I feel like "vote for me for President and I will pass a Constitutional amendment preventing Presidents from becoming God-Kings, unlike my opponent, who wants to be a God-King" is a pretty winning electoral message to be honest.
I hope someone at some point will ask Trump what he thought of Biden’s condemnation of the attempt and what he would say to/about Biden if Biden had been shot at because there’s absolutely no way he could help himself from saying something insulting and deranged
this has something to do I think with Orson Welles narrating War of the Worlds, which was written by HG Wells, who I also thought was maybe the same person as Orson Welles and George Orwell
i finally watched Citizen Kane this weekend and only then did I realize that for my entire life, I have vaguely believed that Orson Welles and George Orwell are the same person
This was the last decade for this, really. It sort of limped along with, I don’t know, people like Pauly Shore? into the early 90s but dried up pretty quickly. It’s too bad! It was fun.
the 80s had a high density of celebrities whose authenticity was hard to figure out, as a kid. like, was Mr. T a real guy? he was like that in shows/movies but also in interviews? or pee wee, elvira, max headroom, various wrestlers. even alf was on celebrity squares. it was a confusing time.
There's got to be some joke about how with his intelligence briefings it was always "in one ear and out the other" but yesterday we learned you can just go in and out of the same ear! More efficient!
Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it
Multiple times on Reddit this week, Tolkien threads where the answer is "You have to assume Roman Catholicism is true, because this is Tolkien" and wow people do not want to hear that
Popping on to say:
A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc.
Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.
I like Andor because it's the first Star Wars property to successfully fulfill George Lucas' stated goal of getting Americans to sympathize with the Viet Cong
going to start a concert series called Holy Shit This Desk Is Huge where acoustic singer-songwriters have to put on a stadium show with pyrotechnics and such
Imagine looking at one million acres of land and pristine fresh water, with no motor vehicles, no development, one of only 13 dark sky sanctuaries in the world and saying…this should be a mine.
Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining.
This is the future Donald John Trump wants.
please think for a moment about the ramifications of these figures you hold in high importance deciding they behave in accordance with obscure posts they saw while scrolling one day
the dunk contest and home run derby can both be fixed in the same way: put every active player in the stadium and select the participants without warning like the start of a price is right episode
