If you can’t be bothered to get access to your birth certificate (or other documentation proving citizenship) then voting isn’t that important to you in the first place and you shouldn’t be voting.

I’m not interested in dark web conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift. I just like her music. That’s it.

Two listen throughs and here’s how I order the new Taylor Swift songs: Patient Zero Babylon Cleveland (almost had this as second. It was close) Pink Clouding But loved all 4!

Unless they have children. Then they are unstable psychopaths who can’t be trusted to act rationally. Amirite?

Turning your thermostat up will warm up your house. Turning it down will help cool it.

In an alternate timeline, Trump takes a liking to Thomas Massie, lobbies for him to replace Mike Johnson, the Epstein criminals are in jail, Bibi is fending for himself, DOGE is codified, the Department of Education doesn’t exist, farmers are happy, and the GOP wins in 2026

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming. I can save them the 8.5 billion. They took out the playground. The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable. Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022. Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13. This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem. So let us talk about who used to eat there. Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home. You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence. That was the product. The food was the cover charge. The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's. Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future. The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen. Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future. Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes. So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag. And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot. For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef. I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide. And have you seen the new buildings. The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read. The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer. They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere. Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A. Not for the politics. For the competence. They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million. More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double. A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed. McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training. Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some. So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere. Put the playgrounds back. Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit. And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch. A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes. That is the window. That is the only window you get. You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway. That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning. Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training. Or a slide. 🦋

We’re cooked as a people

Boom! Now Ohio needs to enact it and every other state needs to, too.

What are we whining about today?

We need a two-thirds vote of the full committee to authorize this immunity resolution. Only one Democrat showed up. They chose not to come, not to debate, and not to vote. Every Republican is here. Democrats are once again obstructing the COVID investigation and protecting Anthony Fauci over the truth.

Indeed, and it’s what’s wrong with modern politics (as you pointed out previously) It’s how every political organization deflects blame and says “yeah, but your side is worse” instead of the actual issues being the things discussed. It’s childish and I expect “freedom” people to have consistent values. Of course, when the goal is to make money by being loud, being morally consistent isn’t important.

Let this sink in: Sen. McConnell is logging more hours on the job this week than every member of the House of Representatives because @SpeakerJohnson shut our chamber down to avoid votes on Justice for Epstein survivors & Hegseth Articles of Impeachment.

You don't have to vote for communists, fascists, pedophiles, socialists, or any other swamp creature "lesser of 2 evils." Stop letting the uniparty bully you into believing there is a difference in Ds and Rs. There are candidates that can represent us without being evil.

Voters are expected to show up for Republicans, but never the other way around.

Working across the isle to get a bipartisan bill passed is what good politicians do. That does not equal “standing with communists.” Grow up! Refusing to work with anyone you disagree with is everything wrong with our country right now, especially politically.

This is community note is pure gold! This Congress has been one of the least productive in US history and they want us to vote for them again?