Probably afraid that if they say no, she'll send Homeland Security to break down their doors & drag off their spouses and children. Because that's where we live now.
Philosophy prof, able to bore people on any abstract topic. Aghast at the horror show that is U.S. politics. Fleeing into books, walks, horse time, and viola. None of this is working at the moment.
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Probably afraid that if they say no, she'll send Homeland Security to break down their doors & drag off their spouses and children. Because that's where we live now.
Of course! We often see victims of domestic violence waving for help from the sides of highways. And notorious old reprobates often stop to render aid.
Only Hegseth and Trump jointly are brilliant enough to recognize a mulching emergency when they see one.
DeSantis probably could have joined the ranks of other successful high-heeled boys in Republican power politics, but his pettiness dooms him.
This is good news. I pity her colleagues & dept chair.
Turnip greens, baby Lima beans, corn
And piling mulch around the bases of trees is bad for tree health, so they are doing actual harm to DC green spaces.
"CDC's abortion surveillance is inadequate". Surveillance.
Johnson managed to top this pack of lies with a little racism: Caddo Parish/Shreveport's District attorney is black.
If they let the old fool know about this Vance "ready-and-willing" statement, I'd love to have seen the reaction.
They are all still bothered by Jen Psaki's incandescent performance as press sec. No amount of cross necklaces can compensate for a lack of talent.
As mandated by a small man who never gave a moment's thought to the phrase "task and purpose".
I was just thinking about that ghastly effluence from Cruz!
Unemployed riffraff rolls up from Texas in his Halloween costume to pretend to be a big strong dude.
And then he cheerfully tried to ruin the lives of multiple workers at the Dairy Queen, to cover his evil tracks.
Well, the concept of 'military honors' is being degraded so rapidly that it will soon be meaningless anyway, like Trump's golfing 'victories'.
"Launching studies"; thus the know-nothings ignore existing science to invent their own. RFK Jr. is an arrogant depraved monster.
Have these idiots ever seen a newborn baby?
I hope someone has a good psychological explanation of this need for self-abasement at the feet of one of the most disgusting humans ever born.
How can the UK be contemplating a Reform government, in full view of the US dumpster fire not all that far away?! Is the example of our devastation worth nothing?
Such an idyllic picture Miller paints: thousands of DC residents, daring to enter a city park "for the first time in their lives". Oh the park-things they will see! Truly a golden age.
Ha! I miss those days, and the distinctive aggrieved tone of the (usually business or engineering) faculty yelling "Remove me from this list!"
And Vance's lies are 100% unconvincing. All his snarky comments are on a par with "They're eating cats and dogs!" i.e. self-serving & destructive bullshit.
It is very consoling to me that the Minnesota State Fair has a large competition for 'crop art', art made from agricultural seeds, and that this gorgeous thing is one of the entries:
This would truly explain a lot.
Only a deliberate troll could have advised Fox News to bring on Jim "Look-the-other-way" Jordan to play pundit about the Epstein cover-up.
"Thank you for your attention" BS closing has also been dropped, it seems.
What a humiliating spectacle: heavily made-up president of the United States slurring his words while wearing a hat that claims he is right about everything.
Reviewers #1 & #2 would like to join the tragic chorus.
Deliberate effort to spin his own myth of victimhood & virtue. He lost his job in a blaze of incompetence.
Something tells me most of Vance's cutesy anecdotes about himself are (a) told by him after the fact, (b) about something painfully unfunny, which is also (c) false.
Hegseth is trying to assemble a personal Praetorian Guard, but he neglected to read all the way to the end of the chapter.
Chinese custom of handing someone cash wrapped in trash? Somehow this sounds implausible.
Hegseth scowling and nodding, the cries of protest in the background; this clip is a work of art
“Yes I was an ass last time you were here, but don’t you think it was pretty funny ha ha?”
I'm trying not to think about all the ways the Trump clown-squad will embarrass us during this unusually important state visit.
"Let's give them Poland. They'll leave the rest of us alone then!"
Someone told ChatGPT to write like 20th century Charles Dickens if he was hammered.
Zelensky should definitely say no to this attempt to isolate him; Putin's aggression is not a solely Ukrainian problem.
Why are they dressed as for a poker game? Where is JD Vance with his catty little wardrobe critiques?
Somehow I suspect Newsom and Trump in a room together would soon be guffawing and slapping each other’s padded shoulders.
Rep. Kiley comes across as a guy who's scared of his own underpants.
Scared little chickens have to amble timidly around DC in groups of 10.
This book is such a treasure. Author, a marine biologist, did all the gorgeous illustrations and even designed the cover. From the beautiful WWII King Penguin series.
I am bitterly disappointed in this man.
God almighty what is the matter with Buttigieg?! "Together" we 2 nations are perpetrating a genocide. So Israel deserves a hug? What a disappointment indeed.
Who would hire her??
Trump struggling to keep his eyes open...
Kind of him to explain that expression frequently used by European leaders, "We've OD'd on Ukraine".
Hegseth trying to level up his machismo for the cameras is always a hilarious and revolting sight.
I would pay more than I can afford, just to see a tuba player follow them tooting the Volga Boatmen song.
JD is working hard at it, but has still not attained the Olympic level of lying required by the Trump administration.
Grok does seem to have the sense of humor of an obnoxious 5-year old boy.
Whitaker was probably above his pay grade even when hawking 'masculine toilets'. Here he is a blithering idiot so far out of his depth he's already drowned, and has taken US international diplomacy with him.
Aren't we now in that movie?
I would watch this tight plot with great appreciation.
Who will provide the translators, and will there be a public record which, though no doubt nauseating, might be important?
It cheers me up a little, to see that they are having trouble recruiting, since there's no realistic moral limit to what ICE staffers might be asked to do in future.
Thou shalt steal whenever convenient (Revised Exodus 20.15 for "Christians").
Agree - I'd think something went horribly wrong with the procedure, I'm dead, and the afterlife is exceedingly weird.
Podcast creators seem surprisingly oblivious to each other & to what podcasts are already in existence.
I didn't like him singling out the woman officer and calling her a bitch repeatedly; he didn't call the men names. Also it seems wrong to be making fun of them for not grabbing anyone; no need to encourage their wrong-headed kidnapping.
Someone should make the identical FOIA demand of the Heritage Foundation. I’d love to see how they’ve been using these terms for the past 20 years.
Probably tried to stiff the middle man.
What a cute face! Mischief included.
This was truly the purplest prose possible, for a rich thug addicted to destroying innocent animal lives.
"Champagne breakfast with Nigel Farage" reads like a line from Edgar Allen Poe.
This is the new "Sir-story" plotline, designed to justify use of military force against us.
I desperately want this horrible woman to spend just one day picking strawberries or cutting lettuce - 1 single 12-hour day - and then see if she's still smirking about "the dignity of work".
This type of reasoning is known as "crackhead logic".
This sounds exactly right. Discontent sells products and "influencers".
"I listen to her when she talks".
Yes! There seems to be a tendency not to believe what women say on this topic, but to seek 'quick tips' from other men.
Thank you for posting this astonishing quote.
And very obviously a prepared phrase, designed to throw smart-dust over their bungling and lies.
"I know of one friend who..." = "I read something on the internet".
You are the one having a tantrum here. Governor Walz is doing his job.
"I don't know anything about that" has become the standard dodge for these miscreants, following the example of Dear Leader.
Many, many Canadians regularly travel into Minnesota for work or family reasons. Walz telling them they're welcome need not be interpreted as nefarious entrapment. You are taking the darkest possible view of one of our best public servants.
You are very wrong about Walz. We have no shortage of villains for you to abominate; Walz is not one.
Good point. We can practically guarantee that horse was bred, trained, and is currently cared for by brown people.
In a shank bit too.
Painful to watch.
Ass pounding the horse's back, bouncing hands using the reins (& horse's mouth in a shank bit) to balance; hope this equine torture session didn't last longer than the video opp.
Heavy investments in AI are currently faith-based actions: there's no concrete proof of its broad usefulness, but it's a fad exactly like pet rocks in the 1970's. If all your friends have one...
“Thou goest to horses? Remember thy gardening gloves!”
That little catch in his voice, "Nobody even said thank you!". The blithering liar feels sad for his own imaginary scenario.
I can't see a golf course without thinking what a great gallop it would make.
The indecent Roberts court would probably nitpick the fact that no one in Alligator Auschwitz has been convicted of anything, so technically they can't be "punished".
Best part is that when told about the naked ladies on his screen, he couldn’t figure out how to shut it down.
Mid-year retirement for academic administrators usually means there's a storm cloud on their horizon.
If you can locate the conductor of a community orchestra in your area, ask them - they are usually networked with large numbers of music teachers. Also church organists. Exciting!
“Easy to be sick” in the U.S.? That would be news to the medical bankruptcies, and the rural Americans with no clinics, and the women dying of pregnancy complications, etc.
The plane’s banner tells a whole sad story.
Ghislaine Maxwell, a lifelong liar and convicted sexual monster, has zero incentive to be truthful in this interview.
As the education Trumpers relax, they drop the "no anti-semiticism!" mask and allow their true motives to shine out: racism, misogyny, and carefully nurtured rage over that C-minus in freshman comp long long ago.
Sad fate for a once-great academic institution.
Saints preserve us from a woman's "fits of cheerfulness".
