He looks kinda like Jonah from Veep. Also known as Hepatitis J, The Cloud Botherer, and Jolly Green Jizzface.

All royalties from Adam Johnson’s new book are being donated to the Middle East Children’s Alliance, so we’re safe for now.

There’s a weird Kingsley Amis alternate history novel where Martin Luther became Pope. It’s set in the 20th century and the main plot is a choir singer trying to escape mandatory castration. Harold Wilson is the contemporary Pope of the time of the novel.

Has bear shit too often ended up in the woods?

Is the Pope too Catholic?

Yes. Fortunately the book is enough of a satire that you can decide it’s also a parody of itself.

I should warn you that my friends and I all read this in high school and now we’re old and not one of us has couped any etats. Then again we were using the earlier edition that put a lot of emphasis on seizing radio stations.

Edit - So I knew the author was a neo-con, but damn, some of this is pretty ugly stuff. CWs for chauvinism, Islamophobia, and so on.

Coup d’Etat: A Practical Handbook

Why does everyone want to harsh Marie Antoinette’s vibe?

The premise of this seems flawed. Surely Trump didn’t read an article. The headline could have been enough.

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The especially weird thing about defending Swalwell on this is that the accusation is convenient. Democrats have been handwringing for months that they have too many candidates in California’s “jungle primary,” where everyone’s on one ballot and the top two candidates move on to the general election. The Republicans have two major candidates. The Democrats have several. So there’s been talk that the state might accidentally elect its first Republican since 2006. Swalwell dropping out is just what they need.

So we’re in a position where establishment Dems (Pelosi, Swalwell’s own campaign team) are dropping their support, but the BlueMAGA crowd is coming to his defense.

Heydrich was in charge of Interpol for a while, so there’s precedent

Jackson Hinkle, Branko Milanovic (apparently)

Jason Hickel, Branko Marcetic (maybe)

This works great for jazz.

They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!

@BobDole@hexbear.net He’s stealing your line! That’s Bob Dole’s line! I know it, you know it, and the American people know it!

Later he claims that Habermas “had himself been a member of the Hitler Youth and studied for four years under the ‘Nazi philosopher’ (his description of Heidegger).”

Gee, I wonder why he’d “claim” that.

https://xcancel.com/J_Habermas/status/62408076568965121?lang=en

I don’t know about the actual numbers but there was talk several years ago that baseball was becoming a “regional sport” whereas the NFL and NBA were “national sports” where people watched more games than just their home team on their regional sports network. The reduction in game times and other rule changes seem to have reversed the trend in certain ways. The NBA still makes almost double the revenue of baseball on a per-game basis.

Everything is genocide except actual genocide, which is fine

Tech_Owl flies fast and beaks things

You may know this story (it was in the Long Strange Trip documentary), but that night the sound guy, Dennis Leonard, had to leave the truck to fix a microphone and ended up standing in the audience for this song, completely mesmerized. When they were mixing the Europe '72 album Jerry kept teasing him for abandoning his post.