It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.

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Yuna is still around by the way 😆 Dipper has taken over my social media but Yuna would like to let everyone know she matters too.

😾：Human, you may look me in the eye.

About to give the cats a little kiss

Democrats: "Vote for us so we can fight Trump" People: "Ok." Democrats: "It's too hard. But send us more money and we'll do better!" People: "No, fuck you." Democrats: "Why won't the stupid voters vote for us? It's their fault this is happening."

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

I’ve said this b4, but here’s a little inside baseball from a former Republican: Back in my GOP days, we Republicans would privately laugh at how Democrats would never go to the mat to win. We always knew Democrats wouldn’t fight to the death politically. Last night proved Republicans right again.

"The people I spoke to in Europe who asked me where I was from sometimes perked up—probably imagining America's former reputation and its influence on culture—but they often looked upon me with sympathy. What a terrible thing you're experiencing. The world is learning to live without us."

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

The Morning Monty says “it’s bapping time.”

This guy gets it:

democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up

There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.

I think “We did everything we could, and we only stopped when the GOP was threatening to starve 40 million people” would be an effective rebuttal But the cavers don’t know ball and are instead displaying an understanding of leverage and strategy that is out of step with reality

Ro Khanna, who has called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced, says the only reason other Democrats aren't calling for it is because it would "offend a lot of donors." "Are we gonna be beholden to the donors that have gotten us two terms of Donald Trump, or are we gonna listen to people?"

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

A true criminal

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them. I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

There's no way to make "DEMOCRATS CAVE AND GIVE REPUBLICANS EVERYTHING THEY WANT" into a win for Democrats. None.

I spent literally all of yesterday in a cascading series of flight delays and we all did that for nothing but giving the GOP the knowledge that doing that will make you cave immediately? You know they’re going to do that every time now, right?

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

Great, so when Trump wants an illegal third term, all he has to do is shut down air traffic again and the Senate will immediately cave?

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

This validates every single Republican attack that the Democrats were using SNAP for leverage. Some poor kid going to bed hungry? Well that's a sacrifice they're willing to make for freedom. AAL or UAL or DAL stock dipping? A BRIDGE TOO FAR.

It should concern everyone when they start talking about using the military to control civilian airspace. Because next they'll militarize the whole function. The military can decide whether you get to quit (or not), solving at least short term problems for the FAA.

I met my sister-in-law’s kitties 🥰

She is not as much help with grading as she thinks she is😹

That lamp looks PISSED.

JFC George - don’t accept the premise Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses. Frame the question the right way. It’s not a damn true/false

The face of a cat who conned his staff into providing two breakfasts of Iams chicken in jelly in quick succession this morning.

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

What the hell are we doing?

My friend Kristina and I were driving down the coast from Astoria and pulled off the road and ran to the beach when we saw these colors! Cape Kiwanda at Pacific City, Oregon. #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

George Santos lived in Huntington, Long Island before becoming a member of Congress. He lived in the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after that.

Just feels like the absolute dumbest people are in charge right now.

Just remembered this from the DOGE days The interview to join DOGE required you to argue for cutting SNAP

I don't think the government opens again ever at this rate.

New in PN: @donmoyn.bsky.social on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" “The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”

Just a cat relaxing on a #Caturday afternoon...

The Dem message now is easy: American knows it is the GOP Shutdown. No compromises. And by the way, we have some new demands. This isn't difficult. Play like you're winning.

It’s a problem that so many people make it to adulthood without learning that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.