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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.

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Guardian: Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/biden-gaza-2024-election

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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,
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@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.

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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!!!

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@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.

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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.

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@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
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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.

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@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.

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

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@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.

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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.

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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 .

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

My forecast was too early.

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@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.

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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.

JuliusGoat, to random
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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.

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@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.

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  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.

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@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.

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    DrALJONES, (edited ) to Israel
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    @DrALJONES
    We (the US gov't) has long been on the wrong side of the LAW in Palestine. The Geneva Conventions were ratified by Congress and are part of the US law code as a result. The Geneva Conventions give occupied countries the right to resist military occupation by any means necessary, so for decades the US has been breaking its own laws by supporting the sadistic Zionists' military occupation.

    Keeping a Zionist on as Secretary of State just asks for trouble in the Middle East.

    Threadbane, to random
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    I see they put lawyer and political adviser, John Podesta, in charge of advising Biden about climate change. I'm surprised they didn't hire a famous football coach or maybe a 4 star chef or Grammy award winner to explain atmospheric physics and the Earth's heat budget, along with the effects of greenhouse gases.

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    Allowing Nikki Haley to spout nonsense in front of a classroom of impressionable children should be punishable as child abuse.
    What a moron. The abominable Chris Christie is the only Republican POTUS contender with a brain. She can't even state the standard "the South will rise again" line, that it was a matter of states' rights including the right of citizens to own slaves if their state allowed it) .

    Threadbane, to DaftPunk
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    The underlying problem in the is that the average (or perhaps "mean" is more appropriate) IQ appears to be about 90.

    Threadbane, to random
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    The admin doesn't get nearly the blame it deserves for our national plight. His/Nancy's Drug War is directly responsible for no-knock search warrants and militarization of the police, for removal of the jury nullification instruction from the standard instructions to juries (in furtherance of the Drug War), the alienation of South and Central America, US alliance with the Vatican and stacking the SCOTUS with Roman Catholics, empowering the Xian Right, dismantling Carter's energy plan...

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    Wow. Turned on the TV to be greeted by railing against Hunter Biden, furious invective normally reserved for gang rapists and mass murders. And Joe Biden is as evil and awful as any president in our history. Chris Christie. Disgusting. Maybe I missed the beginning that would explain it, but I couldn't take more than 20 seconds of it before I went to the weather channel. For some reason I had thought Christie was little less awful, but he's just another psychopathic Republican.

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    , the cable/phone/wireless etc giant, simply won't give up on supporting Trump. Astonishing loyalty. They interviewed two guys at the NY State Fair who both informed the viewers that all the charges against Trump are bogus, that is the victim of Left Wing political persecution. One has to assume there were no Democrats at the fair who thought Trump might, just might, be guilty of something. Never a bad word about originates with Spectrum, every bit as far Right as FOX.

    Threadbane, to Fox
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    has been a Russian asset all along, and the Russians have supported all his activities, from trying to cripple Ukraine to threatening NATO. The and others in Congress, including , are in thick with the Russians. The GOP is crippling the US from within, following the Russian/Soviet plan that has been in place since the 50s. In this light, , , , OANN, etc, aren't pro Trump as much as pro .

    Threadbane, to random
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    The biggest problem I see with sending to prison is that, deprived of KFC and McDonald's, he might live longer.

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    It's depressing to read that 70% of the tattooed primitives who now constitute the American populace believe in . The Founders did all they could to free us from the Divine Right of Kings, but established a US embassy at the monastery in Rome inhabited by a thousand celibate old men. (No, a thousand old men does not constitute a country.) Now the is an arm of the Vatican. What next, the POTUS getting the blessing of the Vicar of Christ?

    Threadbane, to random
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    It looks almost as if Keith Olbermann has also been suspended from mastodon! Maybe I'm just misreading it...anybody know if Olbermann is on mastodon anywhere?

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    @lowqualityfacts
    More people need to know this. You perform an invaluable daily service and we are all grateful, especially my cat who hates Hemingway.
    I would like to add that your notes are hand printed, not handwritten. Handwritten notes are what you see in old black and white movies, made before the collapse of public education.

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    This is me playing Isabel, an easy waltz by Tarrega, based on a theme by Alard. The guitar is a 1974 Masuro Kohno . is in my bio, so this is just to prove I'm not lying. Just a hobbyist. I do not pretend to be good enough to be a professional musician.

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