Beanstalk

Yeah, and if you do want to be hyper-pedantic, there’s actually not a single generally-accepted definition of “fascism” among political scholars, so once could dodge the question for eternity if they chose. MAGA will likely get its own term after the fact. But as you said, it’s undeniably fascIST.

Please remind him that his ears are magnificent!

It only works if you’re looking strictly through the lens of nuclear second strike capabilities, which is… not great.

Yes, Trump only received 32% of the vote here, so it’s in no way a hotbed of support, but they do exist (and unfortunately 32% is more than he received in 2016 & 2020.)

Umm, nuance? On MY internet?!

So my immediate reaction to the announcement that the FDA will only be permitting vaccines for people over 65 was, “I’m going to die!” but perhaps my estate (the dog) can sue the administration for the Qatari jet.

VT is, weirdly, so one-party that it became a 3-party state again, at least at a state level. Except for the low-key power vacuum created by no one ever getting voted out of their Congressional seat, it’s pretty nice?

We should eat the small ones.
-Jonathan Swift, 1729

Donald the Daoist spoke of “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns.” He encouraged us to proceed through the gate of darkness to the origins.

Donald the Nominalist wanted to “rectify the names.” “Tariffs,” he said, “a beautiful word.” “Groceries,” he intoned.

Guess someone read “Boomsday” back in ‘07.

“…or even the new reality show, Green Card, in which illegal (but good-looking) Mexicans had to make it across the U.S. border, past the Border Patrol and minutemen and fifty miles of broiling desert, to the finish line.”

Grok has started to merge with Roy Batty in my heart 🥲

I got into an argument with my Dad recently where he said, “Just because someone is a paramilitary eugenicist doesn’t make them a neo-Nazi.” I’ll say the same thing to you that I said to him: terms matter, but that includes not getting so microscopic with definitions that you can’t use them at all.

"corruption requires explicit quid pro quo" is like something a baby with a law degree would say, perhaps as it toddled into a dingo den

It’s giving Pinochet’s Helicopter Rides

He strikes again! Gonna name my firstborn “Judge Sessions.”

Such a proud Vermonter rn 🥹

My *only* concern with this is that it might make CJC a government target. It’s a great organization!

laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

It wasn’t anyone in my Top 10, but I don’t have to go back to Church!!!

Just look in the mirror, little buddy.

We are just lucky that all the air is not entirely incense right now

I’m low-key freaking out right now because I was raised very, very Catholic and lapsed, but when I found out the conclave started May 7, I made a Kate Bush-esque deal with God that I’d return to the Church if I got a Pope Pizzaballa on my birthday (which is today,) and now that might happen?

Fuuuuck. I ran up that hill and made a deal with God that if I got a Pope for my birthday (today) AND it was Pizzaballa, I would consider returning to the Church. We’re at one out of two… thoughts and prayers for me, please. I don’t want to go back.

Oh shit, oh shit. I got a birthday Pope, and now I might have to be Catholic again?!

Though I did, circa 2020, have a couple people try to buy green coffee from me for drinking purposes (both disgusting and not possible! It’s riddled with bacteria and fungus, and isn’t water soluble until it’s been roasted!) because cooking things makes them carcinogenic, so I may just be naive!

Oh, for sure, and I totally see it NOW, but I was in the organic, grass-fed shit too deep myself (albeit as a reality-based thinker) to have seen the local foods to dismantling the FDA pipeline coming before it was already here.

It makes sense in hindsight, but coming from VT (where people are crunchy as hell but also, like, get their shots and care about public health and shit,) the MAGAfication of our nation’s wellness hippies has been startling and bizarre to behold.