I think this is the most important note out of all this. There are very select, small groups of people who make repetition political history and vote cataloging their hobby or forte. How many people remember even major political events much less the day to day happening.

Dems are very proud of themselves for their “savvy” willingness to tell their base to simmer down and let the experts work. What they don’t seem to understand is the intangible, but very real, damage that does to the enthusiasm of their voters, who feel abandoned. And then the “experts” fail!

My dark thought is that the Dems purposefully let the ACA fight go quiet so it can become a 2026 campaign issue. They have little else that actually affects regular people so I guess they’re going with that.

The PPACA and its credits and protections lasted enforceably a total of 11 years? And you people think we’re doing Medicare for all? Good luck with that. Dems caving on ACA subsidies is going to blow the fin-market harder than the housing crash. Cowards.

I just didn’t say anything about this because even on watching the video the first time it was clear he didn’t just stand there like a dipshit the whole time and the only person to check out was RFK Jr, but I assumed that was for a medical staff grab. This was actually fairly professionally handled.

It’s always a man who looks like boiled cabbage Baby Hue and smells of fleshlight halitosis that has these takes. Other opinions may include: “Do babies make men hate women?” “Fedoras: when m’lady insists” “Men with Hair: Secret Misandry?” “I tried the sex once: my time with a lovesense doll”

Due diligence is a dead concept. We killed it. All these big brained MFs can’t figure out that a simple script to Vlookup compare which companies are legitimate based on ad buys. I used to do this in my fucking sleep to find illegitimate sheLLCs tied to sexploitation. Goddamn dudes. Do better.

Something I’ve been waiting for since it was mentioned and it did not disappoint. Great rundown of gas chemical agents CS/CN so far and the thread is still going.

100% this is whats going to happen

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Hopefully it has occurred to men 18-29 that their podcast heroes have never actually accomplished anything in their lives or quit when they got fame. Maybe one day I can actually spend significant time around men and not want to strangle every voice I hear for having audacity without merit.

The more I think about this the funnier it gets. A man trying to emit Pitt the Younger energy, but as the political equivalent of the Queen’s dogs.

The ballot box is the only place where you can do basically whatever you want according to your views & don’t get ostracized/targeted for it because, when you leave, you don’t ever have to say what you did. There are likely a lot of republicans who voted for democrats last night. They’ll never say.

Canon 915, now. It exists for this purpose specifically. We’re past turn the other cheek. Punish them for their cruelty. Do you think any of these Catholic GOP leaders is “living in accord”?

There are two wolves inside you. One is an advanced STEM degree and the other one a raging heroin addiction.

If you can convince someone that everything is a handout or a conspiracy then you never have to produce or make anything. The power of this lies entirely in outrage generation wherein every good that happens is your people & everything bad is their people. Populism is akin to religious zealotry.

I mean, the Democrats branded it the "Green New Deal" specifically so people would connect it to FDR's popular and successful jobs programs and the media convinced voters it was just a radical woke conspiracy/Chinese climate hoax thing. It's the propaganda machine more than the message itself.

« I think a lot of Americans would be surprised to hear that » No, CBS, despite what your blogger in chief says most Americans don’t want armed guard on the streets.

The founders really should have thought out some form of Gubernatorial supported 25th amendment clause where if enough governing states vote to remove someone the congressional body has to at least hear the argument.

Tuberville is cynically expecting church pantries to cover the gap and rich benefactors to “deliver aid” and mitigate the fallout in rural Trump strongholds. When everyone finally realizes it’s a ruse it’ll be too late. Someone should monitor the duration and which LLCs or NPs donate and where.

The biggest argument for having teachers in schools is the, now, adults who did the summer reading, but never had anyone to reinforce the meaning of the book. Humans draw from their experience, or self-damage, when reading fiction. They see themselves in characters. Some like the freedom of sadism.

this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand

The “war on fentanyl” is actually paving the way for even worse drugs to do even more harm to Americans because that’s how these things have always gone and nobody ever wants to hear that. If you haven’t heard of the Iron Law of Prohibition, now is a great time to look it up!

Alright, get me a helicopter and Morgan Freeman. We can fix this.

Honestly, a lot of people are embarrassing themselves with terminology and layout errors over the White House, and it's not new. So, seeing how I worked on the White House complex for years, let me straighten out a bit of it for you all. 🧵

Stunning video of the enormous eye at the center of hurricane Melissa. Taken by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron “Hurricane Hunters” just before they had to abandon their mission. Melissa is extremely dangerous, the strongest Atlantic hurricane to occur this late in the season.

On an odd note, another thing I’ve been thinking about as I’ve seen the basically endless headlines about older celebrity deaths. As this timeline progresses, you can expect older people who may have been in stable health or even healthy to decline as they stop living for the future. They’re tired.

Peter Thiel is traveling around the world to find the antichrist and this guy is trying to hasten the “second resurrection” Can we just admit that most minds weren’t meant to be a part of any religion and its forced addition to society had not been one with a net positive?

A few years ago someone did a big walkthrough and background. Those of us who miss the age of steam and sail are a little sad about this. Further proof that Florida is where we send everything to die (yes, yes I know reefs are good)

We gotta find the crack in the Earth that RFK Jr crawled out of and lure him back into it

Every single television show depicting a law enforcement agency should have to write an entire season of episodes dedicated to the deportation enforcement retasking. I dare you. Make Olivia Benson teargas protestors while Stabler is brought out of retirement by ICE just to punch cuffed immigrants.

Played a bunch of attempted speed chess while I was really tired and destroyed my player score

So the new Welcome to Derry series. Yeah. That was … what the fuck was that intro.

The more I think about this the more I’m waiting for the education tiers & educational expansion packs to be integrated. A perfect split between a trapped, but controllable commodity user with bendable financial backers. To meet higher goals, speed/specialty tiers will be offered to “rich shortcut”

Dan has super high reserves of patience, but if you are the general public please don’t argue with the experts about serious things with serious consequences that could result in serious physical, mental, or personal harm. Doubly so if they wrote a technical book or many books. Stop A-I-rguing.

So, a child was losing weight (the implication is the stress of the Alpha School's methods) so much so her pediatrician recommended additional snacks, and the School's untrained "guides" (who are not teachers) withheld those snacks from the child until "she met her learning metrics"?

This isn’t helping the argument that the entire thing comes off as a prison docility experiment and the parents are just now catching on that the real purpose is carrot-stick enforcement of goal metrics. They’re workforce management’ing education like a call center or data processor.

Yes, this is it right here. It absolutely defies plausibility that Platner, an ostensibly grown man, did not know the meaning of the tattoo, and even if he was it opens a whole new can of concerns that make me question his ability to lead. He is either a bad person or a very stupid one.

If you plan to read this prepare yourself. It’s a fucking bleak view.

Really not going to get into it, but in 2025 it should be obvious that giving creepy-ass companies more data on you, even data you consider *innocuous*, is a very bad idea. The aggregation of said data, the assumptions made about you, and how that will be used to your detriment are well documented

Like, the guy working at Jiffy Lube and the guy working the register at Staples aren't the same dude and everyone understands that, but barely anyone stops to ask why. It's not because one has higher T.

This is one of those oddities that while it has existed for some time crops up in toxic forms every few years. The perfect storm advent of the internet social forum, massive infrastructure and labor cuts, and new nationalists that adhered to lose chaotic stoicism rather than a cohesive North Star.

Si les fleurs Qui bordent les chemins Se fanaient toutes demain Je garderais au cœur youtu.be/REYLNs0rh-g

I’ve been warning about this for a year. Now it’s real. And yes, I’ll be posting about our own situation soon as well.

Another mass shooting at a Homecoming event in the US. Multiple people were shot at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. Two weeks ago there were two separate homecoming mass shootings in Mississippi. 6 people were killed and 12 injured. It’s the guns. It’s always been the guns.

One person with a gun was taken into custody but there may have been more than one shooter, Chester County District Attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe told reporters during a news conference early Sunday.

Here’s the thing: The entire point of the masks and cruelty in authoritarian regimes is to provoke fear. The uncertainty if your oppressor is just a rapist or murderer who won’t be prosecuted is a feature of the system not a bug.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Yugoslavia recently; the correlation in its fight against nationalists compared to the current events in the US and the risk of escalation here to that degree. Not impossible. All those millennials and zoomers who wanted to relive the 90s are gonna get their chance.

At this point any politician not calling for a general strike is basically just pissing in the wind. We’ve passed by the ballot box and it’s being stripped away and the soap box which has been bought by corporate elite and historically to avoid the inevitable third box you do something drastic.