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Sasse open to considering articles of impeachment -- nm - znufrii Jan 8, 07:01 11
- I keep thinking about this timeline. Wouldn't it be smarter to impeach on the 19th, then have the new Senate vote to convict? -- nm - mara Jan 8, 07:04 10
  - The new senate is already seated, but yes it might make sense to wait until the two Dems from GA are there, if that’s what you mean. -- nm* - znufrii Jan 8, 07:06 2
    - Yes, wait until the GA Dems are there. -- nm - mara Jan 8, 07:11 1
      - Gotcha. Not sure how the timing on GA certifying the election goes for that to be able to happen. - znufrii Jan 8, 07:14
  - Yes, it wouldn't remove Trump from office, but it would prevent him from running again. -- nm - mara Jan 8, 07:05 6
    - seriously asking - he's already been impeached, right? why would this impeachment prevent that if the previous one did not? -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 07:11 3
      - He wasn't convicted. Only the conviction (and possibly a second vote to bar him from holding office) would have that effect. -- nm - mara Jan 8, 07:12 1
        
        ah, thanks. -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 07:14
      - NB: I think he should be impeached, absolutely, just clarifying this one point. -- nm - Andie Jan 8, 07:12
    - That's an angle that I hadn't heard. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 8, 07:10 1
      - Possibly it takes a separate vote, rather than happening automatically. Certainly a second vote would be the safer course. -- (link) - mara Jan 8, 07:12
Roku is doing well: Roku Tops 51 Million Accounts, Becoming the Biggest Smart TV Platform in North America -- (link) - decline Jan 8, 07:00 1
- Also this -- (link) - spamlet Jan 8, 07:04
Happy 86th Elvis! - zunkskunk+ Jan 8, 06:57 3
- *insert Public Enemy lyrics here* ;-) -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 07:01 1
  - indeed. -- nm - mud Jan 8, 07:11
- There's an Elvis movie marathon on TCM today -- nm - MDH Jan 8, 06:59
Oh, this is great -- (link) - decline Jan 8, 06:53
Something that has done extremely well in adapting to the pandemic is TomorrowLand. Virtual sets that really emulate the stage productions. -- (link) - Qale Jan 8, 06:50 [youtube] 1
- And here are their facts and figures. All the tech details. -- (link) - Qale Jan 8, 06:53
Bob's Burgers Character Designer Dave Creek Dies in Skydiving Accident -- (link) - Beaker Jan 8, 06:39 1
- That's awful. :-( -- nm* - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 06:50
dear sports writers, no the NFL shouldnt delay the Browns game. if teams cant figure out how to bubble themselves better, then they deserve - tRuMaN Jan 8, 06:34 12
- I totally disagree with this, but the player's union signed off on this deal. So, they have to live with it. - Inigo Jan 8, 06:42 10
  - see it should have been the responsibility of the teams to do it. Yes the league and players should have set better rules, but it benefits the teams - tRuMaN Jan 8, 06:51 9
    - I think it would have been best to have the NFL set up the bubble instead of leaving it up to teams where you're bound to have teams that don't do - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 07:00 8
      - Or, imo. Teams just can't lockdown completely like the league could. - Inigo Jan 8, 07:01 6
        
        It's also easier for the teams when they can just say the rules are coming down from on high and they have no leeway. -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 07:02 5
        
        oh I agree that the rules that the NFL set should have been a lot more strict - tRuMaN Jan 8, 07:04 4
        
        I agree with not being lenient. They need to play the game. - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 07:07 1
        
        ok, I take bad the one bad thing I muttered about you. - tRuMaN Jan 8, 07:14
        
        For consistency's sake, sure. But could the NFL and player's union made an extra bye week for the regular season, and extra week for the playoffs? - Inigo Jan 8, 07:06 1
        
        and yet I mostly blame the Browns for not managing/controlling their situation. I blame the NFL for setting up a system that could fail - tRuMaN Jan 8, 07:13
      - But I also think they should continue with the game and not postpone it. -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 07:01
- word -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 06:35
brutal video: scary faces and horrible thugs -- (link) - mud Jan 8, 06:27 9
- It's insane how much they're jumping at shadows. Antifa is everywhere. - Reagen Jan 8, 06:34 7
  - They discover that ANTIFA were the ANTS they were TIFAing along the way. -- nm - Qale Jan 8, 06:43
  - "Are you Antifa? Yes? Are you coming to the Communist manifesto reading Friday night? Oops I meant MAGA!" -- nm - Guigue Jan 8, 06:39
  - "Are you ANTIFA? Are you ANTIFA?" Like he's going to go "Yeah, hi. I'm Antifa. Can I get through?" -- nm - Volnelk Jan 8, 06:36 4
    - Antifa is secretly just a photography club. They just want good pictures man. -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 06:39
    - never should of bought that Antifa license plate -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 06:37 1
      - "Minnesota -- Land of 10,000 lashes" -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 8, 06:38
    - If you ask an undercover Antifa if they're Antifa, they have to say yes. It's the law. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 8, 06:37
- shorter version: -- (link) - mud Jan 8, 06:32
Air New Zealand will start stopping in Hawaii to change crews so they can overnight there rather than LA/SF. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 8, 06:26 1
- Staying in Hawaii? I guess we'll make do.... -- nm - Air New Zealand Crews Jan 8, 06:31
Fetterman is totally going to do the thing. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 8, 06:24 10
- It's a question of Governor or Senator -- nm - Dano Jan 8, 07:01 2
  - Shapiro for Governor and we're all good -- nm - decline Jan 8, 07:19
  - Where can he help change Pennsylvania for the better? I would think governor would allow him to make real changes in the state and do some great - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 07:05
- who are the current Senators there? GOP I assume? -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 06:35 3
  - Split. Toomey (R) is retiring in 2022. Casey (D) is up for re-election in 2024. -- nm - znufrii Jan 8, 06:39 1
    - the one good thing about Toomey is that its a last name that leads to be good in chant. - tRuMaN Jan 8, 06:41
  - He'd be coming for Pat Toomey's seat, who yes is GOP. -- nm* - Volnelk Jan 8, 06:39
- fantastic -- nm - decline Jan 8, 06:33
- Excellent. -- nm - znufrii Jan 8, 06:30
- love that guy. -- nm - mud Jan 8, 06:27
Dominion Voting Systems is suing pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, asking for $1.3 billion in damages -- (link) - decline Jan 8, 06:00 8
- Whoops! Dominion made a counting error. They're actually suing for $1.3 trillion. -- nm - Inigo Jan 8, 06:28
- I wonder how much her insurance would pay? -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 06:21
- .. [blink] -- nm - mud Jan 8, 06:04
- Screw that she needs to be disbarred and arrested she also had her part in this coup -- nm - eag Jan 8, 06:04 4
  - The pocket is where it really hurts. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 8, 06:25
  - I don't think that company has that authority, tbqh. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 06:05 2
    - unless Bill 1022 passes next year -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 06:38
    - Well in Star Trek they would -- nm - eag Jan 8, 06:09
AP: NJ Rep. Kim helps clean up Capitol -- (link) - mud Jan 8, 06:00 1
- Nm -- nm* - eag Jan 8, 06:08
Vaccine administration is ramping up. In NJ you can go to a website and sign up to be notified when you can get it. PA doesn't have that yet -- (link) - decline Jan 8, 05:49
Amazing. Tottenham vs. Marine in FA Cup this Sunday. 161 places apart in the standings. Largest gap ever. Some of the facts are astounding. - Volnelk Jan 8, 05:47 24
- go bin man! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 8, 05:52
- What sport could reasonably do some kind of contest like this in North America? Cause I want to see that happen. - Reagen Jan 8, 05:51 22
  - If you consider the conference tournaments part of it, NCAA basketball kind of does this. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 8, 06:01 3
    - Yep, I was thinking exactly this. With the pattern of byes in the FA cup for the upper teams, the parallel works. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 8, 06:29
    - It's in the spirit of it. But make it bigger. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 06:04 1
      - Yup. -- nm - znufrii Jan 8, 06:10
  - Basketball - nba / d1 (power 5) / d1 mid-majors /d1 bottom feeders / d2 / d3 / NAIA... -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 8, 05:58
  - A baseball tournament that involved every single minor league team as well as the majors would be the closest. - Volnelk Jan 8, 05:53
  - baseball -- nm - mud Jan 8, 05:53 15
    - Hockey would have enough levels to do something with as well. Get the college and junior teams involved. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 05:59 14
      - I could totally see an NHL team against some Senior hockey team. - spamlet Jan 8, 06:05 4
        
        Jonesy? -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 06:06 3
        
        Shoresy is totally taking out Crosby with a cross check. -- nm - spamlet Jan 8, 06:07 1
        
        Give your balls a tug, you titfucker. -- nm - Shaun Jan 8, 06:12
        
        :-D -- nm - mud Jan 8, 06:07
      - (biggest worry would obviously be some idiot cheap shotting someone with a $10M year contract) -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 06:00 8
        
        Semi-related: I have a friend who went to Eton with Prince William. Wills apparently was the #1 rugby target in every circumstance. -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 06:11 7
        
        half the team were probably Semenko's to beat down anyone they thought looked at him funny -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 06:18 6
        
        but it is rugby, so more like 3/4's -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 06:23
        
        Not so much. Seems he was mostly on his own. -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 06:23 4
        
        yikes, even my brother when he played had a guy or too to discourage late/dirty shots (he played in the Canada Games a few years; fast like lightning) -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 06:24
        
        "We don't take too kindly to elites here at... Eton College..." -- nm* - Reagen Jan 8, 06:23 2
        
        It was more that nobody stood up for him against the other slightly less fancy schools. -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 06:32 1
        
        :-[ -- nm - mud Jan 8, 06:34
And fittingly enough, the final jobs report of his term in office sucks. -140k, 6.7% (nc) -- nm - znufrii Jan 8, 05:42 2
- 3 million jobs lost under Trumps term -- nm - eag Jan 8, 05:46 1
  - but the stock market! -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 8, 06:36
Duran Duran have done a cover of 5 Years to mark what would have been Bowie's 74th birthday -- (edited) - LMS Jan 8, 05:30 [youtube] 2
- [approved] -- nm - mud Jan 8, 05:34
- I think Beck's cover of Sound and Vision is still my favourite cover of his -- (link) - LMS Jan 8, 05:32 [youtube]
Next stress test for democracy: What if the Senate won't seat Georgia's winners? -- (link) - mara Jan 8, 05:16 20
- Instead of inviting this chaos questions, let’s assume that it won’t happen given these same Senators just signed off on Biden winning the state - Will Hunting Jan 8, 05:22 11
  - I see your point, but I think this stuff is both interesting and worth being aware of. I like getting up in the morning and knowing on that day, - mara Jan 8, 05:28 6
    - Yeah -- nm - prayformojo Jan 8, 05:50
    - I think the fallout from Wednesday on leadership, Mitch et al, is that the stupid games are over. There’s politics in the office but the time to take - Will Hunting Jan 8, 05:42 1
      - Yup. Your political stunt has a body count (as pointed out by Chris Hayes - one that's higher than Benghazi's!). Stfu and legislate. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 06:26
    - This last four years has been a lot of diving into the footnotes. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 05:36 1
      - For example: it likely isn't going to come up this guy proposes somewhat convincingly that acting Secretaries count for the purposes of the 25th -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 05:42
    - I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. - Strongbad Jan 8, 05:33
  - This makes more sense. -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 05:24 3
    - Mitch’s entire warning about the protest was right warning, wrong magnitude of gravity - Will Hunting Jan 8, 05:27 2
      - This is what I was saying the other day. Texas would send another Republican back, easily, and you'd have to try to find someone else than Cruz. - Reagen Jan 8, 05:35 1
        
        So would Missouri honestly. We’re not a swing state anymore. -- nm - spamlet Jan 8, 05:43
- They’ll delay until after impeachment. -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 05:21 4
  - Yup, Mitch won't make Schumer the Majority Leader any sooner than he has to. -- nm - mara Jan 8, 06:06
  - Although if that could actually be the difference we're a lot further down the road than I would have expected - Reagen Jan 8, 05:43 2
    - it'll be more than 5 but so what. Make the bastards vote! -- nm - mud Jan 8, 05:50 1
      - Fully on board for that, I'm just not getting my hopes up. - Reagen Jan 8, 05:52
- could of maybe bought this before the 6th. Now there is no way I can see it happening -- nm* - Beaker Jan 8, 05:21 1
  - I think it depends on how Georgia handles the certification of those elections and how much pushback there is. -- nm - mara Jan 8, 05:22
- The timeline for that process -- (link) - mara Jan 8, 05:19
dear alisyn Camerota, a light-year is not a unit of time, but distance. sincerely, your pal - mud Jan 8, 05:10
STIS: Vaccine - Strongbad Jan 8, 05:03 3
- Basically identical mechanism, very similar effectiveness. Don’t think it much matters. -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 05:23
- Realistically you want the first one that you're given and I doubt you'll be given a choice. -- nm - LMS Jan 8, 05:16
- You want which ever you can get it doesn't matter. They're basically the same with Pfizer's not needing cold storage. -- (link*) - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 05:09
Impeachment vote by the middle of next week -- (link) - mara Jan 8, 04:54 2
- MO-LASS-ES -- nm - oblique Jan 8, 06:34
- we'll probly know by tomorrow morning whether Nancy is gonna pull the trigger, right? -- nm - mud Jan 7, 18:24 -- nm - mud Jan 8, 05:12
So basically, everyone in baseball cheats. Almost everyone. -- (link) - Volnelk Jan 8, 04:45 2
- Well, yeah. Things like this are very well known though it doesn't make it right. -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 05:12
- If you ain't first, you're last! -- nm - Strongbad Jan 8, 04:59
Popcorn Champs - Spider-man (2002) -- (link) - Beaker Jan 8, 04:14
TV PSA: Smackdown, RuPaul. MacGyver, Gold Rush, Magnum PI, Shark Tank, UnXplained, Blue Bloods, Dickinson (Apple), Marvel Studios: Legends (D+), -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 03:56 3
- UK gets new series of Would I Lie To You and Not Going Out (Lee Mack double bill) -- nm - LMS Jan 8, 04:44 1
  - Sweet! -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 06:03
- Herself (Amazon), Jeopardy (final Alex Trebek episode), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jan 8, 03:58
Jaguars plan to meet with Urban Meyer today to continue discussing the team’s head coaching vacancy. -- (link) - budice Jan 8, 03:06 1
- He doesn't deserve a job as a head coach -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 8, 05:16
Imagine being one of those poor idiots who stormed the Capitol only to have your side turn on you in hours and accuse you of being with Antifa. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 03:05 1
- "Anyone here claiming to have been in the building is fake news!" "No way man, I was there." "Oh yeah prove it." -- nm - FBI trawling Parler Jan 8, 04:02
Pennsylvania sends its regards -- (link) - budice Jan 8, 02:30
Skinny guy eats a 20 lb turkey -- (link) - zork Jan 8, 01:43 [youtube]
"Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener..." - David Jan 8, 00:31 3
- Barbecue sauce. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 8, 04:45
- tartlets -- nm - Max Jan 8, 00:37 1
  - Ding -- nm - Pippy Jan 8, 00:38
So the Depp/Heard thing is trending again on twitter. Shall we detour into celebrity gossip as a distraction from the week's events? - Beryllium Jan 8, 00:10 8
- Do I think she gave the promised money to charity? No I don’t. It’s an easy thing to prove and she will side talk around not proving it - Pippy Jan 8, 00:41 2
  - Testifying to the UK's highest court that she had paid the money seems like something you could get in trouble for? -- nm* - LMS Jan 8, 04:51 1
    - Feels like a bad move. -- nm - Reagen Jan 8, 06:15
- Heard is an insane monster. That doesn't in any way absolve Depp, though. -- nm - David Jan 8, 00:30
- Celebrity gossip, yes. These two, no. -- nm - . Jan 8, 00:25
- I'm going with "they're both terrible." -- nm - mafic Jan 8, 00:16 2
  - That seems to be the safest bet (and the one most borne out by evidence to date) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 8, 00:18 1
    - yup -- nm - budice Jan 8, 00:19

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