I can’t believe he’s a candidate. It’s embarrassing and depressing.

Good suggestions; we haven't had bananas around the house for a while.. The Costco organic bananas are great...they look a little green but they always taste wonderful. And they have a little plastic wrapped around the stem end that keeps them from ripening too fast. They're the poor man's version of these Nana Hats that were on Shark Tank a while ago:

https://nanahats.com/

Wait, who are we talking about??

That’s going to look really nice.

I’m still too close to years of driving $100 beaters around to get too uppity and proud of a car.

Although I took a long look at one of the retro T-Birds today.

@AdagioM said in I FOUGHT:

@CHAS

That was good, but what about this version?

https://x.com/ResisterSis20/status/1796533014924771722

I just sent that to about ten people.

Best one I've seen so far, and I've seen a bunch of stuff.

@Steve-Miller said in Who’s in the heat wave ?:

Amazon sells battery packs that will not only charge your phones but will also jump start your car. From what I can tell you can charge phones dozens of times before you have to recharge the battery pack.

I keep one in each car.

@Lisa recommended this one. The price goes down to $75 or 80 pretty routinely.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079FSPRXM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8

Or, once you gain Dick Cheney! He's a war criminal!

Yikes.

I hope Mr. WTG heals quickly!

Sorry to hear about the issues you had with the process.

If anyone can set them straight, it's you. I wish you all the best in that endeavor!

An associate of Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, who for a nearly a decade drugged his wife and invited dozens of men to rape her, admitted to copycat abuse of his own partner on Wednesday, blaming his mentor and a troubled childhood.

Police have said Jean-Pierre Marechal, 63, worked with Pelicot to drug and both rape Marechal's wife Cilia after meeting on a now-shuttered website.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/associate-frenchman-accused-mass-rape-wife-admits-similar-abuse-2024-09-18/

And of course there is the arrest of Combs.....

😞

• Suspect will be tried as an adult: Colt Gray, who is being held at the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, is slated to remain there while in custody until he turns 17, Glenn Allen, the agency’s spokesperson, told CNN Thursday. Under Georgia law, a juvenile aged 13 to 17 who commits a serious crime is automatically tried as an adult..

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/us/apalachee-school-shooting-georgia-saturday/index.html

Just checked - we have a household account! So we can both do all things.

Grumpfest.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/politics/trump-closed-door-meeting-house-gop/index.html

@AdagioM said in SCOTUS 2024:

Is it immunity on all levels, or only for federal crimes?

The payoff was made while he was in office; the arrangements were made before, I think. Was signing those checks an official act?

Cohen got reimbursed in 2017, but I think the transfer of the money to Cohen's Essential Consultants LLC in October is part of the conspiracy, so that was pre-presidency.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-case-evidence-michael-cohen-payment-2024-5?op=1

One step further....

If President Joe Biden were to not only acknowledge Democrats’ worries that he’s hurting the party’s chances at the poll but decides to resign from the presidency altogether, Kamala Harris would immediately become the President of the United States.

This transition is outlined in the U.S. Constitution, and would make her the first woman and the first person of South Asian and African American descent to hold the office.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2024/07/20/president-kamala-harris-how-it-could-happen-if-biden-quits/74467430007/

Like any option it has its pros and cons.

@wtg said in Um, I think there's something missing here:

Turns out he's a flipper and he bought the house to rehab. His parents will be moving in when it's finished.

The best kind of flipper, because you know he'll be conscientious!

There is a couple who flip houses in a town near where we used to live, they're from the area and truly just seem to love making their old neighborhoods better. They are beloved by locals because all the houses they do end up improving the neighborhood for everyone.

I have no doubt they're making good money, but they also clearly care about the quality of the work they do. No "lipstick on a pig" for them, they replace the pig first!

Glad you liked it! 👍

@wtg 😁 😁 😁

Big Al

Very faint to nonexistent here in NYC, doubtless because of all the ambient city lights (and we are 8 miles from Manhattan, in the least populous borough).

I told you all a long time ago my advice. My advice was to stop focusing on the Republicans so much and to focus a lot more on the Democrats.

We got weak to non-existent policies with Democrat because we didn't focus on what should be traditional (are traditional) Democratic achievements and values in domestic policy, and having demanded practically nothing and having received as much, we will be the ones to blame it Harris loses, not a man who has not been in office for four years, not Jill Stein, not anyone else.

I also said the administration's foreign policy is in your face duplicitous, frankly horrendously bloody, and couldn't be better designed to write off multiple core Democratic constituencies as if had been done by design.

Will laughing at Trump be as much fun if Harris loses? I would have guessed no but since it's been happening non-stop for the four years he was in office followed by the four years when he wasn't I'm going to have to place my bet at yes.