I predict Apple will legally avoid paying the Jumpstart Tax by having the employees subject to the tax work at least 1/2 time from homes outside of the City.

"LA is on fire:" Never waste a crisis. The LA City Council should be meeting in emergency session to increase minimum density required for getting a permit to rebuild. No more single-family dwellings.

buildings
w/wooden/
flammable exteriors're
no longer satisfactory for Life
under a Capitalism dead-set on
Burning Life as we Know it, Down.

Drill, bitches,
Drill?

https://youtu.be/ybNiAyQu7Is?feature=shared

As a dual citizen, all I have to say to MAGA is, "Canada First!"

@5, Yes Canada first indeed.

That asshole will conquer Greenland and Panama later.

how Long
til eltrumpfster
sends our Precious
Troops on worldwide
Adventures & Conquests
mired in unwinnable Wars and

bankrupting America for fucking ever

in his Own disastrous Image?

way to Go
America.

So now there's going to be assholes and misinformation on Meta? Oh no.

The point of a border wall is not to prevent entry but to stage an invasion. Fillibustering is making a steep return.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

'The point of a border wall is not to prevent entry
but to stage an invasion. Fillibustering
is making a steep return.'

--@CD

we won't Need no stinkin'
Wall post-annexation

tho one Might come in awful Handy
when we need a little Space outta
sight & mind an open-air priosn
for our Undesirables like leftists
& centerleftists & dead-center
Centrists center-right liberals
neolibs and Cons sans suf-
ficient Enthusiams for
the MAGAverse &
its beneviolent
Dictator The-
donolde I w/
Jr waiting in
the hallway
And Ivanta
sharpening
her finger-
nails

Our thousand-year reich!

let's (some of) See if
we last Longer than
the third reich's 12
horrific years

speaking of Humanicide
on a Global Scale

Filibustering*

I got flu and covid vaccinations at Walgreens and when I jokingly asked where was my lollipop, I got two! And good ones, Tootsie Roll pops, for the win.

Republicans. They vote for trump, still believing his nonsense, and the rest of us have to suffer because they are stupid.

Republicans are not only horrible, they're really, really, stupid. They should all be under a guardianship, for their own protection.

We won't need no stinking wall. Post-annexation, though, one might come in handy. When we need a little space, out of sight and mind, an open-air prison for our undesirables like leftists and center-leftists and dead-center centrists center center-right liberals, neoliberals, and cons sans sufficient enthusiasms for the MAGAverse and its benevolent dictator. The Donald. I, with junior waiting in the hallway and Ivanta sharpening her fingers, the thousand-year reich, lets some of. See if we last longer than the Third Reich's 12 horrific years speaking of humanicide on a global scale.

@13: Even more stupid is that the DNC didn't provide an alpha-male populist alternative to vote for.

What is wrong with Kim Shrier? This is not her first Republican vote. Eff her.

@16 She's in a swing-y district, so sometimes she sides with Republicans on issues that might be important to the district. I'd rather she side with Republicans occasionally than Eff Her and lose the seat to a Reichert clone who will vote with the Republicans every time.

Incidentally, same and more so with Gluesenkamp-Perez.

@17, FTW!

TS writers commenting / complaining about the oligarchs in charge of social media while they are unable to break their personal addiction to cesspools like zombie twitter remind me of the black bloc kids in Nikes bashing the windows of the Nike store (hint, you are part of the problem)

OMG I hope my brother and his girlfriend in Pasadena are okay!
They have been traveling to Hawaii and New Zealand over the holidays.
There have been a shitload oof evacuations, and wind gusts up to 100 mph--!!
J6 government closures in D.C. due to a heavy snowstorm.
Climate change is fucking real, MAGAs. :|

@19: Practicality outperforms ethics from time to time, even at The Stranger!

auntie grizelda @20: "OMG I hope my brother and his girlfriend in Pasadena are okay!
"They have been traveling to Hawaii and New Zealand over the holidays."

I don't want to be coming across as a self-righteous, holier-than-thou asshole. I don't want to appear to be passing judgment. And I don't want to be suggesting that fighting climate change comes down to individuals' choices and carbon footprints. Just, people traveling to Hawaii and New Zealand for the holidays is part of why there are wildfires in Pasadena today.

Seeing those two things juxtaposed immediately brings to mind what I believe is a cognitive dissonance we maintain in our society. Feel free to push back against my tone-deafness and insensitivity. Such pushback is warranted.

Dear, simple, Phoebe. Such a sad little person you are.

Um, RE our Washington Democratic Members of Congress: Derek Kilmer is no longer in Congress; he retired. Emily Randall was elected to take District 6 seat, and was sworn in earlier this week.

Do better.

22 yeah Pissonya
and I drove my car
today so global nay
Catastrophic Climate
Disaster's on Me today

nevermind drill baby drill
and burn baby burn it's
on consumers to cut
back a little Walk to
the fucking grocery

are
you
Lazy?

and whattabout
all those Firetrucks
spewing Emissions!?

nyt:

More Than
100,000 Flee as
Fires Race Unchecked in L.A.

https://www.nytimes.com/

burn
baby,
Burn.

and
smile!
it's just
Capitalism.

@22: "Just, people traveling to Hawaii and New Zealand for the holidays is part of why there are wildfires in Pasadena today."

That was really rude to auntie. Not to mention it's totally false.