Holly Jolly Burb
@politiburb.bsky.social
Nerd obsessed with comic books, 90s television shows, and unfortunately politics. Annoying scoreboard tracker. Neoliberalism was right all along. A Biden Democrat to the end.
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Holly Jolly Burb
@politiburb.bsky.social
· Feb 14
The Work. Never. Ends. Humanity is (hopefully!!) stuck here forever, and while we're here we have to help each other. And that means fixing broken systems, then our kids fix it again, then their kids fix it again. Looked at cynically, we're all Sisyphus.
But one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
But one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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whoops, i was wrong, this isn’t a reconciliation bill, it’s completely dead in the water
you can only afford to lose four at most, dingleberrius maximus, “can’t say 100% will vote for it” is a pretty fucking serious problem for you
Thune says he “can’t say 100%” of Republicans will vote for the Crapo-Cassidy bill, but his members “for the most part, I would argue, are united behind the Crapo-Cassidy proposal.”
December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
whoops, i was wrong, this isn’t a reconciliation bill, it’s completely dead in the water
We have to wonder what drives so many voters into an apoplectic fit about their hardships when a Democrat tries to tell them things are getting better, but when a Republican says fuck your hardships, I'm gonna give you even more hardships because you're such trash, they shrug and go watch football.
Biden wasn’t even allowed to say the economy was doing well, even though it objectively was, because that was insensitive to anyone anywhere who was struggling.
But Republicans can go “oh, you can’t afford health care now, waaaaa cry more” and apparently that’s fine.
But Republicans can go “oh, you can’t afford health care now, waaaaa cry more” and apparently that’s fine.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We have to wonder what drives so many voters into an apoplectic fit about their hardships when a Democrat tries to tell them things are getting better, but when a Republican says fuck your hardships, I'm gonna give you even more hardships because you're such trash, they shrug and go watch football.
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I want to hate Apple, but them going full bore against AI is like seeing an oasis in a fucking desert right now. This is SO cute
Ok if you thought that the Apple critter puppet ad was cute, you have to see the behind the scenes video that they made. It is soooooo cute and neat!!
youtu.be/ANqqg8BoNoU?...
youtu.be/ANqqg8BoNoU?...
Apple Holiday | The Making of The Apple Holiday Film | Shot on iPhone 17 Pro
YouTube video by Apple
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December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I want to hate Apple, but them going full bore against AI is like seeing an oasis in a fucking desert right now. This is SO cute
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Biden wasn’t even allowed to say the economy was doing well, even though it objectively was, because that was insensitive to anyone anywhere who was struggling.
But Republicans can go “oh, you can’t afford health care now, waaaaa cry more” and apparently that’s fine.
But Republicans can go “oh, you can’t afford health care now, waaaaa cry more” and apparently that’s fine.
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Biden wasn’t even allowed to say the economy was doing well, even though it objectively was, because that was insensitive to anyone anywhere who was struggling.
But Republicans can go “oh, you can’t afford health care now, waaaaa cry more” and apparently that’s fine.
But Republicans can go “oh, you can’t afford health care now, waaaaa cry more” and apparently that’s fine.
It's not a misheard lyric so much as a misunderstood lyric, but since it's Christmas I'm always reminded of how many years I spent not understanding that "Parson" was meant to refer to a man from the church, not a first name.
we haven’t done misheard lyrics in a while and it’s a nice distraction from The Horrors. what’s your favorite mondegreen?
I misheard that lyric for years also but fwiw it’s “Bible’s got psalms”
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's not a misheard lyric so much as a misunderstood lyric, but since it's Christmas I'm always reminded of how many years I spent not understanding that "Parson" was meant to refer to a man from the church, not a first name.
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The people in the replies to this post show that they do not at all care about the lives of Gazans, it's only ever been about Hating Democrats.
More people are dying in Gaza this year that Trump is president than last year when Biden was president yet people are regularly in my comments upset at Kamala Harris who lost the election while acting like Gaza is now a vacation destination under Trump.
Like MAGA impervious to facts or rationality
Like MAGA impervious to facts or rationality
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The people in the replies to this post show that they do not at all care about the lives of Gazans, it's only ever been about Hating Democrats.
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"Daddy Trump would still be making the libs cry like I want if he didn't have a woman telling him what to do!" is peak Ettingermentum.
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Daddy Trump would still be making the libs cry like I want if he didn't have a woman telling him what to do!" is peak Ettingermentum.
Lmfao of course this little prick finds some way to claim the true point of collapse for the Trump administration is the woman.
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Lmfao of course this little prick finds some way to claim the true point of collapse for the Trump administration is the woman.
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Posters in good standing who write for the Times, the Nation, the American Prospect, Mother Jones, the Bulwark, Jacobin, Baffler, and even the Onion who are not now, at the present time (present time being 2024-Present) vociferous, vocal, active Democrats are explicitly pro-Trump.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Posters in good standing who write for the Times, the Nation, the American Prospect, Mother Jones, the Bulwark, Jacobin, Baffler, and even the Onion who are not now, at the present time (present time being 2024-Present) vociferous, vocal, active Democrats are explicitly pro-Trump.
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“Which is why I feed my baby rocks. It said to.”
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“Which is why I feed my baby rocks. It said to.”
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Every House Democrat has signed a discharge petition to extend ACA tax credits & they need 4 Republicans to force a vote, but you’re spending more time bitching about Hakeem Jeffries over a TX Rep your faves can’t beat in a primary getting a pardon than caring about Democrats trying to help people.
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Every House Democrat has signed a discharge petition to extend ACA tax credits & they need 4 Republicans to force a vote, but you’re spending more time bitching about Hakeem Jeffries over a TX Rep your faves can’t beat in a primary getting a pardon than caring about Democrats trying to help people.
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Stop saying "Congress" when you mean "Republicans"
Very annoyed at this.
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos
Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill.
www.politico.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Stop saying "Congress" when you mean "Republicans"
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Many of the loudest voices on the Left instantly adopt whatever framing the Right promulgates, and then deploy that to bash liberals/Dems. Leftists and Rightists seem to be fun-house mirror versions of each other.
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Many of the loudest voices on the Left instantly adopt whatever framing the Right promulgates, and then deploy that to bash liberals/Dems. Leftists and Rightists seem to be fun-house mirror versions of each other.
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Michelle Obama saying: “I encourage you to eat better, you’ll feel good!” is unacceptable nagging.
Dr. Oz saying “skip meals, fatty” is fine.
Dr. Oz saying “skip meals, fatty” is fine.
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Michelle Obama saying: “I encourage you to eat better, you’ll feel good!” is unacceptable nagging.
Dr. Oz saying “skip meals, fatty” is fine.
Dr. Oz saying “skip meals, fatty” is fine.
Critical misunderstanding a lot of people had. Republicans only hate a nanny state if it's black people and women telling people what to do. They crave the nanny state in which it's white men telling people what to do.
i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
December 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Critical misunderstanding a lot of people had. Republicans only hate a nanny state if it's black people and women telling people what to do. They crave the nanny state in which it's white men telling people what to do.
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i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
The couple of comments under posts like these with people defending the doomer by saying "oh yeah and you're so much better mr. smart optimist?!" are always so disquieting to me
Ok, and?
I’m serious. Thing aren’t great, for sure.
And?
Telling ppl things are bad is easy.
Figuring out the path to someplace better is hard. And risky.
So: And?
There’s no thread here. Just “it suck.”
Ok. And?
All that matters is what comes after the “and.”
The only things that matters.
I’m serious. Thing aren’t great, for sure.
And?
Telling ppl things are bad is easy.
Figuring out the path to someplace better is hard. And risky.
So: And?
There’s no thread here. Just “it suck.”
Ok. And?
All that matters is what comes after the “and.”
The only things that matters.
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The couple of comments under posts like these with people defending the doomer by saying "oh yeah and you're so much better mr. smart optimist?!" are always so disquieting to me
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
It's so funny that he spent five years starring in Person of Interest, one of the most shockingly left leaning shows to ever air on TV, let alone CBS, and his performance in it was often *great*, but he was simply so stupid he failed to understand anything going on around him.
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It's so funny that he spent five years starring in Person of Interest, one of the most shockingly left leaning shows to ever air on TV, let alone CBS, and his performance in it was often *great*, but he was simply so stupid he failed to understand anything going on around him.
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This is what happens when literally everyone in the administration, especially the super religious people, are atheists.
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is what happens when literally everyone in the administration, especially the super religious people, are atheists.
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Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
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Feels like all of us have really discounted the degree to which Trump is boxing shadows and fundamentally doesn't understand what's going on around him.
December 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Feels like all of us have really discounted the degree to which Trump is boxing shadows and fundamentally doesn't understand what's going on around him.
Basically the culture war obsessed conservatives got worked up over the idea that if a sexy and popular Hollywood starlet was seen to endorse their views, it would trigger a domino effect in their favor and a lot of deeply insecure lefties believed them.
Sydney Sweeney tried again to address her American Eagle jeans ad controversy, saying she is ‘against hate and divisiveness.’
Sydney Sweeney Says She Is ‘Against Hate’
Sydney Sweeney tried again to address her American Eagle jeans ad controversy, saying she is ‘against hate and divisiveness.’
www.thecut.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Basically the culture war obsessed conservatives got worked up over the idea that if a sexy and popular Hollywood starlet was seen to endorse their views, it would trigger a domino effect in their favor and a lot of deeply insecure lefties believed them.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think