Democrats are going to post very strong words on this website today.

Wrote this in July of 2024, and I think it’s held up pretty well so far, unfortunately. chadstanton.substack.com/p/the-slaver...

Oop; he slipped.

So real talk. How do we safeguard democracy while: 1) Ensuring free and fair access to the ballot 2) Keeping the worst among us from attaining higher power and destroying it all It seems like #1 makes #2 impossible.

Everyone is capitulating at this point. I’m so tired of it. I’m just so tired of everything right now.

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

Oh, House Republicans are on Bluesky? ...Guess I'm following House Republicans, now...

Lmao, and CNN wonders why peeps like me never tune in anymore. Look at who you're platforming!

I'm on a first watch through of VEEP, and I know I'm about 10 years behind, but watching it and imagining Kamala Harris in place of Selina Meyer has been CRACKING me up. I'm glad I waited long enough for that, honestly. Makes watching through it just slightly more delightful.

Merry Merrick Garland Do Nothing Day to all who observe

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Ah, yes, it is the public's fault for disliking your terrible policies. Donald Trump is a fucking idiot.

Lmao, okay Lil' DeSantis, remember what happened the last time you tried to be a Mini Trump?

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

"Merit"

Reader comment of the moment from the NYT: “This isn’t Trump. This is the United States. I am not blaming individual Americans, but your entire government is to blame for this crime. And if you don’t stop it, you are to blame as well.”

Woke up this morning feeling slightly better now that Marjorie Taylor Greene is now out of Congress.

You might not want to have anything to do with politics, but politics wants to be all up in your business.

What did it take in the Hunger Games for the population to rise up against the government and for all the districts to come together? Someone interrupted the games. When we had a football player attempt to do the same irl, the crowd told him to shut up. What a pathetic excuse for a Hunger Games.

To everyone that is trying to avoid politics or not be involved. Fuck you, too. YOU contributed to this. Democracy isn't a given, it takes devotion, involvement, and sometimes a fight. I suggest you start getting involved, while you still have a choice.

If you didn't vote for Kamala STFU about the Dems needing to do something. You had a chance to give them power.

ICE is no longer arresting immigrants only. They are arresting anyone who films or speaks out. Sending them to concentration camps. I have been criticized for my analogy to 1930’s Germany. That is what we are witnessing.

America is just so stupid right now. Possibly the second or third dumbest it has ever been.

America is on its way to tearing itself apart over a single horrible excuse for a human being made president, rather than coming together in unified defiance. And at the seams of what should be a moment of unity against authoritarianism is the sight of white "supremacy". Sigh.

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

Walz: "We've got conspiracy theorists, right-wing YouTubers, breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous."

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

As I order more cards from various sellers online, most of which utilize USPS, I wonder; how many thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of dollars worth of cards are just being flung through USPS sorting machines right now?

It is not treason to call out the crimes committed by your own nation. It is not unpatriotic to be against brazen lawlessness and outright thuggery being committed by your military. It takes loving America to refuse to accept the hideous blight on the world that it has become.

In what world do 80 people get murdered during an arrest?! This is war. Period.

"Narco Rubio" is sending me.

I sure hope no foreign government abducts our President... I SAID I SURE HOPE NO FOREIGN GOVERNMENT ABDUCTS OUR PRESIDENT!... 😤

When you punish a guy who defends himself against a bully, and not the bully, you embolden the bully. You do that for 20 years, and you create a class of people who are: 1) emboldened bullies who have never been hit, or 2) people afraid to do anything about bullies Kudos, America!

So Trump successfully bullied a good man and his family. Because winning over Harris Walz wasn’t enough. Trump wanted to destroy him. Walz is making the right decision for his family. But the success of Trump’s grotesque bullying campaign is yet another frightening step in our national descent.

I am not a defender of US foreign policy--it has mostly been a bipartisan disaster for 30+ years. But shrugging at illegal and unilateral regime change because "the US does this all the time" is about as sophisticated as "you're with or against the terrorists."

The important part is recognizing it as a bit, and instead of getting them in a GOTCHA, just... Vote them out. Make them uncomfortable. Picket their offices. Call and email them incessantly to remind them that their days in office are numbered. That'll learn them.

Trump, the people that voted for him, and the people who refused to vote at all because Kamala was on the ticket, are the biggest babies ever. Even when they're winning, all they do is whine. Fuck em.

Cause they only follow the law when it is cruel. They ignore it when ignoring it is the crueler option. Honestly, I don't know why we picked the cruelest of us to run the country. Might say a lot about the voters here...

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

The Constitution, according to conservatives, is just the Second Amendment. I don't think they understand there is an entire document around it. Seven whole articles, and dozens more amendments. But no, it's only 2A for them.

How the fuck does a state that sent Ossoff and Warnock to the Senate have Kemp enjoying popularity as high as it is? Did we forget that he signed an anti abortion bill, or..? Jeez...

To be fair, being racist and sexist is fucking dumb.

I complained about the word "Slop" in 2025. I'm adding "Distraction" to that. Multiple, discrete bad things can happen without one being a "distraction" from the other. Woke is being aware of *all* injustices, not just the ones that get interactions on your posts.

only would need 8 republicans who care about the institution to play ball but lol lmao

a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

Continuing to insist everything he does is just to distract from the Epstein files is an insult to the people he has killed. He can do more than one horrible thing, and you need to be able to recognize that.

It's ironic how so many don't like clowns, and are even terrified of them, yet half of the USA voted for one!

American Exceptionlism is probably the dumbest drug we've ever created.

Trump: *absolutely destroying the country* Never Kamala People: "Well, at least the president isn't a black woman" Honestly, why bother even having opinions if they're all going to be fucking stupid and objectively wrong? It's a lot easier if you just say "I'm an idiot and politics is a game to me"