“My name is a category. Your name is a thing in that category. Your successor must be named something that the thing in that category would do to us if we were potatoes in the oven. Make it kind of a stretch.”
Every preschool show has episodes where the villains pretend to be good guys and the good guys always fall for it for at least a few minutes.
“Green Goblin’s…. helping people? Well, I guess…”
Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it
Ahh... looks like sanity has prevailed, tensions are calming, and we can all soon get back to–
The president:
The wealthy always need to self-aggrandize to justify their wealth; when they get so wealthy and powerful that they feel they need to start justifying all the inequalities in society, you get this unhinged filth.
Oh, the brilliant machine that can do anything didn’t work? You must not have learned it hard enough!
Variety article about Reese Witherspoon telling women to “learn AI”
The “learn AI” framing seems to exist only so they can suggest that using AI is more than just asking it to do stuff and having it be your fault when it doesn’t work.
Whenever we have Ed on the show, I feel like a much more well-educated hater. Watch/listen and have your Hating skills sharpened too.
One of the greatest bands you've never heard of, KNIFE IN THE WATER, released their fifth album today (and their first in nine years). They're from Austin, Texas, and I couldn't more highly recommend downloading their entire discography and playing it on a night drive through the desert.
Obi-Won Kenobi and Han Solo on the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars (1977). It's the moment when Kenobi says "That's no moon. It's a space station."
"It's not just a moon, it's a space station."
"It's too quietly ominous to be a space station – too dangerously imposing."
Thanks for all the tips, everyone! I agree with you completely. I had salmonella poisoning as a teen so this kind of thing scares me, but I am going to try and up my game.
I always overcook chicken because I'm so worried about undercooking it, and is there really only a 10 degree difference between Utterly Dry and Will Make You Violently Sick?
The New York Times Editorial Board yet again demands that Democrats run exactly the campaign they ran in 2024
My god. Heartbreaking distillation of the two schools of thought as to what should happen when your loved one gets cancer. "This shouldn't bankrupt you – there should be a robust healthcare system to provide treatment" vs "maybe we won't tax the tips on the food delivery job you're forced to take"
This would have been fantastic news regardless, but man oh man has Vance been on an Eating Shit streak lately.
“Art of the Deal” is denying that the concept of deals exists. It is entering negotiations with no intention to negotiate. 19D-Chess, and so forth.
A Polymarket entry for "Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15?"
A Trump Truth Social post: "The Fake News Media has lost total credibility, not that they had any to begin with. Because of their massive Trump Derangement Syndrome (Sometimes referred to as TDS!), they love saying that Iran is “winning” when, in fact, everyone knows that they are LOSING, and LOSING BIG! Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft apparatus is nonexistent, Radar is dead, their Missile and Drone Factories have been largely obliterated along with the Missiles and Drones themselves and, most importantly, their longtime “Leaders” are no longer with us, praise be to Allah! The only thing they have going is the threat that a ship may “bunk” into one of their sea mines which, by the way, all 28 of their mine dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea. We’re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to Countries all over the World, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many others. Incredibly, they don’t have the Courage or Will to do this work themselves. Very interestingly, however, empty Oil carrying ships from many Nations are all heading to the United States of America to LOAD UP with Oil. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Steven Cheung stays logged into these two websites at all times and is just printing money.
This week on @somemorenews.bsky.social, I finally take a stand.
With @katystoll.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social and @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/JJvBq3kNxHs
"It's giving war crimes" feels to me like a huge chunk of the country is finally having their "Are we the baddies?" moment.
Donald J. Trump tweet from November 24, 2013: "How far has the United States gone down when we are reduced to accept the imbecilic deal just agreed to with Iran. Read THE ART OF THE DEAL!"
The guy just always posted so much. Has never been able to help himself, really.
Yes, let’s!
The only thing I’m buying futures of are benzos thank you very much.
Jeff Storobinsky on Twitter: "Prior to the 800 pm deadline tonight Trump will falsely claim that Iran has agreed to something that they have not. He will then say we're extending the deadline by 2 weeks Iran will then issue a statement claiming they have agreed to nothing It has become quite obvious that there will be no resolution in 2 weeks or even two months Fuel prices will continue to rise fueling inflation"
Seems like a fairly reasonable prediction.
I am trying anything I can right now.
Trump certainly may just be negotiating with himself, and saying anything to delay, and of course Israel and Iran might not have anything to do with it and are just going to keep going – but it's undoubtedly a good thing that Trump is not going to launch whatever it was he was going to launch.
Trump on Truth Social: "Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East. We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
I am very relieved for the moment. But this is no way to live. No individual should have this kind of power over people's lives, and especially not this guy.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
[Me, to nobody and zero laughs, as the smoke from nuclear fire blocks out the sun and the earth descends into sub-freezing winter for 10 years]:
art of the deal
