I've read about people like this Palmeri fellow...what's that meme? Something like: "I don't subscribe to that particular version of batshit crazy, but I have to respect your total commitment to it."
“You know, in New York, you can’t walk into a drugstore now,” Trump said. “It’s like you’re in a prison of glass. If you want to buy aspirin, you have to wait 45 minutes for a clerk to come up and open, because of what’s gone.”
“And the police aren’t allowed to do their job,” Trump complained. They’re told if you do anything, you’re going to lose your pension. You’re going to lose your family, your house, your car.”
"You know, if you had one day, like, one real rough, nasty day with the drug stores as an example, where when they start walking out with – you know, she created something in San Francisco, $950, you’re allowed to steal. Anything above that. You will be prosecuted. Well, it works out that the 950 is a misnomer because you can steal whatever you want. You can go way above, but you’d see it. Originally you saw kids walk in with calculators. They would calculate. They didn’t want to go over the $950 they’re standing with calculators, adding it up.
You know, these are smart, smart people. They’re not so stupid, but they have to be taught. Now, if you had one really violent day, like a guy like Mike Kelly put him in charge, Congressman Kelly put him in charge for one day. Mike, would you say you’re right here? He’s a great congressman. Would you say, Mike, that if you were in charge you would say, “Oh, please don’t touch them. Don’t touch them. Let them rob your store. Let all these stores go out of business,” right? They don’t pay rent. The dead. The city does have the whole. It’s a chain of events. It’s so bad. One rough hour, and I mean real rough. The word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know? It will end immediately."
And howzabout a scenario in which Joe "I now have presidential immunity" Biden calls on law enforcement to treat Crimin' Donny exactly as Crimin' Donny says that others should be treated?
Never in my 62 years have I loathed a person as I loathe djt; I have never wished harm on any other corrupt, destructive person as fervently or as often as I've wished harm on djt. I hate him all the more for activating this part of myself.
That’s a sensitive way of putting it. I mean no disrespect, but hating, loathing, and wanting to end Trump and Trumpism is being the kind of citizen who is understandably jealous of their liberties.
Does he ever stop to consider that at the end of that "one rough hour" he might no longer be among the living? He's an incompetent coward, and incompetent cowards have poor survival chances in a crisis.
Ah, a djt-free world -- my spirit lightens. (I realize that the tens of millions who think he's peachy and the thousands who are active, hard-core enablers and copycats would still be among us, but nonetheless not having to hear or read about his *particular* cruelstupid ramblings would be heavenly.)
As an immigration law practitioner it pains me to recall how Harris went to Central America and told people fleeing appalling violence "do not come." Obviously I'm still voting for her but the debate around immigration has moved so far to the right it's just sickening what ostensibly liberal people accept as fact
"Do not come because our system is not set up to handle you" is a valid warning. I don't remember the exact context of her comment, but I'm assuming there was more to it than simply putting up a No Vacancy sign on America.
Respectfully, of course, if I set your house on fire it would be pretty fucked up for me to then say you shouldn't run to my house because I haven't had time to set up a fire department. Given that the situation in CAM and many other regions is terrible at least in part because of US intervention, it's pretty awful for the US to act like it has no responsibility for the people fleeing.
The National Speech & Debate League are sending a strongly worded Dear Shit Fer Brains worthy letter to you Dok. They would like to point out that rhetoric is sometimes preferable to results.
(TIL that the National Forensic League changed their name to NSDL 10 yrs ago)
Excellent job, Dok! To cherry pick my faves: the martial arts line, then the call-back with Madame VP's shoulder throw. And wrapped it up with a classic eastern civ metaphor: the paper tiger.
11 out of 10, yo! ["And the crowd goes wild" sound effect]
She mops the floor with him at every opportunity, and yet the media will treat their speeches as equally informative and even equally erudite. That orange madman managed to brainwash the already susceptible media over his 4-year failure to the point that good public speech isn't acknowledged at all anymore (except here of course).
Sorry to be negative. I love VP Harris, so check your voter registration and get the word out about her for the sake of the future of this country!
A 3 judge panel blocked students at the 17 various schools in the University of North Carolina system from using their mobile ids as valid ids for voting. Unfortunately we do not know the names of the judges since a state law says they do not have to release that detail until long after their ruling. But 11 of 15 judges are Republicans. I forget what the specific case was but another 3 judge panel recently made another ruling that made voting more difficult.
For some reason the state Democratic Party does not think judicial elections are something they want to spend any time or money on. Which helps explain why the state supreme court also flipped from a Democratic majority to a 5-2 GOP majority in 2022. And promptly overturned an earlier ruling that extreme partisan gerrymandering was unconstitutional. A ruling that changed our US House representation from 10 Republican, 3 Democrats to a 7-7 split in 2022 with an additional seat added for population growth in the census. Now it may quickly revert to 11 GOP, only 3 Democrats in a state usually equally divided between parties in total election votes.
Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Family for Weird Photo Shoot
Derrick Anderson, Republican running for Virginia's 7th district, poses for family pictures, except for one thing - he's unmarried and doesn't have a family.
I still remember my parents' phone number and my old landline number. I remembered my childhood phone number for the longest time, now replaced by orange cat videos. Oh, and part of my brain is attempting to remember all my passwords. 😬
Did you write that post, or did I? (Curt, Seven the backpack cat-- plus my own orange cat-- they're just a blur of fun. At one time I was sort of accomplished but I don't have time for that now. I don't want to read Don Quixote, and I'm not going to.
Well, I, of course, knew my friends' and family's phone numbers by heart, but last night I was watching a TV show from 1970 and somebody needed to call an air conditioner repair company. He just picked up the phone and started dialing and I thought "who memorizes the air conditioner repair company's phone number?" Of course, I realize that they probably just didn't want to take the time to show the guy looking up the number in the phone book, but it just stood out to me as being unrealistic.
That company probably has a catchy jingle that ends in their phone number, and it plays on the TV and radio all the time, and you can't get it out of your head and will remember it forever.
I wrote Leo Kottke a letter once about a name in some liner notes and he actually called me on the telephone when they were still attached to the walls
Penn State wins 21-7 against Illinois! They’re still a second half team. I love Tyler Warren, and Andy K. has done a good job with the offense. But, hello, Tom Allen, discipline this defense!
I made beans for dinner tonight. A pork loin, a pound of beans, onion, garlic, spices, bbq sauce, hickory smoke, a bit of ghost pepper sauce, and let it cook for 6 hours in the crock pot. Easy to make, filling, tasty. Good as temps start to cool off.
Well! such timing! I'm taking home a frozen pork tenderloin that my mom (who just moved into a senior living place) will never cook. I can't eat pork, because as tasty as it is, my gall bladder (not THAT gallbladder!) will not tolerate pork, other than a little bacon (my theory being that since I like it crispy, most of the oil is fried right out of it).
Anyway, girlfriend loves pork too, AND can digest it! So I'll make her something. Your recipe would allow me to have delicious pork-infused beans, and she can have the delicious pork loin.
Be aware that the loin just comes apart after cooking, so it might be difficult to separate all of the pork from the beans. But you can do the same thing with beef.
Lolz
Is it April fools already ?! 🤣
FuC Off imbeciles - like to drop u all into a grinder on Afganistán! Sick subhuman shitstains!
I've read about people like this Palmeri fellow...what's that meme? Something like: "I don't subscribe to that particular version of batshit crazy, but I have to respect your total commitment to it."
Wow.
Gotham City needs Batman. NOW!
“You know, in New York, you can’t walk into a drugstore now,” Trump said. “It’s like you’re in a prison of glass. If you want to buy aspirin, you have to wait 45 minutes for a clerk to come up and open, because of what’s gone.”
“And the police aren’t allowed to do their job,” Trump complained. They’re told if you do anything, you’re going to lose your pension. You’re going to lose your family, your house, your car.”
"You know, if you had one day, like, one real rough, nasty day with the drug stores as an example, where when they start walking out with – you know, she created something in San Francisco, $950, you’re allowed to steal. Anything above that. You will be prosecuted. Well, it works out that the 950 is a misnomer because you can steal whatever you want. You can go way above, but you’d see it. Originally you saw kids walk in with calculators. They would calculate. They didn’t want to go over the $950 they’re standing with calculators, adding it up.
You know, these are smart, smart people. They’re not so stupid, but they have to be taught. Now, if you had one really violent day, like a guy like Mike Kelly put him in charge, Congressman Kelly put him in charge for one day. Mike, would you say you’re right here? He’s a great congressman. Would you say, Mike, that if you were in charge you would say, “Oh, please don’t touch them. Don’t touch them. Let them rob your store. Let all these stores go out of business,” right? They don’t pay rent. The dead. The city does have the whole. It’s a chain of events. It’s so bad. One rough hour, and I mean real rough. The word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know? It will end immediately."
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-makes-stunning-call-for-police-to-use-extraordinarily-rough-tactics-to-stop-crime-you-need-one-really-violent-day/
Hey, who needs due process, right?
And howzabout a scenario in which Joe "I now have presidential immunity" Biden calls on law enforcement to treat Crimin' Donny exactly as Crimin' Donny says that others should be treated?
Never in my 62 years have I loathed a person as I loathe djt; I have never wished harm on any other corrupt, destructive person as fervently or as often as I've wished harm on djt. I hate him all the more for activating this part of myself.
That’s a sensitive way of putting it. I mean no disrespect, but hating, loathing, and wanting to end Trump and Trumpism is being the kind of citizen who is understandably jealous of their liberties.
Does he ever stop to consider that at the end of that "one rough hour" he might no longer be among the living? He's an incompetent coward, and incompetent cowards have poor survival chances in a crisis.
Ah, a djt-free world -- my spirit lightens. (I realize that the tens of millions who think he's peachy and the thousands who are active, hard-core enablers and copycats would still be among us, but nonetheless not having to hear or read about his *particular* cruelstupid ramblings would be heavenly.)
As an immigration law practitioner it pains me to recall how Harris went to Central America and told people fleeing appalling violence "do not come." Obviously I'm still voting for her but the debate around immigration has moved so far to the right it's just sickening what ostensibly liberal people accept as fact
"Do not come because our system is not set up to handle you" is a valid warning. I don't remember the exact context of her comment, but I'm assuming there was more to it than simply putting up a No Vacancy sign on America.
Respectfully, of course, if I set your house on fire it would be pretty fucked up for me to then say you shouldn't run to my house because I haven't had time to set up a fire department. Given that the situation in CAM and many other regions is terrible at least in part because of US intervention, it's pretty awful for the US to act like it has no responsibility for the people fleeing.
From the other side of the border, a big up-vote. The hypocrisy -- or maybe willful ignorance -- of US political discourse is heart-breaking.
The National Speech & Debate League are sending a strongly worded Dear Shit Fer Brains worthy letter to you Dok. They would like to point out that rhetoric is sometimes preferable to results.
(TIL that the National Forensic League changed their name to NSDL 10 yrs ago)
Excellent job, Dok! To cherry pick my faves: the martial arts line, then the call-back with Madame VP's shoulder throw. And wrapped it up with a classic eastern civ metaphor: the paper tiger.
11 out of 10, yo! ["And the crowd goes wild" sound effect]
She mops the floor with him at every opportunity, and yet the media will treat their speeches as equally informative and even equally erudite. That orange madman managed to brainwash the already susceptible media over his 4-year failure to the point that good public speech isn't acknowledged at all anymore (except here of course).
Sorry to be negative. I love VP Harris, so check your voter registration and get the word out about her for the sake of the future of this country!
THIS. No matter how off the wall Trump is the media can only bring itself to tip toe around the subject.
Meanwhile, Trump was complaining about McDonald's and crowd sizes.
Modern politics [Pearls Before Swine]
https://assets.amuniversal.com/6e4e013042ed013d69ef005056a9545d
A 3 judge panel blocked students at the 17 various schools in the University of North Carolina system from using their mobile ids as valid ids for voting. Unfortunately we do not know the names of the judges since a state law says they do not have to release that detail until long after their ruling. But 11 of 15 judges are Republicans. I forget what the specific case was but another 3 judge panel recently made another ruling that made voting more difficult.
For some reason the state Democratic Party does not think judicial elections are something they want to spend any time or money on. Which helps explain why the state supreme court also flipped from a Democratic majority to a 5-2 GOP majority in 2022. And promptly overturned an earlier ruling that extreme partisan gerrymandering was unconstitutional. A ruling that changed our US House representation from 10 Republican, 3 Democrats to a 7-7 split in 2022 with an additional seat added for population growth in the census. Now it may quickly revert to 11 GOP, only 3 Democrats in a state usually equally divided between parties in total election votes.
Every race is partisan and every race matters.
So is the movie over?
The movie we're in never ends.
I have to think so...
Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Family for Weird Photo Shoot
Derrick Anderson, Republican running for Virginia's 7th district, poses for family pictures, except for one thing - he's unmarried and doesn't have a family.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/childless-gop-candidate-derrick-anderson-borrows-family-for-weird-photo-shoot
So he’s a poly-swapper? Is that the message?
More like he's gay, on the D/L, but desperate to appear like a typical White Cis/Het Xtian.
Actually, he apparently has a fiancee who he will be marrying soon. He's just trying to appear to be JD Vance's version of normal.
He's a member of the House Incel subcommittee.
I'm so old, I remember when people actually memorized phone numbers.
Look at any movie from the '30s, '40s, or '50s if ya don't believe me.
I'm so old, I remember when *I* could actually memorize phone numbers.
They said computers would make us smarter. Why do I feel dumber?
And what are we using that part of our brains that used to store phone numbers for now?
Storing meringue data from E! and TMZ, probably. Also, cat memes. Look, it's Keyboard Cat!
I still remember my parents' phone number and my old landline number. I remembered my childhood phone number for the longest time, now replaced by orange cat videos. Oh, and part of my brain is attempting to remember all my passwords. 😬
Did you write that post, or did I? (Curt, Seven the backpack cat-- plus my own orange cat-- they're just a blur of fun. At one time I was sort of accomplished but I don't have time for that now. I don't want to read Don Quixote, and I'm not going to.
For the longest time my default password was my telephone number I memorized when I started kindergarten.
Well, I, of course, knew my friends' and family's phone numbers by heart, but last night I was watching a TV show from 1970 and somebody needed to call an air conditioner repair company. He just picked up the phone and started dialing and I thought "who memorizes the air conditioner repair company's phone number?" Of course, I realize that they probably just didn't want to take the time to show the guy looking up the number in the phone book, but it just stood out to me as being unrealistic.
Of course, today, people don't even know what a phone book is.
It's like when two characters meet and one says call me. I guess we just assume they somehow exchanged numbers.
That company probably has a catchy jingle that ends in their phone number, and it plays on the TV and radio all the time, and you can't get it out of your head and will remember it forever.
https://medium.com/@byronreese/ancient-greeks-and-memory-c44bcdcc0f08
I still remember at least 7 of my past phone numbers. All were seven digits and two included an area code change, which I also remember.
They used to be 4 digits
The internet runs on cat memes.
My number for years was 683-7459
Of course, I still have 867-5309 stuck in my head. Thanks, Jenny.
I’m old.
I wrote Leo Kottke a letter once about a name in some liner notes and he actually called me on the telephone when they were still attached to the walls
Was that fun? I only saw Kottke in concert once, but he seemed like a supercool guy.
I'm old too.
He’s hilarious
Whoa!
Penn State wins 21-7 against Illinois! They’re still a second half team. I love Tyler Warren, and Andy K. has done a good job with the offense. But, hello, Tom Allen, discipline this defense!
I made beans for dinner tonight. A pork loin, a pound of beans, onion, garlic, spices, bbq sauce, hickory smoke, a bit of ghost pepper sauce, and let it cook for 6 hours in the crock pot. Easy to make, filling, tasty. Good as temps start to cool off.
Mmm. I'm having memories of my mom's pot roast back in the day. Similar method.
Well! such timing! I'm taking home a frozen pork tenderloin that my mom (who just moved into a senior living place) will never cook. I can't eat pork, because as tasty as it is, my gall bladder (not THAT gallbladder!) will not tolerate pork, other than a little bacon (my theory being that since I like it crispy, most of the oil is fried right out of it).
Anyway, girlfriend loves pork too, AND can digest it! So I'll make her something. Your recipe would allow me to have delicious pork-infused beans, and she can have the delicious pork loin.
Be aware that the loin just comes apart after cooking, so it might be difficult to separate all of the pork from the beans. But you can do the same thing with beef.
Thanks for the tip - I can eat a little pork, just not much. I think this will be ok.
Very, very nice :-)