if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Just checking, and maybe I’ve got it wrong, but wasn’t his argument that the feedback loop of social media sentiment made people feel hold empirically wrong beliefs about the economy, while also downplaying the fascist threat of Trump, & this depressed turnout for Dems?

“Is it a genocide if I make up a reason to justify a genocide?” I mean, yes.

Hamas thrives by conflating Hamas with the Palestinian people—why are you validating their message?

One important thing to note about all of this is that Thiel is right: it is a lot harder than it used to be to hide your money. We should understand the increasing intensity of the enemies of democracy in part as an indication that we are drawing blood and making progress and they're very afraid

Inshallah this bodes well for the posting to Nuremburg trial pipeline.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

If my childhood team (Tigers) can’t do it, I root for my adult home team (Dodgers), which, yeah, is like “after MSU, my safety school is Yale”

Luckily, dodgers are my backup team

Whatever makes you feel special

Sure babe

Ok

“Gaslight just like MAGA” 😱😱😱😱

lol ChatGPT therapist

“Have the hard conversations about how the Portland airport doesn’t feel like the future, honky.”

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

An attempted strike at the ball, even a bunt, trumps hit by pitch and should result in a dead ball rather than a runner just saying

I reread all of them in order about a year ago, & they are more fun together bc they get mixed quality but the overlaps are great and loose

Wouldn’t say the booth has a hard on for bunts

Bunts preclude tumescence

Rum Punch, as part of the sprawling Elmoreverse, is even better, but really, Bob Ritchie is exactly where Frank Ryan fucks up in Swag

His pisswater was a big part of what ruined the Michigan Brewing Company in Webberville (in that they signed a shitty lease to expand to make it and it didn’t sell well enough to support the brewery because it’s pisswater that calls itself Badass)

I grew up in a town where every elementary history tour included Underground Railroad hideouts in every house we went to

This is so dystopic