darth does beer count as a snack y/n/maybe

Hey on va en aller 'sus Grand Mamou
Tout les soirs et tout les nuits
Mais moi j'connais oui ma chérie
Hey, hey-hey, oh, ah-ah
Hey on va en aller 'sus Grand Mamou

Sir, this is Bluesky, not a Wendy's

BEEN THERE

Ah yes, me grandpappy on both sides of the family tree

This opening scene of the long-awaited Marx Brothers revival, right?

I guess the way I would put it is that while electing judges is probably sub-optimal, it's at least some way to hold them accountable so they hold other elected officials accountable.

@jfruh.bsky.social I feel seen by your commentary on Herb and Jamaal today. Seen, I tell you!

Elected judges is a bad thing in theory, but in practice, it's pretty okay, actually? Certainly, the Wisconsin Supreme Court hasn't been any more partisan than they would be if they were appointed.

You know, the guy who worked on Hideo Kojima video games.

a. SCOTUS justices are not elected, of course, but if they're going to act like partisan players, maybe they should be?

b. .cc @mcopelov.bsky.social

This may be an opportune time to offer up Wisconsin's recent history again: Corrupted court -> enables Republican overreach -> leads to backlash -> leads to changes in court -> enables course correction

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Eggzackle. If the message you as a Christian take from "Woe to you Pharisees" is "Jews are bad," you've...pretty much missed the entire point of the passage?

Yep, see my reply to your post. I take pains to tell people that they're overhearing an intramural debate, and they can't generalize from it in certain ways.

Pretty lousy, I imagine! There's only a couple of villages left, and they live under Israeli occupation.

Yeah, it definitely hasn't filtered down as much as it should.

Right. I usually explain those passages by saying: "Imagine the debates between Democrats and Republicans, but we only get to hear one side of the fight." Or I'll tell people who the Pharisees became, warn against antisemitism, then explain what Jesus is talking about w/o reference to his opponents.

(The trick is, some people think Pharisees were "back then," like the Sadducees, without understanding the continuity from Pharisees to modern rabbinic Judaism. Very few, if any, liberal Christians today would think Jesus' beefs with Pharisees justified antisemitism today.)

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

100% on Hegseth's use of "the Pharisee press," less so on liberal Christians. There are some who haven't gotten the message, but mainline seminaries have been warning preachers about attacks on Pharisees for at least 30 years.

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This is not a given.

My wife keeps saying Dems need to have A Plan, and this actually sounds like a pretty good start.

I was going to say "Aw, nah, we'll make it because we're tough and resilient" but then I remembered who has the nuclear codes and yeah, he's got a point.

Same

[EXTREMELY SERIOUS ANNOUNCER VOICE] The only thing you should blame on your cat are those gaseous emanations which are a result of her new kibble and totally not the fault of the Taco Bell you had for lunch.

I'm not sure what would be worse: if the little old ladies hated them, or if the little old ladies loved them.

This is forbidden (by the dress code at work, not bluesky).

As someone raised on the KJV I'm going to lose it if he adds another "woe" in the future.

And if he goes for three...

The most devout members of the founding generation advocated for the separation of church and state primarily because they feared that their *churches* would become corrupted by politics, and Hegseth and his ilk are doing a fine job of proving that those concerns were well-founded.