Jim Pettit
@pettit.bsky.social
Hater of hypocrisy, lover of beer. In that order. (Also: pizza snob.) Warning: ENTP, so proceed with caution. Definitely NOT too old for this shit.
In 2010, if a half dozen Tea Party members dressed in tricorne hats stood at some obscure small town street corner waving Obama protest signs, it made national news.
Now we have millions turning up to protest Trump, Musk, & the GOP, and the networks are like, "Oh, really? Guess we missed it."
Now we have millions turning up to protest Trump, Musk, & the GOP, and the networks are like, "Oh, really? Guess we missed it."
April 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In 2010, if a half dozen Tea Party members dressed in tricorne hats stood at some obscure small town street corner waving Obama protest signs, it made national news.
Now we have millions turning up to protest Trump, Musk, & the GOP, and the networks are like, "Oh, really? Guess we missed it."
Now we have millions turning up to protest Trump, Musk, & the GOP, and the networks are like, "Oh, really? Guess we missed it."
No, Jeff, I won't be reconsidering. But congrats for driving one of the nation's great papers into the shitter in nearly record time.
February 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
No, Jeff, I won't be reconsidering. But congrats for driving one of the nation's great papers into the shitter in nearly record time.
Since Trump's inauguration:
-Gas prices have risen
-Egg prices have risen (and scarcity has increased)
-The unemployment rate has risen
-Inflation is at 3% for the first time in 8 months
Yep, things are looking great so far. :/
-Gas prices have risen
-Egg prices have risen (and scarcity has increased)
-The unemployment rate has risen
-Inflation is at 3% for the first time in 8 months
Yep, things are looking great so far. :/
February 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Since Trump's inauguration:
-Gas prices have risen
-Egg prices have risen (and scarcity has increased)
-The unemployment rate has risen
-Inflation is at 3% for the first time in 8 months
Yep, things are looking great so far. :/
-Gas prices have risen
-Egg prices have risen (and scarcity has increased)
-The unemployment rate has risen
-Inflation is at 3% for the first time in 8 months
Yep, things are looking great so far. :/
Trump is NOT a genius playing 13-dimension chess. No, he's an orange toddler babbling incoherently while running around a room packed with casks of gunpowder, one hand waving a flaming torch and the other dipping into his dirty diaper to fling handfuls of poo at the mesmerized MAGAs admiring him.
February 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Trump is NOT a genius playing 13-dimension chess. No, he's an orange toddler babbling incoherently while running around a room packed with casks of gunpowder, one hand waving a flaming torch and the other dipping into his dirty diaper to fling handfuls of poo at the mesmerized MAGAs admiring him.
For the 1,000th time: Trump did NOT get a mandate in November. It wasn't even close.
February 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
For the 1,000th time: Trump did NOT get a mandate in November. It wasn't even close.
I'm not blaming Pete Hegseth for last night's accident in DC. But at the moment one of his copters caused a crash that killed dozens of civilians (including kids), he was on Fox extolling the virtues of his new Gitmo concentration camp.
Very bad look, Petey. And on just your 4th day, no less.
Very bad look, Petey. And on just your 4th day, no less.
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I'm not blaming Pete Hegseth for last night's accident in DC. But at the moment one of his copters caused a crash that killed dozens of civilians (including kids), he was on Fox extolling the virtues of his new Gitmo concentration camp.
Very bad look, Petey. And on just your 4th day, no less.
Very bad look, Petey. And on just your 4th day, no less.
I live on the Gulf of Mexico. I can untie from my dock and be sailing the Gulf's open waters in 2 minutes. Gulf dolphins play 30 feet from my door. Water from the GoM has flooded my home twice in the past 5 months
I will never call those waters that define me anything but the Gulf of Mexico. NEVER.
I will never call those waters that define me anything but the Gulf of Mexico. NEVER.
January 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I live on the Gulf of Mexico. I can untie from my dock and be sailing the Gulf's open waters in 2 minutes. Gulf dolphins play 30 feet from my door. Water from the GoM has flooded my home twice in the past 5 months
I will never call those waters that define me anything but the Gulf of Mexico. NEVER.
I will never call those waters that define me anything but the Gulf of Mexico. NEVER.
Even at rock bottom as-is prices, Thomas Jefferson paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In 2024 dollars, that's nearly $420 million. By contrast, Elon Musk managed to buy the entire country for just $277 million.
Hell of a bargain, innit?
Hell of a bargain, innit?
December 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Even at rock bottom as-is prices, Thomas Jefferson paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In 2024 dollars, that's nearly $420 million. By contrast, Elon Musk managed to buy the entire country for just $277 million.
Hell of a bargain, innit?
Hell of a bargain, innit?
It wasn't just a (mostly) warm, dry autumn: it was the warmest autumn on record for the contiguous U.S., and one of the driest.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/autu...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/autu...
Autumn 2024 was the warmest in U.S. history, NOAA says » Yale Climate Connections
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December 9, 2024 at 8:08 PM
TFW your 74-year-old grandmother stands up at the family Christmas dinner to announce that she is pregnant, and plans to keep the baby.
December 6, 2024 at 12:41 PM
TFW your 74-year-old grandmother stands up at the family Christmas dinner to announce that she is pregnant, and plans to keep the baby.
Landslide? What landslide?
December 6, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Landslide? What landslide?
Trump's PV lead is now 1.47%.
That's quite a, er, "landslide". Over the past 100 years, the only larger popular vote percentage margins were in 2020, 2012, 2008, 2004, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976, 1972, 1964, 1956, 1952, 1948, 1944, 1940, 1936, 1932, 1928, and 1924.
That's quite a, er, "landslide". Over the past 100 years, the only larger popular vote percentage margins were in 2020, 2012, 2008, 2004, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976, 1972, 1964, 1956, 1952, 1948, 1944, 1940, 1936, 1932, 1928, and 1924.
December 6, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Trump's PV lead is now 1.47%.
That's quite a, er, "landslide". Over the past 100 years, the only larger popular vote percentage margins were in 2020, 2012, 2008, 2004, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976, 1972, 1964, 1956, 1952, 1948, 1944, 1940, 1936, 1932, 1928, and 1924.
That's quite a, er, "landslide". Over the past 100 years, the only larger popular vote percentage margins were in 2020, 2012, 2008, 2004, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976, 1972, 1964, 1956, 1952, 1948, 1944, 1940, 1936, 1932, 1928, and 1924.
Nice, round number...
November 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Nice, round number...