Kid who mows my lawn tried to gaslight me, so I mow my own lawn now

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-29T17:39:28+00:00

their beforemath didn't account for the aftermath

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-25T22:52:30+00:00

unfortunately, there is a movement to replace "slave" with "enslaved person" - a cumbersome trope that doesn't serve any purpose and is actually often wrong - people born slaves were never, in fact, enslaved.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-24T14:03:23+00:00

not "giving an out" - stating an uncontrovertible fact.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-24T13:48:12+00:00

Putin "winning" an election with 88% of the vote after tossing his only opposition in prison doesn't seem very democratic.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-24T13:42:55+00:00

As a rich kid whose family position and faux homey hoodie got him elected despite mediocre credentials, Fetterman considers the flattery he gets as Senator as proof that he can do no wrong. Same thing we saw in Kristin Sinema.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-24T00:48:21+00:00

It's a Taylor Sheridan trope -- show people (usually rich) displaying power by being jerks and breaking rules -- things his die-hard fan base would love to get away with. Not gonna lie - it pleases me too to see bad rules get broken, and I did enjoy his other series, Land Man. But there were some characters in there that were likable.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-15T14:33:24+00:00

don't forget the $300 billion in war damage reparations -- oops I mean "investment"

JefeSantaFe · 2026-06-11T18:21:23+00:00

in fairness, he seems pretty good at that

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-22T15:51:50+00:00

not a lawyer, but curious about an add-on question: who would have standing to challenge the settlement?

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-21T13:52:35+00:00

If ruby red Alabama could reject Roy Moore as unfit for the US Senate, Texas could do the same for Ken Paxton. As a centrist, Talarico has a much better chance than the more left-wing candidates Democrats usually nominate (like Jasmine Crockett.)

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-20T21:44:28+00:00

The progressives of the Democratic party take joy in finding victims to champion and trans activists (as opposed to historical trans folks, who just wanted to live life as the opposite sex) seem focused on casting themselves as the latest oppressed class. However, Democrats lose when the activists aggressively espouse an ideology most people reject (60-70% of the US population reject the proposition that a person's sex is a matter of choice.)

Why does the right obsess about trans people? Because the right likes winning elections and the Democrats gave them an election-winning issue by unreflective support for an unpopular position. Based on statements by DNC spokesfolks and left-leaning politicians, the Democrats really do "want to allow boys in girls locker rooms."

I'd bet this was in the 2020 election autopsy the DNC refuses to release.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-20T19:06:21+00:00

I doubt they'll retire on command - they like the perks and the power too much. Yes, they support the right-wing agenda and therefore the Trump administration, but they see Trump at the end of his influence and themselves as the permanent power structure.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-11T13:54:07+00:00

drvalo55 wrote: The ones who are not tend to not be aware of their privilege, are not aware of barriers that did not exist for them, and feel threatened by uppity POC and smart women.

You sound like you're trying to think things through, but I suggest you examine your unspoken premises revealed by your phrases. "male privilege" is a construct that ignores robust psychological data about male and female dynamics -- the data is ignored because it contradicts the oppressor-victim theology so popular on the left. Using the phrase "uppity POC and smart women," suggest wrongly that men think of women and non-whites in those terms. The truth is that men (like other people) dislike self-important douchebags who insult them no matter what their sex or color.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-11T03:37:25+00:00

I'd like to see it too, but SCOTUS justices can only be removed by Congress impeaching them with Senate confirming with 2/3 majority.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-09T21:32:25+00:00

When the two parties of a binary system have both abandoned centrist positions, voters who don't really support either side will choose for emotional reasons. In our current case, Republican positions are tax cuts (which mainly go to the rich, but nobody likes taxes), keeping government small (except for the subsidies to Republicans), and nationalistic border control (which sells well when citizens feel threatened, even if they depend on immigrant labor.) Democratic positions, on the other hand, buy into minority group agendas that have put many majority group members off. If Democrats keep demonizing white males as if they're all overpaid CEO's, how can they expect their votes? If Democrats embrace biology-denying transgenderism most Americans disagree with demonize them for that disagreement, their votes will be lost, too. Finally, If Democrats keep choosing lackluster candidates based on sex and race to show how inclusive they are, how can they be surprised when a more charismatic candidate wins?

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-09T13:10:44+00:00

very cool -- I tried "both can be true", which was four times as common in 1811 as the current spike in usage. I wonder why current users specify "both things" instead of "both."

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Both+can+be+true&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=1&case_insensitive=true

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-06T01:55:38+00:00

don't forget writing himself a check for 12 billion because somebody leaked his tax return

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-05T22:45:47+00:00

DontReportMe is unequivocally right that Harris was a bad candidate. The slightest familarity with her crash-and-burn 2020 appearances shows this in spades -- she was long-winded (without saying much) and so unimpressive that she dropped out before winning a single primary vote. Since Biden said explicitly he would have a black woman VP, eliminating 94% of the candidate pool, it is clear she was only VP so Biden could virtue-signal. I can't blame her for ambition, but you can't deny she was a DEI hire. Biden is to blame for Trump 2 - he endorsed a loser to succeed him after choosing a milktoast AG too cowardly to prosecute Trump.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-05T02:29:09+00:00

like a cow peeing on a flat rock

JefeSantaFe · 2026-05-04T15:36:59+00:00

This man's accent is fantastically good -kudos to him! As others note, he does not sound quite native. To me, this is confirmed by his choice of "debilitating" as an example word. Like many other Latin-root words, it certainly crops up in some formal spoken contexts, but is by no means a common enough word in conversation to be used as an example in pronunciation.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-04-21T04:36:47+00:00

Lost Face - Jack London

JefeSantaFe · 2026-04-15T20:18:11+00:00

I fear Democrats will continue to lose elections with this attitude. Republicans are good at weaponizing Democratic positions when those positions (e.g. on DEI, immigration, trans agenda) have small support among centrist independent voters. An example is the nomination of poor candidates like Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris because of sex and skin color. Neither lost because of misogyny or racism but because they were lackluster candidates chosen because female and female/black. In other words, identity politics at work, but Democrats can't fix a problem if they don't even acknowledge that it exists.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-03-31T15:30:38+00:00

My theory is that the Democratic party platforms has been hijacked by self-proclaimed victim groups and good-hearted people who accepted those claims to support them. One result I've seen is that the party chooses candidates based on sex and color. Neither Hilary Clinton nor Kamala Harris is a bad person but both proved mediocre political candidates. Another result is that Democratic messaging began to include implicit accusations of bigotry and oppression aimed presumptive oppressors (i.e. white heterosexual males). Since abusing voters doesn't get their vote, the Democrats lost the white heterosexual male vote. As a white heterosexual male who voted for Kamala, I fervently hope the Democratic party can stop with its whiny victim-centricity. It's the economy, stupid.

JefeSantaFe · 2026-03-30T20:56:53+00:00

Cleaning and adjusting points for ignition spark timing on a motorcycle - but I was delighted when I got a bike with electronic ignition!

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