One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

cursed idea: Quora DMs

I used to collect tickets at a railway station. I also played in the darts team for the pub across the road. I'd often have to pause mid game to meet the train then come back to continue chucking arrows; best job I ever had.

just learned what Ryan Lizza looks like and this dude is the spitting image of a boss I had like 8 years ago who spent most of his time at the office Getting Divorced instead of engineering

something very sinister about an all black toilet

"Dasha got dropped by Gersh," I say to the elerly woman sitting next to me on the bus. "Can you believe that?" She empties an entire can of mace directly into my face instantly.

Looking into it 🥴

best thing about what's going on with grok rn is that you could mix all of it into average business brain guys' posts on LinkedIn and no one would be able to tell the difference

guys with hair transplants should be the biggest, loudest, and most vocal trans allies. one struggle and all that

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

the excerpts of this Nuzzi article re RFK remind me of when a history class in my high school had to produce reports on historical figures that embodied the idea of a "renaissance man" and this one airhead did hers about her boyfriend who used to skateboard and throw rocks at cars from an overpass

The MTG pivot is a good dragnet for identifying the most gullible people in all of mankind. Also, it's cross-political. You can identify the easiest marks left, right, and center here. A very easy, inoffensive, diverse way to identify our society's finest wallet inspector customers

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

they'd be fishing me out of the Hudson the next day if I shot this ad

OPERATION WAXED HUNK

Feels like every month there’s a new right-wing politician, pundit, religious leader, or celebrity who gets revealed as a child sex predator but for whatever reason the media treats each one as some isolated incident despite the obvious pattern

train coffee is so good. I don't even care how bad it is; if I'm on the train it's good

Job 3:14 God chuckled. "Oh, you mean the Chaos Emeralds?"

can't wait until all that stuff just stays the price that it is now

I like to joke about being a "family abolitionist" but there are parts of that that I'm dead serious about

this could easily have been that Tyler Austin Harper dork - but no, Thomas Chatterton Williams retains the dunce belt

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Just thinking about how the Taliban took over Afghanistan because they hanged corrupt war lords from tank barrels. You know, just thinking

All the Epstein emails are like On Tue, November 21, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Larry Summers wrote: Have you seen the latest news? Get the popcorn ready… On Tue, November 21, 2017 at 8:18 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: Pop cofn taste good .

Goon After Reading

Goon him to the Greek

Young Goons

Goon in 60 Seconds

Goon and Gooner

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

we're gonna get so many taeks about the leafs not jumping Zadorov for that hit like there arnt 10 guys on the bench we were told would prevent or avenge that

In the very rare chance that anyone actually does manage to bully Musk into ending things, Joyce Carrol Oates doing it would be objectively the funniest vessel for it.

this guy runs the entire world now btw

folks, this is your captain speaking with an update on our arrival: air traffic control has gone home and they have rolled up the runways. the runways are gone. they were mats the whole time. but I want you all to know that it’s ok. to be white

it says a lot about the average politician that this guy seems to expect that zohran mamdani only said what he said to get elected and doesn’t actually believe in anything

good art is when iron man says I don't have to clean my room

the trombone solo is a high risk, high reward type of situation

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Yo imagine if the 1 million people the post keeps talking about actually leave nyc. I bet they all drive cars. I bet they’re the worst people in the city. Imagine how much better this city is gonna be

there's a new word folks. affordable. and we've got a lot of it. and you take that new word and you add it to a really old fashioned word. groceries. and there you have it folks. affordable groceries. all you need is an ID. and nobody is talking about it and that's why we're dying like dogs

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

You gotta almost hand it to the guy being like “yeah I was fully corrupt the whole time and I don’t have to pretend otherwise now. I did that shit”

heheheh let's fuckin goooo

Seems kind of obvious now that looming specter of these results is what killed Dick Cheney.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

The Grabber has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

that's what we call outreach baby

not only does the richest known nazi in the world endorse andrew cuomo but he’s boosting it as a paid ad on twitter