If the leadership has the votes to pass the bill without him AND your district voters are strongly motivated by Great Lakes issues to the point that your district could flip, then they may allow him to vote against the bill. The Republican Party is so, so good at maintaining discipline; if his vote is needed for some…

So they can schedule a round of layoffs to get rid of the high risk employees...

This. Hamas does concrete things like provide food, schools, and emergency cash assistance. They have run an effective “hearts and minds” campaign that doesn’t line up with the all hat, no cattle crew they’re being lumped in with.

Ok so we’ve narrowed it down to 30-some states. 🤔

Renault, Nissan, BMW et al came to the US south specifically to get away from their domestic unions. Corporations can’t feel shame; they are not people. Anthropomorphism is easy, but dangerous. You can’t shame a company into doing better; it either has to be a choice made to improve the bottom line (carrot) or a legal…

And GM, at least, decided to try for a “disposable car” model of business wherein cars were designed to hit their end of life at less than 100,000 miles. My dad bought one of these POS - it was a Buick Skylark in 1981 or 82. At one point (I can’t recall if it was 70k or 80k) this piece of white plastic fell in and…

Agreed, but it is possible to make the geometry of a loose style look great, and Trump’s suits do not look good at all. The cuffs are uneven and the back is either pulling up or pulling down. I assume he does this as a way to emphasize who’s the boss: he can walk around looking like hot buttered Hell, but his…

But we have also learned that IQ is variable depending on life experiences. I was informed as a girl child that women can’t be geniuses because of the amount of -something- (insert woo of choice) required to be pregnant and raise children. Girls, even today, believe by the age of 5 that boys are smarter than girls.…

Pretty sure Lutefisk says what she means and means what she says.

I knew someone who did captioning for a local tv station in the 90s. It was a miserable, stress-filled low-paying job; our computer overlords are welcome to it.

You are correct, that is a big one. I apologize for the oversight.

Immigration issues, his speeches embracing American muslims, and stance against abuse in prisons are the only bright spots in his administration that I can remember. That’s still 3 more than the current occupant.

Just imagine the size of the calves of the person carrying the drug-bomb. Cantaloupes!

You don’t sound like an asshole; you sound like someone going through some major upheaval. My dad started getting sick when I was in college and my parents hid it from me until he had to be life flighted to the hospital. To this day I’m not sure if I’m grateful or not - my dad died two years later, so there was plenty…

Hm, schadenfreude.

He’s hoping his seatmates will ask to be moved so he gets the row to himself.

I am guessing the patient is a sex worker; it would be difficult to sustain those numbers otherwise.

I realize this is easy LOLs but seriously, my local BMV people are great, and I have been to a half dozen different locations over the years. They are fast and competent and pleasant.

Intelligence agencies have tapes of Flynn telling the Russian ambassador in November to be cool till Trump is in power. Flynn denied to Mike Pence that he said this, but the DOJ had already briefed Trump that the conversation with the representative from Russia has taken place (tapes obtained via wiretapping the…

Here it’s very normal for the BIg Man to sit in the middle so he can hear everyone at the table. While it’s LOL that Bannon is at the head it isn’t significant.