One of ours sometimes does that. He often sleeps on my feet at night, and usually I can move some without getting attacked, but sometimes he does claw me.

The new Ross Perot!

And yes, this is all deeply undemocratic.

Agreed, and it’s worth noting the Republican party has done the same thing to candidates who weren’t far enough to the right.

And then something bad happens!

If my schools did, I wasn’t aware of it. Quite possible there was a basement designated for it though.

Man that sky is beautiful.

There’s no shame in being beaten by the best.

What’s a computer?

My wife is several years younger than me, and I just caught the tail end of the Cold War.

The other day, we saw the end of WarGames on TV, and she just doesn’t understand how real that possibility was to us. I never did duck and cover drills, but it definitely felt like nuclear war was a real possibility. It’s also interesting how just a few years changed so much.

“What’s a computer?”

Yeah, my wife is Catholic; we had two options for wedding. The 1 hour ceremony, or the 40 minute ceremony (I think the difference is serving communion). That was it. I don’t think we could have gotten a 3 hour ceremony even if we’d wanted it; they need the church for other things.

Wesley: “But…”

I saw an analysis of results in deep-blue Arizona cities where there were quite a few people who voted for Trump…then Democrat down the rest of the ballot.

It’s not hard evidence, but it’s suspicious. The problem the US has is that the winners are quite okay with winning at any cost and don’t see a problem, even if the win was stolen.

If he takes all of his cronies with him, that’d be great.

You seem to post a lot of incorrect information.

In the US system of government, the President’s power is supposed to be checked by Congress and the Supreme Court. In other words, you’re not giving supreme executive power to just one person. Unfortunately since Republicans practically always do what Trump wants, we’ve lost that check.

I mean, what are the odds the ship might shake? One in a million. Practically impossible!

I actually think she’s not lying. I think she is a True Believer, fully in the Trump Distortion Field. She fully believes the insane things she says.

During his previous term, I recall Trump and Kim Jon Un getting into a little spat (before they got buddy-buddy)…and Kim Jong Un came out of it looking like the sane one.

She actually survived several years after that incident, but she was never quite the healthy cat she was before we moved. Unfortunately she ended up in the animal hospital again at the height of the pandemic, and it was so bad that they were letting us into the building to see her. She was there over a week, and she just wasn’t getting better - and even if she had recovered, it wasn’t a cure; it was just recovery. In other words, there was no guarantee she wouldn’t be back there again in a few months with exactly the same problems.

I heard they were playing “Fortunate Son” during the parade. If that’s true, it HAS to be intentional irony by the DJ. There’s no way anyone could be THAT clueless… right?

The song is about how the singer was drafted to serve in Vietnam; he didn’t have the connections to get out of it. “I ain’t no millionaire’s son.”