@idgort.bsky.social

focusing on the thousand year stare

Every time Hong has to go over old takes and tweets she should agree on the condition that they do the same for Tiffany or Walker or other WI Republican hot takes. Win win, clarify your position and remind everyone what the values of the opposition is

Vance is the logical endpoint of a conservative ideology that has so selected for elite interests that even the most basic performance of empathy is essentially impossible. He can't even convincingly pretend to be a Christian, itself a solved problem for the GOP. Kayfabe only works if you can sell

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

DOUTHAT: What is Christian about the second Trump administration? VANCE: Hahahaha. Well, I think that -- we have pursued a series of economic policies

there's replies here giving the (correct) answer that these things do not happen primarily because the democrats do not want them to happen, and i'm always amazed by how delusional some democrat voters are in arguing with that

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone asked me the other day, “If Trump can just do whatever he wants, then a Democratic president can too. why is Medicare for All impossible? Why are reparations impossible? Why is anything off the table?”

The new AI rolling stones song is fucking godawful. I don't remember if it was Baudrillard or Marshall McLuhan or Philip K Dick who predicted all this shit where everything is a poor simulation, but i do know that it sucks