And odds are that he will have more clever ideas than Trump did about how to do it. Now, to be fair, clever might actually be worse and less effective than Trump's flagrant bluntness given how everyone has reacted to that, but maybe not too.
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And odds are that he will have more clever ideas than Trump did about how to do it. Now, to be fair, clever might actually be worse and less effective than Trump's flagrant bluntness given how everyone has reacted to that, but maybe not too.
Yeah. Like there's a *real* chance that Vance's lack of legitimacy and charisma causes the entire house of cards to collapse entirely, for sure. But until it does we don't actually know that it'll happen and until it does he can do a LOT of horrific shit and absolutely will try to.
He's a true believer in terms of being a fascist Christian nationalist.
We are not that far out from Vance amplifying a false rumor about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. He's shown himself to be an amoral political leech whose main goal is to put himself as close to positions of power as possible. We don't know how bad things could get under President Vance
Not crazy about this framing. Yes, point out that Trump's justification for NG troops is bullshit, that red states have higher crime rates, and that it's all dangerous posturing. But deploying the military to Memphis would also be destructive and anti-democratic. And crime is dropping everywhere.
I keep saying this, but if there is a sharp rise in skepticism or negativity towards the military among liberals because of these occupations, it will be treated as a problem that Democratic leaders need to answer and apologize for, not a crisis that the military or US government needs to address.
Lmao
Okay, so, you do realize that this isn't a response or refutation of literally anything that anyone in this thread has said or argued, yeah? That you're just saying something entirely different?
NEW: Belgium has decided to recognize Palestine as well take multiple measures against Israel, including -The ban of all settler goods from being imported -Sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir -Restrictions on imports from Israeli businesses -No consular services to Israelis in the oPt
Just read this and tell me this wasn't metal as fuck.
Trump found out about the buff Hutt
Honestly, it’s getting old. After a point, the goat doesn’t care that you’re fucking it ironically. It expects flowers and chocolate the next date and for you to introduce it to your parents.
On my end it's mostly that there are a lot of really bad options, a number of extremely stupid and also bad options, and one very funny option, and I've given up on trying to predict what these assholes are up to. But the possibility if this is, admittedly, on my mind atm.
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Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
its genuinely fucking insane how much water the press carries for Trump
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
This is one of those things that is true in a specific academic sense but not even remotely true in a practical sense, and the practical reality of it was substantially worse than our (not at all good) system.
A Senator of the United States of America says that he was refused the ability to see Gaza for himself as part of a Jordanian aerial mission over the occupied territory.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
"Don't you think she looks tired?"
Chris Van Hollen is interesting because he makes a center-left case for Palestine. He argues for Palestinian rights not on leftist but on liberal grounds. It is highly philosophically coherent to do that, and yet few politicians do.
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The near total disinterest in Trumps v obviously deteriorating physical health & mental acuity from the same press that went into a feed frenzy over speculations about Bidens health--to the point of inventing conspiracy theories--has been one of the most cynical things I think I've ever witnessed.
The Ha Ha Just Kidding Unless....? energy tonight is just burying the fucking needle
This is the one crew I would legitimately believe might attempt to Weekend At Bernies him, full stop.
Is this man in a coma? Dead? Having a mold medical procedure? Putting real effort into a last ditch effort towards finally boning his daughter? Perhaps just taking a very long nap? Who can say, perhaps we have all gone mad and the gods laugh at us. The options are endless.
Even beyond Vance's lack of ability to understand what centrist/swing voters like about Trump, the man has *negative* charisma with which to trap the Trump crowd. I sincerely doubt he can swing it, but it's possible (a lot of these people are idiots begging for a Caesar, no matter how pathetic).
Yeah, to be clear, "pivot" in this case is *not* just "pivot to being viewed as a moderate" but "pivot his public reputation to capture enough of the swing and MAGA crowd that he can rule without Trump's backing", which is part of why I view it as such a long shot.
Here’s the thing: I don’t think Newsom will win the nomination. He is soulless and does not have any actual beliefs and no amount of centrist pivots will get him through enough of the primaries. But it is important to keep insulting him because he might see it and it might make him feel bad.
I'm still catching up on whatever this car crash of a discourse is but that is very clearly not Trump even beyond the degree to which his recent tweets have often been very clearly not Trump. That reads like a dumb guy who thinks he's smart pretending to be a dumb guy who also thinks he's smart.
Dawg what the fuck did I sign back into social media to
I don't think Vance could pull off the pivot, not by a long shot. I also don't think pulling off the pivot is outside the realm of possibility, so I don't begrudge someone worrying as long as they acknowledge its a longshot that's a better risk than "more Trump."
listen, i am no fancy lawyer, but i am somewhat skeptical that “this would make us look really fucking stupid” is an effective legal defense. bold take, i know.
trying to impeach RFK seems like a win on multiple levels - rewarding the base, raising the salience of Trump's admin of cranks, and maybe even forcing his resignation and I feel like a competent opposition party would at least consider it
Trump's betting that people won't notice that he has inflicted - without Congres and without legal authority - one of the largest and most regressive peacetime tax increases in American history.
why would you, in your lawsuit's complaint, plead to facts establishing your defendant's case, especially considering that (a) that is not what a complaint is for, and (b) there is no evidence whatsoever that this allegation is true.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Gavin Newsom continues to mightily tread on his own dick, speaking of “Democrats can never win by submissively going along with delusional, racist GOP crime narratives”:
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
the avatar movies have been hugely profitable, these complaints would be irritating even if he and the studios had lost money on them, but they haven’t at all, they’ve been wildly successful
Good week for video essays it seems. I found this one spoke to something I'd been feeling - the grotesqueness of the disconnect between the values we want to communicate to our kids and the values in our politics, esp. MAGA politics.
The White House does not view senators as having legitimate oversight authority and will terminate officials who are candid with senators.
like they look at generic congressional ballot polling and see complete vindication. they think they've been proven right! letting trump gut USAID without so much as fight - that was a win in their minds, never mind the hundreds of thousands if not millions soon to be dead
gotta say, two days of president congestive heart failure screaming and shitting his pants over the great khan telling him to pound sand has not had the effect of making the president look stronger
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
And it is, quite frankly, obvious that this nation will not slow down, let alone turn back, without real suffering. 40% are rooting for occupations of our own cities! This applies to the rural folk, whom I grew up amongst, more than any by far.
I'd love for us to be able to turn course with a minimum of suffering for myself and my neighbors. BUT Our government has already made choices that will cost millions of non-Ameican lives with PEPFAR and USAID *alone.* We don't get to whine about the suffering we receive to end that.
Hey, guess what, yes it is also our fault and I do, in fact, vote that we, the US as a whole, suffer so that the rest of the world has to suffer less from our stupid fucking decisions.
I mean the actual argument is that "the 1000 voted to delete their own hospital and the 100,000 do not have to, indeed probably should not, save them from the consequences of that choice."
I cannot imagine the deciding the woman who miserably failed to stop, slow, or even oppose the slide into fascism by her closest coworkers is the one to trust with solving it.
Hey, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, have you literally just not left your apartment? They’re in every single metro station, all over the mall, and doing checkpoints on 14th and U. DHS is all over Hispanic neighborhoods and harassing uber drivers. You genuinely cannot not see this. Go outside.
Extremely funny to start out your societal view by going "you can be a libertarian or you might be someone who wants a community" with total obliviousness.
If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.
This is notably not even remotely an answer.
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
I don’t think this specific effort is going to work, but it’s very concerning because it puts another hole in the ‘angry toddler’ model of Trumpist FP. It shows that the intelligence and defence communities are willing to act autonomously on Trump’s threats and demands even when he’s distracted
"Yesterday featured a striking spectacle: A three-and-a-quarter-hour televised Politburo meeting, in which the highest-ranking government officials of the world’s oldest and once greatest democracy abased themselves ridiculously before their presidential idol." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
the richest man in the world buying a presidential election, getting run out of the administration for being a weird diva, then pivoting to jerking it to anime cartoons full time is somehow more Roman than anything that ever happened in Rome
So this is them admitting they know about the problem but not saying they are doing a damn thing about it. Right there that is going to turn more people against them.
This complaint is painful to read, extremely triggering, and very well-drafted. But seriously - don't read it if you find self-harm even remotely triggering.
They better settle for eleventy bajillion dollars because if this thing gets in front of a jury that's game over lol lmao lol Please dear Lord may it get in front of a jury
so, my issue with this is that it completely misses that DHS has been turned into a quasi-paramilitary for the right
This is totally unacceptable
Was talking about this kind of thing over the weekend. One of the (many) major problems we face is that Republicans lead; Democrats use research firms to try and figure out how to get out in front of people. And those are two very different things.
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
That's a very sweet polite thing to say. I'm sure the machine thought deeply before it placed the next most likely token down, that it really empathized with the child and his hurt
There's a scene from Lion in Winter that I've been thinking about a lot lately. Geoffrey: My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered. Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters. It's not time to triangulate. It's time to stand firm and do what's right.
FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
Well...at least I can tune out of the shitshow that is my life and country for an hour with a new episode of Change Gamer.
/11 In short, fuck these fascist shitbirds, fuck you if you voted for them, fuck you if you apologize for or countenance them.
shout out to the person who called it astroterf
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
Veterans out here living their oath, while the cops piss on the Constitution.
Yeah. I'm *extremely* vocally anti-Newsom but trying to pretend that "he's not really fighting" is the reason why ain't it, like come on man.
trump doesn't need to deploy an army of ICE goons at every polling station to stay in power. it doesn't help to think in fantastical terms, when the mundane reality is that he has been able to get away with a lot using the existing tools at his disposal
the “be warned, we are taking names” part is what has been missing from most major politicians’ responses
Pritzker is describing Trump’s fascist invasion of Chicago with total moral and political clarity. It’s an example that every other Democrat in the country should follow.
More of this. More of this, directly and firmly stated, from every level of the Democratic party. "Take part in this vile work and nothing will stop us from ensuring justice finds you, sooner or later."
Bad: Using the National Guard in DC to "fight crime" Really bad: Threatening to use them in other (blue) cities Really really bad: Sending units from red states only Superbad: Specialized units within the National Guard to deal with "public order issues" (All within the last 2 weeks, too)
Sure, whatever, why the fuck not
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
So, like, even if there hadn't been two Supreme Court decisons in living memory directly holding that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, *new criminal laws cannot be created by executive order.*
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
BUT Dems have an *opportunity* here to say “fuck the media for ignoring our precious border communities who depend on hard working immigrants to build the great states of Texas and New Mexico and Arizona.”
I can’t believe I was stupid enough to believe “we’re not hearing stories about ICE fucking with legal residents and other sympathetic / popular folks in the RGV bc they know who to target down there” instead of the truth which is “ICE is fucking up everywhere and the national media doesn’t care.”
The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.
literally the opposite of this is true the lesson of the Mamdani campaign for leftists is to focus relentlessly on a message that will win the election because winning is fucking awesome and when they lie about you, you pivot back to that election winning message and you win
the Cuomo and Adams responses to Zohran’s scavenger hunt are the most “we’re going to lose this race by 30+” responses I’ve ever seen
every sentence of this is so funny
the right has long labored under the misconception that ordinary liberals have always hated them and their way of life with a burning passion, something which is only just now becoming true
America now