tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too
I am always curious about what it is like for the subset of political appointees with genuine ideological beliefs to see their most significant work dismantled by goons, and I got to ask Julie Su that question.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/julie-sus-...
Why are these people not being ridiculed as stupid cowards wherever they go? Point and laugh, say it to their faces. It's exactly what every one of them deserves
Every "revelation" I hear about the planning behind the war in Iran is just excruciating.
He didn't have a plan. He never did. Unchecked power and no plan. No sense of anything other than self-preservation.
And Congress just sits on their hands.
i spent an inordinate amount of time dissecting why the media is obsessed with union voters and Trump, and why they keep getting it absolutely wrong when it comes to labor thehousered.substack.com/p/the-medias...
Genuinely, we don’t talk enough about how *dumb* he is. He obviously thinks “clean coal” is some pristine type you can pull out of the ground and he couldn’t explain a tariff given every textbook in the world and an untimed test. Wild how media pretends whatever he says is normal politician speak.
One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
democrats still seem to be laboring under the delusion that they can introduce stuff to pass while trump is president and they, not trump, will somehow get credit for it. they learned nothing from trump taking credit for covid stimulus checks
most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november
I say this for every merger because all media consolidation is pointless layoff producing anti-consumer bullshit, but this shitshow is going to be something SPECIAL
Trump says he won’t sign any other bills until the SAVE Act is passed, which requires voters to show proof of citizenship with expensive documents like passports.
Reminder: noncitizen voting is already illegal and incredibly rare. This is about voter suppression, plain and simple.
it is at least a LITTLE funny that the administration spent the run up to its war of aggression destroying its own state capacity and alienating every career civil servant it could
Would be interesting to hear Atlantic Canadian menacingly saying "han solo"
Let me make a Star wars movie! I don't have any experience but I promise you it will be so cheap it won't matter how bad the box office is
Speaking of, has anyone told JAW that the character he's playing, while it looks cool now, was called in its previous appearance "Stinky"?
My criticism will of course be retracted if they make it that Rotta & all hutts speaking basic/ English use the Truman Capote voice the one Hutt from Clone Wars had. (There will be different criticisms then)
My only thought on Rotta the Hutt (important topic) is that it's honestly quite funny to hire the award-winning, in demand, high-priced Jeremy Allen White to voice a character of a species that mostly speaks an alien language & with a deep bass voice that will probably require digital manipulation.
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
if you believed this you should be fired on the spot because you are one of the dumbest people alive
it would have been difficult to go after people simply for starting the war, but the war crimes involved in the war on terror were absolutely prosecutable. if we’d put John Yoo in a cell, it might’ve put a little fear of god in future generations
One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.
okay but having a kid in a Pixar movie prompts the question of where babies come from and the answer is "the parents fucked"
those complains aren't and have never been about difficult conversations with kids, it's about making life easier specifically for bigots at the expense of everyone else
Only thought on Maine is a party can't stop someone from running, but can control how they react &a party whose leadership so badly reads the political moment &throws their weight behind someone unsuited to meet the moment (not coincidentally in the same ways they're unsuited) is a party in trouble.
The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.
Apparently not an edit, they really did it. There’s no squish sound effect at the end but still
Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
