It might take a little while for the effects of this to percolate to the wider membership, but yeah, this is eventually going to turn a lot of LDS erstwhile Trump supporters against him. Even more relevant than Brazil might be *Tonga*, which has a gigantic LDS population and a heavily LDS diaspora.

They thought using the existing but flawed tools to go after criminals who happened to be politicians was lawfare that justified all of their own lawfare, and I for one am terribly excited to introduce them to Lawfare 2: We're Competent This Time in 26/28/29. Scorch the earth and salt the land.

It's really important to remember that even if Trump wanted to go to the extreme of, like, deploying federal officers to shut down polling places, the actual number of officers willing, able, and ready to comply with an order like that is not very large relative to the number of polling places.

Two things: 1. The vast, overwhelming majority of election workers--even in very red precincts--are normal people who just want to do their jobs. 2. Republicans would be hurt just as much as Democrats by elections being shut down! Terms end on a defined date for a reason!

Yeah, but dang it that would be cool

"I have friends at the European Commission" "He who fails to uphold the Union's obligations, loses the Commission's friendship, *sir*."

Kyrsten Sinema was the Kash Patel of John Fettermans

The quotes and replies to this are an absolute joy.

THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH BIG STUPID BOYS

My only conclusion here is that Russia finally got through to him and convinced him to stop the saber-rattling, because this is a fundamentally unserious claim.

I think civic illiteracy largely explains this. The average American views the federal government as a safety blanket against disasters and otherwise an annoyance at best and actively hostile at worst. They also are not aware of, or wildly take for granted, the protections of "good government".

CBS is an administration propaganda outlet. It is absolutely astonishing that they would uncritically report this. They are Newsmax with a marginally more respectable veneer of professionalism.

They are trying so incredibly hard to turn the next two elections into the biggest blue waves since FDR.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

This is something that I think removing qualified immunity from all law enforcement would help. People have a trust in the courts to determine if the law is being followed and if they do not see cops being prosecuted they will assume that cops are following the law

It is a disturbing trend on the right for people to assume that anyone shot by police must definitionally have deserved it and then work backwards from there to try and find a potential justification, no matter how absurd.

Reaching levels of divorced never before fathomed.

The thing about guys like Rogan is that they don't get paid to consider the consequences of the stuff they say. They get paid to be shock jocks who deliver hot takes and platform the most click-generating people on the internet, even if those people are evil. But the stuff they say has consequences!

Fans were disappointed when Calhoun 6, who became vehemently anti-slavery as a result of a genetic mutation, died while trying to defect to the North.

The key to dealing with this is for the left to take away the initiative from the right on this. Sponsor sweeping pro-family policies that reward parents for having kids and support them when they're struggling. Make a healthy birthrate a left-of-center issue.

BTW, while "Abolish ICE?" is currently polling at 46/43, the same weekly poll had "Abolish the Department of Education?" at 28% support, 58% opposed before Trump did it anyway. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

the entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday

Bizarrely, I think this might actually be a good sign? It suggests that they don't have enough people willing to carry out a sham investigation. If they did, they would announce an investigation and clear the officer involved.

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It behooves Democrats, incidentally, to recognize that the majority of engaged Americans are absolutely seething right now and to tailor their messaging accordingly.

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I mean, I feel like they're going out of their way to make these super extra war crimes. Why would they even need to do this? They're hitting unarmed civilian boats!

A significant number of congressional Dems need to be reminded of this, daily if possible.

If the social circles of these terminally online MAGA lunatics are starting to turn on Trump, the backlash among normies has to be absolutely nuclear.

"We demand that our elites stand up to Trump--but only the ideologically pure elites who have already always opposed him and only ever do things that we agree with anyway!" There is a significant subset of the left that is much more concerned with its own petty fights than our country's well-being.

I would never accuse congressional Republicans of being among the world's great minds, nor do you have to hand it to them now when their complacency and cowardice have harmed so many people. But I do think that they understand better than most what a catastrophe a politicized Fed would create.

The other thing people need to do is recognize that by the time November rolls around, 2024 Trump +13 is going to be D +3 in a lot of places.

If it wasn't clear already, the Democratic Party as it currently exists is utterly incapable of doing what will need to be done in 2029. The #1 question asked of every 2026 and 2028 primary candidate should be "Are you willing to do whatever it takes to punish MAGA and its enablers?"

This is a tangential point, but I suspect that a lot of these people really did start off doing a bit online for clout/engagement, and have now been doing it long enough that it's broken containment into their offline interactions.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Yeah, I suspect things are going to get Much Worse in the near future, because the administration has basically given up on authoritarian consolidation as a practical plan and is now just trying to 1) hurt as many disfavored people as possible, and/or 2) make a truckload of money on its way out.

This is, unfortunately, true of so many aspects of the Trump era. The Great Man theory of history often falls apart on closer inspection, but the Incorrigible Clown theory should get a lot more love.

Mike Vick drowning a dog drew condemnation from many people who would later celebrate Noem executing her own dog and I think the difference in response might be slightly racial.

Breaking: RFK Jr. to announce new food pyramid partnership with Sainsbury's

Kinda seems unfair that Oregon has to suffer through another 5 minutes of this misery. Is there a mercy rule in the CFP Semifinals?

I've heard this a few times now re: Polis considering clemency for Tina Peters, and it's a reasonable explanation, but it still makes Polis look dumb. What is Trump actually going to do that he isn't going to do to blue states anyway? You can't buy off a face-eating leopard--it just wants your face.

The Trump era, and especially Trump 2, has made it crystal clear that the mainstream media is a completely amoral institution. The Fourth Estate does not care about the nation's well-being at all--doesn't even care about being able to report interesting things! It just cares about access.

I genuinely do not understand who this is for. What idiot consultant is telling him that a single voter, let alone enough voters to matter, will gain a positive opinion of him or the Democratic Party because of this?

And the new term starts with a...5-4 decision by Sotomayor with all three liberals in the majority. Just as we all suspected.

It's not great that the "New Statesman", whatever the heck that is, is publishing slop like this, but it's even worse IMO that plenty of Labour politicians seem to actively believe this and/or agree with Reform on immigration issues. The UK is on the fast track to a very, very dark place.

My take on this is that any really principled Republicans left voluntarily or were excommunicated a long time ago--Mike Pence was arguably the last GOP federal official who had *any* beliefs that weren't subsumed to a remorseless pursuit of power-at-all-costs.

Obviously they need to make sure all their t's and i's are crossed and dotted, but it is very, very important that Minnesota charge the ICE officer as quickly as they reasonably can. Make this rotten administration make this stupid argument to a judge, and throw the guy in prison for life.

Based Jesse Ventura?

This does make me wonder whether Vance is already a lock for the GOP nomination in 2028 simply because Thiel is one of, like, three remaining really meaningful donors the national GOP has left.