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Pfft, walmart.

Conservative men think the clitoris is a hoax.

“It’s not our problem, the Liberals did it, and it’s a hoax anyway” - MAGA

I thought it was an "Excursion?" Which was really one of those things where Trump got it wrong, and everybody around him is pretending that it's perfectly normal. Obviously, they were in a meeting early in the War, and trying to do that old trick where you try to convince the citizens that we aren't really in a War, it's only a "Police Action," or a "Peacekeeping Mission," etc. in this case, they suggested they call it an "Incursion," but since Trump is virtuosically ignorant, and has never heard that word, and doesn't know what it means, he called it an "Excursion," and then embarked on multiple explanations of how it's not a war, it's just a little trip through their country. All because he doesn't know what Incursion means, so he confabulated a new word for war, and those around him, including the media, are afraid to correct him. I'd love the opportunity to ask him "Why do keep saying Excursion? Is it because you don't what Incursion means, so you just substituted a word you do know?"

Valid.

Who would have thought that the lesson that the Jews would take from the Holocaust was "Pay It Forward?"

There should be no circumstance that $5.15 should be legal. There should be no circumstance where $7.25 should be legal, either.

Who? They all go by nicknames, usually related to their dick size, like Tiny, or Donkey Dick.

The a Federal Minimum Wage has been raised twice since 1997, the last time in 2009, for a total of $2.10. It currently stands at $7.25 an hour. 20 states are still at the Federal Minimum Wage, or LESS, with some at $5.15, and Oklahoma as low as $2.

Back when 3D printers were brand-new, I was at a college event where the Engineering Club had one on display. I stopped to watch it, and spoke with the kid who had built it. He was a Freshman, and had built it during the previous summer, because he wanted to come to college and make an instant splash in the Engineering Department. He certainly succeeded, because he was the one in the booth that everybody wanted to talk to, while the upperclassmen that hadn't accomplished anything, sat in the back of the booth and glowered at the Freshman upstart. So anyway, if they ban them, we'll just build them.

Don't forget the Flood story where he killed nearly entire human race, and numerous other tales of death and destruction (Sodom & Gommorrah, Jericho, etc.). The God described in the Bible is a monster.

You know how Republicans always said the government was broken, and they wanted to run it so they could break it even more, and prove how bad the government is, and how correct they are? This is the predictable outcome of that attitude.

Unfortunately, we would probably get stuck with the first one, which wouldn't be much of an evolutionary improvement.

Yeah, what's going on inside there?

I'm glad you two monsters found each other. I hope your kids grow up to love giraffes.

No Pants is one of the advantages of being a giraffe. It's one of the first rules.

Like the captions under those generic photos you see in corporate conference rooms. Which ones? Who knows, they all look the same.

Years ago, I was building out a retail shop, and hired a guy to help me do the drywall, and he turned out to be semi-homeless. He did a good job, got paid, and we parted. A few months later, he called me because he had a big spool of copper wire, and wondered if I wanted to buy it. I had no use for a spool of copper wire, so I declined the offer, but I appreciated having first dibs.

It's hard to reach orgasm if the phone is ringing constantly. He can't keep you from cheating, but he can keep you from enjoying it.

This was porn in the days before photography

Anyone who works a job they hate for a boss they hate, for not enough money, is the same as any prostitute. They should stop being so judgemental.

That give you 14 days to devote to a different Sociopathic Oligarch. The fact that you aren't, makes me sick. Those Sociopathic Oligarchs deserve your back-breaking labor, they have expensive lifestyles, and it's your patriotic obligation to indulge them, and work until you die an early, penniless death from a malady that is easily treatable with basic health care that you can't afford.

This is what your brain does when the public school sysyem has been prohibited from teaching Critical Thinking Skills.

You should work hard every day of your life to make your boss wealthier. It's the American dream.

I mean the platforms suggestions for what their algorithm thinks you'll like. My son's suggestions look a lot different from mine. I'd like to see some of those kinds of suggestions on mine (mostly classic films), but I get lots of junk, so I end up watching junk, so it recommends more junk. I want to get off this treadmill, and in to a different one.

Yeah, he usually explains it, because that's how you know it's a good joke - when you have to explain it.

A lot more people make money than the top 1%. The top 1% make big money, but many more may not make a fortune, but it’s a legit side hustle for them. Get into the right niche, and you can do VERY well.

I go to my son’s house, and start browsing through his streamers, and he’s got all kinds of stuff I never see. They keep me boxed into the algorithm they’ve assign d to me, and wont let me see anything else, so I keep picking from their choices for me, which only locks me harder into their box.

You don't appreciate his 90s cutting edge observational humor about airline travel and unusual foods and whatnot and suchlike?

2026 - Deported

It's those liberal A-rabs.

Someone is off their meds. >Your degree is in HIS-story HIS being the prefix you're choosing to use. Imagine thinking that this is a valid argument - that "choosing" to use the world History makes me sexist, because history has His in it, so I must accept all the sexist stereotypes that have occured in HIS-tory. Or maybe I'm sexist because I won't call it Herstory? >The word history originates from the Ancient Greek historia, meaning "inquiry," "knowledge acquired by investigation," or "account of one's inquiries". So you see, the word history has nothing to do with gender, just because it has the letters H-I-S in it. It isn't derived from anything to do with gender or sex, and trying to attach those meanings to it thousands of years after the fact isn't just poor scholarship, it's the sign of a really STUPID person. I've got an idea, let's change the subject, and argue about whether antiHIStamines are Lesbian, and if men should be allowed to take them. Oh, yeah, I just can't let that last one go. How does acknowledging that the Union Army was 90% white, a simple historical fact, imply that I wanted the South to win? That was obviously some attempt at an insult, but it didn't work. You're telling me what you think I need to work on, so I'll suggest that you really need to learn about Critical Thinking Skills. Because you don't have any, and I doubt that you've ever been heard the term.

Nothing I said was wrong, and you didn't even attempt to dispute it. You just went straight to calling me names because I pointed out the simple historical fact that an enormous army of primarily white soldiers was the primary driver of the end of slavery. I acknowledged that slaves and black soldiers helped, but it is simply an historical fact that the war wasn't ended by a General Strike (which may not even have really happened, it was just one person's characterization of the situation), it was ended by the overwhelming might of the Union Army, which was 90% white. Sorry if the truth makes you uncomfortable. You are a shallow thinker who doesn't understand that pointing out actual historical facts that don't align with your 21st century ideologies doesn't make me sexist or racist, just accurate. Your insistence that I'm sexist and racist is ignorant, and silly. Besides, where did you get Sexist from? We were talking about slavery, so I could see where a confused person could somehow fall back on a racist label, but sexist? That wasn't part of the discussion in any way. That was just you piling on to someone you've decided to hate simply because they repeated a truth that makes you uncomfortable. You're the one spewing the bigotry, not me. Maybe YOU should work on THAT.

Well, I tried to be respectful, and offer facts as my reply, but this one is a special kind of self-righteous dickhead.

>Du Bois wrote that, as Union forces marched through the South, enslaved laborers escaped plantations, presenting themselves at army camps to join the fight. https://daily.jstor.org/did-black-rebellion-win-the-civil-war/ So even DuBois, who was the first to characterize the initial liberation of the slaves as a General Strike, acknowledged that the "General Strike" was preceded by the encroaching Union Army encouraging them. They were already essentially free. Walking off the plantation was just the slaves claiming their new status as free people. A General Strike implies organization, and that wasn't strictly true. They didn't plan for it, set a date, etc. When the Army got close, and everybody knew the region was inevitably going to fall, they walked off the job. If the Northern Army hadn't shown up, would those slaves had done a General Strike on their own? Of course not, any "General Strike" was only as a result of the approaching army, and the recognition that the end was imminent anyway. This wasn't a General Strike, it was just the end of slavery. It's like characterizing the closing of a company as a General Strike. It isn't a strike, and all the workers walked off the job, the factory just closed, and everybody lost their jobs.

No, I have a degree in history. I prefer facts to vibes. The simple truth is that slavery was ended by the Civil War, with a Union Army that was 10% black soldiers, and 90% white soldiers. That's just a simple fact, from our National Archives. It isn't revisionist history to acknowledge that slavery was ended primarily through the deaths of white soldiers, and pointing that out doesn't make me a white savior. I have also heavily studied Critical Race Theory, and think it should be taught at a high school level in America. I think we could go a long way in educating Americans about the true and significant contributions of black Americans, but that doesn't require making up new facts that support our personal fantasies. That's MAGA thinking.

It's not revisionist at at all. In fact you partially agreed with me, that WHITE abolitionists were prime agents of ending slavery. Slavery ended IN PART because the slaves resisted, but it's revisionist history to pretend that the enormous Civil War that killed millions of Americans, mostly white, didn't play the most major role in the end of slavery. There wasn't a single American slave revolt that contributed substantially to the end of slavery. When Union armies started encroaching on Southern territory, slaves abandoned their posts, and headed to Northern lines, but it wasn't anything organized. DuBois characterized it as a General Strike, but it was really just the slaves taking advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime. There was no organized revolt, no General Strike, just individual motivation to escape while it was possible. Sure, the Union Army was fighting to preserve the Union, but they were also well aware that the ONLY issue that was dividing the Union was slavery. Literally every Southern Constitution, and the Confederate Declaration of Independence made it very clear that their single issue was slavery. Without Slavery, there is no Civil War. And without the mostly white Union Army, the South would have continued with slavery.

Slavery didn't end because the slaves revolted. It ended because white people fought to abolish it. The North could have allowed the South to continue on as a separate nation with slaves, but they insisted the Confederacy remain with the Union, AND end slavery. Often the downtrodden need those in power to use that power to fight for them.

It would be funny if the ground crew met them with masks: "Uh, guys, a funny thing happened while you were on the Dark Side of the Moon..."

He's lucky he got a warning. He should not push that luck.

Valid. It is a useful tool, to be employed in the proper circumstances, to achieve a specific objective. Unfortunately, these MAGA Morons have no idea what any of that means. Violence is just "Wicked Cool!" to them.

Guy was about 20 years late for Susan Smith.

Don't take cookies from strangers.

I once bought a house with two pear trees, and I quickly learned to pick up any fruit that dropped on the ground. The juice would ferment under the skin, and yellow jackets would pierce the skins, and get drunk. Then they’d chase me around the yard when I tried to work in my big organic vegetable garden. It turns out, yellow jackets are mean drunks, but that’s probably not a surprise.

The real one was far worse.

The Free Market in action. If you keep behaving in conflict with the people, eventually the people are going to stop it. Ask that health care CEO. This was a threat this time. It won't be a threat next time. This guy is a politician, and a constituent is telling him the position he should take. He should do his job, and listen to his constituent.

I used to watch the three network Sunday Morning politics shows, but now I skip CBS, and watch something else like PBS. CBS is no longer a news station, any more than Fox News or the National Enquirer.

All perfectly reasonable, mature ways of handling the problem. People are going to scoff and say it won’t happen, but if we keep saying that we expect our elected officials to do nothing, that is exactly what they’ll do. Politicians are lazy, and if you give them permission to do nothing, they’ll happily oblige, and get back to their insider trading. We are in unprecedented times, and we will require unprecedented solutions. It will be up to us to insist that it happen, or else. Stop letting them off the hook.