Favreau wrote speeches for the most talented politician and orator in a generation and thinks he’s a fucking Svengali.

The virgin Senate moderate versus the Chad House resistlib.

“This out gay man who was sixteen years old and living in Indiana when Matthew Shepard was murdered used to wish he could be straight. This proves that he is homophobic.” Do these people hear themselves?

This is the correct way to look at it. Half of GOP strategy is to depress Dem turnout.

Jill wants to make sure that poor families can’t eat in winter.

This is, quite clearly, a declarative statement, not a neutral ass position, and I have to wonder, do you just see the name Hakeem Jeffries, enter a fugue state and post the dumbest fucking thing you can?

Every Obama guy thinks that working for a once in a lifetime political talent makes them fucking geniuses.

The major sports leagues made half a billion dollars off of sports betting in 2024. Who fucking cares if two pitchers fucked with their pitch counts. As long as the leagues are going to make money off of gambling who gives a fuck if the players reap a tiny fraction of that benefit?

I don’t have anywhere else that I can say something like this so I’m going to do it here so I can get it out of my head. And the fact that it’s now hidden behind a rude tag makes it even easier to do since no one will see it.

I hate diving back into the Tattoo thing, but to me the tell was that his IMMEDIATE instinct upon talking about the tattoo on that podcast wasn't to apologize or express regret over it, but to basically roll his eyes & sigh exasperatedly about having to explain himself to "dismiss" a "silly" issue.

Well this is fun. Guess I’ll be deleting this app.

HOW IT'S DONE 🌊

Our party has room for Zohran and Abigail and Mikie and Gavin

Apropos of nothing, I haven't heard many mea culpas from people who were dooming about Sherrill. Also worth noting, Spanberger's margin of victory was significantly higher than Ralph Northam's in 2017 (15% to 9%), which was already considered a big deal for Dems and Very Bad News for the Trump GOP.

Neoliberalism is things that I find cringe

The venn diagram of people nervous about Zohran and people who didn’t vote for Harris is a circle, bc they assume that libs are as stupid as they are.

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

It's possible spending all your time mainlining an algorithmic feed of posts programmed by a drug-addled Nazi who is explicitly trying to influence election outcomes is a poor way to understand reality.

as someone who writes professionally about this, it's hard not to notice that the plumb jobs in media go almost exclusively to people who seem to very aggressively refuse to do that due diligence.

It’s amazing how people on this website can get their desired outcome and still manage to sound like such complete losers. Just black holes of charisma that scientists will study for generations.

The venn diagram of people nervous about Zohran and people who didn’t vote for Harris is a circle, bc they assume that libs are as stupid as they are.

Why do all the ladies love Jimmy Olsen so much?

Some really excellent stuff and some gooooooood awwwwwwwwful stuff

Not as satisfying as the day Limbaugh kicked, but still nice news to wake up to.

The quotes and responses to this entirely reasonable statement are all suggestions that we try new and novel strategies like creating the New Republic, Air America or MSNBC, or Crooked Media. Great ideas guys. Keep em coming.

Fondly thinking back ten years ago when a former leftie friend accused me of being a “partisan” for the Democrats, as an insult. May we all be partisans.

People who are always pissed about Dem messaging have no idea how messaging works.

I cannot wait until the provincial political squabbles of a city full of people who proudly never leave stop being 20% of the content on this app.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Astros fans being salty about a Dodgers World Series is ESPECIALLY funny bc if anything, the Astros cheating is what made the dodgers ownership be like fuck it. We’re going to spend on building a juggernaut so even if the other team is cheating we can’t lose.

It has been less than a decade since the Astros literally cheated to win a World Series.

The thing is, every MLB team is a multibillion dollar franchise of a league with revenue sharing, and the only reason that your team doesn’t spend on payroll is because you still give them your money and time even when they have a larger payroll than the dodgers and fail to make the playoffs.

People who don’t know shit about baseball have thoughts tonight.

I'm just the guy in the straight jacket in species II shouting "I told them not to let Drake near them!"

I appreciate that, despite the efforts of some to make the entire Mamdani conversation about “why isn’t the establishment supporting this ascendant politician LOUDER???” loser shit, Mamdani seems to be doing great and will hopefully win his election

I now want a version of Sam Seaborn’s “Cause it’s what’s next” speech about baseball.

This is just functionally untrue. If you force billionaires to liquidate the way that they pretend they have a billion dollars the stock market will actually function more healthily bc it won’t be held by the whims of fucking morons who’s daddies wrote them checks to get them out of their houses.

It’s a shame that Joe Stieb, who I like, blocked me for saying that the only position any elected member of the Democratic Party has taken is that trans people in sports should be a case by case basis, and arguing that the official party position is otherwise is amplifying Republican arguments.

Tom’s right. In the universe where the 70s, 90s, and aughts never happened democrats have only lost.

TIL this is what Dean Koontz looks like, and also that his Instagram captions reveal the heart of a shitposter

ASKING THAT A CANDIDATE NOT GET A NAZI TATTOO OR COVER IT WHEN YOU REALIZE IT IS A NAZI TATTOO IS NOT PERFECTION. I didn’t care about the old reddit posts, bc I don’t expect perfection. I looked past being a mercenary, bc I don’t expect perfection. “Don’t get a Nazi tattoo” is not unreasonable.

There’s a Clive cussler book where the villains trigger earthquakes by planting nukes on fault lines in the ocean, and this feels like that level of dumb.

My wife is a normie not very online dem and when I told her that this story was still going on she was flabbergasted.

It’s almost Halloween so I’m going to share my most firmly held Halloween belief, which is that Magenta is the sexiest person in Rocky Horror, and a Magenta costume is the sexiest costume. (Also just give the teens candy. It’s fine.)

the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,

Jesus Ohtani

The thing about this thread and all of its replies is that it doesn’t rebut the point without reaffirming that Dems are bad and out of touch, just in a different way. We have to stop ouroborosing ourselves.

Mike Johnson doesn’t need that weird app on his phone because he clearly gets off on being Donald Trump’s gimp.

My kid calls my wife’s cousins her aunts and uncles. This is a dumb thing for people to pretend to be mad about.

These aren’t even new or novel problems, they’ve been the same ones for 20 years. The ACA delivers sweeping improvements to healthcare and people rewarded Dems with historic losses in every election for the next 8 years.