solid

The crazy thing about Elon is that his bender wasn’t even an attempt to impress other super-rich people like if he had bought an America’s Cup yacht or a Renoir. He spent $billions on stunts so a bunch of dorks who post racist le epic bacon memes would act like he’s Tony Stark

5. CBP says this is happening so it probably isn’t.

4. The Latin Kings were historically a Puerto Rican-American gang, ie the one group of pissed off Latinos in the city who DON’T have immediate beef with the Border Patrol. I’m supposed to imagine gang leadership want to fuck up their business to go all Viet Cong on federal cops out of — solidarity?

3. I have no way to verify this myself but I suspect that the local gangs are honestly thrilled that so much federal time and effort is going into busting landscapers and nurse’s aides and not, you know, them

2. Generally speaking people in the drugs/extortion business want LESS attention from the cops and not the MUCH FUCKING MORE they would get if they started shooting Border Patrol guys on the street

…you’re opting out of the work and pretending you’re doing so on principle.”

“People have been reading this book for 2,500 years and getting meaning out of it. Your professors put this on the syllabus because we think it’s important. Nobody expects you to worship this book but if you act like it’s just beneath you to even be exposed to it…

I had a professor in college (who was otherwise a colossal asshole but I gotta hand it to him for this one) who said something along these lines when we the class were up in arms about some book we were reading. Probably Aristotle, it’s usually Aristotle. I’m paraphrasing:

BTW, if you’re clinging to some vague hope that these guys are going to accidentally talk themselves into supporting a national healthcare system of some sort please bear in mind that those systems still all work by most people paying more in than they get out, it’s just taxes instead of premiums

Some Republicans are too stupid to understand this, some are OK with health care becoming a rich-people-only thing, and some understand it but pretend they don’t because no one has more contempt for Republican voters than Republican politicians

In the modern world, where CAT scans and chemotherapy and advanced biologics are real things, the 2 choices are 1) medicine becomes a luxury good available only to those with six figures of savings they can tap into as needed or 2) we have a system where most people pay more than they get out of it

I disagree because the level the general public operates at is that bad things happened while a Republican is in the White House. Most people here are quartz-posting.

There’s eight different bagels and eight different schmears, I promise you don’t need to work out the goddamned Condorcet winner in front of the cashier

Still, on a scale from 1 to Kanye, he’s a 4 at most

I am the presidential candidate and sole known member of the Catholic Anarchist Viking Party and my signature issues are universal access to chiropractic care and relitigating the Arrostook War of 1838-1839, many such cases

Novoselic seems to be doing a late in life speedrun of the Autodidact Politics Poaster thing where you flit around various unfashionable ideologies to find one that is odd enough to substitute for a personality but not so odd that people throw shit at you

“The owner of the Mets also owns a solid gold toilet” is, like, unlabeled factory seconds you can get for cheap if you know a guy who works at the Metaphor Plant