markspotsthex
@markspotsthex.bsky.social
Social media expatriate. Ex-Facebook, Ex-Twitter.
Say the Commander-in-Chief is an ignorant, petulant child without saying the Commander-in-Chief is an ignorant, petulant child.
Lindsey Graham on the attack on US troops in Syria: "God bless President Trump for wanting to retaliate"
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Say the Commander-in-Chief is an ignorant, petulant child without saying the Commander-in-Chief is an ignorant, petulant child.
I’m beginning to think that the GOP should have been more focused on the margins they will lose by going full “Trump autocrat mode” as opposed to solidifying the base, which is actually far smaller than they thought.
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I’m beginning to think that the GOP should have been more focused on the margins they will lose by going full “Trump autocrat mode” as opposed to solidifying the base, which is actually far smaller than they thought.
I’m really surprised that the “small government” “state’s rights” folks are trying to block state laws on AI with an Executive Order.
I’m beginning to wonder if I’m not up to speed with the Tenth Amendment or maybe they’re just full of shit and always have been.
I’m beginning to wonder if I’m not up to speed with the Tenth Amendment or maybe they’re just full of shit and always have been.
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’m really surprised that the “small government” “state’s rights” folks are trying to block state laws on AI with an Executive Order.
I’m beginning to wonder if I’m not up to speed with the Tenth Amendment or maybe they’re just full of shit and always have been.
I’m beginning to wonder if I’m not up to speed with the Tenth Amendment or maybe they’re just full of shit and always have been.
Ah, Trump didn’t commit fraud. He was victim of thousands of “scrivener’s errors”.
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Ah, Trump didn’t commit fraud. He was victim of thousands of “scrivener’s errors”.
Haha, I never thought I-65 could ever be made worse, but I’ll admit I was wrong.
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Haha, I never thought I-65 could ever be made worse, but I’ll admit I was wrong.
FFS, Times New Roman is a font only a knee-biting sycophant would prefer.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
FFS, Times New Roman is a font only a knee-biting sycophant would prefer.
I am in favor of a law that bans the POTUS from lying about his health. Make it a Federal felony for the POTUS to mislead the public on personal health matters. If others, including doctors, aid in this crime, charge them with conspiracy to defraud the public.
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am in favor of a law that bans the POTUS from lying about his health. Make it a Federal felony for the POTUS to mislead the public on personal health matters. If others, including doctors, aid in this crime, charge them with conspiracy to defraud the public.
So you’re saying someone that planted bombs on January 6 believed the same lie as others committing violent acts on January 6.
Shocker.
Shocker.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So you’re saying someone that planted bombs on January 6 believed the same lie as others committing violent acts on January 6.
Shocker.
Shocker.
If you grift hard enough, you can afford anything.
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
If you grift hard enough, you can afford anything.
This saddens me. In HS English, we covered Hamlet through “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, including the film with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. “Questions” became a daily exercise for several weeks.
Breaking news: Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born British playwright whose intellectually daring and verbally dazzling works became some of the most acclaimed and frequently staged of the past half-century, has died at 88.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88
His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-cen...
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This saddens me. In HS English, we covered Hamlet through “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, including the film with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. “Questions” became a daily exercise for several weeks.
Things I need to stop feeling guilty about, #2:
I buy myself nice things occasionally.
I can afford more than I spend. My spouse is generous and kind with our shared resources. I should not torture myself by needing to justify a cost, especially when such purchases are infrequent if not rare.
I buy myself nice things occasionally.
I can afford more than I spend. My spouse is generous and kind with our shared resources. I should not torture myself by needing to justify a cost, especially when such purchases are infrequent if not rare.
Things I need to stop feeling guilty about, #1:
I had to rush to get my work done before leaving for vacation, possibly not doing my best work, because someone else overcommitted me.
Being overstaffed is a luxury to be afforded, not avoided. The benefits outweigh the costs to the people impacted.
I had to rush to get my work done before leaving for vacation, possibly not doing my best work, because someone else overcommitted me.
Being overstaffed is a luxury to be afforded, not avoided. The benefits outweigh the costs to the people impacted.
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Things I need to stop feeling guilty about, #2:
I buy myself nice things occasionally.
I can afford more than I spend. My spouse is generous and kind with our shared resources. I should not torture myself by needing to justify a cost, especially when such purchases are infrequent if not rare.
I buy myself nice things occasionally.
I can afford more than I spend. My spouse is generous and kind with our shared resources. I should not torture myself by needing to justify a cost, especially when such purchases are infrequent if not rare.
Things I need to stop feeling guilty about, #1:
I had to rush to get my work done before leaving for vacation, possibly not doing my best work, because someone else overcommitted me.
Being overstaffed is a luxury to be afforded, not avoided. The benefits outweigh the costs to the people impacted.
I had to rush to get my work done before leaving for vacation, possibly not doing my best work, because someone else overcommitted me.
Being overstaffed is a luxury to be afforded, not avoided. The benefits outweigh the costs to the people impacted.
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Things I need to stop feeling guilty about, #1:
I had to rush to get my work done before leaving for vacation, possibly not doing my best work, because someone else overcommitted me.
Being overstaffed is a luxury to be afforded, not avoided. The benefits outweigh the costs to the people impacted.
I had to rush to get my work done before leaving for vacation, possibly not doing my best work, because someone else overcommitted me.
Being overstaffed is a luxury to be afforded, not avoided. The benefits outweigh the costs to the people impacted.
The GOP cannot win elections when the electorate is educated, informed, and engaged.
- This achieves the first goal.
- Undermining or owning the media achieves the second.
- Voter suppression achieves the third.
- This achieves the first goal.
- Undermining or owning the media achieves the second.
- Voter suppression achieves the third.
Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
The department will shift responsibilities for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.
dlvr.it
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The GOP cannot win elections when the electorate is educated, informed, and engaged.
- This achieves the first goal.
- Undermining or owning the media achieves the second.
- Voter suppression achieves the third.
- This achieves the first goal.
- Undermining or owning the media achieves the second.
- Voter suppression achieves the third.
If this is a Democrat hoax, they have been wasting the capabilities of their time machine.
Mike Johnson accuses Democrats of "trying to manufacture some sort of hoax that the president something to do with Epstein. It is absurd ... they have Trump derangement syndrome."
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If this is a Democrat hoax, they have been wasting the capabilities of their time machine.
Can you really damage something a person never had?
The recent Epstein emails have badly damaged Donald Trump’s credibility
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Can you really damage something a person never had?
Actually, if Boomers would just sell their homes and downsize in retirement, Millennials and Gen Z would be able to enter the housing market. The flood of homes on the market would drive down prices to where they should be.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Actually, if Boomers would just sell their homes and downsize in retirement, Millennials and Gen Z would be able to enter the housing market. The flood of homes on the market would drive down prices to where they should be.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Secretary Pete would never say this but would make it his mission to get performance as close to a guarantee as possible.
Secretary Road Rules is quick to just throw hands up and say, “Don’t blame me.”
Secretary Road Rules is quick to just throw hands up and say, “Don’t blame me.”
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Secretary Pete would never say this but would make it his mission to get performance as close to a guarantee as possible.
Secretary Road Rules is quick to just throw hands up and say, “Don’t blame me.”
Secretary Road Rules is quick to just throw hands up and say, “Don’t blame me.”
Please, stop pondering and worrying about “winners and losers” of a government shutdown, or of any political activity for that matter.
Unless everyone is clothed, fed, housed, educated, and contributing faithfully to society, we have failed as a nation.
There are no winners. We all lose.
Unless everyone is clothed, fed, housed, educated, and contributing faithfully to society, we have failed as a nation.
There are no winners. We all lose.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Please, stop pondering and worrying about “winners and losers” of a government shutdown, or of any political activity for that matter.
Unless everyone is clothed, fed, housed, educated, and contributing faithfully to society, we have failed as a nation.
There are no winners. We all lose.
Unless everyone is clothed, fed, housed, educated, and contributing faithfully to society, we have failed as a nation.
There are no winners. We all lose.
Trump didn’t pardon himself. In my opinion, it’s because he plans to hold office until he dies, avoiding justice entirely.
History will not view this act kindly, nor those it benefits. It is wise to refuse this pardon, an admission of guilt for conspiracy in the 2020 election.
History will not view this act kindly, nor those it benefits. It is wise to refuse this pardon, an admission of guilt for conspiracy in the 2020 election.
The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.
Trump grants pardons to Giuliani, Meadows, others linked to 2020 election efforts
The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Trump didn’t pardon himself. In my opinion, it’s because he plans to hold office until he dies, avoiding justice entirely.
History will not view this act kindly, nor those it benefits. It is wise to refuse this pardon, an admission of guilt for conspiracy in the 2020 election.
History will not view this act kindly, nor those it benefits. It is wise to refuse this pardon, an admission of guilt for conspiracy in the 2020 election.
Acceptance of a pardon is explicitly an admission of guilt for crimes committed. If there is overlap between state and federal law, they would be idiots to accept the federal pardons, because states will use that against them.
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Acceptance of a pardon is explicitly an admission of guilt for crimes committed. If there is overlap between state and federal law, they would be idiots to accept the federal pardons, because states will use that against them.
I’m beginning to see an AI problem. AI companies are funded by wealthy people whose other investments employ millions of laborers and workers. AI has the potential to reduce need for labor, which doesn’t displace the wealthy but does make them wealthier while doing little for the displaced worker.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I’m beginning to see an AI problem. AI companies are funded by wealthy people whose other investments employ millions of laborers and workers. AI has the potential to reduce need for labor, which doesn’t displace the wealthy but does make them wealthier while doing little for the displaced worker.
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Jack White just thanked “the homeless, the powerless, and the forgotten” as he’s inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He said we should all always be thinking of and thanking them, and it really moved me.
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Jack White just thanked “the homeless, the powerless, and the forgotten” as he’s inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He said we should all always be thinking of and thanking them, and it really moved me.
To appease the Transportation Secretary’s domestic flight reductions, airlines should cut all flights to Republicans states.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
To appease the Transportation Secretary’s domestic flight reductions, airlines should cut all flights to Republicans states.
“He’ll be gone in just over three years…”
If not sooner.
Let us not forget that Trump is an unfit, elderly man in poor health. If Republicans aren’t working under the assumption that Trump could die in office before his term ends, they’re deluding themselves.
If not sooner.
Let us not forget that Trump is an unfit, elderly man in poor health. If Republicans aren’t working under the assumption that Trump could die in office before his term ends, they’re deluding themselves.
"But with Tuesday’s stunning election losses crystallizing the risks to downballot Republicans...there are growing signs that lawmakers are contending with the facts of their political lives: He’ll be gone in just over three years, while they’ll still be around."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Donald Trump enters his lame duck era
Republicans are starting to contend with the fact that the president will soon be gone, and they'll be fending for themselves.
www.politico.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“He’ll be gone in just over three years…”
If not sooner.
Let us not forget that Trump is an unfit, elderly man in poor health. If Republicans aren’t working under the assumption that Trump could die in office before his term ends, they’re deluding themselves.
If not sooner.
Let us not forget that Trump is an unfit, elderly man in poor health. If Republicans aren’t working under the assumption that Trump could die in office before his term ends, they’re deluding themselves.
She must have some really good divorce lawyers on retainer.
The greatest patriot in the history of patriots. So much patriotism.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
She must have some really good divorce lawyers on retainer.