Phred of pteranodon pterrace

It’s really beginning to feel like this country is not a nation where the law applies equally to all.
That seems pretty bad, idk.

I’m beginning to believe that the members of the current administration are utterly gobsmacked when the sun rises every morning

That wasn’t even an explanation, it was just a process outline.

And it will create serious negative consequences for Portland’s tax revenue. But I guess they actually did _something_ during the special session.

What are you crowing about? We can’t get a transportation bill done, can’t adequately fund schools, can’t get public defenders funding, can’t get much of anything accomplished,
but at least we can make sure to write a giant welfare check to a billionaire who blackmails you?

Public investments in sports facilities never ever pay off except for the billionaire owners

Boy am i glad I have a couple of e-bikes right now.

It’s weird, that DJT is somehow going to force a green-energy revolution by attempting to force a fossil fuel comeback, but instead Big Oil ruptured an Achilles in the first game of the season

Really wish we lived in a democracy sometimes, ya know?

In retrospect, it seems bad that we’ve designed our economy around the needs of a few anti-social manchildren who need mommy to clean and cook for them and protect them from having to interact with anyone else in society.

In the history of the planet, no group of “wealthy” people have depopulated a city for reasons outside of major catastrophes.

(And honestly, even if 10k rich people left the city to pout, it would be a grain of sand in the desert)

“Look, if you baseline your numbers on what they will be in the future, we actually have deflation right now…”

So far, our Super Lethal Warfighters have murdered children at school and and a ship full of sailors that was known to be unarmed. Which, TBF, is what they have been training for off the coasts of South America.
Way to go, Warfighters of Lethality!

It’s the language of The Operator in which everyone is Manly and very much Not At All Feminized. Out here, we have Kill Chains and Lethality and A Bunch of Compound Words That Sure Sound Scary, like “Anarcho-Narcoists” or “Socialized Terrorgrams”

Wait, we’re struggling to sell tickets for world cup games? But the prices were so high to reflect demand, right?
Still predicting that you’ll be able to get free tickets with your happy meal by the week of the opening day.

Currently betting the “over” on “will it be cheaper for my family of four to drive 1000 miles” or “fly 1000 miles.”

It is utterly fascinating to watch The Most Powerful Empire in the World(tm) just pour gasoline all over itself and then point a flamethrower at its face.

Maybe the real answer wasn’t “running the country like a business” when apparently businesses are run by absolute idiots.

DID YOU KNOW that the City of Portland extracts $10 million a year from downtown property owners in order to partially subsidize the city’s most active lobbying org?

He just loves making unwitting props for his insanity and we are generally wired for acting with decorum even when the idiot isn’t.
Which makes everyone present passively complicit in his vileness.
“The only way to win is not to play.”

it feels like it's pretty important to eliminate campaign financing altogether. Just end it. There's zero public policy upside to it and apparently infinite downsides

Markwayne is already loading the kegs of bud lite into the fuckjets. Yeehaw muthafuckers, we’re going terrorizin’!

Just a fuckjet(tm) or two

Living 1/4 mile from a park and yet having to walk 2 miles in order to get there: the story of Portland outside of the inner neighborhoods.

Remember when you were in 7th grade and you found out about silly-sounding compound words like “disestablishmentarianism” and silly phrases with latin words like “the defenestration of Prague” and the “Council of Worms” and everything was a dick joke?
That’s who’s in charge of the military.

I'm so glad that my legislators got the photo op with Terry Porter. That's worth more than the millions being sent to support some NC billionaires business while schools cut staff year after year /sarcasm.

We live in a failing state (minor) inside a failing state (major).

But a billionaire needs new carpet for the arena the sports team he just bought? How fast can we write that check?

Barbara Tuchman screams out from beyond the grave…

Ol petey the hegseth and lil marco may have played years of Civ, but it was always in “cheat mode.”

We’re dancing on the edge of “maybe playing the game on easy mode against toddlers has created a sense of confidence that our actual capabilities cannot back up” or more commonly known as “white man syndrome.”

I love living in the time in which when you buy a “durable good” you have to also be willing to be your own spare parts warehouse at the time of purchase. Which is not something consumer reports has a rating category for

Trying to get me to swallow “Biggest Imperial power in the region” as an assertion of fact is like telling a snake to engulf an elephant.

Now, if the argument was that military hegemony was ineffective in the face of cultural opposition, maybe that’s an interesting discussion