My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
The embarrassment will be theirs. The country will only share in it for electing them.
This is why (I hope) Newsom gains little traction in a Dem primary. We need him free to jab at the ridiculousness of the cult, not elected POTUS.
Don’t look away
I officially hate it here.
I probably shouldn't put it this way, but uh the "hide reply for everyone" button feels great to press. You decide what your posts are a platform for
Newsom, Brandon, and Pritzker have been far more clear-eyed about the stakes than Dem leadership. There is nothing now more important than calling the GOP and Trump what they are and calling on Americans to honor our country's most sacred values.
So this happened: Stopping emergency responders to check their papers. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Pritzker is another that's doing this right, and I hope he runs. But I wouldn't place all my eggs in one basket 3 years out. We need to continue cultivating leaders that see the threat as clearly as Brandon, Pritzker, and Newsome.
If folks truly don't want someone like Gavin Newsom as the Dem nominee, they should be screaming at Dem leadership to get on board with what Newsom and folks like Mayor Brandon are putting down.
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Ladies, there are men out there who aren't completely dipshitted assholes. I know they're a minority of the male population, but they are out there. Don't accept anything less!
Okay, you go herd those cats next time a protest happens in response to an unexpected event then. Let us know how that goes.
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
At this point, I truly don't care if we create new laws to pursue them. I just don't really give a shit. If it's all Calvinball anyways, pulverize them with the weight of government. Make them regret opening Pandora's box, then handicap their ability to ever participate in government again.
I am done with civility. Fuck these people. Go after them. Harass them with every lever of government available. Never stop. Bankrupt them under legal fees, then bankrupt their children. Then their children's children. Charge, prosecute, and sentence them all as harshly as the law allows.
America made the mistake of not utterly eradicating traitorous sentiment after the Civil War. We need to learn from that mistake: no aid or quarter to traitors.
Browbeat the press- claim any who won't run the dirt being dug up are secretly supportive of the oligarchic traitors that filled the prior admin. Scorched Earth campaign on anyone and everyone who excused or supported the admin, while constantly hammering how traitorous they were. 2/2
The reason will be "all your 'heroes' are criminals, we're now prosecuting them all mercilessly and flooding the zone with every negative thing we find about their time in government." Make it utterly embarrassing to call one's self a Trump fan. 1/2
To borrow from Anthony Jeselnik: Prayers are worth less than nothing. Because it, essentially, is you virtue signaling while also using said virtue signaling to avoid actually doing anything virtuous.
I'll say it, and I don't really care if anyone feels disrespected: prayers don't do anything. Prayers only make you feel good about doing nothing to protect children from guns. It's utterly selfish to rely on prayer: God only helps those who help themselves.
At this point, they don't need to stakes or facts explained. They need to be given a reason to care. And "For the country and your neighbors" hasn't and isn't working. The carrot failed. Time for the stick. 3/3
The mistake here is believing there are a ton of Trump voters who do so out of an honest, morally defensible position. There is no way even unplugged Americans haven't heard of at least *some* of the crimes and corruption. Their choosing to shove their heads in the sand is not exculpatory. 2/3
That isn't what's happened here. Nobody has woken up today from an amnesia and is assessing the current political landscape. Anyone still supporting him the reason why it was bad explained to them multiple times already. First by the GOP itself during the 2016 elections. 1/3
You can literally watch interviews with Trump voters where they walk themselves into stupidity unprompted. When that is pointed out, even plainly and without cruelty, they do not react the way you claim they will.
@janinegibson.ft.com congrats on reducing your site's reach and viewership by running lazy ass rage bait.
Lmao you fucking idiots literally went into a meeting and said: "Clicks are down, so let's make up some rage bait shit." Blocked.
He's a dipshit. Our country has been usurped by dipshits with delusions of their own grandeur. He's a rather pathetic, small example of that epidemic in our society.
Well, yeah. I don't want to be around people who don't give a shit about freedom or our country. That so many can't grasp the stakes is an indictment of their ignorance.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
It certainly makes me discard any notion that "I gotta protect myself from the guvment" was an honest argument, if misguided and naive. And it makes me wanna slap the taste out of the next redneck I hear making it.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov Chief of Staff:
Wtf is this. A camera?
It would be sort of delicious to see the American people resist tyranny by short-circuiting the government's attempts to charge any acts of resistance via juries.
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
Every time a case is presented to a jury involving resistance: that's a no from me, dawg. Every time a member of the Trump cult appears before a jury:
It would certainly be something if Americans took back their country via simply refusing to participate in the prosecution of anyone resisting this administration.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
There is.... No way autocorrect caused either one of those typos. In fact, based on my experience with autocorrect, this man had to overrule the autocorrect suggestion to land on "squirle" and "peice."
AI going "If that is true, things are bad, bad. Therefore: I refuse to believe that is true" might be one of *the most* human traits these chatbots have exhibited so far.
Lmao the AI is like: "There's absolutely no way violence has been this normalized among humans. You guys would've blown the entire world up decades ago if that were the case. No sir. You are hallucinating!"
His elocution is incredible.. Considering he's speaking with Trump's penis fully in his mouth.
Yeah, we are rapidly approaching a point where violence against the state is going to become truly moral.
We require licenses specifically because of how sensitive and essential these services are. You cannot effectively mimic that with algorithms.
This is something I think could have legs. We shouldn't be allowing AI to perform therapy roles. Matters of humanity and empathy should never be left to a machine.
I mean, give them shitty outfits and it's basically this:
Habibis, check out these Haboobies.
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Set your mind back to July 2024. Joe Biden had just had a disastrous debate. The entire country agreed on one thing: He was deeply, deeply unpopular. Biden's approval rating at the time? 36% among all adults, 31% among independents. Trump's approval today? 37% and 29%, respectively.
Even if it didn't, the second study cited seems to show that chatbots are more like drugs than actual therapy: in the short term, they provide a boost via empathetic communications. But over longer interactions, participants felt more lonely and were even less connected to those around them.
And the second study cited lays bare the short-sightedness of the first: longer interaction periods did not continue to help, but instead increased feelings of loneliness and isolation. That is *disastrous* for suicidal/depressed people. In short: chatbots are like a drug. 2/2
I am begging researchers to think a little bit harder when doing studies on chatbots. This article cites a study that found some folks felt less suicidal after a short chat with bots. That tracks: they're trained to show empathy. That's helpful. That doesn't make it useful treatment. 1/2
Lmao absolutely, investors love the idea that the *entire* workforce managing their investment could be wiped out by a single van accident.
You do realize this doesn't prove anything you think it does, right? It's like asking why more drug deals aren't paid for by credit card: drug dealers aren't setting up online payment options.
This is some dumbass, cowardly shit @democrats.org
The U.S. is the world champion of people dying too early, for no good reason. (Drivers: drugs, guns, cars, metabolic diseases.) Via @pbump.com, here's a chart showing that starting with the pandemic, we pulled away from all other high income countries in this grim race.
You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Yeah buddy! This is why I don't rail against Newsom- we need him mocking the fascist administration and its leader. We need his disdain and desire to destroy that traitorous movement. We also need someone to elect as POTUS. Newsom can't be POTUS and remain so blunt. We need both strategies.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
I wish politicians would just be honest: "This guy's a lying dipshit and a traitor." Say it. Over and over. Every time the media brings him up, every time he opens his mouth: "This guy's a lying dipshit and a traitor."
the person most responsible for the transformation of the United States into a personalist autocracy is Donald Trump the person second most responsible is John Roberts
More of this @democrats.org. The press are not your friends. Right now, they're failing to even do their jobs in defense of truth and freedom. You don't need them anymore with social media. Make them earn their access.
This is a pathetic, cowardly headline.
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
All the while, we have a common enemy literally overturning our democracy. How about we stop wasting time on petty, super online squabbles and focus on highlighting the fact that, no matter what words you choose: the Republican party is a party of fascist traitors that deserve prison.
These words are not dictating elections.
This is still a bunch of time and energy arguing over words approximately 8% of the voting population ever even hears. This is like Astrophysicists and Theoretical Physicists arguing over how to present the latest theoretical formulas, as if the public ever even sees them.
Thompson Regimbal
This is in direct violation of the court order.
The mockery and disdain mirrors what a majority of Americans are feeling about the current admin and its corrupt officials. Some Democrats understand this, and they're changing their messaging accordingly. While Third Way tries to pull the convo back to a contrived hit piece argument.
So much of the recent discourse, specifically directed towards BlueSky and select Democrats, can be summed up as this: "People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong."
If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him. But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
You are a liar and a hack. www.the-independent.com/tech/hate-sp...
Gov. Pritzker: "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the U.S. federalizing the Illinois National Guard." "Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."
Agreed. I think the actual update they went with was.... A choice. But I feel like we can't even truly discuss the merits of the new branding due to the "Keep politics outta my . . . " folks shoehorning politics into this.
Another issue where the "keep politics outta my . . . " crowd drowned an issue in politics, so we can't even have a real discussion on how poor management is creating chaos that will adversely affect low-paid workers who need these jobs.
Play fascist games, win fascist prizes.
Again: this is why you don't play these stupid games. And, I'm sorry, but: this is also the reason why the people behind the Bulwark lost their own base to a reality TV conman.
Congrats on helping legitimize the idea of sending the troops into Baltimore, @thebulwark.com. I'm sure your enlightened centrism on this issue will ensure that the troops treat each citizen with mad respect as they invade their city over imaginary boogeymen.
This is all a fight over words and phrases approximately 8% of the voting population even sees. The overwhelming majority of voters are simply not terminally online in politics enough to even grasp the debate. This is a tempest in a teapot.
You guys literally lost your party to delusional thinking... And your answer seems to be leaning into it more with the general population. Why are you repeating your own mistakes?
I know you have good intentions, but it will never end well for play into delusional thinking or disinformation. You cannot govern a population divorced from reality. The aim must be to bring them back to reality, not coddle their fantastical beliefs.
This will only serve to normalize sending in the National Guard. Jesus guys...
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
The confusion + feeling of betrayal ("Hey, I'm trying to help! I don't like Trump either") pushes an intensely negative reaction that exaggerates the ubiquity of similar such interactions in our political discourse. 2/2
My most charitable theory goes like this: there are folks who recognize the GOP is really bad, but aren't terminally online in politics. They use terms traditionally acceptable that activists have discarded for one reason or another, and they get jumped online for using it. 1/2
Definitely someone who was going to vote for Democrats, walking into the voting booth: "Incarcerated people MY ASS!!"
Like, you guys really think there's a single person who was going to vote for Dems, then went into the booth muttering to themselves "Incarcerated people MY ASS!"?????
Like, you guys really think there's a single person who was going to vote for Dems, then went into the booth muttering to themselves "Incarcerated people MY ASS!"?????
Going to be honest: 90%+ of Americans are not terminally online for politics and likely don't ever even hear these words. This entire discussions is centered on the terminally online, and they simply cannot see it because they're on too deep.
I can 100% assure you that folks who are not terminally online for politics do not run into these words. I know many of them. This is literally about an incredibly small sub-section of folks who follow political topics online, which further exposes how utterly stupid it is.
Again, people are explaining to you that the Dem candidates aren't actually putting up roadblocks. You're trying to hold the party accountable for everything anyone who votes for them says. It's stupid. Stop listening to folks who lost their own party to Trump.
The Democrat party cannot and should not be held responsible for every random commenting the internet. We have a party literally supporting fascism, get some perspective.
Lmao of course this faux intellectual would use "NPCs." Run along, child. Back to X. Nothing of value lost.
There are many more on the list that Democrats have rarely used at all, or that Republicans have used as many times. No need to play the fascists' game.
You might want to check for actual data on who is using these words. For example, in the only actual review of communications materials I've seen for this topic, Democrats aren't using Privilege nearly as much as Republicans. Same for many of the other words.