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Genuinely the end of an era. Good argument to be made that if one man was the human embodiment of California GOP politics once upon a time, it was Darrell Issa.

its really weird the way FBI interviewers accusing Trump of raping a 13 year old girl, like multiple interviews, are being like... ignored by the media, very weird and no good explanation for it

"Private Equity"/"Late Capitalism" in general are great ways to filter your bitching that it's just not as good as it used to be in *my* day without sounding like a Republican

The far right and far left are very different. You see, when the far right pitches you on an idealized version of the past that just so happens to line up with exactly when you were a kid, they say Jews and/or immigrants ruined it for everyone. When the far left does it, they say "private equity".

I keep thinking there's a logic to this that I'm missing but no, Kevin Kiley is literally just acting like Wile E. Coyote putting on a fake mustache and calling himself Lyle E. Coyote to get close to the Roadrunner.

Like when I heard this at first I thought he was trying to cover his ass and demonstrate disapproval of Trump but apparently not? He's literally just saying "hehehehe you want to gerrymander out Republicans, we'll the joke's on you, I won't run as a Republican"?? Really???

"By engaging in this diabolically sneaky act of subterfuge, my literal constituents will forget who I am! No longer am I Kevin Kiley, I'm Kevin Nopartypreference! A foolproof plan."

so... what exactly does Kevin Kiley believe this is going to *do* for him, exactly...?

Iowa is the next Georgia, many people are saying

I can believe this. Carter was also a very bad salesman for his own presidency though and "crusading political outsider" syndrome claimed another victim with him

Two of my grandmother's four marriages began and ended within the same calendar year

My grandmother did it 4 times

Imagine believing that the only thing capable of preventing the thousand year Trumpenreich is the collapse of western civilization as we know it

Yeah but that's hardly the only case. It's a whole genre

It will shock you how much this never happened

Also we really need to put to rest now the idea that the US will be an international pariah for all eternity after Donald is gone or that rebuilding will take our whole lifetimes.

One of my top 5 least favorite personality types on here has got to be "predicts global economic cataclysm due to Trump, is an inch away from passing around the kool-aid, then when cataclysm doesn't happen, doomposts that this means Trump wins forever".

Ngl the main reason I'm hoping for a shock upset D win in IA-SEN this November is so I can post jokes that Selzer wasn't wrong, just such a good pollster she saw the future.

Sure, the seeds were planted with Nixon, but his Presidency still existed in the world FDR built. The 1980 election is the one that actually killed it for good. And inshallah 2028 will be the election that finally kills the world Reagan built for good.

It's less the policy and more the composition of the electorate

In 2020 I read an article that compared Trump's administration to Jimmy Carter's, which was so disastrous that it ended the FDR era of politics and began the Reagan era. I would like to propose that this hypothesis was not actually disproven, just 8 years premature.

I've always marveled (in horror) at people who see social media as a diary. We need to feel more of a sense of obligation to each other's mental health. You never know if your tossed off "lol it's so over, we're cooked" post, which meant nothing to you, is going to send someone else into a spiral.

Anyways, very fun to see certain prominent Economics posters spamming ironic memes about how the world is doomed and fucked and it's all over, it's so over, and their comments fill up with people who are clearly buying ropes and stools.

I’m sorry, what were you saying about how you couldn’t vote for Harris because you pulled the idea that SHE was going to start a war in the Middle East out of your butt?

There is no proof that Beto O'Rourke's loss was the result of a rigged election. Let's not go embracing the MAGA rallying cry.

Looks like approval ratings breaking the Bush record low

I am starting to get the feeling that the weird social media dynamics around this are downstream of a bunch of millennial dudes snorting cocaine together in DC

Right, so a writer for The Intercept, a Blackwater mercenary, and a Kennedy are all in a D.C. bar bathroom doing rails off the back of a toilet seat. Stop me if you've heard this one before!

If any of those 3 happen I would agree with you, I just don't think it's a safe bet to assume they will right now.

Do you think he has a greater chance than Sherrod Brown or Mary Peltola?