#biden and the babysitter

[ravenkings]

Today, many proclaim that motherhood is neither duty nor destiny, that a woman is not left unfulfilled or incomplete without children. But even as I write those words, I doubt them. Do we, collectively, believe that? Maternal instinct is still frequently invoked in science writing, parenting advice and common conversation. And whether we call maternal instinct by its name or not, its influence is everywhere.

Belief in maternal instinct and the deterministic value of mother love has fueled “pro-family” conservative politicians for decades. The United States, to its shame, still lacks even a modest paid leave policy, and universal child-care remains far out of reach. The Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971 was the last serious attempt to establish a national day care system. Richard Nixon vetoed it, saying it was a “family-weakening” bill and the government must “cement the family in its rightful position as the keystone of our civilization.” Implicit in that statement was a belief about a woman’s natural place.

That attitude was also evident in March 2021 when an Idaho state representative named Charlie Shepherd announced (in remarks he later apologized for) that he could not vote for a bill that would use some $6 million in federal grants to support early childhood education because it made it “more convenient for mothers to come out of the home and let others raise their child.” It’s a belief that isn’t always stated so blatantly but seems to dictate local and national policies. President Biden’s Build Back Better package would eventually be stripped of its paid leave plan along with a nearly $400 billion investment in affordable child care and universal preschool.

Belief in maternal instinct may also play a role in driving opposition to birth control and abortion, for why should women limit the number of children they have if it is in their very nature to find joy in motherhood? A 2019 article published by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, a Christian anti-abortion policy group, claimed that “the ultrasound machine has been the pro-life movement’s strongest asset in recent years” because the once the woman is informed of her pregnancy, “her maternal instinct will often overpower any other instinct to terminate her pregnancy.” Why, then, should the law consider the impact of pregnancy on the life of a person who has the full force of an instinct stronger than “even fear itself” to gird her in the task?

The myth of maternal instinct places a primacy on biological mothers, suggesting the routes to parenthood fall into two into categories: “natural” and “other.” It sustains outdated ideas about masculinity that teaches fathers that they are secondary — assistants, babysitters — and encourages mothers to see them that way, too. It undermines the rights and recognition of same-sex couples and transgender and nonbinary parents, whose ability to care for their children is often questioned.

–Chelsea Conaboy, “The Pernicious Myth of Maternal Instinct” The New York Times, August 26, 2022

#feminism #misogyny #sexism #reproductive rights #politics #article #quote

[musingsofabookworm1]

My Last Six Reads

As the school year wears on and the weather fairly gloomy, I'm dreaming of summer days filled with sunshine and good books. Meanwhile, I'll when I have time among the dreary spring days.

Monsters We Have Made by Lindsay Starck - This author grew up in Milwaukee, and Lake Superior plays a role in the book; so I was hoping it'd be a winner right off the bat. And it was! 5 stars! I read most of this, loosely based on the Slender Man, on a snow day we had early in the month.

Sylvia's daugher, Faye, murdered her babysitter when she was 11. Now 21, Faye has abandoned her own daughter, and Sylvia is afraid history will repeat itself. Faye blamed the murder on the Kingman (this is the Slender Man tie), and Sylvia tracks down Faye's childhood friend to try to squeeze out more of the details from the decade-old murder to prevent it from happening again.

This one hooked me immediately, moved quickly, and had the perfect prose-to-dialog ratio.

Children of Exile #1 by Margaret Petersen Haddix - When I take my students to the school library, I always try to show some restraint and not check out any books. It's worked fairly well this year, but when I saw this trilogy by one of the best middle grade authors of our time, I couldn't resist. I got it right before spring break, but then have had a plethora of regular library holds come in. So I've only had the chance to read the first.

It, too, grabbed me from the beginning. A group of children aged birth to twelve have been raised by people known as "Freds" and told their biological parents and home are unsafe. Abruptly, the children are all forced on a plane to return to this unsafe place with unsafe parents. And unsafe it is. We follow Rosi, 12, as she and another older child try to figure out exactly what is going on. The end of this book was unexcepted to say the least! And where it's headed is not my cup of tea. Despite that, 4 stars. And I will finish the trilogy. When the library holds are done.

Murder Road by Simone St. James - She's really pumping out books quite fast! I feel like I just read a newer one by her. I also got sucked into this one quite quickly. It got a little long in the middle, but it was worthwhile overall: 4 stars.

It's July 1995 and Eddie and April are driving north from Ann Arbor for their honeymoon. Close to their destination, they get lost and come upon a hitchhiker on the side of the road. Upon letting her in the car, they pivot and head to the hospital as said woman is shocked and bleeding. When she dies at the hospital, April and Eddie are the prime suspects in her murder. They must stay in Coldlake Falls while being investigated, but they do some digging to find out that this death is not the first of its kind in what appears to be a quaint, quiet town.

If you've read St. James before and enjoyed her work, you'll like this one.

Become Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray - 4 stars for this novelization of Frances Perkins' life. I teach about Frances Perkins when my class does a unit on the Triangle Factory Fire, and as I've learned more about her, I can't believe she's not more a part of history curriculums. But, alas, she's a woman! No room for her when talking FDR even though his biggest reforms are her ideas and stem from her hard work.

This book is long - over 500 pages. But it didn't drag. Its covered important parts of her life mixing personal with business. Definitely a worthwhile read to commemorate the life of a pioneer who changed America for the better.

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers - I heard about this one during an MSNBC interview with the author on the way to school one day last month and immediately put it on hold. 4 stars only because it was a lot shorter than I thought, but it was a solid read. Rogers did cover some earlier first ladies, but focused on the title span and mostly Biden. I knew most of what she wrote about Hillary and Michelle Obama from reading their own autobiographical work, but I didn't know too much about Jill Biden. It focused a lot on how she's kept her day job as an English teacher. And kudos to her for that! She supports her husband and his campaign but not at her own expense.

Rogers moves her nonfiction along a good clip which I appreciate. It's not a heavy nonfiction. She is a storyteller but gets to the point rather than drags things out.

I think you can tell by the lengthy title yourself if this one's for you!

She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica - It's been a great weekend of reading thanks to, for once, having no schoolwork or other obligations. I started this one around 3:00 yesterday and finished before bed at 10:00 with some Yahtzee and dinner mixed in between.

The book opens with protagonist Meghan getting a call that the caller is holding her teenaged daughter hostage. This is about three pages long and then begins Part 1 of the book.

Meghan is an ICU nurse recently divorced learning how to live just her and her teenaged daughter. She begins care of Caitlin: a patient who survived, barely, an attempted suicide which found her attempting to jump to her death near train tracks in Chicago. As Caitlin lies unconscious, Meghan becomes close with her parents who rush to her side once she was identified. Meghan tries to help the police with their investigation when she sees a man, who is not family, staring in the entrance to Caitlin's room.

Meanwhile, Meghan is dealing with said divorce and what is becoming a rocky relationship with her sixteen-year-old.

And then Part 2: a twist. One that I didn't see coming.

4 stars for this one.

[anthonybialy]

Lazy Fair

A president who doesn’t touch anything is the republic’s best hope.  But self-control is not a typical characteristic of applicants.  Americans who tire of being groped must rely on conditioning to dodge handsy executives.  Harassment doesn’t become legal when a politician lingers on a hug too long.

As with babysitters not letting charges juggle drills, the absence of destruction is tough to notice but crucial to sense.  A term would ideally be an actively passive process.  Sadly, interviewers are not about to hire some CEO who trusts them to negotiate.

Nostalgia junkies who miss the ancient era of 2019 are really just longing for Donald Trump to again be useless.  An all-time bluffer’s emblematic ineptitude despite rather brassy claims to the contrary constitute his version of effectiveness, which is to commandeer the bus wheel in order to drive it classier.  It’s just like how success at winning an election differs from whether or not the person who receives the most electoral votes may not be smart or good or talented.

The insatiable urge to grab everything for the alleged benefit of the fondles is far from the only thing Trump shares in common with a Clinton.  A horndog president too busy seducing a zaftig intern to do the same with the economy offered the best possible precedent in an era where nobody minds their own business.

Broke and busted Americans miss aspects the last president couldn’t manage to muck up.  It wasn’t for lack of trying.  But Trump’s inability to molest everything was a gift of an unanswered prayer to himself.  Doing things never works out for him despite the most unearned assurances in civilization’s history.  The person now ripping off perception prepared with a long career of pretending to be a corporate titan as he lost money spinning roulette wheels openly rigged in the house’s favor.

Business was better before taking on a president who thinks hassling everyone but shoplifters assists the economy.  Credit something a different false savior claimed to manifest when mere existence got it done.  The free market works fantastically when clumsy amateur mechanics don’t attempt needless repairs.  Relative prosperity must’ve been spurred by their savior laying his very normal-sized hands upon it.  Inspiring people to get rich by slapping names on trash is about as useful.

All thriving takes is enough restraint to stop printing money.  I know it’s tempting to think you can get rich by having more.  But even the Goonies realized they couldn’t get away with running the presses.  The Treasury’s currency is a half-step above counterfeit.  Handing it out makes it worthless, which is one of those mean things like ice cream being unhealthy.

Explaining to the incumbent that not everything wanted happens isn’t going to sink in now.  After all, this is not just someone who’s spent a lifetime in politics but specifically Biden.  The commander-in-chief has enough trouble understanding how neckties work.  How can you get something that’s wider then one’s head around one’s neck?  Whoever dresses him must explain what’s happening every morning.

Fuel expenses do something as remarkable as the commodity itself making cars go.  All a president has to do is nothing for the cost to become reasonable.  It’s not for lack of gasoline conglomerates trying to pump up prices, as they want to sell it at a the same price per volume as plutonium laced with meth.  Meanwhile, those consuming it aspire to pay as much as they would for jugs of emergency water from Save-A-Lot.  I wonder if there’s a way for them to meet in the middle.

A president can take credit for the affordability of traveling around, although the ambulatory don’t have to give it.  Trusting adults like they’ve been given allowances for the first time is inscrutable notion in an era where whoever’s president defines not only the government but the nation.  Those things are supposed to be separate, too, for the record.

Two awful idiots like getting their hands on others as respective manifestations of their grabby philosophies.  Decent people wish it were only figurative.  The prospective final two are different styles of perverts.  The one who thinks you’ll be impressed by what an alpha stud he is if he beds enough peroxide donor recipients equipped with plastic chassis vies with the creep who molests wives other than his own and any children within his greasy reach.  But you do get to pick.

An inept presidency takes different forms.  Based on the rather pushy take on the presidency that’s been trendy this century, failing at grabbing is a triumph for the respect of those the leader hopes to help by intervening.  Doofus ex machina offers a most unsatisfying conclusion.

Lickspittles who worship the previous president for what he does should be thankful for what he didn’t.  After all, the only good parts came when he left things alone.  Praising Trump for aspects that thrived because he failed to toy with them sums him up in a way cult enlistees can’t grasp.  The best businessman of all time couldn’t figure out how to violate every aspect, and he naturally demands credit.

A mature nation needs a different kind of toddler president.  This hasn’t been a place for grownups despite time advancing indifferently.  Anyone with wisdom at any age avoids the current variety which throws tantrums around or past the age of 80.  The ability to restrain shrieking is common amongst many humans in kindergarten who don’t go on to become president.

Thorough adults should seek a presidential option who treats the nation as a visit to a childless aunt’s house.  Respect the wishes of someone who acquired fragile items.  Refraining from smashing like a big boy is part of becoming head of state.  The fact it’s not explains why the state heads the wrong way.

#Joe Biden #Donald Trump #president #presidency #economy #2024 presidential election #Constitution #checks and balances

[chubbycaucasianchristiancloseted]

So people accused of the affair and the White House Website says it didn’t happen, therefore the allegations are not true.

So people accused of the affair and the White House Website says it didn’t happen, therefore the allegations are not true. Does Bill Stevenson’s claim mean anything? If they are lying about an affair they are probably ALSO lying about when they met. It’s very interesting that Jill mentions a fundraiser because that is also where Stevenson’s claimed Jill and Joe met. Please read the “verdict” from this article.

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Social media users are sharing posts which claim that First Lady Jill Biden was President Joe Biden’s teenage babysitter and Joe started a relationship with her while his wife was in the hospital. This claim is false: according to the Bidens, Jill and Joe Biden’s first date was in March 1975 when Jill was in her twenties.

Joe Biden and Jill started dating in March 1975 according to the White House website, various news outlets and social media posts by Jill Biden herself, which also include the photo being shared in the social media posts.

In an interview with CNN in 2012, Jill said that she had only met Joe once in public before Joe saw her photo in an advertisement for a local park in Wilmington, Delaware, got her number from his brother Frank and called her to ask her out. “I had met him once before but we were in a crowd and it was at a fundraiser.

allegations made by Stevenson that Jill and Joe had met while Stevenson was still married to Jill. Jill Biden denied these allegations to Inside Edition. Regardless of these claims’ veracity, Jill would still not have met Joe Biden when she was underage, as the posts claim.

False. According to Jill and Joe Biden, they met on a blind date, set up by Biden’s brother, in 1975. There is no evidence the two met when Jill was a teenager.

#USA #TheChubbyCaucasianChristianClosetedConservative #JoeBiden #Biden #FactCheck

[dertaglichedan]

We owe a debt of gratitude to President Trump for appointing Louisiana district Judge Terry Doughty. He’s just shut down the “disinformation police” and their mass censorship agenda. The Biden administration was exposed for their covert involvement with Big Tech to censor American voices on any COVID-related topic that didn’t meet “regime approval.” Judge Doughty ruled this dystopian approach was totally unacceptable in America and barred these Disinformation enforcers from further contact with Big Tech.

Overall, the credibility of the Biden administration’s “Ministry of Truth” is questionable at best. These self-proclaimed “disinformation specialists” have conveniently overlooked the fact that the most serious and dangerous disinformation came from individuals like Fauci, Biden, and other so-called COVID leaders and experts.

Judge Doughty argued that Joe Biden and his administration significantly overstepped their bounds by attempting to play “babysitters” of social media, and as a result, they infringed on Americans’ First Amendment rights. It’s not the government’s role to police what Americans say on the internet, unless it’s actual criminal activity — and that doesn’t include setting up traps for people, either, FBI.

[epistolizer]

Hit & Run Commentary #138

So it’s patriotic to wear a mask under threat of statist violence but Democrats are the party that regularly condemns the notion of patriotism.

Technically, didn’t Biden find his way through grief by stealing another man’s wife?

Guess to Democrats, insurgents looting in the streets are about respect and dignity.

So are Biden’s BLM allies going to put in the hours of study needed for these “jobs of the 21st century” or is that acting “too White”?

Biden’s wife apparently “put their family back together” while their adultery tore her original marriage apart.

In his opposition to Russia, did Biden ever condemn the role played by the Soviets in selecting a young Barack?

Biden condemning the violence in Charlottesville from several years ago. Ashame he has nothing to say about the violence erupting in America’s cities perpetrated by those whose ideology is not that appreciably different than the agenda endorsed by leading Democrats.

If Biden is so opposed to “systemic racism”, why did he enter the presidential campaign to begin with? Shouldn’t he have stepped aside in favor of minority candidates?

So deluded fanatics gather in a parking lot to watch on a screen the exact same oration that can be viewed on screen at home?

Weren’t the Democrats now insisting that it is patriotic to wear a mask without question at one time insisting that questioning the edicts of rulers represented the epitome of patriotism?

Got to love the commercials and news coverage that make you out to be some kind of subversive or mental defective if you are less than thrilled with the “new normal”.

Of course Biden isn’t going to say anything about China. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you or at least your dimwit child.

If it was safe enough to have fireworks at the Democratic convention, how come it’s apparently not safe to have the light pillar memorial for September 11th?

“Joe will bring us together.” Actually, there is next to nothing left to compromise over if this to remain a free nation.

“Joe will bring us together.” Ideological distancing is perhaps even more important than social distancing.

Science as defined by whom?

When he mentioned jobs, at least Biden did not proceed to spell it as a three letter word this time.

Too bad media not as concerned about preserving the Constitution and America’s foundational liberties as Jackie Kennedy's crab apples.

Pastor Robert Jeffres told Fox News that President Trump IS the Republican platform in that apparently the party has not published a traditional statement of belief in 2020. At this time, there is no other viable alternative to the anarchy and tyranny that would brutalize America under a Biden regime. However, I am rhetorically sorry, but if I would be appalled at such a verbal formulation especially coming out of the mouth of a pastor in regards to Barack Obama, I cannot endorse the concept of the führerprinzip in regards to Donald Trump. As a free individual, you ought to stand for an objectively stated set of beliefs, not unwavering fidelity to a mere human being who, while at the moment articulates a number of admirable policies, is clearly on the record of profoundly altering what he allegedly believes when doing so proves advantageous from a standpoint of existential utilitarianism. These are indeed sad times for America.

A commercial warns that, if you pay a babysitter more than $100 per week, you might owe nanny taxes. If that means per sitter, instead of paying one sitter $200, you’d be better off splitting between two sitters for $99.99 each.

A campaign advertisement for Senator Warner lamented Trump’s alleged threat to cut off funding for schools that do not comply with the President’s demand to open. But this administration cannot be blamed for developing such a hardline tactic. For when have federal funds not had strings attached? Why do schools not directly meeting the needs of students need funds in the first place?

NBA players and owners are forming a coalition to pursue social justice and racial equality. Does that include their exorbitant salaries being surrendered to be redistributed to those that have not achieved a similar level of accomplishment or who have barely even lifted a finger? Because social justice has very little to do with being an individual but rather about being part of a group.

Aren’t the ones concerned now about the negative things said about Bill Gates as the purveyor of compulsory vaccination propaganda and threats of punitive measures against those vowing not to submit to the policy preference of a mere private citizen the same ones that used to condemn him relentlessly for accumulating his wealth through making available reasonably accessible technology and over his less than rugged countenance?

In a sermon on the Creation Mandate, Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church, where it is explicitly stated on the website that he himself has only one son and one granddaughter, remarked that usually those with large families go to small churches with other large families as they have often been shamed by side remarks and comments on the part of those with small families at large churches. Maybe those that have remained single as a result of any number of circumstances remain aloof from these churches with large families not only because of snide remarks about remaining single but because of the explicit equivocation in such environments of that relationship status with moral debauchery even when the targets of such derision have remained chaste by Biblical standards.

It might be a blessing for a family to have many children. However, it is the responsibility of that family and not everybody else to provide for these children.

The Baptists tossing the loudest fits about the unmarried are the same ones that get the most bent out of shape if one settles for someone outside a narrow band of churches in which there are barely any desirable singles to begin with.

By Frederick Meekins

[angelx1992]

#memes #tiny desk #trump #white house #bernie sanders #meme #mittens #inauguration #president #biden #mask #covid19 #coronavirus #babysitter #bernie #sanders

[watashawa]

Biden Family

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Here is a story you don't want to miss!!!!

Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia, had three children: Hunter, Beau and Naomi.

In 1972, Neilia and Naomi, died in a car accident. Joe eventually married a woman named Jill (his current wife).

He already knew her because she had been Hunter's babysitter at the time of the car accident. (Yeah, THAT seems normal- marry the babysitter). They had a daughter named Ashley. Ashley lives 'a quiet life' and is frequently in and out of rehab for various substance abuse issues.

Now sadly, the sanest, most normal one of the 3 surviving kids, Beau, dies in 2015 from a brain tumor. He had been married to Haillie and they had 2 children, a boy and a girl named Natalie, who was 11 yrs old when her dad died.

Enter Hunter Biden, in 2015, to "comfort" his brother's widow. Mind you, Hunter is married at the time, to Kathleen Biden, since 1993. He starts screwing around with his dead brother's wife in 2015...his wife Kathleen finds out about it and they separate. Hunter moves in with his dead brother's wife, Haillie,and her two kids and they have a grand old time. He ultimately gets divorced from Kathleen in 2017. Meanwhile, he starts screwing around with a stripper,  while still shacking up with his dead brother's wife, before his divorce is finalized, and gets the stripper pregnant. Haillie kicks his butt to the curb supposedly for this indiscretion in 2018. He denies the stripper's baby is his, although a paternity test proves otherwise and eventually marries a woman named Melissa in 2019 after knowing her for 6 days...

Does the tale end there? Why no, no it doesn't.

That just sets the stage...

Enter the laptop from hell...loaded with emails, text messages, photos, child pornography,  videos, and other sordid digital images of drug use and rampant weirdness....

Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off in Delaware, his home state, to get it repaired. It seems he dropped it in some water while in a meth-induced state of mind. He then neglected to pay the $85.00 repair fee and the laptop became the repair shop owner's property for non-payment. When the owner saw what was on it, he was ao disturbed that he contacted the FBI. No response. The DOJ? No response. Eventually, it landed in Rudy Giuliani's possession and he turned it over to the Delaware State Police AFTER making 4 copies of the hard drive. Turns out, there's quite a lot of child pornography on there...much of it involving children on Hunter's many trips to China. The Chinese Communist Party uses this as a blackmail tactic... They supply the young girls, they film you, unknowingly, and then they can keep you "in line", while paying you the big $$$ to do their bidding, like lucrative deals with your VP father.

Millions of dollars were paid to Hunter Biden for favors with the US Govt while Joe Biden was VP under Obama.

For 8 years Hunter made the contacts and split the money with his father, referred to as the "Big Guy" in all emails detailing how their ill gotten gains would be split up amongst all the criminals involved.

Joe Biden sold out his country and used his meth head son to do it. ...

But, IT GETS WORSE. Today, on the laptop, emails were released between Beau Biden's widow, Haillie, and Joe Biden in 2017 and more in 2018 when she and Hunter were still living together. They were casually talking about the continual "sexually inappropriate behavior" she had witnessed from Hunter toward her 14 year old daughter, Natalie, HIS NIECE!..

She told Joe that she felt she had put her children in a dangerous situation by getting involved with Hunter Biden. Joe knew his son was screwing around with his niece and he advised his daughter-in-law to go to therapy.....No one went to the police and the abuse escalated. THAT is the main reason she broke off her relationship with Hunter. Among the pictures of Hunter having sex with young Asian children, there were hundreds of provocative pictures of a 14 year old girl, mainly topless, and hundreds more of Hunter Biden, in sexual poses with her, HIS NIECE. She was 14 yrs old and HE WAS 48!!

BOTTOM LINE: ANY MAN WHO CAN'T TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN HOUSE, HAS NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

THE END.....but, is it? Nope. Rudy says there is more to come, primarily involving Joe Biden getting rich off laundering foreign money through our country, using his son as intermediary. Biden is as dirty and crooked as they come. Hillary looks clean compared to him. Now it makes sense why Obama REFUSED to endorse him as the DNC candidate until he was the last man standing!

More to come...

Dear God, how much worse can this get?

[sixgunslinger]

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Here is a story you don't want to miss!!!!

Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia, had three children: Hunter, Beau and Naomi.

In 1972, Neilia and Naomi, died in a car accident. Joe eventually married a woman named Jill (his current wife).

He already knew her because she had been Hunter's babysitter at the time of the car accident. (Yeah, THAT seems normal- marry the babysitter). They had a daughter named Ashley. Ashley lives 'a quiet life' and is frequently in and out of rehab for various substance abuse issues.

Now sadly, the sanest, most normal one of the 3 surviving kids, Beau, dies in 2015 from a brain tumor. He had been married to Haillie and they had 2 children, a boy and a girl named Natalie, who was 11 yrs old when her dad died.

Enter Hunter Biden, in 2015, to "comfort" his brother's widow. Mind you, Hunter is married at the time, to Kathleen Biden, since 1993. He starts screwing around with his dead brother's wife in 2015...his wife Kathleen finds out about it and they separate. Hunter moves in with his dead brother's wife, Haillie,and her two kids and they have a grand old time. He ultimately gets divorced from Kathleen in 2017. Meanwhile, he starts screwing around with a stripper, while still shacking up with his dead brother's wife, before his divorce is finalized, and gets the stripper pregnant. Haillie kicks his butt to the curb supposedly for this indiscretion in 2018. He denies the stripper's baby is his, although a paternity test proves otherwise and eventually marries a woman named Melissa in 2019 after knowing her for 6 days...

Does the tale end there? Why no, no it doesn't.

That just sets the stage...

Enter the laptop from hell...loaded with emails, text messages, photos, child pornography, videos, and other sordid digital images of drug use and rampant weirdness....

Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off in Delaware, his home state, to get it repaired. It seems he dropped it in some water while in a meth-induced state of mind. He then neglected to pay the $85.00 repair fee and the laptop became the repair shop owner's property for non-payment. When the owner saw what was on it, he was ao disturbed that he contacted the FBI. No response. The DOJ? No response. Eventually, it landed in Rudy Giuliani's possession and he turned it over to the Delaware State Police AFTER making 4 copies of the hard drive. Turns out, there's quite a lot of child pornography on there...much of it involving children on Hunter's many trips to China. The Chinese Communist Party uses this as a blackmail tactic... They supply the young girls, they film you, unknowingly, and then they can keep you "in line", while paying you the big $$$ to do their bidding, like lucrative deals with your VP father.

Millions of dollars were paid to Hunter Biden for favors with the US Govt while Joe Biden was VP under Obama.

For 8 years Hunter made the contacts and split the money with his father, referred to as the "Big Guy" in all emails detailing how their ill gotten gains would be split up amongst all the criminals involved.

Joe Biden sold out his country and used his meth head son to do it. ...

But, IT GETS WORSE. Today, on the laptop, emails were released between Beau Biden's widow, Haillie, and Joe Biden in 2017 and more in 2018 when she and Hunter were still living together. They were casually talking about the continual "sexually inappropriate behavior" she had witnessed from Hunter toward her 14 year old daughter, Natalie, HIS NIECE!..

She told Joe that she felt she had put her children in a dangerous situation by getting involved with Hunter Biden. Joe knew his son was screwing around with his niece and he advised his daughter-in-law to go to therapy.....No one went to the police and the abuse escalated. THAT is the main reason she broke off her relationship with Hunter. Among the pictures of Hunter having sex with young Asian children, there were hundreds of provocative pictures of a 14 year old girl, mainly topless, and hundreds more of Hunter Biden, in sexual poses with her, HIS NIECE. She was 14 yrs old and HE WAS 48!!

BOTTOM LINE: ANY MAN WHO CAN'T TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN HOUSE, HAS NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

THE END.....but, is it? Nope. Rudy says there is more to come, primarily involving Joe Biden getting rich off laundering foreign money through our country, using his son as intermediary. Biden is as dirty and crooked as they come. Hillary looks clean compared to him. Now it makes sense why Obama REFUSED to endorse him as the DNC candidate until he was the last man standing!

More to come...

Dear God, how much worse can this get?

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[hellonwheels266]

[reading-writing-revolution]

Pennsylvania Republicans doing everything they can to limit voting by American citizens so they can help their favored candidate win.

"Pennsylvania’s Republican legislative leaders asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to stop a decision by the state’s high court to count mail-in ballots received up to three days after Election Day.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in Democrats’ favor on a number of mail-voting rules: permitting voters to turn in ballots via drop box in addition to using the U.S. Postal Service; allowing ballots to be returned up to three days after Election Day; and blocking a Republican effort to allow partisan poll watchers to be stationed in counties where they do not live."

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What exactly is America now that we have one party doing everything possible to keep other Americans, even the American citizens that are their neighbors and living in their own communities and in their own state, from voting. This is where we are with Republicans now. This is how much they respect American elections and your right to vote and be represented.

An entire political party, the Pennsylvania GOP, wants to restrict voting to keep your neighbors and coworkers from voting. They are asking the Supreme Court to disqualify votes cast by local businessmen and entrepreneurs, mothers and fathers, pastors and teachers, farmers, plumbers, and babysitters from electing who they think best represents them.

These people whose votes won't count are mechanics and doctors and dentists and crosswalk guards. These people pour your drinks, process your MVA forms, dry clean your clothes, and treat your sick kids. They fix your internet and plow your snow-covered roads.

Who are they, these people the Pennsylvania Republicans want to deny a vote for President of the United States? They are you. They are your family and friends and coworkers. They are the people you see everyday, wave to, say hi to, hold the door open for, and thank for their service. But the PA GOP says their vote shouldn't count because they MIGHT vote for Biden.

Is this the America you want to live in? Is this how a political party should behave? Is this what you want for your family and friends or yourself?

No.

[apparitionism]

Monday

I wrote the following brief scenes a while ago as part of a potential story that refused to coalesce. It may yet, someday, but for now this is merely a scrap of unfruited AU narrative; I’m posting only to prove to myself that I’m not completely incapable of doing writing-related things, even if it’s just tidying up generic, trope-y bits of dialogue. I intended Christina, about age seven, to be an important story lever in this, with this Myka and this single-mom Helena as coworkers of some sort (I was thinking insurance, possibly, because risk management has been on my mind). Such fuzziness was part of why the story as such never took off... in any event, it doesn’t matter. Here is what does matter: if you are a U.S. citizen who is able to vote, do it; choose Biden/Harris and every down-ballot Democrat. This HAS TO BE a landslide repudiation of that horrific, corrupt individual and the party that enables him.

Monday

Turning points arrive in their own time.

Myka and Helena were eating lunch together. That in itself was of course not unusual, for they were colleagues and friends. And as colleague-friends, they tended to eat lunch together.

“You seem upset,” Myka noted. Helena was picking at a salad, but differently than she usually picked at her salads. Usually she picked because she was picky and would eat only the most pleasing elements; today she was merely moving salad components from one region of the plate to another.

“I’m not upset.”

“But you seem upset.”

“Well... I have to break an engagement. It’s impolite.”

Being forced into incivility was indeed the kind of thing that would drive Helena to stab, lift, and re-place arugula. “Why do you have to break an engagement?”

“You know Mrs. Carter, the neighbor who usually sits with Christina. She was called out of town. An ill relative. This morning—but I had plans tonight.”

“Could your plans happen at your house instead? Without sitting?”

Helena wrinkled her brow. “It’s a first date. Far too soon to bring a new person into Christina’s life like that.”

A first date. The words punched Myka hard, leaving a queasy burning in their wake. Her analytical side leapt to make sense of this extreme response: It’s the first time you’ve heard Helena say anything about such a thing, so it surprised you. You’ve never liked surprises; ergo, you’re just reacting poorly to being surprised. Because of course Helena would go on a first date, because of course she would want to find someone, someone to be with, and Myka didn’t know why that hadn’t occurred to her before, but she and Helena hadn’t really talked much about relationships, so maybe Helena went on a lot of first and other dates that she hadn’t bothered mentioning to Myka, and maybe that meant their friendship wasn’t as close as Myka had thought, because maybe they really were more colleagues than friends, and... Okay, just stop. Whatever this is, stop. She breathed her way through the aftermath of the punch and said, “I’ll do it, then. Babysit.”

“You will?”

“You were planning to go out. You should go out.”

“You haven’t asked me with whom.”

“That’s probably not my business,” Myka said, because it wasn’t, despite her unexpected, inappropriate impulse to claim it as entirely her business. Just stop.

“Claudia’s new manager in platform development. Claudia described her to me as, and I quote, ‘absolute fire.’ Which I presume is good.”

“So you asked her out.”

“No, she asked me. And I said yes, because... well, is there a reason I shouldn’t?”

Was that intended as bait? But it couldn’t have been. Logicking it out again: Myka had never felt such a weird surge (no, a twitch, it was only a twitch) of possessiveness before; thus Helena couldn’t have identified it so quickly, and with such precision, that she would immediately challenge Myka on the point. Could she? “Of course not,” Myka said. “What time do you want me to show up?”

*

That evening, Myka kept her still-reeling gut at bay by concentrating on Christina, who was delighted to have Myka all to herself. “You and Mom talk about boring things,” she pronounced as soon as her mother left. “Tonight you don’t have to do that!”

No... all Myka had to do was imagine what sorts of non-boring things Helena was talking about with her date who was absolute fire. But she managed not to do too much of that imagining, at least while Christina was awake, while they were building with Legos and renaming her plastic and puffy animals and manipulating slime. This latter was a fad that had, according to Christina, faded some time ago, but she found the texture soothing; she asked Myka, very seriously—as if Myka’s verdict would be the final word on the subject—whether that meant it was okay not to give it up. Myka said that in her experience, truly calming things were few and far between, so she thought it was more than okay. Christina enjoyed the phrase “few and far between.”

Myka was tempted to let Christina stay up late, late and later, but she supposed it wasn’t fair to deprive a child of sleep just to rescue herself from herself.

She fell asleep on the sofa, and that was a blessing; she didn’t have to hear Absolute Fire’s car, didn’t have to think about anything that might be happening in that car. She awoke just as Helena was stepping inside and taking off her coat. Helena turned around and smiled, and Myka struggled to sit up and look alert, saying a sleep-hoarse “sorry” as she did.

“What for? Being asleep at ten at night? That seems reasonable. Ideally I’d have been asleep by now, if I’d been home.”

“It’s only ten?”

“Dinner was short. The fire may be absolute as far as Claudia is concerned, but there were no sparks that I could see. Or feel.”

Thank god, Myka thought, too fervently. Then, Just stop. Aloud, she tried for indifference: “Maybe Claudia should go out with her instead.”

“Maybe she should. Did my own small bit of fire behave herself?”

“She was great. I’m never going to fully appreciate the appeal of slime... but I can report that bath, story, and bed were peaceful. No conflagration.” This news would make Helena happy: meltdowns at bedtime were common. Christina was often fearful of some unspecified something that would happen overnight, and she was never clear on whether it would be a good something or a bad something, just something, of which she would be unaware.

Helena did, in fact, smile her relieved “Christina is fine for tonight” smile. “Did she wear you out completely? Or might you stay for a glass of wine?”

“Weird way for you to end your date. A drink with the babysitter?” Trying to sound normal. Like the friend she was.

“Better than the date. No, that’s too callous. It was fine. But it wasn’t anything.”

Myka had the drink. Just the one, slowly, as they sat and talked about what Christina would have deemed “boring things”... but Helena had two. And a half. She was eyeing the bottle like she might be inclined to head for it again, so Myka said, “I really should go.”

Helena said, “Should you?” Myka wanted (wanted so much) to make of that what she was pretending she didn’t want to make of it, but she determined instead to make nothing of it. No one should make anything of what anyone said when they’d had a couple of drinks at the end of a long week. And at the end of a failed date, she reminded herself, then cringed at the pleasure she took in knowing that it had failed. Whatever this is, stop.

Standing by the front door, Helena gave her a vaguely unsteady half-hug, a clasp of her left arm around Myka’s shoulders. Myka didn’t want to not reciprocate—trying now to act normal, like the friend she was—so she let herself move her own left arm fully around Helena’s waist, allowed herself to rest her hand for just the press of a second on Helena’s hip.

For that press of a second, Myka leaned close and inhaled against the sharp sweet angle of Helena’s cheekbone. For that press of a second, a slide to a kiss was a warm looming certainty; then the second passed, and it was a receding dream. Myka released Helena’s body and said, “I’ll see you Monday.”

*

NOTE: I’d say “TBC,” but since I don’t know whether this will ever function as part of a larger piece, I’ll leave it as a little misfit story-island. You know B&W will find their way to each other; they’re just not quite connecting, in that “this friendship means everything to me and I can’t stand the idea of blowing it” way, on both sides. Anyway I’m not sure who these characters really are, other than coworkers and friends (who clearly need to be something more); plus there’s a gaping hole where a plot should be. Why are these people here? What are they doing? Should any reader care? I have no idea. Again, here is what matters: vote vote vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Democratic Senate, House, and local candidates.

#bering and wells #Warehouse 13 #fanfic #Monday #AU week #I wish narrative made sense to me right now #but my wife has progressed to walking with a cane #and if you had told me that would be the best news of 2020 by a mile... #well really who is surprised by 2020 anymore?

[oberlincollegelibraries]

Weekend Edition: Debut Authors

This weekend, let’s discover not only new books, but also new authors! Below are some debut reads you can find on OBIS, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio. Simply click ‘request’ and have books from all over Ohio delivered right to OCL!

Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. (GoodReads Debut Novel Award Winner for 2020)

The Prophets: a Novel by Robert Jones, Jr. Robert Jones, Jr.’s debut novel is about a forbidden romantic relationship between two Black men enslaved on a Mississipi plantation during the Antebellum. Jones explores queerness through a new lens that has rarely been explored in literature. The Prophets is one of the most powerful Black queer historical novels ever written.

Such a Fun Age: a Novel by Kiley Reid A fearless meditation on race, class, religion, freedom, and sexuality, Mendez’s debut maps the journey of a young Black gay man with a Jehovah’s Witness upbringing, as he makes a fresh start in London. Such a Fun Age (2020) -- Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. (GoodReads Debut Novel Award Winner for 2020)

The Hill We Climb: and Other Poems by Amanda Gorman Including “The Hill We Climb,” the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energizing and unforgettable new voice in America poetry.

Djin Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel by Deepa Anappara "Based on a true story--Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she gets the best grades), and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit. But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and their fears of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again. At times exuberant, at times heartbreaking, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line traces the unfolding of a tragedy while capturing the fierce warmth and resilience of a community forged in times of trouble"-- Provided by publisher

The Girl With the Louding Voice: A Novel by Abi Daré "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing. But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can-in a whisper, in song, in broken English-until she is heard"-- Provided by publisher.

#Oberlin College Libraries #Oberlin College #OCL reads #reading challenge #debut authors #weekend edition

[twiststreet]

Trump supporters are chanting “Shame on FOX” in Arizona. This is the future of all of this now, huh-- elections immediately being followed by claims of betrayal.  That was what Democrats did in ‘16 certainly-- they were hardly any better-- "we were betrayed by the Bros” or “we were betrayed by the Russians” or “we were betrayed by racists (who previously voted for Obama)” or all the different cries of treason that were shrieked in the last 4 years. All the mind-sickos screaming for four years that Susan Sarandon cost them a Presidential election.  

People are voting over nothing but culture, nothing but narrative-- Biden’s most memorable policy that they said in debate after debate was just “not banning fracking”, he was just selling  story.  And so what other way can a narrative end, if every other story people consume ends with them winning-- a story can’t just end with failure, we paid good tickets, you can’t end a story that way., we had to get a babysitter for this.. but betrayal?  heck, that’s a pretty good ending, everybody applauds.  How can Biden lose unless he was betrayed by Bros and Sarandons?  How can Trump lose unless he was betrayed by FOX and, I don’t know, whoever they’re about to start shooting at, at least one person supposedly has a rifle, derrr it’s a FOX crowd. 

As people yelling about betrayal goes, even if they’re all lunatics, I generally liked the people who stopped renting Thelma & Louise more because they were less armed and really only hurting themselves, that movie is very good. (X) 

#Civilization is Doomed.

[falloutboywife]

do u have any fob fic recs?

HEWWO YES i have a fuckton of fics to rec, i mostly just read peterick ones (i can’t find a lot of wentzporta or the rarest of rarepairs: stumporta, but i wanna start seeing if i can find any good trohley or joetrick fics) but i have an INSANE amount that i can suggest, i’ll link them and then offer a summary and tags for the content.

disclaimer: i don’t know if you were asking for nsfw fics but that’s like. all that i ever read unless it’s a REALLY good fic or character study or things like that. i’m also gonna warn that some of these are very dark because i like stories that tackle dark themes and a lot of them uh. let’s just say i like tttyg and futct a lot because i love the lore and dynamics surrounding the band in its early days so the eras i like to read fics about will reflect that

there are some in this list that are decidedly more normal than others, and even if some of the tags i mention sound like the fic is gonna be messed up, i can assure you there are way more fics lighter in tone than others in this list. like if a fic is BAD i mention it

I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE IF THIS ISN’T WHAT YOU WERE ASKING also these are in the order that i was able to find them so the quality/how much i like it isn’t in order

https://adellyna.livejournal.com/358618.html this one is about pete letting patrick drink for his seventeeth birthday, warnings for underage up the wazoo

https://adellyna.livejournal.com/355836.html patricksitting is like, THE peterick fic it’s about pete being patrick’s babysitter while his parents are out of town, again underage tag

https://adellyna.livejournal.com/350184.html ANOTHER fic about pete letting underage patrick drink but this time? pete’s recording him. warnings for underage shit and potential dubcon (i wouldn’t call it that bc it’s not how i interpreted it but the author tagged it, so)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/254157 this is a dance dance au where patrick fucks nerd!pete

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1045467 this fic is SO good it’s about the time where pete and patrick got into that really bad fight behind the convenience store while on tour, the one where pete choked patrick so hard he couldn’t sing the next day, this one has like. fight sex i guess is the term. i guess you could call this a darkfic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/522666 this is one of my favorites, it’s about pete kidnapping babystump and patrick developing stockholm syndrome but i PROMISE it is way more heartwarming than that, it’s not a hardcore kidnapping darkfic i swear. underage warning WOW THERE’S A LOT OF THESE

https://archiveofourown.org/works/239403 this is one of the funniest fucking fics i ever read, the premise is that pete pretends to be patrick’s boyfriend to piss patrick’s parents off. underage warning yet again

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25420678 this one is short but literally anything by this author is great, this is @castleinthsky here on tumblr. wilson is a fantastic author and i wish she wrote more, i’d literally read a novel if she wrote it, same with adellyna on lj. this is about pete lusting after patrick but it’s all just him masturbating to the idea of him, underage warning YET AGAIN

https://archiveofourown.org/works/158907 this one is about pete and patrick right after a show fucking in one of the hallways

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1069202 OH GOD THIS ONE IS SO FUCKING HOT this is one where pete is super controlling over patrick during sex he acts like a fucking scumbag it’s SO sexy but The Ending Will Warm Your Heart. i know this one is van days so it MIGHT be underage because i’m just a fucking creep i guess

https://archiveofourown.org/works/443472 okay this is one of my favorite fics of all time, this is part two in a series the author wrote about the idea of patrick having a twin brother, the first one is shorter and just introduces you to the idea but the second one is a fully fleshed out story and i love it so fucking much, you should seriously check this one out because this is one of the best fics out there period. warning for underage and incest YES I’M AWARE OF WHAT I’M LINKING PLEASE GIVE ME A BREAK

inb4 “nyan do you read any fics that aren’t weird as shit” PLEASE I JUST WANNA BE HAPPY

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9871037 this is also by castleinthsky and it’s a lot more tame than what i linked before, this is just a cute 2008 fic where they’re on their way to the next town at night and patrick is drunk in the back with pete

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4373366 okay this one is a double whammy and also one of my favorite aus, this is 2011 patrick and 2007 pete. i LOVE the idea of different eras with each other, like i love the idea of post-hiatus pete and patrick ganging up on one of their younger selves and this one specifically is 2011 trick with 2007 pete. the same author ALSO wrote...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4168323 this, which is literally just post-hiatus pete and patrick fucking babystump. it is so goddamn good warnings for selfcest and underage yaddah yaddah you get the point by now

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24333673 this is like the creepiest fic on this list, it’s straight up just pete being a creep (i loooove creepy pete so much if you haven’t noticed) and hypersexualizing van days trick and i feel like at this point i don’t need to warn you what’s in it

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1163036 this is just really rough peterick sex but i also like stories where patrick is a fucking violent bitch so i’m throwing it in here. i love brattystump so much

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4307196 this is a two-part series that is also, that’s right, about patrick starring in a sex tape but this time instead of his consent being very dubious, he’s doing it intentionally as a gift for pete. i think patrick is 17 in this

i am deeply considering not even posting this list at this point because of how many times i’ve used the term “underage” to describe one of these. i swear to god it’s not how it looks

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20685 OKAY. BEWENTZED. THIS IS MY NUMBER ONE FAVORITE PETERICK FIC AND IT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE FICS OF ALL TIME it’s like this REALLY long form bewitched au sort of thing where pete is the literal devil and he gives patrick seven wishes, but each wish patrick makes is turned into a lesson about how he can’t force friendships or fame or success and pete twists them in a way that backfires in his face. this is seriously one of the best fucking fics i’ve ever read and even though patrick is in high school in this PLEASE ignore that if that squicks you out because this fic is fucking legendary. this and patricksitting are CRUCIAL to the peterick extended universe

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32760 this is a short one where patrick needs to get laid but the only person around who can do it is pete because joe won’t make a direct offer and he’s pretty sure andy is far from interested

https://archiveofourown.org/works/335389 eden burns is another legendary fic that’s about pete treating patrick like shit as the two are growing up together, this has triggers up the fucking ass so i’d really suggest reading the tags and summary before reading this but it deals heavily with the psychological aspects of molestation rather than just as a kink thing. it’s THAT kind of dark fic i fucking love it i love looking completely insane

https://jamjar.livejournal.com/99731.html OKAY A FIC WHERE IT’S NOT PATRICK THAT’S IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR ONCE this is an age reversal fic and while it doesn’t explore the potential of the idea as much as i’d like it’s still a really good read, it’s about patrick and pete switching ages and it builds an entire setting around that, where pete goes to high school with joe and patrick is trying to establish himself as a musician with andy. pete is a very angsty and emotional teen in this it’s so good

https://swear-jar.livejournal.com/697877.html OH THIS IS A FIC I SERIOUSLY JUST DISCOVERED this one is sooooo fucking hot it’s so weird, it really elaborates on when pete was unmedicated when he was younger so the logic in this one is super fun to figure out. i love fics that try their own interpretation of pete when he was unmedicated and unstable because it’s so fascinating trying to explore his psychology in a safe and creative environment, and i relate to a lot of stories like these because i have bipolar like pete and when it was unmedicated while i was younger it destroyed my fucking life so i understand a lot of the things he used to do or say about himself, anyway in this fic he jerks off to patrick in his sleep without him knowing so warnings for that and for vomit. i wouldn’t call this a darkfic just really bizarre and i love it for that

https://giddygeek.livejournal.com/138523.html and this is the last rec i have for now, it’s another dance dance au where both pete and patrick gang up on nerd patrick and it’s very cute

please don’t be mean to me i pay my taxes on time and i vote democrat and bernie should have won the nomination instead of biden

#fic rec tag

[epistolizer]

Hit & Run Commentary #138

It’s apparently patriotic to wear a mask under threat of statist violence but Democrats are the party that regularly condemn the notion of patriotism.

Technically, didn’t Biden find his way through grief by stealing another man’s wife?

Guess to Democrats, insurgents looting in the streets are about respect and dignity.

So are Biden’s BLM allies going to put in the hours of study needed for these “jobs of the 21st century” or is that acting “too White”?

Biden’s wife apparently “put their family back together” while their adultery tore her original marriage apart.

In his opposition to Russia, did Biden ever condemn the role played by the Soviets in selecting a young Barack?

Biden condemning the violence in Charlottesville three years ago. Ashame he has nothing to say about the violence erupting in America’s cities perpetrated by those whose ideology is not that appreciably different than the agenda endorsed by leading Democrats.

If Biden is so opposed to “systemic racism”, why did he enter the presidential campaign to begin with? Shouldn’t he have stepped aside in favor of minority candidates?

So deluded fanatics gather in a parking lot to watch on a screen the exact same oration that can be viewed on screen at home?

Weren’t the Democrats now insisting that it is patriotic to wear a mask without question at one time insisting that questioning the edicts of rulers represented the epitome of patriotism?

Got to love the commercials and news coverage that make you out to be some kind of subversive or mental defective if you are less than thrilled with the “new normal”.

Of course Biden isn’t going to say anything about China. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you or at least your dimwit child.

If it was safe enough to have fireworks at the Democratic convention, how come it’s apparently not safe to have the light pillar memorial for September 11th?

“Joe will bring us together.” Actually, there is next to nothing left to compromise over if this to remain a free nation.

“Joe will bring us together.” Ideological distancing is perhaps even more important than social distancing.

Science as defined by whom?

When he mentioned jobs, at least Biden did not proceed to spell it as a three letter word this time.

Too bad media not as concerned about preserving the Constitution and America’s foundational liberties as Jackie Kennedy's crab apples.

Pastor Robert Jeffres told Fox News that President Trump IS the Republican platform in that apparently the party has not published a traditional statement of belief in 2020. At this time, there is no other viable alternative to the anarchy and tyranny that would brutalize America under a Biden regime. However, I am rhetorically sorry, but if I would be appalled at such a verbal formulation especially coming out of the mouth of a pastor in regards to Barack Obama, I cannot endorse the concept of the führerprinzip in regards to Donald Trump. As a free individual, you ought to stand for an objectively stated set of beliefs, not unwavering fidelity to a mere human being who, while at the moment articulates a number of admirable policies, is clearly on the record of profoundly altering what he allegedly believes when doing so proves advantageous from a standpoint of existential utilitarianism. These are indeed sad times for America.

A commercial warns that, if you pay a babysitter more than $100 per week, you might owe nanny taxes. If that means per sitter, instead of paying one sitter $200, you’d be better off splitting between two sitters for $99.99 each.

A campaign advertisement for Senator Warner lamented Trump’s alleged threat to cut off funding for schools that do not comply with the President’s demand to open. But this administration cannot be blamed for developing such a hardline tactic. For when have federal funds never had strings attached? Why do schools not directly meeting the needs of students need funds in the first place?

NBA players and owners are forming a coalition to pursue social justice and racial equality. Does that include their exorbitant salaries being surrendered to be redistributed to those that have not achieved a similar level of accomplishment or who have barely even lifted a finger? Because social justice has very little to do with being an individual but rather about being part of a group.

Aren’t the ones concerned now about the negative things said about Bill Gates as the purveyor of compulsory vaccination propaganda and threats of punitive measures against those vowing not to submit to the policy preference of a mere private citizen the same ones that used to condemn him relentlessly for accumulating his wealth through making available reasonably accessible technology and over his less than rugged countenance?

In a sermon on the Creation Mandate, Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church, where it is explicitly stated on the website that he himself has only one son and one granddaughter, remarked that usually those with large families go to small churches with other large families as they have often been shamed by side remarks and comments on the part of those with small families at large churches. Maybe those that have remained single as a result of any number of circumstances remain aloof from these churches with large families not only because of snide remarks about remaining single but because of the explicit equivocation in such environments of that relationship status with moral debauchery even when the targets of such derision have remained chaste by Biblical standards.

It might be a blessing for a family to have many children. However, it is the responsibility of that family and not everybody else to provide for these children.

The Baptists tossing the loudest fits about the unmarried are the same ones that get the most bent out of shape if one settles for someone outside a narrow band of churches in which there are barely any desirable singles to begin with.

So how is pointing out that the health of some will be irrevocably harmed as a result of the coronavirus vaccine a greater moral outrage than these pharmaceutical commercials that essentially say "Take this pill to prevent your hair turning gray. But by the way, one of the potential side effects is death by liver failure." At least with that medication you are given a choice without any potential of losing your job or freedom of movement for deciding not to take it. Apparently "science" no longer means the elucidation of all the facts irrespective of whether or not one likes them but rather the blind propagandistic endorsement of a predetermined policy and even religious agenda.

If there are riots over the nomination of the replacement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, that probably means Democratic Party bigwigs are likely behind the upheaval. Antifa and Black Lives canon fodder don’t seem bright enough to even name a Supreme Court justice.

The friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Antonin Scalia is being celebrated as ideal, even by conservatives. So apparently the lives of the unborn aren’t that big of a deal after all. Ginsberg was more than someone that might have had an abortion in the past. Rather she has been one of the procedure’s foremost advocates. So just how chummy should the town rabbi get with the grand wizard of the local chapter of the Klan?

If we are really going to view the unborn as actual human beings, given the accolades extended to Justice Ginsburg even by a variety of prominent conservatives does that mean that from now on that whenever a prominent terrorist passes all that can be said about them is a favorable assessment of their tactical prowess and media acumen?

Media tolerancemongers are apoplectic that President Trump complimented a primarily Caucasian crowd in Minnesota for their good genes. And how is that any worse than these minority propagandists such as Al Sharpton that have to constantly remind viewers with perfectly acceptable visual acuity what color or ethnic extraction that they happen to be?

Will public commemorations of Ruth Bader Ginsburg be condemned as Coronavirus superspreader events like the Sturgis motorcycle festival or Trump campaign rallies?

By Frederick Meekins