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Jalane Kirkpatrick's avatar

Loved the Highlights reference!

io bonini's avatar

Hey JK., For those SP's here who are not over 100 years, Here is a good visual on what Sam & Adam are talking about;

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZL5GyzsByK/?hl=en

djw's avatar

My grandson still gets Highlights--and Goofus and Gallant are still there, still doing their thing.

io bonini's avatar

Hey Djw.,I played all the games, loved it. Yes so refreshing to seeing kids actually engaged with something other than a device.

io bonini's avatar

Hey there S&A and all the SP’s out there,

‘It’s really a question of whether you believe the woman.’

I think that Robert Deniro’s quote sums up my feelings about this fucking Asshole skank….

‘Shut the fuck up’

Thank you for your attention.

Jude Johnson's avatar

Spot on, io. Yeah but if you even suggest having empathy for survivors, you're "sick" according to SouthpawDE.

io bonini's avatar

So God damn frustrating JJ., Every single day..all the headlines start with that odious name, doing something odious. EVERY GOD DAMN DAY. oooo, sorry about that, we're so frustrated here...as is pretty much every sane person in America...lol

Steven—I'm Writing tAFM's avatar

There’s a useful distinction buried in the Goofus/Gallant joke:

Not everyone who is correct about the threat, is fit to be an instrument against it.

Movements get in trouble when they treat anger, courage, and public usefulness as interchangeable traits. They aren’t. Some people are valuable because they can say the thing nobody else will say. Some people are valuable because they can sit in a room for eight hours and not become the story. Yes, I miss Biden too — despite him not being a good US president, just one of the best ones.

The disaster is when we put the first person in the second job.

Opposition and leadership are separate skills.

—I write the Argument Field Manual: field notes on bad arguments

Sal Teodoro's avatar

And it was the Islamic Republic of Japan. Cmon guys. Trump is a fucking complete total moron and the MSM can go fuck themselves.

sheryl jeffries's avatar

I remember highlights. I can't believe Trump's response about Platner. Is the woman credible? He's such a slime ball. This is a horrible time to be an American. I'm sad about Bonnie Tyler too. I'm glad he had to pay E.Gene Carroll as well.

io bonini's avatar

Hey SJ., I know you know better, same guy...'grab her by the pussy', 'piggy'. Until E. Gene has the money in her pocket I won't believe it. And when/if she does get it, she had better have some great security. These people are evil. And yes, it is a horrible time and an embarrassing time to be an American. But we are all here doing the best we can, so that's a good thing.

io bonini's avatar

Correction center; E Jean not Gene. sorry about that duh.

sheryl jeffries's avatar

That's true. I'm furious that they are even trying to stiff her on what she's owed.

Hope fully sooner than later

Patricia's avatar

The woman is always the fall guy according to trump the pedophile/ molester himself

sheryl jeffries's avatar

So true. I’ve got to stop saying i can't believe. He's a menace

io bonini's avatar

You know what SJ., It’s OK to think ‘I can’t believe it’. It’s just automatic, it’s what normal people would think. Most people like myself & some people on this amazing site… read what’s going on and their brains short out. And the backup batteries we bought back at the start of 2024 don’t work and we can’t find our solar chargers…so we are left to scream collectively into the void, and read Sam & Adam so we don’t just jump off a random, convenient cliff.

sheryl jeffries's avatar

I agree; I'm constantly thinking about what he has done now?

io bonini's avatar

Or stay up nights gaming out what They are going to do....sigh...

'Constant Vigilence'. MEM

Claudia Miller's avatar

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's name should be said every time we say Renee Good & Alex Pretti. I am sure there are others too. Unfortunately their names are getting lost in the insanity of ICE and Donald

Will Wilson's avatar

Goofus and Gallant are still around. My 7yo gets Highlights magazine every month. That's the first thing I look for.

Brenda Padget's avatar

Reading Goofus and Gallant was one of the first things my siblings and I did each month when the Highlights book arrived, then on to Hidden Pictures. Thanks for bringing back fond memories of my childhood!

KadyO's avatar

On note 5. The call is coming from inside the house.

Alice K. Small's avatar

Everyone needs to go out and see the fabulous documentary, "Ask E. Jean". It shows you why she's able to keep fighting. And I hope that scotus keeps its horrible hands out of it so she can collect. E. Jean is awesome!!! (Needless to say, Alina Habba is not!!)

Lesley Houghton's avatar

16 Hoping she'll be ok, whatever that is. All the gross bastards doing dastardly things and sure, she didn't go to jail, but she also no longer has the job that she obviously cared about and won't be at to help people with her decency and compassion.

And I also loved the Highlights; made me wade into the cool waters over to memory lane.

io bonini's avatar

What I'm hoping for LH., Is what has happened with a lot of the prosecutors and agents that got fired from the DOJ for doing their jobs. Glen Kirschner and Legal AF have pieces about how some of those professionals have been hired by state AG's and other law firms. Law firms and states that are going after the regime. I'm hoping that something like that opens up for Judge Dugan. She apparently is loved by the people she served and is good at her job. And was railroaded.

Lesley Houghton's avatar

That sounds ideal for her. I hope she does, too. Great to see firms and organizations coming together as well to fight back.

Who Cares's avatar

I loved highlights, Goofus was my favorite. Gallant? Notsomuch.

Turbulence

YIKES, what a shitty thing to say. I can only imagine what he must have uttered to HIS frightened kids.

925 days (🤞 or sooner) till tiny tantrum Trump is out of office.

C. Killion's avatar

“Federal crime-fighting task force” AKA ICE THUGS. Take them down.

io bonini's avatar

Hey C.K., Formerly referred to as 'The Brown shirts'...Nazi Germany.

The Brownshirts, officially known as the Sturmabteilung (SA) or Storm Troopers, were the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. Founded in 1921 by Adolf Hitler, they functioned as street thugs who used violent intimidation, riots, and brutality to destroy political opposition and propel the Nazis to power in Germany.

Cathy Daly's avatar

I will take Goofus and Gallant any day over an entitled bro like Platner. Thanks for calling out the bullshit.

Joni's avatar

We all have a bit of Goofus in us.

No shame.