dhork

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Only because we keep lowering the bar for him. We disqualified Howard Dean because he screamed funny....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

The actual, literal quote speaks for itself

And I have to tell you, Europe has a lot of spirit for this war. A lot of people, you know, when I first got involved, I really didn't think they did, but they do. And I saw that a month ago when you were there, most of you many of you were there. The level of esprit de corps spirit that they have is amazing.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 22 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (5 children)

Isnt Ken Paxton's wife divorcing him, on "biblical grounds", as she puts it? Maybe Abbott, Musk, and Paxton are a throuple....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm still not convinced that the Daily Beast didn't get trolled, I havebt seen this anywhere else yet

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 58 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

For those of you who don't know, Putin literally stole one of the Patriots' owners SB rings.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-stole-a-super-bowl-ring-from-the-patriots-robert-kraft/

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No, I disagree. I know 80 year olds who won the genetic lottery and are still sharp and can operate a car just fine. I know others who probably shouldn't be on the highway anymore, but they have accepted that and only use their car to get around locally. They know their limits and work within them.

One older person I know is a perfectly safe driver, who used to be an expert navigator, but now once you get him off of his well-known routes he will spend forever looking for "that next turn" and end up driving off in a random direction. His family tries very hard to discourage him from driving alone now.

Yes, younger people mature at different rates, but the decline of older people is much more varied and there is a much larger range of age and abilities to consider. There is no practical way to differentiate solely based on age. Even in states where they periodically retest older drivers, all 3 of the cases I stated above would probably pass. (While a 4th older driver, who is perfectly fine driving by themselves but gets confused while being talked to while driving, would fail because they wouldn't process the tester's directions in real time).

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 53 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's a convenient filter to weed out any lawyers in the department with ethics, and replace them with lawyers who will do what the Boss wants, no matter what. They even admit it:

"Any sanctimonious career bureaucrat expressing faux outrage over the President’s policies while sitting idly by during the rank weaponization by the previous administration has no grounds to stand on," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement.

Which is Trumpspeak for "We want anyone with an independant code of ethics gone"....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Well, yeah, he wants to award all the contracts to companies him and his cronies control....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He can do whatever the fuck he wants, as long as half of Congress permits him to do so by not impeaching him.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not. The next phase of Trumpism won't need votes from citizens, only from Congress....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

He doesn't care, if he stays in power past Jan 2029 he won't need votes to do it....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course not. You only get the refund if you "behave", and we've already established that this Administration thinks any foreigner who can't afford 5 million dollars is a criminal....

 

A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing ended abruptly Tuesday after Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender person elected to Congress, as “mister.”

Self, who chairs the subcommittee on Europe, introduced McBride as “the congressman from Delaware” during a hearing on arms control and U.S. assistance to Europe. McBride responded by calling Self “Madam Chair.”

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