#TrumpHasDementia Pass is on.
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#TrumpHasDementia Pass is on.
For the millionth time, Ghislaine Maxwell is a rapist and a sex trafficker. People need to stop pretending she's anything but.
I am VERY VERY VERY proud to be from Illinois.
sure does feel like every time I see this man in front of a microphone lately my response is “thank fuck someone besides us is finally saying it”
Wooooo child. Poor Ronny. He probably went out with Auntie Jeannine and they had four pitchers of margaritas. Top shelf of course. Only the best for the Drunks In Chief.
You're mesmerized because you don't know what the fuck he's talking about and you can't believe that his handlers let him out in public.
Voters are angry and not letting up. Good.
He's allergic to cats even worse than dogs, sadly. We had cats when I was a small boy and Dad developed an allergy to them so we had to give our 2nd cat (the first one had died) to the neighbors when I was about 10.
Or Shecky Greene. "Take my wife...PLEASE."
OMG. That could be my 87 year old father. Thank you for sharing. That's lovely. Mama died 8 years ago next month. Daddy never had a dog (he's allergic) but living alone is rough.
Don't quit your day job, Ron. 😂
Seriously. Can we please stop listening to twits like Ezra Klein and his ilk? Thanks.
He's a Christian who actually BELIEVES in the tenets of Christianity. And calls out Christian (and Catholic, he's Catholic) hypocrites.
That park is a poorly designed space. There's a large theatre from the '20s (Public Auditorium) that was closed after Katrina and hasn't reopened. For reasons I don't understand, they built ANOTHER, modern, theatre (Mahalia Jackson) there in 1973. That whole park needs a radical rethinking.
That park, when the last section is completed, will run from Canal Street all the way to Poland Avenue, which is about 3 miles. It's really lovely. These were all formerly shipping piers for sugar and rice. (2/2)
Not sure where you were, but that's not normal. Yes, there are abandoned buildings (several theatres downtown, no one knows what to do with them) but downtown is thriving. NOLA swapped 2 piers with the port for its railway and is now building the last section of a linear park along the river. (1/2)
I'd say just keep reposting this sort of thing as much as possible. Remind people that Ghislaine Maxwell IS A FUCKING RAPIST. For the millionth time, NO ONE made her procure girls for Epstein. No one MADE her participate in the rapes. She is a convicted criminal, with AMPLE evidence.
ROFL! hahahahahahaha....
Ours as well. The racist myth is the the US doesn't need immigrants when it's ALWAYS needed them. It needed them when my Slovak great grandparents were working in coal mines and steel mills in 1910 (and Mr. Friedman from Latvia was serving in the Union Army in the Civil War) and it needs them now.
Of course it did. I also find it deeply ironic that Britain ran around the world for 400 years taking over countries it did not understand, stealing people and stuff and then whines about immigration. Americans do that, too, as do the French, Belgians, Dutch and Spanish. I'm not picking on the UK.
Huh? Have you ever been here? I've lived here for 11 years. This city has recovered. The population is mostly back to what it was before the storm.
The thing I learned very quickly upon moving here in 2014, 9 years after "the storm," is that you do NOT bring it up with people who lived through it unless THEY bring it up first. People are tired of talking about it. It was a collective trauma. I respect this deeply.
And French film director Louis Malle. (My Dinner With Andre, Au Revoir Les Enfants).
Can we talk about how it's hilarious that some British people still haven't gotten over the end of the Empire. Which basically ended in about 1962? And finally fizzled out for good in 1997 with Hong Kong's handover to China?
And in 10 years they will re-merge and a bunch of highly paid MBAs will tell us that there will be huge synergies and manugistics and some other nonsense. All so they can make huge payouts at their stupid investment banks (aka blood sucking leeches).
Quote from today's Guardian. What the fuck does this even MEAN? He's literally making shit up.
In about 4-6 weeks we'll have the white MAGAts screaming "this isn't what we voted for!" when they find that their benefits have been cut or are gone.
I'm looking at him, thinking: I'm 4 years older than him and have had my BP under control for 20 years (mine is partly genetic). I try to eat decently, but hardly obsessively, but I fucking eat VEG. He looks like he eats nothing but potatoes and Guiness and boiled mutton. No seasoning.
SOMEONE HELP CHAIRY!
And they'll all go begging to the feds for a bailout. Watch. nVidia will be screaming for federal money.
ROFL! He's pathetic. Wait, that isn't cool, so how about this thing over here! PLEASE THINK I'M COOL! People did think you were cool, AYYYYLAWN. Until you turned into a fascist creep in front of our eyes.
OK. This keeps coming back in one form or another. Is this some weird niche straight guy kink I've never heard of? There is a come fetish among some gay men, but among STRAIGHT MEN? Those gay men don't think come sticks around past a sexual encounter, though. This is creepy.
That sounds amazing! Congrats! Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend! It wasn't boiling hot for a change in NOLA!
Benoit's accent should get separate billing. It's SOOOO deliciously weird.
It's ALWAYS been a joke. And NEVER forget that Mika's dad was Carter's very hawkish National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. If Joe and Mika are liberals/progressives, then I'm Bette Davis.
And that creepy beard is ON PURPOSE.
Some friends of mine known Linda Hamilton, she lives here in New Orleans, and say she's a super fun person to hang out with.
Chinese EVs sounds like the US car market in the early 20th century. Hundreds of marques struggling to profit, and 95% of them go tits up within 10 years. Stranding people with cars that are unsupported for which they cannot get parts, so they will just get scrapped. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
We killed over a million people and the rest of the country just shrugged and said "fuck you I want McDonalds."
There hasn't been a left leaning Republican since Jacob Javits died in 1986. Someone is living in the past. Let me fix that for him... "Nate Silver is an idiot." There, I fixed it.
But but but....GAZA. And so they made Gaza worse. I have no explanation for this, but this is what they did. I'm glad the person you were responding to was someone I already blocked.
Cough cough, Barack Obama, cough cough.
And ultimately....to what end? WHY? What do they hope to gain? As with most things Trump it's just "surfaces, sweetie, surfaces" (with apologies to AbFab). Nothing is thought through, or thought out.
How about just abolishing the fucking House of Lords (and all Upper Houses) permanently. Upper houses are stupid. Most of them are just wastes of money. The French or Canadian Senates? They have no power. The US Senate is an ugly legacy of slavery and gives huge power to tiny states with no people.
Talk about plus ça change.
Dear Donnie, We still haven’t forgotten about the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -USA
He's been doing so for 8 months.
Since I'm an OLD GAY, this requires an accompaniment by Irving Berlin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGLn...
That's not fair. Tom Friedman (no relation, thank you VERY much) has been wrong about LITERALLY everything for his entire career. How he still has a job, despite being WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING is beyond me. Schtupping the boss? I dunno. It's one explanation.
Elsewhere I saw this described as a TikTok trend. Apparently there was TikTok in 1972 when I was 8 years old and we did this all over the neighborhood in Champaign, IL. I just didn't know it.
A TikTok trend? We did this in 1972 when I was eight years old. I'd imagine it was a thing in '82, '92, etc. Kids playing pranks has always been a thing. What's different is that homeowners have guns and are fucking crazy. You can be shot for simply ringing the bell and standing on the porch.
Poor baby. This is when I appreciate having a deaf dog.
Because they've been beta testing garbage on users for 30 years. For free. Why should education be any different? They literally don't give a shit what trash they're pushing on users as long as they make $ off it.
"HOW DARE YOU want to have a life that you enjoy," says Joanne while she sits in her castle smoking cigars and cackling and writing another shitty novel.
OK, can we start with her "outfit." Sorry, that's not an outfit, that's veered into a GETUP. She went on national television looking LIKE THAT.
The law of unintended consequences is far worse when the person implementing it can't add 2+2, doesn't know what day it is and is surrounded by Nazis sycophants who only tell him that he's the savior of the universe and the smartest man since Einstein.
Pity. Did you have a good weekend?
I'll keep saying it: RFK Jr. is a deadly threat to our public health and safety. He is razing CDC, NIH, and other health agencies to the ground—putting politics and deranged conspiracy theories over science. We need bipartisan oversight immediately, and he must be FIRED.
Ewww. That's NASTY.
It wasn't the first or last time the Soviets would deport entire populations of people. This caused great hardship and the death of millions. This was the same period that ended up with a "Jewish Republic" near Mongolia that still exists, at least in name. The 2021 population was 821 Jews.
Of course they do. Because they are disposable, and aren't employees. They're just trash to be taken out and replaced by more.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK VERMONT. Why the fuck isn't this asshole going to prison? I hope the family of the dead cyclist sues the city and him personally and takes all of his money. Absolutely disgusting. No way this would happen if he wasn't a motherfucking cop.
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
Nate Silver is a massive douchebag. There. That's the post. What a loser. He long ago bought his own press and descended into mediocrity.
Like the principal in Glee who thought Ke$ha was called "K-e-dollar sign HA."
Perfection.
I'm 1500% sure they have her head in a jar somewhere so it talks, just like Richard Nixon in Futurama. I WILL NOT BE DETERRED FROM MY FAITH IN THIS NONSENSE.
Hahahhahahahahahhahaa!!!
Promises promises. When Stalin died in 1953 (weird how this time is making me think of Stalin) 109 people died in the crush to see his body.
Just tell them you've had cancer. They'll give it to you. And they're not going to know/check at Walgreen's. Trust me.
I would've said in the past that Eric is too stupid to be President, but...nope. When Trump dies the infighting is going to be glorious and ugly. I compare it to Moscow 1953. One of the contestants on that cage match (NKVD head Lavrenti Beria) ended up dead at the hands of Khrushchev's clique.
This is known as "getting Storrowed." This is a particularly impressive one. Storrow Drive runs along the Charles River on the Boston side from Mass General Hospital all the wall to BU and Allston.
A few years ago when I moved to NOLA I saw one that was basically IT Manager/Marketing Manager (never saw THAT combo before) that demanded a CS degree. The job was for a local furniture chain. The pay was $17.50 an hour. I actually responded and told the employer that this was HIGHLY insulting.
Typical chatbot transcript for me: Hi I'm your AI Chatbot! Me: Agent I can help you with most things Me: Agent But I can help you! Me: Agent I can help you with most things! Me: GET ME A FUCKING AGENT I'll transfer you to an agent now. I hate them SO much.
Gen AI can't do any work. It literally makes stuff up. No one can trust it to do anything that isn't checked by a human. I wouldn't. You're asking for huge problems.
If you refuse to hire senior level people (ahem, like ME) then you don't have people to MENTOR the junior and mid level people with our THIRTY years of experience and skills. I've seen it all. The sysadmin who's been at it for 5 years has NOT remotely seen it all. They just haven't had the time.
What a shock. Not even Canadians want to come to the US. Travel from Canada to the US is down by 33%. And Canadians LOVE their cheap cross-border US shopping. They're PISSED OFF. And rightly so.
Million dollar idea. Make them put ammunition in blister packs, JUST LIKE SUDAFED (and Imodium). EVERY SINGLE BULLET has to be removed INDIVIDUALLY. Oh and you can't push it past the foil, no matter what. You have to get a pair of scissors to break the seal. For EACH ONE. Good luck with that.
It's "Frahn-ken-steen." Jeez. Doesn't ANYONE know this?
Anyone that eats tacos in Britain deserves what they get. I can't imagine anything more disappointing. Bet they boil the beef for "carne asada."
WHAT? You mean a huge concentration camp that was thrown together hastily in a swamp was built like shit with no bid contracts? Bet you $200 that we'll find out soon there was millions in corruption in those contracts.
According to DESANTIS, being gay is an abomination but pedophilia is christ like....
It's also the first example of how "reparations" are murderous. Haiti did not finish PAYING France for the privilege of its freedom until 1883. They paid for 58 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian...
The UK doesn't get to be upset about this for 400 years. That's how long they ran around the world taking over other countries THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND, stealing their stuff, enslaving their people and enriching themselves. So in 2350 they can start to get annoyed with immigrants. Until then? STFU.
It's HILARIOUS that the British spent 400 years running around the world, taking over countries, stealing their stuff, killing their rulers, enslaving their people and then has the AUDACITY to get upset when those people say "can we come to Britain to make our lives better?" THE AUDACITY.
I once worked with a woman in Boston who's name was Princess Goode (she was an immigrant from Barbados). I am absolutely NOT making this up. She was a lovely human being. Princess was the NICEST WOMAN I EVER MET IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. She lived up to her name 500%.
It matters, @jaketapper.bsky.social, that reporters not be craven pieces of shit like you. Just sayin.
NEVER forget that "Ian Miles Cheong" is Malaysian and has (AFAIK) never left Malaysia. But he certainly loves stirring the pot of right wing politics in various other countries. If I didn't know better I'd think he was a fake person invented by someone like Musk. But he is an actual weirdo human.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
I lived there for 20 years and everyone always said "this is the best sourdough ever" and every time it tasted like someone dipped it in vinegar and made me want to gag. It's gross. I would only eat it as a last resort. But you do you. Enjoy.
Well these are the people who brought you boiled mutton.
So bold, yet so wrong. Sourdough taste like you dipped good bread in vinegar and put it in your mouth. It's disgusting. It just doesn't work for me, no matter how many times someone said "this is the best sourdough ever!" I hated it. Enjoy.
That's about as realistic as her lips.
And yes. When I got prostate cancer, I LISTENED TO THE MOTHERFUCKING EXPERTS. And what did they do? THEY CURED MY MOTHERFUCKING PROSTATE CANCER WITH PROTON BEAM RADIATION SIX YEARS AGO.
What the fuck is he even talking about? So who diagnosed his brain worm? A crystal healer in Malibu named Sparrow? Knowing him, that's probably true.
YUMMMMMMM. Enjoy!
But did they do The Monster Mash in Venice?
British people are so bizarre sometimes. She just wanted to use that alliteration at the end. Poor snowflake.
This motherfucker is talking about lynching. He wants to BRING BACK LYNCHING.