Nute Year, Nute You

Special, special player, on the trajectory to be an inner circle Hall of Famer, one of the best of all time types. Just a true pleasure to watch him play

I wish the new CEO of BlueSky a very nice monetizing this website so I don’t have to go find another one to post on

Adam X the X-Treme

@xtpd.bsky.social was asking which Marvel superhero is the most likely to be a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan and I think the answer is pretty obviously Adam X the X-Treme.

I like that your last tweet before this game was this 13 days ago, suggesting Vientos has not had a hit in two weeks

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But I’m very pessimistic on even restoring Trump’s Medicaid cuts. I mean , there has just been vanishingly little real outcry on them and a new Dem POTUS will have so little to spend and probably want something ‘splashier’…

I just feel like if there’s one thing you can probably cobble a bipartisan coalition for with a president of any party, it’s money for old people. There’s a reason even the Ryan types never managed it when they ran the GOP

Oh I think there’s very little chance of social security or Medicare wearing the damage in a serious way. But Medicaid is in deep trouble, yes

We know the exact day Trump will leave office. We've known since he was elected, it's not going to change. Nothing significant is going to happen until the midterms, and even if the midterms are a rout he'll still finish out his term. That's the timeframe, it is what it is.

I would strongly guess he means like The Iliad. Which he also doesn’t read obviously but he likes the aesthetic / idea of reading it

It's all very millenarian, including everybody whipping themselves up into an ecstatic state trying to immanentize the eschaton, and then collapsing into cynicism and despair when the Messiah fails to return on the appointed date once again.

A problem following US politics on Bluesky is that once a week, Trump decides to inflict a massive wound on himself for no reason and Bsky insists that this is it, he’s finished this time, and then people get disappointed and act like he’s fine because he’s merely bleeding out with one limb left

I think you'll find Americans are turning on ICE more and more themselves now

(tbf if you slap a 'THE BLOB' label on this, it's basically what some left-wing FP types will say!)

Eric Conn claiming the parable of the Good Samaritan has always meant to trust your tribesman not a stranger because Samaritans were native to the region, despite literal generations of sectarian violence between Jews and Samaritans at that point in history being the obvious context of the time it was written.

This will always be my favorite. "Listen, Jesus was saying you can trust Samaritans as fellow members of your clan!"

called by the dwarves Thrumkazok, in Sindarin Selgamath, in Quenya Tolovorë, and by the halflings 'The Cuckold's Couch'

how's your rotation atm?

This Is Not The Way

I’m not surprised Celeborn Much Desired To Speak With Him

Galadriel you have a husband!! He was there!!!!

this tiebreaker table a Japanese fan brought to Korea-Australia needs to be added to Cooperstown, not even joking

who will be the first pundit to do the "Dems cannot afford to undo Trump's overseas entanglements or his tariffs or they will own the fiscal crisis!" take

We will simply fund the government with the proceeds from Venezuelan and Iranian oil, which we will own by then.

it's ok though because the fiscal traps she has set will be closing in right as all this hits, on whatever poor sod is going to be chancellor going into the next UK electi- wait

quite a high chance the next Dem POTUS does spend time tinkering with some of the institutional reforms Bluesky liberals want in part because they won't have any actual money for the social spending the base wants

'Undo Trump's wildly unpopular tax cuts and strip funding from ICE!'

*cheers, applause*

"and plough the savings into interest payments and slightly reducing the deficit!"

*boos, rotten fruit thrown at stage*

A fun coda to the Booker tax idiocy is that it is *extremely* likely the next Dem president is going to have an actual deficit crisis to deal with which will make either tax cuts *or* major new social spending near impossible, so you know, that's fun

eh, I don't really see that happening on any notable level. It just hasn't made much impact beyond a few commentators, even on the red state or more moderate-facing Dems

It will also lead to some very funny discourse around hypocrisy during the primary

None of this will be good but it'll be bad in the normal ways rather than the current "threat to the foundations of global capitalism"

She did, but mostly smaller ones; Biden was throwing out some giant ones in the Last Days as he tried to stay on the ticket too lol