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Part of me wonders how far the lunatics in Florida can take things before there is some kind of major backlash. Florida has become more right-wing in recent years, but it still polls like a purple state on individual issues. Meanwhile, they are mashing the accelerator like its Oklahoma.
100% Specifically, the rumor should be that he was being poisoned under the auspices of treatment for a chronic condition. Wrap it into a conspiracy about Peter Theil and the Silicon Valley bros trying to take over, and we could wrap up a lot of bad people in it.
I think one of the problems is that media has conditioned people to believe that fascism comes along with dark skies and ominous music. People don’t recognize authoritarianism when they see their neighbors walking the dog on a sunny day with chirping birds.
The only thing going on right now that could legitimately be classified as a diversion is the Cracker Barrel logo thing. The key distinction is that unlike the attempted Fed firing and cities getting invaded, the only people who actually care about the Cracker Barrel logo are freaks.
And that 2013 win was a plurality with a significant 3rd party vote.
I have had pre-sex with hundreds of women
And more grandpa ranting: CRACKER BARREL (MORE LIKE TRASH BARREL!!!)
Need more CAPS LOCK or exclamations!
I think this is where things went sideways. Fox News started calling other outlets the "liberal media" in an attempt to "both sides" their blatant bias. At some point, liberal journalists started believing the lie because the truth looks biased when compared to blatant propaganda.
You mean you aren't going to post "1700% increase in early voting compared to this time in 2017. Blue biblical flood incoming!"?
Maybe that's part of the problem too. Schumer's vibe IS guy who consults made up Republican family in his head for decision making. There are some who just aren't built for this moment, period. I agree, the rest need to lean into their stengths.
It might be better for Texas to go first, so CA knows how hard to go.
Tattoo an image of a multiracial family on his bald fucking head
At a fucking minimum
Every single one of these agents needs to be unemployed on day 1 of the next Dem admin. No questions asked, you’re fired, end of.
At the point when their money could buy them almost anything in the world, they began to want for that which money can't buy.
the fact of the matter is that a lot of violent crime is the purview of a small number of individuals in specific, geographically bounded communities. the only way to get those people off the streets is with the trust of the community itself.
The only bright spot in the current economy is a nascent industry that requires billions of dollars of capital investment and has shown no sign of turning a profit. I think that is the thing that eventually snaps.
"Why can't I have a beer at the bar like a big boy? Look at my big boy facial hair."
I think they understand it somewhat because they haven't proposed any invasions of cities in swing states, YET. At the same time, they do seem hellbent on reversing any of gains they made in 2024 (urban residents, Latinos, etc.)
There will be a point system, so that will work. A progress pride flag bumper sticker will have a similar point value to a Coexist bumper sticker so you could go that route. You can also sub out a regular pride flag bumper sticker and either a small NATO or UN symbol.
It's the information environment. Pete Hegseth, an important cabinet head appointed by the president, supports a pastor who thinks women shouldn't vote. However, the media or the modern gaggle of podcasters will never report it as "the GOP is against women voting."
This is the most depressing and hopeful statistic simultaneously. It's depressing because those numbers should have never been that high. It's hopeful because it shows we don't have to change that many minds to end up with a commanding majority.
That's the best explanation for Trump. POS's envy what he's able to get by with. They see him, another POS, get by with things and wish they could do the same. That's why it's really telling who is starting to be skeptical of him because of the Epstein thing and who is standing by his side.
Republicans like Tapper never cared about the troops. "The troops" are worshipped by the right because they are right-coded. They don't actually care about them as people. It's all virtue signaling. If thousands of troops marched in the streets against Trump, Cons would dump them in a second.
Maroon them on an island with a laptop with ChatGPT right where they are dropped and a year's supply of food and a satellite phone 100 yards away and let nature take its course.
Agreed. I think non-violence is always the first approach to take to any conflict. However, as I've aged, it's become apparent that some guys just need to get their ass kicked because they won't respond to anything else.
I accidentally swallowed the very tip of a plastic fork prong. Forget microplastics, I'm unintentionally consuming macroplastics.
I'm sure it's a coincidence that Elon announced his fake transit system right as Nashville is trying to build a real transit system.
I feel like we were better off as a country when we used to make fun of racist white trash. Also, the idea that whether one is punching up or down is solely tied to economic status is ridiculous.
I wonder to what extent the drop off in Dems' support from Hispanic men is a reflection of construction employment (especially residential construction) starting a cooling trend in 2024.
Isn't there a government funding bill that needs to be passed to prevent a shutdown? I don't know if it's the right strategic move, but tying government funding to the release of the Epstein files would certainly get the Epstein stuff back in the news.
The one bright side to her not believing in anything is maybe we can just reprogram her. Maybe she's just the chip switchout meme.
I think if you have enough fresh faces, you can afford to have some older candidates. It also depends on the charisma and energy of the older candidates.
If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death
The next Democratic president should have his stupid plane seized within 24 hours of taking office.
Most of the time, their high-minded political theoretical visions are just "racism but more intellectual sounding."
There's already a facility in the Everglades that would be a great place to keep some administration officials while they await trial.
I think the reality that most people don't develop their perceptions of the economy based on economic data limits any benefit he could get from this move.
This is all a cynical play to get JD Vance's brother elected mayor.
The VAGOP already has an uphill battle this year, but good lord. After living through the pain of 2021, it warms my heart that Youngkin accomplished very little, and the typical VA-GOV to VA-LT-GOV pipeline set Earle-Seares up to be their nominee.
I'm not an economist, but I think it happens fairly soon. Eventually, they will have to show that AI investments will produce a profitable end product to justify the capital investment they are proposing. As everything else contracts, people will be more skeptical of where they invest their money.
These people have had their material needs fulfilled and are yearning for things money can't buy. Their money alone can't make them one of the cool kids, and it drives them insane.
Stagflation was an epochal crisis for liberalism and it's one of the reasons I lean so hard into the small-a abundance thing: rapid economic growth was what underwrote America's first tentative steps in the direction of social democracy, and the left's turn toward growth skepticism was bad!
I dont think there is a "male loneliness epidemic". There is a "I dont understand why women wont let me control them and treat them like a mom with benefits" epidemic. These men got friends. They just wack.
Maybe, but even within the public, there's a dynamic where the people who are doing pretty well within the current system are more deranged than people who are actually struggling.
I'm very skeptical of any distillation of modern politics that blames everyone but the voters.
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
That's the thing I think a lot of people forget. The Rs are usually MORE unpopular than the Ds, but here we are in an R trifecta.
People are so desperate to build the narrative that Rs like Josh Hawley and Rand Paul are principled mavericks when they have never bucked their party when they have the deciding vote. Does anyone believe Rand would have voted against the bill in a 50-50 Senate? Has Hawley ever stuck his neck out?
the reorganization of the Camden PD was very flawed in many ways but it can serve a useful rhetorical purpose imo: there is already existing American precedent for shutting down a reasonably important law enforcement agency for the purpose of replacing it with something that isn't a total atrocity
I think her not getting anywhere with her presidential bid drove her mad.
It's a convenience store, but NYC has to call things by different names, similar to how they call all of their Walgreens "Duane Reade."
as a vote-blue-no-matter-who democrat, I am excited for this November when we are going to elect Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger, and Zohran Mamdani
Oh yeah, "I got l left by the left" is absolutely this dude's future trajectory.
There's a nonzero chance Vance becomes president before 2028, which would all but lock him in as the GOP nominee. Imagine the "vice president tied to unpopular administration" scenario we had last year, but instead of Kamala, who is personally likable, it's Vance who oozes unlikability.
Fash sale maybe?
CurrentTV and Air America were ahead of their time. As recent as 10 years ago, most people left of center viewed the mainstream media as centrist. Now that most media outlets are moving quickly to the right, there is an opening for a true left-wing outlet, IMO.
Honestly, as much grief as we give the Dems, they’re doing pretty remarkably when you consider that: 1.) the party now consists of literally everyone in America who had a coherent thought in their lives, which is quite the spectrum 2.) this is not enough to score a plurality of votes in the USA
The right wingers that are mad about Juneteenth dont like a holiday celebrating the end of slavery because they don't think the end of slavery should be celebrated. It's that simple.
I think competent people built our society strong enough in the past so that incompetent people can coast on their achievements for a little bit. At some point, there will be a reckoning, though.
Also, unlike 2018, our reach seats are all offensive. There's no trying to play defense in red states to keep from losing ground.
There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps
I need a good laugh like that. Unfortunately, Paul does a great job of talking a big game about not voting for something, then ultimately voting it with little to no concessions if his vote actually matters for passage.
It's the same phenomenon with neo-nazism. The people who were old enough to understand what was going on during WWII and the lead up to it are mostly dead at this point. That crap really took off in the mid-2010s when someone who was 18 in 1940 would have been in their mid-90s.
It's also all private sector work that could get canceled overnight if conditions go south.
If you think about it like science, something that they throw against the wall might not be the breakthrough itself, but it might cause the accidental discovery of the breakthrough.
They definitely aren't going to fix any of the streets and then blast pictures of the destroyed streets on right-wing media and blame it on "far left leadership."
What French fries are fried in is an ideological debate in 2025.
I wonder if they were trying to change the minds of voters or just hoping to make it harder to roll back the investments if a lot of the benefits went to GOP states/districts.
I see you have asked about what happens to water once it has served its purpose to cool data centers. Once the water is used for cooling, it is yeeted off the face of the earth much like the oppressed white South African farmers.
I'm always really skeptical of any theory of modern politics that lets the voters off the hook. Yeah, the Dems have their problems, and Biden shouldn't have run, but no one held a gun to people's heads and made them vote for the guy that promised tariff mania and said immigrants were eating dogs.
"I'm happy to announce that I've been microdosing MDMA and it has been giving me an insatiable desire to have sex."
Dude is less than a year away from walking on stage at a Trump rally.
Him and a lot of Dems broke their brains after 2024. They interpreted a narrow loss with some very unprecedented circumstances as some kind of mandate by the people for a hard rightward turn.
As someone else pointed out, 30% is still a high tariff. That's $300 on a $1000 lap to use an extreme example. Going from 0 to 145 to 30 will fool the media because they would fall for the rabbit season duck season trick. However, consumers are going to care about the price tag at the store.
Whoever becomes the nominee needs to be in front of a prominent camera and microphone every day. It's the only way to have a chance to control the narrative in what is a very hostile media environment for us.
This makes me think of Kyrsten Sinema, too. At first, I thought she wore wacky outfits because she was quirky. Turns out she wore wacky outfits because she's wacky. Maybe we should care about how these people dress more.
All it will take is for someone to call him Gruesome Newsom in the primary debates, and it will be over.
It really makes me angry at the consultants who thought that "Why are the Republicans so weird?" didn't have any legs.
Good times make weak men. I think so many of the old timers are stuck in the old days where things were good, so Senate was just a cushy job to them instead of a calling to be an important leader.
The problem is that these people exist outside of clout chasing on social media. Some people just think that being contrarian makes them intelligent. Once you talk to them long enough, you realize they never talk about what they believe in, they just try to pick apart what you believe in.
I'm not too worried at the moment. We're only 100 days in. If this is still the case in January 2026, then I would start to worry. It might be good for Dems to do a little soul searching versus just relying on being anti-Trump.
They're so close to just outright saying exactly who they want to have more babies.
I also think that it's understated how "uncool" supporting Biden was to that age group. I think that's mostly a factor of his age. Harris was too tied to that administration to break free.
The longer the market is delusional, the bigger the crash in the end.
That Trump Term 2 picture... and he was mad about that portrait in Colorado
Look at who we are voting with at the UN. It's embarrassing.
"Kamala didn't go on the particular podcast I wanted her to, which I took as her personally insulting me because I have the maturity of a toddler."
It's always seems like we underperform in Connecticut even when we are overperforming elsewhere. I'm interested to see if tonight breaks that streak.
It's like the NYT double endorsement of Kloubuchar and Warren but 1000 times dumber.
I'm not surprised that it's Raskin. The guy is a national treasure.
The Dems did their best to handle his removal to them on a silver platter on more than one occasion.
The Pope dying the day after Easter right after meeting with JD Vance seems like it should be relevant to the type of person who's always looking for signs of the antichrist.
Someone is spouting off about modeling of low frequency events, but they miss the mark. Chaos theory is more applicable. That's where a small change to the variables in a particular model can produce wildly different outcomes. It's why we can only accurately forecast the weather for a few days.
This guy's wasted at like 9:00 a.m. on Easter Sunday.
That's where I am as an older Millennial. It feels like everything I've ever worked for could go away in a heartbeat.
Many such cases. You get a lot of "If I have to explain it to you, you're too stupid to understand it" responses from those kinds of people. It seems so obvious to them, but they CAN'T explain it because they didn't arrive at their conclusion through reasoning.
Good point. None of the articles about the sentiment of voters in small town West Virginia ever talk about Davis or Thomas.
I've been thinking, "These people don't believe in anything" about MAGA a lot recently. A lot of people are waiting for a "gotcha" moment where the hypocrisy will be too much for MAGA. In reality, MAGA never believed in what they said in the past and probably don't believe what they're saying now.