I never had kids, thus will never have grands, but I've been living lightly on earth for decades, because I believe in a livable future. There is no Planet B. Kamala for President, and do whatever it takes to get out the vote!
I can't really believe that people are not compelled by what is happening to the Earth. The mere fact that we've already lost many glaciers is heartbreaking by itself, but that doesn't even begin to touch on the human toll. 33 million displaced by floods in Pakistan! That's a whole tenth of the population of the U.S.
And not a single mention of climate change in the Republican platform, and their nominee just days before the RNC was bleating that climate change wasn't important.
There are a couple of glaciers no longer in my viewshed, unfortunately. There's still the Palisade Glacier, which is now the southernmost glacier in North America, but for how much longer?
You could have colored me flabbergasted when Biden turned out to be the awesome POTUS that he did. I date back to the Truman epoch, and Biden has been the best President in my lifetime. And he had so little to work with in Congress!
There is so much riding on the election in November. We need a leader who will stand up for reproductive freedom. A leader who understands that supporting caregivers leads to healthier families and a stronger economy. A leader who knows that when women have their full power in society, we all thrive.
I am supporting Vice President Kamala Harris because she is that leader. She has an inspiring vision for America—and she has the experience to make it a reality. The issues she prioritizes are the ones that matter to voters. She has been crisscrossing the country to make the case for reproductive rights while courts and state legislatures are trying to take them away. She spearheaded legislation to eliminate racial disparities in maternal health care. She is leading on policies to make paid leave, child care, and elder care more affordable for families.
I am proud to support Vice President Harris. During her years in the White House, she has proven that she knows how to lead through crises while pushing for the change we need. I want her fighting for our country for the next four years.
Democrats have a few good opportunities to pick up seats in the Senate. But you won’t hear about them on the corporate media because, while they love talking about vulnerable democrats, they never talk about vulnerable republicans.
Saw a theory that Donnie’s obsession with Hannibal Lecter comes from a combo of his word association chain with his inability to understand words have multiple meanings: he hears that immigrants are coming here for asylum and thinks they’re escaping *insane* asylums. Like Hannibal Lector. And we should all be afraid of floods of insane asylum escapees.
I came across that last week and it made *so much* sense to me. I mean, it is still batshit crazy and he is so fucking dumb, but not understanding there is more than one definition of "asylum" really sounds like PAB.
I thought it was him making the joke about Hannibal Lecter having you for dinner, and everyone around him wet their pants laughing so hard, so he goes with what makes him feel good.
"Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”
It is a strangely reasonable explanation. The sharks and batteries story is similar. He fundamentally misunderstood a comment about batteries weighing alot.
I've known for awhile that it means happy, but what I want to know is how I had previously understood it to mean annoyed. Like for years that's always what I thought it meant when I heard it, and somehow the context did not clarify it meant the opposite, until the last year or so. hmm.
I guess that's why I'm so dismayed to see so many people, including paid writers, starting to write "weary" when they mean "wary." Sometimes I can tell what they mean by context, but too often I can't.
I just saw it used by a singer I'm collabating with who said the mix of her vocals on a track had her "chuffed." Meaning she dug it deeply. So there's that.
It is, but for some reason it always makes me think there's a vaguely sexual component to the enthusiasm. Like, "this focaccia is amazing, but also why are my cheeks flushed???"
OT question: Has anyone from the Project 2025 coalition initiated a lawsuit on behalf of Joe Biden and against Joe Biden for Joe Biden's shameful discrimination against Joe Biden when Joe Biden pushed Joe Biden aside in order to elevate Joe Biden's VP to the Presidential Nominee? It seems pretty cut and dried that Joe Biden needs to compensate Joe Biden for mistreating a christian white man! I hope Joe Biden has enough money to make Joe Biden whole!
There might even be some grounds to claim religious discrimination .
Is not Joe Biden Roman Catholic? Has not the catholic church condemned abortion? Yet here we see Joe Biden saying he favors a woman's right to choose! How can Joe Biden square this intractable circle of double talk and paradox?
IS there a direct connection between the ideology of Project 2025 and the Slime Campaign? Does Donald intend to enact all those horrors as his platform, or is it just to lure the most psycho of his base?
Both. He does intend to enact as much as he can, or at least rubber stamp it. The Heritage Foundation's congressfreaks will pass it, and Trump will stamp it.
No. He alternates between saying he knows nothing about it and saying he doesn’t disagree with all of it. Which I only know because there are some Twitter Community Notes editors putting “nuh-uh, he has nothing to do with it, he said so!” on any political tweet that so much as hints at a connection (and quite a few that don’t) and then other editors smack it down.
"Sleepy Joe, who is too old to be in office and run for President, and is Crooked anyway...what was I talking about? Sharks? Hannibal Lector? Hannibal Lector ate people, and I've been told that Crooked Joe ate people..."
"but is quite likely to go even farther, because that’s what you do when the planet is burning."
Ahem. Grammar Corner: "farther" (with an "a") is for comparing physical distances -- "that goddamn town is farther away than I thought" -- while "further" (with a "u") is for comparing abstract differences of degree -- "eating this mushroom will really make your music career go further".
Sorry, but that's just Strunk & White (the WORST manual) Americocentrism. As a verb, yes, there's an exclusion issue -- "further" yes, "farther" no -- but as an adjective, the choice is ultimately a function of vowel harmony of the most informal sort. Etymologically the adjective is the same word, anyway. (Cf. Edwin Newman's absurdity about absolute "hopefully" that wholly ignored the putatively equal offense of absolute "frankly". And, yes, I, a Yank, use Brit punctuation relative to terminal positions.)
I don't actually have S&W here; my reference is Garner. You are correct, that in UK English "further" can refer to both kinds of distance; however, "farther" generally only refers to physical distance, even in UK usage, so even were you to assume that Dok Zoom were writing in UK English -- which all the rest of Yr Wonket's house style strongly suggests he is not -- his use of "farther" here would still be incorrect.
All of this, of course, is rather fluid (there are always deviations and exceptions to be found to any rule of usage), but I generally lean more in the direction that rules of "good" usage tend to be more prescriptive than descriptive, and that clarity is improved by following them, rather than one's own subjective judgment of taste.
I never had kids, thus will never have grands, but I've been living lightly on earth for decades, because I believe in a livable future. There is no Planet B. Kamala for President, and do whatever it takes to get out the vote!
I can't really believe that people are not compelled by what is happening to the Earth. The mere fact that we've already lost many glaciers is heartbreaking by itself, but that doesn't even begin to touch on the human toll. 33 million displaced by floods in Pakistan! That's a whole tenth of the population of the U.S.
And not a single mention of climate change in the Republican platform, and their nominee just days before the RNC was bleating that climate change wasn't important.
A long lost buddy swung by yesterday. And of course he is deeply into the cult
Told me that the Great Barrier Reef has had a massive recovery
I’m like who told you that ? He said it was on the internet
I try to explain that you are being lied to
He was not having it
Seeee ya
There are a couple of glaciers no longer in my viewshed, unfortunately. There's still the Palisade Glacier, which is now the southernmost glacier in North America, but for how much longer?
I have been wondering that for the past forty some years.
I have been hope scrolling!! Can't stop.
I referred to it as “joy scrolling” in the first few days after Biden was inaugurated.
But “hope scrolling” totally works for this moment in time. Isn’t it nice?
"Hope Scrolling" needs to be a MAJOR MEME.
I first heard that in a youtube video the other day, a guy said instead of Doom Scrolling he was hope Scrolling.
You could have colored me flabbergasted when Biden turned out to be the awesome POTUS that he did. I date back to the Truman epoch, and Biden has been the best President in my lifetime. And he had so little to work with in Congress!
Melinda French Gates
@melindagates
There is so much riding on the election in November. We need a leader who will stand up for reproductive freedom. A leader who understands that supporting caregivers leads to healthier families and a stronger economy. A leader who knows that when women have their full power in society, we all thrive.
I am supporting Vice President Kamala Harris because she is that leader. She has an inspiring vision for America—and she has the experience to make it a reality. The issues she prioritizes are the ones that matter to voters. She has been crisscrossing the country to make the case for reproductive rights while courts and state legislatures are trying to take them away. She spearheaded legislation to eliminate racial disparities in maternal health care. She is leading on policies to make paid leave, child care, and elder care more affordable for families.
I am proud to support Vice President Harris. During her years in the White House, she has proven that she knows how to lead through crises while pushing for the change we need. I want her fighting for our country for the next four years.
7:45 AM · Jul 23, 2024 · 805K Views
Put your money where your mouth is, Melinda.
Super. How about spending $1 billion in 3 months advocating for women's rights?
Democrats have a few good opportunities to pick up seats in the Senate. But you won’t hear about them on the corporate media because, while they love talking about vulnerable democrats, they never talk about vulnerable republicans.
Saw a theory that Donnie’s obsession with Hannibal Lecter comes from a combo of his word association chain with his inability to understand words have multiple meanings: he hears that immigrants are coming here for asylum and thinks they’re escaping *insane* asylums. Like Hannibal Lector. And we should all be afraid of floods of insane asylum escapees.
I came across that last week and it made *so much* sense to me. I mean, it is still batshit crazy and he is so fucking dumb, but not understanding there is more than one definition of "asylum" really sounds like PAB.
I thought it was him making the joke about Hannibal Lecter having you for dinner, and everyone around him wet their pants laughing so hard, so he goes with what makes him feel good.
That explains so much. And it also underscores how truly stupid he is.
"Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”
Fran Lebowitz .
But are they literal floods that will put our cities under water?
Floods full of sharks and electricity from car batteries.
RAAR!
https://substack.com/profile/117400549-boaty-the-plural/note/c-63039568?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1xwaud
Oh my gosh, that's so plausible and pathetic.
Fran Leibovitz said you will never meet anyone as stupid as Donald Chump.
It is a strangely reasonable explanation. The sharks and batteries story is similar. He fundamentally misunderstood a comment about batteries weighing alot.
I'm excited. Let's mount up!
you heard the man!
The future is female.
I, for one, will welcome our new Gynoverlords (must credit 🦡🍄🐍).
I, for one, cannot wait until January, 2025.
Gods, I will be crying when Joe shakes Kamala's hand and passes the torch.
(if we're lucky!!)
Hopefully, luck will have nothing to do with it.
No luck involved ... errybody voting is involved.
What does 'chuffed' mean? Is that that sound dogs make when they are annoyed?
proud.
I've known for awhile that it means happy, but what I want to know is how I had previously understood it to mean annoyed. Like for years that's always what I thought it meant when I heard it, and somehow the context did not clarify it meant the opposite, until the last year or so. hmm.
I guess that's why I'm so dismayed to see so many people, including paid writers, starting to write "weary" when they mean "wary." Sometimes I can tell what they mean by context, but too often I can't.
I just saw it used by a singer I'm collabating with who said the mix of her vocals on a track had her "chuffed." Meaning she dug it deeply. So there's that.
Across the pond it means to be overcome with joy and happiness.
I understand the phrase "chuffed as nuts" is a thing in England.
In America, chuffed nuts are probably covered by Obamacare.
Yup - it means over the moon with joy - chuffed to bits!
It's a British expression for "stoked".
It is, but for some reason it always makes me think there's a vaguely sexual component to the enthusiasm. Like, "this focaccia is amazing, but also why are my cheeks flushed???"
Would you like to try the cream chuffs? The filling is amazing.
OK, double entendre overload here.
I think it's Bri'ish slang.
OT question: Has anyone from the Project 2025 coalition initiated a lawsuit on behalf of Joe Biden and against Joe Biden for Joe Biden's shameful discrimination against Joe Biden when Joe Biden pushed Joe Biden aside in order to elevate Joe Biden's VP to the Presidential Nominee? It seems pretty cut and dried that Joe Biden needs to compensate Joe Biden for mistreating a christian white man! I hope Joe Biden has enough money to make Joe Biden whole!
a lot of the big law firms are reluctant to take on Joe Biden's case against Joe Biden for fear of backlash from Joe Biden.
In that case I will represent both Joe Bidens pro bono! I will also initiate the lawsuit if those weak-kneed libs at Project 2025 fail to do so.
yrs,
Joe Biden
Sitting under a tree enjoying a cool one
You make a good point.
There might even be some grounds to claim religious discrimination .
Is not Joe Biden Roman Catholic? Has not the catholic church condemned abortion? Yet here we see Joe Biden saying he favors a woman's right to choose! How can Joe Biden square this intractable circle of double talk and paradox?
Obviously the SCOTUS will have to get involved.
IS there a direct connection between the ideology of Project 2025 and the Slime Campaign? Does Donald intend to enact all those horrors as his platform, or is it just to lure the most psycho of his base?
Both. He does intend to enact as much as he can, or at least rubber stamp it. The Heritage Foundation's congressfreaks will pass it, and Trump will stamp it.
Is there evidence of this - has he Donald bellowed it out at one of his rallies?
He did try to have it about 3 different ways at one of his rallies..
"I don't know anything about it..It's seriously extreme...“But I don’t know anything about it, I don’t want to know anything about it.”
Pick a lane grandpa!
No. He alternates between saying he knows nothing about it and saying he doesn’t disagree with all of it. Which I only know because there are some Twitter Community Notes editors putting “nuh-uh, he has nothing to do with it, he said so!” on any political tweet that so much as hints at a connection (and quite a few that don’t) and then other editors smack it down.
I guess it really does not matter. Project 2025 or no, The Orange Slime must never be president again..
Don’t give them any ideas. They have funding from all the horribly, horribly mistreated white trust-fund babies.
As long as they are giving money to either legal team I am fine with it.
Because the lead attorney for both teams is Joe Biden.
Still find it hilarious that a bunch of Republicans are pissed that they didn't get to choose the Democratic candidate.
They're gonna take us to court!
Fuckface von Clownstick has already expressed similar sentiments.
I wonder who he's going to sue over the $10 million he spent on anti-Biden ads. The DNC? Or will it be the media companies he paid to air the ads?
George Soros.
It is always George Soros.
Well, go where the money is.
I cannot wait for him to come to court and testify for the wronged plaintiff Joe Biden against the bigoted defendant Joe Biden.
Should be worth watching.
"Sleepy Joe, who is too old to be in office and run for President, and is Crooked anyway...what was I talking about? Sharks? Hannibal Lector? Hannibal Lector ate people, and I've been told that Crooked Joe ate people..."
"Objection! Hannibal Lecter is not on trial here! Joe Biden is!"
Meanwhile, MAGAts are outraged that people are calling TCFFG/PAB "old".
Good.
Joe Biden owes it to Joe Biden to explain to him why he dropped out.
And then that Joe Biden owes it to the first Joe Biden to accept the one dollar settlement and go buy some ice cream with it.
Like Joe Biden can buy any ice cream in Joe Biden's economy!
Joe Biden needs to urge Joe Biden's Vice President to invoke the 25th Amendment against Joe Biden. It's as clear as clean water.
Yup, and that would give the Vice President the chance to finish out his term. Maybe they'd even run for President and win! It worked for Truman!
And Kamala Harris would be the 47th President of the United States, forcing Chump to throw out a shit ton of campaign merch.
Meanwhile, Vance is a dud, and I'm betting Trump will "you're fired" him before the election:
https://newrepublic.com/post/184127/jd-vance-weird-low-energy-speech-diet-mountain-dew
Glad I scrolled down before posting, since I've been thinking the same thing. "I brought him into this campaign, I can take him out."
DeSantis with a beard and eyeliner
MAGATs don’t drink Diet soda
The most important question is, who will Trump blame? The great man does not make mistakes. But sacrifices must be made.
I don't think he will dump him because he needs Peter Thiel's money.
That will be interesting to see. I can't even imagine that one.
I know. Can Rudy take one more fall?
He already blamed his kids in advance.
Oh, my ... the fighting! The lawsuits! The whinging!
PPV that shit.
Wonder if they have ordered much Trump Vance merchandise or not
really, I am relishing the schadenfreude-in-advance-of-the-event
He thought he was getting JD but what he got was Jeb!
Remember, he had one billionaire-funded Senate campaign and eighteen months in the Senate before this. That's it.
Even Chump had The Apprentice before he ran.
How long before “we never picked him. I hardly knew the guy”
OT: Seattle's new Mayor is Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club!
https://www.thestranger.com/music/2024/07/22/79615087/capitol-hill-block-party-highlights
She's awesome. My girlfriend's hobby is music charts, and she's been watching Chappell Roan's rise up the charts.
Love, love, LOVE her!
a thousand blessings upon that woman and her explosion of well-earned successes
her music is made of hooks!!
How many Rs does it take to change a light bulb?
One to miss-tune the diesel so the truck runs coal
One to mount the trump flags in the back
One to drive like they own the road
One to ride shotgun in case some road rage is needed
One to tow the car out of the handicap spot at Walmart
One to buy ammunition
One to buy beer
One to check out the grills
One to get pissed off at the rainbow on the skittles bag
One to yell at that person wearing a mask
One to remind them what they were there for
One to search the garden section for bulbs
One to ask what Isle the light bulbs are in
One to select the 150w incandescent flood light
One to have his card declined at checkout
One to complain about sales taxes
One to try to install the flood light in the table lamp
Repeat until they get the correct bulb or a candle.
How many republicans does it take to change a lightbulb? None, they prefer to cry in the dark.
How many Republicans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, they only screw the poor.
How many Republicans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, they just deny it's burned out and sit in the dark.
It takes a whole village of idiots
Kamala just hinted at her campaign slogan in her speech last night:
WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!
Fits on a bumper sticker!
Who are these people, and what have you done with my Democrats?
I liked her original "For the people" but I trust her to choose wisely.
I like it
That would be an amazing slogan. Really paint the Repubs as the regressive fucks they are.
without name-calling, also and too
"but is quite likely to go even farther, because that’s what you do when the planet is burning."
Ahem. Grammar Corner: "farther" (with an "a") is for comparing physical distances -- "that goddamn town is farther away than I thought" -- while "further" (with a "u") is for comparing abstract differences of degree -- "eating this mushroom will really make your music career go further".
I LOVE me some linguistic pedantry!!!
Sorry, but that's just Strunk & White (the WORST manual) Americocentrism. As a verb, yes, there's an exclusion issue -- "further" yes, "farther" no -- but as an adjective, the choice is ultimately a function of vowel harmony of the most informal sort. Etymologically the adjective is the same word, anyway. (Cf. Edwin Newman's absurdity about absolute "hopefully" that wholly ignored the putatively equal offense of absolute "frankly". And, yes, I, a Yank, use Brit punctuation relative to terminal positions.)
I don't actually have S&W here; my reference is Garner. You are correct, that in UK English "further" can refer to both kinds of distance; however, "farther" generally only refers to physical distance, even in UK usage, so even were you to assume that Dok Zoom were writing in UK English -- which all the rest of Yr Wonket's house style strongly suggests he is not -- his use of "farther" here would still be incorrect.
All of this, of course, is rather fluid (there are always deviations and exceptions to be found to any rule of usage), but I generally lean more in the direction that rules of "good" usage tend to be more prescriptive than descriptive, and that clarity is improved by following them, rather than one's own subjective judgment of taste.
Fair enough. Proffered for context: https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/language_corner_033114.php#:~:text=A%20prime%20candidate%20would%20be,walked%20farther%20into%20the%20woods.
Thank you for pointing out that distinction, which I had never grasped before.
"Garner's Modern English Usage" is an absolutely excellent guide for resolving a lot of those weird subtleties.
Reminds me of the philosophical question evoked by the great thinker Professor Wagstaff:
Frank : Anything further, Father?
Professor Wagstaff : Anything further, Father? That can't be right. Isn't it anything farther, further? -- (Marx Brothers' "Horse Feathers")
Farther knows best.
Sounds like The Bus was aptly named, then.
Indeed it was. Kesey was a smart motherfucker.
But what about "forther"?
No love for "farter"?
That's how Kermit the Frog sings "Chop Suey" by System of a Down. "FORTHER! FORTHER!"