okay i just checked: multiple america 250 performers are doing it between county fair performances

between the ken paxton thing and a recent visit with a conservative family member... i'm feeling extremely dispirited by the fact that about 40% of the nation spends every goddamn day wallowing in anger and filth and misery and self pity. an electorate of misery junkies who find euphoria in disgrace

don't know why the Twins broadcast did this but I'm glad they did

The greatest innovation of the Trump political epoch is the perfect fusion of the poolboy-fucking libertine and non-denominational christofascist wings of American conservatism. Paxton, a profane, corrupt, philandering sex maniac cretin who professes total faith in Jesus the apex of the movement

Rahm Emmanuel saying that Democrats have completely surrendered on education rigor and accountability and making it a major policy plank

If McCormick had any sense, he'd see start tacking to the center. He's a wave rider in a state that has a shocking amount of Bipartisan Brain. But, because President Stupid will direct his mob to threaten your family if you don't do tricks on it, he is bound to debase himself for favor

Admittedly, this is not an issue that I have a fully formed opinion on (it is sometimes comically unfair and it drives swing voters insane, but also it is just Kid Stuff and I find it hard to care that much) but I think that sort of makes me qualified to say that this is a pretty effective argument

Until further notice, humanity is the greatest and most shocking and most inexplicable miracle in the entire universe. There is so much to do and so much to learn. The idea of thinking this way - or even being thought of as thinking this way - is so embarrassing

The Simpsons silver age is better and lasts longer than most TV comedy filet-of-show runs

We should also encourage them to wear rainbow suspenders and oversized orthopedic shoes and beanie copters

Hartenstein is the most guy-with-one-shot in the history of guys-with-one-shot

I was wondering when this would start to be a problem. A good number of NFL players are Muslim -- what's going to happen when they realize that their QB's gleefully support a man who seriously tried to have their right to enter their country and live by faith taken away

Sucks to suck bitch

While there are many factors involved in how things got like this the most frustrating is the Woke Era anti-discipline overcorrection that basically all schools are still dealing with the fallout of. Schools functionally institutionalized behavior coverups and abandoned punishing antisocial behavior

It's the first test he ever passed. I felt the same way when I crushed my ASVAB. It's very validating if you're a moron

This is why nothing ever changes in urban ed. There's always a problem. One that needs to be fixed, and can be with common sense and some frustrating, temporary discomfort. But! It may cause some inconvenience to the most antisocial, disruptive, time thief kids, so "advocacy groups" torpedo it

I need this repulsive submentaloid fatass to wear a suit. You can make a good argument that no person in America got more grace during the Woke Era than Fetterman -- we supported him through his stroke and his body image issues. But now that he's backstabbed us he can dress like a fucking grownup

They should invent new discourses I swear to God we've done this one like three times before

All-timer, whips ass, never have I read about so many immaculately manicured mustaches, blasted through it on a beach vacation

Racial codewords in sports are bad, obviously, but I do think it's funny when people call Alex Caruso "unathletic," because like... come on he can bounce out the gym and windsprints like most people jog, just say he's white

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I don't really like watching Wemby, honestly. I know he's very skilled for a big and everything but the novelty wears off quickly when he can just instantly close space backward and forward and create a massive black hole in the paint. I hate tallest-kid-in-CYO, fattest-plumber-in-men's-league hoops

This movie is gonna have to do a billion at the box office just to cover the therapy of all the five year olds who saw this and now think the devil is real and lives in the sky

I don't know much about Chris Rabb but I'm definitely getting a very strong "Staffers say an HR complaint filed last year underscored a pattern of unprofessional and uncomfortable behaviors" type vibe

update: whatever who cares

the prophecy must be fulfilled

it's not better that the economy collapsed, obviously, but the fact is that we, as a generation, were cut loose, and that resulted in a lot of wonderful personal and cultural development. zoomers have to live in a state of painfully slow economic and societal decay. i don't envy that even one bit

if there was one cultural benefit to the great recession, it's that when we millennials broke into the adult world, we were imbued with this sink or swim, get-the-fuck-out-there attitude. zoomers are matriculating into a spiritually deflated society in which the notion of agency itself is mocked.

Schitt's Creek-core. Bizarrely unfunny but crack to fans of rude-gentle comedy

I think Aaron normally does a good job of summing up these conversations but fucking hell, Vance's giggly, self-pitying response coupled with his natural propensity for teacher's-pet fingerwagging and weirdly effeminate mannerisms made me want to throw up

I'm not a big Star Wars guy, but the whole "the Jedi were actually, uh, dogmatically inflexible, bureaucratic and pRoBleMaTiC, so they deserve the fascist takeover that befell them after thousands of years of knightly valor and relative peace" thing is a boring, uninspired, and wildly overused trope

I think a thing the kids are realizing in real time is that the powers that be will slopify every meaningful achievement and interaction that a person can have. They care so little about you that they won't even try to say your fuckin name on the biggest day of your life. You're not worth the breath

Cuban can't be allowed to live this one down. This must be our image of him, forever, glumly realizing in real time he leveraged every gram of goodwill he earned for a photo op that reinforces to everyone everywhere that there is not a single billionaire who wouldn't trade it all for a little more

There's this edu influencer teacher in Philly who is a condescending prick. He gets mad press because he does feel-good civic awareness stuff at the second best public high school in the city with upperclassmen. His experience is as removed from the average teacher as someone who works at St Joe's

This used to be my job. Dead serious, my first job out of college was being the kid who wrote the lower thirds at FOX between eight and four o'clock. I once misspelled Pat McCrory's name so bad in a package the producer called down to tell me we were both fired if anyone in America saw. No one did

10 years ago, when I was a cash-poor recent graduate, fast food apps kept me alive by allowing me to trade my email address for like 40-for-$5 nuggets, and now that they have all our data we have to donate a blood sample to Shenzhen Biotechnics through the app for 10% off a Double Quarter Pounder

Eurovision is the kind of thing when your continent only has one sport. Those people need baseball so bad

Yo. When people ask me why BlueSky is the only social media I have now, I just tell them that it's quieter and it reminds me of the old internet, before it was a ceaseless misery orgy

I say this a lot, but as a Catholic, I have a lot of sympathy for the progenitors of Protestantism, who risked it all because they feared for the purity of their souls and their distance from Christ. Also as a Catholic, it's so endlessly fucking funny that these are their historical inheritors

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Brexit was incredibly stupid. But too many people still refuse to accept why it happened. They can't admit that a lotta Brits are pissed that sacrificing their empire for WW2 and going into self-flagellating decline hasn't gained them an ounce of international respect, let alone power or money.

I think that if the Limeys could fucking cool their intense self loathing for even a second they might have been able to avoid all this MAGA-style political-cultural catastrophe, but no, they're all in a permanent public competition to prove that they hate their heritage and history the most

Eurovision is the kind of thing when your continent only has one sport. Those people need baseball so bad

He'd crush Chuck Schumer

10 years ago, when I was a cash-poor recent graduate, fast food apps kept me alive by allowing me to trade my email address for like 40-for-$5 nuggets, and now that they have all our data we have to donate a blood sample to Shenzhen Biotechnics through the app for 10% off a Double Quarter Pounder

Currently missing the game of the year because I don't have one of the five or six different services that one would need to watch the Phillies cool cool cool cool

Goddamn

I don't know. A bad feeling I'm getting lately is that the whole lib-left constellation is lurching back toward the kind of condescending knowitallism that refuses to actually meet the poor and underserved where they're at (and often insult them!), like they did a few years ago. This post especially

My dad saying goodbye to his grandkids: See you soon my beauties. You make life worth living. I love you more than anything My dad saying goodbye to my wife: It was great to see you doll, thanks for coming, hope you got to relax My dad saying goodbye to me: (brief handshake) yeah later bro

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator