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I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
I don’t think you can separate this impulse from the fact that the white people protesting against COVID restrictions are more likely to have artificially inflated political influence via senate and EC. “Politics is downstream of culture” is and always was bullshit.
Guy who must be constantly be the center of attention and always needs to be in the spotlight has basically up and vanished for six days and the BIDEN IS TOO OLD crowd in the media is not interested in asking why. Got it.
"WEAK LOSER" DONALD TRUMP (CRAPPY HAIR!) IS A BROKEN-INSIDE MANCHILD. (SAD!) HIS TYRANT FATHER (KKK!) DESTROYED HIM AND NOW WE ALL MUST SUFFER AS A RESULT. YOUR FAVORITE WRITER (ME!) EXPLAINS THIS IN A GREAT POST THAT MANY ARE SAYING IS THE GREATEST POST EVER. READ IT HERE: bit.ly/3HD7AQd
All you have to do is sit in a busy wing stop and you will learn how bleak shit is.
grindset brain is the dumbest shit i've ever seen. "i've discovered this foolproof way to make me rich. it hasn't worked yet and i'm still not rich. but you should take me seriously anyway"
The reason the Democratic Party is failing is because their strategy isn’t to meet voters where they are. They are desperately trying to figure out a strategy to bring voters back to a position that doesn’t require them to change
I love the reaction I get from conservatives, after they berate me for "supporting a liberal commie socialist like Obama," when I point out how little daylight there is between him and a Rockefeller-era Republican.
Trump dying in office after Biden lived through his term would be such an indictment of the press. Made “Biden Old” the top story, treating it as an uncovered secret, a scandal. Then lamented not covering it even more. All while treating “Trump Old” as a nonstory. Because he’s loud and lies a lot.
As a journalist, I am not going to wildly and irresponsibly theorize what happened with Giuliani. I am going to wait for it to be reported out because the truth is probably 1000% crazier than anything I could come up with.
DoD -> Ministry of Peace DoE -> Ministry of Truth Department of Agriculture -> Ministry of Plenty DHS -> Ministry of Love
If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.
Those who can't compete destroy.
Whoever is writing this season is getting really good at bringing all the plot lines together. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I can’t find the lie in this.
One of the crazier facts about Jeffrey Epstein is that he was also one of those "IQ and heredity" (race science) guys and was trying to bankroll a sperm bank for all of the world's Nobel Laureates, as well as "preserving the future of humanity" by inseminating dozens of women
I really miss that brief feeling of hopeful expectation we all had yesterday when he thought he might be dead.
Where are we in the Young people will save us! - why aren't the young people in the streets protesting? - destroy the young people who are protesting! Cycle
THE CORPORATE "MEDIA" SEEMS UNCONCERNED THAT DING-DONG-DEMENTO DONALD TRUMP (IS HE ALIVE?) HAS BEEN HIDING FROM THEM FOR FIVE DAYS. WHY DOES THE COUCHFUCKER KEEP TELLING US HE'S READY TO TAKE OVER? NO ONE ASKED YOU, BRO. YOUR FAVORITE WRITER (ME!) EXPLORES THIS IN HIS LATEST POST —> bit.ly/4lTj5kq
Get wrecked, fucker. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...
“Botlicking technosloppers” … I just like the sound of it.
A woman tt was just talking about how her summer electric bill is usually $200-$250. A data center was built close to her home and now her bill for August was $600. None of this is sustainable for anyone.
Fred Hampton, whose birthday is today, said we gotta be okay with making mistakes. That this is part of practice, of getting politically involved, and trying. As he said, “We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.”
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They aren’t leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
we're tired of being governed by the rentier class you fuckwit
PAIN IS AN ILLUSION OF THE BODY. DESPAIR IS AN ILLUSION OF THE SOUL.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
"If prompt does not include treats, behavior is undefined ... but usually violent."
What members of the National Guard signed up for. What Trump has them doing.
I'm struggling to think of a historical example of another world power just surrendering literally every aspect of its leadership on every issue imaginable for no reason like the USA is doing now.
A thing which cannot continue forever will eventually stop.
thoughts
every day we get numerous pieces about "what the left needs to do" or "what the left is doing wrong" or "what the left should focus on" and my brothers in bullshit, the left can't even get a major newspaper column
from today’s post, on the cheap thoughts and useless prayers being fobbed off on us by the usual Republican fuckwits, in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting — thanks for reading it, link is here: bit.ly/4n0luuw
Just saw a Cybertruck hauling around a loose casket in its flatbed and I could not conceive of a better 2025 image.
Did not expect the Cold War to be won by a handful of American white guys willing to boil this country alive for Putin.
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
"Meanwhile, pilot programs for magic beans ... "
Cowards enabling bullies.
Kapos. The regime is building an army of kapos.
I'm sure this point has been made before, but Cybertrucks are clearly gender affirming care for dudes whose divorces are not going well.
I sure hope that his sole motive was to defraud Dairy Queen and maybe win some sweet lawsuit cash. I hope that was it.
not everyone has a clear record, but kennedy did, and every politician/pundit who did this put themselves on a list of people who should be shunned and mocked (because that is all us shitposters can do)
They keep reminding us. Like, every day.
you can't throw a rock in america without hitting some troglodytic religious weirdo trying to control other people's bodies and that's why we should throw a lot more rocks
What they mean is "shit ain't reached me yet."
"Ethical concerns." Yeah, I can see why they'd go back on that.
The lack of awareness on display here is startling. Yeah, maybe both my kidneys are healthy right now, but they're not unused and they are not available.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
"Always tell the truth," Mark Twain tells us, so you don't have to keep track of who you told what. Of course Trump has never read this. Which is how we get the latest kerfuffle with his base over foreign college student admissions. www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-meltd...
Bombs and bullets kill hundreds every day. But if you want to rack up a steeper body count, very few things do it better than bad policy.
Brutal
Honestly has there been any democratically elected government that has moved so speedily to destroy its own national advantages in a time of comparative economic plenty as this one has
He's bullshitting. He's riffing. He doesn't care whether his stream-of-consciousness quacking is true or even makes the least sense. And anti-vaxx and alternative-medicine woos listening at home will nod their heads sagely and pretend they even understood what he was quacking.
Add to your funny english place names, also a good neologism
After years of mass shootings by Trump-supporting bigots spouting the anti-immigrant, replacement theory garbage these assholes push daily, MAGA is exploiting two shootings by trans people to incite a pogrom. And holy shit, that last sentence is some serious projection.
When Trump pardoned the 1/6 insurrectionists, he made it clear — again — that he has chosen violence. You don’t have to make peace with that, but you better understand and accept it. Because that is what is coming, and no amount of cope-posting will stop it.
I’m sorry, but velociraptor does NOT equal distanceraptor / timeraptor. You forgot to cancel out the raptors.
in an extremely dark way it is very funny that openai's response to building The Machine That Helps You Kill Yourself is to have it call the cops on you
Fascism is how capitalism defends itself.
we cease to exist as a country without a clear, bold plan to hold accountable those who worked to undermine it, from the lowly ice agent to the felon in the oval office
dance like everyone is watching and this is their punishment
A mass shooter's ideology is irrelevant. As long as one side wants gun control and the other doesn't, all mass shootings are right-wing.
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
Context is just a scam made up by Big History to sell us more nuance.
I’m glad people are realizing that Project 2025 is for killing people but it would have been great if they listened like, last year, when just about every marginalized person you know was screaming about it. But hey, welcome, big tent, I guess.
Anyway I'll believe the idea of an armed populace helping resist tyrannical governments when there's evidence of that deterrent being functional in any way whatsoever. Seems to me it only works to enable the far right, actually
An *actual* example of a government bureaucrat getting between a medical decision between you and your doctor
the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost
“Thoughts and prayers.” “There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf
Mercy for the guilty is violence done to the innocent.
Really don't like how often it's treated like an afterthought that the mass shooter was a deranged antisemite who's been consuming online violent propaganda for years. Really, really seems like we need to get a handle on it.
Perhaps more of us should be recklessly mobbed by a baby elephant.
Jessica Watkins is a trans woman who was an Oath Keeper militia member convicted for her actions in the January 6 insurrection. Trans people can be led to commit violence by the same dumb, insidious bullshit that leads cis people to commit violence. So maybe calm the fuck down about the MN shooter.
"Enjoy every sandwich." -- W. Zevon
The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status.
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
STAY IN VIEW PLEASE
I did not authorize it being nearly September, this is bullshit
i like when these guys just say things like "union station has fallen into disrepair" which is plainly false to anyone with eyes apnews.com/article/trum...
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
here's today's post: "suck-ups and flunkies agree: Dear Leader is the bestest fuckwit ever" — scenes from a batshit cabinet meeting. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
"i wish i could hurt them" is a perfectly normal feeling to have about the people who voted for the army occupying your cities
"This aged well!"
Who did this?
How come Washington, D.C., has all those restaurants if everyone was afraid to go out to eat until 2 weeks ago?
"It was once postulated that an infinite number of monkeys banging on typewriters would, given enough time, generate the complete works of Shakespeare through pure random action. Thanks to the internet, we now know that this is not true."
Not many people know this, but all of the major political changes and social movement successes of the twentieth century -- from the New Deal to the civil rights movement to the Great Society -- were achieved because Democratic voters lay perfectly still and never pushed their representatives to act
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Not at all. That's, like, my anthem.
"Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill them." -- M. Gandhi
here's today's post: "Tim Walz, fuck yeah. JB Pritzker, fuck yeah." — two Democrats, two barn-burning speeches — while Donny blithers about magnets. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
Our local cinema is going to show Watership Down. The local shops are cashing in. The bookshop has the book and pencil box. The superstore has the towels and bedspreads . Even the butcher has a note in its window that reads "You have read the book and enjoyed the film. Now eat the cast."