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Flat earth theory undefeated

For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.

A lot of speculation about how things got so Stupid and Evil and I think one reason is we've collectively been too tolerant of Stupid and Evil for too long

MAGA meritocracy is Jim Crow, not sure how else to put it a baseline presumption that any qualifications held by Black people or women must be held illegitimately

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

Judge Tanya Chutkan: What assurance to I have I will not wake up one morning and there is construction and an emergency motion? AUSA: I'm not aware- Judge Chutkan: I am having a problem with lawyers coming in saying that. You should prepare

Pretty impressive to not live up to those standards given just how awful and unethical she was.

Oh no wait actually it’s

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

OMG I needed this laugh today

The Court hearing this case at all casts our entire system into question. There is literally no ambiguity possible in the words of the 14th Amendment. Every bit of this argument is dishonest except for the folks arguing for the basic meaning of the 14th Amendment that birthright citizenship exists.

this argument is always such a tell that the speaker conceptualizes the US as an extension of Europe, rather than as part of the Americas

Just like it was reported in 2020 he was planning to do if re-elected. Just like Putin wants. The bullshit justifications change, but the result is the same.

HEGSETH ON IRAN: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON. COULD BE ANYTHING REALLY 🤷

I still think back to how in 2020 the Trump white house was shocked that Democrats weren't going after enoluments in the impeachment inquiry. There is so much naked corruption. It's an easy political winner and would help the country on the merits.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Those who deserve no mercy huh

There's no meaningful difference between Hegseth and a jihadist.

earlier today The Husband wondered whether NYT's No Kings coverage was so bad that it would become counterproductive for them--like, propagandaing so hard that it's not credible/useful and makes people suspicious of what else they're mischaracterizing anyway,

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public. 7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move. someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

“I bought a ticket on the Dipshit Express and now I’m concerned about the destination”

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday

Known leaker (allegedly) who was supposed to be fired (allegedly) but kept around anyways for reasons (allegedly) and cut out of planning for reasons (allegedly) is some of the funniest spinzone I have ever seen

Trump’s abduction of Maduro and public rhapsodizing over his confidently expected conquest of Cuba also don’t fit Kent’s thesis. The bellicose behavior is coming from inside the house.

I hate what the future has in store for us, namely levels of stupidity scarcely comprehensible. www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Why is the chairman of the Board of Peace complaining about countries reluctant to engage in war?

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

This is the f’ing way. Every one of the those wrongly detained should be suing the federal government, as well as individual members of the administration by name. It’s one of the only major avenues of recourse that might affect change in the admin’s behavior.

Once again I'd like to remind the American people that our illustrious attorney general wants us to be talking about the Dow right now.

This is not just about the Iran war: it is a fundamental driver of the current administration. Take Elon Musk. The real reason he demolished USAID was that he experiences the social media world as more real than reality: an atrocity caused by being perilously online.

The Trump administration's war memes are not merely grotesque — they are symptomatic of an administration that experiences the online-media world as more real than reality www.vox.com/politics/482...

People need to save this quote and hit this clown with it over and over. Never let him live it down. No better summary of how completely incompetent this administration is. Just trying to vibe the strait open in such a transparently ridiculous way.

this means it is not open for transit

Too much to keep track of, but don't sleep on AG Bondi's new proposed rule that would let DOJ lawyers avoid key ethics checks that prohibit lying to court. Ratcheting up the assault on courts & the reality-based world at the same time. Mine in today's NYT. (Gift Link)

This is what you say when you didn't even have a concept of a plan

Ugh. I hate that he's right about this. I hate it so much, but can't disagree.

Just want to give a shout out to all the stock traders who participated in yesterday's rally because Trump fed them some verbal barf about ending the war quickly. Here's your prize.

How

The Trump admin launched a war alongside, and at the urging of, Netanyahu. Not one U.S. official is allowed to claim surprise or dismay that Netanyahu escalated the conflict; that is what he does. Escalation wasn't just foreseeable, it was guaranteed.

he's gonna have to endorse Paxton, I think, because 1) Cornyn actually might drop out, and 2) Paxton is a real criminal, and Trump loves those guys.

We're gonna unleash Chang on these people.

In retrospect, maybe purging military leadership in favor of loyalist yes-men wasn't the best idea.

the thing about people like glenn greenwald saying that trump broke his promise to them is that you have to be the absolute stupidest motherfucker on the planet to believe that donald trump, violent racist bully, is a man dedicated to peace. 1

I’m voting for the candidate who promises to imprison everyone who makes money insider trading on war.

Exceptional meme template though: ❌ SOUTHCOM says they are the new hotness with lame junk about a Donroe Doctrine and Hemisphere and Homeland. LIE. ✅ CENTCOM has always been and will always be the True Warrior CCMD, and the fav son of both POTUS and CJCS.

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally