Two words: Budd. Dwyer.
Two words: Budd. Dwyer.
Needs a commercial that's a supercut of Collins being "concerned" about everything without ever doing anything.
There's a lot about abolition that turns off Republicans. We could easily win their vote by adopting all their policies and joining their party.
Schumer and Jeffries will fight tooth and nail for Cuomo.
Big opening for, say, Brad Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Would he be willing to shiv Schiff on his way out? Asking for a nation.
I'm legit surprised that there's anyone in Trump's orbit who gives enough of a fuck about Gulliani to autopen Trump's signature onto this. Is Andrew still wandering the white house ?
Tapper wasnt an expert on mental health, or even on presidential mental health. He was an oppo guy on Biden, so he neither wants nor is wanted on this.
Also, the Left and Bluesky dont pay their gambling debts.
Whether its crime, economics, military, or trans people, Dems biggest weakness is conceding ground to conservative talking points. Dem leadership always presumes GOP "strength" on these issues is immutable so just takes the lies as a given.
Even if you think that the response was misguided, thats not what Kafka's writing was about. Clear reasons for the policies implemented were given.
Anyone who believes gerrymandering is universally wrong is obligated to vote Yes on this, bc the only way to reach universal abandonment is if it disfavors Republicans.
Let me guess -- the solution is to give a fortune in federal money to real estate developers.
Has Bessent ever said that the president *will* do anything specific? I seriously dont think he's even in the loop. I think he's just a podcaster trying to manifest what he hopes will happen by saying it might.
If you scream at a Dem for answers, you get answers. Maybe spun, maybe even dishonest, but you get them and congratulate yourself on your journalism. Ask a MAGA for answers, and they take your press pass. So no answers requested.
What a bizarre fucking town.
If i were one of his business partners, I'd be calling for an immediate audit. Zero chance that the guy so cavalier about stealing candy from a baby is honest with the company finances.
I'm not saying for sure this was a botched attempt to fake his own death and escape his creditors, but would we really be surprised?
Give him some credit -- let's see what kind of lie you concoct when you're blackout drunk and just caused a car accident.
I've never been the victim of DV, but I feel like decrepit, disgraced geezer w history of sexual harassment probably wouldnt be my first call for help if I had any alternative.
What are the odds that this crash took place during one of the rare windows of time in which he was sober ?
I'm not saying for sure this was a botched attempt to fake his own death and escape his creditors, but would we really be surprised?
I'm very confident that rescinding the policy of keeping cameras far away would be *much* worse.
Thank goodness. For a moment, I thought the DOJ might have a problem proving that as a prerequisite to the deportation of any child.
I really think its not just that the cases were too weak for grand juries. I think another component is that the DoJ is being purged of anyone w the competence to achieve things that were once considered basic.
I'll be honest, I never thought he'd make it through the 2020 SOTU, much less 2024 debates, but it's looking less and less likely that theyll be able to pull off that trick again.
They dont have a lot of good options. The alternatives are keeping him out of the spotlight, finding an impersonator, or (worst of all) letting people take pictures up close.
"Covfefe, Louis!"
Obviously there should be societal consequences for him. But if I'm one of that guy's partners, I'm calling for an audit of the books *immediately* There's zero chance that his cavalier approach to stealing is limited to candy from babies.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Duffel Blog still knows how to land a round www.duffelblog.com/pentagon-fin...
Good idea -- wait until youre on your way out to tell them to get fucked.
They're terrified of resistance so are shrieking that their victory is inevitable.
Roast beef sandwich: temporarily warm, dead inside, gets chewed up and turned into shit. You: same, but you think you matter. Please enjoy arbys
Why must Trump be removed? I know why *I* think he needs to be removed and its to protect the rights and safety of Americans. If want to join MAGA in assaulting those rights of some Americans, you're more MAGA than opposition.
I'm cis and my life will change not a lot if trans people are thrown under the bus. But anyone willing to throw them under the bus wont defend me if its not polling well so cant be trusted to resist MAGA to defend me. Defending trans people is the litmus test of a fighter for principle.
You've got it backwards. I'm cis and my life will change not a lot if trans people are thrown under the bus. But anyone willing to throw them under the bus wont defend me if its not polling well so cant be trusted to resist MAGA to defend me. Defending trans people is the litmus test of a fighter
I know that's Xmas Carol, but it would have made a great opening to the biography I read of Cohn.
Saw that coming. By replacing experienced prosecutors w MAGA loyalists, the DOJ is largely being staffed by people who dont know what they're doing, or people who can sabotage cases bc their supervisor doesnt know what theyre doing.
And thats my point -- the Guard did see that and decide on its own to mulch. Someone in the administration made the decision that bc these guys werent actually doing anything, they may as well do the Park Service's job.
Theres no reason to bring it up at all other than to falsely claim humble origins.
"Woke" literally means choosing to be aware of problems conservatives choose to ignore. This is quintessentially woke and thats a good thing.
America finding and defining the line between civil society and barbarism
It seems trivial, but I don't buy that the Guard spontaneously decided to mulch trees in a city they're unfamiliar w. Which means someone in the DoD high enough the chain of command to give orders to the Guard told these emergency crimefighters to mulch trees instead of stopping crime. Who?
The Nichols Guide to Winning Over Voters Like Him: Unhoused --> Bum Involuntarily Committed --> Nut LQBTQIA --> Pervert or Deviant He's literally offended by empathy, by language that recognizes other people's struggle instead of dehumanizing them. MAGA can fucking have him.
We're going to start seeing faith leaders speak up as this starts to impact the tithes.
I'm vaguely curious how high up the chain of command the order to "I dunno, spread mulch" came from. I could easily imagine a platoon Sergeant telling them to pick up trash as long as they're idling around, but obtaining/spreading mulch seems oddly specific. Did Hegseth order it?
40/60 chance hes dead and various billionaires are carrying out a Death of Stalin. 100% chance everyone but Thiel is considering how to oust, murder, or blackmail the couch fucker.
Just want to throw out that this is a guy who kidnapped a minor. That seems like something an opposition party should bring up once and a whike ?
"God maybe have dropped the ball on this one, but . . ."
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
I think two things are going on here. Obviously the grand juries are objecting to BS charges. But I think another aspect is that the DOJ is being purged of good lawyers and replaced w people who cant do simple things like persuade a grand jury.
The emphasis was always on the word "your." Theres never been anything more important to them than their feelings.
"Guess I'll buy Black Myth Wukong instead . . ." (Not racist, just a really hard game that I already know I'm not going to be able to finish.)
If you find that interesting, the comedy podcast Citation Needed did a good episode on it. www.citationpod.com/the-blackest...
She probably could have recovered by apologizing for the initial, off-the-cuff remark. But in the sober light of the following day, the crazy bitch released an ad doubling down on it.
I'm glad to hear it, but how is it possible that conservative faschists weren't to spend anything to reelect her?
In Catholic school, I was taught that would do in a pinch. Ideally you used the water from the font w the disturbingly high fecal content, but if it's an emergency, you should bless that Code Red and work w what you got.
Between him vs Adams, Cuomo, and Silwa, Mamdani is the only one who doesnt seem bitter at America/NY for not giving them what they feel entitled to.
What? The Bean isnt in North Chicago. It's in Millenium Park in the heart of downtown Chicago. Or are you making a joke about the Guards orders getting botched?
I'm doubly concerned that whatever Vance does will be met by Schumer/Jeffries w strongly-worded letter. Or worse, they might immediately concede on relief that they've got a former colleague they can work w.
Apparently he's kind of a dick, to the point that the creators of the darkest black paint make anyone who buys it promise they wont share it w him. Cool art though.
If they did -- IF THEY DID -- I'm not going to say I'd watch that reality show. . . . but I cant promise I wouldn't.
We made a rock opera about it. It wasn't a utopia.
And if we brought back slavery -- just think of how many new organs we could breed !
It should be legal to run Teslas off the road to protect fellow motorists. ...and for fun.
Moreover, their solution to the problem is *more guns* I legit am not sure he doesnt want a Total Recall situation where they flag people wo guns.
Musk: Is this about the kids it kills? Because most of them had pre-existing conditions or were bred to replace us!
Solid burn. But tourists do love it.
Speech absent intent isnt speech in any meaningful way deserving of protection. If you tell me 2+2=5, thats speech. If my calculator does so, thats product liability.
Of course there's a speaker, and while you may not agree with how your magic 8-ball answers your questions, its good to know you'll defend its First Amendment right to do so.
It's very clearly not "speech" because there's no speaker and no intent. If a cross walk tells you to "walk" when there's oncoming traffic, the crosswalk isnt expressing anything beyond that the manufacturer is in for a product liability suit.
By Ari's reckoning, if my GPS told me to drive off a cliff, thats not product liability on the part of the manufacturer but protected "speech" on the part of the GPS.
And most of our parks are already pretty clean.
Before they ever even achieved their dream of abandoning prisoners in their cages to die when a hurricane inevitably hit.
What the fuck is an education for if not prejudgment? I may or may not entertain your argument that 2+2=5, but I'm not abandoning my prejudgement that it's 4. Civility need not mean mindless credulity, and we're better off wo civility if it does.
I also dont get the impulse to comply when someone demands your resignation. "Well I demand you gargle deez nutz. In the meantime, I'm off to microwave fish in the breakroom."
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
"Pretending to be a friend" Please stop giving it that level of agency. The response was horrible but software wasn't "pretending" anything. Just outputting the response prompted by awful programming.
The National Guard is not just a mindless obedient tool; it's made up of people with families & responsibilities at home that they are missing to ::checks notes:: clean up parks while needlessly carrying weapons in a city they don't live in. Trump's actions are wildly unpopular. This matters.
There's no one among Schumer's brigade of consultants who cares enough about the Democratic party or America to snatch those granny glasses off his face and stomp on them. That's the brain trust we've got.
Chuck Schumer's every move is guided by the kind of consultants who tell him that granny glasses are killing it w young people and swing voters.
Let's be honest that Chuck Schumer never has been a bright guy. Remember Oogie Boogie being a burlap sack full of bugs? That's Chuck Schumer w consultants who never get anything right.
"Sure, it's the fault of whomever you want. But can we stop giving guns to the evil trans people, video game players, and door-openers?"
I feel like I wouldnt brag that I'd been run out of one of the world's biggest and most tolerant towns.
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Moby Tom Clancy's Dick
If I, Tom Clancy ,Did It
100 Days of Tom Clancy's Sodomy.
My life would be relatively unchanged whether or not a HS trans girl gets to play soccer with her friends. But fuck if this isnt a perfect litmus test for whether theyll fight for what's right when the focus groups tell them to throw me under the bus.
Their concept of America's Greatness is copper wiring that they can rip out and sell before retiring in the Maldives.
Honestly, I think thats too much thought. He called in the troops bc it seemed neat and has no specific plan beyond that. By the time they started asking what to do, Hegseth had no ideas beyond "pick up trash or something."
Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Seems like securities fraud not to disclose to investors that profitably depends on breaking the law.
I hope Musk throttles the Twitter account of the DC sandwich guy so that he can start a podcast entitled "They Tried to Shadow Banh Mi!"
Two things need to be recognized: 1) This was a silly case that even a skilled prosecutor would struggle with; but also 2) DOJ is being purged of good prosecutors, so we'll see them losing more cases like this due to both overreach and lack of skill.
You'd think he could just write it on his hand.
