"Don't make me feel foolish for my earnest belief and hope" is a biggie more of you could use.

The TARDIS steals more Timelords.

currently in the bottom emoji humidity tier

Anyway, Republicans see this and stuff like CoreCivic/GEO opening up new camps in dying towns and saw a model that would help give life support to any dying white majority rural county, not just in Texas but in Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, etc. Anyway, a Garrison state of used car barons is the goal.

“We’re making used car salesmen as a class but for concentration camps” is a lot more banal but also descriptively useful

Border Patrol is a jobs program for the least competent high school grads who don't want to leave their dead-end borderlands towns. Those people, unfortunately, vote.

see I would vote for both of them because Vote Blue No Matter Who

rapists doing what rapists do so they can feel powerful about someone else's suffering. they know this defiling of the country "owns the libs" and that's why they do it. it is the politics of rape

Israel is just Pakistan with better PR and worse cricket. And that, unfortunately, means running Noble Anvil II on the Knesset isn't an option.

Also, I shudder to think of the tidal wave of antisemitism we're going to get if the narrative going into 2027 is, "Israel, specifically and unilaterally, caused a global recession and an equally global food shortage due to fertilizer disruption." Nothing good comes of that, nothing.

While I am firmly committed to VBNMW, I do think, just like 2024, this is a great time to avoid seeking out people of a given ethnic group and demand they vote for your candidate after they've made affirmative steps to alienate that ethnic group

The next few years are gonna get fuckin' *weird.* (I'd say dark, but honestly not much has changed in that front)

just think: we could have bought ten more aircraft carriers for that price

Cultural liberalism *is* an ideology. And it's the only one worth a damn. Else you end up pretending sex pests are paragons and mistake means for ends.

One of the early names for Gen Z was "New Silents." I think there's some resonance there.

for all the talk of millennial radicalization, which I think is correct, not enough ink spilled on the generation that came of age under Trump after a childhood in the shadow of the GFC

Canada's better governed than the US right now but it's a lot worse governed than the typical bluish-purple state in the US.

kalshi and polymarket should, flatly, be regulated out of existence I'm generally not big on moral arguments for this stuff but they are tremendously destructive to civil society as a whole

It is true that Islamic theocracy is Very Bad and is repressive for many, like women or LGBTQ people. I would not like to live under an Islamic theocracy. However, there is no world in which the USA will be an Islamic theocracy anytime soon, and a Christian theocracy is knocking at our door, so...

Some electorates just suck, and people who aren’t campaigning to them should feel free to say that.

Uh, hey, Sir Keir. What the fuck?

A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.

I will only speak for Christians here, but: we don't get to do this "distributed according to oppressor/oppressed" thing.

The Hyde Amendment is an abomination and fundamentally contrary to the very idea of a society.

When I look at the last five years of abortion rights, I think it is Democrats who must show nuance and compromise. I analyze American politics for a living. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

Democrats like Democrats who are Democrats. And Democrats are Pro-choice, not pro-restruction. This nonsense does not now, and never has, make sense.

"highly profitable" DCAA and DCMA would like a word.

The Knicks need to make sure Ted Cruz is in attendance for the rest of the series.

So the Knicks win 13 playoff games in a row, a historic run! Then Donald Trump shows up to their first NBA finals home game this century, falls asleep, and they promptly lose lmao.

They're calling it the Trump Curse folks and people are saying it brings blight to the land. "Blight," that old fashioned word you don't hear much any more.

Literally thousands of finance bros who'd vote for Lenin if he promised to string Trump up first

Transplant discourse is just people deliberately avoiding reconciling the end of white flight, urban revitalization, and the weird refusal of a lot of liberals to explicitly defend their own interests.

Building on this to theorize that transplant discourse is just a mystifyication of the class character of American cities

Eh, the phones aren't the reason teenagers have been actively excluded from basically all public spaces. They're a shunt that enabled public accommodation to pretend they didn't have a massive free rider problem.

Once you realize the limits of Boycott Activism and consumer-style actions, you’re confronted with the choice of (i) opting out/quitting, (ii) nihilistic flailing/trolling, (iii) approving the status quo, or (iv) participating with broken institutions without fully approving/defending them.

BREAKING: Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed James Talarico: “I defended Ken Paxton for years in the impeachment trial and in state criminal cases. But in my view, I think Ken has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas.  That’s why I'm supporting you.”

Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry

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the emerging urbanist majority

The LA election discourse is a good reminder that Democrats are overly process focused and build well intentioned systems that move far too slowly, whereas Republicans are really stupid.

🎵 Don't do it 🎶 🎵 Bibi don't do it 🎵 🎵 Whatever you're thinking 🎶 🎶 Bibi just don't 🎶 🎵 Don't say it 🎶 🎵 D-d-dont say it 🎵 🎶 Whatever you're thinking, don't 🎵 🎶 Just kidding nevermind 🎶

this administration:

HAHAHAHA SHE DID IT RAMAN GOES TO THE RUN OFF AGAINST BASS

🎶You need the touch It's in your face You show it so well It's in your face You don't have to tell You need the touch You power true and I'll power you🎵 youtu.be/gYBh03_1bfE?...

Cenk and co are trying to "small-bean" this. And Democrats attack their own primary candidates constantly. Just look at that bastard Jared Golden. Or the mess that was the Cali primary.

I am actually okay when pete inevitably cooks the books to say they got a clean opinion next year, just because it'll remove this stupid fucking talking point from the discourse

Personally I don’t believe that being working class involves being an alcoholic who beats your wife and it’s shocking some folks online do think that’s the case

That is, Democrats did not vote for a “return to normalcy” in ‘20. They voted to punish the other side and reform the system—politically and economically—so Trump couldn’t return. They got people who stood tall stood still. Like football that’s when you get knocked on your ass.

god forbid, someone have bisexual lighting. could you imagine. if the master chief. dated outside a typical heterosexual relationship??? how could he blow up the rings if he kissed a boy!