If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.

Why? What was the reason? The shutdown stunt didn't piss off enough people? Does it seem advisable to take away people's jobs, incomes, and healthcare and now their treats, too?

Erika Kirk has openly bragged that she is more far-right than Charlie was. She’s led Turning Point USA’s fascist trad wife conference for years and her speeches are filled with the same hateful venom as her husband. Really sick shit to boost this woman’s profile when TPUSA should rot into obscurity.

it’s gonna be super fucking cool to watch MSM further normalize this fascist organization as if they didn’t just help to generate literally thousands of death threats against some random teachers *checks notes* last week.

Normal people love being surprised every year by how much their medical insurance costs and whether the market is radically restructured. That's the kind of Russian roulette with five chambers loaded that they all voted for.

I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

"Pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lots" sure pack a whole lotta 'merica into a few words.

But are we going to get a string of the hottest women on the planet being inexplicably into Jimmy while he's oblivious about just how far out of his league he is?

“if we talk a lot about ICE and then win, we will be expected to do something about ICE. can’t have that!” this is setting up 2 years of dicking around with bipartisan healthcare legislation that goes nowhere. that’s the plan afaict

my strong suspicion is that dems believe they’ll coast to major gains in the midterms no matter what, and their awful posture right now on all the horrors is less about winning next november and more about what they’re rhetorically committed to do should they win

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

In which I sit and talk Nazi shit in a place that is not I Don't Speak German. @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social

This was a blast to record -- I'm sure we will collaborate more in the future.

remember that the LessWrong Rationalists got into the race science good and early - here's a pile of race science talking points from Yudkowsky with why James Watson was so unfairly maligned www.lesswrong.com/posts/faHbrH...

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

Man, I repeat: If art is a machine that generates empathy, AI generated art is a machine that generates apathy. It erodes trust and human connection. The entire point of it is to make solidarity impossible, because it becomes unimaginable.

In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him

Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

Tesla has total assets of 122 billion. It has total revenue of 97 billion. It has operating income of 7.1 billion. It has "market value" of one trillion based on, a lot of excitable and not accurate estimates about how the company will perform. It's in the process of losing the EV battle.

I have a new friend and I think she needs a name. Suggestions? Since I'm learning Spanish, bonus points for names in Spanish. (I got her from a shelter and she's currently called Kitana. I might keep that if I don't think of something else that I love.)

I’ve been trying to say this for a while, but I feel like no one is really listening to me who’s obsessively focused on the “groyper problem” at the expense of everything else. The issue with unhinged far-right streamers goes beyond Fuentes and the groypers. Things have been cooked for years.

They were like a quarter each when I was in college living tiny paycheck to tiny paycheck because no one was paying my rent but me and my student loans were always disbursed late and I could only work part time. You learn fast which foods actually make you feel as close to full as you can get.

You can tell someone’s never been poor when they don’t understand why a dense, reasonably filling, inexpensive high calorie snack is something people without much money (and especially ones that live in food deserts) buy often.

They pepper sprayed an infant. I think they should look for the skulls on their caps really soon.

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

The fact that he is the center of a public mainstream debate means he's already won

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

This time Russell really really means it, you guys! If regular evangelicals don't get the message he's going to wag his finger even harder

Friends, we did it. It's the big one. We finally got "literal murdering gangster is uneasy about Mamdani." Even @nytpitchbot.bsky.social could never.

A big difference between now and like 20 years ago is that conservative elites used to not stew in conservative propaganda for the rubes like Limbaugh and would mostly read relatively legit news sources like WSJ. Today it's all getting high on your own supply, all the time

Various Charlie Kirk properties have continued to play the (very racist) clip of Kirk whining about Mamdani eating biryani with his hands over and over again. If they're so proud of it, I think more people should know about it in the more rational places of the world.

Sometimes I think about doing a Matt Walsh episode of IDSG with @timescarcass.bsky.social but whenever I do I just feel like it's rage bait -- he's obviously begging people like me to froth about just how stupid he is, and I'd really just be playing his game. Fuck him anyway. (In the bad way.)

no way that when we find out what dude’s been into this whole time it doesn’t force us all to take a beat & reconceptualize evil. “a funnel, astroglide, fire ants, & a litter of kittens is a superfun tuesday” type shit. “i’ve been doing chattel slavery 2 but found a way to amp my metrics” shit.

Sounds good.

So many people and organizations are showing their asses on this one. Is it really so hard to say that maybe a guy who had a Nazi tattoo until last week and was a vicious Reddit shitposter for fifteen years maybe has some work to do before he gets to be a US Senator?

thank goodness the post avoided dirtying it's hands with partisan politics last election

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

According to a person familiar with jury lunches

Thread.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech

Going to time travel to 2003 and show this to people

This brought me to tears when I first saw it, and it just brought me to tears again.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam