That congresswoman was AOC.

This reminds me of the Zebra Mussels in Lake Erie. In the 80s and 90s, invasive Zebra Mussels got into Lake Erie, and started spreading quickly. They would cover the surfaces of everything. They were afraid that they would eventually clog up the water inlet that supply drinking water to the region.

There was a near panic among government leaders for several years, as the mussels grew out of control, and no solution could be found. They even announced a contest with a significant reward if anyone could come up with a solution, but nobody could. So the problem increased.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes, so pollution and organic matter tends to concentrate there, making it very murky, and impossible to see. But the stuff in the water was food to the Zebra Mussels, and the population kept filtering the water, feeding.

Eventually, the population reached a level that the water was clearing up, allowing the sun to penetrate deeper into the water. It turns out that Zebra Mussels don't like the sun, and between that, and the decreasing amount of food in the water, their breeding slowed significantly. Now they seemed to have reached a good balance. They aren't going away, but they aren't the existential threat that they once were either.

The best news is that since the water is much clearer now, it has caused an increase in scuba diving. Being the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Erie has also known over the centuries as a bad lake to be on in a storm, and there are many shipwrecks on the bottom. They were hard to dive on in the old, dirty water days, but today those wrecks are visible, and attracting diving tourists.

So all they had to do was nothing, and the Zebra Mussels problem fixed itself, and caused a new business segment to boom.

They went from threatening people's jobs if they didn't use more AI, to threatening people's jobs if they use too much AI.

And it's ALL the workers' fault, the dummies. Let's replace them all with AI.

The Democrats should OFFICIALLY declare the Republican Party dead, and only refer to the MAGA Party from now on. Do an actual press conference, and make an official announcement - the Republican Party no longer exists, and has been replaced by the MAGA Party. That will make the traditional Republicans absolutely crazy, and the Dems should keep it up.

Never use the word Republican ever again, refer only to the MAGA, or MAGA Nazi Party. On talk shows, interviews, sound bites, fundraising texts, etc., use the term MAGA Party exclusively. When asked about it, simply say casually and matter-of-factly "The Republican Party is dead, they are the MAGA Party from now on," and leave it at that. Make the MAGAs cry.

He's not a traitor, or a pedophile, or even corrupt. He's not even incompetent! How could ANYONE vote for this guy?

These graduation speakers that show up to extol the wonders of AI are like the Groom on his wedding night, going on and on about how fuckable all the Bridesmaids were, and then being surprised that his new Bride is pissed off at him.

I'm not concerned about some young videogamer getting free healthcare. I'm more concerned with the DOGE GOBLIN getting BILLIONS in government contracts to build rockets that blow up spectacularly, wasting a billion dollars with every explosion, just so he can quip "Just a scratch."

That's a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.

I'm not worried about American citizens getting health care, I'm worried about Foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs getting BILLIONS in government contracts, paid for by taxes on the working class, while calling those same workers/taxpayers "parasites."

They're not doing it to protect kids.

I had a job I loved, although it was owned by a complete asshole. I got a new job, at nearly double the pay. I agreed to give 2 weeks notice, even though it was going to cost me a lot of money, which I needed (this was my first good paying job, and I was broke).

Rather than understand that I was doing him a favor, my asshole boss decided to torture me for my final two weeks. I put up with it for a week, then told him I was done on Friday. I was essentially paying out of my pocket to give him 2 weeks, but I wasn't going to pay him to abuse me, so I just left him standing there with his mouth agape.

I took the weekend off, and started my cool new new job on Monday (and it was a cool job, one of the best I've ever had).

Why does she have a Nathan Lane tattoo?

I know a few Venezuelans who are citizens, and they tell me they aren't worried, but I am. I've heard they are review citizenship and green card applications, and looking for discrepancies, and if they find them, they are pulling their citizenships. They don't even respect birthright citizenship, which is in the Constitution. They aren't going to respect the citizenship process.

Bottom line, if you were born somewhere else, they want you gone. After that, they'll be going after actual citizens they don't like.

Unionize Everything!

I want him in prison, eating prison food, for the rest of his life, knowing his fortune is confiscated, and all his family and friends are in prison, everything he tried to accomplish has been rolled back, and it is illegal to name anything after him. His legacy erased, and his name reviled for the rest of history.

I wouldn't say no to execution, either.

Who the fuck cares what the Bible says? I'm under no obligation to live my life guided by fairy tales someone else believes in. If you want to be dumb enough to fall for that, be my guest, but don't use it to justify immoral behavior.

This is where God gets to prove he's real, and he's on the side of the people. If it's true, Venice will finally sink into the sea and become a legend, like Atlantis.

If that happens, I'll finally go to church every Sunday. Hear me God? That's what it will take.

Abrego Garcia was charged with human smuggling and conspiracy to commit human smuggling, with prosecutors claiming that he accepted money to transport within the United States people who were in the country illegally.

The charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee for speeding. Body camera footage from a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer shows a calm exchange with Abrego Garcia. There were nine passengers in the car, and the officers discussed among themselves their suspicions of smuggling. However, Abrego Garcia was eventually allowed to continue driving with only a warning.

For those trying to say he was some evil guy involved in human smuggling or trafficking, he had been sent by his employer, in a company-owned van, to pick up and take construction workers from one site to another. He wasn't "smuggling" or "trafficking" anybody, he was doing his job, and since it involved driving company property, and carrying company personnel, presumably he was a highly trusted and valued employee.

Just a little context on the "criminal monster" we're talking about here.

There are still two groups of people for whom bullying is still acceptable, and strongly encouraged: MAGAs, and Anti-Vaxxers. Also, Flat Earthers, but they probably belong to one of the first groups.

Oh, dude, I hear that. I've always told people that the secret to having a good relationship with your kids is: Love what your kids love, and your kids will love you.

So one day I was waiting in line at Chipotle, standing next to a table with a guy and his teen son, who was going on and on about an episode of Dragonball Z in intense detail, as his Dad looked like he wanted to die.

I went home and called my son, who knows my philosophy, and told him about seeing the guy and his son, and said "I have to give the guy credit for hanging in there, but if you had been a Pokemon or Anime kid...I would have had to cut you loose."

He laughed, and said he would have deserved it.

These guys like to include things like payroll taxes, and SS payments, etc. "I pay millions in taxes, just not out of my pocket."

Yeah, Skippy, we want what's in your pocket, too, because whatever you paid in payroll taxes, it should have been triple. That's money that should have gone to your workers, so they'll get it in the form of government services like health care and free college instead.

Jesus being led by the Roman Guards to see Pilate.

This photo did not have the propaganda effect they were expecting. It had a propaganda effect, but for the wrong side.

They're going to fuck up this case so bad, Luigi's going to walk, and the MAGA Nazis are going to go apeshit. Next summer is going to be wild.