Voltaire

Fascinating person doing fasinating research. Those monkeys are so clever and interesting. RIP Jane

I see that Jane Goodall has died today. RIP Jane. Jane worked with chimpanzees, not gorillas and she wasn't Koko the Sign Language Gorilla's keeper, but she did learn sign language in order to allow her to talk to Koko because Koko was such a fascinating celebrity in the primate world. One of the interesting stories Jane told about Koko was how one day the keeper had checked in on her and found that the water fountain had been dislodged from the wall. So when the keeper asked Koko what had happened, Koko replied that it was her pet kitten who had been responsible for tearing the water fountain off of the wall. I found that story cute. Anyway your argument on this post, together with Jane's death, reminded me that in fact, I have seen someone previously use identical absurd logic as you. Koko is seven years dead now, so it'd be tragic to learn that she never got a chance to play tic-tac-toe against you.

You're still expected to ask the cousins if they are a boy or girl because it's polite, but no matter what they say, deep down you know the truth, since you've seen them with their pants removed.

Well let them have moderate socialism them and unfulfilled promises then. I don't care what you call it. These voters elect leaders who think that Jordan Neely should be walking the streets and Daniel Penny belongs in jail. They also think plucking up a rock throwing Islamic teen leading and organizing chants of "Death to America," giving that kid a full ride scholarship to Columbia where he can learn US history and civics from Marxist professors and threatening harm to fellow students of the wrong color and religion is a great idea and enriches their city and neighborhoods. In my profession, I can choose to live in any community in the country and I deliberately selected to raise my family in a place where they would not get any Mamdani nor Cuomo on them.

One thing this meeting did was allow them an opportunity to talk to each other but who knows what they said privately. I suspect Trump and Hegseth are far more popular than you believe in the lower ranks but at the O-7 or higher level, I wouldn't have any personal experience. I've never had a conversation with one.

Gotham City has Joker, Penguin, and Batman on the ballot. Its obvious to most of the country that they're best off voting for Batman but they don't seem to want him, nor would they take our unsolicited advice. They're the ones that live there, it's their prerogative who to lead them and they want Joker. So let them have Joker. Apparently, Gotham voters want to kick the tires on Communism. Who are we to tell them 'no'. It's not like the rest of us have to go there or live there. It'll either work and they can take what they learn and export it to other cities or it will fail and they will have to live with it. I'll be over here avoiding the place, praying I don't ever get assigned to a plane layover there, and eating popcorn while watching videos of what happens. I think the whole country will benefit from the lessons learned by watching what happens when you let Joker run a city.

Their best hope is for the GOP to overplay their hand and makes unpopular or unwise decisions because if they do, the Democratic party remains as really the only one viable alternative. Combine that with a downplay of their own toxicity and they will eventually at some point rebound.

The Congressional Democrats can choose to let the Republican Congress set budgetary priorities or they can choose to let Russ Vought make those decisions. It's their prerogative. Either way, they shouldn't be given any input in the decision making process. I'd just take their unread proposals, smirk, throw them in the trash in front of them, and walk away. Not worth talking to. Don't need them. Don't care. Fock Off. They chose Vought which is what I'd hoped they'd do. If they don't like what Russ Voight is doing, they are free to change their mind at any time but they don't deserve any face saving measures to take back to their retarded voters for doing so. There's no reason this should end in anything but total and complete failure on their part.

My best wishes for HT are sincere, whereas whoever tried to water that sentiment down by responded to this post with a laugh emoji can drown in a puddle of AIDS. Kick ass on whatever ails you, HT.

My over/under is 3.5. There are likely a few dozen Purple Heart recipients in that room, to include head injuries.

Glad you came out OK from that scary situation, HT. My best wishes for a full and quick recovery.

No, that's not. If you come across anyone like that, let think know about this link here.

This is kind of funny, man. I was reading nytimes whine about the effects of the shutdown and it reads like political pron. My cup quickly began to overflow with leftoid nytimes tears, so I needed to go get three more cups so I could store the rest in the freezer. Full applause for identifying the chinks in the Democrats' armor and have the temerity it took to call their bluff. Trump can (and now has) rope-a-doped the Democrats into anything. look what they've done. The Democrats have chosen to allow Russ Vought to decide what gets funded and what doesn't. He's no doubt been waiting in anticipation for this moment ever since he took that job. Even though a lot of this will eventually get funded anyway when a deal is reached, some won't. There's a sense of real hope for permanent structural reform in the exact places where activist lower courts have deliberately gummed up the works. It's exciting to see play out. It's not zero pain. I mean, you can't be too happy when essential workers will have to forgo wages and wait to get backpay, these are good people and there are bills coming due in the meantime which they don't deserve to be caught short of cash for. There is a trade-off and it's coming on their backs and it's not fair to them. The reason I'm happy anyway is that this pain is only temporary, they will get backpay eventually, but the rest reads like a cornucopia of delayed relief that had long been needing to get done but until now had been blocked by activist lower court judges. Reforms we've been waiting nine months for are going to be in line to get unsealed and unclogged in the next few days since there is not enough money availible for all bills to be paid so things will have to get prioritized. It was especially gratifying reading about all those VOA sh*tbags getting canned less than two days after that turd judge decided that he had the authority to appoint himself CEO of VOA and usurp the decision making of that agency. That timing was particularly delicious. VOA has a proud history and done many good things so what's happened there has been particularly tragic, seeing how it's been compromised, it needs an extreme makeover to return to its original function and this shutdown offers the opportunity to do an end run around the activist leftoid judge to hopefully allow it to actually get one. More big pieces are finally allowed to come together now. Fund this, don't fund that. Vought is on it in a bigtime way. As the party in charge of Congress and the Presidency, the Republicans have to vote to keep the government open but frankly the country will be better off by giving this shutdown a few weeks to fully blossom and letting Russ Vought cook. The Dems are providing all but one of the no votes. Alrighty then. Like I said, it's mostly all going to eventually be re-funded anyway but the money being withheld is all Democrat priorities, they're the party that loves big, intrusive government. so fock it. Who cares? In the mean time, hopefully temporary changes can be backdoored into permanent changes at these (can't find the right adjective) agencies. As this goes on, hopefully these government workers hire in somewhere else and leave these agencies either replaced with reformers or unfilled vacancies. Cement it all in place with another three years of Trump, followed hopefully by eight of Vance. Thank You for the help, Dems. Keep holding your breath until you reach the shade of blue you like. I'm sure at some point the Republicans will stop laughing, dancing, and celebrating long enough to take pity on you. Then you'll get 'em! Trump Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain for Democrats and Move Forward With Layoffs - The New York Times

If ever a thread reaches page two that hasn't been turned into a tranny thread, the Earth will displace itself from its orbit around the sun and float off into space. Personally, I'm grateful to the crew that has dedicated itself to preventing that tragedy by ensuring that 100% of threads in this forum are about trannies.

Hopefully whoever is doing it gets tired of policing us soon.