The biggest problem with Democrats who are afraid to take risks for fear of what Republicans will do in response is the idea that what Republicans do is always dependent on what Democrats do, when in fact Republicans just do the thing Democrats fear anyway regardless of what Democrats do.

“Colombia is producing a lot of drugs. So he better wise up or he’ll be next. He’ll be next soon. I hope he’s listening, he’s going to be next.” —The President of the United States

"I am tired of resisting Donald Trump, just like many American institutions are, and I would like to project this quality about myself and the American institutions capitulating to Donald Trump onto people who identify as Democratic voters and liberals."

I still think that the notion that Donald Trump was going to turn out to be anti-war was the most idiotic prediction in the history of the world, but a lot of people in 2024 also predicted that US policy towards the Middle East couldn’t possibly get any worse, and that’s arguably a runner-up.

In those years, House Democrats impeached Donald Trump twice and the Senate GOP acquitted him twice. Not saying we were a cutthroat opposition party during these years (or even now), but the idea that Senate GOP subjected Trump to tougher scrutiny than Democrats is ahistorical nonsense.

It's amazing how much of the GOP's agenda is sheer animus directed towards laws established in the mid-1960s—the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965... This animus existed before Donald Trump's participation in GOP politics, btw.

Whether or not this strike is confirmed, Donald Trump is touting presiding over striking a land target in Venezuela.

Marjorie Taylor Greene voted to overturn the 2020 US presidential election results. Therefore, she voted in line with Donald Trump's coup attempt. She should never be normalized.

Science fiction is rife with neat scenarios about how AI will pose a threat to humanity when the reality is just going to be Republicans undermining power grid infrastructure updates + too many overly submissive AI companions existing at once —> frequent brownouts and blackouts in the United States.

I don’t think the Pearl Harbor attack would have happened if Donald Trump were President, but this would be for the worst possible reason, which is we’d simply be another Axis power in this scenario.

We're a society that looked at the existence of the COVID-19 vaccine square in the eye, and many people thought it was more dangerous than the virus itself. I don't have an optimistic assessment of how arguments to regulate AI based on public health grounds are going to go.

All anybody needs to do is ask "Ukraine is ready to withdraw troops from where?" while there's a current and accurate control-of-terrain map available, and the answers to this question get bleak really fast.

The US under Donald Trump has imperialist ambitions to expand its territory, even if that means conquering territory that belongs to founding NATO member states. The kind of Democrats that we need going forward will feel at ease saying this information repeatedly and without blinking.

DONALD TRUMP: We're keeping the oil. ICE OFFICER CONDUCT: We're keeping the groceries. DONALD TRUMP: "Groceries." Such an old-fashioned word.

The Tu-95MS is designed to carry nuclear-capable cruise missiles. Anyway, back to "cute" posts about how NATO didn't scramble fighter jets in response to tracking Santa's flying sleigh. -_-

Hope the future Democratic field understands that “Abolish ICE” is the moderate position.

On the DOJ’s website right now. This literally alleges that Donald Trump regularly paid money to rape a 13 year old girl, and witnessed her uncle murdering her newborn child and disposing of the body in Lake Michigan. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Future Republican Congressional candidate nominee.

This means US intelligence is still working as intended, even while Donald Trump wants to render the term "US intelligence" a complete oxymoron... kind of like how the term "Trump-class" is a complete oxymoron.

…the United States will be turning 250 years old next year.

Donald Trump said he wasn't a big believer in stealth technology because it leads to ugly fighter jet designs, so... yeah.

Now imagine AI being in charge of our nuclear weapons doctrine. Very good chance that its countervalue contingency will be targeting cities that it just made up.

If the President were a Democrat, legacy US media outlets would just characterize this as a uniquely embarrassing situation for the United States and feel completely at ease doing so.

We need to start coming up with a measure for bad media-hiring decisions meant to appeal to the right. NBC News replacing Tamron Hall with Megyn Kelly was a self-destructive decision, but they recovered from it. CBS News hiring Bari Weiss might have a self-destructive yield of 50 Megyn Kellys.

The appropriate legal action against a renegade DOJ is impeachment, and the House has to make the first move.

Here's how the UN has played out in practice: Russia is at war with Ukraine, the US is poised to go to war with Venezuela, & China has its sights on Taiwan... all the aggressors are permanent UN Security Council members and have nuclear weapons while their targets have none. There's a lesson here.

This is a nice ideal, and I'm not going to criticize anyone still holding on to this ideal. I am simply going to observe that the primary political objective of Donald Trump's GOP—from the man himself down to his own supporters—has absolutely no interest in saving people who are Democrats.

My position still is whatever you’re doing in the United States today is exactly what you’d be doing in Germany in the 1930s/40s. If you previously wondered how you’d navigate such conditions, you don’t have to wonder anymore. It’s whatever it is that you’re doing right now.

“You don’t have to apologize for being a white supremacist anymore.” What the Vice President of the United States really means here.

I would have included Kaine’s full answer if I were editing the video, but there’s literally nothing he could say that would make the conclusion that it’s “premature” to consider impeachment okay. And if Democratic DOJ officials were behaving like this, Republicans would impeach immediately.

I know Democrats and liberals like to ask Trump voters "How has he made your lives better?" The only answer to this question is that he has made the lives of other people worse, and we all need to accept that we share a country with people who care about this function first and foremost.

There was a Democratic bill to limit boat strikes and strikes against Venezuela. Henry Cuellar voted against it. This is completely factual and publicly available information. www.cbsnews.com/news/house-w...

This is correct, but this is an issue where you should avoid having heroes. Kirsten Gillibrand called for ending ICE in 2018, and since then, her politics have generally gotten worse.

Donald Trump should literally be asked what a letter of marque is, because there’s a chance he understands what a tariff is slightly better, and his understanding of the latter is still bleak AF.

There would be right-wing social media influencers calling for air support and a significantly good chance the Secretary of War would assent to this request.

“Trans rights. That’s the joke.” My favorite stand up comedians punch up. Stand up comedians who punch down are just another form of Republican Party operatives.

White Americans have been tattooing Asian symbols on themselves for completely arbitrary reasons for decades, and they did this not even caring about the translation. “Looks aesthetically spiritual. Let’s do it.” Something to bear in mind before perceiving this as embarrassing.

This was Donald Trump’s original plan for Gaza, by the way, and people thought he wasn’t serious just because his account posted an AI-generated “Trump Gaza” hotel.

I said he could have the last word. Singular. Not plural. So now, you get me showing who advocated NOT VOTING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

I honestly believe maneuvers like this just make the issue more radioactive and more likely to come out organically. And for someone who generally behaves like they can survive scandal after scandal, Donald Trump is behaving like he knows he’s not going to survive this one.

The corollary observation here is can we just stop acting like using AI tools is hard? Donald Trump can do it. That's literally where the bar is on whether using AI tools is hard.

In 2024, Democrats ran on the notion that Donald Trump posed an existential threat to the United States. If Democratic strategy going forward considers a Democrat pardoned by Donald Trump to be acceptable, then voters will question whether we *really* meant that. My view is this means we didn't.

I just want to be clear that between the two of us, *you* accused me of not being from the US. I respect your grandfather's service to this country, especially since he faced challenges returning home that my grandfather did not. A bot wouldn't say this to you. You have the last word. I'm done.

I'm tired of Democrats ill-equipped to deal with fascists, even while I'm more dreadfully tired of fascists themselves. That's my logic, and there's no contradiction in it, and you know it.

I'm listening to my grandfather's voice for the first time because I recently had 78 RPM records digitized. He died before I was born. Would you like to know what he was doing in the 1940s? Avoiding Nazi gunfire.

By the way, Hakeem Jeffries went out of his way to praise Donald Trump pardoning Henry Cuellar on national television. This should literally be treated as completely unacceptable opposition party messaging when your opponents are fascists.

Again, if future Democratic strategy views electing Democrats *pardoned* by Donald Trump as acceptable, then that's it for the Democratic Party brand, even while the Republican Party's brand is utter garbage.

US legacy media would just treat a Democratic President talking like this as a national scandal.

I absolutely, 100% stand by this point, even though the user who responded to this point blocked me. If you're uncomfortable with uncomfortable information, you are not equipped to stand up to fascists.

I'm going to have to remind people that Donald Trump tried to have his own Vice President murdered until the day that I die.