OK Boomer

Californian, retired aerospace, recovered republican.

[Chasing Ennui @rwlesq]

Katie Miller has a master's degree and a career. It appears that she has consistently worked since she was 20. She can open a bank account, own property, and have a credit card in her name. She has access to no-fault divorce and would be entitled to child support for her baby if she and Stephen Miller divorce. She has laws protecting her against physical abuse and rape by her spouse. She had access to birth control and abortion, meaning that having a baby was a choice.

She is very much not living the life that the "propaganda. . . convinced" women was oppressive. She is living the life that feminism made possible.

Of course, she knows this. She's just a liar.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Supreme Court tosses a $1.25M Roundup cancer verdict? Every American should ask why giant corporations keep getting the benefit of the doubt while ordinary people carry the risk. Outrageous.

[Norm Clark @Normsmusic]

James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[BDDRCUP 🇨🇦 @buffywoods]

@OldManLefty1 @scwillmore ‘… it’s so ghetto’ 😏

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

There was a rule when I was in Trump's first term: if a memo had a staple in it, it was too long for him to read.

Life-or-death decisions were cut to one page. Or a half-page. Or less. Bold fonts. BIG pictures.

When you’re wondering why everything’s a mess, remember that.

[Nick Anderson/Political Cartoonist @Nick_Anderson_]

The Vandal
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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack.

Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it.

So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated.

He’s weak. Finish him.

[TK421 modification @FortyNickels]

@travisakers @JohnJHarwood The thing that makes incompetent people dangerous is not the incompetence itself, it’s the fact that they don’t know they are incompetent. Combine that with Vance/Kushner levels of arrogance and that’s how real messes are made.

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

This is what happens when one man, a bowed guitar, a looper, and pure creativity collide on a sidewalk.
Reinhardt Buhr builds entire sonic landscapes in real time — layers upon layers of hypnotic rhythms and melodies that feel like they could soundtrack a desert journey or a late-night drive through the unknown.
It’s not just music. It’s storytelling with strings and pedals.
Street performances like this remind us how powerful live, raw creativity can be.
Who else gets completely lost in performances like this? 👇

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.

Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.

The cost of that work is classified.

Estimates say north of a billion.

The number is enormous, and you are paying it.

Now the part they bury.

Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.

So follow the chain.

A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.

A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.

We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.

Grift in plain sight.
https://t.co/RqGjdCjV6n

[Sundog512 @TexasSundog]

@Udntnonutn @1zzyzyx1 The only way that plane would be worth that kind of taxpayer money would be if it went down in flames with the whole administration on board.

[Havoc @Havoc_Six]

That's what I'm saying

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

The Texas screwworm story is a version of this. The Reflecting Pool fiasco is a version of this. The Iranian war is a very large and ongoing version of this.
Everywhere you look, incompetence is having its natural consequences, with more to come. Much more, I'm afraid.

[OK Boomer @OKCboomer]

@Konstoyouralas1 @Acyn

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Hunter Biden posted this letter to Joe Rogan about why so many people were offended by the UFC fight on the White House lawn - and it's extremely eloquent 👇

Dear Joe,

I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.

For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.

And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.

The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.

This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.

But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:

“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”

The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.

The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.

The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.

The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.

Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[🇺🇸AmericanDad @DanielJ2031]

@joshforprogress Dialog Society and it's secret list.....

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Stephen Miller wants to flip a switch and erase one of your oldest rights.

It’s called habeas corpus.

Fancy words but a simple idea that the government can’t just grab you and lock you away. It has to prove to a judge why you’re behind bars. That right is 800 years old.

It’s older than America itself.

And Miller tried to kill it.

New reporting confirms it. Inside the White House, Miller pushed to suspend habeas corpus so agents could seize people, detain them, and deport them with no judge, no hearing, no chance to say “you’ve got the wrong guy.”

Even Trump’s own lawyers put in writing that this is illegal. Miller pushed anyway.
Miller screams “invasion” because the Constitution only allows this sort of thing during an invasion. But this same crowd brags every day that border crossings hit record lows. So which is it?

The right to challenge your own detention is the line between a republic and a regime. Lose it, and the government can disappear anyone.

I will fight this with everything I have.

The Constitution is not optional.

Not for Stephen Miller. Not for anyone.
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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Need MAGA to explain to the rest of us with brain cells how giving Iran $300 Billion is different or somehow better than giving Iran $1.7 Billion?

Explain it to us like we're at a @EricTrump level of intelligence.

[Shannon @gardengirl125]

That hick spectacle at our WH is proof that money can’t buy you class. What a fucking embarrassment