September 1, 2022

OK go ahead and hate Bill Maher, but here he was making...

TFG another bet.

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"That wasn't toilet paper on his shoe, it was a price tag."

August 31, 2022

One of our greatest mistakes after the Civil War was...

letting Southern slaveowners and revolutionaries off with a slap on the wrist. They should have been ground into the dust of history, rather than been celebrated as misled heros.

After WW2, the Allies, and many Gernans, understood that all vestiges of naziism had to be surprrssed. The Hitler salute, swastika, ss uniforms, etc all were illegal in very short order. Any support of Nazis or Holocaust denial was immediately put down. Germans, with our support, were almost as ruthless stamping it out as they were once in supporting it.

Thing is, there were still millions of Nazis in Germany and around the world, claiming theat they had a right to their views. They soon found out that they didn't. But it is a hell of whack a mole game trying to shut them up.

Here in the US, we never even tried. Whatever the fuck is a statue of Lee doing at West Point?

And so many of those statues were raised in the 1930s as a sop to the racist scumbags of the time. If we had properly ground them to dust after the civil war, we wouldn't have eliminated them, but we would have made current problems easier to deal with.

So, start the grinding now. There is no legal protection for any bloodthirsty asshole threatening a judge or properly elected politician.

August 31, 2022

So, if the former Great Slob can't find a lawyer, does that mean...

he gets a court appointed one?

August 30, 2022

So, in "leopards ate my face" on reddit, TFG seems to have...

squirrelled away close to billion to pass out to his friends.

Sorry, I'm on my phone and links are iffy, but searching gives you more than you want to know.

The grift is worse than you can guess, and one reason R bigshots still love him.

August 26, 2022

LA once had an alligator park...

and other stuff:

August 25, 2022

Wordle in 5 again

Wordle 432 5/6

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August 25, 2022

So, howcum I open 10 threads and 7 of them are just Twitter links?

Again I say if Twitter goes down DU goes with it until we find another another site to leach off of.

August 22, 2022

Picking up some change I dropped, I found a Bat Quarter...

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Thinking it had to be a prank, I looked it up and it's real, celebrating the fruit bat in an American Samoa National Park.

https://www.treehugger.com/things-know-about-amazing-fruit-bat-quarters-4858398

August 20, 2022

Wordle- finally got it in two

Wordle 427 2/6

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August 18, 2022

How the hard-right turn in the Arizona GOP is an anti-democracy experiment

Today's Fresh Air. If you don't catch it on the radio, here's the podcast:


https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022
How the hard-right turn in the Arizona GOP is an anti-democracy experiment

We haven't seen this since Tailgunner Joe, and we know what happened to him. But, what will happen to these guys, who are doing it so much better?