I've been saying but I think the two likely times this ends are "before christmas" and "???". we are hitting every emergency lever the normal course of events is capable of, if those don't break the logjam it is, almost by definition, unclear what will

the thing about embracing negative sum politics is that eventually your enemies do to

the mainstream media (Jeremy Renner App) doesn't want you to see this

seems not great for the prospects of the Republican party that the parts which face no pressure from elections are hell-bent on Maximum Suffering

my humor is like my code: self-deprecating

this isn't even "all stick, no carrot", this is "no carrot, we'll beat you with the stick for even suggesting we might have a carrot"

“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists

applying for jobs again

this is just the most nihilistic shit I have ever seen. "sorry, can't do anything about global warming, people like summer too much"

DOGE cut a bunch of stuff that is incredibly cheap in terms of government budget but wildly effective in terms of saving lives. it is literally the least sympathetic possible program to make this argument in defense of

every time I see one of these stories it's "and then the robot did the exact worst possible thing, something you'd program it to do if you were actively trying to kill people"

What a queen

you know if (when) the economy does actually blow up, I wonder if we manage to internalize the lesson of covid and do something about it or if our ability to pass meaningful stimulus was 100% down to covid not seeming like it was anyone's fault

excited for the Job Incels to explain to me that I don't have the chin to get hired in finance and my eyebrows mean I should be looking for a medical career

someone should do a feminist analysis of Jonah Hill

also the path to this is not the Dems reaching out in conciliation. it is the Dems grinding the actually-existing GOP into dust until its leadership once again agrees that the bargain of liberal tolerance is worth abiding by

women's marches brought down both Louis XVI and Tsar Nicholas

it seems like if you believed this an obvious takeaway for unmarried young men would be to take Mamdani as a role model: move to the left, be generally positive, and engage with the community in a way that shows you care about it

there's a good bit on New Girl where Schmidt works in a female-dominated workspace and is ~sexually harassed for it and this is just depicted as straightforwardly bad without needing to be a joke or a "feminism has gone too far" thing

suing my boss for not arguing with me enough and getting the case dismissed because appearing in court qualifies as an argument

"conservative feminism"

don't forget the extra savings from all the people who you don't have to feed because they can't make it home after a flight cancellation!

fun thing to consider as the shutdown goes on is what it says about next time we hit the debt ceiling

something I think is probably worth thinking about is that many (though not all) of the people saying this think war is based and fun and mostly object to the idea of being told what to do by a woman

the democrats should ruthlessly wield power to marginalize the republican party until such time as the republican party can be trusted not to use the office of the presidency to murder random fisherman. to do anything less is dereliction of our duty to humanity.

so do you know what "palliative care" means or are you suggesting that it should be illegal to get anesthetic for routine surgeries

I can't tell who's having a theory of mind failure here but the idea Dort is presenting seems to be that people consider the GWOT to be a noble, worthwhile conflict rather than a pointless waste of blood and treasure where those people died and were maimed for nothing, is absurd to me

hot dogs, a food famous for containing reputable meat whose source you understand

this shutdown would have to break the record for longest shutdown by a factory of double for this to effect my Christmas travel plans, which is to say that I am finally regretting not buying a travel insurance package

it's cool that all these guys can recognize hate speech as soon as they have an excuse to use it to do racism

a fun fact about this is that this isn't even "the natives call it Denali, the white people call it McKinley". everyone in Alaska calls it Denali because that's what is name is. the constituency for this is Trump and some assholes in Ohio who've never seen the mountain

you know what we don't talk about enough? Superstore. good show, fell off at the end, absolutely hilarious interstitials with customer behavior

never forget that the last guy to hold Tuberville's seat was a lawyer who fought the KKK however dumb you think voters in Alabama are, they're dumber

"The Republicans entered this election under the rather childish delusion that they were going to make death threats against everyone else, and nobody was going to make death threats against them."

lol they can't even get the colors to match

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

on the one hand, SCOTUS blocking tariffs is definitely good for GOP midterm prospects, but on the other hand it will drive Trump absolutely fucking feral and that's gotta be bad for them

i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

imo the correct dem immigration position is engraved in stone on ellis island

jay jones has a winning message for 2026: [REMOVED FOR VIOLATION OF TOS]

they gotta stop making guys like this. I'm tired of having to keep track of all the right wing dipshits. we need like a canonical three guys so I can remember them with the hatred they deserve

local manufacturer of arcane implements seeking to hire junior staff engineer

I can't tell if it's an account size thing or a site composition thing but I have started to get low-follower conservative accounts that show up in my mentions with some half-assed attempt at a dunk. I don't love it.

getting YouTube ads which appear to be advertising the new Call of Duty game on the premise that it will cause you to abandon all your personal obligations

"I would simply moderate my national image" dawg the Dems are losing people who think there are litterboxes in schools for students who identify as cats, why do you think this is a problem they can solve with substantive position changes

if you want to pay a woman for sex you can just do that. prostitution is explicitly legal in Nevada and practically available elsewhere.

I think we should moderate on the death penalty by promising to apply it to people who illegally struck civilian vessels in the Caribbean

The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.