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Jesse Helms wins. His agenda is now the core of the Republican Party.

Out on the Epstein island having the time of my life with my wife and four kids. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

Last month he said the opposite: “Well, it’s OK. That’s what he [Carney] should be doing,” Trump told reporters on Friday at the White House. “If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.”

I tore my ACL in 2024 and I could barely walk much less ski at high velocity a week out. What she tried is super-human. Godspeed on the broken tibia recovery.

The Super Bowl (which I did not watch because I hate the teams and the spectacle) usually means we start to look forward to baseball season. But because of MLB’s broken economics the Dodger$ are on track to buy their third straight title. So nothing to look forward to there. Grim.

You read through the Wikipedia article on battleships and learn how they became obsolete in the 1940s except for a one-off vanity use in 1991 and then you arrive at this:

“See we’re not racist! Our illegal arbitrary detentions don’t discriminate on skin color.” —MAGA

When we say CCP politics often can’t be distinguished from MAGA and ultranationalists, we mean stuff like this:

The US Olympic team looks like America and the chuds can't fucking stand it.

Leaders are turning to China out of self interest as the world order becomes transactional, enabled & legitimized by President Trump. To stop the turn to China, we must reject Trumpism in order to restore an order based on rules & morality. Views my own: unexemptional.substack.com/p/the-missin...

Randy Marsh would be the Olympic ski jump champion.

Hating Americans is a congenital part of MAGA, now Republican, politics.

The Republican Party is now pitching federal government power as a solution to a(n alleged) problem of local government.

Buts and howevers are experiencing their golden age.

I would love to ask the (now-neutered) Republican China hawks if they agree it's a good thing that President Trump has earned the respect of a man they characterize as an evil communist genocidal tyrant.

So what are you doing instead of watching the Super Bowl this evening? I’m planning to finish up a book on 16th century colonization of the East Indies.

I am a lifelong Democrats who opposes the federal government shooting citizens in the face. But when I heard Jeffries use the word “fuck” I had no choice but to give my unwavering and unqualified support to President Trump and ICE.

2.0 has 1.0 envy

“I can’t make ends meet on my passive income” is one of the least sympathetic things my ears can hear.

I think everyone’s opinions are valid except for the large percentage of people whose opinions are not valid.

This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.

"Democrats' new habit of swearing on social media is driving America into uncharted depths of incivility." -- Bret Stephens, Megan McCardle, etc.

"It's not racist if the President does it."

Well, they didn’t shoot the puppy like their DHS boss did. This proves de-escalating is legitimate.

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

Oz is right but not for the reason he thinks.

Trumpism is congenitally hostile to the basic idea that government resources (aka taxpayer investment) should be used as a common good for the public’s benefit.

Using facial recognition technology to identify people based on racial/ethnic characteristics is yet another Chinese Communist Party tactic being copied by the Republican Party.

“Legitimate” is not the same word as “valid” and that reveals intention.

This meme, but MAGA taxpayers.

The politicians said government should be run like a business. The oligarchs helped put these politicians in government These politicians are running the government like a business. And now these oligarchs are running their business like the government they put in power.

The warning was a promise in disguise, part 7,321.

Sourmilk

if you think this is psycho, you should see the methods that "researchers" use to estimate and assert forced organ harvesting in China.

This sucks! I loved that. Why?

I'm very willing to be won back to the Washington Post. Here's how.

DON'T MAKE ME LIKE MAN CITY DAMMIT

OK folks, let's crowdsource suggestions for fulfilling news sources now that we can all comfortably cancel our Washington Post subscriptions. Reply with recommendations.

Speaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.

Even the most religion-ignorant person knows Jesus preached universal love. So this self-righteous born-again Bible-thumping top Republican is demonstrating he knows less about Jesus than the average heathen.

A history-knower: Early Christians were woke socialist border-breaking universalist revolutionaries. The top Republican in Congress:

This consolidation means every SpaceX federal government contract represents taxpayer subsidization of child porn image generation.

Breaking: Guan Heng has just been released from detention and is now reunited with his mother, a long-awaited and joyful reunion. DHS has not yet decided whether to appeal his asylum. We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who stood by him and helped make today possible.

Can we call them death squads?

It doesn't have to rise to killing to be a human rights abuse. ICE is doing that right here already.