not to beat a dead horse but they do this not out of some belief about maximizing electoral returns but out of an aversion to rhetorically committing themselves to doing something about epstein/corruption/ICE/whatever other issue they’re avoiding, should they win power back

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism

There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago. And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.

It is good that younger people have less "racial resentment" but how is that even measured?

Fucking Iowa, man.

If he does this, fuck touching the stove. Dems should talk about nothing else.

I'm starting to wonder if something that will REALLY hurt Republican Turnout for the Midterms is if the GOP mass shows disloyalty to Trump. How many of his cultists will not show up out of anger?

Is it good when your original cult members turn on you and you try ineffectually to discipline them.

Oh my god

you simply do not get credit for fixing a problem that is entirely, intentionally, your own fault

they didn’t go for it because ag sulzberger took over as editor

Genuinely insane seeing the complete and unabashed bias of the media so clearly

Lump of...consumption fallacy?

Janet Mills please drop out and someone from the overcrowded Governor Primary jump in. Her age is clearly a severe detriment to beating Platner, who cannot be trusted. I'm hearing too many "coincidental" Nazi dogwhistles.

I never want to hear any "business leader" or VC loser or finance guy whine about Mamdani or AOC or Bernie ever again lmao. After seeing the masters of capital stay studiously silent when Trump shreds their businesses and wealth, they have no ground to ever fucking speak again.

I’m slowly radicalizing into thinking we need to ban all non in person sports betting

My most Woke opinion is that the United States should have a Sex Education System modeled on that of the Netherlands. And we should aggressively force Red States to adopt it when they inevitably protest.

I hate it but I can believe/accept that the median voter wants to hear Bipartisanship Slopulism. I understand sometimes Democrats have to take shitty annoying positions that I don't agree with. But so many of them are so lazy about it and feel like they're just picking at random.

“Unstrategic moderation” is a real thing - so many of these folks just pick a few issues to perform moderation regardless of whether there is any basis for it helping them electorally

IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.

We explained to a chimpanzee the various factional struggles within the Right and he immediately hanged himself

no youre not at nyt but youre in mainstream media and they constantly circle the wagons vs liberal criticism. not for a moment could msm ever consider "hey, we fucked up." no. its always "you, the public, are wrong. bow to your superiors."

its so telling that the few times the mainstream media steps down from mount olympus to interact with blue sky is to tell the libs to shut the fuck up and kiss the toes of the new york times.

Isn't James Lankford seen as one of the "Nice Moderate Republicans"?

Pedocon theory

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Don't amend laws to build more housing more quickly. Simply take on the easier, achievable, orderly and peaceful goal of "Armenian Genocide but 100x larger."

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

Very similar attitudes to Reformistas in the UK here.

Don't wanna pile on. But. To the general public it will just be implausible to suggest that journalistic standards meant a lead suggesting a Trump-Epstein link wasn't worth pursuing when the NYT did run with "Mamdani said he was African American in an application to a college he didn't get into".

galactic timeline cleanse (yes, it's real!)

This is going to be the standard GOP Messaging on Pedophilia before too long. And they fucking wonder why they attract Groypers.

what if he comes out of this pro-Hamas

One of the many reasons we have to fight the rise of the far right is the risk they pose to undoing the progress we *have* made.

Lol this guy again. He is for sure a gambler who is angry about losing money. You can tell from the way he talks.

everything bad ever written about Tiberius was true

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

this is the single biggest reason the Democratic Tea Party has to be real and immediate, because the party as currently constituted will not do this

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

A mountain of evidence that all of Trump's claims about his "falling out" with Epstein was complete bullshit.

99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

this is bait and so it’s important not to get too worked up about it. but a couple notes about how dishonest it is. (1) implies all the docs out today are related to the discharge petition; they’re not. and the petition itself remains unlikely to generate new documents for the public.

Welp... That's that nonsense dealt with.

I will believe it when I see it.

Impeach

I’m at the Epstein Files I’m at the Russiagate I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate

Genuinely wonder what it would take to get him under 35% approval without the economy collapsing. Would a smoking gun “video of him engaged in pedophilia” genuinely even turn his supporters against him? They’ve invested their entire life into being right about him and aren’t giving up now.

I dunno how much more evidence the Normie Dems need that the "Liberal Media" is not your friend. They are not "Liberal Biased" at all.