational Robin Hood figure until he steals something big from the author.

jaunte May 2, 2024 • 6:43:23pm

So many suckups, hoping something will fall off the Trump truck for them.

Belafon May 2, 2024 • 6:52:46pm

A couple of tornadoes touched down in Hawley, TX, a little town north of Abilene.

Skip ahead to the 3 hr 20 minute mark to see some formation from earlier:

Incredible Tornadoes strike North Abilene, TX - LIVE As It Happened

jaunte May 2, 2024 • 6:54:51pm

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social

For all the hand-wringing over “illegals” breaking the law, this story of an illegal dam that messed with the water supply of millions of people downstream, built on the private ranch of one of the *border wall contractors*, is something.

Illegal dam on James River torn down, while another dam pops up in Mason County

GlutenFreeJesus May 2, 2024 • 7:06:17pm

re: #86 jaunte

So now regulations are good.

jaunte May 2, 2024 • 7:08:21pm

re: #87 GlutenFreeJesus

Random private dams are a bad idea.

darthstar May 2, 2024 • 7:08:33pm

Mint, feta, peas, white beans and pasta…

Nerdy Fish May 2, 2024 • 7:09:44pm

re: #89 darthstar

Mint, feta, peas, white beans and pasta…

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Based on Merle’s reaction, I’m going to guess it did not suck.

TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 7:16:21pm

re: #89 darthstar

“Looks like an extremely dangerous dog to me” - Kristi Noem

darthstar May 2, 2024 • 7:16:39pm

We’re entering mine clearing season. Mines get warm in the sun and drones with infrared can map out a field in an hour.

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darthstar May 2, 2024 • 7:19:05pm

re: #90 Nerdy Fish

Based on Merle’s reaction, I’m going to guess it did not suck.

Did not.

re: #91 TarHellion

“Looks like an extremely dangerous dog to me” - Kristi Noem

Merle is a good boy. As is Milo, who eats anything off the ground and doesn’t know a puddle he won’t drink from. But I would sooner shoot myself before either of them.

TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 7:20:58pm

re: #93 darthstar

And that is what separates you from psychopaths like Noem and all her defenders

Nerdy Fish May 2, 2024 • 7:24:11pm

Casual psychopathy and sociopathy on the scale of the modern Republican party still astound me. I feel like someday, decades down the road, we’re going to find out that there’s some previously-undiagnosed brain chemical imbalance or something that causes people to be… well, whatever current-day Republicans are. Not to give Republicans an excuse for being the shitty people that they are; people who suffer from biological mental problems are still responsible for acknowledging their wrong behavior and seeking treatment for the underlying cause. But it just boggles my mind that so many people willingly choose to be shitty human beings.

Patricia Kayden May 2, 2024 • 7:26:21pm

re: #23 PhillyPretzel ✅

Evacuate the court.

sizzzzlerz May 2, 2024 • 7:35:10pm

re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The piece is a classic defense-of-the-dictator: he may be a bad guy but he’s doing it for a greater good.

It’s part of the theological training: how to defend a god who orders genocide and plans eternal torment for transient sins.

Eerily familiar to Hilter fans: He had some good ideas but maybe he took some things a little too far.

GlutenFreeJesus May 2, 2024 • 7:35:12pm

re: #88 jaunte

Why do you hate America?

DodgerFan1988 May 2, 2024 • 7:37:05pm

Losers like Bari Weiss, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro etc, made millions of dollars and names for themselves by being “pro-free speech on college campuses” all now cheering Congress passing sweeping anti-free speech laws. 🤡

— B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC (@_iamblakeley) May 2, 2024

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EPR-radar May 2, 2024 • 7:38:35pm

re: #99 DodgerFan1988

Right wing fuckwits will be right wing fuckwits. It’s much more disappointing that bipartisan crap like this can still get through Congress, since that is axiomatically Democrats collaborating with Republican evil.

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TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 7:38:49pm

re: #95 Nerdy Fish

Tend to think it is more about the complexity of life and the world we live in, and people seeking someone who says, “I can fix it.”

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sizzzzlerz May 2, 2024 • 7:44:40pm

re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Always amazed by all the background galaxies in these JWST images.

Those galaxies are so vastly more distant than the nebula or the local stars in that image.

Pretty much everything in the pic is a galaxy. Only the things with the diffraction spikes are stars in our galaxy. To have your mind officially blown, search for Hubble deep field or JWT deep field and study those pictures.

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jaunte May 2, 2024 • 7:47:04pm

@johnannese.bsky.social
NYPD appears to be saying the cop (who they don’t name) was using his gun as a flashlight when he fired a shot by mistake.

That’s not the brightness trigger.

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Vicious Babushka May 2, 2024 • 7:47:30pm

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 7:49:48pm

Bruh

NYPD appears to be saying the cop (who they don’t name) was using his gun as a flashlight when he fired a shot by mistake.

— John Annese (@johnannese.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T02:37:52.369Z

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jaunte May 2, 2024 • 7:51:00pm

re: #105 goddamnedfrank

Gun safety refresher, stat.

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darthstar May 2, 2024 • 7:53:36pm

re: #103 jaunte

That fucking wall knew better than to be there holding up a building involved in a protest.

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Randall Gross May 2, 2024 • 7:55:39pm

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Wow. I updinged you 22 years ago… has it really been that long?

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jaunte May 2, 2024 • 7:56:27pm

re: #107 darthstar

@kashana.bsky.social
*
4m
You’d think now that they have all that sweet library cash that they might be able to afford actual flashlights.

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William Lewis May 2, 2024 • 7:58:31pm

re: #105 goddamnedfrank

SMDH. But I have had “tactical” lights on a couple of firearms. I’ve known people who think they’re the only way to go. Personally I took them off and use hand held lights only at present because you can hold it considerably away from the body and from your firearm making yourself less of a target.

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goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 7:58:48pm

gotta say, it’s *WILD* that the College Dems—the College Dems!—are saying this.

— SGT Panda’s Lonelyhearts Club Band (@raf.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T01:00:48.238Z

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Patricia Kayden May 2, 2024 • 8:01:15pm

I remember Montrealers asking about how the hell Trump won during a trip there in the Summer of 2017. Was there when White Supremacists marched in Charlottesville and Trump praised them. A taxi driver even asked me if President Obama could get back into office. 😂

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 2, 2024 • 8:02:06pm

re: #108 Randall Gross

Wow. I updinged you 22 years ago… has it really been that long?

It has. I’ve been here since October 2001.

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Randall Gross May 2, 2024 • 8:02:38pm

re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

It has. I’ve been here since October 2001.

2006 here.

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Randall Gross May 2, 2024 • 8:03:40pm

re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

It has. I’ve been here since October 2001.

bad math, 12 years ago… phew.

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TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 8:07:59pm

Hey, just passed 17,000 Karma. There will be a lutefisk buffet (just for Nerdy Fish) until Midnight EDT.

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goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 8:13:40pm

re: #110 William Lewis

SMDH. But I have had “tactical” lights on a couple of firearms. I’ve known people who think they’re the only way to go. Personally I took them off and use hand held lights only at present because you can hold it considerably away from the body and from your firearm making yourself less of a target.

Mounted lights really only make sense on semi-auto shotguns imo. That’s the only use case where the pros outweigh the cons. Meaning the ergonomics aren’t screwed up and the lethal range at least more closely matches the distance the light will throw.

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EPR-radar May 2, 2024 • 8:14:54pm

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

The College Democrats are absolutely right in this case. Foreign policy is one of the few areas in which Biden has genuine agency and responsibility (i.e., obstructionist Republicans can’t be blamed for everything, for once), and Biden’s actions so far are rightly seen as disappointing by anyone that’s even mildly critical of Israeli actions since 10/7.

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EPR-radar May 2, 2024 • 8:15:53pm

re: #103 jaunte

When I first saw this post, I read it that the police officer was using his gun as a fleshlight.

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darthstar May 2, 2024 • 8:23:36pm

Caution: Flowers fucking.

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TarHellion May 2, 2024 • 8:26:50pm

re: #116 TarHellion

Just want to thank everyone on this site - and especially Charles - for giving us such a wonderful forum in this weird, and utterly terrifying, world we are battling. The thought of losing our republic is something I truly hope people will reject.

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jaunte May 2, 2024 • 8:27:23pm

Is Vonshitzinpants a Barron?

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BeachDem May 2, 2024 • 8:29:48pm

NBC actually had EIGHT, count ‘em, EIGHT people writing a story about how Trumpers won’t accept a Biden win, with cogent insight like:

Democrats “cheat like crazy,” said George Crosby, 72, a veteran from Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. “I think they cheated before, and I think they’re going to try to do it again, because they’re a bunch of communists.”
and
Randall Minicola, 62, of Las Vegas, said it would be “impossible” for Biden to win.
“I don’t think he’s got a following. I mean, you look who’s behind him — the only thing he’s got is ghosts behind him.
and
Nancy Glawe, 45, a hospital worker from Tucson, Arizona, said, “There’s a few bubbles off center.” She voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but is supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this year.
and
Asked why he doesn’t believe Biden can win fairly, Davis Green, a financial analyst from Salt Lake City, said, “Maybe it’s the bubble I’m in and the algorithm that I’m seeing.”

And on and on. They talked to FIFTY of these morons. Why?? Who the fuck knows. Big sigh. I’ll use the Yahoo link instead of making people go to NBC.

yahoo.com

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BeenHereAwhile May 2, 2024 • 8:30:58pm

re: #103 jaunte

@johnannese.bsky.social
NYPD appears to be saying the cop (who they don’t name) was using his gun as a flashlight when he fired a shot by mistake.

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That’s not the brightness trigger.

Nice PR, and you can bet the NYPD officer who discharged his weapon did not write up his incident report by himself.

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Dave In Austin May 2, 2024 • 8:31:11pm

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Targetpractice May 2, 2024 • 8:32:07pm

re: #124 BeenHereAwhile

Nice PR, and you can bet the NYPD officer who discharged his weapon did not write up his incident report by himself.

Sure he did…with a union lawyer looking over his shoulder the entire time.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 2, 2024 • 8:39:04pm

It’s days like this when a chessboard becomes my Zen Garden.

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jeffreyw May 2, 2024 • 8:40:16pm

I’ve been checking on this mantis ootheca (egg case) in my garden, just off the front porch, several times a day for weeks, and today the babies finally hatched. I watched the mother mantis lay these eggs last fall. It never gets old seeing the new generation arrive. 🐙 🌿

— Tom Astle (@tjalamont.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T22:15:09.123Z

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Lancelot Link Returns! May 2, 2024 • 8:43:31pm

Calling your enemies “Nazis” is reserved for this kind of person.

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Targetpractice May 2, 2024 • 8:46:42pm

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

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Dems: “We need the youth vote this November! Vote for us!”

Also Dems: “WOULD YOU FUCKING KIDS PIPE THE FUCK DOWN?!”

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 2, 2024 • 8:47:38pm

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darthstar May 2, 2024 • 8:54:42pm

When you fuck yourself and it suddenly hits you just how hard you did.

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BeenHereAwhile May 2, 2024 • 8:55:35pm

molly conger
@socialistdogmom
should we be concerned that the professors who are taking on the greatest risk of being beaten and arrested seem to be mostly historians
6:26 PM • 5/2/24 • 1M Views

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Targetpractice May 2, 2024 • 8:58:05pm

re: #131 Joe Bacon ✅

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They first scream “Why have we never been back!?!,” then see the cost of a single moonshot and scream “WE CAN’T AFFORD THAT!!!”

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 2, 2024 • 9:04:19pm

How bad are the UK Tories doing today?

Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID

bbc.com

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Lancelot Link Returns! May 2, 2024 • 9:05:13pm

re: #131 Joe Bacon ✅

She’s very concerned about the round-earth propaganda

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 2, 2024 • 9:08:00pm

and right at the start the UK Tories are going down…

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Targetpractice May 2, 2024 • 9:11:55pm

re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

and right at the start the UK Tories are going down…

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Most of the commentary I’ve been hearing in recent days has been that Tories might not take as severe a bollocking as has been expected for awhile now, BUT unless they do especially well tonight then Sunak could very well face a confidence vote as early as next week.

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Dr Lizardo May 2, 2024 • 9:25:13pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅

How bad are the UK Tories doing today?

Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID

bbc.com

Oh, it’s an absolute drubbing for the Tories.

theguardian.com

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 May 2, 2024 • 9:26:26pm

re: #131 Joe Bacon ✅

Send in Buzz Aldrin!

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goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 9:27:33pm

As Timothy Burke noted on BlueSky (his account doesn’t allow embeds) these two photos were taken at the same location on the campus of Ole Miss, 62 years apart:

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William Lewis May 2, 2024 • 9:55:51pm

Nothing like having 20 minutes left in the day and realizing you haven’t taken your daily shot. Well, got a new hat today, so that’s a good excuse for a mirror selfie, right? The pic a day streak is safe for another day 😎

(even if your poor eyes aren’t 🤣 )

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DodgerFan1988 May 2, 2024 • 10:10:50pm

re: #141 goddamnedfrank

As Timothy Burke noted on BlueSky (his account doesn’t allow embeds) these two photos were taken at the same location on the campus of Ole Miss, 62 years apart:

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Funny how the anti-woke accounts on here say nothing when a whole group of white Ole Miss students make monkey sounds at the only black woman. pic.twitter.com/J6Si5vKKvX

— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) May 3, 2024

Forget it, Jake. It’s Mississippi.

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mmmirele May 2, 2024 • 10:32:52pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

The New York Times gives op-ed space to a messed-up Christian nationalist weirdo who used to be affiliated with “First Things,” the right wing Catholic site that hosted Gateway Pundit.

Every time I see someone from the NYT op-ed page go on about Trump, I’m reminded of that scene from “The Handmaid’s Tale” TV show where the main character ends up in a room in the old Boston Globe, sees blood on the wall and knows reporters were executed. The op-ed people think they’re going to avoid being put up against the wall. They are fools.

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mmmirele May 2, 2024 • 10:39:25pm

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

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I don’t know who these “College Democrats” are. When I was involved in party politics, the group for people under ~25ish was the Young Democrats. I have to wonder if this is someone’s idea of a spoiler.

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mmmirele May 2, 2024 • 10:48:20pm

re: #138 Targetpractice

Most of the commentary I’ve been hearing in recent days has been that Tories might not take as severe a bollocking as has been expected for awhile now, BUT unless they do especially well tonight then Sunak could very well face a confidence vote as early as next week.

Well, these are council elections, not MP by-elections, so I’m thinking he might could hold off a confidence vote for a while. The next election has to be held by January 28, 2025.

It’s also worth noting that the Canadian prime minister will have to call elections by October 20, 2025. Right now Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are duking it out. To me, Poilievre has dragged Canada’s Conservative Party even further to the right than where Stephen Harper had it in 2015.

And then of course there’s our election. It has a fixed date, which is Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Be there or be square.

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goddamnedfrank May 2, 2024 • 10:55:59pm

re: #145 mmmirele

I don’t know who these “College Democrats” are. When I was involved in party politics, the group for people under ~25ish was the Young Democrats. I have to wonder if this is someone’s idea of a spoiler.

They aren’t a spoiler. They’re the official collegiate arm of the DNC. You can follow the link from their Wikipedia page to their official website and from that to their official twitter account to confirm their bonafides.

They’re issuing a wake up call.

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Targetpractice May 2, 2024 • 11:07:05pm

re: #146 mmmirele

Well, these are council elections, not MP by-elections, so I’m thinking he might could hold off a confidence vote for a while. The next election has to be held by January 28, 2025.

It’s also worth noting that the Canadian prime minister will have to call elections by October 20, 2025. Right now Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are duking it out. To me, Poilievre has dragged Canada’s Conservative Party even further to the right than where Stephen Harper had it in 2015.

And then of course there’s our election. It has a fixed date, which is Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Be there or be square.

The bolded is exactly the reason why there are suggestions that Sunak could face a confidence vote as early as next week: These are the last major elections before the Tories have to call general elections, and thus a major barometer of voter approval. The Tories have been losing by-elections left and right for ages now, but each time they’ve waved away even shocking losses by insisting that voters will “come around” when general elections are called and there was plenty of time on the clock to win back key voters. And these elections are happening after two weeks of attempts by Sunak to move the needle by devoting one week to a publicity blitz of speeches about various proposals for a post-election Tory government and the passage of the Rwanda Scheme bill.

Basically, Sunak was brought in to help stem the bleeding after Truss’ mini-budget fiasco and the scandal-plagued mire that was the Johnson years, yet the party’s polling remains as dire as when Truss was sacked. If the party gets a shellacking at the polls today, then the argument that he needs to remain to keep the party afloat in the generals evaporates.

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No Malarkey! May 2, 2024 • 11:13:59pm

re: #147 goddamnedfrank

They aren’t a spoiler. They’re the official collegiate arm of the DNC. You can follow the link from their Wikipedia page to their official website and from that to their official twitter account to confirm their bonafides.

They’re issuing a wake up call.

Campus activists aren’t representative of young voters as a whole, most of whom aren’t even in college or have college degrees. For voters under 30 as a whole, the Israeli/Palestinian issue is very low in their list of concerns.

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 12:15:43am

Turkey has suspended all trade with Israel over its offensive in Gaza, citing the “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in the strip.

The Turkish trade ministry said the measures would be in place until Israel allowed an “uninterrupted and sufficient flow” of aid into Gaza.

Trade between the two countries was worth almost $7bn (£5.6bn) last year.
Israel’s foreign minister accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of acting like a “dictator”.

Israel Katz said on X that Mr Erdogan was “disregarding the interests of the Turkish people and businessmen and ignoring international trade agreements”.

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IngisKahn May 3, 2024 • 12:18:47am

Frank Zappa teaches Steve Allen to play The Bicycle (1963)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 12:26:11am

re: #9 Unabogie

Meat is MAGA, bugs are Woke

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 3, 2024 • 12:28:35am

Nat King Cole – It’s Only A Paper Moon (Live At The Blue Note Chicago)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 12:29:02am

re: #81 Charles Johnson

Today, the New York Times gave op-ed space to a straight-up Christian nationalist weirdo who used to be affiliated with “First Things,” the right wing Catholic site that hosted Gateway Pundit, to praise Donald Trump as an agent of “a higher law.”

and this “Higher Law” is based on their interpretation of their choice of Holy Scriptures, and not up for discussion.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 12:34:46am

re: #134 Targetpractice

They first scream “Why have we never been back!?!,” then see the cost of a single moonshot and scream “WE CAN’T AFFORD THAT!!!”

Everybody knows that they hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the Moon Landings but he was such a stickler for accuracy that he he insisted that we fly to the Moon and film it there on site.

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Teukka May 3, 2024 • 12:36:34am

Listening to the Audiobook version of Jessikka Aro’s “Putin’s Trolls”. Scary.
Recommending due to the current geopolitical climate.

Amazon: amazon.com
Audible: audible.com
Google Books: books.google.com
Google Play: play.google.com
WorldCat: search.worldcat.org

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Targetpractice May 3, 2024 • 1:02:39am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Everybody knows that they hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the Moon Landings but he was such a stickler for accuracy that he he insisted that we fly to the Moon and film it there on site.

Using the UFO that they recovered from Roswell.

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Lancelot Link Returns! May 3, 2024 • 1:04:38am

re: #157 Targetpractice

The weather balloon?

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 1:40:05am

In one of those coincidences that occur in the movies, a film about war photojournalist Lee Miller starring Kate Winslet is premiering this year. Lee Miller was mentioned as a role model for the fictional photojournalists in Civil War, playing now. LEE | Official Teaser Trailer | In theaters September 27

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 1:47:18am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Everybody knows that they hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the Moon Landings but he was such a stickler for accuracy that he he insisted that we fly to the Moon and film it there on site.

In the trailer for the upcoming movie about filming a faked moon landing as backup, there is a quip related to the theory that Kubrick filmed a faked moon landing. FLY ME TO THE MOON - Official Trailer (HD)

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Patricia Kayden May 3, 2024 • 2:48:06am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 3:07:31am

re: #95 Nerdy Fish

Casual psychopathy and sociopathy on the scale of the modern Republican party still astound me. I feel like someday, decades down the road, we’re going to find out that there’s some previously-undiagnosed brain chemical imbalance or something that causes people to be… well, whatever current-day Republicans are. Not to give Republicans an excuse for being the shitty people that they are; people who suffer from biological mental problems are still responsible for acknowledging their wrong behavior and seeking treatment for the underlying cause. But it just boggles my mind that so many people willingly choose to be shitty human beings.

Misunderstanding zombies from day one. It’s what eats brains not that they eat brains. It’s a brain rot that turns prior humans into barely sentient beings. It’s where instead of wandering about mumbling “braaaaiiinz” their brains are so fucked up they see trump as a he-man with muscles and can’t discern fact from fiction.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 3:23:46am

So troy nehls is a stolen valor liar

Another day, another lying R

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 3:27:17am

re: #146 mmmirele

Well, these are council elections, not MP by-elections, so I’m thinking he might could hold off a confidence vote for a while. The next election has to be held by January 28, 2025.

It’s also worth noting that the Canadian prime minister will have to call elections by October 20, 2025. Right now Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are duking it out. To me, Poilievre has dragged Canada’s Conservative Party even further to the right than where Stephen Harper had it in 2015.

And then of course there’s our election. It has a fixed date, which is Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Be there or be square.

Poilievre It’s a trump type, take back our country, immigrants suck, no vaccines shithead populist. And all of his PPC (People’s Party of Canada) followers are trump level assholes.

Their signs are purple and I always say anyone putting a PPC sign in their yard is letting the neighborhood know that assholes live here.

His leading the PC (Progressive Conservatives - HA!) was exactly like trump taking over the GOP. AND because of how Canada voting works (you vote local and it rolls up) he could win.

It’s fucking terrifying.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 3:32:47am

Par.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 3:37:59am

Just the resident troll’s Friday drive time music!!! Crank it up!

Laura Jane Grace - “Hole In My Head” (Recorded Live for World Cafe)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 3, 2024 • 3:48:01am

Bill Evans en 1972

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Dizzy May 3, 2024 • 3:52:31am

I went to the UCLA campus last night and spent a few hours there before the police dispersed the encampment. I wanted to see the pro-Palestine student protests for myself and get a sense of the atmosphere, energy, and students, as well as the movement’s focus and the desired… pic.twitter.com/bXLKGX6SSA

— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) May 2, 2024

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 3:52:51am

Minority Speaker Jeffries had help, he went fishing in the stupid pond and caught MTG.

Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now.

The minority leader of the House Democrats, it was Jeffries who provided the votes needed to keep the government running despite opposition from House Republicans to prevent a federal shutdown.

apnews.com

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 3:55:40am

re: #169 Shropshire Slasher

Minority Speaker Jeffries had help, he went fishing in the stupid pond and caught MTG.

apnews.com

He learned from the best

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Axolotl May 3, 2024 • 3:58:56am

re: #95 Nerdy Fish

Casual psychopathy and sociopathy on the scale of the modern Republican party still astound me. I feel like someday, decades down the road, we’re going to find out that there’s some previously-undiagnosed brain chemical imbalance or something that causes people to be… well, whatever current-day Republicans are. Not to give Republicans an excuse for being the shitty people that they are; people who suffer from biological mental problems are still responsible for acknowledging their wrong behavior and seeking treatment for the underlying cause. But it just boggles my mind that so many people willingly choose to be shitty human beings.

This is exactly what I think/hope as well.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 3:59:37am

The booming labor market is expected to extend a remarkable milestone in April, matching the last longest period of low unemployment on record.
Economists predict that the April jobs report, to be released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday morning, will show the unemployment rate holding at 3.8 percent, marking the 27th consecutive month of unemployment below 4 percent. This would match a low-unemployment period between 1967 to 1970, and close in on the longest period on record, between 1951 to 1953.

msn.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ May 3, 2024 • 4:11:08am

re: #165 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Birb. Took a really long time.
Wordle 1,049 3/6

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 4:12:47am

Apple shares climbed 7% in extended trading on Thursday after the iPhone maker reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that topped estimates and announced an expanded stock buyback program.
Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest buyback in history, ahead of Apple’s previous repurchases, according to data from Birinyi Associates.

However, overall sales fell 4% and iPhone sales fell 10% year over year during the quarter, which Apple attributed to a tough comparison versus last year.

cnbc.com

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 4:17:24am

That was a wordle and a half.

Click to Reveal

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 4:18:18am

I hate Greenwich Nazis…

Hitler-saluting neo-Nazis descended on ritzy Greenwich, Conn. and chanted “heil” while doing a one-armed salute during a sickening display over the weekend.

Masked goons from the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 traveled from out of town Saturday to demonstrate outside Greenwich Town Hall, where they carried signs reading “New England is ours the rest must go,” and “Anti-whites FAFO” — with the acronym standing for “F**k around and find out.”

From there they marched in cargo-panted formation through downtown Greenwich, before posting up on a street corner with their vile banners while barking “Seig Heil,” flashing the Nazi salute, and leering at passersby.

nypost.com

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William Lewis May 3, 2024 • 4:26:31am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

In one of those coincidences that occur in the movies, a film about war photojournalist Lee Miller starring Kate Winslet is premiering this year. Lee Miller was mentioned as a role model for the fictional photojournalists in Civil War, playing now. [Embedded content]

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She and Robert Capa were in a class all of their own and their PTSD was legendary. I can’t imagine the price they paid for their photos. Margaret Bourke-White as well.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 4:28:24am

re: #171 Axolotl

I feel like someday, decades down the road, we’re going to find out that there’s some previously-undiagnosed brain chemical imbalance or something

This is exactly what I think/hope as well.

an organic cause somewhat removes their personal responsibility and agency. it separates them from their choices and behavior and says something’s happened ‘to’ them.

it’s not that complicated. there are a lot of of easy to manipulate, nasty people.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 4:30:34am

re: #176 Shropshire Slasher

The NSC-131 founder has made a pilgrimage through the violent nutcase groups. Can’t seem to settle in, and looks like a LE provocateur.
splcenter.org

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 4:32:41am

Halle Berry shouts ‘I’m in menopause’ on Capitol Hill as she fights for funding to improve women’s care.
Actress Halle Berry was joined by a group of bipartisan senators on Capitol Hill Thursday to push for legislation that would put $275 million towards research and education around menopause.

The legislation calls for the federal government to spend more on clinical trials on menopause as well as the hormone therapy that is used to treat hot flashes and other symptoms.

abcnews.go.com

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 4:36:22am

another episode of the lying liars

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) claims in her new book that she once met with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un when she served in Congress, but the Dakota Scout says this story is almost certainly false.

“Noem served on the House Armed Services Committee from 2013-2015. During that period, committee members including Noem visited China in 2014. But there is no record of Kim being in China then. After assuming the role of supreme leader of North Korea in 2011, Kim did not leave North Korea until 2018.”

“That timeline, along with Kim’s preference to operate through proxies, makes Noem’s account nearly impossible.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 4:42:01am

re: #178 Dangerman

an organic cause somewhat removes their personal responsibility and agency. it separates them from their choices and behavior and says something’s happened ‘to’ them.

it’s not that complicated. there are a lot of of easy to manipulate, nasty people.

I am also convinced that it is related to the decline in the quality of public education that started with the Reagan budget cuts.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 4:54:01am

re: #63 Dangerman

the irs does hire some very nice people

but they really dont know what they’re doing or understand the tax law except for the very straightforward basics

Wanted to comment on this since I have some knowledge about tax law and the IRS. The IRS has people who are involved in customer service, and they have cursory knowledge of the tax code, which involves more than 7000 sections and interactions between sections can get quite involved and complicated. Auditors have deep understanding of tax law and application to specific facts involved. They have other tax experts who are involved in writing publications and rulings. So, it can seem that not everyone at the IRS has deep understandings necessary to help for a given circumstance.

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Dizzy May 3, 2024 • 4:55:20am

@ IngisKahn

re: #168 Dizzy

I see this is the second time you have down-dinged me. I’m curious, with no malice, what is it that you disagree with in that thread?

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 4:57:11am

A federal judge sentenced a former dive boat captain on Thursday to four years in prison on a negligence conviction known as “seaman’s manslaughter” after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on his boat in 2019.
Jerry Nehl Boylan, who faced up to 10 years in prison, was found guilty in 2023 of one federal felony count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer.

The fire erupted on the morning of Labor Day, when the boat was anchored near Santa Cruz Island, the largest of California’s Channel Islands, about 25 miles off the mainland.

cnn.com

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 4:57:39am

Donald Trump used the lunch hour to post on Truth Social that he hasn’t been sleeping in court but does “close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!”

i predicted this response the first time he was caught ‘napping’

but it’s not the sleeping

it’s the obvious lying.
the first and only response every time is to make shit up.
the compulsion to lie.
in fact the inability to not lie.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 4:58:17am

re: #184 Dizzy

@ IngisKahn

I see this is the second time you have down-dinged me. I’m curious, with no malice, what is it that you disagree with in that thread?

I appreciate you posting that, it is a good read.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 5:00:55am

re: #186 Dangerman

i predicted this response the first time he was caught ‘napping’

but it’s not the sleeping

it’s the obvious lying.
the first and only response every time is to make shit up.
the compulsion to lie.
in fact the inability to not lie.

Telling the truth takes effort, you have to know what you are talking about and not just make up shit on the fly because you think that is what your audience wants to hear from you.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 5:03:44am

re: #186 Dangerman

I love also the play to his cult base, referring to his “beautiful blue eyes,” clearly hoping the people who are enamored with him as a messiah-like figure will latch on to the mental image and sweep aside the idea that he’s a fat old man who can’t stay awake in a criminal courtroom (probably because of undiagnosed sleep apnea, if he’s as heavyset as we all think he is).

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Eventual Carrion May 3, 2024 • 5:05:24am

re: #165 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Par.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 5:07:26am

re: #186 Dangerman

i predicted this response the first time he was caught ‘napping’

but it’s not the sleeping

it’s the obvious lying.
the first and only response every time is to make shit up.
the compulsion to lie.
in fact the inability to not lie.

What kind of personality defect induces someone to broadcast a description of “my beautiful blue eyes”?

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 5:08:47am

re: #191 Decatur Deb

What kind of personality defect induces someone to broadcast a description of “my beautiful blue eyes”?

See my #189 above. It’s cult language.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 5:10:05am

re: #192 Nerdy Fish

See my #189 above. It’s cult language.

It’s fucking psycho.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 5:10:44am

More dick waving.

US fighter jets allegedly scrambled to intercept Russian nuclear bombers that flew over Alaskan airspace.

US and Russian warplanes came face to face in the sky on Thursday after Vladimir Putin sent up two Tu-95MS nuclear bombers over the Bering Sea, near Alaska’s western coast.
Footage published by the Russian Defense Ministry shows a warplane from the Alaska Air National Guard marked with the letters AK and the number 304 on its tail fin. A Russian escort Su-30SM fighter jet is also pictured in the video.

The Russian defense minister admitted its hulking ‘Bear’ strategic bombers ‘appeared near the coast of Alaska’ on an 11 hour flight over the neutral waters Bering Sea. Moscow said ‘at certain stages the missile carriers were accompanied by fighter jets of foreign countries’.

Four Kremlin military jets were detected and tracked operating near American airspace in an area where Russian aircraft activity is regularly detected, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed Thursday. NORAD added that the Russian jets ‘remained in international airspace’.

msn.com

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 5:23:21am

re: #183 lawhawk

Wanted to comment on this since I have some knowledge about tax law and the IRS. The IRS has people who are involved in customer service, and they have cursory knowledge of the tax code, which involves more than 7000 sections and interactions between sections can get quite involved and complicated. Auditors have deep understanding of tax law and application to specific facts involved. They have other tax experts who are involved in writing publications and rulings. So, it can seem that not everyone at the IRS has deep understandings necessary to help for a given circumstance.

spot on, Chris!

im dealing with a situation right now that’s involved at least three or four people and so far, every one of them has got it wrong.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 5:29:48am

Wow, watch the video, talk about cluster munitions.

This is the moment more than 100 Russian troops are believed to have been killed in an ATACMS tactical ballistic missile strike on occupied Luhansk.

A military training ground was seen being hit by multiple explosions typical of an ATACMS strike in footage captured by a drone flying high above.

The strike targeted a group of 100-plus soldiers who were seen in aerial images, say OSINT analysts in what would be the single largest loss of Russian stories in months.

dailymail.co.uk

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Belafon May 3, 2024 • 5:39:04am

United Methodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social teachings that deemed “the practice of homosexuality … incompatible with Christian teaching” — part of a wider series of historic reversals of the denomination’s longstanding disapproval of LGBTQ activity.
The historic vote came as delegates also approved a new definition of marriage as a covenant between “two people of faith” while recognizing the couple may or may not involve a man and a woman. That replaces an exclusively heterosexual definition of marriage and followed a debate that exposed tensions between some U.S. and international delegates.

The 523-161 vote to approve a section of the church’s Revised Social Principles took place at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in the penultimate day of their 11-day legislative gathering in Charlotte.

dallasnews.com

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Belafon May 3, 2024 • 5:41:11am

Not that the administration doesn’t care if it helps them in November, but sometimes you have a list of things you think are right and you hope people will like them.

The media frames every single Biden action as “hoping to help him in November”, even though they’ve been in the works for years. The marijuana rescheduling process started back in 2022. https://t.co/AkQcYZzn6k

— That Well-Adjusted Biden Guy (@What46HasDone) May 3, 2024

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 5:41:28am

City officials declared a public health emergency Thursday after a tuberculosis outbreak left one person dead and nine others hospitalized.
Health officials said the outbreak stemmed from a group of people who stayed together at a Long Beach hotel room.

As of April 29, 14 cases of tuberculosis (TB) are associated with this outbreak — nine of them required hospitalization and one case was fatal.

Investigators said around 170 people have likely been exposed to the illness. Health officials are in contact with any guests or individuals who were at the hotel during the time the infected people were present.

ktla.com

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 5:41:37am

re: #197 Belafon

Fun fact: The college I went to 20 years ago, where I finally started broadening my theological and political horizons that led to my following Charles away from the Right in 2007-2008, was historically Methodist. This is not a surprise, but it is welcome news; Methodists have always struck me as historically moderate.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 5:42:17am

re: #198 Belafon

Not that the administration doesn’t care if it helps them in November, but sometimes you have a list of things you think are right and you hope people will like them.

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New York still won’t be able to sell legal weed at a profit.

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Belafon May 3, 2024 • 5:47:53am

Just saw this at the top of the Dallas Morning News article:

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Belafon May 3, 2024 • 5:49:48am

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but, Charles, could you put an alternative text input block on the upload image dialog?

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 5:50:11am

A hydroelectric dam has collapsed in southern Brazil after days of heavy rains that triggered massive flooding, killing more than 30 people.
Officials say another 60 people are missing in Rio Grande do Sul state.

About 15,000 residents have fled their homes since Saturday. At least 500,000 people are without power and clean water across the state.

The burst dam triggered a two-metre (6.6ft) wave, causing panic and further damage in the already flooded areas.

The dam is located between the municipality of Cotiporã and the city of Bento Gonçalves.

bbc.com

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Belafon May 3, 2024 • 5:50:27am

re: #201 Shropshire Slasher

New York still won’t be able to sell legal weed at a profit.

That will take Congress.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 5:52:00am

re: #202 Belafon

Just saw this at the top of the Dallas Morning News article:

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So the Tories have a wingnut welfare circuit, just like American Republicans do. Fascinating.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 5:57:53am

I hope it hurt.

An ATV driver suffered serious injuries after crashing into a New Haven Police cruiser Sunday, police officials say.

Police said officers were assigned that afternoon to a dirt bike/ATV detail in hopes of addressing ongoing complaints of riders driving recklessly and illegally around the city.

Around 3:40 p.m., officers were dispatched to the area of East Rock Park for reports of a group gathering there and using Farnam Drive to access the park- a road that’s been only open to pedestrian traffic since 2020.

wtnh.com

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jeffreyw May 3, 2024 • 6:03:20am

Good morning!

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 6:11:32am

re: #195 Dangerman

spot on, Chris!

im dealing with a situation right now that’s involved at least three or four people and so far, every one of them has got it wrong.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 6:13:24am

re: #199 Shropshire Slasher

ktla.com

That’s scary!

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 6:14:12am

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

LGF Pages, October 2012:
Man Collapses, Dies After Winning Roach-Eating Contest in Broward
Poor guy bugged out.

Florida man, of course.

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Shropshire Slasher May 3, 2024 • 6:15:51am

A little bit of local news.

The family of UAlbany student Alexa Kropf, 18, is by her side at Albany Medical Center. She is in critical condition after being hit by a speeding illegal dirt bike in Albany early Saturday morning.

Kropf’s parents got the emergency call this weekend that no family ever wants to get.

The freshman was due to come home next week. Now she’s in a medically induced coma. Her family is hoping police find the person responsible.

Video recorded by a student overnight Friday shows a police car arriving and a chaotic scene on Hudson Avenue in Albany.

A crowd of young people surrounded Kropf, of Long Island, who had just been hit.

A man speeding on an illegal dirt bike had been weaving in and out of groups of people in the road before he smashed into her, police said.

Speeding bikes and ATVs are a problem, according to students.

wnyt.com

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 6:17:37am

BLS reports 175,000 jobs created in April with unemployment ticking up to 3.9%.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 6:24:57am

re: #213 No Malarkey!

BLS reports 175,000 jobs created in April with unemployment ticking up to 3.9%.

Nyt: Biden can’t control rising unemployment

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Randall Gross May 3, 2024 • 6:27:50am

Sarah Jarosz :”Runaway Train”

Sarah Jarosz – Runaway Train (live for The Current and Radio Heartland)

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 6:28:24am

so when merchan rules on the last three gag order violations, tfg will have been adjudicated on the issue 12 times

yes it’s time for jail

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 6:31:34am

re: #209 No Malarkey!

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 6:31:44am

Love That Jared!

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 6:34:46am

Looks like the UK Tories are getting slaughtered as the count goes on…

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darthstar May 3, 2024 • 6:37:18am

re: #219 Joe Bacon ✅

Looks like the UK Tories are getting slaughtered as the count goes on…

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It’s almost like the voters are sick of conservative policies. I wonder if that could happen here?

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Randall Gross May 3, 2024 • 6:40:36am

New at Netflix

2067 (2020) Official Trailer – Out Now on Netflix

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 6:40:46am

re: #217 Dangerman

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darthstar May 3, 2024 • 6:40:55am

Lying about the judge or his orders is probably not a great idea…

Mastodon

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darthstar May 3, 2024 • 6:44:35am

Nobody could have predicted…

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 6:46:19am

re: #224 darthstar

lol. That is a given.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 6:48:15am

re: #223 darthstar

Trump was explicitly saying outside the courtroom yesterday that he was being unconstitutionally gagged by not being allowed to testify in his own defense. Blanche simultaneously nodded and shook his head at this - showing just how much of a suckup he was to Trump and incapable of stopping Trump’s overt lie.

Merchan made explicit that Trump can testify as per his constitutional right. He also has a right to remain silent where anything he says can and will be used in a court of law.

He will continue to refuse to shut the fuck up, and get himself in trouble.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 6:48:44am

re: #224 darthstar

Nobody could have predicted…

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Only the best people…Only the best people…and yet millions are still brainwashed enough to give him the keys to the kingdom…

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 6:49:14am

re: #220 darthstar

It’s almost like the voters are sick of conservative policies. I wonder if that could happen here?

A lot of world leaders across the ideological spectrum are underwater in approval polls, showing a global dissatisfaction with the state of affairs post-Covid. President Biden is doing fairly well in comparison, only 0.7% behind Trump in the 538 aggregate. And that is before the jury in Trump’s present case renders a verdict and the Biden Campaign begins saturation attacks on Trump in the swing states this Fall.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 6:50:11am

re: #227 Joe Bacon ✅

Too many people still believe DT is the greatest.

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 6:54:43am

Pro-tip: If you’re going to post content discussing antisemitism, it’s probably best not to follow that up by sharing content from social media accounts that, in addition to being dedicated to sharing anti-Israeli content, spread & support content from virulent antisemites on Twitter (sans the Community Notes they get on Twitter for spreading misinformation and hate - one of the few good things Musk hasn’t ruined [yet]).

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 6:56:13am

Wait!

Killer Kristi says she met with…WHO????

Scout reporters Austin Goss and Jonathan Ellis, in an article published on May 2, explain, “In ‘No Going Back,’ Noem says she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while serving in Congress on the House Armed Services Committee. Last year, as governor, she says she canceled a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. But neither account has been verified by congressional travel documents or outside sources reviewed by The Dakota Scout. And The Scout confirmed with the French president’s office that Macron never had a meeting scheduled with Noem.”

alternet.org

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 6:56:26am

re: #208 jeffreyw

I hate commercials but I love this one.

Wat Doing? ClearScore TV ad: Season 1 episode 2 - Washing Machine

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 6:57:44am

It’s just like that time Jesus was on trial for boinking a porn star!

‘It Is Just Absolutely a Crucifixion’: Fox & Friends Diner Compares Trump Criminal Trials Persecution of Jesus

mediaite.com

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) May 3, 2024 • 7:00:01am

re: #171 Axolotl

This is exactly what I think/hope as well.

It’s CO2 making them stupid! At certain levels of CO2 people’s brains get stupid. That’s a fact.

MAGAts may be our “canaries in the coal mine” as they suffer debilitating stupidity from even lower levels of CO2 than do others.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 7:00:42am

And the latest in the Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs Follies!

Exclusive: RFK Jr. Campaign Operative Charged With Assault For Allegedly Choking, Punching Woman

A key political operative on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign was charged with assault after allegedly choking and punching a woman in New York early Saturday morning.

Trent Pool, who serves as a paid consultant on the long-shot independent campaign and has been leading the effort to get Kennedy on the ballot in all 50 states, was charged with assault and criminal obstruction of breathing.

According to an NYPD spokesperson, a little after 5 a.m. on Saturday morning Pool was engaged in a “verbal dispute” with a 25-year-old woman at the ritzy Soho Grand hotel in downtown Manhattan.

The arrest in New York was not his first run-in with the law this year. In February, Pool was arrested for fourth-degree assault in Seattle, Washington, a spokesperson for SPD confirmed.

The Kennedy campaign and Pool did not respond to immediate requests for comment.

mediaite.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 7:01:18am

re: #216 Dangerman

so when merchan rules on the last three gag order violations, tfg will have been adjudicated on the issue 12 times

yes it’s time for jail

Time for jail is long overdue.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 7:03:11am

re: #219 Joe Bacon ✅

Looks like the UK Tories are getting slaughtered as the count goes on…

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Lovely. Absolutely stunning.

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 7:03:21am

re: #231 Joe Bacon ✅

Wait!

Killer Kristi says she met with…WHO????

Scout reporters Austin Goss and Jonathan Ellis, in an article published on May 2, explain, “In ‘No Going Back,’ Noem says she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while serving in Congress on the House Armed Services Committee. Last year, as governor, she says she canceled a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. But neither account has been verified by congressional travel documents or outside sources reviewed by The Dakota Scout. And The Scout confirmed with the French president’s office that Macron never had a meeting scheduled with Noem.”

alternet.org

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 7:04:11am

re: #220 darthstar

It’s almost like the voters are sick of conservative policies. I wonder if that could happen here?

It took decades of conservative “austerity”. I hope we sicken of republicans long before decades.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 7:05:14am

Here is some upbeat news from NPR:
npr.org
The Presidential Medal of Freedom honorees.

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GlutenFreeJesus May 3, 2024 • 7:05:17am

re: #224 darthstar

Should be locked up too. $ is nothing to these fools.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 7:07:22am

re: #222 No Malarkey!

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Belafon May 3, 2024 • 7:10:01am

re: #240 PhillyPretzel ✅

Including Michelle Yeoh.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 7:10:35am

re: #231 Joe Bacon ✅

Wait!

Killer Kristi says she met with…WHO????

Scout reporters Austin Goss and Jonathan Ellis, in an article published on May 2, explain, “In ‘No Going Back,’ Noem says she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while serving in Congress on the House Armed Services Committee. Last year, as governor, she says she canceled a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. But neither account has been verified by congressional travel documents or outside sources reviewed by The Dakota Scout. And The Scout confirmed with the French president’s office that Macron never had a meeting scheduled with Noem.”

alternet.org

Oh no she dihn’t

re: #181 Dangerman

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 7:11:03am

re: #243 Belafon

And Jim Thorpe.

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sizzzzlerz May 3, 2024 • 7:11:17am

re: #234 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

It’s CO2 making them stupid! At certain levels of CO2 people’s brains get stupid. That’s a fact.

MAGAts may be our “canaries in the coal mine” as they suffer debilitating stupidity from even lower levels of CO2 than do others.

Couple that with their refusal to be vaccinated and their distrust of medical expertise in favor of their own research, the rest of us could be living MAGAt free within a few years.

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darthstar May 3, 2024 • 7:11:43am

re: #239 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It took decades of conservative “austerity”. I hope we sicken of republicans long before decades.

Brexit helped.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 7:13:56am

Solid year of wages rising faster than prices while the number of employed people steadily rises pic.twitter.com/baSwpSLgsJ

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 3, 2024

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 7:15:01am

re: #248 Dangerman

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The big picture: US unemployment has been below 4% for 27 months. That’s an incredible stretch that hasn’t happened since the late 1960s.

Hiring has slowed in past year, but it’s still encouraging:
Labor force +1.3 million in the past year as more people look for work.
# of… pic.twitter.com/w7QJBgWF4L

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) May 3, 2024

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 7:15:46am

re: #247 darthstar

Brexit helped.

And their asshole cavalier attitude about ignoring Covid restrictions and partying while other good citizens were forced to stay at home while their loved ones died far away.

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KingKenrod May 3, 2024 • 7:16:08am

re: #224 darthstar

Nobody could have predicted…

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Another Trump accomplice bites the dust. Everything Trump touches dies.

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 7:16:19am

re: #219 Joe Bacon ✅

Looks like the UK Tories are getting slaughtered as the count goes on…

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GlutenFreeJesus May 3, 2024 • 7:18:57am

No way. Everyone knows these people have our best interests at heart!

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Ace Rothstein May 3, 2024 • 7:23:08am

re: #249 Dangerman

Labor market slows with 1.3 million jobs added in 2024. Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

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Vicious Babushka May 3, 2024 • 7:24:30am

Beagle

Click to Reveal

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 7:24:45am

Now where are all those “experts” who claimed that putting the Tangerine Traitor on trial would rally his followers….

CNN: Truth Social keeps shrinking despite the Trump trial and looming election

New York CNN — Former President Donald Trump hit the jackpot this spring when his social media company finally went public. Even though Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) generates very little revenue, investors are assigning an eye-popping valuation north of $9 billion to the company. Trump’s dominant stake in Trump Media is now valued at nearly $6 billion.

Yet new data shows its main product — the conservative-friendly social network Truth Social — remains a very tiny player in its industry, and it’s getting even smaller. Truth Social’s average number of daily active US users on iOS and Android dropped by 19% year over year in April to about 113,000, according to data shared exclusively with CNN from Similarweb, a data intelligence company.

The Similarweb data, which captures the first 29 days of April, showed that the average number of users dipped 4% month over month. That drop comes despite the considerable attention received by the ongoing Trump criminal trial and the growing focus on the US presidential election.

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GlutenFreeJesus May 3, 2024 • 7:26:38am

Never know where your trolls are coming from.

nbcnews.com

The “Girls Trip” favorite said that online bullying got so negative over the last year (with commenters calling her “pedo” and “not funny,” for instance) that she hired a digital forensics analyst when death threats starting coming her way. The analyst’s research showed that 75% of these threats were “created by robots in Malaysia and Iran.”

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So Cal Greek Hippie May 3, 2024 • 7:29:48am

2024: Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, California

Happy Friday!

Anyone in the area who likes Botanical Gardens: recommend a visit right now. The plant people say it’s the best bloom season in over a decade

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So Cal Greek Hippie May 3, 2024 • 7:30:35am

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 7:32:27am

re: #259 So Cal Greek Hippie

And have a good Orthodox Easter. It is this Sunday isn’t it.

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jeffreyw May 3, 2024 • 7:32:30am

😂😂#birds

— cadria (@cadria.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T11:38:20.820Z

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 7:33:59am

re: #256 (((Archangel1)))

Now where are all those “experts” who claimed that putting the Tangerine Traitor on trial would rally his followers….

CNN: Truth Social keeps shrinking despite the Trump trial and looming election

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If Truth Social can’t grow users while Trump is posting about his criminal trial, it’s going to absolutely tank after President Biden is re-elected and Trump is nothing but a washed-up felon.

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 7:34:17am

First they said that indicting Agent Orange would invigorate his supporters.
Then they said that putting Trumplethinskin on trial would rally them like never before.
Today they say that locking the Tangerine Menace up for violating his gag orders might set the country on fire.
Going by the evidence so far, I think it’s safe to say…

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jeffreyw May 3, 2024 • 7:35:32am

Mastodon

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 7:35:36am

Texas going after out of state abortions

Gift link should work

wapo.st

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darthstar May 3, 2024 • 7:36:34am

re: #264 jeffreyw

Let’s see how those refineries and air bases like getting a visit by Storm Shadows.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 7:36:37am

re: #265 Scottish Dragon

Texas going after out of state abortions

washingtonpost.com

paywalled, can you cut and paste the main jist of it?

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So Cal Greek Hippie May 3, 2024 • 7:37:52am

re: #260 PhillyPretzel ✅

Thanks, PP!
Good Friday to my fellow celebrants
The rare Easter-5 de Maio convergence too

Much going on in my world. Mostly good but huge amounts of logistics, planning and JIT execution that is at odds with my hippie demeanor

I appreciate this site and comment space

Good intentions to all who will take them 😎

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 7:37:54am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

paywalled, can you cut and paste the main jist of it?

TL;DR: Jonathan Mitchell, one of Trump’s favorite lawyers, is asking Texas to investigate a woman because he represents her ex-boyfriend and claims she left Texas to get an abortion, in contravention of Texas law.

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 7:38:25am

re: #265 Scottish Dragon

GOP: “We need to put an end to this 19th century abortion law fiasco so it doesn’t kill us in the election.”
Also the GOP: Does this.

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darthstar May 3, 2024 • 7:39:16am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

paywalled, can you cut and paste the main jist of it?

If the woman proceeded with the abortion, even in a state where the procedure remains legal, Davis would seek a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the abortion and “pursue wrongful-death claims against anyone involved in the killing of his unborn child,” the lawyer wrote in a letter, according to records.

Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 7:39:55am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

paywalled, can you cut and paste the main jist of it?

gift link, sorry

wapo.st

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 7:40:02am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

paywalled, can you cut and paste the main jist of it?

“Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner’s out-of-state abortion

The previously unreported petition reflects a potential new antiabortion strategy to block women from ending their pregnancies in states where abortion is legal.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 7:41:26am

That is just a prelude to a National Abortion Ban under which all women of childbearing age will be subject to medical examination upon leaving or re-entering the country.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 7:42:06am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

paywalled, can you cut and paste the main jist of it?

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Florida Panhandler May 3, 2024 • 7:42:56am

re: #253 GlutenFreeJesus

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No way. Everyone knows these people have our best interests at heart!

The irony is that with the rise of EVs (already approaching 50% of the overall car market in China) the world is basically one oil crisis away from ditching gasoline en mass,.. and oil companies know it.

IMO the only reason why gasoline is not currently above $7/gallon from current world events is that raising oil prices will mean much more rapid adoption of EVs. Just think what happened in decades past as even one little blip in the Persian Gulf arena would send prices rocketing upwards. The oil industry plan now is to manage the calculus of keeping oil prices at this level for as long as they can all the while keeping their propaganda campaign against EVs ongoing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 7:44:13am

re: #276 Florida Panhandler

It is also a matter of perception:

The Electric Car of the Future (The Simpsons)

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 7:44:45am

She won’t stop.

Appeals court hears Kari Lake election case, has to remind her lawyer how appeals work

“I’m sure you’re aware we’re not a fact finding court — we’re a court that decides questions of law, primarily,” Judge Peter Eckerstrom told Kurt Olsen, Lake’s attorney, shortly after he began his arguments.

rawstory.com

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 7:45:58am

Whoo-hoo! Thanks to everyone for getting me over 199k Karma! 200,000 is now in sight, after posting for over 14 years!

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 7:46:35am

re: #279 No Malarkey!

Congratulations.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 7:47:49am

re: #280 PhillyPretzel ✅

Congratulations.

You might want to loan him your buffet warmers and champagne glasses.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 7:53:12am

re: #265 Scottish Dragon

Texas going after out of state abortions

Gift link should work

wapo.st

Hand the sperm donor the zygote/fetus and let him implant and carry it.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 7:53:56am

re: #281 Decatur Deb

You might want to loan him your buffet warmers and champagne glasses.

Looking forward to the 200,000 reward level. I don’t know how Charles has less than a million karma points, unless the Karma counter doesn’t go to seven figures and rolls over back to zero.

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Patricia Kayden May 3, 2024 • 7:54:03am

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 3, 2024 • 7:54:16am

This post is not an endorsement. It’s here for you to tear apart.

The Cult of Bike Helmets

Last year, health officials in Seattle decided to stop requiring bicyclists to wear helmets. Independent research found that nearly half of Seattle’s helmet tickets in recent years went to unhoused people, while Black and Native American cyclists in the city were four times and two times more likely, respectively, than white cyclists to be cited.

Whether people should wear helmets was not the motivation behind the repeal, King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay said at the time. “The question is whether a helmet law that is enforced by police, on balance, produces results that outweigh the harms the law creates.” For lawmakers, the answer was clear: The potential benefits of a helmet mandate were not worth the harms it did to marginalized Seattle residents.

But some local bike advocates argued that there was a second advantage: Repealing the law could make riding more safe. Helmet mandates intimidate potential riders, they argued, by framing cycling as an activity so dangerous it necessitates body armor. That, in turn, can suppress ridership, and take away the safety benefits of riding in numbers. The more bicyclists take up space on the road, the more visible they become to drivers. And as cars more regularly contend with bikes, the more consideration bikes will get in conversations about transit safety and road infrastructure.

Other jurisdictions have done away with their helmet mandates too: In 2020 Tacoma, Washington, repealed its requirement; in 2014 Dallas did the same for adults. These repeals push back at the notion that bike safety starts and ends with helmets and suggest that helmet laws might actually pose a risk to cyclists. Now some avid cyclists are going so far as to loudly proclaim forgoing helmets on principle.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 7:56:31am

re: #284 Patricia Kayden

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If that isn’t a photoshop, Lindell looks like he is already dead and zombified. ETTD.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 7:57:01am

re: #284 Patricia Kayden

He’s def back on the pipe.

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steve_davis May 3, 2024 • 7:57:45am

re: #127 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s days like this when a chessboard becomes my Zen Garden.

i hear ya’. I finally broke down and spent 50 bucks with Everyman Chess to get My Great Predecessors for both kindle AND chessbase. Love not having to actually reset complex analysis, though it probably means my brain goes to mush a little faster.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 7:57:58am

re: #285 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This post is not an endorsement. It’s here for you to tear apart.

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Charles Darwin approves this message.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 7:58:03am

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Vicious Babushka May 3, 2024 • 7:58:14am

re: #286 No Malarkey!

If that isn’t a photoshop, Lindell looks like he is already dead and zombified. ETTD.

He’s on Ozempic.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 3, 2024 • 7:59:01am

re: #185 Shropshire Slasher

cnn.com

Sinking of MV Conception
Horrifying story. All 33 passengers and 1 crewmember were killed when they were trapped on the lower deck. Fire had spread completely across the upper deck, blocking all exits. 5 crewmembers, all of whom were in the pilothouse, survived. Incidentally, the now disgraced captain was first to leave the burning boat. This is not illegal but it is a shameful violation of tradition and professional ethics.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 7:59:32am

re: #285 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This post is not an endorsement. It’s here for you to tear apart.

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It’s the cost of a decent bicycle more than intimidation over safety gear.

That being said, most of us have met the asshole bike guys at some point. The ones who insist everybody should be riding bikes like they do for everything from commuting to work to grocery shopping AND BAD WEATHER IS NO EXCUSE

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 8:00:17am

re: #292 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Sinking of MV Conception
Horrifying story. All 33 passengers and 1 crewmember were killed when they were trapped on the lower deck. Fire had spread completely across the upper deck, blocking all exits. 5 crewmembers, all of whom were in the pilothouse, survived. Incidentally, the now disgraced captain was first to leave the burning boat. This is not illegal but it is a shameful violation of tradition and professional ethics.

That “captain” is a goddamned disgrace.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 8:01:21am

re: #284 Patricia Kayden

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 8:01:34am

re: #285 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Instead of confronting the discriminatory policing and the hard work behind the need to fix/reform law enforcement, they decided to repeal a law that enhances safety for cyclists.

Instead of confronting aggressive motor vehicle drivers who ignore their responsibility to drive safely and to accord cyclists room on the road, they decided to repeal a law that enhances safety for cyclists.

Instead of confronting roadway design that puts cyclists at risk by having them share road space with motor vehicles that travel at higher than permitted speeds, they decided to repeal a law that enhances safety for cyclists.

Helmets work to keep cyclists safe. They locality has done an insufficient job of making it even safer by fixing the aforementioned problems, and therefore decided that the helmet law was not good in some fashion, despite no actual empirical evidence suggesting that the helmets aren’t making it safer for cyclists.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 8:01:41am

MSN has trial updates and this picture just blows me away. How can he think this is a good look?? Seriously.

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William Lewis May 3, 2024 • 8:01:54am

re: #285 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This post is not an endorsement. It’s here for you to tear apart.

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The enforcement bits are a real problem but it circles back to the classic problem that in America ACAB.

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Egregious Philbin May 3, 2024 • 8:02:41am

re: #293 Scottish Dragon

I ride my bike more than I drive my car most weeks, but I don’t preach. There are all kinds of biking dickheads… I ride an e-bike, sometimes the hardcore folks scoff, but I’m twice as old as them…so they can go fornicate themselves….

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:02:54am

re: #296 lawhawk

All laws should be repealed because cops enforce them unfairly.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 8:04:39am

DOJ expected to announce indictment of Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar.

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jeffreyw May 3, 2024 • 8:04:45am

re: #266 darthstar

I hope they have plenty of reloads.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 8:05:11am

I can’t recall where I heard this, but it was suggested that the Trump criminal trial is going to take longer than it otherwise should because Trump refused to let his lawyers stipulate to certain facts, instead requiring prosecutors enter them into the record through witnesses and corroboration.

It certainly is a strategy, but not one that will work with much success. If he’s trying to get the jurors to snooze off, he’s not doing a good job. Prosecutors are making their case, and Trump’s lawyers aren’t introducing reasonable doubt (their only job - they don’t have to prove anything, just that there’s reasonable doubt as to his guilt).

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William Lewis May 3, 2024 • 8:05:17am

re: #300 Decatur Deb

All laws should be repealed because cops enforce them unfairly.

Do we have a libertarian variant of the wingnut tag? /// 🤣

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:06:58am

re: #304 William Lewis

Do we have a libertarian variant of the wingnut tag? /// 🤣

VB posted something the other night in a green font.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 8:08:01am

re: #304 William Lewis

Do we have a libertarian variant of the wingnut tag? /// 🤣

There’s the dudebro tag, which I think is green.

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sagehen May 3, 2024 • 8:08:09am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And their asshole cavalier attitude about ignoring Covid restrictions and partying while other good citizens were forced to stay at home while their loved ones died far away.

Queen Elizabeth sitting by herself at her husband’s funeral, while Boris Johnson was throwing parties at No. 10.

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steve_davis May 3, 2024 • 8:08:16am

re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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I shudder to think of the amount of ozone that died to keep that hair in place when he bent forward!

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 8:08:42am

re: #296 lawhawk

Instead of confronting the discriminatory policing and the hard work behind the need to fix/reform law enforcement, they decided to repeal a law that enhances safety for cyclists.

Instead of confronting aggressive motor vehicle drivers who ignore their responsibility to drive safely and to accord cyclists room on the road, they decided to repeal a law that enhances safety for cyclists.

Instead of confronting roadway design that puts cyclists at risk by having them share road space with motor vehicles that travel at higher than permitted speeds, they decided to repeal a law that enhances safety for cyclists.

Helmets work to keep cyclists safe. They locality has done an insufficient job of making it even safer by fixing the aforementioned problems, and therefore decided that the helmet law was not good in some fashion, despite no actual empirical evidence suggesting that the helmets aren’t making it safer for cyclists.

Simply hand out the damned helmets. Partner with local churches etc

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:10:24am

re: #306 Nerdy Fish

There’s the dudebro tag, which I think is green.

The anti-helmet BS sounds like a wheeled variant of dudebro.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 8:10:49am

re: #303 lawhawk

I can’t recall where I heard this, but it was suggested that the Trump criminal trial is going to take longer than it otherwise should because Trump refused to let his lawyers stipulate to certain facts, instead requiring prosecutors enter them into the record through witnesses and corroboration.

It certainly is a strategy, but not one that will work with much success. If he’s trying to get the jurors to snooze off, he’s not doing a good job. Prosecutors are making their case, and Trump’s lawyers aren’t introducing reasonable doubt (their only job - they don’t have to prove anything, just that there’s reasonable doubt as to his guilt).

He can delay all he wants; this case is going to go to the jury to render a verdict well before the GOP Convention.

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garzooma May 3, 2024 • 8:11:02am

re: #304 William Lewis

I wear my helmet all the time while riding. But it was interesting when I visited Amsterdam seeing all the people riding and not wearing helmets. One point is they tended to ride much slower (in the city, anyway).

YouTube

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Mike Lamb May 3, 2024 • 8:12:39am

re: #285 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This post is not an endorsement. It’s here for you to tear apart.

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The Venn Diagram of people who wouldn’t mask and people who won’t wear helmets has to be close to a perfect circle.

“Helmet mandates intimidate potential riders, they argued, by framing cycling as an activity so dangerous it necessitates body armor.”

I’m sorry to tell you, but riding is so inherently dangerous that it necessitates body armor. A slow speed fall on pavement could easily cause a skull fracture. And it is insane to me that people would be intimidated at the prospect of wearing a helmet, but somehow not intimidated by riding a bike at 15+ mph, particularly with cars, other bikes, or people in close proximity. I rarely ride without a helmet. I don’t ever allow my son to ride without his.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 8:12:55am

re: #300 Decatur Deb

All laws should be repealed because cops enforce them unfairly.

Some laws really should be repealed exactly because of that. A law that enhances safety and prevents serious head injuries probably isn’t one of them. If too many poor ppl or ppl of color are getting picked out, then set up helmet handouts.

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Mike Lamb May 3, 2024 • 8:13:54am

re: #254 Ace Rothstein

Labor market slows with 1.3 million jobs added in 2024. Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

The fucked up thing is that the markets will probably rise sharply because this kind of news means the Fed might lower interest rates.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:15:06am

re: #312 garzooma

I wear my helmet all the time while riding. But it was interesting when I visited Amsterdam seeing all the people riding and not wearing helmets. One point is they tended to ride much slower (in the city, anyway).

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A delightful/scary scene in our Italian town was young women in party dress standing on the boyfriend’s luggage rack to avoid wrinkling her finery.

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wrenchwench May 3, 2024 • 8:15:26am

re: #285 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

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Pedestrians should wear helmets. They suffer more head injuries than cyclists every year.

(Yeah, there are more of them…)

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Mike Lamb May 3, 2024 • 8:17:56am

re: #312 garzooma

I wear my helmet all the time while riding. But it was interesting when I visited Amsterdam seeing all the people riding and not wearing helmets. One point is they tended to ride much slower (in the city, anyway).

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Helmets should always be worn. Slow speed, high speed. Doesn’t matter. It’s like saying “I drive down town and my speed is never higher than 20 mph, so I don’t need to wear a seatbelt.”

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 8:19:21am

re: #311 No Malarkey!

I think what the reference was is that this case should be able to wrap after a week of testimony, not the 3-4 weeks that were expected. The likely result is the jury gets this before Memorial Day with a verdict shortly thereafter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 8:19:29am

re: #318 Mike Lamb

of course and of course one should wear a helmet when cycling. the “libertarian” aspect of this law is that it has no victim but oneself.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 3, 2024 • 8:19:54am

re: #185 Shropshire Slasher

Prosecutors said Boylan did not attempt to fight the fire or rescue passengers, failed to conduct sufficient fire drills or crew training and did not set a night watch.

God damn. I know very little about running a boat but I at least know enough to understand the importance of fire drills and setting a night watch.

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Nojay UK May 3, 2024 • 8:21:36am

re: #312 garzooma

I wear my helmet all the time while riding. But it was interesting when I visited Amsterdam seeing all the people riding and not wearing helmets. One point is they tended to ride much slower (in the city, anyway).

Japanese cities have lots of cyclists. The only ones that wear helmets are the kids riding front-and-back on the mamacharis (mother charabancs). Even the police cyclists don’t wear helmets.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) May 3, 2024 • 8:22:59am

re: #297 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

MSN has trial updates and this picture just blows me away. How can he think this is a good look?? Seriously.

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He knows how bad he looks without the makeup!

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Eclectic Cyborg May 3, 2024 • 8:23:46am

re: #322 Nojay UK

I’d be willing to be most Japanese drivers are far more respectful of cyclists than American drivers.

Also, Japan has way less space than the U.S. Cars are often not the most viable option to get around.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:25:24am

re: #322 Nojay UK

Japanese cities have lots of cyclists. The only ones that wear helmets are the kids riding front-and-back on the mamacharis (mother charabancs). Even the police cyclists don’t wear helmets.

Helmet would interfere with the Rising Sun and “Scarf of a Thousand Stitches”.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org

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Eventual Carrion May 3, 2024 • 8:28:20am

re: #287 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

He’s def back on the pipe.

Glad I read one more down. That’s what I was going to say. Relapse

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 8:29:49am

Trump trial news:

“The People call Hope Hicks.”

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 3, 2024

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steve_davis May 3, 2024 • 8:30:17am

re: #285 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This post is not an endorsement. It’s here for you to tear apart.

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well, a helmet did likely save me from a concussion or busted skull when I went backwards off the bike going up a hill, so I’m all in favor of them, but yeah, they ain’t cheap, especially when if they work according to plan, they then typically need to be replaced.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 8:30:19am

re: #315 Mike Lamb

The fucked up thing is that the markets will probably rise sharply because this kind of news means the Fed might lower interest rates.

That is in fact exactly what happened this morning.

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Egregious Philbin May 3, 2024 • 8:31:01am

I always wear a helmet, and it has little speakers over the ears, and a mic up front. You can hear music, or podcasts, but also hear the world around you. When my wife and I go riding, we have the same helmet type, and we can communicate via bluetooth.

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 8:31:29am

re: #327 (((Archangel1)))

I’m ready.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 3, 2024 • 8:33:11am

Pulled out the birbie.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 8:34:24am

re: #328 steve_davis

well, a helmet did likely save me from a concussion or busted skull when I went backwards off the bike going up a hill, so I’m all in favor of them, but yeah, they ain’t cheap, especially when if they work according to plan, they then typically need to be replaced.

Still cheaper than needing the brain pan fixed at an ER/hospital.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 8:34:40am

re: #331 Dr Lizardo

Pass the popcorn

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 8:34:55am

re: #330 Egregious Philbin

I always wear a helmet, and it has little speakers over the ears, and a mic up front. You can hear music, or podcasts, but also hear the world around you. When my wife and I go riding, we have the same helmet type, and we can communicate via bluetooth.

That reminds me of a joke I heard. A person bought his parents helmets with microphones so they could talk to each other while riding their motorcycles. The dad said to his son, “If I wanted to talk to your mother while driving, we’d be riding in a car!”

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GlutenFreeJesus May 3, 2024 • 8:40:42am

Did he hoc his wedding ring? 😂

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jeffreyw May 3, 2024 • 8:41:24am

YouTube

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 8:41:40am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

Probably.

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 8:43:50am

BF Borgers, the auditor for former president Donald Trump’s media company, was charged with “massive fraud” Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the firm of being a “sham audit mill” whose failures put investors at risk.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2024-05-03T15:17:10.189Z

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 8:44:15am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

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Did he hoc his wedding ring? 😂

I’m waiting for his skin to slough off like something from an A24 horror flick

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wrenchwench May 3, 2024 • 8:44:17am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

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Did he hoc his wedding ring? 😂

He didn’t want it ‘held’ while he’s in a cell.

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 8:46:03am

re: #339 goddamnedfrank

But of course.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 8:46:58am

Hicks is on the stand, under oath, and her lawyer is paid out of her pocket.

This is bad news for Trump.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:48:07am

re: #339 goddamnedfrank

Can’t read the Post article, but the audit company has already agreed to 14 million in fines and shut down. Truth Social has no auditor at the moment.
markets.businessinsider.com

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gwangung May 3, 2024 • 8:48:13am

re: #337 jeffreyw

A day early but in time for Asian American Pacific Islander Native Hawaiian Heritage Month.

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Randall Gross May 3, 2024 • 8:49:23am

re: #256 (((Archangel1)))

Now where are all those “experts” who claimed that putting the Tangerine Traitor on trial would rally his followers….

CNN: Truth Social keeps shrinking despite the Trump trial and looming election

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Those 113,000 users & the other conservatives are full of bilious spite like their glorious leader, so they spend most of their time on other networks trying to make liberals cry or pay attention to them, there’s no fun poking another troll if you are a troll.

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 8:49:27am

Same news, two different stories. pic.twitter.com/ZtkVwOCtFj

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 3, 2024

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:49:30am

re: #343 lawhawk

Hicks is on the stand, under oath, and her lawyer is paid out of her pocket.

This is bad news for Trump.

And Biden.
—NYT

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 8:49:56am

re: #339 goddamnedfrank

BF Borgers, the auditor for former president Donald Trump’s media company, was charged with “massive fraud” Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the firm of being a “sham audit mill” whose failures put investors at risk.

The polish is already being applied to this turd: namely that this is just proof of how far the vindictive weaponized Biden DOJ is willing to go to make his opponent look bad because he knows he cannot win any other way…

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JC1 May 3, 2024 • 8:50:02am

re: #9 Unabogie

From downstairs:

Regarding lab-grown meat:

There can be no good argument against eating it if people want to eat meat but object to killing animals. The party of “freedom” has no business telling other people what they can eat, especially something that harms no one to produce.

It’s no different from the people suing over soy milk being called milk, or Impossible Burger being called burgers.

People always complain that vegans are trying to force our way of life on others, but the opposite is actually true. There are no places in America where meat is banned, but there are places where meat substitutes are.

It’s even worse than that, since lab grown meat will actually be meat, as opposed to vegetables based meat substitute.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 8:50:44am

re: #304 William Lewis

Do we have a libertarian variant of the wingnut tag? /// 🤣

There’s a difference?

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Eventual Carrion May 3, 2024 • 8:51:29am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 8:52:11am

re: #351 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

There’s a difference?

yes, the former like to get stoned…

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 8:52:32am

re: #350 JC1

It’s even worse than that, since lab grown meat will actually be meat, as opposed to vegetables based meat substitute.

Some of the plant based burgers are really good imho, and I’m still pissed the Burger King dropped the turkey burger.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 8:53:02am

re: #312 garzooma

I wear my helmet all the time while riding. But it was interesting when I visited Amsterdam seeing all the people riding and not wearing helmets. One point is they tended to ride much slower (in the city, anyway).

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Where trains run on the same paths. How people, let alone bikes and cyclists, don’t die every hour of every day amazes me. Walking there felt like I was taking my life into my own hands.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 8:54:13am

re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, the former like to get stoned…

And will tell you that ephebophilia isn’t pedophilia because reasons.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 8:55:07am

re: #350 JC1

It’s even worse than that, since lab grown meat will actually be meat, as opposed to vegetables based meat substitute.

I’m an omnivore, but if it’s tasty and cost-effective I don’t need a “cow in the loop”.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 3, 2024 • 8:55:24am

Nastertiums climbing a wall.

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GlutenFreeJesus May 3, 2024 • 8:55:43am

re: #346 Randall Gross

Those 113,000 users & the other conservatives are full of bilious spite like their glorious leader, so they spend most of their time on other networks trying to make liberals cry or pay attention to them, there’s no fun poking another troll if you are a troll.

75% of those users gotta be bots too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 8:56:00am

re: #354 Scottish Dragon

Some of the plant based burgers are really good imho, and I’m still pissed the Burger King dropped the turkey burger.

If the burgers are going on a proper charcoal grill then I like ‘em beefy.

But if we are just making them in a pan, I have found several varieties of plant-based burgers that I actually prefer to meat.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 8:57:12am

re: #356 Scottish Dragon

And will tell you that ephebophilia isn’t pedophilia because reasons.

“Consenting adults” does not exist as a concept to people who are driven entirely by their own sense of ego and self-importance.

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 9:01:23am

re: #356 Scottish Dragon

And will tell you that ephebophilia isn’t pedophilia because reasons.

The same folks who have an unnatural interest in loli hentai and when you ask ‘em about it, they’ll explain the (far too young looking and scantily clad) character they’re drooling over is really a nine-thousand year-old dragon demon, so it’s all okey-dokey.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:04:37am

Little Orphan Andy heads to his fainting couch!

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Florida Panhandler May 3, 2024 • 9:07:33am

re: #284 Patricia Kayden

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My pillow Guy Fresh from his audition of this classic:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 9:08:28am

re: #339 goddamnedfrank

The only thing shocking about that is that it’s not shocking in the least.

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Mattand May 3, 2024 • 9:09:18am

re: #276 Florida Panhandler

The irony is that with the rise of EVs (already approaching 50% of the overall car market in China) the world is basically one oil crisis away from ditching gasoline en mass,.. and oil companies know it.

IMO the only reason why gasoline is not currently above $7/gallon from current world events is that raising oil prices will mean much more rapid adoption of EVs. Just think what happened in decades past as even one little blip in the Persian Gulf arena would send prices rocketing upwards. The oil industry plan now is to manage the calculus of keeping oil prices at this level for as long as they can all the while keeping their propaganda campaign against EVs ongoing.

6.5 year EV owner here. No regrets, it’s been great. However, I’m lucky enough to have a home where I could install my own Level 2 charger. I think that’s still a big drawback to EV ownership if you’re in an apartment or townhouse, or somewhere where you can’t conveniently charge at home.

Based on my last car’s mileage (30 MPG, give or take), electricity has been anywhere from 30% to 50% cheaper than gas, depending on gas prices and weather. That might worry Big Oil, but I’m skeptical that they would be worried enough to leave money on the table by keeping prices lower.

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garzooma May 3, 2024 • 9:11:05am

re: #364 Joe Bacon ✅

Little Orphan Andy heads to his fainting couch!

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Your dad was found in court to have lied about Georgia election workers. So we’re supposed to take your word for this why?

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Mattand May 3, 2024 • 9:11:23am

re: #347 (((Archangel1)))

Tweet demonstrating why NYT Pitchbot will eventually be made redundant.

Screen grabbed and favorited that one. It’s a keeper.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 9:12:07am

re: #368 garzooma

His daddy’s in process of being disbarred for lying too. Defamation on multiple trials. Facing life in prison on multiple felony counts.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 9:17:21am

re: #367 Mattand

IMO the only reason why gasoline is not currently above $7/gallon from current world events is that raising oil prices will mean much more rapid adoption of EVs.

$7.00/gallon is the current gas price here in Czech Republic (when you factor in standard to metric and currency conversion) and Czechs absolutely loathe EVs.

I attribute a lot of that to the fact that in my neck of the woods, 70% of the population live in apartment units with simply no way to charge an EV. Also, there’s about 300,000+ cars here, and we have a grand total of 15 public charging stations.

The government, both regional and national, doesn’t have the money to rebuild an antiquated electrical infrastructure (most of it dating from the Cold War era) and expand said infrastructure.

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Eventual Carrion May 3, 2024 • 9:19:28am

re: #365 Florida Panhandler

My pillow Guy Fresh from his audition of this classic:

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The master would not like that

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JC1 May 3, 2024 • 9:22:59am

re: #367 Mattand

6.5 year EV owner here. No regrets, it’s been great. However, I’m lucky enough to have a home where I could install my own Level 2 charger. I think that’s still a big drawback to EV ownership if you’re in an apartment or townhouse, or somewhere where you can’t conveniently charge at home.

Based on my last car’s mileage (30 MPG, give or take), electricity has been anywhere from 30% to 50% cheaper than gas, depending on gas prices and weather. That might worry Big Oil, but I’m skeptical that they would be worried enough to leave money on the table by keeping prices lower.

Oil is a physical global commodity. Prices are dictated by supply and demand. Gasoline supply is also affected by refining capacity.

Most of the new demand growth is from India and China.
The US is now the biggest oil producer by far, and US producers can spin up new capacity fairly quickly if prices go higher (more wells become economically viable). Opec has lost a lot of its pricing power.
The move to EVs is also having an effect, but IMHO the biggest difference maker is US shale.

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 9:24:09am

re: #141 goddamnedfrank

Yeah letting these assholes arrogate themselves to be the arbiters of what is and is not antisemitism seems like a real good idea with no chance of backfiring at all. Bang up job America, no notes.

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JC1 May 3, 2024 • 9:24:09am

re: #371 Dr Lizardo

$7.00/gallon is the current gas price here in Czech Republic (when you factor in standard to metric and currency conversion) and Czechs absolutely loathe EVs.

I attribute a lot of that to the fact that in my neck of the woods, 70% of the population live in apartment units with simply no way to charge an EV. Also, there’s about 300,000+ cars here, and we have a grand total of 15 public charging stations.

The government, both regional and national, doesn’t have the money to rebuild an antiquated electrical infrastructure (most of it dating from the Cold War era) and expand said infrastructure.

How much of that $7 is taxes? Most of Europe has relatively high gasoline prices due to taxes.

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 9:27:37am

re: #375 JC1

How much of that $7 is taxes? Most of Europe has relatively high gasoline prices due to taxes.

Most of it is taxes, frankly. And the government is currently debating whether to raise it or leave it as it is.

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 9:32:26am

Real big day for rancid asshole database security:

New from 404 Media: an open database leaked submissions to Utah’s transphobic ‘bathroom bill’ snitch form. We verified it’s real by submitting a meme, seeing it pop up in the database immediately www.404media.co/utah-bathroo…

— Joseph Cox (@josephcox.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T13:47:35.329Z

shoutout to Andy Ngo for resisting woke encryption by storing all of his users’ passwords in clear text in what appears to be a mongo db instance

— phylan (@phylan.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T12:52:53.163Z

now to peruse the user list! oh

— phylan (@phylan.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T13:00:39.896Z

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 9:37:54am

re: #377 goddamnedfrank

Real big day for rancid asshole database security:

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The Andy Ngo thing cracks me up especially hard, because there are three rules for storing passwords:

1) Don’t.
2) No really, don’t.
3) If you still have to, hash and salt them, at a minimum.

It’s really not that hard. It’s Security for Programmers 101.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:37:59am

Way to go Andy Ngo!

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 3, 2024 • 9:38:09am

re: #286 No Malarkey!

He looks like he’s about to host a monster movie marathon on public access channel 67.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:39:34am

re: #380 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

He looks like he’s about to host a monster movie marathon on channel 67.

No TV station would hire Crackhead Mike.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 3, 2024 • 9:41:06am

I need Trump to have a courtroom outburst. At least once.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 3, 2024 • 9:41:55am

re: #374 goddamnedfrank

That photo makes me wonder if Reaper drones can deploy barrels of shit.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:43:04am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

Hmm. So far he has held onto his temper. Personally I think his attorneys are “sitting” on him. At least they are threatening him.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:43:33am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

I need Trump to have a courtroom outburst. At least once.

The diaper leak will be more fun.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 3, 2024 • 9:44:08am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

I need Trump to have a courtroom outburst. At least once.

If the “Real Men Wear Diapers” thing is to be believed, he’s already had at least one courtroom outburst.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:44:16am

re: #385 Joe Bacon ✅

Yes it would

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Ace Rothstein May 3, 2024 • 9:44:19am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

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Did he hoc his wedding ring? 😂

I don’t recall him every wearing it.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 9:44:37am

France today saying possible they will send troops to Ukraine in event of a Russian breakthrough.

Poland is the one to really watch IMHO. There is real hatred there and they are most at risk.

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Ace Rothstein May 3, 2024 • 9:44:56am

re: #343 lawhawk

Hicks is on the stand, under oath, and her lawyer is paid out of her pocket.

This is bad news for Trump.

Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:45:28am

re: #386 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

If the “Real Men Wear Diapers” thing is to be believed, he’s already had at least one courtroom outburst.

And I found a song for it!

NSFW

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 9:45:59am

re: #383 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

That photo makes me wonder if Reaper drones can deploy barrels of shit.

A Shitfire missile

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Ace Rothstein May 3, 2024 • 9:46:21am

re: #364 Joe Bacon ✅

Little Orphan Andy heads to his fainting couch!

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I’m gonna take a wild guess and assume that Anderson thought the urinal was the auto flush kind, just like every other urinal on planet earth.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 9:46:32am

re: #389 Scottish Dragon

France today saying possible they will send troops to Ukraine in event of a Russian breakthrough.

Poland is the one to really watch IMHO. There is real hatred there and they are most at risk.

That’s pretty big, if true. Not that Ukraine isn’t already an ally of ours, but if France gets directly involved, our involvement would go to 11. Only the most hardcore MAGAt Republicans (the ones who call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”) would refuse aid to such a distinguished partner on the global stage.

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mmmirele May 3, 2024 • 9:46:42am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is just a prelude to a National Abortion Ban under which all women of childbearing age will be subject to medical examination upon leaving or re-entering the country.

Yeah, that will work just fine. I could see a late 30s, early 40s Texas woman who carries a pink pistol in her purse pulling it out and shooting any person who suggests that she needs a medical examination to ensure she’s not pregnant. Or a Texas mom of the same age doing the same thing when it’s her teenage daughter threatened with a medical exam.

They may not be Democrats (probably aren’t) but some women are just not going to put up with this shit.

(For the record, my mother was in her 30s the entire time I was in my teens in Texas.)

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Vicious Babushka May 3, 2024 • 9:46:59am

Mastodon

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steve_davis May 3, 2024 • 9:48:29am

carpenter bee living in the rail of my balcony. I only know because I thought he was just a standard bumble bee but then he flew over to the railing and disappeared inside a suspiciously perfect round hole. He’s a carpenter bee who does really excellent work. And doesn’t seem to be particular aggressive. I’ve had to shoe him out of the apartment a couple of times, not because I was nervous around him, but because it’s like having a weedeater crank up a couple of feet away, and I’m working in here.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 9:48:33am

re: #270 (((Archangel1)))

GOP: “We need to put an end to this 19th century abortion law fiasco so it doesn’t kill us in the election.”
Also the GOP: Does this.

as has been stated elsewhere, the repeal is a big deal but not enough.

the repeal puts the 15 week ban in place
a majority of arizona is against the 15 week limit

plus the repeal made it through with no votes to spare.
if the R’s were to gain seats and the governorship…they’d reverse in a ‘heartbeat’

arizona has to vote for the ballot measure and make this permanent!

and they will

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 9:50:59am

NEWS: A former government employee linked to the intelligence community has been charged for falsely accusing 7 colleagues of participating in the Jan. 6 attack and sharing classified info with insurrectionists.https://t.co/rqKK1oE85l pic.twitter.com/bHUBqK9u1e

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 3, 2024

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 9:51:48am

re: #389 Scottish Dragon

France today saying possible they will send troops to Ukraine in event of a Russian breakthrough.

Poland is the one to really watch IMHO. There is real hatred there and they are most at risk.

The dispute between France in Russia is also related to events in Africa, where Russia, through the Wagner Group, is encroaching on their economic sphere of interest: namely 12 former colonies—Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, and Republic of the Congo—plus Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 9:51:48am

re: #275 No Malarkey!

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“Fathers of aborted fetuses can sue for wrongful death in states with abortion bans,

Davis — who claims in the petition to have helped conceive what he calls his “unborn child”…

1. not a fetus
2. not a child

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(((Archangel1))) May 3, 2024 • 9:52:26am

re: #398 Dangerman

My original line was gonna say “not because we actually oppose it but so it doesn’t kill us in the election”.
Figured the “not because we actually oppose it” part would be unnecessarily obvious.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 9:52:55am

re: #279 No Malarkey!

Whoo-hoo! Thanks to everyone for getting me over 199k Karma! 200,000 is now in sight, after posting for over 14 years!

i’m waiting for a service of snacks Philly would be proud of

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William Lewis May 3, 2024 • 9:53:37am

the most MAGICAL moment that ever happened in a train station..

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BeenHereAwhile May 3, 2024 • 9:53:41am

re: #339 goddamnedfrank

BF Borgers, the auditor for former president Donald Trump’s media company, was charged with “massive fraud” Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the firm of being a “sham audit mill” whose failures put investors at risk.

ETTD

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 9:54:33am

Realize what Texas allows now!

You don’t even need to need an abortion. It’s enough for the guy to all ALLEGE you had an abortion, and then he’ll get to depose you, your friends, go through your bank account, harass your family, hell, even harass your employer, to make you and other women essentially unemployable. The only thing potentially putting breaks on this is that someone will need to pay the lawyers to do all this. But there are plenty of rich misogynists willing to fund this. And the Texas statute explicitly removes any remedy for frivolous or vexatious litigation.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 9:55:57am

re: #406 Joe Bacon ✅

I wonder if we can get these lawsuits classified under Texas’s (ironically) first-class anti-SLAPP.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 3, 2024 • 10:03:39am

re: #405 BeenHereAwhile

ETTD

they were most certainly already corrupt, but that is what drew them together

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 10:06:10am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

I need Trump to have a courtroom outburst. At least once.

When he hears the verdict: “Guilty!”

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Charmingly Persistent May 3, 2024 • 10:06:52am

re: #407 Nerdy Fish

I wonder if we can get these lawsuits classified under Texas’s (ironically) first-class anti-SLAPP.

Those are for defamation cases

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 10:08:31am

re: #407 Nerdy Fish

I wonder if we can get these lawsuits classified under Texas’s (ironically) first-class anti-SLAPP.

Anti-SLAPP laws only apply to First Amendment related activity, so I very much doubt it.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 10:09:04am

re: #410 Charmingly Persistent

re: #411 goddamnedfrank

It’s too bad, because it amounts to the same thing, just for medical care instead of speech.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 10:14:17am

re: #406 Joe Bacon ✅

Realize what Texas allows now!

You don’t even need to need an abortion. It’s enough for the guy to all ALLEGE you had an abortion, and then he’ll get to depose you, your friends, go through your bank account, harass your family, hell, even harass your employer, to make you and other women essentially unemployable. The only thing potentially putting breaks on this is that someone will need to pay the lawyers to do all this. But there are plenty of rich misogynists willing to fund this. And the Texas statute explicitly removes any remedy for frivolous or vexatious litigation.

The primary purpose of the lawsuit is intimidation, of both women considering abortion, and also an attempt to bully out-of-state abortion providers into refusing to serve Texas residents.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 3, 2024 • 10:16:19am

re: #413 No Malarkey!

The primary purpose of the lawsuit is intimidation, of both women considering abortion, and also an attempt to bully out-of-state abortion providers into refusing to serve Texas residents.

This. These people will not stop until no woman can get a legal abortion anywhere in the country.

And even then, they’d probably find a way to keep going.

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 10:17:18am

re: #414 Eclectic Cyborg

This. These people will not stop until no woman can get a legal abortion anywhere in the country.

FTFA - because they’d criminalize seeking abortions overseas too.

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Semper Fi May 3, 2024 • 10:17:24am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

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Did he hoc his wedding ring? 😂

That goes on the “Media Should Ask” list.

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BeenHereAwhile May 3, 2024 • 10:18:16am

re: #354 Scottish Dragon

Some of the plant based burgers are really good imho, and I’m still pissed the Burger King dropped the turkey burger.

My wife tested positive for Alpha Gal so we’re looking at & trying vegetable protein substitutes.

(Ya know, in addition to chicken, turkey, fish & seafood)

Realizing we have to tone down the desire for the “red meat” fix - What’s a good vegetable based burger & sausage substitute?

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Eclectic Cyborg May 3, 2024 • 10:18:21am

SEC has charged the auditing firm for Trump Media with massive fraud. Gives them a permanent suspension and big fine. https://t.co/h3alapqZD3

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 3, 2024

The man is just a relentless fraud machine.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 10:18:24am

re: #396 Vicious Babushka

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There are always opportunists

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 10:19:49am

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teleskiguy May 3, 2024 • 10:20:24am

re: #166 Shropshire Slasher

Only a real fucken asshole would proudly proclaim themselves the “resident troll” of a message board. I hope to never meet you IRL.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 10:20:59am

re: #414 Eclectic Cyborg

This. These people will not stop until no woman can get a legal abortion anywhere in the country.

And even then, they’d probably find a way to keep going.

Next target is banning most contraceptives

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KingKenrod May 3, 2024 • 10:21:22am

re: #339 goddamnedfrank

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So both DWAC’s auditor (Marcum) and Trump Media’s auditor (BF Borgers) were under investigation by the SEC when Trump’s IPO got approved. And Marcum was fined $10 million BEFORE the IPO was approved.

Real nice job protecting investors, SEC.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 10:22:21am

re: #405 BeenHereAwhile

ETTD

I think this is different
They were selected because

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 10:23:57am

re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg

He seeks out fraudsters and con men to further his own cons. Because he needs people who have a certain moral/ethical flexibility to do whatever he wants.

That’s what makes him so dangerous. He empowers the corrupt and criminal and enables their debased criminality.

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Unabogie May 3, 2024 • 10:37:15am

re: #396 Vicious Babushka

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Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter May 3, 2024 • 10:45:16am

re: #165 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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William Lewis May 3, 2024 • 10:47:41am

re: #426 Unabogie

This.

I have largely stayed out of this discussion because I don’t know how to express my feelings with sufficient nuance - my disgust for both the Netenyahu and Hamas organizations and my pain for what all the people of the region are suffering because of them.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 10:47:49am

Aaaand Xitter killed block. If I hadn’t already been gone because Nazis, I would’ve been gone over this. Any social media that does not have a way to permanently remove someone from your sphere of influence is not a social media that’s worth using.

LOL Twitter is making it so when you block someone they still see your posts, and can reply, and you can see their replies.

— Estarianne (@estarianne.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T16:20:27.131Z

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 10:50:12am

re: #256 (((Archangel1)))

Now where are all those “experts” who claimed that putting the Tangerine Traitor on trial would rally his followers….

CNN: Truth Social keeps shrinking despite the Trump trial and looming election

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There are more investors than users

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 10:50:56am

re: #429 Nerdy Fish

We knew Musk would kill twitter and everything good associated with it. That is why most of us are on Mastodon and Bluesky.

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 10:51:31am

re: #428 William Lewis

This.

I have largely stayed out of this discussion because I don’t know how to express my feelings with sufficient nuance - my disgust for both the Netenyahu and Hamas organizations and my pain for what all the people of the region are suffering because of them.

It is a very complicated, very not-black-and-white issue

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Hecuba's daughter May 3, 2024 • 10:54:50am

re: #169 Shropshire Slasher

Minority Speaker Jeffries had help, he went fishing in the stupid pond and caught MTG.

apnews.com

Of course, there are so many in the modern GOP who swim in the stupid pond. And too many of those who don’t are leaving because they are overwhelmed by the majority. It is amazing that Johnson, who was a crucial member of the stupid caucus, appears to have risen above his past and may finally (occasionally) be trying to do what’s right for our nation.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 3, 2024 • 10:56:57am

re: #421 teleskiguy

Only a real fucken asshole would proudly proclaim themselves the “resident troll” of a message board. I hope to never meet you IRL.

Are you sure he’s not referring to something you said? You have a history of being an asshole to that user.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 10:58:31am

re: #432 Dangerman

It is a very complicated, very not-black-and-white issue

Starting to be a black-and-black issue.

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A Cranky One May 3, 2024 • 10:59:00am

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Dangerman May 3, 2024 • 11:01:34am

Trump admits he lied yesterday. https://t.co/ynSkI5uhxu

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 3, 2024

This is the way a child talks

” it stops me from talking about people and responding when they say things about me..”

Think of all the high power public figure adults who get trashed daily and never respond to any of it.
Their reputations seem fine.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 3, 2024 • 11:01:44am

re: #431 PhillyPretzel ✅

The question I still have about all this is: was it intentionally ruined?

I deeply believe in the dictum: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

But also: Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

So I have no idea. Does Musk genuinely intend to make Twitter into a 4chan clone, or is he just an absolute idiot, stumbling from one terrible idea to the next in a ketamine fog?

I realize both can be true in equal or varying degrees, but I’m really curious.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 3, 2024 • 11:04:23am

re: #438 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I really don’t know. I was never much of a twitter user so I really can’t answer that.

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 11:07:31am

TFW you’re definitely on the right side of history:

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 11:07:41am

re: #432 Dangerman

It is a very complicated, very not-black-and-white issue

It is, yet I think I can say that Hamas is utterly and insanely evil, and that the IDF shooting two children in the back yesterday (age 14 and 8) in the West Bank because the soldiers were basically bored is also some really evil shit (as well as deliberate targeting of academics, journalists and their extended families with precision munitions), and the settler movement being described as the local version of the KKK seems apt, the Palestinian Authority is hapless and corrupt AND that is also by design from Netanyahu as a measure of control. Oh and Hezbollah are genocidal nuts too. Fuck Iran for good measure.

The persistent invocation of Amalekites as Palestinians fucking terrifies me, because this is genocidal imagery and reinforces my own perception as an outsider that this has become a bronze age blood feud to the death with 21st century weapons.

And in that event, why are we arming anybody involved? It’s a horror show. It’s bloodlust insanity and we can’t reason with either party (unless Hamas leadership is out of the picture, or Netanyahu and his batshit insane ministers are voted out)

I want nothing to do with any of it at this point.

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jaunte May 3, 2024 • 11:08:51am

re: #440 goddamnedfrank

It’s her duty to slay them? Sounds like someone who’s jealous of all that good publicity Noem is getting.

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sizzzzlerz May 3, 2024 • 11:10:48am

re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg

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The man is just a relentless fraud machine.

He’s the grift that keeps on grifting

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 3, 2024 • 11:11:14am

re: #437 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

This is the way a child talks

” it stops me from talking about people and responding when they say things about me..”

Think of all the high power public figure adults who get trashed daily and never respond to any of it.
Their reputations seem fine.

It tries to stop him from committing a particular crime. He’s so insane that he thinks the courts are below him.

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Hecuba's daughter May 3, 2024 • 11:13:07am

re: #189 Nerdy Fish

I love also the play to his cult base, referring to his “beautiful blue eyes,” clearly hoping the people who are enamored with him as a messiah-like figure will latch on to the mental image and sweep aside the idea that he’s a fat old man who can’t stay awake in a criminal courtroom (probably because of undiagnosed sleep apnea, if he’s as heavyset as we all think he is).

I am the same age as Trump and have long taken the opportunity to nap during the day; when in my 30’s, I was infamous for napping during the first act of operas, at least until they finally had supertitles so it was possible to know what has happening. But when old, you don’t need special health issues to nap — just being bored and insufficiently caffeinated helps.

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jaunte May 3, 2024 • 11:20:21am

Cyber Stuck: First Tesla Cybertruck On Nantucket Has A Rough Day

Don’t drive on the fookin beach.

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DodgerFan1988 May 3, 2024 • 11:21:02am

Donald Trump is full of sh*t and it’s getting everywhere. pic.twitter.com/6SL9EpPBXB

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 3, 2024

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jaunte May 3, 2024 • 11:21:06am

Maybe Musk is funded by Big Oil to actually slow down development of electric vehicles.

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Targetpractice May 3, 2024 • 11:23:07am

re: #437 Dangerman

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This is the way a child talks

” it stops me from talking about people and responding when they say things about me..”

Think of all the high power public figure adults who get trashed daily and never respond to any of it.
Their reputations seem fine.

It’s his ego talking. “How DARE that judge tell me what I can and can’t say?! DOESN’T HE KNOW WHO I AM?!!” This is a man who is used to using his money and power (perceived and real) to intimidate others into doing his bidding. To have someone else tell him to STFU or else he’ll face penalties goes against everything that his father taught him about what his wealth afforded him.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 11:24:02am

re: #446 jaunte

Cyber Stuck: First Tesla Cybertruck On Nantucket Has A Rough Day

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Don’t drive on the fookin beach.

I don’t know who thought this was a good idea, but a Cybertruck is a fucking heavy beast, and those tires are not up to the task of distributing that heavy load in such a way as to let it drive in sand.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 11:24:27am

re: #446 jaunte

Cyber Stuck: First Tesla Cybertruck On Nantucket Has A Rough Day

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Don’t drive on the fookin beach.

We found the scuzbucket from Nantucket

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Targetpractice May 3, 2024 • 11:24:46am

re: #446 jaunte

Cyber Stuck: First Tesla Cybertruck On Nantucket Has A Rough Day

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Don’t drive on the fookin beach.

A truck that can’t cross basic obstacles, can’t carry a decent load of cargo, is easily tarnished, and yet can’t be washed without first engaging a special mode lest it be irreparably damaged.

Oh yeah, Elmo definitely ticked all the boxes for what an American consumer imagines when they think of a pick-up truck./////

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jaunte May 3, 2024 • 11:25:20am

re: #450 Nerdy Fish

Even when it’s physically possible, I think of it like golfers think of someone who drives on the green.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 3, 2024 • 11:26:25am

re: #446 jaunte

J Jonah Jameson Laugh - Spiderman

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 11:27:44am

re: #453 jaunte

Even when it’s physically possible, I think of it like golfers think of someone who drives on the green.

It was a responsible environmental impulse. It’s trying to become an artificial reef.

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Nerdy Fish May 3, 2024 • 11:28:23am

re: #453 jaunte

Even when it’s physically possible, I think of it like golfers think of someone who drives on the green.

In general, driving on sand is like driving on, well, thin ice. You’ll be fine, until you aren’t. Sand is such a sketchy composition to drive on, depending on the time of day, the phase of the moon (no, literally; the tide can affect the water level and thus the solidity of the sand), the weather, etc. I’m leery of driving in sand, even in a much lighter vehicle that should theoretically have fewer problems.

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 11:29:38am

re: #446 jaunte

Cyber Stuck: First Tesla Cybertruck On Nantucket Has A Rough Day

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Don’t drive on the fookin beach.

My friends and I got my old ‘71 Westfalia camper van stuck on a free beach up in Mendocino County once and the weird hippy leftovers living there were easily able to help us push it free because it didn’t weigh over three goddamned tons.

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No Malarkey! May 3, 2024 • 11:30:25am

Trump has a tantrum on Truth Social during the break.

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 11:31:53am

re: #452 Targetpractice

A truck that can’t cross basic obstacles, can’t carry a decent load of cargo, is easily tarnished, and yet can’t be washed without first engaging a special mode lest it be irreparably damaged.

Oh yeah, Elmo definitely ticked all the boxes for what an American consumer imagines when they think of a pick-up truck./////

Oh, look, here’s a practical pickup truck - and it can even go offroad, too!

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 11:33:39am

re: #458 No Malarkey!

Trump has a tantrum on Truth Social during the break.

He’s freaking out. It must be going badly for him.

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KingKenrod May 3, 2024 • 11:33:39am

Cybertruck is being marketed as a “go anywhere” work/rec truck, their own marketing says:

DURABLE AND RUGGED ENOUGH TO GO ANYWHERE. TACKLE ANYTHING WITH ELECTRONICALLY ADAPTIVE AIR SUSPENSION THAT OFFERS 12” OF TRAVEL AND 16” OF CLEARANCE.

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Decatur Deb May 3, 2024 • 11:34:21am

re: #459 Dr Lizardo

Oh, look, here’s a practical pickup truck - and it can even go offroad, too!

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Only a matter of time until we see photos of a ‘73 LandRover extracting one of the Teslas.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 11:35:31am

re: #458 No Malarkey!

Trump has a tantrum on Truth Social during the break.

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OK Grandpa, let’s get your 2 scoops of vanilla and get you settled down. Do you need to some help to the bathroom? Are you sure? I think your Depends needs a change. Let’s get you cleaned up and how about that ice cream? There you go.

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Targetpractice May 3, 2024 • 11:37:11am

re: #459 Dr Lizardo

Oh, look, here’s a practical pickup truck - and it can even go offroad, too!

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Yeah, the image brought to mind Jeremy Clarkson spending most of an episode of Top Gear trying (and failing) to kill an 80s-era Toyota Hilux. Including taking it seaside and chaining it up to be submerged by the incoming tide, losing it for hours after the chains broke and the ocean claimed it for a bit, then being absolutely amazed as a few mechanics got it running again with only the contents of an ordinary toolbox.

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Eventual Carrion May 3, 2024 • 11:37:49am

re: #446 jaunte

Cyber Stuck: First Tesla Cybertruck On Nantucket Has A Rough Day

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Don’t drive on the fookin beach.

I’m sure that voids its warranty also.

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 11:38:06am

re: #462 Decatur Deb

Only a matter of time until we see photos of a ‘73 LandRover extracting one of the Teslas.

LOL.

Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40, FTW!!

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 11:38:33am

Gonna have to say, that’s a “yes” from me, dog.

— Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T03:38:46.676Z

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Dr Lizardo May 3, 2024 • 11:39:05am

re: #464 Targetpractice

Yeah, the image brought to mind Jeremy Clarkson spending most of an episode of Top Gear trying (and failing) to kill an 80s-era Toyota Hilux. Including taking it seaside and chaining it up to be submerged by the incoming tide, losing it for hours after the chains broke and the ocean claimed it for a bit, then being absolutely amazed as a few mechanics got it running again with only the contents of an ordinary toolbox.

My dad had an ‘84 Hilux 4x4. Yeah, those things were damn near indestructible. Great vehicles.

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Scottish Dragon May 3, 2024 • 11:39:52am

re: #464 Targetpractice

Yeah, the image brought to mind Jeremy Clarkson spending most of an episode of Top Gear trying (and failing) to kill an 80s-era Toyota Hilux. Including taking it seaside and chaining it up to be submerged by the incoming tide, losing it for hours after the chains broke and the ocean claimed it for a bit, then being absolutely amazed as a few mechanics got it running again with only the contents of an ordinary toolbox.

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Targetpractice May 3, 2024 • 11:40:08am

re: #465 Eventual Carrion

I’m sure that voids its warranty also.

I suspect anything other than parking the damned thing on a plinth in a hermetically-sealed showroom and lovingly pampering it for several hours every day voids the warranty.

But considering the company’s current trajectory, that warranty probably won’t be much good for much longer.

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goddamnedfrank May 3, 2024 • 11:41:35am

There’s a lot going on in this bullshit, but I think the single funniest thing is trying to draw attention to a book titled “Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction” as though it’s a how-to guide rather than a short scholarly work published by Oxford Press.

— Buttadeus (@thewanderingjew.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T18:33:31.366Z

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lawhawk May 3, 2024 • 11:43:17am

re: #461 KingKenrod

It’s no Toyota Hilux. That’s for sure.

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EPR-radar May 3, 2024 • 11:43:44am

re: #438 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

The question I still have about all this is: was it intentionally ruined?

I deeply believe in the dictum: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

But also: Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

So I have no idea. Does Musk genuinely intend to make Twitter into a 4chan clone, or is he just an absolute idiot, stumbling from one terrible idea to the next in a ketamine fog?

I realize both can be true in equal or varying degrees, but I’m really curious.

It’s malice because stupidity would be more random. Instead, everything Musk does consistently enables Nazis.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 3, 2024 • 11:45:33am

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) will not speak as planned in Golden, Colorado this week after the national outrage over her killing of a puppy created “safety concerns,” KUSA reports.

politicalwire.com

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Belafon May 3, 2024 • 11:45:55am

re: #464 Targetpractice

Yeah, the image brought to mind Jeremy Clarkson spending most of an episode of Top Gear trying (and failing) to kill an 80s-era Toyota Hilux. Including taking it seaside and chaining it up to be submerged by the incoming tide, losing it for hours after the chains broke and the ocean claimed it for a bit, then being absolutely amazed as a few mechanics got it running again with only the contents of an ordinary toolbox.

Which reminds me of when he used a Ford Fiesta as part of an amphibious assault exercise.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 3, 2024 • 11:51:52am

re: #463 Scottish Dragon

OK Grandpa, let’s get your 2 scoops of vanilla and get you settled down. Do you need to some help to the bathroom? Are you sure? I think your Depends needs a change. Let’s get you cleaned up and how about that ice cream? There you go.

If no one else would hire me, and I hadn’t been able to afford to eat that day, you still couldn’t pay me enough to do that job for Donny.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 3, 2024 • 12:04:37pm

re: #397 steve_davis

carpenter bee living in the rail of my balcony. I only know because I thought he was just a standard bumble bee but then he flew over to the railing and disappeared inside a suspiciously perfect round hole. He’s a carpenter bee who does really excellent work. And doesn’t seem to be particular aggressive. I’ve had to shoe him out of the apartment a couple of times, not because I was nervous around him, but because it’s like having a weedeater crank up a couple of feet away, and I’m working in here.

That exact same thing happened to me two days ago. Damn carpenter bee sounded like a gas powered Weed Wacker. Either he found his way out or died. He was so big that if he died I’m going to stay smelling dead body decay here shortly.

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sizzzzlerz May 3, 2024 • 12:17:09pm

re: #460 Dr Lizardo

He’s freaking out. It must be going badly for him.

He was having those crucifixion nails hammered in a little tighter.

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sizzzzlerz May 3, 2024 • 12:19:48pm

re: #474 Joe Bacon ✅

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) will not speak as planned in Golden, Colorado this week after the national outrage over her killing of a puppy created “safety concerns,” KUSA reports.

politicalwire.com

It probably wasn’t a keen idea to sign her up to speak at the ASPCA national conference.

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