Another character tells Gary Oldmanβs character to his face that heβs a monster in three movies in a row! This happened in The Fifth Element, Air Force One, and Lost In Space!
As far as I can tell It would be nearly a decade before audiences got to see him play a GOOD guy in Batman Begins. No one ever saw the Scarlet Letter so it does not count.
Just got a call with a recording saying if I want to hear a message from 819-865-7385. Nah. I don't do any business at 12:15 on Sunday, and I'm just paranoid enough to not want to be electronically linked to something I don't know about. Probably a misdial from someone in Quebec, but I still don't want to play. We were up there in October, and I did not intentionally give anyone my home number, so Nah.
There was very little coverage of that last time, honestly. There were hints but I only knew shit was going to go down because I had picked up on some right wing streams in the week or two beforehand. It was covered mostly like any upcoming Trump rally.
I wish the local police would come into the library and deal with the proud boys the same way they deal with the working homeless who are in the library to stay warm in midwinter. But never gonna happen.
The Washington Post's robomailer emailed me yesterday, two months after I cancelled by subscription (with a harshly truthful statement). It wanted to let me know that the automatic payment method it had been using did not go through, and could I please provide an alternate means of automatic payment? I replied to the bot that no, I have cancelled, and to tell everyone over there that when they decide to quit en masse and move across the street and start a new paper, I will subscribe to the new paper.
With the proviso that I detest that we have descended into battle of the plutocrats, Mark Cuban seems to be in the game for the long haul--and on the right side. He's looking to set up a deal to publish Ann Telnaes.
I guess the thing that bothers me is, it's great to have Good Guy Plutocrats on our side and I wish there were more of them; but what happens when Mark Cuban wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, or some lib says something too snarky to him, and he dediced to be a Bad Guy Plutocrat going foward. There should not be billionaires.
I agree, but Mark Cuban seems to have a stable emotional core and as such would shrug off any criticism or actually look at it to see if there is some kernel of truth and act accordingly.
The People we elected to protect us from criminals like Donald Trump have failed the nation. Not one of them should ever claim they believe in the rule of law. The 14th amendment of the US Constitution should plainly keep Trump from office. He tried to overthrow the last election and his people stormed the Capitol building armed for the kill. He stole classified documents and showed them around to his friends. (and those are only the worse of his criminal activity). AND YOUR ARE OK WITH THIS?? Yes you are, and you all are also traitors to the country, the rule of law, and the people you swore to serve. I do not know just who you serve, a felonious real estate con man, an immigrant car dealer, or people who think we should ignore medical science. YOU MAKE ME SICK! YOU! You have violated your oath of office and we will all be poorer, sicker, and less free under the yoke of a failed businessman and his talking heads from television.
New York Times treats Trump lying about Jan six as a brilliant political strategy.
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'A Day of Love': How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6
President-elect Trump and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack, spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom.
I guess we can expect more of this in the next couple of weeks . . . Ukrainians realize they probably ain't gettin' much help from Washington after Jan. 19 and they better hit the Russians while they still can . . .
CNN -- Ukraine has launched a counterattack in the southern Russian border region of Kursk, warning that Russia is βgetting what it deserves.β
Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, an official body, said Ukrainian forces had launched surprise attacks against Russian forces in several locations across Kursk, months after launching its incursion in the region.
In a short Telegram post Sunday, the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, said: βKursk region, good news, Russia is getting what it deserves.β
The Ukrainian military first launched an incursion into Kursk in August and has held much of the territory it took, despite efforts by Russian and recently deployed North Korean troops to drive Ukrainian units back across the border.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that the Ukrainians had launched counterattacks to stop a Russian offensive, according to the official TASS news agency. It said that both had been repelled, adding that a Ukrainian assault including two tanks and seven armored vehicles had been defeated near the village of Berdin, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the border.
CNN is unable to verify battlefield reports.
The Kursk offensive β the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II β took Russia and Ukraineβs allies by surprise when it was launched. Kyivβs troops advanced quickly, though Russia eventually began to push their forces back; the line of control has not changed dramatically in recent months.
On Saturday, Ukraineβs President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in battles near the village of Makhnovka, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean soldiers and Russian paratroopers. A battalion is normally several hundred troops.
The Soviet/Russian Army lost about 80,000 troops over 9-some years in Afghanistan; Snooty Pooty has lost about 5 to 6 times that many troops in roughly one-quarter the time.
I think Ukraine is very fucked. Trump will cut off aid, and without U.S. backing, the EU is going to have a hard choice between keeping up their own funding for the war, plus boosting their own defense budgets, or letting Putin swallow Ukraine. Swallowing could take place over time: that is really what a "peace plan" entails.
Iβm not sure about that. Europe can see that an emboldened Putin will cast covetous eyes their way if Ukraine falls. Self interest should motivate them to continue to support Ukraine.
The problem is, it's billions of euros. Also, Germany and France, among others, have far right pro-Russian parties like our own GOP, and they are inching closer to power.
Which is backing out of the deal and not even pretending to be neutral, gives them a reason to ignore the agreement. Kind of like with Iran, the US reneged on the agreement 1st.
Itβs something Democrats need to learn, quit sticking to the agreement when the other side breaks it first.
Poor baby. Please take good care of yourself. You are surrounded by the light of healing, which light penetrates and permeates the hearts, minds, and hands of all entrusted with your care. Rest, hydrate, and when you have the energy, make some tea and drink it.
Prop yourself up comfortably upon an abundance of fluffy pillows, snuggle beneath a soft, cozy coverlet and get nice and cozy whilst you're sipping that steaming, fragrant tea.
I hope that after some hot tea and relaxation that the aching in your neck relaxes and you're able to rest more comfortably, pretty boid.
They are all petulantly invited to take a headfirst flying fuck at a razorwire wrapped rolling donut followed by a swan dive into a vat of lemon juice.
Thanks everyone for a great time! Next week is film noir with ππ‘π ππ’π ππ₯π¨ππ€. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-jan-11-the-big?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I havenβt joined in on Wonkette movie night for a while, but I will probably watch this one.
The Big Clock is FREE on the Internet Archive.
Ooh, I saw this one for the first time recently. Good choice!
7th element
https://youtu.be/989-7xsRLR4?si=i9J45yA3wEWpAEkm
FUN FACT
Another character tells Gary Oldmanβs character to his face that heβs a monster in three movies in a row! This happened in The Fifth Element, Air Force One, and Lost In Space!
As far as I can tell It would be nearly a decade before audiences got to see him play a GOOD guy in Batman Begins. No one ever saw the Scarlet Letter so it does not count.
Winston Churchill?
MULTIPASS!!!
Just got a call with a recording saying if I want to hear a message from 819-865-7385. Nah. I don't do any business at 12:15 on Sunday, and I'm just paranoid enough to not want to be electronically linked to something I don't know about. Probably a misdial from someone in Quebec, but I still don't want to play. We were up there in October, and I did not intentionally give anyone my home number, so Nah.
The most under-reported story of 2024? Joe Bidenβs mental decline.
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Joe Bidenβs decline called most βunder-coveredβ story of 2024
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/joe-biden-decline-underreported
Uh huhβ¦π
Huh. So what was that--24/7 Tim Conway?
https://youtube.com/shorts/KJg0lxx6rN8?si=_9_ztjN4MOcCit-i
Watching people paying their respects to Jimmy Carter at the Carter center . Glad to see how many brought their kids.
So, why no coverage of the hordes of armed and violent gangs of Democrats heading for DC to disrupt tomorrow's certification of the election?
Must be the Deep State conspiracy with the Liberal Media, covering it all up.
Something something....armed with copies of The Nation and wielding avocado toast something something...
The incoming administration has just zapped all the trying right out of me.
There was very little coverage of that last time, honestly. There were hints but I only knew shit was going to go down because I had picked up on some right wing streams in the week or two beforehand. It was covered mostly like any upcoming Trump rally.
Because we are sneaking in using the nationwide system of tunnels that connect all the pizza shop basements.
Must max out our doses of adrenochrome so we are in tiptop shape for this coup.
https://aobious.com/aobious/products/13456-adrenochrome.html
$11 per milligram?! All those poor little mole childrenβ¦
They should form a union and get better pay.
Did you check the coffee shops?
And libraries--hotbeds of revolution!
....unfortunately the crazies really do think this, and DSO is a librarian who has (really) been threatened at work by RWNJs.
Same library system where this bullshit happened:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/us/drag-lgbtq-rights-race-deconstructed-newsletter-reaj/index.html
I wish the local police would come into the library and deal with the proud boys the same way they deal with the working homeless who are in the library to stay warm in midwinter. But never gonna happen.
We are all disguised as sketchy pigeons.
We ARE sketchy pigeons. [Looks around suspiciously] arenβt we?
Well, Simba and LF are not. And they just hate these disguises.
The Washington Post's robomailer emailed me yesterday, two months after I cancelled by subscription (with a harshly truthful statement). It wanted to let me know that the automatic payment method it had been using did not go through, and could I please provide an alternate means of automatic payment? I replied to the bot that no, I have cancelled, and to tell everyone over there that when they decide to quit en masse and move across the street and start a new paper, I will subscribe to the new paper.
With the proviso that I detest that we have descended into battle of the plutocrats, Mark Cuban seems to be in the game for the long haul--and on the right side. He's looking to set up a deal to publish Ann Telnaes.
(Oops bad link--trying to fix... )
Here we go:
https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3leyrchg7ac2c
I guess the thing that bothers me is, it's great to have Good Guy Plutocrats on our side and I wish there were more of them; but what happens when Mark Cuban wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, or some lib says something too snarky to him, and he dediced to be a Bad Guy Plutocrat going foward. There should not be billionaires.
I agree, but Mark Cuban seems to have a stable emotional core and as such would shrug off any criticism or actually look at it to see if there is some kernel of truth and act accordingly.
Well, we're only a bit more fucked than we are now.
(I wholeheartedly agree with your general premise, however).
The People we elected to protect us from criminals like Donald Trump have failed the nation. Not one of them should ever claim they believe in the rule of law. The 14th amendment of the US Constitution should plainly keep Trump from office. He tried to overthrow the last election and his people stormed the Capitol building armed for the kill. He stole classified documents and showed them around to his friends. (and those are only the worse of his criminal activity). AND YOUR ARE OK WITH THIS?? Yes you are, and you all are also traitors to the country, the rule of law, and the people you swore to serve. I do not know just who you serve, a felonious real estate con man, an immigrant car dealer, or people who think we should ignore medical science. YOU MAKE ME SICK! YOU! You have violated your oath of office and we will all be poorer, sicker, and less free under the yoke of a failed businessman and his talking heads from television.
Preachin to the choir...
Send that over to the NYT and see what happens
Meh. Roll it and smoke it. You'll get a more positive reaction.
Here, man... {{{Hamilton hands over a cartoonishly huge doobie}}}
βI am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.β
Drinking decaf is like showering while wearing a rain slicker.
Worse. At least that won't give you a caffeine withdrawal headache.
You need to stop sugar coating things and tell us how you really feel!
New York Times treats Trump lying about Jan six as a brilliant political strategy.
βββββββββ
'A Day of Love': How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6
President-elect Trump and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack, spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/politics/january-6-capitol-riot-trump.html
Horst Wessel even got killed!
By a rival pimp, yeah, but still.
Can't wait to hear their take on the Anschluss.
....of which sovereign nation?
'A Day of Love': How the NYT Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6
FIFY
Yeah the chuds are asking us to discount what we saw happening in real fucking time with our own eyes.
I will NOT be gaslit on this.
A glowing review of a fascist's aggressive attempts to illegally usurp power after LOSING an election.
I just made a loaf of delicious sourdough using only my stomach, prayer, and whatever I ate in the Capitol building
I don't know if I got that or not.
Capitol pooper is proof of love
Okay, so I did get it.
Wait, so you were thinking maybe *I* had lunch at the Capitol and was TMI-ing my poop?
TBH, I was trying really hard not to think that.
yeah, the Gray Lady has really let herself go...
Left them a while ago over this nonsense.
I get weekly email appeals to re-subscribe at a discount.
Won't happen until they grow a spine again.
The Brown Lady.
The YELLOW Bitch.
Piss yellow.
Of course NYT is going to do that.
I guess we can expect more of this in the next couple of weeks . . . Ukrainians realize they probably ain't gettin' much help from Washington after Jan. 19 and they better hit the Russians while they still can . . .
CNN -- Ukraine has launched a counterattack in the southern Russian border region of Kursk, warning that Russia is βgetting what it deserves.β
Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, an official body, said Ukrainian forces had launched surprise attacks against Russian forces in several locations across Kursk, months after launching its incursion in the region.
In a short Telegram post Sunday, the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, said: βKursk region, good news, Russia is getting what it deserves.β
The Ukrainian military first launched an incursion into Kursk in August and has held much of the territory it took, despite efforts by Russian and recently deployed North Korean troops to drive Ukrainian units back across the border.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that the Ukrainians had launched counterattacks to stop a Russian offensive, according to the official TASS news agency. It said that both had been repelled, adding that a Ukrainian assault including two tanks and seven armored vehicles had been defeated near the village of Berdin, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the border.
CNN is unable to verify battlefield reports.
The Kursk offensive β the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II β took Russia and Ukraineβs allies by surprise when it was launched. Kyivβs troops advanced quickly, though Russia eventually began to push their forces back; the line of control has not changed dramatically in recent months.
On Saturday, Ukraineβs President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in battles near the village of Makhnovka, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean soldiers and Russian paratroopers. A battalion is normally several hundred troops.
The Soviet/Russian Army lost about 80,000 troops over 9-some years in Afghanistan; Snooty Pooty has lost about 5 to 6 times that many troops in roughly one-quarter the time.
There's a redditor who's tracking the number of verifiable battlefield self-unalives, and the number is astonishingly high.
It looks as though a *lot* of wounded russians elect to exit rather than waiting for their fellow soldiers to rescue them.
Thanks to lil Kim for his contributions of dead guys to the russia motherland.
I think Ukraine is very fucked. Trump will cut off aid, and without U.S. backing, the EU is going to have a hard choice between keeping up their own funding for the war, plus boosting their own defense budgets, or letting Putin swallow Ukraine. Swallowing could take place over time: that is really what a "peace plan" entails.
"or letting Putin swallow Ukraine"
As if that's what the limit of his ambition is? I don't think they are that dumb.
It's an existential crisis for Europe and they know it.
Iβm not sure about that. Europe can see that an emboldened Putin will cast covetous eyes their way if Ukraine falls. Self interest should motivate them to continue to support Ukraine.
The problem is, it's billions of euros. Also, Germany and France, among others, have far right pro-Russian parties like our own GOP, and they are inching closer to power.
Ukraine is fucked, Gaza is gone, and Putin can rebuild his military with Trumpbucks
The US is going to fund the Russian military?
He will repeal Magnitsky, unsanction Putinβs worst, free up funding streams
Fuck Trump.
Ukraine could go nuclear in about two years if they can survive long enough without US help. Think about that.
They gave up their nuclear capacity in exchange for a guarantee of protection by the US and UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
Russia was also involved in that treaty. They've proven to be as reliable as the US when it comes to honoring treaties.
Which is backing out of the deal and not even pretending to be neutral, gives them a reason to ignore the agreement. Kind of like with Iran, the US reneged on the agreement 1st.
Itβs something Democrats need to learn, quit sticking to the agreement when the other side breaks it first.
That's true. Nonetheless, they didn't give up their nuclear expertise. And what I said didn't originate with me.
https://cepa.org/article/ukraine-can-go-nuclear-should-it/
Beeb feel sick. Beeb stay home today.
My neck is aching. Beeb will have some tea with lemon.
Poor baby. Please take good care of yourself. You are surrounded by the light of healing, which light penetrates and permeates the hearts, minds, and hands of all entrusted with your care. Rest, hydrate, and when you have the energy, make some tea and drink it.
Thankey! :)
Prop yourself up comfortably upon an abundance of fluffy pillows, snuggle beneath a soft, cozy coverlet and get nice and cozy whilst you're sipping that steaming, fragrant tea.
I hope that after some hot tea and relaxation that the aching in your neck relaxes and you're able to rest more comfortably, pretty boid.
Thank you, ma'am.
hope birb feel better
A thanke. :)
Get well soon Birb.
Bad headline: https://gizmodo.com/underwater-volcano-off-oregon-will-erupt-this-year-scientists-predict-2000545335?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
We can hope that it takes some pressure off the Cascadia fault, which is noticeably restive of late.
OTOH as a Northern Californian, I could kinda welcome our new volcanic overlords. It's probably better than a giant meteor...
Will the end be swift but certain? And will it extend to Minnesota?
Bc if yes, fingers π€
"... Axialβs inflation rate increased from a slow pickup (since around October 2023) to about twice its January 2024 rate by this past June. "
Yet more Biden-flation!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3leywwb654s2h
Empty wheel reply to latest Peter Baker NYT article. What a bunch of scared little people
Did he mention that Trump is the OLDEST PERSON ever elected President?
They are all petulantly invited to take a headfirst flying fuck at a razorwire wrapped rolling donut followed by a swan dive into a vat of lemon juice.
This sort of creativity is exactly why I turn up here. Thank you.
Nice touch...
Brilliant observation lil Pete. BEQUEATH also many points. Add a "I here by..." and you win the internet.