Andrew Dressel
Just a degenerate country. We elected this fucking asshole President. Tens of millions of Americans saw this decrepit rapist with dogshit for brains and thought he belonged in the highest office in the land.
Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."
Just imagining Kalshi in 1789, degenerate nobles betting on whether the Bastille falls, who gets beheaded
🇫🇷 FRENCH UNREST. LE PEN HITS RECORD HIGH ON KALSHI. Following a weekend of unrest in France, Kalshi prices Marine Le Pen at an all-time high of 49% in the presidential race. Far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon stands at just 9.2%. 📊 Watch the odds move in real time 👇
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I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
Really seems like those two goals are in tension with each other
TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.
Just looking at the fiction pulitzer, 4 of the last ten years had a white male winner, including the most recent winner, who wrote a book about religion and war, two topics conservatives obsess about. Not only is the argument silly to begin with, it isnt even factually true.
LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?
77 million people voted for this shit
Trump: Electric is a heavier form of propulsion. If you get a little leak and the water starts coming in the boat, do you get electrocuted? If I'm in an electric boat, and the water is pouring in, but 5 yards away there's sharks, do I take the electrocution or sharks? I'll take the electrocution
This is the whole thing and all any Dem candidate needs to say. Just say that “the transgender community are people trying to live their lives. The GOP has decided to make them a target because they have no answers on the issues that actually matter to people.” No need for anything more.
I think this misunderstands the purpose of admissions, which is not to slot the highest “merit” students at the top universities, then the next tier of “merit” at the next universities, etc, but to build academic communities that meet the university’s values.
If I was advising some centrist Dem presidential hopeful I think a good triangulatory issue for them is some huge higher ed reform like overhauling the college admission system. Propose banning all non-merit-based admission requirements and replacing with new standards-based exam to replace SAT/ACT
I think this misunderstands the purpose of admissions, which is not to slot the highest “merit” students at the top universities, then the next tier of “merit” at the next universities, etc, but to build academic communities that meet the university’s values.
If I was advising some centrist Dem presidential hopeful I think a good triangulatory issue for them is some huge higher ed reform like overhauling the college admission system. Propose banning all non-merit-based admission requirements and replacing with new standards-based exam to replace SAT/ACT
It would really behoove the Dems to make consumer protection a core part of their messaging. Arbitration clauses, class action bars, scam phone calls, phony supplements, take it all on; it would make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
I had a roommate in college who was a sleep-talker. One time, unbeknownst to me, he had been watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Later that night, in the middle of his sleep, he sat almost bolt upright and said “We are going to die” and immediately fell back asleep. It was weird.
My wife, a prodigious sleep-talker, failed to disclose her affliction when we started dating, which led to the fright of my life the night she sat bolt upright in bed and in a low flat monotone loudly declared that “THIRTEEN BABIES REMAIN UNFATHERED.”
That Ben Sasse is comfortable appearing in public, much less offering his opinions in major media platforms, is a real condemnation of our society
Yet, Ben Sasse and the @wsj.com seem to think that it is appropriate to double down on sacrificing American boys to the death sentence that is this sport. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
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Nearly all of these guys (and they’re pretty much all guys) went through the experience of getting into their dream college and then being isolated by their general off-puttingness and it has defined their outlook for the rest of their lives.
Ross Douthat lives in...Connecticut. To be fair, I haven't been there recently, but did I miss its "civic and educational collapse?"
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It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
“.. He also reported earning $636 million in royalties from Celebration Coins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The aging Gen X leadership of the NYT facing their own aging and decreased libido and trying to turn it into everyone else’s problem
President Trump’s UFC fight on Sunday appeared to offer everything a young American man could want: fighter-jets, pyrotechnics and Octagon girls. But would this masculine spectacle help young men to forgive and forget their growing disappointment with Trump?