When I look at what Trump is doing to this country I remember that there's a new place opening down the street from me called "USA Donuts" that serves donuts, boba, & kolaches. They can try to enforce their bigotries all they want, but for their trouble they will find themselves grasping at air

It's also proportional to the scope of the thing. What happened in Venezuela was a single highly orchestrated raid with local (passive) support. Our military has a lot of experience doing that. Our last invasion was 22 years ago & leveraged a lot of Cold War institutional expertise we've lost since.

These guys got everything they thought they wanted & they're still frustrated & still sad. So they're going to keep pushing the limits of antisociality out of habit & boredom. Gooner politics

Republicans were very clear during the election that this is what they believed, & that this was what they would act upon when in office. Editors & tastemakers discounted it all, because it was ridiculous. Everything was fine. No one would blow everything up for the sake of delusion. Now here we are

The whole Christmas book haul. A satisfying answer to the prompt "describe yourself in five books"

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Voters elected Trump to make them rich

"welfare & thus remittances" might be the most succinct idiocy in this screed. Remittances are something like 2/3 of a percent of GDP. Entitlement outlays to noncitizens are something like 1/2 a percent. Their tax contribution is somewhere between 1/2 a percent & a few percent. At worst, it's a push

Incidentally, dry mustard is a terribly underappreciated ingredient. Takes a minute or two to show its virtue, but once you're used to its presence you miss its absence terribly

They already got their blood-soaked photo op. At this point they only care if he goes to jail because they hate being told "no".

What's wild is that Yarvin is clearly arguing from a position of extreme antisemitism that the Jews are not the problem, it was really the *filthy liberals* all along, who are functionally indistinguishable from the Communists. No principle here at all but poorly constructed hate for his enemies.

Like trying to drift a car on the street & being surprised when they hit a curb. These guys didn't put in the work, because the whole reason they're these guys is because they can't or won't put in the work

Excellent testament here to the joy of grasstouching. Gonna be 63 & sunny tomorrow, I gotta get outside

It's doubly silly because 1. it's not a "distraction" any more than a live grenade in a conference room is a "distraction", & 2. It's not like the health insurance increases are going to be forgotten in the hullabaloo. Insurance companies are real, real good at ensuring you remember you owe them.

Trying to remind myself that the last time I felt this pessimistic about the direction our country was headed was January 2018

If you take all its benefits for granted, any petty reason is sufficient to blow it up. This is the first ruling government in the country's history to simply fear nothing. Perhaps the first great power in history to fear nothing.

Most atheists ask for very reasonable degrees of proof to reconsider their beliefs

For the record the extra can each of beans & potatoes was a definite plus. Moves the recipe further from being weird thin chili & closer to a well-peppered beef & vegetable soup. Next time I might throw in some okra

I am spoiled rotten

Whole canned potatoes might be the single most underrated ingredient I've added to my cooking repertory this year.

The only way it could capture MAGA more perfectly would be if he'd said it from a pulpit on Sunday morning

Already happening, only it's hosted by the richest man in the world & the special interest of the forum is crime & suffering

All Democrats need to recognize that we are well past the point of fishing vs. cutting bait. This is not a presidency that needs to be implored to do better, this is a presidency that needs to be shut down & removed at the earliest opportunity. Anything beyond that comes second.

"This is just a piece of paper that says 'I can do what I want'"

The baseline assumption should be that the people who will be found guilty for this are anyone who is opposed to Rodriguez, without any relation to the stated reason. Which works fine for Trump. If the new dictator Venezuela pantomimes cooperation, good, the show is the point

There is no policy here, only the things we are or aren't doing at any given time

So that's a lawsuit in the making

Voters elected Trump to make them rich

The comments equating Sprite with Mountain Dew or Fresca demonstrate no one deserves the wealth of flavor the modern consumer enjoys

It's not just "we don't have a plan" it's that they don't think they need one. If they really don't want more from Venezuela than a flashy moment, Maduro to kick around, & pleasant press releases from his successors, this could resolve (the moral abjection of keeping the dictatorship aside)

This entire business seems to be calculated to allow everyone to make whatever conclusions they need. Zero-content diplomatic crisis beyond getting rid of Maduro.

If you vote the government secretly boosts the odds of all your rolls by 5%

Big Ws today for grass touchers & nice people who know things

To extend the analogy properly, in this version of the roach story the roaches' names are on the lease

The true Turing test: they made a normal Republican

Become a faction in the party, don’t just sit there negging it from the outside like fucking Andrew Tate.

The obvious synthesis is permanent revolution

According to Zeno's paradox, reform is impossible; revolution is the only way

Good luck. Looks to me like sodium batteries are close to turning the battery market on its ear

This is naturally the same impulse that leads people to decide Zohran Mamdani is a sellout because he called Maduro a dictator once

I understand that I am not joined in this opinion by everyone! there are many leftists who think liberals are worse than fascists (or that they are identical) and many liberals who believe leftists are all wreckers but in my personal experience most people in both camps are just... decent folks

God Bless Football

Broke my New Year's streak of balanced home cooked meals with a Culver's trip for lunch, & the most enjoyable part of the meal was the veggies on the burger. God, what am I becoming?

Stop enforcing the law long enough & this is what you get. The richest man in the world doing unbelievably massive sexual assaults while his favorite leader murders & spreads havoc all over the world

People are sometimes astonished by how popular we are in places like Kosovo, but before the GWOT, that was just how the US was seen in a lot of the world (not Latin America, naturally)

Maybe the strongest entry yet outside the bounds of Twitter for everyone is twelve theory

One of my neighbors has built a new home in all black & I can feel the HOA spirit trickling sinfully into my veins

My child asked for Christmas music & this album made her cry. Well done boys

This is Susie Wiles's specialty. Her hiring was strong evidence this would be the course of the administration, to the extent it follows any course

You have to respect jank of this magnitude. But I'm supposed to believe the future of warfare is an Igla duct taped to a Shahed