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cherold

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Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.

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Lana, to random
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"After taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist.

Children were not being sexualized. She could find no examples of critical race theory. She examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children how to be a good friend and a good human."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

cherold,
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@Lana Of course, like every right-winger who's ever had the brains to actually look at the evidence and be honest about what she found, she instantly became a pariah and enemy to her own tribe.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why am I both people in this conversation?!

cherold,
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@RickiTarr I'm the person who says wait, is that true and finds an article that explains it. https://www.squirrelsatthefeeder.com/can-squirrels-survive-terminal-velocity/

GottaLaff, to legal
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Again:

#BREAKING #legal #WompWomp
Orden:

Verdict in #EJeanCarroll v. #Trump

Jury says Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll:

COMPENSATORY:
Other than reputation repair program: $7.3M
Reputation repair program: $11M

PUNITIVE: $65M

TOTAL: $83.3M

cherold,
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@GottaLaff Thanks for all your work keeping us informed/entertained. :-)

GottaLaff, to random
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“Provocative.” 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄 GET HIM OFF THE COURT. Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.Ihnd.LkwD_75RA6zD&smid=url-share

“Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Home

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

cherold,
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@GottaLaff So interesting that the two most MAGA justices weren't even appointed by Trump. Shows that what Republicans are now is what they've been for decades.

GottaLaff, to random
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lol

cherold,
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@GottaLaff @lolgop I don't think so. One of Trump's strengths as a candidate is the (false) idea that he is more vibrant and active than Biden. The last thing he wants is for people to start talking about how he's an elderly man who can't stay awake for an hour in court. Guaranteed he'll take a lot more Adderall tomorrow.

RickiTarr, to random
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Every day I wake up, and search for an Alpha Male to tell me what to do with myself, but so far I haven't found one, so, I just do the things my vagina whispers to me in the night.

cherold,
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@RickiTarr Vaginas whisper in the night? Well, that explains a lot!

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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1/… I'll ask a favor of you.

This trial hasn't even started yet, not one witness. Yet...

I'm getting Doomers galore in my feed.

A Trumpy helped convict him in an earlier trial.

The prosecutors are vetting the jurors carefully.

I am not Dooming. Not yet.

Can we wait for the trial to be in full swing before predicting the worst possible outcome? Or do people thrive on constant pessimism? I just don't.

Thanks so much for listening. Let's try to be hopeful.

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cherold,
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@chrisg @GottaLaff Has it occurred to you that rather than ending in "farce," the impeachments and investigations ended in Biden beating Trump in 2020?

cherold,
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@GottaLaff
Every step of the way, the doomers just pivot their doom. "He'll never be indicted." He's indicted. "He'll never go on trail." He goes on trial. "He'll never be convicted."

If he's convicted it will be "He'll never go to prison." If he goes to prison it will be "He'll be paroled in a week." If he spends a year locked up they'll say, "it was only a slap on the wrist."

Doomers gonna doom.

cherold, to random
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Meanwhile, in Brooklyn ...

cherold, to random
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It's so weird when journalists talk about "moderate" Republicans. It's as though terrorists took control of the Super Bowl and one terrorist said "we're going to kill all the hostages" and the other said "we're going to kill all the hostages except children" and journalists started calling the second one "the moderate."

cherold, to random
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Republicans: Gender is physically determined at birth and is immutable.

Also Republicans: If a child reads a book with a trans character they will instantly change genders.

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

cherold,
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@RickiTarr Yeah. She did understand that she lied, and believed lies were okay if they spared someone's feelings or got her out of trouble, but she didn't realize that she told several lies an hour. It caused some self examination.

cherold,
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@RickiTarr The people I've known who lie a lot tend to do it to 1) ease a situation 2) make themselves sound good, or 3) make the story more interesting. The third group can be interesting - because they're like telling stories, they tell them until they believe they're true.

I have one friend in the 3rd category who you would think was just lying because her stories are insane, but so much of what she says turns out to be true that her craziest stories are only slight exaggerations!

cherold,
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@RickiTarr Years ago I dated a girl who lied constantly, but didn't think that. She had a therapist have her keep a journal in which she wrote down every single time she told an untruth for any reason whatsoever, and she discovered that she did, in fact, lie constantly. But she had to keep a record to realize it.

gwynnion, to random
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This is fucking terrifying.

"We're right and everybody else is wrong" from a key Democratic strategist.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/is-the-biden-campaign-running-on-false-hope

cherold,
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@gwynnion OMG, this guy wants to bully the polls into submission!

I don't know if you read David French, but he said when he worked for the Romney campaign they were convinced all the polls were skewed. They were 100% certain they were ahead. He recommended Dems not fall into that trap, but it doesn't seem like they're listening.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

Donald is now threatening 's donors, saying anyone who makes a contribution to her campaign "will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp."

cherold,
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@GottaLaff The wild thing about Trump is it seems like he cannot overplay his hand with Republicans. He can say to the richest, most powerful right-wingers in the world, "don't cross me or I'll take you down," and instead of a big fuck you they're like, "yes sir! Sorry sir! My bad sir!"

cherold, to random
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@pluralistic blowing my mind with an entirely different way of looking at taxes and budgets.

'When a government runs a "balanced budget," that means that it has taxed as much out of the economy as it put into the economy at the start of the year. When a government runs a "surplus," that means it's left less money in the economy at the end of the year than there was at the beginning of the year."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/intergenerational-warfare/

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    cherold,
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    @DrALJONES I mean, that's wrong in so many ways, but think about the idea that every citizen is responsible for the crimes of their government not just if they support that government, but if they don't actively attempt to overthrow. That's carte blanche to declare every single person in a country a combatant. Absolutely horrific.

    cherold, to random
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    Even though I've known I was weird since I was very young, I still keep learning new ways in which I'm weird.

    cherold, to random
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    I am "half my friends have life threatening health issues" years old.

    cherold, to random
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    I think everyone should read this @tkanefield piece on what's going on in the Trump trial, simply because if he's not convicted then instead of freaking out and raging you'll say, "oh yeah, that was a distinct possibility. Kinda sucks, but I get why."

    She's not saying he won't be convicted (she says the odds are that he probably will) but she explains why it's not the slam dunk some people think it is.

    Also, law is kinda interesting if it's explained well.

    https://terikanefield.com/wheres-the-beef-trumps-manhattan-criminal-case-and-some-mind-bending-legal-puzzles/

    cherold, to random
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    Wild how many stories about judges have some version of, "While these years of bribes from people who received favorable treatment from the judge aren't technically violations, they look bad."

    Maybe we should have more actual rules for judges?

    cherold, to random
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    The SNL open started with a terrible Biden (after all these years they still haven't figured out a good approach!) but Johansson as Britt is hilarious. And the folks at Crooks and Liars kindly gave us the clip without the Biden part.

    https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/snl-cold-open-nailed-sen-katie-britt

    cherold, to HashtagGames
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    Spot in the Name of Love


    Porpentina2017, to random

    Uh, Gym, I have news for you (and your stupid MAGA friends). There are LAWS that prevent this kind of behavior to protect national security. No, a president cannot do WHATEVER he/she wants with classified material. You moron.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/11/jordan-defends-trump-president-national-security-material-00101419?cid=apn

    cherold,
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    @Porpentina2017 If Obama had stolen classified documents, stuck them in the bathroom, and refused to give them back, Republicans would be demanding the death penalty. No exaggeration: they would literally call it treason and unquestionably demand his execution.

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