if you were actually in a position to dictate the outcome here youd say yes. the dig about his little heart is like muttering “bitch” to yourself after saying “yes mom” when told to clean your room.

And this year's Ernst Thälmann Award goes to....

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Bolsonaro was put in preventative arrest He apparently tried to fiddle with his ankle monitor this morning, so authorities feared he wanted to escape during a vigil later of supporters today g1.globo.com/politica/not...

Trump: so if I recite this 'shahada' and implement a bunch of social programs, I get into heaven? Mamdani: that's right, Mr. President Trump: and when do I get one of those cool rugs? I always thought those looked neat. like rolling out a little red carpet for yourself every few hours

You could call him goat fucker the day before and he'll let it slide if you were nice to him five minutes ago.

I think that phone allowing people to simultaneously be flooded with the 99th percentile that is struggling and the 99th percentile that is absolutely loaded breaks brains

The most terrifying sentence in any language should be "These actions are in violation of the UN charter"

the "we condemn socialism" resolution is stupid and the people who voted for it are stupid and also it's a pointless messaging bill that zero people give a shit about and will be forgotten by tomorrow there is better shit to get mad about today imo

*Gasp* I can't believe Russia has been flooding the internet with far-right propaganda bots pretending to be Americans.

Can I post gifs independent of Tenor yet?

Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer

Seriously, it's just a cartoonist caricature of a mafia threat

Stupid Tony Soprano-ass presidency

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

Rfk Jr got hungry

Friends, Vatican II teaches that we should engage in ecumenical dialogue with our separated brothers and sisters in Protestant ecclesial communities. Joining me today is my friend Joel Webbon to discuss how Catholics and Evangelicals can collaborate in furthering the common good of the nation.

I think it's fair to say Schumer makes for a seriously bad look still currently getting to call himself Minority Leader, I also think if you're a lefty complaining about how he is and owns the party when most of them disagree with him and just don't want his job, you're helping him push out the left

As one of the 3 dozen people on here who actually pay attention to this issue and MENA more broadly as a job it is still very amusing to see people think it's the left who loves this plan. The most voracious defenders of it are Blob careerists or their orbiters— Blinken, McGurk, Lindsey Graham, etc.

The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'

Hahaha, YEESSSSSSS

if white voters in southern states were the same as white voters in New York this would be every electoral map of our lifetimes

I am reminded of how Olivia Nuzzi's evidence for Biden's senility was that he didn't remember who she was. The kind of narcissism that gets you promoted to the upper ranks of U.S. political journalism.

Restraint? No, drop the fucking hammer on these people's heads! We can't do this tie our own hands shit anymore. We should wage the war they started but are too incompetent to finish

We're gonna need to start tricking British tourists and exchange students into visiting African American History museums and exhibits

all of these are things people very much do in China, a state where the police often torture people, dissidents are disappeared, and which runs labor camps. even in authoritarian states there are different layers in who the police have impunity to brutalize and who they don't.

"Reasons" Well there's your problem, you're assuming that you can assuage every desire for violence or that it's always rational, at least as you and I see it. You can't. Violence is often personal, irrational, emotional.

SOMEONE: Fuck you! BOVINO: That’s not very nice. THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

No, he's too busy throwing immigrants into cells and tear gas at protesters, it's not worth discussing or thinking about unless he comes for you, right?

You're the professor that's carried by esteem and a rep, but when anyone takes your course, they find it's the ramblings of a guy's who's professional relevance ended 20 years ago. An infinite semester with you would lead to mass suicide.

Your mistake is being a pedantic ass and trying to shame people for crying fascist against a clearly fascist aspring government. What's it gonna take for you to shut up, Greg Bovino putting you in cuffs himself?

YES YES YES YES YES

This is the sort of blunt xenophobia I expect from the designated asshole in a ham handed political episode of a sitcom, not the Vice President of the United States

In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.

Maybe our judges and opposition politicians should throw a bit more of a stink for an officer of the President's goon squad waving threats around

The Supreme Court just refused to stay this young girl's removal to Venezuela, uprooting her from her life in Texas to a foreign country where neither of her parents currently live. Sotomayor and Jackson note their dissents.

Poseidon's just down on the ocean floor with a fleet of fighter planes thinking "these are way cooler than horses, I'll be able to fly, fuck you, Zeus"

The Trump Administration is saying its $20 billion bailout for Argentina is classified. Give me a break. Trump just wants to hide the receipts. Americans deserve to know where their money went.

I still have not processed what I just read.

The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.

i think he should test this hypothesis by live-streaming himself reading through the Wikipedia page(s) for Tiananmen Square and Uyghurs in China let's put this theory into praxis www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...

I’m not taking any politician seriously unless they have energy that comes somewhere close to this…

Our country is so poisoned from a warped sense of rugged individualism that the entire concept of risk pooling is anathema, some scam foisted by the parasites

I don’t think you can ’anticapitalist’ your way out of the fact that a police force is in effect a group of armed and uniformed individuals that are tasked with performing violence in the name of the state and calling that a bad thing while at the *same time* insisting that the state be dominant

I've seen some say SNAP should be abolished and people should turn to the church for help. In 2021, @propublica.org showed how Utah's welfare system was so intertwined with the LDS Church that bishops often decided who got aid. Some denied help unless a person attended church or got baptized.

Oh this is stupider than Libya. They had an actual revolution. Security forces defected, rebels actually drove the civil war. We didn't contrive an uprising. And no domestic politics will sabotage our action *cough* Benghazi *cough* because Venezuela will turn into a shit show all on its own.

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

Unserious fuckwits