When it comes to football chants I believe they should be both witty and in terrible taste, and perhaps the winner is that after it was revealed that Rangers goalkeeper Andy Goram suffered from 'mild schizophrenia,' his fans adopted the chant "There's only two Andy Gorams."

America is hitting the milestones of being a mature established country for its 250th like bribing the head of FIFA, dealing with fascist paramilitaries in the streets of your capital, and having some listless second in command getting into a pissing match with the Pope.

So many folks go through life repeating Thomas Paine's firmly held opinions without ever even knowing his name, and I'd like to think that honors him in a way; his ideas were good enough he didn't need a gilded legacy to convince you of his authority on the subject.

Massie is using the qualifier to mean Jew, with the hard J.

Maybe Ezra Klein can ask Rufo about what this retweet means the next time he has him over for a chat.

Bolivians, Lithuanians and the Irish are brothers.

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

Well that’s simply wire fraud.

Which is a shame because it's quite good?

They willfully and even gleefully surrendered and are annoyed at the great many people who didn't.

Looking at the comments is a combination of: The semi feudal way Spain ran its colonies. The fact that Spain lost much of its colonial empire before everyone else and as such modern Spain became a modern state way after its empire ended.

The thing that’s always annoying about these blurbs is Donald Trump and his political movement hate contemporary America far more than AOC or Omar or Talib do

I'm going to fucking scream.

Some folks will be like "what about women's rights?" Paine landed right on that too! Raised a Quaker, Paine essayed against the "enslavement and oppression of women," partnered with Mary Wollstonecraft on A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argued for state maternity support and civil suffrage.

Mitch McConnell is one of the very worst Americans of this century, a force of selfishness and spite who laid waste to our political institutions and social stability like no foreign enemy ever could.

Trump not knowing what’s in America’s foundational texts is very on-brand.

Assume the Victory Position.

A big reason for its continued survival: the effective surveillance of all residents—including eavesdropping on calls—and its iron-fisted control of every aspect of society, from sports centers to concert halls.  www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Yeah, Catholicism can't be explanation why Spain ethnically cleansed Jews and Muslims while Poland-Lithuania, with some similar class structures to Spain, incorporated Jews and Muslims to some degree.

Again the root cause of the secessionist defeat was they wanted victory with slavery, if they couldn’t keep slavery they didn’t really want victory.

FWIW I think we should've gone to war with North Korea in the 90's, over what was then an equally strong principle: no more fucking nuclear powers. It would've been hideously ugly but it would've scared the fuck out of Iraq and Iran (so no Iranian nukes), weakened the PRC, and liberated millions.

One sense of how skewed our political reality is comes as Mamdani says anodyne things that the GOP presidential nominees from 1976-2012 would have all agreed with, like “We should rely on due process for the burning of witches,” and everyone screams, “Leftist Commie! Red Commie!”

“If there was one thing South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government, it was good Negro government.”

You shouldn't be able to flat out annex other countries by force of arms is a good IR principle to abide by regardless of your actual domestic political ideology.

Holy shit, I've figured out what this is: It's MAGA Fyre Festival.

Whatever the problems of a neoliberal economy, the ‘neoliberal moment’ from 1990-2015 was like the greatest growth in human development in the history of humanity so it’s rather optimistic to assume that’s the *worst* it could get

Anyone else start singing ACDC?

america 250 ending prematurely because of a J6’er led riot against “the weather” is something i just typed

His hatred for them is rooted in a place of hate too.

Be the America that Ukraine thinks you are.

This is what Patriot Front does on 4th of July. This is normal for them. They cover their faces so you don't knownit's the same 40 of them everywhere because their numbers are small. They're a single fascist flash mob traveling the country.

A gift voucher for a megachurch is the most America rw thing I've ever heard of, and I've heard of *a lot*.

"Biden was visibly dying" is a claim that needs to grapple with the fact that he's very much alive currently.

I cannot stress this enough: if your ideology is incapable of assimilating the fact that the American experiment has, thus far, succeeded in remarkable and world-historic fashion, you gotta chuck it and start over. That goes for the anti-immigration bigots as much as the hard Marxists.

The electric gym leader is a former NCO!

There a real irony in the fact that Trump very clearly hijacked the 250 celebrations in DC to make it a gigantic, self aggrandizing party for himself and no one else and what resulted was a poorly planned, poorly attended, sloppy circle jerk of an event

Disturbing example of how easily libertarian motifs ala Rand can combine with anti-democratic and racist sentiments

The fundamental organisational (as opposed to ethical) flaws of the US Constitution are that it 1) assumes states are the primary focus of political life. 2) assumes rivalries between states will dominate politics.

And, at least according to Jill Lepore's These Truths, the colonists were actively talking about the time when the colonists would outnumber the people in England thanks largely to.... Immigration

There's a reason there's only one Napoleonic monarchy that has survived until 2026.

George Thomas is criminally underrated.

So Lee ended up chasing a goal which was both impossible and unnecessary and in so doing adopted substantially more costly tactics and grand tactics, spending lives in pursuit of a phantom. Also he betrayed his country in support of a slavers' rebellion, so, y'know, fuck him.

The Devonshires held this trench. The Devonshires hold it still.

Or Australia for that matter

I completely forgot that they made Independence Day 2 and had to look it up to be sure J wasn’t fucking with me

can we talk about how the massive flop that was Independence Day 2 was even more aggravating because they did all this incredibly fascinating worldbuilding in the background and did a massive disservice to it with an actual movie that was horrendous

God bless America.

when that funny contact at 75,000 feet shoots three birds at your HGV raid

We've granted your independence but we will not grant you this.