Eric Hoffsten

Special thanks to all the worms in politics and media who tried to sell us “universally beloved saint Charlie Kirk” over the last few days. Sorry you failed but 1) not nearly as many people know him as you thought / hoped 2) he was deeply racist, like on a KKK level, and that’s kinda off-putting

Little does Max here know that he’s written “the blurst of times.” I feel that’s a promising start.

Ah, well, there you go and correct me, belugatooth. No matter; I still hope to visit one day, even if my (erroneous) vision contains far less concrete. I can save that for my coming Eastern European tour. For tonight, Brazil gets to be my favorite country in this whole wide godforesaken world.

tbh Olavo I don't want you to correct me on this but I have this fantastical vision of Brasilia as this wondrous brutalist-crossed-with-Usanian-MCM architectural wonderland, and I'm loathe to even consider its discovery by these loathsome Philistines. I'm sticking with that.

The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.

vladimir putin, in profile against a blue background, smirking a little. he's shaking hands with donald trump, who's facing the camera, slouching, hunched a little, looking to his side with his mouth sort of screwed ruefully into one corner. he's the damp, fallen, swollen-faced expression of someone you'd assume was shitfaced

this is like if a far side cartoon grew up to be a real boy

Feels like the country being run by a corrupt rapist and his legions of glassy-eyed morons wasn't such a great idea.

"He's a piece of shit, but let's get the political science stuff out of the way," Steven told me when I asked if he thought support of Tesla could be considered apolitical. "Elon Musk has platformed white supremacists and antisemites on X. He got rid of all the moderation. He put back accounts that were clearly neo-Nazis. He's changed algorithms to promote that type of hate. Him and DOGE did massive cuts in the government, including our civil services. He's cut cancer research. Did I mention he was a giant piece of shit?" "He's cut our aid to Africa, which Will result, without exaggeration, in millions of women and children and innocent people dying. Millions," he said. "I'm not a big fan of people who give the Hitler salute. I mean, I'm kind of fussy like that. He gave it twice at Trump's inauguration," he continued. "He's a Nazi. And he cheats at video games. You have another question?"

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

PISSED AF ‘93 HERE

Pee in their faces (B ‘93)

On your way out…

…which of course makes this Backpfeifengesicht award that much harder to allocate

I’m pretty sure I went to college with that asshole in the middle (yeah, he’s close to our age), but no one cared what that weird little home-schooled fuck thought at the time.

The sad part is that we won't get to see the alternate timeline (i.e., the CORRECT timeline) where justice actually occurs. Goddammit.

This is a remarkably ironic quip for someone who's surrounded himself with artifice his entire life, and has now adorned the entire White House in tacky, fake gold trinkets. But then again, of course he does

...<quiet voice> during my four years at Brown I was surrounded by like-minded progressive voices coming from not only my peers but my professors who understood that late capitalism is increasingly leading toward suffering and death. Good stuff came out of my time there. (But also Curtis Yarvin.)

Absolutely, Clotpoll, and I'm not about to begin to try to defend certain practices of my own alma mater nor the other seven, BUT...

I disagree, although the percentage of said teachings dedicated to that particular campaign is certainly not zero.

...in a trench coat. A sort of "Trancent Adultmed," if you will.

Thinking the exact same thing. Back in my own Acid Days™, no amount of weed or alcohol was going to allow me to sleep when I was tripping balls on that super-clean early-'90s stuff from Apperson and Pickard out of Kansas.

Elon Musk wakes up, bleary and disoriented.

"Grimes, I just had the weirdest dream..." he mutters as he rolls over to her.

"Tell me all about it, Space Daddy," replies Stephen Miller's wife in bed beside him.

"Yeah, tell her," comes Stephen's bitter voice from a chair in the semi-darkness.

Definitely a thing. A regional mini-chain here in southern Maine has offered a 3-cheese tortellini pizza for years.

☠️

Jay, I'll never forget that time you came over to check out my latest dollar bin haul, for which I was kind of excited. After flipping through my stack, you turned to me and said, "hoooo boy. Dude, you bought the wrong Jimmie Rodgers." D'oh indeed. Not a single song about hoppin' trains.

I'd say only if properly presented. I've been to two listening parties over the years (including taking a few turns on "play button" duty), and they've each been amazing experiences, but tbh I might need to attribute at least some of that to the quality of the cannabis offered.

This thing sells itself!

Dammit, I’m going to end up paying $1,200 for that new Bug Club, aren’t I?

Is he… is he jerking off those penguins?

Either you find this disgusting, or you are disgusting. There is no in between.