I will continue saying it until I completely lose my mind - They don't know that they're the BAD GUYS. And that's a criminally under - analyzed part of our stupid, stupid discourse.

Democrats want to fund police departments so that their jobs are easier and safer. Republicans want to go outside of the legal system to open concentration camps because they think law enforcement doesn't know how to do their jobs. I feel like the politics of this are super easy, you guys.

#cork gets it.

Local news CAN Be a force for good!

"How many kids have to die before we do something about this?!" Is fun, because depending on the issue, the answer is "one" or "infinite". There's NO middle answer.

These unbelievable assholes are really from a different century, aren't they?

Here's the thing. How many clicks did the Biden press conferences get? How much ad space did they sell around the promise of a pending Biden press conference?

The more people who are denied care and left to die, the more profitable it is for health insurance companies. Your reminder that for-profit healthcare isn't healthcare. It's an exploitation of sick people and transfer of wealth from the working class to the mega-rich.

He's not President anymore. No one in his immediate orbit is going to be President. That being said, if all this bullshit means that the political operatives who pushed him to run AT ALL in 2024 lose their careers, then let's just ruin their careers forever really quickly, okay, @democrats.org?

Root for injuries.

Fuck this guy so, so hard. They don't actually have to do this. Biden will NOT be an issue in the 2026 midterms or the 2028 election (if it happens). This is a clear opportunity for the GOP to just be decent. Be human. And they're just... NOT doing that. It's disgusting.

I am so, so fucking tired of reading this take today. Why the actual hell does every Democrat have to respond when every other Democrat farts? There is exactly zero pressure on Republicans to respond to any of the lunacy that a lot of folks in their camp believe -

We gotta keep tormenting them with gay race communism even harder now. Dang.

An interesting point inspired by maybe the stupidest thing I read today - Democrats have to explain to people WHY the existence of billionaires is bad. Something more inspiring than #billionaires @democrats.org #bad

It occurs to me that Democrats say "bring manufacturing home!" as an appeal for a return to the time for when one factory job (plus a union!) could support an entire family. Republicans say it because they're deranged xenophobes. Not the same. Often portrayed as the same.

I want to do a cooking show where stone - cold sober me does all the prep, and stoner me has to figure out what TF to do with all... that.

Answer - it's all about the hierarchy. If you think of the world as "us" and "them" and "winners" and "losers", no amount of moral deprivation and ethical compromise is too much to maintain your place in the hierarchy.

Roughly 7% of the population caring about "inflation" as a purely partisan cudgel absolutely checks out. Deeply unserious people.

While this is... nice, it's a symptom of a larger problem - it doesn't address the civilian complaint about student loan forgiveness at all. "If you take out a loan, you pay it back" Is stupid, but legion among regular people when confronted with this issue.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when they came up with "You gotta ricotta" as an ad slogan. Just pure, beautiful genius.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

You're overreacting? But the thing is this. If essays like this ARE an overreaction - and I hope it is - things are going to be okay. No harm, no foul. So really, we need a LOT more people overreacting as that's going to be the only thing that will stop every word of this from coming true.

More optimistically, I wonder if the French nobility of the late 18th century saw the peasants getting crankier by the day and just thought "This is fine. Everything is fine.".

If only there was an opposition party in Florida that could capitalize on this brazen corruption that happens to be a shining example of Republican values.

It's... almost like the average person has NO IDEA how "the economy" actually works, but they think it's BAD, and they just mindlessly blame whoever's President. It's a big riddle wrapped in an enigma how one could make the economy "good", but we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

Honest to god, if all it takes is the decision of ONE dude to "wreck" OR "boom" our economy, it's not much of an "free market economy", is it?

If one could actually "defeat" an idea, you'd think that there would be no concept more "defeated" than when we beat fascism in 1945. That did... not turn out to be the case.

This sounded a whole lot more persuasive in the original German, I bet.

Lots of deranged shit today from this creature, but this one has to take it. "The President is looking into it"!? He doesn't. That's not how. What the shit?

Ever since Obama, I've never been able to watch Democratic politicians or take what they say seriously - and this is the underlying data as to why. The empty "manufacturing" talking point was always a twisted, nationalist lie.

I don't know, this team looks all white.

The depressing thing is that we could have figured this all out around 25 years ago. The system as it is currently comprised is really, really shitty at judging who we should put in charge. It's systemic, not personal. And that is extremely resistant to change.

"Ideas".

Socrates: "What do you mean by 'illegal ideas'?" ICE Agent: "Ideas that are against the law." Socrates: "So you believe the government should determine which ideas are legal?" ICE Agent: "Of course." Socrates: "So you think the Constitution is illegal?" ICE Agent: "Just drink the hemlock."

These are the stupidest fucking people on the planet and it gets more embarrassing every day that @democrats.org struggle in ANY election anywhere against them.

Good lord, but can we just collectively admit that "the elites" are just as stupid as the rest of us and that we're nowhere close to having any kind of "meritocracy"? I dream of us having that epiphany every night.

I'm less worried about the man himself, and more concerned with the people who prop up his every utterance as if it were normal. Those people are so sociopathic, I have trouble wrapping me head around them actually existing.

Hey, cool. This is fine. Everything is fine.

they're so obviously just building Russia 2.0, a brutal oligarch controlled mafia state pretending to be a government, replete with its little racist fake journalist earlobe nibblers

Narrator: Yeah, that's me. I guess you're wondering how I ended up here. Me too. You see, I responded to one of the seventy billion Democratic fundraising Emails and wouldn't you know it, I ended up here. And I regret every decision I've ever made up to this point.

I do not - for the life of me - understand how normal people use the actual internet anymore. This is a snippet from the brilliant humans at @pajiba.bsky.social and I've circled the content in red. This seems... unsustainable.

I'm going to keep reminding people that every Democrat in the U.S. Senate voted to confirm fascist functionary Marco Rubio. It's time to actively resist these people at every turn. If we don't, we're done as a democracy.

I'm terrified of posting what I really think of cops because the wrong person might get ahold of it, and the next thing you know, I'm getting pulled over and taken into custody for fabricated reasons.

We get that Greg Abbott is a shitty person. But surely there's a middle ground between "going high" and "Governor Hot Wheels". Surely. Right?

Gods but I hate this fucking question. HOW!? Why do they keep asking it? And how do Democrats not have a better goddamn answer for this? Does anyone remember Republicans being asked this during the Obama / Biden years? And the borders aren't "stronger", Bernie. GODDAMMIT. Do better.

I see we've reached the reporting on "congress tries to rein in judges as if that's a fucking normal thing" stage of fascism. I wonder what's next? I bet it's a dramatic price deflation and widely - shared economic prosperity. Right?

why everything sucks online: 1) online ads used to pay for everything until companies realized that ads didn't work that well 2) the companies that owned the ad systems need something that makes money since ads are working less 3) the people making stuff still needed the money that ads gave them

Back in grad school, we were taught to always address the actual disease, not the symptoms. Don't worry, it was business school, not med school. But follow the bouncing ball here -

The heroes we need right now.

Jebus, but this is BLEAK.