Oh they’re rolling him out tomorrow supposedly.
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Oh they’re rolling him out tomorrow supposedly.
We, the little people, make history. One stupid corpse joke at a time.
Oh you bet. That’s why we can cheerfully tell ourselves that we’re not just wasting our time and amusing ourselves. Every little bit of additional stress on him from all the roasting and all the rumors brings him closer to death! We’re HELPING!!
I just thought that whole discourse was strange. Why were people acting like there was some scientifically proven threshold that means It’s So Over? How was that number arrived at? Every country everywhere is different lol. How do you get that figure calculated to the nearest HALF MILLION?
The target audience is George Conway, I think.
But it would have to be the first “head of state kills another head of state” incident in…HOW many centuries? I mean that would be WILD. Under no circumstances do you “gotta hand it to” Vlad Putin but that would be an absolutely incredible bid for history.
So that's what a court would have to rule on! And they didn't.
And taken as a whole does it constitute "insurrection" in the sense the constitution means? I think people could definitely ARGUE it did, in the context of everything he'd been doing for weeks. But he would ALWAYS just say "I said 'peacefully,' I didn't tell nobody to do nothing blah blah".
Yeah this is what I was saying. It’s just gonna be some dumbass “rent control by executive order” thing that will have no legal effect whatsoever or some kind of wishful thinking about tax credits for developers or god knows what. NOTHING he can do on his own.
Heh I like being alone tho. You gotta picture me as Larry David at every protest, basically.
you can't say that any more because of Woke
yeah, like what the fuck do WE care? President Khan is gonna give one to Sandwich Throwing Guy anyway.
McDonald's did finally do one in that style? A direct Chick-fil-a knockoff. I forget the name. It was...eh. I don't want McDonald's chicken at that price point.
a freaking WELSHMAN? I think not
Whoa, we think those are nurses? I can't tell. Don't exactly know the context, either; this is at his golf club, right?
ALSO regrettably, Morrissey slots right into that tradition. 😕 (Which sucks because he's a great punch line even without all that, just as a Vibe.)
my cat is INNOCENT
You're right about the guys in the back though lol. I wonder if it's true about the, uh, smell around him. Because that's kind of the expression I'm seeing. 🙃
I haven't looked at this stuff closely but both this one and the other few from the last couple of days seem just...kinda how he looks now? He looks like shit! He's old AF and grumpy. I sure wouldn't say he's doing great, that's for sure, but I don't know if it's something new.
Yeah I'm not the target audience exactly but there's always room in the culture for an Entertainer of that kind, one who isn't afraid of inhabiting the "Naughty" space. Long and glorious tradition!
He got three counts of conspiracy which should be MORE than enough. But we all know how it played out.
Oh in that particular case? I dunno. No lawyer, here. He does have the pardon power! But that IS an abuse of it. So if anything it's just an impeachable offense. But it doesn't matter because there's plenty of OTHER stuff involved that's clearly felonious.
Oh yeah. SO many things he did from that month could be charged criminally and some were!
I'm an old who knew nothing about her but my wife threw her Christmas special on. I caught a few minutes and was like "so uh she's not going for the whole Wholesome Girl Next Door vibe is what I'm getting here?"
Sadly ironic because Trump of course believes more than anybody this side of Michael Scott in the efficacy of "declaring" things. But HE very often finds out it doesn't work too.
when the kids today say “bad” they mean good tbh
Also, like, do people REMEMBER 2024 on here?? That was some wild shit. Everything from the Infamous Biden Debate on was like playing tennis in a steel cage full of exploding pythons. (I still kept coming back!)
It’s usually an emotionally withholding mother tbh.
The issue, as always, is that a person like that has political support at all! But you can only beat that with more politics.
Right, yeah. If our sheer CORRECTNESS could stop the guy it would have by now! It doesn't really work like that.
You're not supposed to say it, but I've never been convinced in a legal sense that he "engaged in insurrection." It's vague enough. He said some shit. It was arguably incitement. I just don't know if it meets that bar. Shouldn't matter! No one should vote for him! But here we are.
Really I felt that he was disqualified in THAT sense from the very start, simply for being a known scoundrel and person of low character. But again, the electorate disagreed.
I always felt that it was clear that he'd MORALLY disqualified himself by his actions (however half-assed) to resist accepting the 2000 election. That it was all beyond the pale and the polity should not forgive that. But by definition, it did.
Oh I agree, from where I sit as an amateur. The hardliners argue that the Court had no say, I guess, and that the relevant text of the 14th Amendment is just self-executing. He's literally not president because he can't be. (I'm so not a scholar but that doesn't FEEL right.)
You see it in peoples' worries about "rigging elections" or about "locking down cities" with the National Guard or with ICE or what-have-you. That sounds scary but just in no way grapples with the sheer size of such a task compared to the resources available.
Oh of course and that's no knock on them. People IN the US have no idea how huge it is either. It's really really clear from the way many lifelong Americans talk about our politics (or about things like mass protest!) that they really don't grasp the scale of what they're saying.
Ha yeah. We left that part out. (Our framers put in a theoretically much SIMPLER way to remove the executive! It turns out to be useless in practice!)
And I mean that's good! (I remember! I was alive then.) I'm not stressed about the terminology either way. It worked out for you! We'll just say "the character of the government changed by extra-constitutional means". That does happen! But we very much want to AVOID if if we can.
Yeah I guess the distinction is just “popular movement” vs “elite machinations” but in practice I suppose the lines always blur. (Any coup worth its salt claims to have the backing of the people!)
I just don't believe that would really happen, never have. The guy's a dumbass old coward.
We'd absolutely have gotten to a moment like that as a country, if, say, it's 2029 and Trump were to try to stay in charge somehow. (As many people have insisted he'll do all along!) Then we'd be justified in whatever unpleasant things we'd have to do as a country.
Okay sure, yeah; I guess "coup" would be the wrong word for that. But just replace that with "revolutions" in my statements, I guess. Revolutions do happen and sometimes they end up for the best. But for most people they're not and can't be a GOAL.
I can't go that far because even if there's some question the whole "election" thing kinda settles the argument. For now. I don't what else we can say because otherwise you're talking "coup" again, heh.
There's a school of thought, even her on BlueSky among the Serious Folks, that Trump was NOT eligible for office and thus IS illegitimate and in fact the constitutional order itself is currently in a kind of limbo. There's an argument!
And I know it may not look like it from the outside but MANY people here take our (imperfect!) history of liberal democracy and rule of law VERY SERIOUSLY. We do not talk about coups casually as One Weird Trick.
Oh he does the quasi-casual “hat” look plenty of times; definitely during time at his properties but sometimes even in the White House. It’s tacky and gross. But I agree that he doesn’t generally go this long without doing the “real” Full Trump look with the hair and the tie, etc.
Ah! That makes sense. He’s just a name to me; I didn’t realize he came out of THAT world.
Wow. It’s come for US now. You die a hero or live long enough to become Glonzo.
I actually thought of making a joke about the “stench” issue! I mean, I don’t know if it’s true but it’s a story that’s out there for sure. And it wouldn’t make you WANT to be his his hair and/or makeup person, that’s for sure.
I see what you did
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man
imma try this. "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."
I mean, he has to wear the hats if time and circumstances don't allow for somebody to build the hair; we know that much. But why would that be the case now? I dunno.
okay found it
There's another pic now with him smiling at the camera! He's aware of his surroundings. Still no talking tho.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
Right, yeah; in order to accept that reading we would need more evidence that he can currently say sentences. Like, aloud. With his mouth. It's been some days now, right?
Right yeah. Like the exurbs of Dallas or something.
it will avail you not to invoke His name, we have strayed far from his sight
good hands, great steely gaze, nice posture. Really solid "henchman" work all around.
yeah this is the thing I see people talking about where those of us over thirty do not understand how much the young Do Not Know Computer. We've been in denial but it seems very true.
I guess I'm part of the problem here, but I can't emphasize enough to all the people doing image analysis/medical diagnosis/Kremlinology regarding this pic that This is Just What He Looks Like Now. He is very old and grumpy tbh.
I mean it kind took some pretty harsh remedies let's be fair
Never use the boomerangs. Take a stand on principle. I never touch the things.
well I mean it's asymmetric! "phony populist rage" only works if your votes come from the suckers susceptible to that! Our people can't necessarily just DO that, at least without unacceptable compromises.
and in a way aren’t we all? [lights clove cigarette, smiles enigmatically]
Also the answer to any and all questions about this pic is “fucker is old as hell, this is what he looks like now.” What are we doing?
ENHANCE
Me, looking at “BlueSky is dying” discourse again: “so true besties, this is goth af right??” [turns up “Prayers For Rain”]
And there’s no conceivable way they put the New Trump Neighborhoods anywhere that makes any sense at all. They have a child’s view of American geography, heh.
If what I hear is true that ship has sailed and it’s far too late to get them to read an entire book in school. So uh I dunno where you go from here…
It's pretty clear that's absolutely happening constantly, but they can't possibly show it all onscreen.
Right, yeah. In a hypothetical post-scarcity world of easy space travel there would one thousand percent be a Sex Planet, and probably one for every sector.
look, Rom contains multitudes. He is a Rich Text.
This is cool and all but could somebody please get around to building the Cube? (In Minecraft?)
everything about Jake is weird. Sometimes that's okay. But still.
Ha you beat me to it. But come on. We all know Quark's was just a standard Western saloon and we ALL know what goes on in those places.
and sure sure they were just hostesses and wait staff yeah. come on, every twelve-year-old knew what went on at that place. It wasn't subtle.
And remember that union was formed for the benefit of sex workers in space. In 1996! It's extremely BlueSky-coded.
*frowns in Habsburg*
I was at the famous 2017 Women's March! The BIG one! One of the largest gatherings ever at that time. Being me, I hated every second of it, but it WAS awe-inspiring to see. Didn't move the needle in the slightest.
But speaking for myself I *was* pleasantly surprised at the sheer size of public protests! (I went to one and was like 'wow yeah this sure isn't nothing!') But I have also been VERY consistent all along going back years about how I think that stuff hardly ever does any good. Why would it?
I mean they don't ACT like it feels "pleasant" but who the hell knows.
smh why does the NYT love fascism so much
happy labor day
holy hell is THAT a headline accursed in the sight of the Lord. A part of my soul was disfigured by reading it.
I mean, I'm talking too! And yeah, the discourse that starts at the grassroots and in places like this DOES filter outward and upward. Or we have to hope so, or what are we doing? We just have to have a realistic sense of the DEGREE of our influence.
Oh absolutely the invisible primary has started! And a lot of folks have funny ideas about their own role or level of importance in it, is kinda my whole thing, heh. 🙃
(I did notice that Broadus had walked back his recent regrettable comments and assumed the president had made some calls.)
You may have not seen this but Richard Nixon is alleging that our current president is not writing his own posts at the moment.
President Nixon's messages are lightly edited by staff but are otherwise verbatim and authentic. -- RZ
Everywhere you turn you might just bump into Harry Potter or Morrissey. Terrifying, really.
Oh, of course that subject is a lot more immediate and relevant! But they (and us, let's be real) don't have a whole hell of a lot of control over THAT either. We can help push the word out! And we do try. But yeah, more people should.
Meanwhile a little-known deity of the Hadzabe people of East Africa who it turns out is ACTUALLY the relevant authority in these cases is chuckling gently at us. "Oh, I'll get to it folks," he says. "Lot going on, but I'l get to it."
To any of our good colleagues in law enforcement: What my friend here means to say is that we wish whatever deity or deities makes these determinations, be it Odin, Vishnu or YHWH Lord of Hosts would make up his, her, its or their mind about whether this is happening or not.
And, like, as an outsider the brand is just...not great. "Britain" is global empire and Their Finest Hour and Rule Brittania and all that shit. "England" is...I dunno, it's kind of embarrassing. It's, like tea and sheep and bad teeth and Morrissey.
Whereas going at Trump or the culture that produced him is just fierce joy. It's like YEAH let's scream at the void because fuck that void. Let's talk about what a fake-ass toxic little void it is! Let's get other people to mock the void!
Yeah. Something there, you're right. And it's so antithetical to the way my OWN "political emotions" work, which explains why it always feels so odd to me! My first instinct in intra-coalitional stuff is always "get over yourself, slow your roll". Like, it makes me feel LOUSY.