The Commodores had a big hit with "Easy" back in 1977. I looked at the lyrics more closely. This song has not aged well. So many relationship red flags crop up. At least the protagonist says he is leaving. Whether he does, or not, is never resolved.

@krishna-author.bsky.social How do you feel about the work of Carson McCullers? She's kind of an acid test for me.

Is Quentin really that horrible?

I've been texting friends this Saturday afternoon. Nobody responds. I'm not an ogre. Maybe their social lives are just more fulfilling than mine.

I tried to watch the messianic "MI Reckoning" movies, and all I could think of was, "Did Bruce Geller's family get paid a taste of Tom Cruise's masturabatory hubris?" BTW, did the world end?

We are clever enough to come up with ingenious ways to take one step forward while simultaneously leaping two steps back. Our species can't seem to find the mechanism which will remove conflict and strive for a better future on this planet which is a grand old home: our only home.

The countries should announce that they are boycotting today.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

It snuck up on me & I felt shivery. I didn't know which princeling it was or why this was a bigger event than others I'd come across. I thought of powerful murderers I've met as a journalist, & some bad scenes. There was nothing to be done. I was w/ my kid. I spat on the ground. 11/

Fuck Trump. Fuck FIFA. Fuck the 2026 World Cup. Boycott this demonstration of of capitulation and corruption.

Tom Cotton: still a douche. I guess he thinks he can't be beaten in an election. If he can defend missile strikes against civilians, he has lifetime douche status.

The nation is in decline. Perhaps we have the President who best represents just how the rest of the world perceives us. Please boycott the 2026 World Cup games in Trumputinstan. Until we excise the cancer from our body politic, treat us like the pariah we are quickly becoming.

8.9% of voters in the TN 7th Congressional District are gonna be sorely disappointed. All of Van Epps' constituents will suffer because he is going to allow Trumpism to roll out further cruelty and continue Donald's insanity. They had a chance to begin to curtail the madness, but they failed.

You know how to fix health care? You get Congress out of the bed the insurance grifters have made so comfortable for so few, and you initiate a National Health policy much like Congress enjoys. As long as Insurance runs the show, health care will be hated as much as government is hated.

It's reached the point in Trumputinstan where maybe Adm. Bradley gets convicted of a war crime, Kegsbreath gets fired, and Trump issues pardons for both, because he can. Tell me I'm wrong.

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

@dykeymcdykeface.bsky.social Trying not to get blocked or muted by you is now my prime directive in this life, before I am reincarnated as a dung beetle or a jellyfish.

Congrezsional Republicans are now worried that the Trump Conman-in-Chief military with drunken bully boy Kegsbreath as SECWARCRIMES would violate the law is too ridiculous to be funny. Remove the 2×4 from your eyes, you fucking hypocrites.

I saw Pete Kegsbreath referred to as "the Secretary of War Crimes." Face it. He's an asshole working for an older, more experienced asshole. Now, they are both murderous assholes.

I don't know who I loathe more: Trump or James Donald Bowman (aka) James David Vance. Trump is a card carrying asshole, but he's old, demented, and he will be dead soon. VP Alias is ambitious and totally amoral. Plus, he really hates the people from whence he came, and that's most of America.

@locuta.bsky.social It's Thanksgiving Day, but still morning. The event I wish to give the greatest thanks for hasn't occurred yet, but it's early, and the fat bastard is one turkey leg from giving America it's best Thanksgiving in years.

Please tell me you understand what a huge responsibility we all have to vote in the US. It’s our voice. It’s our choice. It’s the power we have as a people. Vote.

When I was calling it "Trumputinstan," I thought I was being facetious. It's similar to younger, less jaded Matt Taibbi's "Griftopia."

Hey, old man, if these droids are carrying the unfucked-with Epstein Files, then, yes, these are the droids we are looking for. Your deflection doesn't work any more.

We will never get rid of Trumpism until we realize that the corporate stranglehold on politics, the economy, and how we treat each other is killing us and making our only home uninhabitable.

I wonder if the Pam Blondi Department of Retribution will try to indict President Obama for his roast of Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner? Fascism doesn't have a sense of humor.

Who else wants to see Trump toppled by his own hubris and greed? I've lived over 60 years and I've never seen a more despicable asshole in such a prominent role than Trump. It doesn't say much positive of America either.

@funnymichele.bsky.social You had me at Richmond, VA. I am a Californian living down the 360 in South Boston, VA. I went to VCU. Richmond is a pretty hip town. Sometimes, during deer season, I take the 58 to the 85 to get to Richmond.

If you have AT&T as a cellular or data provider, change providers until they stop cozying up with the Trump Gestapo. Maybe we can also get Chuck Schumer to write a strongly worded letter.

@itsafronomics.bsky.social I am a 62 year old white man. When I attended the Alfred St. Baptist Church HBCU Festival, it was because my IT/RT wife was invited to help high school students maneuver the hoops. I am an auto didactic student of my fellow species. If young people rule, we'll be okay.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Look around.

I forgot to cite Rick Wilson in my last post for his "Everything Trump touches dies" quotation.

Everything Trump A) touches dies; B) touches, turns to shit; C) does is a dick move; D) does is all of the above.

I’ve been trying to avoid politics for a bit just to give my mind a rest. But this definitely made me chuckle.

My friend @drannieandrews.com will be Lindsey Graham's opponent. She is a pediatric surgeon who has performed spinal surgeries on children, running against a grownup with no spine. Dr. Andrews is poised to perform a full Lindsey-ectomy on the United States Senate.

MSNBC hyping changing to "msnow" makes me wonder. Is this a bit of trickery to deflect from a shift to more trump friendly bias? Did the corporate overlords take into consideration last Tuesday's shellacking, or just how unpopular trumpism is? Is Joe Scarborough behind this?

Musk should consolidate all of his companies into one overarching conglomerate called DoucheBro. Let's make it so his trillion dollar pay package bankrupts all of his companies.

Disgusting. Full stop.

It's like Trump is trying to Obi-Wan the American Public. These are the motherfucking droids we are looking for! And stop lying about your Epstein File involvement!

@michaeldalyjones.bsky.social I always had trouble with math beyond numbers. I thought every number was imaginary.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Pete Buttigieg is doing a town hall (you know, since Derrick Van Orden hasn't done one) in LaCrosse, Wi. on Tues. Nov. 18th 5-9pm. Sign up here. www.mobilize.us/wintheera/ev...

What's this MSNBC rebranding? I'm skeptical. MSNow? MF No.

The rural county in VA where I now live sucks almost as much as Staten Island. Actually, we might suck more.

Fuck Staten Island.

The NBC poll that showed 30% of Americans are still MAGA supporters. So, many tens of millions of Americans support pedophiles, rapists, racists, grifters, and presidential corruption. This is just pathetic.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Wall Street is in an exclusive gated community. It only intersects with Main Street where it can gobble up property, small businesses, and then charge exorbitant rents.

Genius.