Scott Montgomery

Trump’s RFKjr compromised FDA is not worth quoting

Did they pull back on answering their front doors after the Hortmans and their dog were murdered by a cop-cosplaying maga?

There was a shooting yesterday that was one of the ones that was big enough that we all had to know it had happened so they sent me out to lower the flag to half-mast outside work. Half-staff they call it on land I don’t know. I looked at my phone out of habit on the way back inside and there was another shooting going on. A real nasty one it looked like. It wasn’t immediately clear to me what the protocol here was supposed to be. If I were meant to put the flag all the way back up to reset things or lower it halfway down again still. They had fired the main flag-knowing guy last month who had been in the National Guard a hundred years ago or something and this wasn’t really my job in the first place but I said I’d do it so I wouldn’t get fired myself. I figured I’d be proactive so I lowered it down to the ground to one-third mast and went back inside feeling fine about it and none of my bosses seemed to care and then there was another shooting by the time I got to my desk. I went back outside again and lowered it further still. The next day I came in to work and you won’t believe what happened. Now we were in a Zeno’s Paradox–type of a scenario vis-à-vis the flag height and its approach to the soil. People inside were debating what the definition of a mass

shooting was and the managers were getting a little pissy about how work was being waylaid by all of us streaming the news on the computer all day. Trying to find out what kind of guy it was who killed everybody this time. Everyone hoping it was the other type of guy to balance it out. Like trading free throws at the end of a close game. Being sort of new I was left to my own devices so I went out and lowered the flag halfway closer to the ground once more. Probably not worth remarking on what happened by the time I came in the next morning and the next one too and just between us I was running out of real estate there height-wise with the flag so I went around back to the maintenance area to look for the custodian but there was some kid there instead who said in his cockney accent that the guy had been sacked so I borrowed a shovel from this kid he was an actual Victorian child with a sooty face smoking a cigar and everything and went back out to the flagpole and started digging to give the flag some breathing room so it would never have to touch the ground which was considered poor form in the flag community. I had dug halfway to the molten core by the end of the next month but on the upside I was bulking up. The planet itself was spinning on this flag pole’s axis now. I was going to hoist an upside-down American flag in a country on the other side of the globe at this rate. It was going to be a whole international incident. People were going to get shot over it.

An international incident

I would take anything coming out of kash Patel’s mouth right now with a dump truck of salt.

To those horrified by the video of the Kirk shooting, note that exact thing has occurred in K-12 classrooms 149 times in 2025.

I’m not celebrating anything. But a world where anyone can grab a gun and shoot Charlie Kirk is a world advocated for by Charlie Kirk.

Meanwhile another school shooting near Denver just claimed 2 innocent lives.

No one is doing trench warfare for that putz.

A world where anyone can grab a gun and shoot Charlie Kirk is a world advocated for by Charlie Kirk. And the GOP.

A world where anyone can grab a gun and shoot Charlie Kirk is a world advocated for by Charlie Kirk. And the Republican Party.

Vice Hitler is incapable of common sense political discussion.

“AI will make creative people curators of prompts” and other tragedies. In my first ad agency job, when I was still learning to be an advertising designer and copywriter, we did a lot of TV spots and in-store…

wrote a thing on AI and creative jobs medium.com/age-of-aware...

He literally made the bill possible.

inventiveness by my questionable standards
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I wish for a world where this was the most important story of the week.

Goosetopher destroys fascism like it’s the corner of a sofa.

bought and paid for.

Pim Tool.

when's the funeral?

(the likelihood of Putin honoring such an agreement is effectively nil.)

I remain surprised and delighted this account hasn't been doged.

(The cat does, however, agree that trump is literally is running his offense from the nazi playbook. That cat is no fool.)

China has access to 8 billion consumers. It doesn't really need to bother with our ~300 million if it doesn't want to.

And, aside from its ethical bankruptcy, what an absolutely terrible first sentence.

JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy on live television.

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