He just … tweeted it out.

A reminder that the activist left specifically said that this state of play is preferable to having the Biden/Harris administration continue.

lol not as funny when it’s your White House, now is it

It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.

So much of what is “known” about Epstein is modern myth. It’s possible it’s worse than what the myth says. It’s possible the myth overstates some elements of the conspiracy. We literally do not know, but lots people think they do. This is the whole reason we need transparent, trustworthy gov.

He’s correct, but the actual reason this has been a problem is that both sides of the intraparty squabble are doing this. All anyone hears is that Democrats suck, even though both sides of the fight have different reasons why the other faction sucks.

Golden aside, Matt points out that there’s a (growing) disconnect between politics that are “cool” and politics that are “effective.” And I think you could write a great history of the last decade arguing that this disconnect is what lead to the biggest Democratic defeats.

Imagine if a Democrat said this.

Left, right, and center, if you stand in the way and say "Hey, this feels good to believe, but is it really true? Does it match the evidence? Is it more complicated than it feels?" - well, you'll just get run over by people stampeding towards the thing they already want to believe.

Obviously this is insidious Russian propaganda. But also it’s neat that they think Bellingcat is cool enough to do this.

I actually think the way out of this is for those of us who aren’t insane to log off. Already being online is sort of becoming coded as lame again. I think we may have reached Peak Discourse in 2024. Let the deranged lunatics shout at each other on social media and embrace being offline.

Logging onto the internet every day is like if everyone in Die Hard decided the real villains were the hostage negotiators instead of Hans Gruber.

If you’re curious how the internet addiction to shitting on Democrats is a problem: Ossoff didn’t vote for this deal. He is up for reelection in 2026. Do you think people who see this misinformation-disguised-as-humor are gonna want to help?

I also think the Dems shouldn’t agree to a GOP deal, but the way that social media just hand waves away poor people starving is really fucking infuriating. This isn’t easy, and smugly acting like it is helps nobody. The GOP bets that people will ignore their evil deeds and blame Dems every time.

If you are more angry at Democrats for voting to reopen the government than you are at Republicans starving children for political points, your brain has been permanently destroyed by the internet.

This all sounds good but it ignores that the single strongest indicator of democratic support is educational attainment. The “ruling class” ARE the “dissident vanguard of intellectuals.” That’s why politics feels so messy these days.

This is literally how people gaslight themselves into hating democrats every single day on social media apps just like this one!

This guy is saying they should have delayed the certification of the vote in order to impeach Trump for … delaying the certification of the vote. People are obsessed with nitpicking and criticizing democrats. It’s insane!

Nancy Pelosi deserves a fucking monument on the national mall, not the “she should have retired years ago” bullshit currently being shat out on social media. This is like the ultimate litmus test for who cares about delivering policy wins that help people and who cares about brand-building tripe.

People on the far right are literally citing the fact that a lot of women voted for Democrats, and instead of saying, "hmm, maybe we should try to rethink how not to alienate them," they're saying, "let's repeal their right to vote." Via @aselrod.bsky.social

This is how people approach literally every Democratic politician these days. They self-radicalize into thinking everyone else is corrupt but their guy. It’s happening in the ME senate primary right now.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

To be clear, moderate and leftist pundits are doing this. Both.

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

I don’t understand the people who say “GET OFF TWITTER, ELON IS USING THE ALGORITHM TO CONTROL YOUR MIND” - then turn around and scoff at the idea that TikTok, a vastly larger app that is far more heavily built around an algorithm, might also be influencing people’s views.

A federal judge had to force the Trump administration not to starve Americans so they could blame their political rivals. Think about that.

He waited until early voting was starting for a final bump. Why is everything an Establishment Conspiracy to the social media addicts?

imagine the reaction on fox if kamala had said this

Everyone online has done 12 rounds with Stancil, but he’s largely arrived at a position that is obviously correct.

These kinds of cooler-than-you takes about stuff are designed to make you feel embarrassed and lame. Don’t take the bait. It’s ok to be upset that a symbol of democratic idealism was destroyed without any ceremony or input. In fact, calling this stuff cringe is how we got here.

Says it all.

Someone tell me why everyone's falling on their swords for the Blackwater Redditor with the SS tattoo in a primary with a bunch of other candidates that's months away

Somehow, Trump tearing down the White House is Democrats’ fault. The actual secret to the MAGA media machine is that its influencers don’t spend all day and night crying about whatever James Comer isn’t saying. They just say it themselves! A lot! They are the messengers!

Ok but seriously imagine if Obama had done this.

Am I crazy, or is this completely different from how the press has covered the concept of a government shutdown?

The subway is a bargain at twice the price.

Literally everything the internet does is downstream of a desire to blame Democrats for things Republicans do. Saying “it was all in Project 2025!” is: 1. A tell that someone didn’t read Project 2025 2. A way to blame democrats for not accurately predicting this destruction in advance.

Probably the single most insightful piece of analysis of the last decade in politics.

It would have been nice if the left had a laser focus on this issue in that period, rather than spending much more of its time attacking the only other party there is.

Imagine being in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean because someone set your ship on fire, and all anyone ever talks about is how shitty the lifeboat is. All day. Every day. For years.

Tells you everything you need to know that as Republicans are calling for Civil War, people on social media are still blaming … Democrats.

Why is the coverage so different, then?

I just want to say that every single rational person knew this was how the Trump administration was going go. Harris was clearly better on absolutely every issue, and the lie that she was more supportive of war and Israel is one of the biggest lies ever sold. We will always remember who sold it.

This is why Trump won’t be held accountable. Before you all start yelling at Chuck Schumer, remember this:

So I guess Kamala actually was better, then?

Democrats are fighting for you. Will you, finally, fight for them?

This was posted in response to a democratic politician being arrested for protesting ICE.

Policy doesn’t matter. Personal behavior doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters in politics now is persona. Persona is the summation of some of these factors, but it’s multiplied strongly by the atmosphere of the ambient media environment. Cuomo was the guy yelling at Trump on TV. That’s it.

The addiction to shitting on Democrats is self-fulfilling. Guys like this will make it happen so they can continue to feed the addiction.

Every single second you spend attacking a democrat for some doing or not doing some pointless performative nonsense is a second you are actively choosing not to spend attacking a Republican for destroying the country.