Early in his first term, I argued that it was foolish to call any act of corruption, incompetence, or outright villainy a distraction from any other: It was all a non-stop shit-show, all the time, because that's all Trump and his cronies were capable of. Clickhole makes the same point with satire.

"This isn't who we are!"
Yes, it is.
But it's not who we ought to be.

We live in a cockalorumocracy.

To be fair, every modern American flying the Gadsen flag has always read that phrase as "Don't tread on ME!" -- with a racially charged "But definitely tread on THEM!" both intended and implied.

We live in Orwellian times.

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

Hagueseth is out there committing war crimes without an actual war. That's... an achievement, I guess.

Ditto for all those super macho douche bros with "No Fear" stickers on their trucks.

To be fair, the psy op was homegrown when it was the oligarch-funded astroturf Tea Party movement, but it's only natural for democracy-destroying ideological cancer to draw foreign investors.

Propagandists? No, that's just corporations again...
Bigots! That's it!

This is from 2016, but it's even more obvious now. I guarantee you *every* ICE thug would describe himself as a patriot.

Republican policies have never been good for "the economy," just for already-rich assholes consumed by greed for more.

Can a statement that is perfectly true become truer over time? Yes, clearly.

*mic dropping sound*

What most actual Antifa groups in the US actually do is identify and track far right/neo-Nazi groups and individuals.

I'll bet $ THAT'S why Trump, Miller etc are so anxious to convince you Antifa is a bunch of terrorists & also why ICE agents wear masks. Who do you THINK they're recruiting?

Charlie Kirk was awful. What was done to Charlie Kirk was awful. Republicans only care when awful things are done to people who share and advance their awful agenda.

On the flip side, people who never engage in any serious self-examination are the most likely to be utterly certain that not only is *their* way of life worthwhile, it's the *only* way of life that is.

What this has to do with *waves hands broadly at world* is left as an exercise for the reader.

The unexamined life is not worth living -- and you have to examine your life at least a little to get even a glimpse at what that might mean.

It's hard to capture the sheer absurdity of regretful Trump voters, but this comes close.

Most of them are loyal apparatchiks so amoral that they don't require bribery to hide Trump's pedophilia. But it's still a great double burn.

Also, I want a running headcount of pardoned January 6 insurrectionists who land jobs with Shitler's gestapo.

Republican "Christian values" on full display.

A MAGA bot network on X is divided over the Trump-Epstein backlash Researchers have found hundreds of fake X accounts that support the Trump administration.

"Web of Xitter pro-Trump spam-bots self-destructs over Epstein cover-up" is a lot of schadenfreude to process all at once.

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Three years ago, every Republican in the House voted against requiring the FBI, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon to investigate and report on White supremacist/ neo-Nazi activity within the military and federal law enforcement. It's not just Trump and his cronies, it's the whole damned party.

Now we have our own home-grown tyranny every bit as greedy and corrupt as the 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘳é𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦 oligarchs of France, and our descendants might well celebrate the anniversary of citizens storming "Alligator Alcatraz."

Today is "la Fête nationale," a.k.a. Bastille Day, which celebrates the 236th anniversary of a key turning point of the French Revolution, the storming of the infamous prison which symbolized tyranny and had been used to hold many political prisoners.

"I Have No Idea How Anything Works But I'm Sure I Can Write Software to Do It Better: The AI-hyping Techbro Story" #FuckAI

The Declaration of Independence is a document no honest person can read without thinking that Trump bears far more resemblance to King George III than he does any of the signers.

Yup.