Dmitri Tsafendas Stan

A political party tries to court people's votes. An authoritarian regime tries to keep people from voting and keep votes from counting.

Unironically this is Trump’s major appeal. A bunch of frustrated, stunted people want permission to be bigots and assholes.

I feel like I’m living in some weird fucking Beckett play or a dystopian sequel to Being There where the president of the United States is just increasingly obviously a porridge-brained mental patient and everyone nods and smiles like it’s normal.

with all of my heart i hate this rat motherfucker

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."

Vucic be like, none can beat me! None:

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Right. If your mother says bad things about you, it should automatically disqualify you from holding a job in government. Apropos of nothing, here's an email to Pete Hegseth from his mom.

Might be time to go home and be a family man

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Ok now a lot of Brazilian mayors need to go to jail

Lula vows to regulate Meta in his victory speech

It would be so funny if It Happened tonight, and these were his official last words.

I’ve learned over the last decade that there’s nothing at all I like more than a fascist losing.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

Jair Bolsonaro still unsure whether to go for a celebratory trip to the hospital or a consolatory trip to the hospital

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Eat shit to fascists throughout the world.

Keeps happening

You can't have a democracy and leave people like that just hanging around.

There should be quite a few dead right-wing politicians and military officers by Friday.

I think he needs to go end of godfather, literally speaking.

maybe that’s the reason all these countries, including ours, can’t stamp out the fascism. maybe the question is, who’s finally gonna do something about it

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

Klan rally

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

Jesus Christ, these people fucking suck. What is even the point of not responding with a simple, "Yes, of course"? Even for people who don't like El-Sayed, you sound like a fucking mutant who was raised in a lab with this answer.

as much as i’d rather build something new, we have to takeover and gut the democratic party all that infrastructure belongs to the people, not the loser ass DCCC consultant class that has reduced it to nothing since the clinton era

something about a lot of dems... like yeah, they want to avoid certain questions, they wanna change the topic, they wanna bullshit you. nothing surprising there. but they're not good at it either. we are rife with bullshitters who aren't any good at bullshitting.

Percentage of Americans actually offended by this joke: 0% Percentage of Americans offended that a Black man is allowed to speak on a mic: 23:-28% Percentage who will think it's funny and get why Trump is a wannabe dictator clown with the taste of a McMansion model home decorator: 64%

imagine if a democratic candidate anywhere said something like this about a jewish candidate, would be a ten-alarm fire in every media outlet for days. but the literal president promoting this sort of insane bigotry against a muslim won't even merit a story

People like Matt Yglesias treat the militarized border as an unchangeable reality and an automatic political loser when in reality it is an incredibly recent lurch to the right whose consequences are now in full view of the citizenry.

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We'll see how far the attempt goes, even if it will clearly fail. But a constitutional system that sees such an attempt by its chief executive and then leaves him in office has already been shattered. Merely trying is betrayal enough and places him outside of constitutional or democratic legitimacy.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

to be clear even if this guy erroneously voted its one fucking guy in the state of fucking california it tipped no races a normal country would send him a $50 fine in the mail and revoke his voting registration and move on

The looting of the country by Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, the Trump sons, and their orbit of aides and friends is directly tied to *your* inability to afford housing, health care, child care, and more. It's their illegal wealth versus our ability to live.

I just want dems to stop messing around and finally call republicans evil and disgusting. Not trump. Not "maga." republicans and republican voters. By name.

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

This is not the Amy Acton's mother I have come to know this week for condemning her molested daughter. If true, this holds grave implications for my views of a public figure I endorsed merely for harboring a fugitive pedophile for decades.