But I assume a lot of these union voters have extremely nuanced and thoughtful opinions about college volleyball participation and the low price of eggs that we're all enjoying right now.
But I assume a lot of these union voters have extremely nuanced and thoughtful opinions about college volleyball participation and the low price of eggs that we're all enjoying right now.
I sure wished some newspapers focused on those aspects of his stated election goals and not, I don't know, how vibes-y some weirdos in diners felt about Harris or how old Biden was while assuming Trump wasn't serious.
As a parent with two kids in school during the pandemic, it was hard on the kids, parents and teachers and we all worked to make the best of it. But the media almost exclusively dug up the worst people for the discourse.
Absolutely. The view numbers on posts there are hilariously false given you'll see it claim 500k views with 10 likes and two replies. It's just a bunch of boys and trolls goosing each other's stats in the same echo chamber.
Yeah, I'm reading the book "Character Limit" and even at its height Twitter had a fraction of the user base of other social media sites but because media types gravitated toward it the perception of its importance vastly out distanced the impact.
"That's where everyone is" feels like copium for people who built up big followers accounts and don't want to lose that cachet, so you've got consultants thinking bots that follow them and CatTurd12 or whatever represent actual human voters.
And when elections roll around and states administer the elections as they normally do, a bunch of these writers are going to act like it's controversial instead of them just ignoring what's equivalent to a "letter to the editor" post by POTUS.
It's also annoying because I've been to the protests and know people who are involved in the legal cases against this administration. Now, they aren't whining online that it's a fait accompli with Trump so maybe they're not getting traction with some, but lots of people aren't giving up.
FT desperately trying to be edgy by making up some fever dream for fascists to believe that they aren't the bad guys. Ah yes, the Pfizer guy and a super empowered woman who pushed for voter registration are secretly MAGA.
Two Emily Oster OpEds where she throws second rate economic analysis at health issues and gets away with it despite being colossally wrong both at the time and since - color me shocked.
Sanders has to be tougher than just say Kennedy needs to be roped into another meeting where he'll zone out for a couple of hours. Call for his impeachment (I know the House has to actually file the motion) and make it clear Kennedy's continued employment is deadly for the US.
But there is deep irony in Taylor Lorenz writing an article about people being influenced by their paid sponsors when she's hocking a cell phone for kids while writing articles about how cell phone bans in schools are bad for...reasons. www.reddit.com/r/h3h3produc...
The terms in the contract are objectively not great (the part where you have to rope in Chorus for any involvement with politicians is janky, for example) but also, I assume, the same you see for RW influencers. But considering Tim Pool got $100k an episode from Russia, $8k/mo seems cheap.
I also wonder what "border security" even means to these people; it just feels like a background noise topic where unless you've been directly harassed by an ICE agent it just feels like something that happens to "other people".
Wait a minute, a Ryan Grimm tweet in which he ignores robust evidence against his premise just so that he can create a group of straw people that support his view that only WWC really matter in politics? Color me shocked.
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It's clear they just won't admit they made a mistake with him and that Trump was wrong so instead they're going to spend an insane amount of money to look like they won and probably kill the guy in the process.
Like, do conservatives have another term for the fact that nationally women didn't have the legal right to open a credit card without a man's permission until 1974, when Nichols was 14? Sure feels patriarchal to me.
I love how "incarcerated people", an accurate description of human beings at times, is treated as a negative for Democrats mostly because people like Nichols and the party he generally supports throws fits whenever it is used to describe our current reality they've helped shape.
I assume you Googled a list of best insults for that one.
In particular, the Gemini AI slop you're going to get at the top of the search results will likely be culled...from places like this subreddit where people ask questions like this. Google is not some sentient oracle and it's weird to assume it won't just give you a useless series of listicles.
Have you considered that "fun things to do in NYC with a ten year old" entered into Google might not return a particularly useful list of ideas. It's okay to ask for help from others, especially on a site where the premise is "post questions for others to voluntarily answer".
And then leads to inevitable posts like this one where they act like people earnestly pointing out how they were dickish is somehow "offending" people. Again, not every post on the internet is directed as you but when you inject yourself you can't assume you'll always get a standing O.
The whole "my online persona is all snark all the time" running into people genuinely asking for help in a positive way leads to tortured posts like this where the OP assumes cynicism is the only logical response.
And shoelaces were sentient creatures that defied the laws of gravity, possibly because they were surrounded by enough neon gas-powered lights to cause a rip in the ozone.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Whatever rules of decorum that mitigated these double-barrel dissents in previous generations of the court clearly don't apply anymore. I have to assume that a judge like Jackson, who walked into this snake pit knowing she'd have to work with these nimrods for years, isn't going to suffer silently.
The fact this farm's website has, at the top of the home page, with a disclaimer basically saying they're forced by law to not officially sell their milk to consumers as drinkable by humans gives away the ghost. It's just performative nonsense for gullible buyers.
Hell, you lose that 13-10 game at home to a 6-5 Michigan team after already losing against one of only three ranked opponents you faced all year up to that point. Just a shocking future none of us true football fans could fathom to live in.
They should be happy knowing that this money from these tarriffs will go toward national interests like gold-plating the WH, giving Starlink a nice government contract, and funneling money to RFK Jr.'s anti-vax orgs as well as Trump via copious spending at his golf courses. Oh, and JD Vance vacays.
The fetishization of "Ivy League drop out" meaning these guys are geniuses and not losers who think their freshman-level idea is revolutinary, continues to plague SV. In no other world would "quit school because he had an idea about winning arguments" be trumpeted.
I mean, maybe if publications like NPR didn't keep promoting the false narrative that crime goes down under GOP rules, or that the party that elected a convicted felon actually cares about "law and order", the framing wouldn't stick so hard.
With Tesla losing value daily and Xwitter being a tire fire Musk needs to keep pulling those government bootstraps to shell out for junk like Starlink. It's basically this and SpaceX.
It all comes down to how motivated those two groups are. In general people who are somewhat approving of an unpopular guy don't really show up while people who are pissed about him do. My guess is that 38% is sorta soft and that 61% are only going to be angrier with price hikes and the like.
Yeah, the thing you want to see with any young politician is a willingness to learn from a loss and evolve. You can be the change/outsider for a time but then you have to show an ability to do the grunt work of being in government and not just a commentator.
The Biased Media Tells You These Dead Children In Gaza Had Their Whole Lives Ahead Of Them. But The Media Won't Tell You Their Life Expectancy Was Only 40. Tomorrow In The Free Press
The entire output of the Free Press is poorly-sourced garbage written by people like Olivia, who couldn't get a real reporting job writing, so they went to a glorified Substack that only cares about repeating RW talking points. But sure, NPR reporting something factually you dislike is the bad one.
He joined a betting company that let's compulsive gamblers place wagers on politics without originally telling anyone publicly but we're supposed to assume he's still a genius because his numbers say that Trump polls well with people who think the age of consent is oppressive.
Yeah, it's such a nothing article. At some point Dems are going to need to go home, so I guess this is an evergreen article. But "we think they think they made their point and so will be coming back in the future" isn't breaking news.
She deleted the post but it's crazy to even argue that "crime statistics across cities isn't useful for comparison purposes" when within DC crime is at a 30 year low. Just absurd justifications by people who think supporting this naked power grab will protect them.
Yeah, a guy sporting the Richard Spencer Fascist Fade definitely experienced the harrowing ordeal and is accurately retelling it.
This is a horseshoe theory pulling 3Gs around the pin at this point.
He either has a ton of friends in the editor class that can't read the room or a ton of enemies who wanted to unload on him, but either way it's rare to see a consensus "yeah, this guy doesn't have the juice and we should mock him for it" like this response for lots of publications.
"Dems definitely need to change their messaging as they...(checks notes) lead against the GOP because while voters might not like you, they REALLY hate the GOP"
There's a lot of things wrong about this article (Rahm Emanuel is in no way a 2028 candidate, for example) but the fact it cites that dumb WSJ poll saying Dems have the lowest approval ever but fails to note the same poll shows Dems ahead of GOP in future elections really bothers me.
It's way more absurd in NYC but the mayoral race here in Boston has a similar vibe, where Josh Kraft (son of the Patriots owner Bob and a guy who has lived in the city, tops, 2 years and never held office) is trying to appeal to people who don't live here but are mad about bike lanes.
His campaign is designed for the suburbanites who don't live in the city but periodically come in and think they'll get mugged as they walk to the M&M store or go to a Knicks game. It's playing to a base that can't even vote for you but helps you for some future statewide office run.
Elon Musk has been talking about how his plan to colonize Mars is only 5 years away since the mid-2000s, and yet people keep acting like he's almost there. These goobers just keep making stuff up and because they have money a gullible subset of the population keeps believing them.
It's also just sort of sad that they're doing this in service of a crypto pump-and-dump scheme, which is such a 2022-style scam. So it's loser misogynists who aren't even at the cutting the edge of grifting.
I think what he meant to say was "a pocket full of copyrighted works and Stack Overflow posts we stole, threw into a blender, and then incorrectly regurgitate back to you while also creating absolutely unhinged other pieces of information when we fail to find actual evidence for our claims."
I assume "Fight Club", "Boondock Saints", and a bunch of Tarantino movies are on heavy repeat.
They really are the most Edgelord guys you can imagine. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...
Apparently "butter" and "noodles" are also considered UPF in this report, at which point it sounds like you have to eat bark and beans with dirt still on them in order for it not to be deemed needlessly processed. Yes, there's too much junk food out there but this report doesn't differentiate it.
"Why won't young people gamble their money away like their parents?" is certainly one way of framing LV's issues.
Like, I get you have to use tools around you and while the reality of AI is less impressive than the marketing around it, it's really depressing that its misuses are so obvious they have to spell it all out.
Kessler never did the good version of what a fact checker is supposed to do. He wanted to be a player, not a referee
Yeah, I get Kessler has a lot of friends in the media and isn't the worst journalist out there but he's been a hack for over a decade and, if anything, got worse under Trump. His coverage of the first debate in 2024 was abysmal, and for a fact checker he's consistently been proven wrong.
I am really sick of all these pieces about the DOGE boys who uncritically and unthinkingly repeat the claim that they're "geniuses." We have to stop regurgitating out the label of "genius" exclusively for a certain type of special white little boy.
Also, it's weird that the bar for "getting along" is being able to play a board game without one person saying the other should be deported or questioning their existence.
We have a handful of neighbors who are cordial and nice...but also wear MAGA and Back the Blue gear consistently. So yeah, if you don't bring up politics they're fine but it's clear both based on conversations with others and our experience that it's not if but when it goes political.
"GOP wants to know what porn you're watching" feels like the type of government oversight conservatives purportedly cared about.
He writes the same way in The Atlantic and has similarly baffling prose, though I guess word counts do help tamp down egregious stuff like this abomination of a sentence.
This is Williams's entire journalistic output distilled down to two (succinct) sentences.
Anyone who believed this out of Trump just wanted a justification to vote for him that wasn't "I like what the racist old white man is saying".
It's such a weird gripe he has. The article is mostly quoting servers and owners who note a rise in people bringing in food; they aren't randos "not minding their business" or anything. He then complains other people aren't debating him on his points, which again are based on a wrong assumption.
This felt inevitable but people being unemployed isn't a thing Trump can get away from even if he lies about the numbers. Good employment rates under Biden didn't help and so if more people don't have jobs they won't really care what a report says; they'll just be mad at the people in charge.
I don't like the DNC as an institution but it's weird how the majority of voters wanting a different candidate than someone is deemed a conspiracy but when your boy is in the lead after a handful of states that's the true voice of the masses and you have to stop the count.
Are you referring to the dismissed lawsuit by some Sanders supporters after 2016 where they claimed Dems didn't give Sanders a fair shake and relied almost exclusively on disinfo from Russian hackers? Or is it a different conspiracy about 2020 where Sanders also lost?
And then we spend the next three years sorta corronating this new person/people who aren't people you dislike.
Literally nobody is corronating anyone but you seem to just be rejecting prominent Dems you don't seem to like and then saying "let's find someone else". That feels more like you want a mini primary now where you exclude people you don't like.
And there's no video, picture, or text evidence to controvert that.
It's also the last generation to not have a major online presence/paper trail so there's this belief we were all smart, funny, and worldly as opposed to blasting/singing Offspring's "Self Esteem" in our friends's Ford Escort on the way to the mall (hypothetically).
Don Jr's nipples and Kash Patel's eyes are locked in a battle of which pair can put the most separation possible between each.
If Devers goes to a third team and they underperform while the Giants suddenly wake up again, he'd officially enter "spooky cursed movie plot device" territory.
Dems do need to message that the GOP generally lies about shit and don't care about YM particularly, so they're going to push restrictive policies because they want and like to. But like how a lot of "economic anxiety" was also just cover for racism, this also just feels like sexism w/ a new name
I don't have the 2016 numbers but something like Trump had an 8-10 pt lead with YM vs Clinton, then Biden got them back, then they jumped back to Trump. I don't think Dem policy changed a ton in those 9 years; certainly not enough between 2020 and 2024. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
I agree that this messaging would work as a true statement but as we've seen with the young male vote flip flopping between 2016 to 2020 to 2024, a lot of the young men just don't want to vote for a woman as POTUS, and so some of the "prudish" framing is just fancy sexism.
The "let's get together and pick someone else" is called a "primary" and there are a lot of those (one in each state, even!) where Mr. Bonerchamp could have his voice heard on Johnny Unbeatable, the perfect candidate.
Regardless of your opinions on immunology her background prior was helping treat opioid addiction and identify disease outbreaks in poor communities. She's probably not the best but if this is some crank long con she's been doing it for years. Trump may just have accidentally picked okay.
I agree we should be suspect of any Trump nominee but her background seems at odds with the usual cranks Trump prefers.
Yeah, her doctorate was in the application of various technologies to predict and treat infectious diseases in lower and middle income communities. So while perhaps not directly on a specific disease or treatment, it still points to someone more qualified than the title implies.
I don't know if she's going to be great in the role but the guy Trump first nominated (Dave Weldon) was a doctor who was a vaccine skeptic and seems like an RFK Jr-style crank.
She does have a Ph.D. in immunology and supports vaccine availability, fluoride in the water, and various non-contentious public health standards under any administration other than one run by a crackpot like RFK Jr. This headline makes it sound like she's grossly unqualified but she's not.
I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.
This doesn't really mean anything; Americans don't like anyone in politics and yet when pushed will vote for one of them. And pretty consistently when Trump isn't on the ballot more people vote Dem over GOP. So it's evidence that your average poll respondent is just mad at the state of the country
I am, occasionally, surprised. When Trump first let Musk's script kiddies loose on the entire federal government with the ability to change things, I was surprised. But has it ever done anyone any good to say: "You're surprised? LOL"? No.
Internet denizens contain multitudes like everywhere else but there is a weird strain that absolutely are staunchly against exploitation of workers but also can't fathom a world where DoorDash doesn't drop off their dinner most nights because the driver just likes it.
I believe a lot of Trump voters meant to vote for a ton of his evilness but I really can't imagine even many of them voted for measles outbreaks and reduction in cancer screenings. RFK Jr. is a level of stupidity and evilness few quite prepared for.
I don't see her prosecuting anyone because there'd likely be little evidence beyond her word and Trump wants this to go away, not just shift to others in the news. "Clinton is on the list but Trump isn't" isn't a public discussion Trump wants out there.
The thing about the Maxwell pardon is that if there was this laundry list of noteworthy Dems on it, we'd have heard of it by now. So no matter who's named, you gotta know there are a lot of others not named and you can be certain they'll come out in the future and with way more credibility with it.
Ah yes, that'll throw 'em off the scent Donnie!
He seems to do well with low info voters unhappy with the status quo, but he has consistently struggled to keep them happy or stick around after that initial aggrievement dissipates.
It's an unknown but Trump's associates got dog walked in 2018 and 2020 and barely made it back to the majority in the House in 2022. And then even in 2024, the GOP made some gains but not really the type of landslide you'd expect given the apathy around Dems.
Also, someone who pays $8/mo to get greater visibility of his posts amongst the racists and the bots probably shouldn't be talking smack about how people allocate their money per week.
His support is very fleeting and mercurial; his low info hordes that vote for him but don't otherwise seem on the radar aren't going anywhere, but the marginal voters that got him to the WH seem like they sour on him quickly.
The email the acting President sent out got a very "fun" response from me, even though I know it's just going to wind up in some anonymous mailbox.
I remember watching Disclosure in 1994 and him being the victim of sexual harassment remains least believable thing in Michael Crichton's ouvre that includes cloned dinosaurs, talking gorillas, Paul Walker time travel to medieval France, and Antonio Banderas existing in the Beowulf universe.
Yeah, I have no idea where he thinks $3T is coming from beyond a press release from the WH repeated uncritically. If it's over a 10-15 year span I guess but then you might as well include the trillions in lost exports the US will suffer from retaliatory tariffs and lost sales.
But it's already a tax that people are paying every day on goods and services, so it's not like they are popular. Dems could cut the tariffs in half, lower prices for consumers in the process, and still collect a ton of money.
It follows Trump's general "Business Guy Power Movez" schtick in that it's obviously fake but also dramatic enough that it works for people who are easily fooled. It also doesn't work on camera at all because it's so stagey.