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@Doctor-Phibes said in On the lethality of DOGE:

@jon-nyc said in On the lethality of DOGE:

Vivek can be the beta test.

Calling him a worker is pushing it a bit

I don't think he's ever actually drawn a government paycheck. Yet. Hopefully soon, in Ohio.

Or…

We got trouble
Right here in Cincinnati
With a capital C and that rhymes with V and that stands for Vivek.

Very nice pictures!!!

Vote for him because he loves minorities, and the democrats hate minorities.

I take that as a compliment, Horace.

So from one aggressive bastard to another….

Tally ho!

Attack!

@Doctor-Phibes said in Anybody have an automatic espresso machine?:

@Horace said in Anybody have an automatic espresso machine?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Anybody have an automatic espresso machine?:

Incidentally, I simply cannot believe that people spend three FUCKING grand on a coffee machine in order to drink a rather unsophisticated alternative to tea.

We got it through a friend who has a big discount on retail.

Oh, it fell off the back of a lorry. That makes more sense.

How dare you.

That would be too generous I think. Maga media pushed that hard. The original authors I assume knew they were lying. But most who just heard it repeated over and over probably assumed it was true. I suspect he’s in the latter category.

@Horace said in Acting Secret Service Director:

All government career climbers are politicians, and vice versa. This was an amusing interaction with the acting chief of the SS.

Link to video

I knew a policeman who said 'Never trust a man who dyes his hair.'

Hubris. These past 4 years they thought they were immune, untouchable. Now it's "Oh, shit..he won!".

I've enjoyed it before. Would try again.

That's brilliant

Love it.

@LuFins-Dad said in Jen Rubin speaks:

Hey @George-K does she still work for WaPo?

No.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/media/jennifer-rubin-norm-eisen-contrarian-washington-post/

@jon-nyc said in Cormac McCarthy's secret muse:

See what you’re missing for $20 a month?

Hay I'm retired and I gotta save money for (cheap) Scotch watch where the money goes.

@LuFins-Dad said in Democrats have an empathy problem:

Democrats Have An Empathy Problem of Their Own
It's time for Dems like me to do the hard work of actually listening to Trump voters..

So let’s start here. I can read this two different ways. The author could mean that it’s hard to accept our own culpability and shortcomings, and that’s the hard work… Or they could mean the very act of listening to Trump voters is onerous.

I think he meant the former.

I also question why nobody is addressing the 35% of registered voters that chose not vote this cycle or chose to vote 3rd party/independent. It seems to me that there is a quite large segment of the population that is not involved in the process and maybe we should ask why?

I guess he's addressing what is under his control, which is the messaging and attitude of his own tribe. If he can improve that, the improved messaging will speak to that 35%.

@taiwan_girl

In the signature spot on the back of the credit card, I used to write "please ask for ID" rather than a signature. In some places, credit card stealing is a big deal, so tried to avoid that happening.

You have now jogged my memory…

come to think of it, that is exactly what the bank’s were advising and I accordingly did when I received the new card. That instruction on the back of the card is what triggered the clerk and his supervisor.