MAGA: not even *good* liars
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MAGA: not even *good* liars
Can't wait for the MAGA Libertarians to tell us why is this is consistent with limited government. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Say “Orange Man” 3 times while looking in a mirror
We. Need. Nuremberg. Trials.
Post your favorite castle: Shuri Castle in Okinawa, which we have visited many times and which is is currently under reconstruction after decimation in a 2019 fire
Our more recent ancestors would be astonished that The Republican Party is now opposed to the Gettysburg Address.
A MechaHitler in every pot
James Bond films are actually the story of a brilliant inventor who is constantly tormented by a louche drunken homicidal maniac who wrecks all of his inventions while using them to kill people.
That is the closest I've ever seen Trump come to accurate self-realization.
There are days when I think that there's no comparison between what's going on in the US and Hong Kong. Then there are days when I think: "I wish Americans/the world paid attention to what was -- as well as is -- happening to Hong Kong" -- in terms of authoritarians (Chinese and otherwise) do.
Seriously. If you’re going back to that era, the B-52s are fun. Green Day are fun. The Chili Peppers are fun. Oasis: NOT FUN
Also, those kids should get off of their lawns. And what’s with music nowadays? Back in their day, now THAT was music
It truly, truly feels like Trump is making all his “decisions” by consulting a Magic 8-ball. Just randomness all the way down.
Totally healthy, nothing to see here, why do you ask
“L’etat c’est moi” but written in Sharpie on the back of a McDonald’s placemat
Everything is Calvinball now.
The hero America deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Congratulations to America’s own Dr. Frankenstein, Chief Justice Roberts
Principles are apparently for losers
Oh, and "Hazy Shade of Winter," either the Simon & Garfunkel or the Bangles version
All good. I would probably also throw in "Holiday" by Green Day, "Hurts So Good" by John Mellencamp, and "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.
I’m so tired
This is my mantra
This is, indeed, the dumbest timeline
Why yes, MAGA “conservatives,” I *am* referencing a specific concept, why do you ask?
If I lose my vote, can I stop paying US taxes?
It has never once occurred to these people what actually makes America great and a world leader
It’s gonna be Chris Rufo, isn’t it www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...
Probably also misleading advertising
The people who think masks were tyranny are invading American communities with a military occupation
OMG it's like corporate lawyers tried to recreate the Fairness Doctrine out of spare legal parts
Extremely stable genius
We are about 6 months away from a pro-slavery exhibit at the Smithsonian www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Happy to buy you a drink as well. We all need a drink or two lately…..
Hey, "not all Americans"
Almost as much fun as BOO-urns
Can confirm
It only counts if they say “sir” with tears in their eyes
Trump honestly only has only two frameworks through which to view any situation: (1) WHICH DEMOCRAT CAN I BLAME (2) HOW CAN I MONETIZE THIS
Too late, you’re that guy
“Peace in our time,” amirite
I feel like we could also do something with: Korn Bananarama The Dead Milkmen
Make a band food: SoundVegetableGarden
That is some fine line-caught spaghetti
Grok: now defending Jews
I can’t believe this is how far public shame has fallen
Starving your own citizens to suck up to Trump
I love lamp.
Pictures are worth a thousand votes
Air traffic controller: AI, land this plane Air traffic controller: ok, try again, but 70 meters higher
*posts a dinner plate with a ribeye held over my head* THE STEAKS HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER
I just can’t decide if they’ll out and out call their own reporter a liar.
Can’t wait to see how Jesse Watters and the Fox News propaganda brigade walk this back
Someone should probably alert the Alaskan population
I feel like this somewhat buries one of the major issues: ICE agents patrol with a dildo
Wait Then what…..what do they do *during* the summit
James Woods as the Sandwich Man, who will let nothing stop his evil plan against the United States Dean Cain as a rebel FBI agent who’s sworn to bring him no matter what the cost And Kristi Noem as the woman he loooooooves (Directed by Michael Bay)
Movies that got the FBI right: (1) Die Hard (2) ……🤷🏻 help me out here
They won’t, because that would mean admitting that *they* were wrong, and that’s something MAGAites are constitutionally incapable of
And the kid is American!
I mean…we’re in Hong Kong and at this point my multilingual kid is thinking about doing university outside the U.S., given what’s going on.
Gosh. I wonder if this will have a ripple effect. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
they're like twins
Hong Kong is really getting the shaft from this typhoon
metaphor for the whole country
"Remember when I got caught stealing all those watches from Sears? Well, that's nothing, because YOU voted Robert Bork down!" "And remember when I let that escaped lunatic in the house 'cause he was dressed like Santa Claus? Well, YOU voted Robert Bork down!" youtu.be/960DPXiZCB8?...
It's somewhat remarkable how many old-school Republicans treat the Robert Bork vote as some kind of Democratic Original Sin, upon which any Republican malfeasance can be blamed.
I will never get over that being a picture he *posed* for. Deliberately.
I stuck with urban and semi-urban. If I get to go beachside rural, or ski slope, it's a different answer.
New York, Hong Kong, Queenstown (NZ), Tokyo, Dublin.
Nature’s Rogaine
"Everything went downhill when Ben Tillman punched John McLaurin"
slightly diminish a band Men with a few hats, but not many
But has anyone ever accused @kenwhite.bsky.social of putting roast beef in his hat
Hey, you know who else had their slaves develop highly specialized trades can't wait til Trump celebrates them youtu.be/veztNJQyRJg?...
Slightly diminish a band: Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety-nine Maniacs
Slightly diminish a band: The Slight Buzz Furs
Trump is fake. He's just an avatar generated by Grok.
Now I want to know which character deserves a Broadway musical
Who coulda guessed, part 418.5 billion
You want to sell your religion based on its merits, that’s got nothing to do with me. You try to do it by fanciful comparisons to “Judaism,” you’ve got my attention.
I spent my childhood in a (not-very-Jewish) rust belt town getting constantly proselytized by people who thought the way to sell Christianity was by favorably comparing an idealized version of it to a parody of actual Judaism. I still hate that.
Yes, thankfully Jesus’ followers have not in any way split into any movements, isms and activists. So this is clearly a reason to push Christianity over Judaism on an online platform.
In honor of my kid going to see Superman with friends, I’m posting the cover of my favorite Superman story. I loved the goofy Silver Age.
That second sentence is possibly the meanest thing ever said on Bluesky
Must just be me. bsky.app/profile/norm...
But my Republican friends said Democrats are the real antisemites because they don’t full-throatedly support mass starvation
America’s new Secretary of Education
The NYTimes in 1939: “Hitler, seeking friendlier ethnic climate, sends German personnel to Poland.”
If your health agency is arguing against vaccines and for French fries, they may have an agenda priority other than your health
Two girls, one shmuck
It really is so fucked up that the only thing Trump had to do to get the media off Project 2025 was lie “that’s not my plan.” And now Heritage runs every aspect of the WH
🎶TRUMP EATS THE SUN AND DRINKS THE SKY🎶 youtu.be/mJ_HhT-tneA?...