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Nothing worth doing is easy.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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Joy Reid had an excellent monologue on Trump and the Central Park 5 tonight and if I can find it, I’ll add it to this post.

In other news, I made a quick and easy frozen limeade pie: thawed limeade concentrate, sweetened condensed milk, whipped cream and 2 graham cracker crusts. Beat the limeade and condensed milk together, fold in whipped cream and pour into pie crusts. Freeze overnight.  You’re welcome.

I’m going to get the critters ready for bed and do a bit of work, since I wasted a ridiculous amount of time on the orange one’s arrest.

Open thread which I expect will be full of mocking this asshole and bemoaning of the GOP and its sycophants.

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  2. 2.

    J. Arthur Crank (fka Jerzy Russian)

    I must say, that is the most perfect mugshot.  His visage shows through very strongly.

  5. 5.

    Splitting Image

    The mugshot looks AI-generated. The hair and eyes are all wrong.

    I mean: they are true to life, but they are still all wrong.

  6. 6.

    craigie

    As this is an open thread, I would like to air a grievance: I don’t understand why everyone needs to carry water around with them wherever they go. My family acts like we live in the middle of the Gobi desert, as opposed to a teeming metropolis with water (and other beverages) everywhere.

    It’s a serious pet peeve of mine.

  7. 7.

    StringOnAStick

    The orange fascist looks absolutely crazed in that photo on the right.

    I keep having the memory arrive of reading years ago how when it was confirmed that tRump won, Melanie started crying.  She knew then that the end result would be the collapse of the whole house of cards.  She’s a filthy fascist too, so screw her but that scene has always stuck with me.  He had decades of FA, and the endless FO has commenced!

  10. 10.

    frosty

    @craigie: ​I used to roll my eyes at the water carriers. I am quite surprised to find out I am now one of them. What can I say, I seem to be thirsty all the time; maybe it’s getting older?​

  12. 12.

    Alison Rose

    @craigie: For some people, it’s a health issue. I don’t go anywhere, but I have a glass of water nearby all day, because I get dehydrated pretty easily, especially if it’s warm. I also have…other health issues I won’t subject anyone here to hearing about that make it important for me to drink a lot of water. But some people probably just have quirky preferences for certain kinds of water or something. Or they follow one of those weird health gurus who says you need to pee like 15 times a day.

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    In other news, I made a quick and easy frozen limeade pie: thawed limeade concentrate, sweetened condensed milk, whipped cream and 2 graham cracker crusts. Beat the limeade and condensed milk together, fold in whipped cream and pour into pie crusts. Freeze overnight. You’re welcome.

    Thank you.  That sounds delicious.

  14. 14.

    steve g

    I don’t understand why GOPers and MAGAs aren’t more embarrassed by their guy’s hair. He is bald on top, with hanks of long hair growing from the sides and back of his head swirled around on top and coated in hair spray to make it look like he has hair on top. It is easily the most ridiculous hair of any US politician in the 20th or 21st century.

  16. 16.

    Bedraggled and Bedazzled

    @craigie: well, I was in a traffic jam standstill last Thursday for 30 minutes on Hwy 183 in Austin, 110 degrees, and was awfully glad I habitually carry water with me and my grandrugrats… The car’s AC was struggling.

  17. 17.

    Quinerly

    @frosty:

    I was an eye roller too. Then I moved to the High Desert at 7000 ft. Dehydration is a big deal. I also am a beer drinker. Now I drink a glass of water with my beer. Especially, the 7% IPAs.

  18. 18.

    craigie

    @Alison Rose: Well the whole “you need to drink a million gallons of water each day” has been debunked multiple times, so that’s no excuse.

    Health is one thing, fashion is another. This is fashion.

  22. 22.

    Freemark

    @craigie: I think it’s like phones. Growing up , for my gen,  you dealt with not having a phone nearby a lot of the time. Now I get anxious if I realize I left the house without it. Same with water. Growing up no one carried water around normally. Water bottles weren’t a thing. Some kids had canteens but only used them for camping and long hikes. Now water bottles are ubiquitous and no need to be looking for a water hose or public water fountain (ick!).

  25. 25.

    Argiope

    @craigie: As a constant water carrier myself, I have to wonder why the heck you care.  I get it if they are using a million plastic bottles.  But if it’s reusable, get a new peeve.  Honestly. Why would anyone have a problem with someone else being more comfortable? I don’t get it.  I’m also gonna guess you’ve never had a hot flash.  Cold water at those times is a sanity saver.

  26. 26.

    kalakal

    @craigie: Depends where I am. I spent a lot of my youth in Qatar and it was hammered into us to drink a lot. I still have the habit but don’t tend to carry water around unless I’m going for a long(ish) walk. I do drink water like crazy throughout the day though.

    I just refill a plastic bottle till it wears out.

  28. 28.

    CaseyL

    When I was a kid, if I got thirsty, there was usually a cafe or water fountain or something nearby I could get a drink. Now there aren’t – or, rather, there are still cafes, but they charge you for a glass of water. So I carry water with me rather than pay $2 or $3 dollars for the stuff.

  29. 29.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    @craigie: I drank water out of the hose in the backyard as a kid. I also gulped gallons from the drinking fountain at school in order to spend more time out of class.  I don’t remember drinking much water inside my house as a kid.  Now I drink much more at home but don’t need to bring it everywhere.

  31. 31.

    Dangerman

    @craigie: Obviously, you don’t live in Earthquake Country; when the big one hits, you best have water with you (in the car, at home, etc).

  33. 33.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Alison Rose: Yes.  I spend hours in sun on tennis courts and often don’t drink enough water.  Carrying water is a good habit.  Especially if you are traveling or at altitude.

  35. 35.

    smith

    @Quinerly: Yeah, I don’t think “the president made me do it” is going to be  very convincing. The Constitution is clear that the states govern appointment of electors, not the president.

  37. 37.

    Yarrow

    In other news, I made a quick and easy frozen limeade pie: thawed limeade concentrate, sweetened condensed milk, whipped cream and 2 graham cracker crusts. Beat the limeade and condensed milk together, fold in whipped cream and pour into pie crusts. Freeze overnight. You’re welcome.

    Interesting. My neighbor brought me Brazilian lemonade, which I’d never heard of. It’s actually made with limes so should be called limeade but it isn’t, and sweetened condensed milk. It’s amazing. I thought it would be sweet but it’s not. It’s very refreshing on a very hot day. Here’s a recipe I found that seems to be like it. Brazilian lemonade.

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Argiope: ​
      The commander of my OCS company had gotten dehydrated sometime in his past, packed in ice to reduce his core temp dehydrated. He was obsessive about making sure that no one in his charge ever got close to being dehydrated. Early summer in southwestern Georgia is hot and humid, so we drank a lot of water (often 6-10 canteens at day).. We had more concern about wetting our pants than dehydrating.

  40. 40.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Quinerly:

    Co-defendant in Georgia says false electors met at Trump’s ‘direction’

    Shawn Still is a Georgia Republican charged alongside the former president in a racketeering conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election.

    And so it begins.

    ETA: Whoops, I assumed this was a co-defendant flipping on Trump. Doesn’t appear to be it

  41. 41.

    Mike in NC

    Watching MSNBC, where they showed Fat Bastard’s motorcade/entourage with about 30 motorcycle cops. Were they volunteers, because we know how much the police adored Trump for his support for police brutality?

  42. 42.

    Righteous Hazard

    @Quinerly: I monitor maga forums to get a sense of their current messaging and dogwhistles. They have been pushing the mugshot hard as a propaganda tool for the last several weeks. The rubes have been primed to buy mugshot merch. The grift goes on.

    I honestly don’t care. Another thing I am seeing: they are clearly huffing cope hard right now. Their cult leader is a revealed as a criminal, they are losing, and they know it. The tshirts and mugs are gonna mold and gather dust in closets and cabinets for decades, reminding them of something they desperately wish wasn’t true about their leader, and themselves.

  43. 43.

    Yarrow

    @craigie:  I actually heard a back-to-school piece on the news that said parents they should send their kids to school with a reusable water bottle because kids can’t learn well if they’re dehydrated and a lot of kids are. So it’s not just fashion. The message to carry a water bottle around with you is coming from a lot of places.

  45. 45.

    RandomMonster

    Trump practicing his Hitler gaze is so LOL fuckwitted stupid. Gawd what a dumbfuckceros.

  48. 48.

    Yarrow

    @craigie:  If it’s fashion that bothers you, why is that? Are there other fashions that bug you as much? People do very strange things in the name of fashion. Same for eons.

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Argiope: A good army safety briefing before a weekend pass these days would go “Don’t drink and drive.  No means no.  No glove, no love. Stay hydrated.”

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mike in NC:

    Were they volunteers, because we know how much the police adored Trump for his support for police brutality?

    Just having the same thought as I see a lot of tweets about his motorcade (I was out to dinner with a bunch of normies and missed the moment). Was that maximum caution from local authorities, preparing for the mob scene trump was hoping, or a salute from local LEO. Probably the former. I hope.

  54. 54.

    TaMara

    @craigie: I live at altitude, in high desert. We don’t go anywhere without water. And the number of flatlanders I have to convince to drink more water when they visit…well, until they get their first headache from being dehydrated, then they are raiding my pantry for the reusable water bottles.

  60. 60.

    Argiope

    @Omnes Omnibus: OMG.  I’m a junk doctor/nurse midwife and that was pretty much my weekend safety briefing to single clients, too.  Like, have fun out there, and don’t make me give you any antibiotics when you get home from the (insert name of outdoor event with lots of people here).  Prevention, people! Reminds me of the safety video Adam posts every so often.

  61. 61.

    Quinerly

    @Righteous Hazard: the mugshot has been a big thing for them. I seem to recall merchandise his campaign was selling back in April with fake mugshots. Honestly, I was torn on having one done today. It kinda gave them what his followers wanted.

  62. 62.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @craig mcgillivray: ​
    Everyone who has been in the army has run into a packed in ice guy. Mine was infantry and Cole’s would have been an armor guy, so it wasn’t the same person.

  64. 64.

    cckids

    @craigie: For some of us, it’s trying not to add to the bazillions of plastic water bottles that are taking over the earth. Reusable all the way here.

  65. 65.

    craig mcgillivray

    I’m too tired to fuck with it right now, but that mugshot background is so easy to key out that I expect various genius takes on the Internets by the time I wake up.

  66. 66.

    Jackie

    From Faux News:

    Said Trump: “They insisted on a mugshot and I agreed to do that. This is the only time I’ve ever taken a mugshot.”

    Well, Donny, that’s one more mugshot than I’ve ever had taken.

  68. 68.

    Frankensteinbeck

    MSNBC said that this was going to be the photo that goes into the history books.  I think they’re right.  This will be the photo in 50 years that children will point at and say “How did you not know this guy was evil?  LOOK at him!”

  70. 70.

    Lyrebird

    @craigie: Thanks, I have never really been to a Festivus gathering, but this airing of grievances you started is fun!

    I don’t think you work as a teacher, but correct me if I am wrong.  My biggest peeve with water bottles is that the really nice metal and glass ones clink and clank.  Very nice sounds, but if I have five different clanking sources coming through the door of the classroom at once, my brain figures something is wrong.

     

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Dehydration and heat stress are no joke, but I got a big laugh out of your story, hope you don’t mind.

  71. 71.

    Citizen Dave

    @steve g: To paraphrase Bob Segers Live Bullet banter: Same!  I’ve thought this for 10 years!  Orange Man such am embarrassing representation of a man.

  74. 74.

    Splitting Image

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    MSNBC said that this was going to be the photo that goes into the history books. I think they’re right. This will be the photo in 50 years that children will point at and say “How did you not know this guy was evil? LOOK at him!”

    Back in high school, about half of my class was made up of a clique of “free-markets-will-save-us” Randroids. I mostly have nothing but contempt for their political acumen, but they all despised this guy.

    Blind squirrels occasionally find a nut, I suppose.

  75. 75.

    glc

    @Argiope:

    get a new pet peeve

    Sounds right.

    I recommend taking on people who wear socks. Especially matched socks. There’s no justification for that. /s

    I  have to admit, I’ve been known to carry a bottle of water around, and much like Alison I don’t feel a need to explain why. Ultimately, it was part of the reason I decided to retire.

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Lyrebird: Hey a bunch of officer candidates running for the treeline after drinking two full canteens, riding a bus for a hour and a half, and them standing in formation for about 10 minutes to verify that everyone was present is actually pretty funny.  It was easier on the male than the female candidates though.

  78. 78.

    RaflW

    @UncleEbeneezer: How I long for the days when Republicans would rush out and do the opposite of what the Obamas suggested. “Remember, folks, please don’t gargle with razor blades! God bless, and good night.”

  79. 79.

    kalakal

    In the desert we were also given salt tablets as well as being made to glug water. These days you get packets of electrolyte powders, they’re a  good idea if you’re sweating a lot and drinking a lot of water

  82. 82.

    Mike in NC

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  When we lived in NoVA about 20 years ago, a friend’s father passed away. He had been career Navy and was given a proper sendoff at Arlington National Cemetery. Fairfax County police provided a couple of motorcycle escorts, which we thought was a nice touch. Well, one of his daughters was a FCPD detective, so maybe it was just a family thing.

  84. 84.

    Argiope

    @Omnes Omnibus: and I bet the reason you never got packed in ice is because you listened.  Those PII guys (packed in ice) did not carry water bottles and look where that got them. Also I keep giggling because my only ice man references before now are Neanderthals.  I did not realize this was a treatment but field medicine is not my thing.  No one ever needs a Pap test during a desert march.

  86. 86.

    Ruckus

    @sab:

    He looks nuts.

    So it’s is a picture that could have been taken at any time in the last 20 yrs. Because he’s been nuts for a lot longer than that, he just hasn’t been as much in the lime light till he ran walked, stumbled towards office and fell into it slobbering incoherently. Which he’s been doing ever since.

  90. 90.

    Mike in NC

    @Quinerly:  No lie: I’ve seen a couple of shops in South Carolina called “Keep On Trumpin” which sell nothing but merchandise extoling Fat Bastard. I wanted to stop at one and ask if they had Trump toilet paper, because I’d buy a few rolls.

  92. 92.

    Righteous Hazard

    @Quinerly: Yeah, they are trying to spin it to their advantage. I don’t care. I prefer justice to spin.

    They are seething with rage, their comms channels are overflowing with it. And it is making them delusional. They actually think this mugshot is gonna be a Che poster that the cool college kids will have on their walls.

    They are that delusional.

  97. 97.

    kalakal

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I’m a flip flop fan myself, grew up in them. The cheap ones that are all over SE Asia and the Middle East. Not the large lumpy things that look like adolescent sandals. They are to flip flops as modern Minis are to the 60s originals. Not a great fan of sandals

  98. 98.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Villago Delenda Est: says so, right on the bottle

    rumor has it that back when she had friends in Manhattan, Ivanka used to keep everyone in stitches describing and acting out her father’s morning coiffure routine

  100. 100.

    The Lodger

    Funny how the former Central Park Five defendant who just won an election in New York really doesn’t look like *his* mug shot.

  101. 101.

    hueyplong

     

     

    @steve g: Your post reads like a seriously unfair slap at the hair of the 19th century presidents. Bad as some of them appear to our eyes they’re at least reasonably true to the mores of their time and, in absolute terms unconnected to any era, not worse than what is on Trump’s head.

  103. 103.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    These fuckers never give up: Split ballot board approves reproductive rights amendment summary written by Ohio Sec. of State

    In a 3-2 split decision Thursday, the Ohio Ballot Board rejected using the full text of a proposed reproductive rights amendment on the ballot in November, adopting instead summary language written by the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office that was criticized for being incomplete and inaccurate.

    The board’s approval of the language – which is now titled Issue 1 for the November general election – was the next step in the process of voters deciding whether or not the Ohio Constitution will include the right to abortion, as well as contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and continuing one’s own pregnancy. Those last four items were all left out of the language approved by the ballot board majority.

    The summary language does not change what the actual amendment would state in the constitution, but would be the last representation of the amendment voters read before the casting their approval or rejection.

    The full text of the amendment will be available at boards of elections during the election, but not in the ballot booths with voters. LaRose said posters with the text will be accessible at voting locations.

    In the summary language approved by the board, the medical term “fetus” is changed to “unborn child,” and the amendment’s “decision” language is changed to “medical treatment.”

    The pro-reproductive rights side has said they will sue to restore the original ballot language

  104. 104.

    Quinerly

    @Mike in NC: SC has always been insane. I’m originally from Pitt and Carteret Counties in NC. I grieve for NC. I had had hopes that once Helms was dead, NC could make a full turnaround.

  107. 107.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Co-defendant in Georgia says false electors met at Trump’s ‘direction’ 

    Shawn Still is a Georgia Republican charged alongside the former president in a racketeering conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election.

    Racketeering conspiracy, Trump trash bitches!

  110. 110.

    Ruckus

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    “Don’t drink and drive.  No means no.  No glove, no love. Stay hydrated.”

    Was discharged just over 50 yrs ago and yes, that was the same message then

    Must be written down in a book somewhere…..

  111. 111.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Never with socks.*

    *Please tell me I didn’t really need to type that last bit.

    That was the joke I was going for lol

    Same, I only wear flip flops at the pool or the beach

  112. 112.

    Lyrebird

    @Argiope: Know any easy ways to tell the difference between post-Covid sweating and newly developed hot flashes?

    No prob if you don’t see this or don’t know, it probably can’t be answered.  And I  should log out and “rack out”, but thank you either way.

  113. 113.

    Kelly

    Lightning cell moving through. Bolts I’ve seen are staying way up in the clouds. Flashes directly overhead take a 8 to 10 count for the thunder to arrive. No rain yet.

    Across the river in the park a couple kids are battling with red lightsabers. That’ll be a summer night to remember.

  114. 114.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @kalakal: I have a couple of pairs of leather ones, but I really don’t wear them often.  Beach wear or a family backyard bbq, someplace I’d go barefoot but for rocks or thistles or whatever else might hurt my tender little feet.

  115. 115.

    M31

    lol one of the very few Trumpers in my suburban Black Lives Matter/Pride Flag/All are Welcome Here neighborhood just put up a bunch of DeSantis signs, wonder if they’ve soured on Trump

    I’d ask if I gave a flying fuck what they think, but I don’t

  118. 118.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @mrmoshpotato:

    It didn’t sound like Still was cooperating of was imminently about to flip based on the article. Tbf, since Willis indicted, it’s a safe bet she has all of the evidence/testimony she would need to (hopefully) convict without someone like Stills. More likely it’s a Nuremberg defense. “Trump told me to do it!”

  123. 123.

    Redshift

    @Jackie:

    Said Trump: “They insisted on a mugshot and I agreed to do that.

    “especially after they said it’s not a request and did I want my bail revoked…”

    As usual, not fooling anyone except followers who are desperate to be fooled.

  127. 127.

    Mike in NC

    @Quinerly: Now we have as senator, Ted Budd, some gun nut and MAGA election denier from the boondocks. But running for any office in the former Confederate states means that being a white male gets you to at least 50% of the vote.

  128. 128.

    kalakal

    @Mike in NC: My favourite photo of a president is probably the one of Truman holding up that newspaper with the erroneous “Dewey Wins!” headline. It’s one of the greatest smiles in history

  129. 129.

    prostratedragon

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):  It’s part of his application for removal to federal court, that he was thereby some kind of quasi federal officer. Sounds less than half-baked to me. He should save his money and seek a deal.

  132. 132.

    Cowgirl in the Sandi

    @Quinerly:

    OT Quinerly, if you’re still around…

    We are planning a trip to Santa Fe in late September and I remember you talking about a cool bar that was from the old western days somewhere nearby.  Can you give me the name and location?

  134. 134.

    Alison Rose

    @Mike in NC: Maybe sorta kinda fun fact: The man who took that photo, Joe Rosenthal, moved to my hometown at some point in his later years until his death. One of very few interesting things about the place TBH.

  135. 135.

    Quinerly

    @Cowgirl in the Sandi:

    Check out The Mineshaft in Madrid, NM; Legal Tender in Lamy, NM. They have an old west feel. I love a little hole in the wall place in Corrales, NM called Perea’s Tijuana Bar. Been there since the 1930’s.

    I have houseguests until 9/26; but if you are around after that and want to connect, feel free to get my email from a front pager.

  136. 136.

    Ruckus

    @Jackie:

    No mugshots of me either.

    Served on juries that had defendants with mug shots, but that’s as close as I’ve gotten.

  137. 137.

    Ruckus

    @Mike in NC:

    I wouldn’t even wipe my butt with anything to do with SFB. He’s such a vile person and has such crappy ideals that my butt would likely get dirtier/nastier. And I’m good in that area.

  138. 138.

    Betsy

    @craigie: There used to be public water fountains everywhere, but chintzy republican-inspired government budget cuts and cost-saving by businesses, and then the pandemic “safety” measures, have shut them down.

    Now everyone has to carry their own water because you can’t be sure of finding a working water fountain in a library, courthouse, park, hallway of any standard office building, etc. These are all places where fountains were ubiquitous only 30 years ago or so.

  140. 140.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So, Trump spend the last six months practicing in front of a mirror for that mug shot?  Gods, is that man such a transparent phony.

  142. 142.

    unctuous

    Trump again got special treatment.

    Look at his mugshot vs. every other of the accused mugshots. The lighting is very different. The others got a harsh cool (degrees kelvin) light that was from both sides and top  but especially from the front. The net effect washed out and flattened a lot of the facial features.

    White guys looked sooo white. And pasty. And  everyone thinks “white collar criminal”. Unsurprisingly. They are what they are.

    TFG gets a much warmer light from upper left for his mugshot. He’s rigth, there is a 2 tier justice system, just not the division his followers think it is.

    TFG’s mugshot lighting is reminiscent of some 40’s movie promo era glam shots. The light sculpts his face. It flatters it.

    He’s a bloated old fuck but the light makes his face looks thinner and his hair glows ( always a huge thing with him and his image).

    They let TFG choose the lighting. There is no other explanation.

    Irony is, he thought it looks perfect for the moment. It will in fact inspire his base. But as others have mentioned it makes him looks kubrick crazy bad to normies.

  144. 144.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @unctuous:

    They let TFG choose the lighting. There is no other explanation.

    I’m sure they did.  The process in Georgia is apparently extremely lax.  I bet they would have let the others do the same, but no one else was as vain as Trump, who has spent a lifetime learning stuff like how lighting affects a photograph.

  145. 145.

    Matt McIrvin

    There was a fake mugshot making the rounds hours before the real one came out. Amazingly, the genuine one looks almost exactly like the fake–whoever put the fake together guessed exactly what kind of scowl he’d be putting on when selecting the portrait to use.

  148. 148.

    Ken

    I skimmed the comments and didn’t see the exact measurements to make this pie, but would sure like to do so!  Possible to get that again if already given?  Thanks!  Happy Friday!

  149. 149.

    AM in NC

    @Mike in NC:  Yeah, replacing the relatively normal (and someone who legit did care about US NatSec) Richard Burr with he completely odious and irredeemable Ted Budd was just crushing.  2020 and 2022 just broke my heart regarding statewide elections. That Supreme Court loss last year was the real killer. 2010 just did us in as Democrats, and we have not been able to dig out yet.

    I am hopeful that Dobbs, younger people coming of age, the radical actions of the NCGA, and the total freakishness of the leading GOP gubernatorial candidate gives us Josh Stein as Governor.

    And then we need to work on Senate candidates.

    New Dem Party leadership in the state is also giving me hope.

  150. 150.

    Matt McIrvin

    @AM in NC: The United States became a full democracy in 1965 (VRA) and stopped being one in 2013 (Shelby County vs. Holder). Someday full democracy may be restored but it may not be in our lifetimes.

  152. 152.

    Manyakitty

    @craigie: fwiw on this probably dead thread, I pass out if I get dehydrated. As a result, I carry my ‘security water bottle’ (like security blanket, but drinky) wherever I go so I can keep sipping all day, without interruption.

    So.

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    StringOnAStick

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m a pro sandelian; I live in my Chacos all summer, have a pair of their slides as house shoes for the warm months.  My first pair is 18 years old and getting a little rough looking so they are my water sports shoes; my new pair will likely outlive me in their usefulness.  The tan I get from the straps lasts almost until the next sandal season.  Now they make slippers, the best I’ve ever worn because they have actual arch support and are amazingly comfortable.  I just wish they could get their attempts at shoes and boots to work for me, but no luck so far.

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