Wertheimer [any] @ Wertheimer @hexbear.net

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That's what I thought at first, but as the sentences became increasingly cumbersome I started feeling less charitable. But yeah, maybe she recently made a conscious decision to change her phrasing and still has to fight against the habit.

That last piece from the author of What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis

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Really looking forward to this sequel to The Trump Prophecy

Gorgias sez:

1. Nothing exists
2. Even if it did exist, we couldn't comprehend its nature
3. Even if we could comprehend it, we couldn't communicate it

Turns out she's Canadian, so if she's doing this out of immense respect for the Oval Office she's even weirder than I thought.

I bet he'll be late

Edit - I was wrong!

The Onion: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Does this White House correspondent on Al Jazeera have a fatwa on calling Trump Trump? She is exclusively calling him "the U.S. President" even when it would be less cumbersome to just use his name.

Edit - After about fifty times saying "the U.S. President," she did finally use his name! But only after using Obama's. Maybe now I can pay attention to the other words she's saying.

He gave a national address after he murdered Soleimani to announce he wasn't retaliating against the (pro forma) Iranian retaliation. Spent some time being shocked and appalled that anyone would say "Death to America" but ultimately it was a let's-wind-this-down speech. So we shall see. I'm guessing he won't appear on time, and in the meantime we might get an announcement from Tehran.

We could have stopped this if we had insistently reminded Trump that this would make John Bolton happy.

Forget the July 4 celebrations. June 22 is the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the USSR. May the day mark the beginning of the inevitable collapse of the Zionazi and AmeriKKKan regimes as it did their predecessor.

PARLIAMENTARIAN SIGHTING!!!!

Republicans are moving the bill through Congress using special rules that shield it from a filibuster, depriving Democrats of the ability to block it. But to qualify for that protection, the legislation must comply with a rigorous set of budgetary restrictions meant to ensure that it will not add to the deficit. And the Senate parliamentarian, an official appointed by the chamber’s leaders to enforce its rules and precedents, must evaluate such measures to ensure that every provision meets those requirements.

Elizabeth MacDonough, the parliamentarian, ruled that the SNAP measure, which would push some of the costs of nutrition assistance onto the states, did not. That sent Republicans back to the drawing board to find another strategy for covering tens of billions of dollars of the bill’s cost.

So I guess we'll see the Republicans fire and/or overrule her, like the Democrats could have done years ago. Exciting times.

The NYT front page was autoplaying part of that interview the other day, and in the part I saw he was trying to justify the crackdowns because of migrants dying in the desert. Motherfucker, you're the one who forced them there and prosecuted people who left them jugs of water.

P.S.:

In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."

Our camps runneth over

I am also disabled and am frequently too incapacitated to cook for myself. I also have a whole host of foods that trigger my migraines, so it's nice to have a backup option in case I've been precluded from partaking in any communal meal. Meal replacements are a godsend for me.

It is nicknamed the "Footprint of Freedom" by the US Navy due to its shape and strategic location in the Indian Ocean.

The platform they approved (PDF) at the DNC last year attacked Trump from the right on Iran and insisted that Iran could develop nukes "in a matter of weeks." They criticized Trump for not bombing Iran:

In June 2019, when Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance aircraft operating in international airspace above the Straits of Hormuz, Trump responded by tweet and then abruptly called off any actual retaliation, causing confusion and concern among his own national security team.

The China-Pakistan Friendship Highway was already an Eighth Wonder of the World but it may just save the world