The most absurd part of this is that I would be shocked if Edith ever said the word abortion.
In at least one episode she did:
It is moving day, as Mike prepares to move into the house next door. Gloria comes home with some wonderful news - she’s pregnant. As she celebrates with Archie and Edith, she tells them that Mike doesn’t know. They leave her alone so she can tell him in private. She breaks the news to Mike by reminding him of a romantic weekend they took in which she forgot her pills and he didn’t want to drive into town to a drug store. Giving the matter some thought, Mike comes to the conclusion that it was all perpetrated to trap him into having a baby. A nasty fight ensues and he walks out. Gloria begins to give some consideration to the possibility of having an abortion in order to save her marriage, but Edith talks her out of it. In a very tender moment, Archie consoles Gloria and tells her how much he loves her. Mike comes back and tells Gloria that he really does want to have the baby.
My bold.
All in the Family dealt with many difficult and controversial issues.
"A group of more than 100 retired generals and admirals who have accused President Joe Biden of being a communist have been pranked by a faux flag officer going by the nom de guerre “Rear Adm. Jack Meehoff.”
"Earlier this month, the group Flag Officers 4 America posted an open letter that repeated lies spread by former President Donald Trump and the elected leaders who support his claims that the FBI and Supreme Court ignored “election irregularities” in 2020.
No concrete evidence has emerged suggesting the 2020 election was stolen. Trump’s former Attorney General William Barr said in December there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud and Chris Krebs, Trump’s director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, called the 2020 presidential election “the most secure in U.S. history.”"
100+ retired Admirals and Generals with the combined intelligence of private Gomer Pyle.
Do they also not remember things like this from 2017:
or this (2019):
or this (2020):
Or this (2020):
5 fucking minutes of googling. FIVE.
No, the previous administration did very much not give press conferences all the time. And thank you wikipedia for this - Trumps travel schedule last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips_made_by_Donald_Trump_(2020–2021)
Pretty much everything after March was golfing, vacation, campaign rallies or some combination of the three. (about one trip/month that fell outside of those parameters). No international trips post-COVID (List of international presidential trips made by Donald Trump - Wikipedia) Because, you know, pan-fucking-demic.
As someone who voted for him, I am ok with Biden not doing campaign rallies or flying to cool golf courses around the country during his first year in office. I’m also ok with keeping both national and international travel down for another few months. IF the rest of the world mostly opens up and world leaders start travelling widely and he doesn’t… I’ll rethink this. But for the moment, this is just fine and dandy.
Yeah, but Eric was calling those “yelling while trying to be heard over engine noises” Q&As as “press conferences.”
Those he had all the time.
Do I have to remind you: IOWRDI. Or in this case, don’t do it.
Getting back to the Mississippi ballot-initiative thing… I’m not familiar with Mississippi’s procedure for amending the state constitution… but in the states I am familiar with, a ballot initiative is part of the process. Has Mississippi gotten themselves into a mess they literally can’t get out of?
Mississippi does not have any other form of citizen participation. They do not have a legislative initiative process, citizen referendum by petition or recall of elected officials. They do have voter approval on constitutional amendments passed by the legislature, though, which is in every other state but Delaware.
My state has legislative initiative, referendum and recall, but not constitutional amendment by citizen petition. I mostly think that is a good thing, that we lack the amendment thing, but the initiative process has been seriously abused and should probably be revised to be harder to fuck with.
But my point is, suppose that the Mississippi legislature actually writes up an amendment to fix this stupidness. And then that amendment goes to the voters for approval. And it isn’t approved by all five Congressional districts. Because, of course it isn’t. What then?
I thought so too, but sometimes they have to break character to make a joke work.
The DOJ is investigation illegal contributions to Susan Collins’s reelection campaign by a defense contractor.
Ted Cruz thought it would be funny to make a joke about traveling to Cancun.
Andrew Giuliani announced he’s running for Governor of New York. His previous government experience was organizing White House meetings with sports teams.
Maybe that Giuliani name will carry the day.
Appropriate place as any, with the possibilty it’s been posted before (from last Oct. - I got one free reading, myself, this time around). His daughter seems like the most sensible of the bunch. Can’t help but feel for her.
Because it does not apply to the legislature:
(My bolding)
This is why I could never hack it as a politician; I would probably make that joke too, as a sort of mea culpa.
Right now, flooding in Texas has killed several people and left 100,000 others without power.
So naturally Ted “50 rats in a human skin and each rat is 500 cockroaches in a rat skin” Cruz is tweeting about flying to Cancun again.
But you would have probably culpa-ed back in February and taken responsibility for the initial incident, so a tweet now could be seen as a self-deprecating joke. Unlike Ted who threw his children to the wolves in an attempt to save his own skin.
True, I didn’t think of it like that; the added baggage of blaming his kids and dodging the responsibility really amplifies the shittiness of him joking about it.