I like this observation from Andrew Preston

Guy who hates AOC for being a Catholic as much as be hates her for being a hispanic woman

John Calhoun would get banned, but then be brought back under Musk

Best Superman Story has still never been adapted to film. It’s called Peace on Earth, and consists of Superman trying to use his powers to facilitate the transfer of surplus food produced in the US to people around the world. Spoilers: Hunger’s not a problem you can punch!

This has gotta end

Selected because he’s an evil moron, not in spite of that fact

We’ve been in the Trump era long enough( barely a decade) that everyone has tunnel vision now

*The Forever war they opposed after starting what came to be known as the forever war

Trump’s George Shultz

It’s all the eighties, man

1) This person cannot read(many such cases!) 2) Unhinged, given Trump just threatened to commit Genocide in Iran

Dude this app sucks so much. Redid a post multiple times and it still won’t come out with the image cropped

Most insane part of this is that he’s lowkey blaming the stark crew here, lmao

Hey, they’re bringing back the good ole days of McKinley, when the army was disease ridden

The Tanker War is one of those really weird corners of history that actually happened. Iraq really does successfully sink a US ship....and the USA shoots up Iran instead.

(Notice how he only got tough on Iran after the arms deals were exposed)

Weird how Reagan also kinda started a war with Iran in his second term

Interesting

Another great example(courtesy of Sarcasmitron)

This has been a thing since at least Reagan. Conservatives do NOT like it when you repeat what they said and draw conclusions from it.

Probably not the first to note this, but the kind of tacky capitalist excess Trump has embodied since the 80’s is exactly the model the Gulf Monarchs(especially UAE) have adopted and would explain their affinity for him

Reagan hammered Ford for not meeting with Solzhenitsyn. This led to the inclusion of a tribute to him in the 1976 GOP platform

Huh I wonder if this tendency will ever manifest itself in another form

Remember when Reagan went through six nat sec advisors

Lol Richard Reeves describing Reagan’s style of leadership

This is noteworthy because he’s writing about four months before the invasion and siege of Beirut here

Probably just fake news(1981 diary entry from Reagan)

Immediately wishlisted

It is really, really, useful that we can use the congressional record to check political figures on policy issues. Doing research on Mondale for example, and it would be a bit harder if he hadn’t been a Senator.

So in 2024 he was on board with Liz Cheney endorsing Harris right?

For all intents and purposes the strange land called ‘new england’ does not exist to me

Might just be a bit optimistic, but I think the 2028 nominee pays lip service to protectionism while governing closer to free trade after all this mess

Roosevelt lifted rural America out of the 19th century

Very cool to completely fail at dislodging the regime, while simultaneously elevating the most hardline elements

Stole Dinesh’s whole flow

Remember when the lameduck period lasted until March

The narrative shift on the sonic movie franchise was pretty crazy to watch happen in real time. I still remember when the first trailer came out and got clowned on now there’s three movies that are widely liked(Haven’t seen a single one of them mind you).

Our near constant election cycles are pretty crazy. Like 2028 campaign is gonna start in earnest next year, that’s wild!

Trump’s not stumping for a single Republican in 28

Shrinking the tax base to terrorize productive members of the community

Very excited for this game.

This is uh…my first time hearing about this lore. What the fuck.

I’ve decided to write a substack piece expressing my thoughts on this in more detail. Stay tuned!

I’ve just never understood, on a personal level, the disdain for expertise Americans exhibit.

I agree but I also worry that the next Dem pres gets ratfucked again, especially with the second order effects of Trumpnomics setting in.

I think i use exclamation points too much

To be frank this is less ‘imperial presidency’ than coordination between captured institutions. Republicans control every branch right now!