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After the Obama administration showed that being credentialed and polished couldn’t be used as a goalpost anymore, saying what you felt like, or being able to reject “the establishment” became a boon. Even though only privileged people could have a track record of doing so.
That part. Also people critiquing Jeffries pausing, when he’s code-switching. He doesn’t pause whatsoever when he’s on Roland Martin, but he does use AAVE a lot more there. It’s similar to how, once POC showed they could be establishment, suddenly, being “establishment” became a detriment.
Anyone who wants to get Democratic leadership to take progressivism seriously as an approach to flipping seats should highlight the progressives who HAVE flipped seats. Velshi platformed Rep. Underwood, and I commend him for that, and Rep. Horsford would be another good person to platform.
Tbf, I will say that Velshi does get into Republicans. But I will also say that tearing into Democratic leadership isn’t as effective as, say, using that energy to platform progressive candidates. As it stands, progressivism does not have the track record in flipping seats that centrism does.
He obviously knows where he’s going.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
I said this above, but I’ve worked at both corporate and mom-and-pop. One at the latter literally complained about the minimum wage increasing IN FRONT OF THEIR MINIMUM WAGE EMPLOYEES.
This is also the case with “mom and pop” businesses I’ve worked at. One of my supervisors literally complained about the minimum wage being raised IN FRONT OF THEIR MINIMUM WAGE EMPLOYEES
Gotta say Joni deciding to pull her objections to Hegseth to spare herself a primary challenge only to not even run for re-election is incredibly on brand for a Very Serious National Security Republican
People still fuck with Klippenstein, but it’s very obvious that he is pretty racist and resents democrats for having a base that is black people.
This is genuinely what happened with Roe v. Wade. The same people who sneered at me for saying it would be overturned if Clinton lost will now say “why are we rehashing things from 2016?” BC YOU HAVEN’T LEARNED ANYTHING FROM IT HAPPENING, FUCKS SAKE?!?
My bf couldn’t believe the Epstein video was doctored, bc, in his words, “there is no way they could be that incompetent.”
I said above, but I can all but guarantee these people would support MAGA’s immigration policies if they didn’t have to share space with non-white people on a daily basis.
Someone like him would genuinely support MAGA if he didn’t have to interact with non-white people on a regular basis.
It has the funniest kind of audience capture, which is basically "we're out of good shocking thumbnails, so now the takes are 'so woke you're now a Dennis Miller Republican.'" It's too bad, I liked it when it was people who were like, "I'm not sure lettuce wraps should be legal."
Subwaytakes Scientists have spent billions engineering the most ragebaity anti-transplant takes possible and have finally refined Hipster NIMBYism down to 100% purity. I expect this man moved from Kansas three weeks ago and lives in Bushwick.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
tired: a man who is not a liberal at nineteen has no heart and a man who is not a conservative at forty has no brain inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails
Joni Ernst has had a political career very few american woman could ever achieve not only did she overcome an almost fatal case of grinch heart but she also won the prestigious Stewey Griffin Vile Women in Legislature Cup 4 separate times over her career just wow
Yet yelling at Democratic Senators for not being able to do anything procedurally when they are the minority in all three branches isn’t a waste of time? Canvass for a progressive instead, man.
A lot of people are either going to write the next great dystopian novel or be the funniest comedians on earth.
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
Idk with Roy Cooper running. Hes very popular down here
We're all laughing & joking around here, and then he comes back on Monday with his consciousness downloaded as AI into an immortal mech suit We won't be laughing then
Very real possibility*: his body is dead but they come out claiming that Palantir has trained an AI on the vast corpus of Trump’s appearances and words and has created a simulacrum of his consciousness that will henceforth constitutionally serve as the robot exercising the powers of the presidency.
The walls are closing in on him, hence the need to feel secure in power. Whether that’s mostly aging or Epstein is anyone’s guess
Idk if it’s fear. RFK Jr. is a eugenicist who said that Black children should receive a different vaccine schedule than white children, because of their “robust immune systems.” Get the children dying, let medical racism do its job.
People always think these regimes need actual strong leaders with a plan when in reality all of them are just a gaggle of power hungry men constantly trying to outdo each other who make it up as they go, loosely held together by a shared hate for everyone that isn‘t them
My read is that it isn't that crypto ownership drove young men towards Trump, but rather that the same factors that drove young men towards crypto also drove them towards Trump.
Taylor Lorenz being a 2028 RNC speaker shrieking about being cancelled at the WaPo…MAHA will survive DJT and maybe bind the the MAGA movement to a successor. It’s the ugliest goddamn Birkenstock you’ve ever seen stomping on a human face forever.
lol my bf hates the Kennedy’s as much as you. Being Irish-American, that’s considered apostasy to me lol
Trump on his deathbed: my God… I can see the darkness… Jeffery Epstein: join us, Donald Roy Cohn: hell isn’t so bad, not as liberal as New York Bill Clinton: I’m not dead, I just got lost going to the Navy Yard McDonald’s. Wait, is this the Lincoln bedroom? We used to make so much cash off this
Don’t do Howard Hughes like that!!!
REPORT: Donald Trump has secluded himself in a room and refuses to come out, wearing Kleenex boxes as shoes and storing his urine in jars.
Are they trying to rewrite Dubya's legacy ON THIS DAY like his neglect of New Orleans was an oopsie? Kanye saying he didn't care about Black people was the last time he was right. Y'all gone whitewash all these fascists including Trump & give them storied places in the pantheon.
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
He voted to repeal tariffs out of fear from his constituents, so, if you know a constituent, get them to call him.
Lol the only characters my bf has ever related to (we’re both on the spectrum, he was diagnosed much later than me) were Larry David, Sterling Archer, and Spock.
Yeah Trump’s dying. Vance always likes to prime messaging.
I can’t with the Les Mis reference. He really is the model for Patrick Bateman.
My guess is congestive heart failure. Explains the ankle swelling, and the bruises are likely from blood thinners.
I predicted back in February that Trump would declare war on the cartels and invade Mexico or some other country within six months lol
It’s blood thinners. Elizabeth had bone marrow cancer, which can increase the risk of blood clots. It’s my belief that Trump is suffering from congestive heart failure.
Imo, people are picking up on the reality that we’re narrowing down to something, some moment of absolute intensity. It’s like watching water spiral the drain. Whether it’s civil war or Trump’s death, we’re watching the downspiral towards something. Trump also 100% has congestive heart failure.
People be like “RFK jr is out of step with the medical mainstream” HE IS NOT A MEDICAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
By October I guarantee that this mf is going to try to impeach any Black judge he sees, or launch criminal investigations into all of them.
Meanwhile I doubt they can say how many people have been murdered in the DRC over the last thirty years, or even discuss who’s involved in Sudan or Yemen. It’s either people wanting an excuse to hate democrats, or genuine Iranian bots.
The “incrementalism” line seems genuinely opp-coded, because incrementalism is genuinely how a ton of people’s rights came to be, and to make people poo-poo gradual progress in favour of radical change that will never happen seems like kneecapping any successful forward progression.
This is why it’s so important to teach history, so opps like this guy get laughed at. To believe that the Civil Rights Movement somehow staged Bull Connor’s reaction of siccing dogs on them, or having drinks and food thrown on them, is insane.
His take is genuinely brain dead. No, I don’t believe that the Greensboro Four all REALLY wanted a malt at Woolworth’s. The Civil Rights Movement was a MASSIVE optics campaign, and Parks wilfully provoking a bigoted reaction to her expressing her rights in no way changes the reality of segregation.
This is per capita.
I’d add that charitable giving has all but sky rocketed from where it was 60 years ago. Charitable giving is now seven times higher than it was before the Civil Rights Era.
People literally said, in broad terms, that they did not want a Democratic Party with her as leader, and that they would not listen to her about Trump and the threat to democracy. That woman was working non-stop to prevent Trump from destroying democracy, and no one listened. She got the memo.
We'll know it happened when OANN puts on Swan Lake
It’s therefore not surprising that they would do this. Beyond grifting, MAGA uses this language, because to them, their practice of racism is no different from what they consider their practice of “Christianity.” So their churches are viewed as hubs for white people, besieged by non-white people.
That is, rather than be made to pay taxes to fund social programs for non-white, non-Christian people, you elect a government to slash taxes, and then fund a church that serves as the social safety net for “your” people. Many white supremacists can’t distinguish between racism and their church’s.
IMO, it’s that churches emerged as the last and only legal bastions for white supremacy after Johnson’s term. Many churches and new Christian movements emerged as a means to maintain segregation and exclusively white communities. It also offered a means to retain the benefits of the New Deal.
If someone with a history of mental health issues says racist shit, I’m going to assume they said it because they’re racist, not because they have mental health issues.
I fully agree, and thank you for promoting this. My friend and I have been planning to place leaflets that say which products help fund Trump outside of stores.
I think the debacle was a test case in how people with privilege see politics. They see it as a spectator sport, and only get involved when it makes them look better, or revolutionary, or cool. For me, I didn’t give a shit, I didn’t want racism to rule this country again.
A lot of people bought into the “economic anxiety” myth because they were 1. Mad about Bernie, and wanted proof that his platform would have won over Trump’s voters 3. Didn’t have any exposure whatsoever to the racism of rural white folks as I had. Didn’t want to confront the hatred within America.
Nearly all of them were privileged and isolated from fear, save my Black, Jewish and trans friends, who crashed out with me. For me, Trump’s win represented the insurgence of the hatred that my grandfather fought against, the impact of which we could see every day.
That is, they were all CONCERNED about Trump, but thought I was overreacting. A lot of them supported Sanders, as they were nearly all on the left (save this one guy Rob who was Republican) but were edgy teenagers. A lot of them saw Clinton’s loss as a just punishment for Sanders.
I went to Quaker school, which says something, as that is the wokest religious school you could attend. A lot of people either didn’t care, or they said it was offensive to Jewish people to make the comparisons. My Jewish friends agreed with me. Granted, I did crash out on the class Facebook page.
I wouldn’t even call it conservatism atp. I think there were some halfway decent people, like John McCain or Jeff Flake, but I would gander to say that anyone raised on post-Reagan conservatism is either profoundly selfish or a straight-up bigot.
It’s still so insane to me that Reagan could slash the top marginal tax rate by nearly 50% and gut social programs, and then win 49 states in the next election. I know it happened bc of white supremacy, but it’s truly a fascinating example of how much people will put status before prosperity.
The decline in education on the logical method has made people far less aware of Trump’s white supremacy, save folks who have been forced to infer someone’s beliefs from their speech for the sake of safety. You cannot believe that immigrants poison blood without believing certain blood is inferior.
I think what people take for granted is that what tips people off that Trump is a white supremacist isn’t what he explicitly states, it’s what type of headspace you’d have to be in order to want any association between your rhetoric and that of the KKK, Nazi sympathizers, or the Confederacy.
I'll never stop saying that "America first" was a slogan of the KKK in the early 1900s.
They haven’t been asked to do this yet, though. That’s normally the breaking point. The end of Milošević’s dictatorship came when the troops he sent on the streets refused orders to shoot the protesters.
When did he imply this? It’s a basic truth that people of all creeds SHOULD be concerned over a military occupation of our cities.
Everything about this seems doomed to produce psychopaths.
Trump is sort of incapable of having the theory of the mind for anyone who doesn’t already think like him, so people genuinely wanting to be in the military out of a desire to serve their country and defend the American spirit is entirely alien to him, who assumes they do it to terrify brown people.
>raid his apartment with a dozen dudes in tactical gear >release a highly edited video of the arrest >grand jury declines to indict him Lmfao
And they need to be freed from the shackles of Luna Bars (soy), women in combat video games, reciprocating on oral sex, and knowing how to make Kraft Dinner!!!
I said it before, but it shows how genuinely destructive racism is, that we would willfully sacrifice an entire generation of nurses and scientists and teachers and engineers, solely bc of their skin colour.
Thank you so much for your work, it’s greatly appreciated!!!
I’m almost convinced they say this shit to get other men to be wholly unsuccessful in dating bc what cishet woman likes an unresponsive partner.
There’s some joke out there that’s like “72 virgins? Do you know how much work that is, sexually educating 72 people?”
On of these days these men will understand that their fear in their low body count is projected onto women, and that having a partner who knows how to handle a relationship is actually a good thing
They want her cultural sway to be exploited to convince conservatives, and desperately want to reveal her being a liberal was a false marketing strategy, and conservative is the natural order.
NEVER FORGET: The GOP Congress lack of interest in the breach of actual science at the CDC has made it CLEAR: they don’t care if we live or die.
Why have I only seen this shit with non-white or female politicians?
I mean, I tend to be wary of broad allegations of conspiracy coming from a single source, but it is somewhat strange that there isn’t a single protest for Congo or Yemen, and only Black folks mention Sudan.
I literally was mocked in high school for saying this exact thing. That Trump was like Hitler in the late 20s, early 30s.
Ashli Babbitt was an enemy of multiracial democracy. She stood on the same moral footing as the “redeemers” who sabotaged Reconstruction. And she is being celebrated by this administration for precisely that reason. That is where we are.
Both are authoritarian (Ftr, I believe there’s a huge difference between the socialism of Lenin and the socialism of Trotsky), so that checks out.
Literally what his military parade was.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
💯 Trump cares about optics and the optics of this are not good for him. The images will get picked up by media and amplified around the world. That's where the power to get under his thin skin is. I don't know if a general strike is possible at this point, but that would do it to.
Like a ton of them literally have more smoke for people who say “your family members and peers voted to take your healthcare away, sorry,” than the family members and peers who VOTED TO TAKE THEIR HEALTHCARE AWAY.
I think what they also don’t understand is that, ime, a ton of rural leftists outright refuse to even confront their family members on their bs. I know a ton who say that simultaneously Fox News was able to brainwash their family members, but that they can’t be swayed by their family’s opinions.
He’s fully valid to say that. You can call us selfish, but we have tried, again and again, to make these people see reason. They don’t. At some point, you have to let people touch the stove. Maybe once they’re burned will they see how much they hurt themselves.
You have more beef with the people who have tried to prevent these people from shooting fireworks inside, and have finally given up, than the people who keep trying to burn down your house.
Rather than agreeing with us, and saying “yeah, fuck my peers and kin for making me lose healthcare,” it’s “fuck people who have extended every olive branch to rural voters and been spat on, for giving up on them, y’all are monsters” and “fuck democrats for letting this happen.”
They attack the Democratic Party, but have given up on convincing their family members. They act like any criticism or apathy towards rural America is an unfair attack on them, as if their kin and peers don’t actively hate us en masse. They get angry at us for their family’s own actions.
