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Given the number of foreign policy catastrophes of this administration it's really incredible to scroll through the NYT archives at the staggering number of pieces that were published about Benghazi over the span of Obama's entire 2nd term, as if there was never a bigger White House blunder.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

If you still are a Republican after all this, if you still didn't quit this Nazi-wannabe party - you're complicit in what they do. No matter who you personally vote for.

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

Mediocre, stupid white, mostly men, promoted to positions they shouldn’t be in the same universe as. They are racist stupid clowns who are incapable of learning. This is the idiocracy.

Just took the Epstein files to send republicans from "the democrats are all pedophiles!" to "victims of pedophiles are all lying!"

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

I don’t care about brooks or what cush sinecure he has. He’s wrong. It’s a dumb point. And Collins campaign is literally stocked with Nazis. To any of this gate keeping tut tutting just stfu.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

DOGE really crushed it

Hey btw did anyone get a copy of the wire transfer where Junior *totally* paid the Putin oligarch back for his wedding party? LOL 😂

This is a regular feature of data-matching, especially when done in a half-assed way. The purpose is to create the false claims of fraud. For example, Republicans complained for years about the risk of double voting. A credible system was built to detect it (ERIC). Then they killed it.

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Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh all need to be impeached if they are prepared to sign off on such a clear abuse of power such as these rules. The Constitution means nothing to them, at least when Trump wants to violate it!

"Socialism must be perfect while capitalism's short comings are just the way it is" 🤷‍♂️ -The wealthy capitalists Obligatory Fuck Peter Theil!

LEFT: Donald Trump today, dozing off as the names of those who died on 9/11 are read. RIGHT: Joe Biden today, paying respects to those lost on 9/11. Who's "sleepy" now, loser?

I sure as hell hope that a Democratic administration, if we are ever lucky enough to have one, has the guts to rip this shit down.

There were some real problems with Ulbricht’s conviction. But valorizing him while they’re still executing fishermen for alleged drug smuggling is a hell of a choice.

New in PN: The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure "The words coming out of his mouth reveal a man completely deluded and awash in fictions of his own making. And as long as he’s surrounded by people who will let him live in that world, we’re all stuck in here with him."

This “gift” from Qatar, like the ballroom and everything else Trump wanted and promised was free, is costing us a fortune.

Fun Fact: Liz Cheney was flogging this lie right up until they ran her out of the GOP in 2020. She has *never* recanted it, but we have been repeatedly told by our Never Trump supervisors to shut up about it.

If Nancy Pelosi had repeatedly told reporters she had no idea what was going on around her, the coverage would have been unsparing and vicious.

A lot of people have spent more time talking about a lefty podcaster who no one has voted for than the actual GOP nominee for governor in Colorado

No one ever writes hand wringing articles about "is it time for conservatives to make peace and appeal to progressives" be that in political or personal terms. And that recurring detail gives the whole game away, I'd say.

We & the media are NOT talking enough about how a Florida grand jury found that $10 million was funneled from a settlement intended to benefit Florida taxpayers to Ron DeSantis’s wife’s illegitimate “charity” (that never registered with the IRS), where it was laundered before it got to the FLA GOP.

scott jennings opinions are meaningless at this point. He is a liability to any show trying to promote serious discussions about anything.

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

Exactly

The answer to: “Who was President in October 2008?” is unknowable for approximately the same reason as the answer to the question: “Who was President in March 2020?”

Couldn't resist

Why is this still a story? Somebody better get off their butts and find out the truth. Why are republicans getting away with this crap?

Texas used 83,000 Flock cameras nationwide to hunt down a woman who had an abortion in another state. Wisconsin cops tracked a man from his house across state lines & arrested him for weed upon return. But nobody's got a single photo of Mitch.

Ironically, the way mainstream papers lower the bar to give space to middling hacks in the name of ideological diversity is the closest real-world phenomeon to how MAGA imagines DEI works. Does anyone think we’d know the name Mark Thiessen if he were on the center-left competing for that slot?

On the short list for Alito’s seat but please, don’t vote this November because all your issues are not being addressed by ”the establishment “

This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

The five-time draft dodger imagined himself outranking two of America’s most iconic generals.

a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.

Old enough to remember someone was dying every 8 minutes in NYC. This is to distract from Epstein duh

Bari is entirely a product of the NYT/rich person/Ivy league solar system. She made middle age and elderly men feel like, :no, it's the kids who are out of touch." That she thinks America is clamoring for Douthat confirms this

Happens every time. Black father kills a man who tried to rape his daughter & media posts his solo mug shot. White father murders his wife & children & media posts his smiling picture with the woman he murdered. Make no mistake—this is how media normalizes white supremacy & extremism. Reject it.