JuxtaPippin🥽

Colorado Voter, Proud moderate Democrat. Fuck тяцмр. Fuck Elon.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

A father said to his son:

“You graduated with honors. Here’s a Volkswagen Beetle I bought many years ago… It’s over 50 years old, but before I give it to you, take it to a downtown dealership and ask them how much they’ll offer you.
”The son went to the dealership, came back and said:
“They offered me $10,000 because it looks very worn out.”

The father replied:
“Now take it to a pawn shop.”
The son went to the pawn shop, returned and said:
“They only offered me $1,000 because they said it’s too old.”

Finally, the father told him to take the car to a classic car club.
The son did so, came back and said:
“People at the club offered me $100,000! They said it’s a very rare and highly sought-after car among the members.”

The father then said to his son:
“I wanted you to understand that the right place will value you the right way.
If they don’t appreciate you, don’t get angry... it simply means you’re not in the right place. Those who truly know your worth are the ones who truly value you.
Never stay somewhere that doesn’t recognize your value!”

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Jackie Kennedy was 31 when she decided the White House belonged to the American people. Then she made it the law.

She arrived in 1961 to find the people's house filled with reproductions and department-store furniture, the real treasures sold off or scattered across a century. She laid out the mission in Life magazine that fall: "It would be sacrilege merely to 'redecorate' it—a word I hate. It must be restored. That is a question of scholarship."

So she did the scholarship. In her first weeks she assembled a Fine Arts Committee and began hunting down the lost pieces of every presidency, desk by desk, portrait by portrait. She hired the first curator in the building's history. She founded the White House Historical Association to pay for it all without a dime of tax money. And she pushed Congress to pass the 1961 law that made every historic piece in that house the permanent property of the American people, immune to the whims of whoever lives there next.

Then she showed the country what it owned. On February 14, 1962, she walked America through its house on television. Fifty-six million people watched, a record. If you were a kid in 1962, you saw it in your living room, probably next to your mother.

Outside the East Wing, she started one more project: a garden, designed with her friend Bunny Mellon. She never got to finish it. In April 1965, Lady Bird Johnson completed the work and dedicated it to her predecessor. "There could be only one name for this garden," she said at the dedication. "This garden, every detail of it, reflects the unfailing taste of the gifted and gracious Jacqueline Kennedy."

Last October, Trump's crews took about a week to demolish the East Wing, the First Ladies' wing, making room for a roughly 90,000-square-foot ballroom. The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden went with it, razed to bare dirt. He had promised, on camera: "It'll be near it but not touching it." His press secretary had promised: "nothing will be torn down."

The builder's own estimate now puts the ballroom at $600 million, more than $300 million of it from taxpayer-funded accounts, despite his pledge that taxpayers wouldn't pay a cent. The private money comes from donors including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir.

When Americans were polled on the demolition, they opposed it two to one. Her grandson, Jack Schlossberg, answered: "My grandmother saw America in full color — Trump sees black and white."

But here is what the wrecking ball could not reach. The Red Room, the Blue Room, the State Dining Room: every room she restored still stands untouched in the residence. And the collection she assembled can never be sold, hauled off, or handed to a donor, because the law she won in 1961 made it yours, permanently. It would take an act of Congress to undo what a 31-year-old First Lady did.

He got a wing and a garden.

The house is still yours. She made sure of it, sixty-four years ago.
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[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republican Senator Jeff Flake just announced that he is endorsing Senator Jon Ossoff. This is how you build a winning coalition in a tough swing state.

[JuxtaPippin🥽 @JuxtaPippin]

@itsmepspsps @cutelipssx It has been look up Dunning Krueger

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@amytheartist @BehrPaint And you shouldn’t be painting at 32 weeks pregnant either unless you have really good ventilation. That’s some pretty good procrastination.

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@amytheartist @BehrPaint Who in the hell buys Behr Paint??? I stopped buying that years ago. It’s crap. I only buy Benjamin Moore. Funny enough I just finished painting.

[Sen. Susan Collins @SenatorCollins]

I have carefully reviewed Todd Blanche’s qualifications to be Attorney General. This includes his record and responses to questions from Senators at the Department of Justice Appropriations hearing, his confirmation hearing, and in the weeks that followed.

While I believe Mr. Blanche is a capable lawyer, the Department of Justice has become increasingly political.

Mr. Blanche has taken several actions that have further eroded the Department’s independence, and that is the basis for my vote to oppose his confirmation:

Mr. Blanche approved an order to shield the President, his sons, and the family business from IRS audits, protections unavailable to other American taxpayers.

He approved the creation of a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.

He promised an anti-abortion organization that he would seek to prohibit the mailing of abortion medication to women nationwide.

Under his leadership, the Department attempted to indict Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin over their ill-advised, but constitutionally protected, videos encouraging resistance to unlawful orders.

More than 1,200 former Department of Justice employees have opposed his nomination, arguing that he has undermined the institution.

For these reasons, I will vote against this nomination.

[JuxtaPippin🥽 @JuxtaPippin]

@KebbelChri25685 @HealthRanger OMFG you state that assuming the Covid vaccine is a live vaccine…. They don’t make live vaccines much anymore. Take a look at the development of the shingles vaccine for instance.

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

I know there are a lot of folks wondering about the significance of August 3 regarding a potential Senate vacancy. I want everyone to know that this date has no legal impact on my options should there be a vacancy this year. Worth a reminder, right now, there’s one less vote for the SAVE Act, Trump’s war with Iran, or the potential replacement of a SCOTUS justice.

[JuxtaPippin🥽 @JuxtaPippin]

@lanechanged I am 100% pro vaccine. But one problem with your post is the vaccine did not keep you from spreading Covid. The one who needed the vaccine was grandmother. You get the vaccine to make Covid less deadly for yourself. And mask to prevent spread to grandmother.

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@VinoNStrosGal No offense, but not buying the story. Unless you’re independently wealthy. Most people that have chronic illness aren’t out buying a new Tesla with full self driving. They have a hard time going to work and take time off, they save all their pennies b/c health insurance and cost.

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@GracefulEtheria @justalexoki You can sunburn your eyes idiot. You can get enough sun in your eyes just walking around, but if you’re going to spend the day in the sun, specifically you should be wearing sunglasses.

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@Valuable @justalexoki So lie to your kid about some bullshit? How about just saying put on the sunscreen so you don’t get cancer?

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@NoblestCalling @justalexoki The point is you do it before they turn seven years old

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@PrimatePulse @JamieBonkiewicz I’m willing to bet it’s just gonna be a few years after he dies. Can’t wait for that documentary.

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@MamaMqt @_Blue_Earth_ @Notwokenow Hospital staff have to abide by HIPPA laws. And if an employee was caught talking to journalist, they would be fired. Read up on HIPAA.

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@martin_casado It’s not just you. I think AI is definitely making people dumber if not lazier and dumber.

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Is it just me. Or are people are losing the ability to think at roughly the same rate as the models are getting smarter?

[JuxtaPippin🥽 @JuxtaPippin]

@libertarian_ass @BraddrofliT I agree with you if you are aware of the special election deadline ending on Mon. The thing that doesn’t make sense to me is a special election would be a republican candidate and I think they worry that Massey would win. But I don’t think the special election is the only reason