Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
He didn't want it more than getting paid.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
He didn't want it more than getting paid.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
That public knowledge led to enough pressure for him to be removed from the ticket.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Those "institutions" belong the democratic people's that they were empowered by. They are the embodiment of democracy itself.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
GOP is carving out people they don't think will survive the general, so they get fresh blood in that their voters will think represents change, but it will be just the next Ernst up
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet they offer no solutions for mental health either.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Happy for her but that is one low effort logo
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Well I've been advocating for publicizing SSNs but this wasn't what I had in mind.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a valiant idea, but horribly misguided. Without the democratic institutions to empower the spending, it's all vanity projects at best.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
How did you determine the “lowest-paying corporations”? Seems cherry picked and not a realistic comparison to inflation.
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
As Donald Trump attempts to create chaos that distracts from his problems, we’ll call it out for what it is. Trump and Republicans are trying to distract from the pain they’re causing — from tariffs raising the prices of goods to stripping away healthcare and food from millions.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social)
I wouldn't even limit it to "police training".
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I just can't buy in to any analysis that uses the presidential voting margins to assume congressional seat races.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Ugh...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I have never liked hearing "that's not my job" before but I do today.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Turned it off after 5 minutes. The onslaught of screen activity was nauseating.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
The darker side is that he thinks the cure to cancer seems intertwined with Dems 'love of crime' or whatever.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
How on earth have we had this country for so long without a ballroom!?!?
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyone who claims that they can end crime has a fundamental misunderstanding of the root causes and probably show anything else in the world works.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
So Trump admits to asking a stupid question.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
If you want others to advocate for your ideology you absolutely do have to have a “sales pitch”.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
DAY ONE PROMISE
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe we have some white hats building public distrust in AI.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm certain he made those claims without any editorialization at all. Just simple, face-value opinions...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem you have is thinking that the tax money is YOURS. It belongs to everyone.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
We can't just let them avoid profit-seeking corporate overlords!
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
You're really cementing his claim that you are incapable of a nuanced position.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope he survives his primary so he can be embarrassed in November.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Adding chemtrails is how I KNOW she’s grifting…
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
He really wants that Nobel
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope security is checking for dildos. Don't need that trend to spread.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
We need headline reform badly
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, it's certainly a step much farther than what's currently available. The discussion is really about finding the line we as a society are comfortable with. Personally, my bigger ethical concern is around availability, if one class is the only one to access it. That seems foregone at this moment
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
IVF already has the ability to review genetic profiles to pick the highest-quality embryo of the group. Maximizes pregnancies going to full term and avoiding abnormalities that would impair development.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Well do we want science or not? Hard to advocate for all this medicine if we can cut the problems off at the source.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
According to the color legend, that's just a Nazi atrocity, not a genocide.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Negotiate a deal and then vote no anyway.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the Rangers can help them get a little lower still.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Sometimes you have to let the fever run its course to rid yourself of a virus.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Showing Merrick how it's supposed to be done.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
No, now they're just unemployed in our country.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
You may be on to something here... The last Cowboy's Super Bowl was during Bush's first year...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
People always say 'freedom isn't free' but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the alternatives.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Ffs even the gop themselves described it as gerrymandering.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
They'll just oust them in the primaries and stay on their side of the aisle. But if it drags the overton window back towards the center, it's still a marginal improvement.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
They're gonna have a hell of a time gerrymandering his seat...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Flood is right about one thing... a lot of misinformation about the bill, but it's coming from his side of the aisle.
Pookleblinky (@pookleblinky.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s exactly a filibuster and the reason why quorums even exist at all!
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
As a Texan have to agree with this. We are sadly a pox on our nation.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
It dominated the right wing media way more than anyone in the center or left cared.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
They are no more a monolith than Democrats are.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
When did Democrats start writing those headlines?
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
A concept of a plan
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Then they try to give you pricing that's only good until they walk out the door!
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
And they are doing exactly what their constituents are asking of them.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Shout out to Illinois for harboring the Texas Dems breaking quorum on the GOP redistricting fiasco.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate to seemingly capitulate on this, but this is part of shy 'state's rights' is still a relevant conversation in the US. We will need blue states to stave off shit like this.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Monthly loan payments... lol. They don't have monthly loan payments at that level. Usually just periodic interest payments while the principal stays untouched until it's refinanced or sold.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Estimates of future earnings. You seem intent on trying to make a simple financial transaction sound as complicated as possible.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
You can easily take a loan against the equity to buy whatever you want.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
It's actually quite easy to borrow against and make payroll. Taking on debt against equity to fund operations is MBA 101.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Alcohol and tobacco use are much less likely to be abused politically. The extent at which someone's perfectly legal online usage could be weaponized is not hard to understand.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
And they get all that information from your credit card, and it isn't at the mercy of the state.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
You didn't say 'scan', you merely implied you are showing your age verification.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
The person at the counter at the liquor store isn’t logging all the information and saving it in perpetuity. The differences aren’t that difficult to understand.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
The "woke mob" that FN keeps talking about? Gonna be looking for that a long time before you ever find it.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
For all the dumb shit he does, this one is fine.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Good opportunity to learn some lessons and improve the process for next time.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Just short of qualifying innings? Another couple of starts and he should be on the list.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Such a ridiculous strawman
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Tommy has never coached under Jerry Jones before.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
It would presumably be a question of whether the legislature can impose that rule on the executive branch, and we know how the judiciary would react...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
They aren't in Congress.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
And I wonder how much of problem was just not voting for a woman.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Six years may be too far out for him anyway...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Gonna be real fun when the AI alternative starts messing up orders and care goes to shit.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Talerico: They are trying to insulate themselves from the will of the people. Normally, when you pass unpopular policies, you lose seats in the next election. That's how this is supposed to work.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
This is false justification for the bs going on in Texas.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I think he meant get to at least the fourth floor of a ten-story building. Was worded weirdly.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
What are the other victim’s occupations?
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been loving some Hans Zimmer after I watched F1.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
How many were unplanned?
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s presuming Micah would have taken a smaller deal earlier, which is a pretty silly assumption given his leverage.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Who thinks he isn’t going to pay Micah? He’s usually quite reliable about paying his guys.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would they think Jerry isn’t gonna pay Micah?
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Grammar check...?
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social)
The 'no tax on tips' bit feels more like an incentive to keep people in the service industry and abandon hopes of climbing the economic ladder, just wrapped in a faux-populist policy.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I get the Cancun trip issue, but this complaint is silly.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not entirely unconvinced that the right hasn't already committed to the other side of climate change with targeting Canada and Denmark for northern migration of what's left of the US population.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Bibi might start bombing New York at that rate.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
They'll have their 'tea party' moment eventually, right??
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
They couldn't 'get over' a black man in the Oval Office bunch of hypocrites.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
You could tell the college game was looking much crisper during the tournament this year. It still has the college ball playbook, but it feels like what the NBA used to be before they over-hyped shooters.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
It's all theater for consolidating political power...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel will still use the fake ceasefire news to justify more violence. Have to know what Trump is saying to know what his MAGAts will be told what to think.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
It's more likely he just claims a ceasefire agreement so that when Iran inevitably doesn't honor a deal that was never in place, he gets to justify additional attacks.
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Homes are for people not parasites. Go SPAIN!
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
Love's is probably pretty happy with that jersey sponsorship about now...
Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent
I doubt it would change anything about the competitiveness of the game.