study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

more, rich ppl feel like they're entitled to the sadistic pleasure of policing poor people.

people don't feel they need to police that stuff because the wealthy are supposed to be entitled to grotesque expenditure, while the poor (and esp. non white poor people) are entitled to nothing.

they calculate that democrats care about Americans’ well-being, but that republicans do not and thus that intentionally starving and immiserating Americans may give republicans a bargaining edge. For lack of a better word, the republicans’ strategy presupposes that they are traitors (4/4)

The same people criticizing Harris for reaching out to Never Trump Republicans insist we need to run a white guys with Nazi tattoos to appeal to young male Trump voters.

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

These people are unashamedly evil and should be summarily guillotined

the thing that really stands out to me about the right right now is that they're *scared* because they actually understand that if they fail to dehumanize all the groups they hate, they will be driven out of society. they're completely right that they're hated, and they know they deserve it.

This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.

Lol

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

You understand that leftists appeal to white supremacy by shirking harm reduction by not voting. Liz Cheney had no input on Kamala Harris' platform. But she had more sense than most leftists because she knew Trump should not have won last year at all costs.

Sheraden. Fadette Street. Caller said he hit the blunt so hard that he passed out and woke up a few minutes later. Caller said that he was not expecting that.

Northview Heights. East Marshall Ave. If you lost your backpack full of weed, sorry the cops found it.

Downtown. Fifth Ave. Caller says that they see out of towners. Caller says they're suspicious.

The bit about Tom being into Great Replacement theory sent me down multiple research holes—there is a line from Gatsby to Guernica, no joke—

Nope, it's not Gatsby. It's Tom Buchanan that Trump uses for his lifestyle model.

I need a reporter to ask Trump what The Great Gatsby is about

“The sword and naked walkers left the Dutch language with two new words, zwaardlopers and naaklopers.” I’m sorry but I refuse to believe that Dutch is real

I wonder how many of those complaining that President Biden & the Democrats "didn't do anything with their trifecta while they had it" are now in a complete panic as they see their ACA premiums skyrocket? (Dems tried making the tax credit upgrade permanent but were blocked by Republicans + Manchin)

I found some of his constituents who are, in fact, Nazis.

yeah, the idea that Trump will stop Boko Haram types by ending aid to the Nigerian federal government is as confused as the idea that he is actually interested in the welfare of the same Nigerian Christians he put on a categorical travel ban 5 years ago news-archive.hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/03...

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Not sure what you do with an electorate that is pro murder and violating international law...

He ain't wrong.

When we have a Congressional majority that is actually in Congress there really needs to be a root and branch rewriting of privacy laws, data and digital rights. The Privacy Act was written in 1974, and has been continuously ignored by the Trump admin.

It's low-hanging fruit lib posting but it's a hell of a thing to juxtapose the President and his supporters' priorities here

I mean, the Democrats branded it the "Green New Deal" specifically so people would connect it to FDR's popular and successful jobs programs and the media convinced voters it was just a radical woke conspiracy/Chinese climate hoax thing. It's the propaganda machine more than the message itself.

Honestly, I imagine the same playbook is being run here.

Anyone in the National Guard involved in this is a shitbag traitor and should be treated as such.

my hand to god, i thought this was nancy mace dressed up for halloween

This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.

All a straight white man has to do is grow a beard and put on jeans and flannel, and voila: he has automatic Blue Collar Credibility, even if he actually grew up with a trust fund. ONY white males get the Assumed Blue Collar nod simply by putting on an outfit, too. Doesn’t work for anyone else.

Counterpoint: You woke up this morning and decided to lick the boots of a man who has raped children and no one should care what your dumb ass has to say.

I keep telling them they have to respect me because I’m legally eligible to enter the armed services making me a hypothetical future veteran should I ever make that choice but they just keep throwing the eggs

Handing out bags of rice so any kids on food stamps know they won’t take advantage of my tax dollars. I’m already seeing how people take advantage of the system based on how many teenagers are throwing eggs at me.

Happy Halloween

Let me be clear... no person that i was not making breakfast for has ever cupped the tender area of my head on a national stage

Which powerful man stood to benefit the most from Charlie Kirk's death? What's the most common motive for murder?

Besides his own in-laws, this is one of the most un-American and un-patriotic things I’ve ever heard.

to be clear i do think this is the most likely explanation of what’s going on, that she’s engaging in a kind of traumatic hypersexuality that’s common among evangelicals and especially widows in the evangelical community, and Vance is pretending to not notice

"Much like my dear Charlie, JD just can't get enough of my loveseat."

I am deceased.

The Trump admin is basically the most extreme version of Reaganism - far far exceeding any other Republican campaign or administration since then. But the magic of Trump is that he somehow convinced millions and millions of people that he was a moderate, deviation from that.

Usha clerked for Roberts and Kavanaugh, she signed up for this shit with a smile on her face.