If you turn the sound off, the Republican debate looks and sounds a lot like Fox News.
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That the American press lets people like Scott get away with this idiotic weaponization of justice bullshit, just helps me realize why they don't see any urgency to get off Twitter either. They just don't give a fuck.
But you think It’s a Wonderful Life is the greatest movie ever made. I love you my friend, but you continually confound me.
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Jesus, Asa Hutchinson looks like he was embalmed just before the debate.
Tim Scott is exciting in that same way a good foot fungus is exciting.
If this was supposed to be Doug Burgum's moment, he just used it to set fire to himself in MAGA country.
Whenever there's an important breaking news story at midday, my first instinct is to switch to any news channel without Andrea Mitchell hosting. I have standards.
When the extreme weather is decimating their profits and lives, conservative sociopaths will whine, “why weren’t we warned?”
Global Warming Timeline
“1971
SMIC conference of leading scientists reports a danger of rapid and serious global change caused by humans, calls for an organized research effort. ”
The Discovery of Global Warming
A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change. An abridged web version of Spencer...
They claim the plane is really going to take off, here at the smallest airport in the universe. I remain skeptical.
The universe is insisting I not leave this island. Delta has borked my flight for a second time. Delayed just enough, that it would take three connecting flights, and 16 hours to get back to Fort Lauderdale. At least this time they changed it exactly 3 minutes before we shoved off for the airport at 4:00 a.m. Spent next 2 hours of haggling to get a supervisor who got us on tomorrow's booked flight via accommodation seating they block off for flight crews and special needs. Such as my hernia?
Has there ever been a human being more revolting, on as many levels of revulsion, as Donald Trump has been? The only thing that would make him a better contender for the worst world leader who ever lived would be a robust genocide. And some dimwits want to give him a second shot at that. It’s just uncanny how mindless, thoughtless, valueless, and racist over a third of America has proudly become, thanks to Fox News. (Or perhaps it just made them far more visible?)
Maybe it was true of economics in the 1990s, but James Carville’s most famous war-room message no longer applies. Today, it would read: “It’s the press, stupid!
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This will be one funny AF novel. But not on purpose.
Trump Plans to Release 100-Page Report on Georgia Election Fraud Claims - The New York Times
Trump Plans to Release 100-Page Report on Georgia Election Fraud Claims (Published 2023)
Liz Harrington, a communications aide described as a true believer in the former president’s lies about a stolen election, helped prepare the rep...
Remember when hearing the word "fascist" was almost cringeworthy? My, what a difference a decade of craven Republican malfeasance and turpitude can make, eh?
John Roberts must be so proud. He’s presided over the collapse of the Supreme Court and a ruinous roll-back of our society at the hands of reactionary zealots. What a legacy!
Yeah, that was disappointing too. But hey, I want them all to go down. I even want to see Rona Romney in chains. I don’t care why.
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House Dems ask Garland to open a Clarence Thomas probe over gifts
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House Dems request DOJ probe of Clarence Thomas over gifts
Several Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to investigate the Supreme Court justice over lavish — and undiscl...
I’m disappointed. I was hoping Sean Hannity would be on the list. I want that corrupt slug to spend the rest of his life in jail, held in a cell right between Rudy and Donald’s, doomed to an eternity of hearing them do phone sex with ChatGPT versions of Kayleigh McEnany and Maria Bartiromo.
And what is this Hollywood writer's fixation with sex up against a wall? It's just not all that. I've had women request all kinds of kink and play, but that wasn't one of them. Maybe you need to be a writer? Or have a memory foam ass?