It's honestly pathetic how much the conservative rationalization of January 6 these days is basically: "Well they shouldn't have made the birthday boy upset on his special day!"

Doomsday is still looking to be a trainwreck but if they can redeem my boy Cyclops for this generation, at least something of value will have been produced.

things feel very bad right now, but I'd also encourage people to think of how it was a year ago vs how it was in December.

this website desperately needs baseball season to start

“we are going to viciously Main Character people over innocuous shit” is maybe not the best way to get people to migrate away from the Generates CSAM At Will app

Nevermind.

Boswell missed a PAT? Oh the Steelers are fucked now.

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

The second part is a silver lining I suppose.

I'd have gone for it.

China: “bro we gonna condemn your actions so hard bro and like we will send another ten trillion yuan to Israel to show you how much we condemn you and shit.”

ah fuck

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

It's somewhat darkly amusing that this is the one instance in which we may have started a war over oil, and the oil companies don't want it (our president is just an idiot who doesn't understand oil markets).

it is both true that dem leadership statements suck and also true that if you are vomiting in anger over them are you are very definitely reacting to the wrong thing right now.

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

after all this, there is a non-zero chance that Maduro successfully lobbies/bribes Trump for a pardon

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

Donald Trump’s unconstitutional military action in Venezuela is putting our troops in harm's way with no long-term strategy. The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.

Fuck it, this is probably a good day as any to see if Silksong is worth the hype.

And how well did that end for the Confederacy of Independent Systems, genius?

putin is already pretty unconstrained in ukraine (the people saying "zelensky is next" seem unaware russia has tried to kill him many times). the bigger danger is it emboldens putin to step up sabotage and hybrid warfare in europe

We cannot let this president drag us into more endless wars that risk the lives of American service members and civilians abroad. The attack last night on Venezuela was unnecessary and unauthorized. The President’s actions are reckless and illegal.

All the Venezuelan exiles celebrating this and saying they will vote Republican from now on might want to think carefully when Miller inevitably says: "Maduro's gone now. Pack your bags and go back to where you came from!"

So I'm like, 80% certain what happened was someone in Maduro's circle cut a deal to hand him over along with some minor concessions on stuff like oil to be the new caudillo of Venezuela. In exchange, Trump gets to run a victory lap without the optics of flag-draped coffins.

Fuck it. Still good advice. I’m going to play video games and drink.

OH COME ON.

This illegal war is really going to cast a pall over the Panthers-Bucs game this afternoon.

I think we should just talk about spider man today

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

I do have a suspicion that the US right has memed itself into believing that there will be an immediate populist uprising that ends with a friendly face in power and not as often happens, the existing administration stabilises itself and pursues vicious crackdowns.

Rubio: no further action in Venezuela Re: oil implications Like in Iran last summer, Trump has a tendency to do the BIG thing that on paper seems super bullish but does so in a max-flashy-now-we’re-done manner that ends up net bearish after the dust settles. We’ll soon see.

to all the people shitting themselves about Trump somehow magically launching a nation-wide crackdown on American dissenters tomorrow: please do keep this in mind

Add Rubio to the list of Republicans that need to end up in prison after 2029. Whole thing is basically his brainchild. Every Democrat that voted for his confirmation because he was seen as a "sane one" needs to recant now.

i do not like my country being unambiguously wrong yes, i know this is not a new or unique state of affairs. but im a patriot and i hate feeling ashamed of my country, no matter how often i do it

You do not need to be a fan of Maduro to think that this is both morally abhorrent and world-historically fucking stupid.

any democrat who hedges on this should be screamed at until they quit tbh and if they don't, they should lose their next primary

At a bare minimum, the next Dem president has to be serious about dissolving both ICE *and* JSOC.

Why would Donald The Dove do this

Is that what the kids call the "Cool Zone"? Because my first impression about is it that it sucks. (Yes, I am talking about Venezuela)

Ireland, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

Mamdani has been mayor of New York all day and yet I've yet to see his socialist stormtroopers enforcing Sharia law. It's disappointing when campaign promises are broken.

I try not to believe too much in ref conspiracies, but it's kind of hard to deny how many favorable calls UGA got tonight.

get in loser we're doing day one permitting reform

Nutty as Sliwa is, it's sort of heartwarming how much he hates Cuomo? 😂