Well, run the experiment and see how it works out. 🤷♂️
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Well, run the experiment and see how it works out. 🤷♂️
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Trick question, Seth. It’s Canada. They both did. And then apologized for saying soory.
1) no one ever gives that much information in a press release about an accident 2) cause with a married girl and crashed drunk I bet Thoughts?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
the corruption reeks at every level & everywhere you look #TruthWarriors
Most of them are rooting for the madness
There is no one, uniform, psyche of Trump voters. Several axes, each a bell-shaped (Gaussian) statistical distribution. Stochastic terrorism does not rely on motivating the whole sample to commit heinous crimes. A handful of statistical outliers will do. Right?
QAnon memes were not a small part of what mobilized Trump’s January 6th mob. Ignoring this is a dangerous mistake and we are making it twice.
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The jest is, admittedly, obscure.
Wasn’t taken that way. Just a paraphrase of Baba Brinkman’s observation in his show Rap Guide to Evolution that there’s a shortage of rap music literacy.
The more times you reframe your query, the more opportunity to charge money for serving you advertising. youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?...
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
I regret that my comic book literacy in not up to the challenge. ;)
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
It is difficult to keep track of all the bizarre behavior, sometimes. www.tumblr.com/kevinbingham...
Commercial yeast or wild (sourdough)?
She’s already in court. The way to do it is to present her case to the judge. Appeasing the media’s insatiable thirst for eyeballs 👀 is a fool’s errand.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
On today’s episode of “I fucking told you so” #Trump #Putin #Epstein #Krasnov #KGB #Kompromat
“Run” is rather too generous a word. Mismanaged, exploited, or ruined all seem better choices.
Start near the bottom of page 146, I suppose …. www.clarkchargers.org/ourpages/aut... It isn’t necessarily an answer that makes me want to emulate O’Brien. But there likely is considerable insight in what the author has O’Brien say. Religious authoritarians map 1:1 directly onto the Party.
youtu.be/Ye8mB6VsUHw
Experience of US tech companies operating in multiple countries, teaches otherwise. How many cautionary tales would you like?
Well when you can’t get anywhere based on merits and everyone hates you… Buy your way in That applies to law school, congressional offices, and now the presidency! Bought by #Putin, hostile takeover facilitated by #Elon #Musk #Krasnov #Trump - useful idiot poster boy for a decades-long op.
Also the Council for National Policy, Leonard Leo, Farris Wilks, Tim Dunn, Betsy Devos / Erik Prince, yada yada, playbook.
Yeah, Americans. Especially using vectors like 4Chan (8kun), Gab, Parler, and other right wing echo-chambers to recruit (often insecure and isolated) young men into the toxic “manosphere” pipeline. youtu.be/f-oIquWO0AQ Russians have been exploiting this relentlessly at least since Gamergate.
Remember when Dr. Spectre, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan... had psychometric targeting software ready to go, to support Cambridge Analytica’s, Facebook’s, and Brad Parscale’s (San Antonio-based) psyop in 2016? Yes, they do this stuff relentlessly around the world. And are good at it.
That’s how he has been his whole life. Relentlessly exploiting and then stiffing the “little guy” while kissing up to oligarchs, pedos, mobsters, and corrupt narcissists like himself.
Seems like at least once, sometimes several times, a generation, the thinking people need to go to heroic lengths to beat back the Cult of Ignorance as they desperately to get their 🦑 tentacles wound tightly around the levers of political power.
No small number of his supporters lean into it — thinking (falsely) that Russia supports their extreme views about firearm ownership and abortion, among other things. Damned fools. Russian government pays for lots of abortions and tightly restricts firearms.
I think he is completely going to fail to distract millions from watching and listening to the survivors. Plus, if anyone wants a trip down memory lane, remembering how this tyrant got to be the way he is, perhaps this film is a better use if our time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_App...
This seems too sensible for Americans ever to implement.
Grandpa has sundowner syndrome bsky.app/profile/ronf...
How about #GovernorFuckFace ? Just sayin’
Something like Ron Desanctimonious, right?
Still worth a repost @atheists.org @ffrf.org @rsslmo.bsky.social
Personally, it feels like a huge relief just to have a short break from his relentless attention-seeking behavior. I’m going to enjoy the break and not speculate about the Dumpster Fire.
We now know that Trump, or probably more correctly, the White House posted a photo today showing Trump playing golf which we now know was taken over a week ago. What do you reckon is going on?
The music is a “sonic collage” by Negativland. You may have heard their album deconstructing brand advertising, Dispepsi. Their Guns EP has two tracks — Guns (Then) and Guns (Now), shining an ironic light on American gun culture. Images added by film-maker Silver Persinger. tinyurl.com/5fctrdka
What kind of health insurance can he afford after the Georgia defamation case? Here’s hoping that surgery and rehab keeps him out of doing mischief for several months.
Beaming Joe Biden, 82, looks healthier than Trump, 79, in new pictures - The Mirror Sure does. CONGRESS needs to immediately LAUNCH an INVESTIGATION into what the WHITE HOUSE is HIDING, what they know and when they knew it? This is an NATIONAL EMERGENCY 🚨
There’s a reason why tyrannical chimps from time to time, meet violent ends at the hands of their own troops. medium.com/omgfacts/chi...
It is absolutely the farthest conceivable thing from “just because [we] disagree.” And has *deep* roots in ancestor and evolutionarily proximate primate societies. www.kqed.org/futureofyou/...
Presumably, the already did demand exactly that gift.
Because he has been and remains an existential threat to national security. And these are people loyal to the United States, not to the tyrant, personally.
Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.
In Soviet Union they used to tell a joke about a man who buys the newspaper every AM, looks at the front page, curses, & throws it away. "Why do you keep doing that?," the seller asks. "I’m looking for an obituary." "But those aren't on the front page!" ..."Oh, the one I’m looking for will be."
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
I weep for our nation. 😢
Sometimes second-best (or 10,000th-best) just has to be good enough.
😢 Heartbreaking. 💔
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
This is the way
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
"Christ died for your sins" hmm sounds like a Him problem
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
And extreme “gun culture.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGF5...
He’s providing them all with valuable “never trust that g*dd*mned cheapskate” experience as well. Will his followers ever realize that they have more in common with ordinary workers — who the Dumpster Fire despises — than with billionaires and oligarchs to whom he panders?
I’m deeply concerned about the exact same thing.
Don’t forget Fred’s help getting Donald permission to spread his wings outside neighborhood mob territory in Queens (Fred’s patrons), to pursue Donald’s ambitions in Manhattan with the Genovese and Colombo families (and later, Scarfo out of Philadelphia).
2/2 … the problem today is not *just* “moron” from before his falling-out with Tillerson. It involves a very low long-term baseline, amplified by accelerating dementia and cognitive decline, an extreme authoritarian, tyrannical personality, malignant narcissism, and no moral compass. 🤷♂️
Exactly right, Mark. The moron problem is bigger than the candidate / elected Executive. It also has to do with the whole crew of sycophants, kooks, ideologues and appointees he has inflicted on government agencies + “DOGE.” Plus, while the Dumpster Fire has been a moron his whole life …. 1/2
M-orons A-re G-overning A-merica shorturl.at/Y5yPL
Know that I, for one, am rooting for you. I finished my formal accumulation of degrees in 1993, but that does not prevent me scratching my autodidact itch every doggone day. ;) On a multitude of subjects. So, good for you continuing to learn stuff, with or without formal credentials as motivation.
Thank you, and yes, but this system has made sure I couldn’t get any more formal credentials in the last several years But I still study everything I can get my hands on because fuck ‘em
Still studying those fields? Terrible what you and your friend were subjected to. 😢
GOP responses to mass shootings: Step 1: Blame it on mental health, not guns Step 2: Vote to cut funding for mental health Repeat I live outside the US, and I can assure you: the rest of the world has people with mental health problems. What they don't have is easy access to unlimited guns.
Same data thieves who scraped the Social Security databases? What could possibly go wrong?
All these ignorant, sycophantic schmucks need to go …. yesterday.
The Cult of Ignorance is hardly a new phenomenon. Every generation, we must resist their misguided efforts to seize the levers of political power. oblivionwithbells.com/wp-content/u...
Instead, can you do an oil painting of the Cassini version (including a cameo of Saturn 🪐) of the Pale Blue Dot photo? Last I checked it is in the public domain. And remember, keep Saturn in Saturnalia! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Why can’t somebody in the Executive Branch tell him just to stop wasting everyone’s time with disruptive and annoying theatrics?
So now he’s Thanos? I seem to have missed how many Infinity Stones this mad, homicidal (or worse), tyrant has collected.
So now he’s Thanos? I seem to have missed how many Infinity Stones this mad, homicidal (or worse), tyrant has collected.
So now he’s Thanos? I seem to have missed how many Infinity Stones this mad, homicidal (or worse), tyrant has collected.
That’s silly. Any “dream scenario” is necessarily less appealing than how things would have gone in a just world — namely, a lengthy, isolated, decline into madness (without social media, of course) in the gentle care of the Florence Supermax.
Right wing stupidity.
Not really a binary “fine” vs. decomposing thing. At no time in his adult life has he ever been “fine.” Nor would anyone raised by Fred Trump be expected to be “fine.” But agreed that nothing fails like prayer.
Has the betting pool started, yet? Happy to donate a calendar.
You see through the relentless corporate gaslighting, huh? 🤔
His family spent so many decades in service to the country, building up a reservoir of Kennedy goodwill with the American public. And then Bobby, Jr., went and spoiled the whole reservoir by taking a public health crap 💩 in it.
They’re too busy, instead, pursuing a desperate and senseless plan to make safe & effective Mifepristone totally unavailable to people requiring medical attention. Turns out, not a single elementary school student ever has died from a mass school deployment of Mifepristone. Go figure. 🤷♂️
If prayer really worked, I would have woken up to an enormous headline this morning.
What a trooper to be so patient, when confinement keeps her from exploring.
The thing you linked to is “Youtube video by TIMES NOW”
Times Now is a Youtube “clickbait” and disinformation account. Yesterday, Youtube’s algorithm was boosting a video by them seeking to propagate a false claim that President Obama had been arrested.
Please don’t repost stuff from Times Now. Not a reliable source of information.
Meta needs to get sued into submission.
The really gross and blatantly obvious thing about all of this stuff is that most of the time, the people who are creating and using these bots or avatars are always making them of women, women in lingerie, women being used as a commodity. You barely seeing them do that to men. Think about that.
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
Wait … is this a white #MAGA follower offering opinions about people who lack the snap to vote in their own best interests? Not sure if it is funny or sad to observe such a lack of self-awareness up close. Like when Dana Perino had unsolicited advice to offer Gavin Newsom. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
