"Ever since we put our company signage on the side of that Waffen SS halftrack, we've been bleeding customers. I just don't understand why!"

"Marley was dead, to begin with."

An MRE looks like fucking French gourmet cuisine next to whatever is on that tray.

I would say that #2 needs to be not "have to be ready" but "have to demand" because if there are no consequences and people just reap multiple billions of dollars in personal profit this will happen again.

We had a saying in the German military--"Ohne Mampf kein Kampf", "Without chow, no fight". There are few better ways to kill morale among the ranks than to serve them this sort of "meal", especially on a Navy ship where you can't just pull through the Mickey D's drive-thru when your watch is over.

At this point, it's completely reasonable for women to assume every man they come across in daily life is a shithead and a threat until he has established a reliable personal track record with them that provides solid evidence to the contrary.

Ever since he traded his soul for a MAGA leadership position, I've not heard anything out of J.D. Vance's mouth that didn't sound like he practiced it in front of a mirror.

I feel a little sorry for all these looksmaxxing young chads who are going to learn the hard way some day that "a chiseled jawline" doesn't usually even crack the top ten on the list of what most women find desirable in a potential mate.

I can't believe this orange jackass is making me, a lapsed cradle Catholic who hasn't attended mass since the early 1990s, want to join the Swiss Guard and defend the Pope with halberd in hand.

I have eaten a lot of amazing food all over the US and Europe, but the best post-bar crawl meal I've ever had was in Kansas City and heavily involved the local BBQ.

So weird how a "less lethal" gas canister lobbed at protesters automatically turns into a deadly weapon when picked up and thrown back at the police.

siri, which wine pairs with choco pie

I think the vast majority of the people who voted MAGA as a protest vote to Tear It All Down didn't have a good idea of what Tearing It All Down would look like in practice.

"Do you mog me sir?"
"I do not mog thee sir but I do mog."

I mean, a fucking FREEBIE to make yourself look like you care about other human beings in front of the entire world, and he just stands there like a duck in thunder.

IF THIS IS YOUR DOG, COME AND GET OT OFF MY LAWN

"My real name is Braden, but people know me as Clavicular" sounds like something a young man might say to a woman before getting pepper sprayed

I *was* trying to decide between Substack and Patreon, but I guess that kind of sorts it...

If the oligarchs don't get their shit together and change their ways very soon, "All you had to do was pay us enough to live" is going be engraved on a lot of guillotine blades.

Look, this dagger that weeps blood on its own every now and then and never dulls was advertised as "100% demon-free", and if you can't trust the word of the quirky proprietor of some quaint antiques store in backwoods Maine, there's no point in good-faith commerce anymore.

Au contraire. These things are society's reaction to the moral injuries done to it by the very people who have no moral compass.

Leuctra was also the first recorded use of the oblique order, for which the Spartans were completely unprepared, and the Theban phalanx absolutely rolled them.

I never get tired of telling Sparta fetishists that the Spartans suffered their worst defeat at Leuctra in 371BC, where they got their asses kicked by a numerically inferior army of Thebans that included the Sacred Band, an elite heavy infantry formation of 150 pairs of male couples.

Eighty-eight BILLION dollars, skimmed by turning boomer brains to tapioca.

There's still good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Between the safe return of Artemis II and Orban getting electorally curb-stomped, it's been a pretty good weekend.

"Of all of the places, of all the countries, all the years of traveling, it's here in Iran that I am greeted most warmly by total strangers."

--Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown S4E6, 2014

Man, J.D. is like the angel of death wherever he shows up. Kills the Pope, fumbles the Iranian peace talks, and Orban just got kicked in the teeth with a supermajority.

I hope Vance does LOTS of endorsement stops for MAGA candidates before the midterms.

The "Yes...HA HA HA...YES" meme from The Onion--a sinister dude wearing a t-shirt with the words SICKOS on it is looking through a window, grinning madly, and saying "Yes...ha ha ha...YES!"

Me watching the Hungarian election results: