As the days stretch into weeks, and the weeks to months, the lack of duty free shopping weighs heavy on the men. Parking is scarce. My hope of an on-time departure is all that sustains me in these dark times.
Individual 1 is considering issuing an executive order requiring the citizenship question on the census.
The conference call today about the census was amazing!
I’ll post a link to the transcript ASAP.
Little known fact: if Paul Revere didn’t do TSA Precheck, he would not have been able to get so quickly through checkout and warn that the British was coming.
#RevolutionaryWarAirportStories
Three if by air!
Shit! No fuel in the third lantern! We’re doomed!
When we finally drive the British athwart,
Lafayette is there waiting at Martin State Airport!
(I know, that’s not what “athwart” means. LMM took plenty of poetic license with word meaning.)
Switch to batteries!!!
My dearest Gwendolyn,
I fear the fiery pangs of your absence shall once again beat down upon my miserable visage as a three hour lay over in Cleveland threatens to stall our charge. We are left to fend for ourselves for whatever sundry we may have in our carry-on’s and one lone Sbarro at terminal 13B. The hardtack and calzones will only last so long.
Til we meet again,
Beauregard G. Raisinhead esq.
Flying water tankers. Must act quickly!
Trump thinks the presidential plane is Aircraft One
You know, to transport Individual One.
Not many people know it needs tugboats to take off and land.
Loser Donald never reads his speeches before giving them, so when he saw “manned the ramparts” and had never heard of a rampart before, he lost the plot and wound up babbling about airports.
Surely he doesn’t believe that there were airports!
Take it from Trump, himself:
He’s asserting he knew what he was he was saying at the time, right? Surely Trump wouldn’t try to mislead the American people.
Trump says malfunctioning teleprompter to blame for ‘airport’ gaffe in July 4th speech
An oldie but goodie:
So he was like driving up the 101 to San Fran and somehow ended up on Jupiter.
I would really like to have someone ask him when the Revolutionary War was.
Trump : “Long time ago, nobody remembers”
I would also like someone to ask him if the number 1776 rings a bell.
Trump : “Great number, great number. I have many 1776. I have a bell too. It’s gold best bell ever”
Then, ask him how many airports were on the east coast that we captured during the Revolutionary War.
Trump : “There are many great airports on the east cost. I’m from the east coast ya know. They love me. All airports love me.”
And also, ask him how many battles we won against the Chinese during the revolutionary war.
Trump : “We have the Chinese where we want them. We won the war and they did not complain. I really like the Chinese, I learn so much. I like rice pudding.”
I have trees in my yard that have more insight than Trump does.
And fuck, I can speak Trump.
FAKE NEWS!!! I speak it bigly. I have the best people. Everyone says that about me.
Ugh. That probably IS a real quote.
July 4, 2019
Border agents make a migrant walk around wearing an “I Like Men” sign.
Many years ago, I had to switch planes in Philadelphia, with several hours in between. I said “well, it’s a historically-important city, I’m sure there are many interesting things to see, and I may never be able to set foot there again, so I’m going to use that time to go downtown get a look-see*.” Having only a vague idea about what made Philadelphia important, I looked it up a bit before taking the plane so I already knew where the main monuments and the tourist office were, and where to take one of those hop-on, hop-off buses. And I was just a nobody: if I’d been representing my country in a visit to Wherever, I would have considered it my professional and civic duty to brush up beforehand.
Trump can’t even be arsed do that when the visit is in his own country :smack:
- One of the times my crystal ball was very much offline. For about 15 years, the picture I got taken with Independence Bell during that trip was my go-to “send me a pic” photo. And for a year, my desk was some 15m away from the spot where the pic was taken (well, a bit further if you didn’t just crash through the window).
Back to the Census stuff, that’s one of those things which are complete opposites for Spain and the US. I already was conscious of how we have what we call the “permanent census”, where you register your main residence with City Hall and that is your register for voting, for local taxes and for all kinds of public services; y’all have a separate voting registry and a census which is run periodically.
But regarding the citizenship question, in the US there’s people who are afraid that admitting their Cousin Rita was visiting from Panama may get them a visit from ICE (Cousin Rita was actually and truly visiting, she wasn’t living in the house, but she was there when the census was taken); in Spain one of the problems of inmigrants (specially but not limited to undocumented ones) is that landlords who don’t want to declare income from rent refuse to give them the documents they need in order to register for the Census, and being able to prove that you’ve lived in the country for X time is an important part of getting and keeping your paperwork straight. So, that register is viewed in completely opposite ways.