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

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)

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

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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.

if he gets the nom i'm going to learn something about apostrophes after the letter z i can feel it

am very much here for map’s bear content

hehe didn't you just marry one

on a sidenote to the sidenotes....

on the one hand: stocks plummeted today. on the other: SCOTUS says go ahead and sentence the mango. politically, do they cancel each other out?

I don't know how much the stock market matters. It's been at consistent record highs and people still think the economy sucks (because for most people obv the stock market being at a record high is at best an abstract benefit, their 401ks go up if they have them but they're not going to use them for years). Plus, assuming we get Fed rate cuts in September the markets will most likely rally again.

Also pheasants.

He seems like a pheasant plucker.

(xpost) Been thinking about that today too, reached the same conclusion: it's a blip that will reverse itself soon, and that it's a stock-market thing anyway, not a big election concern. (Though you know Trump will make a big deal of it while he can.) The VP story should drown it out anyway, so as long as it's not the start of something long-term.

I don't know how much the stock market matters

Already hearing the 'and how this hurts Harris' babble

The Georgia GOP civil war that trump keeps trying to start seems like it might be starting

An altercation broke out at a recent Trump campaign office opening in Valdosta when a conservative activist confronted a Republican state legislator who sponsored changes to the state’s election laws, according to interviews and a police report. #gapol
https://t.co/96JsaaPjy5

— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) August 5, 2024

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

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, August 5, 2024 1:23 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

motherfuckin huge ass dinosaur birds are taking over south minneapolis, i hate them, aggressive and dngaf

they terrorize the south hills where I live as well

So do y’all ever think about if dinosaurs talked as much as birds do? Imagine the triassic water cooler

feel like i could prob catch a wild turkey with my bare hands

they especially hate mail carriers. though I kinda miss the one who lives on my old route, I still go see him sometimes.

The Georgia GOP civil war that trump keeps trying to start seems like it might be starting

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, August 5, 2024 4:43 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lets goo

feel like i could prob catch a wild turkey with my bare hands

approach one and you'll see, they're actually faster than they look

the same is true for Georgia GOP state legislators actually

not saying it would be easy but with a little planning i think its doable xp

We had the turkeys in NE Mpls and around the U campus in St Paul when I was in grad school. Nasty fuckers!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/wild-turkey-cities.html

i hope harris will give walz a couple weeks off a year to go rambo on turkeys

turkeys don't bother me, they kinda lurk around the periphery... it's the goddamn canada geese, don't get me started on those shit birds

on the subject of turkey meat, just say no to sex with republicans

Hmmm.

Last year, I signed universal free breakfast for PA students into law.

This year, we worked across the aisle to invest more than $63 million to ensure 1.7 million kids could keep learning with a full stomach. pic.twitter.com/RY3nscwpn0

— Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) August 5, 2024

(Trying to read into why Shapiro might have posted that, since Walz and his supporters frequently cite a similar program that Walz signed into law in Minnesota.)

those kids dont love him

Learning more about the 30-50 wild turkeys that run into yards within 3-5 mins while small kids play here.

Wild, wild turkeys
Couldn't keep Walz away

betting markets flipping to Walz...

They not like Walz
They not like Walz

there were tons of wild turkeys on marthas vineyard when i lived there. they were everywhere. but there were way more skunks. so many skunks. they would scare me at night or early in the morning when i was walking to work.

i mean there are tons of wild turkeys here too but there are lots of woods here so they hide out. lots of bears too. big wild cats. moose. but i never see them. i've never seen a moose!

there are wild turkeys all over the east bay area. they hang out in super market parking lots. they are cool until they fucking stand in front of your car and refuse to move and then they are annoying

and the beak shall inherit the earth.

Here we go?:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least five U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Middle East braced for a possible new wave of attacks by Iran and its allies following last week's killing of senior members of militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
...It was unclear whether the attack was linked to threats by Iran to retaliate over the killings.

On Wednesday, Iran said the U.S. bears responsibility in the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran because of its support for Israel.

The U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said one of the wounded Americans was seriously injured. The casualty count was based on initial reports which could still change, they said.

...Last week the U.S. carried out a strike in Iraq against individuals U.S. officials said were militants getting ready to launch drones and posed a threat to U.S. and coalition forces.

...A rare ally of both the U.S. and Iran, Iraq hosts 2,500 U.S. troops and has Iran-backed militias linked to its security forces. It has witnessed escalating tit-for-tat attacks since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October.

Iraq wants troops from the U.S.-led military coalition to begin withdrawing in September and to formally end the coalition's work by September 2025, Iraqi sources have said, with some U.S. forces likely to remain in a newly negotiated advisory capacity.

Biden has been signalling the best he can that he has zero appetite for a wider war and desperately wants a ceasefire asap before such any such expansion of the war gets out of hand, so in a crazy way, Iran may be safer targeting US troops in Iraq than targeting Israel. The Imams may be calculating that an low intensity attack on US troops in Iraq will be satisfactorily face-saving and rob the crazies in Bibi's cabinet from having an excuse for massive escalation. I guess we'll see.

betting markets flipping to Walz...

how long was the flip away from him after the morning flip to him?

gdi: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-governor-approves-business-friendly-overhaul-biometric-privacy-law-2024-08-05/

that sounds bad

Biden has been signalling the best he can that he has zero appetite for a wider war and desperately wants a ceasefire asap

... By giving Israel billions of dollars in weapons and military support to murder tens of thousands indiscriminately... including the head negotiator for said ceasefire?? Ok

Trust the plan.