First Aspect
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Donald I, emperor of the world.
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First Aspect
Legendary Member
I thought it was the reflecting pool at first.
briantrumpet
Timewaster
I'm not sure the either Russia or America are going to recover from their respective problems. Slightly more likely that Russia does, on current form.
Pinno718
Squire
Judge orders release of unredacted Epstein files as new subpoenas issued
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW8TbWqB8-A
briantrumpet
Timewaster
The failure of Trump's 'State Fair' is very funny. Here's Fox News with the evidence right behind them... I mean, the Devon County Show has 100x as many people!
https://bsky.app/profile/nothoodlum.bsky.social/post/3mpd2nu6ces2v
And this is funny too.
https://bsky.app/profile/nothoodlum.bsky.social/post/3mpd2nu6ces2v
And this is funny too.
Pinno718
Squire
The fascist govt. creates an enemy that doesn't exist and labels that have no substance but that doesn't matter:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced
Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissenthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced
briantrumpet
Timewaster
It's the same with 'woke'. But there's a long history of (often successful) right wing efforts to weaponise terminology that is based on movements to actually modernise & improve, e.g. 'health and safety', 'politically correct', etc. They can't bear the thought that their prehistoric attitudes (it's OK if workers are maimed or die, it's OK to call black people 'n*ggers' etc.) might end up being deemed to be unacceptable by the majority.
AuroraSaab
Pharaoh
These are excessively long sentences but one of the accused did shoot a police officer with an AR15 automatic rifle. That's a bit more than dissent.
Pinno718
Squire
That man got 100 years and the officer survived whilst the ICE officer who shot Renée Goode dead gets shifted into a cushy job.
briantrumpet
Timewaster
It does seem that Democrats have a problem with bed-blockers. Can't think why the existing Reps would be so keen on the status quo...
briantrumpet
Timewaster
This still is making me laugh... rolling news is bad enough, but when they've got to pretend that the Trump State Fair is great, and their studio is right in front of it, it's just too much 🤣
UglyWithaSidePart
Active Member
You wouldn't believe how many times I've tried to hit play on that.
secretsqirrel
spiteful class warrior
It needs some dodgy spitfires flying over.
swee'pea99
Regular
Tain't no joke, tis the simple truth. If you want to hear what Shakespeare sounded like, go talk to some hillbillies. Elizabethan English in aspic.
This is just one of the delightful revelations in Bill Bryson's Made in America - the story of American English. Here's another I've never forgotten:
Early American English positively
teems with such constructions: jointworm,
eggplant, canvasback, copperhead,
rattlesnake, bluegrass, backtrack, bobcat,
catfish, bluejay, bullfrog, sapsucker, timberland,
underbrush, cookbook, frostbite, and hillside
(at first sometimes called a sidehill), plus such
vital later additions as tightwad, sidewalk
cheapskate, sharecropper, skyscraper,
rubberneck, drugstore, barbershop, hangover,
rubdown, blowout, and others almost without
number. These new terms had the virtues of
directness and instant comprehensibility —
useful qualities in a land whose populace
would increasingly include large numbers of
nonnative speakers of English. Frostbite is
clearly more descriptive than chilblains,
sidewalk than pavement, eggplant than
aubergine, doghouse than kennel, bedspread
than counterpane.
