If you're 73 years old dating someone your granddaughter's age, there's a gigantic tumor where your psyche should be.
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If you're 73 years old dating someone your granddaughter's age, there's a gigantic tumor where your psyche should be.
I'll stick with my 2015 Honda, thanks.
Respectfully disagree. He was a perfectly flawed Bond, exactly what the brand needed at the time.
Is your Tesla worth this?
Ted Kaczynski, posthumously.
I don't read as often as I should these days, mostly because keeping up with current events is exhausting me. But I did read this, and it was excellent.
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.
Suggest giving her a raise and then having her chip in on your family's housing and food costs for the month π
On this day in 2019, our exulted stable genius of a Leader proclaimed that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama, and when the storm failed to bend to his highness's will the next day, a Sharpie-doctored map was presented so that you would no longer have to believe your lying eyes.
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages shouldβve made that very clear.
Circling the wagons to decide what to say. Tomorrow all the talking heads will be on Fox with whatever bogus propaganda they decided, and all MAGAs will believe it. The truth is hard to come by these days.
According to a news Rudi Giuliani was hospitalised today by a White House hit squad so they can swap his vital organs for Donald's in a last ditch hope or resuscitating the dead president. They're not a blood match but they've shared so many other fluids the doctors think it'll work.
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Idiocracy denial can be treated with medication.
This situation could be much worse.
The only reasonable explanation is that Trump is doing this on purpose as directed by a certain former KGB interrogator.
You can almost see the Russian Mafia in the back seat
Possible he at least skimed the cliffs notes of Mein Kampf.
There's a Latina lady in our local farmer's market who operates a stand selling salsa, one of which is labeled extra hot. I have an extremely high tolerance for spicy food, but this stuff has me pouring a glass of milk every time. It's out-of-this-world fantastic.
With no end in sight.
Lol. She's got my vote in November tho
The insane part is that hoping for mutiny is pretty much our Plan A at this point.
I think so too.
Go Hokies.
Thanks for that brief glimmer of hope, universe π
Hello? What's happening? Am I a star wars?..
It's been a fun morning so far though.
If you're messing with me
Trump hasn't been seen or heard from in a couple of days, so the rumors are emerging apace
It's surreal and funny as hell on bsky.
My wife and I didn't win the lottery yesterday and now I know why
Iβm just saying that when it happens Iβm jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
The White House tonight:
If this comes to pass, the entire world will be like St Patrick's day in Dublin
Why are you people giving me hope?
This whole thing feels like seeing that the first couple of numbers on your lottery ticket match the wining one.
For an amateur, he's doing a respectable job.
IS THAT OBAMA'S TAN SUIT
seems more than a vision rn
This is an excellent piece as usual, happy to subscribe.
In terms of destroying American democracy, it would be a tough choice between Roberts, Gingrich, and McConnell.
how the FUCK is this America
This is the same shit he said about Josef Mengele in his most recent past life.
freedom flies
The more I hear JB Pritzker speak, the more I like him.
Yeah. Putin is a trained KGB interrogator. Trump is the kid that eats paste in class. It's not exactly a level playing field.
All levels on the Susan Collins' reaction scale terminate at the same result of doing absolutely nothing in response.
I would not be surprised if Trump doesn't *know* that he works for Putin. Putin manipulates him with a combination of flattery and coercion.
Bipartisan lol. The only thing the rubber stamp that is the congressional GOP is alarmed of is Dear Leader's wrath.
These are the same Einsatzgruppen who lined up to shoot holocaust victims at the edges of lime pits.
"We in the Congress have to back up everything that the president is doing. I have filed dozens of bills to make permanent all of Trump's executive orders." --Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) on Fox this morning
Susan Collins rolling out her familiar playbook of pointing out to Maine voters heading into an election year clear abuses of power by Trump, solely to create an illusion of independence, while doing absolutely nothing about it.
checks and balances amirite π
Apparently it's different when it's *their* tyrant.
Excellent point.
I don't think that's correct. I'm an engineer, so I am a pessimist by training, yet I am firmly in the non zero sum camp. A deal #1 guy in the example.
Every fucking Trump voter owns this atrocity.
The Trump administration fired an infectious disease expert and appointed a conspiracy theory nutbag with zero training in medicine or infectious disease to head the CDC in her place. Your newly minted dictator wants you dead, America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I don't think looking awkward would have stopped this SCOTUS tbh
Yes, that's the plan. It was made clear after Jan 6.
I'd rather see the Nuremberg trials.
βIβm going to let him go wild on health. Iβm going to let him go wild on the food. Iβm going to let him go wild on the medicinesβ - Donald Trump on RFK Jr, October 2024. Your newly minted dictator wants you dead, America.
I hear that Susan Collins is "alarmed" about RFK Jr, so don't worry, we'll soon be saved.
No it's usually "concern," so this is completely different π
Is alarm higher or lower than concern on Collins's ranking of meaningless reactions?
*War
Think of the domestic crackdown the regime could impose if there were a terrorist attack of some kind...
Nope. It's a no-shit summary of where we stand today.
The thing that melts my brain daily is how easily Trump could have been stopped. Many times.
Next up will be the Blood Flag ceremony.
The hits just keep coming
Important.
Your autocracy, America.
On this day in 1955, Emmett Till was brutally murdered by two Klansmen, who were acquitted at trial in less than an hour. America was so outraged that it leaped into action and passed an anti-lynching act after seven decades of mostly not thinking about it.
Same here. Skeptical that I live to see it.
Can't wait to see the resulting MAGA propaganda artwork.
So what's the end result here?
Rebuilding is always possible, e.g. Germany. The question is how long it takes. The damage that Trump and the far right have and will yet do is likely generational.
A competitive autocracy will hold elections, just ones with preordained results.
True.
Yeah, that's fair.
Skeptical that Trump not being interested in his subjects' fate is breaking brains (yet). The cult is the cult, many others are still too distracted to notice, and the rest of us have known all along.
On the whole, fear and resentment are easier to stir up than empathy and compassion, which is why the far right is ascendent. Not to be bleak(er), but this situation is not going to improve any time soon. My worry is that the better world that we want can only arise from wreckage at this point.
Counterpoint: thoughts and prayers might make the person conjuring them feel slightly less helpless, but they are neither good nor important. What's needed is a reversal of the lack of political will to do a damn thing to stop Americans, children or otherwise, from being shot to pieces daily.
Sandy Hook conclusively demonstrated that America has no interest in protecting its children from gun violence.
welcome back.
If children are gunned down while literally praying, I'm going to hazard a guess that additional thoughts and prayers are not going to be of much help.
nicely put.
Apparently not.
At what point does America reject this?
The rogues' gallery of broken individuals who America chose to drive itself off the cliff. This is a breathtaking act of national seppuku.
Exactly. The disorientation of the public is intentional, it's why the regime is moving so quickly to entrench its authoritarian rule. When enough Americans fully understand what's happening, it will be too late.
That is Trump's signature while stroking out.
Sheetz does rainbow improv at the gas pump.
They can do all that and more while armed with live ammunition.
Generals gathered in their masses
I'm with Joe on this. It's a fucking freak show.
That lunch was served on a patio-umbrella-studded concrete patio that used to be a rose garden.