When the first Coca-Cola hits pic.twitter.com/Lqk0a7Hcmb
— The Best Ever Seen (@The__seen) November 8, 2023
- Hackwhackers travels through social media to explore mr Trump’s relationship with police, law & order, and all that is holy.
- Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, senses a contradiction as mr Trump refers to himself as the Chosen One, posts notes from occasional gushing fans comparing him to Jesus, and sells scripture for $60.
All while attacking potential witnesses and families of judges and prosecutors.
Key example:
So how does this modern-day martyr show his Christ Consciousness? You know, the way Christ did, by letting his disciples know what Pilates’ family members look like, so they could…use their imaginations. Who wants to tell me where in the Bible Jesus would have done anything of the sort?
Trump is no Jesus and Judge Merchan is no Pontius Pilate–what the hell?
- Charlie Sykes, conservative Republican who declines to support Trump, gets a Happy Easter message:
In my Easter weekend mailbox. Bless his heart. pic.twitter.com/iUQ5rPeBxx
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) March 30, 2024
But Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has words of comfort:
I hear Gitmo is lovely this time of year.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) March 30, 2024
- From The Borowitz Report, all copies of Trump’s Bible are recalled, after they are found to contain nuclear codes.
- Conservatives were outraged this past week:
Biden tells America to choose Transgenders over Jesus 🤔
Joe Biden literally has already found a replacement for Easter, yap and its now called the transgender day folks. https://t.co/XXvgQoDQNEQuestion: Who do you think he is going to replace Christmas with? pic.twitter.com/z5VjIYJjAF
— Roce Today (@RoceToday) March 31, 2024
I had a brief response:
I'm kind of old.
I do know Transgender Day as an international recognition was established 15 years ago. Date for Easter changes year-to-year. In 2024 it fell for 1st time on same day.
Haven't found where President Biden asked us to choose anyone over Jesus.
Have you a link?— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) April 3, 2024
But North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz is more detailed, and much more eloquent.
- In Scotties Playtime: Scottie, with the help of Rev. Ed Trevors, finds a semi‑inadvertent prophesy from a right-wing religious extremist and figures out the spiritual source of the MAGA movement.
- A Fox personality likes mr Trump’s constant honesty.
News Corpse catches the remark and stomps all over it.
- The good old days:
I’m tired of liberals quoting Trump as saying people should “inject bleach.” He said they should inject a “disinfectant,” which, yes, could be bleach but could also be ammonia or chlorine.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 4, 2024
- Tommy Christopher watches CNN’s Jim Acosta give viewers a safety warning about the coming eclipse – Don’t follow the stupid temptation of looking directly at the sun without protective eyewear, a warning illustrated by a replay of Trump doing exactly that in 2017. (Note: the accurate characterization of “stupid temptation” was mine, not Mr Acosta’s)
Shamelessly stolen from Tommy, who quite appropriately borrowed it from ABC News:Someone shouts "don't look" when Pres. Trump glances at the sky without eclipse glasses as the solar eclipse passes over Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/TtyfpQYvmr
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 21, 2017
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the polling numbers on how Americans feel about Trump’s immunity claims.
- Truth Social, the Trump associated social media site, seems to have had revenue problems since the beginning. Like $2 million in annual income vs $50 million in annual losses. Frances Langum has an answer for those of us who may wonder how the Trump site stayed in business. Has to do with Russians experienced in money laundering.
- Disaffected and it Feels So Good takes a close look at a decreasingly rational conservative movement that contradicts itself and its own past as it faces measles, migrants, and the end of democracy.
- My longtime friend, the extremist Darrell Michaels, calls it The Unbridgeable Divide Between Left and Right:
righteous MAGAs vs horrible libs.
- driftglass seems to miss out on any feeling of missing out as James O’Keefe retires from dishonest public life.
- Max’s Dad has the wit and sarcasm needed to adequately describe the Nebraska legislature turning themselves inside out to keep voters from giving Biden an electoral vote.
- Professor PZ Myers reviews substances that can mess with the development of embryos and suggests that nanoplastics may be the stuff that nightmares are made from.
- Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group go to podcast, untangling the latest Florida state court rulings restricting abortion rights and allowing a referendum.
You may prefer a complete transcript (pdf).
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez develops a bit of impatience with reflexive both‑sides arguments:
Post by @normativeView on Threads
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil brings us a Michigan Republican congressman whose modest suggestion is that we use a few nukes to make Gaza and a couple million innocent suffering folks glow in the dark.
Reminds me of someone.Hamas hunts Jews to kill & boasts about the murders.
To be sure, Netanyahu is not Hamas.
He does not target Palestinians for extermination.He is simply indifferent to their suffering and death when they happen to be in the way.
After all, life is filled with little trade-offs
— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) March 15, 2024
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit briefly summarizes appropriate world reaction of horror as the Netanyahu government attacks and kills aid volunteers in Gaza.
Key recoil:
I get the fog of war, but damn! That’s some Russian-grade murderous bullshit.
- At The Moderate Voice retired U.S. Air Force Major, Dorian de Wind, brings an update on the Gaza JLOTS project, the US mission to establish a temporary pier to get food and aid to Palestinians by sea.
Key note:
The Gaza JLOTS project is one more chapter in America’s storied tradition of noble humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson marks the 75th birthday of NATO and its success in protecting vulnerable democracies from authoritarian bullies.
Her analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates in podcast.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce has a life of experience in religious teachings that any success we have in life comes from divine intervention.
Key objection:
It would seem that God doesn’t want most of us to be standouts or superstars.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes goes back a century or so to a work by Martin Bubar, proposing that human meaning is found in relationships (I and Thou vs I and it), the ultimate I and Thou being a relationship with God as an eternal Thou.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life credits Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman with inspiring his application of predictive psychology to political analysis. He mourns the end of a life well lived.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has a point. Elon’s life story is as close as a billionaire is likely to come to devoting his existence to country music.
- @whiskeywhistle98 discovers which music appeals to Grandma
- John Scalzi writes again for Uncanny Magazine with an entertaining essay on Godzilla, the glorious and horrifying original. He tracks the spiral down of every sequel, as the awesome monster gradually becomes your cute oversized puppy.
- YellowDog Granny is doing what she loves in MemesVille.
- Infidel753 starts his latest image round‑up with the real life largest dining room set in the universe.
- At The Onion, existential researchers teach a rat to run through an endless maze.
Key philosophical advice:
There is no rescue, little rat. Embrace your prison, and you will be free.
- Dave Columbo borrows Skeletor Johnson to raise an important question about black coffee:
Reminds me of a long ago conversation as I poured coffee for a friend.
Me: How do you take it?
She: I like my coffee the way I like my men.
Me: Murky and bitter?
- Clickbait satirist Reductress shares the trauma of seeing your posture in a mirror.
- Mark Waulberg (No, not Mark Wahlberg, the other Mark) has a helpful life hack: how to know you need a new oven:
- Tamra Brown shares a wonderful new word game:
- In MadMikesAmerica, Professor Mike combines a dream state with his wonderful dogs in a search for elephants.
- SilverAppleQueen has cats who miss her but have each other and a stuffed animal companion until she returns.
- The Savanna Bananas teach us more about baseball teamwork:
the real life largest dining room set in the universe
Believe it or not, that’s actually a bank headquarters in Japan. They like being weird over there.
Many thanks to INFIDEL753 for referring readers here from his own weekly links and to tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors for his humorously serious support each week.
Thanks to loyal readers for bookmarking this site, as well as those with the excellent memory required to just show up.
(Damn, I’m old)