"why were the consultants and pod bros so ride or die for Platner even when it was clear he has enormous baggage?" firstly, he was their bartender *wink wink* Second, Platner was never really a candidate. He was a mascot for a particular brand package that was supposed to be sold nationwide

Holy shit dudes I just had a cool new idea. What if Superman but - get this - he's evil and sees humanity as beneath him? It will be so edgy and subversive!!!

these guys should just admit that giving Trump a senate majority is more important than being a decent Christian, instead of trying to twist themselves into knots to explain why Talarico is actually a worse Christian than Paxton this whole thing is just so embarrassing

Oh word? When law enforcement obscures their faces and any insignia identifying their agency it is easy as fuck to impersonate them to do crimes (other than the ones law enforcement is already committing)?

In grad school I made this argument during a breakout room, saying that getting the whole world under eco-communism in the next 30 years is highly unlikely and technology advancements were our best bet. the kid with the anti-billionaire laptop stickers gave me dirty looks the rest of the semester

Remember when minor journalists clung to their blue checks like the One Ring

"So do you know who Taylor Lorenz is?" -my 70 year old father tonight Kill me

So few people on either side of the Atlantic know or want to admit that in much of Europe, Stephen Miller would be a center-right moderate on immigration.

I love the DC area man. Working in a hipster coffee shop and the millennials in the table next to me are discussing DOD comms blunders (Also no one in the beltway calls it Department of War, fuck you)

Has there been a single Subway Takes that isn't lefty-branded racism or homophobia

Just pointing out that Pete isn't even SOT anymore but is willingly reminding people of the lowest point of his tenure to push for reforms that would fix rail safety there is literally one (1) person left still talking about East Palestine and it is Pete himself

hey you know how some of us have been pointing out that homophobia has become acceptable again so long as you pretend it's about cis gay men having privilege or something

you know Matt Walsh, segregationists could have defeated Rosa Park's dastardly plan by simply not trying to send her to the back of the bus

Saw 1776 at the Ford Theater this weekend and it's a good reminder that people complaining about Congress being useless is not new

I remember when Jared Polis was getting presidential buzz in the media solely because they wanted to exclude Pete from their lists without looking homophobic

A good litmus test of how in-tune you are with normies is how shocked you are when Pete has good approval or gets big crowds for events If you still think everyone hates him in the wild, you likely haven't stepped outside of a Brooklyn apartment since 2018

Erik Larson is such a resistlib, I love him so much. He just interrupts his books on Nazis or Confederates to be like "say, this reminds me of Republicans!" and then goes back to the story

bluesky — i am talking to you, all of you — need to internalize this and you need to tell everyone you know this. shampoo more expensive? republicans. burgers more expensive? republicans. beer more expensive? republicans.

Every time I see "up/down not left/right politics" I get hives. We saw what people mean by that by their reaction to the Trump/Mamdani "bromance" - they basically want a Trump on their side. He can be as bigoted and authoritarian as Trump so long as he says the right keywords. And it has to be a he.

My friend dragged me to an Adam Conover standup show and he also had a long, completely un-self-aware rant about white liberals being hypocritical and privileged. The basis of his rant was seeing Little Free Libraries as he walks through Beverly Hills. Rich white dudes in Hollywood have a problem.

Confession: I literally don't think it matters whether it is possible to "ethically" become a billionaire. I want to tax them because I want to run a functioning society, not as punishment. Taxes As Punishment is part of why we are in this era of slopulism.

You know I was never a big Lis Smith fan (yes they exist) but I genuinely think she has gotten worse/more online in the last several years. I cannot otherwise explain some of the choices her candidates have made.

Tbh I loved Harry Potter as a kid but letting go of it was never that hard. The Cosby Show is the one that still genuinely hurts. Claire Huxtable was one of my favorite characters ever.

I'm glad that people are pointing out with the absurd Sean Duffy TV show that the Pete buttigieg paternity leave thing was Gender

Both of the remaining Parkland kids in the public eye (who have both seemingly given up gun control activism for influencing and political consulting) rushing out to assure us all that it is totes ok for the big burly man running for Senate to be against gun control is...idk man it feels weird

Remember when Pete was called Marie Antoinette for saying that fewer people would have to worry about gas prices if we could make EVs more accessible

So it turns out my 1-year-old nephew/godson MIGHT have muscular dystrophy and I hate that a serious worry my sister and I have is that the groundbreaking research being done on treating MD might get undermined by the admin because Gene Therapy sounds scary to morons

Stancilgate really does remind us that of all the microblogging sites, bluesky really has the most DNA from 2010s Tumblr

Remarkable how many faceless Maine residents have suddenly popped up on bluesky

The thing that’s so fucked about Louisiana canceling ongoing elections to draw new explicitly racist districts is, beyond the effect of the redrawn districts themselves, how do we deal with a party that’s screaming “THIS IS WHO WE ARE AND WE’RE PROUD”?

Also Glonzo delusions are getting crazier and crazier bc of social media. Glonzo used to eat your electricity, now he is working with (((them))) to inject chemicals into school milk to turn children into lizards, and at what point can we just not run a functional society while catering to that

So I get why journalism, comedy, and fine arts are populated only by rich kids, but it is certainly not good for journalism, comedy, and fine arts If a standup comedian is a young sloppy guy telling jokes about hating capitalism and Dems from the left, I just know his parents are at least landlords

I just really struggle to comprehend how many Americans legitimately thought Trump was just going to psychically dematerialize all the bad immigrants with no impact on the good ones, AFTER he had already been president and did not do that

Forever vindicated as an OG Fetterman Hater

tbh a fundamental problem with American journalism is that all of them are pals and band together to collectively lie for their friends

children

My flex is that I don't associate HR negativity with middle-aged women because the only HR person to ever lay me off was a man

It's actually wild how both Jasmine Crockett and Mallory McMorrow went from rising progressive It Girls to centrist AIPAC shills as soon as they tried to run for higher office against a man

Hating women but leftishly is a trend to keep your eye on, it's going to get worse before it gets better

GOOD OL SONG OF WAHOOWA WE'LL SIIING IT O'ER AND O'ER

What a deep, tremendous shame. I don’t think opponents of Trump need to self flagellate over his monstrous actions but we do need to acknowledge what was done in the name of our country, and that it will make it less and less likely anyone ever lifts a finger to help us again.

"there are tons of untapped voters who already agree with me and are just waiting to hear the right words, so all I have to do is show up" is an Obama-era relic that is both not how Mamdani won and the lesson a lot of people seem to have taken from his win

So are we really running into the Human Pet Guy in the wild to this very day, or are we running into imposters wearing his skin? discuss

"no one actually believes that dogs should be considered equivalent to human children" ohohoho au contraire, I have some family members you should meet

Before he took his followers to Guyana, Jim Jones was widely known as a *Civil Rights* icon in California with connections in California left-wing politics. He preyed heavily on older, poor, and Black people. He starved and gaslit his followers in the weeks leading up to the massacre.

The pied-a-terre tax is a good way to raise money in NYC, don't get me wrong, but "extra tax on second homes worth over $5m" sounds like the sort of overly-specific-and-narrow thing leftists would mock liberals for proposing

Are you guys bonkers? We are not "sweeping aside" everyone over the age of *45*

Genuine question. Would this not deincentivize renting to small businesses?

I have zero doubt that the MAGA Catholics I know are going to choose Trump over the Pope