beloved chungoose

Screaming about media and politics for now, video game tweets in between. he/him |

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

If I ever get a tattoo...

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

@whstancil this is the exact sentiment that keeps the shambling corpse of the iowa dem caucus in motion -- all the "night-of persuasion"

and no!!!! everyone knows who their number two is gonna be way before they walk in the door! they've heard of more than one candidate!

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Contrary to how McCarthy’s defenders are behaving, men failing up is not a Constitutionally protected right.

The man made risky decisions and faced the natural consequences of them. I am not his mom, and my job is not to put pool noodles around hard corners for Republicans.

[Andrew Wind @AWindCourier]

Downtown Waterloo 'All-In' on new grocery store seven years in the making https://t.co/mExd9KPqO2 via @wcfcourier

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

love to make my editorial policy that anyone pointing out the emperor's nakedness is actually engaged in character assassination

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

cbs radio today framed trump falling off the richest people list as him "taking a hit" from forbes (or something very similar)

guess cbs thinks forbes should treat their list like college rankings and just mess with the criteria until they get the desired outcome

[Sam Ricketts @SamTRicketts]

Why is the premise here that this is a surprise? Americans love clean energy at 70%+.

Mainstream outlets totally brain-poisoned by right wing talking points. Do better Wash Post.

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

it's pretty hard to come up with a good-faith explanation for why you'd frame a magazine reporting the truth as a personal attack on someone for whom that truth is inconvenient, especially when demonizing the media also happens to be one of that person's favorite campaign tactics

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

when do we get to have the discussion about which areas should be largely stripped of profit-seeking? food production would seem to be one where there's a strong moral case to be made

[David Dayen @ddayen]

We had a debate over whether meat prices were a product of greed or market forces. We haven't had a free market in meat for 40 years. And it's incredible that it took this long to crack down on it.
https://t.co/MxZPdZEgPv

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

wow, it's much worse and much more intentional than i had imagined

i miss web 1.0

[Zito @_Zeets]

On how and why google changed the system behind their search engine and how it’s ruined looking up anything now

https://t.co/IIgqJcPYZe

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

a lot of people thought maybe it was time, after 40 years in the senate, for chuckles to retire, so of course democrats ran a 65-year-old white guy to really underscore his weakness 😒

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

chuck grassley got less than 60 percent of the vote in 2022 for the first time since his initial senate election in 1980

i promise you it's not because iowa got more liberal, it's because *even his primary opponents* pointed out that the dude is older than the cryptkeeper

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Most people don’t understand policy, they don’t care about policy, and they certainly don’t VOTE on policy. But if they believe one of the candidates is senile/a criminal/a horrible human being, that might make a dent

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

sometimes i wish i had no conscience or soul or whatever it is that lets people get away with the most odious shit because it's so frickin easy! once you reach a certain level of money/power/success apparently no one can evaluate your words for truth any longer

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

if the bank has to foreclose on your house, fine, there's money set aside for that and a whole process in place, plus they have to keep the retail clients in line

can't pay back billions? well we should maybe have a meeting where you tell us how you're gonna fix the problem

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

both trump and musk have taught us that if you're going to borrow money from a bank, the trick is to borrow an amount so large that the bank won't want to just eat it as a loss

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

if you're not feeling it this morning, my car radio is right there with you apparently

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

i was just wondering how many dems grew a spine today and i will readily admit i'm pleasantly surprised

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

NEW: OVER HALF of Sen Dems have now called on Menendez to resign:

FETTERMAN
BROWN
TESTER
WELCH
WARREN
HEINRICH
CASEY
ROSEN
KELLY
BOOKER
BALDWIN
BENNET
KLOBUCHAR
GILLIBRAND
HIRONO
MARKEY
HASSAN
WARNOCK
PETERS
SANDERS
BLUMENTHAL
MURPHY
DUCKWORTH
HICKENLOOPER
STABENOW
OSSOFF

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

before that, back in the early years of chuck's tenure, dress was full-on Court of the Sun King, so i'm sure this latest change comes as quite the shock

[Des Moines Register @DMRegister]

"I’ll be wearing a suit and necktie on the Senate floor as I’ve always done and has been expected of senators for nearly 240 years," Grassley said https://t.co/garFc7PaAM

[Joakim 'konjak' Sandberg @konjak]

The way Nintendo works and operates and has massive staff retention is like as far as you can get from how a western giant like Microsoft operates, or any other large game studio anywhere. You like their games? You want them to stay the fuck to themselves.

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

just every reason for microsoft to want nintendo and zero reasons for nintendo to want microsoft, which explains why the merger meeting they had was mostly the ninty team laughing directly into their faces

is that smart business? does that deserve a salary of millions?

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

siri, show me some motivated reasoning

[Engadget Gaming @engadgetgaming]

Xbox chief Phil Spencer believed a Nintendo merger would have been his 'career moment' https://t.co/zGEl3uGgoM

[beloved chungoose @cookingterm]

spencer: i don't understand why this company isn't doing the quarterly capitalism thing and trying to have higher growth every quarter even if it hollows out the business long-term, and we're hoping the investment fund that partially runs us will force them to start

yeeaaaaaah