This past summer, I too was asked if I had voted for Trump by a local couple in Dingle.
Fortunately, unlike here, I didn’t need to spend a minute prevaricating.
When they replied positively to my answer, it was a _highlight_ of my trip.

I.e., it has some sort of illegitimate purpose.

Picked this up after Chris Hayes interviewed the author a couple months back. As a player of games and hater of corporate metrics, it’s very insightful. And it’s leading me towards an understanding of the games our White House is playing.
#ChrisHayes

It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Southerly" by Jorge Consiglio, translated by Cherilyn Elston

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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Yeah. Hope y’all could tell that I meant that the canaries were the smallest part of that problem.

MAGA: But what about the birds? Wind turbines = bird cemeteries!

Reasonable person: What about all those canaries the miners take down into the mines? What happens to those birds?

MAGA: . . .

Who up donning they Juan?

Please don’t tell us they’re drinking Coors instead of Red Stripe, Jack Daniel’s instead of rum?

It says something when your leaders resemble the villains more than the heroes.

Some fine day, the news comes in
That Satan, with his orange skin
Is asleep,
It won’t be long
When that man is dead & gone.

Meat yogurt?
Hard pass. I’ll stay home from that party.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“And are you claiming any dependents?”

This year’s Mona Lisa.

I’ve been searching for this quote for decades—heard it from a documentary on Baldwin (PBS station, 1985ish). Can anyone tell me where this quotation is from?

Post your icicles.
#icicles

Amen.

A follow-up to Burns’ red rose poem?
#smallpoemsunday

So, no weekly screenings of the Melania movie?

There were depictions and images of DEATH? Holy heck! What’s the DOJ (not) doing?!
…physical abuse, injury, child pornography aside…

Sorry to keep harping on this, but maybe he’s saying that the other things one should bring to a peaceful protest are:
Hockey sticks
Bear spray
Zip ties
Hunting knives
Nooses (and a gallows)
Face paint and/or shaman headdress

Don’t forget your billboard!

Dare we say, a “perfect phone call”?

Glad Tim W is expressing confidence that things are on the right track.

Trying to figure out what street corner this is. Don’t tell me! I’ll get it eventually.

More Wilpo snow.

Shut up.
As others have said, camo-wearing conservatives tote their sidearms when shopping for groceries. Hypocrites.
(“Have you ever been to a farmer’s market, Scott Bessant? No? I have. I don’t bring a gun. I bring my fund-raiser tote bags.”)

“There will be a robust and comprehensive investigation…”
Of whom? His parents?

Does this woman even watch the videos before she opens her mouth?
(Rhetorical question. Obviously.)

That’s not a penguin. That’s
* JD Vance
* Marco Rubio
* Greg Bovino
(Take your pick. They’re all short.)

So these guys had no problem disrupting this kind of worship service?

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