Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Some of them are looking pretty intensely at Germany while leaping forward to Churchill.
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Some of them are looking pretty intensely at Germany while leaping forward to Churchill.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Suffir != souffrir, and belle != beauté, I'm afraid.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
"It is necessary to be enough for the pretty one?"
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Buried? Didn't the Vikings drive burning ships out to sea or something?
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Well done indeed, sir! Amazing: as dark as the jokes get in here, they're still bright lights in todays pitch-black environments.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
"hopes" bsky.app/profile/popo...
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Even better: the Trump admin seems to be actually pushing for it.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Zeit für den «Mein Auto fährt auch ohne AMOC!» Sticker.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK Jr. needs just one quick glance at this to know «I will prevent anything even remotely like this happening here, and if it's the last thing I do!». 💀
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for the link to a truly excellent if appropriately depressing read.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
How something this obvious is even debatable at all is utterly baffling to me (a full-on leftie). It's also also quite dispiriting, TBH.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
The amazing thing is just how clearly it shines through how much Trump, Vance, or Stefanik, to pick a few, hate the folks they're supposed to work for, and still get elected by them.
Bree (Deadline Era) (@mostlybree.kitrocha.com) reposted
I have been thinking a lot lately about this, because if you put Mamdani next to Jasmine Crockett next to that new Maine oyster fisherman... none of them sound the same. But they all sound like normal people from their communities. "Normal" is regional, you can't decree what it is federally.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, he might not have been denied service in a pub if the UK was under Putin's thumb.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Why, he's not dumb, he's just playacting it – I'm sure he knows quite well what happened at Yalta, and would not mind having a Yalta 2 where all of Europe goes to Russia and all of the Americas to Trump's (and later his) US.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
One such word might be plethora, BTW.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Show us anything you can say about this Administration without sounding utterly insane.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
That didn't really age well, unfortunately, at least in this case specifically.
Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) reposted
US Multinationals go out of their way to sound the alarm when democrats try to make them pay tax on their profits, but are happy to just hand over billions of Dollars stake to Republicans. No one should take their tax whining seriously ever again.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Think it was "Verräter" in Bruno Ganz' original, but "Idioten" obviously is 💯 correct now. (Also correct: "Trottel", "Deppen" and, hopefully, "Versager")
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
TBH I'm glad Kubrick doesn't have to see this.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
In just a year or two, you'll be ashamed (and lucky if not prosecuted) for using Obergruppenführer when describing Miller, for he'll be Oberstgruppenführer by then.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Beginning to suspect the gray matter here actually decayed into some kind of negative, like a black hole, TBH.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually, sending Big Balls to inspect thousands of containers filled with car parts in L.A. port feels like a rather delightful idea.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Would it be possible to add «this entire administration, down to the last clerk» to this FOAD thing? Thanks, Almost the entire World
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
Mike Rhone (@mikerhone.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t know that these tweets from Newsom’s press office are actually accomplishing anything, but this one nearly made me spit out my coffee (literally).
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Whatever it actually is, the odds of Lugosi are much, much higher than Bartòk.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, so Putin's concessions are in Canada, and thus on their way to DC from Alaska presumably?
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Dumber than MAGA seems like pretty hard if not impossible to achieve, but more naive and gullible, yes, indeed.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
You probably used american coffee then? With beans roasted in Napoli or Palermo, the ants would be eating gelato brioches and just be leisurely chatting around.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn't it rather obviously visible just how well Rubio knows better? He looks utterly miserable and like an empty shell any time he's in a photo.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless those chemicals have the ability for explosive rapid unscheduled disassembly when handled by, say, reality-denying idiots, in which case I'd recommend to absolutely go for it.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Both a rejection and a mockery – unclear which is worse.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
The actual question will almost certainly turn out to be: why won't enough people in power care?
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Fake Louis XIV stuff going on in this thread.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Morally poorer, yes, but oligarch-richer.
David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) reposted
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but the guest list seems rather boringly uniform.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
They'll not only believe this, but it'll nearly impossible to convince them otherwise.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
If I may be so bold as to add: fuck every garbage person who's still supporting this, but maximally.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Did he build the cabin or the woods? My guess is he actually built the mountain it all is standing on with his base hands. At least.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
We will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Kevin Hassett not permagrinning like some demented second-rate Joker.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, it's 39% now? I seem to recall reading 31% yesterday, but then things seem to be moving quickly.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
It does have a certain Versailleseté to it, to be honest.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Eventuell könnte helfen, dass auch für die sogenannt Konservativen die USA derzeit kein zuverlässiger Partner mehr sein dürften. bsky.app/profile/sach...
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Take a boat trip, ideally with one of the steam-powered « Belle Epoque » boats www.cgn.ch/fr/la-suisse... to Lausanne or better yet to Montreux. The vineyards around Geneva (and more spectacularly around Lausanne www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/experi...) should also be really nice in September.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
No skeet long enough for even just a small part of a starter list of the top of the most embarrassing of these bozos.
Not Invented (@notinvented.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
In France they call them Wind Royales.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Fake news. A few of them – the most dangerous ones, probably – are quite clueless, in a way, but certainly not idiots, e.g. Vaugh or Vance.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
~40% of the US population?
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
I can hear @radiofreetom.bsky.social tapping his sign. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dea...
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Not very much, true.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Confronted with this, he'd at first deny it, to then end up mumbling «that makes me smart!» – and the MAGAs would happily gobble it up.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
This won't do much to endear Ukraine with the Trump admin, alas; population rising up against the leadership on freedom issues can't be a very popular idea in this White House.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Hospitals and care for elderly people spring to mind.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Inching closer every day towards MAGAs lifelong and until now more or less secretly held dream of police as NKVD/Gestapo-like unaccountable state brutality actors, now enhanced by very American and publicly acceptable greed.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Not true. Chances that precedent will be revered as untouchable, near-holy scripture are 99.999%, it just needs a Democrat president to happen (overnight, too).
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
True, but then a lot depends on what those obligations actually are. It certainly doesn't feel completely wrong to imagine the Trump regime allowing quite a bit of largesse in quality as well as reliability of the services to be rendered.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
He might well try, but Chuck Schumer will write a sternly worded letter and save the day.
Joe Walsh (@walshfreedom.bsky.social) reposted
As someone who’s been a Democrat for only six weeks, I think this is such an important point. We’re either a big tent, or we aren’t. And if we are a big tent, that means progressives unite around a moderate nominee, and moderates unite around a progressive nominee. Period.👇
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Laser for targeting, not as a weapon, I guess?
More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted
One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly zero need to read the thread in order to know with 💯 certainty who this is about.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
As if any drone technology, AI or chinese industrial prowess could ever be capable of beating Hegseths new grooming standards for the US military in battle.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Ob das mal so abgehoben wird wie zB die HiFi-Szene, wo (ernsthaft und ausgiebig) über Klangvorteile sauerstoffreier Kupferkabel diskutiert werden kann? ("Der Taiwanische Google-Server liefert eindeutig die feineren Suchresultate als die in Europa, insbesondere zwischen 23 und 03 Uhr MEZ.")
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Erdogan is still there and, looks like, consolidating power.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like there's a banana republic joke hidden in there somewhere.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
You somehow forgot the volcano that suddenly opens the gates of hell right under MAL.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Today's public doesn't have the attention span to watch a Republic fall apart over many years, let alone centuries, so we're getting the condensed, made-for-reality-TV version.
Laura Kowalski Linden (@samoart.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE
David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) reposted
A lesson on how to write a headline.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Any "worst Bond movie" list with no mention of "A View to a Kil"l on it is about as convincing as Roger Moore's hairpiece or Grace Jones' acting skills.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
You're a genius, and obviously very stable.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
While Constitutional governance was better, it definitely did not fire up the MAGA base, which unfortunately is 50% of what is really important in the TV Reality Show presidency. (The other 50% being enriching Trump & Friends.)
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
"Ancient tech that works" = no way to monetize. It will send tech and money bros screaming and running, with politicians depending on donator money right along.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
There are a lot of ill people ruining America also works.
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
This July 4th, Americans will celebrate the freedoms they used to have.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
In shorter terms: make life easy for "us" and hard for "them".
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
💯 % true... and also why it won't stop anytime soon; as we've seen during Covid, these folks prefer to die horrible deaths than to admit having been duped.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Beginning to think that even Nero wasn't quite as strikingly braindead and utterly moronic.
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
‘Attacking the future of the party while Republicans strip every poor person of Medicaid in the middle of the night,’ by way of example, is not acceptable leadership. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
TBH, that depends on whether you count non-millionaires as real American people or just cheap labour.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you drunk or what? Obviously these powers would not even remotely be granted to a President AOC, or any non-republican for that matter; quite the contrary in fact.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
The speed and depth of the downfall of the United States of America has been quite incredible indeed, and, if I may say so, rather heartbreaking too.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, and that's exactly why MAGA loves him.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Wie viele die Erwärmung aus kurzfristigen wirtschaftlichen oder ideologischen Gründen leugnen, obwohl sie es durchaus besser wissen – das finde ich das erschreckendste, und erschütterndste, am Ganzen.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, but they don't much like doing this – they much prefer preventing people to vote in the first place.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Fun coincidence: other sick fucks like the Iranian Mullahs, the Taliban, ISIS and quite a few Russians think it's a great way to present, too.
Garrett Gilchrist (@garrettgilchrist.bsky.social) reposted
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
A dumbed-down Benny Hill. Didn't think this was possible, but we now have proof.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
In guten Händen also. /s
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
There's excellent chances it won't be too long before you think back to this as the good old times when he still was only half as deranged.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Same.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel why would be a more pertinent question here, seeing whom you're asking.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
In about two weeks time it'll be Donald J Trump who originally discovered E=mc2.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Quite a few of them probably entered the job market around Jan 20 2025.
Philbee (@philbeee.bsky.social) reply parent
Infomaniak uses Libreoffice (or Switzerland-based online versions of the MS Office suite) in their ksuite: www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite . Don't really use it myself outside of the mail part, which is really quite good.