The Republican strategy in 2024 was "we know Trump is a colossal piece of shit, but that's not as bad as being a really old guy," and the Democratic Party forcing him out reinforced to many people the idea that the stakes of electing Trump weren't all that high

Andy Serkis reads 10 CFR 50.69

Remember when people were saying “Biden ballwashers” all the time

Tolkien Thought of the Day, day 278: I always envisioned many Elf farmers who lived near Rivendell… Tolkien Thought of the Day, day 6,311: in my mind, Luthien had a BBL…

If in 2025 you think Trump flattering a Democrat in a photo op is a “significant policy concession” I’m not sure you have object permanence.

At the end of the day you either treat wanting Republicans to lose as an imperative or not and we’ve been drowning in generic accounts like hippo for years now who would die before ever being seen as a partisan invested in the materiel outcome of the non fascist party beating the fascists.

when musk took over twitter initially there wasn't a mass exodus because the existing state of it was so bad that it seemed like any damage he could do to it wouldn't really be noticeable. and when first wave of refugees went out, many were so toxic that a lot of others silently said 'good riddance'

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

Nobody's saying online posters have more accountability than elected Democrats. It's that they have *some* accountability, i.e., greater than zero, which adds up over many accounts, and the problem is that accounts with large followings like Internet Hippo seem to believe it is zero.

somebody should ask Grok who the top court eunuch of all time is, Elon Musk or Wei Zhongxian.

(Me, starving to death and sawing my leg off to escape a bear trap) Guy: look at this full throated supporter of body mutilation. A guy who enthusiastically cuts off peoples' limbs

Tired: "Bill Clinton was on the Epstein flight logs because he flew to the island to have sexual relations with underage girls" Wired: "Bill Clinton was on the Epstein flight logs because he flew to the island to have sexual relations with a fully-grown adult man"

My take on historical accuracy in games is that I don't care. If your game is set in Medieval England and you want to make the Commander of the Guard a queer black woman, that's fine. But if the game just has a bunch of white people then you can't really knock them for that either.

Call me a loser, sucker, wimp, whatever, but I guess I'm not cynical enough to think that prolonging a government shutdown because you think it hurts your political enemies is a good thing to do.

What I learned last night is that a critical mass of Bluesky posters thought the shutdown was some kind of magic undo button for the election

If you spent 2024 saying Trump and Democrats are equally bad, I’d like to see you maintain that today and at least show some intellectual consistency. But many who said that in 2024 are now acting very very concerned about Trump, which makes me suspect they knew better back then.

I can't bring myself to make fun of this, it's so quaint. Twee socialism. I fully support this guy's mission to build a society where you're constantly tripping over pharmacies.

My grandfather served in the US Navy as a BirthdayCakeSwain, 2nd Class

In 2024, a million people with a small but nonzero amount of influence on the left each decided that because they couldn't singlehandedly influence the election, they could say anything they wanted against Harris, and collectively that added up to Trump winning.

Respond with the same actor as a hero and a villain

Leftists are like "Mamdani has the same energy as Obama (the guy I hate with all my heart)!"

It’s 10:30 PM right now

The progressive approach to politics is "just overpromise and tell everyone you're going to do a bunch of big structural change and don't worry about whether you can actually do it" which, in my opinion, is much more insulting to voters than what normal Democrats do.

I'm pretty sure most of the things that are wrong with people can't be fixed by the Governor of Virginia.

So basically the origin of every shitty thing can be traced back to Donald Trump somehow?

Biden's approval rating sank as low as 35 percent. Trump is gleefully starving 42 million Americans, sending a fascist government $40 billion, overthrowing a country, and building a ballroom bunker while posting photos of his new bathroom. And his approval rating is 39 percent. Weird country.

"women can't be blue collar" ok then explain this

I looked back on the Facebook feeds of my Trump supporting relatives and it actually doesn’t seem like they were into marble walls and gold toilets before Trump

Are any of the candidates you’re running against in your own state afraid of you?

Is there a Mr. Rachel...

I don't feel bad at all for JD Vance's wife, she's a dead-eyed Yale striver who wants this as bad as him and made a conscious choice to put on the populism skinsuit. But I do feel kinda bad for his kids. No matter how insulated, imagine being a brown kid named Vivek and that being your dad.

Pregnancy baby size comparisons: 14 weeks: pear 15 weeks: avocado 16 weeks: onion 17 weeks: big onion 18 weeks: huge onion 19 weeks: huge honkin onion 20 weeks: 2018 North Carolina State Fair 1st Place Onion

You know, in hindsight it shouldn't have surprised me that Trump would eventually end up shouting "DO SOMETHING" at Chuck Schumer just like every other terminally online moron does, but it did

Could it be possible that Klein and Schumer arrived at the same conclusion independently? Nope apparently Schumer is so hapless he can only do good when the NYT tells him to

19 junk calls in 24 hours. The scam era is back

Palisades update: they're coping over there

Everyone in my office shit a brick when we saw this on the NRC daily report

Barbara Divest (anti-Semitic scam account)

This is reprehensible behavior to have at a wedding

(Biden builds the pier) This man has nothing but evil in his heart, there is no other way to explain this (Guy has a Nazi tattoo) whoa whoa whoa let’s not jump to conclusions here

I finally beat Baldur’s Gate 3, thinking about what to play next, and an insane kernel in my brain keeps whispering “start another BG3 campaign”

Holy shit

This is the only non-problematic skull tattoo you can get

I hold Popper’s view that Theories of History are mostly stupid

Southpoint Mall in Durham is probably the only mall I’ve seen that isn’t in decline, maybe even getting better

Hasan defenders are like “Kaya has orthroangic migliotis and the medicine she takes requires her left foot to rest on a 2.3 Mohs scale mat at least 7 hours a day or she gets laryngitis”

I'll give it a few weeks, maybe a couple months at most, before this becomes the dumbest magazine cover of all time

“Brewers chasing complexity are losing the people who just want something cold, crisp and repeatable” every brewery that makes North Coast Hazy Vanilla Imperial Mouthfighter also makes a nice lager that doesn’t sell because every other brewery also makes that lager

The Trump ceasefire deal is the Biden ceasefire deal Trump begged Bibi not to accept in 2024 because it would've hurt Trump's chances of winning the election and I wish this was the first time a GOP candidate for president won by meddling in American foreign policy. See: Nixon '68 and Reagan '80.