None of these people should be welcomed back into polite society when this train wreck ends. They should be forever branded for what they are: soulless political operatives and grifters who cared more about elevating themselves than the wellbeing of America’s children. Bc people are fucking dying.

So true. My wife and I approaching 50 and growing up as POC in red states a few years post-Civil Rights really gives a special insight on modern politics. Our friends and colleagues (even those not white men) who have only lived and been educated in big, blue states continually try to think of some

Adonai got shooters

I used to think that no one held these people in more contempt than their own politicians, but that’s no longer true. I have a bottomless well of contempt for these morons. Just mean and stupid all the way down.

Me: My cousin can cook the most elaborate, high concept French cuisine you’ve ever had and is also a wine expert with decades of experience. Also me: Another cousin once offered me stewed raccoon. (in fairness it was delicious)

This offends every molecule of my being as a born and bred Louisianan of Cajun and Creole ancestry.

Oh nothing, just me stewing in my own funk on a 20 hr flight to Central Asia.

Yes there is a culture war and I will do everything to ensure that liberals/the broad left win it. The opposing side’s culture is backwards and should be cleansed from society.

It’s all fun and games until the local ball field becomes an execution site.

20% of Americans with strong opinions on the renovatio imperii and Gothic Wars

These are the same people who have been shrieking "BEND THE KNEE!" for 11 years -- what the fuck do they think bending the knee looks like? IT LOOKS LIKE THIS!

Cuomo’s facial hair alone looks like it did 8-10 yrs for indecency with a minor.

Isn’t this like the *third* MRI he’s gotten this year?

Oh so Trump is *done* done. They wouldn’t be trying to parse this shit if there weren’t an extinction level kind of evidence in those files.

lmao Black people tried to warn folks about this dude when he first ran.

this reminds me: in earlty modern italy a very popular design for ḥanukkah menorot (sorry, mr. akademiah sir, ḥanukkiot) featured judith holding holofernes' severed head. i desperately, desperately want one of those

Sliwa is an insane person and absolutely a fascist, but would 💯 accept in-laws who were black or brown or a child who was trans. He’d bring food to undocumented neighbors. He’s a particular type of paradoxical Older Urban White Ethnic that many of us grew up with.

There are two types of Americans: people who live here, and people who haven’t gotten here yet

Imagining this in Jerry Stiller’s voice.

No surprising if you remember that the OG neocons (like Irving Kristol) had been anti-communist Trotskyists. This is merely neocons returning to the broad left.

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a GIF.

(it's a very short thread 👇🏽)

Isn’t this the “You survived four years of Trump, you’ll survive another four years of Trump so vote against Harris because Palestine” guy?

The "it's class not race" crowd 🤝 white supremacists

You guys will eat infinite shit for a white guy who provides you with platitudes it’s a sad sight

20000 won’t be enough

“If you’re explaining , you’re losing” One of the oldest and most simple principles of US politics. Oysterboy simply has too many issues they’re attempting to explain away. “Those reddit posts don’t matter because…” “The Blackwater gig doesn’t matter because…” “The nazi tattoo doesn’t matter b…”

*pretty woman posts selfie* “He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor!”

Gyoza Blue

“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”

All time banger of a line from Douglass’ “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”

Serves the same purpose as the fetus to the right wing

Symbols matter. This is one of the reasons why I wish the broader left would get away from its aversion to displaying the flag.

Shut up, nerd

Truly some of the worst political instincts in existence… bsky.app/profile/axio...

Platner should serve as a warning of one specific thing: In the coming years we are going to see a lot of Fetterman vs Lamb scenarios and we CANNOT keep falling for it. People who want attention will parrot leftist talking points with NO history or experience and we gotta look closely at them.

Real NYC hater shit

I happened to meet a few of these types in the wild during the 2020 protests. They’re all over the place in “activist” spaces. One casually dropped in a convo that a fmr roomie of theirs was “practically a nazi” like it was the most normal of things.

Also, what number is Platner in Bernie’s Special Gallery of Fuckups? We’ve got Tulsi, Cornel West, Shaun King, Briahna Joy Grey, and who else?

Black people warned you about this dude from the onset- just saying

Speaking as a fmr. soldier… Would a troop get drunk and get a random tattoo in Croatia? Absolutely. Would a Marine who went to work for one of the most notorious merc outfits of the last 50 years not know the provenance of that symbol? Doubtful.

I am for a big tent, I just don’t think people who have been wrong about everything that led us to this point should be in charge of deciding who is in it and on what terms.

2 things can both be true: 1) Broad opposition is necessary to defeat fascism (opposition to the nazis included former nazis) and 2) Former fascists cannot drive or lead the broad opposition to fascism

Sky’s experience with this NYT douchebag reinforces one of my “scare the hoes” opinion about journalism training/education: Like most other professional schools (think Medicine, Law, Social Work, etc.) journalism should be taught at the graduate level only.

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

This is a bit, right?

Americans, people famously just fine with being told “you can’t do that”