How did you omit buttered white bread dipped in Karo syrup?

Yes, my parents grew up poor.

How is this a strong case for punitive damages, though?

Addendum, if your damages are more than a few hundred bucks, it’s also worth talking to a lawyer on the negotiation. Insurance companies think you’re an idiot if you are representing yourself (even if you know what you’re doing) and price accordingly.

That’s great, but he also threw promotional materials that were designed to make the people getting them think they were receiving real bills until they looked closer, at which point they realize he actually gave them less money than he pretended he was giving. Tipping with fake bills only would have been unspeakably…

Throwing fake bills as a ‘promotional thing’ is shitty.

Nah. Hand them free tickets or a flyer or a VIP invite with the money, sure, but handing out fake bills is bullshit. The whole point of fake money is to make people think it’s real money until they look closer.

The comment gives specific examples of someone refusing to use a first name, and in one instance using ‘we need your full name’ to fish for the person’s first name in order to call them that.

“I have a Muslim friend” means there is someone in his social circles who is Muslim and who doesn’t reflexively punch him in the face or tell him to fuck off on sight. The person he is referring to would no doubt be astonished to learn that this douchebag thinks they are ‘friends’.

or if that’s how they’re introduced and I don’t know the first name

What part of “strangers to whom they’ve just been introduced and do not know by their first names” did you miss in your stampede to pretend that white people are naturally informal to all?

Plan B is, and always was, Plan A: “But he’s black!”

They don’t want to put their pensions at risk? No problem - the police departments need to carry independent insurance policies in order to operate

Doubtful, but he’ll certainly start up a fundraising operation to raise money for his supposed 2024 run.

Nestor’s a beard in a different way. Gaetz was all “I don’t have children of my own but I do understand family blah blah blah” shortly before he was being told off for not understanding what it’s like to raise a BIPOC child. He blurted out that Nestor was his ‘son’ because he was mad and wanted to Be Right, and…

They don’t even need to release the video (which is after all of kids who didn’t ask to be on the internet). They could just offer a coherent explanation. Like, “It’s not true that we feed the white kids first” or “The screenshots don’t show the Black children who had already been given their lunches”. But no, they…

Let’s please not with the apologia that he didn’t “understand” racist comments were racist and bad, as if respect for others was just some newfangled app the kids use. 

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Please don’t feed this troll

So, like, an O Magazine / Deathnote crossover?

Why is this being reported as “the women” having released this PR screed? Who, in fact, sent it out to the media? Presumably it was sent either by a specific PR representative for Gaetz, or by his office. Unbelievable that journalists are just thoughtlessly assuming that “the women” Gaetz employs are the ones who…