dhork

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Maybe for reporters, but WaPo is on there the most and I will never trust them again.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

It's not just someone getting an IV. It's the blatant lying when asked about it. Nobody gets a bruise like that by "shaking hands".

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's not a departure from its traditional focus on bribery

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe he really is this shitty. Remember that the guy who used to have this job retired a few months ago. Maybe this guy was picked to replace him because he's just as much of an asshole as the rest of them.

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

Still up, for now. Now that we all know it's an unauthorized take on Ghostbusters, Columbia Pictures might have an opinion on whether it should stay up....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Didn't Trump already pardon all of the Jan 6 ~~insurrectionists~~ peaceful protestors?

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

I didn't make the graphic, I just stole/hotlinked it. I am very familiar with PA, although it's main redeeming quality is that it's not New Jersey.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That's not a thing here. The closest we have is a motion to vacate the speakers' chair.

These Republican women might be pissed off enough to do that, but then the House is thrown into chaos, like last time. And we would probably get someone even more batshit crazy as a new Speaker, like Jim Jordan or Nancy Mace.

Heck, the Speaker doesn't even technically need to be a House member. They could elect George Santos, as long as all Republicans agreed to it. Or Matt Gaetz. Trump himself got no small amount of votes the last time that happened.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It makes sense for them to be in open revolt. Republicans have always found women revolting.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Iscariot

Judas's epithet "Iscariot" (Ὶσκάριωθ or Ὶσκαριώτης), which distinguishes him from the other people named "Judas" in the gospels, is usually thought to be a Greek rendering of the Hebrew phrase איש־קריות, (Κ-Qrîyôt), meaning "the man from Kerioth".[17][9][18][19] This interpretation is supported by the statement in the Gospel of John 6:71 that Judas was "the son of Simon Iscariot".[9] Nonetheless, this interpretation of the name is not fully accepted by all scholars.[17][9] One of the most popular alternative explanations holds that "Iscariot" (ܣܟܪܝܘܛܐ, 'Skaryota' in Syriac Aramaic, per the Peshitta text) may be a corruption of the Latin word sicarius, meaning "dagger man",[17][9][20][21] which referred to a member of the Sicarii (סיקריים in Aramaic), a group of Jewish rebels who were known for assassinating people in crowds using long knives hidden under their cloaks.[17][9] This interpretation is problematic, however, because there is nothing in the gospels to associate Judas with the Sicarii,[9] and there is no evidence that the cadre existed during the 30s AD when Judas was alive.[22][9]

A possibility advanced by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg is that "Iscariot" means "the liar" or "the false one", from the Hebrew איש-שקרים. C. C. Torrey suggests instead the Aramaic form שְׁקַרְיָא or אִשְׁקַרְיָא, with the same meaning.[23][24] Stanford rejects this, arguing that the gospel writers follow Judas's name with the statement that he betrayed Jesus, so it would be redundant for them to call him "the false one" before immediately stating that he was a traitor.[9] Some have proposed that the word derives from an Aramaic word meaning "red color", from the root סקר.[25] Another hypothesis holds that the word derives from one of the Aramaic roots סכר or סגר. This would mean "to deliver", based on the Septuagint rendering of Isaiah 19:4 (a theory advanced by J. Alfred Morin).[24] The epithet could also be associated with the manner of Judas's death, hanging. This would mean Iscariot derives from a kind of Greek-Aramaic hybrid: אִסְכַּרְיוּתָא, Iskarioutha, meaning "chokiness" or "constriction". This might indicate that the epithet was applied posthumously by the remaining disciples, but Joan E. Taylor has argued that it was a descriptive name given to Judas by Jesus, since other disciples such as Simon Peter/Cephas (Kephas "rock") were also given such names.[24]

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He's a Republican, and there's no "R" in "consequences"....

 

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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