its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

A huge issue continues to be that the threat of consequences from Dems isn’t credible. These folks may not have a coherent plan for an 100 year Trump dictatorship, but they think they’ll come out ahead either way.

Well I reached out and touched something today. 😏

It'd be one thing if rural voters contented themselves with insatiable rent-seeking and a nauseating culture of victimhood, but they also seem incapable of letting everyone else go about their business. Biden giving them more "abundance" merely emboldened their attacks. defector.com/doomsday-for...

I wrote about the ways different concentration camp systems have ended and how to stop the massive expansion of detention happening in the U.S. right now.

Game on.

This is it. And the solution is for Dems to massively raise the temperature.

Every day that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse is a day they are aligned with Trump

Blatant conman is now the highest paid job in the US

At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.

We’re 10 years into a precipitous decline and still doing the “you’re overreacting” savvy bit. This is a finance reporter, someone whose job entails understanding risk. Not amazing.

With a 30 year low in violent crimes, Trump got the feds harassing folks sitting on their porch.

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They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

Blue states need to immediately pass a law directing state law enforcement officers to detain anyone performing an arrest or detention in public while masked or failing to visibly display identifying credentials, for the purpose of protecting public safety. And yes, they can do so.

When is the last time a leader you know (at work, in politics, someone with actual wealth) stood up for anything? This generation of elites is simply not made for this.

If you’re under 30, you weren’t even born the last time Andrew Cuomo lived here. This is your city. Vote like it.

Poetic justice demands that the rich ppl who sold us out for a deficit-financed tax cut get nothing because Trump blew our credibility.

lol another shock.

If you don’t have a chronic medical issue, you likely will at some point. Besides the cruel inanity of treating aging like a sin, they’ve cut to the bone the research that could meaningfully improve outcomes in the future.

Utter disgrace. I’m also appalled that we’re 4 months into this and the NYT is still writing things like “crusade against DEI” and “push to rid out antisemitism” when describing the admins actions. Just inexplicable.

I can't make the protest tomorrow, so I finally sat down and wrote my argument for the #TeslaTakedown: it's not just a way to express anger, but a unique opportunity to take down a seemingly untouchable oligarch, who is in fact extremely vulnerable. niedermeyer.online/2025/05/09/t...

0 doubt that newsom would switch parties overnight if he thought it would make him president.

Popularist: voters want material benefits and popular stances on the most salient issues. We propose an abundance-filled utopia as our main campaign plank. The catch: this can only work if we yell slurs at the transgender 8 year old who scored a goal against my daughter’s intramural soccer team.

Don’t forget that Tesla robotaxis launch in Austin in June and it’s up to everyone to make sure it’s a disaster in whatever way you can.

trump: I hate trade, ports are bad, you will have nothing and you will be happy stock market: wow so true bestie great news

It’s so so simple. If anyone in the Trump administration sends you a letter telling you to do something, treat it like weird spam and toss it in the trash.

I am cackling. These guys are such inept clowns.

Don’t worry students: with meta AI (right in your spex), in-person cheating will also be trivially easy!

First, great point by the feminists. Second, consuming products that make you happy at low prices isn’t frivolous at all!

The Trump era has made me appreciate this truth: if you’re going to do horrible things, make sure the effort is led by a clown. So so difficult to raise alarm bells without sounding online/hysterical when the perpetrator is a 19 yo named big balls.

Saw some ppl posting that Dems shouldn’t run against crypto because it’s a vehicle for ppl to make money in a world where it’s harder to get ahead. But not only is crypto a zero sum scam, the winners are a *tiny* pool of insiders.

There’s a scenario where AI surpasses human intelligence because it makes us measurably less capable. I will start adding random nate silver-style probabilities to these predictions if I get more followers.

It sucks to say, but nothing is going to happen … yet. But pritzker, AOC etc can raise the temperature *now* by adding these ppl to the enemies list by name.

It is odd that the race and iq Substack crew, of all the groups in trump’s coalition (which includes workers, Latinos, elderly, low education), is the top priority for bringing into the tent for these folks.

The data bois can’t offer much useful advice on what actually sways elections: candidate quality, getting attention, driving opinion, and thermostatic shifts. To stay relevant they insist that loudly poll chasing is the secret sauce.

Anecdotal, but if you are talking to Indy/soft trumpers, lead with tariffs. Trump (assisted by the media) has turned every other issue into a he-said-she-said morass, but the dual anxiety of rising costs and dwindling retirement accounts is measurable and, importantly, very easy to blame on him.

It’s lame when your crusader kings dynasty is butting heads with the Holy Roman Empire while you have an inbred, paranoid and sickly leader on the throne.

“America First” has handed the Chinese trade negotiators full control of the day to day fluctuations of the US stock market (look at the spike when they agreed to meet).

Reminder that driving / buying a Tesla is de facto an endorsement of Elon continuing to play a role in the evolution of technology.

We know the sand is almost out of the hourglass because the talk of deals is out and Trump ranting about making the deal unilaterally is in.

Tesla stock is now sustained entirely on pie in the sky fantasies about humanoid robots or whatever Elon’s latest bullshit is as a car company it is cooked

The bet by musk and the board is that Elon can slink away from doge and ppl will forget about it. That can’t be allowed to happen.

The number of times people have just flat out refused to believe me that even if Trump reverses right now you can’t just turn trade back on like a switch (and the tariffs have been in place for a month now - we’re not fixing this). They genuinely think supply chain guys will just be able to fix it

100% distractions … from our collective ability to live a normal, healthy life where we don’t have to look at the latest horror said or done.

Not trying to provide excuses at all but I find this way too accusatory. Every healthy male-majority space on the internet (for me, learning guitar on YouTube) is one degree of separation or less from the toxic stuff. You cannot avoid it and it’s optimized to draw your attention.

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Did your team come up short in the annual parent teacher softball game? Let meta glasses AI help you scan for possible transgender ppl on the opposing side.