As odious and obnoxious as Cruz is, let’s face it: he’s running for state-wide office in Texas. I don’t want him to, but he’s pretty likely to win.

LaCivita is probably looking at some internal polling for DJT that looks pretty terrible. He’s probably figuring that if he bails out now, he can avoid having a loss on his resume, and also gain a win.

In Texas, it’s easier to vote by mail if you’re in fucking space than if you’re in a black ZIP code.

“bOtH sIdEs!” - The leader of a religion that has a well-documented, 1000-year history of sexual abuse, torture, turning a blind eye to genocide, and actually committing genocide.

“Please vote for Trump so Haitian immigrants don’t eat us,” (Ted) Cruz wrote on X, as a caption on a photo of cats.

Trump and Vance are irredeemably terrible, but Ted Cruz is the lowest, most pathetic sack of donkey shit on planet Earth.

It’s so sad that this could easily be a real tweet. Only the consistency of the punctuation errors tips me off that it isn’t.

The only thing he knows about crime is how to commit it.

Goddamn, I hope she uses that line in the debate.

You spent your life peddling party drugs to kids and surfing, and now you want to play with the big boys. Bad news: everything you say is absolutely insane. Your own wife wants to leave you over this.

He really is IRL Connor Roy.

Maureen Dowd of the failing New York Times, wrote incorrectly that I was making the calls. WRONG!!! I don’t have to make calls to go on TV, or anything else — They call me!

Got it. So he absolutely, 100% without a doubt called them first.

A bear in Central Park

The question is can you get in and out before the dump?

Is your last name Trump? If not, you most certainly can’t get out before the dump. I guarantee it.

I’m guessing Secretary of State. He obviously has a ton of future potential, and any lower position undermines that. What’s your guess?

“These ratings are fake ratings. The best people are telling me this. And I know it’s true because I’m very intelligent—my uncle, MIT guy, very smart, good genes. This is the Marxist, fascist media trying to take Trump down, just like they did to the late, great Hannibal Lector.

Just yesterday, a TV executive—big, tough guy, never cried before in his life—came up to me and said, with tears running down his face, he said, ‘sir, I’ve never seen ratings as fake as these.’”

— Donald Trump, probably

Welcome… to the real world.

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I agree. And I guarantee that the Republicans will pull some false equivalency bullshit in response: “oh, so January 6 was sooo bad, but it’s fine when the Dems do it?”

Forget the Swifties. Don’t mess with Taylor herself. Donald has stepped in it, and now Taylor is all but required to correct the record.

Son of a bitch. I just bought a TP-Link Omada wireless access point. I wonder if they’re in the same category. The article doesn’t go into that level of detail.

This time he suggested both that Time had unsuccessfully tried to photograph Harris, and that the magazine had no pictures to use of her. “Time magazine doesn’t have a picture of her,” he said. “They have this unbelievable artist drawing her. And I said, ‘Is that Sophia Loren? Who might that be? Is that Elizabeth Taylor? Oh, they must be celebrating the great life and times of the magnificently beautiful Sophia Loren.’“

My god, his cultural touchpoints are so fucking OLD.

Which, to be fair, crashed. Most of the callers had to be shifted over to YouTube Live. Source: my wife was on the call.

I run Opnsense on a Proxmox VM (I followed this guide). I’m quite pleased with it. Opnsense is probably going to be more secure than any consumer router firmware, but you’re going to have to make a bigger upfront investment in hardware. I had never used Opnsense prior to using this system, and the fact that I’m running it on Proxmox is a huge benefit. If I’m ever about to do anything I’m unsure of, I can snapshot the VM in Proxmox. If my router config breaks as a result of my tinkering, I can easily restore from the snapshot.

Ugh, that “joke” is terrible. I hope it went over like a fart in church.