Today, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that their investigation found that NY Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women. Here’s Cuomo’s response, and yikes — is it ever cringe-worthy.
I don’t think he helped himself with this.
SCHUMER/GILLIBRAND: “The reported actions of the Governor were profoundly disturbing, inappropriate and completely unacceptable… The people of New York deserve better leadership in the governor’s office. We continue to believe that the Governor should resign.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 3, 2021
Cuomo’s doing himself no favors, not that he cares. He is going to try and bluster and BS his way through his, all while giving GOPers more ammo.
He’s not above the law. He’s not indispensable. There are others who can do the job as well or better. He deserves the coming criminal investigation (which is entirely warranted). He deserves to be bankrupted too.
You can’t just claim that this is a cultural thing. We don’t accept harassment and misogyny as a cultural thing. It is wrong.
He needs to just resign and be done with it. He’s not winning this fight.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
I tuned out when he started off his crap with a female relative suffering the after effects of sexual abuse and he knows from her experiences how awful it is. AND?? So he knew that and continued to sexually harass whoever he felt like harassing? Great lesson pal. Bye Bye.
Reminds me of this gem from 23 years ago.
Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: | The Onion
WASHINGTON, DC—With sexual-misconduct allegations continuing to envelop his presidency, President Clinton held a press conference Monday to reiterate his strong denial of charges that he had sex with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
“We did not have sex,” said Clinton in a terse, carefully worded statement. “We made love. Sweet, sweet love.”
Clinton, who in the past has emphatically denied ever having sexual relations with Lewinsky or telling her to lie about it, held fast to his earlier remarks.
“I said that I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman, and I stand by the truth of that statement,” Clinton told reporters. “We did not, I repeat, not, have a mere sexual relationship. What the two of us shared that fateful year we spent in each other’s arms was so much more than that.”
According to Clinton, between December 1995 and April 1996, he and Lewinsky did not merely have sex. Rather, he said, they lounged luxuriously for hours in the Oval Office, reading each other poetry, feeding each other strawberries, and tenderly caressing each other about the face and neck before surrendering to desire and consummating their heartfelt passion.
re: #306 teleskiguy
I’m trying to wrap my mind around how all these GQP governors feel that somehow it’s politically advantageous to let their constituents die of preventable disease.
The strategy is to blame it on Biden and the Democrats, which they’ve been doing since the day Biden took office.
On top of that, conservatives do vote in their own interest: Racism and misogamy. Liberals are quick to ask why they “won’t vote in their own interest” making the same assumption: Everything is about money.
Conservatism is a religion, so the parishioners will go right along with what they’re told to do by their prelates, coupled with Christian churches telling them the same thing.
They don’t care how many of their own they kill, as long as they kill more of us. For the remainder, restriction of voting and gerrymandering might be enough.
President Johnson’s statement about picking a white man’s pocket applies.
People rag on so-called pulpit pimps, but the fact remains their members and followers are a significant fraction of all Christians.
If you can’t get Roman Catholics to throw in the towel over their church’s centuries-old child rape or make excuses for it (my church doesn’t do that), then Protestant ministers’ hold on their parishioners can only be assumed to be equally strong.
Per CNN: Police office killed in the Washington shooting.
Tennessee has sent nearly half a million dollars to farmers who have vaccinated their cattle against respiratory diseases and other maladies over the past two years,” the Associated Press reports.Said Gov. Bill Lee (R) — whose administration started the vaccination incentive program for cattle — of incentives for Covid-19 vaccines: “I don’t think that’s the role of government. The role of government is to make it available and then to encourage folks to get a vaccine.”
Cows yes
People no
Canada has better critical thinking skills across the entire population. This is a result of ensuring all children have access to adequate education and healthcare.
— Task Force 141 (@paulsukhu) August 1, 2021
re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Remember the poll that showed that the governor of South Dakota had the same approval ratings as the head of New Zealand for their response to the virus?
re: #8 Dread Pirate Ron
Canada also does not have Fox News or OAN…or a deranged former Prime Minister with a cult following.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
He needs to just resign and be done with it. He’s not winning this fight.
Until people start calling for his impeachment not just a resignation he is going to stick around as long as they let him. He may even be able to make it to the end of his term next year
re: #13 Dr Lizardo
YEAH, BUT WE DON’T EAT PEOPLE!!! NOT YET, ANYWAYS.
They didn’t know about soylent green either
If you’re dumb enough to go to a covid party, you’re dumb enough to climb on the roof and fall to your death when the police show up about the noise. His knowledge that he’d chosen to do something terribly wrong led to this.
Tom Miller: Hiding student fell to death at illegal lockdown party (BBC)
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Canada also does not have Fox News or OAN…or a deranged former Prime Minister with a cult following.
Whatever happened to Stephen Harper anyway?
They do have Rebel Media though.
I signed an executive order directing @HealthyFla to enter rulemaking in collaboration with @EducationFL to protect parents’ freedom to choose whether their children wear masks in schools. https://t.co/94ZMqObRas
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) July 30, 2021
ℹ Florida COVID-19 Update for August 2, 2021
🔴 Total Confirmed Hospitalizations: 10,389 🔴 pic.twitter.com/yWRyZAycCv— Florida Hospital Association (@FLHospitalAssn) August 2, 2021
re: #17 Dangerman
Perhaps the Florida Hospital Association should call their infection and death report the “Florida Freedom Update.”
re: #17 Dangerman
“Healthy Florida” is a nice Orwellian term.
Small sacrifices on the altar of his ambition. Their suffering is worth it if he can b be reelected.
— Karin Carter Smith (@karinanniebell) July 30, 2021
Hi Jim,https://t.co/nLzp34uYvm
Simple Google searches.
They just happen to own well over 28 patents as well.
💰 💰 🤑 pic.twitter.com/WLuGMAJA5p— Romeo Yankee Zulu (@kc0ryz) July 30, 2021
Promoting JFK Jr’s group as if it is an authority on the CDC.
The Twitterati here should report this account for vaccine misinformation.
That way, the libertarians who run Twitter can ignore you because you’re trying to get between them and their profits.
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I believe the accepted technical terminology designates those as “murder mittens”.
Betcha they’re all good Christians though, who would never consider an abortion.
Good, they can spend their time in jail.
Woman charged after 12-year-old daughter gives birth (WFTV, Orlando)
TULSA, Okla. — A woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been arrested after police said her 12-year-old daughter had a baby with a 24-year-old man.
The Tulsa Police Department said Desiree Castaneda was charged with enabling child sex abuse and child neglect, KOKI reported.
The authorities said Castaneda knew her daughter was in a relationship with Juan Miranda-Jara and approved of it.
Police said there were photos of a baby shower that had been thrown and that the images showed the girl with Castaneda, KOKI reported.
(more)
re: #20 teleskiguy
Remember, if the grocery stores close down… We’ll still have each other.
Still haven’t decided if I want to do the four Umphrey’s McGee shows next month (4 shows, 4 nights, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Tulsa), it being what it is and all. I’ll probably go through with it, I’ll be supporting live music and I’ll be surrounded by heads at all the shows, and be Mr. Masky Mask everywhere (I’ve got *cool* masks).
But if there’s, say, 30,000 new infections a day in Texas next month…
re: #17 Dangerman
No one has a right to choose to spread disease. This is a delusion instilled in our braindead radicalized-right, and it won’t just kill the children of lunatics, which is bad enough. It’ll kill the children of responsible adults.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 3, 2021
re: #26 ckkatz
Remember, if the grocery stores close down… We’ll still have each other.
I can go shoot some Covid-infected deer. /s
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
EMERGENCY CUTE BREAK! MAXIMUM DOSE!
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Cuteness? That thing believes you are part of the food chain.
Schumer/McConnell both come out to give their weekly pressers at the same time pic.twitter.com/7arfrfQ6vd
— Ali Zaslav (@alizaslav) August 3, 2021
re: #31 Mike Lamb
Cuteness? That thing believes you are part of the food chain.
Have you noticed that no one has really thought “Hey, we should build a robot cat for a pet” for that reason?
He’s murdering the children of his state so that he can use their deaths to attack President Biden.
I can’t think of anything more disgusting. DeSantis is a Trumpist monster. https://t.co/g1Ksp5M7gM— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2021
re: #17 Dangerman
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This is why any GOPer with even a pinch of self-described libertarianism is full of shit. The bedrock principle of libertarianism is you can do what you want unless/until it starts hurting/impacting other people.
I explain DUNNING-KRUGER to an Anti-Vaxxer. pic.twitter.com/UclCcMCRY3
— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson) August 1, 2021
i wanted to fuck my coworker so i unionized my workplace. now we’re friends with benefits
— andrea more (@amore_orless) August 1, 2021
What do Texas and Florida have in common? Governors competing for the GOP presidential nomination. COVID patients are collateral damage. https://t.co/pu6aX6aj2k @HoustonChron #txlege
— ChrisTomlinson (@cltomlinson) August 3, 2021
“…According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas reported an average of 8,851 cases per day over the last week. Florida reported an average of 12,168. The national average was 66,606 new cases per day. The two states account for about a sixth of the nation’s population.
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Just more than 55 percent of Texans 18 and older are fully vaccinated, according to to CDC data published Monday. That was 38th in the nation. Roughly 59 percent of Florida residents 18 and older are fully vaccinated, 31st in the nation.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, issued an executive order last week barring local governments from limiting the capacity of restaurants and other businesses or requiring facial coverings, even if they are located in a hospital region with a high level of COVID-19 patients.”
re: #20 teleskiguy
When civilization implodes, I could definitely see Alex Jones as the leader/warlord of some deranged cannibal cult.
Though hopefully, not dressed like the Lord Humungous. You need to be seriously jacked to pull that look off.
re: #40 Dr Lizardo
When civilization implodes, I could definitely see Alex Jones as the leader/warlord of some deranged cannibal cult.
Though hopefully, not dressed like the Lord Humungous. You need to be seriously jacked to pull that look off.
Immortan Jones.
re: #40 Dr Lizardo
When civilization implodes, I could definitely see Alex Jones as the leader/warlord of some deranged cannibal cult.
Though hopefully, not dressed like the Lord Humungous. You need to be seriously jacked to pull that look off.
Nobody can pull that look off jacked or not. Lord Humungous looked ridiculous.
re: #41 Targetpractice
Immortan Jones.
Immortan Joe had more charisma, was actually less crazy, and way more intelligent.
re: #12 danarchy
Until people start calling for his impeachment not just a resignation he is going to stick around as long as they let him. He may even be able to make it to the end of his term next year
Yeah, that’s rather the sad reality of modern politics, he’ll stick around until the end of his term if he truly believes that there’s no downside to doing so. Short of being impeached and removed or of criminal charges being brought against him, he’ll just stick around and tell anybody who demands his resignation to piss off.
re: #281 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s men in general. Do you want all Democrats to be women?
Almost no society has tried that. Maybe that’s worth a shot. /s
When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court? When there are nine.—Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Years ago I saw flight attendants put a berserk passenger in a straightjacket. He wasn’t violent, but he was running up and down the aisles with a newspaper in his hand, screaming “This is the FUCKING NEW YORK TIMES, MAN!” I guess they cut the budget for straightjackets.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2021
To be honest there have been times when I felt like running around screaming the same thing.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2021
re: #46 Charles Johnson
That is hilarious. I guess when you’ve traveled as much as you have you got some airplane stories, eh?
re: #26 ckkatz
Remember, if the grocery stores close down… We’ll still have each other.
But don’t eat the clowns, they taste funny.
re: #36 Mike Lamb
This is why any GOPer with even a pinch of self-described libertarianism is full of shit. The bedrock principle of libertarianism is you can do what you want unless/until it starts hurting/impacting other people.
And any Libertarian with a pinch of self-described libertarianism is also full of shit. Libertarianism is the ultimate expression of “I’ve got mine, fuque you.”
Libertarians are right up front trying to crush privacy (Facebook), freedom of the press (Theil), imposing military dictatorships (Chile), selfishness (“The Virtues of Selfishness” by Ayn Rand), &c.
re: #47 teleskiguy
That is hilarious. I guess when you’ve traveled as much as you have you got some airplane stories, eh?
There was the percussionist in the band who liked to go in the airplane bathroom and fire up several doobs, then come out in a huge cloud of pot smoke without even a hint of being worried. I don’t know how this guy managed not to get arrested.
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And any Libertarian with a pinch of self-described libertarianism is also full of shit. Libertarianism is the ultimate expression of “I’ve got mine, fuque you.”
Libertarians are right up front trying to crush privacy (Facebook), freedom of the press (Theil), imposing military dictatorships (Chile), selfishness (“The Virtues of Selfishness” by Ayn Rand), &c.
The ideal libertarian would both be “I’ve got mine” and “It’s good for me for you to have yours.” But people are rarely ideal and you need everyone to be that way.
It wasn’t because he looked clean cut, either. He had long dreds, wore bizarre clothes, and spoke with a thick Gambian accent.
re: #243 danarchy
Probably not, I mean worth 2 million? A big chunk of that is probably the house and the rest retirement accounts. I mean it is definitely comfortable, but who brags about being worth 2 million in this day and age?
You’d be amazed. Try living at my “net worth” or income and find out just how many of those asses there are.
Still lots of privilege on display here this morning.
re: #51 Belafon
The ideal libertarian would both be “I’ve got mine” and “It’s good for me for you to have yours.” But people are rarely ideal and you need everyone to be that way.
The ideal libertarian. Huh. Never heard of one of those.
I thought it was “I’ve got mine” and “I want yours too.”
I thought it was “I’m going to dig a coal mine in my backyard and there’s nothing you can do about it because it’s my yard.”
I thought it was “there’s no such thing as a commons or public property so I can fence off this stream, or have someone arrested if their boat touches my land just because they’re having an emergency.”
The ideal libertarian tries to weaken all laws to benefit the libertarian. If you happen to benefit, great, but he ain’t doing it for you.
At the same time, he wants a robust police force to enforce his private property rights and a robust court to enforce contracts, without paying a dime in taxes for either of those.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
He needs to just resign and be done with it. He’s not winning this fight.
Very disappointing Gov Cuomo. You gotta go now. pic.twitter.com/pyDb935FGd
— Manksy (@TheManksy) August 3, 2021
I’ve smoked weed in some novel places - CU Campus on 20 April 2000 surrounded by tens of thousands of others, on the side of a cliff you can ski into and out of, on a boat miles out from the Florida Keys, in this thing
Feels good to be back at the Grouse Mountain safety meeting spot.
I’ve never smoked weed on an airplane.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You’d be amazed. Try living at my “net worth” or income and find out just how many of those asses there are.
Still lots of privilege on display here this morning.
Please, my net worth is negative if you take my mortgage into account. Just because I don’t have 2 million dollars doesn’t make it fuck you level money. 20 years from now when my mortgage is paid and I have 20 years more worth of investment in my ira and 401k then I may be around that 2 million net worth and it still won’t mean I am rich.
JUST IN:; Entire NY Democratic congressional delegation now calling for Cuomo’s resignation https://t.co/K5wHWOo00n pic.twitter.com/KpFZ6UIzbG
— The Hill (@thehill) August 3, 2021
We’re going to have to deep fry the vaccine, aren’t we?
— Travis Allen 🇺🇸 (@TravisAllen02) August 1, 2021
Man, our country is so fucked up.
My wifes best friend wants to get vaccinated but she is hesitating because she thinks her husband will go ballistic on her if he finds out she got the shot.
So now my wife and I and are trying to convince her to accept an arrangement whereby her vaccination card will stay with us in a safe place so her husband won’t be able to come across it.
I think it’s going to work out but I can’t help but ask myself: WHY THE FUCK IS THIS EVEN NECESSARY??
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
Y’all are doing the right thing and I hope your friend gets her shots (also convince her to get an mRNA shot, which, two doses, still, lookin’ like they work a little better than the J&J). But, fact of the matter is that can’t be a permanent arrangement. Your friend will have to level with her husband at some point.
re: #59 lawhawk
“But why won’t Democrats call for him to resign?”
re: #62 teleskiguy
She knows. She just wants to get protected ASAP. There will be plenty of time to figure the rest out later.
re: #60 teleskiguy
A show I saw probably 20 years ago about what would happen if we had a major pandemic had the vaccine being put in fast food.
“Carlson is the perfect extremist for our times. He is a racist radical with a clean-cut exterior. He wears a jacket and tie as he takes positions in line with those of Fascist thugs past and present.” https://t.co/pa1gPpBEee https://t.co/7O6FJ6j1WJ
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 3, 2021
“I’m not gonna get the vaccine” pic.twitter.com/pllmMTZBEk
— Scott Seiss (@ScottSeiss) May 13, 2021
Just when you think you finally have a handle on how much of an asshole Cuomo is, he does this. https://t.co/QnWrc6MsRw
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 3, 2021
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
So Andrew doesn’t understand the term concent?
It’s Fiona’s favorite holiday, #nationalwatermelonday! 🍉
Her giraffe and meerkat buddies also tried it out but no one loves watermelon quite like Fiona! 🍉🍉🍉
VIDEO: @CincinnatiZoo pic.twitter.com/0Rbq01c0TI— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) August 3, 2021
re: #69 Belafon
So Andrew doesn’t understand the term concent?
Or consent. Yes…. he’s intent on conflating consensual touching with nonconsensual acts that were documented by AG James.
A federal grand jury indicted Chauvin, Kueng, Thao and Lane in May, alleging they violated Floyd’s rights while acting under government authority as Floyd was restrained face-down, handcuffed and not resisting. https://t.co/Wcfi64Cd62
— KSNV News 3 Las Vegas (@News3LV) August 3, 2021
Let’s go to Cuomo trying to conflate consensual touching with the nonconsensual groping he actually engaged in:https://t.co/sPecrpcqaA
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 3, 2021
If you rub a Conservative’s face in death and severe disease close to them, like you make a dog face the poop they left on the carpet, you just might get through to them. They’re the tribe that can’t learn from other’s mistakes unless those others are one degree from them.
All 50 states report rising vaccination rates as COVID infections surge, data shows (Yahoo News)
re: #74 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Morons are finally seeing people close to them get really sick or die and realizing it might just not be a fucking hoax after all.
re: #73 lawhawk
What a dumbass. He can’t just move through this as if he’s a Republican and expected to be terrible. Democrats do not tolerate this shit.
Entire NY Democratic congressional delegation now calling for Cuomo’s resignation (The Hill)
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
Per CNN: Police office killed in the Washington shooting.
Have the republicans started mocking him yet?
re: #76 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Al Franken agrees with you.
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s a marriage that shouldn’t continue, for a great many reasons. If he’s against her getting a vaccine, he’s a controlling abuser.
re: #71 lawhawk
Or consent. Yes…. he’s intent on conflating consensual touching with nonconsensual acts that were documented by AG James.
Andrew Cuomo is going to have to call in an orthopedist (along with some lawyers) - he’s bound to dislocate something doing all that flailing!
Let’s see: what have been his “defenses” against the sexual-harassment allegations AG James has so carefully documented?
- It’s all just a misunderstanding
- The accuser is emotionally unbalanced
- I’m sympathetic! I can’t be guilty!
- It’s all just a political vendetta
- Why isn’t anybody charging Bush and Obama for hugging people??
And does he really think this shit is going to play? (Probably yes, but there we go….)
re: #76 Punish Domestic Terrorists
What a dumbass. He can’t just move through this as if he’s a Republican and expected to be terrible. Democrats do not tolerate this shit.
Entire NY Democratic congressional delegation now calling for Cuomo’s resignation (The Hill)
Again, unless the state legislature moves to impeach him, it is all just a lot of noise.
re: #79 DesertDenizen
That’s a marriage that shouldn’t continue, for a great many reasons. If he’s against her getting a vaccine, he’s a controlling abuser.
I know that. My wife knows that. Her friend knows that. They have three kids under 13 so they’re trying to make it work for their sake.
It’s a very long and fucked up story.
Rod Dreher, from his summer holiday in Hungary, says he’s responsible for persuading his “good friend” Tucker to come to Budapest and ride the Orban express. Because of course he did.
i was already on the ‘horses should get medals’ bandwagon
but horses getting ‘horse-sized medals’ is what i truly want to see
now https://t.co/XtdY3No5JD— darth™ (@darth) August 3, 2021
u would need three additional horses to actually bring the three horse-sized medals to the award stand
also u would need a horse-sized award stand
this is getting a little tricky— darth™ (@darth) August 3, 2021
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sorry to hear that. Best wishes to her and her kids. Is it rude to hope that she and the kids get vaccinated and that covid solves their problem?
Not the Onion:
A wall of ice collapsed Monday at the Titanic Museum Attraction, injuring three visitors to the popular tourist spot in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains. https://t.co/eudLBNhQhK
— CNN (@CNN) August 3, 2021
re: #77 sizzzzlerz
Have the republicans started mocking him yet?
They only mock officers who interfere with Trump supporters.
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
I know that. My wife knows that. Her friend knows that. They have three kids under 13 so they’re trying to make it work for their sake.
It’s a very long and fucked up story.
People who stay in bad marriages, abusive marriages, “for the sake of the children”… are doing a lot of damage to the children by exposing them daily to marital dysfunction for years on end. They’re modeling that abuse is okay and should be tolerated. They’re setting up their children to eventually be in bad marriages themselves, because they’ve never seen a good one.
re: #86 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Not the Onion:
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Sunk the whole exhibit
Alright folks here comes the first round of “it was rigged” #OH11 pic.twitter.com/OHnQsGa9Le
— Bad Faith ✝️🐴🇺🇲 (@Jeffdc5) August 3, 2021
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, our country is so fucked up.
My wifes best friend wants to get vaccinated but she is hesitating because she thinks her husband will go ballistic on her if he finds out she got the shot.
So now my wife and I and are trying to convince her to accept an arrangement whereby her vaccination card will stay with us in a safe place so her husband won’t be able to come across it.
I think it’s going to work out but I can’t help but ask myself: WHY THE FUCK IS THIS EVEN NECESSARY??
Is there any way to not see that as a horribly abusive relationship with a person who is entirely unwell? I couldn’t bite my tongue when faced with an abusive relationship like that. I expect it’s pretty much a constant with the deranged Conservatives, but I could not just act like she should be in that relationship.
re: #88 sagehen
People who stay in bad marriages, abusive marriages, “for the sake of the children”… are doing a lot of damage to the children by exposing them daily to marital dysfunction for years on end. They’re modeling that abuse is okay and should be tolerated. They’re setting up their children to eventually be in bad marriages themselves, because they’ve never seen a good one.
I know. My wife and I have been happily married 13 years now and known all of the friends kids since they were born. We’ve tried to provide as strong a counterpoint as possible to their parents own marriage so they know sometimes two people can and do work together.
re: #86 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Not the Onion:
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Were they shuffling the deck chairs?
re: #88 sagehen
People who stay in bad marriages, abusive marriages, “for the sake of the children”… are doing a lot of damage to the children by exposing them daily to marital dysfunction for years on end. They’re modeling that abuse is okay and should be tolerated. They’re setting up their children to eventually be in bad marriages themselves, because they’ve never seen a good one.
and the kids aren’t clueless…they can see and hear what’s going on.
re: #88 sagehen
People who stay in bad marriages, abusive marriages, “for the sake of the children”… are doing a lot of damage to the children by exposing them daily to marital dysfunction for years on end. They’re modeling that abuse is okay and should be tolerated. They’re setting up their children to eventually be in bad marriages themselves, because they’ve never seen a good one.
Correct. My family was better off after my parents split than it was when they both had me mixing drinks for them, and my mom spent most of her time watching TV in their bedroom. They married way too young because she was pregnant, and stayed together after the stillbirth. I’m just glad they didn’t split back then, or I would not exist.
re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The strategy is to blame it on Biden and the Democrats, which they’ve been doing since the day Biden took office.
On top of that, conservatives do vote in their own interest: Racism and misogamy. Liberals are quick to ask why they “won’t vote in their own interest” making the same assumption: Everything is about money.
Conservatism is a religion, so the parishioners will go right along with what they’re told to do by their prelates, coupled with Christian churches telling them the same thing.
They don’t care how many of their own they kill, as long as they kill more of us. For the remainder, restriction of voting and gerrymandering might be enough.
President Johnson’s statement about picking a white man’s pocket applies.
People rag on so-called pulpit pimps, but the fact remains their members and followers are a significant fraction of all Christians.
If you can’t get Roman Catholics to throw in the towel over their church’s centuries-old child rape or make excuses for it (my church doesn’t do that), then Protestant ministers’ hold on their parishioners can only be assumed to be equally strong.
This is a bit overly cynical. The issue isn’t conservatism being a religion. Poor white conservatives tend to be heavily in churches that want tithes, and the tithes are typically 10% of income. Realizing this, it suddenly becomes a lot more understandable why even middle-class white conservatives will bitch about taxes and government: many of them are already tithing 10% of their gross incomes to churches, and then taxation on top of that feels like bloody murder to them. They have a very ancient understanding of the connection between church and state, which actually stems from the eighteenth century, when priests and preachers the colonies over would teach explicitly political sermons on the necessity of rebellion from England. This carried over into the nineteenth century, with baptist churches in the south creating a slavery apologia, backed up by dubious theology (the mark of cain was black skin). And V.O. Key writes perceptively and persuasively in Southern Politics in State and Nation about how textile owners paid the salaries of the preachers who sermonized to the poor white trash about how they were one step up from the n*****, and that they needed to fight like hell to maintain that level. So it isn’t so much, I don’t think, that these people are cynically sitting around thinking about how lovely it is to be racist: they mostly don’t have shit, and they don’t have the imagination to understand that prosperity is not finite: somebody else doesn’t have to lose in order for you to win.
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
Taliban incursion?
Probing the perimeter for now with suicide bombers. But it won’t be much longer.
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, our country is so fucked up.
My wifes best friend wants to get vaccinated but she is hesitating because she thinks her husband will go ballistic on her if he finds out she got the shot.
So now my wife and I and are trying to convince her to accept an arrangement whereby her vaccination card will stay with us in a safe place so her husband won’t be able to come across it.
I think it’s going to work out but I can’t help but ask myself: WHY THE FUCK IS THIS EVEN NECESSARY??
It’s not. What’s necessary is to change the locks and file divorce papers and let the abuser go kill himself.
I asked McConnell if his support for the bipartisan infrastructure package was contingent upon assurances from moderate Dems they would weaken reconciliation package.
“The infrastructure PKG stands on its own.”
It seems like McConnell is going to ultimately vote for this deal. pic.twitter.com/R3qQtPjpw9— Eva McKend (@evamckend) August 3, 2021
JUST IN: Nearly 72,000 children in the U.S. tested positive for COVID-19 last week—a massive jump from the approximately 39,000 cases among kids one week earlier. https://t.co/R4pSvFUoIx
— ABC News (@ABC) August 3, 2021
re: #101 William Lewis
It’s not. What’s necessary is to change the locks and file divorce papers and let the abuser go kill himself.
Yeah, cause that wouldn’t cause the kids any trauma at all. //
Yeah, Cuomo fucked up…but do keep this in mind…if he goes, Trump skates.
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: Two of Trump’s friends are vying to become Governor of New York so they can pardon Donald and his spawn.
Let’s go after Andrew Cuomo, but get Donald Trump first.— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) August 3, 2021
Springsteen Olympic results:
73 horse/rider pairs in the individual Jumping prelims. 30 will advance to the finals. Jessica came in 31st.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
I like that Schumer cut him off…
Schumer/McConnell both come out to give their weekly pressers at the same time pic.twitter.com/7arfrfQ6vd
— Ali Zaslav (@alizaslav) August 3, 2021
WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki when asked about Florida and Texas governors:
“If you’re not going to be part of the solution, if you’re not going to be part of saving people’s lives, then get out of the way and let other people do the job.” pic.twitter.com/UmlZyNldHw— The Recount (@therecount) August 3, 2021
re: #106 darthstar
Yeah, Cuomo fucked up…but do keep this in mind…if he goes, Trump skates.
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Seems like a great way to run against them in NY though: “My opponent wants to pardon Trump.”
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard says she wants to ‘descend into graceful obscurity’ after finishing LAST in the women’s weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics - so much for that trans threat to women’s sports! Get a grip everyone.
— Frank - ‘Love, Children, Planet’ - Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) August 3, 2021
Had a phone call with my oldest sister yesterday. It’s really odd how someone can sound completely normal for 20 minutes and then go down the fucking rabbit hole. I learned that “illegals” are being bussed around the country and that this is the reason we can’t get a handle on covid, and other miscellaneous shit (“Biden’s an ass!”) that just caused me no end of disappointement. She’s my big sis (bigger sis, I guess) and I love her, but goddamn….I hate having to avoid calling people because they’ve become fucking nuts.
Via NYT:
Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation
Of those 17,000 pieces, 12,000 were said to have come from the Museum of the Bible’s collection (though a Green family member was cited - quelle surprise - as disclaiming them), the rest were from Cornell University; legacy of a gift in the early 2000s, whose provenance was - for some unknown reason - only lightly-researched.
re: #112 steve_davis
Had a phone call with my oldest sister yesterday. It’s really odd how someone can sound completely normal for 20 minutes and then go down the fucking rabbit hole. I learned that “illegals” are being bussed around the country and that this is the reason we can’t get a handle on covid, and other miscellaneous shit (“Biden’s an ass!”) that just caused me no end of disappointement. She’s my big sis (bigger sis, I guess) and I love her, but goddamn….I hate having to avoid calling people because they’ve become fucking nuts.
Do you at least tell her when things she says are not based in reality?
People have come back from seeming entirely hopeless when they stop consuming far-right propaganda.
Eplanes!
DHL Express has ordered 12 electric cargo aircraft from start-up Eviation for delivery in 2024 and plans to build the world’s first electric air cargo network, the unit of German logistics group Deutsche Post said https://t.co/GHuhkqpqup pic.twitter.com/TV0BF7oz2B
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 3, 2021
The entire Democrat Party must resign because of Cuomo!
re: #112 steve_davis
Had a phone call with my oldest sister yesterday. It’s really odd how someone can sound completely normal for 20 minutes and then go down the fucking rabbit hole. I learned that “illegals” are being bussed around the country and that this is the reason we can’t get a handle on covid, and other miscellaneous shit (“Biden’s an ass!”) that just caused me no end of disappointement. She’s my big sis (bigger sis, I guess) and I love her, but goddamn….I hate having to avoid calling people because they’ve become fucking nuts.
If it were true that people were being bussed around the country, then we would see higher infections at the border - Texas, New Mexico, Arizona - but we’re not. We see them in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Florida.
re: #110 Belafon
Seems like a great way to run against them in NY though: “My opponent wants to pardon Trump.”
If Cuomo’s still in office next year, if he’s on the ballot for another term, that’s the Republicans’ best chance.
re: #117 Belafon
If it were true that people were being bussed around the country, then we would see higher infections at the border - Texas, New Mexico, Arizona - but we’re not. We see them in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Florida.
Because they get put right on the bus before they can infect anyone on the border!
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and all their blood relatives must commit public seppuku!
Governor Cuomo’s conduct, as outlined in AG James’ report released today, is abusive, unlawful, and unbecoming of his office and his responsibilities to the people of New York. He must resign. If he does not, the New York State Assembly must begin impeachment proceedings. pic.twitter.com/gA9KHbIhyk
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) August 3, 2021
re: #107 sagehen
Springsteen Olympic results:
73 horse/rider pairs in the individual Jumping prelims. 30 will advance to the finals. Jessica came in 31st.
For the team event, qualifying round is Friday, finals are Saturday.
This is my first attempt at multicolor printing on a single extruder printer. The print failed with a gcode error at the last color swap, so I’ll have to paint the pupils in before I add the movement. There’s some black blobbing on a couple of the hour markers, and some smearing on the hands.
Btw, in Loki, Miss Minutes has 16 hour indicators, maybe because Earth has 32 hour days in the distant future as the spin slows over time. This has 12, to act as a real clock.
Model is from Thingiverse.
Cuomo needs to go, but I still can’t help and think if he were a Republican, this would only enhance his electability among those morons.
re: #88 sagehen
People who stay in bad marriages, abusive marriages, “for the sake of the children”… are doing a lot of damage to the children by exposing them daily to marital dysfunction for years on end. They’re modeling that abuse is okay and should be tolerated. They’re setting up their children to eventually be in bad marriages themselves, because they’ve never seen a good one.
Growing up in homeless shelters is also bad for children. Hard to say which is worse.
Pres. Biden says there is a “clear link” between states with the lowest vaccine rates and the states with the highest case rates, but he says in the past two weeks there has been a 55% increase in Americans getting their first COVID vaccine shot: “The message is getting through.” pic.twitter.com/xLnUm0DAva
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 3, 2021
re: #125 Mattand
Cuomo needs to go, but I still can’t help and think if he were a Republican, this would only enhance his electability among those morons.
They would be calling it a politically motivated witch hunt while privately congratulating him for being so manly and assertive.
“Here are the facts: if you are vaccinated you are highly unlikely to get COVID-19,” Pres. Biden says.
“And even if you do, the chances are you won’t show any symptoms, and if you do, they’ll most likely be very mild.” https://t.co/bBTBGF83n3 pic.twitter.com/me44EmCO6A— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) August 3, 2021
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They would be calling it a politically motivated witch hunt while privately congratulating him for being so manly and assertive.
I’m sure there’s a fairly large “Whuddabout Clinton???” crowd when it comes to calling out Republican martial infidelities.
It’s like “Asshole, if a Democrat does something wrong, that doesn’t give you shitheads permission to act that way.”
University of Cincinnati orders students, faculty, workers to mask up; offers nearly $50K in vaccine incentives https://t.co/5OgS28r0CJ
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) August 3, 2021
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What they’re going to try is to bring their stupid “creepy Joe” bullshit into it somehow too. Hard to guess which one, but at least one of the usual suspects will give it a whirl.
re: #106 darthstar
my understanding is that if he resigns or is impeached and the Lt. Gov (Hochul) takes his place and the ball keeps rolling on whatever the AG has on the books. The big thing (re: Trump Prosecution) is to get it into the fucking courtroom before the term ends imho.
They were really going for it. https://t.co/pPN9g2KUay pic.twitter.com/tqDkSixwBW
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 3, 2021
re: #112 steve_davis
Had a phone call with my oldest sister yesterday. It’s really odd how someone can sound completely normal for 20 minutes and then go down the fucking rabbit hole. I learned that “illegals” are being bussed around the country and that this is the reason we can’t get a handle on covid, and other miscellaneous shit (“Biden’s an ass!”) that just caused me no end of disappointement. She’s my big sis (bigger sis, I guess) and I love her, but goddamn….I hate having to avoid calling people because they’ve become fucking nuts.
That’s why I no longer talk to my brainwashed family because I see all of that shit on their Facebook and Twitter posts.
Smart. President Biden just said the CDC would have an announcement in the next hour or two. He’s basically going to declare a national health emergency as a reason to stop evictions.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture has been remastered.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like the original is undersaturated and the remaster is oversaturated.
re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trying to blame the death of your constituents on President Biden doesn’t work outside of the rabid rightwing bubble though. We all see President Biden pushing for vaccinations and face masks. We all see him taking the Coronavirus seriously. We all see him extolling scientists and health care workers.
We saw the opposite with Trump and are seeing the opposite with most Republican governors and politicians. They’re not going to succeed at shifting any blame to President Biden but that’s all they can do. Lie lie and lie some more.
Unions starting to turn on @NYGovCuomo. Statement from Kyle Bragg of @32BJSEIU pic.twitter.com/yYEYap63Rf
— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) August 3, 2021
re: #134 Mattand
Jesus, a year ago, we had a guy in office claiming everything was a hoax.
Literally feels like a decade.
Here are some Trump Tweets from 8/3/20 (a year ago today):
1.
My visits last week to Texas and Florida had massive numbers of cheering people gathered along the roads and highways, thousands and thousands, even bigger (by far) than the crowds of 2016. Saw no Biden supporters, and yet some in the Fake News said it was an equal number. Sad!
2.
RECORD HIGH NASDAQ! It would all come crashing down, including your Jobs, Stocks, and 401k’s, if Sleepy Joe ever became President. China and others would own us!!!
3.
So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics. In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!
re: #143 JOE 🥓
Oh, so now we’ve moved past Patriots and on to “Genuine Patriots”.
re: #137 darthstar
Smart. President Biden just said the CDC would have an announcement in the next hour or two. He’s basically going to declare a national health emergency as a reason to stop evictions.
Reporters figured this out and shouted a question about it as he was leaving…he’s still talking and yeah, CDC will announce it, but he’s confirming it’s a “new” moratorium to buy time for renters.
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
You’re only a “Genuine Patriot” if you want to overthrow democracy. Remember that these are the same people who will argue that the secessionists were the “Genuine Patriots” in 1861.
“I’m sure there were some embraces that were totally innocent, but apparently the attorney general decided there were things that weren’t” — Biden on Cuomo pic.twitter.com/pjQgLdncFF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 3, 2021
PETER DOOCY: I have a question about something that you just said
PRESIDENT BIDEN: I’m sure you do pic.twitter.com/MSzS322xbm— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 3, 2021
re: #143 JOE 🥓
And now this Xtian chimes in!
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Will his “Genuine Patriots” be “killin’ the gays” first?
This is Scott “Kill the Gays!’ Lovely we’re talking about.
re: #146 DesertDenizen
You’re only a “Genuine Patriot” if you want to overthrow democracy. Remember that these are the same people who will argue that the secessionists were the “Genuine Patriots” in 1861.
What choice did they have but to respond thus to the War of Northern Aggression?
My Kroger-owned former employer lost my final paycheck. First, they broke the direct deposit, then they lost the paper check. In the store. One person claims to have seen it. I have to return in a couple of days to sign something so they can order a replacement, to arrive in a couple more days. In my P.O. box.
American Airlines and Spirit Airlines have cancelled over 1,300 flights in what’s being called a perfect storm of troubles for the carriers.
The airline industry is having a rough summer. Travel boomed when Covid restrictions were relaxed, but unfortunately for both airlines and travelers, it’s been hard to keep up with demand.
Between Sunday and Monday, severe thunderstorms hit American’s Dallas/Fort Worth International hub, reports CNBC. Travelers found themselves stuck at various airports while American canceled 850 flights and delayed another 2,000
Battles with bad weather have lasted most of the summer, with the airline cancelling hundreds of flights through the middle of July due to what the carrier says is a mix of maintenance, a labor shortage and unprecedented bad weather.
Things aren’t much better for Spirit Airlines. Between Sunday and Monday, Spirit canceled 500 flights, citing “operational challenges” as the cause. Another 258 flights are cancelled as of Tuesday morning. The hit to Spirit’s schedule is even worse, as the 258 flights add up to 38 percent of its daily schedule.
Some say they didn’t even get a notification before heading to the airport.
Meanwhile, as Good Morning America reports, the Transportation Security Administration screened more than 2.2 million people at airports on Sunday, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic.
“Hello, and welcome to Superspreader Airlines. This is your captain speaking…”
re: #149 sagehen
What choice did they have but to respond thus to the War of Northern Aggression?
That damn Lost Cause bullshit. Someday maybe we will be taught the truth about that war and how evil the Confederacy was.
re: #150 wrenchwench
My Kroger-owned former employer lost my final paycheck. First, they broke the direct deposit, then they lost the paper check. In the store. One person claims to have seen it. I have to return in a couple of days to sign something so they can order a replacement, to arrive in a couple more days. In my P.O. box.
I’d be about ready to lawyer up if I were you. It is blatantly illegal for them to withhold your pay from you.
re: #152 DesertDenizen
That damn Lost Cause bullshit. Someday maybe we will be taught the truth about that war and how evil the Confederacy was.
Whatever personal reason those soldiers had for going to war, the reason their government was sending them to war was clear: the right to own slaves.
re: #150 wrenchwench
My Kroger-owned former employer lost my final paycheck. First, they broke the direct deposit, then they lost the paper check. In the store. One person claims to have seen it. I have to return in a couple of days to sign something so they can order a replacement, to arrive in a couple more days. In my P.O. box.
Typical. The Kroger owned stores in Los Angeles retaliated against the city hero pay ordinance by closing several high volume stores in selected neighborhoods.
re: #150 wrenchwench
My Kroger-owned former employer lost my final paycheck. First, they broke the direct deposit, then they lost the paper check. In the store. One person claims to have seen it. I have to return in a couple of days to sign something so they can order a replacement, to arrive in a couple more days. In my P.O. box.
re: #153 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d be about ready to lawyer up if I were you. It is blatantly illegal for them to withhold your pay from you.
Yeah, lawyer up… depending on your state, you’re probably entitled to a lot more than the amount of the check.
For example, in California, if you give 72 hours notice, the employer has to have your final paycheck (including any unused vacation time) for you on your last day. Every day they withhold it, you are entitled to one day’s wages.
FACT:
Glenn will defend Tucker no matter what
Tucker’s white nationalist “replacement” theory didn’t matter
Tucker’s anti-vaccine misinfo didn’t matter
Tucker’s denigration of immigrants didn’t matter
Glenn profits and participates in Tucker’s grift of millions of viewers https://t.co/Tu2UhJ798t— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 3, 2021
Former President Orange Anal Cyst proved you can say and do anything and get away with it. That’s why Cuomo isn’t going to resign. He’s not TFG, but he is just as much a fucking asshole as he is.
re: #156 KGxvi
Arizona on the other hand isn’t obligated to pay you until the next regularly scheduled payday. I left a job (on good terms) expecting it out the door since that’s what I was used to in California. Nope, took two weeks.
re: #158 Ace Rothstein
Former President Orange Anal Cyst proved you can say and do anything and get away with it. That’s why Cuomo isn’t going to resign. He’s not TFG, but he is just as much a fucking asshole as he is.
Someone should check the water system in Queens.
Anne Applebaum was no one’s idea of a liberal, though. Now, maybe.
Anne Applebaum has been writing “watch out for Orban” columns for years, it’s too old to be a new liberal panic https://t.co/uKweqiJXIW https://t.co/21cQmtmLeU
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 3, 2021
re: #159 DesertDenizen
Arizona on the other hand isn’t obligated to pay you until the next regularly scheduled payday. I left a job (on good terms) expecting it out the door since that’s what I was used to in California. Nope, took two weeks.
The 72 hours notice is key in California. But in either case, once wages are due and they don’t pay, you’re entitled to daily wages until they do.
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say this asshole that got duct taped to his seat on the way to Miami is a red hat.
re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So Glenn is now defending Tucker’s visit to a known anti—LGBT bigot? Good to know.
Just waiting for the next CPAC when Greenwald will be the keynote speaker.
re: #161 Barefoot Grin
Tucker is visiting Hungary to praise its fascist leader and extreme right wing bigotry which includes xenophobia and homophobia. Tucker isn’t in Hungary just to report on what is going on there. He’s not a journalist. Who is Glenn fooling?
re: #164 Patricia Kayden
So Glenn is now defending Tucker’s visit to a known anti—LGBT bigot? Good to know.
He’s at the point of that old Onion headline: “ACLU defends Nazis’ right to burn down ACLU headquarters.”
re: #166 Patricia Kayden
Tucker is visiting Hungary to praise its fascist leader and extreme right wing bigotry which includes xenophobia and homophobia. Tucker isn’t in Hungary just to report on what is going on there. He’s not a journalist. Who is Glenn fooling?
Jimmy Dore.
re: #161 Barefoot Grin
Anne Applebaum was no one’s idea of a liberal, though. Now, maybe.
No, Glenn, this isn’t about Hungary, it’s about Tucker.
re: #161 Barefoot Grin
Given the increased attention to Tucker’s field trip to Hungary, it’s worth mentioning that when Tucker FOIAed NSA to find out how long FBI had been collecting him speaking to Russian go-betweens, he asked for 30 months.
That is—back to 2019. https://t.co/NkfNaf4byc— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 3, 2021
re: #164 Patricia Kayden
So Glenn is now defending Tucker’s visit to a fellow known anti—LGBT bigot? Good to know.
FTFY
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Of course they were. There was no fucking bottom to that admin. The assholes truly believed, as all those who engage in coups do, that any potential legal consequences would be moot if the coup succeeded.
re: #158 Ace Rothstein
Former President Orange Anal Cyst proved you can say and do anything and get away with it. That’s why Cuomo isn’t going to resign. He’s not TFG, but he is just as much a fucking asshole as he is.
The difference being that Cuomo’s party is more likely to go after him.
The real reason is they are a shitty airline.
Spirit Airlines blames weather, operational challenges for thousands of flight cancelations https://t.co/ijcvmmUKXD
— ClickOnDetroit (@clickondetroit) August 3, 2021
re: #175 Dread Pirate Ron
I could use some goat helpers.
give me the self confidence and optimism of whoever tried to carry on the chain saw https://t.co/7mALjYZBNa
— darth™ (@darth) August 3, 2021
re: #177 jaunte
I could use some goat helpers.
is that like Hamburger Helper?
I hear goat is pretty good. Nice and lean, a little bit gamey but not too much…
re: #156 KGxvi
Yeah, lawyer up… depending on your state, you’re probably entitled to a lot more than the amount of the check.
For example, in California, if you give 72 hours notice, the employer has to have your final paycheck (including any unused vacation time) for you on your last day. Every day they withhold it, you are entitled to one day’s wages.
I just started with an email to my union rep [former].
re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth
They have a nice collection of brass knuckles.
re: #180 jaunte
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I just have a cart of hand tools and several acres that need some paths.
what makes you think they’d give you paths? You might just get an unsightly bald spot in an inconvenient location.
re: #183 PhillyPretzel
They have a nice collection of brass knuckles.
IDK if the hand grenade in the middle is real or fake. If it’s real, somebody’s got some SERIOUS ‘splainin’ to do.
re: #184 sagehen
Some of the goat-clearing services I’ve seen around here arrive with their own portable fencing, so they can confine them to defined spots.
re: #186 jaunte
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Brush clearing weapons collection.
There’s room for a goat between the table and the mower. Room with food.
re: #187 jaunte
I misread that at first as “goat cleaning services” and I was like: “huh???”
re: #185 Dopamine Fish
IDK if the hand grenade in the middle is real or fake. If it’s real, somebody’s got some SERIOUS ‘splainin’ to do.
I can’t believe you took someone’s trusty travel grenade smh https://t.co/zVImwqmiJD
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) August 2, 2021
re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
I misread that at first as “goat cleaning services” and I was like: “huh???”
Well, after your goats have been out all day clearing brush, they might need to be cleaned, too.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
What’s funny is, I told Mrs. Fish about the chain saw, then I looked at the picture again and did a double take, like, “What the FUDGE…”
Who among us hasn’t confused his chainsaw bag for a carry-on?
re: #194 jaunte
not to speak of the huge disparity in prices from region to region as I believe that chainsaw distribution follows the same old model that used to be in place for beer, i.e Husqvarna’s are unheard of south of the Rio Grande :-)
re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“…what the fuck is that?”
“That’s my emotional support chainsaw. I call her ‘Vera.’”
also in the photo:
Ummmm wut is this rusty contraption? pic.twitter.com/1ddB8Eda0B
— Vaxxed Jawn (@Sh_tMyCatSays) August 3, 2021
grappling hook…lol
re: #194 jaunte
Who among us hasn’t confused his chainsaw bag for a
carry-ongoat?
Kidding, of course.
The last time #boris visited #nicolasturgeon pic.twitter.com/ephTmpfV1h
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) August 3, 2021
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh, so now we’ve moved past Patriots and on to “Genuine Patriots”.
LARPers. They’re fascists LARPing as “genuine patriots,” as they’ve been doing with their insane militias for years.
re: #158 Ace Rothstein
Former President Orange Anal Cyst proved you can say and do anything and get away with it. That’s why Cuomo isn’t going to resign. He’s not TFG, but he is just as much a fucking asshole as he is.
The state assembly chairmen said Cuomo lost the confidence of state democrats and they would be expediting the already ongoing impeachment probe. We’ll see what that translates to in reality, but I think the writing may be on the wall for Cuomo.
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
You have to get a Genuine Patriot Passport to prove it too.
re: #203 danarchy
The state assembly chairmen said Cuomo lost the confidence of state democrats and they would be expediting the already ongoing impeachment probe. We’ll see what that translates to in reality, but I think the writing may be on the wall for Cuomo.
Maybe wishful thinking, but I think (and hope) you’re right here.The main difference between Cuomo’s current problems and Trump’s (any Republican’s, really) is that Democrats seem way less minded to cover up/excuse bad behavior in their elected officials. Frex, I can’t imagine an entire state GOP delegation calling for a GOP Governor to resign over sexual-harassment allegations- they’d be more likely to vote him a commendation….🤮
re: #197 Targetpractice
“…what the fuck is that?”
“That’s my emotional support chainsaw. I call her ‘Vera.’”
+1 for the Firefly reference. I’ll be in my bunk.
re: #206 Jay C
Maybe wishful thinking, but I think (and hope) you’re right here.The main difference between Cuomo’s current problems and Trump’s (any Republican’s, really) is that Democrats seem way less minded to cover up/excuse bad behavior in their elected officials. Frex, I can’t imagine an entire state GOP delegation calling for a GOP Governor to resign over sexual-harassment allegations- they’d be more likely to vote him a commendation….🤮
They would only want a GOP governor to resign in this situation if he were a gay man who sexually harassed other men. It would not be the harassment that was a problem for them.
re: #124 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’m itching hard for a printer. Which one do you have? I’m looking to pull the trigger on a Lender 3.
Wanting the vaccine when someone is at the ER with Covid, is like asking for a condom after you’re pregnant. It doesn’t work like that.
— 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚢𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎 (@shannynmoore) August 3, 2021
Apparently many people walk around with brass knuckles. What is this, the 30s?
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, our country is so fucked up.
My wifes best friend wants to get vaccinated but she is hesitating because she thinks her husband will go ballistic on her if he finds out she got the shot.
So now my wife and I and are trying to convince her to accept an arrangement whereby her vaccination card will stay with us in a safe place so her husband won’t be able to come across it.
I think it’s going to work out but I can’t help but ask myself: WHY THE FUCK IS THIS EVEN NECESSARY??
She should seriously consider a divorce.
re: #211 Amory Blaine
I’m itching hard for a printer. Which one do you have? I’m looking to pull the trigger on a Lender 3.
I have a Qidi X-Plus, a Flashforge Creator Pro 2, and an Anycubic Photon resin printer.
They all work well for what they do.
I assume you mean an Ender-3. It looks a bit like the printer I never finished assembling, but the reason for that was a failed control board rather than anything to do with the design. You can’t beat that price. It was quite a bit of work to assemble, so be prepared for that.
Psaki: We do something new here that feels foreign from the last four years and allow the Justice Department to act independently on investigations pic.twitter.com/ikyKByI1jq
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 3, 2021
re: #215 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I have a Qidi X-Plus, a Flashforge Creator Pro 2, and an Anycubic Photon resin printer.
They all work well for what they do.I assume you mean an Ender-3. It looks a bit like the printer I never finished assembling, but the reason for that was a failed control board rather than anything to do with the design. You can’t beat that price. It was quite a bit of work to assemble, so be prepared for that.
I have a great job and no life, so I can treat my clinical depression by buying things.
re: #151 Eclectic Cyborg
A couple of friends of mine are stuck in SC because American canceled their flights two days in a row. She’s a nurse, they went to a medical conference. They live in OK, so it’s not a major hub like Atlanta or Dallas. They’ve been lucky to find a hotel room, but they aren’t sure how long that will last.
My kid just decided not to go to Vegas in a couple of weeks, the bands from Finland, Norway and Sweden are having a hard time getting approval to enter the US, which was why he was going in the first place. He’s not done though, he wants to go to LA to see System of a Down and some festival in Massachusetts this fall. I have a feeling things are going to go downhill by then.
re: #218 A Mom Anon
A couple of friends of mine are stuck in SC because American canceled their flights two days in a row. She’s a nurse, they went to a medical conference. They live in OK, so it’s not a major hub like Atlanta or Dallas. They’ve been lucky to find a hotel room, but they aren’t sure how long that will last.
My kid just decided not to go to Vegas in a couple of weeks, the bands from Finland, Norway and Sweden are having a hard time getting approval to enter the US, which was why he was going in the first place. He’s not done though, he wants to go to LA to see System of a Down and some festival in Massachusetts this fall. I have a feeling things are going to go downhill by then.
As long as he’s vaccinated that’s not a problem. I assume he’s older to have any chance of traveling to a concert, but trials are running for 5-11 year olds now, so even most young kids will have vaccines available soon.
Edit:
Driving time from South Carolina to Oklahoma
How long is the drive from South Carolina to Oklahoma? The total driving time is 15 hours, 31 minutes.
re: #219 Punish Domestic Terrorists
My kid is 27 and vaccinated, but I am always worried, especially with the world being what it is right now. My friends have talked about renting a car, but it seems there’s a bit of a waiting list for those at the moment. Makes me not want to go anywhere unless I can drive.
re: #220 A Mom Anon
My kid is 27 and vaccinated, but I am always worried, especially with the world being what it is right now. My friends have talked about renting a car, but it seems there’s a bit of a waiting list for those at the moment. Makes me not want to go anywhere unless I can drive.
Worrying about him is one of your jobs, and you clearly take your work seriously.
re: #114 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Do you at least tell her when things she says are not based in reality?
People have come back from seeming entirely hopeless when they stop consuming far-right propaganda.
Yes, tried the “that’s just bullshit!” approach, but it doesn’t really work. Partly the problem is that yes, asylum seekers are getting bussed to different facilities, so she has that part right, but when crazy comes right at you, it’s hard to formulate the best response. I could have said something like, “pretending what you are saying is true, are you saying that illegal immigrants, and not republican babyishness about vaccines is what is causing the current surge?”
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