You’re lucky! We had to make do with gru.
We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel
You’re lucky! He was a good Dad.
2 men killed and sold over 3600 birds including many eagles on the northern MT Indian reservations. I hope they throw the book at these fuckers.
We dreamed of having hands…
At least you had dreams. We had to share a single bitter thought that had been passed down through generations.
Ah, you grew up in a MAGA family. I’m so sorry.
In reality, Dad probably would have gone that way. Mom, no way.
I do sometimes wonder what my dad would think of politics these days if he’d lived. I like to think he’d work to keep our state as blue as possible and not get sucked into the MAGA whirlpool. He was a pretty canny fellow.
I really wonder how my dad would have reacted to Trumpism. He was an ultra-religious type, and sooner or later, the cognitive dissonance would have to have caught up to him. I mean, surely he’d have noticed that Trump is the living embodiment of all seven deadly sins? Surely, the use of Geneva-Convention-prohibited weapons against a church would have had an impact on him?
But then again, Roe v. Wade overturned, and that probably would have been the only thing he noticed.
This might make an interesting thread, if someone chose to start it. Be a weird seance, though, if you wanted to ask a departed person about their thoughts on Trump.
My parents followed the Regan-to-Trump pipeline (the existence of which is denied by so many self-respecting Republicans who nonetheless endeavor to benefit from it). One brother lives on the remoteness of the Humbolt Sink, convinced that this is the End Times.
My SO’s nephew, as a caterer in DC, made the acquaintance of Tucker Carlson. From this he received information that Carlson won’t make public: Holocaust Denial straight out of David Irving, backed by the junk science of Fred Leutcher. Since his dad, my SO’s brother, was once blackballed from full partnership by a Jew, the rest of the family is on the train (the crazy train that is; not the Polish railway trains their sure couldn’t do camp transports while also serving the war effort).
An me, I just gyre and gimble in the SDMB wabe. There’s a lot of stupidity out there, giving full service to the powers of evil.
The ghost would be pissed off that you woke them from an eternal slumber to tell them crap that couldn’t possibly be true and then would haunt you.
Which is, of course, part of the reason Germany lost the war: Once resources got thin and they had to decide between being the embodiment of evil and actually, you know, fighting the war, they chose the evil.
“I fought in World War Two to kill Nazis, and you’re telling me……”
Rudi Giuliani just got whacked with $148 million for defamation, those Georgia vote workers. Of course they won’t see that money, Rudy doesn’t even have the means to pay his lawyers. But the judgement will send a message.
If I were those two women I likely wouldn’t have been as nice as they were when they spoke briefly to the press. I’d twist the knife a little more and say “When I get the money I’m donating it to charity” Then “America’s Mayor” would seem even worse for not paying.
Maybe if he’s still getting residuals from the Life-Lock commercials he did in the Aughts, they can latch onto those…
It’s like sentencing a 78-year-old obese asshole who pounds fast food and diet soda to 50 years in prison.
He won’t serve more than a tiny fraction of it before dying of a massive heart attack but damn it’s nice to have it on the record.
My dad was an amiable bigot. He had some pretty racist views, but was surprisingly progressive politically. He would hate trump a lot. The inside addition thing would have disgusted him. He always called the Grand Rapids Press a, “A Republican Rag”. My sister and I argued with him about race all the time; he never got mad. He just had the opinions he’d formed as a kid at his daddy’s knee. Amusingly, I guess sort of, he came to be the boss a black man. In this town in that time there just weren’t any people of color so it was new to my dad. He liked the guy a lot and became friends with him, because that guy was one of the “good ones.” I miss my dad a lot anyway.
Lead tastes sweet - there’s even a compound called sugar of lead that in less enlightened times was used as both a sweetener and preservative. Toxic, of course, but apparently it tasted good. Note that every pouch shown in the article proudly proclaims “no sugar added” - just don’t ask what was added…
Just a little add-on factoid: The ancient Romans used to pour sour wine (acidic) into lead bowls or pots and let it sit. The lead would react with the acetic acid to form lead acetate (sugar of lead) and sweeten the sour wine.