bolverk

The greatest fear I have is losing my mind through dementia, Alzheimer's, or something similar in my old age. If this prick is suffering through it at his age, I couldn't think of a worse punishment for being such a dinky dicked disgrace.

Lotta staring at all three of these. Wordle 1,235 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #513 🟨🟨🟪🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟩🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1016 8️⃣4️⃣ 5️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'm trying to figure out whether that thing is expected to fly at Mach-whatever speeds or if it's just a display piece for the airshow.

Trump endorsement list. Scroll all the way down to Public Figures if you're talking about the celebs and such.

Kamala is walking on stage right now.

Link to the Philly rally. Oprah's on stage now while we wait.

Link to tonight's rally. If anyone wants to open an extra tab while waiting, Lady Gaga is warming up the crowd now. Edit: Doug just took the stage.

There's no need for me to comment on the beans, but yeah, those onions and green bell peppers are gonna give it a real kick. I'm not sure how you'll be able to stomach that kind of spice.

Dad was probably a dork who got picked on in middle school. And because he remains a dork, the dad doesn't realize middle school kids will still pick on him (and his poor, poor progeny).

Several months ago, someone with much more insight than me described public polls as providing the overall shape of the election. What internal polls apparently do is hone in on key geographic or demographic indicators in greater detail, helping campaigns understand the voting behavior of very specific groups that they feel are of particular significance.

Was it anything like this?

Trump beat Biden by 8.2 points in Iowa, so you're close.

Hey! I don't smoke crack, and it ain't farts I'm inhaling. Aubrey waved around her witch's magick incense, and an epiphany came over me.

A scandal is going down in Israel regarding the release of some documents about Hamas and the hostages. Case of Document Leaks Roils Israel An individual with connections to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is being investigated. Here’s what to know about how the furor began and what might happen next. The Israeli authorities are investigating a civilian who has been working over the past year in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is suspected of illegally obtaining and leaking classified documents to the news media. The documents helped support Mr. Netanyahu’s reasoning for adding tough new conditions for a cease-fire deal with Hamas over the summer, amid intense public pressure for a deal to release Israeli hostages and end the fighting in Gaza. The case has roiled Israel, where critics have accused Mr. Netanyahu of torpedoing a deal to return hostages and of prolonging the war in Gaza for political reasons. Key members of his governing coalition had threatened to quit if he made concessions to Hamas. On Sunday, an Israeli court partially lifted a gag order to identify Eliezer Feldstein, who was hired last year to work as a spokesman in Mr. Netanyahu’s office, as a suspect in the case. Three other suspects in the case are members of the military and security establishment, according to the court, and have not been publicly named. The investigation has revolved around the publication and manipulation of real and purported intelligence information in media outlets abroad, according to Israeli news reports and to an Israeli official who was not authorized to discuss sensitive information, including the case. The London-based Jewish Chronicle published — and then retracted — a report claiming Hamas was planning to smuggle Israeli hostages from Gaza to Egypt. A classified document that was leaked to the German newspaper Bild claimed that Hamas was trying to manipulate the Israeli public and wanted to draw out the negotiations. How did this all get started? On Sept. 1, the Israeli military announced that six Israeli hostages had been found dead in a tunnel in Gaza after being fatally shot by their captors, prompting a surge of mass protests and a wave of national anger and grief. About 100 people taken captive by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, remain in Gaza. At least a third of them have been declared dead by the Israeli authorities. On Sept. 2, in a televised news conference, Mr. Netanyahu presented his arguments for a new condition for a cease-fire deal with Hamas: Israel must maintain a permanent presence in the Philadelphi Corridor, a strip of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt. Without that presence, Mr. Netanyahu said, Hamas could smuggle hostages across the border into Egypt’s Sinai Desert, and from there to Iran or Yemen, where he said they could disappear forever. He also displayed a handwritten document in Arabic that he said was the work of high-ranking Hamas members, which he said had been found in January by Israeli soldiers in an underground command post in Gaza. The document contained instructions for increasing the psychological pressure on Israel by issuing videos and images of hostages and casting doubt on the Israeli government’s narrative that its ground operation in Gaza would help release the hostages. Mr. Netanyahu said it showed Hamas’s strategy of sowing internal discord in Israel and suggested that the popular protests against his government played into Hamas’s hands. When did the leaks happen? On Sept. 5, soon after Mr. Netanyahu’s news conference, The Jewish Chronicle, a British community newspaper, published a report by a freelance journalist. The journalist, Elon Perry, claimed he had obtained Israeli intelligence showing that the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was preparing to flee Gaza, via the Philadelphi Corridor, to Iran, and to take Israeli hostages with him. The report cited intelligence gleaned from a senior Hamas official who was interrogated by Israel and from documents seized on the day the bodies of the six hostages were recovered. Asked about the report in The Jewish Chronicle, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s chief spokesman, said that he was unaware of any such intelligence or plan by Mr. Sinwar. The Jewish Chronicle later removed that story and others written by Mr. Perry from its website and ended its association with him. The incident cast a cloud on The Chronicle, a 180-year-old newspaper whose ownership has been shrouded in mystery. On Sept. 6, a day after The Jewish Chronicle article ran, Bild published an article it said was based on a Hamas document laying out its plan for psychological warfare against Israel on the hostage issue, claiming that Hamas was in no rush to reach a deal or end the war. Some of the messaging was similar to points Mr. Netanyahu made in his news conference. The Israeli military issued a statement on Monday saying it appeared that the document cited in the Bild article was found about five months ago and was “written as a recommendation by middle ranks in Hamas, and not by Sinwar,” as the Bild headline may have suggested. The document contained information similar to that found in earlier documents, the military said, adding, “The leaking of the document constitutes a serious violation.” Critics say the exposure of the purported intelligence appeared to be part of a disinformation campaign by Mr. Netanyahu or by his supporters, intended to dampen the campaign for the hostages’ release and influence Israeli public opinion in favor of the prime minister’s negotiating positions. Was Netanyahu involved? Mr. Netanyahu has not been questioned about the allegations and his office has denied leaking information. Many details of the case remain murky because of the gag order. In one of its first statements about the affair, Mr. Netanyahu’s office said on Friday that nobody from his office had been questioned or detained. On Saturday, the prime minister’s office offered a different version, saying that the suspect in question — later revealed to be Mr. Feldstein — had never participated in security discussions and had not seen or received classified information. Mr. Netanyahu’s office also accused the authorities of carrying out a selective investigation, arguing that numerous reports based on leaked information had been published during the war without any consequences. It described the investigation as “aggressive and biased.” How has the public reacted? Israel has been in uproar over the revelations that seeped out during the weekend. Prof. Hagai Levine, an Israeli public health expert who is active in the campaign to bring the hostages home, wrote in a social media post on Sunday that “the hostages scam of Netanyahu’s office appears to be more serious than the Watergate affair that led to the resignation of President Nixon.” He described the allegations as a “combination of the abandonment of the abductees, breach of trust and the undermining of state security.” What are the latest developments? In the first official acknowledgment of the suspected security breach, a magistrate’s court in central Israel on Friday partially lifted the gag order on the case. The court ruling stated that several people had been detained as part of a joint investigation by the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, the Israeli police and the military. The judge, Menahem Mizrahi, said they were suspected of “a security breach due to the illegal transfer of classified information,” as well as putting sensitive information and sources at risk, and harming the chances of achieving the war’s objectives in Gaza. In a subsequent ruling on Sunday allowing the publication of Mr. Feldstein’s name, the judge specified that the war objective he was referring to was the return of the hostages.

Added Florida because Aubrey told me not to sleep on her Boricuas down there. Shaded according to final vote: Lightest shade: less than 5% difference (either direction) Medium: 5-10% Dark: 10%+

One very vocal Trumpy crossfit woman I went to high school with posted this on FB: "Read it again and again then go vote …" She's big mad about it.

[gestering wildly at this board] Who are you kidding? With this group, their gender reassignment assembly line will make Chili's world famous for Vienna sausages.

Except Aubrey is talking about the good kind of weirdos.

Props to the docs from Odessa, Lubbock, and Nacogdoches for putting their names out there.

I don't know where to put this but since this is the thread where we're trying to analyze shit, I figured this piece on the effect that Californians have on Texas voting patterns belongs here. It's got some interactive elements and not paywalled (at least for me), so I'm just going to drop in the link. tl;dr: Not much, if any, in the big picture. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2024/california-texas-politics/

@MissingInAction You got some 'splaining to do about you concubinin' teenage boys and racistly raging against a poor security guard.

Wordle 1,234 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #512 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1015 6️⃣4️⃣ 5️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I usually hate childhood flashbacks as a cheat code, plus kids are usually really shitty actors, but that was done beautifully.