The Torment Nexus isn't just for techbros any more.

Is it rental when the oil corporations get the services of the US military, but taxpayers get the bill? It seems like there should be a different word for that.

"Whiny asshole whines some more. Film at 11."

Can we try this experiment? Maybe we should drop all of them. From a height.

"But if we offend the billionaires, then who's going to pour millions into our unsuccessful election campaigns, campaigns that are unsuccessful because the people we count on to vote for us have given up on us because of our refusal to confront the billionaires? It's a real conundrum."

Sharpie, surely?

Nobody's perfect. And it's easy to get up on your moral high horse and go "Oooh, we shouldn't murder journalists blah blah blah", but if you've never accidentally ordered a hit squad to murder and dismember someone who annoyed you, then you really don't have the right to judge.

A headline like this can only mean one thing: that RFK jr will be mailing potatoes to every American household before the week is up.

"We don't do accountability."
-- Republicans (probably)

I have a fondness for trebuchets myself, but it's the end result that counts.

Is it possible to buy a subscription, or get 'frequent flier' bonuses?

Asking for a friend.

The challenge is figuring out where to put the bald eagle.

Giving people money makes them an "informed consumer"?

And how does that work, exactly? Does the ability to choose the best option in a rigged market somehow leak into their brains from their bank accounts by osmosis?

Conservatives believe some fanciful things about economics, but this …

Foreign criminals are coming into our country and taking jobs that should rightfully go to American criminals!

It's terrifying to me that he might not.

"Yes, but he's OUR corrupt, Nazi-sympathizing pedophile."

We've finally found a truly bipartisan issue, on which Democrats and Republicans alike are ready to cooperate, and it turns out to be … (checks notes) … "protecting sexual predators".

Traditionally, the US is not run according to the whims of a senile grifter, yet here we are.

Every millionaire or billionaire who pumps dark money into supporting candidates who will work against the interests of voters is meddling with election results. It just happens to be legal when they do it that way.