American polling data always has me feeling this way.

MLB is crazy cause everyone is d riding the dodgers when they’ve played the worst of the worst teams in the mlb thus far this season. Like I don’t think they will play a team above .500 for a like another month.

news media — particularly politics — is about at the poorest state i can ever remember, but rural and cosmopolitan americans have more equal access to that news than at any other point in history, and it is not unreasonable to draw inferences about what each believe based on what they watch and read

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left? no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

Outside of FDR and LBJ, Dems generally got roflstomped Now every presidential election is within our grasp and competitive. This is a completely new phenomena

I’ve seen people say “2024 was an election disaster for Dems” Like bro you know we record election results and they can be looked up at any time? Post 1992 Dems had been very competitive. Go look at elections from the civil war to 1992 Dems handily lost a majority of those elections.

There is a saying: a lot of folks would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. It’s same logic applies to politics. Republicans would rather rule over a poor/shit hole country than be a member of a rich and powerful multiracial democracy

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

I love this man so much I might be gay

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

My weakness is the SCOTUS and I’ve had to just ignore it for my own mental health. I am a doomer about it and don’t think Dems will fix it (but I want to believe they will). I just scroll by and know that the smart people here have an eye on it for me.

The NJ11 analysis is annoying. I don’t like the “she underperformed relative to a moderate” discourse because it presupposes Dems need to run up the score in specials. The generic ballot isn’t moving up an addition two points for Dems if we had just overperformed by 25 instead of 13

I’m like 90% convinced that planter is winning because mills has bad political instincts. She could hold unpopular opinions and be decisive about it. Waffling is just not a good look Planter just too far ahead and the whole “he’s a Nazi” isn’t working on dumbass Maine voters.

My mom and MAGA have something in common

Dude is single handily gonna create a revival in the southern Dems if he keeps this stuff up

Johnson just sucks. I get it, he was a consensus speaker who is good at making friends with the WH. Thats about it. The actual job of getting votes is all but lost on him.

The whole “a moderate would have done better” in NJ11 is kinda cope You could say this about a ton of races. The real news in my opinion is that a candidate won by a huge number that was specifically anti Israel. There is definitely a sea change for support of Israel

My favorite type of dem

Pope legit don’t care about Trump.

While I agree with accountability being the major thing we have to do in 2029, I don’t see that occurring under the current count system we have. GOP justices have decided that accountability doesn’t apply to them. I’m not trying to doom about it. Hoping that it changes and Dems catch on

Leftists should never be taken seriously

Trump never cared about pricing or economy. Dude just said whatever to win. The fact the media chose to fall for it, is a completely different conversation.

Democrats have likely ousted the Republican mayor of Whittier, a California city of nearly 90,000 (within Los Angeles County).

Voting for Trump litterally had no benefits unless you hated America. Crazy so many people fell for it again. Completely society wide dumbassness

Can we just admit that, despite what he says, JD Vance isn't actually Catholic?

AOC criticizes the fact that it took Swalwell’s resignation to trigger Gonzales’s: “what changed today, that he gets to resign today, as opposed to last week, two weeks ago, three weeks ago? and the difference was that they were waiting on some political horse trade of a number.

And stocks keep increasing. Yet another piece of evidence that the markets don’t reflect reality

The GOP struggle on that last point. They are strong at manipulating media environments and getting folks to trust their dumbass economic agenda but are doing really really bad with getting their voters out

Trump winning in 2024 was basically low info voters being mad about prices plus the media downplaying the negatives of Trump plus Trump able to bring out low propensity voters

It’s gonna feel so good to watch this guy lose. He thinks he is so cleaver and so smart.

You don’t hate the political press enough

genuinely think that "it's now very easy to see how rich people live every single day of your life by just being on your phone" feels so boring as an answer to the below that no one really wants to acknowledge it but also: what if that's just what it is

he won because the marginal voter thought he would make them economically secure, if not rich. he *thinks* he won because of anti-trans bigotry. he has spent his time in office ignoring the concerns of the marginal voter and focusing on the preoccupations of ideologues.

Useless movement

This is like heroin to me

As much as I want Iowa to be competitive I don’t think it will be. Probably be within 10 maybe even 5 but I am not getting my hopes up

This was the most foreseeable thing ever btw

According to Cooks political report NC and GA are lean D and ME is a tossup… Is it the 80’s again?

Cook Political Report ratings changes: #NCSen: Toss-up to Lean D #GASen: Toss-up to Lean D #OHSen: Lean R to Toss-up #NESEN: Solid R to Likely R www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...

This just really highlights the need for the US to have experts running the show. Populism is a failed ideology and is leading to much worse outcomes. No other president (even GW) would have been this severally outmatched.

In this Ohio diner, Ottoman Empire is still the place JD Vance shops when he’s horny. But they do know this: Hungary’s Viktor Orban only lost his election because millions of illegals were bussed in to vote.

Press just straight up creating a fantasy world like the mCU or something

There was a whole group of people who defended the press for their nonstop age articles about Biden. Not a peep out of these same people about the presses refusal to cover trump messages and blasphemous posts

Another day, another completely shocking thing that would end any other presidents tenure that news media will largely shrug at bc Trump is their special birthday boy

GOP being upset about metro Atlanta moving left in 2024 is giving me life. We are sick and tired of these republicans (party was founded in the north) running this state. We want our own southern way of life represented!

idk if something similar happened to Kamala as VP im pretty sure the reactions wouldn’t be “well really what could she do”

If it were Harris who had two high profile failures like this in a single weekend, theyd be declaring her political future dead in the water. Instead Vance is getting the "gosh, what can he do?" treatment bc they like Republicans and want them to win.

I cannot wait to absolutely wreck Trumps shit in November

Why would Iran relinquish control of a strait the US can’t take from it or a nuclear program the US can’t stop? Iran has INCREASED its demands from before the war, because we’ve proven we are incapable of defeating the country in the ways we care about. Maybe the greatest US humiliation in history.

There is no easy fix to this. Trump admin has neither the intelligence nor the attention span to fix this. My guess is either Trump will completely cede everything to Iran or we will have to wait for a Dem president to take power and fix it