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Great thread. Thank you.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
One of my pet peeves. NYT and others keep calling him a vaccine skeptic not a vaccine opponent.
I did it in CA for a few years. Wasn’t in the sunniest of climates, but I always loved the harvest nonetheless.
Gotta love the homegrown.
Can we get another season of Strangers With Candy?
Right? I, too, would appreciate more info.
“But one of them wasn’t baptized.” Gowdy: “Oh well. Tough shit for that family.”
Mine would be the Animals’ We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, because what the hell am I doing in a wrestling ring?
“How can they play both sides?” I wouldn’t say “skillfully,” but they go back-and-forth on “unacceptable presidential behavior,” for example, depending upon who is the Oval Office.
Charter school, run by her parents. Their entire budget was spent on gold stickers.
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
They just may not depart in the way they intended.
But they may well take democracy with them into the gutter.
Here’s an idea for an episode: Seinfeld’s dad has invented the “breast pocketless blazer,” has boxes of them sitting in his garage. He talks to Kramer, who knows some white power folks and…yada yada yada, there’s Miller wearing one on the Today Show.
"A system that brutalized, raped, and killed human beings while stealing their freedom and humanity is rotten to its core. That enslaved people were able to find resilience and build lives is a testament to their courage and spirit. There is no “other side” to the story of slavery." Dan Rather
I thought they were saying “thank you, SIR” with tears in their eyes. Big strong men whose wives told ICE they had never seen their husbands cry before. Then ICE made a determination that the wives may have been brown-skinned, so they arrested them. And the men said, “Thank you, Sir” again.
Anyone else think all he needs now is the shades?
It’s true. When Putin showed him photos of Russian women peeing on him, he was cool as a cucumber. “That’s old news, Vlad. You have yet to show me that picture of me orally serving you. I’m thinking you lost it. “Also, let’s take those sanctions of you off the table right now. Bothersome.”
“I take full responsibility, so long as there are no negative repercussions on me.” Sexual harassment/discrimination/assault + time = “it’s all good”
Fuck! I mean, just FUCK!!
Harris’ plan to give 25K to first-time homebuyers would have helped the economy by providing jobs and boosting local economies with more consumer spending $ available. This 50K just routes money to unregulated meth and opioid markets. So, yeah, MAHA.
Or, they may just be cosplay kidnappers. How the fuck do we know?
Me too. 1969 as a 19-year-old. I liked his poem collection, The Spice Box of Earth, and thought, Well, this novel should be good. It turned out to be one of those “Yeah I finished it but why?” readings.
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
Winner
Oh I do too. It’s pretty obvious at this point. But in the very slim chance that there’s no evidence that he’s in the files, then he’s protecting child-rapers. Which is just as bad in my book.
Left out Marxism. Sad.
Would you consider there may be self-serving (even self-saving) reasons that Trump would have to protect someone else? But a point I wanted to make is that Trump would have no issue with protecting child rapers. Which isn’t surprising but no less disgusting. As bad as the raping, imo.
Let’s say—just for the sake of argument—that there is nothing in the files implicating Trump with sex trafficking. (I know. That’s a huge stretch.) Doesn’t his non-release of the files indicate he is trying to protect folks who were involved? I’m willing to consider alternative reasons.
Off point, but the conversation reminds me of this joke I heard 35 years ago: is it still appropriate? What do insomniac agnostics with dyslexia do? They lay awake at night pondering the existence of a dog.
Point taken.
Perhaps. My understanding is an agnostic holds that the existence of god(s) is unknowable. It refers to knowledge, not belief. (Two sources I googled contend agnostics can still believe in god, just knowing it’s not provable. Idk about that.) Me? At 76 years on, I don’t give a crap either way.
I get your point. But believing there is no god seems to me different from not pondering it or caring about it at all—which is how babies arrive. I condemn things like publicly-funded displays of things like the Ten Commandments because it’s against the constitution. That’s enough for me.
Atheism is a religious belief. It’s a belief that there is no god. That’s why I’m a nonbeliever. Why waste time on things that are unknowable?
Trump wants voters to believe America is ungovernable, and that the only solution is an authoritarian like him taking over. The more chaos, lies, and misinformation he spreads, the more likely people are to tune out completely. Do not.
Which is better than Trump, who has to pretend he’s never met the pedophile looking back at him.
Blows my mind. The ignorance and cruelty
No one outside the U.S. needs to pay attention to him. Unfortunately, those of us here need to.
Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset. Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. This is a five-alarm fire.
Cain is a penis dressed like a preppie.
First two sound right
Stepping Out
American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high. Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance. Nothing trickles down to workers.
Putin has a thing for cougars?
Since it was Putin’s first orgasm since their last in-person encounter, it was actually a lot from a 72-year-old.
Those don’t appear to be tears.
If she did what the people who voted for her wanted, we’d have the voting rights we deserve. How do you hope someone “burns in hell” when you are a nonbeliever?
I know he’s a pedophile, but I need to point out this is a doctored photo.
So true. Also “Deep State.”
Well, dildos have been known to bring women to climax. So there’s that missing.
Cause he’s a dick
The world is a better place
Point taken.
If it’s under 14 years old, it’s “new.”
I was thinking of that, but didn’t believe they could come up with a workable lie/truth ratio. Maybe five lies and a truth? Ten?
What about the pre-meeting meet-and-greet? So some of these folks could get to know each other.😀
I’m with you.
You could include tiny infants in post-natal care in that random universe and still do better.
I would hesitate to use “reasoning” here. I’m not sure he’s capable of that process.
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
😂😂😂
Unfortunately, the “stars” putting on a “show for free” are Kid Rock and Rob Schneider.
A must read, to be sure.
Thank you. Sharing.
Source? I’m all eyes and ears on this.
A doctor friend thinks Trump suffers from porphyria, a genetic disorder characterized by confusion, agitation, and paranoia. King George III had the same thing and they treated him with leeches and arsenic, which today is known as the GOP healthcare plan.
It’s time for that General Strike. No more waiting. No more watching human beings treated like animals. No more supporting this corrupt pedophile administration. Let’s fucking go‼️
Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison
Making the vast majority poor and begging for scraps is Trump’s goal. Easier to dictate then.
I’ll just say “Fuckhead” and leave it at that
I believe I can handle the disappointment, and I doubt I’ll need to compartmentalize the pedophilia from other (perhaps) good deeds to prop up the guilty in my mind. Spill it out, and let the chips fall where they may. It’s way past time.
Nothing in there about “thou shalt not look at film of naked women crossing street.” So he’s cool.
He’s been successfully doing so going on seven months now.
The cruelty. When will America wake up and demand this stop!
Well stated.
You are giving her too much credit. She’s not trapped in that marriage. She must agree with what he’s doing—or, just as bad, she doesn’t care. She’s high on my “least favorite person” list. To hell with her.
😂😂😂
October 7?
Excellent point.
Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?
What does it say about those who silently went along with it anyway, despite knowing about it.
Accountability shouldn’t stop where wealth and power begin. We deserve transparency on Epstein’s files—no more shielding Trump and the rich.
Not only hit it, but doubled and, in some cases, tripled it. Helluva job, Trumpy.
No problem. Gave me the opportunity to plant a picture of Burr playing bagpipes in peoples’ minds. What an effing idiot.
Ummm… Bill Barr. One is funny. The other is a lying bagpipe-playing pile of shit.
You might want to look into Ancient Greece. They celebrated it.
Yeah. We spend so much attention on the few who might flip that we forget the congressional republicans are 98% fascist oligarchs.
Merrick Fucking Garland
Greed
If cops would ticket crosswalk-violating drivers, this would not be a problem. Lack police enforcement is the issue, and it leads to deaths.
Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is dictatorship.
The evidence that put Ghislaine Maxwell is prison is the same evidence that Trump is trying to say doesn't exist.
“If”?
Probably not enough
Mashed
😂😂😂
Who knows? Maybe a decent portion of them will wake up to the fact that he lies to them as well as everyone else.
Yeah
Thank you. Agree one-hundred percent.