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Hekate's Journal🔥As Senator Katie Britt proposes a national data base of pregnant women, a historical reminder of Romania
… and the loathsome Nicolae Ceausescu.:
Sen. Katie Britt Introduces Bill to Create Federal Database of Pregnant People
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218938770
Historical reminder: Romanian Decree 770, signed into law in 1967 by Nicolae Ceausescu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770
🔥Remember Nikolae Ceausescu of Romania? Decree 770 was the forced birth edict that filled orphanages...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770Enjoy the read — it took me awhile to even find it. The main Romania article has nothing on this decree except a tiny birth rate chart and tiny link to a separate article. I mean, zero in the main article, and this action was so utterly disastrous it’s all that comes to mind when I hear “Romania.” .
What happens to Seeing Eye Dogs who flunk out? Are they shot? This country loves dogs...
… and those pups would have a new home without question.
Noem’s very young “failed” hunting dog would also have had a home with someone else, as a companion for rambunctious children, in the chickenless suburbs.
As for the stinky billy-goat, what was she doing with him the first place unless she had him for a stud? If her children had gotten him as a cute little kid, why didn’t she have him neutered straight off? For a rootin’ tootin’ gun totin’ rural character, this woman sure is stupid. (See my source below)
By the numbers, the rural way of life is dying — few in the country are still there. But millions upon millions who will never brand a calf or milk a cow or bust sod romanticize the way of life all to bits, especially the hunting in the woods part.This is the Real America, by gum.
Noem has made what I hope is a fatal mistake to her public career. She’s sadistic, uncaring, not self-aware, and not aware of life in this nation outside her own cultural bubble. She really didn’t know this behavior and her boastful retelling would not play well? Gods, what that says about her.
Cricket deserves to be reborn in love and kindness and understanding.
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My source: The Homesteader’s Handbook to Raising Small Livestock by Jerome Belanger, 1974. Also my friend whose parents kept a couple of goats, including a male who would put his head between his legs so he could piss on his own head.
The mid ‘70s were a time of financial anxiety — many of us thought the whole world economy was about to collapse. There were a fair number who prepared to go back to the land if necessary — my response was to buy this book and study up. It was a great read, I learned a lot, thought a lot, and still have it on my shelves.
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In honor of Theoden King of Rohan, aka Bernard Hill
Other threads were started yesterday, but I just discovered this lovely video on YouTube.
May Symbelmyrne bloom ever on your tomb. Thanks for the memories.
🔥 Links here. It's been around since the Apprentice. My comment upfront: Mental health of a POTUS/the Dark Triad...
🌸The knowledge of his condition has been available since The Apprentice. My comment upfront: the concern is Mental health of a POTUS and the Dark Triad of psychopathy.
His behavior around his bowel incontinence is not one of self-care or any kind of adult modesty — instead it ranges from apparent unawareness to outright aggression, which are traits of infancy and toddlerhood. Anyone who has potty-trained toddlers knows this behavior — and normal people outgrow it.
The real issue is his mental health, which now includes dementia — and imperils all of us. Psychiatrists & psychologists have been warning anyone who would listen for many years. In his case, his behavior around his bowel incontinence is but one manifestation, shown in his attitude toward others.
You and other DUers are dealing with health challenges as best you can. The rest of us are dealing with a would-be dictator who has convinced enough followers that he is a demi-god and enough oligarchs that it is to their advantage to back him, that he may well become that dictator.
Which is to say — it isn’t about you, it’s about bringing down the demi-god and dictator.
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The term “Dark Triad” refers to a trio of negative personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—which share some common malevolent features. The construct was coined by researchers Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dark-triad#
Noel Casler of The Apprentice:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/18sa3cl/whats_going_on_with_trump_and_diaperssmells/
Answer: The comic Noel Casler worked on Celebrity Apprentice for six seasons. Unlike his colleagues, Casler thwarted his nondisclosure agreement, enabling him to tell us what he witnessed over his time working on set in close proximity to Trump:
He's [Trump] incontinent from all the speed, all the Adderall he does, the cocaine that he has done for decades. All that stuff has a laxative effect on your bowels and his are uncontrollable.
Casler said that Trump has been wearing 'diapers since probably the 90s'. Adding that they often had to stop the show in order for Trump to change his diaper, Casler said that Keith Schiller's job was to take Trump offset and wipe him down. "Our nickname for Keith was wet wipes."
Casler added that Trump does it and he almost sits there unaware of it, and one time he saw Ivanka have to kind of go whisper in his ear and then Keith came and took him offstage.
Trump not cleaning himself when changing out Depends, it is because he wears a hard plastic girdle and he doesn't have the freedom of movement. It's why you see him turn his body from the waist so strangely when standing.
He would soil himself often after flying into a rage and cursing out the Script Dept because he couldn’t read a word. One time there was the word 'arbitrage' on a cue card and he freaked out and started screaming that the script department was setting him up then very loudly evacuated his bowels and you could smell it.
I should also mention that Casler originally came out about this in 2019 (around the start of the pandemic), but the story was mostly buried. This discourse was reignited by a recent tweet from former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger:
“I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor. It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can.”
Google 'noel casler trump' and you will find even more Casler interviews on YouTube. There are too many to post here.
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To prove the audio isn't doctored I'm also linking the full press conference from CSPAN's view and the same conference from PBS's view.
(End Reddit quote — go there for live links)
Nicolle Wallace champions puppies, joined by Mark Elias, Charlie Sykes, & Eddie Glaude...
Governor Noeme is gonna be toast with the American people.
Edited to add: Elias and Sykes have always had paintings of their dogs prominently displayed behind them every time they are on. Glaude also has dog.
Master of Corruption
LAT
4-27-2024
Trump is not just a clown. He’s a master of corruption
He rules from the MAGA trenches to Congress and even the Supreme Court, as we learned this week
Francis Wilkinson is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion
I have badly underestimated Donald Trump. ****
Because Trump is clumsy at his alleged crimes, surrounding himself with flagrant thugs, telling obvious lies, leaving prolific trails of damning evidence, offering ridiculous defenses for indefensible conduct, I had long concluded that he is incompetent at crookery along with his other manifest failings. That’s true as far as it goes. But for all his mad greed and compulsive lawlessness, for all his sleaze and stupidity, crime is ultimately not Trump’s game. Trump is nothing like a master criminal. But he is a master of something far more sinister and complex: corruption.
Crime is a largely private endeavor. Corruption is public. It seeps into the muscle and sinew of democratic society and institutions; it devours from within. The Supreme Court, drunk on arrogated power, cut loose from rudimentary ethics, has been eaten alive by it. But the court is just one plot of a vast terrain that Trump has conquered — not with crime, but corruption.
Crime is when you launch a violent attempt to overthrow the republic. Corruption is when you convince an entire political party to pretend they didn’t watch it live on television, or cower from it inside the Capitol while dozens of police officers were being bludgeoned by the mob.
Crime is when you make off with top-secret documents. Corruption is when a MAGA judge can’t find time to schedule your trial, or process the mountainous evidence of your guilt.
Crime is when a U.S. resident is murdered and dismembered by Saudi hit men. Corruption is when the all but acknowledged killer invests $2 billion in your talentless son-in-law’s fund, which other investors shun.
Crime is when you fake business expenses to cover up a payoff to an adult film actress who wants to cash in on your campaign for president. Corruption is when the head of the nation’s greasiest tabloid, a perpetual fount of lies and nonsense, expresses concern that your deeds are too sleazy for him.
Crime is when your lawyers tell the Senate not to convict you in an impeachment trial because you can be charged in court. Corruption is when your lawyers inform the Supreme Court that you are immune from criminal courts and only the Senate can judge you — but, alas, the senators have missed their window.
Trump has already succeeded at corrupting much of what’s corruptible. Government. Elections. Foreign policy. Democracy. Religion. Above all, people, and mostly men. Truckloads, boatloads, tiki-torch-parade-loads, courtloads of weak men all standing in the shadow that Trump casts.
The Republican Party has been corrupted absolutely. House Republicans have combined McCarthyism with Larry, Moe and Curlyism to twist Congress to comically corrupt ends — all to serve the greater degeneracy of Trump. In the Senate, the young hyenas, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), study Trump’s demagogy and lick their chops, hoping for a turn at democracy’s carcass.
The establishment has utterly caved. Former Atty. Gen. William Barr’s endorsement of Trump this week, after having called Trump unfit, a psychologically damaged incompetent who cares only about himself, was barely newsworthy. What is Barr but another in the long line of weak men, one more debased Republican offering fealty to the grease king? Trump thanked Barr by humiliating him again.
But it was the Republican Supreme Court — mostly men again — that put the shiv a little deeper in democracy’s back this week. Originalists or textualists, all sounded more or less Trumpist as they seriously entertained Trump’s argument that his assaults on the constitutional order are protected by the Constitution itself. There is no way to make honest sense of such a liar’s mash. But Larry, Moe and Curly aren’t just chairing committees in Congress. They wear robes and furrowed brows now, too. And they seem eager to pretend that crimes are just constitutional exercises of power, and that one ex-president is a king.
Richard Nixon, a self-made, and self-corrupted, man who studied geopolitics and government assiduously, never achieved such a broad subjugation of American values and institutions. Trump, the ignorant, n’er-do-well heir to his father’s crooked fortune, has achieved so much more. Trump hasn’t just captured the trenches of conservative America, he has taken the commanding heights. He owns all of it, from the most racist backwater saloon to the Federalist Society clubhouse. They are his corrupted subjects. He is their corrupt and demented king. If he can somehow get through the next few perilous months, he may yet render corruption sacred, and the republic irredeemable.
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/latimes/default.aspx?token=42e23962a5d74614be16bae3d62d13e7&sfmc_id=6532a30f25b3640666bed99d&utm_id=35182439&skey_id=f0185674dd52c0ccd4b79cadf4d6840cd74dca950f70382e51f3c73188047081&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ENP-email-Subs-eNewspaper-2024427&utm_term=eNewspaper+Daily+Notify&edid=84dbb145-fe2f-4655-a0b2-c1f3393f4521
"Bunnies boiling on the stove" mentioned several times here regarding Katie Britt. What is that?
At least someone finally gave us the creeeeeeepy clip of a traumatized young black man and a therapist(?) clinking her teacup.
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