NYT was the most accurate pollster in 2024. It showed Trump winning the popular vote as well as making huge gains with Latinos and young voters. Morris and Rebecca Katz will own the demise of our republic and Chuck Schumer caught flat footed will deserve all the shit he gets.

No need to worry. I’m sure it’ll be fine!

I’m reading Yesteryear. And apparently if you have a failson, you give him a bs hobby job and a wife to keep him straightened out and then get him a job in politics. Written before Fetterman and Platner. But, sigh. Correctly diagnosing both of them. And also Bernie.

Something happened to Gen X and above that makes them triggered at the word socialism and communism. Chevalier is a terrible candidate. But the way they reflexively panic at the DSA seems like a historical panic memory. Younger generations don’t feel it. It makes sense. We grew up post USSR.

They’re gonna end birthright citizenship. A few months ago I wouldn’t have thought so. But I’ve come to suspect it. Dobbs. Trump v. U.S. they always wait to the end of the term to murder the U.S. constitution. And they’re on a white nationalist murder spree. Maybe I’ll be wrong. Would be nice.

That interview with Usha… “Well, I grew up in a stable family…” Girl… How you gonna call your husband white trash on television.

The power struggle between the DSA and Black voters is honestly so fucking stupid. I’m a middle child and a consensus maker and the inability for people to get along to *checks notes* stop fascists… We should kick insane people out of the party and also put the factionalism on hold for a minute.

The scare tactics about Brad Lander being some socialist extremist is both idiotic and will backfire.

Chuck Schumer needs to go. Democrats are experiencing both a fascist takeover of our country and an insurgent movement from the left. They need to pivot to being more responsive to voters and I’m sorry but an 80 year old guy who uses a flip phone and champions Israel is the wrong leader.

I voted against all the incumbents. I went in fully prepared to be an establishment Dem, but my anger at Trump got the better of me. I don’t know man, I think November is gonna have a lot of surprises.

This Supreme Court is a disaster, disgrace to the rule of law, and a stain on this nation. 6-3. 6. 3. Every justice thinks you can strip legal status just on sentiment. Incredible.

I think the break with the DSA was a long time coming. But I do think the war in Gaza made it much more galvanizing an issue for Gen Z. It’s become a singular “pro genocide” label you can attach to anyone. And “anti-genocide” to support even scummy candidates, like someone who signed up for Iraq.

This worked really well for Joe Biden she should keep doing this.

With no particular person in mind, we’re getting to the time period where all the shitheads who have paved the way for this oligarchy we are living in are gonna end up meeting Father Time.

I really worried that the deal to end the war would eliminate this hugely unpopular issue for Republicans. Gas prices would drop. The stock market would go up. All just in time for the midterms. Obviously forgetting what a total fuck up Trump is.

I know in the scale of current crises this is so way down the list. But it’s really shitty how global warming has essentially ruined nature, weather, the seasons. It’s never just a nice sunny day, or a spring day anymore. We’re always in the midst of winds and rain and hail. It’s such a loss.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

I don’t think Obama should be chumming it up with W and thanking him for anything. Yeah yeah I get it he’s not Trump. But a) he’s responsible for so much of this, Alito and Roberts have destroyed America. b) we tried the “Trump isn’t like other republicans” strategy & it failed.

MAGA is big mad over this Obama center opening. Dear god. I didn’t even realize it was opening and only found out because the haters are losing their minds.

Reading the headlines to see the breathless panic about how Trump’s capitulation is a total disaster and failure. Where’s the CNN wall to wall coverage about how we failed by losing 13 service members and letting radicals exert power? How this is legacy destroying? That’s just for Biden, I guess.

2/x first, Trump's election was the result of an untested hypothesis--namely, that Republicans couldn't actually nominate the candidate their collective id wanted--a cruel, mean-spirited, hyper-racist rapist failson--because the American public would reject it. Hypothesis disproven.

The situation with Iran is a great reminder of how much in the world of both domestic and international politics depends on uncertainty and hypotheses that were untested until Trump decided to Leroy Jenkins the entire international order. 1/x

In Biden, Netanyahu had an ally who staunchly defended Israel’s security even to the extreme and only pushed back against his most war crimey & bad ideas. He’d have had a commitment to keep Israel safe under Harris. Instead he chose the guy who gave Iran $300 billion & the Strait of Hormuz.

A surrender treaty at Versailles, you say?

I think JD and Marco are done for after this. It’s that atrocious. I know we’re in a weird self-cannibalization moment in America. But there’s no way you’re gonna sell giving $300 billion to terrorists to anybody, at any time, in any way.

I unironically support this.

So, to recap the Iran war - US blew up a building full of schoolgirls - 13 service members & many more Iranian civilians died - global economic pain - ending with a functional total surrender & most of the world worse off All for a vanity war Trump promised he’d never start

lol wait until China invades Taiwan. Congratulations morons. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-p...

When you’re voting to stop woke and instead run US hegemony into the gutter and end the foundation of modern prosperity, a century of free global maritime navigation. The stupidity of American voters will live in infamy. What a bunch of idiots we were.

I need everyone to understand this. JD Vance is not a neophyte or “bad we politics.” Sure hey may have negative charisma. But his entire persona is manipulated to win over the young Christian male Gen Z movement. May be a bad bet electorally. But there’s a growing constituency for it.

Joe Biden was a great president if your goal was the govern and never have to live through an election again. People complain about Obama, but he knew voters were stupid and didn’t expect them to come to reason, and governed and campaign as such.

Biden‘s embrace of Bibi Netanyahu is a historic and generational disaster that will cost the Democratic Party potentially for decades. Choosing an issue that’s so captured young voters and embracing a war criminal was political suicide. It will take so much work to develop trust with voters again.

The reason Platner is being left out of donor communications is because the main donors to democrats are college educated women and we find him disgusting and I’d much rather donate to Sherrod Brown.

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“Come on, can’t we hate women and gays together.” That’s what they want. But they can’t because they’re not white.

My husband is a veteran. Definitely left the service with PTSD and we had some hard years as he adjusted to normal life. He’s not a misogynist, he doesn’t think women are to blame for rape, he doesn’t enjoy Nazi culture, and he retains his moral core. Tom is correct. It’s an excuse.

Look what Mamdani had done to this city.

Traders still convinced their uncle has their nose

It’s bad that people don’t feel ashamed of being bigoted anymore.

I wanted to say dislike a lot. But then I remembered Harris humiliating Trump at the debate and it was one of the best things I’ve ever seen in life.

19 years ago today, we lost Anthony John Soprano to gun violence.

I just really really don’t like this. Once you start to blur the lines of ethics and acceptable behavior for elected officials (yes I know they’re in the toilet already) how many more moral compromises do you make.

Both parties are shit. It was naive to think the dirtbag manosphere assholes wouldn’t take over the left. This isn’t bitterness. It’s a prediction of where our politics are headed. We are a broken country. And we’re in a bad place.

I brought up the Maine election to my husband today and he replied “I am a progressive but I don’t want a Nazi.” 🥲 I love this guy.

Uhhhhh….

That *is* domestic violence. So many misogynist are outing themselves over this guy.

Not only is he likely to lose, but he will likely cause collateral damage to other Democrats.

Never expected “come on, what’s the big deal he just smacked her around a couple of times” to be normalized by the left.

You heal yourself with therapy not by becoming a US Senator.

I'm sure every Democrat in a competitive House and Senate race is looking forward to being repeatedly asked about Graham Platner for the next 5 months.