It's valid to tell people "I have plans" if your plans are to sit on your couch. That's a type of plans

lol Kevin Kiley is going to pretend he isnt a Republican. good luck dude

Find someone that loves you like the Sacramento County Superior Court loves sending me jury summons months earlier than they’re allowed to

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

there is something very funny about the fact that the current voter base for left-wing populism is educated six-figure professionals

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After working just fine for years, my computer, or excel, or something, has decided to stop saving the latest versions of my documents. They are trying to turn me into the joker.

THIIIIIIIIIS. And not just here. All over the place. Like, I’d love a future Dem President to say “I’ve scoured the Constitution and can’t find a ‘major question’ rule anywhere in it. So I’m just going to ignore that effort to arrogate power to yourself. That imbalance? Checked.”

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

our society belched him forth, slathered him in gold and rubies, made him a star for decades and elected him twice to rule over us. you can split hairs all you want about who bears that blame, but our society produced, molded, and rewarded him and many many many like him

it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything

[moving to the Geopolitical Conflict Region] there better not be any fucking geopolitical conflict here

Netanyahu says Trump fulfilled his dreams: In bombing Iran, Israel now has the "assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years"

The guy made one speech about the military industrial complex and people remember him as some bleeding heart liberal when he tried to gut welfare and only pushed on civil rights because the courts told him to

Eisenhower presidency really is one of the all time historiographic Houdinis

what bothers me about Chuck Schumer and the Middle East is that he is regularly disloyal to the party to Israel's benefit, including his attempt to torpedo the JCPOA and inviting Netanyahu to stump against Biden during the 2024 election

we also got this shit, including People naming him one of the sexiest men alive I really cannot overstate how completely bonkers the Iraq War era was if you didn’t live through it

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

Honestly I think the leadup to the Iraq war was worse than all this because the buy-in was so all-encompassing. I keep asking myself how anyone could fall for it again but the thing is, they mostly haven't

Went up to 5 weeks in about 2 hours, gotta love the NYT calling this “seemingly contradictory” but if AOC says Um its the end of the Left forever

lmao just remembered Bush 2000 ran against 'nation-building.' My whole goddamn life has been Republicans pinky swearing they won't start any wars unlike those feckless and weak bleeding heart Democrats. And news anchors, Op/Ed Pages, dumbshit guppy swing voters eat it up.

I don’t need Donald Trump to explain a single thing to me I need him to stop the war

It would be so cool if we had a real opposition party

What I mean specifically is that you can never tell what, precisely, is going to be the thing that pushes an obviously incompetent regime over the edge, which scandal is going to be the one that catches fire, which specific overreach is the one that creates the uncontrollable backlash.

The whole Trump administration is just rooting around in complicated systems - regional balances of power, state legitimacy, funding for global health - and ripping wires out, and they've frankly been lucky that they've ripped out so many wires without electrocuting themselves. Won't last forever.

anyway anyone concerned about Platner being like this should at least be more concerned with what made him viable. if you already are, and I know some of you have been on this as aggressively as I have, great, please try to help everyone else get there.

the Democratic Party left a gigantic gap in its left flank to funnel money to a genocidal ethnostate and now people are starting to break through. Platner is the first but he won't be the last.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

“noooo you can’t make internal critiques of the Democratic Party noooooo” it’s one one of the most hideously unpopular entities in America and it’s on decade-long losing streak against a half-coherent reality TV host that’s so severe that it has potentially vaporized US democracy

The main problem with one-party authoritarian socialist states is that within half a generation they invariably transmute into a party oligarchy that disciplines the working class as or more harshly than any capitalist regime, and without a socialist alternative as a countervailing force.

my least Marxist democratic socialist belief is that single party communist states are functionally less democratic than a well-regulated and publicly funded bourgeois democracy and believing otherwise is unbelievable cope

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

The “well regime change is good, actually” from people who can’t tell me what happens after the regime is changed or even what was happening before the regimes was changed really isn’t doing it for me It does not mama the mia, I tell you what

It's really great that we live in a world where we give free money to people with insider information about war. Just absolutely swell.

If your a democrat doing the “it’s fine to bomb Iran just ask me first” routine please resign from office

so he'll keep tilting at every windmill that Rubio and Hegseth bring him, burning through finite Tomahawks and shredding our alliances in vain hope for spontaneous celebrations in Times Square that will never, ever come.

Underrated factor in all of Trump's military adventures is how much he wants to recreate and surpass the cultural impact of the Bin Laden raid. And it's just never gonna happen because no singular foreign enemy or tyrant other than Hitler has had such a cold-finger grip on the American psyche.

Who has the enriched uranium?

Me: Cats are interesting people. Rando: Cats aren't people. Me: I can tell you don't have cats.

Yeah when you outsource all of your MENA expertise to the FDD, which is little more than a lobbying firm for Israel, it turns out you'll get war.

It would be nice if things could get better for the regular citizens of Iran soon. I’m not sure that will happen from the current state of affairs but I glad they can find some happiness and joy for the death of an evil leader amongst the violence.

zero surprise here. The way republicans talked about the JCPOA it was always obvious they never cared about the actual contents of the deal or the hairy technical issues involved

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

for the bajillionth time they have their own logic on their own timeline for assessing it, an opposed landing across 100 miles of open ocean is a problem no has attempted in the history of war, and while the expenditures are bad and dumb we haven't cleaned out the US munitions cupboard in a day

FFS invading Taiwan is not something you can do on a whim It would take months and months of preparation and buildup (which would be easily detectable, an invasion of Taiwan will be obvious well in advance) Also they don’t have the sealift capacity they need. They literally can’t invade right now