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It looks like this is heading for an ugly primary. State Senator Mike Flood has announced a challenge to Fortenberrry, and picked up endorsements from the current governor and a past governor. Last week, Fart came out with an attack ad against Flood: That is referencing a vote ten years ago to not require legal status to receive state-provided prenatal care. The fact that Fart is swinging this hard, this early shows that he doesn't see himself as a frontrunner. If he did, he would be focused on consolidating the Republican vote, not flinging seriously thin shit about pre-natal care. Still won't matter. Still Nebraska. Whether it's Flood or Fortenberry, it's still the idiot death cult. But fuck it, part of me is holding out hope for a GOP schism to give Patty Pansing Brooks the spot for a term. (I really wish she went by "Patricia Brooks"; she is a lovely women, but her name sounds like it's from a Mary Poppins book.)

They frequently reference the Book of Esther. Which, if you know the Bible, is a little terrifying. Short version: Esther is one of the many Jews living in Persia. The Persia king takes an interest in her. She uses him (a non-believer) to thwart a plot to kill the Jews and instead kill the conspirators. So, innocent interpretation is that Christians can utilize a non-believer like Trump. The scarier interpretation extends the prophecy to include the killing of anyone who meant to do the Christians harm - aka, you and me.

I see you have met Evangelical Christians.

Yeah, that article is spin.

Smells like bullshit, but I guess if the editor of the World Socialist Website says it’s true, what am I to believe?

Are you anti-draft, in times of war?

Nothing trying to repeat the same adlib conversation several times. Extra’ing is a fun little hobby. Downsizing was the only Hollywood film, but I’ve also done a couple music videos, a low budget action flick, and an art/dance film. Mostly I get a kick out of watching the film making process. Unfortunately I fucked up and missed out on eating a late dinner Payne had with the extras.

Funny you should say that. A few years ago, I was an extra in Downsizing!. The instructions were to wear plain, neutral-colored clothings. One of my fellow extras showed up in a brightly colored dress, and wardrobe forced her to change into something drab off the rack. Later she was getting a little pissy about how Payne always reinforces the image of Nebraskans being boring. I had to explain to her it was because we were extras; the color choice is so we don't get noticed. (Well, and Payne isn't shooting tourism department promos.)

Nebraska traitors, including the frontrunner for governor. Seeing Red Nebraska

To clarify, are you stating you still believe that Alec Baldwin's production company controlled the production for the movie, or that Wikipedia confused you? I am always curious how much the delusional will double-down on stupid shit.

After doing a Google search, I see zero sources claiming that Baldwin owns Rust Movie Production, LLC, despite the various sources indicating they are doing an internal investigation and even a FoxNews article that says the company is likely covered by insurance. LA Times indicate it was financed by BondIt Media Capital and CAA Media Finance. Even if he did, the whole point of a single purpose LLC is to protect the owners from financial liability. Care to cite your sources? Or just admit you’re making up bullshit on the intrawebs.

Ousucks sucks.

NE1 Rep, Jeff Fortenberry, indicted for lying to FBI regarding illegal Nigerian campaign contributions. Doesn’t matter, Nebraska.

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At the Huskies game. First football game in two years. First PAC12 game.

1. The Trump-Biden vote is an anomaly. The current NE-2 is definitely Republican. In the Congressional race, the Republican incumbent won by 4, and the only time a D won the seat in the last 20 years is when a tea-party 3rd part candidate split the R vote in 2014. I think the district is currently listed as R+4, and I'm betting this will likely take it to R+6. It turns an R lean into a likely, or maybe even a safe. 2. I hate this notion that a fair compromise is to hold serve, or slightly lose. The population trends should take bias the district blue over time. Instead, every ten years a Republican Unicameral gerrymanders the district to preserve the status quo from the previous gerrymandering. The census shows the urban population in the district was underrepresented in 2020. The R+4 should have been more like an R+2 (just as a hypothetical). Instead of drawing the lines to pull back from the the rural areas, this map cuts out a central corridor of the metro area, and adds in a Saunders County, which is due north of Lincoln. It is absolute fuckery, and is justified as preserving the previous decades fuckery. I get it that you are not claiming this to be a fair compromise, just an acceptable one. FWIW, it hasn't completely passed yet, just the first round of votes.

The initial plan died in filibuster Friday. Trump did relatively poorly in NE2 in 2020. The Republican Congressman won by 5. This map takes a Dem out of contention for a bit.

Nebraska map out of committee this week. After Biden picking up NE-2, Republicans will split of a section of Douglas County (Omaha) into NE-1 (Lincoln’s district) while adding a rural county to balance it.

I'd guess that unvaccinated Dem voters are also more likely to be young, if for no other reason that Dems tend to be younger. So, it is likely the actual deaths are skewed more heavily at Republicans than what the vaccinated percentages would suggest.

So, your point was that even though there is little variations amongst the racial demographics, you decided you would blame black people? Or was it that you thought that you would use black people as a proxy for blaming democrats, even through the statistics are extremely clear that democrats are more likely to be vaccinated? What was your fucking point?

Ben Franklin had been one of the original antivaxer media personalities, back in the infancy of vaccines and newspapers. Back then, vaccines consisted of drawing a string through a pustule of a small pox victim, letting the string dry, and then inserting the string in a cut made on the person being inoculated. It was new, and really counterintuitive, so he and his brother railed against it in their newspaper. This is what Ben had to say about the experience in his autobiography:

Jesus you're a fucking clown. Please tell me where anybody said there was no reason for Americans to worry about staying in Afghanistan after the US military pulled out. Seriously, go fuck yourself.

It was explained to him a few days ago. He is acting in bad faith.

The goal posts are well traveled.

You should really try studying American history sometime. Because whatever the fuck you learned, wasn't it.