"Terpsichore, it’s so sad what she’s doing to chorus and dance, isn’t it, folks? And what happened to Euterpe? Good old Euterpe, we loved Euterpe. But the flutes now, they’re terrible, so we’re going in and fixing it." theonion.com/trump-appoin...

There are lots of sniveling, pathetic idiots on this platform but Karl is, as a character, a truly pathetic specimen of a truly pathetic breed. "We need to dox Stancil like a Nazi" even putting aside the Sky Marchini part is a -deranged- thing to say out loud on a public forum. Get a fucking grip.

I don't know why this is treated as somehow mysterious when it is prefaced with "I'm an internet leftist"

Lotta roach talk. Don't care for it.

'It's really about the oil that is in a major price slump right now in a world that is increasingly diversifying away from it' is, in defense of the people making the claim, stupid enough to be Trump's actual reason to do it

this is not at all Sky's fault personally but like. we're taking out heads of state now. we're murdering fishermen for the 'gram. there is every likelihood we will do both again. we are *promising* to do both again.

Delcy Rodriguez impressed Trump by showing she would be an effective governor-general of the Orinoco Free State.

Like Texas kind of is onto something that gas plants are both socially necessary in the short run but also unbuildable by private entities in their specific market because it’s the closest to a true spot energy market.

My impression is that a lot of people are doing a little bit worse, inflation etc. has done this to elderly folk etc, but there is a small but important group of people who are doing way way worse debt wise, and they're surprisingly invisible from the outside.

"The GWoT but lazier"

war as bronze aged pervert fan service as constituent outreach

VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

They love this shit and its why they wanted him to win lol

The Trump doctrine of international relations may appear very complicated to the untrained eye but worry not, as an America watcher, I am here to explain it. The core ideological principle, to wit, is as follows: googoogaga. goo goo, ga ga

you cannot blockade a country and bomb its capital cities and capture its leader without being at war with it, is the thing

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

Those young men are idiots who don't know things and can't be taught save by time and more maturity (being old enough to remember that last Republican admin)

To be clear, he's doing this because he's addled, because Rubio got into his ear, and because he doesn't care that much about anything he's ever said to anyone that isn't him

(we've done this before, this isn't novel)

“President expected to speak from mar a Lago” sorry he couldn’t be bothered to leave the golf course for this?

If he carries on like this it's going to make the FIFA Peace Prize look ridiculous

They just pardoned a head of state running a drug operation

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This has been a punch line for a decade, yet Dowd still holds her sinecure. That really tells you everything you need to know about the NYT.

Donald the Dove

found the new CBS mission statement.

I'm glad grandpa could have a nice day running errands for his little project, its nice he can stay busy, good for his brain

But, for some reason, even though -WE KNOW IT WAS PROMPTED TO DO SO BY A LIVING BREATHING PERSON- it was not the creation and distribution of CSAM materials by any living person so whoooops what can we do? Its insane, actually

this is an obvious risk which they knew about and ignored on purpose.

shouldn't bari be the one interviewing dj khaled? she loves debate culture and they presumably have one very specific point of contention

What do you get for the man who has everything?

Well I'm sure the President doesn't have anyone that can run down and get him some stone

Cuomo was *supposed* to win and to set the stage for dozens of shitty editorials about how America had moved on.

The first principle of a lot of the American upper class is impunity for their own, and #MeToo violated that.

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

It's 2026. Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do: * Cover the flexbone * Use one of those urinal troughs * Run a 2 minute offense out of the Wing T * Identify all the members of the Big 8 * Lobby BCS Pollsters * Enjoy a can of Surge * Take a long 2 instead of a stepback 3

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

Every six months or so there's another expose about another AG diktat that made its way through the paper, after the Israeli agitprop one I thought the lesson had well and truly stuck, but no, no no

I HOPE YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO. NEVERMIND. I MEAN PANAMA. WAIT. I MEAN GREENLAND. WAIT NO I MEAN TEHRAN. HOLD ON. VENEZUELA. FORGET THAT. NIGERIA. OH WAIT. TEHRAN AGAIN.

I would like to thank Matthew Yglesias this morning for hard lining Lyman Stone into my intellectual life with his stupid book

God its so funny that Grandpa brags about how many cognitive tests he's passing, that's the funniest old person shit

the future of governance is a powerless murder poet in the spotlight while a basically pleasant bureaucrat lays the foundation for the welfare state in the shadows

For everything else about Trump, it's remarkable how similar his natsec process is to George W. Bush. It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.

One thing about Lyman is that he's part of a collection of weird reactionaries who actually live abroad

It doesn't matter if he is, he believes that everyone who's not his insanely specific kind of Lutheran is going to hell