All evidence points to Trump being possibly the greatest conman our species has ever produced and you could have made that argument well before he even entered politics. Just because it didn't work on you doesn't mean it's not true.

... had 3.5 WAR across 6 seasons

Isn't she kind of balding

Brilliant point. I was saying this on The Argument live show: Dems saw "I'd Take Some Mean Tweets and $2 Gas Right Now!" bumper stickers for four years and said: Okay, motherfuckers, we can not care about scandals too.

I feel like the reason everything can be cast as a distraction is because Trump himself is a very distractable man. It's a guy with no attention span doing a bunch of horrible shit

Who wrote this? They won five regular season games last year alone by 10+. Is it supposed to be double-digit regular season win total? But yes, obligatory BK is a fraud

I don't know how the hell we're losing a strong/weak opinion battle against the the most spineless cowardly lickspittle cogs ever inserted into a political machine

They literally just cited her natl polling (-4). I think it's dumb that the general population has that opinion of her but their "dismissal" of her (which is really just an aside in a longer part of the convo) is just them referencing her polling and asking "why"

He could literally go ask congress for that authority. It'd still be stupid, but at least it'd be lawful.

Not the point but ICE being gone in 3.5 years is really going to fuck up the Salesforce schtick of getting a client dependent on their software and then jacking up prices 150% upon renewal

Chuck Mangione RIP

Sociopathic surveillance billionaire whose wealth maintains a harem of 20yo men some of whom end up mysteriously dead lecturing on the antichrist is something

An Indian colleague of mine was harassed enough in Boise, a pretty blue city, that he decided to move to California but I'm sure Arabs will fare better in fuckin Mountain Home

I thought Ahmad Chalabi died

Massacring the KKK was one of the most fun parts of RDR2. I would have bought the hell out of a game that was essentially just that + also Arthur Morgan used to be a slave

I did not support this being the focus - I wanted a "they're lawless" Everything Bagel to try to break thru to normies - but this is 100% correct. It's the GOP's worst issue, it divides them, it's an explicit broken promise from Trump, and it was timed to coincide with deductible increases.

Every other option in the world is either a more consolidated authoritarian state, a place with harrowing demographics, or a country with staggering amounts of sovereign debt

going to start using the trad buzzword of "false ecumenism" but to describe reactionary Catholics who make common cause with Evangelicals over their mutual bigotries devoid of any theological substance

They delight in wickedness

Trump: we will do project 2025 Harris: he will do project 2025 Public: oh that’s bad Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it Harris: he’s still gonna do it Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

I'm glad to see he's recovered from flipping a skateboard into his nads

These back-to-back posts pretty much sum it up

Pete Hegseth's pancreas has a chance to do the funniest thing

Gary Cohen wasn't sold on how the Cubs and Matt Shaw handled his absence to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial. "I don't want to talk about any of the politics of it, but the thought of leaving your team in the middle of a race for any reason other than a family emergency, really strikes me as weird."

I had to Google a fed board member for the first time in my life to check to see if this was a real economist or one of the new commissars

I don’t think the average viewer of ABC shows really understands that there’s a Sinclair that decides what they can watch, and it’s in Sinclair’s interest for it to stay that way.

This whole thing is profoundly blasphemous

Humanity is going to collapse unless we increase the birth rate! Wait no not like that

I realize everyone is jumpy regarding some pivot to the right but nowhere in this thread does he suggest changing any policies to appeal to Trump voters. He just says not to be dick to them when they turn on Trump. A lot of these people voted for Obama and Biden ffs

I can't help but assume the replies think he's talking about klansmen but it's a pretty basic fact that a pivotal number of normal people voted for Obama and Biden and Trump. I'm weird, you're weird, most people don't pay very close attention to politics

The Big 12 Justice System is made up of two separate yet equally important groups: the offenses, who do cool shit, and the defenses, who allow cool shit to happen. These are their stories. 🎶BONG BONG🎶

I'm still so confused over the first "eye" here. The NYT Daily was talking about what "the Biden administration in 2020" did but... he wasn't even the president then? Everything forever just turning on the question of "who was president in 2020?"

What's wild is execs used to understand that California being equal to Wyoming in the senate didn't mean they were equal to their bottom line and it really feels like X or something has cooked their brains into forgetting that

He's gotta get to work hemorrhaging Gen X voters somehow, nothing else has worked so far

There really needs to be two leader positions: the nerd who shepherds legislation when you're in power and the cool one who is just doing the comms

A coalition of neo-monarchists, neo-confederates, and neo-Nazis embodying every degenerate ideology the US has defeated in its short lifetime

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

It needs to be made clear - to both the Carrs as well as the Disneys - that there will be an After

They're idolators and heretics nearly top to bottom and I truly believe a non-trivial number of religious Americans are amenable to a message articlulating that fact

If you were under the impression that Trump & Witkoff’s abuse of presidential power with CZ Zhao was the only situation where the Trump family was violating the Constituions emoluments clause with a crypto criminal, we need to now move onto Justin Sun. Buckle up:

I understand what this looks like, but it's telling that nobody in the replies seems to know that this interview was conducted before Kirk and is like 85% Klein obliquely pointing out the various ways Shapiro's new book is bad

Ah yes the common RadTrad Catholic convert step of joining the Knights of Colombus to wage war on infidels only to discover they run soup kitchens

I'm actually surprised it was as low as it was in the 2010s. This has been an explicit Republican strategy since Gingrich.

Again. One of the only things I’m enjoying about the LLM era is the subplot about Musk’s toy saying true things and getting in trouble, so that Musk has to reach in and turn up the dial marked “racism,” at which point the toy turns into a deranged Nazi, the dial gets eased down, repeat