Aside from the absolute illegality of the missile strikes on open waters, they are absolutely pointless. The cartels smuggle literally tons of illegal drugs every day, and if Trump/Rubio thinks blowing up a boat a week is having any kind of impact, then they are even dumber than we thought.

Bc abortion is really bad... unless we can inflict it on expecting Brown women who we want to unnecessarily traumatize

Holy shit! Imagine being the subject of a bogus censure where they lied about what you said, had colleagues and POTUS baselessly claim you should be deported, then have some shitty website claim you were given a "softball interview" bc they showed you an ounce of compassion. Fuck these ppl.

If I was in a Dem in power, the first thing I'd do is audit Tom Homan's financials to see if and where he recorded this $50k payment. If he didn't record it, while you don't have him on bribery, you do have him on tax evasion.

At some point we need to reconcile the belief from conservatives that universities are shitty institutions that just poison the youth and their insistence that even those shitty universities are too good for students of color.

I've seen way too many time travel stories about that and it just ends in a worse one replacing him.

It's farcical how the Trump administration is almost exclusively run by people who are comically unqualified or blatantly corrupt.

The youth's out here using smilies and emojis that don't make sense or are unnecessarily redundant. Why can't you just use lol & lmao?

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

The correct framing for Charlie Kirk's attack on Black people using Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson is... he believed that Black people were unqualified to hold positions of power and were stealing those positions from White people. That lines up with his words

My policy pitch for a Democrat that wants to rock the boat: introduce a new "payroll" tax for any company that uses AI in place of human workers. Set the tax base at some hourly rate * human hours "saved." Save real jobs + continue to fund SS/MCaid/MCare + slow the AI churn.

What's the general take on Greg Casar from TX and Joe Neguse from CA? I see them enough, but don't see them on the wrong side of issues a lot/at all?

This is why the whole "climate scientists are bought and paid for by xxx" line was always so dumb. Yeah, the scientists are so ready to take a bribe, but Chevron can't afford to pay more than the Environmental Defense Fund for "fake" studies on climate change...🙄

Since it's clear that everyone actually does want cancel culture, even when they pretend they don't, the only clear path forward is a consensus on what's cancellable. If the Right wants making bad jokes about ppl dying to be cancellable, then I want the same for dehumanizing ppl on race & gender

Game theory in politics works like this: Side A: Criticize opposition, work with opposition Side B: Criticize opposition, work with opposition If Side B ALWAYS chooses Opt 2, then Side A knows they can get the best results -- policy, coverage, narrative control, etc -- by ALWAYS choosing Opt 1.

Hey Clay, GFY,P

And what's your mother's maiden name...😀

Can someone point me to the last mass shooter who wasn't raised in a rightwing home that loved guns? Maybe the issue isn't video games, anti-depressants, the internet, or trans folks. Maybe the issue is the weirdos raising kids to glorify guns end up creating monsters who use guns to settle scores.

Typical autocrat-apologizer: autocrats dismantle the safeguards that protect democracy from the inside. Me, on guard for autocrats: and how TF do they get into position to dismantle the safeguards from the inside, Ben? #FuckingAcquaman

This White man killed someone who he thought was a threat to democracy. Was he radicalized by the trans furry roommate? Or the Republican family that worshipped guns as God's answer to tyrants?

I've scored several fights against Canelo, but this is the first time I've scored him getting his ass beat

I never realized how much Canelo not having a jab was such a detriment to his offense. If he could jab his way in, he'd be having a much better fight than he's having now

Leftists need to go on the offense in the messaging war. If they come up with bullshit about college radicalizing White kids, flip it back on them. It's not college, it's rightwing parenting that's radicalizing White kids. Swaddling kids in guns and anti-tyranny messaging from birth has an impact

I don't believe a single one of these charlatans in the media claiming that we should be more open-minded in having controversial discussions with vile people bc for the most part these are the same people that wanted to crack down on college students because of "From the river to the sea"

So everyone defending Kirk for "doing politics right..." Let's see you host an anti-Israel Palestinian on your platform. Let's see you have a "respectful" debate with someone who thinks "Jews are evil" and wants to spread blood libel. Bc that's what you value, right? "Respectful" debate, right?

Let's be real... The only reason Rufo didn't jump off his bandwagon sooner was that Patel's Trumpiness *barely* outweighed his Brownness, which is the unforgivable sin in Rufo's eyes. The second Rufo could stack the deck against Patel, he'd knife Patel in the back.

Tyler Robinson = Thomas Crooks. Both were kids raised in deeply Conservative environments and fixated on guns. Ppl like that see themselves as would-be revolutionaries ready to take down the next American tyrant. Liberalism has nothing to do with this. Conservatives raise their own killers!

It just occurred to me that one of the consistent things about Republican outcry after in assassination attempt is how much they harp on "calling us Nazis and fascists." It always bothered me because it's such a weak complaint for a party that loves free speech, right? 1/

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

For the first few weeks of a baby's life, they are just experiencing a non-stop deluge of the worst things that have ever happened to them. And they have no context, so to them that might just be what existence is... constant, new levels of pain and torture. But then it kind of gets better.

It's funny watching how US media is seriously beating the drum for this idea that no one should die because of their political beliefs... Meanwhile the vast majority of them have been siding with Israel killing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians because "they voted for Hamas 20 years ago"

Burn down the ENTIRE media environment, including liberal clowns on the airwaves -- MSNBC, ABC, Tarlov, etc. Not one of them has the decency or balls to stand up and ask why liberals aren't as protected from rightwing nutjobs as conservatives are from leftwing** nutjobs. **not confirmed

The fact that Trump made a speech about Charlie Kirk is exactly the type of thing that's going to lead to more political violence. Where was the speech for Melissa Hortman, a sitting politician? Trump's video is making the argument that killing Liberals is fair and killing Conservatives is wrong.

r/hiphopheads is having a moment yall...😮😮😮

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

So we're just gonna pretend that Charlie Kirk didn't believe that anytime a Black person was in any kind of highly regarded position, that person only got there bc *they* lowered the standards to let Black ppl in...? Just gonna hold memorials like he was a shining example of American punditry, huh?

The next time yall think we should be taking the high road, just remember whose lives you're playing with. Plenty of innocent PoC and trans folks were willfully put in figurative cross hairs by that walking trash heap to serve his political agenda. IDGAF that he died bc that's the energy HE brought.

If MFers don't start reviewing the prisoner's dilemma from Econ 101 to understand where the Left vs Right agenda is right now, we're truly fucked. And the reason that we're going to be fucked is bc we insist on taking the moral high ground instead of looking out for our liberal interests.

My prediction post-Charlie Kirk is that the Left rallies together to decry all political violence + start a new push for some kind of symbolic gun control measure and the Right rallies together to call all Democrats murderers + start a campaign to put us in concentration camps.

It’s not considered political violence to round up people and put them in concentration camps. It’s not considered political violence to fund ethnic cleansing and genocide. Very interesting what’s considered political violence and deemed unacceptable.

It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.

If I was in charge, I'd use the anti-DEI push to strip all those red states of their college sports programs. You don't want to let Black students in? Cool. Now you can't recruit Black athletes on anything but GPA and test scores. Let the states who are open-minded benefit from Black talent...

The thing about taxing billionaires is that it's not like they have to put in more hours to pay that tax bill. All of them -- Every. Single. One -- just has to sell the FREE shares they received from their companies and make $98 instead of $100. That's it.

My unofficial translation of smilies to real words... 😀 Hi/Hey 😃 Congrats 😄 Ha! 😁 Thank you/plz! 😆 [ISTG I've never used this, but feels... Japanese?] 😅 Uhhhh...lol 😂 Lol 🤣 ROFL 😭 Nooooo...

oh so we're referring to the biden era as a boom now, huh

So tell me again how CRT was wrong for calling out how racism was built into much of American domestic policy when SCOTUS just ruled that racism to harass POC is okay, but racism to benefit POC is unfair...?

My kingdom for a Fed department who's sole purpose is to expose politicians to the policies they support bc they don't think it will impact them. Dept of FAFO stops Kavanaugh bc of his Irish features, ignores his ID and claims of citizenship, and then sends him to Uzebekistan to argue his case.

GF: I'm taking my dog back to that vet. He did a good job. Me: Which one? GF: The gay one we saw after the surgery. Me: The Dominican? GF: ...🤨

The insanity of claiming anyone but you is paving the way for Trump when Trump is clearly trying to get you in office...😑