My girlfriend just showed me the Latin Catholic Boondock Saints bit from King of the Hill and I'm fucking dying.

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

In terms of scale and impact the only example on the Democratic side would be if Joe Biden had entered office and immediately said something like “Ha! Suckers! I was lying, I’m nationalizing all the banks and hospitals!”

I understand why people are upset the media was so easily suckered by this. It’s infuriating! But that’s not really the point now. The point is that Trump lied and said he wouldn’t do this incredibly, comically unpopular thing that would transform America forever - and then IMMEDIATELY did it!

Also, part of why this framing is important is that US political media is incredibly reluctant to make values judgements about policies, but very willing to attack dishonesty and hypocrisy - which is theoretically value-free - and this is the most extraordinary political dishonesty in US history.

she looks so polite

"Don't attack people when they're doing religion" is generally considered to be one of those baseline moral intuitions that are so obvious you're meant to check your other work by it.

it's october, time to post my internet claim to fame again

This sounds like an excellent reason to fire Russ Vought.

Some privacy please?😤

Great moments in integralist history

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you That is not, in fact, what ICE does He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

its the fifth time this week.

unawares shopping trip

stockmouse syndrome

Sallie May from Helluva Boss!

Just make sure all these quotes get entered into evidence later.

yeah, the hypnotist is scary, but i'm a princess, and princesses can't be hypnotized!

I’m genuinely interested in people who alter their political views because it is unusual. Sometimes it involves real discovery and sometimes it reflects that you had no deep underlying principles to start with.

WEIRD (trans lady) TRANSITION TIPS -learn your star sign. people expect women to know this -learn to do your brows. shit’s like free ffs -if other women who are strangers (cashiers, waiters, etc) say to “take care” they see you as one of them

Homeland Security for whom, exactly?

Trump: we will do project 2025 Harris: he will do project 2025 Public: oh that’s bad Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it Harris: he’s still gonna do it Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

Wild how China has caught so much flak for the existence of covid, meanwhile the US is doing all it can to spread measles deaths across the globe and we're just supposed to shrug and look the other way. I can't imagine why that is

"the party that wins control of congress should get to enact its agenda, for good or for ill" is a reasonable statement! Hell, maybe if people weren't so confident that all R malfeasance would be filibustered they'd take voting against them more seriously

I like and respect Eric. This is not a dunk at all. The counterargument is that without the filibuster, Democrats could have passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. They also could have restored abortion rights after Dobbs and done other important things, and Biden might not have been as unpopular.

Manchin and Sinema refusing to let go of the filibuster is approximately 40% of why we're in this fucking mess.

fundamentally do think the filibuster has broken the minds of congress, media, and voters because voters elect governments do to do [x] and then [x] does not happen, so the voters now believe that political programmes are fake (except for the things they like)

an important dynamic in 2024 was voters saying "oh well he won't actually do the things that he promised to do" because for like four cycles in a row presidents have been elected to make sweeping changes and have basically fizzled

Trump's core demographic is in fact white small business owners who haven't gone to college. they are anxious capitalists, not working class.

the revolutions of 1820, 1830, and 1848 etc. also the US civil war was really in this same vein imo.

in this telling, the history of the liberal revolution started with the storming of bastille and ended with waterloo. it does not consider the rest of of the 19th century which was a constant struggle against monarchism and the european caste system.

one thing i think which informs ezra klein / derek thompson thought is this notion that liberalism won the war of ideas with facts and logic and not like a century and a half of intermittent warfare against the ancien regime(s).

doodle

#bonktober69 Day 2: Tentacles! Who else could it be but Cass and the Xenobiologist

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America 2025: The ideal man is a ruthless killing machine with a Jesus tattoo and rippling pectorals. The ideal woman is a teen-coded AI heroine who is canonically a virgin. bsky.app/profile/laur...

The GOP did lose 152 House Seats, 20 Senators, and 22 Governors between 1930 and 1932 elections. A slide of Hoover’s magnitude would see the GOP lose every GOP Senate seat up in 2026 save West Virginia and Wyoming. They don’t have that much to give.

worth remembering that hoover's administration was defined by 4 years of economic chaos, suffering, dislocation, and fear. People genuinely believed the country itself was on the verge of irreversible collapse. He still got 40% of the vote.

Yeah, or like the existence of some problems everywhere means everywhere is equally problematic. “Yeah, it’s true that you have a 95% chance of experiencing transphobia in rural Mississippi, but you have a 5% chance of experiencing it in western Mass., so what’s the difference?“ Uh…. 90%?

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

I was told on here recently that we would just have to get used to sports betting and honestly i dont think thats true

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

They truly believe that if they can control the media, education, science, health, and the military, they'll control it all and stamp out dissent. If they read US history, they'd know we've been here before... and it led to mass movements and social change that shook this country and the world.

Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.

feels like there's a widespread reluctance to admit that trump is *stunningly* unpopular