@Threadbane@newsie.social
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

Threadbane

@Threadbane@newsie.social

classical guitar, chess, golf, duplicate bridge, etymology, semantics, yoga, physics, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, Homeric Greek
Environmentalist Pothead Luddite Polymath
Club of Rome -> Limits To Growth
Keeper of Cats.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

paninid, to random
@paninid@mastodon.world avatar

Imagine asserting that a literal worm ate your brain to get out of paying alimony.

You might be RFK, Jr.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-worm-brain

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@paninid
It's almost as if one has to suffer from cognitive impairment to make it to the high echelon of Right Wing political theater. Practically all the Red state governors are psychopaths and semi-literate morons, and the criminal Defendant candidate for POTUS is literally a demented and deranged sociopath. The crazier you are, the higher you go in the GOP.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@paninid
Yes. I've said for years that the GOP began selecting for psychopaths during the 1990s. If you're not a Xian con artist, a grifter, or criminally insane you can't even get on the GOP ballot anymore. Domestic abuse and sexual assault are a bonus. Since the 1990s, any Republican member of Congress who shows the slightest trace of scientific literacy, awareness of history, respect for Constitution principles or social conscience is primaried out by people like Paul Gosar and Gym Jordan.

TexasObserver, to Texas
@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social avatar

“The juice they get from seeing this local victory will then spur people on towards a national approach. It’s very politically sharp.”

New from Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti: A new coalition of Christian nationalist groups is mobilizing congregations to take over school boards. https://www.texasobserver.org/christian-schoolboards-education-k12/

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@TexasObserver @stevanzetti
That might be better phrased as "maintain control of school boards". TX has the most horrific school system in the nation with the possible exception of Kentucky, and Xian nationalists have been in charge for thirty years or more. All that matter in TX schools are Jesus and football.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@TexasObserver @stevanzetti
I apologize for my cynical grousing today. My entire family going back to the early 1900s was from Texas, and I'm the only one not born there, so when I see more mention of the Republican/Xian takeover it just bums me out.
Yes, it's getting even worse, and with a homicidal psychopath as governor and the most corrupt AG in the nation things don't look good.

GottaLaff, to legal
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

🧵starts HERE. 1/…

Bower:

Justice Merchan starts off will the prosecution motion for contempt.

He tells Trump he's about to issue his ruling, in which he will again find Trump in contempt of court.

The last thing I want to do is put you in jail, Justice Merchan says to Trump. You are the former President of the United States and possibly the next President as well.

But "going forward," he continues, "this court will have to consider jail sanctions" if necessary.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@msbellows @tdwllms1 @GottaLaff
Why can't he be put up overnight in a hotel, so that his SS detail won't have to go into a jail to protect him? No worse than sequestering a jury is it? The OJ Simpson jury spent weeks in a motel/hotel. No smartphone, no posting.

otownKim, to random
@otownKim@toot.community avatar

For those who are bitching about President Biden and saying the Gaza situation will cost him the election, WTF do you propose?! Third party has ZERO chance! Have you learned anything from 2016?!?!?! The Orange shit stain suggests that Netanayu "finish the job!". How dare anyone say they or both sides are the same. If that's your belief, unfollow me now!!!

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@otownKim
Voting for anybody but Biden will accomplish the long-sought goal of the GOP to install a king, but schools stopped teaching young people history and civics 50 years ago. The old are trapped in some Republican yesteryear, when Republicans weren't quite as horrid as they are now, and have been subjected to 40 years of ever-more-intense anti-Democrat propaganda. The young only see Biden's pigheaded, sadistic support of Israel, not realizing that the Defendant would be even worse.

toussaint, to random
@toussaint@newsie.social avatar

US House just passed a law limiting your freedom of speech. you cant say having a country based on race/ethnicity is wrong IF you are talking about #ApartheidIsrael
You cant compare what israel is doing in Gaza to the Nazi's even tho they are running the place like the warsaw ghetto. The US House just outsourced the definition in our laws to an international organization called holocaust remembrance alliance, they subbed their definition for anti-semitism and put it into our law
#freepalestine

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@GreenFire @ramsey @toussaint @Npars01
Why not vote it down? If it passes, we know who the enemies of free speech are on the Democratic side and take our chances on Biden showing some common sense for a change and vetoing it.

ai6yr, to random

Hmm, some gender stereotyping at one of our local sandwich places. The only veggie option is "The Wonder Woman". Par for the course, I guess.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@ai6yr
A few years back, they were interviewing a Subway employee on rsdio and asked him what his favorite sub was. "The veggie with triple bacon."

tristansnell, to random
@tristansnell@mstdn.social avatar

To pay Stormy, Donald ordered his team

  • to create a shell company
  • to come up with fake names for the agreement
  • to come up with fake invoices for repaying Cohen

NOT to hide it from Melania.

This was to hide it from campaign finance regulators, journalists, and all of us.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@tristansnell
I do wish people would stop giving Defendant Trump credit for creating this complex subterfuge. It's on record that wanted to pay Stormy in cash, but Cohen insisted on the financial rigamarole to hide the transaction. has the mind of a child, incapable of thinking up a shadowy chain of loans and shell companies. This sort of crap was always left up to more intelligent criminals like Weisselberg and Mitnick.

Gustodon, to random
@Gustodon@mas.to avatar

I don't know whether to laugh at the absurdity of people who fear Satan or cry because they still exist in 2024.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@Gustodon
Hell, there are still people who believe in Jesus!
As an aside, the Xians claim to be a monotheistic religion, but if Satan isn't a god, what is he? Obviously, he's powerful enough to keep Yahweh from dispatching him.

Threadbane, to random
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

Joe and Mika are whining about all the murderous Middle Eastern regimes of the past 50 years that colleges DIDN'T protest, making comparisons with Saddam Hussein, Sadat, and the Sudan, while belittling campus protests against the Israeli slaughter of the Palestinians. The difference is that the US has been PAYING for Zionists to kill Palestinians and kick them off their land for almost 80 years; we didn't pay for the atrocities in Syria or Iran, but Mika and Joe have chosen to ignore that.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@RememberUsAlways
I read some of your link, but I fail to see how it justifies the Israeli expansion, or even the UN decision to give Zionists half of Palestine to begin with. None of the Jewish beliefs, that claim Palestine belongs to northern European Jews, are at all credible. The Palestinians they're killing have more Semitic DNA than Benjamin Netanyahu or Bill Maher. Richard the Lionhearted and the Crusaders had every bit as much right to Palestine as the Zionists.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@RememberUsAlways
People stopped speaking Hebrew between 200 and 400 CE, and it remained only as a liturgical language until the 19th Century, much like Latin remained in the Church during the Dark and Middle Ages in Europe. Am I to understand that because Hebrew is "the Holy Language", northern Europeans who revived Hebrew as a spoken liturgical language in the 1800s are justified in a military occupation of Palestine?

paninid, to random
@paninid@mastodon.world avatar

Kids protesting are gonna be sniped from a rooftop or droned for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

Things are different now.

Welcome to the New Normal™ of the globalized #MilitaryAgeMale.

I expected this to occur to voters standing in lines during the elections of 2020.

My forecast was too early.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@paninid
Even if the police SWAT teams don't open fire, you just know some 19 year old freelancer with an AR-15 who's bought the Golden Sneakers will. We're falling behind our record-setting pace from winter and we need a few mass shootings to get back on schedule. These protest crowds are perfect targets -> you're virtually assured of bagging an anti-Trumper and the cops probably won't do much to stop you, just take in you into custody to the cheers of the Christian Nationalists.

Threadbane, to random
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

Things I'd like to see outlawed:
Golf carts -> bring back caddies and put teenagers to work!
Snowmobiles, except for emergency use
Skidoos
ATVs
NASCAR

I hate motorized entertainment.

DrALJONES, to random
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social avatar

Interview with Josh Paul & Noura Erakat...

authors of a scathing report about how the US is arming Israeli war crimes & genocide.

In October, Josh Paul resigned from the US State Dept over its arming of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

He says several other officials have resigned "quietly", unlike his own departure.

The Biden administration may have acted in violation of not just international law, but its own regulations.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/4/26/arming-genocide-new-report-documents-use-of-us-arms-in-israeli-war-crimes

#GazaGenocide #USComplicity ..

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@DrALJONES
What other weapons would they be using!? I know Germany and the UK among others have sent Israel weapons, but the US gives the Zionists money to buy them and surely most of the weapons were from us. Of COURSE the weapons used to gun down and blow up the Palestinians are from the US. I'm sure the US Minister of Zionism, Anthony Blinken, is proud of it. He and his family have been trying to eliminate the Palestinians for generations.

JuliusGoat, to random
@JuliusGoat@mastodon.social avatar

The bribed Supreme Court is ruling on whether or not, for example, Joe Biden, is allowed to order the military to take, for instance, the Supreme Court, and to have them, for example, murdered.

You’d think this would be an easy one but actually it looks like it’s gonna be kind of close.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@JuliusGoat
They're going to shove it back to the lower courts so that Biden will have NONE of the powers they will ultimately grant Defendant Trump, so that Biden won't be able to save the country before the barbarians take over the gov't. The old fixeroo is in because Red states outnumber Blue states, 27-23 and the Republicans plan to nullify the election, throwing the election onto the House floor, with one vote per state. With the help of the SCOTUS, the GOP has destroyed America.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@lin11c @EarthOne24 @JuliusGoat
Had I badmouthed LBJ when I was in USAF I'd have had to stand courts martial and would have probably lost my commission and kicked out with a less than honorable. Biden, as CiC, has the power to demote Mike Flynn and even revoke his commission for, as I recall, "showing disrespect to a superior officer." I suspect that Biden doesn't really grok UCMJ, despite his son having been in the military. I'd love to see Flynn lose his lieutenant general pension and perks.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@lin11c @EarthOne24 @JuliusGoat
Charlie Flynn is Russian asset. Following his malfeasance and dereliction of duty during the Jan 6 insurrection, Biden actually allowed them to promote him to general and give him command of United States Army Pacific. Biden should have demoted him to staff sergeant and revoked his commission for his failure to come to the defense of the Capitol and Congress.

popcornreel, to random
@popcornreel@mas.to avatar

When did you stop trusting the US Supreme Court?

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@popcornreel
1986. I was 43. No-knock search warrants and removal of jury nullification rights from federal guidelines for instructions to the jury.

ColesStreetPothole, to random
@ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network avatar
  1. An ex-president's lawyer is arguing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that presidents can assassinate U.S. citizens with full immunity.
  2. Nearly a dozen universities have called the cops on peaceful anti-war protestors, resulting in hundreds of arrests and clear instances of police brutality.
  3. Texas anti-DEI bill has led to firings of dozens of staff at public universities.

If you don't think fascism is a real threat in the United States, I don't know what to say.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@lednaBM @ColesStreetPothole
We often hear the complaint that there's no way to lock the Defendant up were he found guilty, pointing to problems about security and his SS detail. I've been saying for years now that the solution is Gitmo. Of course! It's where we've locked up terrorists since 2003. Donald should be perfectly safe there.

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@rbreich
Anybody remember the Kasperzy malware protection software? Obama made everybody in the Executive Department, including the DoD, take it off their machines because it was sending dumps to the KGB. One of the first things Trump did was tell everybody to put the Kasperzy spyware back on their machines. Hopefully Biden has ordered it removed again.

GottaLaff, to legal
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

1/…🧵

Via Klasfeld:

Expected first:

The judge may issue his Sandoval rulings, determining what prior bad acts prosecutors can confront Trump with if he testifies.

A key question: "What's fair game?"

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@zachvat @GottaLaff
I cannot for the life of me figure out what "NFL" might stand for. Looking it up is hopeless, since it appears that it can only mean National Football League and nothing else.

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@GottaLaff @zachvat
And I've read your threads for months, but for some reason I hadn't absorbed NFL yet. I apologize for my obliviousness.

ProPublica, to Israel
@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar

Resists U.S. Plan to Bring Sanctions Against Israeli Unit

After months of inaction, Secretary of State Antony is poised to bar U.S. aid to an unit accused of human rights abuses.

https://www.propublica.org/article/netanyahu-resists-blinken-plan-sanction-against-israeli-military-unit

Threadbane,
@Threadbane@newsie.social avatar

@ProPublica
Having Blinken as Secretary of State when the Middle East is ablaze is idiotic. He's a multi-generational Zionist. It's like having a self-proclaimed NAZI as Secretary of State in 1943.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • tacticalgear
  • InstantRegret
  • ngwrru68w68
  • Durango
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • mdbf
  • rosin
  • PowerRangers
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • normalnudes
  • vwfavf
  • hgfsjryuu7
  • cisconetworking
  • osvaldo12
  • everett
  • ethstaker
  • GTA5RPClips
  • khanakhh
  • tester
  • modclub
  • cubers
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • All magazines
    •