I want gunpowder or sawdust scents.

3/4 for amendments, actually.

Weren’t both of the first 2 lines from Theoden?

Edit: https://youtu.be/0FtLgOygkJ4?si=qZfrCKvsg5k3gbW2?t=49s

Begins at 49 seconds - can’t get the timestamp linking to work.

Or even better - start at 0:00 on the extended edition of Fellowship and work your way there.

I really want him to make it to October 1st and become the first one to break 100.

Yes, but the wrong group is clinging to guns.

Democrats act all high-mined in their rejection of political violence and distaste for guns, but in opposing gun ownership they’ve allowed their opposition that’s just fine with political violence to own all the guns.

Let’s look at oldest mainline Presidential nominees in history:

1. Biden - 2024 (81)
2. Trump - 2024 (78)
3. Biden - 2020 (77)
4. Trump - 2020 (74)
5. Reagan - 1984 (73)
6. Trump - 2016 (70)
7. Reagan - 1980 (69)

Next President who was elected was William Henry Harrison, but we’re getting “young” enough there may be unelected nominees I’m not aware of.

Also: fun fact. Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency lifespan has been over 43 years so far, while Teddy Roosevelt was only 42 when elected Predident.

Might perform better in certain situations where the original got laggy.

They literally ruled that interested parties can pay a gratituity to officials and politicians, so long as the official act they’re paying for occurs before payment.

That’s not some pessimistic reading of the case. It’s not subtle at all in it’s intention to legalize bribery at the federal level.

The case at hand was a mayor that gave a contract to a waste disposal company worth about a million dollars overtly in exchange for them paying him $15,000 after the contract was awarded.

He was prosecuted for official corruption and bribery, and the Supreme Court threw it out because he was paid after the corrupt act and not before.

Sounds like the wrong party has been hoarding weapons.

Jesus, this is bleak. In a week they’ve straight-up legalized giving gifts to officials as an overt gratuity and declared Presidents immune from the law.

Part of me wants to see the current President take advantage of this moment to forcibly install a Court that will quickly overturn these decisions and return us to sanity.

My issue with Verizon 5g is that it is worse than their old Edge service.

5g on my signal bar essentially means “doesn’t work.” It wasn’t an issue when I could turn off the 5g radio, but Samsung pushed an update that removed that option.

The biggest argument the Republicans have against Biden is his age.

Bernie is older than Biden.

It doesn’t matter at this point that he’d be better. The only way to combat the “too old” argument is to nominate someone younger than Trump. And there’s plenty of people younger than 78.

They’re not. The ship has 1 bad thruster, but need like a dozen to fail to make re-entry impossible. They could leave right now and everything would be just fine.

The thing is the module that’s malfunctioning doesn’t survive re-entry, so the only time to investigate the problem is before they head back.

Pascal Payet escaped prison by being picked up by a helicopter.

3 times.

My favorite was the one that generated a ship code but never actually shipped the item, and kept telling Etsy “Oops - one more week for us to get this figured out” every time I complained with Etsy until the refund period ended, and Etsy stood behind them.

I’m never using Etsy again after that bullshit.

Stein isn’t in the ballot in enough states to win the electoral college. She literally cannot win.

They waited until they were sued to stop.

If you get caught speeding, the judge doesn’t throw out the ticket because you slowed down as the cop pulled you over.

The Internet Archive had a system in place specifically to ensure that they had a legal license for each copy of the book loaded out digitally at any given time. This essentially made it a library.

During the lockdown, they intentionally stopped using this system and loaned out unlimited copies. They didn’t just violate copyright in accident, they willfully and intentionally disabled their own systems designed to preserve copyright.

I think the publishers suck too, but the Internet Archive humped the bunk on this one.

Kavenaugh has been better than expected (still bad). Actually, all of the Trump appointments have been less-bad than Alito, Thomas, and Scalia. If it weren’t for the fact that Kavenaugh replaced Kennedy and Barret RBG it wouldn’t be so bad.

The good news is that the next 2 up for replacement are probably Thomas and Alito. If we can hold onto the White House we may be able to unfuck this.

He is no longer useful for them.

You might as well vote for Barney the dinosaur for all the good it will do.

A vote for a candidate who cannot win is wasted.