charlie kirk is to zoomers as 9/11 is to millenials

it's gonna be so funny if the left behind series was essentially a cassandrine documentary-prophecy, and none of the people who ever read it or even wrote it can recognize its being fulfilled before their eyes

NO UNDERSTANDING OF NUANCE ONLY LOCKSTEP MAJORITY

it’s telling that he sees commentary like this as part of his official duties

You can be mad about it if you want and disagree about it with you want but this is how politics works. I don't like it either and I don't like some of the choices that they make either but that's why they do it. But again somebody could be a terrible choice but have the experience to do the job.

Remember that a swing state senator might vote for a nominee in this administration that we don't like that we think is a terrible choice because they're a swing state senator and they represent states where people on both sides vote for both parties. Bad choice doesn't always mean "not qualified."

bro larry summers is 1000000% cooked they didn't even include him jointstatement.substack.com/p/statement-...

I mostly missed this at the time but for the record, this was maybe the single dumbest dogpile I have ever seen in my life. like "can't parse See Spot Run" levels of brain dead bsky.app/profile/astr...

deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright

the world cries out for the buddy adventure movie to end all buddy adventure movies:

I know the doctor who ICE blocked from helping Renee Good. (I won’t identify him since he hasn’t chosen to identify himself.) I’m glad to see this part of ICE’s crime get more attention.

That's the thing -- *if* this was forced to happen, the result would be a dramatic contraction in available credit. The economy would go from sluggish to full recession, and given how much of our economy is reliant on consumer credit, it might go to a full depression.

You know I used to think the bit in the bad Batman movie where they lure all the cops into the sewers and seal them in was unrealistic but I’m coming round

May he never know a moment's peace.

Buddy, next time you're at the White House take a look to the east.

Nicholas should take a break from trying to financially ruin sex workers and come to Minneapolis.

I'm with Jake here: in fact I'm very surprised that anyone can see it otherwise. From where I am (given the information I am seeing etc) it seems *obvious* that the talk of a vibe-shift was dramatically mistaken and Americans have both in response to polling questions and on the street been furious.

silvia federici and wicked, sure

We’ve gone from “it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital” to “the lesbians were mean to him”

Folks should keep in mind that if Peltola wins, she'll basically be a lot like Joe Manchin. IE: very conservative on guns and immigration but populist on the economy, taxes and health care. But one difference from Manchin is she'll be a big supporter of abortion rights.

This quote man, just totally meaningless nothing

The NYT interview, and all the hype they've been trying to do for it, would be absolutely humiliating for any publication that was run by people with self-respect

Move Alaska to toss-up.

BARTIROMO: A lot of people are saying this Jerome Powell investigation is political SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I think this is the president almost trolling here. We got bigger issues to go after than this one though.

maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here, but this feels a little like ... jumping in front of traffic to impress your boss? I dunno, I just get the feeling that all the hacks throwing themselves into this are not thinking where this case could go. you *probably* don't want to be anywhere near it!

Going out and stumping for this is also a loyalty test and Navarro understands that

lmaooo

"China has never invaded any other country its history" is probably one of the most stupid, uneducated nonsense I have ever heard, name me one dynastic transition that was peaceful, or ask the Vietnamese, the Koreans what they think of "peaceful China".

Before reading the captioned post I thought maybe they were referencing China post WW2, but *2000 years*?? Vietnam alone has like a thousand year history of China trying to conquer them. Their national history museum is mostly "& then China tried to invade us again." Tankies are so fucking stupid.

Not sure I'm sold on the theology of this but signing that particular dotted line is as obvious a deal with the Adversary as I think you can possibly make. The Old Testament says that you must not profit by the blood of your neighbor; the New Testament commands that we love our neighbor. Not hard!

It’s all about access.

THIS

Sky Marchini was harassed off this website this week for saying this exact thing would happen.

How embarrassing

Why is an agent's cell phone video even out on the internet?

If we are splitting hairs, I can think of someone besides Good whose actions led to her death …

Well that one way to get rid of Ian miles cheong

Friday: EU finalizes Cono Sur trade deal. Monday: EU finalizes deal with China. I wonder if Art of the Deal guy will notice he's the only one who can't make a deal?

I realize that every word that comes out of his mouth is outrageous in one way or another but unambiguously framing execution as a legitimate response to disrespect is still noteworthy

It blows me away that there are still people out there with functioning brains who don’t take his deranged threats seriously. Maybe they will figure this all out in 3 more years.

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

holy fuck it’s real

The really messy thing going on rn is that DJT is unhealthy, likely on a cocktail of uppers and corticosteroids (that are probably mauling his kidneys), and in the middle of one long manic dementia episode. Putting an 80 year old in a pressure cooker like this was.. a decision.

TRUMP: WORKING WELL WITH VENEZUELA'S LEADERSHIP, IT'S WORKING OUT WELL WHITE HOUSE: I DIDN'T LIKE EXXON'S RESPONSE WHITE HOUSE: MIGHT KEEP EXXON OUT Exxon:

There is always an XKCD

Thanks again for making sure Trump was beyond the reach of the legal system, John Roberts. I'm sure that imaginary line you drew around the Fed to say "pretty please dont fuck with the money" will hold up fine.

Sarah McBride working her ass off as a one woman trans rights protection squad with 0 credit or support from people who say they care about that.

tell me you don't actually know anything about Chamberlain without saying you don't actually know anything about Chamberlain, etc.

I have a B.A. in History and none of this is accurate.