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Quick notes on the epstein files
January 31, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Quick notes on the epstein files
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I used to think Bush 2 was obviously worse (and I still think Trump's first term was not as bad as anything Bush 2 did) - but I think Trump's second term, especially the shutting down of USAID and who knows where this warmongering will now lead, has taken over and made him worst US Pres of my life.
rating presidents from best to worst is a bit of a mug’s game, but anyone who thinks that trump is *obviously* worse than GW Bush might consider what it was exactly that at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians died violent deaths for
January 3, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I used to think Bush 2 was obviously worse (and I still think Trump's first term was not as bad as anything Bush 2 did) - but I think Trump's second term, especially the shutting down of USAID and who knows where this warmongering will now lead, has taken over and made him worst US Pres of my life.
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this is the type of dude that online alphas wish they were, yet could never be.
December 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
this is the type of dude that online alphas wish they were, yet could never be.
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
You’re right. All the woman that have been using Tylenol should have the option to get an abortion. And to be safe, any woman that has taken in their life. Just been around it in general.
September 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
You’re right. All the woman that have been using Tylenol should have the option to get an abortion. And to be safe, any woman that has taken in their life. Just been around it in general.
Hey God, ex-Christian here. Im still okay with my current service, but
my birthday is coming up and you know what would be great? It doesn’t even have to be on the day, but that would make it a big beautiful birthday. Anyways, maybe after I could start to think the whole believing thing over.
my birthday is coming up and you know what would be great? It doesn’t even have to be on the day, but that would make it a big beautiful birthday. Anyways, maybe after I could start to think the whole believing thing over.
September 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hey God, ex-Christian here. Im still okay with my current service, but
my birthday is coming up and you know what would be great? It doesn’t even have to be on the day, but that would make it a big beautiful birthday. Anyways, maybe after I could start to think the whole believing thing over.
my birthday is coming up and you know what would be great? It doesn’t even have to be on the day, but that would make it a big beautiful birthday. Anyways, maybe after I could start to think the whole believing thing over.
Im willing to bet, what he eventually dies from will be very preventable. Yet due to his psychology he will ignore or refute advice, and people around him will be reluctant to give bad news
August 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Im willing to bet, what he eventually dies from will be very preventable. Yet due to his psychology he will ignore or refute advice, and people around him will be reluctant to give bad news
“Our founding father gave us the right to guns in case we need to fight a tyrannical government.”
“Sweetheart, I think you need to focus on the right to healthcare, specifically vision.”
“Sweetheart, I think you need to focus on the right to healthcare, specifically vision.”
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“Our founding father gave us the right to guns in case we need to fight a tyrannical government.”
“Sweetheart, I think you need to focus on the right to healthcare, specifically vision.”
“Sweetheart, I think you need to focus on the right to healthcare, specifically vision.”
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Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
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These are probably the lines from poetry that I most often quote in my life.
Mankind created, and for him
this world.
So farewell, hope; and with
hope farewell, fear;
Farewell, remorse! all good to
me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good; by thee
at least
Divided empire with Heaven's
King I hold,
IV, 107-111
this world.
So farewell, hope; and with
hope farewell, fear;
Farewell, remorse! all good to
me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good; by thee
at least
Divided empire with Heaven's
King I hold,
IV, 107-111
August 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
These are probably the lines from poetry that I most often quote in my life.
I dont care if its -15 degrees, im grilling hot dogs and hamburgers and telling people its the fourth of the July when that fucker dies
August 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I dont care if its -15 degrees, im grilling hot dogs and hamburgers and telling people its the fourth of the July when that fucker dies
A lot of small children struggle at a birthday party that isn’t theirs. It feels not fair that someone else is opening presents, getting sung to, and is the center of attention. But then we realize there are other people that have birthdays.
Trump took that lesson personally
Trump took that lesson personally
August 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A lot of small children struggle at a birthday party that isn’t theirs. It feels not fair that someone else is opening presents, getting sung to, and is the center of attention. But then we realize there are other people that have birthdays.
Trump took that lesson personally
Trump took that lesson personally
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John Deere laying off workers. Pepsi hiking prices. Sony raising PS5 costs. Electric bills up 10%. Welcome to the Trump economy. All going really well, right?
August 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
John Deere laying off workers. Pepsi hiking prices. Sony raising PS5 costs. Electric bills up 10%. Welcome to the Trump economy. All going really well, right?
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Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
August 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
I just imagined my grandchildren watching a clip of jon stewart on the history channel about 2020s American Fascism.
July 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just imagined my grandchildren watching a clip of jon stewart on the history channel about 2020s American Fascism.
If we are going for a wannabe
Nazi Germany. I need Cyanide capsules for when I get uncomfortable.
Nazi Germany. I need Cyanide capsules for when I get uncomfortable.
June 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If we are going for a wannabe
Nazi Germany. I need Cyanide capsules for when I get uncomfortable.
Nazi Germany. I need Cyanide capsules for when I get uncomfortable.
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It really is insane that a Star Wars spinoff show captured the current political moment better than literally any other piece of media.
June 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It really is insane that a Star Wars spinoff show captured the current political moment better than literally any other piece of media.
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"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."
“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.
www.publicnotice.co
June 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."
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I'd love to get a counter factual machine that lets me see what would have happened to American conservatism if Obama had not been elected in 2008 and either a white male Dem or a Rep had instead. Would it be less wacky now? It's really really tempting to think so, but I'd love to be able to check.
June 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I'd love to get a counter factual machine that lets me see what would have happened to American conservatism if Obama had not been elected in 2008 and either a white male Dem or a Rep had instead. Would it be less wacky now? It's really really tempting to think so, but I'd love to be able to check.
Elon finna to find himself back in South Africa
June 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Elon finna to find himself back in South Africa
He did say it. Son of a bitch
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
He did say it. Son of a bitch
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This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face.
Totally dystopian.
Totally dystopian.
May 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face.
Totally dystopian.
Totally dystopian.
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There was a moment when movies (rather than novels) took over as the primary form of fiction in our culture.
At some point we’ll all need to admit that YouTube videos have taken the non-fiction mantle.
At some point we’ll all need to admit that YouTube videos have taken the non-fiction mantle.
May 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
There was a moment when movies (rather than novels) took over as the primary form of fiction in our culture.
At some point we’ll all need to admit that YouTube videos have taken the non-fiction mantle.
At some point we’ll all need to admit that YouTube videos have taken the non-fiction mantle.
Looking back now. I think I became disillusioned with life when in 2001 as a six year old. I witnessed a great tragedy. You all know what im about to say.
The Spinosaurus kills the Trex in the first thirty minutes of JP3. It was a pain my little body couldnt hold. Sorrow unyielding.
Okay then 9/11
The Spinosaurus kills the Trex in the first thirty minutes of JP3. It was a pain my little body couldnt hold. Sorrow unyielding.
Okay then 9/11
April 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Looking back now. I think I became disillusioned with life when in 2001 as a six year old. I witnessed a great tragedy. You all know what im about to say.
The Spinosaurus kills the Trex in the first thirty minutes of JP3. It was a pain my little body couldnt hold. Sorrow unyielding.
Okay then 9/11
The Spinosaurus kills the Trex in the first thirty minutes of JP3. It was a pain my little body couldnt hold. Sorrow unyielding.
Okay then 9/11