And the Democrats for that matter - the Schumer bit was spot-on.

This is one of the best Onions I’ve ever seen.

I still remember when Facebook first caught on, and I learned that it was a site on which people posted their real names and pictures of themselves and their families and their lives, and all I could think was, “Why in the hell would anyone ever do that?”

I still don’t know.

The late 90s or maybe the early 00s Probably pre-Google (so pre-1998) but maybe in their earliest days. Definitely pre YouTube and pre Facebook (so pre-2004). It’s been pretty much all downhill since then.

Fucking psychopaths.

I would say that the most telling thing is that there hasn’t been a similar shift among Republicsns.

Anyone who can look at what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza, and increasingly in the West Bank, without being filled with horror, revulsion and pity is a monster.

“Shamed” implies he’s capable of feeling shame, which I very much doubt.

And they didn’t even really try to hide it - the tax cuts for the top 1% are pretty much exactly equal to the Medicaid cuts.

So millions of Americans are losing their healthcare so that a few thousand can afford bigger yachts and more mansions, and not just in a sort of roundabout sense, but in an officially mandated transfer directly from the poor to the rich.

If the world was just, every single Congressperson who voted in favor of this bill would face criminal charges for every single avoidable death that it will cause.

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Oh look - the latest article in the ongoing series - “Sure we’ve turned America into a removed, but why are young people avoiding sex/marriage/parenthood?”

And… the only question is whether Trump is lying, or in the terribly unlikely event that he’s telling the truth, Israel is lying.

We can know for certain that at least one of them is.

Not coincidentally pretty much exactly so.

Sort of the clinical equivalent of a big, blinking neon sign that says, “I am a psychopath.”

Exactly what’s happening here is that addressing climate change would affect the executive pay packages and stock dividends of the wealthy few, and they aren’t going to allow that, no matter what it takes. So they’re employing their political cronies and operatives to hide the truth.

Which neatly demonstrates how it is that the wealthy few are not simply passively harmful, by concentrating too much wealth in too few hands, but actively and deliberately harmful, by using their wealth and the influence it buys to serve their own ill-considered, short-term self-interest no matter the harm it does to other people or even to the civilization of which they’re a part.

South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

The dirty little secret here is that Sourh Texas is causing the shortage.

Far and away the biggest waste of water in the region is the government-subsidized South Texas rice farming industry.

Just like virtually everything else in the current US, a relative handful of wealthy parasites and ther politician cronies are directly responsible for the problem, but blame it on poor and not coincidentally disempowered innocents.

Actually, there’s no basis for any doubt whatsoever.

Israel has zero integrity and they WILL violate any ceasefire, guaranteed.

It’s things like this that make me suspect that the Republicans are actively trying to destroy the US.

If the goal is to benefit the US broadly, and into the future, there’s no possible way that discouraging alternatve energy (or EVs) is a sound strategy. It’s basically just handing China hegemony in the coming world order.

So it’s pretty much either the case that Republican politicians are impossibly stupid, or that their actual goal is to guarantee Chinese hegemony and reduce the US to a bankrupt has-been.

And the 1% control a greater percentage of the country’s wealth than ever before.

And the PotUS is a sociopathic narcissist with the emotional development of a toddler who’s leading an ongoing attack on democracy, liberty and the rule of law.

And those three facts are all interdependent.

No question about it IMO.

At this point, I don’t even think they’d bother pretending otherwise. Trump would go on Truth.social and post an unhinged screed that pretty much boiled down to “Serves 'em right.”

And the media wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow.

I don’t doubt it for even a second.