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"The Simpsons" is a documentary. Homer is the median American. Formerly SkinnerBoxUSA at the other place. IFBAV.
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Yeah, I've come to think that "distraction" is a bit of an oversimplification. Mostly it's just sheer overwhelm, spray the zone with a firehose of shit and wear 'em down, no one can keep up. Some of it's just simple A/B testing, I think. Annex Canada or Greenland? Yes/no? 🤔 bsky.app/profile/danm...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Come get me, motherfucker. YOU. I want YOU to show up on my porch. 🖕🤡🖕

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I've often said that when Trump finally dies, probably Elvis-style, people will dance in the streets and/or get drunk in celebration. I actually keep a $100 bottle of Ardbeg handy for when it happens. The same will be true for Musk. The world is worse for him being in it. bsky.app/profile/tomt...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Russia isn't Trump's "friend," they're his *boss*. At best, one of his shady business partners. bsky.app/profile/angr...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Sure, but does anyone doubt for a second that whatever self-dealing scheme he draws up for the USPS, no matter how ludicrously corrupt, will get immediately rubber-stamped by this congress? They've proven they'll do whatever he commands them, period. bsky.app/profile/josh...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you ever wondered how a civilized modern country like Germany could have gone so completely and violently insane, you're looking right at it. Shoulda shown up.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

It’s like Trump is motivated to prove everything libs said “actually you can’t do that” to for four years was just libs being lazy and libs will learn nothing from this www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 1 day ago • 1418 comments

I just glanced at that Musk clip, and as an old bartender, I’ll tell you it would have been illegal for me to serve him. These guys are all gunned to the rafters.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Ah yes, the finely-honed "business acumen" of a fake tycoon who bankrupts casinos, stiff contractors, slaps his name on things. Hard to believe such a bidness genius couldn't go through the *entire federal workforce* with "a fine-tooth comb." 🙄 Jesus, these pathetic saps. bsky.app/profile/ater...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Democratic officeholders will never, ever take a direct action to solve a problem when they can defer it by proposing some sort of Rube Goldberg process that would be less effective even if it worked which it won't

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

McConnell's genius was to make politics about victory at all costs. Power is not the goal; you must squeeze it from the other side. A lot of our Democrat friends find this distasteful. They'll never teach it in Sunday School. But it's only a game if you agree on the rules.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Glad someone has the stones to say what needs to be said, what precious few Dems will ever screw up the courage to even think to themselves. Kluwe has always struck me as the sort of person who'd be good in a political job, but is smart enough to not want the headache. bsky.app/profile/chri...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Not gonna watch because Chuck Todd, but "throne-sniffers" is dead on. What actual news do they miss if they stay away? They can watch avails on C-Span and read press releases.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

What Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are doing isn’t best understood as legal scholarship. It’s more like wartime public relations, or like SEO. It’s creating bullshit that will give dishonest judges a pretext to pretend that there is a serious constitutional dispute. They’re fascism’s fixers.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

I want a leader who runs the government like a business. Specifically like the worst family-owned business imaginable. A pet store where the tropical fish have all somehow contracted gonorrhea. A failing adult bookstore run by two feuding brothers who keep trying to blow up each others' cars.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

The United States would be far more screwed without California than California would be as an independent nation. Fact. I like being a lifelong Californian. I'm beyond sick and tired of being a lifelong American. A bullshit despotism that sponges my goddamned money. đź–•đź–•đź–• bsky.app/profile/alfr...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

part of the plan in cancelling or curtailing money for CA HSR is that they want to steal as much money from California as possible to provoke a budget crisis and collapse of the state's finances in order to create leverage of the CA government to do what they want, and to make an example of us.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In a very genuine way we need to salute dudes like this who are just big guys in baseball caps who say things like “I’m a Christian so I think we should care about everybody”

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments