I’m just getting over having Covid this week, for the 4th time. Must be nice
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I’m just getting over having Covid this week, for the 4th time. Must be nice
Biden (82) just got cancer surgery. Not so smart now are ya? Hmm???
Unironically yes it does
“Fuck it we don’t give a shit about pretense we just want to hurt out groups now”
I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.
Department of Gwar
The what?
Hypertension isn’t on the new list unfortunately
I was going to try to get it this week after traveling over Labor Day Weekend, but came back to Brooklyn with Covid instead. Guess that takes care of that one
Every criticism of it from the right is either a) complete bad faith nonsense or b) totally made up fear mongering
Like….”illegal immigration” is just such a meaningless low level infraction it just blows my mind how up its own ass this country is about it. Like who cares? Trump is guilty of more serious crimes. It’s no wonder we don’t have free healthcare when we’re obsessed with this nonsense
Having to see non-white people who aren’t serving them food or coffee
Trinidad isn't on the way to the United States; it's as far out of the way from Venezuela to the United States as it's possible to be. Trinidad is on the way to Trinidad, which has 50k Venezuelan refugees that the locals don't want.
Has any reporter asked him “what is the deal with all this random gold shit on the walls?”
Correct. Throttles are incredibly useful on a heavy e-bike or any e-bike when getting back up to speed from a stopped position at a red light
People return from other countries that are *much poorer* than the US and exclaim, "god, it sucks here!" You can't walk anywhere, cars dominate every square inch, there's very little public space or community, health care is a nightmare, child care is a nightmare, public education is mediocre.
Even if they did, the penalty for drug trafficking is not capital punishment
Sorry what was that?
Isn’t this guy Catholic lol
Have you considered that “Democrat Party bad”
Love starting my day seeing this kind of racist garbage
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
Also is the idea that the boat was coming from Venezuela directly to America? That’s kind of a long trip eh?
Meanwhile Trump’s mail order bride First Lady sounds like a vampire. Every time she speaks I can’t believe it
I just still can't believe Trump is the president again
It's no coincidence that falling birth rates have coincided with falling rates of people listening to the song Night Moves by Bob Seger
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
“This looks like a job for Jeff Computers”
Sissy Graydon Carter’s Oscar Party *jacking off two ghosts*
I love a thrill... like when you hold down backspace and it starts erasing like 10x faster fuck
I want a socks machine. I drop in raw feedstock of socks material, it prints out socks on demand for me. When I have worn socks I drop them into a hopper and the raw material is cleaned and repurposed for new socks.
Making America Healthy Again is when I have to smoke a pack of cigarettes outside CVS to get a safe and effective vaccine against a virus
“Kai Trump”
I’ll never understand why people can take health advice from someone who sounds like a radioactive backfiring lawnmower.
This is so blackpilling after the last 5 years I can barely see straight. I’m so angry
Its very blackpilling after the last 5 years to hear that the government WANTS me and my family to get sick and thinks its cool and good
She died doing what she loved: making sure the guy who sold steaks at the Sharper Image could remain president so she could trigger her blue-haired-gendered niece at Thanksgiving
That's right, the reason Germany has so many fewer mass shootings than America is because they don't have antidepressants.
He is doing and attempting explicitly authoritarian things. He wants to be a dictator. There is real damage to our government and civil society that we will have to repair. But also he is extremely unpopular and inept and there is real pushback. I suspect he will fail to consolidate but we'll see.
What gets me is that I remember the “before times” and “normal politics”. Again I use those worse with a lot of caveats and you probably know what I mean. It’s that the things they do and say would be weeks long news stories back then, and they would go apeshit if Dems did it. Just grotesque
the CDC purge is bad but also the health secretary just said in public that he can read people’s auras, I don’t understand why he isn’t immediately dragged in front of congress and asked “what the fuck are you talking about” and impeached for mental unfitness
Dude this clip is insane he doesn’t even catch himself after he says “killing innocent civilians and children”. It’s absolutely wild. Sociopath is putting it mildly
When Republicans were the out party they became the in party by falsely accusing Obama of doing what Trump is actually doing.
The thing that gets me is that if you just say what’s happening clearly and plainly, stating the facts, especially to a right-leaning person, you sound like a fuckin deranged lunatic.
Can you explain how the Supreme Court has said he doesn't have this authority
So is the thinking here that jumping a turnstile is a crime worthy of capital punishment
if you wind back the clock a year and say “trump will be president, he’ll tear up entire agencies without any legislative authority, ignore court orders, build a concentration camp, and send troops into multiple US cities” you wouldn’t ask “well how many troops?” before deciding what this describes
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
All this garbage is based on the cynical (but sadly, not baseless) premise that you can tell parochial rubes whatever tall tales you like about the big city & they’ll swallow it whole. It’s precisely the kind of contemptuous condescension they love to accuse other “urban elites” of.
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
People underestimate joy as a political resource. It pisses off all the right people & allows us to move toward practically imaginative solutions.It’s powerful to say, as Mamdani does&others should,I love these people/this place&we’re going to make it thrive.Political version of twirling on haters.
What's actually gonna happen is they're gonna have to spend months gutting it to remove the listening devices and fixing other security breaches and the New York Times will run an A1 feature on how much "taxpayer money" the Dem president is spending on it like it's a huge scandal
OH YEAH!!!!!
Democrats Talk to People Like They're Not Stupid and Give Voters a Reason to Vote for Your and Not Just Meaningless Platitudes Challenge (impossible)
also a lot of this "socialist"'s proposed policies amount to deregulation in the interest of reducing prices because in municipal govt there are a LOT of regulations that form as a regressive tax against small businesses which, when you calmly explain it to people, is a very popular policy approach!
Really don't love to see it
I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
When Trump is out there saying “I will bring down the price of your groceries by getting rid of all the immigrants”, yea “patriotism” is a meaningless platitude
Kamala lost!
Meaningless platitudes like that are why Trump is the president and people hate Democrats! “Vote for me and you will never pay another deductible, premium, or copay again as long as you live. I will make your life easier and less of a pain in the neck all the time” = win elections
The horror. Why is anyone out of their car. How did you not get killed 1,000 times
Like - who is this for?
I’m not even saying “far left” (whatever you think that means). But trying to appeal to the better angels of Republicans or moderate voters is, objectively, *not* a winning electoral strategy
My point is anyone saying Kamala or Dems lost because they were too “woke” is being disingenuous/lying. If we want any chance out of this we need to run more left/progressive candidates and get the base to turn out, not try to convince like 6 suburban Republicans who will never vote Dem anyway
You can check the replies but that video was a) out of context and b) the interview where she said that took place in 2019 - long before the campaign. You’re saying Dem candidates need to stop using this language or they’ll lose votes. And I’m saying - they already don’t!
Yeah we disagree on things like providing concrete examples of progressives being electorally successful and centrists getting their asses whooped lol
And as far as 2012 is concerned, not only was he continually called a communist while in office, he notoriously was criticized for not working with republicans (ACA), legislating from the bench, and issuing too many EOs. And you can’t run as an incumbent without getting elected the first time
*rubbing the bridge of my nose with my eyes closed shaking my head* But Donald Duck didn’t win the election in 2008, Barack Obama did. And he was called a radical muslim communist progressive the entire time. He gave voters an explicit reason to vote for him. He did not run as a centrist
Yeah I’ve been waiting all day for some concrete examples of centrism winning elections at scale because recent history would suggest that is not the case! What do they want? They want the Dems to just be the Republican Party from 1996
like the republican campaign said she fucked her way to the top and she allowed immigrants to devour peoples pets and we’re debating whether she overused the phrase birthing person in her stump speech quoting angela davis, a thing that never happened
This just isn’t correct. If you think Barack Obama’s *campaign* was seen as reasonable and centrist you’re either too young to remember, being deliberately obtuse, or are just a conservative who doesn’t want progressive things
A guy named Barack Hussein Obama won Iowa and Florida, twice
Brain leaking out of his ears
“Troops” Offends me so much. He’s an abomination to grammar
It’s objectively not, if recent elections are anything to go by. Do you know who Kamala Harris is?
A virtually unknown 33 year old socialist state rep is about to be the mayor of the largest city in America after running an explicitly left wing campaign, but you already knew that
Yeah for sure I agree and to be clear it was stupid of Hochul to do then and stupid to do now for the same reasons
And one knows more about winning elections in recent years than the centrist wing of the Democratic Party
Yeah it’s almost like the base didn’t show up and we should do something about that instead of trying to appeal to the better angels of suburban republicans who will never vote for a Democrat under any circumstances
Agreed and also their comparison doesn’t make sense because isn’t she technically the commander in chief of the New York Guard?
Yeah exactly, Tom is just making things up to be mad about
If your point is that Democratic candidates need to also forcefully condemn the horrific war crimes done by Hamas, to children, I think that is well covered over the last 2 years and we should be good there among the slate of candidates
I’m saying this is what Tom was saying, and he’s wrong
I don’t know what point you’re trying to make
That’s why “anti Trump republican” has always confused me. He’s given republican voters everything they have professed to want over the last 40 years, he’s just more of an asshole about it and did away with any pretense of being accepted into polite society
Two things can, in fact, be bad
*Checkmate libs*
Respectfully, that is not the original point being made in this argument. They’re saying Dems need to stop with all these words in their messaging to voters, and the fact is that video was *not* a part of their messaging to voters. You understand that, yes?
The funny thing about this “discourse” is the huge elephant in the room that we all know is true. If a Democratic candidate ran on implementing single payer healthcare the Dems would win every election for the next 40 years. But alas, here we are talking about pronouns or whatever
Indeed!
“We’re a nation of laws” always sends me because Trump is literally a 34x convicted felon and we are using secret police to go after what is at worst a misdemeanor and most likely a low level paperwork issue/civil offense
Exactly this. Tom Nicholas saw an open lane in the “anti Trump Republican” shtick and took it. Also he probably voted for Trump three times and is lying about it
Tom’s point is that they made this a core part of their messaging, and then posts a document like this, which completely contradicts his point. Amazing stuff lol
We will have a woman in the White House in our lifetime, but it will be a Republican
Zen Honeycutt
