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Congressional Representative Dan Crenshaw has ignited controversy recently with his public criticism of Apple Maps for refusing to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following President Trump's executive order supporting the renaming. Crenshaw took to X (formerly Twitter) on January 21, 2025, tagging Apple CEO Tim Cook to express his discontent, which has sparked discussions about both the political motivations behind the renaming and the realities of map name changes.

 

https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/dan-crenshaw-sparks-backlash-over-apple-maps-and-campaign-funds-156045?srsltid=AfmBOoqr4xS2Zh0R5wushkjdld_LpaaJunJYP6UmuuVQtYWW7NdTiyJJ#google_vignette

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1 minute ago, skeeter said:

Well, and Dan hasn't officially changed his name to "Shameless and Pathetic Trump Bootlicker #3,257," so gosh.....I guess we're in a standoff.  Yeah...a MEXICAN standoff, you know, like the Gulf.

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9 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The goal of the name change is the same as all language warfare. To inject politics into daily life and turn it into a place for more running battles and opportunities to either demonstrate solidarity or be noted as an opponent.  We are channeling Bolsheviks on this, it’s very Marxist. 

I would not say Marxist. I would say Authoritarian. I can think of a few examples where "right" wing groups did the same thing.

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10 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

All else being equal, I tend to gravitate toward female doctors vs. male.  I think women are better suited to being doctors. 

Same here. I prefer to have a female doctor for the same reason. I find that the temperament and ability to do their job with more compassion is better than that of their male counterparts on average. We obviously have some male doctors on this board who are people I would trust, but overall women have been the best doctors I have had in my own experiences.

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Politico has the article, but for some reason, I can't paste a URL here any longer.  Aside from that, here's a heartwarming story:

 

Your next congressperson just got pardoned

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There’s no stronger evidence that Donald Trump is feeling the full measure of his recent victory than his sweeping pardon of more than 1,500 individuals charged with crimes in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

It’s no surprise that Trump would pardon the rioters — both violent and non-violent. He suggested as much on the campaign trail. What’s stunning is the enormous risk of political capital at the start of his term.

In one of his first actions in office, Trump bucked a clear majority of Americans who, according to polls, oppose the pardon of all people convicted of crimes during the Capitol siege. And that’s not all he’s done. Trump also planted a political time bomb for the GOP which could detonate during his four-year term or after.

 

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Put aside for a moment the message the pardons and commutations send about the consequences of political violence. Or the breathtaking scope of Trump’s move — in addition to the pardons, he also ordered the attorney general to pursue the dismissal of close to 450 cases that are still pending. Or the possibilities of recidivism among the more violent offenders.

Trump has just genetically altered the GOP candidate pool, undamming a river of highly motivated and radicalized prospective candidates who will be seeking elected office for years to come. Armed with the president’s blessing of their behavior from the “day of love,” their criminal records now cleared, they will be streaming into federal, state and local primaries.

 

 

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Don’t believe it? Within a year of the storming of the Capitol, at least 57 individuals who either attended the Save America rally that preceded the riots, gathered at the Capitol steps or breached the Capitol itself ran for elected office. The majority of them lost, but that was before the whitewashing of the violence began, before the GOP memory-holed the entire experience and before a sitting, popularly elected president described rioters as “J6 hostages” whose prosecution was “a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people.”

In Republican primaries where the nomination will hinge on MAGA bona fides, these candidates may have an edge: Trump, the single most powerful force in the party, has portrayed them as martyrs for the cause. And to many in the reconfigured GOP, the J6ers will be running as heroes — a recent CBS poll found that 72 percent of Republicans supported pardoning those who forced their way into the Capitol. Some will view them as not entirely different from courageous prisoners of war from yesteryear like John McCain or Jeremiah Denton, both of whom returned home after harrowing imprisonment and soon thereafter won election to Congress.

 

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Some Republican traditionalists in the House and Senate have recognized the moral and political implications of the wholesale exoneration of a class of individuals who are connected to an event that will live in infamy. (More than 500 defendants were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including approximately 163 individuals who were charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer. Roughly 140 police officers were assaulted.)

But many chose to look the other way. In the future, they may not be able to. A surge of J6ers — who will not be lionized outside the confines of a Republican primary — stand to exacerbate a problem that has plagued the party in recent election cycles: the so-called exotic candidate.

That’s the political euphemism for the unelectable hardliners who manage to capture the GOP nomination but whose views prove so extreme that they blow what otherwise should be easy Republican victories.

It won’t be long before they begin showing up in the candidate pipeline.

POLITICO’s Juan Benn Jr. reports that as a small crowd of January 6 supporters stood outside the D.C. Central Detention Facility today awaiting the release of the remaining defendants charged with crimes, one of the more prominent J6ers made an announcement.

“We’re all coming for their jobs. We’re talking in Congress,” yelled 39-year-old Samuel Lazar, who was greeted with cheers.

Lazar, who charged the Capitol in a tactical vest with a radio attached while wearing camouflage paint on his face, admitted in court documents to spraying a chemical irritant at police officers. He claimed today that he never assaulted a police officer and that the police, in fact, attacked him.

A woman filming the scene for a livestream celebrated the occasion. “We got the real men back,” she yelled in response to Lazar.

 

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Congressional Representative Dan Crenshaw has ignited controversy recently with his public criticism of Apple Maps for refusing to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following President Trump's executive order supporting the renaming. Crenshaw took to X (formerly Twitter) on January 21, 2025, tagging Apple CEO Tim Cook to express his discontent, which has sparked discussions about both the political motivations behind the renaming and the realities of map name changes.
 
https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/dan-crenshaw-sparks-backlash-over-apple-maps-and-campaign-funds-156045?srsltid=AfmBOoqr4xS2Zh0R5wushkjdld_LpaaJunJYP6UmuuVQtYWW7NdTiyJJ#google_vignette

I’d call him a fuckstick but I deleted Twitter on 11/5
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Congressional Representative Dan Crenshaw has ignited controversy recently with his public criticism of Apple Maps for refusing to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following President Trump's executive order supporting the renaming. Crenshaw took to X (formerly Twitter) on January 21, 2025, tagging Apple CEO Tim Cook to express his discontent, which has sparked discussions about both the political motivations behind the renaming and the realities of map name changes.
 
https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/dan-crenshaw-sparks-backlash-over-apple-maps-and-campaign-funds-156045?srsltid=AfmBOoqr4xS2Zh0R5wushkjdld_LpaaJunJYP6UmuuVQtYWW7NdTiyJJ#google_vignette

Oh gawd. Now we have the return of one eyed anal wart.
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4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

what happens when countries deny these flights ?

CNN is reporting that U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) has been instructed by the Pentagon, to prepare to use Military Assets, including C-130 and C-17 Military Transport Aircraft, for Migrant Repatriation Flights.

They get Pinochet Parachutes?

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18 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

bluesky embeds should be turned off as well. one step forward, two steps back in the grand scheme of things. 

We will see how it goes, but I'm leaning this way. The performance of surly hosted images is so much better and has a better guarantee on persistence. 

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5 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

I do some side work at a privately owned urgent care, I routinely tell people like that to shut the fuck up or go to the hospital for care assuming they aren’t dying right there. 

I haven’t worked with ER patients since residency but I absolutely loved when an entitled belligerent (not seriously hurt but probably drunk and/or minor injury) patient would come in and then “threaten to leave AMA” if they didn’t get their way.

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Cross-posting

 

Amid all of the chaos surrounding TFG’s first two days don’t lose sight of the actual shit that he is doing. 
 

Suspended refugee immigration for those already approved and on flights to the US. 
 

Impounding congressional appropriated funds for “green energy” (but actually everything)

EO’s purporting to overturn the 14th amendment. 
 

etc. etc. 

 

Keep your eye on the ball. Project 2025 is in full force. 

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5 minutes ago, immamac said:

We will see how it goes, but I'm leaning this way. The performance of surly hosted images is so much better and has a better guarantee on persistence. 

I think that is the right move. I understand the intent to move the content to the platforms infrastructure, that all makes sense. But screen shots of tweets/bs/whatever are still bullshit. Focussing on primary source material is best. But that requires time and energy that most posters will simply not muster. 

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2 hours ago, skeeter said:

Tim Cook may have decide what battles are worth fighting. He and Apple are obviously about as high profile as it comes and failing to humor Trump can have negative impact to Apple. Trump could decide to place a 100% tariff on iPhones produced anywhere but America.  It would plummet Apple revenue and stock vs or you can change the name of the gulf in your map program. It sucks but it’s where we are.

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5 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

I haven’t worked with ER patients since residency but I absolutely loved when an entitled belligerent (not seriously hurt but probably drunk and/or minor injury) patient would come in and then “threaten to leave AMA” if they didn’t get their way.

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My staff and I don’t have to listen to you AND I get less work? Please say it ain’t so.

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7 minutes ago, immamac said:

We will see how it goes, but I'm leaning this way. The performance of surly hosted images is so much better and has a better guarantee on persistence. 

If you go that route, please consider stipulating that a poster should also provide the URL so that readers can have a chance to check the history of the linked account easily. Thank you.

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9 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

I haven’t worked with ER patients since residency but I absolutely loved when an entitled belligerent (not seriously hurt but probably drunk and/or minor injury) patient would come in and then “threaten to leave AMA” if they didn’t get their way.

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1 hour ago, UpperWestside said:

Same here. I prefer to have a female doctor for the same reason. I find that the temperament and ability to do their job with more compassion is better than that of their male counterparts on average. We obviously have some male doctors on this board who are people I would trust, but overall women have been the best doctors I have had in my own experiences.

I have the empathy level of @DixonHur during some particularly shitty shifts so I agree

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10 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

bwhahahahahaha .... 

Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."

 

good bye insurance on the coast lol

Ooh; that will have leopards eating most of my familie's faces in short order.

During Harvey I spent weeks helping out; completely off work for free. I drove into the floods with  generators and supplies.  Next time I'm going to be busy and ,or charging "competitive" prices to everyone.  Bootstraps bitches.

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bwhahahahahaha .... 
Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."
 
good bye insurance on the coast lol

Would not want to live in Houston next hurricane season. Yikes
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6 minutes ago, Updawg said:


Would not want to live in Houston next hurricane season. Yikes

pretty sure that abbott and the 2 term harris county judge have never spoken 

harris county would be the 25th state by population, bigger than louisiana 

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You should probably delete that post.  That mother and daughter are likely to be appointed to cabinet positions within the next 90 days.

They will be the new diamond and silk. I guarantee it. Those charges are going to disappear. 

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25 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

They will be the new diamond and silk. I guarantee it. Those charges are going to disappear. 

I am just waiting for the Housewives of Mar-A-Lago to come out. The real adventure starts when none of them can find a landscape artist. You know, the guy who mows the lawn.

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57 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

bwhahahahahaha .... 

Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."

 

good bye insurance on the coast lol

I’ll be laughing when a cat 4 hits AL/MS/FL panhandle and 1000s of homes are destroyed and the poor MAGA people are left homeless. 

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face!”

Fuck ‘em. Let’s burn it all down. 

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On 1/21/2025 at 7:11 PM, royiv said:

Just checking in to see how grocery prices, gas prices, the war in Ukraine and mass deportations are doing. I’ve been stuck at home today so any updates would be appreciated.

And don't forget the LA fires that Trump called "a simple crisis". Surely they're out now ... right? 

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The goal of the name change is the same as all language warfare. To inject politics into daily life and turn it into a place for more running battles and opportunities to either demonstrate solidarity or be noted as an opponent.  We are channeling Bolsheviks on this, it’s very Marxist. 

No, it is to distract you from the bullshit and fuckery that is happening.
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On 1/21/2025 at 7:11 PM, royiv said:

Just checking in to see how grocery prices, gas prices, the war in Ukraine and mass deportations are doing. I’ve been stuck at home today so any updates would be appreciated.

 

The US is about to have no vegetables and fruit from Mexico, no meat, eggs, and potash (for fertilizer) from Canada, and no agricultural workers due to ethnic cleansing

 

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The US is about to have no vegetables and fruit from Mexico, no meat, eggs, and potash (for fertilizer) from Canada, and no agricultural workers due to ethnic cleansing
 
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Hunger Games: America or is this his program to help us get healthier?
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1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

The US is about to have no vegetables and fruit from Mexico, no meat, eggs, and potash (for fertilizer) from Canada, and no agricultural workers due to ethnic cleansing

 

Season 8 Nbc GIF by The Office

This is a good example of the unintended consequences of shutting down twitter embeds, which is something that I very much support here. Appears it just leads to some of the particularly brain damaged ones just copy pasting as though they are original thought notions. So incapable of original thought. Legit hope they don't have a UT diploma on the wall. 

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Tim Apple may have decide what battles are worth fighting. He and Apple are obviously about as high profile as it comes and failing to humor Trump can have negative impact to Apple. Trump could decide to place a 100% tariff on iPhones produced anywhere but America.  It would plummet Apple revenue and stock vs or you can change the name of the gulf in your map program. It sucks but it’s where we are.

Fixed

(Edit: you mind posting a link of all the American made phones?)

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12 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

This is a good example of the unintended consequences of shutting down twitter embeds, which is something that I very much support here. Appears it just leads to some of the particularly brain damaged ones just copy pasting as though they are original thought notions. So incapable of original thought. Legit hope they don't have a UT diploma on the wall. 

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What are you, the internet police?

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