“Last year [Berkshire Hathaway] sent in over $5 billion to the US federal government and if 800 other companies had done the same thing, no other person in the United States would have had to pay a dime of federal taxes.” - Warren Buffet, the most successful investor in history, 2024

When MAGA chuds gloat that the “Democrat Party” is less popular than Trump, it’s because their own base apparently hates Party leadership worse than Republicans do. And since they give Republicans everything always, that’s understandable.

When the Democrats retake power, they need to make Hunter Biden the Attorney General.

A really minor detail, but Putin is 5’6”. So Trump really does shrink in his presence.

Still waiting for the outraged demands for laissez-faire from the tribe of self-styled libertarian comedians who are so upset about cancel culture whenever someone says their anti-trans “humor” isn’t funny. Maybe they need to groupthink workshop it first.

How long before protesters start dressing up as I.C.E. agents en masse wherever I.C.E. appears to Thomas Crown them?

So do we have a name for the Nazi-transitioned AI yet? Groyk? Groyker? Groebbels?

When trying to explain why MAGA is fascist and “socialist”/social democratic policies are good, this is a great data point to start with. Followed up by the simple economic fact of growing the economy by empowering the working poor.

Yes! It irks me no end when people refer to posts from his propaganda network as “truths.” Can we call them “troots” instead? And his platform “Troot Social” or at least “Truth (So/Called)”? As for the Trooter-in-Chief, well he can have the Shrubbian nickname “Trootie Troot.”

Someone is REALLY desperate for a win on any front, but since said person claimed he would end the war in 24 hours before he even took office, he’s already lost. Bigmouth strikes again.

When the opposition calls bipartisanship “date rape,” continuing to work with them, as the Democrats have in the 22 years since they bragged about this publicly (after practicing it for decades), is some serious battered wife syndrome shit.

MAGA is the Confederacy’s revenge on the United States, Russia’s revenge on he West, Nazism’s revenge on the World.

So, when the whiny excuse for the Wile E. Coyote administration predictably becomes “we inherited a mess,” please refer back to this WSJ article published a week before the dawn of Trumpageddon II: www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Cant wait to see the Cybertruck piñatas.

Seriously, leftist positions have polled far better with the US populace than contextually equivalent D or R or bipartisan positions since at least 2006. Obama won office twice by cosplaying a leftist as a candidate before reverting to corporate D mode. And Bernie has shown that your strategy works.

And to be clear, in this case “Greenland” is just a variable name for any value in the set containing all nations of Planet Earth.

Nothing I can write makes this funnier than it already is.

“Last year [Berkshire Hathaway] sent in over $5 billion to the US federal government and if 800 other companies had done the same thing, no other person in the United States would have had to pay a dime of federal taxes.” - Warren Buffet, the most successful investor in history, 2024

Tune for today. youtu.be/c7Shv0d0j4g

The great Cory Doctorow, an actual public intellectual (Bari Weiss and NYT, take note), on the opportunities provided to us by the current installment of the perpetual crisis. “When life gives you SARS, make sarsaparilla.” #corydoctorow #eff #bigtech #muskselfown #twoleftfeet youtu.be/tKV5GB6dN3o

Any person or charity in the Austin/San Antonio/Houston triangular mega-MSA who would be interested in building/adding to a library with hundreds of books on a wide variety of topics? Many children’s books as well. Message me if interested. #BookSky #texas #library #austin #houston #sanantonio

Over the years, the Common Sense Skeptic channel has provided some of the best investigations into Elon Musk available anywhere. Certainly they put Isaacson to shame. They’re back with a new series that explains why what we see of Musk is what he’s always been. youtu.be/zeRjVH66vdQ

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Christmas Time, 2016. I was at the Armadillo Bazaar, a holiday market here in Austin with of course local music. I stumbled on Eliza Gilkyson performing “The Calm Before the Storm.” That song has been on replay in my brain ever since. Here’s her follow-up. open.spotify.com/track/2dMKwJ...

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And thus was born Q Onan.

Best Songs of 2024. Just my opinion, of course. A great year for songs if for little else. open.spotify.com/playlist/7ft...

BlueSky is not a safe space. BlueSky is a sane space. MAGA views are welcome here, but they will be challenged, usually with the respect you afford others. If that upsets you, Twitter is in fact a safe space for you. It’s algorithmically rigged to safeguard and amplify right wing views.

Nothing illustrates the genzennial gender divide better than Kamala stumping with Beyoncé while Trump is on Rogan’s podcast. Also says a lot about Texas’s new status as a rising swing state.

Why is Trump campaigning in solidly blue states? Maybe he thinks his celebrity should grace Madison Square Garden and Coachella, or maybe he just feels safer in blue states.

Mitt Romney straps the family dog to the top of the car and drives on highways. Kristi Noem shoots the family dog. JD Vance mocks cat owners. Vance & Trump lie about Haitians eating cats and dogs. And now this. What’s that sure sign of psychopathy again? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...