

2017 MAGA: “Hillary killed Epstein because he was about to reveal her secrets.”
2025 MAGA: “Hillary invented Epstein in order to trick you all into hating pedophiles.”
Putin wouldn’t be President of Russia if the US and the USSR had been able to settle their differences without a 60 year long series of proxy wars and regime changes. Neither would Trump, for that matter.
You played yourselves.
This is beginning to read like the bodybuilder forum where muscle-heads argued over the number of days in a week.
Doesn’t seem like years of sanctions on Russia, Iran, or North Korea had a sufficient impact to cause any change.
Seems like it made them more insular, more self-sufficient, and more hostile to future diplomatic entreties.
Change by force can have negative results, and change by economic means can have positive ones
What if, instead of trying to extort or kill a nation’s residents in order to force them to adopt your preferred foreign policy, you simply afforded them an opportunity for peaceful coexistence?
Left: “We should have socialized healthcare, education, and housing.”
I mean, there’s The Left[Hakeem Jefferies/Gavin Newsom] and The Left[Bernie Sanders/JD Pritsker/Jeremy Corbyn] and then The Left[the DSA kids distributing food and fresh clothing to my nearby homeless encampment]. These are three very different flavors of Left.
You: “Both sides are the same.”
A big part of the problem with liberal democratic politics is how deeply co-opted all these parties have become. At the end of the day, John Thune and Chuck Schumer, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer, Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre all bend the knee to Jamie Diamon and Jeff Bezos and Muhammad bin Salmon.
Wish it weren’t so, but that’s the world we live in.
Don’t forget the $1.4T/year they took out of the economy to squander on elaborate, invasive, predatory mass surveillance, serial racialized harassment, and overseas mass murder, in the name of peace and security.
That’s not autism. That’s getting spam calls ten to twenty times a day.
Would be nice if we had blue state agencies and universities willing to step up and absorb some of the shock by hiring these professionals and issuing grants to continue their projects. Instead, we’ve got institutions wasting time and resources on elaborate surveillance programs aimed at Palestine protesters
The competition was convincing Obama to send them the shuttle instead of Virginia, by aligning with Obama’s legislative priorities. Again, this was effectively a political gift to Congressmen who supported his budget priorities in '09 and '11. Republicans tried to filibuster everything he advanced to death, so he cut their states out of the Shuttle museum program.
But now Dems aren’t in the majority anymore. So Republicans are earmarking funds to move the Shuttle to a red state.
Remember when they spent… like… fifteen years doing climate change denialism? But hey, at least they made fun of Donald Trump by… calling him… gay. Oof.
Hollywood Libertarianism. Not even once, kids.
It’s hardly a one-time thing. Kehoe came up through a rich Catholic School, owned an auto dealership, became a bagman within the State Senate, and eventually climbed up to the governor’s mansion by iteratively taking bribes and doing favors over the last 30 years.
Where do you think he raised the $13M war chest to run for governor in the first place? He’ll never stop supporting these reactionaries because he never wants them to stop shoveling money into his pockets. And if he wants to continue climbing? (And every governor secretly has an eye on the White House) He’s going to need those millions to become billions. That means he’s got to prove his loyalty. Go above and beyond. Really stand out as the kind of guy who will shove a few thousand babies into a wood chipper if his bosses demand it of him.
Genuinely wonder how much mileage you could get if you just went on Truth or Rumble or 4chan or wherever reactionaries are pooling today and started posting a bunch of “These are the machines that the Deep State is using to control the weather” entirely unironically.
Slap in some numerology, blame California Leftists and Chinese Communists and George Soros. Get the QAnon-ers to bake on it. Might get a few of the more enthusiastic zealots to start seeing coal fired plants like Christian Conservatives see abortion clinics.
…made in 2018 by a Russian team. Way before the whole Ukraine war thing, you understand
Flipping through a history book on Russian/Ukrainian relations in the 21st century
Closing the book, putting it back on the shelf, whistling, and walking away
More seriously, I’ll never understand folks who hear “So-and-so is from Nationality X, so now I must/must not purchase products from them because of their bloodline.”
I am a professional encoder and I always put all my codes in a single big file marked EXE for faster execution.
A cunt who is getting crazy kickbacks from the Chamber of Commerce.
Business groups lobbied heavily to overturn the measure passed by 58% of voters, arguing it would cost jobs. The bill also repeals annual inflation adjustments for the minimum wage, in effect since 2006.
The action followed a pattern established over the past 15 years where conservative Republicans have used their majorities in the legislature to roll back or repeal measures that became law through initiatives pushed to the ballot by progressive groups.
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In a news release Thursday, Kara Corches, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, called the mandated paid sick leave a “job killer.”
“Missouri employers value their employees and recognize the importance of offering competitive wages and benefits, but one-size-fits-all mandates threaten growth,” Corches said in the release.
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The action on sick leave is similar to a bill in 2011 weakening provisions of a ballot measure from 2010 called the “Puppy Mill Cruelty and Prevention Act,” that specified appropriate living conditions for breeding operations and including action this year to overturn the abortion rights amendment approved in November.
Incidentally, Missouri’s abysmal animal rights laws had, up until that ballot measure passed, made it the national leader in breeding (and killing of surplus) designer puppies.
Unfortunately, Cheng Kai-Shek wants Conservative Catholicism and coal fired power plants. Meanwhile, Tojo wants chattle slavery and genocide.
So, you’re going to need some help.
Billionaires thought they could bury Mamdani.
Too bad. He’s made of seeds.
White People: “Why can’t we use the N-word just because we’re white?”
Also White People: “Black people aren’t allowed to say Genocide.”
If FDR were alive today, Richie Torries would make it his life’s goal to tip him out of his wheelchair.