it is, though.

The implication is that Brian Thompson should be/is a hero to working class people.

he’s not.

he’s an asshole who made millions fucking over people just trying to get medical care. many of whom have died as a result of his fucking them over, and that is especially true of those who actually work for a living- which he has not in a very long time.

I’m aware of the arthur reference, but it’s really important to realize these aren’t off-the-cuff lies.

This is a planned, coordinated effort that has been going on since before I was even alive; and the journalistspropagandists have been very carefully selected- and have indeed worked very hard to get the job of fucking over americans.

Press secretary, too.

Also, weathermen aren’t necessarily lying. lying requires an intent to deceive, and most times, weathermen don’t mean to deceive, they’re just factually wrong. (FWIW, predicting the weather more than a few days in advance is a crap shoot.)

Creep would be a problem. But a fairly solvable one.

“Just”… ? no. There’s a certain vetting process that makes sure they tell the right lies.

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Thompson “grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa,” a tiny farming community north of Des Moines, Amy Julia Harris and Ernesto Londoño report. “His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain.” Thompson’s childhood was spent “going row by row through the fields to kill weeds with a knife, or working manual labor at turkey and hog farms.”

is true… then he’s a class traitor; not a hero. he made his money fucking over the working class. that’s not heroic.

Campers sometimes,

I had a math teacher that was there to coach football… instead of the normal method for balancing equations and such he’d insist you use his wonky play call diagrams.

Which made all the other algebra and trig teachers have re-teach kids coming out of his last class.

Dude was a stereotypical jock that was going to give one of his athletes a free pass for stuffing a friend of mine into a locker. At least until i stuffed the tight end in his locker, instead.

So. How about this. We swap the keys and go all strangers on a train?

Or Perc. Black coffee could mean perc. But that really only happens in places that still think it’s the 50’s.

(No judgement. Those diners are amazing, and better coffee than fartbucks.)

Yes.

The people who wished they were there.

They’re right.

Democrats lost votes on Immigration , the Israeli genocide in Gaza and economic perception.

There may have been some lgbtq voters that were reluctant… but they weren’t even close to the largest losses of voters.

Ultimately, they fucked up messaging on the economy and tried to persuade unpersuadable “centrists” by taking up Trump’s own immigration policy. And then there’s the blatant and nearly unconditional support of Israel.

Dems need to realize that centrists are already going to vote one way or the other. You can’t sacrifice your base for a small fraction of people who claim to be “undecided”.

And you certainly won’t convince some idiot willing to vote for trump.

Considering “Violeta” is Spanish… it’s probably in pesos. About $650 usd.

I don’t have a cat, so take this instead… shamelessly ripped off c/cats (rocket may have been good for a few shared chuckles on my end. Compliments of PugJesus)

And you wonder why I won’t eat at their house?

They don’t believe in soap either.

They know that, according to GOP’s leadership, they’re not even supposed to hold office? They’re supposed to be in the kitchen making sandwiches. Also popping out babies.

And they wonder why?

My money is on drug runners.

Apparently, I obey the golden ratio.

Sure. Stuff happens.

But given the urgency in the cop… I have to assume he was rather more than somewhat at fault.

They were called in for a bomb threat (as bombsquads usually are,) but had to report to the station first.

so they were “responding” to the bomb threat, but had to go gear up before actually heading out. So it’s fair to say they were “responding”, particularly since highly specialized cops like bomb techs only catch certain kinds of calls, and other cops stay the hell away from them.

Sometimes, cops that are frequently on call are allowed to install lights or sirens on personal cars so they can get into their station quickly.

Bombsquad calls are less frequent but generally urgent.

In any case, I would suggest he was driving like he had lights and sirens, despite not having them. Which makes it incredibly unsafe to do, and places blame squarely on the cop. (Though the article made sure to mention she pulled into his way.)