re: #144 BigPapa
Swanky.
The bass is FILTHY!
Instead of boom-tis boom-tis boom-tis you get boooof-tith booof-tith boooof-tith.
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) October 4, 2023
re: #4 gocart mozart
These “people” are being so petty.
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) October 4, 2023
Have you been drinking Drano?
— James William Garrett 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@JamesWGarrett1) October 4, 2023
Pritzker urges Biden to intervene amid ‘untenable’ pace of migrant arrivals
nprillinois.org
Illinois (primarily Chicago) has had over 17,000 asylum seekers shipped to it by certain unnamed Southern governors. New York had 110,000! I’m not sure how many to other states. Abbott, etc., are really going all out! That’s a lot of plane and bus-loads! I had no idea it had become so massive.
I was majorly CL’d in the last thread. Left replies for Mr. Crank.
re: #8 retired cynic
Pritzker urges Biden to intervene amid ‘untenable’ pace of migrant arrivals
nprillinois.orgIllinois (primarily Chicago) has had over 17,000 asylum seekers shipped to it by certain unnamed Southern governors. New York had 110,000! I’m not sure how many to other states. Abbott, etc., are really going all out! That’s a lot of plane and bus-loads! I had no idea it had become so massive.
Prosecute the human traffickers in the shithole states to stop this attempt to harm vulnerable people.
re: #3 BigPapa
The bass is FILTHY!
Instead of boom-tis boom-tis boom-tis you get boooof-tith booof-tith boooof-tith.
Bass with a Castilian accent.
re: #10 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
the thing is… there are a LOT of people crossing over the border for any number of reasons, some economic, some political and some just because it’s safer in the US than where they were.
I get that the system is broken, but one of the primary reasons that its broken is that the GOP refuses to fix it. They just ‘want it to go away’ which is not attached to reality and they certainly don’t want these people to have the same rights and opportunities as themselves because…. reasons.
I fully believe that we have rooms and jobs for everyone, big cities and small towns. A lot of immigrant labor is already flowing into the trades and to be honest, they are doing work that other Americans find beneath them. There is a LOT of heavy lifting that remains to be done, being better about using solar and water and wind power. Being better about cleaning up after ourselves is a full time job as well it seems. Lots of these folks just want a chance to do the same that our parents and those before them had… live their lives in peace, love who they choose to love and see their kids thrive and maybe watch some TV and listen to some music, be entertained by performances and the arts and read a book.
What people have to get over is the idea that their way of life is over, yeah.. it is, and it happens every minute of every day. Somebody is always tinkering or discovering something and things change, it’s the nature of humanity. It doesn’t have to be for ill, maybe we’ll get to a place where we can treat each other with a bit of respect and understand that differences are just that… different… not better or worse, just different and it doesn’t affect the rest of us in the least.
I need to test something I can only do by posting live entries, so please bear with me if new threads appear a bit more often than usual.
re: #17 jeffreyw
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What would have made it even funnier would be to reverse the characters.
re: #17 jeffreyw
Had to check it, expected cars or cameras.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
I need to test something I can only do by posting live entries, so please bear with me if new threads appear a bit more often than usual.
Test away! We’re just here for the ride! 😁
re: #9 HRH Stanley Sea
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Mrs. Cranky says since you’ve expressed interest, she may be willing to send the taco truck quilt your way. No cost. Just an acknowledgement that you’ll use it. As I noted, she does quilting for a hobby and relaxation. Her only wish is that the quilts get used, since that’s why she makes them. So if you can assure us of that, you may have a new quilted throw coming your way.
really wonderful dream last night with my dad, who was coming through the screen door to the porch on the old house. Looked to be in his early 40’s. ‘I thought you were dead,” I said. Can’t really remember his reply, but we just hugged for a long while. Quite joyous, really.
re: #10 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Prosecute the human traffickers in the shithole states to stop this attempt to harm vulnerable people.
Agree. I assume they have financial assistance to handle the numbers on their end? Am ashamed to say I don’t know. Wish areas like Chicago could sue the b@st@rds.
re: #23 steve_davis
I have been dreaming about my parents a lot recently.
Did anyone else get TWO alerts? First I got the Spanish alert at about 11:18, and then, maybe a moment later, I got the English alert. I mean, yeah, I have a couple of Spanish-language news apps on my phone, but I don’t get why I got both alerts.
re: #22 A Cranky One
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Courthouse News Service
Pyramid scheme lawsuit drops claims against Trump children
The younger Trumps already sat for deposition testimony, which a federal judge said will be admissible evidence as the fraud suit against the elder Trump heads to trial next January.
courthousenews.com
There is ANOTHER Trump fraud trial, in January! It was a Pyramid scheme where TFG used his name and company to get investors to invest in a communications company. Guess who the attorney for the plaintiff investors is? Roberta Kaplan!!!!
re: #29 retired cynic
Maybe his kids threw Trump under the bus this time. That would rock.
re: #27 mmmirele
Did anyone else get TWO alerts? First I got the Spanish alert at about 11:18, and then, maybe a moment later, I got the English alert. I mean, yeah, I have a couple of Spanish-language news apps on my phone, but I don’t get why I got both alerts.
re: #28 HRH Stanley Sea
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re: #31 Dangerman
I didn’t have a problem with it, I just thought after I got the Spanish one, that was it. Oh, and they frightened my cats.
re: #27 mmmirele
Did anyone else get TWO alerts? First I got the Spanish alert at about 11:18, and then, maybe a moment later, I got the English alert. I mean, yeah, I have a couple of Spanish-language news apps on my phone, but I don’t get why I got both alerts.
Do you have Spanish language support or parts of it, e.g. Spanish keyboard? That could rub the magical pixies the right way to elicit a bilingual alert depending on phone.
Don’t Blame the Democrats
politicalwire.com
Matthew Yglesias: “I just reject the Republican establishmentarian spin that the real issue here is Democrats’ refusal to bail McCarthy out. My advice to Democrats was to not drive a hard bargain here — be a cheap date, want to get to yes. But if McCarthy wants Democrats to do something for him, he has to do something in return.”
“I understand he felt that he couldn’t offer any concessions for risk of further increasing the size of the rebellion, but that’s just another way of saying that the GOP caucus is dysfunctional. And people need to know that. Joe Biden is old, but he runs a competent professional administration. Republicans are running a shit show.”
“Importantly, the shit show is bigger than the handful of rebels. The rebels are absolutely part of it, but given that, the mainstream wing of the party has no choice but the cauterize the wound and make a deal with Democrats to keep McCarthy in the Speaker’s chair.”
“That means mainstream Republicans need to suck it up and offer Democrats something. They don’t need to like sucking it up, but that is the position the rebels put them in. And they just refused. That’s a top to bottom dysfunctional Republican caucus. People need to see and understand that.”
re: #27 mmmirele
Did anyone else get TWO alerts? First I got the Spanish alert at about 11:18, and then, maybe a moment later, I got the English alert. I mean, yeah, I have a couple of Spanish-language news apps on my phone, but I don’t get why I got both alerts.
I got two. I shut them off and ignored them when they happened. I was in a thrift store and lots of phones went off. I just looked at the messages, and what I think is the second one, is in Spanish. Then they self-deleted so I couldn’t check.