“We’re gonna let him go wild for a little while, then I’m gonna have to maybe reign him back, because he’s got some pretty wild ideas, but most of them are really good,” Trump said at the dinner. “I think he’s a he’s a good man, and he believes, he believes the environment, the healthy people. He wants healthy people, he wants healthy food. And he’s going to do it. He’s going to have a big chance to do it, because we do need that.”
Aaaaand that might be my cue to accelerate my retirement plans.
Well, poverty-induced food insecurity would definitely increase so yeah, it’s easy to imagine him cashing in with his own new version of The Roadkill Cookbook.
The musical number at the end got me nervous that it was a season finale, which would have been inopportune…
I’m not totally sold on the song, and the mix was weird for me, but it’s still 1000% better than paying Lee Greenwood any amount of money to torture the newly citizened.
Interesting development that had my nose twitching, but it could just be human error:
One of my kids just voted absentee, which in Indiana is a big deal: unless you are old and therefore assumed to be voting a straight-R ticket, you have to prove you really won’t be able to vote on the day. Luckily, she’s done it before with the excuse of being a college student in NYC, so she was allowed to do so again (she’s actually graduated, but moving back here a few days after the election…I told her we are NOT going to be on the road in PA, OH, and IN on the 5th or 6th, period!).
The ballot comes with a self-addressed, return-postage envelope. In her case, the postage was run through an ink printer (like Pitney-Bowes) in light red on a manila envelope, and because it was UPSIDE DOWN it wasn’t obvious that the envelope was stamped at all. It was addressed properly, printed in black ink in the normal place. I had already told her not to trust a blue mailbox on the street but take it into a post office, so she brought it up to one of the clerks to ask about it. They told her that it would be spit out by the automatic machinery the first time, but the second time it would be looked at by a person, and they put some sort of stamp on the envelope to confirm that it did have correct postage to help that person pass it through.
This would cost at least a day if not more, and if it has to go through that process at every juncture (like if it’s sent to Chicago first as the regional hub) then it would cost additional time there.
Why does my spidey-sense make me wonder if they purposely do that for out-of-state college students, with the assumption that they wouldn’t be voting the RIGHT way?
that’s some fine-tuned spidey sense, there. like supermom level intuition! i suspect you may be correct in your assumption, but damned if i know how to prove it.
I agree. Many MAGA bad actors are in our systems, messing with them muchly, bigly. I don’t think we’ll have an official presidential result for a long time, unless there’s a huge, undeniable Harris blowout.