“Concepts of a plan” unironically may have boosted his chances through the Build-A-Trump effect

In the years since the Obama presidency a messianic religion has cropped up in progressive circles, trying to isolate exactly what strange magic made him so resoundingly popular The consensus they have arrived at is a combination of social reactionary centrism and tepid economic populism

Abolish ICE Bring home the imprisoned Tear down the wall Rescue the slave Enfranchise all who would share the blessings of liberty

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

This. Immigrants are awesome, and I wish we weren’t so afraid to say it.

I have been using it for decades, I will NOT cede the em dash to AI

I hate that the em dash has become a sign of using generative AI. I've known how to use them since forever! It's stolen valour!

*To quote a guy on Mastodon: We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

“I didn’t vote for this” Yes you did. Yes you did. Not only did you vote for it, but all of us told you about it, and so did the person you voted for, and so did half of the people who voted for him. Yes you did vote for it. You voted for this, and now we have it, and you don’t get to lie now.

also: “conservative Christian marketing firms” will never see the light of God’s Kingdom

Incredible power move by Fox producers to make Miller sit through AOC calling him a manlet

To be a bigoted crank is to reject the values and methods that allow civilization to exist. It is to reject reason and virtue. We are seeing what happens when bigoted cranks get power right now in our government. Bigoted cranks are evil. As those who have been vulnerable to them know.

These people as so insulated in their civilized liberal bubbles that they do not understand that bigoted cranks commit atrocities, and all the little horrors of life. They are the ones who lynch the stranger. They are the ones who say the child deserved it.

It is wild that Donald Trump ran and won on a platform the primary policy substance of which was “there should be literally 1 million more Elián Gonzalezes, but much much worse”

sorry: they attempted to assassinate a critic, and then used their own attempted murder to call for a military invasion of a US city

the trump administration attempted to assassinate a critic and when she lived, they prosecuted her for surviving

The horseshoe of the left wing is abundance centrists on the one hand and “no war but class war” “Dems and republicans are the same” lefties on the other both converging to delude themselves into somehow thinking they can win Trumper’s to their side, (not counting the Larouchist’s already there).

This too is Esoteric Obamaism

there are so many people on this app who think having a graduate degree and an email job makes you a fascist weirdo I'm not sure where this belief comes from but I'm gonna guess it's next door to the birthplace of pathological Pete Buttigieg hatred

The measure of a person is how frequently their shit posts manage to trend in the top 5 on Ecks Dot Com The Everything App, The Internet’s Town Square

They keep making literal golden idols it’s insane

Trump is, in addition to being completely morally rotten, also committed to seeing no need of forgiveness on his part and works righteousness! He is a *literal* doctrinal heretic of the rankest sort! Worse than most mainliners!

If Trump were probably, definitively, beyond a shadow of a doubt the Beast from Revelation, what would he be doing differently

“Democrats flew to a foreign land on the US taxpayer's dime to break bread with this terrorist gang member and visit him in prison.” These people literally condemn Jesus of Nazareth.

They... genuinely do scorn Christ and assail his ways

the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way

AMRAAM is not good enough for the current era, we need 260 and we need more 174s

Ukraine shows that we should be funding A2A capes significantly more to combat the wide proliferation of VLRAAMs among red forces

the takeaway for me is "ukraine is what happens when you don't have air superiority" and so it drives me mildly insane when people look at ukraine and say "this is why we have to defund the air force" we should view the ukraine war as the *bad outcome,* not the intended end state!

much of my air force partisanship comes not from studies of the air force, but rather from studies of land warfare--especially citino's conclusion that maneuver warfare is simply impossible if the enemy has air superiority www.amazon.com/Blitzkrieg-D...

today in my usual "air force is good and we should do more of it": perun's back of the envelope calculation that russia is delivering more total high explosive by glide bomb than by cannon artillery youtu.be/DfCspYYPi5I?...

What happens when you're forced to slug it out in a contested airspace btw:

My most conservative trait is rapidly becoming how repulsive I find the total dereliction of defense for you and your family's honor, especially when it's your partner, who is the family you actually chose

I know we've talked a lot about the total capitulation of the American elite in government and civil society and how little respect they seem to have for the power they and their institutions wield but it's genuinely baffling how many of them also have no respect for their families

these guys want -- indeed feel entitled to -- cultural hegemony but don't have a popular culture to offer anyone outside of podcasts where dumb guys complain. they're hoping AI will make one for them but i got bad news

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

RETVRN

It would be a dereliction of duty if he hadn't. Scott Perry, Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, and Ted Cruz should all be breaking rocks.

you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)

area dort unaware of the fact that the founders didn't *want* soldiers in the streets

Also people do love seeing the National Guard out doing normal National Guard stuff, like doing disaster relief, or driving around on military vehicles doing training. Not so much when they're doing law enforcement wearing silly forest camo uniforms in concrete jungles.

I've always thought that the ideal role for conservatives in a society was essentially to fulfill the same concept as a defense attorney. Sure, my client might be guilty, but you still need to prove it. Sure, this change to society might be beneficial, but you still need to prove it.

Why the hell do we never get this piece going the other way? Why don't people ask why we don't have communists in c-suites, or socialists on rural school boards? Just once, I'd love a "diner safari" that talks to some actual liberals.

The press believes that right-wing extremists are owed space at every table from city councils to academia, no matter how out of place or inappropriate, and that they are unique in this entitlement They believe this because they are in sympathy with those extremists

Stephen Miller desperately wants it to be the summer of 2020 again but it just ain’t buddy.

1. i was told this couldn’t happen and we were losing 2. Highly skeptical he means it and can do it 3. Fuck it ask for more now

it remains incredibly funny to me that playing hardball was somehow at odds with a bunch of politics knowers