The bad news is our elites are weak. The good news is our elites are weak.

I'll never really get over this. Not just an impossible project, but impossible by multiple orders of magnitude in multiple dimensions, & fundamentally idiotic altogether

A good attorney doesn't bring a case that would make a mockery of the law whether you win or lose

"Biden wasn't strong, which is why he risked World War III for Ukraine, which is why we elected the Peace President, who kills random civilians, which makes us strong" This stuff is unfalsifiable tripe. If only it didn't impress conservative defense bros who can't manage anything more coherent

Jury returns a verdict of "AYFKM"

If this were a comedy, this is the part where you would do a hard cut to the judge banging his gavel & sentencing the authors to prison

"average person loses 400 pounds a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person loses 0 pounds per year. Biothermal Reactor Georg, who lives in cave & burns 4000 pounds a second, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Carve it on your heart: when they say they hate "liberal feminists", they mean they hate women

As I understand it, in law enforcement training you're generally expected to miss often, which is why they tend to emphasize dumping entire mags whenever they fire

Now Listening:

Trump is working hard to make the economy as efficient as he made the US government

Major newspapers should not run headlines that if spoken aloud would merit a punch in the mouth

Love seeing someone whose book I enjoyed crash out in real time on here. My favorite way to spend my evening

Heard you were holding that shit that makes you reexamine your whole phenomenological schema

Never thought I'd bear witness to the real life version of a HoI4 player clicking "justify war goal" on a random foreign country's diplomacy page

god he really looked bad in August

I don't think it's controversial to say that running Mamdani probably gave up a few points versus a more typical Democrat. No shame in running a controversial candidate who motivates everyone to turn out if they're also persuasive & capable of winning majorities. That's democracy in action.

we're barely into the era of AI fakes & I'm already dead sick of them

Travel & logistics both. Which having the Louisville airport shut down for a day didn't likely help, either

Labour won a tremendous majority by running against precisely these guys, & they can do that again whenever they want

I feel bad for anyone who needs to wring 750 words out of "thermostatic politics is hitting Trump Republicans hard, they overindexed a weird election, overplayed their hand, & paid for it, & Democrats can compete wherever they offer quality candidates"

this is the future liberals actually want, fwiw

The combination of mild stimulation from pseudoephedrine & mild dissociation from dextromethorphan is always unsettling, even if it's better than coughing my brains out

Those kids are probably all too online, but better too online & happy than too online & dooming

That it's complementary is *crucial*. The best kind of authenticity conveys to voters "we care about what you care about, & here is how our principles deliver those things." Not an exception or an excuse but an application of what the party & the candidate stand for.

Leadership

People who love successful left candidates would do well to listen & pay attention to how they succeed

Honestly if NY elite conservatives want to minimize their outrage & normalize Mamdani that's fine

It's a banner year for Democratic pols who have waited their whole lives to tell their esteemed Republican colleagues exactly how they feel

You just described my wedding party

After Dem wins in Georgia & Mississippi, any state Republicans who go along with Trump's gerrymander plans are putting their political necks on the line & they know it

Abundance (of Democracy)

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Dick Cheney would be loving this

The true YIMBY sickos showing up to like this one

THIS IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE

I logged back in on my phone to be here for this I love all of you people We are going to build lives worth living, in communities and states worth living in, in a country worth living in, in a world worth living in

I like this kid. Think he's going places.

The place where people hate Democrats got 2024 correct, to a superficial extent, & the pundits decided that proved America hates Democrats, because they're brain-poisoned. It's sad! Did a ton of extremely unnecessary damage.

I think there's lots of reasons the economy could be better in 2026. Most of them involve Republicans revolting against Trump before he breaks things any worse

Voters elected Trump to make them rich, folks, I don't know what else to tell you

I think every Dem who Speaker Johnson refuses to seat has the constitutional right to follow him around with a megaphone & call him a piece of shit

How to end ballot confusion for all time

I'll be frank: Republicans ran a MAGA black woman & Trump refused to endorse her. How the hell else was this gonna go

Folks are angry! Turns out starving grandma & sending health insurance premiums through the roof is a bad platform (once voters realize you meant it)

The scenario where he further upends government works for us. The scenario where he makes working with Democrats less appealing to Congressional Republicans than working with him also works for us. We can't really stop him from digging himself deeper & we shouldn't try

I presume they're big Miles O'Brien fans

the race is neck & neck & neck

That goes triple on a day of victory