When pissing had more style

Preregistering: 1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days). 2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause. 3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

"It's absurd to think that … the government of the United States that [the people] pay for, that they vote for, is really in service of one man. ... He is using every arm of the government to create pleasure for himself … and also to seek vengeance upon his enemies."

Some of us do.

The country is basically three scams in a trenchcoat at this point.

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I've decided I'm just not doing jobs anymore. If I ever get laid off I'm just going to get a young person haircut and become a youtube microphone jockey

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

The stats, via the Economist, beg to differ with his argument.

You people trying to rewrite the history of who Charlie Kirk was are pathetic. He used his organization to bully, dox and attack people he didn't agree with. Free speech my ass. He was one of the worst aspects of American politics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Charlie Kirk said this in July 13, 2023: "Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot."

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

this is the future liberals want

If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.

Portage,Mi

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."

The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.

So now we gotta re-fight the American Revolution, American Civil War, *and* WW2 because none of the losing ideologies of those wars ever went away and instead were just waiting for the winners to get lazy.

I hate being bald and walking the same direction as another bald guy. It looks like we’re being summoned by our king

President On Roof "Only Respects One Man" (It's Dean Cain)

this is the way rich people think about health insurance

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

The official account of the United States Department of Defense. What a fucking joke we’ve become with these ass clowns running the government.

icelist.is/ice/ Knowledge Base – ICE List Here you go bud! It’s a start.

Portage, Mi

“Torture is a celebration of life and human dignity,” Miller argued in high school.

"'We are the federal government, and if we choose to take power away from a governor or away from a mayor, this is the new normal.' And my response is, I've seen this movie before. It used to be called a coup, and it happens in other countries." @mayor.lacity.gov‬ on the feds in LA:

Everyone who writes about the 19th century onward really needs to befriend at least one early modernist, medievalist, and/or scholar of the ancient world. I promise it will be good for you

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

Portage, Mi, preapocalypse

Playing around with a close-up B&W edit of the best footage I have ever captured on this Earth. Hoping compression doesn't prevent y'all from seeing the incredible rain of debris. Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala (March 2023)

Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.

What if the purpose of life is to accumulate wealth and property and watch golf?

critical question for what comes next in iran: to what extent is iranian military leadership still capable of making rational, consolidated decisions?

This box of babbaganough is my tentative connection to reality