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Someone else asked this proud moron how not voting would do anything but make the genocide in Gaza worse and they replied that nothing at all would change under Trump
So Substack lets paid subscribers send you messages and furthermore, if that subscriber wants it, they put the message in a format to be shared online.
I haven't posted any of these before, but this message and user name combination seemed like it could be read as a threat and made me laugh.
This court is so corrupt that it could be directly solicited by a literal cartoon caricature of a bribe — like this old Thomas Nast drawing of an anthropomorphic sack of money — and the conservatives would just say it looks like nothing at all, even as they fold the money into their pockets.
Still laughing that there are people on here arguing with erstwhile allies that vandalizing library books was A Good Protest, Actually.
"We're good at building support, you assholes! Why don't you get that?!"
Put these songs together on a playlist for a friend without realizing it looks like they translated the first title into French and then back into English to get the second
Dear Reporters,
If you’re interviewing a theocrat who says “all our laws are based on the Ten Commandments” and you don’t immediately ask them to provide evidence and examples for that laughably stupid claim, just go ahead and quit your job.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/u...
There's a famous photo of Sheriff Lawrence Rainey laughing with a plug of Red Man in his cheek, as his arrest in the "Mississippi Burning" case was initially dismissed.
I didn't realize that the makers of Red Man thanked him for the promotional plug by sending him two dozen packets and a love note.
Oh my God, I didn't realize this is literally the exact story I told in ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles was instrumental in spreading these Ten Commandments monuments across America in the 1950s ... as part of a promotional tour with the Cecil B. DeMille epic.
Eleven Commandments.
Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s.
It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.
