Kim Nilsson

Telling bloodthirsty fascists that their fascism will lead to the streets running red with the blood of their enemies isn't deterrence.

Just fill the empty wedge with something else before you put it into the fridge.

What's more wasteful than changing all your fonts? Changing all your fonts twice.

Number one on the moon definitely preferable to number two on the moon.

How about pressing government officials for details on this amazing medical breakthrough the president announced, instead of constantly protecting them from any negative consequences of lying to their own base?

The best case net result of Schumer's brave strategy of resistance through strategic collaboration is that the end of U.S. democracy will be delayed by one week or so, while doing immeasurable harm to the real resistance. The Neville Chamberlain of our time.

Too many people quoting the "First they came" poem take it literally and pat themselves on the back for "speaking up" against fascism now, but speech wasn't enough back then and it isn't enough now; the poem is politely warning you to *stop* things while you still can, not just talk about it.

Ghouls without empathy can't conceive a genuine need for gender-affirming care, much less for minors, so they think it's evil parents and schools forcing kids into sex change operations against their will as a sacrifice to the woke god.

No one is allowed to want or need anything *they* don't like.

The guiltiest person in the world.

There won't be enough bleach in the world to remove the stench after he's gone.

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There's a weird left-QAnon thing starting up centered around dubious claims about the 2024 results popping up at the periphery of the internet. I feel like we're gonna hear more and more about this so just laying down my understanding of it now.

I think its basically a hoax.

1/a lot

The erosion of support isn't because people don't know Democrats exist or don't know that Trump is bad, it's because people no longer trust that Democrats actually stand for the values they claim and will fight for them. Refusing to recognize this is equal parts moronic and insulting.

We can feed all the poor but it's impossible to satiate the hunger of the rich.

"Pete B" since he can't spell Buttigieg.

The decoder ring for this type of messaging:

foreign national 🟰 public safety threat

And already moving on to your own citizens. Hitler speedrun.

Oh, well if he didn't make it a secret I guess it's alright then?

That really seems to be the entire trick, just casually crime in public instead of acting like you're doing a bad thing, and people will struggle to respond. Wouldn't want to "overreact", after all.

MAWPIS

"Slavery was very unfair to white slave owners actually, they put so many slaves to work but the slaves never returned the favor (massive trade deficit), and they didn't even say thank you once."

/s 🤮

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

They don't see any contradiction. They think they're maximally incentivizing their imaginary Trump economy's preferred type of business where the entire world wants to buy its products yet it relies on zero imports. Powered by pure powdered American exceptionalism.

Not next month's announcement that job numbers tanked after this though, then it's because of Biden.

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

This isn't some gotcha, they don't care about honesty or consistency. They'll happily say any disingenuous bullshit with a wink and a smile. They know it's a lie, they know we know it's a lie, and they know there won't be any consequences. Checkmate.

In other words, "you're supposed to appeal to the supreme court as usual so we can personally rule in your favor."

Very important for SCOTUS to maintain the illusion that it has authority as they help legitimize fascism.

Has he tried telling them they don't have the cards?

"This bucket of water is not enough to put out the fire, therefore let's pour a bucket of gasoline on it instead."

Measles may be back but we're on track towards eradicating impostor syndrome in the next few years.