Retired. Ex-(pick any)-farmer, medical laboratory technologist, retail manager, weather observer, aerologic research technician, ozone research technician, officer-in-charge, computer programmer. What can I say? I have varied interests.
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It's not that weird - at least not to him. He's got delusions of godhood and thinks everybody should beg him for everything and then fawn and scrap and kiss his feet when he throws them scraps that a dog wouldn't eat. That's where the nation is on his list of priorities. Lower than dog-poop.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump himself ordered a hit squad into Chicago to murder a couple of hundred people to justify sending in the military, because of the push-back he's had everywhere else. It would be just like him to do such a thing. "Oh, and make sure to kill a few kids, too."
True, unless there's somebody really rich out there who would love to use it as a dart-board ð
I think it's safe to say at this point that Trump certainly figures prominently in the Epstein files, or they wouldn't be putting up a whole circus full of dancing monkeys to avoid having to do one simple thing. ð
So I'm thinking class-action lawsuit for, oh, 10bn per victim. Sound good? I wonder if the orange idiot has a trillion dollars kicking around. No? Good. Sell off *everything* he owns. Down to the clothes on his back. If that's not enough, flay him, tan his hide, stuff it and auction it.
Love that photo. Trump's face is visibly rotting off his skull. ð
Smart girl ð
Well, yeah, there is that...
Horny, *and* not particularly fussy about what species he was having sex with, either... ð
One of the great ones, right up there with Chief Dan George. ð
Do your best with what's handy, and you can get some awesome things going. ð
Oh, come on. You're selling the meme short, I think. Fifteen people, anyway. But we're dying off fast... ð
And look who's the very best at it: Elon.
I don't know how to break this to you, so here goes. Those 81% of evangelicals? They can't name a single bible verse and wouldn't stand for anything Jesus either said or did if their *lives* depended on it. Trump didn't invent hypocrisy. The church has over a thousand years head-start on him. ð
That's really what they need. In Canada, when one party gets too big for their britches, we tend to vote them almost into non-existence. They tend to catch on rather abruptly after that. ð
People have been talking about "Weekend at Bernie's"?? That photo looks just like it was taken from that movie. It's not proof he's alive. It's proof that his body didn't spontaneously burn into ash on death like a TV vampire.
"Didn't they kill that prick off in Season 1???" ð
Why? Because he's married to *literally* the First Lady of the Night? ð
Talking Heads. Been awhile... ð
There are a healthy number of nations that have shown this middle-of-the-road approach to work well. Which of course, puts the lie to the American knee-jerk response of "All capitalism is good and fine and all socialism is horrible and evil!"
If you were actually there, then why was your initial shot, and I quote, "All the climatologists" = somebody talked to Time magazine"? Just an attempt to dismiss the fact that theories grounded in provable fact have, in the past, been exaggerated to inflate research grants?
Well, well. Welcome to reality. ð
You weren't there, obviously. It was on the national and local news every night. The temperature had been trending downward for *decades*. You don't have to believe me. Look at the climatology. Do you think coming up with panic-inducing theories to get research grants is a *new* thing?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's outright illegal, is it not? Not to mention unconstitutional.
Well, socialism is what you need when you completely f*** up capitalism, now, isn't it? Like taxing your own industries out of business.
"Is your sister a good kisser?" ð
Well, that's better than when I was a child and all of the climatologists were howling about the impending Ice Age and how it would destroy civilization. Didn't take long to flip-flop, either - less than 40 years.
True, in my experience. I read six different versions of the bible, each older than the last, starting with King James V. I became more thoroughly committed to atheism with each version. Hint: None of them read the same as any other - they're all different. ð
Great. If she needs a cognitive evaluation to sit as a judge, then surely Trump requires one to sit as President. Right? ð
If they're federal agents they should have no cause to cover their faces in the *first place* unless they're wearing teargas masks or some such. I don't think they have a pot to piss in or a piece of glass to throw it at. Turnabout is, after all, fair play. ð
Which is, of course, the idea.
Not my favorite genre by any stretch, but I get the attraction. The old, "Even a blind monkey can sometimes find a banana" meme. ð
Oh, wouldn't that be priceless? Maybe those IV bruises on his right hand are from IVs of chicken poop that Kennedy promises will make him immortal... ð
Or the respect and decency Trump showed to that disabled reporter.
What I can't figure out is why even died-in-the-wool Republican citizens don't grasp that they *have* to vote their pet GOP monkey out of office. Just by way of sending them an unambiguous, "DO BETTER!"
I have no idea why, but the word 'hypocrisy' just leapt to mind...
My reaction? I, as a general rule, don't take medical advice from Junkies. They're not the most well-known for producing helpful, well, *anything*. Except perhaps deaths (their own).
Lol! I was actually going to say 'life', but they've only had eight months to run the country into the ground, so to impose a sentence longer than that seems...well...excessive.
And while you're swinging for the fences: - Remove forever 'Presidential Immunity'. For anything. Make it retroactive to the beginning of time. - Limit the number of executive orders a President can impose in a year to 2. No more 'Rule by Crisis'.
I would say six months, but OK otherwise. ð
Well, he also believes that 14 years on smack didn't turn his mind into pond scum. He probably believes the puppies are still out to 'get him'.
You *are* allowed to say, "The root of all evil", you know...
That actually makes perfect sense, though, since Leavitt is a soulless freak. ð Might as well be a zombie.
And if you think Trump's health advice is so good, then by all means make yourself immune to COVID by drinking household bleach. Please. The world will get by just fine without you. ð
Never hurts for the library to point out how much money they save you ð
About 50 times over...
Yeah, but not *one* of them is protected by Presidential Immunity.
As long as they put Elon on the first moon-ship and leave him up there, they can do whatever the hell they want. ð
Oh, it's worse than that. You can get a snoot-full of coke. shoot yourself up with smack, drink a liter of tequila, rape a child, knock over a convenience store, steal an Uzi, and sodomize a cop, no problem. But *vaccines* - scary. ððĪŠ
Yup. 37% sounds a good deal closer to reality...
Sad, but very likely true.
Yes, I'm aware. I'm also aware that the first time they attempted to aim one of those things at space - they missed. ð
I suppose it does put a bit of a crimp in your concentration level when you have to worry about some psychotic pinhead walking in and emptying an Uzi into the classroom... ðŽ
And, in a testament to American educational institutions, it only took America 20 years longer than literally *every other nation on earth* to figure that out.
Everybody else in the world is asking the exact same question. Except, of course, uncle Vlad, who likes it just fine. The soviet union already collapsed. He's so looking forward to the collapse of America. Turnabout is, after all, fair play.
Of course they don't. Bullets kill people. However, without bullets, the guns are useless, and without guns, the bullets are useless. Since you can make your own bullets, which is the logical thing to get rid of? Duh.
If by 'protect', you mean 'prevent you from doing anything useful to protect yourself from them', then yeah, that's what they're doing.
Use the Force, Luke... ð
Do they know the missed the land??
One of his secretaries probably used 'mitochondrial' in a sentence and he overheard and thought, "That sounds like medical talk!" so he went with it. ð
I was thinking more along the lines of 'crazy junkie who hasn't seen anything that's not an hallucination in 40 years', but OK... ð
RDK wouldn't know science if it stabbed him in the eye. Who is he to dictate which studies are valid or not?
Trump's giving Military funerals to insurrectionists now?
Damn skippy! ð
See? Not even a new problem. And that man died by the time I was a *teenager*.
That's not an opinion. It's a fact. He sees himself as the new God-King of the world. And Americans are happy to let him do it, even if it destroys America and causes World War III. I wonder if they'll think it's funny when America is a pariah state for the next half a century.
I was going to say - "that's no accident - she's a trained opera singer"... ð
I think Starbucks is swill. Millions of people think otherwise. I rather like Kalamata olives. Many wouldn't touch them with a 40-foot pole. To each his own. I'll *eat* Cracker Barrel cheese, but it certainly isn't my go-to choice, either. I doubt the logo affects the taste at all. ð
True, dat! ð
For those of you too young to know, we present Joan Baez. ð
Dude, I don't give a damn if he's Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a halfth Century (ancient Daffy Duck reference). I'd have hoped that England would have retained some sanity, but apparently they're caught up in the same whirlwind of insanity that has gripped the USA this year.
I might be excused for assuming that a rant about 'demonizing refugees' might be from an American, you know. That's not unreasonable. I don't actually exhaustively research the background of everybody I respond to. That would be creepy.
No similar thoughts about your convicted felon POTUS who is presently trying to overthrow your democracy, Richard?
Phhht! Left that hell behind years ago... ð
Seems to be an increasingly common complaint these days... ð
It's not like that makes a difference, Doctor. You know as well as I do that the people trumpeting this bushwah aren't the slightest bit interested in facts or science or knowledge. What they want are scapegoats. Something else to point at and blame their problems on. Like the POTUS does.
'Woke' is a term that gets bandied around a lot by people who would *like* to be Klansmen but they think the image would stigmatize them further, so like typical cowardly bigots they snipe from the wings but refuse to wear the robes.
If you wanted somebody to solve your actual problems, then I'm going to guess that electing a misanthropic, sexist, racist bigot liar as your president was probably a Bad Move (tm), huh??
You wouldn't be talking about the Junkie Kennedy, now, would you?
This presidency might actually end well. We might all get to see him die of a horrifically painful heart attack live and on-camera. ð
'squirrel' ð
So...abandon their signature product *entirely*??
Saying Trump is lying is like saying the sky is blue. Of course he's lying. If he's alive, every form of expression he manifests can reliably be considered a lie. The more important question is who is buying his BS anymore?
The supreme court did not rule that schools weren't allowed to say anything that might be deemed religious. It did allow for parents to opt their children out of secular curriculum that could interfere with their children's religious development. Not ban it entirely.
There's nothing unconstitutional about the schools posting that. That's just free speech. What the constitution forbids is the *government requiring* public schools to take part in religious instruction of any kind.
It has nothing to do with courage. All it's about is sucking the willy of the guy with the fattest wallet. ð
Yes, I know. The smortest smorty-pants guy who ever smorted a smorty-pant. Right.
Wow. You mean it wasn't "Guaranteed you'll be richer than Elon Musk less than 15 seconds after signing up for our special once-in-a-lifetime 'Be the greatest expert in AI in 12 seconds' course at the low, low price of $150,000!!'"? Bestill my beating heart. ð
*Some* do, that's true. Some seem to have a strong predilection for utterly forgetting what it was like to actually *be* on those lines. Some even seem to get some kind of twisted thrill from finally being the one who gets to send *other* people to die. There are all kinds.
Real sacrifice has nothing to do with bribery. It requires of you that you give up something of yourself on behalf of somebody else. A general, for example, sacrifices nothing. He's safe. The troops, OTOH, sacrifice everything. Their very lives at need.
Or the premise of false sacrifice, which has nothing to do with *real* sacrifice.
No, it means that he wants slavery re-litigated in the supreme court and made legal again.
That's been the big 'achievement' of christianity. Getting people to buy into the theory, "Do whatever you want. If you mess things up too much, your invisible daddy-in-the-sky will save you!" so that their followers figured they could rape the planet to death without *consequence*. ð
And all of the outlandishly freakish sitcoms about weird presidents that have been around for 50 years wouldn't just be "a day with 'y' in it".
Rain is not impossible in the desert. It's not even unlikely. It's just scarce. Before you start calling 'doom', you're gonna have to pick up a bit more climatological data. Like a century or two.
If you want *hot* food, then try Sri Lankan food (formerly Ceylonese). Now *that* is hot. And typically quite vegan-friendly... ð
Even as Dad jokes go, that's a bit sad... ð
Point well-made and well-taken... ð
While I like the thought, there's no way that the orange monkey could possibly deceive god. He barely has the wit to deceive a goldfish. And that is perhaps the most witless thing in the world...
That's at least as plausible as any reason I can think of, and it beats the socks out of the theory, "That dog is crazier than three barrels of owl poop." ð