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Bill Smith's avatar

Jordan, who lacks the skill or the intelligence to investigate my dog’s butt, is a law school graduate. There’s no record of him passing the bar exam, and I have no idea whether he ever took it, but the little snot can at least kind of pretend to having a law degree.

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TCinLA's avatar

He's still a wrestler who probably got tossed on his head a time or two too many.

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Karen RN's avatar

Looks like he was tossed on his head a time or two too many. What the fuck is he doing in a leadership position in Congress???? Sorry I had to vent. The real question is how do we get through to the kool aid crowd that votes for these idiots. Or is it the absent crowd that doesn’t vote at all? Where do we direct our energy to make a change? Well that last sentence sounds like a polite nurse. Let me rephrase: how do we direct our energy to defeat these fascist assholes?

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TCinLA's avatar

Keep on "mouthing off" - I love it.

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Bill Alstrom (MAtoMainetoMA)'s avatar

So you have a very feisty side as well as an intelligent one! Here's my answer to your question:

We direct our energy towards the turnout of Democratic and Independent voters. Register kids as soon as they are eligible. Focus on the people who are NOT fascist assholes.

There are a lot more of us and our numbers are growing. Their numbers are shrinking. Gen Y and Z are not buying their bullshit. They mostly embrace our tolerance and progressive ideas.

And then there is the concept we tossed around yesterday. "Covid is evolution's IQ test". Let 'em not vaccinate. Let 'em not wear masks. The grim reaper is not done with this pandemic yet. Sadly, they will drag some innocents with them. You know that better than any of us. But still...the science and modern medicine deniers are rolling dice and they are loaded on the losing side.

So as we "turn them under", we turn out - and out vote the remaining assholes.

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TCinLA's avatar

Yeah, this is the only way to go with any real evidence of success. But it involves people getting off their assets and going to work.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you Bill. You answered my question well. And you may have come up with a great slogan in your last sentence “they turn under we turn out”. T-shirts, bumper stickers….😹

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JDinTX's avatar

Glad you overcame that polite nurse thing, I overcame that empathetic counselor thing a while back, at least where these cretins are concerned…

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David Levine's avatar

just before the pandemic, I had dinner with an old student and her husband. I'd been her counselor about thirty years ago. when I re-established contact with her a few years before that, she actually had to ask to "make sure" I wasn't a Repug. so I get that whole deal about overcoming the "empathetic counselor thing" with a vengeance. I actually had no idea I'd been so good at it. right now, I'm thinking it might just be an overrated skill. whatcha think, Jeri?

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TCinLA's avatar

I can tell you as the guy in the other chair in the room, an empathetic counselor who knows their shit is truly invaluable.

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Christine (FL)'s avatar

Karen. Hahahahahahaha. As a career long educator, I also get to the point of rephrasing my rhetoric to comment on these fascist bitty brats.

Especially jordan. What in the world is wrong with his face? Was he born looking like a crazy ass fanatic or is that the result of years of being a threadbare suit cheap theatric do-nothing who could not pass any bar exam regardless of how many tries.

I look at him preening now with usurped power and he is nothing but a dangerous boy who has been whupped too many times.

And scottie perry? Ewww. Do not get me started. What a blochead.

Salud, my friend.

🗽

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David Levine's avatar

whenever I've had to depend on nurses (altogether too many times) I've felt like I needed to "trim my wick," politically speaking if, say, I needed my iv to be changed quickly (and when it has to be changed, it's gotta be changed QUICKLY). which is to say: thank god for YOU, Karen.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you David. If I am ever your nurse you will always have a good IV

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Bill Smith's avatar

I’d say a few more hard hits would not have been undeserved. Not too late.

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JDinTX's avatar

No, he is a deliberate cretin who knows exactly what he is doing, all the while sitting in the front row pew.

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Jeanne Stevens's avatar

He makes me sick. What a worthless piece of shit.

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David Levine's avatar

he's actually worse than that. as far as I know, the issue of what he knew and when about the ongoing sexual abuse on that wrestling team has never been adequately settled.

or am I wrong about this?

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TCinLA's avatar

It's never even been inadequately settled.

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SusanA's avatar

"A little learning is a dang'rous thing."

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JDinTX's avatar

Damn straight, trailer trash House, sticking it to anybody with brains or integrity. And the monied arses are all in…

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