[Youngian]

Governor Newsom is enjoying himself.

[davidjay]

We should take it back. They clearly can't be trusted to govern themselves.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is all good fun, but the Republicans have a lot more state trifectas than the Democrats. They'll win any nationwide gerrymandering competition.

[The Weeping Angel]

The FBi are outside John Bolton's house right now.

[Boiler]

What the f....?

"Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... 6a4fa58d97

[Tubby Isaacs]

Virtually anyone in the US that calls themselves Reverend can be relied upon to spout nasty rubbish, and usually get a free pass.

When I read some of the crankery on Bluesky, I'm wondering if Doctor is becoming our equivalent to Reverend.

[Abernathy]

So Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a twenty year jail sentence for child sex trafficking, says that she never observed Donald Trump do anything "inappropriate" when she was in his company with her boyfriend, the paedophile/rapist Jeffrey Epstein.

Two things:

Is not the question of what the convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell might regard as "inappropriate" itself very much open to question - to put it mildly?

Might not the convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell be even slightly motivated by the knowledge that Donald Trump has the power to free her from gaol via a presidential pardon - a power he has already (ab)used freely to pardon 1500 violent participants in the 2021 coup attempt on the Capitol in Washington DC- instigated and incited by Trump himself ?

[Boiler]

I note she has said that there are no "Epstein Files".

[Abernathy]

Mandy Rice-Davies’ timeless observation applies again.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Boiler]

I thought this had been covered and already debunked, i.e. it's nothing to do with dementia treatments?

[Boiler]

Virtually anyone in the US that calls themselves Reverend can be relied upon to spout nasty rubbish, and usually get a free pass.

When I read some of the crankery on Bluesky, I'm wondering if Doctor is becoming our equivalent to Reverend.

Or in some cases, Professor.

[Abernathy]

“Pastor” is the styling that immediately alerts me to a self-aggrandizing bullshitter. There seem to be quite a lot of self-styled “pastors” in the USA.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Quite a lot in the UK, too, often small churches with predominantly Afro-Caribbean congregations.

[Boiler]

"Pastor" is a term I usually associate with African-American congregations.

It always reminds me of a line in the song "Open the door, Richard!" by Louis Jordan.