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Happy Tuesday morning, Gnusies! It seems like the daily news has settled into an annoyingly predictable pattern: endless stories about the BLOAT�and his increasingly unhinged acolytes, ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Tusk Dents in the Wainscoting Sometimes courage fails, comfort overrides justice and we ignore the obvious to enthuse the trivial. In parlors and pantries with tusk dents in the wainscoting, we gaze down, wondering aloud, how the carpet became so...
by ruleoflaw
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 12:20 PM PST
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When I learned about the massive financial penalty imposed on Donald Trump, fraudster extraordinaire, I was delighted. Schadenfreude: taking pleasure in the pain or discomfort of others. It is derived from the German, compounded of “Schaden” (harm or...
by dpbarash
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 05:05 PM PST
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When I learned about the massive financial penalty imposed on Donald Trump, fraudster extraordinaire, I was delighted. Schadenfreude: taking pleasure in the pain or discomfort of others. It is derived from the German, compounded of “Schaden” (harm or...
by dpbarash
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 09:54 AM PST
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What’s wrong with having a little truth in advertising?
by Perlinator
13 comments
on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 04:13 PM PST
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The Republican National Committee is holding its closed-door winter meeting in Las Vegas next week and, while many thought the biggest news would be the preemptive coronation of Baby Huey, that agenda item has been tabled. Opening up a lot of time for...
by Crashing Vor
225 comments
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 06:37 AM PST
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If you have been on Twitter recently, you know it has become some kind of Libertarian fanboy’s playground. Chock full of sexism, fights, gory anecdotes, and exploitation, it has been allowed to turn into a human reflective cesspool. Often, Elon Musk...
by Rule of Claw
80 comments
on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 02:39 AM PST
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They're choosing not to associate their speech with yours. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Adios, Xitter (pronounced (sh)itter, of course). Can't wait for the bankruptcy announcement so the process of selling off the assets (all the underpinning...
by BP in WA
38 comments
on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 03:21 PM PST
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This isn’t much of a diary but I can’t resist the following message to the ex-Speaker of the House: Well Kevin my boy, I hope it was worth it. You spent your entire adult life seeking the office of Speaker. It was the most important thing in your life...
by RenMin
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on Tue Oct 03, 2023 at 04:48 PM PDT
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😂👉 Federal government shutdown, GOP debate lowjinks, Dark Brandon on picket line vs. TFG at anti-union plant, Losing Lewsers in court. With an egg on top and Spam. 👈😂 Democrats want to be kind in ...
by Mokurai
169 comments
on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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I don’t usually write this kind of diary, but just as Chris Hayes was starting this story, I had to shut him off to deal with a household matter. So, inquiring minds want to know: Did Marjorie Taylor Greene really say that the price of keeping the...
by Dan K
224 comments
on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 06:44 PM PDT
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ICYMI, the Daily Show with Desi Lydic spent ten minutes on the right wing going nuts over a beer advertising campaign with an insane commercial, as well as Tucker Carlson (and Don Lemon) getting fired, Elon Musk and Twitter, a quick shot at Biden, and...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 06:11 PM PDT
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The Wrong-Wing dog has caught an entire bus this time, not just a car, and is busily throwing itself under it. 👈👈😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👈👈
by Mokurai
153 comments
on Sat Jan 21, 2023 at 04:00 AM PST
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A Reddit thread titled “AOC is all of us right now” focuses in on a widely-published picture of yesterday. It’s a fun discussion; for example, included among the comments: I'm starting to think this is an insidious assassination attempt, they’re trying...
by UsernameUnavailable
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on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 06:15 AM PST
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I love the fact that Dems nominated Hakeem Jeffries and that he’s held a steady chunk of the votes, adding to McCarthy’s humiliation. Does that mean I’m a bad person? IMO, no — just a lot more human and far more serious about good governing that...
by GreyHawk
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on Wed Jan 04, 2023 at 07:01 PM PST
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According to Elizabeth Williamson on Twitter: BREAKING: BIG setback for Alex Jones in his bankruptcy case--federal bk Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston has tossed out both Jones's lawyer AND his chief restructuring officer. Apparently the judge has...
by eyesoars
131 comments
on Tue Sep 20, 2022 at 11:56 PM PDT
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ICYMI, the Party of “Family Values” is running Herschel Walker for Senate in Georgia, against the Rev. Raphael Warnock (D). He’s overqualified in a sense: The former Heisman winner stands accused of hiding from the public three children that he had...
by xaxnar
30 comments
on Sun Jun 19, 2022 at 07:47 AM PDT
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On March 11, Vice.com published a story by Edward Ongweso, Jr. titled “Someone Sold a $1 Million Clipart Rock NFT for Under a Penny by Mistake.” For safety, put down your beverage before reading this short article, but you simply must read it. You...
by grandpabob
57 comments
on Sun Mar 13, 2022 at 11:50 AM PDT
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Enjoy this! This has to mean that tRump is in deep doo-doo — or paper — with respect to what is happening, at least in NY. How about nothing this cretin says can be relied upon? Anyway, enjoy the Schadenfreude. Wow. Firing a former president. Like we...
by chloris creator
335 comments
on Mon Feb 14, 2022 at 01:08 PM PST
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Dan Levin has an 11/27/2021 report at the New York Times with the headline shown above on how social media is being used to attack the memory of anti-vaxxers who died from Covid. Before he died of Covid-19 in September, Nick Bledsoe was not shy about...
by xaxnar
345 comments
on Sun Nov 28, 2021 at 12:03 PM PST
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