/5 We’re now in a struggle against frank evil, unapologetic bigotry and hostility to the Other, testing whether these values can endure. The values and attitudes of the show are encouraging about prevailing.

The President trusted a fart and it betrayed him JUST LIKE HE BETRAYED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RT AND FOLLOW IF YOU AGREE

the evolution was Twitter. You needed a mechanism to link together the scum of the earth in the forums and the most powerful people in the world. Twitter became that mechanism

Real life is a lot like Star Trek, there's never more than twenty people on the plant at once, tops.

how!! are there only!! precisely!!! sixteen men who have defined!!!! everything about the world!!!!! for the last twenty years!!!!!!

I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

The anger people have at media institutions and college administrators can’t be detached from this, it’s not just that people can perceive cowardice it’s that they see others with more on the line doing more to stand up for their values than the people who have been trusted to safeguard things

History is made by people who do things, not people who deliberate interminably over the risks of doing things, and that’s why Trump is making terrible history while every prominent Dem of our era will soon be forgotten as irrelevant trivia.

I am molten with rage that the land of the free has become home of the Okhrana disappearing people off the streets for not having their papers.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.

the real problem, though, is why are people like you and me so mean and disrespectful to Trump and co

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy

I will never stop wanting to beat Oliver Cromwell to death with my hands

Drained pool politics, but the pool is the US Constitution, facts, etc.

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

“The President is a Deranged Bloodthirsty Lunatic” is I think a pretty obvious factual statement and yet our media covers him like “Trump says (insane thing) signaling (something that sounds kinda normal)”

"[W]hen we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." -Common Sense, Thomas Paine

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

We are surrounded by liberals who truly believe fascist narratives about their weakness and unpopularity.

I don't think you can truly grapple with where we are, and how we come back from it, without recognizing this is not a constitutionally legitimate government and he is not the lawful president of the United States.

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

In this Ohio diner, recidivism is a fake word they put on the ACT to make OSU's best football recruits "academically ineligible." But they do know this: The fact that so many pardoned J6-ers have been rearrested for other crimes is proof of woke police bias against patriots.

You can’t even say that in olden days we were sewn butt-to-butt with someone of our preferred gender — we’d go about by doing cartwheels — , but Forces conspired to split us up!!!!

Trump is insane. His inner circle is insane. They want to burn the world so they can loot everyone else’s wealth, feel like big tough guys, and hurt all the groups they despise. But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.

Jan. 6 was widely condemned at the time, recognized as a violent attack on America. Trump clearly caused it by lying about the election to attempt a coup. Within a year, Trump, GOP politicians and right-wing media flipped Republicans to neutral/positive, rendering it another muddy partisan dispute.

this is BONKERS

Of course this is utterly anathema to any kind of free republic If the government is by and for the People, then the People simply must know what their government is doing and why

We have to impeach him.

Not that it wasn’t clear before, but launching a major war out of the blue with zero real effort to build public support and absolutely no approval from Congress demonstrates how much Trump perceives himself as a pure dictator

this blood isn’t for oil. it’s just for nothing. nothing but toxic masculinity and fragile egos destroying lives for their gratification. we will hold them accountable.

finally, a Good Omen.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

When you read one book about a subject, you know a thing When you read a second book on same topic, you don't know a thing, because you don't know which is correct Knowledge comes from never opening the second book

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

the voters are mad that Donald Trump did things both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump said he would do, and that makes it hard to muster a ton of sympathy for them over it

Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."

What we need is a new constituent act by the People Wherein we say, as a matter of pure present-tense sovereign will, "these are to be our governing institutions"

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Have you checked to make sure you're not currently a ghost?

This is the fundamental question of the year, isn't it? If an idea that was once taboo has become normalized, do you have a right to continue to treat it and its adherents with moral repugnance, or are you obliged to bow to the shifting bounds of public opinion?

children used to be able to work in mines and metal foundries because we let them drink beer and smoke cigarettes at age nine. but child labor just isn’t viable now that most kids are teetotalers

Setting aside the perpetual confusion about who was president when, Trump wasn't banned by social media platforms because of political bias or to "censor" him. It was because he directly used their services to incite actual deadly violence. He committed literal violent crimes using their websites.

Is “TPOT Dome” anything?

A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”