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Teacher! They’re calling me names!!

I can’t draw a horse if I’m looking right at one.

Unlike normal commercial or charter planes, AF1 and AF2 have couches.

Delayed while the parties tried to make sense of the SCOTUS wrench.

Now set for Sept 18, with one more hearing on Sept 6 for final arguments first:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-declines-halt-trumps-sentencing-hush-money-case-2024-08-05/

Small correction since I misread that a bit: The parties are submitting written arguments on whether the conviction should be upheld. The Sept 6 date is when Justice Merchan will rule on those arguments.

Not that I expect a room temperature IQ between the lot of these characters, but somebody, somewhere along the line may have told them this is likely an illegal campaign donation, and the whole story is a pure bullshit publicly stunt. There’s approximately a zero percent chance Trump and his team accepted the “gift” for any longer than it takes to get a few pictures. He’s already forgotten about them, just like every other weirdo that lines up to kiss his ass.

Nope.

First blood draw was just shy of 43yo, and that was for a new life insurance policy, so it was a contract nurse in my own living room.

I have become more familiar with the hospital recently, however.

I didn’t even see it. My brother, unhelpfully, said it had been there a while. We were pretty young, so I never questioned it. Maybe I should have.

• graduated high school and college without ever taking a dedicated biology or chemistry class.
• never broken a bone.
• never stung by a (live) bee (have stepped on a dead one, though).
• can’t say “never” any more, but I was into my 40s before ever having my blood drawn.
• have smelled, but have never even seen marijuana, let alone smoked any.

Laws on the books generally don’t get overturned unless they are specifically mentioned in a court ruling, or there is some action by a legislative body. If you want to be able to buy/sell switchblades, you could challenge the law and see where it goes. But apparently nobody has bothered to take it to court.

“Whereas” sort of makes sense there instead of just “Where,” but even that sounds like someone trying to be formal and missing the mark.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/652015/where-vs-whereas-how-use-each

(Paraphrasing an old comment from the Bad Site)

“Make America Great” would be a fine, if bland slogan. Everybody wants that. It’s not controversial, but also not distinctive in any way.

“Make America Greater than Ever” would be better. The implication being that we can do better, and be better. But they intentionally went with something else.

It seems to me, and as you have identified, that the “Again” is the key part of the phrase that drives the whole narrative. Here’s the kicker: by nearly every objective measure, the country is safer, richer, more equal, and has a better overall quality of life today than at any point in history[1]. The only thing that has significantly declined over the last 40-50 years is “the percentage of total societal influence held by straight white men.”

“Again” is the dog-whistle of misogyny, racism, and homophobia, wrapped up in the plausible deniability of nostalgia for an objectively worse time.

[1] There may be some room for disagreements here, primarily because of the first Trump administration and the pandemic years causing some backsliding, but this was especially true in 2016 when the slogan first really appeared, which is when it should be judged.

IIRC, there was a bug in the race car (F1? Indy?) where if you max out the speed, it would get stuck at that speed no matter what. Then you could take it off any ramp and jump most of the way across the map. Just messing around with the map editor and that car wasted so many weekends for me.

Depends what you were expecting. Cold coffee and warm soda are the same temperature.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Even if he were a natural born citizen, he’d have to live in the US for 14 years first to be eligible.

That’s Washington State in a nutshell.

Tough to tell from a picture alone, but maybe something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/ACROPIX-16-4ft-Universal-Plastic-Optic/dp/B0C7KX1GFL

I was at a friend’s house playing Utopia: The Creation of a Nation on SNES.

He warned me not to save my game, but I blanked and did anyway. Apparently there was only one save slot, so I overwrote all his previous work. There’s not really anything to fess up to here, since he was sitting right there giving me the most what the fuck look a teenager can give. But for the record, I’m still sorry 30 years later, Rick.

He followed up a few days later, having continued my game, and the aliens absolutely fucked up my (our) colony almost immediately the save point. I didn’t even give him a good mid-starting point to begin from.

1. They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.

2. The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.

3. The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.

“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”