Raptorpat

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting

The leadership vote this cycle was 37-10, but the number is realistically skewed because the people really playing the game aren't going to take a swing at the king if they don't think they can go for the kill. If McConnell retired or dropped dead and it was an open contest, I think that 10 would be joined by a few more "I was on board with McConnell (because I cherish my committee assignments) but now is the time for a change" folks.

Thune and Barrasso are technically second and third in line, but that doesn't mean anything (Schumer was third before leapfrogging to leader after Reid retired). But I feel like the conference will pivot to the maga side for the next guy, though that depends on a lot of things including the next election cycle.

At Thanksgiving dinner, who starts the fight first? Is it pringleman or Mr monopoly?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1640502698549075972?s=20

I am closed for the season

probably a maga person instead of the human/turtle embodiment of the establishment, which I think is worse to the extent that party has a hard floor of like 48 seats in the best of blue years

I think the alternative would be worse.

you put that back in the can this instant

My immediate reaction was "we solved infant mortality a couple generations ago, so we've replaced it with school shootings."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/politics/george-santos-prosecutors-brazil-fraud-case/index.html

ass meatloaf

oh they are smart enough that they are definitely doing it on porpoise

Are you suggesting that people the Kremlin is displeased with aren't just falling out of windows left and right?

https://twitter.com/nukestrat/status/1638991916250329088

I feel like he's overblowing it to suck all the oxygen out of the GOP primary, which is kind of working.

who peed on the floor

Be careful! I was on dilaudid when I had e. coli in college. The morphine wouldn't touch the pain so they jumped me to the heavy stuff and it hit real hard... at first. Within the span of four days, I went from completely glassing over when they shot it into the IV to being able to immediately get up and jump on the IV bag stand after giving it a good push and riding it to the other end of the room. The nurses were so concerned that they immediately tried to downgrade me to hydro pills and after I said the pills weren't enough, they gave me one last shot of dilaudid that night and said I can't leave the hospital until I affirmatively told them I don't need it anymore. In hindsight, their concern was probably the difference between me and the opioid epidemic.

I think it could be a good idea to have like a dedicated hangout thread or club with the retro theme, depends on what the content would be. Obviously no one is actually RPing, but like to have a thread where you metaphorically pull up to the metaphorical bar to talk about _______ could be cool. Probably makes sense to do a thread in GD and if it blew up into something large and/or unmanageable then it'd expand into a club space and divied into multiple threads. But a single thread to start is probably a cool idea, @romana said so so it's gotta be true.

C

the absence of evidence isn't the evidence of absence

no you're wrong

i disagree