“Government stats say incomes after adjusting for inflation are now declining YoY. What do you say to that?” “Yeah, well, we are also starving people and kicking them off health care”

Trump has sued over jokes, tweets, and news stories, but not once over accusations of severe crimes against minors.

Can conservatives make art? Yeah maybe, but not so long as one of the core identity markers for "conservative" is open contempt for art, the artists who make it, and the craft they employ to make it, nor as long as their interaction with art is reduced to a desire to either crush or commodify it.

The fact is that the most correct observation anyone can make about US politics over the previous decade is that voting for Hillary Clinton would have fixed literally everything you’re currently suffering from, and you only think this isn’t the case because of misogyny

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

The funniest thing about this is that Chris Nolan arguably made the most commercially successful right wing art of recent years with the Dark Knight films, and they're currently melting down at him for mildly unracist casting

Trump’s behavior on social media today is so unhinged even by his standards that I can’t help but wonder what the doctors really told him the other day. This is a deeply unwell person.

I could have more to do with what the courts told him this week: (1) "No, can't start a $1.7 billion slush fund," (2)"I'm reopening your case against the IRS to look into whether you defrauded the court with your so-called 'settlement'"; and (3) "No, you can't put your name on the Kennedy Center."

the Pod Save America dipshits are behind a lot of this. Platner's campaign is a product of how incestuous and unhealthy the Democratic elite world is, not a reaction against it!

like, it should be fucking embarrassing when the *Washington Free Beacon* is doing better fact-checking on a story than the New Yorker. freebeacon.com/democrats/fr...

the New Yorker had to correct its story about him because they believed his claims that he had gotten the money to buy his house from a veterans' program, instead of from his wealthy family.

the media coverage of Platner has largely been extremely favorable to him/gullible about his claims and that his multiple red flags are finally becoming a proper story is not a sign that they're biased against him, but that they're doing reporting.

“Iran deal is right around the corner” is to the 2nd Trump term what “infrastructure week” was to the 1st except vastly dumber and more harmful.

If their goal was to thoroughly destroy the pillars of American technological, scientific, economic, and political power, what would they be doing differently?

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

This Vought policy is an attempt to choke out American higher education. America's fascists view its institutions of higher ed—and the people who staff them—as existential enemies of the purified nation

UW - Madison has over 500K living alumni. Our alums are fanatical about Madison & the university. I have seen exactly zero attempts to publicly mobilize this network in opposition to the federal budget cuts, foreign student restrictions, or any of the other existential threats. Again, mind-boggling.

So, this new thing where political appointees will review scientific grants to decide whether or not to fund them? It is so dangerous that I keep thinking of new, terrible things hourly. The most obvious one is that RFK Jr.’s evidence-free, vibes-based agenda will be the priority.

I remember when I wrote about how John Solomon was rolling over for Trump and he got so mad and insisted he was so independent etc and well

Noteworthy: “a spokesman for the office, said that investigators from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General and from the Texas Rangers had helped take Mr. Castro into custody”

“My predecessors may have fought their way yard by yard up Omaha Beach and liberated France but I get to serve as a prop at the President’s Birthday Vanity Event, assuming I can make weight and also pay him for the privilege.”

Or posting at the Nazi Bar that throttles free speech

"“The thing about Elon is: his investors don’t lose money,” one hedge fund executive said"- www.ft.com/content/7a05... Bookmark that. Nothing is obvious, timing is impossible: but when speculative bubbles deflate they're coloured with lots of lovely quotes like that.

60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

/2 It’s as if after Cookie Monster started saying cookies are a sometimes thing the Keebler elves and the Pillsbury Doughboy started slapping him and calling him a stupid bitch

Richard Hanania taking a halfhearted swipe at rebranding as Maybe Not Entirely Racist, and then discovering he has surrounded himself with racist tools who hate him now and who consistently abuse him, is one of the funniest things ever.

Andy Ogles, my former Congresscritter, is the worst human being in the entire United States Congress. It's a highly competitive trophy, but I think embezzling money meant for a child graveyard suffices.

Just systematically dynamiting American science and research infrastructure.

Trump may not have attended his son's wedding, but now we know his wedding present: $600 million of your tax dollars to one of his companies. The Trump family grift knows no bounds, and neither should our resolve to stop it. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Please touch the scalding hot stove, sir. You’re doing great. No, you don’t need any gloves. The heat will feel good on your skin.

Listen, I was born poor and rural. My high school mascot was a literal hillbilly. I understand white trash culture. I can say with complete confidence that this is white trash culture. 

When we have a real president again, he or she will have to waste inordinate amounts of time cleaning up the terrible mess created by this awful mistake of a human who never should have been allowed near the levers of power.

The President of the United States is a Rapist and now he's going after the victim, I hope she gets every dime and puts him to shame!

It truly is incredible how much the MAGA world insists that the Biden DOJ was "weaponized" against them when the level of pure weaponization against perceived enemies in this DOJ is truly unprecedented.

Per CNN this was referred to the us attorney’s office in Chicago. That is the same office currently being turned upside down by prosecutorial misconduct in the the Broadview 6 case. I’m sure judges in the Northern District of Illinois would look kindly on this kind of adventurism right now

our problem isn't partisanship. our problem is fascism. in US history, fascism has often been bipartisan. it isn't currently, which is why white supremacists have lost their minds.

Thank God we didn’t end up with an imperialist war monger like Kamala Harris as POTUS though amIright?

Again, a key reason talking like this about countries & threatening our NATO allies with conquest should immediately end his presidency - aside from the blatant law- & Constitution- & treaty-violating - is that it makes it impossible to credibly oppose 🇷🇺’s illegal war in 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇳’s threats against 🇹🇼

Totally missed opportunity for someone to hand him a map and demand that he find Oman on it

"idk man it seems like a stretch that all of right-wing politics could just be porn-brained masculinity anxiety" they're gonna call him a sissy or a cuck on national TV within a month i PROMISE

I’m not a vegetarian and I take him at his word that he isn’t either but I hate how any left of Pinochet candidate has to do this ridiculous song and dance as if a man eating an above average amount of cauliflower would be a valid excuse to vote for the pedo coddling fascist enabling crook.

Get his ass! 😂🙌💪✊

I'm sure that will be more convincing than headlines about Paxton's extramarital affair, abuse of office, countless scandals, criminal indictments and the recent release of a pedophile.

It's all good fun with the tariffs and wars and such, but to really motor the American economy into a brick wall, make it hard to get to or from every corporate entity in all the blue, GDP-producing states. Yep, most of the S & P and Nasdaq just needs to fuck right off. Markwayne Mullin, submoron.

This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.

Trump DOJ closes "autopen" investigation concluding no wrongdoing or illegality was ever implicated in the use of the autopen by Biden or others. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Talarico could just run TV ads with images of headlines about various Ken Paxton scandals as "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" plays for three minutes.

“He thinks he's friends with Xi Jinping and with Vladimir Putin. “And I will guarantee you that's not how they see Trump. I think they both see him as an easy mark.” 2/2