To be fair, the plan to kill children is still under review. š
Michael Beschloss on MSNBC warns America is just "six days away" from the end of democracy, historians, and the rule of law. And the start of a brutal GOP dictatorship in which our children could be "arrested and conceivably killed." https://t.co/4kFJuORA8r via @mediaite pic.twitter.com/SPByfPIV1k
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) November 3, 2022
You Never Have to Apologize Forā¦
1. Removing someone from your life that repeatedly crosses your boundaries. ~Bonnie Romano
2. Being who we are, and feeling our feelings. ~Courtney Redd-Boynton
3. Trusting your instincts, even if you canāt explain it. ~Kate Willette
4. We should never apologize if weāre not truly sorry. I donāt believe in apologizing because someone ādemandsā an apology. ~Olga Baez Rivera
5. Quality āmeā time (taking care of ourselves). ~Nath Ray
6. Your opinionāthere is no right or wrong opinion, and thereād be a lot less arguments if more people could just respect and appreciate different insights. ~Jennifer Werner Mader
7. Standing up for what you believe in. ~Michelle Galyon-Stallings
8. Living life the way we choose to, regardless of fitting in with other peopleās norms. ~Tanya Johns Emery
9. Making decisions about your own future that donāt do any harm to anyone. No one should be made to feel guilty for trying to better themselves. ~Rebecca Killeen
10. You shouldnāt have to apologize for how you feel. You may need to apologize for how you act on your feelings, but never for being hurt, angry, sad, etc., and expressing how you feel. Thereās a difference. ~NathanArisa Ferree
11. Being sensitive. I feel my feelings and I believe itās hurtful when individuals are quick to tell someone to āget over it.ā If we arenāt harming anyone, we all deserve to process our feelings in our own time frame and manner. ~Lori Mitchell
12. For being protective of our children and trusting our instincts as parentsāespecially when theyāre not yet capable of advocating for themselves. ~Amitola Rajah
13. Having to grieve. Some people think there is a time limit or a timeframe. It could take a lifetime to accept someone we love passing away. ~Lisa Marie
14. Speaking the truth. It aināt always pleasant, but better to know whatās really in someoneās heart than be fake! ~Kiran Sohi
15. Speaking up when someone has hurt us in some way. ~Karin Alberga
16. Fighting for the rights of animals. ~Linda Leppington
17. Taking a break and doing absolutely nothing for ten minutes. ~Christina Teresa
18. Being a free thinker and questioning everything even when itās not the popular thing to do. ~Kathy Gildersleeve Wesley
19. Choosing what you think is best for your life. ~Kay West
20. Apologizing too much. ~Lori Deschene
My first thought on the Paul Pelosi hammer attack story was that it had to be fake.
First, is it possible that the Speaker of the House doesn’t have the minimal level of security needed to prevent her husband from being assaulted in their own home?
Second, I’m pretty certain that an 82-year-old man would not survive a battle against me and a hammer. I haven’t had any practice at it but that’s the point. How many hammer blows to the skull can an 82-year-old survive? I’d put the over-under at one.
Paul Pelosi was heard to say after the attack, “My goddamn congressperson better do something about the level of crime in this city . . . oh, wait . . .”
Third, “Democrats” and “violent crime” are becoming synonymous as midterm elections approach, so maybe there would be a way to find a high-profile story linking Republicans and violent crime.
Media and Democrats are pushing what would seem to be a plausible theory, i.e., that the assailant was an Ultra-MAGA Republican, hammer-wielding maniac, and not just another drug-addled San Francisco psycho:
New: In the months before police accused him of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosiās husband, David DePape had been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, antisemitism and hate, according to a Times review of his online accounts.https://t.co/XUuGfgOkux
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 28, 2022
Michael Shellenberger actually looked into the man and found that he is in fact a psychotic addict whose home — or more accurately, homeless encampment — features a Black Lives Matter sign and an LGBT flag with a marijuana symbol, accessories not usually found at the homes of unhinged right-wingers.
I don’t think that’s a good prediction but it’s probably a good idea to make the prediction for the benefit of gullible idiots, aka voters.
How much is loan forgiveness going to cost? $400 billion, something like that? Unless I’m very much mistaken, the president can’t just decide to spend $400 billion without the consent of Congress, which he doesn’t have. That’s not the way the system works.
Time will tell . . .
I saw these on sale at the Minneapolis airport. It’s maybe not obvious from the photo but they’re women’s cut V-neck T-shirts. Feel free to supply your own punch line because I’m not saying anything.
I may be ignorant about crucially important details obviously but it seems like the main problem from Ms. BĆ¼ndchen’s point of view was that her husband had a job.
First, I’m super against divorces for people with minor children. Second, there are just few if any people who are as physically attractive as Tom Brady, have the charisma of Tom Brady, have as much money as Tom Brady, and are as good at their job as Tom Brady. So if she’s thinking she’s going to upgrade her spouse, she’s almost certainly deluded or getting bad advice.
On the other side, I can’t help thinking that Tom Brady would be able to choose from any number of fabulously attractive women to enliven his social life.
No, are you a mental patient? I'd like to retire but can't because my 401(k) cratered and inflation is thru the roof. But keep drinking the Kool-Aid, MFer. https://t.co/K0mPszyWL0
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) October 23, 2022
BREAKING
Spokesperson for Hell disputes Bidenās claim that the U.S. economy is āstrong as hellā
Quote: āData shows Hellās economy is currently much stronger than Americaāsā pic.twitter.com/czwnQAMGCn
— News That Matters (@ThatmattersNews) October 17, 2022
Last night a POC tried to mug me. I said he was more than welcome to my purse or if interested in we could fool around behind the dumpsters over there.
He ran away. It hurt my feelings but itās proof social workers can handle these crimes. #abolishThePolice
— Dr. Carol X Lunz PhD She/Him,GED Alumni,commentary (@marinasmigielsk) October 21, 2022
If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don’t congratulate yourself on your compassion.
One of my online chess games. White takes a pawn advantage, Black evens, then achieves a winning position, bungles it but wins on time (1+2 bullet game). Some annotations below . . .
8. …Be7 (8. …cxd5?? 9. Qxa8)
10. Ba4 White is up a pawn but Black is fine.
13. …Qxe3+ In hindsight, I like 13. …Nxb3 better. The actual move I think gives White a small edge,
29. Rf2? (29. f4 is a better way to block the Black bishop.)
39. c5? (39. Rc5 puts more pressure on the Black pawns.)
40. Kf2? (40. Kg2 looks better.)
40. …Rb2+? (Not as good as 40. …g4.)
43. …fxg4 Black has a winning position.
45. …h3?? Black wins with either 45. …Kh7 or 45. …Rc1+.
White had 23 seconds left here but just ran out the clock. It seems counterintuitive but White can draw even two pawns down here with any rook move that doesn’t actually lose the rook.
For example, 46.Rb8 Rxc7 47.Rb4 Rc1+ 48.Kh2 Rc2+ 49.Kh1 and Black has no way to force a win.
āWhen you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.ā
Thomas Sowell.?Anna DevĆs & Daniel Rueda pic.twitter.com/do0UwAY2s5
— Cecilia Qui (@CeciliaQui1) October 14, 2022
One of my online chess games. More like an 8-move Vienna Game, since Black’s 8th move leads to a forced mate in 2. Some annotations below . . .
4. …exd4? (4. …Bxd4 would prevent White’s next move.)
5. …Bd6?? (5. …d6)
7. Qg4 (7. Qxd4 is also good.)
7. …g6? (7. …Kf8 would be better for reasons that will soon become clear.)
8. …Ne7??
There’s nothing that Rachel Dolezal (who still self-identifies as black, btw) could post on OnlyFans that would induce me to pay money to see it, but if you disagree then it’s your lucky day, because her nude photos have been leaked on social media.
The success of OnlyFans has always puzzled me given the quantity of free pornography (so I’ve heard) available online, and obviously even OnlyFans content can turn up for free.
Latest inflation report came out today (BLS is the Bureau of Labor Statistics):
Annual inflation via BLS just out:
42.9% airline fares
33.1% utility gas
30.5% eggs
18.2% gasoline
17.2% chicken
15.7% coffee
15.2% milk
14.7% bread
10.1% furniture
9.2% vegetables
8.2% all items
8.2% fruit
8.1% ham
7.6% women apparel
7.2% used cars
6.7% rent
3.7% men apparel— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 13, 2022
Core inflation excludes energy and food, so we get to say that inflation is at 8.2%, which is still the highest in 40 years, but most of the items on that list are energy and food, and many are a lot higher than 8.2%, so the 8.2% number doesn’t do justice to the enormity of current inflation.
Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein said this:
What the president said was that a recession is far from inevitable and I think what he was referring to there is the strength of our job market. Look, you just donāt have a recession when you have a 3.5 percent unemployment rate adding hundreds of thousands of jobs per month. Thatās just completely inconsistent with recession.
We’re actually already in a recession, defined by experts as two consecutive quarters of declining GDP, but Democrats have at least temporarily redefined the word “recession” to mean something else.
Don’t worry, the next time we have two consecutive quarters of declining GDP in a Republican administration, the definition will go back to the way it was before.
Adding jobs is an anomaly. We lost about 20 million jobs during the COVID pandemic and so far we’ve got about 10 million of them back. So we’re not really adding new jobs. We’re just regaining jobs that we used to have but lost.
The 3.5 percent unemployment number puzzles me. I can’t say it’s wrong but we’re far from regaining all of the pandemic job losses and the industry that I work in, which is technology, has had a lot of layoffs this year.
Tech companies with recent layoffs include Oracle, Intel, Spotify, DocuSign, Twilio, Patreon, Snap, Better.com, Meta, Apple, HBO Max, Microsoft, Groupon, Robinhood, Shopify, Vimeo, TikTok, Twitter, Netflix and Carvana.
In non-tech layoff news:
Walmart has begun to lay off corporate employees, the company confirmed Wednesday, about a week after it slashed its profit outlook and warned that consumers had pulled back on discretionary spending due to inflation. — cnbc.com
I could go on with this but I think we both get the point. Are they double-counting people with more than one job? Because there are currently a record number of Americans working more than one full-time job.
Have people just dropped out of the job market entirely? You don’t get counted as unemployed if you’re not actually trying to find a job. According to nymag.com, 1 million people dropped out of the workforce in just one month earlier this year. So that helps the unemployment numbers.
By the way, does anyone have $5,000 they can loan me for groceries this week?
I’m seeing that the White House is now taking credit for declining gas prices:
I remember the whole time that gas prices were going up to record levels, President Biden was referring to it as “the Putin price hike” or blaming it on COVID, however that was supposed to make sense, while his sycophants kept repeating that “presidents don’t control gas prices.”
But he does want to take credit when prices go down.
Unfortunately, his timing was a little off because gas prices are going up again. Prices where I live in California had come down to less than $5.50 a gallon but then shot up about a dollar seemingly overnight.
This is what our prices look like today:
I thought maybe World Was III had started when I wasn’t paying attention.
Woman’s body found in Santa Clarita clothes donation box — msn.com
Maybe she didn’t understand that you’re supposed to remove the clothes before putting them in the box.
Actually, she was stuck in the donation slot so it seems more likely that she was there to collect (i.e., steal) the donations.
New Kanye West tee:
I like it. To me it makes more sense to say that either all lives matter or no lives matter. I wouldn’t break it down by group, but I still like it.
Yes or no: is MAGA the most dangerous movement in modern American history?
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) October 6, 2022
Yes! We must continue Biden’s historic progress on GDP, inflation, stock market, crime, border security, energy independence, foreign policy, supply chain, etc. etc.
