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22 May

Priceless.

In case you're wondering, Emily Miller was the Assistant Commissioner for Media Affairs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Trump Reich in August of last year, a position she held for exactly one scaramucci.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_J._…

I think the best part is how Miller thought she dragged Fugelsang by saying he "mocked" her people. As if that's a bad thing.

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DCPetterson

@dcpetterson

22 May

We now live high in the mountains. We don't have a well. I hope we get one, but the one we tried to drill came up dry.

We have two 1700-gallon cisterns. There's a delightful lady, at least twenty years younger than me, who comes when I ask her to, who hauls water for us.

Her name is Anna.

She has a teenage son, who she is teaching her trade.

She owns a truck that can carry 2000 gallons of water. She fills it in town, and supplies dozens of people like us in the mountains--for a very reasonable fee.

Anna also does repairs on cisterns like mine. She'll clean them when we ask. She installed a long rod in the top of my cistern, that has a float, that will tell me when I need more water.

I've called some big-money services for my cisterns. Anna is more dependable.

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DCPetterson

@dcpetterson

21 May

I wrote this a year ago today. Still true:

Republicans have worked for 40 years to demolish the federal government. In Trump, they found a wrecking ball to accomplish their dreams.

The lack of any sane response to the pandemic is one inevitable and entirely foreseeable result.

Trump is an acute symptom of the disease of Reaganite Fascism. America became infected with this plague the day Ronald Reagan declared, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

Since that day, the GOP has existed for one purpose only: to dismantle "the government".

All Republican propaganda is geared toward that goal:

from maligning "big government" to denying the conclusions of federal scientists;

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DCPetterson

@dcpetterson

21 May

"No sense in restrictions. Crooks will get them anyway," say the gunhumpers.

Odd that won't say that about pot.

Or abortions.

Or ballots, for that matter.

Of course, the problem with guns isn't that crooks can get them. The vast majority of people who shoot other people aren't crooks. They obtained the gun(s) legally and didn't have convictions for anything before they killed someone.

The problem isn't crooks getting guns.

The problem is guns in the hands of, well, everyone.

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DCPetterson

@dcpetterson

7 Apr

Here's a story that's personal and technological and obscure and geeky, and not at all political, until you get to the end. It's also true.

My dad was an industrial engineer. He went to college on the VA's dime, because he was in the National Guard during the Korean War.

1/12

I can hear you. "What's an industrial engineer?" It can be many things, like what they used to call an "efficiency expert." Mostly, it's someone who looks at industrial processes and finds new and better ways to do them.

Dad invented a new kind of screw.

2/12

That doesn't sound like much, but it is a Very Big Deal.

When you think of screws--especially wood screws--you probably think of something like this. It's a nail with threads around it, and a slot (or two slots) in the head so you use a screwdriver instead of a hammer.

3/12

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DCPetterson

@dcpetterson

6 Apr

I had a Trumpet argue at me, "If it's wrong to have to show an ID to vote, why do we have background checks for buying a gun?"

He thought he was making some deep and profound point. Really.

"If I can sleep six hours in a night, why can't you buy me a vacation in the Bahamas?"

It's like Trumpets have lost the capacity for rational thought. They can stick two unrelated things together, and imagine means something.

"If the sky is really blue, why are there aardvarks? Huh? Can't answer that, can you, libtard?"

I get that MAGAts think owning a gun is as important as voting, and if we allow all Americans to vote, why should there be restrictions on owning a gun?

See, you have to shut off everything you know about context and meaning and the Real World™ and trivia like that.

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