Hi everyone.
Some of you did not believe this day would come, but Sh3lving Phas3 Thr33 is now compl3t3d. Ch3ck!
It just took planning, hard work, and hiring a guy off Taskrabbit with an impact driver.
That was the problem. My drill just didn't have the power. I was going to buy one but then thought, damn, it's Sunday and the drill won't get here for two days, let me just hire someone who knows which way "forward" is.
I am relieved it's finally done.
Hope you are all having days as good as mine.
The phrase has troubled liberals who think it is a call for a return to an America before civil rights, gay rights, and women's rights. But I have a more generous interpretation, one that is truer to my experience of Donald Trump as he is today. "Make America Great Again" recalls a nation brimming with vitality, with a can-do spirit, with hope and a belief in itself. It was an America that was beginning to confront its darker shadows, could acknowledge the injustice in its past and present, yet at the same time could celebrate its successes. It was a nation of broad prosperity, the world's most vibrant middle class, and a[n] idealistic belief (though not consistently applied) in freedom, justice, and democracy. It was a nation that led the world in innovation, productivity, and technology. And it was the healthiest country in the world. I have talked to many Trump supporters. I have talked with his inner circle. I have talked to the man himself. This is the America they want to restore.
The useless Bitter Clingers of the Kennedy clan -- those without ambition or prospects, so they cling bitterly to their mistresses and pill addictions -- of course are denouncing a family member for... murder?
Nah, they've shrugged off murders before. Michael Skakel is still a Kennedy in good standing.
Manslaughter? Nah, no big deal. You can't prove Teddy Kennedy was drunk when he drove off that bridge. And sure, the fact that he went missing for a day might suggest he just wanted to process the alcohol out of his system, but you can't prove that. Or prove that Mary Jo Kopechne was still alive when Ted Kennedy callously abandoned her to her shallow grave of water.
Adultery? Trading women like pimps? LOL.
But endorsing a Republican is a True Sin.
Multiple members of the Kennedy family denounced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to endorse former President Donald Trump, calling the move a "betrayal."
"We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride," said a statement signed by five of the former independent presidential candidate's siblings.
"We believe in Harris and Walz," the statement continued. "Our brother Bobby's decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story."
RFK Jr. suspends presidential campaign and endorses Donald Trump
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The statement includes signatures from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy.
Joe Kennedy III, a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, reacted to the statement, sharing it on X and writing that it was "well said."
Separately, the former candidate's cousin Jack Schlossberg said that he has "never been less surprised in my life."
"Been saying it for over a year -- RFKjr is for sale, works for Trump. Bedfellows and loving it," he posted to X. "Kamala Harris is for the people -- the easiest decision of all time just got easier."
Ugh, look at these ugly people. Ticks on the belly of society.
This was when Joe Biden was still a candidate:
I know that's Saruman and he isn't speaking of the Kennedy clan, but he is still a wise man, and his words are as meaningful now as they were when they were first said in the Third Age.