These guys really do think they can just do a CPAC "cult of the operator" song and dance and all of the top brass will fall in line, and I think they're going to be in for a rude awakening.

Bad guys with guns are always dangerous (if nothing else because they always have the potential to accidentally hurt others, never mind what they might do on purpose), but I am slightly encouraged by how utterly inept Trump's Gestapo is turning out to be.

Over 5k shares and 1.1 million views on a post that's just flat-out fake. They're literally building a cultus (in the medieval Catholic sense) around this guy based on "miracles" that didn't happen!

I will say “wow“ again if McLaughlin keeps her job

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I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

A lot of folks view their vote as a little gift they give to a politician who catches their fancy, rather than an act of collective action on behalf of the less fortunate. You are not giving out a rose on The Bachelor, you're acting in solidarity with millions of other people.

I'll go one further: I'm not a fan of the term "iconoclast" being used in a complimentary way, period. Wildly swinging a baseball bat around the established way of doing things is essentially never the right approach.

The other thing it did, as brutal as it was, was disperse civilian population centers, thereby reducing the worker base available for the surviving/rebuilt factories. The bombing of Hamburg did tons of damage on its own, but it also sent most of Hamburg's population fleeing into the countryside.

the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books

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Will it stop the corrupt higher-ups, no. But somewhere in these processes a relative nobody has to press physical computer keys to move stuff along, and you can slow things down by scaring that person into adding extra layers of work to protect themselves, refusing, or even quitting

One thing Dems can be doing while out of power is tracking down specific individuals who are (or should be) in charge of implementing contracts/purchases etc and sending them letters like "I'm letting you know that I'll be looking at you personally to account for this money so preserve your records"

Alex Jones casually tweeting out the contents of a blatantly improper letter written by a DOJ official *on his behalf*, apparently to pressure one of the witnesses against him, which that official specifically asked to stay confidential, is really quite funny.

One of the really challenging aspects of this administration is that it's so pervasively corrupt that there likely isn't a money trail at all for a lot of the waste that's happening. Money is literally disappearing from the federal government. We just made Bonnie Parker the bank president.

The fact that both houses and cars lose value dramatically the moment you buy them has driven the median American voter completely insane. There are still periodically "left-of-center" pundits who decry modern society because cars don't run perfectly for 25 years (or hold their value at all).

I mean, it could be running on Mormon Standard Time

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

This is a good thread, but it shows just how politically (and legally!) inept this administration is. They could have presented the evidence and explained that in their opinion, they didn't have enough to charge him. Instead, they went out of their way to make the whole thing look like a cover-up!

This panel will never not be hilarious.

Really important reminder that standing up to Trump works, and also pushes our stupid and cowardly elites to do the same. Disney had to be shown that caving has consequences.

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

I actually don't think it's just the British hard left on X. There's a lot of American hard leftists that basically view this place as essentially the Taiwan for Bidenists

Am I having a stroke?

We aren’t going to be able to fix the destruction of universities, the immigration policy brain drain, the intangible knowledge loss from business failures, etc for a generation and that’s all a direct result of President trump What we can do is throw those people in jail for these illegal policies

It would take less than ten (10) people in Congress & less than two (2) Supreme Court justices TO STOP ALL THIS‼️

Like, they HAVE to fire Mike Gundy after this, right?

Trump might be the first person in world history to proudly live-tweet his war crimes on his own social media platform.

Vance's remark about not going fishing in the Caribbean right now was very telling. He has a bloodthirsty streak that Trump, for all his many vices, has never quite been able to stomach.

I have never understood why so many people, both here and on Twitter, consider it some kind of civic virtue to never block anyone. I block early and often. I don't come on here to be trolled or get into stupid arguments with bad-faith actors.

I'm not trying to tell you it's not going to suck but this is more or less what the path to most of the good endings looks like: 1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies 2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators 3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

Man, read some of the replies to this. Probably like 2/3 of my blocked accounts on this site are from masochistically scrolling through Will Stancil's mentions. He really does attract just the absolute dumbest, rudest losers on Bluesky like moths to a flame.

Your regularly scheduled reminder that FDR had exactly two (2) one-on-one, in-person meetings with Truman between Inauguration Day 1945 and his death. IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR. WITH NUCLEAR WARFARE AROUND THE CORNER.

There are two pieces of good news here: 1. Zach Wilson will start for Miami at some point this year, possibly sooner than not, and 2. as long as those screen passes keep going to De'Von Achane, my fantasy team will be just dandy.

to put it in perspective, trump is within single digits of nixon's disapproval rating when he left office. lots of things have changed since 1974, but trump is, in fact, profoundly unpopular and getting more so every day.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

It is a fully incompetent understanding of politics to think that procedural obstructionism, while useful practically, is going to do the thing we need, which is changing public opinion. Politics is about persuasion. Republicans are bad at policy and good at talking, and they win a lot.

This matters, don't get me wrong. It's tremendously important. But it is a very serious problem that Schumer and other senior Dems are completely incapable of leading from the front. Not even the barest attempt at competitive, dynamic messaging. I hate to sound nitpicky, but we badly need both!

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him? To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy. /1

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

I put together a dozen or so of these ideas earlier this week. The power of the purse is powerful! prospect.org/politics/202...

Cupp is right about the press here, but this is yet another example of right-aligned centrists demanding that everyone else behave and keep fascists in check because they are special snowflakes who must never be held accountable for anything and are just "responding to the left's provocations".

The problem is that the vast majority of congressional Democrats are doing essentially the same thing.

Our elite class clearly values access over literally everything else, and will do virtually anything to ensure that they retain that access, even if, in the process, they are active participants in the dissolution of our civil society.

Particularly if the people in charge are also incredibly shallow and reactionary, capable only of knee-jerk defensive responses to outside stimuli and with no capacity whatsoever to think beyond those responses before acting.

I think they think (1) they're actually keeping themselves in control by doing nothing and (2) that the bottom possible can't fall out and (3) even if it does they can escape any consequences, and all three are delusional

Just once, it would be nice to see actual elected Democrats act as clear-headed about Trump as literal Republican never-Trumpers