Wanna see something funny

it's truly incredible that after a decade of trump being involved in politics (setting aside decades of his history in business) so many people still line up to make deals with him that end up with his knife in their back. anyway, mariá machado, step up and claim your fell for it again award.

You can run through the street slapping people in the face, and you will probably get away with it unharmed, until you don't.

Generally speaking I have zero interest in denominational statements or resolutions, but I do appreciate when the UMC chooses to stand in solidarity with and elevate the voices of our siblings overseas. umcmission.org/news-stateme...

We are so screwed

I'm so tired, so quickly, of the "oh so you're defending a dictator??" bullshit.

Real black pilled on the military. The oath means absolutely nothing at all, apparently. Happy to be praetorians, just as long as the check clears.

I was in third grade when the Iraq War started, but it is nonetheless baffling to me to see the biggest morons on earth insist all you have to do is overthrow The Bad Guy and what comes next will be good now. "Venezuelans are happy he's gone" Yeah okay and Libyans were happy when Gaddafi died

We live in a time where we can never visualize what next month looks like, but it does not rule to know that Venezuela could soon either 1) face a real US invasion/occupation, 2) be pretty much exactly the same minus Maduro, or 3) devolve into a Caribbean Libya if #1 goes bad

The reason you feel so overwhelmed and hopeless is exactly this; part of you realizes that absolutely everything needs to be torn down to the studs and rebuilt from scratch. Which is, you know, daunting. But here we are.

My Google Images history looks something like this each week before Epiphany Sunday as I try to figure out what astronomical tidbit to shoehorn into my sermon

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

This looks... remarkably progressive? I assume it is basically an attempted revival of the former South Yemen.

I will offer a critical hell yeah to Ruben Gallego

Peepaw's dentures look to be sitting uncomfortably.

You know who else came to power under dubious circumstances, relied on a foreign dictator to stay in power, was tremendously unpopular with his own nation, had several wives and many children just as awful as him, went on a building spree, loved brutality and wars and died of some unknown disease?

Lol clown shit, he's got to go man if the entire Den Senate caucus (less the stroke ogre) is more critical than you, what are you doing here

Lil homie lives under the couch in the winter, where the heat vent is, and I'm worried I'll find a big desiccated dog-shaped raisin down there someday

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth overseeing the illegal detention of a foreign head of state next to a comically huge emoji on X, the everything app.

I'm a dummy, I guess, because I did believe the military would resist manifestly illegal orders at least to some degree.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I don’t think Trump really understands what is happening. But he could have just taken this pathetic W and moved on, the media would have given it to him. But if we’re going to attempt to *occupy* the country…

You took out one guy

They're going to try this in civilian courts??

Personally, I'm just bracing myself for Fetterman's.

me being dragged out of chilis happy hour

Trump has been terrible for American manufacturing. The consent industry is devastated

Gritting my teeth in agreement with the guys whose main hobby is military intervention in the northern 2/3rds of the African continent

this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning

Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention (corollary): countries that have Trump Towers don't go to war with each other

Gonna need to put an uncomfortable number of military personnel on trial, from the top on down.

I mean, I do wish we somehow had a functional international community that could remove dictators like Maduro who steal elections, but that means we'd have actually to be willing to be part of that international community and not, you know, sanction the ICC and cut foreign aid.

You know, it’s plausible that this was done without a plan for what comes after because the only real goal was to get video of US troops looking cool arresting Marudo so it can be posted Online. It seems to be the only thing that matters to this administration.

It is silly that Christmas and Thanksgiving are 1) so close together, and 2) so early in the winter, leaving an indeterminate and formless darkness lying before us from January 1 onward to mid-April.

Sometimes I dream of living in the UK, but this—a mere hour earlier than our sunsets here right now—might put me over the edge.

This is true with regard to everything about that era: the second half of the twentieth century was a time of historical anomaly. (e.g., the zenith of American Christendom)

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Go in peace. [postlude plays]

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

We serve a lunch once a month at one of my churches while a harm reduction org operates out of our parking lot, and I probably experience more hope in that two hours than I do the rest of the month

I am once again Wearing My Coat

My sense is there's a pretty distinct anti-urbanism even in the Old Testament, though the New changes focus to a redeemed City. So this is old!

It is CRUCIAL for the left that we not end up looking ridiculous when we win, speaking from local experience here

What I find more interesting are the couples who've been together for a very long time, where one has to reckon with the other evolving into a diehard Trumpist. Many such cases!

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

Signs of aging "emerge"

A funny thing to do on NYE is to listen to the police scanner as they inexplicably take every ShotSpotter alert seriously

100 million.