Relegated Things
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Data Analyst. Works in business of losing elections. All I know is none of this was my fault. Passively seeking something else to talk about besides politics.
He had to get up early for this. He’s supposed to be having “executive time” at this moment. It’s a miracle they were able to get him dressed and out of the house.
Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12h agoTrump on September 11, 2026 not looking too hot
The watch thing was also President Biden looking at a gift from his recently passed son who had served in the wars that followed 9/11. To suggest he was checking the time because he was bored or whatever was going far out of their way to create a controversy.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h agoBiden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
If the media is going to demand that Democrats disavow a Twitch streamer they’ve never associated, they better demand Ted Cruz disavow the Republican convention attendee who responded to Cruz’s own attacks on Democrats with calls for their murder.
Brandi Buchman@brandibuchman.bsky.social · 18h ago
Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
Review of the Trump admin as a Broadway play: “No really, the understudy is quite a diligent method actor. Once the lead, who yes has been throwing his own excrement at the audience every night, retires, the show will be fantastic.”
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · yesterdayMr Trump sir, I found out who is leaking! I think you should make Mr. Vance do a polygraph to find out!!!!
Plenty is said about his awful character, failing brain, and terrible behavior. But also, even at his most coherent, he is an absolute dogshit orator.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoTrump is using his 9/11 speech to promote his war against Iran
I honestly struggle to remember what this was like. The Iraq War started quickly before most of us had time to stop being numb. I can’t remember a thing about Afghanistan in that brief moment where it felt like we had a clear enemy and a goal. The quagmire stretched on for decades after.
Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 16h agoBut that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.
The amount of quality control and production monitoring I undergo at work is, I believe, causing real psychological damage over time. And these jokers just tweet shit out like this on the most solemn anniversary in the country. Unbelievable.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agobang up work from the Michael Whatley campaign!
If we’re guessing here, I’ll put money on the AI kronenbergs us all like that one episode of Rick and Morty.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterdayOnce again, there's a reason they won't spell out how we'd go extinct. Are we getting Jurassic Park'd because the AI is reinventing dinosaurs? Are they getting access to the nuclear codes and hypnotizing the president into using them? They are referring to bank/infrastructure hacks and exaggerating.
It’s so pathetic to watch these people pretend like the idea for a bribe that Trump probably came up with on stage is something real that has a path to becoming true.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agoHassett: "Don't forget, the president said that $5,000 would be something that would happen should we keep the House and Senate, and if that happens then the logical place where something like that might happen would be through a reconciliation process"
What an extremely weird thing for a supposedly happily married man to say.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayVance: "If you're ever feeling down about our country, ladies and gentlemen, just take a look at the beautiful ladies right behind me. Ladies, I'd like to know what you had to drink."
i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
I hope he dies without naming a successor. The knife fighting over the corpse of his legacy will be epic.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayO'KEEFE: Is Vance your guy in 2028? RNC ATTENDEE: My guy is who Donald Trump endorses O'KEEFE: So it's up to him to tell you? WOMAN: That's exactly right. People call us a cult. I don't care.
Reuters photographer @evanvucci captures Trump snapping at @ABC’s @rachelvscott tonight👇🏽 📸 Her crime? Asking why he has to bribe voters if his economic policies are working. 🤷🏼 Video of his tantrum (no other media defended her): www.threads.com/share/_rHmAx...
If you take Trump out of the equation it’s hard to decide who is the next worst fascist. Musk, RFK Jr., and Stephen Miller are all battling for the top spot like crabs in a bucket. RFK Jr. is putting in work here to reach the top.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRFK Jr: "The party of Me Too -- remember that we were all supposed to listen to women, and to believe women? -- they cruelly silenced the voices of tens of thousands of mothers who believe that their children had suffered vaccine injuries"
This was absolutely made with AI. You can hear the lack of soul loud and clear. Smash it with hammers.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
This week has been delightful in the AI discourse. AI dudes: Yeah, so, there is, like, a 10% chance this technology could kill us all in less than a decade. Public: WHAT (thread)
Then why would it depend on the Republicans keeping Congress?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump told a CBS station in Texas that he doesn't think he needs congressional approval to send over a trillion dollars to American citizens in "dividends"
Adobe asks me this every single time. Even when it’s a one page invoice I’m looking at. No thank you robot. I can read and internalize three different things without your help. Thanks though.
Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · yesterdayAs both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
The obvious answer is to provide tools that can produce even more slop at an even greater pace than humanly possible. Obviously.
Paul Frazee@pfrazee.com · 3d agoFeel like we've all memory-holed the era where blogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were considered the equivalent of slop
An easy way to burn all your equity is to smash everything with hammers. I think it would probably provide a greater than 1% chance we’d survive too. Otherwise these people are going “gosh, I really don’t want to eat this poison, but it looks so TASTY!”
Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · yesterdayThis, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved.
It should absolutely be illegal to create fake images of politicians doing things in ads. What are we doing here?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoRNC Chair Joe Gruters defends a Paxton ad that uses AI to smear a deepfake version of James Talarico: "Listen, this is the way of the future. It's gonna happen."
Once again, there's a reason they won't spell out how we'd go extinct. Are we getting Jurassic Park'd because the AI is reinventing dinosaurs? Are they getting access to the nuclear codes and hypnotizing the president into using them? They are referring to bank/infrastructure hacks and exaggerating.
Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · yesterdayThis, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved.
Hillary Clinton: "I love Israel, and I hate Netanyahu's government and his policies. I love America, and I hate Trump's government and policies ... if the Israelis want to vote for that again, then I think the United States has to take a very tough position."
The typewriter is going to devastate the economy and cost thousands of jobs. How do we solve it? By throwing typewriters at the problem! More typewriters! Everywhere! That will solve things, I promise!
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2d agoYeah I’m sorry but this guy is making up shit as he goes along archive.md/2026.09.10-0...
He literally forced the party to do this. He probably planned everything like he does with his ballroom. Hell, if it had been finished, he would have held this in the White House I’m sure.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump in Texas: "I didn't need to be here tonight. I could've been in a nice place somewhere in the world."
There’s nothing stopping him from doing this now, before the election. Except then it wouldn’t be a bribe, now would it?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend. Congratulations."
