Couldn't Choose Just One

 

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We had this ridiculous CHIPS Act where you give billions of dollars to a company, and they didn't even know what the hell to do with it . . . And of course, the standards were so high if you weren't transgender, as an example, uh, you didn't qualify. So they get the money, they hired— they look all over for transgender people to run the company, large portions. They couldn't find them. They weren't into the chip business, I guess.

In a July 15 speech in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump gets the bends on dry land, claiming that a technology law his predecessor signed requires chip manufacturers to hire transgender executives

Source: The Advocate

More Than a Dummkopf

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Jens Spahn, a bigwig German conservative politician, has long opposed surrogacy, which is banned in his country.

Spahn said in 2015 that "as a gay man and a Christian, I find it personally very hard to warm to the idea of a rented womb."

Recently he got over his misgivings, as he and his husband not only rented a womb but furnished it.

The womb belonged to an American, an option European gay couples exercise to get around restrictions in their countries. (So expect Donald Trump to slap a tariff on American uteruses.)

Baby Georg was born to Spahn and his husband. The latter posted an Instagram picture of the couple, with Spahn pushing a stroller, captioned "We Are Family." Spahn told a German publication, "Georg is our greatest joy. This feeling is almost impossible to put into words."

Fellow conservatives had no trouble putting criticism into words, and his political opponents sang out the word "hypocrisy." The strudel hit the fan, and on Saturday Spahn resigned.

In his resignation letter, Spahn wrote, "Over the ‌past few days, I have come to realize that my personal happiness — starting a family with my husband and becoming a father — is incompatible with my ​political office."

I speak some German, but I regret that I don't know how to say, "Dude, duh."

The Force Was With Her

 

Change of Plan

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I genuinely intended to watch Donald Trump spew election lies last night. But when the moment arrived, I just couldn't face it, and I turned to much lighter television instead.

I chose Looney Tunes over loony tunes.

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The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said.

Jennifer Peltz

Source:  The Associated Press

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