Vichy Democrats will not see heaven

Okay, Trump is a dumbass who doesn't have good reasons for doing this (or anything), but there's nothing inherently wrong with nuclear power. Relative to other energy sources (including renewables!), it's actually significantly safer per unit of energy production, even with the well-known disasters.

regardless of whether you think the polls are right, the polls are wrong in favor of republicans, the polls are wrong in favor of democrats, or you just want all of us to shut up about polls, I hope we can all agree on one thing show up and vote to put these dipshits in an electoral dumpster

i hope if nothing else, the media ignoring this finally stops people from saying "the reason the media doesn't run drumbeat scandal coverage on trump the way they did on Clinton is because Dems don't make a big deal of it like Republicans do"

We live in superlatively stupid times, but the idea that a gambling market is supposed to be predictive of anything is among the lowest lows we've sunk to. These markets skew right because they are right wing and the bettors want right wing outcomes. People always bet on the Patriots in Boston too.

"There are many who will claim that the reason the community is *divided* is not because of Nazis, but because some people make Nazism a hardline purity test, which makes it hard to build a coalition...with Nazis, I guess. So shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

One cool thing about being a regular Dem donor is how the party tries to demoralize me before every election. I am again drowning in spam texts clearly aimed at ripping off the elderly. Several Senate candidates have worked hard, overcoming my many "stop" replies and blocks, to make me hate them.

“give them addictive personalities” “are there any treatments?” “amphetamines!”

This is indeed what ought to happen to both of them.

Much of What Democrats Must Do boils down to valuing the good faith opinions of millions of Americans who vote for them more than bad faith opinions in media. They’ll call truth and justice “weaponization.” They’ll say voters don’t want accountability. They’re wrong, and Dems don’t have to listen.

Like realizing your parents aren't infallible, political adulthood begins when you realize the "great minds" elites rely on are all dumb fucking propagandists that capitalism lifts through the system because they're shameless in their wrongness and are willing to serve as dull priests of whatever.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

House that I walk by every day is starting a new food debate. They have a flag on their porch that says "burrito is not a taco"

not gonna share it but that new House Judiciary Dem report is like. how do we not read that and grind everything to a halt. Feels like that would have used to do it; now it's just more background noise, which is depraved

One thing I think it's important to realize is that the right has and has long had a built-in advantage when it comes to platform manipulation and SEO because these are fields that advantage unethical people and unethical people have sorted themselves into the GOP very efficiently.

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

Increasingly clear that these tech elites have become entirely detached from their own humanity.

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social I was watching the games earlier and was curious: why don't punters coffin corner anymore?

Brazil’s doing the meme.

tom brady saying roughing rules are too soft now

Perspective (pic via @matthewcoller.bsky.social)

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.

i can see an argument that at some point mass prosecutions of these guys might actually engender a backlash effect. i think you can just start with a peace deal with iran that involves turning over hegseth to them to answer for the children he killed and then going from there. it will have an effect

if you nationalize spacex and deport musk, turn over hegseth to iran, nationalize palantir and deport thiel, the rest of them will start cutting any deal they can

kushner, the trump sons, send miller to minnesota to answer for the murders there -- make an example of even a small handful of high profile unlikeable ghouls, the message will be out

People don't sell people out to benefit other people, people sell people out to benefit themselves.

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

I just plucked a beard hair and it cleared my sinuses. I think I understand acupuncture now

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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Made cookies :)

Police Arrest Woman Reporting Domestic Abuse For Being Tattletale https://theonion.com/police-arrest-woman-reporting-domestic-abuse-for-being-1850191265/

"You won't debate me because you can't beat my IDEAS"—no, loser, I won't debate you because your ideas have been considered and rejected and no longer warrant debate, and the very act of engaging in debate frames you as better than you are and your failed ideas as worthy of anything but contempt.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.