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If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

This blog will pay for itself.

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

The lights are all blinking red.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

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Eighteen and horrible:

The felony charges that Representative Lauren Boebert’s eighteen-year-old son, Tyler, got hit with on Tuesday, February 27, stem from a series of car thefts in Rifle, where he and some underage friends robbed several people, including a woman with a brain tumor who said she had just $75 “left to her name,” according to police.

Tyler was allegedly part of a four person crime ring with two female minors and another male minor (Tyler’s 18, so not a minor).  One of the minor females “supposedly made a sex tape” with Tyler, according to an affadavit. In addition to allegedly stealing from a woman with a brain tumor, they took credit cards from parked cars and bought $717 worth of clothes on fast fashion site Shein, as well as spending a bunch of money at Kum & Go (a convenience store) and Love’s (a truck stop).

Updated to add:  John Fetterman is a better person than me.

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  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    @Eolirin:
    Fetterman’s a mensch, but this from Boebert made me raise my eyebrows:

    Reached for comment shortly after the charges were reported, Rep. Boebert said, “I love my son Tyler, who has been through some very difficult, public challenges for a young man and the subject of attention that he didn’t ask for.”

    “It breaks my heart to see my child struggling and, in this situation, especially when he has been provided multiple opportunities to get his life on track,” she said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I will never give up on him and I will continue to be there for him.

    Now do Hunter.

  5. 5.

    stinger

    So Boebert can’t afford to clothe her children? Okay, back to trying to be as good a person as Fetterman. Shall probably fail, again.

    @zhena gogolia: “Now do Hunter.”  This.

  6. 6.

    Brachiator

    Sorry, Another Boebert Kid Update

    I don’t care about Boebert’s kids or how it reflects on her as a parent except to note that white conservatives forgive all kinds of shit that trash like Boebert and her family do, while looking down on non-white people, even those with spotless reputations. American hypocrisy at its deepest. And most typical.

  7. 7.

    sab

    What the fuck is wrong wih us! He is a seventeen year old kid with horrible parents. He does not need us piling on.

    We do not deserve to keep any Congressional or Senatorial  seat if picking on this kid is who we are or what we need to do to win.

  11. 11.

    Eolirin

    @Baud: Almost 19, I think. But I think there’s still a point there. The legal system is holding him accountable, or trying to. I’m not sure we (collectively) need to pile on

    I mean, other than to make the obvious joke that apparently sex tapes run in the family.

  12. 12.

    Tom Levenson

    I don’t think the kid deserves any more attn. than any other 18 y.o. in trouble; he didn’t choose his parents.

    I do think it’s fair game to ask the question that this incident  evokes: does gun-nut culture correlate with crime incidence?

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @sab: Lots of people argue that we should get down in the gutter and fight like the GOP does.  This is what it looks like. I think I’ll go be a part of real life for a while.

  18. 18.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    Fetterman, I agree with on technical terms, but the Republican party’s entire MO is recreational cruelty.

    There must be a point where a responsible individual can draw the line between harmless laughs and behaviors that might cause further harm to the cjild and family.

  19. 19.

    Eolirin

    @Tom Levenson: I think Congresswoman Boebert’s hypocrisy is fair game, but that’s really more about her.

    I’d be curious to see if there’s a correlation with ardent “family values” supporters and higher crime rates too. If I recall correctly it correlates with divorces and domestic violence and teen pregnancy rates, but I don’t think I’ve seen whether there’s a relationship with crime more broadly.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @Eolirin:

    I’m not sure we (collectively) need to pile on.

    I mean, other than to make the obvious joke that apparently sex tapes run in the family.

    I am laughing out loud.  This captures Balloon Juice so perfectly.

  23. 23.

    Another Scott

    Old kids and young adults too often do stupid things. Film at 11.

    Meanwhile, … WhiteHouse.gov press gaggle:

    Q Can I follow up on that point? The head of the Border Patrol union said that Brownsville is actually not a place where the President will be able to evaluate what’s going on because there are relatively fewer crossings comparative to other sectors.

    So, is the President going to be able to get a fulsome evaluation of what is actually needed right now when it comes to the border by going to Brownsville?

    SECRETARY MAYORKAS: Yes. Yes, he will. I mean, Texas is seeing a reduction in encounters across — across the board over what we experienced in December and immediately before then. The primary reason is the enhanced enforcement efforts on the part of the Mexican government.

    The President had a conversation with the President of Mexico in December. Secretary Blinken and I, with our Homeland Security Advisor, visited Mexico. We spoke of the importance of really renewing their enforcement efforts. They did. We’ve seen a tremendous drop in the number of encounters across the southern border.

    The most difficult part south of our border to patrol is Sonora, on the Mexican side, which is why Arizona — the area of Arizona in Tucson continues to see an increase in — in the number of encounters.

    But the President will see firsthand what the Border Patrol needs and what the legislation would deliver if Congress would pass it.

    (Emphasis added.)

    But I thought it was a never-ending CRISIS!!

    You mean talking with others with respect gets results? You mean screaming that they Pay for a Wall, talking about invading them and going to war with them, etc., etc., isn’t the only way to address problems??

    I’m shocked, shocked.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    I don’t care much about this person, except to point out Republican double standards. But when did we stop treating 18 year olds as adults? I’ve seen a lot of people making excuses for young people who are no longer minors. 

    I’m starting to think the GOP has a point about raising the voting age.

  26. 26.

    cain

    @Warblewarble:

    Don’t forget “Love’s” – I’m a bit askance with all these names in Rifle.

    (I’ve been to Rifle – it’s slowly getting gentrified but the people seem ok)

  28. 28.

    $8 blue check mistermix

    I have a kid, too, so I get Fetterman’s point and the points of other commenters here.

    But — keep in mind that Rep Boebert’s rationale for moving her family from Silt (which is her residence in CO-3, a short drive from Rifle) to someplace in CO-4 (supposedly in Adams County, the southern exurbs of Denver) is that she’s trying to escape her soon-to-be-ex-husband.  But all of this, and the other criming that her family has done, is happening in CO-3.  So she’s pulled her family into her justification for changing districts.

  30. 30.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Baud: But when did we stop treating 18 year olds as adults?

    If you can’t walk into a bar or dispensary, you don’t have all the privileges of an adult.

    I disagree as far as the voting age. It should be younger, maybe16. If you’re old enough to pay taxes, you’re old enough to vote.  Indeed, there ought not to be taxation without representation.

    Now ask me about migrant workers…

  32. 32.

    cain

    @Baud: Trump still refers to his grown ass adults as ‘children’. Of course, they are fair game since they are involved in the politics unlike this kid.

    The kid has had a horrible home and his lifestyle is a reflection of it. From all the stupid things that Lauren has done clearly she is no role model.

  35. 35.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to Sr Petersburg

    I want to know who is raising Tyler’s younger sibs, given their dad’s DV order. I also want to know who Tyler is staying with in Rifle.

  36. 36.

    terraformer

    For a brief while (that seemed much longer than it was), we lived in Iowa. They had those “Kum and Go” stores, and we were like … WTAF is with *that* name?

    so naturally, we had great laughs trying to come up with other family-fun names for such an establishment, like: “Shit and split” and “Pee and flee” – we are all children

  37. 37.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    I want to know who is raising Tyler’s younger sibs, given their dad’s DV order. I also want to know who Tyler is staying with in Rifle.

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: When you turn 18 you attain majority status and can sign contracts that are legally binding. We put a lot of stock in that ’round these parts.

    Also, no more trips to juvie–you sit in jail with real adult criming types.

  39. 39.

    Tony Jay

    @sab:

    You both have a very valid wider point about not sinking into the gutter with the hypocritical finger-pointers and are going to be shit out of luck asking for a grace period for a thuggish little shite who is accused of stuff that brings out a ring-studded back of the hand response from the lizard brain.

    Yeah, we should be better than Conservatives. Doesn’t mean people don’t get to point and laugh at Conservative hypocricy. They are only as human as the Boeberts, after all.

  40. 40.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Baud: I do think there’s a minimum age for paying taxes. But not sure.

    I started my first job at 15. I was required to pay taxes. Indeed, they fucked up my witholding and I learned the hard way exactly how much tax I needed pay.

  41. 41.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Another Scott: It seems the questioner doesn’t know what “fulsome” means. I miss the old days, when reporters knew English, or had editors who did

    ETA: I see I’m late ,as usual

  42. 42.

    piratedan

    feel worse for the victims of their crimes, its the kind of shit that makes the day to day even tougher.  I lament the fact that her son (and others) were likely doing this shit for kicks because none of the opportunities available appealed to them.  Perhaps it will provide a moment of introspection to the other MOC, you never know when someone will have an epiphany.

  43. 43.

    Eolirin

    @Baud: 18 year olds are not developmentally in the same place as 26+ year olds, even just in terms of brain development. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be held accountable, especially for shit like this, or that they’re incapable of making good decisions, because they’re not.

    But people who are younger than their mid to late twenties really shouldn’t be held to the same social standards as people older than that. And it may make sense to revise some of our guidelines on what constitutes full adulthood, but that’s a conservation that’s a lot bigger than this blog.

    There’s a lot more neuroscience on this stuff now than there was when all of that stuff got established though. We know a lot more about developmental stages and the effects of age on things like emotional regulation, impulsivity and decision-making. Those things are naturally underdeveloped through the early twenties.

  45. 45.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Updated to add: John Fetterman is a better person than me.

    Yeah, I’m not sure I’m a better person than anybody else, but I’ve been thinking about this all day, because quite plain and simply, I’ve been there.

    I have spent countless hours in Juvy court, helpless, there only because I couldn’t be anyplace else and call myself a father. I spent countless hours in counseling with my son while my ex was nowhere to be seen, and listened to him tell me how much he hated me, how he wanted nothing more than for me to go away, and I replied that I never would go away, that no matter how much he hated me I loved him more and would always be there for him.

    I don’t know if LB will be there for her son. I hope and I pray she will, for his sake.

  47. 47.

    Eolirin

    @Baud: He also suffered from pretty severe trauma both physically and presumably emotionally from the car accident that took the life of his mother and sister.

    He’s had a pretty rough life too, just in other ways.

  48. 48.

    Another Scott

    DenverPost.com story from yesterday says that he has an F-250 pickup.

    At 18.

    Other stories say it’s a 2005. So in addition to be a huge fuel hog (maybe 13 mpg?), it’s a death trap.

    Lots of bad choices. Here’s hoping that he figures out a better path.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  50. 50.

    Almost Retired

    @terraformer: The founder (co- founder, actually) of Kum n Go went to high school and is buried in my Iowa hometown, although his first store was in a different nearby town.  The name was a source of endless delight to junior high students.  The founder himself was  kind of an asshole IIRC.  A friend who still lives there said the company was recently purchased by a Mormon company in Utah which plans, not surprisingly, to change the name.  That will free the trademark up for a Nevada brothel.

  51. 51.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Good for Fetterman. I take no delight in the troubles of a young man getting crosswise with the law. I know we’ve seen far too many scolds in the political world who not only taunt people for their faults but also make up esctra accusations, all just to feed outrage among voters and online partisans. I don’t think we want our side to be like that, even if we think the other side is guilty.

  54. 54.

    TBone

    That’s our Jawn, making us PA Proud!

    I got a reply back today on my inquiry about the January 6, 2025 Project.  I’ll be checking on it!

    “Thank you for your interest. The essays should be published very soon in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Unfortunately, I am unable to expedite the publication process. But keep checking in with the Annals website or the Rooney Center website to see when the essays are published.

    Best,
    Matt Hall

    —

    Matthew E.K. Hall, Ph.D.
    David A. Potenziani Memorial College Professor of Constitutional Studies
    Director, Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy
    Department of Political Science and Law School (concurrent)
    University of Notre Dame

    https://sites.google.com/site/matthewhallphd/

    The January 6th, 2025, Project
    The Nature of Supreme Court Power
    What Justices Want: Goals and Personality on the U.S. Supreme Court

  59. 59.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, but I never thought I’d end up there. Just can’t help thinking of the child, because in a parent’s eyes (OK, my eyes) they are always your child. I hold out hope that LB will think of her son first…. (but I’m not holding my breath.)

    In the mean while, whatever her short comings I have to leave him out of them. He’s fucked up. I have to separate his fuck ups from his mother. even if she did cause them. After all, I did the same for my son.

  61. 61.

    The Thin Black Duke

    I’m out of sympathy, especially when it’s likely he’s gonna legally get off with a slap of the wrist because of whose kid he is. All of my life I’ve seen punks like this get away with it while I worry about my nephew not getting to go home because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time in White America. Someone else can extend grace, I’m done.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @OzarkHillbilly: All true.  You can’t pick your parents any more than you can pick your zip code.  Or your standard of living.

    I once went to a community dinner where they handed out tickets at the door.  We had no idea what they were for until the food was served.

    If you got ticket A, you got a lovely meal of (I don’t recall) but you had an entree and veggies and salad and dessert and a nice drink of some sort.

    If you got ticket B, you got a scoop of rice and a scoop of beans and water to drink.

    So there you were, either eating your rich, lovely dinner while the person next to you was stuck with a scoop of rice and a scoop of beans.

    OR you get your rice and beans and water while you watched the other people eating their lovely rich dinner.

    Definitely a teachable moment for all.

  63. 63.

    Scout211

    Jayson Boebert’s statement to Westworld.com

    “Being a father in today’s challenging world can be a heavy task. With the constant bombardment of information and influences from all angles, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the best way to guide your children. The challenges we have experienced, especially in the last few years, with schools being shut down, social shut downs, and the depression that was set in from a mismanaged COVID SHUT DOWN. Despite our best efforts, we will fall short sometimes. As a parent balancing work, family, and personal life while striving to be a good role model for your kids can be incredibly demanding. Moreover, the spotlight of today’s media can magnify and distort even the smallest aspects of your life. It’s disheartening to see your actions or words misrepresented and sensationalized, painting a false picture for the public. These distortions do not only create tension within your family, but also affect your reputation and relationships outside of the home. As a father navigating this complex landscape, it is crucial to stay true to your values, communicate openly with your loved ones, and remember that perfection is unattainable. Striving for honest and genuine connections with your children and keeping them on the right path, despite the challenges and external pressures, is what truly matters in the end.”

    It was the shut down and the media.

  64. 64.

    BethanyAnne

    Did the victim with the brain tumor get any help? Does she have a GoFundMe to pass a few bucks her way? I suppose it’s way past the time that she was robbed, but still, that’s who I end up thinking about with this story.

  70. 70.

    LifeInTheBonusRound

    @sab: I was an 18 year old “kid” with horrible parents (don’t ask). I never stole credit cards nor made a sex tape with a minor. Parents aren’t the only determinant of how we behave, even at that age. Lots of social norms that were operating beyond his parents. He just didn’t pay attention to them.

  72. 72.

    gene108

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Lots of people argue that we should get down in the gutter and fight like the GOP does. This is what it looks like. I think I’ll go be a part of real life for a while.

    Many people are petty. Doesn’t matter their politics.

  73. 73.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WaterGirl: For me? It’s real simple, my sons meant everything to me. I went thru hell for them. I’d like to hope LB feels the same even tho I doubt it. So, fuck her. BUT… my thoughts are with her son, he might be an 18 yo shit, but that’s not so different from a 17 or 16 yo shit.

    I just can’t make him a political target because his mother is a … not gonna say it not gonna say it,,,

  74. 74.

    Jackie

    Off topic. WARNING!!! Take blood pressure meds before clicking the link to watch the video!😡😤

    “While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman’s body is designed to carry life.”

    — Cincinnati Right to Life leader Laura Strietmann, commenting on the 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped and had to travel to Indiana for an abortion.

  78. 78.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Baud:

    It’s not. You can see the date above the channel logo in the video, April 18th, 2023.

    It is hideous, tho, what she said. Glad they lost last August in Ohio

    ETA: Fixed the date

  81. 81.

    Scout211

    @Jackie: The tweet is dated 2/28/24.🤷🏼‍♀️

    The video is dated April 18, 2023.

    ETA: Goku got there first with the video date.

  82. 82.

    JPL

    Hopefully, Tyler can turn his life around, but it’s probably late for his parents to do the same.   Both parents blame others rather than looking inward, and their children have permission to do the same.   Republicans are not for personal responsibility.

  83. 83.

    NutmegAgain

    @zhena gogolia: Thank you! I have been on a (so far silent) grumble-fest about people who just don’t seem to understand how words work. Talking about “native” english speakers. I mean, coronating?. What happened to good old crowned. I can’t summon any of the other culprits to mind. But I kinda think it’s more of a problem than they’re, their, there, or affect, effect, etc. Grumble grumble.

  85. 85.

    NotoriousJRT

    @WaterGirl: I’d take the hypocrisy trigger one step further. As a small-town transplant  to a big city on the left coast, I have to listen to declarations of still-rural friends and family about the crimey, grimy city in which I reside.  They are entirely blinkered to problems in their perfect corner of the world and have no problem deciding that a place in which they have never set foot is a hell hole.  People struggle everywhere, but I bristle at having to “answer” to rural folk for their imagined fears about my city home.  Lauren Boebert is quick to criticize places and people as if she occupies moral high ground and rural utopia. It turns out that neither is true. From my distance, I can find neither empathy nor sympathy for her as a politician.  I hope her family can pull it together for the sake of their community.

  89. 89.

    CaseyL

    speaking of families, Philip Bump has an article in WaPo about Hunter Biden’s closed-door testimony today to the Clowder of Clowns known as the House Judiciary Committee:

    I’ll walk through Hunter Biden’s refutations of GOP allegations tomorrow. Tonight, I looked at the big picture of his testimony and his effective explanations of his career and his relationship with his father. No paywall: https://wapo.st/3Th5qIJ

    The contrast in family life – the Bidens versus just about any GOP family, including the gormless Boeberts – is galactic. The Bidens love one another, do a lot of stuff together, and without hesitation reach out to help one another.

    The GOPers can’t accept this because they don’t understand it because not a single one of them gives the slightest of shits about their nearest and dearest.

  93. 93.

    columbusqueen

    @Baud: Hunter also suffered a traumatic head injury as a toddler & may have inherited addiction tendencies from the Irish side of his family, so the quality of Joe & Jill’s parenting may have been offset by these factors.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: These people are fucked up.

    The 10-year-old across the street is still building snowmen and doing snow angels, and over the summer last year she said it was the best day of her life that I would surprise sprinkle her with the hose when she would come over to talk to me while I watered the new bed in the front yard.

    She’s supposed to have a child if someone abuses her?

  96. 96.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jackie:

    You’re welcome. And it absolutely still is. Justifying a 10 year old’s forced pregnancy from a rape because a “woman’s body is designed to carry life” is obscene. A 10 year old girl is not a woman. And even if she were a grown woman, it’s still horrible. The fact that the victim was a 10 year old just makes it even worse

  98. 98.

    trollhattan

    Whoa Texas, at least wait ’til summer.

    A rapidly spreading Texas wildfire has killed one person, forced residents to evacuate, cut off power to homes and businesses, and briefly paused operations at a nuclear facility.

    It has burned 1.1 million acres north of the city of Amarillo – making it the second-largest fire in US history.
    Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties.
    Dry grass, high temperatures and strong winds have fuelled the blaze, which remains 3% contained.
    In Hutchinson County, one of the hardest-hit areas, public engagement coordinator Deidra Thomas told CNN one person had died in the blazes. The woman was identified by her family as 83-year-old Joyce Blankenship – a former substitute teacher.
    The Smokehouse Creek Fire, as it has been named, has already razed 1.1 million acres – larger than the state of Rhode Island.
    The West Odessa Fire Department said on Facebook that it “is now both the largest and most destructive fire in Texas History”, surpassing the East Amarillo Complex fire, which burned over 900,000 acres in 2006.
    The department also said it is now the second largest wildfire in US history.
    There are five active wildfires in the state, according to the forest service, each burning tens of thousands acres, melting light posts and reducing buildings to a charred skeleton.
    The Texas A&M Forest Service said that the winds had diminished slightly, helping to moderate the fire’s spread.
    Rain and cooler temperatures were expected in the state’s northern panhandle on Thursday, which may aid efforts to extinguish the blaze.

  103. 103.

    Other MJS

    @Ramona:

    Hunter also suffered serious brain damage as a child in the car accident which killed his mother and sister, trauma compounded by trauma!

    I’m appalled that I wasn’t aware of this, though I should have assumed a connection. Everyone knows about “Hunter’s laptop”, but I’ll bet not 1 person in 10 is aware of this. Thanks, news media.

  104. 104.

    Kelly

    @NotoriousJRT: As a small-town transplant  to a big city on the left coast, I have to listen to declarations of still-rural friends and family about the crimey, grimy city

    I grew up small town/rural. Went to U of O in Eugene then had a career in and around Portland. I retired to my rural old home range. Regularly tell my local old friends and new yokel acquaintances that Portland and Eugene are nice places that I enjoyed for 40 years. They never believe me.

  107. 107.

    David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch

     One of the minor females “supposedly made a sex tape” with Tyler, according to an affadavit.

    “I’m not even sure that’s a crime anymore.” ~ Irwin Fletcher

  110. 110.

    lowtechcyclist

    @terraformer:

    For a brief while (that seemed much longer than it was), we lived in Iowa. They had those “Kum and Go” stores, and we were like … WTAF is with *that* name?

    They should open up a location next to every BJ’s Wholesale.

  112. 112.

    Another Scott

    @BethanyAnne: I did a little searching around, but didn’t find anything.

    Yes, it’s horrible what happened to her, full stop.  Even property crime and petty larceny can have real consequences for real people.  (I remember when I was in college seeing a couple of teenagers steal a woman’s purse while she was walking to her car, and my chasing after them for a few minutes, but they eventually got away.)

    :-(

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  115. 115.

    Another Scott

    @karen marie: I suspect that his father has his own issues as well.

    I wonder if Tyler’s truck is the same one Lauren gave birth to her 3rd son in.

    “Now that I think about it clearly, we should have left earlier, but honestly, at that moment, there was no way of knowing what difference an hour would make,” she wrote.

    “Besides,” she added, “I wanted time to make myself more presentable for our ‘mom and baby’ pictures.”

    So she showered and fixed her hair and makeup, waking up her husband Jayson an hour later. She left the room, and her husband returned to bed but then “reluctantly” got ready.

    They left for the hospital in her husband’s Ford F-250 “old and dirty gas and patch work truck,” and she became concerned about her strong contractions. She questions whether she should have driven because her husband was driving “like an old lady.”

    Panicking, she told him to speed up. He did after her water broke.

    “He pressed the accelerator as hard as it would go,” she wrote. “Too late. The baby’s head popped out.”

    She said she delivered Kaydon at just over eight pounds in the front cab of the pickup on an Interstate 70 off-ramp. She negotiated a 50 percent discount with the hospital since “nature and I” did the job, she wrote.

    Priorities, amirite??

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  116. 116.

    trollhattan

    @Another Scott: ​
    She shoved birfin’ in tha truck then goin’ to work at da bar in Pete Buttiguig’s face when he took paternity leave.

    That really told him.

    She gives trash a bad name.

  118. 118.

    Kent

    @Baud:

    I don’t care much about this person, except to point out Republican double standards. But when did we stop treating 18 year olds as adults? I’ve seen a lot of people making excuses for young people who are no longer minors.

    I’m starting to think the GOP has a point about raising the voting age.

    If he was Black and did the same thing they’d be clamoring to try him as an adult at age 15 or 16.

    RAISE the age of maturity for affluent wayward White kids.  LOWER it for poor Black kids.

    Because that’s the way we roll in this country.

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    randy khan

    @Baud:

    I do think there’s a minimum age for paying taxes. But not sure.

     

    I filed my first tax return at 15, IIRC, because of a summer camp job that withheld income tax from my munificent pay of something like $175.

    After a little research, I discovered that the rule is that a minor needs to file at certain income thresholds (depending on the kind of income) regardless of age.  And that it’s a good idea to file below those thresholds in a lot of circumstances, like when I worked at that camp and they withheld income tax even though I wasn’t going to owe any.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @Lawrence A Schuman: I’m glad you clarified sort of store Kum & Go is.

    Bob Seger on the dark discourtesy phone:

    All through the midnight
    Watch ’em come and watch ’em go, oh go
    With only one thing in common
    They got the fire down below​

    ​
    ​

  127. 127.

    wjca

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: If you can’t walk into a bar or dispensary, you don’t have all the privileges of an adult.

    If you can’t be a member of Congress (minimum age: 25), you don’t have all the privileges of an adult.

    In you can’t be a member of the US Senate (minimum age: 30) you don’t have all the privileges of an adult.

    And on and on.

    You’re an adult when the law says you’re an adult, rather than a minor.  Which is 18.

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    Cheri Siderio

    @BethanyAnne: wondered about this too. Your comment showed up on a quick search. Would like to start a GFM but have no clue who the woman is except she maybe lives in CO.

    Oh, and for those screaming “now do Hunter”, JFC do you people not understand non-parity, false equivalency? There is no level of comparison. At all. There is no there there. If ya can’t figure that out, yer def in a cult.

  130. 130.

    Citizen Alan

    Truthfully,  I just feel sorry for the kid with trash like that for parents.  I can’t help wondering if he was the unplanned pregnancy that caused Boebert to drop out of school. And if so, did tge vile women treat him badly because of it. If so and he didn’t know it before, I’m sure the media coverage that attended her election made him aware of it.

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    RaflW

    Boebert is going to lose her primary bid. She should just resign now to spend more time with her family.

    And yes, this is the rare time when that dog eared phrase would actually apply.

    Bye, Lauren. Bye.

  132. 132.

    RaflW

    To the much more pressing topic: Y’all know there’s a competing brand of convenience stores called Pump n Munch, right?

    There’s an exit on I-35 in northern Iowa where the Kum n Go and the Pump n Munch are across the street from each other.

    Friend road tripped with me years ago and nearly lost it when I pulled off for gas at that fine American bit of classiness.

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    Ruckus

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    Started working at 12-13. Summers and weekends. But it was my father’s business. I don’t remember if I got a check, but I seem to recall that I wasn’t on the books. But latter I was, well before 18. Later I owned the company and did so longer than dad.

  134. 134.

    Ruckus

    @Quaker in a Basement:

    I live in an LA suburb and I’d bet I see as many full sized pickups as any other form of vehicle. It’s not just F-250s, Chevy and Dodge are in the mix and of course gas is about $4.50/gal.

  135. 135.

    Ruckus

    @Scout211:

    This is a different world than it was decades ago. For a lot of reasons but one of which is the population. When I was in high school here in LA county, I could look out my upstairs back window and see orange and lemon trees as far as the eye could see. If I could look out that window today all I’d see is homes and shopping centers.

  136. 136.

    different-church-lady

    @sab: Lots of teenagers have problems. Most of them don’t go on violent crime sprees.

  137. 137.

    different-church-lady

    @Eolirin: By the time you’re 17 you ought to have passed the developmental stage that allows you to understand that auto theft is wrong.

  146. 146.

    Paul in KY

    @JustRuss: I hear about the ‘Eugene Death Wastes’ here in Kaintuck. Blasted heaths with ne’er a Starbucks in sight. Zombie hipsters on the prowl…

  147. 147.

    Paul in KY

    @trollhattan: He shouldn’t have any guilt. He was a little kid & not driving, etc. Would think the visuals were horrible though and would be blasted into your memory.

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    Juju

    @Jackie: The woman who said that said a very stupid thing, but she is right in some regards. It’s too bad she couldn’t figure it out when she made the statement.

    “While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman’s body is designed to carry life.”

    A woman’s body, in theory, is made to carry a pregnancy, but a ten year old girl’s is not.

    Late to this, as usual.

  150. 150.

    Juju

    @columbusqueen: The fact that Hunter was probably given opioids at a young age also didn’t help, if he has the addiction gene, which it seems like he does. He really seemed to spiral out of control after his brother died.

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