I will say, this war has really exposed a failure among both political and senior military leadership to identify where military power comes from. 'We destroyed their air force and navy' - who cares!? That's not where Iran derives its military power from and hasn't been for a while!

lmfao I fucking called it

Ah I see the Times has fired up the ol' conservative commentator is sorry generator again.

Though, also, I suspect that these self-descriptions by priests are somewhat relative--most priests are naturally going to define their political beliefs by the church's social teachings, which are still quite conservative for the most part.

Excited by this. Both the Today Now hosts did an incredible job.

Why are young people leaving the church? I don't know maybe they get enough highlights from Fox News from that one uncle who they only see on holidays.

If someone stops posting, were they ever real to begin with?

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One of the most frequent causes of Charlie Kirk related cancellation was accurately representing his views, or even quoting them verbatim. She expressed grief about Kirk's murder, and the only hateful thing in the comments came from Kirk himself.

You'll never believe what this speaker--now cancelled thanks to "free speech" warriors like TPUSA & Sen. Mike Lee--posted about Charlie Kirk. She said she was "gutted" by his murder. She described it as "horrific" and said it "should have never happened." And then she went on to post Kirk's words.

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fun fact: two years after Manchin won in West Virginia, a left wing populist ran on this exact platform… and lost to a corporate Republican by 40 points the conservative white working class doesn’t vote for wealth distribution. they are temporarily embarrassed billionaires who love daddy Trump

I don't like gerrymandering. Salt Lake City shouldn't be divided up to deny voters the opportunity to elect their own reps. We need a ban on gerrymandering and an expanded House. Until then blue states should follow Virginia's path in order to counter what happened in Texas and other red states.

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

I'm sure they'll try something. What that something is will remain to be seen, but it's important to remember that the people carrying it out will be incredibly incompetent.

My read on this is it'll have to be primarily legislative because a lot of MAGA is fractured, sure, but more importantly absolutely exhausted. I don't even know that he has the political capital for it legislatively because a lot of them clearly smell death in the air.

i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior

A picture that is truly worth a thousand words

People upset about redistricting should contemplate the statehood laws of 1889-1890, particularly Wyoming and two Dakotas.

“The Sacrosanct Constitution, which I make up in my head.” From the makers of “The Sacrosanct Bible, which I make up in my head.”

Arch-Archivist definitely sounds like the title of someone the fantasy hero needs help from in order to defeat the Dark Lord.

the conservative reaction to the virginia results remind me quite a bit of their reaction to the 2012 presidential election, where they were offended that democrats ran to win

newspaper readers of 1950 were unprepared for the censored panel that originally went between panels 3 and 4 and contained viscerally disturbing body horror

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Nowhere is this more apparent then with women voters. Poll after poll shows Repub support among women cratering, but instead of articles about how they should try to win them back, we get more opinion pieces about "maybe women would be happier if they just spent all day in the kitchen."

There is the Constitution as it is written and understood from centuries of legal opinions. And then there is the constitution in the heads of every conservative which just says: "I win, you lose."

one time i think before 2020 ben shapiro was warning that democrats would shred the constitution by adding states and expanding the supreme court, both of which are constitutional, and i think about that a lot

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

Sorry but without Germany this is just a sparkling conflagration.

QUICK! While the Hungarian guy is out, but before the Bulgarian guy comes in!

The Republican plan for cities is more goons with guns. They have no ideas or even an interest in making them better places to live and work.

This. There will no deluge of “instead of holding the yes voters in contempt, the GOP needs to listen to the concerns of those who voted Yes”, but if it had failed, we would have been inundated with “Dems need to listen to rural voters” articles

The good news about the double standard in journalism is that I don't think it's working.

Their only solution to losing is to take people's vote away.

They think you're stupid.

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what “rural interest” does that even “protect”? is there one? is there one that isn’t racist?

i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas

Going to go back to 1870 and tell Grant that West Virginia has become a den of traitors and Lost Cause aficionados, while Virginia has been taken over by northern carpetbaggers (laudatory) I’ll give him some time to process that before telling him about the Sixth Party System

Republicans in red states have gerrymandered to shit and back, often illegally, and when voters have passed initiatives to ban the practice, they have (even more illegally) ignored and undercut them. It is a little late to clutch your pearls and weep about the sanctity of democracy now

thinking back to the lead up to 2024 when all the right wing election bros were amping themselves up about how virginia was going to flip red. it has such symbolic value for them. now its punched them in the face

It's hilarious to me that London could've had a suspended monorail (like Wuppertal in Germany). The article features a delightful list of urban megaprojects around the world that weren't built in the end. Source: buff.ly/MPm8CH5

One big political divide is between people who believe germs cause disease and people who believe Those People cause disease. It was pretty evident right away during the pandemic

This is my favorite take on Gerrymandering, by far.

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW RESTORE DETTERENCE

It’s his day

What’s noteworthy about this is that he doesn’t even gesture toward a reason why retrocession might be unconstitutional. He just says that Trump should say that it is.

okay look... this is very good

Next up in the “fuck you traditional republican district” bucket list: treating rural counties the way state legislatures in Missouri, Texas, etc treat their cities