Well, I thought I’d sneak in a nice bike ride, maybe stroll around a Farmers’ Market, or sit out on the balcony overlooking Main Street and watch the cute coeds in short shorts walk by. But this area being what it is, it just poured all day, and I was stuck inside with a hyperactive puppy who didn’t get walked. At least I’ll watch some football today… And while I’m at it, H/T to KK who sent me an article I had previously missed. I just want to know why I’m not banging Astrid.
And as usual, birthdays, including that of a childhood hero of mine; a guy who never heard of the “i before e” rule; a guy who was a bit scattered; the greatest composer you’ve never heard of- but you’d recognize nearly everything he wrote; a guy who directed one of the two best sci fi films ever made; Mister Asterisk who was not a Gaul; a guy who never let science stand in the way of his politics; a chick who fucked Fidel and produced a crashing mediocrity; a guy who was no Clive Bunker; and, speaking of a crashing mediocrity…
Link on, MacDuff.
Sometimes, you really gotta work to be outraged.
One more reason Musk is my favorite troll.
Next, we’ll find out that he drank coffee.
Old Guy Music is a two-fer. Retro animation with Fleischer style and Rotoscope with a great retro song. Fuuuuuck.
“I just want to know why I’m not banging Astrid.”
???
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121001201255/fringe/images/5/59/Astrid5.jpg
Would.
The original FBI or mirror universe, autistic, beret wearing Astrid?
Yes.
Dr. Evelyn and Astrid are two of KK’s characters in her roman a clef. The former seems to be modeled after me.
Now I’m even more confused?
Well, I say as long as they don’t shoot her.
Too say nothing of the dog.
Yeah, I like The Motionless Picture too even if I gently rib it.
And I thought your plans (sans overactive puppy) were to lie around in your undies and all. Seems like rain would work for that (good excuse!). Morning, OMWC… morning, all.
Ok — that one was a total gimme. I doubt anyone here wouldn’t have guessed right.
Well, unless John Waters got a special deal on that poor chicken in Pink Flamingos…
Maybe but I’d be willing to bet that old Fidel produced a baseball team’s worth of crashing mediocrities.
He was a decent baseball player.
He was also a gifted painter!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6llaZefJDc
Kitty curfews. 🙄
Right. Herd them all up and confine them peacefully.
Who is going to teach cats to tell time?
*raises hand*
I’m gonna need a couple mil in grants and access to pharmacy grade cocaine.
“Come home when the streetlights come on.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Oh they CAN tell time. They just don’t give a shit about curfews and other rules.
correct answer
“Elon Musk reveals third child with Grimes named Tau Techno Mechanicus – the billionaire’s 11th – after she begged ‘let me see my son'”
I don’t know if that’s trolling or bad parenting.
I’m not even sure why anyone would be upset from that. He was referencing it as a feel good story (and if anyone wants to be negative, as an indictment of our foster care system, not the kid). People tend to be Assholes, Exhibit MMCLXII.
This. That was the nearest thing to a daily ray of sunshine as I’ve ever seen in morning lynx. The idea that people are able to overcome adversity is subversive; if you’re born into poverty you need to stay there and survive on the largesse of the welfare state. Don’t forget to vote!
Glad I’m not the only one that was confused by this. I don’t see anything wrong with his comments, and the fact that the announcer knew his back story means it’s probably common knowledge. But then again I do peruse this site so…
It’s useful to be reminded sometimes that a lot of people are very, very stupid.
I don’t get it. It’s obviously meant as a compliment.
Speculating here, but bear with me: He pretty much implied that the player is black when he said he had been in the foster system and that football had helped give him a way up. RACIST!
Thus he unwittingly threw shade on the inept momma and likely unknown baby daddy.
So instead of feeling happy for this young fellow for overcoming that mess, we should feel outraged that the announcer inadvertently pointed out that life sucks for kids of uninterested, uncommitted breeders.
Everyone knows that the first step to solving a problem is denying that it exists.
Jeez. I think you’re right.
What a stupid article…. Hey dumbasses — maybe Ukraine shouldn’t depend on infrastructure controlled by a private individual for their military operations in the first place? And no one can complain if that person changes their mind and does what they want with their property, morons. Build your own. (Learn to code!)
Envy — it isn’t just a Prince backup dancer anymore.
It’s a way for the left to combine its demented hatred of Musk with its performative cheering of all things Ukraine.
It doesn’t have to make sense or anything.
All true and it’s on Slate. No logic is required.
If the US government needs something maybe they should build it themselves. It’s not like they don’t have access to money.
Elon Musk: Doesnt intervene in a war that none of the countries he is a citizen of is in.
The Press: He’s intervening!
Re: Old man music… I really need to start exploring Squirrel Nut Zippers.
….
…
Ok… that sounded weirder than I meant.
Anyhoo — I think I like everything I’ve heard from them, but I’ve never picked up one of their albums. I should change that.
Yo, Beau – I slept in this morning, but I want you to know that I paused my Sunday morning choral music show – specifically, Bruckner’s Mass #1 in D – to listen to your Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band links. Too many good lines in the second one – can’t be sure which one was your favorite.
Now, to Old Guy Music before I get all serious again.
“That’ll fix it, thought Ron. But he was wrong.”
A thousand and one uses 😉
Be sure to check out Toxteth’s contribution, too!
I did! That was wonderful! 😄
Yes, yes it was!
I’ll again recommend Saving Grace, the movie he wrote.
Found it! Bookmarked for future reference!
Yay! The ‘countdown’ scene is, imnsho, hysterical.
My dad gave me a home-burned copy of Gorilla. 🤷♀️ Why? Why not.
“Danny Masterson victim slams Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ ‘insulting and hurtful’ video apologizing for supporting rapist star, as viewers blasts stilted clip for being ‘lawyered'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12500485/Danny-Masterson-victim-slams-Kutcher-Kunis.html
This whole thing is such bullshit.
“He wrote: ‘Jane Doe #1 aka Jen B, one of the women Danny Masterson was convicted of raping, just texted me her reaction to Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ video.’
The message from her said: ‘This video was incredibly insulting and hurtful. My hope is that they learn radical accountability and the importance of self-education to learn when to keep their privilege in check—especially Ashton, who claims to work with victims of sex crimes. And as to Mila, I can only think of “Times Up.”‘ ”
She sounds insufferable.
Good Lord, why say anything? Just shut up! He may win on appeal! Nothing to be gained!
Oh yeah, liberals can’t help themselves…
Personal accountability is important until it comes time for you as an individual to report a crime in a timely manner.
Retribution and/or ostracism will follow
CHOOSE A SIDE, INTERNET.
I’m with the Vorlons on this one: “Understanding is a three-edged sword… your side, their side.. and the truth.”
The Vorlons get it.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Congratulations to Texas for seemingly getting their football team together.
Well, my Cougars won last night, so I got that going for me, which is nice. And the Beavers beat the piss out of my parents alma mater, which is also nice.
🤘Hook em!
I’ve only been waiting THIRTEEN YEARS for my beloved horns to actually play some real football again
They are not my team, but my good buddy and I have a fantasy of seeing them play against PSU in a bowl game. The playoffs are the only likely scenario for that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12500625/Kamala-Harris-shows-moves-White-House-party.html
No.
She’s a dancin’ fool!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PSdkPMc7aEo
If you can’t dance, you ain’t black.
Why is this even a thing.
Pandering for the African-American vote would be my bet.
Oh of course. It’s just so cringe.
I’m sure she dances every bit as well as she speaks.
That may be the first time she was unfairly criticized.
Ugh. Biden campaign commercials are in play this morning.
Legit 💯 pure fucking lies. 😡😡
Well, to be fair here, Sean, the truth isn’t going to help him get re-elected.
Lol
With Biden’s poll numbers so bad he desperately needs the LP candidate to endorse him again. The third endorsement of the Democratic nominee by the LP nominee will ensure the public that there is no alternative
“Jo Blow didn’t endorse Biden, just every policy of his and was nonchalant on shutdowns. And forced vaccines are double super good. Totes different.
#VoteGoldBecauseTheColorIsDifferent”
No LP nominee ever said to Vote for the Democrat.
Joe Biden never said “Fire this prosecutor who’s investigating my son before he exposes my corruption, money laundering, and influence peddling, and I’ll use my position to make sure you get a billion Uncle Sam bucks.”
Hunter Biden never said “Remember we have to send 10 percent to my dad to make sure we’ve greased the skids enough to get favors dispensed from the US government to further our greed and corruption.” Well, maybe he did.
At least he never publicly bragged about it.
“Record numbers of young girls are hitting puberty too soon – with some as young as four – as experts blame obesity as a key factor.
New data shows the number of times girls were seen at hospital for cases of ‘precocious puberty’ increased to 2,032 last year, up from 1,510 previously.
Of these, 79 children had not even reached their fifth birthdays, NHS Digital hospital data showed.
Experts have said the 35 per cent rise could be down to obesity, as there is a ‘clear link’ between it and starting puberty too soon.
It follows an Italian medical study which pinned Covid lockdowns as a potential trigger as it saw children begin to put on weight due to not going outdoors as frequently and spending more time on the computer.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12500347/Obesity-blamed-rise-number-girls-hit-puberty-early.html
It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core commie works.
LOL @ that stock photo
Totes relevant to the story…
Everything is *caused* by obesity… No one ever seems to give a thought to the case that obesity is just another of the constellation of downstream symptoms of the underlying disregulation (including the symptom they are blaming on obesity), not a root cause.
Obesity just happens, you know. Whaddya gonna do?
At the risk of sounding like I’m ranting about gay frogs — I think pumping a ton of the population with female hormones and letting them leech into the water system seems like something that could be affecting puberty in females, declining testosterone in males and weight changes in the general populace.
Can’t help. I think a lot of it is caused by problems with insulin, largely due to diet, both in what we eat and how often we eat. Things like PCOS and ED are almost certainly rooted in insulin problems and one normally wouldn’t associate that with the reproductive system. I suspect insulin has a role to play in things like precocious puberty as well. But pumping full of hormones and endocrine disrupters could play a pretty big role as well, especially in things like precocious puberty.
Someone should dub Dr. Strangelove in Alex Jones voice.
I would have guessed it was because of climate change.
1. I don’t subscribe to ‘rogue’ but rather that she was carefully chosen to launch a trial balloon.
2. Yeah……..NO.
3. Just saw Trump’s arrival at an Iowa football game. The crowd was standing room only and went wild when Trump walked in. No one else in the field of pathetics stands half of a chance in this election.
4. Ok. Got nuthin’
5. No, they cant. They spent so much time, effort and money getting that war cranked up. It is supposed to be a forever war and they cant allow a private citizen to put a thumb on the scale.
6. Got nuthin’. Some churches are communist and some are owned by the church leader. I dont know which one the Mormons are. In this case, not my circus, not my monkey.
7. I have been getting texts from sources unknown. “You must click here….”. “if y ou click here I will win 100 dollars.” ” Click now….”
No incentives offered to me, just commands to do as I am told by an anonymous person texting my phone. At first I thought it has to be the Chinese. They dont understand our culture etc.
Now I realize it must be AI generated. The AI doesn’t really understand human psychology and is no doubt trying to learn by jumbling language around to see what will get a response.
The internet and smart phones are going to end up imploding due to the overpopulation of AI and scam artists. They are almost there now.
More than half of the sites I try to visit want info on me before they will let me read their drivel. Fuuuuuuuuuuck no. I dont give out personal info. Either let me read unmolested or fuck off.
7.
You don’t like to read molested?
It really depends who is doing it.
“No one else in the field of pathetics stands half of a chance in this election.”
And yet, he will not be President again. If the GOPers don’t keep him off the ballot, the ballot counters will make sure he has fewer ballots counted (where it matters).
It says volumes that a very sizable number of voting citizens consider our elections to be illegitimate.
When the FedGov loses it’s credibility it is no longer a govt by consent, only a tyranny that rules by fear. In such a case it’s days are numbered.
This is a good thing. The swamp is undrainable at this point. If this this ship is to be righted, the path is the states taking back their power and shoving off the feds. Sorry for ya’ll in the commie states, but it is the only way.
Enjoy it just as hard when you wake up and find your state just as commie. Politics isn’t static.
Ironic question coming from me, but… recommendations for a custom domain email host? The wife is looking to start up a side hustle (bespoke chocolate tasting sessions). I could host the email myself, but for a number of reasons I’m thinking of contracting this out. I’m aware that Proton mail offers custom domains.
Related question, recommendations for food-blog software?
I think you answered your own question – I would go with Proton. It’s easy to use with a custom domain.
Mildly curious here, is she making her own custom chocolates? Or just fancy purchased stuff?
“Fancy” (direct trade bean-to-bar) purchased stuff, hosting chocolate tastings (like wine or whiskey tastings). There is an amazing variety of flavor notes in chocolate, affected by where the beans grew, the species of cacao plant, and how the beans were fermented, roasted, etc. There is an accredited program for chocolate tasting, my wife has completed level 2. She declined to pursue level 3, since that requires traveling to cacao plantations, which was not appealing to her.
We’ve talked (mostly joking) about buying the equipment necessary for her to process beans into chocolate at home. There are services now that do direct trade with plantations and then resell the beans in home-enthusiast quantities. The sticking point is, what would be the outlet for the finished chocolate? We can’t eat that much, can’t sell it, we could only give it away, and frankly we don’t have that many friends.
“There is an accredited program for chocolate tasting”
Isn’t it bitter, without sugar?
Neat. Your link no worky though.
Damn wordpress! Yeah, wordpress, that’s it…
https://www.chocolatetastinginstitute.org/
Classy + Skanky = Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.ph/512gS
Looking at that collection is what I imagine it’s like perusing a Russian escort website
In Russia website escorts you.
When the war is over….
Yo, RC…CDNN has a sale on VP9s again.
https://www.cdnnsports.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?q=magapalooza&product_list_order=price
$600 with 7 mags. Only good for a couple more days.
Dang.
*checks bank account, quotes for hail damage repair and water filter/softener replacement. single manly tear rolls down cheek*
That’s a tempting offer actually. I’ve never fired that particular pistol though. It’s always held me back from purchasing online that I can’t hold the gun in my hand and I have reservations about going to a shop to test drive something that I plan to buy from another vendor. Anyone have any experience with it?
If you like polymer and striker fired, it’s top shelf.*
*If you don’t mind paddle mag releases.
Obviously, the best way to fight crime is to make self defense illegal.
Alvin Bragg agrees.
*The crime-free UK cheers loudly, Mexico chimes in*
It’s just common sense.
Ugh….Creepy Joe is mumbling his way through….something. Does anyone really care any more what he has to say?
It is pathetic. What an embarrassment.
I only care if I win the mumbler/slur betting pool. It used to be a drinking game but several of us in DFW developed liver issues from it.
You’re lucky no one died.
“As I said yesterday, the time for standard measures has passed,” Grisham said in a statement on Friday. “When New Mexicans are afraid to be in crowds, to take their kids to school, to leave a baseball game — when their very right to exist is threatened by the prospect of violence at every turn — something is very wrong.”
When the people of your state have completely lost faith in the ability of their government to provide some semblance of law and order, authoritarian rule by decree isn’t going to get you anything but ridicule and disobedience.
Of course, the notion that the (asserted) breakdown of public order might have anything to do with the institution whose reason for existence is to maintain public order, is never entertained.
The obvious solution is to pursue the same policies that are followed by bastions of safety such as New York and Chicago.
Apparently that’s been happening in Albuquerque. Soros backed DA, etc.
“”When New Mexicans are afraid to be in crowds, to take their kids to school, to leave a baseball game — when their very right to exist is threatened by the prospect of violence at every turn — something is very wrong.””
If you don’t get involved in crime, and stay out of very bad neighborhoods, your chances of getting shot are extremely low.
As the manhunt for the murderer enters day 11, it appears the clever fugitive has slipped out of the cordon of 400 officers, stolen a van, and is on the move towards Sean’s neck of the woods. The cops have put out a “shoot him unless he is surrendering” order. I’m guessing some citizen is going to take him out with a firearm and the usual suspects will whine that “it wasn’t necessary to use lethal force on this poor illegal immigrant who was turning his life around and thinking about enrolling in college.”
Investigative muckraking
Donald Trump likes to put his name on everything — except his taxpayer-funded post-presidential office here on North Flagler Drive.
Trump’s website doesn’t list the address, which is about a 10-minute drive from his Mar-a-Lago club. The nameplate on the hallway wall is blank. There is no seal, official or unofficial, on the frosted-glass door. And the name Trump — a brand the former president estimates to be worth billions of dollars — is nowhere to be found.
It’s so hush-hush that his spokesman claimed no knowledge of its existence.
“I’ve never heard of a North Flagler office,” the spokesman, Steven Cheung, said when NBC News asked about the suite on Wednesday.
But it’s here, across the hall from an IRS suite with a door marked “criminal investigation” and one floor below an outpost for Trump’s Secret Service detail. Three sources confirmed the location of the office.
Under the Former Presidents Act, the federal General Services Administration provides funding for post-presidential offices, including money for staffing. There are reasons — including security — that some ex-presidents choose to shine less light on their offices than Bill Clinton did when he moved into space on West 125th Street in Harlem more than two decades ago.
NBC has the goods. Trump is commingling and misusing resources provided by the GSA. He won’t even admit he’s the “former” President. And that office is a mess.
What OMB rhetoric sounds like to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BU5hR9gXE
Yeah, whatever. So tiresome.
“I hate Trump! He is a monster!”
Me: “Oh? What monstrous thing has he done? Be specific”
A: “I dont want to talk about this anymore! He’s bad, ok? Just believe it!”
^Conversation I have heard more times than I can count^
LOL the whole point of that move was to draw attention to himself. Or herself – I bet it was her idea.
Well… he was our first black president.
I’m guessing some citizen is going to take him out with a firearm and the usual suspects will whine that “it wasn’t necessary to use lethal force on this poor illegal immigrant who was turning his life around and thinking about enrolling in college.”
America’s horrific slide into anarchic vigilantism continues.
“she temporarily suspended open and concealed carry”
I implore her to find one illegal shooting in those areas by someone carrying legally. Dumb bitch.
Guns are just known to go off themselves in NM. If you don’t believe me, ask Alec Baldwin, he’ll tell you.
nice
And if it saves just one Hollywood director, it was all worth it.
Rare footage from Bucharest, Romania (1940 – 1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp81pwN4-W8
Several Trump aides on the payroll of his Save America political action committee, his 2024 presidential campaign, or both, have worked at the post-presidential office since it opened two years ago, according to campaign finance records and people familiar with the office. Cheung did not respond to a follow-up email seeking details about the office and its operations, including whether aides on Trump’s political payroll who have worked there are also paid by the government or a private non-campaign entity.
It is possible for one person to split time between a campaign and government work, according to election finance experts. For example, most executive branch employees — including political appointees — can participate in certain partisan political activities outside of work, so long as they don’t use government resources. And it could be that Trump’s aides are careful not to mix political work with official business.
But there is a strict prohibition on performing political duties on government time — or in a government-occupied building or room. It is not clear what steps Trump is taking to ensure a wall of separation between official and campaign business for aides who are on his political payroll.
Lock him up.
Indictments 71-86.
From what I understand, the money the church has/invests/gets/doesn’t spend is its rainy day fund for the zombie apocalypse to help people. I’ve yet to see an outcry where one of the church leaders has bought a yacht for his personal pleasure or buying whores (and you know that could never stay under wraps). So, this doesn’t bother me.
There is one thing I am furious about, though. Most everybody knows we have lay clergy. Ain’t nobody in this church gets paid (except the kiddies back in the Salt Lake Cubicle Farms keeping doctrine watered down and on point—we call it “Correlation”), which includes people to clean the meetinghouses and temples. This makes me mad. When I was a kid, buildings had paid janitors. I don’t remember when they got rid of them all and required members to clean the buildings, but that is one thing about the church’s money that grinds my gears. They can volunteer after the zombie apocalypse when the church has no capital but labor left.
I was telling somebody once that the value of the church’s bank accounts pale in comparison with the value of its free labor.
I’m still seeing checks get mailed in to the CU from LDS congregations making payments on folks’ loans.
Yes, that happens a lot. What I wrote in Magdalene about wealthier bishops helping people out of their own pockets isn’t something I made up. There’s a reason or 6 poor men mostly don’t get made bishop and that’s mainly because they can’t afford the time off work they end up taking to do another half to 3/4-time job.
One of the beauties of our community is that you can go anywhere in the world and find help if you can find the bishop. We’ve been helped in the last few years. My bestie (not a member of the church) was sick and being evicted in St Louis, and I couldn’t get to her to help, nor did I have any money to get her here to live with us. I called the bishop there and said, “My friend needs to vacate her place and she’s sick and broke. Can you get a few elders over to put her stuff in storage?” Boom, done.
Then we had car trouble on a Sunday in South Dakota and Monday was Fourth of July. Called the bishop. He got a member out to us (a mechanic) on Monday—A HOLIDAY—who figured out our lug nuts were loose. He refused payment, but we had 6 dozen eggs and some bread we couldn’t get home, so we gave that to him.
So, as I tell people who are upset with the church, even if you don’t believe, it has great value to society at large. If you (member or not) can find a bishop, you can get help.
That warms my heart.
The janitorial thing is interesting because the marginal utility of the people in the congregation is probably a few times higher than your average janitor. So they may actually be shooting themselves in the foot there.
Agree on both points.
“…even if you don’t believe, it has great value to society at large…”
That is my positions on christianity as a whole. I may be a non-believer but I find our morals align well with each other. I dont care how someone gets there. That they are there is good enough for me. I dont try talking anyone out of their faith.
https://twitter.com/FeistyLibLady/status/1700587294397243553?t=ErcPde6MVohgm-E5mnu9Ew&s=19
Being a dem partisan has got to be painful to one’s brain.
This exchange is so…I can’t even
Uhhh… bless their hearts?
Now my head hurts too. Thanks.
These people vote.
Stop scaring me!
I’ll give props for this:
“Mrs. Clinton, a former secretary of state, U.S. senator, first lady and former presidential candidate”
They didn’t address her as senator Clinton or Secretary of State.
“has a new job as professor of foreign policy at Columbia University.”
Is the class foreign policy 491: advanced tactics in destabilizing North Africa?
-But-
In what world is Trump the worst president in US history?
Weren’t there presidents who owned slaves and supported the South during the late unpleasantness?
OT: Simpson Strong tie makes some great products. I’m using a kit of theirs to make a quick workbench with leftover scrap from my garage project. Simple, quick, and strong. Plus you can modify it to make any size you want.
https://www.strongtie.com/miscellaneousconnectors_woodconnectors/wbsk_kit/p/wbsk
I wonder how that exposed strap corner will work or become a source of constant annoyance.
“But this area being what it is, it just poured all day, and I was stuck inside with a hyperactive puppy who didn’t get walked. At least I’ll watch some football today… ”
Welcome to upstate. Rain season, snow season and two weeks of summer.
“And while I’m at it, H/T to KK who sent me an article I had previously missed. I just want to know why I’m not banging Astrid”
Too old?
It’s Joan of Arc, all the way down
Donald Trump currently faces four criminal prosecutions, a momentous and historic fact that can hardly be overstated. But a civil suit brought this week by six courageous residents of Colorado is another important step in the quest to preserve the viability of our democracy.
The suit, filed on Sept. 6 in Colorado District Court by Republican and unaffiliated voters, seeks to compel Colorado’s secretary of state to bar Trump from the state’s ballot, under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies from office anyone who took an oath to the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection. Our organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, along with top election lawyers and litigators from Colorado, is representing those plaintiffs. While much of the focus has been on the criminal fallout from Jan. 6, this case centers on a more foundational question that is currently being debated in political and legal spheres of influence: Can our Constitution protect against those who tried to overthrow our government?
The plaintiffs include Norma Anderson, who served as majority leader of both the Colorado Senate and the Colorado House of Representatives, and Claudine Schneider, a former U.S. representative from Rhode Island who has lived in Colorado for decades. Both are Republicans. Prominent conservative columnist Krista Kafer is also a plaintiff, along with a Colorado teacher, a leader of a nonprofit and a leader in promoting outdoor recreation. These are Americans who feel a deep sense of duty to ensure the preservation of a working democracy in which the people still get to choose their leaders, and they are willing to step forward despite the way that Trump and his supporters have attacked anyone attempting to hold them accountable.
We’re all martyrs on the altar of democracy, now.
I’m sure they just went out and hired lawyers themselves without any outside backing or organization, just like the climate kids.
Much brave, so courageous.
“…a deep sense of duty to ensure the preservation of a working democracy in which the people still get to choose their leaders…”
By denying voters an opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice? Sounds legit to me.
Good God at the double talk and cognitive dissonance.
Oh my…
https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2023/09/08/magic-tavern-becomes-the-second-unionized-strip-club-in-the-us/
Exactly what you’d expect.
“There’s no feeling like hearing, ‘Yes, yes, yes,’
Hard to argue with that.
“…16 times as they counted the votes.”
/sad trombone
If those people are the strippers, I can understand why the place doesn’t have enough money to fix the wobbly pole and uneven stage flooring.
I can only imagine what Portland strippers look like.
Tools “Hooker with a Penis” comes to mind for some reason.
“Bad luck” incoming.
Gun grabber’s agenda is to make people easier to bully. Take their guns and they are at the mercy of criminals. High crime keeps moral down, people are cowed by fear, thus much less likely to stand up to a tyrannical government.
It is as simple as that. The left is pro-crime, anti-self defense.
Heard the Grisham announcement again. A lot of hitting the old “no right is absolute”, which of course translates to “We are dying to violate your rights.”
I am convinced Grisham was floating a trial balloon on behalf of the party. If they ever get away with
A trial balloon fits the facts. So does an underbrush pol trying to pander to the voters in a solidly Blue state in the most tone deaf way possible.
Underbright, not underbrush. Fucking auto “correct”.
Not really an obsession, but another Astrid I’d bang.
In the wake of the Civil War — the closest we have ever come to losing our republic — the framers of the 14th Amendment’s disqualification clause understood we needed to make sure those who attacked our democracy would not then be put in charge of it. It is a self-executing provision that requires neither action from Congress nor a criminal prosecution to apply.
It definitely wasn’t a vindictive attempt to silence and punish anybody.
It also wasn’t an attempt to charge someone with election interference, in an attempt to interfere with an election by disqualifying the presumptive nominee of the opposition party.
“It is a self-executing provision that requires neither action from Congress nor a criminal prosecution to apply.”
What does that mean? Self-executing?
So no rules or due process, any political operator can simply declare their opposition unfit and BAM! they are out of the race. Sounds like banana republic monkey bullshit to me.