dmenthe.bsky.social
Sausage-maker, father of two, last guardian of the English subjunctive.
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The thing about demons is that they turn on each other.
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Perhaps neither side wants a ceasefire.
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Another few quarterly reports...
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It's a theological embarrassment.
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Yes but that is the corollary of joy. You can't have your heart broken if you don't let yourself fall in love.
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We saw Airplane on the big screen a couple of weeks ago at the Culver Theater. It was so great. And wow PG was something different in 1980.
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I am surprised the initial offer of neutering Ukraine and handing over territory has been met with increased demands rather than gratitude. Who could have imagined Putin to be so graspy?
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Where was she going that her Amex Black wouldn't work?
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Well it is equally racially tinged disdain on all sides for the equal rights of Latinos.
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It is a fortune cookie. Open it!
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Of course kids learn foremost by observing us. So we have to exhibit that character.
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It will happen when they stop getting campaign contributions because they are not able to deliver even simple things like performance on signed contracts.
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I was annoyed at the failure of Cantonization.
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Nope. They think politics doesn't really matter, it's about entertainment mostly, and think bad things can't happen here because America.
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It's not clear we would be seeing recession numbers already if tariffs came a month ago. It will take a while for everything to hit. That he keeps changing his mind means that we're really going to see the effects of uncertainty prior to the effects of planning for long-term tariffs.
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And he seems too dumb to realize that he is destroying also the very reasons why billionaires like to live in America instead of Bangladesh.
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It is worth noting that the only records we have of Caligula being demented were written by his enemies after he was deposed. It's a completely credible story, but it may not be factual. We may not be able to know.
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We are 3 Americans short of having enough Congress members to investigate. MAGA is a foreign op now.
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I wonder how many of these 23,000 people voted for Harris and made calls for her, and how many just didn't see any difference between the parties.
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It's so difficult being racist and sexist at institutions that just don't like that sort of thing.
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I tell friends of new parents to buy things for when the kids are 18months to 2 years old. The parents will be so happy then.
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It is horrifying beyond belief
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Sous vide is modern Eire, I suppose.
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Or just say nothing and wait for the freedom caucus to kill it. Nope. Trump wanted to avoid a shutdown and we should have asked how to use that.
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This is what happens when you blow up a death star long, long ago in your own galaxy.
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Unfortunately his voters are equally addled at this point, unable to do anything but believe their leader.
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Also Joe Biden: well I never arrested Trump or his cronies for January 6 because it wasn't really an insurrection, I guess?