Phillip Anderson

From a thread about great Douglas Adams quotes. I think about this one *a lot* these days.

we now have an answer to “what if caligula had dementia?”

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

One of my favorite parts of this whole thing is that it implies Rubio lied about his shoe size.

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

The world is being set on fire by a 79 year old with a ten year old’s vocabulary whose adult advisors interact with him like he’s a hangry toddler who skipped his nap.

Bam Adebayo at his locker with a towel over his head holding a sheet of paper with “83” written on it in black Sharpie.

This goes so hard.

I remember listening to WOAI in San Antonio on the last day of the season when David Robinson and Shaq were battling it out for the scoring title. Robinson ended up scoring 71 and it was so fun to listen as everyone just started feeding him. He was shooting threes! Fun as hell skyline tonight

Watching Wemby absolutely SWAT DOWN Derrick White seems like a belated passing of the torch tbh. #GoSpusGo

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped a Trump+9 seat in the New Hampshire House, per reporter Kevin Landrigan.

Republicans outspent Dems by a considerable margin.

This is now the 10th special election flip for Ds in Trump's second term, versus zero for the GOP. sos.tn.gov/elections/20...

Can confirm

lol, of course the ADL is claiming that saying "Operation Epstein Fury" is antisemitic. What a joke of an organization.

Well…fuck. Who is gonna be the new Ravens Pizza Bolis guy now?

Oh shit. Ricard, too? Really?

This is so dumb, and I hate it.

Ho-Lee shit

Remember the mystery a few weeks ago, about how and why xAI was spitting out people's government names, even people who have only *ever* used a pseudonym professionally?

Oh we’re weighing options *now*

It’s just damn hard to express just how hard a failure this is turning out to be. All Trump’s bluster & Hegseth’s “totally lethal war fighting dominance” nonsense has led us here. This is like the Bay of Pigs but with a MUCH higher body count & with WAY more US mil prestige on the line

Mm hmm

Exactly. As I was saying…

..when he immediately went off about the news on his dumb fake Twitter acct. So not only have they probs constrained his desire to walk away, they got him to lay down even more obstacles to him doing so. Right as Pres Dipshit realized he probably wants out, they just started blocking the exits. /fin

..totally unprepared for. Basically, the Iranian hardliners, who seem way more secure atop Iran than they did even a month ago, are saying “we’re not done with you yet,” even as they are taking a vicious pounding. They’re trying to “fix” their enemy in place & Trump totally swallowed the bait…5/

..actually pull that off & Trump, at least, is looking for an exit that he can claim is actually TOTAL VICTORY, the Iranians are tossing a massive wrench into the works if they actually start doing what everyone has assumed they would do for decades now & for which the US seems…4/

For Trump and Bibi, that looks a lot like failure. They’ve put forward at least a dozen states goals for this war, but toppling the mullahs and “liberating” the Iranian people from their rule has always been at the top. So as both the US and Israel come to grips with the fact that they can’t…3/

Now that the blowback is undeniable, he’s looking for a way out, as he teased yesterday. But Iran is telling him pretty clearly that it isn’t up to him or Bibi when this ends. For Iran, victory looks like the survival of the regime, and high looks like a stone cold lock at this point 3/

Trump assumed this would be a quick war. He never factored in that the other side would fight back or also have a say in when it ended. He never even accounted for Iran closing the Straight. Like, that’s been Iran’s One Big Play for generations now and everyone knew it 2/

Great 🧵. I’d just add that too many ppl seem to be missing what this means if it’s true. It basically shuts down any hope Trump has of an “elegant exit.” He can’t just declare victory & walk away now, which should tell you A LOT abt where and how Iran thinks this war is going 1/

I’m a weirdo, so one of my follows here is @rnshiplosses.bsky.social and it’s amazing, if not terrifying, just how many of the posts from about WWI onwards are like, “(ship), a Grimsby boat in RN service as a minesweeper sank after she struck a mine off Margate. 3 of her 9 crew were lost.”