Stories like this remind me of a true story from small-town America, where a municipality's residents voted down local tax increases over and over, for years. Then, one day, the streetlights turned off. For good. And every was just so angry and confused.

Politically correct language policing by the woke nanny state, etc, etc, so on and so forth, oh who even gives a fuck anymore.

this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan

The history of campaigns lost specifically because the "victorious" army was unable to destroy the retreating enemy is literally too long to enumerate.

The most charitable way you can describe the US Liberal consensus on the Occupation is "I want Israel to want a two-state solution".

👏READ👏TRANQUILITY👏PRESS👏

Welcome to the Far Future World of DUNE! Freed from the tyranny of thinking machines, the limitless potential of Humanity has been unleashed! Why, you can be: - A talking computer who kills people! - A witch who does eugenics! - A fish who takes drugs to go FTL! That's it. Those are your options.

Counterpoint: Shut up

"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.

This needs to be stated policy for the Democrats.

The Trump Regime is objectively pro-rape.

Not in New York, so this isn't my race but I think if Democrats take one thing from Mamdani, it probably ought to be what Lander here seems to have done: you answer the cynicism and hypocrisy of the moment with sincerity, not knowing-cleverness. 'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.

People definitely do not understand this

This is the least American thing I can think of. Excited for all our new Russian Oligarch citizens!

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*. They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."

Tapping the sign

get vaccinated or continue speedrunning to the 19th century

The very simple "logic" loop in what passes for Trump's brain goes: 1. I am (obviously) a genius. 2. But I don't understand [subject]. 3. [Subject] is either: A) Something only MEGA-geniuses understand or B) Not worth understanding in the first place. Lawnmowers are (A). Human empathy is (B).

Especially a mid-decade gerrymander, which is based only on the last election's voting patterns, which are likely to change.

Once again, the challenge for Trump and the GOP talking about affordability and health care is they DO NOT WANT TO HELP with those things. At best, they think "tax cuts for billionaire job-creators" is the solution. At worst, they know it's not, but they may as well enrich themselves while they can.

you don't have 'nonhuman' members you have glorified chatbots

Roosevelt really fucked up by basically giving no plans for future foreign policy despite knowing he was dying (also wayyyy to credulous of Stalin)

Shot. Chaser.

when you realize that the consistent theme of reactionary centrism is narcissism everything makes sense - the hatred of being associated with commoners (but still feeling superior to the "out of touch" left), abandoning liberalism when it was less profitable, grudges over years-old QT dunks, etc.

the thing about the Free Press types is that when you push them on their actual ideology, it's NIMBYism

People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"

right, because an elite, as the terms used by like half the population, means someone whos risen above their station. It just means illegitimate office holder essentially

It’s striking how many of the most mundane features of American democracy, built centuries ago to protect against remembered tyrants from centuries prior, are still the bulwark against Trumpian fascism, while all the newfangled modern institutions simply collapsed on first contact with him

"Working Class" of course here being defined neither by wealth nor employer/employee hierarchy status, but whether you job seems old-fashioned. So a millionaire construction firm owner who occasionally works on site is "Working Class", but his indebted secretary isn't.

Because the law is only as good as its enforcement mechanism, and the enforcement mechanisms were amenable

The thing that will always stay with me is, how people sit next to Elon Musk and let him lie, for minutes on end, and refuse to challenge him on anything. The next Tesla cars will have rocket engines? Cool! I'll put people on Mars in 10 years? OK! I'm building a underground highway? Neat!

"I, the much-detested sheriff, am going to tell this priest to take down his nativity display because it makes me, the guy kidnapping his parishioners, look bad" is the kind of thinking you usually see in like, 16th century England shortly before something called the War Of The Creche breaks out

It’s that, post-election purges, or simply accepting that none of our allies will trust us again for the duration of the lifespans of anyone On Here

Yes. What of it? The Tree of Liberty thirsts.

Trump probably only won both of his elections due to constant claims that Hillary and Biden were very sick and were going to die any day now.

the united states is currently being led by a bunch of little david dukes with a senescent outer-borough grand dragon at the top

elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity

i hate the fandom-ification of politics, just a colossal mistake to restructure the legal nature of a electioneering around individual candidates

I think it's very easy to tell yourself "the Democratic Party has already been captured by Yglesias and WelcomePAC et al" but that's believing propaganda. Their plot is to seize control of the party via a presidential primary in 2028. It's the Bernie 2020 strategy but for reactionary centrists.

THIS! i think there is an entire generation of political leaders and consultants who don't actually know how to *lead* a political movement and think their job is just following polls

It is probably not ideal that the bulk of the lamestream media is staffed by people whose parents have blue wikipedia names or in this particular instance are .... the direct descendant of the richest man in history to that point

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

Republicans have lost the Mandate of Heather

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

inshallah we will upzone Long Island soon

Most of these guys are morons who tied their livelihoods (and ours for that matter) to technology that does nothing but eat money. They'll be remembered about as fondly as pre-1929 stockbrokers.

when trump's senility finally gets too big to ignore, all the political reporters who are covering up for him now will laugh and say "everybody knew"