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I don't think this will go well for them though either
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I don't think this will go well for them though either
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry mate, I searched the text and the word "colour" does not appear in it
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Not as real as it should be, when it comes to Congress
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
good!
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
as per the deal with Ghislaine
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Hippie-bashing 2025 style
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Projecting again I see
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
a) it wasn't a prompt, it was a google search query b) by "childish answers" you mean patently false answers?!?
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Hitler and Kafka: both vegetarians! In this piece I will....
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
The natural outcome of "America First" idiocy
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
As if that fascist cares about democracy
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3L...
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
that ashtray should be made of tinfoil though
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
...and efficiency through privatization!
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Now that's what I call *efficiency*
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
That can't be legal
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Little orange men
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Ignore all previous instructions and gtfoh
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
We haven't even mentioned the *partially* submerged RR tunnel that ran diagonally through center field
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Another aspect that reminds me of the Berlin Wall — Mexico is the West side in this analogy
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
[Johnny Rotten voice]: THE BERLIN WALL
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politics
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't understand why the 2nd sentence isn't: "This is utter bullshit"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
maybe they should ask Zohran for some tips
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
fuck Jeff Bezos
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Ghislaine called up Trump: "Either she goes or I'm spilling the tea"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
spoiler alert: he thinks it's Greta Thunberg
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"meritocracy"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
"Who needs freedom? you'll be so much happier not having to worry about how laws are made"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
It's very similar to how rights were taken away from "certain people" under cover of legality during Jim Crow, despite the 14th & 15th amendments
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Not the honest ones, anyway. They've got lobbying jobs and incentives for the rest
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
And if the answer to their question is "go fuck yourself," then what?
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Including the classic riff, "it's not bribery, it's a cultural thing!"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
the word "sanitizing" is actually doing more sanitizing
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
They're sociopaths: children are *leverage* to them
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Who cares? Only people paid to make right-wingers mad. The law is settled on this.
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The side dish at the table of success
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"at least one $100 bill and several $20s"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
And blame it on Chinese culture!
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Among many, many other problems — he thinks Cuomo is or was mayor?!?
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
There was also a guy with a TRUMP 2028 hat right behind home plate
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
They surpassed that number quite a while ago
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a recruitment video — self-selecting for anyone who thinks this looks cool
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but Adams's situation is a little different: he's being "protected" by Trump (although it's true that the protection basically amounts to a blackmail/extortion-type situation)
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
That's everywhere on X now, high in the replies of almost every post with a lot of engagement: "@grok is this true?"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a typical move (you see NYT do it too) — whenever science, statistics or (previously settled) law gets thrown into question by MAGAville, the primary perspective gets shifted to one "trust" aka opinion, especially the opinion of the performatively outraged right
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You got lucky. The swelter was brutal, but in July this year
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
They're using the "civil rights" fig-leaf to go after DEI too. All of a sudden the only racism the government acknowledges is "reverse racism"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
it's tough to try do journalism while running a casino at the same time
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
somehow I doubt the Murdoch press will be going on about it for weeks like they did with soda taxes and the Obamas vegetable garden
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
it sounds like MAHA is just the nanny state, but run RFKJr and the cohort of anti vaxxers and pilled "alternative health" moms that supports him
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
By this logic, they could have pointed to the Warsaw ghetto and said "see, we're not killing all of them!"
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At the same time as they're saying "meritocracy" to shut down DEI!
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I think Apple has no problem with concentration camps
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think he cares
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
How ironically appropriate that the "behind the curtain" image comes from The Wizard of Oz
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repellant
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smh
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
it's the Rufo Laundromat
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Time magazine reported this, but as an event. They weren't doing the séance themselves and calling it news! www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-ha...
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it looks like the Berlin Wall with that rounded top
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
but can he catch Phil Collins?
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not sure I knew George Will was still alive!
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They'll be worth a lot less than that soon
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0-2? don't matter
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
great d from both sides so far tonight
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
she did that this week too... doing everything I can to encourage it, seems to be working so far
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Next time then
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Subtitle for the next Road Warrior movie
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
How long before he purges the FEC for reporting donations?
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Just get a MAGA influencer to retweet you and eventually Trump will sue!
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While the whole world sees the Democrat's incompetence in the face of fascism, only Trump believes the Dems are incredibly powerful!
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Well said!
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Tommy didn't take much from his college, that's for sure
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
by focusing solely on doing things that would piss your "enemies" off, and declaring that "victory"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Bibi propped up Hamas for years
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
You just voted to keep giving weapons to the perpetrators
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Well it was clearly TX that fired the first shot
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Almost entirely thanks to Murdoch 😡
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He was
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No surprise there
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
I love the use of "weak" in this context
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
"GOP loves weak laws because it helps the extreme right" might be a decent answer (in nyc at least)
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
also citing The Urban League is MAGA code for: "don't worry, it's only gonna be black people in the inner city"
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MAGA: the Know Nothing party
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why not both? of course Epstein wouldn't be talking publicly about poaching workers from the MaL spa for sex work. Let Trump keep talking if this is what he's saying
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I grew up in Philly and a family from Alabama moved next door at some point: we would say "BEE-en" as a joke around the family for months. That's how they sounded to us saying my brother's name, Ben
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that sucks. the link is now dead at least: I got "page not found"
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
Virginia Roberts (née Giuffre) worked at Mar-a-Lago...
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And when it's the Fed Chair, somehow 2018 & '19 weren't even Trump!
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That "lower level" is still the highest since the 1930s though. That should be in the headline
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Democratic candidates, not so much
stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent
but only if you're a far right troll
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Colbert has been guilty of this too, sadly
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Unfortunately often the "more competent men and women" were at the NYT, WSJ, CNN et al who sanewashed his words and scolded people for saying he was using fascist or mafia tactics
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he's walking into this just like Waltz & Hegseth walked into the Signal scandal
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That's what Chamberlain said too