It will be very funny if nobody gets banned for insulting one of the main architects of modern conservatism when dozens of people did for defaming America's 38th most popular podcaster. It'll really show where postmodern conservatism is at as a movement.

Did that thing again last night where I put on Lost Boys kinda ironically but like 1/3 of the way in I'm like wait, this is actually a great movie.

this is a bingo. democrats allowed the "data" people to take over when their most successful candidates - obama, bill clinton - were the emotion people. hell, even joe biden was no wonk. biden was at his best as "regular joe."

"Bovino" is such a Pynchoesque name for this Lockjaw-like tool. We shouldn't have let Pynchon at the lathe of Heaven.

Hi, I'm a freelance Democratic party strategist in your mentions. After we protect trans rights by banning them from sports, we should move on to protecting abortion rights by restricting bodily autonomy. Next, we'll reign in ICE by getting tough on the border.

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

His grandfather was a millionaire architect, his father a very successful lawyer. Platner has NEVER needed help to "access higher education." He joined the military & became a Blackwater mercenary because he liked it. People would rather believe in fantasy than struggle with facts.

why not run some candidates who want to exterminate newsom's kid, so that there can be a debate with that more moderate position, which is only killing one child instead of many?

the media class is so cooked. people rightly complain that journalists don't know history but they also don't seem to know journalism. the idf's relationship with nypd has been reported on many times over the last decade.

I generally don't see the point of electing someone in 2026 who hasn't repeated obstructed federal law enforcement. Realistically speaking, it is probably one of the best predictive qualifiers for what their future job is going to require lol.

In 10th grade my history teacher was going over the coming midterm and, as a goof, i asked him if i still had to take the test if i threw up on it. he sighed, leaned back on his desk, took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and said: "Michael, you can't throw up your way through life."

Sorry, but as much as I love Tolkien, LOTR is an anti-fascist story told using fascist aesthetics. It makes sense that everyone can see their political ideology reflected in the text. This doesn't mean rightwingers are right about LOTR, per se, but it's perfectly understandable why they think that.

I was right about her 10 years ago.

You ever been somewhere once in your life because it's where a lot of your family is from, but at this point you'll almost certainly never go back?

"You need to take what he says seriously but not literally"

Best one yet

In a few months some of you will insist that we MUST vote for him if we value democracy and i am telling you now, no. And idc about your post election diatribes because you thought it would be easier to convince millions of people to vote for the anti-trans guy than to FIND A BETTER CANDIDATE.

My dad sent me this

the very pathetic truth is that all the fuckers writing 'harris lost by running on the left' op-eds would, if she had ran the exact same campaign but won, be writing 'harris won by rejecting the left' op-eds instead. they're not honest people

there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right. i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

*Democrats run centrists three elections in a row* Centrists: We need to run a centrist. That's the solution

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Too much gatekeeping out there imo. I'm gonna have to start gatekeeping gatekeeping.

My FIL stayed with us this weekend, and we struggle somewhat to find something we can both watch and enjoy. However, he's a fan of Mitch Hedberg, so we watched his special and a bunch of clips. After, my FIL introduced me to my new least favorite standup comic ever (Tim Hawkins).

my greatest aspiration is to become something like the old man in the final segment of Kurosawa's Dreams

Superman (2025)

Knock knock. Who's there? Interrupting Jenny Holzer. Interrupting Jenny Holzer wh—

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

sorry I couldn’t find a version of this meme where both of the arms are white

This is the only form of law enforcement we should accept.

ICE's abysmal hiring standards have reminded me of what is basically my litmus test for all law enforcement: not only must you be an expert in what the law is, but you must swear that if your commanding officer gives you an illegal order, you are thereby dutybound to arrest them on the spot.

i love him

This is me speaking as a leftist, it should be noted, about exactly what my process has been. If it applies to you as well as a liberal (or worse, a liberal podcaster), it should be easy to follow suit.

i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal

"Hi, I'm a leftist. I followed Platner on Instagram bc I found his statements appealing, but new evidence of his indefensible worldview and personal choices have come to light, so my opinions of him have changed. He should drop out." See, that isn't so hard.

Beat his ass.

I'm showing the restraint of a bodhisattva during this Criterion sale.

Libertarians be like "don't you hate the DMV? Government can't do anything efficiently! That's why they should administer a test to tell me which 14-year-olds I can try to have sex with"

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

The Card Counter (2021)

If you really want more journalists to abandon Twitter you should Send. Their. Stories. Traffic. From. Bluesky.

Which is also to say, anyone accusing exclusively one side or the other for this fracas is disingenuous at best.

The openness of it all now just amazes me; the speed with which social morés change, equally for the better or for the worse. A mere twenty years ago, less than a full generation ago, you couldn't *torture* a finance capitalist into insulting a global religion. Now it's just a Tuesday

my time has come

Oof. I feel sick. I’m going to lay down. This is just it.