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Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Ron Johnson staffer trying to get a Pence staffer to help his boss commit treason or sedition or whatever the hell the legal name is.

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1539309011228446722?s=20&t=MnsuWmFki6D3n7eAG5Nq1Q

# ¿ Jun 21, 2022 19:33

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 09:18

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Nevada Republicans are sending the absolutely worst people they can to the general election.

https://twitter.com/AaronDFordNV/status/1539010853789257729?s=20&t=SAFmOu7b5pUn68HDmK-YIg

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Chattah will face current Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford in the general election in November.

According to texts released by Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a former friend, in January, in April 2021 Chattah had written to her about Ford, "This guy should be hanging from a loving crane."

She said later that the comment was "tongue-in-cheek" and had no racial overtones. Chattah, who immigrated to the United States from Israel at the age of 14, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in February, "When I say to my friends, 'I'm going to hang you from a crane,' I don't literally mean I'm going to hang you from a crane. ... I would never attribute a racial context to hanging from a crane. ... That is my culture. That's what is done to people in the Middle East, to traitors. And that's just part of my vernacular."

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GOP voters nominated Jim Marchant for secretary of state, a position that would place him in charge of running the state's elections.

Marchant is a Donald Trump supporter who has pushed voter fraud lies and antisemitic conspiracy theories. In 2020, Marchant lost a House race and sued to overturn his loss, claiming fraud. His suit was thrown out by a Nevada county court district judge.

If elected in November, Marchant said, he would get rid of voting machines, early voting, and mail-in voting, and hire what he called ""our people" as poll workers.

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Republican voters also picked right-wing extremist Michele Fiore as their nominee for state treasurer.

Fiore has pushed bigoted and false conspiracy theories, including that the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was the fault of "the pharmaceutical companies that are giving these individuals pharmaceutical psychotropic drugs," claiming without evidence that the shooter was "on a lot of different medications from transgendering, so his mind was quite defective."

Fiore is a right-wing militia sympathizer and an anti-vaxxer who has falsely said that cancer is a "fungus" that can be flushed out of the body.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2022 11:44

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

I am weary of this. With what happened in Uvalde this seems like the exact opposite of what people care about.

https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1539936969001680897?s=20&t=AlltA-9GUTlK125AVdalxQ

https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1539936970884915200?s=20&t=AlltA-9GUTlK125AVdalxQ

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# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 16:27

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Are we about to face a lawyer shortage?

https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1/status/1558206062288932867?s=20&t=OF0pwUgCqhZKQT9FkTG78A

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The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination�s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The SBC�s statement gave few details about the investigation, but indicated it dealt with sexual abuse. The SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., has been plagued by problems related to clergy sex abuse in recent years.

�Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooperate with the investigation,� the statement said. �While we continue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm conviction to address those issues of the past and are implementing measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future.�

Earlier this year, an SBC task force released a blistering 288-page report from outside consultant, Guidepost Solutions. The firm�s seven-month independent investigation found disturbing details about how denominational leaders mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated victims.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2022 23:25

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Might as well be honest about why they prefer college to be unaffordable. :patriot:

https://twitter.com/RepJimBanks/status/1562820837140742144?s=20&t=vRR8g_XZLJ2TxSdSCtsE1g

# ¿ Aug 25, 2022 19:11

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

When it comes to inhalants I worry much more about glue and propellants. If you haven't lived somewhere where huffing was a problem I can assure you that it's terrible. People becoming brain damaged from constantly starving their brain of oxygen, huffing from a paper bag full of fumes from canned air or spraypaint or whatever... they shuffle around like zombies and there's no coming back from that.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2022 03:56

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

weird vanilla posted:

Math is its own kettle of fish because of the poor way the K-12 curriculum is handled. One of my students' favorite assignments in the first year seminar courses I've taught is reading "A Mathematician's Lament" and getting to trash on the way they're taught math. After some examples and explanations in the paper, they then actually enjoy finishing up a math worksheet.
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

I found that article fascinating. When I was a kid I was interested in math but the learning experience left me stressed out and feeling stupid. As an adult even basic math sets off an anxiety response after decades of telling myself "you're no good at math." I don't even try. I remember being sick for almost a week in high school and when I returned I did poorly on an exam because I missed learning about "functions." I still have no idea what they are.

I wish I'd been taught math in a way that didn't leave me feeling stupid.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2022 11:41

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Oracle posted:

Try being a girl and learning math. I was literally told by multiple guidance counselors that 'girls aren't good at math' and it was fine to not understand anyway since I'd never need to know more than how to balance a checkbook.

I must ask: did you wind up good at math? :ohdear:

# ¿ Aug 30, 2022 21:26

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Is the intention for Trump to get anything incriminating excluded as privileged? Would he expect that the DOJ appeals process would eventually wind up at the Supreme Court, who obviously would do whatever Trump wants?

I'm just wondering if this is a Calvinball situation where the courts will ignore laws and procedures in favor of Trump while the DOJ and experts yell that they can't do what they're doing.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2022 17:41

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

kdrudy posted:

The list of potential special masters they come back with is going to be wild. Who even is there that Trump hasn't burned in some way at this point that would be even approaching appropriate?

If appointed I will serve, albeit reluctantly. :ignorance:

# ¿ Sep 5, 2022 17:57

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

The grift is reaching into the stratosphere. How can you satirize something like this?

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1570157243957493760?s=20&t=U0u2_MnF80CzRErknjZigg

# ¿ Sep 14, 2022 23:37

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 09:18

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Late last night I was watching Hannity interview Trump regarding the classified documents and it got so crazy that I had to look at it again this morning to confirm that I didn't imagine it. It features Trump attacking everyone involved with his usual inflammatory hyperbole but it reaches escape velocity around the 0:48 mark.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1572764458623148035?s=20&t=ftRfcyIctcGTBYLmAk3G9A

# ¿ Sep 22, 2022 13:57

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