Well, fuck.

You’ve got to find a way to check out a little. If you try to stay in top of this shit 24/7 you’ll have a breakdown. A little time to focus on something, anything, that gives you joy is important.

There’s so much terrible news all the time, I legitimately don’t know if we’ve threatened to attack Nigeria or not

Yeah, this is great. We’re going to (illegally) invade Mexico ane Venezuela simultaneously, while also occupying our own cities that don’t go along the paramilitary immigration Gestapo. Oh, and we’re also waging chaotic, impulsive trade wars with literally every country on Earth. Maybe we can get a ground war going in Russia as well, really speed run the imperial collapse.

The Late Mr. Kent. One of the best episodes of the series. He finds evidence that a death row inmate is innocent, gets, “assassinated,” by the real killer (which also destroys the evidence), and has to find a new way to clear the man/catch the real killer while also seeing how the people close to him deal with his, “death.” And, boy, that ending.

That’s the Senate.

Leela: “Did you drive a lot in the 20th century?”

Fry: “Nah, nobody drove in New York. There was too much traffic.”

Or:

Fry: “I don’t want you to hear it until it’s done.”

Leela: “But it’s beautiful!”

Fry: “So’s a peacock but you don’t eat it until it’s cooked.”

I mean, it kinda does. The fact that she is young, attractive, and media savvy means that people will pay more attention to her (not saying that’s good, just that it’s how our society works). The more attention she gets, the more of a threat she is to the regime, which is why the they’re trying to prosecute her for getting assaulted by ICE.

Yeah, the bloated police state and anonymity of most real estate moguls makes this logistically impossible. That being said, the reaction to the United Healthcare CEO’s killing and the number of ICE, “assaults,” that can’t get grand jury indictments makes me think this spirit is still alive.

“Listen buddy, by the end of the day, one of us is gonna have one eye!”

“I was going to eat that mummy.”

I doubt the DNC wants her. The Biden folks were trying to scare people into backing him by threatening them with the possibility of a Kamala candidacy, since she was seen as such a trash candidate. Newsom is probably the preferred candidate; he makes a good show of fighting Trump, but doesn’t do any crazy leftist stuff like treating homeless or trans people as human beings. That’s what the DNC wants.

Chocolate is also very poisonous for cats, but unlike dogs, they’re usually smart enough not to eat it. I think lilies are the only things that they occasionally chew on that is poisonous to them (and they are extremely poisonous to them).

Fuck it, let her. She had to drop out of the 2020 primary before voting started because she was on track to lose every single state, and she clearly hasn’t become more electable since then. All she could possibly do is siphon some votes and donor money off Newsom or Buttigieg. If that’s what she wants to do, I fully support that.

If it were up to me we’d demolish the ballroom and leave it there, just a rotting pile of rubble lying on the White House lawn. Let it sit there as a reminder of all the damage our nation caused, even to ourselves, and how it can never be undone.

Well, there are two things at play here. First is that the White House isn’t technically classified as a historic building. It’s a functioning government building with high security needs, so it doesn’t have the same strict protections placed on it that Historic Buildings have.

Second is that Trump bypassed the protections that are placed on it by simply lying about what’s taking place and moving too fast for anyone to stop him. This is also how Trump’s dad destroyed Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park before anyone could object.

You know, I’m glad he’s doing it. It’s a great metaphor, not just for the damage he’s doing to the country, but also how it will have enduring, irreversible consequences. The East Wing won’t just go back to normal when he’s gone. We’ve permanently lost something, and even if we stop that stupid fucking ballroom from taking it’s place, we will have to build something new there.

Carl?

Honestly, this seems like a no-brainer. Having Pentagon press access means you get to break stories sooner, but if your only reporting what the Pentagon gives you, you’re basically just getting press releases a little earlier. That’s not worth giving up you’re ability to get an exclusive story from a leak, and there’s always someone who wants to leak something. I’m sure that even these journalists’ cooperate overlords see agreeing to this as a bad business decision.

I don’t think it’s even, “friends,” I think it’s just Rob Citrone. It probably doesn’t hurt that Melei has kissed Trump’s ass, though.