Willow

Yes. Yes it would. 🤡

After you became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, in 2006, your mentor, Jeb Bush, presented you with a sword. What was that about? Chang is a mythical conservative warrior. From time to time, if there’s a big issue going on, you’d see Jeb say, “I’m going to unleash Chang.” He gave me the sword of Chang.

i still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP

i am definitely putting the "sword of chang" as a item into any RPG i create

love that the main reaction i've seen to this is about the sheer number of major american politicians and public figures who can't be trusted to understand what's happening

ffs guys, you’re gonna make sen. markwayne waynemark’s head explode

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

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Who could have seen that coming.

If there’s one thing we know about these guys, it’s that they don’t understand what things mean.

I can’t think back on a time when I’ve ever been prouder to be a Republican, Marco,” Bush said, before recounting the tale of “Chang.”

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> Rubio saying unleash Chiang

DOES HE KNOW?

oh good Lord

And a snack.

Would.

Didn’t cry at work today!

Amateur hour

I hate the present. They've been saying the future is coming for years, but it's always just still the present, and I fucking hate the present.

many people are saying, “markwayne mullin is shitfaced at least 80% of every day and 100% of the workday”

and (b) will let (a) kill us all before they accept the monster they created isn't controllable anymore.

I said this a while ago but it bears repeating:

The U.S. right is fully captured by a) christian fascist accelerationists seeking to start the Biblical Apocalypse, & b) those actively manipulating (a) for profit.

Everything they claim to care about will last only so long as it serves (a) or (b).

we deserve a slightly less stupid dystopia

we deserve a slightly less stupid dystopia.

NEWS FLASH: In a democracy, we don’t allow one guy to take the entire country to war based on an “opinion.” That’s what the kings we were breaking from used to do. (1/2)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said security has been heightened at certain locations across the city amid the war in Iran to ensure that New Yorkers celebrating Purim and observing Ramadan “do not need to sacrifice an ounce of themselves to feel safe in this city.”

I need to start thinking this way again. "immune system" is a good metaphor for how norms play out over a community, or how there lack does.

Tweet from the ADL: "Today is #Purim — a holiday when we celebrate the thwarted plot to annihilate the Jewish people of Persia, modern-day Iran, and the courage of those who stood up against hatred. This year, the Purim story feels closer than ever. The former Iranian regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — a man who openly and obsessively called for the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel and the death of Jews worldwide — is a stark reminder of how the themes of this holiday echo into the present day. In Judaism, we are taught to cultivate joy even in the darkest of times. Joy and grief coexist, and we hold space for both. So, as we rejoice this Purim, we recognize the dangers and uncertainties of this moment. We are praying for the safety of American service members in harm's way, Israeli civilians and soldiers, our partners and friends in the Gulf and all others in the region who have already been targeted."

We need to separate Jews from the gov of Israel in critiquing this war with Iran. By saying that fighting Ayatollah Khamenei is fighting Haman, linking the war to Purim, the ADL is actively effacing that difference. Not only are they not effectively fighting antisemitism; they're making it worse.

it's a damn shame this didn't make the show because it's as much in the spirit of SNL's 52 years or whatever as anything they do nowadays

late to the party (probably motivated at least in part by the ability to dunk on a woman) but at least he showed up.

if NY dems were smarter they would have ignored the last ruling like red states keep doing and we would have the House still.