Always asking, What did I do? What didn't I do? What do I have to do? But I’m always doing what I want to do.
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Jay Mantis retweeted
The older I get, the less desire I have to be harshly critical of others.
Maybe it’s because I don’t need the cheap high of looking down on others, or maybe I’ve lived enough to know we’re all more flawed than we will admit.
Either way, it makes your life more peaceful.
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Blaming voters for not voting for you is like blaming customers for not buying from you:
You’ve fundamentally misunderstood your job.
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Even an openly gay Atlantic writer is now FED UP with LGBTQ virtue signaling.
And he’ll probably get canceled for saying this.
On Bill Maher, James Kirchick spent 2 full minutes warning that “queer extremism” is DESTROYING support for gay marriage, and he actually nails it.
Gallup shows support for same-sex marriage is sliding, and among Republicans, it’s CRATERING. Social issues almost never reverse like this:
Overall: 71% (2022) → 65% (2026)
Republicans: 55% (2021) → 37% (2026)
Independents: 77% (2022) → 67% (2026)
This isn't a "tolerance" problem. It's a "leave me and my kids alone" problem. Nobody needs to hear who you sleep with.
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Chappelle said “fuck Bill Maher,” in his special, even though Maher defended the comedians who performed in Saudi Arabia as progress. Maher did joke that if Dave was really freer there than in America as he claimed, he should try doing his Muhammad material. Obviously, that touched a sore spot. Dave ended up swinging at the entire cloud of criticism surrounding the festival while using Maher who had defended his going as a punching bag.
Marc Maron imagined Theo Von interviewing Hitler, a clear attack on Theo for humanizing Trump. But Trump had already been welcomed onto Saturday Night Live and Fallon. Don’t remember that part in his special. Theo also publicly said that he was willing to have Kamala on, so portraying the podcast as inherently fascist propaganda requires ignoring relevant context and believing Harris’ campaign lies that they weren’t offered to go on. The Hitler bit may work as comedy, but the moral indictment underneath it is swinging at a ghost.
Chelsea Handler attacked Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe for supposedly going to Saudi Arabia, even though Shane publicly declined and Tony wasn’t there. That isn’t criticism, it’s condemnation based on a false premise.
Comedians talking shit about other comedians is tradition. Comedians appointing themselves moral authorities over other comedians, claiming ownership of goodness, and distorting reality to make the prosecution work, is something different. They’ve become trapped in the same digital culture war they’re supposed to be able to see through: flattening people into symbols, omitting inconvenient facts and swinging at ghosts. Thats delusional troll shit. The joke is no longer exposing the distortion. The joke is serving it.
Jay Mantis retweeted
"Sydney Sweeney set women's sports back 20 years"
Uh...how did she do that again?
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Andrew Huberman says every overweight friend who tried his 8-item food allow-list was “highly successful” at losing 30 to 60 pounds and keeping it off.
If it’s not on the list, it stays off the plate.
Here’s Huberman’s list:
• Meat
• Fish
• Eggs
• Chicken
• Fruit
• Vegetables
• Water
• Caffeine
HUBERMAN: “I have several friends just by way of example who reached their 40s quite overweight, 50s quite overweight, 30 to 60 pounds overweight.
“And they’d come to me and they’d say I want to lose weight.
“Every single one of them has been highly successful in rapidly losing that weight and keeping it off the following way.
“I’m not a nutritionist. I say you can eat meat, fish, eggs, chicken, fruit, and vegetables, and that’s it.**
“And drink water and caffeine, and don’t consume calories in beverages.
“And every single one of them lost 30, 60 pounds and has kept it off.”
ADDED CONTEXT: What this diet really does is eliminate ultra-processed food completely. And according to Huberman, it has worked for weight loss every single time.
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So people are actually going to have a giant conversation about “affordability”
and completely ignore the fact that over the last 20 years we ran the biggest money printing experiment in human history?
Yes, young people should work hard. Also, a burrito shouldn’t cost $20.
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CBS apparently had a major Epstein story in the works detailing major corruption at the top of Wall Street banks and involving the Virgin Islands government
Never made it to air under the new Bari Weiss/Ellison leadership
The report also says Wyden was interviewed about his investigation in March by then-60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi for a segment the news program was reporting about Wall Street banks’ and the US Virgin Islands government’s relationship with Epstein. Two months later, CBS News fired Alfonsi after she publicly criticized CBS News leadership and editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s editorial decisions involving a different segment she reported. Neither the Wyden interview nor the broader Epstein story has aired.
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Bill Maher’s audience audibly gasps when he reads what the Democratic Socialists of America are actually saying out loud:
MAHER: “Trump has told 1 trillion lies, but when he says the DSA are actually COMMUNISTS, that’s not one of them.”
“And it’s not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.”
“J.D. Vance was on the show, and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, ‘Oh, my God, you’re a Republican now.’ No, that's not what I said. I said in play, and here’s why.”
“Because not a week goes by where I don’t read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out! Again.”
“Let’s just read the quotes. The DSA platform says: ‘You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.’ If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs, they’d be sued for plagiarism.”
“New York Mayor Mamdani once tweeted, Karl Marx’s words exactly. They’re not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.”
“Mamdani's aide, his top aide, Cea Weaver, said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over.’ And ‘impoverish the white middle class.’ What? That's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?”
“One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chavalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, ‘Seize the means of production.’ Mamdani has said ‘The end goal is seizing the means of production.’ I think they want to seize the means of production.”
“Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but THAT'S COMMUNISM.”
“Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance. And I must take them at their word. When their words include, ‘Our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.’”
“What do they have to do, tweet out ‘Elect more communists’? Oh, yeah, Cea Weaver did that.”
[Shows tweet, audience audibly gasps]
“Yes, [she really did that]! ... People gotta realize this is going on.”
Jay Mantis retweeted
Please share this with everyone. Let’s never listen to these liars ever again. I guess CNN doesn’t need Sanjay to be a useful idiot anymore
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This is the definitive defenestration of Nate Silver on Daylight Savings Time
The tl;dr for the lazy bums who want permanent DST is that facts done care about your feelings. Standard time is better in every single way
The central premise of Nate's piece (which if you're this deep into our debate, you should go ahead and read/subscribe) is that daylight sunlight itself is a commodity to be preserved/maximized because of population preference
To his credit, he does some math about adjusted morning multipliers etc where we could tweak DST but since that is not a realistic choice I will argue from the following universe of options 1. Permanent ST 2. Status Quo 3. Permanent DST (which reminder Nate says is a better idea than 1)
Now at a baseline level we can understand that sunlight itself is not *always* good. If it was then being in Alaska in summer would be preferable (instead people hate it) and why when traveling abroad you feel so out of whack when your biology says day is night and night is day
The difficulty adjusting has to do with our circadian rhythms (alluded to only once in Nate's piece near the end), and the timing itself of sunlight is the core reason I am a proponent of permanent ST:
While Nate may accuse me of just waving my hands and saying "science", the science is clear. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine said in 2023 after extensive study that it rigidly opposed even seasonal switch to DST
Here is what they wrote: "it is the position of the AASM that the United States should eliminate seasonal time changes in favor of permanent ST, which aligns best with human circadian biology. Evidence supports the distinct benefits of ST for health and safety, while also underscoring the potential harms that result from seasonal time changes to and from DST."
What harm specifically? Daylight savings time causes chronic sleep loss by exposing people to too much light in the evening and not enough in the morning. They write: "Light and darkness are the most powerful timing cues for alertness and sleepiness in the human body. We are more alert in the daytime when there is bright sunlight, and we are sleepier at night when there is darkness. Our daily sleep/wake rhythm closely follows the 24-hour light/dark cycle. This is called our “circadian rhythm.” The one-hour time shift during daylight saving time results in less exposure to light in the morning and greater exposure to evening light relative to typical sleep and work schedules. As a result, we tend to go to bed and fall asleep later, resulting in chronic sleep loss."
As @hubermanlab notes: Dr. Samer Hattar, Chief of the Section on Light and Circadian Rhythms at the National Institutes of Health "suggest that maintaining consistent circadian rhythms by aligning our daily patterns with natural daylight and night-dark cycles is crucial for our mental and physical health, and adjusting the clocks for DST adds unnecessary disruption to these rhythms."
The above statements show that even under our current regime of seasonal DST we are chronically depriving hundreds of millions of people of sleep even if they may *think* they want something different. Since Nate is a data guy, I would challenge him to look at the studies which show the massive health effects of chronic sleep deprivation and the subsequent effect on childhood development + lost economic output
So that returns us to this question: Why is 0430 sunrise "ok" even if people are asleep and may not like it. Because it means that when 50%+ people are awake after 0630 they are getting the light signal in their eyes at the beginning of their day which will trigger the correct biological response to sleep more at the end
Yes, I understand why it can subjectively "feel" better to have light at the end of the day but there is overwhelming evidence that this is bad for society as a whole and why EOD President Trump and the GOP should do away with DST forever
Jay Mantis retweeted
“It’s not a bump, it’s a blessing.” A reminder to women your bodies are beautiful and a miracle.
Jay Mantis retweeted
The Declaration of Independence is the greatest document ever produced by man. It’s no coincidence that it was the founding document of our nation and we went on to be the most prosperous civilization in human history. Any country founded on that document is worth loving and fighting to save.
It is also, undeniably, a radically libertarian document that clearly states the validity of natural God given rights and that the only legitimate role for government is the protection of liberty.
We have serious problems in our country today and we will be much better off if we follow the spirit of our founding document than the brain dead varying socialisms being promoted by both political parties.
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Social media replaced pop culture.
People used to talk about reality TV and celebrity drama, now they post about trending topics and politicians—same shallow culture.
If you don’t look elsewhere for depth and quality, you end up today’s equivalent of a tabloid reader.
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I miss when we mostly saw people as other humans instead of the other tribe.
Everything gets dumbed down, regressive, and uglier when we when lose sight of our shared humanity.
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The 22-minute monologue that begins this show offers clear, compelling proof that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
It's then followed by a harrowing interview with Dr. Maynard and the atrocities he saw in Gaza.
Anyone denying the value of this is either a fraud who doesn't believe what they say about the Israeli/US genocide, or is very dumb, or both.
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There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards.
It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions.
It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed: