This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.
This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.
Trump's only real skill is self-marketing so it's kind of funny that he's surrounded himself with people who are very bad at doing that when he's infirm
Sliwa is easily the most normal non-Mamdani candidate and this is easily the best policy proposal to come from all three of them, which is saying something
I'm convinced they've shaved his head at this point. He hasn't been shown hatless in like a month.
Beginning to think they shaved his head
In a parallel universe JKR has decided to quietly live on an island with her HP wealth, doesn't care about trans people, and her only sign of existence is tweeting out bad come-ons involving HP spells once every two years
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
AI boosters are obviously high on their own supply but the median view among administrators is also dumb, which is that we must teach kids to use AI because "it's not going anywhere." There's lots of useless and/or malicious things that aren't going anywhere that we don't bring into the classroom!
Zohran has run easily the most positive campaign in recent American political history, which freaks out both parties in a system built around negative partisanship
The gall of some democrats to look for someone better than a meme peddler who occasionally makes a good decision, when we're only three years from a competitive primary
These Gavin glazing posts would already be super weird even if there were evidence that he's overwhelmingly nationally popular, which he's very much not despite having a national profile for a while now.
Mamdani easily has the most positive campaign of any politician in the last few years. Trump and everyone downstream of him regularly says that like 90% of the country is a hellhole.
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The late, great grim reaper. You know some people think he's voiced by Norm MacDonald but that's ridiculous folks, it's much more like the silent guy in Muppet Christmas Carol. I am learning no lessons, that I can tell you.
I've definitely gone from "it's just normal old guy stuff, he's gonna live to 100" to "no one has seen him golfing recently, he will be in hell by close of business."
You can even have them prosecute their cases on a kitchen table if you want
Almost exactly a decade ago Hathaway gave free promotion to Facebook by helping Robert De Niro create a profile in The Intern, which I've seen like eight times. I hope they all sue but I especially hope this betrayal causes her to go scorched earth.
Everyone's reelection campaign has to die eventually
The main difference between Idiocracy and now is that the idiot leaders in Idiocracy sincerely wanted to make things better, and deferred to (who they thought were) experts
Newsom has made some good moves but is an attention hog who will say and do anything to get ahead. Pritzker seems to actually, palpably believe things, which I think is the main thing people are responding to (which very much includes Trump and his goons who thought they could just waltz in).
I don't know what you're talking about, urban liberals performatively hating cities and loving the heartland has netted democrats an impressive 7% of the rural vote
If Qui-Gon had lived he'd be the most annoying RFK Jr guy ever.
Probably a losing battle when most democrats love cops nearly as much as republicans and they're still regularly derided as soft-on-crime weaklings who want to defund the police.
Both parties, at least at the establishment level, love cops. They will happily endorse an increase in cops and fund them to infinity. Only one party realizes that cops love them back.
Aside from his policies, which are progressive, Pritzker also has the benefit of being able to speak forcefully to the moment without worrying about what donors want
Respectfully senator I don't think it's a great time to express both bipartisanship and a desire to properly arm the military when one party is deploying the military against the opposition party
Not a great time to express your commitment to both bipartisanship and properly arming the military when one party is using said military against the other party.
The only other time we had a socialist mayor he was wildly popular and we named an airport after him. Never again.
Dems could turn this into a one-two punch of 1) not only is crime not the issue of these occupations, but 2) crime has been magnificently reduced in places like Baltimore with community investment. But most dems love cops too much to not make it about "respecting local law enforcement" or whatever.
We can't have a socialist mayor in New York City. The one other time we tried that he was incredibly and enduringly popular and we named an airport after him.
From what I can tell at my school, Deftones and System of a Down are also more popular than they ever were in their heyday
I gotta say, if I couldn't read and just saw the image I'd assume this is about newly discovered neural connections or something and not whether Worse Version Of Google has feelings
Stop treating this like reality TV you stupid ghouls
Even without their obvious policy differences, you can tell a lot about Newsom vs. Pritzker from the fact that Newsom is paying someone to make memes for him that aren't even funny in the context of trolling Trump, while people just make memes of Pritzker because they like him.
It is expected, and easier, for governors to do more than congress. In the case of Pritzker, he is wealthy enough to not be beholden to donors.
I'd be happy if he stayed in Illinois but if Pritzker wants to mount a national campaign I'd support him at this point. His combative instincts are at least as good as Newsom's, he's not a transphobic snake, and he doesn't need to pay anyone to make memes of him (people do anyways out of affection).
I think the main reason they hate Mamdani is he actually ran a great "kitchen table issues" campaign, and the fact that Islamophobia and hatred of the base is keeping them from embracing him is revealing that they don't even really care about that
My favorite part will be when the press tries to make it seem like everyone is in a state of mourning and the only people they'll find to corroborate this are his failsons, and everyone in the background on Good Morning America or whatever will all have signs saying "I'm glad he's dead"
A fitting, completely logical end to the Chicago school of economics
In Maryland, democrats prove that Wes is Moore.
The one way in which Gallego doesn't suck is that his desire to embrace new ideas, while mostly focused on nonsense like crypto, also leads him to be more positive on Mamdani and other young progressives than most of the party establishment
Virtually everything about Zohran's campaign has been extremely positive, friendly, and affirming, and it has worked incredibly well. Dem "leaders" are profoundly Islamophobic idiots for not endorsing him.
They can't stand the fact that Mamdani is lapping them even though he didn't pay a fortune to consultants to make him seem normal and friendly, because he is
Trump is deeply unpopular! So is democratic leadership, even moreso! And it's largely because of dumb, contentless statements like this!
Trump is deeply unpopular. Unfortunately, the democratic party is even more unpopular, largely due to mealy-mouthed statements like this.
One way you can tell Pritzker is solid is that people make memes of him because they like him, while Newsom is paying some intern to make memes of him in the hopes that people will like him.
Fortunately I don't think anyone remembers this genocide-enabling dullard well enough for him to be able to spin this into a book deal about how he was actually one of the good guys all along
For dems who love to throw the term "distraction" around, this is a pretty obvious one.
We all know the only job of a mayor is to cut a large ribbon with a pair of novelty scissors, which they'll probably let him do at some point
These are not words that anyone has said outside of Twitter or Tumblr since like 2019
The same centrists who only want us to focus on "kitchen table issues" apparently don't want us talking about food or housing either.
Average senate democrat: the dismantling of democracy is something we'd be happy to maybe try to slow down if our republican colleagues will come on board Average normie dem: everyone with an (R) after their name should be chained to a dunk tank filled with piss for the rest of their natural lives
[Third Way, looking at ICE ripping people out of their homes while backed by the National Guard] in order to win we must declare war on Tumblr circa 2015 and Twitter circa 2019, only then will we be seen as in touch with the people.
No housing or food talk. We need to stick to Kitchen Table Issues except the two most important ones.
Yeah get with the program dummies, we need to stick to Kitchen Table Issues. Except housing, food, and overall affordability.
Millennials are killing the living industry
I'm a sucker for the entire ridiculously convoluted MK backstory so even an objectively terrible game like MK Mythologies hits my sweet spot for its service in that area.
Today I am choosing to focus on how the Focus on the Family guy croaked
The only thing I'll miss about Adams is that he is a 100% genuine oddball. In an era where the most common complaint against nominally democratic leaders is that they're too focus-grouped to do anything, he is pure shooting-from-the-hip bizarre.
The tweets are remarkably well-observed. It's not half-baked resistance lib riffing, they took the time to study his speech patterns, random quotations etc. I don't know if I'd say I like them, but not for lack of doing their homework.
The cultural response to 9/11 happened to coincide with the worst era of mainstream rock in American history, something I have to believe Al Qaeda knew
AI hype makes a lot of sense when you realize the main people pushing it are tech bros who couldn't hack it in academia and would be laughed out of a PhD defense, but are good at vaguely hinting at the potential of AI to management types who have zero connection to the work it supposedly excels at.
The right wing conception of "crime" has virtually nothing to do with actual crime and everything to do with visible and often racialized signs of poverty
Pritzker has basically all the "fighter" bona fides that Newsom is currently touting, in addition to not being a transphobic snake and also being much better than the party average on Israel.
Jim Clyburn calling Cuomo "the future of the democratic party" in his endorsement is still an all timer for being out of touch, even for these guys
Among many other positive things I feel like this guy actually wears a hoodie all the time for both work and pleasure, not to cosplay as a working class everyman like Fetterman
I'm not super optimistic about anyone unseating Collins but in terms of both strategy and party morale, putting up a woke working class oysterman who looks like a middle-aged fitness influencer is about as good as it gets
Of coahse that's youahh contention. Youah a first yeahh ICE agent and you just got finished posting memes about the capital-foahmming effects of military mobilization in liberal cities. You have any original thoughts on the mattah?
A lot of tech bro culture can be explained by the fact that many of them couldn't swing it in academia and can't defend their ideas except in spaces like Theo Von or Joe Rogan's podcasts, where vague hints of a deeper analysis are much more valued than any actual analysis
Not getting my hopes up but I do think "morally uncompromising oysterman" is probably the best route to taking out Susan Collins
Every PhD that's ever been at a meeting of other PhDs is too busy frantically finishing up their analysis for another project to give more than a couple words about what the present meeting is about, so I guess that's sort of true to life
Curtis Sliwa, mainly known for having 16 cats and starting a vigilante group in the '70s, gets to be a normal opposition candidate for the first time in his life. Love that for him.
This is the first election in forever where Sliwa gets to be the normal opposition candidate. He must be savoring it.
Begging people not to vote for the '70s vigilante guy who has 16 cats even though he's run a far more normal and principled campaign than me
Meta's business strategy
Don't forget the hair of Stephen Miller
When I die of a long-banished disease I only hope my surviving kin will pronounce that I was "tackling entrenched partisan beliefs"
It wouldn't harm me at all. It's one less task every 2-4 years and I could count on much better outcomes on average.
*Dies of easily preventable disease* Actually I'm tackling entrenched partisan political beliefs
It's only natural for Oklahoma to start vetting the unquestionably vast number of teachers flocking to their state, tired of teaching in places with some degree of autonomy
Well there go my plans to start over in Oklahoma
My Source News Opinion World boys to the yard And they're like, it's worse than before
Particularly after 2024, it's clear the dependence of the GOP on low propensity voters is absolutely critical. In this case, his instructions from Putin are getting in the way of fascist consolidation.
Yeah dude that's crazy, do you have any plans for opposing the rapid descent into military dictatorship
Any white person who blogs about wokeness on college campuses that they haven't actually been on in at least a decade is automatically deemed a public intellectual by our rotting legacy media.
That's cool that you think you write for a publication devoted to the principles of free speech or whatever and it's actually just a propaganda organ for a government that is intentionally starving children en masse
They decided a long time ago that Israel can do whatever it wants. Starving children mean nothing to them; just another rhetorical barrier they have to devote some propaganda resources to quell for their equally monstrous supporters.
Plenty of Mamdani voters also voted for Trump. It would basically be impossible for him to reverse the margins otherwise. The Mamdani campaign will happily talk about this. Why is it upsetting? It means he had a resonant message, among other things.
For better or worse, Bill Kristol is a neocon who firmly believes in America's ability to bring good to the world through both modeling and spreading democracy. This administration is an obvious, intentional failure on both fronts.
Gallego sucks but he also goes out of his way to try to appeal to young men, which mostly means crypto nonsense but also means noticing Mamdani's huge appeal with young voters
are you suggesting that elections in America sometimes involve voters who are not particularly loyal to either party and might "swing" the election in one direction or another
The name "Sagan to Hitchens" suggests a path that is the exact opposite of wisdom
Aside from the more substantive issues others have pointed out, a one hour layover is cutting it close. Have you been paying attention to airline news lately? Play it safe!
The establishment of both major parties in the US love cops and fund them to arbitrarily high levels, but one party realizes and acts on the fact that cops love them back
Say what you will about Bill Kristol but he's always been a supporter of big cities, as evidenced by his starring role in the City Slickers franchise
I guess countries that have been at the receiving end of violent US imperialism might think it's kinda neat that we're doing it to ourselves now
Zoomers having no lived experience of what other generations call "normal" politics cuts both ways. Yes, they don't see Trump as an aberration, but they also have zero faith in establishment candidates and will vote in droves for someone like Mamdani.
Vance's kids are probably cognizant enough to realize he's the one causing them to be embarrassed in public