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Next week's movie has changed. We will be watching 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 (𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐) free with ads on Tubi and The Roku Channel. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-jan-20-my-favorite?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Good movie. Fun. Sigourney Weaver is also in the Oats Studios SciFi film, Rakka.

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i like how they used one of her icon lines from Aliens against her

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And now for your Bunday afternoon "Who gives a shit?"

𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟬 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻

EXCLUSIVE: Two prominent US attorneys are demanding the FBI release a "mountain of evidence" that reportedly includes sex tapes Epstein secretly filmed of rich and powerful guests.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1855612/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-line-of-succession-poll-royal-family

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Yeah, in order for him to be king you'd need a royal mass extinction event.

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Not to cast aspersions, but ... I guess the windows and poisoned doorknobs are passé?

𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗲𝘃 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67975595

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People die in the US every day from car crashes. Though a critic of Putin, it wouldn't be as odd an event as say, several of them coincidentally falling from the 20th floor's or drinking Polonium 210. I guess recent history tells us it's more than likely this was a well planned accident. This is who Comrade Trump wants to become.

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Well, cutting brake lines is also old school homicidal vandalism.

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Now you can just put a bug in the ABS computer. Glorioski!

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Or if you're Elon, just pull a Starlink Ukraine on it.

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“Hit by a car”

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"accident"

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Why are you monitoring her porn habit?

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The Ethicist: My 70-Year-Old Mother Spends Too Much on Porn. What Should I Say?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to broach a sensitive subject with one’s parent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/magazine/mother-cable-porn-ethics.html

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Who pays for porn? Introduce her to fanfic and free sites.

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She is 70. Leave her alone. (Or find her a suitable partner - one or the other)

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What is the right amount of time?

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Well, there are 24 hours in a day....

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15 hours, that gives you an hour to eat and defecate and shower and exercise and 8 hours to sleep.

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Porn is a form of cardio as it increased the resting heart rate.

Less damage to the joints, too

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good point

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I'll add that to My Sims avatar's time budget.

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Had to share this with you all. Below put me on a Paul Simon YouTube path, and this came up, a wonderful cover of "The Boxer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpaX4L2oD2w

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That is an absolutely beautiful performance of a profoundly thought-provoking song. Those harmonies are just spot on.

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To find out what Iowa voters think of the Iowa primary we interviewed these 9 Ohio diners. Here’s what we learned.

NYT

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Ohio? Too close ... Tampa.

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My favorite was Large Laundry Model.

But this IOT has got to get a kick in the nads to refocus on security, vs, "Oh, this would be neat to do"

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day

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Among the 37GB of data:

Needs to wipe your ass better.

Eat with your mouth closed

Don't use your socks to wank off with

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Stay dry, stay safe, stay warm. And don’t forget your second breakfast, for it is cold and damp out there, and the neighbor’s cat is prowling the back deck, stirring up trouble by trying to get in to the room where three cats stare out at him.

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On the CBS/YouGov poll that is out, the methodology is basically: 'We polled 2000 people, but we won't say how they were chosen or contacted or how we weighted the results."

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"Ok, sure, it's pure clickbait, so sue us!"

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So, I bullshitted you.

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Pray for me! It's RED ZONE CUBA! What sins have I committed to deserve this?

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Okay, the riff "The Eyes of Kenneth Mars" just cracked me up.

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NYT: How College-Educated Republicans Learned to Love Trump Again

Blue-collar white voters make up Donald Trump’s base. But his political resurgence has been fueled largely by Republicans from the other end of the socioeconomic scale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/us/politics/trump-college-educated-voters.html

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It’s about people who still call themselves Republicans 2023, you can fill in the blanks what that means,

Being too embarsssed to be a fan of any of the silver medal options

Nothing more than that

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Ripley treatment for the 𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, now more than ever.

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Hint, they were always Trumpers.

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The article seems to be talking about returning to Trump from Haley, DeSantis, Ramalamadingdong, etc

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[exasperated eye-roll]

Deplorable delusions of nonexistent remorse regarding imaginary abrogations of adoration of the Deposed Despot in favor of another Red reprobate.

As if.

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Some people, including notably the NYT, have been deluding themselves that there is a viable GOP alternative to Trump, but there isn't.

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So they have no choice but to normalize fascism.

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The Senate Republicans had their chance to convict him and prevent him from running again. But no, they let that chance go.

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Jail mellowed Hitler.

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More like reflex retching

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He never went away.

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A comeback story? Really? FFS.

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Far-Right Trump Activist Thinks the Deep State Created the Blizzard in Iowa

Now it’s the weather that is rigging votes.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/far-right-trump-activist-thinks-the-deep-state-created-the-blizzard-in-iowa/

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Laura Loomer.

That tracks.

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But Trump was chosen by god?

Science > god?

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Looner runes.

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I’m more partial to the Choco Brownie Extreme.

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It's like the time an investigator at work was asking me about checking a gasket that is sandwiched between 1/2" thick metal flanges.

I told her "If I could see thru steel do you think I'd be working here?" All I got back was an angry glare.

If the left or Dems had that kind of power then do you think you'd still be around to speak your bullshit? It must be sad living life as a paranoid fucking moron.

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Depends on whether you can also leap tall buildings at a single bound.

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Superman never made any money saving the world from Solomon Grundy.

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wasn't he born on a mond'y?

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Meh. When you can crush coal into artificial diamonds and use your x-ray vision to find Spanish treasure ships, a paying gig isn't that important, lol

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“thinks”

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WHAR KELLI CHEMTRAILS??

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Loomer is certifiable.

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These people are one trick phonies.

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There was a time when repeating the lie over and over would sway the populace.

Then the internet was invented.

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and then all it took was once...

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The Canadian One Dollar coin knows you weren't making a reference to it.

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It's - 6° outside and the power just failed. Fortunately I have a gas fireplace which was already on, and a gas stove with burners I can light with a match, and a cat on my lap. The only real problem is that my recliner operates off of electricity, so I can't make it go up or down right now. First world problems.

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Stay warm!

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Having a manual recliner is how I get exercise.

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beware CO generation when running multiple open gas burners. My house is very tight and I actually developed symptoms when I left an oven burner on, Installed a couple of detectors. and always ran the exhaust hood when using the gas oven. Now I have a radiant glass top range.

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Brrrrrr be careful, please...

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What about your charger for your ankle thingy?

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I can't charge it until the power comes back on. There's an adapter for the car, but I can't run the car inside a garage without opening the garage door, which runs off electricity, without carbon monoxide poisoning, so that's not an option. Hopefully it will be back on soon, 'cause if I let the monitor die they can haul my ass to jail. The battery should last until tomorrow morning. I have notified the company, I'm sure it won't be a problem.

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If there's a rope/handle hanging from the bit that rides the track, you can uncouple it so the door can be raised manually.

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Yes, there is a rope, but I can't access it when the car is in the garage without getting on a ladder, which I can't do, and I can't lift the door by myself. I tried once and couldn't manage it. There really should be an easier system.

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I refuse to type his name, but this is as possible a defense he'd try as any.

https://substack.com/profile/192348633-morganx/note/c-47295373?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=36ip5l

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