Patrick Hosmer

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[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Donald Trump ran for office for three reasons:

1) stay out of jail
2) exact revenge on his enemies
3) line his pockets

Everything else he says is bullshit.

[crocodile @crocodilecrisis]

DELETE RIGHT NOW!

[breaker box @poisonjr]

for what

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Noah Hawley attended Jeff Bezos's private Campfire retreat in 2018. His wife broke her wrist. He told Bezos directly - not as complaint, just as human information from one husband and father to another. Bezos looked horrified, an aide materialized instantly, and he was whisked away.

No "I'm so sorry." No "do you need anything." Just escape.

Hawley's thesis in The Atlantic is not that the ultra-wealthy are evil. It is something more precise and more unsettling: that moral reasoning develops through consequences, and the environment of extreme wealth systematically removes consequences from a person's life. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, fire anyone who disagrees with you, and exist in a social circle entirely composed of people who need something from you - the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.

This is different from classic narcissism, which typically masks insecurity. What Hawley is describing is something rarer: a self-definition in which the individual has genuinely grown to the size of the universe and the universe has contracted to fit. Elon Musk calling empathy "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Trump asked about checks on his power saying the only thing that could stop him was his own morality. Peter Thiel concluding that freedom and democracy are incompatible.

These are not poses. They are the logical endpoint of a psychology shaped by years of operating in a world that never pushed back.

The Bezos encounter is the piece's sharpest detail because it is so small. He was not cruel. He was not contemptuous. He simply could not locate, in that moment, the impulse to respond like a person who understood that another person's wrist hurt.

[あでぃたつ@VRChat @Adytatsu]

娘がトモコレでじっくりキャラクリしてる

[Sam Youngman @samyoungman]

I just can't believe the guy who attacked his own capital would be this crazy.

[$𝔩𝔞𝔭☃️ @slvppy]

this gotta be one of the hardest fits of all time

[Scoob @Scoobydouchebag]

It's like every democrat was bred in a lab to not be able to meet this moment

[Hana Katana ⚔️😷🏴🏳️‍🌈 🍉 THEY/THEM @KatanaSpeaks]

You can't kill a nazi with kindness.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

America knows that Trump’s DOJ is covering up the Epstein files. They’ve missed every deadline set by Congress.

We won’t stop fighting until we get the truth. Time is running out, Donald.

[Patrick Hosmer @patrickhosmer]

Bill Paxton is the man

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews

"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"

"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people"

(via @vulture)

[Trixie Mattel™ @trixiemattel]

what the fuck are conservatives meant to be conserving

[Django Gold @django]

imagine all the cool things an opposition party could be doing right now

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Guys, I’m starting to think the podcasters running the FBI weren’t hired based off of merit

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better."

I make the case in The Guardian:
https://t.co/nrgK0Y8FJL

[Laurie Kilmartin @anylaurie16]

wow I can’t believe podcasting didn’t prepare him to run the FBI. https://t.co/jQrbh6bqf9

[GL @gldivittorio]

Not a great look for establishment dems to be spending more air time smearing a democratically elected primary candidate from their own party than fighting the bill that’s about to take healthcare away from 16 million Americans

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

I love this. You’ll probably love it too.

These J6 bounty hunter punks cosplaying as ICE agents think they have the upperhand everywhere. Drunk on power, but nope. They’re cowards.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

BREAKING:

Both the White House and RNCC have lashed out at the creators of this ad.

It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.

You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

#MAGAKidnappers