They are the reason America has a burgeoning homeless population. As the rich have quit paying their fair share of taxes and are rewarding themselves with ever larger compensation packages, everyday workers ate paid less and less. Throw in the greedy banks, forcing a credit check on your every move from renting to shopping on Amazon and poof! America sucks for those of us who are not in the money. I know you know all that!
Musk spent $44 billion dollars to ruin Twitter. Do you know how much affordable housing you could build with that money? Tens of thousands of units of desperately needed housing. Musk could have become a beloved national hero, but he chose to be an internet troll instead. I'm old enough to remember when we used to tax the rich, so that we could do stuff like build affordable housing.
We took the decision of how to spend America's money away from the American people (aka "the government") and gave it to a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people.
‘We Will Come At Them’: Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Vows Revenge Against Letitia James After Fraud Verdict
Habba, who represented Trump in this New York case was well as his civil defamation case with E. Jean Carroll, which he also lost, vowed to go after James and Judge Arthur Engoron during a Friday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity:
HANNITY: The question is, how does the judge get away with being far more guilty of the very thing that they said Donald Trump was guilty of?
HABBA: I think the biggest message I can give the American people tonight is that he’s not going to get away with it. Letitia James is not going to get away with it. The Biden administration is not going to get away with it. There is a point, and I want to say something that I different than I normally do. We have the order now. I’m free to speak. And let me just say, as somebody who sat there in the trial, Sean, and I’m so happy you invited me on to say this. They will not get away with it. We will come at them. We will come hard, and we will literally fight until the truth comes out. There was nothing wrong. President Trump has done nothing wrong. All he has done is won a campaign. And that is scaring them because they know when he goes back in November 2024, he is going to clean house. And that is truly the problem. It’s not about Mar-a-Lago’s worth. It’s not worth 18 million. It’s worth probably 1.5 billion at the least. It is not about the worth of Trump Tower, 40 Wall Street. That’s not what this is about, Sean. You know it, and I know it.
This is the new form of election interference. This is a campaign that cannot succeed with Biden and Kamala. So what they have to do is weaponize. Da is an AGS, have Soros back them, fund them, Reid Hoffman back them, fund them and come after Trump. Everything Trump, including his children, his company employees that are working for him, doing their job. That is the desperation of our country at this moment, which is about to go into world war. This is crazy. And it is. It’s Trump derangement syndrome. That’s literally the best thing I could explain to you. And just know this, and for all those people that understand what is going on, we will win. We will fight because the facts are on our side. There are politicized judges. There are politicized DA’s and AGS. But I do not have a doubt that in the end we will succeed.
She's not his lawyer. She's a campaign spokesperson. Very different things.
It's a bold strategy to run a campaign rally in a court proceeding. As tempting as it is to point and laugh, I plan to withhold judgment until I can accurately see how it works out.
The thing is, our systems and institutions require good-faith participation. Does this sound like "good-faith" to you? So that isn't what they're doing. They're not taking the process, or even the legitimacy of the process, seriously. They're spitting in the face of the process. That might be the most dangerous thing one can do. It's lese-majeste. If you do it, you better win or you're fucked.
In terms of legal practices? Worst defense ever. But that's not what they were doing. I think our reverence for systems and institutions can be a very dangerous thing in circumstances like these, when the opposition isn't even trying to play by the rules.
Wait a minute… Grossly stupid and cruel. Hates and mistreats women. Obsessed with past accomplishments only important to him. Wife, who hates him, is equally sleazy and unlikable. Children are stupid, conniving scumbags. Sells shoes…
I showed my Trumpy Friend a photo of Trump's new gold sneakers, and she enthused, "I freaking love them!! How much are they?" I told her they were $400, and she said "Holy Shit!"
No word on whether she intends to follow through and buy a pair. She strikes me as the type of person who would.
She and I saw each other for a short time yesterday and had a blast talking about non-Trump things. She asked me to refrain from discussing politics before she got here, and I agreed. We had a wonderful time. There are so many nice things in the world that are not Donald Trump.
This article is soooo good. It's a prescription for Democrats to grow a spine, and start attacking Republicans. Negative political advertising works, because the average voter is a moron, who doesn't even understand what the GQP stands for, all they know is "Republicans are good for the economy" even though that is NOT TRUE!
"America’s future — as a multiracial democracy or an ethno-nationalist authoritarian state — is very much on the ballot this year, as a wide range of observers have noted. But you’d be hard-pressed to see that reality reflected in the mainstream media, much less from the mouths of the randomly-selected potential voters interviewed on the ground, the folks who will supposedly determine the outcome in November. It’s a dire situation that political scientist turned election strategist Rachel Bitecofer tackles head-on in her new book, "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game." She describes it as “a battle-tested self-help book for America’s fragile democracy.
...
Bitecofer's most basic point is simple: Democrats as a whole — despite their “reality-based” self-image — have been unable or unwilling “to accept that the American voter is, at best, rough clay,” and to work with it accordingly. On the other hand, she writes, “Republicans have long understood this and have built an electioneering system that shapes the electorate and meets voters where they actually are.” The point of "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts" is to convince Democrats to change their strategic approach while there’s still time to rescue democracy, and to focus relentlessly on the threat posed by Republicans in terms that hit voters where they are.
...
The Republican Party in the decade previous had let 9/11 happen, invaded Iraq and gotten us in a total clusterf**k, and then blew up the economy in 2008. There was a fear within the Republican party in 2009 that they were going to be out in the wilderness electorally for maybe a couple of decades, like they were after they caused the Great Depression [I thought Republicans would NEVER be back in power during my lifetime]. Yet within a year, they were picking up 63 seats in the House of Representatives. That's the thing that started to make me think about election options. Because I remember thinking, "How could they blow up the economy, thinking they're out in the wilderness, and then suddenly start winning?" So I really started paying attention to voter behavior and strategy at that point.
...
Step 5 is "Own our issues, then own theirs." Here you note that Republicans are seen as better on the economy — it's an issue they've owned for decades — even though Democrats are actually better for the economy across a broad range of metrics. So what should they do about it?
This comes from a political science area called "issue ownership." There are certain issues that are attached to the party brand. For Democrats, it's health care and education. Among low-information voters, who hardly follow politics aside from the presidential year and the last couple of weeks before the election, what is their broad, top-of-mind understanding of what the two parties stand for? In poll after poll you'll see this, and you'll see this in Trump versus Biden on the economy. When they think about Republicans, voters think: low taxes, good on the economy, good on national defense. Those are the three issues they own.
Yet as we both know, especially over the last 20 years — but I would argue, now that we're 50 years into Reaganomics, over the last 50 years — Democratic economic theory actually outperforms Reaganomics, starve-the-beast, trickle-down economics. So we need to start talking about that. We need to get the electorate to understand that the economy as they know it began after the Great Depression and World War II, and it was f**king humming, and the Republicans come in in 1980 and steal all our tax revenue to put us into a permanent cycle of deficit spending, and because of that divestment from our growth, our future, our infrastructure, our education systems, all these other things that in 1950 or 1960 we led the world on, we've been surpassed by the EU, by Canada. It's time for us to tell the story of what happened to the American economy, and to make sure people understand what happened to it was the Republican Party.”
I love that article so much, because it's what I've been howling into the wind about for the past 30 years.
They call Biden a socialist (not true) and we never call Trump a fascist (which is true). We NEVER point out that WE are the best stewards of the economy. We NEVER remind people that Reagan, GWB, and Trump ALL crashed the economy. I doubt we'll even bother to run commercials showing the 1/6 insurrection this cycle.
I highly recommend reading that whole article, because it hits on so many good points about Democrats being stuck in the past in our messaging.
House Republicans launch a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative to recruit GOP candidates to help in their battle to end diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
My ex took Zoloft for a month four years ago. This info got back to the FAA Flight Surgeon and they pulled his ticket.
OK, he's 74, and IMO he does not need to be flying planes upside down (his greatest joy in life); also he had a mysterious brain bleed a few years ago. He was told "NO Gs ABOVE ONE" but he's not gonna listen to that. Still, flying has been the most important thing to him since he was 16, so this is devastating.
In the intervening years he's been to neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, had MRIs, everything the FAA demanded for him to be allowed to fly again. (The concern is if you took once a med for depression you might kill a planeload of people, I guess?)
Anyway, he got a final denial yesterday, forwarded to him by Swalwell, who looked into the case and found out what's what before N received the notice. Now he's all, "gonna sell the planes and everything I own and die in an old folks home."
I dunno, FAA, this might be a bit of an overreaction.
When my Dad (PBUH) was in assisted living, we were sitting outside and a little plane came puttering overhead and he said “I should be up there!” Mr. S and I almost started crying.
It just occurred to me that no one told Trump the real money in sneakers is in the secondary market. He's going to be pissed when someone sells his shoes and makes a profit on them.
But he only gets whatever % for the brand. He doesn't own the shoes. Like so many of "his" buildings. People pay for his name on them, as dumb as that sounds to the sane among us.
I'm starting to think I have some kind of head cold. Whatever that was that just came out of my sinuses is an abhorration. I'm glad it's out. It may have grown up to be a republiQan.
We need one, but for some reason it's something much-better half is averse to. (They're expensive and we need a good firm one.) I haven't even broached it yet, because I know he's gonna think it's still new and it's got to be 10 years old.
I was that half over here--husband was advocating for a new one for over a year when we finally got one last year. I kept telling him it was FINE and he was just being a BABY.
We also got a good firm one and he was right, I was wrong, and I LOVE it.
(note: yes, I flipped and rotated our previous mattress regularly. however, I got it in...1996)
My wife came to the marriage with an amazing LP collection but we haven't a working turntable in many years. I meant to get one and digitize them, but I'll probably never get around to that project. Some of it we've bought the digital albums on iTunes (or whatever it's called these days). Some of it is just not available in any form anywhere.
Even if I did digitize the whole collection though, I would hate to part with the album covers. We were never very fanatical about caring for vinyl though, so there are plenty of scratches on the physical records.
It's not that the Republican Party hasn't done much, it's that everything they have done has had a negative impact on freedom and quality of life for 95% of Americans. And has now spread to negative impacts on other countries.
I think that it's possible that capital punishment is misused for transient fits of stupid like murder, and not used enough on greedmongers such as Big Pharma execs who act with malice aforethought and depraved indifference to the fallout.
Our movie for Feb. 24th: 𝐁𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐲
Have you tried your hand at the newest game that all the smart people are playing? It's called "Where's Axl? The Dirty Dozen." See if you can find all 12. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-feb-24-bohemian?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Your smile looks fantastic, BTW.
Thank you Mecca!
Did we remind you to save the date? August 15th.
Now you have!
Did it last night. Took me a couple of minutes!
Haha!
When I saw Queen, my seat was a lot further back than Axl's!
He's VIP.
So shines a good deed in a weary world...
𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟮 𝗙𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/christian-bale-breaks-ground-on-12-foster-homes-for-hundreds-of-transitioning-teens-in-california/
When I think of all the good America's oligarchs - Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, et al. - could do with their money...and don't....
They are the reason America has a burgeoning homeless population. As the rich have quit paying their fair share of taxes and are rewarding themselves with ever larger compensation packages, everyday workers ate paid less and less. Throw in the greedy banks, forcing a credit check on your every move from renting to shopping on Amazon and poof! America sucks for those of us who are not in the money. I know you know all that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpKhjQh6rw
OMG, so good. Thank you for that!
Musk spent $44 billion dollars to ruin Twitter. Do you know how much affordable housing you could build with that money? Tens of thousands of units of desperately needed housing. Musk could have become a beloved national hero, but he chose to be an internet troll instead. I'm old enough to remember when we used to tax the rich, so that we could do stuff like build affordable housing.
We took the decision of how to spend America's money away from the American people (aka "the government") and gave it to a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people.
I dunno. Ruining Twitter may very well be seen as a great humanitarian act a hundred years hence.
Elno now owns - literally - the world's largest Russian bot farm.
‘We Will Come At Them’: Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Vows Revenge Against Letitia James After Fraud Verdict
Habba, who represented Trump in this New York case was well as his civil defamation case with E. Jean Carroll, which he also lost, vowed to go after James and Judge Arthur Engoron during a Friday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity:
HANNITY: The question is, how does the judge get away with being far more guilty of the very thing that they said Donald Trump was guilty of?
HABBA: I think the biggest message I can give the American people tonight is that he’s not going to get away with it. Letitia James is not going to get away with it. The Biden administration is not going to get away with it. There is a point, and I want to say something that I different than I normally do. We have the order now. I’m free to speak. And let me just say, as somebody who sat there in the trial, Sean, and I’m so happy you invited me on to say this. They will not get away with it. We will come at them. We will come hard, and we will literally fight until the truth comes out. There was nothing wrong. President Trump has done nothing wrong. All he has done is won a campaign. And that is scaring them because they know when he goes back in November 2024, he is going to clean house. And that is truly the problem. It’s not about Mar-a-Lago’s worth. It’s not worth 18 million. It’s worth probably 1.5 billion at the least. It is not about the worth of Trump Tower, 40 Wall Street. That’s not what this is about, Sean. You know it, and I know it.
This is the new form of election interference. This is a campaign that cannot succeed with Biden and Kamala. So what they have to do is weaponize. Da is an AGS, have Soros back them, fund them, Reid Hoffman back them, fund them and come after Trump. Everything Trump, including his children, his company employees that are working for him, doing their job. That is the desperation of our country at this moment, which is about to go into world war. This is crazy. And it is. It’s Trump derangement syndrome. That’s literally the best thing I could explain to you. And just know this, and for all those people that understand what is going on, we will win. We will fight because the facts are on our side. There are politicized judges. There are politicized DA’s and AGS. But I do not have a doubt that in the end we will succeed.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/we-will-come-at-them-trump-lawyer-alina-habba-vows-revenge-against-letitia-james-after-fraud-verdict/
Surely even maga is bored out of their mind by now?
Looks like her predictin' is every bit as good as her lawyerin'.
She's not his lawyer. She's a campaign spokesperson. Very different things.
It's a bold strategy to run a campaign rally in a court proceeding. As tempting as it is to point and laugh, I plan to withhold judgment until I can accurately see how it works out.
The thing is, our systems and institutions require good-faith participation. Does this sound like "good-faith" to you? So that isn't what they're doing. They're not taking the process, or even the legitimacy of the process, seriously. They're spitting in the face of the process. That might be the most dangerous thing one can do. It's lese-majeste. If you do it, you better win or you're fucked.
In terms of legal practices? Worst defense ever. But that's not what they were doing. I think our reverence for systems and institutions can be a very dangerous thing in circumstances like these, when the opposition isn't even trying to play by the rules.
How stochastic!
"That is the desperation of our country at this moment, which is about to go into world war."
In short, if Trump gains power there will be a bloodbath
I think she's talking about southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, eastern and northern Africa, and maybe southeastern Asia.
Exactly. It is an open threat to anyone who would oppose Trump™. How dare they.
"It’s not about Mar-a-Lago’s worth. It’s not worth 18 million. It’s worth probably 1.5 billion at the least."
Palm Beach County has an average property tax rate of 1.46%. They really need to send Pendejo a property tax bill for $21.9M
Someone should ask her how they might deal with that.
And back-date it for all the years he wasn't paying that much.
This gibberish, I don't think it's fresh.
It's not even authentic frontier gibberish.
HANNITY: The question is, how does the judge get away with being far more guilty of the very thing that they said Donald Trump was guilty of?
Wow, what a totally fair and unbiased question! I wish we had more nonpartisan journalists like Sean Hannity.
That's nice, dear.
How does this person not been disbarred? Wow.
I’ve been wondering over the past few years if there’s anything that can get a person disbarred.
Same here, someone told me stealing from wealthy clients is a no no, otherwise
just go wild. Looking at you Sydney.
Rudy Giuliani on line one for you!
You have to be such a drunken fool and liar, that you start to embarrass other lawyers.
"The truth is going to come out."
"You mean the things that you've been saying and which have been reported for months already?"
"Yes."
"When you say 'come out' what do you mean?"
"I mean they're going to be drilled into our supporters so they can repeat them without having to think."
"Excellent."
Jesus Christ Harriet, what fucking planet is she from?
Ooooooh…scary. Stupid bint
National Laughingstock Makes Public and Ineffectual Threat
Probably to boost loser's hope.
"Hot air" is all she's got.
Wait a minute… Grossly stupid and cruel. Hates and mistreats women. Obsessed with past accomplishments only important to him. Wife, who hates him, is equally sleazy and unlikable. Children are stupid, conniving scumbags. Sells shoes…
Donald Trump is really Al Bundy!
He has no brief moment of greatness, such as four touchdowns in a single game.
Come to think of it, he has no moments of decency, or adequacy, or...
What are you talking about? He passed that cognitive test. That’s definitely his three touchdowns for Polk High moment.
Now there's a theme song for his rallies. Sinatra estate prepares to enter the chat.
While infrequent Al Bundy was nonetheless capable of moments of tenderness and rare myopic squints into thoughtful insight.
Drumpfenfuehrer retains NO capacity to accomplish either.
To be fair, Peggy was the worst, too. I remember an episode where it showed she slept with her knee in his back every night.
The difference is I felt sympathy for Al.
Ted Bundy, maybe.
I showed my Trumpy Friend a photo of Trump's new gold sneakers, and she enthused, "I freaking love them!! How much are they?" I told her they were $400, and she said "Holy Shit!"
No word on whether she intends to follow through and buy a pair. She strikes me as the type of person who would.
She and I saw each other for a short time yesterday and had a blast talking about non-Trump things. She asked me to refrain from discussing politics before she got here, and I agreed. We had a wonderful time. There are so many nice things in the world that are not Donald Trump.
$18 on Temu.
I have a Republican friend who is a TOTAL idiot. I only discuss politics with her when SHE brings Trump up.
"I freaking love them!!" Mesmerized by shiny objects.
To be fair, I too am mesmerized by shiny objects. But I also have the power of thought.
Trump ruins everyone/ everything...
"Shoddy, Tacky, and Vulgar" are pretty much Stinky's "brand".
This article is soooo good. It's a prescription for Democrats to grow a spine, and start attacking Republicans. Negative political advertising works, because the average voter is a moron, who doesn't even understand what the GQP stands for, all they know is "Republicans are good for the economy" even though that is NOT TRUE!
"America’s future — as a multiracial democracy or an ethno-nationalist authoritarian state — is very much on the ballot this year, as a wide range of observers have noted. But you’d be hard-pressed to see that reality reflected in the mainstream media, much less from the mouths of the randomly-selected potential voters interviewed on the ground, the folks who will supposedly determine the outcome in November. It’s a dire situation that political scientist turned election strategist Rachel Bitecofer tackles head-on in her new book, "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game." She describes it as “a battle-tested self-help book for America’s fragile democracy.
...
Bitecofer's most basic point is simple: Democrats as a whole — despite their “reality-based” self-image — have been unable or unwilling “to accept that the American voter is, at best, rough clay,” and to work with it accordingly. On the other hand, she writes, “Republicans have long understood this and have built an electioneering system that shapes the electorate and meets voters where they actually are.” The point of "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts" is to convince Democrats to change their strategic approach while there’s still time to rescue democracy, and to focus relentlessly on the threat posed by Republicans in terms that hit voters where they are.
...
The Republican Party in the decade previous had let 9/11 happen, invaded Iraq and gotten us in a total clusterf**k, and then blew up the economy in 2008. There was a fear within the Republican party in 2009 that they were going to be out in the wilderness electorally for maybe a couple of decades, like they were after they caused the Great Depression [I thought Republicans would NEVER be back in power during my lifetime]. Yet within a year, they were picking up 63 seats in the House of Representatives. That's the thing that started to make me think about election options. Because I remember thinking, "How could they blow up the economy, thinking they're out in the wilderness, and then suddenly start winning?" So I really started paying attention to voter behavior and strategy at that point.
...
Step 5 is "Own our issues, then own theirs." Here you note that Republicans are seen as better on the economy — it's an issue they've owned for decades — even though Democrats are actually better for the economy across a broad range of metrics. So what should they do about it?
This comes from a political science area called "issue ownership." There are certain issues that are attached to the party brand. For Democrats, it's health care and education. Among low-information voters, who hardly follow politics aside from the presidential year and the last couple of weeks before the election, what is their broad, top-of-mind understanding of what the two parties stand for? In poll after poll you'll see this, and you'll see this in Trump versus Biden on the economy. When they think about Republicans, voters think: low taxes, good on the economy, good on national defense. Those are the three issues they own.
Yet as we both know, especially over the last 20 years — but I would argue, now that we're 50 years into Reaganomics, over the last 50 years — Democratic economic theory actually outperforms Reaganomics, starve-the-beast, trickle-down economics. So we need to start talking about that. We need to get the electorate to understand that the economy as they know it began after the Great Depression and World War II, and it was f**king humming, and the Republicans come in in 1980 and steal all our tax revenue to put us into a permanent cycle of deficit spending, and because of that divestment from our growth, our future, our infrastructure, our education systems, all these other things that in 1950 or 1960 we led the world on, we've been surpassed by the EU, by Canada. It's time for us to tell the story of what happened to the American economy, and to make sure people understand what happened to it was the Republican Party.”
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/17/rachel-bitecofers-tough-love-lesson-for-democrats-time-to-fight-dirty/
IT'S ALL ABOUT MESSAGING!
It always is, and it is past time for Dems to stop playing nice and sweep the knee.
I love that article so much, because it's what I've been howling into the wind about for the past 30 years.
They call Biden a socialist (not true) and we never call Trump a fascist (which is true). We NEVER point out that WE are the best stewards of the economy. We NEVER remind people that Reagan, GWB, and Trump ALL crashed the economy. I doubt we'll even bother to run commercials showing the 1/6 insurrection this cycle.
I highly recommend reading that whole article, because it hits on so many good points about Democrats being stuck in the past in our messaging.
House Republicans launch a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative to recruit GOP candidates to help in their battle to end diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
"𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹": 𝗚𝗢𝗣 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/17/insincere-and-hypocritical-struggles-to-diversify-candidates-as-it-diversity-programs/
There are a few different shades of beige?
"A Whiter Shade of Fail"
Hahaha
Holy crap!
MAGAs will never learn!
Here's hoping!
"𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹"
Add "Criminal" and you've got the GOP's motto.
My ex took Zoloft for a month four years ago. This info got back to the FAA Flight Surgeon and they pulled his ticket.
OK, he's 74, and IMO he does not need to be flying planes upside down (his greatest joy in life); also he had a mysterious brain bleed a few years ago. He was told "NO Gs ABOVE ONE" but he's not gonna listen to that. Still, flying has been the most important thing to him since he was 16, so this is devastating.
In the intervening years he's been to neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, had MRIs, everything the FAA demanded for him to be allowed to fly again. (The concern is if you took once a med for depression you might kill a planeload of people, I guess?)
Anyway, he got a final denial yesterday, forwarded to him by Swalwell, who looked into the case and found out what's what before N received the notice. Now he's all, "gonna sell the planes and everything I own and die in an old folks home."
I dunno, FAA, this might be a bit of an overreaction.
"gonna sell everything I own and die in an old folks home."
Certainly one of my fears
When my Dad (PBUH) was in assisted living, we were sitting outside and a little plane came puttering overhead and he said “I should be up there!” Mr. S and I almost started crying.
It's upsetting to me, too. We're still friendly and this is absolutely devastating to him.
I sent him a contact for an FAA lawyer in Sandy Eggo. I hope they can figure something out. His health isn't bad but this could kill the man, no shit.
The DLZ family had a silly satire night, with Blazing Saddles and Baseketball.
This is our romantical "Valentine's Weekend," so we watched "The Princess Bride".
1,133,007 pair of golden sneakers to go to pay off trump fines... ROTFLMFAO
It just occurred to me that no one told Trump the real money in sneakers is in the secondary market. He's going to be pissed when someone sells his shoes and makes a profit on them.
It was a limited run of 1000. At the most he will make $20k.
1000 x $400 = $400,000 -$10,000 (cost of manufacturing in China) = $390K profit
But he only gets whatever % for the brand. He doesn't own the shoes. Like so many of "his" buildings. People pay for his name on them, as dumb as that sounds to the sane among us.
3 days of interest on his judgements!
I think that's just that one trashy style. The others, which are also advertisements for Dear Leader, are less trashy while still being crap.
A run of sneakers sounds like one of those charming collective nouns like an Exhalation of Larks.
*exaltation :)
Why does Otto let me spell shit wrong and “correct” other shit to be wrong? 😄
Golden calf...golden sneakers.
Gilded bullshit. It never changes.
Needs to gelded, also.
Don't forget the terlets... I mean "thrones"
YE'd think he'd have learned something from his black Nazi friend about selling sneakers no one wants anymore...
I'm starting to think I have some kind of head cold. Whatever that was that just came out of my sinuses is an abhorration. I'm glad it's out. It may have grown up to be a republiQan.
Understandable. Some of the things have come out of my nose should be named after ancient horrors.
Show of hands... Who's already bought a new mattress?
In what timeframe? I've bought several over the years, but not since 2013.
We need one, but for some reason it's something much-better half is averse to. (They're expensive and we need a good firm one.) I haven't even broached it yet, because I know he's gonna think it's still new and it's got to be 10 years old.
I was that half over here--husband was advocating for a new one for over a year when we finally got one last year. I kept telling him it was FINE and he was just being a BABY.
We also got a good firm one and he was right, I was wrong, and I LOVE it.
(note: yes, I flipped and rotated our previous mattress regularly. however, I got it in...1996)
Does two years ago still count?
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We haven't broken the one we currently have. Though not for lack of trying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvwV24yRRb0
𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝟴,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 ‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗺𝗮: ‘𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻’
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/unprecedented-gift-preserves-8000-acres-of-the-land-between-the-rivers-in-alabama-americas-amazon/
Beautiful!
That is magnificent, and thanks for sharing the news.
So much SQUEEE!
First world problem as a music listener : to buy or not to buy the songs I like when I might end up buying the whole album a few months later.
My wife came to the marriage with an amazing LP collection but we haven't a working turntable in many years. I meant to get one and digitize them, but I'll probably never get around to that project. Some of it we've bought the digital albums on iTunes (or whatever it's called these days). Some of it is just not available in any form anywhere.
Even if I did digitize the whole collection though, I would hate to part with the album covers. We were never very fanatical about caring for vinyl though, so there are plenty of scratches on the physical records.
Album. For the experience. Deal with lo-fi youtube or whatever until then.
Charles Lindberg, 1940: https://nitter.tux.pizza/visegrad24/status/1759176752612393095#m
(“I’ve been forced to the conclusion that we can’t win this war for England regardless of how much assistance we send”)
apropos, "The Plot Against America," which opens with Lindberg running a campaign for President and gets worse from there, is an excellent miniseries.
Madge “You’re reliving in it”
It should be mandatory watching if we didn't live in such a free society... ..
I'm also reading Rachel Maddow's "Prequel," about the rise of the American Nazi Party in the 1940s, and it's quite illuminating.
Joe Biden's strategies to bring down drug prices for Americans are beginning to see results. So, Big Pharma is unleashing their lawyers
𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵, 𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵-𝘰𝘧-𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/patients-1st-savings-bidens-drug-price-push-pharma/story?id=107268575
That means some of big pharma will be supporting Trump.
Turds of a feather...
but but but how will we be able to afford research??!?!?!?
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐵𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑅𝐴'𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 $237 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 10 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑜.
I imagine a significant percentage of new drugs were happy serendipitous accidents from their ongoing boner pill research.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😢
Working in Congress for thirty years teaches a person a few valuable lessons.
Thank you for giving a damn, Uncle Joe.
Geriatric desperation grasping frantically for long gone dubious relevance.
Grassley needs to stretch for the duration about six feet below in syllabic namesake. That ditch cannot be dug soon enough.
He needs to go befriend that deer!
I thought he was busy working on his bill to reduce stagecoach robberies.
You hire the Washington Mutual grannies to harass the Wells Fargo bandits out of the state, that's what you do.
Which will also benefit the Pony Express constituency. And also somehow telegraph investors.
But did you know Biden is 81 years old?
Why, that's well on the way to 90!
And has still done more for Americans than the entire Republican Party combined?
It's not that the Republican Party hasn't done much, it's that everything they have done has had a negative impact on freedom and quality of life for 95% of Americans. And has now spread to negative impacts on other countries.
The GOP has done nothing for Americans.
The GOP has done LOTS for their 1% owner$ and for America's enemies.
The GOP only does things to Americans
I think that it's possible that capital punishment is misused for transient fits of stupid like murder, and not used enough on greedmongers such as Big Pharma execs who act with malice aforethought and depraved indifference to the fallout.
I’m tired of these grasping thieves
Greedflation.
It's a real word now. It's been added to dictionary.com.
I am SO stealing that!
I saw an article that says the term is trending, esp. in re: grocery, rent, and insurance prices.