Nothing is too surprising about Maher anymore but would love to show this to 2003 era Bill who was very against Iraq
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Nothing is too surprising about Maher anymore but would love to show this to 2003 era Bill who was very against Iraq
more important might be Robin Vos, who was just as much of an architect of the WIGOP's success as Walker or RoJo. he's retiring this year. sign of the times, indeed.
are you going to try and prove that
mike johnson is legally speaker of the house, as pathetic as it would be if he had a spine. that’s the difference.
like i said, if they pretend, they’re pretending. and if it comes down to it, we know who controls the Virginia Army National Guard.
this is really going to hit among the Discover tab people
The 117th Congress stops existing on January 3, 2027. So Mike Johnson pretending to be Speaker on January 4, 2027 is a) legally inactionable and b) no different from his present status.
Genuinely weird to see these florid fantasies of Donald Trump’s final victory over democracy from the guy who popularized “do not comply in advance.”
guy who fled the country instead of fighting fascism in a cushy academic job says what
One of the more deeply disturbing culture habits on Twitter is the belief that it is both effective and important to retraumatise oneself over and over again while getting mad at people who don't want that.
love that america has behaved so badly that we have gotten canadians who are doing the kind of craniometry the worst NAFO guys do on Russians
God I hate this idea. People are not one more image of a dead baby away from radicalisation. We don't lack will, we lack any real means to act on our will because the left has ceased to be a political project and become a few thousand people trying to Post their way out of Posting.
whoa what the fuck is that Minneapolis line??? that's psychotic.
there's been a notable surplus of Gaza + Undecideds 2024 discourse *again* this weekend, it's always from the usual suspects, and my theory for why they keep doing this is:
1. they know they've lost this argument wholly, and
2. constantly relitigating it is the only coping mechanism they have left.
imo dems should press the ‘get republicans talking about how much they love beating their kids‘ button more
literal nazis are in charge. a guy threw a nazi salute at the inauguration of a guy who kept a book of hitler's speeches at his bedside.
IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care BECAUSE my position is immutable
I am not a Newsom guy. Hope he loses, will help advocate for that to happen. If for whatever reason he wins the primary, he’s the only choice in the general. I wouldn’t take this argument* seriously from a Joe Manchin type making it about AOC, so why should anybody here?
*threay
Like this is my response to people clamoring for a Dem tea party or to ape some tactic they think made Trump win or whatever. Stuff that works for republicans doesn’t work for democrats the same way for a lot of reasons because they’re different.
thoughts on stephen miller’s rant about “human rights” youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk?...
I think Mullin approval hearings might be a nontrivial lift
tbf if you can't keep a guy out of office in NYC of all places over it, you're a paper tiger
the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism
it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point
I don’t think LLMs are going anywhere but OpenAI sure might
unlike Google they don’t have the backstop of the endless ad money spigot and I’d bet a lot more on Anthropic finding a path to profitability than these guys
probably a reason they were so eager to jump on the military opening
Delaware is 24% black. And more urbanized than SC. just...putting it out there.
every incumbent party on the planet got walloped and Harris/Dems did better than almost all of them
she overperformed in swing states where she campaigned heavily compared to the rest of the country
she absolutely could have run a better campaign (Gaza!)
I don’t know if it would have been enough
my final project for an econometrics class was seeing whether there was any association between CHIPS Act funded projects and Democratic vote share in 2024
no amount of p-hacking could find any relationship btw
The people who say this type of thing probably thought it was epic genius political maneuvering when Mamdani did a cushy photo-op with Trump 24 hours before he started an illegal war in Iran
As someone who works for an embassy rn, let me just say that some diplomats are also blinkered by the fact that they cannot really imagine politics being as ideological, irrational, and as driven by personal desires as it is lol
A really crank galaxy brain idea I have is to give Congress direct control over its own CIA-type agency so it’s not infinitely beholden to the executive for expertise on natsec stuff.
If you judge by a metric of relative to other plausible presidents at the time it’s hard to not see Trump as the worst of all time tbh.