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Ooh. Finally some artistic talent.

How could it be ruined for Trump. Army is paid to be there. MAGA will come. Violence would please him.

I’d say that Pence had a backbone, an ethical belief system, and political knowledge. I didn’t agree with him, but I feel he was trustworthy. Vance, not so much.

Medicaid and Medicare and the ACL help a huge number of citizens. Planned Parenthood helps a huge number of citizens. Having neighborhood health centers helps citizens. Having traumatized women who have had miscarriages pursued by law inforcement will not help these women. SNAP feeds children. Headstart helps children do better in life. Tuition loan reimbursement helps people move on, buy houses, earn money to pay for tuition for their own children. Sadly, though, time moves on. Steel jobs are not coming back to the rust belt in great numbers, a lot of the jobs moved to the south and southwest before they ‘moved overseas’. If AI uses Pennsylvania as it’s energy hub, it will do so at the expense of the health of the people that live there. Increasing coal mining jobs, the same. The country needsd federal programs that specialize in things like disaster relief, because disasters help all over and without warning. Having immigrants enriching our population and culture, hey, especially scientists and technologists and doctors, really benefits our citizens. So, yes, there are a lot of people who are dead ended, in some way, and i’m sorry, and we should try to help them. Many do end up being helped by things like snap and medicaid and welfare, when they need it. But someone like Trump is not going to wave their hand and make their farm profitable and Trumps tariffs have already stopped the development of new factories in places like Erie Pennsylania, so not helping with that either. In other words, poor person scraping along in small town in an area with few prospects, this isn’t helping them, and it is taking away the few things that did help.

I’d like to insert, here, that ‘son X’ was not being shown fatherly love when he was displayed on the teevees. On at least one occasion Musk wandered away and forgot him, and we know now that Musk was using drugs. X’s mother objected to his being displayed. X will likely object to this when he gets older. I assume, unlike a president’s child, that he hasn’t the security and because Musk is rich, is potentially in danger of kidnapping, so having him displayed in this way is irresponsible. Some of Musk’s adult children have called him an abusive, bad parent. The boy was being used as a prop, and no attention was being paid to him otherwise. That said, having the child in the same room as Trump, in front of television cameras, doesn’t indicate Trump isn’t a pedophile. I don’t think there is any indication that ‘grandpa trump’ was babysitting, or has any interest in very young children. Musk is pushing Vance for president. This will not be better. Trump doesn’t actually have an agenda or beliefs, beyond keeping up a smokescreen so no one will notice what an incredible loser he really is. Vance does have things he wants to do to us, and it isn’t pretty.

Yes robot clones get a stage of cancer that indicates their cloning order. Stage 1 clone. Stage 2 clone. Stage 9…at least nine Biden clones. Trump is onto (or on) something.

Word salad. But if he says it he has to double down on it, a version of ‘if you piss on it, you own it’. At this point I think there isn’t much worse than what is going on and going to happen. Standing ip to it is the only respectable thing. It isn’t going to go back to pre January.

I’m sure Biden is ignoring this and also expected it. I hope they told him he was a robot clone, though.

This is an area where having a strong federal government can help. It can set guidelines, boundaries, in the relationships between people and their insurance companies. It can mandate continued care while things are worked out. It can protect people from predatory companies.

Welcome back. i personally don’t care. Women being unable to get healthcare in emergencies, travel , disabled people are being denied medical care and children are starving, personal information potentially being released, and so on, the things we are talking about, are horrible. We are observing (as someone ine the WaPo mentioned, the suicide of a superpower. We are beind diminished as we speak, as a nation and as a nation with a future. America is being made into a total loser and its resources are being blown on tasteless things like that parade. Which is also kind of an i sult to the army. this was not happening under Biden. So, frankly, don’t care. He wasn’t running against Trump in the last election. Old news. I’m sure it will be sorted eventually. It is another bread and circus distraction for you and something to sooth 47s ego.

Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban https://wapo.st/3FAhVv6 quote The proclamation, slated to go into effect June 9, fully restricts and limits the entry of individuals from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also partially restricts the entry of individuals from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. “We will restore the travel ban, some people call it the Trump travel ban, and keep the radical Islamic terrorists out of our country that was upheld by the Supreme Court,” Trump said in a statement

July 4 …..

That is why it is a ‘big beautiful bill’. Individual bills wouldn’t get passed. Same thing with project 2025. So big no one knows what is in it. Heh. heh. Heh.

I actually disagree about Dollhouse. I also disagree about Whedon. He personally may have been a bad and abusive show runner but that does not mean there isn’t huge and important meaning in the exploration of the feelinfa and motivations of abused and abusive people. It is a psychological drama, not an inspirational one, and about things I feel most people step over without examining.

It isn’t religious liberty. It is control.

I lurked on TWoP for Buffy and Angel. I honestly don’t remember if I was a member.

https://broligarchy.substack.com/ How to Survive the Broligarchy Girl power vs Tech bros By Carole Cadwalladr TIL about this woman when Jon Stewart interviewed her only the Daily Show. One horrifying thing she said was that the Big Beautiful Bill has a provision where congress will not legislate AI for ten years if passed we are doomed

It is the. Internet address and there are multiple ways to hide that from people. On Usenet I encountered one person who had a whole sock drawer filled with of puppets and they bickered and collaborated. It was an entire puppet play. i am considerably more tolerant of trolls and people I don’t agree with than, apparently most people. I don’t like the idea of messages disappearing and would prefer that at least a marker were left so I would know if censorship was happening. May be just me.

I’d hink they would pressure the teachers and jobs would be dependent on teaching things that the kids can be quizzed in. So, yes, a teacher could avoid it without doing anything they wouldn’t normally do, but I would bet they would get fired. Also I think this was social studies.

https://apple.news/A9WxTsk6ISnKwamcBKL0Rhw Oklahoma to require schools to teach Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories Updated 1:29 am EDT May. 23, 2025 Oklahoma's public school history teachers will soon be required to teach the disproved conspiracy theory that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election from President Donald Trump. Advancing Trump's debunked claims about his 2020 presidential election loss on young people is one of many changes made by State Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters, including requiring bibles in every classroom. The new curriculum also removed a prior proposal for lessons about George Floyd's murder and Black Lives Matter, and teaches as fact the hotly contested theory that COVID-19 emerged from a lab leak. ————— i just cannot.

https://apple.news/AkIUcx5EbSVqdw7TjtEOHpw Elon Musk's Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning His “departure” from the government is anything but. Quote: Elon’s really not leaving. Trump himself said so. It isn’t just Trump, though. Vice President JD Vance has said more or less the same thing. So has Musk. The real reason that he’s “leaving” (or “quiet quitting”) is that he has spent the last four months as a “special government employee,” a distinction with a 130-day time limit. Were he to continue working in the same capacity, he would be required by federal law to fill out certain financial and ethical disclosures that he is currently exempted from as an SGE. Given his vast fortune (and lack of ethics), Musk does not want to do this and therefore has no choice but to “step back.” It’s undoubtedly true that he has taken more of a backseat in recent weeks, particularly as his popularity has plummeted, but there’s no reason to believe that he’s cutting all ties with Trump. DOGE, meanwhile, is very much still ticking. Musk is, as Trump said, just “gonna be back and forth. Trumps death won’t make it better. Hope he is discredited completely.

I don’t need to ‘watch the show’ because what I pointed out was that of a democrat says something I disagree with, I disagree with it. your argument was a nonstarter, and I was not the inly person you askedbif they had ‘watched the show. ‘ I think the trans athlete thing is a very small non issue, even if it were absolutely true that there was a slight measurable difference. It is so rare. Also the outrage is targeting children. So stop targeting children. You are right that we make assumptions, I would assume you are a middle to older aged white woman, probably blue collar but with a college education, but you could be an 18 year old gay black boy trolling us. I will not know. But yes, it is hard not to make assumptions about each other’s lives and circumstances. On this group it does not seem to be nasty, just wording.

I was having difficulty interpreting that. Boy. He watched some black and white ‘50s sci fi last night. Also that picture is from three decades ago.

Cate is working for the enemy, i think. I eonder if Sam is still a psychopath? May have worn off?

Yes, but I feel he is not living up to expectations. For one thing his hillbilly elegy may have made it look like he would have a broader appeal. Well, time will tell.