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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • First Lady Melania Trump has denied connections to Jeffrey Epstein, telling reporters at the White House that any claims linking the two “need to end today”.

    There are numerous photos of her and Epstein hanging out together and acting very friendly together. So these ‘claims’ are not going to end today or any time in the future, Melania. Because they aren’t ‘claims’, they are documented facts!

    If you don’t want to be associated with creeps then maybe don’t hang out with them for years on end. It’s far too late for her to heed that advice. But she wouldn’t anyway, because she’s a shitty person, and shirt people tend to congregate together.

    Edit: typos





  • If he goes full authoritarian (which he’s trying to) he won’t need the elections. He or his stooges would just place sycophants into those empty spots. Given the way he’s angling to rig the elections, and the lack of resistance to that so far, he definitely doesn’t need the elections as we know them now.

    That’s the thing some people aren’t getting: we keep thinking he needs to operate within the checks and balances of the current system. But he doesn’t need to if nobody has the will or the ability to enforce them. At that point the constraints of the current system mean nothing.



  • Learning CPR and first aid (and getting certified in those topics) is cheap and ridiculously easy. Look up your local Red Cross organization, since they probably offer local courses in that topic in your area that are either free or very cheap. And even if it’s not useful to your job it can be very helpful. I’ve performed the Heimlich maneuver (or whatever they call it now) on my wife on two separate occasions when she was choking on some food (due to her throat being swollen with a cold and her biting off a bit too much pizza).

    Here are some ideas for jobs for younger people with limited to no work experience:

    • Retail stores
    • Restaurants
    • Grocery stores
    • Trampoline parks
    • Lazer tag places
    • Bowling alleys
    • Roller skate parks
    • Ice rinks
    • Instructional assistants at schools

    Good luck.

    Edit: fixed some autocorrect errors.




  • There’s been a steady rise in cases in some parts of England where raising the St George’s flag has become synonymous with hostility towards immigrants. That’s why it’s considered as a cause of ‘alarm and distress’, at least in this case. Especially given the background of this guy who’s been doing it.

    So this isn’t just a case of an overreaction to a harmless act of national pride (which is what some might come away with if they didn’t read the article or know the context).

    It’s a shame that the flag has become a proxy for racism. Not least because a lot of people put up the flag purely out of pride and with no malicious subtext.

    But you can usually tell the areas where there’s a racist undertone because they have a ridiculous number of flags up.

    Edit: fixed some typos.




  • This point I read in a related CNN article made me literally go WTF:

    During a somewhat awkward exchange with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, Solicitor General D. John Sauer struggled to say definitively whether he thought Native American children born today would be entitled to birthright US citizenship under the type of ruling he’s asking the Supreme Court to issue.

    Native Americans are the ORIGINAL Americans!! As if the murder and suffering of their ancestors, the theft of their land, and the discrimination many of them face today isn’t enough… now these suited clowns in DC are questioning whether newborn native Americans should automatically get citizenship?! The fucking audacity!

    Of course, we all know why these scumbags want to disenfranchise native Americans: because they aren’t white and Christian enough for their liking.