Damion Schubert

Bluesky a band: Gerry and the Pacemakers, no!

Ah yes, the week before election day, when the train is largely on the tracks and all we can do is stress out or celebrate whatever tiny little clues and glimpses we might find.

If I were Obama, I'd make it my mission for the next 7 days to find a new bit of real estate in Donald Trump's head.

Give the people what they want I guess.

This is just that meme where someone posts "this is what America would look like under socialism" and then posts a picture of what American store shelves looked like during COVID ... under capitalism.

When Im having a bad day on Bluesky, I block the 5 most annoying people in my feed. Not the ones I disagree with necessarily, but the ones who are particularly stupid drama queens. No reason to give bad faith randos the joy of energy-vampiring my free time Keeping a clean feed is self-care.

Great stuff

Ratfuckers are gonna ratfuck.

The 'something' was the Civil Rights Act. "I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime - and mine" is something that LBJ said after he signed it. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...

This was a pretty good one

The week before election day is always fun because you spend the rest of your time going 'there's no way that these idiots can get stupider and more racist' but then they prove that, no, they have an endless capacity to do that.

Fox news spent a week condemning Obama as out of touch because he complained about the price of Arugula. www.mediamatters.org/barack-obama...

We are now at the time of year where my autistic kid just wants to drive around neighborhoods at night looking for cool Halloween lights and I cannot stress enough how magical and wonderful it is. Even moreso with December christmas lights.

A tough thing in explaining to people why having children is enjoyable is that all the bad stuff is very easy to explain (lost sleep, lost time, more sickness, less sex, etc. etc.) whereas most of the really good stuff whispers.

For all the talk about 'throwing XXX under the bus', this purity politics bullshit is the REAL throwing minorities under the bus, boosting fascism and increasing suffering across the board in hopes it will result in a glorious revolution that's never going to come.

they just came out and said the contrapoints jpeg

Tom is a principled Reagan Republican who is worth following in part to be sure that you don't get completely subsumed by the echo chamber effect, but anyway him of all people saying this is a hell of a condemnation.

There are lots of reasons why the Democratic Party is likely never going to die that have to do with entrenched money and power but don't forget one huge factor is that the alternatives are run by morons.

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Donald Trump bulldozed the white house and is threatening to do the same to the Kennedy Center but the thing you're concerned about definitely seems like the thing you should be covering instead

No. This is dooming for nothing. Lula *did* end up cruising to re-election, it was called an hour after polls closed. The fact that he managed to pull that off when everything was pointing to a Bolsanaro win is not terrifying, it's inspiring. Stop looking at things through the worst possible lens.

Grim but in absolutely no way surprising.

The Woke Left wants nothing more than... *checks notes* for everyone to marry a guy named Gary.

i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy

perfect, no notes

The extent in which the person who wrote this is invited to self-fornicate at their earliest convenience is massive.

I’d say Trump isn’t as good at influencing foreign elections as Putin, but I dunno, the Serbia results are a huge defeat for Putin. He’s lost both Orban & Vucic in a year.

trying to figure out when the world went sideways and I think it’s when Popeyes stopped giving you a cup of gravy when you ordered chicken tenders

To get in the spirit of Halloween, tell a horror story in six words or less. I'll start. "The dog found the sex drawer."

I watched the original Friday the 13th, the original Nightmare on Elm Street and then on a whim, cut straight to Freddy vs. Jason and let me tell you, the tonal whiplash on THAT transition was quite insane.

This must hit so hard if you are both stupid and an asshole.

“Democrats will strenuously oppose efforts to restore things to the Obama-era status quo ante,” I say, presumably after suffering significant head trauma

The shocking thing about the 2020 primary being won by Biden winning the black vote and the south is that it's exactly why Clinton won the primary in 2016 and pretty much none of the other candidates learned a damn thing from the experience.

Dear Donald, this is your National Republican Senate Committee leader writing I am here to tell you to absolutely keep saying this shit

Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching. It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big! President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!