With Trump term 2, the finance and energy industries, and much of the business community, decided nothing matters, nothing's real, line goes up. Corruption? End rule of law? Global disruption? Meh. Like everything is a meme stock. They'll deny it as long as they can, but reality will have its say.

Team USA’s problems are an interesting look at what the culture of America without immigration is like. America’s a cool place because we allow people to come here and make their culture part of ours, and without that we’re getting out asses kicked by everyone in the having a good time department.

Oh. Wait so that’s the only problem?

TLJ is a movie made by a man who actively hates Star Wars and proves conclusively that Rian Johnson is unmatched at playing clever games with genre but is actually incapable of making a film *within* a genre.

it feels like a lot of Dems are suddenly trying "we can run a robust social safety net by only taxing rich people and corporations" messaging and that is a) not a great message, in that we should all contribute b) not actually true, math-wise

I really fucking hate ice. (This post is both political and meteorological)

There’s 2 kinds of people: Ones who hurt something helpless (a kitten or a baby or a flower) once and the feeling of power made them tingle and they wanted more and ones who hurt something helpless and their soul turned inside out in revulsion and they still fret about it when trying to sleep

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

There’s very few things on earth that are actually impossible but I would bet that this “going well” in any meaningful way is as close to impossible as anything will ever be. We might get out of it before total disaster but that’s not the same thing

I fucking resent being forced to participate in the learning curves of morons www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Chuck we’d fucking love to leave him out of it but you cowards refuse to restrain him in any meaningful way.

Yea let’s jam a skyscraper sideways in the straight. I’m sure the active bombing won’t hamper salvage efforts at all.

New set of #lego prints #legoprint #legoletterpress #legoprinting #nobloodforoil

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Wait seriously tho did Lindsey graham have a stroke? wtf?

What now?

It’s perishingly odd how American politicians seem to be gingerly feeling out an anti Iran war position. Stop pitching to me that it’s bad because it’ll raise my expenses. I know it’s bad. It’s evil because killing kids is evil, blood for oil is evil. Not because it raises the cost of gas.

The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.

I, a tax payer, still fucking care 🤬

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

In the same way that Americans will measure a pothole in units of one or more dishwashers rather than the metric system, democrats will do literally anything except tax the rich.

"England 1819" = US 2026. King George III = Donald Trump "An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn--mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling." --Shelley

Good gracious, perhaps there ARE consequences to letting a demented moron and his merry gang of fuckwits throw wrenches into every system that runs the planet.

Like clock work. Whenever Republicans run the government, they trash the economy for working people. Prices go up. 10 of the last 11 recessions were under Republican Presidents. Good for the mega corporations and billionaires, bad for everyone else.

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

We have not been mean enough to the men. Seriously.

I am currently planning anti Iran war protests with people I planned anti Iraq war protests with in like 2003. This is very depressing. I’m in my 30s.

Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.

Dear American politicians: you are allowed to say that indiscriminately bombing countries is bad just because it’s bad, you don’t have to try to awkwardly tie it to my grocery bill. Killing kids would still be evil even if it did somehow lower the price of eggs

61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

Forcing poorly paid workers to pretend to be cheerful does not improve my experience as a customer.

“Guys whose only tactic is ‘punch harder’” versus “Problem made worse by punching,” the story of America in 2026

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

So Trump either ignored or was never shown this intelligence report by his staff. That’s a significant addition to the narrative. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/07/iran-intelligence-report-unlikely-oust-regime/

No waaaayyyy

I’ve been saying this for a while now: the urge to create “artificial intelligence” is awful. The desire to make it pretend to be alive is horrifying. New program that can crunch enough data to imitate intuitive leaps? Cool. Why try to anthropomorphize it aside from a toxic need for mastery?

Many folks still think the "are we the baddies" meme applies to this regime; as in, it's a neat gotcha to say hey, you're idolizing villains and don't know it. But consider this—they know it. This regime exists entirely to be conscious villains, considering it both hilarity and a turn-on.

One thing that’s always been wild to me is there inability to recognize who the bad guy is. Jessup, Patrick Bateman, Jordan Belfort. These guys consistently idolize the obvious villain.

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

How it started / how it's going

“Well, it seems that the problem with capitalism is that eventually you may need a socialist to come in, correct previous under-budgeting, account for current service levels as well as expected growth," Mamdani continued, in reference to Eric Adams' deceptive bookkeeping. 2/2

Am I crazy to read “we’re contemplating cutting and running after claiming to have achieved our goals” into this?

Oh ok. I’m sure the MAGA chuds driving .02mpg coal rolling superquad dodge ram pickups will be just fine with that

But what about Max? Or HBO? Or MaxBO? Or BoHoMax?

My point, to be clear, is that this is a version of sanewashing. It's not quite that, but it's blame-shifting: Blaming incompetence, where we have abundant evidence that many, if not most, of the reasons she will be remembered were either intentional or known inevitabilities.

You're not a politics millennial if you didn't learn about the the Strait of Hormuz on a forum as a teenager after 9/11

there is no return to respectability and scandal sinking involuntarily campaigns coming. American politics have been utterly changed by Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. Stuff Still Matters on the margins, for the tiny percentage of high info swing voters. but it doesn't go beyond that.