WHYYYY

Traveling back in time to 2012 to inform myself that in 13 years the president will be a fascist and that Pope will be a shitlib

We need to increase the birth rate but there are too many people that’s why housing is expensive. Mhm. Ya.

The order says that ICE acts unlawfully if it detains someone without an at least an administrative warrant. So when Bovino says he wants to go arrest thousands more people, he means that he wants to keep breaking the law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WHY IS THE TEENAGER THE SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE

I mean this is like….the underpinnings of prep school and elite university culture right?

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

we need to bring the hammer down on wealthy and connected elites. it’s been desperately needed for a long time. regardless of party or politics.

Can state AGs start prosecuting all these Epstein fucks or what

every single one of these emails is someone I already hate messaging a notorious pedophile to say "Thanks for the great time! I had fun doing pedophile stuff with you. P.S. Trump was there with us the whole time"

Is there like a reason Michael Wolff is a free man or

“I couldn’t take the heat”

I have a theory about this

Do not leave the party. Take it over.

New leadership or

Haven't said it in a while but we could always... Abolish the Senate

Is this anything

WHAT IS THE BIGGER FIGHT. I AM DYING TO KNOW.

He was whipping for the leader. Is that not…ok.

The party leader always secretly controls everything from the shadows, or tries to. JFC. Nancy Pelosi did it all the time.

Senator scolds the voters for daring to think that he and his colleagues might be accountable to them.

Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."

Nah I’m gonna internally recriminate thanks tho

The way a fighting force ensures it is “fighting united” is by punishing those who break ranks or refuse to follow orders. Recrimination seems like a mild punishment for those who disregarded the clear orders from Democratic voters to stand and fight, and instead turned against us to help Trump.

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

Time for change in some high places in the Democratic Party if we are to meet the greater challenges of the moment in this country. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-these-vi...

Brb googling “what is insurance”

This makes it very clear that Trump believed the possibility of a shutdown continuing into the holidays would kill his approval numbers

THAT DOESNT MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE

@vanhollen.senate.gov for minority leader. Shoulda done it a long time ago.

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

to be clear: a rejection of politics altogether is bad. an anti-politics, if you will. which is imo a bit of what’s going on with dems for the last couple decades. politics is dirty business with high stakes, and attempts to sanitize it only obscure the stakes, but do nothing to lessen them

I do think sometimes we undersell the possibility that some of these people are just like…bad and dumb

Imagine being a government employee who sacrificed all the way through this shutdown only to have chuck schumer sell you out for nothing.

You gotta wonder why Democrats thought it necessary to cave at nearly midnight on a Sunday of a holiday weekend. Because the optics are shit.

I do think senate dems have fundamentally wrecked their credibility tho, both in the party network and with the republicans

I just —

A lot of people have observed that the Democrats’ deep unpopularity comes from the fact that absolutely everyone wants to complain about them and nobody wants to defend them. This is true, but a lot of THAT dynamic comes from the fact that Dems are regularly punching their supporters in the face!

Like health care and groceries, working families can’t afford Chuck Schumer’s bullshit at this moment in time.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame: Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

Our org set up a food bank! We were ready to cover like 100 people! AHHHHH.

The headlines were “the president of the United States is suing to take food away from actual real babies for no reason” and they bailed him out. I feel like I’m losing my mind.

I never knew the expression “blinded by rage” was like, reality based until right now. I am 35.