Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.

Leave aside the dumb as fuck roach/exterminator analogy. This is like we were electing a fire marshal and we elected the convicted arsonist promising to commit more arson and we’re yelling at the guy who was not elected fire marshal for not using the fire marshal’s powers to stop the fire marshal.

finally, we're living through precedented times

This is videogame thinking where you win a battle and suddenly the map changes colors and all the factories and barracks are yours

Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Are they wagging the dog because of the Epstein files or Jack Smith's testimony being released? Flooding the zone with crap as usual. There are no adults left in the room.

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

My full statement on Trump’s unconstitutional military operations in Venezuela:

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

The “it’s too inconvenient to follow the Constitution” clause to the Constitution.

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

Men in the Epstein files arrested for raping young girls? 0 Bad leaders of foreign countries with rare earth minerals and massive oil reserves arrested to distract you from the terrible things this regime is doing? 1

I think the most straightforward framing that captures the severity of the situation is that the government of the United States has been seized by a mad authoritarian regime not meaningfully distinct from Putin or Kim or, well, Maduro, and its members must be brought to harsh justice

This isn't even calculating imperial interest, this is the temper tantrum of an autocrat.

There is no crisis. There is no pressing act of war. None of the usual excuses of Presidential authority to take immediate action are present except "Donald Trump says so." There is a world where some intervention in Venezuela was legal, but we are in the explicitly ILLEGAL one. That's important!

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

One funny thing Elon Musk figured out about the media is if, instead of providing comment to reporters, you email back an automated reply saying "go fuck yourself," the reporters will just invent their own plausible-sounding defense of your conduct to balance their stories instead of punishing you

Me, a year into making up horror stories about bluesky: are you guys seriously gonna leave this app over a little child porn

I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

Saying ”Grok apologized” is like If I type “YOU’RE A BITCH” into Speak-And-Spell and tell you “Speak-An-Spell says you’re a bitch”

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

Dunno what else there is to say about pedocon theory when X, the global far right's most important social media megaphone, is on track to rapidly become the world's largest CSAM manufacturer and distributor.

getting a variety of people who want to blame Democratic leaders for this and with due respect that is a completely insane reaction to the Republican President trying to incite pogroms

Guess what? If you supported the alcoholic Fox News pundit to become Sec of Defense, the anti-vaccine sexual abuser to become Sec of HHS, the PDFile protector to become AG & the WWE actor Sec of Education, you get to have 0 opinions on anyone Zohran Mamdani has appointed to his Mayoral cabinet.

The entirety of the GOP's political goal is to be squatters in government and throw shit at anyone who cares about anything that they have to pretend to care about the loudest the constitution respect for America national security the economy It's fucking profane

Until Kari Lake seized control of USAGM and collaborated with Elon Musk's DOGE to dismantle the Voice of America, the VOA Persian Service had a 24/7 satellite TV channel, multimedia website and five social media platforms reaching ~16% of Iranian adults.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

What I've been saying all along: reporters with access should be asking questions NOT in order to get a reasonable answer, but to mock him. The question, his being made fun of, and his unhinged reactions is what we need to go viral. Tick tock.

If you want to raise taxes on billionaires you need to be holding a giant fish skeleton in your mouth like Heathcliff the cat or else you are hypocritical

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Mike Johnson makes Christian identity the center of his politics. For Karoline Leavitt, it’s Christian and female identity politics. Stephen Miller’s all about identity politics. The podcasters who go on and on about men and masculinity? Identity politics. The main complaint is which identities.

Over on Xitter the Attorney General is pointing to a study that only goes through last year to claim she's fixed the fentanyl crisis. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A lot of them thought they were part of a silent majority and are now struggling to come to grips with the realization they were just a shitty, loud mouth minority. And being a minority has to be an extra tough pill to swallow for some of them.

Trumpers have a howling void of angry insecurity where a soul should be. Unchecked power tastes like ashes in their mouth because they thought when they got it everyone would be forced to like and admire them even though they’re irredeemable assholes. But people still treat them like assholes.

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

BREAKING: The FBI just uncovered a $1.7 BILLION healthcare fraud perpetrated by immigrants. I'm kidding. That fraud was committed by Rick Scott's Columbia/HCA. MAGA just doesn't care because he's a white American.

The most prosperous society in human history self-destructing because too many of its members have decided TV World is real and they’ll burn everything down unless someone lets them live there

It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.

Somehow we’ve ended up in a position where the richest most powerful people in the world are innocent benevolent bystanders while a college professor with no tenure is part of a decadent and corrupt establishment that controls everything

Feel like the guy who tried to bomb Republican and Dem headquarters being an election denier got sort of overlooked

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

If anything the crime has been underplayed. They knew these men were mostly innocent. They knew they’d be tortured. They sent them to CECOT not out of recklessness but because they thought it would enjoyable for their supporters to see innocent Latinos tortured. An intentional crime of violence.

You have to admit it is extremely funny that Trump is going to start garnishing wages for student loans at the same time he is offering $60K in loan forgiveness for the secret police kidnapping innocent families off of the street and by extremely funny what I mean is total national humiliation

it's a theory the same way that gravity is a theory