I will not participate in a demonstration that elevates Hamas, but I'd certainly participate in one that diminishes Bibi, and I'd be all in for one that wants Jared Kushner expelled from the planet for his stated desire that Israel "finish the job" in Gaza so that he can build luxury resorts on prime Mediterranean coastal property.*
*Speaking of which, Kushner is not confining his destructive greed to Gaza. He's already planning resorts in one of the most pristine ecosystems on the Mediterranean:
OT: (sorry, not sorry, but maybe I'm sorry):: taking two courses this semester while also working full-time, and commenting even more full time has been stressful. But I am near the end. Semester-long project turned in for the one course (only 50% of my grade, though, so no pressure) turned in on Sunday, and just got feedback today::: full credit. So with a total of 99.18%, I am done with that class and focused solely on the soul-crushing regression course, where I get 35% of my grade this weekend while taking two two-hour finals. Fortunately, only half the stuff that showed up on the two midterms (how the fuck do you have two midterms? Neither of which were mid-term? Just FUCKING CALL THEM TESTS!!1!!111!!!!ELEBENTY!!!) was stuff that wasn't actually covered, so with luck, I will squeak through the final so that I can relax for a few days before I start my summer of analysis of unstructured data. "Yeah, that's data. Looks like it doesn't have any structure. Please give me my A+++ now." I really should be working right now, not posting on the interwebz, but really need to be studying right now, but to high on my success to focus. Or maybe it's the lack of sleep and the hangover. Whatever it is, what I'm trying to say is go get 'em, Joe! Hang that abortion bullshit around the prancy little white-booted show pony of a governor's neck and remind America that TFG Not The President PAB is the one who built the abortion clusterfuck we now have.
As a prof myself, I can tell you it is not your imagination that working full time can play havok with college classes. It takes serious time management.
"We give Biden 12 Pinocchios for not clearly stating that this was a result of the Florida lege, not Trump. We have no idea who installed SC justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, who the Governor of Florida is or what his policies might be, and it's not like we have any journalists left on staff to investigate. Biden should be ashamed and apologise for his clearly slanderous statements."
Meanwhile PAB sits in a lonely court room, abandoned by his MAGA minions and facing the consequences of being an unrelenting shit bag for the last eight decades.
About damned time, if you ask me, and supremely satisfying, regardless of verdict. Just watching a narcissistic sociopath squirm as, suddenly, his wish is fulfilled, and it IS ‘all about him’- just not the way he’d planned and totally out of his control - is karmic bliss.
Watching the speech now, cause I just got home. Thank fuck that Joe has dropped all pretenses and said "This is Donald Trump's fault. This is all his fault."
That ship has sailed, hit an iceberg, a mine, and caught fire, was hit by a torpedo, and sunk to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Those good looks are never going to be recovered.
He ought to come to AZ and visit with Katie Hobbs next. Point out that when we elect Democrats, we protect real freedom. And that the Republicans want to take us back to 1864.
Sure, Trump appointed three of the six justices who overturned Roe v Wade, after promising right wingers that he was going to appoint exactly the sort of justices who would overturn Roe v Wade.
Sure, Trump is depending on the support of anti-abortion voters and activists to get elected and stay in power, and he has promised to deliver for them.
Sure, Trump has proposed national abortion bans, which would further restrict abortion even in states that would never do so with their own state legislatures.
But he just said these bans go too far, so he must be the real moderate for this issue!
No cost access to a liberal arts education in a community college would be a dream come true for SO many Americans and such a powerful economic positive.
I feel a deep and genuine respect and affection for Joe Biden.
I've worked in everything from pre-school camps to high schools to top universities, public and private, but my deepest affection will always be for the community colleges, where one senses so palpably the earnest desire to learn and prevail. I saw people's lives changing right in front of my eyes during my years working at a community college. One student became one of my closest friends. When I met her she was thrilled to have finished a year of community college at age 42; the first full year of schooling she'd ever completed in her entire life after years of being ping-ponged between foster homes then becoming a mother at age 17 then working all kinds of menial jobs to get by and raise her kids. She was READY.
They are marvels. California recognized this by creating a direct pathway for outstanding community college students to feed directly from a 2-year associate degree into the UC undergrad system. That pathway does not exist for students in the Cal State system - a good thing to know if you're 18 and debating community college vs. Cal State (this is not a knock on Cal State, just a light shone on one's options).
We talked to this pro-choice Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump voter. He’s still doesn’t like his options this year, but might vote for RFK, Jr. or Trump.
We had the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade on campus. They’d set up a table and hand out literature. I talked with them twice, out of curiosity. Then I met my first dyed-in-the-wool, drank-the-whole-pitcher-of-Kool-Aid libertarian, and I remember thinking, “I know some people this guy should talk to. They wouldn’t agree on anything, but they’d hit it off. Maybe, with luck, they’d all become Hare Krishnas.”
Oh gods, I WAS that Revolutionary Communist Youth in college. I was gonna change the world to bring about the revolution! Then reality hit, and I was like "This is dumb. Communism won't help anyone."
My headline cut off to read: Joe Biden Giving Big Abortion
Is there anything that man can't do?
I will not participate in a demonstration that elevates Hamas, but I'd certainly participate in one that diminishes Bibi, and I'd be all in for one that wants Jared Kushner expelled from the planet for his stated desire that Israel "finish the job" in Gaza so that he can build luxury resorts on prime Mediterranean coastal property.*
*Speaking of which, Kushner is not confining his destructive greed to Gaza. He's already planning resorts in one of the most pristine ecosystems on the Mediterranean:
https://www.sej.org/headlines/jared-kushner-has-big-plans-delta-europe-s-last-wild-river
Bibi wants Trump.
The idiocy of people opposing Bibi by shitting on Biden is rather extreme.
I don't believe in that ridiculous anti-Christ BS, but this guy sure fits the bill.
Kushner is more repulsive than Trump
Paved paradise, put up a condo block.
Biden: Trump and his abortion extremists overturned Roe and they’re not done taking your reproductive rights away.
Media: How dare he suggest such a thing! He’s overstating their position! Dems shouldn’t overreact!
GOP: Dems are murdering g babies after they’ve been born!
Media: I’m gonna act like we didn’t hear that. *whistles and walks off*
Murc's Law, works every time!
OT: (sorry, not sorry, but maybe I'm sorry):: taking two courses this semester while also working full-time, and commenting even more full time has been stressful. But I am near the end. Semester-long project turned in for the one course (only 50% of my grade, though, so no pressure) turned in on Sunday, and just got feedback today::: full credit. So with a total of 99.18%, I am done with that class and focused solely on the soul-crushing regression course, where I get 35% of my grade this weekend while taking two two-hour finals. Fortunately, only half the stuff that showed up on the two midterms (how the fuck do you have two midterms? Neither of which were mid-term? Just FUCKING CALL THEM TESTS!!1!!111!!!!ELEBENTY!!!) was stuff that wasn't actually covered, so with luck, I will squeak through the final so that I can relax for a few days before I start my summer of analysis of unstructured data. "Yeah, that's data. Looks like it doesn't have any structure. Please give me my A+++ now." I really should be working right now, not posting on the interwebz, but really need to be studying right now, but to high on my success to focus. Or maybe it's the lack of sleep and the hangover. Whatever it is, what I'm trying to say is go get 'em, Joe! Hang that abortion bullshit around the prancy little white-booted show pony of a governor's neck and remind America that TFG Not The President PAB is the one who built the abortion clusterfuck we now have.
As a prof myself, I can tell you it is not your imagination that working full time can play havok with college classes. It takes serious time management.
And congrats.
Biden seeks to tie Florida’s six week abortion ban to Trump. But don’t worry. We will do our best to paint Trump as an abortion moderate.
MSM
"We give Biden 12 Pinocchios for not clearly stating that this was a result of the Florida lege, not Trump. We have no idea who installed SC justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, who the Governor of Florida is or what his policies might be, and it's not like we have any journalists left on staff to investigate. Biden should be ashamed and apologise for his clearly slanderous statements."
Meanwhile PAB sits in a lonely court room, abandoned by his MAGA minions and facing the consequences of being an unrelenting shit bag for the last eight decades.
AND he had to listen to the prospective jurors saying what they thought of him......
Without being able to say "that's a nasty question. Did Soros pay you to ask that? You are a terrible journalist."
About damned time, if you ask me, and supremely satisfying, regardless of verdict. Just watching a narcissistic sociopath squirm as, suddenly, his wish is fulfilled, and it IS ‘all about him’- just not the way he’d planned and totally out of his control - is karmic bliss.
Please sit by me at the next Wonkette celebration
Watching the speech now, cause I just got home. Thank fuck that Joe has dropped all pretenses and said "This is Donald Trump's fault. This is all his fault."
About time!
But, but Hillary should have inspired meeee!
Remember how shrill she was?
Oh gods, don't even get me started on that. Joe Biden should have had a nice retirement, instead of, at his age, having to whoop Trump's ass twice.
Glad someone can do it!
Well said, Uncle Joe!
More smacking. Such a surprise, Graham flipped again, so he did a full 360 and is back backing Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1782845683306819621
80-19: The U.S. Senate has voted to advance a $95 billion foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.
A final vote is likely later Tuesday.
Leningrad Lindseycunt is such a miserable little prostitute.
You expect us to believe that Lindsey can swing both ways on an issue?
Well she does give both Greek and French...
Whichever way the wind blows.....
Lead me to the fainting couch, bring smelling salts and a julep
More performative pretense from a petulant partisan shit disturber and full-time attention whore.
Petulant partisan poophead & permanent praise prostitute.
Possibly protuberant, probably painful, pitifully pee-preventing.
And a positively prolonged prolapse.
He should join the circus -- contortionists are in high demand.
Oh, was that him in Pink Flamingos?
I briefly misread this, then read Satanic Pancake's comment, then started thinking about the terrifying, camp cartoons of Gerald Boa.
Meh, give him a few hours.
Of course he is. Graham is an opportunistic thug, who will do whatever it takes to make himself look good.
Except understand, even performatively, why the NAACP gave him a D on his voting record.
Literally Confederate to the bone.
That ship has sailed, hit an iceberg, a mine, and caught fire, was hit by a torpedo, and sunk to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Those good looks are never going to be recovered.
That is so perfect. My hat (which I don't normally wear anyway) is off to you, gb.
Oh, that's nice. I'm going to be wielding that.
𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴.
Evan, come on. It's ALWAYS election season in this fucked up country.
You know what I think?
If voting were actually mandatory, it wouldn't HAVE to be election season all the time.
I agree. Most heartily.
I think the Aussies are on to something with mandatory voting. And it's not the koala chlamydia, either.
I love Melbourne (even though I hate the racism against the Maori and other people who look like me).
I have all the Curtis Stone cookware (though they do need to do something about that warranty department when it comes to malfunctioning soup makers).
They even have the Happy Slam! I wouldn't miss not being able to go to the US Open!
What's the bag limit?
Take me gambling. Teach me blackjack.
Nobody in my family wanted to teach me. Not even my auntie who won six figures.
Then when's wabbit season?
ELMER SEASON!
He ought to come to AZ and visit with Katie Hobbs next. Point out that when we elect Democrats, we protect real freedom. And that the Republicans want to take us back to 1864.
Sure, Trump appointed three of the six justices who overturned Roe v Wade, after promising right wingers that he was going to appoint exactly the sort of justices who would overturn Roe v Wade.
Sure, Trump is depending on the support of anti-abortion voters and activists to get elected and stay in power, and he has promised to deliver for them.
Sure, Trump has proposed national abortion bans, which would further restrict abortion even in states that would never do so with their own state legislatures.
But he just said these bans go too far, so he must be the real moderate for this issue!
We denounce ageist comments. Biden should set the example - NYT editorial board
Joe should have his team inquire about renting out Mar-A-Lago for a campaign appearance. See if Trump's greed will outweigh his better judgement.
I just want to see Trump have to wrestle with money vs. letting Biden into Mar-A-Lago.
^^^Now that’s funny😂^^^
Bring binders of “classified documents” (really blank pages), and do a mind declassification trick.
No cost access to a liberal arts education in a community college would be a dream come true for SO many Americans and such a powerful economic positive.
I feel a deep and genuine respect and affection for Joe Biden.
I've worked in everything from pre-school camps to high schools to top universities, public and private, but my deepest affection will always be for the community colleges, where one senses so palpably the earnest desire to learn and prevail. I saw people's lives changing right in front of my eyes during my years working at a community college. One student became one of my closest friends. When I met her she was thrilled to have finished a year of community college at age 42; the first full year of schooling she'd ever completed in her entire life after years of being ping-ponged between foster homes then becoming a mother at age 17 then working all kinds of menial jobs to get by and raise her kids. She was READY.
That's a story that needs to be shouted to everyone who will listen. Community colleges are valuable and important institutions!
They are marvels. California recognized this by creating a direct pathway for outstanding community college students to feed directly from a 2-year associate degree into the UC undergrad system. That pathway does not exist for students in the Cal State system - a good thing to know if you're 18 and debating community college vs. Cal State (this is not a knock on Cal State, just a light shone on one's options).
I've respected him for a while now, but I've grown to genuinely like the guy.
We watched Biden’s speech with an undecided Karen who has always been pro choice. She wasn’t impressed.
By NPR
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"just check the sidebar"
From the villages. She kept accidentally bumping us with her AR-15.
We talked to this pro-choice Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump voter. He’s still doesn’t like his options this year, but might vote for RFK, Jr. or Trump.
Because Donald "loves the uneducated" -- and that guy decided that meant he didn't ever need to go to class or read anything
The indolent indignation of ignorance.
The best are the absolute dipshits who think Biden outlawed abortion because Roe was overturned "on his watch".
College students, dude.
That's partially the fault of stupid professors who refuse to assign anything challenging because they fear helicopter parents
College students, having been one, are so far up their own asses sometimes and encourage the worst purity pony behavior.
We had the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade on campus. They’d set up a table and hand out literature. I talked with them twice, out of curiosity. Then I met my first dyed-in-the-wool, drank-the-whole-pitcher-of-Kool-Aid libertarian, and I remember thinking, “I know some people this guy should talk to. They wouldn’t agree on anything, but they’d hit it off. Maybe, with luck, they’d all become Hare Krishnas.”
Oh gods, I WAS that Revolutionary Communist Youth in college. I was gonna change the world to bring about the revolution! Then reality hit, and I was like "This is dumb. Communism won't help anyone."
At least the RCYB thought they were trying to improve the world. The libertarian was just trying to arrange it for his own benefit.
And no beret. Fuck that guy.
There’s never been any real communism, just people using the moniker, then acting out the patriarchal authoritarian behavior they were raised under.
If only some of them had taken 6th grade civics.
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