yes, trump is a sociopathic freak, but the far bigger problem is that every single Republican in Congress is a cuck with a humiliation fetish the founding fathers envisioned a mad king president but what they never imagined was such a cucked congress
Micah@rincewind.run · yesterdaythe intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
if nothing else another big night for the "polling in the no-one-picks-up-their-phone-anymore Era is cooked" take
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 15h agoLooks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
Kansas having a Dem governor is actually kinda wild
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 16h agoNEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections
UNPOPULAR OPINION: THE USA WOULD HAVE WON THE VIETNAM WAR IF IT WASNT FOR ALL THE JUNGLES AND MOUNTAINS
Steven Lucy@slucy.bsky.social · last wk.UNPOPULAR OPINION: GERMANY WOULD HAVE WON THE WAR IF THEY HAD ACCESS TO AIRPLANES AND THE ALLIES HADN'T
I was talking to my uncle about this and he said his friends like their Teslas and I was like “lmao then they made a bad choice anyway”
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 7d agoI don't say this as often as I used to, so let's get it out there one more time: your new Tesla makes me vsicerally angry. It wasn't a good deal, and it's not the best EV you can buy, you're just as stupid and poorly-informed as you are amoral. I hope bad things happen to it and you.
Soc Sec running low / dry is one of the only things that could “wake up” this dumb country all at once. I hope it happens.
Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 7d agoWH/Rs plan to increase spending on war & farmers w/o offsets. No serious efforts underway to shrink deficits of ~$2T a year and worsening as population ages and Congress keeps piling on red ink. Social Security Trust Fund runs dry in 2032, leading to big cuts under current law.
this is the least dignity a human being has ever had
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
the answer to these types of questions is “the internet” and no politician over 50, Trump included, understands the internet one bit
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.Do you ever think about how Donald Trump won the presidency, twice, once after being convicted of a bunch of felonies and trying to overthrow the government, and basically no one in any part of politics stopped and went "Uh, maybe we don't understand how any of this works, actually"
It’s literally not possible to have a functioning society, anywhere on earth, where this piece of shit is not imprisoned for life and stripped of all his assets.
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last wk.“Teens sue Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them *** Two of the teenagers behind the lawsuit are under the age of 18…” 3/16/26 … 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...
my one-year-old loses it whenever i say this to him, so hopefully it’ll do numbers here too: poopy
I don’t think AI is the future and I’m 100% basing this on how nobody likes those kitchen trash cans with the powered lids.
The problem in American politics today is not anything that the Democratic Party is doing or not doing, but that the GOP is now entirely a criminal, authoritarian and seditionist network that has ceased to care about winning elections. They're a problem that can only be fixed with prison sentences.
Rob Shum@robshum.bsky.social · 3w ago“All the people mocking Trump’s address because his claims were ludicrous (they were) are completely missing the point. He was not aiming at evidence-based voters. It was a call to arms for the kind of people who stormed the Capitol on J6 so when he brings in extreme measures(…) they will be ready…”
“What if livelier younger Biden had run in 2016” continues to be the alternate timeline that haunts us forever
As usual: America has big problems but boy are other places worse
Courthouse News@courthousenews.bsky.social · 3w agoOn Friday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the death of Josué Martínez Contreras, director of the online news outlet Noticias San Martín Texmelucan. He is the sixth journalist murdered so far this year in Mexico. www.courthousenews.com/press-freedo...
Ossoff: "We restore checks and balances by winning this election overwhelmingly"
when there's bad shit in the headlines & you're personally going through it is *extremely* easy to fall into 'I am unhappy due to politics, if the politics change I will be happy', & it's not uniformly a bad impulse or even always categorically false, but it can take you to a really dark place
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w agoAnyway I see the same thing happening in the Climate Doom people. There's this very visceral and convincing version of the world that they had envisioned that would require some very painful moral choices to adapt to, and it turns out "batteries + solar" are basically able to fix the problem.
the Maduro episode remains one of the most bewildering events of Trump II. absolutely terrible in terms of precedent, but Trump's done nothing with it and everybody's just sort of forgotten about it, including the leadership of Venezuela
Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦@tomscud.bsky.social · 3w agoso i take it he didn't even run out a maduro hostage video/show trial confession
If someone cannot hear a man wreathed in gold speaking to the evil that dwells within them that their worst instincts are noble and true and, from him, hear a voice that must be shunned and hated, there is no innocence, no fertile soil for the forgiveness of others to take root.
you dislike John Fetterman because he has bad foreign policy takes i dislike John Fetterman because he has bad foreign policy takes *and* he also supports preventing lab grown meat from replacing regular meat
red states routinely compromise the ability of their cities to do basic self governance but if you ever dare suggest that urban Americans act in their political self interest it's endless "do you have no SOUL, those are REAL people, how DARE" and it's fucking pathetic. have some self respect
ShagNasty@shagnasty.bsky.social · 3w agoTrying to imagine New York democrats treating upstate rurals the way that Mississippi republicans treat Jackson and I literally can’t. It’s unfathomable to me.
