After telling my son about the Gulf of Mexico renaming idea, I tried to explain Freedom Fries. They have a hard time believing that adults can be this stupid.
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was out to dinner, they were still on the menu that way
I love Melania’s hat. She made sure that nobody could capture her expression even from an upward angle.
A few more years, Melanie. You did this to yourself, but in all likelihood you’ll be in the clear soon, as long as none of the crimes blow back on you.
Wait, he didn’t even put his hand on the bible?
I think he was afraid his hand might spontaneously combust.
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Not sure if anyone’s still using TikTok… What’s up with Elon’s salute here…
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He’s trying to look badass while doing it, but the upper lip bit is cringe. (And no, I don’t think the brief bent arm before the salute makes it not a Nazi salute.)
Apparently he did it twice in a row…
https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1881433327779168614?t=koaQ53PD0fOHvmmeoyM0tw&s=19
ETA: CNN commenting on it…
https://x.com/merryrutrick/status/1881435842692227325?t=lLgjeXrIaDwve9F_6hPRBw&s=19
ETA2: Drudge report notes it…
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Look, he was just showing Laura Ingraham the masculine way to do the Nazi salute. Let’s not read a lot into … hey, wait a minute.
The political system in the United States simply adapts to the needs and wants of the corporate world. Fascism is the natural choice for corporate tech AI. I hope there will be pushback but I doubt it. Americans are simply addicted to tech stocks. Your data privacy rights are gone. Tech firms will be allowed to track your every move. And of course self-driving deregulation is on its way. The reason why all the tech CEOs are lining up to suck up to trump is because they have to in order to compete against Musk.
The tech barons also fanned out through the city in celebration. The next night, across town, Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, dined at Georgetown’s new hot spot, Osteria Mozza, sitting at a window table with leaders of the *Post*. On Saturday, Palantir and the PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel hosted a party at his Woodley Park mansion; a bow-tied and mop-topped Zuckerberg arrived before the sun had fully set. And yesterday, Trump called Musk up onstage during his pre-inauguration rally inside the Capital One Arena—“C’mere, Elon!” he growled—briefly ceding the spotlight to the Tesla executive and his young son X.During the 2024 election, many liberals and some conservatives feared that Trump’s second term would usher in a new kind of American autocracy, à la Hungary. But on its first day, at least, Trump’s new administration seems, more than anything else, oligarchal—albeit one where the transactions mainly flow one way, at least so far.
“They’re lining up to obey in advance. because they think they’re buying themselves peace of mind,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism who has been critical of Trump, told us. But, added Ben-Ghiat, who noted the overlap between autocracy and oligarchy: “They can give that million and everything can be fine—but the minute they displease Trump, he could come after them.”
Reminds me of a quote by an Australian politician - “A conga line of suckholes”.
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“Yeah, that’ll make the libs cry!!”
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While reasonable people haven’t heard of him, Matt Walsh has a scarily large cultish following.
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Huh, wonder what my right-wing cop step-sister and her husband think of that.
I would be in favor of doxxing every single person in the background of that picture.
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