Ah so was this like mostly a tweeted thing? Because his books and the long form articles aren’t like that. I wasn’t around for the first wave of tweets and such.

Still, “russia worked to get trump elected” used to be thought of as outlandish rumor, and now it’s reported as fact and everyone yawns.

Yeah that’s not how I see it. If we cheated like the republiQans, packed the courts with 15-year old fanatics for us, redrew all the maps against court orders, plowed billions into vote suppression and propaganda, we could end up with enough Democrats in Congress to get big things done.

We’d have done it fraudulently, as the republiQans have, but we’d all be better off.

Instead, we try to win honestly with well reasoned arguments and we lose by 1-3% every fucking time and have to govern with incompetent Qanuts who bought their seat with daddy’s chicken plant money.

Then a new crop of supergeniuses who just got out of polisci 201 light up a phattie and decide this is all part of the plan, man and we’re not gonna participate in this crooked show!

By the time they’re old enough and experienced enough to laugh at that, it’s been 20 years more of unrelenting Christian Nationalism and Gross Corrupt Incompetence.

I’m all for the Democrats Fixing It All (again) but saying they’re fascism-lite is stupid. We failed to elect them because we sat at home, and now it’s all on fire. As we’d spent the last year explaining it would.

Hey, only 36% of our fat asses. And we get to suffer too.

The 31% who love this insane turd gurgling they call leadership will also suffer, but they call it ‘winning’ instead.

I’m glad you voted, but i don’t agree those were the two options.

I think it was a functioning government implementing more progressive policies vs. absolute shit-spewing catastrophic chaos.

And as that has already been borne out in the first, what, thirty seconds? Those people who refused to prevent it can get fucked.

My dude only one of us is new here. Just relax, or if you feel upset about it use the block feature to not have to hear my (or anyone’s) annoying pedantry.

Well they’d still be able to vote in a gerrymandered district, but as far as voter suppression, it was at an all time high, in terms of ratfucking attempts, but it’s still small compared to the overall population of non-voters.

Pew research found that:

Among those eligible to vote who say they did not cast a ballot, 42% say they wish they had voted while 57% say they do not.

So. Don’t give a damn til their shit blows up in real time.

Hagiography is betraying someone as a saint.

You mean ‘portraying’? Well, it’s not doing either.

Aw yeah. That’s the stuff.

More people didn’t vote at all than let this demented rapist burn everything down.

Fucking idiots.

I mean, I’m willing to defer if someone’s got something better.

no one seems to. In general, that is.

Heheheh. Well, after it’s all reduced to ashes and we have several extinct species to account for they’ll probably be able to pick up that land real cheap, y’know.

You might be thinking of Walter Isaacson. This is about Seth Abramson and I assure you, the word is not hagiographer.

It sure doesn’t look like it. https://archive.ph/a4ke2 (NYT archived article)

What would y’all do? I’d probably stream myself taking a shit on donald’s tesla. Then kicking Elmo in the nuts.

Jacobs told ABC News that officials at Guantanamo Bay said it cost $16 million to stand up the migrant camp, noting that each tent allegedly cost $3.1 million to construct, despite not being up to DHS standards.

U.S. officials told ABC News the tents did not comply with ICE’s requirements for migrant detention, including provisions for air-conditioning and other amenities.

How much is this tent? 3 million? Wow. Okay. It’s got air conditioning, though, right? No? Oh. How much is that one- y’know what, nevermind.

What the fuck

I saw this kind of take a lot when he first started appearing in my feeds, and I just sort of accepted it since I didn’t read anything by him anyway.

Now that I’ve read more, I think his books are well-researched and meticulously cited using primary sources from well-known publications. He’s a professor with degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard and I mention that because the original image I was given was he was some influencer or “citizen journalist” who just liked being incendiary, and that’s not the case at all.

So are there some examples of his embellishing to share? I don’t understand this particular take on him. He’s very critical of Trump and has said he’s directly connected to the Kremlin (and shown it in the most detailed, and cited, ways), but I don’t think he’s someone to ignore for that.

In 1925, Bayer merged with five other German companies to form IG Farben, creating the world’s largest chemical and pharmaceutical company.

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time . . . a long time.

Y’all get ready - they’re not going to stop.

The judge ended the social media post discussion by giving the government until March 17 to obtain a declaration from Hegseth that his X post did not accurately reflect the position of the Department of Defense. Otherwise, the court would take the X post into account when ruling on the preliminary injunction, Reyes said.

Muwhahahahahaha