And this is why my child is in a chain day care center. Are there better ones being run privately? Sure. But do I know that my center has to live in fear of their corporate overlords as well as the state, and that the corporate overlords have to make REALLY SURE their profit centers are not going to get shut down? Bigger sure.
Also I get a discount from my employer, so that's nice.
All that red tape & those regulations were *created* to stop people like Robinson & his wife & their shitty, unsafe daycare. Of course this is all from the "protect the children from drag queens reading books to them" crowd.
I'm 57 years old and I wish to fuck I would have known in the 1st half of my life that trying to see was so much more fun than trying to be seen. Oh well, I'm still pretty happy, just a little disappointed in my start...
One thing is for certain. The GQP campaign can’t deny police reports, health inspection reports, and the like. They also cannot deny ‘first-hand’ reports/interviews from the families of the children who were in their care.
"The GQP campaign can’t deny police reports, health inspection reports, and the like. They also cannot deny ‘first-hand’ reports/interviews from the families of the children who were in their care."
WHITE PEOPLE WILL THREATEN PEOPLE INTO REFUSING TO TESTIFY.
They can disappear those reports. They can buy off inspectors. They can literally set fire to records and burn buildings down.
You're going to need to expand your imagination if you're going to keep up in this cycle.
White people have been burning stuff down -- and gatekeeping people whom they didn't want to see the arson records -- since the 1800s in this country
When White Supremacists Overthrew a Democratically Elected Government
I will agree to you on one thing. There’s a lot that’s the fault of ‘white people’. That’s why, for the 27+ years this white man worked in law enforcement and firefighting, I fought to change that outlook.
I might not be able to stop all the racism, racial slurs, and the like. But you understand. I’m a whole lot different than your ‘average’ white man.
My father and mother worked the farm when I was small, and growing up. They left the house before daylight and didn’t get home until after dark most days. I was raised by a black woman, and I’m damn proud to say that. When I was old enough to work on the farm, the friends I had were white, black, Mexican, Cuban. Kids if all races, colors, and different religions. We all got along just fine. If we didn’t, my dad tore our asses up with his 25’ bullwhip. He as respected by all who worked for him. He showed no favoritism, and he raised us the same way.
So, do me a favor. Save your snide comments for someone else. You come back at me with another one, you will not like my reply to you. That I can promise you.
You know they will. Anything to try to help their GQP candidate. But the reports I mentioned are facts about the business itself. And you know there has to be reports. Especially if they hurled to close the business so no more trouble would be stirred.
And the fact is, Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies, not to mention the whole stealing from children with cancer thing, and oh yeah rape. None of that has stopped him from being a viable candidate for president. These people couldn’t give two fucks about facts. They’ll lie and cheat and steal and gaslight until anyone against them is worn out.
Very correct. This is the reason we all must get the changes made in Congress. We have to give Kamala and Tim a majority, better yet, a ‘supermajority’ in Congress so that serious legislations can be passed to prevent this type of crap 💩 from ever happening again.
Christopath. There are actual Christians who walk the walk, you just don’t see them because they’re the ones paying attention to Matthew 5 and praying in the closet.
But yeah, the American Christianity that goes public has gone to shit.
Evangelicals ARE “actual christians”. They're more in line with historical Christianity than progressive Christians are, for that matter.
The problem isn't American Christianity or public Christianity, the problem is Christianity itself. Its an authoritarian death cult and always has been.
I would contend that the "Prosperity Gospel" is actually a heresy--attitudes like that would have gotten them stoned in the early Church (pre-Constantine).
No. The only reason Christianity was in a position for Constantine to make that move was because Christians spent a long ass time cuddling up to the empire by vice signaling. The gospels are literally just post hoc antisemitic propaganda written by Roman Christians to show that they hated the Jews just like Big Daddy Rome did.
While the white Church and the black church are two very different things, the core problem is Christianity itself. Christian theology is toxic. There's no getting around that. Authoritarianism and sadism are just as integral to its DNA as Jesus is.
Refusing to acknowledge that is a massive part of why we've gotten to this sorry state.
Remember: Among others, Stan Woodward represents Walt Nauta, who may know WHAT classified docs Trump stole and where the ones that disappeared went to.
Now imagine if Iran found docs disclosing that?
tan Woodward was cleared into ALL of the documents charged against Trump.
That includes the Iranian attack doc Trump showed to Mark Meadows' briefers. It likely includes numerous docs on Iran's nuke program.
Just because Trump & co. are calling it a "hack" doesn't mean it is one, nor does their claim of a foreign power being involved actually mean one is involved. Don't fall for his false claims, wait for actual evidence/corroboration.
Politico has had those for at least three weeks and are just releasing them now
"“Foreign sources.” Trying to hurt Trump. But only sent to Politico. Who we know won’t release them. 😒
My money says the “leak” was intentional because the Trump campaign is flailing. So this is the start of “Harris stole the election using foreign bad actors.” Boy BYE."
No wonder ol PAB has been looking so sick and forlorn these past few days. He's knows he is in some deep doo doo now. Good timing for his campaign besides. 😜
We had them at home here in the DYT, but it always seemed more amazing at my grandparents' house at the top of the hill in W Virginia. 8:30 ish, it was like a magic spell.
Never have I seen one. I read so many books as a kid that had them in it. I desperately wanted to collect some. It seemed to me from reading, they were mostly at “camp” and I used to beg my parents to send me. Just as well they didn’t, the camps here in CA probably don’t have any!! A friend recently told me that she and her friends would stick them in their nostrils and run around scaring people. Sounds fun
In my Pennsylvania childhood, we'd quit playing tag when it got too late, then spend another half hour whirling in the velvety darkness with our lightning bug friends. Perfect prelude to peaceful dreams.
Do not let him continue in public life.
What a fat, ignorant, evil asshole this guy is.
And this is why my child is in a chain day care center. Are there better ones being run privately? Sure. But do I know that my center has to live in fear of their corporate overlords as well as the state, and that the corporate overlords have to make REALLY SURE their profit centers are not going to get shut down? Bigger sure.
Also I get a discount from my employer, so that's nice.
Gee, now I'm going to have to give Josh Stein some Ameros so he can run that commercial 24/7 till the election.
Also, somebody with better photoshop skillz than mine HAS to do a "Mr. Robinson's Daycare" version of the old Eddie Murphy bit.
Mr. Robinson, meet Ms. Streisand and her Effect. Babs, Mark.
All that red tape & those regulations were *created* to stop people like Robinson & his wife & their shitty, unsafe daycare. Of course this is all from the "protect the children from drag queens reading books to them" crowd.
OK, but is he going to get elected? What's the polling, etc.?
Stein has the slightest of edges in recent polling, within margin of error, basically a tossup.
I'm 57 years old and I wish to fuck I would have known in the 1st half of my life that trying to see was so much more fun than trying to be seen. Oh well, I'm still pretty happy, just a little disappointed in my start...
One thing is for certain. The GQP campaign can’t deny police reports, health inspection reports, and the like. They also cannot deny ‘first-hand’ reports/interviews from the families of the children who were in their care.
"The GQP campaign can’t deny police reports, health inspection reports, and the like. They also cannot deny ‘first-hand’ reports/interviews from the families of the children who were in their care."
WHITE PEOPLE WILL THREATEN PEOPLE INTO REFUSING TO TESTIFY.
They can disappear those reports. They can buy off inspectors. They can literally set fire to records and burn buildings down.
You're going to need to expand your imagination if you're going to keep up in this cycle.
White people have been burning stuff down -- and gatekeeping people whom they didn't want to see the arson records -- since the 1800s in this country
When White Supremacists Overthrew a Democratically Elected Government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVQomlXMeek&t=27s
I will agree to you on one thing. There’s a lot that’s the fault of ‘white people’. That’s why, for the 27+ years this white man worked in law enforcement and firefighting, I fought to change that outlook.
I might not be able to stop all the racism, racial slurs, and the like. But you understand. I’m a whole lot different than your ‘average’ white man.
My father and mother worked the farm when I was small, and growing up. They left the house before daylight and didn’t get home until after dark most days. I was raised by a black woman, and I’m damn proud to say that. When I was old enough to work on the farm, the friends I had were white, black, Mexican, Cuban. Kids if all races, colors, and different religions. We all got along just fine. If we didn’t, my dad tore our asses up with his 25’ bullwhip. He as respected by all who worked for him. He showed no favoritism, and he raised us the same way.
So, do me a favor. Save your snide comments for someone else. You come back at me with another one, you will not like my reply to you. That I can promise you.
Yes, it's all "white people's" fault in a story about a thoroughly crazed black man.
Keep your knee jerking, pal, it looks great for the cause of truth. Sheesh.
I’m sure all those families will be painted as being “no angels” in the press.
worse
https://www.wonkette.com/p/nc-gop-nominee-mark-robinson-ran/comment/65098273
You know they will. Anything to try to help their GQP candidate. But the reports I mentioned are facts about the business itself. And you know there has to be reports. Especially if they hurled to close the business so no more trouble would be stirred.
And the fact is, Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies, not to mention the whole stealing from children with cancer thing, and oh yeah rape. None of that has stopped him from being a viable candidate for president. These people couldn’t give two fucks about facts. They’ll lie and cheat and steal and gaslight until anyone against them is worn out.
Very correct. This is the reason we all must get the changes made in Congress. We have to give Kamala and Tim a majority, better yet, a ‘supermajority’ in Congress so that serious legislations can be passed to prevent this type of crap 💩 from ever happening again.
"Failure in business, misogynistic, violent and paranoid delusions, hypocritical, threatening to sue when called out" typical Christian.
Christopath. There are actual Christians who walk the walk, you just don’t see them because they’re the ones paying attention to Matthew 5 and praying in the closet.
But yeah, the American Christianity that goes public has gone to shit.
Evangelicals ARE “actual christians”. They're more in line with historical Christianity than progressive Christians are, for that matter.
The problem isn't American Christianity or public Christianity, the problem is Christianity itself. Its an authoritarian death cult and always has been.
Dude, there is one book. Read it.
It does not actually say, "Fuck your neighbor, abortion is bad, and eat lots of pork BBQ"
I was a practicing Christian for most of my life and I almost went to seminary. I'm intimately familiar with the Bible.
If you think the evangelicals who DO think the Bible tells them to do all of that make your religion look bad, go yell at them.
Also read an actual history book some time and look at what Christians have been doing in the name of Christ for the past two-ish millennia.
I would contend that the "Prosperity Gospel" is actually a heresy--attitudes like that would have gotten them stoned in the early Church (pre-Constantine).
No. The only reason Christianity was in a position for Constantine to make that move was because Christians spent a long ass time cuddling up to the empire by vice signaling. The gospels are literally just post hoc antisemitic propaganda written by Roman Christians to show that they hated the Jews just like Big Daddy Rome did.
American WHITE Christianity.
WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5PUpcx80mw&t=61s
While the white Church and the black church are two very different things, the core problem is Christianity itself. Christian theology is toxic. There's no getting around that. Authoritarianism and sadism are just as integral to its DNA as Jesus is.
Refusing to acknowledge that is a massive part of why we've gotten to this sorry state.
Did you *watch* that video (or read the book it's mentioning)?
Or are you just offering / repeating your opinion again without either support or nuance?
If you take the whole Jesus saga & being "Christ-like" parts out, you aren't wrong.
"Give to the poor, clothe the naked, turn the other cheek"
100% sadism there.
Marcy Wheeler makes an excellent point about the hacked Trump campaign documents, and the Washington Post missing a huge point
https://x.com/emptywheel/status/1822416892729942269?s=61&t=d57_wdu2mp3jUpQgi28A5Q
HOLY HELL YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!
Trump used Brand Woodward--an absolutely crucial team on Trump's criminal defense--to do their VP vetting.
If they got OTHER docs from Woodward, Trump could be wildly exposed--& it would explain why Trump didn't tell FBI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/trump-hack-iran-vance-report/
Remember: Among others, Stan Woodward represents Walt Nauta, who may know WHAT classified docs Trump stole and where the ones that disappeared went to.
Now imagine if Iran found docs disclosing that?
tan Woodward was cleared into ALL of the documents charged against Trump.
That includes the Iranian attack doc Trump showed to Mark Meadows' briefers. It likely includes numerous docs on Iran's nuke program.
Just because Trump & co. are calling it a "hack" doesn't mean it is one, nor does their claim of a foreign power being involved actually mean one is involved. Don't fall for his false claims, wait for actual evidence/corroboration.
This. Right. Here. ^^^^^^^^
Politico has had those for at least three weeks and are just releasing them now
"“Foreign sources.” Trying to hurt Trump. But only sent to Politico. Who we know won’t release them. 😒
My money says the “leak” was intentional because the Trump campaign is flailing. So this is the start of “Harris stole the election using foreign bad actors.” Boy BYE."
https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/status/1822411435861049513
Ah, very possible, too.
No wonder ol PAB has been looking so sick and forlorn these past few days. He's knows he is in some deep doo doo now. Good timing for his campaign besides. 😜
I can't read the WaPo article but it seems quite revealing! Thank you
i just stood outside for a while looking for meteors from the meteor shower, but got nothin'.
Oh well, at least there were fireflies :)
We had them at home here in the DYT, but it always seemed more amazing at my grandparents' house at the top of the hill in W Virginia. 8:30 ish, it was like a magic spell.
Never have I seen one. I read so many books as a kid that had them in it. I desperately wanted to collect some. It seemed to me from reading, they were mostly at “camp” and I used to beg my parents to send me. Just as well they didn’t, the camps here in CA probably don’t have any!! A friend recently told me that she and her friends would stick them in their nostrils and run around scaring people. Sounds fun
Fireflies are worth it.
I miss them so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k72jGJTC_3o
My first friend in WMass and I bonded over lightning bugs on a dead-end walk. My introduction to the Valley.
In my Pennsylvania childhood, we'd quit playing tag when it got too late, then spend another half hour whirling in the velvety darkness with our lightning bug friends. Perfect prelude to peaceful dreams.
Popping in again!
Pleiades meteor shower, tonight late, ditto tomorrow! And here for once it's not raining. And no moon. Space.com said we could get 150 to 200 an hour.
Quarter moon anyway, probably already setting in a sky near you. Should be pretty good. Pleiades are usually one of the better ones!
Are we moving to movie thread?
Movie is over.
Good Q. Best go over and if it's finished.
To be fair, Robinson was just preparing those kids for work next year.
I get what you are saying!
The more dangerous, the better. These people are unfuckingbelievable.😡😡😡