says a lot that the dem leadership thinks she is the one to lead them
says a lot that the dem leadership thinks she is the one to lead them
The United States—right now, this very moment—is putting individuals in ICE detention, revoking and denying visas, and canceling billions in grant dollars specifically because of the viewpoints they express
if trainspotting captured 80s scottish violence, then this was the 90s, with a la la la yeah yeah yeah yeah
emerald fennel: heirloom farmer's market microgreen you can only buy for one weekend in july emerald & fennel: store that sells salt lamps run at a loss by housewife who married a cardiologist emerald + fennel: bespoke ai coding platform your coworker addicted to sports betting swears by
All of this was basically said during COVID but what they're asserting is the right to kill other people, not just themselves. They want the freedom to get sick AND the freedom to participate in society without limitations, where they can make other people sick. If you don't like it *you* get out
he’d gotten by on charm & intelligence and nobody was going to believe that one anymore
she wears short skirts/I am squidward/she's cheer captain/and I am squidward
the chain is somehow both
fox tells what to a reasonable human being would be an embarrassing story about how ayoade told him off, saying fox had never experienced racism, and i thought “ah, good, he thinks his brother in law is an eejit too”, and then he went and did the linehan book
we still have matt berry
it's a beautiful song - "right pretty", i think michael calls it? i go back and forth between preferring the unplugged vs the album version
yeah, i was about dig out the youtube link to it. it’s the only song with bongos in it where the bongos aren’t an insurmountable problem
a perfect circle
happy labor day
they conceded the point on taxing the rich and it's been downhill ever since
yeah, everyone in the uk grew up eating some equivalent rubbish to pizza rolls and, as such, they hold a place for it in their hearts (i had way too many chicken & mushroom pot noodles). it’s pretty silly to get territorial over it
tater tot hotdish is good, white bread chip buttys are good. we are all brothers under the scran
a large democrat voting bloc is loudly saying we need to reject him now
it isn't just republican politics that got us here. newsom represents the democrats status quo, he must be rejected on that front too
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
hooray! i'm glad he will be with people that can put faces to his backstory
aw man, i was selfishly hoping you'd bend to another cat so i could follow along. i'm really happy he has a home though
it turned out a little too bloodless. got to have rice in the 8. you can't be less adventurous than bournemouth & palace
always been taken with the way he sings the word "time"
where has all this reasonable adult condescending equivocating gotten us?
bjork, describing a horse: this creature is called a Horse. she has many legs. i do not like how she speaks to me
i guess i thank you for unearthing a buried childhood memory
it is precisely as moist and salty as you’d expect (slightly and overly)
suddenly reminded of how, as a child, me and my siblings would eat the eyes and mouth of the billy face meat so we could then wear it over our own faces, lector-style. it’s little wonder britain has gone so wrong
we have enough problems without an inventive killer on the loose
this - along with michael jackson’s thriller - was the first vhs i owned. i was 7. not sure what my parents were playing at, in retrospect
i just want him to know it’s happening, is all
they’d be insane to expect a moment of silence to be respected. maybe they double fry all their stuff?
seems like they probably should've done something to stop such a horrible thing from happening when they had the power to do so
absolutely. nobody is going to be excited by the concept of an inert ziplock of game pieces. the box that makes you smile is the one you pick up to play
I'm lightly obsessed with the way Elizabeth Gilbert will blow up her life in the most predictably disastrous ways, and then some time passes and she's like "here's my new book about how my decisions led to disaster but now I've learned from them. I'm enlightened now."
it’s hard to stand up for something when you don’t actually believe in anything or have a moral center
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Computer, stop telling me things
look at the quality of person agreeing with you. maybe reflect upon that
what's dividing and unpopular, you coward? the thing nobody beyond a few freaks was bothered about a decade ago?
do you remember anything about 2020? big political movement? somebody running on eliminating student debt? there are no significant numbers of independent voters. there are two party bases and the party that wins is the one that turns theirs out
you can see how your message isn't going to inspire turnout at the polls
harris lost millions! of voters after biden won by campaigning to the left. obama won campaigning to the left. they energised the base. clinton and moreso harris went to the center and they depressed the base and lost. if trans voters and the left are so irrelevant what are you complaining about?
it does, and i don’t like what it tells me
it's the centrist equivocating that has brought us here! your compromises! the only power the left has is as a voting block and the democrats ignored them and played to suburban republicans. how's that working out?
is there though? it's either wrong or it isn't. it demonstrates that the people that got us here cannot be trusted to get us out. that goes double for somebody visibly delighted in throwing away a homeless person's worldly possessions
i guess i am. there's still time for them to actively pushback against encroaching fascism, but there's a lot of thumb-twiddling and finger-wagging going on. they seem to think they can put the genie back in the box
nope! which is pretty indicative that they don't believe what the agents are doing is illegal and that they'd continue to have them do it in some capacity if they ever regain power, or they do think it is illegal, but are too cowardly to do anything. do you consider that disqualifying?
that "the most-powerful anti-trump" figure is failing to meet the moment is a huge problem, and his harshly criticizing things isn't going to cut it. the guy needs to be arresting every ice agent in his state, not going on podcasts throwing trans people to the wolves
oh man, he harshly criticized them you say?
the only power people have is their vote and by letting the democrats know they will withhold it, it gives them leverage to eliminate newsom from the running. the democrats are free to call their bluff, but we just saw how many voters harris lost
there was a manager in england that went and peed in every corner of his pitch to try and lift a curse
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
it's the only one from those films that sticks, which i guess i should be grateful for, relative to the descendants movies where the songs are insanely catchy
of course they do, but it isn't the same guys that were marching during the first admin that are in there now. i think we agree; the problem is far more widespread
it would be nice to think that, but the proud boys are a relatively tiny group. we have to reckon with how many feds have willingly gone along with this
do you?
he will split the party. all the voters harris lost; he will not bring them back
i don't know who it is going to be, but i do know that nobody in 2005 thought it was going to be obama. we don't have to settle for the first self-striver to talk sternly without actually meaning it
choosing newsom would divide the party, the smiling whilst throwing away homeless people's worldy possessions guy is pretty easy to reject
this endless compromising brought us here.
Raylan: 'Member that fella took off into the woods a couple years back? Long-haired, shower-shy? Hippie-like I guess you could say, 'cept armed to the teeth. Boyd: Hwhy Raylan Givens I believe you're referring to Aragorn, son of Arathorn; a man to whom you owe your allegiance.
newsom should be shot into space for that clearing out the homeless stunt. he will not save us. demand better for yourself and your country
how long does it take for your skull to stop echoing when you sneeze?
it shows just how far we have to go that billionaires feel free to talk like this
this is obviously besides the point, but i can't get past how this guy looks like joaquin phoenix if he was an alcoholic seventies welshman
we just saw what happens when democrats campaign to the right and take leftist votes for granted. seems like they should listen to their voting base
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
All or none. Simple shit. And don't tell me it's bad strategy, that just means you're someone who can't be trusted in a foxhole. Conceding any ground to the right on this is what got us here in the first place.
my brain immediately went here, then i realised what you were saying, and i circled back around to it anyways:
are you five years old?
i think it’s the same thing, just from a different point of view, because they are so spineless they have no core beliefs or moral red lines that can be crossed, and so they look to consultants to figure out what they should do. if it’s tough, they will hunker down
they absolutely do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
If he was going around saying 25 year old women are too young to make decisions about abortion, I wonder if he’d have such diehard lib support. Bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy.
did you see this interaction?
that's not what i said, but he is absolutely responsible for him, yes
it should be bothering you too, if you actually want a lasting way out of this. newsom's rancid i-stand-for-nothing politics are exactly what brought us here, they aren't going to lead us out
how is it working? what material effect is it having? grow up
he is wringing his hands to the point of bruising, gavin's got him so pressed!
what fucking with is he actually doing? do any of them care? or is it all performative slop that you are gobbling up? if he wants to start arresting every ice agent in california i'll cheer him on, but he will never ever do that
newsom absolutely will not save democracy. he can't even unite the party. find somebody who isn't platforming the fascists radicalising their own kid
i saw it described as “astro-terfing” earlier
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
nobody is asking for perfect, but we can do better than dogshit
harris was not more left than biden. biden tacked right and harris said she wouldn’t do anything different aside from having a republican in her cabinet. what signature leftist policy did she build her campaign around?
the nyt in particular cares desperately about perception, it’s how sulzberger has allowed himself to be played. it’s worth a try, and if they still give this admin thumb-on-the-scales treatment, then, at the very least, the yelling would be true
if they started - accurately - yelling about how the nyt etc are against them, then - perversely - the nyt etc would cover them more
he pushed biden left enough for him to get elected
he himself voiced support for their positions (also said his kid is apparently being radicalised by them). he is an empty bluster conservative looking for a path to power. he needs to be rejected hard. this isn’t an ‘enemy of my enemy’ thing, trump doesn’t care about him
is it though? or is it just giving them something to talk about? what material effect does it actually have, particularly when he turns around and platforms fascists?
also he’s caked-up
what is effective about it?
sounds a lot like what the democrats did before the last election
proudly consider myself a neo-Luddite! Recommend "Blood in the Machine" by Brian Merchant if people want to know more, or for the real sickos EP Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class." We need more Luddism in our current day, not less.
another name for them, upsettingly, was dumbledors
i was curious where the bumble part came from, apparently they were called humblebees up until the 20th century
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
