is not your daddy's uncle no matter what your sister says
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LOL that puts me in the mood for some authentic ethnic food..
Simultaneously prevents and causes leakage. pic.twitter.com/tvkyf3QKiT
— Chef Reactions (@ChefReactions) April 15, 2024
oh darn, those poor insurance companies cannot make a profit out of selling people coverage that they deny most times and their stock took a hit. What should it matter to you? Most of your best conservative states don't even offer expanded medicare. Also understand that the ACA has thousands of plans that can be tailor made to fit your needs beyond medicare that are cheaper than what medicare advantage costs.
Find something else to drag up and get back to me... healthcare should be universal like it is in every other developed nation in the world. We're the only ones on the planet that are at the mercy of privatized insurance and outrageous drug prices.
edit: I should have read zab's response first. He explained it better than I could. I only know from my mother's experience and her's was not good. She refuses to pay for the advantage plans but everyone's experience is different.
6. I seriously wonder when the last time he actually slept was.
I'm guessing it's been years.
LOL the reporters are saying he fell asleep in the courtroom today. Those adderall crashes are a bitch.. He might need Junior to hook him up with the good stuff to get through the next month.
How much time do you think he'll get?
Your boy certainly keeps some strange bedfellows. We'll see what the jury thinks..
What did Michael Cohen and Alan Weiselburg go to jail for? We're you bitching about it then? Justice takes time my good man. '
There have been wars going on since the beginning of time. Quit being a numbskull.
cry me a river.... yours would be "De Nile". No better than any source you post and those numbers were confirmed four years ago.
Competent people are paying very close attention to whats going on in DC because there's no time to stick your head in the sand now. We're tired of getting screwed over by the GOP that would rather cosplay than govern. We're sick of the gaslighting and outright lies that they display every day..
Joe Biden has accomplished more than any modern president has and the other guy is facing four criminal trials. The choice could not be clearer.
Are they even checking to make sure their weird-ass trump porn makes sense anymore? pic.twitter.com/GSqQ7rBQm0
— 🖤🫦SammieSam🫦🖤 (@BarryBleunNila2) April 14, 2024
Giddy up mf'r.... 😁
https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1779552722536239543
Don't be fooled by this guy. Iran attacked 2 US BASES while Trump was in office. 100+ US soldiers received brain injuries while the Trump White House tried and failed to keep the facts about the attack from the public.https://t.co/Jbwe7R9cIc
— Resolute Square (@ResoluteSquare) April 14, 2024
How the fuck are these things legally on the road pic.twitter.com/iqDKDVHpRm
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) April 14, 2024
Conservative estimates put the number of Americans who needlessly died of COVID due to Republican bullshit somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000. Think about that. And while that was happening, those motherfuckers were throwing boat parades. https://t.co/vtIO2XxYSZ
— Matt Fleming, Florida Expert (@Matt_Fleming321) April 15, 2024
LOLOLOLLOL that's about the size of it.
so it is Trump (understanding the issue) vs Biden (it's ???)
care to explain to us the differing opinions on women's healthcare between the two candidates? What issue is to be understood?
If they want to play that game I would be more than happy to tell them about the countless numbers of compromised condoms that I threw in the trash over my lifetime. Probably billions of swimmers...My ex had to stop taking birth control because her hormones were screwy. That was 30 years ago.. I used condoms before I met her too, because I wasn't looking for the next baby momma or to catch HIV in those days, lol I was just worried about acing my math tests.
I got a couple years of raw dogging in but it was no difference to me. Feels the same wether you wrap that rascal or not. Better to be safe than sorry.
good for you. So you understand it is completely the womans' decision and shouldn't be regulated by anyone but her and her doctor. Otherwise it's none of your fucking business... Good on you.
again, that didn't make any sense to me. Care to translate?
more than one egg.. Wait until we tell him how many sperm are in an average male ejaculation.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-many-eggs-does-a-woman-havehttps://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-many-eggs-does-a-woman-have
It’s hard to get insulted by people pushing a Liberty for Laundry agenda while simultaneously claiming dominion over my vagina. pic.twitter.com/tKNc1fF2Y8
— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) April 14, 2024
good story that I know you'd appreciate.. LOL I had no idea
PLUCKIN'
Jerry Garcia: What It Was Like to Play Bluegrass with the Grateful Dead Guitarist
As a new exhibit dedicated to Garcia opens at the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, bandmate Peter Rowan recalls early shows by their bluegrass project: "There were Deadheads going, ‘What is this?'"
GARRET K. WOODWARD
MARCH 28, 2024 10:09AM EDT
Jerry Garcia, Bluegrass, Old and in the Way
Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
In 1973, Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia fulfilled a longtime dream when he formed the bluegrass supergroup known as Old & In the Way. For the rock & roller, circling back to his acoustic roots was more than just scratching a creative itch — it was a spiritual calling.
“It was something that was organic and fun,” Peter Rowan, singer, songwriter, and former OITW guitarist, tells Rolling Stone. “And that evolved into playing [shows]. ‘Let’s take this outside.’”
On the ground level, Old & In the Way’s self-titled 1975 debut album was one of the biggest selling bluegrass records of all time, until the juggernaut O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack edged it out in 2000. But to dig below the surface of Old & In the Way is to find both a landmark album and a juncture of virtuoso musicians who forever changed the course of bluegrass.
“I think what makes it so special is that it was like this shooting star,” Rowan says of the band. “If you were lucky enough to see it, you saw it. If not, you heard about it.”
In celebration of the innovative group, and to specifically honor an often-overlooked chapter of Garcia’s storied musical journey, the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Owensboro, Kentucky, will unveil the special exhibit “Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey” on Thursday.
The elaborate showcase is expected to run at the museum for the next two years, and its unveiling is set to feature panel discussions with bluegrass greats like Rowan, Ronnie McCoury, Pete Wernick, and Drew Emmitt. There will also be live performances from Leftover Salmon, David Nelson, Jim Lauderdale, Kyle Tuttle, and more.
To preface, before Garcia formed the Grateful Dead, he originally hailed from the bluegrass, folk, and roots music realms of the late 1950s and early 1960s — thick musical threads that remained at the foundation of the Dead throughout its tenure. Alongside his lifelong friend and songwriter partner, Robert Hunter, the duo were fixtures in the San Francisco music/art scene of the burgeoning 1960s counterculture.
“A lot of people forget [Jerry] and Robert Hunter were huge bluegrass guys before the Dead became ‘the Dead,’” Rowan says.
Playing acoustic guitar and banjo, Garcia took a deep dive into all avenues of acoustic music, especially bluegrass. It’s been widely said that one of Garcia’s tightly held aspirations as a young musician was to one day become a member of Bill Monroe’s band, the Blue Grass Boys.
As the “Father of Bluegrass,” Monroe represented the big bang of the genre, with Garcia even traveling east to Pennsylvania in the early 1960s to possibly audition for Monroe. The location was Sunset Park in rural Chester County. With a setting of Amish buggies, horses, and folks sitting on wooden benches taking in Monroe’s music, Garcia had second thoughts.
“I think [Jerry] took a look at the scene and realized if he did get the job, this would be his life,” Rowan says. “Everything was just starting in California. Jerry couldn’t envision himself in a coat, tie, and cowboy hat working with Bill Monroe.”
Rowan himself worked for Monroe. In 1964, he was hired as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Blue Grass Boys. By 1967, Rowan left Monroe and started collaborating with mandolinist David Grisman.
What resulted from that Rowan/Grisman partnership was the short-lived group Earth Opera — a blend of the duo’s love of bluegrass and jazz music, as well as the mind-expanding nature and sonic possibilities conjured by marijuana and LSD.
By October 1972, Rowan moved to the West Coast. He again was hanging and jamming with Grisman in San Francisco, specifically the Stinson Beach area. They formed another group, Muleskinner, a bluegrass project that lasted only a brief period of time and featured standup bassist John Kahn and fiddler Richard Greene, the latter also one of Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys.
“We all believed in [bluegrass] as a music that was not limited to just countrified folks and rural audiences,” Rowan says. “It’s very uplifting. It’s got gospel tunes, transcendent songs of spiritual longing, unrequited love from a tradition of old ballads.”
Also in that moment, Grisman introduced Rowan to Garcia and the trio came together at Garcia’s one day to play with no expectations — simply to enjoy each other’s company, instruments in hand.
“[David] mentioned that Garcia lived up the hill and liked to play bluegrass,” Rowan recalls. “So, David and I went up there [to jam]. We’d go to Jerry’s every night.”
Unbeknownst to all present that fateful day, a musical fire was sparked that continues to burn bright and remain vastly influential to generation after generation of bluegrass players and listeners.
“After a few hours of picking, [Jerry] turned to us and said, ‘We’re old and in the way,’” Rowan says on a famed OITW recording.
Garcia mentioned to Rowan and Grisman that he’d like to book some gigs as OITW and the band had been birthed. “I got to play bluegrass guitar with a guy who was just infinitely loving music,” Rowan says of his time with Garcia.
With Garcia on banjo, Rowan playing guitar, and Grisman taking up mandolin duties, the ensemble also featured Kahn on bass. Greene, John Hartford, and Vassar Clements rotated on fiddle. With the rising popularity of the Dead in the 1970s and the increasingly manic fandom aimed at Garcia from the counterculture and beyond, the OITW shows became sold-out “you had to be there” concerts.
“Jerry was the draw,” Rowan recalls. “And there were Deadheads going, ‘What is this? Fiddles, banjos, mandolins, and acoustic guitars?’”
People might have bought into this crap 4 years ago and some still do but they are growing few and far between. Like ol' hap, we constantly try to tell him the truth and he just doesn't believe it.... he lives in his own reality and will never change his mind or accept anything that's based in factual information if shines a bad light on Cheeto Jesus. That guy could rape his daughter and he would find some way to blame her for it.. Are we supposed to tell him that it's okay?
‘Trumpstock’ brings peace, unity and a ton of disinformation to Schnecksville
Fierce mountain winds in Lehigh County couldn't move the bubble of misinformation surrounding the throng at a Trump rally.
Supporters react as former President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at a rally behind the Schnecksville Fire Hall in Schnecksville, Pa. on Saturday.
Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer
by Will Bunch | Columnist
Published Apr. 13, 2024, 10:36 p.m. ET
SCHNECKSVILLE — Even 30-mile-an-hour wind gusts whipping down from the nearby Poconos couldn’t move the bubble of Donald Trump-scented awe and alternative reality that descended on this hilltop village for about eight hours on Saturday.
And the thousands who waited hours on a single-file line that snaked around the fire department and a nearby technical college, like the endless headlights in the climax of Field of Dreams, did not want that bubble pierced by any stray jabs to remind them that Trump, who finally addressed the frigid crowd after sunset, is a criminal defendant or that Joe Biden isn’t actually America’s worst-ever president driving the nation into crime and deprivation.
Ask the one man who dared try.
He was an older gentleman from New Jersey, bespectacled, wearing an “ARMY” sweatshirt and a red Make America Great Again hat to show the multitudes of passersby that he’d once been one of them. He wouldn’t give his name, and his cause — Trump was somehow to blame for the prison time served by the Jan. 6 insurrectionist Jacob Chansley, “the QAnon Shaman” — was inscrutable. But any questioning of Trump was too much for one man in a backward baseball cap brandishing a can of Michelob Ultra, who abruptly hopped out of the line.
“I don’t like that. Get that sign out of here!” he threatened, as several on the line echoed their support. “You need to leave the immediate area.” The New Jersey man eventually slid down the line.
This Schnecksville extravaganza was the fourth Trump rally in the Mid-Atlantic that I’d attended since 2016. I go largely because I think the media still fails to understand America’s most important story of the last 10 years. U.S. democracy is staring out into the abyss not so much because of the narcissistic bluster of one alleged billionaire ex-president, but because of the people with fleece hoodies over their MAGA hats who spent hours in an April windstorm to see him.
Donald Trump supporters wait on a massive line to enter Saturday night's rally in Schnecksville, Pa.
Will Bunch
These rallygoers are the vanguard of the 74 million who voted for Trump in 2020 and who still have him in a dead heat with Biden, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released hours before the event — despite or maybe because of the two impeachments, the 88 felony charges, or the Project 2025 blueprint for a “Red Caesar” dictatorship. If the American Experiment grinds to a halt after Jan. 20, 2025, it will ultimately be not the fault of Trump but the everyday citizens I met Saturday who are so eager to put him back in the White House.
Things have changed a lot since I talked to folks outside of Trump’s 2016 rally in Chester County, when they were intrigued by Trump’s not-a-politician bluster and his “get-’em-out-of-here” rage at liberal protesters. Eight years later, a Trump rally has become an Orwellian celebration of an upside-down world where the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years is actually the worst U.S. economy ever, the nation’s cities are cesspools of violence despite a plunging crime rate, and the only person wronged on Jan. 6 was not the scores of injured cops but Ashli Babbitt, shot by “a Black police officer.”
In a sense, Trump himself is almost like the MacGuffin, the plot device that gives these characters an excuse to get together. “We already know what the spiel is, we know what he stands for,” one man, a middle-aged Canadian American executive, told me. So why wait on this massive line? It’s partly that a rally gives supporters a chance to get off the couch, shut down the TikTok app, turn off YouTube, and prove to themselves they are actually not alone in thinking that everything has gone to heck. But there’s an even more insidious reason for coming out.
“Look, they’re going to steal the election again,” said one friend of the Canada native who, like many of the Trump voters I spoke with, didn’t want to give his name. “They need to see a larger number of people supporting a different kind of candidacy than the one they’re trying to throw down our throat.” They are smitten by the theory that the Big Lie that Trump actually defeated Biden in 2020 is proven by their mass willingness to stand on a line in a howling wind for four hours, while Biden couldn’t even fill a high school gym.
So who are these people? A new best-selling book blames Trump’s unshakable popularity on White Rural Rage and that is something you might expect to see here in Schnecksville, where the urbane Eastern Seaboard melts into live-bait shops, Baptist churches and red-brick 19th-century homes. The only problem is that almost everyone I met scoffed at their Green Acres stereotype.
“We’re all executives here!” was the battle cry when I mentioned White Rural Rage to the Canadian American, and others in his posse piped up they were from affluent Montgomery County, or were in college studying criminal justice. One wanted to make sure I knew that the father of her child is Black. Another said of her companion: “I brought my au pair, who is from Italy, so I could show her how we do things in America.”
The steady stream of protestations that today’s Trump electorate is more diverse had a modicum of validity. There were a few Black and brown voters smattered among the hundreds of white men who, with their gray beards and rapidly receding hairlines, looked too much like me for comfort. The most intriguing people I met on the line were three teenage first-time voters from the Lehigh Valley, a group that included a first-generation Cambodian American and a Latina.
“Trump, when he was in office, he really helped our union,” said Aidan Henry, a welder from Whitehall who is about to turn 19, wearing a Trump T-shirt from one of the dozens of merch peddlers who surrounded the rally. In a sense, one can understand why young voters would have rosy middle school memories of life before COVID.
But their parents? Most have constructed an elaborate worldview about what is happening in America today around the issues that matter most in Trump World, like the southern border or the part of the economy with high grocery prices (but not the part with plentiful jobs or a record stock market). Never mind the inherent contradictions, like the one 69-year-old woman from upstate New York who told me “America looks weak” on foreign policy” but also “not one more dollar for Ukraine.
I asked one gaggle on the line where they get their sweeping narratives, considering what they were also telling me about their contempt for the legacy mainstream media. “TikTok!” one immediately blurted. “There’s a lot of information on TikTok.” His neighbor quickly recommended YouTube, while others promoted obscure websites or the right-wing Patriot channel on satellite radio.
At that very moment, their hated mainstream outlets like CNN and MSNBC were crackling with reports of an Iranian missile launch toward Israel, the latest milestone in a world that seems hellbent on marching into chaos. Even the cinema feels like little escape, with the dystopian Civil War about America under a fascist three-term president ruling the box office.
That’s why it was so jarring to see that the happiest place on earth was this mile-long line in Schnecksville. It was a kind of “Trumpstock,” one night of manufactured peace, unity, and shared disinformation, while the gale-force winds of truth blew well above their bubble.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-voters-schnecksville-pennsylvania-rally-20240413.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral
He's chatty. Likeable. Seemingly affable..... And he's hitting all the notes.
he is none of those. If you think chatty is rambling on like a drunken uncle at a family gathering, slurring words, unable to finish a complete thought and making little to no sense while jumping from one lie to the next then that's fine.
He might be likable to his cult following that believe all the absolute nonsense he spews butt he's far from that to the rest of us and believe me, there's a lot more of us than them.
affable? I guess all con artists do have a certain affinity with their marks, it's part of the game. That might work in the back of a bar room somewhere but not for a person that is supposed to command the free world. He's a disgrace and its progressively getting worse by the week. Democrats would do far better steering clear from this moron and pointing out what a fool he is, every chance they get..
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-glitches-yet-again-during-rally
Trump Glitches Yet Again During Rally
Donald Trump struggles to deliver portions of his speech during a rally in Pennsylvania
see also: Modern day Gettysburg address and making polio great again...
Trump goes on a weird rant about the battle of Gettysburg and then notes of Robert E Lee that "he's no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that?" pic.twitter.com/hs9GjmCh6K
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2024
sorry to hear about the terrorist attack in Sydney. Looks like you have some very brave citizens and one outstanding female police officer that was able to neutralize that slug. Never good to hear about innocent lives being taken, especially in that manner..
Panda barred from a Glasgow pub #janeygodleyvoiceover pic.twitter.com/4Cpg5wcuMN
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) April 12, 2024
I followed a stock (and had a lot of money in) that was on the OTC trading around a buck for a few years. It wasn't the typical OTC stock, they filed timely reports, had a seriuosly low float, a serious business model and turned solid revenue with a crap ton of cash on hand. We looked better on paper than troof soshal does now. We upgraded to Nasdaq and you're right, it cost us a ton.. The stock shot to around 7 bucks a share and all the vultures swooped in. LOL we even got shorted by Citron with a huge false report...
That was finally too much for me and I bailed on about 90% of my holdings but kept a few in the bank. They went through three secondary offerings over about an 18 month period and finally I cut bait. After that, it tanked, nothing changed with the business model or the revenue stream but the market had its way and they struggled to stay above a dollar.. They even bought back stock to keep it afloat. I just peeked in on it now before I posted back to you and it is at 1.85.
Those audited financials and fees to be on the exchange definitely do take their toll and small companies sometimes aren't able to weather the storm..
Good news for Trump media company: Nasdaq is actually very lenient about enforcing its $1 per share minimum-price rule. Fans can still trade Trump shares when they are worth pennies. https://t.co/RC292lXx70
— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 12, 2024
LOL that is her son. What he's doing is part of the act but I'm just not sure what it is..
LOL we're only a few steps away from crazy.
He's not on trial yet. Monday is just the start of jury selection and estimates are that it will last for 3 weeks so you have a little time to stock up on popcorn.. Cannon will not dismiss the charges, it's just another delay tactic. Everyone files motions to dismiss and they are usually ruled on in the same day. With her, I'm sure she'll take her sweet time to deny them...
We get the same incentives here. Why do I need to move? Illinois is no slouch when it comes to clean energy either my man. Did you know that we have the most nuclear power plants in the country? I am saving that much too since I'll never get an electric bill again. I could also purchase the panels outright if I wanted to but I would then forgo all the maintenance and system monitoring that come along with the package.
And I don't have to cut through all the red tape between the electric company and the government to get my money back because they take care of all of that for me. I'm going to frame the first check I get back from ComEd for supplying the grid like restaurants do their first dollar.
My guess is that your solar panels are being paid for by Biden— enjoy
actually I'm paying for them with my monthly payment for the next 25 years which is cheaper than I currently pay for electricity but yes, it was Biden's incentives in the inflation reduction act that gave average people like me a path to affordability that was out of reach before.
I have been shopping solar panels for years but I could never find anything that made sense for me financially until this company came along and knocked on my door one day. They do everything, all the material, labor, permits and maintenance at zero cost to me. All the other places I've looked into had huge upfront costs and leave you on your own after the install. This place monitors your system and takes care of any problems even to the point where if my system doesn't give the output that they say it will, I will be reimbursed for any differences.
If anyone else in the Chicago area is interested, I'll shoot you the name and number of the salesman who is also the contractor because I get a finders fee if you sign. They are the largest providers of residential solar in the US and have exclusive rights to all of Tesla's proprietary technology since Musk abandoned the home industries to concentrate on his rockets.
awww poor baby. These federal investigations and later indictments were all started back in 2021. The New York cases were initiated in 2018 ... I'm sorry justice takes time and it just so happened to come to a head during an election year but don't worry, it will prevail. If your guy was so innocent, he would have demanded his right to speedy trials and they would have been all said and done by now with him walking around as a free man.
That didn't happen though, instead there's been an intense push to delay the inevitable in every single case. Crying victim is really rich since if it were you or me, we would not have been afforded the same kid glove treatment that mango Mussolini has been given.
LOL he knows where the next airdrop is coming from. He might have a tiny brain but he's not stupid.
Guinea pigs playing tug of war with a blade of grass.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/hh4MoikpUB
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 11, 2024
exactly, it's a gift in the stylist. One that I never had.
Sometimes it can go south too but you'll never see those videos. That's why I always work from a blueprint so you can never blame me.
My ex is that good. LOL even though I hate her, she could make videos like these all day. The only thing is people don't realize what it actually takes money wise. It's kind of like me with carpentry, I'll build anything you want as long as the check is good.
The difference is that they are true artists and I just work from a blueprint.
That's so cool to see the look of joy on their faces.
wow, he looks bad there. Talk about peekaboo.... No comment, let's just watch this cookie crumble. By November he'll be dust.
and guess what? As the world changes over to clean energy the fossil fuel guys will have nothing left to do but fire their plants up and charge you triple for it because of that little supply and demand thingy that all you love to tout.
If I want to, I can pay the whole contract now and just buy the panels outright but I will give up all the free maintenance and support that comes along with them for my next 25 years... who would want to do that?
If I cash my chips in early, the next homeowner will be more than happy to keep the contract intact.
and as far as your EV's and charge stations, what do you think will power the stations? The local plant? LOL nope, they are self sufficient too.
but please tell me more how to drill baby drill.
I posted today that I'm getting solar panels installed. I'll soon be officially off the grid and selling my extra power back to all you fossil fuel guys. My lights will be shining in the middle of a blackout and I will allow my neighbors to use my accommodations if need be....
And my bill will never fluctuate. It is fixed for the next 25 years at 58 bucks a month where I'm already paying 70. All the surplus that is added in on the system that is gauged at 120% capacity will be sold back to you and I will be reimbursed for it or just keep a tab.
You'll have to keep shoveling coal until you die.