OT: Great news! Kristi Noem has been fired.
by oviedoirish 
, Oviedo, Florida, Thursday, March 05, 2026, 11:08 (145 days ago)
Although her replacment, Mullin, may not be much better. Can he be worse?
ha, Trump tweeted (or truthed) her firing
while she was doing some sort of public presentation in Nashville.
But he has appointed her "special envoy to the Shield of
by Jack , Thursday, March 05, 2026, 15:16 (145 days ago) @ Jay
America", whatever the hell that is. Elba or St. Helena?
I wonder if she'll take Corey Lewandowski with her.
And implement the Donroe Doctrine.
by Joe I , Thursday, March 05, 2026, 16:03 (145 days ago) @ Jack
I wish I was kidding.
Here's what His Orangeness said today
by Jack , Thursday, March 05, 2026, 18:28 (144 days ago) @ Joe I
I am not making this up:
“You gotta lighten up on this, they might have come into our country illegally but they're good people and they’re cheap workers. They’re working now on farms, in luncheonettes and hotels. We’re just focused on getting the murderers out.”
What. The Actual. Fook.
Admittedly, I got stuck at his usage of "luncheonettes"...
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It's been a full day and I can't stop thinking about it.
I was flabbergasted. Had to sit down on the Davenport. "Luncheonettes"?
That was my grandmother's preferred term for a couch
by Jack , Friday, March 06, 2026, 12:26 (144 days ago) @ MattG
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She was married to my grandfather, the street car conductor.
By the way, a very good friend of mine from Dillon Hall, is from your home state, Marshalltown to be specific. He owned a furniture store in the Quad Cities until he recently sold it and retired.
Yes, he sold davenports in Davenport. And that's a true story.
Matt, one other thing, read your post below this morning
by Jack , Friday, March 06, 2026, 12:39 (144 days ago) @ Jack
It really hit home for me as I lost one of my ND roommates to illness 3 days before my dad died in 2022. For about ten to fifteen years in the 90's and early 2000's we barely had contact, simply because both of us just busy in our careers and our families. Fortunately we reconnected fairly regularly beginning in about 2005. I would have been disconsolate when he passed if we hadn't; instead I was able to treasure the times we did have. I still think about him all the time.
Just a beautiful post, your advice is spot on, and may your friend rest in peace.
we don’t want to deport any newsboys or soda jerks
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Don't forget streetcar conductors
by Jack , Friday, March 06, 2026, 09:28 (144 days ago) @ Jay
My grandfather was a streetcar conductor. And he was an immigrant!
He also said (about Iran)
by Jeff (BGS) , A starter home in suburban Tempe, Thursday, March 05, 2026, 19:10 (144 days ago) @ Jack
“I guess,” Trump, 79, responded. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things."
"Like I said, some people will die," the president added. "When you go to war, some people will die."
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At night, the ice weasels come.
He's a dickbag.
But I don't know if he's "face eaten off by a dog" level of bad...yet.
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"F--- everyone who isn't us."
#Team128
Silver lining: it gets him out of the Senate
by Jack , Thursday, March 05, 2026, 13:41 (145 days ago) @ Chris
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Remarkably this simultaneously increases the average
by PasadenaDomer , Thursday, March 05, 2026, 13:46 (145 days ago) @ Jack
intelligence of both the Senate and the Administration.
(credit to someone on BlueSky)
The governor of Oklahoma has to appoint Mullin's replacement
by Jack , Thursday, March 05, 2026, 14:26 (145 days ago) @ PasadenaDomer
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in 30 days, to serve until the November election.
Reportedly he (Kevin Stitt) is not a Trump lackey, so maybe he'll appoint a semblance of a human being for a few months. Under state law, the appointee cannot run for the seat in the next election. It's a good law, means the governor can't be a kingmaker.
Trump and Stitt have had their problems
by Flann 
, Central New Jersey, Thursday, March 05, 2026, 14:45 (145 days ago) @ Jack
edited by Flann, Thursday, March 05, 2026, 15:31
Stitt is certainly not full anti-Trump, but he is not a sycophant. As a politician in a state that overwhelmingly voted for Trump, Stitt has had to carefully pick his battles with Trump, but at least he has picked a few.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/26/nx-s1-5719201/kevin-stitt-republican-party-immigration-t...
2nd dumbest senator
He thanks Tubberville every day.
Ron Johnson would like a word
by Jack , Thursday, March 05, 2026, 13:40 (145 days ago) @ Bryan (IrishCavan)
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Ding dong!
by ndbk32 , Los Angeles, Thursday, March 05, 2026, 11:19 (145 days ago) @ oviedoirish
Good riddance. I hope she gets her face eaten off by a dog. But the replacement is almost always worse. Only thing I know about Mullin is that he's from Oklahoma. A state climbing over itself to show how backwards it can be. So I don't hold out great hope.