logging on to bluesky

I don’t actually blame Vance for this, the primitive Scots-Irish mind cannot comprehend the doctrine of the True Church, in his culture it’s considered normal to say dumb shit

Marx alas was real attracted to unnecessarily inflammatory and hyperbolic language. kind of like Hasan lol

I like the part in Rod's last pre-election dispatch where he says "I listened to Ben Sasse talk about getting blindsided with a stage 4 cancer diagnosis and immediately thought of how my ex-wife blindsided me with divorce papers!"

covid created a ton of incels who have a warped sense of the world because their formative years were spent in unnatural isolation and insane amounts of internet exposure it was either that or turning into a woman (good ending)

i maintain only about 15% of her haters hate her for real reasons, and theyre generally not the ones who wont stop talking about how evil she is

Anyways these chuds whole schtick is putting religion into politics and now they're mad that the religion guy is talking about politics?

The idea that no problem exists which cannot be captured in our relatively non-invasive information capture system both smacks of unbelievable hubris and is belied by history.

I am not saying it’s a neoliberal scam, I’m saying you have three options - the charts are fine and people are just spoiled, the charts are wrong, or there’s something not captured in the charts, which are correct. Wouldn’t be the first time relevant data wasn’t captured by a long shot.

It takes 40 years to build fucking trains or do universal healthcare programs here and the rest of the world looks at us (correctly) like a child with a knife.

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists. They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

Dems projected to pick up 8-12 seats in the College of Cardinals

How did I miss Rod indulging in the Trumpist's favorite passtime: Dredging up obscure ethnic rivalries?

Is it good when the USCCB is talking like the Jedi Council?

have you ever interrogated *why* millennials and zoomers are considered to be unreliable voters? it’s what this entire thread is about, actually. if you’re under 40 or so yr entire political exposure as an eligible voter has featured, for the most part, the same exact clowns

Gen X Democrats are some of the stiffest, least convincing, least sympathetic politicians in American history. and entire generation that speaks in focus group pablum and convinces no one not already convinced.

I’m partisan obviously but I think the modern Republican Party is the most evil and destructive organization this country has ever produced

he’s not as visible as most of the folks in the administration but after stephen miller vought is probably the most evil of the lot he is ideologically committed to destroying the entire concept of the public good

1) he did not come close, 2) this is another sign Trump is out of juice, people are straight up not bothering to pretend he might run again in 2028 bsky.app/profile/mich...

Southern Baptists when they have to engage with the Church Fathers:

Biden's foreign policy record was ruined by Gaza but one underrated good thing he did imo was send the CIA director to Brazil to tell Bolsonaro and sundry generals "you people better not fuckin do a coup"

My baby has a two-hour block of executive time at daycare this afternoon.

“NASA was closed” = “the military was out of bullets.” The ramblings of a deranged liar.

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

The most annoying part lately is “ok this is a trusted brand for decades, I can probably be pretty sure this product is high quality and will last” and then you go to r/BIFL and they’re like “nah got bought by PE 2 years ago and now it’s a POS”

No, I'm okay being a moral purist on this one. He shouldn't be a Senator and if Maine inflicts this man on me, I will think less of Maine residents for years upon years.

nightmares are memories from a past life. you really did wear your underwear to class. fucking dumbass

Writing notes by hand is better than typing them in a word document.

Just because you can have a conference call anywhere doesn't mean you should. Go somewhere private and conference call all you like. Don't do that shit in the midst of 20 people.

Streaming services for music should be banned. Buy the CDs and treasure them. Or vinyl. Whatever.

Cursive is actually important and more people should use it.

My most old-coded opinion is that on-paper dictionaries are better, and the bigger the better.

Nice argument, however I have already depicted myself as the chad Aussie reporter and you as the omnimogged American masculinity streamer.

Smart move to have the super handsome reporter conduct this interview, tbh

I feel like the claim "ideally 6000 people would just directly report to me" should be treated equivalently to "spiders from mars tell me what to do when I have to make decisions".

There's one at the field office for a nearby GOP Congressman. It's just that it doesn't get airtime or column inches. NY does. Plus, people petition their own representatives. It's not crazy that New Yorkers are doing so with their own senators and not flying out to bother Thune.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

if they're doing this to the catholic church I can only assume the way they talk in private conversations to secular countries outside europe is nakedly abhorrent

I like pork, but if you asked me, gun to my head, which of the big 3 American meats (pork, poultry, or beef) has to go, I'm choosing pork.

jamie I like you a lot for a normie lib but you aren't beating The Allegations

I think it’s fairly indisputable the best BBQ comes from the south but much less clear whether it’s the south of the USA or Korea.

anyone who doesn't understand the value of middle management has never actually been a manager. the problem with these VC bozos is that they didn't work their way up the ladder, they got someone to throw them a bunch of money to go straight to CEO and they have no clue how an organization works.

It makes complete sense that the Evangelical-Mormon megareligion is converging on “Christianity is about sending AI-written corporate emails everyone ignores, but about Christ”

There's a tech VP who keeps getting on panels visibly gleeked out of his mind, talking about how there's going to be a great culling and the streets will run red with blood. that is not something steve ballmer used to do

I think that we live in a very broken information ecosystem. But people are not choosing to be depressed about the state of the world. Like. Look around you!

there are so many obvious answers to "why do people feel like they're broke/the economy is fucked right now even though that doesn't show up in the metrics" that I can't imagine anyone being confused about it unless they're addicted to feeling more clever than people on the internet

“The guy I told you to vote for in 2024 turned out to be an agent of evil and an enemy of the Lord God. Now here’s why you should listen to me about whom to vote for in 2026.”