.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
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.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
"Any killings were retaliation?" Jesus. What sucks is this is what's probably going to get taught in our new "improved" public schools.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
The vibes I'm getting most from this statement is that there was a sex worker in the car with him. Hopefully not a victim.
Don't worry, I've recently learned how much trouble you can get into on Bluesky if you hate Gavin Newsom's guts, but not QUITE enough. I give you my solemn word that I spit whenever I hear his name. Ptooie Ptooie!
I'll bet a fiver that the mystery woman was a sex worker he was soliciting.
Oh my god, men have created a complex mythology hanging out with other men on the internet. Apparently there's like 5 circles of feminism which are ranked on how much they hate men - From just withholding sex from them to full on genocide.
Call me a doomer if you have to. I just think there is a very real chance that we're going to be yelling, "Trump can't DO this!" from the gulags.
That's how I feel, but I've been reliably informed that he is, in fact, worse than Trump and laughing at his antics is the absolute worst kind of transphobia.
Say what you will about Rush Limbaugh, but deep down he's an okay guy.
People who think guns don't kill people should have no problem with their friends pointing guns at them. Their friends don't intend to kill them, so it's a perfectly safe activity, right?
That's one of the last hopes I have left. That Trump is a one-time thing, just a horrible, horrible anomaly in the universe that can't be repeated. Let the cult disintegrate when they can't find a new leader.
That's one of the last strands of hope I've got. After he's gone they won't be able to find a new leader and the cult will disintegrate. Trump is just a horrible, horrible anomaly that can't be repeated. I can't imagine anyone else they've got commanding and controlling the masses like Trump does.
I'm an atheist, so I can't pray. But I can hope really REALLY hard. I kind of hate what I've become.
That'll do, internet. That'll do.
The fucking media BETTER cover this.
I'm predicting that he's going to announce that votes from blue states no longer count if they don't meet his standards, and the media will go, "Oh, um, gee, can he do that? Gosh, the Constitution doesn't say."
10/10 🎯
I gotta say: This feels like a planned thing.
I've recently learned how much trouble you can get into on Bluesky if you hate Gavin Newsom's guts, but not QUITE enough. Nobody @ me, I swear that I spit every time I hear his name. Ptooie Ptooie!
The thing about Trump being dead is he's still in the Epstein files. You know all those distractions people kept telling us to ignore? This is one of them.
We know that. But I'm guessing he's going to announce that votes from blue states no longer count if they don't meet his standards, and the media will go, "Um, gee, can he do that? Gosh, the constitution doesn't say."
I've got news for these assholes. Guns kill people. You're not going to kill many people by standing around yelling "bang".
I didn't know about the gamergate thing. Man, fuck David Pakman.
David Pakman going from GamerGate “it’s about ethics in games journalism” moron to accepting dark money to spew DNC-approved talking points in his “journalism” is SO FUCKING FUNNY www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Fits nicely together with "Kakistocracy", which is one of my favorite words.
Our elections are decided by 1 and 2%. A little fuckery in the right area goes a long way. I'm assuming he will announce that votes from blue states no longer count if they don't meet his standards, and the media will go, "Um, gee, can he do that? Gosh, the Constitution doesn't say."
I can NOT get my head around this Cracker Barrel thing. I mean, WTF? Imagine having so few problems, it must be nice.
I learned last night now much trouble you can get into on Bluesky if you hate Gavin Newsom, but not QUITE enough.
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This is what I want. Someone to stare Trump dead in the face and say, "Step to me, bitch". I admit that I've still got a deep bias against billionaires, but Pritzker is winning me over with his actions.
I'm curious myself. On one hand, he would love to make it a felony to not like him. On the other hand, the narcissistic bastard might take satisfaction from so many people thinking about his welfare. On the third hand, he's so deep in the bubble of sycophants he isn't bothered by reality any more.
I love candy corn, black licorice, Peeps, and I can even handle one or two circus peanuts before I tap out.
Like a lot of people, I wasn't sold on him to begin with, but the man earned my respect. He governed like the most progressive President in my lifetime. He deserved another term and so did we.
In this day and age, "my bad" is a pretty heartfelt apology. I'll take what I can get.
No argument from me, Biden's been treated like shit after doing a hell of a lot of really good stuff. It makes me furious sometimes.
It's been out forever and I still haven't decided if I'm going to expose my brain to it should the opportunity arise. I've been a little afraid the reviews will turn out to be more shocking than the movie.
Now I've got to track this one down. I never heard of it.
That'll do, internet. That'll do.
Why do Trump and RFK want us to die? Do they think that "culling the herd" will produce a genetically superior population? Are they really that evil and dumb? If they were that evil and dumb, would they do anything different? @charlesgaba.com www.editorialboard.com/unsaid-make-...
IMHO, these are all inextricably intertwined: 1) authoritarianism 2) eugenics & racism & sexism 3) vandalism of public goods, property, and services 4) pseudo-science & anti-science They feed into one another and they never travel alone. Find one, and you'll find elements of all the others.
Yow.
I was totally on the "Biden should not drop out" team. But I remember Biden trying to hold a press conference and literally getting shouted down about his age. He was sitting with somebody and just kind of smiled at the guy and shrugged. I've never seen anything like it. It was a nightmare.
I like that. Christians LOVE to say atheists can't have morals, but when we do good, it's not because of the promise of reward or the threat of punishment. Most of us just kind of like doing it and think its a nice thing to do.
I can feel that. I'm an agnostic atheist. I believe that whatever "the truth" turns out to be, Gods, aliens, raw science, whatever, our little monkey brains are nowhere near evolved enough to comprehend it. So anything anyone tells you is automatically wrong, including what I'm saying right now.
"Deemed worthy on an individual basis" = "We'll give your rights back depending on who you'll vote for".
Not even close, but that's one of the few life decisions that I've never second guessed. I'm an atheist who occasionally wanders over into anti-theism until someone points out I'm being a dick.
Jesus. Eventually Trump's going to pull this act on the wrong person and the shooting will start. Who had "war with Venezuela" on their bingo card?
No, I have no idea, I didn't let them get that far in the conversation. They said "Missionary" and I said "Fuck ALL you clowns."
What got me to emancipate myself was when they started demanding I become a missionary, I was that age. When we moved to Seattle I refused to join the new church and ultimately wound up writing them a formal letter denouncing my own baptism so they'd leave me alone. Super cultish.
Thankfully we weren't FLDS with the polygamy and child marriage and all that shit, but there were some in the area. We'd see their huge family all come into town at once. Exceedingly creepy people. You don't want to know what's behind those plastered on smiles.
Oof, that's rough on a kid. I was raised Mormon and to this day I consider myself as having escaped a cult. Live and let live, but that religion is batshit.
I'm an atheist. I'm stuck with just hoping really REALLY hard.
It was a different way of growing up, that's for sure. Thank god when I was 14 we moved to Seattle and I emancipated myself from the church. Gave me a chance to turn into a real person before it was too late.
I think it's very likely he would have won if people had stood behind him. But everybody abandoned him after that debate performance. I've never seen the media more determined to end one man's presidency and install another one. I'm not sure there's anything anyone could have done in the face of it.
Oh my God, bathtub vodka is a hell of a way to start. 😆 How long was it before you got your eyesight back? We were very very rural people in the 70s. Think "Hillbilly" and you're getting warm. Some crazy crap went on up that road because there were no cops around, they all stayed in town.
I can't explain why the chubby JD Vance meme is so funny, but it is.
Honestly, my grandmother would put me to sleep with wine too. I have often wondered exactly how much brain damage child me was already dealing with before I grew up to be a petty bitch. 😆😆😆
Am I overstating things when I call this ethnic cleansing? Because it's hard to see it as anything else.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Heh heh. I had a couple of sketchy people in my family too. My uncle would smoke in front of me and every once in a great while would sneak me a hit because he thought it was funny when I blew the smoke out my nose. I was not very old. I grew up very (VERY) rural, and weed was everywhere.
I loved Mad Monster Party. I was a child who loved monsters and Rankin/Bass were my favorite.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
It's Gianforte. He has turned being a POS into an art form. Seriously, it's the best. I can buy weed in my bunny slippers. You kids and your legal weed, when I was your age we had to walk uphill to meet a sketchy guy in an alley, and we took whatever he had and we were GRATEFUL for it.
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Luckily I'm in the big college town, so it's the hotbed of liberalism in this state. The governor hates us so much he threatened to send a blackout here. Damn, that's a nice arrangement! I'm in too urban an area for growing, but there's a dispensary three doors down from my apartment building.
Eugenics and the elimination of “weakness” is very literally at the core of every fascist regime that has ever existed. The Nazis were famous anti-science and the very first people they imprisoned were the disabled and chronically ill. This is absolutely classic fascism.
I'm really sick of this asshole telling me what I want.
I live in a blood red state, but its saving grace is somehow we got legal weed. The amount my town has embraced the drug culture is hilarious to me. Someone told me we've got the highest concentration of dispensaries per capita in the country. It's been awesome for the state economy.
Big if true. Wonder if Malaria is going to sue him. She's threatened billion dollar lawsuits against anyone who says her name and Epstein's in the same sentence.
the Nazis literally tried to discover Atlantis because they thought Atlanteans were aryans and would prove German racial superiority Fascism has always been anti-intellectual and full of pseudoscience
Feel you on the motivation. As much as I try to tune them out, world events make it hard to find joy in things. No wonder we're in a mental health crisis in this country, we've all been locked in survival mode for the last ten years.
This one was kinda ballsy.
It might work, I've got a friend who's a very successful writer who offers snippets and short stories through Patreon. I got beta readers for my first book by posting it a chapter at a time up on a fetish website. Met my Emotional Support Canadian that way.
Oh hell, what I wouldn't give for a team. An editor, a couple of beta readers, I'd be set. I hate editing my own writing, I'm never sure if I'm being too hard or too soft on myself. That's one of those things that will happen when I'm a rich a famous author (my version of "when I win the lottery").
These people are scared of "woke" sandwich ingredients.
Sounds like a good project. Hell, the early Game of Thrones was basically a bunch of separate stories set in the same world. It didn't start to suck until they really began mixing them up and trying to resolve them. 😄
Oh my God, they'd get lynched!
Hey, 8 stories ain't half bad! I've tried to write short stories, but I don't have enough ideas. I just write to entertain myself anyway. It's a good solo activity that doesn't cost anything beyond the monthly subscription to Word. I guess it doesn't matter how much is still unfinished.
What did he say? First I've heard, I did a Google search and came up with nothing. I love Life of Brian, it's my favorite Python even edging out Holy Grail.
I think at the time I was drunk and overconfident enough to think I had a second book in me. I seriously want to rewrite it now that I'm sober and see if I can turn it into something pretty. My accomplishments are few, I treasure them.
Yeah, I'm working on my fourth year sober. I've been a functional alcoholic most of my adult life, I've had to relearn how to do almost everything. But seriously, this book doesn't even have an ending. I it just kind of... stops. 😆
Oh my God, I do that so much. Since we're being all personal and shit, I can tell you that I was a pretty severe alcoholic at the time I was writing it, and as the book goes on, I can see myself getting worse and worse. It barely has an ending.
I did it through Amazon. All I had to do was run the Word document through their app, pick a cover, and poof, it's in the Kindle store and lost for all time deep in the algorithm. 😄 I did it just for the sake of doing it. Between you and me, the book was terrible and needs to be rewritten.
Speculative fiction with a supernatural bent. I'm strictly amateur, I self-published a couple of novels because it was free and easy. Made about $25 in royalties off both of them over the last 7 years. My WIP is a psychic who moves into a haunted house and has a romance with the ghost trapped there.
My other favorite line was, "I don't have low self esteem, I have low esteem for everybody else".
Nah. To quote Jane Lane, I like having low self esteem. It makes me feel special.
I've got my eye on fusion energy for that kind of fuel. It took a huge machine and cost a lot of money, but they successfully created a fusion reaction with surplus energy. Computers used to fill whole rooms, now we carry them in our pocket. The tech will get smaller and more efficient from here.
Oh, the year. This computer is from Windows 10 era, so however long that was ago.
Guess we're both in for a long night. This is the only power in the world I have, and I'm going to use it. I'm willing to admit how stupid I'm being, how about you? You're never too old to have a happy childhood.
It's just old. It needed to be replaced years ago, I just don't have the bucks. I've told you already, I'm a petty bitch. If you want the last word, say "Have a nice day" and don't insult me. Like I've done to you about a dozen times now. Prove you're the bigger person than I am.
It's possible. This computer is crazy old, I run into all sorts of online problems other people don't get. Don't care, yadda yadda yadda.
I'm not sure, I haven't been able to see gifs for a couple of days. I'm on the computer rather than the phone. Still don't care. You still win the argument.
I can't see gifs on this computer, just a blank. So I REALLY don't care and you REALLY win the argument.
Don't care. You win the argument.
I know we're just fighting for the last word right now. I'm determined to not let you have it just because it's crazy how bad you want it. I've established several times that I'm a petty bitch. I can do this all night. As I was saying. Don't care. You win the argument.
