Looks like Trump is ready to cut bait in Iran and call it a victory in the hopes that gas prices go down and voters forget about all his boasts that he “held all the cards” before the midterms.
He’ll probably do something in Cuba to try and restore his strongman persona after he tucks tail and runs from Iran.
My YouTube tossed up a short of some defense lawyer explaining which professions are the absolute WORST jurors, from a Defense standpoint
First out of the gate was nurses. He "doesn't know why."
Dude, have you ever actually met a nurse? They may be professionally kind and merciful people, but they have seen every form of lie and BS known to man. A smooth-talking defense lawyer is not gonna mislead them or confuse them, and they sure as hell know what shady people look like when they're worried about the consequences of their habitual skeeviness.
The robber barons of old were greedy pricks, but they would at least throw the hoi polloi a bone, now and then. Like building museums, schools, hospitals, etc. Putting their names on them, natch, but they’d do something. This current breed just wants to keep every penny, all the while bitching, complaining, and trying to change the country and its people that made them so wealthy.
Bezos is so desperate not to be seen as a villain, despite all evidence to the contrary. A lot of these billionaire types seem awfully desperate for public approval, even as they screw the public. I wonder if there is a tiny little nugget of Bezos' soul deep down inside that hasn't been completely corrupted, and maybe feels actual guilt over the fact he has such undeserved advantage over practically every other person on the planet? His arguments reek of desperation, like maybe he's actually trying to convince himself.
"Greetings, fellow humans. I am Xelba--, I mean, John Cornyn. How are you? I am well and obviously a normal human just as you are as you can clearly witness from this visual record."
Jeff Bezos benefitted from decades of Amazon not being taxed -- first because it was internet-based, and then, when Congress finally got around to taxing online retail, they decided it needed some leeway for it to survive. But has he ever felt anything but entitlement after this sweet deal? Fuck no -- working conditions are fucking miserable at Amazon warehouses and for their drivers, and when they try to unionize, he fights them with every dirty underhanded tactic he can find. He could double the salaries of everyone who was scraping by working for him and it wouldn't hurt his bottom line by any noticeable degree. But he's not giving us his fucking driblets of fiscal wisdom to benefit the country -- he's just out there explaining why he can't be fucking bothered to give a shit. In fact, the fucker feels put upon. Like we don't appreciate that he's such a sensitive soul that even *thinking* about raising taxes in his presence makes him suffer. Just like Jesus, really.
Trump: He’d like me to go. I’m going to try. I said, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. He’s a person I’ve known for a long time.
People like Bezos suffer from the illusion that “they” make all that money by themselves. They don’t they pay OTHER people very little to make that money FOR THEM.
Sometimes it’s about making somebody feel better, lifting their spirits, making them feel like you’re contributing to the effort and not sitting tthe game out.
pulling your weight like everybody else, give it a try be a team player.
In California primary news today, Sacramento City Councilwoman Mai Vang is in striking distance of making the general a Democrat vs. Democrat face off, against Doris Matsui. Which I wholeheartedly endorse! Vang is a comer with an excellent political record on local issues, and I have had a long-standing beef with Matsui. I liked her husband, and I suppose Doris is an okay person and all, but I HATE the way she was basically announced Robert Matsui's automatic successor upon his death. Since when were Congressmen hereditary nobles? Plus she's been in office way too fucking long.
Gotta note that she has spent five times as much as Vang has, already, and that her war chest still has nearly twice as much left as she has already spent. $1.2 million, for one of the safest of Democratic safe seats, and damned little of it came from small donors.
And THAT'S why her generation of Democrats has to go.
Que se vaya pa' casa del carajo, Jeff Bezos, hijo de la gran puta, estupido y comemierda.
And on a better note, I was the first person on my block to see "The Mandalorian and Grogu" at the movies today! It was adorbs and we get to see Grogu use The Force a few times to save his daddy, Din Djarin.
And on a separate note and a palate cleanser for everything that is rotten in the USA right now, from "Girl with the Dogs", Vanessa gives the five Havanese dogs she rescued under the umbrella of her rescue organization, a spa day:
I just saw something that has left me profoundly affected: Jim Jordan 𝐧𝐨𝐭 wearing a yellow tie.
The world has truly gone upside-down.
Looks like Trump is ready to cut bait in Iran and call it a victory in the hopes that gas prices go down and voters forget about all his boasts that he “held all the cards” before the midterms.
He’ll probably do something in Cuba to try and restore his strongman persona after he tucks tail and runs from Iran.
https://youtu.be/udVq7X3jcVU?si=bPTVkiHRasFpF1s7
Gorecki, Szeroka Woda
.
Szeroka woda na Wiśle,
A powiem wam teraz swe myśle.
Jak było wczoraj, tak I dziś,
Muszę ja na wieki z tobą byc'.
.
Wide water on the Wiśle
And I will tell everyone now my thoughts.
As it was yesterday, so I today
I have to forever be with you.
My YouTube tossed up a short of some defense lawyer explaining which professions are the absolute WORST jurors, from a Defense standpoint
First out of the gate was nurses. He "doesn't know why."
Dude, have you ever actually met a nurse? They may be professionally kind and merciful people, but they have seen every form of lie and BS known to man. A smooth-talking defense lawyer is not gonna mislead them or confuse them, and they sure as hell know what shady people look like when they're worried about the consequences of their habitual skeeviness.
Nurses have seen shit.
My wife was a BSN. Zero tolerance for hijinks.
The robber barons of old were greedy pricks, but they would at least throw the hoi polloi a bone, now and then. Like building museums, schools, hospitals, etc. Putting their names on them, natch, but they’d do something. This current breed just wants to keep every penny, all the while bitching, complaining, and trying to change the country and its people that made them so wealthy.
Someone needs to fucking die- preferably during a public speech. That would be Cheff's Kiss.
they buy sportball teams and their affiliated stadiums these days too.
Bezos is so desperate not to be seen as a villain, despite all evidence to the contrary. A lot of these billionaire types seem awfully desperate for public approval, even as they screw the public. I wonder if there is a tiny little nugget of Bezos' soul deep down inside that hasn't been completely corrupted, and maybe feels actual guilt over the fact he has such undeserved advantage over practically every other person on the planet? His arguments reek of desperation, like maybe he's actually trying to convince himself.
Hi Wonkets. Here is your evening Zelenskyy outside in a park with a monument of some sort and two women sitting on a bench in the background. Ukraine has regained territory, I’ve read. Good. Plus they’re blowing up Russian refineries and shit, more gooder. https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/sogodni-u-slavutichi-vazhlivo-pidtrimati-nashih-lyudej-tut-p-104521
"Greetings, fellow humans. I am Xelba--, I mean, John Cornyn. How are you? I am well and obviously a normal human just as you are as you can clearly witness from this visual record."
https://xcancel.com/JohnCornyn/status/2057537141719093353?s=20
A delicious ice confection can only please.
I am fine John Cornyn. You are fine as well as the visual record attests
***(I had that after I ate this child-size cone)***
"I was, in fact, a little disappointed when I bit into it and realized it *wasn't* a child."
he is 𝘀𝗼 shiny!
OT: The Onion on Jeffrey Epstein
https://youtu.be/XjhSoGcQhWU?si=AVgUpTLZJ4v5fnFn
Jeff Bezos benefitted from decades of Amazon not being taxed -- first because it was internet-based, and then, when Congress finally got around to taxing online retail, they decided it needed some leeway for it to survive. But has he ever felt anything but entitlement after this sweet deal? Fuck no -- working conditions are fucking miserable at Amazon warehouses and for their drivers, and when they try to unionize, he fights them with every dirty underhanded tactic he can find. He could double the salaries of everyone who was scraping by working for him and it wouldn't hurt his bottom line by any noticeable degree. But he's not giving us his fucking driblets of fiscal wisdom to benefit the country -- he's just out there explaining why he can't be fucking bothered to give a shit. In fact, the fucker feels put upon. Like we don't appreciate that he's such a sensitive soul that even *thinking* about raising taxes in his presence makes him suffer. Just like Jesus, really.
Reporter: Are you attending your son’s wedding?
Trump: He’d like me to go. I’m going to try. I said, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. He’s a person I’ve known for a long time.
Must be golfing that day.
“He’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.”
That last quote
I'm a New Yorker, so I have always known who he was, but ...
damn
not djtj's first wedding, it won't be his last, so why bother?
Wait. His *son* is a person he's known for a long time?! Is that what he's saying?
Translation: I liked the last fiancée better.
He's not the center of attention, so of course he's not going.
People like Bezos suffer from the illusion that “they” make all that money by themselves. They don’t they pay OTHER people very little to make that money FOR THEM.
he thinks he put in enough sweat equity schlepping used books across the country (and exploiting the Post Office's media mail already.
His workers make all the money. He just takes the largest piece of the pie.
Yes, I think it's Time to Kill.
Before mods think I am a threat, I am just quoting a thrash metal song- so chillax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mscILxLJ4KU&pp=ygUab3ZlcmtpbGwgdGltZSB0byBraWxsIGxpdmU%3D
Now Jeff, mama says
you never know until you try
Sometimes it’s not about money
Sometimes it’s about making somebody feel better, lifting their spirits, making them feel like you’re contributing to the effort and not sitting tthe game out.
pulling your weight like everybody else, give it a try be a team player.
In California primary news today, Sacramento City Councilwoman Mai Vang is in striking distance of making the general a Democrat vs. Democrat face off, against Doris Matsui. Which I wholeheartedly endorse! Vang is a comer with an excellent political record on local issues, and I have had a long-standing beef with Matsui. I liked her husband, and I suppose Doris is an okay person and all, but I HATE the way she was basically announced Robert Matsui's automatic successor upon his death. Since when were Congressmen hereditary nobles? Plus she's been in office way too fucking long.
Gotta note that she has spent five times as much as Vang has, already, and that her war chest still has nearly twice as much left as she has already spent. $1.2 million, for one of the safest of Democratic safe seats, and damned little of it came from small donors.
And THAT'S why her generation of Democrats has to go.
Que se vaya pa' casa del carajo, Jeff Bezos, hijo de la gran puta, estupido y comemierda.
And on a better note, I was the first person on my block to see "The Mandalorian and Grogu" at the movies today! It was adorbs and we get to see Grogu use The Force a few times to save his daddy, Din Djarin.
And on a separate note and a palate cleanser for everything that is rotten in the USA right now, from "Girl with the Dogs", Vanessa gives the five Havanese dogs she rescued under the umbrella of her rescue organization, a spa day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCXrw3d0dqI
Thank you for everything in this comment
Es lo verdad.