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Post by mhbruin on Mar 17, 2024 8:29:49 GMT -8
The Sheriff pulled up behind a guy unloading garbage out of his pick-up into a ditch. The Sheriff asked, “What are you doing? Don’t you see that sign right over your head.” “Yep,” the man replied. “That’s why I’m dumpin’ it here, ‘cause it says, ‘Fine For Dumping Garbage.’”
I Wonder What Republican Pronouns are. Ich, Er, Ihm?
The "number of Americans who identify as Republicans has never been lower," and Senate Republicans appear to be sounding alarms.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 17, 2024 8:31:46 GMT -8
A Rolling Storn Gathers No Mush
Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to have several "glitches" while on stage at an Ohio rally, and the internet isn't going to let the former president forget it.
Trump appeared as a special guest speaker at a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, March 16.
Trump used the event to hammer President Joe Biden, and slam the "illegal monster" who is accused of killing a nursing student by the name of Laken Riley.
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During his customary retelling of "The Snake" but redirected toward illegal immigrants, the ex-president fumbled with the word "bite."
"You've bit me but why?!" Trump shouted. "You know your boyght is poisonous."
@sitarose27 wrote in response, "You know what they say about snakes, watch out for that boight!"
@lucybelle47 wrote, "Boyt? Huh?"
Trump also attempted to give a shout-out to MAGA-backed Bernie Moreno, who at one point supported LGBTQ rights before turning against them, but fumbled his name, instead pronouncing it "Marino."
A popular account called "Spiro's Ghost" replied:
"Dementia J. Trump can't even pronounce his sycophant's name. SAD!"
At one point, Trump's frustration grew so much that he lashed out at the teleprompter company.
"Don't pay the teleprompter company," he said after bragging he didn't need the device.
In another bewildering move, Trump actually says that "Joe Biden won against Barack Obama."
Spiro's Ghost said, "Ok. This is CONSPICUOUS DEMENTIA. Under any theory of thought this makes no sense at all. Wtf? WAKE UP MSM."
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann responded, saying that "not only is Trump hallucinating and on the verge of complete cognitive collapse but if you can bear to listen to it, the second time, he says, 'Obaba.'"
Trump also appeared to pronounce the "Rolling Stones" wrong, saying "Rolling Storns."
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 17, 2024 8:35:21 GMT -8
Want a Good Cup of Joe? How About a Cheap One?
The white-walled room in a house on the outskirts of Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam’s coffee capital, is quiet. The only thing breaking the silence is the occasional beep of an electronic scale, or the sound of coffee being poured into a measuring glass. A handful of people, all wearing white lab coats, concentrate on their work.
“This is really a lab,” says Nguyen Van Hoa, as he walks around the room in the white lab coat he wears over his jeans and trainers. A young man, Hoa calls himself a “green bean hunter” and is the owner of Stone Village Lab and Education, a company that researches and sources high-quality coffee beans for cafes and coffee businesses.
Now and then, he stops at a desk to demonstrate how many beans to add to each cup and the ideal water temperature. Baristas and cafe owners come here from all over the country to learn about coffee, from the capital Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south.
He holds out a cup with a small serving of dark brown coffee brewed from a blend he has been working on for seven years. “It will change the mind of anyone who thinks that you cannot make good coffee from Robusta,” he says.
This – changing the minds of the many Robusta sceptics – is what has occupied Nguyen Van Hoa for the past few years. In the coffee industry, Robusta is known as the inferior sibling of Arabica, lacking the latter’s complexity and sweeter, smoother notes. Robusta is almost always mass-produced and cheap.
“The Robusta market is only looking for the best price. But we can change that,” Nguyen Van Hoa says.
They must. The Arabica coffee bean which is near-universally synonymous with quality coffee, is under serious threat from climate change. Reforming the image and quality of the much-maligned – but, as its name suggests, resilient – Robusta coffee bean is crucial for the future of coffee.
And Vietnam is where that change may well happen. It is the world’s largest producer of Robusta – and second to Brazil in overall coffee production, and the bean comprises 95-97 percent of all the coffee grown in the country.
This has been the case since French colonists brought coffee plants to the region in the 1850s.
If It Warms Up Enough, We Can Grow Coffee in Alaska.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 17, 2024 8:43:08 GMT -8
Tired of Being Trickled On?
Biden’s populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economicsSo how do we get prosperity for the rest of us? By taxing extreme wealth and investing those revenues in social goods like education, housing, food and health care. President Biden’s recently released federal budget plan follows that blueprint, putting the value of investing in American families and communities ahead of slashing taxes for the rich. The budget for the fiscal year 2025 would generate about $5.3 trillion in revenues over the next decade. That’s a $388 billion boost compared to last year’s budget — and it all comes from fairer tax policies targeting wealthy individuals and large corporations. Households earning less than $400,000 would see no tax increases, with many seeing reductions. The proposed budget invests $2.3 trillion towards essential public services for hard-working families while reducing the national debt by almost $3 trillion. That’s a great start toward filling critical investment gaps for families and communities. Take housing. The National Low Income Housing Coalition reports a shortfall of more than 7 million affordable housing units for poor and low-income Americans. Biden is requesting $33 billion for the Housing Choice Voucher program, which currently helps over 2 million households afford housing and would expand access to homeownership for first-time homebuyers. His request will help to support the existing vouchers and add about 20,000 more.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 17, 2024 8:44:05 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
Brian Butler, aka "Trump Employee 5," for spilling a lot of beans about the handling of classified documents by the Trump crime syndicate
Vice President Kamala Harris, whose visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota makes her the first sitting U.S. president or vice president to visit an abortion provider
The Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee hearing who made Robert Hur, the Trump-loving author of the Biden classified documents DOJ report squirm like a worm
LGBTQers and their allies in Florida schools, as a settlement between education officials and civil rights attorneys guts Ron DeSantis's “Don’t Say Gay" law
Freelance journalist Jonathan Katz, for exposing how Sen. Katie Britt twisted time and space during her SOTU response to falsely blame Biden for a woman's sexual abuse in Mexico
President "Jacked-Up" Joe Biden---enjoys post-SOTU accolades as he clinches the Democratic nomination for a well-deserved second term
The Judicial Conference of the United States, for clamping down on the practice of "judge shopping" that the MAGA cult uses to choose judges friendly to their cases
The DNC and the Democratic candidates it supports, as its counterpart the RNC effectively morphs into little more than Trump's legal defense slush fund
The Oscar winners, including best documentary "20 Days in Mariupal" and best picture "Oppenheimer"
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 17, 2024 8:45:59 GMT -8
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
The big news this week, President Joe Biden said at a weekend Washington roast, was that two candidates had clinched their party’s nomination for president. But one was too old, too mentally unfit for the job, he said.
“The other’s me,” Biden quipped.
The digs against Republican Donald Trump kept coming from the president at the annual Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner, as Biden deflected ongoing criticism that his memory is hazy and he appears confused, instead highlighting moments when the 77-year-old Trump has slipped up, too.
“Don’t tell him, he thinks he’s running against Barack Obama, that’s what he said,” said Biden, 81, who also quipped that he was staying up way past his bedtime.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 17, 2024 8:49:00 GMT -8
The FGA Is Fucking God AwfulWhen Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped in the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics” of “left-wing” banks and touting how he used his position to enact a regulation targeting those financial firms. Ashcroft also said candidates shouldn’t focus on issues that let the one percent “force their beliefs on 99 percent of the population.” While Ashcroft positioned himself as a champion for working class voters, emails obtained by CNN and the progressive watchdog group Documented show that he was steered toward adopting his “anti-woke” investment regulation by a little-known, right-wing think tank with deep ties to conservative billionaires. The communications show that officials with the Foundation for Government Accountability suggested regulatory language to Ashcroft and even wrote an op-ed article that Ashcroft published in a national conservative magazine under his own name. The emails not only reveal FGA’s influence over Ashcroft, they offer a snapshot of the group’s growing influence across the country, particularly in red states. And that influence can carry a high cost for workers and taxpayers. The “anti-woke” investment measures have cost states hundreds of millions of dollars in additional investment fees and can lead to smaller returns for public employee retirement plans. One study estimated a 2021 Texas law would cost taxpayers up to $500 million in higher interest rates just on bonds sold in the first eight months after the law passed. Another study calculated that the law cost local governments $270 million a year in added fees, resulting in an annual $668 million in lost economic activity and thousands of full-time jobs. Along with attacking “woke” investing, FGA has worked with legislators and elected officials to push for laws to deregulate child labor, stop Medicaid expansion and slash food stamps, among other initiatives. Since the 2020 presidential election, the group also has played a key role in the push to advance voting restrictions and other legislation pitched as promoting election integrity in Republican states – claiming more than 70 such policy wins across the country in 2022 alone. Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues
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