Forget JD Vance, I want to hear from Bill Donohue

My daughter has fallen in love with the OG Powerpuff Girls, & has declared for the first time that she hates someone. I want to tell her it's wrong to hate but I must admit she chose well:

Voters elected Trump to make them rich

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All western politics is condensing into a coalition of the past versus a coalition of the future

The JD Vance victory tour goes hand in hand with Artemis II returning to make this the best week of the second Trump Administration so far

look if america eats shit but produces a european rejection of the far right i can just go back to italy and live out my days as a true pervert

I love democracy.

Fortunately our current president has graciously applied himself to make the vibes as bad as possible, both on the campaign trail & in office

It's always interesting seeing someone try to make sense of American postwar foreign policy without any real knowledge or understanding of Cold War geopolitics

As long as they get what they want they don't care who it costs. Trump's voters wanted illegal immigration to crater & they got it. But they wanted him to make them rich even more. And that's why we are going to win

My income is decent, my costs are low, my healthcare is excellent. We're still sweating. We just paid off our personal loan from my wife's medical crisis & now student loan payments are coming back with a vengeance. It is disorienting to deal with a US government committed to making things difficult

Not just irrational & stupid but poorly coordinated. If a Navy ship has orders to interdict everyone & a Chinese tanker comes into view, Secretary Bessent's insistent assurances that it can only good happen will not decide what happens next.

I don't pretend Bluesky is the land of milk & honey but at least it's not this

I cannot fully separate this impulse from the housing crisis but to the extent it is the housing crisis, that crisis expresses as part of this impulse, so I'm not sure how much it matters. If every problem decomposes into "I demand lower prices at all costs" policy options become greatly constrained

If Trump chickens out nine times out of ten, people will assume the correct response is to not worry. If it's only one out of ten you can probably handle that as it comes, right? What it actually means is that when that finally happens you'll be so numbed & wrongfooted you'll never act in time.

205 days until Election Day

We've known about Marco's drinking problem for years

Tbf I am sure many in the Trump Administration will be very gratified to hear that JD Vance did his best to make peace & those darn Iranians were just too unreasonable

I don't think you should trust Iran to give a good faith reckoning of anything, but when the US enters a ceasefire with little leverage after failing to destabilize the Iran government & galvanizing its leadership as they sense the chance for a bonafide strategic victory, what could one expect?

JD Vance isn't one to stick to anything for the long haul. Four years in the Marines, two years practicing law, two years in venture capital, two years at a biotech firm, two years at CNN, two years in the Senate. JD Vance believes in nothing but JD Vance. Nothing & no one else holds his loyalty.

I used to just donate extra every time I had to block one of the scammers, but the scams have grown too efficient for that to be affordable. So now I just donate my regular amount

I cannot recommend enough that you just setup a recurring donation to PCRF and not interact with these accounts.

Again, if Platner isn't a Nazi, he is by his own admission an incredible dope.

It'd be quite funny to see Trumpers endlessly trying to make fetch happen & stammering in confused frustration when nobody takes them up on their offers, if they weren't also sending the global economy into the shitter, murdering hundreds of thousands, derailing the future of medicine & such.

Anyone here remember when Iran had no authority over the strait at all?

Now to be fair, liberalism has also done this a lot. Socialism has done this a lot. Now that fascism is getting a bite at the apple, they're behaving much the same. But hypocrisy or not, they have to be stopped.

I would love to see a study on whether JD contributed at all to Orban's support. But that's not why he's there. What Vance is doing is telling the world that any country that rejects fascist rule risks the friendship of any country controlled by the fascist International. The basest realism.

Piker as a left Rush Limbaugh has been my mental model for ages & I'm really sad that he keeps validating it

come on, get serious… if I'd just committed a murder would I just be standing here in blood-spattered clothes holding a bloody ax? you sound deranged, get help

Republicans have long since learned that they can get away with murder as long as they do it in broad daylight & insist it was justified

BROS 4 LIFE

I'd say DSA chapters need training in talking normal but first they need to want it

so where do I buy this

even better feeling than liftoff

"Integrity, Houston, loud and clear!"

Godspeed godspeed godspeed

I like how the stage directions for "Don't Bring Me Down" are basically just "play the shit out of your instruments." Great vibe

Guy always had ridiculously shitty vibes. Sad to know they accompanied shitty actions

His assertions make more sense when you remember Trump literally believes things will work out in his favor if he believes in them hard enough

Every time I'm out at rush hour, I'm soon reminded that the worst drivers are out at rush hour

executives & editors & producers remain the most potent barrier preventing us from moving on from the idiocies of decades past

I make no predictions regarding who will win the Dem nomination in 2028, except that given the dissatisfaction of the Dem base with the party "establishment" (however murky that definition is) the odds are good it will be someone we weren't expecting.

If 49% are already worried about that, we're going to put up numbers that make it impossible for them to succeed. That's the virtue of vigilance.

Real NASCAR heads know the history of the Cup Series may be approximately divided thus: - Pre-Bobby Wawak Era (stock chassis) - Bobby Wawak Era (stock-ish bodies over bespoke chassis) - Post-Bobby Wawak Era (bodies custom hung & shaped to maximize downforce, producing a wholly dedicated race car.)

Convicting a president should undo his pardons. Whether that's impeachment while in office or felony criminal conviction after.

I'm still glad of the ceasefire, because I'd rather not see more civilians die more infrastructure get destroyed for the sake of failed policy. But this only confirms how thorough a failure this Administration's Iran policy has been, both in pursuing this stupid war, & in refusing to uphold JCPOA

Voters elected Trump to make them rich

I might suggest that Democrats looked at how the party managed to recover a lot of goodwill & potentially avoid a massive electoral blowout by getting Biden to withdraw from the election, & have zero interest in presenting Republicans similar reprieve.

Look, it's just nice to have an American president's political prospects deliberately ruined by an enemy rather than an ally