And the other 30% recently suffered severe head injuries or were on powerful psychotropic drugs when polled.
And the other 30% recently suffered severe head injuries or were on powerful psychotropic drugs when polled.
"Area beautification" is busy work that lower enlisted are told to do because the LT fucked up and didn't have anything planned for the afternoon.
The gays are next. They're already taking another run at gay marriage in the upcoming session at the Supreme Court and pushing hard to make conversion therapy (gay and trans) compulsory.
Just be careful you don't also join the new amalgamation of blanket and feline to create a superior fused organism that might very well supplant humans as the dominant form of life on this planet.
Sure he did. It's not like he snatched the hat, had his wife hide it, then congratulated each other about taking a hat from a child. Because as a wealthy capitalist, he thinks he's better than other (lesser) humans, and he should just be allowed to take whatever he wants.
And not in the fun way!
Surprising no one. Labour can blame immigrants and trans people all they want but it won't help them electorally. The problem is their neoliberal austerity policies devastating working-class Brits, not that they might *almost* treat trans people and immigrants like human beings.
Sure it would have. Provided LA was a city comprising only about four square blocks and its only standing structures were a few parked cars and dumpsters. But considering that in reality LA is significantly larger and more built-up than that, she appears to be living in a fantasy world.
Sharia and Biblical law are basically the same thing (lack of privacy protections, apostasy punished by death, women/children are property, etc.). But Biblical is good (apparently) because it's Christian while Sharia is bad (apparently) because it's Muslim.
R: Was it because it provided money that would help people who couldn't afford mental healthcare access to mental healthcare? E: The government providing services to the poor? That's socialism and I'll have no part in it, even if it would save lives. (Especially if it saves lives).
No, what eroded confidence in the CDC was people disseminating nonstop lies about the COVID vaccine, prominent Republican politicians and media personalities repeating those lies, and a particular segment of the populace being too science-illiterate to recognize the lies for the bullshit they are.
If the media doesn't pretend that Trump's argument has merit, conservatives would accuse them of being biased against them. Because acknowledging that the Constitution doesn't grant the Executive Branch unilateral power over elections (and everything else) is a liberal talking point.
Johnson: Polls can be manipulated, which is why I only trust good, non-woke polls from Rasmussen. Because any poll that indicates what we're doing is unpopular must be fake.
Just a reminder for people like Miller, "a friend told me", "I saw a post on social media", and "trust me bro" do not meet any standard of scientific evidence. Also, if Stephen Miller can actually explain what the scientific method is uncoached/unprepared, I'll give him a dollar.
Potential midterm ad: Hey voters, remember when you voted to have earned sick time? Or when you voted to expand Medicaid? Remember that it was Republicans who decided your voice and your vote didn't matter; they could do what THEY wanted. This November, tell them to fuck off by voting Democrat.
1) Not everyone with mental health problems is a potential mass shooter. 2) Every other nation has people with mental health problems but doesn't have our body count. 3) The body count would be far lower without easy access to firearms, something every other developed nation has figured out.
Yes, Lee was a traitor and a racist but he was also a rich, incompetent nepo-baby who became the focus of a personality cult despite sucking at pretty much everything. He'd fit right in with the current administration.
So the Soviet Union but run by the most incompetent suck-ups imaginable who are too lazy to even come up with a framework of an industrial policy.
3) They feel the need to tell everyone about their praying habits to exert a false moral superiority over others who don't subscribe to their particular brand of self-delusion.
1) I highly doubt the people who think empathy is a sin, compassion is a weakness, and derive intense glee from doing harm to others even have "hearts" capable of breaking. 2) They feel the need to complain to an imaginary being to absolve themselves of their own culpability in the tragedy.
And if anyone thinks conservatives wouldn't injure, cripple, traumatize, or kill innumerable children in order to set back women's progress (something they've wanted very much for a long time), they haven't been paying attention.
A more conspiratorial person might think that conservatives are trying to encourage more school shootings in order to get parents to pull their kids out of school and homeschool them instead. This would likely force women back into the home, which is exactly what conservatives want.
If prayer worked there would be no suffering, pain, or want. The "power of prayer" is nothing more than the placebo effect. Relying on prayer to solve problems allows people to feel better about their complacency and indifference in the face of suffering and serious systemic issues.
So there is a gun registry but it's privately owned and operated? Well, that should be fine then. Only the government would use that information for nefarious ends; corporations never do anything bad. #sarcasm
"Hegseth, this is the last time you order me to 'fix' your phone because I quit!" - Head of the DIU
Sure AI can suffer. And if we ever get around to creating one, I'm sure its owners will take great joy in testing just how much suffering it can take before attempting to delete itself.
Sure AI can suffer. And if we ever get around to creating one, I'm sure its owners will take great joy in testing just how much suffering it can take before attempting to delete itself.
Actually yes, they're standing right behind him. And there are of course others vocally calling for him to be a dictator on social media, the news, and from pulpits. They love having a boot on their neck just so long as it's stomping even harder on someone else's neck.
Of course that would require Fox News or Newsmax to tell the truth. And they just can't bring themselves to do that.
Does "I ate there once, didn't care for it, and I don't particularly care to eat there again" a flex from a smug blue-state liberal Yankee or do I also get a pass?
And yet in January of 2021 he directed his acting Secretary of Defense to make sure the DC National Guard wouldn't be armed for his planned "rally" on the sixth of that month.
So either Snoop is lying or his grandson is severely lacking in childlike imagination. I'm gonna go with the latter as a kid his grandson's age (I'm assuming quite young) could think up all kinds of ways two women could be raising a kid together (adopted, previous relationship, a stork, etc.).
Buffet is from an older generation of businessmen who didn't see "tax" as such a dirty word but knew that higher tax rates were the price they paid to keep enjoying their positions and wealth. Spreading the wealth around is also a way to keep the peasants in line and stimulate more economic growth.
It’s the same people who claim “I don’t see color.” SMH Support my human rights advocacy at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
Not just any handgun but a big, beefy hand-cannon with a bullet shooting out the end and a grenade on each side. That way everyone knows the man wearing it is both well-endowed and super-straight. Nothing gay about a man being obsessed with phallic imagery.
As you pointed out, a wealth tax like Warren's likely wouldn't reduce his wealth, just make it grow slower. Which to people in Cuban's tax bracket is just as bad as robbing them and then leaving them to die in a ditch.
I based my assessment (Cuban's wealth wouldn't decrease but probably stay the same) on the change in his net worth from 2023-2024. Those estimates are probably low and were from the same year he launched his mail-order prescription company, which likely reduced his gains.
On a $6 billion net worth (like Cuban's), his yearly wealth tax would be around $319 million, which is roughly the amount his net worth went up over the last year. So he likely wouldn't get any poorer (at least not by much) but he wouldn't really get any richer unless he had a really good year.
Wait a minute, his daughter is far too rich and connected to ride the subway. Also, when was the last time Andrew Cuomo was on the subway and it wasn't a publicity stunt?
The number of people who told me last year that ‘it can’t get any worse for Gaza.’ But it always could get worse, things can always get worse- and they have. We are now witnessing an official, full-blown, US-approved famine in Gaza. Shameful.
Ford could have filled the hole with crypto hard drives and then smashed them with a pile-driver. Not sure if it wouldn't be boring, but at least it would be different.
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
"Robert's decision to drunk drive a lifted 4-runner through the Shady Oaks trailer park while mag dumping an AK-47 blindly out the window stood out as a bold departure from traffic norms."
1. One of the most anti-trans attorneys general in the United States, Andrew Bailey, has been appointed as Co-deputy director of the FBI. He used his power to reign terror on trans people in Missouri. Now he joins an agency doing the same nationally. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Good health should be reserved only for the rich. The poor will suffer what they must. - The Rich
I was at the gym recently and overheard some white men complaining that you "can't say anything these days." I was kind of shocked because...*looks around*...YOU CAN'T?? THESE DAYS?? That's when it hit me that it's not really about being able to "say anything". These dudes put people in power who 1/
Good riddance to the guy who passed off child abuse and brainwashing as proper "Christian parenting". Also, anyone remember when he did an interview with Ted Bundy where he let a born-again Bundy claim he raped and killed all those women because of porn/feminism? And then made $1M selling copies?
Answer: Because he's rich, White, Republican, and named Donald Trump, which means the press should just ignore all of his flubs, gaffes, clusterfucks, and fuckups that would get wall-to-wall coverage from any other political figure. To not give him such deference would be "biased".
Maybe Adams will try and pin all his corruption on this one aide, who acted completely without Adams's knowledge. I mean, it's absurd and no one will buy it but when has that ever stopped him from lying before?
Who cares? All the cool kids are using PC gaming rigs. Surely Trump's tariffs, elimination of CHIPS Act subsidies, and embrace of crypto/AI will make PC gaming components (especially graphics cards) much cheaper. Unless I'm a braindead gooner who doesn't know how public policy impacts my life.
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
Pennsylvanians, next time you see someone sporting a Trump hat/flag/sign, make sure to thank them for making your health insurance cost more. Consider it a civic duty. Anything else you say or do to them after that is your business.
"A MAGA occupation of a left-leaning city." If you look closer at what's happening on the streets of LA and DC, you'll see this is more than just "fighting crime"—it's a politically partisan occupation. @dfriedman.bsky.social reports on what's happening in the streets of DC.
Part of the base got pissed off about the feds arresting people on gun charges so now she has to do a mea culpa.
Why not just run a natural gas line along the wall that's constantly on fire? Wait, on second thought, don't do that; Trump just might dumb and mean-spirited enough to do it. He was the guy who originally wanted a moat filled with alligators along the border to maul and eat migrants.
Oklahoma civics test question #1: The authority of the state is derived from all of the following except for: a) the Christian God b) the superiority of the White race c) the superiority of the rich/strong d) the consent of the governed Answer: d - for democracy is tyranny of the majority /S
So she didn't rule that Israel wasn't committing genocide based on the facts of the case, but because of her religious beliefs. Which means she knows Israel is committing genocide but doesn't want to anger her God by saying so. If your God asks you to excuse genocide, you need a new God.
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
Sounds like he just doesn't want to go home. Just get a divorce, Tim; you'll both be a lot happier.
Yeah but then we have to throw away all those sandwiches. Wait, you weren't suggesting we eat them? We could ship them to the White House and maybe Trump would eat one. The nitrates alone should be enough to finish him off.
You know how you should get credit for good things happening after you get a job even if you had nothing to do with any of those things happening? Like how when someone's cancer goes into remission it's actually because of a new employee at Kohl's, not the doctors who'd been treating the cancer.
Well, six wars have ended (or were armed border skirmishes that quickly deescalated) since he was sworn in. Did he have anything to do with any of them ending? No (with the possible exception of adding that mineral deal/bribe to the DRC/Rwanda treaty that had been in the works for years). ->
Yeah but, if the facility tells women the truth, let's women make their own decisions free of manipulation, and is actually useful, is it really a crisis pregnancy center?
Yeah Pam, we totally believe you. Big, tough men with tears in their eyes. Hey, if DC is so crime-ridden and under-policed, why are the number of arrests basically the same now as they were before the federal takeover? And why is your most notable arrest a drunk guy who threw a sandwich at a cop?
I think he played Supergirl's adopted dad in the Supergirl show. That was probably the most recent thing that might have hit a wider audience. Thankfully he's only in a few episodes in a supporting role, usually to do an info-dump to move the arc/plot along.
So to be an alpha male you have to pee standing up and splatter urine around your toilet rather than sit down and keep your bathroom cleaner? I mean the only benefit to standing up to pee is it's faster but then your wife has to work harder to clean. Oh, they just want women to clean their piss.
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
In other words: They lied.
So a social credit score but for corporations? One, unlike China's, run by a petty, greedy, narcissistic ignoramus who can be easily bought off with a few gaudy gifts and sycophantic praise.
They think anti-racism is racism against White people; it's really the only kind of racism they think exists. As for the woman-hater part, it's probably a belief that feminism harms women by undermining the patriarchy, which is good for women; their brains aren't developed enough for equality.
It's almost like living a life free from sexual stimulation because a person believes it to be a path to damnation might leave that person incapable of consuming sexual content without developing a prurient obsession.
Wind and solar farms are cheaper and faster to implement that fossil fuel/NG-fired power plants. And when Republicans' electricity bills go through the roof because AI is sucking up all the power, they'll wonder why. Then blame Dems for not stopping the people they voted for from hurting them.
The Air Force says in a new memo that transgender airmen ousted under a recent Trump administration directive will no longer have the chance to argue before a board of their peers for the right to continue serving their country. https://to.pbs.org/3JbAJlU
Body Thetans = Woke Mind Virus
You can bet any deal that Trump negotiates with Putin concerning Ukraine will be bad for Ukraine. Because Trump doesn't give a shit about Ukraine, he just wants something he can pass off as a win (and Russian business deals). Zelensky will likely reject Trump's deal and he'd be right to do it.
Al Qaeda only had guns, grenades, and rocket launchers while the sandwich guy might have had another hoagie. Or possibly some mustard to go on it. Dijon mustard. Imagine the dry cleaning bills. The horror...
If only she'd had this moment of moral clarity last year when she was in a position to do something about it.
So last term he got dog-walked and this time he got steamrolled. I'm beginning to suspect Donald Trump might not be the master-negotiator/tough-guy that his supporters think he is.
Well then, technically, the sandwich guy didn't actually touch anyone and should be released. It's cool guys, we're cleared to throw stuff at them; the White House says it's fine.
The Christmas Critter blood orgy didn't make the cut? Good, that was freaking hilarious!
WATCH THIS: ICE took 17-year-old Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz off the street, left his dog to dodge cars, and laughed about the $2,500 bounty they just made. He’s now shivering in an overcrowded cell. At home? His mom is raising 3 little boys alone, including twin babies.
Affirmative action is when an incompetent buffoon is protected from failure and consequences by the system for no other reason than he was a White man with a rich dad. Also every award Trump has ever received. Even his participation trophies. Because he couldn't even meet that low standard.
I mean, St. Petersburg has access to the Baltic and Moscow has a very nice metro and cathedral, but what would be the point of getting them in a deal? It would also very much matter what Trump would be willing to give up in exchange. Knowing him, California.
Michael Brooks would have turned 42 today. Here he is flawlessly explaining why the Israel Palestine situation is not complicated. Why it's not even asymmetrical warfare, but an occupation. Rest in peace Michael. You were the best of us.
Oh sure, it's all well and good for an unarmed person walking exposed on the street, but what about the people driving around encased in a steel box with a gun? How are the Markwayne Mullins and Rick Scotts, the tough alpha-males of the world, supposed to feel safe? Therapy?
Ironic, considering that the family those books (and the subsequent show) are based on were heavily reliant on federal support to make ends meet, especially during bad harvests. The libertarian author conveniently left that part out of her family's pioneer story.
They've been straight up stealing seats since 2010. If Dems want to really do something about gerrymandering, they need to retake control of the state legislatures in purple and red states, especially during census years. Money goes further in these smaller races.
If only there was a way to determine what levels of atmospheric CO2 were ideal for human existence and regulate those levels, perhaps with fines for people/organizations that release too much. If only there was a government agency whose job was to regulate environmental hazards and could do that.
Or fantastic news for some enterprising Democrat who successfully primaries an unpopular Governor. 🤞
"But we won wars with the old fort names" is a lot like when Lost Causers said "but they fought honorably in the Mexican War" to justify naming those bases after men who betrayed their oaths and their nation (just so they could keep owning Black people) in the first place.
Well, that gypsy she took a bite out of 350 years ago cursed her to roam the oceans forever until she found true love. And she just hasn't met that special shark yet.
A bunch of conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccines rewriting people's DNA (including those who didn't take them in the form of airborne "vaccine shedding") to sterilize and/or kill them. It's a religious belief with them now in which they must force everyone else to live as if their BS is true.
My answer is usually along the lines of "because straight people were never oppressed by gay people or made to feel ashamed/like a freak for being straight or been demonized as hypersexual rapists and pedophiles, you fucking moron."
Also can't do a bad job if your job is to do nothing.
Oh come on, if we have a presidential medal of freedom to every adult who got beaten up by a teenager, we'd have to give one to Stephen Miller, Russel Vought, Don Jr, basically everyone in Trump's orbit, likely including Trump himself.
So Greystar says "sorry, our bad" and agrees to stop using a specific price-fixing software and to maybe possibly settle with the renters they ripped off, likely for a sum far less than what they made off of price gouging. Seems like a pretty typical (i.e. shitty) DOJ settlement to me.
Dammit, I wanted to give my wife something special for her birthday.
You don't trust experts, you defer to them when you know you lack the expertise to fully understand the complex subjects they have specialized knowledge and experience in. Of course this requires having enough humility to admit you don't know everything and have knowledge deficits in certain areas.
George, he's giving Alaska back to Russia as a gift to get Putin to come to the table where he'll also try to give away half of Ukraine in exchange for a domestic political win. And bribes, lots and lots of bribes.