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

Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.

Holy shit it's real

No yeah the aspirin is really good for you just take like as much of that as you want, take the whole bottle No mom you know what you put me here I'll say whatever I'd like to MY grandpa who I love

My globalism instantaneously leaves my entire body when Europeans start talking shit about America

Justice for peanut

I look forward to Trump rambling about his secret medical treatment on an obviously hot mike

Grandpa talking about his meds again

Incel Shogun, a miniseries airing on Daily Wire+ starring Kevin Sorbo as Budd MacGuyver, an American patriot who travels to Japan and convinces them to refer to the body of water on Florida's west coast as "Gulf of America"

I love the 'now they tell us' notebook dumps on Trump's age and condition wow timely

This new year is not "proof" that the years don't stop coming but it is evidence in line with the Smashmouth theory of time

RIP 2025 2025-2025

Still the most brilliant work of GW-related art ever created. youtu.be/sbRom1Rz8OA?...

If you live out in the country and you wanna do big donuts in an f150 good for you knock yourself out i don't give a shit but i live in a city where it can take a full hour to drive a single mile during the worst traffic and wanting to fix that doesn't involve you at all

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

Fandom is inherently reactionary.

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

In turn, the fall of Weimar Germany is a failure state of democracy, but it was not 'by democratic means' that it failed - the streets were claimed by thugs, and the administration that put Hitler into power - because the Nazis never won an election before banning their opponents - was Monarchist.

WWII saw the creation of the '49 Geneva Conventions and the modern law of war, but the cornerstone of the actual prosecutions of Nazis for their crimes was that everything they had done was illegal by German law - both Weimar law *and frequently even their own*.

People should genuinely be more willing to say that the German Republic of the interwar years was a great thing and that it is a shame it fell, imo, instead of handwringing about how it probably was inevitable.

I think the thing I respect most as a black comedy sort of bit is how the Times recycles its idiots and keeps using the same ones over and over again, I think that's kinda funny in its own bullshitty way

i'm stupid. put me in the ny times.

fundamentally if you meet a man who can't stop screaming about how he's a genius and no one has the right to question him you should absolutely raise your doubt meter to ten thousand perswent

"Before his termination, Weiner was the highest paid doctor at St. Peter’s. Over the years, he made tens of millions of dollars and wielded his influence in the community to drive out hospital leaders who questioned his judgment." IS THERE A PATTERN HERE

Incredible lol

i don't have the time right now, but i bet if you search for any of these people, the NYT has already spoken to them in the past for similarish pieces.

Insofar as it tells us anything about the Donbas itself, which it victimised, looted and took over, it's that speaking the Russian language may unfortunately make you a target for victimisation - from Russia.

There are people in both places whose ethnic or national identity is mixed, ambiguous, or complicated. The way that they have been weaponised by Russian propaganda however is completely disgusting and more or less tantamount to the insane notion that Anglophone Irish people are actually English.

Crimea is slightly different in terms of popular opinion but to suggest that you can extrapolate things from the history of Crimea to the history of the Donbas is just plainly hilariously incorrect if you are capable of the magic concept of keeping two different places different in your head.

Anyway, all tankie content about the alleged desires of Eastern Ukrainians is complete nonsense. Donetsk and Luhansk voted /overwhelmingly/ for independence in 1991 and no actual separatist movement has ever existed. More or less 90% of those involved in the War in the Donbas were Russian mercs

american media rn is so cool bc all the major outlets have muted their criticism in an attempt to get in good with an Administration that is absolutely going to get obliterated the second they have to deal with any kind of crisis

A video game is an intrinsically bad medium for romance because romance is about people choosing to be together and video games are about player agency.

during the clinton impeachment, pundits rail against baby boomers—who have no respect for authority, are concerned only with their own gratification, and are excessively liberal robert bork argues that their moral laxity is facilitating the decline of Western civilization

i find it very funny that someone made a campaign trail mod about how inspiring and uplifting Bill Clinton was when he was one of the most cynical political operators of his era who specialized in negative campaigning

fellas is it "privileged" to be aware of a presidential campaign's central policy tagline?

Saw a clip of John Carpenter and Charles Band talking about their most difficult actors and Charles Band talks about how Klaus Kinski almost murdered someone with a knife and then he asks Carpenter who he disliked the most and he goes “Chevy Chase” and they both kind of agree Chevy Chase was worse

Your stealth MVP for the entire series, because Cambot made it all possible! #MST3K