Not to mention that bald triangulation on controversial issues based on poll-testing can be easily sniffed out by voters, and they despise it. We need a standard-bearer who is a natural communicator and who has a moral core that doesn’t change based on what the campaign’s data guy says
Yeah kind of shocking how bad Raddatz is here. I always thought she was better than this, but maybe that was just vibes
I generally don’t think people in powerful positions are lizard people, that’s crazy. But Gav’s the one dude i think might actually be a lizard person
What if H. H. Holmes had built his Murder Castle to become a TikTok star
I didn’t know it was him when I first played DAO but i was like “well this dude is clearly about to do something evil”
Popper the kobold in BG3 is such an incredible swing and it connects like magic. So delightful. I wish I could cite the actor but IMDB is unclear
Loomer’s racism (probably? Or could be the initiative of another racist in this administration… but i think it’s Loomer) results in totally vile targeting of some of the most desperate people on earth
I’m sorry, because the post doesn’t thank me for my attention to this matter, I’m too hopelessly distracted by other matters to read it
Do you think it’s incumbent on you to include in the headline or even the short description here that purporting to do that is totally beyond any election authority he has
Thanks rescinded
Oops you either changed the headline or i was wrong. Dammit
Incredible that he’s been doing the iconic, unhinged “even the haters and losers” holiday greetings this long
This made me cry? Thanks for this. Damning and spot on.
Polling and test group results just came back. Turns out we need to make sure that know that, no matter what, we stand with Liz Cheney. Start cutting those ads now! Incidentally, my consulting fee is 1.2 million dollars
Sincere thanks for using “tried to fire” instead of “fired” here. Often headlines on these things assume whatever Trump action is being discussed is permissible/ a fait accompli, but those very assumptions help bolster the perception that he can do anything he likes
Ok, how about we nominate AOC, then! If we can’t have a nominee that pleases everyone (I agree, it’s impossible), why not have one with some real vision for this country at least!
*Raises eyebrows and grits teeth* I voted for Kamala and I like that Newsom is redistricting to blunt GOP attempts to steal the midterms, but his previous actions as governor make him very unattractive to me as a 2028 presidential contender. We have a lot of other, better options
Good lord. Just terrible
No, I wrote more! Please keep reading!
And the thing is — i agree that Kamala would have been far, far, far better than Trump. Of course! But we don’t do ourselves favors by lying about (or glossing over the ugly details regarding) Gaza. Biden was AWFUL on this. Kamala didn’t take a real position. We have to learn from that as a party
I feel like elevation to the Supreme Court, where they have a lifetime appointment, no binding ethics requirements, status, and no real danger of removal as long as they are committed partisans may help remove some of the more moderating circumstances of being a lower court judge?
You know we gave them hella weapons during ALL of this right
Love how, to the democratic political consultant class, every incredibly horrible thing Trump does that begs for robust counterattack by the opposition is actually just a “distraction” from the increase in cost of hot dogs by 29 cents, which will resonate across the electorate
His “thank you for your attention to this matter”s are getting increasingly unhinged
Love that this little buddy is an Ms fan too!!
Yeah… The political consultants are ruining us. How many losses do we need to see that this is completely fruitless? Develop an authentic moral compass and then stick with it!! Super simple! Don’t develop the “I am a sentient inkblot test meant to piss off the least amount of people” disease
This guy talks how GOP operatives and reactionary opinion columnists pretend that all Democratic politicians talk
Love the famous bribe mayor trying to out-populist the DSA guy. A plus
Why doesn’t this apply to right wing politicians who (these days) never ever disavow even the furthest fringes of their base? Trump is out there repeating racist tripe about Haitian immigrants eating housecats, but Kamala should have shat on anyone who adds additional letters onto “LGBT”?
I’m sure certain centrist and right-wing media personalities having a years-long obsession with many of these terms and amplifying/lampooning every use of them from every college student on the internet has nothing to do with why sone of them might poll badly
Oooh nice. Thank you
I am enjoying the expanse (late to the party) but S4 is not doing it for me. It feels smaller-scale and kind of rote so far. Should I power through?
I’m seeing even “good” media outlets report the maxwell transcript headline as basically “trump cleared” and it is truly disheartening. We’ve learned nothing after all this time. What are we doing. What have we been doing all this time?
When people provide passionate and detailed reasons why they do not want Newsom as our standardbearer in 2028, you should maybe listen to them instead of calling them all “bots.” I’m glad Newsom is fighting tangibly right now. I want better options for 2028. Both things can be true.
I know that you can’t always assume people with awful ethics will present in off-putting or upsetting ways, but man this administration has some great cases of “awful person who is obviously, visibly awful”
It’s transparently being used as an intimidation and/or punishment mechanism right now. That so many media outlets are reporting it as “oops, looks like another Trump adversary may have done something wrong” is crazy to me
Feel like that might be a red line. Who knows anymore, they’ve crossed a million of these stupid Rubicons, but “we get to gerrymander but you don’t” feels like, OK, you’ve functionally destroyed our democracy and we don’t have to respect anything the court says anymore
The only appropriate response is the libgif
This is just that cartoon of the guy pissing himself and then going “heh heh… rent free”
I remember hearing somewhere that, based on polling, voters seem to want progressive policies but delivered in an angry, Republican-coded way. So this campaign seems off to a good start imo
Also, he has to mean something different than “unaccomplished” here, right? But it’s all so stupid that that isn’t even clear
I’m sorry, it’s been said before by many people in more eloquent terms, but god what a complete fucking idiot he is. How incredible that we fell for this brainless shit… all the more damning that we fell for it twice. It’s deeply upsetting how purely, blithely moronic all this bile is.
Wow, this is seriously great reporting. I’ve always known in my heart that a child can’t be sick and starving at the same time… but the cowardly mainstream media won’t report that. They’re too damn woke. Keep fighting the good fight; can’t wait to see what children you go after next!
Newsom has proved that he will set aside every liberal ideal you think he holds for the sake of power. You simply can’t trust him. I don’t object to him forcefully opposing Trump where he can, but the reason people qualify their support is that he’s a snake.
He’s so funny!! I love his comedy!! What a radiant wit
God the cutesy Dowd-isms helpfully bothsidesing as we slip further and further away from a free society are just too much for me
I voted Harris, but we can make this entire equation easier by having a nominee that actually has principles! We don’t have to settle for an ambitious husk in advance! And using the threat of withholding votes to advocate for better candidates 3 years before the general is not supporting fascism
They are loving Gavin’s fire 🔥!! TACO prez is getting scared 🌮 Please don’t bring up the homeless 🚫
His trans politics are just a google away. And how am I grifting? I’m not selling anything. I do not have a patreon. Bluesky doesn’t pay me to post
Never said totally pure! Just better than this dude please!
The homeless are people. Trans people are people. I’d like a nominee who can fight Trump and also know these things
We’re part of the coalition too, you know! I voted for Biden and Harris, despite serious disagreements with both. We can do much, much better than Newsom. Just sayin
Ok but let’s say we have more than one person running in 2028, can we make the person our nominee who is going to defeat Trump AND who doesn’t routinely throw vulnerable populations under the bus
I think it’s great that Newsom is fighting the TX redistricting move vigorously (along with Pritzker and even Hochul) but let’s please not forget the very crummy stuff he’s stood for in the last few years when we go shopping for a ‘28 candidate ok guys
Somebody hire this guy and that chill FBI bro who got fired to start some kind of justice squad
I’m a stereotypical Radiohead guy and so I’m very excited about newly mixed live cuts from the Hail To The Thief era that dropped today That said, Thom Yorke’s repeated “YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION” screams hit uncomfortably hard now as the country lurches further and further into the abyss
Honestly the fact that he can say this incomprehensible shit daily and no one calls him on it ever speaks to how thoroughly they’ve broken the political press in this country
Yes and by negotiating on their rights at all, you’ve ceded the main point: that the out-group is indefensible or unclean in some way. Otherwise you wouldn’t be giving an inch. Same thing happens with immigration — we legitimize the hateful GOP viewpoint by bargaining on their terms
I need a gif of the zoom in on zohran for “Jeffrey Epstein”
I mean, she might have. I voted for her hoping her word soup on the issue hid a secret commitment to put the screws to Bibi and his cabinet. But anyone pretending she actually put forth any clear statement that she was going to do so during the campaign is very very mistaken
If this photog gathered malnourished people together to take their picture (i think what you are alleging?), does that change *anything* about what Israel has inflicted on Gaza over the past months? Does that change the body count, the denial of all but token aid, and the explicit racism of Likud?
“I have a bias that blinds me to war crimes done by certain people and i don’t really care”
Good lord. Imagine at this late date trying to airbrush mass murder. Please log off and engage in some sort of personality-altering experimental therapy. Please log off, touch grass, and experience shame.
Woof x 1 million
This kind of mealy mouthed bullshit is anathema to voters and I very much hope our next standard-bearer is more clear and honest about their views on even topics their consultants have told them are controversial
Got it at an NYC Walgreens absolutely blasting REM over the sound system and it felt incredible
Like… I made the same calculation you did and voted Harris (and knew she would be better on a host of other issues). But I’m ashamed of what we as a party allowed in Gaza and the fact that that broke trust with some voters doesn’t surprise me in the least!
I don’t get the impulse of some (not you, the quoted tweet) to keep trying to shame elements of voting public for whom the Biden admin’s abysmal handling of Gaza was disqualifying and who sat the election out since Harris was clearly intentionally not taking a clear position on it
Seems to get higher and higher off of computometh as it travels east
I really liked the Mayorman at first, I thought he was refreshing and seemed on the level, and I’ve enjoyed his competence on certain media appearances in parrying GOP attack lines… but his furious tack to dominate the squishy centrist lane in the 2020 primaries marred him forever imo
I think the thing for me, which is very obvious but that no one told me directly and I only really realized after the fact, is that when you become a parent there is NOWHERE TO HIDE all other difficult experiences in my life could generally be hidden from
ah well nevertheless, journalist edition
Hard not to be consumed by bitterness about this and everyone whose apathy or willful ignorance got us here.
Asking for proof of employment at the entry checkpoint to the Delta lounge
Yeah the ants bring it into that territory for sure
Great CNBC chyron here, still uncritically serving up Trump’s latest boast to viewers with zero reflection on whether its role extends beyond megaphone
Please don’t be distracted from my distraction
My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
Hope ScarJo and Driver’s agents have worked out some kind of royalty structure for anti-wolf usage. It takes a lot of theatre training to be able to deter apex predators with your acting
The messed up thing is that he’d be a better HHS head than RFK by far
I wonder if Trump’s repeated, inexplicable laudatory mentions of Hannibal Lecter during rallies in 2024 helped win the doctor’s vote
Like… our government has showered weapons on them as they shelled refugee camps, schools and hospitals for months on months. CNN has tried “do you condemn Hamas???” on every mildly pro-Palestinian guest. Trying to force this awful spin isn’t some cool, anti-woke position. It’s just vile and sad
It’s funny, you guys are supposed to be iconoclasts! The cool rebels saying the uncomfortable truths that no one else will. But shilling for the Israeli govt and pretending it hasn’t carried out a mass murder campaign over the past year and a half is the least edgy act you could possibly engage in
Every single NGO with experience in the region says kids (and everyone in Gaza for that matter) are being intentionally starved by the vindictive Israeli government, but yeah, so sorry that a list of comorbidities wasn’t originally included in that picture of a severely malnourished child
Incredible that the GOP pretended to be upset that Hunter Biden was using the lure of access to his dad to get board memberships, a scheme that is incredibly convoluted and inefficient from a corruption standpoint as compared to Trump’s multi-stream, direct, obvious megagraft
Thank you, ogre of deceit
Wizard of Oz aa rendered in Unreal 4
Was she threatened, bullied or bribed is my question
It’s very, very clear to me that the executive as currently construed has way too much power and that (after using that power to rebuild as much of the lost capacity as we can, and make it better where we can) we need urgently to set concrete guardrails on it. We relied on norms for way too long
Looking forward to the point where Trump hits any kind of roadblock — any at all!! — to destroying all functions of government and replacing the people who used to competently run them with blabbering sycophants
Can’t wait for Grok’s complete history of the 20th century! Expecting a lot of sad face emojis when we get to May 8, 1945
Lot of these coming up recently. Seems like some vendor selling “freelance” news articles is just running the prompt through ChatGPT and pressing send. What a bleak state of affairs for journalism
I think I’ve heard this several times earnestly included, actually! Injects a small bit of tension into the proceedings I guess
Why do they both look like strange little dolls?
Love taking smug selfies outside the fuckin auschwitz gates
(Geralt voice) Hm. Yen’s right on this one
Acting this way toward a student exercising their free speech rights should get the prof’s tenure revoked imo