Lots to like about Mark Kelly but the fact that he isn't part of the right-wing weird-blond-mophead, grown-up-Village-Of-The-Damned-siblings crop of Trump, Boris, Geert Wilders and Doug Ford seals the deal.

Remember amid all the (justified) Trump outrage that over one-third of US voters stayed home in2024.

If not for you pseudo-principled dipshits he'd be in jail now.

Fuck your reasons. When you refuse to support the lesser of two evils on E day, the resulting delta between levels of evil is on you.

I know we live in the post-truth era but there is no more brazen shameless trousers-aflame bald-faced lie than the words "on-demand water heater."

Doing a Secret Santa at work. I'm going to get mine a coffee mug that says "World's Greatest Pedophile."

squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

To those blaming the housing crisis on immigration: Please recall that YOU are the ones insisted that the market will respond to demand by creating more supply & shortages are impossible in Ayn Rand Utopia. We "socialists" are the ones who disagreed with you. The invisible hand job wasn't our idea.

But what if the Epstein files include names of people nominally of the centrist political party, whose machine systematically froze out actual progressives candidates, but for whom you held your nose and grudgingly voted for b/c they were in principle less odious than the alternative HUH WHAT THEN?

Welp my iPhone got a software update and I guess it included installing the "i Can't Make Out The Time On My Homescreen" app.

Click here to reset your safeword

TRUMP: "My political opponents should literally be executed."

CABLE TALKING HEADS: "Is this an opportunity for Democrats to pivot to the centre and win back the white working class with a targeted tax cut in 2026?"

Imagining a stuffy old headmaster who goes to work for Bletchley Park during WW2 and every time they decide a German message he goes on the radio like "Oh, what have we here, Herr Kommandant, a note? Let's see, 'Intercepted convoy at 1236h stop All ships sunk stop Greta says you're hot stop HH.'"

Newly returned to Bluesky after 3 years and seeing everyone talking about how NOW Trump has gone too far.

In 2024, just under a third of eligible voters voted for Trump. Another just-over-1/3 didn't vote at all.

In other words, two-thirds of you own this shit. No excuses. YOU DID THIS. YOU.

IDK who needs to hear this but fuck all those conservative personal finance guys who say "Stay married." Yeah, we know--divorce is financially and emotionally ruinous. You don't do it unless the alternative is utter misery forever.1/X

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