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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Strategically, the U.S. is reorienting under Trump to be more active in the Pacific region and counter China, leaving Europe to Putin's mercies.

Not that they'll be any more effective in the Pacific than they are anywhere else. But my point is that under the old anti-anti-Nazis who prevailed in the GOP before Pearl Harbor, we were also supposed to concentrate more on the Pacific (against Japan, of course, not China) and leave Europe to deal with Hitler on its own. Many kept on that schtick even after the U.S. entered the war.

They were full of shit then, and of course they are now. It's interesting, in a grim way, how the new shit parallels the old.

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MRK's avatar

The right doesn't really do 'new'.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Only in terms of going further with the "old."

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Bobathonic's avatar

Older Squeeze. Jools Holland cracks me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8etY7C4z0

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Got to see them open for Patti Smith when Jools was still in the band. They were big fun.

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

Because dreams are made of this!

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Having covered the Tango King, let's move on to the Mambo King, Perez Prado, who was born on this day in 1917. From 1960, here's "Mambo No. 8":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3v3eRhcu08

And from 1955, here's "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj64NlRnpDY

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Baconzgood's avatar

There is NO doubt this is weird. Like Devo³ X Andy Kaufman weird .

However, Baconzgood would remiss at not showing this. Its the peak hunting season.

Read through it.

https://www.montagueprojects.com/the-stray-shopping-cart-project

P.S. I found this web site the same day (I googled "bizarre web sites") as I found Wonkette....and that was almost 20 years ago. Its like bird watching.....only with shopping carts.

It IS genuinely strange, intelligent, original and snarky.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Kinda glad that Googling "bizarre web sites" should no longer bring up Bumfights.

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Baconzgood's avatar

I had to sift those too also.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Expect a 1am Golden Throne rant about this tonight...

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫

𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 “𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛” 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑇𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑜 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑘, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑠.

Peters, the former Mesa county clerk, was convicted last year for her role in breaching election data in search of evidence of fraud and sentenced to nine years.

Trump has repeatedly called for her release and threatened earlier this year to take “harsh measures” if she was not freed. The president wrote on his Truth Social platform this evening: “Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the ‘crime’ of demanding Honest Elections. Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”

Presidential pardons, however, do not apply to state convictions. Jared Polis, Colorado’s Democratic governor, who does have clemency authority in her case, has said he won’t pardon her. [Guardian]

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VaselineHabits's avatar

Fuck it, fine - pardon everything! Blanket pardon for everyone!

We'll just pretend this entire mess of the judicial system didn't happen at all and clear the jails. *Cheers*

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Mysterysurf's avatar

The man gives senility a bad name.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Shart through the heart

You're never to blame

Donnie, you give senility a bad name.

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BlueStateLibel's avatar

OT: Time to put up my small Christmas tree. I'm not really in the mood for it, but it will interesting to see how Bonnie my shelter cat reacts to it. She's been in a shelter for over a year, and before that, out in the wilds of Newark, NJ. I have a feeling she's going to be like, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

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SayItWithWookies's avatar

Enjoy a photoessay of a beautiful day in the park, with snow and critters and gorgeous trees!

https://sayitwithwookies.substack.com/p/snow-day

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

So beautiful. I can’t believe we can’t tempt some of the monsters with this.

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NatalyaResists's avatar

So many animal friends!

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beebo jr's avatar

pretty!

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VaselineHabits's avatar

Wake me up when ANY of these fucks actually get arrested.

Sorry to be a downer, but 4-10 years watching Trump literally get away with murder will do that to you.

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Oy!'s avatar

Nah, I like toast. She is "Denny's dumpster after a busy weekend"

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lotsacatsndogs's avatar

Heard she was heckled today too? By a Christian?

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Dan Goldman lit her up.

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Oy!'s avatar

" 'What is an undeclared war?' for $500, Alex"

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Sanford Sklansky's avatar

Unlike some Nazis who paid. I read an article the other day. The writer said at this point it wouldn't matter if Trump died tomorrow. The people behind him like the people behind project 25 will still be there. It will be hard to reverse all the things Trump has done. He still has 3 more years to do damage. None of the decisions made by the Supreme Court will be reversed. Even if Democrats take over the House and Senate i dont see how the country survives this

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MRK's avatar

We survive by pushing back wherever and however we can. It's insane to me that people think we're lost forever in a country that still has people who lived in Jim Crow south, people who survived Japanese internment, and people whose grandparents were property or were nearly all slaughtered.

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Cajun Kid's avatar

That fat buffoon used a speech ostensibly about fixing affordability and turned it into a grievance and hate diatribe against transgender people. I for one am surprised that he didn't fall asleep right in the middle of his bullshit.

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It occurs to me how absolutely lucky I am. It's either my own luck, or I'm lucky that the company is so desperate for experienced employees. I survived an HR inquisition somehow. And that made me feel...surprisingly good and very much relieved.

Tonight, though, I have eaten two rather strong gummies. I have "creamy vanilla" Coke, some pork roast and rice, and YouTube. In about an hour or so this night is going to be fantastic.

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Goin Green's avatar

Two strong Gummies and some pork roast...

If there's a heaven...

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Cajun Kid's avatar

The good news for me is, I had lunch at about 1pm, so eating any gummies means I get hit quicker and harder. The same would be true if I was smoking.

Is it sad that I miss smokable stuff?

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Random's avatar

Don't know if it tickles your interest, but I found a YouTube channel with (almost) ALL the extant Classic Doctor Who serials.

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Cajun Kid's avatar

Oooh--there's something really interesting and fascinating to me about Doctor Who from about 1972-1986. (I am, for some reason, not terribly into Sylvester McCoy. Fine actor, good Doctor, but not my speed. Of the classics, I'm a Tom Baker fan.)

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paperlesstiger's avatar

Thank God Hegseth missed that one.

𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼 𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗕𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝘁, 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗢𝘀𝗹𝗼

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nobel-laureate-machado-oslo_n_693a28a3e4b0455a070c9f02?origin=home-zone-d-unit

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beebo jr's avatar

yeah, I was thinking the same earlier.

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

Three red potatoes. Onions. A beef boullion cube. Half & half. Butter. Boiling in the pot.

I'll be in my bunk.

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beebo jr's avatar

can you pin your location in maps?

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

I will fax you some

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beebo jr's avatar

standing by my fax/printer now. hello? <tap tap> is this thing on?

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

::robots screaming::

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After reading Dok's article on how the government is disregarding scientific consensus, I am reminded of the story told by my father-in-law. Prior to 1957, scientists as a whole were not that highly regarded in society, except a few individuals now and then. Scientists were seen as curious eggheads who might have unkempt hair or have trouble adjusting to interacting with others in normal ways, or talking with a thick foreign accent about things no one understood anyway, even if it were in perfect English. Around that time, Dad graduated with his PhD in paleontology and started his professional career. The thing he emphasized about those days is that after Sputnik, there was suddenly a virtual firehose of cash being thrown at scientists, not just space scientists but at the entire scientific establishment. His research about 20 million year old seal fossils got every bit of funding they could use, even though his work had virtually nothing to do with space (maybe science fiction) but in those days they didn't care about such fine distinctions. That was good for Dad. Most of us who are alive today grew up in a culture and a society where scientists and research were highly respected and valued, and probably don't realize that this was a recent and artificial phenomenon. Now that an entire political party has aligned itself in opposition to this attitude, things are starting to turn pretty sour in the US, and it's like Galileo has to go to prison again because he said Jupiter had four moons.

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VaselineHabits's avatar

I just wish people realized how much we had taken all the knowledge gained for DECADES for granted... now it feels like it's all being burnt and flushed out because of stupid and fascism

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𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺’𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦.

Yes. Now it's my turn to empty my bladder.

Sigh. Where to start?

Evan, the 2024 election was not "a little squeaker." Trump and the Republicans kicked ass. It's something we just have to, not accept, but at least wrap our heads around.

Yes, even the latter is a huge ask. *I* haven't done it, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to. I just can't even imagine a time when I'm not overwhelmed with sheer disgust at the thought of my fellow countrymen electing this worthless creep twice. BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY FUCKING DID.

The polls can go any which way they want. Unless people vote the way they say they feel, everything will get even worse.

Sorry but I'm just not feeling in a good or optimistic mood right now. Probably a hangover has something to do with it. Take it as you will.

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Matthew Hooper's avatar

I'm currently making sweet vermouth from scratch for a cocktail competition at work. I've got a pumpernickel rye whiskey to work with, and a dill/cardamom/black pepper vermouth seems like a good idea for a pastrami-flavored Manhattan. The dry vermouth I first made was meh; let's see how this version turns out.

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Helen Van Patterson Patton's avatar

I was just talking about you! Your egg nog recipe is very good! Thanks for sharing! Its a nice, well-balanced medley of flavor & I'm enjoying some now!

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Noma Larkey's avatar

'pastrami' immediately popped into my head after the 'dill/cardamom/black pepper' part!

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Lund-O-Matic's avatar

I’m going to sit by you.

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DJ Teetop's avatar

It would be good with pickle back

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Oh man, there's a Chad Kroger joke in here somewhere.

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Smoke O'Possum's avatar

I see mustard/pretzel somewhere...

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Matthew Hooper's avatar

As a nosh on the side, hell yes.

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