From nothing burger to “okay… it happened… but everyone should stop talking about it” These are not serious people

This is where we all post from

So the “Democratic Shutdown” branding didn’t stick? It’s almost as if the party in power in America will be blamed no matter how intense their propaganda operation is and I suppose there’s something beautiful about that

they call it a "euro step" because the only way to step foot in europe is by traveling

Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.

The account hyping up the Confederacy is a Serb?!? Fork found in kitchen…

watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump

Yep, this is the line that the Trump social media influencers are going with as well. It makes sense if you ignore everything Trump said and did

The FDR thing has me thinking about Trump honoring Dorothy Day (he probably doesn’t know who she is but still…)

He’s becoming Zohran’s own Club Chalamet

Wtf are these guys talking about? Millions of Americans are in danger of losing SNAP benefits because of Trump

I bet Mamdani could have got Trump to film a “do not obey unlawful orders” video with him

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

i get that the past two popes also had cranky uncle energy but this still whips

lol lmao

Trump if Mamdani was WH chief of staff:

Of course, Trump prefers the calm, cool, handsome, jovial Mamdani to the sweaty, self-serious, hanger-on Posobiec (the best thing about Trump is how much he despises the MAGA try-hard that he’s stuck with)

After speaking with Mamdani, Trump would have made 99 if he was a member of the House

Conservatives watching this and getting flashbacks:

Hyped about this release tomorrow! Read the Denis Johnson novella it’s based on, if you haven’t!

I do appreciate Trump undoing the smoke and mirror games that are played by right wing influencers by proving the point of the video that was made, as ordering the death of a lawmaker for reminding service members of the military code would be an unlawful order

We don’t have to play the games of those who retort “what unlawful order?” Trump I talked about shooting American protestors in the legs but he had adults restraining him back then. This is not some unfounded hysteria from the left.

Same guy:

Interesting phenomenon happening on the other app where GOP operatives are posting photoshopped or AI-generated photos of Dem politicians with Epstein, when there are real photos of the Republican President partying with him

Wallace Stevens on being a quirked-up white boy:

Now that MAGA is at its zenith, the MAGA elites are learning a hard lesson about the true nature of the conspiracy theorists they’ve been playing to for 10 plus years:

*minor spoilers* The interesting thing about this bit is it seems like a random aside at first, until the end when the mom who is pathologically obsessed with security for her son is the CEO of a security/surveillance company. In that context, its contemporary political salience comes to light.

Republicans in disarray

Oh shit! He’s spooked

"Still democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people..." Aristotle, The Politics, Book 5

Ari Aster called it 2 years ago in “Beau is Afraid”:

Actual anti-Christian bias

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us

The White House getting ratioed like this on the app that has been designed to boost MAGA propaganda? He’s cooked!

Zaid Jilani:

I really do like the analogy because the grunts in the army of the Potomac from 1861-1863 had to grind it out under incompetent leadership until the union found Grant, and that kinda feels like what’s going on with the dem party rn…

Isaac Newton would be freaking out, but Shakespeare would play into it and freak you out

This reminds me of how right wingers use to call being “censored” or suspended on Twitter the “digital gulag”…

😭😭😭

Making a contemporary Richard II adaptation where Richard II (who will suspiciously look exactly like Bill Clinton) and Henry Bolingbroke (who will suspiciously look exactly like Trump) are privately very gay for each other, despite being political enemies.

RTVRN

Some major self-reporting going on from those posting “we should focus on something else, this is a distraction, no one actually cares, etc” when every report about how the White House is handling Epstein is “They are panicking. A dark mood is settling over the administration”.

Yeah man, since when did the left ever talk about moral clarity. AOC must have invented it in 2018.

Y’all remember the Great Feminization discourse? Well, there was one rebuttal in particular that caught me off guard

Nate hasn’t posted about Epstein since this

Maybe judgment will partially look like Trump becoming President so that the utter depravity of his soul is exposed while still alive and in power, humiliating him and those who have rallied around him as America’s savior?

All Vance needed to do to be “more virtuous than Nixon” was to keep the xenophobia to private calls with friends but he couldn’t even meet that low bar

“Why is literacy important?” Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc* Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!

Fun fact: Copland’s ‘Lincoln Portrait’, which has excerpts of Lincoln’s speeches throughout, was dropped by Eisenhower’s 1953 Inauguration committee because Republican Congressmen Fred Busby of Illinois complained about Copland’s “suspect political affiliations.” #CancelCancelCulture

This past wkend I went to a performance that included the 1942 piece Lincoln Portrait, written by the secular Jewish, leftist composer from NYC, Aaron Copland. That & this essay from James has been a pertinent reminder of how a broad left coalition should embrace a duty-bound, American idealism.