I had seen a report that rumors are flying that the dictator had a brain bleed and is in a coma, (the Korean one, sorry). Since his sister and 13 YO daughter are both contenders for the throne, I could see one of them whacking the other, like in olden times.
I go back and forth on how "The Rest of Us" should respond to all the toxic, corrupt and 'illegal adjacent' bullshit Trump and the MAGA right have been getting up to all these years.
Are Dems supposed to stick to the 'straight and narrow'? Republicans certainly think so and get all 'outraged' when Dems turn around and dish it back – like Newsom did in CA with redrawing districts. Same for when Trump et al are ousted – will Dems keep all the deep MAGA embeds because 'it would look bad' if they did a purge the way Trump/Mush/Heritage 2025 did?
On the other hand . . . a "Denaturalize Melania" etc. trend might be interesting (and fun!)
People are focused on the election now as a last chance to save our democracy. Expecting the Democrats to do much with a minority is unrealistic. They already filed all the lawsuits. Short of hoisting the Jolly Roger and slitting throats, the election is our only hope.
That Visa can convert into a Work Visa, which Musk did.
Except you're required to actually graduate.
Which there's no evidence he did.
His investors paid off Stanford. I'm guessing on both ends.
Which is the kind of thing that could cost Stanford its ability to issue or sponsor student visas. At all.
I'd be looking to investigate how often the VC set has done that. I'm betting its been a quiet little perk for Alums who are large donors for a long time.
I am firmly in the "kick 'em in the teeth" camp. Stay within the bounds of the law (assuming they do not use the corrupted USSC to corrupt the law), but do everything allowed.
how about we stay within the bounds of the rules of decorum set up by the current administration and THEN we talk about whether they want to play by the fucking rules?
I'm sorry, but former President Obama still hasn't shown us his long-form bird certificate, so I don't know that he should be chirping about this at the moment.
OT—I’m doing work while the boys are shooting the breeze. One of the things I hate about attorneys is spending hours talking about how cases could have gone or this one case I had one time. Just fucking do it.
I understand where you're coming from, but one of the joys of the law is that long history of talking about cases with each other. It's camaraderie and connection without the rivalry and high stakes with present cases. I do wish, though, that it was done in a way that was a) inclusive of everyone around and b) not done at the expense of other attorneys/staff still having to work for a &*^&^%& living.
Do you remember the MASH episode where Hot Lips lost her mind BC the other nurses never invited her to BS with them? Seems similar.
Stand up for yourself, you deserve happiness and rewarding work in balance with life.
I think that is perfectly said—I learned a lot from shooting the breeze and especially being new and learning about certain other attorneys and cops. But this is exclusive and just in the background.
This is a goddamn shame and also that more Americans aren't actually really angry that this is being done is an indictment of the shitty nature of the electorate. Unpersoning Ilhan Omar is okay because she's Black. That's the long and short of it. That's the same reason they wanted to do this shit to Barack Obama. But Ted "Cancun" Cruz would be OK.
And this is all in the service of this vile sadopopulism that Republicans ride to great power...unitary control of government even...because millions of Americans wanted the Republicans to destroy the minorities they hate.
THIS is government tyranny. But since it's done for the bigoted whims of those who have always had rights in America—those who America was made for the pleasure of—there won't be the "2nd Amendment Patriots" marching or anything.
Because those weapons are for hunting Black people when the federal government finally falls.
Perhaps worse than that to them, she's outspoken and refuses to obey their bullshit hierarchy. I have little doubt that in their "perfect" Christian Nationalist government, they'd burn her as a fucking witch.
The floor opens up to a giant swimming pool but the attendees and dancers don't know that Trump has also place several sharks in the pool so it becomes a contest of who can escape the sharks before being eaten or electrocuted by a battery that he also has hidden there.
That's it -- I'm building a lemonade stand with a drone port. There'll be no stopping my electoral victories then! If that doesn't work, surely my gloryhole/thresher/artillery battalion will . . .
Well fuck me — I meant battery, not battalion (even though both work). You’d think a one-time cannon fire direction specialist would remember that the smaller unit that I was thinking of was a battery. Ideally one a bit less dangerous to itself than a Tesla battery.
Obama is a national treasure, an echo of sanity in a world gone mad. The racists couldn't stand that he was President, so they set out to reassert the master race. They ended up with the worst example of humanity anywhere. He failed miserably, but they doubled down and elected him again. Now we're desperately hoping to avert a global depression.
Desperate. Who is she trying to appeal to? It's like Kamala Harris cozying up to Lynn Cheney. She's trying to appeal to a small and shrinking demographic of moderate democrats, but at this point she's so straight up dirty and Republicans have such a shitty reputation I don't think it will do anything to help her.
Did Charles Colman Jr. come to any candidates with a list of what he thought should be done? Did he say "this is what we need!"? , or "this is how you could make this happen?" "Just fix it!" is not a remedy coming from anyone...(Sorry, I get tired of unhappiness taking out its spite on those trying to meet folks' needs.)
Dan Bongoman lost his shit that "President" Obama would have the audacity to comment. You remember Bongo, right? The hump who was Assistant FBI Director for about 5m until he found out how taxing government service can be.
Did he wake up.....
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Someday.....
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I'd suggest sewing his buttcheeks together so he'll be literally full of shit.
Too late.
Permanent pucker.
Face anus.
shit seems to be getting ugly at the Korean border. Rumors of Kim Jong Un being kacked out prolly aren't helping matters.
may cooler heads prevail.
I had seen a report that rumors are flying that the dictator had a brain bleed and is in a coma, (the Korean one, sorry). Since his sister and 13 YO daughter are both contenders for the throne, I could see one of them whacking the other, like in olden times.
Little sister is the scary one.
Well at least we have a calm level headed President and a really skilled Secretary of State to...
BWAAAAA HAAA HA HA HA!!!!
We're fucked. They elected a senile sex offender gameshow hosting con man.
And now we have to hope the world survives.
Fuck the 1st amendment. It should be illegal to be a Republican at this point.
I'm going to the grocery store because the alternative is getting drunk before 12.
Kim Jong Nil?
Does the countdown start at zero, or are we going to start getting some negative Kims?
Obama has testy exchange with Trump who pressed him on his birth certificate
By the Washington Post
Also by the WP: Questions Still Remain About Former President's Birthplace.
and we're offering a deep er, we mean full throated apology to Nixon over our past behavior.
At least it wasn't a testes exchange.
Texty, though.
oh, come on now!
Nothing grows under a mushroom... there's usually just a pile of shit.
Dirty grundle? Checks out.
That’s between Trump and Husted.
I hope they borrowed Tucker's ball washer when they were done.
TESTEFY!
I go back and forth on how "The Rest of Us" should respond to all the toxic, corrupt and 'illegal adjacent' bullshit Trump and the MAGA right have been getting up to all these years.
Are Dems supposed to stick to the 'straight and narrow'? Republicans certainly think so and get all 'outraged' when Dems turn around and dish it back – like Newsom did in CA with redrawing districts. Same for when Trump et al are ousted – will Dems keep all the deep MAGA embeds because 'it would look bad' if they did a purge the way Trump/Mush/Heritage 2025 did?
On the other hand . . . a "Denaturalize Melania" etc. trend might be interesting (and fun!)
"When they go low we kick them in the teeth!"
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From 2025: "Joy Reid Suggests Melania Could Be Deported Under New Rules"–https://www.yahoo.com/news/joy-reid-suggests-melania-could-002857226.html
If there are never consequences for their outrageous bullshit, expect more outrageous bullshit.
People are focused on the election now as a last chance to save our democracy. Expecting the Democrats to do much with a minority is unrealistic. They already filed all the lawsuits. Short of hoisting the Jolly Roger and slitting throats, the election is our only hope.
Since they ain't got no balls, I guess the teeth'll have to do... but your gonna have to help me stretch out my hammies.
Musk absolutely should be investigated.
There's ample evidence his investors took care of his Visa issues.
I thought he got a student visa by being accepted at Stanford, then never enrolling or showing up for classes!
That Visa can convert into a Work Visa, which Musk did.
Except you're required to actually graduate.
Which there's no evidence he did.
His investors paid off Stanford. I'm guessing on both ends.
Which is the kind of thing that could cost Stanford its ability to issue or sponsor student visas. At all.
I'd be looking to investigate how often the VC set has done that. I'm betting its been a quiet little perk for Alums who are large donors for a long time.
may the knives come out.
Oh, I think they already are: Trump is already investigating his own investigators when it comes to his deluded assertions of election fraud.
I am firmly in the "kick 'em in the teeth" camp. Stay within the bounds of the law (assuming they do not use the corrupted USSC to corrupt the law), but do everything allowed.
how about we stay within the bounds of the rules of decorum set up by the current administration and THEN we talk about whether they want to play by the fucking rules?
OT and WTF: Irish novelist/alleged terrorist Sally Rooney could be arrested if she visits the UK.
"What the UK Is Doing to Pro-Palestine Novelist Sally Rooney Is an Act of Orwellian Villainy" https://zeteo.com/p/what-the-uk-is-doing-to-pro-palestine
Shared link: https://zeteo.substack.com/p/what-the-uk-is-doing-to-pro-palestine?r=f0sco&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/ireland-palestine-ceasefire-gaza
If opposing genocide makes you a terrorist, it looks like I'm never going to be able to visit the UK either.
I'm sorry, but former President Obama still hasn't shown us his long-form bird certificate, so I don't know that he should be chirping about this at the moment.
About time he comes down off his perch.
He's raising the alarm call so we can mob the predator.
Guy beaks-off a lot.
He certainly ruffles some feathers, even when he's winging it.
ARRRRGH MATEY!! - Jamie from Progressive.
OT—I’m doing work while the boys are shooting the breeze. One of the things I hate about attorneys is spending hours talking about how cases could have gone or this one case I had one time. Just fucking do it.
“I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile”
My spouse is an attorney. At social events, the discussion always turns to law school and bar exam, no matter how many years ago that event occurred.
I understand where you're coming from, but one of the joys of the law is that long history of talking about cases with each other. It's camaraderie and connection without the rivalry and high stakes with present cases. I do wish, though, that it was done in a way that was a) inclusive of everyone around and b) not done at the expense of other attorneys/staff still having to work for a &*^&^%& living.
Do you remember the MASH episode where Hot Lips lost her mind BC the other nurses never invited her to BS with them? Seems similar.
Stand up for yourself, you deserve happiness and rewarding work in balance with life.
I think that is perfectly said—I learned a lot from shooting the breeze and especially being new and learning about certain other attorneys and cops. But this is exclusive and just in the background.
and billing client hours to boot?
Always fighting the last war.
As long as the yapping is billable . . .
This is a goddamn shame and also that more Americans aren't actually really angry that this is being done is an indictment of the shitty nature of the electorate. Unpersoning Ilhan Omar is okay because she's Black. That's the long and short of it. That's the same reason they wanted to do this shit to Barack Obama. But Ted "Cancun" Cruz would be OK.
And this is all in the service of this vile sadopopulism that Republicans ride to great power...unitary control of government even...because millions of Americans wanted the Republicans to destroy the minorities they hate.
THIS is government tyranny. But since it's done for the bigoted whims of those who have always had rights in America—those who America was made for the pleasure of—there won't be the "2nd Amendment Patriots" marching or anything.
Because those weapons are for hunting Black people when the federal government finally falls.
"But Ted "Cancun" Cruz would be OK." No, eventually he would be on the outside of the ever-shrinking circle of acceptable origins and melanin.
Eventually. And it would be a real shock to him when they came for him.
She's Black, a woman, and a Muslim.
Perhaps worse than that to them, she's outspoken and refuses to obey their bullshit hierarchy. I have little doubt that in their "perfect" Christian Nationalist government, they'd burn her as a fucking witch.
OT but I cannot stop laughing at this comment. My ribs literally are hurting from laughing about this
https://bsky.app/profile/darwinbrandis.com/post/3myao4zjius2m
Undeniably, it's going to be the worst ballroom and military complex combination ever built too!
But is it . . . ah, fuck, Noma already went there.
It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!
Lay offa the Cool Whip! That weird polymer shit was the stuff of my childhood, and now that I think about it, may be the source of some issues now.
but will the floor open up to the swimming pool during the big dance off?
Only if they're dancing by the light of the moon. Hope that's the reference you were going for.
but of course!!!
The floor opens up to a giant swimming pool but the attendees and dancers don't know that Trump has also place several sharks in the pool so it becomes a contest of who can escape the sharks before being eaten or electrocuted by a battery that he also has hidden there.
and underwater WINDMILLS!
I would watch that movie!
Sharks with laser beams on their heads will chase them around and a Mass Casualty event will ensue. Now That's Entertainment!
I mean, talk about a wedge issue for the mid-terms!
That's it -- I'm building a lemonade stand with a drone port. There'll be no stopping my electoral victories then! If that doesn't work, surely my gloryhole/thresher/artillery battalion will . . .
Well fuck me — I meant battery, not battalion (even though both work). You’d think a one-time cannon fire direction specialist would remember that the smaller unit that I was thinking of was a battery. Ideally one a bit less dangerous to itself than a Tesla battery.
Normally, none of those three last functions would belong together in the same sentence, but somehow, you made it work.
Then again, we are not living in normal times.
The gloryhole service will blow your socks off. Or provide the world's roughest circumcision. Either way, your swimsuit zone will never be the same.
Blue and black or white and gold?
OUT!!!!!!
Not coloring his hair?????????
Obama is a national treasure, an echo of sanity in a world gone mad. The racists couldn't stand that he was President, so they set out to reassert the master race. They ended up with the worst example of humanity anywhere. He failed miserably, but they doubled down and elected him again. Now we're desperately hoping to avert a global depression.
They also ended up with the worst example of genetics anywhere.
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Someone said Obama and Trump are the bookends of the American character.
one bookend, one bellend.
Of course Joe Manchin is headed to Maine to help out his old buddy, Susan Collins!
Stopping in PA to pick up the Fetterman?
Get in Loser, we're going campaigning!
Hope his yacht rusts out from the seawater.
A Manchin and a yacht.
Ha! I get that refrence!
Me too! We r old! But kultured!!!
I am Elmer J. Fudd...
I mis-read that as 'sewerwater', lol!
Desperate. Who is she trying to appeal to? It's like Kamala Harris cozying up to Lynn Cheney. She's trying to appeal to a small and shrinking demographic of moderate democrats, but at this point she's so straight up dirty and Republicans have such a shitty reputation I don't think it will do anything to help her.
Wonder which side of this Old Joe is on?
No, I don't really wonder.
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁.
𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢 “𝘕𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴” 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. (Washington Post)
I read "lifestyle" at first and was even more confused.
innovation campus.... sweet.
"Lifecycle"
"Innovation Campus." You'll graduate in about 10,000 years.
Which is about the half-life of nuclear waste.
Good thing my loans are deferred.
He's a living no-score draw.
The Beige Brigade
Milquetoast is IN!
Mike Pence feels a disturbance in the force.
That's the fly on his hair.
He gives and he gives and he gives!
Oh Christ, it's that asshole again.
/obligatory
Did Charles Colman Jr. come to any candidates with a list of what he thought should be done? Did he say "this is what we need!"? , or "this is how you could make this happen?" "Just fix it!" is not a remedy coming from anyone...(Sorry, I get tired of unhappiness taking out its spite on those trying to meet folks' needs.)
You learn the "Just fix it" command by getting a degree from a business college.
Dan Bongoman lost his shit that "President" Obama would have the audacity to comment. You remember Bongo, right? The hump who was Assistant FBI Director for about 5m until he found out how taxing government service can be.
The very idea that someone who has given the better part of his life to this nation has an opinion about things in it!
How dare he participatory democracy!!
I have to show up *how* many days a week? For more than an hour a day?
I'm sorry. Podcasts last at most three hours. That's my limit.
Guy with the ill-fitting shirts and spray-painted hair?
Shit, that could be me after a particularly heavy few days on the sauce.
HP or Daddies?
Worcestershire.
The guy who leaned that the FBI was an Epstein files coverup operation and quit?
Danny Roid Rage.
You’re gonna have to be a *lot* more specific.
That laughable goofball is a sterling example of a Republican.