Virgin Donald can’t consolidate regime even among elites, Chad Gavin handed mandate from public to consolidate party power and marginalize rural conservative subhumans.

My most unconventional belief is that people are irrationally scared of debt. $20k is like $300 per mont over 10 years. (my payments). That’s fucking nothing. thing is barely anyone takes out that much except doctors. $100k debt is a bad idea even if you went to FAANG straight out of college

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This is deeply pathetic and wrong for the moment. Amazing that another septuagenarian dinosaur actually said this on record.

Also could be selection bias. If 40 years ago only A and some B students went to college, and today we have A B and some C all go to college that lowers the quality for both degrees and diplomas.

Remember, these people want to dismantle democracy and roll us back to the 1950's but they can't even cancel Kimmel.

Their odious savvy logic is also bad math. They say Dems need to reach out to bigots to improve their numbers, without apparently understanding how that would drain support from the larger progressive base. The lack of principles they advocate will actually hurt Dem chances overall. It’s nuts.

Both Joe Biden & Kamala paid dearly, politically, when Biden tried convincing voters they were doing well economically when they didn’t feel that way. 70% of Americans say their prices have gone up under Trump, while he brags about his economy. MAGA sure better pay a price.

The media loves to focus on the conservative blue-collar man who is a Trump voter in a diner somewhere. Of course they ignore the fact that from census data, the average American is a ~30 year old woman in California with a few years of college education. But she doesn’t count as real America”

Once a union or factory job was supposed to be a sure shot to the middle class. Then it was a college degree. Until two years ago, it was a college degree in the right major. The problem with capitalism is there will never ever be a sure path to a comfortable middle class life that lasts for long.

It rocks that Starmer's strategy has failed so utterly that centrist Americans have to pretend he doesn't exist because he would completely refute their position.

This is why I keep saying our first fight is with the Democrats. It doesn't matter if we get in the cockpit of America again if nobody knows how to fly.

I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour

I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

The right does not get its actions have created a self fulfilling prophecy: Dark Woke.

I never wanted to be one of the good ones. I wanted us to keep our rights.

I sense parallels between Biden’s Ukraine strategy and the failed prosecution of Trump.

What is it with the UK producing gibberish transphobia but feels the need to make it left wing. This alleged Marxist feminist per her bio would be told by Marx 1) stop being bioessentialist 2) stop being weird.

The solution to MAGA degeneracy like this is public caning

what if i was never a top, but a temporarily embarrassed bottom, waiting for surgery?

Because liberals aren’t willing to take their own side in a debate. If I were a law school dean I would absolutely kick them off campus and instruct faculty that fedsoc affiliation was contrary to character and fitness requirements for bar accession.

This is such hilariously bad messaging.

X isn’t real life dumbass

From a while back but... evergreen

Another hard shift at the blow job factory

Avg swing in specials to Congress is 17 pts left since 2024. But bc they've been so low-turnout, the data b4 last night suggested a 100% turnout (relative to the past midterm) special would have swung closer to 6-7 points. So TN-7 (13 pts) is updating priors about the share of swing that's turnout

lol Kumbaya liberalism is reserved exclusively for other kumbaya libs. For everyone else, power politics.

Again, Trump is less than a year into his second presidency. There are no signs the economy is getting better, health care premiums are about to double or triple for 24 million people, he is unpopular ON IMMIGRATION now. At a certain point, presidential popularity hits a point of no return.

"Everyone is either an agricultural worker, a tradesman or a small shop owner" is the profile of the poorest countries on this planet.

This is an important point. Ask a "go to trade school" person if that's their hope/plan for *their* kids? The trades people I knew growing up told me to go to college to get a job where I could make more$, sit comfortably, work in the air conditioning, enjoy year-round employment...

There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic Party, and there is only one working class paper, the financial times

Tbh I’m kinda shocked by how many people on this website somehow don’t know what a Brony is is that..a good thing? a bad thing? I am genuinely undecided

We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.

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there is no response to Tom Cotton other than “you are a fascist and war criminal and we are going to dedicate our lives to punishing you for that” There is no need to argue facts with him. he’s a liar

Portland and Seattle are the same thing right? Like how sometimes you call someone by their middle name?

The actual legacy IP product that I want is a show set in The Matrix about a ship that does not contain the one, does none of the prophecy shit. Just an ordinary ship of the line, doing its part to wage a lonely war in two realities against the machines.

But these guys have no interest in harnessing the progressive energy, they want it stifled. So they won't do that. They'll just endlessly complain.

Then why didn't they stop THIS election

If Dems are competitive in a ruby red district in Tennessee and the response is anything but damn this Trump shit is unpopular I don’t know what to tell you

tonight is a great preview not just for the blue wave but as a test of just how deeply rotten, unresponsive, and hateful an immutable political minority has become in this country

longing once again for a world where more people are capable of grasping complex and inscrutable concepts like “it’s still really really good for Democrats if they *lose* by a much smaller margin than expected in Tennessee”

My latest newsletter is about how centrist pundits got the lessons of the 2024 election wrong, and how the politics of 2025 exposed them.

RESULT: James Solomon will be the next mayor of Jersey City. Solomon, running on a more progressive lane with WFP support, has easily defeated the establishment candidate Jim McGreevey, the former governor who resigned in scandal two decades ago.

Putting the trans in transit

I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.