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The guy from that place with the thing.
RE Elon v. The Idiot - to borrow my favorite quote from Louie De Palma:

"A duel of wits between unarmed opponents."
June 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Social Security's always been called the "third rail" of American politics: you touch it, you die.

Turns out, all you needed to become invulnerable to that was to not GAF about anybody that needs it.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Lies, Cuts, Closures: Trump and Musk Ravage Social Security Administration
Donald Trump’s administration closed field offices, then they fired online help workers. How will Americans access their benefits?
www.rollingstone.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Oh, goodness- Sen. Susan Collins is..."concerned". 🙄

Given that she folds like an old lawn chair on almost every consequential senate vote- including making an idiot anti-vaxxer head of the HHS -color me unimpressed.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Republican Senator Calls Trump's Mass Firings a 'Big Problem'
Sen. Susan Collins said she is "concerned" how the firings, carried out by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, will affect her state.
www.rollingstone.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Abso-freaking-lutely: a 100% united "NO" front is exactly what's required in this situation- and any elected Democrat crossing that line should be called out for being the Vichy that they are.

This line needs to be drawn.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Democrats, don’t save Trump from himself
Republicans have the votes. The minority party ought not give them a single one.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Musk & VP Hillbilly are trying to get this guy rehired- a *self-professed* racist who was posting hate messages as recently as a MONTH ago.

Contrary to what Hillbilly says, he isn't just a "dumb kid"- he's an adult who knew EXACTLY what he was doing.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
"Normalize Indian hate" - Muskovite Marko Elez resigns from DOGE after racist posts uncovered
Two days ago I wrote about Marko Elez, the 25-year-old Elon Musk lackey with direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government. Two of WIRED’s ...
www.dailykos.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So we now have a Vichy government.

Where's our de Gaulle?
February 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It's comedic that only *now*, after decades of enabling exactly this kind of wrong-headed governing, McConnell decides to vote his conscience when his opinion couldn't possibly matter less. (smh)

Again: just GO. TF. AWAY, you useless POS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...
Who Are the Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Pete Hegseth?
Senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell voted against confirming Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary. To Capitol insiders, their decisions weren’t surprising.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
RE Oscar noms: just my 2 cents, but "Didi" was the best movie *I* saw all year.

That is all.
January 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's interesting that the same political party that once lost their shit over a song titled "F**k Tha Police" has now actually *done that* to the D.C. police department.
January 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Well, c'mon- who wants to burst into flames at their own inauguration?
January 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just this, borrowed from a Rolling Stone article:

"On this cold Monday afternoon in the nation’s capital, a twice-impeached convicted felon will be inaugurated in the very building where his attempt to steal an election four years ago left pools of blood."

That is all.
January 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Well, I can console myself with the fact that the Bills will be picking up the pieces of their team after getting bulldozed by the Chiefs at the Super Bowl.

They got lucky tonight; that doesn't happen against Mahomes.
January 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM