“You’re about to get it so hard.”

“Wow, hot!”

“Not really. You just don’t qualify for three of these credits. That’s going to bring your liabilities up by about $12,000”

Five, swap seats with Silent Bob, throw on headphones, hope Beavis and Butthead don’t crash the plane

Five minutes into the flight, he’s going to have this really nervous, embraced look on his face. Ten minutes in, he’s going to be fidgeting and kinda trying to catch your attention. Fifteen minutes in, he’s going to give you the most exasperated sigh and announce “It’s lupus. You’ve got lupus. You need to begin treatment as soon as we land.”

The false arrests are literally the job.

“Gang member” as a designation is merely a legalized end run around free association. Might as well just charge people for being Black / Latino / East Asian / Gay as criminalize a popular local fashion.

You know that the REAL quality clothes don’t have labels?

Sticking a label on a piece of clothing doesn’t change it’s quality.

Also most fashion-brands are really shitty quality, made in Bangladesh

Textile mills in Bangladesh produce a wide range of qualities.

Obama is not a pedophile

He sent his kids to work at Miramax fully aware of Harvey Weinstein’s history. He spent more labor and resources conducting a Cold War across Latin America and the Middle East than cracking down on the crooks, the white nationalists, and the pedophiles at home.

Ffs, his chief economic advisor - Larry Summers - absolutely was a pedophile. As were his political allies in the tech sector, Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

If he wasn’t personally schtupping kids, he was enabling and enriching those that did.

Trump, himself, was engaged in open and notorious human trafficking through Eastern Europe during Obama’s tenure. This whole thing could have been nipped in the bud if his FBI director James Comey cared half as much about Krasnov as Hillary’s emails.

And some manchildren have none of that.

Obama very wisely and maturely appointed Mueller’s protege James Comey to head the FBI. Comey very diligently and methodically played Ds and Rs against one another to secure his position as a radical centrist. And between the two of them, the conditions were laid for a Manchild to take control of the executive branch.

I just don’t get the need for hagiography. All these guys sucked. Some of them were just smoother about it than others.

But then it’s often a lot cheaper

Wasn’t Mueller behind the massive illegal spying program under George Bush Jr?

https://archive.is/PFUm4

Opponents have challenged provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the focus of contentious debate on Capitol Hill this week, that expand domestic surveillance by giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation more power to collect information like library lending lists or Internet use. Military and F.B.I. officials have drawn criticism for monitoring what were largely peaceful antiwar protests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Surveillance_Program

Disposable clothing. A very bleak state of affairs.

Wish we could just own clothes that last, but I swear to God I have more luck raiding my parents closets for old Polos than buying off the rack.

YMMV.

The unbranded clothes can easily be Temu tissue-paper quality or so rough on the skin as to cause abrasions after walking around in them.

Branded clothing tend to have a higher floor, at least.

Let us not forget our fine Latino men and women. Men 50% women 43%.

Lots of expats from Venezuela and Cuba who see Republicans as patrons for their clans. And Republicans reward these blocks with special privileges - prioritization for immigration, exception from state violence, lucrative positions in both the legal and illegal economy.

Marco Rubio got his start selling concaine on behalf of his brother in law Orlando Cicilia, for instance. He was able to rapidly rise through the political scene by playing in an industry the CIA had long staked out for Cuban exiles.

Plenty of Republican women voters are post-menopausel already. Plenty are insistent that their daughters get pregnant already, or that their son’s sexual partners carry a fetus to term.

This isn’t a gender thing nearly so much as a class thing.

Al Bundy avi

This checks out.

Charlie Kirk, then

Vaccine status?

That was (ostensibly) in response to Syrian leadership going after the Druz, whom Israel needs to keep Syrian Muslims in check.

Hezbollah insurgents have started trying to retake parts of their country, with Israel focused on Iran.

The Israeli response has been to kill a bunch of civilians in retaliation.

No kidding.

The Gaza war has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in history, with reports indicating that Israeli actions killed over 180 to more than 270 journalists, mostly Palestinians, between October 2023 and August 2025.

The trick is how to accomplish that in a country which is actively hostile towards education and working class empowerment.

It’s a real snarl, no doubt.