Beware the Ides of March -- U.S. Politics March 2021

Every day as a facet of my job, I am subjected to the groaningly-punny names of animal shelters and rescues across the country. So I feel like I'm in an authoritative enough position to say that those tweets are almost inexcusably terrible.

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Good Biden speech so far.

In a FB group we started mocking him the first couple minutes.....then shut up.

Boy, I thought that was great.

I did too

he does look a lot like bob barker though

I thought the first 10 minutes or so was very moving. He maybe repeated himself a bit towards the end, but that first part--"the details of everyday life"--I'm going to play it tomorrow for a grade 4/5 class.

Flipping through channels, I heard that gallon of angry oatmeal named Tucker Carlson say, "How DARE you, President Biden, tell us whom to spend Fourth of July with?!"

Totally on-brand that Tucker Carlson hates his immediate family

joe biden is dangerously out of touch with the people who don't want to see their friends and family

xpost lol

Yeah, I could feel myself getting a little misty during that stretch. I want to believe, Uncle Joe. Make it happen, please.

joe biden is dangerously out of touch with the people who don't want to see their friends and family

Deserves to be a T-shirt, or something.

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Fox News has an inset box during Biden's address showing Tucker Carlson reacting to what Biden is saying in realtime labeled LIVE TUCKER REACTION pic.twitter.com/pzTOBFvwTU

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) March 12, 2021

Alright

McConaughey says in another interview, w/ Al Roker, in front of the Texas Capitol, that’s he’s considering running for governor: https://t.co/sdt4h1oWne

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) March 12, 2021

AOC's IG live rn is pretty great.

It'd be a lot cooler if you didn't

playing bongos naked in the governor's mansion

I'd take McConaughey any day over Abbott

I think he’s got a heavy case of Rogan brain, but honestly same. Abbot is the absolute worst.

AOC's IG live rn is pretty great.

what was she doing?

There's an outline here in her own words:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMTamoBHRaa/

you can really feel her anger there with how terrible of a bill this was, in terms of what it should have been

they have no message right now

Kinda. They have a message and it is "no."

i don't know, they also have the whole socialism angle, they have the border crisis, they have the stolen election, they have cancel culture thing (which is against saying "no" to them), the upcoming ____ scandal, which is really ten times worse than anything we saw in the trump era, etc

that's kind of what i mean, they got really used to trump leading them from one crazy headline weirdass thing to another, i think they kind of forgot how to be a political party. but people keep voting for them and they keep suppressing the vote of everyone that tries to vote against them, so wtf do i know

god that AOC video

straight into my veins

"It's OK to say when good things happen."

Thk u AOC.

Liked it as far as Ive got, a lot. People really need competent smart ppl in govt setting high and reasonable expectations. Being mega-charismatic and clear helps too.

https://politics.theonion.com/nation-finally-shitty-enough-to-make-social-progress-1819570350

Meanwhile, in the saddest of sad LOLs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-is-trying-to-launch-a-social-media-site-and-its-already-resulted-in-a-legal-threat

Any new social media network faces serious challenges. But Vocl must grapple with a daunting problem before it even launches: a website called “Vocal,” spelled with an “A,” already exists.

On Thursday, lawyers for Vocal’s publicly traded parent company, Creatd, Inc.,

right here is where I started laughing

Oh it gets better!

oh wow it does

His shot-chaser moment with the name is beautiful.

space age stuff!

Assuming he actually gets this thing running, I predict that it will a) be a piece of technological shit, b) get hacked within an inch of its life, c) result in Lindell getting whatever article of clothing remains sued off of him after Smartmatic et al get finished with his pants.

it's gonna use Frames, and have a visitor counter and guestbook at the bottom

I don't want to stereotype people in recovery, but what are the odds he's not back on crack? Or maybe he's just high on life.

it's gonna use Frames, and have a visitor counter and guestbook at the bottom

― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, March 12, 2021 12:55 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like these chuds could do well to bring back webrings.

oh man i was just typing “WELCOME TO THE CONSPIRACY SEDITIONIST WEBRING”

hahaha

A sneak peek:

http://www.arnulfocasco.com/images/juice.jpg

hey some of friends were members of webrings!

actually though -- they really should resuscitate Flash.

“Every word out of their mouths is going to say Dominion, Smartmatic fraud, vaccine fraud,” Lindell told the cheering crowd, describing the content on Vocl.”

I like this biz plan tbh it will take him places

vocl needs the ability to embed realaudio clips in posts

omg ... plugins ... no page will work unless you download a plugin

honestly the most hilarious hack in my mind is to basically give users an error message saying they have to upgrade to the latest version of Flash to enjoy this content.