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It's only 90 seconds, but for those who don't care to watch, Smith says that Obama's letter helped inspire her to pursue a career in nursing, and that is how she is employed today. And Obama was visibly touched by her response.

We trust that the relevance of this story to modern-day politics is clear, and that we do not need to spell it out.

Have a good weekend, all! (Z)

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And, since I know it is of keen interest to so many here ...

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...what he and his followers should do is follow the advice of actor Colman Domingo, who is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel's show this week:

"If you want to see a film with a cast of all white people who are cursed by the gods, the Melania movie is currently streaming." (Z)

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It would not be summer without right-wing culture warriors soiling themselves over at least one of the blockbuster films of the season.

It happened last year with Sinners, it happened in 2024 with Wicked, it happened in 2023 with Barbie, it happened in 2022 with Avatar: The Way of Water and... well, you get the point.

The current film that is in the right-wing crosshairs, and has been since well before it was released, is The Odyssey.

#5 You are 100% correct, Johnny ... + Newsworthy

#34 Sux to be you, Left Hind Turds

#1 | #2 Newsworthy ... and ...

Thank you, Corky ...

You are, without a doubt ...

#1 | #2 Newsworthy

#3 You're right, Left Hind Turds!

My bride married me because...

Apologies, everyone ...

#34 | Posted by Left Hind Turds ...

Adam Dean Hoffman was originally charged with the continuous sexual abuse of an 8-year-old boy"a first-degree felony carrying a potential life sentence.

The initial agreement proposed by Paxton's office called for just one day in jail, but the presiding judge increased the sentence to 60 days after the victim's mother objected. Hoffman was released after serving less than 30 days and was not initially required to register as a sex offender in Texas.

#142 Completely understandable, DBT2.

#104 Thanks, DBT2.

T'wasn't necessary to archive anything.

The Internet is forever.

And, affirmative: It is interesting.

Oh, and before I forget, DBT2:

You're good people.

;-)

A bunch of nonsense ...

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During the previous decade, Trump weathered a series of scandals that would likely have been career-ending for any other politician:

- the Access Hollywood tape, in which he boasted that he would "grab" women "by the -----" without consent;

- the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey;

- his indiscreet sharing of intelligence with Russian officials in the Oval Office;

- an impeachment for attempting to extort Ukraine;

- an egregious approach to COVID-19, followed by a bout with the disease that reportedly nearly killed him;

- a series of attempts to steal the 2020 presidential election, culminating in the January 6 insurrection;

- his absconding with sensitive documents to Mar-a-Lago after his term ended; and 34 felony convictions.

Despite all of this, Trump returned to the White House in January 2025. The notion of his invincibility became canon. Perhaps Trump himself came to believe it.

But the war in Iran has dealt a serious blow to the idea that Trump can slip out of any bind easily. Over the past three days, three American service members died in that conflict: two in Jordan, where Iranian missiles struck a military base, and a third in Iraq, killed by debris during the intentional destruction of an Iranian drone. The official American death toll in the Iran war now sits at 17.

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As we enter a news cycle in which the Qatari's wingd bribe is grounded, The Pentagon is running out of cash, and the term "explosive diarrhea" has entered the conversation, a quick reminder:

Trump's Big Lie was about the 2020 election, but his Big Myth was about his competence - the delusion that the man who bankrupted a casino, ran Trump University into the ground, and presided over the serial botches of Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, the Trump Shuttle, Trump Mortgage, the Tour de Trump, Trump the Game, and Trump Magazine, actually knew how to run anything more complicated than a bottle of spray tan.

It's only gotten worse as he purges experts and grownups from his government, and surrounds himself with toadies, ------, and zealots who tell him what he wants to hear and never, even suggest that the emperor's shortcomings are dangling in the breeze.

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Some men are still obsessed with the idea of marrying a "traditional woman" who loves cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing as much as she loves pleasing her husband. But here's what those men fail to realize:

Even if we wanted to be traditional wives, we logistically couldn't unless we had traditional husbands.

Do you, good sir, meet the criteria to qualify as a traditional husband?

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Over the past few years, I've written about trad wives ad nauseam.

I wrote an open letter to the guy on TikTok wondering where all the "real women" went. I wrote about why this generation of women is choosing to stay single and childless. I wrote about how historically, the trad wife is a myth; she didn't exist in the 1950s, and she sure as hell doesn't exist now.

I had hoped that time, rational thought, and the plummeting economy would nip this trend in the bud - but with Christian nationalism on the rise, it's only gotten worse.

Last year, a pastor went viral for saying that he "does not need to get [his] wife's permission to get physical," and that "'you may kiss the bride' is an ongoing permission." (Please note that as of 1993, marital rape is illegal in all 50 states.)

#65 The Internet is forever ...

Ah, Tadowe:
How to post like Tad:
1) Make up a position.
2) Assign it to 'Liberals' in general and another blogger in particular.
3) Find an example of that blogger contradicting the position you made up
for him/her.
4) Call that person a lying crapweasel or puling hypocrite.
5) Throw in some stuff you heard while walking by an asylum.
6) Repeat - ad nauseum.
And now we have step 7: Receive ------- from Horace.
Posted by Sully at 2006-05-12 01:42 PM

Oh, yeah, "puling hypocrite." LOL Plus, he liked to use alliteration and loved the word
"ilk."
#94 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2017-09-20 03:57 PM

Oh, yeah, "puling hypocrite." LOL Plus, he liked to use alliteration and loved the word
"ilk."
#94 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY
Referring to Rcade as "ilk" was the cited reason for his permanent ban.
#96 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 04:07 PM

#11 I'll see you one car antenna for your smokestacks on the Moon, eb. ;-)

#13 Snoofy begins his insightful comment with this: "Pretty common one from back in the day."

Fortunately, most people grow and learn from common things back in the day, based on knowledge gathered since.

Unfortunately, some people never grow and learn no matter how much knowledge had been gathered since back in the day.

#11 ;-)

#5 clowns**** lives up to his name when he says, "HIV was made in a lab in New York and spread to the LGBT community on purpose."