Just thinking back to how there was a concerted effort in 2024 to paint Trump as the "anti-war candidate" and now he may rename the DoD to the Department of War.
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Just thinking back to how there was a concerted effort in 2024 to paint Trump as the "anti-war candidate" and now he may rename the DoD to the Department of War.
I understand the reluctance to medicalize the behavior of shitheads, but to me it seems pretty clear Linehan is genuinely sick, both physically and mentally, with pathological transphobia.
Kurosawa and Mifune had that shit on
Apparently
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dogās head, iām not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, youāve got the heaviest soul weāve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? theyāve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
If you refuse to vaccinate your dog for rabies, you should lose the right to have a pet.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
Nothing about Platner is any of that and Bernie spent the past week agreeing with Donny. What the hell is this?
Not surprising in the very least.
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Instead of weaponizing the phrase āgood troubleā & desecrating the memory of John Lewis in order to mostly bash or make demands of Black people, more of you should read his final essay. Particularly the part that says āVoting and participating in the democratic process are key.ā
both here and there the intention is to make sure everyone knows that itās impossible to rely on the life you built in the respective country. something of an open question why that should be a national goal
It's worth pointing out the role of journlaism in this. That Politico article was deliberately incindiary even though we knew that by May 2020 the risk of outdoor transmission was low, the protests emphasized masking. By August we knew that police killings didn't go down even during lockdown /1
There's something else I'd like to point out which is police killing people is actually a matter of public health.
You still show your face? Fuck off
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a bossš" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
You can't tell me the comparisons to Marxist-Leninist dictatorships are inappropriate when they're literally posting "little red book" shit
The FBI was one of the only attractive law enforcement careers because they had standards, the police need to be actually professionalized.
Yall want the freedom to be mean to people without them complaining about it and it doesnāt work like that.
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUSā presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Can he walk at all? Or if he moves, will he fall? Is he alive or dead? Has he thoughts within his head? Weāll just pass him there. Why should we even care?
No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.
Yeah it is. See June 2024
Really been trying to impress on people outside of California that Gavin Newsomās stance on the homeless, horrid though it is, is not only *not* an outlier in progressive state politics, itās not even the worst instance of it! Multiple mayors are actually worse!
Some obscure clause leaves his household staff to Jeffrey Epstein.
What if most ppl arent actually still seething about an event from five years ago and the only ppl that are are extremely online weirdos and the reason why a lot of our news media & our political class cant see the forest for the trees on this is bc they too are way too online?
well, we killed tourism and also there are two dozen competing casinos in your pocket now
the principle "we should not fight a war that involves any risk to americans" is a principle of instant surrender and it's not even that complicated
straight up begging people to read a goddamn book.
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (whoās āripping apartā CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Like, I donāt know anyone who seriously thinks heāll be the nominee or even a front runner really! He COULD be but nobodyās betting on it. Who even cares right now? Shit is crazy out there in the real world!
We gotta cook up a psyop about how the wicked vizier JD Vance poisoned the king to seize power and that's why it's vital all True Patriotic Americans stay home in protest on election day.
LMAO okay if Pfizer actually sat down and worked Trump over, it's gonna be incredibly amusing to watch RFK Jr. try and justify his positions.
The mental fitness of elderly Presidents has been such an important issue for the media lately, so I expect wall-to-wall coverage of how President Trump has once again thrown a fit about one of his own signature policies, showing no awareness of how it arose or who executed it.
Which is really funny, since Bernie once signed a proclamation saying marriage was between a man and a woman, had anti war protestors arrested, and was the only 2016 candidate who ever voted to invade Iraq. But because he says bad things about insurance companies, he gets a pass on all of it.
Sure is interesting, isn't it?
This post going up before Trump (or whoever's in charge right now) formally responded to Monarez's letter is the first real sign to me that RFK Jr. may have worn his welcome out and is in actual trouble.
The Bernie Sanders who was initially elected with help from the NRA and who consistently voted against gun control?
It's an example of what I'd call the Paranoid Style in Democratic Politics. "A candidate we do not like WILL be forced upon us, and whichever candidate we DO like will be undermined by cynical Elites." They're just trying to get out in front of this OBVIOUS danger before it gets any nearer.
Hmm millions? Source on this?
There are millions of people who are known to vote. The question you should be asking is "does it seem easier to get my vote plus the vote of someone just like me than a single Republican's?"
It's almost, *almost* like people aren't just the one bad (or good) thing you've ever heard about them. š¤
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isnāt even news.
Funny thing is that Newsom being this guy rn actually plays into people who donāt want him to be the nominees hands anyways. Having the microscope on him now kind of ensures open season on him leading into the election. We need all out competition on the left & heās not sitting out. Itās alsoā¦..
Yes, the social media incentive pushes a good analysis (Newsom is a bad and inauthentic candidate) into the extreme (I will never vote for him vs JD Vance)
Same Bernie Sanders who demanded drug sentencing minimums on cocaine and voted to militarize police before he metamorphosized into a beautiful progressive butterfly.
We're asked to believe there's a realistic candidate that you WOULDN'T find so distasteful as to sit out. As our only data point about you is you'd rather raze America than vote for somebody who wasn't better ENOUGH than the GOP, you can see why voter and politician alike might be skeptical, right?
So you've never executed your own strategy successfully? How odd.
Well for starters, spending this much time in the weeds defending an electoral strategy that you yourself do no practice is a pretty firm demonstration that your neither speaking from lived experience, nor in good faith. And that's pretty dunk-worthy.
Yup. From the "imagine if Schumer said this" files...
This social media site will not and cannot succeed until everybody pats me on the head and tells me Iām a good boy for all my opinions
Weāre only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jrās eugenicist ideology.
Happy Labor Day, comrades š«”
i honestly think that tolerance to weirdos and tolerance to abuse are positively correlated
Itās actually a problem when random people have to provide journalists with a reality check They should have people in their real lives doing that
Also, and this is for others not you,
Right, yes, absolutely. But also note: Newsom isn't even a candidate. This is anxiety over Trump manifesting in a desperate attempt to exert some amount of control over the future, probably fueled by British leftists watching their party lurch rightward.
See also: progressive non-white voters who were *begging* puritans to help keep Trump out of office for the sake of saving their communities, were directly told that issue wasn't good enough unless X condition wasn't met, and are now processing the trauma of that betrayal.
If these jokers put as much energy into caring about the MID-TERMS COMING NEXT YEAR, we'd be able to take back Congress, state houses, and local leadership, and stop his Orange Majesty from doing a truckload more damage.
NYTimes ten months later: using questionably constitutional tactics, Trump is offering a fresh, bold reimagining of the power of the American presidency
happy labor day
My feed isn't full of sludge I have 5x as many followers Experts actually engage in meaningful dialogue And there's no Nazis ........ Sounds like this app is thriving actually
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
Look at what we could have had.
I mean, George Wallace won his gubernatorial election with the help of the Black vote precisely *because* he apologized and *did better*. He then went on to appoint more Black judges to the Alabama bench during his one term in the 80s than any other governor before or since. What a weird dig.
These are the people who think Robert Byrd never changed his views. They literally and explicitly do not believe people are capable of being better, which is the most nihilistic fucking thing imaginable.
Or when his plan for immigration was concentration camps on the border. Sounds vaguely familiar, right?
Geez louise... No, I didn't remember that.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
kinda jealous of whoever has a birthday on the day he dies...there will always be parties on your birthday. forever.
Not beating the āidentical blank slack jawed stareā allegations.
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
George Wallace literally did the dril tweet
Didn't Wallace end his life as a desegregationist? I guess the tweet works!
He got the attention of Jaime Harrison like he wanted but to his disappointment it wasn't a "Yes, sir."
Could he possibly suck his own dick any HARDER? š
I will say again, if he thought he was so just and right, he would not be whining like a little bitch all day.
It's laughable that he refers to himself as a journalist & such a fucking hypocrite considering he's blocked every single person who's criticized him for his disingenuous criticism of Jeffries & Schumer.
Hammer dome now
Jesus Fuck. The self importance. The tone deafness. The THEATRICS.
"I do have to say it" is such a fascinating take when, quite literally, shutting up is free.
When your metric for success is ānumber of people angered,ā what exactly is your job?
Multiculturalism was so successful we wound up with the worldās most ethnically diverse group of pro-English racists.
How many times in the last decade have we gone 6 days in a row without seeing Trump speaking on camera?
One bit of cultural historiography is that everyone up to and including Peter Mansbridge uses the phrase āsaid the quiet part out loudā to describe Parizeauās speech, a turn of phrase coined/popularized by a Simpsons episode first broadcast six months previously
...it's fun when there's a phrase that you'd swear blind has been a part of the English language for a century and then, no, it's from the 90s
Someone please kill me right now.
I wonder what its gonna take for news media to start demanding a live and in person appearance for proof of life & functionality?
The irony of all this is that if he manages to take down the Sullivan precedent, one of the very first victims will be the right wing social media influencers who are basically his last group of political support these days. They will get buried in lawsuits.
I understand why it has happened but I loathe that everything is video now and Iām never gonna watch a half hour YouTube video to convey information I could read in three minutes.
anyway my brave take is that Bluesky isn't really working because you just can't launch a text-based social media platform in the era of Big Video And Picture Slop and expect it to flourish, most people don't really want to type or read
I do. And I also recall the meaning of "horseshoe politics"...Tulsi was always closer to repugnant mindset than Democrat mindset no matter what box she checked on her voter registration card. DINO again!
This idea that āif Democrats hate me, itās because Iāve done my job admirablyā among our media is a HUGE reason why our democracy has been destroyed and a Nazi is in power. Your job is to accurately inform. Not to piss people off for the sake of it.
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
My friend accurately had her tagged as a foreign agent in *2015* but "leftist men simp for hot chicks that left or lib women know are sketchy" remains extremely true.