We’re not even in a recession yet lol

My God the Children are reading Robert Dahl what are we ever to do??????

Wichita is weird because politically it’s very conservative for a city of its size. Very much like a high-plains city. Also its suburbs are VERY red. Underrated center of the GOP dominance of the state (besides them consistently getting Assad margins in rural areas with few major cities to counter)

We are essentially living through the experiment of a Mad Political Scientist testing the limits of hyper-partisanship

>1,000 years of no unified Galactic Republic Military >Creates unified military to defeat rebel government >Military immediately becomes a tyrannical jackboot oppressing the entire Galaxy 100% get why the New Republic was hesitant to keep a standing army.

Wondering how far the US VDEM Score is going to plummet

Really would love to see a follow up of some of the people interviewed in the book. Particularly their perceptions of Trump and if him being in office has resulted in them viewing their material conditions in a more positive light. Lot of rural areas have not gotten much better since 2015

If I just cover my ears and go “nanannanananananannaa” then the bad news will go away

Wonder what the universe where we had President John Kasich from 2017-2025 is like

Broke: Who was President in 2020? Woke: Who was President in 2431?

I just want AOC to win 85 million votes and have a 60 vote Senate

I remain very worried we defeat Trump in 2026/2028 but we totally fail to actually reform the institutions in a way to keep the President constrained. Do not want us to have a series of dictatorial presidents in the mid-21st century

Genuinely wish I could jump 100 years in the future to see what the big historical debates are over *why* this all happened. Also would like to see when the liberal pluralists gain the upper hand again. Would be nice to know the populist-right goes out with a whimper

At the end of the day this is all such a horrible nightmare we are all trapped in. It all happened for no reason at all. Just absurd cruelty for the sake of cruelty

Despite all that has happened, I do find it quite spectacular that the GOP is simply marching along with BBB despite the probable political backlash to it. Figured a few more of would recognize this and have more ambition. At the end of the day they really are mostly true believers with all this.

Tell my family I’ll be home for dinner

Pro-Imperial conspiracy theorists in 29 ABY arguing the "Death Star" wasn't real and also the Emperor was trying to prevent the Rogue ISB from making one. Alderaan just did that.

Yeah think the reason why “Trumpism without Trump” candidates fall flat so often is that they are unable to effectively mask whatever cruelty they espouse. Unlike Trump who’s celebrity status seems to shield him a bit and as a consequence people take him less seriously

Explaining to the Founders the current president is holding a military parade on his birthday (just as Article 2 demands)

Really am not enjoying the natural experiment we are all living through to see how much you can materially worsen the lives of Americans without suffering an electoral loss. I do think the GOP will be like the dog that caught the car eventually but the losses on the way there are sickening

I'm not enjoying watching the Federal Government turned into the personal fiefdom of the President.

Wonder if the Admin eventually pushes a sham impeachment against a random Federal judge that completely blows up in the House and rips the GOP apart

One of the better case scenarios for the next four years is ACB, Roberts, and Gorsuch basically run out of patience with Trump and seriously constrain his worst actions. Real big falling out between this Administration and elite conservative lawyers would be so wonderful

This is like the ultimate case study of the Democratic Party being held to a far higher standard than the Republican Party.

Based on the inconsistent lore of Star Wars I think most planets were basically used to at least 1,000 years of home rule with the Republic having a pretty light presence. The Empire basically throws that out the window and as a consequence lose the support of local elites they need to rule.

Tariffs are going to be the number one issue in 2028 like it’s fucking 1896

"Invasion" "Citizen-alien" or whatever language I keep seeing come from the Claremont genuinely gives me chills. The degree to which the right is embracing this formatting is greatly worrying

I remember in the aftermath of October 7th how there were a bunch of right-wing Twitter accounts basically saying the cartels were going to do the same thing as Hamas but on Mexican border. The extent to which these guys have gone off the deep end with this is psychotic

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Appeasement doesn’t work! Hope Columbia actually fights back

Need this energy on Sonic Blast for the next few years

"Liberation Day" is going to age wonderfully once we end up in the Great Malaise

Kinda wild they got coded as the “coastal elite ticket” as opposed to Trump/Vance both being ivy leaguers. Plus Trump’s a literal billionaire and Vance fucked off to Silicon Valley for a bit. Class politics in this country really is all vibes

Women are also more likely to get married (and have longer lasting ones) if they go to college. Heritage conveniently leaves that out.

Institutions structure behavior through the combined decisions of thousands of different actors. If a critical mass of people don’t give a shit then it kinda all falls apart

Definitely are going to try and blame a recession on “globalist foreign actors” and that’s not going to work at all

Still kinda dumbfounded by the fact that this Administration seems hell bent on shattering as many good things as possible. Like they are actively fucking over every single base of support they have in a way I find totally shocking

Genius idea to fuck with the Third Rail

Building off of this. This is a pretty great book on the subject and I highly recommend it

Sam Brownback gone national

Wonder how things are going in this timeline

I really do think Trump is going to hit a wall of public backlash relatively soon. Not sure how intense it's going to be, but I do not see how an administration as radical and destructive as his will escape public retribution

Remembering discourse from the old site where people stated that Mitski’s father was a CIA operative who had a direct role in overthrowing governments. Seems like it spread after she said her Dad worked for the State Department.

One reason why I'm not as worried about "1,000 year Trumpreich" than I was a year ago is his policies being implemented to their maximum would immediately explode his coalition through sheer economic misery. Kinda hard to hold onto power when your party loses by 7+ pp in the election

What the fuck are we doing guys?

It's 1896 and the Democratic Party is running against the high tariffs imposed by the Republican Party. It's 1932 and the Democratic Party is running against the high tariffs imposed by the Republican Party. It's 2028 and the Democratic Party is running against the high tariffs........

Also the Supreme Court doing this would totally destroy whatever legitimacy it has left. The aftermath of such a decision opens the opportunity for a pro-Court Packing Dem majority in Congress.

there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos

The virtues of Scouting honestly are a big reason why I'm a lib today.