A dead and lonely world
Visions of Life / Agents of Death: On Love Thy Neighbor and Love Thy Nature: Donald Trump's world is a dead and lonely world, a world in which everything is for sale and nothing really means anything...
Marry me
I was complaining about the government in 1996 to a friend. I was on a bus at my college. A woman sneered at me and said that I needed to vote if I wanted to run my mouth. I looked her in the eye and...
Hog romancin’ yokel
Great way to describe James Comer. the State of the Union is— oh who gives a fuck, really: oh, please do fuck all the way off, you hog-romancin’ yokel.
It makes my brain do things I don’t want it to do
Hillary Clinton opening statement takes petty GOP to task: I don’t know, I don’t read stuff like that because it makes my brain do things I don’t want it to do, like think.
Hog romancin’ yokel
Great way to describe James Comer. the State of the Union is— oh who gives a fuck, really: oh, please do fuck all the way off, you hog-romancin’ yokel.
Wear a mask long enough
From a forum I'm on: To paraphrase the Uptown Sinclair quote, It is difficult to get someone to understand something, when their self-image depends on their not understanding it. I heard some...
Third US political party
Only way we get a 3rd party is if someone with Musk or Bezos level wealth decides to build a party infrastructure from the bottom up. Fund candidates at the local level, then go to the state level...
Kiss me violently
Trump talking crazy in Georgia yesterday. Trump tells Cabinet members on the campaign trail, “Hold my beer . . .”: But he did mix it up by saying that the male president of the steel company hosting...
Don't fix the bridge
A pal at work told me that this jewel I came up with is something that's stuck with him. We were talking about how someone he didn't like from a past job reached out to him, and how he should handle...
Power without responsibility
I used to think of myself as a centrist. Then I woke up and saw how the world really works. There's no longer any place for people sitting on the fence. You're either for or against human rights....
I know the real reason
This is the way to look at MAGAs. ICE Has Kidnapped The Staff At My Favorite Burrito Shop I don’t care what you say your reasons for that are, because I know the real reason: you are a bad person who...
Why DHS is trash
Post 9/11 was when my life totally changed. DHS was established so that we could have security theater at all the airports and make it tougher for people with Muslim names. I was “randomly screened”...
If I won the lottery
I used to joke that if I'd won the lottery while I was working at my old job, I would:
Do you think you're going to hell?
This was a top notch takedown of a phony MAGA Christian, ICE Director Tood Lyons: Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you...
Moms in Minneapolis helping each other
ICE is taking mothers away from their babies. These moms are donating breastmilk. This was a really heartwarming story about a mom helping provide breast milk to a baby whose mother had been...