I thought the whole “people literally think McConnell was *minority* leader during the Garland thing” bit was like, an exaggeration. Well, lol.

Notice how people that talk like this always speak in really vague generalities. Democrats aren’t “doing anything”. Doing what exactly? Great question. Republicans “jammed up the Democraric majority”. How? Great question.

The nadir of this redneck white knighting shit has to be acknowledging that rural voters have more power than urban ones and use that power to vote for fucking fascists and then still smol beaning them anyway.

Everyone’s righteously assmad that grandma can’t go live in some jury rigged piece of shit studio in the hollowed out corpse of a Wetzel’s Pretzels.

“I am a righteous moral absolutist”. “COME ON, THAT RAPE ONLY MEASURED 1.0 ON THE RAPETER SCALE AND HE ONLY DID IT ONCE, YOU FUCKING SHITLIB!”

A lot of Platner fans are gonna pretend that him being the type of guy who could easily receive credible rape accusations wasn’t part of his appeal to them.

It’s really stupid to negatively polarize yourself against the very concept of meaningful legal checks against executive power, actually.

If “generational-level talent” is too much for you, fine, but “Donald Trump is a world historic weak candidate and only an incompetent fuck up could lose to him” is a belief that should not have survived contact with any election since 2016.

The plan is to disenfranchise and fucking conquer them, like what they're trying to do to us. We will rule them or we will be ruled by them.

Well yeah, I do not want a part in any political movement that centers three-time Trump voters. Have fun, like, convincing hicks in Arkansas to be your comrades or whatever.

Wild how common the “Person who considers themself socially progressive accidentally reveals that they think non-white people don’t count as real Americans” trope is.

The rednecks are not helping you do the revolution, sis 💀.

“The Director of National Security used an assassination attempt on the president who would eventually nominate him to promote his grift: exploiting meme stock investors who believe their shitty stock moves will lead to an apocalyptic infinite money glitch” -A sentence that will soon be true.

If your first reaction to the Pulte news was “Oh, the mortgage guy”, you do not know the half of how insane the new *Director of National Security* actually is.

We can debate about the particulars of what the “Dem TEA Party” entails, but I think bare minimum we should be giving this energy back to the Republicans and tie them to every dumbfuck redneck and bible thumper stereotype every chance we get.

If you play with the butterfly effect map long enough, these two close elections from 2010 start looking like some of the most important elections of the last 20 years.

Country music here is a great metaphor for the South and Appalachia itself: Segments of the online left pretend that its monstrous 21st century self doesn’t count because you can associate it with long-dead people who happened to like labor unions as much as they and their descendants like guns.

At this point, fuck it. We’re in “let them enforce it” territory.

Remember: Don’t be mad at the Republican SCOTUS Justices for today’s ruling. Fight the real enemy: This guy who voted for Thomas and has been dead for 20 years.

The end result of this experiment is white progressives giving an endless series of “Ur scaring the hoes” talks to anyone who mentions trans rights, white privilege, etc. in front of their unreconstructed MAGAt comrades.

There’s many correct and high-minded reasons for why the Virginia gerrymander is just and fair, but honestly, “People who voted for Trump deserve to be punished” is both true and good enough for me.

The funny thing about this is it all started bc the GOP thought they could save the House and do so in a way without any repercussions and then the Libs knew ball and actually did the thing they couldn’t match.

I think if people opt out of vaccines they should also have to opt out of air travel. Walk there like nature intended, motherfucker.

Everyone who posted something like “Mamdani’s biggest fans are gonna hate him once he actually has to govern” is taking the biggest fucking L in the world. Dude just said “Pokémon Go to the polls” shit and people are clapping like seals.

@coons.senate.gov You can go fuck yourself for this. -a Delaware voter

I really enjoy how much of this site is someone posting some shit out of a Four Yorkshiremen routine, only they’re dead fucking serious and they want everyone who disagrees to kill themselves.

It’s actually pretty easy when you realize that there is no “I Care” medal coming for you, that you’re not a D1 Worrier About World Events, and that forcing yourself to wallow in anxiety and depression is not some valorous form of asceticism.

The Cletus Safari 2018 press was already kinda pushing it with their “We are the silence breakers who speak truth to power” routine, but the 2026 “Some experts say it might possibly be illegal to annex Canada” press doing it is a fucking joke.

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Every time this meme gets repeated, what the Democrats would allegedly be considered in Europe gets moved slightly to the right each time. Over the years, they’ve gone from centrists in Europe to center right in Europe to right wing in Europe and finally now it’s 💀EXTREME FAR RIGHT IN EUROPE💀

An incredible take that has stuck with me for six years is this one guy’s assertion on the night of the 2020 South Carolina primary that The Establishment™ letting red state Democrats vote is a ploy to stop progressives.

It turns out “Democrats suck” is a great pitch for Bluesky donation but maybe not for a Democratic Party primary

It sucks that someone who isn’t Daniel Biss, Laura Fine, or Kat Abughazaleh couldn’t have won this election. Absolutely incredible that there were three front runners in this clown car primary and all three of them came with their own unique (and unequal) forms of disqualifying bullshit.

First-generation Irish immigrants that survived the Potato Famine itself spent the US Civil War fighting for the CSA in the South and starting a deadly race riot in the North. Yes, there were Irish Union Soldiers. Wanna know what a bunch of them were up to a decade later during the Indian Wars?

nearly wrote a long explanation of why one can agree with the general sentiment "all art is political" or even the more ambitious "everything is political" while also thinking that the sense in which Crash Bandicoot is political is different from the sense in which the Communist Manifesto is

Simmons and Amiwala seem lovely.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Still pissed that Kat and her dickhead boyfriend saw Renee Good’s murder as the perfect catalyst to catch Biss in a blatantly dishonest “I think Coolsville sucks” trap and like half of this illiterate fucking website fell for it.

Man, this would be really lame to do if your whole schtick is being the most morally pure candidate for office who has ever lived, huh? What if we didn’t suck, right?

The “holier-than-thou about Gaza” routine doesn’t work if you’re also equivocating about a billionaire capitalist’s decision to deprive tens of thousands of poor children of food and healthcare within the hour.

Fuentes: Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a lib. This dumbass: What about side by side with a friend? Fuentes: *Thirty minute bigoted rant featuring every slur in the book.*

Every other Dem member of Congress right now.

i do not enjoy, as a person with OCD, the idea that i should be held accountable for my intrusive thoughts

So did Joanne just forget that different languages exist?

The dumbest people on Bluesky saw the Cheneys say “That J6 thing was so bad, I’m gonna vote for Harris” and hallucinated a campaign rally where Harris strangled an Iraqi child onstage, had Biden bomb Baghdad just for shits, and time traveled to 1999 to tell her past self to buy Halliburton stocks.

Who are the specific “serious contenders” that were honor-bound by the principles of Democracy that to run against Biden in 2024 and is there any answer to the question “Why didn’t you run?” that any of them could give that would shake off the smoke-filled-room electioneering accusations?

Dukakis was a painted as dangerously left of center in 1988 for opposing the death penalty and Clinton had to performatively execute a guy to bolster his centrist cred in 1992. In 2023, Josh Shapiro made a big show out of continuing PA’s DP pause and he’s still widely seen as a moderate squish.

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