You keep using that word...

...I do not think it means what you think it means.

“Globalization of the intifada“? In Jackson, Mississippi?

If you handed that Pittman kid a Zippo and a jerry can and positioned him in the center of a quadrangle equidistant from a synagogue, a mosque, a Black church, and a gay bar, he’d be as effectively pinned in place as if there were a force field. He’d starve.

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Memes of a Monday Morning!

Cult of the Victim

What is it with these Right wing snowflakes and all their imaginary persecutions?

The "war on protein" is as much made-up ragebait as are the ones on Christmas or Christians.

You can’t swing a Happy Meal in this country without hitting a burger joint or a barbecue shack or a steakhouse. (And thank heavens for that.)

If there was a war on protein, then protein won a crushing, lopsided, complete victory sometime before I was born. I mean, Dr. Atkins wrote his book while we still had boots on the ground in Vietnam.

And why are they using a photo of RFK, Jr. that makes him look like the bad guy from a low-budget Saw ripoff?

WH Comms Director: "Did you get that picture of Bobby for the socials?"

Photographer: "Sure did, boss. All creepy and sinister just like you asked."

WH Comms Director: "What?"

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Oh. Duh.

I am embarrassed to say that I was today years old when the etymology of "iglesia" suddenly popped into view, like staring at the same picture of a candlestick your whole life and all of a sudden realizing it was two faces in profile.

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QotD: Gaucherie Edition

"Now I will not lie, it feels kind of like cheating making fun of this Ready-Player-One-ass car. Can you imagine rolling up to the club in this shit? The wealthy of our era are so jaw-droppingly tasteless they have finally invented a Rolls-Royce that you could not get laid in."
-sometime automotive journalist Victoria Scott on a Bespoke program Rolls-Royce

Just some excellent writing there. Like, John-Phillips-at-the-1990s-height-of-his-powers cackle-out-loud funny. I'm legitimately envious of a few of those turns of phrase.
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Grab Some Memes for the Weekend!

Tab Clearing...

• Elon's deepfake non-consensual porn and CSAM generator catches even more heat.


• Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI


• The Most Underrated Sports Car of the 2000s

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Fundamentally Unserious

If there's anything more emblematic of just how far this country has fallen since the days of the Merkin Muffley administration, it's that the War Room is now a blanket fort and the "Big Board" is displaying Twitter.

Before

After. Yes, that's Twitter on the big screen. You've got the head of the CIA in the room and you've got some OSINT Twitter account on the screen. WTF?

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Tanker Games

That shadow fleet tanker that tried to run the blockade into Venezuela and was pursued by the U.S. Coast Guard into the Atlantic? Well, the Russians have flagged it and renamed it and now it's being escorted by Russian navy vessels and headed for the Barents Sea, probably headed to Murmansk.

The thing is, the tanker was headed from Iran to Venezuela. It hadn't even taken on cargo. So what is on the ship that Russia's so eager to keep it from being boarded and seized? Drones? SAMs? Sensitive personnel?

UPDATE: Looks like the Russians had their bluff called.

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Midweek Memes!