the jerk store called. the cost of jerks has doubled due to trumps tariffs

This guy

I find this distraction discourse unhelpful. Trump's video was appalling and significant and should be analyzed and denounced, and part of the work of politics is to turn it into a major controversy in its own right, as a symbol of Trump's autocratic disdain for the people.

That's baseball, Suzyn

ROBIDOUX AND FUNDERBURK

60 percent of republican discourse now is like "why are you talking about nazis? that stuff is so played out and you're an NPC if you think it isn't. it actually threatens my family when you say stuff like this." and the other 40 percent is "hello. I am Hitler."

Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong

I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom right now and this post makes me feel seen

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts

Feel like it’s worth remembering this when anybody says Congress should have voted that trump was disqualified on account of insurrection.

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

We are in our Empire Strikes Back Era right now, and things look grim, but in the end we are going to win. And our woke Ewok song is going to be even more annoying

10 years ago tonight

your mother looks like Hazel

He’s been celebrating passing a dementia test for five consecutive years. It has become a major life event for him, a pillar of his personality comparable to winning the presidency

I could do it if he only asked me questions about the Beatles. No matter how hard he comes at me, I'm confident I could defend the idea that Rubber Soul is a good album

CANCELLED

One of the defining features of this era is millions of people truly believing that their material and emotional well-being depends on cruelty to others

What about both, can it be both?

it's hard to sleep at night since Canada got caught cheating on a commercial

if you don’t spend several hours a day on your phone you’ll miss all the Crap and Bullshit

there are two genders

The white working class as envisioned by self-hating Ivy League pundits:

The viewpoint of American conservatives is that megalomaniacal dictators like Kim Jong Un and Putin and Stalin are very bad, but when Trump behaves in every respect like those dictators, it’s just a fun bit of goofiness and your eyes are deceiving you if you see any resemblance

using illegal and unconstitutional accounting gimmicks to keep paying the military so that you can deploy them to launch illegal and undeclared wars in colombia and venezuela while the rest of the government remains shut down is getting pretty close to the Very Bad scenarios

this is really disappointing, this place has great BBQ

I call this chart "Oh, we were right all along."

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

The Republican Congress was vestigial - a rubber-stamp agency masking Trump's unbounded exercise of tyrannical executive power, his ruling by fiat like a king. The Democrats called the GOP's bluff. And so the GOP simply gave up the pretense and went home, unveiling the Trump dictatorship

My last GF was in her 40s like me and we made each other mix CDs throughout our relationship. After we broke up I made another one and left it outside her apartment and she threatened to call the cops on me if I did that again. The point is, mix CDs are amazing

Well he failed because Biff is still running the place.

A building isn’t as important as the people his administration has murdered but there’s something breathtaking about seeing them literally demolish parts of the White House. I can’t stop looking at it

holy shit that Reagan ad was from the government of Ontario!?!?!?!

now THIS is how you break up a double play

One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”

This is an example of a manager trying to win last night's game. They hit into a bunch of DPs yesterday, so today they're bunting to set up guys who can't hit. DISGRAZIA

Tearing down the White House and putting up a palace? That's absurd, Trump would never do it. But also if he does it, it's awesome and based and owns the libs. There's no core belief here, just the eternal pursuit of the dopamine hit of being mad, being right, being triumphant, being smug.

Of course American fascism is just consumerist slop.

Just finished ONE OF US by danchaon.bsky.social and, as usual, it's brilliant. "Night of the Hunter" plus "Nightmare Alley" with a little bit of "Freaks" and "Geek Love."

when i was younger we had different things than the things people have now

Such a characteristic dynamic, righties saying the protests were "funded by Soros" and lefties responding with fact checks & empirical observations. Ships passing in the night. What the righties want to say is: the left is fundamentally illegitimate. That, to them, is the core truth.

Republican Leaders are simultaneously saying that the Jews funded No Kings rallies AND No Kings rallies were promoting antisemitic h/t @atrupar.com

Oct. 19, 1925: Eleanor Dove, a nurse of the Judson Health Center in New York City, supervises an “artificial sunlight treatment” on baby Frank Cammarata.

They just want to post, that’s the key to understanding this moment

By the end of the week there'll be a full line of King Trump Diarrhea Plane merchandise for sale

Yes lol, people being like "libs are ANNOYING so I had to go Nazi," you gotta git gud, us libs are ALSO annoyed by one another all the time but you don't see us going Nazi Skill issue tbh

there can be only one

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us without our consent.