The whole point of saying he would speak at 2 p.m. was to end the rumors that he's dead and now they're taking 45 minutes to staple his face on and put an iron rod and hooks up the back of his suit? It's not ideal.
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The whole point of saying he would speak at 2 p.m. was to end the rumors that he's dead and now they're taking 45 minutes to staple his face on and put an iron rod and hooks up the back of his suit? It's not ideal.
Shocking that telling voters “we’re all going to die” didn’t work out for Joni Ernst
This is like discovering that a Palm Pilot that you were sure you threw out in like 2002 is still in the back of your desk drawer.
I reviewed Sam Tanenhaus' biography of William F. Buckley for The New York Review of Books. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
![No one will ever write a biography of consequence about Rich Lowry. While remembrances of William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review, often speak of the void in conservative commentary he left behind upon his death in 2008, few of them hazard to ask whether at least the mediocrity of his heir at the magazine may have been his own fault. After all Buckley picked Lowry in 1997 over two promising young conservatives who went on to careers of influence and significance: David Brooks and David Frum. Bright as they might have been, Sam Tanenhaus writes in Buckley, his authorized but strikingly candid biography, both had clear demerits in Buckley’s eyes. “I said that I thought it would be wrong for the next editor to be other than a believing Christian,” Buckley told National Review’s board. “George [Will] agreed and added that the next editor should not be a Canadian.” Brooks and Frum, Jewish Canadians, were thus ruled out. Lowry it was. This snapshot of the American conservative movement fits within a larger view that most people left of center already took for granted even before Donald Trump began his political rise: that the right is animated substantially, and perhaps fundamentally, by ugly and irrational prejudices. Conservatives who protest that the charge is unfair often cite the example Buckley set in his work and his life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ylgbet7hkz6ntdh6eljnsri/bafkreigzonyvzqefguk7igsruhvc2bddlmnf7435ajlvj2inry6n3z4kfa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Correct.
Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them
The people who have spent the last three months gassing on and on about how "dangerous" Mamdani is are looking stupider and more dishonest by the minute.
"Democrats need to avoid Blueskyism" says guy on Elon Musk's website.
For a lot of the right and right-leaning centrists, actual leftists and progressives are not annoying enough, so they rant about the versions they made at home from scratch, then blame real people for imagined sins and postures. p.s. Silver doesn't actually want the left to win, does he?
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
How the Trump Death Fantasies Reveal a Democratic Party That Refuses to Face Its Own Flaws, by Some Very Serious Guy at The Atlantic, coming sometime this week, I imagine.
New on Pinkerite: A former neo-Nazi defects from Emil Kirkegaard's neo-Nazi network www.pinkerite.com/2025/09/a-fo...
So she decided to make a big stupid issue over a technicality. She's a tiresome know-it-all and I'm going to block her ass.
You're pedantic and tiresome. Go away.
It's odd that you, who are apparently progressive, does not consider The American Prospect a good source.
Did you read it, know-it-all? "And Fox’s problems are about to get worse. Fox is both a network and the owner of 29 individual lucrative TV station franchises, including in 14 of the 15 largest markets. Their licenses require renewal by the FCC every eight years."
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
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.
One way to think about Bill Maher is to ask what he would have done if the Bush administration threat had scared him into rolling over and how that would be different from what he has done
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You hate Obama because he's Black. That's why you left the Democratic Party in 2008. Buh-bye.
Like how Elon Musk bought into Tesla years after it started and required himself to be designated a “co-founder”
rich people yoinking stuff and thinking they earned it is a constant of nature. trump thinks he can bully people into giving him a Nobel. people who think prompting AI makes them an artist. losers who cry when people tell them stealing the trophy isn't the same as winning the trophy.
You're just a stinking racist and there is no point trying to reason with a stinking racist. Now go away or I will block you.
LOL - a POTUS who doesn't control a government-run plan to get an international terrorist? Oh right, your hero never knows what is going on but you love him all the same: "the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom." www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/p...
LOL - did your cult tell you that you must not believe what you see with your own eyes? www.yahoo.com/news/article...
How about Trump's inability to walk a straight line? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2u2...
Did any of you brain geniuses ever figure out why Trump was wandering around on the White House roof? Did you come up with a good excuse for that? I'm sure it's a great story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u0q...
HAHAHAH - "criminal investigation" by a would-be dictator and rapist psychopath cult leader. Obama lead the team to get bin Laden you idiot. What is wrong with your brain? Are you all excited about the prospect of Trump giving a convicted sex trafficker a pardon? You must be over the moon.
Musk needs to go to jail for this.
Musk’s donation ( bribe ) bought him this , the dismantling of USAID, and his Afrikkkaner refugees. Everything is a grift for pay-to-play Trump. That is why CEOs are presenting him gifts and fealty to get the weight of the US State behind, not on, them. #taxtherich
LOL - of course you would deny Obama's greatest victory, like a disgusting racist. Now go back to twitter before somebody drops a house on you.
They're all going to jail one day, dipshit.
Fox News paid $787M dollars to settle the defamation case for promoting this lie, you idiot. Now go back to Twitter. apnews.com/article/fox-...
I don't care what a racist who worships a psychopath thinks.
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
He's definitely locking up the "New Yorkers with total amnesia" vote.
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
I'd rather have Biden pardon non-violent drug offenders with an autopen than the orange atrocity sign pardons for traitors and child-rapers with a real pen, any day. The "autopen" thing is one more bullshit story invented by Trump to enrage his cult full of morons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmom...
You're such a racist that to you, a smart and decent Black man, who killed bin Laden, is not as good as a disgusting orange rapist psychopathic crook and best friend of Jeffrey Epstein. I don't think it's possible to be more racist than you.
You left the Democratic Party in 2008 because it nominated a Black man and you're a degenerate racist.
I guess Bari doesn't agree with that though. Unless the man is a billionaire who wants to fund her grift.
And BTW - I know this is news to you because MAGA idiots know nothing - Trump uses autopen. Because he's a lying, cheating, corrupt hypocrite who is good a fooling dullards and ignoramuses who don't care about facts and just believe whatever they want to believe. www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
"The interview had no evident legal purpose. It was a damage-control operation. Blanche was not so much investigating Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes as attempting to exculpate President Donald Trump..."
Astrologer: "I see a period of trouble and disruption in your future" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump is a life-long crook and a psychopath who doesn't care about anybody but himself - his one talent is to convince morons that he's not a crook and a psychopath - with a lot of help from the assholes who created a fake version of Trump for The Apprentice. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
Compared to Trump pardoning J6 TRAITORS including those who committed OTHER crimes - and next Trump will pardon Ghislaine Maxwell - a convicted sex trafficker - to shut her up so she stops leaking things like the Trump-Epstein birthday card. www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/p...
"... Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of more than 2,000 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses..." non-violent drug offenses - in many cases for marijuana which is now LEGAL in many places - www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
LOL - you believe ANY bullshit they shovel at you, don't you?
You can't wait for Trump to pardon convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, like he pardoned all those Jan 6 criminals, can you? What a disgusting, corrupt, rapist-friendly administration this is - supported by degenerates like you. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
And you hate the cops and the rule of law. www.politico.com/live-updates...
The Republican Party stands for fascism and protecting pedophiles and releasing dangerous criminals if they support the Orange POS. THAT is why you love the GOP you disgusting freak. Now go back to twitter. www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
Fox paid $787 MILLION dollars over the Dominion lawsuit because Fox LIED about the election - the kind of lie that fools idiots like you. That's why this country is divided - so many idiots like you believe the nutty lies you are fed by the right-wing fascist machine. apnews.com/article/fox-...
LOL - Watters apologized for promoting bullshit. But promoting BS is SOP at Fox. Fox News needs to lose its broadcasting license for coming to this country from Australia and poisoning the minds of our weakest-minded citizens - like you. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
It's been established you are weak-minded. No other person would want a treasonous rapist to be POTUS - unless of course they hated the United States of America.
WTF is wrong with New Hampshire?
Willed this into being by sheer posting power bsky.app/profile/luck...
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
Babbitt was a crackpot and Trump got her killed by promoting insane lies that were believed by the weak-minded. People like you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
LOL - source: Jesse Watters. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
She was a traitor.
GO back to twitter scumbag.
Why don't you lead the way by finding a different platform besides the Nazi-friendly, Andreessen-funded Substack?
Because our media only discusses the most important topics with our political leaders. From USA Today re: the J.D. Vance interview: "The wide-ranging interview covered topics including...the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce engagement..."
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Democrats have got to sound the alarm. Trump administration dismantling Medicare right here.
I avoid Substack as much as possible.
2 months ago, Hegseth ordered the Navy to strip the name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk. But terrorist Ashli Babbitt given a military honor funeral and her family a $5 million check.
This is the plaque honoring the officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6. It was approved by Congress 3 years ago, but the GOP won't allow it to be installed. It is sitting in a Capitol basement utility room surrounded by tools and maintenance equipment. But Ashli Babbitt.....
Maybe time to think about finding a new platform to replace Nazi-friendly Substack.
It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
I want to see every Democratic senator and representative exhibit, at the very least, the level of courage being shown by the CDC staffers who are walking out in protest.
If you were out to destroy the world, this is how you'd do it:
(So this happened.) Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... via @seattletimes
The Republican Party must be punished for its evil.
"That deafening silence on Tuesday was Republicans and business leaders reacting to Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab: his effort to fire Lisa Cook" My latest column: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
"Leaders, rather than risk their future, and the future of their businesses, are keeping schtum. In doing so, they are abrogating their duties not only as prominent citizens but also as the major beneficiaries of the legal and institutional underpinnings of American capitalism"
If ingesting contaminated food resulting in the acquisition of a brain worm is good enough for the Secretary of HHS then clearly it’s good enough for the rest of us too.
Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.
This is not surprising, but so appalling. About 180 FEMA staff members knew they would be risking their jobs to communicate the degradation of emergency response under Trump tells you how bad things are. We can't say we were not warned, but the people who warned us are being punished for doing so.
Well, I'll take it
Trump was literally convicted of defrauding lenders on a massive scale and it’s been completely forgotten, as our political media thrills to Trump weaponizing uncharged penny-ante, likely-accidental mortgage application misrepresentations against his enemies.
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!”
Horse race coverage, but the horses are democracy and authoritarianism
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
If Trump supporters actually found mortgage fraud to be disqualifying for high public office, they would not be Trump supporters.
"Trump signed an order to create a special "quick reaction force" in the National Guard for 'quelling public disturbances' in every state in the U.S., on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week." www.signorile.com/p/the-danger...
To make the stakes clear, potential Dem Presidential candidates should say that if SCOTUS allows this they will fire any Trump Fed appointees in 2028. Because that is the logical endpoint.
“refiling her case as a misdemeanor after they were unable to persuade three grand juries over a month to indict her…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
HAHA MAHA New York Magazine takes out the race pseudoscience trash. nymag.com/intelligence...
“To defense lawyers and even some prosecutors, many of the cases that have landed in court have raised concerns that the takeover seems intended to artificially inflate its effect because govt lawyers have been instructed to file the most serious federal charges, no matter how minor the incident.”
Wait until he renames Labor Day as Capital Day.
NY Post tomorrow: Mamdani's Secret Plan to Win Election - Murder His Supporters
I would like some clarity from the Third Way Republicans about what, exactly, they hate about "LGBTQIA+." Do they also hate "LGBTQ+"? How about "LGBT"? In other words, is this "Don't use language I don't like" or "Stop talking about those people as if they matter?"
New on Pinkerite: Mad about Mamdani - Lulu Lemon is soured on New York's future mayor www.pinkerite.com/2025/08/mad-...
Enjoy your proximity to the Malignant One, Trumpists. Time will tell whether you'll end up like John Bolton.
This is exactly what it looks like. Every day Trump using state power against his perceived enemies. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/f...