Cocaine Hippo

It's like... ya know?

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@shebakesalot BEST. THING. EVER. 😂😂

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

Larry Elder asked the question that produced the greatest clip on the internet

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

Dominion theology has been a destructive force from the beginning.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

One reason many Evangelicals easily separate the President’s character from his policies is they’ve long been conditioned to separate character from belief.

For too many, how you live matters less than whether you believe the “right” things.

A destructive form of Christianity.

[David L. Bahnsen @DavidBahnsen]

Just think about the fact that in 2026 this has to be written. The left couldn’t decide what a boy and girl were in 2021 and the right doesn’t know if a war criminal authoritarian is humanitarian or not in 2026.
Next year, let’s debate gravity

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

This is so correct and easily forgotten as everything gets put into typical political categories. The idea of luxury beliefs really is universal.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

The political left does not have a monopoly on luxury beliefs.

There are right-coded luxury beliefs that conservative elites use to signal to one another. One example might be trickle-down economics. A more recent example, which I am still thinking through, is the rise of sports betting.

Legalized sports gambling has drawn support from some factions of the right, including parts of the MAGA movement. But we may soon discover that a large share of the population is vulnerable to gambling addiction. People differ in their capacity for impulse control, long-term planning, and responsible financial behavior. Those differences become much more consequential when everyone has a casino in their pocket.

This may be a case in which the right is embracing a luxury belief: supporting a policy whose harms will fall most heavily on people with fewer resources and less control over their impulses. Meanwhile, some figures on the left, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have warned that the consequences could be disastrous.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

The political left does not have a monopoly on luxury beliefs.

There are right-coded luxury beliefs that conservative elites use to signal to one another. One example might be trickle-down economics. A more recent example, which I am still thinking through, is the rise of sports betting.

Legalized sports gambling has drawn support from some factions of the right, including parts of the MAGA movement. But we may soon discover that a large share of the population is vulnerable to gambling addiction. People differ in their capacity for impulse control, long-term planning, and responsible financial behavior. Those differences become much more consequential when everyone has a casino in their pocket.

This may be a case in which the right is embracing a luxury belief: supporting a policy whose harms will fall most heavily on people with fewer resources and less control over their impulses. Meanwhile, some figures on the left, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have warned that the consequences could be disastrous.

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@simonsarris Moon. Definitely

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@neontaster @Jake_Fogleman Contrast this with all the Euros who hung out over here during the World Cup. 🙂

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@BridgetPhetasy Lolololol

[Taylor Murphy @Tay_Murph]

Hey @MLB - wanna get more kids watching baseball?

Maybe start with the commercials.

Watching the playoffs tonight with my kids and here's the rundown:
- Megan Fox selling ED pills in a red bodysuit
- The scariest movie trailer you've ever seen
- Sydney Sweeney in zero clothes promoting betting on sports

Leagues can't figure out why kids don't watch.

You don't need a Nickelodeon game. You're not the Savannah Bananas.

Just show baseball in a way I can leave on in my house.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Surround yourself with people who see a flying car and say, "Awesome!"

Not people who see a flying car and say, "It's not actually flying" or "I don't see the point."

This post is not about cars :)

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@theepicmap lol. Brah. Check your AI outputs before you post 😁

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@wyshynski I’d rather have an end of season tourney for the bottom 16 teams that determines who gets the No. 1 pick.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Dodgers player Alex Call is calling out MLB and broadcasters over the ads during postseason games.

"Can we please get the soft porn ads off playoff broadcasts? My son wants to watch baseball with Dada, but how do I justify that when a half-naked woman could come on screen anytime?? This is America’s Pastime. Parents shouldn’t have to worry about this."

[The Spectator 🇺🇸 @TheSpectator]

I was mid-hip thrust when I found out @Shanemgillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the back-up phone for the side angle. Tanner films all my content. He is not allowed to look at me.

The “joke” was about how women dress at the gym. I know it was about me, because everything is. So I did what any survivor would do. I went to my car and filmed myself crying. It took 11 takes, because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving, and grief is no excuse for a bad shot. In the final cut, you can see a single tear land on my sports bra right over the logo, which clicks through to an affiliate link. My caption: “I’m literally shaking.”

Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption, “Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?” I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men. To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him. Then I tagged every man I follow. Some people say my response proved his point. These people are rapists.

✍️ @BridgetPhetasy

Article: https://t.co/Wxs41eVnwh

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@EdLatimore @WellBuiltStyle @Brady_H I decided to get into chess at 40. It has been a delightfully humbling experience.

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

@drewdyck Let’s all just watch it when it comes out and THEN judge. Hmmmm?

[hamsters🌐🐹 @sigmahamster2]

Socialists discovered that corporations have too much power and proposed merging your employer, landlord and grocery store into one institution with a police force and military.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

Good.

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

The government: Social media is bad for young people and it’s our job to protect them from harmful content.

Also the government: Fuck yeah, we’re live-streaming an execution, let’s go!

(Make it make sense.)

[Cocaine Hippo @Firefly1985]

Stupid @DeanTTrainingb and his stupid “film a yourself without counting to see how hard you can really go”. Went way harder than last week. Stupid. 🤪🤪