There are exactly two people in the United States with the same Last, Middle, and First Name as me (It’s actually still true if you leave out the middle name). The other one is a few years younger than me, and when we were both somewhere in our 20’s (quite long ago), the other one had a bit of trouble paying his bills. Given the unusual name, I had a few interesting calls trying to convince some really unhappy creditors that they weren’t me.

A few years later they sold spices, and the multi level marketing spice company really had a problem distinguishing between us. They married someone whose first name is one letter different than my spouse.

Now the biggest problem is they are an elected politician. The good news is they moved to a coast, and I still live in the midwest. If they became more infamous, I would change my name.

I cancelled Hulu, it’s all I can do, it was all I had left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War

This is the Dred Scott decision of this generation, and hopefully the same uproar will follow. Civil war II to follow?

Well, that’s the last time I visit a Cracker Barrel. Oh Well.

Braggart

No, it was based on the number of times an interpretation service was called. But you and the other commenter were right, there weren’t very many good reasons to even make that comment, other than it will be an effective tool for the brown shirts to use. It was not in support of what ICE is doing.

I was in the ER recently. I’m going to make an unofficial estimate that 50% were citizens,

This plus Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana and I can finally recreate Smoky and the Bandit 1!

I don’t have any democratic representatives to call. At any level. Anywhere. Do I call Jeffries and Schumer directly?

I remember that book! Wasn’t it basically, how to make your own Eliza with a bunch of If…Then’s?

This is a great article, but it misses one very important dimension. I was raised mostly in Iowa by a conservative evangelical minister, and attended approximately 20,000 hours of church services, church camps, and national week-long meetings. My earliest memories of church start about 1973. Prayers using these same biblical references started in 1979 when Ronald Reagan began campaigning against Jimmy Carter. My “Christian” minister father stopped speaking to a lot of our relatives because they tried to point out that Jimmy Carter was a MUCH better human being than the former actor.

Forty years of conditioning sessions. These prayers aren’t new, and they aren’t specific to TFG. This was prepared.

I’ll leave you with one small anecdote: When I was in my mid teens, the logic of the evangelical movement started troubling me. During the midweek prayer meeting and Bible study (questions and discussion were encouraged) I questioned some of the premises that were being touted. I was removed (by my father, the pastor), taken to the parsonage, and told to NEVER question his authority on biblical matters in public again. Apparently there was a defiant look in my eye, and I was picked physically up and thrown through the front picture window of the parsonage. I thank my kismet, karma, or raw random chance that this happened because otherwise my family would probably be the same full on Trumpists mess that my siblings families remain to this day.

Also, I am male, I have children and grandchildren, and I don’t own a cat, but I now identify as a “childless cat lady”.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

There’s really no way to express how sad this is. We really don’t want the fascist to win, but it’s time to lay your burdens down, Joe. We love you, but give it up.

Here in Iowa we sympathize (because we have the same problem).

Flibbertigibbet

Love the John Prine line!

I’m 56. When I was in Kindergarten my parents say I shook hands with Chuck Grassley as he marched in a parade for one of his early campaigns in Cedar Falls/Waterloo Iowa. Retire already.

Why can’t someone get Alina Habba disbarred? There is surely cause.

It’s like a stretch station wagon, you can do it, but why?