As soon as they started talking about “dead people getting Social Security payments,” I knew this was coming.

Bad as this is, I think the reality will be worse. The only guy (because it will absolutely be a guy) who I can see harnessing Trump’s cult with any similar degree of success is Matt Gaetz. He’s off the radar for now, but I suspect he’ll be back once his “indiscretions” have been memory-holed.

If you like olives in hearty meat stews, you should try caldereta. It’s a Filipino beef stew with bell pepper, potatoes, carrots, and green olives, and the thickening agent is liver pâté. It’s fantastic.

I think we can stop now - this is the one.

Divine or not, what a wonderful little miracle it is that humans love to pet critters and critters love to get pets.

I would bet almost anything that Elon and his crew of no-nothings actually “mistaking” survivor benefits for fraud.

Nah, I remember when my grandma passed a few years ago and then got her monthly Social Security deposit a few days later, it took Social Security NO TIME AT ALL to inform my mom that the money needed to be returned to them ASAP.

No, he was definitely a sweet-mouthed angel before now (at least in print, I don’t have the pleasure of knowing him personally).

Absolute fucking horrorshow.

Meditating a lot on the prayer of St Theresa:

“Christ has no body now but yours.
No hands, no feet on Earth but yours.
Yours are the eyes with which He looks salvation on this world.
Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good.
Yours are the hands with which He blesses all the world”

CANADIAN Pilsner, which is quite tasty as I recall.

And he’s starting with USAID because “foreign aid” has always been an easy sell for cuts, despite the relatively low cost and incredible dividends it pays. But make no mistake: if this continues to go without serious opposition, he’ll move on to things like social security, and it will be too late.

Yep - I’ve had (refrigerated) eggs that were still okay after a couple months.

5/5 And who knows? Maybe if we do this work long enough and well enough, we can finally start building a world where we beat the Bear.

4/5 The other side already knows how effective this would be. There’s a reason why some of their most intense disdain is aimed at men who have rejected their message: they know that there’s nothing more dangerous to their worldview than the example of a happy, well-adjusted man.

3/5 We should treat the work of welcoming and deprogramming other members of this cult as one of our primary responsibilities. It should not be demanded/expected of women and PoC (which I don’t think was happening here, but I understand the confusion/frustration).

2/5 While we do need to be conscious of making space and not dominating discussions in the wider movement, this is one area where we actually have unique experience that can be of help: we have all of us, to some extent, been members of the Cult of Toxic Masculinity and Racism.

1/5 I think one of the big points that needs to be included with this kind of talk is that ~this is an assignment targeted mostly at us men who are already here~. It needs to be made clear that we aren’t asking this of people who are already overburdened with our fragility.

Exactly. The ACA got so watered down trying to get to 60 votes that it already IS the original Republican plan. But since it got done under Obama, they have to hate it now.

Oh good - we’re officially in a trade war with Colombia now. Savor your morning coffee while you can still afford it, folks!

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