The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
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The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Really putting those American touches on the beautiful game
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Even if he's gone, the Con movement, 60 years in the making, will still be with us.
Trump takes it further than any Republican had dared to, but none of this new or novel. Cons have always trashed the rest of us as insufficently American traitors, degenerates out to destroy the country, etc, etc and then feign outrage at any even minority critical response. It's playing the refs
I dont understand why he likes it so much. The only character I can see him identifying with is the Thenardiers
“The guys before you broke things so bad that you weren’t able to fix it before the next election and we’re angry, so as punishment, we’re putting the guys who broke everything back in charge.”
Once a child trafficker, always a child trafficker
On the day it happens, it will still not be enough. His whole movement must be removed root and branch and consigned to the dustbin of history. His cronies must be driven from public life, accountability and justice must happen. No more Merrick Garland shit.
When it happens, all of DC needs to head to Lafayette Square to celebrate outside the White House like the night they got Bin Laden
Nah, this is right on brand for his business acumen
Because Conservatives are so locally tribal that they consider the liberals, blacks, women, lgbtq folks they know as "one of the good ones" rather than the faceless boogeyman they've built of all of us.
"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
It's the guns
Honest Abe is just crying there listening to their lies and the desecration of that office
(iron man jeff bridges voice) lyndon JOHNSON built this! in ONE TERM! with a bunch of RACISTS!! don’t fucking tell me it can’t be done!!
Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US. Using the US Military against the American public.
You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI. The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.
My contention about a hot civil war is that we have been living in one for decades at this point, I would say since 1982, but very slow moving. What do you think all those mass shootings are actually about? Look who is mostly perpetuating them (white males) and what they target (public institutions)
Doing it against the Canes is a hilarious and odd choice
You know how pets look like their owners...he looks like the stupid pepe the frog made "human"
Trump and Republicans are going to cheat and steal the elections. People are still suffering from a failure of imagination. They're telling you the plot openly
He doesn't care, Napa and Sonoma didn't vote for him so they can suffer as far as he's concerned
On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters." On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident. Real macho stuff.
A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin
Everyday a new embarassment
Ask the people of those countries how well that worked out
Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.
Justice for sandwich bro!
As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.
So, just like Russia in 2016, he’s guilty as hell.
He has no intention of leaving office... If what he's done in seven months doesn't telegraph that, you might as well be blind. Even the innocuous shit of what he's doing to the White House is a tell.
"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"
Uprooting confederate statues and shipping them to a museum where it could be given proper historical context WAS the compromise position so yes when we get back in the answer is to smash them to bits on Live Television like the Berlin Wall.
"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc
“Anything and everything Donald Trump does as president gets undone and reversed” should be the position of the Democratic Party. Anything and everything.
“but he was legitimately elected” yes he was, and he immediately followed it up by committing a lot of crimes and otherwise attempting to destroy our entire system of government and replace it with autocracy just because people made a mistake doesn’t mean we can’t fix it
the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
Destroying American advantage and causing stagnation because he's still mentally locked in the 70s-80s.
So what are you going to do about it?
Jack Smith isn’t a federal employee, so the Hatch Act doesn’t apply—full stop. The Office of Special Counsel has no authority here. This isn’t about ethics. It’s political theater—retaliation meant to scare prosecutors and weaken the rule of law. It’s authoritarianism, dressed up as due process.
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
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DNI Tulsi Gabbard retweets Roger Stone praising her on Alex Jones. (Read that sentence, IC ppl in Five Eyes) Roger Stone was in direct contact w/the GRU hackers who dropped the Clinton emails, just to be clear. He knows full well whose campaign Russia reached out to. These people are brazen liars.
This is horrific
The Trump regime wants to force a sale of TikTok to Oracle (the Ellison family, who just bought CBS) so they can use it for information warfare and right wing propaganda. The "national security" stuff is a complete front, but you'd be hard pressed understanding any of this from media coverage.
The reason a lot of non-pedophile conservative Christians don't bat an eye when this keeps happening is that due to their media diet they believe it happens at the same rate among non Christian leaders so the narrative is "there's pedophiles lurking everywhere! even sadly, and rarely, in our midst"
“They gave Disneyland tickets to the people who worked in the wildfires,” one soldier said. “Nobody’s handing out Disneyland tickets now.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
sorry, you’re not going to get me to give a shit about a CEO having an affair with his head of HR and getting caught on the jumbotron while doing it, this is not doxxing, this happens all the time and has for decades, sit down, shut up, stop talking
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
"The GOP's decision to sever the half-century-old pairing of farm handouts with food assistance offers Democratic politicians an opportunity to stop supporting environmentally and fiscally ludicrous subsidies for farmers who wouldn’t dream of voting for Democrats." Next time w/ power, Dems: go hard
Where are the signs? Are they in the room with you right now? Blink if you need help.
I think about this constantly
I want a 50 year reunion for the Spice Girls where they introduce their newest member Hospice
Just so we’re clear, he wants us to pay more for goods we get from Brazil because he wants to save a foreign political crony on trial for corruption. Not seeing the “America First” mentality here…
"The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to keep the police secret."
Any Democrat working against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, was never a Democrat in the first place. They are moderate Republicans who spent years seeking political power by posing as Democrats in a heavily blue area.
They don't care. They will find a way to blame The DemoncRAT party, socialism, and the boogeyman and that's all that matters
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
When the terms of that bargain was broken by the coalition of northern Reps and Dems to produce the Civil Rights Act, all hell broke loose, because the conservatives could not accept that the formerly excluded groups (or those elected with support from those groups) could legitimately govern.
trumpism as peronism but only because he seems himself as evita
The War on Terror eas always going to come back home
An underexplored angle in the MOP discourse is that we've given every future potential proliferator with reasonably mountainous terrain pretty good data on designing passive defenses robust to the most capable non-nuclear munitions that exist.
They don't care that republicans still get cancer and other diseases and fall on hard times and have special-needs kids. This was the deal. "We will hurt the people you hate even if it hurts you" and half the country signed up in blood
“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!
So Bibi needed an excuse to stay in power and realized Trump was too dumb not to back him
Leopards getting real obese out here
Anyone that bought the Donald the Dove nonsense is exactly the kind of credulous mark he made his entire career on. Don't confuse (Russian backed) opposition to the liberal international order with pacifism.
So, either Iran didn't have a bunch of enriched uranium and the whole thing was a Bibi bid to stay in power Or: We shot our shot, missed, and have entered into this illegal action for no reason And it was all so predictable and idiotic.
Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.
He's such a complete joke. This was inevitable because he is such an insecure baby
Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. Iran didn't strike Israel. It was Israel that struck Iran first. Trump was set to meet Iran for potential negotiations. Netanyahu blew it up. Trump got played by Netanyahu, again, and has now led US into an unnecessary with Iran. America First.
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
Stephen Miller already salivating over the war powers he now gets to play with
Here’s the thing. There are over 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA. Many of us have been tracking the right-wing capture of law enforcement for years and years. We’ve been talking about it. It’s well known.
The news that Signal guy has 5x as man kids as him must really really piss him off
Even Obama thought he didn't deserve it
Elihu Root, Kissinger, and Obama would like a word
They gave it to that black guy for no reason*, so he DESERVES it. *Even Obama recognizes that was wildly undeserved and just a product of him not being the last wild incompetent the GOP cult has inflicted on the world
Im post 40 and while I'd enjoy a relationship, I've also built a community of friends who I value wildly more than settling for something that doesn't add value
an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks
Thats exactly the point being made. Dems have disarmed and allowed the other side to rub rampant. Yes, we know this is a terrible system, but unless it's the same everywhere it is implicitly beneficial to one side. Only one side wants to be in a democracy.
It is awful for democracy, but it is necessary for our Republic.
It's the same reason body cam and cell phone vids of cop excess is effective. People can no longer deny the things that are being done in their name
These social media vids of people being abducted by masked marauders in unmarked vans is floating below the mainstream media conversation, but it is devastatingly effective at rising the ire of people. It's one thing to talk about mass deportations now while lying. It's another to see it, tangibly.
Good thing we're dismantling government monitoring
One major problem with "viewpoint diversity" is that it's only ever applied to predominantly left wing professions. No one is calling for politicians, judges, the military, the police, or the business world to be more ideologically diverse.
One fascinating thing lately is that some of the biggest conspiracy humpers have been put in positions where they have access to all the info to prove they were right all along and they discover, oh, shit, there is no conspiracy. Bongino and Gabbard have said as much.
Vile
I'm more concerned with the plague of Twister accidents Upper Midwest