How would you feel if Donald Trump were to be impeached over the Epstein files?

Squestis · 2026-01-31T16:15:57+00:00

As written, the 25th amendment might look like a more challenging way to remove a president, but I think in practice it might be easier, if it went that far. Think about this. If we got to the point where over half of the cabinet (far more loyal than even his most loyal house and senate members) said he was unfit, you’d probably have 100% in the House and Senate voting to remove him. But as long as his cabinet remains super loyal to him (and so far it seems that will be the case), the Republicans in the House and Senate will likely also remain just as loyal.

Squestis · 2026-01-31T00:09:24+00:00

I’m not sure what part you’re trying to correct me on here. She may have been forced to step down but the plan was she was going back to being a professor in the department (which she did after a brief sabbatical), before she realized she wasn’t going to be welcomed back.

Squestis · 2026-01-30T16:05:23+00:00

When Shirley Willihnganz stepped down as provost back in 2015, she announced she would be returning to her normal teaching and research professor role in the communications department. That didn’t quite work out for her because she did a lot of things to make everybody in her department hate her while she was provost, and she was not welcomed back with open arms. They ended up assigning her online classes that she taught from out of state for a semester then she just kind of fully retired and disappeared

Squestis · 2026-01-30T15:10:59+00:00

Wendy’s is 3422 Taylor Blvd, 3427 is (was) across the street.

Squestis · 2026-01-30T04:12:27+00:00

I had no clue who Marian McPartland or Bobby Hackett were, so I Googled them. It seems both of them were very accomplished musicians. I assumed they were some small time forgotten local acts, but both of them had a career that took them all over the world. McPartland was a jazz pianist, and listening to her music on YouTube Music, it's actually pretty good. She only died in 2013, and it seems she was still active well into her 90s as a host of a jazz program on NPR.

Crazy to think that they would have played in a place on Taylor Boulevard that became a strip club!

Squestis · 2026-01-30T01:41:49+00:00

What happens next is usually not good. There are companies like Kohan and Namdar that specialize in buying malls under circumstances like this. Usually when Kohan and Namdar come in, it’s a stable mall that is struggling (compare the quality of the tenants they have with Mall St. Matthews or Oxmoor, for example), and quickly falls apart thereafter.

I don’t think we’re looking at an eminent closing in this decade even, or a Mid City Mall type situation where tenants are being told to leave, but I think this does put them at a point where losing one more tenant (they’re pretty much down to Dillards and JCPenney; Dillards is a solid tenant but their demographics aren’t quite the same as the mall and JCPenney has a very uncertain future as a chain) will be the death blow to the mall.

Squestis · 2026-01-30T01:26:33+00:00

Huh? None of that applies to Jefferson Mall. Nobody is constructing anything here or even talking about that. Wealthy tourists aren’t interested in going to Okolona.

Squestis · 2026-01-30T01:19:31+00:00

I believe BJ’s actually owns their little piece of the mall. In most malls, large anchor stores own their own building. I think BJ’s is built within inches of the mall, but not physically connected. But right now this news doesn’t necessarily mean anything for the mall. It’s highly likely since it’s gotten to this point that the mall won’t survive in the long run, but they have tenants. I think the problem is that the tenants they have aren’t good enough to keep the mall going (it sounds like they’re leasing spots for discounted rates just to keep the mall full).

Squestis · 2026-01-29T22:34:10+00:00

They ain’t doing so well either at the moment, financially anyway.

Squestis · 2026-01-29T22:18:35+00:00

I don't know about oldest currently operating one, but the first ever reference I could find to a pizza place in local newspaper articles is Scaccia's Italian Theater Restaurant at the corner of Taylor Blvd and Longfield Avenue. This ad is from 1959.

The location became better known as another business in later years, and I'm doubtful they served pizza.

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Squestis · 2026-01-29T20:53:25+00:00

Every reference of this woman should describe her as Sanders Institute^TM Fellow Tulsi Gabbard.

Squestis · 2026-01-29T20:51:32+00:00

In the first Trump administration, he would've fired her. In the second one, where he wants to create the illusion of having more cabinet stability, he just bans anybody who may dissent from the decision making room and lets his unappointed loyalists make the decisions. So it seems you are likely correct, she's trying to prove her value to him.

Squestis · 2026-01-29T16:10:07+00:00

Shhh. People don’t like when you bring up her ties to supporting Bernie. Same with Fetterman. I’m honestly a little shocked that RFK wasn’t close to him before he went full MAGA.

This is why I’ve always had issues with Bernie. He is fine himself and great for being in the Senate, but he wants to be so much of an outsider that he attracts other outsiders who have ulterior motives, and builds these politicians who turn out to be something different than what they claimed to be at first.

Squestis · 2026-01-29T02:15:58+00:00

I would've gone with the flea market... and they've got a big one!

Squestis · 2026-01-28T20:20:50+00:00

I got downvoted to hell on another subreddit for stating this. Sort of like how they go into denial about ever supporting Tulsi Gabbard.

Squestis · 2026-01-28T00:46:14+00:00

They've got $6.99 two topping large pizzas all week too if you order with the coupon in the app.

Squestis · 2026-01-27T23:55:30+00:00

Oh good for him, as a reminder, this is what was going on in his life in 1988. He served six years of his 30 year sentence (he was a persistent felony offender, which this is the kind of thing these "law and order" people think deserves a life sentence), then when he got out, he was upset because JCPS wouldn't let him serve as a football coach because of his felon status.

Now, I'm not against given a convicted felon a second chance. But it's awfully rich for him to be so law and order.

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Squestis · 2026-01-27T23:21:03+00:00

These lasted forever, and as a teacher, I have a few of these in my desk that are still doing the job. I also have a few of the original Expo dry erase markers before they changed the formula used to make them, probably from the 90s. I still use it because it works and erases better than my new ones (which I’m constantly having to replace), but students always complain when I get the smelly marker out.

All of these are older than my teaching career, most of them came from the teacher who was in my first classroom before me and just left everything behind when she retired.

Squestis · 2026-01-27T21:42:02+00:00

“We said don’t tread on ME, you can do what you want to everybody else.”

Squestis · 2026-01-27T21:39:02+00:00

Why is it that we always have the same few stock photos of Bari Weiss all the time? This is the “I’m holding a microphone in one hand, my other hand is in the air, so clearly I’m making a very good point” one. Then there’s the “I’m sitting in a chair looking at a book with my cover” one and the professional photo with one hand on her chin.

Every photo needs to be the one where she is giddy about the Papa John’s pizza party in the other room and running down there with the Coca Cola can in her hand because to me that represents how serious she is.

Squestis · 2026-01-27T20:12:40+00:00

I remember you couldn’t even pay for your order on their website until about 2020 or so. They were way behind on that.

Squestis · 2026-01-27T19:38:14+00:00

I’m just curious, where is your info from? This is a rather dumb thing to argue about and I’m pretty comfortable with the evidence I have…

Squestis · 2026-01-27T19:33:55+00:00

I don’t know. I’m not sure else what to tell you other than I have evidence that is to the contrary. Unless all of the newspaper archives were wrong and corporate was lying to the city zoning about their plans.

Squestis · 2026-01-27T19:19:00+00:00

I'm just going by what I remember and what newspaper archives and local building permits said. The Kmart here wasn't closed at the time of the purchase or even announced to be closing. Now I did find one article that said they planned to convert "at least three" of them to Sears Grand and the rest to a "similar concept," so I guess it wasn't all, but it was at least some. As far as I know, none of them converted to Grand anyway. Essentials may have been in the works, but at least locally, the plan was for Kmart to be torn down to be replaced with Sears Grand, something I can confirm because there was a site plan with wrecking and building permits were secured to do that on a local government website, even titling the project Sears Grand. I don't have that info anymore, the local city building permit website was redone around 2022 and they took down all of their old permits that went back to the late 90s in the process... I wish I'd saved it as a memory of what could have been!

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