wtf does this even mean, how would "the practice of democratic self-governance" be affected one way or the other by people's rooting interests in other countries
you can make the argument that it's bad to care what happens in the rest of the world- it's a stupid argument, mostly made by reactionaries- but to say it's bad for our democracy is just nonsense. he's a nonsense man
yeah you can easily be like "it's straightforwardly bad for democracy that oligarchs and fascists are interfering with elections around the world" but his thing is saying the people who don't want that are not just equally morally bad, but anti-democratic themselves. nonsense! total nonsense!
well the answer is obvious if one is worried about the people who are rooting for and financing a global antidemocracy movement but my guess is that isn't what he is worried about
i enjoy that he doesn't even give two shits about his boy bolsonaro jr faceplanting. "whatever, he's a loser, probably doesn't even have a good ass. let's talk about bill maher"
They're fucking contract soldiers! They all voluntarily signed a dotted line. Russian law bars Putin from sending conscripts into foreign combat zones! He didn't even have the balls to send conscripts to fight in Kursk...RUSSIAN TERRITORY... that's why he brought in the North Koreans.
i feel like at this point some reporter has to ask him about this right. like are we just going to pretend "the president spends all day and night talking about 'the ass of a man'" isn't newsworthy
why would you say anything then, if the concern is an effect on morale. like isn't heavily implying what the blunt message would be effectively the same thing as saying it
i know he always gets a pass because "that's just trump being trump, he just tells extremely racist and inflammatory lies and it would be unacceptably partisan to report them as such" but this is the president trying to incite anti-somali pogroms
Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."
he fluffed the delivery of the line (and generally sounds like shit, I mean, whoa) but the "they live better than you" is unmistakably a call to action, there's no need to pretend otherwise
like cmon there's three legs to the joke. he didn't just get up there and say "let me be clear: the cheesecake factory sucks." being this stupid is how you end up voting for trump
the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you.
going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also
they should ask trump about it too. "does the fact that military review boards are overriding your trans ban because the soldiers are exemplary make you reconsider your position at all." see what kind of stupid bullshit the fucker cooks up
🔥👀 The retreat known as the Eagle’s Nest built for Adolf Hitler in the Bavarian Alps was almost completely destroyed in a fire, and work to extinguish the blaze was still in progress Saturday, authorities said. A suspect was detained, - AP News
Police later said it burned down almost completely.
One should note that while some of the rightwingers are being like "oh no, this was a mistake, samuel is a good man" plenty of others are like overjoyed that sey may be deported despite his total devotion to their cause
“shepherds for sale” and fellow daily wire staffer meg basham joins allie, noting that people should be consider the fact that this was not a case of “deliberate law breaking.”
Not that this will ever reach anyone who it'll matter to but it's amazing that people play this fool's game. "I'm one of the good ones!" not to most of them you're not!
A helpfully clear exchange here
Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028."
Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"
"There should be a Nobel prize for rape, and I should win it," the president bellowed, in a statement some democrats argued could be construed as pro-rape
they would call me the shinkansen king. every ad is just high speed rail & mass transit and bike lanes generally. my opponents want to turn your kid into a car
David Friedman's failure to connect what Brad Lander and his group are doing on behalf of innocent Palestinians to the US civil rights movement is in a sense a betrayal of his father, Rabbi Morris Friedman, who marched with MLK jr & led prayer vigils on his behalf when he was assassinated
"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets."
Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
Certainly david wouldn't see it that way, because he (hopefully) thinks protesting jim crow was good & (definitely) thinks protesting israeli apartheid is bad. But that's just bc he's blinded by hate
Earlier richest-man-on-earth H. L. Hunt had this same stupid idea, and responded in similar ways! Also had a crazy number of kids!
Not sure Elon crawls on the floor like a baby to extend his lifespan, though.
One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.
it's cool how he's not even doing the thing where he declares victory anymore, just being like "blehhhhhhh yeah i dunno, something will happen or not, this is boring, whatever." that's how you want your superpowers to run, in wars and in all things
“No, I think we're not negotiating with. We are going to have something one way or the other that'll happen fairly soon. Most people seem to think it's after the election, and we're going to see what happens. But I will say this: what we've done with Iran is amazing. (8/9)
Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.