Really great, short, succinct assessment of a question that gets asked all the time without its core phrase ever really being truly defined.

James O'Keefe used undercover video to destroy an organization, illegally attempted to wiretap a congressional office, bought Ashley Biden's stolen diary (the thieves were convicted) but Trump ended the investigation, and now he is organizing undercover hit videos of random government employees.

Obama certainly got blamed for TARP and the other unpopular Wall Street bailouts that mostly happened under Bush. Later, there was an entire news cycle blaming Obama for bailed-out AIG paying big bonuses (which Obama had no control over or authority to stop because of how Bush designed the bailouts)

"Carter lost Vietnam" was the original "Biden was in charge for all the Covid lockdowns" bsky.app/profile/niss...

This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam

New: Peter and Lydia Brimelow of VDARE face discovery in the lawsuit issued by the NY AG. This could expose the names of white nationalist donors and activists who’ve stayed in the shadows for years: open.substack.com/pub/michaele...

like, academics who use conceptual analysis to flatten out power differences are REALLY part of the problem

i hate to be that person, but if you (the author of the piece) are so dumb that you think that someone asking for more sensitive language at an event is equivalent to the use of state power to curb speech maybe your stupidity is part of the problem with higher ed

liberals created the new deal and the great society specifically because limited government conservatism had fucked up so royally. we were way too polite to the reagan/bush/bush ii types.

the first time one of these guys was like "i really think cutting taxes for the super rich will lead to economic growth," that person should have been stuffed in a locker. our failure to bully and shame dumb shit has really hurt us all.

many of our problems would have been solved if, in the 80s and 90s, democrats/liberals had responded to gop ideas with a lot more "that's the fucking stupidest thing ive ever heard, shut the fuck up" instead of "that's an interesting idea, i have a different take..."

What do you do if a foreign adversary feels emboldened to use diseases against U.S. armed forces because you’re publicizing how many unvaccinated troops you have? Adversaries are not going to care if your soldier bros can brag about being a “pureblood” on a Joe Rogan podcast.

Just the dumbest motherfuckers doing the dumbest shit because they think it proves some idiotic point.

Jumping the gun to incorporate technology into the classroom? You don't say! (Trade magazine item from 1924)

I practically grew up in a religious cult. After freeing myself, I studied cognitive dissonance at length. I have observed all types of cultish behavior, but this is beyond the pale. I have never seen anything like this blind worship of an ignorant, bloated, racist con man.

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

Since the Surprise warehouse the mayor has thrown up his hands up and pretended there’s nothing he can do to stop, or even stall, a concentration camp from being built in his community. Now he’s doing everything he can to ensure it gets built as fast as possible. Fucking ghoul freak.

July 2017. Trump gives a wildly inappropriate and incoherent speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree. Somehow we as a nation decided to give nuclear weapons to a guy you wouldn’t even trust to feed your cat when you go out of town for the weekend. youtu.be/clZ2GoiYMQ8?...

Just in case anyone forgot, the nat'l leaders of Uncommitted begged the DNC to let them endorse Harris at the convention, then begged them for a meeting with her, got blown off, then told people to vote against Trump anyway. There was definitely someone not thinking past 1st order consequences!

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

Ms Boylan’s strength of character is encouraging to woman that we will not be pushed out of government. 🇺🇸

Buckle up, the Big Lie Machine is about to be turned up to 11.

The company run by the guy who literally said “I talk to nazis all the time online” while on camera? futurism.com/future-socie...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

I keep saying: Ossoff is going to win in Georgia by double digits or close to it and if he wants to turn that into a presidential run he will immediately be one of the favorites

Most presidents usually enact some policy measure to manage the discontent, however. Trump just keeps doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on the shit that makes him unpopular because he is either incapable of understanding why he's unpopular or doesn't give a fuck.

i was just saying to a friend a few days ago that trump's public opinion collapse opens up the field of possibilities in ways that are truly unpredictable. it is one thing for a president to be this popular at the *end* of their turn, but not even two years in?

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater. Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Not sure what they mean to do with this paragraph, which has a strawmanish feel. They don't explain what they mean by an echo chamber, or whether they think Yale qualifies as one. Most academic fields have conventions that practitioners follow; that doesn't necessarily make them "echo chambers."

It's also interesting that the only group of students and alums singled out ideologically are those who "self-identified as conservative." Why do the concerns of this set of students get pride of place? Did the panel seek to catalog the views of those who identified in other ways politically?

To Trump, that is a feature not a bug.

The 2024 election had the largest Black-White turnout gap in more than three decades. It's a crisis, my friends. goodauthority.org/news/2024-br...

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

I'm reminded of something Matt Sitman said long ago on the Know Your Enemy podcast...on the US right, nothing ever is just what it is. The layers of absurd fabulism are not a bug, but a feature of US conservative political culture, and it's long been that way. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

Tucker Carlson is very close with his brother Buckley. Buckley seems to believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that Trump’s assassination was faked as “a deliberate Judeo-Masonic blood ritual, staged to deceive the masses.” Okey dokey.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.

If the 'Save America Act' actually lived up to its name it would contain Articles of Impeachment

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

Y'know, this whole thing could be over if someone would just tell Trump that Obama can hold his breath for fifteen minutes.

I wish more educators and fewer lawyers would run for public office, in part b/c the best ones are naturals at explaining the whys of things. We could use more people in public life who cultivate understanding and bring people along together instead of "voters are too dumb to appreciate language"

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Actually I think maybe Beshear's introduction to the phrase "justice-involved" may be this NYT conversation where Lis Smith complains about Democrats using the phrase, then further down someone else mentions Beshear as an example of good communication archive.is/IFbmm www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/o...

Is this a thing people say? The quality of Sister Souljah stand-ins is really declining

Yup. Talk about stuff that matters. Nobody is voting for or against a party because some member of it said "justice involved population." Instead of trying to signal that you're not "woke" or whatever, Andy, sell people on your vision of the Democratic Party and America.

Among the many should-immediately-end-this-presidency daily scandals is the fact that the current administration is dismantling research on the most incredible new scientific advance in the last several decades. Literally killing people.

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