I keep saying this, but if there is a sharp rise in skepticism or negativity towards the military among liberals because of these occupations, it will be treated as a problem that Democratic leaders need to answer and apologize for, not a crisis that the military or US government needs to address.
They like Trump and are trying to help him
Wait wtf i never knew this about Emily Oster lol
Kinda wish the Trump number was worse lol
Hanania and Richard Spencer being to the left of the median Republican member of Congress is actually quite funny.
CDC probably has some job openings
Actually a good sign of some self reflection
They're positioning him behind more objects than a pregnant sitcom actress
If you're a dem pol and you are openly agreeing with sean trende on anything, you need to a) resign immediately b) publicly list your entire staff so they can be blackballed from any future employment in dem politics c) commit seppuku
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
I would take center right reformers more seriously if they didn't foist some of the malicious people on earth as great examples of their program
Why is whats her face so popular
Oh ya, I'm sure this'll help the situation
I think people even here underestimate how much more people are posting on Twitter lol. MOST annoying liberals and leftists are still on Twitter just because of its size. The biggest difference is that for someone like MattY, the negative replies outweigh the positive here because of selection bias
Basically a "Trump bad because post bad"
The unifying characteristics of Bluesky are mostly "Trump bad" and "I want less overt bigotry on my timeline, even if it means a less lively posting environment"
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
I think she's smart but contrarian brain makes you say stupid shit. And being super smart even makes this phenomona worse
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
And everyone in charge of our healthcare system now said covid was over in early 2021.... months before delta ravaged the country.
Any organization that showed caution in the face of uncertainty is going to get knocked in hindsight, even though the caution was absolutely warranted. Want to know why things were still not back to normal into 2022? Because the peak of COVID deaths and hospitalizations was *in* 2022.
Coming back to this, Trump was pushing RFK antivax stuff all the way back to the 2015 primary. And he barely got any fight back from bums like Rand Paul and Carson despite them being physicians. Does Schatz know that? Is he equipped with battling anyone in a debate? No.
I hold these people with so, so much contempt.
Wait are you serious lol
“Digital content creators" Every subscription is now going to be a tip. Golden age for grifters.
Sean's the type of guy who thinks he and his friends had NO part in Trumpism and its exclusively the fault of Democrats and liberals being too mean to Romney, too mean to Bork, or some other fake reason so they can escape any responsibility.
Bhattacharya literally campaigned FOR RFK Jr lol
Or that Bhattacharya and Makary were wrong about basically everything during the pandemic and are out saying they personally know people that DIED from the vaccine. RFK is the figurehead, but the other guys are actually more damaging to our healthcare system.
Most elected Democrats are just bad at the game of politics. And, to be honest, for most the job is above their pay grade. It's why they always pretend like Trump or RFK Jr are the problem, its easy. It's why they get owned by dipshit partisans like an RCP hack and the hobbyist.
They were disproportionately killing their own supporters with covid and it didnt matter lol
Gotta get policy ideas for conservative thought leaders
This type of content isn't for everyone, but it absolutely pays off and is excellent (especially if you are a certified Rogan hater lol)
Bhattacharya isn't contrarian he's just a bad guy. She's a contrarian idiot lol
Taylor Lorenz doing an interview with Greenwald about the Chorus thing is just too funny. Really hope nobody on the left ever asks why liberal donors don't fund alternative media after all this.
Whats the reason why its gone up so much for black men and women
Lee Atwater was born 40 years too early. Would have had a field day in today's environment
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
Ya Mace feels genuinely unwell. Stefanik is more standard hollow cynical Republican
Mace and Stefanik were once treated like moderate saviors for the GOP when they and others thought Trump was gonna be bad for Republicans electorally and when that proved to be not true, they turned into 2 of the biggest sociopaths in the country.
Deranged society
Ya there was a fair amount of coverage especially cause of the special counsel report www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/u...
Swing states aren't magical they change every election and this dynamic happened in both 2016 and 2020 too
You didn't present any evidence lol
Elections don't happen in a vacuum state by state. There are uniform swings nationally. Dems did worse in non swing blue states cause they didn't spend money there to change the narratives.
The polling right now is way, way better for Dems compared to 2024
The swing state polling pointed to a tossup. There was a lot of copium from liberals on here but the polling was pointing to a Trump win if the error slanted towards Trump as it always does.
Wait the statement is actually posted somewhere for real?
Apparently this quote is fake lol, video is still hilarious tho
And this is entirely on the rat pack of Prasad, Makary, and Bhattacharya. If they TRULY believed vaccines were killing people, they wouldn't let RFK Jr be the figurehead for their movement.
Let's for the sake of argument say that the new vaccine policy is defensible. There is absolutely no way they were going to sell it to the public behind RFK Jr and the other lies because they have no credibility. Makary was out here saying he PERSONALLY knows someone who died from the vaccine.
The damage Bhattacharya, Prasad, Makary, and RFK Jr. are doing to public trust is insane.
Is Gruden really wearing a hat that just says Trump...?
If Karl Malone wasn't in the nba hall of fame...
Can't wait for Yotei
Lol, that one's amazing cause you only have to watch a handful of episodes to understand that's NOT what the show is about
Do people just not watch these movies to their end lol
Wow I love voter suppression now
Pretty much all right-wing growth with young men comes down to this, and most articles about Democrats doing poorly with male voters completely bypass that.
So I agree that the environment is a huge driver for her ditching the Senate, I just disagree that she believes she's got no chance. I think she just doesn't have the stomach anymore to actually fight a semi competitive race
Okay, but she's not most people. She will 100% make more than her current salary at her next job and it won't be close. Senators are underpaid IMO but that's a separate and unpopular conversation.
I even grinded out the first game! That game wasn't great, but at least it was decently paced and short. The second one feels SOOO slow, although its overall better cause of the quality of life improvements and other stuff.
That's not very much for someone like her lol
She had a really bad debate back in 2020 where ppl were making fun of her for not knowing basic farm stuff and thinking it was gonna move ppl. She ended up winning by 6 points and massively overperforming the polling. Politicians don't retire because of a bad town hall answer.
The polling was actually bad for her in 2020, and she ended up winning fairly comfortably. I don't think she's given hope she can win. I just think the fun of being a Senator is outweighed by the bad for her (which includes having to keep fighting for a senate seat instead of coasting)
Eh shes not retiring cause of one bad townhall. Republicans say shit like that daily lol
Depends on whether a person cares about power/"being in the room where it happens" more than other stuff. I think she'd have stuck around if Romney was president tho
Pay sucks though and you get booed by people in public. And having to campaign every 6 years seems unpleasant compared to making 7 or 8 figures annually without anyone caring about you
The alternative is that being a Senator sort of sucks even if you are a hack, and she can probably go sit on a the board of some shitty crypto company and get paid more for doing less.
I can't imagine she runs? She'll be 78 in 2026 lol.... ridiculous even by Democratic standards
As long as its not Golden lol
Not sure I follow? The enhanced subsidies go towards people buying plans on the individual market exchanges. The people who get Medicaid usually have very little or no premiums/cost share.
I don't think they'll get that much more expensive especially Medicaid? It's going to the the individual plans purchased through the exchanges.
Does Suikoden II pick up at some point? Game feels *sooooo* slow
How likely is this guy to be the nominee?
This kinda feels fake - like I could imagine Modi humoring him on this?
Same thing the President said over a decade ago
He looks olddddd old there lol
He actually was at a golf course today tho right?
Lol forgot all about how the media tried to make it a mini scandal that a 82 year old man had prostate cancer
When was his last actual public appearance
Don't care how elitist it sounds, I'm glad I don't live in a 3rd world state. Shit is EMBARRASSING
Don't remind me lol
Trump broke my phone
Lorenz schtick was so bad for so long, and I'm glad more and more people are coming to this realization.
People like McArdle are less influential than Carlson etc etc, but I have more contempt for them.
Too busy investigating Hunter Biden. But at least the American people saw the value of an independent DOJ and rewarded Democrats 💪💪💪
Everyone with a working brain knows this investigation is politically motivated. Everyone. So the only reason to write this article is to sway people into "well maybe there is something else there" and muddy the waters just enough that normies dont get outraged. And this works!
The right is so good at propaganda in all angles. They know how to specifically taefer right-wing loons, normie conservatives (to the extent they exist), BUT most importantly, centrist/lib squishes. This one is perfect for the last group.
How big was the AV event? That's actually really close to me and doesn't feel like anti-trump territory 🤣
What made you finally break
What is going on lol
But I mean i don't think anyone really thinks hes dead lol
Speculating on twitter too
Just a couple buddies on vacation
The people in these jobs are actually committed to the mission of helping save lives and don't want the limelight. Things have to be really shitty for them to want to finally bail on the CDC.
America’s elites seeing college students get a little uppity with an authority figure at a scheduled guest lecture and deciding it was time civilization fell
