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Mommadillo's avatar

We should probably be thankful he’s not having the already-planted ones chopped down, like some demento George Washington.

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

I've posted this before, but...

"The trees were the worst loss and damage, for at Sharkey’s bidding they had been cut down recklessly far and wide over the Shire; and Sam grieved over this more than anything else. For one thing, this hurt would take long to heal, and only his great-grandchildren, he thought, would see the Shire as it ought to be."

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

It's time to go all Mount Doom on these assholes.

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Wondering Woman's avatar

Fuckin' techno clueless dicks.

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

"the magic of frondship"

Well done, sir.

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RRJKR's avatar

The "Rasslin" Lady assures us today that funding for schools will now be handled by other agencies. What does this mean? It means that purchase will need to be requisitioned and re-ordered through the other agencies which will have no idea what they are doing. In the meantime the funds will not be saved but simply stagnated for probably a year. Businesses will go under and thousands of people will lose jobs while the money sits in limbo, creating an artificial "budget surplus" for which Trump will claim a huge victory. Stupid voters will believe him.

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Mark Linimon's avatar

Crap like this can not bring about a surplus. Just sayin'.

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Lori LeClaire's avatar

He must be dragged out in handcuffs. This bullshit must stop.

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Stephen St John's avatar

This sounds like a good, positive program. No wonder they had to destroy it.

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KL Pierce's avatar

I hate this regime with fire of a billion suns. They’re awful monsters deliberately destroying everything good for nothing.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

No they are doing it to satisfy the black hole that is PABs soul.

This is really starting to seem like we have Cthulhu in the White House.

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Thomas Hupy's avatar

As a teenager I helped my dad plant thousands of seedlings. It is now a fifty year old forest.

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GenlyAi's avatar

What does it feel like to know that millions of people hate you to the point of *redacted*?

Pussy Ass BITCH knows....

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The Covfefes ASAP!'s avatar

OT

Did y'all know that Orange boy brought back segregation on federal contracts? Back in February. No one was reporting this.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝.

𝐴𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝 𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ‘𝑠𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠’ 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦.

When the government entity that manages federal buildings ordered agencies to drop a long-standing clause from new contracts, it prompted some concern that the Trump administration was trying to legalize segregation.

The clause, banned by the General Services Administration last month, prohibits maintaining or using segregated facilities. It made explicit what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 already outlaws — discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex and other identity traits.

Dropping that language in the contracts doesn’t change the fact that segregation is illegal in the United States. But the directive is still symbolic, legal experts say.

https://wapo.st/4iVbzoe

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The Covfefes ASAP!'s avatar

Thanks for the clarification.

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motmelere's avatar

Does my fervent desire for Elon's face to slough off in a weird rejection of some smrt booster drug make me a bad person? Yes, yes it does. Slough, face, slough.

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

I'd certainly cheer at his rapid unscheduled disassembly.

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Marty Smit's avatar

His brains are already doing that.

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Lisamanv's avatar

Sports are the next DEI.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

I'd love for professional sports to go back to mediocre white guys trying to replicate what's happened since 1966.

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Sy's avatar

They don’t want us to have urban forests or public land forests.

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Resource NW's avatar

Public land clearcuts are OK, tho. What, you do not like open spaces? By the way, here is your rake.

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𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉's avatar

Somebody had to be the one who read that as pubic lands, but I am not admitting to that.

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Marty Smit's avatar

Lots of wild growth.

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WTAF's avatar

Or ANY Commons / nice things / places

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ziggywiggy's avatar

The movie is over if you'd like to join us there for OT.

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tehbaddr's avatar

We've been keeping ourselves entertained over here.

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ziggywiggy's avatar

And we were keeping ourselves entertained over there. Now let's come together like the Beatles sang and we can entertain ourselves together.

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𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉's avatar

Thank you for the earworm… I think…

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TheHeroOfCanton's avatar

Welp, fast approaching my last Pepsi. My last 12-pack of Mt. Dew is next. Then it's Screw Pepsi and drink Dasani. And maybe Mello Yello. But not Coke. Ugh.

...what, did you think I was gonna take an automatic rifle to 'em when I paid for 'em before the boycott?

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abbienormal's avatar

Dasani (/dəˈsɑːni/) is a brand of bottled water created by the Coca-Cola Company, launched in 1999. It is one of many brands of Coca-Cola bottled water sold around the world.

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TheHeroOfCanton's avatar

Correct. Mello Yello is also a Coca Cola product. What is meant was that I won’t be drinking Coke, or Diet Coke, or Cherry Coke or any of the Coke sequels. I’m just not fond of the taste.

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WasX's avatar

*sips her seltzer + lemonade, grins*

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TheHeroOfCanton's avatar

When I was teaching in Hell, aka SW AZ, I went to convenience stores to get a 2/$2 deal on liter bottles of Dasani*--a better deal than the grocery stores. A bottle got me through a day of teaching in that heat.

* - Heroic Son says there's no difference in how different brands of water taste. He's wrong, of course.

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WasX's avatar

The Land of the great Circle K~!!!!

Yeah he is~!~

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TheHeroOfCanton's avatar

Mrs. Hero got her daily 64-oz supply of Diet Dr Pepper (or, as I call it, Vile Brew) at the Circle K before she went off to teach.

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