Well, politically, today has been another absolute shitshow, and currently Needy Amin is shitposting about China, Canada, and the NHL. I kid you not:
Putting aside the fact that only seven teams in the NHL are Canadian and I think we could figure out how to manage the Stanley Cup without them, THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. And it makes NO SENSE. This is just verbal diarrhea and this man is insane. Republicans are monsters and no one should ever vote for them again.
In foreign news, this is called ethnic cleansing:
Israel’s government has taken unilateral steps to give itself greater control over the occupied West Bank, challenging President Trump’s opposition to Israeli annexation of the territory in a move widely considered a violation of international law.
The measures, which make it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land and undercut the Palestinian Authority in parts of the West Bank that it administers, appear to flout important agreements that Israel signed under the Oslo peace process decades ago.
The changes were made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet at a closed-door meeting on Sunday. By enhancing Israel’s control over West Bank territory the Palestinians want for a future state, they effectively advance the cause of annexation by degrees — continuing a strategy that the government has been pursuing for years.
But they come after Mr. Trump’s recent, explicit rejection of annexation, his acknowledgment of the Palestinians’ aspirations to statehood — made explicit in his peace plan for Gaza — and his support for political talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Mr. Netanyahu, who is set to travel to Washington to meet with Mr. Trump on Wednesday, did not announce the changes. Instead, they were detailed after Sunday’s meeting by two government ministers who oversee West Bank policy.
One was Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right finance minister, who has pushed through a host of other measures extending Israel’s footprint in the West Bank.
“We are deepening our roots in all parts of the Land of Israel and burying the idea of a Palestinian state,” Mr. Smotrich said in a statement.
History will not judge the United States well for our only contributions to this, which is to just keep sending money and bombs, blocking any attempts at accountability in the UN, and arresting everyone who protests this and labelling them as a vile anti-Semite. Y’all did catch that Israel, despite vilifying everyone who mentioned the death count, actually admitted “Yeah so ok, we did kill that many people.”
And so help me god every time we talk about Israel some vile anti-Semite appears out of nowhere and starts with their bullshit. I will not put up with that. You all are smart, you can figure out how to be appalled by something without turning into a lowlife bigot spewing tropes and anti-Semitic slurs.
Every fucking Trump voter in Wilder, Idaho, can do squat thrusts on fire hydrants (gift link):
People in Wilder, Idaho, didn’t give much thought to the dusty horse track west of town known as La Catedral Arena, where, on Sundays in the summer and early fall, vendors sold horchata and tacos, announcers called race results in Spanish and immigrant families gathered for reasonably priced fun.
But when federal agents swarmed the track on Oct. 19 — weapons drawn, a helicopter overhead, unmarked S.U.V.s screeching in on dirt roads — they did more than crack an alleged gambling ring and increase deportation numbers. They shattered Wilder’s innocent belief that its out-of-the-way location and deep-red politics could isolate the town from the raids overtaking other parts of the country.
“We rely on Hispanic labor,” said Chris Gross, a second-generation farmer who grows sweet corn seed and mint in Wilder. She added, “Nobody thought something like this could happen here.”
The immigration raid on La Catedral racetrack “nearly destroyed” the community of Wilder, a town of 1,725 about 10 miles from the Oregon-Idaho border.
The raid on La Catedral may not have made the national headlines that immigration sweeps in Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles did, but it illustrated the depth and breadth of President Trump’s effort to find and rid the country of undocumented immigrants; 75 people rounded up that day have since been deported, according to local immigration lawyers.Beyond the economic impact, there is the social one — the profound sense of uncertainty and suspicion that has filtered down, even to a town like Wilder, Idaho.
The raid “nearly destroyed” the community, said David Lincoln, a longtime Wilder resident and executive director of a nonprofit economic development agency serving rural towns in western Idaho. Wilder won’t really know the impact until planting season begins this spring.
I hope your crops rot in the fields and you spend your remaining days eating unseasoned chicken.
In the least surprising news ever, Maxwell offered nothing in her testimony:
Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer questions from the US House Oversight Committee on Monday.
Maxwell appeared virtually for a closed-door deposition from the Texas prison where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
Republican House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said that “as expected”, Maxwell pleaded the Fifth Amendment, invoking her right to remain silent.
“This is obviously very disappointing,” he said. “We had many questions to ask about the crimes she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co-conspirators.”
It’s funny watching the ramifications of the Epstein Rape Scandal play out overseas and over here it sometimes feels like no one has suffered any consequences or ever will. And by funny I mean it makes me want to smash things.
The race to replace Mike Sherril’s house seat is down to the wire, and I think if it holds this way, is a sign of things to come:
Analilia Mejia’s lead in the special Democratic primary for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district has increased from 676 votes to 868 after more votes were counted in Essex County.
Mejia now leads former Rep. Tom Malinowski, 18,512 to 17,644. Former Lt. Governor Tahesha Way is in third place with 11,032 votes, followed by Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill with 9,116.
A former labor leader and New Jersey Working Families state director, Mejia served as national political director of Bernie Sanders’ 2024 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
More votes are expected to be counted on Monday.
Essex County has 704 uncounted vote-by-mail ballots and 1,171 provisionals; Morris is showing 440 VBMs still unprocessed and 694 provisional ballots still uncounted; and Passaic reports 294 uncounted mail-in ballots and 85 provisionals. An unspecified number of these ballots were cast in the Republican primary.
I think we are going to see a wave of young progressive and a lot of people of color elected in this fall- a Mamdani wave. I hope to Allah we pick up the House and Senate/
It’s totally fucking normal for the President of the United States to be having an internet beef with a 25 year old female Olympic skiier:
Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu, two Olympic standouts who have faced their share of hate over the years, each weighed in Monday on Donald Trump’s bashing of their friend, American freeskier Hunter Hess, for having said he didn’t back the U.S. president’s heightened crackdown on immigrants.
“I think in moments like these, it is really important for us to unite and kind of stand up for one another for all that’s going on,” said Kim, the two-time Olympic gold medalist whose parents are South Korean immigrants and who has faced racism throughout her career for her Asian heritage.
It is dinner time! More zucchini lasagne- if you missed it here was a picture from last night:
It is so good. Then off to watch the Olympics and more of Season 11 of Alone. My favorite guy, William, is still in it (NO SPOILERS). He totally reminds me of a fraternity brother- just a laid back country boy (albeit with a scottish accent) who likes animals and sort of takes things in stride. And the shit he can do with a stick and a snare.
PS- I think I am doing better with not using the f word but let me tell you it is not easy.
MagdaInBlack
It’s ok, John, I think I picked up your slack with the f-bomb, today at work.
Trivia Man
Our favorite treat to bring to school events was beet cake. Add it to chocolate cake and it is sweeter, richer, and a great texture. Fun to watch kids line up for a second helping of beets.
MagdaInBlack
And yes, It just infuriates and amazes me that the folks involved in the Epstein crimes are just going on about their business as if this is just normal. I suppose, for them, it is.
Also Raw Story tells me it was indeed Trump who dropped the dime on Epstein, in 2006. (per the latest drop of the Epstein files)
lowtechcyclist
That’s the best handle for him I’ve seen yet.
dman
The Cup is OURS John…
SpaceUnit
Couldn’t make it through that deranged rant from trump. My brain just shuts down and says nope.
Melancholy Jaques
When that asshole says things like Canada has treated the United State unfairly, is there anyone who believes that?
Ohio Mom
Once again, I am impressed with the Trump administration’s attention to detail. Wilder, Idaho? Who even knew that town existed, but ICE or CBP or whoever they were did.
Do I need to say I feel terrible for the immigrant families and schadenfreude for the farmers?
Parfigliano
Israel is a terrorist state. Always will be.
Melancholy Jaques
The FTFNYT are just Trump’s propagandists at times. There is no fucking way that asshole opposes Israeli annexation of anything. And seriously, FTFNYT, “violation of international law?” This is Israel & Trump. You may as well say “poor manners.”
MagdaInBlack
@Melancholy Jaques: Just him.
cain
i have no idea what he’s going on about in regards to Canada. OK, so they are building a bridge. He is tariff’ing Canadian products, they don’t have to give him squat. Nobody owes the U.S. any markets.
lowtechcyclist
@SpaceUnit:
Same here.
Kinda reminds me of when my mother had a subdural hematoma and her words were actual words, and her speech had the rhythm of sentences, but the sequence of words made no sense whatsoever. But at least her nonsensical jumbles of words came out in a normal tone of voice, rather than with the hate-filled spirit that infuses everything Trump spouts out.
Jay
Like so many things, lasagna is always better the next day.
Steve Holmes
The raid didn’t get headlines because the community didn’t start following ICE, whistling warnings, recording arrests, and just generally standing up for their brown neighbors.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I looked up where this new bridge is and discovered it’s named after Gordie Howe. Nice! I’m from Detroit so I recognize the connection (75 in Detroit to 401 in Ontario). That will be useful. Piggy is just such a petulant idiot.
Ohio Mom
On the subject of Israel, this is a great article on American Jews’ thinking about Israel. It’s much more nuanced than one might think. I apologize in advance for not knowing how to embed links.
Link
dr. luba
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Let me just say that we, in Detroit, are extremely grateful to the Canadian government for building the Gordie Howe International Bridge. It’s been a joy watching it go up, and it will be wonderful to travel to Canada more easily.
Currently the only bridge between Detroit and Windsor is a privately owned one that dumps into downtown Windsor. The family that owns it (Morouns) has done nothing but obstruct the building of a new bridge for YEARS–they make a lot of money selling duty free gas and such. Finally the Canadian government said fuck this and made a deal with Obama, apparently. They are fully funding it. The new bridge will bypass both central Detroit and Windsor, going from an interstate highway to a major Canadian highway.
P.S. The same family bought Michigan central station in 1996 and allowed it to rot for years. It became an eyesore and an embarrassment to the city. Ford finally bought it in 2018, and has been restoring it. Our organization held a fundraiser there last fall. The work that has been done so far is magnificent.
SpaceUnit
@lowtechcyclist:
He sounds like someone who lives on a steady diet of Adderall and paint chips.
HopefullyNotCassandra
Thank you for that gift link
There was a place called Wilder, Idaho where domestic tranquility lived. This president, and his minions, shattered that tranquility arbitrarily, capriciously and with malice aforethought.
This president has broken his sacred oath to all of us, including the Wilder dupes who voted for their own destruction.
Can you imagine the morning after that poison was injected in your small town you thought you had known your whole life?
Jay
The Gordie Howe Bridge will connect Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan.
There is a privately owned toll bridge that already does this, The Ambassador Bridge, but,……………….
The Bridge, which is mostly used by Commercial Users, dumps semi trailers onto city streets, miles away for a highway at both ends, handles 25% of all Canada-US truck crossings, where the Gordie Howe Bridge goes freeway to freeway.
DJTidiot, The Billionaires and the Rethugs are busy burning your seed corn while raping your children.
And there will be no consequences for them, what so ever.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: That’s a great piece. Thanks for sharing it.
@dr. luba: There’s an episode of 99% Invisible all about the history of the Ambassador Bridge. Super-interesting!
williamrd
Alone! I was kinda rooting for Sarah and I think her time could have won some seasons but the caliber of the final competitors is pretty amazing.
John Cole
@williamrd: I love Sarah. I also really like Dub- that kind of ornery fucker knows how to survive- he’s like the odd fellow in the shadows of any market scene in Game of Thrones, just watching and waiting. But William is my favorite.
Jayaar
Why you would not eat zucchini lasagna three meals a day forever escapes me. It sounds amazing.
in August when we are dealing with the output of the 14 zucchini plants I insist we grow every year I will be after you for the recipe.
smike
There, that sounds about right.
gene108
I wish the media would stop lying like this. Trump is going after any immigrant they can deport. There are people here legally who have been deported, because they are seeking asylum. They’re here legally, but the DOJ decided to cancel their legal status because (1) they could, and (2) they are racist motherfuckers.
They are just working their way through people that are here legally, but they feel are easier to deport because they do not have a Green Card, like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Once these people are deported, the Green Card holders are next, then the naturalized U.S. citizens, and then (depending on the Roberts court) people born in the United States to immigrant parents.
They are not going to stop trying to create a white conservative Christian ethnostate unless we stop them.
Mejia is the beneficiary of AIPAC spending two million dollars running negative attack ads against Malinowski. Really eroded Malinowski’s support. I think AIPAC wanted the former Lt. Governor to win. AIPAC stepped on their dicks with this dick move.
Death Panel Truck
@lowtechcyclist: I’ve used it for years. Here, Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, Wonkette, etc.
gene108
@MagdaInBlack:
Bondi is not going to do anything to move against them. Maybe some lesser folks in academia, who are not independently wealthy, may be forced to resign. Otherwise people associated with Epstein are going to skate free in this country.
I also expect Trump to pardon Maxwell before he leaves office.
Melancholy Jaques
@gene108:
The headline in Haaretz:
AIPAC’s Misfire in NJ Is Its Greatest Humiliation in Recent Years
Gvg
@Ohio Mom: pretty sure someone else knew. A local grudge holder I imagine. But Trump Miller made it so some asshole could be listened to and acted on disproportionally.
Melancholy Jaques
@gene108:
I expect Maxwell to be pardoned right after the midterms, win or lose. He’d have done it already if his smarter people weren’t concerned about the midterms.
We will learn of the pardon after Maxwell has already been released and the plane carrying her to France has left US airspace.
am
@gene108: I’m glad you said it. The story of NJ-11 is AIPACs role. They put 30% of the total money in the race into purchasing attack ads on Malinowski. But their intent was just targetted retribution and it worked. They don’t care who wins as long as people know they can end careers. We’ll see if Mejia wins the general and how she votes, though.
Jay
@Jayaar:
You can freeze zucchini. Vacuum packed it will keep for years.
Don’t ask me how I know, I still have nightmares.
gene108
@cain:
The Ambassador Bridge that connects Michigan with Windsor, Ontario is old, is only four lanes, and is privately owned.
A new bridge would benefit both countries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Bridge
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_International_Bridge
p.a.
tRump won’t give a shit about the West Bank: it’s not waterfront.
Jay
@Melancholy Jaques:
I don’t think she will be flying to France. UAE probably.
Smiling Happy Guy (aka boatboy_srq)
You would think that any place with an at-least-questionably-documented workforce would be immediately prepared for exactly this.
Smiling Happy Guy (aka boatboy_srq)
@lowtechcyclist: ditto
Jay
bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mehlvymxg227
and some of the files are still redacted, and are viewable on 4 computers, which would require you to sit there and scroll for 7 years to go through all of them.
We have also learned that some of the victims were 9 years old.
Geminid
@am: Analilia Mejia ought to win the special election in April to finish out Mikie Sherrill’s term.
But AIPAC didn’t neccesarily end Tom Malinowski’s career.There will be another primary in June, and Mejia will likely have to beat Malinowski again in order to represent NJ-11 in the next Congress.
Ramalama
@Jay: I don’t want to further traumatize you but I’ve got to ask: did you slice it before freezing your banner crop?
Peale
I think this is the second time he’s posted up about China cancelling the NHL.
I honestly think he’s watched Heated Rivalry and thinks that its a documentary. Heated Rivalry is popular enough in China even though it is officially banned! I think he’s confusing the Chinese banning the series with China banning NHL teams from playing. That’s the only thing I can think of because I really don’t think China cares one way or the other if hockey is played.
I mean, they hosted the Winter Olympics and didn’t recoil from the horror of it all.
whca
It is probably accurate to say that, in the past, he did oppose it. Whether he opposes it right this minute? Hard to guess without knowing who spoke to him most recently on the subject. Although it’s a pretty safe bet that, after Netanyahu talks to him, he’ll be fine with it.
Hoodie
@Peale: They have an Olympic hockey team for chrissakes. That stuff about China shutting down hockey is pure dementia.
Gloria DryGarden
@Trivia Man: recipe? Im just starting through the comments, if you already posted it ..
Melancholy Jaques
@Hoodie:
Is it like that if the USA signs treaties agreeing to control climate change, all the golf courses will be closed?
Jay
@Ramalama:
Mom shredded it, then vacuum packed it and stuck it in the freezer.
She had planted an entire pack of zucchini seeds.
We lost our back yard.
Neighbors stopped answering the door.
The Food Bank banned her.
When she passed, 25 years later, there were still bricks of frozen zucchini in her deep freezer along side a frozen chunk of her wedding cake, (a white fruit cake).
Just for shits and giggles, I took a brick, broke off a chunk and made zucchini loaf.
First time I ate anything zucchini in 24 years.
It was still zucchini loaf.
Hoodie
@Mel Jaques: Things like that Truth raise the question whether it’s dementia or just stupidity but, really, can anyone be that stupid or is it just he thinks his audience is that dumb? According to Fran Leibowitz, I guess the former.
am
@Geminid: incumbency is a large advantage and this substantially hurts his political career after the NJ-7 redistricting. The idea AIPAC shot itself in the foot is incorrect. If the goal is intimidation, which it was, then they achieved their aim.
cain
@Jay: So you are saying that planting zucchini could be a terrorist act if thrown around at Mar-a-Largo ?
Jay
Basically all areas of the “National Security State” have unfettered access to your Ring Camera.
They use it to kill dogs, disappear your neighbors, track your movements.
Mai Naem mobile
@Melancholy Jaques: not to sound like a paperback thriller but, yes, she’ll get pardoned, get some plastic surgery done and either assume a new identity, change her name or get married and get a new name. Live under the radar in a third world/second tier country. Her features and coloring let her pass for a bunch of ethnicities.
Marleedog
@Jay:
You should have eaten the wedding cake.
Jay
@cain:
I would not call it a terrorist act, but Mar a Lago is in Flori-duh, so I would suggest kudzu, death apples, Giant Hogweed, etc, instead.
Lyrebird
Yes, I thought maybe an Idaho paper had said that. NYT, further shame.
Sure Lurkalot
@Trivia Man: I’ve had chocolate cake (it might have been brownies) made with black beans, but beets? Intriguing.
This fall I made a beef borscht soup with the last of the garden beets. I’d never made or had it before. It turned into a boatload of soup…the first couple bowls, wasn’t too sure about it, the beets taking the place of tomatoes in a traditional vegetable beef soup but it totally grew on me.
Good to hear the kiddos loved the cake!
Bupalos
@Hoodie: How would China shut down Canadian hockey? Why?! I don’t even get what this weird lie/threat/prophecy is supposed to mean. I can usually translate the dementia-adjacent things Trump says to where I can reconstruct a thought process he’s trying to communicate and maybe is communicating, to his army of stunted toddlers. This one is just… not quite word salad, but certainly concept salad.
Jay
@Marleedog:
It was white fruitcake with fondant.
It was not vacuum packed or sealed.
It was in the Original Baker’s Box.
If it had been Dark Fruitcake, and she had taken it out every year, thawed it, and then basted it with Dark Rum before sealing it and returning it to the freezer, I probably would have given it a try.
One of the Expeditions looking for traces of Franklin, found a cashe of canned goods, including Dark Fruitcake and Plum Pudding canned in Dark Rum. Those two, tested okay, edible, other than the lead content, after 200 years. Back then the lid was soldered on to the can with lead solder.
Lead poisoning is still believed to be the key reason for the Franklin Expedition’s loss.
Lyrebird
Thanks for explaining. Jiminy Cricket this would be hilarious if people weren’t being kidnapped, put in detention centers, killed, etc.
Lyrebird
@Bupalos: See Peale @ Comment 43 for a reasonable option. I was also mystified…
Jay
@Bupalos:
Bupalos
@whca: the lie is acting like Trump has beliefs about things like this. What he “believes” about Gaza annexation is whatever he feels can lead to narcissistic supply. Period. That could change from hour to hour.
different-church-lady
I’m so glad we did our best to prevent a senile old man from being president.
smike
@Mai Naem mobile: If she is pardoned, she might just want to stay put, provided she is able to access her assets. Here, she is pardoned, free of all the legal hassles. And she should be able to melt into some comfortable niche of society, if she so desires.
Craig
@Suzanne: I love 99% Invisible. Roman Mars, besides having the coolest name in podcasts, is just such a great natural storyteller. Plus hey, Oakland.
jonas
Welp, they voted for this shit. Welcome to flavor country, folks. Mind the leopards.
schrodingers_cat
We just got news a couple of hours ago that my MIL passed away. It was rather sudden.
Jay
bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3meh5ksuv322m
Epstein was running his influence/pedo/blackmail ring for almost 50 years.
In 2025, while concluding that Epstein was a pedo, the FBI concluded he was not running a pedo/blackmail/influence ring.
50 years and “nobody” paid attention, hundreds of victim’s testimony, under oath, were dismissed.
I can understand that, he was not selling singles off a New York City stoop.
Hundreds of male co-conspirators, and only the woman is in jail, for now.
US “Justice” is rotten to the roots, and has been for at least a half a Century.
Lyrebird
@schrodingers_cat:
Very sincere condolences to you and Husband Kitteh (sp?), that’s an awful shock. Not much I can think to say, but this past week I was using the water-soluble “crayons” that you inspired me to get, and I was meaning to thank you.
wishes of comfort in this time
JaySinWA
Thomas Massie is finally naming names;
Les Wexner as co-conspirator in sex trafficing
UAE Sultan as provider of torture videos to Epstein.
bsky.app/profile/esghound.com/post/3mehyusgy6k23
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
Sorry to hear that, in the US or India?
Just thinking about the need to travel and the limited time frame.
Plus the risks of leaving the US as a “not white”.
Were you close?
jonas
You’d think so, but there’s this weird dynamic around immigration in white peoples’ minds where they divide particularly Hispanics into two groups: the evil MS-13 gangbangers that have overrun cities like San Francisco and New York and Superbowl halftime shows and traffic little girls all up and down the southern border, and sweet Maria, the lady from Guatemala who takes such good care of their grandma at the nursing home. They’re now shocked to find out that the former are largely figments of their imagination that Fox and Republicans have blown all out of reasonable proportion and to make up for it are now out to deport people like Maria and they can’t make sense of it.
But this *is* what they voted for. I wish there were a way of forcing them to live with their decisions that didn’t also involve destroying the lives of the poor immigrants who were the backbone of your local economy.
John Cole
@schrodingers_cat: I am very sorry.
JaySinWA
I don’t think they have found out the former are fake, mostly they didn’t think that it was going to affect the latter ones they knew and depend on. They don’t have any source that they rely on to talk them out of the fake news bs.
Westyny
@schrodingers_cat: Very sorry to hear hear this. May her memory be a blessing.
jonas
@Bupalos: Chinese officials have to be looking at each other with confused and confounded glances, wondering what the everloving fuck this demented idiot is talking about. “Cancel…Stanley Cup? Why does he think we hate insulated beverage containers?”
JFC, can you imagine what it’s like for other countries’ political and intelligence advisers these days to have to read and try to explain to whoever they report to whatever FFOTUS has vomited up in one of his fucking word salad posts?
piratedan
@JaySinWA: been following over on Bluesky, he’s called out one of the UAE Sultans as sourcing torture vids and Les Wexner as a co-conspirator. Supposedly more to come.
JaySinWA
@JaySinWA: Correction,
After Massie said the names were improperly redacted, Todd Blanche responded by giving the two names and CNN confirmed it with Massie. cnn.com/2026/02/09/politics/video/epstein-files-department-of-justice-todd-blanche-rep-thomas-massie…
ETA Seems like Todd may be confirming info by accident. Only the best people.
Jay
@jonas:
There are also the Employers who rely on ICE/CBP and the status of their employees to steal wages, deny benefits and keep them docile, often in unsafe working conditions, to hide fraud, corruption and hazards from their customers
It’s funny, hiring undocumented workers is a felony crime, but nobody has ever been charged.
Weird.
Smiling Happy Guy (aka boatboy_srq)
@schrodingers_cat: [[Hug]]
Odie Hugh Manatee
As an old fuck I want to say that I hope many more young progressives run and beat the shit out of the old guard Democrats, especially the conservative Democrats who keep voting with Republicans and against our best interests. The future belongs to them, not us old fucks who nearly have one foot in the grave and the other at the ready. The old fucks keep making decisions that have put us where we are today and they are asking us to support them so we can have some more of the same.
Fuck that, it’s time for change and time to give voters real choices for who they want to back for election. Purge the party time, lets get some new blood in there and put them to work at making life a bot better for all.
rikyrah
@dr. luba:
Thanks for the info.
Smiling Happy Guy (aka boatboy_srq)
@JaySinWA: I am with you here. In their minds, there are immense armies of miscreants, who are distinct from their friends and neighbors and who remain a threat. The outrage they feel is less that their “good immigrants” are being picked up but that DHS is going after them and not the masses of criminals they think are still out there.
Ramona
Inshallah!
Ramona
@Parfigliano: Aren’t we one too?
Ramona
@SpaceUnit: I rarely read his rants but this one was def not written by him: perfect spelling and punctuation, coherent (despite nonsensical premise) and minimal punctuation of common nouns.
Ramona
@lowtechcyclist: Indeed! Hope I can remember it…
Mai Naem mobile
@schrodingers_cat: oh, no. Condolences to you and your family. You’ve had a difficult couple of years. I hope you all have a good support system to get through this.
hitchhiker
@Mai Naem mobile:
she’s already 64 yrs old.
hopefully all this will take a few years, so that she’s close to 70 by the time she finds herself out in the world, trying to work with a ghostwriter to produce the inevitable book that most people will assume is all lies anyway.
may the rest of her days be miserable and filled with itches just out of reach as she grows uglier and poorer.
cain
@schrodingers_cat: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. My condolences to you and your family.
cain
@gene108: Thanks!
Does Trump have the power to stop it from opening? I didn’t think he would.
Jay
@cain:
Nope.
Ramona
@smike: Fuuuuuck!
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
I’m very sorry.
Ramona
@schrodingers_cat: My deepest condolences to you and your family.
Baud
MagdaInBlack
@schrodingers_cat: I’m sorry. Strength and love to you and yours.
MagdaInBlack
@hitchhiker: I am adding” itches just out of reach” to my list of curses.
Geminid
@am: Incimbency certainly is an advantage. But I’m not sure it will be a “huge” advantage for Ms. Mejia in June, when she’ll have been Congresswoman for only two months.
I expect that primary will turn on the number of candidates splitting the non-“progressive” vote, like the one last week did. If Way and Gill sit out, Malinowski could easily beat Mejia. She’ll at least need more than 29 percent of the vote to win.
Kayla Rudbek
@schrodingers_cat: very sorry to hear this.
Paul in KY
@Jay: I would assume the Moroun family is bribing TACO to try and stop it.
Paul in KY
@Jay: Maybe it could have been the cornerstone of a new building?
Paul in KY
@schrodingers_cat: Very sorry to hear that. My condolences to your family.
JustSomeFlyover
No Canadian franchise has won the Stanley Cup since 1993 so whether Boston or Beijing wins it next Canada will just consider it another lost year anyway.
Anyway
@schrodingers_cat: Sorry to hear this. Condolences to you and your family
Captain Magic
From the Hellsite: Don’t piss off the Aussies: