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"I thought our decorations should tell a story this year." "Okay, well, now our house looks like a really sad orphanage." "That’s exactly what I was going for." buff.ly/gyYuhJ2

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Alaska governor. Kreiss-Tomkins would be the state's first Democratic leader in 24 years.

For my last Better Win a District, I wrote about TN-09. Republicans gerrymandered Memphis, the Blackest city in Tennessee, out of a seat in the House. Or at least they tried. Then along came Justin Pearson. Now TN-09 is a real fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...

It hasn't improved my cell reception, and I still get just as lost as before, so no dice on magnetic attunement either

Does that mean i need to stop breaking into hospitals to steal vaccines as they don't, in fact, boost my autistic powers?

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

The Eisenhower killed a lot of people to ensure that Charlie Brown never acquired hoes.

The government feared his power. They knew if he ever kicked that football, communism would win.

Reminder that the CIA canonically paid Lucy to psychologically torture Charlie Brown.

Well how's he supposed to fill a venue in a Democratic stronghold like.... [checks notes]... Mississippi

Yeah, this is really bad. It's good that El-Sayed distanced himself from it, but I am in awe at how Cenk's left-wing PAC managed to combine antisemitism with transphobia and pitch it as *supporting* the Democrat in this race.

Seriously, what the fuck is this?

If a real Islamomexican Sharianarcoterrorist conspiracy does not exist the right-wing will furiously pretend it does because they are tired of needing to tell these browns apart

…the odds of 25 independent sexual assault allegations all being false is about 1 in 105 sextillion.

Just a little back of the envelope math: Most research finds the rate of SA reports determined to be false after investigation to be 4-6 percent. Many can’t be conclusively proven or disproven, so let’s even imagine it might be as high as 12%. Applying that rate to Trump…

Just to make this concrete: if I picked a grain of sand somewhere on the earth’s surface, and you went to a random location on the planet with a pair of tweezers and by sheer luck picked up that very grain of sand first try, that would be MORE statistically likely than Trump not being a rapist.

If we could choose Glonzoi, I would simply choose "Culver's is a front for a dastardly scheme to transform people into cowbimbos" instead of the bullshit we've got now.

Flávio was better at this — Brazilians told me he was more corrupt and amusingly more tolerable to the center-right elite, who saw him as part of the system. But even he screwed up badly during the runoff, insulting Lula during a debate in a way that inadvertently highlighted his own privilege.

The closest case might actually be Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro was a famously useless legislator prior to taking power. His attempts to consolidate power were repeatedly stymied by an inability to competently suborn the center-right majority in Congress. His election theft attempt was poorly planned.

The biggest reason his would-be regime has basically been stillborn is that he's not capable of the long-range straegic planning necessary to do regime change. Most of his closest subordinates are also either incompetents or fanatics. Hence the persistent overreach and obviously-doomed endeavors.

The competence of the authoritarian side isn't usually analzyed because the paradigmatic cases feature talented political minds — Orban, Chavez, Modi, Netanyahu, and (early) Erdogan. The US case is exceptional. Trump is a savant at controlling the GOP but a total policy idiot.

I agree with this in broad strokes, but the underlying connective tissue here is more of a character problem: this administration is simply bad at authoritarianism. Their policy judgment and execution has been ham-handed and incompetent because *they* are ham-handed and incompetent

- Chief Blue Jacket after defeating Major General Anthony Wayne in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, 20 August 1794

I am not going to figure out what the waluigi genders of the material plane are

FDR is "Moon in the fucking sky?" Churchill is "shows me boobs?" Caesar is "boobs" while Augustus is "moon." Robespierre and Napoleon are "moon," Lafayette and Simon Bolivar are "boobs." Despite her strong spiritual connection to the moon, Cleopatra is "boobs."

I have a theory that all "Great Men" of history can be sorted into either "and the device shows me boobs?" or "the moon in the fucking sky?" Lenin, Trotsky, Adam Smith, and George Washington are all "went to the moon?" Ben Franklin, Hamilton, Socrates, and Bakunin are instances of "shows me boobs?"

“What I will offer you instead is something simpler, and perhaps harder: a vision of life under liberalism, as distinct from the political project.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-i...

This is a pro-solar PAC that is strategically spending to take out vocal opponents of clean energy. They are racking up quite the record. Their CEO will be on Volts this week.

this company knows where their bread is buttered, this is catnip for liberal moms and that is exactly who you need to sell to if you wanna move ras el hanout in america

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

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

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

That's woke. We count those.

My mortal nemesis finally getting banished to the shadow realm like he should have been a long time ago is gonna feel so good when it hits in a week.

I'll have an early voting blog post up in a bit, but: On a day Rs expected to do well, Ds had their biggest gain Saturday. The current numbers: D+16,864, or 4.5%. Rurals closed today, so Rs will need to do well in urban Nevada to stanch the bleeding. Post coming...

(Sorting through piles that I didn’t deal with for literal decades) aha. Well wasn’t I annoyingly prescient.