One of the older nurses I worked with so many years ago owned a farm in Sandpoint, Idaho where she raised miniature goats. During the spring when all of those precious wee kids were prancing and bounding about in her pastures were SO precious to watch!
Suffice to say that watching those adorable little ruminants playing in the barnyard really made me appreciate the still relatively "new" video technology of the day.
TABS idea. There was VW ad in the 1960s "Have you ever wondered how the man who drives the snowplow gets to the snowplow?" Perhaps repurpose as driving to the TABS.
I've only ever eaten veal in what is colloquially called "city chicken" on kebabs. It's spiced and fried and mixed with pork and is delicious. Now I kinda feel bad. Gee Thanks, jerk~!
I grew up eating "city chicken" and it is indeed delicious. I don't think I've ever met anyone else who had ever heard of it outside of Chautauqua County, NY.
"The reason city chicken came to be goes back to the early 1900s when cuts of pork and veal were far more affordable to city workers in meat-packing hubs like Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Louisville than chickens, which were largely found in the country"
And knowing is half the battle. Against pigs and sheep.
Babby goats! Love all of your Tabs gifs, Martini, but this one is just what I need for today - got a lot to do today, and looking at all that energy is giving me the energy to get started.
@BillEGoatSmile @OrG: Happy birthday. May your next trip around the sun bless you with love, health, peace, grace, abundance, prosperity, integrity, longevity, laughter, tears, friendship, courage, compassion, creativity, community, and joy. 🌺
First-ever interview for an off-farm job was at the Winnebago motor home factory. My dad's first cousin was general foreman of a production line. He'd always put in a request to hire neighbors and relatives whenever he had a chance., since we all made him look like a genius for hiring us
First words out of the HR person's mouth were, "Of course you know, you have this job."
I applied for a job at a subsidiary of Nationwide that handled Worker's Comp paperwork and record-keeping for businesses. 100% phone work. I didn't get the job, but they called me back when they had another opening a few months later. In the interim, I'd grown a beard. The interviewer explained that, while moustaches were acceptable for men, beards weren't. For a job that's 100% phone work. He explained that they were worried about what people walking past on the street would think if they saw bearded men going into the building for work.
I'm sorry about what happened to you, but curious about what kind of beard you had. There seems to be an epidemic of old guys (over 60) growing long, bushy (or scraggly) beards that they never groom. Guys who grow beards need to keep them trimmed -- usually a job for a barber -- or they just look unkempt. I only like kempt beards. I don't care for mustaches either. Most guys with them look like either Snidely Whiplash or Hitler.
So, because Hama is "perfectly jubilant at the prospect of Israel massacring Gazans in return", it is okley-dokley for Israel to massacre Gazans in return? Not according to the international laws I've read. Also, "Who the fuck ever knows what Netanyahu thinks"? I believe the world has him pretty figured out by now. No amount of carnage is too little if it keeps him in office and out of prison.
On the other side of the job interview table, a guy opening a hookah cafe had a waitress applicant put down the reason she left her previous job was being fired after being caught by the owner's wife having an affair with the owner.
There were two hookahs on display for sale, a small one for $45 and a large one for $60. The applicant said, "If I'm hired, I'll have to be a big one."
The owner didn't know what she was talking about. She pointed to the hookahs. "If I'm going to work here, I'll have to be a big one, because I can't live on $45 a client."
Back in college, mid 80s, I interviewed at a mall computer store for a summer job (and a store discount). My other job was teaching karate. I was a skinny college girl.
Interviewer asked what I’d do if the place got robbed. “Call Security”
But what if they had a gun?
“Definitely call Security. It’s their job.”
Interviewer kept escalating the situation, stuff like threatening me, threatening customers, shit that was very unlikely in our boring suburban mall. My answer did not change. Did he really think I was going to go all Chuck Norris for a mall job? Our training actually covered that, and the first choice was “don’t escalate unless you actually think you’re in danger”
When I was 26 years old I interviewed for a job as a Foreign Student Advisor at a major public university. It seems that the previous female employee had had a habit of engaging in a lot of casual intimate relationships with a large number of male international students. During my interview I was asked how I felt about dating students. What I felt was "This is none of your business" but I said something else instead that appeared to satisfy them. It truly was none of their business. Besides, what were the odds that they'd get two nymphomaniacs in a row working there? Also, would they have asked this question of a male applicant???? I bet not.
P.S. I got the job, but that's the job where the boss was a sociopath and a misogynist who made everyone's life a total misery. I should have been warned by the weird interview.
I've had more awful job interviews than I could shake a stick at - a stick with a big sharp nail driven through it.
The worst, though, was my first one. My parents somehow thought it would be terrific for a 15-year-old to have a REAL job for the hot North Carolina summer, so asked a construction contractor working in the neighborhood whether he'd take me on.
I sat in his truck for the interview. His face was as red as the "Post" button here on Wonkette, and he stank of alcohol. After asking me a few fairly normal questions about my ability to carry things and work outside, he suddenly leaned in close and asked, in his thick Southern accent, "Have yew been faxxinated?" Faxxinated? WTF? Clearly I had no idea what he was talking about. He repeated the question, more loudly, "HAVE YEW BEEN FAXXINATED? YER OLD ENOUGH!" I timidly asked, "You mean 'vaccinated'?" He got kind of angry. "That's what I sayed! FAXXINATED! Have ya?" I started to answer that yes, I'd had all my vaccinations when I was a kid, but he stopped me. "No, no, no! I ain't talkin' about that! I mean have you put your wee-wee in a GURL yet?" I was dumbfounded and completely speechless. Then he laughed and said, "Don't you never mind, now we're gonna start out with you shovelin' that there ditch. So grab a shovel out the back and you can get to work now."
I certainly should have said something to my parents, but didn't. Anyway, it was an awful summer and he was an awful guy, but fortunately I didn't have to work directly with him much, and I got along well with the rest of the construction crew. But the coda to the story is that at the end of the summer, after I'd stopped doing all this back-breaking work no 15-year-old should ever have had to do, I was walking one night with my friend Laurie through the neighborhood and saw that there was a light on in the job site construction trailer. The guy was standing in the doorway. He was thoroughly drunk, and started making really salacious comments about my female friend, trying to get us to come inside the trailer. We made an excuse and left quickly. After that incident, I did say something, and my father went to have a fairly pissed off talk with the guy. I never saw him again after that.
Feel free to skip this if you are worn out by right wing clownassery and bad-faith Israel vs Hamas arguments, but I am a petty bitch and never miss an opportunity to laugh at shitty people fighting amongst themselves.
I took the bus in L.A. for four months after my car got towed while I was on vacation, and the cost to get it out of the lot exceeded its Blue Book value by a wide margin.
I'm glad LA buses are now free, but really, they should *pay* people to take them.
One of my favorite ever panels in a comic book is actually a full page, in Kyle Baker's "Why I Hate Saturn," which narrates the circuitous, inefficient, baffling route of a Los Angeles bus from the perspective of a New Yorker. It's a map but also the text follows the bus, it's a great page.
Especially since if you see that pencil-necked geek coming for you, he'd demand a "campaign contribution" just so he can take away everyone's rights. Like a common crook.
In 2014 I interviewed for, and was offered, a director-level marketing operations position in a major US city. When they offered me the job I found out the pay was $32k with NO BENEFITS and a required international work trip every year. They had a swank office in a fancy high-rise full of smart TVs, but couldn't offer PTO.
Johnson seems to have an affinity for this Jim Garlow fellow - he's given interviews with him last August and last year. Neither appear to be any other than fundamentalist asshole.
I was going to say he seemed to be applying it to "LGBTQ youth", but he did just say "its wickedness", which could apply to not being hospitable to strangers ( at least, I'm sure that's what he'll say if he's ever challenged on this bullshit ). I can't think of any other House representative being this blatant in his espousal of "religious" bigotry,
Would you like to visit the stampede of baby goats? I’ve given you the location here, along with the hed source info.
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/baby-goat-stampede
Happy Birthday BillEGoatSmile!
You planned this just in time for BillEGoat's birthday!
Baby goats! The best way to start the day :) Thanks, Martini!
hail satan!
I love baby goats, so thanks!!
Lolololololol
Martini, quit kidding around....
Lots of Babby Goats. I kid you not!
One of the older nurses I worked with so many years ago owned a farm in Sandpoint, Idaho where she raised miniature goats. During the spring when all of those precious wee kids were prancing and bounding about in her pastures were SO precious to watch!
Suffice to say that watching those adorable little ruminants playing in the barnyard really made me appreciate the still relatively "new" video technology of the day.
An omelet with ham and crumbled goat cheese sounds good. Thanks, as always, for the inspiration!
TABS idea. There was VW ad in the 1960s "Have you ever wondered how the man who drives the snowplow gets to the snowplow?" Perhaps repurpose as driving to the TABS.
1 minute ad w/Japanese(?) subtitles. https://youtu.be/ABcckOTVqao
I've only ever eaten veal in what is colloquially called "city chicken" on kebabs. It's spiced and fried and mixed with pork and is delicious. Now I kinda feel bad. Gee Thanks, jerk~!
I grew up eating "city chicken" and it is indeed delicious. I don't think I've ever met anyone else who had ever heard of it outside of Chautauqua County, NY.
It's a blue collar thing from way back -
"The reason city chicken came to be goes back to the early 1900s when cuts of pork and veal were far more affordable to city workers in meat-packing hubs like Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Louisville than chickens, which were largely found in the country"
And knowing is half the battle. Against pigs and sheep.
My parents shopped at A&P in Pgh. We ate city chicken about once a month. I always enjoyed our little kabobs.
"City chicken" sounds like a euphemism for pigeons.
Don't feel bad- a veal calf is about 600-800 lbs and already weaned.
The time is always right for baby goats. Especially now.
Babby goats! Love all of your Tabs gifs, Martini, but this one is just what I need for today - got a lot to do today, and looking at all that energy is giving me the energy to get started.
I have nothing to do today but this makes me wish I did!
It's a Borstal Breakout!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZ5XoHxC3I
As from the town name, a Borstal in punk-rock England is where youth offenders were locked up. Yes, it's where they sent the (ahem) bad kids.
One of my favorite books:
https://www.amazon.com/Borstal-boy-Brendan-Behan/dp/B0006AVWRO/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1700137720&sr=1-1
Just ordered this for my husband for xmas (an old irish delinquent himself.) Thanks for the recommendation!!
I love it when baby goats show up here. They're like Tigger with all their bouncing.
I haven't bounced like that since I drank my dads sauce pan boiled coffee!
They are like Tigger, but even better in a way.
When I was really little my grandparents had a wire haired terrier named Tigger and he was indeed bouncy like his namesake and like a little goat!
@BillEGoatSmile @OrG: Happy birthday. May your next trip around the sun bless you with love, health, peace, grace, abundance, prosperity, integrity, longevity, laughter, tears, friendship, courage, compassion, creativity, community, and joy. 🌺
First-ever interview for an off-farm job was at the Winnebago motor home factory. My dad's first cousin was general foreman of a production line. He'd always put in a request to hire neighbors and relatives whenever he had a chance., since we all made him look like a genius for hiring us
First words out of the HR person's mouth were, "Of course you know, you have this job."
They should all be that easy.
I applied for a job at a subsidiary of Nationwide that handled Worker's Comp paperwork and record-keeping for businesses. 100% phone work. I didn't get the job, but they called me back when they had another opening a few months later. In the interim, I'd grown a beard. The interviewer explained that, while moustaches were acceptable for men, beards weren't. For a job that's 100% phone work. He explained that they were worried about what people walking past on the street would think if they saw bearded men going into the building for work.
I walked out.
What were they worried that people would think?
I'm sorry about what happened to you, but curious about what kind of beard you had. There seems to be an epidemic of old guys (over 60) growing long, bushy (or scraggly) beards that they never groom. Guys who grow beards need to keep them trimmed -- usually a job for a barber -- or they just look unkempt. I only like kempt beards. I don't care for mustaches either. Most guys with them look like either Snidely Whiplash or Hitler.
This was back during the 80's, and my beard, then as now, was always neatly trimmed.
So, because Hama is "perfectly jubilant at the prospect of Israel massacring Gazans in return", it is okley-dokley for Israel to massacre Gazans in return? Not according to the international laws I've read. Also, "Who the fuck ever knows what Netanyahu thinks"? I believe the world has him pretty figured out by now. No amount of carnage is too little if it keeps him in office and out of prison.
On the other side of the job interview table, a guy opening a hookah cafe had a waitress applicant put down the reason she left her previous job was being fired after being caught by the owner's wife having an affair with the owner.
There were two hookahs on display for sale, a small one for $45 and a large one for $60. The applicant said, "If I'm hired, I'll have to be a big one."
The owner didn't know what she was talking about. She pointed to the hookahs. "If I'm going to work here, I'll have to be a big one, because I can't live on $45 a client."
Hookah? Hooker? Who knows?
Back in college, mid 80s, I interviewed at a mall computer store for a summer job (and a store discount). My other job was teaching karate. I was a skinny college girl.
Interviewer asked what I’d do if the place got robbed. “Call Security”
But what if they had a gun?
“Definitely call Security. It’s their job.”
Interviewer kept escalating the situation, stuff like threatening me, threatening customers, shit that was very unlikely in our boring suburban mall. My answer did not change. Did he really think I was going to go all Chuck Norris for a mall job? Our training actually covered that, and the first choice was “don’t escalate unless you actually think you’re in danger”
Didn’t get the job.
When I was 26 years old I interviewed for a job as a Foreign Student Advisor at a major public university. It seems that the previous female employee had had a habit of engaging in a lot of casual intimate relationships with a large number of male international students. During my interview I was asked how I felt about dating students. What I felt was "This is none of your business" but I said something else instead that appeared to satisfy them. It truly was none of their business. Besides, what were the odds that they'd get two nymphomaniacs in a row working there? Also, would they have asked this question of a male applicant???? I bet not.
P.S. I got the job, but that's the job where the boss was a sociopath and a misogynist who made everyone's life a total misery. I should have been warned by the weird interview.
I've had more awful job interviews than I could shake a stick at - a stick with a big sharp nail driven through it.
The worst, though, was my first one. My parents somehow thought it would be terrific for a 15-year-old to have a REAL job for the hot North Carolina summer, so asked a construction contractor working in the neighborhood whether he'd take me on.
I sat in his truck for the interview. His face was as red as the "Post" button here on Wonkette, and he stank of alcohol. After asking me a few fairly normal questions about my ability to carry things and work outside, he suddenly leaned in close and asked, in his thick Southern accent, "Have yew been faxxinated?" Faxxinated? WTF? Clearly I had no idea what he was talking about. He repeated the question, more loudly, "HAVE YEW BEEN FAXXINATED? YER OLD ENOUGH!" I timidly asked, "You mean 'vaccinated'?" He got kind of angry. "That's what I sayed! FAXXINATED! Have ya?" I started to answer that yes, I'd had all my vaccinations when I was a kid, but he stopped me. "No, no, no! I ain't talkin' about that! I mean have you put your wee-wee in a GURL yet?" I was dumbfounded and completely speechless. Then he laughed and said, "Don't you never mind, now we're gonna start out with you shovelin' that there ditch. So grab a shovel out the back and you can get to work now."
I certainly should have said something to my parents, but didn't. Anyway, it was an awful summer and he was an awful guy, but fortunately I didn't have to work directly with him much, and I got along well with the rest of the construction crew. But the coda to the story is that at the end of the summer, after I'd stopped doing all this back-breaking work no 15-year-old should ever have had to do, I was walking one night with my friend Laurie through the neighborhood and saw that there was a light on in the job site construction trailer. The guy was standing in the doorway. He was thoroughly drunk, and started making really salacious comments about my female friend, trying to get us to come inside the trailer. We made an excuse and left quickly. After that incident, I did say something, and my father went to have a fairly pissed off talk with the guy. I never saw him again after that.
Feel free to skip this if you are worn out by right wing clownassery and bad-faith Israel vs Hamas arguments, but I am a petty bitch and never miss an opportunity to laugh at shitty people fighting amongst themselves.
‘𝗕𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝘁’: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭-𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘦𝘶𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘖𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘴
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ben-shapiro-candace-owens-fighting-the-daily-wire-israel-hamas-war-1234880402/
Dang Li'l Ben, that's actually a solid burn:
𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩, 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘴’ 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪-𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 “𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭,” 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵.
𝘐𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦, 𝘖𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘸. “𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘌𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺.” 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘖𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘳.
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙙. “𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙘𝙚, 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙒𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙂𝙤𝙙, 𝙗𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩,” 𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙.
Ben Shapiro's broken clock moment #1.
Still waiting for his second run at it.
"Take the bus: It’s free!"
I took the bus in L.A. for four months after my car got towed while I was on vacation, and the cost to get it out of the lot exceeded its Blue Book value by a wide margin.
I'm glad LA buses are now free, but really, they should *pay* people to take them.
One of my favorite ever panels in a comic book is actually a full page, in Kyle Baker's "Why I Hate Saturn," which narrates the circuitous, inefficient, baffling route of a Los Angeles bus from the perspective of a New Yorker. It's a map but also the text follows the bus, it's a great page.
Thanks, I will look that up!
Public transportation should be free. The LA Metro spends more money collecting fares than it costs to maintain the fare collection system. It's dumb.
Trump lawyers file for mistrial based on “Judge has a law clerk.”
This is going to go about as well as "based on 'Justice Thomas has a Ginni Thomas.'"
*Backs away slowly from Tom Cotton.*
Hell, I would RUN away from this bobble-throated slapdick ( Thx, Charlie Pierce ) if he came anywhere near me.
Especially since if you see that pencil-necked geek coming for you, he'd demand a "campaign contribution" just so he can take away everyone's rights. Like a common crook.
In 2014 I interviewed for, and was offered, a director-level marketing operations position in a major US city. When they offered me the job I found out the pay was $32k with NO BENEFITS and a required international work trip every year. They had a swank office in a fancy high-rise full of smart TVs, but couldn't offer PTO.
Depending on the city, that $32K might JUST cover the cost of rent. But hey, who needs food or utilities or any of that other stuff?
I ran into this this morning - a "Rolling Stone" poeve that indicates Mike Hognson is even more of an extremist white nationalist:
Link: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mike-johnson-america-god-wrath-jim-garlow-1234879233/
𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝐽𝑖𝑚 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 “𝑐𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.” 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠: 𝐼𝑠 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑠? … 𝑂𝑟 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑖𝑚?”
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑂𝑐𝑡. 3, 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛’𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒. 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛-𝑐𝑢𝑡 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 “𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ‘𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡’ 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎.” 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑: “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒.” 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝐺𝐵𝑇𝑄 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ — 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡, 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 “𝑜𝑛𝑒-𝑖𝑛-𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡.”
𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑚, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑢𝑟. 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙. 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑, “𝑊𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒.”
Johnson seems to have an affinity for this Jim Garlow fellow - he's given interviews with him last August and last year. Neither appear to be any other than fundamentalist asshole.
The wickedness Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for was their failure to take in and provide food and shelter to strangers.
I bet Mike doesn't know that.
I was going to say he seemed to be applying it to "LGBTQ youth", but he did just say "its wickedness", which could apply to not being hospitable to strangers ( at least, I'm sure that's what he'll say if he's ever challenged on this bullshit ). I can't think of any other House representative being this blatant in his espousal of "religious" bigotry,