Spudmonkey

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Ally, old school computer geek, gamer, I bleed blue.

A human figure covered in printed pages stands against a wall as ICE agent walk blithely by. The text reads "Clever migrant wears the Epstein filed to hide from Trump administration"
Screen capture of a google search for "Eric Metaxas critique" "Eric Metaxas faces widespread critique for his pivot toward right-wing Christian nationalism, controversial historical revisionism, and hyper-political rhetoric. While his earlier biographies on figures like William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were widely read, his recent work has alienated historians, theologians, and moderate Christians."
A word cloud based on my posts. The word frequency is: 1 fuck 25 2 bullshit 19 3 seems 16 4 news 13 5 course 12 6 tell 12 7 trump 11 8 mean 11 9 hope 10 10 those 10
A four frame cartoon. Frame 1: a character pulls on a rope, as in a tug of war. Shirt reads "Jesus' Teachings" Frame 2: Slight zoom out from prior image. We see that character 1 is being assisted in his pulling by another cartoon character. This character wears a shirt labeled "Atheists". Frame 3: We see two characters pulling on the opposite end of the rope. One wears a shirt reading "Christian Nationalism" and the other, in a top hat and suit is labeled "Capitalism". Frame 4: Character wearing "Jesus' Teaching" shirt appears alone with a speech bubble readin "Huh?"
An image of Caroline Levitt with her child and a pardoned Thanksgiving turkey. The image show lines on Ms. Levitt's face which is apparently illegal or something.
Screen shot of the head of this thread, showing who responded to whom.
Mr. Creosote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. He is played by Terry Jones, made up to look enourmously overweight. Like comically large. He is dressed in black tie at a French resturant. Bad things are about to happen.
Cover of the Economist magazine from Oct 2024. There is a roll of $100 bills with flame coming out the back as if it were a rocket launching. The Text on the cover is "The Envy of the World: America's Economy A Special Report"
Screenshoot from Wikipedia article about the buyer TAETechnology. Funding Main financing has come from Goldman Sachs and venture capitalists such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., Rockefeller's Venrock, and Richard Kramlich's New Enterprise Associates. The Government of Russia, through the joint-stock company Rusnano, invested in Tri Alpha Energy in October 2012, and Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano CEO, became a board member. Other investors include the Wellcome Trust and the Kuwait Investment Authority. As of July 2017 the company reported that it had raised more than $500 million in backing. As of 2020, it had raised over $600 million, which rose to around $880 million in 2021 and $1.2 billion as of 2022.
Map of the proposed Texas congressional districts. Many, many odd psuedopods and jaggy lines in evidence.
A headshot of Heinrich Heine (German Jewish writer in the 19th century). A quote from one of his plays: "It was just a prelude... Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too..."
A man in a suit kneels in front of a school desk. Behind the desk is a young girl, apparently weeping. Text on the image says: So you see, Sally, when we give all the Halloween candy to the rich kids, it'll create more candy for everyone.
Urban dictionary definition of 'mark' as 'the target of a scam'
Screen shot of the dictionary definition of a serial killer. serial killer noun a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern
screen shot of the dictionary definition of lie
The image from the 70s movie "Alien". A rough surfaced egg (looks like a chicken egg from hell) on a black background. A ragged crack appears in the bottom half, from which streams a horrible green light with some fog or smoke coming out.
The criminologist from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Who, famously, appears to have no neck. (audience participation quote from the Alabama theater show (houston) circa 1982)
Image of my local military cemetary. Endless identical headstones.
I’ve got HUGE problems with Stalin but this equivalence is insulting. Under no reasonable metric is the USSR, even at its most depraved and paranoid, as bad as Nazi Germany.
a poster reading: Release the Epstein Files The background image is Trump, quite clearly, examining the breasts of a young lady standing next to him. She were a tiarra, so maybe a pagent contestant. She is well under 20 although I don't know who she is or her exact age.
The Goebbels family in life. Mother, Father, 6 young children and one older stepson (who was not there and died in 1967).
The Pets.com sock puppet.
book cover of The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter
Screen shot from opensecrets showing the American Soybean Assn political donations running 67% for Republicans.
A particularly creepy image of Mr.Miller. There is a caption which reads: "Stephen Miller got into politics because his arms are too week to strangle prostitutes"
Cover of the book "Dow 36,000" published 1999 in which Mr. Hassett predicted the Dow would rise to 36000 in a short period of time (3 to 5 years). Just before the dot com crash. Dow did make it to 36,000. Only 22 years after publication. Truly, a man who sees the truth (sarcasm)
Musk in swim trunks on a boat. He is staggeringly white, having apparently never been exposed to the sun before. He is also.... strangely propotioned with what appears to be a permant "Suck in that gut" going on.
A Cleveland Clinic graphic showing some symptoms of alcohol withdrawal symptoms, it reads (with an illustrative graphic associated with each term): Headache. Anxiety, nervousness or irritability. Insomnia. Excessive sweating. Upset stomach. Heart palpitations. Increased blood pressure. Increased heart rate. Hyperthermia (high body temperature). Tremor (shakiness) of hands or other body parts. Confusion. Hallucinations. Seizures. Delirium.
Famous painting Sir Charles Bell's portrait of a soldier dying of tetanus. A man, back downward, is supported by his heels and his shoulders. His face is horrific. All muscles are tight balls, clenched and unable to relax due to the disease.
Still from an old Toilet Duck television commercial. A cute duckling in an old school steel helmet drives a Toilet Duck bottle across the floor on six tracked wheels. Kind of cute in a bathroom kind of way.
World map showing the relative locations of Cambodia and Armenia
RESOLUTIONS SUBMITTED TODAY Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following resolutions which are at the desk: S. Res. 391, S. Res. 392, S. Res. 393, S. Res. 394, and S. Res. 395. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolutions en bloc. Mr. HOEVEN. I ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolutions were agreed to. The preambles were agreed to. (The resolutions, with their preambles, are printed in today's Record under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')
A jeep carrying what I take to be General Mark Clark (the jeep has a three star plaque on the bumper), drive through Rome after the 5th Army liberated it from the Fascists.
Trump signature on a book. The dedication is to Rudy (Guiliani). The first name is signed and has a 'tail'.
Jack Elam as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing in "The Cannonball Run" (1981). He is a middle aged white man with messy hair, a rumpled white coat and a broad frown. The actor had a childhood injury to his left eye which resulted in it not tracking with his right. The overall effect is NOT the doctor you want to see in the emergency department.
A plot of US electric prices by year. There are flatish areas 97-01 and 2015 to late 2021. Overall trend is up from $0.04 per kilowatt hour in 1980 to approximately $0.19 in June 2025. The part of the graph is since Trump reentered office runs at about a 45 degree angle. The fastest rate of change visible.
A graph showing the growth in income for various groups. 1970 is defined as 100 for all groups. The 20th percentile has had an income game (real dollars) of about 25% The media has seen their income rise by 40% (ish, the graph is not very detailed). The 95% percentile have had their incomes grow 100%.
Image with a quote from (and a picture of) Denis Diderot. The quote reads: Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
An image of Rick Scott. Scott was, famously, the CEO of Columbia/HCA when they defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs. 14 felony convictions against the company and a $1,700,000,000.00 fine.
Two images of the explosions of early atomic bombs. I believe the shot is from Hiroshima
Movie poster showing the correct title of the film referenced.
The cover of "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark" by Carl Sagan
Screen shot from the congressional record. It reads: Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial Government of Japan [s . J. Res . 116] and the Government and the people of the United States and making provi- [Public Law 328] sions to prosecute the same . Whereas the Imperial Government of Japan has committed unprovoked acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America : Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of Declaration of state war between the United States and the Imperial Government of of war with Japan . Japan which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared ; and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial Government of Japan ; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States . Approved, December 8, 1941, 4 :10 p. m., E . S .
Ms. Khan from Blazing Saddles saying (with an accent in the film) "It's true, it's true!"
Screen shot of the Dallas Police record retention document showing a note about 911 recordings. "Retention Note: Policies and procedures should be in place to identify 9-1-1 recordings with legal or historical value, and either reclassify them into the appropriate records series or retain them PERMANENTLY for historical reasons."
Trump social media post shot that says "STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN!!!!!" The image is placed on top of a collage of other images showing Trump hanging out with Epstein and Maxwell. There are 16 individual shots in the collage. All showing well dressed folks in club/party environments.
Screen shot of Texas legal code Sec. 10. QUORUM; ADJOURNMENTS FROM DAY TO DAY; COMPELLING ATTENDANCE. Two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide. (Feb. 15, 1876.)
Nixon's secretary Rosemary Woods show the "perfectly normal" stretch across her work area which led to the 'accidental' erasure of part of the Watergate tapes. Not sure how to describe the pose, she is essentially stretch, full length in an office chair reaching for the phone with her feet under a typing desk. Phone is on her main desk. It is not a credible position if her chair either 1. rotated or 2. had wheels
Screenshot from another site. MAGAts talking Tim Pool: Abosolutely insane the Democrats actually just voted to have the US Government publish child porn. WTF Is even going on anymore??? (this is in reply to the push to publish the Epstein data) Replies from Barefoot Pregnant: No excuse for pushing to release the evidence that would traumatize the victims all over again. Gunther Eagleman(tm): Democrats are the party of ped*philia, of course they want to see that sht.
Screenshot of a google search for "player of games" themes pedophilia Google replies "It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search" There is a single link shown, which is to a discussion forum for books where the book is mentioned but not actually discussed. The word "pedophilia" occurs on the page in reference to another book.
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