It's not hard to cast a vote for a candidate who you know will agree with your opinions. Ask for a write-in ballot and put down your own name. Everything else is a compromise between desire and reality, like the rest of life.

> winter 25-26: joint patrols > summer 2026: advisor teams > fall 2026: “as MPD stands up, we stand down” > 2027: The Year Of The Police > FY2028 Posture Statement: “we are turning a corner in the DC AOR”

He was properly vetted over & over, from working with the CIA to being given asylum by TACO. It's a false flag, to cover his defiance of the judge's order last week to get the NG out of DC, & also amp up their presence. He doesn't care if people get killed, to him, it just adds "authenticity".

to SCOTUS: "we can prosecute the people he pardoned, or a future Democratic president can have them shot and then pardon the shooters. do you want that loop to start?"

Oh wait this was a lefty who literally cannot stop themselves from defending Donald Trump. If Donald Trump is blaming immigration, but he, personally, is responsible, pointing out he’s responsible, not immigration, is a good thing! Trump brought in a ringer specifically to do this.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card). There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well. The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial www.usni.org/magazines/na...

I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.

Propaganda works

multicultural societies don't work as long as you don't count the single wealthiest, most powerful society in human history or any of the other successful ones

A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer. Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."

Don't fucking pretend like you care about trans rights if you're pushing this "Democrats are the problem" bullshit and trying to make people think it's ok to let Republicans win elections. Letting Republicans win elections is exactly and entirely why this shit is happening to us now.

It's remarkable how much bile is generated by campists who decide their entire personality should be a parody of a high school mean girl/popular kid

bsky moment

Any fool who still brings up Genocide Joe given Trump’s policies gets their asses blocked

Someone who has harsh criticisms for Obama can definitely be an ally. Someone who thinks Obama and Reagan are indistinguishable is probably not one.

To get concrete and to the point: If you really can't see an important difference between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris, or Donald Trump and Joseph Biden you are not thinking clearly. Even the appearance of trying to do good is a big deal, things get much worse when you stop having to pretend.

Leftists think this is awesome:

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

"the current President who previously attempted a coup to remain in office after losing an election recently called for his political opponents to be hanged after some members urged the military to refuse illegal orders" and rightoids will say immigrants are making us into a third world country

I actually have a lot of confusion about judging the morality of a composite, corporate entity like the United States as if it was an individual with individual views and coherence and moral intuitions. A state is simply not that thing at all

Democrats are responsible for every intemperate comment from every random anonymous internet communist. But the Republican president who is at the center of a cult of personality that has consumed the entire GOP can call for mass executions, and somehow this isn’t laid at the feet of Republicans.

“Shitlibs” take your ass back to twitter with the rest of your Nazi buddies

truly, pitifully ironic to be like "do you really think the people having the bombs dropped on them cared that it would have been a woman president doing it?" meanwhile Palestinians literally spoke out to beg that we vote for Kamala Harris, where the fuck do they grow brain rot like this

“Leftists” will openly prefer fascism and Nazis to liberalism and then wonder why they’re called out for supporting fascism.

the last year is instructive of the fact that people who pretend to be better for expediency’s sake actually are better

perhaps you dipshits should not have helped the "unlimited arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia" candidate win then, you MAGA fuck.

Have you ever heard of Israel? What about Mohammad Bin Salman? Jordan has had lots of internal instability like black September, and they used to have more skirmishes on their borders, especially Syria (less since HTS won).

I hate this sort of meme. “The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.” Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?

That's a handsome van right there insideevs.com/news/779417/...

The fact that transphobes immediately seized on this as an opportunity to drive a wedge into the progressive coalition is a problem. Instead of reflexively supporting bigots and attacking men and trans people, you could’ve instead chosen to do something positive.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

up to the Civil War the South was an internal Cold War with the North that frequently became violent well before 1861. Its voracious need for slaves was a prominent contributor to early US imperialism in foreign policy....

That is exactly what you’re saying. Stop trying to use black southerners as shields to hide behind.

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

A large share of politics coded as “left” on this site is in fact reactionary nostalgia - an inchoate belief that times were better in the good old days and nebulous forces have taken that from us.

“This thing I inherited from my grandparents is so much better and sturdier than things I buy today.” Yes, because *you inherited it.*. You didn’t inherit all the other stuff because it broke or wore out or was just junk that got thrown out when somebody died.

It’s insane. In 1960 people spent 10% of their annual income on clothing - and despite that, only purchased about 20 items. Today, we spend 2% of our annual income on clothing, and purchase an average of about 70 items per year. But Bluesky leftists are convinced this means we’re getting POORER

"We did it, Patrick! We defeated cringe liberal norms on the limits of political discourse."

Lefties talking about how great China is because of restaurant prices really shows how bad everyone wants there to be a huge underclass to provide services to them for very cheap

So when are we allowed to do comparative politics between the CCP and the Republican party?

Tech people get so mad when you suggest they shouldn’t be allowed to kill children for money

if you're in line to bribe Eric Adams, stay in line

"Alabamans voted for a pedophile to starve them in a failed attempt to prevent me from occasionally wearing a skirt" is one of those factually true statements that makes me feel like I am having a stroke.

going to mute the word schumer after posting this but if the democratic senate leader were from illinois or washington state, i would not care who they preferred for mayor of new york, and i think senate dems should consider that in their next leadership election

woof

i genuinely cannot stand actual european elites condescendingly explaining american public opinion to americans. reminds me of when some british lady IRL tried to tell me she understood southerners better than i ever could, a southerner who lives in the south.

i still don't know if i would vote for her in that district, but i do not doubt the courage of her convictions and i respect her commitment to them in the face of real, legitimate danger to herself

pretty clear a lot of dem pundits love Platner because they’re desperately insecure about their own masculinity, no? every time they vote for a woman or some nerd they die a little inside. they want senator muscles so they can feel okay about themselves again