I make more than my dad at the same age, even adjusted for inflation. I’m a top 15% earner in a LCOL area. We are frugal and live well within our means. I can’t afford the same lifestyle my parents had, including buying and maintaining/improving a house.

We’ve got to very seriously talk about the rightwing Gen Z problem. We need to start viewing Trump as a symptom of a cultural sickness, not the beating heart of rising extremism. Defeating Trump - even defeating this administration entirely - will not stop the rightwing threat.

You do not hate ICE or the people who enable them enough. The pro-democracy platform needs to be Nuremberg 2029.

It’s a good time to remind everyone that the rightwing takeover of America these last 30+ years has been moving toward calling a constitutional convention. It’s the end game of the American right - an America completely reshaped from the ground up, built in their own image.

I don’t think Benny is gay, but he feels VERY out of place in MAGA’s focus on hypermasculinity. He’s just very goofy and immature. Not just emotionally immature like most MAGA men, but his personality in general. All his interactions seem like he’s so excited the Big Boys are including him.

Plot twist: his live-in nanny’s name is ChatGPT

The entire consumer-facing ethos of America has shifted from “build a good product with good service with good prices and you’ll be competitive” to a more cynical “how much can we screw our customers while they still buy our products?” Scam-based economy

Look, it’s real simple. If these “narco terrorists” are so organized, dangerous, and bad that we need to send the most advanced naval vessels in our arsenal to stop them… …I think they’d just find a different route? It doesn’t make sense because they’re not smugglers. They’re fishermen.

Prediction: The Trump family is going to own CNN. The regime won’t approve Netflix’s deal and Trump will publicly threaten and bully Netflix until the CEO capitulates and shows up to the Oval Office to give him a golden Demogorgan from Stranger Things. We are a mafia state.

You do not hate ICE enough

JD Vance in 2016 vs JD Vance in 2025

Surely doing your best megachurch youth pastor impression will fire up the Youths to do some racism.

Pro tip: use Firefox as your browser and read all article content in their reading mode. Not only does it disable some of the JavaScript that triggers all the extra garbage, but it has great accessibility features. It’s a superior reading experience.

Ben Shapiro has never had a real job. Just like Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh, Steven Crowder, etc. The Daytime Talk Show Hosts for Men are telling you they’re producing lions and you, an exploited worker trying to make ends meet, are a parasite.

A pro-life Dem will almost always lose to a pro-life Republican in red states. Moderated GOP voters won’t vote for the Dem and Dem voter enthusiasm and turnout drops. Just stick to principles and uncompromisingly campaign on them.

I felt like a crazy person when everyone wanted him to be her VP pick. I didn’t understand the appeal. Dude just gives off the worst vibes.

I think well-written media that inspires hope and resistance in the face of tyranny while maintaining mass appeal is good.

The odd thing about this moment is that there is a clear movement that’s waiting for leadership and structure, and the traditional leaders of such movements seem uninterested in paying any attention to it. The Democratic party itself seems to grow more defunct as the days go on.

I wasn’t allowed to watch Mr. Rogers as a kid because he once said “she” in reference to God. I missed every Disney movie from the Lion King to Finding Nemo because Disney Land allowed a private pride event. Their entire thing has been cancelling people and organizations. That’s the culture war.

*sits down in backwards chair* You know who else was a man of faith who died for his beliefs? That’s right: Osama Bin Laden.

We are nosediving into authoritarianism. Before the 2026 midterms we will see the detention of Democratic candidates and politicians at every level. Folks, when we say they are fascists, it’s not rhetoric. They will continue to escalate until we are terrified to dissent.

They’re really leaning into this homeland stuff, huh? I guess Fatherland would’ve been too obvious.

This is unbelievably cringe, but it shows that: 1) The cultural melting pot is still going strong despite their attempts to dismantle it. 2) It’s all a performance to these guys. No beliefs. No principles. Just whatever sounds “based” and owns the libs.

Whenever a MAGA influencer dies, an oil rig gets its wings.

This might be unpopular, but yes. Compared to his peer grifters targeting the same demographics, he’s the voice of “reason”. That’s not a defense of Charlie. It’s an indictment of how extreme the right is becoming. They are only going to get more extreme and dangerous.

Allies announce flags to be flown at half mast to commemorate death of Julius Streicher. “Sure we didn’t agree with what he said about Jewish-on-Aryan crime, but he was open to debate and always respected the marketplace of free ideas” said military governor Eisenhower.

Newsom is honoring THE most influential figure in the rise of MAGA and fascism in the U.S. outside of Trump himself. He was the Rush Limbaugh of this generation, only he was infinitely worse and more consequential. Gavin Newsom has no principles. He’s a fame-seeking opportunist.

No we need to go further back than that

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out” William Tecumseh Sherman

Be the change you want to see in the world

The right was not worried when one of the top Minnesota Democrats was assassinated. Why are we so terrified of the right but the right isn’t ever scared of the left?

Thinking about this painting today for no particular reason at all

That’s the problem: they were looking for an excuse to do the violence, which is why they’ve been trying to provoke it. The sooner people realize where we’ve been headed since Trump took office the sooner we can be prepared for the inevitable.

Even in my Christian nationalist upbringing we sang “Jesus loves the little children…red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight” Still problematic? Sure. But I can’t imagine what the children of these deadbeat chuds are singing about now.

POV: Sherman just finished his March to the Sea but still isn’t satisfied

Been saying for years that a major problem with social media is that humans are really bad at understanding scale. If you show people 100 videos of convenience store robberies they’ll be convinced the Casey’s in their 500 person town is the most dangerous place on earth.

Imagine wondering if the left can win because of “extremists” like Hasan Piker while the ruling party’s DHS account is posting straight up Groyper memes aimed at recruiting extremely online young men for their Get Rid of Brown People paramilitary force

I am once again asking people to remember that Nazi Germany was still under the legitimate Weimar constitution the entire time. A dictatorship and a democratic constitution can, in fact, co-exist without contradiction.

Translation: Trump was questioned by the FBI about his relationship with Epstein but this is how he spun it to Mike Johnson

Americans are long overdue for Twinkies 4 All

No. I don’t want to be neighbors with a nuclear armed death cult. We can defeat them and keep the country whole. We’ve done it once before and we’ll do it again.

Personally I love 75% of my screen being covered in ads and pop ups with microscopic exit buttons. Really brings back that nostalgic “downloaded a virus from Limewire and killed the family computer” feeling

Ladies, gentlemen, and gentlethem: I present to you the median voter.