Where I live goodwill is for everyone. It’s honestly kind of expensive for used (compared to like Ross clearance racks or h&m).
Trump’s baggy blue tents literally remind me of professional clowns.
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I can afford to buy new clothes from retail stores but I still prefer to check the local thrift store first. Not only is it cheaper, allowing me to “splurge” on some of the normally-premium brands at a fraction of the cost, but it’s also way better for the environment to buy used than it is to support the “fast fashion” trend. Plus shopping there technically supports a charity, so what’s not to like?
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I sometimes imagine a world in which they keep score by how much tax they pay and who pays the most.
Yeah, I’m a dangerous heretic. /s
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What a petty spoiled brat:
https://www.rawstory.com/hillary-clinton-painting/
Trump took down the painting of Hillary Clinton, in a chronological row with other First Ladies, and put up an unframed poster of himself with a flag image on his face.
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A billionaire’s potlatch?
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Haven’t they heard of Catch-and-release? You don’t need to eat it to keep score.
The IRS should just post the top 10,000 income earners each year publicly, like a kind of leaderboard. You don’t count income you didn’t pay taxes on.
(And maybe go ahead and post their addresses, too. 
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Petty, yes. But also… the symbolism of hanging your photo among First Ladies.
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I dunno, for the Iraq war, they actually went to some trouble to forge documents, etc. to justify it. They had like pictures that may or may not have indicated anything! People could pretend what they were saying had some basis in truth so they could get very worked up about it. Now we’ve got nothing but the whims of the president who is contradicting literally everyone - including himself - and changing his mind (and the “truth”) every week day hour. Best anyone can do is shrug their shoulders and admit that they always wanted to bomb Iran without real justification, and this is their moment.
It’s absolutely amazing that Carlson, of all people, is the one asking if Cruz has any idea what he’s talking about. Something the press should be doing, but don’t. (Though admittedly, Trump rather confounds the whole approach, as he basically denies that facts exist, confounding any attempt to interview him on his knowledge.)
I get the impression they think they can treat Iran like Gaza - bomb it until the population (or at least, in Iran, everyone in a current or former leadership position and their families and all other nearby civilians) are all killed, then magically the problem is solved. But of course they are coming at it from a position of total ignorance, so who knows…
Trump legalizing toxin-laden fracking water for irrigating crops, bringing back asbestos, etc…
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I’m surprised they didn’t yet roll back lead regulations/prohibitions yet (perhaps I missed it)
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They do parade drills. They know how to march. Not marching was a choice.
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There’s also KMAGYOYO.
Kiss My Ass Guys, Yer on Yer Own.
It’s mil-speak.
And a pretty good song by Hayes Carll.
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Not to mention Iran is nothing like Afghanistan or Iraq. It’s larger than Iraq and Afghanistan’s combined land mass, and a larger population as well. Its urban centers are modern, it has a highly literate population, good education, and healthcare. From personal experience, I can say they produce a lot of brilliant engineers. It would be a serious miscalculation for Trump or any of his lackeys to think we could just roll in there with our military and conquer it in short order.
That’s one thing I’ve never understood – for someone as vain as he is and as someone who’s always trying to project himself as if he’s on a reality TV show, how is it he always wears the schlubbiest of outfits? His clothes never seem to fit him right and he always looks sloppy as a result. I have little sartorial sense, but even I know that a well-tailored suit can make pretty much anybody look good.
As other replies have said, yes. Another thing I’ve read that could explain this is that originally the Army had planned their 250th anniversary celebration to be something more akin to an exhibition on the National Mall. (I could see how something like a “through the ages” thing would totally work in this context.) In the scramble to produce something for Trump’s stupid parade, the whole thing was retooled for that instead.
Sigh. Why can’t these people ever answer the fucking question they are asked? It’s maddening.
Every damn day, it’s like “are we in a Constitutional Crisis yet?” or “is this fascism yet?” and the answer always seems to be, “no, you big silly” and the Overton window shifts further right.
What’s even worse is his eventual “answer”:
Hegseth: “I’d be careful what you read in books (beat) except the Bible”.
Slotkin: “(exasperated) Oh, my God…”
Especially because in the end every one of them was slaughtered by the Persian army. Those people don’t seem to care about “honor” as much as “winning”. Rooting for “the dominant armies of Xerces who crush their opposition” is much more in line with their beliefs over the “scrappy Spartans who fight with honor, but who die in the end anyway.”
Think of the eventual joy of Palmdale’s citizens in being able to take a day trip to the Garlic Festival though, right?
This is true. The old days of finding good deals on things at thrift shops is long gone. The people who do intake for these places know how to use the Internet to do appraisals. Really nice things (think vintage t-shirts, denim, rare video games) will get auctioned off. Other things will be (over)priced accordingly before brought to the sales floor. Everything else gets thrown in the garbage. At least this stuff is being given a second life versus stores like H&M where the stuff you buy is more likely to fall apart after a short period of time than ever make it to a thrift shop.
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Basically things went from a cabal of war criminals spinning thinly veiled forgeries to further their rape and pillage, to war criminals realizing that eh, you don’t even need to put in the effort. I don’t think the former deserve an iota of credit for it, but I can see faulting the media for not even needing a fig leaf any more.
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It was kind of funny how all through yesterday on CNN was breathless coverage around Trump deciding what to do about Iran as if he’s sitting in the Situation Room with his trusted military and foreign affair advisors. carefully weighing the pros and cons of each outcome and creating a coherent strategy for any eventuality.
Of course we all know nothing like that’s happening. He’s probably sitting in the residence watching Fox News and eating overcooked steak with ketchup while rage posting on his stupid social network.
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This. Invariably these exhibitions are recruitment fairs, because the US has a volunteer professional army and no mandatory service, unlike a great many countries in the world. They had to retool this into a tinpot dictator parade in short order.
The only thing I can think of is they idolize the apocryphal legend that the Spartans killed the Persians in great numbers, something to the tune of 100 to 1. Total badasses. If there had been 1000 Spartans they would have pushed Xerxes back and conquered all of Persia! With toothpicks! They were that manly! Didn’t you see the documentary “300?!”
Waiting for “Fox and Friends” to tell him what to do next.
Fuck, I hate this timeline.
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Well…
In his first term, two possibilities emerged: a) he has a tailor making these decisions and his tailor hates him or b) Trump dictates style decisions intended to make him look taller/thinner/stronger, but (as usual) he has no idea what he’s doing, so he just looks ridiculous.
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I often can’t look at Trump and not see Vincent Adultman character from Bojack Horseman.
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This is what the Knitting Cult Lady said (former army captain); she said that it wasn’t just the soldiers, it was the officers all up the line who allowed this.
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