Portrait of a dog for whom it is ninety-nope degrees outside pic.twitter.com/yujamF6Ez4
— laura olin (@lauraolin) July 3, 2018
Not that you guys are liable to need it, but handy format for sharing…
A friendly reminder. pic.twitter.com/PreW6xno3T
— Matthew Inman (@Oatmeal) July 2, 2018
(Plenty humans not crazy about ‘spontaneous’ bang-bangs, either. Have a thought for your friends & neighbors with PTSD, as well as the fourfoots among you.)
But at least it’s a day off, mostly…
Celebrating Independence Day feels weird now. Like when Facebook sends you a birthday reminder for one of your friends who’s dead.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 3, 2018
Do we need or want a separate post for the many amazing #SecondCivilWar tweets? So many great examples have been shared in various comment threads already, not to mention that twitter feed in the right-hand column —->
REMINDER: We are carpooling to the civil war tomorrow. NO SINGLE DRIVERS. Honestly, if we can't wage war AND conserve energy, who even are we.
Oh, and Sandy can't bring brownies, someone else will have to step up. NO NUTS, please. https://t.co/UwKymYXiXs
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) July 3, 2018
I see Alex Jones' July 4th prediction as an attempt to incite violent acts from the right and not just something to be casually laughed off. A lot of people casually laughed off Trump's candidacy and look how well that turned out.
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) July 2, 2018
It's especially transparent given that they're in control of all three branches of government. Laura Loomer unironically tweeted that the Civil War had already begun. Charlie Kirk same. They all get the same talking points every day.
— Enchiladas con Nihilism (@WideLightImages) July 2, 2018
Dear father,
I've arrived at the outpost. No one seems to be here. Are you sure you sent me the right coordinates?
Awaiting further instructions.
I'm so lonely.
#secondcivilwarletters pic.twitter.com/AFyEktNFOV— InsaneClownPresident (@InsaneClownPrez) July 3, 2018
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
Reposted from previous thread as it is more apropos here….
My Dearest Jenny,
We have arrived this very evening before Independence Day in Atlanta with General Alex Jones, the living embodiment of Lizard aggression, on our tails. Of course by the time you receive this we will have moved on and only the Great Cthulhu Almighty knows where or even if we will turn and face him. Our preference is to avoid him entirely in order to reach the coast, where our Annual Liberal Picnic and Hoedown is scheduled to occur.
My dearest love, perhaps it is our fate never to look upon one another’s visage again as we compete in the yearly tag team egg and spoon race. Then again, you were never fond of raisins in the potato salad. Oh how I do treasure the memory of your salty recriminations at the previous gathering, which embarrassed everyone to such a degree that no one, not even the Child Traffickers, would take credit having brought it. It sat there for nigh unto a week before someone quietly gave it to the hogs. How is that for Liberal stubbornness I tell you! Why I dare those cowardly Breitbart poltroons to say these colors run. Well, the bitter song of exhaustion calls me to my bedroll. I will post this on the morrow should time allow. In the days to come I will dream of your sweet voice in the Soros Singing Competition and your flowing steps at the Annual Illuminati Ball.
Your most devoted husband.
PS: Please do not forget to cash the Soros check as we will need the funds to pay for our annual dues to the Antichrist.
#SecondCivilWarLetters
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
rikyrah
The letters have been pretty funny
Rich2506
Got a friend who wants to know what the SecondCivilWar uniform is as she feels she looks terrible in brown.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
My favorite of the letters on twitter is this one:
My Beloved Reginald, The tides of war are turning in our favor. Our scouts crept into the enemy camp and planted “Happy Holiday” cups among the enemy. They turned on each other immediately. The cries of “War on Christmas” were heard for miles.
SectionH
@Comrade Nimrod Humperdink: OMG, I caught that one and read it to Mr S. I’ve no idea how many tweets they’re still getting.
eta – nor how to count
Zinsky
On the road, in Iowa City, IA (an oasis of liberalism in a growing sea of red cornfusuion), finishing up a road trip pilgrimage to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. This is still a great, great country with lots of really smart, “with it” people. I am particularly enamored of the Parkland kids, who give me hope there is an Age of Enlightenment coming for America. The problem is that it has been hijacked by a tiny minority of really greedy, wealthy people who have a wholly inordinate influence on the way government policy is made and carried out. We must take it back. Whatever than means. We are not living in normal times.
Platonailedit
Will the libtards be packing ‘heat’ today?
oatler.
@Comrade Nimrod Humperdink: For genuine unhinged- looney ‘battle reports” check out James Woods’ Twitter.
Bruuuuce
@Rich2506: Per this tweet, the official uniform is drawstring pajama pants. No mention of color.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
Counturdinsurgency is hard work
My Darling, The Red Hats captured Durham, only to be confounded in their occupation by the gender neutral bathrooms. They’d sooner shit themselves than use them, and have begun to do so. Victory is at hand.
Platonailedit
Platonailedit
Platonailedit
Ok, that’s enough of magats today. Hopefully next 4th July will really be a celebration.
opiejeanne
@rikyrah: Good morning!
It’s 3:30am here and I should have been asleep hours ago. I think the boom-boom has just ended. That asshole with the cannon was at it until 1am.
Barbara
@Bruuuuce: You mean the message I received to wear mom jeans and p**sy hats has already been countermanded? What liberal outrage was triggered by mom jeans?
PPCLI
Sorry if this has been already posted in an earlier thread. So much is happening that it’s easy to lose track of individual pieces, but we must keep talking about the sheer cruelty, indifference, illegality and willful incompetence of the ICE treatment of separated families. Please read the testimonies compiled in this thread. Most of them were entirely new to me and each is horrifying in a different way:
And this is just some of them — the compiler had to stop 1/3 of the way through.
I think it’s much more important to keep the spotlight on these cases, relentlessly, rather than talk in general terms about “Abolish Ice”. I have had many dealings with ICE, and the INS before that, and I’m well aware of the nature of that organization. But it plays into Trumpist hands to make this into a general dispute about border enforcement in the abstract and administrative restructuring. Keep the focus on the horrific actions that ICE is carrying out. Publicize and talk about each one. Over and over. That is where the Trump administration and its enablers have their weakest point. That is what they are desperately avoiding talking about. Force them to keep confronting it.
Perhaps the press corps could begin every briefing with one specific horror story about cruelty to parents and children and ask Huckabee-Sanders “OK, how about this family. Is this a reflection of administration policy? When will they be reunited?” Week after week, until the administration concludes that the intentional viciousness costs them more in lost independent support than it gains them by firing up the cruel instincts of the Trumpite base.”
OzarkHillbilly
Want stronger, healthier sperm? Eat your nuts
Seems rather counterproductive to me. Painful too. I think I’ll just stick weak, ailing sperm.
JPL
Good morning and happy fourth!
Bruuuuce
@Barbara: I don’t know. Sadly, I never got the password unlocking all the secret info in Google Calendar. Personally, I’m wearing my coastal elites uniform, a Doctor Who t-shirt and comfortable pants, And defending the avocados and Starbucks to my last breath, even though neither is to my taste :-)
Barbara
@Bruuuuce: Well it does seem a little hot to be wearing wool hats.
Rich2506
@Bruuuuce: Heh! Thanks! I’ll pass it on!
Bruuuuce
@Barbara: You could always knit one from cotton . Better yet, crochet from cotton, so it has ventilation built in.
@Rich2506: De nada. Found at Le Grand Orange while getting a copy of the original AJ tweet for a friend on the Book of Faces
OzarkHillbilly
Speaking of snowflakes:
Remedial math is called for.
raven
The Atlanta mayor is running the Peachtree!
OzarkHillbilly
tusk jenkins-
raven
These PTSD/fireworks pleas are silly. Quit infantilizing vets.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Dorothy A. Winsor
The packers were here yesterday, but the truck doesn’t load until tomorrow. So we’re living among the boxes and realizing we should have told them not to pack ALL the washcloths.
JPL
@raven: That is so awesome. My son is running in the group that starts at 8:30. He has been sending pictures. His biggest concern is riding Marta afterwards, because it is going to be crowded and stinky.
RedDirtGirl
@PPCLI: Thank you for this.
raven
@JPL: A 43 year old man won the overall men’s! The one time I ran it Marta was awful. I see they finish on 10th st outside of the park. When I ran it you went in by the Piedmont Driving club and the course narrowed down to an awful road and the heat was overwhelming.
OzarkHillbilly
Rick Wilson-
The picture says it all.
RedDirtGirl
I don’t know what to do with the fact that I agree with Ragnarok Lobster, yet still enjoy reading the #secondcivilwarletters.
OzarkHillbilly
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s the outfit, I need to be in.
JPL
https://twitter.com/Keirashuman/status/1014276348926414848
satby
Good morning everyone and Happy 4th!
@RedDirtGirl: I agree with you, though mocking them is always a good option. But Jones deliberately picked a day when fireworks noise could cause some nutbag to start shooting for real.
SFAW
Apropos of nothing in particular:
Can CNN find any “pundits” who can write a straightforward piece without attempting to show just how fucking smart they are? I just attempted to read an opinion piece on “The Line Shitgibbon Cannot Cross re: the Supreme Court.” I THINK what he was trying to say was that the Moron-in-Chief cannot ask his nominee how that nominee will vote on a particular case/law, or perhaps whether he will give Lying Littledick a “Get Out of Jail Free” card. But with all the pseudo-historical bullshit (wherein he shows his tremendous command of the facts etc etc), I got so annoyed that I couldn’t read the whole thing.
And, just so it’s clear, you dumb motherfucker, there is NO LINE that Shitgibbon will not cross, and there are NO lines that ZEGS and Turtle will not allow him to cross.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Also, the packer packed all the wastebaskets. I am stuffing used Kleenex and a bandaid wrapping in my pocket to throw away at Panera.
OzarkHillbilly
NotMax
Short news story on the brush fire.
debbie
Hey, Alex: The revolution will not be televised.
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I guess I missed the news of your moving. Will you be staying in Iowa?
debbie
The animal shelter here is begging people to make sure their dogs stay safe and at home today because they have no room to take in the pets who run away today. Last year, 100 dogs were brought in after the July 4th fireworks.
satby
Heartbreaking news out of Boise, the birthday party stabbing attack has claimed the life of the 3 year old birthday girl.
The family is Somali refugees resettled by the IRC.
Perp is, of course, a white guy; but the local police still don’t see evidence that it was a hate crime. Odd, that.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: The suspect, Timmy Earl Kinner, is black.
OzarkHillbilly
Let’s hear it for Pennsylvania Man and Woman:
NotMax
Merriam-Webster gets a dig in at Dolt 45. Good on them.
GxB
@Comrade Nimrod Humperdink:
I hear Nugent is doing it on purpose to keep from getting drafted again.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: @satby:
and the refugees are Ethiopian, not Somali. I obviously need more coffee.
zhena gogolia
C dniom nezavisimosti, bliadi! [Happy Independence Day, mofos!]
Chyron HR
@OzarkHillbilly:
RESPONSIBLE
GUN
OWNERS
zhena gogolia
@RedDirtGirl:
Me too. I laughed so hard at Rachel Bloom’s “Holy s–t you’ve got to vote” before the election, and after the election I thought, this is our downfall. Cleverness.
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: High on bath salts? What happened to Tide pods?
Hungry Joe
Apparently the chickenshit Dems called off The Civil War: Reloaded. So what am I supposed to do with all these Molotov cocktails? I won’t get squat for them on Craig’s List.
Elizabelle
Happy 4th, jackals.
Perhaps we will be well on the way to independence from The Trump Maladministration by this time next year. Hold on. Resist hard.
Bruuuuce
@Hungry Joe: Serve them, flaming, at the Independence Day barbecue. Set the fashion :-(
OzarkHillbilly
@Hungry Joe: Light them, then shoot them with your .357 from 5 feet away. I guarantee excitement.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@SFAW: We’re moving to the Chicago suburbs, a half hour from our son. Barrington is the town.
Nicole
@RedDirtGirl: Don’t feel bad. I actually disagree with him on this one. As the great servant of the anti-Christ, Saul Alinsky said, mockery and derision are incredibly effective tactics in political warfare. The problem with the coverage of the Trump campaign is that not enough mockery was used; in fact, the media chose to portray him seriously. See also, coverage of Gore vs Bush- Gore was mocked by the media for being a stuffed shirt and boring while the actual dumb one of the two was treated seriously.
So read the tweets and enjoy. I particularly liked the one that said the MAGAs, paradoxically, didn’t bring guns to the battle since guns don’t kill people.
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: And I want to thank you for alerting us to them. They have been something of a sanity saver for me this Fourth.
Gotta go set up for the Democratic Party picnic downtown. And avoid the open-carry crazies who are marching in the town parade. Hate those bastards. Although last year, they were outnumbered by the Open Carry Guitar Brigade, so maybe we’ll be so lucky again this year.
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Thanks for the update. I hope the move goes as smoothly as possible.
MomSense
This is a weird 4th. I’m looking at it as a rest day before the campaigning for the November election kicks in.
The United States is not the trump administration or the Republican Congress. Republicans are against freedom, democracy, truth, and even common decency. They suck at the whole Christian thing too.
Fuck em.
Citizen_X
@Rich2506:
Screw it. If I can’t be a Browncoat, then I don’t want to play.
Jager
My baby cousin Katie had a 4th of July baby, young Gabby weighed in at 7 pounds, she’s is the new Princess and her big sister Jillian passed the crown willingly. My cousin is 40 and the pregnancy came as a big surprise, I asked her, “you haven’t figured out how this works, yet?”
I’ve got the Jeep loaded up, my LRRP team is headed north towards Bakersfield, we’re going to slip around the MAGA roadblock on I-5, we’re going to gather intelligence for an operation to liberate the Buck Owens and Merle Haggard archives
NotMax
FYI.
‘I don’t think it would be appropriate’: Some Canadian politicians boycotting July 4th party in Ottawa
maya
I received an urgent email yesterday from the local republican party stating that all 4th of July celebrations have been moved to the 5th of July. Can anyone confirm that?
Kelly
And somebody called 911 on a black legislator canvassing in Clackamas a suburb of Portland.
https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2018/07/black_oregon_state_rep_says_he.html#incart_std
RedDirtGirl
@Nicole: Thanks Nicole! That helps!
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly: That picture…..
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
I thought the problem was obvious.
They aren’t hiring the best. They got the memo to hire only the best but read it as hire the least among you. So they did. Why do you think it takes them so long to actually write the ticket for going 1 mph over the speed limit? Why do you think that it looks like it was filled out by a 2nd grader, who needs glasses?
david
@Kelly: Aren’t 9-1-1 callers required to identify themselves? Aren’t calls logged so they know which phone made the call? Quite frankly, these callers need to be “outed”.
geg6
The letters are helping me keep my sanity. The fact that the MAGAts know they are being unmercifully mocked is the cherry on the sundae.
My unit of the Western PA DFHs will be stationed at Fort Big Sis which sits on a cliff overlooking the Ohio River, Routes 65 and 51 and the Ambridge bridge, perfect for spotting any possible advancing enemies. Plus, there’s a pool. I got up early to make my contribution to the officers mess. Since we have such a bumper crop of berries this year, I made a blackberry custard pie and a blueberry and blackberry galette.
schrodingers_cat
I am sorry, I don’t find the talk of a second civil war funny. I think most of the people that find this funny are in no danger of being in the cross-hairs of either the current administration or their cultish supporters.
Supreme court has upheld T’s Muslim ban. Which set of immigrants are next? They are building camps that can that can house hundreds of thousands when people seeking entry at the southern border has been about 70,000 per year for last several years. Yes being snarky about it is the ticket.
Kathleen
@raven: It amazes me how fast runners in their 50’s and 60’s are. I sometimes place in my division (65-69) but it depends on who shows up. I detest Mean Jean Schmidt’s politics but she’s a hell of a fast runner and I’m not in her league. When I turn 70 I’ll be in the 70 and above except for the huge races like the Pig.
Ruckus
@Jager:
On the bus ride to the train last year, a nice 84 yr old woman sat down next to me and we talked. What a delight! She has/had 18 kids. I asked her if she had finally figured out what caused them. Wasn’t sure how that would go over but she laughed and we talked the entire ride. Best bus ride ever.
Jager
@geg6:
Good to know you’re well prepared on the Eastern Front. As I got my LRRP team ready last night for today’s mission to the Central Valley, we reacquainted Anze the Scout Dog’s nose with the scent of pork rinds, Slim Jim’s and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. He’s ready!
Ruckus
Catch you all on the flip side, I’m off for a whole day of actual work. I get paid and everything.
Miss Bianca
@schrodingers_cat: S-C, it may come as a shock to you to realize this, but some of us living in the sticks, whether or not we are white, *are already* in the cross-hairs of our more brutish neighbors. And still we laugh, even as they open-carry in the Fourth of July parade, try to close down our medical clinics, harass our more liberal county commissioners out of office, and threaten us with violence when we call them out. Because not to do so is perilously close to giving in to despair.
ETA: At least you live in a blue region of a blue state. Some of us laughing out here…aren’t. And we are taking real risks to try to turn things around. So if we need humor as a coping mechanism, we are going to use it. Just sayin’.
debbie
I’m not reading them in a very organized manner, but here’s my current favorite:
japa21
Happy Fourth everybody.
Haven’t been here for a couple days. Hectic week. Monday Mrs. Japa and I were out doing some shopping and she tripped on a slightly bunched up carpet in a store. Shattered a bone in her right wrist and severely sprained her left thumb (possible torn tendon) as well as bleeding in one of her sinus cavities when she landed on her face. Spent all Monday in the ER and she stayed overnight. Came home yesterday but my time has been fully occupied with care. Tomorrow will have surgery on the wrist.
The shattered bones in the wrist pressed on a nerve so bad that even a double dose of morphine didn’t dull it. They had to do a reduction where they used weights to straighten out the wrist and relieve the pressure. Fortunately, that was under full sedation.
Anyway, just trying to make it to tomorrow. She almost had to go to a nursing home due to the casting which was such that she couldn’t use either hand. The wrist surgeon redid the wrapping on the left thumb to allow some use of the fingers.
That is why you jackals haven’t had the benefit of my great insight the last couple of days (not that I ever had any to share).
And remember, if you have a fifth on the fourth, you may not go forth on the fifth.
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
Seconded.
MomSense
@geg6:
I’m about to bake strawberry rhubarb pies to take to the staging area before we launch our kayak strike group.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kathleen: My BIL Bill is in that 65-69 category and he does very well in races. He lives in upstate NY.
debbie
@japa21:
Jeez, how horrible. As a fellow faller who landed on a wrist, I feel ms. japa21’s pain and hope she has a quick recovery.
MomSense
@japa21:
Oh no!!! Sending my best to Mrs Japa. Hope the surgery goes well.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Good luck with the big move tomorrow!
Kelly
We have repulsed the Waffel SS counterattack but it left us in a sticky situation.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@japa21: Oh ouch. I’m so sorry. Best to Mrs Japa.
schrodingers_cat
@Miss Bianca:
You think that’s the same as being an immigrant in T’s America. Imagine being a Muslim immigrant in this country whose sick mother was detained at the airport when she was trying to come visit you. (It actually happened to my friend’s mother)
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
I do get how you feel but this is good way for me and many others to cope. And having been threatened with violence more than once for stating my views in public, I somewhat understand the dangers faced by those who aren’t as fortunate as I to fly under their radar due to my white skin. But mocking them is powerful, especially because of my white skin. They assume I’m one of them and it rocks them to find out I think they are despicable jokes. So I consider things like this as both a weapon and a coping mechanism. YMMV.
eclare
@japa21: Sounds horrible, best wishes for the surgery.
rikyrah
@satby:
Oh satby. That poor baby ? ?
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
High on BATH SALTS?????
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Your post implies your peril is greater or matters more than Miss Bianca’s? Really?
Dorothy A. Winsor
Good lord.
rikyrah
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Lots of land. Not a lot of people.
geg6
@MomSense:
I almost made a strawberry rhubarb crumble, too. But not quite enough strawberries so the troops will just have to survive on the other two.
Mike in NC
Happy Independence Day!
Was expecting to hear Sarah Huckabeast Sanders declare this holiday to be “Trump Family Appreciation Day” with a parade down Constitution Avenue (mandatory attendance if you live in DC). First up would be Fat Bastard himself on a float with a facsimile of The Precious Wall. He’d be seated on a gold throne surrounded by several brown children in cages labeled “Vermin” and “Animals”, which he would spit on and poke with a stick.
Then Melania, on a float covered with gold leaf and gemstones. She be wearing the infamous jacket and her Resting Bitch Face and ten inch heels. Followed by Ivanka’s float, hawking her fashion line of pirated items produced in Chinese prison sweatshops.
Next, Asshole Junior and brother Eric, posing with several endangered species of big game that they slaughtered on taxpayer-funded safaris. To wrap things up, the Marine Band will play the Russian national anthem.
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: I am not talking about myself in particular but immigrants in general. Xenophobia and bigotry against immigrants has been team T’s agenda from the get go. I am in no position to assess my situation vs Miss Bianca’s.
MomSense
@geg6:
But blackberries are wonderful. I had so many blackberries at my old farmhouse. Every summer I used what berries hadn’t been eaten by the kids to make summer pies. Summer pies were whatever fruit we had in the garden combined. Always a bit different and always delicious.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Except that everyone other than the bigots and racists are now at risk. Can you conceive of what the rollback of affirmative action will do to everyone else, immigrant and citizen alike?
geg6 is right. One does what one has to in order to get through this horrible time. You won’t remember the 1960s, but there was a similar sense of helplessness and despair then. The country survived all that turmoil and it will again.
debbie
@MomSense:
My farmer’s market has black raspberries now, and I am in hog heaven. I haven’t had them since I was a kid!
MomSense
@debbie:
You’ll have to make sure to get that blackberry color all over your face and hands for the full kid experience. I can still see my oldest eating them by the handful and sharing some with the dog.
geg6
I love blackberries! We’ll make jam with most of the rest of them. My John eats toast and jam every morning on his way to work. Since last year’s crop, we haven’t bought a single jar of jam.
ETA: This was supposed to be a reply to Mom Sense but I screwed it up.
Elizabelle
Fresh thread. Betty Cracker. She rescued a gecko this morning. Florida
womanfront pager.debbie
@MomSense:
I’ll make a point of doing that!
BRyan
@Miss Bianca: This.
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: I am an immigrant and a citizen and so was my friend whose mother was treated horribly at the airport last year. The woman is in her 70s and frail probably about 100 pounds. Our lawyer advised my husband not to go to India for his cousin’s wedding last year when the first Muslim ban EO was signed and my husband is not Muslim nor does he belong to the 8 countries on the list because our citizenship application was being processed at that time. Unless your relatives have been casually harassed by the government and you have had to change plans involving important life events. Its all the same.
ETA: I probably shouldn’t have commented on this thread, all the snark touched a raw nerve. Sorry. Happy 4th. Snark would have been the way I coped with this situation before Nov 2016 so I get you.
Barbara
@schrodingers_cat: Maybe if someone had aggressively derided Jones’ earlier stunts no one would have been facing a lunatic with a gun ostensibly trying to rescue nonexistent children in a nonexistent basement. Ridicule is sometimes the only possible way to push back.
schrodingers_cat
@Barbara: Its time to take these people seriously. Ridicule alone is not enough.
CarolDuhart2
No one is saying that ridicule is the only thing to do. But in the case of a lunatic like Jones that’s all that can be done. If enough people mock him, it gets through to the few relative sane people who may take him seriously, and the others know better than to spread that mess.
Welcome to the world of black people who have had to use everything on the shelf to cope and fight. Most of us are allies, even though MAGAbutt has been trying to recruit a certain percentage of black men like Kanye West.
The Lodger
@Kelly: It’s Clackamas, Jake.
The Lodger
@japa21: Holy crap, that’s awful. I shattered my wrist 17 years ago and I was useless for a month. My sympathies to you both. Also, see a lawyer.
Miss Bianca
@schrodingers_cat: No, I am not a not a Muslim in T’s America. I’ve only been threatened by a gun-wielding MAGAt, had death threats and my car nearly run off the road for speaking out at county meetings. But you’re right, I’ve yet to be detained at any airport.
ETA: This is not to make light of your friend’s situation. No one here, I think, could possibly think it anything but horrible and a disgusting shame.