QOTD: What is your favorite politics/elections meme? I will go first and say either Ray Coper (It's too funny I'm sorry), or Jeb! (please clap or the flawless victory meme)
Currently in Kalamazoo, MI for a conference (pop. 74k, cultural attractions include a defunct theater and a mall).
WMU, which is generously the 5th-best school in the state, has nicer facilities than basically every university in Italy.
The board consists of three semi-literate car dealers who were the state’s top GOP donors. Their top priority is fighting wokeness in the Potato School by putting up a statue of the confederate general who owned the largest potato farm in the state in 1859.
US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
Every few months there's a story called like EVIL GENIUS? STEVE BANNON'S SECRET MASTER PLAN TO RULE THE WORLD REVEALED and you look inside and it's always about how Steve Bannon called them up to tell them he's an evil genius and that he has a secret master plan to rule the world.
Man, someone sounds really mad that a bunch of Minneapolis soccer moms can manage op-sec while the Secretary of Defense texts his battle plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic.
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
BREAKING: Senator Chris Van Hollen says he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia tonight
“I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance,” Van Hollen tweeted.
the two types of racist are food racist and sex racist. all racists fall into these two categories. hitler? sex racist. mussolini? food racist.
stephen miller? sex racist. jd vance? food racist.
despite being racist about food sometimes, donald trump is a sex racist
genuinely found myself wondering this recently. where do these people come from. I recognize this is a difficult world to be a good person in, but the level of craven evil that seems to have gravitated to the top of every power structure in America is fucking alarming
look im just gonna say it. im sure nothing bad will happen to this great group of friends but if they WERE to be ritually slaughtered im just saying what kind of weird perverts go to grad school for anthropology
After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency.
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
In the absence of secular explanations I find "these people are guided by Satan and their only love is inflicting agonizing death in any way conceivable" works with just about flawless coherence
Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.
— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually”
— Destroying universities
— “You don’t need so many things”
— Elites attacking elitism
— Hate/contempt for cities
— “Suck it up for the greater good”
Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?
Look I know atheists and agnostics roll their eyes when Mainliners like me mumble about these guys "not being True Christians" but they are in fact just outright Satanists, sadists whose form of worship is cruelly exercising raw power against the desperate for their own gratification
This isn’t the usual Chotiner interview where he runs rings around some idiot — it’s something that is, to me, significantly more troubling: a conversation with a clearly intelligent man who has totally released himself over to the Devil, and will not see it