Dear media: please call tariffs what they are, taxes.

During every debate and every upcoming election, Democrats need to ask conservatives “what is a tariff? “

Trump: the first MLM President

Welp. Bluesky has finally completed its transition to pre-musk Twitter. My whole feed is filled with blue checks who I don’t even follow. Great.

“The devil you know” is still the devil. Stop using aversion to change as an excuse to prevent improvements.

Am I the only one who thinks this “outrage” over the Sydney Sweeny ad campaign is completely manufactured? I bet American Eagles marketing department is high-fiving each other in between lines of coke.

Legacy media: remember when you did that thing when you wouldn’t let up on Biden until he stepped down a year ago? You need to keep doing that with the Epstein case.

What if for all of these eons, roosters are just clearing their throats in the morning?

The thing that sucks most about being a rube is that you’re the last to know…..

I’m waiting on the wild, unexpected scandal that will inevitably come from POTUS because he is getting eaten alive from the Epstein “no list” scandal. And the media will fall for it….. Like they do….. Every time……

For all of the “I DoNt vOte fOr thE paRtY. I vOtE foR thE peRSon” types. Get a fucking clue. Blackburn, Paul, Collins etc. at the end of the day are cowards and they do what their masters tell them to do. Stop acting like you’re being thoughtful because you don’t consider the candidate’s party.

The only thing the GOP has done consistently and without fail in the times they have had control of Congress and WH has been tax cuts. It transcends every issue ever taken up by the GOP. The only thing that unites them. The bill is passing. Period. Stop pretending that it’s hanging in the balance.

In a world of unhinged self interest, is there such a thing as hypocrisy?

Asking for a friend: do you guys know of any publishers that seek out experimental fiction?

Interesting how the people always fighting for the right to be an asshole are themselves assholes 🤷🏻‍♂️

Why is it that futuristic apocalypse movies always lean on a story where some invention leads to our doom when it has only ever been clinging to the past that causes the most destruction?

Sifting through the skeets tonight. At a moment that screams for solidarity, there’s too many people who just refuse to unite and keep drawing lines in the sand. If you can’t come together, you can’t win.

I don’t know how much Bluesky is into baseball, but this whole Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Hall of Fame thing has less to do with justice and forgiveness and more to do about covering the leagues recent love for legalized gambling.

Watching Trumps episode with the pope photo. Lost in all of the outrage: the dude just can’t handle not being the center of the media’s attention. Who the fuck gets jealous over a dead pope?

Why do people fixate on every possible flaw in a solution while ignoring all of the existing flaws in the problem they insist on maintaining?

As a parent, I say the words “how much!?” far more often than I thought I would have to.

Get ready for the recession. It’s not just about money. Things I learned as a journalist: crimes like robbery and theft are going to spike. Suicides are going to increase for obvious reasons. Domestic violence and murder are going to increase.

I wish someone would explain to these angry dudes how there’s a major difference between “getting left behind” and “staying behind.”

I mean, why DOES the orphan grinding machine exist?

Why are people so concerned about the poor having something they don’t pay for than the rich having everything they don’t need?

Trump=throwing up tariffs and trade barriers Majority GOP Congress=squabbling on their way to a shutdown Media: you know who we should focus on right now? The democrats, why aren’t they stopping this?

I can’t tell if the Zelensky tirade was a sign of trumps dementia or if it was staged to give republicans a reason to move away from Ukraine support. Maybe it’s both 🤷🏻‍♂️

I used to think that Trump and Musk had this uneasy alliance that was bound for an ugly breakup. Now I realize, Musk has something over Trump like Putin does. Something tangible. No way Trump would let an immigrant get this much attention over him.

I wonder how different MAGa would feel about everything if Elon were Mexican…..

Why the same old-same old doesn’t work anymore: So I just had a conversation with a guy I work with. He’s loving all of the chaos that Musk is sowing right now and when I challenged him on what it could mean down the line, all he could say was something along the lines of “it won’t be that bad.”

Trump wants U.S. to occupy Gaza?This doesn’t sound very “American First”

Donald Trump is like the Quentin Tarantino a politics. He’s always living in the 1970s.

In today’s edition of “I got mine, fuck y’all!” www.yahoo.com/finance/news...

Watching Dateline is like watching Scooby Doo. You keep hoping it’s going be a ghost this time but, inevitably, it’s always the spouse.

As cynical as I am about capitalism and its ways, things still slip by me more than they should. I knew this rancor about banning TikTok wasn’t about Chinese spying. But it just occurred to me that it’s about American billionaires trying to buy a profitable zeitgeist platform at a discount rate.

I don’t think that all Democrats are cowering. The thing is, Dems lost, and they want to give the GOP rope to hang themselves with.

Is it just me or do people conflate being unconventional as anti-establishment?

Because I’m a geek. Happy New Years err’one!

My new fave insult: You’re so dumb that if you fell into a barrel of titties you’d come out sucking your thumb.

It’s interesting how there are so many religions and so many gods and yet there’s no denominations for capitalism.

Man, legacy media is working overtime to lionize this guy. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that his proposal to combat the negative image wasn’t lowering costs and expanding coverage. It was probably some PR explaining why they deny coverage…. www.yahoo.com/news/shootin...

Hear me out: instead of slugbug, we spot cyber trucks. Instead of punching a shoulder, we give wet Willies. We call it Elon-ear.

Conservatives: oUr biRtHrATe iS too LoW. OuR ecONOmy wilL sUfFer! wE neEd bAbIEs! Also conservatives: wE neEd to EnD bIrThRiGHt citIZeNshIp!

It’s frustrating as hell that so many low information voters who tuned in to the election and voted for Trump seemingly out of curiosity are now going to tune out politics and won’t even be aware of the havoc they created. Amnesia will set in and we’ll do this all over again in 28.

Re: the song “You’re so vain” I mean, the song really IS about him tho right?

Is there any way we can request that BlueSky not have an AI extension like ever other platform?

From the Leopard Ate my Face file: www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Do we not have any good graphic artists out there that can create a face-eating leopard flag?

So I suddenly got labeled with ‘Invalid Handle’ when nothing changed in my name. BlueSky seems so opaque at times.