Hey, at least she never got tetanus from a couch spring.

I’d listen to this band. Just saying

only after public pressure got his sentencing to be reviewed and he proved to be a liability, yes.

Before that happened, though, he was quietly given a plea deal that basically saw him leaving Club Fed for work while basically just sleeping there. for a child predator as vile as he was… well. it was far from uncomfortable. he plead out to a relatively minor crime in exchange for immunity form prosecution for federal crimes, as well.

once it entered widestream public consciousness, that definitely changed and people like, uh, trump, needed him dead.

NOPE!!

Also sharing them with the next generation. You’ll be happy to know Marvin the Martian still slaps.

Didn’t have to be, though, now did it?

Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don’t need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks. That is why, for example, Epstein targeted as many politicians as he has. He wasn’t catering to their every whim because it was profitable, it was protection.

Not just politicians, either. Leaders in agencies, the people in the right places at the right time. So that when it finally came to it, he got that sweetheart deal where he basically just used Club Fed as a hotel. And you’ll notice that Maxwell is getting the same treatment?

Historically, the whole point to the loyalty card coupons was because then they could track your purchases and sell that data on you.

It used to be incredibly valuable, and it techncially still is. But your big box retail stores are going to insane lengths, including tracking you from the moment you pull into their parking lot (including knowing what kind of car you drive,) and how many times you circle, lets say, the lego aisle, or the cookies. They know how long you spend looking at stuff and are selling all of that. (as well as using for marketing to sell you more shit you don’t need.)

well democrats and giant black boxes.

Mostly black boxes.

How long do you think the epstein shit has been going on? it’s taken decades to get this far.

This corruption has most certainly gone on for as long as I’ve been alive.

You can make a fruit syrup that’s to die for on ice cream. It works with most fruits, but berries are great. Blackberries, raspberies, blueberries. Straw berries. Some mix of all of them. Get a pot, sort out the bad berries, cover in water and simmer until it’s mush. run it through a strainer or sieve or somethingt to clean out the worst of the mush/seads and add sugar, lemon and maybe some cinnamon to taste. while you still have mostly-liquid juice, take some out to make a corn starch slurry. mabye a tablespoon of juice and a half to a quarter for the corn starch. (this helps it become glossy.) Sugar to texture/taste, and reduce to the desired thickness.

(Yes, it’ll eventually become jam.)

Also goes great on waffles, pancakes or anything like that… cheesecake, brownies. I can think of a lot of things.

You can dredge salmon or chicken in it for a nutty crust and then grill or pan fry it. Especially if it’s a coarse meal.

I do want to encourage you to try baking this, though: It’s a fairly simple recipe for a fudge crustada with a raspberry sauce. Yes, it’s pilsbury. if you can turn your oven on, you can make this (especially if you buy the crust like they want you to.) (King arthur flour tends to be better for scratch recipes, their pie crusts are near foolproof if you want to try your own pie crust.)

Use a dark-ish chocolate with the raspberry and it’s too die for.

Given that Jesus wasn’t the messiah… they’re two peas in a pod.

I mean, I decided to not have kids because I don’t want to subject anyone to the existential horror that is life, and I feel no obligation to crank out miniature replicas of me.

He says he is and you really have no way to prove it one way or the other.

Christians like to say stuff about works and then conviently ignore that Jesus had more to say about paying taxes than slavery and criticized the Pharisees for not stoning mouthy kids.

Fact is, we gloss over most of Jesus’s actual teachings because they’re problematic to most modern people. He taught the Torah, which included all sorts of atrocious laws.

wasn’t Mao 40-70 million?

What, and keep the oligarchs from buying a yacht to ferry them from the yacht their helicopter can land on and their main yacht?

kinda looks like my uncle. (Complete with the whiskers.)

I dunno, but I’d probably be dropping tips about creepy old men demanding to see girl’s genitalia outside women’s restrooms.

I’ll make sure to give them his description.

Probably make more in clicks and adds than they can make buying and scraping a very limited amount of probably-not-actually-pure gold.

Certainly less work.

(Edit: this is the irregular reminder to crack addicts and meth heads- flocke cameras have copper you can sell.)

But she def. made a mistake of not distancing herself from Biden (which I can absolutely understand on a personal level).

oh yeah. that was a rock and a hard place. Either she distanced herself from biden, or she undermines him. I think the only way she could have gotten out of it was “Of course, with hindsight there are things I would have done differently. But right now I’m the vice president and I can’t undermine the president; especially in ongoing negotiations.” rather than “There’s not a thing I would change”

Harris’s campaign was pretty well and truly fucked over by Biden, and it’s a miracle it was as close as it was.so props to Harris on that.

Also Clinton “gave” Harris her campaign strategist staff which is why they benched Walz and his “they’re weird”. I’m not sure if it was meaning to help or just out of spite, though.

Either way, the two campaigns were not the same.

Edit to add:

Clinton lost because she was a lousy candidate, and ran a campaign on rank condescension that alienated key voter blocks.

Harris lost because Biden basically fucked it over, she got handed an absolute disaster, and was in a position where she could either undermine what little Biden was trying to do with Netanyahu or alienate a different key voting block.

and yes, Biden absolutely would not have won.

none of this is to say that mysogyny didn’t play a role, one would be an idiot to say otherwise, but ultimately, Harris did remarkably well given the shit show she was handed.