If Dude wants to get all lathered about violations of the Founding Fathers' intentions, why doesn't he get KKKrazy about the Supremes placing the president above the law? They weren't known to be fans of the monarchy.
I just tried to comment on another post and got the notice that only paid members could comment. Yet I am able to comment on here. Could somebody clarify what the policy is? I can appreciate Wonkette's need for support, but these days everyone is in the same situation, and the money I can spare is going to help Ukraine.
I've lived in CA most of my life, and assert that this article is accurate. The first 5 years [63-68] were in Bakersfield, which is a useful baseline to start from.
For those hopeful souls that still believe in the future of humanity, do not, unless you are a trained professional researcher, visit the subreddit “Insanepeopleoffacebook”.
Just got my general election voter's guide today. What pantsload of propositions! I haven't looked in any detail, but there sure seems like there's a lot of astroturfed and gaslighting fascist-enabling bullshit in there.
One is a voter ID measure, of course. As well as a whole lot of stuff demanding that voters undercut their own options and power. I guess Brooke hasn't noticed that BS yet.
The flat out craziest ballot theory I ever heard were the infamous 'bamboo ballots' bs in Arizona 2020 when they lost their ever-loving shit when Bidon won AZ. Apparently the Chinees shipped thousand and thousands of pre-marked ballots made of bamboo paper that were run through the machines, then fed to chickens at Arizonas largest egg manufaturer, which then was allegely burned down by arson, killing all the chickens and the eaten ballots.
Only one pedantic correction, it's The State of Jefferson, not Jefferson State. It's like the difference between The University of California and California University. One is the true Golden Original and the other is bogus whackaloon. Ok, so actually they're whackaloons in either direction but you can guess my drift.
The other bullshit thing is the scare tactics around the millionaire’s tax prop saying that the rule could apply to us middle class folks coming for our 401K’s. We always look to see who’s paying for those ads and when you look them up it’s sons right wing loonies.
It’s also hilarious that one of the owners of Google has poured so much money into fighting it when his payment for the tax would have been far less. I mean that’s just stupid math right there.
In late 1944 as things were not going well in Germany four big cars with swastika flags of big-wigs approach a four-way intersection at a high rate of speed
In one of the cars is Goebbels, coming from the south. Bormann's car is coming from the east, while Goering is approaching the intersection from the west.
Coming from the north is Hitler himself.
The drivers, each thinking their passenger is the most important one on the roadway, all run their stop sign and the four cars collide.
Just before I started high school (way back in the 70s), I got transplanted from the LA area to the Chicago suburbs, and one of my (new) teachers told me this joke:
When the world was young, it was tilted, and all the kooks rolled into California.
I always heard that one from my mom's East Coast Republican family as California is the land of fruits and nuts. I'd smile politely and manage to not be quite all the way turned away as I rolled my eyes and made disparaging faces at my sister.
When I was just about to start 2nd grade, we moved from Germany to the US. We moved several times before I went to 4th grade. Dad was in the military. By the time we settled in upstate NY and Dad retired, I had insomnia.
Ta, Brooke. I hope you don't mind that I'm reposting this, but we all have to vote as if our lives depend on it, because they DO.
Each of us has only one vote, as is right and proper. But there's something else we all have: a social circle (and I realize that many are socially awkward and/or painfully shy and not at all comfortable talking with people). Explain to your family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, fellow students, coreligionists *why* you are voting a straight Democratic ticket this election, and why it's so important that they do the same. Discuss why and how not casting a vote got us into this quagmire (looking at you, Dearborn MI), and how it can get us out of it, eventually, starting in January of next year.
Check your registration. Know the last day to register in your state. Know the location of your polling place (TX, you're up!). If you're in one of those enlightened states that votes entirely by mail, know the location of every dropbox, and share it. It pains this daughter or a deceased postal worker to say this, but do not trust USPS with your ballot; bring it to the dropbox.
Register new voters before the deadline (one of my community garden friends *always* brings voter registration forms to the garden on our block because students and other young people like to hang out there). Phonebank. Postcard. If you're flush, donate to your chosen candidate(s). Organize a miniature Souls to the Polls, or as "M" puts it so elegantly, #ArriveWithFive. Remember that most minimum wage workers and students get *no* time off to vote. I was not a minimum wage worker, but my last job gave us *one hour* off to vote, so I had to vote early, or before or after work since I live in the East Village and worked in The Bronx. (We did have Election Day off in presidential election years; how special.) Make the offer to pick people up before work/school, take them to the polls, then drive them to work/school. Or pick them up after their job or last class, take them to vote, then bring them home. Bonus points for water/coffee/snacks in the car.
More and more states require official photo ID in order to vote.
You can help. "Lend" someone living on the edge the money for document(s) and a ride to the DMV for photo ID (yes, that loan is a gift, but pretend it's a loan so the person/people you help save face). Organize. Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does. I can't think of everything. Please post additional pointers in a reply. This is not a drill.
When I was a teenager my parents didn't want me going to Santa Ynez by myself because the KKK and other white supremacist organizations were very active there and they knew I would get in trouble speaking my mind... Shasta used to be a pretty cool hippie/new age place at one point and then it turned into a different kind of crazy.
If Dude wants to get all lathered about violations of the Founding Fathers' intentions, why doesn't he get KKKrazy about the Supremes placing the president above the law? They weren't known to be fans of the monarchy.
I just tried to comment on another post and got the notice that only paid members could comment. Yet I am able to comment on here. Could somebody clarify what the policy is? I can appreciate Wonkette's need for support, but these days everyone is in the same situation, and the money I can spare is going to help Ukraine.
Some switch didn't get switched. It's a thing. A Substack thing.
Notify the People In Charge, and they will flip the switch.
And, before you ask, yes, it's Trump's fault.
I thought everything was Biden's fault. Or Obama's fault.
And if not his, than Bill Clinton's, Hillary Clinton's, or Jimmy Carter's fault.
But NEVER the fault of the Party of Personal Responsibility.
Numbers change. Attitudes change.
I've lived in CA most of my life, and assert that this article is accurate. The first 5 years [63-68] were in Bakersfield, which is a useful baseline to start from.
TYFYATTM.
For those hopeful souls that still believe in the future of humanity, do not, unless you are a trained professional researcher, visit the subreddit “Insanepeopleoffacebook”.
C’mon, Giant Meteor
And I thought Oregon was bad about right winger posse comitatus sheriffs and their Klan ilk.
Just got my general election voter's guide today. What pantsload of propositions! I haven't looked in any detail, but there sure seems like there's a lot of astroturfed and gaslighting fascist-enabling bullshit in there.
One is a voter ID measure, of course. As well as a whole lot of stuff demanding that voters undercut their own options and power. I guess Brooke hasn't noticed that BS yet.
The flat out craziest ballot theory I ever heard were the infamous 'bamboo ballots' bs in Arizona 2020 when they lost their ever-loving shit when Bidon won AZ. Apparently the Chinees shipped thousand and thousands of pre-marked ballots made of bamboo paper that were run through the machines, then fed to chickens at Arizonas largest egg manufaturer, which then was allegely burned down by arson, killing all the chickens and the eaten ballots.
LOL, I didn't hear about the last part of that...the chicken feed. 😆
Only one pedantic correction, it's The State of Jefferson, not Jefferson State. It's like the difference between The University of California and California University. One is the true Golden Original and the other is bogus whackaloon. Ok, so actually they're whackaloons in either direction but you can guess my drift.
Spencer Pratt. What a dipshit.
The other bullshit thing is the scare tactics around the millionaire’s tax prop saying that the rule could apply to us middle class folks coming for our 401K’s. We always look to see who’s paying for those ads and when you look them up it’s sons right wing loonies.
It’s also hilarious that one of the owners of Google has poured so much money into fighting it when his payment for the tax would have been far less. I mean that’s just stupid math right there.
He's a principled concerned citizen trying to save the 401k's of us filthy Poorz because he's a humanitarian like that.
Got any good jokes?
In late 1944 as things were not going well in Germany four big cars with swastika flags of big-wigs approach a four-way intersection at a high rate of speed
In one of the cars is Goebbels, coming from the south. Bormann's car is coming from the east, while Goering is approaching the intersection from the west.
Coming from the north is Hitler himself.
The drivers, each thinking their passenger is the most important one on the roadway, all run their stop sign and the four cars collide.
Who's at fault?
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Good ones? No. Trump.
Just before I started high school (way back in the 70s), I got transplanted from the LA area to the Chicago suburbs, and one of my (new) teachers told me this joke:
When the world was young, it was tilted, and all the kooks rolled into California.
Insightful.
P.S.
Culture shock? OMG!
I used to tell the joke that California was a bowl of granola. What ain’t fruits and nuts is flakes.
I always heard that one from my mom's East Coast Republican family as California is the land of fruits and nuts. I'd smile politely and manage to not be quite all the way turned away as I rolled my eyes and made disparaging faces at my sister.
When I was just about to start 2nd grade, we moved from Germany to the US. We moved several times before I went to 4th grade. Dad was in the military. By the time we settled in upstate NY and Dad retired, I had insomnia.
Ta, Brooke. I hope you don't mind that I'm reposting this, but we all have to vote as if our lives depend on it, because they DO.
Each of us has only one vote, as is right and proper. But there's something else we all have: a social circle (and I realize that many are socially awkward and/or painfully shy and not at all comfortable talking with people). Explain to your family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, fellow students, coreligionists *why* you are voting a straight Democratic ticket this election, and why it's so important that they do the same. Discuss why and how not casting a vote got us into this quagmire (looking at you, Dearborn MI), and how it can get us out of it, eventually, starting in January of next year.
Check your registration. Know the last day to register in your state. Know the location of your polling place (TX, you're up!). If you're in one of those enlightened states that votes entirely by mail, know the location of every dropbox, and share it. It pains this daughter or a deceased postal worker to say this, but do not trust USPS with your ballot; bring it to the dropbox.
Register new voters before the deadline (one of my community garden friends *always* brings voter registration forms to the garden on our block because students and other young people like to hang out there). Phonebank. Postcard. If you're flush, donate to your chosen candidate(s). Organize a miniature Souls to the Polls, or as "M" puts it so elegantly, #ArriveWithFive. Remember that most minimum wage workers and students get *no* time off to vote. I was not a minimum wage worker, but my last job gave us *one hour* off to vote, so I had to vote early, or before or after work since I live in the East Village and worked in The Bronx. (We did have Election Day off in presidential election years; how special.) Make the offer to pick people up before work/school, take them to the polls, then drive them to work/school. Or pick them up after their job or last class, take them to vote, then bring them home. Bonus points for water/coffee/snacks in the car.
More and more states require official photo ID in order to vote.
You can help. "Lend" someone living on the edge the money for document(s) and a ride to the DMV for photo ID (yes, that loan is a gift, but pretend it's a loan so the person/people you help save face). Organize. Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does. I can't think of everything. Please post additional pointers in a reply. This is not a drill.
Did any of.the ballots contain bamboo fibers?
You left out Jewish Space Lasers.
When I was a teenager my parents didn't want me going to Santa Ynez by myself because the KKK and other white supremacist organizations were very active there and they knew I would get in trouble speaking my mind... Shasta used to be a pretty cool hippie/new age place at one point and then it turned into a different kind of crazy.
I lived in SoCal and my dad managed avocado groves around the corner from Tom Metzger and the Aryan Nation lunatics in Fallbrook.
We had lots of those types around in my formative years and the punk crowd would take them down in public brawls/mosh pits. Good fun
The KKK took my baby away
They took her away, away from me...
Kudos for all Ramones references.