Menu for the White House Correspondents' Dinner:
/ Gulf of America shrimp cocktail
/ Leni Riefenstahl salad, sanewashed and served with normalized onions
/ Quisling stew
/ Quiet Piggy pork roast
/ Sauvignon Blanc, very blanc, imported from South Africa
/ Orange sherbet
/ Let them eat cake
Almost a thousand at the naval station north of Chicago. Half as many deaths as US combat deaths in the entire war in Afghanistan.
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Wait you mean we've lost Dershowitz? Holy shit that's huge, now I'm worried we could even lose Turley!
I was just thinking about how things went so horribly wrong in the car that they had to call Mr Wolf (& there isn’t a Mr Wolf for us & Iran)
Taking us back to a greater era, World War I, when we had a War Department, there were no women in combat, & more soldiers, sailors, & marines died of flu & pneumonia than died in combat.
I heard that in 2008 the Obama team looked at Mississippi. They figured out how high they thought they could get Black turnout, & it meant he needed 12% of white voters.
No message got him to 12%.
But would the electorate look the same as a presidential? No. Could they get 20% of whites? Maybe
Motherfucker you JUST did a kindergarten photo op with Barack Obama
Implication, btw, is you can’t cook whole birds unless you spatchcock them. I grill spatchcocked chickens in the center of the grill, a line of no coals in the center w the coals on each side of the chicken. That way the wings/thighs/legs are exposed to greater heat.
I learned that prob 2-3 years ago, that you don’t cook dark meat to 165, you go over 180. It completely changed how I enjoy thighs.
My sixth grade daughter is about 6 inches taller than my son.
They’re twins.
The law firm Kash Patel hired for his defamation suit was a major player in the landmark People vs. Foster Brooks case, so he’s not fucking around.
I like thighs more since I realized you need to cook them to +180 to break down the connective tissue so they aren’t kinda slimy.
NC probably has the most gerrymandered legislative maps in the country, & Ohio is probably top five
As for Maine, the legislature is so huge for such a small population that state house members represent about 9K people, state senators 38K. (OH is 120K/360K.) ME lege isn’t a bench for higher office
Just passed a guy at a busy intersection with w deranged look on his face, a US flag, & a sandwich board sign that said “zionists out of the US government.”
And I think Kent quit more than was pushed out.
He did sorta-kinda fire Waltz, but Trump put him in a new position. But he also dropped Waltz’ sister-in-law for Surgeon General, so I guess it cancels out.
…when Dems are in charge? Repubs have the governor & legislature for 22 years, they’ve controlled every statewide state office/board/commission for 16 years
Letting people believe stupid shit like “both parties are the same” is infantilizing & fosters passivity bc they think change is impossible
If I didn’t read the article how would I know she “affirmed their experiences, validated their feelings and pointed out the very real injustices in their lives, the very real failure of either political party to help?”
She was talking to someone in Georgia. How would she know it’s the same…
1. The memories that matter are yours, not theirs. My mom won't remember what we did today by the time she goes to bed, but I will. I try to take a little bit of time every day to create a good one, take a picture, hold a hand. 2/x
Practical advice is vital for those entering this storm, but it's the decidedly non-practical things that I'm finding are important as I go through this which also should be shared. 1/x
It was an endorsement convention, the nominating convention happens in August, after the gubernatorial/legislative/federal primary
Turnout was much higher in the battleground states than nationally. In every contested state except Arizona both Trump AND Harris got more votes than the number of voting-eligible non-voters. The big turnout gap is because of lower turnout in safe D & safe R states where there was no campaign.
If you’re an organizer who affirms feelings over facts you should just fucking stay home & watch TV instead of contributing to the problem
2016 Bernie was a novelty, Hillary had baggage (her own but unfairly also Bill’s), Trump was a novelty, the Russians boosting all of this was unknown, etc.
I think it’s all turned darker since the Tara Reade op & then the nearly exclusive Gaza-centric focus of some progressive activism since 2022
I dunno. I think where/around whom you lived matters. My memories from early in the pandemic include traffic plummeting bc we’d all been asked to stay home, people giving money to consumer service businesses, rallies outside hospitals to cheer the healthcare workers, etc.
I can’t tell if the young people pushing the Bernie view of the Democratic Party are a new & pernicious force unlike anything since the late 1960’s, or if I’m just old.
Federal civil service.
And, for that matter, the armed services & the foreign service as well.
Oh gawd, I missed that.
Yeah, idiots.
There hadn’t been 50 years of affirmative action hiring when Hitler became chancellor. Our federal service is made up heavily of the people Trump is attacking.
