51 years ago today: Nixon resigns because of Watergate.
Today: Watergate looks like a jaywalking ticket.
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Retired newspaper guy. I care too much about sports. My party affiliation is anti-Republican.
51 years ago today: Nixon resigns because of Watergate.
Today: Watergate looks like a jaywalking ticket.
Trump yelling at a kid mowing the White House lawn. Text says "Wanna see me on the roof? They let me do that"
05.08.2025 17:27 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Monsters" is yet another accusation that is really a confession.
05.08.2025 17:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I just need one member of the media to ask Trump how much a $500 drug would cost after a 1500% discount.
04.08.2025 03:55 โ ๐ 10597 ๐ 2338 ๐ฌ 485 ๐ 131I haven't worked in a place like that in almost 50 years, but it might still be true that leaving your cart in the most remote corner of the parking lot allows a tired worker to fetch it and spend a couple of minutes outside of earshot of the boss. I always appreciated it.
03.08.2025 21:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0we have always been at war with the bureau of labor statistics
02.08.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 486 ๐ 91 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2This guy was a car dealer who became a blockchain savant and then a Trump-adjacent senator. He probably hasn't said anything that wasn't bullshit since 1989.
02.08.2025 17:51 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
01.08.2025 00:07 โ ๐ 5062 ๐ 1002 ๐ฌ 152 ๐ 69โHollywood streaming services are about to become two-way entertainment: audiences watching a season of a show [and] loving it will now be able to make new episodes with a few words and become characters with a photo,โ Saatchi said. โOur relationship to entertainment will be totally different in the next five years.โ That said, Saatchi expressed some doubt about whether people really want to be their own showrunners. โMaybe nobody wants this and it wonโt work,โ he said.
truly a slogan for our times
31.07.2025 12:19 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0"It's complicated, because it's a simple fact I can't rebut."
31.07.2025 20:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What cracked me up is that if you don't already know something about "Doctor Who," that blurb is not going to help.
31.07.2025 19:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Democrats are a party of corporate captured careerists who care more about staying in their jobs than they do helping anyone. They exist now only to say "we aren't as bad as them" and "we'll get back to the status quo" that was already killing people. They are broken and spent and cannot help us.
31.07.2025 19:21 โ ๐ 341 ๐ 103 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 2Sure, but don't you think that train runs in both directions? Both the non-fiction that's chosen for highlighting and the realistic fiction shape public perception, and they also shape each other. It's a stew.
31.07.2025 05:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Have there been any typos lately? I don't think Trump has typed anything for quite a while. Either he's dictating or someone is impersonating him.
31.07.2025 05:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It doesn't even look like him.
31.07.2025 05:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You could put the period after "talk."
31.07.2025 05:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Makes you wonder how much public policy has been affected by TV cop propaganda, huh?
31.07.2025 05:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Dude the Trade Deadline is wild
31.07.2025 02:06 โ ๐ 3220 ๐ 624 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 12Makes me think of a political leader of the past, and it's not Federalist Party president John Adams.
31.07.2025 00:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That's a diabolical way of making sure we all read it, and I salute you for it.
30.07.2025 22:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So we're gonna have a gerrymandering contest instead of facing the reality that this zombie empire no longer functions, and Texas and California shouldn't be in the same country?
30.07.2025 22:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm not really surprised that fascism took over, but I'm surprised that its standard-bearer is a real-life facsimile of a villain from a Mel Brooks movie.
30.07.2025 21:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Founding Fathers baked minority rule into the constitution. It's kind of a miracle it took 240 years before it all completely fell apart.
30.07.2025 20:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
30.07.2025 04:54 โ ๐ 6448 ๐ 1278 ๐ฌ 44 ๐ 64They're still asking him questions, as if he's not essentially a Magic 8-ball that can stand on two legs.
30.07.2025 19:44 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The most unrealistic part of every Hollywood movie is when the bad guy gets his comeuppance. This literally never happens in America anymore. Ever.
29.07.2025 03:48 โ ๐ 794 ๐ 104 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 9Too bad pieces like this weren't written last year, when the symptoms were almost as obvious.
29.07.2025 16:56 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But they all have bear feet.
29.07.2025 06:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Damage in an area of 3x3 tiles, just like the kind of Fireball they're talking about on the sign.
29.07.2025 05:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0