Kyle 🕊️

AINT NO FUCKING WAY

AINT NO FUCKING WAY

Again, I know Vance is a convert and who knows what the customs of the savage Scots-Irish are but someone needs to explain to him that it’s unusual for the Bishop of Rome to criticize your personal behavior this frequently

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

me reaping:

me sowing:

If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.

Learning that Maurras wasn't a practicing Catholic or even really believed in God until his deathbed conversion really opened my eyes to integralism in practice being a desire for authoritarianism for the sake of authoritarianism.

This is how they’re going to do it. Legitimize rape of teens to protect powerful men.

The president is implicated in the crimes of his friend, the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and the Republican Party is protecting him

a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch

My last word on the matter

A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6

Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

Senate Dems 🤝 SS Edmund Fitzgerald
fatal structural weaknesses were identified long in advance

it’s important to understand that Nate Silver’s entire consciousness is filtered through the lens of being a gross nerd his entire life. the opportunity to feel like he’s one of the cool kids is something he can’t pass up, it’s load-bearing for his dork psyche.

The legendary cat meme that started an era

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger

Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

this is the level of expert analysis nate silver has become famous for

literally every failing automaker tries this, and it never works

i think the argument the cavers should’ve made/should make is “i couldn’t let people starve - we made a run thinking they would fold on aca, but trump really is that psychotic”

that’s an argument i think people could respect, but the won’t even make it

More than anything else, this is what led some Senate Democrats to cut a deal: Trump’s willingness to hurt people exceeds their willingness to see people get hurt. I want to give them their due on this: They are hearing from their constituents and seeing the mounting problems, and they are trying to do what they see as the responsible, moral thing. They do not believe that holding out will lead to Trump restoring the subsidies. They fear that their Republican colleagues would, under mounting pressure, do as Trump had demanded and abolish the filibuster. (Whether that would be a good or a bad thing is a subject for another column.) This, in the end, is the calculation the defecting Senate Democrats are making: They don’t think a longer shutdown will cause Trump to cave. They just think it will cause more damage. If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make an argument, and the country was just starting to pay attention. If Trump wanted to cancel flights over Thanksgiving rather than keep health care costs down, I don’t see why Democrats should save him from making his priorities so exquisitely clear. And I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure. That’s the kind of lesson he remembers.

like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure

corbeau from pokemon stylized like a homestuck troll

core memory

there was a screenshot that i'm trying to find from today that essentially had Senate Democrats going "yeah we won the election so we waited a couple of days to concede"

Paul Giamatti should sue.

<scratches head>

hasn't a big theme in the last few years been people being big mad about immigrants from central american nations?

i wonder what the collapse of the venezuelan state would do to impact that.

ah probably nothing.

"i am used to my money buying me immediate access to any politician"

Different strokes

Where’s @axios with one of its red 🚨 🚨 social posts?!