Big White Dogs Save the World’s Smallest Penguin in Australia
Just off the coast of Warrnambool city, Australia’s Middle Island is home to some very small residents, at the center of a big achievement.
The island is the only place in Australia where one can find the little penguin, which as the same suggests, is the world’s smallest—standing just 35 centimeters tall.
Starting in 1991, sedimentation and tidal patterns created a short window during the year when a tidal causeway allowed access to Middle Island from the mainland, which foxes quickly discovered and used to devastate this ground-nesting bird population.
Enter a rather unlikely hero. A local chicken farmer named Swampy Marsh had no professional background in conservation, but what he did understand over many years of keeping chickens was how to defeat or outfox foxes.
Running up to 5,000 chickens free-range, Marsh used Maremma dogs as guardians. These great big white pooches, officially known as Pastori Maremma-Abruzzesi owing to their Italian origins from the coastal region of Maremma, were excellent protectors of Marsh’s flock, and he figured that since little penguins are equally as defenseless against foxes, the same protection scheme would work.
And it did; though officially no dogs were allowed on Middle Island, the severity of the little penguins’ plight convinced Warrnambool city council to give it a go. Marsh then arrived with his dog Oddball and got to work.
Michigan’s fourth-largest school district is having “significant” performance issues with its expensive electric buses, issues that come after the Biden administration spent $1 billion to “transform America’s school bus fleet” with electric models.
During an April 19 presentation to the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education, the district’s environmental sustainability director, Emile Lauzzana, highlighted a number of issues with the district’s electric bus fleet. Those buses, Lauzzana said, have “a lot of downtime and performance issues” and aren’t “fully on the road,” despite the fact that they are “approximately five times more expensive than regular buses.” The infrastructure upgrades required to use the buses, meanwhile, were “originally estimated to be only about $50,000” but “ended up being more like $200,000,” according to Lauzzana. “I have a number of colleagues in different states who are facing similar challenges,” the district official lamented. “For the school bus market, it’s been challenging for us.”
If there’s a bandwagon, Hillary is ready to jump on it, dig her claws in, drain it dry with her probing hollow tongue, and wear its skin like Buffalo Bill.
Eighty-six percent of transgender and nonbinary young people have said the recent raft of anti-trans bills have negatively affected their mental health.
Yesterday's #TransProm was a beautiful, defiant demonstration of the joy of being exactly who you are.…
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 23, 2023
“Do you want to fuck me?” Hillary whispered into the mirror. “I’d fuck me.”
How many busses did they get?
At $200K each, that’s 5,000, but probably way less that because most of that $1B went to “administrative costs”.
200k? I suspect You’re underestimating the per unit costs. How much for the electrical hookups?
$200K amount was just infrastructure upgrades…I am guessing at the district’s bus depot.
“The infrastructure upgrades required to use the buses, meanwhile, were “originally estimated to be only about $50,000” but “ended up being more like $200,000,”
Fewer than you’d think, probably.
Electric school buses are giving kids a cleaner, but costlier, ride to class
The original article said they were 5x the cost of a regular bus, so these are probably on the higher end and pushing half a million each for the full sized buses.
I would think maintenance is a killer. How much of that cost is battery pack? $100,000? More? And considering the rough lives of school buses, how often would those need replacement?
Studies I saw said the batteries last 8-12 years on average, while a bus’s longevity is expected to be 12-15 years. Though it’s not unusual for well maintained buses to last 20 or more years.
I’ve seen battery replacement costs of $50K to $90K. Knowing how these things go, the upper number is probably the most realistic right now. Granted it’s possible battery costs will drop in the future due to new technologies.
Infrastructure. A fleet of chargers to go with the fleet of vehicles.
Species come, species go. It’s a feel-good story, but then I wonder to myself why I should feel good or bad about nature doing its thing.
Although a 14″ penguin might make decent pet.
Penguins are cute, clever, and funny. But they are high-maintenance.
I know what a bear an otter and a twink are, but what, specifically, is a penguin?
Not safe for work, or anywhere else.
Fat guy, likes formal wear. Hanky code: black and white bandanas.
Danny DeVito, in rotting formal wear.
(Watches intently)….
Penguins is practically chickens.
The realization that penguins are dinosaurs just made me laugh.
“Eighty-six percent of transgender and nonbinary young people have said the recent raft of anti-trans bills have negatively affected their mental health.”
Non-binary is bullshit, so that’s a useless number.
Sorry kid, don’t care: No cutting off your dick until you’re eighteen. You’ll thank me later.
Technically, they don’t cut it off.
*cue rainbow*
And for those who don’t know what they really do with it, count your blessings.
Yeah, the majority are top surgery and/or hormones – remember the real surge in this is with girls.
Non-binary affected by having nothing to transition into.
Sorry but this is not a mentally stable population to begin with.
More than 86% already have mental health issues to start off with. The imaginary assault of a ‘raft of anti-trans bills’ is just the thing to do ’em in.
the correct term is pro-children.
You know what else will negatively affect their mental health? Getting parts lopped off or taking life altering hormones because of a passing phase, that’s what. It’s just the modern equivalent of being Goth and except for Robert Smith and Marilyn Manson everyone grew out of it.
Protected class legislation and unsustainable spending have been negatively affecting my mental health for my entire adult life, what do I get?
“You net a nut punch! And you get a nut punch!”
— Libertarian Oprah
So, Fatty Arbuckle in rotting formal wear?
A tax bill?
An IRS audit because you sound like trouble.
“Do you want to fuck me?”
Bill was not available for comment.
Because he was busy getting a blow job from the chick who brings in the mail?
Maybe he was buffaloed by the whole Hilary thing?
Great music choice!
Also love “Nemesis” on that album.
Just about everything Biden does negatively affects my mental health. Where’s my tweet?
Government is bad for mental health.
“transform America’s school bus fleet” with “over 2,400 clean school buses that will accelerate the transition to zero emission vehicles.”
They aren’t clean and they don’t work.
Its good to be in the King’s circle
From the electric bus article:
“Administration officials repeatedly showcased the company while Biden’s energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, held up to $5 million in Proterra stock. Granholm eventually sold her 240,000 Proterra shares in May 2021, with the former Michigan governor earning a cool $1.6 million.”
That evil bitch Martha Stewart had to serve prison time for her dangerous offense against the public trust though…
I applaud that aspect of her as she turned around, gave FedGov the middle finger and grew her empire.
Plus, it gave her serious street cred.
Eighty-six percent of transgender and nonbinary young people have said the recent raft of anti-trans bills have negatively affected their mental health.
100% of transgender already had mental health issues causing them to think they are not the gender which they were born.
Any time an adult says no to a kid the kid gets antsy. I say tough shit, you can’t always get what you want.
Well, you can’t always get what you want, you get what you need.
you get what you need.
Like a BSA gun?
the recent raft of anti-trans bills have negatively affected their mental health.
Mostly because they’re being told that it should.
“Do you want to fuck me?” Hillary whispered into the mirror. “I’d fuck me.”
Bill won’t.
Never has.
But he has sat in the corner and watch it happen.
Like Harry from True Lies
Yeah, more like the Mr. Creosote scene in The Meaning of Life.
Bah. Like he never staggered home drunk.
Big White Dogs Save the World’s Smallest Penguin in Australia
Awww. Good doggies.
“For the school bus market, it’s been challenging for us.”
Poor Sunset. None of his carefully crafted plans seem to work. Except that whole “impoverish the country to sow maximum chaos” thing.
This Big Hush is flawless.
Thanks, SF! All in all, a pretty cheery H&H/Lynx combo!
drain it dry with her probing hollow tongue
Gah! I wasn’t expecting that in your links post, but should have known better.
Those buses, Lauzzana said, have “a lot of downtime and performance issues” and aren’t “fully on the road,” despite the fact that they are “approximately five times more expensive than regular buses.” The infrastructure upgrades required to use the buses, meanwhile, were “originally estimated to be only about $50,000” but “ended up being more like $200,000,” according to Lauzzana.
Good enough for government work.
Will no one think of the contractors?
Well, shit.
RIP Tina.
I always dug her.
She was an icon. Not many more of those left.
Yup. I don’t own anything of hers or give it much thought but damn she was good at it.
I fucking love “We Don’t Need Another Hero”
Big wheel keep on turning.
Mrs. TOK is watching the Friends episode where there were “on a break”. I hate those episodes. Way too dramatic, and Ross is at his whiny worst.
I hate that show.
Its on my wife’s rotation of shows she puts on when doing housework. I can tolerate it but to an extent. Monica’s exposition of erogenous zones was a good bit.
Also, a chilly Jennifer Aniston.
If you watch it closely, they were all chilly.
It’s a nice mindless thing to watch before bed. We’ve seen them all, so falling asleep or turning if off halfway through is no big deal. Also nice to clear your mind after an intense movie or series.
My wife still watches them. Joey and Chandler’s bachelor scenes are funny as hell.
Always hated Ross, but loved Jenny Aniston and her perky breasts.
Hmm..
Jennifer Tilly or Jennifer Aniston….I think I will take the power of AND
Correct.
What about Jennifer Love Hewitt?
She can join the fun too.
That’s funny, we both hate Ross too. He’s annoying.
It is one of the better ’90s sitcoms, post Seinfeld. Decent writing, well cast, went on too long, but, hey, if it is selling…
Will Sununu’s high approval ratings translate to presidential primary success?
Survey says:
However, being known as “moderate” and “bipartisan” could be a liability for Sununu in the Republican presidential primary. He was even described by many who approve of his performance in UNH’s poll as a “RINO.”
“The very adjectives that voters attribute to Sununu, and like about him, will be the very things that make a presidential run so difficult for Sununu,” said UNH Political Science Professor Dante Scala. “Even in New Hampshire, there’s a large number of Republicans who approve of the job he’s doing as governor but don’t support him in a run for president, and those [adjectives] are the very reasons.”
Although this poll published results from New Hampshire adults – not likely Republican voters – it is still the same image that Sununu has had to grapple with while mulling over his own Republican primary campaign. And how he fares in that contest has been less-than-promising based on early polling.
Just last month, only 12 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire said they would vote for Sununu in the Republican primary in UNH’s Granite State Poll. In the same poll, only 35 percent of likely Republican primary voters wanted Sununu to run for president in 2024, down from the 42 percent who said so in January.
“‘I want to be remembered as the Queen of Rock’n’Roll – a woman who showed others it’s OK to strive for success on your own terms’: Tina Turner’s final interview just six weeks before she died aged 83”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12121071/Tina-Turner-dead-83-Singer-dies-home-Switzerland-long-illness.html
RIP
“I’d fuck me.”
Dear Sir,
Fuck you very much for putting the image of Hillary doing the dance in front of the mirror while tucking her cloaca.
You have ruined my entire Memorial Day Weekend, which I will now spend in a drunken fetal position.
While humming Goodbye Horses.
Does Winston’s mom charge extra for that?
Asking for a friend.
“Research on more than 6.6million people in Denmark found that those who were addicted to marijuana were up to four times more likely to be diagnosed with major depression or bipolar disorder.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12119635/Chronic-cannabis-use-raises-risk-major-depression-bipolar-disorder-FOUR-TIMES.html
That’s from eating a whole ass tin of butter cookies.
Or like any drug, not being in the right headspace. They were most likely already depressed and it was amplified.
Or merely identified, correct!
The causality can certainly only run one way. It’s not like people who are depressed or bipolar might seek out drugs as a coping strategy.
*ding-ding-ding!
“Self medicating? Never heard of it.”
You can’t do that, experts do not recommend it!
Imagine how depressed those people would be if they didn’t smoke weed.
“Job-hunting expert reveals ‘genius’ AI interview prep hack – and claims the ‘easy’ technique will help you land ‘every single job’ you apply for”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12119919/Im-hiring-expert-heres-use-ChatGPT-land-job.html
*lights Mojo signal*
Yeah I already ran my written questions through it. Add in either grammerly or proof-reader with knowledge of your field and it knocks them out of the park. Now when it comes time to interview…still gotta have the prep work in place.
Oops, too late.
Ruger earnings down, Sig Sauer expanding
It’s a tale of two major New Hampshire employers in the same industry.
While firearms manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., reports a sharp drop in revenue and earnings, fellow gunmaker Sig Sauer is working on major expansions of its facilities on the Seacoast.
Which one has a military contract?
Let’s see… Squad Weapon, M17, a sniper round, totaling up to roughly $7B.
vice
Last contract I can find is for some Iraqi police support in 2004?
Winner? Sig.
This is how they will eventually ban everything.
This 9/11 survivor (I was miles away in midtown, but still NYC) is triggered.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/biore-influencer-sorry-for-referencing-school-shooting-in-ad-inappropriate/
We need to stand up to morons like Mizzy
It’s like nobody watched A Clockwork Orange.
A Clockwork Orange is the new black.
[golf clap]
With the ending that’s significantly different from the book.
I’ve still yet to read the novel. I usually like to read the source material first, but come to think of it, I haven’t actually read any of the books on which any Kubrick film is based. When I first saw Clockwork as a teen I didn’t even know it was an adaptation.
Not even The Shining?
Nope. Although from what I understand, it diverges substantially, and King is on record as absolutely despising Kubrick’s adaptation, so it probably wouldn’t spoil the book for me.
Nicholson was great.
The movie itself was a horrendous adaption of the book.
I seem to recall Kubrik saying he knew he was going to change the story before he even started.
I liked the book a lot better. The movie really was all Nicholson.
I thought the movie was great because for a long time you just think he’s going nuts, and it isn’t all supernatural shit. That part was stupid.
King made his own version of it, which sucked donkey balls.
I mean, come on, you think you are better than the greatest American film director?
Pat, Pat, Pat…
Burgess (Clockwork Orange) is a serious fucking author who wrestles with theology, specifically good and evil. Kind of like GK Chesterton or CS Lewis. His book “Earthly Powers” highly recommended.
Hasford’s collection of stories The Short Timers (FMJ) is based on his experiences in boot camp and as a military journalist in Vietnam. Private Joker is autobiographical.
Stephen King hates, and I mean hates, the Kubrick adaptation of The Shining, but he’s a big, dumb poopyhead who doesn’t understand the auteur theory of film criticism.
If you want to see what Stephen King liked for The Shining, you can buy the shit ass non-Kubrick version on DVD at the Stanley Hotel and see some serious waste of film.
That’s another addition to my reading backlog.
I became the gushing Kubrick fanboy that I remain to this day at the age of 11 when my dad showed me Dr. Strangelove, and my youthful enthusiasm for film outstripped my enthusiasm for non-academic reading at the time.
I am going to say it; Kings books suck. They aren’t scary, they go on far too long, and work best as door stoppers.
Plus, he is an also.
And much better.
The book pulls it’s punches, weakens the whole thing.
Because nobody wants to on the receiving end of the next Two-Minutes Hate for being mean to the wrong kid.
Fuck around and find out…
oh. that’s right, no gunz of knives in Merry Old.
Couldn’t you beat the fuck out of the kid with a cricket bat? Or, even better, a hurley?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurley_(stick)
You could, but you would get charged.
This is the end result of the lefts totally misguided theories of law, punishment, and redemption. We will see if the country is past the breaking point, or whether it still has something down the road. I am not holding my breath.
Never Forget
Nobody is safe. They can fuck off.
Bravery is better than safety.
It’s practically the Fourth Reich.
Ron DeSantis’s ultra-MAGA Florida isn’t safe for people of color, LGBTQ+ people, or even multi-billion dollar corporations.
This term and “Great MAGA King” only play in favor of the MAGA voters.
The polling for that term must be good amongst their circles to keep using it.
Poling in circle jerks gives them exactly what they want.
Guaranteed to eat the biscuit at the end
Hence the reaction to the poll on CNN. No one they know is doing poorly, no one THEY know isn’t down with trannies, and so on. It is like there is another world out there.
Considering his most bitter opponent is THE MAGA himself, this is an odd label. Just lazy writing and thinking, I guess.
Its Clinton. She is prepping the battle space that Florida and the man who runs it has created a White Nationalist Paradise where roving old farts in golf carts chase down physically fit brown people and queers.
“It is so dangerous that people keep moving there in droves!”
Best part of that is the “even multi-billion dollar corporations”!
“the district’s environmental sustainability director”
Nothing left to cut.
Raise the debt ceiling!
Ironically, that’s what pays my salary.
“Report: Ron DeSantis Will Formally Announce His 2024 Bid With Elon Musk, Because Apparently David Duke Wasn’t Available”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/ron-desantis-elon-musk-2024-announcement
Reposting because it’s just so ridiculous.
Also, from a consequentialist viewpoint, everyone at Conde Nast should be shoved in a woodchipper.
That will not age well.
They won’t care. It will be sung from the tallest buildings as true
It’s funny because David Duke has the exact same race essentialism and racial separatist views reflected in modern, enlightened academe, but is gauche enough to actually be honest about his motivations.
Wasn’t he also a Democrat?
tHE pARTies! SWITched11111!!!!!!!!
Had to look it up. Seems he was for a long while, then switched Republican for his only successful political campaign:
It’s actually kinda funny, how probably half the population wouldn’t have a clue who he was.
Dems are the party of the olds.
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*Takes off gimp mask
*Puts lid back on 55 gallon drum of lube
I finally decided to try a Bahn Mi today. It was fine. I know the french bread is traditional, but it really did drag the whole thing down. And this place should have chopped up the herbs. having four inch long stems that chew poorly in the midst of a sandwich really didn’t help.
Other than that, there were no issues.
On the one hand, it’s not surprising NY could fuck up a banh mi.
OTOH, this is UnCiv’s review I’m reading.
Those dastardly Republicans won’t roll over and give us everything we want.
More of the same — angry, tiresome talking points from KJP about the debt limit negotiations, pinning 100% of the blame on Republicans: “This is a manufactured crisis, plain and simple…That’s what we’ve been dealing with…Just listen to members of the House Freedom Caucus.”
This….sounds like the WH is backing away from any compromise with Republicans & demanding they get all that they want: Republicans “put forth an extreme package of devastating cuts that would slash…education, law enforcement, food assistance, the list goes on & on & on & on.”
Because those things are in the legitimate purview of the federal government…
Compromise has always meant give us everything we want. Was there some confusion about that?
When they win they have a mandate and should get what they want. When they lose Republicans should reach across the aisle and give them what they want. They are children.
You know, human brains are said by self-referential experts to be pattern-recognition machines, and yet “firemen first” still works…
Two job postings in Kentucky. Gonna submit both of them. One in Louisville and the other in Hebron. Lots of in-laws in the area, cheap cost of living and land to be had in some places.
Good luck!
Thanks! Already have a bid out for a travelin job, but these are closer to where I want to be.
All other things being equal, I’d lean towards Hebron. Louisville is getting kinda sketchy these days.
Buona fortuna.
bone for tuna
Good luck!
Best of luck
Good luck!
Not to mention a Representative and Senator you can actually feel good voting for.
Good luck!
And maybe Cocaine Mitch retires some day.
Good luck, OBE!
And you too, Mojo.
86%!
Literally dozens.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’
But like solar feels good, you know?
Same thing happening to the part of the Mojave in Nevada where i used to live. They are uprooting trees, relocating the endangered desert tortoise (90% of them die after transplant; they don’t like being removed from their territory), and, oft overlooked, they are “breaking the crust”, the upper layer of the desert that helps keep the dust from blowing all over the place. The dust storms and dirt devils in Pahrump are getting epic. And not in a good way.
Fuck large-scale solar. You want it on your roof? Fine–a great idea for many and it doesn’t mess with the desert more than the original house build did.
Need moar nuke plants.
If you go back and look at federal spending 2017-19, you would expect we’d be in the $5.1-5.2T range. It was that nearly $2T spike in 2020 that now seems to be completely normalized and internalized as vital by the Democrats.
Through the magic of baseline budgeting, there is no such thing as a temporary increase in spending.
Budget theme song
Democrats singing lead with Repubs doing the harmony.
Put spending back to where it was 4-5 years ago? What kind of monster are you?
How many pounds does one of those school bus batteries weigh? You’d have to measure it in Lizzos.
RIP Tina. This is my fav cover she did. Frigging awesome take on it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAXkmo-HTI&pp=ygUcdGluYSB0dXJuZXIgd2hvbGUgbG90dGEgbG92ZQ%3D%3D
That’s a unit of measure you’re not likely to see in the news, but you should.
Fatter than Lizzo’s cooter?
Digging this cover
Oh, now that’s the good stuff. Thanks, KS!
Gold Shaw Farm uses Maremmas. I watch their videos. I know Pie does too. Or did.
My chat with HR at the company I applied to was the standard “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?” interview style questions. “What was a challenge you faced…” “When you screwed up, what happened/how you fixed it…” “How well do you work on a team remotely…” “What are you most proud of in your past working…” OMG please save me from these questions. Of course I’m going to put my best foot forward. Nobody’s going to tell you they secretly think they pretty much suck.
The Costanza gambit…
Remember Amanda Gorman? The adorable token trotted out to recite her “poem” at Dopey Joe’s swearing-in a couple of years ago? Well, apparently that fascist Ron DeathSatan has fascistly banned a book of her poems from a south Florida school, fascist-natsee-style. Poor Amanda is gutted, of course, that elementary-age readers are BANNED from reading her insights on the human condition.
The media and the usual suspects on Twitter all repeated this story relentlessly. The only problem? That’s not what happened.
The dark night of fascism in this country will not have ended until every kindergarten in the nation has access to the full catalog of SugarFree.
“A school book ban is any action taken against a book that leaves access to a book restricted or diminished. “
You mean, if a school choosing one of several books on offer, its banning the ones it didn’t buy?
Pepperidge Farms remembers when they boasted about being the reality-based community.
Favorite Shriekback song
https://youtu.be/uENQGs5MjJU
The neutering of Monty Python
Marvel that this is now too transgressive while the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are heroic figures.
Glibs Humpday AutoZoom kicks off at 8:00 PM Eastern tonight.
The mountains look like boobies!
I love the internet.
Mow-jo
Mow-jo… you still around? https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
The DeSantis/Elon thing isn’t going well. Apparently we’ve crashed the internet.
NO, that was you Tundra, with your ‘mountains look like boobies’ talk. Shame
Well, they DO!
Relevance is not a defense / FEDGOV
Capitol rioter Richard Barnett, pictured in Pelosi’s office, sentenced to 4.5 years
Next time he should play it safe and just set fire to a courthouse:
Or better yet, beat somebody with a bike lock:
No jail time. Nice.
To be fair, the DA probably didn’t like his chances in front of a Berkeley jury.
Love how the protestor carried a “950,00 volt” stun gun, which you are encouraged to believe is super-powerful when it’s actually more mid-range. And, worse, an American flag.
The DA didn’t like his chances, he loved his chances in front of a Berkeley jury.
Dammit…
I’d love to get that prof cornered outside of Berkeley.
If he went in and left unmolested, how did anyone know he had a stun gun? Was he advertising it?
What a clusterfuck. And Ron is so, so boring.
I hate to say it, but Two-Scoops is gonna destroy him in the primaries.
He can use boring to his advantage. “I may not be as entertaining as my opponent, but I’ve got experience enacting my policies. In government it’s not enough to tweet something out. You need to execute, and that might seem boring. But it’s necessary if you want real results.”
DeSantis is too tainted by the support he receives from the GOP establishment.
Trump receives way more support from the GOP establishment.
Trump is interesting after the fact because he is bound to say something crazy that can be laughed at and shared.
Actually listening to him speak though, I can’t get through 15 seconds.
I’d love for DeSantis to point out the things Trump could’ve done, if he had any understanding at all about how to run the govt.
Does DeSantis even know about taking the guns first?
Agreed. He can also run on a return to normalcy. Of course the Dems and the media will try to paint him as Hitler. I think a lot of people think Trump’s policies are more normal, but the man himself brings too much drama. If I were running the campaign, that’s the approach I would take. But then my batting average for political predictions is below the Mendoza Line, so what do I know.
I’ll vote for Ron. Probably.
Me too. Unless somehow, by magic, Kennedy gets the nomination from the Dems.
After seeing the recent interview with Stossel (and Stossel is GREAT at interviews like this), I’m convinced I couldn’t possibly vote for him. I honestly knew little about him. but Stossel asked good questions, let him talk, and I came away convinced. Big nope.
How so?
See for me it’s just about picking the least overt communist with a chance to win. I’m sure he has quite a few issues.
Yeah, I don’t expect to agree with a candidate 100%. There are some red lines that would likely prevent me from voting for a candidate even if I mostly agree with him. But then I have to consider the competition too, which might make those red lines a little less visible. Of course, being in CA, my vote isn’t likely to matter anyway, so I can afford to have brighter red lines.
Drug warrior (even dropped in the stupid shit about “they’re making fentanyl candy to give to kids!”), immigration warrior, war warrior, no retreat on the security state, and a LOT of evasion. His grinning “aw shucks, it was just a way of getting attention” when confronted with his Trump sycophancy was nauseating. Team L had better fucking run a better choice than Doctor Jo.
Can he define a leppo?
Here’s a good song for Midwesterners of a certain age: Never Been Any Reason
Also, anyone else.
I dunno. Trump has a couple of Achilles’ heels:
(1) His handling of the pandemic.
(2) The massive deficits “he” ran – I know, Congress is nominally in control of spending, but Trump never even tried for meaningful budget cuts, and the trillion dollar stimulus packages he actively supported are now baseline spending (slowly) destroying the economy.
Those aren’t even his biggest problem anyway.
His biggest problem is that if he wins the nomination Republicans are all but guaranteed to lose again.
Independents hate him now more than any candidate in 100 years and show no sign of budging whatsoever.
If he doesn’t win the nomination, Team Red is still guaranteed to lose. Team Blue doesn’t need a majority, just a plurality.
I don’t know about that.
I could go for a few years of boring.
I mean pretty much all politicians are. Biden is like watching paint dry.
It’s funny because public speaking feels like their main job.
Maybe but I hope DS beats Trump like a drum. Trump cheesed it on Covid, still pushes the vax like a shill bitch, sold the January 6thers down the river, hired some of the worst people in the history of fucking ever, and got owned by the swamp in a way that actually empowered them. DeSantis can beat Biden, Trump can’t and much more of the current situation and we really are screwed. He’s a bit of a snooze to listen to but that’s kind of a plus at this point.
Agreed with all.
Trump has cost Republicans 3 elections in a row and big government is more sinister and terrifying than ever.
I can actually name a few good things that Trump has done but literally anyone else with the slightest inkling of liberty and chance to win would be a preference for me now.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
I prefer Trump over any of the Dems and seeing him get revenge on these assholes by getting elected again would be one of the best things ever but I’m also a realist. DeSantis has actually taken it to the left in a way I think Trump would have been too timid to do.
Heh. Dershowitz already posted “Can DeSantis beat Trump and Biden?” On his podcast. I will try to listen in a bit.
Trump only cares about one thing: Trump, and how he feels at any given moment, and he’s got mood swings that would embarrass a perimenopausal Karen.
Swampy Marsh and his dog Oddball. What is this, a children’s movie?
Er, yes.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3401748/
Well, whattya know.
And just like that, the day got so much better.
LOLOLOLOLOL
So what is DeSantis’ position on hiker rape?
If not shapely asses then what? If not Wednesday then when?
https://archive.is/m2IIF
-If not shapely asses then what?
Dunno, they got a cameltoe section? Those are always fun.
This is kind of interesting