[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Malankazooie]

A mishmash.



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https://www.thedaily...rnobyl-trenches

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[Malankazooie]

Joke from Bill Maher's show: "Did you hear Caitlyn Jenner is joining Fox News? Now they'll have two tuckers."

Heyooooo!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Invincible?'

Marjorie Taylor Greene [...]: Is she invincible? (slate.com)

'How Trump tried to rewrite history during a conversation with a Princeton historian

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"[...] he construed the presidency as a forum to prove his dealmaking prowess;[...] he sought flattery and believed too much of his own spin; [...] dismissed substantive criticism as misinformed, politically motivated, ethically compromised, or otherwise cynical. He demonstrated a limited historical worldview: When praising the virtues of press releases over tweets — because the former are more elegant and lengthier — he sounded as if he himself had discovered that old form of presidential communication. [...]

A recurring theme during the Zoom conversation[...] was that "the best and brightest didn't always know what they were talking about, unlike hardworking people who lived by common sense, as he did."'

How Trump tried to rewrite history during a conversation with a Princeton historian - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

'MAGA Voters Believe Space Force Martial Law Will Reinstate Trump'

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[Malankazooie]

Dr. Oz's major brand identifier is examining turds. And right now Putin is the biggest turd on the planet. So that kiddos explains the correlation between a recent post in the US Policy/Russian interest thread.

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Easter message from Trump and from Biden. I know it's Trump's brand, but damn, it would be nice if he once didn't come off like a petty asshole. He did wish happiness, health and wealth, so that was nice of him I guess. Not sure why the evangelicals have thrown all in with Trump. Biden won't get another four years, hell I don't think he's going to make it through this first term. Nice Easter message though. I guess the evangelicals don't like him because he identifies as strong catholic? dunno.

https://www.nbcnews....erica-rcna14869

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Macron’s Chest Hair Brings Thirst to the French Election
UN PETIT SELLECK, NON?'

Emmanuel Macron’s Chest Hair Brings Thirst to the French Election (thedailybeast.com)

... don't even want to imagine picturing Trump shirtless... though if he were, I'd hope for a shit ton of hair to cover all that (though it would more likely be lost in the folds of rippling flesh...).


'[Trucker] Convoy Can’t Stop Their Own Dogs From Peeing on Their Food

“I do have to do something about the dogs,” trucker [...] alias Grey Wolf[...] “I am trying to figure out how to be sensitive enough to let the people with the dogs know that their dogs are peeing on our food.” “We caught male dogs peeing on it,” he continued while stressing that “food has to be thrown away” that was urinated on by the canines at their makeshift camp. “We cannot have the dogs where we are keeping the food.” [...], members of the convoy at the campsite were left to argue over where dogs at the camp should and shouldn’t be allowed to roam. Since leaving the Washington, D.C., area, the anti-COVID-19 vaccine convoy has drastically become smaller, with most losing interest after accomplishing very little besides burning fuel.'

The People’s Convoy Can’t Stop Their Own Dogs From Peeing on Their Food (thedailybeast.com)

[Malankazooie]

I don't ascribe to this. DeathSantis is a POS. When he mocked those kids for wearing masks I wish one of them would have kicked him in the balls. But I also loathe Disney and find their corporate position on various subjects contemptible (*cough China *cough). So lettin' it rip and the chips fall where the may.



Also, cool depiction of a cat.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'In transcripts of a[...] deposition [... Trump] insisted tomatoes, pineapples, and bananas can be "very dangerous" weapons that justify violent acts of "self-defense."

Of particular interest to lawyers representing the protesters were Trump's remarks during a campaign speech [...] in which he told attendees: "If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?"

Asked why he made that specific request, Trump testified that his campaign had received a threat that day. "They were going to throw fruit," he claimed. "And you get hit with fruit, it's—no, it's very violent stuff. We were on alert for that."

[...] plaintiffs' lawyer [...] dryly remarked, "A tomato is a fruit after all, I guess," and Trump's attorney [...] jumped in to confirm: "It has seeds."

[... Trump:] "very dangerous stuff." [Trump] noted: "You can get killed with those things."

Asked whether he was trying to "incentivize people to engage in violence," [Trump] responded: "No, I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit."

Trump continued [...]: "And some fruit is a lot worse than—tomatoes are bad, by the way. But it's very dangerous. No, I wanted them to watch. They were on alert. I remember that specific event because everybody was on alert. They were going to hit, they were going to hit hard."

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"And getting aggressive includes the use of physical force?" the cross-examining lawyer followed up.

"To stop somebody from throwing pineapples, tomatoes, bananas, stuff like that, yeah," Trump replied. "It's dangerous stuff."'

Trump Warns of Killer 'Tomatoes, Pineapples, and Bananas' in Court Docs (thedailybeast.com)

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'billionaire Peter Thiel, a strong Trump backer, had been urging Musk to get involved. Thiel is also a strong backer of Trump-aligned MAGA candidates.

So it's no wonder that Musk responded to AOC in a most vile manner, sexualizing her remarks, which was a dog whistle – if not a clarion call – to the misogynistic far right, who came barking with glee.

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"This is how the owner of this platform is choosing to engage with elected female officials. The misogyny is staggering."

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Here's how the far-right responded to Musk's tweet:

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can you imagine how angry this must be making her?
you could power a continent by just sticking a turbine near the steam bellowing out of her ears. https://t.co/tBoYNl14Cl — Saurabh Sharma (@ssharmaUS) April 29, 2022

Sparks are flying. Love is in the air. https://t.co/Q0lxV8bgXz
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays)'

Elon Musk's attack on AOC draws far right Twitter trolls – and charges of 'staggering' misogyny - Alternet.org

'Elon Musk
@elonmusk

The far left hates everyone, themselves included!

[what Twitter displays below this by default:]

CHIZ 🇺🇸
@CHIZMAGA

Elon Musk says he tried to buy the Biden Family but China refused to sell.

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Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr

If my father becomes President again, I think I'll throw my name in the hat to head the Ministry of Truth. People should be fine with this given the other sides appointment.

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Randy Quaid
@RandyRRQuaid

To the left and right THANKS TO
@elonmusk
it's now legal again to open my Twitter mouth and start spewing out whatever my brain thinks. Ready? 123 🗣 TRUMP WON! How sad that anyone in America wanted to prevent me from saying what was on my mind!

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DeSantis has already begun acting to fight Biden's Ministry of Truth... Where's EVERY GOP member of Congress?

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@elonmusk
has become the new Trump for the Left.

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(20) Elon Musk on Twitter: "The far left hates everyone, themselves included!" / Twitter

[Gorefest]

Is that the American far left (i.e centrists) or the international far left? I never know with US commentators.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Gorefest, on 30 April 2022 - 10:06 PM, said:

Is that the American far left (i.e centrists) or the international far left? I never know with US commentators.

Means at least 'the "woke" far left' (doubt he'd be excluding the extension of 'identity politics' through the Anglosphere, or to France (with significant backlash from the far left), rest of Europe, etc.), though it's easy to come up with (specious) arguments for why Socialists or Communists 'hate everyone including themselves' (usual nonsense about how Socialism can never possibly work and Communism inevitably ends in mass murder police state---though I think they usually omit the 'police' part, since 'police state' might sound appealing to many of them...).

[Tiste Simeon]

Gorefest, on 30 April 2022 - 10:06 PM, said:

Is that the American far left (i.e centrists) or the international far left? I never know with US commentators.

A large percentage of Americans seem to think Biden is far left which is quite a source of amusement to me.

[Malankazooie]

Was this guy gripping down on the crankshaft of his tractor in the House of Commons or something?

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Sam Alito: Womb Emperor

The most powerful policymaker in the country.'

Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade shows his ambition to be the most powerful policymaker in the country. (slate.com)

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https://twitter.com/...937595947040770

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'In late August, Barnette hosted a man named Douglas Frank for a discussion of the coronavirus in a video interview. Frank, an administrator and [elementary school] teacher [...] had compiled data assessing the progress of the pandemic [...] and arrived at a determination that [...] The virus had run its course. A Facebook post making that point went viral, prompting the Associated Press to debunk it. (History has since debunked it further.) [...] but he made up for it with lots of visually interesting, complicated graphs.

[...] When she decided after the 2020 election that something suspect must have happened, she contacted Frank. Frank's analysis showed what Barnette might have hoped: There were tens of thousands of votes cast in Montgomery County that weren't connected to real people. [...]

Frank took data on turnout by age from individual counties and then averaged rates across a handful of counties. He then compared that average to counties across the state, finding that they all correlated strongly — something he attributed to an unnatural introduction of an algorithm. But of course, there's a much simpler explanation. Turnout patterns by age are consistent both within and across elections, with younger voters turning out less than older ones. What he was doing was the equivalent of averaging four of Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash times and announcing that the average was remarkably close to the times in his other races. Which: Of course.

But it all sounded complicated. He talked about "sixth-order polynomials" and had lots of charts and discussed r-correlation values. To a layperson, it seemed like an expert trying to convey complicated insights. To experts, it seemed like a layperson trying to feign complicated insights.

"I don't think she thought of me as an election person, which I'm not," Frank told the Inquirer somewhat incongruously.

[...] "Barnette and a team of about 100 volunteers spend four days [...] knocking on doors," [...] "About a third of the homes they visited 'had something awry going on,' Barnette said." That's what Frank said [...] too [...] "we found about 30-32 percent of the doors we knocked on had at least one phantom voter."

Now, it's important to recognize why this is dubious. [...] Even with 100 people working for four days, you are not going to be able to confirm the identity of 1,600 residents, as anyone who's ever done a door-knocking effort can attest. People aren't home. People move. People don't answer the door to strangers. It's harder than it sounds. So we don't know what the denominator of that 30 percent figure is. We do know, though, that there does not appear to have been any law enforcement action[...]

Despite that, Frank soon became a minor celebrity on the election-fraud circuit. He spoke at a Trump rally in Ohio, where he applied his magical polynomial to the state's results to find the same "evidence of fraud," by which I mean he discovered that turnout patterns were consistent there, too.'

One chain of fraud falsehoods extends back to a GOP Senate candidate - The Washington Post