I notice no one ever claims they voted out of fear the left will react violently.
I notice no one ever claims they voted out of fear the left will react violently.
We recently inherited a cat who does this and we've been very amused to find if we call her name and tell her thank you she stops. Just her name doesn't do it, always need to tell her thanks for letting us know.
FFS, go to court? That's the best you can come up with? You are so wildly, flagrantly, the wrong person for this time. Dig deep, find whatever decency you have left, and step down. Check with your imaginary republican friends if you need to, they'd tell you the same thing.
I will find a way to stick around and haunt my enemies. That itch you can't reach on your back? That'll be me. The check check tire pressure light that keeps going on when the tires are fine? Me again. Dog poop you didn't see until you stepped in it? Oh, hello, it's me.
Is a two year old throw away article based on Biden's dogs really worth anyone's time today?
I don't think it's possible for me to have more disdain for Jake Tapper than I already do.
Wanna see the page he's reading from. Need to know what point size the font is.
I want to create a space where straight white men can speak freely, where the disagreements of straight white mean are taken seriously. I mean fuck everyone else, it's not like they matter.
That's right. We have to invent a faux version of the person in question and pretend that's who was killed, because if we talked honestly about the actual person we'd have to mention that he goaded his followers into acts of political violence while keeping his own hands clean.
I was at a baseball game sitting behind two girls who, as the game went on, got pretty drunk. They wanted the churro man and got louder and louder about it. When he did finally come by our entire section broke out in cheers and everyone bought a churro. One of the girls cried.
Jared Moskowitz has the best scam going. Constantly popping up for his snarky comments in hearings while his constant voting with Republicans goes unnoticed.
See, he is bringing prices down! Time for a new hat: MCCA Make Cocaine Affordable Again
That void has felt even more acute and devastating last 9 something months.
There hasn't been a week in the last decade that I didn't think about the void Reid left and how different the conversation would be if he were in Schumer's chair. It's why it bothers me so much that Jentleson trades on his legacy.
You know you're proud of your resume and not trying to hide your real motives when you keep talking about working for Harry Reid a decade ago and not mentioning that you've never worked for a winning campaign and were Fetterman's chief of staff until last year.
Rand Paul created his own Medical Board so that he could claim he's board certified without getting AMA certification
I guess he decided not to include his list of how the NYTimes can help. - Minimize or bury stories that hurt the admin - Rely on deceptive headlines - Lead with the admin's framing, keep contradicting facts below the fold - Quibble over semantic while ignoring substance ...
Telling that they call Jentelson a former aide to Harry Reid, which was a decade ago, and not Fetterman's chief of staff which was last year.
A friend worked at a hotel a lot of celebs stayed at, "almost all assholes." He stayed there when filming something and it was her mission to tell everyone he might play jerks, but was the nicest celeb she ever met. If you said "my cat was spayed" she'd appear "Did you say James Spader? You know..."
Every time I see him or Jr give an interview, all I can see is "Daddy, did you see me on the monkey bars? Daddy? Dad? Hey dad, did you see me?" as the dad doesn't look up from his paper/phone/tv.
Ironically, it was Florida where having all my shots would now be a negative.
The vice-principal told us "We know how those people live and don't want to expose our students to anything you may have picked up."
When district lines changed and a handful of us were transferred from a majority black school to a majority white school they kept us in a roped off area of the gym until we could prove we had all our shots.
The first time I watched Spinal Tap it was with the commentary audio track, which they did entirely in character. The actual audio was kind of a let down after that.
Before I moved to the avenues I thought maybe people were exaggerating about how small-minded and provincial this district is. Now that I've been out here for several years, I think people were being overly kind.
Some of these people need to retire. We need Democrats in these hearings who are better prepared, more mentally agile, and more comfortable verbally sparring. We need more than a low energy reading of questions prepared by an aide. The Senate the Durbins and Schumers were built for is dead.
I was sorry when you left that beat because you did very important reporting and I was glad someone was doing it, but I was also relieved for you because it's such an unhealthy part of the internet to spend that much time in.
I assume you're posting this in support of the removal.
I'm looking at leaving San Francisco to be closer to an aging parent in central FL and honestly, I don't think I can do it.
Man, Rubio's such a toady he doesn't even get his own insult now?
The next big idea from the guy who brought you the legless metaverse and the Facebook phone. If you think think the only things he's been successful at are unethical business practices, exploiting minors, and selling your data...you'd be correct.
It makes them more deserving of scorn, not less. If you're only a monster when the cameras are on, you're making a choice.
Me, just a person: there's nothing civil about saying gays should be stoned to death and black woman are too unintelligent to be taken seriously Ostensible journalist: content isn't relevant, I didn't even bother to try to gleen it. He didn't raise his voice or use profanity.
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Steve Bannon is missing at least 3 shirts.
On Earth, 2 Kash Patel and Dan Bongino attempt to solve crimes is a fantastic new sitcom.
Arguing gays should be stoned to death and black women are to unintelligent to be taken seriously are not "controversial topics."
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There's a lot of upside to jumping onboard as an authoritarian rises, so long as you don't mind losing the things you have to sacrifice.
Once again, it's Teen Vogue doing real journalism while WaPo and the NYTimes are busy sanitizing his record.
You mean he pointed out that Kirk pushed hate speech.
I'm wondering what the reaction would be if Vice President Kamala Harris or Joe Biden had skipped a 9/11 ceremony because a Pod Save America figure had died. bsky.app/profile/wash...
I wish Klein arguing that poisoning the national dialogue and goading your followers into violence while keeping your own hands clean is "doing politics the right way" would be the last we hear from him, but it will be the opposite. Nothing is ever really new. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/m...
I fear the people thinking they're so clever posting some variant of 'it couldn't get worse' are soon going to learn just how wrong they are.
They're censoring critical comments. I added one saying Kirk said stoning gays to death was god's perfect law and that Ezra appears to think "the right way" is encouraging your followers to commit the violence while you keep your own hands clean. It never posted.
Kirk called for gays to be stoned to death. That was his "work." At no point in his public career did he argue for or support talking out our differences.
What of his work do you want to see carried on? Misogyny? Homophobia? Racism? Disinfo? Conspiracy theories? Cheering harms to his political opponents and their families? Climate change denial? Arguing that gun deaths are fine, actually? Be specific. Which resonates the most with you personally?
All the people snidely replying "they're doing that already" have no idea how much worse it can get and how quickly that can happen.
Maxwell Frost is an outstanding legislator. As he shows here, he's clear-eyed, well-prepared, and able to break things down in a way that makes him very difficult to rebut. Crazy what a difference not being born with a silver spoon makes.
That tracks, because walk-in closets made them pretty obsolete.
Something something something, bust up a chifforobe...
It has been a few days since Schumer's crawled out from his usual hiding place under his bed to yell about egg prices and bipartisanship in the most bland focus-grouped possible language. I guess there's still nothing else noteworthy going on in his world.
Centrist 1: we should hide until this all blows over, if anyone notices us we'll whimper and throw allies under a bus or abandon some principals Centrist 2: we should do both Centrist 1: smart! We'll do both
In 2003, when the only things Trump was known for was a string of bankruptcies due to pretty comical incompetence and for being a "short-fingered vulgarian," people were "gathering up his signature" why?
If I wanted a bedbugs opinion... I'd go see a doctor. No one should want a bedbug's opinion.
I don't eat meat. I used to do a lot of business travel with someone who doesn't eat vegetables. He demanded every meal be at a steakhouse where I got to have all of his sides. It was the perfect. My one demand was I got to pick the steakhouse, which was of course based on sides.
OMG, yes!!! I forgot about that. So it would have been a GOP scheme, not the Dems.
They are still arguing that Hillary conspired with Obama and...I guess the deep state...to lose the election so their nefarious cabal could then harass Trump in ways that were ultimately pretty ineffectual and meaningless. So anything is possible.
Viser/WaPo should have to say whether they're going with time traveler or insanely prescient forgery scheme to explain why in 2003, when Trump was known as a frequently bankrupt short-fingered vulgarian, someone put a faked letter in a bound book commemorating his good pal Epstein's birthday.
Billy Bush snickering throughout the Access Hollywood tape is as bad to me as anything Trump said. It's the permission structure that allows the monsters to thrive.
Were I part of the press pool, I'd present him with blown up copies of 5 or 6 signatures. The Epstein book, the letter to Clinton, the letter to Rudy, and a few others, and ask him to identify the one that isn't his signature.
I want a reporter to hand him blown up copies of 5 or 6 signatures. The Epstein book, the letter to Clinton, the letter to Rudy, and a few others, and ask him to identify the one that isn't his signature.
Not sure RFK wandering around means anything WRT Trump. He could have heard there was a dead squirrel in the garden or something.
Beds Are Burning came on the radio when I was driving over the weekend and I started crying. It hit me all at once how much of the gains of the last 30ish years have been lost in just a few months. Also that I'm holding on by my fingernails.
USPS: stop sending mail with no attached postage Me: Not my fault, I'm ethically obligated to spit on the face of the Buckley stamp, not lick the back
If you divert resources from fighting actual crime to fighting imaginary crime, actual crimes are going to increase. Not sure this is a negative for them. Also, I don't know how much you need to monitor domestic terrorists now that they're now being hired as law enforcement.
I think there's a good chance you could talk Rogan into doing at least one episode of this.
I stopped eating fast food when I worked at McDonald's and quickly realized that WAY too many people are involved in getting it to me for it to cost so little unless the foodstuff itself is absolute garbage.
I have a friend who manages a cat rescue, so I get why they have some of the hoops. But if you think I’m going to sign saying if I don’t allow you to inspect my home any time you show up, you’ll reclaim my dog and charge me a penalty plus all vet, foster, and re-adoption costs, you’re crazy.
All things considered, they are right about their supporters.
San Francisco is as bad. One org I spoke to wanted an ESSAY on why I wanted the dog and how I thought it would change my life. They also demanded 24 months of no-notice home inspections post-adoption.
Does Johnson's son get an alert any time his dad looks at the Epstein materials? I'm unclear on how their "I'm having unclean thoughts" alerts work.
1) look at how she's seething as he asks his question 2) can we start a gofundme or something for the press pool to get them to keep asking the same question until she answers it?
Don't worry, NYTimes. We won't forget the massive effort you're putting into it it yourselves.
Oh no, not Bill Clinton.
Which is why you need to step down and let an actual fighter take your place. You've already wasted a year blathering about egg prices.
Wild to me that the lords of the universe think they'll be protected. In the event of "the event" the question isn't will they be stripped of their luxurious and well-equipped bunkers. but whether it will happen before they even take up residence.
When this first broke someone (I don't remember who) posited that enigma could be an anagram for gamine. The overall reaction was there's no way Trump even knows the word gamine, but if it was something Epstein came up with Trump wouldn't need to know the origin.
Jeffries, filmed from an awkwardly high or low angle, standing with a baseball bat resting against his shoulder: we're going to strike out these extreme MAGA republicans and their high egg prices...
Isn't Trump threatening to have a cage match on the WH lawn? I don't think it would take much to convince him to force his cabinet members to participate.
Apparently every generation has to learn for themselves that as long as you wander around holding a clipboard of piece of paper and looking pensive it can take months for anyone to notice you're not actually working.
This is painfully accurate.
The United States Supreme Court saying that it's perfectly fine for federal agents and the police to make indiscriminate stops and interrogations of people based on their color, race, ethnicity, and the language that they speak is the effective end of civil rights in this country.
DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Not sure how to reconcile the female Trump voters looking for financial independence or a fulfilling career with the overall "women need to be at home having babies, and maybe we should stop letting them vote" messaging.
Of course he minimizes it. Republicans really opposed to domestic abuse. They repeal laws preventing domestic abusers from getting guns, want to make it harder for abuse victims to divorce, don't recognize marital rape unless there's force, and block restrictions on child marriage.
Gotta be tough for her to see Jackson not having to check with her husband or father to find out what opinions she's allowed to have.
I guess a woman whose religion is based on rigid hierarchies and that makes with women’s obedience and subservience to men one of their central tenants would be fully on board with where things are heading.
For a second I thought he was also the one who doesn't wash he hands because he doesn't believe in germs, but no, that's his former coworker, our Secretary of Defense.
Based on this I have to assume these dopes could be taken out by a rousing game of got-your-nose. Just leave them sobbing as they flail around desperately looking for their noses.
Paper of record can't be arsed to mention that he has no legal authority to change the name.
Sorry, I'm unable to reconcile the idea of Jeffries and a "forceful response."
Considering Dylan Byers' record, the brain injury isn't recent.
They could also have ordered room service and then gotten caught up in Hoarders marathon.
I just think he does what he accuses his critics of doing: assuming his preferences are universal and creating arguments to support those preferences. I don't object to questioning the appeal, but I do object to assuming only an ivory tower intellectual has enough sophistication to understand it.
Stancil's only electoral experience is losing a MN primary by almost 10 points. He knows as much about what will resonate with blue collar Maine voters as I do.
If I wake up tomorrow and learn I've won the megamillions I'm going to buy The Smiths and gift it to the other members with the condition that they must continue to wish him "nothing but ill-will and destruction."
I was disappointed to learn that while mine is very recent, it's a generation too old for me to qualify for Irish citizenship.
