Like a shitty relationship or bad addiction, support for the GOP feeds of the cynicism and hopelessness it creates.

Platner’s scandals haven’t sunk him for the same reason Dems can’t convince anyone when they try to get tough on immigration. Woke is such a sticky brand that “sexist, white nationalist Dem” is a hard sell for white voters of any kind.

Yes he is. The GOP has always been bad but it’s gotten to the point where it’s rot has outpaced him

Dems will get a 50 seat senate at most. If they win the presidential election in 2028, we will get some green energy subsidies and the opportunity to shift some tax credits around. Then a Nick Fuentes - Pete Hegseth ticket will win at least 47% of the vote in 2032

renting an apartment or buying a car should be roughly the same process as getting a new phone but instead we are subjugated to an agonizing process of financial sparring by a local caste of feudal lords who feed on others' suffering

Just let out the biggest yawn of my life

Marie ConcentrationKamp Perez

A key reason why Republicans, much less this admin, can’t/wont throw Jonathan Ross to the wolves as “untrained”, “not following protocol”, etc is that the GOP is polarized against expertise as such. It doesn’t even matter that it’s in the most chud coded field. It’s an illegitimate concept.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

I just saw an AI generated ad for Kalshi, where you can bet on anything. It interrupted my viewing of Star Trek: TNG. I put it to try and relax. It’s so funny how the future I once hoped for when I was young clash with what is actually coming. Cant even indulge in escapism without soul rape

realized i made this for no reason so i'm just posting this with zero context

Mental illness polarization. Anxiety disorders are a core democratic demo. God complexes are R+80

Biden presided over inflation. Worse yet, he presided over sharp interest rate hikes after years and years of ZIRP. Things got appreciably more expensive and money stopped being cheap, Why is that insufficient as an explanation?

The reactionary mind is incredibly neurotic about both being stolen from and being laughed at and that's part of why they're so consumed with anxieties about welfare cheats, fake refugees, fake disabled kids, etc. It's like an asexual version of their cucking anxiety.

the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy

Some of my favorite games are a little bittersweet because they were clearly rushed out the door or had other limitations. You can't ignore the missed potential. Meanwhile - Starfield was so poorly conceived from the beginning and got every day and dollar Todd wanted. Its maddening!

It must be so frustrating to be Jewish when everyone accuses your religion of being the international conspiracy religion while the front page of the news is like “Pope declares this Opus Dei thing freaks him out too.”

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

I know I am more utilitarian than most. And I am not one to engage in "oppression olympics", but the fact that the deathtoll from the end of the USAID has no salience is kinda breaking my brain. Its as if something doesnt let you own the libs, no one in the media sphere pays it any mind

Well most of California’s land use issues are down stream of policies adopted from when it was a Republican stronghold no?

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

it is insane to describe a local government official as neoliberal

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

State subreddits: Look at the signs me and the kiddos had at #NoKings! Remember, we have friends everywhere :) City subreddits: I wish there was an NC-17 cut of Death Wish I could jack off to

Jesus Christ we really are not going to make it if this calling Will Stancil, someone who is in the top 1% of top 1% of being annoying and combative online (I say this as someone who likes him), a little bitch is so beyond the pale.

Our respect means more though. Reactionaries know this. The admiration of millions of MAGA grandparents has not helped JD Vance with his self esteem issues. He'd much rather get recognition from Jamelle Bouie. Red tribe has no cultural capital and they know it. 2024 hasn't changed this one bit.

*frowning at the DHS videos with a moon man soundtrack* “Damn it I just wanted Tropic Thunder 2”

the legislative history is utterly forgotten. We got the aca because of a republican senator switching parties and an unexpected death that gave dems an extremely narrow super majority for liek 60 days in session. It passed on New Year’s Eve quite literally the very last moment it could have passed

they still effectively are locked out for a generation. We’ve only had 1 honest to god trifecta this century (50 seat senate with Manchin as 50 is not really a trifecta). We’re nearly maxed on swing state seats and Fetterman will probably flip eventually.

Right populism being the only effective Internationale and winning all over the west and beyond makes me feel like we’re merging into the reality where the Axis won WW2. It’s as if that is what was supposed to happen and the universe is gradually course correcting

four types of private schools in america: 1) catholic schools for racists 2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science 3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges 4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges

I see no reason to think it won’t. FOX News has ruined so much of this country beyond repair. The #1 cable news network is radio Rwanda for retirees and that’s coming for everyone else

We’re here because Trump refused to believe doctors that told him Barron is the way he is because of his own geriatric seed

Charlie Kirk is a pretext. However, more than anything else, they want a George Floyd of their own. They don’t understand why that moment happened and why Kirk’s shooting isn’t the same. The culture has shifted right since then, but it’s not enough. It’s a perfect encapsulation of conservatism tbh

National guard deployments are Trump shadow boxing with 2020 protestors that are no longer there. His actions against the media is striking back at a media that dragged him through the coals in his first term. That also no longer exists. It’s all fighting the last war.

Right wing theater kids are some of the worst people on earth.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

yeah baby we talk about fed legitimacy and its dual mandate in the 21st century, its crisis of legitimacy after the GFC and its hard won ideological battles following the COVID crisis and then you get putted an economy undergoing a slow chain nuclear implosion by an ailing septuagenarian sun king

Look, I'm just saying there's a strong element of gleeful "Our worst is superior to your best" in the Trump era GOP's reaction to Obama. Obama desecrates the office wearing a tan suit and Trump respects the dignity of the office by fucking the Hamburglar on the Resolute Desk. Sign of a sick culture.

Crank types are like barbarians on the frontier beyond the imperial borders. They’re a nuisance when divided among themselves. But they become a world shattering force when a khan emerges and unites them under 1 banner. JD is not khan material. He actually reads books. Deep down he’s a wonk.

Going on a “you’re damn right I ordered the Code Red” rant to a fucking Krassenstein

It's not possible for my empire to have problems. My courtiers are always nervously smiling and telling me everything is great

Murray Rothbard and his precursors

I think one thing that's tied directly into centrist and rightist thought is that no one is sincerely liberal and that everyone, like them, was just going through the motions/pre-pressured by Big Woke

"A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. The inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism." – Hoffer

Yeah. This doesn’t let America off the hook but open racism, in my experience, is less taboo in other predominantly white countries

I'm not saying they're having him shamble his decrepit ass to the car while keeping the press pool at a photos-of-Bigfoot distance only to just quickly circle around and sneak him back through another entrance, but I'm also not confident that's *not* what they're doing.