Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."

I was slightly ahead of the curve (don’t pay attention to the country)

uhh don’t you know it’s ILLEGAL to say anything bad about our demented pedophile president?? can’t take three more years of this horseshit

I just feel we need to keep saying, over and over, that the problem with DOGE was not its failure to cut spending. the problem with DOGE is that it CUT GLOBAL AID LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 600K PEOPLE AND COUNTING. 1

there are a ton of different quality of life indexes but the United States generally sits squarely in the middle of the pack of developed nations, which is about what you'd expect from a very rich country with a poor social security net. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

I know it's far from the main issue but wow major news outlets are just going to press with errors in the headline now huh

good luck down there!

these guys all burned the ropes connecting them to the life raft of democratic party protection because they believed their buddy who said he’d invented a way to breathe underwater

american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts

gotta crush these guys tbh

Donald Trump is moving too quickly to embrace Zohran Mamdani. by Chuck Schumer

The bright red line is this: YOU CANNOT MAKE COMMON CAUSE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PREYING ON THE VULNERABLE, no matter how much they fulminate about capitalists or the wealthy or the elites

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths 2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

There are a lot of people for whom maintaining their vague anti-establishment populist cred is far more important than protecting actual specific groups like trans people or immigrants, and they cannot be allowed into the fold

watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump

“trump is ecstatic to meet the muslim socialist immigrant mayor of new york while MAGA’s strongest soldier from georgia-14 resigns in disgust” is a fucking coalition-breaking disaster for the hard right

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if he won’t walk back his praise of Zohran Mamdani, I will have no choice but to stop secretly voting for him and funding his campaigns.

"american jobs continue to be replaced ... by visas" fuck you, marjorie. someone who comes here on a work visa for a better life is ten times the american you'll ever be

Thinking about it, the difference is he made Trump look weak at a bad moment for him. Schumer and Pelosi did the same chummy NY thing to him in 2018 and got the 1.8 billion omnibus out of it and made him look weak too.

chip 5% off these motherfuckers and you win iowa, chip 10% off and you win texas

i am thrilled that the hard right is coming apart at the seams, which is pretty obvious from my posts. i don’t live in new york, i don’t have to give much of a shit about their mayor.

just a perfect day you make me forget myself I thought I was someone else someone good Oh it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spend it with you oh such a perfect dayyou just keep me hangin on you just keep me hangin on

Twilight Zone shit y'all.

mamdani understood what his assignment was, which was to protect funding to the city of new york.

remember 'only Andrew Cuomo can handle Trump'

it appears I have a few people mad at me for… correctly describing Mamdani as charming, I think? I’m gonna let you guys work that puzzle out yourselves

a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now

"No ideology means things me & my friend-group say to sound cool, not your dumb nerd stuff!"

Yues.

Fair, he does have a pattern of avoiding direct, in person conflict if he thinks he can’t get away with throwing an actual tantrum (burger, fries, and ketchup on the wall and all that).

optics are kind of not great, but if he actually got trump to agree not to fuck with NYC, it’s a net win

the trump/mamdani summit is probably fine, but just imagine if one of your non favs was doing this

we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him

unfortunately, nature healing and the house reverting to it’s natural form of hating the senate also includes the house writing and passing inane shit that doesn’t matter but does manage to aggravate people pointlessly

this used to be the kind of thing you’d see in a Grand Theft Auto game as an over-the-top parody of America

this insistence that she is some preternatural journalistic talent is going to drive me insane

this is what i mean by "i don't want the future of politics to be slopulism vs. fascism"

Mom Party and Dad Party

Refuse to accept the premise here. Trump is showing with Venezuela how he spawns war out of nothing.

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If the past few years have taught me anything it's that performing virtue is good actually. We should want as many people to perform virtue as possible.

You know, thanks to your help and the piece of rebar I slammed through my skull, I think I'm starting to understand where I was wrong. Appreciate your perspective!

“well i just wouldn’t run the world system” that’s just option 2, since you’re still morally responsible for everything you could have prevented but didn’t. the worst stain on Bill Clinton’s presidency wasn’t any intervention, it was the lack of one in Rwanda.

the replies and quotes to this really demonstrate why moronic “anti-imperialists” should never be trusted with power. you try running the global system without ever doing violence or ever allowing anything bad to happen absent your intervention.

What if the political ideology of the people in charge of the armed forces impacts who gets bombed? Does anyone think Kamala Harris would declare war on South American fishermen? Could perhaps having people who think brown people are subhuman in charge of our military impacted matters?