Capitalist with a heart of gold

Throwback from January 2017 - sadly, still true #obamaappreciationday

I guess this week is dedicated to losing people born in 1946?

What stage of capitalism is this? The dam-breaking stage? The scales-falling-from-eyes stage? Or just the s**t-costs-too-much stage?

Odd expression from a guy who has never personally experienced “fruit” or “labor” his entire life

Cristiano Ronaldo is the Tom Cruise of professional football - good looking, super-talented performer; tremendous success (without quite taking the big prize); widely respected and admired, generates a “love him or hate him” response from fans around the world. Should we be rooting for him?

Who at FIFA decided we would all suddenly start pronouncing it “Tur-kee-yay”? Happy to call any country by its proper name/pronunciation, but why aren’t we also saying “España” or “Deutschland”?

Throwback from January 2017 - sadly, still as true as ever. #obama #dumptrump

“Mewling sycophants” 👍

Anyone else think Iran is going to wait until after the midterms to try to arrange an end to the war, as a fun way of telling Trump to F off? Kinda like they waited until Reagan took office to release the hostages in 1980? They must love watching this tired old man casting about for allies!

It’s like the Access Hollywood video was the Rosetta Stone for everyone to understand this ogre, and instead we said “nah, let’s see what he can do” “When someone shows you who they are,” etc. etc.

Guns and butter but the butter is health care

Like they used to (kind of) say, “It’s better for me to look good, than for any of you to ever feel good”

Not the top priority right now, but can we stop calling it the “ big beautiful bill”? We’re not required to call it by its literal name - they’ve been derisively calling the Affordable Care Act “Obamacare” for years! Call it “the SO-CALLED ‘big beautiful bill’.” Or better yet, “the big ugly bill”

Just another way for these harmful idiots to “stand athwart history, yelling ‘stop’” - for guys that revere the market they spend a lot of time trying to tell the market what to do

We need 8-10 Republicans in the House to resign - those who know they are going to lose in November, just resign now and let the Democrats start impeachment proceedings. We need to send a strong signal to the sane world - we are not going to let this madman continue unabated. November is too late!

I think this is good news? A judge is negating the negation of an activist who works to negate negative information? So I have that right?

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith

They used to say “living well is the best revenge.” Now I just say “outliving that m—-f—-er is all that matters”

Let’s talk about this: ACA subsidies enabled me (young-ish boomer) to access insurance away from a job, so I could ramp down (part-time, then early retirement), opening up job opps for next generation No subsidies? We’re back to a sclerotic labor market, folks keeping jobs just for the insurance

“corporations pay a great deal less in tax than the benefit they get, and the burden they impose on the infrastructure they rely on.” So true! @pamkeithdc.bsky.social

You knew as soon as the first crack appeared, the dam would burst open - here comes the “I never really supported him” crowd - it’s a multi-dimensional prisoners’ dilemma - the first to distance themselves (MTG) have the best chance to get away clean (“they can’t send us all to The Hague, right?”)

Terrific

“Orange dufus” #lameduck

And the winner is…

Love this! @joeneguse.bsky.social

Miller: “How could we be evil, we’re having so much fun!” Trudges back to Army barracks…

Sometimes you wait your whole life for a setup like that - thank you @blisterpearl.bsky.social for a giant laugh!!

“Hitler Middle Age” - spot on @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Can everyone please repost the heck out of this!!!

There’s a service for everything these days…but “Free cancellation” Price is “per adult” - seems overly complicated?

Already signs and booths to celebrate the engagement!

If the supposed “leader of the free world” is limping around like a Bluey piñata after the eighth kid, hiding bruises under pancake makeup, and concealing swollen cankles behind emoluments violations, then we have a right to know what the hell is going on. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

How quickly they forget - c’mon #deancain would expect better from you

So if #felon and #thefelon are on the outs, can we go back and undo all of the DOGE BS and let the folks at USAID and NIH, et al - resume their important work? abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Great listen - Our President: “a man who confuses attention with respect” Thank you @profgalloway.com

Good day to deliver the #nokings message in Atlanta with a couple of thousand friends!

Gulp…about to grade my last set of papers…ever? At least the handwriting is good!

Anger and creativity all rolled into one in Atlanta - 20,000 of us out there!

Let’s D - Do O - Over the G - General E - Election

Thank you Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o... “That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality…That can only happen if we believe him.”

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

I am confident this yoyo thought they were talking about Inspector Gadget - “we love Matthew Broderick, great actor, but we can’t have the kid from War Games in the government, too risky”

And just like that, the guy at the end of the bar gets to run things again. P.S. he’s a shitty tipper

“Look forward to”? Somehow the big shots have convinced desperate workers that they don’t need a stable well-paid job with benefits - instead, they should look forward to their gig jobs. It’s like eating at a sh*t restaurant but bragging about the bottomless fries.

@cnn what the hell is wrong with you? Normalizing this kind of fever dream? “Considers”? “Territorial expansion”? Stop using measured language to describe outrageous behavior!!!

Mike Johnson’s career in 12 seconds youtube.com/watch?v=zsyR...

Do you ever wish we could get our government focused on solving real problems like climate change, a rational immigration system, lower Rx costs, income inequality, instead of chasing imaginary problems like vaccine efficacy and privatizing the post office? “America: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”

Let’s run the government like a business! open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...