“So there I was, watching Fox News on one TV, NewsMax on another, dick in hand of course - I’m an alpha you see. And I see this dude trying to steal my freedoms. I ran after him, and I heard him say something woke. It was either “Sorry - wrong house” or “I want to rape your wife and abort the baby”. I couldn’t tell which. Of course I had my blue steel beauty in the hand I wasnt using to rub one out - so I started blasting…”
For a second I thought he was making fun of Trump. Like Giuliani “cleaned it up” and Trump said it was a “hellhole”. They can’t get their facts straight.
Although I notice that it was a pretty good idea to buy property in that hellhole before it was “cleaned up”. Like it would have made you a ton of money.
The UK used the same argument to stop the addition of iodine to salt. “People already consume enough dietary iodine”. You know what happened? Thyroid diseases are on the rise in the UK again, slowly creeping back to early XX century levels.
I think iodine is underappreciated. But also I think fewer and fewer people use the salt shaker because they eat so much processed food (which has salt that is not iodized). Then you’re down to milk and seafood. Milk gets it because they use iodine to sanitize the udders. So if you don’t drink milk and who eats seafood on most days. Solution to anyone reading: multivitamin.
This is not getting enough air time. All of the same MFs that cry about the Biden inflation were using PPP money to fuel luxury consumption and very few payroll amounts. Get them in jail.
Think hard on this. This is an aerospace tech company.
Now-
Remember that Trump, a piece of shit coward that’s staring down the barrel of multiple prison sentences and desperately needs to win an election that could be influenced by the outcome of a trial……
has the names and addresses of all the jurors in said trial.
I can’t help but feel like this is their endgame with these ridiculous laws. They’re making their states so unpalatable to reasonable people that all the reasonable people leave. Everyone who remains are either “the poors” who can’t afford to go (and who they work to disenfranchise as much as possible), or people who are just as far-right as they are, securing both their own seats and presidential election votes for their candidate.
That’s kind of how I see it, especially with the culture war garbage. Being hostile to the LGBTQ community can take out a couple percent of people that almost certainly vote democratic.
I have. And they are a small minority of the LGBTQ community that Republicans have been more than happy to get rid of without much of an hit to their numbers.
Agreed. I’m interested how businesses will respond to problems like what Bumble has had. Losing that much of the workforce or seeing them all suddenly ask to go remote, switch offices etc is a huge disruption. Plus if it hasn’t already gotten hard for Texas-based businesses to find talent it will. At some point the state government will have to deal with businesses exiting the state.
We’ll see how companies like Caterpillar feel about moving to Texas in a couple years when the Texas Legislature starts trying to bring back segregation.
Turn the whole place into post-tornado Waco? You’ve got a pretty decent point, Waco is full of wacko religious cults and is a pretty good model if you just want a bunch of educated idiots.
Apparently making material available to those who choose to seek it out is “shoving it down (the) throats” of people who wouldn’t step foot in a fucking library if they were bitten by a snake and the antidote was inside.
This is what boggles me about this whole library fiasco. The ones clamoring for book bans likely haven’t set foot near a library after flunking out of high school, much less can read or comprehend words bigger than those found in Dr Seuss books. Yet they’re basing political might on what they’ve heard these books are about, and how it lines up with what their local pastors and “news” sources shove up their ass. Zero first hand knowledge of the actual literature, just fear mongering that some random author is turning their kids gay and indoctrinating people against good Christian values.
This whole defunding of education really is cyclical and beginning to bear it’s ugly fruit.
This is what boggles me about this whole library fiasco. The ones clamoring for book bans likely haven’t set foot near a library after flunking out of high school, much less can read or comprehend words bigger than those found in Dr Seuss books.
I think I see why they do this even though they’re stupid for doing so. It goes something like this:
“I don’t read books. Liberals read books. When kids read books they turn into liberals. So the solution to hurting liberals and ‘protecting’ our children is to get rid of books”
There are dozens of ways this is shortsighted behavior of conservatives, but being shortsighted is very on-brand with conservatives anyway.
Yet they’re basing political might on what they’ve heard these books are about, and how it lines up with what their local pastors and “news” sources shove up their ass.
It’s characteristic of today’s right wing that they will follow their authority figures and would-be fascist dictators like sheep, while accusing everyone who disagrees or questions them of being mindless sheep.
These people only have one book (that most of them haven’t even read start to finish) and it’s enough for them - anything else is probably blasphemy, satanism and (worst of all) woke…
It’s just so sad and scary that even tough we now have access to sum total of human knowledge at our fingertips, and yet people like these, who would drag us all back to middle ages, still exist, and if anything become stronger and stronger…
the antivenom found in libraries is a woke socialist trap that will give you autism and aids and turn you into that guy waving giant pride flags with both hands while wearing nothing but a jock strap and a rainbow mohawk.
(alright, now I want a rainbow mohawk. I promise to wear more than just a jockstrap though, nobody wants to see that.)
That takes me back. A friend of mine back in high school came downtown with his head in a giant 2-foot spike straight up. I asked him how he did it and he replied, “Elmer’s Glue.”
But I don’t know that I’d want to put it in my hair every day after I showered yesterday’s off.
It is biblical. Charity to people like Paul was freely given out of love vs welfare-taxation system we have now.
Of course a good person who was a Christian could reason out
“Paul was in Rome so he must have seen the free donations of food given by the emperor to the city’s poor but didn’t comment on it. Which meant that when he talks about charity he is talking about a supplement, yes a supplement not a first response, to actual effective large scale operations. I should be happy with both. A good government that works hard that I add too. Not a bad government I helped create and stick a bandaid on by throwing a twenty in the collection plate”.
A pity this doesn’t seem to occur to them. Despite the theological wiggle room.
I’ve been in a similar position, and can attest to it being something that takes a toll on your energy, mood, and health. The fact that she went to court and is going back is impressive as fuck.
Some times being the martyr is genuinely useful. She made an achievement, and she isn’t obligated to stay afterwards. She could have just moved on without fighting for justice.
Until it gets kicked up to federal court, at which point a judge will laugh Texas out of the courtroom. This is a huge waste of time that will achieve nothing.
I doubt the Supreme Court would go for this since it would also mean that the Washington AG could demand something from a Texas hospital. Or any state from any other state. It’s because they’re bought and paid for that they wouldn’t do something that would jeopardize their own paymasters’ positions like that.
the fact of trans people being involved has the effect of making anything complicated, apparently. It’s just sooooo complicated to checks notes allow us the same rights and protections as anyone else. But oh hey someone’s building a database of trans people while passing a bunch of anti-trans legislation? Hold on now it’s complicated he may have a point.
And, of course, it’s only trans people for now. If they can build a database of people getting gender-affirming care, they can build a database of people getting any other sort of medical care. For example, care for HIV or sickle cell anemia or Tay Sachs. And then there’s the ability to make a database of women getting legal abortions, certain forms of birth control or IVF treatments. Awfully convenient way to keep track of ‘problem’ members of society, isn’t it?
The confederate states split from the union because they wanted the federal government to force free states to return escaped slaves, effectively enforcing the laws of one state on the residents of another. We are reenacting the events that led to the first Civil War.
Why do people even want to go to Dubai of all places?
Brainwashing. My dad was with a group on vacation there (all 50+). We had a hard time convincing him that not everything is as great as they say there and that they left a lot of unsavory details out.
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