Full time insect, part time cynic

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

So Iraq's WMDs, Iran's nuclear weapons, and Donald Trump's healthcare plan walk into a bar...

Stop me if you heard this one.

In case you’d forgotten Arizona Republicans hired “Cyber Ninjas” to audit 2020 election result in Maricopa County & Biden picked up 360 more votes when it was done

Everything is terrible, but my 24-year-old daughter is taking me to a hockey game tonight. #LGRW

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

Again, in a functioning democracy, especially one of the parliamentary variety, the Defense Minister would have already resigned & the no confidence vote in the government/chief executive would be taking place today.

Alas, we are not a functioning democracy, & presidentialism was a grave mistake.

Trump Says He Won’t Sign Any Legislation Until the SAVE America Act Is Passed The bill passed the House last month but has stalled in the Senate.

The SAVE Act 2.0 is not about voter ID or election security. It's a desperate attempt to cling to power by making it harder to vote. Instead of lowering prices at the grocery store or the gas station, Trump would rather shield the GOP from being held accountable at the ballot box.

When your sons and daughters go off to die in the Trump/Epstein war his spawn will continue to live in the lap of luxury and grow even wealthier because of it.

You know all he needed to do was let the Biden policies remain and just coast until the end. Maybe even make pot legal and end daylight savings time and be considered wonderful by most (not me). But no, he had to show us what a special boy he is and make his mark. Sigh.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Oh no.

Well, the oil executives are definitely getting their $1 billion donation back in spades.

Yeah it’s better here. And those other places have Zuck with his perv glasses.

I love your weird threads. More portals!

Nah too hard.

I hate Matthew Tkachuk.

They really do deliver these lines like they’re reading a script in a tough guy movie. Just the worst timeline.

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St. John’s Wort is good for depression and so is Kell. Still stylish, too. ❤️

$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...

Okay, so that worked. Now let’s get RFK Jr. fired.

And then we reelected him.

We're all trying to get by, in our own way.
And if your way involves books, strong tea, and secret meetings with the old gods in the mossy end of the forest, so much the better.

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

It's almost like a fire hose of news. Hmm.

Last time I got my haircut and they turned off Bob Marley and put on Phil Collins. 🙁

Maybe “Department of War” was a pretty good clue where this clown car was driving to.

Here's a crazy idea for you: What if Trump's malignant nationalism is actually bad politics? That challenges the pundit take that 2024 showed a durable cultural shift toward Trumpism, but with tariffs/deportations tanking, the evidence for it is mounting. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2071...

“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost,” he said. “That often happens in war.” Again, imagine if Obama or Biden said this.

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.