It is nice! But you can’t get out into the street. The only ways out of the building are “men” and “women”.

If was just in a room with three exits. One was labeled Men. One was labeled Women. The third led to an enclosed patio, with no other exit.

These are your three genders. Men, women, and patio.

Choose wisely.

(Somehow he reminds me of my old alcoholic roommate. Not that he ever stole my bicycle but it’s totally the kind of thing he’d do and blame somebody else for.)

Vance: “What do you mean ‘I left my bicycle right there and you got drunk and decided to use it to go get pizza and got it stolen and now I have no bicycle?’ That was Chuck’s fault!”

In heaven there is no beer that’s why we drink it in… Kenya!

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but not without abolishing all the expedited removal malarkey and dozens of other end runs around due process that have accreted over several decades

the place where they really went off the rails is EOIR being completely sidelined because the backlog was treated as a law of nature. and that all happened well before trump. nothing in the system was ever designed to operate without periodic big amnesties.

you have to abolish expedited removal and have real legally enforceable due process guarantees

I dunno, I grew up near this, it was kinda hard to miss. I imagine it’s different in Brazil.

(actually what the FTB lady said was “divide by zero? that’s a complicated question, i’ll ask my supervisor.” the supervisor figured it out. the ca civil service is pretty decent usually, and their recruiting practices, while byzantine, seem pretty scrupulously fair.)

thing is it’s very important if you have received reparations from the ottoman empire or not

they have to have a special case for that or glendale would revolt and vote republican or something

these days i just send everything to a CPA

i once had to divide by zero on my california tax return, years ago. called the franchise tax board about it. they said there was a special schedule to fill out if you claim certain tax treaty benefits for federal taxes that california doesn’t recognize.

The thing is, while dying can really suck, being dead is really a lot harder on your loved ones than on you, since you’re not around for it. So you might turn your fear of death into being nice to others. But that doesn’t work if you’re a total narcissist.

Yup. Or more particularly, because he wasn’t a citizen from birth. Ted Cruz, for instance, wasn’t born in the US, but he didn’t have to naturalize (American parents) so his candidacy was not a problem. Not in that way, anyhow. 😜

On the one hand, cruelty to animals is a big red flag in terms of other abusive behaviors. On the other hand, the man is made of red flags…

(he’s exhibit A for transition making everyone more attractive regardless of direction, but he says i’m biased)

i dated a woman and you won’t believe what happened next 😜

like, they meet one day a week and get 1/4 the salary of the lower house. the only thing they can do is veto bills. this is the list of bills they have vetoed since 1945. many years there’s none. www.eerstekamer.nl/verworpen_in...

or consider the dutch model: the senate *is* the retirement home for politicians that can’t bring themselves to quit, and does almost nothing

the salvation army is a homophobic hate group, FYI

they pretend they’ve changed. i don’t buy it.

if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him

a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

“The American government is so evil it cannot enter a church without bursting into flame” is a spicy take, but I’ve got to accept the man’s professional opinion on the matter.