James Bennett

@ubernostrum

The man with the plan and the pocket comb. Joe Biden was a good President who did good things, and Kamala Harris would’ve been even better. Here: politics, baseball, Tolkien memes. Sometimes in that order. @b-list.org for the tech side of me. he/him

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James Bennett@ubernostrum· 18d

Did somebody say Tom Boobadil?

Old Tom Boobadil is a merry fellow. Bright blue his bralette is, and his boots are yellow.

James Bennett@ubernostrum· 19d

Like an English king depicted in an illuminated chronicle.

Close-up of terribly drawn face in the movie poster for the 1951 Alastair Sim “Scrooge”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· 21d

Bernie, Mamdani, and Platner all are/were at least as bad on gun control and often worse, but for Hogg it’s only a problem when it’s a woman.

David Hogg on Twitter, November 16, 2024, in reaction to a post announcing Mary Peltola’s electoral loss and the flip of her seat to a Republican:

“Turns out being weak on gun control doesn't save you. Peltola was awful on gun control. Good riddance.”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· 29d

Zohran Mamdani would say hi right back at you but he’s too busy having the time of his life with his good buddy Trump.

Mamdani and Trump shaking hands, smiling and laughing together during Mamdani’s White House visit

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jul 13

Convicted Trump of 34 felonies. Indicted him on a bunch more. Convicted a bunch of his J6 insurrectionists. And on and on and on. And the response from all the social media poasters who allegedly hate Republicans was to stand aside and let Trump win in 2024 "to teach the Democrats a lesson".

Quoted post asking

"What was the last thing Democrats did for the people who fervently hate Republicans?

This is not a rhetorical question."

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jul 11

Ah, That Guy™️

Tweet from Nathan J. Robinson during the 2024 election cycle:

“I have this wild notion that Trump might conceivably run to Biden's left on Israel-Palestine in the general election, like he did with Hillary and Iraq. He's been noticeably quiet on the issue since Oct. 7.”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jul 11

Second verse, same as the first.

Emerson College poll from 2020 Democratic primary, asking supporters of particular candidates: "Will you support the Democratic nominee even if it is not your candidate?"

Warren supporters: 90% yes
Biden supporters: 87% yes
Buttigieg supporters: 86% yes
Bloomberg supporters: 78% yes
Sanders supporters: 53% yes
Yang supporters: 50% yes

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jul 1

If a bunch of obvious follow-back bots with cookiecutter profiles that all update in unison as they take the same side on an issue were swarming the site, I would pause to consider whether that's actually the correct side to be on.

Post by a user, saying "Zionism is the enemy, dummy. That's why we're romping in these primary challenges."

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 30

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 30

pbfcomics.com/comics/the-t...

Comic by Perry Bible Fellowship.

First panel: in the background a girl plays with dolls, while in the foreground her parents say “It’s about time we had a talk with her about the birds & the bees.”

Second panel: zooms out and shows their house is in a desolate wasteland. The parent says “Honey, birds and bees were small creatures that used to fly in the air before we owned the libs.”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 24

The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown

Text of quoted post:

“USAID absolutely did loads of good stuff but it is also true that the US government was not doing those things altruistically. I don't think it's contradictory to say that and it's incredibly disingenuous (of the OP) to present leftist critique of USAID in general as celebrating those deaths”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 24

Between the snub mentioned below, and posts like the screenshot here going around, I think Lander is about to discover that the people standing behind him and smiling were just getting a good position from which to stab him in the back.

Lander is not a perfect candidate for a strong antizionist position but he absolutely clears nearly any other elected Democrat on defunding Israel.
He actually did it as comptroller.

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 22

Oh, dear. Perhaps you could help me find the places where you were demonstrating your principles?

No search results from this user for “congo”

No search results from this user for “artsakh”

No search results from this user for “afghan”

No search results from this user for “sudan”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 19

Panel 1, a man on the ground and a woman kneeling by him, saying (French) « Y a t’il un docteur ici ? » (“Is there a doctor here?”)

Panel 2, another man says « Je suis docteur. Que se passe t’il? » (“What’s going on?”)

Panel 3, the woman says « Une attaque cardiaque! » (“A heart attack!”)

Panel 4, the second man says « je suis docteur en philosophie! » (“I am a Doctor of philosophy!”)

Panel 5, the woman says « Il va mourir… » (“He is going to die…”)

Panel 6, the second man says « Nous allons tous mourir » (“We all are going to die”)

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 19

Their meltdown has apparently also entered the “put people on blocklists with cutesy names” phase. Don’t people have anything better to do with their evenings than cause trouble?

The person mentioned in the parent post added me to a blocklist called “Weird Fandom Humans”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 12

But does he lose himself in the dance?

Mariachi Waluigi poses mid-step in front of a festive display.

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 12

Counterpoint: Mariachi Waluigi

Waluigi in his mariachi outfit from Mario Kart World

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 10

Giants were down 9-1 at one point in this game, came back and scored ten in the last two innings, including a walk-off grand slam. Glad I kept this game on.

Line score of Nationals at Giants, June 10, 2026. Giants win 11-10.

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 10

Reminds me of the all-time classic.

"Star Wars Holocron" tweets:

"Did you know? The Sith Eternal fleet seen in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was created by Sith cultists on Exegol, who indoctrinated Exegol's population with Sith values and raised and trained their children to become officers, mechanics and soldiers for the Final Order"

Elijah Wood replies:

"no. how could we have known?"

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Jun 10

Responsibility for our current situation rests, as always, with

Package on a shelf, labeled “CULT CRACKERS”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· May 30

So the problem you have with Trump and MAGA is just that they're not hurting the people you think deserve to be hurt. And so if you can get a guy on the "left" who'll be just as cruel and awful, it's a "great deal"? Here's my counteroffer: Fuck that shit and fuck everyone who supports it.

Text of the quoted post:

"well, from the republican pov, the good that came of it was that hillary clinton didnt win, they got to control the supreme court, they got to overturn roe v wade and the voting rights act, they got to destroy the welfare state. if platner winning gets 1/100th of that for dems, it's a great deal"

James Bennett@ubernostrum· May 29

From her first speech to her last. www.npr.org/2024/07/23/g... www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"Because we are a people-powered campaign," she said. "That is how you know we will be a people-first presidency."
Broadly ticking through her policy platform, Harris argued her campaign offers a vision of the future of the country, stressing the need for affordable health care, child care and paid family leave. She also raised issues she's repeatedly championed throughout Biden's presidency, including curbing gun violence and safeguarding reproductive access.

Harris devoted a good chunk of her speech to talking about policies she'd enact if she were to win the White House, including helping first-time homeowners with down payments and aiding the so-called "sandwich generation" of adults who are caring for young children and older parents by allowing elder care to be funded by Medicare. She said she'd work to pass a bipartisan border security bill that tanked last year after Trump encouraged congressional Republicans to let it die.
And she said she would work to bring back abortion protections. "I will fight to restore what Donald Trump and his hand-selected Supreme Court justice took away from the women of America," Harris said. The Supreme Court, with three Trump-appointed justices, overturned federal protections of abortion in 2022. Abortion has since become one of the most motivating issues for the Democratic base in the 2024 election.

James Bennett@ubernostrum· May 4

The Graham Platner Story™

Baseball cap with embroidered text:

THE FISH AND WOMEN HAVE ENTERED AN UNEASY ALLIANCE AGAINST ME

James Bennett@ubernostrum· May 2

Wikipedia editors have called it, apparently.

First paragraph of Wikipedia article:

“Spirit Airlines, Inc. was an American ultra low-cost airline headquartered in Dania Beach, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area.”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· May 2

Spirit Airlines flight 1833 from Detroit landed at Dallas/Fort-Worth about ten minutes ago, and it’s looking like that was the last one. Spirit now has zero flights airborne or scheduled.

FlightAware info page for Spirit 1833, landed at DFW 12:20AM local time.

FlightAware search for Spirit Airlines flights. “No matching flights found”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Apr 30

The seventh Commisioner of Baseball was the only one who truly understood what it’s like to be a fan.

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.”

— Opening paragraph of “The Green Fields of the Mind”, by A. Bartlett Giamatti

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Apr 29

The person who posted this is a bot, but it's worth being clear: Republicans got all this power because they never said "well, my personal fave didn't win the primary this time, so I'll sit out or protest-vote and let Democrats win in order to teach the RNC a lesson".

How did the democracy hating white supremacists gain so much power?

The DNC kept blaming leftists over and over which kept moving the Overton Window more and more right over time.

When Dems lose, they blame the members who care the most about democracy to justify consolidating more power to win

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Apr 24

“A moratorium is appropriate given the impacts of massive data centers in other states on the environment and on electricity rates. But the final version of this bill fails to allow for a specific project in the Town of Jay that enjoys strong local support from its host community and region,” Governor Mills wrote to the Legislature. “The 2023 closure of the Androscoggin Mill dealt a devastating blow to the Town of Jay and its surrounding area. As a long-time resident of Franklin County, I know well how critical the mill was to generations of working families, and how important it is – and how challenging it has been – to promote reinvestment and job-creation at the former mill which is a brownfield site. After prior redevelopment efforts failed, the Town of Jay worked for two years on a $550 million data center redevelopment project to finally bring jobs and investment back to the mill site.”

“This project – which is now under contract and which has received several permits – is expected to create more than 800 construction jobs, at least 100 high-paying permanent jobs, and would contribute substantial property tax revenue to the Town of Jay. The project developers are committed to revitalizing the mill site by utilizing its existing industrial buildings, water, and electrical infrastructure to avoid the adverse impacts cited in the bill, including impacts to ratepayers,” continued the Governor.

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Apr 22

Arab states pump 3x as much money into our politics as Israel does. Which may have some relation to your particular beliefs and hatreds.

Meme of Garfield saying “you are not immune to propaganda”

James Bennett@ubernostrum· Apr 22