It really is considering I just got my drivers license renewed in Texas, and they beg us for money to help test rape kits that are in a huge backlog.

This billboard says it all.

As if blue states, esp California don't foot the bill for the poor, irresponsible red ones. What a dolt.

Agree! I’m in Texas… 46th for education and a brutal theocrat or three in office. Whee.

My son’s IEP and aides are life changing, beautiful people. We would not be where we are without them. This is heartbreaking.

She is a ray of hope from of the absolute cesspool that is Texas politicians.

Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment YouTube video by vlogbrothers

Hank Green shared his thoughts on the concept of trust. 🥰 It’s worth a watch.

My thoughts: Our society requires trust to function. It’s a currency with an unpredictable exchange rate. We can trade in places where motivation is shared, but those places are fleeting. Hence our bubbles & maga.

There is that…

It’s so true. 💯 He gives no craps about us. On the lighter side though… the jokes in the next four years are going to be 🔥.

OK, looking at the ridiculousness that is Donald Trump’s junk drawer of a cabinet, I need to find some sort of silver lining: I don’t think it’s possible that the next four years will run smoothly. He’s setting it up to be downright hilariously bad. The joke opportunities will be insane.

That’s why I have such a hard time when maga (esp my father) mentions the 50s and 60s as when America was great. It obviously wasn’t. They were mostly just children and sheltered. They’re smart enough to know that but refuse to see it.

Sadly, it’s called drained pool politics and it’s alive and well. :(

Litrpg all the wayyy... currently relistening to all of the dungeon crawler carl series... noobtown is a fun one too.

It’s arresting. Kind of this amazing surprise. I loved that feeling. :)

Wonder how much his hats are going to go up in price when he adds a tariff to the stuff from chy-nah.

And KamalaHQ tiktok

And Gus… lol

Absolutely, makes sense to meee

Us silly Texans just can’t have nice things. Nope nope. We’ll get spoiled.

Same person

It would be nice, but I just love this for him: not even being second pick. All of his brutality over the past few years has absolutely been to catch the eye of daddy Trump.

Same! I also love this whole being ignored twice thing for him so much. Though we know all of his brutal tactics over the past few years have been to try and impress King Cheeto.

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Lol and Ken Paxton is fuuuuuuuming. Good. He deserves to be forgotten.

Trump's Tiny Johnson is really the worst.

I saw it in the Art Institute of Chicago on my honeymoon in 2005. I wonder if it has continued to fade since? I haven't checked on it. So the Bonaventure Pine (Signac... his apprentice) has some insane colors that were SO vibrant the last time I saw it. Interesting! Didn't know that about the fading

lol I wrote it wrong.. It's Claes Oldenburg the pop art sculptor... He did a lot of common household items in a huge scale.

Okay, fixing this lol I wrote Klaus Oldman and I meant Claes Oldenburg lol.

I have a panel of Whaam above my couch. I vacillate on the whole "talented plagiarist" thing. Pop artists were making statements on society (Warhol soup cans), so a magnifying glass on comics was his thing. The sheer size of his pieces jive with Klaus Oldman's stuff too. The craftsmanship is 🤌.

Last one: Warhol's Orange Disaster #5. Can't see it on the image but by number 15 the print starts losing ink and fading, it's so haunting because you're confronted with this macabre image over and over again. He knew exactly where we were going with being inured to violence as a society.