Here's the conclusion to that "Ai sucks" comic.

First they came for the Transgender And I did not speak out Because I am not Trans. I'm sure they'll stop after that...

for all of the disingenuous screeches about government spending, we'd sure save a lot of fucking money if the police just stopped violating people's rights

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

The ‘deal’ that passed out of the Senate last night was an insult to the American people. I’m headed back to DC to hold the line for your healthcare.

I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus

One of two things is true: 1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader. OR 2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.

It’s flabbergasting that you could pick just about any random American off the street and they would show infinitely more political willpower and courage than our entire cadre of alleged leaders and titans of business. We’re a nation occupied by a tiny upper class of cowards.

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

The Republican administration has now come out against religious freedom and public prayer.

Quote with a 10/10 album.

"We don't need socialism. We need public-private partnerships."

One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

The Trump voter coalition is based on applying high charisma sales tactics to uninformed people. It couldn't work in 2020 because people had direct experience of it. It did work in 2024 because there were a lot of new voters who had aged into the electorate.

I've been saying this for months now. State AGs can pursue state criminal charges against corrupt federal officials, as long as there was any type of crime committed under state law in their jurisdiction. For example, every shakedown of a university or law firm is a potential extortion charge.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

"Republicans across the country spent the past several months engaging in the most vicious anti-trans propaganda as part of their primary messaging. *** And they lost every single race tonight. It completely failed to resonate with voters."

Re-Sharing this again for no reason at all.

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

The American electorate tonight

Breaking the 12 year long GOP supermajority in Mississippi seems like a big deal. A bunch of Black women mayors seems like a big deal. Can’t wait for the hot “How Democrats winning is bad news for Democrats” takes.

Gee whiz you guys, I'm starting to think chortlingly uploading AI slop of you literally dumping planeloads of shit on the American populace to the resounding silence of your party and supporters might be a bad move!

Let us know if you need help packing, fuckers. 👋

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

If you're about to post something mean about Andrew Cuomo, I urge you to pause, take a deep breath, and think of something even meaner.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

going back to ringing the bell that Trump's win in 2024 wasn't because of a huge cultural shift to the right, especially among young voter blocks that went for him, as much as it was a general frustration with Biden, with centrism, and with the lack of a clearly articulated positive vision from dems

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

This account will be equal parts hopeful and gloating for the rest of the evening. To that end: Pour one out for the pile of NYC billionaire money that was utterly incinerated tonight!

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

this is objectively hilarious

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign. It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.

Looks like that Trump endorsement of Cuomo was just what both of them needed!

Nice! Pennsylvania voters keep their 5-2 Democratic majority www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

The transphobic messaging completely failed to help Republicans tonight. The anti-trans propaganda was a losing strategy which the GOP pushed all their chips in on, and it failed miserably. They lost every major race tonight.

I must confirm that I am neither a rock *nor* an island.

Honestly there is no surer sign that politicians like Mamdani actually have a shot at reversing the massive and growing plague of income inequality than the way the billionaire class is absolutely shitting its pants right now. Their fear gives me hope change is actually possible! More Mamdanis now!

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

About fucking time. May the very Earth reject his rancid carcass, and vomit it back out topside during his miserable funeral, in full view of the few who despaired at his extremely overdue passing.

The ease of suppressing votes by getting polling places temporarily closed on election day is a good reason to go to universal vote-by-mail...