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For all of its both sides garbage, the media’s obsessive coverage of how Trump’s fundraising skyrockets in MAGA Land after each of these hearings fails to consider the impact on the Anti-Trump movement.
The despair and rage we feel as we watch the judicial system play the American people for fools will have MAJOR implications in November. We’re out of options. The only one left is to crush him at the ballot box.
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It fine, in my book, to simply
pay him for what it is worth.
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He fancies himself as King
… and is pondering
what the King should “decree”
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Question is, is that number going to be larger or smaller than his base who might otherwise be “meh” and not show up, but who rally around the flag on a conviction as look what the Deep State did to their hero.
I think this bit is the nail that hits the hammer on the head:
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Getting this out there, I have a yougov account.
Most of the time, pple answering those polls are doing it for a reward (free bandwidth or points towards a greater but unattainable prize; I’m not kidding), so it’s the ones who have a spark of clarity that I’m nervous about.
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That’s Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, Adjutant General of the State of Texas and commander of the Texas Air National Guard.
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Bright shiny object to draw attention away from the real money; e.g.; Eddie Farnsworth starting private schools funded with public tax money, then selling to cronies for millions. Rinse, repeat.
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Shouldn’t that be “tough biscuits”?
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Ah… but in various light - they will appear to be brown … especially when worn by goose-stepping jack-booted ‘enforcers’
I was thinking more along the lines of fry cook at Wendy’s.
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The bottom row is my favorite!
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What @ClutchCargo said. “Homosexual” is from the Greek adjective homos (masc. nom. s.), meaning “same.” Words like “hominid” and “homicide” are from the Latin homo (nom. s.), hominis (gen. s.), a masculine noun meaning “human being.” Homo sapiens is Latin for the “wise” or “intelligent” species homo, in the genus “hominid.”
The Greek homos and the Latin homo have completely unrelated etymological histories and just happened to end up sounding alike. (That happens a lot.) The Latin homo goes back to the same Proto-Indo-European *dhghem as does the Greek chthonos, which English borrowed to create the word “chthonic.” P-I-E *dhghem essentially means “earthling” and led to English words (via Latin humus, “soil” or “earth”) like “human,” “humble” and “exhume.” Via Germanic, English gets from *dhghem the “groom” in “bridegroom” – so unexpected can the history of a word be! (Thank you Cal Watkins and The American Heritage Dictionary.)
Scientists and the people who give brand names to pharmaceuticals regularly combine Greek and Latin words to create compound words, and they often wander far astray from the meanings of either the Greek or Latin words they build on. But the scientists calling this whale behavior “homosexual” were being careful. “Of the same sex” is all they were trying to convey.
Unrelated words, or parts of words, that sound alike can produce new word histories, of course. I tend to think that the word “homosexual,” though it should apply equally to woman-woman and man-man sex and still does the way many people use it, often is used with reference only to man-man sex because people hear in “homosexual” a sound they associate with “man,” as in “homo sapiens” (even though the Latin word homo, though masculine in grammatical gender, refers to both/all human sexes).
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Because the climate-change driven conflagration and disaster in the Texas panhandle pales in comparison to a made up border non-crisis.
ETA. Human rancher aliens. Please come and eat us!
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He won’t be bankrupt if the Forbes and Bloomberg estimates of his net worth are anywhere near accurate. What he’s got is a liquidity problem, and a reputation problem for acquiring additional loans.
He’ll still be very wealthy on paper, but it’s going to hurt like hell if Letitia James seizes 40 Wall St. or other property to satisfy the judgements. Maybe even the MAGAts will notice. Although of course it will be the Deep State and Biden illegally taking his stuff.
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From the article, this bit that (allegedly) proves Swift’s alliance with the forces of evil:
In one remix of the song, she posted a photo of herself on social media with the caption, “Witches be like ‘Sometimes I just want to listen to music while pining away/sulking/staring out a window.’ It’s me. I’m witches.”
She also referenced witch hunts in her 2017 album Reputation.
“They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one,” she sings in the song “I Did Something Bad.”
Someone’s not good at reading figuratively, it seems to me. To read them as literal statements just makes no sense.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that, at least in the first bit, you can substitute “women” for “witches;” as for the second line, that’s clearly a protest against the policing of all women. The only “darkness” in these examples is the intentions of the forces aligned against women that Swift is addressing in the second.
Anyway. I humbly suggest that Swift take her own advice when she runs into stuff like this.
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Another brilliant discussion on NPR today, in which the host was surprised that the SC hearing on bump stocks didn’t seem to take into account which president was in office when the ATF banned them. No hint whatsoever that she understood it isn’t supposed to work like that.
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Especially the “not intended for” line… Notice they don’t say that you can’t use it for mortal combat.
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