A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. - A. Pope I'm very highly educated. I know words, I know the best words. But there's no better word than stupid. - A President
For no particular reason other than its implausible magnitude, I think t might prefer "vigintillion."
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. - A. Pope I'm very highly educated. I know words, I know the best words. But there's no better word than stupid. - A President
Here's an idea: Let the storm-troopers take whomever they like. They just have to leave one of their own to fill each slot, then stay and work just as hard as the rest of the fire crew - and for the same hourly rate. Might change a few minds, if minds there are to be changed.
Apparently we're getting the oft-mentioned "worm's-eye view." But even a worm will turn...
And what about the irony of "mortgage fraud" - from DJT!!!
I believe that that's "mind" - singular. Many minds, but a single thought. If that.
Bruises on CNN's opinion raise new questions about Jake Tapper's health...
An ad-Vance warning?
Timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ir... -But wouldn't orange slime be more effective and appropriate?
I think little jd has a point. Question: authentically *what*?
SF author and combat veteran Joe Haldeman wrote a chilling short story on this subject: www.baen.com/Chapters/9781625791856/9781625791856___5.htm
How is taking the largest single equity stake in Intel not creeping socialism?
"... to protect every voter" - even the MAGAts who want to destroy our society, because that's what democracy means!
No one person can finish this work - we have to help each other.
Err... Do such "men" even have souls?
Old joke: Man walks into a bar with a giant frog on his head. The bartender, startled, says "How ever did you get that?" Frog replies: "You might not believe this, but it started out as a wart on my ass!"
Funny how we assign all these civic perversions to t, who can't even complete a sentence now, when the really scary people are doing all the strategizing and tactics. An excellent example synecdoche and metonymy at the same time - and of the real devils standing mostly in shadows.
May it speedily streak away from this reality and back to whatever pit spawned it.
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet... - T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
From Seward's Folly to Sewage's Folly? And now, instead of an SNL spoof, Palin really will be able to see Russia from her porch - or even inside the house.
1/ News from another reality... Sure, I want to make a profit. You can't exist without one. But [] is all profit. Now if we give him license to absorb [], and he has his eye on a few others after us, in order to reach the world you will have to go through [].
2/ And not only will you have to pay him to do this, far more important, you'll have to agree with him. Reporting the news is a privilege and a responsibility, and it is not exploitable. [] has earned this privilege. [] wants to buy it. ... I urge you to agree this company is not for sale.
All to the good - the devil's hands are best left idling in the playground.
Depends
From the late great Tom Lehrer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF3s...
From Mr. Kuo's article: "... Trump asserted in a post on his increasingly ironically named platform, Truth Social ..." During Soviet times, it was said of the two main papers (whose names translate as "News" and "Truth"): There's not much Izvestia in Pravda, not much Pravda in Izvestia.
"Demonstrably false"? Even if there's no server record anyplace, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And two witnesses to one who has already revealed a somewhat questionable stance.
Indefatigable intergenerational ego.
Err - undermined the what of what? This goes way beyond projection into deep hallucination. And perhaps treason?
More of that magically mellifluous voice will always improve the auditory environment!
From Google AI: The name Ghislaine, of French origin, primarily means "pledge" or "hostage". ... The name can be interpreted as a symbol of a solemn commitment or a promise.
That sign is an offense to cunts everywhere.
Compulsive lying is just one of the subject pathologies. But such extreme assertions that are so easily testable as false betrays a whole different level of derangement and detachment from reality, causality and the kind of discriminative intelligence that some people still possess and utilize.
2/ Surely some true patriot must have downloaded the whole mess - which would probably fit on a thumb drive? And might send it to a few progressive news outlets?
1/ Wonderful reporting of a terrifying situation. Re "...the internal SharePoint site the bureau ended up using to distribute the files toward the end did not have the usual restricted permissions. This left the Epstein and Maxwell files open to viewing by a much larger group of people..."
Ipse dixit!
Hey - if Roger Stone can carry his master on his back, why shouldn't t do the same over his brain-case (filled or otherwise)?
Well, there's all kinds of stupid...
Have a revivifying vacation - the world needs your best creativity!
John Goodman as Sen. Walken in TWW: "In case you boys haven't noticed, I'm one prime rib dinner away from sudden cardiac arrest."
“Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” - (probably mis-)attributed to Winston Churchill
Wouldn't it be nice if POTUS had the English-language skills of an average Liberian child?
A fine example of an ex-X!
All the easy US copper has long since been mined out, at hideous environmental cost. Were there still economically recoverable deposits, somebody would be extracting them already. Loved that "sleepy" MAGA-whistle. Can we call the source "grumpy"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkele...
Principals with principles? What a model for civic leader with a broader reach.
Ralph Bakshi: Wizards 1977 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAuH...
Someone left the cake out in the rain. www.latimes.com/california/s...
As with other items listed, simple vocabulary/syntax may with integrity be played by anti-fascists as well. Joe Hill famously used few words, simple phrasing and repetition. His powerful social messages were thus easily embraced and propagated by the uneducated and non-native English speakers.
Money to the left of them and money to the right, Money everywhere they turn from morning to the night, Only two things count at all from mountain to the sea, Part of it’s percentage, and the rest is guarantee. - Grantland Rice
On a mission from tGod, Mike is above all that consistency nonsense.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ... Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. - Emerson
Time is now to spread your voice Times to come there'll be no choice Why do you feel small? It happens to us all www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVAJYaFj_0E
As logophiles might observe, "data" is a plural noun. Appropriate here, as the data - of which there are many, of many kinds, from many sources and extending over many times - all speak in one voice.
... And President Ryan's response is right out of every selfless, society-preserving hero's playbook!
One might imagine "stand your ground" states showing an uptick in shootings of unidentified masked persons in combat gear,
Presupposes that there *is* a "real" JDV!
His diapers?
Anybody t hates and fears this much... Must be good for America!
A stable genius doesn't need to think before writing, doesn't need to think before publishing, and certainly doesn't need to reflect afterward. So there.
A new spin on "the peace that passeth all understanding"?
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_o... (part) All we have of freedom, all we use or know— This our fathers bought for us long and long ago Wherefore must we watch the King, lest our gain be lost All the right they promise—all the wrong they bring Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this King!
All we have of freedom, all we use or know— This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. … Till our fathers ’stablished, after bloody years, How our King is one with us, first among his peers. So they bought us freedom—not at little cost … www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_oldissue.htm
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_oldissue.htm All we have of freedom, all we use or know— This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. … Till our fathers ’stablished, after bloody years, How our King is one with us, first among his peers. So they bought us freedom—not at little cost
1/ www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_oldissue.htm All we have of freedom, all we use or know— This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. … Till our fathers ’stablished, after bloody years, How our King is one with us, first among his peers. So they bought us freedom—not at little cost
2/ Wherefore must we watch the King, lest our gain be lost Over all things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King: for we know the breed. Give no ear to bondsmen bidding us endure. Whining “He is weak and far”; crying “Time shall cure.”
3/ Time himself is witness, till the battle joins, Deeper strikes the rottenness in the people’s loins. Here is naught unproven—here is naught to learn It is written what shall fall if the King return. He shall mark our goings, question whence we came, Set his guards about us, as in Freedom’s name.
4/ He shall break his judges if they cross his word; He shall rule above the Law calling on the Lord. He shall peep and mutter; and the night shall bring Watchers ’neath our window, lest we mock the King Hate and all division; hosts of hurrying spies; Money poured in secret, carrion breeding flies.
5/ Strangers of his counsel, hirelings of his pay, These shall deal our Justice: sell—deny—delay. Suffer not the old Kings: for we know the breed— All the right they promise—all the wrong they bring. Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this King!
2/ Wherefore must we watch the King, lest our gain be lost Over all things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King: for we know the breed. Give no ear to bondsmen bidding us endure. Whining “He is weak and far”; crying “Time shall cure.”
Recalls the US and UK refusal to allow refugees in to their lands and Palestine/Israel, to escape the Nazis and later to find a home post-Holocaust. This travesty has been compared with Dredd Scott as a national moral failure. Now Israel is playing the same game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Exodus
Most brilliantly magnificent plan since the 1976 Entebbe rescue. Latter had the unfortunate side-effect of making Bibi a collateral public figure. May Ukraine's success here bring only benefit to Ukraine, the EU and free peoples everywhere threatened by autocracy.
That myth arises in fake news from Walt Disney: www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56
It is now well-established that lemmings do not, in fact, follow a leader over a cliff or into the sea. Only (some) humans do that.
Beam me out, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here.
A simile is a heuristic construct with one or more obvious features or relationships closely analogous to those of the model, and one or more less so, such that the surface similarities help to reveal the deeper. A metaphor is a simile with lambent wings and a reticulated voice.
You're gonna need a bigger putty knife!
Old joke: Astronomer addressing fate of solar system says, "In five billion years, the sun will become a red giant, swallowing the earth." Audience member jumps up, asks the prof to repeat assertion. Breathes a sigh of relief and sits down, muttering, "I thought he said five MILLION years."
"And we must carry our glorious philosophy through to its glorious culmination! So that the end, with enterprise and determination, the world and everything in it will belong to one individual Me! And that will be the ultimate. The absolute ultimate!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjAQHuM85M
And in a cabinet meeting, where hypothetical foreign hackers might hypothetically be able to both listen and watch the groveling fun. Might make good TV over there!
He seems to be borrowing the facial expression of Moscow Mitch.
Been DOGEd, perhaps?
Red, White and Blue pills? In what phantasmagoric reality may we now find ourselves?
"Why did so many MAGA folks skip civics and government in school?" Reverse causality, perhaps. It's only enforced ignorance that allows people to stray that far from reality, especially at huge cost to their own lives and those of their families.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_s...
2/ The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.” - Ayn Rand
1/ If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
1/ People will think they're electing him to create more economic security. Then watch the Terror! God knows there's been enough indication that we can have tyranny in America … A real Fascist dictatorship!
2/ Nonsense! …That couldn’t happen here in America, not possibly! We’re a country of freemen. The answer to that … is 'the hell it can't!' Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America.
3/ Congress shall, immediately upon our inauguration, initiate amendments to the Constitution providing that the President shall have the authority to institute and execute all necessary measures for the conduct of the government during this critical epoch;
4/ that Congress shall serve only in an advisory capacity, calling to the attention of the President and his aides and Cabinet any needed legislation, but not acting upon same until authorized by the President so to act; and
5/ that the Supreme Court shall immediately have removed from its jurisdiction the power to negate, by ruling them to be unconstitutional or by any other judicial action, any or all acts of the President, his duly appointed aides, or Congress. - Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
1/ Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.
2/ In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language. - Niels Bohr
1/ The least scary future I can think of is one where we have at least democratized AI because if one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world.
2/ At least when there's an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you'd have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape. - Elon Musk
