Every time I see a Republican ad on my streaming video services I cackle internally knowing the money was wasted

Yep

Republicans learning that if you’re gonna tag Democrats with something they absolutely haven’t said, it should pass the sniff test for even idiots

"...all those who are playing on or with this [digital] infrastructure will have won. And we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury."

"We did not design our democracies for this. We are a long way from the democratic agora of antiquity. And so, if we Europeans do not wake up and say, ‘We want to take back control of our democracies,’ I can tell you this: within 10 years..."

"...and towards algorithms designed to promote cognitive excitement, overreaction, and the volume of what we like or dislike, again favouring extremes, because at the heart of these models is the monetisation of your presence in order to sell it to advertisers."

"This is a complete bias towards our democracies going to extremes, towards noise and fury prevailing over reasoned argument, towards harmony quickly disappearing to make way for shouting..."

"We have allowed public spaces to develop where everything is done to prevent reason, since, ultimately, the order of merit is that emotion is superior to argument and that negative emotion is superior to positive emotion."

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

"An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month..."

Oh yeah. The wind is blowing a new way.

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale. If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

Aside from the illegality it also comes across like they’re doing an in memoriam for the country.

“Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.”

normal liberals: this is a time of chaos. resistance is mandatory normal conservatives: darkness has risen. stand against the shadow the actual government: soon we will crush all hope in the resistance disney: rise up against the government "leftists": please ban this list of people from Online

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder. I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

Trump hasn't been in public since Tuesday again.

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

So much for the tolerant right

Very torn that Wood is maybe my favorite song in the album but is also grossly raunchy

Whe I find an opinion or order that’s not indexed on Westlaw and then have it indexed so I can cite it I feel like I’m using deep magic

This person has clearly never met a smart kid

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” - Article 1, Section 9 If Trump starts using the laterally spending the incoming tariff money, he has acted anti-constitutionally.

This is another example of the normalization of anti-constitutional and authoritarian behaviors. Nowhere in our history (pre-trump) would this not be a runaway scandal. But it’s become business as usual. 😒

The percentage of people who have read Harrison Bergeron and understood it properly has got to be in the single digits

This is what they want for every college and university in America

Despite a government shutdown, Republicans will make sure Argentina gets their $20 billion.

Lmao

It is hard to be an effective professional if you couch everything you say in constant caution and so the expression of the modern economist, as in many other white collar jobs, an almost necessary form of tunnel vision. Blinders on the horse that serve a purpose until they don’t.

New Jersey, also, votes in a little over a month

Right wing policies are failures

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and the House. This government shutdown is failed Republican leadership on full display.

Yes please, more of this. Weak. Call them weak, use that word specifically, name it for what it is

Virginia has its general election in just over a month

Basically, dumb people who are unpopular can inflict reactionary violent nationalism for sustained periods of time, and they can do it in part through propaganda. That is what they are doing now.

Just to clarify: 1. Fascists are not smart 2. Fascists do not have to be smart to do harm via fascism 3. Fascism works in part through aesthetics 4. The administration is being run by fascists who are doing fascism 5. Their unpopularity/fuck ups should not lead us to think 2-4 are not true

Look things are gonna keep getting dark but that’s a reason to fight harder. They’re incredibly weak and incompetent. They only get weaker with time if we fight.

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Ok, Zechs Marquise

Time will tell, but Coyote Time theorists still looking like a good bet

Just a reminder that, yes, we're in freefall, but he gets weaker, not stronger, every day.

This, and just a bone deep belief that Liberals are weak and lack the resolve to do what needs doing.

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This is true and also we should never accept that Trump v. United States is a valid precedent. It's not and as many justices should be removed and/or diluted with more seats and/or jurisdiction stripped as may be necessary, and eventually the repudiation of it should be codified by amendment.

For those that don’t follow the industry that’s a really big number