I’m in need of a tea party now. I actually sent that one to my coworkers, one responded, “No one will know,” and another responded, “Not today, I’m not coming to work.”
One of the loveliest women I ever knew (we served on the Libertarian Party of MN executive committee together) was a PhD in aerospace engineering at Honeywell doing something NASA-related. The bumper sticker on her Beamer read that.😁
Recently met a very nice woman, older than I, so approaching 80, who volunteered she had been an aerospace engineer. I asked, what did you engineer? She merely held her finger to her lips and shook her head.
“Only” is such a nice, flexible word. Fits just anywhere in a sentence.
but in defense of Marx’s labor theory of value, being a successful Only Fans model (or any online content generator) is actually a lot of work. To keep subscriber interest and keep the algorithm on your side, you have to constantly be releasing new content and following the trends.
Like gambling, it’s a hard way to make an easy living.
The “Mayflower Madame” wrote a book about running her, ahem, business. The preparation and effort the ladies had to put in to meet the minimum standards for her escort service was impressive – personal care, exercise, clothing, staying current on events and books so that they could discuss things with the gentlemen … But they also got paid very well for their time.
I wonder of David Weber read that, given his sympathetic treatment of Nyn.ian Rectair in the Safehokd series. (Of course, she had an ulterior motive for selecting that particular profession…)
I’ve read some interviews of James Deen, one of the best paid actors in the adult film industry. To get to that point he spent over a decade on at least one set a day for approximately 360 days a year. As he’s gotten older and the industry has changed, he now runs his own site, which means he now has to spend at least half his time in analytics. (And he finds it amusing when he goes to web hosting and small business conventions and is recognized.)
Apparently, his parents became less disapproving of his career choice when they realized just how much work ethic he had. It’s a very hard way to make a living.
The problem with Marx’s labor theory of value is the assumption that all such work is equally valuable.
There are many who would not be successful on OnlyFans no matter how much labor they put into it because the labor did not sufficiently increase the value of their output.
King Charles may be a fool and a fossil, but he doesn’t make the cut for the meme because he doesn’t actually have power over anything. Whether he gets to blow his nose on a given day depends on how nice Keir Starmer feels like being.
Confidence is what happens just before a reporter on the scene says, “Look, you see that white spot in the water? That’s the top of a pickup just like yours.”
A few years ago during g tax season we had severe thunderstorms which triggered a flash flood beneath the town railroad bridge. The cops set up barriers, and of course someone (female) thought the barriers couldn’t possibly apply to her, so she went around. Luckily they were able to get er out safely, but she got to stand on the roadway looking at the top of her car, just under the surface of the new pond.
Weird thing was, the flood had drained away by late afternoon.
True about science fiction. I have dozens of SF books in my collection which are set in or shortly after the year 2000. Most of them have people living on the Moon and/or Mars and/or Venus, and mining the asteroids.
Then again, in some of them the world has been knocked back into the Dark Age by a nuclear holocaust.
I intend to be safely dead by the year my sci-fi apocalypse actually comes to pass. 2287. Two hundred sixty two years and change is a pretty safe buffer, methinks.
One thing I’ve found useful to remember when seeing photos like that on the Internet:
Somebody took that picture of her, with her cooperation*. And then she chose* to post it to the Internet for everyone to see.
The illusion of photos like that is that the girl is posing like that just for you. It’s a subtle lie in two parts. The first part of the lie is that unless it’s a mirror selfie, someone else was in the room with her taking the picture. (Or she might have set up a camera on a tripod with a timer, but that’s more and more unlikely). The second part of the lie, of course, is that she posted the picture on the Internet for everyone (or everyone who pays her) to see.
Remembering those facts helps me break the illusion — the glamour, if you will — and it reminds me that by the time a woman is willing to pose for such pictures, she’s probably had the kinds of life experiences that do not make for a good partner in a long-term relationship.
Now, that’s not to say that all women who pose for pictures in intimate (or no) apparel are bad long-term relationship partners. I have a folder on my computer with quite a number of such pictures, all of them featuring the same woman (and taken by me). Yes, that woman is my wife. And nobody else will ever see them, because they are for the two of us alone. She would never consent to them being posted on the Internet for strangers to see, and I would never do so.
But it’s well-known that strippers, by and large, do not make good wives in the long run. And the same applies, for very similar reasons, to women who pose for pictures such as that one.
Sorry for the long-winded philosophical repsonse to what was basically a lighthearted joke. But I think it’s important to say such things from time to time, for the benefit of people (mostly young men) who may not have thought these things all the way through.
* This obviously does not apply to pictures taken and/or uploaded without the subject’s knowledge or consent, in which case at least one and likely several crimes (depending on jurisdiction) have been committed in the process of taking the picture and posting it.
Rest in Peace Lieutenant James Carter USN, builder of numerous homes for those in need of shelter, negotiator of the beginning of peace between arch-foes.
He is dead, and facing his maker. He legit served, honorably, and legit housed the poor, and got some Arabs and Israelis talking instead of shooting.
His presidency has since been overshadowed by others who made his errors seem tiny.
As a Navy officer, specializing in then new nuclear reactors, he helped the Canadians recover from a partial meltdown of a research reactor, voluntarily taking a radiation dose about a thousand times the current “do not exceed”. (As in peeing “hot” for several months, which is -bad-)
As much as I have critiqued the man’s missteps, I prefer to remember that he did some real good.
Rest in Peace Lieutenant. You are relieved. We have the watch.
Former President Jimmy Carter: If fully investigated, it would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put in office because the Russians interfered …on his behalf.
I’m 99% sure the mess in Portugal was because of Carter. Either complicit or they knew he wouldn’t intervene so the USSR could romp and destroy Africa. Yeah.
He deserves a state funeral. Carter was a good man. He was a good naval officer (by all reports). He was a good governor (again, by all reports). He was, in general, in over his head as President (I think this is called “failing upward”). He wasn’t the best president, but he wasn’t the worst, either. He went on to do good deeds. He deserves his external rest.
Certainly since Clinton, 0bama and Biden he wasn’t the worst. If the Democrats had managed enough fraud to install Kackling Kamela this year, he’d be 5th worst.
Carter did a number of things that caused long-term damage to America. Disastrous economic policies, if they could even be called policies. The Federal Department Of Education, ’nuff said. And an executive order in 1977 ended the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, while making no provisions about what to do with the stuff. So ‘nuclear waste’ has been piling up ever since.
Carter used to be a nuclear power officer in the Navy, therefore he knew all there is to know about nuclear physics. </sarc>
His work with Habitat for Humanity was good. Just about everything else he did post-presidency was not. Case in point were his spontaneous trip to Pyongyang when Clinton and Albright were negotiating with Kim. Carter’s trip – as an ex-president – was not coordinated with the Clinton administration, and gave the North Korean government a certain level of international prestige that it wouldn’t have otherwise have had. The end result was to undercut the Clinton administration’s positions in the negotiations.
Insty also has a bit up today noting that he was far, far too close to Arafat. And if he’d served a second term, he likely would have sold Israel down the river.
And Joe will get to make the funeral oration. (Imagining Bill, Hillary and Barak watching and grinding their teeth). Or will this be one last, awful chance for Biden to screw things up?
According To Hoyt 
Ready now to face the week!
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Surely the EU leads in something. Stabbings? Parmesan? By definition, champagne (or does that fall under regulation)?*
*ADHD parentheses rule in effect.
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EU countries lead the world in excluded crime reporting facts, eg. “Car Rams Crowded Christmas Market” or “Motive Still A Mystery In Knife Attack”.
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“Motive Mysteries”
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A weekly TV series, starring a Belgian investigator.
Never actually solves any mysteries though.
Wins lots of awards for being “brave” and “serious”. No one actually watches it though.
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Another Saturday, another Saturday Fanboi Squee
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“….We will never know. His motive remains a mystery.”
(Freeze scene, somber music, fade to black)
(End credits)
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Awesome collection.
I’m in need of a tea party now. I actually sent that one to my coworkers, one responded, “No one will know,” and another responded, “Not today, I’m not coming to work.”
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This time, throw the tyrants in the bay.
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Don’t know if it’s still available, but in Huntsville you used to be able buy, “Actually, I Am a Rocket Scientist,” t-shirts.
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One of the loveliest women I ever knew (we served on the Libertarian Party of MN executive committee together) was a PhD in aerospace engineering at Honeywell doing something NASA-related. The bumper sticker on her Beamer read that.😁
She was married.🙁
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Recently met a very nice woman, older than I, so approaching 80, who volunteered she had been an aerospace engineer. I asked, what did you engineer? She merely held her finger to her lips and shook her head.
“Only” is such a nice, flexible word. Fits just anywhere in a sentence.
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There is or was a shirt with various equations and the text, “Yes, it is rocket science.”
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Rocket science is simple.
Rocket engineering is where the trick lies.
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Oh, they’re available. We got one for my brother who literally works on rockets for space probes.
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Also home to the best named team in baseball, the Rocket City Trash Pandas.
https://www.milb.com/rocket-city
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(watching “Apollo 13” reentry scene…)
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I have a Trash Panda hat.
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I can’t believe I’m actually going to say this…
but in defense of Marx’s labor theory of value, being a successful Only Fans model (or any online content generator) is actually a lot of work. To keep subscriber interest and keep the algorithm on your side, you have to constantly be releasing new content and following the trends.
Like gambling, it’s a hard way to make an easy living.
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Not to mention the literal “sweat equity” involved in staying in shape for it.
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The “Mayflower Madame” wrote a book about running her, ahem, business. The preparation and effort the ladies had to put in to meet the minimum standards for her escort service was impressive – personal care, exercise, clothing, staying current on events and books so that they could discuss things with the gentlemen … But they also got paid very well for their time.
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I wonder of David Weber read that, given his sympathetic treatment of Nyn.ian Rectair in the Safehokd series. (Of course, she had an ulterior motive for selecting that particular profession…)
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I’ve read some interviews of James Deen, one of the best paid actors in the adult film industry. To get to that point he spent over a decade on at least one set a day for approximately 360 days a year. As he’s gotten older and the industry has changed, he now runs his own site, which means he now has to spend at least half his time in analytics. (And he finds it amusing when he goes to web hosting and small business conventions and is recognized.)
Apparently, his parents became less disapproving of his career choice when they realized just how much work ethic he had. It’s a very hard way to make a living.
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The problem with Marx’s labor theory of value is the assumption that all such work is equally valuable.
There are many who would not be successful on OnlyFans no matter how much labor they put into it because the labor did not sufficiently increase the value of their output.
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Yeah. I know. Like writing. (spit.)
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For my Scottish manor, I’d go with Poe and a Raven. YMMV.
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And scones.
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For my Scottish Manor I would go with the library the Beast gave to Belle, said owl, and an elaborate charcuterie.
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Nice map of North America 2026, but I think the colors are reversed.
Jews celebrating Hanukah sounds like what real Americans are.
So, the easiest way to adopt a child is if you identify as a wolf?
Tea party? https://youtu.be/h0JvF9vpqx8
Elon Musk isn’t a genius about everything.
The fossil fools forgot King Charles! Well, he IS rather forgettable.
And I’m sure Kamala Harris wouldn’t understand that Venn diagram.
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King Charles may be a fool and a fossil, but he doesn’t make the cut for the meme because he doesn’t actually have power over anything. Whether he gets to blow his nose on a given day depends on how nice Keir Starmer feels like being.
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Quiet people, yep.
Confidence is what happens just before a reporter on the scene says, “Look, you see that white spot in the water? That’s the top of a pickup just like yours.”
All I want, indeed.
Ooo, deportation devices….
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A few years ago during g tax season we had severe thunderstorms which triggered a flash flood beneath the town railroad bridge. The cops set up barriers, and of course someone (female) thought the barriers couldn’t possibly apply to her, so she went around. Luckily they were able to get er out safely, but she got to stand on the roadway looking at the top of her car, just under the surface of the new pond.
Weird thing was, the flood had drained away by late afternoon.
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True about science fiction. I have dozens of SF books in my collection which are set in or shortly after the year 2000. Most of them have people living on the Moon and/or Mars and/or Venus, and mining the asteroids.
Then again, in some of them the world has been knocked back into the Dark Age by a nuclear holocaust.
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I intend to be safely dead by the year my sci-fi apocalypse actually comes to pass. 2287. Two hundred sixty two years and change is a pretty safe buffer, methinks.
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The Australian question about firearms reminds me of this nice quote I saved some years ago:
“Q:Why do Australians pour oil into their gardens?
A: To keep their guns from rusting.” — quoted on The Firearm Blog
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The problem with guns in the garden, or lost in a lake, is that they are not available in the seconds that you need them.
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kinda wish Ceaser would get his fat head out the way, girl be cute
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One thing I’ve found useful to remember when seeing photos like that on the Internet:
Somebody took that picture of her, with her cooperation*. And then she chose* to post it to the Internet for everyone to see.
The illusion of photos like that is that the girl is posing like that just for you. It’s a subtle lie in two parts. The first part of the lie is that unless it’s a mirror selfie, someone else was in the room with her taking the picture. (Or she might have set up a camera on a tripod with a timer, but that’s more and more unlikely). The second part of the lie, of course, is that she posted the picture on the Internet for everyone (or everyone who pays her) to see.
Remembering those facts helps me break the illusion — the glamour, if you will — and it reminds me that by the time a woman is willing to pose for such pictures, she’s probably had the kinds of life experiences that do not make for a good partner in a long-term relationship.
Now, that’s not to say that all women who pose for pictures in intimate (or no) apparel are bad long-term relationship partners. I have a folder on my computer with quite a number of such pictures, all of them featuring the same woman (and taken by me). Yes, that woman is my wife. And nobody else will ever see them, because they are for the two of us alone. She would never consent to them being posted on the Internet for strangers to see, and I would never do so.
But it’s well-known that strippers, by and large, do not make good wives in the long run. And the same applies, for very similar reasons, to women who pose for pictures such as that one.
Sorry for the long-winded philosophical repsonse to what was basically a lighthearted joke. But I think it’s important to say such things from time to time, for the benefit of people (mostly young men) who may not have thought these things all the way through.
* This obviously does not apply to pictures taken and/or uploaded without the subject’s knowledge or consent, in which case at least one and likely several crimes (depending on jurisdiction) have been committed in the process of taking the picture and posting it.
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Strippers don’t make good wives? Next you’ll be ruling out hairdressers and women names Tiffany.
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Or she sent that photo to a guy that she liked, and that guy (either immediately, or much later) posted it online.
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Sounds like a plot by the enemies of Rome.
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Which falls under the second qualifier I gave, about it being uploaded without the subject’s knowledge or consent.
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wayyyyyy over thinking this folks,
she most likely just posted it on her Tinder page,
amazing the stuff people are ok posting these days. Most o you would be shocked by the sounds of this convo come to think o it.
sometimes the one that goes with KISS is the best explanation
just sayin is all, cute girl, nice bod, sexy look, but the Caesar sticks his fat head in and photobombs her
🤣
happy new year folks
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“Caesar Block”
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Okay, I get Romulus and Remus and Mowgli, but who’s the character with a wolfskin draped over their head? I’m missing part of the joke . . .
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She’s the title character of Princess Mononoke.
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I wonder, are there polynokes? Can they polymerize?
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Some pretty funny memes this week hitting all the hot topics (except that ADHD one, I don’t know what that’s about).
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I don’t think I have ADHD, but parenthetical abuse? Guilty as charged.
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Same.
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Parentheses, not parenthesis, please.
(signed) OCD
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“What time do you usually eat?”
This one is literally true. Sad, but true.
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The Gruber & Associates Christmas photo, right before Bruce Willis crashed the party.
Empty wrapping paper tubes:
C. Hold it up to your mouth and blow a raspberry
Very entertaining when you’re 7 or 8 years old. :-D
Riiight, YOU go tell the mall shooter it’s a ‘gun-free zone’. I’ll watch.
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At that point, it’s more like a “guns free” zone.
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Or a Gun Spree zone? With a black sharpie it’s possible.
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What leftists claim: GUN FREE ZONE
What baddies see: FREE FIRE ZONE
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I won a bet using a 4 foot pvc pipe to out loud/sustain a horn.
(grin)
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Caesar is full of crap and needs to get the hell out of the way with his false dichotomy. Pretty women with nice titties ARE the glory of Rome!
Don’t mind me, I’m just over here peeing on a light pole…
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The cover over the electrical box in the pole is on isn’t it?
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😅
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Flips the switch to the electric fence to ON.
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I want one of those Fibonacci sinks.
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Love the sink but I kept thinking about scrubbing the hard water stains out of all those ridges.
Clearly I have been a housewife too long.
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So, a sinking feeling?
(why i always own a comfy couch)
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Me too. When I saw it I immediately wanted one.
I might have given Dan a Fibonacci mug….
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Right on, Ron Paul! Free 140 million Americans from Tax Hell!
“But the government won’t have funding for all those huge social programs!”
“You say that like it’s a bad thing.” :-P
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Via Insty open thread:
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Cosmic justice:
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And have their hatred confirmed thus.
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The house on the Bay with “Iggy Pop for Prez” signs on the skateboard ramps also had Trump signs in the yard this year
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These are priceless!
A GREAT way to end the year!
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Rest in Peace Lieutenant James Carter USN, builder of numerous homes for those in need of shelter, negotiator of the beginning of peace between arch-foes.
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And destroyer of Iran. Look. Bad with the good.
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Don’t forget Master of Malaise.
Jimmy Carter did more to turn the South Republican than anybody except maybe Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale.
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He is dead, and facing his maker. He legit served, honorably, and legit housed the poor, and got some Arabs and Israelis talking instead of shooting.
His presidency has since been overshadowed by others who made his errors seem tiny.
As a Navy officer, specializing in then new nuclear reactors, he helped the Canadians recover from a partial meltdown of a research reactor, voluntarily taking a radiation dose about a thousand times the current “do not exceed”. (As in peeing “hot” for several months, which is -bad-)
As much as I have critiqued the man’s missteps, I prefer to remember that he did some real good.
Rest in Peace Lieutenant. You are relieved. We have the watch.
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Given the way the poor man looked when they brought him out to “vote,” for Kamala, it’s a blessing God called him home. That was awful.
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I mistook him for a current US senator due to his youth.
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You’re more forgiving than he deserves:
https://x.com/cspan/status/1144621211516903424
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Given how much he gave away to the Russians, I would wonder how much Russian money went to carter’s various “charities “
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I’m 99% sure the mess in Portugal was because of Carter. Either complicit or they knew he wouldn’t intervene so the USSR could romp and destroy Africa. Yeah.
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And saboteur of Clinton’s negotiations with North Korea.
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Jimmy Carter has left us. I imagine the Party will throw a big state funeral, but that’s OK.
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He deserves a state funeral. Carter was a good man. He was a good naval officer (by all reports). He was a good governor (again, by all reports). He was, in general, in over his head as President (I think this is called “failing upward”). He wasn’t the best president, but he wasn’t the worst, either. He went on to do good deeds. He deserves his external rest.
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Certainly since Clinton, 0bama and Biden he wasn’t the worst. If the Democrats had managed enough fraud to install Kackling Kamela this year, he’d be 5th worst.
Carter did a number of things that caused long-term damage to America. Disastrous economic policies, if they could even be called policies. The Federal Department Of Education, ’nuff said. And an executive order in 1977 ended the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, while making no provisions about what to do with the stuff. So ‘nuclear waste’ has been piling up ever since.
Carter used to be a nuclear power officer in the Navy, therefore he knew all there is to know about nuclear physics. </sarc>
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I came of age during the Carter years. I am well aware of his disastrous economic (and ecological) policies.
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Hmmm, just saw a headline about that, only they used one wrong word:
Jimmy Carter, who led the country during high unemployment and ‘stagflation’, is dead at 100
Should be ‘led the country into high unemployment and stagflation’ leaving a mess that took Reagan 3 years to straighten out.
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Inflation was inherited from Nixon, though I don’t think it was quite as bad as it got during Carter’s presidency.
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His work with Habitat for Humanity was good. Just about everything else he did post-presidency was not. Case in point were his spontaneous trip to Pyongyang when Clinton and Albright were negotiating with Kim. Carter’s trip – as an ex-president – was not coordinated with the Clinton administration, and gave the North Korean government a certain level of international prestige that it wouldn’t have otherwise have had. The end result was to undercut the Clinton administration’s positions in the negotiations.
Insty also has a bit up today noting that he was far, far too close to Arafat. And if he’d served a second term, he likely would have sold Israel down the river.
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Yes. Not before the election.
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And Joe will get to make the funeral oration. (Imagining Bill, Hillary and Barak watching and grinding their teeth). Or will this be one last, awful chance for Biden to screw things up?
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