This must somehow be related to the VPN vendors, right? Or perhaps even remote desktops?

You know it’s because they ate it right? That’s the only possible reason.

Greek yogurt, walnuts, craisins, pumpkin seeds, hemp hearts, chia seeds, maybe cinnamon, maybe a dash of honey, possibly some frozen fruit if I feel like waiting for it to thaw a bit. Coffee with a dash of oatmilk.

Federal workers will get back pay. You’re parroting the right’s messaging. People wanted the left to fight.

Because of how the people gave the right all of the levers of government last election, this is one of the few areas where dems have any power to wield - senate needs 60% to pass any funding legislation.

You wanted a battle, the dems took it to the mattresses. We should be praising them for being bold and we, the left, should be seeking out those government workers who are struggling the most and doing gofundme’s to care for them. This is a war and they are soldiers on the front lines, directly in the line of fire. We need to be their support regiment.

Conversely, the right needs to feel the pain of what a lack of federal government looks like, because a lot of them don’t value it at all, because they don’t understand how it serves them. They only see it as “protection money” that come out of their paycheck. For them, we need to find the union workers who left the left. We need to gain back the dirt farmers in Montana, the disenfranchised Hispanics in Southern Texas and in the burroughs of NYC and the suburbanite moms in Bucks County. Moreover, we need to fight like hell to show that we give a damn and have a spine and that we will, we will, fight for them.

Hope you get a lot of miles out of this one.

It’s not too much unlike Obama. There’s going to be a power vacuum. I’m not saying Obama was a cult leader, but he was a cult of personality. He was able to rally the 3 major factions of the dem party behind him and bring in independents as well.

When he left, no one was left to pick up the pieces, and worse, he fostered so much animosity that we got the backlash that we are still dealing with today.

The left needs to rally and find their champion, just like the tea party did.

FIGHT LIKE HELL!!!

TFW you’re just within the bounds of the law as you’re just visiting jail.

Community chest is a lot more fun in this version too.

Consider Spain, Argentina, France, Italy, Libya, Panama, Syria, Germany

The only thing that works once these fools get entrenched into the political machine is a good old fashioned ass whoopin.

FWIW this is why I think it’s so important to keep the farmers and union workers on our side. They are the means by which everything else is built upon. If they’re on the other side, well then the machine can keep on grinding.

Like everything else in this holographic universe we live in, I’d just close my eyes and believe the bodies I’m trampling are imaginary.

Man, Pavel is an absolute badass. How’s this fuckstick even getting traction at all?

Think of that one guy in the office who is just average. Does their job OK, but your life is better when you don’t have to interact too much with em.

Not really all that interesting to talk to. Maybe has some dull hobbies, probably not all that deep into them. Drives a midsize sedan or a minivan. Can do some household repairs so long as it involves a hammer or duct tape: Probably likes to mow the grass as a good pastime. Sits a lot, enjoys watching the TV. Hasn’t read a book in years.

Now realize that 50% of the population is him or worse.

Hell, 16% of people think nuclear war would be a good idea. So yea, morons.

This one goes out to you, Dan.

I don’t know how he did it. I’ve tried to grind up a little bit of airplane into my meals each day, but every time I even touch the fuel tank it gives me horrible, terrible gas.

Same thing with the windshield, just have never been too fond of seefood.

Totally on board with your premise, they do need to punch up as much as they can. And it looks like they’re trying to do so this round of shutdowns.

Nonetheless, this ultimately comes down to us. All of us. We can’t just sit here behind a computer and meme ourselves out of this disaster. We have to get out in the streets. We have to yell get mad and be angry. We have to hit them where they feel it. We have to organize. Get with upset farmers, get with the military vets whose benefits have been cut, get with the middleclass milquetoast moms who are starting to feel like something isn’t right with their grocery bills.

Each and every individual one of us is a single drop in the ocean, but, if we all move in the same direction, we become a crashing tsunami.

Devil gets beat up enough, I just prefer to beat my fruit.

• cut off the top and bottom
• on the bottom, look for the pith lines, usually 5 of them. Cut down from there all the way to the bottom, so that you have 5 slices. Remember your affirmations, you don’t have to be perfect even if everyone wants you to be. If you’re a pro you can not cut all the way through to the top and simply starfish it out
• Take a slice and a wooden spoon. Beat the ever living daylights out of the back of the slice, the delicious rubies will go flying everywhere…hopefully into the bowl you put underneath where you’re thwacking. Or, if you don’t have an anger management disorder, just tap the backs gently, ymmv.

Here’s what I think I know, some may be wrong:

• It’s in the land of the Stans
• It has steppes, high mountains and high mountain deserts
• it has a bit of the Fergana valley, one of the fertile and most contentious valleys in the world
• the president is a dictator, but not as bad as Uzbekistan
• y’all make a giant dish that you all share and scoop with your hands
• you have a fermented sheep or goat milk drink
• you’re on the Silk Road and had one of the most populated cities in the world at one point
• some if the Turkic people moved to Turkey and Hungary, which is why those countries exist
• you really weren’t organized as a country before the USSR rolled in, more of loose group of regional leaders (I hate the term warlord)
• y’all are known for your horses

Porn. It’s going to be when they get rid of porn.

It’ll probably be turned into offices.

I agree with you that it’s a flex, but I think it’s to let Russia know that we mean business about them invading NATO airspace.