CHRIST that was harrowing. Imagine being so desperate for attention that you willingly go on camera to describe things that will make people want to tear you apart with their bare hands
CHRIST that was harrowing. Imagine being so desperate for attention that you willingly go on camera to describe things that will make people want to tear you apart with their bare hands
Is there a day this year for which you wouldn't win this bet?
He is almost certainly dead, if not he'd have no trouble appearing in public with a copy of today's newspaper
How crazy must that 911 recording be if you have to get in front of it with this batshittery
Perhaps, regarding the terror group ISIL, you gotta hand it to them 😬
We only have to be [correct] once
They have to be right every day, we only have to be right once
"Wait, en-you-eye is on-wee?!?"
I just downloaded it and am contemplating replacing my cat as my background picture, if that helps answer your question
This is the way
Hard no on Whitmer (Newsom's bad politics + sucking up to Trump), but Pritzker, AOC, Walz are all MILES better than Newsom for me
Just watched this because everyone is talking about it and WHAT THE FUCK
Yeah, I think this is the right take. As a Californian, I know all too well what a piece of shit Newsom and my stance today is: not voting for that day. Will that stance change if the reality of the choices change? Maybe, I can't say at this point.
Thanks, I haven't seen this before and it's brilliant!
??? Profit
When this is over, Medals of Honor for those kids who beat his ass
fucking stuart stevens is saying this. again the dem leadership just does not understand how angry base dems are
There's also a press pool report that his favorite show tunes were blasting from the Rose Garden Something is happening, I am choosing to hope it's the thing, at long last
I am just going to concentrate on manifesting this while I sleep and hope I wake to the greatest news there is
That is an absolute minimum. The day this regime is out of power needs to be the last day any of these fucks ever breathe free air again. So yeah, commit to that barest of bare minimums or stop wasting everyone's time
Oh please oh please oh please
Oh man, I just want it to happen so bad
I just think of it as a blank spot awaiting a hostile takeover, much like the GOP post-Romney and pre-Trump
My mom's family moved from Cleveland to So Cal in the 60s, and let me tell you the folks from the old country were disappointed as shit that none of us grandkids played pinochle or euchre or any other card games that aren't pronounced like they're spelled
This pisses me off. But on the upside, I am just going to sit and think about living in that glorious day when the thing has happened
Look how focused he is on hiding that fucked up thing on his hand
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I have stopped many times for a road trip meal at the one in Yuma, Arizona, and even have a chicken table lamp from there, which the wife constantly plots to destroy
Without even looking, I was like "I bet the line shows us starting to go wrong under Reagan." It's always that worthless fucker
I am sure my youth pastor/Bible Quiz coach/attempted molester is probably doing much the same today. The hell with all of them
Nothing whatsoever confusing about this. "Is it okay to kill a person?" vs. how one would react if a home invader threatened their family
I was good for a couple hundred a month, so that's around $1,500 in sales they've lost from me. It's been surprisingly easy finding similar stuff elsewhere!
Blech. This whole thing tracks though - to the extent that guys like Dobson believe any of what they are spouting, it is the one thing just barely keeping them from being home intruders/serial rapists
Oh please oh please oh please let this be what finally makes the thing happen
I am celebrating, but I also think a pleased-but-indifferent shrug is super legit. Let a thousand flowers bloom!
I would pay a solid amount for a live feed of the Dobson broadcast
In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
The question has been "how can we tell these masked government thugs from people pretending to be masked government thugs?" and the answer isn't just "we can't" but that not being able to tell is the point. Republicans want to encourage & activate independent vigilante kidnapping & brutality squads.
God, I hate Newsom so much but I am also so thankful that he is finally showing Dems how to meet the moment. I am a land of contradictions
[First date] ME: I was named after Marie Antoinette HER: but your name is Dave ME: I meant chronologically
Reminds me of a thing I have been saying for years: no matter how many Percocets his mom traded him for, she came out way ahead in the deal
Ngl, this bribe would probably work on me
Dobson is dead? That's awesome, I almost wish there was a hell because he'd be roasting there
If I can make room for Bill Fucking Kristol, the right-wing Dems can damn sure make room for trans folks
Freedom of choice: every Trump voter in the south can choose between a General Sherman one or a Barack Obama one in their yards
Nice
need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive
Our democracy is overthrown. After we destroy this regime, we can try building a new one, but that is the scope of the project ahead
His posts scan a lot better if I imagine them tumbling from the mouth of some guy who's been at the same corner of the poker table for 22 hours
Only issue I can see is the same as if Fox News rebranded: 80% or so of their viewers are extremely elderly and might struggle with the change
This is such an important thread to understand. I have worked on cases where the Plaintiff was absolutely a dumbass, but it did not change the sketchiness of what some company and/or insurance defense attorney were attempting
Newsom is the monkey's paw version of the sentiment, "I don't care about ideology, I just want a fighter."
Nah. A "young conservative in DC" at the time would either be part of the project and thus down with any rationale for ratfucking, or, like you, would have been a consumer of nonsense and thus would have gotten spoonfed some other fake scandal, just like the right always does with its consumers
God DAMN this is great
It's what gives the lie to Roberts' pretensions to be just a normal, non-ideological court. Not only is that (obviously) false, by these other actions you can see that Roberts and co. know they are lying to our faces
I agree that these things should be advanced and advocated for, but there needs to be a concrete, non pie-in-the-sky agenda. This keeps us from having another generation of Dems going "I support universal health care" while doing nothing to move toward that professed goal
I don't even know where you are right now but I still smiled my smug "don't cross the Rockies in the summer months" smile
I said this *as a joke* when I was a 2L junior editor. Imagine my surprise
This is my wife, to me, every time I am writing some bullshit on the internet instead of for paying clients
Right, but these people are NUTS. The Palo Alto folks are just tech billionaires who fizzled out at, say, $50 million. And yeah, I get it. Because the wife's firm makes bank, I am a +1 for things that feel a little distasteful, but like Newport Beach distasteful, not "I am making robot slaves"
So for me, Zuckerberg making the area into some kind of supervillain lair and ruining their lives is like when Tesla issues drowned Mitch McConnell billionaire sister-in-law: happily, sometimes these fucks ruin things for the lesser plutocrats as well
My niece and nephew are a bit of a mess as twentysomethings and I attribute this in part to my brother renting the cheapest apartment in Palo Alto to send them to the same high school as the children of these freaks - the suicide one.
Not sure if this makes things better or worse, but my brother worked at Stanford and lived not far from this area at the time the Times describes as the idyllic before time. It was a neighborhood full of terrible plutocrats already, not some happy, normal place
Just imagining you and Naomi Klein meeting someday and sharing a long, frustrated sigh
Brilliant
This thread is such a good reminder of something we should all remember. It's true outside of genre stuff too - we only know who Melville was today because of one Ivy League dude. (Carl Van Doren.) How many potential classics don't have their Campbell/Van Doren yet?
I was thinking of client red flags: the things that, if a potential client does them, I start out suspicious and on my guard. Some of these are about honesty, some are about narcissism and personality, some are about capacity to take legal advice. Here we go: /1
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Also, I hope there was a frustrated exec watching us the time ~20 years ago when I was part of a focus group of 30ish guys asked "what do you think of when I say IZOD?" We were super insistent about the alligator shirts, to the point where the research dude started to get mad
100%
tbh I think this was on you guys - you worked at a market research firm that had those one-way glass focus group rooms! Anyone not savvy enough to be like "job is great, no issues" is probably too slow to be a good worker
Yeah, I am generally against the carceral state, but for everyone involved in this, I am good with making an exception. Everyone from Trump on down to the lowliest masked agent needs to live out their days in this camp they inflicted on others
A 14-point Asher is one hell of a trophy for that buffalo
Fuck yeah
The final boss is and always has been Mitt Romney and his buddies, not the theocrats and street Nazis currently in charge
That human is terrible at playing tic-tac-toe, the crow has a lot of work ahead training him
This objectively would be a very funny way to go out
The only thing missing from this story is a photo of the buffalo holding up this rich twat's mangled corpse
Fucking brilliant
you might lose some of these fights! you might lose the battle! you might win but with a tarnished legacy! but that is the fight and any bullshit triple bank shot “kitchen table” approach is just masturbation
oh they benefit from senate malapportionment? admit new states. they gerrymander? either ban gerrymandering or do it yourself even worse. they benefit from the electoral college? time for a popular vote. they funded by a handful of billionaires? confiscate their wealth
the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc
Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison
Y’all have got to watch this 😭
I have been and am a decent candidate for LASIK and have chosen not to get it. But, like, that is personal to me, not some kind of a weird proselytizing opportunity
ngl the cover of the Manchin one is pretty funny
Lmao this rules so hard
World Baby 2: coming to bargain bins everywhere soon!
Tech media forever playing the role of slack-jawed villager
Feels like it's been very cool in Orange County as well
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
I agree with this, Newsom is the Mendoza line of politicians - if you can't be as good as/better than him, time for a new line of work
No game will ever be as good as Spore's promise
The only useful advice I got from a professor in law school was when my Civ Pro professor said this was a great, and surprisingly realistic, movie about the practice of law
Add your name to the bottom of the list and you will get 10 bridesmaid dresses
If you mentally swap The Bear's win for Best Comedy Series with Succession's for Best Drama in 2024, peace and order are restored to the universe
ozzy osbourne dies everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)" hulk hogan dies everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"
Good on her!
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