phil

sorry that the last time i posted this i had the "dub counter" song playing from my twitch stream. i recorded it via OBS and didn't realize it was playing. to confirm: this is not a dub counter situation

time to check the president's preferred communication medium

damn its wild that posing on stage with a chainsaw could be a double-edged sword as far as optics go. i guess every public figure ever has just been lucky they never decided to do that

a message from Jay Leno

it was like a "call and answer" style speech where he was doing a "do you want the bad candidate? or the good candidate?" but i guess he overestimated how many opinions his supporters have

my bedrock buttigieg memory is being at this speech, watching about half his supporters cheer giving corporations huge tax cuts simply because he paused speaking and they thought they were supposed to

(after placing a bunch of items in a burn bag) welp that's the end of that. i have zero more steps to complete

i stopped being puzzled by this once i realized that this was what orwell actually meant by doublethink

the instagram ai search saying “Search - Social media ad regulation”

the AI suggested search on instagram is whatever the opposite of tagging a joke is

in response to the LIES

this is the basic timeline

(whenever i hear "powers that be") powers be being

My God Green Beret Anthony Agular recounts how a 5-year-old Palestinian kissed his hands to thank him for the food Agular gave him Seconds later, Israeli soldiers shot and killed the starving child ISIS prisoners were treated with more dignity than these children, Agular says

It is not possible to find the words for this.

This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

This photo looks like JD Vance is posing with an array of slightly-off clones.

YouTube video by Phil Jamesson Wait For The Facts

we're about 31 seconds into this video right now

i understand what you (and she) are saying, but i disagree that rhetorical questions constitute "playing it out." i also disagree that trump doesn't care about personal reputational harm, and i disagree that the only two outcomes are total defeat (nothing) or total victory (impeachment & removal).

i don't think that's accurate, mack! she thinks there will not be one specific consequence: trump being impeached and removed from office. then she asks several more questions, to which we are supposed to just automatically say "no." none of this constitutes "playing it out" or critical thought

they just call trump "TACO" which i guess they think is more politically effective than if we were to discover incontrovertible evidence of him being a pedophile

me: let's engage in a little game theory ;)

you: okay

me: convinced yet?

saying "let's play this out" and then just asking multiple times what happens is hilarious. not even pretending to think

nobody say anything about this because it's not public knowledge yet. you can get early bird tickets now before we announce the cast but dont tell anyone about that

auctioning makes the prices closer to market price, whereas the purchase prices were all set artificially low to make the game easier for kids / more family-friendly. but that lower purchase price means too much money's sloshing around in the system, thus: long, long games

Last week NYT Opinion shifted to suddenly run a bunch of "Gosh, this stuff in Gaza seems really bad, have you seen how bad this is?" content and political elites are absolutely taking cues from their preferred media elites. It was a bat signal: "Time to start salvaging your reputation on this one."

me seeing friend buying two hot dogs: two huh? ol double dog. the two dog kid.
friend who remembers when I tried to eat healthy in 2017: ok lentils

brain scans

i'm afraid not. so i have some bad news

four panel comic bartender pours whiskey places whiskey in front of patron slides it down the bar away from patron. patron says "thanks" the patron is a giraffe. the giraffe is drinking the whiskey really far away

tall order

YouTube video by Phil Jamesson Teaching A Board Game

teaching a board game

Two screens from the Simpsons showing marge and homer sitting on a plane with homer looking angry. Text of the first image says "come on, homer. Japan will be fun. You liked rashoman" text of the second image says "that's not how I remember it"