NuclearNoises

There’s a joke going around. “The biggest difference between Trump and Hitler is that some of the people around Hitler actually knew how to build a car.”

A cute little cartoon rabbit in medieval clothing with a book and a teapot saying “Born to Dilly Dally, Forced to Fight Fascists”.

History has very clearly shown that even if you do give the fascists a bit of a spanking, if you let them off easy afterwards, they just try to take over your country in a couple years. You have to come down on them hard.

I mean, it’s the Evangelical Right. If the facts prove them wrong about something, they double down.

Oh, I just checked again. Looks like they’ve only actually counted about 2/3 of votes and I may have been a tad premature. Talarico is winning at the moment but it’s considered too close to call yet by locals.

My point still stands if Tal wins.

I wouldn’t call that clean, about 52 to 47, but yeah.

I mean, if I lived in Texas, I probably would’ve voted Crockett and I do think a fighter is pretty appropriate for this time but I’m not going to pretend Talarico doesn’t have his good points.

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I wish that were true. Someone else put it, if this was gonna cut a billionaires wealth in half they would have to take all of their money out of the banks so it couldn’t even acquire interest and even then it would take 14 years.

Don’t talk shit about my boy Scrooge McDuck that way. Scrooge actually cared about his family and had a respectable career as a gentleman adventurer before his billions. Don’t associate him with these billionaires.

We told them the first time that history very clearly shows that when fascists try to take over your country you have to come down on them hard even if they happen to fail, otherwise they just try again in a couple years.

They call Third Way “Center-Left”, lol.

I just saw a news article claiming that Trump is making the same mistakes W did with Iraq.

No, he’s not. W did talk to Congress -if he lied to them- and they did have a plan, if a stupid one.

Trump didn’t talk to Congress at all and doesn’t have a plan at all. These are whole new, worse mistakes.

No, he’s not. W let Congress debate about having an Iraq war first and did go in with a plan, if a really stupid one. What Trump is doing his whole new mistakes.

I saw the Misah segment. How the fuck are you more mad at the mayor of New York than the government of Iran after all that’s happened to you?

I’ve pointed out more than once that we have multiple pentagon people saying Trump *tried* to start *several* wars the first time, he just happened to fail. Usually because it proposed war plans were too stupid even by Pentagon standards.

Trump has been technically been doing impeachable accidents since day one of his first term when he decided to completely ignore the Emoluments Clause.

Usually said war plans were along the lines of -
1.) start the war by hitting the area with nukes.
2.) send in our soldiers to clean up whoever’s left.
3.) when our soldiers and noncombat civilians are dropping like flies from nuclear fallout, pretend no one knew that was a thing.

General reminder - He didn’t really get credit for not starting any wars his first term because by Pentagon accounts he *tried* to start several wars, he just happened to fail. Usually because his proposed war plans were considered too stupid even for the Pentagon. /1

Personally- I doubt that he truly had no idea, but I bet he at least caught a vibe he didn’t like. But I suppose that could be it.

The plot twist is that this makes Bill’s statement actually quite plausible. It wasn’t public knowledge that Epstein was a pedophile until 2008/2009 and Bill apparently made so little of an impression that Epstein legit forgot about him when interviewed years later. /2

Bill Clinton testified today. Short version - he doesn’t deny that he’s been to the island or on the plane, but claims he didn’t know about anything illegal.

The files show that he has been on the island a couple times in 2002, and borrowed the plane a couple times when Epstein wasn’t using it. /1

Well, that and another faculty member outed me as an atheist.

To be fair, he meant it in a “look kid, you’ll have to learn how to work with people you disagree with” way.

And what ultimately got me cut from my former position was just budget cuts above all else.

I’m a former professor of physics and astronomy. My students figured out I wasn’t a republican, but that’s because when YEC/ID were brought up in my classes I would explain why they don’t even count a scientific concepts within the scientific method. Literally had to give that away to do my job.

Gentle Reminder - the official American death toll of COVID just crossed 1.2 million. Soecual mention because medical pros all agree the numbers were being fudged down, especially in the first year by Trump. By their count the true death toll is now *at least* 1.5 million, and probably 1.7 million.

You know, Bill, if you want people stop comparing your side of the political aisle to Nazis it would help if you stopped loudly doing Nazi shit, like demanding that people go to prison for several years for the “crime” of disagreeing with you.

I was asked how I can be tolerant LGBT people but not conservatives.

I am tolerant of conservatives. I’m not tolerant of loud, bigoted assholes. The better question is why you think being a conservative entitles you to being a loud, bigoted asshole with no consequences.

I hit the links while asking myself how the fuck you could do that so fast.

Ironically, given the usual content of Tinglers, I consider you the patron saint of being hilariously based.

So the Clintons are testifying before Congress about Epstein, right now.

I will admit I am genuinely shocked that at least so far it looks like Hillary had nothing to do with him and Bill has been to the has been to the island but did nothing worse than hog the hot tub in 2002.

What’s the old line? Trump declaring War on Fraud is like a Pornstar declaring that they’re Fucking for Virginity.

I’ve mourned old jars of spaghetti sauce I found in my fridge longer than she mourned her husband.