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GH Swell's avatar

Heard this the other day ( (old)cover of Depeche Mode song). Chorus seems appropriate for the times.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSK2HEWO7xE

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gnomemansanisland's avatar

Will give it a listen, thanks.

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Mavenmaven's avatar

The K-pop world specializes in these special sad songs for the season, here's a new one from veteran group fromis 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZB9JLfIw_Q

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gnomemansanisland's avatar

Thanks!

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No Quid Bro Code's avatar

I didn’t know Kirk-Fest was going on. It seems like the worst people are tearing into each other. You hate to see it.

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Randy Bender's avatar

Ugh, nuke it from space...

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weejee's avatar
1hEdited

OT: Bondi won't release shit today, and likely what sanitized bits do get released it will be at 11:59:59 EST.

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/19/epstein-files-wont-be-released-by-deadline-department-of-justice-says/

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Rhand Holm's avatar

"Bondi won't release shit today" Ex-lax?

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No Quid Bro Code's avatar

She already announced that DOJ won’t release everything.

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gallbladder's avatar

The forensic question: "What's your motive, Pam?"

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YaJagoff's avatar

A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea. You know who else it deters from Home Depot? CUSTOMERS! You dumb bastards. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/noise-machines-installed-by-la-home-depot-torture-for-day-laborers-advocates-say/ar-AA1SD0DK

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Tecolote's avatar

We as a nation learn nothing from studying history. Let's hear about more stuff that's going on right now, like this.

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abbienormal's avatar

Our local Home Depot is a friggin' mess. It can't hire or keep employees. Half of them are stoned and the other half started a couple of days ago and haven't been trained.

Contractors are pissed and making the trip to Lowe's instead.

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M'Hael's avatar

Three hours of a stone tablet? Is there THAT little going on, no Nice Times stories that exist that can be shared? I'd take a bobsledding Grandma story or a recipe post, even.

We just... waiting around until they don't release any relevant Epstein files, face no consequences for not releasing everything like the law demands, and, finally, discuss how it didn't change a goddamn thing and they're all going to get away with raping children as we're all powerless to bring any of them to justice?

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

My Grandma started a bobsled team for the Senior Olympics.... they made a movie about it.

it was called Drool Runnings.

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helenasgarden's avatar

That's mean to grandmothers (and elders) and a really cheap joke.

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

Sorry 'bout that.

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helenasgarden's avatar

I'm still stupid enough to believe the dam will leak if not break

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Oliver Furman's PA's avatar

Hope isn't stupid, hon. And there is certainly a possibility that leakage could occur.

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helenasgarden's avatar

Don't call me hon.

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Oliver Furman's PA's avatar

Sorry, I was trying to be nice. Don't call yourself stupid.

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helenasgarden's avatar

Don't condescend.

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Oliver Furman's PA's avatar

I assure you there was zero condescention in my non-comment.

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LP's avatar

Thanks, Editrix, for recommending Simon Rosenberg's Hopium Chronicles substack. It gives me realistic hope when I'm barely keeping my nose above water.

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/e-day-house-dems-closing-2025-strong

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Nancy Naive's avatar

Brings new meaning to “a living wage”, now don’t it?

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Michael's avatar

Really appreciate your labor history essays, comrade. One Big Union!

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gallbladder's avatar

It occurs to me that Fuckface McDistraction and his band of murderous infants are peerlessly incapable of getting ahead of it.

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helenasgarden's avatar

Are you giving me hope? I could use it.

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gallbladder's avatar

They have never--and WILL never--admit to any wrongdoing in advance of an investigation.

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Nancy Naive's avatar

Nor after one apparently.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

They haven’t figured out how to clean up the photos 🤢🤮

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

Spraying Windex on their computer screens isn't doing it for them.

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LP's avatar

Why can't they just "bleach" it like Hillary did? 🙄

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

They are also peterlessly incapable.

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helenasgarden's avatar

After all this frigging time? What went wrong?

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Being released's avatar

Get ready for SCOTUS to say, "Yes he's violating the law regarding the Epstein files, but nobody has standing to sue."

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Oliver Furman's PA's avatar

Wonder if any of them are in the files.

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Andre's avatar

Alito is likely prominently featured in them with tons of photos of catholic school girl/priest cosplay with lots of mortification and butt stuff. Somewhat mundane, according to Epstein's contemporaneous notes when compared to others proclivities, but he did note that it was a challenge finding a plaid mini-skirt in Sam's size.

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Donald Laporte's avatar

I'll bet Coke Pubes is in there.

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helenasgarden's avatar

I've asked that many times. Why would they NOT be? Nazis all.

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LP's avatar

My money's on Thomas and Kavanaugh.

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Oliver Furman's PA's avatar

The thought of Thomas hovering above me, naked and ready to instigate sex just dried everything up so thoroughly that I think even my blood stopped flowing.

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LP's avatar

Oh, I got enough of that during the Anita Hill testimony to do some lasting damage.

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YaJagoff's avatar

If I were to speculate, it would be Thomas, Alito and Roberts.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Roberts has perv face.

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BoB the TacoɔɒT, Tumbrel Pilot's avatar

That creepy smile says, "you can trust meeeeeeeee."

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Michael's avatar

Indeed.

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freakishlystrong's avatar

I guess it's true that the trmp administration is the most "transparent in history." Transparently criminal and lying and covering up every fucking thing they do. Transparent! It's lost all meaning!

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Chimp's avatar

The emperor's new clothes are transparent.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Unfortunately for our eyeballs.

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Michael's avatar

Eeeeeew.

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PeteWa's avatar

Found a fortune cookie on my kitchen counter, cracked it open: “Your mind is filled with new ideas.”

How exciting, I thought.

But then I did a quick inventory of the new ideas and realized 95+% of them were bad.

Sigh.

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BoB the TacoɔɒT, Tumbrel Pilot's avatar

But that other 5%, that's the good stuff.

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Michael's avatar

100% of mine are unoriginal...

and bad 😔

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Chemical's avatar

Don't feel bad. That's around average for bad idea percentage.

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

I bought a ticket for the powerball drawing. Just one. Last time it was 10.... that was a bad idea.

besides, I only need to win it once!

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BoB the TacoɔɒT, Tumbrel Pilot's avatar

I typically do not take advice from people who get punched in the head for a living. But in this case, broken clock and all that.

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Dr. Rrrrrobotnik's avatar

My only regret is that the video didn't end with Strickland then punching Adin Ross (the sum total of all the universe's stupidity standing next to him) square in the face.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

No self-respecting pugilist is going to have ANYTHING to do with those "fights".

It's impossible for me to articulate just how offensive using the White House to host these fist fights actually is, and I am rarely at a loss for words..

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

They should refer to it as The Cocktagon

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Mara Seaforest's avatar

Donora was 1948. The previous year was the one in which I was born — a whole different disaster, if you believed my mother’s disaster tale. But thank you for mentioning it. Your link to the story you wrote about it was worth tapping on. Good work!

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