Gus Orviston

The upcoming NoKings protest is gonna have so many people in frog costumes, won’t it

The most reliable way to distinguish Protestant denominations is to ask if their clergy dress like businessmen, rappers, homeless people, or wizards.

The filibuster should be nuked. Pray the very least, made more painful to implement.

Laser focused on the issues most important to the American people

People are not listening to this because these are informed and wise opinions.

Another option would be JD Vance, just to see if we can get Trump to try to kill two of his VPs in a row.

I mean, this seems terrible, but maybe he's just trying to fit in with the rest of the people in Trump's orbit. I would think that with the culture of the White House, you can't get any respect in meetings until you've harassed at least a few people.

This is why I’m extremely skeptical of any attempt to add ‘ideological diversity’ to academia, despite thinking that there are fields where some version of it would genuinely epistemologically healthy: I simply do not believe that modern conservatism actually can supply people who are not this:

Props to the frogs. I think, in retrospect, the Trump administration is realizing they should have tried to pick on a city that is not so aggressively weird.

The fact that their ticket was mysteriously canceled the day before and then they were questioned by DHS is both one of the greatest political scandals and crises of my lifetime and just another fucking Thursday in 2025.

Genuinely curious how this the logistics of this happen when the government is supposed to be shut down.

New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought

Sorry, this is true but just makes it more hilarious if they do this:

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This isn’t serious - sorry, Fred - but I think other most hilarious possible outcome is for them to give it to W, for PEPFAR.

"We went from a dead country a year ago to the hottest country in the world."

Headlines from October 2024 (left) versus June 2025 (right).

I just told you I already liked the shutdown, Harry, you don't have to sell it to me 😏 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is something all too rare: A Republican asking himself, 'How would I feel if a Democrat did to me what Trump is doing to Democrats?'

This radical new approach to the scientific method is sure something, I guess.

This would be a whole chapter in Tapper's book if Biden did it, etc, etc.

Useful to see how this is happening at the same time they're bulldozing rainbow-colored crosswalks. How far the Right has come since talking about federalizing and the rights on states, individual localities, etc.

As I've heard many engineers say: if it's stupid, but it works, then it's not stupid.

Greene is doing something that Dems should want to emulate: intentionally pitting Trump against his most vile subordinates.

Example: Trump wants a budget deal? We'd love to, but we can't trust that you'll keep your word with Vought and Miller driving the bus. Fire them.

Dissent is only insurrection to authoritarians.

The president apparently has the power to take away amendments to the constitution for certain citizens, at his discretion.

Big news, I would think.

Most relatable thing he's done in awhile, tbh

Huh. Really thought the guy that was waving around a chainsaw like an idiot would have had a better plan

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Hey, we found something that Congressional Republicans think isn't done at the President's discretion. Didn't know that there was anything like that anymore.

Republicans will vociferously deny that this is the goal until right after Trump does it, at which point they'll migrate to "so he did it and it wasn't that bad" without missing a beat.

Shouldn’t be a big mystery who’s behind this.