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TheEncogitationer wrote:
1812 Governor Elbridge Gerry and a Boston district shaped like a mythological salamander

Whoa, nice factoid. I think I’ll remember this. I mean, I want to transmute enough brain cells to accomodate a more permanent memory. Salamandering, too? I always recall seeing districts with only a highway-wide corridor connecting…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Y’all know that SCOTUS just defanged the Voting Rights Act, right? So incumbent legislators are already celebrating by ramping up gerrymandering. (An incumbent majority is even more empowered now to remain incumbent regardless of the majority of votes cast.)

Shifting goalposts in the middle of a game is always a crap deal, but w…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

It could have been either Trump or Biden. Both are proof that you don’t need to be drunk or stoned to have deranged faculties.

Does anyone know, was this Hegseth, or Patel?

Y’all know that SCOTUS just defanged the Voting Rights Act, right? So incumbent legislators are already celebrating by ramping up gerrymandering.

Short:

PopeBeanie:

Ask me and I’d say this is The Self-Harm Club for Men. Does the Club have a President who is also a Patient?

Offhand, I’d say that true Masculinity is a man having spatio-temporal coordinates and being in one piece. Looks are just working on points for style.

Patience, grasshopper, this is a two-parter.

1) Call me naive, I only learned about mogging today. Here’s a 1 minute intro:

2) Here it is in a Hegsethian context, within the Trumpian context. I like the whole episode but jump into it where it serves comedic effect wrt mogging, leaving 9 minutes to…[Read more]

Trump and Gang aren’t the only ones profiting from MAGA superfans buying his personalized merch.

PopeBeanie:

That is generous of Ukraine to send drones to open up the Strait, even though Ukraine is still facing problems with Putin.

I just hope when this is all over, the drones don’t end up used against the West by equally dangerous Sunni regimes and terrorists.

Wow, is Ukraine’s drone tech industry becoming a profit center? Thank Iran.

PopeBesnie:

That’s so tiny in comparison to his and his family’s grift and middle east partnerships capturing billions of dollars. While other, Epstein-broker-like connections (outside of pedophilia) are kept hidden, perhaps even classified as matters of “national security”? (I can’t remember the word right word, something like “purporte…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Trump Merch Store Closes After Low Sales Amid Iran War

That’s so tiny in comparison to his and his family’s grift and middle east partnerships capturing billions of dollars. While other, Epstein-broker-like connections (outside of pedophilia) are kept hidden, perhaps even classified as matters of “national security”? (I…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Fortunately, not even Trump and MAGA are exempt from the wishes of the marketplace:

Trump Merch Store Closes After Low Sales Amid Iran War
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-merch-store-in-chicago-closes-after-low-sales-amid-iran-war/

Not fun to watch. Just posting for the historic record, during dystopian times.
Slightly under 11 minutes.

One thing I like using Groups for is to keep history of events, e.g. Trump Era corruption and other crises damaging Democracy. The following 23 minute video focuses on SCOTUS’s role in re-interpreting the constitution, and their “pro-unitary executive” decisions. In a way, Trump has been their instrument for pushing their single-party-power…[Read more]

Insider trading at presidential levels, e.g. right before war news releases
About 11 minutes

I don’t know any of the law concerning presidential pardons but the notion that a pardon eliminates the duty of restitution does not make sense to me. The victims have constitutional rights and that is at a minimum an unjust taking.

PopeBeanie:

You wrote:

Huh, I didn’t catch that, so I must have misunderstood what he misspoke, double negative causing me to get his intention correctly. (The promo video’s just an outtake from the main video, and I watched both, so it would be two double negatives that still worked out, even as a dual set of misunderstandings of mis…

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Huh, I didn’t catch that, so I must have misunderstood what he misspoke, double negative causing me to get his intention correctly. (The promo video’s just an outtake from the main video, and I watched both, so it would be two double negatives that still worked out, even as a dual set of misunderstandings of misspeakings, correctly, albeit in the…[Read more]