Paul Nelson
penforprez.bsky.social
Paul Nelson
@penforprez.bsky.social
Grieving Missouri ex-pat. Dabbles in quizbowl and trivia sometimes. Loves road trips, bad food, and hard country music. Some have called me "The Missouri Gentleman;" YMMV.

Fandoms: St. Louis Cardinals, Winnipeg Jets, Buffalo Bills
That's what I'm wondering?
June 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
And despair?
June 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Christian fascism is a far greater problem.
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I heard of people wanting to do that 15 years ago or more. None of this is new.
June 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Christian fascism. That's what it is and what we should be calling.
June 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I was still exhausted when I was walking three, four miles a day. 😛
June 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Impeachment is a waste of time. No amount of Republicans will ever vote to convict Trump. If only because such a vote is instant political suicide and will induce death threats from hysterical MAGAs.
June 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This tactic has been used for years to detain so-called "troubled teens" and send them to Christian boarding schools in red states. Where they're beaten and often sexually assaulted. We've been ignoring that one for two generations.
June 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The bigger question: How can we defend democracy when Americans clearly don't care?
June 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You cannot be a Christian and support Christian boarding schools in red states who beat and rape kids. But a lot of them do it anyway.

missouriindependent.com/2024/11/20/i...
It's past time for Missouri's attorney general to take action against abusive boarding schools • Missouri Independent
It's past time for Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to take action against abusive boarding schools
missouriindependent.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I live in the D.C. area and I wanted to go, but I was stuck in bed all of last week. 🤒 Would ordering a copy of Sloppy make a good form of penance?
June 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Why not go commando?? 😉
June 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"I like whiskey, I like all the shit that's bad for you. When I die, I wanna look dead. I want people to walk by the casket, start gagging.

"'(gagging) GODDAMN!! CLOSE THAT SOMEBITCH--HE STINKS!!'"

-- Rodney Carrington
May 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I've never been able to do some of the things I wanted: Live life without my mental health crippling me, promiscuous sex, etc.

But there's two things I can do and do often: Eating lots of bad food and going on the road.

Am I doing this right?? 🙂
May 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Waylon's my spirit animal. I lived so much of his life. Only without all the hits and the money and the booze and the women and the coke and the singing ability.
May 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Source?
March 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Meanwhile, the only thing Americans really care about is the price of gas.
March 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Meanwhile, most Americans simply could not care less.
March 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So why is it progressives always lose comfortable Democratic seats?

*cough* Jamie McLeod-Skinner *cough*
March 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Not gonna happen.
March 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Right-wing Christians beating children goes back further than that, but the Republicans have tried to cover it up. Notice the ongoing struggle in Missouri (dominated by starkly fascist right-wing Christians) to get any Republican authority to do ANYTHING about their Christian boarding schools.
February 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
That's an increasingly attractive option.
February 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM