SELMa
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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- Hey, MAGA. Ask yourselves, “Would Trump give someone a gift of $400m & expect nothing in return?” No? Then why in the world would you expect the opposite to be true?
- As someone who lost his mom in the last year, this "Call Your Mom" ad AT&T is running during NHL games is a nice little dagger out of nowhere. But, damn, they're right. Call your mom. Call your dad too if you still can. Some of us can't.
- I have a voicemail from my last birthday before my dad died of my parents singing Happy Birthday. At the very end, my dad says, “I love you so much, you sweet thing.” That vm is one of my greatest treasures & I listen to it whenever I’m having a really tough time.
- Buckle up. I suspect this is going to be a shit show
- I’ve often pointed to Trump supporters that Trump has no real friends (& that’s weird). So it’s really no surprise that he thinks saying, “I give you everything & you give me nothing,” is totally something one friend would say to another.
- Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.
- Due process is a two-way street. If undocumented immigrants have no right to due process, then our gov’t has no right to charge, try, & incarcerate those who have committed heinous crimes while within our borders & the only remedy is to return them to their country of origin.
- RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
- Then he must have mainlined it for years.
- not enough people realize what we are seeing are people who have serious mental disorders, making life changing decisions on our behalf. they are not normal, not healthy, not capable of handling power
- Personality disorders, yes. Mental disorders? Possibly.
- Did MTG just call the Pope “evil”?
- Desperately seeking attention by any means necessary.
- They’re using the hostages to try and justify their anti-democratic movement. Not in our name
- On Palm Sunday, Israel bombs the only Christian hospital in Gaza (Anglican/Episcopal) & the only hospital left in northern Gaza.
- I don’t understand what’s so hard about “Don’t vote for bad people who do bad things.”
- “None of us are perfect in any way.” Yep. Wanna know how I’m imperfect? I’ve got no patience for crap like that.
- Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.
- The state of Texas denied my son (US citizen born in the UK) a drivers license because he didn’t have a US birth certificate & his passport had expired. He had to renew his passport just to get a drivers license. This move is just as unjust (& stupid).
- Sign of the day…
- Saw one in Dallas today that said: “I’m not really a ‘sign guy,’ but WTF?”
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- I’m guessing they’ve been placed in major cities along Snowbird routes to Florida. It won’t be just Florida that suffers from the drop in tourism $ from Canada — but also all the businesses along the way.
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- My family surname is forever linked to the Confederacy, so I recognized this EO’s goal immediately. It is no surprise that this administration seeks to honor those who are remembered solely because of their attempt to destroy the Republic.
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- This is one of the saddest things I have ever seen a parent do.
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- March is Women’s History Month.
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- This is how desperate he is to get people focusing on something else rather than his debacle with Zelenskyy.
- There's been so much publicity about the now-Oscar-winning doc No Other Land being unable to find a U.S. distributor (which is appalling) that some people may not realize it's currently on 100 screens here. In Manhattan you can see it at Film Forum; in Brooklyn it's at Alamo Drafthouse.
- I saw it at the Angelika Theater in Dallas last week but it was a limited run of only one week. Hopefully, now that it’s won the Oscar, other theaters will follow suit.
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- Next up: Renaming the English language to the “American” language.
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- Glad to know I’m not the only one.
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- There’s a whole book about it. (But don’t buy it today.) a.co/d/8LXmWMF
- Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.
- I see what you did there. (And suspected that since the first moment I saw them on camera.)
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- Please DON’T do this. As one who worked in high school & college at Walmart, no billionaire owner will come to empty that abandoned cart. It will be some lowly, underpaid employee, just trying to earn enough to get by, who will have to do that totally unnecessary work.
- So can I sell my citizenship for $5m?
- citizenship for the highest bidders — with, of course, a vig for the house (er, white house)
- So can I sell my citizenship for $5m?
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- Perhaps Trump’s plan is for fired civil servants to fill the jobs left vacant by deported migrants.
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- Attended my first protest today in Dallas. I’m 61 & a former AP Government teacher. We cannot stand by while our Constitution dies.
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- This is silly. Anyone currently driving a Tesla is paying the finance company, not Musk. That money has long been in Elon’s pocket.
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- I tried this when I fell in the Holy Land & dislocated my elbow. My 26yo daughter thought I was dead. I’ve been instructed that I cannot do this again. Ever.
- Trump on what Trudeau could offer him to change his mind on tariffs: "What I'd like to see -- Canada become our 51st state."
- Yesterday, Trump was claiming “we don’t need anything they have.” Then why does he want them as the 51st state? He really is the stupidest man alive.
- Senator Tommy Tuberville: We have an attention deficit problem in this country. Attention deficit — when you or I were growing up — our parents didn’t use a drug they used a belt.
- As a native Alabamian who proudly taught in public schools there, I feel compelled to point out that while Senator Tuberville may represent the State of Alabama, he himself is a product of the Arkansas public school system. (You can’t fix stupid.)
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- And if your name is Chris or Pat or any one of literally dozens of gender-neutral names?
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- #ETTD has become a heart-breaking reality in the last 24 hours. God help us all.
- He is a monster.
- Just a reminder that the memorial at Pearl Harbor is all underwater (because the USS Arizona lies at the bottom of the Harbor) & Trump didn’t understand its significance either when he visited in November 2017. www.businessinsider.com/trump-pearl-...
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- Just a reminder that the memorial at Pearl Harbor is all underwater (because the USS Arizona lies at the bottom of the Harbor) & Trump didn’t understand its significance either when he visited in November 2017. www.businessinsider.com/trump-pearl-...
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- Saw this outside a shop in Oaxaca, Mexico last month.
- I’m not fond of memes, but this one — created in the 1st week of Trump’s 1st term after the Park Service had to refute Trump’s ridiculous claims about his inaugural crowd being the largest ever — is one of my favorites. And, it’s one of only a handful of memes I’ve ever shared on Twitter & FB.
- The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
- Like a lot of malignant narcissists, he doesn’t actually do any real work. Part of the pathology is to manipulate (sucker) others into doing all the work while the MN takes all the credit.
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- Exactly. A cathedral is the “seat” of a bishop. Any & all services held in the National Cathedral are with her permission & under her authority. Saying she “hijacked” a service held in her own cathedral is just plain stupid.
- She said, “May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." If Mike Johnson thinks that’s “radical,” perhaps he has a fundamental misunderstanding of his own religion.
- A cathedral is the “seat” of a bishop. Saying a bishop “hijacked” a service held in their own cathedral is just plain stupid.
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- A cathedral is the “seat” of a bishop. Saying a bishop “high-jacked” a service held in their own cathedral is just plain stupid.
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- He standard unit of time during his first term was “in two weeks.” I guess for round 2 it’s going to be 100 days. Newsflash: things still won’t get done.
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- He wants to annex Canada & buy Greenland, but can’t handle the weather in D.C. Absolutely no one is surprised.
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- The flag at half-staff isn’t for Jimmy Carter, it’s for the American people. An inauguration on the steps of the Capitol isn’t for Donald Trump, it’s for the American people. He’ll never put the people before his own wants. And it’s best that folks know that right from the start.
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- To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen: Trump is no Jack Kennedy.
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- As the wife of a pastor, I am often expected to attend church events “out of duty,” even though I am not a church employee. I say, “Good for Michelle!” She wasn’t President & should feel no obligation to attend such events.
- When you're too stupid to get the joke.
- A lot of malignant narcissists don’t really get humor. That’s why you never see pics of Trump in a true belly laugh. He smirks. And always at someone else’s expense.
- JFC
- Our modern-day Jack the Ripper — who’s all for needlessly slicing women open.
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- Dark chocolate digestives for me, please.
