How often has that happened Johnson? More than zero times?

A dvd? How do they play it?

Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.

I think it shows sloppy writing when, in an SF setting, someone has their character need to speak to another in person, or deliver a message via unusual means and code phrases all for fear of people monitoring the network, or "frequency" in the worst examples.

A bakeneko (ばけ猫) is a Japanese folklore monster, it means changed cat, but you could also say ghost cat or even demon cat and not be far wrong. I have a bakaneko (馬鹿猫), a stupid jerk cat.

Trump's obsession with the Kennedy Center reflects a larger delusion among the MAGA base: that they can bully people into liking them. And they'd rather tantrum than accept this reality. www.salon.com/2026/02/04/k...

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

I woke myself up laughing this morning. I dreamt I saw a stately building with a sign that said "Most Honorable and Literate Society of Septic Tank Cleaners" And beside it was a second building, as lovely as the first, and it's sign said "Kthelpk Hltheiwpfhq"

Following the murder of Ms Good, Vice President James Donald Bowman (alias "JD Vance") says ICE will soon be "going door to door". How many people do you suppose ICE is going to murder while going door to door? And weren't government agents going door to door bad per the right a little bit ago?

As the week goes on we'll see people complaining that the Democrats aren't effective, or aren't taking action, or aren't even mentioning the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good. Those people are committing the error of thinking the D's want to do good but are bad at it. They don't want to do good.

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

Here's a question: when was the last time a Rep or Senator from one of the Republican states that are economic failures and only survive thanks to the generous contributions of economically successful Democratic states thanked their benefactors? I'm pretty sure it's "never". Because they're slime.

Counterpoint: Democrats should move to impeach every Republican on the Supreme Court, Trump, every single Trump appointee, and hold votes to expel every single Republican from Congress. Because fuck this timidity bullshit. Also Dace Potas is a Republican, which USA Today didn't mention anywhere.

Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.

Reposted because the admins deleted it to protect Nazis.

Billionaire whines that people don't like his position that poor people should die.

You know what you never see? Someone in an SF setting shooting someone with a phaser or blaster set to stun, that person smacking their head on something solid when they fall and dying or even just being injured from the head trauma.

Not to be all conspiracy theorist, but I don't trust the Trump regime enough to actually believe in a dire leftist New Year's Eve terrorist attack being thwarted. Not without some independent corroboration.

Any Democratic Presidential candidate who does not swear to demolish Trump's ballroom on day one is not worth voting for. It really does need to be the first question we ask them.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

"While the Bible and Christian theology mention Satan, no current or past U.S. Supreme Court Justice has publicly stated they literally believe in the Devil as a literal person, though the late Justice Antonin Scalia famously expressed belief in a real Devil during a 2013 interview" - Google

I'm still astonished that Trump demolishing part of the White House has just slid past and no one mentions it anymore.

I cannot believe it took me this long to connect Havlock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork with the Doge of Venice. Both absolute rulers who were elected by various guilds etc, both rulers of nation-states that got along via mercantile power rather than military might.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Racism is also the conceptual fulcrum of Trump’s world view - despite the commentariat’s attempts to portray it as incidental.

I just remembered the Fritz Lieber novel The Silver Eggheads, and it's stunningly prescient. Written in 1961 it envisions a future where "writers" put vague ideas into devices called wordmills that then do the actual writing. Dude predicted LLM's....

OK, the whole thing Trump is doing with reversing the supposedly autopen signed executive orders of Biden is just weird. He can reverse any executive order by any former President at a whim, it doesn't require any justification.

Want to know the myth of King Arthur? The whole thing? "at the strife of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut fell, and there was great mortality in Britain and Ireland." There ya go. That's it, the totality of the original myth of King Arthur. Everything else is fanfic added on centuries later.

Shorter Plato: everyone who disagrees with me is a cave dwelling shadow junkie Shorter Aristotle: Logic is how we know the Earth is shaped like a banana and women are icky Shorter Socrates: woaah dude, like, do we really know anything? Or is knowing not knowing?

clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit

Trump's "Peace Plan" doesn't need 28 points, it really just needs two: 1) Russia gets everything it wants. 2) Ukraine gets to give Russia everything it wants.

The CDC website now says: "The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." I thought RFK and Trump had announced Tylenol causes autism? Did they change their mind?

"The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." - CDC website Studies have not ruled out the possibility that the existence of President Trump causes autism either Mr. Brainworm.

MAGA in 2016: Q is god, pizzagage! Evil Democrats are pedos! MAGA in 2025: Who cares about a little pedophilia? Anyway it wasn't REALLY pedophilia because puberty. I don't know why, but I'd actually thought a few might waver at Trump being a pedo, but nope. They stand with him.

Is it just me, or are variants on the phrase "first principles reasoning/science/logic/whatever" both becoming more common and being used mostly by people trying to "scientifically' justify bigotry?

Remember when the Panama Papers came out and revealed that basically every rich person was a criminal? And the only thing that happened was a reporter who covered it was assassinated? I worry the same will happen with the Epstein files.

Great, having just bought Activision, Saudi Arabia is now wanting to buy Warner Bothers. Get ready for video games approved by the Committee For the Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue! I can't wait!

You might have missed it in all the other awful, but the Swiss tariff negotiator met with Trump and, on live TV, made a "gift" of a crazy expensive watch and a 1kg bar of gold with Trump's name laser etched onto it. Trump immediately cut tariffs on Switzerland by more than half. Open bribery.

Never forget that at absolute minimum every single Republican on the committee that's been sitting on the Epstein files knew Trump was a child molester, and they took steps to hide that fact.

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I think we can all tell how Trump being a pedophile will turn out. The Republican Party is going to go full bore Libertarian and declare that age of consent laws are stupid relics of the past, probably DEI somehow, and it's objectively good for rich white men to rape young teenage girls.

Remember back when America had an actual terrorist organization that destroyed private property to protest tariffs on tea?

Truly new levels of train technology

And since I'm very late to many parties.... I just realized that the overlay of Abrahamic mythos in Evangelion covers a meta-plot that's strongly Buddhist influenced. The Human Instrumentality Project is a twisted techno-nightmarish forced version of nirvana.

The new Flash Gordon run by Dan Schkade is pretty great overall, but as far as I'm concerned his single greatest contribution to canon is the word "Mongothic" for things of or pertaining to the planet Mongo. Mongothic law. The Arena Mongothic. Mongoths. Mongothic monsters. It's just great!

Now there's a problem with having a government run by bonkers power hungry would be dictators: even if Imamoglu really is a corrupt graft laden crook, the absurd penalties demanded make the case seem petty and driven by the whim of an autocrat rather than like serious charges.

It really is always projection isn't it? Trump says "Sleepy Joe Biden" and it means that Trump falls asleep during meetings and is trying to project his issues onto those he sees as enemies.

Just your reminder that Elon Musk is personally, if somewhat indirectly, responsible for a minimum of 600,000 deaths including 400,000 children. And that's just from him destroying USAID. Just something to keep in mind when you see the headlines about his trillion dollar paycheck.