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James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
Before anyone gets too carried away here.
You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.
Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.
What better way to observe the end of slavery than a rich old white man yelling to work harder.
If a plea for kindness and empathy makes you furious, you might be a sociopath.
I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
Bluesky right now feels a little like all the Whos gathering to sing after the Grinch stole their floofloovers and jingtinglers.
I think the President musing about killing people "just for fun" would have resulted in every major paper demanding impeachment in the before times.
Tucker Carlson, of all people, showing how easy it can be to pop the bullshit bubble if you don’t mind making a liar angry should shame every White House reporter.
How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.
Pretty fun that Springsteen managed to organize an America 250 concert line up that people actually want to see.
“Terry. Terry. I am the Pope. Did you see the picture? The hat? The beautiful white hat? The tremendous cross? Get him the picture.”
The idea that the federal government can go before a judge and say, “Yeah we arrested the wrong guy, but too bad, so sad” is not alarming nearly enough people yet.
This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.
If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.
He does this little dance every time he gives criminal President more power.
Even low information voters should get that it’s not normal for a President to make billions of dollars as soon as they’re in power.