Happy Dictator Day?

31 thoughts on “Happy Dictator Day?”

1. as of today speaking of same

   

2. in re our own homegrown dictator wannabe “stupid is as stupid does” (AKA the disgraced loser former guy)

   Lyrics by Greg Trafidlo Parody of “Counting Flowers on the Wall” by Lewis Dewitt

3. It’s almost 90 degrees already.  Today may be the day the TX grid goes down. They say it won’t make it up to the teens, but it’s going to be close. 

4. Pogo…..answered your road comment at end of last night.  Reminds me of when I was a kid, before interstate highways, listening when all my b’ham uncles and my dad would sit around for hours discussing the best routes from charston to B’ham. 

5.  ‘Today may be the day the TX grid goes down’

   BiD, your comment is enough to inspire someone to do a parody using leon helms’ “the night they drove old dixie down”

   remember this tweet that went viral last year about the power grid

   https://twitter.com/i/status/1404557073376071681

6. reaction from daily beast on the above

   Satirical ‘AC or AOC’ Clip So Good Snopes Fact-Checks It (thedailybeast.com)

   […]
   Considering that millions of Texans lost power during a record cold snap earlier this year, prompting conservatives to falsely blame the outages on the Green New Deal and Ocasio-Cortez, fact-checking site Snopes decided to “debunk” Erskine’s satirical clip after “AC or AOC” began trending on social media. “Erskine’s performance is a bit too good, because some who saw it seemed to think she was a real ERCOT employee,” the site wrote.

7. back to dictators

   Opinion | Cut Biden some slack. U.S. presidents have to deal with dictators. – The Washington Post

   […]
   I, too, recoiled at first from that distasteful image. But then I recalled that MBS is hardly the first, or even the worst, despot that U.S. presidents have greeted in similar ways. Harry Truman shook hands with Joseph Stalin, Richard Nixon with Mao Zedong — and both of those dictators had far more blood on their hands than MBS. Columnists can hurl thunderbolts of outrage from on high, but moral purity is a luxury that no leader of a great nation can afford. Every president has to pursue both America’s ideals and its interests — and often they are at odds.
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8. Breaking !! 
    
   Benafer Is Back ! 
    
   Stand By  for an In Depth Report From Cape Cod  on How the Great White Sharks  are Reacting !!! 

9. Op-Ed: Democrats don’t need ‘messaging,’ just more candidates who act like John Fetterman

   https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-democrats-dont-messaging-100042060.html

10. Democrats are not in disarray. In fact, they’re more unified on issues than they’ve been in a long time. According to a recent Pew poll, 81% prioritize gun control over gun rights. This is up from 69% in 2014. Eighty percent believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, up from 63% in 2007.
    And according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, 92% of Democrats believe that Donald Trump’s actions after the 2020 election threatened America’s democracy.
    And now Democrats need, once and for all, to forget about “messaging.”
    Eccentric, devil-may-care style doesn’t belong to the right. In fact, it’s something Democrats used to excel at. Think Jerry Brown, Shirley Chisholm, Ann Richards. Today there are also examples: Stacey Abrams, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Maxine Waters.
    Like Fetterman, these Democrats show how much better the party can do with more passion, more authenticity, more jokes, more mistakes, more courage and much, much less messaging.
    Virginia Heffernan writes a column for Wired and hosts the podcast “This Is Critical.”

11. CBob…  your 9:11 comment…  ROTFLMAO!!
     
    BTW.. I finished reading Margaret George’s 2 part tale on Nero a few weeks ago.  He actually didn’t fiddle while Rome burnt.  But as the saying goes… never let a good story get in the way of facts.

    or is it the other way around…

12. He may not have fiddled but it’s still up for grabs how the fire started and who done it. All that’s really certain is that he benefitted from the clearing out of a good bit of real estate for his big nero house. 

13. Sturg…  yeah…  George mentions that there is no definitive proof of who did or didn’t start that fire.
     
    But then… there’s no definitive proof that Jesus ever existed…  but at this point… that doesn’t matter.

14. Giving Biden shit for a fist bump with MBS?  Shit, Dumbass did the glowing orb thing with MBS’s daddy, supposed leader of the worst human rights offending country in the Horn of Africa and did the sword dance, which was accompanied by military deals worth $110bn, with a slew of Saudi leaders – one of whom looks to me like MBS.   Of course Trump was both reviled and ridiculed over all that, as was Obama for bowingto MBS’s daddy when he visited SA.  At least Biden didn’t dance with him.

15. They’d give Biden shit if he discovered the cure for cancer. 
    fuggum

16. Nice catch Pat. A good day to start a trial of would-be dictator Bannon

17. RR ……….”Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
    -The King , talking in tongues……
     
     

18. Not sure what a benafer is?

19. Ben(Jenn)ifer.

20. Shoulda bun FleckOPez

21. lol, when our musical paths diverged i actually put on a JLO song.  Good thing i didn’t post it, y’all would have blown a fuckin’ gasket 😆

22. I haven’t ever heard her sing anything so woulda been a new esperience for me.  She looks cute in that beach house though.

23. But just put on a little Irma Thomas and groove……
    
     

24. Why must I be a teenager in love?

25. Our generation lived under the crushing weight of Teen-Ager Love Songs.

    And then….there was Zappa.

    …” Don’t go baby
    Don’t put me out on the street
    You threw my best sharkskin suit out on the lawn
    Right on top of some dog waste…“

26. Honestly, two people getting married is more interesting than some asshole threw a ball and some other asshole caught it

27. Maybe i need a little fluff after reading about the open-casket funeral of a 4-year old disabled girl murdered by Putin’s army, don’t judge
     
    Ok have a good day, you lunatics✌️

28. Wow, Biden up to 62% disapproval in new CNN poll, 38% approval

29. Watch out where the Huskies go…

30. Bannon jury selection funny today. One said “I think he is guilty”. Another: “I don’t believe anything he says”. Both excused.

31. NEW THREAD

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