The Dude

It’ll never not astonish me that anyone disputes how VISIBLY stupid he is.

inanimate things are not alive. organic things are alive. they are born, they live, they die. they often reproduce.

some people are getting really insanely weird around artificial intelligence. boxes are not alive. large language models are not alive. my shoes are not alive

tell me you understand

Fire ZacTaylor.

Im paraphrasing Tom’s apparent point, but “It’s not fascism unless and until absolute power is consolidated and the regime has successfully subjugated all or most of the country,” is also a ridiculous form of cope that begets inaction and complacency.

One has to wonder what the response to such continued actions will be from our leaders, and if that matches up sufficiently with what the response *should* be.

Without enough pushback, it's just demanding the manacles be more comfortable.

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Standard Groyper rhetoric from the VP.

the idea that civil rights protestors were ungrateful for those few freedoms they were allowed by their white oppressors was a stand-by of the more polished elements of the pro-segregation counterrevolution.

This would have been a 4 week scandal with Biden that would have required every major democratic leader to answer questions

In a healthy society, publishing a take like this would end your employment in the professional takes-having business.

the whole idea behind a representative democracy is that i elect people that think what i think and i can go off and watch soccer and have biblical relations with my wife and go camping and fishing.

i’m not supposed to have to think about this shit every day.

Boy can that Taylor Swift write a song.

Clean. On. Op sec.

The year I finally get a sick pair of black and orange striped Zubaz pants too!

Shit got too toxic and needed a hard reboot. Everything and everyone is doing great though.

There is not a better or more powerful example of the Peter Principle at work.

Bout time!

Here and there.

Possibility: this whole year is Make a Wish for a deeply awful person with a terminal illness.

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All good, my man. All good.

Who is the Acting President? Because it’s not the President.

Kinda odd that the President frequently doesn’t know what his administration is doing, is absent for days at a time without explanation, is confused by questions from the press about his own supposed policy decisions, and is clearly being fed ai slop by his eunuchs and can’t tell it’s fake.

I sure as fuck don’t have a king.