I didn't enter the contest, but something occurred to me just now, so I'll suggest it as a GOP fundraising event: A dance marathon, so bigly it will cover Arlington Cemetery.
The bullet actually entered trump's head through his ear. As with all fast moving objects in a vacuum, the bullet bounced around inside until the kinetic energy expended. It then fell and doctors are waiting for it to pass. Should happen quickly, since trump's raging stream of bullshit is copious.
Who knows what will happen in November? Certainly not me. And I do know that the past is a poor way to predict the future.
But many look at facts for today and expect that nothing can change in the next few months. I do remember that in 2020, Biden did better that Trump in the last few months. So, I have to ask: "Who knows the most about what can happen this summer and fall and who is right?"
Leaders in Congress do know a lot. But only Biden knows what next events are planned to help his record and gain votes. Peace in the world with treaties and negotiations. Economic recovery with scheduled spending. Even something unexpected. He does have reason to say he can win. He did it in 2020. Will that be enough?
We will see.
But while it may be vanity to stay in the race and lose, it might also be vanity to push a winner out. And lose. As when Nixon won even when Johnson stepped down. Or when McGovern replaced his VP candidate Eagleton and lost. Late adjustments do not always work.
Who knows?
Is it possible to see what happens these next few months? Can we honor the process?
This is the time to think before we panic and think again if we panic. Much can happen in three or four months. But as I have told Biden: "If you have something to do, do it now."
And what is the big elephant in the room? If true (and I have no inside information) if Trump really is a Russian agent, now is the time to trot that out. If we loose agents in Moscow to expose him (and others) now is the time to prove it and do it. We can recruit more. The crash might even pull Putin down. I just say to Trump: "Repent."
Bullet versus shard photo analysis was performed by Snopes. Their assessment was that shard was a false narrative. They took a lot of heat for putting up the big red false evaluation on the fact check instead of inconclusive. They doubled down by showing the teleprompters intact after the shots were fired.
Isn't "dog's breakfast regurgitated" a redundancy? I have always thought that the literal meaning/origin of dog's breakfast was vomit, but possibly I took that meaning from the verse in 2nd Peter. I know that dog's breakfast is now used generally to mean any ugly mess, but it seems that equating it with vomit is more descriptive.
In case it is helpful, https://www.nytbee.com/ daily provides a list of the perfectly good but not acceptable "Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive." After a while you get used to seeing the same words over and over and start wondering what some of them mean.
Is it morally OK to wish someone dead from causes that do not involve intentional human action or malice? (I think that's what the question translates to.) If that wish is immoral, then so is laughing at Mark Twain's (misattributed) line: "I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a very nice letter saying that I approved of it," which acknowledges how nearly universal the thought is.
Besides, just as a lifetime prison sentence is regarded as more moral than capital punishment, and divorce beats marital homicide, there's usually another way. Killing someone creates bad karma; why risk that when a destructive person just can be removed from wreaking more havoc? Ever since summer 2016, I've fantasized an outdoor rally like the one last Saturday. But instead of a wannabe assassin, a UFO would appear over the stage and before all those witnesses, cause the ... uh, speaker ... to rise up into the craft. Then its doors would snap shut and the UFO would zip away, never to be seen again.
Surely no moral culpability accrues to merely calling "Bon voyage!" as the unwanted person departs on an extraterrestrial vacation. And better yet, whom could the indignant rally audience realistically blame for the abduction?
I think it crosses the line to wish someone dead (and answered so in the poll), but I believe it's okay to be pleased if it happens. Someone famous said that he did not wish anyone dead, but would approve of the obituary (or so I loosely remember).
Now where were we? Ah yes. When we last left our language purity vigilantes, they were squabbling over the modern-day allusion or informal noun, "spitting image" and its long ago, but still acceptable, original incarnation, "spit and image." This, like the previously autopsied "roo-roo" joke and several other words and phrases here which went under the prose pathology scalpel, ensures that no one in these parts will ever again find it funny or use them without first warily looking over their shoulder. Originalist and a secret fanboy of Samuel Alito, Gene harkened back to the early 15th c. and the original use of "spit" to denote a "likeness." The Lesser Vigilantes essentially said the same thing, with fewer syllables and pointed to usage several centuries later. Doesn't get much better than that. Yet, I, for one, was disappointed, what with all this "spit" and "spitting," Bronx Boy didn't gratuitously throw in a mention of Spuyten Duyvil, a neighborhood in his native borough ---variously translated from the Dutch (yes, Bronxese was once Dutch) as "spouting devil," "spewing devil," or neither.
If it's morally wrong, then I am guilty as heck. I have and will continue to publicly say that i hope all of the person previously occupying office of the presidency (PPOOP)'s crowd die of newly fatal strains of hemorrhoids. I get gleeful over headlines like " Bears Eat Rich Tourists," and the tale that the guy who invented both leaded gasoline and fluorocarbons died in an traction accident in the hospital.
I’ll put a good word in for the inverted flag.
Me, too.
The deep-fried constitution was my favorite.
Loved that. Also:
Jon Ketzmer's Celebration of freedom
Chris Doyle's Earl Grey teabags
Duncan Stevens' 7/4 excess eating
Along with "Grave-Rolling," "Revolution reenactment" was great! "Constitution on a stick" too.
I didn't enter the contest, but something occurred to me just now, so I'll suggest it as a GOP fundraising event: A dance marathon, so bigly it will cover Arlington Cemetery.
The bullet actually entered trump's head through his ear. As with all fast moving objects in a vacuum, the bullet bounced around inside until the kinetic energy expended. It then fell and doctors are waiting for it to pass. Should happen quickly, since trump's raging stream of bullshit is copious.
Who knows what will happen in November? Certainly not me. And I do know that the past is a poor way to predict the future.
But many look at facts for today and expect that nothing can change in the next few months. I do remember that in 2020, Biden did better that Trump in the last few months. So, I have to ask: "Who knows the most about what can happen this summer and fall and who is right?"
Leaders in Congress do know a lot. But only Biden knows what next events are planned to help his record and gain votes. Peace in the world with treaties and negotiations. Economic recovery with scheduled spending. Even something unexpected. He does have reason to say he can win. He did it in 2020. Will that be enough?
We will see.
But while it may be vanity to stay in the race and lose, it might also be vanity to push a winner out. And lose. As when Nixon won even when Johnson stepped down. Or when McGovern replaced his VP candidate Eagleton and lost. Late adjustments do not always work.
Who knows?
Is it possible to see what happens these next few months? Can we honor the process?
This is the time to think before we panic and think again if we panic. Much can happen in three or four months. But as I have told Biden: "If you have something to do, do it now."
And what is the big elephant in the room? If true (and I have no inside information) if Trump really is a Russian agent, now is the time to trot that out. If we loose agents in Moscow to expose him (and others) now is the time to prove it and do it. We can recruit more. The crash might even pull Putin down. I just say to Trump: "Repent."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Repent,_Harlequin!%22_Said_the_Ticktockman
I once got durian paste as an Invitational prize. Couldn’t bring myself to try it.
I laughed at the image of Revolutionary re-enactments with modern weapons.
Bullet versus shard photo analysis was performed by Snopes. Their assessment was that shard was a false narrative. They took a lot of heat for putting up the big red false evaluation on the fact check instead of inconclusive. They doubled down by showing the teleprompters intact after the shots were fired.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/
FBI now says “…bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces…” and not a teleprompter shard.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-bullet-shrapnel-ronny-jackson-christopher-wray-cb780b9d1a078f0be4191682e75101cf
Isn't "dog's breakfast regurgitated" a redundancy? I have always thought that the literal meaning/origin of dog's breakfast was vomit, but possibly I took that meaning from the verse in 2nd Peter. I know that dog's breakfast is now used generally to mean any ugly mess, but it seems that equating it with vomit is more descriptive.
In case it is helpful, https://www.nytbee.com/ daily provides a list of the perfectly good but not acceptable "Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive." After a while you get used to seeing the same words over and over and start wondering what some of them mean.
Is it morally OK to wish someone dead from causes that do not involve intentional human action or malice? (I think that's what the question translates to.) If that wish is immoral, then so is laughing at Mark Twain's (misattributed) line: "I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a very nice letter saying that I approved of it," which acknowledges how nearly universal the thought is.
Besides, just as a lifetime prison sentence is regarded as more moral than capital punishment, and divorce beats marital homicide, there's usually another way. Killing someone creates bad karma; why risk that when a destructive person just can be removed from wreaking more havoc? Ever since summer 2016, I've fantasized an outdoor rally like the one last Saturday. But instead of a wannabe assassin, a UFO would appear over the stage and before all those witnesses, cause the ... uh, speaker ... to rise up into the craft. Then its doors would snap shut and the UFO would zip away, never to be seen again.
Surely no moral culpability accrues to merely calling "Bon voyage!" as the unwanted person departs on an extraterrestrial vacation. And better yet, whom could the indignant rally audience realistically blame for the abduction?
I think it crosses the line to wish someone dead (and answered so in the poll), but I believe it's okay to be pleased if it happens. Someone famous said that he did not wish anyone dead, but would approve of the obituary (or so I loosely remember).
Now where were we? Ah yes. When we last left our language purity vigilantes, they were squabbling over the modern-day allusion or informal noun, "spitting image" and its long ago, but still acceptable, original incarnation, "spit and image." This, like the previously autopsied "roo-roo" joke and several other words and phrases here which went under the prose pathology scalpel, ensures that no one in these parts will ever again find it funny or use them without first warily looking over their shoulder. Originalist and a secret fanboy of Samuel Alito, Gene harkened back to the early 15th c. and the original use of "spit" to denote a "likeness." The Lesser Vigilantes essentially said the same thing, with fewer syllables and pointed to usage several centuries later. Doesn't get much better than that. Yet, I, for one, was disappointed, what with all this "spit" and "spitting," Bronx Boy didn't gratuitously throw in a mention of Spuyten Duyvil, a neighborhood in his native borough ---variously translated from the Dutch (yes, Bronxese was once Dutch) as "spouting devil," "spewing devil," or neither.
For the question of the bleeding ear, read Agatha Christie's "A Murder is Announced"
If it's morally wrong, then I am guilty as heck. I have and will continue to publicly say that i hope all of the person previously occupying office of the presidency (PPOOP)'s crowd die of newly fatal strains of hemorrhoids. I get gleeful over headlines like " Bears Eat Rich Tourists," and the tale that the guy who invented both leaded gasoline and fluorocarbons died in an traction accident in the hospital.
Both good inventions for the time they were used. We do make improvements as we go.
I’ll grant fluorocarbons but leaded gas, much less so. Everybody knew there were health implications to putting lead in the air from day one.
Also, I’ve heard it was generally considered a suicide.
As was the guillotine! Much more merciful than previous execution methods!