hey, that's pretty fun as far as Biden joeks go
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
it's a good burn from biden
this article's fun
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/politics/joe-biden-messaging-struggles/index.html
(Covid News Network (CNN))Being familiar never makes the feeling less dreadful: White House aides emailing each other during one of President Joe Biden's stops on the road, tracking who's covering what he's saying, which TV channels are taking the speech live -- and realizing a number of times that the answer was none."You are thinking," said one person familiar, "why are we doing this?"Biden and his inner circle get weekly readouts of the metrics on local newspaper coverage of his speeches, how long and for what he was covered on cable, but also videos that staff post on Twitter and other social media interactions. Those reports go on the piles with internal memos from pollsters saying Biden isn't breaking through in traditional news outlets and that the people who are engaged are mostly voters who've already made up their minds.But beneath this struggle to break through is a deeper dysfunction calcified among aides who largely started working together only through Zoom screens and still struggle to get in rhythm. They're still finding it hard to grasp how much their political standing has changed over the last year, and there's a divide between most of the White House staff and the inner circle who have been around Biden for longer than most of the rest of that staff has been alive. In an email to CNN, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said, "That is not the dynamic in the White House."At the center is a president still trying to calibrate himself to the office. The country is pulling itself apart, pandemic infections keep coming, inflation keeps rising, a new crisis on top of new crisis arrives daily and Biden can't see a way to address that while also being the looser, happier, more sympathetic, lovingly Onion-parody inspiring, aviator-wearing, vanilla chip cone-licking guy -- an image that was the core of why he got elected in the first place."He has to speak to very serious things," explained one White House aide, "and you can't do that getting ice cream.".........They'll say he's answering reporters' questions whenever he's asked, while nixing interview requests to avoid the hours of prep and possible clean-up. They'll acknowledge that Biden himself feels shut off enough that he's quietly had a half-dozen sessions with favored writers since the fall, like last month's lunch with the New York Times' Tom Friedman, in which the columnist shared his own impressions of Biden's off-the-record thoughts, with only the tuna sandwich, fruit bowl and milkshake approved for publication.
"You are thinking," said one person familiar, "why are we doing this?"
Biden and his inner circle get weekly readouts of the metrics on local newspaper coverage of his speeches, how long and for what he was covered on cable, but also videos that staff post on Twitter and other social media interactions. Those reports go on the piles with internal memos from pollsters saying Biden isn't breaking through in traditional news outlets and that the people who are engaged are mostly voters who've already made up their minds.
But beneath this struggle to break through is a deeper dysfunction calcified among aides who largely started working together only through Zoom screens and still struggle to get in rhythm. They're still finding it hard to grasp how much their political standing has changed over the last year, and there's a divide between most of the White House staff and the inner circle who have been around Biden for longer than most of the rest of that staff has been alive. In an email to CNN, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said, "That is not the dynamic in the White House."
At the center is a president still trying to calibrate himself to the office. The country is pulling itself apart, pandemic infections keep coming, inflation keeps rising, a new crisis on top of new crisis arrives daily and Biden can't see a way to address that while also being the looser, happier, more sympathetic, lovingly Onion-parody inspiring, aviator-wearing, vanilla chip cone-licking guy -- an image that was the core of why he got elected in the first place."He has to speak to very serious things," explained one White House aide, "and you can't do that getting ice cream."
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They'll say he's answering reporters' questions whenever he's asked, while nixing interview requests to avoid the hours of prep and possible clean-up. They'll acknowledge that Biden himself feels shut off enough that he's quietly had a half-dozen sessions with favored writers since the fall, like last month's lunch with the New York Times' Tom Friedman, in which the columnist shared his own impressions of Biden's off-the-record thoughts, with only the tuna sandwich, fruit bowl and milkshake approved for publication.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
only the tuna sandwich, fruit bowl and milkshake approved for publication.
i haven't drank in 20 days now, but this makes me want to go harry nilsson 1975
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
“You put the tuna sandwich in the fruit bowl milkshake…”
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
imagine being in a room with a tuna sandwich and Tom Friedman's hot air.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
the mind of joe biden is on a ride now, a passenger on a comfortable food journey that he no longer controls so much as influences
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
someone mentions that retirement companies are going to allow people to put 20% of their income directly into crypto retirement accounts.
joe biden blinks. all of his aides are on zoom, muted.
joe biden tears into his tuna sandwich with renewed vigor
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
what the fuck
“It’s inappropriate to ... subsidize political activism of a private corporation.”— Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) defends vetoing funds for a Tampa Bay Rays practice facility after the team tweeted about gun control pic.twitter.com/8owFo7G1A8— The Recount (@therecount) June 3, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
if incoherent ranting about "woke capitalism" puts an end to using public funds for sports bullshit...hooray?
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
Some good news:
Univision is selling many of its Spanish-language radio stations — including Miami's ultraconservative Radio Mambí — to a group led by Democrats.Creating a beachhead in a broadcast market often dominated by conservative or right-wing programming, a newly formed, Latino-owned and bipartisan media group is announcing Friday it has purchased 18 major Spanish-language radio stations owned by the TelevisaUnivision network — including Miami's Radio Mambí.
WLRN has learned that the Latino Media Network, or LMN — headed by Stephanie Valencia, a Latino community outreach director for former President Barack Obama, and Democratic activist Jessica Morales Rocketto — has bought the stations for $60 million.
The AM and FM stations are located in 10 of the country's largest Latino markets, including Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston and Las Vegas.
LMN says it has secured financing from "leading Latino investors" as well as Lakestar Finance, an investment group associated with businessman-philanthropist George Soros.
Other prominent LMN investors and advisers include Hollywood actress Eva Longoria, former Florida Republican Party chair Al Cárdenas, former Miami-Dade College President Eduardo Padrón and radio entrepreneur Tom Castro.
The purchase comes amid years of accusations that Spanish-language radio, especially in Miami, has become one of the most prominent sources of right-wing disinformation in the U.S.
Democrats have long chafed at much of it, particularly in 2020 when talk show hosts at stations like Mambí labeled then-presidential candidate Joe Biden a "socialista" who would turn the U.S. into a left-wing dictatorship like Venezuela's.
But until now, Democrats and Latino liberals and moderates had focused their efforts and resources on monitoring Spanish-language radio outlets instead of trying to own stations themselves.
https://www.wlrn.org/news/2022-06-03/a-new-latino-media-group-is-buying-up-and-shaking-up-spanish-language-radio
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
The ripple effect from that alone could be legitimately huge.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
It's hard to explain how big AM radio is in Miami even for men and women you'd think are too young to listen.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
“It’s inappropriate to ... subsidize political activism of a private corporation.”
Gov. DeSantis, Hobby Lobby is on line one. Chik-Fil-A is on line Two. They'd like a talk with you.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Condemning homosexuals isn't political activism. BEING a homosexual is!
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 3 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
sometimes i'll just lean my head back at my desk and daydream about a politician or party that would have the balls to say something like this in the interest of doing something actually good. silly, i know. but what would that look like. would people like it? would cable news give it much air? would Claire McCaskill or David Axelrod come on to tell us that this is Bad, Actually?
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 3 June 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
there's been an influx of competition in the past few years, but i think this joker is still the dumbest guy in congress
Rep Louie Gohmert on Navarro indictment: "If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you" pic.twitter.com/8eIkkycukd— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 3, 2022
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 June 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Well I mean that does violate the holy writ of IOKIYAR. Sad times.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 3 June 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
"If you're a Republican, you can't even skip two to ten years of paying taxes or the IRS comes after you, it ain't fair!"
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
""South Dakota Legislators Seek Hasty Repeal of Ethics Law Voters Passed." Of course, it was actually South Dakota Republican legislators"
I was just in SD for the past week and if there is a non-republican state legislator, I'd like to know, because that place is 100% non stop Republican candidate advertising across the board. On top of that, from what I can tell, they don't even mail out voter information packets, which I cannot believe. My mother said "oh in california we'd get a booklet that told us what we were voting on" and I said "uh, yeah?" she's never received one.
― akm, Friday, 3 June 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
"no big deal to lie to the FBI?""yeah, exactly."
Dems gotta use that in an ad!!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
Louie Gohmert used to be a judge.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 3 June 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
that information alone undoes any sort of legitimacy of the US legal system
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 3 June 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
Checks and balances ... or the shell game writ large?
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Friday, 3 June 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
the contents of my colostomy bag have more of a sense of ethics and intelligence than Gohmert on a good day when he was young.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 3 June 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
In my mond he talks like Gomer Pyle. I'm not clicking on that to check, though.
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 4 June 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
~mind~
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 4 June 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
Thanks for nothing Merrick Garland per Guardian reporter (although NPR reporter Carrie Johnson says "Not a surprise given their partial cooperation and their roles close to then President Trump."
Two sources confirm DOJ told Jan. 6 committee this morning that it would not pursue contempt of Congress charges against Trump aides Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino
New: Two sources confirm DOJ told Jan. 6 committee this morning that it would not pursue contempt of Congress charges against Trump aides Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino — matching scoop by @alanfeuer and @lukebroadwater— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 4, 2022
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 June 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
Garland wimps out thanks to "partial cooperation" and fear of litigation over exec privilege
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 June 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UKPFMwm.png
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 June 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
oof
Briahna Joy Gray: Fox News is more inclined to have a leftist on than MSNBC and CNN. (MSNBC regularly hosts members of the squad)Kim Iversen: "I used to hate Tucker Carlson... but I've grown to appreciate him... he's so anti-establishment"Briahna Joy Gray: That's exactly right. pic.twitter.com/wtB6TvvPcI— Matthew Dimitri 🐍🧪 (@themattdimitri) June 4, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 June 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
Briahna Joy Gray is a nonsense grifter who is full of shit and should be ignored
― akm, Sunday, 5 June 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
bernie's campaign retroactively tainted by association with her frankly
― akm, Sunday, 5 June 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
i read the thread and wow what an unpleasant conversation they're all having
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 6 June 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
never read the thread
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 6 June 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
It's amazing how BJG has not tried to finesse the grift at all, just went from zero to sixty on the Tucker kiss-ass career path after the Virgil Texas debacle.
― Chris L, Monday, 6 June 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
she and matt christman have definitely dipped the toe into populist white grievance messaging many months ago. on one of her chapo guest appearances she lamented that covid lockdowns separated white people from their churches and families so who could blame them for their anger. to enthusiastic agreement, natch!
― bamcquern, Monday, 6 June 2022 02:07 (one year ago) link
Members of the failed People's Convoy, now '1776 Restoration Movement', were told that locals would donate a "100 foot long" Subway sandwich for their encampment. But, it turns out, it was all a hoax, as convoy members now claim "antifa extremists" were behind the sandwich scam.— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 5, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 6 June 2022 04:11 (one year ago) link
Worth noting that not a single member questioned the length of the sandwich, despite a 100-foot-long sub being insanely long for a group of 20 or so people!
Questioned it hell, they were excited about those 5 feet of sandwich each. The 1776 Restoration Movement marches on its belly.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 June 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
Interesting that John Oliver exposed the/a Subway scam in his last episode 2 weeks ago. How prescient.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 June 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Sounds like Antifa.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
what would a 1776 Subway sandwich include? Oxen, horseradish, mincemeat & molasses on a whole rye bun
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
preserved rations from valley forge
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
NEW: Far-right provocateur and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has found a new gig: Capitol Hill intern for MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://t.co/6PH35NABnv— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 6, 2022
i hate this reality
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
I don't know, I think that's kinda perfect. There is no higher office to which Marjorie Taylor Greene can realistically aspire. She's stuck in that House seat for a few more years, getting on Fox News on the regular but pushing through absolutely no legislation, and...that's...it. That's her life, summed up. She'll be a political troll for a little while longer, until someone shoots her or she gets indicted for something or she just gets bored and decides to run for Senate or governor, in which case she'll get demolished. So Milo, who self-immolated beautifully once already, is currently "working" as an *intern* for a political dead-ender. Good for him. I hope he overstays his visa and gets deported and banned from the country, but in the meantime, he's got a dead-end job that might (but probably won't) get him on Tucker Carlson's show once. The stench of loser-dom in that office must be enough to make people want to cover their faces with a rag soaked in Vick's.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
wasn't milo hawking catholic curios on a shopping network recently? I guess any gig is better than that, even being MTG's office boy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Eh, Greene is one thing, I just hate that anyone is giving Milo a chance at laundering his image at this point in time. Fuck that guy forever.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Not least because he is now claiming to be an "ex gay" and is pushing conversion therapy.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
the shit thing is even if she is a political albatross it's still useful for the GOP to keep her around, since every time she says something idiotic it gets a ton of media coverage and leads to people donating to unseat her, despite being in a Trump +99 district
― frogbs, Monday, 6 June 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
i stumbled across a radio interview with an old high school friend today. i used to be facebook friends with him, back when i had facebook, and unfortunately he'd turned into a real classic white dude right wing / libertarian anger machine since the days i knew him. he and i had been really close. we started a band together. he was two years older than me. his name was herbie and he literally drove a beige beetle. he loved fugazi and ministry. we went to hardcore and metal shows together. i watched all kinds of "edgy" vhs tapes in his parents' rec room. clockwork orange, the wall. we both smoked camel filters. he loved to quote alastair crowley's "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". i always added "as long as it doesn't stop somebody else doing what they wilt" and he thought that was funny and agreed with it.
anyway, it turns out he ended up enlisting and going to somalia. when he came back he had ptsd. in the radio interview he said that his job was to get food and supplies to villages in somalia, and what would happen is that warlords would figure out where the drops were happening, and just clean up behind the us military, killing whoever they needed to in order to steal all the stuff. so it felt to him like his unit was basically responsible for wiping out village after village indirectly. i thought this was pretty insightful, so i looked him up on instagram. his handle is "synapticleftist" and he is now in the psychology department at the university of tennessee and specializing in PTSD and drug addiction!!! so like.. people can change. for the worse, maybe, and then for the better. i think in herbie's case it sounds like it took a lot of very hard personal experience - and then seeing exactly how republican politicians actually treat veterans - to get to a better place.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
Interesting, I found out today that someone with whom I went to nerd camp as a teenager is now Curtis Yarvin’s fiancée. She even wrote a long, neoliberal Facebook post about how she was being attacked and how couples should be able to get past their political differences. That and one of my teenage mentors ending up being a lead editor and writer for The Federalist is pretty, uh, jarring.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Cajun Style
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
as I understand it Gorsuch is actually surprisingly good on American Indian rights issues, he consistently rules in their favor
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
Regarding fundraising (not that I have donated for a long time), I think the politicians are doing what their pollsters are telling them to do, in the hopes that the small power of the masses will outweigh the limited(?) power of the elite. They can't escape the mass channels of influence unless they resort to influencers and have superpowers with respect to social intelligence. I think Obama resigned himself to fundraising as a surrogate for community activism.
― youn, Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
The incessant begging emails are the product of many decades of direct-mail advertising techniques, where different kinds of appeals are tried, the results of each are carefully tabulated and compared, the least successful are eliminated and the most successful are refined. The overall effect is to converge upon approaches that appeal most strongly to the least common denominator. Most potential small dollar donors are totally baffled by the byzantine complexities of US politics.
The collision of the internet, direct mail techniques, and the simple-minded political perspective of the target audience produces the results you see in these emails. It doesn't do any good to feel insulted. The pols are just captive to the need to find the most efficient way to raise money and, for now, this is what works best.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Does it do good to do anything, Aimless? Sometimes I wonder about who are the cynical and nihilistic ones.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
seriously
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
he's LDS, Mormons have a whole thing with regard to Native Americans
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
or wait no he's presbyterian??? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/02/01/neil-gorsuch-belongs-to-a-notably-liberal-church-and-would-be-the-first-protestant-on-the-court-in-years/
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
as I understand it Gorsuch is actually surprisingly good on American Indian rights issues, he consistently rules in their favor― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, June 30, 2022 5:12 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, June 30, 2022 5:12 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah it's his thing
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-tribal-rights-sonia-sotomayor.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
he must be charles m. russell collector or something
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
he is the only western judge on the supreme court right now fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
Sometimes the appeals are for people to show up. Perhaps the pollsters are thinking of disposable income and disposable time and weighing their appeals accordingly. Apathy is hard to escape. Most people don't expect an effect and come to weigh and parcel out their contributions or efforts to when enough people feel the same or they can ride a common sentiment and not stick out. (xpost)
― youn, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
I think Trump's politics have been described as transactional and the most corrupt governments might be considered the same. There is a notion of giving for a cause or belief that is distinct from a direct payback for survival.
― youn, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
Is there a sudden spate of decorating walls with dripping ketchup or similar condiment. Is there a specific canonical ketchup one needs to base things on ?
― Stevolende, Friday, 1 July 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Looks like the hearings are having some effect:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/gop-megadonors-turn-on-trump-look-for-2024-alternatives-after-jan-6-hearings.html
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 July 2022 09:57 (one year ago) link
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1912-09-23/ed-1/seq-29/?loclr=blogloc
"Commoners' food"; also mustard, with cheese in Ulysses IIRC; ~= false embellishment
― youn, Friday, 1 July 2022 10:22 (one year ago) link
Biden stated that he wanted to overturn the filibuster and codify abortion rights.
Is that news?
― the pinefox, Friday, 1 July 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
So what are we calling the July thread?
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 1 July 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link
Orange Jesus Take the Wheel (just kidding)
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Friday, 1 July 2022 12:17 (one year ago) link
"I'm the effing president"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 July 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
so i've been trying to do something with this overwhelming anger i've felt over the last few weeks, months, years and was hoping to do more in local criminal justice. does anyone know of databases that store crime, charges, age of accused etc?
― Heez, Friday, 1 July 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
We. Would. CRY.: US Politics, July 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 July 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link