Metastasized Meatloaf

Please pose my skeletal remains,
Give them a working pen,
And I will live forever,
Please let them love me, though I fade.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

When a white supremacist gunned down 10 black people in a Buffalo supermarket in 2022, the NYT's @Jbouie and other liberals blamed mainstream conservatives for "inspiring" the anti-immigration views in whose name that shooter killed. Bouie claimed in the NYT that the killer's manifesto was "virtually indistinguishable from mainstream Republican rhetoric," and conservatives thus bear blame.

Liberals wanted Jack Smith to prosecute Trump for the violence on January 6 based on this same theory: that Trump "inspired" the January 6 violence because his speech "inspired" that violence and they acted in the name of Trump's repeated claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

The Right also embraces this theory, as they're doing now: blaming liberals and Trump critics for last night's WHCD's shooter because the would-be assassin's manifesto shows he acted in the name of common anti-Trump sentiments (ironically, last night's shooter actually did read and liked many liberal statements, including those of Jamelle Bouie, Wil Stancil and other partisan liberal luminaries).

All of this is dumb. Words are not violence. You're not responsible for someone's violent acts because they share some or even all of your views. The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that preserving the distinction between words and violence is vital for basic conceptions of free speech (see Claiborne v. NAACP (1982).

You allowed to express opposition to open borders, and you're allowed to criticize the American President, even harshly, without being held responsible if some lunatic uses violence in the name of your views. Bouie in 2022:

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Laura this is insane. In the post you highlighted, it says he is a legend "to some." That is objectively true. Then he calls his father a "hero." You either didn't read it closely or are just lying.

And where is the praise of Arafat? All it says is Arafat's wife tried to feed him soup as a baby. Also there's nothing wrong with praising or criticizing Arafat. You don't like this candidate's views, then campaign for his opponent, stop crying to the manager.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

I’m pretty sure that wiping out “a whole civilization” will involve issuing unlawful orders.

Remove this man from office before he actually attempts to carry out what he’s threatening. We don’t know what he’ll do, but given the unhinged rhetoric, we shouldn’t wait to find out.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

[Jonathan Cooper @GameAnim]

Nothing you made with Sora mattered. Nothing made with any AI prompt will ever matter.

Instead, invest in yourself by learning real creative skills.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

There’s not a single plausible argument that Trump currently has the authority to launch offensive strikes against Iran.

Congress hasn’t declared war against Iran, as the Constitution requires, nor has Congress otherwise authorized military hostilities in Iran.

The American people deserve to have their members of Congress on the record with a vote before entering the United States into war.

Any president who disregards the Constitution and sidesteps Congress to take America to war should be impeached and removed from office.

[Metastasized Meatloaf @AtDaI]

This might be the most lifeless thing I've seen in a long time.

[Bennett Waisbren @BennettWaisbren]

2/8:
Don Bluth – Lavish hand-drawn fantasy. Lush lighting, expressive eyes, dramatic weight.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Perhaps the Democrats should have held a serious primary

[Rachel Eaton @ Realta @rayleearts]

When the autumn hits 🍂

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Audience members at the DNC in Chicago unfurl banner that says “Stop arming Israel.”

After audience sees the banner, they begin chanting “We love Joe.”

Man tries to rip banner away.

Stadium lights over this spot then dimmed and banner was ripped away.

[Metastasized Meatloaf @AtDaI]

7 years.

[Jonathan Cooper @GameAnim]

Another insightful video from @DanRoot_VGAS: "How Capcom Animated Resident Evil 4". Thanks for the shout-out. " https://t.co/T9jQjvJxoV

[Metastasized Meatloaf @AtDaI]

The Emporers New Clothes.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

hilarious to watch elite consensus shift and see all the media folk who knowingly created the Biden 2024 catastrophe now desperately try to maintain credibility by depicting themselves as the courageous voices demanding a course correction when it may already be too late

[Patrick Bromley @patrickbromley]

GHOSTBUSTERS is the JURASSIC PARK of comedy: a perfect one and done movie that the studio keeps trying and failing to recapture for decades

[Spike el Monstruo 🦇 @spikermonster]

shut the hell up

[Michael Ruocco @AGuyWhoDraws]

Name a game you beat more than 7x with just a gif

[Metastasized Meatloaf @AtDaI]

Recent commissioned painting.

[Metastasized Meatloaf @AtDaI]

Buff Bill

[Metastasized Meatloaf @AtDaI]

Big Ted.