Octopus Overlords

Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:51 pm All to lull their enemies into a false sense of security.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:17 pm

Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:59 am The superintendent of my son's school has a doctorate in (something education.) If you ever, ever fail to call her 'doctor', you'll be reminded. Forcefully. And that goes double for the students in the district.

Which is why I never call her 'doctor' and never will.

Of course, as has been the whole thing with the Dr. Biden "controversy", the question becomes would you have the same forceful reaction if the superintendent was a man?

Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:15 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:17 pm

Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:59 am The superintendent of my son's school has a doctorate in (something education.) If you ever, ever fail to call her 'doctor', you'll be reminded. Forcefully. And that goes double for the students in the district.

Which is why I never call her 'doctor' and never will.

Of course, as has been the whole thing with the Dr. Biden "controversy", the question becomes would you have the same forceful reaction if the superintendent was a man?

Absolutely. I have no doubt that she's got her degree. My objection is that she's using it to try and force people to respect her. If I know you have a doctorate and act in a manner that benefits your position, I'll absolutely call you 'Doctor' out of respect, whether you ask me to or not. But if you demand that I call you that so that everyone knows you're important, forget it. It's an honorific, not a social obligation, and I'm not showing you respect to boost your ego.

And that applies regardless of reproductive hardware.

Alefroth wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:37 pm I think he's referring to the superintendent.

Holman wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:18 pm Oof! Sorry about that.

I posted in haste, which I should never do.

Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:59 am The superintendent of my son's school has a doctorate in (something education.) If you ever, ever fail to call her 'doctor', you'll be reminded. Forcefully. And that goes double for the students in the district.

Which is why I never call her 'doctor' and never will.

The legal action alleges Coomer, who lives in Colorado and serves as Dominion’s director of product strategy and security, has been the target of a false conspiracy that has harmed his reputation and left him facing threats. The lawsuit also accuses the defendants of intentionally inflicting emotional distress against him and seeks unspecified damages and an order barring them from continuing to spread erroneous information.

Also listed as defendants in the lawsuit are Sidney Powell, an attorney who has represented Trump, and Michelle Malkin, a conservative commentator from Colorado Springs. One America News Network and its correspondent, Chanel Rion, as well as the conservative website Gateway Pundit are also targeted by the legal action.

Hrdina wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:16 am

Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:59 am The superintendent of my son's school has a doctorate in (something education.) If you ever, ever fail to call her 'doctor', you'll be reminded. Forcefully. And that goes double for the students in the district.

Which is why I never call her 'doctor' and never will.

The Super at my kids' previous school district would also get up in your business if you failed to call him doctor.

At one of our meetings with him to figure out why the district was not providing the required services for our second son, he said something to my wife along the lines of "Mrs {Hrdina}, you're getting too emotional". Her calm response was "That's DOCTOR {Hrdina}". I enjoyed watching him get smacked him with his own stick.

Jaymann wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:24 pm Countdown to Biden inauguration as President:

27 DAYS

Agolf stiffs the military by vetoing their raises because he wants to retain confederate general names on US bases, yet he still expects them to answer his call for a military coup.

Daehawk wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 10:42 pm Courts threw out another GOP try to limit voting by having ballot drop off boxes closed after business hours. Evil assholes will try anything.

On Wednesday evening, as he was flying to Florida for his vacation, Trump retweeted a call from one of his supporters for Pence to refuse to ratify the Electoral College results on January 6 -- a prospect that has captured his imagination even if it remains completely impossible.

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Earlier this week, Pence joined a meeting between Trump and a sizable group of House conservatives where the long-shot effort to overturn the election results in January was discussed.

The discussion focused on Trump's baseless claims and conspiracies that the election was stolen from him, participants said, and lawmakers emerged confident that there were would be a contingent of House and Senate Republicans who would join the effort and prompt a marathon debate on the floor on January 6 that would spill into January 7.

The Republican who is spearheading the effort, Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, said Pence attended "different parts" of the meeting.
"I believe we have multiple senators, and the question is not if, but how many," Brooks said, something that would defy the wishes of Senate Republican leaders who are eager to move on and are urging senators not to participate since doing so could force them to cast a politically toxic vote against Trump.

Brooks told CNN on Monday night that they would seek to challenge the election in at least six battleground states, saying he needs to coordinate "as many as 72" five-minute speeches that GOP lawmakers would make that day.

Unagi wrote: Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:23 am Does anyone know what the story is re: Justice Robert's shiner?
Is it a photoshop?

Is there some story that Lin Wood has heard that the shiner came from that he is holding back (just being coy) - or is this something that goes without saying because we all are supposed to understand the implications of the photo?

Zarathud wrote: Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:31 pm The math in the illustration shows the Republicans losing by a 2:1 margin. So even if this crazy theory is correct, why are they complaining? Or having a run-off?

Grifman wrote: Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:17 pm Still riding the Trump train of insanity:

https://twitter.com/lifesafeast/status/ ... 61027?s=21

Grifman wrote: Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:17 pm Still riding the Trump train of insanity:

https://twitter.com/lifesafeast/status/ ... 61027?s=21