Isn't this exhausting? Like it's a normal Monday night in October and on top of life's other obligations you have to put on your divorced dad at the zoo get-up and take the Tesla to a cheesecake factory to do numbers on expiring discourse. Don't you have other shit going on?
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This got slapped with an intolerance label but as a member of the alleged victimized protected group it seems like a totally clean hit? What are we doing here?
Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.
This is ghoulish and uneforced. The second part goes against what should be objectively bedrock party principles and will net somewhere around 0 votes. Moderate Democrats learn that no one buys Bigotry Lite challenge: impossible.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
Why do none of these freaks have normally shaped heads? He looks like Bert just got back from a Caribbean vacation.
NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”
Not letting your wife read is a whole new tier of medieval male insecurity. My brother in Christ, have you been to a bookstore? If she's managed to find and purchase something that's truly against your precious values, your facade has already crumbled. Otherwise, it's... a book.
guy has more issues than Sports Illustrated www.scarymommy.com/parenting/pa...
This is one of those things that's so ignorant it's not even the best argument she could make, which is that his full name, not really used, is Abdulrahman, which could theoretically be a problem if anyone honest gave a single solitary shit about given name etymologies other than... you know.
This is a cousin of the beliefs that Greek statues were all pristine white marble and that writers like Dickens or Dostoevsky didn't and couldn't have had trashy taste. Civil rights activists would've been all over the socials including livestreams and selfies. And Nextdoor would've been way worse.
"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
I would argue we have a better working knowledge of culture from 1-2 generations ago than people in the 70s. I grew up with a VCR and DVDs and now have streaming. My parents had 4 channels and the whims of distributors.
Setting aside that Gone With the Wind was not just “a 40 year old film” but literally the inflation-adjusted highest grossing film ever, I don’t think it’s rare to see people riffing on old movies? Like, “hey isn’t this thing from (insert 80s or 90s movie) kinda weird” is a pretty common TikTok post
The government not employing anyone is big if true.
Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
This is sort of like when they gave Dylan the Nobel Prize in literature only it seems worse somehow. Like... no, Dylan did not develop anything in this field, please read a book.
I love Bob Dylan but Bob Dylan fans gotta stop saying this. Rap has its own actual history and it’s not singers doing a bunch of rhyming words really fast.
Notable that "Silocon Valley is a lot of poker fraud" is such a self-evident truth that a tech journalist is saying it to an interviewee who specializes in postmodern satire as if it's as obvious as gravity. And yet we still have leaders across the country who do not get it because line go up-up.
Would you lie to this man? EXCLUSIVE: Nathan Fielder, codirector of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything,’ sat down with WIRED for an extended interview—the first he’s given to discuss the film. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/nathan...
Just one question, Mr. Candidate, do you disavow Jason Alexander's non-Seinfeld filmography? ...the whole thing, Sir, North, Dunston Checks In, Bob Patterson, there's stuff in there so toxic you'd deny ever seeing it. ...No, sir, I don't think Thomas Jefferson believed in THAT freedom of speech, no.
"Hakeem cannot move" implies that Hakeem Jeffries would successfully bargain with a coalition to win the speakership but fail at any attempts to pass legislation with the same coalition and that's just wishcasting by someone who needs a factory reset.
"I would rather have the Republicans keep the house." - James Carville
El Sayed was rebuking a gutter racist who had just insulted him via negative stereotyping in a public place. "Angry, overly defensive jerk" is about as nice as Tommy could have expected. These are the same weirdos who have been fluffers to an angry, overly defensive jerk for the last decade.
Since the video is self explanatory they are moving to a discussion of tone. They do this while refusing to admit that Tommy is a conservative operative, and in no way an “innocuous person at the town hall.” These are deeply and fundamentally unserious people.
It's always the ones you most suspect.
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
It's very curious that when a female employee makes a big mess he just kicks her out of the palace and plucks a new one from the showroom, but the greasy clown shoe weirdos who allegedly are men get to stay in the admin no matter how many goats they sex pest, and by very curious I mean not at all.
President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House’s top spokesperson. https://cnn.it/4zzMpUj
1. Parlor trick <---you are here 2. "3-5 years away from mass commercial adoption" 3. Lots of time in a K-hole 4. You're still at step one 5. Tesla / SpaceX line go up 6. Mars is still uninhabitable and the USAID cuts killed real people
"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.
"I'm going to say something few Democrats are willing to say" always seems to be followed by something that 95% of Democrats would sign onto. Screw that. If anything I wish more Democrats had the courage to argue that we should be blowing way more government money on fun stuff.
James Talarico: Let me just say something that a lot of Democrats aren't willing to say. We should be looking for efficiency in our government. I believe in stewardship. This is a value in my faith tradition. We should be good stewards of taxpayer funds.