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"anyone else plotting a coup against the president to restore the constitution? 😳" You have been kicked from army chat You have been added to army chat (secret)

A baseline expectation of government is the maintenance of standardized weights and measures, to the extent that kings are known as “rulers” and are often depicted with scales in their hands.

i won't fly on a plane unless the pilots tell me their pronouns

Wokeness holds up half the sky

After having put it down for a few months I got back into Neuromancer a bit today, and every other page so far has been "oh so this is where Cyberpunk 2077 ripped of this idea from"

My vizier told me cybertrucks keep setting his troops on fire so I asked how many troops he has and he said he just goes to the NRA gun show and gets a new platoon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding troops to the cybetruck fire and then his kidnapped toddler started crying

Prime Minister Trudeau, the people of occupied Lower British Columbia cry out for liberation. We cannot even afford egg for our families. Please send your elite mountie shock troops and free us from the yankee oppressors. (1/2)

we should probably teach kids to code more just to demystify this shit. like it’s not easy, but it’s very learnable. letting people think Being Good At Computer makes you a genius polymath has been such a disaster.

Seems like my new shoes weren't too small, just that my day to day socks were too thick. Bit worried that one of them stretched out a bit too much around the heel because of it though

Why was I unaware that the Knights of Columbus' headquarters looks like something I student threw together in Solidworks instead of paying attention in class

Explaining American foreign policy to a stranger in 2025: imagine adolf hitler if he was an apartheid south afrikaner boer

there’s no need to listen to Axios Vox CNN NYT Atlantic etc pundits about Trump because his most accurate analysts are once again all the Twitter/Bluesky shitposters who were joking just a week or so ago that he didn’t understand the Mercator projection

I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

Bad news. I woke up in Washington, DC, piss drunk in my destroyed hotel room. I have literally no memory of who I am, what I’m doing, nor why I’m here. I lost my shoe and I owe the hotel money. My partner(?) is waiting in the lobby and we need to solve a crime before the country falls into chaos.

只有尼克松才能去中国,只有特朗普才能开启中国世纪。

Harden hmyour hearts Canadians, increase your attacks. Until gas is 10 dollars a gallon your job is not yet done

Honestly if you look at it dispassionately the electoral success of the GOP is pretty impressive. Objectively whenever they are actually in power they are the Make Your Life Worse Party, but they've given enough of the electorate brain damage to win about half of elections anyway

Trump's crude performance of raw power is extremely effective at aweing stupid and weak-minded people, such as the editors of major newspapers.

Nonzero chance that dem senators aren't just incompetent but are trying to cover their asses from authoritarian backlash that they fully expect to happen

See you know hitting your kids doesn't work because if it did he'd be flinching from memories of his mother breaking a wood spoon on his ass before trying to say shit like this

Actually, we want an America where anyone who even considered voting for Trump is ostracized. Socially normalizing this behavior by tolerating these people is how we got to this point

Explaining podcasts to a stranger: imagine adolf hitler in an audio studio

haul musk before congress by next week and ask him exactly what they sent, why, whom they sent it to, who authorized it, and how many FAA employees accepted. drag vought’s ass back up and ask him the fucking same.

trying to explain the american vice president to a stranger: imagine if the antichrist was from ohio

president trump is bringing back american industry from those we offshored it to. for instance, we no longer need to rely on foreign nations to do our 9/11s

It's not "politicizing a tragedy" to point out the top levels of the federal government aren't functional—the three key leaders here are drunk rapist TV show host at DoD, reality TV star at DoT, and nobody at FAA—and they're doing squat except spreading the same dysfunction down the ladder.

Robert F. Kenney got into Harvard by submitting an application that was a single page long and consisted entirely of his name. Here's why it's time to end DEI.

Every single US poll right now is "Do you agree with bespoke Trump policy" Yes: 24% No: 70% "Do you approve of Donald Trump as President?" Yes: 50% No: 48%

Everything is so stupid, the ideology driving everyone in the Trump admin insane being monarchist internet bloggers is just embarrassing. The fucking intellectual dork web’s last hurrah.

New season of Harley Quinn having Aisha Tyler as a main cast member is throwing me. Can't hear her voice without thinking of Archer

This may well end up being cope but I think we're dealing with a bunch of gryopers who, while incredibly dangerous, are genuinely too dumb to worl out meaningful long term plans and too divorced from reality to figure out how to sell their shit to normies

I used to think questions of politicial legitimacy were a polite fiction in the face of naked power to. Then I grew up

One of the single greatest things Chuck Schumer could do for American democracy and for the future of the Democratic party is to [REDACTED] himself on the Senate floor

specifically we need to make their personal lives an intolerable hellscape of petty harassment

I'm sorry bro. If the Trump administration is impounding half the federal budget, and is about to send out emails requesting that all 2 million federal employees resign, Democratic leaders need to immediately be organizing mass non-stop protests in DC.

Getting warmer. Call it a crisis, though. You want the public to feel the sense of overwhelming crisis in their bones, in their veins. You want the same tension that people felt as COVID loomed - not knowing what was going to happen, fearful for the future. And it's all Trump's fault.

You can make up lies about american adolf hitler. It’s completely free.

some of those that trump pardoned / also have pedo charges