US Politics, August 2024 -- "Unburdened By a Has-Been"

Why can't these people just be crazy in their mansions?

our next president, RFK Jr.

try that in a small convertible

Excellent piece by Nikole Hannah-Jones

thank you. it's crazy that it needs to be said at all, but American apartheid ensures that white Americans do not need to know anything about the realities of being Black in America if they don't care to know.

"Why can't these people just be crazy in their mansions?"

its like timberlake losing his license. you can't afford to have someone drive you home, dimwit? there is no reason for crazy rich people to ever burden our overburdened game wardens and traffic cops.

I don't think U.S. Congress reps are necessarily rich, by the way -- they're younger and there are fewer people who get in by being rich. Like, I don't think Ocasio-Cortez is rich, I think she has more normal-person finances. Of course at some point she'll get a 6-figure book deal but that's still not the same as being a doctor and having a 6-figure annual income.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, August 5, 2024 11:16 AM (one hour ago)

you also have to fight for your job every other year, it's exhausting. bless your child/ren if you have a family bc that is a grueling life.
https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/political-stress

better to just have some cats!

I don't think Ocasio-Cortez is rich, I think she has more normal-person finances

i distinctly remember people freaking out that she bought a Tesla several years ago. It was the low end model but some people still can't accept that just because you buy a new car it doesn't mean you're rich.

lucking out an real estate equity by being old doesn't really make you rich either

gamblers think it's walz based on odds moving in the past 30 mins

https://polymarket.com/event/democratic-vp-nominee?tid=1722881897768

those odds add up to > 100% which happens when they are moving very fast (or when they are meaningless bs too). wonder if it leaked.

i had to go and look. yes, tim walz is a hunter. maybe he's the good kind? i still want him over shapiro in a big way. i can't listen to fauxbama. he looks like too many people i knew in philly. a lawyer basically. or restaurant owner. as someone who worked in restaurants and a law firm in philly i can tell you peeeeeyooooo.

Apparently a fake tweet set the markets moving?

walz hunts turkeys, which is good because there are way too many of them

i wonder what walz money indulgence is, a 10k collection of power tools? or model trains.

My money is on model trains

choo choo

Locked Up The Important Neil Young Endorsement

Also pheasants. I think it’s a feature of liberal hunters in MN that they are usually enthusiastic conservationists - my uncle who raised goslings for MNDNR when Canada geese were still endangered and led an Isaac Walton League branch was the first person to mention global warming to me. If you killed it, you had to eat it - a hard lesson to learn when creek fishing and you catch a bullhead.

EXCLUSIVE: Source close to @KamalaHarris camp tells me she has made her decision, and the VP candidate has accepted the position of running mate. Stay close as we learn who it is.

— Roop Raj (@rooprajfox2) August 5, 2024

ha I saw people speculating that Walz was the pick because Shapiro's camp would have leaked it immediately if it was him

too bad stephen stills is going for the bear-tk killer

xxp

actually nvm i think he rescinded his rfk endorsement after some bit of nonsense

i wonder what walz money indulgence is, a 10k collection of power tools? or model trains.

Ice fishing shed with a big screen TV

^^^^^ this

Ugh, Trump is coming to Montana on Friday. (We have plenty of guns here, but unfortunately this is going to be an indoor event.) The building has an official capacity of 8,455, so get ready for lies about turnout!

too bad stephen stills is going for the bear-tk killer

actually nvm i think he rescinded his rfk endorsement after some bit of nonsense

Perhaps he stopped and looked what's going round.

lol

XPS "The late, great John Dutton came to me, with his beautiful daughter Beth, both with tears in their eyes..."

Nash asked him to come to Chicago

Meanwhile, Adin Rosa gave Trump a Cybertruck and a Rolex.

is RFK Jr. still, like, campaigning? Is he doing events? Or just hedging his bets on being Trump's Secretary of the Inferior

the Interior...of his asshole

Honestly the fact that Trump feels like he has to come to Montana kinda says something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcYTShN4Fk

i dimly remember a Hemingway short story where he kills a bear and eats the meat...with marmalade?

Aren't you supposed to avoid eating bear meat because of parasites?

Honestly the fact that Trump feels like he has to come to Montana kinda says something.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, August 5, 2024 2:26 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

not just the competitive senate race?

xp I think it's safe if well cooked.. like left in the back of the car on a hot day

He’s already full of parasites what’s the issue w a few more

just to stay on-topic for today's political news, iirc from reading multiple books about fur trappers in the early half of the 19th century, they considered bear meat to be so inferior as to constitute something only to be eaten if starving.

xp now we know how he got Wormy the Worm in his skull.. roadkill!

i for one enjoy bear meat if you get what i'm sayin (hi alfred)

https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/lowlywormmmmmmm_465_336_int.jpg

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/everythingbusytown/images/9/9e/Richard_Scarry%27s_Best_ABC_Video_Ever.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20130122212204

As sent around by the KamalaHQ account just now with the caption "Low energy, @realdonaldtrump?"

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2nkztwlaqopwokupbumpou7f/bafkreiho5gwd7cjbo2tqvfn5urovpmc3nmwbf6ezlgu5hil6a2rqijfgom@jpeg

Re: bears

I have cooked and eaten bear meat, and made bear sausage, and rendered bear lard and used it for pie crust. You can only eat bear if it's been living off berries - bears that eat fish and trash taste too nasty to eat. The meat by itself is very fatty and I don't really like the flavor, which is quite strong and distinctive. Bear lard makes an okay crust for a quiche, but has too strong a flavor for a pie. The sausage, on the other hand, is very good because of the high fat content. You do need to make sure you cook it thoroughly because bears, like pigs, can give you trichinosis.

Hence the standing argument that my aunt and uncle have from time to time, which goes like this:

Aunt: A bear is a pig.
Uncle, mildly: Well, it's not really a pig.
Aunt, firmly: Yes, a bear is a pig.
Uncle: Well, I wouldn't say it's a pig, exactly.

And so on.

in local news, i saw a very old man emerge from his car in the parking lot of a sad grocery store by the freeway. he was wearing a trump hat and he literally looked like the cryptkeeper.

xp all bears are pigs, it's true

according to this Walz's net work is $13k, so that should offset any weird feelings people have about Harris' necklace

https://time.com/6999522/jd-vance-net-worth-estimations-trump-vice-president-pick-background/

worth, I meant, obv

damn maybe one day i'll have walz' net worth, feels attainable.