A good take on why Trumpkins don’t hear what the rest of us hear when President Trump spews incoherent word salad.

Also why I have limited interest in, or energy for, trying to persuade them through rational debate.

I have been baffled by this all along - I could not for the life of me imagine what his supporters were hearing when they listened to him babble incoherently. He’s like a political Rorschach’s test.

I feel like I’ve had the curtain drawn back.  

I realized I do this to him too. I’m always trying to figure out WHAT THE FUCK HE MEANS.  Only because I don’t like him and what he stands for,  I’m actually trying to parse reality from it, so it strikes me as insane.  

But if I was predisposed to him, my mind would decide on something that filled out my preconceived expectation.  

Humans Brains are so fucking weak and wrong. 

President Mary Sue.

The. Modern. Republican. Party. Is. Shameless.

That’s one way to fire someone without having to fire them. Class, all the way. 🙄

Jesus. This whole thing is horrifying to watch. All of it. The shittiness keeps piling up. I’m so embarrassed by my country right now.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Link to the article

Even if the only way to fight back that you know of is to tell everyone else…

Tell everyone else.

That’s a form of defiance.

I know it’s important not to dehumanize people, but I’m running out of ways to see republicans (or at least republican politicians) as human

Read the article. It’s long, but it gives a lot of info. I’m not saying this is going to be used against science committees than have ties to climate change policies and renewable energy sources, but it’s going to be used against climate change policies and renewable energy sources. Just remember, the first thing the transition team wanted was the names of INDIVIDUALS in the Energy Departments who supported climate science and renewable energy. Now they pass a rule allowing INDIVIDUALS to be targeted.

In case anyone hasn’t heard yet, now the GOP has introduced a bill that would pull the United States out of the U.N.

It’s called the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017 and boy howdy that name alone is freightening

you know what actually i’m going to reblog this again. As of this moment, there are only 6 co-sponsers on the bill. These are:

Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3] Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5] Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8] Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4] Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2] Rep. Gaetz, Matt [R-FL-1]

start calling these people right now. flood their phones with dissent. don’t let them hear the end of it. make them kill their own bill before it even gets off the ground. 

what. the. fuck.

SIGNAL BOOST THIS, PLEASE

valuable and timely. just what i was looking for in terms of directing my actions effectively.

Trump just banned National Park Services from tweeting until further notice because they made fun of the size of the inauguration turnout.

Which means his administration will likely be doing this for any government agency that spreads any news, information, or jokes they don’t like.

I’m Uncomfortable

actually, national park services didn’t even make fun of the inauguration turnout. this was the tweet they retweeted:

there’s no joke here, no fun-making, nothing even remotely derogatory. national park services retweeted a completely impartial tweet and two undoctored photographs of real events, without any commentary or editorializing, and they were banned from tweeting. literally just for acknowledging objective reality.

The Gizmodo article that this is originally sourced from has some additional info, including text of a notice sent out to NPS employees that reads:

And then yesterday morning, 1/21 at 10:41 AM, NPS tweets:

Did you just feel a chill run down your spine or is that just me?

Also, the Washington Post and NYT have a write-up about this as well, in case you doubt Gizmodo as a source.

There are a lot of comments in the notes on this post yelling about freedom of speech, etc., but just as a reminder, if you are a government employee acting in an official capacity, you can absolutely be fired and legally censored for the things that you say and do. You are acting as an agent and representative of the federal government and therefore the federal government gets to decide what you’re allowed to say. The thing that should scare you about this is that instead of firing a single employee for going a little off-script, the White House directed an entire agency to immediately cease Twitter communications, even in case of emergency notifications. That is the “not normal” part of this. It’s an extreme overreaction to two tweets that are defensibly on-topic for the NPS to have retweeted under any normal circumstances.

a shitposter’s guide to political bias in major news outlets

as in, stop quoting the fucking daily caller, for the love of god. we are all gross liberals/progressives/socialists here, so if you see any political post on your dash that uses any news outlet in the first list as its source, then there is like an 80% chance you’re about to reblog hyperbolic conservative propaganda with very little basis in reality. don’t do it, guys. don’t do it. check sources. save a life.

WARNING: GONNA HAVE SOME CONSERVATIVE OPINIONS:

GOOD HEARTY LIBERAL STOCK:

SORTA INBETWEEN, THIS IS A SLIDING SCALE AFTER ALL (look, a graph):

LITERALLY SATIRE, THESE ARE LITERALLY SATIRE:

I’m so glad there’s a link to that Jon Stewart tears into Crossfire video my soul needed that

A note on the BBC: they bust their asses trying to be neutral. If you need a source with little bias, the BBC is usually a good place to go, especially if you’re a UK person. I usually use it as a barometer of ‘this is story actually a thing’.

Wow dude. Wow.

they are not fucking around

2016 is like a montage of news footage you see in the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie explaining how the world was ruined.