Not going to single out any one offender, but if the Left keeps using AI like this, we lose any moral standing to criticize the right when they do worse. Please tell creators you follow to stop this idiocy. It’s not how we win. We just look as morally bankrupt as they are.

LISTEN ⏵ I’d like to expand on what I just said in private. We all need to stop thinking there is even a shred of a chance that this GOP is not going to hurt people. They WANT to hurt people. They WANT to crush the ACA. They WANT to crush SNAP. Just as they wanted to crush the federal …

Huh? If that’s your measure of success for every move we make in the right direction, you’re going to be very disappointed for a very long long time. It’s like refusing to celebrate a victory in battle simply because the war hasn’t ended yet.

Lawrence convinced me!

So, didn’t believe me that the shut down finale was a win, despite the typical (and usually wrong) mass-hysteria? If @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com didn’t convince you, maybe @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social can? thecycle.substack.com...

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Heard enough hot takes on those “feckless Senate cowards?” Try this one from @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com. Spoiler: They got a lot more than the media or most of the Dem bashers have bothered to understand.

They knew they wouldn’t have to rule, but could have lifted the freeze and looked like saviors. But nah, they won’t anger the boss. So much for “the courts would have saved SNAP” arguments. SCOTUS extends temporary pause on SNAP.

The only people who didn’t see the country evenly divided on this issue were influencers on on Threads, Twitter & Bluesky. All you had to do was step out in the street and speak to people to know that much of the conventional wisdom was total bullshit. bsky.app/profile/pith...

As I expected, this poll shreds much of the conventional wisdom about the shut down (and “deal:). Especially the myth that the country was lining up behind the shutdown. Spoiler: it wasn’t. How Americans are responding to the government shutdown today.yougov.com/poli...

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Because we just didn’t have much evidence of that :)

HAHAHA. Now THAT’s funny. (And yet, also not funny at all).

I wish I could offer comfort, but I can’t. We have a few tools of opposition, such as Indivisible, but they have meager funding as compared to the right, and operate independently of almost anyone else. There’s little consensus driving their actions. bsky.app/profile/vora...

I’ve said it before, but each week I gain more experience with AI and am increasingly certain that if I had AI in college, or in my early career, my life would have turned out very differently. It seems that in Asia, and may places other than America, young people are already figuring this out. …

We’re killing us. And we’ve been killing us since we stopped regulating business when Reagan was in office. AI is just the next wave of automation threat we’ve been facing for 200 years. The good news is that it’s also a tool that can help us solve some of these problems, bsky.app/profile/dman...

Now read something like 9 different hot takes on why the Dems made an “obviously” stupid mistake by “caving” over the shutdown. But each of them has a very different rationale. How can it be such an “obvious” unforced error if no two analysts even agree on its fundamentals?

The Left has just become so predictable and the Right knows it. They understand our weak narratives even before we voice them. Their marching orders come from a tiny group with Trump always aware of them. Ours are cobbled together by many disparate actors, only a few of whom even talk to each …

It’s common to hear people say “you can’t trust AI.” And while sometimes, true, it’s not always true. A good rule of thumb is to remember that you can’t trust the first result. Learn how to instruct the agent in how to police itself and be skeptical of its own output. You’ll find it’s actually …

I can’t imagine even 8 years ago, the American media ignoring the idea that Steve Bannon and other Trumpers are running around basically insisting that Trump will serve a third term. I mean WTF? Doesn’t anyone want to know why they seem so confident about that? JFC.

Everyone constantly expressing only contempt for those “feckless Dems,” should remember that they are the ONLY opposition we have. And they do a lot more than House and Senate activities ever reveal. You can’t celebrate the wins of last Tuesday, while simultaneously deriding the party as useless …

A lot of people think that. I watch and read the same news as you and everyone else, and didn’t see a single sign that they had any interest in capitulating. Liberals need to realize that Republicans CANNOT capitulate. Neither Trump or Maga can or will allow it. I don’t know what else has to …

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There is nothing the media loves quite so much as the stories of infighting in the Democratic Party. I sometimes think the only thing that will save America is to find a voodoo priest who can cast a spell on all media executives that forces them to eat each other.

From the beginning I could never see an endgame that was favorable to Democrats. It's not that I wanted them to vote for a funding bill--it just seemed that they had a lot of suboptimal options all along. It was always going to end with some version of a cave.

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Good morning. Something momentous has happened, and I’m in shock. I put a new glass screen protector on my Pixel phone and it didn’t bubble! That’s never happened, ever!

I’ve been watching this game for a long time. The American left is all fiery piss and vinegar when it comes to rhetoric, but completely inert when it comes to any kind of organized action. The Democratic party is the flagship operation of that failure, but our fleet is enormous. We haven’t …

For the life of me I still cannot understand why anybody thinks these Republicans would have not watched the entire country burn before they’d concede. They keep telling everyone they don’t care who hurts, and they don’t think it will hurt them to keep hurting. So what possible leverage comes …

Huh, Tim Miller and I agree on something. Despite the press’s need to help Dems implode, the Dems got a lot more out of this shutdown than most will accept right now. There was not the smallest chance the GOP would fold. They WANT to crush the safety net. We had no game. But the Dems used the …

First move is figuring out how many snacks/ drinks we have in our purses, duh.

MAGAs will never understand why this kind of objectification is appalling to decent folk. They think it’s about “women.” They can’t comprehend that broad swaths of humanity think the value of human beings is greater than the sum of their sexuality and physical appeal.

Well I just got a call with the second piece of good news this year. My bladder biopsy was negative. So now it’s Shoq 3, cancer nothing. I really like winning this game. #FuckCancer.

Kid Rock got lucky with a hit song in 2008. Yet MAGAs still thinks he’s a modern Elvis. They’re all such mindless wastrels with no comprehension of anything with authentic quality or worth. There are landfill biotoxins with more value to humanity than the average MAGA moron.

And now for the things MAGA cares most about, while you sniveling, bleeding heart liberals worry about health care and starving children. What is wrong with you?

As I said, I’m all for referendums. I wish we had more of them. National referendums would be the a Holy Grail of American political reform. And almost certainly why we will never see them until we find our collective spine, shut everything down and just start demanding them.

Such a killer episode, pardon the pun. Infuriates me that the issue has barely had a mention in years, yet it’s still killing people every day. Liberals seem able to keep their eye on just one ball at a time. John Oliver and his team are some of the best journalists we have.

Also, barely literate cultists, it’s “they,” not “it.” You’re welcome. twitter.com/Shoq/stat...

But what’s your example of a working direct democracy California? Switzerland? Day-to-day governing is still done by elected officials. I’m all for referendums, and the like, and we need a lot more of them. But expecting entire nations to be governed fairly and effectively by them would be the …

For those new to my rants , I’ve been saying for many years and our problems are not political, but cultural. We like to blame Democrats so much because we’ve permitted a society where MAGAs can and do control the narratives, the labor force, and most of the capital. We control nothing. But we …

I might know that guy

The older I get, the more I watch these political dramas, the more I side with the cynics who think that evil people will always be able victimize the rest of us. The only thing humanity ever invented to prevent them doing that was liberal government. And we’ve totally fucked that up.

I just stepped out for some air and a car went by covered with bumperstickers. The one that stood out was “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Pat Paulsen.” Oh, such innocent times were they. Paulsen For President ⏵

With the fate of the entire country—if not the world—riding on the midterms, the most suicidal thing we could do is start playing those fanciful primary games and risk even one seat that will vote with us 99% of the time. Those with no power have no margin for error.

Long before many reading this were alive, it was widely held that people with sincere intentions could cordially disagree on politics. Ever since the Gingrich revolution set the stage for this MAGA fiasco, his party has been working to erase that history. With great success.

I had virtually no doubt that more than 10 Democrats would ultimately opt to end the shutdown. But many seasoned Dems said from the start—and GOP knew, too — that it would end that way. The powerless don’t get more power by complaining about it. They get it by taking it back.