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Remember the guy who hosted films weekday mornings? He'd pad around in a bathrobe and slippers drinking coffee and drop anecdotes about the films.
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Remember the guy who hosted films weekday mornings? He'd pad around in a bathrobe and slippers drinking coffee and drop anecdotes about the films.
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Imagine being 11 sitting with a plate of Ritz crackers and cheddar cheese slices one foot from the TV and watching THE SILENCE.
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Yes. I recall one evening seeing this and being transfixed.
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I circled them.
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Largest sales tax increase in history.
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Yeah there's a picture now and he looks horrible with a woman doctor standing behind him looking like she's thinking, "This patient should be in intensive care." Also looks to have a huge urine stain on his shirt from a loaded diaper.
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Agreed and they are poised for action gravely serious expressions and laser focused.
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Leaky diaper urine stained shirt from sitting on the ride over.
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Loaded diaper leaked onto shirt while he was sitting. Blue blotch on back of hand.
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Laser focused apparently medical ready to react.
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Leaves to go where? What's his public schedule today?
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When I was a kid in the early '70s I would stay up late and watch silent and foreign films on KCET. This after midnight and I'd sit right in front of the TV in part because I had to keep the sound low. At that time I just assumed "they" had really lousy cameras back then.
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Or dead.
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They're so stupid they probably found a hand on Google images.
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No reflections on the window in the area of the hands. In every other spot there are reflections all over the place.
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My other observation is billionaires do nothing other than sit in a chair and think of ways to screw working people. It's not just that billionaires have no value they are a malignancy. They do not create jobs. If they didn't exist big box would be replaced by corner store.
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The Stock Market is nothing other than a measure of how badly owners are screwing labor.
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My feeling exactly. I hope he suffers physical and mental pain so severe he lies in bed begging god to kill him but he will be unable to die. I hope that goes on until the end of time.
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Anyone connected to Trump in any way is white in the mind.
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ICE arrested all the skilled labor. That leaves obese white men who spend all their time standing around smoking before faking an injury and collecting workers compensation.
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What did Trump expect? If you want something done right hire undocumented Mexicans. Obese white slobs are going to fuck up, stand around taking smoke breaks and then fake an injury so they can sue and collect workers compensation. Rinse and repeat.
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Tapper is caused great pain just by hearing the truth.
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This is why people hire undocumented Mexican immigrants when they want something done right. Never under any circumstance hire a white man. Not worth the risk. 90% are looking to fake an injury and collect workers compensation. When they do show up they stand around smoking.
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I don't worry about Junior all that much because I'm on Medicare and so I can't afford any sort of health treatment after paying for part B. This is no different from when I was paying for (the phrase "covered by") the ACA. Medical care sounds good on paper but it's in a gated community.
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Remind me of who the essential workers are? In my opinion all workers should be the same fixed wage. Don't want to be a brain surgeon unless the salary pays more than a hotel maid? Fine. Be a hotel maid.
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Unfortunately in the U.S. it's not so easy. I can't even imagine how people from a lower income background can afford college without piling up crushing debt. Money is the gatekeeper for the upper class.
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This exemplifies white man culture. Get hired. Fake an injury and go on workers compensation. Sit in front of the television and watch football.
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Speaking as a white man in my white man experience around other white men it's 90% of them.
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You want one fool holding a rake in one hand and struggling to move and empty wheelbarrow with his other hand while the rest of the crew stands around doing nothing? Better hire a Mexican if you want actual work done.
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This exemplifies white men. One fool holding a rake while struggling to move a wheelbarrow while the rest of the crew standing around doing nothing. This is why if you want something done you hire Mexicans.
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What is funny is they completely suck at spreading mulch. Most standing around. One clown holding a rake while trying to move a wheelbarrow. Dude you lay the rake on top of the wheelbarrow move to where you want to go, then use the rake. They need to hire some immigrants to show them how it's done
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Haven't seen any "Bsky is dying" posts for awhile and am seeing a sudden influx of "here's an invitation to porn" type posts which sort of suggests Bsky isn't dying.
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The whole spectrum of decent human beings should walk out. Every government office institution or department, all schools public and private K through advanced degrees. Every hospital, every media organization. The nation would grind to a halt. It would bring Republicans to their knees in one day.
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I'm not sure how people define magic. Does it require a wand or incantation or deck of cards?
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The time is long past when anyone with a brain should have understood the MSM is wholly team Republican.
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If she's talking about just black people the percentage is 15%. I've no idea where she got 2% from. That figure doesn't fit any group I'm aware of.
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Where in hell does she get this 2% business?
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The mistake many progressives are making re. the MSM is believing the MSM is being fooled or is intimidated. The MSM is evil. Every action is calculated by design.
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What private comments by Fox employees show is Fox employees are fully aware the Fox audience is even worse than the employees.
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Fox has brainwashed no one. Disgusting human trash gravitate to Fox because Fox tells them what they want to hear. Any decent person exposed to Fox would be horrified and repulsed.
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The DNC is hopeless. Still living under the illusion Republicans are "our friends across the aisle" When the aisle is a chasm straight down to pit of Hell. Republicans have shown themselves to be evil incarnate and there is no bridge going back.
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Interesting point. When I was first in NYC I went to see the Empire State Building and was standing on the sidewalk right in front of it looking up and not seeing it wondering if I had the wrong address.
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People need to eliminate the word "we" from public life and replace it with the word "Republicans." There is no we. There never was. There is only good v. evil.
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Wouldn't the most powerful be the old Mister Mxyzptlk character? The only limitation on his magic being he's just goofing around amusing himself. Similar in a way to Kirby's Egghead whose power in limitless although Egghead wants to serve and purposefully limits himself in the interest of fair play.
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Yeah it's 78 million.
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She was confirmed on a party line vote with zero votes from Democrats.
patrickford.bsky.social (@patrickford.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd think there would be more resistance against Junior from industries. Junior seems more than willing to drop or at least not push most or all of the environmental concerns he made his reputation on. Suddenly he no longer cares and is completely hung up on vaccines.
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If only the MSM would report this. And not buried in the body of an article on page eight but boldly on the front page day after day as with "big" stories like "Biden is old."
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Exactly. The thing is watching Fox would repulse any remotely decent person. It's not "Grandma was a sweetheart but watching Fox brainwashed her." It's "Grandma is consumed by hatred racism and bigotry and found a home at Fox."
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I'd seen the edited version previously. Why do editors always cut "the good stuff"?
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Agree 100% and am sick of the false narrative 78 million Republicans are "good people" who have been fooled by Fox. They are monsters who watch Fox because Fox openly promotes racism and general bigotry.
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NYT fails to prove it is anything other than an utterly corrupt and profoundly evil propaganda operation arm of the the Republican Party. The NYT is literally evil incarnate and is more responsible than any other organization for the death of democracy in America. Burn in Hell.
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Full (unedited) interview with Bruce Jay Friedman. @bobdeis.bsky.social @jlmast.bsky.social Considerable Martin Goodman content. www.mikesacks.com/bruce-jay-fr...
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Has Trump seen Memphis? Never seen so much litter in my life. Much worse than anything I'd seen previously.
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Dear People writing about the MSM. The MSM is evil. Period. Thanks.
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Or to put it another way 260% higher.
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Never have heard even one song by her but seriously there's no time in this world for criticism of anyone other than Republicans and other bigots.
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Link to the posts. linktr.ee/uslivinginfi... One issue of the NEW GODS really hit me at the time. Issue #9 where the reader sees the "good guys" of the floating island waging a war of extermination against the native inhabitants of New Genesis who are seen as "pests."
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Series of essays by Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social Seven chapters on Kirby's Fourth World. @levin.bsky.social @josie.zone @zachrabiroff.com @kirbyzen.bsky.social @jeetheer.bsky.social linktr.ee/uslivinginfi... @jlmast.bsky.social
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Tapper always looks like hearing the truth causes him physical pain.
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Not only a tax but a highly regressive tax and one which heavily impacts food when many States do not apply a sales tax on food. Democrats need to constantly use the phrase "sales tax on the working class" and say so even louder when Republicans complain.
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Trump told reporters to go and look into mortgage records. I bet that made a lot of government officials and appointees nervous. I'd fall over dead from shock if anything Cook has actually done isn't extremely common. Particularly funny coming from Trump who's been convicted of real estate fraud.
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In addition to doing everything possible to normalize Trump the MSM has done everything possible to diminish the large protests against Trump. Close to zero coverage.
patrickford.bsky.social (@patrickford.bsky.social) reply parent
A huge reason more people aren't waking up is the MSM continues to normalize Trump. If there was a continuous drum beat of stories every day as seen with "Biden is old" there would be greater urgency. The MSM has always fully propped up Trump and will continue to do so.
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The NYT is outright evil incarnate. More and more people are seeing what has always been true. The NYT is nothing more than a Republican propaganda operation. A wolf in grandma's bed.
patrickford.bsky.social (@patrickford.bsky.social) reply parent
When are people going to wake up to the obvious fact that the MSM is outright evil and a propaganda tool of the Republican Party?
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He needs to sue the fuck out of them.
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These things usually had great tube amps and kicked ass.
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Also facts not reported by the MSM. At least not in way where people are hit repeatedly over the head with the facts. Maybe slipped in sotto voce.
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I recall years ago Gilbert Hernandez mentioned what really stood out to him was the way Kirby drew characters in repose. Despite the cartooning there's real naturalism in the poses the weight not only of a punch but a character sinking into a chair.
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NATO should expel the U.S. and go all in on removing Putin.
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What's odd is she looks like Stephen A. Smith in drag.
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Kirby also draws people sitting in a chair like someone who has sat in a chair. In fact I would say while there are other cartoonists who are good at drawing action there's no one better than Kirby when it comes to a character doing nothing.
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People need to get over this nonsense idea the MSM "failed" or "is intimidated" or was "fooled." Everything down to the last detail the MSM does is calculated and by design. The MSM is a Republican propaganda operation. It always has been. Any honest reporting is the wolf's mobcap.
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In the negotiation between Hitler's pistol and Hitler's brain the gun won.
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I always vote straight ticket Democrat. Once Republicans have been removed from power and are helpless then I will begin worrying about replacing Centrists with Socialists.
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It's because the MSM is evil. What in hell is wrong with people. Nothing could be more obvious. The absolute worst is the NYT.
patrickford.bsky.social (@patrickford.bsky.social) reply parent
He's been studying Howard "Nutlick."
patrickford.bsky.social (@patrickford.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly correct. There's a bit of nonsense going around with people saying, "What happened to the Rubio I knew." Nothing happened to him. He's showing everyone exactly what he always has been. Evil.
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The MSM has a huge hard on. For fascists. The MSM is pure evil and always has been.
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They lie because they know the MSM is on their side. The MSM is pure GOP propaganda. Any honest reporting allowed is part of the act.
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The NYT is literally evil incarnate and always has been. Any honest stories the NYT runs is nothing other than the mobcap the wolf is wearing while under the covers on grandma's bed.
patrickford.bsky.social (@patrickford.bsky.social) reply parent
But will the MSM report Trump's lie? Perhaps is some very minor way which escapes notice. Unlike "Joe Biden is old" which was apparently a huge story worthy of drum beat coverage for years.
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As far as I have seen the only possible use for AI is the ability to instantly generate crappy looking memes. The sort of thing "good" for a one second chuckle never to be looked at again.
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Their lives are based on hatred. They have never read the Bible and know nothing about it. Not to say the Bible is anything other than a collection of myths no different from other ancient myths and legends.