I hate Democrats so much it is unreal
It's great that his speaking slot comes directly after Bernie railed against billionares, and the line gets a long applause and reaction shots.
Feels good to be in a big tent party huh, Bernard?
tldr; sorry not sorry, enjoy the reservations and our mobile vasectomy clinic
Don't disparage a person with a legitimate degree in urban planning, someone with an MBA (Master of Business Administration) designed this
Why does it read from the bottom?
Some McGee consultant must have thought that this is what people read as they go up the stairs, but normal people have their heads up when walking up the stairs, and English reads from top to bottom. This is complete dyslexic gaslighting and my OCD is personally offended.
I once climbed the tallest mountain in all of Tamriel, met a wise ancient dragon as old as time, this is what he told me
My dragon show "dungeon meshi" is doing great. Comfy cooking show, interesting characters, well-established world building, diverse, multi-layered characters and escalating stake, done by talented animation studio in close consultation with a caring author who already finished her part of the bargain (the story is finished) and knows exactly how things should be adapted. 
Can't wait for S2
That was during his teaching days. He probably played Rival Schools 2, play as the teacher and beat up the students to relieve stress
That is exactly the crux of the story worth dunking - a perfectly normal accident could happen through no fault of your own, like a bat flew into your bedroom, wreak havoc, and you could end up with $600 medical bill (with top-tier health insurance) and this writer is praising the system. For any less privileged person, this would be a medical horror story.
Not an Onion story
One night a few weeks ago I went to bed early, bothered by the oppressive heat and dismayed by that week’s political news — President Biden’s lackluster ABC News interview and Donald Trump’s claim earlier that day that he knew “nothing” about Project 2025. I was tired, too, from explaining the recent daily news broadcasts to my two daughters — one 6 and the other one 10 — including what the phrases “hush money” and “porn star” meant. My husband stayed up working, and very early the next morning a bat flew into our bedroom, through a screen door left open by accident. What happened over the next few days restored my faith in the systems in our country that keep us safe.
“Bat!” I told my husband, sleeping beside me. Though it was still dark, the thick flapping was unmistakably the sound of Earth’s only flying mammal.
“It’s one thing after another,” my husband said, clambering out of bed to grab something to catch it with.
This happened to us before, about five years ago, which is when we learned about the need to isolate and trap any bat that invades our sleeping space for rabies testing. Though bats are beneficial insectivores, they’re also our highest risk for contracting rabies, a fatal disease carried by about 6 percent of bats tested in the continental United States.
We isolated the bat in our bedroom, making sure it couldn’t get upstairs where our daughters sleep, but it escaped through the door to the porch. To decide what to do next, we consulted every resource. Richard, my husband, read the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. I called our health care after-hours line and spoke to a nurse who also consulted the C.D.C. We called our county’s animal control center, and an officer was at our house within 10 minutes. He searched the house and garage for bats, found none and put in a report to our county’s public health department.
“How deep a sleeper are you?” the county health nurse asked Richard when she called us on the next evening. She was assessing our risk of being bitten or scratched while we slept.
After answering noncommittally, he passed the phone to me, and I tried to reassure her. “I’m such a light sleeper. I woke up right away. I’m sure of it.”
We had no idea what rabies shots would cost, and the bat hadn’t gotten near our daughters; that was the most important thing. But the county nurse talked us through the risks and shared her experience with a bat, which had swooped down on her in her garden. “It’s your life we’re talking about,” she told us. We had a short window postexposure to decide. After that, the shots wouldn’t work.
On Sunday morning, we went to the emergency room of the University of North Carolina Hospital. (In most communities, the emergency room is the only place you can get rabies vaccines.) The doctor we saw persuaded us to get the shots. Soon after, hospital staff members gave us the injections, one in each arm. They hurt more than a flu shot but not much more.
So far, we’ve paid $600 in E.R. copays, with heftier hospital bills to come. While I regret that our health care system regularly forces people to consider cost when making life-or-death decisions, I’m grateful that insurance will help my husband and me pay for the health care we need. Despite everything going on in our country and our state — Mr. Trump and the looming threat of autocracy, that he selected an anti-abortion hard-liner for his running mate and that here in North Carolina we have a lieutenant governor who recently claimed that “some folks need killing”— I am reminded of how much good we now enjoy, which hangs in the balance of this election. Not just our lives and the lives of our children but also the government systems that keep us informed and protected.
After our visit from the bat, our sheriff’s department, public health department and university hospital all functioned exactly as designed. The C.D.C., a huge federal agency that works to protect every one of us from infectious disease, food-borne illness and emerging threats like bird flu, pulled through. The C.D.C. is part of what Mr. Trump’s allies would call the administrative state and is in the cross hairs of Project 2025, which proposes breaking up the agency, limiting public health messaging and reducing the data collection that informs good decisions. Mr. Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, but hardly anyone who knows the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that produced the plan, or the former president is taking his claim at face value.
I want to believe Kamala Harris is right when she says “we are not going back” to a time when every calamity leaves us on our own. I don’t want to live in a country that doesn’t hold the health and safety of its citizens in high regard, and I don’t want to be left to make important decisions without guidance from qualified professionals. But for now and for at least the next six months, I don’t. I live in the United States of America — land of bats, land of doctors, land of public health — and that’s worth fighting for.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenWhite
The Cyclic Trope side of the Token Minority. A show might have an all-minority cast, such as focusing on a Black family or a Multinational Team, but the blonde-and-blue-eyed portion of the audience will not be left out, either.
On a Sitcom, they're often either the "uncool" one or the ditz. This is probably because the others are viewed as less Acceptable Targets, but when you really think about the implications of the white member of a diverse group being lame, it starts to seem like a Broken Aesop. On a Black Sitcom they're often comic relief or a Cloud Cuckoolander, though they can be academically smart.
A white member of a multi-ethnic team tends to stand out even more than the traditional Token and is more likely to be lampshaded. When the Very Special Episode about racism comes along, it won't be about them. If the episode is about learning about and respecting someone else's culture, they'll be the one who needs to learn it most, and it's never about their own culture.
In some cases, the token white will be part of a non-racial minority group, such as being disabled or LGBT, or are otherwise part of a demographic which itself has faced discrimination, whether presently or historically, such as Italians, Irish, or Ashkenazic Jews. Being ginger could count as well if the show is set in Europe. Whatever the case, the token white's whiteness might still make them an Acceptable Target, but their own minority status will not, and might give the others something to learn about tolerance.
Rarely the token white might actually double up as a token minority in the racial sense, if the series takes place in countries where white people aren't common. This is particularly apparent in Japanese Media from the mid-to-late Showa era onwards, where the presence of US air bases and increased tourism from Europe and America has increased attention in Japan towards the race. Anime & Manga in particular can be prone to featuring a Token White, though due to the art-styles more often than not taking liberties with ethnic features, Japanese and white characters can be hard to immediately tell apart.
This trope is largely restricted to Western media, although some other countries have their own local variants.
Contrast White Male Lead, in which the sole white character is the lead.
No Real Life Examples, Please!
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Never believed in electoralism anyway
In Middlesborough, 300 far-right protestors marched towards the city’s cenotaph carrying a sign that read: “Tom Jones is Welsh, Axel Rudakubana isn’t.”
However, Anti-racism counter-demonstrators were on the streets of Cardiff for the second successive day on Sunday, as the anti-immigrant groups threatened to hold another protest in the Welsh capital.
On Saturday what was described as a ‘vigil’ following the horrific murders in Southport last Monday, was attended by a small number of right-wing extremists, while an estimated 400 people staged a counter-demonstration outside the Senedd.
“We have to do more than just counter-protest against whoever turns up, we need to put forward an alternative, a positive alternative.” said one anti-far-right protestor.
Today, outside Cardiff Library at 3.55pm, there was tension in the air.
Scenes of violence in Rotherham and Middlesborough were perhaps heavy in the minds of onlookers.
But by 4.01 the tension had all but disappeared. It was clear there was going to be a protest, but not a violent one.
Instead, people held banners calling for unity and respect for all.
One anti-racism campaigner said: “We’re here to take a stand against racism, but also against the causes of racism.”
He offered words of sympathy and condolence to the families affected by the Southport killings but pointed out that: “There’s an attempt by certain people on shall we say the far-right of the political spectrum to exploit that tragedy for political gain.”
One placard read: “Be sad, be angry, just don’t be racist.”
As the afternoon wore on, the counter-protest outside the library grew to a similar size as the day before at the Senedd.
Again, the far-right presence was deterred, but not entirely extinguished with a handful of men loitering around the fringes of the demo.
The chant from the counter-protestors rang out loud and clear:
“We are many, you are few.
“We are Cardiff, who are you?”
In Middlesborough, Cleveland Police have said “a number of arrests” have been made. While in Rotherham South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard has promised they will: “Come after those carrying out this violence with the full force of the law.”
The lib meltdown would be glorious. Usually not a fan of Erdogan or NATO, but this would be so funny
SPOILER: the article itself is not worth reading, it is classic boring, Hillary platitude with no substance
By apes I meant political capital
Another national Presidential election being disenfranchised and not voting for anyone...