Notices by Mats Holberg (holberg@mstdn.social), page 3

This Sentra’s air conditioner is not up to the task in 113 degrees with a constantly west-facing window. Apologies in advance to anyone who encounters my schvitzed self once this ride is over.

Lord almighty, just got in my car that’s been sitting out in the open at the hospital’s parking lot all day and—118 here—I can’t touch anything yet because it all feels like touching the stove.

The phrase ‘President Trump’—and, indeed, the entire MAGA culture—still seems so much like an IDIOCRACY gag.

A gag-me-with-a-spoon gag.

Listening to coverage of the trial and still slightly fascinated by the frenemy thing he has going on with almost everyone in his circle.

They fall out so frequently, but then—sleeze irresistibly drawn to sleeze—so frequently wind up on good terms again. To an extent it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if Michael Cohen had some sort of role in a second Trump term.

Good god, and now a former president of the United States—beloved of finger-wagging evangelical moralists—is relying on a former Hell’s Angel leader to discredit the testimony of his accomplice in illegally channeling hush money to a porn star with whom he cheated on his wife. Praise Jesus.

Dabney Coleman! So many references when you're Gen X.

RIP

Kind of wild how right-wing ‘Christians’ in this country never recognize themselves as the wicked and the hypocrites and the moaners in the parables.

Though perhaps it’s out of sight and out of mind—I can’t imagine the gospels are very fashionable in those circles these days.

You wouldn’t tolerate Trump’s attitudes or behaviors for a single moment if he were your 13-year-old kid, but—sure—he should lead the free world.

Shopping list I’m making just autocorrected ‘garam masala’ to something that sounds less edible.

All the 'keep Christ in Christmas' folks trying to impose their backward theocratic rule on all of us might be surprised to learn the Puritans they regard as the true founders of this country BANNED Christmas altogether.

Any observation of the holiday, whether taking the day off or preparing a feast, came with a five shilling fine.

Penalty for Keeping Christmas, 1659 https://www.mass.gov/doc/penalty-for-keeping-christmas/download?_ga=2.56222763.144109216.1656331652-841661078.1655899135

The power of ideology is most fascinating to me when it convinces women and minorities to support a political party that’s explicitly anti-women and anti-minority.

Like, not just bugs in an agenda they otherwise support—core FEATURES that are constantly advertised and prioritized.

Way weirder than it is to obsess about a teenage boy’s internet usage is a father bringing his son into his own pathetic inability to avoid jerking it to porn unless he has an accountability partner.

I’m truly convinced that NO ONE spends as much time thinking about sex—gay, straight, all of it—than evangelicals.

And what a shameful legacy. ‘The whole secret of politics is knowing who hates who.’

Washington Post:  The GOP’s ‘southern strategy’ mastermind just died. Here’s his legacy.

Gift link: https://wapo.st/48MLH9I

You will kinda take this personally when you’re 50 and older. Because you ARE falling apart and they SHOULD just put you in a plastic bag.

@maskedscheduler Hahaha

It's not really about protecting kids. They don't fight to protect them from guns. They don't fight to protect them from infectious diseases. They don't fight to protect them from pollution or hunger or climate change or homelessness.

'Protecting kids' is just the easiest way to attack everyone they want to attack.

@maskedscheduler He’s a unique evil. I did the same even though it meant giving up a lot of great decade-long relationships. But also have never for a moment thought there was any other possible reaction.

Hunter Biden has actually been a very useful case study for the difference in this country between the right and the left.

I’ve never heard anyone in my liberal circles suggest he shouldn’t be investigated and prosecuted if there’s evidence of wrongdoing. Joe Biden hasn’t blathered endlessly about political witch hunts, hasn’t insulted and attacked everyone involved in the process, and won’t make this a violence-inducing talking point at cultish campaign rallies. Because we’d think that’s nuts.

My brother, a cook who—like our mother—never sends a recipe without noting several modifications.

I—a lousy cook who rarely cooks—never really know how to interpret measurements like ‘more’ or ‘way more’ or ‘less.’