I gotta say, the issue with writing about Iran is that the situation changes from hour to hour. at least half of what I wrote about yesterday morning was no longer applicable by yesterday afternoon. oh well, one can only play the hand one is dealt
I feel it’s less a writing issue and more a reality meeting propaganda issue.
But that’s what happens when you have the Inept Wing announcing all their fascist dreams and then they spin around stepping on the rakes of reality — which is what all of us NOT drunk on the MAGA koolaid are witnessing in real time.
I think that’s exactly the problem the Democrats have had. Implement positive change? Fuck, every election cycle it’s putting out one fire after another.
Excellent point -- and it goes back at least to the stock market crash of 1929. The FDR administration was making headway on that, but then Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco intervened.
... which is an incredible advantage for the forces of chaos -- i.e., Greedy Old Party. We really need bigger numbers. About 60 million eligible voters sat out the 2024 election.
Jeff, that is exactly what Prof. Sadegh Noroozi, from Iran, who is a lecturer at Constructor University in Bremen, Germany, said at our No Kings Rally on March 28. He was telling us that he could not believe that one man is allowed to do whatever he wants, and why people would vote for him. He was referring to Trump, but did not say his name. He did tell us that his speech was outdated because each moment the situation was changing. He had woken up to 2 steel plants being bombed and he knew that represented thousands of people who worked there. He also said they constantly have to worry about family and friends. We really got the sense of chaos that this war was wreaking on the lives of Iranians who do not live in Iran and could only imagine what it is like for people inside Iran, many of whom are being executed by their own government while the war is going on because there is now no one coming to rescue them as Trump had promised.
I have been following the war coverage with Malcolm Nance, Jacob Kaarsbo, and Wajeed Lion, most days. They do a daily war show applying their expertise to interpret what is going on, which we cannot count on our government to do.
You've got me wondering if part of the problem with MSM is they don't know how to cover up to the minute news. For years they've had a plan, laid it out, followed the formula and collected the financial rewards. Now they've got an ever-changing mass of weirdness and don't know how to report on demand. They've grown soft through corporate ownership and journalistic integrity, which includes being on top of things, took a powder.
I was offended to see American flags along with Hungarian behind those assclowns. Neither one of them truly represents those countries, especially the Hillbilly Doughboy.
He is the VP and is entitled to use the flag. What offended me was that he was CAMPAIGNING for a foreign leader, particularly one as odious as Orban. American officials should not be politicking in foreign campaigns.
I understand what you're saying. The way I interpret a highly placed politician standing in front of an American flag is that he is representing the US in what he is doing. As you point out, actively campaigning for a foreign leader is wrong, and especially, as you say, Orban.
Mike, you gave me a flashback I’ll never forget either — thanks for that by the way. Haven’t thought of that in decades. She was a dear soul. I’d done a pretty good job of blocking that out till you made it resurface.
How does any self respecting semi-serious person listen to the non-stop bullshit coming out of these mf’s mouths and actually consider it in any way plausible? The way journalists and news anchors discuss utter batshit craziness as if it’s to be seriously discussed as newsworthy or worth consideration makes me think I’m going insane. Bottom line: Trump is a sadistic child playing war games as he describes annihilating entire nations with glee. Giving him the presidency was the most catastrophic mistake ever made in the history of this country.
Yes--the Doge monkeys hammering away at their keyboards, the firing of all experts prior to attacking Iran, the increasing threats to leave NATO, etc., etc.: all of it is in obedience to Putin's orders. It all makes perfect sense when you don't look for any sense to it, because the goal is the fall of the US. It's not as if Putin ever hid HIS agenda to collapse the US economy, disable the US military, eliminate NATO, and turn the US into a puppet state of Russia. He's doing a great job!
It's a given at this point that the Fuckwit and his merry band of incompetent weirdos are going to fail and fuck up in the worst possible ways. Sane Americans watch, despair, post comments and memes and consume mood-altering substances to get through another day of madness. Thank you, Oregon, for making pot legal. My prayer is to wake up to a Tiedrich column about Fuckwit's arrest or death. In the meantime, I'm gonna spark another one.
My nephew served in the peace corps in Tanzania. The grandkids call my sister-in-law Bibi. Means grandmother in Swahili. Somehow, I think that language endeared the word long before that pecker head showed up.
You summed up that shit fest very well Jeff…they continue to be ignorant and brainless…oh…and against women. Fuck you maggots! (I’m in a mood today…this shit better clear up soon!)
Watching the richest man in the world dancing on that stage with a chainsaw, while joyously celebrating the loss of people’s livelihoods, is an image I’ll never get out of my mind. And by putting tens of thousands of federal workers out on the streets in the most incompetent and cruelest of ways, he was also slashing our economy, diplomacy, democracy, and our security.
Remember the Twilight Zone Episode "It's a Good Life" where an entire town is held captive by an amoral six-year-old deity who can erase them with a thought? Send them to the cornfield, kill their dog, whatever?
We've often seen Trump compared to Billy Muny ("YOU'RE A BAD MAN!") but what we see now is even weirder. In this scenario Billy is just an ordinary brat, but the adults decide to behave as if he’s omnipotent anyway, enforcing the cult rules on each other.
The entire town would rather pretend a child is a god than admit they’ve built their entire social order on make-believe.
Anthony doesn’t have to read minds or bend reality; he just has to throw tantrums while every grown-up around him whispers “think happy thoughts” and calls that “keeping the peace.”
Everybody sees it now, and people are dying because of it.
Good analogy J Hardy! I’ve been trying to get my wife to send trump to the cornfield; but, so far , it hasn’t happened.
She once baked a cake that I took to my parents. My dad, who had been a wonderful man his whole life, got a wild hair up his ass and decided to be mean to my new wife. I took the cake to my parents without her pre approval and she was not happy about it. She said: “I hope he chokes on it”. And, indeed, he took one bite and started choking. She has mad skills I’m telling you. I’ve just got to get her in the right mood then maybe…
OUTSTANDING! The best description of what is going on that I have read during this hell we are living through. I've posted it on my substack with credit, of course, to you.
An important reminder that unless the pedo criminal elect detects a self-enrichment opportunity then all he hears is "blah blah blah, quack quack".
If you really want him to hone in on the ceasefire terms, or any negotiation, words like "We're buying Trump (Crypto, shoes, phones, 10 or more stays at a resort)" become important. Also, giving him a trophy helps. Transferring a billion USD to his offshore account, oops, I mean "Board of Peace" will also create moments of cognition.
In the meantime the entire GOP must be proud to have JD on the road campaigning for Putin. I mean Orban. Well, same thing. Even though they are now the party of pedophile protectors, billionaire protectors, corruption, self-enrichment, and Putin -I wonder if they will change "GOP" to a different three letter acronym?
Thank you Frank. This era of insatiable greed, hoarding, and willful ignorance must be chronicled so future attempts at democracy, justice, and morality can make new mistakes, not repeat ours.
Because of the unbelievably stupid actions of Patel and DOGE, it would not surprise me at all if this regime of shitheads does not have anyone who speaks Farsi.
My understanding of why the FBI Iran team were fired recently: they performed critical analysis of the documents that Preznit had stolen and hoarded after term one. So of course they HAD to go. Consequences be damned
I'm not getting over this. In her book, Haberman treats Hegseth like he's capable of a calm, reasonable discussion on war strategy. We've seen him with our own eyes. He is not capable of a calm reasonable discussion on anything.
Wow. I have not been paying attention. I remember seeing her on Morning Joe when we used to watch. Joe seemed to like her. I see why now — two peas in a pod I guess.
Pancakes, I did not know that Haberman was part of, or went to, the dark side. There’s too many things going on. I haven’t seen or read anything about her in a long time. If she can’t tell that the Nutcracker is a psychopath then she has serious problems.
So she’s part of that New York Times counter-reality cabal. That’s too bad. I had thought she was a respected journalist. Oh well.
It’s not hard to be part of the “reality crowd” — you just open your eyes and look and focus your attention and listen. Why is that so hard?
I guess some people want something to be true so badly that they ignore everything that points to the contrary. What a horrible existence. There’s no way they could be happy people.
Don’t they want to be happy? Do they even know what happy is? Do cruelty, pain, suffering and hate make them happy? What is their deal? What are they trying to achieve? Are they just plain miserable and so want everyone else to be miserable too?
I want to be happy. I want others to be happy. Why can’t we just get along with and help each other and be happy? Seems pretty simple. It’s not complicated.
She was a good journalist, I think. But she has been back and forth with Trump - sometimes critical, sometimes carrying water. But she was his go to during his first term. I don't know much about her beyond that.
I am going to deploy a tortured metaphor: if you’ve ever cheated on a diet, there is a moment when you have said oh fuck it I might as well eat whatever I want since I’ve already blown it. This is what scares me about where we are with the Looney Tunes government. Why not invade Greenland? Why not invade Cuba? Why not drop a nuclear bomb on Iran? We’ve already positioned ourselves as the world’s wrecking ball so let’s just go for it and wreck more shit. It won’t make a difference since we’re already in deep; we can worry about getting back on our diet later. Let’s indulge fully without constraint. Constraint is for boring people.
OMG THIS IS THE WORST TIMELINE EVER!!! Call your senators, everyone.
I gotta say, the issue with writing about Iran is that the situation changes from hour to hour. at least half of what I wrote about yesterday morning was no longer applicable by yesterday afternoon. oh well, one can only play the hand one is dealt
It's the world's worst game of whack-a-mole.
Whack-a-mole is the perfect description. The Democrats don’t know what to hit next. We’re all spinning around in circles with our whacking hammers.
If history has taught us anything it's that the Democrats will end-up whacking themselves--early and often.
That’s exclusive to Democrats? Democrats could whack themselves a million times and the voting assignment would still be clear.
I tend to think they're all whacking off.
You're probably thinking mostly of the white ones, right?
House Rethuglicans won't allow the Dem's War Powers bill to come up for a vote. They are the worst fking enemy this country has ever had.
aka The Firehose of Bullshit
And, Doc, as usual, no one’s manning the shut off valve
The media should be at least challenging the blatant lies. But they are falling short
Pretty soon you’ll be adding the “At-the-time-of-this-writing…” qualifier to all of your newsletters.
Everyone in the news biz is doing this.
I feel it’s less a writing issue and more a reality meeting propaganda issue.
But that’s what happens when you have the Inept Wing announcing all their fascist dreams and then they spin around stepping on the rakes of reality — which is what all of us NOT drunk on the MAGA koolaid are witnessing in real time.
Goes to show that stupidity changes things much more quickly than rationality
You can break things overnight, but it takes years to fix them.
Or to build
I think that’s exactly the problem the Democrats have had. Implement positive change? Fuck, every election cycle it’s putting out one fire after another.
Excellent point -- and it goes back at least to the stock market crash of 1929. The FDR administration was making headway on that, but then Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco intervened.
I think it was Timothy Snyder who said itʻs easy to start a war but hard to stop one.
... which is an incredible advantage for the forces of chaos -- i.e., Greedy Old Party. We really need bigger numbers. About 60 million eligible voters sat out the 2024 election.
but at least it looked like you were ‘doing something’ while breaking stuff, at least. (great for ppl w/o ideas)
…”and how!”
So true
Just keep measuring in scaramuccis- that never gets old and its usage should be preserved for future generations.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Jeff
It also doesn’t help that Israel is still bombing the shit out of Lebanon.
Bibi claims they didn’t say they wouldn’t. Maybe that part was in Farsi as well.
Got to postpone that election
Bibiʻs on my list of old men who shouldnʻt still be governing.
And, with that in mind, Trump is NOT playing 3-D Chess. More like 52-Pick-Up. Or Slapjack.
It’s a feature of the moronocracy. The many subspecies of stooges in this government have any number of ways to fuck things up.
Some of that is terrifying incompetence; some of it is on purpose cruelty. Close your eyes and pick one.
Jeff, that is exactly what Prof. Sadegh Noroozi, from Iran, who is a lecturer at Constructor University in Bremen, Germany, said at our No Kings Rally on March 28. He was telling us that he could not believe that one man is allowed to do whatever he wants, and why people would vote for him. He was referring to Trump, but did not say his name. He did tell us that his speech was outdated because each moment the situation was changing. He had woken up to 2 steel plants being bombed and he knew that represented thousands of people who worked there. He also said they constantly have to worry about family and friends. We really got the sense of chaos that this war was wreaking on the lives of Iranians who do not live in Iran and could only imagine what it is like for people inside Iran, many of whom are being executed by their own government while the war is going on because there is now no one coming to rescue them as Trump had promised.
I have been following the war coverage with Malcolm Nance, Jacob Kaarsbo, and Wajeed Lion, most days. They do a daily war show applying their expertise to interpret what is going on, which we cannot count on our government to do.
Jeff, Lord Hegseth is displeased with you.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-lord-hegseth-is-displeased
You got all the cards Jeff.
Haha this
You've got me wondering if part of the problem with MSM is they don't know how to cover up to the minute news. For years they've had a plan, laid it out, followed the formula and collected the financial rewards. Now they've got an ever-changing mass of weirdness and don't know how to report on demand. They've grown soft through corporate ownership and journalistic integrity, which includes being on top of things, took a powder.
I think what you’re posting is on target!🎯
Less of a ceasefire and more of a pausefire.
Although I guess he can call it anything he wants since he lives in Confabulation land instead of in reality like the rest of us.
We’ve been whisked away to that fabled land so often, I’ve considered buying a vacation home there.
Don't. It's built on swampland and it rains bullshit every day
Thanks for the warning. I should know better than to trust that orange smelly real estate agent
Sounds like Floriduh.
Kay-El, 😄😂 Let me know how property values are “there” Escape is starting to look enticing!
Or a fart.
How about a “chance to reload the market” manipulation?
Guessfire. Hopefire. Pants on fire liar.
It has never been more obvious that trump is Putin's Puppet and Bibi's Bitch.
While in Hungary, Vance was criticizing nations for not buying Russian oil. They're not even pretending they're not working for Putin..
I was offended to see American flags along with Hungarian behind those assclowns. Neither one of them truly represents those countries, especially the Hillbilly Doughboy.
He is the VP and is entitled to use the flag. What offended me was that he was CAMPAIGNING for a foreign leader, particularly one as odious as Orban. American officials should not be politicking in foreign campaigns.
I understand what you're saying. The way I interpret a highly placed politician standing in front of an American flag is that he is representing the US in what he is doing. As you point out, actively campaigning for a foreign leader is wrong, and especially, as you say, Orban.
Boy that’s like seeing my grandmother naked. I’ll never get that image out of my head.
Mike, you gave me a flashback I’ll never forget either — thanks for that by the way. Haven’t thought of that in decades. She was a dear soul. I’d done a pretty good job of blocking that out till you made it resurface.
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🤣
🤣🤣🤣
How does any self respecting semi-serious person listen to the non-stop bullshit coming out of these mf’s mouths and actually consider it in any way plausible? The way journalists and news anchors discuss utter batshit craziness as if it’s to be seriously discussed as newsworthy or worth consideration makes me think I’m going insane. Bottom line: Trump is a sadistic child playing war games as he describes annihilating entire nations with glee. Giving him the presidency was the most catastrophic mistake ever made in the history of this country.
Yes--the Doge monkeys hammering away at their keyboards, the firing of all experts prior to attacking Iran, the increasing threats to leave NATO, etc., etc.: all of it is in obedience to Putin's orders. It all makes perfect sense when you don't look for any sense to it, because the goal is the fall of the US. It's not as if Putin ever hid HIS agenda to collapse the US economy, disable the US military, eliminate NATO, and turn the US into a puppet state of Russia. He's doing a great job!
Mark 🎯🎯
On the money Mark
It's a given at this point that the Fuckwit and his merry band of incompetent weirdos are going to fail and fuck up in the worst possible ways. Sane Americans watch, despair, post comments and memes and consume mood-altering substances to get through another day of madness. Thank you, Oregon, for making pot legal. My prayer is to wake up to a Tiedrich column about Fuckwit's arrest or death. In the meantime, I'm gonna spark another one.
You and me both, sister.
Amen!
You’re my man (woman) Ann! — not trying to sound misogynistic, it’s just that “you’re my man Ann” has a better ring to it.
*snort* I'm either really high or that was really funny.
Now YOUR post made a guffaw- scared my cat Charlie who was snoozing on my lap~while I finally read Jeff’s column It’s like dessert‼️
😂😂😂
Before drumpf's murderous bombing spree
Tankers could traverse the strait for free
Then the Iranians imposed a fee
That quickly ended ignominiously
Because of missiles fired by Bloody Bibi
The Middle East is awash in brutality
Too many men who love cruelty
Driven by greed and stupidity
Bibi… becomes beebee 🤣
My nephew served in the peace corps in Tanzania. The grandkids call my sister-in-law Bibi. Means grandmother in Swahili. Somehow, I think that language endeared the word long before that pecker head showed up.
That pretty much encapsulates it Doc!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
👏👏👏👏
You summed up that shit fest very well Jeff…they continue to be ignorant and brainless…oh…and against women. Fuck you maggots! (I’m in a mood today…this shit better clear up soon!)
That didn't even last one Scaramucci.
Is there an app to convert Scaramuccis to Liz Truss’s?
I think it’s just metric.
Ha ha!!! Good one!
Watching the richest man in the world dancing on that stage with a chainsaw, while joyously celebrating the loss of people’s livelihoods, is an image I’ll never get out of my mind. And by putting tens of thousands of federal workers out on the streets in the most incompetent and cruelest of ways, he was also slashing our economy, diplomacy, democracy, and our security.
Dumbshit Oligarch Goons, Erring
So sad, so true Steph.
Stormy said Don the Con lasted 0.0045 scaramuccis
How long does it take to blink ?
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😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Awesome, Doc.
😂😂😂😂😂
😂🤣😂
Remember the Twilight Zone Episode "It's a Good Life" where an entire town is held captive by an amoral six-year-old deity who can erase them with a thought? Send them to the cornfield, kill their dog, whatever?
We've often seen Trump compared to Billy Muny ("YOU'RE A BAD MAN!") but what we see now is even weirder. In this scenario Billy is just an ordinary brat, but the adults decide to behave as if he’s omnipotent anyway, enforcing the cult rules on each other.
The entire town would rather pretend a child is a god than admit they’ve built their entire social order on make-believe.
Anthony doesn’t have to read minds or bend reality; he just has to throw tantrums while every grown-up around him whispers “think happy thoughts” and calls that “keeping the peace.”
Everybody sees it now, and people are dying because of it.
Good analogy J Hardy! I’ve been trying to get my wife to send trump to the cornfield; but, so far , it hasn’t happened.
She once baked a cake that I took to my parents. My dad, who had been a wonderful man his whole life, got a wild hair up his ass and decided to be mean to my new wife. I took the cake to my parents without her pre approval and she was not happy about it. She said: “I hope he chokes on it”. And, indeed, he took one bite and started choking. She has mad skills I’m telling you. I’ve just got to get her in the right mood then maybe…
Could she please bake a cake for fuckface?
May I have your address so I can send her a voodoo doll?
OUTSTANDING! The best description of what is going on that I have read during this hell we are living through. I've posted it on my substack with credit, of course, to you.
Yes, I have been thinking this since 2016.
Well, if that isn’t the analogy of the year
I don't know how Larry Kudlow finds work. He was inevitably wrong when he worked for Trump 1.0, and he's just as much of a clown on FOX Noise now.
He works for media that spreads lies, so it don't matter if he wrong
So long as he's the right kind of wrong.
I love it Lairbo! — “Fox News: The Right Kind of Wrong”. You should trademark that!
As in, stay away from facts
LOL!
A drunk tank clown at that. Guilt by association with Kegsbreath and DisneyLinds
Thank you Jeff.
An important reminder that unless the pedo criminal elect detects a self-enrichment opportunity then all he hears is "blah blah blah, quack quack".
If you really want him to hone in on the ceasefire terms, or any negotiation, words like "We're buying Trump (Crypto, shoes, phones, 10 or more stays at a resort)" become important. Also, giving him a trophy helps. Transferring a billion USD to his offshore account, oops, I mean "Board of Peace" will also create moments of cognition.
In the meantime the entire GOP must be proud to have JD on the road campaigning for Putin. I mean Orban. Well, same thing. Even though they are now the party of pedophile protectors, billionaire protectors, corruption, self-enrichment, and Putin -I wonder if they will change "GOP" to a different three letter acronym?
POS?!!
😂😂
POP? Party of Putin? Or POPP, party of pedophile protectors?
I think you’re on to something. POP cubed?
Or possibly Party Of Orban/Putin.
Love it! POOP!
Good one!
👏👏👏😂😂😂
Guarding Our Pedophiles
I like it but only covers a fraction of their plunder and treason.
Mary and Doc, you both are on fire! Can we launch you both into the middle of the GOP unannounced?
Well said George!
Thank you Frank. This era of insatiable greed, hoarding, and willful ignorance must be chronicled so future attempts at democracy, justice, and morality can make new mistakes, not repeat ours.
Because of the unbelievably stupid actions of Patel and DOGE, it would not surprise me at all if this regime of shitheads does not have anyone who speaks Farsi.
Was that Putin's plan all along?
I can't see any other reason to fire everyone who speaks Farsi.
My understanding of why the FBI Iran team were fired recently: they performed critical analysis of the documents that Preznit had stolen and hoarded after term one. So of course they HAD to go. Consequences be damned
The FBI's experts on Iran
Were fired as part of the con
Just days after the sacking
Came the illegal attacking
Our sanity and morality are gone
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Hmm. What was DOGE's excuse?
My thoughts exactly. Putin’s wishlist is top priority for Trump’s utterly treasonous administration.
DOGE fired all the experts that spoke Farsi & then Patel fired those left in the FBI
I'm not getting over this. In her book, Haberman treats Hegseth like he's capable of a calm, reasonable discussion on war strategy. We've seen him with our own eyes. He is not capable of a calm reasonable discussion on anything.
Stupid, arrogant Hegseth
The brutal secretary of death
Constantly mismanages
Causing more damages
He's worse than some rando on meth
👏👏👏👏Who say's that he's not!😂😂
lol. Well done Doc!
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Haberman has been a stooge for the orange felon since the beginning!!
I deeply dislike Haberman. She is just a shill for Trump. Hateful woman.
Wow. I have not been paying attention. I remember seeing her on Morning Joe when we used to watch. Joe seemed to like her. I see why now — two peas in a pod I guess.
Pancakes, I did not know that Haberman was part of, or went to, the dark side. There’s too many things going on. I haven’t seen or read anything about her in a long time. If she can’t tell that the Nutcracker is a psychopath then she has serious problems.
So she’s part of that New York Times counter-reality cabal. That’s too bad. I had thought she was a respected journalist. Oh well.
It’s not hard to be part of the “reality crowd” — you just open your eyes and look and focus your attention and listen. Why is that so hard?
I guess some people want something to be true so badly that they ignore everything that points to the contrary. What a horrible existence. There’s no way they could be happy people.
Don’t they want to be happy? Do they even know what happy is? Do cruelty, pain, suffering and hate make them happy? What is their deal? What are they trying to achieve? Are they just plain miserable and so want everyone else to be miserable too?
I want to be happy. I want others to be happy. Why can’t we just get along with and help each other and be happy? Seems pretty simple. It’s not complicated.
She was a good journalist, I think. But she has been back and forth with Trump - sometimes critical, sometimes carrying water. But she was his go to during his first term. I don't know much about her beyond that.
"this is what happens when your negotiations are handled by the shitwits at Four Seasons Total Ceasefires.' 😂😂
"the Strait of Hormuz lasted 0.045 scaramuccis.” 😂😂
Then we learn these assholes threaten the Pope? Hey, good Catholics everywhere... time to make your voices heard. JD? Anyone? This is so insane.
Barking madness!!
Insanity is their mantra.
Wonkette nailed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKRRxbA5dWE
I am going to deploy a tortured metaphor: if you’ve ever cheated on a diet, there is a moment when you have said oh fuck it I might as well eat whatever I want since I’ve already blown it. This is what scares me about where we are with the Looney Tunes government. Why not invade Greenland? Why not invade Cuba? Why not drop a nuclear bomb on Iran? We’ve already positioned ourselves as the world’s wrecking ball so let’s just go for it and wreck more shit. It won’t make a difference since we’re already in deep; we can worry about getting back on our diet later. Let’s indulge fully without constraint. Constraint is for boring people.
OMG THIS IS THE WORST TIMELINE EVER!!! Call your senators, everyone.
Guaranteed they’re going to Greenland a little birdie said it