The crowd was shouting "daddy" when cheeto came out...

10/25/2024 1:17:06 PM

Cool.

10/25/2024 6:16:18 PM

Part of me just thinks they’re mocking the electorate now. Trump doing Music for 40 minutes, the increasingly garbled statements and ramblings at the rallies, refusing debates, admitting he’s repeating Hitler.

They have to be privately marveling at how idiotic their supporters are, and it boosts their resolve to dismantle democracy because if people are that gullible obviously they can’t handle democracy.

10/25/2024 7:06:44 PM

Right. I'm concerned that we're fucked even if he loses.

10/25/2024 7:10:38 PM

It would still be better if he loses.

10/25/2024 7:19:48 PM

oh no doubt, by a long shot.

10/25/2024 7:35:28 PM

Liz Cheney tells The New Yorker festival that she canceled her Washington Post subscription.
 
"It's fear. When you have Jeff Bezos apparently afraid to issue an endorsement for the only candidate in the race who's a stable responsible adult because he fears Donald Trump, that tells you why we have to work so hard to make sure that Donald Trump isn't elected."

She knows how to troll

10/27/2024 11:09:02 AM

Yikes

https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DBo3YVbg9O0?xmt=AQGzVZbC3bG_JVUcUxmdlkVPmomLfy80KU-u6yeKZMZ7-g

10/27/2024 3:14:41 PM

WTAF?!

10/27/2024 7:48:16 PM

^^^ I'd still not totally align with Liz Cheney on policy. I'm right leaning, but not as thoroughly as she is.

...but I have grown to have respect for her of the highest order. I'd vote for her in a second.

Also, Jeff Bezos is a fucking pussy. I've defended him many times against incessant left-wing whiners who can't stand him because he knocked it out of the park and got blindingly successful and rich, but what he did here is stupid, weak, unpatriotic, shortsighted, and devoid of integrity.



^^ I think he also referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating pile of garbage". Even Rick Scott's sorry ass called bullshit on that one.

Look, I'm all for edgy, offensive comedy. If it was at a comedy shot and not at a Trump rally full of bigoted deplorables, that would maybe be different. Especially if he slammed people on other sides...but saying what he said, in the context of what he said, in the venue where he said it...yeah, fuck that guy, and fuck the traitorous scumbags that drive that entire movement.

if we come out the other side of this as a country, we'll need to study post-Nazi Germany to see how to move forward and deal with those who were on the wrong side.

[Edited on October 27, 2024 at 9:57 PM. Reason : ]

10/27/2024 9:50:40 PM

Tony was awesome at the Roast of Tom Brady. Disappointing to see him at the Trump rally.

10/27/2024 11:11:33 PM

Everybody knows you never go full MAGA.

10/28/2024 9:01:46 AM

There's half a million Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania, so thank God for this Tony dipshit.

10/28/2024 9:24:59 AM

I know nothing about Tony Hinciffe. Was this maybe undercover psy-op job aimed at hurting the Trump campaign?? There's no way they thought that would be a good thing, right?

10/28/2024 9:35:31 AM

I considered that too, but now he's sparring with Tim Walz on the social media.

10/28/2024 6:50:48 PM

^^ Dude the entire defining MO of MAGAs is complete divorce from all facets of reality, spiced with assholery. Seems totally believable to me that they wouldn't make a calculated, logical decision based on facts here.

10/28/2024 8:36:24 PM

"They're a VERY festive people!"

10/28/2024 9:20:54 PM

Quote :

" If it was at a comedy shot and not at a Trump rally full of bigoted deplorables, that would maybe be different. Especially if he slammed people on other sides...but saying what he said, in the context of what he said, in the venue where he said it...yeah, fuck"

agreed. The floating pile of garbage joke would have been funny in an actual comedy context... but not at a political rally where the guy is calling for mass deportation and a gestapo, and stripping legal status from Haitians

10/28/2024 10:52:09 PM

there’s no context that would’ve made that “joke” funny

I see stand up on a regular basis. unless dude was attempting to call out every person involved in that rally, which he wasn’t, it was clearly a dipshit being racist and trying to hide behind comedy

the watermelon “joke” made it clear that he was the latter

10/28/2024 11:04:34 PM

http://www.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOLqSUK0eBM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fhttp://www.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE


Jon Stewart had a good take on this. The comedy segment was the least relevant and important part. It was bad to mid tier jokes in the entirely wrong context/event. But what trumps other cronies were saying were much worse even if it’s not digestible as sound bites

10/29/2024 9:27:09 PM

Well based on effect, it might end up being one of the most important parts of the entire campaign

10/29/2024 9:46:05 PM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOLqSUK0eBM

Fixed link

But yeah it’s funny what seems to take hold… not the trump explicitly citing a 1798 law to implement a modern day operation wetback, but a lame joke by a mostly unknown comedian

10/29/2024 11:45:41 PM

https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/nancy-mace-calls-police-prominent-foster-youth-advocate/256826

Nancy Mace continues to be an awful person

12/11/2024 10:50:19 AM

Why is trans written as tr*ns in that piece? Is that considered a slur now?

12/11/2024 11:32:14 AM

she’s the one who wrote it that way

12/11/2024 12:08:57 PM

I feel like I've seen other anti-trans people put the asterisk in the word (as opposed to after it)? Or maybe I'm misremembering.....

12/11/2024 1:47:17 PM

^^OK. I still don't understand that. Is it censoring the word, or . . . ?

12/11/2024 2:10:05 PM

I think it’s their way of attempting to scandalize the term

12/11/2024 4:09:17 PM

I've seen folks censor words bc they think those words will affect auto filters that push or restrict engagement. No clue if that's why she did it or if there is any weight to that theory, but it's a common theory.

12/11/2024 4:11:48 PM

^^That's what I was thinking. They want to turn it into a dirty word like sh*t or f*ck

[Edited on December 11, 2024 at 4:12 PM. Reason : ]

12/11/2024 4:12:26 PM

Cool.

12/11/2024 7:57:47 PM

Everybody's favorite MAGA-hat, Marjorie Taylor Greene, said that the officers who shot Ashli Babbitt should be prosecuted for murder.

[Edited on December 12, 2024 at 11:58 PM. Reason : ]

12/12/2024 11:51:28 PM

^But, but, but ….. what about the thin blue line?

From the JD Vance thread:

Quote :

" I found this interesting and is the same vein as above: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/07/beyond-libertarianism The tldr; is Vance critiques libertarianism in what amounts to “but think of the children!!1!1!” It’s not exactly new for culture warriors to get uptight about capitalists trying to sell stuff to kids, but I think Vance’s continued emphasis on the “family” signals a change in American conservatism. The simplest way I’ve seen it explained was look at how the apocalypse has morphed for American conservatism. It was always “The debt and deficit mean China will own is sooooooon!!!!!!!!”Basically financial fear mongering and a good reason to shrink government. Now the apocalypse is some combination of death of the nuclear family, immigration, and a loss of their preferred hierarchies. At the extremes it’s essentially just “the Great Replacement” theory. For libertarian leaning conservatives I think you should take a long look at what folks in this group are proposing. They have NO qualms about flexing government power to achieve the outcomes they prefer. Unless you have a white picket fence, 2.5 kids, and attend church every Sunday, you’re going to get caught up in their plans"

I’ve actually now read more eloquent takes on this and have this summary on the GOP’s changing coalition:

Reagan’s three legged stool coalition-
Foreign Policy Conservatives - anti communist, the world is safest when America leads, etc. Neo-cons essentially. These folks, with only a few exceptions, have been almost entirely purged from the party. Cheney, Kinzinger, etc, they’ve literally been threatened and berated out of the party as the GOP outsources its foreign policy to Putin.
Fiscal Conservatives - when’s the last time you heard a major GOP pol talk about the deficit? They may have never been very serious about this issue, but voters believed they were. It doesn’t exist anymore and the GOP base doesn’t seem to care about it anymore either. It was the biggest existential threat to the US for decades, then they just stopped caring?
Religious Conservatives - we all know this one.


Trumpism’s new 3-legged stool coalition

Anti-immigrant, Great Replacement Theory - this is by far the most animating aspect of Trumpism. The great replacement theory has replaced the budget deficit as the biggest existential threat to America.
Religious Conservatives - proving that this group is the least principled and most amoral bunch in conservative politics, they stayed with Trump and always will.
Anti-woke dipshits - A catch all for assorted bigotry, I’m still wrapping my mind around who and what this group is.

12/15/2024 8:57:52 AM

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gop-cuts-child-cancer-research-funding-bill-musk-1235212295/

Quote :

"REPUBLICANS CUT CHILD CANCER RESEARCH FROM FUNDING BILL AFTER MUSK’S MEDDLING The House GOP has been in a state of chaos after the billionaire led a campaign to kill a bipartisan funding bill"

12/19/2024 6:18:15 PM

Quote :

"^^OK. I still don't understand that. Is it censoring the word, or . . . ? "

It's to avoid platform censorship that throttles reach based on keywords. You see it with suicide and others I can't think of.

12/19/2024 8:25:37 PM

Thanks!

12/19/2024 8:32:01 PM

the anti-trans congresswoman was not trying to avoid censorship on Elon Musk’s platform

she’s attempting to scandalize the word trans

12/19/2024 9:19:47 PM

^ there is a momentum to habits. It's been that way since at least 2016. You can find the code that manages booster of keywords from when they published it but it references a database list in the open source algorithm. I would assume you'd reduce the reach for any conversation about it if it was something you'd want to dissuade. Negative conversation can still be persuasive. No conversation is what you'd want.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/tree/72eda9a24f815f6d566818cbf8518138e29d83e9

https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1642608359424622593

See also:
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1869848727092937026

[Edited on December 20, 2024 at 8:15 AM. Reason : A]

12/20/2024 8:01:39 AM

I’m well aware of why people do it

I don’t think that’s why she did it with the word trans

12/20/2024 10:55:35 AM

Guess we’re thoroughly back in the trump era, because it’s truly perplexing why trump-musk would stage a government shutdown just before Christmas

If we have any saving grace it’s how incompetent trump actually is

https://www.threads.net/@vincedmonroy/post/DDzzLeav1GQ?xmt=AQGzsiDzzRRT_xF0pEeTkK1N_aBKFRTmpm6oyDRDldrRBA

This is hilarious. It’s like every bad job you ever worked

[Edited on December 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM. Reason : ]

12/20/2024 12:35:27 PM

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

12/21/2024 11:39:02 AM

Next time you buy an event ticket remember trump and musk made it harder on you:

“The TICKET Act was designed to mandate that all ticket vendors display the “all-in” price at the point of sale and ban them from selling tickets that they did not have in hand …. It would also force the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce an act that prevents scalpers from using bots to secure tickets.”

https://www.nme.com/news/music/donald-trump-intervention-leaves-ticket-act-legislation-in-limbo-3824379

12/25/2024 11:35:24 PM

Since it has bipartisan support, it might still pass on its own. I don't buy event tickets or go places or do things.

12/26/2024 5:05:11 AM

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-flunks-3-key-tests-deadly-new-orleans-attack-rcna185965

Quote :

" First, he flunked a test of accuracy, pushing misinformation within hours of a deadly attack. Second, he flunked a test of decency, trying to exploit the attack to advance an ugly and misguided agenda. "

1/3/2025 1:11:59 AM

^say it ain’t so…

1/3/2025 9:42:52 AM

I watched their credibility evaporate in 2016

what is this thread still about?

1/13/2025 9:39:46 AM

Quote :

"The New York Times contacted more than two dozen of Mr. Trump’s most outspoken critics and perceived enemies to ask about their level of concern. Despite having spoken out in the past or having participated in proceedings against him, almost all declined to address their worries publicly, saying speaking out now could make them even more conspicuous targets. "

Free speech is back

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-officials-retribution.html

1/18/2025 3:47:34 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lg4ungwwkn2e

We’re living through the book of revelations

1/19/2025 8:27:42 PM

There is no "s" at the end of the Book of Revelation.

1/20/2025 8:56:46 AM

LA is foretold:

Quote :

"9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."

1/20/2025 9:35:49 AM