should've impeached GWB it wasn't even a close question

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 7h ago

Q: "What message does it send if Trump fires a U.S. Attorney because she determined there was not sufficient evidence to charge four people with a crime?" Blanche: "If the president wanted to fire a U.S. Attorney, it turns out he's allowed to do that."

Republicans love to say "unlike Democrats we would never let a person as awful as Platner run on our party ticket" and then let hundreds of people that awful run on their party ticket while the Democrats kick Platner off

you guys should be down on your knees thanking Michigan that Discourse will still be arguing about THIS primary in 2040 instead of Platner

for all the discourse (and not just on here) about how dem voters are furious at their electeds for being useless lumps, the primaries were less revolutionary than you'd expect. moreso than other midterms in my life i think but people still just tend to trust their leaders

for people who see antisemitism in every word leftists say, Zionists sure seem to use a hell of a lot of descriptors that objectively do not apply to AES for mysterious reasons

campaigns should be able to do polling and i guess issues polling can be informative but it should be illegal to do public polling on elections or to release results of polling on elections

I think Bernie deserved criticism on race, though the idea that he was more racist than hillary superpredators clinton or joe bussing biden is laughable but seeing AES so underwater with POC based solely on innuendo and smears is disheartening to say the least

what if we did disco demolition night but with antisemitism instead of anti-black racism

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

it's not totally weird that Stevens got buyin from national groups by acting like a weirdass muppet instead of a mannered elite, but it's weird she then came back to Michigan and went "hI I'm juSt LiKe YOuuuUUu"

how many articles are there going to be tomorrow about how nobody even cared about Michigan, Bell vs Bush was the important race that signals what Democrats need to pay attention to

Bernie's campaign wasn't half as nasty as Hillary's but at least he did take some personal shots. AES has done... nothing. And they act like he's spent the campaign posting revenge porn

Knight øf Cerebus@scioperative.bsky.social · yesterday

The politically pragmatic streamer, who would support Jeffrey Epstein if he had a D next to his name, suddenly stops being pragmatic.

that interview has got to be in the top ten worst interviews ever given in all of human history

"you're all being uncharitable i clearly just meant we want more sports posting" i say as i ban yet another trans person for protesting their own genocide

these guys all insisted that even the meager COVID restrictions we had in place would last forever because "government never gives up power" and instead of admitting they were wrong, they decided to just become full-time liars

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

when a somewhat respectable outlet outright lies in a headline or post you should get mad at the outlet not the people who fell for the lie

liberal: this is the single most important political issue to me. it's less important to me than wordle. me: ... yeah that tracks

between Blanche confirmation and the "weaponization fund" there's only one a post-midterms congress could stop or put Trump in jail over, so guess which one they're letting move forward

the only thing this actually shows is that capitalism goes to great expense and great lengths to hide every single data point about goods and services from consumers, and we're still in a state where USUALLY "price at purchase" is the only thing that can't be hidden, though they attack that too

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

so much centrist discourse is centrists looking at policy arguments they WON (usually to disastrous effect) and pretending actually they lost and got put in gulags over it

bob barker 🍸@insortediaboli.bsky.social · 4d ago

why do so many of you follow this person

Lmao

Amnesty can thread the eye of a needle by immediately saying "our apology was just us trying to play politics, it was a mistake, these people are monsters" but instead they're probably just going to settle and contribute millions directly to trans genocide

animal from the international network@animalonline.bsky.social · 4d ago

the thing about doing unprompted apologies instead of just weathering the backlash is that if they were going to sue you anyway, now they have a document you created that admits some level of wrongdoing

have Blade decapitate Leto Morbius for lulz like in Deadpool

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d ago

Shit, I'll help you: all the MCU bullshit results in the vamps deciding now's their time, and Blade's private war against the vamps comes into the light. Movie starts with Blade murking someone at a bloodrave. Conclude the movie with a stinger with Blade facing off against Morbius for luls.

when people say "Islamophobia is the only acceptable bigotry" they're not really saying "racism against blacks isn't socially acceptable" they're saying politicians can win elections by saying "i hate all muslims and we should kill them all" in campaign ads.

went to the Amnesty feedback form and i can't believe we're in a place where i'm like "ehhhh i don't know about giving my email to Amnesty International, better use a throwaway"

asked a question about poker in the poker reddit and what i've learned today is 100% of poker players cannot read

at least during the civil rights era when people said "i support the cause but they're so unacceptably ANNOYING about it" they were talking about "major disruptions to traffic and businesses" and not "sometimes i have to see their posts"

i've said it before but "even if we suspect a lab leak we should not publicly accuse China of a major crime against humanity without strong evidence" is in fact a very good and responsible position to hold

so this would be an agency under the control of Trump and/or the Republican congress to investigate ""corruption""? on the week of the comey/fauci stuff?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d ago

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is set to introduce legislation to create a new federal agency to investigate corruption in response to President Trump’s administration ahead of the midterm elections.

even in terms of protectionism you'd want to import materials and export assembled goods but Trump is just like "50% tariff on steel, 60% tariff on rubber, 80% tariff on cotton, i am very smart"

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d ago

ideally you'd allow Chinese goods in U.S. markets (EVs, AI) but you'd have functional and well-funded regulators policing labor, consumer, privacy, violations U.S. companies don't want that accountability and competition, so you get this dumb fucking protectionism overseen by clowns