...all I'm saying is Charles Manson spent a lot of years behind bars and didn't explicitly order specific harms...just a friendly suggestion on how to get the world going in his direction from a few loyal fans.
And again ooo-la-nope.
Man, piles kindling, pours gasoline, throws match: be a good little fire and only burn peacefully
I'm just over here tweeting how @donlemon drinks on NYE.
The worst part of all this tomfuckery is you all KNOW those Senators voting to undermine democracy today are hoping that they can carve off their own treason tribe that will storm DC for them.
Those yahoos making statements against this have a bit of green envy it's not for them
Me, looking at aggregate Twitter comments: the prevailing criticism tonight is *checks notes* he's a total douche that incites violence and likes to force himself on people and countries.
The "right time" to impeach him was immediately following the racist and harmful ban on freedom of travel to and from Muslim countries, or at least the ones he doesn't do business with.
I really hope these public servants were given a crack at vaccination before anyone in that building not physically cleaning up the shattered glass of our democracy.
Folks act like they are sneaking out after an ill-conceived 80s-style panty raid organized by the local frat after a rousing kegger, not walking away from ashes after they've set fire to democracy.
It's not political hijinks, it's crowd-sourced arson.⤵️
After man shows up at ex's house repeatedly threatening her with a variety of weapons and realizes finally that the chainsaw didn't cut down the door quite right, he says it's probably fine if she wants to date someone else and no PFA is needed.
Perhaps, like those who "lost" the south, they will get a few racist statutes around town to remind everyone of their greatness - we all should pay tribute to consequence-free sedition.
...at least that's what an awful lot of low-fact history books say.
No officer, I don't know why a man I picked up at the laundromat, seduced repeatedly, gave a gun to, and told to kill my husband so we could be together killed my husband.
After all, Garth wouldn't do it, so why would he think that's what I was asking?
Peculiar to see a member of Congress be so oblivious to market forces and self-created consequences...after all, isn't he a beacon of legislation supporting personal responsibility?
My DMs tell me that I look like I'm not ok from this thread. ⤵️
I am not ok.
This is not ok.
But it isn't just this series of events...it's that this series of events comes from years of escalation and lack of enforcement, and by all appearances will be followed by the same.
We are at a point where our governance is run by elected officials that increasingly are caricatures of positions, not legislators doing the work.
Getting into office is a measure of fundraising, favors, and platitudes - being in office is increasingly extended campaigning.
The percent of legislators who act like reality show contestants is not insignificant; the amount of legislators we have that will vote for a bill they haven't read is approximately 100%.
Our legislators are in the same club, divided in two distinctly different screwed up clubs.
9: you have had this for 50 years and never opened it?
M: closer to 20 years
9: daaaad, mom has a secret hidden pizza stone
M: it's called "putting it away"
Our boys are in the recycle bin pretending to be prairie dogs.
Very, very loud and giggly prairie dogs.
Our house has a lovely sense of balance.
For example, the amount of time required to get one of our children into the bath is approximately the same amount of time required to get said child out of the bath.
Why I think income limits on any cash infusions to the economy are a bad idea, a thread.
It seems like those who are pro means test don't understand how insane submitting paperwork to the government is, the bureaucracy the government is, or the staffing that this requires.
I get that it seems wrong to give people who have money more money.
There are ways to tackle someone who didn't "deserve" stimulus on the backside with taxes, etc...for the folks who truly don't "deserve" it, many will donate, and this will be a negligible amount of $.
There also aren't all that many of those people.
I think many *drastically* overestimate the stability of our middle class, the degree to which it is leveraged, and how many people it really is.
A lot of our middle class has cash flow, but not long-term liquidity. I digress.
Watching the treatment of the women in the presidential race, particularly @ewarren is exhausting, deeply painful, and fills me with a resignation cum hulk rage that could derail a freight train.
I ran for office for the first time in 2018. I knew I had a few hits against me as a relative unknown and an independent. I'm also a very private person and had virtually no social media presence at the start.
I know that being deliciously boring can cut either way.
I'm also a functional attorney with 4 degrees, at least moderately good on my toes in a debate, generally reasonable, and not prone to tin foil hats.
Maine is a fairly egalitarian state full of women with moxie; I had no clue how vivid and pervasive misogyny still was.