The only good part of this moment is that campaigns will no longer pretend like these fucking bozo nonstories matter at all. The "You can't kill me, I'm already dead" energy has a kind of propulsive magic to it. Having nothing to lose and being right is a cheat code and a force field.
There's something to be said for backs against a wall.
This is very true. Life became so much more fun for me when I ran out of things to lose and fucks to give
Tim Onion, busting out the poetry. Speak it, my good brother.
I'll tell you this : Nobody will want to be a MAGA incumbent going to a meet and greet before the next mid-terms. Nothing gets more raw than an inbred motherfucker looking to find his next Ned Beatty in the woods.
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Amen, brother
They will try. And the editorial positions of major media sources will be to keep tiny things in the news forever with Democrats (see: emails, Jeremiah Wright, etc.) and fucking bury them as fast as possible for Republicans (remember Signal? Trumpcoin bribes?)
We are a lame duck country now.
People are in some kind of mood. Huge explosions constantly. Newsom needs to get ICE out of CA for their own protection. ICE agents aren’t safe. I live in a very mixed working class neighborhood, but everyone’s on the same page. Nobody gives a single fuck and they want to destroy White Power Nazis.
Good. I hope they get after the "agents". No identification? Then you're just kidnappers.
The only problem is, we may all already be dead. So…
Thank you for keeping hope alive because my nihilism just went to 9.95/10.
I'm still on the I'm dead part.
"I'm dead, and I move--the electorate."
This☝🏻
The system is so broken that anyone can see it needs to be reinvented. In particular, private firms have not delivered public necessities as they said they would, so the government needs to reclaim providing necessities to all.
"Having nothing to lose and being right is a cheat code and a force field" is maybe the greatest single sentence I've read recently. Put that on a flag.
And this causes me to use the word fuck like it’s a verb I
Love this! Exactly how I feel!!!
I hope more green hats happen
But, but, but, the FISCAL RESPONSIBILTY, & BUT BUT BUT, THE NATIONAL DEBT, BUT BUT BUT WASTEFUL SPENDING... -ONE.🇺🇸
yea but is anyone going to actually do it?
Absofuckinlutely. Unqualified.
I really need to re-watch the Crank movies.
Bob Dylan said: "...When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose, You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal..." *** The biggest flaw in the elite's plan, they've intentionally set it up, so there's less of them, than us.
counterpoint: prepare to hear a lot about “bipartisanship” from the dems
they are not prepared for how openly hostile their voters will be to them
I mean, as long as the checks clear...
quite a few assumptions need to be made for that to be true
I don't know what you mean. Less flippantly it seems to me there are two basic accounts. 1. Many people who are influential within the Democrats are trying hard to do politics but are generally not as good at it as they need to be. 2. Those people aren't trying as hard as they should to do politics
We have a better name for that: Collaborator.
Code for: do not vote for ne because I am useless.
That's how I feel! Thanks for better articulating it for me!
I dunno. The DNC will find a way to screw up the messaging on this.
the sky can't fall forever.
"Oh, wow, he checked a couple of boxes that actually apply to him, that's amazing, hey did you hear about the rural hospitals already being shut down by Republican stupidity?"
We’ll see. Dead men don’t wear plaid. And they don’t win a lot of elections.
I thought about giving up for an entire second today. That second seemed to last for a while and then I came to my senses. I would rather die fighting than to give up. nancy mace may be the worst of them and that’s saying something.
"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" Janis Joplin
Also obligatory, kristofferson’s words not joplin’s 🩵
I don't feel anything now besides the urge to want to kill nazis.
Personally numb, but still interested in that.
218 seats and hopefully they all loose in the next election... When all the these red states start to suffer... and they are going to massively.. watch how fast they abandon Trump and the rest of the MAGA A-Holes.
but then again.... we can't always predict what Stupid will actually do
Story of my goddamn life
This hot take—100% yup
We must go Back To Butler. Trump wasn't president-- no immunity. Maybe Vance knew too. Trump's biggest vulnerability is Butler. We must go back.
Excited to hear a breaking story about Kat having an overdue library book next from The NY Times
SCOOP: Library confirms damaged pages found in Harry Potter book checked out in 2006 by congressional candidate...
Hearts found drawn in margin.
NY POST: Socialist Candidate with Ties to Witchcraft has Troubling Past
You are quoting Manson?
We’ll believe it when we see it.
Oh hell yeah
It's akin to being in the food industry for almost 28 years. We are like this. The only thing I can lose are my cats; yet they chose me.
Works in strip poker too
The absurdity of publishing stories like this about candidates with the fucking guy we have in the oval office right now.
Failed dictator dragged out is the headline we’re missing.
Time to buy a gun
The NYT is going to lose this fight. Who even defends their news organization on the merits of what’s published? They defend some of the columnists and podcasters, and point out that smart people draw salaries from it. That’s all.
Word.
But when I pointed out that the GOP is pushing people to a position of having nothing to lose, and that never ends well for the ruling class... I'm a violence monger and fantasizing violence. No, you dumbass, I'm reciting history.
And there has never been a civilian population as well-armed as the 2025 not-so-United States.
And if we get to the other side - just talk around these outlets. They’re useless
This does seem like something most voters will look at and say, well he was born in Africa, seems fine
We stopped being fueled by hope, now we're fueled by spite.
"There is a certain freedom in being totally screwed." -The Freshman (1990)
When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use We owe you nothing You have no control We owe you nothing You have no control “Merchandise” - FUGAZI