Pragmatic lawmaker means you actually accomplish something, like passing a bill into law, not just sponsoring or co-sponsoring bills that then die at the floor or Senate. An example of pragmatic lawmaker who saved countless lives is Ralph Nader, he got the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and seatbelt. Winning election without achieving anything doesn't count.
The delivery is everything, she delivered her memorized answer while staring at the ceiling as if she's trying to hit all the bullet points she practiced on. There is no conviction, and I bet she will crumble with any follow up question
He could've at least picked a cool underdog superhero team that actually stood for something
Q: "What are you going to do regarding the conflict in Gaza"
Listen Jack, I directed the US army to establish temporary pier in Lake Michigan, I mean Lake Mediterannean, off the coast of Hamas, um, Mexico, I mean Gaza so we can deliver food, and supplies for people in need."
I feel gaslighted watching Kamala's interview. She's just as incoherent as Joe Biden. At least Joe will try to articulate some kind of policy, e.g. "Jack, China, the semiconductor, we passed CHIPS ACT, they're called FABs". Kamala's is 100% policy-free, 100% incomprehensible, as if she's an unprepared college student having to give class presentation while simultaneously on Xanax and adderall. Is it just me or Democrats have truly stopped communicating in standard English and just communicates by transmitting vibes via brainwaves.
Congratulations, you have entered the bargaining stage
Only 2 more stages to go to acceptance and become vegan
I've been fairly happy with my minimum diet of videos from small channels that I subbed, with extensions such as Replace Youtube Home with Subscriptions and Clickbait Remover my youtube has been protected from the algorithm, clickbait, and all that cancerous youtube meta. However, I got covid and had to self-isolate for the last couple days. It had been a fairly slow news day IRL (other than the tragic ongoing genocide in Gaza, there is only so much murder of children one can watch in a day) and I'm too sick to work from home so I removed my extensions and decided to consoom some internet content slop.
Over the last day I've been engrossed in absolute kitsch trashfire that is boogie2988 faking cancer for internet clout. tldr; the supposedly wholesome early youtuber is now in debt because of crypto, he then promoted some meme coin, got called out, argue that he need the money to pay for his cancer, got called out again, couldn't prove he had cancer, got a face tattoo as a punishment, and now he's making livestream content picking trash on the side of Arkansas highway shirtless as "community service". It was like oh my god, what has youtube/stream space come into, I'm pretty shocked - I was a couple years/months/weeks late to this new internet content meta, I guess I had nowhere to share my state of shock regarding the state of internet content than here.
Israel's genocide in Gaza is making US past 50 years of warcrimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria look weak.
To be fair, that was in response to misfire of Hawaii's public alert system - they were discussing how everyone in Hawaii like a week before got a text saying "incoming ICBM THIS IS NOT A DRILL" - so they were discussing hypothetical of China nuking the US in light of US failing public infrastructure. During Trump's administration at least (before she became a Fox News talking head and I tuned out of everything she said), Tulsi was a critic of Trump's confrontational posturing and trade wars against China - along the line of trade war hurts US consumers and middle class and US had to cooperate with China to address climate change.
Tulsi is now part of wet boy transition team. I must confess I had believed in her early in the 2020 primary, I thought she is a staunch antiwar candidate, she was pro Medicare for All, she is vegetarian, she supported Bernie in '16 and she hated Hillary. At the time there was an argument that Bernie might be too old for 2 terms, I thought Tulsi would be a decent alternative. I even donated $10 to her early campaign. Obviously, as the primary went on and I saw she didn't have a path to victory, I stopped supporting her and donated my labor to volunteer for Bernie instead.
Fuckin' hell, I didn't know she's part of an insane cult and drank one too many Joe Rogan griftoid alpha brain, now she's an anti-trans, anti-woke, chud.
Jimothy
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Jimothy is cool. I also love small-mid-size niche youtubers, I like Aegon of Astora, for a rambly, leftist academic analysis/let's play of Souls game. Infinite Cringe for Dragons Dogma and Yuri VN commentary. Alt Schift/Schwift X/Glidus for their Song of Ice and Fire analysis and ASOIAF conspiracy iceberg discussions, One Piece Podcast, and the nichest of the all, Moosebones for running Monster Rancher 2 PVP competitive tournaments.
Why does it read from the bottom?
Some McGee consultant must have thought that this is what people read as they go up the stairs, but normal people have their heads up when walking up the stairs, and English reads from top to bottom. This is complete dyslexic gaslighting and my OCD is personally offended.
Not an Onion story
One night a few weeks ago I went to bed early, bothered by the oppressive heat and dismayed by that week’s political news — President Biden’s lackluster ABC News interview and Donald Trump’s claim earlier that day that he knew “nothing” about Project 2025. I was tired, too, from explaining the recent daily news broadcasts to my two daughters — one 6 and the other one 10 — including what the phrases “hush money” and “porn star” meant. My husband stayed up working, and very early the next morning a bat flew into our bedroom, through a screen door left open by accident. What happened over the next few days restored my faith in the systems in our country that keep us safe.
“Bat!” I told my husband, sleeping beside me. Though it was still dark, the thick flapping was unmistakably the sound of Earth’s only flying mammal.
“It’s one thing after another,” my husband said, clambering out of bed to grab something to catch it with.
This happened to us before, about five years ago, which is when we learned about the need to isolate and trap any bat that invades our sleeping space for rabies testing. Though bats are beneficial insectivores, they’re also our highest risk for contracting rabies, a fatal disease carried by about 6 percent of bats tested in the continental United States.
We isolated the bat in our bedroom, making sure it couldn’t get upstairs where our daughters sleep, but it escaped through the door to the porch. To decide what to do next, we consulted every resource. Richard, my husband, read the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. I called our health care after-hours line and spoke to a nurse who also consulted the C.D.C. We called our county’s animal control center, and an officer was at our house within 10 minutes. He searched the house and garage for bats, found none and put in a report to our county’s public health department.
“How deep a sleeper are you?” the county health nurse asked Richard when she called us on the next evening. She was assessing our risk of being bitten or scratched while we slept.
After answering noncommittally, he passed the phone to me, and I tried to reassure her. “I’m such a light sleeper. I woke up right away. I’m sure of it.”
We had no idea what rabies shots would cost, and the bat hadn’t gotten near our daughters; that was the most important thing. But the county nurse talked us through the risks and shared her experience with a bat, which had swooped down on her in her garden. “It’s your life we’re talking about,” she told us. We had a short window postexposure to decide. After that, the shots wouldn’t work.
On Sunday morning, we went to the emergency room of the University of North Carolina Hospital. (In most communities, the emergency room is the only place you can get rabies vaccines.) The doctor we saw persuaded us to get the shots. Soon after, hospital staff members gave us the injections, one in each arm. They hurt more than a flu shot but not much more.
So far, we’ve paid $600 in E.R. copays, with heftier hospital bills to come. While I regret that our health care system regularly forces people to consider cost when making life-or-death decisions, I’m grateful that insurance will help my husband and me pay for the health care we need. Despite everything going on in our country and our state — Mr. Trump and the looming threat of autocracy, that he selected an anti-abortion hard-liner for his running mate and that here in North Carolina we have a lieutenant governor who recently claimed that “some folks need killing”— I am reminded of how much good we now enjoy, which hangs in the balance of this election. Not just our lives and the lives of our children but also the government systems that keep us informed and protected.
After our visit from the bat, our sheriff’s department, public health department and university hospital all functioned exactly as designed. The C.D.C., a huge federal agency that works to protect every one of us from infectious disease, food-borne illness and emerging threats like bird flu, pulled through. The C.D.C. is part of what Mr. Trump’s allies would call the administrative state and is in the cross hairs of Project 2025, which proposes breaking up the agency, limiting public health messaging and reducing the data collection that informs good decisions. Mr. Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, but hardly anyone who knows the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that produced the plan, or the former president is taking his claim at face value.
I want to believe Kamala Harris is right when she says “we are not going back” to a time when every calamity leaves us on our own. I don’t want to live in a country that doesn’t hold the health and safety of its citizens in high regard, and I don’t want to be left to make important decisions without guidance from qualified professionals. But for now and for at least the next six months, I don’t. I live in the United States of America — land of bats, land of doctors, land of public health — and that’s worth fighting for.
In Middlesborough, 300 far-right protestors marched towards the city’s cenotaph carrying a sign that read: “Tom Jones is Welsh, Axel Rudakubana isn’t.”
However, Anti-racism counter-demonstrators were on the streets of Cardiff for the second successive day on Sunday, as the anti-immigrant groups threatened to hold another protest in the Welsh capital.
On Saturday what was described as a ‘vigil’ following the horrific murders in Southport last Monday, was attended by a small number of right-wing extremists, while an estimated 400 people staged a counter-demonstration outside the Senedd.
“We have to do more than just counter-protest against whoever turns up, we need to put forward an alternative, a positive alternative.” said one anti-far-right protestor.
Today, outside Cardiff Library at 3.55pm, there was tension in the air.
Scenes of violence in Rotherham and Middlesborough were perhaps heavy in the minds of onlookers.
But by 4.01 the tension had all but disappeared. It was clear there was going to be a protest, but not a violent one.
Instead, people held banners calling for unity and respect for all.
One anti-racism campaigner said: “We’re here to take a stand against racism, but also against the causes of racism.”
He offered words of sympathy and condolence to the families affected by the Southport killings but pointed out that: “There’s an attempt by certain people on shall we say the far-right of the political spectrum to exploit that tragedy for political gain.”
One placard read: “Be sad, be angry, just don’t be racist.”
As the afternoon wore on, the counter-protest outside the library grew to a similar size as the day before at the Senedd.
Again, the far-right presence was deterred, but not entirely extinguished with a handful of men loitering around the fringes of the demo.
The chant from the counter-protestors rang out loud and clear:
“We are many, you are few.
“We are Cardiff, who are you?”
In Middlesborough, Cleveland Police have said “a number of arrests” have been made. While in Rotherham South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard has promised they will: “Come after those carrying out this violence with the full force of the law.”
The lib meltdown would be glorious. Usually not a fan of Erdogan or NATO, but this would be so funny
SPOILER: the article itself is not worth reading, it is classic boring, Hillary platitude with no substance
Everything wrong in America reflected in one picture.