Nick (derogatory) ✨

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

This shit looks like a Bruce Springsteen photo op.

“Me and Sally we went down to the clinic to get our COVID shots…”

lmfao look at that bod. he’s running

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Yes

They’re just getting started, which means this campaign probably extends into Halloween. Imagine, standing off against riot police: inflatable T-Rex, the cast of Mario Bros, ten thousand showgirls and their boyfriends.

The frog suit completely neuters the lie the admin wants to tell of violent resistance. Want to see so much more of it.

Jesus Christ

Sir, a second meme has hit the timeline

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Look at this! Great stuff.

"imagine if Joe Biden had said thisssssss" I yell as I leap head first into the widening abyss before me.

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

I don’t know man really seems like the president is eager to start killing us.

YouTube video by Vintage Action Figures Robot Commando TV Commercial Ideal 1961

Commercial for Ideal Toys' Robut Commando (1961).

Only just orthogonal to the slurs debate, the last week has convinced me we need to bring back the Mid-Atlantic pronunciation of “robot” you’d hear on broadcasts from the 50’s.

You know: robut!, said quickly and with vinegar, terminating in sharp alveolar stop.

Have some fun out there.

I know a dozen otherwise smart and ambitious people who through disinterest or self-preservation have completely surrendered their relationship to hard news.

They register surprise or disdain when I bring up anything topical.

This is an armchair theory, but:

It seems like Trump’s Portland gambit is only possible because Americans are sufficiently insulated from depictions of the real world by a universe of derivative media AND the news orgs we’d expect to cover this faithfully are off the clock anyway.

if I ever control the front page of a newspaper it's not going to be, like, Truancy Up 14 Percent at Parrswood High School.

Note that 'Nuh-uh" is gradually morphing into "I'll fucking kill you."

I think this might be your best work

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

What I find interesting is that an 80 year old president is surely on enough uppers to kill a Victorian - yet this man sleeps.

Yo, @jaketapper.bsky.social, come get your boy.

my god this is perfection

he’s of course referring to former South Florida running back Sharia Law, who ran for 197 yards and three touchdowns in a 65-27 win over Tuberville’s Cincinnati team in 2015

nationalism is a hell of a drug

My sister was born 3 months premature back when that was usually a death sentence. So she spent quiiiite a bit of time in a University of Pittsburgh neonatal ward incubator.

Plenty of slurs in a setting like that. Little something for everyone on bluesky.

Just imagine jumping into a bale of hay on Andrew Johnson's farm.