It has become so mainstream to use that term that I have had to correct commenters who use it even though they're Democrats. We are the Democratic Party, not the Democrat Party. The latter is an insult some jerkoff used as an insult back in the 1960s, and the MAGAts brought it back.
I can't imagine that this has not been addressed at some time in the First Amentment's 234-year history, but its literal terms limit its scope to Congress. It makes no mention of what the president can accomplish by executive order. I don't raise this issue to in anyway justify Trump's fuckery. I just mean to point out how woefully inadequate our Constitution is.
Because, due to their fart-huffing egos, for all their grousing about, "a republic if you can keep it," they trusted that the government that THEY created was special and could for sure be trusted.
"After a nine-day bench trial, Young found that Rubio, Noem, and their subordinates had “deliberately and with purposeful aforethought, did so concert their actions and those of their two departments intentionally to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble” of the plaintiffs."
Here is a fun thing. So Virginia has off year elections because they like to be unique (read, like to oppress voting as much as possible). This year our gubernatorial has Abigail Spanberger, a centrist former CIA person, and Winsome Sears, a MAGA and then some. Sears is our current whatever, she never actually does her job, so I cannot remember which she is supposed to be (think it is Lt Gov? whatevs. They just all do what Youngkin says). Sears is also an immigrant and black, running on a They Want Men To Dress Next To Little Girls platform. No really, that is her entire campaign. It is disgusting but keep in mind Youngkin himself won on a They Want Your White Kids To Feel Bad About Themselves platform and won cause our not MAGA voters here did not like who the DNC picked (ie, won a primary) so did not bother to vote. Never occurs to them to vote in the primary, but I digress.
Eldest works at a government gym. One of the regulars there decided to bring up politics with the lowly gym worker (cause of course they do) and was saying how he voted for Sears and then ran into some buddies of his who were also republican and told them how he did so. They then declared he, the guy who voted for the Republican candidate who is running only on a Don't Let Men In A Woman's Room platform, was WOKE because she is black and an immigrant. These are the disgusting pieces of shit we are up against. I am sure though if we just drop identity politics they will totally get over their hatred, bigotry and racism and vote for not Republicans.
The good news is that the polling done showed the undecided going 2 to 1 to Spanberger and she has a 10+ point lead. New Jersey is the other gubernatorial race and they’re neck-in-neck.
My Va Republican acquaintances have already written off Sears and news just broke that the Republican Lt.Gov candidate, Reid, has been running a slavery fetish blog. That leaves the AG as the only competitive statewide race.
My mate Jeff referred me for a jerb. So I sent my CV and my linkedin as one does in the day and age.
Jeff comes backs and says "uh, [fukui], you want to rewrite that last job detail"
Now I've been sending this out for months and getting rejected.
So I re-read what I'd written. Y'all know me pretty much and sometimes I aspire to paint with words. This was Jackson Pollock mixed with Goya's Black period. It was fucking scathing. I kinda wish I'd saved it because I'd show you. Linkedin is supposed to be "happy happy joy joy" but this was a commercial heat gun set to death. No swearing or anything, but it was the written equivalent of a kick the to the yarbles.
Yeah I re-wrote that. I must have been having a really bad day and probably a couple of foaming nut-brown ales when I wrote it. Unprofessional is an understatement.
It's a minefield. At CNN the powers hired a hotshot producer from CBS. He showed up for his first day of work, went to lunch and never came back. Normally, I'd say the new hire was a flake, but CNN in the early oughts was crazy town. The CBS guy saw it immediately and did the only reasonable thing...he ran.
Jeff and I went for the same job. He was a Senior Director and I was a Principal Engineer and we both went for the VP of Engineering. We got on so well that we both agreed that it'd be great if the other person got the job. We had that level of trust and communication.
So they hired some fucking nutsack and it was shite.
heee at the work place, there was a chief spot and two of our peeps went for it. Either would have been really good, and their combined experience was over 60 years for crying out loud.
The powers that be decided to go for someone who had never worked there before to Shake Things Up. I have no idea why big bosses think shaking things up is a good thing in any business setting but apparently, this is some sort of big boss truism. Long story short, dude lasted about 3 months and did not do a damn thing in those three months, where as those two who had applied both found other jobs elsewhere. They did lure one of them back with a big fat paycheck, but I hope it taught the big bosses a valuable lesson.
I was the VP of a think tank associated with an R-1 (just barely) university. Should've been a dream job but it wasn't. I wrestled with how to explain why I was leaving and simply said, "Ahh, I'm retiring again."
I don't think I ever put a personal perspective on a resume XD If I had there were a couple companies where the phrase "can't dig their way out of a paper bag" would certainly apply
FINALLY. I mean that has been there /my entire life/. You cannot be pro war, nor against feeding hungry people or giving medicine to those in need, and claim to be pro life either.
They had to be careful when there was an antipope around. You know, the whole "must not come in contact lest they both be cataclysmically destroyed" thing.
"After the government shutdown began Wednesday morning, furloughed employees at an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services were told to set an out-of-office message in their email accounts blaming Democrats for the situation"
I'm making pizza today. The dough is resting comfortably under a damp towel. The sauce will be leftover bolognese with a bit more tomato puree added. I have some outstanding fromage on hand, mozza, parm, ricotta, and also some Spanish chorizo. I might go with onions and garlic, too. Or perhaps olives.
Excellent. I brought pizza to my niece and nephew for dinner yesterday, at the ages 8 and 11 they're perfectly willing to have their affection bought by pizza. One was a regular cheese, the other a white sauce with broccoli, mushrooms and asiago.
They liked the plain cheese.
But I gotta say, the ones we make at home are better!
I'm a big fan of Mexican chorizo, but I don't usually put it on pizza. I like it with black beans and eggs and in tacos with just some lime and cilantro (yeah, I know you and cilantro)
I do love mushrooms on pizza, but there are none in the house at the moment. I don't generally go out for pizza ingredients. I make it out of what I've already got.
I am going to vent a little because it's really not a problem to have, it's just that I get anxious easily and this is causing that:
a couple of weeks ago I mentioned I'd been offered a position helping out as a native-speaker in a University here in Rome. I was in contact with the woman offering the position, and she asked for times when I was available to have a call with her, and every time I gave she was busy. Then she sent me some details about the job, after I had sent another message about when I was available for the phone call.
Yesterday I got a message from my friend who put us both in contact in the first place saying that she (the job offerer) had told him I hadn't contacted her. So I contacted her again, and said when I was available. She said she had classes then, and asked if she could call early next week, so I said yes and gave her another time. This morning, at 6.14am, she sent me another message I haven't read the whole of because I was half asleep that started by implying I'm being too reticent about getting the job and I might not be able to do it because "it seems you are very busy". I need to reply, but as I say, I am feeling anxious now.
There's really no need for it, and it's silly, but I needed to get it off my chest.
Wow :hugs: it really is a problem. Especially that bit of her lying to your friend and saying you never contacted her. And to send a passive aggressive message like that is pretty rude. Maybe she has someone else in mind for the position and is submarining you?
I don't think it's that, I think that she thinks she's doing me a favour and I was asked to do this by my friend as though I would be doing her a favour.
The message, which I've now read in its entirety, is extremely pissy.
yeah you don't need that kind of toxic shit. Jesus. Sending someone a pissy message over a job you keep saying you're too busy to meet over is pretty whoa.
Do forward that message to your friend so they can see how you were treated. That ain't right at all.
Once I took a job where part of the second interview setup included a secretary being frustrated that I was not available either of the two times they offered me the interview. I said, “Part of the reason you want to hire me is that I am a responsible worker. I need to let my part-time job know several days in advance if I am not going to be there. Here is my availability.”
They also acted like me taking the contract home to go over it was some kind of negotiation tactic, when I just wanted to read what I would be signing up for.
It is one of my greatest regrets that I took that job. The interaction with the secretary should have clued me in that this was not a workplace where I would be allowed professional autonomy of any kind, and there was no respect for contractual hours.
So I would say, let your anxiety know that you are more important to that workplace than they are to you.
I once walked away from a job when I told them I had to give three months notice and they said "just call in sick for three months and start with us on Monday, what are they going to do?"
They looked bemused when I said "If I do that to my current employer why wouldn't I do it to you?"
Found on DU:
𝐈 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐬 '𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲'!
And I stopped being at all upset by that decades ago.
If you use that, I already know you're a right-winger, and to be honest, thanks for the early warning.
It has become so mainstream to use that term that I have had to correct commenters who use it even though they're Democrats. We are the Democratic Party, not the Democrat Party. The latter is an insult some jerkoff used as an insult back in the 1960s, and the MAGAts brought it back.
"In a 12-page section of the opinion that would surely enrage Donald Trump if he read it..."
Pfft. As if Trump could read.
I can't imagine that this has not been addressed at some time in the First Amentment's 234-year history, but its literal terms limit its scope to Congress. It makes no mention of what the president can accomplish by executive order. I don't raise this issue to in anyway justify Trump's fuckery. I just mean to point out how woefully inadequate our Constitution is.
Because, due to their fart-huffing egos, for all their grousing about, "a republic if you can keep it," they trusted that the government that THEY created was special and could for sure be trusted.
Idiots.
"After a nine-day bench trial, Young found that Rubio, Noem, and their subordinates had “deliberately and with purposeful aforethought, did so concert their actions and those of their two departments intentionally to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble” of the plaintiffs."
Congregation says "No shit!"
every damn word. Yes. Best thing I've read in a long time. Trump's butt and the horse he rode in on.
Thursday is my long day, gotta get going. Take care you beautiful people.
Take care, Suzie!
You too Fuki
Wishing you a short long day, or barring that, a favorable one!
And the same to you Jen. Hope it’s a sunny one for ya.
Here is a fun thing. So Virginia has off year elections because they like to be unique (read, like to oppress voting as much as possible). This year our gubernatorial has Abigail Spanberger, a centrist former CIA person, and Winsome Sears, a MAGA and then some. Sears is our current whatever, she never actually does her job, so I cannot remember which she is supposed to be (think it is Lt Gov? whatevs. They just all do what Youngkin says). Sears is also an immigrant and black, running on a They Want Men To Dress Next To Little Girls platform. No really, that is her entire campaign. It is disgusting but keep in mind Youngkin himself won on a They Want Your White Kids To Feel Bad About Themselves platform and won cause our not MAGA voters here did not like who the DNC picked (ie, won a primary) so did not bother to vote. Never occurs to them to vote in the primary, but I digress.
Eldest works at a government gym. One of the regulars there decided to bring up politics with the lowly gym worker (cause of course they do) and was saying how he voted for Sears and then ran into some buddies of his who were also republican and told them how he did so. They then declared he, the guy who voted for the Republican candidate who is running only on a Don't Let Men In A Woman's Room platform, was WOKE because she is black and an immigrant. These are the disgusting pieces of shit we are up against. I am sure though if we just drop identity politics they will totally get over their hatred, bigotry and racism and vote for not Republicans.
"Youngkin himself won on a They Want Your White Kids To Feel Bad About Themselves platform "
He comes across as affable and avuncular but he really is a fucking nobber.
The good news is that the polling done showed the undecided going 2 to 1 to Spanberger and she has a 10+ point lead. New Jersey is the other gubernatorial race and they’re neck-in-neck.
My Va Republican acquaintances have already written off Sears and news just broke that the Republican Lt.Gov candidate, Reid, has been running a slavery fetish blog. That leaves the AG as the only competitive statewide race.
Ugh.
My eye roll was probably audible from there.
When I worked at the ski resort I used to wonder how people as stupid as our patrons could afford our ridiculously high lodging prices.
Smart parents who inherited their wealth combined with Inbreeding.
My mate Jeff referred me for a jerb. So I sent my CV and my linkedin as one does in the day and age.
Jeff comes backs and says "uh, [fukui], you want to rewrite that last job detail"
Now I've been sending this out for months and getting rejected.
So I re-read what I'd written. Y'all know me pretty much and sometimes I aspire to paint with words. This was Jackson Pollock mixed with Goya's Black period. It was fucking scathing. I kinda wish I'd saved it because I'd show you. Linkedin is supposed to be "happy happy joy joy" but this was a commercial heat gun set to death. No swearing or anything, but it was the written equivalent of a kick the to the yarbles.
Yeah I re-wrote that. I must have been having a really bad day and probably a couple of foaming nut-brown ales when I wrote it. Unprofessional is an understatement.
Don't do this at home, kids.
Keep it close to the truth with just enough detail to make it believable.
It's a minefield. At CNN the powers hired a hotshot producer from CBS. He showed up for his first day of work, went to lunch and never came back. Normally, I'd say the new hire was a flake, but CNN in the early oughts was crazy town. The CBS guy saw it immediately and did the only reasonable thing...he ran.
I was candid at an exit interview...
"So, Shocky, what should we do differently?"
"Fire everyone. Get out of electric contracting."
"That bad?"
"Worse, but we're all friends here."
They held it against me for awhile!
That's how you exit interview!
I did call some guy a c*nt in an exit interview once. But he was.
At one of my exit interviews, the HR guy said, “Sign this.”
“What is it?”
“It’s an agreement that you will not market back to us for three years.”
“Yeah. No.”
I hate having to learn from my mistakes.
Better than the alternative!
VERY true!
Friends don't let friends send in scathing resumes that say someone was an utter dick
Jeff's good people XD
Jeff and I went for the same job. He was a Senior Director and I was a Principal Engineer and we both went for the VP of Engineering. We got on so well that we both agreed that it'd be great if the other person got the job. We had that level of trust and communication.
So they hired some fucking nutsack and it was shite.
heee at the work place, there was a chief spot and two of our peeps went for it. Either would have been really good, and their combined experience was over 60 years for crying out loud.
The powers that be decided to go for someone who had never worked there before to Shake Things Up. I have no idea why big bosses think shaking things up is a good thing in any business setting but apparently, this is some sort of big boss truism. Long story short, dude lasted about 3 months and did not do a damn thing in those three months, where as those two who had applied both found other jobs elsewhere. They did lure one of them back with a big fat paycheck, but I hope it taught the big bosses a valuable lesson.
It's called Learning Reality the Hard Way
I might as well have written "They were a valu-pack of bellends" - it was that bad
I was the VP of a think tank associated with an R-1 (just barely) university. Should've been a dream job but it wasn't. I wrestled with how to explain why I was leaving and simply said, "Ahh, I'm retiring again."
I don't think I ever put a personal perspective on a resume XD If I had there were a couple companies where the phrase "can't dig their way out of a paper bag" would certainly apply
The Constitution enshrines free speech.
Corporate hiring - not so much.
Oops.
ETA: Also, truth is a valid defense.
CBS: Pope Leo XIV says those against abortion but in favor of death penalty are "not really pro-life" [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-abortion-pro-life-death-penalty/]
I knew that and I'm not even a pope.
FINALLY. I mean that has been there /my entire life/. You cannot be pro war, nor against feeding hungry people or giving medicine to those in need, and claim to be pro life either.
I don't believe you. I think you're the Coptic Orthodox Pope.
We used to have fake popes, now we got fake non-popes. Amazing things they do nowadays...
They had to be careful when there was an antipope around. You know, the whole "must not come in contact lest they both be cataclysmically destroyed" thing.
Jesus. NO.
"After the government shutdown began Wednesday morning, furloughed employees at an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services were told to set an out-of-office message in their email accounts blaming Democrats for the situation"
NO. And go fuck yourself. Stephen.
I am sure the NYT will comb through the records to find a case that maybe if you squint hard enough looks like both sides
I'm making pizza today. The dough is resting comfortably under a damp towel. The sauce will be leftover bolognese with a bit more tomato puree added. I have some outstanding fromage on hand, mozza, parm, ricotta, and also some Spanish chorizo. I might go with onions and garlic, too. Or perhaps olives.
Excellent. I brought pizza to my niece and nephew for dinner yesterday, at the ages 8 and 11 they're perfectly willing to have their affection bought by pizza. One was a regular cheese, the other a white sauce with broccoli, mushrooms and asiago.
They liked the plain cheese.
But I gotta say, the ones we make at home are better!
You can buy my affection with pizza, too. Especially homemade.
I’ll have to reheat it when I get there
Why Spanish rather than Mexican chorizo? I'm not judging, just interested.
I like cured sausage on pizza. I also like Mexican chorizo, but if I want it, I have to make it myself. I've never seen it here.
Makes total sense. I like the Mexican because it's soft and you can ... wait why am I telling you this? You already know.
Definitely onions and garlic though.
I'm a big fan of Mexican chorizo, but I don't usually put it on pizza. I like it with black beans and eggs and in tacos with just some lime and cilantro (yeah, I know you and cilantro)
Also, whar mushrooms?
I do love mushrooms on pizza, but there are none in the house at the moment. I don't generally go out for pizza ingredients. I make it out of what I've already got.
Hmm, Hurricane Imelda's made its way past Bermuda; I haven't seen the damage reports yet.
Another disturbance is brewing over the south end of Florida, moving generally north, and there's another area of interest in the central Atlantic.
Shit's got busy.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
5 houses(2nd homes) on the Outer Banks succumbed to the sea. That'll learn 'em
It's because they let them build right on the water instead of behind the dunes, it's crazy.
At least the disturbance heading north shouldn't have time to develop into anything but a rain event, providing it stays on the current path.
Yeah. Forecast here is for rain starting around 1 PM.
So I'd best get my walkies out of the way now, before the sun shows her face.
I've got a shit ton of yardwork to knock out. Might piss the neighbors off a bit but fuck 'em I do their yard for free.
News you can use! What time does Taylor Swift's album come out? 'The Life of a Showgirl' release date, time [https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/10/02/when-does-the-life-of-a-showgirl-drop-on-spotify-apple-music/86455813007/]
According to Marie Claire, "The Life of a Showgirl" will be available on streaming platforms at 12 a.m. [EDT?] on Oct. 3.
I am going to vent a little because it's really not a problem to have, it's just that I get anxious easily and this is causing that:
a couple of weeks ago I mentioned I'd been offered a position helping out as a native-speaker in a University here in Rome. I was in contact with the woman offering the position, and she asked for times when I was available to have a call with her, and every time I gave she was busy. Then she sent me some details about the job, after I had sent another message about when I was available for the phone call.
Yesterday I got a message from my friend who put us both in contact in the first place saying that she (the job offerer) had told him I hadn't contacted her. So I contacted her again, and said when I was available. She said she had classes then, and asked if she could call early next week, so I said yes and gave her another time. This morning, at 6.14am, she sent me another message I haven't read the whole of because I was half asleep that started by implying I'm being too reticent about getting the job and I might not be able to do it because "it seems you are very busy". I need to reply, but as I say, I am feeling anxious now.
There's really no need for it, and it's silly, but I needed to get it off my chest.
Wow :hugs: it really is a problem. Especially that bit of her lying to your friend and saying you never contacted her. And to send a passive aggressive message like that is pretty rude. Maybe she has someone else in mind for the position and is submarining you?
I don't think it's that, I think that she thinks she's doing me a favour and I was asked to do this by my friend as though I would be doing her a favour.
The message, which I've now read in its entirety, is extremely pissy.
I have declined.
yeah you don't need that kind of toxic shit. Jesus. Sending someone a pissy message over a job you keep saying you're too busy to meet over is pretty whoa.
Do forward that message to your friend so they can see how you were treated. That ain't right at all.
Yep, sounds like a shitshow.
Once I took a job where part of the second interview setup included a secretary being frustrated that I was not available either of the two times they offered me the interview. I said, “Part of the reason you want to hire me is that I am a responsible worker. I need to let my part-time job know several days in advance if I am not going to be there. Here is my availability.”
They also acted like me taking the contract home to go over it was some kind of negotiation tactic, when I just wanted to read what I would be signing up for.
It is one of my greatest regrets that I took that job. The interaction with the secretary should have clued me in that this was not a workplace where I would be allowed professional autonomy of any kind, and there was no respect for contractual hours.
So I would say, let your anxiety know that you are more important to that workplace than they are to you.
I once walked away from a job when I told them I had to give three months notice and they said "just call in sick for three months and start with us on Monday, what are they going to do?"
They looked bemused when I said "If I do that to my current employer why wouldn't I do it to you?"
This isn't a you problem. Annoying as fuck, sure, but it ain't you.
If she has classes, she must understand that you're teaching kids and have classes as well.
Text back and say she looks like Zelda from the Terrahawks.
(snert)
I'm HELPY!
LOL Yes you are!
Good grief.
how annoying!
White House website: Democrats Have Shut Down the Government [https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/]
The Ministry of Truth has spoken.
So then the House is in session, desperately trying to pass a bill?
I hate these shitty fucking liars. Buncha assholes.
Eff them again!
Here is H.U.D.s website. https://www.hud.gov/#close I'm sensing a pattern.
Of course.
October already.
https://substack.com/@pstokk989978/note/c-162129021?r=1ceahj
The new century is fast approaching. It's going to be fantastic.