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Nate Silver *was* a guy that was really good at being a political pundit who shtick was that he just followed the math, worked the statistics, and kept personal feelings out of it. But then he started taking Peter Thiel money and the “will someone think of the billionaires?” Started.
DNC are admitting that they’re scared that if very popular Zohran wins NYC the Republicans will paint all Dems as left leaning socialists. You could reanimate Ronald Reagan and they’ll label him a left-leaning socialist. If you’re going to do the time either way, you might as well do the crime.
Potentially years if you count pissing and shitting on his grave as keeping the party going.
Happy Labor Day Everybody. Apparently a study found that if you compare two jobs that are identical save that one is unionized and the other isn’t, pay is on average 13% higher at the union job. So unless your fees add up to over 13% of your salary you’re probably coming out ahead with a union.
Worth noting that today is Labor Day and tomorrow a bunch of congressional hearings about Epstein stuff are scheduled. Wouldn’t that be fitting?
Update - Aside from the brief appearance at a DC golf course, the Trump blackout continues. As of today JD Vance and the kids haven’t posted for two days either, and Melania may have been just spotted at Walter Reed. I still don’t believe he’s dead, but something fucky is definitely going on.
I’ve had to point out several times that not only are you probably not important enough to chip, but just tracking your cellphone probably gives them all the information they wanted anyway.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees it.
In the last 30 years there have been ~1450 mass school shooters. Only *1* was trans. The one in Minnesota has signs of untreated bodily dysmorphia and wanted to be trans at one point but was denied that chance. In this particular case, it’s the *lack* of transness that arguably caused the shooting.
In the last decade, there have been approximately 3900 identified mass shooters - only 4 have identified as non-binary or transgender we’re pretty sure the one in Colorado was just lying to avoid the death penalty. Statistically speaking, being trans makes you *less* likely to be a mass shooter.
Honestly, I think Cornel actually thought this would somehow hook into something better for Palestinians. Jill though? Yeah, she just did that to fuck with Democrats. Didn’t we catch her literally having dinner with Putin?
Trump has not been seen public or press event since Tuesday, has canceled all plans such events, and is not played a round of golf in about three weeks. There is a rumor of him walking into a DC golf course this morning, but that’s it. Dead? No, but something health related is definitely happening.
If he really was fine, he’d tell us himself. He’s probably not literally dead, but there’s some major health thing going on. He’s even golfing in a DC course he doesn’t own.
Apparently he hasn’t made any public appearances or gone in front of the press since Tuesday, as of last night at least. He’s also sailing past his record for how long he’s gone without golfing. I’m not saying they’re setting up the Weekend at Bernie’s even now, but I’m not not saying.
That should be a bit of a thinker. Lol
There’s an upcoming movie called Bugonia. The premise is to conspiracy nuts kidnap a CEO convinced that she’s an alien trying to destroy the planet. The gag is that she’s so fake corp enlightened and her company is so destructive that whether or not she is what they think she is purely academic.
Worth mentioning, with the trans/NB school shooters - one of them by their own admission did not consider themselves trans anymore, just acknowledge what they did at one point wonder if they were trans and tried a few things out. I would’ve brought that up but 300 characters.
Not even that. One trans and one that claims they were trans a long time ago. That doesn’t feel like two trans to me.
Well, that could prove to be pretty accurate. Didn’t expect it to be so fucking stupid too, but I guess I should have.
RFKJ says he’s investigating whether or not trans healthcare causes school shootings. Mass shooters, last 10 years: ~3,900 Trans or NB: 4, and one is probably lying. School shooters, last 30 years: ~1,450 Trans or NB: 2 Obvious conclusion: No. If anything it’s preventing mass/school shootings.
But you always have the right to call someone else’s opinion fucking stupid. Especially when there’s no proof to back up their opinion and there is proof to back up yours.
Just saw someone trying to argue that Taylor Swift is turning conservative because her and Kelse are now officially engaged. I know the saying is yet to respect other people’s opinions. No, you don’t. You do have to respect other people‘s ability to form their own opinions. /1
So you’re saying since she’s considering getting married, she’s turning conservative MAGA? Is it not to subtle implication that you think non-conservatives never get married? Go touch grass, bro.
Saying you need an AR 15 to hunt is admitting you are a shitty hunter with awful aim. Unless you’re hunting Nazis, then still seems you are implying a skill issue but your heart in the right place so carry on.
I suppose if enough billionaires throw around enough bribes it could get through the SC skulls that Trump’s a fucking moron and if you let him control the fed he’ll completely collapse the whole economy in a week tops. That’s definitely an “if” though.
Trey Gowdy saying two things that are actually true that close together? I thought his weird haircut would catch fire if he ever did that.
Trey Gowdy is in trouble with the other MAGAts because he went on Fox News and admitted that the vast majority of mass shooters are young white men and we may have to tighten gun laws if we would prevent school shootings like what happened in Minnesota. Yeah, I’d be shocked too. /1
Remember kids, if this was actually about crime he would be sending the National Guard to cities like Memphis. Memphis really is having a big crime wave right now. But all the cities that actually are having big crime problems right now are red states and have governors that kiss the ring.
That feeling when you know that your government wants to do a full on concentration style genocide - but it’s also tanking the economy so fast that they’ll be unable to set it up.
To be fair the new logo was ugly, boring,and generic. I don’t get the claims that it was woke, but the new logo was bad. The old logo is still ugly, but at least it’s distinctive and less boring.
Let’s be honest. Them doing something like this *had* to happen, just as a counterbounce of the hard right doing the same thing. Not a fan of how much control this gives the DNC over their content though.
lol, we’re in this position because the opposite is true. The Dems have absolutely no spine, unless absolutely forced to.
Ooh. Someone pointed out to me a little section that shows that they did think of the usual exceptions of small post, they intentionally discontinued it. Still strikes me as incompetence, but definitely a different and more malicious kind.
The true believer MAGAts i’ve made it very clear that they want dictator as long as they can tell themselves he’s one of them.
To say, hard to think of any time where the stupidity, instinct to bully, and naked greed all the come together so perfectly.
There’s a growing list of countries that will just not give our mail if it has a US address. Mostly because when Trump‘s wrote the new tariff rules he forgot about for standard post office stuff, and the Trump PO instinct when they find out to force the other guy to pay the fees and tariffs. /1
I don’t think it’s ironic so much as a naked grab for power and an admission that he does not give a single fuck about things like ethics.
I probably should specify. I mean that I think if he says something that can be interpreted by his followers as him expressing a desire for them to kill themselves, then we’ll have enough suicides to notice on a US population graph. Not a big dip, but noticeable down to the date.
I legit wonder how many MAGAts are going to kill themselves when he dies. I bet there will be a lot, especially you said something that could be interpreted as a Jonestown call.
I don’t mean that in a violent way. I mean that as in I know a lot of doctors and nurses both online and off. They don’t wanna give a hard diagnosis without a proper exam, but they’re saying they wouldn’t be surprised if he was dead within six months. Brain, heart, and kidneys. /2
I’m gonna let you know in a little secret. Personally, I’m not too worried about Trump running in 2028. Not because I think he’ll grow a conscience or suddenly respect the constitution, but because I just don’t think he’s gonna live that long. /1
You mean you can’t be a loud bigot in public with no social consequences?
You know, usually the fascist at least manages a year or two of economic prosperity to try to sell the horrors they’re committing. I suppose we should be thankful that he’s skipping that part.
I think they’re just wagering that he’ll make it far enough along that it will be too late to unfuck the midterms. Beyond that they don’t care. I wonder how many of them have considered that cults of personality rarely survive the death of the personality.
- a lot of the people that avoided becoming MAGAts only did so out of sheer dumb luck and this kind of confirms it. I will worry about it more when Trump being declared president for life and P2025 concentration camps are off the table. But someone better be keeping notes.
So Gavin has set up a “Patriot” store that’s literally going Blue MAGA style merch and bibles to troll Trump and the original MAGA. Even has a few things marked as “Make America Gavin Again”. Can’t say I’m a fan of literally going BlueMAGA, and I have long held a theory that - /1
Personally, I’m not a doctor, but I know some people that are. I’m hearing from them that while they don’t want to give an official diagnosis without giving an official exam - it’s looking like some pretty heavy heart and kidney issues are at play. The kind that can kill you in a matter of months.
Won’t work, he’s a pedophile too. Not many people were on both Epstein and P Diddy‘s party lists, but at the top of group are Trump and Elon.
…Sure.
Or B.) Get the fuck off their property. The two men instead tried to break into the house so the homeowner shot and killed them both. Plot twist, local authorities refuse to identify the two men or even confirm or deny that they actually were police, so…
Houston - A homeowner says that two men in ski masks and vests marked as police said they were police officers that were working with ICE and they needed to be let inside his house. Homeowner told them to either A.) Take their masks off, show badges and ID, and show a warrant /1
You know what they say. You go far enough left, you get your guns back.
Pairing of the thin blue line flag and the Gadsden flag makes more sense when you realize that the conservative/rightwing worldview as the idea that only they themselves deserve human rights and freedom, everyone else can go fuck themselves, baked into its foundation.
I was thinking more like Billy the puppet from Saw, or maybe a Cenobite.
I mean, probably yeah.
In fact the latest poll numbers especially among Hispanics are *already* saying that of the five seats they’re trying to flip only one definitely will. All four of the others are at least competitive, if not still dem favored. And that’s as of *now*, imagine a year from now. Oops!
But the economy has already taken a noticeable downturn since Trump took office and is only getting worse going forward, and Trump has pissed off a lot of Hispanic voters to the point where he’s undone the gains he made in that demographic for decades. Why are you assuming no demographic shifts?
When they drew their maps, they based the drawings on the assumption that there will be no big shifts in the demographics. They assumed that if you voted for Trump in 24 then you will either vote GOP or not vote, at roughly the same turn-out of the people who would vote against Trump or the GOP. /2
In slightly better news, amusing development with the Texas gerrymandering. Most of the Texas GOP thinks they just gave Trump five more seats in Congress in 2026. However, some of them have realized there might be a big flaw on their plan. /1
DOJ did release some Epstein files to congress today, claiming it’s everything important and only took this long because they wanted to redact victim names. Which is bullshit, the release today works out to be about 1% of all the material they have and 97% of it is stuff we’ve seen before.
Plus, at the beginning of his first term Trump offered Epstein a cabinet position. Epstein did turn it down. Whether it because he was smart enough to know it would make it harder to hide his kiddie fucking or just because it would get in the way of this kiddie fucking we’ll never know.
How it Started. How it’s Going.
So the FBI right at John Bolton‘s house for missing security documents. I mean, sure, the guy grows a new mustache hair every war crime he’s responsible for - but if you’re missing classified security documents you should check Mar-a-Lago.
“Ep-Stein Files” “Ep-Stein Files” “Ep-Stein Files”
Exactly. If you wanted to say the new logo was boring, generic, and ugly we’d be in agreement. Woke? Granted, the old logo was ugly too, but at least it was distinctive
I mean, the new logo looks way more generic so I don’t know if I’d call it an improvement either. The old one was ugly but at least it was distinctive.
…I’m going to say it. I legit don’t see how it’s a woke rebrand.
I want to get in on one of those conversations and be like “you know, if you pressurize a liquid the temperature which it boils goes up - What if we also pressurize the milk then cook a little hotter so it finishes faster…”
Or at least stop being pussies about it and put up a fight. You don’t have to sink to that level, but Jesus fuck show a sign of life beyond clutching pearls.
I love the farms that claim they figured out how to make raw milk safer by heating it above the temperature which the bacteria survive but lower than boiling to keep the nutrients. “…Bro, that’s just Pasteurization again.”
It’s times like this I wish blue sky had a 😆 reaction.
By itself, I would consider it Schumer’s Sternly Worded Letters 2.0. Since he’s also doing other shit, some of it very effective? Sure, I’m in.
I mean, they went bankrupt two years ago. This is how I found out they still exist. Quit with the manufactured rage, no one cares.
So James Dobson, the founder of the multilayered hate and christofascism promotion group “Focus on the Family” apparently died last night. Rest in Piss.
So just read an interesting article then got shown a better version. Short Version- MIT went around asking businesses that have implemented AI how it went. The businesses considered it a failure 95% of the time. lol. web.archive.org/web/20250818...
Someone else found a better one. web.archive.org/web/20250818...
I just finished reading about how MIT went around asking businesses that implemented AI how it went. 95% of time the business considered it a failure. lol
Hello! My name is Jason. I’m between jobs, just being a smartass here in Bluesky, and am not doing anything cool. I have two masters degrees in Physics and experience as an experimental nuclear physicist so I figure I still count. lol
Well, obviously he doesn’t count Black people and Hispanics as real Americans let alone real residents of DC.
If AI slop was all Newsom was doing I’d be right there shit talking him with you, admittedly in context a lot of it is pretty funny but that by itself would just be Schumer’s Sternly Worded Letters 2.0.
lol, said the guy whose never heard of the term Praxis. Little tip - when actual Nazis on the field are actually dragging people off to concentration camps, you don’t have to be a fan of the guy who’s actually being the most effective at stopping that but don’t stab him. It isn’t productive.
With all due respect, Mr. President - Counterpoint: fuck you, you old pedophile fuckface.
Some of y’all don’t understand that if you spend more time stabbing your own allies then your actual enemies you tend to lose against your actual enemies, and it shows. Nobody said you had to be 100% buddy-buddy with your allies. Hence why there’s different words for ally and friend.
Under normal circumstances, Gavin would be considered a scumbag and terrible person. Just look at how he treats the homeless for example. But I’m willing to concede that we’re not under normal circumstances.
…You realize Fascism is Far-Right, not Center-Right - Correct? Under normal circumstances, yes, he would be considered a terrible person and a slime ball. But how about you stop trying to stab our own allies and at least point at the actual enemy. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
I’ve said it as “Agreed, under normal circumstances you would be considered a terrible person and a slimeball. He’s also the person putting in the most work to stop Trump from rounding is all up into concentration camps, so maybe save the stabbing him in the back until later?”
We don’t know much about the meeting today between T and Z - but we do know that at some point Trump interrupted the meeting to call Putin. For the record, Trump absolutely is a Pedo. Putin? I don’t think so. I think he gets off to videos of people being murdered, but they’re adults.
I have been saying that for years, establishment dems are only beholden to corporate masters which means big cities. When they straight up abandoned the unions and the working class including the rural areas that was just asking for trouble.
lol, No. Tesla could at least hide the fact that they were evil for a while. Palantir can’t even do that.
The sad part is that it’s all those things and it’s probably still true. What’s in those Epstein files has gotta be really bad.
Agreed. I’m just saying how about we wait to stab him in the back until we’re not at risk of being rounded up into concentration camps.
I mean, he absolutely is a terrible person that and under normal circumstances should be written off as a slimeball. But we are in a war for our survival right now and he’s actually willing to throw down. We should at least be considering a temporary alliance.
Counter-Counter-Point. I absolutely agree that Newsom is a terrible person, but we are in a war for fucking survival right now against people even worse and he’s actually willing to throw down. A temporary ally is better than nothing.
Oh, and Um - Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files. That might not be immediately relevant, but it’s worth remembering.
Trump has a meeting where he sucks Putin’s balls in public then ask for a meeting with Zelinskyy, and it might be a trap?
I’m not saying Zelenskyy will walk into his meeting with Trump Monday with a gun. Just saying it wouldn’t surprise me.