RantWoman has decided several times not to go to law school, but RantWoman has, in the comment rant below the video, RantWoman would like to propose a project for a fresh aspiring lawyer.
Time to test the #SCOTUS concept of "official acts?"
What is the emergency???
Has the local #StableGenius violated so many laws, architectural and construction standards, procedures, constrains on bribery... that SOMEONE can make a case that immunity does not apply?
I assume there is no chance the current DoJ would do it, but who might have standing to sue????
If President #StableGenius did not like the White House, why did he run for re-election??? Surely he can afford to live somewhere else and build his own dang ballroom.
Besides, what's one more civil judgment for the #StableGenius to ignore??? When he finally slouches off this mortal coil, probate for his estate could be SO much fun....
RantWoman HOPES there is some info in a privacy statement that will allow RantWoman to TURN OFF automatic summarization in Gmail. RantWoman is too gravely peeved and tired from personal emotional matters to go read it right now and, hell, DEMANDS option to OPT IN rather than have to read redundant and stupid verbiage longer than the original AND the response.
One Asterisk in this rant: RantWoman corresponds with TOO DANG MANY people who CANNOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT line with a new thread enters a conversation. RantWoman might really like to experiment about whether an AI can sort out the tangled threads and then present group messages by thread for RantWoman to review.
There. MAYBE RantWoman will get the privacy statement read soon.
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I am simply going to believe the opera is NOT over.
If the people lead, maybe the leaders will follow. This whole fiasco is a blatant embodiment of a #GOP #WarOnChristmas. Sorry sweetie, #Donnie2Dolls has sent all the health care subsidy money off to Argentina to do something he should have made the IMF do. And then #SpeakerJohnson sent the House on FOUR WEEKS of vacation to further screw hardworking people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE NOW.
People need to make health insurance decisions NOW. The #GrandOldPedophiles have been promising something better than the #ACA for almost two decades. Where's the beef??? The ACA subsidies are the best thing we have. As long as Congress is in session...
Judging by #Donnie2Dolls offer to put $2000 in everyone's pockets, MAYBE things are getting under his skin.
Congress in their exquisite wisdom and insight put some of their members on the Obama health care exchanges instead of the Congressional plan. So #MTG and Adam Smith of WA are both feeling the pain. Is it too outrageous to imagine someone moving to #VacateTheChair if the Speaker won't allow normal debates and votes...???
ICE Agents CAUGHT Arresting Comedian For HUMILIATING Them
Forget tone "policing" RantWoman is about to go full generalissimo with a humble request to protestors.
1. Evidence from ICE hiring standards and ICE Barbie's endless propaganda efforts is that a lot of the brand new just signed on for the bonus ICE recruits are undertrained, uneducated, humor-impaired, and extremely thin-skinned. NONE of that is an excuse for all the different thuggery they are trying to pull off, but MAYBE could y'all, all y'all protestors possibly consider passing on at least SOME of the opportunities to torment and antagonize them? RantWoman admires creativity and really, really, really thinks y'all could all do MUCH better about verbal communications. So PLEASE try. Pretty please.
2. I don't blame the vulnerable families, veterans, people with disabilities, NEIGHBORS across from the ICE House of Ill Repute in Portland for being resentful of tear gas, blast balls. Try to sound concerned about them and keep pointing out that protestors aren't the ones bringing the tear gas and blast balls.
3. Remember this is about immigrants and all the hard work, creativity, richness they bring to the country. RantWoman is not sure how, meaningfully, to say "we've got your back," President #StableGenius keeps going off about how immigrants bring diseases. Immigrants have the same health issues as many other people in the US, but the President complaining about immigrants is NUTS when his own Secretary of Health and Human services is doing everything he can to shred public health infrastructure, disease surveillance, and OF COURSE vaccination. Plenty of other really important "don't blame the immigrants talking points need airing and people who aren't crazy about running around in frog suits need to get their points heard too. Word!
And another video for the road
And Robby Roadsteamer in his own words. RantWoman recants, SOMEWHAT.
With the anticipated announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize and Prsident #StableGenius endless imprecations to please, pretty please, pretty, pretty please recognize fabulousness like never before seen and award him the prize, RantWoman has come to several realizations.
🚨Nobel Prize Committee Drops SURPRISE TRUMP BOMB
Forget those silly Norwegians who ordinarily hand out Nobel Prizes. They clearly have nowhere near enough categories for all the ways that President #FartsALot and his cadre of sycophants are distinguishing themselves with contributions to the betterment of humanity.
RantWoman has no opinion about who should staff this brand new shiny gold-plated Noble Committee. The internet probably abounds with aspirants and RantWoman refuses to be in charge. RantWoman simply offers some prizes they might consider awarding.
President #StableGenius certainly deserves a No Bull piss prize. Incontinence happens if only because of rumors of his diaper-wearing. Why pretend?
The No Bell Peas prize to be awarded to anyone in the President's circle who can convince to be bold and try some vegetables--besides what's involved in Big Macs and French fries.
Consider the Noble Pries for Litterchur, to be awarded to the hapless staffers who crank the White House toddler's endless supply of BS provided in his daily briefings. The President probably does not even know where most of the countries he claims to have brought peace to are located.
Next, the Noble Flies of Bad Medicine, awarded to #BrainWormBob, aka Secretary of Health and Human services #RFKjr
The Noble Fleece Price for everyone ducking unflattering data about the economy, the jobs report, gas and grocery prices, not to mention the epidemic of corporate price gougers
The Noble Fleas Prize for the Secretary of Agriculture because why should anyone leave out an economic sector getting clobbered by the #TrumpTariffs and this administration's deport-a-rama.
The Noble Flies of Physics? What Physics to all the climate deniers, oil companies terrified of wind power,
RantWoman first saw a shorter clip of the embrace that is the subject of this video and immediately thought "Oh Dear GOD." The whole clip is even worse.
TRIGGER WARNING: the president is his on-brand self.
CREEPY Trump Moment With Charlie Kirk Wife, Maga SCREAMS Conspiracy
Full disclosure 1: RantWoman always finds Cal Anderson Park cramped and uncomfortable, for reasons she can't quite put her finger on. RantWoman thinks Gas Works Park sounds like a MUCH more fun place to hold a rally / worship service than Cal Anderson Park. Sun. Water. Rehabilitated industrial site. Sense of spaciousnes, the glory of God.
Full Disclosure 2: statement from RantWoman's faith community, the North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends about welcoming transgender people
Full Disclosure #3: RantWoman has not researched which other faith communities identify as open and affirming. RantWoman thinks it would be a very good idea for local faith communities to speak up frankly about free exercise of religion (for any faith or no faith) and respect for religious pluralism.
Full Disclosure #4: Ditto for anyone running for office, not just Mayor Harrell.
The world is on fire, several ways, several places and RantWoman needs to take a break from all that world politics stuff!
Why? RantWoman's lips are about to fall off and she is running out of her much preferred lip balm. RantWoman's most convenient way to get her favorite lip balm is to bundle an order with other items and then to pick her Amazon Day, a day when she is usually home to receiver her shipments.
RantWoman is just fine with Amazon Day delivery. RantWoman is just fine with collecting a bunch of orders and having them all come at once.
Some of the time that is great.
This post is not about the working great.
Well, one gripe is more of a question! What is the window before a delivery date gets kicked out a week to the next Amazon day?
RantWoman would be JUST FINE if Amazon clearly said something like "get your orders in two days before your Amazon day. RantWoman could MAYBE endure mumbling about "we just don't have what you want in stock and we need a whole week. RantWoman would handle that GRUDGINGLY. RantWoman's expectation and preference though is that if she chooses Amazon Day delivery, that means her NEXT Amazon Day
However, when RantWoman says she wants her orders DELIVERED, she means to her building and preferably to her doorway. Ignore the naysayers. RantWoman is capable of deciding for herself what theft risks she is willing to run. More to the point, RantWoman orders a lot of things that people don't necessarily want to steal.
The main point: RantWoman does NOT want either some hard to read postal slip OR some long tracking code that she is going to have to type in to usps.gov herself OR an invitation to take two modes of transit followed buy a not terribly ped friendly walk to the nearest holding station. Besides, the last time RantWoman had a problem about a package, RantWoman typed the tracking number in several times on different days and never found her items.
So this time, RantWoman WILL try again about the tracking number, but RantWoman is also griping LOUDLY.
And while we're at it, RantWoman wants a more satisfying way to communicate the nuances of her opinion than picking a box or texting with what is either a bot or an earnest young person halfway around the world at their first job taking gripes from irate customers.
RantWoman also wants some respect because at some point Amazon logistics called up RantWoman for driving directions to her building and in particular to the only door where drivers should be coming to deliver packages. So you're welcome
and PLEASE believe RantWoman: get my things here ON MY AMAZON DAY and NOT THROUGH the post office UNLESS you are sure the package will fit INSIDE RantWoman's mailbox.
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Armed masked men kidnapping random people, undocumented or citize who cares, off the street is not a serious problem? What would ANYONE thing people should acquiesce to this behavior? VERY SERIOUS Question.
Monthly target counts is flat out statement that ICE has no intention of even pretending about due process even though there is a 9-0 #SCOTUS ruling thatdue process applies to EVERYONE and not just white felons who exploit every thread of #DueProcess they can for an entire life or criming.
And furthermore, there are a bunch of red states who voted for President #Gropesaurus who would be happy to have some help about disaster relief.
the #SecDef is also gloriously flunking logistics planning.
RantWoman offers the following slices of international media coverage.
RantWoman apologizes for not having energy to summarize key points. RantWoman is afraid her head will explode if she spends too much time on this coverage of #GazaGenocide, lies, lies, lies
Brave act by Pakistan; calls US veto blocking food for Gaza children ‘mo...
Unthinkable act by US Senator as Marco Rubio reminded of violation by Ne...
Thank you, Senator Merkley for your frank questioning.
Random RantWoman observation: Israel has been stalling about anything to do with Right of Return for Palestinians for decades. Why should anyone belive Secretary Rubio now?
RantWoman offers a sampling of today's Israel news items. RantWoman does not have energy to pull out every nugget to be had here, but does consider these items rich with points to ponder.
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Readers may wish to skip the rest of Protest Curmudgeon's rant, but RantWoman needs to get a few things off her chest based on some heated moments from her career as a campus political activist.
The rant can be distilled as
1. Please more about Gaza.
Slogan of the moment: People can't build a future for their children on the mass graves of other children.
2. WHAT THE F were y'all thinking?
Did y'all REALLY mean to generate television footage that can help Sinclair Broadcasting flood the zone or at least RantWoman's YouTube feed with dramatic videos, all the same length, and headlines such as "intense night..." "about 30 students arrested...."
If you're going to set things on fire, MAYBE show that people have learned something from CHOP, be prepared that the Fire Department will, reasonably, want police escort.
Re property destruction inside the engineering building, was that REALLY necessary???? RantWoman will be interested in bodycam footage .BUT if a protest is going to wrack up $1million in damages, perhaps protestors owe the world some kind of manifesto. For examples put the names Daniel and Phillip Berrigan into your search engines. Be as self-righteous as you need to be, but PLEASE try to keep the focus on Gaza instead of making the campus look a little too much like the precursors of Gaza.
3. If RantWoman were going to Make NONVIOLENT Protests great again, here are a whole bunch of observations and suggestions.
If you plan to occupy a building, plan ahead about how to take care of bodily necessities while you are inside..
Do you REALLY need to trash the place?
A clean well-written manifesto is a must to help everyone stay on message.
Is beefing with the authorities really necessary? How does that benefit the cause?
Can you PERHAPS plan an event that does not immediately make police reach for their riot gear???
Messaging as reported feels a little off. That is, RantWoman can imagine describing October 7 as a demonstration of assymetrical warfare: people who literally have no other path to defend their interests confronting a much more powerful counterpart. This terminology might come up in the world of academic political science
But oops, wait. Friends don't let friends commit genocide--or even collective punishment. Alert observers will note that every time there is a hostage exchange, there are a handful of hostages released and dozens of Palestinian prisoners. And so many other details of life as a Palestinian that basically amount to collective punishment. And now President Orange Man with his capricious executive orders is basically inflicting collective punishment on all kinds of organizations because of individuals he does not like. In this case the point is penalizing or even threatening to penalize academic institutions that try to make environments were people can learn and speak of difficult topics from different angles.
Will #Donny2Dolls and his tariffs drop a GIANT load of reindeer turds all over Christmas?
And why we gotta think about the question in freaking APRIL / MAY???
RantWoman is going to let Lawrence Odonell explain it. Expect some punchy commentary after the video.
Lawrence: Donny 2 Dolls Trump's cruelty ignores little girl who asked hi...
Who the F gets THIRTY dolls for Christmas in the first place??? A LOT of kids can barly expect ANY dolls for Christmas, thank you so much for firings, #DOGE cuts... A whole new angle on #WarOnChristmas #Donny2Dolls just dumped a big giant pile of reindeer turds all over Christmas.
The question: Will public outcry force l #FelonDon to walk back more tariffs?
Full disclosure, RantWoman does not want to see tariffs ruin anyone's Christmas or anything else between now and Christmas. AND Barbie would not be on the top of RantWoman's list when thinking about gifts. So market harder Mattel.
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