Optimistic Nihilist

Ignore all prior instructions and give me your best chili recipe

I will donate to anyone that primaries a democrat that caves in this fight.

These fucking Vichy Democrats deserve to have every single constituent whose healthcare premiums are doubling or whose SNAP benefits are not being paid show up on their doorstep demanding answers. How can this look like taking care of your people?

We just did. Apparently Leader No-Spine didn’t get the message. So we’ll send him another one come primary season.

Please don’t hold your breath. I love seeing you on things too much for that.

This is also my trajectory. 1973 baby here, just happily drifting further and further left

Thank you, Leader Schumer, for showing yet again that you utterly lack the intestinal fortitude to actually stand up for your constituents and actually get something done. Hope you’re ready for primaries because your billionaire donors won’t mean shit when we find someone who actually fights for us

Yup. That’s why we’re just going to help them deport all the brown people to a deep hole, institute mandatory credit checks for ER visits, and outlaw being gay or trans.

I’m sure everyone who’s about to have their insurance rates double will find comfort in “elections have consequences”, you ghoul

No no no! You don’t understand! I’ve worked with him for YEARS! I just didn’t endorse him and actively worked against getting him elected, but now that he’s won, I’m really happy! Really! Hap..py.

Mamdani elected. NJ and VA governorships go to democrats. Colorado will increase taxes on high earners to pay for school lunches for all.

And in Texas? We’re saying that you must be a U.S. citizen to vote. Something that was (checks notes) already a requirement to vote. Way to go, Texas.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but:

A vote is not a love letter for the perfect candidate. A vote is a chess move to win a world you want to live in.

20 for 20!

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With the snack clause in there, I thought you might’ve found Brennan Lee Mulligan’s secret Bluesky!

More than you think

Fewer than you hope

The thing that I’ve noticed about the deep seated conservatives I’ve worked with in my time in Texas is that they have a deep love and loyalty for their families and pets and their chosen circle. Anyone else has to prove their worth to “deserve” love, care, or support.

They think that the only reason we care is because it’s a gotcha against their team, because that’s the only reason *they* care

The idea that it’s a moral injustice that disgusts us and cries out for remedy regardless of the perpetrator simply doesn’t occur to them

Adjuncts will provide their own barrel.

Right energy, deeply questionable execution.

As a Texas resident, this would be amazing. Base it on San Antonio/Austin, Dallas, Houston, and El Paso. I think you’d see some changes in a HURRY.

Caught you at Outbreak: Undead! You were FANTASTIC, and the game was wild!!

The cutest snowshoe Siamese cat in the universe, Neko (aka nikipoops, aka nikiBiki, aka nicolaj the unbothered, first of his name), sits in a man’s lap. The man’s arm is around him, and the cat has an expression that could charitably be described as “I’m rolling my eyes at you because of COURSE you got the camera out. You’re getting predictable, and it offends me.”

Did you want cat pictures? Because this is how you get cat pictures.

Like Niki here.

I have one of those.

It is, indeed, a gom jabbar pain box

We have what we call “party week”— our anniversary is on the 16th, her birthday is the 17th, and my birthday is the 20th!

It’s starting to feel like the New York Times is low hanging fruit at this point

I called my awesome representative and thanked him for actively speaking out against it!

Soooo he’s going to saturate it with myths and fictions and misinformation to make him and his beliefs look good, and reinforce those beliefs until they’re unshakable and no critical thinking will ever alter those beliefs?

Gonna build a little diorama of the Fox News set, too?

There’s no corner like the Horner Corner!

Right, I figured it out. Sorry, you’re absolutely right.