Hmm I’m not sure, Donald seems to like it…
Sure, but he likes himself better. A LOT better.
You just know that flag is thinking, “Bad touchies! BAD TOUCHIES!”
Watching Good Morning America this morning (against my will). During the trivia question segment, the host stammered over a question about the Gulf of Mexico and wound up just saying “the Gulf”.
Wait. GMA does Sunday mornings too?
I don’t watch anything except Netflix, Amazon Prime, AppleTV, Disney+, and Hulu, so I can’t be expected to know these things, but I would have expected them to let America sleep in on Sundays.
There’s a Good Morning America Weekend show that airs both Saturday and Sunday mornings.
I know this only because I just Googled it.
They should call it “Why Are You Up So Early on a Weekend America”.
Well, today he’s pissed me off by forcing me and my fiancée to have a conversation that should normally be fairly unimportant.
On my suggestion, my fiancée (36, black female) has decided that, despite what we would both prefer, she’s going to keep her maiden name rather than my (52, white male) last name. We had the discussion after reading about the difficulties that may otherwise arise due to the SAVE Act.
I wouldn’t worry about that @Superdude . A woman with the last name ‘Superdude’ would be odd after all.
I kid of course.
My wife did take my last name. I should have taken hers. It’s cool. Mine kinda sucks. I had a crush on a girl in college that had a beautiful flowing name. Also perfect for her heritage and her red flowing hair. She married a guy with the worst name I’ve ever heard. An Italian name. No disrespect, but this was BAD. I won’t disclose it here, or anywhere, but outside of losing a girl I had a crush on I was “You’ve got to be kidding me”
My wife kept her name, primarily because it would be easier than updating all of her licenses and legal stuff. The other day she thanked me for ‘letting’ her keep her name. (A previous husband didn’t.) I didn’t ‘let’ her do anything. It wasn’t my decision to make. She was/is perfectly welcome to take my surname, but I had/have no right to insist she did/does. (I think she did hyphenate on our marriage certificate, but I’d have to look.)
I can relate. And, honestly, my fiancée has a run of the mill maiden name. Seriously, it’s in the Top 20 most common last names in the US. I have a very German last name, despite having no German heritage (my great grandmother married into a Dutch last name. When she left her husband, she didn’t want him to be able to locate her, so, rather than keep his name or go back to her maiden name, she changed the spelling by one vowel. Rather than an “EE” in her last name, she started writing it “EI,” which changed the derivation from Dutch to German).
It didn’t help that the last two syllables in my three-syllable last name rhyme with “virgin.” It was torture in high school.
Julia Gulia?
One of my coworkers, last name Brown, was going to take his then fiancee’s name when they married. “There are enough Browns in the world,” he said.
I wonder what impact this inanity regarding surnames from the felon and his cabal will have on the population of Hawaii. When one applies for a marriage license in the Aloha State, one selects one of the options for the surnames of the happy couple. One choice is to create a brand new surname. I like that option. When the wife and I got married there, though, we selected the “each party to the marriage maintains their current surname”.
When we got married, Mrs Magill already had six months of airline tickets in the name of Mrs Maiden Name. Rather than going through the rigamarole of changing twenty-some-odd airline tickets, she took the name Mrs Maiden Name Magill. While I am in Raleigh this week, I will have to go the the courthouse to get a copy of our marriage licence, so she can vote.
I still don’t understand how this “SAVE” act even passes constitutional muster. I thought the feds didn’t have the authority to regulate elections.
Nitpick: ‘Rigmarole’. (Although Merriam-Webster offers your spelling as ‘less common’. 
I went back to my maiden name when I had been divorced longer than I had been married. Mostly, I was tired of having two names that people always misspelled. Now I’m back to only one.
The SAVE Act is not filibuster-proof. It would need 60 votes to pass in the Senate. Democrats wouldn’t give them that. I hope.
My ex-wife didn’t waste any time after we divorced. I don’t blame her, my last name is dumb. It was also my idea to have my oldest daughter’s last name changed to match my ex-wife and her family (not just because I didn’t want her to live with that last name, but also because I thought if she had the same last name as the family she lived with, she would feel more included).
When I married the second time, I told my wife that she absolutely did not have to take my last name, but she did anyway.
Probably depends on what blackmail-ready information DOGE has accumulated, on which Senators.
What do LAWS matter when the sacred duty to save women from the terrible consequences of voting is at issue! (It causes breast cancer, you know!)
With Hawaii being notoriously Democratic in its voting habits, the virtues of SAVE in this regard are obvious.