Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
โA second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.โ
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Community college philosophy professor. Former Oklahoman, current New Yorker. Kidney collector. There's more to life than books, you know (but not much more). https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-slakter
Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
โA second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.โ
08.10.2025 22:54 โ ๐ 10036 ๐ 1830 ๐ฌ 136 ๐ 85This is my favorite way to learn I was vindicated in blocking someone way back.
08.10.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I made fun of the messaging in the context of ICE crackdowns, but it seems to have worked on people who otherwise aren't paying attention to politics.
08.10.2025 17:48 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank goodness Putin is around to maximize the fun of the transition.
08.10.2025 17:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0No, some words are inherently slurs and others are not. Their meaning is given from God.
08.10.2025 17:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Looks like you found the one person on this site who's read Manufacturing Consent.
08.10.2025 17:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Why even run if you're just going to concede?
08.10.2025 14:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Not flaky at all, low quality chocolate, and no flavor.
08.10.2025 14:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Just had the worst babka of my life. AMA
08.10.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0They didn't take this line when it was time to line up behind the post-WOT GOP.
08.10.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I find it mostly comes and goes, but less intense as the years wear on. But there can still be moments when I hear a particular song and burst into tears.
08.10.2025 13:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We're all just underemployed comms experts.
08.10.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you for this helpful post.
08.10.2025 13:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0SCOTUS has been clear that no one but a cop can judge how much danger they're in, and amount greater than zero entitles them to use deadly force.
08.10.2025 13:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If only there were such a thing as licensing. Oh, well.
08.10.2025 12:44 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0God bless Texas.
08.10.2025 12:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I don't recall people saying it was wrong to remember those lost on 9/11 every year when there were people being killed in their name in Iraq, but perhaps I am mistaken.
08.10.2025 02:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You see this change in Scalia, from "Stupid but legal" to "I disagree with everything I ever wrote that let Democrats govern."
08.10.2025 01:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One MAGA in particular.
08.10.2025 01:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"One by one, the free peoples of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring.
"But there were some who resisted."
Operation Fall Spice
07.10.2025 23:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The thing to understand about 'genocide' on this site is that it refers both to actual genocide and merely something the person using it doesn't like.
07.10.2025 23:36 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0People losing their minds over this statement are in the same league as people attacking Miss Rachel for supporting terrorism.
07.10.2025 19:38 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There are definitely some who try to shoehorn their own views into the material, but this is not unique to the left.
In my own experience, it was more often conservative teachers and professors doing this, but that's probably just due to being from Oklahoma.
I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.
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