Zohran Mamdani Is Showing Democrats How to Govern open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

I want Democratic politicians who sound like Mamdani, not like Newsom.

This isn't housing policy per se, but in a city where infant care averages $26k a year, universal child care would function as a massive, de facto housing subsidy—freeing up roughly $2,100 a month for rent. More politicians need to grasp this: when it comes to "affordability," it's all connected.

Really been considering changing my banner ngl. We may in fact need to be mean to some people.

this site seems to genuinely have an issue with viewing explanation as a form of endorsement

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

they’re not going to be satisfied until they kill again none of these agents have a shred of humanity

Lmao, they can’t shake him off their tail

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

now is the time of will stancil

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

Minnesota is effectively in a 21st Century Bleeding Kansas situation

These Klansmen in federal garbs are occupying a northern city and represent a total reversal of the Reconstruction’s own logic. These nazi scumbags see the chance to run around the black side of town to throw flashbangs at black children and to *shoot into a house*. Abolish ICE and hang them.

before I go to bed, I feel obliged to emphasize how tonight’s rampage in northern Minneapolis was, by no exaggeration, a glorified episode of klan night riding by federally deputized groypers. Yes, DHS always had these people but the difference now is that they’re in charge and with a $175B budget.

Will Stancil is writing ad copy the Honda execs can just use. He's doing your job. Remember when Toyota got tagged for selling ISIS a bunch of pickup trucks? This is the opposite of that. He's handing you money, Honda. Fit is Fit to Fight ICE

so, functionally: they think the US might just land some troops and go "it's ours now! you have to shoot at us if you disagree!" and they're making sure that if they try that American troops will have to shoot first not a great situation for supposed allies!

As I am often saying, the central pillar of Cantor Thought is Tarpeian Socialism, the idea that in a society of significant size, the occasional slob is going to rob a 7-11 and that's not great, but whatever, but if you're given power by society and abuse it, we push you off a big rock.

why in fuck should they

My god actually can you imagine what LBJ or Truman would think of and do to Chuck Schumer? Lmao

Even if you're gonna vote for 99% Hitler over 100% Hitler maybe hedge the rhetoric a little and see if you can get 99% Hitler to drop down to like 70% Hitler you know?

Speaking for myself that was more annoyance at a perceived liberal desire to write off the results of the 2016 election as due to external factors rather than a lot of Americans just being fascist and supporting fascism.

KO'ing everyone's 401k the week they started bragging about murdering citizens in the street on camera is the behavior of people who are on actual drugs. Not metaphorically, it's the behavior of people with underlying mental illness on uppers and steroids who are starting to feel cornered.

I'm hearing about this in a few states. My big question is whether it is preparation for a crackdown on resistance to ICE operations, or a preemptive crackdown on anti war protesters after the planned invasion of Greenland

Bill really gets down to the most critical problems of modern day life: too many people are paying off their mortgages early and hurting the lenders.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

If we actually have elections and a transfer of power, if the Democrats just sweep this all under the rug in the name of "looking forward" I think we're just officially over as a coherent polity.

oh my heart. it's all so sad. even people thinking that corporations might do something to help as a shield, like, it's so laughable as a concept but that person doesn't know it, they're just grasping at any straws they have to try and stem the tide. it's so sad to see people drown, toolless.

fuck these people

I don't think Walz is likely to deploy NG on ICE officers. That's a fair criticism. But from a practical standpoint it has also injected that idea into the public discourse as something acceptable and necessary for Serious Democrats to consider. This is probably useful.

Should they have cared about all this before now? Yes. Did you reach the right position before them? Sure, here's a gold star. Do we need their numbers to make this work? Yes. Please stop acting like the hipster who knew about this band before anyone else. We actually do need the normies.

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

C. Jay Engel wants to “repeal the 20th century.” Matt Walsh is preaching race science on his show at The Daily Wire. Joel Webbon just launched a ten-hour interview series with Nick Fuentes. Christian nationalism is getting more extreme. www.liberalcurrents.com/remigration-...

we need to communicate to our general staff that in the event that they go to war with Denmark over Greenland, we will extradite anyone who participates to anywhere which will hang them until dead

ok but they won't ICE officers won't follow orders they don't ideologically like And elected Dems have not yet shown evidence of any spine to do what is necessary: punish these people.

soldiers are mostly young people who want to do something else with most of their life. They generally don't want to live the rest of their lives with the knowledge that they executed an unarmed mom cops want to spend thirty years with the nickname "killer"

“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.” what the fuck have we tried turning the country off and back on again

Lmfao are you fucking namesearching this guy? I gotta weigh the evidence here dawg, one the one hand he's done a sus thing with a quasi-credible excuse, on the other there's the entirety of his stated opinions and policy positions and people he's surrounded by I just don't think he's a secret Nazi

I’m just saying when your high kit troops in boots are retreating from a similar number of irregulars, some of them barefoot, in an engagement you chose, your goose is COOKED cooked

It was never about drunk driving, that was always just the ethically defensible motte to launder the bailey of prohibitionism

MADD is one of the most successful authoritarian organizations in US history and inarguably inline with broader fascist and culturally repressive trends in the last fifty years. It's wild the way neither right-wing "libertarian" dipshits OR actual anarchists/leftists even mention it.

Yeah. I care much more about potential candidates' appetite for viciously prosecuting the enemy than I do their perfect leftist record ngl. And mans isn't even a shitlib, he's a social democrat, which is as good as we can get out of the dems, who happens to have done some dumbass shit in the past.

People don't even talk about this amid how bad literally everything is all the time now, but the US drinking age being 3+ years above the rest of the developed world is psychotic and it's ridiculous Americans have allowed it to become normal. It's just a blank cheque for cops to harass young adults.

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees

they have plenty of goons unless people decide to make that number insufficient but right now? they have all the goons they need

There's a tiny chance I end up with egg on my face but I'm locking the fuck in on Graham Platner tbh. Literally all of his behaviour and conduct is that of a decent guy and his policy takes are GOATed.