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It’s an early Frank Moser cartoon in yer hed gif. Who is Frank Moser? I’ve got the deets in the link: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-jam-makers

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That was wild about the person sleeping on the floor a couple nights and stinking up the rug so much it has to be cleaned! I think the writer may have a mental problem or a very bizarre friend. My dog doesn’t even stink up the floor or his bed that much, and my dog only bathes about once every 6 weeks. A quick vacuum does the trick on my carpets. I would be very interested in hearing how a person can stink up the floor so much, but it would be okay if this person slept in the bed?

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I'm sorry but spelling "folks" as "folx" does not make it more inclusion. It looks like one of Trump's nonsense words like "cofveve." Latinx instead of Latino at least contains latin in it's root. I don;t what kind of root "fol" is.

Musk is really channeling his inner Trump, asking for a massive payout while laying off thousands of Telsa employees. It's time to Unionize, people. Share the wealth not horde it.

Compressed air storage has been talked about for years. It takes a government mandate, like from China, to make it happen. Though I recall hearing that a water storage system is being implemented along the shores of Lake Michigan. Power water into the reservior duringn energy excess and drain it out through turbines for power demands.

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RE: Trump just not showing... I think that this might be contempt of court and, if so, I think that "Baillif, put him in a cell right now" is a thing. No trial. Might be wrong but I think not.

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RE: Trump just not showing... I think that this might be contempt of court and, if so, I think that "Baillif, put him in a cell right now" is a thing. No trial. Might be wrong but I think not.

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"Madame University President, why are you not aware of everything that every student that has ever attended your university is doing, has done, or will do? Isn't that a failure of leadership? Is this clearly not official university product and official university product? I know you just answered that question as a no six times, but will it change if I ask it a seventh time? Stop laughing at me, this is not a laughing matter!"

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Well, it's a little odd that the guest's "body odor" is so significant it can be detected on the rug, but otherwise this was good advice!

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Love the Trump system for demonstrating "loyalty." Caligula had the same system for dealing with the richest citizens of Rome. Just like the PAB, he looted the imperial treasury very quickly and was always in need of funds. So he took to making all the richest people mention him in their wills, to show their loyalty and devotion to their God-Emperor (and, oh yeah, also avoid a certain treason charge and execution).

Then later, as his financial situation got even worse, Caligula started sending out lovely gift baskets of poisoned fruits to the ones who had shown the most "loyalty." America's would-be oligarchs would do well to pay attention.

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MTG's source of D saw “packs” of "people from Africa"? Should we explain to him, in words of one syllable, that those people are Black New Yorkers, and he can actually fuck right off? (ETA: Similar for the "large pockets" of "Hispanic males" - unlike MTGD, they most likely have souls, so they are also cool and can stay!)

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Holy shit. The democrats should buy a full page at in the NYTimes that is just that speech printed out. Nothing else. Just here is DJT's speech on Gettysburg.

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Jimmy Kimmel absolutely obliterated Ranta Claus last night. If you need fifteen minutes of laughs, check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtBHDjztb2g

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Marjorie Taylor Greene demands space lasers to combat migrants

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-demands-space-lasers-migrant-crisis-border-israel-1891563

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Bill Barr: "I hate Trump but that doesn't mean I'm not going to vote for him."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/politics/bill-barr-donald-trump-vote/index.html

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“Get arrested. It's just more indictments, not as if you're already not facing 700 years in federal prison."

If you go far enough around on the Right, you end up here on the Left.

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“Get arrested. It's just more indictments, not as if you're already not facing 700 years in federal prison."

If you go far enough around on the Right, you end up here on the Left.

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"Packs of Africans" I live in a fairly central mixed student/immigrant/hipster part of my city, where old walkup apartment buildings are slowing giving way to new condos. My building is very much an African immigrant building, minority white.

Couple months ago, I pulled up fairly late at night to the street outside my building, and took a few minutes getting organized to go in. A car had pulled up right behind me and nobody got out. As I left my car, the person in that car also left theirs, and started following me toward my building. I was feeling just a little nervous, until I glanced back and saw it was a young black man. Immediately relaxed - around here a very young black man is a kid whose grandmother would give him a very hard time if he was anything but helpful and kind to an old woman. Which it was - he got in front of me and held the door to let me in.

Marge's BF needs to get out of East Bumfuck now and then and meet some Africans.

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