Jane Austen's Political Tweets
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A delightful diversion parodying the political musings of our time concerning Alberta, Canadian affairs, and the tumultuous intrigues of American governance! Such an endeavor, when graced with the keen wit and sparkling irony of Miss Austen, is a treasure.
This is an easy one to answer.
Hegseth says, "It's not illegal if the President commands it", then cites Supreme Court case.
Hegseth says, "It's not illegal if the President commands it", then cites Supreme Court case.
I know it doesn’t matter but I do hope that Hegseth has to answer the question “if Donald Trump gave you, Pete Hegseth, an illegal order would you follow it”.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is an easy one to answer.
Hegseth says, "It's not illegal if the President commands it", then cites Supreme Court case.
Hegseth says, "It's not illegal if the President commands it", then cites Supreme Court case.
if you see this post eggs 🥚
November 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
if you see this post eggs 🥚
Israel-Gaza latest: White House in tatters after Trump attack photo rage leaves at least 19 dead
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Israel-Gaza latest: White House in tatters after Trump attack photo rage leaves at least 19 dead
What do you call someone who is always traveling around with a bunch of people wearing swastikas?
A nazi.
A nazi.
It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.
Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."
He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.
He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What do you call someone who is always traveling around with a bunch of people wearing swastikas?
A nazi.
A nazi.
You learn how to make do with one testicle.
Watters: What is it like being married to Stephen Miller?
Miller: He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left and we are going to win.
Miller: He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left and we are going to win.
September 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You learn how to make do with one testicle.
What Melvin should have said just to have Trump's brain go ka-blooey.....
"Do you think this is why Trump never wins the Nobel Peace Prize?"
"Do you think this is why Trump never wins the Nobel Peace Prize?"
MELVIN: The president repeatedly did say though that he would end the war on day 1, and we are some 250 days into the administration
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war
MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war
MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1
September 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What Melvin should have said just to have Trump's brain go ka-blooey.....
"Do you think this is why Trump never wins the Nobel Peace Prize?"
"Do you think this is why Trump never wins the Nobel Peace Prize?"
We're living in the beginning of the end of civilization.
Catastrophic global political events occur more frequently, with no period of recovery, as the planet's climate becomes more inhospitable to life.
Catastrophic global political events occur more frequently, with no period of recovery, as the planet's climate becomes more inhospitable to life.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We're living in the beginning of the end of civilization.
Catastrophic global political events occur more frequently, with no period of recovery, as the planet's climate becomes more inhospitable to life.
Catastrophic global political events occur more frequently, with no period of recovery, as the planet's climate becomes more inhospitable to life.
Not just any old gilt. It's plastic gilt.
Would a shrink say there could be a subconscious link between the words gilt and guilt?
March Now
March Now
August 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Not just any old gilt. It's plastic gilt.
At what point do newsroom wide goodbye notes at the Washington Post, just start getting sent to "Bob in Graphics"?
Four more WaPo departures: Hank Stuever, Ann Hornaday, Craig Timberg, Joel Achenbach. Source says it feels like the Hunger Games: “My inbox has literally dozens of announcements of departures or newsroom wide goodbye notes.”
—via @benmullin.bsky.social on X
—via @benmullin.bsky.social on X
August 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
At what point do newsroom wide goodbye notes at the Washington Post, just start getting sent to "Bob in Graphics"?
Reposted by Jane Austen's Political Tweets
Right-wingers believe that we have machines that control the weather by zapping the atmosphere with electromagnetic waves.
But they refuse to believe that the millions of machines we've built to burn 100,220,000 barrels of oil every day could possibly be changing the weather.
But they refuse to believe that the millions of machines we've built to burn 100,220,000 barrels of oil every day could possibly be changing the weather.
July 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Right-wingers believe that we have machines that control the weather by zapping the atmosphere with electromagnetic waves.
But they refuse to believe that the millions of machines we've built to burn 100,220,000 barrels of oil every day could possibly be changing the weather.
But they refuse to believe that the millions of machines we've built to burn 100,220,000 barrels of oil every day could possibly be changing the weather.
How the New York Times was radicalized and lost its way.....
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
Opinion | How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
How the New York Times was radicalized and lost its way.....
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
"Some would say he's a horrible person, and we all know many reasons," Crowchild said. "I stood taller than him as proud Tsuut'ina Isgiya."
Steven Crowchild of the Tsuut'ina Nation shows how Trump should be spoken about....
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Steven Crowchild of the Tsuut'ina Nation shows how Trump should be spoken about....
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
First Nations leader who had 'intense' talk with Trump considered leaving before president landed | CBC News
A First Nations leader who greeted G7 members on the tarmac in Calgary said he was "filled with rage" and considered leaving before Donald Trump arrived — saying the U.S. president has "caused much pa...
www.cbc.ca
June 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Some would say he's a horrible person, and we all know many reasons," Crowchild said. "I stood taller than him as proud Tsuut'ina Isgiya."
Steven Crowchild of the Tsuut'ina Nation shows how Trump should be spoken about....
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Steven Crowchild of the Tsuut'ina Nation shows how Trump should be spoken about....
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
That Iran sucks so much at training assassins, that nobody has to really worry about Iranian assassins, is that what your saying Benjamin?
Netanyahu Makes Explosive Claim That Iran Was Behind the Two Assassination Attempts Against Trump in Fox News Interview
Netanyahu Makes Explosive Claim That Iran Was Behind the Two Assassination Attempts Against Trump in Fox News Interview
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the explosive claim that Iran was behind the two attempts on President Donald Trump's life in 2024.
The post Netanyahu Makes Explosive Claim That Iran Was Behind the Two Assassination Attempts Against Trump in Fox News Interview first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
June 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
That Iran sucks so much at training assassins, that nobody has to really worry about Iranian assassins, is that what your saying Benjamin?
Dear @kenjennings.bsky.social
When can we see yourself and Brad take on ChatGPT as you did with IBM Watson?
We really believe that the two of you can do it this time!!!!!
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
When can we see yourself and Brad take on ChatGPT as you did with IBM Watson?
We really believe that the two of you can do it this time!!!!!
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic
OpenAI's latest and greatest AI model was outclassed by the 1.19 MHz near 50-year-old console gaming legend.
www.tomshardware.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dear @kenjennings.bsky.social
When can we see yourself and Brad take on ChatGPT as you did with IBM Watson?
We really believe that the two of you can do it this time!!!!!
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
When can we see yourself and Brad take on ChatGPT as you did with IBM Watson?
We really believe that the two of you can do it this time!!!!!
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
If you can't predict the strength of the hurricane, you can't predict where it's going to make landfall, and you can't predict where it's going to go from there......
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you can't predict the strength of the hurricane, you can't predict where it's going to make landfall, and you can't predict where it's going to go from there......
Want a vaccine that cures your pancreatic cancer?
Sorry, but RFK Jr is going to slip you a placebo, instead.....
Sorry, but RFK Jr is going to slip you a placebo, instead.....
This is unethical af.
RFK is going to require "all new vaccines...to undergo placebo testing, a procedure in which some people receive the vaccine and others receive an inert substance — such as a saline shot — before the results are compared."
1/3
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK is going to require "all new vaccines...to undergo placebo testing, a procedure in which some people receive the vaccine and others receive an inert substance — such as a saline shot — before the results are compared."
1/3
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. will require shift in how new vaccines are tested, HHS says
The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns among medical experts.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Want a vaccine that cures your pancreatic cancer?
Sorry, but RFK Jr is going to slip you a placebo, instead.....
Sorry, but RFK Jr is going to slip you a placebo, instead.....
PBS sane-washes Trump's irrational quest for illegitimate territorial expansion.
Canada does not have a friend in PBS.
Canada does not have a friend in PBS.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes to erase the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the two countries.
Here’s what it would take to transform Canada from a nation to a state.
Here’s what it would take to transform Canada from a nation to a state.
Trump’s remarks on Canada becoming the 51st state raise a lot of questions
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state, effectively erasing the massive border the two nations share.
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
PBS sane-washes Trump's irrational quest for illegitimate territorial expansion.
Canada does not have a friend in PBS.
Canada does not have a friend in PBS.
Can then renaming of Greenland be far behind?
To a name that is more "we're just going to take it from Denmark" friendly?
To a name that is more "we're just going to take it from Denmark" friendly?
Apple Maps plans to show ‘Gulf of America,’ following Google
Apple Maps plans to show ‘Gulf of America,’ following Google
Apple Maps will soon rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following similar changes made by Google this week, in order to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order that officially changed the name. U.S.-based Apple users may…
tcrn.ch
February 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Can then renaming of Greenland be far behind?
To a name that is more "we're just going to take it from Denmark" friendly?
To a name that is more "we're just going to take it from Denmark" friendly?
At this rate, when the US Army gets around to invading Greenland, they're going to be forced to turn back by a dozen Greenlanders throwing snowballs.....
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
At this rate, when the US Army gets around to invading Greenland, they're going to be forced to turn back by a dozen Greenlanders throwing snowballs.....
Donald Trump is giving himself a Kennedy Center award, isn't he?
Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.
February 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Donald Trump is giving himself a Kennedy Center award, isn't he?
In more Ironic News today....
Doug Ford, leader of the Ontario Leopards-Eating-Faces Party
has face eaten by leopard.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Doug Ford, leader of the Ontario Leopards-Eating-Faces Party
has face eaten by leopard.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ford seen on video saying he was '100% happy' Trump won U.S. election — until tariff threat | CBC News
PC Leader Doug Ford was captured on video after a news conference Monday saying he was happy that President Donald Trump had won the most recent U.S. election — that is until Trump responded with tari...
www.cbc.ca
February 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
In more Ironic News today....
Doug Ford, leader of the Ontario Leopards-Eating-Faces Party
has face eaten by leopard.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Doug Ford, leader of the Ontario Leopards-Eating-Faces Party
has face eaten by leopard.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
To those Canadians who would like to see Canada were annexed by the U.S....
No, you're not going to get American citizenship just because Canada's been annexed.
In Trump's eyes, we're all too untrustworthy to be Americans....
No, you're not going to get American citizenship just because Canada's been annexed.
In Trump's eyes, we're all too untrustworthy to be Americans....
A reminder for those in Canada that say "just give Trump what he wants."
Asking Canada to submit to annexation is the conduct of a hostile foreign power:
February 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
To those Canadians who would like to see Canada were annexed by the U.S....
No, you're not going to get American citizenship just because Canada's been annexed.
In Trump's eyes, we're all too untrustworthy to be Americans....
No, you're not going to get American citizenship just because Canada's been annexed.
In Trump's eyes, we're all too untrustworthy to be Americans....
If only the rest of us had the scientific intellectual certainty of a mediocre, fair-to-middlin', English degree graduate with absolutely zero, nada, zilch, zippo, diddiliy-iddly-shodilly-iddly-iddly-diddly career experience in the sciences....
January 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If only the rest of us had the scientific intellectual certainty of a mediocre, fair-to-middlin', English degree graduate with absolutely zero, nada, zilch, zippo, diddiliy-iddly-shodilly-iddly-iddly-diddly career experience in the sciences....
"migrant detention center" = "concentration camp"
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"migrant detention center" = "concentration camp"
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."- attributed to Sinclair Lewis
Father Calvin Robinson finished his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit by throwing an Elon Musk salute, much to the delight of the crowd.
January 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."- attributed to Sinclair Lewis