These are amazing!
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These are amazing!
Yes. Florida got more than they requested and Pritzker had to hire secret planes to bring in supplies or Trump would have them commandeered. They thought it would kill the cities and Black people first.
So we should just let the military run through our town?? Do you give a damn about the Constitution at all? GTFOH.
I know that.
Not taught. I was in high school in the 80s and Viet Nam was still too recent and controversial to teach.
My kiddo took APUSH in Chicago and was fed such a load of Lost Cause bullshit. Fucking Texas and their schoolbook purchases.
We're the same age. I learned about it shortly before the TV show. Maybe a year or so earlier. Yes, I was raised in Indiana, the state governed by the Klan a century ago. Why do you ask?
Well, it is a lot about questioning why your creator hates you. I'd argue its more a theological issue than psychological, but wither way works.
The novel says Frankenstein crafted his Monster to ne beautiful!
I want a cabbage countdown!
They thought the national stockpile was *their personal property*
Yeah, I was there back when CA wanted to charge a higher tax on cigarettes, and cigarette companies spent a fuck ton trying to confuse the issue. Didn't work. The candidates with the least votes in CA were those that didnt fill out their blurbs. Here, it's the one listed last.
I first voted in CA, and MAN was it a bummer to return to Chicago and vote here. No phone book sized voters handbook with props, pro, con, rebuttal, every candidate picture and blurb, etc. We have to desperately figure out who judges are at the last minute. I miss CA's transparency.
Illinois constitution doesn't allow for referenda like CA. We have them, but they are like a poll with no power to affect anything. JB is open to gerrymandering for good, but it's a harder pull here. He's got to get the legislature on board, since they are the ones that draw the districts.
New York City? Get a rope!
We always picked Perkins over Denny's and Waffle House when road tripping.
He didn't wish happy Labor Day to his haters and the losers. That's gotta mean something, right?
So, he's not platforming fascists and agreeing with them? He's not attacking the unhoused? Please, enlighten me to how he's doing anything other than showboating...and you're eating it up. He won't make it through the primary.
You know he tossed trans gender people under the bus THIS YEAR? For absolutely no reason. That action speaks loud and clear. Pritzker is sincerely everything Newsom pretends to be. JB will always support civil rights. Denying trans rights isn't a minor disagreement.
Oh, he blocked me! 🤣
Chicagoan, but me, too.
Are we sure this isn't a Mr Bean sketch? JFC. The times I cried "turn the wheel!" and "DON'T START OVER!!!"
Hes best at letting his PR people write banger tweets. Actions speak louder than words, and his actions to the LGBTQ community & unhoused are atrocious. We can do better and have years to find that candidate. Fuck Newsom. Fuck Rahm Emanuel. Their records speak loudly.
No. Pritzker has NEVER pretended transphobes have a point, since actual science shows they do not. He doesnt care if it seems politically expediant. Obama marched in pride parades long before he was elected President. It was an open secret that he had to play conservative to get elected.
Florida got more PPE than requested. Blue states had to smuggle it in on secret flights or Trump would have the Feds steal it.
Trump promised PPE to Pritzker, then sent regular surgical masks from our strategic supply. Pritzker had to organize with other blue Midwestern states for secret shipments b/c Trump's fed would commandeer our pur based supplies. Trump tried to kill blue cities/states. That's fact.
I’m enjoying Marlon Wayans’ take on Snoop revealing himself as a homophobic jackass:
WTF? Are we sure that's not a skinwalker? It's like when Palpatine revealed himself in that awful prequel.
During lockdown, he would bring in secret planes of supplies b/c Trump was seizing supplies from blue states. He's kick ass
Only if you ignore him tossing trans people under the bus.
Pritzker loves his cousin!
He's platformed Nazis and agreed with their transphobia. It's a big no from me. Same for Rahm Emanuel. I just want more from my Presidential candidate, and I sure as hell don't have enough to support a guy who's not all in on civil rights. I want more fight.
Ken Burns Civil War is your go to? Oh, honey. Honey, no. No wonder you're full of Lost Cause BS. Primary sources exist, and Shelby Foote IS propaganda. Plenty of historians have critiqued KBCW in the past *30* years. Please, for your own sake, educate yourself.
Ive followed him forever! Pure happiness.
No. Victor is a monster. The Monster just doesnt understand why his Creator hates him. It happens over 2 pages: Victor made the Monster to be beautiful, but as soon as he came to life, he was repulsed by what he'd done and ran away. He never warns anyone that there's someone out there.
They were traitors. Their fight for a slave nation lasted less than a high school career Col. Lee was an average commander and nothing remarkable. Next you're gonna start on how the rebel flag wasnt really the Confederate flag, right? Heritage not hate? Hush.
Traitors to the USA. You are such a fucking mess.
JFC. The National Guard has the DUTY to ignore unlawful orders. Read any Articles of Confederation: it was slavery. They committed treason for slavery. Most families had slaves, and those that didn't sure as hell didnt believe in equality. You are steeped in Lost Cause BS.
No, dude, no.
The Trump era extends to the 1990s?
youtu.be/Z8TqOTe3ODc?...
Candiles restaurant.
They're at Candiles. My kids spent a fortune in that gumball machine.
We eat there all the time! My kids grew up eating there!
She doesn't challenge outright lies!
Sounds like a request. Send them in.
Oh, he made one. But instead of making her infertile and imperfect, he ripped her up.
That's the movie!
The follow up should be why they grabbed a firefighter with a visa if they are going after the worst of the worst.
They only buy American and Velveeta.
Dude. Look up the actual numbers. Most Confederate soldiers came from families that owned slaves. *The Confederate cause was slavery--that's the fact.* Your great grandfather was a traitor. Doesn't mean you are. FWIW, my relatives fought on both sides of the CW. The traitors had slaves.
All right? She didn't answer the question! You dont say "all right" and move on, you tell her to answer the question, and you keep asking it till she does, or you tell her that the answer is yes, she is retaliating illegally against employees.
I love my governor
My kids continue to beller this even though they're grown. Someone makes the mistake of mm-ing a little bit like Grover, and the next thing you know, it's all TRIAL BY STONE!
They held him off from his worst impulses, but every single day he violated the Constitution and he got away with it.
No, not everyone comes from slave owning families, but Confederate soldiers most certainly did.
Yes, but claiming those who fought didnt own slaves is Lost Cause math. They were young men, and their fathers owned the slaves. Most Confederates were slave owning families, and owning slaves why they fought. Remove the slave population & account for family size when talking percentages.
They were probably going slower than usual b/c they've closed off 2 north/west bound lanes? Yeah. Thats the best I got for that.
Kelce isn't MAGA, you goof. She's a billionaire b/c she owns the music she wrote, recovered her masters, and did a worldwide years long concert tour I firmly believe there should be a wage cap, but she's extremely successful in her chosen field.
Sorry. At least the weather was nice most of the day?
I have always felt like I was losing my mind: why didnt anyone ever tell him no? He was treated like a king, so it's no surprise he acts like one.
I will never understand why he was allowed to enter the Oval Office his first Day 1 with an unsecured phone. Or why he wasnt sentenced to jail time for 34 felonies. If anything would have proven "all men are created equal" it would have been sentencing a fraud to jail.
But they came from families that owned slaves.
My brother in law's birthday is 9/11.
Unfortunately...
Fucking traitor who committed treason. Air Force should refuse.
SACABAMBASPIS!
Sacabambaspis!!!! (I asked my eldest what kind of shark it was. He sneered this at me and told me it's an extinct lawless fish)
Yup. We're redoing bike lanes with parking curbs to protect them. Please come. Weather's perfect now (September tends to be the best) You'll want to take an architectural boat tour. You can eat at an authentic restaurant from anywhere in the world. Art scene and theater are amazing. Welcome!
What's up with Maryland?
Mississippi and Lousiana vie for worst state.
I feel a little guilty about making a woman from Iowa cry. But it was rush hour, and she was scared to drive on a 2 way street with parking! Your cars arent that big, people!! And the people behind you can see there's a foot on either side. I didnt even start honking till she stopped repeatedly.
My gun humper cousin insisted that Sandy Hook was just the cost of freedom. We don't speak anymore.
And 20something gun humpers argue that getting rid of guns wouldn't change anything b/c they have no idea what the country was like with the Brady Bill and gun regulations. We didn't even have metal detectors at airports until 1973. We did not always live like this. This world was chosen.
They go by their colors b/c they fired original yellow Wiggle Greg for worsening dysautonomia. I got to take my eldest to act see them at the 2006 US tour. They are giants. My kiddo came up to Murray's knee.
I miss lists. I used to have a list of people i cared about in real life, and clicking on that would fake the old fashioned all posts in chrono order pattern of original flavor FB. Now it's one of a dozen people every 5-10 ads
Joni Ernst and Kim Reynolds are just regular people? Joni "handpicked by the Kohl Bros" Ernst? Joni "We're all gonna die so it's fine to take health care away from people" Ernst? GTFOH.
What garbage people. And, no, they wouldn't prefer she got pregnant at 22, since she hadn't found her husband then. But I suppose they're more comfortable with divorce and multiple marriages than independent women.
Yes. We lost so many creative people as mentors as well as within our generation. It left us skewed to the right.
And to think the suits at Sony dumped it!
I like it, but feel like the clock shouldn't be centered. But them I do love to jam lots of art on my walls...
You have to put large swatches of the colors up and look at them at different times of the day and night to get a real feel for how the color will look in your space. If it's one wall, you can go darker b/c its not going to be bouncing off of itself. Personally, I'm in a darker color phase now.
Oh, it stands out in contrast to previous First Ladies??? WHY MIGHT THAT BE??? MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS ADMINISTRSTION AND FIRST LADY???
Fucking Mancow is still around? In the 90s, he went on a daily rant mocking a local Chicago man with Down Syndrome who was part of a group of handicapped people who released a CD through a Chicago Park District program. He refused to stop until lawyers got involved. Garbage human.
Except he gets to puppet Trump around.
Not really She's equally vile.
Thanks for the screenshot. I'd already blocked them! Winner winner!
He's killed more people than any serial killer. He's established concentration camps here and in foreign countries. He let food that was paid for rot in storage rather than give it to starving children. He rapes kids. I think he wins head-to-head against anyone.
She and Kim Reyolds jumped the line to see the butter cow years ago. I let the full blast of my hatred for them show through my eyes...and they moved away! Ha! We're all gonna die, Joni. Butat least you know your death will bring celebrations.
While a student, Thiel started the Stanford Review, because the Stanford Dailey was too liberal and didnt represent the poor neglected conservative students like Thiel who thought there was nothing wrong with apartheid.
Cats are no better.
He's my governor, so I know him pretty well. Since civil rights is my #1, he'll have to do something completely out of character and history to disappoint me, but, yeah, I'll kick him to the curb if he throws marginalized people under the bus. I prefer him as my Gov., tbh.
Not my trans child. We can and must do better than Gavin.
Gavin has tossed trans people under the bus twice now. How is wanting to protect civil rights for everyone BS? Or pro-war?
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