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If they don't make a show of it, they can't intimidate we the people.
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"I'm still miserable, prices keep going up, and he's selling us out to billionaires. Come to think of it, almost every single one of his policies is unquestionably bad for me, and the guy really is a dick. But, you know what? Overall I'm still happy with how things are playing out, because he's going after the browns." It's an impenetrable white supremacist cult. https://apnews.com/article/trump-approval-polling-favorability-presidential-approval-poll-f7eee34a49d2db7670577f4491e1caf0 WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Hildenbrand has noticed prices continue to rise this year, even with President Donald Trump in the White House. He doesn’t blame Trump, his choice for president in 2024, but says Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats who control his home state, California, are at fault. “You can’t compare California with the rest of the country,” said Hildenbrand, who is 76 and lives in San Diego. “I don’t know what’s going on in the rest of the country. It seems like prices are dropping. Things are getting better, but I don’t necessarily see it here.” Voters like Hildenbrand, whose support of the Republican president is unwavering, help explain Trump’s polling numbers and how they have differed from other presidents’ polling trajectory in significant ways. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in March found that 42% of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s job performance. That is a lower rating than those of other recent presidents at the beginning of their second terms, including Democrat Barack Obama and Republican George W. Bush. The most recent AP-NORC poll, from July, puts Trump at 40% approval. While that is not a meaningful change from March, there is some evidence that Trump’s support may be softening, at least on the margins. The July poll showed a slight decrease in approval of his handling of immigration since earlier in the year. Some other pollsters, such as Gallup, show a downward slide in overall approval since slightly earlier in his term, in January. But even those shifts are within a relatively narrow range, which is typical for Trump. The new AP-NORC polling tracker shows that Trump’s favorability rating has remained largely steady since the end of his first term, with between 33% and 43% of U.S. adults saying they viewed him favorably across more than five years. Those long-term trends underscore that Trump has many steadfast opponents. But loyal supporters also help explain why views of the president are hard to change even as he pursues policies that most Americans do not support, using an approach that many find abrasive. Persistently low approval of Trump’s job performance Trump has not had a traditional honeymoon period in his second term. He did not in his first, either. An AP-NORC poll conducted in March 2017, two months into his first term, showed that 42% of Americans “somewhat” or “strongly” approved of his performance. That is largely where his approval rating stayed over the course of the next four years. The recent slippage on immigration is particularly significant because that issue was a major strength for Trump in the 2024 election. Earlier in his second term, it was also one of the few areas where he was outperforming his overall approval. In March, about half of U.S. adults approved of his handling of immigration. But the July AP-NORC poll found his approval on immigration at 43%, in line with his overall approval rating. Other recent polls show growing discontent with Trump’s approach on immigration. A CNN/SSRS poll found that 55% of U.S. adults say the president has gone too far when it comes to deporting immigrants who are living in the United States illegally, an increase of 10 percentage points since February. “I understand wanting to get rid of illegal immigrants, but the way that’s being done is very aggressive,” said Donovan Baldwin, 18, of Asheboro, North Carolina, who did not vote in the 2024 election. “And that’s why people are protesting because it comes off as aggression. It’s not right.” Ratings of Trump’s handling of the economy, which were more positive during his first term, have been persistently negative in his second term. The July poll found that few Americans think Trump’s policies have benefited them so far. Even if he is not a fan of everything Trump has done so far, Brian Nichols, 58, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is giving him the benefit of the doubt. Nichols, who voted for Trump in 2024, likes what he is seeing from the president overall, though he has his concerns both on style and substance, particularly Trump’s social media presence and his on-again, off-again tariffs. Nichols also does not like the push to eliminate federal agencies such as the Education Department. Despite his occasional disagreements with Trump, though, Nichols said he wants to give the president space to do his job, and he trusts the House and Senate, now run by Republicans, to act as a safeguard. “We put him into office for a reason, and we should be trusting that he’s doing the job for the best of America,” Nichols said. Overall views of Trump have been fairly steady since 2019 Trump has spent the past six months pushing far-reaching and often unpopular policies. Earlier this year, Americans were bracing themselves for higher prices as a result of his approach to tariffs. The July poll found that most people think Trump’s tax and spending bill will benefit the wealthy, while few think it will pay dividends for the middle class or people like them. Discomfort with individual policies may not translate into wholesale changes in views of Trump, though. Those have largely been constant through years of turmoil, with his favorability rating staying within a 10-percentage point range through the COVID-19 pandemic, a felony conviction and attempted assassination. To some of his supporters, the benefits of his presidency far outweigh the costs. Kim Schultz, 62, of Springhill, Florida said she is thrilled with just about everything Trump is doing as president, particularly his aggressive moves to deport anyone living in the country illegally. Even if Trump’s tariffs eventually take effect and push prices up, she said she will not be alarmed. “I’ve always had the opinion that if the tariffs are going to cost me a little bit more here and there, I don’t have a problem with that,” she said. Across the country, Hildenbrand dislikes Trump’s personality and his penchant for insults, including those directed at foreign leaders. But he thinks Trump is making things happen. “More or less, to me, he’s showing that he’s on the right track,” he said. “I’m not in favor of Trump’s personality, but I am in favor of what he’s getting done.”
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
bolverk replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/middleeast/israel-genocide-gaza-rights-groups.html Two of Israel’s best-known human rights groups said Monday that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, adding fuel to a passionately fought international debate over whether the death and destruction there have crossed a moral red line. The two groups were B’Tselem, a rights monitor that documents the effects of Israeli policies on Palestinians, and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel. Their announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the Gaza war is a genocide, an assessment previously reached by some organizations like Amnesty International. In a report titled “Our Genocide,” B’Tselem cited the devastating effects of Israel’s war on ordinary Palestinians to support their claim: the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza; the razing of huge areas of Palestinian cities; the forced displacement of nearly all of Gaza’s two million people; the restriction of food and other vital supplies. All together, the Israeli campaign has amounted to “coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” the organization wrote. “In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” The debate over whether the war in Gaza constitutes genocide has also played out at the International Court of Justice, where South Africa has brought a genocide case against Israel. The court has yet to rule on the matter. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not immediately comment. Speaking at the International Court of Justice in January 2024, Tal Becker, a member of Israel’s legal defense, said that Israel was fighting Hamas, not targeting Palestinians wholesale. “What Israel seeks by operating in Gaza is not to destroy a people, but to protect a people, its people, who are under attack on multiple fronts, and to do so in accordance with the law,” Mr. Becker told the court. Genocide has a specific definition in international law: particular acts carried out with intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The accusation hits a painful nerve for Israel, a state founded after Nazi Germany’s attempt to exterminate European Jewry. Israel vigorously denies that its war against Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide, countering that Hamas seeks to destroy the Jewish state. Israeli officials have also pointed to the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, which prompted the devastating Israeli response. The subsequent Israeli bombing campaign and ground offensive in Gaza have killed more than 59,000 people, including thousands of children, according to the Gazan health ministry. That toll does not distinguish between civilians and combatants; at one point, the Israeli military chief said nearly 20,000 Hamas fighters had been killed in the conflict, without providing evidence. Yuli Novak, the director of B’Tselem, said that she was not seeking to minimize the “horrific attack” that Hamas had perpetrated on Oct. 7. But the assault had prompted an Israeli assault on Palestinian life in Gaza that had spiraled into genocide, she said. “The report we are publishing today is one we never imagined we would have to write,” Ms. Novak said at a news conference in Jerusalem. “But in recent months, we have been witnessing a reality that has left us no choice but to acknowledge the truth.” As part of the case for genocide, international law requires that there be proof of intent. In the report on Monday, B’Tselem cited a string of dehumanizing remarks by Israeli government officials, such as a statement by Yoav Gallant, a former defense minister, that Israel was fighting “human animals” in Gaza. Some Israeli politicians have also said that their goal is to drive the remaining Palestinians out of Gaza. Israeli leaders argue that the country has adhered to humanitarian law, that generals work closely with legal advisers who ensure compliance with standards, and that Israel has gone above and beyond what other Western countries have done in similar situations. Mr. Netanyahu has at times distanced himself from the most extreme statements made by his political allies. But for the vast majority of Gazan civilians, the past 22 months have been a desperate attempt to survive constant Israeli bombardment, find enough food and clean water for their families, and flee amid Israeli warnings to immediately evacuate or risk being killed. The growing number of Gazans now starving has contributed to rising criticism of Israel by some of its longtime allies. Israeli military officials often attributed the deadly impact of the war on Palestinians to Hamas’s strategy of fighting its insurgency by hiding among civilians. The Israeli rights groups said that alone could not explain the rampant death and destruction in Gaza. “Israel’s claim that Hamas fighters or members of other armed Palestinian groups were present in medical or civilian facilities, frequently without providing any evidence, cannot justify or explain such widespread, systematic destruction,” B’Tselem wrote.
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A tariff of 15% has been agreed upon for all imports from the EU. Last year, the US imported $610 billion of goods from Europe. Assuming we continue to import that amount and this deal sticks, American consumers will pay an additional $91.5 billion in new taxes on those goods. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/world/europe/eu-trade-deal-trump-tariffs.html?smid=url-share
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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals After Israeli restrictions on aid, hunger has risen across Gaza. Doctors and nurses, struggling to find food themselves, lack the resources to stem the surge. In several of the hospitals still functioning in Gaza, nurses are fainting from hunger and dehydration. Managers often cannot provide meals for patients or medical staff. Doctors are running low on formula for newborn babies, in some cases giving them water alone. And at least three major hospitals lack the nutritional fluids needed to properly treat malnourished children and adults. Those scenes were described in interviews starting Friday with seven doctors — four from Gaza, and three volunteers from Australia, Britain and the United States. All of them worked this past week in four of the territory’s main hospitals. After months of warnings, international agencies, experts and doctors say starvation is now sweeping across Gaza amid restrictions on aid imposed by Israel for months. At least 56 Palestinians died this month of starvation in the territory, nearly half of the total such deaths since the war began 22 months ago, according to data released on Saturday by the Gaza Health Ministry. As starvation rises, medical institutions and staff, already struggling to treat war wounds and illness, are now grappling with rising cases of malnourishment. Weak and dizzy, medics are passing out in the wards, where colleagues revive them with saline and glucose drips. Persistently short of basic tools such as antibiotics and painkillers, doctors are also running out of the special intravenous drips used to feed depleted patients. In all four hospitals, the doctors described how they are increasingly unable to save malnourished babies and are instead forced to simply manage their decline. The babies are too weak to be flooded with nutrients, which could overload their system and cause them to suffer “refeeding syndrome,” which could kill them. In some cases, the fluids that the doctors can safely give to the babies are not enough to prevent them from dying. “I have seen ones that are imminently about to pass away,” said Dr. Ambereen Sleemi, an American surgeon who has been volunteering since early July at the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. The babies were brought to the hospital “starving and malnourished,” Dr. Sleemi said in a phone interview on Friday, “and they haven’t been able to get them back from the brink.” Dr. Nick Maynard, a British surgeon who volunteered at the same hospital until Wednesday, described the shock of seeing a skeletal infant who looked only days old, but was in fact seven months. “The expression ‘skin and bones’ doesn’t do it justice,” Dr. Maynard said in a phone interview on Friday. “I saw the severity of malnutrition that I would not have thought possible in a civilized world. This is man-made starvation being used as a weapon of war and it will lead to many more deaths unless food and aid is let in immediately.” cont'd Hanin Barghouth with her 3-month-old daughter, Salam, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza this week. At birth, her doctor said, Salam weighed roughly 6.6 pounds, and three months later, she weighs only 8.8 pounds — at least three pounds underweight. Dr. Ambereen Sleemi with a malnourished infant at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. Naeema Abu al-Foul with her 2-year-old son Yazan, in Gaza City on July 19. Their family could not find enough food to feed him, and hospitals have told them that they cannot provide inpatient care.
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What's the deal with the occasional glitch that sometimes strikes through all the text in a post? You didn't inadvertently hit the strikethrough button. But when you post, there's that line through all your text, and it's impossible to fix with an edit.
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She's an extremely vocal and yet very confused person (arrogant ignorance, if you will), one of those kinds of people who you shouldn't take seriously but sort of have to because their financial success and social capital depend on destructive trolling. Oh, lookie here. The magazine, Tablet, that @Bevo tried to pass off a year or so ago as a credible and unbiased source, which published that easily debunked and laughably bad statistical "analysis," downplaying the deaths of Palestinian civilians, rewarded her online trolling with a fucking prize this past June.
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Not only does he have a very punchable face, but we actually have a patriotic duty to punch that Nazi in the face.
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Oh wow. Good catch.
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A strong majority in the UK now thinks it was a mistake. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/europe/trump-brexit-scotland-uk.html On a sunny June morning nine years ago, Donald J. Trump arrived at his golf resort in Scotland, the day after Britain voted to leave the European Union. At that time, he took credit for predicting Brexit and said it foretold victory in the insurgent presidential campaign he was mounting back home. On Friday, a second-term President Trump returned to that resort, Trump Turnberry, with a good part of what he said in 2016 now a reality. He had correctly claimed that the political forces that drove Brexit went beyond a single country. Five months after that visit, Mr. Trump captured the White House, having played to anxieties about immigration in ways that echoed the “Vote Leave” campaign. Yet in Britain, history has diverged from Mr. Trump’s vision in important respects. Polls show that close to 60 percent of Britons now believe Brexit was a mistake. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made mending relations with the European Union one of the priorities of his Labour government. The populist wave that Mr. Trump predicted would wash across Europe has ebbed and flowed, leaving a fragmented political landscape with a handful of populist leaders whose fortunes are mixed. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy is on the rise, but Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary is struggling. “Populism is still a relatively limited phenomenon,” said Kim Darroch, who was Britain’s ambassador to the United States during Mr. Trump’s first term. “Brexit happened, but it’s very hard to argue, even by its most ardent proponents, that it has been anything other than a comprehensive disaster.” Still, in retrospect, he said, Mr. Trump’s 2016 visit came at a “turning point in history, and we haven’t seen how it’s all going to work out.” Mr. Darroch recalled that British officials were nervous that Mr. Trump, who had long been vocal about his support for Brexit, would land in Scotland before the vote rather than after it. With the polls showing a narrow margin, they worried that he would throw his support to the Vote Leave campaign at a critical moment. As it happened, the Brexiteers did not need Mr. Trump, winning by 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent. On that Friday morning, as a dazed Britain digested the implications of Brexit, he played the role of cheerleader and political analyst. “I said this was going to happen, and I think it’s great thing,” Mr. Trump said, as he emerged from a helicopter to the serenading of bagpipers. “Basically, they took back their country,” he told an audience that included journalists and greenskeepers from the resort. “People want to take their country back, they want to have independence in a sense, and you’re going to have more than just, in my opinion, more than just what happened last night. You’re going to have many other cases where people want to take their borders back.” Mr. Trump said he saw a “big parallel” between Brexit and his candidacy. That view has been endorsed by political analysts, who regard the referendum as a canary in a coal mine for Mr. Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. In many ways, Scotland was the wrong place for Mr. Trump’s message. Scots voted by a wide margin to remain in the European Union. Two years earlier, in 2014, they had voted in a referendum to stay part of the United Kingdom. “He was talking to the non-converted,” Mr. Darroch said. Today, the regret about Brexit extends beyond Scotland. In a poll last month by the market research firm YouGov, 56 percent of people said leaving the European Union was a mistake, while only 31 percent said it was the right decision. Britain cycled through four Conservative prime ministers in the upheaval that followed the vote. Last July, the Tories were swept out of power by Mr. Starmer’s Labour Party. Mr. Trump himself remains stubbornly unpopular in Britain, particularly in Scotland, where he is viewed as an unreliable investor who clashed with neighbors at his other resort, Trump International Scotland, north of Aberdeen. But having returned to power, he is a commanding figure on the world stage. King Charles III has invited him to make a rare second state visit in September. And Mr. Starmer has assiduously cultivated him. He will visit the president at Turnberry on Monday before flying with him to Aberdeen. Mr. Trump has said little about the waning popularity of Brexit, preferring to focus on the trade deal he struck with Mr. Starmer in May. The president will even roll out the welcome mat for the European Union this time around, meeting on Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, to discuss trade negotiations between the United States and the E.U. It was not clear whether Mr. Trump would meet with Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-immigrant party, Reform U.K., during this visit. Mr. Farage is his most conspicuous political ally in Britain and has ridden Mr. Trump’s anti-establishment mantra to new prominence. Regardless of whether that prompts Mr. Trump to take another victory lap this weekend, his defenders argue that the rise of Reform U.K. shows that the essence of his populist message has been validated in Britain. “All the push-polls in Christendom won’t change the fact that the U.K. has its sovereignty back and they will never rejoin the E.U.,” said Stephen K. Bannon, a former chief strategist to Mr. Trump.
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Oh, of course, rural Texas is batshit. What I'm getting at is the concentration of crazy Texas Republican Party leadership stuff, meaning the organized bizarros of NE Tarrant County.
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It feels like NE Tarrant County is the epicenter of GOP loony tunes land.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/politics/hegseth-pentagon-leadership.html In the spring, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided not to promote a senior Army officer who had led troops over five tours in Afghanistan and Iraq because Mr. Hegseth suspected, without evidence, that the officer had leaked sensitive information to the news media, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. When Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims II was cleared of the allegations, Mr. Hegseth briefly agreed to promote him, only to change course again early this month, the officials said. This time, Mr. Hegseth maintained that the senior officer was too close to Gen. Mark Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whom President Trump has accused of disloyalty. Mr. Hegseth’s sudden reversal prompted a rare intervention from Gen. Dan Caine, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He urged Mr. Hegseth to reconsider, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Mr. Hegseth met with General Sims one final time but refused to budge. General Sims is expected to retire in the coming months after 34 years in the military, officials said. Through a spokesman, General Sims and General Caine declined to comment. A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Hegseth’s role. The standoff over his promotion reflects an ongoing clash between Mr. Hegseth’s highly partisan worldview, in which he has written that the Democratic Party “really does hate America,” and the longstanding tradition of an apolitical military that pledges an oath to the Constitution. Mr. Hegseth’s actions could shape the military’s top ranks for years to come. His insistence on absolute loyalty, backed with repeated threats of polygraphs, also creates uncertainty and mistrust that threaten to undermine the readiness and effectiveness of the force, officials said. The tension between top military officers and their civilian leaders has been persistent since the earliest days of Mr. Trump’s second term, when senior administration officials ordered the removal of General Milley’s portrait from a Pentagon hallway. General Caine, who pressed Mr. Hegseth on General Sims’s behalf, got the job of Joint Chiefs chairman after Mr. Hegseth and President Trump fired Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., his predecessor. Mr. Hegseth accused General Brown, who is Black, of prioritizing diversity over the combat effectiveness of the force. Also removed during the first months of the new administration were the first woman to command the Navy, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the first woman to command the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan; Mr. Hegseth’s senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short; and the U.S. military representative to the NATO military committee, Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield. All were dismissed as part of a campaign to root out diversity, equity and inclusion from the military and restore what Mr. Hegseth has described as a “warrior ethos.” cont'd
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Israel's own military came to the same conclusion. No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say Israel has long restricted or completely blocked aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. For nearly two years, Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid provided by the United Nations and other international organizations. The government has used that claim as its main rationale for restricting food from entering Gaza. But the Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the United Nations, the biggest supplier of emergency assistance to Gaza for most of the war, according to two senior Israeli military officials and two other Israelis involved in the matter. In fact, the Israeli military officials said, the U.N. aid delivery system, which Israel derided and undermined, was largely effective in providing food to Gaza’s desperate and hungry population. Now, with hunger at crisis levels in the territory, Israel is coming under increased international pressure over its conduct of the war in Gaza and the humanitarian suffering it has brought. Doctors in the territory say that an increasing number of their patients are suffering from — and dying of — starvation. More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups warned this past week of “mass starvation” and implored Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian assistance. The European Union and at least 28 governments, including Israeli allies like Britain, France and Canada, issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s “drip-feeding of aid” to Gaza’s two million Palestinian residents. Israel has largely brushed off the criticism. David Mencer, a government spokesman, said this week that there was “no famine caused by Israel.” Instead, he blamed Hamas and poor coordination by the United Nations for any food shortages. Israel moved in May toward replacing the U.N.-led aid system that had been in place for most of the 21-month Gaza war, opting instead to back a private, American-run operation guarded by armed U.S. contractors in areas controlled by Israeli military forces. Some aid still comes into Gaza through the United Nations and other organizations. The new system has proved to be much deadlier for Palestinians trying to obtain food handouts. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, almost 1,100 people have been killed by gunfire on their way to get food handouts under the new system, in many cases by Israeli soldiers who opened fired on hungry crowds. Israeli officials have said they fired shots in the air in some instances because the crowds came too close or endangered their forces. The military officials who spoke to The New York Times said that the original U.N. aid operation was relatively reliable and less vulnerable to Hamas interference than the operations of many of the other groups bringing aid into Gaza. That’s largely because the United Nations managed its own supply chain and handled distribution directly inside Gaza. cont'd:
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Jealous. Back in the '70s, we had to sing "Suicide is Painless" in elementary school music class with a couple of kids off to the side playing plastic recorders...poorly. The music teacher was the mom of one of my good friends. She was going through a divorce and drinking a lot at the time.
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I'm really sorry to see this. My ex-wife and I had a couple of cats, plus our family dog. When we divorced, the ex took her favorite of the two cats with her. A couple of years later, I got a panicked call from my ex before work one morning, saying there was something wrong with that cat. She was really upset and freaking out and I loved that cat, too, since we had adopted her together as a kitten. So, I called into work and went over to her apartment, and it was doing something similar but more violently or vigorously than what yours is doing. It's honestly hard for me to picture in my head because it was so upsetting to see. We took it to the vet, and they said the cat had had a neurological event which they couldn't do anything for, and we had to put her down. RIP Buki.
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Ain't that the fucking truth. In many, many countries, the Dems would be considered right-of-center. For example, most French people now consider Macron to be somewhat to the right.
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Candace Owens has balls. Sorry I meant Brigitte Macron has balls.
bolverk replied to Thetexashammer's topic in Daily Texan
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Candace Owens has balls. Sorry I meant Brigitte Macron has balls.
bolverk replied to Thetexashammer's topic in Daily Texan
Since BagOfHammers knows a little French, maybe he can just read about the guy passing away in 2018 himself. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/amiens-jean-claude-trogneux-le-frere-de-brigitte-macron-et-ancien-patron-de-la-chocolaterie-trogneux-1541777715 Jean-Claude Trogneux, l'ancien patron de la chocolaterie Trogneux à Amiens, et frère de Brigitte Macron est décédé ce vendredi 9 novembre. C'était une figure locale à Amiens. D'après nos confrères du Journal de Montreuil, Jean-Claude Trogneux, ancien patron de la chocolaterie familiale à Amiens est décédé ce vendredi matin à l'âge de 85 ans. Il était le frère aîné de Brigitte Macron, la Première dame. Comme le couple présidentiel, il avait ses habitudes au Touquet mais résidait toujours officiellement à Amiens dont il reste une figure locale. Il a développé la marque Trogneux On le croisait, il y a quelques années encore, dans la boutique de la rue Delambre en centre-ville d'Amiens. C'était en quelque sorte son QG. Mais touché par la maladie, Jean-Claude Trogneux passe la main à son fils, Jean-Alexandre Trogneux. En retrait, il profite de sa villa au Touquet mais garde toujours un œil sur les affaires. C'est à lui notamment qu'on doit l'essor et le développement de la marque à la fin du XXe siècle. "Il a su faire rayonner la ville d'Amiens en France et même au-delà, grâce à ses chocolats et ses macarons", affirme Fany Ruin, la présidente de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie d'Amiens-Picardie "Un pivot du commerce amiénois - Brigitte Fouré, maire d'Amiens Une figure de la vie associative Au-delà du chef d'entreprise, il y a l'homme "toujours très souriant", selon Brigitte Fouré. La maire d'Amiens perd un de ses "proches". Jean-Claude Trogneux était aussi très impliqué dans la vie associative locale. Il avait fondé l'association Sourire à l'avenir pour faire la promotion d'Amiens. Il était aussi un grand passionné de tennis. Il a dirigé pendant une vingtaine d'années l'Amiens AC, un club fondé par la famille Trogneux. Une passion pour la balle jaune, qu'il partageait avait son beau-frère, le président Macron. -
Candace Owens has balls. Sorry I meant Brigitte Macron has balls.
bolverk replied to Thetexashammer's topic in Daily Texan
Everything that guy just posted is bullshit! /joepesci She's a woman who has given birth to three children, and she has an older brother. "Factual." BagOfHammers keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. /mandypatinkin
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