This is why DeSantis' "attacks" on Trump have been so timid and ineffective. Trying to come at him from the right means criticizing him for not building the wall fast enough or something. He doesn't realize that Trump's followers don't care about the facts of what Trump did or didn't accomplish, or indeed in any facts at all.
Precisely. There are TFG followers out there who actually believe he did build the wall and if you show them a picture of an area with no wall than that is just fake news.
At least we are starting to see real pushback against some of this bullshit. There is absolutely a real chance Raphael Cancun Castro will be unseated. Abbottโs voucher program is deeply unpopular in rural counties and thereโs a lot of small towns where the public school is the main employer. If we werenโt gerrymandered to hell, we would be Purple or Light Blue.
I am so old that my heart was fleetingly happy when I read that Texas Republicans wanted to "hang with" Nazis.
You see, back in my day, we used to hang "out" with our friends. "Hanging with" someone was what you did only when you were both dangling from a rope until dead -- because you both were accomplices in the same capital crime.
Shouldn't people who collude with Nazis "hang with" Nazis? Back in my day, that's what they did.
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Language changes, of course, but the more it changes, the older I feel. I still wince when I hear people say they're going to "drop their children at daycare." Back in my day, we were careful never to "drop children," though we did sometimes carefully drop them "off."
I believe this problem started with overzealous English teachers warning their students never to end sentences with prepositions. First of all, this was never really good or correct advice. Secondly, words like "out" and "off" are not always prepositions. Sometimes, they're verb particles. It is not only okay, but correct to use verb particles where they belong ("throw" and "throw up" are not the same), and it is not only okay, but correct to place them at the end of a sentence. Churchill really was kidding when he said that ending a sentence with a preposition was a mistake "up with which we shall not put."
Oh dear, I think it's time to dust my abacus. Excuse me.
I agree with all you say, but for a nitpick at the end. IIRC, Churchill dit not say that ending a sentence with a preposition was a mistake "up with which we shall not put." Rather, on being corrected for having made that "mistake", he defended the phrasing by saying "That is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
I can sometimes be confused by "drop." A few years ago I read an article that Fiat was going to discontinue their gasoline powered 500 model and replace it with an electric version. Nowadays, of course, all the cool kids use "drop" to mean "to introduce" - "The Boston Philharmonic's new vinyl album is going to drop next week," while a lot of us old geezers still use "drop" to mean "stop production" - "Ford dropped their Edsel just weeks after the 1960 model year began." And like lots of us older boomers I try desperately to stay "hip" to those cool youngsters so I understood perfectly the headline that said, approximately, "Fiat to drop gas 500 today and drop electric 500 next week."
Disclaimer: I have a 2012 Fiat (Gas) 500 with only about 33K miles that I'm going to "hang onto" or "hang with" for the foreseeable future..
Oh, and that Mother God documentary...fascinating illustration of mental illness attracting like-minded mental illness! SPOILER ALERT! The devotees listening to a woman who is experiencing alcohol psychosis, taking drugs all day, and turning blue from daily ingestion of a liter of colloidal silver screaming obscenities because galactic Robin Williams is not speaking to her enough and their only comment is "do you hear that screaming? Mother is taking on all your sins and it's killing her!!" And, ultimately, the cult's downfall was money! The co-founder Father God financial expert had everything in his name and the second that Mother God "ascended," he emptied the bank accounts of $330K and told the cops "these people are on my land and I didn't invite them." The whole thing left me with the impression that cults might be a scam! Who knew?! ๐คทโโ๏ธ
unless they did something really bad, in which case they are a CIA plant whose job it is to make us look bad.
They admit they look bad but blame someone else for what they chose to do. Why aren't they proud of what they did? Embarrassed and defensive sums them up.
To paraphrase the Blues Brothers: "Texas Nazis! I hate Texas Nazis!" And speaking of Texas Nazis, impeached (shoulda been convicted) TX AG Ken Paxton had quite the headline this weekend. He is "suing Pfizer for not ending COVID-19 pandemic fast enough" because creating a workable vaccine in record time was not perfect enough, but Pfizer still tried to profit from it!! WTF?! A TX Republican suing a company for profit-making?! ๐ What planet am I on?!
So I was thinking about The Split & thinking about this and I guess it made me think of the beginning of the pandemic, when my son got really worried that Texas was going to invade. I laughed it off at the time; Texas has invaded three times and we kicked their mothereffing keisters all three times, sending them back in disgrace.
While I really don't want a fascist, white supremacist, secessionist breakaway state next door, the whole reason for Texas is to be a white supremacist, secessionist, slave owning, traitor colony. Twas always thus, and I guess the only think to do is to kick their asses every time they have a dumb idea.
A CIA plant? I thought they were supposed to be FBI plants, like, you know, Ray Epps. Is the rightwing world just moving too fast for me to keep up?
But "very attractive" I get. Like Nick Fuentes, that inexplicable hottie they just can't quit. Every time I see Nick Fuentes I can't swipe fast enough, and I don't care which way you're supposed to swipe.
That picture at the top of this article has to be a fate because the sign has has no bullet holes in it.
This is the same state GOP that once made banning critical thinking part of their platform.
๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ต๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฐ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ quickest ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐๐๐๐, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ.
This is why DeSantis' "attacks" on Trump have been so timid and ineffective. Trying to come at him from the right means criticizing him for not building the wall fast enough or something. He doesn't realize that Trump's followers don't care about the facts of what Trump did or didn't accomplish, or indeed in any facts at all.
WTF is even to the right of Trump now? How much further right can you get than โletโs put immigrants in camps and arrest our enemies?โ
Precisely. There are TFG followers out there who actually believe he did build the wall and if you show them a picture of an area with no wall than that is just fake news.
At least we are starting to see real pushback against some of this bullshit. There is absolutely a real chance Raphael Cancun Castro will be unseated. Abbottโs voucher program is deeply unpopular in rural counties and thereโs a lot of small towns where the public school is the main employer. If we werenโt gerrymandered to hell, we would be Purple or Light Blue.
I am so old that my heart was fleetingly happy when I read that Texas Republicans wanted to "hang with" Nazis.
You see, back in my day, we used to hang "out" with our friends. "Hanging with" someone was what you did only when you were both dangling from a rope until dead -- because you both were accomplices in the same capital crime.
Shouldn't people who collude with Nazis "hang with" Nazis? Back in my day, that's what they did.
*** *** ***
Language changes, of course, but the more it changes, the older I feel. I still wince when I hear people say they're going to "drop their children at daycare." Back in my day, we were careful never to "drop children," though we did sometimes carefully drop them "off."
I believe this problem started with overzealous English teachers warning their students never to end sentences with prepositions. First of all, this was never really good or correct advice. Secondly, words like "out" and "off" are not always prepositions. Sometimes, they're verb particles. It is not only okay, but correct to use verb particles where they belong ("throw" and "throw up" are not the same), and it is not only okay, but correct to place them at the end of a sentence. Churchill really was kidding when he said that ending a sentence with a preposition was a mistake "up with which we shall not put."
Oh dear, I think it's time to dust my abacus. Excuse me.
I agree with all you say, but for a nitpick at the end. IIRC, Churchill dit not say that ending a sentence with a preposition was a mistake "up with which we shall not put." Rather, on being corrected for having made that "mistake", he defended the phrasing by saying "That is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
I can sometimes be confused by "drop." A few years ago I read an article that Fiat was going to discontinue their gasoline powered 500 model and replace it with an electric version. Nowadays, of course, all the cool kids use "drop" to mean "to introduce" - "The Boston Philharmonic's new vinyl album is going to drop next week," while a lot of us old geezers still use "drop" to mean "stop production" - "Ford dropped their Edsel just weeks after the 1960 model year began." And like lots of us older boomers I try desperately to stay "hip" to those cool youngsters so I understood perfectly the headline that said, approximately, "Fiat to drop gas 500 today and drop electric 500 next week."
Disclaimer: I have a 2012 Fiat (Gas) 500 with only about 33K miles that I'm going to "hang onto" or "hang with" for the foreseeable future..
Oh, and that Mother God documentary...fascinating illustration of mental illness attracting like-minded mental illness! SPOILER ALERT! The devotees listening to a woman who is experiencing alcohol psychosis, taking drugs all day, and turning blue from daily ingestion of a liter of colloidal silver screaming obscenities because galactic Robin Williams is not speaking to her enough and their only comment is "do you hear that screaming? Mother is taking on all your sins and it's killing her!!" And, ultimately, the cult's downfall was money! The co-founder Father God financial expert had everything in his name and the second that Mother God "ascended," he emptied the bank accounts of $330K and told the cops "these people are on my land and I didn't invite them." The whole thing left me with the impression that cults might be a scam! Who knew?! ๐คทโโ๏ธ
What, you are skeptical that Mother God died for your sins...?
unless they did something really bad, in which case they are a CIA plant whose job it is to make us look bad.
They admit they look bad but blame someone else for what they chose to do. Why aren't they proud of what they did? Embarrassed and defensive sums them up.
cults do love their love bombing
To paraphrase the Blues Brothers: "Texas Nazis! I hate Texas Nazis!" And speaking of Texas Nazis, impeached (shoulda been convicted) TX AG Ken Paxton had quite the headline this weekend. He is "suing Pfizer for not ending COVID-19 pandemic fast enough" because creating a workable vaccine in record time was not perfect enough, but Pfizer still tried to profit from it!! WTF?! A TX Republican suing a company for profit-making?! ๐ What planet am I on?!
MAGA ain't yer daddies GOP is it. ๐ฑ
(((We))) just love it when both ends of the horseshoe ignore Jew-hatred when it comes from their ideological allies.
this can't be said and upfisted enough.
So I was thinking about The Split & thinking about this and I guess it made me think of the beginning of the pandemic, when my son got really worried that Texas was going to invade. I laughed it off at the time; Texas has invaded three times and we kicked their mothereffing keisters all three times, sending them back in disgrace.
While I really don't want a fascist, white supremacist, secessionist breakaway state next door, the whole reason for Texas is to be a white supremacist, secessionist, slave owning, traitor colony. Twas always thus, and I guess the only think to do is to kick their asses every time they have a dumb idea.
Florida has joined the conversation.
Cheers from a native West Virginian.
"Pale Horse"? Imma gonna leave this right here...
https://substack.com/profile/157180139-higgs-boson/note/c-44768297?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lkwyz
A CIA plant? I thought they were supposed to be FBI plants, like, you know, Ray Epps. Is the rightwing world just moving too fast for me to keep up?
But "very attractive" I get. Like Nick Fuentes, that inexplicable hottie they just can't quit. Every time I see Nick Fuentes I can't swipe fast enough, and I don't care which way you're supposed to swipe.
Texas Republicans sound better in its original German, Sturmabteilung.
When they get wiped out, we can call it Night of the Longhorns.
Hanging with Nazis. A Nuremburg Tale.
Fuentes went to Fort Worth to meet them. I would have thought they would have had more success occupying Paris.
First we take Dallas then we take Berlin!
REM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=g9PrGQAE8Mo