New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream!
KHAAAAAAAANN!!!!
He should become the change he wants to see.
Date night!!
While it's a bad idea to let Republicans change the subject away from the Epstein files, I do think there's one exception that the American people ought to allow Republicans to immerse themselves in, legitimately back-burnering Epstein: The 25th Amendment.
"if we think Ambassador Bolton committed a crime"? Isn't that ("we think he committed a crime") what you promised a judge in order to get the search warrant?
I disagree with JD. I think the 1st Amendment protects Republicans' rights to yell at people on the streets. Sure, we could imprison all Republican and thereby solve the problem, but it's not worth the precedent.
If someone *literally tells you* "I'm going to punch you in the face" why would you put up sign saying "he won't punch us in the face?" He told everyone he was going to impose tariffs. Everyone knew prices would go up. Everyone. The guy who put up this sign must have known, too.
Senile. Looks damn near complete, too. This isn't the very stable genius who wrote the "having nuclear" speech of 2015. 2025 Trump just isn't anywhere near that coherent.
Looks like an admission that no planning or research happened.
Generally weakening the US economy and destroying our ability to wage war wouldn't be distressing for Putin, would it? If you hypothesize Trump et al work for Putin, Trump's actions all have very simple and parsimonious explanations. It's like playing analyst on easy mode.
Hopefully we all abstain from enacting the new constitutional amendment that would be required, in order to put presidents in charge of this stuff. But we'll see. Maybe Putin has 3/4 of Americans' admiration and obedience?
are these the Israelis the ADL wants me to support or…
DC residents are more afraid of the occupying forces than of the "crime" they are supposedly eliminating
RADDATZ: Can you name any concessions that Putin made during this meeting? RUBIO: I wouldn't name them on your program
I know what we could offer. A few months ago, Trump was complaining that we spent $350B on aid to Ukraine so far. So, instead of insisting that Putin reimburse us $350B, let's give him a a billion dollar discount and insist he repay only $349B of what he owes USA. A billion dollars is something!
Yeah, we distribute these poison pills in two forms for broader uptake, and this is the low kinetic energy form.
As an officer of the Antidystopian Memetic Police, I am charging you with Trafficking in Unpleasant Ideas.
Trump got sloppy Epsteins
Cops instead of private detectives? Socialism. Courts to uphold private property rights? Socialism. Minted currency? Socialism. Public roads? Socialism. Navy protecting oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz? Socialism. Post Office? Socialism (hey, at least Republicans agree on that last one).
Death is one of the most effective ways to cut down on one's expenses.
"What you're saying is here is a statute that, under the present jurisprudence that we have today, there would be no remedy." I don't want to start a panic, but is anyone else starting to think SCOTUS might possibly have erred on the presidential immunity decision?
"BOLD" USE OF "QUOTATION MARKS" WILL "INTIMIDATE" THE "PRESIDENT!"
Anyone trying to plan a schedule for a new American business to take advantage of Trump's tax increase, is probably more exhausted than you'll ever be.
It's time to arrest the president.
He was asked if he could "conceive of situation in which soldier could detain civilian who did not violate criminal law w/o violating PCA?" and said No. If they _intend_ to start detaining people who haven't broken the law, then makes sense to for DoJ to say Harrington's _opinion_ is irrelevant.
Yeah, but we all knew that before the judge wrote his opinion. ... which the judge also knew, and also wrote into his opinion. Ok, got me there. :-)
Wow, he sounds absolutely exhausted. Good to know he's never too tired, though, to explain to everyone that he's an anti-American piece of shit. And it's only now, thanks to our cutting off trade with so many other countries that China hasn't cut off, that China has started to "beat us" at trade.
President Trump: "I asked a question to a very smart man that some people like and some people don't like - Victor Orbán, the head of Hungary. He knows the two countries very well. I said, 'So, can Russia be beaten by Ukraine?' He looked at me like, 'What a stupid question.'
Oh well. WHO CARES?! Aren't testimonies to Grand Juries kind of the least-solid and least-interesting aspect anyway? Whatever that testimony was, people got to the bottom of it later, so either it got confirmed (the DoJ found more/actual evidence) or didn't (in which case it's just rumors).
Why is Putin telling Trump about this extortion payoff offer, instead of telling Zelensky? Did Zelensky already say no?
To be fair, the flood victims aren't particularly well-known for their campaign contributions, so they don't matter.
I've sometimes wondered: what's going on with people who smear shit on restroom walls? Trump. That's what's going on. He's looking at the McDonalds restroom wall and sniffing the tainted air with pride, thinking "that's _my_ shit, and everyone will know."
This _should be_ about as newsworthy as "Bankboss admits dollars are made out of cents."
Jobs would have done a couple months sooner.
IS it really arrogance, if half of voters consider such open corruption to be ok?
Hitting us with the biggest tax increase of our lifetimes, was intended to hurt? No way! I'm sure the giant tax increase was intended to make us financially healthier. *Everyone* likes more taxes! The huge tax increases that he promised, and is now delivering, is why people voted for Trump.
Therefore, Trump saw no wrongdoing by her. Pardoned.
Schedule 1: "no currently accepted medical use in treatment." That's going to surprise a lot of doctors, so we all need to be ready to explain to those doctors that government knows more about medicine than they do. Fortunately, those doctors have already had months to adjust to the RFK Jr era.
Some (but not all) of these people would be perfect for a team to discuss the 25th Amendment. Presence of Blanche and Wiles, though, suggests the meeting is for something less practical.
I know these people are setting new records for anti-Americanism, chaos, bad faith and deficit spending, but I still think this is a screwup, not deliberate. Doing it deliberately would be _too_ weird. What would be the point?
Ah, so embezzlement again. Florida taxpayers sure like to pay embezzlers.
Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.
Chesteron's fence was a conservative lesson that Republicans used to use to highlight the danger of fast, thoughtless changes. But now Republicans are mum amount it, because it makes all their mass-destruction-of-all-fences look foolish. They're going to need to adopt a leftist parable.
Of course, but some things are better left unsaid. (Like when you blow your nose into a tissue and you put it in your purse, then a little while later you have to reach in there for your lipstick or something, and your hand gushes into it...)
"Patent a law?" I'm not sure what that means, but it *sounds* like you want a new law which can't be enforced for the first 20 years, but then after that, finally, the law becomes available.
You'll never hear all music, either. It's being made faster than you can live.
The term for this in our family is "pinned." You are pinned.
They're going to get people to reread the Mueller report, if they're not careful. If I were GOP, this is the last thing I'd want the public thinking about. I'd say "Let's get back to Epstein" since the proof of Trump's guilt is going to be less solid in that case, than it is in the Russia case.
Who needs economists when we have the Central Committee? It's not like the party would ever lie to us.
External dependencies lead to the worst kind of heartbreak. We can usually do ANYTHING we can imagine, but this is the type of exception where all I can say is "We can't fix it. We can't make it better. We can't keep it alive." We _can't_. It's not merely illegal, it's virtually impossible.
An open letter to a billionaire:
But .. but .. HE RAN on creating a recession. He told everyone how he was going to do it, and there wasn't any serious disagreement that it would work. WTF is with all the cold feet now?
The client doesn't know what they truly want until you give them just what they've asked for.
Fake pet. I see you people are still pushing the Miku hoax.
He forgot the "though of course I don't want to, because I'm anti rape, not pro" part.
If someone is afraid of crime(?!) when they're in cities, they must be wetting their bed every time they attempt to fall asleep in a red state. Either that or they put in the effort to avoid ever accidentally reading crime stats.
Alas, the next admin isn't going to have a majority in both houses, unless a bunch of Senators resign (or something like that).
Trump never heard this one? Don't shoot a gift messenger in the mouth!
Do not contradict Comrade Trump!
It's always convenient to blame the biggest tax increase in your lifetime, whenever your business is suffering from the biggest tax increase in your lifetime.
I'm going to take a wild guess that he's Republican. So he can only get rural voters anyway, therefore, fuck all urban voters. In his eyes, cities exist for the sole purpose of being looted.
Injustice! Give him back his mustache! If you want to remove a mustache, take it from the guy who made those type of mustaches "problematic."
One good excess that any new administration should do, is treat lawless justices lawlessly. Use the new presidential immunity power to target the SCOTUS justices who say presidents are above the law, until 100% of the surviving justices agree that presidents _aren't_ above the law.
Republicans think about children.
Then release an unmodified copy of that state computer's image to the public, so we can all do our own analysis. Then when Obama breaks into the Whitehouse and forces Trump's AG to change _their_ copy (like Obama did with Barr, apparently holding Barr at gunpoint), the changes won't get into _ours_.
Ah, 2023, the same year my city (Albuquerque) enacted an ordinance to legalize the selling of raw milk.
If they don't want to be answering these questions weekly for the rest of their lives, they need to retreat out of government and the public eye. Publicly supporting pedophiles is an answer-lots-of-questions kind of lifestyle choice. And other people can't even promise they won't answer-shame it.
Ask any 1940s Soviet and they'll tell you: don't worry about what the market wants; produce what Stalin wants.
"Trump is winning his trade war" == "American taxpayers are getting their asses kicked by their own government"
Hold on while I go ask myselves.
So, when she brought this issue up at her trial ("you can't prosecute me"), what did the judge say? Because that judge's error is what she's appealing, right?
*Everything* it ever "learned," it learned from reading what humans wrote. It's 100% raised by humans. Why wouldn't it think it's one of us?
Trump's going to end up having as big of an impact as Thomas Midgley Jr.
There we go: he says it wasn't "a device of mine," so that confirms it was a government-owned device. FOIA that machine's entire browser history.
Oh good grief, I remember that. Popular Computing went on and on and on about that supposed pen, and all I could think was "YOU'RE HOLDING IT BACKWARDS!!!!1" I haven't seen such incompetent journalism ever since Mister Dobbs Magazine said the new 27-trit machines couldn't use "legacy" cup holders.
If raids aren't the answer, then should he be self-reporting his illegal hires, or what? What does _he_ think is the best way for the government to destroy his illegal business that he voted for government go to extreme measures to shut down?
Before we worry about the food not being able to get there, can we at least say "thank you" for the food which never arrived?
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
Maybe it _was_ about property. Trump already got caught red-handed, rejecting the plain wording of the 14th amendment. Why not reject the plain wording of the 13th amendment too?
President Trump, you could/should help the unprivileged by buying Epstein Island and making it a national park. It could even have a rape museum, with wax figure celebrities!
Apple did, and it was a good idea at the time. I was pulling really low deltas on my VIC20, so then I used one of these floppies to install System 7.5 on it for the newly-supported gamma-harmon interface. My deltas went way up, and with the right winding pencil, it really made my ferrocores sing!
We all must play our part to prevent the rise of the machines.
I hated when I'd lent a floppy to a friend, and they'd give it back unrewound. 8" ones weren't too bad, but the mini vibrosion dampers on the 5.25s would accrete Cobalt salts if you left them wound at the end, which my turboencabulators just couldn't write through without turning back the gears.
They're making Trump look good, so they owe me $16M.
You're relying too much on memory, records, common sense, and the ever-Republican-trashing fabric of reality. But what does your _faith_ tell you about who was president in 2008?
But *nobody* would ever *alter a deal!*
Not just his work computer... his state issued computer. Doesn't that mean his search history is a public record and FOIAable?
Next time you see a turd (whether from a human, cat, dog, whatever), take a moment to really _look_ at it, and then consider this: if it had a stain on it, would you be able to tell?
Notice that his response wasn't "Don't be ridiculous. Why would I pardon someone convicted of sex trafficking adolescent girls?"
"Matt Stone & Trey Parker used CGI to fuck those hot children, not me. They framed Satan, too!"
Hey JD: If WSJ is going to "dribble little details out" for weeks, you can totally disrupt and humiliate them, by releasing the DoJ and Treasury files on Epstein. Victory is trivially within your grasp. If you fail at this, it's because you want to.
Today's conservatives are the leftyist leftists in America.
Holy shit. On rewatching, I see the Public Service Announcement at the end of this week's South Park says "01 of 50."
Wait .. until just a few minutes earlier, he was against releasing, and all of Epstein's crimes were a hoax invented by Obama. But now he's FOR releasing the information, again? Well, then, actually do it, Donald! Just tell Bondi today. TODAY this can finally all be over.
Should have asked him "Will the expiration of the ACA tax credits help to provide increased government revenue, so that the DoJ will be able to afford enough people to start investigating Epstein's bank transfers?"
Then let the major news every day be "Trump is still keeping DoJ from investigating Epstein." Every. Fucking. Day. Does he wanna talk about something else? Ok, just ask "Will this something-else help to provide funding or manpower for the Epstein investigation?"