After Jesse Watters of Fox complained about my story on Trump’s ridiculous reflecting pool project, I decided to do a fuller report on many of the ways Trump is ruining DC. CRY MORE @JesseBWatters ! 😂 cc @WashProbs
Attention curling fans living in the U.S. 🥌
Monday at Noon ET, ESPN+ will stream the inaugural season of curling's first professional league @rockleaguecurl
Live from TMU Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto
April 12: the event concludes with Finals coverage beginning at 4p ET
@RyanoH70@jeff_gluck From the journalist’s article about it. Giles Richards, I believe. It seems Max didn’t want to be distracted with the possibility of another stupid question. Smart.
@shontong81@CroftyF1@MBrundleF1@tedkravitz@AppleTV Upcoming Live Sky sessions are on the main F1 page but for Sky replays, you have the click on the race wknd icon (China) on the main page and in there you’ll find the replays.
I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
@revieler136@bernie_collins1 You can watch the Sky replay in AppleTV. We finally found it. On the Apple F1 page, instead of scrolling all the way down to see what is coming up live for Sky, click on the race icon, this one being AUS, and Sky replays are in there.
Worth reading this because this is what someone like Ari has to convince himself is true, or true enough, to become devoted to the most repugnant human being to ever hold the office of president without fundamentally changing his self conception as someone who would not do that. But of course the intellectualizing doesn’t work because shame comes from a deeper, spiritual place. So you get this contempt, seething and kooky, off a speech where you can’t find a word to justify it. It’s the mirror, buddy. You are mad at the mirror, and anyone who holds one up.
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
@larro473 Trying to understand: do you just have an F1TV subscription that hasn’t run out yet? Mine ended in Jan. and they didn’t give me the option to renew. Right now I’m on Apple on my TV but don’t see all the extras that we got with F1TV. Are you saying there is an extra fee for that?
Only in curling…
Adam Casey’s from PEI ➡️ playing for Newfoundland ➡️ against PEI ➡️ in Newfoundland…and accidentally threw a PEI colour stone. 🤣 🥌 #confusedyet
The image claims:
1. Hillary supplied Iran uranium: False. Refers to Uranium One sale to Russia (2010); CFIUS approved (9 agencies, no personal Clinton role proven). No uranium went to Iran or left US.
2. Obama gave $1.7B for nuclear: US settled $1.7B pre-1979 arms debt claim (principal + interest) in 2016. Not a gift; arbitration ruling. Iran could use freely; no verified direct nuclear tie.
3. Biden unfroze $16B: Roughly accurate ($6B SK oil funds via Qatar prisoner swap, humanitarian-restricted + $10B Iraq escrow waiver for gas/electricity trade). Iran's own assets, not US funds.
Meme mixes facts with exaggeration on intent/funding. Benghazi video unrelated here.
“The FBI interviewed that witness 4 times. You don't interview a non-credible witness 4 times. You don’t put into the FBI reporting: ‘Protect this source.’”
Now you know why Donald Trump started a war with Iran after Bill & Hillary Clinton testified.