"Gandalf, darling, we'd love to help you with the ultimate evil or whatever--sounds positively *ribald.* But this pitcher of margaritas is not going to drink itself, will it?"
"It will not."
"Alatar said it will not. Ta ta, darling. Call us back when you figure out what a piece of shit Saruman is"
The best alternative?
Only if you constrain to the two party binary
I would not support the lesser evil. I'm in my 40s and watched this lesser evilism deteriorate the electoral process my entire adult life. I'm done with it. I'll vote for good. If that good is a Democrat, yay. otherwise it's third party.
it's so they can fly back after in case the record overnight cold fucks with the airports
he's going to do that anyway no matter how well behaved the protestors are. trying to avoid it is a fools errand
his point is that it's an inevitability that DHS will manufacture casus belli anyway so all your restraint does is cede ground until they do.
The soul of all liberalism boils down to being fine with genocide and unspeakable violations when its happening to other people, and getting very upset when the machinery built to torture others, with their consent, is turned on them at home.
so that's a maybe? kid's certainly got that mamba mentality.
(all seriousness i didn't expect you to reply but since you did let me thank you for all the work you do as the pbp announcer for the sixers. it's a joy listening to you and alaa every night)
So I realize it's very gauche to suggest catchphrases or nicknames, but honestly if I heard @katetscott.bsky.social call VJ Edgecombe "Bahama Mamba" I'd consider 2026 a rousing success.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
you love us and you cant deny it.
the wooder is just better here 💜
James manages to turn a speech about the responsibilities of citizenship into a call for moral striving within a society that offers no shared structure of belonging, which is ... pretty well the opposite of what Pericles, and Thucydides, intended.
bsky.app/profile/phat...
prtizker openly said that his state cops won't do anything about ice executing people, and the same police are right now working hand in hand with ice, turning protesters over, doing nothing over ice ramming people's cars/breaking into their homes.
he got a standing ovation in yesterday's protests
What CTE does to a man
"how do i make this about myself and my shit for brains political party"
I miss the doritos fire tacos
chicago has its own state. it's just surrounded by the state of gary
the aca mandates turning into a crab bucket campaign against medicaid was so predictable you could almost say it was intentional
because it was
most of these were violent or had violent counterweights.
if Trump disappears Elon i will speak well of him for exactly one day
sleep good
this would be the best day in station history tbh
yes
she can't hold your hand through every moral quandary in your life ellen
have you tried not being wrong about china?
i'm just flabbergasted that you'd come after an entire religion because of its association with a bad country. like, who the fuck cares about how it reflects on you it's a shitty fucking mindset and that disappoints me
there's no change in the takeaway in the update, ari. it's still really bad
hard things are worth doing if they're the "right" thing (which i believe in this case)
