We should reckon with the idea that Americans are so fucking dumb that we booted out the party that saved the country after Covid and created the best economic recovery in the world in favor of a con man who said he would use racism and magic to make everything cheaper and jobs plentiful.

Both my grandfathers made shoes in the local shoe factory.

This admin has many many things they want to disappear. They would not be above importing an army of mercenaries. The possibilities are endless. And terrifying.

I’m trying to wrap my head around this, and it’s easy to be paranoid these days, but if the FAA just declares an airport closed for ten days, that means there will be no flight records for ten days? So is someone watching to confirm that flights are really not coming or going? Please talk me down.

That’s not a failure. That’s a blow against an abuse of power.

This is the same way they react to armed liberals. “Guns are ours!”

Miracle Whip.

The executive branch also already has the Secret Service for security.

Doesn’t the executive branch already have a security service? Why do they need ICE agents for that?

Firenze (Florence), Italy: sampler of 3 soups, plus a bowl of croutons

Sorrento, Italy: Classic Italian pastries filled with vanilla custard and fresh raspberries

Firenze (Florence), Italy: Street food - thin sandwiches that look like pizza and quesadillas had a baby, filled with ham or spinach

Rome, Italy: a restaurant at Mercato di Testaccio (Testaccio Market) serves up VERY hearty plates of fresh pasta with various toppings for €6-10 (about $7-12)

"Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of 🇫🇷, 🇲🇽 & the Far East, eating only in Hard Rocks/McD's? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of [food]?" - Bourdain

I guess when you have made a superpower a pariah state in only a year, you get a little paranoid.

He couldn’t count on them providing a mobile McDonalds.

@therswhiskey.bsky.social has the same problem. We find that @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social does a better job at understanding that some situations need a more earnest approach.

Hi, Harry!

I’m so old, I remember when their slogan was “Don’t be evil.”

I loved it too.

90% of conservative political analysis is just "this group I don't like does this thing I don't understand due to motivations I made up."

This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.

The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

I will take it. It’s frankly more than I expect from him. (And he’s my senator!)

Walz should be VP. TFG should be in a Hannibal Lecter-style straight jacket and face mask.

Someone should probably mention to JD Vance that TFG is going to abandon him just like all his other daddies.

I remember It well. You were only allowed to critique the Iraq War if you had once been its cheerleader. I also still have my DFH t-shirt.

Ok, but then those trained crows are going to go for you.

I’m at the CC level and it is the same thing. I recently learned that the Education Department in the college encourages students to use it.

And he has a crush on Ben Fucking Shapiro.

Newsom is very shitty on trans issues.

Pneumonia will keep him home a while.

The Home Alone effect.

Old enough to remember when asking for proof of vaccination to enter a hospital was considered tyranny

JFC. We need the leaf blower dads from 2020.