Yep
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Seems like something a journalist might want to check on
So, if China moves on Taiwan tonight, who's in charge in Washington?
Kremlinology has come to America, really.
You can't run as a Republican anymore in Iowa without carrying Trump's baggage. At this point, that's what's dirty, especially in a midterm.
When was his most recent public appearance?
You people need to stop with the reckless hope. My heart can't take it
Somebody go get the George Michael SNL bit! "You can calibrate instruments by it, it's so perfect."
The best of all college fight songs is Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech. This is a postulate. It is self-evidently true. Do not argue.
They should schedule Woke Forest
At least he understood the plot of Idiocracy
No shit.
I understand that bleach can be effective
Isn't that a problem only if they care? I no longer think they do. They never pay any price for their corruption and disregard of precedent.
Yglesias
My argument hasn't changed, and I've watched him slow down already. Watch and wait and see.
For play he's already made. GB may end up glad to pay him that much money for that long, but the odds are against them. I'm not dogging Parsons. Teams that overpay for positions other than QB don't usually win playoff games. They get that production out of the draft instead
I grant that, to an extent. I don't think the rank and file are going to lie down, though. But it's important when the aftermath comes to remember that trillions spent on defense didn't keep the Russians from winning the Cold War in the end.
Probably voted for Trump as directed from Moscow
Our nation's capital is occupied by Russian proxies. The national security apparatus has failed completely and we really need to talk about it openly.
Kakistocracy, baby! Feel the stupid!
Good luck with that.
Whereas for me, a 60 y/o who grew up in North Texas, the Cowboys ceased to exist 36 years ago
"If Vance says it, you know it's wrong."
It's a break in the routine, at least.
He's got maybe two years left in the tank. As much as I detest Jerry, I'm happy to see him finally refuse to overpay a veteran past his prime.
He attended Georgia Tech IIRC. I remember his time with the Texas Rangers. He was a huge asshole even then, even by baseball standards
Most of those countries also have opposition parties willing and capable of skewering the party in power over national defense. We have Democrats who just want to discuss the price of eggs
Russian proxies have occupied the nation's capital. The economy is the furthest thing from my mind. Do any Dems intend to speak up about national security ever again?
He should know
You and I have both those things in common.
That's obviously James Earl Jones
One underappreciated aspect of contemporary life is that no one gets to spend his life in any place resembling the world he grew up in. So much of my education about the world in the 60s and 70s is useless at best for me now. It's easy, in a way, to see how easily norms can collapse
When Rove and other Republicans say, "crime," they refer to the existence of people who aren't white. That's all. And Rove knows it.
You guys don't understand that the correct response to a deeply unpopular opposition program is to gut it entirely. You guys in 1933 would have had FDR do as little as Hoover in '32
So did Biden, then. And Obama.
I've lost electricity in summer before, in Texas. I'm judging by the idea of losing service at 7 am with the house at 72⁰. Home insulation prevents it getting to 100⁰ even on 105⁰ days.
Haha just try that in Texas and find out how long it takes your home to cool from 90⁰F every evening
And is due for an infarction
Just a reminder that our nation's capital is currently under occupation by Russian proxies
Do photocopiers suffer?
It's not anxiety-based. Congress passed Trump's budget bill. ICE's funding gets a big boost starting September 1. They're going to push it as far as they can.
Guess who he works for
If it didn't require so much courage for you to stand tall, it wouldn't be so urgent that you do it.
Shit, I agree with the fuckhead about this. "Defense" was a whitewash from the start. Changing it back changes the conversation: "what do we spend on war" ringing differently from "what do we spend on defense." Let him have this one.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Time for a terrifyingly clear response
I care not a single iota about this. In fact, I prefer "War" over "Defense," which was a whitewash job in the first place. He needs to respect the Constitution, of course, which I recognize as the greater issue. But on this specific thing? Whatever. It's fine.
All that money they receive next month will cure a lot of that, I think
He works for Putin.
I'm already fired up to vote for this billionaire
We need a total revisit of the way major cities are governed in our system. DC statehood is a start but only that.
LBJ, with his history of heart attacks, always had his health scrutinized carefully. (The interregnum between 11/23/1963 and 1/20/1965's inauguration of VP Humphrey gave us the 25th amendment.) That said, though, this is different. LBJ wasn't in steady decline like Trump obviously is.
They will.
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
The Russians are invading Chicago. Wow.
The old bromide about social media is true: if you can't figure out what's sold to make it profitable, it's you who is that product. That's why I quit Twitter the day that Musk bought it. I'll be damned before I add value to that guy's portfolio. it's really simple.
That whiskey ain't gonna drink itself
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime”
Wait. With the enormous money influx ICE is about to receive, why can't he occupy all the cities at once?
I still don't know why they bothered. This convinces no one.
I wake up every day hopeful. Then the obituaries let me down again
Nobody on X even remembers Twitter
Kansas Aggies > Iowa Aggies
Third way: always ready with a list of negatives for others to avoid
Definitely. But there are reasons why they were so poorly informed
Now I'm woke. Damn you, Cracker Barrel!!!
It's gotten to where you can't even serve brown food to white people in this country without getting hassled by white racists
Two root causes, the fascism being father of the distraction theater
The lesson going forward is that if even Gavin Newsom can do it, any Dem can do it. Attack. Always attack.
I believe the medical term is "high on their own supply"
Does the other party propose simply having all Black people executed? I wouldn't put it past today's Republicans to launch such a campaign against trans folks. They already are well down that road. All that said, though, shame on us if we abandon protecting the marginalized!
What was the weather forecast in hell today?
AND you've already decided which bonds will be honored and which ones won't, when you decide to default?
It's the same guy
I appreciate his media team lately, but media teams don't govern, and Newsom can't be trusted
Every accusation is a confession
Trump has always been a national security nightmare, but did anybody ever frame his candidacy as an external threat to America? Not really. All we got were warnings in the tone a parent uses to tell teens to be home by midnight. 2/2
You're on to something here. Biden and Harris painted Trump as a mortal threat to democracy, but with the same tone they used to talk about the economy. MAGA was (and remains) at war against America, but the problem was never discussed with the urgency that requires. 1/2
They're Nazis. They run concentration camps. Brutality is all they know.
One who caved was nearly arrested today by her babysitter state trooper, who couldn't keep up with her morning jog. (She is 60.) Compliance. Never. Pays.
These are people whose "news" is delivered directly by the regime and its sycophant media. They're irrational because their eyes get a steady diet of sand instead of light
Taney didn't have so much precedent to ignore. Roberts may be even worse
What fascinates me here is how quickly people assume that he's right, despite years of evidence that he's not. It isn't a nefarious plot to cheat, IMO. It's just another of his weird obsessions, like Greenland
I was away on vacation when I posted the above, but now that I'm back to my computer I can share this, made with a friend in 2016:
That's so thoughtful of them to set up a live stream after every last one of them folded like secondhand lawn chairs
She's my rep, and I'm so proud. The rest of the Dem delegation can fuck right off, though. Where are they?!
There may be correlation there
That's my representative. I'm proud of her, and contemptuous of the rest of her delegation
Make America Sovereign Again
They had to. Biden was old
She's my rep, btw
It's also criminal cowardice on the part of her delegation
This is precisely what's happening in the world as a whole. Americans need to wake the fuck up.
I'm proud of her and ashamed of every other Democrat in that legislature. Shame on them for their weakness!
Can American voters please insist on a president that doesn't run every decision past the fucking Kremlin? Make America Sovereign Again!
Jesus Fucking Christ
We weren't in it yet, but Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1916 during WWI as well.
I'm a former college radio dj in DFW and run in the greater circle of friends that includes Old 97s. I've met Rhett a couple of times but he wouldn't remember. He's an absolute sweetheart of a human being. Everything you say about him here is true. And he is very well loved in his hometown.