As Trump is said to have said, “People LOVE to hate.” More, it would seem, than they love anything else.
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As Trump is said to have said, “People LOVE to hate.” More, it would seem, than they love anything else.
The Know-Nothings burnt our ancestors’ churches down and they had to fight in a nightmarish Civil War against racists to preserve the union but within a couple generations plenty were voting racistly and performatively hating on Blacks and more recent immigrant groups. Go fucking figure. America.
A lot of those voters are taking the same bet that “White ethnic” voters have been taking for the past century — vote for the racist party and we’ll gradually extend to you the benefits of Whiteness, albeit on a provisional basis. Going by my Irish-American bretheren and sisteren it’s effective!
One of the more hilarious expressions of the Bush-era keyboard commandos, yet here we are again
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I periodically get The Right Brothers’ ‘Bush Was Right,’ released just as it was becoming clear even to the dead enders that he was wrong, stuck in my head. It used to make me chuckle but it hits different of late
You have to constantly stay vigilant when walking in New York at night. Otherwise when there's a cat in someone's window, you might miss it.
Cancun Cruz’s impoverished palate cannot even conceive of the glories of Vito & Nick’s. Sorry bastard probably never even made it to Frank Pepe’s when he was swanning around Yale
“Dominos” lol, AS IF. Chicago is one of the world’s great pizza towns and doesn’t need your suburban stip mall chow, Cancun Ted
No longer optional and possibly no longer an option.
(“White moderate” = “liberal” in much contemporary discourse onhere)
I assume OP is referring in part to King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail where he slammed "the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"
An AI-generated story on my Apple News scroll just informed me that crime is surging everywhere, especially in cities like Chicago. Truthy, as Stephen Colbert’s Bill O’Reilly analogue would say!
On top of everything else the amount of time any of our ancestors inhabited pretty much any place outside of the Rift Valley is invariably the blink of an eye in the sweep of human history and super recent. Humans got to Europe 45,000 years ago and Cheddar Man (~10,000 years ago) had Black skin.
When Zoomer incels talk about some hypothetical harlot's “Body count” I just chuckle mordantly in GenX
It’s mostly cowardly jockeying for position/assuming the position, inertia, elites telling themselves “well, it’s all terribly vulgar, but we’ll be fine, in any case...” And they’re probably right -- until the peasants get the guillotines out.
The Great Khan will loose The Hawk upon the enemies of his people and they will scatter just like the Confederate traitors did before the relentless advance of our ancestors
She got big important pieces of legislation through on impossible margins, which is the core job few do so well. In every other respect, she was awful.
Col. McCormick would be proud though
The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.
I'm not worked up about it because if anything he's helping Mamdani's chances. Jeffries is the poster boy for the party's ineffectual old guard and by now even normie Dems hate that guy. I do despise the worldview it typifies, in which hippie-punching takes priority over fighting literal fascists
Eh, I think he's perfectly familiar with the argument, he just builds strawmen around it because he's a degenerate nihilist and in his world nothing matters but lulz, likes and checks
She was so good at the job in many ways but the Jeffries pick just speaks to her first priority forever being to kneecap the left wing of the party. Heckuva job, Nancy.
Relatedly I spent more of my day than I’d like to admit searching for a Zombie The Mountain gif
I’m a cis man and in grade school the idiots in charge determined that I was getting picked on because I “walked funny,” by which they meant with… insufficient machismo? I was like 7 or 8. They tried to teach me how to walk right. I instead did like Monty Python silly walks til they gave up on me
We’re pretty sure one of our orange boy cats contracted pawtism from viral shedding. Of course the “experts” will say we’re crazy but we did our own research
Why not both? A whole team of failsons
this bread is terrible. but the circuses? also really terrible
Community gardener here to say that our garden’s 2-4 ferals want nothing to do with the legion of rats they cohabitate with (and given that poison bait stations are everywhere and poisoned rats routinely kill the local hawks, that’s a good thing)
"Bluesky is dying," they said, "AND THAT'S WHY IT MUST BE KILLED! DIE DIE DIE!"
It was never about learning loss, though. It was always "I had to spend too much time cooped up at home with my kids and they're driving me nuts"
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it
Are we getting tired of winning yet
"Hey, it's Kool Aid Man!" "Ah, no, sorry, kid, actually, it's the blood of your Lord and Savior"
Clearly it says you should drink a big ol cup of blood for 'em
Tattoo of a penis
Bleh, Champagne? Buy American and get yourself a decent bottle of rye whiskey to guzzle. Or if you're more of a beery person, Southern Tier makes a respectable pumpkin stout, which sems appropriate. If you're in the Upper Midwest, check out Minocqua Brewing Co. for appropriately themed brews.
Kind of feel like GenX is responsible for that aesthetic (sorry!) and the Chapo doods just came along and bogarted it but yeah
The actual banner doesn’t say “PEDO” but other than that, real photo
You cannot actually understand the right’s beliefs or behavior if you take their political claims at face value. But those beliefs and behavior make perfect sense and become very predictable if you understand it’s just a pretext to indulge in subrational, emotionally rooted anger and paranoia
In other news, abusers overwhelmingly support keeping families whole by banning divorce, and abused spouses are the only demographic that wants to make spousal abuse illegal
Can… Can *we* do that? Like nothing against Istanbul, awesome city but…
*all true of my city/suburb-dwelling “White ethnic” tribesman too, they can also suck shit
Having grown up among these people I have zero sympathy and I would love to see them get a taste of their own poisonous medicine, though I am profoundly sympathetic to the many good people living among them who would be collateral damage and a Re-Reconstruction would have to solve for that
Or, rather, of the day when The Leader sends The Troops to butcher their neighbors, because the cowardly old spuds would never deign to get their delicate hands dirty, of course
Rural Whites have gleefully allowed themselves to be worked into a bigoted frenzy against urbanites of all stripes. We talk about the info environment but they have been enthusiastic participants in the Rwanda-style radicalization of the Midwest, dreaming of the day they can butcher their neighbors
“J. B., what is good in life?”
Glad Bags Glad Bags What you gonna do…
Then it hit me: their job is not to enforce traffic laws but to *be* traffic.
Apropos of nothing i was biking across Chelsea last week and i spent several blocks behind one of those cute lil NYPD Traffic cruisers, fuming as it tootled past car after car double parked in the bike lane. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...
I thought Grueskin’s post was an Onion headline but nope it’s just Politico under Axis Springer
My wife did this to me. Had me eating the “Zen chicken” dish from the takeout place unawares for months. When I found out I’d been eating cruelty-free I was both livid and profoundly impressed. I never ordered that item again.
Gaah cankles
Also an infarction going by the candles, bruises and disordered thought?
Well we all know what Bob was like and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Instead of secession we kick the red states that abandoned the constitution out of the Union. We’re not the traitors here.
Oh my god, that post is art. Mancow, Creed, toxic GenX nostalgia for shitty chain restaurants, “Communism?” In that font? In yellow? It’s the whole package. Design is someone’s passion
or he’s soviet style controlled opposition
Of a piece with the whole conservative movement not having the courage of its convictions. They want white supremacism without being called racist. Go figure. Chickenshits.
But he’s also a big lug and it seems like he could rip a mf’s face off if he had to
Big papa bear energy on that guy
Shorter Pritzker: I WILL BE YOUR RETRIBUTION AGAINST THE JAGOFFS
The Chicago way.
Beyond the stirrings of — what, patriotic fervor? — that the Great Khan of the Plains’ words inspire, it warms the cheese-clogged cockles of my Upper Midwestern heart to hear them offered in such a fine, nasally Chicago brogue
People live years with CHF but if Trump cashes in his chips just as the economy goes tits up I really don’t see things going great for Vance’s handlers
“And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom”
If Trump invades Chicago, use of the word "jagoff" is going to increase to levels no Chicagoan thought possible.
It’s remarkable that a publication has been so consistent in its idiosyncratic suckiness for going-on-a-century
Or we could just nationalize healthcare coverage, Mark. Maybe there are some sectors that really aren't suitable for privatization? Maybe government, accountable to voters in a democratic society, and not private industry, accountable to institutional shareholders, is best suited to that task?
The reflexive bias toward coddling right wingers is maddening if you're on the left (hi!) but it probably didn't matter regardless -- both options, the gettable left fringe or the gettable suburban Republican lady voter grossed out by Trump, were probably too small to beat (small) Trumper wave
Like it's clear by the convention the campaign made the decision, abetted by most/all of their woolly-suited-and-minded consultants, no doubt, to unsee Gaza, sacrifice a bunch of lefty and Muslim/Arab votes (particularly in Michigan), and court squicked-out suburban Republicans instead.
I go back and forth on how gettable the "You're not the boss of me" faction of lefties are but I do think more pushback from her against Biden's Gaza policy might have brought some of them off the sidelines. Can't quantify it. Is that faction bigger than the Cheneyite apostate Republicans? No clue.
Yeah, I mean… they lost, and if that tactic was marginally effective it didn’t get them over the line
The subtext is of course “Goddamn centrists are forever trying to appeal to unwinnable Republicans instead of the base D voter” and that’s true but this was a calculated appeal. It didn’t work but it probably wasn’t decisive.
I think you can make a reasonable argument that the campaign spent way too much effort on wooing that particular sliver of their imagined coalition and not others but it’s all vibes and speculation
Amazing how much of this weekend’s Discourse has been about the hurt feelings of Mark Cuban and Tom Nichols
A funny thing about this language-policing-Teh-Left discourse is that the kind of people who use this language are by and large incredibly hostile to the Democratic Party and may or may not hold their noses and turn out to vote for its candidates because of that fact
Yup. So nice that amid actual fascist takeover we have the luxury of centering (see what I did there) apostate conservatives' God-given right to use non-inclusive language and not have anyone make them feel bad about it
I don't know what a standard definition of "progressive" might be and I get the seduction of the left-NIMBY vibe to people who have seen the real estate lobby roll our politicians over and over again, but if you're calling yourself a progressive and you're not prioritizing housing I don't know man
“YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME except for you, the unitary executive over there in the gold epaulets, you’re absolutely the boss of me, please Sir, I want some more… OF THAT D”
Funny that all the many older White Americans who exhibit textbook symptoms of Oppositional Defiance Disorder are the ones absolutely hornt to fluff that dick
August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime”
I want to believe
Love to see a strong blue state governor talking about sovereignty. Maybe @governor.ny.gov could try it on?
They will remain powerful and influential and ludicrously compensated because sapping the party on behalf of the billionaires is their job
A veritable Santorum of judicial ethics, if you will
What did you do in the civil war, daddy? Why I made sure that when the center left was inevitably returned to power the left left would continue to be marginalized and unable to raise taxes on our donor friends, pumpkin. K. Can I have your maggoty gruel, daddy? When do we get to leave the gulag?
Sewer socialism is having a moment!
Or you can just bring back leaded gas, worked on GenX and we can’t get a whole lot dumber tbh
Reactionary centrists do literally anything other than punch hippies challenge
I for one welcome our new lesbian cat overlords
No, this is the “Is it fascism or artisanal Dixieland fascism?” Debate
I prefer to invest my empty calorie intake in beer and wine but my stepdad-in-law, a minor civic saint,was as fanatical about Wise chips as he was about the Mets, so there’s something to be said for them
Yes, please proceed, MAGA weirdos, take Zoomer males’ games and porn away and we’ll see what happens
Two things can be true: 1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings 2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed
Brown is the best old guard Midwestern labor Senator since Feingold but shit, can we please stop running ancients for these longshot seats? How many times have these idiots run this play in Florida and come up short
the "we'll just leave it up to local government" shit from people like spanberger and buttigieg is shrugging at the modern equivalent of the woolsworth lunch counter
From your keyboard to God’s notifications, Josh, but I’ll believe it when the likes of Jay Jacobs and Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn cash in their chips and fuck off to Florida
And Hegseth, Pirro and Giuliani aren’t shitfaced, they’re just Irish, donchaknow
I looked it up and it turns out they are actually all Pennsylvania ass potato chips. Pennsylvania, I apologize, I was not familiar with your spud game