Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.

Tom Homan is Trump's "border czar." He's been working in state violence for years. He was allegedly caught taking cash in a fast casual chains bag recently. He's not a new Trump appointee he's been there from the start. He's a known entity! What are you talking about?

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

hey my man you forgot to finish out your plan there no big deal though. probably won’t matter

“I’m a writer who works alone and I need AI so I can brainstorm and come up with ideas.” My brother in christ the news is right there. RIGHT THERE. Free shit falling out of the sky, nonstop.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

they overturned roe and had 1 bad midterms and dems didn’t get behind court reform after that. they gave trump immunity and not only did dems STILL ignore court reform, but also trump won the subsequent election and is installing himself as king for life. scotus conservatives are fully leash off now

While the mainstream media busies itself attacking Mamdani this is what Twitter looks like today and the world many leading figures on the right freely and without scrutiny inhabit.

evergreen

Law is fake, power is real.

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

Musk signed the death warrant for tens of millions of Africans and no one in this morally rotten country cares.

It would be very easy, newsworthy and get a lot of clicks for the national political media to make a "drumbeat" scandal out of the numerous trump pardon recipients who have committed more crimes since being pardoned. They don't do it because they like Trump

Biden was forced to step aside, was replaced by a scandal free VP who proceeded to lose the popular vote to a sexual assaulter who gets paid overtly by foreign govts and who also tried to do a coup the previous election. Everything is copium because ppl don't want to address the elephant in the room

Hey, you deported a 2 year old citizen to evade my jurisdiction. Let's have a hearing in, oh, 21 days.

“I never thought the tariffs would come for MY supply chain” sobs founder who voted for the Tariffs Party

media and Trump curious voters during the election: the laws will protect us from anything bad Trump and Musk might do media and Trump curious voters 5 minutes into Trump's new term: there is no such thing as "the laws"

"We need to reorient our foreign policy to containing the threat from China!" *China immediately forms closer trade relationships with our two biggest allies in Asia* "Ah, well. Nevertheless."

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

NANNY STATE

Maybe the Democrats’ brand is ruined because they keep telling people that Republicans are doing good things, while Republicans keep telling people that Democrats are corrupt Marxist pedophiles who are destroying America

If you just went by the voting patterns of dems in the senate you'd never know anything weird was going on with the current government at all.

In order to get to a liberalism that builds we need to first have a liberalism that fights.

the one really solid rule at the moment is that almost every institution in America is unbelievably fucking cowardly

Schiff is just as useless as Schumer and the rest of them. Meaningless platitudes while the GOP destroy the entire federal government.

"Real deliverism has never been tried"

Trump won't always be the president, but Columbia will always be the university that willingly caved to the vindictive whims of a fascist administration.

From now on the second any dem uses a phrase such as "we have to turn the page" or "I'm looking forward" they must be booed and hounded out of public life forever.

What is the actual evidence that housing is driving political shifts other than “it would be highly convenient for us blue-state YIMBYs if our pet issue was the skeleton key for Democrats”

The absurd idea of the abundance agenda as being politically potent means that the political gravity of abundance doesn't kick in until a certain amount of abundance is articulated by dems, because otherwise, if voters did vote along abundance concern lines, Trump would get blown out every election.

"these are all things you would be doing if Mitt Romney was president" was a kill shot. I heard someone in the background scream as they were covered in blood. The earth momentarily started spinning the other way. Chuck's granny glasses momentarily retreated back up his nose.

The natural arc of the Senate always bends towards recess

This was perhaps the worst interview I've ever watched. Schumer doesn't think we're in a constitutional crisis. Only when the 6-3 Trump Supreme Court tells him we're in a constitutional crisis will he agree and perhaps change his tactics. Our senators are living in a fantasyland.

If I try to charge a USB device from my government client it will alert IT to will send someone to my office to investigate but Musk's crew is just casually setting up their own WH/EEOB wifi, no vetting no ATO, and replacing fiber with slower Starlink. Lol nothing matters

Remember when congressional Democrats had real leverage over this guy and then relinquished it

What does “in face of” mean

The United States desperately needs OPPOSITION LEADERS, civic and political leaders who oppose and fight Trump across a vast array of areas. And instead we’re cursed with legislators, who see their job as hiding under a rock until it’s time to come out and lose a vote

Feels like the main thing you should know about the Democratic Party is that three years ago they controlled a trifecta after Trump tried to launch a coup, and they dismissed everyone who said they should impose accountability and said “no, we know how to beat him at the polls: kitchen-table ads”

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Fighters. Forget ideology. We need fighters, that's it. People who won't rubber stamp what Trump and Musk are doing because they're scared and weak. It's really not about ideology anymore. We can afford ideology if we ever get our republic back. Republic first.

The Democratic party can drive even the most liberal and enlightened man to thunder "for the love of god, have some balls!" at them.

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

This is the key takeaway I think. If we are gonna slide into authoritarian rule, I would have preferred someone to have taken a swing on the way down at least.

Trump is not competent. MAGA is not popular. We controlled the presidency for four years after he tried to overthrow the government. None of this should be happening. But the only political strategy our leaders understand is "try to look busy until voters promote us." They're to blame.

Republicans control every part of the federal government. They’re unpopular people who have been doing unpopular things — if you can’t make the obvious case that any shutdown is yet another misstep of their own making, you should get the hell out of politics

Elon promised those were insulators.