Hungary stands in relationship to Germany as the US south long stood in relationship to big northern states: a low-wage, labor-repressive production site whose politics are protected in the capitals of other states by the businesses that benefit from having plants or suppliers there.

Fits right in with blue counties producing nearly 70% of GDP all while Republicans try hard to kill the golden goose

It ties into nostalgia for parts of the U.S. that are themselves economic backwaters and not wanting them to be influenced by places where people actually want to live.

But, they did drive almost all the transgender people out of the country. So it was all totally worth it, and the US should emulate it. Who cares if you don't have indoor plumbing if you know you won't have to share a bathroom with "one of THOSE people."

This is the same romance they have with Russia. “Quality of life is bad but at least people are still afraid to look gay.”

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

still hasn't figured out what dogs do

Why would he care about the cost of living, @justinwolfers.bsky.social ? On a personal level, he usually stiffs his contractors/venues, has been given many things in life esp since he entered politics. He literally gets fully subsidized housing, healthcare, food, etc.

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The plan was always to completely eliminate any government supported healthcare

Two weeks. 🤷‍♂️

Trump treats the national Treasury as if it's his personal checking account.

He had a plan...the plan was to steal as much wealth from the country as possible before he either dies or is stopped from grifting in some other way.

The overriding strategy here. Is that the Trump administration hates poor rural people. They are parasites. If they die off or move to cities, then Oligarchs can buy their land, farms, water, and resources. It is all about the long-term accumulation of assets. Look at Montana, Wyoming, Texas etc..

I’ll never get over Republicans running him. He had no business being president and they all fucking knew it

HELLO!!!! Please stop saying this is a distraction!!!!!! IT WAS IN PROJECT 2025!!!!!!!

Call it the Everything, Everywhere, All at Once playbook. This is a country of 340 million, with half of it all stored under a single tent. There is no option but to run local, subtly or overtly distancing oneself from the nebulous but unpopular national brand whenever necessary.

MAGA is one size fits all. Every Republican running in every district in the country will sound exactly alike because they'll say whatever Trump tells them to. All they do is follow. Democrats will win if they run nimble, voter-focused campaigns customized to each electorate — as they just did.

This is what happens when Republicans are given the task of governing. Chaos, economic collapse, and suffering.

Social media these days is constantly saying to yourself, "This can't be real" and most of the time it is.

Here's the source and damn if some aren't even more scary.

incredible new trump photo

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

How broken do you have to be as a human to work SO HARD to deny food to your constituents?

Trump’s DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to issue an order that will let them withhold payment of full SNAP benefits for November They’re prepared to starve 42 million people-16 million kids-so they can pressure Democrats to do what Trump wants It’s monstrous And nobody in the GOP will stop him

His job is to kill Americans

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...

Nothing screams "I don't give a shit about the American people" like Trump getting the Supreme Court to pause SNAP payments to starving families.

SO. BOTH PARTIES NOT THE SAME Please take notes.

Prices since Trump took office: -Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7% -Utilities: ⬆️ 11% -ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26% -Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3% Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”

Consider how many Americans are super jazzed at the idea of their fellows going hungry because they’re “leeching off the government” and that’s who the show of cruelty is for Reagan helped ignite this bullshit and it burns to this day

Yes, these are all rhetorical questions:

It’s been days. Has Ezra Douthglesias written yet about how Republicans have alienated the median voter with stuff like trying to starve people & must instead Do An Abundance Of Popularism? 👇 looks like the exact opposite of the thing Democrats Must Do & yet it seems like total 🦗🦗 from the Pundits.

Literal Kitchen Table Issues. Where are the Pundits now? 🤷‍♂️

We’ve had governments starve citizens through incompetence or malfeasance and avarice in managing food supplies, often in times where food supply line were not stable, like pre-industrialization or in early 20th century China and USSR. Or in acts of war. The US does not have any of that rn

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one thing you might not have heard about with Jim Watson is the way that the rich white dude science fanboys who are kind of in the shadows of places like Cold Spring Harbor--Jeffrey Epstein was one of them, although obviously, you know--looooved him, even and maybe especially after the racism etc

like if you think he was incredibly racist and then paid a big price weeeeeeell kinda but there was a whole network of rich dudes behind the scenes making sure he kept on being feted and honored for his bold contrarian ideas like, well, you know the ones

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

you have to wonder what sort of legislation the House tries sending to the Senate if they kill the filibuster. do they finally get around to privatizing social security like during Bush?

“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists

I posted the AI video the other day that the Hardin County Republican chair did, depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Now Andy Biggs has done this one of Zohran, with the city falling into chaos under Sharia law. The video is too long to post. I will see if I can cut it.

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

He dumped the mother of three of his children in the weeds at Deadminster for a tax break, yet somehow you thought you were special.

MAGA Republicans are robbing the American people of their dignity.

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe