Another example of the simplest truth: today’s republicans are like landmines - they completely blow up under the slightest pressure. We should stop treating them as if they’re anything else.
Another example of the simplest truth: today’s republicans are like landmines - they completely blow up under the slightest pressure. We should stop treating them as if they’re anything else.
You can sense he thinks the end is nigh by Epstein or by embolism and he’s getting impatient.
Hmm, but then why bother if you’re them? You already have that in your hand at the outset. They’ve been portraying cities as lawless wastelands for years and blaming it on the governors.
I think people have severely underestimated how much the name ‘Kennedy’ has inoculated many people from recognizing just how crazy this bastard is. This is the Liver King in a suit.
Exactly. As far as I’m concerned, people like Tim Cook are offering gifts and bribes to someone intent on destroying the constitutional order. He ought to know that on the other side, a renewed civic order with a stiffer spine awaits his explanation as to what he thought he was doing.
Far more serious and salient is the collapse and supplication of institutions and elites. All the more reason for serious Dems to promise hellfire for all collaborators - they’re only prostrate for Trump because they think there’s no downside to being so.
Just magic. Effortless from Marvin. Hearing it without the music really shows how he could bend and twist and move through range, but always always always his voice found its way to maximum soul, like cream finds its way to the top.
It’s the relish with which they grasp for spice. “Crackdown” and “ensnared” are chosen for a reason, and it isn’t because they best describe the action. It’s because they allow for the fetishization of power.
There is no policy issue where they “have a point”. Anything they do that isn’t overtly destructive is either an accident or a sweetener to mask the poison, and far too many Ds are willing to slurp it down because they imagine some idiots in Ohio will reward them in due course. They won’t.
I cannot understand how any democrat—large and small D, elected and unelected—can look at the last six months and think the answer is to offer any reconciliation or bipartisanship to this administration on any issue. It is heartbreaking to see our best hope prove to be our worst enemy.
Reeks of the lamp.
We are witnessing the attempted North Korea-ization of the US - the winding of an entire nation’s past, present, and future around the delusions of one addled, incompetent man. If he could have Trump College, Trump Institute of Health, Trump’s Own Volunteers, Trump Victory Day, he would.
By what measure are these people and their ideas American?
This may not be the worst day in American history, but it may be the most un-American.
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
With consultants like these, who needs enemies?
Criminals are well versed in the silent agreements that come with quid pro quos. There’ll be no smoking gun in the transcript because both parties understood the assignment.
We are beset on all sides by assault on every aspect of civic life and these people insist on prosecuting yesterday’s war.
The devil works hard but Marc Elias works harder.
Letting innocent children die in agony abroad so we can burn the hands of innocent children at our border. Hell is too balmy for these monsters.
“How is it a power grab when arson by Dutch communists has declined 100% in a week?”
The thing that will bring Vance’s (and his backers’) ambitions to a screeching halt is this: they are boring, lame, awkward, uninteresting, and above all, *uninterested* in any perspective but their own. You could picture yourself having a beer with them. But it’d be in the 9th circle of hell.
He is the most humorless person I’ve ever seen. He has no charm, no wit, no warmth. His eyes are dead and his laugh is mirthless. His brain is a simple machine that repeats the same question over and over: what’s in it for me?
The amount of strategic harm done by Jake Sullivan could and will fill libraries in the fullness of time.
The message it sends about Frank is very encouraging too, especially after all the handwringing about Ange aura/players loved him etc
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
You can just picture him in underpants and a stained sweater practicing this routine in his bathroom mirror.
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She's being honored as "Congresswoman of the Year," but she ignores constituents, helps cover up the Epstein files, and votes for bills that hurt working families.
This dude is shitting his pantaloons in addition to being embarrassed.
What a fucking psychopathic ghoul she is.
Everything he says stinks of the lamp.
Hank Hill would despise Trump, simply based on how he orders his steak.
Sadly Madders is in Richy territory now. Simply cannot be making plans around him and probably better to be making plans without him.
He’s reached that stage of sociopathic lying where he turns left and hits a wall, then turns right and hits another.
Anyone who watches this and concludes that this man is not guilty of something serious is either an alien with no understanding of the human condition or lying.
I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.
No policy argument matters in the face of this full frontal attack on our political system. I do not give a fuck about squabbling over tax rates or centrist vs left until this stain is removed permanently.
If it were up to me, the D’s platform in 2026/28 is very simple: 1. American Nuremberg Trials 2. Reforming the Supreme Court 3. Electoral College abolition and/or DC/PR statehood It’s a simple message: “these people want to flush the Republic down the shitter and we will ensure they cannot, ever.”
The press will smile and hold on to the railing as their entire profession sinks beneath the waves under assault from these idiots. They are (with some exceptions) a disgrace.
The present problem is that we have too few journalists and too many newsreaders. There is a gulf between them.
There’s endless footage of and anecdotes about the man in the company of young girls where his brain immediately jumps to sex/dating them. I don’t think this really qualifies as conspiracy thinking. If not the likeliest outcome, the sum of all MAGA fears doesn’t seem like the least likely either.
Nice to have players respond to what’s in front of them instead of “drive it across face as quickly as possible no matter what” and hitting ankles 80% of the time.
This feels to me like the moment worry evolves into panic for this administration. They’re already fumbling the ball.
Begging people to read (game) theory The worst outcome for you in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma is when you keep cooperating and the other side keeps defecting.
super cool to realize that the capacity for shame was a load-bearing part of our system of government and that the MAGA movement's total rejection of that is an insanely powerful cheat code
Kudus is cool on the wings but I think the player he could be most similar to is…Mousa Dembele. Powerful, choppy, impossible to dispossess dribbler with very limited end product. Am I the only one who sees this?
“We don’t retreat to calling balls and strikes, as if we’re disinterested umpires in a game between two equal sides…This is a unique moment in American history. It’s dangerous. There is an ongoing authoritarian attempt. We are on the side of democracy.” www.thebulwark.com/p/a-note-fro...
Say it straight: they’ve decided a few more diamonds on Lauren Sanchez’s third wedding dress is more important than a kid not being able to focus in math class because his belly is rumbling.
Quite simply a coward. There’s precious little more to say.
I would love to ask elected Dems what the value of the honorable schoolboy act is when the people whose trust you’re protecting would throw you off a bridge for the chance to lick Trump’s boots.
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
It’s because they all opted for this in their character creation screen
Newsom is one of the few people I think would properly stomp Vance in a debate. In the same way Walz’s “nice decent guy” thing let JD sane wash himself, the optics of a good looking bully rinsing an insecure nerd would be irresistible.
It doesn’t change his calculus either way.
I think Israel will press on regardless. Trump has showed his hand: all bark, no bite. For friends and enemies. Bibi knows if he gets the job done, Trump will act like it was his idea all along.
I would not be surprised if Vance wormed his way out of being there. He knows what this means if they go ahead: it will be the red line for about 50% of MAGA. He wants plausible deniability. Doesn’t want to be in “the room where it happens”
seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.
Where the fuck is Rubio? The “adult in the room”
Now imagine you are a senior Iranian leader forced to plan around these posts. This is how escalatory mistakes happen.
I find myself walking around my house reenacting this on an hourly basis recently. youtu.be/923-gUGCWkE?...
Translation: “this has nothing to do with me and don’t you forget it in 2028”
Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.
This is the only information you need to have to understand the larger reality.
Paging @rokhanna.bsky.social come get your boy.
300,000 more!
What the fuck is this? For shame!
this is my favorite kind of account. always show me posts from this kind of account
The weight of pass is astonishing. Buuuut the way he tackles makes me think he is guaranteed to have a serious knee injury in the near future.
Right now you are either on the side of the shouted question or the snapping handcuff, and it is very clear which side is correct.
This explains precisely why he has likely never read a book.
Whether it’s an escalation or not, is the current tariff rate on Chinese goods 55%? I have a hard time believing they’d accept that.
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.
Those who would take this advice don’t need it and those who need it will not take it. Once again, the people are asked to wage asymmetric warfare. The administration will find a pretext for escalation, even if they’re forced to manufacture it. So where does that leave us?
this site really isn’t ready for a serious news event
I get the sense this is mutually assured destruction gone awry.
Don’t think so. Elon ripped the steering wheel off. Think this one is going all the way. One of them isn’t making it out intact.
I’d rather incinerate my money than invest it in someone that credulous.
Possible that the % spent on groceries is smaller because people are front loading large, tariff-sensitive purchases?
The entire message needs to be “they are corrupt and we will punish them” Nothing more.
Odobert at 10 would be good. He’s got the Lucas Moura dribbly chaos about him. Sarr has been a disaster this season.
Drunk wine mom embarrassing herself
He buried Ivana under his golf course so he could keep cheating on her.
That is the dark underbelly of Ange’s tenure: we’ve normalized losing to a degree that people get on your back for being annoyed by it. Disgraceful, and any competent manager would have stopped the rot by any means necessary long before now.
Thanks!
Source? I see a few people saying this in the replies but I can’t find anyone reporting it.
“If they don’t do what we want, we’ll do exactly what they want.”
For so many of them, faith has always been a cloak and a dagger. Nothing more.
Watching the market eat this shit up, Wall Street pumping retail, and world leaders bending the knee is so unbelievably nauseating and disheartening.
Fuck all this emphasis on STEM in high school. Our kids should be taking nothing but civics, economics, history and journalism courses until they have some kind of fucking idea how the world actually works. They can do STEM in college. JFC, we are a nation of brilliant morons.
If they do that, they’d look like fools. They’ve already showed the picture with the crude Microsoft paint job. The difference between that and a real tattoo would be easily identifiable. Also, don’t they have pictures from the Van Hollen meeting?
It’s funny how when presented with evidence that their bullishness was the product of repeated lies, investors are…still bullish.
A ‘fair deal’ with Trump will never materialize for any country. Not because a fair deal couldn’t be struck, but because he is incapable of accepting anything that doesn’t heavily favor him.
I’m convinced that almost all of the game last night is explained by a massive gulf in physicality. Simple as that.
That’s why I think his approval rating still has plenty of room to run down.
