Alex Bates

29. awarded “Best dad” -my dog. all opinions expressed are solely mine

[Covie @covie_93]

So Zelensky desecrated the White House by not wearing a suit but this is ok?????

[cosmic cowgirl 🪩🤠 @blockhim2026]

Socialism is so sick I love when tax dollars go to schools instead of wars

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

Wait how do we know he didn't die of celiac disease

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mockler on Cost of Iran War:

So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.

[Jon Miller @MillerStream]

so you’re telling me 5 min before trump announced a ceasefire, someone in his inner circle loaded up on a perfectly-timed trade (long stocks, short oil), walked away with billions, and then we the plebs are told $8 gas is just “the price of freedom” so just get less starbucks ???

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

The breathtaking hypocrisy of this is off the charts. Trump’s ex-wife was killed too. But not by ISIS. She fell down the stairs at home. The day before she was to testify to his malfeasance. He buried her on his golf course. He was no longer with her at the time. He’d left her to shack up with his pregnant girlfriend. Who was donated to him by Jeffrey Epstein. When SHE gave birth he was sleeping with a Porn Star. But hey, Joe Kent remarried four and a half years after Isis killed the mother of his kids that he’d been raising alone…

[deedee megadoodoo @givemebudlight]

if they nuke us can they make sure to do it in the morning i don’t wanna work all fucking day just to come home and get nuked

[Chad Scott @cpscott16]

Remember way back in 2015, there was an exercise called Jade Helm 15, and the far right was convinced Obama was turning empty Walmarts into secret detention camps?

Maps, Facebook posts, panic about military takeovers. An ordinary special operations training exercise became a full-blown conspiracy. Nothing happened. No camps. No mass detentions. A big nothing-burger and we sane people knew nothing would happen.

Now, less than a decade later, actual billions are being spent on warehouse-style facilities for potential mass detention tied to "immigration enforcement."

And the same kooky people who once screamed about imaginary camps are either silent or cheering.

So when it was a made-up fear under a Democratic president, it was "tyranny."
When it’s a real policy under Trump, it’s suddenly “law and order.” It turns out the panic was never about government overreach. It was about who they wanted to be in charge of it.

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

Trump tries justifying suing an agency that HE controls and which he's ordering his staff to issue a settlement to him on behalf of the agency he controls by claiming he's going to give it to charity.

For those with short memories, this is a guy who twice robbed a cancer charity and lied about donating his salary to charity his first term until the cadence got so loud that he donated the money...to a charity he controlled and could take a double deduction from.

[Milfski @Nilkski_]

Jelly Roll is for people who know the resell price of copper

[Alex Bates @abates13]

@jasrifootball @DMRussini @alec_lewis Hot take: I think millionaires should be able to witness their children be born

[Recovering Journalist @JournoRehab]

I can’t fathom how weak one must be to look at Donald Trump and see strength, how stupid one must be to see wisdom, how corrupt one must be to see virtue. It says a lot of things about Americans collectively — none of them good — and the world will rightly never trust us again.

[The Dr. @gatesisthedevil]

He’s not dropping “third term / fourth time” lines just to own the libs. The TV cheerleaders and sycophants want you to think it’s all trolling / hilarious banter.

It’s straight desensitization.
Say something outrageous once, people freak out.
Say it twice, they argue about whether it’s serious.
Say it three, four, ten times, suddenly half the crowd treats it like normal talk, even gospel.

That’s how you move the Overton window without anyone noticing till it’s already open.

Either way, they’re training the base to accept what used to be unthinkable.

Thoughts?

[Alex Bates @abates13]

@steelers Fuck it, let’s go Mike

[Josh Raby @JoshRaby]

I’ve said this before but: If a plane hit turbulence and the pilot panicked, aimed the nose to the ground and crashed, no one would say “Well, you try flying a plane in turbulence.” They would say “That is a bad pilot. That’s not how pilots should handle things.”

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

[Ryan Moulton @moultano]

After all this is over, we need to pass a law that makes social media posts from official agency accounts like this subject to perjury. It is too destructive to the country to let them keep lying and lying and lying without any possible legal remedy.

[Alex Bates @abates13]

@MLFootball @TitleTalkTCL @MattCouture5 @jerrythornton @itmekaralee @PatsBuzz MAKE BILLIONAIRES UNCOMFORTABLE AGAIN

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Not ONE armchair doctor in the media who diagnosed Biden with everything from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's has anything to say about this. Not one.