Yet they don't want us to call them stupid.....
Yet they don't want us to call them stupid.....
We shall commit close-range sandwichings with Italian beef...
We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in Pilsen, we shall fight on the Lakefront Trail, we shall fight them with giardiniera and footwork, we shall defend our city, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on Lower Lower Wacker, we shall fight in the Jewel; we shall never fucking surrender.
It's like waiting by the phone for someone to invite you to the prom...
They couldn't find one stiff enough.
Release the files, asshats.
Bunker bitch π€£ May I borrow that for a protest sign?
Perfection
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This is what happens when you're the mediocre fuckup in a family of achievers and you're enraged that even your own family is failing to give you your self-presumed due simply for existing.
Of course, one wonders what kind of economic productivity Bobby Brainworm, the original nepo-baby, has brought to anything.
Absolutely this. And when we ban books before we demand full release of the Epstein files, we admit that we're more afraid of our children learning than of our daughters becoming the next victims of pedophilia.
I would add to this scenario that everyone flees like rats from a ship, leaving him marooned at Mar-a-Lago, where he lingers for a few years with only Melania to exact her revenge...um...care for him...
It was a "minor circulatory problem to the head."
Yet we live in a world where social media posts have to be around 300 characters or less; phone communication is done predominantly by text vs. real conversation, and fewer and fewer people want to read full-length books anymore. We live by sound-bytes; why are we surprised tv isn't any different?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Fed and military forces on gardening duty in DC, law enforcement on Chalk Watch in Florida. Hilarious!
Happy Labor Day. Release the Epstein files!
Always hated the comic strip. And tv show. Which was on my grandparents' local access tv station 24/7 when we'd visit (pre-cable days). I didn't have the vocab to understand why everyone seemed like such dour assholes, but def caught the vibe. In hindsight, it should have been called "Bag of Dicks."
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
I just hope the state doesn't have any big, miles-long highway construction projects going on on the highways in between the naval base and the city that could slow down traffic...
Well, you know, traffic can get crazy around the base at certain times, and the highways around here are always a crapshoot. With all the increased activity anticipated, one wants to be sure to plan accordingly so as not to be inconvenienced...π
They're planning to use Great Lakes Naval Base, which is an hour outside the city in the northern suburbs, to house ICE (Insecure Crybaby Eunuchs). If you live in the area, I came across the following, which might be helpful. (1 of 6).
@govpritzker.illinois.gov I sure hope there won't be any big road construction zones on I-94, I-294, and I-90 next week that would get in the way of traffic between Great Lakes naval base and downtown.
1/6: In case people don't want to get caught in traffic jams, I came across some useful information:
Does this mean it's not dead yet?
Now if they had been holding special forest rakes...
Yeah, that'll get everyone to show up...
I hope it was worth "owning the libs" for red-state families with sick children...
More Performative Pretend Theater.
Can we tape Snoop Dogg's eyes open for it?
Seriously, though. Is it dead yet?
Does that mean we'd actually get to see him drop? There isn't enough popcorn in the world...
Well, at least he'd get the massive crowds he's always craved, unlike his limp military parade....
I'm more worried about a "Dave" situation, with the impersonator already lined up and Stephen Miller stepping into the Frank Langella role...
I googled this to cross-reference sources for authenticity, and no lie, this is what came up:
You know, I've been watching reruns of the first season of "Designated Survivor" while the song "Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying" goes through my head, over and over and over. This is my new happy place.
Making threats to garner a Peace Prize isn't very...peaceful.
But there will be a missing minute or ten...
That's an insult to rocks.
Comer will be asking the if they have a daughter.
Well, she had to die (politically speaking) sometime.
The rest of the world should embargo all of our food products.
PARTISAN HACKS!
Marco is the Grover Dill of the Trump administration.
Okay, there's a part 4 (we really need an edit button). There will always be plagiarism and shortcuts, and good teachers can usually spot it. If AI is here to stay, we should be talking about what kinds of tools will help teachers spot, source, and manage the problem so kids can be held accountable.
3/3: I got a paper full of $5 words and sophisticated Freudian analysis of Jane Eyre from kid whose previous papers never got higher than a C- and never used a word with more than 2 syllables. I asked for time to look for the source, but school said I had to grade what I had on its own merits.
2/3: One kid retyped the intro *to the class textbook* and handed it in to a colleague. The parents threatened to sue the school when the kid got an F, claiming my colleague was "damaging their future." The school sided with parents.
1/3: This is nothing new, just wider scale. I taught lit and composition at a top university in the pre-digital age and you'd be amazed at the brazen, wholesale plagiarism that went on. And it was just as sloppy as this dreck.
2/2: I'll always support small business whenever possible, but, inevitably, they're going to get more expensive too. Which means we'll all be spending less there as well as anywhere else. I know I'm already realizing just how much I don't need.
1/2: Problem is that the tariffs will hit them too -- costs for ingredients, equipment, services from other companies or vendors whose cost of business is going up, etc.
So next time, zero blue-state money goes to them or any other GOP-led state.
This is a clear violation of the purpose and use for which we gave the government OUR money (not theirs!) for our entire working lives. This is not what we agreed to, so I honestly don't understand why there aren't massive class action suits?
Hmm. Wonder who they all voted for?
My son knew that if he missed the school bus I'd drive him in my bathrobe, pull right up to the front, throw car in park, walk around to the passenger side, and personally escort him in, while singing "I am First Lastname's mother" in a mock opera voice, at the top of my lungs. He never tested me. π
Of course the simple solution is don't use ChatGPT.
So to be perfectly clear: Trump and the GOP would rather spend billions on making the military pick up garbage in blue cities and turning ICE into a paramilitary kidnapping and trafficking business than cure children's cancer. To be even clearer: this applies to red state children too.
Brilliant. Is there a version for proprietary/copyrighted text?
So our cultural landscape will consist of plagiarized pastiche cobbled together by creatively bankrupt fools who always envied those with real talent and now fancy themselves "auteurs." Bonus: we'll get to pay for their artistic cosplay with higher utility bills as they gobble water and electricity.
Of course, Trump doesn't have friends, only toadies who secretly loathe him even as they abase themselves at his feet, and who would flee like rats off a sinking ship if he ever became too vulnerable. The only real friend he's ever had was Jeffrey Epstein.
2/2: "COULD [INSERT NAME] BE ON THE LIST? WHY ELSE WOULD THEY WANT TO HELP PEDOPHILES AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY?" New posts every damn day until list is released in full, no redactions. Have a portal for people all over the country to send links from local news that otherwise wouldn't hit the radar.
1/2: Somebody with more platform and better technical skills than I have should start a "listwatch" and make it public: Any time anyone goes on record about why The List shouldn't be released, post a link to that statement and caption in large, boldfaced, scarlet letters:
If "thoughts and prayers" worked, those Big-Mac-filled arteries would have burst on 1/21/25.
Nails it.
Tom Clancy's Little House On the Prairie
You know how a lot of buildings don't have a 13th floor? I foresee a time when the number 47 will just get skipped in any kind of list or itemization.
Welcome to another day of is it dead yet?
Somewhere right now Trump is reading* about this, and the idea of jail-time for lese-majeste is giving him a very warm, excited feeling in his nether regions. *Edit: Trump is having someone read this to him. We all know he can't read.
Collins is a disgrace to Maine and to women.
"School shooter or ICE" isn't an either/or. Most ICE were probably wannabe school shooters who saw themselves as cowardly for not following through. Now they're very excited to stride around waving guns with which they have a license to threaten anyone who rubs them the wrong way.
Fine, we'll shut up about FEMA, for now. Instead, let's discuss the Epstein files and the fact that our President is a pedophile, trafficker, and rapist....
Front-page headlines about how this administration failed to get a grand jury indictment for a potentially deadly sandwiching at close range. How utterly embarrassing for them.
I don't always believe unqualified, egomaniacal posers, but when I do it's because they claim to have "fixed" or "cured" something in just a few months that has eluded the world's top researchers for decades. π
For scores of teenaged girls, Mar a Lago and Epstein Island were the hellholes...
Says the man who took home an illegal whale head trophy. But apparently this is okay though: www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/24/n...
2/2: And then they could have monopolized and manipulated that market to bend us over and enrich themselves out of all proportion, just as they have with fossil fuels. But at least they'd be bending us over in a cleaner world.
1/2: The sad irony is that the fossil fuel industries were better positioned than almost anyone else to lead the charge in developing alternative fuels themselves, had they chosen to look forward instead of backward.
Helluva lot more expensive waste management than their own actual waste management department...
Gross.
Currying favor with Kim Jong Trump requires many, many showers to wash off the shame.
Kim Jong Trump is just living the dream. How many showers do we think Chavez-DeRemer had to take to feel clean again after that pathetic self-abasement?
Not gonna lie, I was on scroll-gaze and first thought it said "urinary executive." Which, considering that President Depends is likely propping up the adult diaper industry, seemed really appropriate.
I want my 40 years' worth of witholding back. With interest. This is NOT what I paid into, it violates the terms under which I loaned my money to the government, and I don't want my money helping to make it happen.
I'm so thankful I live in IL right now. Brilliant speech from a governor who's been stepping up from day one. But also: EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN. Lest we forget that he's trying to distract us.
Why don't they just start calling them "royal decrees"? It would be more honest...
Honestly, the lengths to which Trump's minions will go to convince themselves that the emperor is wearing any clothes are truly contortionate. And it makes Trump and his henchmen look like squealing weaklings, gathering their skirts and jumping up on chairs to avoid a squeaking mouse.
Utterly pathetic. What a colossal waste of federal resources that should be directed toward real problems, and what an insulting diminishment of our military, few if any of whom are likely to have enlisted so they could bust misdemeanor-level nothingburgers and pretend it makes them manly.