Good morning and welcome to yet another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Let’s get started.
Cheerfully stolen off of Facedouche:
I never figured the world to be such a fan of Charley Pride that they’d dedicate an entire month to him, but that works for me.
He was an amazing singer and musician.
In commemoration of Pride month, I’ll play one of Charlie’s hits.
Let’s see who we have in the HHD folder.
Blast from the past.
Jude Law.
Scott Caan. Looks like his dad.
Last, but not least.
Squishy hugs, and y’all have a good day.
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Charlie Pride Month … love it!
Is the Easter egg Heather Locklear?
Whoever it is that picture provides an interesting juxtaposition between her slutty attire and pose with the giant crucifix shadowing her exposed upper boob area.
It’s nice outside but the sun hasn’t burned through the fog yet. I went out with the doggos when they did their business at 0445 and sat on the deck enjoying the moment. The moment of being comfortable in a t-shirt and pajama pants, not the moment of watching dogs do their business. That shit happens year round.
Good morning. In discussions with fam about Father’s Day venues.
Dad: “I want lobster.”
Well, okay then!
wakey wakey
I have a lot to accomplish today. And I got pulled in to coach this morning. Its fine. Its all fine.
My orioles are almost up to half a jar of jelly a day.
Agreed, I can get behind a Charlie Pride month. Sounds good Leon. I woke up this morning wondering if you were part of the John Deere maintenance battle.
Car In, you got me thinking about jams, jellies, preserves and such. I while back, I got a hankering for some Boysenberry preserves, I hadn’t had any since Mom and Dad lived in CA and the Knotts Berry farm stuff was easy to find. So after a quick online search, I came across Dillman Farm Boysenberry Preserves out of Bloomington, IN, which was ordered through Walmart 6 pint jars at a time. NP, I just gave a few jars to my BIL who immediately fell in love with it. Tasty stuff. Appropriate warning to those that may be affected, it does have small seeds in it.
rather have crab. maybe I’ve had shitty red lobster lobster
do not think I’ve had boysenberry
People don’t want their Sin Flags (thanks Ace) defaced, but they put them on the pavement. Ideology aside, anything down there is going to collect marks.
We don’t seem to use jelly or jam anymore and I am on strict low carb now so maybe I should feed mine to orioles too. My aunt always gives us some homemade preserves at Christmas.
There are different opinions on the origins of the boysenberry, I think most agree there is a loganberry somewhere in the family tree, so whatever. I judge the taste to be somewhere between a blackberry and a blueberry, sweet with just a little tart, YMMV
Would be interesting to paint Charlie Pride on a crosswalk and dare an alphabet person to drive or walk on it. Prolly start a race war.
If dad wants lobster, it should be lobster.
nothing looks more garish that the pride shit painted on sidewalks , steps, and roads.
also if it’s on the ground it’s not a mural
We are going to end up with an auto market like that of Cuba. My F-150 is 25 years old and I’ll repair it until the frame breaks.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/gm-trims-2024-ev-sales-forecast-amid-slower-than-expected-demand.html
Cash for clunkers was one of the worst programs ever devised by government, IMO. It may have helped the big 3 a little, but it destroyed the used car market.
The pride shit is where you need to walk for the same reason one puts a chip on one’s shoulder. They need a reason to REEEEEEEEEEE.
They should make it illegal to drive over pride flags. GO AROUND HATERS.
My only Deere is the lawn tractor. I won’t buy anything bigger from them, ever. I do sort of want to learn enough about their control boards to help folks ‘jailbreak’ them to get things done. There’s a Big Ag push toward monocrop, fully-mechanized ‘farming’ that amounts to strip-mining topsoil for the sake of GMO* corn and soybeans, and John Deere is fully signed on to be the tractor of choice for that monstrous effort. I say ‘monstrous’ because I’m watching a fourth-gen farmer in Iowa who runs 2000 acres with a 5 man crew and several million in machines and barns and he’s forecast to lose just shy of $1M this year working in that system. It kills the soil and slowly breaks the farmers so they eventually have to sell the land.
*Forget all health concerns I might have, the genetics are patented and the seeds are terminal. Save seed and plant? Farmers can’t really do that anymore. They buy seeds, they buy fertilizer, they buy herbicide, they buy pesticide, then they have to do it all again, every year, until they go fully bankrupt and have to sell land because it’s all they have left.
We’ve got a Deere skid steer. I had to replace a seal in the final drive on one side yesterday. Other than that, it’s been great. I went with Deere because the dealer in Albuquerque is really good to work with. This is the construction side, rather than the farm equipment side, so I guess it’s different.
I no longer live in farming country so I’m kinda out of touch. Who’s still in the farm equipment business besides John Deere? Is IH/Case still in the game? I saw a Massey Ferguson dealer somewhere in Arizona when I was driving through last month which shocked me. Prior to that I hadn’t seen an MF tractor in 30 years. My older brother has a Kubota which is kind of a hobby more than anything else, but it’s only about a 50 horse tractor if that.
I just wish Ford had kept going with their tractors. A bunch of those still run and have been since WW2 (with maintenance, but you can actually do it, and the tractor doesn’t tattle on you or refuse to function until you call the dealer).
https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/six-suspected-terrorists-with-isis-ties-arrested-in-sting-operation/
These motherfuckers are lucky that got arrested in sanctuary cities. They’ll be back in the game by the end of the week.
Kubota owns a big part of the small farm market, that’s what we have. JD, MF, and Case are the ones I see rolling through cornfields here.
heh, Sin Flag Crosswalks are better than speed bumps, no one wants to leave a mark. Well, some people don’t. I’ve accelerated a bit hard on the Ames one, out front of the cop shop.
We’re really blue. They are changing 4 lane roads to 3 with bike lanes that no one uses.
including a big brown stripe on the pride flag is pretty funny, to me.
Contrary to popular belief, the mark for Paige Spiranic is 6, not 6.5
https://x.com/PaigeSpiranac/status/1800873875032735865
wait, there’s food grade hydrogen peroxide? You can use it in a Neti pot?
https://x.com/BarbaraOneillAU/status/1800163781063893016
Case International is still a player. Fendt from Germany has places in Iowa, my nephew works for this one from a town of about 500: https://www.robinsonimplement.com/
Massey is a player.
Brother owns International, Agco, and Gleaner.
I should say my brother owns that equipment, not the companies
How can NASA do Pride outreach and Muslim outreach at the same time?
leon, are you watching Cole the Cornstar? Quite a mansion he has going.
I am. I’m the oddball who’s only watching the farming videos and not the house stuff.
As of today, my farm is more profitable than his by a country mile. At least this year.
I had to laugh at the protester holding up a “Allah is gay” sign. That’ll end well.
my brother gets a chuckle out of Cole and his merry band of idiots. Drives him nuts when they spill corn all over the place and walk in it.
Says he’s spent a million on the house so far.
Gay Patriot is always good for celebrations
https://x.com/GayPatriot/status/1800613296527077387
They are changing 4 lane roads to 3 with bike lanes that no one uses.
That’s already happened all over Ann Arbor. Let’s sink a shit ton of money into streets that the users don’t pay for so they can enjoy their little hobby in their dumbass spandex and queer helmets.
Port of Baltimore is open!
https://x.com/thehill/status/1800874742158610756
Saw a Rivian on the road with a “Who is John Galt?” license plate frame this morning. Don’t know if it’s a joke or just cluelessness in the contrast.
Pulled the trigger and put in for an appointment on looking at the trailer I’ve had in mind. If all goes well my couch-surfing days end with June, though some juggling on the financing details will be needed to make it all work.
yep HS, and meanwhile they still ride on the sidewalks and yell at me walking my dog.
Hope it goes well, BroTim.
Right. To add insult to injury every intersection in the downtown area is now posted “No Turn On Red”.
Fuck the car drivers, it’s just us who are paying the road taxes.
Education has gone downhill since it went federal, and they are way too powerful
https://x.com/nettermike/status/1800717319389466984
Do you have green crosswalks, where the cars have to stay back and let bikes ahead, so they can go first across the street?
Had an old JD 4020 and a sorta old JD 2350 back in the day. Pre electronics stuff. Well, the 2350 did have a circuit board that you had to smack sometime to get it to start. The 4020 ran the JD mower conditioner and the New Holland baler. I used the 2350 for tedding and raking hay.
My understanding is that anything JD makes under 100hp is built in factories in France. The US plants only make the really big machines.
I had a small AGCO ST30 that I used mostly for pulling hay wagons or the manure spreader.
Now, I’ve still got the AGCO for the snowblower, brush hog, chipper, and box scraper, and a new Kubota with loader and backhoe.
My next door neighbor in Vermont was a dairy farmer (about 100 head herd), and one of his favorite jokes was that if he won the lottery, he’d just keep farming until the money ran out.
Comment by Jay in Ames on June 12, 2024 9:13 am
How can NASA do Pride outreach and Muslim outreach at the same time?
. . . . . .
They promise the Muslims that they can throw the gays off a really high space station.
Do you have green crosswalks, where the cars have to stay back and let bikes ahead, so they can go first across the street?
No, we paint the whole fucking bike lane green – the whole fucking thing – full length – intersection to intersection – GREEN.
We also have plastic stanchions that divide the bike lane from the icky car lane.
Why would you need food grade hydrogen peroxide? I would think the stuff you buy in the drugstores is pharmaceutical grade already, no? I can’t imagine putting that stuff up my nose without diluting it a lot more.
Besides, what you can buy is already really diluted versions. Like 1-2%. The concentrated versions will set anything organic on fire. We used it in the Dow plant I worked at, and the story was that if you got it on your leather steel toed boots, you wouldn’t be able to get the boots off fast enough to keep your feet from getting burned off. We handled a lot of chemicals, but 70% hydrogen peroxide was one all the operators respected.
IT BURNS!!! IT BURNS!!!
Speaking of hot dogs and Joey Chestnut:
https://shorturl.at/hNkIG
When I was a teenager it was the rage to put a blond streak in your hair with peroxide. It was the cream variety that beauticians used.
Here’s me sans the blond streak, but we had them from time to time.
https://thehostages.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1964.jpg
It’s getting hard to find old Ford 8N’s. At least affordable ones. Used to be able to pick one up for about $2000 or less, depending on how good the rubber was on them.
Some outfit was buying them up cheap and sending them to Africa as some sort of charitable outreach to modernize African farming methods. They picked the 8N because it was cheap and easy to repair.
But I don’t think they are that useful anyway. Only about 20 hp. Make much demand on them, and they’ll be overheating. At least the one I had was that way. It mostly sat around taking up space.
From my little decade-long foray into family farming, I’ve learned that farming is tough enough just dealing with weather. Having old undependable equipment is not something you want to add to the mix. When good haying weather comes, you can’t afford to be laid up with busted equipment waiting for parts.
The John Deere plant in Ankeny is HUGE! They make combines there.
The peroxide blonde thing came around again when I was in high school. There was a product called Sun-in that was supposed to bleach your hair. If you did it wrong on brown or black hair, it was orange. I briefly talked about doing it, but Mom shot that down. Said I’d fry my hair, the roots would show pretty quickly, and (I have no idea if this is true) Jews did that to fool the Nazis.
Handsome man, Hotspur.
That turtleneck thing was called a dickie. It was just the neck part with a little bit of cloth that went under your shirt.
Goddamn, we were weird.
Our hay guy’s baler went out in the middle of our first cutting about 2 years back. That was a nightmare. Balers are amazing but it takes very, very little to cripple them. We ended up having to rent a round baler and then sell them because we had no way to move the darn things beyond rolling them carefully. That was before we had the Kubota and a set of forks.
I only knew about dickies because of a scene in Real Genius where one of the hapless antagonists is wearing one without a shirt over it yet. It conveyed “this character is a hapless dork” perfectly.
KENT? Have you been touching yourself?
Chaotic Australian Shed Chemist playing with peroxide.
Here’s another weird little bit of dumbassery – skinny ties and suits without lapels. LOL
https://thehostages.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/12grade.jpg
I wonder if I could use that to clear the vines taking over my fence.
well, food grade lye can be used in pretzel production, but I use baking soda.
Dickies are (or at least were) pretty common in marching band uniforms for years. Basically just faux texture for gaps in the jacket. Never bothered to dig in to the why of it.
leon, I’m gonna try vinegar, 1 gal with 1 cup salt and a dash of soap, for weed killer. Guy said he used it on fencelines to clear weeds from electric fence.
Back in the day, the prints we made in the office were made from paper that was photosensitive, so first it went though a light chamber with the drawing (on vellum) over it, then the print paper was fed into a chamber where it was exposed to ammonia fumes. That turned the yellow parts to blue.
Man, that shit was strong. It would make your eyes water and your nose run. It probably wasn’t bad for our health.
I’ve used vinegar and it was a little hit-or-miss for me, but I’m not sure I got strong enough stuff, and I never added salt. Is the soap just for the glycerine to make it a little sticky?
But do you remember how good those pieces of paper that came of the mimeograph machines smelled?
Yeah, and how cold to the touch they were.
Paul Ryan and Neil Cavuto having a moment after Trump bashes Ryan again
https://x.com/amconmag/status/1800632872727879950
yes, the soap helps it stick. Supposed to use early morning or late afternoon. I’m just using the cheap vinegar.
Yeah. The mimeograph process used alcohols, and then there was evaporative cooling as the alcohols evaporated.
gonna use it in rock garden here.
The canister on Mostly Peaceful Protest gets super cold when it’s running. Ice on the outside if it’s humid enough.
I probably first saw the blueprint making process when I was about 6, my neighbor was an architect or something and he had a really simple setup in his little shop. The first big engineering/surveying firm I worked for had a high speed machine that would crank out a 36″x48″ blueprint in about 30 seconds, you were only limited by the width, the only limit on length was the size of the paper, which you could also buy by the roll. A lot of the drafting was done on sepia or vellum, but migrated over time to mylar, which was more dimensionally stable and didn’t have the yellowing problem. Nowadays, a lot of the companies don’t use blueprint machines anymore, they just generate the drawings on the computer and print them on a large format printer. For old hard copy maps, they just scan them and print them. And of course, you have the advantage of color.
A lot of the really old mine maps were drawn on linen, and stored rolled up in a metal can or a large flat drawer. I have seen a lot of them in company offices and map archives.
I never made the switch to mylar from vellum. A few reasons –
Oh, and maylar was about ten times the price.
BTW, Paul Ryan is still a cunt.
*flaps a crisp $5 bill on desk*
There’s video of him having a private hot dog eating contest, grinning gaily the whole time.
I’ve got a friend who works as a recruiter for a company that owns about 20 John Deere dealerships in the Lubbock down towards Adeline area. John Deere has a cotton stripper now that makes round bails instead of just dumping the cotton in bulk as was done for 50 years. Makes it easy peasy to transport to the gins. He told me a few years back that the price tag was $900K. I said, “Kent, there’s no fucking way anybody could ever strip enough cotton to make that cost vs revenue ratio work out.” He said nobody ever buys one, they just rent it. WTF????
Seems like that’s ideal for JD. It’s a revenue generator and the people using it are under no illusion of ownership.
Mylar does yellow, and it can be sensitive to heat.
Four years ago a donkey named Diesel went missing in Wyoming.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1800892655058235794
I stand corrected Roamy.
Maybe JD’s model is the closest they can get to the subscription model, which is what most of the big software companies seem to be doing.
I h8 SaaS. It’s as awful as pay-to-win microtransactions in games.
And critically, it doesn’t fucking work.
“Local virus scanner for incoming files? Nope, no longer supported. Here’s the quote for 500 API calls per day per month to our cloud-based virus-scanning service. Oh, you’ll have to upload the file you want scanned and burn bandwidth doing it and wait for the answer, too. This is much better than your old command line tool. For us.”
How does that API work?
By running the same fucking command line tool in their environment and sending you the output. Eventually.
My new idea for a farming reality show, the MFer’s versus the IH8er’s. Which side will the JDer’s take? Tune in at 8 on HGTV to find out. Any takers?
Can’t they all lose?
Haven’t seen or heard anything about Mahindra since they were buying ad blocks on EIB.
https://www.catholicleague.org/pope-worried-about-fags-in-the-vatican/
seen a couple Mahindra tractors on homestead channels.
And yet he’s always buddy-buddy with “Father” James Martin, SJ.
If Fr Martin doesn’t ding full alert on your gaydar, get it recalibrated.
not homestead and not new, but a mahindra tractor fixed up!
I’m sorry, that was wrong, probably counts as gossip.
But, um, it’s obvious. Even if he weren’t constantly talking about it and doing things even Francis says “don’t do that” like doing “blessing ceremonies” for same-sex couples in church in what to all appearances is a wedding.
Pope Francis continues to promote the Lavender Mafia. Dans first concert was Charley Pride.
Comment withheld.
BPT is real, yo.
Member was directed to me by a Mexican hire. She was upset that we have non-English speaking associate. She moved to the US as a 9 year old from Salzburg. She’s voting Trump.
Kinda looking at Lumps but not staring:
https://prepschooldaily.blogspot.com/
Breaded Pork Tenderloin? mmmm delicious
I just got to a part of Infinite Jest, published in 1996, that predicts the advent of streaming. Nice.
Sorry, here is a cleaner link, the one I put up before may not work tomorrow.
https://prepschooldaily.blogspot.com/2024/06/survival-gardening-heirloom-v-hybrid.html
Sobek, have you heard of or read “House of Leaves”? It’s another one of those…different books you seem to like. I started it but didn’t get very far. I’ll try it again sometime.
Garland held in contempt, DOJ writes a memo that says congress can’t prosecute him
https://x.com/WSJ/status/1800996522789568974
If we were democrats, Garland would be under arrest for not releasing the Brandon/Hur tapes. Let’s see if they have any guts.
Isn’t the DOJ currently arguing that Trump is guilty of crimes for doing his job as president?
I know the Brandon campaign is pushing hard to get people to threaten SCOTUS justices for possibly deciding that the president can legally execute the office.
In other legal DOJ news:
https://babylonbee.com/news/merrick-garland-threatens-to-arrest-anyone-who-says-his-doj-is-corrupt
The trump video at the end is great. I just listened to it for the second time.
I loved House of Leaves. I did a whole Sunday post about Poe’s album Haunted, and discussed the tie-ins with the book.
https://i.imgur.com/S1ktezy.mp4
I have that book. Haven’t made it far.
My pair of stools for stepping over the backyard fence to get to the chickens have finally completely disintegrated. I have a lot of scrap lumber laying around, but nothing is really the right dimension for making a new set. I either need to get out and buy another 2×6 or 2×8 or find some better solution. I’d like to put a gate in the fence, but that’s a lot more work and I don’t know when I’ll have time. I should look for a handyman.
So I’ve been looking for a new author / series to start reading, and Insty talked about these dudes today:
https://instapundit.com/652852/
SO I FINALLY FINISHED J.N. CHANEY & JONATHAN BRAZEES’ Sentenced to War series
I looked up J.N. and holy crap, he/she/they have written about 100 books in 8 different series. I bought the first Sentenced to War and we will see how it goes.
You should try pole-vaulting.
Sports news. IIOC say no to Lea Thomas swimming on the U.S. women’s team.
Channeling my inner Johnny Cochran, “If it has a dick, it’s not a chick”.
Drops mic.
I have to take scoops of food and scraps over the fence. Not conducive to pole vaulting.
So I’ve been looking for a new author / series to start reading, and Insty talked about these dudes today:
Pup. They’re really thick books, if you want a really good trilogy, start with “Mississippi Burning” by Greg Isles. Once you get past the introductory first 50 pages it’s almost impossible to put down.
Not conducive to pole vaulting.
Neither is Lea Thomas’s dwarf third leg. But it is enough that the IIOC said no to it swimming on the U.S. Women’s swim team, due to the unfair advantage it gives it over girls not born with a third leg.
In other “sports” news. Paige Spirnac is offering to replace Joey Chestnut at the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest.
There’s a golf term for the club used at the tee box that I’m feeling just thinking about seeing Paige participate in this contest.
<i>Comment by Markie on June 12, 2024 4:15 pm
Kinda looking at Lumps but not staring:
https://prepschooldaily.blogspot.com/</i>
There’s all kinds of dumbshit in that article. No offense. Yes of course hybrid vigor is a thing. I keep larger amounts of hybrid seeds in my freezer and use them a little at a time.
Unlike what the author supposes, squashes and watermelon do not crosspollinate. Also, absolutely any ordinary gardener can grow out a couple different related squashes and keep their seed true, even if grown at a little distance from each other. There are laughably simple techniques to this. It’s not rocket surgery and it does not take a lot of time or space or a paintbrush and fifty million little bags. People have been doing it forever.
And as far as saving seed from crops like carrots and cabbages and others, it’s not like every single person needs to devote acres to saving seed from every single crop they grow. A completely manageable little patch of parsnips yielded me more parsnip seed than I can possibly use in my lifetime. Same with leeks. I would be able to share some of this glut with someone who grew a little seedpatch of something else. People trade seeds. And yes, as the author said, the seed you save from your best plants make better adapted plants that grow better in your environment than their parents did. And their selected progeny will be even better. A hybrid strain will never improve.
And, when I buy hybrid seed, the date on the package does not mean that the seed is fresh. My home saved seed germinates with incredible speed while the storebought stuff, hybrid or not, is pokey and unreliable.
Thanks Lumps, it’s nice to see expert analysis of my sometimes drivel.
David the Good has done some videos with a technique he picked up that the other author called “land race gardening” where you plant things you’re hoping will grow where you garden, then you save seeds ONLY from the most thriving plants. Over time, you get perfect whatevers for your wherevers.
Holy crap. Did I just piss Leon off?
David. I only heard that when my mom was mildly pissed at me. Next step was David and my middle name. I knew death was coming for me when I heard David, my middle name and wait until your father get’s home, but usually there was a wooden spoon involved somewhere in between as a warning death is coming for you.
No, “David the Good” is the pen name of a gardening author and YTer that I enjoy a lot.
https://thesurvivalgardener.com/
David the Good’s attempt to create instant terra preta was a flop after the first year. I think those soils developed over very long periods of time.
Pups I read the first few of that series and thought it was a good read. Hope you enjoy! I found back yard starship by Chaney to be a really good series as well.
I tend to agree, Lumps. You’re better off composting in the short term, even animal matter. Still, it was worth trying.
Speaking of compost.
watching The Outlaws. I love Stephan Marchant. Ricky Gervais is the Mel Gibson of BBC. Watch Derek. Watch After Life.
Comment by Pupster on June 12, 2024 8:55 pm
Speaking of compost.
There’s a very grand baseball field in of all places, Alpine Texas. Some wealthy rancher singlehandedly financed a semi-pro baseball team back in the 40’s and 50’s in that small town of maybe 4,000 surrounded by nothing but empty ranch land for 50 miles in every direction.
Anyway, it had a fence around it similar to the one Homeboy got hung up on in that video. One night, later on in the 70’s or 80’s some kids were running from the cops one night and tried to climb over that fence and escape into the stadium and one of them got impaled on the sharp spikey top of the railing and died. So they got busy and sawed off all of the spikes and replaced them with balls.
True story. I give you my word as a Biden.
Leon,
So the farmer has 5 people farming 2000 acers. My mid sixties older brother and his wife farm 900+ and raise cattle. I think his problem isn’t what you think. It doesn’t take twice as many people to farm twice as much. Farming is a low margin high volume industry where you can’t control your final price nor the weather. According to my brother he is near the minimum acers you can farm and still do it for a living.
I don’t think it’s the staff that’s costing him, it’s the corn/soybean trap. I’ve seen many farmers talk about it, the damage to topsoil, the volatility of the futures market, and all the inputs that have to be purchased year over year. The winners on corn/soybean are Cargill and Bayer Crop Science (formerly Monsanto). The farmer is the gambler, and the suppliers are the house.
No joke, PG!
The farmer is the gambler, and the suppliers are the house.
Back in the 70’s there was a Holly Sugar processing plant in the town I grew up in. A lot of farmers strictly grew sugar beets for HS and nothing else. I asked dad one time why he didn’t grow sugar beets and he said basically that when you signed a contract with Holly Sugar you gave up your autonomy as a landowner and a businessman. They dictated when you were gonna break your land and to what depth, when you were gonna list it, when you were gonna plant, when you were gonna fertilize, when you were gonna water, and when you were gonna dig em up. He said there wasn’t enough money to interest him in working for them. Sounds like Cargil et al are running the same playbook.
Drought escalates rain prayers
I remember trekking around (okay, trespassing) on farm land with my cousins in Ireland and seeing sugar beets in a pile after harvest. I had never heard of a sugar beet until then. In my defense I was still a teen.
If this happens a lot of heads are going to explode
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/breaking-news-fec-rules-in-favor
FJB is a goner if he shows up or if he declines.
After reading that debate story and mulling it over I think the odds of a debate happening in June just plummeted.