comparing trump to GWB at this exactly point in their presidencies makes it clear that trump has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever (9/11)
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comparing trump to GWB at this exactly point in their presidencies makes it clear that trump has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever (9/11)
"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence
One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
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Like I feel like the constitution should restrict the actions of the United States government in all situations and places other than a declared war.
Like why would it make any sense to think that the constitution’s protections are universal rights a government should not infringe, but legally speaking our government doesn’t have to respect them outside its own territory.
I guess the probably “US constitution doesn’t apply in international waters” might be technically true in jurisprudence but can we talk about how baby brained that is?
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As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter
Found my teen reading Hegel. After throwing up and having a fetal cry in the shower, I went to Best Buy and got him a PS5. Please. Your kids might be reading philosophy. GERMAN philosophy. Leave church now and go check your kids’ rooms and hard drives. These perverts have pdfs.
beale *is* an unhinged maniac. depressed, alienated and antisocial. and his rant, critically, is inchoate, apolitical, reactionary rage, packaged in a bow for advertisers. what the movie gets absolutely right is the way that alienation is just another product.
i think it's pretty clear at this point that trump cannot be dissuaded from the idea that asylum simply means that these are insane people from other countries entering ours
I do not want to see one snide joke about this queen or her friends on this godforsaken free website. Anyone that can set aside the thing they love so much it becomes the center of their identity in defense of the greater good is a comrade i respect
Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
Okay after the media freakout over Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way- a courageous and popular project that the media conspired to use to destroy Biden’s presidency and elect Trump! - it would be an O Henry twist if Trump reinvaded Afghanistan for no discernible reason
What’s the worst thing that could possibly slouch towards Bethlehem? A rough beast, its hour come round at last?
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entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster
hell yeah
these people are paid a lot of money and entrusted with a lot of authority to keep finding ways of saying "what if we made the whole barrel out of the scum?"
Are cronuts still a thing? I never had one. Is it too late?
Probably should have posted this, like, three years ago when the trend was hot. Live and learn I guess.
*Kate Winslet Titanic Voice* Smash me like one of your trendy burgers!
I think it's funny that, among US Senators and newspaper columnists and British Labour Parties, a very common take is "In order for the center to hold, the best must lack all conviction even if the worst are filled with passionate cruelty"
As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
Dems advertising that they are capitulating to threats of violence is not an especially smart plan even on narrow selfpreservation concerns
I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
I am sorry but why would ANYONE know this?!
[darth vader listening to The Jar Jar Binks Experience] now THIS is podcasting!
I found the worst Animorph
I want everyone to take a step back for a second, remember why she was fired from New York and juxtapose this w/ all the high profile media folks that have recently lost *their* jobs. *Some* people are allowed to fail upwards. It's mesmerizing.
The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Counterpoint put it Bangor to flip the second district
The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...
“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics
I've lived in both a full blown autocracy (China) and one of the great resistance states (SK) a) if you were *actually* practicing security, none of this would be on this highly visible public platform. b) courage is an important part of resistance, organization is an even more important part
yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.
I actually forgot about the TikTok ban and I kind of assumed the government did too.
Respectfully I think this is too charitable. It's not like the survival of Disney depends on any particular merger going through. Its executives already have generational wealth. They're unquestionably in a position to tell Trump to eat shit and they've chosen to collaborate instead
congrats to joe brandon and all the purported defenders of democracy who normalized cracking heads on student protestors in order to cover for israeli genocide. you really greased the skids for ol donnie trump to formally submarine the first amendment
they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice
We have handed the absolute worst people in this nation power and they delight in flaunting their wickedness and cruelty, not least because they think they can turn the world against us and leave us without allies or safe harbor. They see themselves as our jailors.
generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
Need a bad bitch to throw me over her shoulder and frontally address questions of my deservingness
These people out here telling us not alienate voters by using words like “decolonize” which are too jargony and turn around and say “frontally addressing questions of deservingness.”
Coates just doesn't miss. He doesn't. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.
Hey, maybe Barnard can invite some of the pro-Palestinian students they expelled to come back to campus to speak! /s
I don’t know if this is a stupid question or something, but what is the point of a liberal political party if not to advance the interests of liberal groups?
Happy birthday to Lauren Bacall
Glad to see prison hasn’t kept him from his hobbies
Wait did he die too
They feel empowered to do this because the law only binds us.
new moon just dropped
Liberals are unwilling to admit that there is a form of politics that exists in the world that centers around causing harm for pleasure, destroying things, and looting the rubble, and they're unwilling to admit that this politics has a stranglehold on the right
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live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
you'll never get fired for posting a robert redford quote
Even more chilling? The lectures are sold out. Hottest tickets in the Bay Area. This is what passes for intellectualism in Silicon Valley. Everyday I wake up in dystopia.
One thing I find weird about Charlie Kirk’s death is, like, I fundamentally don’t think he was that important.
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I don’t honestly think it’s that weird for someone’s main political animus is to just be vaguely upset about the last person they saw get killed on tv.
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.
Yep. He’s a liar who has no business near the levers of power in our country.
If only one side had a politician who literally pardoned a bunch of people who engaged in political violence
this left wing political correctness is getting out of control
Reflect on the causes of violent extremism, but never name them. Hold the thought in your mind. Let it fester and grow inside of you until the rot and decay that plagues our nation is mirrored in your soul.
A totally serious commitment and not at all extended in only one direction.
This big-handed dude in the foreground is killing me.
Reflect on the causes of violent extremism, but never name them. Hold the thought in your mind. Let it fester and grow inside of you until the rot and decay that plagues our nation is mirrored in your soul.
There’s sort of a profound media elite antipolitics at play here. Like think about politics, talk about politics, reflect on politics but never dare do any politics.
Heard on NPR a group of pundits discussing the Kirk shooting all agree that “now is not the time for blame [fine] but instead reflection [okay] on the causes of extremism in our politics [wait what]” Like what if, contemplating the causes of violent extremism, we identify people who deserve blame?
Does the president believe that everyone in America is dead?
The total number of deaths in the world, all the countries, from any cause, is about 65 million per year.
Politics is increasingly divided between those who are comfortable with the complex systems of modernity and those who would rather burn the world down than accept that things are complicated now.
The sheer eeriness…it should be a bang barge, and it should slither down the canals of England, arriving with a fog as obscure as stone and bone-chilling cold. A single hooded gondolier pushing it along with a stick should summon young men within with a curling, skeletal finger in deathly silence.
We basically know what's coming and why. Might as well start planning messaging and concrete responses now. 'Racism tanked the economy. It has materially hurt you. We need immigrants. People who say otherwise can't be trusted and can never be allowed into power again. Period.'
Why do we teach students to write a 5 paragraph essay instead of an 8-legged essay? It’s almost as if we WANT them to fail their imperial Chinese civil service exams.
I think it’s funny that we’ve reached the point that “it’s better not to get covid than to get covid.” I mean like not haha funny.
another odd piece to all this is that many people are remembering a wave of "cancel culture" firings over insufficient wokeness that never happened.
Good luck to the 63-year-old legacy media security correspondents today
I’m sorry this is perfect
It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit
i feel seen
My mom was working as a nurse in London in NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE and was cautioned aggressively by nurses a generation older than her about misgendering trans patients.
I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
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