Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.

Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.

Touché

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia and current de-facto ruler of that kingdom, whose word is law and power is unquestioned, is visibly like “whoah dude, dial down the authoritarian thing a bit”

It’s getting harder by the day, Spike 😢
But seeing you and thinking of Rex always helps!

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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I was blown away by how great he still was!

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

<throws plates off table, flips it over, screams, punches wall>

Okay welcome to the resistance <gags> Karl Rove.

But we're still calling you Turd Blossom.

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

That would even work for me in my mid 60’s!

Pritzker: “to trump officials who are complicit in this scheme, to public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to incite my people into violence…We’re taking names!”.

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Unfortunately, it’s all too believable with the current Republican party 😩

Wow-sounds like a very cool library!

Must’ve been your parents’ records! 😉

Honestly, I would have liked to see a reference to a fast train included

I’d love to know what percentage of people on here understand these references 🤣

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

Omg- the surprise at the end!! 😆😆

I’m not even on Social Security- only on Medicare Part A- and even I got it. Absolutely nuts

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

I love how hard he has leaned into this thing that has definitely not happened. It’s like the ceasefire is his Canadian girlfriend who totally exists.

Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!