The million-dollar ? here is if the public comes to regard Trump & the GOP the same way they regarded Biden & the Dems: people who are obviously full of shit wrt the president's overall health and mental acuity. They found it insulting to their intelligence from the Dems. Here's to hoping... (1/2)

My handle here should be a good indicator. Please, don't bring home any more old crutches!

Incredible things happening in the Ezra Klein subreddit. Their editor-at-large is Bill fucking Kristol! Tim Miller worked for Jeb! What planet are these people in?

The number of students I've already had four weeks into the semester who have not only never used Word but have never even HEARD of it makes me feel like I'm a thousand fucking years old and I'm not even thirty yet.

Just wait til shit like this takes over TikTok even more than it already has. Trust me, body cam footage is already huge there, and if it involves a black person the comments are filled with the most vile gutter racism you can imagine, and they get a lot of likes. 1/2

It's a hell of a time to be an exacting father, I'll tell you that

Aguilar on the Hegseth/Trump speeches yesterday: "If Republicans can't speak out against what they heard him say, then what are we doing here?"

One of my favorite Star Wars arguments I ever got into was with this guy on Twitter who didn't believe Halle Burtoni was a reference to Haliburton.

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

Secretary of Terminal Small Dick Energy

To be expected when the President of the United States is a literal reality television host.

A) what the actual fuck is he talking about? B) he looks and sounds like shit. Sweet Jesus.

Every now and then my TikTok page decides that it’s just basically COPS non-stop. Just bodycam footage non-stop. First thing I saw this morning was the aftermath of a quadruple homicide, poor woman screaming in grief after her whole family was killed. Millions of likes. Jesus.

From “speak softly and carry a large stick” to…whatever the fuck this is

It really is incredible how petty and mean the lady who wrote "pity those who live without love" has become.

It should have been “Republican assault on the American people.” He sucks at this so very much and I hope that someone primaries him and he loses.

A big part of the problem here is that the Democrats are the Milhouse to Trump/the GOP’s Nelson when they need to be this guy instead:

Despite everything, I remain hopeful. I still believe we can build a better system—one that topples the elites who strangle our government. A politics of the working class, by the working class, for the working class. A new future is still possible.

Because these are adult concerns, and the people that eat this shit up don’t want to deal with adult concerns. They resent the idea of growing up on principle, they want to be perpetually 8 years old.

The median American voter in a nutshell:

Molly Ivins:

nostalgia is the mind killer

Defeating nostalgia is necessary for defeating fascism. So much of our politics right now boils down to "I want to feel like I did when I was eight years old and barely had any concept of the world beyond the block I grew up on."

The Governor Newsom Press Account is beyond good.

From the print Onion

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Just the whiniest fucking babies imaginable

Levels of "this meeting could have been an email" only previously achieved in lab conditions.

Swalwell: It's an awful day for what's supposed to be a free country. This is a mad king picking off each of his political enemies.

ICYMI ☺️

and I didn’t mean to imply that any person *must* adopt the attitude of “we’re interested in seeing young men flourish”, but pragmatically speaking, someone who doesn’t adopt the attitude shouldn’t be surprised that their message doesn’t resound as well as the pro-flourishing voice will.

i think that “flourishing” is a widely malleable notion, and the first thing I’d say is that any man who has hostility to women isn’t flourishing. and, I want to be clear there’s no mismatch. like, the first thing I would say to young men is “you are not threatened by other people’s flourishing”.

It's worth pointing out that here in NJ we have the highest rate of young adults (18-34) living with their parents of all the states in the union. My wife and I are actually in the process of moving back in with my mom as we speak.

something that really gets me about the american and english left and liberal segment of politics is the fact that we have people basically too afraid of taking their own side in the fight

Curtis Sliwa and I don't agree on much. But we do agree on this: City Hall is not for sale. You can't say the same for Cuomo or Adams.

How many mad kings can one country have, Jesus Fuck

This is the myth these fuckwad CEOs convinced a credulous, lazy media to help propagate, but the reality is that these people are morons who are incapable of thinking of time in units greater than a quarter.

That's a blink if I ever saw one.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Disney to Sinclair and Nexstar

Ironically, on the third day it was Jimmy Kimmel who rose from the dead.

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