I’m sorry. Temu meat is the breaking point for “I’ll make falafel”

It's... weird... that the brownshirts are name checking the dawn of Athenian Democracy (kinda)/the linguistic root of 'draconian' in their angry note.

Incredible

So for people who know more about Barron: If he is animated by ambition it would be within the Church, right? So did he believe that aligning himself with the American secular right and accruing influence with it would make him more attractive to Rome?

I'm going to turn into the "come out we have you surrounded" insane stick figure meme about this stupid fucking cards metaphor.

love to post "I've been committing crimes" on a public forum acknowledging my guilt of the crimes I've comitted.

it a little like both an obvious cash grab but also the attempt to sanitize the most beloved hits from the darkest stain tainting the man who produced those hits. Like a little permission structure to be allow oneself to say "it's okay that I still like these bangers."

bringing back the yellow fever ravaging expeditionary forces on Caribbean Islands, only instead of the Leclerc expedition dying en masse on Saint Domingue/Haiti, it'll be a Marine Expeditionary Unit dying en masse on Cuba. Cool and good.

When Trump loses power, his assets should be liquidated and returned to the American people.

Him and a lot of other thieves, too.

This rips, and is about the closest I've seen to kinda sorta maybe encapsulating just how freaking fast and intricate high level foil is.

There once was a Sam Adams commercial that basically boiled down to them bragging about how much hops went into their beer. My friends and I clocked the American marketing idea of "If X is good, then More X is More Better" years ago. I'd add that we've added "with no upper bound" to the formula too.

yeah, this is just the logical evolution of what I was talking about. When I was a kid it was RW radio, then fox news, now podcasts/youtube shorts/reels/tiktoks. Just envelope people in a blanket of fear and they'll keep listening/reading/watching/clicking.

God willing it will be.

The "we live in a criminal hellscape far worse than the worst Charles Brosnan movie" delusion is *pervasive*. Personally, my explanation is that in order to keep engagement, right wing media exaggerates danger and sells fear fear MOAR FEAR on an unending drumbeat, so it's literally all they hear.

As an attorney who sees the results of attempts to deskill labor and rely on ill-suited "AI" processes--the backlash to this endeavor is absolutely going to happen but not until a *lot* of people are hurt by the attempt.

Damnatio Memoriae is the least acceptable position

Neato @robertjbennett.bsky.social

For the life of me I can’t figure out how anyone ever took this dope seriously.

Side note, this trend of publications using vague adverbs in headlines is everywhere and it drives me bonkers and would have gotten me failed in my old J classes in college. Reporter *perfectly* responds? THAT DOESN'T COMMUNICATE ANYTHING. I assume its just clickbait algo service, BUT I HATE IT.

Adm. King has got to be *on one* in the next life in ways that defy comprehension

There were stories about Saban not enjoying winning football championships because he figured other coaches were out hustling him for recruits while he was coaching in the championship game. This is a symptom of the unique kind of psychopath that gets this level of success.

The Calvin and Hobbes "all X is either A or B" meme is applicable to Stancil. All Stancil discourse is either argument over semantics or arguments about the applicability of statistics vs. individual experiences.

Vance has chihuahua energy. He’s got no rizz, weird eyes, and everyone who meets him treats him with a mixture of pity and disgust. And so his response is to try and fight everyone, shitty little attacks that are impotent and mostly just kinda funny. Chihuahua energy.

LFG

you have conjured one of my favorite tweets

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

He's an interesting case study bc he once provided incisive social commentary via his comedy. It feels like a prime example of "person receives mild criticism and proceeds to LOSE THEIR F-ING MIND." For him it was trans people, and his recent comedy has suffered for his obsession with this issue.

I would also suggest that perhaps a tithe to Khorne might be in order.

i don't think throwing individual streamers in jail will fix the more pervasive social problem that we've made acting like a jackass in public lucrative. but it's a start i guess

pope leo: murder is bad every republican: how dare you mention me

I fancy myself a connoisseur of bullshit health marketing lingo, but this one floored me. This is the Mona Lisa of meaningless nonsense.

Is Pope Leo XIV the right person to lead the Catholic Church? We asked four evangelicals at a megachurch outside of Nashville.

Yesterday, I got to hear JD Vance, who has been Catholic for less time than I have owned the undershirt that I’m currently wearing, claim to be more Catholic than the Pope. The day before, I got to see Trump repost a picture depicting him as Jesus, laying on hands to heal the sick. Sacrilegious!

He just cannot shut up about this. He thinks he's gonna win his catholicism forum war with the fuckin pope

It's kind of remarkable how effective he is at bringing Europe together. From Left to Right, everyone in the EU and UK can agree... this guy is a shcmuck and we are better off without him.

This has been driving me bonkers for a while. Is it a ChatGPT thing? Where did it come from?

Protestantism vs. Catholicism is a faultline in the GOP coalition that the party cannot afford *any* breakage along and naturally MAGA influencers are setting off underground nukes in exactly that spot.

Holy shit this comment was real???

It’s very bizarre that Warhammer 40k is one of the best lenses to understand the modern American right… but like you have to remember at all times that they fundamentally do not understand 40k and have the worst media literacy of anyone to have ever lived.

“I wanted the Pope to be the emperor of mankind, blessing holy war against the unclean for all time, but instead it turns out he’s got the politics of a social worker!”

I've long maintained that I really only want to hear Matt Walsh's name in an obituary or an arrest report, but I suppose, if necessary, we can add "when he's getting viciously dunked on in a way he's too stupid to understand" to the list if we must.

One of the corrosive effects of Trump's cult is the fact that everyone feels obliged to fawning lying flattering him even when offering what is (in this case) the *lightest* of criticism. [Trump action X is] misguided, but of course Trump is [superlatives untethered to reality]. Embarassing stuff.

Maybe there’s something more blasphemous than this but I can’t think of it right now

Trump could not be setting the stage for her more perfectly if he tried

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

Cynically I’d say this is the logical endpoint of what began with Sola Scriptura and empowering everyone to render their own interpretation of scripture and now ends with a personally customizable deity designed specifically to create a permission structure and religious validation machine on demand

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”