It was never off the table.

The voting age should be lowered to 16, and the moral case for this will be based on Donald Trump's crimes against young girls. The Epstein files are going to make abundantly clear that so many adults are abysmal moral failures. So 16-year-olds having the right to vote is how we sort things out.

Republicans control every branch of the federal government, and there was still a government shutdown.

Republicans are more fixated on New York City having a Muslim mayor than Donald Trump cordially meeting the Syrian President in the White House, who has a personal history of fighting for Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

There are conservative Redditors just saying that they don't care.

There's a significant chance of F-18 Super Hornets being deployed from the USS Gerald R Ford against Venezuelan military assets... as part of Donald Trump's meltdown.

Marjorie Taylor Greene voted to overturn the 2020 US presidential election results in line with Donald Trump's attempted coup. She's an abuser of the US electorate.

You're not going to like this observation, but this is literally how most mainstream media people behave around Donald Trump.

Your reminder that the media went to bat for Donald Trump over the Epstein files less than two weeks ago.

She'll have no problem with Donald Trump bombing Venezuela to change the headlines.

The Syrian President has a personal history of participating in conflicts with American military personnel (look this information up), but based on Donald Trump's interactions with him, you'd never know it.

Guy with the beard who makes Hegseth feel the most insecure.

Elon Musk’s AI praised Adolf Hitler over the summer. X as a social media platform is effectively Nazi territory. If you (not directed at Asha personally) still feel comfortable posting on a Nazi social media platform, you’d feel comfortable in Nazi social spaces in Germany in the 1930s/40s.

However you feel about the decision certain Democrats made to pressure Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race: if our track record is forcing Joe Biden to drop out for a bad debate but we *keep* Chuck Schumer in party leadership after he couldn't control his caucus, that is BEYOND FUCKED.

The next "No Kings" rally needs to make clear "We mean this motherfucker too."

I'd argue Durbin is "WTF?" because he voted for final passage of the ACA. No other Democratic Senator here was around for that vote.

I cannot stress enough how bad it will look if Democrats did not go all in on fighting for health care subsidies following a Democratic election sweep while Donald Trump used a government shutdown to plan a bailout for ARGENTINA to the tune of billions of dollars.

This was written before Election Day too. If any elected Democrat helps bail out Donald Trump after voter repudiation of the Republican Party was unassailably clear, that’s unambiguous political malpractice.

Republicans seriously went all-in on being anti-trans as a political strategy to build a coalition that wins elections, it didn't work, and there are Republicans who... are just going to run that playbook again and hope it works the next time. Remind me what the definition of insanity is again.

For those who want a genuine explanation of what this means: he wants to prioritize the speed of weapon system reviews, production, and delivery. This *will* inherently come at the expense of performance (i.e. increase operational risk). He's lying when he says this will decrease operational risk.

No matter what the end game for her "rehabilitation" tour is, Marjorie Taylor Greene voted to overturn the results of 2020 US presidential election, that vote was a direct assault on our democracy, and that has to follow her around forever.

The GOP's entire political brand is white identity politics. The people who have discouraged Democrats from engaging in identity politics aren't doing that because they're afraid Democrats who embrace identity politics will lose. They're afraid Democrats who embrace identity politics will win.

The dumbest prediction, quite possibly in all of human history, was the belief that Donald Trump would be anti-war. Because it's a prediction that entailed believing that Donald Trump is capable and willing to exercise restraint when there's a mountain of evidence that suggests otherwise.

Contrast this with Barack Obama's approach to Mamdani, who recognizes his potential and wants to work with him going forward. This should not be outlier behavior among party establishment operatives, but it apparently is.

My only contribution to this issue if this scenario happened with a Democratic politician, it would be treated as a scandal and media people would have the audacity to ask “Yo, how does your wife feel about this?!”

I honestly think Donald Trump is on track to commit more abuses against the American citizenry than the abuses that caused us to fight a war of independence against a British King, which should put into perspective how insane Matt's position is.

I agree with this. My corollary observation is that social media cemented this trajectory. It gave ordinary people the means to cement their own platforms and bypass media gatekeepers. Social media, as it pertains to news stories, is one gigantic comments section.

Donald Trump has no plan on leaving. He believes he got everything he needed from the people that got him elected, and he doesn't need them anymore. If he's right, and we as a society allow it, then mass suffering while he's turning the White House into his palace has no political downside.

Donald Trump has threatened to acquire Canada and Greenland, he's using the military and ICE to lay siege to US cities, and he believes he's owed money from the DOJ (i.e. the American taxpayers), and yet there's no punditry about how any of this might hurt Congressional Republicans' chances.

This is absolutely correct, and nevertheless the media's behavior towards elected Democrats in interviews will be exactly "Just exactly what are you going to do validate Donald Trump's Republican Party to keep the government open? This is your fault."

You never see this kind of thinking in Republican circles. Their entire voting identity is ensuring that Democrats lose... they don't take time off from this focus.

Democratic leadership and members of the New York Democratic Party should denounce this rhetoric. This is completely unacceptable.

My only contribution to this debate is that we discarded our original Democratic nominee for president because of his age. And yet there's an ongoing discourse over what to do about a Democratic candidate with a Nazi tattoo. That's depressing, but certainly clarifying.

Donald Trump's approach to blue states exists on a spectrum between "Blue states don't get disaster relief" and "Blue states are going to be invaded", and Democratic Senators from blue states are still voting for his nominees.

Not only this is a fiction, there will never be an equivalent moment where Donald Trump says "Bernie's doing a good job on X issue." It's much more likely that Donald Trump will eventually call for Bernie Sanders to be arrested by federal officers.

Yep. Not a senior, but taking care of a senior parent. This is a very standard cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) notice.

It helped that the Nazis established themselves as the only legal political party in Germany in 1933.

We need to make the next July 4th a No Kings event—because technically that's what it already is—and make Republicans dread the coming of that holiday going forward for as long as America continues to exist.