@ericreglin.bsky.social
The thing that’s always annoying about these blurbs is Donald Trump and his political movement hate contemporary America far more than AOC or Omar or Talib do
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last mo.Ken Rosenthal’s cohost co-signing some vitriol against AOC, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib by Dave Portnoy
It's just the natural evolution of conservative talk radio for the smartphone age. People calling in and being like "you know what grinds my gears? The Other" and the host goes "amazing, finally someone speaking the Forbidden Truth." It's as proven a business model as has ever existed
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow did a little web series where a comedian interviews celebrities on the subway turn into a magnet for the worst kind of slopulism
$1 for every win under Lance Leipold and $3 for every loss because losing hurts now that I have hope and expectations. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social
really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.
Michael Li (李之樸)@mcpli.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.
“It is necessary for an invaded people to be crushed by an imperialist oppressor so that the global hegemon’s war of choice goes better. I am very left wing.”
Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy do people take Ryan Grim seriously?
The “scholars” pretending otherwise are lying sons-of-bitches who hate brown people and America
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4mo agothe 14th Amendment, particularly the first sentence, is written in language a child can understand. it takes either extensive legal training or utterly flagrant, black-is-white dishonesty to be able to conclude otherwise
Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.
Berny Belvedere@bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 5mo agoMuch of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
The Republican Party's rhetorical goal is to persuade Americans to believe the lie that America's founding is inextricably tied to white evangelical Christian beliefs and practices. They are doing this because it allows them to portray anything not in agreement with those beliefs as un-American.
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
Miller@milleryoho.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat a moment.
new york magazine has a very nasty article out about my beautiful golden throne, which they say is the only thing keeping me alive. when I'm sitting on my big beautiful throne I am NOT ASLEEP!! I am directing the beacon of the astronomican, something sleepy joe did very badly may I add
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
this is the correct way to react to anything the president says-
The American experiment is based on the idea that citizenship is not based on ethnicity. We tried to conflate the two with slavery and the constitution failed as a result. The reconstruction amendments made this principle explicit. This shit is fundamentally anti American and anti patriotic.
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 11mo agoman. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu)
even the lysenko comparison is at this point an insult to lysenko
Clay Ranck@clayranck.bsky.social · 11mo agowtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
if you read the way people in the US talk about Lee you'll think he's Võ Nguyên Giáp, then you look at his actual record and the best comp for it is the New York Jets
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last yr.Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.
American media would fall for the fucking Mukden Incident, I swear to God.
Steve M.@stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · last yr."A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.
Midwestern governor with a one-seat legislative majority: The coward RethugliKKKans may dash themselves on our rocks if they wish, the tide and the seabirds will leave no trace of their remains New York/California Democrat: I’d like to vote against things I oppose but that’s not realistic
