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We call them “journalists”
If only this didn’t run square into the problem of that whole “USAID being a dead letter on track to kill more people than the First World War” thing but surely that’s more a simple inconvenience than anything
"Stalinism has no hold on the American left" yet we're out here reinventing "socialism in one country" from first principles
We are in a global war against fascism, not of our choosing, and we need to win it. That means destroying it everywhere it reigns.
i love how dems spent years shitting their pants about provoking russia and sadly wondering whether ukraine needed to pre-emptively concede on crimea and now trump is just posting "you know sochi has lovely real estate, would look great in blue and yellow"
Yeah in retrospect it was a mistake for Biden to fire every single border patrol agent and customs official and just have open borders.
read a bit about how guns actually work recently & it's thoroughly disabused me of the idea of "minor" gun shot wound. obviously survivable ones, but if the bullet actually fully enters your body, anywhere, that just became the main thing your life is about dealing with for at least next few months.
she's right
Once again, I sit here and ask… do you have any idea how lethal fever was before effective antipyretic meds were developed?
"Defund the police" was a fairly widely propagated slogan for policy aims that were often extremely radical. Proponents would tell their radical friends how radical it was. If respondents were fully informed, why should we be surprised if respondents opted for the more moderate position?
gang, i am somewhat skeptical of president dealz plan to publicly take credit for unilaterally canceling all negotiations between he and congressional dems *and* congressional dems and republicans on a shutdown while simultaneously insisting that the shutdown is their fault
yeah, I'm on the millenial/Gen-X cusp and very much on the side of too old for pokemon
Before I took battalion command I re-read Army Reg 600-20, Army Command Policy, which touted wOkE values such as not discriminating based upon gender, race, religion…and other anti-American concepts such as training and preparing the organization.
also, broadly speaking, most Southern Democrats were part of the Conservative Coalition. realignment meant that they moved to the GOP
John Yoo figured it out? This is a low point.
i can only say it so many times, the Republican Party loyality is built through a shared secret(s)
so much as I love Lee, he was an intelligence liaison officer with the RAF and his claims to have been in special forces were almost certainly bullshit.
actually very clear if you look soberly at the data that the Democratic decline in swing states like Ohio and Iowa is directly correlated with Mara Jade not being canon anymore. The path to the Senate is clear, for a candidate who is willing to shift the platform on this key issue to swing voters
My electric rates are up 15% because our large president shut the renewables off
You don’t get to be governor of Illinois without understanding both authoritarianism and graft, the two salient features of this presidential administration
A majority of the court are absolute monarchists, which is the opposite of liberal, and I argue its decisions in this vein are invalid.
There's supposed to be a very vibrant and active left wing media apparatus that supports those arguments but that media apparatus is AG Sulzberger's whimsy and podcasters that make their hay criticizing the administration, not buttressing it with support
a pretty underrated way in which the political press has cooperated with the Trump regime is frequently reporting things the Trump people wish were true as if they were true. "Eric Adams will drop off the ballot and endorse Cuomo" being a prototypical example.
It happened, the christians (all 5 of them) have been raptured.
Owning the depreciating asset (the RV/mobile home) while renting the appreciating asset (the land it's sitting on) is the worst of both worlds when it comes to housing.
"I think this current Supreme Court is committed not to leftist liberalism by any means but, basically, to liberalism. They all believe in freedom of speech. They’re all highly committed to freedom of religion. Pluralism is something they embrace." -- Sunstein to Chotiner
so fucking cool we now have our own Gaddaffi or Hugo Chavez rambling derangedly at the UN
My granddad did not teach himself to code in the '80s and store pieces of a full-scale railway under the house to be erased like this.
big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters
It’s amazing that Dems don’t see that their base has totally lost confidence in leadership and therefore some heads need to roll in leadership to restore confidence *even if* behavior does not significantly change. It’s genuinely elitism.
I'm calling it There will definitely be a teachers strike because the UCP aren't negotiating They just pushing lies and propaganda When the UCP would rather spend millions on ads attacking teachers rather than putting that money towards education, they are the problem #ableg
doesn't Islam literally mean 'submit' lmao
i don't think there could ever be a more clear repudiation of "Big Pharma controls the government" theories than this administration the President is going on TV and saying the best-selling drug in America causes autism for literally no reason
A sentient baseball mitt with opinions is presently giving Americans medical advice that runs wholly contrary to all broadly agreed upon scientific research and medical advice.
The minor landed gentry as the heart of social moral decomposition; yet people dare wonder what conservatives like Miyazaki & Tolkien think of/would think of all this
madison cawthorn tried to warn us
Disregarding decades of scientific study by the best minds on the plant and instead proclaiming vitamin supplements (that you also just happen to sell) as a "cure" for a complex spectrum of conditions is the LEAST surprising news from a government composed of social media gym bro wellness grifters.
“Can this man kiss a baby at a rally without you reasonably thinking hes kidnapping it in some convoluted Scheme to increase his beachfront property“ is a test The Khan passes and newsmon fails
one of the nastier games the supreme court likes to play with the shadow docket is "we haven't formally overturned this but we've functionally allowed republicans to ignore it while stringently applying it to dems" I'm sure they'll find new ways to play the game but this makes it harder
you look at all of this and it tells a very clear and unmistakable story no matter what the conservative justices say at conferences or in interviews or whatever they tell themselves
I have a theory that a large part of the reason that the Greater Unified Western Imperialism Theory of the Russo-Ukrainian War got so much play even in Western circles that should have known better is that Putin delivered it with a calm, professional, matter-of-fact tone of voice
I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable
tomorrow’s likely to be a gangbusters ratings day for kimmel and sinclair is actively trying to prevent their advertisers from being seen
Not all that long ago, this gets Loomer booted from ... everywhere. In 2025, she'll receive a cabinet appointment.
“Shut up before I kill you graph boy” vs “all hail our dear leader” it’s obvious why one side wins
It’s funny how often grifter pseudoscience results in “answers” that blame, punish, and control women, isn’t it?
So if Tylenol creates autism we’re cool then with vaccines right? RIGHT???? RFK jr is insane, so it POTUS
everyone slowly looking around and being like “wait the president is saying complete bullshit about health while everything falls apart? oh right he does do that, familiar”
MOTHER FUCKER, IT WAS CALLED AKTION T4
My man David Byrne released a new album this month
The problem is they climbed up the escalation ladder too quickly. They've run out of credible "or elses." Or else what? You'll try to murder Congress then pardon the guys who did it and call them patriots? You'll have the Supreme Court overturn precedent without even explaining their reasoning?
I hate the "What are we a bunch of Asians?!" dunk so damn much. Yes we are, and they're a bunch of Americans. I've seen 500 stories about racist Chinese grandparents and they're the exact same kind of stories I could tell about relatives in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. It's OK to compare like things.
i think this is a really underrated motivator of the current actions of the trump admin - they're realizing that they've started a path that at best leads to the thermostatic pendulum swinging against them so hard they all end up in prison and at worst leads to the RUD of american society
basically is the most deadly tool of the infantryman his rifle, or the radio he uses to call in an artillery strike.
the economist absolutely torching their cross-atlantic credibility to bully some children
A level of willful ignorance this insulting should warrant actual, physical ostracization holy Christ Almighty
“Actually Obama looking the other way as Putin went completely fucking nuts was 5D chess so Putin could take a break from invading Ukraine and join him fighting ISIS two years later, a thing that everyone agrees totally happened and wasn’t just Putin flattening hospitals in opposition territory”
Rememberin how incandescently outraged Video Game Reviewer World figures both left and right got at the idea that a game would depict something as unthinkable as Russia bombing convoys full of civilian refugees…before, during, and after massive Russian bombing campaigns against civilian refugees
"Donald J. Trump likes authoritarians, seeks to emulate them, and establishes ties with them" is a self-censoring fact at this point
We're mad because Tylenol is the one drug pregnant women are able to take for pain, and now the federal government is demonizing it with a lie about autism. We're angry that women will suffer because of RFK's lies, and we're angry that our federal government is lying to us.
I’m sure this was totally taken out of context.
They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦♂️
As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft
If Jimmy Kimmel was fired for low ratings, why would ABC bring him back? It’s almost as if the people who claimed this was about ratings are liars.
the basic idea underlying Democratic messaging is that a voter should never be confronted with an idea that they did not already have themselves
God comparing our reaction to taking away our meds for headaches to taking away the medication of Africans for life on the scales of judgement like “Do we go with the lightning bolts or pillar of fire today?“
Darkly hilarious that the Great Gamer Uprising supported the United States getting its first presidential administration more or less openly exterminationist against autistics.
“So basically this narcissistic jazz music publisher thought it would be way cooler to pretend he designed aircraft and got a gig with Russian state media and that’s why the whole GOP thinks the peak of combat aviation is soy and gay” I say to the nice coat man as he gives me more feel good pills
That’s not how it works
Shout out to all the nurses and doctors out there who will have to deal with “but Trump says tylenol causes autism!” every day for the rest of their careers. A disgrace.
It's just unfair that the man who wins the Nobel Peace Prize wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the same year.
me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
Anyone who pledges to do whatever it takes to backstop Argentina's currency and economy has not quite internalized what that job entails.
For people obsessed with getting more women to have more babies, they’re awfully willing to make pregnancy more painful. I mean, I know they don’t actually care about the women’s suffering, but if they can hold two thoughts at the same time they ought to be able to see the conflict w pronatalism.
not sure if this is a swing to anti-semitism because he thinks it'll play with his current Muslim audience or preparation for doing the full right-wing grift, in which case I assume he'll ditch Islam soon.
"The Regime will find you if you put your name on a list" motherfucker they couldn't even sack Jimmy Kimmel
sort of hard to reconcile “believing the rapture will be tomorrow” with “having opinions about vaccine policy for kids who aren’t born yet” until you factor in that nobody actually believes the rapture will be tomorrow or ever
I wish, just once, that advocates for this will explain to me how people who believe schools that won't hand out tylenol are dispensing HRT can be swayed by any policy concession whatsoever.
I think it's that Sinclair blinked and opted not to put their Charlie Kirk special in his timeslot.
one of the problems with this admin’s actions from the very beginning has been that, like, six months from now, some trump voter in rural south dakota is going to ask what the fuck charlie kirk has to do with my hospital shutting down, and the admin will not even attempt to answer the question
To show their support for the Second Amendment, everyone stood behind bulletproof glass—after going through metal detectors and a full TSA-style fondling.
Donor (derogatory)
This is the thing that’s so weird about unitary executive theory (if you try to think about it coherently, which you basically can’t) is that it seems to recognize Congress as the source of the executive’s power, but asserts that once given, that power can’t be revoked or regulated.
And that even if it wasn’t, enough stuff around it was protected from even being considered as evidence that it was anyway.
A lot of politics of this era is breaking ancient truces and assuming that the other-side won't fight back
one thing i just have no patience for is a would-be revolutionary who insists they have no choice. of course you have choices. if you say you have no choice, it means your revolution doesn’t matter. the whole idea of revolution is rejecting the status quo to choose something better.
So the recording show Tom Homan rejecting the money? Wow, I bet they're going to rush to show that to all of us and we're all going to look *pretty* stupid for believing the FBI statement that he took the money as soon as they show that to us, which -- again -- I am certain will happen *very* soon.
They've read the main series (the left behind books) but not the Silmarillion (the actual bible).
H1B thing is just example 486 of how republicans can't deal with Real Problems. The system is flawed, it is a Real Problem. They are not interested in reform to do things like streamline the process and reduce the potential for fraud, they are interested in being racist to Indians.
What a mean thing to call Matt Yglesias.
we would be noticeably better off if we swapped the current cabinet for trump’s *own* first term cabinet
tbf I think the greater barrier for a lot of this Type is internalizing that either 1) Dems are pretty good actually or 2) Dems are still bad but you have a searing moral responsibility to support them anyway
America’s current stance is the US should hurt Brazil’s economy and prop up Argentina’s economy. The entire reason is that the US president and his fans like the leader of Argentina—or a successful version of him they made up—and dislike that Brazil upheld its laws against a coup plotter they like.
I love how Charlie Kirk supporters always have signs with his picture next to a Bible verse because if the sign showed words he’d actually said they’d look like protesters.
The politics version of a Nigerian prince scam; if you get why a wheeled cross is fucked up, you're not the mark