pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

lol

barely a metaphor lmao

The OLC exists to give legal cover to anything the president wants to do anyways. Listen to your ALAB people. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

The Marie Antoinette Administration.

Name a movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with just a GIF.

I'm being entirely serious when I say that this is one of the core commitments of reactionary politics: demand all the privileges, refuse any of the responsibility.

Going after legal immigrants now. Almost like it was just gutter racism all along.

In my opinion, scapegoats are at the root of many of society's problems

Democrats are mom and Republicans are dad and mom’s the one who says you should follow the rules. Dad’s the fun one who thinks the rules are for suckers, and you’re a nerd for liking mom.

The president’s killing spree continues.

Hot damn a whole new Aesop Rock album just dropped and got delivered to my email. This man is so prolific it boggles the mind. “I Heard It’s A Mess There Too” www.reddit.com/r/hiphophead...

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

Another way to put it - the only way to solve this “problem” of asylum seekers is to make America so shitty that no one wants to come here.

is it good or bad that the president of the united states is bragging about the difficulty of a test he took that started with identifying an elephant

The US media sunk Hillary over information security & Biden over cognitive abilities only for Trump to steal and share our top secrets and babble incoherently every day and say NOTHING.

I think my answer to "are we a fascist country now?" is that we're in a weird state where the federal government has been fully taken over by fascists but it turns out you can have the entire federal government and not enough goons to impose your will on a populace that mostly hates you.

I feel insane watching The Discourse around Platner. We are the side with standards, and there is no easier standard to meet than “No Nazis.” And if you’ve got a Nazi tattoo, I’m just going to assume you are a Nazi and I’m not going to think much harder about it than that.

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam. The mission at Santa Clara had crosses for the Jesuit priests who were murdered in El Salvador and their commitment to liberation theology. It always moved me as a testament to people were earnestly living and working towards what Christ calls for.

1. Illegal. 2. Monstrous. 3. Really, really bad for the US.

All day every day

The nothing-is-sacred presidency

🧵 Dr. Roberts says everything I felt but couldn’t articulate about this drivel. And I am losing my mind about Ezra being so obsessed over Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment. It was a decade ago, and she was right! They are deplorable! They have proven it time and time again.

I don’t think our public officials should get to keep secrets because the things they did in secret are embarrassing. In fact it’s quite contrary to the whole idea of democracy- if we don’t know what our servants are actually up to, how can we know whether we approve of their actions?

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

bad news for my haters

the Louvre heist very clearly based on the age old maxim that if you walk around holding a clipboard and a serious expression on your face absolutely nobody will question anything you’re doing

If correct, this is around 2% of the US population, actually physically out in the streets

Write it on your mirror or something: Most People Do Not Want This

step 1: hire an elite team of international acrobats, engineers, and hackers step 2: those guys are out of budget. find antoine and guillaume from secondary school step 3: contract a high tech surveillance package and van. buy knock-out darts for the guards step 4: too expensive. borrow a big ladder

The same guy who a day ago was like, “I’m not a king” is now posting himself flying in the “King Trump” jet dumping shit on the people he is supposed to serve. What the hell man. This is a deeply, profoundly broken man and his brains are leaking out of his ears.

There are more of us than there are of them.

I’ll repost this Taylor Mali video any opportunity I get. And yeah, only people who never had a good teacher, mentor, coach, could ever say this. You almost have to pity them.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Another question is “who are they and were they even smuggling drugs?” Not that it should matter because the punishment for drug smuggling isn’t death by drone. It makes me feel insane that we even have to think about this.

May John Roberts suffer the same fate.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

The party of deep concern about antisemitism, folks

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Made myself dumber by listening to the Eliezer Yudkowsky - Ezra Klein podcast. This dude is a leading voice in AI risk? We’re so cooked, dawg.

We are a nation run by various I think you should leave characters

I think it should be a bigger deal that the President is on a goddamn killing spree.

Do Bronx has had such an incredible fight career. What a talent, and he just seems like the coolest guy. Closest thing to GSP the modern era has.