its very funny to say “i was the hunted now im the hunter” at a mid-day meeting where you fell asleep at your desk

“The revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

DEI is just their way of saying the n-word now. DEI with a hard r. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

I think a lot of people fundamentally do not understand that MTG breaking with the GOP over the Epstein files is *because of* this

"I was going to vote Reform, but now I'm hearing they're bigoted. There was no way for me to have known this"

This is a really fun and revealing passage that’s very self-revelatory about GWOT Brain that it’s probably not necessary to dissect but let’s do it anyway for fun

There is real rising antisemitism in the US right now, including on the left, as even left-wing Jews will tell you. Meanwhile, this editorial spends most of its time complaining about Democrats voting to block weapon sales to Israel, which is not antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...

Variations on this have also been a thing since at least January 2021 abcnews.com/US/capitol-r...

like, here is a New York Post story about it *from this January.*. nypost.com/2026/01/17/u...

it's trivially easy to find references to women doing this - including reports in right wing media - going back to at least last December, months before the delusional idea that Will somehow revealed a huge secret.

“i don’t think it happened” really means “any random teenager with absentee parents can earn a wikipedia article by attacking a school, but nobody can hit the broad side of a dang cheeto?” anyway, that’s why the name of the family group chat doubles as the moderation policy… “FamChat (mindfull)”

There's a conspiratorial trend in the American psyche and as of recently it's been supercharged by things like AI so there's probably a not insignificant number of people who think answering the question "do you think people want to kill the president?" truthfully might lead to an FBI visit

Western ‘Realists’: “Putin was reacting to NATO expansion in Europe; Ukraine is a one off scenario we can appease our way out of” Putin “yeah Ukraine is about the EU, and I might do it again if anyone else thinks about joining”

...I hope people realise it's because he doesn't want "strings attached" which the U.S. can use in carrot-stick fashion to influence Israel with regards to Palestine. He's evil, but he's not THAT delusional. (Although, hell, MAYBE he is.)

Only in the world of the Omnicause, where Israel is the heart of all evil in the world, is Marjorie Taylor Greene someone we need to allow into the tent. Love hearing about how everyone is acceptable as long as they hate Israel enough, regardless of where the hate comes from or their other ideas.

Alito's clerks, for example, have to cover up his leaks of opinion drafts to the Wall Street Journal.

Scalia hired a liberal clerk every year to provide a different viewpoint. The current crew does not, and demands absolute loyalty even in unethical behavior.

John Roberts probably believes any criticism of him is George Soros astroturf -- literally a Jewish conspiracy -- and not reflective of public opinion. He has probably not spoken to a hostile or even skeptical audience in a decade.

Example: they're outright lying and rewriting the constitution every day now to rig an election they'll probably lose anyway, and may even cost their regime the senate because of it. They'd have been much better off doing this in July 2028. But they can't help themselves.

The other thing you have to understand about the US supreme court majority is that they are incredibly fucking stupid. Some of them may have been passably intelligent and competent once, but years of rule by "fuck you" have rotted that all away.

The “solution” folder here is “pro-Palestinian politics that aren’t antisemitic” - they exist but both anti-Palestine activists and antisemites want to pretend they do not

Intercept journalists are a fuckin cancer

No one’s ever seen a society more decadent folks, they’re calling it the most decadent society that’s ever been, grown men with tears in their eyes etc etc you know the bit

this is how these guys everywhere view all tradition or culture—just as signifiers of who is Good and Bad, with no meaning or substance beyond that. literally just flags and statues and slogans

the purest expression of western rightism is Belarus, a state that doesn’t even claim to be building anything, just flying the flag of an ideology none of them believe in anymore, railing against the world changing around them, harkening back to the good old days when they were somehow poorer

This is a man bragging that his lawyer kept him out of jail. Trump’s not saying he’s innocent of crimes—he’s saying he’s only a free man because of lawyering.

The weird grammar in this post is because I initially typed it to include Burgum and didn’t properly fix it, he’s a non-factor in the party’s future save for in the imaginations of Wikibox perverts on Election X

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

The conservative factions of the party are all tapped out, and all that remains once Trump’s no longer there as a linchpin will be Confederate relics like Roberts on one hand and National Socialists like Carlson, Greene, Vance, and Fuentes on the other There is simply no peaceable way back for them

excerpt from that NYT piece where "J-pilled" is glossed over as conservative gen z slang for someone just """skeptical of Israeli involvement in US politics""" is going in the history textbooks for sure

I do not think anyone is ready for how turbo antisemitic the GOP is going to be post-Trump

They celebrate slavers because their goal is to enslave us

“Christopher Nolan wants to subvert the canon of great men by portraying Achilles as a twink” I am so tired of opinions like this mattering

Chat is it good when we become part of the Perun series on how corruption destroys armies?

this is what we get for teaching that wwii started in 1939 and not 1937

He needs to go. Every single Democrat who isn't willing to play hardball needs to go immediately. Stop fucking around. This is real. How many more people have to die.

Let all pretense that this is about “law” die. The Supreme Court is a group of partisan actors intervening on behalf of the political party they support and against the will of the voters. It is the obligation of the next Congress that is committed to the Constitution to reconstruct the rogue SCOTUS

Absolutely shameful from Rep. Kiggans. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore. Trump’s MAGA movement is fueled by racism, fixated on denigrating Black leaders, and focused on attacking Black voting rights. We see it and we won’t back down. www.mediaite.com/politics/hou...

all this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Man I get taking a parental divorce hard, I’ve seen me do it, but h o l y f u c k

really hate posting this one

I think one of my favorite parts of American politics is how people who are a part of the government will breathlessly assert that they are not political actors. What do you think you do. What do you think a government is.

Republicans aren’t smart. They’re not brave, they’re not organized, and they’re not popular. Too many idiots vote for dumb Republicans, you get those same dumb Republicans just letting other dumb Republicans do whatever.

And also, despite what many political hobbyists on social media think, their voters are *way* more ok with that than Demoratic voters are

This isn’t funny or cute, British prime ministers only have big speeches to reassure people that everything is fine and that there is no reason not to have faith in their government when they’re in extreme distress

the answer to why republicans seem to be able to blow past procedural hurdles is because SCOTUS and other courts are partisan republican bodies thanks for coming to my ted talk

Nine times out of ten, "they didn't teach us this in school" is shorthand for "I didn't do the assigned reading".