Stephen learns about Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who may bring an indictment against the former president. Elsewhere, FIFA’s decision to hold the World Cup in Qatar has proven to be a disaster. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
— Sandy (like a beach) Shriver (@SandyShriver9) November 23, 2022
It’s just a matter of time before the GQPers start labeling this assclown a “librul”:
Adidas Staffers Claim Kanye Played Porn in Meetings, Showed Off Explicit Photos of Kim — And Company Ignored His ‘Toxic’ Behavior https://t.co/PU5yQgFrdQ
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 23, 2022
First the GOP packed the courts with their right wing extremists.
Then they came for overturning Roe.
They then went after gun rights and making it even easier to get guns and harder for states to regulate.
Judge blocks New York limits on carrying guns on private property https://t.co/BhLba6kgyy pic.twitter.com/IB3LG064sA
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 23, 2022
SCOTUS overturned 100+ year old NY gun regulation. This was the state’s latest effort to try and implement gun safety rules in the state.
NY has a per capita gun death rate that is a fraction of what you see in FL or TX or WY.
Gun death rates are highest in lax gun law states, and making it easier to get guns is a motivating factor for the GOP and right wing extremists. They don’t care how many die or how many mass shootings there are.
They care only that gun sales increase, and peddle fear that only GOPers care about gun owners and that more guns will somehow make you safer when every study shows the opposite.
GOP are a death cult in every sense of the term.
And here he goes again, with another stupid internet poll, intending to use it to justify reinstating all the shittiest trolls.
His fans are enjoying this, obviously. pic.twitter.com/L1k64Wzppj— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 23, 2022
Just go ahead and reinstate all the Nazis and trolls, you don’t need to gin up a worthless poll to make it seem more legitimate. We all know you’re going to do it anyway.. https://t.co/tAlhzPaqMK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 23, 2022
re: #4 Charles Johnson
At this point, it really seems like he is purposely trying to destroy twitter.
Instant replies.
Cry little baby.
— mrbobby (@Dudebabybruh) November 23, 2022
Cry about it p*ssy
— Mass Enjoyer (@mass_enjoyer) November 23, 2022
re: #5 Charles Johnson
i dont have an account
the idea that you stick around to be able to push back…
or because you’re in a group that still gets value out of your use of twitter…
nope
time to go
regroup elsewhere - it can be done and imo is worth the temporary inconvenience or confusion
let this devolve into the morass it’s heading towards
when it does, no one else will care
have no part of it.
there is no ‘clean’ corner of a septic tank
re: #8 Charles Johnson
Instant replies.
Sad little fascist incel sez what? 🤣🤣🤣
Run along child, mommy’s calling you upstairs for your Kraft dinner.— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) November 23, 2022
What do y’all think about Discord?
Reminder that @bellingcat has a fun and quickly-growing Discord channel, at https://t.co/i7sSuFdNI5
— Aric Toler (@AricToler) November 18, 2022
re: #3 lawhawk
They only care that non-“straight white Christian males” are intimidated.
re: #13 Nyet
What do y’all think about Discord?
I find it a major pain to use. I tolerate it for online gaming with some friends, but it has no other value for me. No worse than Telegram or Mastodon but no better either for me.
The only social media other than trolling fascists on Twitter is Instagram to follow the celebs I like, and I keep a Facebook account only to use messenger since it’s convenient for my GF.
We will opt out of fancy feasting and go with chicken dumplings for the Thursday dinner. I will make a batch of stovetop dressing and use the dumpling broth for gravy.
re: #13 Nyet
What do y’all think about Discord?
I refuse to get a discord account, and that’s even with potential benefits for my gaming habit (STFC).
Well that was quick!
Georgia high court allows Saturday voting for Senate runoff
Georgia counties will be allowed to hold early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, under a Wednesday ruling from the state Supreme Court.
The court issued a unanimous, one-sentence ruling declining to review or stay a ruling by the state’s intermediate appellate court. Republicans had objected to the Saturday voting.
🚨VICTORY: The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously denies Republicans’ request to block early voting on Sat. Nov. 26 for the Senate runoff election. All counties will be allowed to offer early voting on Saturday and at least 22 counties already plan to do so.https://t.co/08ZNkQRSnb
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) November 23, 2022
These are the Georgia counties that plan to offer early voting this Saturday, Nov. 26 for the Senate runoff election:
Baldwin
Bibb
Burke
Chatham
Clarke
Cobb
Crawford
DeKalb
Douglas
Fulton
Gwinnett
Henry
Mitchell
Muscogee
Newton
Randolph
Rockdale
Screven
Terrell
Troup
Walton
Ware— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) November 23, 2022
re: #17 jeffreyw
We will opt out of fancy feasting and go with chicken dumplings for the Thursday dinner. I will make a batch of stovetop dressing and use the dumpling broth for gravy.
My wife is getting me up at 5am tomorrow to help her put a 24lb bird in the oven to cook for six hours.
re: #9 Dangerman
I’m not leaving (yet) because I want to be there to see it when it all comes crashing down.
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
Unfortunately, they also did this:
That is tragic. I hope we have much better news from the Kentucky Supreme Court soon.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) November 23, 2022
Here’s the full chart, showing all the options DeSantis’ office considered — and the political calculations behind each.
Among other things, they worried about raising Warren’s profile. pic.twitter.com/bogNqyZNR0— Jason Garcia (@Jason_Garcia) November 23, 2022
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I’m not leaving (yet) because I want to be there to see it when it all comes crashing down.
In it for the shadenfreude
Maybe Mr. Sparky Car just wants to build the perfect fascist howler monkey shit slinging sewer and then sell it to shit slinging sewer dwelling howler monkeys?
re: #26 Dangerman
In it for the shadenfreude
Professional research. Somebody has to look at the crash test dummies.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I’m not leaving (yet) because I want to be there to see it when it all comes crashing down.
I’ll stay and keep trolling the fascists until I’m tossed out.
day 3 — or is it 4? — of our long national nightmare pic.twitter.com/YywQvUwpdZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 23, 2022
re: #20 Joe Bacon
The library down the street is now an early voting location for the first time this year. Which is both convenient and awesome. They only have room for six machines though, they have a conference room with a mini kitchen that works pretty well. My son and I will be voting Saturday and then he gets his latest covid shot and I get a flu shot. Being good citizens in a place where no one gives a shit matters.
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Democrats will use media to slander governor as authoritarian”
There are not enough eyerolls…
re: #27 nines09
Maybe Mr. Sparky Car just wants to build the perfect fascist howler monkey shit slinging sewer and then sell it to shit slinging sewer dwelling howler monkeys?
If he does, he will only get a fraction of the $44 billion he paid for it.
re: #28 wrenchwench
Professional research. Somebody has to look at the crash test dummies.
Got you covered:
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Reading this thread, I note that pictures in tweets are not appearing any longer. They do display if I click on the picture icon our host has provided.
Twitter API failures?
(Forefox on a Samsung phone)
re: #32 A Mom Anon
The library down the street is now an early voting location for the first time this year. Which is both convenient and awesome. They only have room for six machines though, they have a conference room with a mini kitchen that works pretty well. My son and I will be voting Saturday and then he gets his latest covid shot and I get a flu shot. Being good citizens in a place where no one gives a shit matters.
I’m glad they’re able to do that! Please take care!
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, Fox was having convulsions over Biden holding Christmas tree reception ceremony on same day as the turkey pardon. They’ve got to have their war on Christmas nonsense, and this was the declared angle, although even Fox had to admit that Biden was doing what Trump did just two years ago - holding both on the same day.
Oh, and Fox held its Christmas tree lighting ceremony in NYC yesterday too - before the Thanksgiving Day parade balloons were put aloft.
Talk about jumping the gun.
Fox has to always up the outrage to 11ty, and it’s gotten to the point where they just come across as clowns and need to be laughed at as same and called fucking fascists for trying to silence those critical of their propaganda efforts.
Perfect 🤣
H/t @keithohara @Pleightx pic.twitter.com/YJ7pGhmdol— Wu-Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) November 23, 2022
More poison, yay.
Army of gambling lobbyists descends on Austin as casinos seek to crack Texas market https://t.co/AZAaEltlEU
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) November 23, 2022
Fox is always caterwauling over the fact that Biden family is going to Cape Cod for the week, ignoring that Trump spent 10x as much as Biden has on trips - and Trump trips were all to help prop up his golf businesses, whereas Biden isn’t seeing a dime from going home to his personal residence, going to his family’s longstanding church, or visiting other locations. He’s not self-dealing as Trump did for everything, but Fox wont care or compare the two.
re: #39 gocart mozart
Gives Walker too much credit. He’s nowhere near as clever as Eddie Murphy was in that movie.
re: #34 No Malarkey!
He’s going to lose money any way this breaks. But to bury a worldwide highly regarded site under a mountain of filth and lies as a legacy? To allow the worst of the worst back on and just make it a mountain of shit? That people can point to and say “Elon built that”?
Priceless.
re: #3 lawhawk
What happens if people stop obeying courts? I think that should be an option given how courts are disregarding the will of voters.
re: #36 A Cranky One
Hmmm..works okay when I use Chrome. Curious.
re: #36 A Cranky One
Reading this thread, I note that pictures in tweets are not appearing any longer. They do display if I click on the picture icon our host has provided.
Twitter API failures?
(Forefox on a Samsung phone)
Does that on my phone for months, long before Elmo the Boi Nazi took over.
.@stevebenen resists the urge to rant about this insanity and instead rationally and logically explains, as the headline says, why McCarthy’s plan to retaliate against Dems is tough to defend. https://t.co/fvJc1iS9U5 via @msnbc
— Jill Lawrence (@JillDLawrence) November 23, 2022
“…Under normal circumstances, Democratic leaders make committee assignments for Democratic members, just as Republican leaders make committee assignments for Republican members. To create an exception would require the vote of the full House.”
Forced birthers have a new legal tactic.
Exclusive: Anti-abortion groups and their allies in elected office are launching an unusual new strategy after suffering a wave of election defeats — using environmental laws to try to block the distribution of abortion pills.https://t.co/RMwucbfZzl
— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) November 23, 2022
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I’m not leaving (yet) because I want to be there to see it when it all comes crashing down.
Seems like Elmo is determined to turn Twitter into 8kun.
JFC THESE PEOPLE ARE OUTRIGHT EVIL https://t.co/gPAnEq1GuL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 23, 2022
Twitter is turning into a Disqus comments section. There’s a reason why nearly every online publication stopped letting readers comment.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
And this view is supposed to somehow make Christianity appealing?
re: #53 Charles Johnson
JFC THESE PEOPLE ARE OUTRIGHT EVIL https://t.co/gPAnEq1GuL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 23, 2022
I wonder what percentage of these depraved people actually believe this superstition?
Sometimes I suspect that it might be NONE of them, that it is a gigantic naked emperor cult in which no one believes but they all suspect that most of the others do.
It would explain a lot.
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
Seems like Elmo is determined to turn Twitter into 8kun.
Everybody’s about to discover that when a powerful person sounds like they’re saying something expansively democratic, they have a very specific group they view of as “the people,” either because those people do what they powerful person wants or advance a cause the powerful person cares about.
Musk wants to make Twitter free in the way Bush wanted to make Iraq free.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
“Look, I get to decide who is Christian or who isn’t. Not God. Me.”
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) November 23, 2022
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I wonder what percentage of these depraved people actually believe this superstition?
Sometimes I suspect that it might be NONE of them, that it is a gigantic naked emperor cult in which no one believes but they all suspect that most of the others do.
Dealing in eternal damnation is their favorite part.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
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Taken to its logical conclusion, apply that mindset to victims of the Holocaust.
re: #58 The Ghost of a Flea
This dovetails with the way powerful people wield “intellectual freedom”…which almost always means dragging out their preferred quackery while denying any rigorous system f assessing the validity of that position.
Never trust anyone who starts their pitch with an allusion to Galileo.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
God is laughing at her blasphemy against the Spirit. She, not them, is the only one committing the “unforgivable” sin and she is the one who will reap the consequences.
— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) November 23, 2022
Damn where have we heard people being called “cockroaches” before, why does this sound familiar? pic.twitter.com/E7nxb84aTb
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) November 23, 2022
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I wonder what percentage of these depraved people actually believe this superstition?
Sometimes I suspect that it might be NONE of them, that it is a gigantic naked emperor cult in which no one believes but they all suspect that most of the others do.
It would explain a lot.
This is not to say there aren’t sincere Christians but the Evangelical/Repug cargo cult is not them. Real persecution is a significant test. Many Christians have endured it over the centuries, and passed.
If you went Nero on this mob, though, and started burning them to light your garden, people like Ellis would instantly recant and fall over each other volunteering to help gather firewood.
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I wonder what percentage of these depraved people actually believe this superstition?
Sometimes I suspect that it might be NONE of them, that it is a gigantic naked emperor cult in which no one believes but they all suspect that most of the others do.
I’d propose door #3, which is that these people don’t have any consistent beliefs but are entirely invested in the ones they hold momentarily. They’re not building edifices within themselves, they’re consuming packaged goods as suits their appetite.
Most people do this to some degree—turn up and down the volume of their beliefs dependent on context and circumstance, choose how strident they will be—but it really stands out when you encounter someone who’s only real commitment is to enjoying power. You can watch everything they say they believe in bend to become the same thing: a justification of what they’re already doing.
The ugly statement above needs to be true because it is pleasurable, and transcendental confirmation that the dead should not be mourned, but also that the writer is one of the saved. At some other time the same person will show grace because the bad thing that happened wasn’t pleasurable, and nuance is in the moment comforting.
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) November 23, 2022
As I’ve posted about before, #HerschelWalker has lived in a very large home in a gated community in Westlake, TX for 10 years.
CNN reports Herschel took the homestead tax break for it in 2021 & 2022, despite registering to vote in Georgia. 🧵https://t.co/fXXrhIzlpW#GARunoff pic.twitter.com/Lh1uhex0nm— Leia🗳️ (@TheSWPrincess) November 23, 2022
Per @11AliveNews, the house is worth appx 2.8 million, has a 5 car garage and is in a gated community.https://t.co/wlmEtb9V5J pic.twitter.com/ADplbFC1qJ
— Leia🗳️ (@TheSWPrincess) November 23, 2022
My little sister gave birth while incarcerated and because they kept transferring her, I couldn’t find/reach her before she was forced her to adopt her baby out to a wealthy white couple in Bellevue https://t.co/6AyMP6k4L4
— Sabra Boyd (@SabraMBoyd) November 20, 2022
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
And this view is supposed to somehow make Christianity appealing?
Some people not only dream of their heavenly reward, but also enjoy fantasizing about the eternal damnation of people they hate, so it actually does, to many people.
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I wonder what percentage of these depraved people actually believe this superstition?
Sometimes I suspect that it might be NONE of them, that it is a gigantic naked emperor cult in which no one believes but they all suspect that most of the others do.
It would explain a lot.
Believe me, there are a lot of people who sincerely believe in the existence of a literal Heaven and Hell.
This morning I told my 6-year-old niece how old I am. It went like this:
Me: I’m 45.
Her: you’re forty-what?!
Me: 45
Her: JESUS CHRIST!— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) November 23, 2022
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cheating on your taxes is as American as apple pie.
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re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ha!
My favorite is still the four-year-old who looked at my then-64-year-old grandmother in awe and said, “Wow. Did you see the dinosaurs?”
re: #74 CleverToad
Ha!
My favorite is still the four-year-old who looked at my then-64-year-old grandmother in awe and said, “Wow. Did you see the dinosaurs?”
I often refer to my youth as “back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.”
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
“We had ONE continent, and we liked it.”
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I often refer to my youth as “back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.”
Years ago, when I was about 38, I had a class of 18 to 20 year olds. I used to jokingly tell them that when I was a kid growing up in L.A., I’d ride a brontosaurus to school.
Giving the people what they want; more Larry! https://t.co/juxh5620ZY
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) November 23, 2022
The European Space Agency made history by selecting John McFall, a 41-year-old former Paralympian who lost his right leg when he was 19, to be among its newest batch of astronauts.
McFall called his selection “a real turning point and mark in history.” https://t.co/7Jn7rQZg01— The Associated Press (@AP) November 23, 2022
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
Years ago, when I was about 38, I had a class of 18 to 20 year olds. I used to jokingly tell them that when I was a kid growing up in L.A., I’d ride a brontosaurus to school.
Back in the 80s, my sisters were talking about the Police song, ‘Born in the 50s’ and one said, ‘Oh my gosh—that’s you!’
Dog is sitting, standing and lying.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/HH4bkx1ht4
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 23, 2022
PSA: When you learn to break down poultry, a heritage breed free range turkey is probably not your best choice. Those things have serious tendons and the leg to breast ratio is nothing like one sees on YouTube. I have now butchered the bird in every sense of the word. The good news is that I didn’t cut off my own fingers in the process.
The other good news is that the spine and wing tips are now roasting so I can have turkey stock.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Some fucking heaven they have.
But if everyone got in it would not be special would it?
So glad I saw the light in my teens.
This is the kind of thing you’ll never hear about from the self-appointed champions of free speech on this website
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 23, 2022
…baby jellyfish-riding octopus ride through the ocean steering their jellyfish at breakneck speed! Look at this duo go!
Footage: Jonathan Venn at @DiveRibbonpic.twitter.com/iv7nRDFzW7— Open Ocean Exploration (@RebeccaRHelm) November 23, 2022
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Keep in mind that in her deranged mind, Donald J Trump is a Christian who will live forever in heaven when he transpires. That pretty much says it all about her morality.
re: #44 Patricia Kayden
What happens if people stop obeying courts? I think that should be an option given how courts are disregarding the will of voters.
The voters in a more than a dozen states disagreed with Brown v Board, Loving v Virginia, Miranda, Roe, etc.
It’ll have to get a lot worse before that’s a fair and proper reaction.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
How the fuck would she know?
“You’re gonna need a bigger bowl”
Angler catches giant goldfish known as ‘The Carrot’— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 22, 2022
Editorial: We’re looking at you, Lauren Boebert. Stop the intolerance. https://t.co/KQKvdh1VMQ
— Denver Post Opinion (@denveropinion) November 22, 2022
re: #90 sagehen
If I recall correctly, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress and then ignored by scores of freedom loving Americans who helped enslaved escapees on the Underground Railroad. There is nothing wrong with disobeying unjust laws.
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
I’m there as long as Disabled Twitter is there. I have a Mastodon presence, but I’m not eager to join any more social networks.
re: #71 No Malarkey!
Believe me, there are a lot of people who sincerely believe in the existence of a literal Heaven and Hell.
If they really believe in a literal Heaven, and that they’re headed there when they die… then what’s with all the guns and “I need to defend myself”? Why are they so opposed to dying?
the full story: https://t.co/EtnjU0klZa
— matt (@mattxiv) November 23, 2022
re: #96 Sherlock Hound
I’m there as long as Disabled Twitter is there. I have a Mastodon presence, but I’m not eager to join any more social networks.
Yeah, Twitter will become an even bigger shitshow that it is already under Musk. I have Mastodon and CounterSocial, but I’m not all that much into social media.
re: #65 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
This is not to say there aren’t sincere Christians but the Evangelical/Repug cargo cult is not them. Real persecution is a significant test. Many Christians have endured it over the centuries, and passed.
The problem with this assessment is that “Christianity” isn’t really a solid construct with agreed-upon borders. It’s spent it’s entire existence trying and failing to define those borders, and even the temporary successes have been the product of coercion not consensus.
Part of this is just the problem of texts: if you have a lot of words they can be parsed, emphasis given to different parts, creating endless interpretations. But if a text is sacred then the entire interpretation process is fraught with implications that grant and strip power. Every single religion has this same problem: there is a gap between the textual basis of the faith and the way the words are received, and anyone can act as the mediator, the translator, of meaning. You don’t have to lie to be a translator and get what you want, you just have to be technically correct.
Inventing new features of the faith that are convenient as you try and sell your brand and set it as the status quo is the norm. If we just constrain ourselves to Christianity…there are a lot of self-serving lies throughout the history of the religion. Most of the early martyricons are fiction; the donation of Constantine is a forgery; the formal attribution of the Crucifixion to the Jews is a choice of emphasis that was convenient for a now-Christian Rome that wanted to perpetuate it’s Roman-ness.
Evangelicals are just the end point of a mix of highly-selective reading and following through on existing self-serving lies consistent with what has come before. They’re not the first Christians to declare themselves victims as they brutalize the world—that would be the missionaries that brought soldiers and guns with them—nor the first Christians to suggest that material accumulation is spiritual merit—that was invented to justify feudal kingship and the very material-incentivized relationship between monarchs and bishops. The sentiment above is just a slight twist on Aquinas, by way of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
If you went Nero on this mob, though, and started burning them to light your garden, people like Ellis would instantly recant and fall over each other volunteering to help gather firewood.
But that train has already set sail: hegemonic Christianity has been built to gather firewood for Nero since Constantine. Protestantism didn’t vote against pyres, just who would be put on them. Christianity has always used the state as a tool for the violent implementation of the faith on others—that’s what divine kingship was; that what nationalist churches spreading into colonized lands were; that why so much of American ambitions are framed in terms of God-and-nation as one, be that Indian removal or anti-communism.
The transaction “I have suffered, now I am permitted to fucking rule you” is not new, its literally how the religion stretched the world. Radical American fundamentalism is just naked in how it talks about how the violence of the United States is Christian violence: they don’t need to be takfiris because the US Armed Forces is doing the killing for them. They’re doing terrorism to patch the places the state doesn’t do terror for them. Evangelicals are not an exception, they’re a naked expression of the gruesome realities of wielding a solitary God as a force of power and license.
Translation: I’m going to restore Alex Jones and other despicable human beings’ accounts as long as they don’t “break the law.”
What could possibly go wrong? Puke 🤮— Republicans against Trumpism (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 23, 2022
re: #102 DodgerFan1988
There you go. As I said. A church of filth. For the shit flingers. King Elon will set his people free.
re: #98 Patricia Kayden
Local man relieved to find out his son, a mass murderer, still likes girls.
re: #102 DodgerFan1988
When he refers to broken laws, is he referring to US law or breaking the law in the user’s nation of residence? Because there’s a LOT of things that are legal to say in the United States that are patently illegal in many parts of the world (example - espousing pro-Nazi propaganda in much of Europe will get you arrested and fast).
The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting… And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (@CBS8) pic.twitter.com/7Zw4vpLtjE
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) November 23, 2022
oh
Herschel demands to debate @JoyAnnReid: “Any time of the day. Any day of the week she want to debate. She can show up here and I’ll debate her. She can come up with the subject, and let’s go at it.” pic.twitter.com/67dKKT59EE
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 23, 2022
re: #106 gocart mozart
If you read the full story in The Daily Beast, you get this little tidbit from the father (in the same breath as he condemned the murders).
[…]Brink, a recovering methamphetamine user who once appeared on the reality show Intervention , said he “praised [Aldrich] for violent behavior really early. I told him it works. It is instant and you’ll get immediate results.”
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh
I suggest debating the issue of taking a tax break for a residence in one state while running for Senator in another.
re: #106 gocart mozart
That dude is hopped up on something.
re: #108 Orange Impostor
If you read the full story in The Daily Beast, you get this little tidbit from the father (in the same breath as he condemned the murders).
Sick motherfucker groomed his son to become a murderer.
re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea
Sorry if this sounds vehement, but…disavowal doesn’t work and it’s corrosive to the self because it’s a kind of rhetorical defensive clutch.
I used to do this in discussions post-9/11, but at some point it became clear that it wasn’t an effective rhetoric and it meant having to backpeddle and justify in a way that just more work for me and more interpretative gaps into which both fundamentalists and bigots could claim a superior reading, find an exception or an interpretation.
Empty people can always parse a text finer than someone with actual convictions; they are better at the game of exclusion and you end up hurting yourself by trying to play their rigged game.
after stunning upset win over germany, japan fans stay to clean up the stadium pic.twitter.com/NiPg1tlldV
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 23, 2022
Dear Jenna Ellis,
There is no evidence to say that Hitler did not accept Jesus as his savior right there in the bunker. So, there’s still a possibility that you can someday sit beside him while he farts.— Paula Poundstone (@paulapoundstone) November 23, 2022
“I’m not even supposed to be here today” pic.twitter.com/6s4ag2yf7K
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) November 23, 2022
re: #115 jeffreyw
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An oldie-but-goodie. From the living room window awhile back.
in my front yard a while back
re: #104 No Malarkey!
Local man relieved to find out his son, a mass murderer, still likes girls.
“Ok, Mrs. Lincoln, but at least the play was funny.”
booking photo from Colorado Springs PD, hidden because…
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re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
booking photo from Colorado Springs PD, hidden because…
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Damn, looks like they whacked him up the backside his head with a cricket bat.
This is Basil. He finally found the perfect stick today. Wanted to tell you about it as a reminder to never give up on your dreams. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/y7ylvC2UhR
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) November 23, 2022
Today we find out who will represent Alaska for the next few years — and what our future beyond those years might look like. I don’t know about all of you, but I’m excited.
— Mary Peltola (@MaryPeltola) November 23, 2022
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hitler was heterosexual so in her mind, he’s alright.
This is why I’ve been resisting the idolization of Liz Cheney, among other things.
She’s trying to keep her future political options open by letting her Republican colleagues skate away from charges of supporting the insurrection and coup attempt, which they ABSOLUTELY DID. https://t.co/J8nmp3dnjb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 23, 2022
We don’t deserve dogs. 🥹 https://t.co/w6LXnhVMeH
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) November 23, 2022
re: #121 jeffreyw
Damn, looks like they whacked him up the backside his head with a cricket bat.
I think the platform boots of the person in drag who was stomping him may have left a mark or two.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! pic.twitter.com/6at4sSVCCR
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) November 23, 2022
re: #112 The Ghost of a Flea
Sorry if this sounds vehement, but…disavowal doesn’t work and it’s corrosive to the self because it’s a kind of rhetorical defensive clutch.
I used to do this in discussions post-9/11, but at some point it became clear that it wasn’t an effective rhetoric and it meant having to backpeddle and justify in a way that just more work for me and more interpretative gaps into which both fundamentalists and bigots could claim a superior reading, find an exception or an interpretation.
Empty people can always parse a text finer than someone with actual convictions; they are better at the game of exclusion and you end up hurting yourself by trying to play their rigged game.
“Never argue with a fanatic”
Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler issued a blistering statement Wednesday to The Washington Post in response to the criticisms.
“Donald Trump is the first president in American history to attempt to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, Adler said. “So, damn right Liz is ‘prioritizing’ understanding what he did and how he did it and ensuring it never happens again.
Adler added, “Some staff have submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement, Republicans, and sociological issues outside the scope of the Select Committee’s work. She won’t sign onto any ‘narrative’ that suggests Republicans are inherently racist or smears men and women in law enforcement, or suggests every American who believes God has blessed America is a white supremacist.”
Gift link to the article (no paywall): wapo.st
That statement says it all. She’s trying to limit the scope to stay away from Republicans in general and keep it narrowly focused on Trump, as if he were just a freak mutation.
As expected. Add Masterbateriano to the KooKoo for Cocoa Puffs Kari Sore Loser Club.
Doug Mastriano lost big — but his supporters ‘flout the will of the people’: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Doug Mastriano supporters are flooding Pa. courts with baseless recount petitions in the governor’s race
re: #129 Axolotl
“Never argue with a fanatic”
It’s more like, “fuck those people who claim to own God, and fuck their elaborate knotted justifications, I will not comma-fuck their preferred commentary book to ascertain whether they belong or not. Belonging isn’t important, belonging is a cheap substitute for doing.”
I may be slightly angry about a lifetime of social conservatives being monsters both when they’re sincere and when they’re “hypocrites.”
The spiky lynx spider. Females can change colour to fit their surroundings.
(Photo Melvyn Yeo) pic.twitter.com/paCgBh8m2h— Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) November 23, 2022
Ms. Cyborg and I are heading out of town for Thanksgiving. Fortunately, it’s a less than four-hour drive and we only have to deal with one semi-large city. Weather looks favorable too.
Pro-tip for travelers: Always pack slightly MORE clothing than you think you will need. You never know when circumstances might arise that would call for a clean shirt or a fresh pair of pants.
re: #132 Charles Johnson
That statement says it all. She’s trying to limit the scope to stay away from Republicans in general and keep it narrowly focused on Trump, as if he were just a freak mutation.
WHAT.
CHARLES.
SAID.
I have my own reasons for my distrust of the Cheneys and folks here know why.
Bannon is attempting to instigate a coup in Brazil. Eduardo Bolsonaro puts out a video of Steve Bannon this morning, where Bannon tells them their election was stolen and praises people protesting in the streets: “It’s going to be very interesting to see how that plays out.” pic.twitter.com/HvxcJQTDkf
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 23, 2022
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
So Bannon and Crackhead Mike are creating a “diplomatic incident” with Brazil.
I wonder how they would react if Brazilian authorities indict them and demand their extradition?
The House already does this every day. https://t.co/ri6nH7g0rt
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 22, 2022
Just yesterday, the account of an antifascist club based in North Texas known for defending LGBTQ+ events against extremist violence was suspended while anti-LGTBQ+ accounts returned to Twitter.https://t.co/Y5p6DT193D
— steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli (@stevanzetti) November 23, 2022
The plot sickens…
Porn-Star Dad of LGBT Club Massacre Suspect Spews Homophobia in First Interview
Full self destruction mode now. His second completely unhinged attack against the Supreme Court. He seems astonished the 3 people he appointed follow the law and vote against his moronic nonsense every damn time. SCOTUS will eventually further crush him to pieces & he knows it. pic.twitter.com/aLxosjHMov
— Spiro’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) November 23, 2022
LGBTQ nightclub, deadly mass shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, appeared in a wheelchair for an advisement hearing today.
Details https://t.co/t11Pa26VYI pic.twitter.com/gaAN3lUn57— KGUN 9 On Your Side (@kgun9) November 23, 2022
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
Does SCOTUS even have an official approval rating?
ON ALL THE “GROOMER” TALK AND OTHER HATEFUL RHETORIC FROM THE RIGHT pic.twitter.com/db4LvRcr6m
— Trae Crowder in Brea & Oxnard 11/9-10 (@traecrowder) November 23, 2022
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Does SCOTUS even have an official approval rating?
Not that I know of, but his obsession with “the numbers” and “approval ratings” just show that everything is a fucking reality TV show to him.
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Does SCOTUS even have an official approval rating?
Does SCOTUS even need an official approval rating?
re: #54 Barefoot Grin
Twitter is turning into a Disqus comments section. There’s a reason why nearly every online publication stopped letting readers comment.
..and as all those comment sections were turned off, where did those people go?
re: #151 Dangerman
..and as all those comment sections were turned off, where did those people go?
Over to YouTube comment sections?
Elon Musk reinstated Marjorie Taylor Green’s personal Twitter account, and this is what she is tweeting. $44 billion to go full 4chan. pic.twitter.com/tnzk7tiWW4
— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) November 23, 2022
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s now $8chan.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
We know that Empty G is vaccinated and she’s lying thru her mouth.
I know, for a near certainty, those files include Robert Blakey’s interview of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello during the investigation conducted by House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978. This is particularly notable since Blakey believes Marcello was involved. pic.twitter.com/1NAplJZ0di
— Lamar White, Jr. (@LamarWhiteJr) November 23, 2022
re: #125 Charles Johnson
Beware of the people who lay the foundation and then get upset about the building that went up.
They. Fucking. Built. This.
Thanks Liz. Now go fuck off.
It got out of their control. They must have had plans for decades and then Trump just delivers on all they promised. Too nakedly obvious.
I remember THIS Liz Cheney
*spit*
If they got trump they can go after others latter. If they don’t get trump there is no point to any of this. Also, fuck liz.
The right-wing blogosphere falsely claimed in 2015 that Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear was a trans woman, because a county employee made a clerical error and checked “Mrs” instead of “Mr” on a form.
The same playbook is used repeatedly. https://t.co/E5NfT66LA0— Chad Loder (@chadloder) November 23, 2022
As an original member of the JFK Task Force at the National Archives: it really makes me happy to close this particular chapter. But the conspiracies will always remain in part bc of how it was all handled back then. https://t.co/8S4pLeL9e2
— Alan W. Silberberg (@IdeaGov) November 23, 2022
Kash Patel wants you to get a jump on your holiday shopping…
Be warned before clicking the link.
I read The Peripheral again to prep for the series. Started watching last night and noticed departures from the book right away but nothing that hurt the ‘look and feel’. I give it thumbs up, so far.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I fail to understand the logic of “Covid is here forever, therefore we should quit taking precautions against getting it.” Perhaps logic isn’t the word I’m looking for here.
Good take down:
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022: The best pictures, as chosen by our picture editor
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For our photographers: these are just glorious!
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Does SCOTUS even have an official approval rating?
Yes; it’s 28%.
That’s the same territory as Nixon just before he resigned; or Bush the Younger near the end of his admin.
re: #163 jeffreyw
I read The Peripheral again to prep for the series. Started watching last night and noticed departures from the book right away but nothing that hurt the ‘look and feel’. I give it thumbs up, so far.
WaPo story this morning:
Covid is no longer a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here’s why.
It starts off with a scary lead:
For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.
Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
It’s a continuation of a troubling trend that has emerged over the past year. As vaccination rates have increased and new variants appeared, the share of deaths of people who were vaccinated has been steadily rising. In September 2021, vaccinated people made up just 23 percent of coronavirus fatalities. In January and February this year, it was up to 42 percent, per our colleagues Fenit Nirappil and Dan Keating.
“We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Cox told The Health 202.
But that’s not the whole truth:
Being unvaccinated is still a major risk factor for dying from covid-19. But efficacy wanes over time, and an analysis out last week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the need to get regular booster shots to keep one’s risk of death from the coronavirus low, especially for the elderly.
How many never read past the “you’re gonna die anyway even if you’re vaxxed”?
re: #94 Patricia Kayden
Thanks for making me laugh. That is a good one.
Is the Post really going to quote attorney Stan Brand on the propriety of the Biden admin’s congressional response without acknowledging that he reps Bannon, Patel, Navarro and an Oath Keeper? https://t.co/d7qW1wua4j pic.twitter.com/zP0HWkLkMD
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) November 23, 2022
Meanwhile, the turkey pieces are brining, the spine, etc. were roasted and have become stock which will shortly be turned into a nice do-ahead gravy. The cranberry sauce is ready to go. Since various family members have volunteered to bring some side dishes, that means all I will need to do tomorrow is make the dressing, a pumpkin pie, and stick the turkey in the oven. And set the table. Not bad. I might possibly be able to socialize before dinner.
In 2020, Herschel Walker indicated Black Americans owe something for being freed from slavery.
Walker: “Has anyone ever thought about what do we owe all the white soldiers that died in the Civil War?” pic.twitter.com/7SfqRcFN31— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) November 23, 2022
Nick Fuentes is an outright neo Nazi, with plenty of recent remarks like this one aimed at whipping up hate towards Jews. Now he’s being embraced by one of the biggest celebs in the country and, reportedly, Trumpworld. https://t.co/Ir7sPI1UbB
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 23, 2022
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s hard to be shocked by anything anymore, but Charlottesville marcher and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes being hosted at the former president’s resort still feels uniquely bad. https://t.co/QOGEt3CQ4v
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 23, 2022
re: #166 retired cynic
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022: The best pictures, as chosen by our picture editor
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Wow
When we get to Single Sentence Legislation she might be able to read them. pic.twitter.com/bkLMnOiMW7
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 23, 2022
re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth
The world’s longest run-on sentence is coming up.
Created by the fine folk at Oregon zoo! pic.twitter.com/zPTNVwXpVs
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) November 23, 2022
They’re going to be fun at the dinner table tomorrow.
— Bay💚Area💛Vibes (@switteringnow) November 23, 2022
re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth
But won’t that just result in multiple smaller bills that ultimately total 3000 pages as opposed to a single 3000-page combined bill?
“Why is everything a performance with you, Tony?” 🔊🆙️ pic.twitter.com/xSK6FhlA78
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) November 23, 2022
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
Then she’ll complain about “all these votes I have to show up for.”
Make sure to watch all the way through:
Safety Tips Don’t Work! pic.twitter.com/8uPm5BnUiK
— Arron Crascall (@arron_crascall) November 22, 2022
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
As vaccination rates have increased and new variants appeared, the share of deaths of people who were vaccinated has been steadily rising.
And if 100% of the population were vaccinated, then 100% of the COVID deaths would occur to vaccinated people.
The bottom line is that coronavirus is endemic and the best way to keep it from being more damaging is by vaccinating people.
re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I know plenty of people who got the first booster but don’t think they need the second because “Covid isn’t a big deal anymore”.
Jesus on setting boundaries:
2. HIDE and SPEND TIME WITH OTHER PEOPLE
LK 2:42-32 — “When Jesus was 12, they attended the festival as usual… they started home to Nazareth, but Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem… Three days later they discovered him in the Temple, talking with the religious leaders.”
2/7— Dr. Kevin M. Young (@kevinmyoung) November 23, 2022
This is going to keep happening in city after city because this is a systemic problem. But we’re not dealing with it systemically.
H/t @socialistdogmom https://t.co/AhVR169vCr— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) November 23, 2022
re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve had three boosters. I’ll take as many as I need to stay safe. I don’t understand why people would fight against a free vaccination. Well, actually I know why.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I’m not leaving (yet) because I want to be there to see it when it all comes crashing down.
I’m hanging around because there are still people and news organizations I like to follow, like Mike Dunford.
I’m still employed… for now
— Shav (@shav457) November 23, 2022
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
“Democrats will use media to slander governor as authoritarian”
There are not enough eyerolls…
Truth is a defense against libel. That characterization is certainly not slander since it is accurate.
The sign of a healthy mind is when you sit around all day imagining race wars and child abuse https://t.co/2yK3M2jzZg
— pranksgiving fan (@jesseltaylor) November 24, 2022
“Shots fired. Male down. Black male, maybe 20,” said the @ClevelandPolice officer who called in the shooting, describing the wounded Tamir Rice. That was eight years ago today. Tamir would’ve been 20 years old right now had he lived. I want you to think about that for a moment. pic.twitter.com/wVu3SCAO2N
— Jamil Smith جميل كريم (@JamilSmith) November 22, 2022
He’s not hiding it folks, and it’s not just Elon flailing. There is a political agenda being pursued, not just GOP vs Dem but broadly including shutting down journalists and activists who might challenge the billionaires.
That and normalizing the alt-right pic.twitter.com/1yhN22sw2K— David Burbach (@dburbach) November 23, 2022
Musk is engaging in friendly chats and agreeing with, people who promoted the Charlottsville neo-nazi march. People blatant enough in their racism/misogyny/anti-semitism that most House GOP Reps wouldn’t (openly) be associated with them. MTG and Gosar territory pic.twitter.com/xvE7gHCkNK
— David Burbach (@dburbach) November 23, 2022
We had to share this fantastic photo taken by Steve Birrell - Winter is coming….taken from Levenwick looking towards Sandwick in #Shetland #ScotlandIsCalling @VisitScotland pic.twitter.com/oGMmRgoxi2
— NorthLink Ferries (@NLFerries) November 22, 2022
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
There are billionaires on the left as well and I hope they invest in a social network comparable to Twitter or pour funding into Counter Social or other alternatives so that Twitter can collapse as it turns into a rightwing cesspool.
re: #42 lawhawk
Gives Walker too much credit. He’s nowhere near as clever as Eddie Murphy was in that movie.
Eddie Murphy was the smartest person in the car. Walker understands little of what’s going on around him. In both cases, though, white men offered black men what appeared to be power and wealth and were certain they could control them. Doubt there will be any problem controlling Walker, at least in terms of getting his vote on any issue.
I am a cis-male, and this is awesome:
You’re in their DMs. We’re in them.
We are not the same.— Tampax US (@Tampax) November 21, 2022
Spending an eternity with people like you is not the selling point for your religion that you think it is.
— Wookiee Monster (@dcwilson451) November 24, 2022
Current air traffic over the US. Happy Superspreading to all who celebrate. pic.twitter.com/uQWOEq2Kbk
— Lavanya Krishnan, MS, MPH (@l_krishnan) November 23, 2022
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
You can get much more than you want
at Alice’s Restaurant
I went down the FB “Reels” rabbit hole again today. It’s worse than ever. There are lots of comedians doing standup, but lots of anti-woke comedians; there’s banal stuff, but also lots of Prager and Dailywire (Shapiro) stuff; and today there was an obscene amount of gun stuff.
Bed time.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/nGDI0v1bNc
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 23, 2022
niterz, lizardz!
Yay !! Just got a text saying that NBC projects that Lisa Murkowski wins!!
re: #212 Hecuba’s daughter
Good that’s another slap in the face and a kick in the butt to Cheez Whiz Face!
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
Did anyone think I was being jocular when I described reactionary content as pornography?
All of this is about what awful people find pleasurable.
Republican fever dream:
“Raising the retirement age to 70 could save Social Security for us all” (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/U2oDYNsJHH pic.twitter.com/pHWF8djw14
— The Hill (@thehill) November 23, 2022
A long thread, but I think this is a very good point:
I am going to say something very uncomfortable. Read before you react please.
Purity culture encourages pedophilia, a thread:— Jo Luehmann (@JoLuehmann) February 16, 2021
Purity culture makes the desirable standard a child. It makes child likeness desirable in regards to sexuality. It makes virginity, and innocence, and submission; what the male brain should want most in a partner. And your brain doesn’t rewire just because you get married.
2/— Jo Luehmann (@JoLuehmann) February 16, 2021
This doesn’t mean every man raised in purity culture is a pedophile, that’s not what I am saying. What I am saying is that purity culture wires the brain of men to desire child likeness, which encourages pedophilia. After all desire and objectification happen in our brain.
3/— Jo Luehmann (@JoLuehmann) February 16, 2021
re: #212 Hecuba’s daughter
WaPo just confirmed it.
re: #109 No Malarkey!
I suggest debating the issue of taking a tax break for a residence in one state while running for Senator in another.
Wasn’t Oz doing that?
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
I hope he has an account elsewhere so we can follow him after Twitter becomes 8chan.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Why not raise it to 100 and save us a whole ton of money so that we can make sure that tax cuts for the millionaires and billionaires are funded? It’s not as if those advocating that we work until we drop dead actually give a damn about the middle and working classes.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Republican fever dream:
Oh they won’t stop with raising the retirement age to 70. They’ll keep pushing for those PPAs—-Privatized Pinochet Accounts.
Final round margins in Alaska:
Senate
Murkowski (R) - 53.7%
Tshibaka (R) - 46.3%
House
Peltola (D) - 54.9%
Palin (R) - 45.1%— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) November 24, 2022
re: #222 Joe Bacon
Oh they won’t stop with raising the retirement age to 70. They’ll keep pushing for those PPAs—-Privatized Pinochet Accounts.
Even though I officially retired at 70 (started collecting SS) I was unemployed for 2 years before that because who wants to hire a 68-year-old?
We wish
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— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) November 24, 2022
re: #224 jaunte
Yeah. Still remember when I heard a couple clowns talking about the good work that the “Chicago Boys” did in Chile with privatized retirement accounts.
And I asked them 2 questions
First if the privatized system was so good why did Pinochet stick with the old system
and
Second if the privatized system was so good why did Chile wind up paying additional benefits to the victims of the systems because they couldn’t make ends meet with the meager amount in their accounts when it came time to retire.
And when I posed those questions—the usual BS that Conservatism can’t fail because it’s never been truly enacted…
2- He has served as director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious disease since 1984. His work has saved lives & he is an exemplary public servant. He, like
many others who are trying to do what’s right, has received death threats & now has to have protection. 😞— peace1 💙🇺🇸 (@peace1) November 23, 2022
Rarely have I been so disgusted by a right wing loudmouth. This isn’t a religion, it’s a death cult. And this woman was an adviser to the “president.” This is the kind of attorney who works for the theocratic monsters of the Thomas More Society. https://t.co/gPAnEq1GuL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 24, 2022
Disgusting…
‘Sons of Liberty’ AR-15 to be released on Black Friday by former NRA chief’s company
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— Brownells, Inc. (@BrownellsInc) November 23, 2022
re: #228 teleskiguy
Yes, not only an accomplished professional, not only an amazingly effective leader, but also an outstanding forward thinker.
I suspect that some on the rwnj leadership are going after him is because he was so central and effective in addressing the AIDS epidemic.
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve just been watching the UK series, Shetland, just this minute! Ha. Love the scenery. Wonder how cold it really gets, way up there!
re: #233 ckkatz
They can’t afford to be contradicted by an accomplished expert with more knowledge than they have.
So, where might one find some of these women?
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) November 24, 2022
Better include this, for those don’t know what Aubry does.
re: #234 retired cynic
I’ve just been watching the UK series, Shetland, just this minute! Ha. Love the scenery. Wonder how cold it really gets, way up there!
Well, if the show is any indicator, they all seem to wear jackets even during the summer, so I’m guessing I wouldn’t care for the winters.
See the self-accredited eye doctor’s desperate thrashing to be taken seriously in a medical debate with Fauci.
“I don’t watch Hallmark movies anymore because I never know when they’re going to sneak in that homosexual couple,” says Patricia Kent, the woman who slept with teenage girls. who could have guessed the accuser was the perpetrator all along! pic.twitter.com/taeI2avCbB
— maria garcia (@tulipsmg) November 23, 2022
re: #231 Charles Johnson
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There are so many people who would be obscure scolds in line at their community supermarkets who are now making a living as national scolds due to social media.
re: #186 Belafon
Or…
The driver could glance at the back seat of the car before getting in.
It’s usually a good idea to do a quick walk around the car anyway. Verify that all the parts are still there and in good working order and that there are no unexpected leaks. This is an even better idea in neighborhood where there is a higher likelihood that someone has crawled into your back seat so they can strangle you.
re: #239 A Cranky One
Ah, the golden days of vinyl.
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“Organ Leroy at his organ again.”
…and then I’ll spend eternity just yodelin’ round the Throne.
Hellish!
re: #234 retired cynic
I’ve just been watching the UK series, Shetland, just this minute! Ha. Love the scenery. Wonder how cold it really gets, way up there!
Brass monkey cold. Ever encounter a brass monkey in Scotland? See.
It is not mid-continent ass-bite cold though. The ocean, especially the relative proximity of the Gulf Stream, moderates it somewhat.
Americans often don’t realize just how far north the British Isles really are. London is the same latitude as Calgary for example. The north of Scotland is just a tiny bit farther south than Anchorage.
re: #247 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Brass monkey cold. Ever encounter a brass monkey in Scotland? See.
It is not mid-continent ass-bite cold though. The ocean, especially the relative proximity of the Gulf Stream, moderates it somewhat.
Americans often don’t realize just how far north the British Isles really are. London is the same latitude as Calgary for example. The north of Scotland is just a tiny bit farther south than Anchorage.
And Shetland is way up north of the north of Scotland!
re: #221 Patricia Kayden
Why not raise it to 100 and save us a whole ton of money so that we can make sure that tax cuts for the millionaires and billionaires are funded? It’s not as if those advocating that we work until we drop dead actually give a damn about the middle and working classes.
We discussed recently here (a couple weeks ago?). Social Security is easy to repair — just raise the wage base (maybe combined with a factor less than 15% on this increase). It’s Medicare that’s the real problem.
re: #217 Belafon
A long thread, but I think this is a very good point:
Well…yes but also no?
Social conservatism both facilitates and throws a blanket over all kinds of sexual predation because it’s core belief is that there are authority figures that can control the bodies of others. All forms of abuse radiate from this premise: your body is not your own.
But an entirety good faith social conservative doing purity culture to kids is still doing something that causes harm independent of CSA: it’s fucking monstrous, it makes the children subject to it alienated from their own bodies and desires.
What really bugs me is this:
What I am saying is that purity culture wires the brain of men to desire child likeness, which encourages pedophilia. After all desire and objectification happen in our brain.
because the end point of purity culture is subservience, not childhood: you are not your own, ever. Women are subservient to men, but specifically to men with authority, and men with authority are entitled to whatever they do to men and women: that is social conditioning, but it’s letting it off too easily to say that this is some kind of programmed brain response.
No, this is an active process that requires participation on the part of all the perps. Men must buy into the premise not just of purity, but they are owners and controllers of bodies such that purity can be weaponized. With thousands of cases on hand, it very easy to demonstrate that their abuses of power extend in whichever direction, to whatever targets, they please. This is voluntary, a tool, a thing they can point at a target.
This also diverts attention from what CSA is: an abuse of power. It’s not wiring or any other inherent quality, it’s power and the permission that power grants. Men who weren’t raised with purity culture still use purity culture as the basis for their predation because it’s an effective tactic: a lot of the famous church nonces invented their own gender-relations standards that gave them access to young women as needed, including pro-sex messaging that just happened to incorporate the idea that the authority figure was…safe…to explore these things with. Men and women from within purity culture also use that premise of subservience as the basis for other kinds of abuse—such as just beating and torturing kids—because, again, it’s not wiring, it’s system that grants permission to the powerful to do as they please with the bodies of the subservient.
This also doesn’t work because social conservative abuse systems use the same mix of shame and social exclusion threat on boys and men who are not subject to the same aestheticized vision of correct behavior, but instead are punished with a separate variety of shame and social exclusion. It also doesn’t explain the proliferation of sexual assault of adults perpetrated by and concealed within social conservative systems that also use shame and social exclusion.
The coldest weather I have ever personally experienced was in the aptly named Cold Lake Alberta. At one point I was outdoors (briefly!) when it was -40 (same on both scales). All time low there was -48.3 C (-54.9F). Once it’s down to zero or so, though, lower temps don’t make a lot of difference. You’re either properly dressed, or you get indoors promptly, or you die.
Why didn’t you guys tell me about PHP’s new(ish) CurlFile built-in class?
Using multipart/form-data in cURL is suddenly easy. It was a huge mess before. Get down with your bad self, CurlFile.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 24, 2022
re: #244 jaunte
Tight rhythm section! (no joking, they are good; probably some session guys having fun picking to pick up a check)
So I looked up the climate on the Shetland Isles, and it is not nearly as bad as I thought. Only about 3 months frost free, but snow comes between Nov-Feb, and rarely stays on a day before melting. The ocean all around keeps it cool and not really hot or cold.
I read Jack London’s story To Build a Fire when I was about 10. It made quite an impression on me.
When I was in an Army course at Ft. Sill Oklahoma, one classmate, a former Special Forces team member, was of Thai ancestry with the last name of Arnookoonpitiya. As his last name began with an ‘A’, he was always at the beginning of any roster when attendance was called.
It was always interesting to watch the poor sergeant tasked with calling role at 0500hr. After some stuttering and failure to properly [pronounce the name, almost every sergeant settled on Lt Alphabet. The Lt faced it all with a general sense of amusement.
Lt. Arnookoonpitiya was a really nice guy, in great physical shape, and probably the toughest man in the class.
To answer all your questions, yes Thanksgiving year 7 is planned out! See you guys Thursday! 🦃🖤 pic.twitter.com/JTJe6ZSOTS
— Jamal Hinton (@Jamalhinton12) November 22, 2022
If the US lets theocratic authoritarians take over, it will be the ultimate sad irony for a nation that started as a visceral reaction against theocratic tyranny.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 24, 2022
re: #3 lawhawk
First the GOP packed the courts with their right wing extremists.
Then they came for overturning Roe.
They then went after gun rights and making it even easier to get guns and harder for states to regulate.SCOTUS overturned 100+ year old NY gun regulation. This was the state’s latest effort to try and implement gun safety rules in the state.
NY has a per capita gun death rate that is a fraction of what you see in FL or TX or WY.
Gun death rates are highest in lax gun law states, and making it easier to get guns is a motivating factor for the GOP and right wing extremists. They don’t care how many die or how many mass shootings there are.
They care only that gun sales increase, and peddle fear that only GOPers care about gun owners and that more guns will somehow make you safer when every study shows the opposite.
GOP are a death cult in every sense of the term.
The GOP is a homicide cult, not a death cult. They want you to die, not themselves.
re: #231 Charles Johnson
You are a disgusting, broken person. It’s bad enough that you bought into religious bullshit… but weaponizing it in this way?
Fuck you.— Matt Dillahunty (@Matt_Dillahunty) November 23, 2022
BREAKING: Democrat Mary Peltola has officially won reelection to the House in Alaska’s at-large Congressional District. Sarah Palin has officially lost (again).
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) November 24, 2022
This is not an accident. It’s a strategy. Russia now following the Syria model, and deliberately terrorizing civilians, especially women and children https://t.co/FwDjQDX6aj
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) November 23, 2022
Have Republicans taken a pregnancy test yet??? That’s what I would do if I got fucked and my red wave didn’t arrive.!!!
— carol carol (@goatillda) November 15, 2022
Awful lot of Christians in there supporting and justifying Jenna Ellis’s statement.
Yet they wonder why religious belief is in an accellerating death spiral.
re: #234 retired cynic
I’ve just been watching the UK series, Shetland, just this minute! Ha. Love the scenery. Wonder how cold it really gets, way up there!
There’s a reason for those thick, cuddly sweaters.
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