Man I bet the South Park guys are glad they didn't get this week's episode finished in time. I wonder if they now throw it out and make a completely different one for next week.

Age verification? I remember parking DOS.

I live nowhere near NYC but I need everyone who lives there to vote for this man solely for the brilliance of having Spector/"train daddy"/robber baron we occasionally empathize with do this.

This last paragraph here is that Dems should pick their fights based on how the Republican base feels. That is patently absurd--have they polled how popular "running the party based on how what the average Republican wants" polls with the Dem base? Guessing it's not great, Bob.

Reading this, I really wonder why the other GOP justices are OK with his being the only voice. Have the other five thought through how embarrassing it is to leave explaining their choices to The Dumb One? Dress up their eventual decision however they want, this is the take we'll remember. It dumb.

HOW IS HE STILL THIS STUPID? HOW DID KNOWLEDGE NOT JUST OSMOS THROUGH HIS HEAD?

As an old, I was working at Hollywood Video when this movie hit home video. Store TVs had to be playing either G-rated movies or the terrible trailer loop. This became such a favorite that we wore out copies, and this may actually be the movie I have seen the most in my life. So, here for it.

In "Stupid Things I Can't Stop Thinking About" news, Trump's hand sent me down this "What if they're Patterns?" spiral and now I'm mentally recasting the Saja Boys with the Trump Admin. Trump as Jinu, Vance as Baby Saja, Hegseth as Abby because I hate everything, RFK as Mystery, Rubio as Romance.

Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

NPCs? Really? This is a bit, right? This whole entire guy is some exaggerated bit, time-traveled from the distant past to watch someone fall down the GamerGate pipeline in a quaint and nostalgic way?

Chat, is it bad when the President jokingly suggests we'll be in a war in three and a half years and won't be able to have an election?

Super weird to know that the president of Ukraine + a bunch of EU leaders are going to be in the White House tomorrow to meet with Trump, and my biggest hope is that they tell the US president to eat shit and kick him out of the coalition. Trump is just Putin's creature, and not to be trusted.

We used to think John Roberts cared about the legacy of his court; no way to believe that now. It's not even about the corruption; Trump's level of desperate, slimy patheticness is hitching levels of cringe to the Roberts' court that science previously thought impossible.

I absolutely hate that all discussion of what Newsom and Pritzker are doing is met with HE SHOULD GET THE NOM IN 2028. Normalize governors standing up for democracy. Using the power their voters gave them to fight for those voters should be the bare-minimum expectation, not grounds for promotion.

This a billionaire on Team Rich explaining how plebs can bribe the wealthy to exploit them less. They'd just exploit loopholes to maximize tax breaks with as little benefit to us as legally allowed. That's not innovation. They already do that.

The point of the 'lol AI can't count' isn't that AI is bad at counting characters. It's that this is a basic deterministic computer task AI companies have apparently made no progress in figuring out how to integrate with LLMs, OR how to make their models refuse to do.

If you see this, post a castle

Starting to really think the future of Trump's connection with his base is going to depend on how the Rogans and Theo Vons take the BS they're about to pull with Maxwell. Trump's connection with his base is fraying; I really think the base is going to follow where the 'outsiders' lead.

I know the Golden Dome thing is out of the news right now, but I will give $20 to any journalist who asks Trump if he's at all concerned that the Golden Honmoon South Korea's been working on will technologically outstrip it. If he acted like he knew about it, the resultant memes would be legendary.

The MAGA conspiracy I'm currently hoping catches on: That Trump flip-flopped on the Epstein list because he learned that one of his sons is somewhere in it. I don't believe it, but I do like that the "fatherly love" angle lets them start believing he's doing the Bad Thing for a 'pure' reason.

Trump giving big Ramsay Bolton 'my dogs would never harm me' energy; he spent forever working up their appetite for the Epstein stuff. Now they're ravenous and his genius plan for handling it is "Trust me, bro."

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

Trying to imagine explaining to teenage me that I just signed up for a for-pay search engine because it's better than Google because the Google I have is infinitely worse than the Google teenage me had.

Why is the news acting like this is Trump playing some kind of genius long game, when what we saw this week looked more like Netanyahu leading him around by the nose? America's role in this feels more like dumb henchman with impressive strength than, you know, the mastermind.

Usually I think the "guys, they're trying to distract us" stuff is overplayed, BUT. JD Vance trying to bully trans people and pick a fight on BlueSky is absolutely about getting us to waste energy for his amusement. There is no point in rational discussion with an admitted liar. Block and move on.

Why are the songs being played at the end of the 250th parade for the military some random guy singing about, alternately, his addiction to a bad relationship and getting the electric chair? Happy 250th, here's some shitty music!

Trump's parade is failing so hard even Jerry's making good posts.

Trump's snoozefest of a military parade is embarrassing for the nation--No, not for the reasons you're thinking. If there's one thing America does well, it's entertaining spectacle. Dude managed to make a propaganda parade less entertaining than North Korea. It's just so... cringe.

I seriously can't think of a more craven and embarrassing role than GOP legislator at this point--the admin lies to you, immediately betrays assurances they gave you, and you're so terrified of the MAGA base you can't even work up the courage to say they shouldn't.

I'd like to suggest ground rules for appreciating the Trump/Musk breakup: You MAY - find joy in them insulting one another. They both suck. You MAY NOT - pick a 'good guy' in this. They both suck. Them wasting energy on each other is good and entertaining. That doesn't redeem either.

So after the Starship failure a few months back, I read this piece highlighting that both explosions seemed to be down to a fuel line issue. Today's test flight didn't explode, but was apparently... leaking fuel everywhere due to a fuel line break. Can they please find a new way to fail.

I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 last night. It looks like the game is posed to be a breakout--much desered--success, but I'm glad I played through it early. It's one of the best looks at grieving I can think of in games, and I'm glad I got to play it while it still felt small and personal.

Chuck Schumer's press hits today have made me realize he's fundamentally one of the bureaucrats from Shin Godzilla. He's not actively malicious, but he's never going to focus on the real problem and will happily let the monster destroy everything as long as he gets to cling to his delusions.

Clair Obscur is the really weird experience of a game I had no hype for and didn't know anything about prior to release, but was possibly created explicitly to pander to my tastes. I'm happy about it, but what a weird reversal of the usual hype cycle.

I'd absolutely kill to see the press packets Trump's inner circle is presenting him daily. It's a given that he's cruel, corrupt, and stupid. But he's also insanely thin-skinned and shallow, and we know they feed him curated news to ego-pat. I want a window into that insanity.

Hey, remember when Trump thanked Roberts and said he 'wouldn't forget it'? The knife-in-the-back disrespect for the judiciary that's gone nuclear this week is yet another example of exactly what Trump's gratitude gets you.

When this is all over, if we win, we're going to really need to examine how much of that victory was due to how fucking stupid the opposition is. They are gift-wrapping narratives of their evil AND stupidity, and missing every possible off-ramp to maintain a veneer of sanity.

If Trump talking about throwing citizens into El Salvador's prisons is supposed to be intimidating, it's not really working. I'm just pissed off. Upset, but pissed off. I've spent the past three months living this Mrs. Davis gif.

This Politico article, about a potential Erik Prince plan to really amp up the US sticking immigrants in a jail in El Salvador is _really_ unnerving in light of the Abrego Garcia stuff. What do they not want us to know, and would it complicate the plan here? www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

A completely trivial yet infuriating aspect of All This: Some component of MAGA is going to believe there really was a convoluted Deep State cabal that their boy outsmarted to achieve these outcomes. They're going to take their victory via being Too Stupid To Believe and treat it as proof of brains.

Weird to realize future generations are going to look back at this time period for the USA and see it as as crazy as we see the Salem Witch Trials. To nip it in the bud, future people: If anybody tries to make moldy bread excuses, they're lying. The bread's fine, some people just deeply deeply suck.

People downplaying the rallies today are silly; no, nobody overthrew the government singlehandedly but people -did something-. I've also heard about 0 vandalism or violence, and that alone has to eat at the very souls of Musk and Trump who would love nothing more than an excuse to crack down.

Fox pulling the ticker from their screen is funny in the way that most of Fox's obvious GOP state media behavior is sad-funny. But their refusal to discuss how stupid *everyone* outside of TrumpWorld thinks the tariffs are is actively harmful--Trump is vain, and Fox dunking on him would matter.

In a decade or so, when this shitshow has realigned the globe, wherever big-budget movies are being made makes a slick action movie celebrating Trump. In the movie America will be portrayed how we used to portray the USSR, and Trump will be sent to topple her from within in the name of world peace.

You can tell Trump supporters are truly lost bc they want him to "run this country like a business", but his entire justification for tariffs is a trade deficit. BUSINESSES HAVE CLIENTS AND VENDORS. CLIENTS GIVE MONEY, VENDORS TAKE MONEY. BUSINESSES DO NOT PUNISH THEIR VENDORS FOR BEING VENDORS.

The Senate voted to end the emergency tariffs on Canada just now. It seems incredibly likely the House will just ignore it and we'll stay fucked, or put it up to vote it down, but like... somebody did something. Should be noted.

Wild to me that we're all just sitting around waiting to find out how badly the President has decided to destroy the economy. Usually with politics, it's waiting for someone making a binary decision. Today there's a whole sliding scale of dumbfuckery, and we're waiting to see where Trump lands.

Thank you, Wisconsin. Both for the inherent political advantages in the win you just secured, but also for reminding Elon that he cannot, in fact, buy everything.

Cory Booker just did Americans a huge favor; he created an intentional political spectacle in today's climate that we can actually be proud of. I honestly think we really needed that.

Dear Wisconsin, Please do this right. Sincerely, Sane People