It is insane how common it’s become.

It’s hard to even explain to people that there was a time when it used to be a very shocking thing to hear about.

“Back in my day, parents didn’t have to send their kids off to school every morning pretending everything was normal, but internally struggling with anxiety they might never see them again.”

Don’t forget Columbine. People always leave that out, but as far as historical milestones that shaped how awful American society has become, it was a big one.

Do they even make dunkaroos anymore?

I remember they made them when I was a kid and then they were discontinued and then they returned, but I thought they got discontinued again.

Anyway, when I was in college I learned you can make a big ass batch of dunkaroo frosting super cheap

https://basicswithbails.com/popular/baking/homemade-dunkaroo-dip-funfetti-cake-batter-dip/

https://callascleaneats.com/viral-dunkaroo-dip-high-protein-low-carb/

It’s never evil if it’s all just a game, at least not to the ones playing the game.

TIL that the cofounder of the Heritage Foundation, author of the original mandate for leadership (the very first in an annual series that was eventually became Project 2025) also wrote a 1987 op-ed in WaPo that said the Iran-Contra should have been all the proof we needed to know democracy is a failure that should be replaced with a shadowy group of government of experts.

The funny thing is, we know now that he (Paul Weyrich) was one of the main people working in the shadows under Reagan.

A CONSERVATIVE’S LAMENT

As conservatives, we have to help the nation face a stark choice: either modify our institutions of government to play the game of great power, or move back toward our historic, less active foreign policy.

Third, our current system institutionalizes amateurism. Unlike European parliamentary democracies, we have no “shadow cabinet,” no group of experts who are groomed by their party for decades before they take high office. Our presidents can be peanut farmers or Hollywood actors. They can choose their top advisors either from among “professionals” who may not share their goals or supporters who often have no background or expertise in policy. Either way, they lose, and so does the country. The current crisis could not make the point better: our foreign policy was set by an admiral and a Marine lieutenant colonel, neither of whom had any background in the field. The resulting failure is not their fault. The system by which they were chosen is defective.

Sounds kind of familiar.

Guess what shadow group is in the White House right now? Almost makes you wonder if the plan was always to make America and democracy look incompetent via embarrassing debacles like the Iran Contra, and now they’re just picking up right where they left off?

Another Paul Weyrich gem regarding voter suppression:

“I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

You hurt me pretty bad, but I forgive you. I think if we both really try hard, we can still make it through this.

Ok…, I won’t 🆗👁️🙅‍♀️

Ok, sorry to upset you. Just an attempt to cope with the inevitable and absurd destruction of the world due to the action of ~4 men in a pissing contest, with a little humor. Btw, the inside joke wasn’t even supposed to be relevant, but I do feel like it adds a little lagniappe to the whole ambiance/vibe of wtf are we even doing at this point?

Hopefully everyone starts taking this community a little more seriously, and content improves with each one up that brings us closer to our impending doom. I hear the memes in the afterlife (if there is one) are to die for.

What?

That part is just a very complicated and dumb inside joke

Pissing contest or most careless game of chicken ever? Both?

Idiocracy prepared me for this to happen, but it also failed me because it made me believe that it would be a lot less serious/more funny than it is.

If Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu could just stop being psychotic dictators driving us all towards destruction for two seconds, that would be great.

Don’t forget a few weeks ago we allegedly agreed (at least publicly) to back away from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and let them fight it out in exchange for Putin saying he would be keeping Iran in line.

Since then:

1. Netenyahu narrowly avoided being voted out of power and immediately began bombing Iran within 24 hours.

2. Trump decided he wanted to get in on kicking the hornets nest for some fucking reason, and now we’re under high alert for a counter attack (surprise), and U.S. counter terrorism is literally under the watch of a 22 year old grocer. It’s almost like they want us to be attacked, but they’re too dumb (or just don’t even care about trying) to make it look like a convincing spontaneous attack against the U.S.

3. Putin has continued to bombard the shit out of civilians in Ukraine.

Fuck these evil fucking fucks.

It’s funny how all 3 countries involved in this (4 if you count Russia) are being hurled towards catastrophe and likely world ending destruction by powerful men who are not even admired by a large percentage of the populations they control.

Nobody that actually wants a regime change in any of these countries, wants this war to happen.

A destabilizing war, allegedly necessary to create regime change, will act as a chaotic distraction from questionable leadership, and help each of these men, at least temporarily, tighten their slipping power grips.

The people of Iran, Israel, and the U.S. are not fighting each other. 3 or 4 men are fighting with angry threatening words and tweets, and making the choice to put all of humanity at risk to do so. Fucking absurd.

ICEis doesn’t look like they would be as agile on the monkey bars. So, checkmate.

Is it also a propaganda article from the Associated Press?

Israel’s spy agency used AI and smuggled-in drones to prepare attack on Iran