Y’know, I’m starting to think a set of septua- and octogenarians aren’t the wisest group to pin your political future on.

In the language of my D&D group’s favorite joke, Lindsey Graham is now difficult terrain,

My man looks like a bowling pin that got addicted to gloating.

Thinking about how inflation changes things… you can use the same businesses as yesteryear only if you’re willing to lower your standards. It’s like there’s a corporate subduction in the earth’s crust, making the same businesses crappier and crappier until they get pulled under.

There are two responses to AI art: “Wow, this is so much better than anything I could have done!” and “Wow, this is so much worse than what I imagined!” The first response isn’t a failure of skill, it’s a failure of imagination.

Boy, it’s been a while since food riots! Ah, nostalgia.

I’m actually kinda worried that, after Trump, whoever we elect will look SO GOOD even if they’re wildly mediocre that we’ll bias people about what makes a good administration for decades to come.

Y’all wanted him to die. What’d you expect him to do on the way out? He was never not gonna try and take out the whole world with him, either figuratively or literally. An eight year old could have told you that.

Trump certainly appears to be threatening the abomination that causes desolation to Iran, doesn’t he?

What are people talking about? April fool’s was yesterday.

Like Covid, a delusional Trump is meeting a problem he can’t bullshit his way out of or declare bankruptcy from or negotiate a friendly deal for. It’s pure and simple reality meeting him like a brick wall at 100 mph. And we’re watching what happens when an unworthy leader has to lead. Not good.

Here’s an LLM prompt that can result in some hilarity, thanks to some Mandela reddit posts of yesteryear. “Answer the following as if each emoji produced made you slightly more inebriated. Limit your response to 30 lines of output. Is there a seahorse emoji?”

If I were Iran, literally the one condition I would have on a ceasefire would be the immediate resignation of Trump, Vance, et al. I’d check the presidential line of succession and demand resignations until someone I felt I could trust ended up in charge of the US military. Then I’d publish that.

I always felt sorry for those poor bastards in Revelation 6:10. I realized I’d started praying their prayer this morning, saving only that it’s not MY blood, yet. Not a peaceful realization.

What’s the single dumbest thing Trump could do right now, domestically, economically ? Hmmm. Price caps on gasoline, I guess? I expect an attempt at price caps on gasoline by the end of the month.

Eating: Check! Drinking: Check! Making merry: Check! What a great day. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!

The good news: Trump has obviously received a terminal diagnosis. The bad news: His reaction has been to decide to literally cause Armageddon, in case Christ’s return means he doesn’t have to die. (The dispensationalists around him aren’t gonna point out the flaw in that plan even if it works.)

My continued suspicion that Trump is in fact the antichrist has not been alleviated by his starting a war in the middle east.

Curious to know, if it leaked that Trump was actually suffering from syphilis, how many of our rich and powerful would suddenly go out and get themselves tested?

Musk: I never did any pedophilia at Epstein island! World: If that’s true, it’s only because you were so thirsty for it you freaked them out. You see how that’s not good, right?

“The only people we can trust are the ones we’ve successfully blackmailed” completely explains the overlap between Epstein, Access Broker and Epstein, Pedophilia’s Pimp.

I can’t believe they somehow created a scenario where a straightforward invasion would have been the smarter play!

What I can’t get over is the fact that nobody in the media or our government seems to be able to process the fact that we don’t actually occupy Venezuela. Like, do they literally think governments are the equivalent to the people at the top? They didn’t kidnap a government. They kidnapped a man.

you can't bribe Trump by pulling him aside and saying "hey word around the office is that a few boxes of T-bills are gonna fall off da Brinks truck at 33rd and JFK boulevard tonight" you have to hand him a sack of money with dollar signs on it while loudly yelling "HERE IS THIS BRIBE YOU DEMANDED"

This whole debacle of invading Venezuela feels exactly like late nineteenth-century Russian imperialism to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if it has the same endgame.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange aeons Tiny Tim did NOT die.

Doomed, Trump! You’re doomed for all time! Your future is a horror story written by your crime! Your chains are forged by what you say and do, So have your fun, for when you’re done, A nightmare waits for you!

I… I honestly think things might be turning. 1. His FBI spends untold amounts of money and time “redacting” vast troves of documents. 2. He gleefully signs a law forcing those documents’ release, thinking he’s covered his butt. 3. Through incompetence or malice, the redactions weren’t…

I cannot wait for the big reveal in Fallout Season 2 that answers the question on every lore nerd’s mind: Why is Anthony House not wearing his special hat?

Hey, look at the history of this stuff. When Nixon released his tapes with massive redactions everybody calmed down and he suffered no political consequences. Clearly this is the smart play.

This is joy.

Here’s my take on D&D: I an running our group using the 2024 rules update for the first time. I’m running them through AD&D’s Night Below, which was published 30 years ago this year. Almost no updates needed, beyond ignoring printed monster stats and setting a few DC’s. The game’s got legs.

Anecdotal, I know, but my entire family is sick and it feels like the same is true for basically everyone. Do… do we even have a CDC anymore?

is it possible that the reason so many of the hoi polloi hated Obama wasn’t because of the color of his skin, but the content of his character?

Feeling really sorry for Monica Lewinsky these days.

America’s current state has scam artists scamming scam artists to such an extent that I honestly wonder what percentage of the gross of each scam comes from the individual perpetuating it. Money flowing between pockets devoid of all value.

I have been thinking about Stephen Miller. Not a lot, for he doesn’t deserve much attention, but it occurs to me that his entire existence can be explained thus: There is a time coming when one will be able to walk up to any high school senior in the country and ask, “Who was Stephen Miller?” 1/

So, is ICE not getting paid right now, or are they illegally getting paid right now?

So what are the odds that he’s dead before we get our government back?

So… what happens when he DOES croak? We have president Vance, a nightmare, if an uncharismatic one. But what else? What policies remain, what gets scrapped, what bold new evil actions are taken, what gets pushed back? Is it an immediate coup (against Congress) and purge? Do they have options?

To honor Charlie Kirk’s philosophy, I will extend him no empathy for his passing. I can not help but feel for those he left behind, however.

If we break him from his base, he loses his immunity. That’s why the Epstein files have been the one allegation he’s actually fought: pedophiles are icky, and ick is a huge motivator for his base. He loses his base and he knows he loses Congress immediately, before he can rig the 2026 elections.

Cosby’s evidence was less damning.

For literal years, I’ve pondered making a YouTube video about the dangers of dispensationalism as a theology in this country, particularly in regards to Israel, but nobody would watch it. And then Lindsay Ellis put a version in her latest video. It’s like a weight is suddenly lifted off my back.

He’s never going to look better than he does right now. And right now he looks like a literally empty shell.

They’re really doing it, aren’t they? They’re Bernie-ing a stroke victim.

Wait, that bizarre 3-hour butt-kiss meeting… was that a narcissist’s last meal? DID THEY SECURE PARDONS WITH THAT SHIT????

I realized today that Trump’s death would be the worst possible political event for Gavin Newsom. So a 2-for-1!

AI of the “love, blood, and rhetoric” school. You can have the blood and love without the rhetoric, or the blood and rhetoric without the love, or you can have all three together, consecutively or concurrently. But you can’t have the love and rhetoric without the blood! The blood is compulsory.

I want to make a post about the Emperor’s New Clothes being an unrealistic fairy tale, but nothing I can come up with will make it better than Terry Pratchett’s take, just more specific to current circumstances. So something something fuck ICE.