Showing posts with label tweets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tweets. Show all posts

Jul 1, 2026

Fun With A.I.


Jun 29, 2026

A TweeXt


Jun 26, 2026

Obama Did What Now?

MAGA loves to bitch about how racism in America started with Obama.

And they're consistently giving us a perfect view of point #8 from Umberto Eco's Eternal Fascism - ie: Obama was dumb and inept, and systematically destroying the country. 


This was posted on TwiXter by Willie Ross Jr Knee Deep:

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.

He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.

Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.

Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.

Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.

Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”
Yet, he never came for your guns.

He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.

He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jun 24, 2026

The Fat Orange Monster


 ...And The Pool Of Sorrows

Jun 16, 2026

A TweeXt

IMO, they have to be doing some of this on purpose, don't they?

This could be a clever subliminal stab at telling the rubes the GOP needs them to stay dumb.

IDK - I'm just spit-ballin' a little. Republicans are indeed the party of the Ignorant Slobs, and they're pretty good at filling their voters' heads with all manner of confetti and cotton wadding, so there's no reason for me to think they wouldn't go for an appeal to the subconscious.


Jun 5, 2026

May 28, 2026

All Together Now

Ew


Notice how the lady puts on some speed to get up those steps, and out of the line of fire.

May 21, 2026

Today's AI Follies

It's not so scary that AI is here and seems to be moving too fast and breaking too many things. And it's not even so scary that the nerds keep coming up with failed "products". What's really scary is that too many people won't stop thinking that somebody can perfect the imperfectable.

Videos like this one reinforce my idea that the Big Tech Bros believe AI is the new Master Race, and that they're pushing the nerds to create what I think can't be created.

When they send the AI army for us, remember: We all meet halfway up a good long flight of stairs.


May 9, 2026

From TwiXter

The American Ammosexual when he learns it's called a "school" of fish.


Apr 21, 2026

Yesterday In Boston

RESTORING FAITH


Apr 20, 2026

A TweeXt

RESTORING FAITH

Character is the way you behave when nobody's looking.


Apr 17, 2026

Today's TweeXt


Apr 7, 2026

A TweeXt

We're losing.


Apr 6, 2026

Today's TweeXt

via Glenn Greenwald, of all people.


Why getting swindled is a Top 5 under-reported crime.

Apr 4, 2026

Mar 17, 2026

I Just Have To

You may notice I'm having a bit of trouble staying away. Call it my overdeveloped sense of commitment to routine. Sue me.

This is too good not to pass along.


Mar 1, 2026

Oops


Feb 26, 2026

Looking Forward

There are three main probabilities for our future, and in two of them humans are really fucked.
  • Some variation of the brotherhood of man
  • Skynet
  • The Matrix
This may be a pretty good look at the interim period we find ourselves at the beginning of now.