*slurp juice

"You wouldn't punch someone with glasses, would you?" 🤓

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Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: I have read different things.

An orange cat who hates Mondays.

Hegseth is all "restore the warrior spirit" and "real men are back in charge" and so on, yet he embraces the same kind of risk-free warfare that Obama pioneered. Shooting fish in a barrel from a desk chair.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) has some stunning desert landscapes.

what?? I missed that

I worry this will continue under his successors.

They also seem to hate Bondi, despite her faultless loyalty to Trump.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

I think we'd figure it out within days. Trump keeping a low profile would be uncharacteristic.

As someone else pointed out, using AI "but just for brainstorming" means taking the brain out of the brainstorming process.

Oh, is there a correlation?

I'm on the spectrum and love being high, but I didn't realize the two things might be linked.

It warms my heart to hear that solidarity is alive and well, despite the ruling class' best efforts to isolate people and erode social trust.

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

Authoritarianism thrives on crisis.

Hi Chris! Here are a few recs from a writers' Discord I'm on.

hmm, I'd say a proper equivalent to "little bitch" has to imply submissiveness. Maybe something also dog-related.

Forbidden romance is one of those tropes that only seem delightfully appealing to people who don't have to actually live it.

If Trump starts doing badly on cognitive tests, he'll just stop taking them, since there's no way for anyone to force him to take them.

THREE instances? Wow, I only knew of one.

But as someone else said (I think on the bad site), we're not talking about the same storytelling tropes at all. M/M in hockey has the forbidden romance thing, whereas women in team sports (esp contact sports) are almost expected to be gay.

I think cost-cutting is an excuse, and destruction is the goal.

This gov't is teaming up with Palantir and AI companies to establish a technofascist surveillance state, yet somehow can't find the storage space for archives dating back to the paper and floppy disk era? Yeah right.

Their sense of ethics & integrity is limited to their peer group. Trump would sooner defraud his own voters than arrest the boogeymen they're obsessed with, like Soros or the Clintons. It's also why he's deporting working-class immigrants over minor paperwork issues while pardoning rich fraudsters.

It's terrifying that Israelis either don't see the parallel or don't care.

And like the Madagascar plan, there's the issue of logistics, esp if Egypt won't cooperate. Israel might decide, like the Nazis did, that extermination is just more expedient.

Ah, but that isn't the land that was promised to them 3000 years ago.

A year into Trump's 2nd term, his supporters only talk about what he *will* do, not what he has done. Even in their shitty AI memes, they make him say stuff he never said, because he has zero quotable lines.

He's a vibe. And not even a good one, like Reagan's unearned "affable grandpa" image.

“I don’t believe in a literal Antichrist, but……” exhibit 543

In 2016, MAGA preachers were comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great, i.e. a virtuous pagan. "OK, I'll grant you he's not much of a Christian... but his policies are good for Christians, as Cyrus was good to the Israelites."

Turns out this caveat was 100% unnecessary.

Have they interviewed DC voters to ask them what they think of Trump?

I think lottery earnings are already taxed.