i don't know how to encapsulate how much weird shit is in this interview i just now made it to the part about calling Jimmy Kaine, president of Bear Sterns, on September 15th or 16th, 2008, during the financial crisis, collect from jail www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3QW...

the rank and file though, mostly... skated. they went back to their lives. they shut their fucking mouths about the nazi shit, but they lived.

well we had some very large, very public trials, and then we fucking hanged the worst of the worst. the leaders. the worst guards. we made it visible, we made it public, and we brought the hammer down on the elites.

almost instantly, we realized there were too many fucking nazis. you couldn't possibly exclude them from society. indeed too many of them were too important to running the basic civic infrastructure of government. so what did we do?

i've been thinking about this in re the coming program of delousing the federal government. in particular, i've been dwelling on the program of denazification pursued in west germany. after victory, we committed to excluding all nazis from government. this... did not happen

I’ll repeat anti-woke politics has been an elite backlash dressed in the clothes of populism.

Holy shit it’s not great political strategy to constantly denounce your own voters?!

Here's the thing: no Ds actually bothered to establish the record of Trump I after the fact. There was never even a simple list of all the bad shit he did from a D perspective. Jan 6 happened and Biden admin and the Party at-large decided to just work on passing bills.

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

optionality is not free

Dems have literally no incentive to fold; by passing the other five bills, they've cabined the harm from a shutdown to only a small corner of government and mostly inconveniences rather than existential crises And they've got public support. Hard to imagine why they'd ever fold

Breaking: The White House press secretary just said she "can't guarantee" that ICE won't be around polling locations in November.

I sort of wonder if Nabokov might have actually had a similar problem as Milton? You want to show a monster who uses words words words for camouflauge the way a squid spews ink. But the problem is your monster uses words to deceive and words are how we communicate.

Lmao

Here's what Republicans think is "unrealistic" 1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property 2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention 3) No masks 4) No secret police: Officers must have ID 5) Keep enforcement away from

this would have been a better tweet if it had clapped on the ones and threes

honestly i don't know that they won't. one thing about the DSA is that it's been one of a very small number of methods to beat entrenched urban machines from the left. beating those machines from the right (as Booker did) is possible, but also not ideal.

I think there is some truth to that in my anecdotal experience. For example, I don't think I've ever even seen a lib try to defend appeasement, but tankies by and large seem to want to defend Molotov-Ribbentrop like their lives depend on it.

Kamala Harris is a fairly normal liberal whose biggest opponents think is Liz Cheney (derogatory) and whose biggest supporters think is Li Cheney (laudatory).

Not only does nobody believe this about mistreatment of Mitt Romney, but the Obama 12 campaign went *easier* on him than some of the whisper campaigns in the primaries. We said he was an out of touch rich guy who profited from shipping jobs overseas (true!), we didn't do whisper anti-mormon stuff.

there is not a single american with reading comprehension

Gallego getting Bessent to just say that taxpayers will pay Trump $10 billion if he wins is why most Trump officials who testify just berate the senators instead.

BETHESDA HQ, 2002: Todd Howard: You can play as one of the four human races: Swedish, French, Italian, or Black. You can also play as one of the four elven races: Nazi, cannibal, Jewish, or poop. Or a cat or a lizard. Investor: What about a dwarf? Todd Howard: Mike said they all died of autism.

You can't play as Asian people because they were eaten by snakes, but not before teaching the Italians how to make katanas.

spare the news on the noonies, and a taction for take-tack on the terror shank and rooming

rotating a country-western eliyahu hanavi in my head winning a fiddle contest against the priests of baal

actually -- and i forgot this -- the PUMAs pioneered the "listen 👏 to 👏 black👏 women👏 and👏 vote👏 for👏 a 👏 white👏 person" rhetoric we saw when KHive got mad that Harris was being tapped to run for President

the political faction which came to be associated with Kamala Harris -- racist antiracist turbocentrists -- has, as far as I can tell, nothing to do with her actual politics and seems like electoral poison for anyone else it attaches to

i got teargassed by NIST reference chemical irritant

Sullivan wasn’t a leftist! He was a right-winger - the original publisher of the Bell Curve in TNR - who went extremely right over Iraq and called for people to be imprisoned for opposing the war, and then had a repentance arc and went nominally liberal for a while before returning to form.

Thinkin about this incredible interaction

It ain't the church grandmas and their knitting circles reinventing Leninism from first principles whose attitudes toward The Reckoning I find suspect, and the idea that Evelyn Normielib and Numbers Fuckstein will need a vanguard to threaten violence on their behalf is increasingly laughable

there are still not.

do not succulent chinese meal the epstein files

I believe the debate about whether Bezos is "obligated to fund $100m+ annual losses" misses the point. He intentionally expanded those losses by millions of dollars for basic corruption reasons, so that the Trump administration would be nicer to Amazon and Blue Origin slate.com/business/202...

okay I am going to stop clowning on Drake

ken is right on the model rules of professional conduct, but sometimes the rules of professional conduct will tell you to do something which more conventional morality won't let you do. if people's lives depend on it, sometimes the right thing to do is to burn your bar card.

as far as i can tell the origin of the minnesota ICE watchers' tactics is basically the radicalization of pretty normal immigration nonprofit legal observers?

I will be individually bugging people BUT! if you want to get in on the ground floor of a democratic socialist campaign to upend the New Jersey machine, bring millions in corrupted dollars back home to the people, and be gay as hell while doing it, sign up here: secure.actblue.com/donate/david...

It legit amazes me that Microsoft got that deal--an AMAZING hedge against a potential AI bubble by letting them salvage the wreckage of OpenAI to their total satisfaction--and then overleveraged itself on that same AI bubble to the point of squandering that amazing hedge its lawyers had gotten it.

you can literally edit your funeral instructions to say whatever you want. for instance you can make them play We Are Charlie Kirk at your funeral

every city in a swing state (other than phoenix) is so deep blue that it would be virtually impossible to change a result just by intervening there

“Holy shit, I’m actually the source of sovereign authority for the most dominant power in the history of the world” is something that every voter should wrap their heads around. This reaction is perfect.

what I take from this is that they had to ask chatgpt to write their madposts and I think that is genuinely funny

yoshi is a horse

I really do like Whiplash. 'Abuse may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people play more technically proficient jazz, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not' is an amazing thesis for a film to have

toynbee idea in 2001: resurrect dead on planet jupiter

the other question is "when do they go?" do they just ignore the early vote? because if they don't ignore the early vote they're going to get enjoined out and they'll drive turnout. if they do ignore the early vote there's not going to be much of an impact.