WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: letβs kill Rudy
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WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: letβs kill Rudy
#Capitalism can never fail; it can only be failed. You're not capitalisming hard enough!
They're still putting the finishing touches on the generative video AI version of him that'll only be visible on videos released by the WH.
I'm beginning to think that the real βTrump Derangement Syndromeβ is what the "centrist", accommodationist, sanewashing, normalizing mainstream media is suffering from. The primary symptom is hallucinations. They're hallucinating a version of Trump that they could live with.
Mr. Franklin - what kind of business have you given us. A Cracker Barrel β¦ if you can keep it.
My top choice is some sort of cerebral event that leaves him totally lucid and aware of his surroundings and the situation, but completely unable to communicate.
So ridiculously evil that story editors at superhero comics would be like "dontcha think that this Evil Villain bad guy is just a *bit* over the top?"
Not just facially evil, but also farcically evil, cartoonishly evil.
Melania has neither the desire, nor the ability, nor the temperament to be Edith Wilson. It'll be Stephen Miller trying to Weekend At Bernie's him.
So he didn't actually go golfing this weekend. Where did he really go? I'm hoping it was to a farm upstate where he can run around and play with all the other old property developers.
The "He who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" treadmill only works if there's a steady supply of absurdities.
Thiel, Musk, Miller, el al. will try to use "AI" to fake him still being alive β and only visible on screens or in WH-produced videos/pictures
I know that Trump's π is tiny, but it's still amazing how, even with it fully in his mouth, Tim Scott manages to enunciate so well.
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Would a man who's dying look like THIS?? *releases photo that looks like someone microwaved Reservoir Dogs-era Chris Penn for 45 seconds, skinned him, and mounted his carapace on a 100-gallon trash bag of taco meat that went bad because the walk-in lost power overnight*
I'm still rooting for some sort of cerebral event that leaves him totally lucid and aware of his surroundings and situation, but completely unable to communicate.
Right, if these people repeatedly tell us "our women don't want independence" or "black, Hispanic, and queer people aren't welcome here" or "there is no minimum age of consent," then yeah, the rest of us should dictate how they live their lives a little bit.
At the very least itβs fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event
It's "happy time background music" to ease his transition as he lies in his deathbed π€π»
β’ not seen in public in a couple of days (and no public events scheduled for at least a couple more) β’ JD's weird comments about being ready to replace him β’ his musings about going to heaven β’ his obvious ill health β’ hope
The old saw: "If you look like your passport photo, you're too sick to travel."
Live your life so that people donβt consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
Kid Rock is currently putting the finishing touches on his recording of βCandle in the Windβ
we'll know it's for real when Fox News starts playing Lee Greenwood's rendition of "Swan Lake" on loop
It's just "happy time background music" to ease his transition as he lies in his deathbed π€π»
But I'm more interested in Psalm 69:28
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
"Meeeeeeeeee!"
One way that we know it hasn't happened is that we haven't blinked out of existence yet.
But does Melania have Edith Wilson's moxie?
And his musings about going to heaven
But does Melania have the moxie that Edith Wilson had?
If the President dies then either SCOTUS rules 6-3 that Stephen Miller can keep running the country because "Trump's Mandate Persists In Heaven" or JD Vance has the entire Cabinet entombed with Trump so he can replace the US government with an evil Palantir AI.
Hope springs eternal
He's a eugenicist. He believes that allowing the sick, the weak, the vulnerable, and the disabled to die, while the healthy live, will improve the breeding stock and make humanity as a whole better. He is a eugenicist.
I saw someone describe the way he always looks in photos as "unscheduled surprise colonoscopy" π
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"No, no, NO! That's MY subject area. See? I have a certificate in that! You don't get to touch MY stuff! You don't even get to LOOK at it! MooooooOOOOOoooom! They're looking at my subject matter again! Make them stop!"
"How dare they insinuate that beings who can get pregnant are people!"
I think it's incorrect to say that centrist pundits have no principles and follow wherever polls lead them, because they've refused to be led on trans rights, immigration, downsizing police, or israeli genocide. They just have shitty and incoherent principles
Mi fascista favorito es el que lleva de avatar a Christian Bale en "American psycho": un actor vegano y feminista protagonizando una peli dirigida por una mujer, basada en una novela escrita por un homosexual, que satiriza la violencia cometida por pijos huecos y clΓ³nicos sin cerebro ni aficiones.
human beings and without them, there's also no need for non-strip-minable nature, either
These techbros hate humanity in general, hate humans specifically, and most of all hate icky, sticky, non-standardizable, erratic, corporeal existence. They want to upload themselves to live forever in a non-messy environment with AI nannies/servants/sycophants so there's no need for all the excess
I truly believe that one of the tributaries that helped bring the US to where it is now is the anti-vulnerable/cringeβtoβirony/nihilismβtoβfascism pipeline.
People rejecting anything cringe is honestly one of the pipelines to fascism, because they care more about never being uncomfortable than someone else's dignity or rights.
Una sola abeja se puede ignorar, pero cuando millones se unen, incluso los mΓ‘s valientes corren. La ΓΊnica cosa que un gobierno corrupto teme es el pueblo unido demandando ser escuchado.
Lincoln Calls Southern Statesβ Secession a βDistractionβ from Hominy Markets Price-Manipulation Scandal
So even though, yes, Social Security πͺπ΄ an entitlement β we are entitled to receive our legally mandated pension contributions back, with interest β perhaps the better term, that will connect better with all voters, ππ¨ "earned benefits".
It's taken on the meaning of "false assumed privilege" β like a karen demanding to speak to the manager.
Part of the problem is that "entitled" has, in the vernacular, switched meanings. Now, too many people hear the word in the mocking tones of "Oh? You think you're so π¦π―π΅πͺπ΅ππ¦π₯ to do what you want!" etc.
If you tried to write this into a novel/screenplay, a good editor would convince you to change it because the irony is just too much like a blunt object to the temple.
Having to choke down too much food and getting the two conversations mixed β with obviously hilarious results.
Scheduling two dinner dates simultaneously (at adjacent apartments or different tables at the same restaurant) and excusing yourself from one to "use the facilities" then going to the other. Repeat multiple times.
Seen today: "The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: βwhat would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?β"
I once gave my butt to Buddha in a Bed Bath and Beyond.
They misspelled ICK.
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The only way for Cracker Barrel to atone for the removal of Mr. Cracker and his barrel is to change the restaurant's name to what it should have been all along: Barrel of America
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: βtyphusβ βmass graveβ βsummary executionβ βhuman rightsβ βquicklimeβ
Any representation of the tiny band of colors that humans evolved to visually perceive among the broader electromagnetic spectrum is inherently political. The glorification of conflict? of slavery? of war? of treason? of death? Ehhhh... let's agree to disagree.
Of course. Any representation of the tiny band of colors that humans evolved to visually perceive among the broader electromagnetic spectrum is inherently political.
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normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot
I would venture that it's partially because a lot of them are now employed by ICE
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Here, fixed it.
Which just goes to show, via the projection, their hollowness and lack of principles.
"Virtue Signaling" also exposed the core idea that nobody *really* cares about those things/has convictions β they just *say* they do to reap the social credit.
The only way for Cracker Barrel to atone for the removal of Mr. Cracker and his barrel is to change the restaurant's name to what it should have been all along: Barrel of America
"If those 90-year-old white hippies have enough energy to harass our hard-working law enforcement officers, they have enough energy to go out and get a job β instead of sucking on the teat of government handouts."
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The only way for Cracker Barrel to atone for the removal of Mr. Cracker and his barrel is to change the restaurant's name to what it should have been all along: Barrel of America
Just a good olβ southern Honkey Bucket.
Listen, if you want to be a rizzpilled skibidimaxxer, that's fine. You do you. Just don't do it on my lawn.
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"If they or their ancestors hadn't been enslaved, they would have never known Christianity. The hardships they endured in this life are more than being made up for in the next life, with Jesus in heaven."
It's his wish for Air Force One. He hates the current light blue and wants AF1 tricked out in Trump livery β navy blue-with-red-stripe β like the model plane is.
One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.
"the first real step towards vibe thinking" π€¨
"the first real step towards vibe thinkingβ Aaaaaaaaaaahhh!
The dog-whistle here is loud: Because they're white, these protesters don't *really* belong in DC, because that hellhole is only inhabited by (and thus converted into a hellhole by) Black and Brown people.
When he finally dies the most critical word theyβll use in his obituary will be βunorthodox.β
What they β and all other flavors of bigots β want is the simple βfreedomβ of never having to see, or even think about, anyone who is, in any meaningful way, different from themselves.
Yes, in their minds LGBTQ+ people everywhere on the planet went βtoo farβ β by having the audacity to exist.
I am continually amazed by Ms. Leavitt. Day after day she manages to say many, many things β and not once has she ever let her Pyongyang accent slip.
The right weaponized the presumption of good faith. Now we don't trust each other and we suspect ulterior motives. It's smart to be cautious at this point. But we lost something in the process. It's sad.
What they're banking on now is a series of illegal actions to maintain power without the consent of the governed.