If you don't launch Willem Dafoe's lobster rant straight into the face of some unsuspecting customer at least once on your pirate-themed retreat, I'm going to be very disappointed.
"Ye fancies me Bloody Marys, I knows it! Ye lyin' dog! Haaaaaaark!" etc etc
I once dared one of my waiters, and friend to provide service to a table as an Eastern European count, he didn't break character once. "You will have drinks now," in the accent, told them what wine to buy, it was hysterical. He got a huge tip.
Basic rips on the large majority of us that do unspeakable things like Olive Garden. Based is the underbelly of humanity that can't reach high enough to scratch the belly of a snake on ICE. Those sociopaths are true to their hate-filled ideals. Weird how eating pasta is a fault while those seeking a final solution earn a salute.
An ex-GF made wonderful coffee liqueur from fresh coffee and vanilla beans soaking in some clear spirit that I don’t remember. She was also a bit crazy so it might have included turpentine.
This looks good, Hoop! But we (Mrs. Toomush and I) just got back from standing on a street corner in the wet snow, wet coats and wet gloves and wet Stop the Save Bullshit signs, and are now having a hot rum toddy (Mount Gay Eclipse, of course) with cinnamon sticks to restore our health and warmth! Skol!...
The local afternoon talk radio crew does trivia before the 6:00 break, and they were switching it up on Fridays with "Pick the Porn", where the caller would have to pick the one fake porno title from a list of 4.
They've never used any double entendre involving the word "muffin" to the best of my knowledge, which seems a lost opportunity.
As a resident of Mexico I have to stand up for the virtue of the carajillo. I would urge you to give it a chance, to play with it.
They can vary in quality, but the worst I've ever had here still tasted damn good.
Typically, the espresso around here is muy fuerte and pretty tasty so that helps a lot.
As far as sweetness goes, yeah it's sweet, but it IS dessert.
Usually the drink is made here using only cooled espresso and Licor 43, about equal amounts. I suspect it's better when the espresso amount is more than the Licor 43.
When it comes out the color of ice tea, nope. It should be (to my taste) brown, the color of Coke.
And the espresso should definitely be cool so as not to dilute the drink.
Pour over a shaker of ice and shake it silly. That's "shakeado"
I would urge you to give it a chance, to play with it.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love carajillos. The "problem" is that they're showing signs of becoming trendy. We're probably going to see a lot of non-carajillo things called carajillos by the end of the year. I'm waiting with bated breath for Starbucks to make something like it.
After three straight weekends in New Orleans, including two where I rode in actual parades, I am giving my body a well-deserved break from fried food and booze.
i’ve got a party of approx 30 people to prep punch and cocktail (one, this is a menu fixe) for, about three hours long
how many drinks per person am i planning for? the cocktail math i can do, if i run out of pathfinder they can go drink tap water, but i forget the drinks per victim per hour math
Depends on the punch/cocktail. I've upscaled maragetia by the gallon before. I'd assume 2 drinks per person for a three-hour event - some will refrain or ask for beer or wine, which will make the math work.
Honestly? I lead them by the nose through the menu. My opening greeting includes the phrase, "If you want something specific, let me know, and I'll make that. If you don't know what you want, let me know what you normally like to drink, and I'll find something on the menu that's similar, but much better." I channel most drinkers to the cocktails we put on the menu for them.
Dr. Cox "If I've been waiting for 20 minutes in the line to order coffee and the guy in front of me can't decide what he wants, I should have the right to kill him right then and there."
I still make my coffee in a soup pot on the stove or a canning jar in the microwave. Grind about a heaping tablespoon or so of beans per cup while heating water to about nearly boiling (95° C or 200° Murican). Add ground coffee. Stir with tablespoon after a few minutes to get the grounds to settle. Strain through a fine metal tea strainer (optional) and drink to the mud-line while grooving on the oil slick. Feed plants and armadillo bugs the grounds and dregs.
Pill bugs, wood lice, sow bugs... They ain't insects, though. Crustaceans. Some of them roll into balls some don't. They're great for the garden n'suspect they eat the compost cuz they're always under leaf litter; like I read somewhere they're detritivores but they will eat fruit on the ground like strawberries or tomatoes.
In the early 1990s, two different Yes lineups got together and put out the album Union. Rick Wakeman said he called the album "Onion" because it was so bad that he cried whenever he heard it. But holy shit, the tour they did in 1991 was spectacular. On stage at the same time were all the band members who ended up getting inducted into the Rock & Roll HOF: Jon Anderson (vocals), Chris Squire (bass), Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin (guitar), Tony Kaye and Wakeman (keys), and Alan White and Bill Bruford (drums).
Well, it's OT anyhow, so I wanted to share this: According to my oncologist, I am over the lung cancer. 5 years. In a little while longer, assuming luck holds, I'll be judged free of the throat cancer, which showed up later (different cell type). Yes, these are smoker's cancers. No, I never smoked, not even weed; can't breathe if I do. And now, having done something about what's evidently chronic hypokalemia, I feel like actually DOING THINGS! World, beware!
I really have no words. What a mountain you have climbed. Many kudos. Now go out into the world, youngling, and grab it by the ovaries. I am so happy and relieved for you.🤗
Tonight, riding on a slightly elevated road while the sun was going down, a road along a hillside, there was a row of trees a ways back. They had a sharp line between shadow and illuminated, bc of the road's shadow. Highly recommend. Congratulations on this huge news.
Now IF I were to summarize the State of the Union, I'd lead off with a quote from Good Morning Vietnam! weather report, by Robin Williams:
"The weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy ... It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut."
BTW, remember me talking about brain fog? It was getting so bad I was beginning to think it was dementia! Anyway, I discovered in my case it's caused by brain inflammation that can be temporarily eased with aspirin or Ibuprofin.
Did I tell you about the lady I worked with who slathered on Calvin Klein Obsession every day? It gave me massive headaches and when she refused to stop wearing it and management wouldn't transfer me I quit.
When any fellow Old chimes in about their memory not what it used to be, I summarize from some scientific study, that concluded that with age, our brain's hard drive fills up, thus reducing efficiency.
Used in a sentence: "I think my brain misplaced that memory, owing to hard drive capacity issues."
Ever see the Married with Children episode where Bud helped Kelly with a test by eliminating memories like her address and phone number so she'd have room for information pertinent to the test??
After yesterday, when I again swore off all unnecessary spending in this shithole country with an idiot madman at the helm, my water heater is now acting up. And I had such a bad night that I don't even feel like really looking at it today.
For years our hot water heated by a forced-hot water loop from the oil-fired boiler, which meant we were burning oil all summer. We switched to a heat-pump hot water heater and it's worked well.
In the meantime, do a backup. Right away. I had a windows machine main drive go bad so inconspicuously that, when I finally checked, it refused to do a backup. Grrr!!
While I TOTALLY understand, those are the very people that need to REALIZED they are fucked either way and the only way out is to FIGHT BACK.
I completely understand the economic pressures, I really do, but I learned a long time ago “THEY” will kill us without blinking an eye. We should have been planning YEARS ago and it's going to take work - but those at the bottom NEED to realize WE OUTNUMBER THEM. Act like it.
If you know someone who works at a local school ask them if they can talk to a tech guy about getting a used laptop because they're returned every two years. You'll have to reinstall an OS but it's a good time to learn how to use Linux!
I imagine they're sold in bulk to someone who resells them on Amazon or Ebay. Tech guy said roughly half are returned every year when they order new ones. He had literally HUNDREDS of them stacked on a table in the library after school was over.
For bonus points, get one with a replaceable battery and a new battery. And then battery condition properly (fully charge, discharge by using, repeat three-four times and then every 6 months or in regular use). You will get massively better use time on a charge.
I was friends with the tech guy at the school and when I inquired he asked "How many do you want?" I got 3 because I didn't want to appear greedy and gave one to a friend whose High School daughter needed one.
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Bear in mind that, before he hooked up with Mustache Man and the Spicy Pinwheel Gang, Hermann had been unemployed, a drug addict, and committed to a mental institution twice. And he remained a bit of a Mighty Morphine Power Ranger almost to the end of the war.
All of those depraved Nazis were drug addicts, so help me Sagan. The ones who weren't zoned out on morphine were bouncing off of the bombed out walls on meth.
Hitler knew that keeping the populace medicated was enormously beneficial to him.
He himself was pretty tanked up. Cocaine drops to start the day, meth to keep him going, various other preparations to level out the worst effects of those two, vitamins, etc.
But this moment is less about the president’s tariff authority and more about the constitutional crisis that the court has foisted upon the nation. Up to this point, the justices had shown notable restraint in confronting Trump, frequently permitting contested policies to remain in place while legal challenges worked their way through the courts. Over and over, they overruled lower courts to deliver Trump the victories he sought. Yesterday marked the first occasion where the court delivered a definitive judgment on the lawfulness of a core element of Trump’s agenda where he came up short.
In a single news cycle, Roberts’ Faustian bargain evaporated. An enraged Trump said that the justices who ruled against his tariffs are “very unpatriotic and disloyal to the Constitution.” He attacked the patriotism of the judges who ruled against him and said that the court "has been swayed by foreign interests.” He saved an extra dose of venom for two of his own appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, saying that their decision to side with the majority was “an embarrassment to their families, you wanna know the truth, the two of them.”
Paradoxically, there is absolutely nothing the courts can do to stop Trump from ignoring their decision and he knows it. These same justices have given him the pen with which to sign their judicial death warrant — and with it, the end of our constitutional republic, if he so wishes. .
The tariffs have to be implemented by governmental bodies and staff, and enforced if importers just refuse to pay. All of those thousands of governmental employees can be sued, they don't have immunity for their actions, even if Trump does for ordering them to ignore the finding (I think?). All those lawsuits potentially end up in the SC. So there's plenty the SC can do enforce their finding.
Are we up to the 200th "Constitutional Crisis" yet?
We had them back in his first term but I guess it was "rude" to point it out. Now? Every single fucking day since his inauguration he's broken the law and embarrassed the nation.
Every. Single. Fucking. Day.
I guess we'll just wait and watch until/while Trump gets SCOTUS and Dems reps rounded up and executed.
Working questions here.
If you don't launch Willem Dafoe's lobster rant straight into the face of some unsuspecting customer at least once on your pirate-themed retreat, I'm going to be very disappointed.
"Ye fancies me Bloody Marys, I knows it! Ye lyin' dog! Haaaaaaark!" etc etc
I once dared one of my waiters, and friend to provide service to a table as an Eastern European count, he didn't break character once. "You will have drinks now," in the accent, told them what wine to buy, it was hysterical. He got a huge tip.
What’s the difference between “basic” and “based?” I don’t speak Gen Z.
Basic rips on the large majority of us that do unspeakable things like Olive Garden. Based is the underbelly of humanity that can't reach high enough to scratch the belly of a snake on ICE. Those sociopaths are true to their hate-filled ideals. Weird how eating pasta is a fault while those seeking a final solution earn a salute.
Basic is Becky in leggings drinking a pumpkin spice latte. Based is Catturd in a Hitler mustache sitting in Mom’s basement pwning the libs.
...and so proud of it that his landlady will never know.
Based is when you smoke it
That will get you 20 to life if you're not white.
I don't either, but as a fellow Oldz I think basic is bad and based is good. But I'm prepared to be corrected on that.
Which will Americans receive first, the $5000 DOGE checks or the $2000 tariff rebate checks?
Two weeks
Yes.
So "orange shrub" is not some hideous bastard child of TFG and GWB?
That's a relief.
** I just threw up in my mouth a little.**
Should I start drinking again?
I stopped earlier today. I started again this evening.
An ex-GF made wonderful coffee liqueur from fresh coffee and vanilla beans soaking in some clear spirit that I don’t remember. She was also a bit crazy so it might have included turpentine.
I had one that made a wormwood, anise, and other things extract. It was some pretty weird stuff.
Just a "bit" ?
the “tip” 😎
I love the bottom picture. Good photography is important part of doing recipes.
I love The Department of Salad not only for great recipes but also Emily Nunn's pictures are beautiful.
https://open.substack.com/pub/emilyrnunn/p/scrappy-winter-pasta-salads-orzo?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
The light at the bar is really hit-or-miss sometimes. It's nice to get a picture like this.
This looks good, Hoop! But we (Mrs. Toomush and I) just got back from standing on a street corner in the wet snow, wet coats and wet gloves and wet Stop the Save Bullshit signs, and are now having a hot rum toddy (Mount Gay Eclipse, of course) with cinnamon sticks to restore our health and warmth! Skol!...
"Kahlua is garbage."
A bold statement. I disagree, you can use it to make amazing muffin icing. :P
prefer Bailey's
"Muffin Icing" sounds like a porn title...
When you say it like that…
Perfectly normal.
Just means she's happy to see you. 🙄
I mean, do you want it to be?
Yes 💯
The local afternoon talk radio crew does trivia before the 6:00 break, and they were switching it up on Fridays with "Pick the Porn", where the caller would have to pick the one fake porno title from a list of 4.
They've never used any double entendre involving the word "muffin" to the best of my knowledge, which seems a lost opportunity.
As a resident of Mexico I have to stand up for the virtue of the carajillo. I would urge you to give it a chance, to play with it.
They can vary in quality, but the worst I've ever had here still tasted damn good.
Typically, the espresso around here is muy fuerte and pretty tasty so that helps a lot.
As far as sweetness goes, yeah it's sweet, but it IS dessert.
Usually the drink is made here using only cooled espresso and Licor 43, about equal amounts. I suspect it's better when the espresso amount is more than the Licor 43.
When it comes out the color of ice tea, nope. It should be (to my taste) brown, the color of Coke.
And the espresso should definitely be cool so as not to dilute the drink.
Pour over a shaker of ice and shake it silly. That's "shakeado"
I would urge you to give it a chance, to play with it.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love carajillos. The "problem" is that they're showing signs of becoming trendy. We're probably going to see a lot of non-carajillo things called carajillos by the end of the year. I'm waiting with bated breath for Starbucks to make something like it.
Ah, I see!
After three straight weekends in New Orleans, including two where I rode in actual parades, I am giving my body a well-deserved break from fried food and booze.
At least until Monday.
I'll be there by Friday to pick up the slack!
Fun times .,.,send Boudin...
So.... a sort of short and medicinal Lent?...
Damn you. I will take some Acme grilled oysters, BBQ shrimp, a Muffaletta, shrimp po boy and a Dixie.
almost Crawfish season also too!
I haven't had a Dixie Blackened Voodoo in a long time. But if I can't find it, I'm willing to have an Abita Amber.
I miss beer.
Abita is one of my favorite beer brands. Love me an Abita Purple Haze.
I'm an Amber man myself!
Hmmm, I'm going to have to try that one!
OT.
Nice to see ya.
Sincerely,
Baconzgood.
Rebecca: and you need to pin a places for questions at the top
Matthew: with this crowd?
R: so they ask questions about the drink.
M: *laughs hysterically * sure, why not?
*puts on snark waders*
I hope he doesn't hate us when we ask dumb shit that has nothing to do with anything.
It's the price I pay so I don't have to dig through the whole thread for relevant questions.
He must know this by now.
💯 tantamount to hijinx otherwise… he knows his awedience here snark emporium
Why hasn't Rooster Cogburn stood up his round?
You talkin' to me?
i’ve got a party of approx 30 people to prep punch and cocktail (one, this is a menu fixe) for, about three hours long
how many drinks per person am i planning for? the cocktail math i can do, if i run out of pathfinder they can go drink tap water, but i forget the drinks per victim per hour math
Depends on the punch/cocktail. I've upscaled maragetia by the gallon before. I'd assume 2 drinks per person for a three-hour event - some will refrain or ask for beer or wine, which will make the math work.
Just always make you get the first and last drinks.
"DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY WORK HERE WHO CAN SEE THAT I'M HOLDING AN EMPTY MARGARITA GLASS FOR TWO WHOLE MINUTES? I HAVE 37 FOLLOWERS ON MY INSTAGRAM!"
Calm down
The most important question is "how much bacon do you have available?"
Bacon margarita?
Baby, have I seen ya'?!
How do you not sucker punch a bunch of assholes who get to the bar and then decide what they want to drink?
"Oh, Steph wants a martini. What's that? An espresso martini. What do you want, Jake?" etc etc
Honestly? I lead them by the nose through the menu. My opening greeting includes the phrase, "If you want something specific, let me know, and I'll make that. If you don't know what you want, let me know what you normally like to drink, and I'll find something on the menu that's similar, but much better." I channel most drinkers to the cocktails we put on the menu for them.
Or CANT decide
Dr. Cox "If I've been waiting for 20 minutes in the line to order coffee and the guy in front of me can't decide what he wants, I should have the right to kill him right then and there."
This rule should also apply to ordering in Subway and McDonald's.
As long as YOU know what you want.
I know
Large hot black coffee, no room.
Immediate elimination
Y'all are hardcore
you're not hardcore
unless you live hardcore
My Son has strongly made the case that a moka pot doesn't make expresso. Kids today are pretty opinionated.
I still make my coffee in a soup pot on the stove or a canning jar in the microwave. Grind about a heaping tablespoon or so of beans per cup while heating water to about nearly boiling (95° C or 200° Murican). Add ground coffee. Stir with tablespoon after a few minutes to get the grounds to settle. Strain through a fine metal tea strainer (optional) and drink to the mud-line while grooving on the oil slick. Feed plants and armadillo bugs the grounds and dregs.
Armadillo bugs AKA Rolli Pollies or Potato Bugs?
Pill bugs, wood lice, sow bugs... They ain't insects, though. Crustaceans. Some of them roll into balls some don't. They're great for the garden n'suspect they eat the compost cuz they're always under leaf litter; like I read somewhere they're detritivores but they will eat fruit on the ground like strawberries or tomatoes.
Come for the dick jokes, stay for the arcane tidbits of knowledge that you are not going to pick up anywhere else.
In the early 1990s, two different Yes lineups got together and put out the album Union. Rick Wakeman said he called the album "Onion" because it was so bad that he cried whenever he heard it. But holy shit, the tour they did in 1991 was spectacular. On stage at the same time were all the band members who ended up getting inducted into the Rock & Roll HOF: Jon Anderson (vocals), Chris Squire (bass), Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin (guitar), Tony Kaye and Wakeman (keys), and Alan White and Bill Bruford (drums).
https://youtu.be/sz1TEHiMXGc
Well, it's OT anyhow, so I wanted to share this: According to my oncologist, I am over the lung cancer. 5 years. In a little while longer, assuming luck holds, I'll be judged free of the throat cancer, which showed up later (different cell type). Yes, these are smoker's cancers. No, I never smoked, not even weed; can't breathe if I do. And now, having done something about what's evidently chronic hypokalemia, I feel like actually DOING THINGS! World, beware!
We're thrilled for you! Fuck cancer.
Fuck yeah!!!
Congrats, that if fantastic news.
That is wonderful news. I hope it keeps coming. Be well.
I really have no words. What a mountain you have climbed. Many kudos. Now go out into the world, youngling, and grab it by the ovaries. I am so happy and relieved for you.🤗
I’m 81, so I may just stroll around and look at things. And breathe, and rescue abused cats.
Tonight, riding on a slightly elevated road while the sun was going down, a road along a hillside, there was a row of trees a ways back. They had a sharp line between shadow and illuminated, bc of the road's shadow. Highly recommend. Congratulations on this huge news.
go easy - it is possible to have too many cats
As long as there is spirit, there is a youngling. What a lovely path you've chosen. ♥️ I'm a bit younger than you and find this inspiring.
Excellent! Fuck cancer. My own "cancer journey" was undoubtedly far less arduous (and hopefully done for after 5 years).
WOOT!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!
Good news !
That is awesome, MDB! Way to kick cancer in the yarbles!
There could be NO more glorious information posted, beloved comrade!
Tears of unmitigated JOY quite literally bathe my face!
That is fantastic!
Congratulations! You must be relieved.
Damn right!
Fuck yes! And fuck cancer!
Yes, well ...
"Epstein and Supreme Court blow cast clouds over Trump's State of the Union: report"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-state-of-the-union-2675290712/
Now IF I were to summarize the State of the Union, I'd lead off with a quote from Good Morning Vietnam! weather report, by Robin Williams:
"The weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy ... It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut."
it will be the usual nonsensical rant about - the Supremes, so terrible, Epstein, I never knew him! Exonerated. THe End
Oh, and this time no fucking handshake for traitor Roberts - the worst!
*SNUB*
More like the "State of the Rant".
More importantly, what will the Dems do then?
The best part of the SotU is that when he shits his pants, those are Republicans sitting just behind him.
We used to say "Lower than a snake's dick in a wagon wheel rut."
Yeah but snakes have two, so which one is being referred to?
Snakes have two??
Not sure what's going on, but for some reason I haven't received my tariff refund yet...
??
Anyone else not received it, or am I the only one?
Look for the line of penguins.
Mine will go to the taxes I owe. So Unc Sam will get his when I get mine.
did you even get you medical insurance rebate? $1000 as I recall.
Mine was lost along with my Soros Bucks. Same place where the missing socks go.
My mail box has yet to be graced with any such delivery.
Do you have Direct Deposit set up? If you do, you should check to make sure you're not overdrawn into 5 figures.
Just because: a series of John Oliver jokes about Adam Driver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsbbztvqs0s
For reasons of personal brain weirdness, I read that as "jokes about John Denver" and thought it seemed mean.
BTW, remember me talking about brain fog? It was getting so bad I was beginning to think it was dementia! Anyway, I discovered in my case it's caused by brain inflammation that can be temporarily eased with aspirin or Ibuprofin.
Reduce or eliminate as many scented products as you can from your life.
Did I tell you about the lady I worked with who slathered on Calvin Klein Obsession every day? It gave me massive headaches and when she refused to stop wearing it and management wouldn't transfer me I quit.
This is common. I've been dealing with it for years now where I work. People don't care.
Uh, is there a more long term solution for brain inflammation? How does one inflame their brain?
Age is a huge factor, as well as diet and other factors.
I know NSAID's aren't sustainable long term so I plan on asking the Dr on my next visit.
When any fellow Old chimes in about their memory not what it used to be, I summarize from some scientific study, that concluded that with age, our brain's hard drive fills up, thus reducing efficiency.
Used in a sentence: "I think my brain misplaced that memory, owing to hard drive capacity issues."
Ever see the Married with Children episode where Bud helped Kelly with a test by eliminating memories like her address and phone number so she'd have room for information pertinent to the test??
whar Range Rover?!?
I am out for the day. Gonna go do something to clear my grumpy head. Laters fellow sufferers.
Dog (and cat!) speed on your journey.
After yesterday, when I again swore off all unnecessary spending in this shithole country with an idiot madman at the helm, my water heater is now acting up. And I had such a bad night that I don't even feel like really looking at it today.
For years our hot water heated by a forced-hot water loop from the oil-fired boiler, which meant we were burning oil all summer. We switched to a heat-pump hot water heater and it's worked well.
I too have decided that I don't need to spend on anything that isn't necessary. I would call a water heater NECESSARY spending though.
More of an irony thing. Like on Jan 20 last year, I swore off spending, and my television died.
Like when I started a diet and didn't weigh myself for a week. As soon as I stepped on the scale, it broke 😅
I would have taken that as a divine sign that I didn't have to diet. XD XD XD
Classic! The universe has such a perverse sense of humor.
Eh! I get it though... we have a 14 year old laptop and my husband is dying to get a new one.
Like, we NEED it before it actually dies and we're fucked/losing our shit... but I don't want to "participate in the economy" at all.
In the meantime, do a backup. Right away. I had a windows machine main drive go bad so inconspicuously that, when I finally checked, it refused to do a backup. Grrr!!
I would back up your shit on something right away, you don't need to wait for the new computer
If you can use Windows 10 there is a glut of those in the secondhand market for under a hundred bucks.
Problem with that is that there are a lot of little people in the economy just trying to get by. They'll be the first to be hurt.
While I TOTALLY understand, those are the very people that need to REALIZED they are fucked either way and the only way out is to FIGHT BACK.
I completely understand the economic pressures, I really do, but I learned a long time ago “THEY” will kill us without blinking an eye. We should have been planning YEARS ago and it's going to take work - but those at the bottom NEED to realize WE OUTNUMBER THEM. Act like it.
This. I understand, too, but this is OUR FUCKING COUNTRY! that is being taken over by Nazi thugs. We need to pull out all the stops to get them OUT.
We can do things like Minneapolis did and donate to people in the areas affected, but we can't NOT economic boycott b/c some workers may be hurt.
And the "oh these people work hard and are so exhaused they can't care about politics" wears really fucking thin, IMO.
They need to wake the fuck up.
If you know someone who works at a local school ask them if they can talk to a tech guy about getting a used laptop because they're returned every two years. You'll have to reinstall an OS but it's a good time to learn how to use Linux!
Now that you say that, universities may have a similar program. We get new laptops every 2-3 years and I don't know what happens to our old ones.
I imagine they're sold in bulk to someone who resells them on Amazon or Ebay. Tech guy said roughly half are returned every year when they order new ones. He had literally HUNDREDS of them stacked on a table in the library after school was over.
For bonus points, get one with a replaceable battery and a new battery. And then battery condition properly (fully charge, discharge by using, repeat three-four times and then every 6 months or in regular use). You will get massively better use time on a charge.
Jeez, I had no idea.
That's actually an amazing suggestion and we do know a few teachers 💜💙
Depends on the district. And be sure the RAM hasn't been pulled. That's common now, as the cost of RAM has skyrocketed.
I was friends with the tech guy at the school and when I inquired he asked "How many do you want?" I got 3 because I didn't want to appear greedy and gave one to a friend whose High School daughter needed one.
Quote to ponder:
____________________________
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
-- Hermann Göring
Some time before Göring, Machiavelli had similar low opinion about democracy. Voters can always be bought, he reckoned.
This is regretably too damned accurate.
Say what you like about Dicke Hermann, he had some political instincts.
He might have done great things for the German people had he aligned himself with less aggressive political forces.
Bear in mind that, before he hooked up with Mustache Man and the Spicy Pinwheel Gang, Hermann had been unemployed, a drug addict, and committed to a mental institution twice. And he remained a bit of a Mighty Morphine Power Ranger almost to the end of the war.
All of those depraved Nazis were drug addicts, so help me Sagan. The ones who weren't zoned out on morphine were bouncing off of the bombed out walls on meth.
Hitler knew that keeping the populace medicated was enormously beneficial to him.
He himself was pretty tanked up. Cocaine drops to start the day, meth to keep him going, various other preparations to level out the worst effects of those two, vitamins, etc.
But this moment is less about the president’s tariff authority and more about the constitutional crisis that the court has foisted upon the nation. Up to this point, the justices had shown notable restraint in confronting Trump, frequently permitting contested policies to remain in place while legal challenges worked their way through the courts. Over and over, they overruled lower courts to deliver Trump the victories he sought. Yesterday marked the first occasion where the court delivered a definitive judgment on the lawfulness of a core element of Trump’s agenda where he came up short.
In a single news cycle, Roberts’ Faustian bargain evaporated. An enraged Trump said that the justices who ruled against his tariffs are “very unpatriotic and disloyal to the Constitution.” He attacked the patriotism of the judges who ruled against him and said that the court "has been swayed by foreign interests.” He saved an extra dose of venom for two of his own appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, saying that their decision to side with the majority was “an embarrassment to their families, you wanna know the truth, the two of them.”
Paradoxically, there is absolutely nothing the courts can do to stop Trump from ignoring their decision and he knows it. These same justices have given him the pen with which to sign their judicial death warrant — and with it, the end of our constitutional republic, if he so wishes. .
-- Julie Roginsky
The tariffs have to be implemented by governmental bodies and staff, and enforced if importers just refuse to pay. All of those thousands of governmental employees can be sued, they don't have immunity for their actions, even if Trump does for ordering them to ignore the finding (I think?). All those lawsuits potentially end up in the SC. So there's plenty the SC can do enforce their finding.
So I guess no handshake for Roberts at the SOTU
He's right about them being disloyal to the Constitution, just not the way he thinks.
Are we up to the 200th "Constitutional Crisis" yet?
We had them back in his first term but I guess it was "rude" to point it out. Now? Every single fucking day since his inauguration he's broken the law and embarrassed the nation.
Every. Single. Fucking. Day.
I guess we'll just wait and watch until/while Trump gets SCOTUS and Dems reps rounded up and executed.
It's only my 19th Nervous Breakdown this week.
They done let him beat old Norm and leave him for dead in a ditch; Norm isn’t going save you now, sorry. You broke this shit. Oops.
How's that Presidential Immunity thing going for you, Johnny?
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE WONKETTE MISSED THIS STORY?!?!?!?!?
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BREAKING: DOJ to investigate Supreme Court for mortgage fraud.
10:33 AM · Feb 20, 2026
I think they can beat the raps. I heard that they know some pretty good lawyers.
That's pretty funny.
Of course, soon enough it won't be a joke.
The jurisprudence process would be hilarious though; like Little Billy's path home from school in "The Family Circus."
Start with Thomas
Yes ... there might actually be something there with him.
"Mortgage fraud" again? These really are the dumbest bunch of one note goons ever to infest America.
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Le sigh…needed every single guess today.
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The drink photo keeps reminding me of Parliament Funkadelic’s Mothership.
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