I feel like we’ve been in that territory since the bombing of Iran but the Maduro thing put us over the edge for sure.

I think this is the product of an underlying recognition by the various viziers, and even Trump himself (at least with regard to the Supreme Court), that the survival of this administration is entirely dependent on America's media and financial elites being able to pretend that everything is normal.

the entire contradiction at the heart of the last 15 years of dem dysfunction has been simultaneously insisting the only mechanism for punishing republican malfeasance is the vote while also adopting a posture of bipartisan comity with those very politicians voters are supposed to be disciplining.

100%

maybe *this* time old Donald Trump won't betray me!

Yeah I was gonna say this is one of those "some Chinese state owned enterprise said they wanted to do a thing" which is where MAGAland stopped following the story and just assumes whatever they said they wanted to do definitely happened because sleepy joe

At the height of cultural relevance and firmly grasping the zeitgeist. Not at all in late stage Islamophobic meltdown.

i quite dislike that the UK government has actually used the word "realism" to describe their IR approach for reasons that don't even have anything to do with venezuela

If he's rejecting it out of hand, that tells me two things. 1) He is not worried about getting ousted. 2) None of his members are pursuing a shutdown seriously.

I try to maintain a compassionate outlook towards all sentient beings, but I am fighting wishing these people a lot more dukkha in their lives

Miller and his goons love talk like this. This is the kind of stuff he says to himself in the mirror as a daily affirmation. But even among MAGA voters, the actual receptive audience for this is *vanishingly* small. Starting a war with NATO over Greenland is how you get Ameri-Maidan'ed.

I basically never see the racism or murder at the Racist Murder Pit. You can avoid that kind of thing if you don't go looking for it. The truth is, the Racist Murder Pit is the best place to have meaningful conversations about politics. And you can pretty easily ignore all the racism and murder

man it's cool how like you think that we'd evolved from this but nope

In 2016 if you had asked me what’s the stupidest possible thing I see the U.S. doing in ten years, there’s no way I would’ve come up with anything nearly as dumb as saber rattling a NATO ally over military control of Greenland. Not even close.

Look if I was way more religious (and more of a doomer) than I currently am, I might say that the only way stuff keeps bouncing off Trump is because he is legitimately the anti-Christ meant to bring about the End of Days. It would be bullshit but higher than a 0% chance lmao

A whole lot of media elites have convinced themselves that they can either placate the face-eating leopards, or else cower behind others whose faces get eaten in the hope that someone else will stop the leopards or the leopards will get full.

Chuck Schumer rejecting out of hand the one point of leverage he has, the one that was actually working really well last year until he caved, is the most Chuck Schumer he can be. spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...

A year ago none of these people had opinions on Greenland and now they’re vatniks.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Me seeing the way politicians invoke Christianity lately:

I find the first comment so bizarre. As has been noted ad nauseam, Greenland's already in NATO and virtually every potential US military use is something Denmark already happily lets the US do anyway. If you don't know this then you clearly didn't care about it previously, so who's the pretense for?

average Graham Linehan supporter

"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know

it's fascinating how much of this is literally stuff Z posters in Russia do

I fucking hate this Trumpism where he denies doing something (waging war without Congress) but also says it would be ok if he did. Over and over. A fake denial. And then laying the groundwork for it still being fine when the lie is exposed.

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it's going Great as the Trump admin has to admit they made up a cartel

"First day... first day, big problems here. Uh, are we going to Kelly here or are we gonna go..." www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fir...

Aren’t I glad that the brightest boys of the reactionary left and reactionary center have spent the last four years shrieking that we need to stop emphasizing things like “democracy” and “the rule of law” and just focus on cheap, craven, cynical populist materialism It’s gone so fucking great

This is literally the excuse my parents give for being conservative ever since 😭. For them they grew up during it so…trauma but yeesh this is too true

the sun will burn out before america stops being mad at carter

Also lmao at the photo choices in the segment, these are like the photos I'd look for if I was cutting an attack ad against Kelly (including on the other side, the "too late I've already portrayed myself as the cunning winner" shot of Hegseth)

There was a guy I worked with in corporate video that told me if you have unreasonable, ignorant clients that want to fuck up their own production, you can try to stop them "but sometimes you have to give them the controls and let them crash the plane"

Actually getting assets in place to hit Colombia like they did Venezuela is... uh... well it would take awhile and be very obvious.

This feels like malicious compliance

I understand that the goal is to focus their messaging on Affordability and all but I am tired of the twelve dimensional chess framing the president is a bunch of evil fireflies beeping in a jar, he doesn’t distract from things so much as it’s a different firefly’s turn he wants oil, kidnap maduro

All Democrats need to recognize that we are well past the point of fishing vs. cutting bait. This is not a presidency that needs to be implored to do better, this is a presidency that needs to be shut down & removed at the earliest opportunity. Anything beyond that comes second.

It's doubly silly because 1. it's not a "distraction" any more than a live grenade in a conference room is a "distraction", & 2. It's not like the health insurance increases are going to be forgotten in the hullabaloo. Insurance companies are real, real good at ensuring you remember you owe them.

Right, there are these little moments where you can see them going “no rules! Arrest the enemies of the state” and then they get to the station and they’re like “but wait, we got nothing on this guy, we gotta let him go” like it’s Law and Order

another example of our incredibly weird status quo - this happened, the cops couldn't actually charge her, and she's been confirmed as released

lol the fucking Navy SEALs or whoever forgot to mirandize him

“PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REFINE THIS DOGSHIT OIL PLEASE I NEED THIS I NEED TO BE THE GUY WHO STOLE OIL TO PUNISH THE RACIAL LESSERS THE WAY THAT THAT HIPPIE COWARD GEORGE BUSH WOULDN’T PLEASE IN SATAN’S NAME HELP ME OUT HERE I’LL GIVE YOU ALL THE MONEY FOR THIS PERVERSE GRATIFICATION”

seems bad

The US federal government is essentially threatening or trying to declare war against the world *and* its domestic population at the same time despite not having the resources and popular support to survive doing so. At some point it's going to suffer a catastrophic break.

issue is, of course, the more deranged imperial projects America gets involved in, the more wartime authority that the president acquires, imo it's why i basically am fairly convinced the MAGA brain trust will manifest a Yoon moment post-midterms unlike 2018 midterms which was a peaceful handover

Big, big deal!

they're doing it for gender, imo

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I think it’s safe to say the international rules based order is looking a little worse for wear. “Moreover, when NATO’s credibility rests in large part on American military power, what credibility does NATO really have when the United States is one of the security threats to NATO?”