Rhaenyra is a progressive female Trump, which is fine until she loses an election and descends into madness.

Disagree with his faith and religious views all you want. That's cool. But to say his faith and views disqualify him from office and public life because of an inaccurate and anti-democratic interpretation of the First Amendment is abhorrent. And it is shameful. (6/6)

Such exclusion creates a second-class citizenship that is incompatible with democracy and human rights, as well as the promise of America. Talarico believes his faith requires him to defend democracy and human rights in a time when others of faith attack and seek to overthrow both. (5/6)

If we are to be true Americans, true believers in democracy and human rights, we have to allow everyone and exclude no one. Anything less is un-American and anti-democratic. You can oppose someone due to their beliefs, but to then advocate for their exclusion is just wrong. (4/6)

Second, and the most important point, is that this incredibly undemocratic and opposed to the ideals of freedom and equality espoused by the left. It is, to be very blunt, exactly the kind of reaction one would expect from Trump. You do not exclude anyone based on their who they are. (3/6)

1) To prevent the state from using its power to mandate what is and is not proper religious thought and the abuse of religion for the state's needs. 2) To prevent a specific religion/denomination from using the state to suppress the free expression and political involvement of non-believers. (2/6)

Yeah, this ain't it, chief. A few notes: First, this is not what separation of church and state are about. It is not the blanket exclusion of faith and religious thought from politics and government. It is the prohibition of state recognized religion for two reasons. (1/6)

Which people in Westeros would do well in US politics?

we need new, non-Stancilian discourse someone with a large follower count say "hear me out" about a deranged public figure or fictional character or something be a hero you can save us

ASOIAF Character edition of this: GO!

Tired: Ban sports gambling Wired: Nationalize DraftKings

I think Simon and Doric from D&D Honor among Thieves and Farideh and Dahl from Brimstone Angels should team up. All of them have something in common with each other and it would be fun to play them off one another.

See, the thing here is that, as a Brit, Rowling has no sense of scale and is too intellectually lazy to develop a bunch of different magic schools.

The Joker:

Who knew that goons weren't a renewable resource

I am so proud someone used my hashtag.

Hegel touches on something cognate: The cynic who says nothing can change is, in practice, indistinguishable from the conservative who thinks nothing should.

Oh, grow up. Public figures are allowed to reference their faith. It's a cornerstone of our Constitution.

I mean, yeah, stunt doubles will suddenly look Good, Actually, with very little effort or investment in time/money/energy.

11 best words in English language. I am from the Government and I am here to help.

I want my government to be able to build things like China, but I also want to be able to control my government, unlike China.

i'd be a little skeptical of this if i were you

The fuck is this hippy-ass bullshit. No, the lasting way to fighting fascism is durable and clear consequences for trying to fuck up the social contract. Not this crap.

A Wrinkle in Time. Where was the fucking science and nerd shit?

My dad last night, once his ADHD meds wore off, wondered if curling players give directions in bed like they do while curling. I had to hear the cursed thought, now the rest of you do.

I am not v interested in continuing the “the Democrats will betray us on #$ISSUE the moment they get into power” B/S because a. There’s no way to falsify it and b. It’s fundamentally rooted in a nihilistic doomerism that nobody believes anything, we’re all gonna get betrayed, nothing matters anyways

He looks like a maniac. Which is not helped by his unhinged statement.

People literally think they're going to just what, ziptie the people on the street in front of the polling place? And that this is somehow going to work?

The reason why the ICE shit is so stupid is because of two things: 1.) ICE arrests a single person with multiple people. 2.) If you do a Kav stop and detain someone, you will require the agents to leave the area to detain the person.

i think it becomes even funnier in the wake of the prequels

somebody on the old site pointed out that scene is like showing up at a new office, and there's a weird guy dressed like a wizard going "Microsoft Excel is no match for the power of sorcery" then after he almost kills you, everyone else is like "no, really, he is a wizard, and he will kill you"

"Shields? You mean cuck bubbles?" --Raith Sienar

someone at the DNC has the opportunity to be a legend and make an ad featuring David Cross as Tobias Funke, celebrating RFKJ as the leader of the nevernudes

Emerald Fennell is like if a tumblr dark academia 2012 girlboss tumblr aesthetic was made into a real person

Promising Young Woman really fucking sucks, huh? Death Wish if it was written by an AI trained on fake Reddit stories and Tumblr girlboss posts. Also just looks incredibly boring, 95% of the shots are dead centre frame and lack colour. Excited to watch Saltburn!

There is no way to enforce an EO proclaiming states must do what are special orange boy wants in terms of elections.

tl;dr and thank you for coming to my Ted Talk: The problem with EOs isn't that the president can't proclaim wild shit in them (they've tried) - it's that when the EO is targeting things the federal government doesn't run, it's all about -enforcement- and the mechanism by which the EO is enforced.

CNN's chyron this afternoon was: Less GOP districts are vulnerable in 2026 than in 2018. I think they're just lying now.

He already tried to do something like this last year. It was a basically toothless order that still got blocked and no one has talked about it since.

People are misreading this EO as Trump flexing his strength when really he is flailing and it’s a sign of weakness. It’s no more real than Michael Scott yelling, “I declare bankruptcy!”

Do people just like, forget Trump has already been in office or seeking it for over a decade. He has literally tried exactly this already and it was immediately thrown out in court.

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death

The reason why small l liberalism keeps surviving is that even a brief survey of the alternatives leads one back to “okay even a notional rules based order is better than tf this is”

Sadly, Eugenics Oscar Wilde is right on this.

And every election board in the country will tell her to kick rocks when she tries to assert this.

FWIW this is the energy most politically active high school students should have “You’re gonna get in trouble for that” oh am I going to be tried as an adult?

Shen Yun is in town and their ads have testimonials. One is from a psychiatrist who describes it as therapy for the soul and all I can think is "you should not have a license".

lowkey one of the worst humans alive do you think he’ll ever admit that he wrote the right book about the wrong guy