we should have just sent that hantavirus cruise ship through the Strait of Hormuz with a bunch of oil on board either way, problem solved

this too, is part of the cuck porn theory of everything

i don't think there could ever be a cleaner litmus test for leftists im willing to tolerate than this AOC/MTG discourse it's the easiest layup of all time

twitter rightoids are so high off their own supply they think Christopher Nolan is pushing the woke agenda with The Odyssey lmao

alright tomorrow i lock in, for real this time

to @nutedawn.bsky.social ‘s point at the time i just got into a horribly morbid mood thinking about the teenage boy that died

lowkey part of why i think it's worth it to try and run it down mid with the new maps is that immediately folding can very easily be interpreted as "voting doesn't matter" by a lot of very angry people who might do something foolish

I keep coming back to kings when I think about this. there were decent people who wore crowns who gave a shit and tried to make things better and the difference between them and the despots was real and mattered. but we moved away from the divine right of kings for a reason. too much tail risk.

I think 'earning' or 'deserving' or 'good' billionaires or 'bad' billionaires are all sort of missing the point tbh. There are decent people who are billionaires and there are unobjectionable ways to make lots of money but that's not the point. The point is that level of unaccountable power is bad.

You should be mad at the VA Supreme Court, but if this is sending you into panic mode about the midterms you should take some deep breaths and maybe go for a walk. The GOP didn't win today, the fight goes on.

redistrict anyways and kick this up to SCOTUS yes obviously we will lose but the angrier people are at double standards the better

i'm sorry but since when can four activist judges override a landslide popular mandate and the will of the people?

Spanberger i know you gotta have some crazy CIA blackmail on these judges or something desperate times, desperate measures

Virginia Democrats: "after a years-long legislative campaign and a statewide referendum we have decided during these unprecedented times to temporarily redistrict for one election" Tennessee Republicans: "Memphis niggas don't get to vote, fuck you"

make like Utah and pack that bitch idc where do i sign up to be a Virginia Supreme Court justice

this VA decision is actually perfectly consistent with the Republican Party's theory of politics leaving things up to the will of the voter and following procedure is woke and gay, instead you should just do whatever you want and tell everyone else to eat shit

Virginia's public referendum blocked by a court ruling on the timing of legislature votes but Florida can redistrict on a whim without even *trying* to amend their constitution i don't know what you're supposed to do in a country where one party just sometimes isn't bound by the law

The fact that if I ran for local office and won, I would have to take a pay cut to manage a $1.3 billion budget and make decisions that directly impact the well-being of half a million people is kind of insane. Unpopular but true: we under-pay our often disappointing politicians.

and now i'm just rage baiting myself but i cannot help but be reminded of that one stupid meme (you know the one with the brick ovens) the South is literally the root of all evil in America and in the 21st century it has exported its rot to all of rural America

it's just insufferable how many people treated the threat of categorically disenfranchising black voters in the South as purely hypothetical instead of obviously imminent

it would be so much easier to be racist because how in the fuck is Kash Patel's actual name "Cash App" and we can't make fun of that

is there anything more embarrassing than going to get your blood drawn and they can't find a vein

She who saves her state violates no law.

Finally, we created the "make gas prices more expensive" button from the hit political cartoon "What Americans Think the President Does." Turns out people don't like it

my personal third rail of politics that i know can never be touched but is genuinely a legit problem is VA disability

they've just created a million L. Louise Lucases

just gonna keep muttering to myself that 51 sufficiently locked in Senators can do anything

Madam Senator, we're standing back and standing by

much in line with how the Trump administration has manifested left-wing criticisms into reality, they're also making "crony capitalism" into actual policy this is literally fucking over capital owners for the sake of powerful individuals www.ft.com/content/3560...

genuinely crazy how much more of a fuss the Virginia redistricting vote got compared to Florida ignoring the state constitution or Louisiana literally suspending elections the incentives here are completely FUBAR

the Supreme Court should take more economics classes to learn about perverse incentives their doctrine of "no racial gerrymandering unless you can call it partisan gerrymandering" incentivizes racists to make political parties as racist as possible to avoid judicial scrutiny

alright people my classes are officially over and i move off campus this weekend what's the first book i should read over the summer?

there are so many forbidden slopulist policy ideas i've had but i don't want to post any for fear of making them real

hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal tariffs? a year of procedural debate Republicans want to redraw maps before midterms? Alito is shotgunning Red Bulls at 3AM and asking Grok to draft up the paperwork

guys they're making libbed up JFK edits on tiktok the kids might be alright

spent most of today puking my brains out and some kind of chemical reaction happened in my stomach that turned my blue Powerade into the most insane neon shade of green and for a minute i thought i was patient zero for the T-virus

locked in and wrote like 4000 words about cuck porn and modern fascism today

I do think it’s important to try to figure out what Tucker Carlson, a man with tremendous influence in conservative politics, acutely believes as we try to figure out what a post-Trump GOP looks like. I just don’t think asking him is the way to do it because he’s just going to lie to you.

every news story about farmers just makes me wish nuCaloric was real

ok guys i am the most annoying reddit atheist i know and yet i have enough sense to lay off the Texas guy you can just grumble to yourself

graphcel poasters like me: there is no omnicause that combines us imperialist atrocities abroad with cost of living issues at home; in general american hegemony serves the material interests of the electorate, so . . . Trump: AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

>Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson were all on Russian payroll >Orban loses in Hungary >Rod Dreher immediately leaves Budapest >The Daily Wire fires half their staff was all the right-wing conspiracy posting about USAID just massive fucking projection?

i get frustrated with takes about how Democrats as a party are "too far left for voters" because to the extent it's true, it's only true within a context that gives Republicans significant structural advantages everything is endogenous!

reading about how ~half of Loudoun County's tax revenue is coming from data centers reaffirms my belief that the correct answer is just "let the trillion dollar companies build their GPU factories so long as they pay everyone's bills"

i mean come on man

Trump declares the Iran war “terminated” precisely on the 23rd anniversary of Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech. (h/t @kdbyproxy.bsky.social)

people on here might not like this one but Spirit going under is a good example of how monomaniacal anti-trust thinking (e.g. Stoller, Lina Khan, etc.) can lead to worse outcomes sometimes it's good if big companies buy smaller ones

i genuinely wish the democratic national committee was as powerful, organized and ruthless as a lot of people seem to think it is

Piker has the excuse of mostly being a stupid idiot. Hanania is an intelligent person who is just riven to the core with fucking rot. Him and all his fans are a clear and present danger to a pluralistic society and should be treated as such.