Centrist dems and the media are going to get a rude awakening. No matter how much they wish it wasn’t so, all the juice is with the Mamdani left right now. His message is the same as Platner and Talarico.
Centrist dems and the media are going to get a rude awakening. No matter how much they wish it wasn’t so, all the juice is with the Mamdani left right now. His message is the same as Platner and Talarico.
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
AOC-Platner 2028
Love that he’s lining up behind the Fight Oligarchy message. Sorry, Elissa Slotkin.
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
“Drinking water is too clean, it needs more poison” “You have a point…”
Great toxic avenger guerilla marketing campaign
Stephen Miller to ChatGPT: “can you edit this photo to remove the drool from the corner of his mouth?”
“Gaza Riviera” is such a uniquely horrifying phrase, contemplating it is like looking at a death mask for the world.
Like if Bernie Madoff was running the government. They can claim whatever they want, but eventually mathematics will catch up to them.
The death of the Pax Americana is set to Yakety Sax
Jesus. So the only thing stopping them is shame. Of which they have none.
Thoughts and prayers to the Ford Bronco
Eventually it’ll be time for a judge to rip that bandaid off
“Stop or I’ll say stop again” is proving to be about as effective a strategy for containing bigoted fascism as one would expect
Otherwise what’s the point of any of this? It’s all just theater unless lawyers or their clients suffer consequences for ignoring judges’ orders. It means the rule of law is just kayfabe.
Desperately wanting any judge to impose some sort of penalties on the DOJ lawyers arguing these cases. Contempt, jailing. Is that even possible? If not, what on earth is there that could compel them to follow judges’ orders?? Do they all need to be debarred?
“Crime’s down, so you’ve gotta admit Trump’s policies are working.” Yeah, I bet the crime rate is pretty low in Pyeongyang too.
Individual cities and states can mount all the marketing campaigns they want to try and get Canadians to start visiting the U.S. again, but none of it has the power of any news story about some innocent tourist being detained at the border. I won’t visit the U.S. again so long as ICE exists.
Someone tell recent college grads
A perfect illustration of the USA swirling the drain. What a goddamn mess.
Good. I’m not drinking manifest destiny swill.
The US is on the road to a 19th century society overseen by 21st century security and surveillance
MAGA isn’t that different from the Taliban. They’re both a bunch of extremists who want to rule over their populations and keep them living under conditions from a different century. MAGA is the 19th century gilded age *and* 19th century public health outcomes *and* 19th century race/gender roles
Cc: Starmer, Carney, and Macron and their May 2025 promise of “concrete actions” if Israel didn’t “lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid.” Sanctions now.
Absolutely. Trump somehow manages to keep together a misfit coalition. Vance has gaping black hole where one would normally find charisma. He’d become president and then probably wouldn’t even be able to win the nomination for 2028 because the only people who love him are Peter Thiel and maybe Usha.
It is useful for Americans to know what a kakistocracy looks and feels like in practice. Electing corrupt idiots needs to have consequences.
As someone who lives in rural NS, it’s a bit maddening to hear Albertans and Ontarians and people outside Canada complaining about a policy that A) they don’t understand, and B) doesn’t affect them. People have grumbled here, but our memories of the 2023 fires are fresh.
This would give institutions a reason to work together instead of capitulating individually and giving in to Trump’s threats. They’re telling universities and corporations etc to push back and oppose these illegal moves and call them out as such because it literally sets a precedent.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Trump loves Putin and Kim Jong Un and Netanyahu so much he wants the US to be just as isolated and despised as the countries they lead.
Add “and that’s why we had no choice but to murder tens of thousands of children and make just as many orphans” and it really clarifies any so-called defense of Israel’s actions.
Truly the last thing Nova Scotia needs is a new golf resort
Also, the horse is kinda already out of the barn on the whole “diplomatic embarrassment” angle. That happened the moment Trump won the election. His whole administration is a diplomatic embarrassment.
They’ll be filling in sewers with concrete next because someone on Joe Rogan will tell them that indoor plumbing is what causes autism and gorilla mindset = outhouses.
Making Kids Bald is Fun
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Historically yes, but given that every GOP Rep and Senator is now clearly a rubber stamp for MAGA “policies”, it’ll probably be more difficult than usual for whoever the GOP candidate is. I doubt that the successful candidate will run on a campaign to undo Trump’s worst decisions.
“Prime Minister Carney’s former art dealer”
Still waiting for those “concrete actions” that Carney, Macron, and Starmer promised back in May if Israel didn’t halt their offensives and resume humanitarian aid into Gaza. Still crickets.
They should be required to carry the same healthcare plan as the *poorest* of their constituents
Imagine if we had a Minister for Social Media who gushed about how great it is for keeping in touch with friends instead of working towards policies that answers questions about what social media is doing to democracy, media, and social cohesion. We’d wonder about his Zuckerbergian priorities.
They are to political journalism what Joe Rogan is to comedy.
Ostensibly “normal” Republicans’ faith that they control Trump and not vice versa is leading the country to ruin. Enabled by Democrats’ leadership believing the same.
I was in grade school when Pope John Paul II got shot and we all had to immediately go into the church to pray for him. Are you kidding me. God was not going to save the pope if we didn’t ask him to? What is this business model exactly
The big AI story this week is that ChatGPT helped a teenager kill himself. That’s the kind of thing I’d prefer Solomon to be grappling with instead of gushing about how using AI to brief himself.
I’m concerned that Solomon sees his role as being the ministerial advocate for AI. As a citizen, I’d prefer that he have a disinterested view of it and make sure that it’s appropriately regulated rather than being its chief federal cheerleader.
A moron president personally setting interest rates based upon whatever the mashed pudding in his skull tells him is what the country needs to see and experience. Americans need to feel the consequences of putting the biggest idiots imaginable in charge of all the levers of government.
Respectfully, what you’re seeing is the righteous rage of a working class fed up with a system that is strangling them. So when a billionaire talks about affordable healthcare, rest assured that it will get passions go.
“How do we make sure that the bloodsucking middlemen are still getting their cut but not so much that people aren’t being bankrupted? Hard to figure out.” Single. Payer. Healthcare.
They both have dark voids where one would expect to find personality and charisma. Deeply unlikable.
Jake Sullivan, Matthew Miller, they can all rot.
What a ghoul
Yeah, it implies that unless he has a Kim Jong Un level of power that he can’t be said to have consolidated power. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have or isn’t working towards having as much power and control as he can possibly consolidate.
I get the sentiment. But good and competent people staying in their positions to help mitigate the damage this administration seeks to wreak on the country feels like it won’t help. Americans need to see pure MAGA in action. The only way past this is through it, not around it.
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
Thoughts and prayers for FedEx and UPS stock prices
If elected democrats no longer want to be in office, it’s much easier and more dignified to simply resign rather than capitulate to a nascent fascist dictator and sell out your constituents to his roided up brownshirts and then face the wrath of the voters in the next election. Life is about choices
Unreal. Total capitulation to fascism.
This is the stance. I’m happy when anyone at all wants to turn on Trump and hit him. Just because Newsom is an opportunistic slug doesn’t mean his contribution to fighting against MAGA isn’t valuable. But it also doesn’t mean appreciation=endorsement.
“Thank god Scott Bessent is in the cabinet. He’ll be normal. He’s a serious guy” -Rubes and Dupes earlier this year
The fed stuff is a diversion from the troops in the streets, which is a diversion from Epstein, which is a diversion from the economy. Is that right?
Former Biden official “Out Yourself as a Monster While Still Believing You’re One of the Good Guys” challenge
Who’s looking for “commonsense, bipartisan policies”? And who’s looking for an actual fight against the fascist takeover of the world’s preeminent nuclear power?
“The fever will break”
You’re right. It’s also incredibly frustrating to see mainstream institutions and journalists and pundits finally catching up to what many normal humans have been saying since the beginning while being accused of antisemitism just for staying the obvious.
Bets on which Democrat will be first to call Miller’s comment a distraction
It does a lot more than “simply distracts”. It’s an early step in fascist takeover. Be more direct and unequivocal. And if you can’t call authoritarianism by its name, find a new line of work.
The dams are opening and it feels like there’s going to be an arms race amongst ambitious democrats to see who can be the most pugilistic against Trump. The same kind of thing that got Mark Carney elected PM of Canada is what’s going to get someone the Democratic nomination for 2028.
Democrats are learning
Tectonic plates in democratic messaging are finally shifting
Additional problem is that democrats also believe that “good republicans” are the ones using Trump
There’s two kinds if Republicans: 1) those who think that they’re in control and are the ones using Trump, and 2) those who know and embrace that Trump is in control and is the one who is actually using the Republicans from 1)
Using the word distraction is disqualifying. Primary any democrat who clings to it.
I truly can’t even begin to imagine how mortifying it must be for millions of Americans to have this half-witted fascist as the elected leader of the country. I don’t even know how the U.S. can fix the reputational damage. It’s going to take decades.
“Donald, you know that when Russia’s richest man became too arrogant I took his company and had him thrown in gulag, yes? Now all businessmen must pay me. Is something to think about.”
It’s truly Trump against democracies. But every time he lauds some foreign strongman he only further galvanizes the population from that country against the U.S. Americans should be aware of the fact that it will take literally decades to repair the reputational damage he’s doing to the U.S.
The Qatari plane isn’t the only thing Trump will take with him when/if he leaves the White House. Absolutely would not surprise me if he tried to take a corporation or two for himself. We should all look to Putin’s example and remember that he’s the Iago whispering in Trump’s ear.
GOP: “Zohran is a socialist!” Also GOP: “The MAGA regime will own the businesses”
Democrats and mainstream media are Homer Simpson insisting that their flying roasted pig is still good despite being airborne. The rest of us are Bart trying to tell them to give it up, it’s gone.
Democratic naïveté has been the story of the past decade. It’s sad that they thought so much of the American citizenry.
How do republicans think this is going to positively affect the investment climate? It’s borderline expropriation
Hope Ted Cruz doesn’t have any trips to Cancun planned for this winter
Once you think of them as MAGA clerics they make more sense
Democrats are learning.
He’s running to be the mayor of the New York from Sesame Street, which I mean as the highest compliment.
Democracy is going to die on the altar of Chuck Schumer’s kitchen table issues
The only response I have to anyone who thinks any politician is a lock for the nomination this early is “Giuliani 2008”
I wish I could understand why the rest of the Democrats in the House continue to support him as leader. Do they honestly think he’s providing sufficient leadership during the country’s greatest internal threat since the civil war?
I've said this before, but it's interesting that conservatives don't understand art, but believe the most in its power: listening to a record can turn you gay. Playing Dungeons & Dragons will open a portal to hell. Seeing a picture of migrants will give you empathy.
The entire Democrat House caucus is to blame for Jeffries’ shit messaging. If they want to show they’re serious about facing the MAGA threat to immigrants, women, the economy, etc, they could remove him as their leader. But they support this distraction-based focus group BS.
At this point any Democrat using the word ‘distraction’ is self-disqualifying. It’s the clearest sign of Not Getting It.
“Hammered dogshit” is perfect. You can’t coach that.
“Taxing the rich is a shakedown” gimme a goddam break
Dude looks like he believes more in the four humors and trepanation than modern vaccines.
When either the extreme left or the extreme right gain power, human suffering inevitably follows. If you disagree, please point to one (just one will do) example of when an extreme left or right government in power advanced rather than destroyed human life and dignity.
Honestly. No politician is more affordability-coded than Zohran.
