Seth takes a closer look at one of the big political questions looming after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter: will Donald Trump get his account back?
“Tweet” was bad enough, but I refuse to call them “toots.” That’s a bridge too stupid for me.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
Every accusation a confession, part eleventy million and one. https://t.co/ARWIgp88d2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
The right is making a huge deal out of liberals being unhappy about the Musk takeover.
But much more revealing is the gloating and celebrating on the right, where they clearly expect Musk to give them free reign to harass their enemies and spew hatred and racism.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
OK I took the big step and broke out the iHealth COVID-19 Self-Test At Home Results In 15 Mins.
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I’d like to thank Ben Shapiro for stating the right wing’s totalitarian agenda so clearly.
This is what they’re calling “free speech.” https://t.co/CERv1HH6P4— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
“Guys, it’s not that hard, both sides, same thing, both sides, same thing!”
— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) April 28, 2022
Republican state lawmakers are berating financial institutions for increased reliance on environmental, social and governance metrics to screen investments and analyze credit risk factors, with some of the critics attracting support in Congress. https://t.co/Bk8GALPzAQ
— Roll Call (@rollcall) April 28, 2022
Soon it will be a crime to give a woke credit risk assessment to Republican ventures.
Woa! A 46-year-old whistleblower who turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank — which provided insight into the bank’s relationship with Donald Trump — has been found dead in Los Angeles.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) April 28, 2022
re: #6 Citizen K
As a fat quarter of the passengers are threatening to capsize the lifeboat, it’s natural the others would try to return things to an even keel.
re: #8 darthstar
With a long history of drug problems, whose friends say it’s not a surprise.
re: #10 Punish Domestic Terrorists
With a long history of drug problems, whose friends say it’s not a surprise.
Don’t take the fun out of it.
re: #9 jaunte
As a fat quarter of the passengers are threatening to capsize the lifeboat, it’s natural the others would try to return things to an even keel.
The problem comes when those threatening to capsize the boat are accusing the ones trying to right the ship of really being the ones to capsize it. Especially when the new captain decides he sides with the former. This was apparently what Nate was responding to:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
“Well bitches I’m back on Twitter,” Stone bragged on Telegram early Thursday morning. “I’m anxious to see how strong Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech is.”
Then he was banned within minutes—again.https://t.co/L9xe6oFhpX— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 28, 2022
re: #13 Dread Pirate Ron
Do these dumb fucks not realize that ELON DOESN’T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY SAY ABOUT ANYTHING YET?!?!?
This is the future liberals want. https://t.co/m8xDUBNaRD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
They don’t mention that she’s a full of shit faux-persecuted Conservative until the end, but I could tell earlier, when she refused to take any responsibility for her own epic incompetence.
BREAKING NEWS: The owner of the Las Vegas Raiders drops bombshell, announces that they will “welcome” Colin Kaepernick to join the Raiders “with open arms — & declares that Kaepernick “deserves the chance” because he “sacrificed” for an “important” cause. RT TO THANK THE RAIDERS!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) April 28, 2022
Is Kaepernick still in shape? Is he still capable?
re: #17 darthstar
I’ll believe it when he has a signed contract in his hand and is actually allowed to play.
There is no “new management” yet, you dope. https://t.co/6GugRBHmb5
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
Teen creates bag that doubles as body armor (9-news)
I have an idea for armored encounter suits to deal with the violence problem.
re: #21 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Weirdly, they’ve historically had the same problem with stairs that Trump has.
re: #18 sagehen
Is Kaepernick still in shape? Is he still capable?
He’s currently 34, so I’d say he is capable. Not sure what kind of shape he is in but last I heard he was keeping himself in pretty good condition despite not being on the field anymore.
re: #21 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Teen creates bag that doubles as body armor (9-news)
I have an idea for armored encounter suits to deal with the violence problem.
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The bleak part of me read that headline as ‘Teen creates bag that doubles as body bag’.
There is evil in this world and it is behind privacy tags because it is very disturbing and sickens me.
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re: #24 Citizen K
Meanwhile, I’m feeling incredibly sad an angry to live in a place where there is a not small market for a product like that.
re: #25 Shropshire Slasher
There is evil in this world and it is behind privacy tags because it is very disturbing and sickens me.
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Dear god that’s awful. His father created that monster - he should be sentenced alongside him.
re: #25 Shropshire Slasher
I don’t want to get banned so I’ll just say: Fuck that guy AND his asshole son.
Monumental Installations by Henrique Oliveira Explore the Eerie Nature of Architecture
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re: #8 darthstar
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Scott Stedman, an independent journalist whose credibility I don’t know, said that the guy was his friend and had a long history with drug abuse including recently. He warned against jumping to any conclusions.
“Woa! A 46-year-old whistleblower who turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank — which provided insight into the bank’s relationship with Donald Trump — has been found dead in Los Angeles.”
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Shapiro’s “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” = my assertions of Republican Party Political Officers being required on major corporate boards starting in 2025.
Here we go already. They are broadcasting their intent of rapidly changing us into a radical dictatorship. The far right dropped the whole “Democracy” thing already in favor of “Constitutional Republic” rhetoric. Once they gain absolute power watch as they drop the whole “Constitutional” part altogether.
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Meanwhile, I’m feeling incredibly sad an angry to live in a place where there is a not small market for a product like that.
I was at that point when ‘Bulletproof Bookbags’ was a thing seriously marketed and treated as a possible necessity.
re: #30 Barefoot Grin
Scott Stedman, an independent journalist whose credibility I don’t know, said that the guy was his friend and had a long history with drug abuse including recently. He warned against jumping to any conclusions.
“Woa! A 46-year-old whistleblower who turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank — which provided insight into the bank’s relationship with Donald Trump — has been found dead in Los Angeles.”
A 46-year-old with a long history of drug abuse has died (if that is indeed the case)? Well, that’s not all that shocking, regardless of whether or not he was a Deutsch Bank whistleblower.
Then again, Keith Richards is still with us, and likely will be until the heat death of the universe some 1.7×10106 years from now.
.@USMC M777 towed 155 mm howitzers bound for Ukraine are loaded onto a @USAirForce C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at @March_ARB. pic.twitter.com/l4mNCiFnc5
— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) April 27, 2022
Back in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano who was finally noticed giving Q another insane voice has another issue. He endorsed Teddy Daniels as Lt Governor.
Whoops.
This Teddy Daniels?
A GOP candidate for lieutenant governor was barred from his home after his wife accused him of abuse
I see no problem. He IS the GOP.
re: #6 Citizen K
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Now THIS drives me nuts. Democrats and “the Left” have only moved left in any real fashion in the context of the hard right taken by the GOP. It is some mixture of insane, disingenuous, and/or bullshit to suggest otherwise.
I mean if you are going to straight face argue that going back to a top marginal tax bracket of 37% or whatever is moving hard left, you can fuck aaaaaaalllllll the way off.
re: #36 Mike Lamb
Now THIS drives me nuts. Democrats and “the Left” have only moved left in any real fashion in the context of the hard right taken by the GOP. It is some mixture of insane, disingenuous, and/or bullshit to suggest otherwise.
He’s comparing leftist randos online with no power at all to our fascists in government problem.
re: #37 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He’s comparing leftist randos online with no power at all to our fascists in government problem.
To Elon evidently, they’re not really fascists when they don’t seem to pose any immediate problem to you personally because you happen to fall under the white male identity umbrella.
Nate Silver is a dude who got one thing right, and ever since he’s been an egotistical jackass with amazingly shitty opinions about everything.
Not Nate Smith, Nate Silver, who can’t play drums at all.
re: #39 Charles Johnson
Yep, and it’s sincerely bothered me because he did truly groundbreaking work on his statistical analysis stuff for politics and sportsball, but then he took a hard right turn at Albuquerque and it’s made me sad.
When you pull out dental records to claim that your son’s tooth was extracted because of rough playing, and not child abuse as alleged by your ex-wife, your Sen campaign isn’t going well. Having done hundreds of these cases, people often don’t give medical providers all the facts pic.twitter.com/H3rZXzhSJU
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 28, 2022
Billboards in Kevin McCarthy’s home district: https://t.co/9Z4P5x9WHW
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 28, 2022
re: #12 Citizen K
The problem comes when those threatening to capsize the boat are accusing the ones trying to right the ship of really being the ones to capsize it. Especially when the new captain decides he sides with the former. This was apparently what Nate was responding to:
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The idea that Musk is now center right because the left has moved the center so far is fucking nuts. Look at the regressive nature of every GOP social and economic policy that is actually being passed at the state level (or getting legislated from SCOTUS). What is the liberal analog to a ban on abortion or book banning that is actually getting passed? That the state will recognize someone’s preferred gender identity? Give me a fucking break. The DNC/Left has to scrape tooth and nail to get anything mildly center-left signed into law.
If the far left had anything approaching the influence on the DNC as the far right (which isn’t “far right” anymore—it’s just the bog standard Republican), Musk (and others) might have a point. But they don’t, and it’s a total non-starter to argue otherwise.
re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg
Never thought I’d see a banner headline of “Kid Just Fell Down Some Stairs” but here we are.
re: #45 Mike Lamb
I would classify Musk as a Moonbat with wingnut tendencies.
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s currently 34, so I’d say he is capable. Not sure what kind of shape he is in but last I heard he was keeping himself in pretty good condition despite not being on the field anymore.
Colin Kaepernick throws for NFL scouts at Michigan spring game: ‘I can still play, still throw it’
Kaepernick told Trotman on the field that he would be willing to do sit-down interviews and a workout if an NFL team is willing to have him. He was hoping this workout would show some scouts that he has stayed in shape and can still play.
Burning a hole in my pocket by Nick Carraway (who needs to learn the rules for “your”)
juanitajean.com
… The ultimate question is whether they should exist in the first place. Someone somewhere along the line (likely on Twitter) came up with the best suggestion I’ve heard so far. Once someone gets to 999,999, 999.99 they should get a trophy saying they had won capitalism and they get nothing else. The rest goes into the public coffers and distributed somehow equitably. Maybe it could retire down the debt. Maybe we could end homelessness. Maybe we could make sure everyone has a hot meal. Maybe we could make sure that everyone has health care and access to post-secondary education. I suppose that is too much to ask. A simple man can dream simple dreams. The rest can buy platforms with more money than they know what to do with.
re: #45 Mike Lamb
The Overton Window is so far to the right in America, the “radical left” is basically where the center used to be just 30 years ago. It’s ridiculous how extreme they’ve gotten just in the last 15 years or so.
re: #50 Dopamine Fish
The Overton Window is so far to the right in America, the “radical left” is basically where the center used to be just 30 years ago. It’s ridiculous how extreme they’ve gotten just in the last 15 years or so.
All it took was a black man becoming President to send them into overdrive.
re: #50 Dopamine Fish
The Overton Window is so far to the right in America, the “radical left” is basically where the center used to be just 30 years ago. It’s ridiculous how extreme they’ve gotten just in the last 15 years or so.
Well, when you scream that any tax is socialism and that Democrats are never legitimate leaders, while the media only asks Democrats what they will do to “reach across the aisle” it starts to have an impact.
Popehat on his New Mexico and Grand Canyon hiking adventures:
It has been determined I may not survive the entire down and back.
— VeryDangerousFruitHat (@Popehat) April 28, 2022
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Also I am learning anatomy on this trip by texting my trainer pictures of me pointing at things and describing how they hurt and he texts back like “oh that’s the ilotibial band, yeah, try not to fuck that up”
— VeryDangerousFruitHat (@Popehat) April 27, 2022
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s currently 34, so I’d say he is capable. Not sure what kind of shape he is in but last I heard he was keeping himself in pretty good condition despite not being on the field anymore.
Tom Brady is 44. Age for a QB is less relevant than other positions. Brady is in great shape btw, but so is Kap
re: #12 Citizen K
The problem comes when those threatening to capsize the boat are accusing the ones trying to right the ship of really being the ones to capsize it. Especially when the new captain decides he sides with the former. This was apparently what Nate was responding to:
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idiotic simplistic nonsense - he’s too smart to be this stupid.
not how any of it works.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
‘center’ is a fiction, indicative of nothing
political positions are not exactly linear
if you ‘give up’ a blue position, it doesnt move you closer to red, or vice versa
that the poles may have moved, and hence the center also shifted doesnt mean the positions that were blue nearer the middle are now red positions, or that ‘me’ is now in the red camp
where do you put a gay pro choice, pro 2A, fair taxer?
and the answer is not that “there arent enough to matter.”
while a lot of people are single issue voters and a lot of voting is linear-ish - either/or, actual politics and political positions are not at all linear.
holding a position does not force you to hold all one side’s positions, or preclude you from holding some of the other sides.
and movement of the poles or the ‘center’ doesnt mean anyone near the middle “switches sides” against their will or knowledge.
it’s not even an x/y matrix like the political compass
it’s more like three dimensional, inside of a sphere.
re: #54 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Welcome back! Haven’t seen you here in awhile!
Nate: Did I miss it where you addressed a coup attempt?
This man’s analysis was far more incisive when it was called Poblano. https://t.co/zXWAkDbY3S— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 28, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle. What the actual marinading fuck?
Wordle 314 2/6
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⛳️ This honestly looks like a par 2, or a very, very, very short par 3 if we’ve just been particularly lucky here in UTC+12. Samples so far: 2,2,2,3
Update: it’s a par 2. Data: 2,2,2,2,3
re: #55 Dangerman
White people who are gay are just as likely to be racist Trumpsters as other white people; being gay doesn’t protect you from misogyny, racism, authoritarian instincts. Think of Peter Thiel as the most public example. The only difference between Log Cabin Republicans and other Republicans is that they are more likely to support gay marriage, but on every other issue they track with Republicans.
This is absolutely amazing. You have to watch it. In two minutes, all of Ben Shapiro’s ‘anti-woke’ tirades are just destroyed. pic.twitter.com/3MGCfgyQMj
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) April 28, 2022
Hard work
Doo doo doo doo-doo doo
Hard work
Wordle 313 6/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
sea doggo https://t.co/nCKH3MoRra
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
re: #55 Dangerman
idiotic simplistic nonsense - he’s too smart to be this stupid.
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‘center’ is a fiction, indicative of nothing
political positions are not exactly linear
if you ‘give up’ a blue position, it doesnt move you closer to red, or vice versathat the poles may have moved, and hence the center also shifted doesnt mean the positions that were blue nearer the middle are now red positions, or that ‘me’ is now in the red camp
where do you put a gay pro choice, pro 2A, fair taxer?
and the answer is not that “there arent enough to matter.”while a lot of people are single issue voters and a lot of voting is linear-ish - either/or, actual politics and political positions are not at all linear.
holding a position does not force you to hold all one side’s positions, or preclude you from holding some of the other sides.
and movement of the poles or the ‘center’ doesnt mean anyone near the middle “switches sides” against their will or knowledge.it’s not even an x/y matrix like the political compass
it’s more like three dimensional, inside of a sphere.
He’s just trolling.
I’m sure you would, but instead I believe I will block your sorry racist ass. pic.twitter.com/RTfTOiZOSH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
My first oral argument in law school, I had Judge Richard Clifton on the panel. (9th Circuit)
He saw us waiting to go into the courthouse when he was coming over from his chambers, and decided to give us a few words of ‘encouragement’ before we started. They’ve stuck with me:— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 28, 2022
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“I love doing these because it’s such a wonderful opportunity to practice an important skill in a realistic setting without a client with interests on the line.
So, with a little luck, this will be the worst oral argument of your life.”— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 28, 2022
Ben Shapiro’s voice is almost as annoying as TFG. He sounds weirdly like Alvin the Chipmunk.
The breakup fee for @Twitter is only $1 billion. @elonmusk didn’t buy TWTR, but a call option at $44 billion for $1 billion.
I don’t believe he will exercise (close).— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) April 28, 2022
re: #18 sagehen
Is Kaepernick still in shape? Is he still capable?
he’s been willing to work out with any team, so yeah, he’s physically in shape for it.
re: #22 lawhawk
Weirdly, they’ve historically had the same problem with stairs that Trump has.
solved in “The Curse of Fenric.”
re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
Ben Shapiro’s voice is almost as annoying as TFG. He sounds weirdly like Alvin the Chipmunk.
Because of that voice, I’ve suspected that he’s a skinsuit full of bees for a while.
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
White people who are gay are just as likely to be racist Trumpsters as other white people; being gay doesn’t protect you from misogyny, racism, authoritarian instincts. Think of Peter Thiel as the most public example. The only difference between Log Cabin Republicans and other Republicans is that they are more likely to support gay marriage, but on every other issue they track with Republicans.
interesting (and not a shot at you)
but except for the gay, i was referring to someone like me
i couldnt fit anywhere on that ‘line’. neither could most thinking people.
i think it’s important to not be myopically pigeonholed into left / right, black and white thinking. I just cant live on any one dimensional definition of positions.
I can’t be required to hold similarly polarized positions on unrelated issues - ie say on climate change and guns
I believe each issue on its merits and sometimes cherry picking good points out of otherwise extreme or bad arguments. guns yes, automatic weapons, not so much.
i can all at the same time be:
strong pro choice, it’s no one’s business
strong believer in the social contract / everyone should pay reasonable taxes
rights for all, not just some, hence marriage for anyone, equal justice
strong believer in the 2A. ALL of the 2A; because it’s there. Including the personal responsibility part. (and i don’t own any guns).
would like to see a smaller national debt
would like to see lots of immigration, as long as it’s through a system built and financed to approve lots and lots of applicants
and still be unsure about pineapple on pizza
re: #71 steve_davis
solved in “The Curse of Fenric.”
Sophie Aldred is one of my Facebook friends, and let me stay at her place in London for a couple of weeks with a friend decades ago, but I still prefer to believe that the Sylvester McCoy episodes never happened.
Nothing to see here…
Just a squirrel playing with a ball in the back yard 🔵🐿😂
tt/trollsmile pic.twitter.com/3PRvc5d9xZ— Jess 🌻 (@jessi_asli) April 27, 2022
Fixed it for him: https://t.co/UdI239BEyL pic.twitter.com/Xq95De0icT
— NJP (@Pappiness) April 28, 2022
Leader of one of the most powerful GOP youth orgs today returns to Twitter to post “Great Replacement Theory”-lite to his 1.7million followers. Not a great political environment we’ve got here in the US where folks like Kirk feels comfortable posting racist psychobabble like this pic.twitter.com/M1eecn1qA1
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) April 28, 2022
NEW from Chair Thompson on upcoming Jan 6 Cmte hearings:
- 8 hearings
- some prime time + some regular
- they’ll “tell the story about what happened”
- combo of witnesses+exhibits
- they’ll “give public benefit of what more than years worth of investigation has gone to the Cmte”— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotnbc) April 28, 2022
NEW: the first January 6 Select Committee hearing will take place on JUNE 9, Chairman Thompson tells @KyleAlexStewart
— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotnbc) April 28, 2022
Nate Silver: But both sides, amirite? https://t.co/z58q5vCSDN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
So I scheduled a colonoscopy. I’m thinking about a temporary tattoo on my ass with a qr code linking to a rickroll video.
Now that Elon Musk has shared his deep thoughts on asymmetric polarization polarization, I’d like to pass along my equally sophisticated design for a new Tesla. pic.twitter.com/PpRs4jgeeg
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 28, 2022
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
I hope they have a tight game plan because the GOP is going to nuke this committee as fast as they can if they take control of the House in January.
A massive investment in subsidies for higher education (not to mention education in general) is one of The Really Big Things America Needs but will never have because of the Republican Party and the military-industrial complex.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 28, 2022
Zelensky on Biden’s request for $33 billion for Ukraine: “This is a very important step by the United States. And I am grateful to the American people and personally to President Biden for it. I hope that the Congress will quickly support this request for help to our state.” pic.twitter.com/8oV6m8lGX1
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) April 28, 2022
I am feeling pretty decent right now! Had a mammogram come back with a problem about three or four weeks ago. A follow-up confirmed the unpleasantness. Had a biopsy on Monday, and just got the call: fibroadenoma (just fibrous tissue!) Whoopeee!
Fixed for accuracy pic.twitter.com/JD9CKH6Lj8
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 28, 2022
re: #79 Charles Johnson
the only “War on White People” I ever notice is the war by Trumpy pickups blowing diesel smoke upon Teslas and other greeny-type cars driven by white people, wearing “Fuck your Feelings” Trump t-shirts, huge TRUMP banners splayed across their houses bringing down property values across the neighborhood, and stores proudly stating all LIBERALS KEEP OUT.
In other words, the only “War on White People” is by other white people.
Repug snowflakes.
Yeah, I worked my butt off to pay back a 7 figure SBC loan, only to see larger and better connected businesses get billions in PPP loans forgiven, usually before they made a single payment. Repugs aren’t livid about that though.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) April 28, 2022
re: #71 steve_davis
solved in “The Curse of Fenric.”
Solved in ” Remembrance of the Daleks.”
The Daleks weren’t even in “The Curse of Fenric.”
re: #16 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Party of personal responsibility. ///
She played a villain, and I guess the role was not totally unrealistic. She and her husband are both accused.
‘Doctor Strange’ actress Zara Phythian accused of sex acts with tween (NY Daily News via MSN)
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re: #91 A Three Hour Tour
Solved in ” Remembrance of the Daleks.”
The Daleks weren’t even in “The Curse of Fenric.”
Again, I’m sure the show was cancelled by then, so this must be a Big Finish production.
re: #31 Florida Panhandler
Shapiro’s “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” = my assertions of Republican Party Political Officers being required on major corporate boards starting in 2025.
Should that happen I will get myself on corporate boards so I can defenestrate such commissars.
re: #82 Amory Blaine
So I scheduled a colonoscopy. I’m thinking about a temporary tattoo on my ass with a qr code linking to a rickroll video.
It’d be kinda cool if you could push a tiny video screen up your bum so that the scope would encounter “Never Gonna Give You Up” en route.
re: #98 A Three Hour Tour
Don’t be silly, Jeff. It’s got to be one of Bill Baggs’s unlicensed videos like the Colin Baker/Nicola Bryant “Stranger” series.
//
I had not thought about those videos in a long time, but I do know what you’re talking about.
re: #93 Punish Domestic Terrorists
She played a villain, and I guess the role was not totally unrealistic. She and her husband are both accused.
‘Doctor Strange’ actress Zara Phythian accused of sex acts with tween (NY Daily News via MSN)
Possibly not unrealistic at all. That or she stays in character all the time. There are hundreds of images of her on the innertubes but she is not smiling in any of the first 50 or so. She may not know how. This is as close as she gets:
re: #99 Barefoot Grin
It’d be kinda cool if you could push a tiny video screen up your bum so that the scope would encounter “Never Gonna Give You Up” en route.
You can. You just have to be highly motivated to do it.
re: #101 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Colin Kaepernick has missed a lot of career, but he’s also missed a lot of NFL wear and tear. He might be ahead on points, physically.
re: #78 BlueSpotinAL
And of course, the immediately first reply is the other end of ‘both sides same thing’, someone acting like Dems and Liberals have raced to the right just as fast just so they can gatekeep. Because again, somehow, everything is the Dems’ fault, and Dems by necessity must be as bad or even worse than the GOP in some way, no matter which end of the spectrum you attack them from.
re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
Ben Shapiro’s voice is almost as annoying as TFG. He sounds weirdly like Alvin the Chipmunk.
I noticed in the video that he wears a black yarmulke. At a bris that I was at (the moehl had a license plate spelled MOEHL) they passed out white yarmulke - and an Islamic co-worker wearied one.
sure, jan
Greene says she doesn’t recall advocating for martial law and she doesn’t recall if those are her text messages pic.twitter.com/LpzoZVXoHJ
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 28, 2022
Pretty sure Laura Ingraham could have afforded to pay off those loans herself any time in the past 35 years. Admitting that she let her mom wait tables into her 70s to pay off that debt isn’t really the flex she thinks it is. https://t.co/PbdqRGd2I9
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) April 28, 2022
Fixed it for him: https://t.co/UdI239BEyL pic.twitter.com/Xq95De0icT
— NJP (@Pappiness) April 28, 2022
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
She’s lying of course, but if she had been telling the truth:
Laura is an abuser who wants to see other people abused. Imagine thinking that her confession of what she did to her mother would make her look good.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 28, 2022
re: #93 Punish Domestic Terrorists
She played a villain, and I guess the role was not totally unrealistic. She and her husband are both accused.
‘Doctor Strange’ actress Zara Phythian accused of sex acts with tween (NY Daily News via MSN)
Marke also stands accused of indecent assault against a different child nearly 20 years ago, the BBC reports. He was married to a different woman at the time. That union allegedly ended when Marke began his relationship with Phythian in 2003, when she, too, was a teenager.
Fucking monsters.
The middle is no place for the democratic party at this time. The fascists are primed to unleash brutality.
“If you want a dog to bark at cars driving by in front of your house, they’d be great at that .. (but) they’re not interested in solving problems.” https://t.co/Fv8BgCaIJl
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 28, 2022
re: #73 Dangerman
I only disagree with the personal responsibility in the 2A. There is nothing in the amendment that mentions personal, or person. I believe this is a misread by the right so that they may arm their 5 th column.
If the authors wanted to say individuals have a right they would have plainly said it like all the other unambiguous first ten amendments.
Republicans are now suggesting that carrying your rapist’s baby to term is an “opportunity” for women.
This is what’s on the ballot on November in every state in the US. https://t.co/tcOnHDQHF4— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) April 28, 2022
*SPIT*
Fear and loathing in the produce section https://t.co/7IscdTsZoN pic.twitter.com/oqmRKkYhnP
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) April 28, 2022
re: #114 Amory Blaine
I only disagree with the personal responsibility in the 2A. There is nothing in the amendment that mentions personal, or person. I believe this is a misread by the right so that they may arm their 5 th column.
re: #115 Amory Blaine
If the authors wanted to say individuals have a right they would have plainly said it like all the other unambiguous first ten amendments.
I think his point is how Dean v. Heller essentially line-item vetoed the part of the 2A that mentioned ‘well-regulated militia’, with ‘well-regulated’ supposed to be in the sense of ‘organized and disciplined’. In other words, folks actually trained in the use of the goddamn things and in the context of being tapped for military work, not owning as many personal fun guns as possible without being expected to know how to actually use the goddamn things without shooting someone negligently.
re: #6 Citizen K
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He’s so desperate:
This is based on DW-Nominate, an algorithm that measures clusters of voting patterns in the U.S. Congress without knowing anything about the content of the legislation. It is an OK measure of *party-line voting in the US Congress* but NOT a very good one of left-right ideology. pic.twitter.com/q507fOaVwl
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 28, 2022
All the fucking whining about student loan forgiveness is pathetic. I’ve paid for public schools for 40 years with no kids. You don’t hear me fucking whining.
I paid off my wife’s loans. Oh no! No one should ever be helped because of that. Spit.
re: #75 Dangerman
sure, do it in three words…
My daughter is abroad in Greece and so she’s getting it 7 hours before I do. She got it in 2.
re: #119 Citizen K
I’m aware of how badly the amendment has been interpreted.
re: #119 Citizen K
And thank you for the input.
re: #121 Amory Blaine
All the fucking whining about student loan forgiveness is pathetic. I’ve paid for public schools for 40 years with no kids. You don’t hear me fucking whining.
It’s the price we pay for civilization. I like not being killed by roving bands of illiterate bandits.
re: #114 Amory Blaine
I only disagree with the personal responsibility in the 2A. There is nothing in the amendment that mentions personal, or person. I believe this is a misread by the right so that they may arm their 5 th column.
You’re right there isn’t anything explicit. And reality says there are 400M guns out there in the US.
Insisting on rights without acknowledging responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s petulant childishness.
Every right comes with some kind of responsibility because no human right is absolute.
Exercising a right must be taken in context with how it impacts other people and their rights.
Meanwhile 2A absolutists behave as if none of them are responsible for what they do with a gun.
my position w/r/t to the 2A has always been clear:
to weed out the reckless, careless, the dangerous, the crazies, the close to the edge, ****and leave everyone else (ie the responsible ones) alone*******
it’s so simple.
Control your weapon at *all* times or lose your freedom, finances and future.
People should be accountable only for their own *demonstrated* irresponsible behavior. Just like we do in virtually every other area of life.
re: #121 Amory Blaine
All the fucking whining about student loan forgiveness is pathetic. I’ve paid for public schools for 40 years with no kids. You don’t hear me fucking whining.
+1
re: #126 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Clearly you don’t live around me!///
re: #97 Dangerman
i’ll deny it
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