JCM 9/21/2023 6:59:23 AM

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Let's ramp up in time for the elections!

US to resume offering free at-home COVID tests next week

What if they spiked the free covid test supply chain with 70% of the test that will test positive.

Why not?

vxbush 9/21/2023 7:53:49 AM

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Reply to JCM in 1:

That is a GORGEOUS breakfast. *swoon*

As for: 

What if they spiked the free covid test supply chain with 70% of the test that will test positive.

I would expect this of them, to be honest--anything that lets them expand voting options so they can steal more votes. 

JCM 9/21/2023 8:17:34 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

What really makes me angry, is that thought occured to me at all.

JCM 9/21/2023 9:04:29 AM

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How ignorant are people?

I'll bet you didn't think THIS ignorant.

buzzsawmonkey 9/21/2023 9:10:56 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

I like that it's 100% polyester, i.e., 100% petrochemicals, since I'd bet that anyone to who whom this flag appeals is also anti-fossil-fuel.

Occasional Reader 9/21/2023 9:39:05 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

I'm not keeping up in my color-code-recognition, apparently; whom is the blue/pink/white flag supposed to represent?  

buzzsawmonkey 9/21/2023 9:42:39 AM

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In #6 Occasional Reader said: whom is the blue/pink/white flag supposed to represent?  

That's the "transgender flag."

Occasional Reader 9/21/2023 9:58:11 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

Ah.

So we’re in “Queers for Palestine” territory (with that phito).

JCM 9/21/2023 10:02:47 AM

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And this one, a Che gay flag....

buzzsawmonkey 9/21/2023 10:16:51 AM

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Reply to JCM in 9:

Wasn't Che famous for being murderously homophobic?

JCM 9/21/2023 10:33:34 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10:

That's what makes for delicious irony.

Communist regimes, where also not very accepting of sexual deviance...

JCM 9/21/2023 10:42:02 AM

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Reply to JCM in 11:

Accept of course Mao could diddle little girls, I can't remember off the top of my head but its seems perversions were common among the political elites.... the more things change the more they stay the same.

*cough*epstein*cough*

buzzsawmonkey 9/21/2023 10:45:10 AM

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In #11 JCM said: Communist regimes, where also not very accepting of sexual deviance...

Actually, the newly-formed Soviet Union, under Lenin, originally decriminalized homosexual behavior.  When Stalin came in, he re-criminalized it---of course, practitioners of homosexual behavior were doubtless, by then, on some sort of KGB list, which gave the Soviet state a ready pool of loyal apparatchiks.  Nothing makes for loyalty to the regime than to know you remain unincarcerated only at the pleasure of a superior who can have you hauled off at any time.

Occasional Reader 9/21/2023 11:33:54 AM

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In #11 JCM said: Communist regimes, where also not very accepting of sexual deviance...

IIRC, homosexuality was illegal throughout the Warsaw Pact. 

buzzsawmonkey 9/21/2023 11:53:01 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: IIRC, homosexuality was illegal throughout the Warsaw Pact. 

On the other hand, it was legal throughout the Fudge Pact.

Occasional Reader 9/21/2023 11:54:55 AM

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In #15 buzzsawmonkey said: On the other hand, it was legal throughout the Fudge Pact.

/giant hook extends from offstage towards buzz

JCM 9/21/2023 12:28:26 PM

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Oh, I totally missed this.

On an EV road trip to promote green tech, the US Energy Secretary and her entourage couldn't find enough electric vehicle chargers

That is one level, Sec. DoE couldn't do a EV road trip.

The deeper level to me is that the DoE staff couldn't plan the trip for a good photo op.

If they, with all their resources can't plan a road trip.

As Buzz notes, how can they plan the transition to EV cars?

vxbush 9/21/2023 12:43:41 PM

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In #17 JCM said: That is one level, Sec. DoE couldn't do a EV road trip. The deeper level to me is that the DoE staff couldn't plan the trip for a good photo op. If they, with all their resources can't plan a road trip. As Buzz notes, how can they plan the transition to EV cars?

Not only that, but they intentionally blocked the existing chargers to make sure the oh-so-important secretary got priority charging access over families that were traveling. So they intentionally stomped over the little guy at the same time. 

NOT a wining message. 

vxbush 9/21/2023 12:44:08 PM

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In #18 vxbush said: NOT a wining message. 

Heh. Winning message, but maybe whining is more appropriate. 

JCM 9/21/2023 12:50:01 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 18:

It shows how things will be.

Special reserved chargers for the elite, very socialist of them.

Occasional Reader 9/21/2023 1:22:46 PM

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In #20 JCM said: Special reserved chargers for the elite, very socialist of them.

Chargers marked INNER PARTY MEMBERS ONLY.... armed guard watching over them. 

JCM 9/21/2023 5:21:21 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

Sound like Graholm's EV trip...