“I go around the country and people will say, Pete you just don't understand why we're so mad about the 51st state and it's kind of like, yeah, you're right, I don't,” Hoekstra said Not the only thing this idiot doesn’t understand.

Trump has not fully consolidated his grip on power: his regime is not totalitarian. Perhaps it never will be because Orbán-style "competitive authoritarianism" allows for the plausible deniability that Tom here is desperate to grasp. But the ideology behind the Trump regime is clearly fascist.

CBC don't run cover for a foreign authoritarian determined to destroy Canada challenge [impossible]

I'm beginning to think that Keir Starmer was not the brilliant tactician I thought he was.

Way to go, anti-vax shitheads!

Fuck me! I was not aware how terrible the extinction of humans would be to the US's GDP! I am now convinced that we should avoid this outcome. As long as it is fiscally prudent to do so, of course. 🫤

I'm sure one day this award will all the legacy and prestige the NRSC's "Champion for Freedom Award" enjoys today.

Cancerous Dilbert man is giving new meaning to "terminally divorced."

I recall the following quote from David Frum's "Trumpocracy": If conservatives become convinced they cannot win democratically they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy. They know they have one year. Expect the absolute worst from them. Be prepared, not scared.

You can take the man out of the Republican party, but you cannot take Republican thinking out of the man.

The CBC continues to be disappointing. Instead of framing it as broad support for Ontario's ad, they centre Trump's bruised ego.

It's getting easier and easier to comprehend that Sam still thinks of the Blue Jays as a "new team."

Prince Duke Nonce is now just Prince Nonce.

ZFC proves its consistency.

As Kemi Badenoch suggests returning the UK to trickle-down economics, here's a quick explainer.

Is it weird to think about the condition of an actress's hymen when you are watching a movie? Asking for a 63-year-old man.

I hope USians take this as a warning that they can't just wait and hope that the results of the midterms will fix their situation.

Might be a small thing, but why is "Charlie Kirk" spelled correctly on the cup? Wouldn't writing "Chartreuse Kink" be more in keeping with Starbucks policy?

It's good that these European nations have remembered that they have navies.

Remember when asked about trans rights during the campaign she replied that she would "follow the law"? Some tried to spin that into a full-throated defense of trans rights. Albeit most doing that were only using it to cudgel actual trans people with. Unsurprising — but depressing — development.

Brits glazing Starmer for his obsequiousness towards Trump is disheartening at best. It just reminds me that they are conditioned to be servile towards their "social betters."

The album version was great. The live version at the Roseland Ballroom was perfection. This is haunting. "I got nobody on my side // And surely that ain't right"

Fucking cry-bully.

Trump will never ban the Democratic Party because authoritarians know it is useful to have an almost comically weak foil to give the semblance of democracy.

Someone briefed Trump (or, more likely, his speechwriters) that the phrase "special relationship" is like catnip to the ears of the much of the British political class. In particular, Starmer will be on cloud nine for weeks because of this. (Even if his poll numbers sink even further.)

This makes absolutely no sense. You can't oppose political violence whilst carrying water for someone who had absolutely no qualms about selectively supporting it. Kirk reveled in the attack on Paul Pelosi. He helped make Jan 6 happen. He'd laugh on your grave if a bullet ripped through your neck.

One name is conspicuously missing from this list. I wonder which side nixed his involvement.

Surely it would have been more appropriate for Prince Andrew to greet Jeffrey Epstein's friend.

Consultant-class fuckery of the highest order.

Congrats to whoever was able to project these images of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his very close friend who had "certain things in common" on the walls of Windsor Castle!

Sorry, what pardon now?

I hope the Democratic opposition will stand firmly against this. I hope the news media will choose to value the truth over "politeness." I hope the populace will fight for their freedoms and their democracy. Scary times are coming. Faster than you think. And it's accelerating.

No non-USian should be traveling to the United States, exhibit n+1.

I still cannot believe @royalsociety.org hasn't expelled him yet. His personal contributions to knowledge are (at the very most) infinitesimal, and his goal vis-à-vis the UK appears to be to undermine every democratic institution within it. His continued membership is the blackest of stains!

In the midst of the Nigel Farage Race Riots of 2024 Elon Musk tweeted that "civil war is inevitable." His prediction not having come to pass, I think he now wants to be its catalyst. No rational person should continue to use any of his products.

Her "I got bullied off BlueSky" article is coming soon to The Atlantic.

Canadian CPC MP Andrew Scheer (former leader of the CPC and still a USian) has been the catalyst for making Rachel Gilmore one of the unhinged right's top targets for hate and abuse. All because she pondered whether they would use Kirk's murder as an opportunity to dump hate and abuse onto others.

Ezra Klein's rendition of the attack on Paul Pelosi omits Charlie Kirk "practicing politics to right way" in the aftermath: "If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out."

The best way to "honor" Charlie Kirk's memory is to be honest that he was a hateful bigot against a plethora of minority groups and to recall that he supported and cheered political violence against his political opponents. The worst way is to whitewash his life, as Gavin and others, are doing.

Chucky K is going to be getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom now, isn't he? ugh

Apparently VP JD can only muster prayers for CK, no thoughts. Seems about right.

I'm sort of curious what the purpose of intentionally demeaning the integrity of the White House is. Is there something in the fascist handbook that explains this?

One transphobe trying to help out another.

Apparently, the only people who will have no say in the "post-war" plan for the Gaza are the people currently living in Gaza. It's almost as if they expect a whole new group of people to be residing the area.

Kevin O'Leary's "politics" in a nutshell

Before Trump's second inauguration, there were plentiful posts quoting the first of Timothy Snyder's 20 lessons on fascism: do not comply in advance. Being indifferent to Trump's weaponization of the DOJ against Bolton *is* complying in advance, as he seeks to normalize and widen this process.

Israel trying to take the famine in Gaza they intentionally caused out of the news in the only way they know how.

I would not be surprised at all to see this guy one day showing up at the White House with a golden gift for the Dear-Leader-In-Chief.

Just a billionaire looking for rationalizations for complimenting Trump.

»“Each day the clinic [a children’s malnutrition clinic in the Tahrir hospital for children and maternity at the Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis] is open, no fewer than 52 new cases are diagnosed,” he said.« ≥52 new cases of malnutrition - just in children - at just one hospital - every day.