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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 13h

It is obviously insane to believe that Medicaid fraud by "able-bodied men without dependents" is a serious problem in need of attention but also the idea that basic medical care should be dependent on working is fucking stupid, nobody is grifting through life because they love seeing doctors.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 14h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 1d

He’s right and he should say it.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

Right I am tired of this. Oasis fucking sucks ok? I have been subject to what I can only describe as a fifteen-year long propaganda campaign, started by my high school crush, to make me believe otherwise. I have pretended for long enough. His voice is unpleasant to hear and the lyrics are terrible

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 4d

A couple of dudes giving each other gentle headbutts is as close as the NFL gets to modeling nontoxic masculinity and it absolutely rocks.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7d

It only happened once

New York Post headline “Beat the Meatles” about the Beatles doing sex stuff together

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 9d

Obviously this is all truly incredible content but I want to highlight that he does this whole thing while wearing a red “USA” hat.

Rob Lowe wearing a hat that says “NFL” on it.

Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 13d

I mean this with all sincerity when I say I am grateful to you for listening to this shit and telling me about it so I will never feel compelled to.

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 13d

The verse that goes

"All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway"

is something that I, uh, think about sometimes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fC...

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 13d

(Emergency room doctor watching a patient have a heart attack)

“Do you have a passport or another government ID proving your citizenship?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Vance: "There's a lot of emergency healthcare at hospitals provided to illegal aliens. That was funded by the federal govt. We turned off that funding because of course we want citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed & then have those hospital services go to illegal aliens"

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 13d

Hey man, cool reasoning. Question for you - do you think that most comics performing in the US are being paid by the US government to perform?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 13d

The specific ask is healthcare, but at root the principle is that if they need democratic votes, republicans don’t get to tell them to go fuck themselves and then blame them for the results. And at root *that* is about the republicans’ autocratic tendencies.

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 14d

It's not the nature of the beast! It's utterly batshit! An entire party being in thrall to a monster like Trump is not inevitable, and in fact convincing Republicans that their careers will be longer if they balk against him sometimes rather than always roll over is one of the ways out of this mess!

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 14d

Also this is clearly not for the people in that room, it's for the rank-and-file, specifically the ones that give the people in that room the biggest headaches. Maybe Hegseth thinks it's a power play to say "the worst guy in your unit is now in control" but I doubt he thought that far ahead.

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 14d

I need a leaked Signal chat from these guys like I need air to breathe.

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 14d

As a person who plays video games I have killed a lot of digital people but I’d be hard-pressed to think of a kill that has given me as much satisfaction as wiping the smug look off of Caesar’s face (and then proceeding to wipe the Legion off the face of the earth.)

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 15d

Back then we could go anywhere, we could clip through shopping carts, nowadays matter is too solid to do that, thanks to woke.

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 15d

I was gonna say, people absolutely talk about Roanoke like this. People who live in the county talk about the insane way they have to plan around taking a trip into the city in the middle of the day because if they don't they'll get carjacked and then murdered.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20d

vance really does stand out for his absolute contempt for anything that looks like forbearance and generosity. his immediate instinct is always to demagogue and issue calumnies against his fellow americans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

JD Vance: "What we know is that in Dallas, Texas, an ICE facility was opened fire open by a violent left-wing extremist, a person who wrote anti-ICE messaging on their ballots. These's some evidence we have that's not yet public."

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 21d

(Hyperventilating.)

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 22d

Disco Stu from the Simpsons showing a chart of disco records exponentially increasing between 1973 and 1976 and saying “If these trends continue…ayyy!”

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 26d

A Tweet that reads “STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am sensitive to the Holocaust
BAYLESS: Absolutely
STEPHEN A: BUT!”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27d

Anna Gomez: “We must stand firm against every attempt to silence dissent, punish satirists and government critics, and erode individual liberty. To surrender our right to speak freely is to accept that those in power, not the people, will set the boundaries of debate that define a free society.”

FCC Chair Threatens Jimmy Kimmel Over Charlie Kirk Monologue Comments; ABC Pulls Show

ABC has suspend 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' in the wake of Brendan Carr threatening ABC affiliates following the late-night host's comments about the suspected Kirk shooter's politics.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Craig T @furiousgiorge.bsky.social · 27d

This is a nuts-ass way to look at any of this. Trump has glommed on to long-standing ideas on the American far right, but his rhetoric has turbocharged those elements and injected them into the mainstream. The way out isn’t to just live this way, it’s to convince Americans that this is poisonous.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 27d

"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."

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