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Oldsmobile Incas concept (1986)

random thought: kind of criminally negligent that the EU isn’t funding some kind of info op to counter the Russian efforts here. fuckin Tulsi Gabbard is DNI for chrissakes

I love when they talk about public spending like it's a cheat code to making the economy better and add that we need to immediately stop using it so everything is a little worse.

Per a source, recipients of CDC grants received a questionnaire (maybe from OMB) today with some "absolutely nuts" questions. "Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"

It’s amazing how the world’s richest people, with the backing of the federal government and leaders in media, education, and business, can still position itself as a scrappy rebellion against *checks notes* the most marginalized and exploited groups in the country.

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

this is fucking sick

52 years ago today

So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.

you might be tempted to think this is a joke but on one of my last days in ohio i saw a kid who couldn't have been older than 10 smoking cigs with his dad at the bus stop

I’m sorry… this is hilarious 😭😭

Let me assure Justice Roberts, his conservative brethren, and the FedSoc forces that put them there that the President of the United States is right: we won’t forget what you’ve done. We’ll remember where you’ve brought us.

I AM FORTY FUCKING FOUR I HAVE BEEN AN ADULT FOR DECADES DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A MILLENNIAL IS

shouldn't have slapped roberts on the shoulder like that

The morons have no idea what they're doing.

1. Short everything 2. Announce tariffs 3. Close out short positions 4. Buy the dip 5. Call off the tariffs 6. Sell the spike 7. Repeat Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?

these people are hopeless. i hope they all get tea partied next year

I don’t know how to stop being mad at how dumb everyone is

a 16 year-old DOGE staffer known only as TesticulusMaxxximus1488 just moved the stone tortoise that was restraining the 36 Heavenly Spirits and the 72 Earthly Fiends, buckle up everybody

I know this is the most obvious thing but it’s not that rightwing people have bad views, it’s that they have *no* views other than accumulating power. They just lie! They just pretend to care about free speech or veterans or Christianity or parental involvement in school, they just make shit up!

country went to hell when auto shops put these in in place of a glass carafe that had been on the burner continuously since the Truman administration

[Sigh] fuck us up, Doug

we've reached the point that the WSJ opinion section is publishing pieces with headlines like this, just saying

Key takeaway from DOGE: There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.

What coherent and intelligent commentary can you even have on national security or military affairs anymore? Everything is just fucking stupid now. What are you even supposed to say besides just repeating over and over how fucking dumb every single decision is?

do you have any idea how expensive Dan Flashes is

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

Among the crimes he will have to answer for is making half life cringe. Bro take that T-shirt OFF

I believe Musk and DOGE disbanded 18F because we stood in the way of their "procurement capture" operation. We get the government *out* of wasteful contracts. Musk wants that money back for himself. Explanation by @anildash.com of procurement capture: www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D...

ghost gobbler, trs-80 coco (1982) www.mobygames.com/game/175954/...

This is art

This nation’s pets are carrying such a heavy load right now

I think that Democrats should boycott the State of the Union, which is pointless. Instead, of having a Democrat provide the rebuttal, they should bring in recently fired federal workers to describe the important work they used to do.

relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once

I think relatively apolitical, or vaguely liberal (or even conservative) but mostly depoliticized white collar knowledge workers really need to be told how much the right wing elite both hates their jobs and hates them personally as people.

Pope Francis Left In Hot Popemobile

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit