Not Sure

If Matt yglesias really believes the democrats won't win unless their most annoying stakeholders shut the fuck up then why can I still see his posts?

idk if you were a member of class these people are part of, in the mid 19th century you might've had a vast estate with hundreds of literally enslaved people on it that you could torture and rape, in 2026, no matter how rich you are, you can still get in serious trouble for like groping an intern

I don’t think we should worry so much about reaching dipshit voters. There’s a simple math to this: when their lives materially improve they vote republican, when their hierarchy of needs outweighs their cultural grievances, they vote dem. If we want their votes we should make them hurt more.

One weird trick

If you can draw down the percentages of "total chumps who don't understand how anything works" to be 50/50 instead of 95/5 pro-Trump like it is now, Dems will cruise to big election victories.

I know they’re trolling but this should really be considered the end of whatever republic we were on (4th?) and the beginning of our new political era of (d)emocrats vs monarchists.

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

You always have to pay attention to what is actually happening, not what Trump says is happening. Because Trump lies about everything. Too often media serves as Trump’s daily stenographer, passing along his propaganda verbatim.

Cannot emphasize enough how much better off we'd all be if everyone treated these people the way you would a Serbian earnestly explaining to you the monumental importance of the Battle of Blackbird Field to his identity, language, and nation.

For all the conspiracies the simple and true explanation for Israel always getting whatever it wants is just that American leadership has an irrational fp bc we are racist and dumb.

Holy shit look at this picture from the live feed from Artemis II. That's the Earth visible there beyong the Moon. WOW

I’ve been saying this for a while, but Trump won because he quite literally speaks a (variant of the English) language that non-morons cannot actually pull off

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Madness. The war crimes, the deranged profanity, the casual Islamophobia. He has no idea how to solve the problem he created and he’s going to spin out about it until he nukes Tehran. He needs to removed and frankly, if he were any other world leader, we’d understand he needs to hang for his crimes

Make America Gush Again

DONALD TRUMP HELP ME I FLIPPED MY CAR AGAIN

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Shitting my pants on purpose face

It might have been a mistake to put the dumbest motherfucker alive in charge of the most powerful government on earth.

Me: so I got beaten and robbed the other day Irish-American leftist: I know exactly what you mean, the British have been beating and robbing my people for the last 700 years

one thing I feel like hasn't penetrated the consultant class brain yet is that as things get really bad, and they're getting worse all the time, americans are going to want vengeance. not justice (that too). but vengeance.

What’s it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.

You flip the tortoise over on its back. Its belly bakes in the hot sun, but it can’t flip over, not without your help. But you don’t help it. Why?

Dawg this is embarrassing

YOU CAN'T ASK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR SHARED SACRIFICE FOR AN ILLEGAL WAR THEY DIDN'T ASK FOR, YOU SHOULD BE BEGGING THEIR FORGIVENESS SO THEY DON'T [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

Don Draper: “We spend the whole commercial talking shit about Burger King” Burger King CEO: “I fucking love it”

They really thought they’d just surrender. That was the actual plan. We have to stop letting stupid people vote.

Yeah, imagine if instead of having to live with several thousand Russian, Chinese, and North Korean nuclear weapons pointed at me, I had to live with several thousand Russian, Chinese, and North Korean nuclear weapons pointed at me and also twelve Iranian nukes too.

Can this be a solution?

Don’t want to put words in his mouth but I feel exactly the sam way but by republicans I mean people who vote for republicans

will to power is the key ingredient here. basically the opposite of the traditional Democratic "um, er, well, perhaps we should form a committee? with bipartisan membership? and it could make some tentative conceivable recommendations in 18 months?"

Mark Knopfler in 1985:

Thing about war is that the losing side actually decides when it's over, not the winning one

We shouldn’t let morons be president.

Yes. "They're not scared that Mamdani will be a bad major, they're scared he's gonna be a good mayor"

i am thinking out loud here and worry i sound like an idiot. i think what i mean to say is the reality of messaging or a narrative so frequently outpaces the reality of what's actually happening that what's really happening doesn't matter as much to things like the economy as it should.