Skip Navigation

Posts
183
Comments
9067
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Every time diaper donnie talks about golf, I think of this story. It was relevant in his first failed term, now that he's gone completely unchained in his second failed term, especially when we see his cabinet "meetings" and the way he holds pressers in front of a compliant media, all the more so...

    But in the 1990s - another moment in time when an event in North Korea varies (some say it happened in 1991 and others in 1994), the late dictator, then 50 (or 53) years old, set a golfing standard that will assuredly never be surpassed. It occurred at the grand opening of the Pyongyang Golf Complex, which contains North Korea's only 18-hole golf course.

    After picking up a golf club that day for the very first time in his life, the Dear Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea fired a 38-under-par round of 34 at Pyongyang. According to the 17 security guards who observed the performance, the score included an amazing 11 aces. Naturally, the event was dutifully reported to the North Korean masses by the state news agency.

    https://golfnewsstoriesonline.com/news/all/golf_news/alltime_golf_scoring_record_goes_with_death_of_kim_jong_il.html

  • Cool, so while dimbulb donnie is invading other countries for no fucking reason and Stephen Miller is giving absurd quotas of brown people to kidnap and throw in concentration camps and/or extreme rendition, they are increasing the danger to all Americans on top of that?

  • Or as the cons like to say: "a mandate".

  • Honestly, what was the issue with the border before? I keep seeing Republicans and plenty of reactionary centrists say that Donvict "closed the border because Joe had an open border policy".

    What are they even talking about?

  • Well, reading about Sean Duffy's resume as Real World personality is nearly as bad, given he's Secretary of Transportation and spent my fucking money on.... lecturing Americans about how they dress when they travel.

    I hate this administration so very much. At least Duffy isn't starting wars of choice and hasn't invaded America states and cities like Noem has.

    But it's almost like they are designed to infuriate normal people.

  • Are you saying it was a bad idea to give this much power and responsibility to a drunk weekend host from Faux "News"?

  • "Back the blue. Well, eventually, maybe. If they were preventing our terrorists from stealing an election for PEDOnald, we'll have to drag it out for several years at least."

    --conservatives, probably

  • I mean, what else could they even do? Vote for the DEMONcrats? They believe all kinds of wild things about the Democratic Party. They think the Democrats are going to defund the police, have boys get made into girls at school, flood the country with illegals that will rape your wife and daughters, and on and on...

  • The sad thing is that it takes these assholes almost no time at all to destroy.

  • I'd take Biden, even in a coma, over PEDOnald at any age or health condition.

    Any day of the week.

  • My favorite take right now from the reactionary/enlightened centrists is when they point at things like RFK jr saying something about food dyes. Or getting rid of pennies.

    Really, things like that make all the rest of it worth it? I just can't even with that bunch. Imagine flipping the script: if the Democrats were letting Biden just go buck-wild with the country and no one was stopping him? Would these "centrists" be talking about dyes and pennies?

  • And I guess this isn't "cancel culture"?

  • Sounds like you have a set of work goals and that's fine. I just don't think that needs to be imposed on others who have very different ideas of how to get fulfillment from their work. If the average age of retirement is 62, that means people on average would have 17 years (or more) of life where they are legally prevented from doing the job they love, even if they serve the voters' interests. I'd say many people would love to continue doing a job they love far past the age of 62, and they should be able to do so, not have some arbitrary law keeping them from that. Ageism is already quite rampant in the private sector; I'm not sure it should be codified into public service.

    If you (or any voter) find instances of politicians not sharing your interests, by all means, vote them out.

  • Eh, I've seen people doing a job they like way past the "standard" retirement age. But here's the important part - IF they are not being forced out by the company and/or the culture. It so happens a lot of people like having a sense of purpose and doing a job they like is often a big part of that. Telling people to wander off to go play shuffleboard or whatever the fuck and just wait to die is not much of a purpose.

    Often it's doctors I've seen work well into their 70s/80s, though I think the corruption brought by acquisition of practices/hospitals and insurance companies is probably changing that, I've known of at least one doctor more or less forced into retirement against his will.

    Some people actually really do believe in the idea of civic duty and serving their country, so I have zero problem with politicians that work way past the "standard" retirement age. I'd have to take it on a case by case basis. I definitely have zero interest in arbitrary age limits and term limits removing good candidates from the field entirely. That should be up to the voters.

    Someone like Pelosi irritates me no end, but it's more her stance on insider trading and the way she has tried to gatekeep progressives from entering than anything else. She could be in her 30s and on her first term, and it would still drive me up the wall.

  • LOCK. HER. UP.

    I would so love to see someone doing some cosplay bullshit in front of HER prison cell. 🤣

  • This one - Live Debt Free, by Ted Carroll

    https://archive.org/details/livedebtfreemake00carr

    Even reading this in the early 00s was kinda wild when it came to some of the talk of house prices. Most of the principles still hold, though, especially when it comes to deferring gratitude and so on.

    The notion of moving somewhere low-cost is probably more relevant than ever, though, given the idea of remote work having been broken wide open because of Covid. Prior to that, most companies viewed it as something slightly scandalous to even ask about.

  • So tired of the winning.

  • It's too bad we couldn't have put AI to good use instead of the thing most of the elite have reached for first (destroying jobs).

    We could have generated deepfakes of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers saying great things about Donvict (while out of office), fabricate an entire election for him in the run-up to 2024, and surround him with a set of paid actors telling him he's President, letting him sign bullshit EOs and legislation. Have someone fashion a Nobel Peace Prize and deepfake the news about it and so on. All "channels" on his screen(s) are just a stream of AI deepfakes all praising Dear Leader Donvict.

    Just generally making him feel like a Bigly Important Big Boy, all tucked away in an old folks' home or Mar-a-Lago.

    I would even take someone like a Romney over this nightmare. Certainly Kamala would have been 1000x better than this...but apparently we cannot even have mildly nice things.

  • Huh, after all that gaslighting about "woke" wars from Petey Hegseth and semantic word games about it not really being a "war" from several of his apparatchiks.

  • politics @lemmy.world

    Florida to end all vaccine mandates, state officials say

    www.axios.com /local/tampa-bay/2025/09/03/florida-ends-vaccine-mandates-schools-joseph-ladapo
  • politics @lemmy.world

    The Covid revenge policy

    www.vox.com /today-explained-podcast/459432/covid-vaccine-rfk-trump-mrna
  • politics @lemmy.world

    If You Live In These Areas Of The U.S., You Need To Be Extra Careful With COVID Right Now

    www.huffpost.com /entry/covid-surge-west-center-states_l_68b1c4aae4b072bf6d64617e
  • politics @lemmy.world

    RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes

    www.theatlantic.com /health/archive/2025/09/maha-lets-move-kennedy-michelle-obama/684067/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Blocking tariffs would be "end of the United States," top Trump adviser says

    www.axios.com /2025/08/31/trump-tariffs-supreme-court
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights

    www.nytimes.com /2025/09/01/us/politics/trumps-unions-federal-workers.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    New Colorado law lets health officials seek out non-CDC vaccine guidance

    www.npr.org /2025/08/29/nx-s1-5504016/new-colorado-law-lets-health-officials-seek-out-non-cdc-vaccine-guidance
  • politics @lemmy.world

    New Colorado law lets health officials seek out non-CDC vaccine guidance

    www.npr.org /2025/08/29/nx-s1-5504016/new-colorado-law-lets-health-officials-seek-out-non-cdc-vaccine-guidance
  • politics @lemmy.world

    New Colorado law lets health officials seek out non-CDC vaccine guidance

    www.npr.org /2025/08/29/nx-s1-5504016/new-colorado-law-lets-health-officials-seek-out-non-cdc-vaccine-guidance
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-offered-full-military-funeral-air-force-con-rcna227815
  • politics @lemmy.world

    What to Know About Covid Vaccines This Fall

    www.nytimes.com /2025/08/27/well/covid-vaccines-guidelines-fall-2025.html
  • politics @lemmy.world

    'Stratus' COVID-19 strain surges in Bay Area as vaccine rollout sows confusion

    www.sfgate.com /bayarea/article/stratus-covid-strain-bay-area-vaccine-rollout-21018600.php
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

    www.npr.org /2025/08/24/nx-s1-5511241/smithsonian-white-house-art
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Another Day, Another Supreme Court Power Grab That Will Kill People

    www.wonkette.com /p/another-day-another-supreme-court
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Charlie Kirk: No One Is An American Unless I Say So

    www.wonkette.com /p/charlie-kirk-no-one-is-an-american
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Florida Mom Mad After Raw Milk Got Her Kid Sick And Ended Her Pregnancy!

    www.wonkette.com /p/florida-mom-mad-after-raw-milk-got
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Heavily Armed Officers Sub-Due DC Sandwich Thrower For Assault With Deli Weapon

    www.wonkette.com /p/heavily-armed-officers-sub-due-dc
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Laura Loomer fires back at Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Low life degenerate"

    www.newsweek.com /laura-loomer-marjorie-taylor-greene-feud-trump-israel-2112015
  • politics @lemmy.world

    The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.

    www.newyorker.com /culture/infinite-scroll/the-internet-wants-to-check-your-id
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Alan Dershowitz Goes Hunting For Forbidden Dumpling Again, Is Denied, Again

    www.wonkette.com /p/alan-dershowitz-goes-hunting-for