Stancil Derangement Syndrome. There's an increasing number of angry poasters out here who are desperate to find ways to argue that what Stancil is doing is actually bad, that it harms people, etc

the gerrymander will get us to 10-1. my follow-up proposal to “give Senator Lucas a fully loaded M1A2 Abrams tank and whatever happens happens” will get us to 10-0

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party

#3: based upon how trump is governing and how everyday people are resisting, I think any attempt to autogolpe or cancel elections would fail like 2021 did or result in an immediate color revolution.

if an 81 year old woman called me a cuck i might just end it

I would kill to live in a world where every centrist Democrat hated Republicans as much as Louise Lucas

if you’re livetweeting Senate stuff in real time 1) please reconsider, actually 2) failing that, delete the older tweets once new ones come alone, especially if they’re contradictory

A lesson here might be that if some random person on this website gives a totally unsourced “Dems bad!” on here it is perhaps not necessary to just immediately assume it’s the Gospel truth

There was approximately two seconds of veneration at gunpoint for Charlie Kirk from the MAGAs, which provoked a backlash so profound that I’m pretty sure Kirk’s visage will still be being used in AI slop twerking and fetish memes 20+ years from now

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

Mor Olympic mascots with guns

They must be SO mad watching Renee Good become the murdered folk hero they wanted Charlie Kirk to be

also dawg what the fuck is this headline

There's a picture of it, actually.

I further reserve the right to criticize anyone who gets dogwalked by Ben "actually nobody should ever retire" Shapiro at any time or place of my choosing

the thing about doomscrolling is that, even as it terrorizes you and makes you feel awful, it also *validates* your own self-conception--your own fear of all the enemies everywhere, your sense of your self-importance, your sense of your own self-righteousness a real toxic brew of emotions

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

they're retooling

“some Democrats are better than other Democrats” and “every Democrat is better than every Republican” feel contradictory to some people but they are not

If you want better policy, elect more Democrats. Every race, every year, every place. This dumbass solution is the only one that works. The advanced version is "also, elect better Dems whenever you can". It requires holding two ideas in your head at the same time so many struggle with it

🚨 NEW — Virginia Senate passes amendment to redraw congressional map by a 21-18 vote. It will now go to a statewide referendum, likely to be scheduled in April.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Just passing copies of this out to ice agents and reminding them they could be making 100 K as an assistant general manager in two years without threat of prosecution

If you vote for Gavin Newsom, I will kick you in the fucking dick, if you give a dollar to Matt Yglesias, I will kick you in the fucking dick, there is no negotiation with fascism, you do not need advice on fighting a dragon from someone who’s never even smelled the fire

Guy who stans the USSR probably shouldn’t be hectoring other people about being sentimental schmucks who lost

like i dunno i think it's hard to look at the communist history of murderous terror and think "yes that part of communist history specifically i think is good and want to emulate"

It's the blending of Leninist amoralism with English upper-class entitlement that makes this kind of attitude particularly infuriating

Red Army Truthers always crack me up, like everyone helped each other out in meaningful ways, making it into an idealogical pissing contest makes me think:

friendly reminder The things you believed were right yesterday are still right. They'll be right if they put you in jail. They'll be right if they shoot you. They'll still be right when these people are dead and dusted and gone. which they will be

Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers goes on main to respond to an account that explicitly markets itself as a Nazi account to say “yes, racism, but not like THAT!”

we're going to need to see Dem leaders in the streets "please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding literally Hitler. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

Wild outcome if only blue states hold elections and send Senators and Reps to Congress in 2027.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

There's no remotely legal way to do something like this and practically speaking our decentralized election administration makes it very difficult to fuck with the process. But that doesn't mean he won't try.

I have great news about the cadre of weird trans women I know and how many of them have logistics autism.

the most concerning aspect of Charles Schumer's rhetoric isn't "messaging" (although, yeah, the messaging is weak), it's that his rhetoric signals that his practical leadership would be weak if Democrats retake the senate majority

I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it. The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was Heated Rivalry

21st century nazis have made the 'are we baddies' sketch obsolete. It is very clear they know they're the baddies, and they love it. They think it's awesome. They worship evil, and are euphoric in disbelief that they're allowed to get away with it.

does feel like a lot of american elites do not believe that there *can* be negative consequences for self-destructive or evil acts

The absolute feeding frenzy to get the Democratic nomination for the more competitive (still strong republican) house district in Montana makes me feel like somebody is thinking some pretty out-of-reach districts are going to be in reach.

/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back. Stomp the cockroach.

/3 Nobody had patience in 2003 for the concept “maybe we should reform existing entities rather than dramatically eliminating and reorganizing and renaming.” Nobody had patience for the “sensible reform, modest oversight” message some are now pushing over “abolish ICE.”

i’m thoroughly virtue-pilled at this point. “values” are pointless. you must do good things not just things you like/want!

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.