Merkin Muffley

@BooRadleys_Cat @hexprax What Spanish case are you talking about? This one? cnn.com/2026/03/26/eur…

@hexprax No theoretically people dying in pain should get a death with dignity. In reality, MAID in Canada has proven to be a disgusting disaster. There’s also that Spanish rape victim who asked for more time to think about assisted suicide and they said NO

So close, but you've actually got "in theory" and "in practice" mixed up.

@IronHorsey2000 @micyoung75 What's the other evidence?

@micyoung75 Yet again, the “beach photo” claim as the sole evidence. Does it ever hurt to pathologically lie over and over then look like a big dummy? All that lying for Comey.

Patel's framing is worth reading precisely. He opened with the Minneapolis daycare fraud sweep - twenty search warrants, real investigation, real money stolen from real programs. Then the TPUSA journalist assault indictments. Then, in the same paragraph, Comey's indictment for a beach photo, described as "follow[ing] the facts and the law." This is the second Comey indictment. September 2025 was false statements and obstruction - summons. May 2026 is threats against the president via seashell photograph - arrest warrant. The legal escalation is real even if the underlying case is weak. The FBI director chose Breitbart as his publication platform for announcing the indictment of his predecessor. That choice tells you something about the intended audience for this enforcement action. The message is not primarily to the court. It is to the people who will vote in November and to the people who might otherwise criticize this administration and will now calculate whether a beach photo is worth the risk. Patel called it having his day in court. That framing assumes the prosecution is legitimate. Turley and the First Amendment record say otherwise.

@JonyTony93245 @EndoranVanguard @PBanpoys @G__R__A__G @ZeroSuitCamus Well I'm no longer religious myself but I feel like I should stick up for Methodists here and point out that they don't believe in the rapture. I think the ambivalence is that there's not a lot about it in the Bible and Evangelicals tend to place very little stock in Tradition.

@EndoranVanguard @PBanpoys @MerkinMuffley5 @G__R__A__G @ZeroSuitCamus Yeah I guess. There is a lot of wrong with American evangelicalism, where they basically follow made up concepts like rapture, glorification of Israel and basically turn Christianity, a vitalist religion based on rejection of death as the foremost enemy of man, into a death cult.

Sorry, it’s set during Christ’s what?

@JonyTony93245 @G__R__A__G @ZeroSuitCamus Substitutionary atonement. AFAIK every major denomination believes some version of "Jesus died for our sins", but there's plenty of disagreement over the specifics of the procedure.

@MerkinMuffley5 @G__R__A__G @ZeroSuitCamus What the hell even is the point of his sacrifice then?

@JustinAulden @shipwreckedcrew This is a straw man. "Voter fraud is very rare" has been the line for decades. Here's a nearly 20 year old report from the Brennan center explaining this: brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…

@shipwreckedcrew It never happens. Ok, it rarely happens. <— you are here Well, it happens a lot but it doesn’t affect the outcome. Yeah, so it affected the outcome in this one race no one cares about. It happens all the time, but both sides do it. You’re racist!

That are known. Again -- it's that pesky thing that "never happens."

@JonyTony93245 @G__R__A__G @ZeroSuitCamus Evangelical denominations tend to really downplay it though. The Methodist version of the Apostles creed just skips the line about descending into hell entirely, or replaces it with "descended to the dead".

@G__R__A__G @ZeroSuitCamus It’s part of all Christian doctrine. The doctrine states that men went to hell before the resurrection. By defeating death itself and shattering the gates of hell, Jesus has fulfilled the covenant and gave men a chance at eternal life. That’s like the fundamental belief of Church

@JayTownAlabama Listen to yourself man. The idea that any synonym for "removing" said about a president could qualify as a true threat is just utterly incompatible with free speech. You'd have to arrest people for bumper stickers.

Oh, that's right. It's just a restaurant term. Means "remove" or "get rid of". Everyone in media and online suddenly bragging about their experience in the food service industry are actually doing a great job making DOJ's case! "86 the pickles" means "get rid of the pickles". Comey's post actually meant "get rid of Trump". Is it totally unreasonable to think "get rid of" is a threat? Is there really an honest disagreement here? Remember, multiple interpretations can all be reasonable!! 17/

🚨COMEY🚨 Lots of Google Law School alumnae citing the Counterman case claiming the case against Comey will be dismissed. IT WON'T! The same alums say his post could only be taken as a joke and acquittal is 100% inevitable. IT ISN'T! Here's why: 🧵1/

@CurtisWheat4 @shipwreckedcrew This is true, but the SAVE act only matters for federal elections, and the president has pushed it by claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

@shipwreckedcrew They always want to make the fraud as if the presidency is the only election at risk. I think elections all the way down to city council are suspect and ripe for fraud.

It needs to change election results? Fraud up to that point is fine?

@shipwreckedcrew It's great you're one of the handful of Republicans willing to admit there's no evidence of large scale fraud, but if your goal is just protecting the sanctity of the vote, then the risk of disenfranchising legitimate voters has to be part of your calculus.

@Michael_Urban @TheRealJBx @MBainRex Frozen processed nuggets are usually more expensive than rotisserie chicken. Why would push people towards a less healthy and more expensive food? Just to make them suffer?

@MerkinMuffley5 @TheRealJBx @MBainRex If you can afford it, it can be. Otherwise, beans have protein if you are poor. Maybe allow them to be frozen processed nuggets or something?

Rotisserie Chickens will soon be able to be purchased with SNAP funds. Thoughts?

@Michael_Urban @TheRealJBx @MBainRex Isn't chicken a staple?

@TheRealJBx @MBainRex If that is the case it certainly will make it even worse. As far as I am concerned snap benefit people should get staples that's it. You want steak and lobster, sugar drinks a d sll thst. Get a job and pay yourself. Taxpayers should not be paying for it.

@theashleyray @Indigo873 Terry Gross? The lady from NPR?

@Indigo873 1979 he asked lief garrett to teach him how to masturbate and masturbated on the phone with an underage terry gross in the UK.

j. randy is interesting. he believes MJ was innocent but also was the first person to report that security had to stop MJ from paying little boys to go to his room when the jackson 5 toured the philippines in the 70s but i guess he thought MJ just wanted to play games with them

I think this account and its terrible, terrible paintings of prominent GC figures may be one of my new favourite things on this hellsite.

Gettier problem - antisemite says “I refuse to listen to The Argument podcast hosted by Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias because clearly one of the hosts is a Jewish man”

Abraham Zapruder’s Live Reaction Video

@Halver08 @QuickestTempa I'd say the odds of a kick streamer being a good father are pretty slim.

@QuickestTempa Friendly reminder that someone can openly use the N-word, be a bigtoted racist . . . whilst also being a loyal friend, husband, father, etc. The NET POSITIVE OVERALL result is all that matters, and people can ABSOLUTELY qualify for the GOOD PERSON status despite being racist. 🤗

When this dude dies they’re going to tell us that he was actually a very good person and we should feel very sad that a human life was lost

@iacondios @ChristinaPushaw @billybinion Christina Pushaw was criticizing her for not having savings.

@MerkinMuffley5 @ChristinaPushaw @billybinion Also the person talked about in the article literally said they had savings (that they didn't want to spend from) so not sure what you are trying to say there...

I didn’t like USAID. But watching people gleefully mock a woman for having to start over at ~60 is bleak. You can disagree with someone’s politics without losing basic empathy. The internet has broken a lot of brains.

@ASFleischman Yeah, but I don't think that's what's going on here.

Basically this. Neurodivergence was a way to claim marginalized status if you were a straight white person who would otherwise be at the bottom of the intersectional racial hierarchy.

@LeighWolf @Haleaziz @NickNehamas Is this a common problem?

@Haleaziz @NickNehamas Why would be grant citizenship to a foreigner who lights our flag on fire?

Scoop: immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media and desecrating the American flag, according to internal documents. w/ @NickNehamas

@iacondios @ChristinaPushaw @billybinion

@MerkinMuffley5 @ChristinaPushaw @billybinion What point are you trying to make with this screenshot? I see: a) has expensive mortgage assuming the grift continued indefinitely (sell the house and downsize) b) has savings