Code Pink is a fucking op and they’re absolutely fine with imperialism, just not US imperialism.

not to get all conservative or anything as an inveterate homosexual stoner myself but the people in charge of American society are decadent, hedonistic demons motivated by their basest urges, their pettiest grievances, and their vilest bigotries

Commit this to memory: those who place themselves above the law's reach are beyond the law's protection

I opened Apple Maps and navigated to Costco and it just called the suicide hotline?

My broken record opinion on immigration is that everyone wants Biden/Obama policy and think that’s what Trump was going to give them.

Can anyone that thinks like this explain to me what fighting looks like?

The agreement to hold a vote on ACA subsidies is not a concession. It's worth literally nothing. It should be ignored when evaluating the merits of the deal

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

This is a bad deal for Americans. Voters turned out in record numbers last wk to elect Democrats believing they would fight for working families. We urge Senate Dems to vote NO on the reported GOP budget package, which fails to address the devastating health care crisis.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Our side was in the moral right, underlined by last week’s blowout elections, yet these senators caved. Just unbelievable. 40 days wasted. The suffering was for nothing.

They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.

I’m a firm believer that *dO soMeThinG* is stupid. Dems hold very little institutional power and elections have consequences *however* this is one of the few times they actually do have some power, and they just proved that they won’t use it, even when it’s working for them.

The 2024 election was not a binding referendum on American culture that everyone must accept and accommodate. Never was.

Wish I could’ve felt like this a year ago

I think Vance is quietly furious that he married his wife because he thought it would give him diversity points and now that he’s shifted grifts it counts against him.

I feel like the people of Maine can just get a leftist without a Nazi tattoo, it shouldn’t be that hard

There’s really been a quiet civil war in the GOP since Goldwater between that wing of the party and the sort of fiscally conservative/socially liberal country club wing of the party(think Bushes) that bubbled up with Reagan but got calmed down again before finally winning after 2012.

I’m not a chart guy but I think it’s probably stupid to assume Beshear or Shapiro are strong candidates because of how they perform in their BS metric here. Are these guys aware that KY is statistically very different from the US as a whole?

What’s even the point of this clarification? Does he want a performative throat clearing of the ACA about how awful it is before someone goes “and that’s why we shouldn’t let republicans make it worse” every time? People defend the ACA because it’s a huge improvement over what there was before.

I just need someone to tell me what they should be doing here to capitalize on the moment here. This isn’t even a defense of the leaders we do have on the Dem side, because I don’t think they’ve done a great job here. But what do you think they can do here?

Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into a position where the only political threat they face is an even further right lunatic primary-ing them, the general election is a foregone conclusion. The downside here is none of them are actually good at governing, because they don’t have to be.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

My opinion after 2016-2018 was that this is all very bad, but we can fix it. After ACB confirmation I thought things were significantly worse, but a strong push for court reform could turn things around.

Once again I’m trying to figure out if I’ve just come around on the idea of cashing out my 401k and living in a one room cabin off the grid because I’m going insane or if the world is actually getting to that point.

In case you’re being sincere it’s because republicans in congress have no plans that involve passing legislation that requires 60 votes in the senate and democratic plans do. If you want to show me a republican bill in P2025 that’s been passed go ahead, nearly all of it is done administratively.

At least if it’s smoldering wreckage it can’t kill anymore friendly troops, which is the thing it’s best at.

I’m not here to cheer this violence on because I think it’s horrific but I will never fucking vote for Gavin Newsom.

We’re closing in on a point where I simply stop participating in everything as a consumer. I’m just doing my outdoor hobbies, rewatching old movies, and reading old books.

Also at its most basic level the whole authoritarian project is a major policy point, and it’s bad. Whether you’re sure it’s a winner or not it’s definitely not a Glonzo thing, it’s very real and you should engage with it!

I feel like the actual dig here is that a guy that governs the state with Chicago in it is going to Dominos

This guy is threatening me with a good time

Gonna be honest here, I don’t think it’s true that COVID is the worst we’ll see in our lifetime at this point. Shits about to get *way* worse from a death and destruction scale

Everyday I get closer to the idea that I need to just cash out my 401k, sell most of my possessions, and build a cabin in the middle of nowhere while the world burns.

I want these guys to tell me what I should be doing about it then, because if elections aren’t a solution to this then theres only one other thing, and I don’t think they have the stomach for that. They just want to pat themselves on the back for being so much smarter.

Here’s the thing, my fears for the future aren’t that they’re going to somehow cancel the midterms or send ICE goons to pacify the streets. I think those are low probability of happening and almost no chance of actually working. My fear is that these are the people in charge.

This is central to my complaint about, well, everything. I’m not mad that Jeffries, Schumer, etc. are refusing to push the “stop fascism” button because it doesn’t exist. But right now the divide isn’t left/centrist, it’s fighter/not fighter.

Shout it from the rooftops! Also giving me destructible weapons is the quickest way to make me put a game down.

Another thing here, even if you think Clooney and all those other assholes were right about Joe needing to step down, remember that none of them wanted Harris. They wanted a more business friendly Democrat at the top of the ticket that wasn’t going to empower the NLRB and expand the safety net.

Hunter Biden on the dem party

what’s weird about this is he sounds exactly like his dad

One thing our current moment is providing us is an unfettered understanding of what politicians are hilariously unequipped to meet the moment. Buddy, we’ve been doing things your way for decades, it ain’t working.

Bro is MAD lol

I think there’s a couple political stances I’m willing to make electoral compromises on in the name of harm reduction. Trans rights aren’t one of those things. On just the facts, I think that’s enough reason. It’s basic human rights for other Americans.

Listen, I don’t think a lot of Dem pols are covering themselves in glory, but the reality of our situation is that voters put republicans in power, the one neat trick to stop fascism peacefully was voting and we couldn’t figure that one out. Now we’re in the next phase, which is really just violence

If these guys want to talk like they’re an occupying army they need to stop getting pissy when people treat them like one.

People accusing anyone who points out electing republicans has consequences of saying the victims deserved it is so tiresome If i thought the people he killed deserved to die then i would thank greg abbott instead of trying to make him hated

The fact that Cuban is funding someone in the race to say “both sides are the same” is part of the reason voters believe that lie.