Sal Gentile

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

ah it’s that beautiful time of year in nyc when some people wear heavy coats and others wear shorts, and others still wear both. this is the ineffable schizophrenic majesty of the city. the sun sparkles upon sidewalks smeared with dog shit. the gentle hum of conversation— (gets hit by rickshaw)

“we’re punching ourselves in the dick and we’re doing it very strongly, folks. no president had the courage to punch america in the dick until I came along, and we’re not stopping after one punch. we’re doing two, three, four. we’re gonna keep punching ourselves in the dick and we’re not gonna stop”

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“How Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump’s Road to Iran”

Trump lying about murdering children

this new york times headline stopped me in my tracks. I am stunned. They posted this on the same day trump lied about bombing a girls’ school. And this isn’t even an op-ed. This is supposed to be news. These people desperately want to be doormats to power. My god. I am at a loss for words.

it’s like watching a fifth grader play oregon trail for the first time. “I guess the worst case would be we all die of dysentery on the way there but I don’t think that’s ever happened before.”

“the white house doctor has released a statement dismissing the speculation about the president’s health and explaining that he simply contracted the rash after boarding an alien vessel filled with eggs. he’s applying a standard cream until the lifeform bursts from his chest and the rash subsides”

thank you! very kind!

the fact that the administration is too lazy and incompetent to even try to sway public opinion on Iran should be a huge opportunity for the opposition but instead democrats are taking two days to organize a virtual conference call like they’re in a book club that got moved to zoom because of snow

we’re cursed to relive this cycle every 20 years until the pete hegseth skynet kills us all

every 20 years a republican president starts a war in the middle east and crashes the economy and everyone hates it and votes tnem out then a Dem takes over and conservatives whine about how the Dem is mean to them and everyone forgets and puts a republican back in and it happens all over again

like, I would reallly love it if at least person went on tv right now and said “don’t panic, it’s not skynet.” but I’m not hearing a lot of that!

is it just me or is it somewhat unnerving that the worst and dumbest people on earth are currently building an actual real life skynet

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

it’s oddly satisfying to watch trump and the GOP go through all the same coping mechanisms Dems and Biden went through. “if he just gives a great SOTU he’ll be back on track!” “he was high energy!” “he explained how actually the economy is awesome!” no one’s gonna remember any of this shit in 2 days

tellingly, the most devastating and honest assessments of trump often come from the people who know him best!

seriously why the fuck does this guy talk like this? “dare I say, pronouns?” you sound like an alien who learned how to speak by asking chatgpt “what are phrases earth humans say”

gavin newsom lecturing everyone else to be “normal” while he speaks with the bizarre cadence and syntax of an amazon echo that got dropped in the toilet

Don Jr retweeting a Nick Shirley claim that multiple voter registrations at one building prove there’s voter fraud

The community note pointing out the obvious explanation which is that multiple people live there

many have attempted over the past 10+ years to craft a nuanced theory of trumpism that grapples with the complexities of human behavior and political realignment but then you see stuff like this and it’s impossible to avoid the obvious which is that these are just the stupidest fucking morons alive

jack hughes did what donald trump never could: he owned canada

(clenching my teeth incredibly hard while I pretend for 5 minutes that politics doesn’t exist) GO USA

CO2 isn’t a pollutant, it helps plants grow. and another thing, why are we always putting out fires? they provide heat!

we really need to start wrapping our heads around the fact that if we ever get back into power there will have to be mass prosecutions of hundreds of people, from trump, noem and miller all the way down to ICE agents and the staff at dilley. anything less is complicity in state sponsored child abuse

there was nothing unusual about it at all, we were simply travelimg via boat through the caribbean with our multiple nannies when we stopped off for lunch on a private island with a billionaire registered sex offender. completely innocuous and normal. an all-american family vacation

(downloads duolingo for the first time) “whoa what’s with all the suspected political messages???”

Bad Bunny's halftime show ripped for language barrier, suspected political message

lmao “suspected political message,” they don’t even know if there was one but they’re mad anyway. try google translate you losers

let’s not lose sight of the biggest story from tonight: the jets drafted a super bowl winning quarterback

damn, we had a shot

patriots getting held to zero in a super bowl automatically resets society back to Factory Settings, we wake up tomorrow and donald trump is a rug salesman in queens, no one has heard of AI or crypto and all social media has been replaced by a Usenet forum for fans of Prog Rock

this game isn’t boring, the nfl is simply appealing to a global audience by incorporating more kicking into football