Carter's Dad

No idea who Joe Kinsey is, apparently some kind of sports guy, wanders out of his lane here.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

Nope. Nope nopeity nope nope. Have to stop this right now, everyone with a voice. Courts, Congress, states, media, any honest people left in the military and law enforcement, time to speak up now. This is blatantly a coup. Call it what it is.

Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee

I have always wondered what it's like to be a cop, what kind of person wants to do that. Seems like it's not so much "to protect and serve" and more "what are you gonna do about it?"

So if I read this correctly when you pay your $80K or more for a Cybertruck it's like paying for Windows 11, you don't actually own the thing, you are buying a license whose terms are dictated by the seller. I never read Adam Smith, but is this how capitalism is supposed to work? Seems stupid.

I’m so angry and heartbroken

I'm gonna make a case for Rubio for dismantling USAID and for giving legal cover to the practice of revoking Green Cards and visas because of Threats to National Security and Foreign Policy. But it's a close race, Noem and Bondi will get some votes also. And that's just the Cabinet.

As an American it's always such a wake-up slap with a wet sock to hear how health care is done in the civilized world of countries where the government actually cares about its citizens. We could do better, Americans.

You did the right thing.

Afterthought: Dan Brown is the ChatGPT of New Testament scholars.

the Paul/Augustine strand, and Jesus was a righteous working man and Paul was an authoritarian and Augustine was an Aristotelean systematic thinker. (Dan Brown is a humbug, though. Don't get me started.) You can usually tell which strand a denomination or congregation picked up pretty quickly. 2/2

Also Quakers and many especially more traditional Unitarian-Universalist ministers and some of the really small old-world denominations. I can prattle on forever on this topic, so stop me if you've heard this before, but there are two separate strands in "Christianity", the Jesus strand and 1/2

Hegseth is a dangerously incompetent Fox news empty suit buffoon, but that's not the worst thing about him. He is also an enemy of democracy and the First Amendment freedoms. And the human spirit generally, come to that.

Maybe this will turn out to be true, but I read one early story that said "Police are assuming that the gunman was...because..." and that is not the same as "The gunman was ...because..." Don't put all your faith in the first story you hear or read, remember this is the Internet.

Good one.

If I were Andrew Cuomo I don't think I would start up a who looks tired? contest with Zohran Mamdani, but I guess that shows how much I know about NYC politics. If you think that's your strength, Andrew, sure, go for it, you know best.

I try to mix it up a little in terms of the topics I present.

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my friend’s kid got wings from a flight attendant and he’s telling everyone he’s an honorary pilot

Really wish we didn't have to keep saying this, it should be obvious to everyone by now that compromise is surrender, how many times do you have to see it?

In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.

Even I can see the difference.

Jesus, this is so many levels of disgusting. I am a gentle man, but I see the need for a cleansing fire after this regime comes crashing down.

This sounds right. What the chatbots are actually approaching is a PhD level of vocabulary, and Sam Altman doesn't understand how that's different from a PhD level of intelligence.

Pritzker showing how it's done. More of this, please.

Another mid-thread repost. Guy doesn't like Elizabeth Warren because of her "angry librarian energy."

It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇

Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

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