Again, the best counter Democrats have to this if they actually cared (they don’t) would be to make it clear what a bad investment this is for funders because in 3–4 years, they are seizing the company, breaking it up, and you are going to lose a lot of money

The reason I despise and have always been disgusted by the White House correspondents dinner so much is because it is a perfect encapsulation of our media in that everyone attending is a person who believes they deserve to be there and everyone else in their industry doesn’t.

I'm tired of this anti-tax bullshit from Democrats. Want to support the health and wellness of first responders? Tax wealthy people to give first responders (and all Americans) free health care.

What truly makes this great is that brief half second Cross realizes Maher just said something with the exact tone and delivery he would have made himself, but he would be saying it as a joke, and Maher was dead serious

Incredibly annoying how another crazy douchebag provided cover for how absolutely offensive it was for 1,500 members of our media to cheer on this president at a dinner they ostensibly claim is to “celebrate free speech”

“We’ll tear it down, and we’ll seize the assets of anyone who participated in building it and refund it to the taxpayers.” That’s it. That’s the campaign. 350 electoral votes. Just do it. Think like an average American for once for godssakes

I wonder how I would react if I shared that my wife miscarried and some rando online said this about her. Probably not well

Hey man, fuck you

So excited they finally added fishing to my favorite cozy game, Diablo IV

L, and I cannot stress this enough, MAO

I legitimately am starting to think these guys are just getting tired of being in control of Congress.

Millennials are the elite generation because we cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period. Read More >>

These people are such utter goddamned pussies.

He was watching a magic trick and then fell down while someone was arrested in another room

It's been a quarter-century since we elected a sitting governor president and it baffles me how obsessed we still are with thinking there's a greased slide right into the Oval Office for someone from this current batch of unlikable dipshits

Because conservatives like winning elections and liberals like winning arguments

The issue here is the 2016-era "they have to say the sensible stuff to appeal to voters in the elections" excuse is bullshit. 84% of people who voted Democrat last election say they want Trump impeached again! 21% OF TRUMP VOTERS WANT IT. Mindless pandering to the pearl-clutching DC media.

SCOVA realizes in the wake of a dozen states successfully manipulating their maps, they’d have to actively find the most minute of details to override the will of the people in this one. I think their ruling is going to be a legal version of “we’re allowing this but we’re very disappointed in you.”

We already saw them try to do it but what's obviously happening here is they're trying to whip up a frenzy so they can ram through a bill for everything else they want, like the SAVE Act will now include the ballroom and it might work because Democrats are that stupid

Ten years may as well be a paleolithic eon in politics but your occasional reminder that one of the handwaved but clearly incredibly prescient in retrospect "controversies" of Trump's first presidential run was when he said he'd pay the bail for anyone who beat up a protestor at his rallies.

I watched the 60 Minutes interview and my only recurring thought is who does Norah O'Donnell think she's doing this for. Like at least I understand Bari Weiss' ulterior motives and the blatant cravenness of her bullshit. Does O'Donnell truly believe Trump is a sympathetic character? It's so weird

we are only a third of the way through 2026 and there have already been 98 mass shootings in the US this year. I do not recall Republicans or any news media personalities suggesting the solution to any of them involved building the victims their own ballroom.

129 journalists were killed last year and we have spent the last 24 hours watching a handful of the most powerful and useless people in political media talk about how scary and dangerous a thing that happened three blocks away was.

The jokes all aside, yes. I think he does believe this. I think he believes the Ballroom will be so beautiful and majestic that they will want to host the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the Grammys there and he will get to go to all of them. That this is literally impossible is irrelevant.

It's big. That stupid arch that will never get built is big. Trump Tower was big. The Freudian elements to this aside, this is how Trump believes he will create a legacy. Not in words or deeds, but in monuments. The ballroom is a REALLY BIG room. He has the brain of a child.

It's so hilarious he's spending all the political capital on this on the fucking ballroom. Bush cowed Congress and the media into the PATRIOT Act, creating a new cabinet-level government agency, and the largest expansion of the surveillance apparatus in history. Trump wants a big room

Obviously, I don’t want anyone to die or get hurt–stupid that we even have to say that–but a large part of political media‘s shock at the reactions to last night continue to stem from their insane belief they deserve some sort of reverence from the public for reasons only they see amongst themselves

An already unacceptably right-leaning press corps is gearing up to go further right because a bad thing almost happened near them; they were in that position to begin with because they decided access to fascism is more important that accurately describing it

Four hours ago half the people in that room thought the most important news story in the entire world was a twitch streamer's thoughts on shoplifting

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

my political cause is being shitty to any journalist who would attend the WHCA dinner

They're calling it one of the most "replies turned off" posts ever

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Patel is so fucking fired isn’t he

We are unprepared for the sheer number of different permutations of each of these people interviewing each other about what heroes they were for being there when this happened.

A very plausible side effect of the Second Reconstruction we all hope occurs in 2029 is the massive (and well supported) flurry of repairing all the buildings and landmarks Trump wrecked will make it so much easier so take care of Confederate monuments while we’re at it.

okay but they did all that and the "shoplifting epidemic" wasn't and still is not real. this is a nothing argument because it's not actually happening

It’s honestly insane to watch American conservatives pretend that the energy transition just is not happening. Batteries are bridging the gap in California. Many countries in Europe get the majority of their power from wind and solar. It’s just… here.

If Maine's legislature passed a bill that banned drowning puppies in the state and Mills vetoed it because it didn't give a carveout for one town to build a puppy-drowning facility you'll have to excuse my dumbassery for "she cared deeply about revitalizing the town's economy" not really fazing me

if southern white voters were, like, 50% less racist so many states would be in play (which is not to say white voters everywhere aren't racist, but if you look at the white vote in the south vs the white vote everywhere else hoo boy)

I love IHOP. I love getting all my eating for the day done by 9:30 AM

We have gone from “read another book” to “read one book, read any book, I am literally begging you”

The most annoying part of the Hasan Piker discourse is how it has repeatedly overheated and crashed JackTron, the robot I built to automatically simulate the jackoff motion at peak efficiency. It simply wasn’t prepared for this capacity.

Folks, I know this will be tough, but it’s actually okay to not get incredibly bent out of shape about Trump doing renovations to the Reflecting Pool. He’s not as much “destroying” it as clearly getting grifted by a bunch of contractors. The outrage is if he’s spending taxpayer money but that’s it.

the real problem with hasan is he doesn't support israel's genocide and he advocates for higher taxes on the wealthy. that's it. those are the only two opinions that bar you from the democrat 'big tent'

At risk of stating the obvious here, they could also just, like Dave, not go. They could always have just not gone. Sophie's Choice, this is not.

Are the elephants okay

Trump blowing to hell the 20-year project to make Marco Rubio president right at the last moment is going to be Republicans' version of Hillary dropping the ball at the 1-yard line