max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
"Stranger danger! Stranger danger!" This time the danger is real.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
"Stranger danger! Stranger danger!" This time the danger is real.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Once a heroin addict, always a heroine addict
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Two very sick parents at the onset of the pandemic. Both in extreme risk groups. Both unable to see physicians during recovery due to risk of COVID exposure. Both died. Both still had more to give.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll start my own thread. My dad had major surgery in Jan 2020. He got home in Feb with a long recovery to look forward to. Mom had a heart attack two weeks later dealing with the stress. Both home in March. First day of mom's dialysis was also first day of community COVID spread. /1
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Just to be clear, trusting experts is a feature of science and democracy. Sorry for the confusion.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
This a tally says a lot about how the Chinese do target tracking. Key point, one of the most important tracking problems is holding track on a target when the target goes under a bridge or other cover and then cones out the other side...
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe the operative message needs to be "Trump, STFU!"
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
By any means necessary.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
"Many people are saying..."
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Just to be clear, it is NOT illegal to be under the influence on a boat. Sorry for any misunderstandings.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Can I please get some fatwa with that taco?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Junta
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Dick-tater-tot
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Had George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, or Richard Nixon said anything even close to that, they would have been ridden out of Washington on a rail, by other Republicans. Have they no shame?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
The media is owned by oligarchs who view the purpose of media as advancing their portfolios rather than serving as a watch on the holders and users of power. As the holders and users of power themselves, they lack the objectivity to own media.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Just to be clear, Clemens' strength coach testified to personally injecting Clemens with PEDs multiple times, and produced syringes and cotton balls with traces of PEDs and Clemens' DNA at trial. And his own teammates testified to injecting with him. Only a buffoon would deny that Clemens juiced.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Musk would wither and parish.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
1920s
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/5ap5buTT78A?...
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
His fatwa moment
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
But the taste is fair, and balanced
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I would have said that the convicted felon is having another felony moment
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It's what happens when you are rich but have no accountability.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
So much for an independent DoJ
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I, Krasnov
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
And the thugs deployed to DC will probably have a body count of hundreds before they are done.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
They don't want California, Oregon, or Washington, three states that would make a fine democratic republic and global economic powerhouse on their own.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Is the fatwa served with beets?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
How to say you've never been to Seattle or Portland without actually saying you've never been to Seattle or Portland.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
One of the Russian oligarchs that fronts for him is known as The Fertilizer King.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Benito. Autocorrect turns a dictator into a fish. It should be so easy.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I would have said gold-plated Russian bordello.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I lost my father in 2021. He gave me a window onto greatness. We were close for more than 60 years. I treasure every moment we had and no one else can ever fill that void.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Or on the business end of a gallows
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Similar results for pancreatic cancers.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Mother's don't let your children grow up to be fascists.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
He is the ugliest of the ugly Americans.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
The Third Reich didn't sign either. But that didn't help Goering
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Bonito Mussolini rocks the Piazzale Loreto one last time.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Poison won't kill him.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It's what J. Paul Getty would have done...if he had no style, no culture, no education, and no grace.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
The Nobel committee de-nominated Trump because he failed to meet minimal requirements.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
An American president cannot give away parts of Ukraine. Only the Ukrainian president can do that.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the new White House Ballroom...decorated in Early Upchuck
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I think I saw some Texas Democrats wander into Joint Special Forces Headquarters at Fort Bragg. You guys should sneak in there and see if you can find them.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
The US doesn't recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's be clear. We need viruses. Without them, we'd die. There are, however, a few viruses we'd be better off immune to. So can we be a little more focused?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
If you are proud of your history then you've been taught nationalist propaganda, not history. History is supposed to provide critical lessons so that mistakes are not repeated.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
That's what we've been saying since we learned that his first administration's team to staff the White House was run by a guy who was literally sleeping with a known Russian spy.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social)
One of my goals for the day is to make the skilled laborers I encounter feel a little more appreciated.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
If you translate that to Magaese, it says "F u. You don't butter my bread.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Aim for the bushes...
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Physicists work just as hard. And the quantity in finance work very hard as well. The question is what incentives the society offers that draw extremely motivated and intelligent people to the different occupations. And the incentives for quantity in finance are substantial.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't really think it was MDs. The physics students get the skills needed to be quants. And we need physicists as much as we need doctors.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
When someone who just finished a PhD in physics learns they can work as an underling in a national lab at a salary where they'll still be paying off their student loans in retirement, or they can use those same skills to make billionaires more money and pay off the student debt in 18 months...
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
So are you saying that women don't have a right to cover their hair?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I see the link. Android.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
He does know that. He's paid to say something different. And his moral character is that he says what he's paid to say rather than what he knows to be true.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
...which is bad enough but made far worse by decorating that palace in such gaudy taste that not even his hookers and street enforcers will want to go there.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
He's deflecting. No one is asking him not to hold stock. Just have it in a blind trust where he can't use his insider information to illegally profit from stock trades. Of course if what he's saying is that he has a right to use insider information because he's rich, then I have a problem.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump reminds me of the filthy rich boy who paid the tough kids to beat up the smart kids.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
So if we were to do a root cause analysis, our first question would be "what is the same now as it was in 2020, but was different between 2021 and 2024?" ...
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social)
Contrary to popular opinion, the rich and powerful don't go unpunished for their crimes. Historically, they stave off punishment for a while, but when it finally comes, the streets are turned red with their blood. Consider Paris in 1789, or the Piazzale Loreto in 1945.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Assume that every redacted name is DJT
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It's definitely placing Jews in the crosshairs, rather than placing the Islamophobes in the crosshairs.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social)
It's time to state the obvious just so that everyone is clear. The American ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Journalists are taught to be fearful and to follow that fear in the words they write. If it was any different we would have 100x the current press corps in Gaza, where a pound and a half of courage is mandatory, and they would be telling the truth instead of parroting the corporate line.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
In terms of public support, tariffs are under water with a -20 approval rating. Doesn't seem like a great issue to exploit for political spin.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Celebrated
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Simple. Lie and cheat.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that question answers itself.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
"Benefited". That's past tense. He's already got his. But screw you trying to get yours.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
But there are complexities. Like Epstein's close connections with Russian FSB agents leads to questions like, was his operation a honey pot designed to lure important people into situations where kompromat could be collected on them?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
John Stewart?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know the source of the video. Could have been his tee partner for all we know.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It goes to quality of character. If he cheats when it totally doesn't matter, what does he do when there is something real at stake?
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
I am in favor of putting Trump's face on the $3 bill.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Daughter should be the donor heart.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Kissing Putin's ring.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not the job of a guilty defendant. But if you destroy all of the evidence against you, you can't be charged for the crime you did, but you can be charged with obstruction of justice. Vol 2 of the Mueller Report built a case for a dozen Obstruction charges. Barr chose not to pursue those charges
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It's called obstruction of justice. If someone burns all of the evidence to their crime, you can't charge them for the crime, but you can charge them with obstruction of justice. Vol. 2 of the Mueller Report made an Obstruction of Justice case. Barr declined to charge it.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
May I suggest a Nikolai Ceaucescu style prosecution: Ten minutes of perfunctory signatures and pronouncements, followed immediately by two minutes of continuous machine gun fire on the back porch of the makeshift courthouse.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
May the building fall under the weight of injustice when there are no black columnists left there.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Or just "The Pedos"
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
And they'll still support Mango Mussolini.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
The wolves in Kharkiv prefer their meat medium rare.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
And the word salad is free!
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
As Mel Brooks said in The Producers, "Why be a schtupid when you can be a schmarty. Come and join the Nazi party."
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Tommy Tuberville is so fuckin' stupid that he gives fuckin' a bad name.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Space lasers have no effect on Trump's ass.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile, in China, their sixth graders regularly master calculus and differential equations, and apply those skills to understand the quantum mechanics, and information theory, while ours grow up to be flat-earthers.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
We can hope that Ceausescu's trial wasn't just a one time thing.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
Undergrad...no...dropout.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
It should be a capital crime to be a rich fucker in boarding school.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
But SCOTUS can rule that other presidents weren't acting in the duties of their office and so do not have immunity.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
If they can do that, when the nakedness emperor kicks the bucket we can nullify Kavenaugh and his buddy Squee.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
The Mueller Report says that if people in trumpworld hadn't lied to them, destroyed evidence, or secreted themselves in foreign holes where they wouldn't have to give testimony, Mueller might have been able to charge DJT with conspiracy. That's in the first 10 pages of Vol. 1.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
And, of course, Trump was not a payrolled Russian agent. He was a 1099 worker for them.
max-butler.bsky.social (@max-butler.bsky.social) reply parent
What you fail to mention is that the average American has the IQ of a potato chip.