asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
That out of his own pocket?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
That out of his own pocket?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Really? How's this: Things are bad, yes, but at least we don't have that brown/black woman running things.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Acceptable advice from Poor Outcome Kennedy to all Americans as to how to avoid "experts" would have been to say that the best path to long-term health is to take charge of it with better personal choices--diet, exercise, etc. No one likes to rely on experts---until they have to.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Gut hunch medicine is the only medicine I trust.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe this is a jest.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
"AI history says..." lol
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
"Would-be informants go silent out of fear?"
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. Pass the word.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Evidently impending homelessness and hunger outruns hardened racism.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
"Uneducated infants?" I'm thinking more like submissive serfs.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
In ordinary times, I would agree with you. These are not ordinary times.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, here's and idea: Instead of reducing emissions to combat global warming, let's accelerate them at warp speed, and you know--see what happens.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
"The wind farm guys..."
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Burgum looks like he just fell out of a Thomas Nast cartoon, ca. 1882.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Sherman. Grant wasn't even the best general in the Union Army.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what the Founders intended: every man their own virologist.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social)
It's a battle of attrition between us and AI.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
When I was a 10-year-old boy I found Aquanet to be one of the more trustworthy hairsprays for "throwing flame" with a lighted match. Nothing beat "Final Net," however: "Controls like a gel, styles like a mousse, and throws flame like a Saturn V rocket!"
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Terrible job market gets much worse. Buckle thy seatbelt.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Milton Friedman meets crypto. Did Chicago catch up with America, or did America catch up with Chicago?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
You're talking about the editors and the publishers, not the reporters.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Crazy lady.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Vance possesses all the charm and demeanor of a Home Depot district manager.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently you've never seen "Casablanca."
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Utah is troubling. Little known fact that Salt Lake City has more Marxist, prison-affiliated gangs per capita than any other major American city. Nothing nastier or more unsettling than encountering a latter- day saint with a smiley in one hand and a well-worn copy of Das Kapital in the other.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
A real debate by the congenitally credulous, you mean.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Most of those were pre-wars.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
I like this answer.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Pro-crime Trump cavils over "criminals."
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet another punchable face...
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Junior-varsity troll unexpectedly asked to suit up for the varsity and...thud.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
More bot or more troll?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
We're hoping you'll get a job and help pay for it. Otherwise your mother and I are going to have to ask you vacate the attic.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Beat it, botsky...
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, yes, the bots and trolls...know no rest.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Merch shop today? Home Shopping Network studio tomorrow. Always be thinking...escalate, escalate, escalate...
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, non-MAGA folk: When MAGA disinformationists spew this sort of shit, they are not speaking to you. You're not the audience. They know what you know. They know you know this is bullshit. MAGA bandleaders merely chumming the waters in service to the bloodthirsty brethren.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
That is my view from Massachusetts as well.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a big table.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Keep in mind that this is also a jobs program for young unemployed or underemployed young men. An opportunity to crack skulls in the streets for a living is a very attractive occupation for Americans in troubled times, and Donald Trump approves.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
yup
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
They are not fake ICE agents. They are domestic terrorists.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
So, when they cash the $170 billion check this is something we all get to experience---eventually?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Kirn now runs with Taibbi (podcast) and impressively has become as disingenuous and dishonest as Taibbi. Kirn also has had some embittering experiences in his professional life, and it shows.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Most people really don't realize that explaining Trump is really this easy.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Can anyone here recommend any published work that addresses the relationship between global warming, energy systems, reverse engineering, technological civilization, population, food supply, uneven carbon emissions from nations, etc. That concludes, from the numbers, that we simply can't halt it?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
At what juncture do we rise up and straightaway dispatch these motherfuckers?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh, no. Not the type--at all. The Sulzbergers frown on any kind of sex unless it's absolutely necessary.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. But don't shoot the reporters. Or just nick'em behind the ears. NYT reporters all leave the building with strict marching orders. The New York Times is and always has been an editor's news organization. The editors call the shots. With a little help from the Sulzberger's, of course.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Inglorious Bastards time for the Richie Riches?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds fun. Is the event sold out?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
What, exactly, does this entail? What is "product." Curious.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Troll? Daft?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Wrong.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Early reports say the condiments fled the crime scene, whereabouts unknown.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the stuff like this that doesn't register for the 99% that's real scary.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
A King's "edict" "decreeing" America's gun owners disarm themselves for the good of the nation would unquestionably be something to bring a lawnchair, blankets, picnic basket and a full cooler to.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
It'll be interesting to watch the court proceedings when the inevitable happens---when a couple of masked, faux ICE stalkers encounter the wrong home or business owner and find themselves face-to-face with the business end of a shotgun. Very surprised it hasn't already happened.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
You can't and that's the point.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Because cats don't chase and bite people. Rather straightforward.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
You just listed the reason that they're out there.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Thirty years ago Klein would have been writing news releases for the Nabisco marketing department.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
So return fire you big fuckin' pussy.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Forgot about you. Clark got his 4th star in March/45, little more a month before the war ended. Technically you're correct. Other five generals were 4-stars either before entering the war or shortly thereafter and served most of the war as 4-stars. You probably know this wanted to correct my error.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Or he's just another mediocre mind in a sea of mediocre minds who has the good fortune of being born into a time and space where mediocre minds rule the roost. Let us speak plainly. These people are merely roaming careerists without careers.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
The random chud "thinker" like Hazony is here to occasionally lend MAGA a patina of scholarly heft, not to rally troops. And, if practical, furnish rationales for shooting just about anyone. America's own road to perdition is now being paved with the nonsense of degraded minds like Hazony's.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh--and it's all they want and all they need from him.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty much...
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes indeed.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
All this shit is Miller.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
I've bailed on two $4-bucks-a-month subscriptions in the last 6 months. One of those things that's easily affordable but then poses the question: Why do I need this again?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
The Times is now officially Trump-grade senile.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
After the ICE battalions hit the streets, DC will be all "red" and soon thereafter, the 51st state.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
He thought about it, but concluded that seizing the LA police department and sicing the national guard on DC but offer more amusement.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
"bedlam"
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
"30 days" is MAGA-speak for "as long as we want."
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
They only do drugs one night, and then pursue hookers the next night. They alternate. These are good boys.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
bot
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
We do recognize a bot when we encounter one, however.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, that is an amazing chart! All new numbers!
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Have all the coal plants up there been retired?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
The new fascists don't look anything like the old fascists.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Beyond pathetic.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA or MAGA-like.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this meant for someone who isn't me?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
You will be not paid for this lachrymose comment.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
That same argument can be made by a MAGA. I didn't vote for Harris because she enabled genocide (a truly disingenuous position). So instead you vote for the candidate who looks at genocide and sees improper zoning? Though, he will be making the world safer for cheesy hotels. That your candidate?
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
How many? The number is in the millions. Most of them are trolls or bots from Kremlin-engineered bot farms scattered across Russia and elsewhere and engineered and controlled by the Kremlin. One of the tells is a strident earnestness augmented with disdain for the party they support. Easy to spot.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
So, Harris is letting the nation down by speaking metaphorically? By decompressing from a grueling campaign? Are you cavilling with the choice or quantity of programming? Fewer cooking shows and more documentaries? A very callow comment. I see no one is completely immune from the MAGA virus.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm game.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
No.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Next up: The Oval Office repurposed as an upscale Airport concierge lounge.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
"rich, Corinthian leather..."
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Donald Trump for the 2025 National League MVP.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the start to Trump's plan to rotate all cabinet members through all cabinet departments on a permanent basis. Duffy has two departments to offset the buddy system that Bondi and Lutnick will use as they shuttle between DOJ and Commerce.
asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent
Your sentence structure suggests your Uncle was already a 4-star general when he waded ashore at Omaha. He later attained the rank, I see now. Your Uncle had an impressive career. My father hit Utah (4th Div) two weeks after your Uncle hit Omaha.