Great video. "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Great video. "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
"We've turned into a whining society." ~ Billy Corgan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_C...
"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve." ~ Robert Burns en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick" ~ William Butler Yeats en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Y...
"Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government..." ~ Plato en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
"Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler." ~ Henry David Thoreau en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_D...
Soon JD will be saying things like this: "A Homeland, A State, A Leader." ~ Francisco Franco
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality." ~ Henry David Thoreau en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_D...
"What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things." ~ Alexander Pope en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand." ~ Aphra Behn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_B...
"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream." ~ William Shakespeare
"Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable." ~ Carlos Castaneda en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_...
"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this." ~ George Mason en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
"Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die old!" ~ Ebenezer Elliott en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneze...
I find acting like a stupid person really works as a noncompliance strategy. It's hard for anyone to get mad at you when you just come across as a complete moron.
The Republican party needs a better class of sycophant. "I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets." ~ Eugene V. Debs
The Administration's goal is to turn the USA into Russia.
They can hide from the public but not from themselves.
Republicans in congress cannot defend their collective cowardice. These people don't deserve to hold any office.
I suspect private insurance is already using AI to automate the denial process. I was recently denied a refill on a prescription that I've been taking for 10 years. With zero push-back from the government, there will be more of this garbage moving forward.
Republican politicians lying to their constituents is nothing new. Most Republican voters understand what's going on. It's sad.
When Vance speaks, I see this.
Yeah. I’m not flamed that often. But when it happens, blocking is your friend.
Pacing is important with the administration’s almost daily outrage campaign. But you’re right. This fight is draining. Stay strong.
"There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind." ~ Patrick Rothfuss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...
Tom Clancy’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 😎
Hope someone steps up. If not, there are services via the internet. Of course, you might have to spend a bit for what should be an inexpensive part. There also are many videos on YouTube on how to fix broken pieces of plastic. Some of those tutorials are pretty amazing.
You're right, of course, but I worry about increased disease spread when people start spending more time indoors.
Is it bad to have multiple options for getting a booster? Asking for a friend. 🥸
Start getting ready to go into hibernation mode when COVID begins to reemerge. 😠
The party of Lincoln no longer exists. It's been fading away for decades.
Thanks. It did sound suspiciously modern.
Those bundles need to be unwrapped. 🥸
One of the scary things about Trump is he knows the end is in sight. He's doing whatever he wants while he can. He doesn't care about the future because he won't be there.
"Life is good when you have a good sandwich." ~ Keanu Reeves
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." ~ Dashiell Hammett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiel...
"...where Big Balls dropped" might work better in my humble opinion. 🥸
"We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show." ~ George Pataki MAGA response? Been there, done that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
"Some days are for living. Others are for getting through." ~ Malcolm Forbes 🥸
"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available... And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads." ~ Bill Watterson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wa...
"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends." ~ Otto Hermann Kahn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_He...
"It is acknowledged... that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws." Aeschines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschines
It's on John Roberts for empowering this elderly orange clown.
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." ~ Ronald Reagan From the MAGA memory hole.
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities." ~ Josiah Stamp Let's hope this is true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_...
"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game." ~ Vladimir Nabokov en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimi...
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who is running for the Democratic Nomination next time around? Tim Walz, Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Andy Beshear, and Chris Murphy seem likely. Will it finally be the moment for a heterosexual White man to break through? 🥸
Miller yearns for White Utopia where everyone can wear a watch in public. Yeah, I don't understand it either.
"I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else." ~ Hillary Clinton Fine by me. But it's time for bold solutions. Incremental tweaks are killing our democracy.
"It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey." ~ Homer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship." ~ Corazon Aquino en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corazon...
But Florida is number one in sunburns, mosquito bites, and cosmetic surgery. 🥸
"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country." ~ Greta Garbo
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." ~ Ronald Reagan Guess who helped to make this true? 🥸
"If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all." ~ Jacob G. Hornberger 🥸
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." ~ Marcus Aurelius en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_...
"The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact..." ~ Henry A. Wallace en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A...
It’s appropriate that a MAGA guy is hitting on a 15 year old girl, right? 🙄
To be MAGA is NEVER saying you are sorry. 🥸
More Mayberry and less Seal Team 6 would be nice. But it will be hard to do with all the military-grade weapons floating around.
"In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all." ~ John Locke
For real...
Yeah. A lot of people are casually cruel about who should fund cutting edge research for hard-to-treat and rare conditions. The private sector won't do it. They only want to chase blockbuster treatments. They aren't interesting in anything that won't plump up the bottom line.
It's always the brave folks with anonymous profiles who talk this way. It's not very civilized or productive.
It seems like democrats are always shooting for incremental changes. The trick is finding a good way to sell a plan for greater economic and personal security. That's FDR 2.0 at least.
But you see the crime is dropping because Trump is threatening to ship everyone to Uganda. Kidding, but you know Fox will get around to messaging things this way.
I think people need to decide they don't want to keep making the same mistakes of the past. It's time to make some new mistakes. 🥸
Democrats need to fight harder while articulating a vision of a better future. They can't do either while prioritizing their Wall Street and Corporatist donors.
Yeah. Too many people are not taking the threat seriously enough. Nothing will matter if you end up having to live your life with boot permanently affixed to your neck. Too many people still believe we are one election cycle away from getting back on the right track.
This is the way patriarchy has always worked. It's why MAGA calls Trump daddy and pretends not to understand the toxicity of his character.
Can you make people who are inclined to authoritarianism less authoritarian? I'm not sure.
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Peach Fleur is giving us way too much credit.
I think self-regard is the dominant political philosophy in academia. 🥸
"To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them." ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 🥸
When my veins roll, I pass out. It makes blood draws an adventure.
The T-bag has spoken.
I love Jesse's Grocho eyebrows. Do you think they are tattoos? He should really add the mustache.
👍 It is hard to understand why many on the MAGA side believe that Ukraine deserved to die as a nation. It is a perverse worldview I struggle to comprehend.
"Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible." ~ Vincent de Paul 🥸 Trump (or Miller, rather) will not make this mistake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent...
Yeah, he should really be using those forearm veins--unless they are already blown out. "I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts." ~ Albert Einstein 🥸
"When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error." ~ Gautama Buddha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama...
"Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door." ~ Stephen Young chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...
Vance says outrageously stupid things because no one cares (except the people on Bluesky). Next time Welker interviews Vance, she should park him on an old sofa and ask, "Well, Mr. Vice President, does this bring back any memories."
I hate the ways the Democrats leadership communicate. Their parses are parsed to the point where it's all meaningless gibberish. Jeffries is one of the biggest offenders. Just start talking like you're from NYC, man.
My academic career was brief, but the department meetings always gave me a Politburo vibe. You never knew who was going to be next to get the knife.
"Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors." ~ Amy Poehler Right on, Amy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Poe...
Tom. I like a robust vocabulary as much as the next nerd, but "educated social media users?"
For the people who are just now feeling alarmed... Duuuuuuuuh!
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals." ~ Malcolm X
It's not about accepting. Even MAGAts accept that Trump is a sexual predator. It's about outcomes.
"Stochastic is the property of being well-described by a random probability distribution." Not sure this will help most of us. Even the folks who took grad-level probability courses.
Trump will definitely be in Moscow on June 12, 2026, though. 🥸
Some folks only like change when it involves "owning the libs." Everything else is an attack on sacred heritage. 🥸
Send all the Dem pols (actually and wannabe) "The Elements of Style."
Metabolic processes are not very fast. So I could imagine a thought taking two weeks to travel from Donald's shriveled nut of a brains to his vocal cords. 🥸
This statement has not aged well. "Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law." ~ Barack Obama