John Ferrara

Currently maximizing minimalism

It’s true that Donald Trump is a corrupt racist dolt. It’s also true that ending the Gaza war would be a towering achievement if it happens. If Trump’s obsession with winning a Nobel Peace Prize distracts him from his obsession with authoritarian control then I have hope for our future.

No, her wailing invective had the exact effect she intended it to have. Complete success from her point of view.

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

I’m literally in fucking hell
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There’s potential for this to be the longest and most consequential US government shutdown. No one has much motivation to back away from it. The 2018 shutdown only ended when airports started shutting down for want of air traffic controllers. What’s the endgame gonna be this time?

Marx and Engels would be big fans of Trump’s creative thinking.

“Levy taxes to kill a market then give the money to the injured business owners” is how capitalism works

Former Republicans who left because of Trump are truthfully pretty great

First day of the government shutdown and I’m telling you now: This is going to end up hurting the Democrats. Unfairly? Of course. But that’s how it’s gonna go.

This man has no understanding of what America is even here for.

You know what I says? I says they spit, we hit I says. That’s what I says I says they spit, we hit. That’s what I says.

The president of the United States of America is Uncle Mike at coffee time.

Lmao they flew the military’s entire command to Quantico to sit and listen to this shit

Intuitive way to understand it:
Imagine it’s 100 doors instead of 3, and after your first guess Monty opens all doors except the one you picked and one other door.
Are your odds better if you stay with your initial guess or switch?
Scale that rationale down to explain why it’s better to switch w/3.

On Hegseth calling all military leaders from their stations to the US for a meeting next week: Trump plainly hadn’t heard about it when asked, so it’s not some big new operational shift. Most likely it’s Hegseth feeling that he’s not respected and wanting to show everyone what a big man he is.

“Ultra thin crust pizza” should just be called “less food pizza”

For context that’s more than 4 times the distance from the sun to Pluto yet only 0.06% of the way to the next closest star. The universe is big af.

Between the Autism presser yesterday and the UN address today there’s a lot of batshittery going on

Honestly I’m not sure that this is tyranny. It’s mismanagement. It’s pathological self aggrandizement. It’s bigotry. It’s hubris. But no one’s jabbing me with their bayonet and I believe we’re going to survive this blip in our long history.

Very credible as an authority on the subject

Makary making it crystal clear that autistic kids gross him out is probably not the most empathetic tactic he could have chosen

I think this is going to be their SOP for pressers where Trump is going to be off prompter and there’s an elevated risk of batshittety for reasons that are best explained by the words I just said

This is some savage cruelty to parents raising autistic kids and put their faith in Trump.

Checks out that is in fact medical research yes

“There’s a rumor and I don’t know if it’s so or not” is how science works

“This is based on how I feel” is how science works

Holy shit

I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Taxing H-1B visas $100,000 per year is freaking stupid. These are specifically skilled workers that the US does not have enough of. Taxing this visa at a prohibitive rate is an absolutely terrible idea that will definitely hurt America.

Radicalization seems to be a bigger problem today than it has been in the past. Is that true or an illusion? If it is true, why is it happening? Are the root causes pure chance or the result of something having changed since a time when radicalization was a smaller problem?

The Reichstag Fire  | Holocaust Encyclopedia Learn how the Reichstag Fire on February 27, 1933, gave the Nazis and their coalition partners the pretext for emergency laws that led to...

“The Nazi leadership used the Reichstag fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising and claimed that emergency legislation was needed. The resulting act abolished constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship.”
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