Do you honestly think the 2008 election hinged on same sex marriage and not the economy?
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Do you honestly think the 2008 election hinged on same sex marriage and not the economy?
Again, not the gotcha you think it is. Obama was wrong in 2008 and had to be pushed into doing the right thing. Why are you so opposed to pushing Newsom into supporting Trans rights? Are you comfortable with him agreeing with Charlie Kirk?
Nightswimming.
Yeah, that’s not the gotcha you think it is. I don’t think who has rights and who doesn’t should be debated. You think it’s ok to cut a group loose to “defeat fascism.” Whose other rights do you want to bargain away?
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As a follow up, we don't need to put a Democrat on the ballot who is on record agreeing with Charlie Kirk on *anything.*
Well, since the Democrats have blocked any bills, I'm relying on Newsom's agreement with Charlie Kirk on the issue. If a bill got to his desk banning trans kids from sports, who's to say he would veto it? Given his stated positions and his desire to debate human rights...
Who else’s human rights are you willing to surrender in order to defeat fascism?
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Yeah, same. I didn’t get covid until things started opening again and I had been vaccinated and I still went down hard. Closing things down made a great deal of sense. It saved lives.
Wouldn't trust these mega-donors as far as I could throw them. They would put their money on someone playing a roll, someone who is happy to compromise human rights away, etc, etc. Perhaps their money would be better spent on candidates in every single district in 2026. Fight for every seat.
Holy... I would actually like to see the Julia Roberts movie version of this... Julia Roberts trying to murder cancer riddled, heroin addicted lover... That's printing money.
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Democratic Senators continue to look at those across the aisle as co-workers and friends, not the authoritarians who will say and do anything to gain power and control.
Most of them are sociopaths.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
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.
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Been there. Oof.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
So many good panels happening at the same time... !
Have you considered the consequences of eating it raw, Tory? *insert Green Day song here*
They should never make Bond as a period piece.
*H.H. Holmes has entered the chat.* IYKYK.
I once did a humor panel at 9 am on a Sunday... it went just as well as you might imagine.
It's not an early panel if you just stay up all night.
Speaking as someone who was actually out there … neither the National Guard nor the Marines moved more than 150 feet off of federal property for the entire month-plus they were deployed
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
She is, of course, lying. There is no more center here, no belief system. Just lies to get what they want.
It’s really hard for to unify with people who want to “debate” human rights. Those aren’t up for debate. Can we now deal with health care, the environment and house prices?
I have the same amount of legal authority over federal elections as he does.
Who would be the funniest journalist to break the news?
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Yep. I’m wrong. I’m still upset that Dems voted for *any* of his nominees.
A good reason why human rights shouldn’t be debated. Debates encourage shifting standards. This person just wants to live and be with the person they love.
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as did the Republicans and Democrats who approved Kennedy's nomination. They also have blood on their hands
I can
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
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My mom always said that. And I thought she was just being sarcastic.
I have a strange desire to collect them all.
If I were a celebrity I would sue.
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I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
The bigot is lying, of course. The common denominator in all of these shootings is the guns. The most common shooter is white men.
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That song at the end of the finale… I start crying just hearing that
Why are they hanging a portrait of a loser? Right. Because they are losers.
Or arrested.
Dude always sounds like the “tough guy” at a bar, who holds down the stool all day.
Racist dog whistle.
Susan Collins is a terrible, terrible human being. She watches (and votes for) horrific things and is always clutching her pearls. Like, fuck off. Does anyone still believe your shit?
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
No. Hard pass. I'd rather we'd stop playing meme games.
In like a week this guy is going to open an ironic concentration camp
I think Matty is making a choice to lie about it. He's lying. He knows it's everywhere. He's happy with the fascism because it doesn't impact his life. And he gets to be contrarian.
Getting those too.
Shame is a powerful weapon. We *should* shame fascist behavior. It's why ICE is wearing masks. They know it's wrong.
I wasn’t so young and remember it. And I’m literally finding out about the neo Nazi shit right now.
There are many rooms right now where overpaid execs are saying "what if we ... debate bigots?!?" like it's some smart or cool idea. In the coming year get ready to be inundated with thumbnails showing closeups of the faces of the lamest pundits grimacing alongside brightly colored shock text.
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
Got one like that the other day.
Me too!
Don’t take access to knowledge and information for granted.
They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status. Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title "Tom Clancy's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Trash opinion that is not based in reality. She has never been independent. She clutches her pearls and hopes people don't realize what a trash person she is.
The fact that people are debating whether or not other people should have rights to live their lives is pretty ugly and makes me wonder: what's the difference between Republicans and the Pod Save America bros? Both seem willing to sell out people.
personally i do not think human rights should be up for “debate” but what do i know, i’m emotional and biased because those are my rights they’re talking about
One wonders how Matt is defining "reasonable." That if you *do* notice you aren't reasonable?
And where was the National Guard?
There are restaurants everywhere.... he should get mean looks in every single one of them. And he's lucky it's just looks.
I'm very thankful that I did, indeed, file my copyright for my first book (as I did for the others) because that's the one they stole. :)
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Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Trey Gowdy is a monster saying truly horrific things rather than the things that need to be said, like "we have to many guns, we have created a culture of violence." He's a ghoul.
*dance emoji* Though, I wish they hadn't settled. Settling means they are going to find a way to survive... like cockroaches. Glad I registered my copyright!
This is preferable to terrorizing black neighborhoods. But it also just confirms what we all knew: the whole operation is about projecting the image of safety for tourists, politicians, and white residents, not reducing crime. (Which terrorizing black neighborhoods also would not accomplish.)
So not fighting all the crime that I was told was rampant? Huh.
Damn you, Gerald Ford. If you had let Nixon go to jail we might not be here.
I think some in Congress really look at the people across the aisle as colleagues... and they look back at the Democrats as chumps.
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Does this include defunding and unmasking ICE agents? Stopping them from kidnapping people off the street? Because that should be the beginning of your bold plan...
But still willing to be bipartisan.... Just stop it. I can't tell if this group is incredibly naive or just not made for this moment. I'm thankful my Rep isn't a part of this group.
These guys... here we are with the military in our streets, human beings kidnapped by masked police and they're like "Hey, these are people I'd like to bargain with!" Just stupid.