I’m surprised Trump didn’t hear her last name and try to sic ICE on her instead of hiring her.

I wonder if they really get to make that call, though. I would think they’d have to make a deal with the UK first for ownership rights.

I agree there’s no real reason to at this point. Should the conditions in the bay ever change and threaten the wreck site, however, there are some pretty amazing methods available to preserve it should they ever decide to take it out of the water. We have a 400 year old one on display in the state history museum here…

3 hours a night, huh? Can’t wait until some enterprising muckraker gets the exclusive with Trump’s coke dealer.

Already knew this. RT America is one of the international news twitter accounts I follow and when that whole thing about RT favoring Trump came out I nearly laughed out loud at my desk. Maybe the mothership is different, but the American bureau can’t fucking stand him.

I wish I didn’t.

It’s gradually shifting that way. Obama won the county in both 2008 and 2012. The urban core is more Democrat but it’s the suburbs that keep their congressional reps Republican.

Describing Gohmert as an “Average Joe” is very charitable of you. He makes Rick Perry look like Albert Einstein.

You can’t really blame it all on rural Texans. Prior to the gerrymandering in 2003 the district he represents was demographically far more rural and had been consistently Democrat for half more than a century.

As a Texan who has had to hear way more about this fucker than anyone should ever have to in their life, Gohmert Pyle here is chucking bowling balls around a greenhouse.

Yeah, to me it screams 90s teenaged girl goth.

The original comment in this thread doesn’t.

The Spanish arrived first on the continent, but the United States did not build its government around Spanish law.

I’ve probably mentioned it around here before but archaeology was my college major. I’m so, so sad and furious about this, as an archaeologist/historian, as a descendant of indigenous Americans, hell, simply as a human being. These assholes have destroyed thousands of years of irreplaceable history and cultural…

Who do you think started the colonialism ball rolling in America? Fuck’s sake.

Nope. The Standing Rock Sioux have been protesting the pipeline for a while now, and have been joined by hundreds of other tribes in what is the largest protest gathering by Native American/First Nation peoples in over a century. This was a deliberate “fuck you” to all of them.

Yeah. I was thinking that dress looked like a boob-torture device.

Haaaaaaah! Yeah, I’m staying out of that. I appreciate pieces like this as the works of art that they are, so I’d never get behind the idea of breaking one up. It’d be nice if it ended up in a museum so lots of people can appreciate it though, instead of just going into some rich person’s jewelry box or bank vault.

Not quite, it remained in the hands of Mary’s descendants until much more recently.

It was given to Queen Elizabeth’s aunt and passed down through her family. No one really knows who bought it from them, but there’s a pretty good reconstruction of its history here.