Luke Côté

My new Purity Litmus Test for any Democrat in politics is to at least talk like uhh this cato institute gentleman

Happens organically?

They will welcome us for our freedoms?

Like the freedom to be arrested, beaten, and thrown into a concentration camp?

Or maybe the freedom not to have a doctor?

Or the freedom to have their kids shot in a school shooting?

They can probably smell the freedom in the morning!

New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work The new review has led to a ban for HRT through the NHS England system under the age of 18.

1. A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work.

It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to be politics masquerading as (shoddy) science.

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Culture war= hate.

He’s leaning into hate.

Schrödinger's War They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.

Today's newsletter: Trump renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War. The website says war dot gov. Pete Hegseth goes by Secretary of War. But they'd like you to know that what's happening in Iran is not a war. It's a limited mission. www.readtpa.com/p/schrodinge...

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

But also if you are the Iranian regime and you survive this, you obviously sprint to a nuclear weapon, right?

Like, flat out dead sprint, as fast as you can, trying to get there before Netanyahu gets Uncle Sam to ambush you in a dark alley again. That seems the obvious move.

Jason Kenney’s pudgy ass talking about ‘warrior’ is too much.

I agree.

The world’s greatest military power is threatening us, the alliance that was the backbone of our security is done, global order breached, oligarchs everywhere, pedophiles run everything, environmental destruction, etc

The Titanic at least tried to turn.

Canadians right now? Stay the course!

“Think of it - I made their country as crazy as me!”

Humble brag.

Three sides in this one.

And I don’t trust any of them.

That’s my hope.

But my education, professional work, and autism tell me multiple contingencies need to be prepared for if midterms happen: intimidation at the polls, violence at the polls from potentially multiple actors with different motives, a call to close polls due to violence etc.

If he destroys the thing he destroyed last year, all will be well?

This...this is time travel, right?

Space time anomaly?

Maybe quantum time vortex?

Do you or someone with a similar last name to yours happen to have any experience in time travel?

Just asking.

Because you may be needed. 🫡

Trump is an outlier.

People not thinking/seeing he's bald is more important to him.

Trump behaviour is due to overlapping reasons, but in his head: I'm not bald. I can't let people see I'm bald. I'll just wear a hat.

So it's not so much 'children know better', but his vacuousness.

As any person who has gone through losing their hair, you find ways to cover it.

And many think the way they’ve chosen to cover for it is passing. And it isn’t passing.

And so the cap wearing wasn’t about Trump, exactly. It was about his hair. Or lack thereof.

No cap means hair blown by wind.

You are missing a major opportunity!

I’d use a three panel construction.

First panel is Ben, but Ben you have done a glamour makeover.

But then say “that’s not the real Ben”.

Then eyebrow pic.

Then last panel you say this is the real Ben- and then a clip of him talking about his dry wife.

Two ‘alpha’ male Nazis were needed to intimidate one reporter who is a woman.

That’s all you need to know about how pathetic these two men and their entire movement are.

Absolutely pathetic losers.

Parents when I was a kid would say don’t hang out with X, because X was a bad influence.

Parents need to start taking the same approach with so-called influencers.

(It will do absolutely no good, but it will assuage my grumpy middle aged feelings)

Terror alert levels coming back on Friday?

My standard comments:

1. Dictators are seldom popular. Which is why they rule by force as dictators
2. Polls don’t matter
3. People need to stop focussing on the ‘low’ numbers and focus instead on the fact 40% still support Trump despite (look around)

The whale oil illumination industry is calling from the late 1800s and is asking for increased support in increasing whaling to help make cheap illumination possible and drive our economy.

The man, Skippy, has no idea what he is talking about. And it’s remarkable.

So he is proposing ‘separate but equal’ for trans people?

That’s awful. And I am sorry.

Your dog reminds me of one I lost. And I’ve been enjoying the pictures of yours.

Hopefully he is ok.

Also, fuck corporations.

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

These people might as well be talking about phrenology as though it were real.

Flat earth ‘theory’ next?

Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed. Under Tim Keller’s leadership, the city has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness, causing a growing number of people on the streets to be arrested and jailed.

About half the jail population in Albuquerque is homeless. The county spends about $169 per night to jail inmates without significant medical or mental health needs. Housing individuals in the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44 a night.

Agree. But I don't think this is new or a recent achievement.

The Christian conservative movement has always been a 'detached reality bubble.'

Nothing they believe is true or reality based. So they've been flailing about for 30 yrs striking out against perceived enemies that don't exist.

America!

Markwayne Mullin @SenM... • 21h I will lead the breach. I will lay down cover fire. I will take the high ground. I'll expose myself to enemy fire to communicate. We must bring back integrity, focus, and put the Warfighter first inside DOD. I stand with @SecDef for @PeteHegseth. Fred Wellman @FPWellman YOU'RE A FUCKING PLUMBER! YOU'VE NEVER SERVED!!! You could have but you didn't. We had the longest war in U.S. history and you sat that shit out the whole time but now you want to be a big tough guy for the idiot that can't keep a secret. You're such a fucking joke. No one is scared of you. Go clear a drain of your own bullshit.

The Iranians will greet our drones as liberators.

by Bret Stephens