They keep playing Russian roulette with crises that maybe? threaten truly load-bearing economic or social structures, and we don't know how many chambers are loaded but it's definitely not none and in fact one of the chambers already had a bullet (USAID), it just hit somebody else instead of us

My favorite part about this is that he was warned repeatedly, over and over, so vigorously that when he lied about it, senior military officers started snitching him out in public "no, he knew, we told him" which is something I don't think I'd seen before.

now it will also be incredibly bad for me but it is very funny that the oil industry backed the guy who is going to make oil $200 a barrel

like an iguana that ate too many mice

the takeaway from this and the report that Ghalibaf left the negotiating team after the IRGC "intervened" is that the IRGC does not want this to end right now

I'm going to have to take out a loan to pay for fuel this summer

Could be drones or just spooked, will wait for further confirmation: Air defences heard engaging hostile targets in parts of Tehran.- Iran's Mehr News

The redistricting fight is a reminder that for all of their bluster and all of their bullshit Republicans fundamentally can't take what they dish out

Ultimatums lose their power if you keep pushing back the deadline

The most accurate indicator that something bad is about to happen.

The good news is that Trump has not yet even begun to crime and fuck people over. He’s got years more suffering and distress to deliver. He’s not going to let up on the gas and coast out, he’s going mentally spiral all the way and maybe find approval levels in the noise floor.

They think you're stupid.

Good morning. The SAVE Act is dead and the Virginia Gerrymander is alive.

People who were openly rooting for a president-for-life a year ago mad about gerrymandering sounds like you’re just losers who don’t like losing

“Oh so you think it’s okay to hate people just because of how they voted?”

the fascists have been lying, cheating and changing the rules to their benefit for years. turnabout isn't just fair play, it's the only way to maintain some semblance of a civil society.

Hakeem Jeffries naming specific representatives that they're going to destroy with counter-redistricting (in response to a GOP led initiative in FL) has real "I'm not fucking around, I'm gonna shoot the hostages" energy (laudatory)

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW RESTORE DETTERENCE

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

by what looks to be a comfortable margin, Virginia voters have approved the L. Louis Lucas Republican Eradication Act of 2026

I will give right wing muckrakers this: they sure as shit know how to twist the knife matt drudge is a hater to his bones

not the biggest thing but I really appreciate Matt Drudge's inherent haterdom at long last serving the truth and light. doesn't fully justify my undergraduate Drudge Report habit but goes some distance towards

fewer than 1% of americans alive have ever seen an administration as disliked as this one will be by this time next year

They don’t want us to experience the joy of the L Louise Lucas Delete Republicans Act winning a special election

I love that every 72 hours or so Donald Trump tries to just quit the war in Iran

Trump listing off the stats of all our past wars like some kind of savant

DONALD THE MARKETS ARE OPEN DONALD

Trump says whatever he wants, very important people fly from place to place, meanwhile the gas still doesn't flow. 197 days until Election Day 🥰

how is this literally happening in real life

this post was 2.5 weeks ago

folks,

no worries, apparently the president’s words matter more than physical reality now, so everything should be fine

If the end result of this is, "the president tipped the country into a recession while he and his cronies insider-traded on it" - well, there'd be a lot of political careers to be made nailing them to the wall for state crimes related to that, since the public would be *furious* about it.

The closest thing to a strategy here seems to be to use the bully pulpit to play the market (and do corruption) to buy time for the blockade to get the Iranian regime to the point where they'll accept the money-for-uranium deal and then mutually deescalate in the strait.

As an aside, they're clearly doing a bunch of insider trading corruption here and that strikes me as a bad idea because these exchanges exist in physical places (like New York) and I'd hazard some of what they are doing are state crimes in those physical places which the president cannot pardon.

Re Trump and Iran: Is there a single, long German word for "a recklessly foolish enterprise from which you're so desperate to extricate yourself that you give in to the other side but still insist on pretending it's all been a great victory"?

Correct. The Iranians are not really going to reopen the strait until they have a promise they won't be murdered, and the promise is worthless and so it must have collateral and credible third party guarantors.

all the boats forgot something at home, they'll be back

Current status of the Strait -Open -To some traffic -Under Iranian Control -Going to some places -Along a specified route -Under Joint Control -Blockaded by the United States -With a fine Imposed by Iran and Oman -Under United States Control I think that's plenty clear

me and the boys on the USS Abraham Lincoln eating boiled boot leather and sharing stories about the most Realistic Pussy we've ever seen

Why convert to Catholicism then say the Pope is wrong about theology? If you want to be Christian without deferring to the Pope, there are many options. Isn’t “the Pope is wrong, the Church is wrong, I’m interpreting scripture myself and communing directly with God” why we have Protestants?

jancedance commits apostasy so he can divorce his wife after making her convert for him and have another kid to prove that they're still married just in time for erika kirk to dump him because he couldn't put asses in seats at TPUSA like charlie could

It is impossible for us to coexist with a movement led by the likes of Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Stephen Miller. They want to kill us. They will very likely try to do so before this shitshow is over. And we can either rip up their wretched movement and demolish its foundations, or else.

pope bob needs to just keep gently ribbing trump and vance so they keep saying insane shit, this is great shit

“What moisturizer does he use?” doesn’t matter. he moisturizes automatically by still having all his baby fat. you can looksmaxx by being twenty years old. maybe up to twenty four

“How can I look like Clavicular?” be twenty. be 20 years old. he looks like that because he’s very young