Grumpy

Democracies might have a Fermi Paradox of their own. The Fermi Paradox asks: If intelligent life is common, where is everyone? One answer is the Great Filter, the point where civilizations grow powerful enough to destroy themselves before stabilizing.

Ding ding fucking ding.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Donald gives McDonald’s $10. McDonald’s gives him a hamburger. McDonald’s buys nothing from Donald. That’s a $10 trade deficit, not a $10 loss, because the stupid motherfucker received a hamburger. We’re being governed by a man who cannot understand lunch.

This is why GenX has no politicians…

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

At some point you just have to conclude that the Trump supporters who are still left just knowingly love the lies, corruption and incompetence and have accepted it as their brand because nobody can be that naive and stupid.

David Pakman: #SenileSatan woudn't leave. #WorldCup #Spain

In case it wasn't yet clear, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have no qualms about sacrificing your children in a stupid war in Iran. They don't care. They view your children as cannon fodder in service to Trump's narcissism and never-ending incompetence.

Trump Loves The Poorly Educated, And He Is Beyond Stupid.......

Two stories of capitalism and climate success all wrapped into one left behind USA.

If you voted for him, ask yourself. Are you the sucker or the loser?

People don’t hate Trump because they hate their country; they hate Trump because they love their country.

He took over the 250th celebrations with his own shell company, not only to grift, but to narrate our past through his lens.

….better hair?

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Every wonder why he has discovered words? Groceries? Affordability? It’s because his handlers told him to use those words in his speech, be concerned by the same issues as the common person. Except he doesn’t understand the actual words they are giving him because he has never had to.

WATCH: “Does this feel like the right thing to do? Are you ready to be on the wrong side of side of history?” Tennessee Republicans generally remorseless about stripping representation from majority Black Memphis, drowning it out with white power to protect a corrupt president.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

It’s kinda surreal to watch all those who celebrated the J6 insurrection, cheered the pardons of all the violent offenders, now lamenting the state of political violence in America.

All those politicians running for their lives during a shooting finally got to understand how kids in schools feel.

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

I could watch this all day

THIS 👇 HERE TOO........

Woke Bitches Win Gold. MAGA Losers? Still Losers. READ/SHARE/SUBSCRIBE! evanhurst.substack.com/p/woke-bitch...

David Farber understood, more than many, how the government could help or hinder civil liberties in the digital world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

Not all heroes wear capes.

If you still support this monster, if you continue to display his propaganda signs publicly, you enjoy the pain and suffering he has brought on large areas of the world. This is what you voted for.

The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away." Much of this material is literally irreplaceable. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

WATCH: DuBois & Dickerson sign off from Bari Weiss’ CBS News(max) for the last time

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

BREAKING: Senator @ChrisMurphyCT on Trump's call for executions: “The President of the United States just called for members of Congress to be executed. If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it’s time to pick a f**king side!”

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2