preserved rations from valley forge
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
NEW: Far-right provocateur and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has found a new gig: Capitol Hill intern for MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://t.co/6PH35NABnv— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 6, 2022
i hate this reality
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
I don't know, I think that's kinda perfect. There is no higher office to which Marjorie Taylor Greene can realistically aspire. She's stuck in that House seat for a few more years, getting on Fox News on the regular but pushing through absolutely no legislation, and...that's...it. That's her life, summed up. She'll be a political troll for a little while longer, until someone shoots her or she gets indicted for something or she just gets bored and decides to run for Senate or governor, in which case she'll get demolished. So Milo, who self-immolated beautifully once already, is currently "working" as an *intern* for a political dead-ender. Good for him. I hope he overstays his visa and gets deported and banned from the country, but in the meantime, he's got a dead-end job that might (but probably won't) get him on Tucker Carlson's show once. The stench of loser-dom in that office must be enough to make people want to cover their faces with a rag soaked in Vick's.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
wasn't milo hawking catholic curios on a shopping network recently? I guess any gig is better than that, even being MTG's office boy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Eh, Greene is one thing, I just hate that anyone is giving Milo a chance at laundering his image at this point in time. Fuck that guy forever.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Not least because he is now claiming to be an "ex gay" and is pushing conversion therapy.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
the shit thing is even if she is a political albatross it's still useful for the GOP to keep her around, since every time she says something idiotic it gets a ton of media coverage and leads to people donating to unseat her, despite being in a Trump +99 district
― frogbs, Monday, 6 June 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
i stumbled across a radio interview with an old high school friend today. i used to be facebook friends with him, back when i had facebook, and unfortunately he'd turned into a real classic white dude right wing / libertarian anger machine since the days i knew him. he and i had been really close. we started a band together. he was two years older than me. his name was herbie and he literally drove a beige beetle. he loved fugazi and ministry. we went to hardcore and metal shows together. i watched all kinds of "edgy" vhs tapes in his parents' rec room. clockwork orange, the wall. we both smoked camel filters. he loved to quote alastair crowley's "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". i always added "as long as it doesn't stop somebody else doing what they wilt" and he thought that was funny and agreed with it.
anyway, it turns out he ended up enlisting and going to somalia. when he came back he had ptsd. in the radio interview he said that his job was to get food and supplies to villages in somalia, and what would happen is that warlords would figure out where the drops were happening, and just clean up behind the us military, killing whoever they needed to in order to steal all the stuff. so it felt to him like his unit was basically responsible for wiping out village after village indirectly. i thought this was pretty insightful, so i looked him up on instagram. his handle is "synapticleftist" and he is now in the psychology department at the university of tennessee and specializing in PTSD and drug addiction!!! so like.. people can change. for the worse, maybe, and then for the better. i think in herbie's case it sounds like it took a lot of very hard personal experience - and then seeing exactly how republican politicians actually treat veterans - to get to a better place.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
Interesting, I found out today that someone with whom I went to nerd camp as a teenager is now Curtis Yarvin’s fiancée. She even wrote a long, neoliberal Facebook post about how she was being attacked and how couples should be able to get past their political differences. That and one of my teenage mentors ending up being a lead editor and writer for The Federalist is pretty, uh, jarring.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Great story, Tracer. Thanks.
― sleep, that's where I'm the cousin of death (PBKR), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
(I should note, too, that the guy who started Facebook also went to this nerd camp at the same time as me, but i did not know him) ( Not a great record for this nerd camp)
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
Tracer! Wow.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Thanks for sharing.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 June 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
You know, it's ironic. If @SenTedCruz put half as much effort into building a better future for all Americans as he does shitposting on Twitter, maybe his constituents wouldn't be paying so much to get around. Let's take this latest lie apart, shall we? 1/ https://t.co/4HqJqtFjoj— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 6, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 June 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
Today I’m investigating Twitter for potentially misleading Texans on the number of its “bot” users. I have a duty to protect Texans if Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue.https://t.co/OZbwdV3pnY— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) June 6, 2022
please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas. Goddamnit fuck that whole fucking state.
― akm, Monday, 6 June 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas.
https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s---4aPFOD---/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1650904312/elon-musk-in-a-cowboy-hat.jpg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
Musk has the Texas Government/GOP in his pocket.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
Elon's apparent concern with the bot count is solely him seeking an exit strategy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Wai0KpzGIPQ/SCCO3TqI8OI/AAAAAAAAAy8/0NDL9PxoRMI/s400/rick-louie-gambling.jpg
"You can't back out! On what grounds?"
"I am shocked, shocked to discover there are bots on your platform!"
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
Musk was recently identified as the wealthiest human alive and probably remains within spitting distance of that status. The Texas AG, in common with the vast majority of the Texas executive and legislature, is both ambitious as hell and venal in proportion to his ambition. It isn't hard to connect the bots dots.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
31k likes for someone straight up harassing this drag queen. Cool. https://t.co/yRhQ5w6gLx— Tyler Dinucci!! (@TylerDinucci) June 6, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
Also in gay news:
Showing up to work on my first day & remembering at the last minute to delete my “kill all my new coworkers” tweet https://t.co/9DS8mKuh1i— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) June 7, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Surely he'll keep his head down and his nose to the grindstone, doing important work for people
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
is that code for "blowjobs"
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
he’s execrable but will always prefer to see more of him and the Boeberts and the Greenes and the Cawthornes (RIP) making asses of themselves, as opposed to the Vance and Hawley types
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
Is the grindstone where the cocaine is?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
xp would happily take neither
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
would happily take launching into the sun
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
why would you purposely cause our star to go nova, tabes??
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
I'm also all for blowing up the sun, fwiw.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
Wellllll, not before this afternoon's Negroni.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
i assume greene is just preparing for her post-elected politics career, where she gets paid to make dumb speeches in both real life and television for the next 10 years, at least. milo is a pro troll, he has connections and his friends and pals are the kind of people who would watch her show
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
But she's already getting paid to make dumb speeches in her pre-post-elected politics career.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
yeah, but that's not going to last forever. need to start shoring up the grift for her next 10 years. she has a family to feed, and they only eat money and fresh maggots
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
I mentally spoonerized "fresh maggots" and understood why she hired on Milo.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
:-o
what has milo even been doing the last few years?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
gay conversion therapy (grifting)
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
normal shit:
In 2017, Y14nnopoulos was a U.S. resident alien on O-1 visa status. He reportedly married his long-term boyfriend in Hawaii in September 2017. In March 2021, during an interview with right-wing publication LifeSiteNews, Y14nnopoulos claimed to be "ex-gay" and stated his husband had been "demoted to housemate".In August 2021, Y14nnopoulos claimed that he tested positive for COVID-19 and implied that he used ivermectin to treat himself, despite the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and medical professionals warning against using the medication as a treatment for COVID-19.In March 2021, Y14nnopoulos declared to the LifeSiteNews website that he was an ex-gay and would begin advocating on behalf of improving the public image of gay conversion therapy. In June 2021, Y14nnopoulos announced that he was fundraising for a gay conversion therapy centre in Florida.
In August 2021, Y14nnopoulos claimed that he tested positive for COVID-19 and implied that he used ivermectin to treat himself, despite the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and medical professionals warning against using the medication as a treatment for COVID-19.
In March 2021, Y14nnopoulos declared to the LifeSiteNews website that he was an ex-gay and would begin advocating on behalf of improving the public image of gay conversion therapy. In June 2021, Y14nnopoulos announced that he was fundraising for a gay conversion therapy centre in Florida.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Of course.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
i'm sorry, but i refused to believe "LifeSiteNews website" is real. again, despite evidence to the contrary, i cannot live in a world where someone thinks "i am going to read LifeSiteNews now!"
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
hmmm, THIS looks like a good source of information! it's got life, site, AND news!
*immediately walks into telephone pole*
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
top lifesitenews story right now:
(LifeSiteNews) — Five Tampa Bay Rays pitchers declined to wear rainbow-themed insignias on their hats and jerseys during the team’s “Pride Night” celebration on Saturday, citing their Christian faith. The five pitchers — Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson — took a stand against the pressure being exerted within all major league sports to “celebrate” and “welcome” sodomy and gender confusion during the month of June.
The five pitchers — Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson — took a stand against the pressure being exerted within all major league sports to “celebrate” and “welcome” sodomy and gender confusion during the month of June.
i have to say, this is actually useful news, fuck those guys
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
"Sodomy & Gender Confusion" sounds like an outtake from Billion Dollar Babies
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Of course they're all "pitchers."
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
of course they're all "bitches"
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
97% of white guys who play pro sports are just the biggest fucking doofuses
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
um, I’m not trying to be a total dick, but most guys who play professional sports are incredible doofuses.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
i'm always curious how these bozos like Milo and Baked Alaska survive. how are they paying their bills? I see Milo has a job now but are they basically funded by donations from horrible people?
― akm, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Rewrite as statement.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Most of them started out as do-nothings with parents that paid their bills.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link