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The DUmpster / Kelly's Heroes
« Last post by CC27 on August 20, 2026, 10:06:43 AM »
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kentuck (116,816 posts)

Kelly's Heroes

Mark Kelly came to Georgia a couple of days ago to endorse Jon Ossoff.

I think it may have been a swap in endorsements? Kelly endorses Ossoff for Senate and Ossoff will endorse Kelly for President?

I must admit, they looked like two strong candidates on stage. I could see Kelly as the President and Ossoff as the VP. That would be a good start to an Administration capable of cleaning up the mess of Trump and the Republicans.

I don't want to start any rumors but it is getting close to time we start thinking about things like that. Kelly would be a strong President. He is afraid of nothing. Ossoff would make a great partner and could establish himself for the day he runs for the office, also.

They could build a strong Cabinet. A strong AG, a strong Secretary of state, and a strong Secretary of Defense would be a good start.

These are two American heroes. They are fighters. And they are competent.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221452990

Both are retarded. Get it right.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/20
« Last post by enslaved1 on August 20, 2026, 09:49:58 AM »
New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence

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Apple’s AirPods could soon do more than play music, with a leaked video appearing to reveal a new model that uses built-in cameras to help Siri understand the world around its wearer.

Cameras fitted inside wearable technology have previously proven a little controversial. Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have faced privacy concerns over their ability to record discreetly, with several pubs, restaurants, and theatres reportedly restricting their use over fears that customers could be filmed without consent.

Leaks and rumors about unreleased products, so keep a salt block handy, but the despite the loud and almost immediate uproar over Google Glasses, there has been much less rumbling about the Meta glasses, indicating that people aren't paying attention/are giving up the fight and that tech companies are willing to keep pushing until they get the surveillance state that tells them exactly what ads are most effective for individuals.  Plus collect data to sell to governments and other unsavory folks. 
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/20
« Last post by enslaved1 on August 20, 2026, 09:44:55 AM »
ASYLUM SHAME Disturbing guide on how ‘not to rape women’ in UK given to asylum seekers by Home Office after string of attacks

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ASYLUM seekers arriving in the UK are being handed booklets warning them that sex with children is illegal, and that men and women are equal under UK law.

The nine-page document, published by the Home Office, tells migrants that they understand “laws and customs here may be different from your home country”.

If you have to tell people things like this, you don't want them in your country. 
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a serious reminder.....
« Last post by Old n Grumpy on August 20, 2026, 09:44:35 AM »
Since your tax rate is so much higher you are paying for it, so it isn't "FREE" :thatsright: :mental: :lmao:

Air is free so use all you want.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/20
« Last post by SVPete on August 20, 2026, 09:34:25 AM »
They Didn’t Need a Memo

https://jennifersey.substack.com/p/they-didnt-need-a-memo

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The aftermath of Sunday’s Atlanta Dream vs Indiana Fever game has been a clinic in institutional weaseling. A Georgia mom and her 17-year-old daughter paid real money for seats two rows from the floor — the tickets were $1000 each! They wore XX-XY Athletics shirts supporting Sophie Cunningham’s statements about protecting women’s sports and spaces. In overtime, WNBA security approached them, declared the shirts “offensive” and offered a choice: put on the provided Dream “Wellness & Health Night” tees or get escorted out. They complied so they wouldn’t miss the last two minutes of the very close game (Indiana pulled it out and won 95-91.)

The WNBA’s statement was a classic non-apology: “The WNBA is aware of interactions at last night’s game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts. This should not have happened.”

No we apologize.

No we told them to do it and we were wrong.

No we are sorry to the paying fans that they were told they couldn’t wear a t-shirt supporting female athletes.

None of that. Just a late admission that their own people overstepped — after the video of Kasey Thomason and her daughter Annie was already circulating.

I would argue that while there may have been specific direction to security to censor pro-woman messaging and for camera guys to skip over any support for XX-XY and save women’s sports messaging . . . it probably wasn’t even required. These institutions are so thoroughly captured that security and camera guys wouldn’t even need explicit orders. They already know which messages are forbidden. Which t-shirt to censor. Which people to skip in the broadcast.

Italics in the original. This is implausible deniability. Put nothing in writing/email, shampologize and hypovehiculate the security dudes should it become too public.
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a serious reminder.....
« Last post by enslaved1 on August 20, 2026, 09:32:30 AM »
Norway has a population of 5.6 million.  The Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex has a population of almost 8.5 million.  NYC has a population of just over 8.5 million.  Norway is 90% white Europeans, mostly native Norwegians.  The US is made up of dozens of nationalities and ethnicities, some who have been here for generations, some who are new comers, some who have assimilated well some who have not.  For these and dozens of other reasons, the comparison is apples and oranges, moonbats.  Not that this will stop you from trotting out your false equivalency, but it's a reminder that your argument is fertilizer. 
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a serious reminder.....
« Last post by SVPete on August 20, 2026, 09:24:54 AM »
Hmmmmmm ... if patient-paid medical care is so third-world, how did the UK, France, Germany, and the US become leaders in medical knowledge, expertise, and technology BEFORE "government-paid" healthcare?
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a serious reminder.....
« Last post by SVPete on August 20, 2026, 09:11:02 AM »
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UpInArms (55,963 posts)
1. We are truly a third world country

If stupidity were painful, this would be fatal.

Obviously, UpInArms has never seen third-world poverty up close and personal (I won't claim I have, but I'm realistic and don't hate the US). How many US poor people travel to garbage dumps outside their cities daily just to find bits of edible food? This is many residents of Cairo, Egypt's way of, well, survival. MaybeUpInArms should view the movie "Slumdog Millionaire". The scenes of poverty it shows are true to real life for the poor of India.

Is Mexico considered a third-world country? One of - if not the only - schools in Mexico for children with disabilities was built and is operated by Evangelical Christians from the US, with ongoing facilities improvements by teams from Evangelical churches in the US (guess how I know that).

I forget, is Haiti a paradise, because Trump called it a hellhole, or is it a hellhole, because Trump is ending TPS for Haitians who came here after the 2010 earthquake? Anyway, one of Haiti's major medical schools was founded and is operated by ... Christian missionaries.

Just because the US social system does not operate the way DUmmies fantasize would be Paradise-like does not make the US "Third World".
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a serious reminder.....
« Last post by SVPete on August 20, 2026, 08:34:56 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on August 20, 2026, 08:03:10 AM
Nothing is free. Someone pays for it, and it is always the rich and the average taxpayers. **** you and your class envy. :bigbird:

Norway gets its government not-free-bies with bureaucratic overhead.
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a serious reminder.....
« Last post by SVPete on August 20, 2026, 08:33:10 AM »
"Crowd-fund cancer treatment"? I'm not stupid enough to say that never happens - DUpipo, I'm looking at you - but a family member's cancer treatment is being paid by their employer's health plan. The family member did not have to resort to MediCal or Medicare. Also, the whole process from diagnosis through the currently ongoing treatment had delays between each stage of days or weeks, except for the postponement for our recent 2 1/2 week vacation.

Speaking of matters medical, how's Norway's delay times for diagnostic testing? Here in Silicon Valley, it's been 1-2 weeks for MRI scans. Looking at data for 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/282401/density-of-magnetic-resonance-imaging-units-by-country/ , the US is 4th in the world for scanners per capita and close enough to second that the difference is negligible; Japan has the most, not a European country. The chart does not have numbers for Norway, but judging by Scandinavian countries Finland and Denmark, MRI availability in Norway is somewhere between significantly lower and far lower than in the US.

CTI scanners ... this time there is per capita data for Norway, https://www.statista.com/statistics/266539/distribution-of-equipment-for-computer-tomography/ , and Norway has much fewer CT scanners than the US. The US is 7th in the world, with Norway 15th, a little bit less than Denmark.

Given Norway's lesser availability of major diagnostic tools, I wonder what the delays for treatments - e.g. chemotherapy infusions or surgery - after diagnosis delays might be. Some citizens of countries with "free" medical care come to the US for treatments rather than wait out months of possibly critical delays. I wonder how Norwegians fare for delays and for having the financial ability to afford medical tourism.

As for the meme's anti-business :blah: , maybe Norway's high taxes hobble Norway's businesses, hurting the businesses in the world marketplace and making Norwegian jobs more scarce than they should be.
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