Thanksgiving Rage Bait.

It is apparently a small price to pay so long as leftists can feel like the CIA has suffered some kind of big loss and the MAGA base can feel like the pennies on the dollar of aid from their taxes isn't helping people who don't look like them.

Surely, only Democrats are "corporate" in Washington. Republicans definitely, definitely have a mystical way of sensing my values, and Dems are automotons with no thought or feeling. They definitely don't like me because I have the same internal enemies as they do. That would be nuts.

The problem is that what seems "genuine" or "honest" from the highly curated distance from which we view most public officials is more often than not just that. A crafted image. As such, I am not interested in what most people "see" as genuine when they are simply wrong.

Phew, if it weren't for the bravery of the New York Times I might have gotten the impression that he's a deeply ignorant narcissist that is hell bent on imposing his will on a vast bureaucracy that he is totally unqualified to even be a part of.

I think it is important that we also recognize that social media isn't an atmosphere where there are just some toxic people. Every single person using it becomes a more toxic version of themselves because of the construction of the format. Period.

Maybe elite universities really are indoctrinating people. To be stupid.

The central drive behind any utopian project is the belief that the nature of humanity can be changed. It cannot, and we re-learn this lesson over and over and over again. This is the same for the abolition movement.

The legislative aim, wholly and devotedly, of any future Democratic congress should be the dismantling of the Imperial Presidency.

"He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate."

And he knows it, and he doesn't care, because he's planning on being immune from removal.

A friend of mine was a criminal defense attorney. After hearing a story of his about a particularly brazen criminal enterprise, I said "You'd think they would have been smarter than that." He replied "I defended criminals for 30 years. Most of them are stupid."

I am reminded of a professor of African history when I was doing my undergrad who glibly described the stark difference between poverty in Africa and poverty in America as "The poor in Africa don't have anything, but the poor in America have crap lying around all over the place."

This is exactly what Adam Smith warned us about. Those who live by profit and capital are inherently diverged from the public interest. But the leve to which this has swelled in our current time is ghastly.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Delulu.

Just got home, I understand there is a civil disturbance in Canada?

Open, brazen corruption. Trump pardoned a crypto tycoon convicted of helping terrorists & child sex traffickers launder 💰 — in exchange for personal enrichment. Yet everyone who screamed about Hunter Biden is silent. @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

People unhappy with House of Dynamite are exactly the same people who were mad at Civil War. Both are great films, which accomplish exactly what they set out to do, which is to highlight and question the madness at the core of our current moment. But people want hamfisted partisanry instead. Shame.

The United States is about to enter a hunger crisis with the suspension of SNAP benefits and the President of the United States is dicking around in Japan.

It is difficult to look at this and not feel saddened. Not by the change in their party, but by the change in how people discussed politics in general.

From the people that pretend to be Christian, they hit a clergyman directly while protesting. They’ve gone from attacking marginalized communities to attacking the community in general. Now they are openly attacking religious institutions.

To be fair, it's pretty hard to get *any* Episcopalian to speak publicly about our own beliefs www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

With respect, perhaps the question isn't "Why can't we all be more like this very polite athlete?" but "How can we, a people in a broken and decaying moral and civil order, emulate moral and civil order which generates talented people who act with decency?"

Accurate video depiction of Trump's general relationship with the American people for his entire natural born life.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

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National service is a sensible idea. I think it is more important now than it ever has been for young people to experience having to work with others outside of their communities. Getting the GOP to go along with this without calling it some kind of liberal indoctrination is another story.

Marco Rubio always looks like he's wondering whether the silvers he sold himself for are worth it in these videos. He isn't, of course, he would gladly do it again and sell every friend and family member he has for his own advancement. But he looks like he is.

The people standing this man up to babble at us in his obviously declining state are guilty of elder abuse.

What a hollow man. This is a real world situation, in which real world people are being hurt. In which law enforcement is being turned loose on real human beings in pursuit of an imaginary enemy. And the only thing he can think about is how much more sex this imaginary foe is having than he is.

I have no idea who Bad Bunny is. Of course, before Rihanna played the Super Bowl, I would not have been able to name a single song by her. It is difficult to explain how funny it is to a person like me, who lives under a rock with his books, how funny it is to see people bicker about this.

Good Lord.

Beginning to think this whole "we as a country need to grow the hell up" kick I am on is all for naught.

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

If Shane Gillis is to be believed in his comments about turning down the offer, the amount of money being put on the table is astronomical.

So now that the rapture didn't happen (again) can we re-commit to the earthly work of building the Kingdom of God through deeds and love for our neighbors? No? Well, shucks.

The President of the United States took to the airwaves this afternoon to tell us that he is going to "eliminate autism" by telling people they shouldn't take Tylenol. In a nation of grown-ups, he would be routinely mocked. Instead, he will be treated seriously by all of our institutions.

What the hell is he even talking about?

It is very obvious that most of you content creators that put subtitles on your videos are creating those subtitles using AI. I don't really care if you do that but for the love of God please make sure you proofread them and make edits.

Please stop giving them ideas.

Deep Reads indeed.

I am once again begging people to grow up.

The left in America has been presented with the best opportunity they have had in years to flip the script and become the side that stands for free speech absolutism and they are not even going to try to do it.

If they force SNL off the air something might actually happen.

And yet, they are being clowned on locally by their township Democratic organizations because the 15 senior citizens who do show up to those meetings are the ones who make all the decisions about who is running for what instead of posting "big ideas" on the internet.