It's a revanchist, retrograde, reactionary revolutionary coalition: Trump/MAGA, RFK Jr/MAHA, the adult revanchist Catholic converts, the white Christian supremacists, the ultra-high net worth guys. They used revolutionary warfare to capture the state & now use state power to achieve their goals. 1/

is there any colorable arg that we got *anything* out of this "plan"? Why would anyone believe any of this is anything but flailing?

lol but no kings is the one out of line. these traitor clowns are full chub for a king

a merry fuck sam alito to you

motherfucker the other team is trying to establish a thousand year reich and this is the plan? "you want to attend this webinar" is not doing it for me you piece of wet cardboard

finally found something to make me laugh and it's this I've watched this like 30 times in a row

fox news is for stupid people who don't know they're stupid

DeMocRaTs ShOuLd TonE DoWn thEiR RhetoRiC fuuuuuccckkk this piece of shit man. Nuremberg this mad king

politics in 2026 is opening the bunker door to ask "so what's this milkshake duck's opinion on expanding the supreme court?"

There's that old story about forest service guys who were trying, and failing, to make a bear-proof trash can -- "well, the problem is, the difference in intelligence between the smartest bear and the dumbest human is not very large." I think about that a lot these days

several generations of goo goo liberals whose politics were Sorkin a decade ago find themselves much closer to Sherman today, having seen the institutions they took for granted crumble under the weight of corrupt men (very much including the bitch ass losers at the nyt)

so this scene where Kramer sees how far he can drive a car on E is basically what we're doing with teh global gas tank, yeah? cool. cool cool

this shit is so insulting to the families of the victims of gun violence. fuck this guy

we were down bad earlier today ngl but the worm is turning, i can feel it. My kid just stubbed his toe and said "this is why we need a ballroom"

it actually is really funny that every time someone shoots at trump the Rs think it means that they're popular. Not sure I agree with them 100% on their police work tbh

do you hear it John Roberts? That's the sound of the circuit carriages readying for your travels

i know the maga guys are all down bad and really want their ballroom but it feels so silly that's what they're bleating about. No one cares man, they're just yelling to the void

lol overheard at breakfast "why does *everyone* keep failing?!"

urban meyer's kind of gal!

so he wants to treat an entire presidency as void? fascinating

lol it's like the onion American Voices section

Dunno if Iran is fractured or just wants the strait closed but those seem like the two possibilities and they both point in one direction (war) which the US may not have the pol/mil capability to effectively solve. Don got us into an expensive situation here, stock prices notwithstanding

“It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back.”

no clue on the merits here but I do have an inkling but it has the optics of a thing that, had Biden's DOJ done it to a conservative non-profit, would lead to them suing the federal govt for a nice payout during the Trump admin

i dislike ai apocalypse days on here

"For CEO of Verizon, a backlash on the horizon"

I think the thing that's frustrating to non-finance people is that markets don't care about the amount of physical oil bc they're playing the "will DJT juice the oil markets" game and the answer there is always yes. Like the strait's not open but he's def going to say there's a deal everyday

The formal reporting providing clear evidence that he's a fucking hack is good but what I really hope this does is further galvanize a hatred, a true angry disgust, of this court in Ds so for the next two generations we unflinchingly rip out Leonard Leo's baby, root and branch

i think underneath a lot of the tactical Qs for Ds is the strategic inevitability that when they get the prez and senate they're gonna have to fuck up the Court but good

Just seems like another instance of markets trusting that with Trump, it will work out. He'll taco or do whatever he has to to keep the markets from imploding. Which becomes this self-fulfilling prophecy. So until a hard shortage I guess this is the bet.

got to make an example of this guy

lmao yale law has read the catechism and HAS SOME THOUGHTS

the Catholic dads in the group chat have been negatively polarized and are now ready to fight for the pope

I finished Ben Lerner's Transcription, I think my favorite book I've read this year. He's always been an efficient novelist and here he packs many interesting ideas into a very short form. Obviously it's about the novel itself as a recordation "device" (a very loaded term in this book). 1/5

at the very least, re pardons, as a practical matter these people are not squeaky clean wrt criminality and i think it's unlikely the rest of their lives will hold up to investigative scrutiny. On top of all the other ways a D admin could immiserate them.

donald "wall of text" trump is juiceless af. The Iranians embargoed his juice

hold on, let her cook

so ... anthropic actually is a national security issue

trump is going to bomb Israel by the end of this

sorry to the haters, the new Ben Lerner novel is good

The Buc-cees Vatican.

Is someone at the *Pentagon* suggesting they're going to force the US Catholic church to elect an American Pope?

yeah, i don't really feel convinced the war is over

oh cool it's the strait's open again o'clock

boy Iran sure got ol' donny over [cool shades down, looks at camera] a barrel

They have no clue what they're doing. No strategy to fix the war. No theory to get right-footed politically.

My first mistake was turning on the Bad News Machine

batshit Rs do comms like a mean 4th grader would and it's always shockingly more effective than how Ds describe the same shit

John Williams is hte GOAT bc even when Spielberg was like I need you to make music for when this T-rex eats the family dog he was like "I got you Steve. Big emotional moment." Lunch pail mentality.