True fact: Wallace Stevens lived in Hartford, my current home. Along Asylum Ave, there are engraved stones with stanza from "โThirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". I have walked along that street/poem many times.
Please, if you wouldnโt mind obliging me, take a photo and post here. Heโs been one of my all-time favorite poets ever since I can remember, and Iโm no spring chicken.
They donโt care about that. But politician strikes a nerve. The dim bulb starts to light up that just mayyyyybe theyโve been fooled, best I can tell
You know what's weird to me - I don't know where my great grandfather was born. Maybe Ireland, maybe NYC. I assume they came here legally. Requests for family information were not ill received exactly, but info was never forthcoming.
Oh, Lord. Joe and Mika went to Mar-a-lago. "What we did agree on," Mika said, "was to restart communications." Access. "He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats." Credulity. They revert to their mean.
Trump won the popular vote ... but that popular vote doesn't represent ALL Americans. Not even all Americans who could vote. It's only representative of all Americans who DID vote.
But that isn't close to "50% of Americans". And the media and folks repeating that it is are doing a giant disservice to America by implying that the GOP has a larger mandate than they earned.
It means oh, I am totally willing to work with them so long as they give me everything I want. And if they do not, that means they are not working with me
That they are pushing that find common ground bullshit after we KNOW he will do no such thing (see too, 16-20) and has promised to go after Democrats is something special
The Washington kid was using sound effects to mimic gunshots and people screaming. The police responded appropriately in the three local events. I don't know anything about the responses in events in other states.
The trouble is, an appropriate response to a bomb threat or hostage threat at a school or hospital requires lockdown until they can clear the site. I'm happy to criticize the police when they fuck up, but I'm not going to second-guess them when they respond to a bomb threat by assuming there is a bomb.
Bomb threats are another thing entirely, and you are right, just seems that a phone call is enough. They all got drones, can't they check out a place first- for their safety if nothing else- before running in guns blazing?
SWAT teams rarely start the shooting in these situations. Their default mode, their training, is to surround the target and wait them out.
Where "Swatting" shootings occur, it is generally a patrol officer responding to a fake domestic violence call, which incidentally is statistically the most dangerous actual scenario for police officers.
Just from what I've read on the articles that follow these things; they usually claim some sort of Murder-Suicide situation with children is going on. Police do tend to respond quickly.
We've had at least one unfortunate Swatee answer the door armed because this is America. ETA- No, the Police just claimed he had a gun and never found one. Sorry, must have read this one as it unfolded. :(
You mean, ponder instead of act rashfully? They're not intellectually equiped for that. Those who could and are interested in law enforcement apply for better agencies, eg the FBI.
Trumpโs Defense pick, Peter Hegseth did NDA to cover up a sexual assault. Now his dumbass lawyer has stated that police concluded that she was the aggressor. So much for the NDA, shouldn't she be able to disclose everything now? One report claimed she went to a hospital for a rape kit exam.
Like I said, sounds like a dumbass lawyer. I paraphrased his quote from a HuffPost article. Iโm hoping she goes public with the full story/ police report.
What the fuck did they think was going to happen? Trump has never wavered for a second from outspoken support for Israel doing whatever the fuck it wants. It's one of the few consistent positions he has, along with hating Muslims. Fucking idiots.
One of the things on my mind lately is which pretty blond child they're going to hire to reprise the role of that kid screaming GOODBYE JEWS over and over in "Schindler's List," now updated for the much longer list of undesirables they're going to be rounding up starting next year.
I'll not shed a single tear for any single one of the motherfuckers who voted for what's coming.
They've got some standards: Nazarko said the community would continue pressing to make its voices heard about ending the war in Gaza. "At least we're on the map."
But eggs will be cheap again .... until we are locked down due to bird flu having jumped to humans because destroying the infected chickens would raise the price of eggs. All hail President Pandemic.
Just like in 2016, I've read about a hundred hot takes about "liberals living in a bubble," but has anybody in the media stopped to consider the GIANT bubble you'd have to live in to not have heard Trump, with his own anus mouth talking shit about Palestine and Muslims? FOR FUCKS SAKE, the bubble is an intentional misdirection by the media oligarchs on the right and a complicit MSM that let them create the narrative.
Thatโs the one that hurts isnโt it. The stories of how weโre out of touch but they think after birth abortions happen and kids get turned trans by schools. They think that New York politician is better for Gaza
It's not like Donnie & Co. were keeping their plans a secret. The most effective part of the propaganda from the republicans was the parts that kept saying, "It's just Dementia Don being himself. He won't ever *do* that."
GUESS WHAT, DIPSHITS ... he's doing EVERYTHING he said he would. Get your head out of your social media bubble and actually LISTEN to politician's ACTUAL OWN WORDS.
I think, though, that it's pretty clear that many people never heard these things or they chose to ignore them. RW-slanted media is about 50% of the traditional media consumed in the US as per an article I read recently, so people aren't getting the full picture. AND, more people are getting their news from places like TicTok and Instagram (did I read over half of people now get their news there? I think so, but don't quote me for sure). So, it's not enough to say that some voters are Face-Leopard voters, although for sure, many are. Some are ignorant. And we can blame them for being incurious fucks, for sure, but it's a problem that people who value dissemination of the truth need to desperately figure out.
"I don't live in Gaza, therefore I can vote against the person who might help, and vote FOR the person who won't help, because the media pretends to listen to me and is blowing smoke up my ass about how noble I am in trying to bring the Dems to heel argle bargle ..."
Well thanks. Although for me it's less about being nice and more about really understanding the issues that got us to where we are, putting the blame squarely on where it needs to be addressed. If the analysis isn't correct, than we are doomed to repeat the failures.
Nah. Fuck these assholes. They knew the score. They just thought they'd get away with a harmless "protest vote," and they don't want to be held accountable.
You weren't played. The right made no effort that I can see to reach out to that community, or to hide that they'd take whatever guardrails Biden put in place (regardless of what you believe those to be) away.
Now imagine their "disappointment" when The Homunculus allows the Israelis to eliminate all Palestinians in Gaza, pave over the ruins, and recreate it as a resort strip called Trumpland.
Police and staff were initially flummoxed when shoes started disappearing from a kindergarten in south-west Japan, not least because the โtheftsโ were of single shoes, not pairs.
Unable to get to the bottom of two incidents reported earlier this month, police installed three security cameras in the hope the thief would strike again, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
Then, when a single shoe went missing from Gosho Kodomo-en kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, on the night of 11 November, investigators sifted through camera footage, believing they had finally caught their footwear-filching suspect in the act.
The culprit, however, turned out to have four legs, a coat of orangey-brown fur and sharp claws.
Camera footage revealed that a weasel had appeared from behind a wall the previous evening before approaching cubbyholes storing childrenโs indoor shoes and making off with a single white shoe in its mouth โ all in the space of about 10 seconds...
Japanese-language references to the weasel have similarly negative connotations to those found in English. According to the late Japan-based naturalist CW Nicol, the musky scent of the Japanese weasel gave rise to the saying itachi no saigo-pei. That literally translates as โthe weaselโs final fartโ, but is used to refer to the last word or act of an unpopular or dislikable person.
I've been watching this one YT channel called 'Solo Travel Japan.' He's notable for not speaking over the video footage and giving you the cost for various things in yen and dollars.
I do know a few phrases and words in Japanese, but can't read it.
"Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked panelists if they are familiar with "rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material, potentially for the enhancement of human capabilities โ hybrids." All four speakers said no, apparently having missed The X-Files back in the '90s.
"Are there any accounts of UAPs emerging from, or submerging into, our water, which could indicate a base or presence beneath the ocean's surface," she suggested. Again, no one offered support, but one panelist โ journalist Michael Shellenberger โ stated that UAPs have been reported emerging from beneath the waves."
No doubt she heard something about the infamous $1000 hammers in the budget and underwater (since the purpose was to hide expenses related to tapping Soviet underwater cables) and put 2 and 2 together and bless her heart, she came up with 7.
(You just know, though, that between the grandstanding performative posturing and the conspiracy loons that now control 2/3 branches of the federal gov't, there will be soooo much shit like that aired in the foreseeable future).
Last week, a girl called my office. She is 17, and told me that she called me because her grandpa told her to call me if she was ever in trouble and needed a lawyer.
Grandpa, in this case, was shot, stabbed, and/or bludgeoned to death during a home invasion at age 46. Just so we're clear, he was killed while committing the home invasion, so establishing the exact cause of death was not a high priority. Grandpa was a notorious collector/enforcer for various gangs and drug traffickers and was a suspect in two killings and a disappearance during the three or so years that I knew him. He was a bad guy who did bad things for bad reasons to equally bad people. As such, he was the living embodiment of the line from John Cusack's character in Gross Pointe Blank: "If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there." Not unlike Omar Little, he never -- so far as I know, and I know a lot about him -- harmed a person not involved in drug trafficking. Hurting people was his business; he didn't do it if there was no profit in it. He was one of the best clients I ever had. Criminal charges, even doing a stretch of time, was just the cost of doing business.
With all this ping-ponging around my brain, I prepared myself for whatever awful shit his granddaughter was involved in. After all, "in trouble" to Grandpa could mean anything from misdemeanor battery to capital murder.
Turns out, she just wanted to interview me for a social studies project about the Constitution.
Grandpa to a 17 year old at 46. This is a family that doesn't appear to be great at delayed gratification, would probably all fail the marshmallow test.
You know the type. Professional criminal. Model inmate. Perfect gentleman in court; goes out of his way to make it easier for you to put on his leg irons. Has an NCIC report that runs 80 pages.
My wife, girlfriend at the time, was with me when we crossed paths with him while xmas shopping. He went out of his way to come over and say hello to me. Not-yet-MrsMatt recognized him from seeing his photo in the newspaper, and after he'd gone on his way, she asked, "Isn't he dangerous?"
"Not to me. I'm the last person he'd do anything to."
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's first lady, Janja Lula da Silva, swore at billionaire Elon Musk during a G20 social event on Saturday at which she spoke about the need to regulate social media to rein in misinformation.
A ship's horn sounded as she spoke and she joked, "I think it's Elon Musk," before adding, "I'm not afraid of you," and using an expletive in reference to him.
Ms. Swift has been quiet because she's busy writing protest songs.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข ๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฐ-๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ค๐บ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ตโ๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ญ ๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ. ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ข ๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ดโ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด.
๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ผ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐. ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐โ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐ถ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น
https://apnews.com/article/christian-private-school-choice-ohio-3c49fe1477a678377ede32e5de5f6db3
๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฐ-๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ค๐บ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ตโ๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด.
Grift grifty grift grift grift
๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐ถ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น
A word that has no meaning anymore.
Divested of its meaning (Wallace Stevens).
Just also happens to be one of the greatest poems ever written.
True fact: Wallace Stevens lived in Hartford, my current home. Along Asylum Ave, there are engraved stones with stanza from "โThirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". I have walked along that street/poem many times.
https://ctmuseumquest.com/?page_id=4186
Please, if you wouldnโt mind obliging me, take a photo and post here. Heโs been one of my all-time favorite poets ever since I can remember, and Iโm no spring chicken.
It may be a while before I take that walk. Here's a website that has pictures, the poem's text, and some explanation.
http://tm01001.blogspot.com/2014/08/literary-site-wallace-stevens-walk.html
pfft. It's just what "opponents say." Who gives a shit what people "say"?
"Center for Christian Virtue?"
Taliban.
It didn't pass the OK Supreme Court.
Slight note: referring to that guy as a politician from New York seems to deflate his fan club a bit.
Felon fraudster and rapist.
They donโt care about that. But politician strikes a nerve. The dim bulb starts to light up that just mayyyyybe theyโve been fooled, best I can tell
Sadly, you're probably right.
"Former casino owner from Queens"
Failed businessman. How much of your money did he get from you?
Makes em real mad
They will start by deporting undocumented immigrants. Then they will start claiming people are undocumented immigrants. Watch this space
Trumpโs appointee said he wants to deport families of undocumented people. Trump will let him try. Talk about reality TV!
Where was your great grandfather born?
You know what's weird to me - I don't know where my great grandfather was born. Maybe Ireland, maybe NYC. I assume they came here legally. Requests for family information were not ill received exactly, but info was never forthcoming.
And so it begins.
https://bsky.app/profile/jeffjarvis.bsky.social/post/3lb7s3vtgqc22
Oh, Lord. Joe and Mika went to Mar-a-lago. "What we did agree on," Mika said, "was to restart communications." Access. "He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats." Credulity. They revert to their mean.
What total bullshit.
They think access to the demented one is the "be all, end all" NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR HIS STUPID SHIT.
Apparently, > 50 % of the US do.
Also, not 50% of the US. 50% of voters, maybe. But definitely not 50% of Americans.
I suppose you can document that? I mean, you typed "definitely."
The numbers are all out there.
Trump won the popular vote ... but that popular vote doesn't represent ALL Americans. Not even all Americans who could vote. It's only representative of all Americans who DID vote.
But that isn't close to "50% of Americans". And the media and folks repeating that it is are doing a giant disservice to America by implying that the GOP has a larger mandate than they earned.
Voting for a person and wanting to listen to a person have no direct correlation.
Sanewashing is going to get cranked to 11. Pre-compliance.
Cable news personalities are not our friends. They're entertainers reading scripts in-between ads for boner pills.
Okay, finding ground with democrats means FOLLOWING APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENT PROCEDURES like getting your noms approved by congress.
Jesus Christ, these useless assholes. "Common ground with democrats" = we hope they'll enjoy eating shit and that they'll ask for more.
That
It means oh, I am totally willing to work with them so long as they give me everything I want. And if they do not, that means they are not working with me
Fuck the press so fucking hard
Bend the knee and kiss the ring. Humiliate yourself and return to the fold. Willingly give away what teensy credibility you still held.
I knew they'd do this.
That they are pushing that find common ground bullshit after we KNOW he will do no such thing (see too, 16-20) and has promised to go after Democrats is something special
Yeah, his crop of cabinet candidates sure looks like an attempt at finding common ground: they are despised almost equally by everybody.
Deluded.
Predictable. But did these two have any credibility to begin with?
Mika is pretty good looking, other than that.....nope.
Just a smidge. And now that's gone.
If I were ever given the opportunity, I'd go Donald Sutherland, point at them and scream "WHORES!"
Sure, sure, he wants common ground.
Ya know, after he rounds them all up and what not.
Mother fuckers are working for him goddamn it.
375 times.
๐๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ, ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ 2022 ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ 2024, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต 16.
๐ง๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ-๐ต๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ, ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐ด๐๐ถ๐น๐๐, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/teenage_serial_swatterforhire_busted/
Let us hope they can get the names of the people who hired him.
They just arrested another one, a 16-year old, in Eastern Washington last week. Same thing. Even advertising swatting "services" all over the country.
I mean, they could just knock on a door. Just pretend all the people they get calls for are rich white people
The Washington kid was using sound effects to mimic gunshots and people screaming. The police responded appropriately in the three local events. I don't know anything about the responses in events in other states.
The trouble is, an appropriate response to a bomb threat or hostage threat at a school or hospital requires lockdown until they can clear the site. I'm happy to criticize the police when they fuck up, but I'm not going to second-guess them when they respond to a bomb threat by assuming there is a bomb.
Bomb threats are another thing entirely, and you are right, just seems that a phone call is enough. They all got drones, can't they check out a place first- for their safety if nothing else- before running in guns blazing?
SWAT teams rarely start the shooting in these situations. Their default mode, their training, is to surround the target and wait them out.
Where "Swatting" shootings occur, it is generally a patrol officer responding to a fake domestic violence call, which incidentally is statistically the most dangerous actual scenario for police officers.
swatter for hire
Ya know...maybe the cops could, idk, do some basic checking up on things before swatting in?
Just a thought
Just from what I've read on the articles that follow these things; they usually claim some sort of Murder-Suicide situation with children is going on. Police do tend to respond quickly.
We've had at least one unfortunate Swatee answer the door armed because this is America. ETA- No, the Police just claimed he had a gun and never found one. Sorry, must have read this one as it unfolded. :(
Maybe, but the problem is these asswipes give a lot of details. Cops also get criticized if they donโt respond and the threat was real.
This dipshit threw his life away. Every fake swat call should be treated as attempted murder
oh for sure, I am FINE with this POS facing the consequences of his actions. And all the ones like him.
You mean, ponder instead of act rashfully? They're not intellectually equiped for that. Those who could and are interested in law enforcement apply for better agencies, eg the FBI.
Out of tens of thousands of online applications, the FBI Academy selects 1,100 people a year.
Good. Bury him.
Trumpโs Defense pick, Peter Hegseth did NDA to cover up a sexual assault. Now his dumbass lawyer has stated that police concluded that she was the aggressor. So much for the NDA, shouldn't she be able to disclose everything now? One report claimed she went to a hospital for a rape kit exam.
...she was aggressively assaulted?
Unlike friendly, loving assault.
Like I said, sounds like a dumbass lawyer. I paraphrased his quote from a HuffPost article. Iโm hoping she goes public with the full story/ police report.
Yeah, because why is he paying her the settlement if he's innocent.
The article stated that he was afraid heโd lose his job at Fox News.
lol
Has he MET Fox?
Only way that would happen is if he starts dating a non-white female.
No Jenn, she aggressively wanted him to assault her.
"When you're a star they beg you to do it."
Look what you made me do type shit?
Lots of that going around these days.
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.bsky.social/post/3lb77hnpurx2i
"'๐๐ฃ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฐ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ...'
"'๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ,' ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ..."
You were played like so many other people and organizations.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/
What the fuck did they think was going to happen? Trump has never wavered for a second from outspoken support for Israel doing whatever the fuck it wants. It's one of the few consistent positions he has, along with hating Muslims. Fucking idiots.
If this is serious, you are a bunch of dumbfucks. Sorry. No way to sugar coat this piece of dumbfuckery.
One of the things on my mind lately is which pretty blond child they're going to hire to reprise the role of that kid screaming GOODBYE JEWS over and over in "Schindler's List," now updated for the much longer list of undesirables they're going to be rounding up starting next year.
I'll not shed a single tear for any single one of the motherfuckers who voted for what's coming.
Absolutely not. Like the guys who did jail time trying to forcibly change the outcome with Trump's friendly riot.
They were played willingly. Many tried to tell them and they went la la la la and threw a tantrum.
And while these stories are nice, i doubt it reflects many voters sadly. Theyโd do it again tomorrow
But the Dems did not fill in the blank
We hadda let the fascist win.
Wait, whatta ya mean we are going to face consequences????
Biden is so old too.
You played yourself.
https://youtu.be/v7djYYE63Ug?si=JMpoq3Ch9sydUTRJ
They've got some standards: Nazarko said the community would continue pressing to make its voices heard about ending the war in Gaza. "At least we're on the map."
Oh, it will end all right.
They sold the people of Gaza out for their ideology. What a flex.
But eggs will be cheap again .... until we are locked down due to bird flu having jumped to humans because destroying the infected chickens would raise the price of eggs. All hail President Pandemic.
don't be silly, we won't be locked down.
We'll be dying in the streets for the DOW
Something something tallest heads of corn in the field something something . . .
You were not played.
He said this shit with his mouth out loud. You just did not want to listen.
"When someone tells you who they are, believe them."
Seriously? They thought he was being honest? How much of a fucking idiot do you have to be?
A yoooge one, apparently.
That one mayor who tacked on that he was also upset with Dems because of them being nice to the gays sort of says it all.
Surely the leopards won't eat MY face, indeed
Yeah, think of all the ruinous shit gays have championed. Such as, mmmmm...
Just like in 2016, I've read about a hundred hot takes about "liberals living in a bubble," but has anybody in the media stopped to consider the GIANT bubble you'd have to live in to not have heard Trump, with his own anus mouth talking shit about Palestine and Muslims? FOR FUCKS SAKE, the bubble is an intentional misdirection by the media oligarchs on the right and a complicit MSM that let them create the narrative.
Thatโs the one that hurts isnโt it. The stories of how weโre out of touch but they think after birth abortions happen and kids get turned trans by schools. They think that New York politician is better for Gaza
So fucking awful
I must agree. I was telling my brother about the things The Homunculus plans on doing, and all he could say was, "Where's the source?"
"Read a transcript of his fucking speeches."
They were told over and over and over again: "This is just Donnie being Donnie."
People are insane AND stupid.
He's voted for The Homunculus three times (16, 20, and 24) and is a member of a rabid Baptist church - well, a Baptist church.
I cannot believe you actually travel to visit him.
We are the only members of the immediate family still above ground, and leaving aside his ideological rabies we get along quite well.
It's not like Donnie & Co. were keeping their plans a secret. The most effective part of the propaganda from the republicans was the parts that kept saying, "It's just Dementia Don being himself. He won't ever *do* that."
GUESS WHAT, DIPSHITS ... he's doing EVERYTHING he said he would. Get your head out of your social media bubble and actually LISTEN to politician's ACTUAL OWN WORDS.
grrrrrrr
He actually said, out loud, that his plan was to let Israel bomb the fuck out of them and then make the victims clean up the mess
HE SAID THAT. They were not played.
I think, though, that it's pretty clear that many people never heard these things or they chose to ignore them. RW-slanted media is about 50% of the traditional media consumed in the US as per an article I read recently, so people aren't getting the full picture. AND, more people are getting their news from places like TicTok and Instagram (did I read over half of people now get their news there? I think so, but don't quote me for sure). So, it's not enough to say that some voters are Face-Leopard voters, although for sure, many are. Some are ignorant. And we can blame them for being incurious fucks, for sure, but it's a problem that people who value dissemination of the truth need to desperately figure out.
These particular ones though claim to be all sorts of aware of things. I do not think we can excuse their ignorance.
Though you are nicer than I am.
I figure it is more of "surely the leopards won't eat MY personal face"
This right here.
"I don't live in Gaza, therefore I can vote against the person who might help, and vote FOR the person who won't help, because the media pretends to listen to me and is blowing smoke up my ass about how noble I am in trying to bring the Dems to heel argle bargle ..."
Well thanks. Although for me it's less about being nice and more about really understanding the issues that got us to where we are, putting the blame squarely on where it needs to be addressed. If the analysis isn't correct, than we are doomed to repeat the failures.
P.S. - Maya Angelou's quote should be tattooed on the DIPSHIT'S FOREHEADS.
Nah. Fuck these assholes. They knew the score. They just thought they'd get away with a harmless "protest vote," and they don't want to be held accountable.
Not our fault! Dems did not pat our heads and rub our tummies enough. We just HADDA vote for the guy who said he would shoot us in the face
You. Were. Warned.
And we were told every time we warned them that was just driving them further to the right.
You weren't played. The right made no effort that I can see to reach out to that community, or to hide that they'd take whatever guardrails Biden put in place (regardless of what you believe those to be) away.
They played themselves.
Not to mention that just about the only campaign promise he actually fulfilled after 2016 was to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
"But Biden didn't move it back, so he's just as bad."
It's like how Biden didn't get rid of all trump Tariffs, so both sides
Never mind Scotus blocked him from doing that.
*throws things*
I would like that comment soo much, if I could.
I'm 99% sure I don't have you blocked, so I'm not sure what substack weirdness is going on. I will have to double check when I have more time.
It's not you, it's me. I run an old version of Windows that Substack doesn't like.
Now imagine their "disappointment" when The Homunculus allows the Israelis to eliminate all Palestinians in Gaza, pave over the ruins, and recreate it as a resort strip called Trumpland.
Jar-Jar has a permanent "Gaza beach resort" boner now
Actual size ๐ฆด
Guffaw!
Darth Ept would object to being compared to Kushner.
Jar Jar libel.
My eyes just rolled back so far I can see my own brainstem.
SMH
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Police and staff were initially flummoxed when shoes started disappearing from a kindergarten in south-west Japan, not least because the โtheftsโ were of single shoes, not pairs.
Unable to get to the bottom of two incidents reported earlier this month, police installed three security cameras in the hope the thief would strike again, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
Then, when a single shoe went missing from Gosho Kodomo-en kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, on the night of 11 November, investigators sifted through camera footage, believing they had finally caught their footwear-filching suspect in the act.
The culprit, however, turned out to have four legs, a coat of orangey-brown fur and sharp claws.
Camera footage revealed that a weasel had appeared from behind a wall the previous evening before approaching cubbyholes storing childrenโs indoor shoes and making off with a single white shoe in its mouth โ all in the space of about 10 seconds...
Japanese-language references to the weasel have similarly negative connotations to those found in English. According to the late Japan-based naturalist CW Nicol, the musky scent of the Japanese weasel gave rise to the saying itachi no saigo-pei. That literally translates as โthe weaselโs final fartโ, but is used to refer to the last word or act of an unpopular or dislikable person.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/japan-weasel-shoe-thief-kindergarten-gosho-kodomo-en-fukuoka
"Itachi no saigo-pei."
There are soooooo many people I can use that phrase on.
It's even prettier in kanji.
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I've been watching this one YT channel called 'Solo Travel Japan.' He's notable for not speaking over the video footage and giving you the cost for various things in yen and dollars.
I do know a few phrases and words in Japanese, but can't read it.
A feel good story if I ever read one!
Have a little alternate-Earth history for your Monday morning: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58783560/
The subject at paw, LOL!
(grins)
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Here is your calendar for the day: https://catandcalendarlady.substack.com/p/today-is-111824-monday
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Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie Released (1928)
I'm wearing my Steamboat Coily shirt!
How did you know!?
Good morning!
"๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง [๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข] ๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด. ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ช-๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ โ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ข๐น๐ฑ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด."
๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐, ๐ต๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ต๐๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐๐๐ณ๐ณ
Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/congress_uap_hearings/
The conspiracy theorists on the right love aliens. It's a great distraction and someone else to blame things on.
It's all bullshit.
Are you not entertained?
"Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked panelists if they are familiar with "rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material, potentially for the enhancement of human capabilities โ hybrids." All four speakers said no, apparently having missed The X-Files back in the '90s.
"Are there any accounts of UAPs emerging from, or submerging into, our water, which could indicate a base or presence beneath the ocean's surface," she suggested. Again, no one offered support, but one panelist โ journalist Michael Shellenberger โ stated that UAPs have been reported emerging from beneath the waves."
God she is so stupid.
She seen it on the teevee!
https://youtu.be/NxNHMz5lSTA?si=BeW7-UJrH1O1m7NR
It's space aliens. Duh.
No doubt she heard something about the infamous $1000 hammers in the budget and underwater (since the purpose was to hide expenses related to tapping Soviet underwater cables) and put 2 and 2 together and bless her heart, she came up with 7.
I demand hearings on Jewish space lasers!
(You just know, though, that between the grandstanding performative posturing and the conspiracy loons that now control 2/3 branches of the federal gov't, there will be soooo much shit like that aired in the foreseeable future).
Mazel Tough!
Last week, a girl called my office. She is 17, and told me that she called me because her grandpa told her to call me if she was ever in trouble and needed a lawyer.
Grandpa, in this case, was shot, stabbed, and/or bludgeoned to death during a home invasion at age 46. Just so we're clear, he was killed while committing the home invasion, so establishing the exact cause of death was not a high priority. Grandpa was a notorious collector/enforcer for various gangs and drug traffickers and was a suspect in two killings and a disappearance during the three or so years that I knew him. He was a bad guy who did bad things for bad reasons to equally bad people. As such, he was the living embodiment of the line from John Cusack's character in Gross Pointe Blank: "If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there." Not unlike Omar Little, he never -- so far as I know, and I know a lot about him -- harmed a person not involved in drug trafficking. Hurting people was his business; he didn't do it if there was no profit in it. He was one of the best clients I ever had. Criminal charges, even doing a stretch of time, was just the cost of doing business.
With all this ping-ponging around my brain, I prepared myself for whatever awful shit his granddaughter was involved in. After all, "in trouble" to Grandpa could mean anything from misdemeanor battery to capital murder.
Turns out, she just wanted to interview me for a social studies project about the Constitution.
Grandpa to a 17 year old at 46. This is a family that doesn't appear to be great at delayed gratification, would probably all fail the marshmallow test.
She would have been 6 or 7 when he died.
Ah. Better, certainly.
boy, that post sure went on a journey.
I expect one day to see it getting a trim on a "Girl with the Dogs" video ;)
I beg your indulgence. I've been away for a while, and I'm feeling garrulous.
Phew!
You know the type. Professional criminal. Model inmate. Perfect gentleman in court; goes out of his way to make it easier for you to put on his leg irons. Has an NCIC report that runs 80 pages.
Oh yeah. I recall people like that.
My wife, girlfriend at the time, was with me when we crossed paths with him while xmas shopping. He went out of his way to come over and say hello to me. Not-yet-MrsMatt recognized him from seeing his photo in the newspaper, and after he'd gone on his way, she asked, "Isn't he dangerous?"
"Not to me. I'm the last person he'd do anything to."
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's first lady, Janja Lula da Silva, swore at billionaire Elon Musk during a G20 social event on Saturday at which she spoke about the need to regulate social media to rein in misinformation.
A ship's horn sounded as she spoke and she joked, "I think it's Elon Musk," before adding, "I'm not afraid of you," and using an expletive in reference to him.
https://x.com/nikolas_dm/status/1857899265668034781
Good.
Make him persona non grata, and send him back to S Africa. Or Mars. Better to Mars.
Mars. South Africa is atoning for past sins. Give โem a break.
Portuguese has many, many colorful and beautiful sounding ways to say "fuck off"
A common trait of seafaring nations
Good morning, all! (celebrates the Sacrament of Coffee) I despise head colds, and I've had this nagging little bitch for almost ten days now.
Here, have some green boxes:
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I find that this one and Cรดte d'Ivoire look like old ladies in profile and Ethiopia and Zimbabwe have a mirror effect going.
(looks) You're right.
Hiya, W. Just at the long tail of a three week cold so I feel ya. Mejorate pronto!
Edit, my Spanish still sucks.
I've tried various patent nostrums and home remedies, but the bugger is like The Homunculus - it won't die.
Well, this is embarrassing.
#Worldle #1032 (18.11.2024) 3/6 (100%)
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(boggles briefly) Good morning. I suggest coffee.
My bet is all living Dizzy Gillespie fan voted, and voted for Harris.
Maynard Ferguson โ screamer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUs3k_RUAFM
Screech trumpet is what's for breakfast.