John Pfaff

George Washington was apparently a weighted average of post-Coach-era Craig T. Nelson and Star Trek TNG-era Brent Spiner.

I mean, GW hanging around in a Hanes t-shirt calmly talking into a mic is absolutely insane.

But ... Bruen? Wurmanmania? So much other crap?

It's hard to oversell the insanity that is originalism.

I'm not even being sarcastic when I say this could be LESS dumb than most originalism out there.

Arguably the model is trained on GW's actual speeches, writings, etc., and sorta contained to what he's said in those?

That ... that might--100% sincere--be more accurate than what Thomas does daily.

We were just trying to get his license plate number. We got about 4 of the 6 before the guy peeled off at an exit and disappeared into midtown.

To be fair to the cabbie, the guy whose car he was trying to catch had, a few blocks before, hopped out of his own car, run up to the cabbie, and punched him in the head thru the open driver-side window because the cabbie had honked once at him.

I'd been in NYC for about 45 minutes at that point.

I was in a high-speed car chase down the FDR, years before I moved to NYC, back when I was in college. Like swerving in and out of lanes, chasing down the car in front of us.

I was trapped in the back seat of a cab driven by a very angry cab driver.

In the category of “why we should never use two y-axes,” this here is the GOAT. Absolute GOAT.

There’s a reason R won’t even let you do two y axes. That reason is this.

(That said, still a legit huge accomplishment by China.)

I feel less bad that I said earlier I couldn’t pick Thune out of a lineup bc even after seeing this pic I still couldn’t.

He is literally the personification (or lack thereof) of the “Generic Republican” ballot entry.

WHY IS EVERY PAPER ON EARTH USING SCHUMER’S PICTURE WHEN HE LOST ON A PARTY-LINE VOTE??

THUNE IS THE FACE OF THIS, NOT SCHUMER.

I MEAN, COME ON.

Takes like this literally reinforce the problem.

“What can you do abt the GOP? They ran as assholes, and they’re crushing it.”

THAT’S THE PROBLEM.

As Dril taught us, you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.

They deserve BLAME for doing what they said they’d do.

Jay from Quahog @fromquahog.com • 1m THE GOP ran on BEING PIECES OF SHIT The DEMS did NOT We EXPECT MORE Form them and THEY are FAILING MISERABLY! ... jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.so... •3m And there will be about a million BlueSky posts, probably half of them RW trolls acting as leftist voices, blaming "Dem leadership". •••

It’s almost art. If only the order were reversed.

The @theguardian.com have an ombudsperson? Because this is the sort of editorial choice that a photo editor should have to publicly answer for.

The @theguardian.com have an ombudsperson? Because this is the sort of editorial choice that a photo editor should have to publicly answer for.

Our mainstream media has well and truly failed us these days, the political coverage in particular.

I mean, I honestly don’t know what Thune looks like—could not pick out of a lineup.

Because you’d never know from how ANYONE talks abt the Senate that the REPUBLICAN ACTUALLY RUN IT.

Every bad thing is Chuck’s fault for it stopping the no-agency, just-a-natural-disaster GOP.

Truly driving me mad.

Holy crap.

Just such a naked example of how only Dems are thought to have agency.

The GOP majority gets its way on a party-line vote, and @theguardian.com uses SCHUMER’S picture.

No one even knows what Thune—THE GUY IN CHARGE OF THE SENATE—looks like.

Appalling choice, Guardian. Reprehensible.

I almost feel like it’s more “not enough.” Or if they did watch a lot, they somehow missed that core not-a-whiner part.

Sentence/paragraph order matters too.

By putting "And, hey, maybe we are being more honest about the levels of mental illness in an increasingly stressed and taxed population," it makes that seem like a "we need to cover all our bases" thing.

Feels to me like it is a really big deal, actually.

It’s what Bruen demands, actually.

mamalachef @mamalachef.bsky.s... •7m → Replied to you These idiots are ignorant fools. It's a wonder they can feed themselves or put on a pair of pants.

Never a good sign when you don’t know which post of yours this refers to, bc there are already several possibilities.

The “shield” is intolerable here as well.

“Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.”

That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.

If no one on here is seeing the bad take—and again, mine is the sort of feed that should have his stuff pop up if it’s spreading organically—then dunking on it is doing much if not most if not all of the actual spreading.

a woman wearing a purple dress with grapes on her shoulder is smiling Alt: Barbra Streisand looking concerned.

I think my feed is pretty politics-heavy. Prob way TOO politics-heavy, but sort of professional unavoidable.

I mention that as background for this: the ONLY time I see Lakshya Jain takes is in screenshotted hate-dunks.

Ppl are rebutting claims ppl aren’t seeing *until the rebuttal.*

The Iranian ambassador was not, for the record, on American soil.

I’ve never seen an admin more full of juvenile man-children openly projecting their juvenile man-childness every time they open their mouths and try to come across as “tough.” (And yes, I know Waltz’s background: still juvenile.)

I’m going to make a Blue Wave prediction that the Dems win 100% of their primaries tonight.

That said, don’t sleep on the fact that the GOP will likely win 100% of theirs as well, even with Trump’s low poll numbers.

And if that isn’t practical—Canada may not have the stadiums, and Mexico the stability—then Italy, Germany, Brazil? Surely some past host has the infrastructure to step up and less-horrible leaders.

It’s not a great fix! But then this is all sort of a real mess.

If FIFA had a spine—which we know it does not—it would move all World Cup games to Canada and Mexico.

We don’t deserve to host them, and foreign players and fans do not deserve to be subjected to threats from Miller’s CBP and ICE thugs.

I’d be extra-happy if my theoretical Dem president used your exact language when rejecting it!

I for one have always been proud of my grandfathers’ service during Word Military Operation II.

And the generation before that in the Strategic Intervention to End All Strategic Interventions.

And of course my great-…-great grandfather’s time in the Union cavalry during the Civil Armed Response.