IT’S AN OPEN THREAD
(Election open coming monday)
Guh, 2/5 again! Down to $1400/1500
Anyway:
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12:00 PM |
The line is a Pick ‘Em! OK, UK wins.
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3:30 PM |
This is the Big One! The Vols are 9 point dogs to the ‘Dogs. The Vols cover. Admittedly, I am back and forth on this one.
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3:30 PM |
My Beloved Panthers are 4 point dogs and don’t cover.
Won’t bother watching the Buckeyes vs NW. Good luck Vols. I will watching that one.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
that is gonna be a great game. i’ll have to watch it from work tho
I find it more than a little amusing that the Democrats running for office in California are swamping the airwaves with ads claiming any GOP candidate is a Trump supporter and wants to “ban all abortions.” Really? That isn’t a issue in this state, unfortunately. Gruesome is even offering to cover the cost with my tax dollars.
Josh Harder is running all sorts of negative ads trying to hold on to the district ballot harvesting stole for him in 2018 (he was one of those 7 Congress Critters that originally lost and declared the winner a week later. His claim against his opponent is that he’s done nothing for the homeless and failed to get federal funds for the district. Hey, dude? YOU’RE the one in Congress. What the hell have YOU done. Does not list his accomplishments, only his beliefs.
Off to file down the fingernails.
Back later.
@ Crackerbox Palace:
hey cracker
Oh goody….my alma mater is going to be humiliated on a national level tonight on ESPN.
@ rain of lead:
Hey doll!
@ Crackerbox Palace:
Same here in NM. They control the governorship, both houses of the legislature, both US Senate seats, and two of the three House seats. They also redrew the House districts so that the one remaining one that had a Republican majority is now likely to flip, as well.
But every ad they run is about how all the Republican candidates are “extremists,” and if even one of them is elected, rape victims will be imprisoned. Nothing about crime, inflation, education, illegal immigration, drugs, etc.
Watching the Gators at Texas A&M.
Tim Ryan shoots gun, thinks he’s a badass:
Note to Ryan: There are 8 year olds who know more about the use of firearms than Democrats.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, the Dem candidates here in Cali are not mentioning inflation or crime. When they DO mention gas prices, it’s to blame the oil companies and also hold them responsible for the wildfires – which are caused by various man-made and natural means, but which are fueled by failure to clear old growth dead trees and underbrush.
@ Crackerbox Palace:
Goats. They are yummy!
P.S I ran out of fly jokes.
Any other requests?
China & Russia are doing shots and smoking Gloria Cubanas on the veranda.
https://news.usni.org/2022/10/27/nuclear-sea-launched-cruise-missile-has-zero-value-latest-nuclear-posture-review-finds
Possum wrote:
Freebird
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
FREEEEEBIIIIRRRRRDDDD!!!”
(holds lighter in air till finger sizzles)
ohio state and northwestern
7-7 at the half
vols need ohio state to lose
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
They appear to be panicking. Poll numbers aren’t showing dem blowouts. News reports are painting the spreads as “neck-and-neck” or “within the margin of error.” I think they’re in for a surprise.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
I’ve lived here for decades and occasionally someone running for dog catcher might stop by to ask for my vote, but this year is different. They’re canvassing specific voters – democrats – to convince them not to leave the party.
14-7 ohio state
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The TV personalities reading those stories may be in for a surprise, but the pollsters aren’t. They know what’s about to happen. They just get paid to pretend otherwise.
@ rain of lead:
Brutus the Buckeye needs an upgrade.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Found some but I don’t understand them. Is it an American thing?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And that is EXACTLY why ballots in the USA take weeks to count!
If I remember correctly the sample ballot for Houston was 37 pages.
A check box for each candidate for each position plus a space for a write in candidate.
In the civilised world we vote for a member of parliament.
One box to check on the ballot.
@ rain of lead:
21-7. Poor win for the Buckeyes. Oof.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
And I don’t think Trump wants to ban all abortions. Like to see the red wave swamp some of that ballot harvesting.
Possum wrote:
Okay, try Whipping Post.
27-6 ga
vols playing like crap
@ rain of lead:
Vols just saved from humiliation by another unnecessary facemark penalty at 4th and 23.
I think Biden just insulted the people of PA:
“I know Pennsylvania, and John Fetterman IS Pennsylvania!”
Best song lyric heard all day:
“My brother’s in jail;
I just snorted his bail;
I’m a dope addict.”
lobo91 wrote:
Yesterday Oprah endorsed Fetterman, saying if she could vote in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for him (never mind that Dr Oz is supposedly her friend).
Does this effing cow really think she still has influence? I would think that after looking like a fool in Copenhagen for the Chicago bid for the Olympics and being called out for slandering a clerk in a Swiss handbag store, the fat lady should know when to sit down.
@ Crackerbox Palace:
I have yet to hear anyone give an actual reason to vote for Fetterman. Even if they’re right about his condition being “temporary,” so what? He’s still a useless idiot, whether he can speak or not.
I saw somewhere – perhaps Breitbart – that the plan is to replace Nancy in leadership when the next Congress is seated – whether the Democrats are still the majority or not and that Hakeen Jeffries is the name being bandied about. Also hearing that if she’s kicked to the curb vis-a-vis leadership role, she’ll resign from Congress. But I’m not worried – I’m securely positive that Sir Gavin of Newsom will find an equally arrogant, ignorant and annoying Transgender POS to fill her shoes.
Finally — ‘Mama and LSU…
ROLL TIDE!!!!
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
the rumor is it would be her daughter. Not sure which one as I think she’s got 5
@ Crackerbox Palace:
@ eaglesoars:
Whoever it is would still have to win a special election (not that it would take much in that district)
Tide is NOT ROLLING…..
eaglesoars wrote:
One of them – I think it’s Alexandra – is a documentary filmmaker who just happened to be filming Mom trying to act all badass on January 6th, saying how she’d punch Trump out if he showed up at the Capitol that day.
I think Gruesome gets to appoint an interim jerk before the election. I believe he was the twit to gave Alex Padilla, a TERRIBLE Secretary of State, Harris’s Senate seat. But Padilla has to run for it this time. But I think you’re right Lobo – they DO hold special elections. Ellen Tauscher was my Congress critter – when Obama tapped her for something, a special election was held and the biggest government paycheck grifter in history – John Garamendi – won the seat. He didn’t even LIVE in the district. He tried to say his “living room” was in California 10 but had to say ‘No” when asked outright if he would be eligible to vote for himself. They’re since redrawn the district, I believe, to include his whole house.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
Is Alexandra the daughter who said that the neighbor who broke Rand Paul’s ribs was right?
So Obummer and Demento Joe are in Pennsylvania campaigning for Uncle Fester this evening and Trump is campaigning for Oz in Latrobe. From what I understand, the crowd size for the three stooges is anemic.
@ eaglesoars:
That was Christine. She’s a Democrat Party strategist here in Cali.
Which is another way of saying she has the same kind of “no show” political job that Willie Brown got for Kamala Harris and which MSNBC gave Chelsea Clinton. The other two are Nancy and Jackie – you don’t hear much about them.
By the way – my life is nothing but chicken and fish so if you have a novel way of preparing them that you’d like to pass along – I would be most appreciative. I pretty much stick with Sole and Salmon.
@ Crackerbox Palace:
A
Nope. Only applies to Senate seats, where the governor gets to appoint someone who serves until the next federal election (2024 in this case).
House vacancies are always filled by special election.
@ lobo91:
In that case, Pelosi will probably put Chrisine up – but her district includes both the Castro and Polk Gulch, which have NEVER run a candidate against her because of her political clout. But now that Botox Brain will be gone, look for them to go all Harvey Milk and send one of the obnoxious gay men they have sent to the State Assembly and who is probably about to be term limited out.
And believe me – Harvey Milk was a charmer compared to these idiots.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
How about salmon roe? And eggs? I’ve started making omelettes w/roe as the filler
There are miso sauces that would be good. That’s fermented soy bean paste
holy crap
Twitter employees were selling verification for upwards of $15,000. For certain accounts, mine included, they would refuse to verify you through the standard application and then privately offer to verify you for $$ behind the scenes.
https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1588973918379200512
Yup
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588977690216124416
What happens when a Left Wing Commentator like Chris Trotter has his ‘Road to Damascus Moment’ and he finally sees his Prime Minister (of New Zealand Jasinda Ardern) shed her ‘Fairy Dust’ patina, to become a hard core authoritarian STASI enforcer.
https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/11/04/0-800-stasi/#more-18728
🙂
It’d be funny if wasn’t so true!
@ eaglesoars:
Holy cow. There were constant complaints that high-follower accounts on the conservative side could not obtain a blue check and yet liberal accounts with minimal followers were check-marked right away, If this is true, I’m wondering if Elon will even give the jerk until February 23 – fire him/her right away for cause and dare them to file for unemployment.
So you actually believe that this can’t happen in the States ehhh?
Those Canadian truckers also thought that it’d never happen in a Democracy. They were all wrong and had their money and accounts frozen.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/financial-coup-detat
Get ‘chipped’ or lose access to your funds folks!
The hard left is planning on it and it’s been their ‘wet dream’ for decades. Now they have the IT it’s become all too easy. This power grab will be sold as protecting YOUR money from malcontents…. including YOU!
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Now be a good little comrade, hold out your hand and accept the chip emplacement or your money will be digitised and you’ll not be able to access it. It’ll just be useless pits of worthless paper.
By the way, I wonder if one of the things Elon will do soon is MOVE Twitter headquarters from Market Street in San Francisco. It is in one of the WORST poo-poo / drug user / homeless areas by City Hall and literally smells like an open-air sewer. Now that people are gone and working remotely, I’d move the entire brick and mortar apparatus over to one of the lovely new office buildings they’ve built on Lake Merritt in Oakland. No homeless, near BART, lovely views. And rent is probably 1/3 what it is in S.F.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Aussie – I’d like to think that our current Supreme Court would put a stop to it.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
THE jerk? I read that as being such a common practice everybody on the verification team took part
Aussie Infidel wrote:
No, we know it can. It’s another version of the vax. That’s why it’s going to be a red tsunami
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
He’s been moving to Austin TX.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
What’s odd is that there have to have been people who balked at the $15k extortion bid and said FUCK YOU – but never went public.
Now we want the list of the suckers who paid up
eaglesoars wrote:
I would too – wait’ll the employees that go with him experience the joys of NO TAXES.
And all that income tax revenue Cali’s gonna lose. Actually if you go to San Francisco NOW the financial district is like a ghost town – STILL. No one wants to return to their offices there. It’s a dreadful place.
I was hoping against hope that my law firm was going to adopt a 100% remote option. I was thinking of moving to Tennessee or Kentucky. Figured there was less humidity than Florida. But no.
What a shame. Jane Fonda had to cancel her Huntington Beach appearance supporting Katie Porter due to Vietnamese protesters.
This is stupid. An own-goal by Trump. Called DeSantis ‘desanctimonious’
Trump Attacks DeSantis as He Hints Again at Presidential Run
Former president says his supporters will happy in short time
He called the Florida Governor ‘Ron De-sanctimonious’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/trump-attacks-desantis-as-he-hints-again-at-presidential-run
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
I don’t know exactly how long you have been awol, but did you know we left Northern Virginia for the Knoxville suburbs a year ago?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I’m reading Barbara Tuckman’s “The March of Folly”. I’m about 20% thru the thing and a better title would have been WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
I wouldn’t rest easy without a concrete solid youngish 6 to 3 majority and that won’t happen anytime soon. That leaves the rest of us fresh out of luck and options.
eaglesoars wrote:
With SpaceX solidly in Texas …..depend on a move of Twitter HQ to the Long Horn State. The 50% left of Twitter workers will rejoice being out of the Left Coast
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Well, it’s Austin, which pretty much thinks it’s California w/o the problems so they might be willing to move. I’m betting, tho, that only 25% of the remaining 50% would go, feeling like they’re ‘sticking it to the man’.
eaglesoars wrote:
Folks have short memories, especially about stuff that has hurt them. Human beings are ‘funny’ like that.
I’m counting on that Red Tsumani Eagles. I really am.
🙂
The commentators are still sitting on the fence whereas the pollsters have already inspected ‘the bones’ and made their predictions. The House will definitely go red but the Senate… Not so sure there?
Either way Biden is a ‘lame duck’. Which makes i seriously dangerous between now and 2024.
What’s the root cause of the US proxy war in Ukraine? Most people don’t have a clue. Let me explain.
It all started after the 2007-2008 financial crisis that originated in the US. The reliability of the US Govt as a partner in global financial affairs was destroyed.
A very good thread by Kim Dot com. And would fit seamlessly into “The March of Folly”
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1588970921272172544
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The pollsters can’t predict turnout. The turnout has to overwhelm the fraud. So nobody really knows.
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t think that will work at all. De Santis has too much positive press already as a respected leader. Trump needs to evolve and work a little harder if he wants to keep up with De Santis.
The name calling has a reason to it but it also creates baggage. Lot of voters got turned off by it and De Santis has access to them and Trump doesn’t. Trump needs to repair his image. He should ignore DeSantis and crack down on the dems.
They’re going to deforest Bavaria
To fill the gap left by Russia, Germany has had to buy gas and other energy alternatives on the expensive spot market. This has led to higher prices for consumers. Today an annual gas contract for a German household costs 173% more than it did a year ago, according to energy price portal Check24. That’s €3,726 ($3,702.15) for an average annual consumption of 20,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh), compared to €1,365.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/11/germanys-gas-storage-could-be-depleted-after-a-few-freezing-cold-days-energy-regulator-warns/
bed nite
darkwords wrote:
yep. The danger is it divides the Repubs, diluting the 2024 red wave. They need to work together
ok, out
welp. Twitter has apparently installed an edit function. Look at this
https://twitter.com/THEBROTHERTIGER/status/1589115582062157824
eaglesoars wrote:
I just tweeted ‘test edit’ and I don’t see an edit icon/button. I don’t know how this guy did that
eaglesoars wrote:
Knoxville was my first choice for where to live.
Looks gorgeous.
eaglesoars wrote:
Just purchased for my Kindle to read on my commute.
I recall that your shared reading list was impressive.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
It is. And very relaxed. The Farragut suburb, where we live, is considered the most desirable by most people (altho I didn’t know that when we got here, it was just the one I liked the best). Let me know if/when you get serious.
@ eaglesoars:
I will. I’m hoping I can convince them at some point to agree to let me work via remote 100%.
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Oh wow. Look what I found.
Antigone Journal
https://antigonejournal.com/
Welcome to Antigone, a site that seeks to make Classics open to all, whatever your knowledge and interests, whoever and wherever you are. We hope you enjoy exploring some 250 articles, which are devoted to all aspects of the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Three brand-new articles are posted each week, and our weekly editorial email lands in your inbox every Sunday (sign up below!).
@ eaglesoars:
One article is an eye opener. They found classics exams given during WW I to school kids. An 1811 Cambridge scholarship exam. And this one from an Oxford College scholarship exam. If anything illuminates the utter failure of our education system, it’s these. One question from the Oxford exam – which is one of the easiest I’ve seen, will clarify.
9. Distinguish between the dialect of the choruses and that of the dialog in Greek tragedy.
Keep in mind, the last two are SCHOLARSHIP exams – not exams based on course work offered in classes. These people were expected to know this BEFORE they got to university.
Yinz may remember ‘Pink Freud’ from the Swamp. She’s in town and will be here in about 5, so I will see ya later.
And my grand-daughter has arrived.
I am now obligated to go bake a lemon cake….
eaglesoars wrote:
One would certainly hope so! That way Musk gets rid of his original 75%.
Works for me!
🙂
GOP chair says Republicans need to work with Biden if they take control of Congress
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11396043/GOP-chair-says-Republicans-need-work-Biden-control-Congress.html
eaglesoars wrote:
How far, as an educated society, we have fallen. That said there is a whole lot more to know, to even operate in a Western society successfully, these days. Trouble is that the ‘classics’ are few and far between now, and the’ anchors’ that bound folks to logic and classical rhetoric, and thinking your way out of a contradiction is woefully extinct.
We were lucky with our nine subjects including English, Latin and a modern language (French in my case) Ancient History (Mostly Greek but with a splash of Roman) and Modern History, plus Math I (Algebra and Calculus) and Math II (Analytical Geometry), Physics and Chemistry (Organic & Inorganic). All of the exams that counted were Public Exams and class sizes were around 70 per class(yes you heard that correctly ….SEVENTY.) School discipline was brutal and we just sucked it up as there was no other option. There was 2 hours homework every night, with individual sport to suit your particular skills (handball, athletics both individual and teams, boxing ), and compulsory team sport for all, with training once a week after school (swimming, rugby and cricket) and occasional weekend sport competition in public inter-school competition.
Oh and don’t forget the 5 hours of homework on weekends. Most joined the Army Cadet Corps and that took up one afternoon after school was out, for military training including small bore shooting and heavy weapon handling, map reading and navigation, medical first aide training etc. 2 weeks a year was Military Annual Camp under canvass with field exercises and heavy weapons (Light Machine Guns BREN, Owen sub machine guns (I was a marksman with the Owen); Medium machine guns Vickers; Medium and light mortars and of course everyone had their own .303 Lee Enfield Rifle) firing at a place in the bush called Singleton Camp where 5,000 school kids at a time (our State alone had 70,000 Cadets), lived at Singleton Camp under canvass in vast tent ‘cities. Some of us found time to even join the ‘cubs’ and boy scouts and organised our own adventurous training. We didn’t have a lot of time left over to get into trouble!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
What a complete BS artist that woman was. She’s like Michael Steele in a skirt. I hope leadership fires her ass after Tuesday. “There are reports.” Oh? Where’s the effing VIDEO? We have to work with Biden?
You mean like they worked with Trump from 2018 to 2020?
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
Just another RINO infiltrator out to neuter the GOP…. and weren’t they successful at doing that for years?
SPIT
🙂
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
what did she do to her face? or maybe she lost 20 lbs?
Hopefully these plans to clean up the rolls bear fruit in a couple of days time?
https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/04/if-republicans-win-on-tuesday-thank-the-election-integrity-movement/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
As long as there are wide-open mail in ballots and ballot harvesting – it will help but will not be sufficient. Honest turn out has to overwhelm the fraud
eaglesoars wrote:
Yah I think that ballot harvesting has to end. People are being paid to abuse the privelege.
@ darkwords:
Ballot harvesting was responsible for turning something like 7 GOP districts in California BLUE in 2018, results being announced seven or eight days AFTER the election and they knew how many votes they needed. I believe we won back five of them in 2020 but Josh Harder, San Joaquin (Big Valley country) is the beneficiary of a redrawn district that now includes more libs and Democrats than it used to.
Any time we have a close race in California the winner is ALWAYS the Democrat. ALWAYS.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well the US ballots have been skewed for 40 years and old habits don’t die fast! Given the opportunities to cheat of recent vintage, it would seem that as much as change happens, the more the cheating finds new ways to up end the vote.
It can’t be that hard to secure the vote and nation states of similar size class to the US seem to have no problem deciding a vote on the night of the poll!
I know that US elections can be complex and time consuming.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It is not at all difficult to secure the vote. All you have to do is hack the machines and bribe the poll workers. Happens every time.
I don’t know if this will actually happen. The rumors seem to be Nancy Pelosi will retire and the contest to replace her will be between Adam Schiff and Hakeem Jeffries.
If that’s the way it plays out – especially with Jeffries – it means the Dems will double down on exactly what got them voted out of office. If indeed they are voted out of office.
I have just spent 3 hrs on the phone w/our provider because Fox got knocked off our TV. Long story, there is a tech appt tomorrow because our fiber signal is hosed.
Which is very interesting as the only impact was Fox News Live during the special they were having on the election. Every other outlet was just fine. And Fox was hosed on all platforms. Roku/TV, laptop, phone, kindle.
But it was nice to talk to a female tech who knew her stuff and didn’t talk down to me. “Wanna empty the cache?” “yeah, let’s do it, hold on, gotta move furniture to reach the outlet”. “Ok, the ONT is red-lined” “Leak on the fiber?” “Possible”. “If you have to dig up my yard, I’m gonna shoot somebody, I just put sod down” “Ok, we’ll do it from the road, but we’ll probably start with the GFI, do you know where that is?” “Yeah, garage”.
blah blah blah
But now I’m totally wired coming off tech talk.
about 2 hrs ago
BREAKING: Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips RELEASED From Prison – Here’s The Latest…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-catherine-engelbrecht-gregg-phillips-released-prison-latest/
This may be the first time in U.S. history that Americans have been jailed in a federal civil defamation suit.
Sorry to see the Vols lose that one. Georgia is a solid team though. ND surprised me — took it to Clemson pretty good. If Buckeyes offense doesn’t show up in the first half, which they have not been doing of late, “that team up north” is going to eat their lunch on the 26th. Those guys break down their opponents methodically and win on average by 4 TDs this season.
I am in the office tomorrow and won’t be watching the results come in, but EU media is demonizing Trump and doesn’t mention pedo Joe or the fact the mid-terms are tomorrow. They will act surprised on Wednesday and remark about thew “extreme right wing” take over of the US– like they always say when democrats lose.
EU is about to lose it’s shit this winter.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
Little Saigon has the largest concentration of Vietnamese of anywhere outside of Viet Nam.
Minh Vo
14 hours ago
Jane Hanoi also brought her face to Orange County, did not know shame, traitor!
https://youtu.be/AI_OEPYOB3k
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
with the possible exception of every nail salon in the U.S.
Out of the shower, out for the nite. long day
eaglesoars wrote:
pink freud
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@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Shows you that her idiot advance people know NOTHING. The LAST place that harpy would be welcome would be Orange County.
Heck, I understand from friends in the biznez that there are locations in the U.S. that will refuse production companies permission to film if Jane Fonda is involved in the project. I still refuse to watch anything she’s connected with, even to this day.
@ Crackerbox Palace:
One of the sappiest songs ever was recorded by Bob Crewe & The Glitterhouse (1968):
Barbarella, ba-Barbarella, Barbarella, ba-Barbarella
I like the line “Make me a pie.“
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I need to find that.
The liberal clowns still left at Twitter are pushing some “Blue Wave” narrative. Hysterical.
Tubby McGaptooth (aka Stacy Abrams) is pissed off that Black men are not voting for her. Someone should remind her that many of them probably owned those Atlanta businesses that lost upwards of $100 million when she literally called Georgia a lousy place to live and demanded the MLB move the Allstar game.
One of my personal favorite 2020 election moments is when Abrams appeared on a split screen with Demento Joe. She’d been going off for weeks before about what a great VP she’d be, and most people think she honestly believed the appearance with Biden was that he was naming her his running mate.
The segment starts with Stacy sitting there, her fat face occupying most of the screen, with this huge grin on her face. The fun is wathing it slooooowly vanish as she realized Joe was yammering on and on and no mention of the Veep spot.
@ Crackerbox Palace:
she is the embodiment of of quota hire.
new thread yinz!
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/11/07/2022-mid-term-election-open/
caught yinz off guard!