I'd be "too old for this shit," whatever the "shit" in question happened to be.
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I'd be "too old for this shit," whatever the "shit" in question happened to be.
He'll issue an EO mandating wheels on all naval vessels.
The universe seems to be watching a lot of reality TV at the moment.
If you see a problem, just shut your eyes. Problem disappears!
Face like an old saddle, voice like Darth Vader's CPAP, head so empty a brainworm starved to death; he's the poster child of good health!
He'd try to deport them for not having birth certificates.
I'd be happy with a parliamentary system, where the Presidency is honorary. That way, Beyonce can be head of state, and there'd be less scope for populists to dupe the masses. Throw in a multiparty electoral system and strict campaign spending limits, and we might avoid this shit happening again.
Looks like the Cracker had them over a Barrel.
The unemployment figures produced by the office of which Trump just fired the head and replaced with a crony? My guess would be never.
They didn't believe in any of those things, they just used them as tools to get what they wanted. Never ascribe principles to a Republican; they're nothing but grasping hands and devouring jaws.
Every Karen in the country seems to think the election was their own personal mandate.
Since the only purpose of the Cabinet meetings is for Trump's lackeys to tell him how brightly the sun shines out of his ass, of course they'd be "transparent." His neediness is very transparent.
Except without replicators, so who knows where the "abundant" resources are going to come from. Just continue pillaging the Earth until it's a hollow shell, I guess.
Those cops will be fast asleep within fifteen minutes. It would be wonderful if someone was able to repaint the rainbow right under their noses.
Here in L.A., it seems like anything older than 2000 is a teardown. This city basically erases and rebuilds itself every generation.
Reminds me of all the colorful graffiti on the Western side of the Berlin Wall. Who knew, one day we'd be the ones on the inside?
How does the "tech" in the vaccines coordinate across individuals, such that they all die in 2028, regardless of when they were vaccinated? Nano Bluetooth?
The WSJ editors are surprised by what's happening? Seems they collectively lack the journalistic and political analysis skills that should be second nature to people in their position. Or they're just covering their asses.
When the reckoning comes, they can all claim to have "obeyed the law" at all times. It was "some other guys" who beat and abused the detainees. With everyone masked, who knows who did the really bad stuff?
Hitler dreamed of transforming Berlin into "Germania," a bombastic architectural folly to show the glory of the Reich. Trump is just following the playbook. I wonder if he'll rename it "Trump DT" (District of Trump).
This is some Dr. Evil-grade bullshit. "I weel bribe you in de amount of...100 US Dollars!" Was she revived after being deep-frozen in the 60s? I could barely bribe my teenage nephew for that money.
More health insurance company shenanigans: if your healthcare provider takes "too long" billing you, your insurer will reject the claim and leave you on the hook for the whole amount. Ask me how I know.
Nice one, Miller: add some ageism into the pot, lest anyone think you aren't a soup-to-nuts bigot.
A whole story on how the tariffs are "generating billions," and not a peep about who's really paying for them. Goebbles would be proud. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
So can anyone nominate anyone? Sounds like a recipe for a lot of unnecessary work by the Committee. Hmmm, might think about tossing my hat into the ring. I've certainly done more for peace than Trump, by virtue of not actively harming it.
Why would he have even been on it, in the first place?
If you're too fascist for Meloni, you've really gone off the deep end.
I'm at a loss to understand how he believes this will end well for him. Does he think that, by being the most fascist fascist, the other bigots will somehow forget he's a member of a group they also hate? At best, he's bought himself some time.
But remember, MAGA thinks Russia is wonderful and can do no wrong. Democrats pushing for the files' release can be dismissed with a "Libtards amirite?" shrug, but if Vlad says it's true, they'll believe it.
Donnie's performance review didn't go so well, it seems. Expect some "warning leaks" of Epstein materials, if he doesn't shape up.
So how did Trump's performance review go? Did Putin make him employee of the month?
"Bipartisan:" Giving the GOP exactly what they want and then watching as they still vote against it because it was your idea.
She had three sons. Andrew is the pedo.
I'm dyslexic and sold my soul to Satan. Now I have to spend every December in a freezing toy factory.
What the rich dweebs don't seem to realize is their "security team" will relieve them of their assets and dump their corpses in a composting pit within about ten minutes of things going south.
To add to your pain, in Spain, the band "The Cure" is called "Los The Cure."
If what he says is true, he can prove it easily: release the files! Let the chips fall where they may.
It was our own fault. We thought the slogan was a warning, when it was really a statement of intent, by the people who own the light switch.
Because, when you look at Miller, you immediately think, "winner of the genetic lottery, right there."
I assume at this point it'll be a dynasty of Trumps, like the Kims in DPRK. Jr or Eric will be next, then one of their kids, and so on.
Why is he so invested in a game he clearly sucks at? I'm shit at golf, too, so I don't play it.
Except the CEOs of the big corporations care about nothing but themselves, so as long as Trump cuts their taxes and looks the other way at their crimes, they'll continue shoveling shareholder money at him.
You'll never get bad news if everyone's scared to give it to you. Let's hope that extends to his doctors.
Or maybe just the Trump files, since we'll probably find he accounts for 90% of the trips to Rape Island.
I have no interest in baseball, but really liked the movie. Of course, I watched it during a time when I drank heavily, so...
There should be no billionaires. They are a defect in the market mechanism that should have been arbitrage out.
Hey, Death? Nice one with Hulk Hogan, but you've wandered off topic a bit.
I fully expected to see a genetically-modified miniature pet giraffe strolling around. I imagine it's the sort of thing morons with money buy.
I think we're at the point where we should be calling them the "Trump/Epstein Files."
Trump believed struck, but undamaged.
Abbot is no disability ally. He closed off the disabled access entrance to the Texas State House, and vetoed mail-in voting legislation for the disabled. Accommodations for he but not for thee.
Fear is the point. They want everyone to feel unsafe and powerless. A cowed people is a docile people.
Yep. A normal checkup visit turns into a full-on hard-sell of tests, referrals and snake oil upsells (testosterone cream, HGH, vitamin shots), when there's absolutely nothing wrong and all blood levels are normal. I switched docs three times before I found one who wasn't a salesman in a white coat.
Another issue is the Brit obsession with having a "garden" (no matter how pathetically tiny) driving construction of low density, single-family housing. Learn to love apartment living, like much of the rest of Europe, and far more people can be housed on the same land.
Bobby Brainworm is a prime example of Upton SInclair's observation, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." He's made a fortune out of not understanding basic science.
She's just waiting out the clock until the next Trump-caused crisis takes attention away from this one. Who knew that the best way to avoid consequences for fucking up something is to fuck up everything?
You create "the enemy within" by targeting groups your base will rarely meet in person. That makes it easy to dehumanize the "other," while reducing the risk prolonged personal contact will rehumanize them. Trans people fit the bill nicely. As do the disabled, poor, and immigrants.
"I mean, perfectly innocent multi-decade friendships may be taken entirely out of context. And completely normal trips to Rape Island can be twisted in all sorts of ways. Anyway, who says a 50+yo man can't have a platonic relationship with 13yo girl? That's just sexist!"
It's the slightly toned-down version of Trump's "many people are saying." The immediate response to which should be, "Are any of them outside your head?"
Mood indigo
So true. Everyone with a disability inhabits a nation of one. Nobody's condition is identical to anyone else's, which makes it hard to unite around a single experience. It also makes it easy for vendors of disability equipment to charge exorbitantly for their products, because "it's a small market."
That works out nicely, then, because there won't be any evidence for them to weigh.
Agreed. My SIL's reasoning for voting Leave was, "We've tried the EU. It's time to try something else." Like it's a new shampoo. The boredom of the stupid is an underappreciated force in politics.
Amazing. The sheer obliviousness is breathtaking. Like the Irish nurse who lived in the flat below mine, complaining that the Bangladeshi family that moved-in upstairs were "taking all our jobs." Our, Ms. O'Shaughnessy? Who is the "we" of which you speak?
So true. Racism makes people do stupid things. My Brexit-voting sister-in-law recently informed us that she's going to vote Reform next time. Because sometimes a single kick to the head just isn't enough, apparently.
Amazon is just waiting out the clock until robots are good enough to replace humans. Then all those "messy" labor problems will simply go away.
Even better, because the UK didn't prepare for Brexit, 90% of lorries coming in aren't inspected, so toxic food that can't be sold in the EU is flooding the UK market. We certainly wrested the sovereign right to poison ourselves from those evil Eurocrats. Hurrah!
The "sovereignty" argument is the stupidest of the lot. Since the EU is the UK's biggest trading partner, the UK has to comply with EU regulations for everything it sells there. But, since Brexit, they have no power to influence those regulations. So sovereignty ends up not meaning very much.
Logically and rationally, you're right of course. But I still have this queasy feeling he'll somehow swing it. I wonder if any Nobel Committee members are on the Epstein list that doesn't exist?
Trump getting the prize would be ludicrous and obscene. So he'll definitely get it.
It's not called the "Epstein Client List" any longer. It's now called the "Do What We Say Or We Leak Your Name Roster."
Because you'd feign a disability, just so you can tool around in a rickety chair that can't access half the places you need to go, and enjoy tearing chunks out of the walls of your house because the stupid thing steers like an ocean liner.
They've been steadily cutting-back. First, they ruled that chairs only had to be suitable for "home" use (a wilful twisting of the law), then they denied positioning features (tilt/recline etc), then anything but a basic chair. The goal isn't to keep us homebound and out of sight until we die.
For a party that doesn't believe in science, the GOP seems to be really into Darwinian selection.
And all disability equipment is stupidly expensive. My power wheelchair cost $75k for example, because it has tilt and elevate features (whoopie!). The design hasn't changed since the 90s, but they still charge the price of a very nice car.
And with the stroke of a Sharpie, the Fourth Reich is born.
Guess when you deport all the skilled workers, this is what you get.
What Nazi nonsense has Die New York Stürmer been spewing today? I cancelled my sub years ago.
It's their innate distrust of big government that made them vote for a totalitarian regime.
The media was the first thing the oligarchs twisted, starting with the end of the Fairness Doctrine. They spent the following four decades manipulating news reporting into a self-serving mockery of the real thing. It was ready-made for the fascists to turn to their own ends.
The snazzy uniforms will come next. I wonder if Hugo Boss is interested in bidding for the contract? They did such a nice job the first time.
LBC is the channel of choice for blowhard cabbies who won't shut up about how "those people" are ruining the country. It's Bigot FM.
Haven't you heard? The Evangelicals have decided empathy is a "sin." Why? Because helping someone defies God, who afflicted them as punishment for...something or other. And defying God is a big no no. So the only true Christians are sociopaths.
And the Nazis didn't have nukes.
Why do we continue to entrust our future to people who don't have one?
They really are a death cult. Strip away the social safety net, but ensure the paupers are armed to the teeth. What could possibly go wrong? If I was on a politician's security detail, I'd be looking for a new job about now.
It's class war, pure and simple. Only now, with AI and widespread robotics just around the corner, the rich have decided that rather than merely subjugate the poor, it's easier to just wipe them out.
Tax returns are just an annual basic paper chase and arithmetic test, anyway. The IRS knows exactly how much you owe, they just want to see if you can find all the documents you need and add up correctly. And God help you if you can't.
That sound you just heard was the last vestiges of American democracy dying.
A bit spendy for something that'll get used precisely once.
So they've passed their Enabling Act. Watch things get real bad real fast.
The fact they're building luxury boltholes in New Zealand and Hawaii and racing to be the first on Mars tells us everything we need to know about their plan for "fixing" things. Hint: it doesn't include the rest of us.
Krasnov is Putin's employee of the month!
Tell me one thing Trump would have done differently if he was an actual Russia agent. Then try to tell me he isn't an actual Russian agent.
A golden dome would collapse under its own weight. This will collapse under the weight of its load of bullshit.
Straight from the German "Heimat," which the Nazis made practically a state religion. When the US started using it after 9/11, I remember thinking, "Well that didn't take long."
If you don't already know about it, Google "Aktion T4," the Nazis' little scheme for "euthanizing" the disabled. What the GOP are doing now is step one of a similar plan.
I'm not sure it was the stroke that changed his politics. He had a meeting with Trump back in January and came out with a decidedly MAGA gleam in his eyes. Either they gave him a brain transplant or showed him the photos of him blowing a goat.
"Military exercise." Maybe that's why I can't get fit: my exercise regime doesn't kill anyone or blow anything up. I think I need to join a different gym.
It's about making America white, now. Then, it'll be about the "right kind of white." After that, it'll be about "right-thinking white." That's the thing about the politics of division: there always needs to be an "enemy."