The way to get the votes is to try. Giving up will not get the votes. Forcing the issue might. and showing the people that they're fighting might help overcome their reputation for being useless wimps who never do anything.

You can always tell a centrist “you just don’t understand Pelosi’s brilliant 17-d chess” by their incredible bad faith. No one is saying Dems could impeach Trump. But Dems should be at least TALKING about it. “What he’s doing is impeachable.” “That is AJ impeachable act.”

I am angry at them. A party that rode the largest anti-police protest in US history all the way to the Oval and then folded on EVERY. SINGLE. PROGRESSIVE. PROMISE, perpetuated a genocide proudly, and THANKED ICE last month can all get fucked.

America needs to have a long talk with itself and its constitution about whether it makes sense to vest so much discretionary unreviewable power in one person. Any Westminster PM behaving like Trump would have been (figuratively) knifed in the back by his caucus long ago.

The moment calls for a strident defense of immigration and a multi-ethnic society but Dems are so committed to converting Republican voters that they’re all sitting quietly.

One of the many indictments of American society in these years is the fact that the Epstein Files have not produced a massive upheaval and mass punishment but instead have just shown the utter impunity of the mighty. We truly live in a dual state - harsh law for some, no rules for other.

It is just repulsive to see such gutter racism at the highest levels of government and the fact that Miller is not being denounced by literally every single elected politician in the country - and instead praised by the governing party - is an incredibly damning indictment of American society.

Arthur C Clarke predicted that in the future, video and photographs wouldn’t be admissible evidence in court because of the danger of fabrication, and it sure feels like we are headed that way.

The last 9 years have exposed that there is something very, very rotten in the state of American journalism. From top to bottom, our supposed media elites have failed us into fascism.

Another day, another TEN missed opportunities for the DNC to speak on behalf of Dems about the abomination of the day. Mark Kelly shouldn’t have to defend himself alone. The DNC, the national Dem PARTY should be speaking up for him and the other members of Congress all over the place. WHYYYYY

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

The fact that no one but obscure backbenchers are calling for Trump’s impeachment shows how just not up to the moment Dems are.

Literally everyone but the rich straight white geriatric consultant bro class knew that centrism was stupid, but that didn't stop the Dems from throwing the country to the wolves over and over again listening to their stupid fucking ideas.

Jeffries talks about these things as if they’re part of the weather - things that happen without any human input, and that can’t be altered. No human agency behind this, there was just an indictment and now it’s gone, move along, nothing else to see.

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

What kind of awful humans would green light this? The should be sent to a remote island with nothing and left to fend for themselves.

While in theory I object (we should tax billionaires so we can have nice things for everyone), the simple fact is that Americans don’t love public spending on nice public things and so the only way we can have nice things is to have these kinds of sponsorships.

Exactly this! My commute could be so easy, but (1) the bus-to-light-rail is slow and infrequent, then (2) if you just miss a train, the next is along maybe in 10 but maybe 25 and (3) sometimes you sit at Union Station for 10 mins, no explanation. Or I can get in my car and be there in 25 minutes.

This should prompt massive soul-searching by all the centrist Dems who are so terminally online that they actually believe that America First ideas are mainstream in America. But it won’t, trans people will keep being thrown under the bus, and Dems will keep moving right.

It’s so depressing this will be lost in the sea of shock and awe, but it was always plainly obvious and now confirmed: many conservative organizations are pure astroturf, and Democrats relentlessly attempt to court these fake outraged Americans, instead of their left wing base.

I wish for peace upon all peoples of the earth and for the oppressors to be vanquished once and for all. Let all humane hearts unite.

Trump tried to block inter-library loans - why? What on earth is this in service of? Why the fuck aren’t Dems screaming about fascism instead of boring press releases about Medicaid?

Dems: “this is a distraction from Medicaid.”

Bleak. Democrats and liberals are enabling this by remaining on the platform, lending it mainstream legitimacy it does not deserve

LLMs trained on law libraries have been deployed widely across law firms and courts to disastrous effect b/c people vastly misunderstand their capabilities and it proves an underlying contempt for the process of justice by the very people we entrust to administer it. If you care, you do it right.

My absolute favorite posts are like "Wow, you can't do xyz yet! Best approach is to do something completely different and lie to everyone about why you are doing that because then everyone will understand when you suddenly decide to do xyz." So gaslight the public. Great idea.

By every metric, Canada is a better country: healthier, more peaceful, greater social harmony in spite of its much greater linguistic and cultural diversity, better educated, none of the precariousness of life in America. Vance can go fuck himself with a cactus.

Endless corruption, and all Dems can do is send text messages asking for $5 to help them defend Medicaid.

Not gay, not liberals, not coastal elites, not trans, not socialist, not Dems, but bog-standard right-wing straight Christian men.

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Exactly this! I get fundraising texts all day that are “give me money so I can protect Medicaid” and NOTHING about “and I’ll also remove this vile corrupt tyrant,” or even “give me money so I can protect democracy.” If they’re not for impeachment then they’re just a performative opposition.

Americans love to lecture the world and pat ourselves on the back about our supposedly amazing democracy and our amazing press and press freedom and it all fell apart faster than the Weimar Republic did. It’s always been nothing but a myth we told ourselves.

Surely this should cause every Evangelical to reject Musk and Grok? Oh, wait, their piety is fake in the first place. They’re all tying themselves into pretzels trying to find a way that Jesus is okay with raping kids.

All conservatives - small or big c - are sociopaths.

You’ll notice that the same media who couldn’t stop attacking Biden’s age or Hillary’s emails to her daughter or President Obama’s tan suit are now okay with a convicted criminal bulldozing the White House for his ballroom and inviting actual murderers to the Oval Office.

America isn’t sending their best

“History will remember”. Oh, you mean you’ve lost and you have no hope for justice in your lifetime so you’re waiting for historians long after your death to say mean things about other dead people. That will show them.

Every day I feel hyperaware we are living in an even more blatant dual state The dual state describes a society divided into a normal state, which operates according to set rules & laws, & a “prerogative state”, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness & violence unchecked by any legal guarantees”

Jake Tapper: "Most coherent president ever, he's like the love child of Cicero and Churchill."

Dems would rather welcome MTG into their tent than let AOC have any leadership role, and if they have to sacrifice gay and trans rights to get MTG on board, they’ll do it. A directionless party that stands for nothing.

All it would take is Dems - the people with a platform - with one voice endlessly decrying the awfulness an the cruelty and the corruption. But instead all they want to talk about is kitchen table nonsense, which is never going to galvanize people against him.

It just feels like we’ve become incapable of fighting back. Like no matter what happens, no matter how absurd and grave and obviously corrupt shit gets, we all just roll over like “must be Tuesday”. There’s no floor. There’s never gonna be a floor, but we’re all afraid and atomized and exhausted.

“If America was fascist”. An essay by Tom Nichols. If America was fascist it would be just like 1984 or Schindlers list or Brazil and because we are not in those movies I have seen therefore it cannot be fascism. By Tom Nichols. (My mom said I had to write an essay after watching movies)

Isn't it weird how Democrats get really forceful in their language when they're talking about people to their left? Meanwhile, we're constantly told everybody to our right is somebody we should be friends with.

idc if he's a big dem donor, if reid hoffman had sex with children on epstein's island he should go to jail for rape and if he didn't then the truth needs to come out and he should only go to jail for creating linkedin

It’s also astonishing that MTG is way more hardcore on Epstein than 99% of elected Dems.

Fuck these quisling Dems. Fuck any Dem who ever supports anything this vile administration is doing.