Mark Hatlestad

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

Can this be a solution?

FAFO

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte

Any republican that tries to make this into something should be required to describe what God’s cock looks like

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

In the last 4 days one of my senators broke a Marine’s arm, the other one announced he wasn’t running minutes before the filing deadline so his hand-picked successor could take his place without a primary and my rep announced he was giving up his seat as well.

How’s y’all’s congresspeople doing?

When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.

For all its dire implications for the people of the Americas, it’s starting to seem like the worst impact of the Venezuela raid is how it convinced a handful of very powerful, very stupid men that they could dump the “risks” section of the analysis into the trash

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

A conversation between Calvin and his mother from "Calvin and Hobbes". Calvin's mother says, "Life could be worse, Calvin," to which Calvin responds with an exasperated expression, "Life could be a LOT BETTER, too!"

mood

Khamenei’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

The last few days have been a reminder that Republican party government is mostly aimed toward a return to unstable, arbitrary, personalist rule

Unfortunately shareholders care more about guaranteed massive payouts than potential long term growth.

30 years.

This video should be on every network.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down.

Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

Hat embroidered with “hello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.