Clem
@clemgrakata.bsky.social
He/Him. Trying to stay sane in a world gone mad.
Sarcasm is my first language.
Enjoyer of certain games, including space ninjas and critically acclaimed MMORPGs.
Bigots and fascists get blocked and ridiculed.
Sarcasm is my first language.
Enjoyer of certain games, including space ninjas and critically acclaimed MMORPGs.
Bigots and fascists get blocked and ridiculed.
CNN is little more than state-run media with extra steps.
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
CNN is little more than state-run media with extra steps.
I don't know what baffles me more: that these people think we're all credulous enough to buy that, or there are still a lot of people out there who are indeed credulous enough to believe it.
Either way, we live in the dumbest of times.
Either way, we live in the dumbest of times.
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I don't know what baffles me more: that these people think we're all credulous enough to buy that, or there are still a lot of people out there who are indeed credulous enough to believe it.
Either way, we live in the dumbest of times.
Either way, we live in the dumbest of times.
I'm with this line of thinking. You can add dementia as an accelerant since that tends to make narcs even worse.
I don't think MTG is a rat jumping ship so much as she's posturing herself as a rival to the likes of Vance (etc) as heir to MAGA when Orange Julius inevitably falls out on the toilet.
I don't think MTG is a rat jumping ship so much as she's posturing herself as a rival to the likes of Vance (etc) as heir to MAGA when Orange Julius inevitably falls out on the toilet.
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'm with this line of thinking. You can add dementia as an accelerant since that tends to make narcs even worse.
I don't think MTG is a rat jumping ship so much as she's posturing herself as a rival to the likes of Vance (etc) as heir to MAGA when Orange Julius inevitably falls out on the toilet.
I don't think MTG is a rat jumping ship so much as she's posturing herself as a rival to the likes of Vance (etc) as heir to MAGA when Orange Julius inevitably falls out on the toilet.
This moment was always coming. MTG is a full-time grifter who does full commitment to the bit.
I'm all for it.
I'm all for it.
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This moment was always coming. MTG is a full-time grifter who does full commitment to the bit.
I'm all for it.
I'm all for it.
That's the overarching strategy. Use the "process as punishment" method to make saying anything that those charged with enforcement *might* not like simply too risky for firms and organizations.
Its fuzzy prior restraint with extra steps.
Its fuzzy prior restraint with extra steps.
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
That's the overarching strategy. Use the "process as punishment" method to make saying anything that those charged with enforcement *might* not like simply too risky for firms and organizations.
Its fuzzy prior restraint with extra steps.
Its fuzzy prior restraint with extra steps.
I've never considered her crazy or particularly stupid; she's a nihilistic con-artist who shamelessly performs full commitment to the bit to get what she wants.
She's making her play because she (accurately) sees Johnson as weak. Simple cynical opportunism.
She's making her play because she (accurately) sees Johnson as weak. Simple cynical opportunism.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I've never considered her crazy or particularly stupid; she's a nihilistic con-artist who shamelessly performs full commitment to the bit to get what she wants.
She's making her play because she (accurately) sees Johnson as weak. Simple cynical opportunism.
She's making her play because she (accurately) sees Johnson as weak. Simple cynical opportunism.
I think chez really into him.
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I think chez really into him.
He might know that if he actually read it as opposed to simply using it as a blunt instrument.
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
He might know that if he actually read it as opposed to simply using it as a blunt instrument.
Pathetic.
The leadership of the ADL sold their souls for the favor of Trump and Netanyahu. They will go down in history as a textbook example of moral collapse.
The leadership of the ADL sold their souls for the favor of Trump and Netanyahu. They will go down in history as a textbook example of moral collapse.
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Pathetic.
The leadership of the ADL sold their souls for the favor of Trump and Netanyahu. They will go down in history as a textbook example of moral collapse.
The leadership of the ADL sold their souls for the favor of Trump and Netanyahu. They will go down in history as a textbook example of moral collapse.
Indeed.
My depression and the covert abuse being engaged in by my family when I was a kid was ignored because my dad made good money and we had nice things.
There's a persistent societal attitude that all unfit parents are either poor or are physically violent which gaslights people into denial.
My depression and the covert abuse being engaged in by my family when I was a kid was ignored because my dad made good money and we had nice things.
There's a persistent societal attitude that all unfit parents are either poor or are physically violent which gaslights people into denial.
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Indeed.
My depression and the covert abuse being engaged in by my family when I was a kid was ignored because my dad made good money and we had nice things.
There's a persistent societal attitude that all unfit parents are either poor or are physically violent which gaslights people into denial.
My depression and the covert abuse being engaged in by my family when I was a kid was ignored because my dad made good money and we had nice things.
There's a persistent societal attitude that all unfit parents are either poor or are physically violent which gaslights people into denial.
Democrats have been so dependent on consultants and strategists for so long that most of the senior and tenured members of the party have lost any real political instincts...assuming they ever had any in the first place.
This, more than anything else, is why so many of them are so bad at this.
This, more than anything else, is why so many of them are so bad at this.
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Democrats have been so dependent on consultants and strategists for so long that most of the senior and tenured members of the party have lost any real political instincts...assuming they ever had any in the first place.
This, more than anything else, is why so many of them are so bad at this.
This, more than anything else, is why so many of them are so bad at this.
It baffles me that anyone is surprised that gambling has been normalized as part of sports since sports media started putting the betting lines next to the stats on any game preview in all the major sports.
The only problem the leagues ever had with gambling was the Mafia cutting in on the action.
The only problem the leagues ever had with gambling was the Mafia cutting in on the action.
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It baffles me that anyone is surprised that gambling has been normalized as part of sports since sports media started putting the betting lines next to the stats on any game preview in all the major sports.
The only problem the leagues ever had with gambling was the Mafia cutting in on the action.
The only problem the leagues ever had with gambling was the Mafia cutting in on the action.
The media has been going in this direction for a long time.
I think the fatal blow to the free press was after 9/11 when it became obligatory to treat claims made by a Republican with unquestioning credulousness.
Everything from the Tea Party to MAGA is a product of that environment.
I think the fatal blow to the free press was after 9/11 when it became obligatory to treat claims made by a Republican with unquestioning credulousness.
Everything from the Tea Party to MAGA is a product of that environment.
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The media has been going in this direction for a long time.
I think the fatal blow to the free press was after 9/11 when it became obligatory to treat claims made by a Republican with unquestioning credulousness.
Everything from the Tea Party to MAGA is a product of that environment.
I think the fatal blow to the free press was after 9/11 when it became obligatory to treat claims made by a Republican with unquestioning credulousness.
Everything from the Tea Party to MAGA is a product of that environment.
If nothing else, SCOTUS backing Trump's tariffs after this will shred their last fig leaves of legitimacy to anyone but the terminally credulous or impossibly dense.
Roberts is probably already working on the legal gymnastics he's gonna need to handwave this one for Trump.
Roberts is probably already working on the legal gymnastics he's gonna need to handwave this one for Trump.
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
If nothing else, SCOTUS backing Trump's tariffs after this will shred their last fig leaves of legitimacy to anyone but the terminally credulous or impossibly dense.
Roberts is probably already working on the legal gymnastics he's gonna need to handwave this one for Trump.
Roberts is probably already working on the legal gymnastics he's gonna need to handwave this one for Trump.
I hope Trump stiffs them just like he's made a habit of stiffing contractors who've worked for him over the years.
It would be such delicious schadenfreude.
It would be such delicious schadenfreude.
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I hope Trump stiffs them just like he's made a habit of stiffing contractors who've worked for him over the years.
It would be such delicious schadenfreude.
It would be such delicious schadenfreude.
Its a touch worse than that.
Our culture stopped demanding basic decency from one another. America embraced atomized individuality and exalted being an insufferable asshole for decades.
It's no wonder that in such a culture the biggest asshole of them all became POTUS.
Our culture stopped demanding basic decency from one another. America embraced atomized individuality and exalted being an insufferable asshole for decades.
It's no wonder that in such a culture the biggest asshole of them all became POTUS.
October 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Its a touch worse than that.
Our culture stopped demanding basic decency from one another. America embraced atomized individuality and exalted being an insufferable asshole for decades.
It's no wonder that in such a culture the biggest asshole of them all became POTUS.
Our culture stopped demanding basic decency from one another. America embraced atomized individuality and exalted being an insufferable asshole for decades.
It's no wonder that in such a culture the biggest asshole of them all became POTUS.
Its an active measure designed to burn any degree of class solidarity across racial, gender and cultural lines to co-opt class-based organizing into a component of the white nationalist project.
WAY too many liberals and progressives took the bait and let this get normalized.
WAY too many liberals and progressives took the bait and let this get normalized.
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Its an active measure designed to burn any degree of class solidarity across racial, gender and cultural lines to co-opt class-based organizing into a component of the white nationalist project.
WAY too many liberals and progressives took the bait and let this get normalized.
WAY too many liberals and progressives took the bait and let this get normalized.
Indeed. Trump's one-and-only talent is his feral cunning; his innate ability to clock what makes a person weak and exploit it.
Its why most of his interfaces with NYC machine politics were with the people whose weaknesses he could exploit, such as Guilanni and his pathological addiction to fame.
Its why most of his interfaces with NYC machine politics were with the people whose weaknesses he could exploit, such as Guilanni and his pathological addiction to fame.
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Indeed. Trump's one-and-only talent is his feral cunning; his innate ability to clock what makes a person weak and exploit it.
Its why most of his interfaces with NYC machine politics were with the people whose weaknesses he could exploit, such as Guilanni and his pathological addiction to fame.
Its why most of his interfaces with NYC machine politics were with the people whose weaknesses he could exploit, such as Guilanni and his pathological addiction to fame.
At this point one can only presume that the billionaire owners of most of the major media platforms are actively complicit in the defacto coronation of Trump.
Collaborators, one and all.
Collaborators, one and all.
October 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
At this point one can only presume that the billionaire owners of most of the major media platforms are actively complicit in the defacto coronation of Trump.
Collaborators, one and all.
Collaborators, one and all.
At least the would-be Nazi plant was outed before he got elected. Tulsi Gabbard managed to con the HI Dem party for years before she was exposed.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
October 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
At least the would-be Nazi plant was outed before he got elected. Tulsi Gabbard managed to con the HI Dem party for years before she was exposed.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
Exactly. Its the media furthering another big short.
Altman is gonna do his rugpull sometime early next year, and part of that is getting firms like Broadcom and AMD to overextend themselves like this before he and his proxies short their paper.
Altman is gonna do his rugpull sometime early next year, and part of that is getting firms like Broadcom and AMD to overextend themselves like this before he and his proxies short their paper.
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Exactly. Its the media furthering another big short.
Altman is gonna do his rugpull sometime early next year, and part of that is getting firms like Broadcom and AMD to overextend themselves like this before he and his proxies short their paper.
Altman is gonna do his rugpull sometime early next year, and part of that is getting firms like Broadcom and AMD to overextend themselves like this before he and his proxies short their paper.
This is part of her play to be heir to MAGA when the orange menace inevitably falls out from a rage coronary on the toilet.
I maintain that she is a serial con artist who is still performing full commitment to the bit.
I maintain that she is a serial con artist who is still performing full commitment to the bit.
October 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is part of her play to be heir to MAGA when the orange menace inevitably falls out from a rage coronary on the toilet.
I maintain that she is a serial con artist who is still performing full commitment to the bit.
I maintain that she is a serial con artist who is still performing full commitment to the bit.