Nick Walker Hirsch

Continued Rogan: "And what about Brooklyn Bridge? I have the deed right here, and so do half of my listeners!"

"We deserve to know which one of us got the real deed!!"

That's way too lively a rodent.

The one in Trump's brain is on a respirator under hospice care.

Is there a Reverends per capita measure by state?

I'm legitimately curious about the stats on this

Were they pastors before they got together, or was it a shared adventure situation?

I think it's hard for a lot of people to conceptualize what expertise actually is, which is why it's become so devalued in US society and politics.

Which is funny because four years is already a very short amount of time to expect someone to complete a full PhD if they're actually doing the work.

I'm reminded of the pop culture trope where they try to tell you a character is smart by stacking up PhDs they supposedly earned at a young age.

"She graduated high school at six years old and earned two PhDs by the time she was twenty!"

Because people really don't know how higher ed works.

This is fucking madness

Insanity

Did you get paid to share their advertisement or are you spreading it for free?

Gullible or cynical, is what I'm asking.

Looking through this dude's profile and yeah, he's not really worth reading. Lots of just made up, vibes based pseudo-reporting and bad takes.

Do you think we're currently living in the 90s or something? Because single income households have been a thing of the past since as long as I've been an adult.

He shit himself, didn't he

Probably it's not a good thing that Wall Street investors are some of the dumbest people ever to have walked the earth.

Just completely head-empty, shambling morons.

Turns out the titular Wolf of Wall Street is Moon Moon.

The war that is not a war that is just getting started and might last until September is pretty much done and we’re also going to seize a strait we don’t control and maybe kill more leaders if we don’t like them

Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

It's all so clear

To be fair, from outside of Texas it sometimes feels like every human in that state is a Reverend or directly related to one.

I think that's the last time he ever felt anything

Be the Eumenides you want to see in the world

To riff on Donna Haraway:

This thing is a cyborg - a monster with a thousand origins but no singular creator.

And yeah, racism, misogyny, patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, and the whole enumerated taxonomy of vectors for social control, hostility and weaponized anxiety.

Trump didn't invent any of these things. He's Frankenstein's monster, not Frankenstein himself.

In fact, there is no Frankenstein.

But none of these men act alone. They're all enabled by the systems that preceded them, vast amounts of money and influence, media manipulation, greed, small mindedness, bourgeois detachment and cynicism, and middle class myopia.

I do think that Trump dying will do a lot to mitigate the chaos, when it happens (probably soon), but I'm also worried that too many people are convinced that he is the singular problem, or that Putin is, or Netanyahu, etc, because that would absolve the rest of us from responsibility.

It's very tempting to treat the Trump era as an anomalous break, but omnidirectional chaos is the culmination of many, many social, political and economic realities that have all be decades and even hundreds of years in the making.

It isn't that history repeats itself, it's that history never ends.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Look there's only so much time in the day and we have a whole lot of things to be mad about.

They will never run out of evil people, but I have the capacity to continue wishing ill on any number of them.

It's easier to understand MAGA when you realize that most of them think it's the end of the world right now and that it's a good thing.

They do not care how many people die, including themselves, because they think everyone's going to die and get sorted between heaven and hell very soon.

Here's hoping his liver does the right thing