GrouchyGrouse [he/him]

There’s an entire town near there that’s known for its Nazi church, which is somehow more explicit than Loveland’s God’s Country Cowboy Church. Which is somehow not the only Country Cowboy Church.

A perfect tacky hack display, it suits Trump 100%

more like M&MXXVIII

We’re up to thirteen of them now? How many more multiples of sclerosis are there?

It’s a pretty valid sentiment.

Like when you see a kid fucking around with a rubber band and finally it snaps and it gives them a welt and they cry and cry and because you’re a grownup you have to use it as a teachable moment and comfort them.

But in the back of your mind you can’t help but think “heh, fuckin dumbass kid, I warned your dumb ass, fucking idiot, you totally deserved that.”

America tries to do the “good cop/bad cop” routine to itself via Biden and Trump but they’re both senile shitheads so they end up doing “bad cop/bad cop.”

Cain identifies my items for free. As a token of his gratitude.

For a good while the KSA solution to fundamentalists and violent extremists was to machine gun them or export them to go do a little jihad somewhere else.

They really got in a pickle on this one.

One of those trad nerds buys one of these because carrying coins in a tiny velvet sack, to quote, “feels gay.”

Every time this country produces a new kind of carcinogenic waste it gets debuted in either Appalachia or some red lined black neighborhood first.

All im saying is we don’t know if Vance is the hillbilly version of the singing Tim Curry ooze from Ferngully

You just wrote the opening lyric of the Bruce Springsteen song about this debacle

allow gay marriage among the clergy but still forbid hetero marriage for the clergy.

No capitalist system could survive a true audit without exposing money going into the wrong hands. There’s always going to be people getting too much and people falling through the cracks.

The effects of China’s planning is that stuff that helps the working class happens more often. And that’s pretty neat when compared to state investment going into stock buybacks under finance capitalism.

I just think they’re neat

I hate that as soon as I click the link a video starts to play and the first frame is Epstein’s haggard face.

This woman deserved better than to have the face of her abuser in every article about her. Fucking bleak.

Yeah its very funny to get lectured about the '“cost” of things from people who base their entire discipline on not factoring in environmental externalities while staring at an undeniable climate catastrophe

Which gets jokerfying when I remember they stuck us with the bill for fixing it so they didn’t actually make any money they just socially engineered a system where they got to live like kings before the ticket hit the register.

The “dining and ditching” school of economics lecturing us about how we’re a bunch of idealist dreamers. Motherfuckers.

I think my favorite ones are when I can’t tell if it’s some actual complaining about us or one of us mocking their complaints

True, which explains why the liberals bought into the narrative of Russiagate and the theater of Mueller Reports and all that bullshit, which was a farcical mirror of the Clinton (both of them) hearings about Libya and blowjobs. They really thought it might work but the whole Nixon debacle proved it was toothless spectacle, even when they tried going after some domestic side crime instead of the massive criminal actions taken by default as a president of empire.

The “success” of Watergate was actually huge poison pill. It got Nixon to resign and appeared to work. But the subsequent pardon and the vector (some domestic skullduggery, to borrow your word) ensured that the business as usual of killing countless innocents abroad would forever remain beyond reproach.

Marg bar, you know, the thing.

The Republicans stole a presidential election and the Democrat’s response was to LET IT HAPPEN because fighting it would be too divisive. From there we get the Global War on Terror and the Patriot Act, and that is the high water mark. Those policies were never reversed. Nobody responsible suffered personal consequences, let alone political or criminal consequences.

This right here. Anybody who tries to downplay the tectonic significance of these events is either stupid or lying.

Seeing the current reality requires viewing history not as a series of discreet disconnected events but a continuum with each new event born from the previous. On some level the democrats understand that holding the republicans accountable would necessitate holding themselves complicit.

And by marketing their desire to “let bygones be bygones” as some gesture toward institutional stability and legitimacy (while actually deflecting from their own collaboration) they have done more harm to institutional legitimacy than the republicans ever could manage alone.

Somehow with all the collected brain power of an internet-enabled conspiracy obsession the cranks these days have none of the imaginative pizzazz of their forebears.

Smdh even the cranks are suffering from enshittification