News of two massive scandals involving the Trump Department of Justice emerged yesterday. In other words, a typical weekend in 2025. First up from MSNBC, “border czar” Tom Homan was allegedly caught on video being a gigantic crook:
In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.
I’m not a lawyer or investigator, so maybe I’m off base here, but this part seems almost touching and precious in its naivety:
The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said.
So the plan was to forego busting Homan for accepting money and conspiring to corruptly influence future government contract awards with the expectation that if the crooked ex-president was elected in 2024 and once again took charge of the DOJ in 2025, the crooked president would allow the DOJ to bust his ally Homan for being a crook? Do I have that right?
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Next up, it appears the crooked and possibly demented president thought he was sending a private direct message to his corrupt attorney general via his Twitter knock-off platform, leaning on her to persecute his political enemies faster. Only he posted it publicly instead:
There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization.
It’s all out in the open.
— Sen. Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov) September 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Oops — not supposed to document a criminal fucking conspiracy like that, Trump! The post was subsequently deleted, which indicates that yep, the dotard meant to send a DM.
Lindsey Halligan, the White House aide Trump name-checks in the post as a replacement U.S. attorney, is a crappy Florida insurance lawyer who has never prosecuted a case. So I’m sure she’ll work out just fine!
For some reason, the way Trump told Bondi that Halligan “likes you, a lot” reminds me of the handwritten notes kids used to surreptitiously pass around classrooms in 6th grade:
Do you like me? [ ] yes [ ] no
I suppose kids today send irony-drenched disappearing Snapchats instead of passing notes — or slam books, remember them, fellow olds? So that’s another lost art.
Anyhoo, typical stuff, these massive scandals that would make the shade of Richard Nixon cringe in shame. I reckon today’s blanket media coverage of the MAGA star-studded Circle Kirk* will knock this stuff out of the news before one in a thousand Americans even hears about it.
But hopefully the statute of limitations won’t lapse before these crooks can be prosecuted, if democracy and the rule of law are restored. Maybe after directing officials to revise signage, stationery, URLs, etc., to restore the U.S. Department of Defense’s proper name from the childish and cringe Department of WAAAAR, the next Democratic president can rename the Department of Justice: Department of JAILING CROOKS.
Just kidding about that last part. But for real, if voters step up and hand Democrats a trifecta again, we need to refocus that department on the white collar crime wave that is engulfing the republic and prosecute every goddamn one of the many Trump crooks.
Open thread.
*Stolen from someone on Bluesky who called the nauseating levels of Charlie Kirk hagiography this.
Time Travelin
Always wondered what the K stood for in Circle K.
different-church-lady
Who could have imagined that all these guys who talk like criminals and act like criminals would turn out to be criminals?
Baud
Trump was on trial for two major federal felonies. Maybe future voters will care about Republican malfeasance, but until voters do, they don’t.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Now let’s be fair here: Republicans won’t care even when future voters do.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Not in their hearts. Republicans crave power, though, and will feign caring about anything that deprives them of it.
Geminid
I wonder how far Congressional Republicans will go protect Homan. The obvious move now would be to call him to testify before the House abd Senate Homeland Security Commitees. So will the Republican Chairmen call him in? They’ll be back in DC by Tuesday and I think reporters will ask them that question
Ed. “Did Tom Homan keep the $50,000?” That question would put a Chairman on the spot.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Crooks who are prosecuted for malfeasance and sentenced to jail time care, and maybe people who are tempted to engage in corrupt acts will be deterred by their example. If there’s a political benefit, great, but it’s the right thing to do regardless. When corruption is so pervasive that honest people begin to feel like suckers, that’s a societal danger.
chemiclord
Since the FBI’s inception, if there is one thing the FBI loves more than anything, it’s passing the buck. They love making things someone else’s problem. From 9/11 to the Comey Letter to quite literally anything… if they can make the actual decision appear to be in the hands of someone else, they’ll take it.
This entire thing with Homan reeks of that policy. Think of it this way; either Trump decides to hammer Homan, and then they can look like the heroes and Trump appear reasonable and truly committed to sniffing out corruption… or they can quietly bury it, hope that no one notices, and if someone does, they can shrug helplessly and suggest there’s nothing else they could have realistically done.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I’m not opposed to it.There’s lots of things I’d personally like to see if we’re lucky enough to have a Dem president in 2029. I’m just not going to expect political benefits before I experience political benefits.
AM in NC
Yep, add these criminals to the list of people who need to be prosecuted for blatant crimes once the fascists are driven from power.
We cannot, MUST NOT, allow any of them to escape trial and punishment if they committed crimes – from the lowliest henchman to the rotted fish at the top. It’s partly why we are where we are now.
CaseyL
Normies are the target demographic for normalization. Soak the airwaves with it, and people will eventually absorb the new norms. They won’t wonder about or yearn for what they lost, any more than they still wonder about or yearn for rotary dial landline telephones.
“Corruption in politics” has been a fact of life as old as there have been politics, and that goes for the US as well. Normies will care about it like they care about bad weather: unpleasant, but nothing can be done about it.
Hell, that’s how normies react to mass shootings. Talk about a success story: taking daily mass murders and reducing normie reaction to it to a what-can-you-do shrug? That’s the model they’re working from.
Habituation and tolerance: it isn’t just for opiate addiction!
piratedan
getting to the point where I really don’t want my tax dollars being spent any more on these peeps than it has been, can we just ship them en masse to Vlad and he can put them to work rebuilding his oil refineries? We can call it a diplomatic action in returning Russian agents to their homeland.
Jeffro
was on a shuttle bus to a football game yesterday with Froette and Mrs. Fro, when suddenly, across the aisle, I see Froette’s eyes bug out
we get off the bus and she tells me that the couple behind her (old white couple) was going ON and ON about ol’ Charlie, how his memorial service was going to be “the biggest event in the history of Christianity” (yes REALLY)
needless to say, we tailgated a little harder than usual once we all got to the stadium!
ANYWAY
fuck trump, Homan, and Bondi, and fuck Megyn Kelly too for posting that (we? society? the law?) should “leave Tom Homan alone” after he was straight-up busted like that.
Suzanne
Department of TAKING THE TRASH OUT.
The brazenness of these people is really something to behold. Like, Homan clearly doesn’t feel even the slightest bit of shame for being a goddamn cheat and a crook.
Betty Cracker
Rep. Crockett makes an interesting point here about what it meant when the House passed the resolution honoring Kirk. She compares it to the Trump admin resurrecting Confederate relics.
Jeffro
110% this.
much like your idea
the next Dem administration is going to
wantneed to call a presser every afternoon, “Today’s update on absolutely unreal criminal shit that we uncovered about trump and his goons”(needs a catchier title but I’m serious – remind folks EVERY DAY just what these malicious crooks were all about)
if nothing else, it should drive some (probably small, but still) fraction of MAGAts back under their rocks for a few years or, if we’re lucky, election cycles
Baud
@Jeffro:
Design wise, the cross was much nicer looking symbol than a rifle bullet.
But you gotta go where the spirit takes you.
Deputinize America
Apropos of nothing whatsoever, how many of you know that the liberal Weimar Constitution with a broad set of rights to assembly, expression and faith was still in effect through May 1945?
Jeffro
@Baud: Froette was like, “hel-LO, ever heard of the Crusades? Martin Luther?” LOLOL
Jeffro
btw and OT – happy Earth, Wind, and Fire Day, everyone!
“do you remember…the 21st day of September…”
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Had a friend who asked of cross-wearing ” If your savior had been killed by a rifle, would you wear a rifle?”
Well…..I guess we have the answer now.
Another Scott
They’re going to keep doing it until there are consequences. Grr…
Meanwhile, …
Someone who understands thousands of years of history of power relations isn’t obeying in advance.
Shock Shocking.
Anyway, Stinky 47, about those Epstein Files …
Best wishes,
Scott.
Jeffro
AOC’s on fire, asking, “who’s the illegal now, @realTomHoman ?”
Baud
different-church-lady
@Betty Cracker:
Oh honey, I started feeling like that about 15 years ago.
Ella in New Mexico
Prediction:
No matter how hard they try to pretend they have any serious charges against Trump’s enemies, this adorable little admission post by Trump will likely be the sole grounds for dismissal of ANY attempts to falsely prosecute anyone.
Baud
@Ella in New Mexico:
Absolutely. Not just prosecutions. Any exercise of power by a Dem president will be analogized to something awful Trump did.
Think Obama’s Katrina but amped up on steroids.
People need to be mentally prepared.
WaterGirl
@different-church-lady:
This will be like my beloved cocker spaniel, who was NEVER EVER SORRY, NOT EVEN ONCE, THAT HE GOT IN THE GARBAGE but he was sorry that I was yelling at him about it. And then he would do it again the next chance he got.
edit: I don’t care if they’re sorry. I just want them to have consequences.
different-church-lady
@Betty Cracker: I’ll start with the problem: living in the liberal northeast I won’t get the opportunity very much. But the silver lining is that every time I interact with someone who tries to sanctify Kirk is an opportunity for me to say he was a racist.
Baud
Jeffro
it’s definitely Exhibit A in any Dem defendant’s defense, that’s for sure
Betty
Betty wrote that Trump is possibly demented. I, like others here, have a spouse suffering from dementia. He’s there and is seriously deteriorating. It’s a one-way street. Last night he said he settled the war between Cambodia and Armenia. Facing up to this reality is going to be very hard for the powers that be. It will be messy.
Someone on Threads suggested that this may not have been Homan’s first bribe. I think it’s unlikely the FBI would have set up the sting unless they had received some evidence that he was up to no good. But as Meghan Kelly said, he’s a hero so leave him alone.
Baud
I wish Democrats would stop being so hateful.
trollhattan
@Jeffro:
“Bigger than a pope’s funeral.”
“You know it.”
“Don’t I ever!”
And, scene.
Even BBC is giving whatever it’s going to be, coverage. Words fail me.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Shorter Crockett on CNN:
“Fuck That Shit.”
Okay, she said the outside words and I’m just subtitling the inside words.
Betty
@Baud: Yes, that Biden was so mean he called Trump a loser right in front of the whole world. What could be meaner than that?
different-church-lady
@Baud: “Trump was allowed to get away with it! We can’t let that continue with (President X)!”
different-church-lady
@Baud: Boy, that guy is gonna reap some shit.
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
If Trump gets me into rooting for the Taliban I swear….
hueyplong
@different-church-lady: That’s a bingo
different-church-lady
@trollhattan: Injuries, baby, injuries.
trollhattan
A Tweet for every occasion.
x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1969521197135380937
Backstory, in case you missed it amongst the firehose news stream.
forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/09/20/us-attorney-refers-gavin-newsom-to-secret-service-for-threat-…
Suzanne
@Betty: I can’t tell if he’s demented, because he’s so fucking stupid.
It would be like wondering if a dogshit sandwich has spoiled.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, newly elected Representative James Walkinshaw (VA-11) is hitting the ground running.
BlueViriginia.US:
+1
Best wishes,
Scott.
Deputinize America
@Baud:
Its clearly an antisemitism.
They Call Me Noni
@AM in NC:
It’s partly why we are where we are now.
I would argue that it’s entirely why we are where we are now. No consequences for illegal actions only emboldened them.
Eyeroller
I’m looking forward to the release of the Charlie-Kirk-Song “Raise the Flag High.”
A bit of trivia: in the famous “La Marseillaise” scene in Casablana, the script originally called for the group of German officers to sing the Horst-Wessel-Lied. But it was under copyright and Warner Brothers couldn’t contact a belligerent for licensing, and no way were they going to ignore even Nazi Germany’s copyright laws. So they sang “Wacht am Rhein.”
And I truly to not understand how this memorial is national, much less international, news, other than that Republicans have made it so and the media are all-in with them.
Matt McIrvin
@CaseyL: In recent decades, the US has actually been a very low-corruption political society on a day-to-day practical basis. We aren’t accustomed to having to bribe officials to get simple things done like registering your car or getting a passport or passing through customs. In fact, there’s a pretty strong taboo against it.
If that changes, people WILL notice. But it may be past the point that it’s easy to do anything about it.
Deputinize America
@Eyeroller:
1. Flag high, ranks closed,
America marches with silent solid steps.
Moral men shot by the libtards and reaction
March in spirit with us in our ranks.
2. The street free for the Proud Boys,
The street free for the Three Percenters.
Millions, full of hope, look to the golden god
The day breaks for freedom and riches.
3. For the last time the call will now be blown;
For the struggle now we all stand ready.
Soon will fly Trump-flags over every street;
Wokeism to last only a short time longer
4. Flag high, ranks closed,
America marches with silent solid steps.
Moral me. shot by libtards and reaction
March in spirit with us in our ranks.
Baud
@Eyeroller:
So it is with many things.
Betty
@Suzanne: If you live with it, it seems clearer. As one M. D. on social media suggested, compare his mental capacity now with what it was even ten years ago. There is a big difference.
Shalimar
@trollhattan: Jesus, the MAGA responses are awful. Apparently, they all skipped school the day their English class taught sarcasm.
lowtechcyclist
@Another Scott:
Carr doesn’t even know his own territory:
‘Equal time’ applies to paid political ads. And it’s been nearly 40 years since the Fairness Doctrine was killed off, so people can say whatever they damn well please over the airwaves without having to give any time at all to differing viewpoints.
Maybe the doofus has never heard of Rush Limbaugh.
noncarborundum
@Jeffro:
It wasn’t the “leave him alone” that got to me, it was the “he’s a national treasure.” I don’t like living in a political environment where this is even a possible thought.
KithKanan
@Time Travelin:
If Wikipedia is to be believed, they started when the founder bought three “Kay’s Food Stores” locations from their owner Kay Misenheimer and renamed them “Circle K Food Stores” to I guess keep a similar sounding name while being legally distinct? So depending on how you look at it it either stands for “Kay” or nothing at all.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … MuellerSheWrote.com (from 9/20):
(via BlueVirginia.US)
Yup. We – all of us – have to do our part of the work.
Best wishes,
Scott.
PSQ
@trollhattan:
“Even BBC is giving whatever it’s going to be, coverage.”
Big MAGA meet and greet.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
You know what day it is 😁😁
youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?si=xi-cVNreeyPl3obd
different-church-lady
@Another Scott: Gosh, ya know, if only someone had warned us this would happen…
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: Tuesday?
different-church-lady
@PSQ: The two-hours hate
MagdaInBlack
@rikyrah: I had a 21 y/o parts guy who loved that song He would say to me ” Magda, do you remember..?” and we would sing it together. =-)
Kayla Rudbek
@Deputinize America: in the mid 1970s, the Germans had gone through their legal codes down and through the traffic laws and officially noted that these laws had been denazified. As lawyers, we should be thinking about a similar process, or a rewrite from the ground up.
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
Anyone with an IQ over 27.
Kayla Rudbek
@Matt McIrvin: I would say that’s more true in the cities than in the countryside or a small town (one of my former colleagues lived outside of Fredericksburg, Virginia and said it was very easy to get your old clunker car to pass state inspection from the local mechanic if you left a fifth of liquor in the back seat).
different-church-lady
@Ruckus: Well, that rules out half the country…
different-church-lady
@trollhattan: If you’ve ever wondered what it was like in the 1930s to see newsreels from Germany… well, we’re about to find out.
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
If one has the stones to be openly defiant to the law, brazenness has taken a back seat to something far bigger and worse.
Ignorant greed.
So ignorant that they will do everything in the open because that will prove that they are on the good side of whatever asinine plot of ignorance and stupidity they can
thinkdream up. Actual thinking of course not being within a few thousand miles of them.Citizen Dave
Jack Smith is right that MLK “reminded us…”. But one of my pet peeves (I like correct attribution and I cannot lie) is when people say MLK created that line. I think even Obama has done so. From the google: The phrase “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” was originally spoken by the abolitionist minister Theodore Parker in a sermon in 1853. Martin Luther King Jr. later popularized and widely used the quote during the Civil Rights Movement, adapting Parker’s words.
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
Didn’t think of it that way but that might just be the best take on it.
Supporting people who want to steal everything from everyone else is not a very good political concept. Especially in a democracy. In a democracy it’s far worse. Because one for all and all for ME, ME, ME, ME……. is not a democracy. Not in any way, shape or form.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: I’m not going to worry about mentally preparing for the political troubles of a future Democratic President until I’m convinced that there is some possibility of a future Democratic President.
I’m busy mentally preparing for far worse things.
mr perfect
@rikyrah: My two year old granddaughter’s favourite movie is the Trolls movie. She watches it over and over. Guess which song gets played with the end credits? I have video of her dancing to it.
David Collier-Brown
@trollhattan:
They know that it’s a trivially false charge, they just want to be able to say “Newsom’s a criminal”. Remember, the idea is that everything Democrats do, good or bad, is bad. Especially anything good!
Kayla Rudbek
@Ruckus: it’s like the universal solvent, how do you contain it?
mr perfect
@Another Scott: Let’s see, the British at the Khyber Pass, the USSR from 1979 through 1989 and the USA post 911, how have the World’s superpowers fared in invading Afghanistan?
Only someone extremely stupid would want to do it again. Oh wait.
Ruckus
@David Collier-Brown:
the idea is that everything Democrats do, good or bad, is bad. Especially anything good!
When your unwritten, unspoken goal is to steal everything not tied down and a few things that are, you have to put the opposition in it’s place, that being where ever it is that they have zero ability to have any part in solving the concept that you want to steal every damn thing that’s worth more than a dime. (One has to have standards you know…)
different-church-lady
@Ruckus: Right now we’re still in a phase where too many people still think they’re going to steal everything from someone else. And the someone else deserves it. If there’s any hope, it’s that the number of these people is eroding slowly, as they realize their stuff is getting stolen too.
Ruckus
@Kayla Rudbek:
It’s not that it is a solvent, it is that it is in effect a very large and very bad bomb. A solvent will dry up – unless you have so much that it can’t be contained, or because it is an extremely strong acid which will dissolve any and every thing.
JaySinWa
I am old, but I was unaware of slam books. I looked it up, and it is or was a thing.
jenx67.com/2008/09/i-loved-slam-books-in-junior-high.html
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
They likely won’t know it’s all gone until it’s too late for them to find the concept that it’s all bullshit that is intended to bury them as well.
I’ve always wondered why someone would want to be KING of a country that they destroyed trying to become KING. There is a clinical description of the concept, but I can’t remember what it’s called. Maybe it’s head fully up one’s own ass.
WTFGhost
Well, you have to remember, a lot of FBI agents are loyal Republicans, which means they believed that someone, somewhere, knew that it was okay to trust Trump with the Presidency, in spite of his being the highest elected official ever to commit an act that could reasonably be believed to be treason (making war against the legitimate government of the USA).
I write that, and yes, it sounds stupid. Since Jan 6 2021, Republicans have gone all-in on truth denial. A lot of members of the effa bee were all angry when agents raided MAL for documents, because “you could have asked for them back in a letter!” without bothering to learn that they’d actually already sent a subpoena.
Cognitive dissonance can be a bear. Everyone is telling you Trump might be the next President, you “know” that your beloved Republican Party USA would *never* nominate a traitor and a crook for the Presidency, therefore, we can trust Trump to get rid of someone who took an effing bribe, *ON FILM*.
So… yes, we lefty folks knew that was stone cold stupid, and, hopefully more of the effa bees are starting to use their eye-brains to realize Trump is corrupt through and through.
Bulgakov
Slam books – what a blast from the past! They were a thing for about 3 months of my 6th grade year in the late 60s
WTFGhost
@Ruckus: In Trump’s case, it’s Delusions of Grandeur; I think there used to be a term, megalomania, in which you believe yourself to be far better than you are, but search engines don’t find it.
It’s like tariffs. He thought a bunch of countries would all call him, eager to kiss his ass to do anything, anything, to get the tariffs taken off. He was completely wrong, of course – only an idiot would assume that every other nation would just bend the knee! They were willing to negotiate, as peers – not as serfs.
Right wingers have always pretended there was an easy way to make America turn into an economic powerhouse, and they’ve always been wrong. Trump is following their advice, and, once again, it’s going to be wrong, but he’ll insist that it just needs another two weeks or something.
WTFGhost
@different-church-lady: Heh. In the late 90s, I wanted to become a right winger, and jump on the cash train. It’s not like it would have taken any real intelligence, just a lack of integrity.
emjayay
@MagdaInBlack: “I had a 21 y/o parts guy….”
Which parts?
WTFGhost
@Baud: There is one hope, and that’s the Republican brand being damaged. Now, I thought Covid-19 would do that, but, killing people, who were mostly poor and “essential workers” anyway, could be brushed off in today’s media environment.
That will, honestly, always be the point of no return for me. You don’t try to save everyone, sure, but you always try to save the low hanging fruit. Republicans let those people die, and, in some cases, seemed to be deliberately trying to infect others, in the insane hope that it would provide herd immunity.
And newspapers didn’t want to report that these “brave governors” were ignoring the scientific consensus in favor of crackpot theories, leading to far worse outcomes than in other states. You don’t want to offend readers/viewers, not when the plague isn’t killing *too many* of your readers/viewers.
Gin & Tonic
@Bulgakov: I’m an Old, and have no idea what they are/were.
Kayla Rudbek
@Ruckus: yeah, “universal solvent” to me is something that dissolves everything (like your strong acid)
Kayla Rudbek
@Bulgakov: I think that I heard about them as a GenXer kid, although I don’t remember any of my schools allowing them to circulate. Ask A Manager also had an example show up in one of her posts (where the book was supposed to be a log book for hotel staff as they did the handover between shifts)
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
You’re excused from the assignment.
MagdaInBlack
@emjayay: ………….automotive?
Bulgakov
@Gin & Tonic: They probably came to our small town outside of KC well after their ‘introduction’ to the regular world. Usually a girl(s) would start circulating a slam book (just a thin composition book) with a classmate’s name on it and when it was passed to you, you wrote what you thought of the named person. Mean girls were called out, assholes were called out. Nice people were called out. It was very disruptive over time because you could figure out by the handwriting who wrote what (ours were anonymous).
Bulgakov
@Kayla Rudbek: They were pretty toxic in my small class of 90 kids spread across 3 class rooms. People who thought they were writing anonymous thoughts about fellow classmates created some enemies for life by what they wrote in slam books (ex: Sheena who didn’t think through that everyone knew she wrote in purple ink and did little hearts for the dots above i’s and j’s) Teachers started confiscating every one they spotted, finally.
Matt McIrvin
@WTFGhost: In the early pandemic days, before the vaccines when the bodies were really piling up, I remember being struck by how fascinated so many people on Twitter were by the idea of deliberately infecting young healthy volunteers with COVID (like, injecting them with live virus) so that, after recovering, they would develop immunity (which these people imagined would be permanent or at least long-lived) and become an immune work corps for the rest of us.
Sure, most of ’em wouldn’t die…
Nobody who knew anything about viruses or epidemiology was proposing that, but there were all these geniuses who popped out of nowhere who formulated this idea. And most of them were right-of-center dudes with all sorts of genius quasi-libertarian ideas.
Matt McIrvin
@JaySinWa: I was definitely out of the slam book loop, if it existed in my junior high. If they were circulating they were probably full of trash talk about me.
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
Some people wouldn’t care, as long as their designated deserving people got what they deserve. IOW pure hate walking.
The world is changing and a hell of a lot of humans do not like change, especially if they are anywhere near in charge of anything. Communications, transportation, work is changing and all/OK most of it is different than it was 1/2 a century ago. Life has changed in so many ways in the lifetimes of a LOT of old farts. What we do for work – overall a lot has changed. Some changes are minor and people don’t care one way or another. Others are BIG and most everyone likely, even if they don’t care like the changes – because it in some ways has made life easier. I shop/pay with my phone, works great and I’ve always got it with me. I’d bet most of us do that now. Although I see a lot of people in the closest grocery store use cash. Day to day life has changed just a tad in the last 75 years or so. Large areas of SoCal used to be orange and lemon groves. USED TO BE. Quite some time ago those areas started getting built out. Now around me there are a lot of, I call them connected homes. Look like apartment buildings but they are individual/connected homes. 2 car garage, 3 story, 3 bedroom, connected homes. As one is using less land they are cheaper than a single family home but not unusual to be actually roomier. There are a lot of them around where I live.
KithKanan
@Ruckus:
Satanism would be an accurate name perhaps, if it weren’t already taken. The philosophy of “better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
Soprano2
@Suzanne: If you see him talking in an interview 20 years ago, the change is stark. People don’t change like that must because they get older.
Soprano2
@Betty: My husband used to say that he acted crazy so I wouldn’t be able to tell if he really went around the bend. Lucky for him, it wasn’t that hard for me to tell the difference; it took people who weren’t around him much a lot longer to notice.
Ruckus
@Betty:
As a long ago mental health counselor I’d say that at the very least shitforbrains is aging out. And that can happen in many ways. Some a hell of a lot more obvious than others. And being in the job he supposedly does, which I’d bet has just a tad more day to day pressure than most of humanity ever sees. Of course he’s got his sycophants to somewhat protect him from that pressure, although that would mean that he’d be even less successful than he normally is. Also he may not allow that protection, he is the world’s greatest- what the hell is he now, I can’t remember the medical name for it?
But yes, I’ve had to watch aging out, I’m now the oldest in my extended family. We all take that trail at some point, one of my cousins took it at 6 months. Others have lived almost a century.
Ruckus
@Soprano2:
As a
semiold fart I agree. Aging out is fun. No road map, we all do this our own way, and very few of us want the trip. But the only way not to age out is to leave early. BTW fun is an over used word some days. This is one of them. And do remember that aging out is better than never getting old. It’s a part of life for most of us. I say be glad you get the chance. I’ve known a few that didn’t.WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I am not finding that on BlueVirginia, might you have a link?
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Sorry for the delay.
It was linked in Lowkell’s daily morning link-o-rama.
Sunday News – around the 37th link is “Jack Smith: ‘The Department of Justice was my home…'”
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Holy cow! So many links!!
thank you.