Exactly. I like and play sports a lot, I get my competition there. I didn’t need it in my games.

‘Please proceed, governor Mr. Trump’

Somewhere in here is a poop knife joke

Well that good. I did see that bit, but wasn’t sure if it was enough. Thanks.

birds of a feather.

Emotionally I am 100% on board with all of this.

Intellectually I have to ask a question that was posed in the article but not addressed: Does this have a chance of impacting broader undercover type operations like Ag-Gag laws?

I’m of the opinion that waiting until the last possible moment is an intentional feature (in general) and NOT an accident or indicator of incompetence. Bare with me here, because I DO agree there’s a lot of incompetence, but also …

They are constantly testing the political winds, the media coverage, the social media reactions, and very much so, their donor’s reactions to all of the other reactions. So they float balloons, see what happens, adjust, rinse repeat.

Or said another way, the public and private outrages are a feature, not a bug. How else would they know how far they can push things. It fucking sucks, and is a horrible way to govern, and my take makes them even scummier.

OH! NO!

Anyway.

The Legends trilogy I managed to get through by sheer determination

You mean by will alone, right? ;-)

But the way they stopped it was hilarious!

It was a risk not adding /s especially since I tried really hard to not be too absurd as to be obvious. I will take your unease as a compliment :)

A common misconception. Take the so called “light bulb” for instance. People think they emit light. They do not. They ingest darkness. They are dark suckers. They pull in all the darkness around them, but objects get in the way, and that’s why there are shadows. And when they’re full, they stop working. That’s why they have a brown spot when they stop working, they are full of dark.

Don’t fall for the light emitting conspiracy. LONG LIVE THE DARK SUCKERS!!!

strangled with the entrails of the [insert all the various religious leader titles]

Yes. Yes it is.

Legally you can’t even create the PoA if the person isn’t deemed competent because they can’t sign it. So then you have to go to a judge for them to appoint someone.

So by the letter of the (IANAL but I’m working this issue with family right now) law, the fact that a PoA might have just been created means she has to be considered competent enough to sign on.

But yeah the line between “I’d trust them with my life” and “no one in their right mind would allow them to sign” is broad.

Good thing the only people they killed with their COVID stance was their own.

I mean yeah everyone was hit, but they went out of their way to make sure their own people were hit the hardest.

haha!!

Unrelated/related: it was Stargate that sort of cemented my atheism. I hadn’t thought much about my own “-ism” until I was watching the show (I was also at an age to start thinking about those things). Up until then I was just an apathetic non-religious, didn’t really think about “god” at all either way. Stargate triggered my apathy into coherent and connected thoughts along the same themes as Stargate’s, “there are no gods; if there are they suck anyway; fight the power!”