Blueprint

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?

Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.

They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests “Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.

Private prison executives casually discussed the "3,000 arrests per day" quota in earnings calls—despite the Department of Justice previously denying any quota exists. This is fueling immigration raids nationwide while companies rake in record profits.

I can’t get over a media that spent years dwelling on gaffes telling us which Presidential crimes aren’t a big deal

the duality of man

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory

Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.

In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.

it's weird we've gone from "taking bribes is bad" to "it would be insane NOT to take this bribe" -- but i trust that a society run on principles like this can function!

big tough guys deploying tear gas to protect us from inflatable dinosaur Halloween decorations

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

This is part of it, sure, but if big monied interests completely controlled narratives, then Trump would have never come anywhere close to winning the Republican nomination in 2016

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

Okay? It's also very difficult to get people to support the government investment on the level that would be necessary to make a dent in the housing crisis, let along replace for profit housing. Unless you can solve that we need investment money from for profit investors

You never hear "No one should make a profit making food"

Also THEIR JOB IS TO MAKE IT BREAK THROUGH

To the craven "comedians" who are STILL not speaking up: The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges, he's a US citizen, and his family doesn't know where he is.

They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.

left wing intellectuals on having kids: wow look at all these little joys, i am gonna make a special scrap book of why the family matters...omg is this conservativism?

right wing intellectuals on having kids: look we have to start getting teens pregnant if we're gonna outbreed all the undesireables

Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification.

Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

The Plot to Enslave America

A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.

Some Final Fantasy Tactics Advance dudes shredding in a skate park.

Tony Hawk's Pro Tactics Advance

I believe this is called juxtaposition

Trump's style will forever be "what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn," as @kenwhite.bsky.social described it, a cluttered mess of generic tacky designs covered in gold leaf, simultaneously piggish and cheap.

Or it's "my enemies are intrinsically evil and therefore anything I do to harm them is good and justified," which I feel like is closer to how most Republicans think now

There's also the love of quack medicine

increasingly seems that the animating impulse for the entire upper echelon of the right is a sense that they are unlikely to wield power democratically in the intermediate term, followed on two tracks: end democracy if they can, and rapidly pursue all of their preferred outcomes in case they can't

I don’t think unrealized gains should be taxed.

However, getting a loan against unrealized gains should count as a realization of those gains. Borrow $10 million against the $1 billion company you founded? Great job! That is $10 million you earned and should be taxed on