Like ... "Blair" and "Tate"? C'mon Iowa. Stop watching '80s TV ffs.
Fun map. Whats really interesting to me is that you can clearly see the states that have large ethnic or religious minorities relative to the rest of the country. And then you have places like plain "Jane" Idaho.
Trump and Hegseth long ago decided war was basically an MMA match ... just be the toughest and you'll win. Utterly incomprehensible that these morons have been given a green light to wreck havoc on the world like this.
One thing that's surprised me getting older is how much simpler my tastes have become. Like ... I can appreciate subtlety and novelty in comedy, food, or whatever, but I'm often happier to enjoy a well-made burger while I watch a clip reel of nutshots.
Lost in all the hubbub about Shoegate is the fact that Trump's taste in shoes is about as good as his taste in steaks. Florsheims!? FFS.
Also. Florsheims!? FFS. If you're going with conservative men's shoes at least do a decent brand. Allen Edmonds or something quality.
The craziest thing to me about the shoes thing is ... like, those dudes all make enough money to go out and buy the exact same pair in a size that actually fits and they just ... don't.
So ... Biden was pilloried because several soldiers died in a suboptimal withdraw from a war he was ending.
But Trump gets a pass for the dozen or more who've died in a war he started because his drunk and coked up cabinet talked him into it?
Ninja cat timeline cleanse
Calling anything that emanates from the orange guy's head anus a "theory" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Otherwise yeah, I follow.
Oh no! The billionaires (who pay no taxes) are leaving our state and we won't get any tax money from them!!!
🤣🤣🤣
Also ... Skaggerak.
Mackinaw?
Also ... not that normal people don't know this but a key downside of being an unpredictable asshat who constantly reneges on deals is that eventually no one trusts you. Trump's inability to see the world as anything other than a one turn game bites him - and us - again.
So we spent like $100 billion on a minesweeper?! Can't we just, like, use fishing boats for that?
I also loathe almost all Marvel content. I will die on the hill that Marvel single handedly has done more to rot the brains of American men than any other single collection of works: "only a super rich white dude and his exceptional friends can save us".
Black Panther possibly the lone exception.
The Matrix was recycled sophomore philosophy bullshit repackaged in black trenchcoats.
This entire administration is filled with dudes who read one book, ever, got a B- on the test, then decided that was enough learning for them.
And ... given where they've landed in life, the weren't necessarily wrong.
I'm guessing many of the brain geniuses in the Admin still don't see the link.
I'm guessing infrastructure, maintenance, and the relative availability of first responders has something to do with that, too.
Rubio is starting to look and act like a man who knows he crossed the line into unforgivable territory and just says "ah the hell with it."
"Just ol' grampa beating off in his office again."
Immigrants getting it done!
When I was in third grade I heard Ronnie Rayguns hot mic "the bombing begins in five minutes". I spent years afterward thinking it was gonna go off every time I heard a plane overhead.
Wait until he finds out they speak a language closer to English than Arabic.
He's an unrepentant drunk too high on his own BS to have any sense of consistency let alone common decency.
Legit thought this was an Onion headline until I saw the source.
But they wuz WARfighterz grrrrr!!!
The English language in all its glory is sadly bereft of sufficient words to describe the depths of despicableness to which this administration has sunk.
Man ... FT with a couple of howlers this week.
"How War Stopped Working" ... as a tool of imperialist ambition. Which hasn't stopped Russia, the US, and probably China, from trying.
War has worked quite well as a way for smaller states and non-state actors to preserve independence.
