Boots on the ground will kill lots of troops, costs insane amounts of money, produce no lasting changes, and result in a Blue tsunami in November.

My personal approach to every piece of art or entertainment I take in, is to ROOT for it. I want it to be good, to work, and I give it all due benefit of the doubt. It's not even about being fair minded, it's about being participatory in wanting to make the experience entertaining for myself.

I generally have a good impression of the people of Wisconsin. Then I get reminded that they keep returning this dumb asshole to office, and my confidence in Wisconsinites begins to falter.

One of the perverse things about the human mind is how just a couple of deaths can be perceived as a tragedy more readily than a few hundred deaths. The former being 'just a mishap' and the latter 'an outcome of some deliberate action.'

My Body: Still trying to sort those GI issues, eh? How about I throw on a migraine now, too? ENJOY!

My first solid food in over 30 hours!

How dare her!! 🧐🤨 "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

"Indigenous" is lowkey my word of the 2020s. So easily deployed, to so much effect and policy, and so slippery in its application and definition.

The public about to get a refresher course on all the downstream costs of high oil prices that they've not had since 2008.

Taking a break from stressing about the problems of the world to focus on a much cheerier topic: the problems at Marvel Comics thecommasplice.com/marvel-comic...

We've been told for a few centuries now that we have to suck up the economic and political order of things because they operate on premise of "incentives" for human behavior and that was manifestly true. But "consequences" are also incentives - essential negative correctives - and those have... 1/

Turns out the one weird trick to understand Trump and predict Trump was to hate Trump. bsky.app/profile/chro...

I'm old enough to feel like this is an accurate observation about (at least) American society: Expect the backlash. Everything is going to be, at best, a two-steps-forward-one-step-backwards exchange.

Well, it is shaping up to be a depression day (for a variety of reasons/recent events). It's weird when you have enough perspective to see a mood event for what it is, but that's still not sufficient to be able to logic/rational thought the emotional state away.

If the reports are accurate about them using AI for bomb targeting, you can just see how any effort to get justice for killing 150+ at that school they bombed is just going to end up with a bunch of buck passing all going to AI as the responsible party. "AI is the war criminal, not me!" Disgusting

Some real mixed messaging between "drugs are bad" and "Mexico is stealing American jobs!"

I don't like losing the hour, but being on Daylight Saving time is much better.

The president and vice president should be impeached, convicted, and removed.

A reminder that the US Senate is where everything goes to go nowhere: Democrats could have a titanic result and take half the GOP Senate seats up while losing none, and there would still be over 40 GOP Senate seats: enough to filibuster and nearly 10 votes shy of being able to impeach anyone.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Pretty down this morning because I am increasingly convinced that Trump dropping a nuke is now somewhere between 33%-50% likely. It's an insane thing, but he is not a rational actor.

Crazy win! #DubNation

The actor who plays Egg posted an Instagram story about dressing up as himself for world book day and I love him.

Not counting any chickens yet, but there's a good chance that this ends Gnome's political career, freeing us from her, and setting the stage to say "Wow, I forgot about her!" by 2028.

Trump firing Noem in a press release before letting her know, while she's giving a speech is peak 'fuck you' inconsideration.

You know what would be really funny? If the Senate didn't confirm Mullin's appointment.

In the rush of Mullin reporting we're about to get, you should know despite all of his macho tough guy posturing, Mullin never served and cowered like a child during the January 6th assault on Congress.

God, how embarrassing must it be to lose your job to MARKWAYNE MULLIN. I don't know if I could live with myself.

Amazingly, Trump has managed to find a stupider and even less qualified person to replace Noem with at DHS. But he's a white man, MAGA thru and thru, so that's all Trump needs.

It's always the Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The world is being jerked around and people are dying because 70 million idiots gave a mentally ill asshole power. For a second time.

I might argue that the most Millennial thing ever is to be a 30something lifelong Hanson fan/stan.

Nancy Mace: the only 3 things she mentions in a sentence are a noun, a verb, and "what is a woman?" She's decomposed into nothing but an anti-trans mouthpiece in order to make the bluntest culture war appeal to the Xtian wing nuts to hold onto her seat.

Anxiety is beating my ass today.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.

Gnome must have industrial levels of Botox in her forehead.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Just looking at this post, the only thing I know for certain is that it is about something that is not American. Is it British? Irish? Canadian? Kiwi? Australian? I DON'T KNOW.

He. Is. A. Sociopath. What more evidence do you need?

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

He's talking about drapes - DRAPES - while the country is dropping bombs and the economy is circling the drain. This is the moment, right here. Anyone who stays a Trump loyalist after this moment, is irredeemable. I don't care what "come to Jesus" they have later: they stuck with him at this moment

President ADD Brain Mush having put the country into an illegal war, has decided discourse on home decor and remodeling.

I had to ask AI what 'The Cathedral' refers to, and it turns out it's some neo-reactionary term for 'elite institutions that form opinions and tell people what to think'. Then I asked it if the Heritage Foundation would be in 'The Cathedral' and it told me no, which seemed funny to me.

A reminder that the orange felon falsely claimed that Kamala Harris would start many wars if she were President and now he’s bombing Iran, bombing Venezuela, ordering attacks in Nigeria, threatening Greenland, threatening Canada, threatening Mexico and more. I’ll never regret voting for her.

I need Americans to understand that Iran is 3.8x bigger and 2x more populated than Iraq, and reflect how well getting tied down in Iraq went.

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