"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

It's so frustrating that Biden spent 4 years saying the office of the president was powerless to do anything about basically anything and now we have a president just pulling the levers of power as fast as he can going "whee!" and there doesn't seem to be anything stopping him?

College Graduate First Person In Family To Waste $160,000 https://theonion.com/college-graduate-first-person-in-family-to-waste-160-0-1819576137/

Conservatives are the obvious villains on every story, part 76

Is there a lane for “HEY, VOTERS: BE FUCKING ADULTS AND EDUCATE YOURSELVES ABOUT YOUR DECISIONS BEFOREHAND” messaging in Democratic politics? I suspect not, but it’d be very gratifying.

a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.

NOT turning this guy into William Horton will be political malpractice.

Occam’s racism

Conservatives watching brown people be joyful

The response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows just how racist our society is. Racists are angry about the halftime show? Good! Everything about our society should make racists feel alienated. How do we make racists feel even more alienated from even more of society? 👏 👏 👏

Conservatives are the obvious villain in every story, part 137 (the assassination) and 138 (the erasure of the truth about the assassination)

But i did my own research!

jeans = 👖 genes = 🧬 Gene =

this might sound bad. but if you look into the story it's actually much, much worse prospect.org/2022/04/08/h...

The conservatives!

OK! Thought a video might make it easier on ya. Guess, uh … hm, yeah, guess not. The correct answer here is the old fella, Mr. Potter. Huh. Let’s maybe go back to childhood, yeah? When things were a little less subtle. Let’s [audience shouts along] SPOT! THAT! VILLAIN! youtu.be/0ypxAKDMfFA?...

Oh, come on! You’ve SEEN this! They even gave him a fuckin’ snake nose! The “pureblood” shit wasn’t a dead giveaw—ohhh, I see it now. Right. OK, fuck it. Let’s just skip to the end. Think you can finally … [audience halfheartedly shouts along] SPOT. THAT. VILLAIN?

Hey, conservatives! Let’s play a game. I’ll show you a photo or video clip and we’ll see whether you can [audience shouts along] SPOT! THAT! VILLAIN! We’ll start off with an easy one.

This is a layup. No way you’re gonna miss it. Readyyyy? [audience shouts along] SPOT! THAT! VILLAIN!

Holy shit: She actually said “the good guys”! bsky.app/profile/npad...

Hey, conservatives! Let’s play a game. I’ll show you a photo or video clip and we’ll see whether you can [audience shouts along] SPOT! THAT! VILLAIN! We’ll start off with an easy one.

There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st. But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.

brb jumping into my time machine to show this to a Trump supporter five days ago

Homeland Security doesn’t like it when we call ICE and Border Patrol “the Gestapo.” So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

When the NRA finds out that a citizen was shot and killed by Federal troops merely because he was carrying a gun, there is going to be hell to pay. This is the exact scenario they have been warning us about! These are the jack-booted government troops from which we need unfettered liberty!

1/x This is undeniably true, but American journalism as it’s taught and practiced today is incapable of stating this fact. Because the “official” justification for ICE’s presence and abuses and murders is stated as X, journalists are obligated to report justification X. And because …

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

Zach is very wise, and is absolutely correct here. Immigration is an objective good. His book "Open Borders" is *great*. You should read it. The basis of all this anti-immigration BS is blatant racism, and a fascist desire to use that to manipulate the population.

Something that worries me: It’s obvious to anyone paying attention that ICE = Trump = all Republican officeholders … but we know the majority of Americans don’t pay attention. Do you think this reality is widely understood? Does it need to be said over and over?

"Almost violently" means nonviolently.

Behold the everlasting conservative mindset: “I was OK with a thing that hurt people until it happened to me and/or a person I care about.”

“I get the Peace Prize or a country near the Prize-giving country gets it” is a very normal foreign policy, relieved at least that the existential threat of student loan forgiveness was avoided.

Something that worries me: It’s obvious to anyone paying attention that ICE = Trump = all Republican officeholders … but we know the majority of Americans don’t pay attention. Do you think this reality is widely understood? Does it need to be said over and over?

I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔

Obviously everything from vaccines to whether the earth is round is “hotly disputed” if you’re weighting disputes from people who are wrong or lying

“The party of federalism!”

No more, no more.

This reminds me: Why isn’t Eugene Goodman a household name/on our currency/honored with a statue? It’s not an exaggeration to say his actions prevented a large-scale attack on sitting senators.

The “fuck your feelings” party!

The world is chaos. We’re kidnapping world leaders. Nothing matters anymore. In response, I’m thinking of becoming a “whomer.” Anyway, it’s “WHOM will the Bears play …”

Semi-annual reminder that if you vote Republican you are a Mr. Potter supporter. “It’s a Wonderful Life“: Conservatives are the obvious villains in every story, part 41