Let’s all get one thing straight. The music link is going to not work. Somehow, some way, it will not work. I apologize for this, its not intentional, but it is what it is. I will even preview my work today, but… don’t be Otter, don’t fuck up and trust us.
Two weeks ago my toddler could barely walk, today he ran from me holding a toy broom in one hand. I have no idea what the broom has to do with the story, but I’m just reporting what happened. He heard me ask where he was going, turned around, and ran off giggling. Now I have multiple runners. In another week, they’ll figure out they can split up.
Links…
It’s about time for everyone in the world to become armchair meteorologists. First potential tropical storm coming.
A link shared with me by HM about Disney World… do you dare?
Have they checked the bottom of the ocean?
Glad to see my county’s law enforcement cooperating with identity thieves. Hey, if you didn’t want your identity stolen, you shouldn’t have gotten a ticket, right?
In honor of my youngest (nicknamed “Bash”), I give you his theme song… all my kids think Freddie is saying “Bash”, and there’s a lot of random “AHH-ahh”s after someone calls for him. Nothing better than hearing a 2 year old mutter “ahh-ahh” on cue.
Procedures were followed?
They should give these storms better names — like something metal.
Thunder Hammer!
Yes! Like a Viking name!
Wind that hits you like a truck … BERSERKER!
Rock You Like a Hurricane.
Riding the Storm out?
Hurricane Scorpion would give Georgia the willies… there’s more than enough of the venomous arachnids under the garage doors already.
Vengeance
Nightmare Scenario
Hellscape
Redemption
Nutshot
Insanity
Clubber Lange
The Ex-Wife
The Mother-in-law
Aunt Flo
Florida Man
Spinny McSpinnyface
Cyco
Nerd Swirly-ton
Hurricane Dicksmasher
If all the hurricanes were named after men, they’d never get past the Virgin Islands.
While the women hurricanes couldn’t wait to get past them.
Like the saying about why there are so few female jihadi suicide bombers — Who the hell wants 87 awkward guys who don’t know what the hell they’re doing?
Fortune favors the bold.
“Last month, District Administrator John Classe, who originally negotiated the new contract, was replaced by the board with Glenton Gilzean, a DeSantis ally who previously served as president and CEO of the Central Florida Urban League and will receive a $400,000 salary in his new job.”
Nice work if you can get it.
Fortune favors the crony.
CRONY! I said CRONY you weird Little Pony loving oddballs! Back! Back I say!
Seems like a bit much, yeah. But then do does adding one additional fire fighter per square mile. Nothing burns down these days anyway.
Can anything even catch on fire in Florida humidity?
A handful of rocks of meth?
“The depression is forecast to strengthen and move across the Lesser Antilles as a hurricane on Thursday and Friday, bringing a risk of flooding from heavy rainfall, hurricane-force winds, and dangerous storm surge and waves,” the hurricane center said.
Anthropogenic
Global WarmingClimate Change strikes again.Bash! AAAHH!!!
(Or in other words — because you dared Murphy, he decided to luck with you and get the finks to work after all…) Afternoon, Brett. Your little minions *cough* offspring sound adorable.
Must be climate change. Florida never gets tropical storms, after all.
This one is the earliest we’ve ever had since last year!
Submarine on expedition to Titanic wreck goes missing, “search and rescue operation” underway
This event gives me a sinking feeling.
That’s a deep thought
Is it the Jews again? Greenberg, Goldberg, Ice Berg.
Read an article that speculated paying tourists paid $250k a head.
Seems quite high to me, but even at 10% of that I’d pass.
Reading between the lines it seems there may have been no passengers.
That story ticks every one of my irrational fears. Somehow even heights, lol.
I have a VR Titanic program for my Oculus headset.
It is every bit as scary as any of the height and flying programs. It also really does give you a good idea of the scale of the wreck.
That would be neat
Neat-o.
But tell the truth; it’s part of a porn thing, isn’t it.
http://old.illusion.jp/preview/vrkanojo/index_en.php#conthome
Fortunately for me no subtitles required.
This freaked out the usual suspects when Steam picked it up.
Nice. You can see for yourself up close that there was room for Jack.
Nearer my God to thee.
Who leaked the news?
Why does that vulgar Nazi racist totalitarian keep calling us names?
Lashing out after his arraignment on federal charges last week, Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden and Democrats with language that seemed to evoke another era: He was being persecuted, he said, by “Marxists” and “communists.”
Trump has used the labels since he first appeared on the political scene, but it lately has become an omnipresent attack line that also has been deployed by other Republicans. The rhetoric is both inaccurate and potentially dangerous because it attempts to demonize an entire party with a description that has long been associated with America’s enemies.
Experts who study political messaging say associating Democrats with Marxism only furthers the country’s polarization — and is simply wrong: Biden has promoted capitalism and Democratic lawmakers are not pushing to reshape American democracy into a communist system.
That hasn’t mattered to Trump and other Republicans, who for years have used hyperbolic references to the associated political ideologies to spark fears about Democrats and the dangers they supposedly pose.
“There we were, just minding our own business, and Trump came into the cafeteria and flipped our lunch trays over.”
Yeah — they’re just pushing for a democratic socialist system where the government controls all the industries, they pick winners and losers and get to redistribute wealth in the name of whatever “equity” they dream up at any given moment.
Totally not like Marxism. They pinky-swear.
Where are the fact checkers when you need them?
Their side will should be called Nazis and white supremacists, our side should be called normal, commonsense, mainstream, and democratic.
In fairness to the donks, they’re really much closer to Italian fascism than classical Marxism, but something tells me they wouldn’t appreciate the more accurate appellation either.
Fact Check: Joe Biden does not in fact grow bananas and we’re not really a “republic” in any meaningful sense anymore.
Remember when they vehemently denied they were socialists?
Too much clutter — they’d probably need to send down a thresher to clear things out too.
…
…
What… too soon?
I Jaws what you did there!
In another week, they’ll figure out they can split up.
It’s time they learn the L-shape ambush
Tai-what?
BREAKING: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken gives China the green light to invade Taiwan during his visit to Beijing, China.
“We do not support Taiwan independence.”
What a pivot from Biden’s previous comments from just months ago. What happened?
“Yes, if in fact, there was an unprecedented attack,” Biden said after being asked if he would defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.
I guess Faux China will finish off Real China now.
Yeah… that sounds more like a piss poor phrasing of the “One China” policy that we’ve had for ages. I think we shouldn’t get the vapors over it.
It’s not entirely crazy (though it may be wrong) given how Saddam understood something our idiot ambassador said to be a green light to invade Kuwait.
I’ve not heard that. I am not surprised either…
The US has always had a policy of “strategic ambiguity”: do the kabuki theater of agreeing that there’s only one China, and trying to keep everyone guessing as to what the government would do if the ROC tried to declare re jure independence from the PRC.
The attacks are carefully constructed to hit voters emotionally, said Steve Israel, a former U.S. congressman from New York who studied political messaging as chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.
“Democrats tend to message to the part of the brain that is about reason and empirical evidence,” he said. “Republicans message to the gut.”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
A variation of the argument that Republican arguments are designed to fit on a bumper sticker. An idea propagated by people who apparently have never been to Berkeley.
JFC. Leftists literally only know how to emote. That’s some mighty fine progjection.
The projection is, as always, strong.
The story also doesn’t seem to be marked “commentary” anywhere.
Why would it? The author isn’t expressing an opinion or adding commentary, but merely stating hard facts ascertained by highly trained experts in The Science™
Well at least some taxpayers are getting their money’s worth!
Reminds of when the Army posted orders on bulletin boards with SSN next to names.
don’t be Otter, don’t fuck up and trust us.
Psssst, Shirley…
“He didn’t fuck up — and don’t call me Shirley“.
Forget it, he’s rolling.
Was it over when the Nazi’s attacked Pearl Harbor?
The children are rebelling against the gender-bender cult.
East Sussex, England – A woke British teacher had multiple melt downs after getting humiliated by her teen students in a debate on gender ideology and threatened them afterward.
As the New York Post reported, the incident occurred at Rye College in East Sussex at the end of an eighth-grade “life education” class. The unnamed teacher attempted to brainwash her students by trying to emphasizing “how you want to be and how you identify is up to you.”
Her tactic failed because following the “lesson,” one of the students mockingly a classmate for identifying as a cat.
Even the kid in Kindergarten Cop knew the difference.
This is popping up in more places. Good for the kids.
“This will go on your permanent record!”
AHH-ahh!
Now you’ve got me doing it.
Laura Luna received a citation from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office for fishing without a license on the Dunedin Causeway in late April.
Left unasked: why are deputies checking fishing licenses anyway, never mind issuing citations for not having one (they’re free for Florida residents, and saltwater licenses didn’t used to be required at all for fishing from shore).
Do you want anarchy?
Yes, please! Can I have two?
I want to know how Florida got Aragorn’s kin to build a Causeway….
They needed it to get to the orcs.
FYTW?
Yeah, sorry. We might have put your SSN on the web. You wanna go look and see if we did, then let us know? Thanks. We’ll get it fixed ASAP…during normal business hours of course.
It was good of them to announce that publicly on the news so that literally anyone could go start harvesting unredacted SSNs instead of, you know, contacting the potentially-affected victims privately and quietly.
And I’m sure the county’s daily business would come to a crashing halt if they took down the public notification page until they fixed their fuckup.
Seems like they crack down on that stuff a lot more than they used to. At least cane pole fishing is still completely exempt. We used to give our fish to the cane pole fishers, because we knew they were fishing for food.
Hi Brett!
LOLed at the little runner story. Good times!
…do you dare?
I will.
But will you hot rod it?
I ain’t no god damn son of bitch!
“That’s rich! Colin Kaepernick slams CAPITALISM as he promotes new black studies book he wrote with Marxists – despite ex-NFL star having ‘$40M’ fortune and $5.4M Vegas mansion”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12211641/Colin-Kaepernick-slams-CAPITALISM-promotes-new-black-studies-book-wrote-Marxists.html
CWAA
I’m reminded of Senator Harry Reid about now… “It worked, didn’t it?”
pErSOnAl pRoPerTY iSn’T PRiVaTe PrOpERtY!!!!!!
So I am not supposed to call him Mandarin Milley?
Protective Services’s mandate has expanded to include monitoring social media for “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats and identifying “negative sentiment” regarding its wards, according to an Army procurement document dated September 1, 2022, and reviewed by The Intercept. The expansion of the Protective Services Battalion’s purview has not been previously reported.
The country’s national security machinery has become increasingly focused on social media — particularly as it relates to disinformation. Various national security agencies have spent recent years standing up offices all over the federal government to counter the purported threat.
“There may be legally valid reasons to intrude on someone’s privacy by searching for, collecting, and analyzing publicly available information, particularly when it pertains to serious crimes and terrorist threats,” Ilia Siatitsa, program director at Privacy International, told The Intercept. “However, expressing ‘positive or negative sentiment towards a senior high-risk individual’ cannot be deemed sufficient grounds for government agencies to conduct surveillance operations, even going as far as ‘pinpointing exact locations’ of individuals. The ability to express opinions, criticize, make assumptions, or form value judgments — especially regarding public officials — is a quintessential part of democratic society.”
You can’t criticze the government. What do you think this is, a free country?
Free Speech was never intended to be used to criticized the government. That’s just like yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Fuck Milley: if he actually did what he claimed, he should be in Leavenworth for at least the next twenty years.
Now you’ve done it. We’re all on the new list now.
It’s lists all the way down.
Though the term has become popular among mainstream Republicans, it has a darker past. Experts say the concept of “cultural Marxism” posing a threat was historically spread by antisemitic and white supremacist groups.
For most voters who hear candidates say someone is communist or Marxist, the true meaning may matter less than the negative associations with the terms, said James Gardner, a University at Buffalo law professor who focuses on election law.
“The tactic seems to be to pick an adjective that most people think describes something bad and try to associate it with the person you are denigrating,” he said.
Still, while railing against communists and Marxists may be effective at animating voters who form the Republican base, it may not be an effective strategy in next year’s general election, Israel said.
That’s because it doesn’t as easily sway moderate and independent voters who don’t see evidence that ties Democrats to those ideologies.
Or they, you know, approve wholeheartedly.
Nothing dispels those white supremacist conspiracy theories about a cabal of Marxist Jews pulling the levers of power like conflating all criticism of the Democratic Party with anti-Semitism and using it as a pretext for censoring your political opponents.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘Squad’ member Rashida Tlaib urges eco-zealots to be ‘much more aggressive’ in a secret pep talk ahead of their summer of blocking highways and vandalizing art galleries”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12210657/Squad-member-Rashida-Tlaib-urges-eco-activists-aggressive-secret-pep-talk.html
CWAC
FAFO, more like.
So…incitement.
Totally not Marxist behavior, right The AP?
“EXCLUSIVE: The trans school conspiracy exposed: Midwest teachers trade tips on ‘subversively and quietly’ transitioning kids without telling their parents, and skirting Republican gender laws, in workshop funded by federal government”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12202901/Midwest-teachers-trade-tips-subversively-quietly-transitioning-kids-without-telling-parents.html
CWABOA
“DailyMail.com gained access to an online session hosted by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP), which is funded by the Department of Education, attended by some 30 teachers from Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois and beyond”
MAP?
They might want to seriously rethink that abbreviation post haste… I know I did a double take when I skimmed over the definition and got to: “the MAP specialist” later in the article.
Or is that just their way of “subtly” rubbing people’s noses in it?
How about CROTCH, or RIMJOB for an abbreviation? I have work to do our I would spell it all out.
MLSTR?
I sure wish they’d put this type of effort and urgency into teaching kids reading, writing, and math.
WHITE SUPREMACY!!!!!
It’s ultra-conservative, radical comments like this that get people on FBI lists.
But we were told this never happens, so the laws were unnecessary.
The law of merited impossibility has never been more universal.
Cripes, one of those teachers is in my home town. (I am not surprised.)
All evidence that contradicts the narrative doesn’t exist because we said so.
At times, GOP lawmakers insist they’re uninterested in relitigating an attack that is political poison for the party outside of deep-red areas. But at other times, some Republicans have stoked narratives that falsely pin blame for the attack on police, Democrats or far-left agitators — or downplay the violence at the Capitol. The latter approach has seen a noticeable uptick of late.
And it’s not just far-right conservatives who fall in that group — some House GOP leaders and key committee chiefs have shown they’re willing to flirt with the fringe without an outright embrace. Speaker Kevin McCarthy has shared security video of that day with far-right media figures who have minimized or fed inaccurate portrayals of the attack.
Like I said in the dead article, if the Dems take the House, Senate, and White House there will be a National Holiday for “Beating the Jan 6th Coup.”
Guy Fawkes Day for Americans.
The GOP flirts with other fringy conspiracy theories like the vid was developed in a lab and RussiaRussiaRussia! was a hoax so why not this one.
Surrender
Attorneys for the State of Montana said Friday they will not call one of their top expert witnesses in the only youth climate lawsuit to make it all the way to trial in the U.S.
Climatologist Judith Curry, who disagrees with the scientific consensus that human activity is primarily responsible for dangerous warming of the planet, has provided written testimony, but will not be present in court this week.
She’s too chicken to debate a bunch of school kids. That’s what it is. There is no other possible explanation.
The story also doesn’t seem to be marked “commentary” anywhere.
Just the facts, ma’am.
“Vegan NYC landlord refuses to rent apartments to tenants that cook meat, fish
Under the Big Apple’s Human Rights Law, landlords aren’t allowed to consider 14 specific characteristics — including age, race, or sexual orientation — when they decide to approve or deny a prospective tenant’s application.
A tenant’s dietary preference isn’t on the list.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/vegan-nyc-landlord-wont-let-tenants-rent-apartments-if-they-cook-meat/
So legal, but still stupid.
*Landlord Michal Arieh Lerer was described in the listing as a “wonderful vegan landlord.”*
Phrases I never expected to read.
“Vegan Mafia Hitman”
There is a certain ruthlessness in both of those descriptors.
Just wait until we have transexual vegan overlords.
I want to set up a hot dog cart in front of his house now.
Not a hog smoker?
Does that mean other building owners can set up food preferences too, such as “only BBQ lovers welcome,” or “Hamburgers or fuck off?”
Get the case before Gorsuch. He figured out how to make “sex” mean “sexual orientation and gender identity,” I’m sure he could find a way to fit “meat preference” in there as well.
To be fair, “no nicotine” seems to be legal so why not this.
Greta Thunberg’s infamous 2018 tweet will be five years old in two days, so I guess we’ve still got a couple of days left to stop using fossil fuels or we’re all doomed.
Just a reminder that today is National Martini Day. It’ll be Monkey 47 for me.
Take due notice thereof and govern yourselves accordingly.
Nice. I tied one on yesterday like there was no tomorrow. I shall admire my Monopolova from afar.
I sure wish they’d put this type of effort and urgency into teaching kids reading, writing, and math.
How droll.
WTF Swiss?
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=602373&post_id=129533014
“ Yesterday, a rare third referendum was held. At the end of 2022, the Swiss parliament decided to extend some aspects of the Covid laws, including the vaccine certificates, until summer 2024. The reason given was that a dangerous new Covid variant may emerge and the authorities would have to react quickly. Due to the extension, opponents of the policies obtained enough signatures to force a new referendum.
Despite the ongoing contention, a significant majority of 61.9% voted in favour of these laws.”
Wow.
The Swiss ain’t what they used to be.
Just leave the tards alone.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-groomed-developmentally-challenged-16-year-old-become-terrorist-then-arrested-him
I thought the FBI’s ‘tard grooming program was restricted to Quantico.
*sensible chuckle*
“Police Remove Journalist From “All Ages” Drag Show After Recording Drag Performers Spreading Legs In Front of Children
A pro-child safeguarding journalist was removed from a kid-friendly drag show in Alamo, Texas after being accused of filming a drag performer flashing his genitals at the crowd of young children.”
https://www.thepublica.com/police-remove-journalist-from-drag-show-after-recording-drag-performers-spreading-legs-in-front-of-children/
https://twitter.com/ThePublicaNow/status/1670476889729687553
Remember the innocent days of Lenny Bruce?
I can’t even
But the cops won’t come for your guns.
Pinkie swear.
“What were you doing filming this guy showing his cock to 8 year olds, you fuckin’ PERVERT!”
I know, how fucking bigoted.
Just a straight up fucking lie. Drag is sexual by definition.
This is getting retarded.
I’m actually starting to hate the parents more than the perverts.
The perverts are just exploiting the situation. The parents are using their kids as little virtue signaling devices with no regard for their own child’s well-being.
What is the responsible thing to do if your scientific study is used by an inconvenient person? Retract that boitch!
https://quillette.com/2023/06/18/if-the-findings-detract-you-must-retract/
Yikes!
Diversity, ftw!!
Fucking lab should have jumped in, though. I’m disappointed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ecuador-woman-revived-funeral-died-rcna89998
Look lady, make up your mind.
It was the drugs falling out her ass that revived her.
Right when I got out of the watch hobby the Chinese started making Tourbillon escapement watches. This one is right around $1k.
https://youtu.be/p9bXOfbxhWQ
It’s got all the right design and parts, but accuracy is mediocre. (The traces on the watch timer should be parallel and look like railroad tracks running 180 degrees)
If they spent another couple hundred bucks on tweaking the accuracy and the finishes it would be an amazing value. Right now it’s just good enough.
Wow. Something I have never seen before. You Tube gave me an audio renderer error and asked me to restart my computer. Noh!
Pretty!
But I’ll stick with my Garmin.
My ruthlessly efficient Jack Mason Solar will serve me until the apocalypse.
Yeah, I have a Casio G-Shock solar and atomic that’s running great after 12 years.
Might order another…
You should do so before the quality goes to poop, just like everything else.
atomic?
Radio receiver that receives a sync signal from FedGov’s atomic clock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock
Got a wall clock and an alarm clock that sync up to that. The wall clock has a traditional face (i.e. not digital,) and if you stay up late enough, it’s kinda fun* to watch the hands zip around the dial moving forward by 11 hours in order to “fall back” when DST ends.
*This should not be construed as an endorsement of DST.
Atomic clock. Automatically adjusts.
I was part of a replica watch forum back around the mid to late aughts and there were a few Chinese replicas being advertised with a working tourbillion. A couple of the braver souls ordered them, and it turned out the “tourbillion” was an utterly cosmetic, inert, non-functional mechanism simply placed in the dial window for appearance. The fact that they’ve got an actual working tourbillion in a watch at that price is pretty impressive. That said, yeah, it’s chinkshit.
It’s finished the way a base ETA movement would be, but with poorer lubrication and hairspring and balance work. Hence the worse accuracy.
I’m no expert by any means, but that seems to be the case with a lot of movements from China. You may recall I bought a cheapo Seagull ETA 6497 clone to start learning/practicing with a few years ago. It arrived functional, but unlubricated as far as I could tell, and about as accurate as counting “one-one-thousand.” If life ever decides to take a break from reaming my ass, I’d like to get back into that.
Save the lube for the reaming.
You’ll have a great movement after that!
Love it here.
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1669003381317279745
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1666872224932823053
Somehow this is way more gay than Pride Month.
I like how he had a blue check.
Eight bucks is eight bucks, same as downtown.
We’re not ruled by narcissistic psychopaths.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1670173686454947842
Is she wrong?
Muff diving, Bud Light chugging diversity hire is pretty epic.
I’m important!
😬
The fuck?
Tut tut
The idea is that when a serious person debates a crank, he elevates and legitimizes him. This was once a sensible rule. When conspiracy theorists were fringe figures, fighting with an established expert was just about the only thing that could raise their profiles. And for the expert, such a fight was a tawdry visit to a best-ignored intellectual gutter.
But neither experts nor cranks are what they used to be. Nor, for that matter, is legitimacy. RFK Jr. is already a nationally recognized personality. He’s a Kennedy; he’s the only Democrat after Joe Biden whose polling in double digits; and he’s a hero to millions of Americans who sympathize with his unfounded views. Kennedy isn’t a voice in some remote fever swamp. He embodies one side of a critical fight in 21st -century American intellectual life. On the question of whether we can dispense with reason and empiricism, he’s a solid Yea. Scientists and others don’t quite realize it yet, but much of the ground that had been conquered in the name of logic and intellect is once again up for grabs.
Finally, we hear from the serious grownups at Commentary.
Yes, please do. The ass-whooping you’ll get will be worth the price of admission ten times over.
and he’s a hero to millions of Americans who sympathize with his unfounded views.
He’s a standard-issue lefty who would be a policy disaster on pretty much every issue, but because even a stopped clock is right twice a day, some people think he’s a savior.
Year ago, it would just be “sympathize with his views.” “Unfounded” is yellow journalism of the worst kind. A paid-off lackey of the government, or even worse, a stupid SOB who does it for free.
But in Florida, a Social Security number is among 19 pieces of personal information included on “Notice to Appear” forms handed out for non-criminal violations.
See? Procedures were followed.
I remember seeing “Flash Gordon”. That was a trippy movie as I recall.
The one with Brian Blessed? That’s the bomb.
So campy it needs a Coleman stove.
My kids loved it.
“What’s the point?” you might ask. “Conspiracy theorists can’t be reasoned out of their positions.” This may or may not be true (more on that below). But there’s something bigger at stake: the minds of the undecideds. Americans don’t generally fall into discrete, opposing categories of conspiracy theorists and mainstream thinkers. Many today who aren’t conspiracy theorists nevertheless find themselves giving conspiracy theories a second look. And the cranks’ access to mainstream minds has been facilitated by expert failure and deception. If the public-health VIPs like Hortez hadn’t made such a hash of the Covid response, hadn’t been dishonest about masks, lockdowns, and the origins of the virus, they might have a better claim to their title as unquestionable authorities. But their mistakes and their arrogance have weakened their position as science’s gatekeepers. They not only need to discredit the crazies; they need to redeem themselves.
Whaaat?
Dispel my suspicion you mean they weren’t forceful enough about all those things from the beginning.
The usage of that phrase reveals all.
Unintentional truth-telling.
Muff diving, Bud Light chugging diversity hire is pretty epic.
Egotistical idiot child is special, and don’t you forget it.
I can’t remember who did the job before her, and I will forget about her when she quits.
Jen Psaki, I think. He had to go with a ginger as nobody with a soul would want the job (with apologies to GT).
::narrows gaze:: Apology taken under advisement.
Hello?
Strawberry!
I still miss Trump’s vixen.
Sean Spicer is quite a catch.
Emancipate the cleavage on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/MOipR
America Celebrates Juneteenth, The Day Republicans Freed All The Democrats’ Slaves
The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday, commemorating the glorious day Republicans freed the last of the Democrats’ slaves.
“We are so proud to show the world how not racist we are by officially recognizing the day the Republicans came charging in to free all our slaves,” said Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer. “Yeah– we Democrats did a little ‘whoopsie’ with that whole slavery thing, but the Republicans corrected it. Thanks, Republicans!”
Meh. It’s an idiotic holiday and an idiotic talking point if you ask me. Slavery was still legal until the ratification of the 13th amendment and you had Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland still in the union even during the civil war, putting the lie to the narrative it was all about freeing the slaves rather than perpetual union.
It’s just the Bee.
I know, and I swear I’m not a humorless fuck, but the heffalumps flogging the whole “we freed the slaves” thing pushes my buttons for whatever reason.
We are all in the same boat. Here, something not so serious. A replica can of Liquid Schwartz:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/944482357/spaceballs-prop-replica-liquid-schwartz
Yup. I believe NJ was the last state to give it up.
And the Irish were the first slaves.
I’m fine being a humorless fuck.
A New Hampshire state senator has been arrested after allegedly slapping and spitting on a man in a bar, police say. Keith Murphy, 47, a Republican lawmaker who was elected in 2022, was arrested on two counts of simple assault and one of criminal threatening. Police say Murphy threatened and spat on a man during an argument at Murphy’s Taproom, a bar he operates in Manchester, NH.
Huh. Not what I intended but at least the link works.
That’s the kind of behavior we need in the Senate, not the barroom.
NH State Rep. Dan Hynes leaves Republican Party
Bedford state Rep. Dan Hynes has left the Republican Party over what he says is its abandonment of conservative principles, in particular his opposition to the GOP’s embrace of the Parents Bill of Rights.
By changing his party status to “undeclared/independent,” Hynes reduced the size of the GOP majority to 199-196-2 and two vacancies left to fill, exposing yet again how narrowly Republicans are clinging to power in the closely-divided body.
OK groomer.
Seriously… THAT is the hill he chooses to die on?!
So it’s a Republican principle that parents cede authority over the children to the State?
Poll shows Kelly Ayotte most popular choice for NH governor
With popular four-term incumbent Gov. Chris Sununu strongly hinting he won’t seek a record fifth term, an exclusive NHJournal/coefficient poll shows former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte is currently the top choice among Granite State Republicans to take his place.
As speculation spreads regarding Sununu’s future, three names have emerged as the most likely to seek the GOP nomination in the event of a vacancy in the governor’s office: Ayotte, Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut, and former state Senate President Chuck Morse.
In the poll, conducted last week, Ayotte was the choice of 69 percent of respondents. Morse was at 22 percent, and Edelblut 9 percent.