Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.

we don’t have a government, we have a temu Golden Throne and social media influencers posing as GOP legislators

Somehow Schumer has managed to get the Republicans to the edge of a field of rakes, pointed out how to avoid it, and their plan is to confidently walk right into the middle of the field.

It is difficult to get Extremely Online posters to understand something when their clout and metrics depend on them *not* understanding it.

I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.

Isn't it weird how you conveniently believe whatever allows you to feel justified being a dick to Black people at any given time? Even if you can't reconcile it with the reason that you gave for being a dick to Black people some other occasion

An extra dumb thing is "race science" people like this also love to post ad copy from the 50s of Black people wearing nice clothes and then act like something """happened"" to "their culture" and it's like which is it then? are they genetically "too dumb" to wear hats or not you dumb fucking racist

He's nuttier than a squirrel turd but he's our nut.

The thing about a party organized on the Führerprinzip is that if the leader is a narcissistic idiot who then develops Alzheimer’s, the party is going to make very bad choices

It's in no small part to absolve people of the set of decisions in 'the one person proven to beat him must go so we can run Mitt Romney or Gavin Newsom', as well as other related brands of idiocy.

Generally the dumbest political analysis you’ll ever see this deep into the Trump years will be from someone claiming “Trump is easy to beat”

Denying people food on thanksgiving is musical theater villainy

Yeah, the Zero COVID people were the other end of the horseshoe to the plague rats ala RFK.

The "It's all power consolidation all the way down" guy looks extremely stupid when these guys are sincerely gambling 'no money and no food for you, troops, do every damn fool stupid thing we say when we give you no reason to do it'.

2026?

I think the people who decided that only one genocide mattered, and only during a certain time period, have shown their asses now that the USAID figures are out and our troops are protecting Qatar.

"I took a ten minute break from constantly posting about how much Biden sucks to my 80,000 Twitter followers to vote for him in Brooklyn (so I could complain about it on Twitter). That I am expected to pay for anything ever again is a gross betrayal of the promises Joe Biden made to me in my head."

“Only four free COVID tests per household means Joe Biden wants me to decide which of my children should die”

I also remember when a Leftist sincerely insisted that the NHS was genocide and described it perfectly with the alternative, of course, the Bernie version of Medicare for All. That's where my mocking their watering it down got started and it got worse from there.

The wonks think history bends to charts and confidence intervals, but the last hundred yards aren’t graphed—they’re clawed through mud, smoke, and screaming metal. You don’t calculate victory, you drag it bleeding across the finish line with grit under your nails and God in your teeth.

My daily reminder that the republicans could end the shutdown any day is they decided to be reasonable and try something new, like governing.

If he understood that he wouldn't have written a decision saying the man with the guns is above laws and specified assassination as one of his new powers.

I am not prone to hyperbole, but I legit think this would threaten the entire constitutional order.

What does the administration believe happens the day after the filibuster ends? Does Johnson have the votes to get a party-line budget out of the House? Do Republican Senators agree to walk the plank as well?

I think poor people should have food.

I mean, politically, all to the good here. Dems are trying to end it and GOP senators are like “I dunno maybe like another two months?”

Russians trying to downplay the role of individuals in the most personalist political system on Earth, which inflicts vast amounts of Hell and makes them the societal object lesson in the dangers of this idea is always extremely funny, NGL.

💯 I've said this constantly. Trump is not the result, he has been the problem. 10 years of him breaking everything and the media barely able to complain about it has been destructive. Future historians will be able to show the Trump effect, much like the Mule in Foundation.

The man has been a pop culture fixture since the 80s and literally influenced supervillain ideas going back to the 90s. That Shreck guy in Batman Returns? That dude was based on Trump. That's not something easily replicated, and it's very different to Governor Reagan in 1980.

They also could and did put their own personal stamps on the times, too. The contrasts between the famous Bonaparte and his nephew, for example, and both seeking to do similar things makes that contrast very vivid.

This is why my final conclusion after reviewing all the available major explanations for the US's situation last summer came down to "orange man bad" — none of the other conditions would have led to the current catastrophe absent his unique mix of utter moral depravity & specific popular appeal

It doesn’t mean it’s all him, that in another time period he would have been able to do this through his superhuman will, but it also doesn’t mean that had he not been there, somebody else would have done the same as he did except better. It took him *and* the conditions he fit.

It's also a brand of copium you see with the original post-WW1 fascist movements. Their rise was heavily contingent and they were remarkably good at asspulling improvisation for their own advantage. The times did not make fascism, Hitler and Mussolini did.

It's a consequence at one level of academic history doing a remarkably successful job of excising the human influence from history so totally that they forgot it always matters and great historical forces are mediated by the humans that live through their appearances.

"We got Trump because of social media toxicity!" "We got Trump because of woke!" "We got Trump because of economic anxiety!" It's a cacophony of nonsense, and a never-ending one because there is always some new skeleton key, some pundit or researcher with a single mono-causal explanation

the refusal to entertain at least a weak version of "Trump is how we got Trump" has been a recipe for a decade's worth of bad punditry and bad incentives for public intellectuals. "We got Trump because of some obscure event in the 1600s!" "We got Trump because of [niche voting demographic!"

squawking "it's the structural conditions" is ego-saving copout. napoleon and most other great and terrible historical figures leveraged structural conditions. we simply just don't want to acknowledge someone like this was capable of making our lives hell through sheer force of will

the last decade at war with itself had he not emerged. he is barely sentient, perhaps even dying, but his persona is strong enough to cow all opposition within the GOP and force it into subterranean palace maneuvering

Trump defeated the establishments of both parties to become president twice, break most civic and legal norms of import, end-run the Constitution's safeguards against Trump-like figures, survive numerous career-ending scandals, and now single-handedly holds a party together that would have spent

I'm still proud of him blocking me after I first encountered his posts and I clowned on him for quoting rando Internet strangers as Democratic officials. Poor boy couldn't cope with it.

GTFO of our city.

One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists. The government shutdown was invented in 1980 The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal

i fucking adore this woman, oh my god

The court not having a proper comms office is just absolutely hilarious bc it transforms a situation like this into an absolute bloodbath of public wrath over a technical issue that could have been explained by some PR lackey

And there it is….. Announcement is made that the U.S. House will be out of session AGAIN next week Two full months since their most recent vote

I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.