Carlsbad Jr.

It's "sharia law" this and "sharia law" that — odd how you never hear anyone scream "sharia loan" when someone wants to borrow money interest-free

Yes folks, AI is a lifehack for neurotic perfectionists who can now park their thoughts by not needing them in the first place. Paradox of choice begone! 🤪

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

Okay but it’s the Cheesecake Factory remark that was condescending to his voters

Truly it never gets old

There's no escape

Honestly the Chinese philosophy of legalism could be summed up as a succulent paperwork issue manifested into sociopathic brutality by the State And not unlike the current Communist Party, Late MAGA is a messy bitch that lives for the personality cult

Hardly the most important thing but it is striking that a large chunk of Newark airport is just a credit card ad that happens to have flights

Babs gave money to Talarico????

not the biggest thing but I wish we had a Secretary of State who spelled “discreet” correctly

just repeating shades of "uppity negro" rhetoric over and over

Same Californian nonsense in Idaho I hear! National narrative has underappreciated the contours of post-confederate CA conservatism, despite it producing both Nixon and Reagan. Many of my friends think saving the country prob means nerd artist colonies in the low-population states to counterbalance

seeing Elon go on a multi-day crashout about Talarico has really highlighted how psychologically devastating it would be to Republicans if they lost Texas. So much of their self-identity is tied to repping Texas as the anti-California and would be shattered if the state even tipped blue.

Homie look like Santa Claus gobbled up Ezra Klein like Saturn ate one of his sons

Who needs extradition when Jared can go to Albania and get the extrajudicial treatment

THE BROWNS IS THE BROWNS

This feels kinda poignant for a guy who's spent the last few years pivoting his company's product toward selling more, pricier life-flat seats to fewer and fewer rich people.

Going back to my earlier point of "spend more and think less" being the shorthand goal of the median voter, this very much aligns with the second half

One of the richest men I know personally spent most of his Vietnam deployment, IIUC, playing volleyball in the deck of a ship

Technically it was a jubilee, but yeah

"Hegseth took a liking to… artifacts dating to the 1930s" Of course he did lol

I just realized this all seems *extremely* rational on Ramaswamy's part. He's prob already concluded defeat and has pivoted to griftmaxing post-election. And that all hinges on placating men via the right-wing media ecosphere then sucking them dry.

Allez les Acieteurs!

Was just talking with a colleague about how his son's budding interest in a violin career is making him rethink his retirement schedule — I can cheer him up with "at least he isn't dreaming of a media conglomerate"

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

I'm stuck by how the novelty isn't that he's praying for pedo excuses to win him an election but that this instance involved somebody not already famous

Many such cases. The price of a 300-foot luxury yacht has gone through the roof!

Trumpster fire

and to think republican candidates were worried trump would just talk about himself instead of the republican candidate at these rallies

We're too busy stealing that money, sorry can't give you any www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

This framing assumes professors are all more leftist than our students. My median undergraduate comes to my classes with politics to the left of mine. If I were trying to “convert them” politically, which is absolutely not my goal, I would be turning them more moderate, not more radical.

It's clever the GOP has blocked Democrats from dirty tricks like this by being palpably worse for voters than any parody liberal nerds could ever dream up

Xennials hardened our character two girls and one cup at a time

I love running into old Trump-Pence news coverage because my brain contracts the sign to "tuppence" and suddenly I've got Mary Poppins in my head

if you refuse to pay taxes the way we fund things is via inflation actually sooo

"innocuous paradox designed to destroy a hive mind" is actually a pretty solid definition for Elizabeth Holmes

It's a general feature of extremist politics that bigotry is when someone makes someone else feel bad about being terrible, so of course we have competing liberal and extremist definitions of antisemitism. It might even be the one thing certain "centrists" and actual fascists agree on

It's been quite the pivot for me over the course of adulthood to come to the conclusion that many problems today can be tied to our titans of industry replacing the humanism of typical Western religiosity with an unbridled "techno-optimism" that implicitly hates most of mankind

From time to time I think deeply about the relationship private property has with what we in the American context call "consent of the governed."