Well, we lost due to fanfiction, not reality. So I do not think that is the problem...especially since in many ways the memes shared alternately have the left as extremely powerful through βcancelingβ yet are simultaneously lily-livered vegans driving Priuses.
I wish someone would ask that asshole what he plans to do on Day Two, because of fucking sick and tired of hearing what all he's going to do on Day One.
Great post. "There are no virtuous fossil fuels." I get this dark feeling sometimes that virtue has gone out with the Permian and Carboniferous ages that brought us the fossil fuels that are now destroying us. I get this ironic sense that the planet provided the means of it's own destruction.
Sorry, I get this existentialist angst sometimes. /sigh
I know a lot of people will disagree with me but we really need more nuclear reactor power plants - the newer generation is so much safer and efficient.
Has the nuclear waste problem been figured out? No. Should we continue to dump carbon in the atmosphere due to bureaucratic inefficiency and nimbyism? I think not. Reasonable people may disagree.
But you still have the problem of disposing of nuclear waste. Until there is a better solution than storing it in swimming pools outside the nuclear reactors it's going to be a major problem.
Sooo, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities tells me
"The Constitution makes clear that Congress holds the power of the purse, giving it authority βto lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excisesβ and specifying that βNo Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law.β In short, federal taxing and spending requires legislation that is enacted into law."
And yet, Ramalama, a person who couldn't win an election even with Musk's money and "I don't π³πΆπ― in elections, I π£πΆπΊ 'em" himself have veto power over the US budget...
It is most assuredly not President Klan Robe's goal to make prices cheaper for us. It will be austerity with higher taxes for those with lower incomes, to destroy the social safety net and also hurt largely βblueβ cities and states. More profits for the wealthy will help him and his βfriends.β
Remember a lot of Americans voted for this and do not care that he will hurt them so long as Black people get it worse.
"The Fortnite battle royale island has been snowed over for the holidays, and near the center is a giant block of ice β and itβs widely believed that it will slowly thaw to eventually reveal none other than Mariah Carey."
How do you feel about Scrooged, Die Hard, The Lion In Winter, Trading Places and The Fifth Element which are our next 5 movies between now and Jan. 4? I focus on upbeat and humorous mostly, because that tends to make people feel those things.
Mine get a workout every year with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
They get to the part where they sing "Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow..." and I think of my grandma and my dad and I just blub like a babby.
I've heard The Long Kiss Goodnight could give Die Hard 1 a run for its money, but I've never seen it. Supposed to be set between Thanksgiving and New Year's? Maybe I will nominate it for next year's holiday season after I watch it.
So, the NY Times IS refusing to show Luigi Mangione's face. I didn't believe the rumor at first, but today in the Times, there are two stories for him, and the only photo of him is one showing the back of his head.
Whatever you may think of the actual man and the shooting, it really is pathetic that the Times won't show his face. Are we all five-year-olds now?
Hey folks, the rules for radicals still apply.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/rules-for-commenting-radicals
But how are we supposed to see the violence inherent in the system?
ππ°ππͺπ΅π¦π΄π΄π¦ is difficult to remember when someone's hands are around your throat.
I generally try not to recall French vocabulary words when I'm being choked out. Unless it's the safe word.
I use "aluminium". I figure a metallic element is sufficiently unlikely to come up organically.
Make sure your top isn't British before picking aluminum.
Plinth.
Victims of strangulation are always so gauche.
Ugh, stop exhaling carbon monoxide on me!
Danke schoen.
And those rules are an example of why no one respects the left.
Well, we lost due to fanfiction, not reality. So I do not think that is the problem...especially since in many ways the memes shared alternately have the left as extremely powerful through βcancelingβ yet are simultaneously lily-livered vegans driving Priuses.
This response is not based in unrelenting hatred of and violence towards The Other.
No wonder nobody respects us, huh?
I love this place and I'd like to think that what we publish here is a valuable contribution to public discourse.
That said, I also humbly submit that Wonkette's comments policy does not have the national impact your comment suggests.
But they keep this place from being a cesspool.
Nobody respects a non-cesspool anymore. We must all live in one now.
I don't believe you.
Iβm sure youβll back that with a citation or two.
I'm starting to wonder about the trolling habits of this Bill Door person
He seems awfully full of ... excess commentary ...?
Yeah, but do the rules ban THIS!?!
*squeaky noises*
Well!?!!!!
*repairman arrives with oil can*
*tries to make armpit farts*
*eats three bean salad, makes farts the old fashioned way*
Talk like that is only gonna get me feelin' some kinda way.
YOU still apply!! {{Blows raspberry}}
You tell 'er, Bear.
I wish someone would ask that asshole what he plans to do on Day Two, because of fucking sick and tired of hearing what all he's going to do on Day One.
Ta, Dok. I was unaware of Bill McKibbon's Substack, and he's one of my heroes.
Great post. "There are no virtuous fossil fuels." I get this dark feeling sometimes that virtue has gone out with the Permian and Carboniferous ages that brought us the fossil fuels that are now destroying us. I get this ironic sense that the planet provided the means of it's own destruction.
Sorry, I get this existentialist angst sometimes. /sigh
also, just took a bong hit.
I know a lot of people will disagree with me but we really need more nuclear reactor power plants - the newer generation is so much safer and efficient.
https://fee.org/articles/why-nuclear-power-is-quietly-making-a-big-comeback-all-around-the-world/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiApY-7BhBjEiwAQMrrEZt_9G4uEjA1emJkgyadheNz4Ox688viIUENT0exn1GD6frQ2e0bmBoCUUsQAvD_BwE
Has the nuclear waste problem been figured out? No. Should we continue to dump carbon in the atmosphere due to bureaucratic inefficiency and nimbyism? I think not. Reasonable people may disagree.
But we gotta do something.
But you still have the problem of disposing of nuclear waste. Until there is a better solution than storing it in swimming pools outside the nuclear reactors it's going to be a major problem.
There are solutions, but bureaucratic inefficiency and nimbyism are getting in the way.
IMHO.
Again, civilization needs power, how do we get it most efficiently and without despoiling our water and air?
Choices have to be made. Maybe someday we'll get the holy grail of fusion power, but that's still a way off I think.
He literally said "DRILL BABY DRILL" -- and not in closed rooms
AMOF I think I remember him doing that in front of his rabid screaming drooling MAGAt crowds at his hate rallies
They just tuned out the things HE TOTALLY MEANT that they just didn't want to hear, didn't they
Not so much the inflation as the price gouging
And MVP Harris had a plan to address that
But y'all didn't want a Black and Indian woman sitting in that chair in the White House
Even though I can think of four nations right now who have women leaders in charge and who aren't quite so prehistorically patriarchal
If you have to ask, you can't afford the answer...
"Nobody knows gas like Trump knows gas!'
-- Sir
A fantastic headline to wake up to
Gisèle Pelicot rape trial: husband jailed for 20 years as all 51 men found guilty
Sooo, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities tells me
"The Constitution makes clear that Congress holds the power of the purse, giving it authority βto lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excisesβ and specifying that βNo Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law.β In short, federal taxing and spending requires legislation that is enacted into law."
And yet, Ramalama, a person who couldn't win an election even with Musk's money and "I don't π³πΆπ― in elections, I π£πΆπΊ 'em" himself have veto power over the US budget...
The coup is over, we lost.
In part because the country is racist
In part because lots of people skipped history and psychology classes to play golf
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3ldmhakkx5s2e
It is most assuredly not President Klan Robe's goal to make prices cheaper for us. It will be austerity with higher taxes for those with lower incomes, to destroy the social safety net and also hurt largely βblueβ cities and states. More profits for the wealthy will help him and his βfriends.β
Remember a lot of Americans voted for this and do not care that he will hurt them so long as Black people get it worse.
Remember the Simpson Bowles Commission? It's nickname was The Catfood Commission, and that applies in spades to DOGE.
Bachelor Chow for everyone!
More like the litterbox, amirite?
Cat food is not eligible for SNAP, now, as I understand it.
Vienna Sausages are, since you asked.
All I want . . .
"The Fortnite battle royale island has been snowed over for the holidays, and near the center is a giant block of ice β and itβs widely believed that it will slowly thaw to eventually reveal none other than Mariah Carey."
"Where we droppin'?"
"Mariah Carey."
"Ah, I was wondering what that high pitched noise was."
Is she the one that says ITS TIME!!!!
OT: I was going to suggest the next movie night show a nice tear jerker movie so we could all have a good cry in our common beer.
But when I started to remember the movies that always make me cry I realized they don't do that thing anymore.
Have I got too old to cry? Or have I just plain cried my last tear ever in this vale of tears?
How do you feel about Scrooged, Die Hard, The Lion In Winter, Trading Places and The Fifth Element which are our next 5 movies between now and Jan. 4? I focus on upbeat and humorous mostly, because that tends to make people feel those things.
They sound fine.
I am just worried that my tear ducts may be shutting down as I age.
Mine get a workout every year with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
They get to the part where they sing "Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow..." and I think of my grandma and my dad and I just blub like a babby.
Scrooged, Die Hard, and Trading Places are regular holiday rotation in our household
I'd trade Fifth Element for The Woman King, but that may just be me
I've heard The Long Kiss Goodnight could give Die Hard 1 a run for its money, but I've never seen it. Supposed to be set between Thanksgiving and New Year's? Maybe I will nominate it for next year's holiday season after I watch it.
It is EXTREMELY 'splodey
On the plus side, it does have Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson
"Bad Santa" is another modern classic.
you can find a vinyl recording of Shel Silverstein reading The Giving Tree with animation on the you tubes.
it makes me cry like a baby every damn time.
Old Yeller can still bring on the tears for me but not much else.
Sounder
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!
Trufax
Perhaps reality has overtaken fiction.
Parody sure has been sent to sit down.
That's effectively my perspective at this moment in time.
The headline of this story is outrageously false! Everybody knows that Trump has no friends, CEO or otherwise.
Co-conspirators or victims, but not friends.
This ^^^^^
So, the NY Times IS refusing to show Luigi Mangione's face. I didn't believe the rumor at first, but today in the Times, there are two stories for him, and the only photo of him is one showing the back of his head.
Whatever you may think of the actual man and the shooting, it really is pathetic that the Times won't show his face. Are we all five-year-olds now?
As if anything the fucking VICHY Times does or does not show matters after Mangione's face has been smeared all over the interwebz for weeks!
Please die SOONER, Vichy Times. And take WaPOOP and all the other 'legacy media' with you.
Josh Johnson did an AMAZING routine about everything surrounding Luigi Mannion, with a segment just about that
Failure, Fear, and Frenzy Around Luigi Mangione
https://youtu.be/HZl_ZBzvifA?si=ltIkiJ33GDH3jajl
I wish.
Playground protocol appears to have prevailed.
Yes.