GiqueCee
GiqueCee's JournalI find...
... bad grammar from people who should know better, especially professional writers, to be exasperating. I've seen journalists, novelists, and screenwriters succumb to this repeatedly. What, you may ask, has your bloomers in a bunch? It's this: The use of the non-word, ORIENTATE.
The word is a perversion of "orient", as in orienting one's self with a compass. "ATION" is a suffix, as in presentation. When you make a presentation, do you presentate it? God, I hope not. When you converse with someone, do you conversate? Please...
So if you were dropped on your head, you may very well suffer concussion, and when you stood up, you might be momentarily disoriented, but you would NOT be disorientated. It is worth noting that the algorithm that tried to correct me when I wrote "presentate" and "conversate" did not correct "ORIENTATE", or "disorientated". BAD algorithm.
I've found that the English seem to have a fetish for this grammatical irregularity. I read it in British novels, and hear it on British TV shows and movies with disturbing regularity. I mean, the English should be better than most, especially their colonial cousins, at speaking English, wouldn't you think?
Sigh... I guess it's just another sign of the inexorable decline of civilization. Or is that "civilizate"?
Oh, never mind. 
Talk about a tempest in a teapot...
... the MAGA room-temperature IQs wallowing in the malodorous squalor of their mother's basements are really scraping the bottom of the barrel – Cracker or otherwise – for something to get their bloomers in a bunch over, this IS the bottom, and I can pretty much guarantee you that not one these repulsive incels even knows the definition of WOKE.
For those MAGA-lumps that can actually read, I offer a little enlightenment:
"[To be] aware of, and actively attentive to, important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)"
– Merriam-Webster Dictionary
If THAT offends you, I recommend that you take a long walk off a short plank, as you offer nothing of value to the gene pool.
So we got a new baby today!
Honey is a 2-3 year-old rescue from Texas. She's about 40 pounds or so, sweet, calm, and curious. She's acclimating well, and is cool with the cats. She's a rich honey-colored mix of hound and shepherd we think, and we're really happy to have her join the family. The cats are a little more reserved, but then they're cats.
Regarding the 14th Amendment...
... There are specific procedures for amending the Constitution, and Trump issuing one of his asinine edicts via Executive Order ain’t one of ‘em. He is a pathological liar who considers himself the king of America. He isn’t. He’s just a loudmouthed asshole with delusions of grandeur. Not even the grotesquely corrupt Roberts Court can decree Birthright Citizenship null and void.
And shithead should consider the fact that half his spawn would be subject to deportation even if he could rescind Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, WHICH. HE. CANNOT. DO!
Make America a failure...
... is the prime directive that Vladimir Putin gave to Trump, the Republican assholes that visited him in Moscow on July 4th, 2018, and, by extension, ALL of those who commit treason on a daily basis by serving Trump – NOT America – because Trump's malignant narcissism means that consideration of others is not a concept that ever crosses his mind. And in that fevered mind, everyone and everything is supposed to exist to serve him, and when that doesn't happen, for whatever reason, he lashes out with malicious vengeance, because he is a psychotic monster.
Trump is evil, but he is Putin's puppet. A weakened America ruled by Trump will not be able stand in the way of Putin's objective of expanding his domain by the military invasion of neighboring countries once under Soviet control, and then the rest of Europe once he has control over the military forces of the newly subjugated former Soviet states. He will not stop until he dies, either naturally, or by defenestration, which would serve the fucker right.
Trump is key to Putin's plan, and must be stopped at any cost. Failure to do so WILL result in America becoming a Russian satellite totally dominated by Putin's ruthless psychopathy. Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields will look like a rose garden in comparison to the horrors that Putin will visit upon us through Trump and his malignant minions. If you doubt it for a single second, then you're not paying attention. In only four months we have seen unspeakable crimes committed by the ICE Gestapo, and they're just getting warmed up.
With Trump, loyalty is a one-way street: you are loyal to him, NOT the other way around. Ever. Even his most slavishly devoted sycophants will be fed to the wood chipper as soon as they are no longer of any use to him. We've already seen it happen countless times, and those True Believers who refuse to believe their own eyes will be the next to be disappeared. After his critics are murdered, or sent to El Salvadoran prisons.
Trump voters, the death of America will be on YOU.
*Thanks to Irish Dem for suggesting that I make this an OP.
This IS the Republican Party...
... mindless malice, deliberate cruelty, blatant defiance of the rule of law, up to and including Trump's refusal to abide by Supreme Court decisions, Gestapo-like ICE raids on private homes with NO evidence, and NO warrants, while they steal property and cash.
Trump is THEIR monster; they own it. They started out lovin' it; they wanted to rule over the ashes of what was once a great nation, but then the consequences of Trump's self-serving greed and malice began to impact them, and now they're just too chickenshit to stop him.
Can't help but wonder why, when they know that light at the end of the tunnel is a train, they refuse to get off the tracks. Maybe they're more afraid of what Trump's brain-dead "base" might visit upon them, than they are of a certain, and very messy, death.
And then there's Vlad. That boy is nuts. And deadly. Ya gotta know that he's got his blood-soaked hands in this, probably up to his elbows. Would he Drop The Big One to see what happens? Definitely a possibility we should not discount.
On the flip side, a very dedicated and courageous few – TOO few – are standing up to that evil sonofabitch, but he's just itchin' for any excuse to declare martial law, 'cause then it's game over. Or so he thinks.
In the immortal words of Calvin and Hobbes, Updates As Events Warrant.
Here's a question...
... I've yet to hear anyone address: How are all the state-run unemployment agencies going to handle the tidal wave of claims from now-jobless skilled workers and functionaries that are descending on offices across the country? Add to that the inevitable slashing of federal funding to the states, and there just might be a bit of a problem, doncha think?
Hmmm... it'd be fun to watch Musk get tag-teamed in a cage match with an endless line of civil servants he fired. I'd definitely pay to see that!
I was told...
... by a helpful fellow Duer that I should use Imgur.com to upload images to DU, but Imgur doesn't appear to offer any guidance to achieve this. I'm also having a hard time uploading photos from my iPhone to my Mac (OS Ventura 13.7.4). I use a PC at work and have no difficulties whatsoever loading pix directly from my phone to Photoshop. Not so with my Mac. Many bad words were said.
Any advice will be immensely appreciated.
Our local bear has awakened from his nap...
... and he is HUNGRY! Our tenant forgot to bring in her brand new steel bird feeder the other night. Blackie crumpled it like tin foil. People forget just how monstrously strong bears are. A few years ago, some coworkers and I watched a bear nearly tip over a full-to-the-brim industrial dumpster. The garbage truck groans lifting that thing. The bear hoisted it like it was a box of cornflakes.
I got a picture of our bear early one morning as he sat on the wall of our stone patio not ten feet away from me, with only the French doors between us. Lord of all he surveyed. If I ever get around to figuring out how to do it, I'll post that photo.
I'm curious...
Can anyone here navigate the Machiavellian intrigue that explains why Musk's pimple-faced minions aren't being arrested for their blatant crimes?
Just because the Orange shitstain says that he, and only he, decides what the law is, doesn't make it true.
These malicious little bastards are wreaking havoc on a scale never before witnessed, and we're letting them get away with it? WTAF?
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