[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Down the shitter in the great flush, on 31 May 2022 - 06:17 PM, said:

Is there a specific quote this is riffing off of? (The Babylon Bee is of course satire.) Closest recent one I found seems to be:

https://www.youtube....rts/w0a6kk0prA0

... not as visible in this (Twitter viral) truncation of the screen, but when she says it the second time she gestures outwards with her arms---she means 'the children of the community' should be considered not just as the children of their parents who live in the community, but the 'children of the community'---the community itself is responsible for raising and protecting them. Basically, 'it takes a village'.


'Life Is Cheap in America. That's What Makes Us Exceptional.
LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE DEAD'

Life Is Cheap in America. That's What Makes Us Exceptional.

'Trump Pushes Bizarre "Voter Fraud" Claim After Kemp Defeats His Pick in Georgia

[...] argued that Kemp's victory was "suspect" because a Trump endorsement is "the single most powerful force in the universe of American politics," speculated that "obvious fraud" had rigged the election results.'

Trump Pushes Bizarre 'Voter Fraud' Claim After Kemp Defeats His Pick in Georgia

'Republicans Are Getting Really "Sick" of Trump's "B*tching"'

Republicans Are Getting Really 'Sick' of Trump's 'Bitching'

'Ukrainians Blast Cringey Bloopers From Russian Propaganda
OOPSA DAISY

Fighters from the Russian republic of Chechnya who have been recruited to fight in the war in Ukraine have been making videos of their attempts to look courageous and mighty in the war. But the videos appear to be staged[...]

The outtakes show multiple fighters appearing to giggle while handling and firing weapons into a forest of trees[...]

Turns out, "after all, instead of fighting with Ukrainian defenders, these 'Putinians' are heroically fighting with... pines in the forests"'

Bloopers and Outtakes of Russia's Military Propaganda From Chechen Fighters in Ukraine

... windmills are next (if Trump hasn't finished them off by then...).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 31 May 2022 - 07:46 PM

[Briar King]

I’m pretty sure it was a riff of her when asked to explain in layman’s terms Russia v Ukraine just with a spin on monkey pox.

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a man who once blamed masks for his COVID diagnosis and wondered if the National Forest Service was altering the moon's orbit, was back at it [...] After defending his over-the-top outburst at Thursday's gun control House hearing, [...] took to Newsmax to react to former Trump adviser Peter Navarro's indictment for criminal contempt of Congress. [...] "If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you," the MAGA lawmaker actually said. Adding that "they'll bury you," Gohmert [...] went on to complain that Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was recently found not guilty of lying to the FBI.'

Louie Gohmert: It's Unfair That Republicans 'Can't Even Lie to Congress' or the FBI! (thedailybeast.com)

[worry]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Briar King]

[Briar King]

[worry]

He did actually say something funny today though, so credit where it's due.

[Aptorian]

Changed the title since the orange clown no longer has the central stage.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'The Completely Logical Reason Why a Bee Can Be Considered a Fish Now

At least in California.

[...] the Center for Food Safety, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, and the Defenders of Wildlife petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to include [...] bumblebees in the list of endangered species [...] At the heart of their argument was Section 45 of the California Endangered Species Act, which defines a fish as a "wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian[...]" They successfully argued that the inclusion of the word invertebrate technically allows the act to cover all invertebrates, not just aquatic ones.

[...] Bees are not the only species to be reidentified as fish on a technicality; in the 17th century, the Catholic Church allowed residents of what is now Quebec to eat beaver meat during Lent. The semiaquatic rodent was considered a fish because it lives part of its life in the sea, which has medieval precedent. [...]

[...] If that were not enough, the defendants came prepared with proof that a terrestrial mollusk has been protected under the CESA since 1980: the Trinity bristle snail. Not only does this prove that aquatic is not implied in the definition of fish, it's also proof that the CESA is already protecting terrestrial invertebrates (mollusks are invertebrates) and therefore should extend protections to the endangered bee species.

It's unclear whether this is a permanent victory, as the agricultural groups may decide to take the case to the California Supreme Court.

[...] "one out of every three bites of food we eat [comes] from a crop pollinated by bees." And with more than one-quarter of all North American bumblebees at risk of extinction, our crops will need all the support they can get. So move over, beavers (and muskrats, and capybaras): Bees are fish too.'

Why a bee can be considered a fish.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Briar King]

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

The price of gas has been higher before, and we're all still driving cars.

[worry]

Pretty sure that’s a pro-Biden cartoon, though still beholden to the misapprehension that the president determines gas prices. Why else would it depict a utopian post-car society?

[Briar King]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

(What makes this funny is the idea of a MAGA Republican proposing anything so rational... they'd prefer a modern update of one of those animatronic Jesus bots bearing 'big beautiful' AR15's (and be sure to give Jesus Trump's hair-cut---shining, gilded...)....)

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 05 June 2022 - 03:49 PM

[LinearPhilosopher]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 05 June 2022 - 02:04 AM, said:

The price of gas has been higher before, and we're all still driving cars.

Not sure where you are on the globe but we're setting record after record in canada.

It's ridiculous! If it wasn't for the fact I work from home I probably would have quit my old job.

[worry]

I think Whisp means when adjusted for inflation, which is true, gas has definitely been higher. Which isn't to say it doesn't suck for most people, since along with artificially inflated gas prices we have artificially limited incomes. And by artificial I don't just mean manmade, since these are all manmade systems, but additional willful and deliberate thumbs on the scale. Just kinda funny how this one coincides with what seems to be a global war on democratic norms by lowest common denominator populist kleptocrats. Makes one wonder, perhaps, where along the political spectrum our world's esteemed oil cartels typically align.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

worry, on 05 June 2022 - 09:56 PM, said:

I think Whisp means when adjusted for inflation, which is true, gas has definitely been higher. Which isn't to say it doesn't suck for most people, since along with artificially inflated gas prices we have artificially limited incomes. And by artificial I don't just mean manmade, since these are all manmade systems, but additional willful and deliberate thumbs on the scale. Just kinda funny how this one coincides with what seems to be a global war on democratic norms by lowest common denominator populist kleptocrats. Makes one wonder, perhaps, where along the political spectrum our world's esteemed oil cartels typically align.

Correct, that is what I meant