In other news Tom Bartlett is an unserious bitch who might as well be writing for the National Enquirer.
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In other news Tom Bartlett is an unserious bitch who might as well be writing for the National Enquirer.
Michelle Obama and RFK Jr "Natty or Not" challenge
Ah yes who can forget the controversial Health and Human Services Secretary named Michelle Obama yes this is a very valid comparison. ... Wait a second...
If Jesus came back and saw this shit he'd make what he did to those moneylenders in the temple look like brunch
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Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
But prayer...doesn't work. Otherwise kids wouldn't keep being shot in the head.
Is child murder via firearms is the "new Conservative era" I guess we'll have to wait for Jo Ellison to give us the scoop on that. (Never mind that's not actually new at all is it.)
Last I checked allowing children to get shot in the head on a regular basis because they refuse to pass reasonable gun legislation is also MAGA coded hey Jo Ellison please do a story about that
You quite literally put live animals in blenders for fun
Take this down now you exploitative pieces of shit.
But no no of course not let democracy reign free I say
My thought process whilst reading this
Every single GOP response to a mass shooting amounts to “I don’t give a shit” and we’re all just supposed to pretend that’s a negotiable difference of opinion
My hot take when it comes to organized religion is that a good portion of white Christians (can only speak from personal experience) see Jesus as the man to blame and think that's what "died for my sins" means. Kid died from measles because I'm antivax? Jesus took him. School shooting? Jesus did it
The United States is a shit place, a horrible and morally abhorrent place, because of its gun violence which it refuses to do anything about. It will never be great as long as we allow this. We are all responsible for the deaths of these children. abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...
This is a uniquely American problem. The (mis)interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is burned into our psyche to such a degree that we, as a nation, willfully ignore that gun violence is the leading cause of death of kids in the US. Any other country looking in only sees a death cult.
This infuriates me to no end. Lori Chavez-DeRemer please go fuck yourself you silly useless piece of shit.
Our country is such a fucking joke at the moment. Just one big fucking joke.
Absolutely fucking incredible.
Every single dem governor and even mayor should be doing this immediately and that group of democratic AGs we're told meet all the time should then immediately follow up with joint conferences laying out their intentions to flood the courts with not just civil, but criminal cases, for them all
Applies to so much.
Fuck you. You're going to print a story debunking anti-vaccine cranks a few days ago and then you print this? This glow-up promoting a garbage human will continue to get folks to ignore science and will kill people. Go to hell.
the dc takeover is a distraction from the putin summit is a distraction from epstein is a distraction from the jobs numbers is a distraction from ICE is a distraction from the economy is a distraction from the dc takeover is a distrac
Trump will die in office with no consequences and no jail time. Nothing about how he is perceived by his base will change. He will be hailed as a hero by 1/3 of the US. This is just reality. We have to prepare for what comes next. His death will definitely hurt MAGA, but will not end it.
Unfortunately many are not just failing, but actively colluding.
Also worth sharing that while @nytimes.com does post some incredibly quality articles like this, they also collude with white nationalists to produce some incredibly racist trash. This above linked article, however, is actually helpful and newsworthy.
Absolutely essential reading and worth sharing to everyone
aging like a damp towel in the trunk of a hot car
Trump may back down because he's a piece of shit coward, but if he doesn't then shit is gonna go down.
(also I give a shit and am thinking about you and yours whilst we all survive political and actual boiling)
Derek your anti-waffles agenda has been apparent for some time
That's the issue with many conservative Never-Trumpers. They are allies in keeping democracy alive but they will never truly understand what's important to marginalized and disenfranchised groups. Their answer is always the American Way™️ will solve things so everyone should just get it together.
I follow and respect Tom but he is wrong here. No one needs to hear this type of advice from someone who has nothing to do with what's in these terms. He owns a house, he is not food insecure, he is not gay or trans, he is not discriminated against in any real way. A disappointing take.
State ownership and control like socialism but with an extremely nationalist outlook? Sounds like nationalist socialism or nazism, if you will.
Us Bluesky folks didn't leave Twitter cuz we are sensitive jerks, we left because there's a real white power/nazi problem on there. Do you not recognize that? Oh wait, I guess the being Nazis is our fault, yeah? "The Left created the nazi problem" or something. Yes very astute very perceptive.
Nastiness on Twitter may not happen to *you*, sir, most likely because you toe the line in order to feel accepted and appreciated. But it happens to gay folks, jews, trans folks, and women more than you're able or willing to see. You are just willfully blind to it all.
Are any of those things things. Can we make them be things.
It will soon be 104 degrees today in Portland, OR. I would like to hurl the sun into the sun. Sun suicide. Death to the sun. Anti-sun coalition.
It's the great unifier
No need for Secret Service we just wanna chat
Donald Trump Jr should come to Portland I'd love to talk to him face to face about his feelings on my city and so would so many of my friends who live here. We can have a party it will be so fun. He'll feel so safe and loved.
Seriously though. This woman calls herself a proud conservative, but this is not a conservative sentiment, at least as that term is understood in modern America, unless it is applied solely to fetuses.
anyone who thought biden’s age was a serious issue should be at DEFCON1 watching this
Just a quick note to recognize that James Dobson is burning in hell right now.
Aw, man. Mastodon was incredible to see live and his guitar sound was a huge part of it. Goodbye, Brett Hinds. thequietus.com/news/brent-h...
I'm all for gathering these people up, putting them on an island amongst themselves with no food nor water, and then watching them cannibalize each other using strategically placed cameras to televise to the world. And we wouldn't have to force them to do it neither this is actually what they want.
Oh you painted a junior college level portrait of your eyeball? That's great you also destroyed an entire culture and civilization and murdered millions of Iraqi civilians stunning work sir
If and when we get through this we need arrests and convictions and lengthy sentences that cannot be commuted or pardoned. We cannot have a repeat of war criminals Bush/Cheney getting off scot-free so they could paint self-portraits in the bathtub.
Unfortunately this doesn't just encapsulate the GOP...this represents the "but how does this affect ME" kind of selfishness that is very unique to the American psyche. Like it or not the end goal of American Individualism™️ is the destruction of all community.
She gave us Drs Phil and Oz and also the guy who made up his life story oh and also promoted Iraq War propaganda so yeah fuck her and also to hell with the idea of a "Rogan of the left".
Do I like Newsom? No. Have I been critical of him for years? Yes. Does he throw homeless folks + trans kids under the bus? Yes. Is he one of the few who is fighting fascism and actually meeting the moment? Yes. We allied with the USSR to stop the Nazis. Get your hands dirty and work to save us.
This but for real. Outlaw dipshittiness. (OK fine not for real but...maybe for real)
Turns Out It Could Happen Here
Time for the Best Coast to secede.
the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.
Prepare to see MUCH more of what's already happening...imprisoned people of color being forced to work in the fields for next to nothing...and an even more punitive justice system to keep that supply fresh. It's the American Way™️.
@jamellebouie.net found the word I was looking for..."deskill". Why allow immigrants to work in agriculture when you can create a slave class amongst the American populace? (Whilst totally ignoring the fact that agricultural work actually requires a high level of skill.)
twas ever thus I guess
The state of things really is that one is entitled to their own "facts" now. You pick your sources and you choose who to trust and everyone else is an idiot or a liar or both. Or you simply don't care because this is how you win or bring about the Rapture etc etc
Whining about crime is super effective for right wing politicians because there's never going to be zero crime, so it's a good way to constantly sell total bullshit to the two dumbest groups of people in the world: republican voters and the entire media
Ugh not this bitch again
Produce less doom, and I will do less doomscrolling.
I still find it darkly funny that a bunch of people went “I’ll never take the COVID vaccine because Big Pharma” while pushing Ivermectin as an alternative, which doesn’t work on viruses and is made by Merck.
This sentence encapsulates my thinking 100%
Hey just a friendly reminder that the @nytimes.com still collaborates with nazis and white supremacists in a pathetic effort to "both sides" how it delivers the news. Nobody should be reading it.
Hegseth and trump's vision of american history is more or less one where it's illegal to teach that a non-white person ever did anything good or that a white person ever did anything bad
Kristi Noem can I work for ICE I am also a lazy dumb idiot
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
The common joke is that, compared to the current madness, we long to go back to the Bush years. But that's when we first learned about Abu Ghraib and that water-boarding "actually isn't torture". Perhaps the difference is predictable evil as opposed to unpredictable evil.
The best and only response
That boy is TROUBLE
this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this. we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.
It's a part of their DNA to abuse/mistreat young girls and women so if anything they actually respect him for it
Nothing but pure hatred for this and everyone single person associated with it. Utter blasphemy and disrespect just to appease brain dead mutants.
if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe
the real thing issue is that we have some groups of young men *claiming* to be driven right because of problems like male isolation when the right is not actually offering material solutions to those problems. what the right is offering is social and political power over women.
my brother if you are struggling to get laid in 2025 and you think you'd do better in a world where women are even more aggressively shamed for expressing their sexuality and also don't have access to birth control i don't know what to tell you.
Donald J. Trump is a pedophile and a sex trafficker and if you support him you're a pedophile and a sex trafficker too. There's no other way to see this.
starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
I don't know how many people know this: If you ever see a story coming out of the USA, about people getting in trouble with the law for feeding the homeless, many of those laws were in direct retaliation to the Black Panthers setting up food banks and community centers for children and the poor.
Saw DEVO this weekend at the Project Pabst thing in PDX and man they still got it
Our country is not great because the ICE Assistant Chief Counsel is a white supremacist. Our country is not great because no major media outlet will carry this story. Our country is not great because more than anything else racism and racial purity is now our guiding principle. Things are bad.
💯 The whole idea of a "left-Rogan" sucks and just reinforces the patriarchal zeitgeist we're all trying to escape from
Ron Responds When Challenge
Why are so many Republicans pedophiles? Could it be that their whole worldview is based around domination and humiliation and that their sexual practices often derive from that impulse?
"Whites Only". There needs to be mass protests about this starting right fucking now
You cowards. The "No" response from the Trump admin is the bigger headline.
It's...it's like President Donald J. Trump's dick is like...like a dog's? Do I have that right? Trump has a incredibly small gross dog dick? Please confirm.
Why are they spending tremendous amounts of time doing this when they could be out coal-rolling a Prius I mean what kind of priorities do we have here
Jesus H. Christ that looks like it took more effort to etch than the average Dilbert cartoon
Wait wait wait what's all this I'm hearing about President Donald J. Trump's penis being super small and disgusting what happened
Happiest of birthdays, sir!
put differently, the president who has pardoned more child sex predators than any president in history is included in a trove of evidence of CSAM and child exploitation
Feds raid the WSJ press office when
"Crushed" yes I see you are referring to the families and the folks he put in concentration camps got it. Oh wait you aren't? Oh dear. In that case what a bunch of pieces of shit you are for writing this. Cheerleading your souls away.
Some never do and it's not unique to our country. I'm always amazed by the amount of Franco supporters, old *and* young, still in Spain. Not a majority, but enough to cause worry. The fascist element in the U.S. seems to be about 1/3 of the (voting) population as well. 1/3s are turds I guess.
My wife has "OZZY" tattooed on the inside of her lip. We are having some feelings here at the moment.
