It comes from believing his ignorance and blanket "skepticism" (denial) is "expertise". He KNOWS (he says) his "truth", and the world MUST (without looking) conform to his "truth". He's not lying, as such. But he is literally delusional.
Tolerance is an agreement, not a suicide pact. We AGREE to tolerate each other. If one aide refuses to tolerate the other, then there IS NO AGREEMENT to uphold, and we are NOT called to tolerate their intolerance. No paradox at all.
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It comes from believing his ignorance and blanket "skepticism" (denial) is "expertise". He KNOWS (he says) his "truth", and the world MUST (without looking) conform to his "truth". He's not lying, as such. But he is literally delusional.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Batteries. The amount of solar panels, and the batteries to hold the energy for the cars, is pretty huge and expensive.
Is the pixie you're hearing from in the room with us now, Nancy?
So much of "new" food products introductions are "Well, that was sorta interesting as an experience. Now incinerate the rest of it and we'll agree to never discuss it again."
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Bwahahahahahaha She is beyond delusional
What drugs is she taking? Can she share with the country? We should all be so addled ...
Trans people never stole the entire Social Security database and put every American at risk by uploading their personal information to an unsecure server. But Trump and Elon Musk sure did.
REMINDER: It’s been 222 days since Trump was sworn in but he has still NOT released the complete Jeffrey Epstein files.
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
Sounds like a 3-yo "Mommies are Mommies; they can't be sisters or daughters or teachers; that's just common sense"
Trans people aren't stopping Americans on the street and demanding to see their papers. But Trump's Gestapo sure are.
Well, we all KNOW that da Vinci's patron told him what to paint, so really, the PATRONS should be credited as the "artist".
one thing to remember about "ICE is going to occupy Democrat strongholds" is that ICE, if it hires to capacity, will employ about 26k people by the end of 2026, which is 1/3 smaller than the NYPD, which is not a large enough police force to occupy New York City itself.
Johnson: "Again, I reject your reality and substitute my own"
This whole Ashli Babbitt obscenity reminds me that Trump is all over the Epstein files like a syphilis rash.
Johnson: "I reject your reality, and substitute my own"
"Brave Texas lawmakers ask private citizens to do their dirty work for them. Such brave cowboys"
Trump: "$10 Trillion in tax cuts is great; a couple mill for some broad is just too much!!'
If he thinks a few transgender people out of several thousand murderers is "a common denominator," wait until he hears how many of them were using automatic weapons.
"Look, we bomb and starve babies, and let them die of horrible diseases, but we don't use the F-word!! We're HOLY people!!"
The bigger issue is their "data" is anything BUT. They design their survey questions as the most milquetoast whiny nonspecific pablum, then are SURPRISED I TELL YOU SURPRISED when they don't poll well. They designed the questions for the results they want, NOT to test the actual positions
The bigger issue is their "data" is anything BUT. They design their survey questions as the most milquetoast whiny nonspecific pablum, then are SURPRISED I TELL YOU SURPRISED when they don't poll well. They designed the questions for the results they want, NOT to test the actual positions
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Only the Officially Selected Sycophants are allowed in the room.
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
"Did you really mean to say that out loud?"
These kinds of anti-trans beliefs ignore the fact that there is MORE variation WITHIN gender than there is BETWEEN genders. It's simply an attack on ANY variation from an imaginary "norm"
Extreme Right has the easier task "it's simple: THOSE people are making it bad, and we're gonna get rid of THOSE people" If it can be colored in with the kid's box of crayons at Cracker Barrel, it wins.
I realize NO ONE else has this take, but I'm gonna say it: The National Guard are scabs now. These are potentially union jobs, many of which were outsourced, now they're insourced, but without union labor.
"There is no such thing as 'settled constitutional law' in front of the Roberts court...The Republicans make up the rules of the game as they’re playing it to make sure Trump wins every time." Read @elienyc.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Might be true if it wasn't the "please, don't protest so LOUD, you're spoiling cocktails and canape time" part of the party doing it.
No. He announced "they" plan to. There is no legal basis. "Trump is intending to illegally take over Washington, D.C.'s famous Union Station" See how easy it is?
Trey Gowdy " They are wif the Great Big Sky Daddy who wuvved them the vewy vewy biggest" Fuck off, you infantile imbecile. Fuck off until you some to the sign that says "no fucking off beyond here" climb over and fuck off forever.
Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.
They’re not making the slightest pretense of doing anything but weaponizing a federal agency against Trump’s enemies, and the New York Times’ response is “Well played, sire!”
Trump NEVER gives a pardon for what you *did*; he ONLY gives a pardon for what you *will* do... For him
"Did the muggers hurt your feelings, Stephen? Are they in the room with us right now!"
Trump is absolutely hoping that one of these guys shoots somebody, then there are protests with vandalism, which can then become the excuse for the REALLY violent crackdown. I wrote about this the other day: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-want...
Democrats are now putting on better/more expensive parties, so... Remember: Access Axios - All the News that Gets Us Invited to the Best Parties
Dresden, Occupation of Berlin, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki would like a word...
It's SO much easier for history to support your priors when you don't know any history ...
“Birthing person”: extremist, divisive “Poisoning the blood of our country”: normal, healthy
Arguably one of the greatest shortcomings of today's intellectual environment is the widespread failure to understand how digital power works. You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.
The DEEP roots of Cracker Barrel, which go back far into the (...checks notes...) Nixon administration...
When centrists make bumper stickers, they have to use a 4-point font.
No one keeps the powder dry like Hakeem Jeffries.
if American corporations were spending billions of dollars on Netflix subscriptions with the intent of obfuscating accountability and putting people out of work you might have some sort of point!
My wife's Android (also in LA) has the same issue. *Mine* (using a 30-year-old Bay Area #) does not.
"27 peer reviewed Druids stated that 100% of the people who touch grass will be curb-stomped by Yetis by 2028"
"Well, at least the NAZIS are NICE to ME!!" ain't much of a flex, dude. One nice Nazi still makes a Nazi bar.
Given all that, I was surprised to see Charlotte Swasey join on, but it makes sense given the string of "practical politics polling" articles. I would prefer to see "how to make the left case stronger", but Swasey is more pragmatic, I guess
Yes, it MOST certainly is that common.
It's like saying "TikTok is part of our long Southern Heritage"
If your only argument against evidence is your ideology, you have no argument.
"Paul Blart, Mall Cop, joins ICE"
Zephyr Teachout, "Corruption in America". Up until about 1970, corruption was about the APPEARANCE of corruption, not the need to provide documented agreements between parties to PROVE corruption.
"Well, you know how Batman says 'and thank you, Robin', but only Batman gets the award? Kinda like that "
This thread nails it:
Given the prevalence of Real Estate and Construction company owners in local politics, these efforts are *all* about short-term grift for the already-privileged. Tucson *just* defeated (like, last week) such an effort. The self-satisfied smarminess of the "pro" politicians in interviews is awful
It is ridiculous that Donald Trump has ceded so much power to Laura Loomer—an ignorant bigot who’s constantly spreading conspiracy theories. by Elon Musk
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
Possession of classified materials at a home... Now where have I heard this before? Wasn't it four years ago, some obscure place like Mar a Bobo? Mar a Logo? Something like that....
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Shorter version of the article: "Look, Mom!! The Nazis like me!! They really like me!!"
Who CARES what she said? She does not and cannot have ANY knowledge about it.
Shorter DOT: "We got away with it. Tee Hee."
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Not really that unusual for D.C. to go seven consecutive days w/o a homicide. Happened in May and March (16 days, actually), last September, last August, last April, last March, last January. Plenty of 6-day stretches in there too. No homicides between 7/12 and 7/19 this year.
Them: But it's not fair to say they supported "white supremacy," that's just your woke spin on the past The Past:
This is the headline I show my students when we talk about Alabama adopting its current state constitution in 1901. I teach in Alabama
JD: "I reject your reality, and substitute my own"
“You can’t talk about slavery unless you also talk about the civil rights act (which I do not support) or the voting rights act (greatest mistake of the 20th century) or brown v board (judicial hubris!) or the reconstruction amendments (tyranny!)”
"Nine days if you ignore the 30 years of crime reduction before that!! God created Earth in seven days; we solved crime in Nine days!! Just like my Sunday School teacher done taught me!!"
"While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about how much better off *I* am as a result of it."
Idiocracy + Man in the High Castle === random chance with the STUPIDEST possible people in charge....
"THIS isn't government censorship!! THIS is the government allowing random unqualified people to enforce our laws!! TOTALLY different!!"
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own!"
DC is over-run with EWB - Existing While Black. Clearly crime.
There is. But were you aware that the Proud Boys you see all over CA are really just the same 50 dudes from Bakersfield traveling place to place to look bigger than they are? There's a lot of weapons - but in very few hands
Yeah, but all the red is dirt.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you
This wild abuse of power is flying under the radar. The CHIPS Act does not demand an equity stake in companies in exchange for funding, Trump has zero authority to make this demand, and withholding congressionally appropriated funds is illegal. But nobody cares. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/l...
“In a far-flung province known for its extreme right-wing politics, the ruling party is holding an opposition party official hostage in the Capital building. The lawmaker, who is a member of the Black ethnic minority, has been told she’d be arrested if she leaves the building.”
Louisiana - The "Me Too, Me Too, Me Too, Hey Guys Wait Up!!" State
"Are the LEO's in the room with you now? Can you point to them?"
Does my Epstein look big in this flag?
"Coming up next on MWPTVC..."
No big deal "It's just till we get in office ..." "It's just sports," "It's just restrooms." "It's just your pronouns." "It's just your name." "It's just your medications." "It's just your job." "It's just your kids." "It's just you."
I'm not a fan of Gavin Newsom, but I'm a fan of Democrats fighting back aggressively and creatively against fascism instead of playing the same tired game of hoping things just work out. I wish others with a national profile would have the guts to fight back aggressively and creatively, too.
"Grift hath it's Privileges"
Life comes at you fast