And Project 2025’s solution is to take down local city councils.
05.08.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@dystopos.bsky.social
Personal account of the founder/publisher of Bhamwiki. Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things. (Distopos with an “i” at the old place.)
And Project 2025’s solution is to take down local city councils.
05.08.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I also like to surprise people with a circumflex flex.
05.08.2025 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AFL & NFL to be contextually-specific.
05.08.2025 14:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In B’ham’s case they’ve already established through bickering over min. wages that cities exist “at the will of the legislature”.
There’s also the suggestion (by Kevin Roberts) for GOP state governments to de-charter their more liberal capital cities and manage them as “state municipal districts.”
George Wallace is credited for regretting his stances, which he had greedily adopted by seizing the ring of racism’s power from John Patterson.
Thing is, I’m not here to judge his soul. Let us faithfully describe his use of power, and let his actions speak for themselves.
At least one of which will now need to represent at least two minority constituencies.
05.08.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Proportionally reducing the overall board by 25% and the reserved seats by 40%.
05.08.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0* perhaps by drinking too much Shelby County corn
05.08.2025 12:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you were to line up the 3 branches of the US government and the 3 branches of Alabama’s government, and rank them by their achievements for the good of Alabama, the federal courts raced out well in front in the mid-20th century and are only recently* beginning to stumble over their own feet.
05.08.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0By gum, you’ve cracked it.
05.08.2025 11:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What if it’s “crooks” who just happen to also be conservatives with crypto companies?
05.08.2025 03:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Only if they’re married.
The sex I mean.
Weed’s still a no-no.
Pretty nice waterfall tho!
05.08.2025 03:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Am I remembering the Harlem Globetrotters and Mama Cass on Gilligan’s Island with the Scooby-Doo gang and maybe Batman?
05.08.2025 03:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.
Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"
Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.
Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"
This is like saying that with the phase-out of buggy whips we won’t be needing tanners any more.
04.08.2025 23:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes!!!! Plenty of people are literally on record about who was there you could simply believe them and care
04.08.2025 18:37 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Or possibly as an inspirational mural for a classroom wall in a struggling school that agrees to adopt a local business-owner’s free-market capitalism curriculum in exchange for him paying the overdue power bills.
04.08.2025 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This would work great as a poorly-engraved frontispiece to a late 19th century crackpot religious manifesto.
04.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0John Denver, to himself:
“I need a phrase to sum up life, but it needs to rhyme with ‘fiddle’.
No… I’ve already used ‘griddle’…”
Among the many things not understood here is the purpose of railings.
04.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My column this week. Alabama officials who want to impose the death penalty for child sexual assault — an inarguably ghastly crime — should look at why SCOTUS banned it in 2008. Not because capital punishment would be bad for abusers, but because it could be bad for victims and abuse reporting.
04.08.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The image could hardly have resulted from an earnest attempt to depict a great American car. Nor could it have survived any review at all if it weren’t intentional. That’s my read.
04.08.2025 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will assume that they fully intended the trolling.
04.08.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I mean, officially it will be Rubio…
04.08.2025 02:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And how did that one work out for the planet?
03.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And why is he so fixated on being “allowed” to do things? It’s almost like he can’t understand any reason to do anything except that “they let you do it.”
03.08.2025 17:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t think the exit lane is as wide as you’d need it to be.
03.08.2025 17:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Impeach the motherfucker.
03.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Shining (by station wagon)
Die Hard (by white-knuckler)
The Terminator (by time travel)