Voltaire

I use to at least understand the "I feel bad for poor people, let's give them free stuff" mentality, same with the environmental stuff, but look at what they've devolved into in 2025. It's hot toxic garbage.

I like free stuff that other people pay for. I like being assured that it's perfectly normal behavior to stick explosive material up my ass. I appreciate the security of know that if this my career ambitions ever falls apart, I can always go play basketball in the WNBA.

Article doesn't say but you have to think it's because the surgery and rehab is going to be extraordinarily expensive. Insurance companies lose money whenever they have to pay out. In cases like this, they're combing through the fine print for the clauses they purposely installed and buried deep in the long boring legal forms you didn't read but that they made you sign when you joined. The reason they're not paying? It's right here in this paragraph on page 47...

The Bib Beautiful Bill is going to be a lot less beautiful to everyone after all the sausage making needed to produce it. Thus are the wages of a small majority. Hopefully enough Republicans can get 70-80% of what they want, then take President Regan's advice. ----- Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future. Ronald Reagan

Tim's entire post is sensible, after the first sentence, which had little-to-nothing to do with the broader point he was making and I gave him a 'like' for it. But yeah, the first sentence can be read as an endorsement of Mamdani's communism and is not the reason for the 'like'. And WTF is this driving force behind the bizarre intersectional Islamic/Marxist/Alphabet politicians like Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, those British mayors, and the white liberals who love them?

Every time a mass shooting happens, some of the people around here feel a compulsion to stick the shooter on the other political team before any evidence comes in. With that in mind, since this part of Idaho has the right, the further right, and almost no liberals, I think fringe right wing lunatic is where this one will fall. Hopefully I'm wrong and its one of the two Biden voters in that county.

The Athol A-hole

I don't know why they're miserable. I just know that it's the white Christian heterosexual patriarchy's fault.

That's what the Marxists told us in the early 90s when I was in college. I'm sure Mamdani has learned from his 100 predecessors' failures and will get it right on the 101st attempt. Hopefully it works this time. Personally, I like the idea of sitting on my ass all day playing video games, while being showered with free stuff.

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So that scene with the 7+1 diverse people was in the movie. Huh. I didn't know that. What role did this gaggle play and was there still 7+1 of them? When I saw the un-cropped photo, I figured that 8th guy was a production assistant of some sorts. My understanding was that in the end they chose to make a live action movie with CGI dwarfs rather than hire real ones (seven actors who would have been thrilled to get the work). That they originally wanted "seven magical creatures" the seven being the crew in the cropped photo, but that long after the dwarf idea got dropped, so did the 'magical creature' one, after it got widely panned online. But you're telling me the 7+1 group in the photo were eight and that they were not magical creatures. Were there a different set of magical creatures, or none at all?

Lots of horse trading, arm twisting, and heavy lifting but these are the twists and turns you have to navigate when your majorities in Congress are so small.

Exactly. Explosions don't go off without charges.

A vote for Biden was a vote for a Politburo of people. Dem voters didn't know who that included, but could be assured were all insider corporate Democrats with all the insider Democrat talking points, access to the autopen, and they weren't Orange Man Bad. Biden forgot who people were and couldn't navigate himself to the bathroom band back, but hus applesauce brain never got so bad that he couldn't read words his Politburo handlers wrote for him off a teleprompter.

Strange how the left wants no vetting at all for millions of people when they come into the country illegally, but if you try to deport a violent criminal alien, they freak out and there's protests and a long line of legal appeals they demand be worked through.