Steve Martin got it right. He started getting old while he was young.
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Steve Martin got it right. He started getting old while he was young.
youtu.be/orQKfIXMiA8?.... Boredom is healthy.
Oh, nuthin! 🚩ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. Just our sworn enemy #Russia trying to KILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE EU. America shrugs while the civilized world looks on in horror. UR ALIGNED W RUSSIA UNLESS U “*DO SOMETHING!” *M Obama @kamalaharris.com @barackobama.bsky.social @hillaryclinton.bsky.social
The entire administration detests women, especially the women. This joker must go!
Love Russian thugs intimidating our dear leader in public now.
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Billionaires aggressively fund right-wing groups for deeply held ideological reasons OR simply because they don't want to pay taxes. Discuss.
The last 3 years have been among the hottest on record since over 100,000 years ago. But what about those Epstein files?
It occurred to me recently how mobil devices get in the way of us being bored, or of suffering the long, dark nights of the soul that are, I think, required for us to have richer inner lives; convenience is shackling our souls.
Somehow?
Well said.
Because secretly we've learned how to clone humans as old people. Got it.
No! How does it go?
Hm. I've won things before but it never felt like this. Must be a new kind of winning.
If I were prez and was greeted with this is fire them all. Hate toadies.
www.reuters.com/world/china/.... Signs, as they say, of the times.
If you have to ask ...
2025 = 1933?
It's time to contemplate seriously what a Vance term will be like. I'm guessing the tariffs will mostly go away and Trump--after the most costly funeral in American history--will be scapegoated by his former minions as the levers of power get handed to the billionaire techbros.
Tax wealth not work.
substack.com/@jameslbruno... The return of the City State? The Peloponnesian Confederation? Fiefdoms?
substack.com/@karen778221....
substack.com/@bluepowerde.... Mississippi could definitely stand some mulching.
Parlous times, indeed.
Never going to happen. These are democrats we're talking about.
Finally! Florida gets cancelled.
Incorrect. EVERYTHING is political. Always has been.
If only. Seemed possible in the 60s and 70s.
www.salon.com/2025/08/29/d.... Seriously. People? Fooled?
Don't be fooled by Trump's dictatorship jokes | The president believes he has unlimited power — and he plans to seize the moment | www.salon.com/2025/08/29/d...
Jeanine Pirro did everything she could to indict the sandwich guy-who is apparently a veteran-and failed Meanwhile the administration is giving Ashli Babbitt a funeral with military honors So if you're MAGA and you assault a police officer *for Trump* You don't get prosecuted You get celebrated
Oh yes, please let it burn down, see my reply!🤣🤞🔥 #PutinsPalace
Wear them all you want. Just don't link them to anything. I don't.
Btw P25 is NOT a book. It is an ideological blueprint. And it doesn't like you.
Familiar with them all. Listen to Dr. Roy Casagranda. For that matter read the People's History of the US. Read things you DON'T agree with; it's good for your brain. There. We're done here. Bye.
pragerU is replacing PBS in order to propagandize kids. Capitalism, you know, sucks.
Why isn’t Zuckerberg called out for this school killing? He removed all guards and checks on Facebook. The killer posted to his page his intention to do harm. His FB posts should have been flagged, and maybe praying children wouldn't have been murdered. Zuckerberg has their blood on his hands.
Hopeful for what? That we'll return to the 70s? Those 25 years of ahistoric bounty will never return. Capitalism and empire have run their course; American Exceptionalism the same. This is a world shift based on scarcity and population; nothing a mid-term election will change.
Our country is gone. There is no coming back from this. We let this happen. It now has to run it's course. What emerges in the future is guessable but only barely. in 1953 Eisenhower toppled Iran because it wanted to be a democracy. America has never been a democracy. Maybe in a few generations...
substack.com/@vilniusscho.... Pass this along please.
Early days. Events have a stroboscopic effect that causes them to appear stable when in reality they're not. Elections only matter when the ruling party agrees they do; P25 does not recognize them.
History has shown that revolutions seldom have intended results. Non-violence is an intelligent strategy until it doesn't work.
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." -Will Durant
Iran is an ancient, sun-baked land the US conveniently thinks of as an enemy (despite a long history of friendship). Watch Iran: the country is sinking from emptying aquafers; corporations are bleeding it of its water. Water migration will be the region's tipping point. Not oil. Not war. Water.
With any luck, Greenland will soon be OURS!
www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-de.... I applaud this intelligent use of public funds! (I am DrD a d I approve this message.)
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
youtu.be/Fua36HgaZj8?.... Proof once again that racism in America is NOT systemic.
Is America heading in the same direction as the former Ottoman Empire? I'll expect a five thousand word essay concerning this on my desk next Monday. This will affect your grade, so do a good job.
Pretending. That's what America is really good at. Pretending.
Not a big fan of hope. Hope without industry is prevents manifesting our hopes. I'm 'hoping' people will wake up and become industrious.
So my fingers are itching to dial? What did I see, what did I see?? 😳🤣😂
If Powell caves, or the Supreme Court validates Trump’s illegal declaration, the implications will be profound and disastrous. The United States will be well on its way to becoming Turkey, where an authoritarian imposed his crackpot economics, sending inflation soaring to 80 percent!
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Spoken like a true charlatan. "I’m a man with great common sense, and I’m a smart person," Trump said. "And when I see what’s happened to our cities, and then you send in troops. Instead of being praised, they’re saying, ‘You’re trying to take over the republic.’ These people are sick.”
www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n.... What's good for the gander is...also good for the...now how does that go? Seems to have slipped my mind.
Yes, please!
Not so much a prophecy as an insight.
#GOP
It's not our fault we idolized a tall, skinny, high-foreheaded, perennially-stoned, ex-con rapper with egregious taste in clothes then, is it? Much less that we exercise ourselves over his no doubt deeply-considered opinions. I'm sorry, what were we talking about?
Yes, I'll repost this. It will make us feel better about ourselves.
Way back in 1788, James Madison wrote a book in which he opined that the Presidential power to select Supreme Court justices was the greatest danger to democracy. Turned out those old timey guys knew a thing or two. That it took over two hundred years to happen is insignificant.
We'll say bye with a little help from his friends.
When those 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain, they knew they were signing their literal death warrants. That we permit a petulant pedophile wannabe president to besmirch their great sacrifice is an insult to the risk they took to give us a country.
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Trunk attacking solar for his big oil donors is about to cost us all
Hahahaha! Love this!
www.latimes.com/california/s... More and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution
he’s a thief, steals everything, ruins it, then sells parts off for profit. that is his business model.
substack.com/@democraticw.... There. That's done.
substack.com/@deanblundel.... The incriminating files that were found in Bolton's hou--no wait. That's not his house. That's the OTHER guy's house. The one in Florida.
substack.com/@resistmaga/... The gift that keeps on giving.
You n me, sistah! I'm a winter child.
If it wasn't for the 101F outside I'd be roasting tomatoes and onions for soup.
www.oregonlive.com/nation/2025/.... Now even empathy is 'toxic'.
I've created and run 4 businesses, written 16 novels, illustrated a few others, raised 5 kids, and travelled the world--but what I really wanted was to be able to paint like this!
Intense. Brilliant. Nostalgic.
But Yay still, right?
"When the government fears the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." --Tommy "the Kid" Jefferson
Curious. Did he also stamp his foot?
"I know I'm different, but from now on I'm gonna try to be the same." --from What's Up, Doc?
Good luck with that. Any other platforms you're on besides Amazon? Most people I know won't buy from that company, myself included.
I have no doubt that he'll end up with one. Maybe as a consolation prize.
We'll get right on that.
Damn Commies. Whatever they do is the work of the devil, so we're just gonna do the opposite!
We allowed a spoiled toddler to ruin our country; shame on us.
"The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart ; Americanism is not and never was a matter of race or ancestry." --Franklin D Roosevelt
Michael Cain on his wife, Shakira : "My wife is a Muslim and she does Muslim stuff; I'm a Christian and I do Christian stuff, and no questions ever come up. The media view of Muslims is different from mine, which is very benign and peaceful." They've been married for a very long time.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/u.... The irony of course being that no one is more un-American than Trump.
youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ?.... This should be rewatched FIVE times during your lifetime.
www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahom.... It's such a relief, really, to know our children are being protected.
www.mediaite.com/crime/israel.... I read the news today, oh boy...ten thousand holes in Gaza while this guy goes free...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a.... What's the opposite of a war monger? A Nobel monger?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a.... What's the opposite of a war monger? A Nobel monger?
You don't belong here.
Jump! Jump!