Look, not to pick on this lady in particular, but do people not have moral agency anymore?

All the sodas started out as an attempt to stop people from touching themselves and a cure for “clotted eye” but now we all go “I love Doc Tipsys Chastity Tonic! It’s made right here in Rockville!”

I really wish someone with a nose ring would sharply tell Nate Silver that it’s important to talk as much as possible, so he would in reaction absolutely shut the fuck up forever

Working on an ideology called Nate Silverism where you start with the premise that Donald Trump is wildly popular and immigrants and abortion are wildly unpopular and simply reason from there

i sure do. when i hire someone to do a fucking job and they dont do the job i dont say "great job"

I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour

The Yankees beating out the Braves here in the Carolinas speaks to how MLB can’t continue to treat the Braves as the Southeast’s team. It’s not. Charlotte needs an expansion team.

elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity

I genuinely think none of this gets solved until we stop electing people who think in terms of "acceptable loss" and not in terms of "people"

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better. Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

I reject the Crockett electabiltiy arguments out of hand. For 30 years, TX Dems have run a non-offensive white guy who always gets beat by a car salesman who bought his wife from Belorussia and is diddling his daughters. Be open to something different. You can run a loudmouth.

Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.

this is why i prefer the term "the malaise." there is *demonstrably* a malaise. nobody likes The Current Thing™️. but *what* they're mad about? or more precisely, what *caused* them to be mad? that is a much harder question, and one it does not do to presuppose

Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit

ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy

It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them

It’s also plainly absurd that someone just happened to discover the true meaning of the common law that just evaded everyone else for 800 years in a few weeks of work. I don’t even know what to do with that.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

personally i think Matthew 25 is culturally pretty normal and i wish gavin newsom would take it to heart

This is a very judgmental thing to say.

"we're having a crisis of masculinity!11!" - a man-baby dork

The correct response to anyone going "but what about" to argue against jus soli is "fuck you"

Ezra Klein even like "well we can agree 'birth tourism' is a problem," and no, I cannot. My group texts are about sports and kids.

This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.

A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.

One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.

Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

Oh look, Paul of Tarsus condemned this in Romans. "And why not do evil that good may come? As some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just."

Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.

Lambert: It’s a way troll the left. Mockler: I'm glad he's trolling the left while his peace deals are falling through with Israel and Gaza, while Putin is rolling him every single day…

yeah sorry you don't get to do blood and soil bullshit and pretend you're a liberal

perils of structuring your political beliefs according to political winds and issue polls

The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Why are the hands rotting?

So after all of their primary expenses are covered they would have a *disposable income* of $12,000 to $33,000 per year. Folks, if your food, shelter, healthcare and childcare are covered and you still have money leftover what exactly makes you precarious?

This is my big soap box. We gave the presidency too much power with the PATRIOT Act, extrajudicial drone strikes, indefinite detention and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump is just using executive authority Congress gave to the presidency after 9/11 to maximum effect.

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

Like make them fucking fire you, the moral cowardice of the modern American officer corps knows no bounds

not to get all conservative or anything as an inveterate homosexual stoner myself but the people in charge of American society are decadent, hedonistic demons motivated by their basest urges, their pettiest grievances, and their vilest bigotries

everyday i learn about a new empty headed idiot who happily gobbles up the administration's slop in defense of the utterly indefensible

If there is a God I can only assume he is gearing up to smite the fuck out of America.

here is one of the obscure political strategies I became fond of at the very beginning of my career: say that you are good and that your opponent is bad

as everyone knows, going on a date with a woman and then not having sex with her at the end of it is literally a fate worse than death, and not just a normal thing that people do all the time, whether as a one-off activity or part of a process of getting to know someone better

skill issue

Plenty of people will point out, but I will happily pile on, that in order for moderate dems to win general elections they must first win their primaries.