Long thread. Worth reading if you're into political "strategery."

States where Trump is not underwater represent about 27.5 million people, or about 8.1% of the US population.

Seems Musk is jealous others use his "X" for their propaganda, he only wants *his* propaganda there. Twitter/X now shows where accounts are in the world A LOT of influencers in Russia or third-world nations where Russia operates. All kinds of divisive/fringe crap. cued-up youtu.be/A-S2N5ZxlZg?...

Validating the Steel Report and the Mueller investigation.

From Colorado to Virginia and from New Jersey to Mississippi, the people made their voices heard in the elections. Republicans are trying to rig the maps because they know that by rubber-stamping Trump’s agenda instead of working to lower costs, they’re hurting the people who put them in office.

I’m howling.

Significantly-sub-optimal improvement is much better than enthusiastically-active destruction.

Excellent reporting by Greg and @thenyt.bsky.social It appears impossible to justify bombing the Venezuelan boats Not only is the legal basis tenuous (we all know how well the “I was just following orders” defense goes) The evidence that people in the boats are engaged in crimes is shaky as well

Exactly how was the shutdown helping? Something the "Dems Folded!" crowd doesn't explain..

And the mainstream media put a business halo on him and have been fluffing him ever since. "Let That Sink In" TOO. (God how I hate that phrase)

In Virginia Giuffre's book, there is a very suspicious line that I cant stop thinking about. She is in the middle of telling part of her story and then something like "only Trump distanced himself from Epstein, no one else and didn't allow him back to Mara lago." And then back to her story.

Early in his first term it seemed pretty clear, to me anyway, that Trump had laundered money for Russian oligarchs via cash transactions on his real estate. One of his sons kinda gave it away. And for that service Trump received..

"Etch a Sketch" in the sky.

Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 7 weeks after she won her election by about 40 points. Mitch McConnell refused to give Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, even a hearing for most of a year. Sen. Tommy Tuberville blocked all military nominations for 10 months /

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Tempers are way too high, self righteousness abounds. What are the worst possible consequences of continued shutdown? That's one question I don't see asked enough, much less answered. I just see rage.

A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

Publicly available sources to aid open-source investigations can be a tool for all journalists, writes @johannawild.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com ⬇️ niemanreports.org/osint-open-s...

I've been so damn annoyed by the lib/left chorus of "Dems backstabbed us all!"

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

This seems important. Also, re Mamdani's win. Money decides elections until it doesn't. When people really want a candidate, no amount of advertising can stop them.

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

The Saga of "Assault With Sandwich" continues, generating more ridicule than fear.

It's already here

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Miles Davis of spontaneous ad-lib political soloing!

Forgotten the "meatbag" metaphor years ago, probably cause it's so insulting. But damn, its undeniable.. current events demonstrate.

If you ever talk to a right wing person about an issue that is relatively new, watch their eye movement. You can see them grow increasingly uncomfortable when they realize nobody has told them how to think about what you are telling them.

The Internet of Things. I refuse to buy any product that only works when connected to someone else's server. My machines should work for me.

In times of trouble I like to ask myself, “what would Ms. Piggy do?”

Here's what to do. Teach the media how to do their damn job while doing your own job too.

JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."

Stick a pin in this. If it turns out that CBS, and ABC, NBC et all.. end up being white-people-only news, they will become even more irrelevant. I already ignore them as much as possible.

While this is very true in general.. Smarter liars learn to lie using selective truth and euphemism, which significantly reduces cognitive load.

The greatest gift Elon Musk has given western civilization is to rapidly educate and solidly convince millions that great wealth has nothing to do with talent or intelligence.

Picking a few choice fights is *exactly* what Dems need to do to break through the media click bait wall, and the inattentive voter insulation. The way to show Voters you can and will fight for them is to show them a fight. Make a show of it.

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Don't use the word "evil" much, but this fits.

24 states have filed a brief at the Supreme Court in support of the Trump administration's effort to curb birthright citizenship, suggesting that it is not correct to say the issue is "settled and beyond debate." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I remember first reading about that "Constitutional Originalism" thing many years ago. Seemed very much like biblical literalism: a BS justification to claim whatever position you prefer is supported by a hallowed but vague and incomplete document.

Watch this. Open your eyes to this brutality. ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man. Now share this. Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back. You have power. Even sharing this video exerts that power.

Many citizens thought we needed a "businessman CEO" to run the nation like a business. And what is modern business all about? Those citizens didn't think it through so well..

A common human problem

I don't get onboard with preemptive "NO" very often, but in this case.. it's more than justified.

The Onion takes one for all of us, as they bought Alex Jones' Infowars from bankruptcy and plan to turn the website and programming into a satire of itself. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

I can't endorse this enough.. especially the last two sentences.

Hatred, spite, fear, retribution.. these wonderful human emotions cut across all classes. The GOP delivered a triple serving in 24' The few Trump voters who gave me any reason at all, gave reasons based on some of these feelings.

Sometimes I wonder, having somewhat angry feelings myself on occasion, how to tell the agents-provocateur from the sincere hot-heads..

Been thinking about that old conservative saw about how good times breeds indolence.. and how long this slouching toward the unitary presidency and carelessness about maintaining our democracy has been in progress. There is some truth in a few old saws.

I just read Graham Platner's history on Wikipedia. Damn strange that a guy who people here are convinced is a Nazi has publicly called himself a communist. Feels more idealistic than savvy. That deep red Maine might elect a Dem senator at all should be cause for celebration, seems to me.