I don’t think the internet is the cause as much as an accelerant. Fascism and conservatism is always at war with observable reality. It’s how they project power

This is an impeachment offense, and if our press were worth half of a quarter of a shit, it would be all over every single channel, kind of like Joe Biden being a bit slow with a name now and then.

This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing

high-level drug dealers: "we never mention anything illegal over text. basic details of transit and logistics are discussed only via encrypted comms." child sex traffickers: "lmao the future president hurt himself in my pedophile mansion bc he was too busy oogling naked children"

yeah it's a good thing Landon didn't publish any of this shit. the Times might have had to bump an article about trans people. bsky.app/profile/arid...

On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda. When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...

There is perpetual hand wringing and recrimination about leftist elitism towards right wingers. But I never hear anything about extreme and hateful elitism towards those the right deems beneath them. Look at what they're saying about snap recipients right now. They're seething with rage.

I’m not opposed to being critical of Tolkien. But the Anglo Saxon westerners in question here built Sauron a human sacrifice colosseum, enslaved those Muslim coded men, and invaded the land of the Gods at his urging.

Will Stancil was cursed by a witch to be the only person capable of remembering what life was like prior to 2015.

Basically I think progressivism -- moving toward greater equality under law -- is moral & good, & conservatism -- preserving existing social & power hierarchies -- is bad & wrong, & furthermore, I think everyone *knows* this on some level. The thing is, being good is *hard* & often requires ...

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

An actual free society is one in which people are free to be rude, to be haters And I'm just now connecting this with "an armed society is a polite society"

you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening

I don’t think fascism forms “magically,” I think it’s a social phenomenon that forms from people convincing other people to be fascists, rather than arising from some kind of underlying economic condition. I think the experience of the last few years has shown this to be a pretty good theory

Who knew that smoking some cigarettes in my youth would, 30 years later, actually be good for my health?

I do not trust the impulse to defend conservatism’s reputation from the results it has very deliberately and persistently manufactured right before our eyes.

This is the platonic ideal of liberal policymaking: incontrovertibly correct, insane number of lives saved and overall QoL improvement, polls like dogshit and would be electoral suicide.

These socially elite writers don’t find Trump particularly threatening. They don’t like him. But their most immediate priorities are being allowed to concern troll about trans kids without being yelled at. They’re functionally conservative in that respect.

Saving this for the inevitable bitching about TurboTax from certain people in my life next February

And yet the same poll has the 2026 generic congressional ballot at D+3, so that high disapproval is coming entirely from partisan Democrats themselves. If you've ever wanted to challenge an ineffective Democratic incumbent, you're not going to have a better opportunity than next year.

this is again where our institutions can't grapple with obvious moral clarity. "why don't you take the side of the monster occasionally?" just doesn't work when you're talking about, like, masked kidnappings, work camps in the swamps, banishment and death, etc

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

I agree with this the week after the primary. Not years before it. We keep putting milquetoast “return to normalcy” establishment Dems up and losing to embarrassing weirdos.

they released the stuff about Trump’s venous insufficiency because they are laying the groundwork for an argument that he couldn’t have sex with kids because his dick don’t work

The birthday letter I wrote to Jeffrey Dahmer where I said “Jeff — love what you’re up to. In fact, I love all that stuff too. We are kindred spirits with the same hobbies, if you know what I mean!” is being taken out of context

This will not happen. Reactionary conservatives like QAnon and Epstein conspiracies because it aligns with their preexisting view of the world as something that can be collapsed into good vs evil. With democrats, immigrants, liberals, and undesirables on one side, and the faithful on the other.

Me two weeks ago: Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, not to protect anyone, but because entering prison as the world's most illustrious pedophile makes that a logical decision. Conspiracy theories make less sense than the stated story. Me now: The Pee Tape was shot on Epstein Island.

[Hits a familiar button on his mental juke box of rants] Nothing, including "direct experience" or "material conditions," tells its own story. The voters who suffer from GOP policy are not going to know that they're suffering from GOP policy unless *someone tells them*.

Everyone should read this excellent thread, *especially* all the dopes out there who claim there's no difference between the parties, or that "the Democratic Party would be center-right in Europe." That shit is empirically, demonstrably false & people should stop nodding at it out of groupthink.

Their main contention was always that liberals and minorities were gaining control of the levers of power. The boot is fine if it’s squashing the right people

Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...

I am sorry that you got superstitious about which oils are gay to eat from your jiu jitsu coach but I would prefer if it was not my problem also

Gotta admit that Republicans on the verge passing the Defund Rural America Especially The Hospitals Act of 2025 is in fact a good time for the "rural whites vote Republicans for the material benefits" pundit to peace out

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

dems to rurals: “this is real america, not the dirty cities (ew). football, cornfields, county fairs. here’s a trillion dollars” GOP to rurals: “these degenerate druggy hill people will learn the dignity of work once we defund their schools and hospitals” rural elections: [dem🟦] 7% [rep🟥] 91%

Average blue state Dem politician: sex offender, basically a Republican, re-elected with 98.7% of the vote Average red state Dem politician: preacher and civil rights activist who lifted 50,000 children out of poverty and won by 1 vote last election against a child rapist with a swastika tattoo

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

They’ll grow up too?

I think Kat is rad and all, but young men are insane because a billionaire funded astroturf campaign controls their social media and feeds the delusion that masculinity will ever be good for you. Dems can’t pivot to the correct issue and win that way

not THAT kind of young person.

But looking at every situation and concluding "both sides are to blame" is *also* an ideology! This murder represents a clear-cut and common scenario: A right-winger with conservative Pickle-Brain commits violence against the left. Concluding that the left also bears responsibility is absurd.

i know that it portends many horrors but i am kind of excited about the military parade. i can't wait to see some dipshit news anchor get excited to see an icbm like it's the charlie brown float on thanksgiving