That politically appointed head gives the overall direction of the department. If he says they should start ignoring potholes, those potholes aren't likely to get fixed lest someone lose their job over it.
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That politically appointed head gives the overall direction of the department. If he says they should start ignoring potholes, those potholes aren't likely to get fixed lest someone lose their job over it.
"The Jab" is a pretty common slang term in the UK. It's used by pretty much everyone there. So I don't know if I'd read too much into that part. The rest of the post, however...
Yeah, and...? Since when did anyone currently serving in Trump's cabinet give two shits about truth or facts? She lied, and she knew she lied.
That's pretty on-brand for fascism. My understanding is German workers would write to Hitler about bad working conditions in the mistaken thinking that he actually cared in the slightest about them.
You left out "Okay, climate change is man made, but it's too late to do anything about it." sponsored by BP.
I visited an elderly family friend in the hospital back in February. It had been a while since I saw her, and I was kind of shocked how she seemed to have aged in such a short time. Something told me it wouldn't be long before she passed. 5 months. I see it in Trump, except this time I'm not sad.
They're prioritizing the owners and investors. Investing in the workers means everyone profits. But the oligarchs want it all for themselves, and are willing to outright bribe our leaders to make it happen.
That sounds all profound and all, but it's crap. Not praying for the "soul" of people who intentionally inflict harm on to other people does not make me become one of them. It's merely an acknowledgment of frustration that I'm powerless to stop the sheer evil that's happening on a daily basis.
I'm confused. I thought Michelle Obama's mistake was being born a black woman who grew up to have a media following and influence. I don't see RFK Jr being a black woman who's asking kids to get up off their ass once in a while.
Personally, I think the biggest shakeup needed at No. 10 is Starmer being replaced. More of the same neo-liberal policies that helped usher conservatives like Johnson, May, and Truss into office will eventually result in another conservative like Johnson, May, or Truss being ushered into office.
FDOT is run by someone appointed and confirmed by Republicans, so there really isn't much of a distinction between the two, is there?
Is that really a difficult choice for DeSantis's work crew. I'd assume they'd paint over the rainbow crosswalk to distract from the pot holes not getting fixed.
Disagree with my coworkers' salary not being my business. After I left a company I worked at for 17 years, I found out someone who had been there for less than 10 years and who had half of my responsibilities was making more per hour than me. It was damn well my business that I was getting screwed.
Translation: He found someone almost as corrupt as himself to take his place. How nice for him.
I love how the party that refuses to ban weapon sales to people with mental illness or instability is also the party that seems to have the most mental illness and instability. 'Cause there no way in hell someone who shoots a kid in the back over ding dong ditch is anywhere near mentally stable.
I love how the guy who's trying to position himself as the next Dem presidential nominee is accusing someone of sOcIaLiSm as if it's a bad thing. 🙄
Why does it look like he's spending a weekend at Bernie's?
Then don't eat processed foods. Simple as that. Animal based or vegan, processed foods aren't good for you. It's still salt, fat, and empty calories. You can be holier than thou about being vegan or a meat eater, but you're not any better than the other in the grand scheme of things.
All margarines and buttery spreads are refined products. You're not going to the store to gather up ingredients and making it at home unless you have a pretty good chem lab. Veganism has pretty much devolved into being every bit as processed as the rest of corporate produced food.
Margarine wasn't intended to be a vegan or healthy butter substitute. It was just intended to be a cheaper alternative. Most brands call it "plant based" now anyway.
MAGA needs to grow up and learn how to present a counter argument beyond a toddler shouting "nah-uh!" Y'all are pathetic. BTW, when's Trump releasing the Epstein files? Didn't he campaign on releasing them after the election? Who's he protecting... Besides his own ass, I mean. 🙄🤡
Too bad she couldn't run an effective campaign against the miserable little SoB. Who in the hell picks a running mate, sees how he's boosting the campaign numbers, and then muzzles the guy? She's half of the reason we got stuck with Trump again, with the DNC being the other half for picking her. 👎
Except one of the three bankrolled the DNC in exchange for a guaranteed nomination, and then proceeded to run a bad, tone deaf campaign that pretty much guaranteed she'd lose to a dumbass she should have won in an absolute landslide against. So there's that. Spot on with the other two, though.
Oasis is still going? I thought they imploded back in the late '90s/early '00s. The backstage stories I've heard about them didn't paint them in a particularly stable light.
A conman never tells his marks they're being conned. At least not as long as they still have something the conman wants.
Velveeta and Kraft singles aren't fake, they're just processed. But then so are the vegetarian sausages and burger patties I have in my freezer for meatless Monday. Also, I've had several different types and brands of vegan cheeses. They're not very good. 🤷♂️
Meanwhile, Newsum supports the same old pro-corporate policies that made Trump's presidency inevitable. He talks a good game, but his own time as governor saw the rich get richer and the poor and middle classes stagnate. Expect more than just talk. 🙄👎
I vaguely recall Republicans either trying to overturn a ban or refusing to ban gun sales to *terrorism suspects*. They wanted to ensure *terrorism suspects* could buy guns.
We've made some headway, but never underestimate party insiders' desire to maintain the status quo. Never. It will take a lot of time and effort to be a real threat to their power. I'm not saying we can't, but it'll be one race or two races at a time with them fighting tooth and nail.
Up 'til now, they haven't had much to fear. The deck is thoroughly stacked in their favor.
Can't tell if that's a step up from them crowding the livestock supply store to stock up on sheep dewormer while calling anyone with a mask or who got vaccinated a sheep, or if it's just a lateral move.
They side with corporate interests and oligarchs. They're the ones writing the massive bribes... er... campaign contributions that pay for top dollar political consultants who just happen to also be party insiders.
Funny how these coalitions can only exist if it's the pro-corporate establishment Dems who run for office and the progressives have to just shut up and vote for them. When the fuck y'all gonna endorse Mamdani or Fateh? When y'all forming a coalition around them? 🙄🤡
They have to be able to feel shame first.
Just how stupid are her followers? She misses ordinary bland Wonderbread? Half of the bread aisle is full of that crap. Why the fuck is she pretending to miss what never left the store shelves, and why don't her dumbass followers see that? 🙄
To give you an idea just how stupid Emmer's district is, his predecessor is Michele Bachmann. Two shit stains on Minnesota's reputation if there ever was one. 🙄
You just saved the universe from one of the greatest threats it's ever seen. But never mind that. Please take some pictures of some animals in that dome over there and then vacuum up their poop.
Never had that problem. But then it wouldn't have mattered much. They were in the process of building a new high school at the time, and most of the building we were in was scheduled to be knocked down. It was 100+ years old, but now it's a mostly empty lot.
I worked the night shift. I didn't get to know any of the students. I barely had much time to talk to the teachers. They were usually gone within a half hour of starting my shift. I don't think the 1st shift custodians got to know students, either. It's not an encouraged interaction.
I used to be a high school custodian. There was one kid in one of the "special ed" class rooms that had a tendency to write on his desk. Ball point pen and some markers are but a minor nuisance. A light spray with graffiti remover, let it sit a minute while you vacuum, and it wipes right off. 🤷♂️
Duh-huh. Meanwhile, everything that isn't flattering to Trump or his wannabe copycats like DeSantis and Greene is "fake news." 🙄🤡
I don't think they have the ability to feel shame.
Trump is at least 100 lbs overweight, stuffs his face full of salty, artery clogging fast food and Diet Coke, has a pale, sickly pallor with makeup covering up bruises on his hands, has trouble speaking a single coherent sentence, and doesn't know where he is half of the time. Ain't long now.
Oh, please. He knows what Trump is trying to hide from us. Trump is only still alive because of a team of doctors and a shed full of medication. It can't last much longer.
It's preparing him to take over for Trump.
So true. No one is more qualified to train someone how to poorly apply bronzer than Donald J Trump.
Don't give me that. You're old enough to know what a can of Tab is.
No, just a troll trying to spread propaganda.
Let's ask the guy who's literally paid by an oligarch funded "think tank" to say they aren't.
The farther the Dems have moved to the Right in their quest to bring in more corporate money, the further the GOP is able to go in order to differentiate themselves. My belief is that if the Dems move back to populist economic policy, the GOP will be forced back toward the center.
No, but we have to force the Dems back toward the left if we're to have even a snowball's chance in hell of dragging the GOP back from the grips of Nazism.
Party insiders care more about keeping their donors happy, as it directly affects their own wallet.
That, and Republican leaders are desperate to find an effective distraction from the Epstein files.
Meanwhile, my MAGA neighbors violate the US flag code on a daily basis. Flying it at night, letting it drag on the ground, letting it get dirty and ripped... They have no idea what is or isn't disrespectful treatment of the flag, nor do they seem to care. 🙄
🙄 bUt BiDeN!! Wake up and smell the coffee christals, cultest. Prices didn't drop like Trump promised they would under his "leadership." They've gone up since he took office, and that's on him.
I remember last time around when Trump was meeting with Kim Jung Un, and Trump was telling reporters to get pictures from an angle that made him look thinner. Trump got so wrapped up in the picture taking that even ol' Kim seemed befuddled by it.
🤨 Was someone actually polling lower than Cuomo? You have to wonder if some voters have been living under a rock for the past decade or if they just wish a Democrat was more Trump-like.
Hillary isn't wrong, but pro-corporate hacks like her are the primary we got Trump in the first place. She needs to retire from public life permanently.
A better policy is to enact high marginal tax rates on businesses and oligarchs to discourage the wealth holding that leads price gouging and low wages.
That, and manipulating gullible bigots.
I wasn't trying to make it stronger, just to clarify. The original story had the massive plot hole of having multiple gods when there's only supposed to be one. Their attempt to fix it only made things worse and more convoluted.
Except you'd be killing yourself because your son was basically you. Holy trinity, remember? Father, Son, Holy Spirit. All the same entity, but separate because... reasons. My guess is that came about later when people finally realized a son of a god is a god, and there's only supposed to be one.
If that country had oil and was no longer friendly to Western oil companies, we'd call it "regime change."
There's a difference between knowing what's illegal and caring. No one in the Trump Administration cares what is or isn't legal. They gonna do what they want to do until someone stops them.
Riley was breathing while being black. That's a big no-no for Trump supporters.
That must be why Trump used to promise to "drain the swamp."
True. His brain is basically tapioca pudding, his arteries are probably more clogged than the LA freeway during rush hour, and the only things keeping his heart beating are a team of doctors and a shed load of prescription medication. His hands are the least of anyone's concern.
According to the convoluted Christian theology, Jesus *is* the Christian God. Their god sent an avatar of itself as its "son" to be executed as a sacrifice in order for it to forgive its creations for what it decided are sins.
Sure, but talking a good game isn't enough any more. The Dems need to offer up transformative policies that rebuild the working classes and lift people out of poverty. Not even Walz goes that far. He's mostly window dressing.
The time to start ignoring Dawkins was at least 10 years ago.
Isn't that just code for "That 'girl' beat my precious baby Saigelynn in high school sports! Disqualify 'her' for being trans!!! No one can beat my precious baby at anything!!! 'She' is obviously cheating!!!!!" ?
There's very little that's "natural" about the lives of the people who argue being [insert LGBT+ identity here] natural.
$2.50 max. Then again, I'm not a big Nabisco/Oreo fan. The company was trash from the moment it was founded, and the cookies were reformulated with even worse for you ingredients to save money. That, and I resent what they did to Hydrox, the *real* original sandwich cookie.
I probably couldn't. But I also couldn't bring myself to join ICE and do a obstacle course on camera in a desperate attempt to hold on to a shred of the celebrity status I had 30 years ago.
And yet it's still grossly over priced. I watched Walmart nearly double the price of my preferred electrolyte drink mix over the last 5 years. Between that, the god-awful looking store redesigns, and their happily caving in to Trump's demands to cancel non-discrimination polices, they can F off. 👎
When you look at a list of who to replace and the order of urgency, the people lower on the list will more likely to vote more progressive when they see which way the political winds are blowing. Would I trust them to fight for progressive causes? No. If I'm wrong, they can be replaced too. 🤷♂️
I believe some of the establishment Dems can be pushed into being more progressive in order to save their seat as they see more and more of their more hard-core pro-corporate colleagues get replaced. If not, they can be added to the list of who to replace.
Except it'd piss him off even more if no one took the bait and instead held signs asking when the Epstein files are going to be released.
Can I report my MAGA neighbors who fly their flag at night without a light, hang it on their porch low enough that it drags on the ground, and/or fly it well after it's dirty and in poor condition, or doesn't disrespect count when MAGA does it?
Oh, they have a coheasive game plan all right. 1. Serve corporate donors 2. Distract voters from number 1. 3. When all else fails, blame progressives for "purity tests."
That wasn't a platform, it was an empty facade. Millions of voters rejected it or didn't bother to show up because they saw through the bullshit. The Dems care more about appeasing corporate interests and AIPAC than about actually legislating on behalf of working class voters.
Looking for a platform that doesn't piss off their corporate donors. That second part is more important to them than actually winning elections.
They look like an oven fry from America's Test Kitchen. They coat the fries in potato starch and a it of oil to Amp up the perceived crispiness.
One of Harris's first tests as VP was raising the minimum wage. The Dems had just enough votes to do it, but the parliamentarian said not to. She could have just fired the parliamentarian but instead let a minor roadblock get in the way. Bot bold, not progressive. Just more of the same BS. 👎
Not to mention Biden's empty campaign promise to be the next FDR. People are sick of pro-corporate centrism. They see themselves as screwed regardless of which party wins and just stay home. So yeah, going left would have helped a whole fucking lot.
Biden won the 2020 primary because Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out and endorsed Biden, thus solidifying the centrist/conservative vote. Meanwhile, Warren stayed in the race, ensuring the progressive vote remained split. Bernie had been the clear and acknowledged front runner up to that point.
How much of that was coming from the rank and file members, and how much of was coming from propagandists paid to further a pre-determined narrative? Hillary allegedly had a bot/troll farm pushing her agenda, and some think Khive is also largely bots and paid trolls.
It's what he did his first tome around. He sent troops to start shit during the BLM protests but ended up getting clowned with plywood and leaf blowers. He ended up withdrawing the troops in the end.
What you call "doom and gloom," I call observable reality. But whatever. You go get 'em.
You're joking, right? It's *still* working on the vast majority of the MAGA cult.
You sound like a petulant child hearing something they don't want to. "Nah-uh!" Meanwhile, you present no counter argument. 🙄🤡
75% of the party has to go.
You post that as if he has the ability to feel shame.
Jeffries could almost rival Buttigeig in a competition to prattle on as much as possible without actually saying anything. 🙄
Harris lost because she was a terrible candidate. Party insiders royally fucked up when they decided to run her in the first place. Blaming voters for the party's fuckup tells me they refuse to learn their lesson, and you're helping spread their propaganda. 🙄🤡👎
True, but these are the same people who prattled on about helping the Republicans win by not supporting whoever won the party primary.
Vote blue no matter who!!!* *As long as it doesn't piss off the party's big dollar donors. 🙄
How ironic is it that FDR's own party helped Trump come so close to being a true dictator?
Those people are ripe for manipulation, which is exactly what Trump and his ilk have been doing for decades.
Given his suspected health conditions, I'm thinking Cialis is a better choice.