Dave
@dept-of-dave.bsky.social
Neither funny nor fun. Honestly not sure why you’d follow me. Anybody upset about pronouns in a bio deserves to be upset (he/him).
Artist’s rendition of what Trumpcare would look like…
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Artist’s rendition of what Trumpcare would look like…
Oh, my: how will we ever determine what to do with this franchise material after they killed the protagonist to end a continuity reboot?
(How do they suck so badly at this? It’s an easy problem to solve.)
(How do they suck so badly at this? It’s an easy problem to solve.)
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Oh, my: how will we ever determine what to do with this franchise material after they killed the protagonist to end a continuity reboot?
(How do they suck so badly at this? It’s an easy problem to solve.)
(How do they suck so badly at this? It’s an easy problem to solve.)
I cannot stress enough that EVEN IF 40 years was a conventional loan length for a mortgage, he’s still talking about a 25% increase in the lifetime of the mortgage.
Meanwhile, interest continue to creep up from the 2010s, and prices remain very high.
Meanwhile, interest continue to creep up from the 2010s, and prices remain very high.
Ingraham: Is a 50 year mortgage really a good idea?
Trump: It’s not even a big deal. You go from 40 years to 50
Ingraham: 30
Trump: It’s not even a big deal. You go from 40 years to 50
Ingraham: 30
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I cannot stress enough that EVEN IF 40 years was a conventional loan length for a mortgage, he’s still talking about a 25% increase in the lifetime of the mortgage.
Meanwhile, interest continue to creep up from the 2010s, and prices remain very high.
Meanwhile, interest continue to creep up from the 2010s, and prices remain very high.
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
I actually spoke to my state legislator during a canvassing stop at my home recently.
And I said point blank: “I am tired of being treated like my vote is a hostage.”
And I said point blank: “I am tired of being treated like my vote is a hostage.”
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I actually spoke to my state legislator during a canvassing stop at my home recently.
And I said point blank: “I am tired of being treated like my vote is a hostage.”
And I said point blank: “I am tired of being treated like my vote is a hostage.”
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You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.
Senator, we already know the answer is “basically nobody.”
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Senator, we already know the answer is “basically nobody.”
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The ACA fucking *sucks*, is a national shame, is confoundingly cruel and ineffective and insufficient and, also, simultaneously is SO MUCH MORE PREFERABLE to pre-ACA American healthcare it's not even close.
The thing about ACA is that if an American describes how it works to someone from literally anywhere else, the other person will be utterly horrified at its deliberate cruelty.
The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.
The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The ACA fucking *sucks*, is a national shame, is confoundingly cruel and ineffective and insufficient and, also, simultaneously is SO MUCH MORE PREFERABLE to pre-ACA American healthcare it's not even close.
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The cure to the loneliness epidemic is just liking things.
There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The cure to the loneliness epidemic is just liking things.
Stuff like this really hits me in whatever nostalgia I still have for that period of my life.
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Stuff like this really hits me in whatever nostalgia I still have for that period of my life.
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This preliminary injunction hearing in Chicago is just like... normie white liberal after normie white liberal describing how federal agents beat them, shot at them with pepper balls, pointed guns at them, threw flashbangs and tear gas at them
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This preliminary injunction hearing in Chicago is just like... normie white liberal after normie white liberal describing how federal agents beat them, shot at them with pepper balls, pointed guns at them, threw flashbangs and tear gas at them
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Predictably - the Trump/Republican response to last night won’t be to try to earn more votes, it will be to suppress the vote.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Predictably - the Trump/Republican response to last night won’t be to try to earn more votes, it will be to suppress the vote.
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At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.
It’s like they all have a compulsion to say shit like this.
Calling for a “Republicans Just Be Fucking Normal” Challenge 2025.
(Challenge level: impossible.)
Calling for a “Republicans Just Be Fucking Normal” Challenge 2025.
(Challenge level: impossible.)
Sen. Mike Rounds: "I think people want to see the trains run on time."
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It’s like they all have a compulsion to say shit like this.
Calling for a “Republicans Just Be Fucking Normal” Challenge 2025.
(Challenge level: impossible.)
Calling for a “Republicans Just Be Fucking Normal” Challenge 2025.
(Challenge level: impossible.)
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Yes, we surely can't have an executive taking equity portions of private companies whose leaders come to gatherings where they all sit in a room around a table and tell him how he is a golden god.
Who ever would imagine such a thing?
Who ever would imagine such a thing?
Kelly Loeffler: "This is gonna be a crisis in the city of New York, to have a communist in there talking about seizing the means of production ... this is the face of Democrat Party now, and you saw that with everyone coming and bowing to him."
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yes, we surely can't have an executive taking equity portions of private companies whose leaders come to gatherings where they all sit in a room around a table and tell him how he is a golden god.
Who ever would imagine such a thing?
Who ever would imagine such a thing?
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The Heritage Foundation, which staffs the current presidential administration and wrote its agenda, spent this past week defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to mainstream actual Nazis.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
Again, this is the degrees of separation: Fuentes is a Nazi. Carlson hosts Fuentes and takes him seriously. Roberts defends Carlson. J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, wrote the foreword to Roberts’s book.
Nazism is officially a welcome option in the Republican Party.
Nazism is officially a welcome option in the Republican Party.
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts stands by Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host release his controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Heritage Foundation, which staffs the current presidential administration and wrote its agenda, spent this past week defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to mainstream actual Nazis.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
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You cannot make a meaningful deal with someone who has told everyone that he's going to lie about the deal and then go around the appropriations process. He has let you know that the deal means *nothing* no matter what it is.
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
You cannot make a meaningful deal with someone who has told everyone that he's going to lie about the deal and then go around the appropriations process. He has let you know that the deal means *nothing* no matter what it is.
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we collectively through our government can eliminate poverty.
charitable giving just can't and won't do that.
charitable giving just can't and won't do that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
we collectively through our government can eliminate poverty.
charitable giving just can't and won't do that.
charitable giving just can't and won't do that.
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Blue Collar/Working Class has long since become an aesthetic to most. A guy who owns a construction company and makes six figures is working class because he wears work boots and jeans. A barista at a coffee shop is a member of the elite because Pronouns and Big City
All a straight white man has to do is grow a beard and put on jeans and flannel, and voila: he has automatic Blue Collar Credibility, even if he actually grew up with a trust fund.
ONY white males get the Assumed Blue Collar nod simply by putting on an outfit, too. Doesn’t work for anyone else.
ONY white males get the Assumed Blue Collar nod simply by putting on an outfit, too. Doesn’t work for anyone else.
interesting that people are treating his blue collar aesthetic as equivalent to having a blue collar upbringing
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Blue Collar/Working Class has long since become an aesthetic to most. A guy who owns a construction company and makes six figures is working class because he wears work boots and jeans. A barista at a coffee shop is a member of the elite because Pronouns and Big City
Magas just hate everything!
That’s it! That’s all it ever is!
You can’t convert them to your side! Their WHOLE deal is being immutably fixed in their existing ways!
That’s it! That’s all it ever is!
You can’t convert them to your side! Their WHOLE deal is being immutably fixed in their existing ways!
The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.
EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Magas just hate everything!
That’s it! That’s all it ever is!
You can’t convert them to your side! Their WHOLE deal is being immutably fixed in their existing ways!
That’s it! That’s all it ever is!
You can’t convert them to your side! Their WHOLE deal is being immutably fixed in their existing ways!
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Honestly it's a good thing there's no negative psychological consequences to everything being casinos and upsells everywhere you look, all the time, in all of society
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Honestly it's a good thing there's no negative psychological consequences to everything being casinos and upsells everywhere you look, all the time, in all of society
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
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Perhaps we should build a great tower into the sky, housing only people who all speak the same language
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Perhaps we should build a great tower into the sky, housing only people who all speak the same language
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if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public