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Ingrid Robertshaw's avatar

Jill Biden should have tod him.." Get the fuck out of my face"...The BIDEN YEARS are over. She should have let loose on him.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Jill should have raised her hand and asked to be moved elsewhere.

As for Faulkner, we can see why you're on Fox. What a shameless shill.

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Anita Smibert's avatar

It was 100% clear that Jill was holding her breath. It said that Macron's wife was seated between them. She must have been outside gasping for breath or throwing up.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

My son and his wife live in a high rise without fire sprinklers so I bought them smoke respirators with a hood to cover head and shoulders. I woulda sent Jill one if I had known she was gonna sit near him. One for Mrs. Macron too. That woulda been a priceless pic!

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Anita Smibert's avatar

I was thinking that they should have supplied her with one. Who was the idiot that seated them that close?

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Between diaper load himself and now a disgusting perfume that probably smells like his socks and ass, Jill was her usual classy self inspite of burning eyes and nausea. Those anti vax numbskulls will probably be told by dear leader that wearing his so called perfume will protect them from the fallout of being exposed to those who are vaccinated. Hard to believe that some of these asshats actually have an MD next their names.

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Anita Smibert's avatar

I think the Chinese got the label wrong on his cologne when they packaged it. It should have been Fart Fart Fart.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Haha, so sad but true. Rand Paul, Quack Oz, we’re looking at you

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Cathy 98280's avatar

“Doctor” Naomi Wolf is not a medical doctor. She has a PhD and uses it to sound (vastly) more intelligent and important than she really is.

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DR Darke's avatar

Even better—Wolf's degree is in English Literature!

Because I always take medical advice from people who misquoted the historical record on their Doctoral thesis.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

It is?! Geez criminy. WTF is she opining about vaccines then?

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Marycat2021's avatar

She's been a whackdoodle for years.

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Dr Andrew's avatar

You can get many things by signing up for crap on a matchbook cover.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Between the heavily soiled diaper, malodorous codpiece and stench of rotting lab grown meat, I’m surprised that anyone was left inside the beautifully restored Notre Dame Cathedral!

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Nancy's avatar

now I know why Macron's wife looked so pinch-faced in so many photos.

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David A Pitock's avatar

Of all the shills on faux news Faulkner makes me nauseous 🤢 literally cannot stand the sight of her.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂No doubt!

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Dave Drell's avatar

She should have raised her hand and smacked him right across the face.

Twice.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Token Faulkner.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah. I wasn’t going to say that, but yeah. Yeah.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I’ve certainly been thinking about the token thing here lately as LDFF names his cabinet nominees & others for positions in his administration. Where are Tim Scott & Brian Donaldson? What do they get for debasing themselves so thoroughly during this campaign?

Sure they’ll say the Rethugs can’t afford to lose seats in the House or Senate; but that didn’t stop him from pulling a couple of white people from the ranks.

Other than Vivek & Marco, has he named any people of color to any post?

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247kath's avatar

Like I’ve said before, I hope she sues his ass off. And adds Faux for the gross innuendo🤮

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

Ben Meicelas of Meidas Touch Network is an attorney who does just that kind of work. He suggested that Dr. Biden should sue the felon for $100 million for using her image without her consent.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I totally agree!! That clown fuck pos!!

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Rose Dubruiel's avatar

Yes she should've done that but she has more class than the orange idiot has in his big toenail

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Cassandra Here's avatar

Eeewww. You made me think of his toenails. Blech.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ditto on the very nasty thought Cassandra!!

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

Big toenail? Small feet. Everything else is miniscule on that clown.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Jill is a class act. She was representing the US and she's not capable of acting otherwise. She knew he was a piece of shit and everybody else knew too.

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Marycat2021's avatar

I wouldn't want her to act like a classless POS. That's too Trumpian.

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Joel Rosenfeld's avatar

Don't be too hard on the Big Orange Blob! Remember, the best part of him ran down his father's leg!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Damn! That’s some scorched earth

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Steve Kelly's avatar

And I have seen pictures of the crowd sitting around that area, looking with total distain and discussed at the orange turd.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

We are the ones who were taught “to be nice”. What a crock. WE NEED TO UNLEARN IT.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, but just because they are crass, cruel and stupid shouldn’t make us that way

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

I think we need to get toughened up. This would not have happened if those in charge had acted.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, we do. And Merrick Garland was a disaster

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Marycat2021's avatar

Apparently you don't spend much time on social media. I would love it if people went back to being civil to each other.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

No social media for me. I tried it many years ago. Even with strict security settings, the trolls started getting in. Shut that shit down.

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Eva Porter's avatar

And Dr. Jill is VERY protective of her family. Of course, she's also a gracious lady and it's hard to break those habits.

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Barb Z.'s avatar

I often wonder if the adoring followers get a head high each time they take a deep breath of i-don't- have-to-think-anymore. It must truly be a calming, non-stressful, Maria singing in the Alps feeling of joy.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Whatever she does would just amplify the disrespect.. a media master ;/

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bruce somers's avatar

DOGE?? I thought it was 'DOUCHE' Dumbfuck Obnoxious Ugly Children Hating Everyone.

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Diana-Sedona's avatar

DOUCHE…definitely more on point!

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arne link's avatar

We will officially pronounce DOGE in that way. A soft G...

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I thought the C was for Charlatans, or maybe Caaaksuckers

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Dr Biden oughta sue that nasty old fuck. Thats the most obscene thing Ive ever seen. OK. One of the most obscene. And for Faux News to do that? Disgusting. Nancy Mace is crazy as a loon. These people...how do they get elected??? Because their constituents are crazy, too.

"vaccine particles aren’t leaping off your seatmates and landing on you." 😂😂😂 And Bret Stephens...what the hell? Looking for readers?

This was one of the best summaries because it further points out how wildly dumb people are. I fear for our society.

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arne link's avatar

What I'm envisioning is Jill, smiling politely, telling him what a stinking bag of worthless flesh he is. The thought makes me happy.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

She is such a classy lady, she could totally pull that off, too. 👍

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Teri's avatar

Arne, would have loved Jill, tilting her head, smiling at convict-elect, saying in baby voice "Ooh, little boy just made a poo poo!! Stinky baby!!!" Then plugging her nose and reseating herself. Gloves gotta come off.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Teri with a WINNER!!

Oh little boy just made a poo poo

💎💎💎

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Even if rump was to be told what a rotten lump of rot he was, he either wouldn’t hear it or sue you.

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

I posted this below but... It is rumored that Trump shit his pants in Notre Dame and everyone tried to move away from him. Search for it on Xitter or Bluesky to get a good laugh. My new hashtag #TrumpShitShow

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

We can abbreviate that to TSS.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

TDS- trump diaperload shitshow

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Dave Drell's avatar

Wunnerful…. we’ve got a piece of shit

making a piece of shit!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Not to worry Susan, they’ll destroy themselves! Unfortunately, taking a rather large swath of our planet with them!

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Doreen Garza's avatar

That’s what I said! Damn it! I wouldn’t let him get away with that crap 💩

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Bretbug (he tried to get a guy fired for calling him a "bedbug") has the absolute, head up his ass, worst takes. I can't believe they pay him to be so wrong!

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Marla's avatar

I’m surprised the NYT pays him at all. He’s among the worst, if not the worst Op-Ed writer they have. And they have Ross Douthat, who’s one smug MF.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You read my mind!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I read one op-ed by Douthat(DoucheHat), it was an anti abortion piece & I immediately despised him.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Hi Jeff, word this morning and u probably didn’t receive it in time for you Substack, is that these oligarchs want to tear down our banking system, tear down FDIC, tear down the bank requirements to have so much $$$ in reserve. My friend, we are entering an era that was vanquished by our president FDR to prevent a run on the banks, to prevent peoples life savings from being appropriated. When you have a country run by oligarchs, well, they just don’t give a shit about the rest of us. One more question for MAGAS, did you really vote to have Elon as your co president? Did you really vote to have Musk and Swarmey dictate cuts or total abandonment of federal agencies, Social Security or Medicare? But hey, it’s all in P 2025, exactly as planned. Fuck these traitors…. Best to all, buckle up, I think we just hit one of many pot holes.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

The Republicans have wanted to destroy the last vestiges of the New Deal and the Great Society and may have finally succeeded. Their hatred of FDR never died.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Their hatred never dies.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Yes, they’ve been trying to destroy the New Deal since it was passed

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

The irony is that FDR saved capitalism and the capitalists never forgave him.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Ironic, indeed

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David Skoglund's avatar

Rush fucking Limbaugh bragged about destroying FDR’s legacy.

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Teri's avatar

David, geez, I had no idea. Hell's hottest 🔥🔥🔥 are for

filth & hate roach l.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I hope he's roasting like an overstuffed chestnut

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Janice Laz- Romo's avatar

I am still recovering from my last and final marriage to a MAGA. Rush was screaming through the house on the radio every morning. If we went in the car the only thing on the radio was Rush! I can hear his voice every time I see his name😩

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I’m so sorry you had to endure that & so glad you are out of it now. I will never even date a maga or even a regular ol’ Republican.

We just wouldn’t have the same moral standards.

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Janice Laz- Romo's avatar

Smart! In my defense, I really didn’t get it until it was too late. I regret it but am very happy being alone

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

True dat Linda!!

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Teri's avatar

Linda, thanks, didn't know that.

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Kay-El's avatar

I saw that about the FDIC. Time to put my 💰 in my mattress

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Stuffing your mattress with all of your money Kay-EI, may make for an uncomfortable nights sleep!!

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Kay-El's avatar

Nah, Patrick, I’ll sleep better knowing it’s safe. :D

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arne link's avatar

It is very concerning. I am retired and have a lot of investments in FDIC insured financial vehicles. I always tell my broker that I want only insured investments. Now, I don't know what to do. Maybe "going to the mattresses" has a new meaning in today's financial world?

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Kay-El's avatar

Same here, but I trust my broker. That bitcoin bullshit is not going to fly. Even the über wealthy aren’t going to want to lose all their ill-gotten gains on nothing actually tangible.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Don't freak out just yet. Changing FDIC rules isn't simple. They need Congress to make any changes and there are a lot of moving parts. It would mean a complex legislative effort. Could they? Yeah. Would our elected officials want their money uninsured? I don't think so.

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Teri's avatar

I hope they get knocked back by GOP Senators.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I am definitely planning on withdrawing a large amount of cash before Jan 20.

I don’t trust those mofos not to tank the entire financial system. They are saying they’re going to exchange a big chunk of gold in the reserve for fucking bitcoin!!

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Kay-El's avatar

I’ve actually been thinking the same. Waiting a bit to see

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

They want to start a huge run on banks so they can promote Bitcoin cuz we all know that's a safe place for your money.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Orange dumbass wants to put national assets into crypto. If he's for it you know it's a stupid idea

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arne link's avatar

Yeah, of course it's safe. Trust me, right?

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Teri's avatar

Fredo, thanks for giving the alarm on banks. Bc we don't know how far they'll go, I have been considering withdrawing my entire Jan SS money & savings pre-Jan 20. I have money in a trust for emergency. Panic forced the depression, right?

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Teri, u hit the nail on the head..panic forced depression, yup, history repeats itself.

Personally I feel bit coins are for criminals, drug dealers, manipulators trying to run drugs, guns and money, bit coins are just another way to hide money similar to bank accounts offshore.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yep, crypto is the province of miscreants and I include all these get rich quick cryptobros with them. So when they get scammed and lose their money, FAFO greedy assholes

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

CELSIUS FTX VOYAGER BLOCKFI GENESIS ETC LOL LOL LOL

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Sounds like this incoming administration. That’s why Dear Leader had started a bit coin company

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I get SS and pension which has to be deposited into our account! We can not just stop that. I also pay my bills on line. This is fucking crazy!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I pay everything with a check.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Yes, but you still have to have a bank account with money deposited to use a check.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Credit unions issue checks and cash them.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

My Credit Union is worse than any bank I ever used.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Yep, the Uber-wealthy created it, then seized the opportunity to purchase banks for pennies on the dollar Terri!!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Teri, are you here in California?

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Teri's avatar

Ellen, yes

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Bay Area? East Bay?? I think we need to meet...

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Teri's avatar

Paradise, near Chico

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Did your house burn?

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Teri's avatar

Where are you?

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Berkeley, of course, flatlands. What does this little cross in the circle mean??? Sigh, Chico's a little far away...

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I’m not withdrawing everything, but I’m definitely going to get a good sized chunk of cash to have in my hands.

I don’t trust these fools

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Teri's avatar

Fredo, most 67.9 million on SS have direct deposit. So if they "alter" or fuck around with SS pmt money, that halt could be a two-fer. Money grab + disrupt banking system. I want off this ride.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Ay-yi! Ours is direct deposit. Virtually everything else is in various accounts in our credit union.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I hear you!! Same here. I can’t not have a bank account for those reasons!

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

I’m with you Teri.. at 73, knowledgeable of history…. Well our country has been here before. The difference this time is the President is attempting to tear our country down “brick by brick” as Russian tv responds joyfully.🤮

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Gina's avatar

the insanity c/w stupidity - I look around and wonder who built this tech world we live in, cuz the inhabitants are devolving apes

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Apes are much more intelligent then them assholes!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

In the beginning, they definitely were not. Does anyone know Woz? What does he think? Devolvoving apes definitely describes the Stanford crime family.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

Please don’t forget that this new ‘department’ has no power except to suggest things to Congress. Too many Congress people have $$$ in banks, and won’t pass bills to do that.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I hope you’re right!

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David Skoglund's avatar

Plus, it can be battled in the courts.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Remember folks, as knowledgeable folks have said in the last century..

Fascism is the last stage of capitalism… I’m thinking we are very, very close to that conclusion.

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David Skoglund's avatar

I have felt that way for the last ten years.

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Charles Austin's avatar

These fuckers are going to cause a run on the banks. That's exactly the plan. Replace the USD as the default currency with crypto.

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shee-rah's avatar

I thought it was spelled ‘Smarmy.’

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Anita Smibert's avatar

Just got a covid booster yesterday. On my way out to spread the noxious poison to as many unvaxxed people as I can.

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Dina's avatar

Rub up against them while you breathily tell them you've just been boosted!

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Teri's avatar

Anita, that 3rd X msg - about taking ivermectin when you fly 🤯 . Getting your period, experiencing body aches & pain when around the vax'd ..

how do those three people KNOW the people traveling are vax'd? Do they question fellow travelers?

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T L Mills's avatar

Yeah, I was wondering that myself. If that anti-vaxx BS isn't the most absurd pile of nonsense ever invented.

I'd bang my head on the wall in utter frustration at the ignorance, but I comfort myself with the thought that these very stupid people are self-selecting themselves and their unfortunate progeny out of the gene pool.

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Anita Smibert's avatar

Yup. Darwin's got this one.

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Anita Smibert's avatar

I'm sure they're psychic. 🙄 If you have to be vaccinated to fly, then they must be too.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ignorance questions nothing Teri!!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I am getting boosters on all my childhood vaccines before Jan 20. I’m not trusting RFKjr & his anti vax lawyer Aaron Siri.

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Ben Thomas's avatar

Wow, I totally missed that Nancy Mace had been trying to get wrapping paper produced.

(Also, she’s thankfully currently only a Representative and not a Senator ….)

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

oh fuck, I called her a senator. now I'll have to endure hundreds of corrections being emailed to me over the next three days. (which is really my prime motivation for not getting facts wrong)

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Nah. Proves you're not a bot

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

A Senator in her own mind

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Tess's avatar

A bitch in our minds

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You left out a couple words like “useless, fucking and idiotic” in your post Tess!!

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Tess's avatar

damn!

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Charles Austin's avatar

👍👍

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Kay-El's avatar

A legend in her own mind

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Gina's avatar

if anyone feels unseen and unheard on social media, simply make a mistake of fact or grammar

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Hahaha!! Really!!

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Dan Beach's avatar

Hit the 'edit' button. to remove the lasting trace.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

I wasn't going to be the pedant, as long as I saw dozens of others being the pedant.

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Joseph Luongo's avatar

That’s ok. We knew

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Chris Fox's avatar

I was one of them. 😉

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T L Mills's avatar

Yeah, me too. I just didn't like giving her more status than she has. Bitch.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Jeff, I would never bitch at you for a silly mistake! We all make many!

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Maureen Okonski's avatar

Now she'll be having delusions of grandeur. Thanks Jeff!

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David Olson's avatar

You did, I forgive you. I note the GOP Senators as a whole are about as nuts as Mace. The great sin, they didn’t give Trump the ax. No forgiveness.

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arne link's avatar

Oh, just ignore the noise. Everyone makes mistakes and we still love you, Jeff.

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T L Mills's avatar

Sorry, Jeff...I'm one of those who have mentioned a correction.

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Mwfeiger's avatar

Scrolled down all the comments till I found this one. Your subscriber's are generally 'on it'.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

SC is up there as having the most suck-o-phantic senators with Lyndsey "John McCain Who?" Graham and Tim "Never Heard of Slavery" Scott.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Rick "White Collar Theft is a Republican Birthright" Scott and Marco "I'll Kiss Your Fat Ass if You'll Be Nice To Me" Rubio get my 'State Shittiest Senators' votes.

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T L Mills's avatar

Oh, but wait...Maine has Susie "I Think He Learned His Lesson" Collins. But Florida, you do have two very shitty Senators...although you are going to lose one and maybe get Lara Trump in exchange. Gag. From really bad to very much worse.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Hard to argue. I also nominate Ted Cruz, who is so shitty that he alone makes Texas rank amongst the worst

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Graham makes me wonder how he manages to be a pr1ck, a pu$$y, an a$$h0le, and a b00b, all at the same time!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Versatility😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Teri's avatar

That's ill-fated wrapping paper looks like it calls under "campaign items" with "Mace for Congress" or whatever. Was she planning on paying with campaign funds, or charging the taxpayers? Glad she FO decent people ignore her. Indifference is stronger than hate, if you can get there.

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Ben Thomas's avatar

I suspect she never actually contacted any printers about producing the wrapping paper, the design is probably yet another performative stunt on her part.

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Teri's avatar

Ben, "performative" is exactly right. The arm sling, wrapping paper, why aren't her constituents, ESPECIALLY Dems in her district, not marching on her office with torches telling her to get to work for them???

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Teri's avatar

*falls

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P123Sunny's avatar

why does everyone have plenty of time for side hustles & media hits... must be nice

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Dave Drell's avatar

Because they don’t actually do anything in Congress except go after HunterBiden

and get the 2020 election overturned

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I honestly believe that Rep Bancy Mace is seriously mentally ill. She needs an intervention asap, before she goes off the deep end & starts shooting people.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I have a nomination, Jeff! And this week it goes to the Trump voters—as well as some lazy, low-information, vindictive NON-MAGAts, who just couldn’t bother to vote at all —because even though Donny was the most fucked-up, fraudulent felon ever to run for office, it was getting expensive to make an omelette. And you know, we just can’t have that. While their stupid act wasn’t committed this week, they did find out this week, that according to the bronzed bullshit machine, it’s actually going to be hard to bring down costs. Great job, morons!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

If the TSS voters can learn to shop, they won't be spending so much. Last week I did the stopping, came in at $80 less than when my husband shops. He tries, but it's hard to make a dent. Remember, shop the lowest and highest shelves if you can. They put the high prices right in front of your eyes. And cook from scratch in you can. And if you can find any old Berkeley Co-op cookbooks and cooking advice books, buy them. READ the LABELS.

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Teri's avatar

Good tips, Ellen. TSS voters think nothing of buying 3 or 4 cartons of cigarettes (expensive). Buying off label or store brand helps the wallet also. I would bet money that maga shoppers don't know what a "unit price" means.

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T L Mills's avatar

Heck, those MAGAs are all going to be so busy betting on sports that they won't notice food prices (probably) going up.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Oh my god! 3 or 4 cartons of cigarettes. Well, that will blow your budget. That's kind of like long acting fentanyl, isn't it?

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Teri's avatar

In the rural hills, maga seems to live 7-10 to one house. And they all smoke like chimneys.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Are they making or selling meth?

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Teri's avatar

Not the few where I used to live.

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Dave Drell's avatar

i think they’re $50-$80 a carton

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shee-rah's avatar

My husband of 44 years shops like he’s still a poor student living off the GI bill, cutting coupons and searching for sales. (He got his degree in 1979.) I’m glad he does the marketing as I dislike supermarkets.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Hey, we've been married 44 years too! My husband thinks he's good, but he's somewhat deluded. I try to give him gentle hints. I don't know where you live, but we shop independent markets, not big chains. The big store we shop at is Berkeley Bowl West. People come from all over the Bay Area and from every cultural group to shop there. The highest end grocery store I've been to is Andronico's in the City. We shop their smaller stores in Berkeley.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

There’s far too many of the peerless in vacuous idiocy to dip one’s pen into the ink well over Stephanie, but I concur!!

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Vacuous Idiocy. Thank you! I think you just provided my new album title!

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

Before Fox News, Harris Faulkner was a newscaster on one of Kansas city's local stations. We thought she was crazy then. 😂

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

She was here in the Twin Towns from 2000-04 at KSTP Elaine!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Wow, there is nothing Mendacious Mace won't do for attention. Wearing a sling despite never having been touched? Or did she sprain her arm with her bedroom antics and need a politcally useful cover story? Two birds with one stone!

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D Kitterman's avatar

As a 70 year old woman, I would be happy to help her 'sprain' her arm for her so she doesn't exhaust her delicate self lying in perpetuity about it.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

It would involve no physical effort on your part. Just get within a few feet of her and make it known that you are an advocate for the trans community, and she'll claim an injury of some sort

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Marie Drozdis's avatar

This 85 year old granny would join you. Talk about "chewing the carpet."

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D Kitterman's avatar

Hah! Sociopath AND an asshole!

Thanks, Steve.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

A gal of many talents 😂

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HI2thDoc's avatar

If she filed a false police report, she committed a crime. I hope even she’s not that dumb. But her poor kids, having such a liar for a parent

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Randy Woodall's avatar

That is obviously Nancy Mace's writing. It almost makes me wonder, is she related to Morton Downey, Jr?

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Oof, that guy.

He was (among other crazy-ass things) a member of a pro-smoking group - - until he got lung cancer

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Randy Woodall's avatar

Right, Steve. But I was specifically referring to the time - maybe you'll remember this - I guess his tv show ratings had been down and he reported being assaulted by neo-nazis, in a public restroom I think. There was a photo of him looking possibly beaten up. They had cut off some of his hair and drawn a swastika on his face with a Sharpie. Except the swastka was reversed and there were no witnesses.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Haha. Drawing a swastika in the mirror isn’t so easy I guess 😂

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

It's like the bathroom scene in "Liar liar" where the guy is asking Jim Carrey's character what he's doing: "I'M KICKING MY ASS!!"

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

I'll join you!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Can I watch D. It could become a profitable venue!!

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Dina's avatar

She learned it from Roodles. Remember when he was "assaulted" in a grocery store when someone touched his shoulder?

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EFS's avatar

I'd love to know if her staff actually tried to find a printer, or if they just told her that because they are smarter/less creepy than she is.

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Karla's avatar

If you’re out in public and smell a mixture of rancid diaper and hamburgers, there’s a cologne wearing Trump supporter too close to you.

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David Selditz's avatar

Just when you think they can't go lower? Jesus H Christ on a burnt croissant, for the last ten years it's been a daily experience for me. It'll never end because there is no bottom with these inhuman degenerates and those who voted for them. Just revolting.

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Kay-El's avatar

1. Why didn’t the air travelers just bring a bottle of vinegar with them. It stops chemtrails too! A twofer

2. The Life of Brian (apologies to Monty Python) could be summed up: hometown boy makes bad

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Mark Carlson's avatar

Here's my [perhaps] naïve hope: the 20-or-so percent of non-MAGA Americans who voted for lower prices on eggs and to support their closeted racist beliefs will soon tire of the theatrics, the lies, the gross exaggerations, and the fear-mongering to arrive at the how-the-fuck-did-we-get-here? stage, helping sanity prevail and a chance for a bit of a reset at mid-terms. Of course that's two years of sheer clown fuckery we'll have to endure, but we gotta be strong and stick it out.

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DR JAGC's avatar

Someone said on another thread, we are prepared for it so hopefully they will suffer more than we will. However, we all know the corporate controlled media and MAGA lie machines will blame any failures on Democrats so hopefully Dems grow some balls and push out facts louder. I’m so sick of all this already. Back to tuning out. I just have to enjoy the holidays.

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Gina's avatar

on tv this morning govt person (forget name) talked about all the infrastructure starting to come on line - ingrate voters who don't care, and guess who'll take the credit when the new factories and bridges open

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

That is assuming that there will be midterms. These fascists are capable of pulling some stunt to prevent any further elections.

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arne link's avatar

Nah, Magats will never abandon their God. The suffering is the point.

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Joseph Luongo's avatar

Nope. Never happen. Will still hate the same people

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Teri's avatar

Mark, I'm afraid how quickly TSS & co-anarchists can actually make a Thing (like cut or ransack SS) happen. I read that Bannon says they will "burn it to the ground). Hoping chaos & backstabbing

slows them down.

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Carol C's avatar

Maybe he will do something impeachable. . again.

Third time’s the charm on conviction. Of course, it would take a few normal Republicans. Not holding my breath.

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DR JAGC's avatar

They never tire of going lower. Hope Dr. Biden sues someone. Anyone for this libel and slander show.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

She has too much class and will go high when he goes low. His game now is to insult and demean, as he tried to do with Trudeau, because it plays well with the media and his inbred cultists.

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T L Mills's avatar

🤬😡🤬😡

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Teri's avatar

Jill probably would love to sue, but the court process just gives him more attention.

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DR JAGC's avatar

Everything gives him attention and bad or not it only helps him. I’m so sick of it.

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Gini Kramer's avatar

Listen up, people. The reason one feels like crap after a flight has nothing to do with their vaccine status or breathing the same air as a hundred other people. The air in the cabin is a mixture of air from the outside, which is very, very cold, and air from the engines' air compressors, which is very, very hot. It goes through a system that cools it down and is filtered through the same kind of air filters they use in hospital operating rooms. It then goes into the cabin through those nozzles above the passengers' heads, and is sucked straight into vents on the cabin floor. From there, some of the air is vented to the outside and some is returned to the air handling system where it is filtered again. As a passenger, you are not breathing in someone else's air. However, because the ambient humidity is around 15%, you are breathing in air that is very, very dry. And when you do that you become dehydrated. And when you become dehydrated, your first hint is a headache. Another reason you feel lousy when you get off the plane is that your body has been subjected to a constant jostling and bombarded by the noise, which in commercial airliners is very loud.

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Itsy Bitsy Spider's avatar

Thank you for that very detailed explanation that actually makes sense. Wow. Could it actually be based on the truth??🧐hmm. I think so! How refreshing!

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

🙏Even without this factual knowledge, any reasonable person would know travel is stressful. You can’t fix stupid! (Credit to Ron White)

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Teri's avatar

Gini, thanks for sharing your in-depth airplane filtration process. Your scientific explanation makes sense -- sadly, maga doesn't read or "science". I used to troll maga on X (now deleted) when their idiocy on basic science was acute. I would innocently ask "does your vehicle start if you turn the ignition on?" #SCIENCE or "if you flip the switch on your lamp, does light appear?" #SCIENCE

It's easier to run off the cliff with DL. Just grab the ivermectin, wave the tube around in the air. You'll be safe.

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T L Mills's avatar

Thank you--that is a very science-based explanation. Dehydration can make you feel terrible. Too bad these folks are so focused on things that they find scary, that they cannot seemingly accept a more mundane, but truthful explanation. They just have to have drama with their malaise.

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David A Pitock's avatar

Sounds like the kind of filtering that submarines used minus the intake from outside the boat 🚢

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