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All joking aside, if we're looking at impending dictatorship and tyranny then Jan 6th was the beerhall putsch

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'During oral arguments, made by two right-wing attorneys remotely because both have COVID, Gorsuch compared the deadly coronavirus which has killed over 850,000 Americans, to the seasonal flu.

[Supreme Court] Justice Gorsuch told the Court the flu kills "hundreds, thousands of people every year."

[...]

Justice Gorsuch actually laughed when the U.S. Solicitor General called the coronavirus pandemic "terrible."

"Anyone surprised that Gorsuch is the lone justice who refused to wear a mask today?"

https://www.national...-flu-2656321958






'"If they just cover the head or hide the entire mannequin, the angel of Allah will not enter their shop or house and bless them." Taliban orders shop owners to remove heads of mannequins.'

https://www.aljazeer...eads-mannequins

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Anti-Vax Leader to Followers: Drink Your Pee to Fight COVID

Anti-COVID-19 "Vaccine Police" leader Christopher Key [...] "The antidote that we have seen now, and we have tons and tons of research, is urine therapy. OK, and I know to a lot of you this sounds crazy, but guys, God's given us everything we need," Key said in a video posted over the weekend [...] after being released from jail over a trespassing charge. "This has been around for centuries," he added. "When I tell you this, please take it with a grain of salt," [he] warned while saying people might now think he is "cray cray." "Now drink urine!" he continued. "This vaccine is the worst bioweapon I have ever seen," he concluded. "I drink my own urine!"'

https://www.thedaily...f=home?ref=home




'So many Fox News hosts had the direct number to reach Trump at his official residence that it often became a source of frustration for his advisers [...] "There were times the president would come down the next morning and say, 'Well, Sean thinks we should do this,' or, 'Judge Jeanine thinks we should do this,' " Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary, said in reference to Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro.

In some cases, the influence was much more direct. Trump would even dial Hannity and Lou Dobbs into Oval Office staff meetings[...] "A lot of it was PR—what he should be saying and how he should be saying it; he should be going harder against wearing masks or whatever,"'

https://slate.com/ne...f-meetings.html




'A market-based solution to the anti-vaxxer problem

Requiring those unvaccinated by choice to pay for their Covid hospital care is more ethical than mandatory vaccination'

https://www.ft.com/c...18-5363d7f18dc9


'Capitol Rioter Sentenced To Prison Despite Lawyer's Claim His Brain Wasn't Fully Developed At The Time'

https://www.comicsan...2656327527.html

[Tsundoku]

Azath Vitr (D, on 10 January 2022 - 06:49 PM, said:

'Capitol Rioter Sentenced To Prison Despite Lawyer's Claim His Brain Wasn't Fully Developed At The Time'

Surely all the Trumptards could make a very decent case for that defence.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Desperate Kim Jong Un Pleads With Citizens to Make More Poop

North Korea is placing as much emphasis on producing manure as it is on firing missiles, and it doesn't matter whether it comes from people or animals.

While test-firing two missiles in less than a week, North Korea has been waging "the battle for manure," which is far more vital for average North Koreans [...]

[...] the North refused donations from South Korea while demanding an end to U.S. and UN sanctions.

[...] The urgency of the quest "doesn't sound like 'BS' to me," [...]

[...] Just to make sure everyone gets the need to produce enough excrement in a hurry[...] entry into markets is closed to those who fail to fulfill their quotas.

[...] authorities were "essentially pressuring people" to qualify for a "manure pass" just as South Korean citizens need "quarantine passes" certifying they are vaccinated against COVID-19.

[...] people did get one break. Markets this month began opening an hour later in the afternoon, from 3 to 5 rather than 2 to 5, to give "an extra hour to produce manure."

How people are to contribute so much manure in a country where animals are in short supply is not clear, but the term "homemade" comes up frequently in reports in the North Korean media heaping praise on efforts to spread enough manure[...]

[...] "Homemade" by definition covers manure made from excrement of any kind, human or animal, together with weeds, garbage and even ash rich in chemicals. [...]

The North Korean propaganda machine does not frame the struggle in terms of incentives or punishment but reports on the manure campaign with an enthusiasm usually reserved for missile launches.

[...]

Urine is also in demand, according to Radio Free Asia [...]

workers were "forced to bring two liters of urine per person per day to mix into the compost pile until the production goal is achieved" and had to "keep track of their donated urine in a record book."

Such reports seemed intended to increase rivalry among regions as well as officials and individuals for the honor of producing the most manure.'

https://www.thedaily...-make-more-poop




'Chris Ashworth
@Chris_Ashworth

i feel like i might remember this moment in time as the one where the Democrat's biggest idea was that I should ask my insurance company to pay me back for 8 rapid tests that might eventually be delivered in a few weeks'

https://twitter.com/...3D&refsrc=email

'Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests using "Second Amendment rights" against Democrats

[...] "[...] I hate to use this language but Democrats, they're exactly — they're doing exactly what our founders talked about when they gave us the precious rights that we have."

[...]

"No one wants violence and I say all the time I am not a violent person," she told [neo-fascist pseudo-intellectual] Gorka. "I hope to never see a civil war in this country and that's why you hear me toss around 'national divorce.'"'

https://www.alternet...ene-2656392983/




'Sarah Palin Really Doesn't Want Jury to See Her "Masked Singer" Performance in NYT Legal Battle

As Sarah Palin pursues a lawsuit against The New York Times, she has asked that jurors not be allowed to watch footage of the past vice presidential hopeful dancing and singing as a pink and purple bear on FOX's The Masked Singer. [...] Palin claims that should any of the 12 jurors see the reality TV footage, it could cause "unfair prejudice and confusion" [...] Her 2017 lawsuit claims that the newspaper indirectly, and fallaciously, blamed Palin for a 2011 shooting that wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D).

Palin has also asked that other evidence, including her "Palin Instagram Account" and online store "Sarahpalin.com" be barred from the jury, citing that the content may offer "improper character evidence."'

https://www.thedaily...yt-legal-battle

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 12 January 2022 - 08:31 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki [continued: ]

"So the president's view is we're going to keep pushing for hard things.

And we're going to keep pushing the boulder up the hill [... Sisyphus FTW!]"

Psaki says bills on 'ice cream and bunny rabbits' aren't 'rewarding' as she defends stalled agenda | Daily Mail Online



'Donald Trump Droned to Death on the Golf Course In New Animation From Iran's Supreme Leader'

https://www.vice.com...ion-out-of-iran



'Avenatti: Jail Officials Only Let Me Read "Art of the Deal"
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

[...] the disgraced lawyer jailed for extortion after he represented adult-film star Stormy Daniels [...] is seeking $94 million from the government—or $1 million for each day he says he spent behind bars in solitary confinement or lockdown. The suit alleges that Avenatti was only allowed access to one book during his time in jail—Trump's The Art of the Deal. [...] "A federal district court judge has found that I was held under terrible conditions and that it was hard to believe it occurred in the United States of America... I agree and I look forward to holding Trump [...] accountable"'

https://www.thedaily...prison?ref=home

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

New York Times:

'The year is 2086. At an unveiling ceremony in the United States Capitol's Statuary Hall, visitors listen to august speeches about a dark day, long ago, when patriots fought to defend democracy. The crowd breaks into applause as the cloth covering the new statue falls away. Marble megaphone aloft, headdress and horns gleaming, the QAnon shaman of Jan. 6, 2021, takes his place among the heroes of American history.

If it seems far-fetched that a notorious insurgent could be given such a place of honor, the past begs to differ. When the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, was imprisoned after the Civil War (rumored to be dressed at the time of his arrest in his own outlandish costume), he was more reviled and mocked than any Capitol rioter, and his crimes far more serious. His statue joined George Washington's in the Capitol 65 years later.

As curators at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History[...]

It is chilling, but not impossible, to envision the signs screaming "Stop the steal!" picked up on the garbage-strewn National Mall on Jan. 7, 2021, treated one day as patriotic treasures, displayed alongside the writing desk Thomas Jefferson used to draft the Declaration of Independence or the inkwell Abraham Lincoln dipped into to compose the Emancipation Proclamation.

[...] A generation after secession, the renowned historian [...] declared "the judgment of posterity is made up: It was an unrighteous cause which the South defended by arms," at the very moment that statues of Confederate generals were being placed on pedestals throughout the nation. [...]

Judging, it turns out, isn't history's strong suit. Notions of justice change radically over time, and they are not the reason we collect, preserve or display objects from the past. To curators and historians, the evolving meaning of our objects is far more fascinating than whom they label as unrighteous. [...]

[...] no matter who wins the history wars of the future, the horrific attack on the Capitol will likely bore schoolkids one day, quizzed on Bunker Hill, the Compromise of 1850, the Battle of the Bulge and Jan. 6, whatever that was. Our trauma will be their homework.'

There's no controlling what the future will say about us. Generations just keep coming [...]

[...] The best we can do is map our moment scrupulously, to preserve the signposts that will lead to a place we'll never see.'



Opinion | It's 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)


'Jan 6 Rioters Called "Lost and Found" for Items They Left'

https://www.thedaily...purses?ref=home




'[...] Proud Boy Rioter Is Undone by His Embarrassing Modeling Pics

[...] online sleuths used old catwalk photos to identify the man seen wearing Ray Ban sunglasses in photos from the Capitol riot. The unidentified rioter was dubbed "RayBanTerrorist"[...] on the catwalk, modeling a pair of underwear with gold crotch patch. He was arrested in Florida and charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding federal officers, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and civil disorder.'

https://www.thedaily...g-pics?ref=home


'Aging Putin Hopes War Can Make a Sagging Empire Rise Again [not going to settle for viagra and some steroids?...]'

https://www.thedaily...-again?ref=home

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 15 January 2022 - 06:47 PM

[Gorefest]

Mallick Rel springs to mind.

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'The Dallas QAnon Cult Believes JFK Was Disguised as Trump at Arizona Rally

[...] The basis for Protzman's unhinged claim? Trump appeared to be shorter than he should have been.

While the number of people around Protzman in Dallas has dwindled from several hundred to a few dozen in recent weeks, he still commands a huge online following, and some of those watching the rally online claimed to have spotted JFK Jr. and his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (who died in the same plane crash as her husband) in the crowd.

Separately, a rapper called [no free publicity], who is one of Protzman's acolytes, claimed that two people seen behind Trump at the rally were actually Tupac and Kobe Bryant.

Protzman has also convinced his followers that he has a direct line to Trump and this was reinforced when Protzman ushered his followers into a cordoned-off VIP section at the rally right in front of the stage, a sign his followers took to mean that Trump was giving them special treatment.

Also present in the VIP section at the rally was Jim Watkins, the man most responsible for allowing QAnon to flourish on their 8kun message board.

Jim Watkins was at the rally in Arizona to support his son Ron Watkins, who was there to gin up support for his fledgling Congressional campaign in the state. He handed out a bunch of "Trump Won" signs to attendees'

https://www.vice.com...ump-jfk-arizona





'Insurrectionist Who Said He'd Storm Capitol Again Has Tantrum After Being Sent Back to Jail'

https://secondnexus....Q5c2KbAKnqPuX9k





'Florida GOP Considering Bill That Would Force Teachers To Wear Microphones So Parents Could Monitor

[...] In the wake of the huge controversy about the teaching of critical race theory—a gruduate school field of study mistaken for teaching an accurate, non-White supremacist version of history—conservative parents and politicians have been fighting tooth and nail to keep educators from teaching anything that might be critical of a White person to their children.

Thus, Rommel has been attempting to create and implement legislation to allow parents to monitor teachers to be sure their children aren't being taught accurate history. He believes he can do so without infringing on teachers' rights.'

https://www.comicsan...2656415924.html

(Also, no ragging on his father, the general....)

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Read on social media Biden had been 'spotted' volunteering at a food bank in Philadelphia---one of many social media posts about how Biden supposedly goes around doing kind deeds without expecting media recognition.




Where's Waldo Biden?

In reality it was a staged publicity stunt, with news cameras at the ready.



Biden to Philadelphia: 'eat a bag of dicks! Actually, this is what you'll be forced to eat without the BBB. Healthy food! You can't allow that, get out and vote!'


'Filling food boxes and singing the Philadelphia Eagles fight song, "Fly, Eagles, Fly," President Joe Biden returned to Philadelphia[...] The president[...] stood at a U-shaped conveyor belt [...] to pack 27-pound boxes of food destined for Feast of Justice food pantry'

https://www.inquirer...j6Y4tlZ1tbZBH38

Philadelphia news: 'Cold weather, cold-blooded killers, both right now in Philadelphia no matter where you are'





'while many people have been urging President Biden to "focus" on inflation, there have been many fewer suggestions about what he might actually do. (Wander around the White House muttering, "I'm focused, I'm focused"?)'

https://www.nytimes....-antitrust.html


'Ron DeSantis Opens Antibody Centers That Are Useless Against Omicron

[...] Last month, DeSantis [...] touted monoclonal antibodies as the answer to the COVID crisis. His surgeon general, Joe Ladapo, described vaccines, masks, and testing as a "trifecta" of "lunacy."

Omicron had already begun to spread in Florida and elsewhere, so quickly that it was soon responsible for the overwhelming majority of new cases. The federal government stopped distributing two of the three major monoclonal antibody treatments—Regeneron and bamlanivimab—on the grounds they were ineffective against the new variants. [...]

DeSantis accused the Biden administration of falling victim to "hysteria." Lapado [...] wrote [...] "The federal government is is actively preventing the effective distribution of antibody treatments in the U.S." Never mind that it was because the treatments themselves are ineffective.

"It's equivalent to giving them a placebo," [...]

But on Jan. 7, the Biden administration caved. DeSantis reported that Florida had secured 15,000 doses of Regeneron. He announced that they would be distributed at five new sites.

By all reports, there was a big turnout.[...]

DeSantis himself may hope the monoclonal sham will help people forget that he allowed a million at-home kits to expire while people were waiting hours in line to get tested. He initially denied that such a stockpile existed and was joined by Ladapo in scoffing at people who clamored to get tested.'

https://www.thedaily...against-omicrom




'Putin to Ukraine: "Marry Me or I'll Kill You"

[...] Putin is a one-man psychodrama, with a giant inferiority complex toward America that leaves him always stalking the world with a chip on his shoulder so big it's amazing he can fit through any door.

Let's see: Putin is a modern-day Peter the Great out to restore the glory of Mother Russia. He's a retired K.G.B. agent who simply refuses to come in from the cold and still sees the C.I.A. under every rock and behind every opponent. He's America's ex-boyfriend-from-hell, who refuses to let us ignore him and date other countries, like China — because he always measures his status in the world in relation to us. [...]

"Putin has forged a nation of war that has battened the hatches and looks at the world through a lookout slit of a tank. … The degree of military-patriotic hysteria [in] Russia today brings to mind the U.S.S.R. of the 1930s, the era of athletes' parades, tank mock-ups and dirigibles."

[...] Putin is a thug, but he's a thug with an authentic Russian cultural soul that resonates with his people. His obsession with the Soviet Union and his nostalgia for the power, glory and dignity it gave him and his generation of Russians run deep. He was not exaggerating when he declared [...] that the breakup of the Soviet Union was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.

[...]

[...] I don't weep for Putin. He is the human embodiment of one of the oldest Russian fables: A Russian peasant pleads to God for aid after he sees that his better-off neighbor has just obtained a cow. When God asks the peasant how he can help, the peasant says, "Kill my neighbor's cow."'

https://www.nytimes....in-ukraine.html

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 19 January 2022 - 11:17 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton is genuinely regarded as one of the finest business schools in the country [...]

[...] professor of legal studies and business ethics[...] asked students what the average American makes. They did not do well.

"I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. One of them thought it was $800k. Really not sure what to make of this (The real number is $45k)"

The tweet triggered a firestorm of responses[...]

"Don't you think business students at Wharton should have to do one of those simulations where they have to live like people on 45k for a week? A reality show?"

[...]

"I think you could deduce from this that there are a lot of legacy admits at Wharton. (Notable ones: the Trump kids, including Ivanka who, when told that libertarian and liberal were not the same thing, replied, 'I'll take it under advisement'")"'

https://www.marketwa...ss=1&siteid=rss




'True believers will tell you that the cryptocurrency movement—and the utopian digital economy it ostensibly envisions—transcends our current politics. Nobody looped in Josh Mandel. The MAGA diehard, who's currently running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, praises Bitcoin as stridently as he flogs every dead horse of the culture wars. When he served as Ohio's treasurer, Mandel made it the first state to accept tax payments in Bitcoin. (Ohio's attorney general later found that Mandel's unapproved actions violated the law.) Nowadays, Mandel is trying, somewhat jarringly, to shoehorn the technology into a nationalist vision of the heartland.

Josh Mandel
@JoshMandelOhio
States that submit to the authority of Almighty God // states that don't

States that are pro-family // states that aren't

States that invest in #bitcoin infrastructure // states that won't

Ohio must be a pro-God, pro-family, pro-bitcoin state.

I promise we will be.'

https://slate.com/te...osh-mandel.html

Hmm. Since they've been trained to 'submit to the authority of Almighty God', they'll do the same for Big Tech?... (Maybe start with getting Trump to submit... replace him with immortal robo-Trump(s)?)




'Big Tech is coming to kill us all.

Governments are moving to stop them.

I don't want to write about whether Big Tech is "too big." It most certainly is. But can efforts to regulate or break them up [...] limit their power?

[...] the focus on "network effects" obscures another advantage Big Tech has that other industries do not: free money. Amidst all the documentaries on our data, people miss that financial markets are paying these companies to dominate.

How did investors shift away from looking for high profits to paying for moonshots? It all starts with everyone's favorite billionaire, Jeff Bezos.

[...] For many years, Wall Street remained cynical. Even in 2015, my professor at Columbia - the famed Bruce Greenwald, "the guru to the gurus" - mocked the Fire phone as a waste of money and declared he was directly shorting it.

The stock has gone up 700% since then.'

https://startupsande...cost-of-capital




'Biden Wonders "What Happened" to Congress as Agenda Dies'

https://www.thedaily...a-dies?ref=home


'How Big of a Mistake Did Biden Just Make on Ukraine?

Did President Biden just tell [...] Putin that it might be OK to launch a "minor incursion" into Ukraine?

[...] Biden said that precisely how Putin will be held accountable "depends on what he does." If he mounts "a minor incursion," Biden said, "there are differences within NATO about what countries are willing to do." If it's "a major invasion," there will be "severe costs" and "significant harm" for "Russia and the Russian economy."

So was Biden saying Russia might not incur severe costs and significant harm, if Putin mounts merely a "minor incursion"? And what is a minor incursion? Just another salami slice of eastern Ukraine[? ...]

As major news outlets sent push alerts with Biden's comments, White House press secretary Jen Psaki rushed to the rescue with a clarifying statement[...]

Good work, but as the entire world already noticed, that's not what President Biden said at all. Or it is what he said at one point during the news conference, but not at another point. Psaki then created her own round of confusion with what her statement went on to say:

"President Biden also knows from long experience that the Russians have an extensive playbook of aggression short of military action, including cyberattacks and paramilitary tactics. And he affirmed today that those acts of Russian aggression will be met with a decisive, reciprocal, and united response."

What does she mean by "reciprocal" response? That the U.S. and NATO will match cyberattacks with cyberattacks, paramilitary tactics with paramilitary tactics—and, by extension, an invasion with a counter-invasion?'

https://slate.com/ne...-incursion.html





'Trump's Favorite "Demon Sperm" Doc Now Suggests Praying the COVID Vax Away

[...] "Every time we have prayed for people that have taken the vaccine because it is Luciferian," she said at megachurch pastor [...]'s ReAwaken America Tour stop in Arizona. "[At] the mention of the name of Jesus, every knee bows." Immanuel further floated the idea of prayer reversing the effects of a vaccine merely with the utterance of Jesus' name. "Each time we pray for people that have taken the vax, something, there is a reaction. A needle poke, the hands start shaking, and we cast this stuff out of people," the [...] pediatrician added, while implying that the vaccine is the "devil" which one "must come at" with "the name of Jesus."'

https://www.thedaily...f=home?ref=home


'Trump Supporters Allegedly Forced To Pee Their Pants While Waiting Hours To Leave Rally

[...] These included a man who yelled that the Secret Service, tasked with providing Trump and his family with protection, "can go f*ck themselves" and a woman who likened the situation to "false imprisonment."

[...] According to the woman, who wore a red vest with a USA pin on the lapel, she had never had "freedom restricted like this" before

"I had the same reaction when the Orange guy "won" in 2016. I peed in my pants too. There were other bodily functions in action though I won't bore you."'

https://www.comicsan...2656426132.html

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Tucker Carlson Mocks Woke M&Ms Characters as "Deeply Unappealing and Totally Androgynous"

[...] "The green M&M, you will notice, is no longer wearing sexy boots. Now she's wearing sensible sneakers. Why the change? Well according to M&Ms, 'We all win when we see more women in leading roles.'

[...] "[...] leading women do not wear sexy boots, leading women wear frumpy shoes. The frumpier the better."

"The other big change is that the brown M&M has 'transitioned from high stilettos to lower block heels,' also less sexy. That's progress. M&Ms will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous. Until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them. That's the goal. When you are totally turned off, we've achieved equity. They've won.

Meanwhile, in a nod to the burgeoning wellness movement, the orange M&M will 'acknowledge and embrace his anxiety.' And actually if you look at him, the orange M&M does appear very anxious. Maybe he doesn't like all the ugly new shoes he sees around him. Maybe he liked the sexy boots. Maybe the orange M&M is a secret sexist himself."'

https://www.mediaite...ly-androgynous/




'Harris laughed when CBS Mornings host [...] asked [...] if the administration believes they have the coronavirus pandemic "under control"'

https://www.dailymai...auguration.html


'"One potential solution - if you cannot beat them, join them.
In January of 2025, Kamala Harris rejects all EC votes from red states.
Suck that up Republicans."

[...]

"I'd support it.
Biden would make a great benevolent dictator AKA President for Life."

[...]

"Especially since an eighty year old doesn't have that much life left to be president for."

"Leave it to the Democrats to install an octogenarian as president for life."'

https://slate.com/co...uppression.html

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'In one particularly vitriolic post about how COVID control measures are acts of illogical tyranny, he says masks are "associated with slavery [and] gimp-hood."'

https://www.thedaily...elieve-anything

New York Times:




'President Biden's Economy Is Failing the Big Mac Test

[...] "By most traditional metrics, the pace of our current recovery has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations."

Most Americans don't share the administration's sunny view of its economic record, and it is little mystery why: The average worker's paycheck doesn't buy as many hamburgers as it did last year.'

https://www.nytimes....on-economy.html




#We'reDoomed

Biden holds up a bag of carrots... Trump poses in front of a pile of steaks. #SoMuchForDemocracy


'No, McDonald's Isn't Charging a "Caucasian" Service Fee

[...] image mocked up to look like a message from the restaurant chain circulated online.

[...] "As an insurance measure, due in part to the recent coup attempt of the Capital (sic) earlier this year, all Caucasian customers are required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transaction."

McDonald's has no such policy, but the image appears to be a variation of a similar internet post.

In 2012, a similar image with similar wording circulated online claiming that McDonald's was instituting an additional $1.50 fee on Black customers.'

https://www.snopes.c...-caucasian-fee/



'The question is no longer Donald Trump's criminality but whether America will care

[...] In a year when the fate of U.S. democracy is [...] competing with the price of burritos [...] for the attention of voters, there is the very real possibility of learning in prime time that our president was a crook — and then doing nothing. And that feels like it could be the actual fatal blow for our American Experiment.'

https://www.inquirer...n-20220123.html



'Only Putin Knows What Happens Next

[...] Americans might be right that Putin is on "the wrong side of history," but they will not deter him from invading Ukraine by talking to him as if he's failing a graduate seminar in international relations.

[...] If Americans were truly willing to go after the Russian elites who work below Putin, the United States might have leverage, but this would mean outing the locations of oligarchical wealth, freezing assets in places such as London (which is practically a Russian bank vault these days) [...]

[...] Putin's advisers are no doubt smiling confidently at a White House staff with which they are already familiar and whose last bold move on Ukraine back in 2014 was to run a hashtag campaign on Twitter.'

https://www.theatlan...utm_source=feed

[Malankazooie]

I've been slacking of late as it relates to this thread.



I hope this is contemporary with the times and meets quality standards.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'A defamation trial pitting Sarah Palin against The New York Times was supposed to get started first thing Monday morning[...] But at the start of the trial [...] the judge had an announcement to make. "Ms. Palin has tested positive for coronavirus. She is of course unvaccinated,"'

https://www.thedaily...-trial?ref=home

'Sarah Palin Dines Indoors the Evening Before Testing Positive for COVID
NOT HUNGRY

[...] Palin dined at Elio's, an Italian restaurant on New York's Upper East Side while in town for her defamation suit[...] Elio's manager [...] confirmed that though staff consistently check vaccination cards for all guests, as is required by law, the staff that evening "just made a mistake" [... Palin] "just walked in and strolled over," without being asked to show a vaccination card'

https://www.thedaily...-covid?ref=home








'Video Shows Trump Suffering His Own "Please Clap" Moment at Mar-a-Lago

Six years after Jeb Bush secured his place in meme history as the "please clap" guy, the same fate has befallen Donald Trump. [... Trump] can be seen [...] getting absolutely no reaction until he waggles his little hands at them. Trump then gets a few whoops and claps and, finally satisfied with the reaction he had demanded, gives his fans a double thumbs-up[...] then slinks off the scene.'

https://www.thedaily...ago-video-shows

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Actor Jon Voight:




'In his early life, Voight's political views aligned with American liberal views [...]

In a [...] 2008, op-ed [...] Voight [...] criticized [...] Barack Obama's bid to become president, claiming that the Democrats had created "a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure (Obama)" who would "demoralize this country and help create a socialist America". He claimed that Obama had grown up with the teachings of very angry, militant white and black people around him.'

Jon Voight - Wikipedia

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Jerry Falwell Jr. Reportedly Took Testosterone In Attempt To Win Wife Back After Pool Boy Affair

[...] Evangelical Christian leader and notoriously right-leaning Falwell Jr. [...]

[...] Falwell [said] his wife's affair with Granda became something of a running gag in his family, with his children even creating "Where's Becki" T-shirts which they would wear when she went off on extended visits with [the pool boy] Granda.

[...] in an effort to win Becki back, Falwell began meeting with a physical trainer and began taking testosterone supplements.

Falwell Jr. would also blame some of his highly publicized and highly undignified behavior—such as a controversial Instagram post featuring a man in black-face posing with a member of the KKK or a picture of himself with his pants unzipped embracing a bare-bellied pregnant woman—on the side effects from "supplements."'

'"Jerry Falwell, Jr blames erratic behavior on the testosterone he took to try win his wife back from the pool boy who he had previously enjoyed watching her have sex with.

I'm going to take a shower. I feel dirty."'

https://www.comicsan...2656470317.html





'The Fox News correspondent shouted out, asking if the president was worried that rising inflation had become a political liability. Biden, sarcastically muttering loudly enough to be caught by microphones, replied: "That's a great asset—more inflation." [What I hear is "no it's a great asset, more inflation"....]

He then added: "What a stupid son of a bitch!"

Moments later, Doocy found himself talking about the president insulting him on one of cable television's most-watched programs[...]

"I think the president's right," co-host [...] quipped. "You are a stupid S.O.B."

"Nobody has fact-checked him yet and said it's not true," Doocy replied.'

https://www.thedaily...-bitch?ref=home

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'Melania Trump is set to lose out on tens of thousands of dollars after a crash in the cryptocurrency market unfortunately coincided with her attempting to auction off one of her stylish hats. [She ...] was trying to hawk a white hat she wore to greet [...] Macron [...] alongside a watercolor of her wearing it and an NFT that shows an animated recreation of her sporting the [...] hat. Bids were only accepted in a cryptocurrency called SOL[...] only five bids had been made as of Tuesday evening, with the top offers standing at a cash equivalent of $170,000—far below the minimum bid.'

https://www.thedaily...sedive?ref=home




'Eric Trump, as executive vice president of the Trump Organization, likes to have his finger on the pulse of cutting-edge developments, especially when it comes to the use of his family's name on products that could potentially make him more money.

So when he stumbled across "Trumpcoin" this week, he needed to get the word out there to his supporters.

"Fraud Alert," he warned his 4 million Twitter followers. "It has come to our attention that someone is promoting a crypto currency called 'TrumpCoin' (Symbol 'TRUMP'). This has NOTHING to do with our family, we do not authorize the use and we are in no way affiliated with this group. Legal action will be taken."

Unfortunately for Eric, the Trumpcoin token has been out there for the last six years; it launched in 2016[...]

[...] ""The TrumpCoin Patriot loves Freedom, God, Family and feels a sense of pride in contributing to society. They stand up against corruption, support integrity, preserve our individual rights in a free society and respect those flags around the world that represent freedom."

[... Donald Trump] has been highly critical of cryptocurrencies, last year calling Bitcoin “a scam against the dollar.”'

https://www.vice.com...named-after-him





'What in the World Are Biden and Putin Up To?

[...] A source supposedly close to Ukrainian President [...] Zelensky [... said] Zelensky "does not think there's any remotely imminent threat to Kyiv," adding, "Quite frankly these Americans are safer in Kyiv than they are in Los Angeles … or any other crime-ridden city in the U.S."'

https://slate.com/ne...rmany-nato.html

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'Russians Fear Tucker Carlson's Pro-Putin Bias Is Too Blatant
KEEP IT PLAUSIBLE

[...Host of Russian propaganda tv show "60 Minutes"] fawned over Carlson by describing him as one of the "voices of truth and reason" and complained that the host of the most-watched show in all of cable news with millions of viewers is being "silenced and marginalized." [...] Popov demonstrated his affinity for Carlson by introducing him as "practically our co-host."

[...] Popov dismissed the entire population of the United States as being uneducated or indifferent to the fate of Ukraine—or both.

[...] Russian independent television [...] noted Carlson's bizarre fealty to the Kremlin. [...] "Sometimes it seems that he attends advanced training courses at the Russian Foreign Ministry."

[...] New Jersey Congressman Tom Malinowski wrote on Twitter: "My office is now getting calls from folks who say they watch Tucker Carlson and are upset that we're not siding with Russia in its threats to invade Ukraine, and who want me to support Russia's 'reasonable' positions."'

https://www.thedaily...says?ref=scroll




'The House Select Committee investigating [...] January 6 issued a letter last week asking to sit down with Ivanka Trump[...]

[... Donald] said of the effort:

'"It's a disgrace, what's going on. They're using these things to try and get people's minds off how incompetently our country is being run. And they don't care. They'll go after children."

It's an interesting claim coming from Donald Trump—but not because Ivanka is a 40 year old woman. [...]

" *laughs in hunter biden* "

""They'll go after children!" says man who based his entire reelection campaign on attacking Hunter Biden."'

https://secondnexus....-after-children


'Eric Trump Gets Swiftly Fact-Checked After Claiming His Dad Worked "24 Hours a Day" While in Office'

https://secondnexus....p-24-hours-work




'The Right Is Losing Its Mind at the Idea of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court

[...] Dilbert creator and conservative Twitter personality Scott Adams reached for the most tired joke imaginable by saying he would "self-identify as a Black woman" until Biden makes his pick. "I realize it's a long shot, but I don't want to completely take myself out of the conversation for the job," [...]

[...] former National Rifle Association spokesperson and a radio and TV host, similarly said [...] Biden would "nominate some crazy multi-pronoun cat humanoid."'

https://www.vice.com...e-supreme-court