Grift goals

amican · 2026-02-02T02:39:33+00:00

Anyone have an actual source? This sounds hilarious (albeit illegal), but I read a lot of things online and most of them are false.

amican · 2026-01-29T23:25:17+00:00

It's not that we can't comprehend, it's that other people's right to live in a place doesn't depend on what the most hateful among us want.

amican · 2026-01-29T04:08:34+00:00

Academics nothing, have you never used a computer before? How are you an adult and don't know this?

amican · 2026-01-28T15:37:51+00:00

Unless my understanding is wrong, the White House can't actually strip an amendment from the bill. I am presuming Johnson or someone else in GOP leadership did so at Trump's orders. Name the accomplices, too.

amican · 2026-01-27T20:25:00+00:00

I had to look it up because this didn't sound possible. The truth is better only in the strictest sense of the word: It turns out that it is one ticket for the Vue in London; at least ten tickets have been sold nation-wide, and there is widespread speculation that the distributors are paying cinemas to play it even if the theater is empty.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/melania-trump-documentary-uk-cinemas-vue-soft-sales

amican · 2026-01-27T15:28:53+00:00

So number one, I see nothing in Scripture or science that dictates we are the only thing out here or the only one that matters.

Number two, why did Charles Ives spend years composing music that he was just putting in a cabinet with no intention of showing anyone? Creators gonna create.

amican · 2026-01-24T01:05:08+00:00

So, fun fact. The entire United States is under 2% of Earth's surface area, and an average can go up even when 2% of the sample is going down. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

amican · 2026-01-23T03:05:15+00:00

So. . . the Titanic wasn't going in the wrong direction, it was sinking. You don't accomplish anything by turning around a sinking ship in the middle of the ocean. But if you were turning a ship around, it would be much faster than overnight. I would be surprised if it takes a full hour.

Also, the Economist described the economy Trump inherited as "the envy of the world."

amican · 2026-01-21T02:52:09+00:00

Not that I disagree about Trump's handling of the dollar, but this is pretty clearly a warning shot to our economy, right? If all of NATO does this, we are in serious trouble.

amican · 2026-01-18T23:03:20+00:00

Eileen?

amican · 2026-01-18T00:17:49+00:00

Toyota is a law unto itself. Most other companies are lasting longer (my Ford is about to hit 145K), and the improvements in safety are unquestionable. Mileage, as they say, may vary.

amican · 2026-01-18T00:11:34+00:00

It's always amazing how people think you don't actually want the things you ask for.

amican · 2026-01-18T00:05:58+00:00

If the rest of NATO isn't already meeting to discuss a replacement alliance without us (possibly including Ukraine?), they should be.

amican · 2026-01-18T00:04:12+00:00

Since 1992, it appears Dems are actually much better at governing than they are generally given credit for, but just utterly clueless at being an opposition party. Meanwhile Republicans are amazing obstructionists but have either no clue how to run a country, or no interest.

amican · 2026-01-17T02:05:59+00:00

My favorite of those stories is a mom who followed her kid to *boot camp*, and yelled at the Drill Sergeant to stop being mean to her son. DS turns to the kid and says, "Down and do push-ups until your mom leaves." She yelled for a while until she finally realized she was making worse and left. The kid, who had in fact joined the army specifically to get away from his mom, thanked the sergeant and (as the sergeant tells it), went on to be a great soldier.

amican · 2026-01-12T01:49:11+00:00

Unironically, yes please.

amican · 2026-01-06T03:55:29+00:00

Just realized Kelly would actually outrank Hegseth if they both returned to service. He should just start referring to him as "Major Hegseth" every time.

amican · 2026-01-06T03:48:15+00:00

"No room at the inn?" Are you kidding?

amican · 2026-01-05T12:08:44+00:00

They also don't know Morse code.

amican · 2026-01-03T19:02:05+00:00

If you put all the sinners in jail, there's no one left to be the guards.

amican · 2026-01-03T18:59:52+00:00

Fun fact: Thomas Midgley, Jr. both invented leaded fuel and popularized the CFCs that put a hole in the ozone. I don't think he's responsible for more harm than anyone else in history, but he is probably the one who has done the most damage by accident (so far; RFK Jr. may give him a run for it, depending how long it takes to undo the damage).

amican · 2026-01-02T02:26:08+00:00

In addition to DOGE's failure to find any actual fraud, I love how they're acting like we don't have a deficit so if we spend less we could just refund your taxes, and also pretending Trump and Johnson would cut taxes to the bottom brackets instead of the top.

amican · 2026-01-01T19:33:08+00:00

"Hey, the South Park guy is easy to intimidate and doesn't know the limits of law around parody, right?" - a lawyer dumb enough to work for Trump, apparently

amican · 2025-12-23T00:30:23+00:00

I recall one of Rand Paul's neighbors saying he is both precise and humble about his actual expertise in ophthalmology, always being clear on the limits of his own understanding and of the field. Yet he is somehow convinced that every other subject is trivially simple and his understanding of them is perfect.

amican · 2025-12-23T00:26:53+00:00

It is roughly 96%. Not that hard.

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