New study finds link between pre-teen use of social media and depression

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."

Kurt Vonnegut

"And don't try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet. Get yourself a Harley and join the Hell's Angels instead."

Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again

- Resorts to Blackmail If Told It Will Be Removed

Sounds like the Cult Leader resorting to Coup-ing. Just sayin'.

Make America Godawful Again

I heard that's why he has a hard on for Harvard... one of his son's was rejected there.

I do have to say that I never thought the Anti-Christ would be a Bozo the Clown clone.

In my defense, sort of... I obviously overestimated his audience, particularly the supposedly moral and or religious and or patriotic ones.

I just thought those things were more important than 'owning a lib'. My bad.

- so it's best to tune some of these patients out:

My Killfile: lfthndthrds, BellRinger, fortfisher, ScottS, shrimptacodan

#5 on this thread is 1Nut... not yet plonked because, like Charlie Chan's #2 Son, he does provide a lame sort of unintended humor. But he's close.

"I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone," Trump told the West Point graduates.

"Alphonse Capone was a monster. He was a very hardened criminal. I went through more investigations than Alphonse Capone, and now I'm talking to you as president. Can you believe this?"

"The job of the U.S. Armed Forces is not to host drag shows to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun," he said."

"And he sold his company, and he had nothing to do. He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't " that doesn't work out too well, I must tell ya. A lot of trophy wives."

;;

It's like stupidity porn for Trumpers.

"The current Republican tax bill could cut $500 billion from Medicare " This bill just gets more and more cruel'

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the Republican budget bill under consideration would trigger about $500 billion in automatic cuts to Medicare, the program that provides health insurance to around 68 million older adults and people with disabilities."

Ya gotta love when the children stretch for some sort of relevance. Someday perhaps is will happen.

Perons

That was a lot of money back then... but the Nazis and the Peros were pikers compared to Trump.

#'s 5 & 6

Obviously both their mothers did a poor job. Prolly mostly in potty training.

Hilarious!

With Dear Orange Leader destroying everything from the economy to healthcare to the Western Alliance and Ukraine, Trump's Humpers want talk about Biden! What a great distraction, erm, I mean idea.

"A plaque to recognize the officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6 was supposed to be installed by March 2023. Why is it gathering dust in a closet?"

The least funny people in the world are those who imagine that they are.

Thanks for the reminder.

Tariff shock and awe... sorta like Iraq, but only financially and against much of the world and most of our (former) allies.

It's like when the Mob used to rob a bank and spray a lot of bullets around... just like that, actually.

Trumpers are too scared right now to even complain; like bank customers with their hands in the air.

Republicans are responsible for facilities and maintenance, well, until the Blue Wave next year, which has already started with GOP District Offices.

And they obviously don't want the Plaques put up, or they would already be up.

(damn, the stupid is thick in that one!)

But then, that's what happens when a cultist is forced to defend the obvious BS imaginable.

"Commenting on X, Aengus Lynch - who describes himself on LinkedIn as an AI safety researcher at Anthropic - wrote: "It's not just Claude.

"We see blackmail across all frontier models - regardless of what goals they're given," he added."

;;

S'trewth!

The DR hamster once threatened to Delete my account if I kept using up the supply of ellipsis.

"Russia to Ukraine: You want a Ceasefire and I Want You Dead'

The Kremlin's propagandists are in a joyous mood as they anticipate US disengagement from the Ukraine conflict."

By Julia Davis
May 21

Trump has all three branches of Gov under his thumb, and had he really wanted to make legitimate changes in a legal fashion, he could have done so.

But that's obviously not what he wants; he wants 'shock and awe' to see how much illegitimate and illegal things he can get away with before he's stopped.

Presidential Historians rated him dead last of all Presidents for a reason, and here it is.