Well, I survived a trip to Philadelphia with an NPR Lady, though on the drive there, I infuriated her with my answers to her questions about the Second Amendment, and on the drive back, I infuriated her with my answers to her questions about abortion. And that was after her long conversation with WebDom. I can hardly wait until she meets SugarFree. Anyway, for those who raised questions on the geek end, my apologies for ducking out before Links posted, but I was busy driving. Speakers arrived apparently intact, so that was a relief.
Birthdays are many today. The Holy Roman Empire managed to get two real winners in a row; a guy who took “get bent” literally; the last man who knew everything; a guy whose equations weren’t actually his (but was still the equal of Einstein); a guy you’ll remember the next time you see a concert; the REAL Sherlock Holmes (at least until Jeremy Brett came along); the British Mary Avara; a real polymath who figured out what happened to the dinosaurs; a guy who could tell you what your life was all about; the center square; a guy who walked the fine boundary between genius and madness; the guy who inspired generations of TPers; a candidate for the dumbest and least effective member of Congress; a guy who never quite shook off Alex deLarge; a piece of shit who was far less entertaining than his cousin Keith; an actor who is a real dick; and another two for one BOGO.
I suppose we should Link, shouldn’t we?
What the sweet fuck are we doing in Syria???
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a Team Blue-affiliated operation?
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a Team Blue-affiliated operation?
After my last visit to Taco Time, I could break this record.
We can’t let LA and Chicago have all the fun.
Old Guy Music will NOT be Jethro Tull.
First through the heart, and you’re to blame…
You give love a bad name !
“Well, I survived a trip to Philadelphia with an NPR Lady”
Pics or it didn’t happen!
“What the sweet fuck are we doing in Syria???”
Based on the other shit I see, making sure they celebrate pride month and that they gay it up.
Got lost on the way to Cuba.
You were so young looking in the pic I didn’t recognize you 4Score!
Why if you hadn’t brought up Cuba, I would never have connected the dots.
That and stealing a lot of oil.
Yeah, we occupy the oil fields and a large part of the fertile agricultural area in order to fuck over the guy who saved the nation from the tender mercies of the Islamic State. Ainât we a fine bunch?
“we occupy the oil fields and a large part of the fertile agricultural area”
That would take a division or two – what units are where?!
I know a Marine who has done a couple of deployments there. Sounds like a decent sized firebase (or whatever they call it these days) backed up by lots of air assets out of friendly states like Kuwait.
Oil:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/syria-secretive-oil-contract-delta-force-ambassador/index.html
That’s 2020….where and what now – not a COB or a SF team, but occupation troops? That seems like that would take a whole lotta dudes. They probably would be picking up some casualties too.
There have been a number of training accidents lately…
*adjusts tin foil patrol cap*
Maybe occupy wasnât the best choice of words-thereâs around 900 of our soldiers looks like.
Food and Water resources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hasakah_Governorate
Same province as the oil but also sort of Syriaâs breadbasket.
“Try Only Fans.”
How used and abused will she be? I bet she comes out with a tattoo across her widened backside from the lady that owns her.
You’d think she could get something by selling off her turtleneck factory.
No can do. She was just leasing it from the Apple fraudster.
Sheâs a sociopath. Sheâll be fine.
She’s in Martha Stewart prison, she’ll be fine. And as R C points out…she is a sociopath, I am guessing she will run a little clique/gang of her own.
So… did NPR Lady decide not to talk to Old Man anymore after the road trip? I have to know.
Maybe she told him she wanted him to be masculine, you know, open doors, pay the bills, protect her at his own risk, and such, but that she was not going to change her crazy progressive ways one bit to create balance in any relationship, because as a hard core lefty she doesn’t want to compromise her morals even though it means she can’t find a decent man amongst those with here nutty beliefs? This seems a common problem with left leaning women.
She’s actually really good about paying her way, not expecting the “little lady” treatment, or wanting protection. I think that she finds me infuriating but enigmatic; “You don’t seem to fit any stereotypes,” was her comment. She’s actually going to meet SF, so that will be true entertainment.
Damn, dude…
SF? You sure as hell are a trill seeker…
Or is the plan to get her to lose so many sanity points that she becomes a gibbering fool unable to do anything without help like all that stare into the face of the Kankle-Tulu chronicler do?
Does he seek mordents too?
In all seriousness, I’ve been doing stress tests. And you don’t do any stressier than SF.
Really? She needs to expand her repertoire of stereotypes.
I forget, are saving throws for sanity 1d8 or 1d10?
D20 or percentile, man…
Call of Cthulhu 4th edition and I think 5th use percentile. Roll under your current sanity score to save, otherwise, fail.
I’m not sure about the current editions.
âYou donât seem to fit any stereotypes,â was her comment.
Racist?
“Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a Team Blue-affiliated operation?”
At this point you should assume any of these sightings of MAGA violence, Nazis, or the usual suspects that the deep state accuses of domestic terrorism, that you are dealing with a Jussie Smolliet incident. You are 99.999% likely to be correct that it is a hoax.
You notice that we haven’t heard another peep out of Ellen Page?
Cause the media realized they were Jussied and they quickly went into damage control mode?
This demonstration had all the hallmarks of the Lincoln Project.
Well, I survived a trip to Philadelphia with an NPR Lady, though on the drive there, I infuriated her with my answers to her questions about the Second Amendment, and on the drive back, I infuriated her with my answers to her questions about abortion.
Hopefully you didn’t burn any bridges with her.
Gosh damn you to heck. I haven’t got any hot takes to follow that one.
Oh man….
I see what you did there, I-95!
*standing ovation *
We got detoured around it. Yahweh bless Waze.
I don’t a pic of DeSantis on the KKK flyers so they’re probably real.
They seem to have blocked out something at the bottom, perhaps contact info for the alleged KKK group. A friend here in Virginia gets similar flyers in his neighborhood yearly at roughly the same time each year listing the PO Box address of a KKK group in MO (or KS, can’t remember).
c/o St Louis Field Office of the FBI?
Because buying ads wasn’t enough leverage.
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1668061087244120064
The price per impression is a terrible rate. Nobody watches him.
It’s not about how many people watch him as much as it is to keep him “bought & paid” for so he feels compelled to keep telling the lies they want him to.
It’s not really the purpose of it.
It’s about narrative laundering. It’s all a gigantic circle jerk designed to create “respectability” for one’s claims.
“The buck stops here” AC
Itâs not the ratings that matter in the age of streaming and YouTube/Tikkety-Tok. CNN (and others) are content creators and the network is just their initial distribution. The real reach comes from links and reposts.
Was unaware-seems like he needs to offer a disclosure statement every time he appears for anything then.
Dishonest hackery as much as Cooper himself. 75% or more of ad revenue to news media is from pharma. Cooper’s salary from CNN is $12. Therefore Cooper is being paid $10M of that from Pfizer directly. Thats RFK’s thesis.
I’d like to know how RFK Jr. knows that (the direct part), not just that a huge fraction of advertising revenue is from drug companies.
What the sweet fuck are we doing in Syria???
The same self-destructive shit as everywhere else.
Playing nuclear footsie with Russia
What the sweet fuck are we doing in Syria?
Syria has been asking the same question.
Now that the civil war we started is over and they are making up with the Turks and Arabs, it is a good question. Sooner or later the Gulf States are going tell us we can’t use them for logistics bases, then we really have to withdraw.
AYFKM? We’ll find someone to help us start a new war with a side we can back.
Maybe – but every sane country seems to be getting sick of that crap.
A year ago, saying this in public would get you banned even though the intelligence organizations all knew it was true.
There’s something more to the startling lack of interest in holding anyone responsible for this mess accountable. Dazak has suffered no repercussions that I know of. There’s not even an inkling of punishing China for their supposed recklessness. It can’t all be explained by that little piece of shit Fauci’s attempt to cover his own tracks.. It’s enough to make a sane person start thinking of conspiracies where this shit didn’t leak accidentally at all.
I don’t buy that Daszak misled anyone, at least not behind closed doors, as to what the Chinese were doing and the results of those tests. That much I can say. After 75% of the humanized mice died in their super test, he then went on to request funding from DARPA.
Do not miss the change in policy where these people that censored to protect China’s role in this horrific debacle now are allowing the truth to not just come out, but people to demand restitution/consequences. China’s control of the various entities that played goal keeper for them and censored those pointing this out seems to no longer be ass good as it was. Likely because willing partners back then suddenly no longer are so committed to defending the CCP’s criminality around the globe now that China’s CCP’s ambitions and colonialism is getting ready to threaten the globalist agenda.
whaddup doh’
Interest rates. đ
I take it as a personal affront that you don’t come down for the shooting matches.
They even make starter kits now!
What’s in the starter kit?
Gun, holster, mags, lockable carrying case, bits and bobs to change divisions.
https://www.canikusa.com/sfx-rival-s
It would be fine as in in a free state, in NY you’d have to buy a couple extra mags.
Oh, and some tools (like punches) needed to change said bits.
A Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, and a Rimfire. and about 500-1000 rounds.
Also, literally last moth there was a woman I had been seeing that I met on a hookup site. Again, this is AFTER we had met up a few times. When I had to cancel our next scheduled meeting because I had a match, she lost her shit talking about how “gun people” were trying to take away her rights/erase her existence/the whole twitter cut-and-paste. Then she signed off with “enjoy your guns, remember they have more rights than half the population!”
That’s just unhinged.
And he dodged a bullet.
As someone older dating, I guarantee you odds are every woman you meet is available because she has some mental disorder that prevented other men from wanting to put up with that shit. Especially if she isn’t fugly.
The prospective third date is always a range trip, for this reason exactly. If things look like they might get serious, they get an invite to a local USPSA match.
Really? Which rights do the guns have that people don’t?
The right to have someone else pay their taxes.
How DARE you erase her lived experience! Your cisheteropatriarchical privilege blinds you to the truth!
I am truly a monster. Just the other day I had someone telling me how abortion was outlawed in the US now.
I wish my guns could vote. I don’t really want my guns to have reproductive choice though, that would be weird.
It’d be nice if I could put my 1911 and my CZ together, play some mood music, and get a DWX.
Bow chicka bow wow
lulz
I’d watch.
I wish my ammo had reproductive choice.
(stares balefully at the malfunctioning reloading press in the corner)
If guns could vote, Democrats wouldn’t be trying to ban extended 30 vote capacity magazines.
Looks like you dodged a bullet.
Miss fire.
If she was into butt stuff, would she be Miss Rim Fire?
I never tried using Ballistol with her…
Thought that Project Farm guy says Clenzoil is much better anyway.
it was funny because when I met my girl I think her friend had me pegged as a lib so they asked leading questions about firearms where the correct answer was , yeah I like them just fine.
Sounds like she was triggered…
Doesn’t matter.
Elizabeth Holmes says she can’t pay $250 a month in restitution after she’s released from prison: report
Someone didn’t get the fucking money.
She needs to convince them she didn’t…
She forgot the 10% for the big guy.
Rampant antisemitism in Florida? Did all the New York Jews die off?
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a Team Blue-affiliated operation?
Because it’s their m.o.
Over a dozen far-right demonstrators, including many waving swastikas.
National Socialism is a collectivist ideology, which is hardly “far-right”.
In addition to the swastika and DeSantis banners, some had signs displaying antisemitic and white supremacist rhetoric. No arrests were made.
Why would any arrests be made?
DeSantis signed a hate crimes bill, signed it in Israel just the past few weeks.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-signs-bill-combat-hate-crimes-israel-rcna81799
These things are related.
I assume there will be Team Blue agitators at the Trump arraignment tying to incite violence.
The the narrative is being set.
As Donald Trump prepares for his arraignment on Tuesday, his advisers are quietly expressing some concern that the pro-Trump protesters already assembling in front of the courthouse arenât helping the former presidentâs case.
Those closest to the ex-president pointed to a rally organized by the Trump-adoring activist Laura Loomerâand promoted by longtime Trump ally Roger Stoneâas an event that could go very wrong.
âInside of this event, there is going to be a disaster,â a Trump confidant told The Daily Beast. âThere are going to be people that come out that donât want to be peaceful.â
âAll the things that are wrong with MAGA are going to show up,â the confidant added. âYou get the fanatics coming out.â
That’s called “Antifa.”
I’m just going to be like Jesse Ventura and ask some questions here.
When is violence against this fraudulent state justified?
Violence against the state needs no moral justification.
It being a good idea, is another question entirely.
Heard MSNBC ramble on that some of the J6’ers still running around yet to be caught will be there and then the correspondent stated “the eventual conviction”. So yea, stocking the embers
Meh. NPR is already running excuses for the lack of blood on the streets claiming the insurrectionists are waiting for a more opportune time to insurrect.
The best time to insurrect is when you have a chance in hell of winning.
See, far-right extremist violence is the biggest threat to life on earth, and the only reason examples of it aren’t in the news is that they’re organizing offline — meeting at anti-LGBTQ events, bible studies and school board meetings.
/actual NPR story.
I’m starting to think that the anxiety meds aren’t really doing the job anymore…
Benzo prescriptions were slashed in response to the fentanyl crisis.
“This is a complex, ongoing investigation in its early stages,” the department said. “Preliminary info indicates multiple shots were fired during an altercation involving several individuals.”
Not white power insurrectionism?
The M.S.P.D. and City of Mt. Sterling does not tolerate any kind of hate or bigotry in our community.
So 1A is no good to you.
Interestingly the article does not mention that the flyer states that the “Klan” is apparently against crime and drug dealers.
The police response was gratuitous. They are saying the politically correct thing, perhaps dictated from above. They are going through the motions and taking reports at their non-emergency number.
Credit where credit is due.
Kevin McCarthy delivers a lesson on truth to CNN reporter.
Andrew McCabe and James Clapper in the crosshairs.
I love how she just tries to run over his answer.
Like him or not, the man is the Speaker of the House and she’s treating him like some random drunken asshole.
Please. Random drunken assholes deserve a modicum of respect. They’re not politicians.
I actually would like him to answer the question as to what the House will actually do. Not for the same reasons as her, but because I suspect it is actually nothing. They aren’t going to even threaten to defund anyone.
Didnât they just re-approve the massive new FBI building and the tens of thousands of new tax collectors?
HEY! I represent that!
The REAL reason dinosaurs became extinct.
your link includes a trailing quotation mark that needed to be removed to see the classic comic panel.
Heh. I had that one up in my cubicle long ago.
My question is why has it been edited to remove Gary Larson’s signature?
Extinct?
Costco sells rotisserie dinosaur for $4.99 each.
But are they smoked?
a guy who took âget bentâ literally
Happy birthday Uri Geller!
What you did there….I saw that.
“a piece of shit who was far less entertaining than his cousin Keith”
Cousin Wally was a big hit from Day One
I haven’t been on a first date in 32 years. Hard to imagine being lectured by a stranger with crazy opinions. I’ve become so accustomed to my wife’s crazy ideas, I probably couldn’t make the adjustment.
The fact that she was
interrogating himmaking casual conversation about such hot-button issues strikes me as at least a yellow flag if not a red one. Be careful, Old Man!We’ve been dating for several months and were in a car for ten hours. These things happen.
I tried the music, OM, but couldn’t separate the sounds. Not in Geezer frequency range.
Starting your own coui8ntry where Cali can get at it is a rookie mistake.
https://themessenger.com/news/man-creates-his-own-nation-slowjamastan-in-california-desert-where-crocs-are-outlawed
*yawn*
Senator Grassley just revealed that a highly credible FBI informant says the Burisma exec who allegedly bribed Joe Biden, has 17 audio recordings speaking with Joe and Hunter. This allegation should lead to the impeachment or resignation of Joe Biden, if true.
The FBI tried to cover this up by redacting these allegations in the document released to the House Oversight Committee. Primetime is calling on the Biden administration, the FBI and DOJ to release the tapes immediately.
Nothing will happen.
In a functional country, this should be the top story for every media outlet. Senators should be prepping for the impeachment trial.
Biggest scandal in American history – orders of magnitude worse than Teapot Dome and Watergate.
The last seven years or so have been a titanic scandal that can be divided into multiple scandals each of which is way worse than those. It is unbelievable.
The reason nothing is happening, will happen, and nobody is/will be held accountable, is that it can’t happen without destroying the lie about Obama’s administration being “scandal free”, Obama being a good president, and the left’s propaganda that government can be made to pick winners & losers even harder, while giving people free shit, without consequences. Progressive lies about near Utopian dreams would crash & burn. The people that control the news were integral in foisting team Obama on us and they are not going to give up protecting their creation now that they have invested that much in creating the lie Obama’s admin was the most corrupt and criminal one in the last 100 years.
As long as things work out in their favor the media doesnât give a flying fuck.
See also: The end justifies the means.
One of those things that makes me realize that we aren’t voting our way out of this. A full-blown collapse has to happen first.
You might remember the Democrats didn’t bring up Trump’s impeachment when Biden was running.
It’s that time again
Late last year, people in tiny Whiteville, N.C., were recruited to weekly meetings with a group they’d never heard of. They got cold calls, flyers in the mail and in-person pitches at the local Pecan Harvest Festival. Did they want to come talk about the economy with Patriotic Millionaires?
That was intriguing enough to some.
“My first thought of it was, really? They care about Columbus County? Cause nobody cares about Columbus County like that,” says April Thomas, who has three children and works at a vape and tobacco shop.
Others showed up for the freebies: door prizes, dinner and $50.
Over a month of meetings, dozens of residents got a crash course on inequality and learned why this group of rich people wants to pay higher taxes and raise the minimum wage.
The nonprofit Patriotic Millionaires has lobbied Congress to make changes for more than a decade. Its members see inequality as a danger â they worry big money is corrupting politics and driving civil unrest. But they haven’t had much success. President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts largely benefited the wealthy, and even when Democrats controlled the Senate in 2021, they failed to pass a bill to raise the minimum wage.
It’s patriotic to love the government, confiscatory taxation and wealth redistribution. Punish success. Reward failure. Teach helplessness.
Someone should point out that these people are only doing this because it benefits them personally, financially or otherwise, but definitely financially, so they are selling idiots on the agenda.
President Donald Trumpâs 2017 tax cuts largely benefited the wealthy
The $150 or so extra that the feds weren’t taking from my definably middle class paycheck largely benefited me.
But some fat cat took home even more – THATZ NOT FARE!!111!11!11!!
Tax cuts benefit those who pay taxes. A narrow tax base is unstable and prone to the decisions of the few who pay. Also, ignore the massive increase in spending the last few years.
I’m sure they pointed out that Democrats routinely outspend Republicans, right?
A Soros story?
They want the money that goes to republicans to be curtailed, not the money going to democrats, you bigot!
They do?
Was talking about elections, TBF. Everything I’ve seen seems to point that way.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2020/11/05/democrats-outspend-republicans-in–14b-election–the-costliest-in-history
why this group of rich people wants to pay higher taxes
Ah, the old “We must raise taxes because I won’t give the government one cent more than required.”
It would have been fun to go and ask the Richie Riches why they don’t just send in more money themselves if they feel the need. Pester them with questions about what obstacles they face when trying to write a check to the US Treasury.
The army of accountants they use to find loopholes and lower their own taxes told them not to do so?
I’ll be convinced when the Patriotic millionaires fix Whiteville, NC.
“Only government can fix it.”
Lol at the picture of the kid who is bored out of his fucking mind.
Two Rhode Island officials visited Philly. They were so rude their state launched two separate investigations.
Very similar to OMWC’s trip I imagine.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-trip-rhode-island-bok-scout-patten-thorsen-scannapiec-20230612.html
Some of those are borderline boorish. But worthy of an investigation with police? Fuck off. That comment above alone, is what anyone should say. You want my 55M? Tell me up front the value I get.
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My expectation is that the investigation would be on expense abuses given everything else that occurred.
I don’t think it’s wrong to have an expectation of professional behavior, but that’s not something that is criminal. It should just get you fired.
Agreed.
I would have replied with directions to the closest coffe shop and convenience store.
“Welcome everybody for coming. Will all the men remove their hats please,” says local resident Thomas Young. Heads bow as he offers a blessing, and then people line up for the buffet dinner.
That food ain’t free. You gotta listen to the sermon.
As a senior fellow with the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Steve Rosenthal spends a lot of time dispelling misperceptions about the tax code. Compared with other rich nations, he says, U.S. spending is about average. But despite decades of rhetoric about how high taxes are, the U.S. brings in a significantly smaller share of tax revenue than those countries. And Rosenthal says a smaller part of it comes from wealthy people and corporations.
Can you say “VAT”?
Not without spitting
Same.
I would favor switching from an income to consumption tax, but not if its a VAT.
First, get rid of existing taxes. In a few years we can discuss funding mechanisms for valid functions of government.
In a perfect world, I would stop after your first sentence.
There are legitimate functions. To get down to them you need to burn out the cancerous growth and start over.
Yes. And you are aware of how I would pay for the legit functions. But that is because we dont live in a perfect world.
We have already rejected penalizing people for existing, so your option is off the table.
Discounting for the moment that there should not even be any taxes on corporations, one wonders why these types want fewer wealthy people around. Do they think jobs grow on trees?
Also ask California how stable revenue is with a narrow tax base.
“Trump Was 1st POTUS in 40 Years Who Feds Didnât Help Archive Classified Docs, Attorneys Say”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/proof-setup-trump-1st-potus-40-years-feds/
If course it was a setup. These assholes are relentless. And that fat fink Bill Barr should get his face off the TV after he buried the Biden investigation.
You notice that no one from the National Archives came looking for Biden’s missing documents, and that no one has ever received the sort of cushy deal that Obama got where he basically retains sole access to all documents but it’s paid for by the NA.
Barr (and Durham) was there to string out investigations to the point of irrelevancy and chew bubblegum and he was all out of bubblegum. Motherfuckerâs worse than Sessions.
They’re the definition of controlled opposition.
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Blossom Puzzle, June 13
Letters: A G I L N S V
My score: 288 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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Even so, Stevenson says there is strong public support for raising the minimum wage. But â another hurdle â lower-income Americans are far less likely to vote. She says they’re hit disproportionately by voting restrictions and that casting a ballot can come at a cost.
“For some of us, giving up a day’s worth of work to stand in a line to vote could mean not being able to pay your rent, or not eat,” Stevenson says.
They should be able to text heir vote(s) from their free government issued smartphone!
She’s right. Poor people should automatically have their votes cast for them. They are far too economically marginalized to make their own decisions.
Cash for Clunkers 2; voter boogaloo!
lower-income Americans are far less likely to vote
Dems will vote for them.
giving up a dayâs worth of work to stand in a line to vote
Where the fuck does it take a day to vote? Voting has never been easier (and more prone to fraud).
Such as…?
Stop lying.
Claiming that the opposition is about voting restrictions helps a lot more than just admitting the agenda is to make it easier to cheat.
Restrictions such as proving you are who you say you are, that you’re actually eligable to vote, and that you haven’t already voted.
You know, obstacles to cheating.
Hell no one has to stand in line all day to vote. You can do it before or after work. At worst you take an hour or two off of work.
When you lie to me like that, I just assume EVERYTHING YOU SAY is a lie.
Even in the bad old days of paper ballots and Election Day, it was as you describe. Hell, many employers wouldnât even dock your a pay if you voted during the workday.
Voting precincts were open from, what? 7am to 7pm?
I have always voted either before or after work. It has never been an issue. Where the fuck do you have to stand in line for 8 hours?
Maricopa County? The precincts that vote Repub, anyway.
Leave the kids alone.
Senate Bill 12 by State Sen. Bryan Hughes (RâMineola), which takes effect September 1, prevents sexually explicit performances, such as drag performances, from being performed in the presence of a minor. Violation of this state law will result in a $10,000 fine and a Class A misdemeanor.
In response to SB 12, Pride East Texas Longview has set up a âDrag Marchâ protest in Longview on June 24.
This march will be led by drag performer Gemini Alexander Brooks and Wolfie Hoover, vice president of Pride East Texas Longview (PETL). Brooks says on the event website, âThis [SB 12] will affect Drag performers through the State of Texas. Affecting Pride events, Brunches, Shows, Readings and etc. Meaning in 2024 we unfortunately will not be allowed to perform at Pride.â
âOur queens, kings, and thembodies, we are organizing a march to Heritage Park to protest the newest anti Drag Bill that passed and is going to Greg Abott [sic] to sign,â said Hoover.
how does one define sexually explicit performances objectively?
That has always been a issue.
You donât, and donât need to (other than the standard legal definition of a âreasonable personâ). You define them per the âcommunityâsâ willingness to tolerate them (which is basically a âreasonable personâ standard). Imperfect (as are all things human), but the alternative is what you see on the streets and in schools.
If a reasonable person has shifted so far left that assless chaps in public are acceptable….
assless chaps
Aren’t those just called “chaps”?
Technically correct is the best kind.
I can’t roll my eyes hard enough.
Royalty ain’t what it used to be…
Why bare they so adamant about performing their shit in front of children? You’d think a reporter might actually ask that question.
The reporter knows why. And the reporter agrees with the why. That’s why they not only won’t ask the question but will actually tell lies about what’s really going on to help the groomers.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
What the sweet fuck are we doing in Syria??? – I hear the food is good
Their baba ghanoush is different than normal. Chunkier.
Nice to see that the Sconnies are up to their usual stupid selves.
They are about to pass a bunch of new liquor laws that were “hammered out in secret the past 5 years”. The big new item is a new official division of enforcement to make sure that those who aren’t paying the grift are punished.
So the cronies want a hammer to beat their competition with. The 3 tier system is an abomination and should be eliminated in every state.
At leas there are more solid government jobs. But they really need a separate department to make sure there is enough diversity among alcoholics.
Adjusted to fit reality.
The Ohio Craft Beer Association just recently announced a lobbying group pushing to allow smaller breweries (under a certain production amount) to change distributor contracts without a legal fight. They can currently self distribute, but that can be tough for a Cincy brewery to schlep it up on their own transportation up to CLE.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/03/the-beer-wars-an-incomplete-history-of-the-american-beer-industry-pt-2/
A blast from the past, re: 3-tier
“it isnât like it is that hard to sell Budweiser products.”
That line didn’t age well.
âWeâre paying twice for the same experienceâ: Plus-size travelers hit out at âdiscriminatoryâ airline seat policies
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/plus-size-travelers-slam-airline-seat-policies/index.html
The Experience Theory of Value
Either you fit in the seat, or you pay for two. I propose a new company, “Bloated Airlines” that has extra fatty seats and charges the same rate to everyone. Even the skinnies.
When one of those planes loaded with the heavies goes down, it will be a natural disaster?
Hey-ooo!
I don’t care about your self-inflicted problems.
For the love of God, just lose some damn weight. Seems like itâd actually be easier than all the whining.
Ozempic is expensive, dude.
Eating less actually saves you money. It’s a win-win!
Ugh. The correct term is “customer experiencing sizeness” you bigot! Asd it’s totally unfair that companies should have their own policies rather than conforming to one from the government! Even CNN in editor-voice knows this!
F-ing commie. Yes, let the government step in each time you have an issue. The free market will provide a competitor that will service the fatty customers, should there be enough to make a market niche. If not, you are just an outlier who needs to pay more to travel.
Will the trans-fat Americans be the next hot victim group?
There are only 2 breakfasts? Hate speech!
âplus-size travel influencerâ
*taps out*
For all the flights Jugsy took when she was “commuting” back and fort to NYC, I never asked if anyone said anything about her size.
Knowing her, if someone did, I would have heard all about it.
If I could afford two seats, I’d pay for two. But since I can’t, I’ll drive, thanks.
Takes more time to lose weight than drive across the country.
I try not to inflict my fat onto other people.
Put them in the cargo hold.
Bankrupt yourselves as you see fit.
New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Thursday.
âWe want to make sure we are looking at slavery and its legacies,â said state Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages before the floor debate. âThis is about beginning the process of healing our communities. There still is generational trauma that people are experiencing. This is just one step forward.â
The state Assembly passed the bill about three hours after spirited debate on Thursday. The state Senate passed the measure hours later, and the bill will be sent to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for consideration.
The only lingering effect is the Democratic Party still trying to keep black people down.
They’re getting nervous that the clock is running on LBJ’s timeline – we’re nearly 60 years into that century.
There still is generational trauma that people are experiencing.
He asserted without evidence.
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They will throw money at a “commission” to score some brownie points and nothing else will happen.
Brownie points? Really?
The trauma is being inflicted by the government schools, anyway.
For once that was not intentional.
And you did a helluva job.
So OMWC is off from school for the summer.
Biden Administration: You have to convert to solar! And you have to buy all the solar stuff from China!
Why?
Indians.
EnvironMENTALists: ordinarily we’re okay with the mining damage happening to brown people, but we’ll make an exception because this is within the U.S.
NEW: The government will BAN Buy One Get One Free deals despite analysis showing it will reduce calorie consumption by just 2.5%
Tory MPs are calling it “nuts” and telling Rishi Sunak to keep his “hands off people’s BOGOFs”
https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1668359350476259330
I mean we need to find a way to make the brits fit in planes.
But the Conservative Party is starting to look like the most ridiculous big party around. It would be funny if it was not tragic
Are those the folks that wanted to ban kitchen knives?
I’m so glad Noah Webster let us drop that trailing F.
So half off it is then.
US Cracks Down On Entities Training Chinese Pilots, Including Erik Prince’s Frontier Services Group
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1668572730042601473
they didn’t give the right people a percentage?
Political history
It is true that political parties can change dramatically. Historians, for instance, have traced the long-term shift within the Democratic Party that started in the 1940s, as southern Democrats who opposed civil rights and unionization gradually drifted from their party and flocked to the open arms of a Republican Party that was increasingly conservative and willing to appeal to opposition toward civil rights legislation.
For its part, the Republican Party gradually moved away from the liberal northeasterners, such as Nelson Rockefeller and Jacob Javits, who had been major forces in pulling the GOP toward the center, and veered sharply to the right, culminating in Ronald Reaganâs election in 1980. Reagan brought the kind of conservatism that in 1964 (when Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona in a landslide election) was considered far too radical for the White House.
But these kinds of changes take decades to happen. They are not the result of one candidate winning or losing, nor are they some sort of short-term spell that parties go through and come out of. Changing a party requires building new kinds of electoral support with groups of people who have felt alienated or who were once part of the opposition. The change requires generations of new leadership â not one person, even a president â who gradually alter the composition of the congressional caucuses and presidential nominee slates. It demands huge investments in think tanks, magazines and journals, social media, as well as news outlets, so as to move the party discourse into new directions.
You don’t say.
Historians, for instance, have traced the long-term shift within the Democratic Party that started in the 1940s, as southern Democrats who opposed civil rights and unionization gradually drifted from their party and flocked to the open arms of a Republican Party that was increasingly conservative and willing to appeal to opposition toward civil rights legislation.
Completely false statement.
Indeed. More Dems that Repubs opposed the civil rights laws.
The Southern Strategy myth live on to deflect the sins of the Democratic Party.
STEVE SMITH IN CHARGE OF THINGS THAT POP UP.
Run Forrest, RUN!
“‘This is the White House not a hookers-n-blow photo from Hunter’s laptop’: Conservatives slam White House Pride party as a ‘disgrace to our country’ after trans model bared her breasts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12189617/Conservatives-slam-White-House-Pride-party-trans-model-bared-breasts.html
“Trust the science? Prestigious Johns Hopkins University erases women from woke new inclusive language guide that describes lesbians as ‘non-men attracted to non-men,’ – but still refers to male gays as ‘men'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12187993/Prestigious-Johns-Hopkins-University-erases-women-woke-new-inclusive-language-guide.html
This shit is going to go on for over a month, isn’t it?
I thought Joemala was tomorrow.
Go Patriarchy!
But Trump is the undignified one.
Will the trannies be offended if Joe doesn’t sniff them?
A dude with implants doesnât have breasts to bare. Now, guys shouldnât be taking their shirts off at the White House, either.
Chicks who have had mastectomies should keep their tops on, too.
“A dude with implants doesnât have breasts to bare.”
Why not? Dudes without implants have breasts to bear. Barney Frank is at least a cup-size bigger than Lily Rose Depp.
::ponders potential new Glib name:: I’m not sure about this at all. Am I supposed to specify that I’m attracted to men? Or to “non-women”? Or am I just supposed to disappear in a puff of linguistic exclusion?
I dislike the change.
I thought better of it.
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Hi, fellow non-man!
Yeah, I just can’t do it. You’re welcome to the new handle, but I find it about as comfortable as a badly-fitting bra. đŁ
Who are we to question the experts at Johns Hopkins?
What’s the singular of Johns Hopkins anyway? Johns Hopkin? John Hopkins? John Hopkins?
Tax-dollar Grifter
Johnny Hopkins and Sloan Kettering were blazing up ever day!
Shouldn’t it be Non-Man Traitor? Maybe not. It’s all so confusing
Fear not – I’m going back to my previous level of confusing.
Rose Montoya, 27, unhooked the top of her dress and grabbed her chest on the South Lawn as someone shouted, ‘are we topless at the White House?’
THICC
The prestigious Johns Hopkins University has erased the word ‘women’ from a newly produced ‘inclusive language guide’ in its definition of the term ‘lesbian’.
The patriarchy got Drew Barrymore to kneel for a biological male and now this.
This is just the high-holy month. The religion has other holy days throughout the year.
It’s Pride Season now (in America’s hat, anyway).
Ending Trumpism will require a massive effort by the party to reconfigure its coalition and to find leaders who will promote a different kind of conservatism than what Trump has to offer. Like former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, GOPers will have to be willing to hold their own leaders accountable for the kind of behavior Trump engaged in regardless of the cost to their own future. Doing so will also necessitate painful and politically risky breaks with party officials and voters who keep moving the party deeper into its current state of affairs. It will require powerful donors to throw their resources behind candidates at all levels of government, just as the Koch brothers did during the 1990s and 2000s.
Whether the party actually wants to do so is an open question. When opposing election denialism or threatening to send the country into default constitutes an act of courage, then it is clear that the party is deep in the Trumpian red. Right now, most seem pretty content with the status quo.
We need a docile and compliant “opposition” party to play its proper role in our political pantomime opera.
Neither Trump nor Cheney are conservative.
a different kind of conservatism
One that is only slightly to the right of the commu-fascist left?
And now for something completely different
I swear, as I was watching this, I couldn’t help thinking “Upper Class Twit of the Year” really was a documentary.
*kind of long, but fascinating, in more ways than one
I infuriated her with my answers to her questions about the Second Amendment, and on the drive back, I infuriated her with my answers to her questions about abortion.
So the sex was amazing?
In an article in The New York Times last month, Holmes said that she couldn’t even pay her legal bills, adding, “I have to work for the rest of my life to try to pay for it.”
Boo-hoo-hoo
Flyers that appeared to be from a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan were spread around multiple neighborhoods in Mt. Sterling Saturday evening, according to social media posts and the local police department.
“Appeared”. You aren’t supposed to let the mask slip and hint that white supremacist “activity” isn’t real.
Sad news.
Well that sucks. Anchor Steam is my go-to beer.
Anchor was always one of my go to beers. I wasnât very happy about their label change as I thought the original bottles and labels were utterly iconic. Not happy about losing their Xmas beers as I always picked up a sixer around Christmas. Sapporo has been a shitty owner.
Reading all the excuses I heard: “the thing that we do to differentiate ourselves from the pack are too hard so we’re going to stop doing them.”
Hahahaha. After they changed the Fat Tire recipe, Anchor Steam was my go-to.
Anyone got a recommendation for an amber ale type beer that is widely available?
Bells Amber is a solid one, fairly wide distribution but they’re owned by the same parent company that acquired New Belgium a couple years back.
Miller High Life?
If you want to fu-fu it up, you can make a spaghett with it.
“The Great COVID Grift: $420 BILLION lost from coronavirus aid through ‘fraud and waste’: Staggering report reveals how billions of taxpayer cash from $4.2 trillion in bailout funds disappeared”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12187227/420-BILLION-COVID-aid-wasted-fraud-corruption.html
Shocking.
See, if *I* had tried to grift (bestie urged me to get in on the unemployment money), I’d’a gotten caught and my ass handed to me.
Same with me resisting my wife’s insistence that I jump in the 3+ carpool lane…”Everyone else is doing it”…ya but I will be the one caught. I don’t tempt shit like that.
I see this as a failure of the US education system. Proper grifting off the state should be taught in schools
I didn’t go to public school, so âŚ
So about a tenth of what is wasted annually.
“The Beatles will release their ‘final’ record this YEAR – thanks to AI: Paul McCartney reveals how technology has been used to ‘extricate’ John Lennon’s voice from an old demo”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12189103/The-Beatles-release-final-record-YEAR-thanks-AI.html
Why stop at one record?
Yet another reason McCartney is the worst.
Now that the boomers are checking out they may as well destroy their legacy.
It’s about time we rewrite the Beatles for “modern audiences”.
âShe Loves Me (and If She Has a Penis Itâs OK), Yeah Yeah Yeahâ
Turn me on, dead man.
New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Thursday.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Imagine taking a building this profound and turning it into a second rate shopping centre.
https://twitter.com/nimtimtim/status/1668151071720497153
Far better to let it decay into oblivion like most of Detroit.
Would he prefer that itâs just left empty to fall apart and then get torn down?
Obligatory?
Pink Floyd – Pigs (Three different Ones)
https://youtu.be/gOqblSqx_VI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_Street_Power_Plant#/media/File:Pratt_Street_Power_Plant_(Baltimore)_1.jpg
âplus-size travel influencerâ
Wheeee!
Prof Zenkus
@anthonyzenkus
Our demands:
Doubling of the daily SNAP allotment
Expansion of SNAP eligibility to anyone making under $40K a year
A $30 min wage
Medicare for All
A maximum wage of $5 million per year
Federal housing guarantee
Cutting the military budget by two-thirds
https://twitter.com/nimtimtim/status/1668151071720497153
Or else what?
I was recently shopping and was absolutely amazed at the selection of items we allow on SNAP. While I can afford the $6 loaf of bread, I choose to get basic to pinch pennies; SNAP recipients have no need to do such.
One of your demands is acceptable.
The last oneâs OK, on the rest he can eat me. A 30 dollar minimum wage? GFY.
And if you are working any more than what, 30 hours a week, first demand kinda is redundant. So tell us how you want people to not work and get free shit with actually telling us that is what you want.
Why? Inflate away and it will soon be less than whatever the current hodgepodge is.
I was barely making that 5 years ago and had to work up to that over the prior five years.
Why do you hate people and want everyone to suffer?
Have you MET people?
I like to believe I’m people too.
No.
It used to be shameful to take handouts. Now people feel the need to loudly demand ever more handouts at the expense of others.
wrong twitter link but it matters not đ
More on SNAP
On average, SNAP participants received an estimated $127 per month (or about $4.16 a day). Family of four can get upwards of $500/month. They want to double that to $1000? Get fucked.
I want a unicorn.
A $30 min wage
A maximum wage of $5 million per year
Way to kill incentive.
Medicare for All
Way to kill healthcare.
Cutting the military budget by two-thirds
Neocons, left and right, will never stop their warmongering.
1 out of 6 isnât the worst record.
I’d almost go along with the $5M max per year just to watch the whining in sportz leagues and Hollywood.
I wonder if they picked that number because that is Biden’s preferred payout number?
Slanderous mudslinging
If you get your news on planet Earth, you agree with me that the biggest news story of last week was the federal indictment of Donald Trump.
If, however, you get your news on planet Wingnuttia, you have been led to believe that while the Trump matter was certainly news, the bigger deal by several orders of magnitude was the âproofâ that emerged last week that Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe from Ukraine and that Representative Jamie Raskin lied about it. Youâve also been told that the timing of the Trump indictment was no mere coincidenceâit was handed down precisely to distract America from the âfactâ of Bidenâs corruption.
If all this is unfamiliar to you, donât worry. There is no such proof. Raskin, one of the most honorable public servants in America, who couldnât lie if you tortured him, did not utter a falsehood.
Itâs all right out of the playbook the right wing has been using for the last 30 years. They just make up stuff about Democratic presidents and presidential candidates. It has failed more often than itâs worked. But itâs worked often enough that we need to pay some attention to it and understand whatâs going on here.
Don’t listen to them. These noble public servants deserve our unconditional love and unquestioning obedience.
Fuck off
Yep, itâs the good old if you donât agree with me youâre a retard argument.
Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe from Ukraine
Most likely. He practically Joe pro quoed out in the open once.
that Representative Jamie Raskin lied about it.
Is there anything this cunte hasn’t lied about? He is one of the biggest liars in a swamp of liars.
Raskin, one of the most honorable public servants in America, who couldnât lie if you tortured him
LMAO.
just make up stuff
Mighty fine progjection.
I’m sure my clientele will be jumping all over this.
https://dtiblades.com/product/welcome-to-miami-leo-messi-14-wall-clock-diamond-blade/
“A delivery driver for Amazon misheard a automated doorbell for âracismâ and reported it.
Nobody was home.
Amazon turned off all the lights, shut the entire smart home down before it even started itâs investigation.
Law enforcement via corporation with no due process.”
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1668302092937887744
https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amazon-df1074e3818b
Ridiculous if true.
Nobody could see THAT coming!
Yep. Write up the article and show your video to back your claim and make Amazon defend. Right now, it is he said, Trillion $$$s said.
LOL. Some people haven’t figured it out yet.
It seems more sensible
No, none of this is sensible.
Apparently, the percieved utterance of a racism makes one unsafe but not killing the function of a persons home.
If you’re stupid enough to have any of that ‘smart home’ bullshit, and you’re further stupid enough to connect it to the internet? You deserve exactly what you get.
I’m happy with the bit of smart home stuff I have but, yes, you are a fool to let some cloud service control your house.
That looks very interesting. I’d like to find something like that for running cameras. Something plug-and-play that is stored locally instead of on the cloud, and can be accessed/monitored when you’re away from the house.
Ubiquiti has some stuff along those lines, with local storage and remote monitoring. I haven’t looked extensively into license terms, but you can absolutely isolate their stuff from the internet/require VPN access for remote management.
On my TODO list is to get a camera that works with this:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/surveillance/overview
since I already have a Diskstation. Everything kept locally.
The Hubitat is a bit ‘hobbiest’ but it’s been working well since I got it set up.
Biggest win was getting a keypad lock for the outside back door that also had a z-wave connection, plus a contact sensor for the door. Now it locks itself after 10 minutes, if the door is closed, otherwise it sends an alert to my phone.
I’m in a 2 unit condo and my upstairs neighbor is a bit forgetful and was forever leaving the back door unlocked.
Sure, get a “smart” home. Then you can have it shut down for daring to wrongthink.
9:75? (on main page)
What you don’t write 10:15 that way?
Having to watch their peers live better than they did caused rats stress and depression
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1667817808191791105
A shitty study had a result that fit my preconceived notions? Weâll bring in the communisms thensâŚ
Oh Lord. The experiment should be to put luxury within bounds, with a challenge. Making it unobtainable does not mirror society. F-ing stupid commies. I can’t take much more.
Other rat/mouse studies have shown detriment to the populations when they are given everything they need.
Yep, the rats get feminized and sit around all day playing video games and beating off.
Me: So OMWC is dating upstate New York liberal Jewesses and is just now starting to detail his politics. Because the only Jewesses he can find to date are the liberal ones.
Husband: Dude wants to get laid. Sometimes you gotta go outside the herd.
All the men nod and utter “mmhmm”
mmhmm
mmhmm
I had it on good authority from the Jewish guys at my high school that shikses did it better. Just sayin’.
Catholic. The Jewess is long gone.
Still outside the herd.
In a sense. Problem is, there’s no herd. Every single single female in the target demographic is a Prog. So it’s dogies as targets.
You need to start going to country and western bars. I can loan you a hat.
Considering Trump’s vote total in upstate NY, I doubt that. I figure most of the non-progs are married, but I am sure there are some widows.
The problem is that the cute ewes in the herd that OMWC wants are way too fast for him to catch. So he has to – like every predator – focus on the lame, sick and blind.
Veil of ignorance trolley problem
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1667924657016586245
The trolley problem annoys me.
I think it would be a better question if the switchman didn’t know which way the train was going to go until they forced it onto one of the two tracks.
Actual solution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
Perfect!
Uh oh!
Just promoting equity!
LOL
I like the cut of his jib.
There for a second, you might think heâs going to send it down the track with nobody on it.
If youâve never met a 2 year old boy, that is.
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Fucking squirrels ate my comments. FUCK!
Anyway, how *you* doin’?
In about a year, there will be some story about how someone’s car got turned off because it heard the n-word from some hip-hop song.
Lol.
Libertarians shoot themselves in the foot – again.
The gotta be running out of feet. Buh bye, LPCO.
Lol. Thats the ticket!
*Republicans celebrate, then put clown shoes back on.
I like this if it results in better GOP candidates, but that’s probably because I think the LP running candidates at anything other than the lowest level is a complete waste of time.
I would be delighted if this works. So far every attempt to drag the Republicans back to small government has failed. My black pills are extra black this morning.
See: Charlie Brown and the football.
Thatâs not the worst thing the LP has done. At this point theyâve been around for what, 50 years? They havenât gotten a single candidate elected to the House. Thatâs fuckin pathetic, and as such they shouldnât even exist.
The alleged conservative party running small-government candidates? That’s an idea just crazy enough to work!
Me: I’d like to speak to accounts receivable
Pissy Receptionist: What’s your name? Who are you with?
Me: Name and business. I’m a customer.
Pissy Receptionist: What do you want with AR?
Me: Obviously I’m looking for a hot date. Or maybe I’m looking to make payment on the account like most people who call asking for AR.
Sounds like somebody has a hangover case of the Mondays
When calling a business, identify yourself before asking to be transferred. The receptionist is probably pissy because she spends half her time blowing off cold callers. Leading off with your name and company makes this process much easier.
Yes, but Bob from Car Warranties That Pay Pennies on Dollar doesn’t usually ask for AR.
Oh yes they do. I’ve heard it myself on the thankfully rare occasions that I have to cover the phone. The offshore VOIP banks will ask for anyone or anything that might get them past the call screening, and they’re absolutely shameless about it.
Her job is to make that process pleasant for customers.
I’d tolerate her tone with customers for all of about five minutes before I canned her.
This.
It’s really not. Her job is to screen calls for the person who signs her paychecks. Hence getting the whole identification process out of the way, first things first.
If the person who signs her paychecks thinks being pissy is the way to handle customers, then yes.
It is however perfectly possible to screen without the tone of “Why the fuck are you bothering me?”
For the record, the AR department was quite pleasant and helpful.
You put the good people in AR. The lazy ones go to AP.
It depends on the receptionist’s role.
My admin’s role is to make my life easier. She is not generally public facing and resolves internal headaches for me. She does a great job.
On the other hand, my company has receptionists whose primary interaction is with clients. Their job is to make the process as pleasant as possible for customers and they don’t give a shit about employees. They have given me hell in my few unpreventable interactions. But their role isn’t to help me. I can’t imagine them keeping their jobs if they gave shit to clients.
That’s funny.
If it was AP I could at least understand a little.
So what are you wearing?
We still get copier scammers calling. đ
I really feel sorry for the people who had to put in so much effort Painting such a silly looking model
You should do a neon variant.
I’m not going to paint that thing. It looks stupid, and I have no nostalgia for the goofy oldhammer mini it’s calling back to.
Erasure
Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, announced that she is halting the release of her next book following a “massive” backlash about its setting in Russia.
In a video announcement posted to Twitter on Monday, Gilbert said her upcoming novel, The Snow Forest, will be removed from the release calendar following criticism from Ukrainians, whose country is still at war with Russia since its invasion in February 2022.
Gilbert said in the video she needed to listen to her Ukrainian readers after receiving “an enormous, massive outpouring of reactions and responses … expressing anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain their disappointment over the story being set in Russia.” The bestselling author said she was “making a course correction.”
She can rewrite it and move the setting to New Jersey.
OFFS
Harm…
One might suggest that they don’t have to buy the book if it bothers them, but to claim that they are being harmed is to insult the intelligence of everyone else and reveal themselves as whiny little bitches.
So she is just going to not make income from the year or more of labor she put into her book? Bullshit. Somebody is paying her for that.
Nothing with Love in the title should be set in New Jersey.
If you ever want to be able to read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Pasternak again, buy the books now in dead tree format – I smell the cancellation of all things Russian.
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Already happening. Etsy banned all cross stitch pattern designers from Russia/Russian designers. They found other venues (which I frequent). This pisses me off. As if boycotting Russian cross stitch designers is going to get Putin to change his mind. OMG MY CROSS STITCH PATTERN DESIGNERS ARE AT RISK! I MUST STOP!
Lucky I already have the Chaykovskiy and Musorgskiy I want.
criticism from Ukrainians
Fuck you. With this standard there is no where on the planet that any story could be set.
The NCAA Has a âHot Girlâ Problem
So very funny. Socialist claptrap incoming!
Very clear case of, ‘Don’t hate the player, hate the game…’
I will say that anyone doing any kind of business with Jake Paul is both an idiot and an asshole…
Its Anna Kournikova all over again.
Terrible player but no one was watching her actual gameplay.
Her job is to put asses in seats.
Sometimes that means “be the best player,” sometimes it doesn’t.
About that book- article says it is set in mid 20th century Soviet Siberia, with apparently anti-communist protagonists. You can see why it would be offensive to Ukrainians.
The NCAA Has a âHot Girlâ Problem
I guess I tapped out before the “hot girls” made an appearance.
https://twitter.com/CheeseheadBrian/status/1667477968749314054
?????
Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
But none of that low-fat stuff, apparently.
*Opens envelope
“What is… The correct reaction to Cocaine Shark?”
Yeah, the whole âmake a fish face and stick your ass outâ look doesnât really jiggle my handle.
Welp. Meant as a reply to Tundraâs âhotâ girls link.
@OMWC
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