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SCantiGOP's JournalTipping at a MAGA bar
Met a friend for a drink at a lounge near his home yesterday. Turned out their clientele were old men from the neighborhood who sit around a gripe about things.
There was a sign behind the bar: ”10% Tariff on all Canadian Whiskey and Tequila … Just kidding, but please buy American.”
I keep some Canadian coins in my car console since I travel there on occasion, so I left a tip - one Loonie (a Canadian dollar coin). Also left a note: “Next time I will tip one Peso. Just kidding, I won’t be coming back.”
Guess the author of the quote
“Democracy is lovely. It gives you a lot of freedoms. Even the freedom to destroy it.”
Scroll down for answer:
Not trump
Not musk
That quote from about 90 years ago is from Benito Mussolini, but it could have easily come from either of his two modern comrades.
Good news for inauguration
When the Felon begins his swearing in at noon, the wind chill will be 7 Degrees.
Better than that, wind gusts will be 24-26 mph. Will he cement his hair in place, or look like a fool by wearing a baseball cap to the ceremony?
Best Internet phrase seen today
A new parent, complaining that their precious new child came equipped with “the communication skills of an alarm clock.”
How to know if our election was stolen
Have any of the following questioned the validity of the election:
The DNC, the Biden Administration, the Harris campaign, the US Dept of Justice, any State Democratic Party, any Democratic member of Congress, MSNBC or any other MSM outlet?
But if you want to join in and endorse random DU posts attesting to a “gut feeling” that the election was somehow stolen, well, it’s a (partially) free country so have at it.
Hot stock tip
The lowest price for Trump’s social media stock since its merger with the other company was at $22.84 in mid-April. It has had wild swings since then, peaking at close to $80, but as of now it is trading at $22.57.
Your inside info stock trading tip: Do not buy this stock, or anything else that has been touched by Don the Con Trump.
Bonus tip: the $400 golden sneakers are not going to be a good investment either. 😜
Whatever happened to the Harriet Tubman $20 bill?
Harriet Tubman was scheduled to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill a few years ago. I recall that Trump stopped the process soon after he was sworn in.
Why hasn’t it been done by now? I assume that if Trump could stop it, the current Administration could re-instate it.
Musk played Trump for a chump
Stock prices for Tesla and Trump’s media company have both been slumping badly for several weeks. Tesla stock is down over 22% for the past month, and DJT down more than 42%.
When Trump agreed to appear on an interview last night on Twitter-X with Musk, Trump posted a promo about it on X, breaking his years-long pledge to only post on his own social media network.
The effect of Trump seemingly abandoning his forum in deference to the much bigger Musk platform? Approaching midday this morning, Tesla stock is up 3.8%, while Trump stock is down over 4%.
While both rich nepo babies are crazy, one actually understands how to make money with a company.
A suggestion concerning words and labels
Words do matter, especially in the sphere of public discourse, which is why I alternate between amusement and irritation when people use silly phrases like 'demon rat', or cannot add the "ic" to the end of the word Democrat when using it as an adjective.
However, I now refuse to use the term 'Republican' when referring to the political party that won the Civil War and had some honorable and wise members as recently as the past decade.
That party no longer exists, and its replacement should be correctly referred to as "The Trump Party." I know most of its followers will not object to this re-labelling, and that is part of the reason I think it should become the common usage for the new anti-democratic autocratic party.
re: NAACP calls for boycott of anti-DEI states' colleges
A post from earlier today: (https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143207349) stated that "The head of the NAACP is calling on Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, challenging a new state policy that bars those institutions from using government funds on diversity, equity and inclusion programs."
Here is a letter to the editor I wrote several months ago about the subject:
>>>Race in sports had a major impact on civil rights in the Deep South in the 1970s. All white Kentucky lost the basketball national championship in 1966 to Texas Southwest (now UTEP) with 5 black starters. In 1970, a time when Alabama and other Southern schools could not enroll black students, Bear Bryant's all white Alabama team lost badly to a Southern Cal team led by a black running back. Knowing that SEC sports would no longer be competitive without black players led to a grudging acceptance of desegregation.
The current culture war being waged against discussion of race and past atrocities against African Americans, along with an increasing pushback against the LGBTQ community, may begin to hit home with the average voter when red state schools start losing premier athletes due to their regressive politics.
Let's see how Texas or Florida MAGAs react when the next great QB or 7 foot tall Center announces that he is retracting his long held intention to play at one of their schools, and is going instead to Michigan or UCLA because of the policies being enacted by Abbott and DeSantis and their proto-fascist legislatures.
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