genuinely stunning image

It’s good to know the difference between people who want the Democratic Party to be better and idiots who think the top political priority should be the democratic party’s destruction.

Sometimes we say “Republicans could impeach and remove and end this tomorrow” and it’s trivially true, but rhetorically it does them the favor of presuming there is a core person in there that’s too scared to do the right thing, rather than that they mostly are committed to doing the wrong one.

what if America is just France now and voters just hate whoever is in power

Yeah most likely possibility is that we are in a really ugly reactionary period where every government is unpopular because they can't solve the underlying problems.

“Hold more press conferences” i/ like “build class consciousness” dawg it’s just not doing what you think it is

When democrats do press conferences but they don’t make it on to social media: Ugh god hold a press conference! Do politics! When Democrats hold press conferences that make it on to social media: ugh enough of your meaningless words! How about action!?!

And Van Hollen did it in March he literally knee-capped the entire insane DOGE and ICE push that had basically gone unabated for two straight months—lots of house members did it too and the press just stopped covering it.

I hate that abbot bussing Venezuelan people seeking refuge to liberal cities like denver worked but it did. A LOT of Mexicans-Americans in denver started calling and posting that we had become Denverzuela

Ok yeah but: 1) the press covers the republicans when thy say anything no matter wha 2) they did this is in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and actually border crossing were high and liberal cities where abbot was sending immigrants were actually freaking out

Screen grabbing someone’s post to say something mean is the most real housewives behavior and we all do it

Everyone is and on Bluesky and I think we should all take up watching real house wives because we are all messy and live for the drama

AOC says “I’m very proud of our caucus, Democrats voted against DHS appropriations and I think it was the right thing to do in this moment.”

Critical support to comrade edge-of-a-table

Andrea, you’re not going to believe this

The retrospective argument over "was there an earnest attempt to prosecute Trump" maps to familiar rad/mod lines. Basically everyone treats it as a proxy for "Biden good/bad?" or "Be mad at Dems?" and defaults to form. And it's funny how few actually mull what their stance implies (unlike propter).

Abigail Spanberger is a good governor and it’s got nothing to do with people posting on the internet

Inviting David Sirota on your podcast is one of the worst ideas you can have

Would a Jan 7 impeachment have gotten that support? I don’t think so. Republicans still voted to overturn the results.

I appreciate that. I think a consensus has formed and solidified that probably makes our goals more difficult. I think wrt the Biden admin they obviously did fail in their most important job. Maybe it was possible to stop him with just democrats but Republican support would’ve guaranteed it

Buy a suit from the ARC and letting an ICE agent hit you in the face will do more for your cause than carrying around a gun cos-playing as a solder.

It’s so wild how many of these people don’t understand that they will NEVER EVER win in a competition of violence against the state. And that non-violence turns that dominance into a weakness.

It’s funny that we have now decided that despite only winning ~50% of presidential races and even fewer majority votes that Bush Jr and Trump are the “trend” and Obama the exception (and I guess Biden didn’t exit)

Because he’s DEAD

To be clear as long as they have a D after their name and hate republicans, not-Andy Harris would be a breath of fresh air.

ITS BACK ON

How can you not be romantic about happeningball?

Evelyn Normielib: Trump will raise prices and terrorize the public. He wrote it down right here. Ian the Median: the guy who sent me a stimmy check with his own money? pfft sure *1 year later* Ian: why did ICE take my wife

It’s fine. We all know what’s going on here. That’s called foreshadowing. It’s a LITERARY DEVICE, people; look it up.

Danes died at a higher rate than Americans in Afghanistan. They were there because *we* invoked Article 5 after *we* were attacked on 9/11, and they gallantly honored their commitment to come to our defense. I think one day the Danish people might forgive us. I'm not sure they should.

Live view of the Air Force One pilot.

Woof well

There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening

guys do I need to get booze whats going on

People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!

I admit I'm a little confused as to why a consensus seems to have formed that SCOTUS will strike down Trump's obviousl illegal tariffs. That would be correct on the law, sure, but what does that have to do with anything? They'll strike it down if they feel that it saves Trump from himself (possible)

Teachers union talking about when they come here and what happens. I’m glad I’m part of something bigger and stronger than just myself. Standing together gives collective courage.

Admin of and for anonymous rightwing trolls

fwiw bond market moves as a clear result of insane Trump foreign policy stuff creates a direct connection between 1) fascism and 2) affordability so maybe we could consider getting less mad at whoever is hitting him with the wrong stick at any given time

I can’t predict anything but every time SCOTUS keeps kicking a rule down the road it’s usually because they are delaying the release of a very bad decision.

Republicans have only expanded the power of the federal government and its involvement in your personal life in office. They have literally never reduced the size of it or how much it dictates how you live.

I’ve seen people get so mad about this that they’re literally convincing themselves that electing more democrats will just mean things keep getting worse—even tho that has not happened any time in the last 150 years of politics.

I’m not saying I like Chuck Schumer, I’m just saying that I think everyone perseverating on his public statements every time something bad happens is now feeling very boring and impotent

Trade lol lmao

our country would be a lot better if people realized Republican voters in Red states simply like their states being backwards, approve of Republicans keeping it that way, and would rather bomb churches than give healthcare to a single brown person

There is no secret vanguard of the revolution awaiting to be activated by the perfect maoist leader, the south is held back by it’s own bigotry and it’ll kill itself to stay that way