Unfortunately I think if democrats did do this much of this website would be like “typical weak democrats begging Trump to step down, he’s never gonna do that!”

Las Vegas is a shit hole

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

the milkman conspiracy is goated

Idk man this seems to clever to me. I think he’s just smashing shit with a hammer because it’s fun.

Why are they polling this statewide lmao

Its just a jargony way of saying that we shouldn’t have any firm values

Starting to consider the possibility that he can just do this forever. Material reality hasn’t mattered yet, why would it start to now?

Corporate ownership of single family house rental Discourse makes me insane because none of the neo-Brandeisians are willing to come out and say "I think that lower middle class SFH renters should be evicted and forced to live in apartments so that upper middle class families can buy those houses."

It really is insane how the entire front page of r/Maine is just a gaggle of clapping seals slobbering all over Platner

Donald Trump murdered this man.

Reality has to come into play eventually right? Like the straight isn’t open, that has to matter eventually, doesn’t it?

I’m afraid we’re just going to have to wait for everyone who was of voting age during the Reagan years to die for this to go away. “Republicans do economy good” is an unshakable article of faith for these people.

It’s really funny how proud these guys are of their jealous sexual obsessions with their children

you know, it doesn't really matter what my opinion of robert mueller was, the president of the united states saying out loud that he's glad a lifelong public servant is dead is terrible fucking behavior and i don't need to clear my throat about what mueller did or did not do in order to say that

Frum is still the bloodthirsty freak he has always been

this is my issue with it, whomever wants to lead and govern is going to have to reckon with a *whole fucking megaton* of bad trump admin decisions, and this “everybody gets a puppy and a balloon *except for billionaires*” horseshit isn’t going to work

I’m ambivalent about IL-09 but I’m thrilled about Stratton. A real blow to the cowardly establishment.

oh god this is gonna be painful

It’s going to be very weird to explain to student of history in a few decades that there was a broad elite consensus during the period leading up to this that the left posed a unique threat to freedom of speech.

They need to destroy Palantir and SpaceX as well. You should not be able to declare war on American democracy and go right back to bidding on federal contracts.

I hate the Democratic Party so much man, this is so god damn pathetic. How humiliating that voting for these losers is my only option.

Why does Alex Karp always look like Taika Waititi after he has been kidnapped for two weeks

we need to find whatever fucking idiot consultants are advising dems to slash income taxes and dump them in the middle of the ocean with concrete blocks chained to their ankles

Hard to escape the conclusion that broad parts of the party just don't particularly believe the government should be providing services.

God why are all these democrats talking about tax cuts? Please shut the fuck up

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

I’m reading a research paper on administrative burdens on people accessing government programs and saw a citation that said “Burden, et al” and I looked at the bibliography to discover that there is a scholar of administrative burdens named Barry Burden

POV: you are the captain of an Iraqi oil tanker idling in a Dubai port

It should be illegal to know this little ball. You should go to jail for this.

It is time

My mentions have folks calling Talarico a "fascist" and assuring me that black Texans would never ever vote for anyone who uses Christian language. For the good of democracy, I'm begging some of you to take a long break from social media. It's not helping you and you're definitely not helping us.

The vast majority of agricultural labor has already been replaced by machines. Would you uninvent the tractor? The combine harvester?

we in business

Damn, that sounds dumb as hell!

Now that incentives for zoning liberalization are out, and build-to-rent single-family housing is effectively banned, I think the ROAD to Housing Act might do more harm than good. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I started kindergarten early, got held back for another year of kindergarten, skipped first grade, did 8th grade twice, and finished my senior year of HS a semester early.

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

What exactly do these people think they’re accomplishing?

Platner said he's a long-time fan of THIS show

🚨DEMS IN DISARRAY ALERT🚨

Praying for a good outcome.

Even if Platner isn’t an antisemite (he absolutely is), if your judgement is so fucking bad that you REGULARLY do an antisemitic whoopsie because it has never occurred to you to just fucking look something up then you ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE.

Lmao Bari is really going for it, isn’t she?

Adjusting my priors slightly closer to “Platner is a Nazi” and slightly further away from “Platner is just a dipshit”

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/