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ColtWalker1847
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They know that Django Unchained is pseudo-historical anti-racist revenge porn, right? That Don Johnson and Jonah Hill aren't actually klansmen?
Cat Menagerie
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Based barber shop owner.
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Ponca City barber shop doesn’t allow women inside
PONCA CITY, Okla. (KFOR) – A Ponca City woman is upset after she says she was asked to leave a local barber shop because she’s a woman. Maliki Skowroski says she went to King’s Kuts with her husban…
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This is fucking weird. From the article "17 NY salons have a "girl only" policy where they can sit there and do the "girl power" thing". You watch too much daytime television. As if it's fucking abnormal to just go someplace to get your hair cut by a professional and leave. Feminists and MRAs abound making me cringe.Based barber shop owner.
Ponca City barber shop doesn’t allow women inside
PONCA CITY, Okla. (KFOR) – A Ponca City woman is upset after she says she was asked to leave a local barber shop because she’s a woman. Maliki Skowroski says she went to King’s Kuts with her husban…
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6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without parent consent
The mother said her daughter can tell her "bits and pieces" of what happened: "'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot.'"
6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without paren…
archived 15 Feb 2020 19:52:17 UTC
6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without parent consent
The mother said her daughter can tell her "bits and pieces" of what happened: "'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot.'"
Feb. 15, 2020, 12:36 PM CST
By Minyvonne Burke, Anthony Cusumano and Sossy Dombourian
A 6-year-old Florida girl was committed for two days to a mental health facility without her mother's consent after allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at school, an attorney for the family said.
The child was allegedly given anti-psychotic medications at the center, also without the permission of her mother, Martina Falk.
The mother is now demanding answers from officials at Love Grove Elementary School in Jacksonville for their handling of the Feb. 4 incident.
Falk's lawyer, Reganel Reeves, said a mental health counselor was called to the school because Nadia was reportedly having a tantrum and throwing chairs.
The counselor evaluated Nadia, who has ADHD and has been diagnosed with a mood disorder, and determined that she needed to be committed under the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, commonly known as the Baker Act.
The Baker Act gives social workers in Florida the power to initiate involuntary holds on children as young as 2 without the need for parental permission.
According to Reeves, Falk was not called and informed about the incident until after Nadia had been committed to the facility.
Falk, breaking down in tears, said at a news conference Thursday that her daughter is not able to communicate what happened to her because of her disability.
"She can only tell you bits and pieces. 'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot,'" Falk said.
Deputies with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office were called to the school to assist and take Nadia to the facility. Police body-camera footage shows the girl calmly walking out of the school.
"You're not no bad person," a deputy says, later adding that Nadia has been "acting very pleasant."
A police incident report shows that staff at the school said Nadia was "destroying school property, attacking staff, out of control and running out of school."
Tracy Pierce, with Duval County Public Schools, told NBC News that the decision to have Nadia committed under the Baker Act did not come from school district personnel or police.
A licensed mental health counselor with Child Guidance Center, a mental health service provider contracted by the district, made that decision after evaluating the girl.
"The officers in the video were not present during the events which motivated the school to call Child Guidance. The police officers were also not present when Child Guidance was intervening with the student," Pierce said. "The student was calm when she left the school, but at that point, child Guidance had already made the decision to Baker Act based on their intervention with the student."
According to Pierce, the school only calls for assistance from a counselor with Child Guidance Center when a student is displaying behavior deemed either a risk to themselves or others.
She said several steps are followed to try and de-escalate a situation before a counselor is called and the parent of the student is notified immediately when the counselor decides the child should be committed under the Baker Act.
Child Guidance Center did not immediately return a request for comment on Saturday.
Feb. 15, 2020, 12:36 PM CST
By Minyvonne Burke, Anthony Cusumano and Sossy Dombourian
A 6-year-old Florida girl was committed for two days to a mental health facility without her mother's consent after allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at school, an attorney for the family said.
The child was allegedly given anti-psychotic medications at the center, also without the permission of her mother, Martina Falk.
The mother is now demanding answers from officials at Love Grove Elementary School in Jacksonville for their handling of the Feb. 4 incident.
Falk's lawyer, Reganel Reeves, said a mental health counselor was called to the school because Nadia was reportedly having a tantrum and throwing chairs.
The counselor evaluated Nadia, who has ADHD and has been diagnosed with a mood disorder, and determined that she needed to be committed under the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, commonly known as the Baker Act.
The Baker Act gives social workers in Florida the power to initiate involuntary holds on children as young as 2 without the need for parental permission.
According to Reeves, Falk was not called and informed about the incident until after Nadia had been committed to the facility.
Falk, breaking down in tears, said at a news conference Thursday that her daughter is not able to communicate what happened to her because of her disability.
"She can only tell you bits and pieces. 'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot,'" Falk said.
Deputies with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office were called to the school to assist and take Nadia to the facility. Police body-camera footage shows the girl calmly walking out of the school.
"You're not no bad person," a deputy says, later adding that Nadia has been "acting very pleasant."
A police incident report shows that staff at the school said Nadia was "destroying school property, attacking staff, out of control and running out of school."
Tracy Pierce, with Duval County Public Schools, told NBC News that the decision to have Nadia committed under the Baker Act did not come from school district personnel or police.
A licensed mental health counselor with Child Guidance Center, a mental health service provider contracted by the district, made that decision after evaluating the girl.
"The officers in the video were not present during the events which motivated the school to call Child Guidance. The police officers were also not present when Child Guidance was intervening with the student," Pierce said. "The student was calm when she left the school, but at that point, child Guidance had already made the decision to Baker Act based on their intervention with the student."
According to Pierce, the school only calls for assistance from a counselor with Child Guidance Center when a student is displaying behavior deemed either a risk to themselves or others.
She said several steps are followed to try and de-escalate a situation before a counselor is called and the parent of the student is notified immediately when the counselor decides the child should be committed under the Baker Act.
Child Guidance Center did not immediately return a request for comment on Saturday.
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6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without parent consent
The mother said her daughter can tell her "bits and pieces" of what happened: "'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot.'"www.nbcnews.com
6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without paren…
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6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without parent consent
The mother said her daughter can tell her "bits and pieces" of what happened: "'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot.'"
Feb. 15, 2020, 12:36 PM CST
By Minyvonne Burke, Anthony Cusumano and Sossy Dombourian
A 6-year-old Florida girl was committed for two days to a mental health facility without her mother's consent after allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at school, an attorney for the family said.
The child was allegedly given anti-psychotic medications at the center, also without the permission of her mother, Martina Falk.
The mother is now demanding answers from officials at Love Grove Elementary School in Jacksonville for their handling of the Feb. 4 incident.
Falk's lawyer, Reganel Reeves, said a mental health counselor was called to the school because Nadia was reportedly having a tantrum and throwing chairs.
The counselor evaluated Nadia, who has ADHD and has been diagnosed with a mood disorder, and determined that she needed to be committed under the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, commonly known as the Baker Act.
The Baker Act gives social workers in Florida the power to initiate involuntary holds on children as young as 2 without the need for parental permission.
According to Reeves, Falk was not called and informed about the incident until after Nadia had been committed to the facility.
Falk, breaking down in tears, said at a news conference Thursday that her daughter is not able to communicate what happened to her because of her disability.
"She can only tell you bits and pieces. 'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot,'" Falk said.
Deputies with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office were called to the school to assist and take Nadia to the facility. Police body-camera footage shows the girl calmly walking out of the school.
"You're not no bad person," a deputy says, later adding that Nadia has been "acting very pleasant."
A police incident report shows that staff at the school said Nadia was "destroying school property, attacking staff, out of control and running out of school."
Tracy Pierce, with Duval County Public Schools, told NBC News that the decision to have Nadia committed under the Baker Act did not come from school district personnel or police.
A licensed mental health counselor with Child Guidance Center, a mental health service provider contracted by the district, made that decision after evaluating the girl.
"The officers in the video were not present during the events which motivated the school to call Child Guidance. The police officers were also not present when Child Guidance was intervening with the student," Pierce said. "The student was calm when she left the school, but at that point, child Guidance had already made the decision to Baker Act based on their intervention with the student."
According to Pierce, the school only calls for assistance from a counselor with Child Guidance Center when a student is displaying behavior deemed either a risk to themselves or others.
She said several steps are followed to try and de-escalate a situation before a counselor is called and the parent of the student is notified immediately when the counselor decides the child should be committed under the Baker Act.
Child Guidance Center did not immediately return a request for comment on Saturday.
Holy shit that's crazy. Is this sorta of garbage common with the Baker act??
ColtWalker1847
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They sort of tipped their hand with "is not able to communicate what happened to her because of her disability" that she is some variety of spaz. That they called in the heavies because kiddo was chucking chairs tells me that this was a bit more than a simple tantrum.
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Sounds like that ape that threw a kid off a roof, just an animalistic, violent freak. What are they supposed to do, just let the violent autist smash everything every few minutes when it can't cope? What about when it's a 400 pound hamplanet? It has to be trained or restrained.
MrJokerRager
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Florida snake orgy forces officials to close area of park
There’s a snake orgy happening in Florida.
There’s a snake orgy happening in Florida.
Officials in Lakeland say a number of the reptiles have gathered this week to make love near Lake Hollingsworth.
“They are non-venomous and generally not aggressive as long as people do not disturb them,” the city’s parks and recreation department wrote on Facebook. “Once the mating is over they should go their separate ways.”
The snakes have been identified as Florida water snakes, which “are generally found resting in tree limbs over water or basking on shorelines,” the department added.
“We have put up caution tape in the area and are in the process of hanging signs to make the public aware of their presence,” the post said. “This is for the protection of the public and the snakes.”
It’s also not the first time humans stumbled upon a snake sex party in Florida.
In 2018, a slithering sentinel male python equipped with a surgically-implanted tracking device led the state’s wildlife biologists to what they called a “breeding aggregation.”
“It was intense, it was a lot of snake in one spot,” a biologist told the South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper at the time.
Super-Chevy454
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A feminist teacher is shocked then some feminists prefer traditional gender roles in dating. I guess some extreme feminists doesn't care of unintended consequences then the third wave, forth wave even fifth wave feminist bring.
It'll be a while before we see true equality from what I saw on these comments.
It'll be a while before we see true equality from what I saw on these comments.
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How amazing that mammalian reproductive techniques didn't just instantly abandon millions of years of evolved behavior just because people became "woke" something like five minutes ago in evolutionary terms.
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Florida snake orgy forces officials to close area of park
There’s a snake orgy happening in Florida.www.foxnews.com
There’s a snake orgy happening in Florida.
Officials in Lakeland say a number of the reptiles have gathered this week to make love near Lake Hollingsworth.
“They are non-venomous and generally not aggressive as long as people do not disturb them,” the city’s parks and recreation department wrote on Facebook. “Once the mating is over they should go their separate ways.”
The snakes have been identified as Florida water snakes, which “are generally found resting in tree limbs over water or basking on shorelines,” the department added.
“We have put up caution tape in the area and are in the process of hanging signs to make the public aware of their presence,” the post said. “This is for the protection of the public and the snakes.”
It’s also not the first time humans stumbled upon a snake sex party in Florida.
In 2018, a slithering sentinel male python equipped with a surgically-implanted tracking device led the state’s wildlife biologists to what they called a “breeding aggregation.”
“It was intense, it was a lot of snake in one spot,” a biologist told the South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper at the time.
FFS - the term is "mating grounds" and it's not uncommon. This is just sensationalist crap.
MrJokerRager
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei2DEROx4UQ
Someone tried to demolish a building in Dallas and failed.
Someone tried to demolish a building in Dallas and failed.
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Looks like they didn’t use enough explosive on the re-enforced elevator shafts.
I wonder if this was a smaller scale of the WTC buildings? I remember those were built with the elevators/emergency stairs in the center to protect them, which ended up fucking over the people in the top floors of one of the buildings after the plane took out the entire center, and weakened that main support.
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Young, Conservative and Working for Trump? The Dating Pool Is Small
WASHINGTON -- Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman, who met while he was developing the administration's restrictive immigration policies and she was working as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, were married at President Donald Trump's hotel Sunday evening.The wedding details
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Young, Conservative and Working for Trump? The Dating Pool Is Small
Katie Rogers
The New York Times•February 18, 2020
WASHINGTON — Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman, who met while he was developing the administration’s restrictive immigration policies and she was working as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, were married at President Donald Trump’s hotel Sunday evening.
The wedding details, shared in increments by the bride to reporters over the past few months, illustrate what it meant for one notorious Trump aide to get married in a heavily Democratic town where the mere sight of him is known to create angry confrontations.
They hired security. Wedding invitations contained a card detailing the couple’s privacy requests. The registry was created under a fake name. Invited friends who might bring unruly partisans as their guests to the wedding were screened.
In the end, the nuptials were stocked with Trump administration officials, including Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the people who love the couple. (The people who don’t love them created a hashtag that mocked the event for being held at the president’s hotel.) The couple celebrated with monogrammed ice cubes, mutual statements of love and a playlist selected by the groom.
“Spectacular and very special wedding tonight with new bride and groom Stephen and Katie Miller!” Reince Priebus, a former White House chief of staff, wrote on Twitter. “So much fun and still going with @realDonaldTrump having fun and the band is going strong!”
But the scene reflected what has been an uncomfortable truth for young aides since the beginning of the administration: Washington’s highly politicized culture — a reality that the president and zealous officials like Miller have directly contributed to — can be brutal on dating life. This mirrors a larger trend taking place throughout the rest of America, according to experts: Singles, particularly members of the under-40 crowd, do not want to meet or match with people outside their political tribe.
For young aides in this White House, one solution seems to be to meet and marry each other, or at least endeavor to find love inside the political bunker of the Trump administration.
The couples include Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, and Max Miller, the director of the White House advance office, who stepped out to road test their relationship when they attended the state dinner for Australia together last fall. There is also Nick Luna, the president’s body man, and Cassidy Dumbauld, an assistant to Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser.
There are weddings as well. John Pence, the vice president’s nephew and a Trump campaign official, and Giovanna Coia, a White House aide and the cousin of Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, were married in Atlantic City last year.
The Miller wedding was not even the first time a White House couple has decided to pump money back into the president’s private business: Last November, Zach Bauer and Meghan Patenaude, two longtime administration officials, married in a black-tie ceremony at the Trump International Hotel. Zach Everson, a journalist who documents the goings-on at the hotel, used menu and venue fees to estimate that the reception cost at least $35,000, with hotel guests paying about $375 to stay the night.
Previous administrations, given the close quarters and long hours of White House life, also spawned couples. The youngsters of the Obama administration were hailed as “microcelebrities” who were known for dating each other — in fact, the Obama White House at times courted a “frat house” reputation based on the testosterone-fueled behavior of several of Obama’s aides. But outside the complex gates, the youthful staff members also had wider access to the city’s dating pool and social scene.
Aides in this White House have isolated themselves along with Trump. They tend to retreat into their own homes for socializing or to the safety of the president’s properties. Technology has also made it harder for the willing to date outside their political tribe, even if they wanted to: App-based dating platforms, including OkCupid and Bumble, have started allowing users to filter out one another based on personal politics.
According to data released by OkCupid — whose recent ad campaign includes slogans like “It’s OK to choose Mr. Right based on how far he leans left” — anti-Trump mentions on user profiles have increased by more than 52% since 2017. More pointed projects include a Never Trump dating site, which invites users to “escape Trumpism with an enlightened lover.”
“In many parts of America, your parents would have said to you, ‘Don’t talk politics until you’re way down the pike in your relationship,’” said Melissa Hobley, the chief marketing officer for OkCupid. “What’s changed is we see millennials and Gen Z don’t even want to match with you — let alone talk, go on a date, sleep with you, get in a relationship, get married — they don’t want to match without knowing how you feel about certain issues.”
There has been a rise in Republican-only dating websites and apps, including an app called DonaldDaters and a site called Republican Singles, which lists as part of its key tenets an adherence to “traditional marriage between one man and one woman, as God defined in the Holy Bible.”
Julie Spira, a dating coach and author of “Love in the Age of Trump: How Politics Is Polarizing Relationships,” said politics has become the “No. 1 deal breaker” for singles, with many holding Trump responsible for cleaving a wider cultural divide. The president and his supporters counter by blaming the news media.
“I think potentially you could be cutting the dating pool in half if you only want to date someone who voted the same way you do,” Spira said. “But if you have very strong feelings about the wall or about health care or about women’s rights, and you have very strong feelings about things that are changing in our country, and you want to watch the news cycle with your potential love interest, it’s something that happens.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Katie Rogers
The New York Times•February 18, 2020
WASHINGTON — Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman, who met while he was developing the administration’s restrictive immigration policies and she was working as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, were married at President Donald Trump’s hotel Sunday evening.
The wedding details, shared in increments by the bride to reporters over the past few months, illustrate what it meant for one notorious Trump aide to get married in a heavily Democratic town where the mere sight of him is known to create angry confrontations.
They hired security. Wedding invitations contained a card detailing the couple’s privacy requests. The registry was created under a fake name. Invited friends who might bring unruly partisans as their guests to the wedding were screened.
In the end, the nuptials were stocked with Trump administration officials, including Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the people who love the couple. (The people who don’t love them created a hashtag that mocked the event for being held at the president’s hotel.) The couple celebrated with monogrammed ice cubes, mutual statements of love and a playlist selected by the groom.
“Spectacular and very special wedding tonight with new bride and groom Stephen and Katie Miller!” Reince Priebus, a former White House chief of staff, wrote on Twitter. “So much fun and still going with @realDonaldTrump having fun and the band is going strong!”
But the scene reflected what has been an uncomfortable truth for young aides since the beginning of the administration: Washington’s highly politicized culture — a reality that the president and zealous officials like Miller have directly contributed to — can be brutal on dating life. This mirrors a larger trend taking place throughout the rest of America, according to experts: Singles, particularly members of the under-40 crowd, do not want to meet or match with people outside their political tribe.
For young aides in this White House, one solution seems to be to meet and marry each other, or at least endeavor to find love inside the political bunker of the Trump administration.
The couples include Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, and Max Miller, the director of the White House advance office, who stepped out to road test their relationship when they attended the state dinner for Australia together last fall. There is also Nick Luna, the president’s body man, and Cassidy Dumbauld, an assistant to Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser.
There are weddings as well. John Pence, the vice president’s nephew and a Trump campaign official, and Giovanna Coia, a White House aide and the cousin of Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, were married in Atlantic City last year.
The Miller wedding was not even the first time a White House couple has decided to pump money back into the president’s private business: Last November, Zach Bauer and Meghan Patenaude, two longtime administration officials, married in a black-tie ceremony at the Trump International Hotel. Zach Everson, a journalist who documents the goings-on at the hotel, used menu and venue fees to estimate that the reception cost at least $35,000, with hotel guests paying about $375 to stay the night.
Previous administrations, given the close quarters and long hours of White House life, also spawned couples. The youngsters of the Obama administration were hailed as “microcelebrities” who were known for dating each other — in fact, the Obama White House at times courted a “frat house” reputation based on the testosterone-fueled behavior of several of Obama’s aides. But outside the complex gates, the youthful staff members also had wider access to the city’s dating pool and social scene.
Aides in this White House have isolated themselves along with Trump. They tend to retreat into their own homes for socializing or to the safety of the president’s properties. Technology has also made it harder for the willing to date outside their political tribe, even if they wanted to: App-based dating platforms, including OkCupid and Bumble, have started allowing users to filter out one another based on personal politics.
According to data released by OkCupid — whose recent ad campaign includes slogans like “It’s OK to choose Mr. Right based on how far he leans left” — anti-Trump mentions on user profiles have increased by more than 52% since 2017. More pointed projects include a Never Trump dating site, which invites users to “escape Trumpism with an enlightened lover.”
“In many parts of America, your parents would have said to you, ‘Don’t talk politics until you’re way down the pike in your relationship,’” said Melissa Hobley, the chief marketing officer for OkCupid. “What’s changed is we see millennials and Gen Z don’t even want to match with you — let alone talk, go on a date, sleep with you, get in a relationship, get married — they don’t want to match without knowing how you feel about certain issues.”
There has been a rise in Republican-only dating websites and apps, including an app called DonaldDaters and a site called Republican Singles, which lists as part of its key tenets an adherence to “traditional marriage between one man and one woman, as God defined in the Holy Bible.”
Julie Spira, a dating coach and author of “Love in the Age of Trump: How Politics Is Polarizing Relationships,” said politics has become the “No. 1 deal breaker” for singles, with many holding Trump responsible for cleaving a wider cultural divide. The president and his supporters counter by blaming the news media.
“I think potentially you could be cutting the dating pool in half if you only want to date someone who voted the same way you do,” Spira said. “But if you have very strong feelings about the wall or about health care or about women’s rights, and you have very strong feelings about things that are changing in our country, and you want to watch the news cycle with your potential love interest, it’s something that happens.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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Young, Conservative and Working for Trump? The Dating Pool Is Small
WASHINGTON -- Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman, who met while he was developing the administration's restrictive immigration policies and she was working as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, were married at President Donald Trump's hotel Sunday evening.The wedding details
Young, Conservative and Working for Trump? The Dating Pool Is Small
Katie Rogers
The New York Times•February 18, 2020
WASHINGTON — Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman, who met while he was developing the administration’s restrictive immigration policies and she was working as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, were married at President Donald Trump’s hotel Sunday evening.
The wedding details, shared in increments by the bride to reporters over the past few months, illustrate what it meant for one notorious Trump aide to get married in a heavily Democratic town where the mere sight of him is known to create angry confrontations.
They hired security. Wedding invitations contained a card detailing the couple’s privacy requests. The registry was created under a fake name. Invited friends who might bring unruly partisans as their guests to the wedding were screened.
In the end, the nuptials were stocked with Trump administration officials, including Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the people who love the couple. (The people who don’t love them created a hashtag that mocked the event for being held at the president’s hotel.) The couple celebrated with monogrammed ice cubes, mutual statements of love and a playlist selected by the groom.
“Spectacular and very special wedding tonight with new bride and groom Stephen and Katie Miller!” Reince Priebus, a former White House chief of staff, wrote on Twitter. “So much fun and still going with @realDonaldTrump having fun and the band is going strong!”
But the scene reflected what has been an uncomfortable truth for young aides since the beginning of the administration: Washington’s highly politicized culture — a reality that the president and zealous officials like Miller have directly contributed to — can be brutal on dating life. This mirrors a larger trend taking place throughout the rest of America, according to experts: Singles, particularly members of the under-40 crowd, do not want to meet or match with people outside their political tribe.
For young aides in this White House, one solution seems to be to meet and marry each other, or at least endeavor to find love inside the political bunker of the Trump administration.
The couples include Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, and Max Miller, the director of the White House advance office, who stepped out to road test their relationship when they attended the state dinner for Australia together last fall. There is also Nick Luna, the president’s body man, and Cassidy Dumbauld, an assistant to Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser.
There are weddings as well. John Pence, the vice president’s nephew and a Trump campaign official, and Giovanna Coia, a White House aide and the cousin of Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, were married in Atlantic City last year.
The Miller wedding was not even the first time a White House couple has decided to pump money back into the president’s private business: Last November, Zach Bauer and Meghan Patenaude, two longtime administration officials, married in a black-tie ceremony at the Trump International Hotel. Zach Everson, a journalist who documents the goings-on at the hotel, used menu and venue fees to estimate that the reception cost at least $35,000, with hotel guests paying about $375 to stay the night.
Previous administrations, given the close quarters and long hours of White House life, also spawned couples. The youngsters of the Obama administration were hailed as “microcelebrities” who were known for dating each other — in fact, the Obama White House at times courted a “frat house” reputation based on the testosterone-fueled behavior of several of Obama’s aides. But outside the complex gates, the youthful staff members also had wider access to the city’s dating pool and social scene.
Aides in this White House have isolated themselves along with Trump. They tend to retreat into their own homes for socializing or to the safety of the president’s properties. Technology has also made it harder for the willing to date outside their political tribe, even if they wanted to: App-based dating platforms, including OkCupid and Bumble, have started allowing users to filter out one another based on personal politics.
According to data released by OkCupid — whose recent ad campaign includes slogans like “It’s OK to choose Mr. Right based on how far he leans left” — anti-Trump mentions on user profiles have increased by more than 52% since 2017. More pointed projects include a Never Trump dating site, which invites users to “escape Trumpism with an enlightened lover.”
“In many parts of America, your parents would have said to you, ‘Don’t talk politics until you’re way down the pike in your relationship,’” said Melissa Hobley, the chief marketing officer for OkCupid. “What’s changed is we see millennials and Gen Z don’t even want to match with you — let alone talk, go on a date, sleep with you, get in a relationship, get married — they don’t want to match without knowing how you feel about certain issues.”
There has been a rise in Republican-only dating websites and apps, including an app called DonaldDaters and a site called Republican Singles, which lists as part of its key tenets an adherence to “traditional marriage between one man and one woman, as God defined in the Holy Bible.”
Julie Spira, a dating coach and author of “Love in the Age of Trump: How Politics Is Polarizing Relationships,” said politics has become the “No. 1 deal breaker” for singles, with many holding Trump responsible for cleaving a wider cultural divide. The president and his supporters counter by blaming the news media.
“I think potentially you could be cutting the dating pool in half if you only want to date someone who voted the same way you do,” Spira said. “But if you have very strong feelings about the wall or about health care or about women’s rights, and you have very strong feelings about things that are changing in our country, and you want to watch the news cycle with your potential love interest, it’s something that happens.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
"Why my inability to get laid is Donald Trump's fault".
Cat Menagerie
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Fucking what.
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Makes sense that Dahm is behind this. He is one of the most rétarded men in Oklahoma, and therefore the world.
Senate committee passes highway, license plate bills related to President Donald Trump
A Senate committee passed two bills Tuesday that would bring President Donald Trump's name and one of his slogans to the Sooner State.
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OKLAHOMA CITY —
A Senate committee passed two bills Tuesday that would bring President Donald Trump's name and one of his slogans to the Sooner State.
The committee voted 8-1 in favor of Senate Bill 1384, which would create Oklahoma license plates that read "America First." When the bill was first announced earlier this year, the license plates were going to read either "Make America Great Again" or "Keep America Great" -- both of which are slogans Trump's campaign team has used..
The committee also passed Senate Bill 1089, which would rename a 20-mile stretch of highway in the Oklahoma panhandle after Trump. The bill passed with a 5-4.
Two Democrats and a Republican voted against the proposed bill because they claimed it was not legal. Another Republican voted against the bill because he believes naming highways in Oklahoma should be reserved more for veterans.
The stretch of road is Highway 287 in Cimarron County from Boise City to the Texas Border. Dahm said that's a good choice for the President Donald J. Trump Highway instead of northeast Oklahoma, where he originally planned, because Cimarron County had one of the highest percentages for votes in favor of Trump in the country.
You can read Senate Bill 1089 in its entirety here.
Both bills had their titles stricken, which is a sign the committee believes the bills may need further work. The bills will need to have their titles restored before becoming law.
A Senate committee passed two bills Tuesday that would bring President Donald Trump's name and one of his slogans to the Sooner State.
The committee voted 8-1 in favor of Senate Bill 1384, which would create Oklahoma license plates that read "America First." When the bill was first announced earlier this year, the license plates were going to read either "Make America Great Again" or "Keep America Great" -- both of which are slogans Trump's campaign team has used..
The committee also passed Senate Bill 1089, which would rename a 20-mile stretch of highway in the Oklahoma panhandle after Trump. The bill passed with a 5-4.
Two Democrats and a Republican voted against the proposed bill because they claimed it was not legal. Another Republican voted against the bill because he believes naming highways in Oklahoma should be reserved more for veterans.
The stretch of road is Highway 287 in Cimarron County from Boise City to the Texas Border. Dahm said that's a good choice for the President Donald J. Trump Highway instead of northeast Oklahoma, where he originally planned, because Cimarron County had one of the highest percentages for votes in favor of Trump in the country.
You can read Senate Bill 1089 in its entirety here.
Both bills had their titles stricken, which is a sign the committee believes the bills may need further work. The bills will need to have their titles restored before becoming law.
Makes sense that Dahm is behind this. He is one of the most rétarded men in Oklahoma, and therefore the world.
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The headline is misleading. They're talking about political party elites, not The Elites. But I wouldn't be surprised if they would rather have some cabal of rich fucks rule the country as long as they push progressive politics and not that stinky drumpf.
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"Party elites" picked Shrillary in 2016. This whore's argument is invalid.
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Woman says man held her against her will, forced her to watch 'Roots' to understand racism
The woman said that when she tried to move, Robert Noye told her to remain seated and made threats to kill her.
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Woman says man held her against her will, forced her to watch 'Roots' to understand racism
The woman said that when she tried to move, Robert Noye told her to remain seated and made threats to kill her.
Feb. 18, 2020, 5:25 PM CST
By Janelle Griffith
An Iowa man is accused of forcing a woman to watch the miniseries "Roots," purportedly to better understand her racism.
The man, Robert Lee Noye, 52, faces charges of harassment and false imprisonment, according to Greg Buelow, the public safety spokesman for Cedar Rapids.
On Monday, Cedar Rapids police were sent to an area in the city for an open-line 911 call "with lots of screaming," police said in a statement.
Dispatchers and officers were able to find the home by using GPS. When they arrived, an intoxicated man, later identified as Noye, answered the door, police said.
A 37-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter were found crying inside, police said.
The woman told police that Noye had been assaulting her all night and had made her sit with him to watch the miniseries "Roots," based on Alex Haley's bestselling book "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," which drew attention to the brutality of slavery. The miniseries aired on ABC in 1977 and won a host of awards, including multiple Emmys and a Peabody.
The woman said that when she tried to move, Noye told her to remain seated and made threats to kill her.
She was eventually able to call 911 and leave the line open, according to police.
Noye was arrested and taken to the Linn County Jail. He was not listed as an inmate as of Tuesday evening.