Feels wrong to laugh given the topic but this is this funniest thing I've read today đ Thx for the comic relief.
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Feels wrong to laugh given the topic but this is this funniest thing I've read today đ Thx for the comic relief.
The cult that wants to thin the herd. MAGA and MAHA overlap in a unifying philosophy: only the healthy should live, because only the Pure are healthy. Illness is either a direct result of displeasing God (MAGA) or of being personally irresponsible with your lifestyle (MAHA.) It's a death cult.
Bafta? Give this man a Pulitzer
If itâs the Golden Age & everything is great & the economy is booming & Trump has ended all wars & slayed inflation & everyone is happy & drug prices are down & his approval is at 71% & everyone hates Dems, why would they need to do mid-decade gerrymandering to hold the House?
Something tells me no, they will not consider that. Call it a hunch.
On this holiest of days, let us give thanks for the ever-dwindling blessing of shit that's funny enough to break through the paralyzing horror of 2025. These days laughter isn't just medicine, it's a miracle đ
Weâve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and itâs being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isnât even nihilism, itâs outright worship of death and human suffering.
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Oh no! This paragraph in Autocracy, Inc. is prescient AF. Anne Applebaum writes about the "Maduro model" of autocracy: When an autocrat is perfectly willing to destabilize & rule over a failed state with economic collapse - if it means he can stay in power. They will destroy to maintain control.
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says: - We are headed for a recession -The BLS data is totally reliable- for now -The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs -Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy 1/
Hear ye, hear ye
...you'll shrivel up and die. Bc if the efficacy of prayer for gun violence in schools and wildfire/flood prevention are any indication, Utah is cooked. Best wishes, dipshits.
Well said. Fox, OAN, Newsmax, etc are not "the press" & don't deserve the protections thereof. They are entertainment outlets with no commitment to factual reporting. Even the courts agree on this. They should be aggressively labeled & treated as such for our collective well being as a society.
Revised jobs number for June now has the US adding 400 billion jobs
âThe Roberts court is simultaneously corrupt, extreme, pliant and incoherent. It is the worst court imaginable facing the worst president in American history, with a rubber stamp Politburo serving him, while trampling the Constitution.â steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-robert...
A balm for our battered souls youtu.be/CboKuAjuKCM?...
"It's only pedantry if you're right. Otherwise it's just sparkling fuckheadedness."
PSA: I fear these next weeks and months will be the largest dump of disinformation, and violent rhetoric attached to that disinformation, that this country has quite possibly ever seen. Theyâve had weeks to plan a cover for Epstein. Get ready. There are no good faith actors in this admin.
The Tate brothers - good example, thanks. A bit of a startling revelation on my end though, realizing I couldn't immediately call to mind a "secular" right-wing predator. Like you said, probably bc religious affiliation is all but mandatory for inclusion in the cohort.
Good stuff here.
Agree w the sentiment but struggle to think of a single example of a secular right-wing predator, as in someone in the magasphere with zero ties to the Christian right. When your religion decrees women to be property, sexual abuse is inevitable. Honestly surprised it's technically still illegal.
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isnât in the Epstein files, Iâll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and Iâll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
It's repulsive being required to press a â¤ď¸ button to engage with posts sharing such awful news. Bluesky needs a "Thank you for sharing this but I hate it" option.
Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society. That's it. That's the post.
If youâre feeling uneasy, itâs probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and itâs been there since.
What a terrible year to be conscious
Jupiter. In infrared.
Dem leadership should appoint an official Alt Press Secretary to give briefings after every one that Karoline Leavett does and just break them down lie by lie maybe THATâS the job we give Colbert đ
stock market reaches all time highs on news that trump has arrested jerome powell and is dangling him upside down over a pit of alligators
Just in case you're still able to sleep at night. Horrors upon horrors. youtu.be/W8iKWyyvu1c?...
I was initially inclined to chuckle at this but by jove I think you're on to something here lol That is actually very effective social programming Well done đ
Genuine question, not being combative here. I don't understand why you present single payer as impossible for America, while so many other affluent countries successfully implement variations thereof. What is so different for the US that it's not possible here?
Baby Grok
Ahhhhh, ok. So like the Bernie bros who voted for shithead instead of Hillary out of spite. I didn't realize that was still a thing. Hope their asinine righteousness is a comfort to them as the world burns down. Jfc.
Clarifying, thx for sharing.
Same here, liberal. Registered Dem even tho they're not ideal bc we're effectively a two-party system and the only other option now is nazi. Lately I've been seeing discourse that implies a schism b/t liberal and leftist. Don't fully understand it, thought maybe that's what u were getting at here.
While looking up a pic of the soot sprite star food I discovered it's an actual candy! All these years and I never knew lol Sharing just in case it's new to u as well đ
Dumb question but ig I'm behind on terminology these days. What is leftist as used here? Is leftist distinct from liberal or democratic voters? Wouldn't ppl "on the left" have supported VP Harris?
Precious darlings Tysm for your work and care â¤ď¸
Yeah I donât care if youâre a socialist, a Blue Dog or Bill Kristol, if youâre an enemy of fascism then youâre my ally, and if you care more about your status in the democratic coalition than about beating fascism then you have to go.
The central dividing line in Democratic politics is not between the left and the moderate wing, itâs between serious people who understand weâre in an existential fight against an incipient fascist regime and irredeemable narcissists who just want to keep fighting the 2016 primary forever.
Mr Suzuki is correct. We're too late, and it's only accelerating now. Idk if it's practical to try to change the system that brought us here, though; seems highly unlikely to happen. Might be wiser to focus on preparing for the world to come. youtu.be/lg1lm0uWdS8?...
As a lifelong resident of the deep red, this is why I inwardly sigh at all the "just wait til the tariffs hit" or "just wait til meemaw loses Medicaid" punditry. We have to find a solution that doesn't hinge on his supporters snapping out of it. Bc it's not going to happen. They will die first.
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the networkâs biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Hereâs why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
When Republicans get power they do whatever they want. They dont care about polls or the courts or the rule of law. When Democrats get power they worry about pissing off Republicans who will never vote for them.
See that bright speck? That's Venus. Photographed from Saturn.
actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share
I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles
CBS announces Colbert's replacement.
This right here, 100%
This is Earth. Photographed out the window of the Apollo 14 Command Module on the return leg in February 1971. Apollo image AS14-76-10349, 70 mm Hasselblad, 80 mm focal length, Magazine O, with minor processing by me.
Idk, seems pretty tame for these ghouls. Be ready to trace your lineage to Plymouth Rock or else.
Idk, sounds like you understand it pretty well đ
The banality of evil. Their psychosis isn't just dull, it's bottomless. And that's exhausting. That's my best guess, anyway.
It's definitely not you. But it's very Kafkaesque? Sadly I fear the irony is lost on that crowd.
I certainly hope you're correct. I am reluctant to conflate immigration positivity with overall support for liberal democracy, though. I would bet those numbers are well below 79%. Regardless, uniting and organizing the majority of rational and decent citizens is obviously the best course of action.
One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. Itâs not absolute â they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
This. 1000 times this. It doesn't matter that facts are on our side. When truth is whatever you want it to be and reality is negotiable, facts are useless. Hence the danger and brilliant efficacy of disinformation campaigns. MAGA live in their own world now, to the peril of all.
This is what concerns me, too. A full 30% of this country (probably more) wants theocratic fascism. How do we ever find enough common ground with these ppl to have any semblance of a nation? And what the hell do we do when we realize there is no possible common ground, with our own neighbors?
I'll cut u in on licensing fees, u can live like a king in Mexico until The Great Purge đť
The stuff of dreams
Eternal glory in heaven for ushering in a theocratic state. Remember, they are zealots. They weren't appointed by politicians to clarify the law, they were installed by god to bring about his kingdom on earth. If you keep that in mind, their decisions are perfectly logical. Truly terrifying stuff.
This was basically the concept of the IRA and welp now instead the opposite is happening
Idk man, wipe out commerce, communications, and utilities for the bulk of the wired world and I think we'd make a pretty big dent in ourselves pdq. Kinda feels like we're one wrong order at McDonald's away from a societal collapse as is. AI might just lube the tube so to speak. Ig we'll see
all news is fake news bc we live in a sim run by interdimensional jewish space lizards powered by liquefied protestant babies educate urself
In my darker moments, I root for AI. I'm not sure we as a species deserve to run this place anymore. youtu.be/5KVDDfAkRgc?...
MAGA when they encounter the slightest hint of decency or ethical behavior. Can't have that no sir.
They're getting more honest. Dropping the masks.
6 Wizards in Robes acting as a third-chamber super-legislature & burning entrails, along with the Constitution & the rule of law
25%?? Take me to this wonderful world of only 25% racist bullshit pls
Pope Leo: âIn order to live eternally, we do not need to cheat death, but to serve life, by caring for others in this, our time together. That is the supreme law that is prior to all societyâs rules and gives them their meaning.â www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Sure, for today. Who knows what he'll feel like tomorrow. Welcome to the banality of evil.
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work theonion.com/relaxin...
in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.
It me
Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
It's always sad when kids are involved. They didn't ask for any of this. But neither did we, and we're having to live with it anyway. When terrible people make terrible choices we all lose.
Not much in the news brings me joy these days, but christ on a cracker these reports always bring a smile to my face. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out, you insufferable asshats! đ youtu.be/2lGY24khwas?...
I grew up in Moore, too. Every house I ever lived in is gone now. I get the area's appeal for the meteorologically inclined, but I will never understand why regular people continue to rebuild there. Left as soon as I could and have never looked back.
When I lived in Russia, briefly, I described it as a third-world country with a first-world ego. I'm beginning to see that this describes MAGA Americans to a T. Every year, they vote to make us more poor, while stoking national pride so that we're too smug to see it happening. 100% Soviet mentality.
I consciously uncoupled from my subscription on account of their obsequity. Will light a snatch scented candle to celebrate
A moment of peace
Psychopathic. This is how the US is being represented to the world.
The Supreme Courtâs âshadow docketâ has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
My best guess is that the current astronomical imbalance of wealth in their favor is all they need. The ppl making these policies are set for life, whether the remaining 99% of the country continue to participate in the economy or not. They already have all our money.
Senator Whitehouse spitting truth like a boss. Burn it down, KBJ
hey every single journalist who still uses twitter as your primary site, does the fact that the chatbot is promoting the Final Solution rise to the level of a news story or no stop making this the global hub for news communication
One could make the case that the tendency to fabricate outlandish explanations for stressful situations has its roots in a much more socially acceptable but just as dangerous collective abdication of rational thought. Why do we mock conspiracy theories but respect religions?
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok
We do it to ourselves, and that's why it really hurts
Good thing everybody loves horror shows: they're gonna be standard menu fare for the rest of our lives now, live, in color and relentless.
Maybe we have been microdosing horror bc in our heart of hearts we know what's coming and want to prepare
this is how civilizations end
