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During this time of protest, I know we could all use an uplifting story. So I want to tell you about El Negro Matapacos, the heroic Chilean protest dog who hated the police.
Our president is such a stupid fucking liar that a significant part of the internet is currently debating whether his announcement about being infected with a deadly disease is actually true or not.
It needs to be LOUDLY emphasized that this is a lie. Wind and solar power actually overperformed expected winter capacity in Texas. The state was crippled by frozen coal and gas plants, knocking out over 30 gigawatts of power. Sources below.
Texas Gov. Abbott blames solar and wind for the blackouts in his state and says "this shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America"
Hi, I'm Elon Musk (Parody). Three years after Jeffrey Epstein pled guilty to procuring a child for prostitution and shortly after his release from prison, I took my ex-wife Talulah Riley to his house (Not Parody). Mamma mia, I send-a the calzone into space (Italian Parody).
I'm close to a breaking point. There's a point in this video where a landlord's maintenance man weeps as he is being forced to move an elderly woman's possessions into the street.
This is unconscionable. A country that evicts people during a pandemic has failed. An economy in which billionaires are wealthier and workers are poorer or unemployed during a pandemic is criminal.
#COVID19
There's been a lot of talk about the missionary killed by the natives of North Sentinel Island. They're probably so aggressive because of this weirdo, Maurice Vidal Portman. So here's a big thread about this creep and some facts from my decade-long obsession with the island.
I reject the idea that I have to watch this country push the working class and impoverished through a meat grinder day after day while actively stealing from them, but I'm not supposed to express any joy when they decide to steal something back.
Police have been brutalizing protestors on video every single day for four straight months and not a single national politician is doing anything about it.
THREAD:
On January 26th, we were all tweeting about Kobe’s death and Rogan’s endorsement of Bernie. Meanwhile, US Senators were dumping stock after a closed-door meeting on coronavirus.
We've spent months in a primary hearing how we can never pay for pie-in-the-sky policies like cancelling our $1.45 trillion in student debt, and now the Trump administration just gave away $1.5 trillion to Wall Street with absolutely no debate.
One of the cool things about electric vehicles is that we can stop making cars that have been aerodynamically shaped to look like soap bars just to meet gas mileage standards.
El Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop Killer”) was a stray dog who began showing up to support Chilean student protestors in 2011. He gained famed for never hurting a civilian, but always turned aggressive against the police.
This is the only political story: The things virtually everybody wants can't happen. It strikes at the heart of any claim that we have a functional democracy. Everything else in politics is meant to distract from this. And everyone in the media who participates is complicit.
And their aggressiveness is not the mark of savagery. It just that their conception of outsiders is mostly framed by some foot-faced English pervert who murdered some old people and did weird things to their kids. So let’s do them a favor and leave them alone.
When Bush created the Dept of Homeland Security, I kept telling my friends it would likely evolve into a dystopic secret police used by the president to quell domestic dissent and black-bag dissidents in unmarked vans and they told me to stop smoking so much pot in our dorm room.
IF YOU'RE YOUNG, YOU NEED TO GET A VACCINE NOT FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL PROTECTION BUT SO THAT HUMAN CIVILIZATION CAN ESTABLISH REASONABLE LEVELS OF GROUP IMMUNITY TO ENSURE OUR MOST VULNERABLE LOVED ONES DO NOT CONTINUE TO DIE AT RIDICULOUSLY HIGH RATES, YOU DOPES, YOU TOTAL CLODS.
Twitter banning his account and Betsy DeVos' resignation are basically the same thing: You helped caused this, happily profited from it, only did anything once it was clear he no longer had any power, and what you did was basically meaningless.
None of our mayors and police chiefs did anything when videos of cops running into protestors with their cars went viral yesterday. None of our politicans raised hell. Instead they scolded protestors about property damage. So guess what's happening today.
I know everyone loves conspiracies, but if there was a ever a guy who might say something like "I will absolutely 100% never kill myself in prison" and then kill himself in prison, it's John McAfee.
Can the race turn around? Probably. But it won't happen by pointing to Biden's bad record on progressive issues. Most of his supporters don't care. All they care about is the mistaken impression that he is the safe candidate. That is the impression that must be broken.
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Not surprising you’d babble some blatant lie to distract from your socialist shutdown.
Anyway, while we’re on the subject, Georgians don’t want any of your $93 trillion tax increase. Also, have you paid your own?
Have a great night!
86-14, Senate passes defense bill including Warren provision requiring that military bases named after Confederate generals change their name. Veto proof majority.
Just a reminder that today's viral video of this elderly man bleeding on the sidewalk is video
#282
in a thread of viral videos of unprovoked police brutality caught on camera in the last 96 hours.
He's trapped. He doesn't want to support it, but he knows he can't oppose it. I'm not going to tell you the future of redistributive politics isn't bleak under this administration, but there will be other times he can be trapped this way.
Pretty much all of my leftist friends joined Parler to screw with MAGA folks, and every last one of them was banned in less than 24 hours because conservatives truly love free speech.
Story Time: Soon after we began dating, I began to pick on my wife because every time I got in her car, the gas tank was empty. For years she let me pick on her, playing this role that she was forgetful or lazy.
If a president mismanages and fans misinformation during a pandemic that the rest of the world handles competently but a quarter million Americans die, and then the president gets the disease and dies, I'm sorry but that is literally the definition of poetic justice.
What a moment. Dems gain the Presidency and both chambers of Congress with the opposition party on the ropes after their supporters beat a cop to death attacking the US Capitol. Think what could be accomplished by a competent party at this once in a lifetime crossroads. Oh well.
Kyle Rittenhouse, in an unusual move, was allowed by the judge to draw the slips of paper that determined who would decide his fate and who would be dismissed as alternates.
That task is usually done by a courtroom clerk, not the defendant.
The whole "Chinese virus" thing reminds me that so much of right-wing messaging can be boiled down to the OK sign: Do something that is obviously flaunting racism but that also has plausible deniability. When people react, play innocent. Right out of Richard Spencer's playbook.
You notice how a bunch of right wing weirdos had to create fake Antifa accounts in an effort to make Antifa look bad, but nobody seems to need to make fake right wing accounts to make them look bad.
She has moral clarity. She believes in things. She refuses to budge on her values. And she doesn't play their games. That is ultimately why they despise her.
Every few months I forget the King of Thailand exists and I spend hours reading about him. He's worth $50 billion, dresses like Justin Bieber, made his dog an Air Marshall in a birthday orgy, exiles his many ex-wives, and has been holed up in a Bavarian resort for the past year.
No. If I have to live in a world in which COVID is 5G, in which Andy Ngo is a "journalist," in which Sandy Hook is fake, a world of rampant voter fraud, a society of a million lies, then this guy tased himself in the balls. I don't care what you say. It's never helped me before.
Haven't been on lately because life took a dark turn. I lost my dad last week unexpectedly. Don't really have anything to say other than tell your parents you love them. I'll be back when my thoughts aren't so bleak.
In short, Andy Ngo creates fake horror movies to give cover for his fascist terrorist friends, and anyone who denies that should not be taken seriously.
Andy Ngo saw this attack by fascist militia thugs, and in reporting the skirmish, he painted the fascist thugs as pitiful victims of “ANTIFA VIOLENCE!!!” This what he does. This is all he does.
Just heard my six-year-old muttering to himself, "But what if I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking? Delightfully devilish, Spongebob."
I remember sometime last year I heard a vaccine was about to be released, and I thought "Yes! All this is about to be over." Because I never thought things would get this fucking stupid, which is a mistake I keep making year after year.
Earlier today I saw an article about a lesbian couple who were beaten bloody on a bus because they wouldn't kiss for the entertainment of some men, and then I see this absolute shit tweet.
Not sure I can handle today watching Democrat fans tell everyone that it's no big deal that our new Treasury Secretary was given over $7 million in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, Citi, UBS, Citadel, etc.
And it’s been very successful. Every deranged MAGA boomer in America now thinks Antifa attacked some poor man with hammers. And this bullshit propaganda campaign owes its success to every weak-willed media person who accepted Ngo as an honest actor.
This is one of the most embarrassingly bourgeois things I've seen on here in quite a while. Societal failure through the lens of your delayed Amazon packages.
I am curious, how do you tell a grandchild (or child if you are younger) to not use profane language when the President of the US and many other public figures use profanity regularly?
“To see them lecturing about cruelty, when every day on his birthday they joke about Trayvon Martin’s death.”
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@BenjaminPDixon
on livestream, trying hard to keep his composure
The judge seems sympathetic to the idea that zooming in a video is “adding pixels” and therefore altering the content, and tells the prosecutor he “doesn’t believe” it’s like using a magnifying glass - wants an expert to testify. 🤔
#Rittenhouse
@DradeeusKedi
Oh damn I didn't think about how stopping landlords from making people homeless during mass unemployment and a pandemic is just like religious extremists barring a woman from a medical procedure. Really makes you think. *blood pours from nose*
Bernie Post-Mortem: He was winning, and then his opponents did something unprecedented to stop him. Everything else is window dressing. And if Team Biden was smart, they would be making massive efforts to heal the wound caused by that unprecedented move.
Been thinking about what I’d do to a cop who refused to enter my kid’s school during a shooting and then handcuffed me when I tried to go in. Probably best not to dwell on it.