I choose to believe one of those power gaps is a power nap
I choose to believe one of those power gaps is a power nap
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scott adsit, too!
Interestingly enough Pelosi actually called for a suspension of offensive military assistance to Israel back in the spring of 2024 and it didn't matter whatsoever. Biden, Schumer, Lew, McGurk and Blinken all ignored her.
i actually think there is a wide open lane in american politics right now for “get the US out of israel.” the challenge is having the steel to weather the inevitable attacks from the right. but “israel has forfeited american aid because of its behavior” plays.
For security reasons the president will be speaking from behind a curtain so you can only see his silhouette and hear his voice
At the bare minimum we’ve all forced the White House into doing a potentially really embarrassing proof of life thing by making jokes online and I think that’s pretty neat
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
It’ll be an excel sheet 1 terabyte in size, every cell blank aside from one that contains every letter in the alphabet. It will be considered a cornerstone of artificial intelligence art in a centuries time.
No you cannot, that is known as 'deliverism' and it emphatically does not work because people - both proponents and opponents of decline - will repeat "things are so bad right now" regardless of how bad they are, or were, or are trending, because they are rewarded for saying that
also Underneath the Bunker is so fuckin good for how short it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgPC...
underrated
'Leave' but not enough people have heard it www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXj6...
bringing this back again for people who think the biggest problem with crypto is that it's scammy - no, the biggest problem with crypto is that it's the MAIN funding machine for fascism and reactionaries in the US.
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
they like Trump and want to help him and telling the many, many people who understand the world through the filter of the NY Times or Washington Post that the real world is full of anti-Trump protesters would not help Trump or help him win.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Honestly, the story of our times is the absolute refusal among large swaths of the population to believe that trade-offs exist and how easily they're swayed to conmen who promise them that they have an easy solution that involves no tradeoffs (it's scapegoating a vulnerable minority).
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
It's bad form to quote somebody quoting me, but I do think this captures (one of!) the key dynamics that you see in pre-modern societies, with another one being the use of wergild and blood-feuds between kinship groups to regulate violence. It's just MAD dynamics on an interpersonal level.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
RFK, Jr. leans over Rudy. Nudges him with foot. Looks around. Pulls out BBQ tongs...
noooo it's forever tainted, don't you see
many people are saying bsky.app/profile/qed2...
so, voting on cops?
Before professional policing law enforcement was "we can only catch <5% of offenders so we'll use severe, horrific punishments as a deterrent". Society learned that the average offender is an impulsive young man who responds better to swift and certain punishments rather than severe ones.
or framed
make it require a sort of mini-law degree to enforce the law
(they also did this with economics)
“Agent of the government empowered to use violence in its name to enforce its laws” is a pretty old invention, actually. This is what I’m talking about, this is just like magical thinking: you need *someone* to maintain and exercise the state’s monopoly on force. It’s literally unavoidable, sorry!
Alhamdulillah
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
here, "Stein voters" is being used as a synecdoche for a larger pattern of behavior encouraging defections from the not-Republican coalition, whether towards Greens or just apathy in general
"tool lending libraries" was an idea I had, only to discover it exists already of course, but they're not as common as they ought to be
shoutout to Renamer4Mac guess what it does pecora.io/en/mac/Renam...
Brilliant
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
As US Grant said about Robert E Lee, "Stop thinking about what he's going to do to you, and start thinking about what you're going to do to him."
Who wrote this subhed? There's a specific human being who made the choice to insert this lie into the newspaper but readers have no idea who it is or what their motivation might've been. Instead, no choice but for it to tarnish the entire publication.
It's a lie. Stipulating "explicit" carries the implication that he *does* have some other kind of informal, traditional or implied authority over elections, when he does not. Don't print lies in the newspaper.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Lower-info people need to hear that! "They can't do that and you shouldn't listen to people who tell you they can."
yeah I was gonna say the difference is that he's discussing it (in the context of defeating it, or heading it off) versus dooming about it)
There really is no constituency left in American politics that affirmatively supports basic republicanism, and it's a serious problem.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
C’mon Andrew, be serious. WE didn’t have the world thinking the President was dead. The President died. There was a coverup. We noticed, and the rest of the world did too.
"Man came up to me, big tall guy, long black cloak, hood, tears in his eyes, holding a scythe. He said sir.."
Post a meme made by you
this is similar to ways in which “worker” has tended to remain industrial hard hat and not service in public imagination
it was at least over 2 days
The biggest Magic: the Gathering event (GP Las Vegas 2015) had *fifteen* swiss rounds, almost 8k people. They had to break it up into two sub tournaments because they couldn't fit everyone in the same room
is he dead? of course not, we aren't that lucky. is it fun to imagine something beautiful? yes, obviously. but more than that, he's notoriously thin skinned and hopefully this will push him to prove his health & vitality in a way that is very damaging to his 80 year old heart.
it'll be funny when the news is like "a nation is mourning" and then can't find a single live shot that doesn't include people very clearly partying their asses off
he can have a blanket or a folding chair, but not both at once, lest he assemble a makeshift couch
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
"is that even him, or is it the AutoPresident?"
they have absolutely leapfrogged us, we never saw it coming
breakfast of champions
stephen miller has diverted seven hundred billion dollars from social security to try to put donald trump's dying brain into a catboy using the machine from Get Out
he'll always be dead in our hearts
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Good.
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
when president garfield was dying, they shoved a bunch of stuff up his butt in the hopes it would save him. it didn't work, in fact it definitely killed him quicker. but if any white house guys are reading this: you're the chosen one, you can make it work
the funniest possible day for it to happen is 9/11
time to "run government like a business" and sell off declining assets in favor of projects with better ROI
if you don't like the choice you have in front of you, be mad at *them* for forcing a bad choice on you instead of the people advising you on how to make it
it's way past time to start calling it what it is: entitlement
rural voters are free to help us unrestrict those resources if they want (as of last fall, when we last checked in, they do not)
maybe we should invent "society" to solve this. though I'm not sure the rurals will go for it
okay well we'll reopen the rural hospitals when that happens, nice to work out a deal
more people voted not to do both, try to keep up
the demand is always expressed in terms of blue state governments step in and keep rural hospitals open. but why can't red rural county governments step in and keep rural hospitals open?
Utterly blackpilling that these same guys would be screaming bloody murder if they had to pay a tenth as much under a lib administration because they know they wouldn't be put in jail.
Don't make me tap the sign. Biden passed legislation that resulted in the biggest material wage improvement for working class people in decades Biden did what the left claims is their top goal and he never got credit for it
And for the folks who think "oh, there won't be a midterm" or it won't be fair - you know who thinks there will be a fair midterm? Senate and House Republicans. Because they're panic-retiring or heading for state-level elections to avoid the blow-out they think is coming.
of course he’s not dead, i know you’re disappointed, but take heart, he might be in incredible pain
they wouldn't even be doing harm *on net*
our enemies would know about it before we did
you still haven't
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
bsky.app/profile/mile...
If Trump did die, all the journalists who were like "my biggest regret is not talking even more about Biden's health" should be buried with him.
additionally, if It Happens on Labor Day, we’re renaming it. fake-ass anti-labor holiday anyways.
I liked the one I saw, "The Era of Bad Feelings" but yours is even better
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
long weekend at bernie's
it's The Void calling him home
He's a BOWIE fan??
*extremely There Is No Pepe Silvia voice* Okay but this is EXACTLY how I'd Weekend At Bernie's this shit if things were full-tilt Death of Stalin in the East Wing right now "BLAST SOME MUSIC HE LIKES REALLY LOUDLY AT MIDNIGHT"
what's the white house version of the Pentagon Pizza Index or whatever?
and without that fanbase, congressional Rs will not go to the mat for him
at least until he tried to order donuts
that's table stakes for an elected republican, though
a lot of "little guys" thought trump would stand up for them, however foolishly but zero people anywhere have ever thought Vance would stand up for them. and yes this includes his wife and children