But they aren’t really rich - it’s all built on mountains of leveraged debt - and yeah, they have grifted a LOT of money in the last few years, but once they are back in NYC it’s all going to evaporate- into court costs and lawyers and debt payments and bad real estate deals.  The really old money never had any time…

I think Acting Attorney General Sally Yates could definitely squelch McConnell with a thorough investigation of all the shady financial dealings and potential cases of Bribery with him and his wife Elaine Chao

Someone should explain to Don Jr just how much the rest of the world dislikes Trump and all his works - Canada for example is about 80% anti-Trump.

the answer absolutely is Republicans - the folks driving around in trucks waving guns and threatening civil war are MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters

take a look at Canada, or New Zealand or Australia - what the federal government does ABSOLUTELY affects how COVID affects people and the economy. The decision to funnel huge “loans” mostly to white Republican businesses while cutting out small and POC owned businesses, the one time $1200 payment vs what say Canada…

No, Bernie would not have been the candidate let alone the President - he lost badly both in 2016 and 2020 purely in terms of how many people voted for him. The Dem party didn’t twist millions of people’s arms, or stop millions of people from voting for him in the primaries, he was just never that popular to the…

liberatarian, doesnt’ think there should even be a fire department

I’ve only done it with blueberries or huckleberries. the filling is about 2/3 fresh raw fruit so I don’t think it would work with apples.  Blackberries would probably be good

sweeten it with a mix of fancy molasses and maple syrup you won’t be sorry.

That’s how we make blueberry or wild blueberry/huckleberry in my family, I learned it from my cousin Shirley.  So delicious, and much nicer than that purplish jelly-goo you get on commercial fresh blueberry pies

I do that, or if I have cinnamon bark I break a few small pieces in with my ground coffee. My sister taught me to do it that way, and it makes me think of her ( she passed in June )

Yeah, that’s what the city was willing to pay to protect cops from accountability.  

Yes, there’s a very famous Canadian example of a male author claiming First Nations status, Joseph Boyden

Peter Wingfield!  So many people loved him - I was on livejournal back in the day and there was SOO MUCH FANFIC

Wow, this is scary. I work in post-secondary education in Canada. All the post-secondary institutions in my province got together and decided on policy. We all shut down last March to in-person teaching except for stuff that could not be delivered online (pretty much just labs) and those classes had reduced sizes and…

i guess as a Canadian I see “rich enough not to worry about healthcare” as the true mark of American wealth whether or not someone is trying to pass as “just middle class” or not. And I know all about the REI millionaire crowd, I grew up on the West Coast between Seattle and Vancouver. 

well, until someone got really sick and then there would be all the money in the world in a situation where your middle class parents would’ve gone bankrupt

If it’s cool for progressives to primary popular sitting Senators or Representatives, then you can’t exactly cry when anybody else does it can you? 

Oh Miley! That was what 12 years ago and he is never ever getting back with you.  So wise of Liam to move back to Australia, date an Australian girl and never ever talk to the press about Miley.

I remember Sambo’s from being a kid in the US in the 1960s, I thought they had been gone for decades -though as a 6 year old silver dollar pancakes and tiger butter were a rare and marvelous treat.