If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

I am constantly surprised (fool me twice, etc) at the hoi polloi who vote in the belief that the interests of plutocrats and billionaires align with theirs. Top This is a plain ol' leftover of secret monarch yearning and plebian adoration of their betters. Americans nominally shook that off, but th...

I must admit that I have been quite disappointed that Trump might well be out, but then if what people supposedly in the know are saying he is far from the petulant child some people like to think he is and is responding well to the situation. He has really had his eyes opened now to the disloyalty...

- How Pennsylvania counted 700,000 more absentee ballots than it mailed out. This apparently stems from a typo on the PA Dept. of State website, which didn't subtract absentee ballot counts returned in the primary election, making it look like more were received in the actual election than were sen...

Here's my stupid voting irregularity explanation: God actually does exist, and he likes America so he wanted Biden to win. So he made all those ballots appear late at night because Jedi mind tricking people into voting for Biden would violate free will (and Christians usually think that's a problem...

I accept your concession, btw. If the election was actually stolen, and nothing ever comes of it because Trump is such an imbecile that he can't even put together a decent legal team, I'm happy to treat that as a kind of political Darwin Award. In some ways I actually like that better than the idea...

Keating wrote: ↑ And that's how I got pregnant

You're much too easy.

Twinkish Illumination My daughter is part of her University’s drama society. Quite the rainbow coalition. Last night after ‘bumping out’ of the closing show, 25 of them had an ‘afters’ celebration in the local inner city park. Saturday night. Late. Suddenly an extended line appeared on the crest Zu...

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ The quote was put up by me old china Keating. I was however going to respond that surely there is at least one other option between the robber barons and the moral scolds.
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You people all look the same anyway.

Freeze Peach is a wonderful thing. Have I said that recently?

^^^ I meant Giuliani, in case you thought that was an insult. :D

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who t...

I think Giuliani is a corrupt vampire. I'm pretty sure there's a post on here-- back, several Christmases ago-- about how I bumped into Giuliani on the street in Manhattan-- with no security guards between him & me-- and I was rattled by the split-second decision-- whehter to throttle his throat an...

....Trump and company are actually litigating this shit in court. That means he and Giuliani can submit their best case for voter fraud to the US legal system and get a hearing based on the evidence. Well, so far no progress on any voter fraud cases.... I'm pretty sure only one of those cases avoid...

John D wrote: ↑ and you can still suck my ass-hole.

That procedure has a very long wait list.

Driftless wrote: ↑ Michele Bachmann is looking for an iron rod. Is this a case where an iron rod is just an iron rod?:

No, she means a cigar.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ The SMH hits peak TDS

You have been warned.

Send in the ninja kangaroos.

So. Election prep. Who’s got “burning my neighbourhood down” lined up as a contingency plan? I passed the usual line of Trump flag waving demonstrators. I usually give them a thumbs down and we all have a merry laugh. Today I "just can't". I'd prefer him out of office, but the Zen mind says whateve...

jugheadnaut wrote: ↑ A metaphor I hope. The American immune system may be girding up to repel socialism and identity politics. Or maybe not. We'll find out Tuesday.

Come on, Man! Malarkey. You mean socialism, like that evil democratic socialism of Scandinavia. God save us from that.

This is for Matt. Happy Halloween everyone.

Normally I don't go for quickie youtube science vids because you learn just enough to be utterly useless, but this one is so bizarre that I do. And it also answers a long term question I've always had but didn't realize. I flip a tennis racket now and then and always wondered why the damn things wa...

Normally I don't go for quickie youtube science vids because you learn just enough to be utterly useless, but this one is so bizarre that I do. And it also answers a long term question I've always had but didn't realize. I flip a tennis racket now and then and always wondered why the damn things wan...

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ Screwtape. As a doctor, would you prescribe bleach for Trump?

Please.

I would first try a steady diet of Tide Pods.

More than likely he'll remain asymptomatic or mildly ill. He'd probably already be gravely ill if it was going to hit him hard.

But what do I know. I only play a doctor on TV.

Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. If he gets hit hard and is incapacitated, Pence takes over. Pence has been around Trump a lot lately. If he gets a bad case too, the wicked witch of the West will be in charge. FUN TIMES I should have known the writers of 2020 would come up with this plot twi...

Can anyone even conceptually grasp what nothing is? I certainly can't. Following what Stenger said about instability, perhaps the existence of matter and at least semi-fixed physical laws is down to the old tautology of evolution. It is an inevitability that that which is persistent will persist. B...

Anyone got any thoughts on why there is something rather than nothing? I know that Victor Stenger said that perhaps nothing is unstable - like balancing an egg on the pointed end. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. Which I've also pondered o...

fuzzy wrote: ↑ It seems especially disingenuous for a slimepitter to pretend that a joking like " grab em by the pussy" spoken in jest to an ostensible friend in a locker room, is some kind of big deal.

Aren't you forgetting something? Like his "base", which includes evangelicals.

Can't we at least get the input box to automatically scroll to the bottom? It's not like I'm asking for an edit button.

Shit, someone stop me.

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑
KiwiInOz wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:26 pm
Has anyone tried turning the USA off for 30 secs and then turning it back on?
Hmm, this give me an idea. I wonder if Amazon would still take back Trump.
Have you guys tried turning Ardern off altogether and putting her back in the box?
Why would we want to do that?

I think this tax return thing will be like that. Trump's tax returns are an even-older story than Russia. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is the silver bullet that gets him. I haven't looked past the headlines yet. There's no way this or any other integrity-related theme will bring him down in the eyes...

Fucked that one up. first paragraph:

Why doesn't he just release his records freely so we don't have to rely on the NYT. More importantly, why do we have to belatedly find out he has massive debt obligations that might compromise the integrity of his office?

if he really only paid $750 in taxes for two of the last ten years, his reasons for staying in power are more to do with financial gain and staving off prosecution than because he is a power-hungry would-be dictator. Why doesn't he just release his records freely so we don't have to rely on the NYT...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑

Sure, just laugh at the kid.

Keating wrote: ↑ I thought we were in favour of recycling

It does make you wonder how anyone came into the possession of three hundred thousand used condoms.
I've been giving this some thought and.....nope, I still can't think of anything.

mordacious1 wrote: ↑ Be careful out there guys:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/vie ... 48833.html

320K? Why those horney little bastards.

To be read in Trump voice:

"I really don't get it. We have really great people, so many great people. People who would be great presidents, so great, perfect for the job. Why are these two our choice?"

First presidential debate in one week. Dems have got to find some lame excuse to cancel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XxA1ZIP4M&feature=youtu.be C'mon, man! Biden doesn't need a teleprompter! He's got reporters to prompt him... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW7ud7sMf0s Look, it's Senile Gran...

Driftless wrote: ↑ I thought AR-15s were bad guns. Apparently guns aren't bad, the people who carry them are (or something):

It's usually the bullets that kill you.

Keating wrote: ↑ Wouldn't even be surprised if FT decides to add an edit button.

There has always been an edit button........in Eastasia.

I don’t think the Republicans get a justice confirmed currently, unless Trump wins. Collins, Romney, Murkowski and possibly Graham will not vote before the election and possibly not after. This will be a battle. The R's are dancing in the street, thinking this will be a big win. Prior to this I tho...

1:35 Morning drunk who can't drive.

https://twitter.com/_eng1ish/status/1288746643240693762?s=21 Black man crossing the street at 1:03. Get him!!! To be honest, minus the brown people, London 1960s doesn't look a hell of a lot different than London 2020, at least to my inexperienced American eyes. Brits were still wearing bell bottom...

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ First steps taken towards interplanetary war...

I'm looking forward to our war with Venus.

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ As musicals go - I feel like they are not even trying.

Here it is again if anyone missed it.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Richard Carrier with all his girlfriends?

Your visibility while driving down I-5.

It's how Bladerunner 2049 depicted Vegas, though the way we're going they're going to be way off the mark.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑Fuck Nevada.

https://vfxblogsite.files.wordpress.com ... .jpg?w=660

Pollution is just unprocessed fertilizer. Just as the Chinese.

https://thehill.com/sites/default/files ... k=rq-Lj5pP

But thanks PG, for the sentiment. How are you faring these days? It's alright, mate. I think I'm finally "done" mourning my dad's death, now it's just the longing that remains. Still, I'm working, I'm doing stuff, I'm back to shitposting online. I got my health. Cheers. :D Is the sky dark red at yo...

But thanks PG, for the sentiment. How are you faring these days?

To the people in the areas affected by the wildfires, stay safe, yeah? Please? :romance-grouphug: My place in the Santa Cruz mountains was less than ten miles from the Big Basic lightning complex. So far I think it stands. I was there about fifteen years ago when a dry weather lighting storm came o...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 12, 2020 1:20 pm

screwtape wrote: ↑ Could be worse:

12 Monkeys Superspreader.jpg
If only we could send Bruce Willis back in time to February, to convince Trump to not say the same things about the virus that the Dems were saying!

"Yippie ki yay, Cheeto Motherfucker."

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ when some doofus broke their already shoddy containment protocol and let this one loose.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/77/08 ... 13cf9e.jpg

Hunt-- I think your point would be clearer-- if you framed it as 'fair weather' preferences, rather than 'in a perfect world' ideals. You make it sound like anyone who subscribes-to any values-- is lost chasing a hopeless utopia, doomed to become a hypocrite. Rather than merely a state of deciding-...

It's funny how emergency and existential crisis give the lie to most concrete idealistic positions. The fact that pandemics seem to spring primarily from one part of the world will call for the culturally insensitive shutting down of traditional wet markets in that are. PZ would apply a hot poker t...

It's funny how emergency and existential crisis give the lie to most concrete idealistic positions. The fact that pandemics seem to spring primarily from one part of the world will call for the culturally insensitive shutting down of traditional wet markets in that are. PZ would apply a hot poker to...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Hunt wrote: ↑The Man Whose Face Doesn't Fit His Head
Wasn''t that an Alexandre Dumas novel?

With Leo Dicaprio, yes.

All this back and forth on who minimized the virus threat when. I think the real tragedy is that both parties are more concerned about keeping the stock market going up than they are about public health and safety. Everyone thought coronavirus was going to disappear during the summer. I thought the...

Wait, reverse that. Sorry, I've been drinking. 2020 is starting to get to me.

You're still more of a man than Two and a Half Men.

In fact, you're one man more, if my math is correct.

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