lol he got moggmogged (by a question about mogging). the caregivers at the home pat me on the head and walk off bemused.

Online betting delenda est

Ladies, if you’re listening, I’ve never bet on sports and made a dozen or less bets with real money in my entire life, most of them $1 scratch tickets. I don’t day trade. I don’t hit myself in the face with hammers. I won’t try to control what you eat. And I’m not jealous of your success.

Years ago I was skeptical of the idea of rape culture. But then we elected a rapist and the billionaire Epstein people all rape and then a lot of members of Congress rape too and I think perhaps it's a culture of rape.

Mentioned this in someone else's replies but it's notable here that Swalwell is accused of committing the exact kind of rape that Graham Platner wrote apologia for.

I respect this effort but I find it unconvincing. We've *seen* a major price level shock in the US before, during the 1970s. To test what that did to sentiment, we can compare Conference Board consumer confidence data to unemployment/inflation. The result gives a respectable model of confidence. 1/3

I know this lady husband name not “dick tips”

THE STRAIT HE CLOSED FUCKWAD

This happens in lesser extreme versions of political tribalism. I remember the feeling of reading an article that would challenge biases being uncomfortable. The key is how to extract people from this mindset.

Jesus. Swalwell needs to be in prison.

Live long enough and you'll recognize law firms even though every name that was there when you first encounter is replaced like the ship of Theseus

This is a remarkable historical document. Trump spent hours "orbited by...recording artist Vanilla Ice...Dan Bongino...manosphere shepherd Joe Rogan. At one point, the Mortal Kombat theme song played as Mr. Rubio and the president leaned in to speak to each other." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

They have weak, less resilient brains

I am just glad social media has not changed me, the god of Shoe, whose poasts people worship like Sol Invictus.

well, you know, come to think of it, maybe

Orban conceded because he lost by the margin of "try any funny business and you'll get shot." The lesson needs to be imparted here.

Internal combustion posting!? On Bluesky!? Folks, sit down. No need to recognize my bravery.

This is a good thread I think

All of my followers are real to me.

A bad manager thinks good workers have to be told to work

so fucking funny how fast these guys lose their devoutness when called for

@realfollowers.bsky.social Please say 0

Yes please take this exact message all the way to November

Oil prices are crashing today, over a 6% drop, even as peace talks went nowhere and the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked—even more so with the US announcing a blockade—and energy deliveries are stuck. So maybe imagining everything is okay and the situation will somehow resolve itself is all we need.

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

It's wild that American Republicans see millions of people attending No Kings rallies and assume, with no evidence, that they're all being paid...and then some grandma who has literally lobbied for DoorDash delivers to the White House with the *cameras rolling* & they think it's an adorable moment.

The good news is that this is the sort of problem that tends to solve itself. The bad news is how that is going to happen.

America should be a Godly nation, guided by Christian religious leaders. Here's why Pope Leo needs to stay out of politics.

I don’t understand how people can have such terrible judgment to have this event happen.

Hahaha he was clearly bothered by it. It's why President Johnson is actually the least bad option atm.

It, also, raised wages of the lowest cohorts for the first time in a long time. That's a pretty nifty little trick. Anyway next time a bunch of people over-worried about inflation are going to drive us straight into the concrete divider because inflation bad

The Biden Economy and its inflation was not a gambit to raise wages it was the inevitable result of channeling a 10% hit to GDP through the inflation channel to preserve firms and employement. Everyone has decided that was really stupid and has made up a bunch of stories about Biden, per usual

I've given up explaining to people why inflation is better than a hard crash. I anticipate we will not lern from the COVID framework and forget channeling the economic harm through the inflation channel is least-worst and end up in another long protracted period of firm destruction and unemployment

Yassss This is exactly where to push on the coalition

The situation is evolving rapidly

Can we say men are TRULY independent unless they can extract themselves from needing the roads built and maintained, either being educated by the state or having rich parents, needing their household kept by a spouse, having the courts guarantee their contracts, Medicare for their aging parents?

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

I regret to inform you, that the Chinese tanker did not run the blockade.

Imagine no inflation It’s easy if you lie No oil blockaded Economy sky-high

Anna Paulina Luna (who is insane) is now openly alleging Ruben Gallego is in a sex video with Swalwell and an underage girl. While this would not shock me, wait for a source that isn't going to get shitcanned out of DC for being Fake Latina Boebert

I was ambivalent about taxing unrealized capital gains before the billionaires proved willing to work with an outright fascist. Now I find myself questioning what rate might hurt the middle class too much.

Vance Marching JD Vance has so much to say—too much!—about world affairs, but the typical situation is he'll crash and burn. He busted stuff in Hungary, the would-be Russian satellite. And what would you say he accomplished in Iran? Now we have to endure an endless jam in Hormuz. by Maureen Dowd

“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social

They were also crucial in that the original announcement did not differentiate between enemy and allied ports of origin.

What I learned during the pandemic is that most Americans do not care how many old people die or whether they are cared for at all.

That said, they do not resolve the ultimate thorny issue of whether and how the US will actually enforce this against ships of nations (most notably China) who might refuse to comply and sail to/from Iran anyway, daring the US to stop them.

"Blockade the strait! No more Iranian oil for the world!" Sorry, that's a printing error. It should read: "Blockade the strait? No! More Iranian oil for the world." Oops, probably shouldn't have that Nobel Logo.....

is this anything

you’re all a psyop. each and every one of you, arraigned against me like some hideous army. i won’t let you win tho. i’ll guard my sanity even if i have to take on the entire world. that’s how i’ll win. you’ll see. you’ll all see.