Willfully Horn

I can’t get them all the way without completely losing interest.

Most interesting thing seen there since Hendrix played Lewisville in ‘69.

Add her’s to the tome of stories where right wing talking points were incompatible with fact.

Dude is giving his dick the stink eye as he walks away.

Fried Lizard Thighs?

Those paying attention know the loony right is tautological these days.

Taxes weren’t too high in the fifties, and have been imbecilically low ever since. Then again, I believe in society spending on society. Reagan was a bullshit myth, he empowered traitors, and he fucking exploded the debt. Just like every Republican President in my lifetime. Fuck Clinton. Fuck Bush, elder and shrub. And may God damn Trump.

Texas is too big for me not to disagree. Texas is like NM, and AZ, it is like LA and AR, and it is like plains states. CR is that way >>>>>>

The moon controls menstrual cycles.

God bless healthcare workers and your family.

British folk can be insightful. From Twitter: A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White

Meathook.

I think the stat you omitted is the explanation: mostly college educated. Edited to add: Wildcat makes sense, too.

You can’t fathom a connection between opprobrium and staying in the closet?

No longer true. Now he wants a place in Colorado, where he will reinforce the narrative there, the one where all Texans are arrogant psychopaths.

That the failures of history curriculums in public schools, which were instigated by so called Christians, can be avoided, generally speaking, at Christian schools. I say this knowing there are many Christian denominations that aren’t burdened by the idiocy that underscores removing actual history from history classes. I have no doubt the best Christian private schools teach actual history. I was thinking about the wackadoodle private schools that are springing up like weeds, and, you know, brush width, after reading this: ”I can think of another example of a disparity in education between private and public schools, in this case specifically relgious schools:”

I’m pleased you have your kids in a good school. And it would be nice to think private schools have changed, and yours is not an outlier. Your second post argues the contrary, imo. The right wing nutbars, who made you critique possible, call themselves Christian. And it makes me rage that any public school wouldn’t be acceptable. Luckily, the schools my kids were more than acceptable. The high school that I went to taught me that a new computer wing trumps code of conduct violations.

“In 2023, the federal estate tax ranges from rates of 18% to 40% and generally only applies to assets over $12.92 million.” https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/estate-tax There are around 1.5 million decamillionaires, and almost 22 million millionaires in this country.

Resetting the baseline cost when investments are inherited is a massive loss of tax dollars. AND Spending more per student generally leads to better schools and education.

Hays City. Poured for less than ten minutes. That wind, though. Last two rain events have brought the motherfucking wind.