meeeeetch

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meeeeetch,

Because there’s now an infrastructure built up around him with plans on how to override those checks and balances (Project 2025).

meeeeetch,

Don’t know what breed I figured Seamus was, but I don’t think I would’ve guessed borzoi.

meeeeetch,

I seem to recall seeing an infographic (uncertain of its provenance) indicating that one juror listed the NY Post as a frequent news source. That guy’s presence on the jury certainly had me concerned.

meeeeetch,

If a recording of it comes out, it won’t be his undoing, it will be license for the people who like him to join him in saying it.

meeeeetch,

Debs ran from prison (for the high crime of telling people that WWI was none of our business and people shouldn’t enlist to get turned toa pink mist in Belgium) in 1920

As for voting as a felon, that varies state to state. I don’t think there’s anyplace that allows people to vote from prison, but quite a few states let convicted felons vote once they’ve completed their sentence and any parole that follows it (and in some states, pay additional fines, which sounds a bit like a poll tax to me, but I’m not one of our nine kritarchs, so what do I know about that sort of thing?)

As for people running for office when they couldn’t vote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton ran for office well before she could have voted, and the first woman elected to Congress (Jeanette Rankin) was elected in 1916, several years before women’s suffrage was added to the constitution, though her state, Montana, had allowed women to vote already.

New Israeli attack today (Tuesday) on Rafah evacuation zone (www.reuters.com)

CAIRO, May 28 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a tent camp in an evacuation area west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, Gaza health authorities said, while advancing to the heart of the southern Gaza city for the first time after a night of heavy bombardment. Two days after an Israeli airstrike on another camp...

meeeeetch,

A farcical accident

meeeeetch,

News of his attendance at someone else’s party made all future time travelers give him a wide berth.

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Instead, because it was established in the middle of our aughts war crime spree, we passed the Invade the Hague if they Arrest any of Our War Criminals Act.

Democratic US lawmakers introduce bill to bar foreign payments to president (www.reuters.com)

Democratic U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that would bar the president and other top officials from accepting payments from foreign governments while in office, a measure clearly aimed at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump....

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It is and it has been since 1787, but there’s no functional difference between a law not being enforced and the thing the law’s about being legal.

(Art. I, § 9, cl. 8): “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

(Art. II, § 1, cl. 7): “The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.”

(Art. I, § 6, cl. 2): “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.”

meeeeetch,

When you’re paying 40k a year to attend their hedge fund with a sports team, there shouldn’t be much of any place that’s off limits to you.

And it seems rare that college kids get arrested en masse. So they’re right to be at least a little surprised that this protest got cracked down on so hard.

meeeeetch,

They invented FSD in the sixties and it makes a handy little loop through downtown Detroit.

meeeeetch,

Ford was, based on the behavior of the Reagan, W Bush, and Trump administrations, entirely wrong to pardon Nixon. There is no reason to repeat his mistake.

meeeeetch,

Now that it’s considered it a slur, we can expect huge increase in its use on the platform, right?

meeeeetch,

You’re definitely paying for legality and safety, but when you have to search through five different streaming apps to find that the movie you’re looking for can only be rented via yet another service, the convenience becomes debatable.

meeeeetch,

In case anybody doesn’t already know this, the Chamber of Commerce is a non-governmental organization of private (and also publicly traded) business owners that just sounds like it’s part of the government.

meeeeetch,

Once they’re under enough pressure, conservative governments will occasionally grant concessions.

meeeeetch,

Worth noting: I was describing Biden as a conservative. The GOP is only conservative in the sense that, whether they realize it or not, they want to conserve the monarchy. Their platform is more radical than your local anarchist collective.

meeeeetch,

Oh, I’ve deactivated any voice activated anything on my phone.

meeeeetch,

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: ‘if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?’ There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

-Kurt Vonnegut

meeeeetch,

Yeah, but when the old world dies without a new one being born, we’ll all yearn for the days of ‘a bit shit’.

meeeeetch,

Not sure where you’re getting that. WV is one of the states with the strictest rules for parents to enroll their kids in school without their immunizations (and a recent attempt to loosen those rules was vetoed).

meeeeetch,

Betrayal is about the only word to accurately describe the historically documented events when Soviet-backed communist troops began firing on non-Soviet-backed communist and anarchist troops in the middle of the civil war.

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Steller’s Jay fits in with the family and makes sure the blue jay doesn’t get lonely

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Best guesses would be the way that Ticketmaster’s site shit the bed when people were buying tickets when the Eras tour kicked off or the way that ticket scalping has grown online

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‘Among Us’ socialism, COINTELPRO.

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