The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.
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The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.
they've got McDonald's in DC
and you bet your ass whatever private school he sends his kids to will require them
he'll cut a deal with them for some personal pet projects and we'll never hear a peep out of them
but this isn't coming from nowhere, nor is it a media invention. Dems could speak to the inability to buy a home or save for retirement, have a bold Project 2029 but so far the energy is being put to relitigating how toxic progressivisms brief cultural moment was www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-...
you're right it was a big nothing even as people now feel the sting of the missing child tax credit, more children are in poverty. that feels like messaging battle that got swallowed by inflation and Biden's infirmity
people are dumb; this is true! it feels like Dems are ignoring the primal screams of wealth inequality in favor of measured means tested responses that they swear poll 7% better. no wonder they're so underwater with literally everyone in the country! focus on this first and you'll actually win votes
many millions of people have disagreed and it would be swell for liberals to reckon with why
no one is going to elect Democrats who want to cling to the pre-Trump status quo; the referendum of 2024 makes clear a plurality of voters don't care about authoritarianism if it means they aren't constantly squeezed by prices
In WMM, dissenting Judge Oldham (a Trump appointee) would have held that, despite what SCOTUS said in JGG, accused Tren de Aragua members aren't even entitled to hearings on whether they’re really TdA. Being Venezuelan is enough to remove them under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation.
isn't he a doctor
found our Trump Buster candidate
abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-... closing until Feb 2026
to who?!? this is "how do you do fellow kids" but with right wing memes
children would make way better memes this reeks of a 35 year old with Twitter brain melt
maybe the most prescient Simpsons gag of all
BLIMP FORCE
both judges WORKED IN THE TRUMP 1 ADMINISTRATION
no one is making you be here man, and there is no universe where people being mean to you on BlueSky is the same as the dreck of Twitter
ghoulish behavior
when Congress doesn't rein him in, and the courts take too long and have zero enforcement mechanism to prevent him from ruling by fist, he definitely can do these things
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
by 2100 white males will be 68% gum
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
why does he need to moderate he's not trying to win Georgia
Ill functioning AI becomes a self-fulfilling mechanism that the GOP can point to in order to justify cutting government service
It's the Schwarzenegger/Rock dilemma; this man is so large it almost requires justification
what dictatorial powers are Dems afraid he'll seize in a shutdown? it seems pretty bad to continue to feed the beast
His secret identity as the hulking mass of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne might be a little easier to suss out as well
but the unfair burden on businesses! this would cut Scrooge McDuck style baths in an untold number of gold coins IN HALF
the Revolution was largely caused by material conditions (e.g. famine); the Terror was a product of misinformation
tired: more female prison guards wired: more independent military equipment repair contractors
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congressional Democrats often see Republicans as colleagues and voters as the enemy instead of the other way around
the Dems as I've seen them in my lifetime will not wield executive authority for liberal principles the same way Trump's been doing, leaving MAGA policy as the default. gutted cabinet depts, govt stakes in American corporations etc aren't getting undone
you don't think running to SCOTUS to turn his fringe theories into court rulings will have a permanent effect? he's turning DC into a laboratory of autocracy
it'll keep being this way until we throw off the gerontocracy
you also have to talk to Bret
podium, scaffold, who can say
what promise do we have that if we make it to another administration THIS one will be held accountable in any way shape or form
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
all news is good news (if your job is to publish the news)
don't conflate distaste with you personally with the violent racist and antisemitic accounts that dominate Twitter
Trump will be prepping his own DC triumph by the midterms
idiots
the "how-to-punch-left" workshop
we're allergic to punishing powerful people, this has been pretty much inevitable since we decided to end Reconstruction prematurely
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
it's not popular so they have to move fast
New (old) Christianity
and while information sources can and do lie (just look at how they cover price increases via tariffs vs economy under Biden!) it seems pigheaded to ignore complaints that people have not just about the perception of change but actual change in prices they experienced
I think people take part in the economy in a much more frequent (and typically more direct) way than they might experience crime
you're not wrong! www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
my point is if you shout "it's not the economy that's bad, it's your PERCEPTION of the economy that's bad" at the 90% of people claiming the economy is an issue that matters to them, it probably isn't just a media framing issue and you definitely aren't going to win an election
VOTERS said the election was about the economy!!! it was a top issue for 9/10 voters!!! news.gallup.com/poll/651719/...
lol and then those people turned around and voted for Trump because a 1.4% rise in real wages didn't outpace what they spent
Democrats didn't lose (only) because the media decided the most important issue was inflation under Biden; they lost because inflation WAS high and Dems did very little to grapple with those realities and decided the best path to the WH was saying "no it's not"
right I'm glad in the aggregate wages went up but the reality was things getting more expensive for everyone, it wasn't a great economy for many people
“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was…”
boooooooooooooooooo
people with the tiniest bit of awareness can plainly read grappling with DC crime or antisemitism as pretexts for policies they wanted to implement anyway. but you only have to go to a grocery store, try to hire a contractor, etc to SEE higher prices
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Right after the NFL invests in ESPN? What a coinkydence
Stephen Miller? The speechwriter? www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
a departure you say?
you mean these fascists don't care deeply about collegiate antisemitism?!?
keep broadcasting those pics of his nominee "bystanding" Jan 6
I think he's so slavishly committed to what polls best that there's no room for policy to lead not follow public opinion
Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks.
yes bring back the liberal arts; if only the job market rewarded or even tolerated these degrees
NPR do a sympathetic Luigi interview please
they just simply create the conditions they railed about for 4 years
Reading about the former model with zero experience in historiography or the arts who will now curate, among others, the National Museum of African-American History & Culture and the National Museum of the American Indian
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
my guy I urge you to touch grass why are you complaining about Internet randos desires for action plus letmegooglethat.com?q=wildcat+st...
we all need protection from this administration my man
so far the "do nothing" has been an absolute success then?
“Today, we’re announcing a public safety emergency,” Trump says Currently up on the Department of Justice’s website: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
fewer police to interfere with the nationalized guard when Trump launches the self coup part 2
we're doing a territory swap
time for a general strike
It feels like they're largely afraid to make too big a deal about Trump's lawlessness because he came back, despite this administration already doing things 10x as authoritarian. I can't tell if it's self preservation, cowardice, hopelessness, genuine belief in the system or what
is the confidence "SCOTUS wouldn't let it get THAT far" really keeping Dems and even Independents or non-Kool Aid drinking Republicans on the sidelines?
if there's one thing universities can't stand it's unions
normalize throwing shoes at shitty politicians
Whitest Party U Know
when theyve bent businesses, law firms, and universities to their will why would they care about what voters think?
why not your mom's there
and national papers to carry water for the "two schools of thought on the issue" as if they're both equally valid
go back to the sewer slimeball
what crime did they commit? are they empowered to force their return? just a very scary joke on us all