Not all HOAs are as bad as some of the stories we've heard about here in California and, in recent years, the state legislature has passed laws that constrain the worst tendencies to 'over control' owners. We have 270 units, about half of which are owner-occupied. Many take active interest in how things are run here after a period with not-so-positive "rulership" by the board.
Our units are townhouses in buildings ranging from 2-6 units per, set in 5.4 acres of nicely landscaped common area, built 1976-78 when land wasn't so expensive). Buildings are paired back to back so we get to know near neighbors as we come and go from our garages via a shared driveway. Pets are allowed so we also get to know one another when walking our dogs and in other outdoor activities (tennis courts, now painted to accommodate pickleball as well. I think this indoor-outdoor setup, as compared to condo buildings that are like apartment buildings, makes a huge difference in our quality of life and neighborhood.
However, because of the age of the buildings and due to past board members now gone, we are currently approaching a major assessment to address aged stucco and water intrusion problems due to past deferred maintenance that has been a huge strain on our reserves (again, ). A small subcommittee of owners formed a "construction committee" who are working with the board to develop an RFQ/RFP. So, at least here, we are fortunate to have a number of actively involved non-board owners along with an excellent HOA board.
All in all, I feel very fortunate to live in this particular HOA, and I know of friends who also live in HOAs they consider to be reasonably managed by their boards. The key, as in everything in life, is to pay attention, take active roles and work with our neighbors.
Yes, I’ve always been told that they are people who seem to need to feel important by holding and running meetings… Making up rules for a captive audience and all of that.
We don’t see bumper stickers like we used to and I know I certainly have none… Not worth the risk of having tires slashed, car keyed or worse…
I don’t remember the issue, but in the south part of Palo Alto, where I spent my teaching career, a more diverse community than the north…They were closing some schools, were consolidating… One school considered itself quite elite, were highly resentful being forced to join us, one of the most diverse in town… I heard of windows broken because of signs in windows, rocks thrown. I heard that happened in my hometown of El Segundo, just south of LAX, which was anything but diverse as I was growing up… I heard later when some busing happened to diversify the population in the schools, there was actually some sort of violence… And we’re talking sunny Southern California! Ugh. It’s been awhile too, because I’m what I confess to people… I’m an old person. (young at heart). In truth, my blessed husband, Earl, Black from Louisiana, confided that growing up he never would’ve dreamed segregation would end… Even though we still have troubles in our times, he was in wonderment and extremely grateful. Certainly I was grateful. He never took me to see his home country in Louisiana because he said it’s a good place to be from. Away from. Mixed race couple… May not be well-received, certainly on country roads…
People forget that "sunny Southern California" was mostly far right fascist GOP up to the 90s when evil old scumbags like "B-1 Bob" Dornan got voted out finally. Remember, we used to call it Orangatang County for a reason. It was the passage of Prop 187 in 1992 that got progressives to finally wake up and smell the gunpowder.
I’ll add that I was three years old and my older brother was five when we moved to El Segundo. Hugh was brilliant and he would remind me on occasion that there was a sign at the entrance of the north end of town which basically said you are only welcome here if you are like us. I’m sure those weren’t the words, but you get my point. Now there’s Orange County… I realize there are highly conservative hotspots throughout, that Southern California is not immune. Someone even told me at the museum for tolerance, there was a pin in El Segundo as one of those hotspots. I know most of my classmates, graduated 1962 from high school…A high number are extremely right wing. I’m only in touch with one friend from those times, decidedly NOT right wing, but we are outliers. Actually, it was through him that I learned to Rob Hubbell so… I’m grateful. February 2017 I signed up.
As for bumper stickers, I still have my Madame President and Harris/Walz stickers on my back window and, so far, so good. Only negative reaction I've had is from a jerk behind me in a left turn lane. He honked so I looked in my rearview mirror and he was holding up two middle fingers (this was well after January 20). I've had far more positive responses from people though that may be because I live in the more liberal coastal area of San Diego where I've seen many yard signs and bumper stickers for Democratic candidates.
I’m sure I’m not alone in going ballistic in my head every time that delusional son of a bitch uses ANY opening to spew his litany of whines and grievances. Jesus Tap-dancing Christ! Enough already, you overgrown toddler!!! Sheesh!!! I was so happy to read the judge’s comments upon throwing out the suit against the Times.
I feel the same but haven't been able to put it nearly as eloquently as you just did. He makes me so furious I can barely string to words together, and end up resorting to the classic miming of a crybaby and mocking him with his own words (WAH, WAH...the media hurt my fee-fees. they are SO MEAN to me!!! and so on)
Was it in TAFM yesterday - or maybe MTN? Glenn Kirschner?- that we learned the lawsuit against the NYT was filed by DJT as a citizen, NOT as POTUS? Therefore, if the suit were allowed to proceed, legally he could be deposed under oath and would not enjoy Presidential immunity because everything described in the lawsuit (and it is quite a laundry list!) came from him as a private citizen, and therefore he can be questioned about it!
I believe the judge instructed that it could be resubmitted (in a sense appealing his rejection) if it is reduced to no more than 40 pages. Sure, there’s the fifth amendment, but it would still expose so much! Something to watch… Of course 47 avoids depositions like the plague so maybe it all would die, but it’s still something to watch.
Yes, while I’m mindful of that, we can hope, yes…? When lawsuits go away because there’s risk of deposition… We get to mark the column with one more check!👍🏽😅
I just started wearing my giant paper clip on my messaging t’s here in MAGA-land,FL.
And just look at the “paper-clip” Brenden Carr and other White Christian Nationalist sycophants are most likely wearing.Let’s drown them out !!⬇️
“The historical context of this stunt makes it even more concerning, as world dictators have historically had their own face pins. For example, North Korea's representative to the United Nations wore face pins of former North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-un to a UN press conference in 2013.”
An L.A. activist friend’s US Rep is Brad Sherman who recently gave an update. He said there will be a gathering by Jimmy Kimmel’s theatre tomorrow at 11am with Jimmy and others including Elizabeth Warren!
And… There was a local Make Billionare’s Pay peaceful protest here yesterday.Peaceful…well except for the MAGAs jumping out of their trucks screaming profanity. There also was a CK “vigil”. Guess which one had armed militia and open-carrying (just legalized in FL) protesters ?
I'm surprised the wingers didn't plan a 21-gun salute to send Kirk off to whatever eternal cauldron he'll be manning. (Yes, in many cases I must go dark and irreverent, but he did love him some guns, right?) I will continue to save my sobbing for America's children who carry a load of anxiety about being shot in their schools, churches, or shopping centers.
All of America must be proud that 47 is now pimping the US on the world stage with his hefty entry fees, but what would one expect from one who's earned a trophy for mastering the Seven Deadlies. The end result will be that some of the world's best and brightest will go to Canada, Mexico, China, and elsewhere. 47's upping the costs while simultaneously destroying all the reasons anyone would want to come here.
Paper clip displays are easy and don't scream out neediness the way red caps, red ties, and red knees do. On it.
Re the Gaza Rivera. Where is the water for the Resorts and Golf Courses? (You know the Trump Org. will insist on Golf Courses) There is no fresh water. Gaza is in the Sinai Desert. Desert = No Water.
And the Golfer in Chief has proposed leasing the coastal land in Camp Pendleton for Resort and Golf development, with income to help pay for the "Golden Dome."
Once again, no water. And no shortage of Coastal Resorts and Golf Course in SoCal.
I’m so glad it is raining here in Western Washington…..My hair (and Olympic national Park) have been on fire and only a welcome rain could help quench the flames and give me hope🔥💦💦💦! Thanks, Tom, for your fast paced and colorful analysis of our current morass of composted landfill. Thanks, too, for posting KarenRN’s photos of her tabby menagerie and other delightful non-tabby critters❤️.
Your intro photo shows King Tweedle Dumb I looking like he’s wearing crown and cape of Amazon’s King George Halloween Costume (per HAMILTON).
Regarding the Charlie Kirk case, it seems like many disjointed storylines are swirling around, creating a sense that we may never really know the truth? Israel, Netanyahu, the text thread sans timestamps, and illogical in many respects (chronologically and more)…Staying tuned.
The Karma/dogma thing is an astute observation…
The ballroom: is there any way this can be stopped? Felon47 is a temporary resident in that building. It’s not his to modify to that great a degree! Some article mentioned 200 year-old trees have been removed… It’s a desecration! I suppose if lawsuits might make headway, our problem is prioritizing which suits matter most to stop which actions…
The levels of corruption surrounding the Siebert saga, regarding attempts to charge Attorney General Letitia James, Comey and others … “It looks to me like she is very guilty of something…”. !!!
Selective prosecution… We’re learning terms we never before knew might come in handy.
Good for Siebert for resigning (preempting sure firing <<< DJT is claiming, but that is a <gasp> lie!)
LOVE THIS PART:
“Good news for our side: The latest AP Poll shows… “
The numbers are so so so very encouraging! I know polls are only polls but still…
Off to CVS to buy a box of the large size paper clips that come in colors, to be color coordinated each day, and have them handy to offer when people ask about the paper clip. Heck, why not make a necklace of them, like pop art? (OMG now I’m thinking about pop-it beads! That really dates me…! Ha ha ha.)
KarenRN’s furry friends have the world’s best “catio” ever - or perhaps they venture in and out while pledging stellar obedience to be inside when it’s dark.
Petra has a chipped cat door so only she (her chip is paired) can enter. On occasion, she’s carrying something small in her mouth… sometimes living, sometimes not.
I’ve rescued a hummingbird or two from the mouth of a kitty and in the end, stroking gently till they awoke, they flew away.
Then there was the one that became trapped in the garage, was panicked, flitting about in the rafters, but we were so grateful it worked to lay a trail of red objects, showing the way to the open door down below… Finally, it left and perched on a branch nearby… But sadly, then fell to the ground from exhaustion. It did not live. It’s a sad story… But the red trail thing did work.…
*Is column the proper term? Post? Essay?
Piece?
It’s tempting to list words we use that are retro… column, above the fold, dial, footage, tape… Feel free to contribute.
So thank god for your fine mess — the new names always cause at least one or two completely happy laughs— so I persfeel that this second term of the orange monster dear leader dilbert is losing it— it could be Alzheimer’s or normal senility combined with advanced hypertension from raging narcissism maybe but truly it’s a remake of one flew over the cuokoos nest with without handsome Jack Nicholson for the sex appeal. Honestly, all the rest of his crew must have to imbibe heavy drugs when they go home just to get a night’s sleep snd be upanatem knowing fully well that the leader of extortion plots could throw any one of them under the bus at any minute. I’m betting the first one is wormwood brain because he is pitted against the whole scientific/medical community and they’re winning. Bizarro regime is just a bunch of greedy stupidos willing to suck dear leaders considerable ass for the $$$. The rest of the world has decided either to flatter dear leader to death or ignore him until he goes away and strategize their economies as if they don’t need us which is probably why the corporations are donating heavily to Marie Antoinette ballroom.
My math isn’t what it used to be but if Kirk died at 31 and 2008 is 17 yrs ago then , he was 14 when meeting Jr. In any case its getting really scary when I can read a diatribe on social media about the Fed Prosecutor in Virginia, eviscerated for not going after political enemies and pushing the AG to go after Schiff, James, and others.
Another missive that is hard to read. And to write, I’m sure. No one should make the mistake of accusing Ted of integrity. He is simply afraid that Democrats will retaliate. Most seem to think that they will never get back in power. That is the plan. But considering the Dems didn’t object to Fox being an arm of the Republican Party for decades, fat chance that they would wake up to that.
My favorite line in your post. “I love it when karma runs over their dogma.” Wish Covid had done a better job on fools who disregarded science.
How depressing that Lockheed-Martin, a prime contractor for Apollo program, has caved to the bully. He is the best mob boss the world has ever had. There is no end to the corruption. Will they ever jump the shark for this country of fools.
Just heard that Rupert and Lachlan are some of those taking over TikTok algorithms as part of his deal with China. Kiss our freedoms goodbye. Thanks for kitties, they help
Great column Tom. I've been behind on my reading due to losing my Mother a couple of weeks ago so I just heard about the paper clip tonight. I'll put mine on tomorrow. Thank you for all you do. #Resist.
Currently attempting to construct a very large purple paper clip for my window. HOA says “NO signs in windows!” Doesn’t say anything about art. 😬
Now you're thinking like a good subversive.
I have appropriate experience!
This is phenomenally wonderful!!! Garden art is a great possibility too…
Maybe that’s its ultimate destination after public viewing!
“You go, girl.”
I have to say the HOA rules and all of that… All too familiar. Good job! Subversive… Love that word!
California state law requires HOAs to allow a single sign, banner or flag.
Why are all HOAs run by the people who *need* to be repeatedly punched in their faces? Damned old busybodies.
Not all HOAs are as bad as some of the stories we've heard about here in California and, in recent years, the state legislature has passed laws that constrain the worst tendencies to 'over control' owners. We have 270 units, about half of which are owner-occupied. Many take active interest in how things are run here after a period with not-so-positive "rulership" by the board.
Our units are townhouses in buildings ranging from 2-6 units per, set in 5.4 acres of nicely landscaped common area, built 1976-78 when land wasn't so expensive). Buildings are paired back to back so we get to know near neighbors as we come and go from our garages via a shared driveway. Pets are allowed so we also get to know one another when walking our dogs and in other outdoor activities (tennis courts, now painted to accommodate pickleball as well. I think this indoor-outdoor setup, as compared to condo buildings that are like apartment buildings, makes a huge difference in our quality of life and neighborhood.
However, because of the age of the buildings and due to past board members now gone, we are currently approaching a major assessment to address aged stucco and water intrusion problems due to past deferred maintenance that has been a huge strain on our reserves (again, ). A small subcommittee of owners formed a "construction committee" who are working with the board to develop an RFQ/RFP. So, at least here, we are fortunate to have a number of actively involved non-board owners along with an excellent HOA board.
All in all, I feel very fortunate to live in this particular HOA, and I know of friends who also live in HOAs they consider to be reasonably managed by their boards. The key, as in everything in life, is to pay attention, take active roles and work with our neighbors.
Yes, I’ve always been told that they are people who seem to need to feel important by holding and running meetings… Making up rules for a captive audience and all of that.
Whoa, good to know!
We don’t see bumper stickers like we used to and I know I certainly have none… Not worth the risk of having tires slashed, car keyed or worse…
I don’t remember the issue, but in the south part of Palo Alto, where I spent my teaching career, a more diverse community than the north…They were closing some schools, were consolidating… One school considered itself quite elite, were highly resentful being forced to join us, one of the most diverse in town… I heard of windows broken because of signs in windows, rocks thrown. I heard that happened in my hometown of El Segundo, just south of LAX, which was anything but diverse as I was growing up… I heard later when some busing happened to diversify the population in the schools, there was actually some sort of violence… And we’re talking sunny Southern California! Ugh. It’s been awhile too, because I’m what I confess to people… I’m an old person. (young at heart). In truth, my blessed husband, Earl, Black from Louisiana, confided that growing up he never would’ve dreamed segregation would end… Even though we still have troubles in our times, he was in wonderment and extremely grateful. Certainly I was grateful. He never took me to see his home country in Louisiana because he said it’s a good place to be from. Away from. Mixed race couple… May not be well-received, certainly on country roads…
People forget that "sunny Southern California" was mostly far right fascist GOP up to the 90s when evil old scumbags like "B-1 Bob" Dornan got voted out finally. Remember, we used to call it Orangatang County for a reason. It was the passage of Prop 187 in 1992 that got progressives to finally wake up and smell the gunpowder.
I’ll add that I was three years old and my older brother was five when we moved to El Segundo. Hugh was brilliant and he would remind me on occasion that there was a sign at the entrance of the north end of town which basically said you are only welcome here if you are like us. I’m sure those weren’t the words, but you get my point. Now there’s Orange County… I realize there are highly conservative hotspots throughout, that Southern California is not immune. Someone even told me at the museum for tolerance, there was a pin in El Segundo as one of those hotspots. I know most of my classmates, graduated 1962 from high school…A high number are extremely right wing. I’m only in touch with one friend from those times, decidedly NOT right wing, but we are outliers. Actually, it was through him that I learned to Rob Hubbell so… I’m grateful. February 2017 I signed up.
As for bumper stickers, I still have my Madame President and Harris/Walz stickers on my back window and, so far, so good. Only negative reaction I've had is from a jerk behind me in a left turn lane. He honked so I looked in my rearview mirror and he was holding up two middle fingers (this was well after January 20). I've had far more positive responses from people though that may be because I live in the more liberal coastal area of San Diego where I've seen many yard signs and bumper stickers for Democratic candidates.
If you live in California, HOAs are required under state law to allow a single sign or banner or flag.
I’m sure I’m not alone in going ballistic in my head every time that delusional son of a bitch uses ANY opening to spew his litany of whines and grievances. Jesus Tap-dancing Christ! Enough already, you overgrown toddler!!! Sheesh!!! I was so happy to read the judge’s comments upon throwing out the suit against the Times.
I feel the same but haven't been able to put it nearly as eloquently as you just did. He makes me so furious I can barely string to words together, and end up resorting to the classic miming of a crybaby and mocking him with his own words (WAH, WAH...the media hurt my fee-fees. they are SO MEAN to me!!! and so on)
Was it in TAFM yesterday - or maybe MTN? Glenn Kirschner?- that we learned the lawsuit against the NYT was filed by DJT as a citizen, NOT as POTUS? Therefore, if the suit were allowed to proceed, legally he could be deposed under oath and would not enjoy Presidential immunity because everything described in the lawsuit (and it is quite a laundry list!) came from him as a private citizen, and therefore he can be questioned about it!
I believe the judge instructed that it could be resubmitted (in a sense appealing his rejection) if it is reduced to no more than 40 pages. Sure, there’s the fifth amendment, but it would still expose so much! Something to watch… Of course 47 avoids depositions like the plague so maybe it all would die, but it’s still something to watch.
He has NEVER successfully done a deposition without harming himself or committing perjury.
Yes, while I’m mindful of that, we can hope, yes…? When lawsuits go away because there’s risk of deposition… We get to mark the column with one more check!👍🏽😅
I just started wearing my giant paper clip on my messaging t’s here in MAGA-land,FL.
And just look at the “paper-clip” Brenden Carr and other White Christian Nationalist sycophants are most likely wearing.Let’s drown them out !!⬇️
“The historical context of this stunt makes it even more concerning, as world dictators have historically had their own face pins. For example, North Korea's representative to the United Nations wore face pins of former North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-un to a UN press conference in 2013.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/trumps-fcc-chairman-wears-gold-trumphead-pin?origin=microsoft
An L.A. activist friend’s US Rep is Brad Sherman who recently gave an update. He said there will be a gathering by Jimmy Kimmel’s theatre tomorrow at 11am with Jimmy and others including Elizabeth Warren!
And… There was a local Make Billionare’s Pay peaceful protest here yesterday.Peaceful…well except for the MAGAs jumping out of their trucks screaming profanity. There also was a CK “vigil”. Guess which one had armed militia and open-carrying (just legalized in FL) protesters ?
NEVER.GIVE.UP.
💙
And release those Epstein files !!!📲📲📲
If RFK Jr met Charlie when Charlie was only 8, and they "became soulmates" does that mean RFK Jr is a pedophile?!?
I mean, I have very close friends who think quite a bit like me, and I respect them and love them, but only my husband is "my soulmate".
If you drained all the horseshit out of RFK Jr he would look like a balloon with no air in it.
RFKJ is a moron, stupid and ignorant. Not one redeeming characteristic.
I'm surprised the wingers didn't plan a 21-gun salute to send Kirk off to whatever eternal cauldron he'll be manning. (Yes, in many cases I must go dark and irreverent, but he did love him some guns, right?) I will continue to save my sobbing for America's children who carry a load of anxiety about being shot in their schools, churches, or shopping centers.
All of America must be proud that 47 is now pimping the US on the world stage with his hefty entry fees, but what would one expect from one who's earned a trophy for mastering the Seven Deadlies. The end result will be that some of the world's best and brightest will go to Canada, Mexico, China, and elsewhere. 47's upping the costs while simultaneously destroying all the reasons anyone would want to come here.
Paper clip displays are easy and don't scream out neediness the way red caps, red ties, and red knees do. On it.
Well said, especially the knee part. I'm off to find my largest paper clip to wear to an event this evening.
Re the Gaza Rivera. Where is the water for the Resorts and Golf Courses? (You know the Trump Org. will insist on Golf Courses) There is no fresh water. Gaza is in the Sinai Desert. Desert = No Water.
And the Golfer in Chief has proposed leasing the coastal land in Camp Pendleton for Resort and Golf development, with income to help pay for the "Golden Dome."
Once again, no water. And no shortage of Coastal Resorts and Golf Course in SoCal.
OMG! Don't let him shit on Camp Pendleton. He already has a fekkin' golf club on the California coast. That's one too many, in my opinion.
You mean this one?
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/557171757/insults-lawsuits-and-broken-rules-how-trump-built-a-california-golf-course
Chump and Netanyahu will rule over a seaside resort that will only displace 3 or 4 million people. Who will tolerate such cruelty g
All those vegas whores and cheap grifters who show up at Mar-A-Lardo.
🤬😡🤬😡
I’m so glad it is raining here in Western Washington…..My hair (and Olympic national Park) have been on fire and only a welcome rain could help quench the flames and give me hope🔥💦💦💦! Thanks, Tom, for your fast paced and colorful analysis of our current morass of composted landfill. Thanks, too, for posting KarenRN’s photos of her tabby menagerie and other delightful non-tabby critters❤️.
I believe Nietzsche had a comment on this:
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Definitely applicable to Netanyahu or, as I call him lately, Hitler's Missing Testicle.
https://youtu.be/bNXpFqqy2ww
Spectacular column* today!
Your intro photo shows King Tweedle Dumb I looking like he’s wearing crown and cape of Amazon’s King George Halloween Costume (per HAMILTON).
Regarding the Charlie Kirk case, it seems like many disjointed storylines are swirling around, creating a sense that we may never really know the truth? Israel, Netanyahu, the text thread sans timestamps, and illogical in many respects (chronologically and more)…Staying tuned.
The Karma/dogma thing is an astute observation…
The ballroom: is there any way this can be stopped? Felon47 is a temporary resident in that building. It’s not his to modify to that great a degree! Some article mentioned 200 year-old trees have been removed… It’s a desecration! I suppose if lawsuits might make headway, our problem is prioritizing which suits matter most to stop which actions…
The levels of corruption surrounding the Siebert saga, regarding attempts to charge Attorney General Letitia James, Comey and others … “It looks to me like she is very guilty of something…”. !!!
Selective prosecution… We’re learning terms we never before knew might come in handy.
Good for Siebert for resigning (preempting sure firing <<< DJT is claiming, but that is a <gasp> lie!)
LOVE THIS PART:
“Good news for our side: The latest AP Poll shows… “
The numbers are so so so very encouraging! I know polls are only polls but still…
Off to CVS to buy a box of the large size paper clips that come in colors, to be color coordinated each day, and have them handy to offer when people ask about the paper clip. Heck, why not make a necklace of them, like pop art? (OMG now I’m thinking about pop-it beads! That really dates me…! Ha ha ha.)
KarenRN’s furry friends have the world’s best “catio” ever - or perhaps they venture in and out while pledging stellar obedience to be inside when it’s dark.
Petra has a chipped cat door so only she (her chip is paired) can enter. On occasion, she’s carrying something small in her mouth… sometimes living, sometimes not.
I’ve rescued a hummingbird or two from the mouth of a kitty and in the end, stroking gently till they awoke, they flew away.
Then there was the one that became trapped in the garage, was panicked, flitting about in the rafters, but we were so grateful it worked to lay a trail of red objects, showing the way to the open door down below… Finally, it left and perched on a branch nearby… But sadly, then fell to the ground from exhaustion. It did not live. It’s a sad story… But the red trail thing did work.…
*Is column the proper term? Post? Essay?
Piece?
It’s tempting to list words we use that are retro… column, above the fold, dial, footage, tape… Feel free to contribute.
So thank god for your fine mess — the new names always cause at least one or two completely happy laughs— so I persfeel that this second term of the orange monster dear leader dilbert is losing it— it could be Alzheimer’s or normal senility combined with advanced hypertension from raging narcissism maybe but truly it’s a remake of one flew over the cuokoos nest with without handsome Jack Nicholson for the sex appeal. Honestly, all the rest of his crew must have to imbibe heavy drugs when they go home just to get a night’s sleep snd be upanatem knowing fully well that the leader of extortion plots could throw any one of them under the bus at any minute. I’m betting the first one is wormwood brain because he is pitted against the whole scientific/medical community and they’re winning. Bizarro regime is just a bunch of greedy stupidos willing to suck dear leaders considerable ass for the $$$. The rest of the world has decided either to flatter dear leader to death or ignore him until he goes away and strategize their economies as if they don’t need us which is probably why the corporations are donating heavily to Marie Antoinette ballroom.
Thank you TC. I like the paper clip idea! I am running behind reading earlier post this week. Windows 11 is stressing me out! So far I am not a fan!
Yeah, Substack keeps telling me my browser it outdated, but I am sticking with windows 7. 10 nearly wiped out computers of friends.
I can't believe you are still using 7! I can't imagine going from 7 to 11. What a shock that would be! You might have to take some classes! LOL
My math isn’t what it used to be but if Kirk died at 31 and 2008 is 17 yrs ago then , he was 14 when meeting Jr. In any case its getting really scary when I can read a diatribe on social media about the Fed Prosecutor in Virginia, eviscerated for not going after political enemies and pushing the AG to go after Schiff, James, and others.
Just nabbed this off of Jessica Craven's "Chop wood, Carry water" substack.
Needs to go viral!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkNCKEFQeA
Another missive that is hard to read. And to write, I’m sure. No one should make the mistake of accusing Ted of integrity. He is simply afraid that Democrats will retaliate. Most seem to think that they will never get back in power. That is the plan. But considering the Dems didn’t object to Fox being an arm of the Republican Party for decades, fat chance that they would wake up to that.
My favorite line in your post. “I love it when karma runs over their dogma.” Wish Covid had done a better job on fools who disregarded science.
How depressing that Lockheed-Martin, a prime contractor for Apollo program, has caved to the bully. He is the best mob boss the world has ever had. There is no end to the corruption. Will they ever jump the shark for this country of fools.
Just heard that Rupert and Lachlan are some of those taking over TikTok algorithms as part of his deal with China. Kiss our freedoms goodbye. Thanks for kitties, they help
My BP…
I kept hoping for much higher death reports among Boomers in red states.
Maybe a typo? If Kirk was 8-9 in 2008 - he would only have been 12-13 in 2012??
Yes, he was about 15. Still underage for RFK.
He was born in 1993 - googled it.
Great column Tom. I've been behind on my reading due to losing my Mother a couple of weeks ago so I just heard about the paper clip tonight. I'll put mine on tomorrow. Thank you for all you do. #Resist.
❤️🇺🇸💙
Lisa, I am sorry for the loss of your mom.😢
Thank you Cyndy. I appreciate that.
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