Many years ago, a group of friends chose the restaurant where we all would lunch; they knew there would be dishes to please vegan me. They chose an upper west side Chinese noodle shop called Ollie's. I had never been there before. The food was well-prepared and tasty and the portions were large, but I got really, really bad vibes.
It turns out Ollie's had been ripping off their employees for YEARS. They pooled tips and stole from the pot, when I think the wage without tips was $2/hour. Ollie's got busted and closed up shop. I don't know whether or not their robbed employees ever were made whole, but I doubt it.
No picture can do justice to those Diego Rivera murals in Detroit. I grew up in Detroit and surrounding white-flight areas, and we made regular trips to the DIA. The murals are huge and wrap around a large lobby-like hall that displays only the murals, as I recall. The best thing to see in Detroit.
Did you ever go to the Detroit Historical Museum, too, with the "Streets of Old Detroit" exhibition down in the basement? I recall it from the 60s and 70s.
Oh wow - I don’t think so. But it sounds awesome! My BF’s aunt was a curator at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, so I’ve been there... but it seems we missed the DHM. Poop.
Does this do ANYTHING for probably the largest class of workers who get stiffed, undocumented immigrants? In order for the law to protect them, any worker involved in a wage dispute would have to be granted immunity from the thugs of ICE, including stiff penalties for anyone violating that immunity.
That's one big reason why republicans have zero interest in immigration reform and fixing our broken system. People who want to come here to work could easily be given guest work visas of some sort, but then employers are less able to exploit them.
The other big reason is that its red meat to their ignorant bigot base.
I dunno why the senate even bothers. None of that will pass the house. They'd be much better served staying open 24/7 to deal with this Tuberville mess.
No, ypu know that's the nonsense that the city of New York likes to push. Both the state and city happen to be named New York as there in no place actually named ''New York City''...
It was named after Charles II's Catholic brother, the Duke of York. He succeeded to the throne but was deposed and chased out of Britain by his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, because he was seen as trying to bring Great Britain back to the Universal Catholic Church step by step, and he was just a hand puppet for England's arch enemy Louis XIV.
His campaign to capture New Amsterdam was actually inept. The Dutch agreed to give it up because it was not long-term defensible and Britain gave them another colony in exchange. So there was a mocking poem about it, which was still circulating when I was a schoolchild: "The famous Duke of York, he had ten thousand men, he marched his men right up the hill and he marched them down again. And when they were up, they were up up up! [at this point the kids stretch up on tippytoes] And when they were down they were down down down! [kids squat] And when they were only halfway up, they were neither up nor down! [make silly up-and-down motions]"
First it was named New Amsterdam, then it was named New York. So, named twice. No, we don't count the indigenous names. Yes, I know, city not state. I stand by my non-comment!
spent many stoned hours grokking the Diego Rivera mural in the DIA when i was younger … it’s always been 1 of my favorites … thanks, now if i could go & eat in their beautiful cafeteria …
In Ann Arbor after college I had a quirky artistic housemate who sometimes told stories about going down to Mexico to paint murals with his uncle. He never named his uncle. But then one day my mom and I were in the Rivera room and met him, and then I learned that he was Frida Kahlo's nephew, actually, and while Kahlo and Rivera had difficulties sometimes Rivera was always "Uncle Diego" to him when he was young.
Dartmouth College, at the time a bastion of rich white kid privilege, somehow had Jose Orozco paint a very leftist mural in the reserve corridor of their library in the 1930s, and even more inexplicably never painted it over or covered it up -- it's one of our most remarkable artifacts.
We've since moved on a long way, but the rich white kid aspect is not entirely gone.
> So, let’s say you are a conservative Republican of a decidedly evangelical bent, and are struggling a bit with misgivings about the presidential nominee of your political party, Donald Trump. He does not, after all, fit most definitions of a “godly man,” and beyond that he does not seem to have any sort of well-articulated plan for what he’s going to do if he’s elected, other than to gloat over the despair of his many enemies and detractors like a heathen warlord at the Sack of Rome.
> The simplest way to buck oneself up for the unpleasant task of supporting this philistine is to make it a matter of religious and civilizational necessity. Thus it is not surprising to see an apocalyptic note begin to creep into the rhetoric of Trump’s Christian-right supporters.
And then a discussion of the mindset that got people to the point of comparing voting for TFG rather than let Hillary win, to storming the cockpit of Flight 93 rather than let it be flown into its target.
There's video of him playing with her new tits while she's groping his crotch, all while there are families with kids seated in the theater around them.
what makes you think vaping, oafish rutting beasts are in disfavor in the north Georgia district that elected her? It is obvious that she is no pointy-headed liberal elitist who follows society's rules, so if anything it is probably good publicity for her. Her voters probably can't be taken out in public, either, probly have to throw them on the back to git they shoes on. (spits)
womens healthcare, paying workers, the R support of religious authoritarianism, could be winners in ‘24 … if the D’s show the good sense to make them issues, put them on blast …
Well, now that we have taken the documents out of his shitter, he can have all the movements he wants. And all the trials he is indicted for.
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“You have voter ID to buy a loaf of bread, you have ID to buy a loaf of bread,” said Trump as he argued that Democrats are “desperate” to stop his movement in remarks at the Concerned Women for America Summit in Washington, D.C.
just how "concerned" can these Concerned Women be if they are having that sex pest in to address them? "concerned" about what? even the craziest RWNJs have never accused OHJB of molestation, let alone rape. And you betcha bottom dollar that all the while the Troll King was up on the podium, he was rating the audience members for fuckability, which is for him about the only attribute he finds interesting about any woman.
He's never operated a dishwasher in his life either. He keeps banging on about having to push the button 4 or 5 times to get the water to come out. I bet if you took him into the average kitchen - hell, his own kitchen - he couldn't point to which appliance was the dishwasher. I have a feeling he thinks the dishwasher fills up all the way to the top like a washing machine. Also, who do present your ID to in the grocery store if you use the self checkout lane? What a fucking moron.
republicans claiming they can't support this because it will put people out of business if ht4ey pay the workers what they're owed in 3... 2....
Many years ago, a group of friends chose the restaurant where we all would lunch; they knew there would be dishes to please vegan me. They chose an upper west side Chinese noodle shop called Ollie's. I had never been there before. The food was well-prepared and tasty and the portions were large, but I got really, really bad vibes.
It turns out Ollie's had been ripping off their employees for YEARS. They pooled tips and stole from the pot, when I think the wage without tips was $2/hour. Ollie's got busted and closed up shop. I don't know whether or not their robbed employees ever were made whole, but I doubt it.
They should have named it the Wage Theft Accountability Fiat. ;-)
No picture can do justice to those Diego Rivera murals in Detroit. I grew up in Detroit and surrounding white-flight areas, and we made regular trips to the DIA. The murals are huge and wrap around a large lobby-like hall that displays only the murals, as I recall. The best thing to see in Detroit.
Agree agree! My fam dragged us kids to the DIA a fair number of times, and I adored and was mesmerised by those murals.
Did you ever go to the Detroit Historical Museum, too, with the "Streets of Old Detroit" exhibition down in the basement? I recall it from the 60s and 70s.
Oh wow - I don’t think so. But it sounds awesome! My BF’s aunt was a curator at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, so I’ve been there... but it seems we missed the DHM. Poop.
Henry Ford Museum was pretty cool, too, and the attached Greenfield Village. It made for a long day!
Does this do ANYTHING for probably the largest class of workers who get stiffed, undocumented immigrants? In order for the law to protect them, any worker involved in a wage dispute would have to be granted immunity from the thugs of ICE, including stiff penalties for anyone violating that immunity.
That's one big reason why republicans have zero interest in immigration reform and fixing our broken system. People who want to come here to work could easily be given guest work visas of some sort, but then employers are less able to exploit them.
The other big reason is that its red meat to their ignorant bigot base.
we are not supposed to notice these things, any more than the corporate media does
T he GQP uses them to scare Wyomings that Jackson Hole will be overrun by filthy Central Americans.
Whose countries are fucked up because of our "guidance."
What's the big deal? These job creators are just walking off with a few pennies here and there. No biggie.
if minimum-wage workers get stiffed, why don't they just get a million dollar loan from their old man? No, on second thought, make that two million.
Hi Mitt, how is it going?
Once again, UNFAIR New York targets Trump UNFAIRLEY with NO FAIRNESSES and RIGGERS.
Geez. You people really hate America. And capitalism
Commies!
I dunno why the senate even bothers. None of that will pass the house. They'd be much better served staying open 24/7 to deal with this Tuberville mess.
That's a state issue, from what I read.
Of course, Dok said the State was so nice they named it twice. There's something about that that kind of bothers me.
No, ypu know that's the nonsense that the city of New York likes to push. Both the state and city happen to be named New York as there in no place actually named ''New York City''...
It was named after Charles II's Catholic brother, the Duke of York. He succeeded to the throne but was deposed and chased out of Britain by his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, because he was seen as trying to bring Great Britain back to the Universal Catholic Church step by step, and he was just a hand puppet for England's arch enemy Louis XIV.
His campaign to capture New Amsterdam was actually inept. The Dutch agreed to give it up because it was not long-term defensible and Britain gave them another colony in exchange. So there was a mocking poem about it, which was still circulating when I was a schoolchild: "The famous Duke of York, he had ten thousand men, he marched his men right up the hill and he marched them down again. And when they were up, they were up up up! [at this point the kids stretch up on tippytoes] And when they were down they were down down down! [kids squat] And when they were only halfway up, they were neither up nor down! [make silly up-and-down motions]"
And yet there is an Orange County in New York state.
First it was named New Amsterdam, then it was named New York. So, named twice. No, we don't count the indigenous names. Yes, I know, city not state. I stand by my non-comment!
Yeah, but named twice thing is usually a reference to NY, NY.
Yes. I know. I was riffing off that, in fact.
This sounds like a personal attack on the Trump organization.
spent many stoned hours grokking the Diego Rivera mural in the DIA when i was younger … it’s always been 1 of my favorites … thanks, now if i could go & eat in their beautiful cafeteria …
In Ann Arbor after college I had a quirky artistic housemate who sometimes told stories about going down to Mexico to paint murals with his uncle. He never named his uncle. But then one day my mom and I were in the Rivera room and met him, and then I learned that he was Frida Kahlo's nephew, actually, and while Kahlo and Rivera had difficulties sometimes Rivera was always "Uncle Diego" to him when he was young.
DAMN. Wow. Dang!!!
Dartmouth College, at the time a bastion of rich white kid privilege, somehow had Jose Orozco paint a very leftist mural in the reserve corridor of their library in the 1930s, and even more inexplicably never painted it over or covered it up -- it's one of our most remarkable artifacts.
We've since moved on a long way, but the rich white kid aspect is not entirely gone.
Wait ... Hochul did a Dem thing? Well, that's nicetime.
From back in 2016:
> Donald Trump is like Jesus for Christians who've rejected the teachings of Jesus.
https://www.facebook.com/jfugelsang/posts/pfbid0YkBA1ZN79tJo27P4f8P2DMFGSYodMEjuwQhAEw9siGKXkT1n35wCbK7ACYZwToRJl
I like saviors who haven't been crucified!
From that same time-frame:
The Apocalyptic Argument for Trump: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/09/the-apocalyptic-argument-for-trump.html
> So, let’s say you are a conservative Republican of a decidedly evangelical bent, and are struggling a bit with misgivings about the presidential nominee of your political party, Donald Trump. He does not, after all, fit most definitions of a “godly man,” and beyond that he does not seem to have any sort of well-articulated plan for what he’s going to do if he’s elected, other than to gloat over the despair of his many enemies and detractors like a heathen warlord at the Sack of Rome.
> The simplest way to buck oneself up for the unpleasant task of supporting this philistine is to make it a matter of religious and civilizational necessity. Thus it is not surprising to see an apocalyptic note begin to creep into the rhetoric of Trump’s Christian-right supporters.
And then a discussion of the mindset that got people to the point of comparing voting for TFG rather than let Hillary win, to storming the cockpit of Flight 93 rather than let it be flown into its target.
You would burning at the stake would be their choice.
It was a little more than just vaping.
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Boebert Apologizes for Vaping in a Denver Theater
The Colorado congresswoman previously denied vaping during the performance, but could be seen doing so on surveillance video.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/us/politics/boebert-theater-vaping-apology.html
"Oopsie! I was caught!"
There's video of him playing with her new tits while she's groping his crotch, all while there are families with kids seated in the theater around them.
They behaved like rutting beasts.
Rutting Beast liebullx!!1
So is her district going to fire her ass next year?
what makes you think vaping, oafish rutting beasts are in disfavor in the north Georgia district that elected her? It is obvious that she is no pointy-headed liberal elitist who follows society's rules, so if anything it is probably good publicity for her. Her voters probably can't be taken out in public, either, probly have to throw them on the back to git they shoes on. (spits)
That's MTG. Big Boobs Boebert is in Colorado. Hopefully posted next year.
I stand corrected. They are so alike as to be interchangeable.
Boebert is in a mixed district - there is some chance that her constituents are grossed out by her. I think the last election was close.
I wonder if she'll survive the primary.
Hey, diddle diddle!
Her opponent only needs 300 people to change their minds
She will need to explain to them why she was in that liberal enclave of Denver, too.
And junk pummeling with the co-owner of a bar that hosts drag shows
Junk Pummeling would make a good porn name.
I was wondering what the age range for this play was. I think.the movie is PG13 so I assumed the play would be the same.
Democrats passing bills to help people? Geez, you'd think more people would vote for them.
That really needs to be pointed out more often.
And a helluva lot more loudly.
womens healthcare, paying workers, the R support of religious authoritarianism, could be winners in ‘24 … if the D’s show the good sense to make them issues, put them on blast …
Lets not blame the Dems for the press.
Seriously, did HRC say a fucking word about fucking emails?
At least that ended Christopher Cillizza's career. He got quiet, finally.
We need to do it ourselves, the fucking press sure as shit won’t do it.
But they help THOSE people!
But they are WOKITY WOKE!
Do you realize how long it's been since a Republican used that word?
Maybe if the people ever heard about it...
This is the perfect distillation of American politics of at least the past 8 -- maybe the past 16 -- years.
Republican's top choice to be president and control nuclear weapons does not know how "buy food" works...
“You have voter ID to buy a loaf of bread. You have ID to buy a loaf of bread.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-loaf-of-bread-id_n_65051fdde4b045a142a4bb1c
He’s also used that weird “work along” phrase before. He’s an idiot.
Well, now that we have taken the documents out of his shitter, he can have all the movements he wants. And all the trials he is indicted for.
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“You have voter ID to buy a loaf of bread, you have ID to buy a loaf of bread,” said Trump as he argued that Democrats are “desperate” to stop his movement in remarks at the Concerned Women for America Summit in Washington, D.C.
just how "concerned" can these Concerned Women be if they are having that sex pest in to address them? "concerned" about what? even the craziest RWNJs have never accused OHJB of molestation, let alone rape. And you betcha bottom dollar that all the while the Troll King was up on the podium, he was rating the audience members for fuckability, which is for him about the only attribute he finds interesting about any woman.
I remember those heady days when Presidential Candidates memorized the price of bread and milk.
Happy days.
Elder Bush lost the presidency because he didn’t know how a bar code scanner worked
Eisenhower-Stevenson?
Maybe he remembers writing checks to buy groceries and having to show ID for that.
I doubt he's ever been in a grocery store in his life.
I doubt it. He said he didn't remember writing $150K check to Stormy Daniels.
Michael Cohen wrote that check...
XD
Maybe he's just dumber than pubic hair on a fish
Hey!
Oh WOW! I have a replacement for my overused "dumber than a bag of hair" epithet! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Always happy to be service-y! XD
This could also be true!
Congratulations for animating your avatar gif. Pippy rules !
“I mean it's one banana, Michael, what could it cost, 10 dollars?”
This fat fascist fuckwit has NEVER made a purchase of his own in a grocery store in his entire, miserable gawd damned life. Not ONCE.
He's never operated a dishwasher in his life either. He keeps banging on about having to push the button 4 or 5 times to get the water to come out. I bet if you took him into the average kitchen - hell, his own kitchen - he couldn't point to which appliance was the dishwasher. I have a feeling he thinks the dishwasher fills up all the way to the top like a washing machine. Also, who do present your ID to in the grocery store if you use the self checkout lane? What a fucking moron.
The toilet is the only household fixture that he’s familiar with.
SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNIE!!!
The sentiment abides.
Only if the loaf of bread has a bottle of alcohol baked in it. Which I believe is not a thing. Maybe in Belgium.