There’s no good term for “everybody”
Except, Josh, for the one you just used. Just use that one. Use ‘everyone’ or ‘the entire rest of the party’. But ‘everyone’ is shorter, and better.
So use it. It’s also true.
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OT but even Canada has it’s quota of authentic peckerheads who think “the wife” is personal property and needs his permission to think for herself. I suspect she will now be outliving her less than useless and abusive spouse.]
(CNN) – Police are looking for a man in Canada they say punched a nurse in the face multiple times, knocking her to the ground after she administered a Covid-19 vaccine to his wife without his permission.
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Many years ago, when I was in high school, one of my friends was in the drama club, and landed his first part on-stage, in Guys and Dolls. A supporting role, to be sure, but he had lines, and wasn’t just an extra, so it was pretty important for him.
So, he told his mom about it when she got home. She called his grandmother (something I was given to understand she did daily anyway), and what happened next is made even more surreal because it occurred on a Teddy Ruxpin Speaker Phone. So his grandmother’s voice is coming out of a talking teddy bear.
“Mom! I’ve got great news! Mike’s a thespian!”
“What?!? Oh my god, that’s… that’s awful…”
“Wha… no! No, mom, a thespian… an actor.”
To this day, I facepalm as I think about it.
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OT.
…“nebulizing and inhaling hydrogen peroxide”…
<insert Nathan Fillion speechless meme>
“Some people in groups that formed recently to promote the false cure ivermectin, an anti-parasite treatment, have claimed extracting Covid patients from hospitals is pivotal so that they can self-medicate at home with ivermectin. But as the patients begin to realize that ivermectin by itself is not effective, the groups have begun recommending a series of increasingly hazardous at-home treatments, such as gargling with iodine, and nebulizing and inhaling hydrogen peroxide, calling it part of a “protocol.””
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Which, I have to admit, it really surprising to me. It was supposed to run out of funds back in 1993. And 2007. And 2013…
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Yay! Finally, doing it themselves so we don’t have to kick them out.
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Burning it will finish humanity off. Oil companies know that.
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When Democrats in the Democratic Party scuttle the aims of the Democratic President, the Democratic Speaker of the House, and the Democratic Senate Majority Leader, in no way are these Democrats the ‘’’’’‘moderate’’’’’’ members of the party!
They’re Radical Democrats, or if that’s too ‘confusing’, Rogue Democrats. But they’re not centrists or moderates, so stop mutilating the language to give cover for them! It’s a complete Rhetorical Fail.
(BTW, same goes for saying the word “News” after something broadcasts on Fox - you’ve already put a strike against yourself before you’ve even started refuting what they’ve said).
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I admit, I’m in favor of them self-selecting their way out of the gene pool. It means nobody else has to feel responsible for their inevitable death-by-stupid.
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They just buy alfalfa from our southwest, so we are literally selling them our water for cheap, and we are doing it in a place running out of water, it’s pure madness.
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Here’s why we lose. What a fantastic example of the broad-brushed, lazy-assed, forest v. trees, totally superficial, “Beltway conventional wisdom”, completely anti-Dem-biased (while pretending to support them), liberal scold, antithesis of analytical, abject nonsense we have to deal with that hands the GQP win after win after win, deliberately pushes public opinion against the Dems and is tanking Biden’s numbers right now…
Fucking ridiculous. Read it. Please. I don’t deserve to be the only one rage-vomiting right now.
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Yup. That’s the problem. We haven’t learned much from our past mistakes. We need to be relentlessly pursuing our agenda. Knock down the roadblocks and drive it through. Whatever it takes. We may not get another chance.
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I wonder how much longer the GOP raids on the fund decades ago are going to go unmentioned? Pay it back with interest and I bet we don’t have a problem anymore.
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I don’t understand what their obsession with being so bad at their job is.
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OT…but delicious…:
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I’m not in favor of attacking or riding horses through unarmed people asking for help, but taking away BP horses just means that the BP will buy ATVs and possibly nets and keep doing the same as they were doing. And if we take away their atvs they’ll do it on foot.
My point is: the horse is not the problem here.
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That’s true. All the FICA rates were dramatically increased in the 80’s in an effort to make the Boomers prepay for their retirement in addition to continuing to pay for their elders (the pay as you go part.)The surpluses were massive; some were used to increase payouts for our parents’ generation, but a lot of them were used to disguise the magnitude of the deficits incurred by Reagan’s and Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. Now the rich are complaining that those monies need to be paid back to them that paid for the cuts (every salaried and hourly worker in the country.)
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They already have the ATVs.
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I didn’t say to take the horse away. Just don’t beat folk with the reins is all I was saying. The image is quite suggestive of that behavior. I didn’t say the horse was the problem. That agent’s behavior is the problem
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The actual path to passage of both bills (which would be a shockingly monumental achievement in the history of the US Congress) is getting clearer.
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Mods have shown their cards. There are 2 main issues here (1) Mods don’t want to raise 3.5T of hard tax revenue to pay for 3.5T in spending; and (2) there are disagreements about what form medicare expansion will take. (1) impacts (2) b/c it determines the cost gap that needs to be closed and that might mean medicare expansion has to be pared back.
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WH has taken the Mods’ toys away from them. They got them to admit their issue is taxes and that they really want the bipartisan infra bill vote on Monday. WH has prepared a menu of options to raise revenue. The choice that Sinema and Manchin et al have is to take ‘yes’ for an answer and to say ‘yes’ to both bills. That’s it.
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The WH has let the liberals in the House flex in order to get the Mods in line. The threat of voting down the infra bill has to be clear and strong enough for the Mods to back off, stop listening to the stupid lobbyists and bend the knee to Pelosi and Schumer. WH won’t put the brakes on the liberals until the Mods sign on the dotted line on reconciliation.
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The Mods’ big weaknesses are they have no votes to deliver and they don’t have the support of the WH. They are dependent on liberals to get it through. Their big strength is messaging to the DC press.
Pelosi is pressing the issue b/c they have Manchin/Sinema in a corner. They’re on an island. Everyone knows they are the hold up and yet they don’t have the power to wrestle the bipartisan infra bill through. This is a very complex negotiation and next week is very ambitious but I think Pelosi can get it done if not next week then within 2 weeks.
My view is if Pelosi is able to get both bills out of the House, Manchin and Sinema will have little choice but to vote for reconciliation in the Senate. This is the President’s agenda, not theirs.
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