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  1. I think I’m kind of there with you. And I don’t want to chime in with a suggestion to try a different church, because clearly you’re at yours for a reason. I think a lot of this is just seasons of life man. You have younger people who can just plunge into it because it’s just them and their head and lives can hold all this big stuff. And you have the olds who also have the time and need to fill it up with meaning. Me? Kids, spouse, work, finance, older parents, health. It’s not just church, my head can’t handle the big stuff and big thoughts. Even the books I find time for, I’ve noticed need to be less demanding on me. I’ve seen this happen with my own dad, who is now at the age of coming back around. I think it’s win at most services if I come and manage to take something small away or spend a few minutes thinking on things outside of the day-to-day. There’s a point in our liturgy where the choir tells us to “lay aside all earthly cares” and no matter what persuasion or faith or non-faith you are, we should all take just a bit of time to pull back from the tyranny of the immediate demands. It’s just super hard to do that in your 40s. You’ll never be more at the mercy of whatever someone else is needing. So I think keep doing what you’re doing, especially the volunteer stuff, and keep going to church and looking for a small moment there of meaning.
  2. Final plate. Lamb, kokoretsi, does the rest matter?
  3. The valley quarter chicken plate. A leg chicken quarter smoked with mesquite (or grilled on mesquite carbon). Rice, charro beans, a warm tortilla. Some onion slices and a whole pickled jalepeno, maybe some pico de gallo. That is basically every fundraiser or quarterback club dinner. Or just any big get together. Pretty much emblematic of valley food.
  4. In the valley, hot sauce was always thin and vinegary and came in a bottle. Salsa is usually chunky and uses lime for acid (if needed) and comes in a little dish or little plastic tub and is fresh.
  5. Lamb Easter is going down.
  6. lol, another one Ana was positive about because of some shit he said on a podcast. We are in full-on Kremlin mode. “The tsar is kind and gracious, yet over-burdened and reliant on scheming advisors. If only I could elevate my petition to the tsar I might receive justice.”
  7. “The brainworm guy set an unrealistic deadline for his fake and predetermined scientific study” LMAO the takes are just incredible here.
  8. - He’s been dragged out of the cell and dressed in brand new clothes. - Meets for a photo op in a nice hotel or government building under the watchful eye of a minder. - Interlocutor clearly under strict instructions not to say anything embarrassing about the host country while he is still on the ground in El Salvador. - No film, only stills from an official photog. Yeah, this is classic stage-managed dictator shit. They could have let him go back on the senator’s flight.
  9. That image and quote is stage-managed hostage taker communications.
  10. This is a huge part of the authoritarian playbook. Push people into more and more compromised actions until they fear that if the regime goes down, they do to. It’d a classic way to get even people who don’t like you to hesitate at taking action to remove you. That’s why the Dems need to anticipate, plan, and communicate accordingly. You have to give people off-ramps where you can do so.
  11. One thing that is under-recognized is how much the destruction and cooption of institutions will necessitate the types of purges and investigations that Trump has embarked on in bad faith. ICE, for instance, is going to need to be dismantled and rebuilt as something else. Any civil and maybe military officer over a certain rank will need to be closely questioned as to what they did. Any hire or fast riser under DJT— suspect. Democrats need to start planning ahead, researching what post-Communist nations did in terms of lustration. That’s better than de-Baathification.
  12. This letter? Also, yesterday Rubio closed the office focused on fighting Russian disinfo and accused them of censoring and intimidating Americans.
  13. To recap, Ana is a strict libertarian non-interventionist pro-Palestinian voter. Less than 100 days into this admin: 1. People are getting disappeared with no trial into a Central American penal colony. 2. Pro-Palestinian students are getting shoved into vans and deported in the middle of citizenship appointments. 3. Israel restarted its offensive in Gaza. 4. Americans are dropping more American bombs on brown people in the Middle East than they ever did under Biden. And Ana is self-fellating himself for supporting a cult member DNI who has only managed to lie to Congress and to not go to war with Iran. Unprecedented fart-sniffing here.
  14. That type of NDA would be likely unenforceable. “Sign this or we will leave you to rot in an El Salvadoran jail without access to the courts” would very much be under duress. There is also the fact that “embarrassment” isn’t a valid reason for the federal government to ask for an NDA.
  15. Stanning for Tulsi because she gave the same intel assessment her predecessors across multiple GOP and D admins isn’t the cope you think it is. Even the “neocons” you see in sleep paralysis bombed Yemen and not Iran, congrats to Tulsi for not shitting the bed I guess? But congrats for telling on yourself by admitting that its actually an accomplishment for your guy not to bomb Iran at Israel’s request.. This was something that Biden managed to do pretty easily.
  16. Elon is fantasizing about someone liking him.
  17. Yeah, @Mantis Toboggan, MD is right. There is a lot of unresolvable tension between “I was scared for my life and safety so I stabbed him” and “I was just doing some knife goofing, I didn’t mean to hurt the guy.” Can’t be both, if you’re stabbing in self-defense you are trying to hurt someone. But as @TwiceHorn pointed out, all that matters is what you can convince a jury. And in a situation where you stabbed someone in the heart in public it’s not a bad bet to create a media circus and polarize things to the point that what actually happened almost doesn’t matter. That appears to be the path chosen.
  18. And what if he didn’t get stabbed in the heart, what if he got punched and fell down and hit his head? And what if it didn’t happen at a high school track meet, what if it happened during a bar fight? You might not be so sure of yourself if something completely different had happened.
  19. It got delayed, apparently because the Metcalf father showed up before it started. I looked up the Next Generation Action Network and offer their description of the work they do without editing.
  20. I completely believe that this specific mediocrity will ensure our country is not a force to be reckoned with. Warrior ethos right here folks.
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