trump 🤝 someone with 3 life points remaining running out of strategies to win MTG

Drumbeat continues. These are illegal strikes. With fake legal cover.

Getting mad about white collar crime requires reading comprehension. Hearing lurid descriptions of every murder in the country doesn’t.

A classic of the genre.

Sarah McBride is good at her job and nobody on this site complaining about her right now would be able any good in any position of power.

if you want good federal government you need good federal government workers, and if you want good federal government workers you need to compete for them in the labor market. apparently this is controversial now and i don't think it should be.

Folks I'm starting to think that politics and politics posting is not a good replacement for therapy

Pelosi was one of the best people at her job in history and basically nobody on this website knows what her job was

the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:

If your logic for continuing the shutdown through the holidays or indefinitely is "It polls well" I am begging you to look at how election cycles work. You can read a history of any presidential election, it'll be covered. December 91 approval polling for GHWB was 51%. Did he win the 92 election?

Awful to hear. A big part of the draw of service academies is the quality education there.

Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"

That said, I watched people get in @mikeblack114.bsky.social's and @snarkranger.bsky.social's mentions last night and call them enemies of america or w/e for saying "I'd like a paycheck please, we can't really take much more of this." and holy shit, check your aggro.

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

I want to make sure I've got it here: -I don't like Chuck Schumer and think he's a bad Senate leader -The problem with bad Dem strategy is not Schumer-shaped. He's a symptom of it, but he's not the cause -When you don't know how government works but insist on action, you empower bad people

A Few Points: 1. It's bad that Dems are caving and ending the shutdown with so little to show for it 2. With senate and house minorities, a little is all you ever get from a shutdown 3. I doubt the median voter is going to be stoked about Trump because the shutdown ends 4. It hasn't ended yet

two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame

Do you guys remember in the shutdown in 2018-2019 how when it was over suddenly America decided it was all the Democrats' fault? Oh, wait, no? That didn't happen? For real? Huh. Weird.

I get that it's easy to continuously hate Senate Dems for not delivering X, Y, or Z, but I'm going to point out that this is yet again people on the internet really being mad that the Dems do not control any branch of government. You can't run the government from a Senate minority.

This is a thing the SecDef should focus on. Good! Now we need him to quit streaming pull-up competitions and make sure this happens correctly.

*space marine voice* Battle Brother, we can't afford the co-pay for your dental!

Open secret is that Palantir is the only one of these companies that makes anything that isn't vaporware, and also it still sucks ass Very easy arguments (without even broaching the even easier drug use) to lock these guys out, for any Dems willing to go back to first principles of "fascists bad"

Actual answer: Tesla is a meme stock that is tied almost exclusively to Musk's cult of personality, and everyone involved knows it, including Musk. If they were to oust Elon, which from a perspective of business they should have years ago, the stock value would drop by like 80% overnight.

i'm still seeing people say things like "they don't intend to win elections", and, like, look at last night's results. those are not outcomes you can reject through slim efforts at trickery, those are overwhelming defeats that can't be ignored. stop letting your doom brain do their work.

Libdoomers awfully quiet rn

how is this real

I think a large part of lib doomerism is just based on "I'm angry and in despair and rather than process this I'm going to claim it's serious analysis" and man, it is not. Everybody feels things! That's fine! But confusing feelings for "I've run the numbers" is a huge red flag in basic judgment.

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

The lib dooming addiction as Trump posts the worst poll numbers of his second term and as Dems fix to take NJ and VA governor seats is surreal. MAGA doesn't have a strong grip on power, it's all tenuous and temporary. What is it about lib brain that compels a constant refrain of "it's so over"?

Best defensive performance by a Yamamoto since the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.

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Spending any amount of time on Bluesky illuminates the biggest problem of the American left: the inability to understand that people that don't think like the left still have votes, and that these voters are not persuaded by looking at the camera and proclaiming devotion to the working class.

Tom is spot on here. 1. Primary immigrant surges prior to ~2008 were Mexican, not from the Central American states south of Mexico 2. Central American migration is much more based around current events in Central America, which, believe it or not, are a lot more complex than "America bad in 80s."

warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-... I know the author of this piece, and man, what a step down. He OD'd on Catholicism over culture war stuff and this is the result -- an incoherent mess of "what comes after liberalism?" Liberalism will endure longer than the current populist authoritarian moment.

Every European armor encounter from late 1944 onward is like the 1st SS Totenkopf Ubermenschen Panzergrenadiers hiding from two dozen Iowa farmboys with bazookas who want to brag they actually killed the only functional Tiger tank in the sector

Hamas figured out that the US priority is putting on a show that casts Trump positively. Say something he wants to hear, he’ll promote it. You don’t have to do anything. In this case, say yes to an already changed proposal and leave details to be worked out, as if those details aren’t the hard part.

This isn’t speculation, he was genuinely convinced that this goat rodeo was gonna be truly and genuinely beloved by the rank and file He writes exactly as much in “The War On Warriors”

Everyone who's been in the military has worked for guys like Hegseth, the kind of moron who thinks all problems can be solved by stricter adherence to haircut regs and more PT. Some of those guys make it pretty far up the ranks. Their overall competence is universally low, and this shows in crisis.

Q: What does an anarchist do when the revolution has triumphed over the evils of capitalism and the state? A: Turn off Hearts of Iron 4 and go to sleep.

The gulf between their ambitions and their actions is a deep void. The fear is the point. Don't help them by falling for it. It makes stopping what they actually do harder.