elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Vengeance?
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Vengeance?
Lupita Nihongo (@otsumamiboy.bsky.social) reposted
Imagine testifying in court that you got PTSD from picking pepperoncinis out of your tactical gear after you stormed your own city.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Can we get them all together in one place then put a dome over it?
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
A complicit media.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I would be okay with this if it were being used like a pyramid to bury the pharaoh and his closest attendants. I'd even contribute to it beyond what is already coming out of my taxes.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like on The Good Place when even Jason Mendoza figures it out.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
If he moves ahead with this will Jack Smith get to produce everything he has in discovery? Because that could be fun.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Took this timely picture while out walking this morning
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Looking at Trump's face and ankles he shouldn't be buying any green bananas.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no. Random angry guy on the internet doesn't understand why he and the two guys who sort of agree with him can't effect any change. Fuck off back to your tiny clubhouse.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you just stop in to announce you are one of the reasons we got Trump? Because that's what you did.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Humans are way more destructive, dangerous and disease-ridden but people object when I apply your logic.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
His base is used to swallowing the biggest most obvious lies if they hear them often enough.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
They are also extraordinarily good at funding their efforts while foundations and individuals who support leftish causes gatekeep the fuck out of grants and donations.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. If you ever find yourself wondering wtf they come up with the shit they spout about others, know it probably comes from their dairy.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
But MAGAs are also strenuously against all of the above except in limited cases where it affects them personally.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I find it a little sad how even now late night is such a white sausage-fest. Says a lot about who is allowed to criticize and get paid for it as well as who people consider an acceptable voice of authority. Some of these guys helped Trump get elected by relentlessly battering on Clinton in 2016.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Makes you wonder how many of them are in those files too.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
If she stops protecting pedophiles can she even be a Republican? Seems to be a requirement that you at least be on board with it if not actually a participant to be a MAGA Republican.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I find it a little heartening that they keep having to offer more money because nobody wants to do the damned job. You know they will not pay a cent more than they have to, and most people applying can't pass the bare minimum of testing to get in.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Hahaha, it won't. Jim Jordan showered with teen athletes. That's a story.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
What's the point of being crowned Caligula if you can't make your horse a senator?
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Speak for yourself. Every woman of my acquaintance was absolutely furious and disgusted. Were you asleep?
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm good. We are using Molly Iven's eyeballs
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the day we found out how many of our fellow Americans were truly shitty people. All the other stuff just confirmed it.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Let the bidding war begin
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Most of us may not get much out of it. The looters running everything are won't be able to stand the idea of a big pit of money they can't grab, but those of us who've been paying in for 50 years don't have a lot of time or energy left to figure something else out.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
They increased their net worth $11 billion in 2024 so they aren't hurting.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
My tax dollars paid for my parents and grandparents social security. That's how it works. Many people who've been working full time for 45, 50 years or more still can't afford to retire. So cry in a corner.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
You are not alone. I pushed my retirement back because I'm the only person in my household still earning and I have no confidence that SocSec will continue.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Boomer here. I just helped an intern I work with negotiate her dream job which she starts next month. And I also turned over jobs every two to three years until I hit 50. I only stopped because younger people hiring think anyone over 50 has nothing to oiffer.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
This. And nothing worse now than trying to convince us to stand alone when we absolutely must stand together. This kind of thinking leads to horror shows like Kristy Noem.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
That's a pretty fucking ignorant take on NGOs.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Legal is whatever SCOTUS will let them get away with so if the bats in Trump's belfry want to do it, it's legal now
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I think if your family is currently experiencing a "l didn't think the leopard would eat MY face" moment you should absolutely reconnect so you can enjoy it.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Those dead eyes probably watch snuff videos just to feel something.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
They only believe women when they are trashing other women.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Or a cage in a swamp.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I can tell you out they will not find anyone qualified to take it. 84 hour weeks, 12 hour days. No benefits. 2-3 weeks on for one week off. They are looking for retired military almost certainly, but whoever takes it had better plan on never getting any of those weeks off.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Plays to the base that also thanks their evangelical god when some children survive a disaster that kills many others, like it's proof that god love you
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess it looks that way if you lean to the right of Attila the Hun.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Hard to say. Whatever is going on the degrading meat doily that is Trump's remainibrain seems to be influenced only by ancient bigotry and whatever sweet nothings are whispered in the most recent 45 seconds
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been voting Democrat as long as I could legally vote, since 1980. I haven't heard Mamdani say anything I disagree with. I'm sorry there are so many conservatives in the party and hope to see them voted out in my lifetime.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I call fascists fascists I call bigots bigots. I call trash men garbage. I call pig-ignorant asshole, well, you can fill in the rest.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's nothing dramatic, just that 90% of gambling losses are untaxed instead of 100%.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks. I plan to get into this. I hope there are good leaders and organizers who are taking in the factors contributing to success and failures. My concern is that people are getting a message that if we get 3.5% out a couple times it magically unlocks success and will give up when it doesn't.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not saying it can't happen but I really need to look at a lot more detail about other factors contributing to the success or failure of uprisings and not treat 3.5% like a magic number. The US is huge and diverse and successfully throwing out the regime may take novel tactics.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. I also know the 3.5% is a tendency, not a rule. Of the more than 300 uprisings studied 53% of the nonviolent ones succeeded, and the tendency to succeed has gone down since 2010. And that 3.5%has to be well-organized and willing to be in the streets 24/7 for months or years.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I really hope it can happen that way but history doesn't make it look likely.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
If a company allows this shit to happen in their stores boycott them
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude can fucking stay on vacation and the world will be better for it.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess they are going to get that civil war they wanted, because shit like this never ends without blood on the streets. It may start with ours but it will end with theirs. US with competent leaders couldn't win anything bigger than Grenada since 1945.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
There are a lot of excellent resources for buying second hand. Other than socks and undergarments I don't buy new anymore. Shop your co-op if you have one. Plant a garden if you can.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm stuck in Iowa but planned to move to Rochester in 2026 when I retired, but now I can't plan on retiring. I'm the only paycheck in the household now and with SocSec at risk I guess I'm working until I can't.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's self-reported, so that means men over the age of 15 estimating how much time they spend on various activities in the course of 24 hours. What's weird is that women are reporting the same number of minutes over the past 20 years while men are reporting more.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
True. You long for how you felt when you were young and ignorant and thought we were making progress. Then fucking Reagan drops.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the youth pastor who wants to share something special with you as long as you don't tell mommy.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Ladies. If you don't want to be r4ped it's on you to dress modestly, stay inside after dark, don't drink and always stay close to a male authority figure like a pastor who would certainly never assault you themselves.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
You know the flood of FEMA funds will flow if a tropical storm causes a leak at Mar-Lumbago. Probably enough to rebuild bigger and goldier.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude, not even Teddy Roosevelt could make a go at a third party and he was actually popular and well-liked.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude just worked really hard to pass legislation that will kill kids so he may be saying thoughts and prayers on the outside but inside he's thinking " a couple dozen dead kids? Hold my beer."
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately when this current crop of Republicans hears about dozens of dead kids a lot of them probably think "hold my beer".
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure. If you define "winning" as "typing the the same bullshit over and over in all caps until other people realize you are three seagulls in a trenchcoat and just block you".
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
You have to be super careful using payment apps. They report everything.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Even with an almost bottomless budget they obviously can't find enough people to willingly work there or they wouldn't send the Marines.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
People like to pretend that there isn't a massive well-founded propaganda system in place to terrify, misinform, and flat-out lie to get what they want. Not to mention so much electoral fuckery and voter suppression that saying "people voted for it" is all but meaningless.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like an illegal back alley craps game in progress.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Some states caucus rather than primary. The delegates to the convention take the advice of the results but can opt to put their votes behind a different candidate if they choose. Not every party even hold primaries. Only the two largest because it's easier to make a good call
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
We just want to see aliens blow up the white house.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Primaries are not elections. They are a show of hands so the party can make a judgement call about which candidate is likely to win. Primaries chose Biden/Harris, knowing if Biden was unable to complete a term Harris would be president.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
New IJ movies might not be made for you, and the last two movies sucked and can easily be forgotten. For most people the movies ended with Last Crusade, and the TV show had its share of fans. It's all about how you do it.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Floodwaters bringing alligators into camp, and the only safe people are the ones in cages. I'd pay to see that.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I had to travel in May. Red state gave me her face by surprise, blue state did not. However both airports were so empty I didn't have to wait in the TSA line.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Threats, bribes or both?
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
They thought the the same thing when Connery left the Bond franchise. It could be done as long as nobody was trying to imitate Ford
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Time to defrag the hard drive.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay. So we aren't warning about ICE raids. We are warning about unidentified masked gangs roaming neighborhoods and kidnapping people.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
And they need to be held in one of their concentration camps pending trial because of flight risk.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess all the old white retirees are going to pick oranges now?
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh yeah, that'll get people back in the theater. Fortunately it arrives just as the summer blockbuster busts.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Fasculence by Trump.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
She is walking that back. But she gave the opposition their campaign focus and they are already making sure it's up on billboards so nobody forgets.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
She can ask Joni Ernst to give her notes on telling her constituents that they are all going to die.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
Lying fascist scum.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
At least it's a beautiful place to be stuck in your file of cringe memories to be revisited every night for the rest of your life.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
If we get to the other side of this one of the reforms has got to be SCOTUS justices selected by working judges with at least 10 years on the bench based on resume and a proven knowledge of constitutional law. And term limits and an ethics oversight committee.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a feature not a bug. A sick, scared, uneducated, disenfranchised and desperately poor populace is what their policies have been aiming toward for decades. If anyone can show me a federal GOP policy that indicates otherwise in the last 40 years I will be shocked.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
This picture looks consensual to me. Naked white almost certainly conservative dudes and dominatrices? No way they didn't pay premium rates. Which gives me an idea.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I bet there is an iron-clad prenup that lays out how she has to look and act and specifies an end date and payout. Look for him to shift to 22 year old models in about 5 years.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's their version of the Hugo Boss uniform.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social) reposted
I really need to figure out the right way to get this poem tattooed on me because it has gotten me out of the hole that is not my grave entirely too many times and I think everyone needs to read it this week billmoyers.com/story/poetry...
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
She chose it, she stays with it. She can fuck off whenever she likes and since she doesn't one has to assume she is good with it.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
What has Bernie done but talk and fuck and over country in 2016 with his whole "the DNC is rigging this" bullshit, pushing a vital race to MAGA. I see a lot of talk and no practical plans.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
The old "if I can't have it I'll break it". Fuck that, and fuck any democrat who votes for him.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
You can afford to look like anything you want to in a picture and you pick "Axe Body Spray Commercial"
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
And I've been a finance professional for decades, which is why I'm more firmly anti-capitalist all the time. Seeing this shit from the inside should horrify anyone and make you renounce it. I went to working in nonprofit more than 20 years ago so I could live with myself and still eat.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
If you are going to kidnap and sell people into slavery you need constantly renewing source. Or, nobody is trying to cross anymore INTO the US.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
I briefly thought AOC had promise but by the time she decided to ride the Bernie train it was long clear she was just going to be a camera-friendly gadfly like he is. Talk a lot, get in front of the camera, do nothing. I want to see her risking arrest trying to shut down ICE.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's still appalling that Cuomo came in so close. That so many people thought he was an acceptable candidate. The comments still stand.
elaineraleigh99.bsky.social (@elaineraleigh99.bsky.social) reply parent
It's never been a RW/LW issue. It's always been a male privilege issue and way too many women still drink that Flavor-Ade.