Tom McGee

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

The guy who has been anti-vax for two decades without any scientific evidence to back it up, promised to Congress that he wasn’t anti-vax, got confirmed, and then immediately started doing anti-vax things

"Buses" is still a dog-whistle, isn't it?

Frites!

Am I understanding this right? The March 2024 jobs number had to be revised downward, and that was a nefarious effort to make the president look good.

And two months of this year's data had to revised downward, and that was a nefarious effort to make the president look bad?

fine
i will do it
i will identify the bugs for u

Unreliable. Because once the sun goes down who can predict when -- or if -- it will come out again? Some so-called scientists?

Is this one of them? I shot this in the Netherlands last month. It was fucking beautiful.

She's going to have to sign an NDA, don't forget that part.

Run away! Run away!

Johnson Cuts Short House Session to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files

Sung to the tune of "Sir Robin" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"When danger reared
its ugly head
Mike Johnson turned his tail
and fled."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

Did she go on to talk about the conservative solution to food deserts? Because I've been dying to hear the conservatives' solution the problem of food deserts.

But really, treason against who? Providing aid and comfort to the enemies of... who exactly?

I was wrong. It turns out there IS a use for crypto.
It's good for buying politicians.

If you're going to look at it as a game, you should know that in Game Theory tit-for-tat is a winning strategy.

And do they really believe that will be enough? That Trump will just see it as a sign of weakness and demand more?

Ask the people at Columbia University how capitulation worked out for them.

My next door neighbor works on the show, and has from episode 1. I was just chatting with him over the fence and I'm sure he'd agree with you 10000000x.

I watched "Downfall" the other night and I found Pete Hegseth to be a real natural playing a Nazi.

The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Where do they bury the survivors?

I dunno, Dad looks like he could be Mexican. Baby won't be able to be a citizen. Deport them all.

Don't laugh. In South Dakota the know a lot about salt water estuaries.

And if the GOP goes into scaremongering mode -- OMG they're going to expand the supreme court!!1! -- the response should be along the lines of 'damn right we will.'

It's the ambiguity that makes it a true work of art.

How different are the jobs of today from the jobs of the late 20th century? That's how different the jobs of the 2050s are going to be.

How is the recent college grad going to survive without being able to think?

I troubleshoot tech issues like this all the time. And 95% of the time it's user error, something like entering the wrong password. The fact that people can't get a basic handle on this fact is worrisome.

Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen

Why are none of these crack journalists questioning, how did Trump hand-sign 1600 pardons during the afternoon of inauguration day?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...

It's a police state where you can't even be sure of who the police even are. It's literally Kafka-esque.

If you see some guy wearing a mask in street clothes with no insignia or other markings commiting an act of violence against someone, that guy is a criminal.