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And when you saw that gif, the song started playing in your head, right?

Nor has it been kind to Lee Corso

Hell yeah, PBS giving her some much-deserved love.

Whatever it is, let’s just not talk about step-moms and step-sisters being stuck in dryers or under the sink.

We’re there bowls at the door with a bunch of car keys in them?

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-death-row-inmate-robert-roberson-to-testify-at-capitol-after-dramatic-stay-of-execution/ Abbot upon hearing about the delayed execution

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/2-austin-massage-parlors-suspected-of-human-trafficking-shut-down/

Vance seems to be out of sight as well. He might be doing rallies and maybe they are so pitiful nobody is covering them, but it feels like somebody in the Trump campaign knows he’s a drag in the campaign.

It’s surreal to be trying to ascertain the depth of Putin’s grotesquely irrational, overwhelming hatred of Ukraine. Over the last decade, he: - unleashed grandiose propaganda of hate and war not seen since the Radio of Thousand Hills - ruined his lucrative relations with the West - started a dirty and abominable proxy war in Donbas and shamelessly lied about it for a decade - caused the deadliest shoot-down incident in human history with the MH-17 flight - unleashed the largest war of aggression in Europe since WWII - made his military suffer the most catastrophic losses since WWII (and lose exponentially more than in all Soviet and Russian wars after WWII combined), including close to 3,500 tanks and about 150,000 dead. - recruited convicts en masse as suicidal cannon fodder and pardoned scores of the most violent murderers, cannibals, and maniacs - gave the green light to a giant suicidal mercenary army that once almost dethroned him - brought the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust - made it to the wanted list as an international war criminal - made nuclear threats a usual everyday instrument of global politics - emptied seemingly bottomless Soviet-era weapon stocks - begged Iran and North Korea for weapons, equipment, and munitions - continues multiyear full-scale missile and bombing campaigns to strip a 40-million European nation of electricity and heating or at least to kill as many as he can - made Russia an ultimate Chinese vassal totally dependent on Xi - sent hundreds of thousands to die for his bruised ego in suicidal frontal assaults - re-introduced human wave attacks as a usual reality of war in Europe - erased entire regions and got a war on Russia’s home territory And that’s all for the sake of erasing a country that’s only guilty of willing to live on, keep its identity, and stay independent -- which is a terrible offense to Putin and his insane lust for absolute power -- as well as his megalomanic perception of himself as a new tsar with a messianic mission.

It’s worse - if they are being sent to Kursk to fight, that means Russia is relying on North Korea to liberate Russian territory. Also means Russia is out of troops elsewhere that they could spare.

Good thing we do all our banking by going into the bank and exchanging pieces of paper.

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Abbot and Paxton gonna have to primary some Supreme Court Justices

Wish Lobo was around to see this. He would have been pleased to see Mary Katherine Gallagher making a comeback in 2024.

I liked her in the t-shirt and even in the mud.

Dave Bautista can be Kamala’s stand-in. Or Tim Walz - maybe he’s packing like Garry from Parks and Rec.

I joke, but because of how versatile he is, there are probably nerds who only think of him as Lando, Millenials and Gen Zers who only think of him in Community and *maybe* Atlanta, and music fans who like him in Atlanta and as Childish Gambino. I’m still bitter he left Community, it threw the balance of the show off. At least he signed on for the Community movie.

One of those guys performed at Astroworld, right? Saw a photo of him and I would never say Black people look alike, but holy fuck, shave the beard and he looks like Troy from the Community TV series. It’s like “where’s Abed?”

He seems to be getting a lot more anxious these days. He’s set up more PACs, most likely because his business acumen has left him in a position where the locals are pissed at what he’s doing and the government has been taking a closer look at his operations. He needs protection.

https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-2024/harris-trump-election-issues.html AARP: The Social Security trust fund is expected to see a shortfall in about 10 years. If Congress doesn’t act, millions of Americans who are counting on Social Security may see cuts to the money they’ve earned. If elected, how will you protect Social Security for the future? TRUMP: We’ll protect it with growth. I don’t want to do anything having to do with increasing age. I won’t do that. As you know, I was there for four years and never even thought about doing it. I’m going to do nothing to Social Security. We’re going to protect it through strengthening our country. We’re going to protect it through growth. We’re going to have tremendous growth in our country with all of the things that we’re doing from a business standpoint and from a commonsense standpoint, and we’ll be protecting it through growth. HARRIS: I believe Social Security is a sacred social contract that we have made with the seniors of America. I will always — as I always have in my career — fight to ensure that seniors have the dignity they deserve, have the protections they deserve, including the benefits that they’ve earned and paid for. The way that we’re going to deal with it to make sure that the resources and therefore the benefits in the Social Security program are there for seniors is by making billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share in taxes and use that money to protect and strengthen Social Security for the long haul. AARP: Our own AARP research shows that 48 million American ­family caregivers provide $600 billion in unpaid care each year, helping loved ones live independently in their homes rather than in costly nursing homes. If elected, how will you support family caregivers, many of whom are juggling work and family? HARRIS: First of all, it’s personal for me. I helped care for my mother when she was battling cancer. I have learned over many, many years of experience to deeply admire and respect the work that caregivers do. Their work is physical. It is mental. It is emotional. Frankly, I think caregivers really do God’s work. We need to make sure that they receive the dignity in the workplace and in their wages that they deserve because this is essential, critical work. I’m proud that our administration took action to support family caregivers, including offering short-term help to give a primary family caregiver a break — again, I know what that means — and also providing a better hospital discharge process. As president, I will build on these efforts. TRUMP: These are really unrecognized people that have done such a good job, and frankly, if you didn’t have these people doing what they’re doing, the government would be in worse shape than it is even now. We’re going to recognize that. It’s something that has long been on my mind. I started focusing on it very, very substantially, and we’re going to do something. These people have been unbelievable. In many ways, they’re angels. They’re just extra­ordinary people. They give up so much, and they get so ­little other than they want to take care of their loved ones, which is a very powerful incentive. We’re going to do something to help them out financially, and we have various plans coming in, and you’re going to be the first to hear the plans. It’s very unfair to ­people, very unfair AARP: Millions of American workers have no way to save for retirement through their employers. If elected, what steps will you take to help American workers save for retirement? TRUMP: The sad part is with Biden, inflation has been so devastating that where people were saving with me because they had low interest rates and no inflation — don’t forget, I had low interest rates, and I had essentially no inflation — they have high interest rates and the worst inflation we’ve ever had. That is a killer for people who have done it the right way. And the right way is to go out, save your money and you’re going to have money and you’re going to make interest on your money and make investments with your money. Those people have been absolutely destroyed by inflation and what’s happened. The people that saved money, that was supposed to be the American dream except the American dream turned out to be the American nightmare for the people that did it right. The people that saved — you’re supposed to save in this country; it’s always been that way — the people that saved got killed by inflation. They were actually taking money out of their accounts instead of putting money back into their accounts. HARRIS: Well, it starts with making sure that we protect Social Security, knowing that for our seniors that is their only source of income.The work that I’ve done over my career has also been to protect pensions. Both the president and I and in my long-standing work understand the need to make sure that people who have earned those benefits are secure and that they are guaranteed AARP: Moving on to Medicare for a moment, Medicare provides critical health coverage for older Americans. If elected, how will you protect Medicare from benefit cuts, and how might you improve the program? TRUMP: What we have to do is make our country successful again. This has to do with Medicare and Social Security and other things. We have to let our country become successful, make our country successful again, and we’ll be able to do that. We have tremendous opportunities like as an example, with what I call the “liquid gold” under our feet. We have more oil and gas than any other country in the world by far, and we don’t use it. We use a very small portion of it. We will be bigger than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined, and we will be able to make our country so successful that these questions will not — they’ll really just not come to the fore. Growth is a very big factor in everything I say. We can grow our country. Our country hasn’t been growing. We can grow our country at the bottom line. HARRIS: I will always fight to protect and strengthen Medicare for this and future generations. That includes securing the Medicare trust fund and making sure that big corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, which, by the way, they can afford to pay. Also, if [my opponent] had succeeded in repealing the ACA [Affordable Care Act], which he tried 60 times to do when in office, he would have brought back the Medicare “donut hole” gap. AARP was an incredible leader on the donut hole issue. That gap for prescription drugs would be put back in place without the protection of the ACA, not to mention taking away pre­cancer and diabetes screenings, what we fought so successfully for; to get Medicare to make sure that every senior gets a free ­annual wellness checkup. I pledge to fight to protect it. AARP: Americans over the age of 50 continue to pay the highest health care costs. If elected, how would you ensure that older Americans have access to affordable health care? HARRIS: A big part of access is affordability; so is bringing down the cost of prescription drugs for everyone, including seniors. We fought to do that but ran into some roadblocks in Congress. My plan in terms of helping seniors under the age of 65 includes what we would do to save on average as much as $800 a year on premiums. Also, medical debt has been a big area of focus for me and eliminating medical debt from credit scores, which can be all the difference whether a senior or anyone could get a lease on an apartment, much less all the other things that they need access to. TRUMP: We’re going to make sure that Americans are able to work [to access health care]. But we’re going to make sure that they’re not going to have to work. We’re going to take care of them. But if they want [to work], that would be a great asset. You know, we lose some of the best people we have because they think they’re going to retire at a certain age, and the fact is, they really don’t want to retire. So we’re going to incentivize people if they want to go out into the workforce. But [if not], we’re going to take care of them. We’re going to make all of our programs strong, and we’re going to make our country strong AARP: If elected, what is the most important thing that you could do to help improve the lives of older Americans? HARRIS: There are many things, to be honest. My day one priority is to make sure that people are able to live with dignity and have the care that they deserve.I think that over the last decade, and frankly since my opponent hit the scene in this way, there is a perverse notion that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of who [you] lift up. That means doing the work that I’ve done my whole career to stand up for the rights of older Americans, to deal with cases of elder abuse as well as lifting up their ability to have a good quality of life, including bringing down the cost of prescription drugs. I will be paying attention to affordable housing. Part of my plan is to build 3 million more housing units before the end of my term. I have many priorities on day one to help our seniors and their children and grandchildren. TRUMP: The biggest thing I can tell you is we’re going to let people know loud and clear that Social Security is not changing. But what I’m going to do is we’re going to create energy like nobody has ever had in this country. With me, we were energy independent, but we are going to become energy dominant. We’re going to make a tremendous amount of money. We’re going to pay down debt. We’re going to reduce taxes. I mean the taxes that we’ve been able to cut — it’s the largest tax cut in the history of our country, and we still have a ways to go with that. That’s going to be very helpful. We’re going to make sure our seniors are taken care of 100 percent. Don’t forget, I’m a senior. We’re going to make our seniors happy, healthy and strong.

I think I like them giving the full backstory a,most at the end of the series?