Important evidence of autism in the ancient world

They think you're stupid.

no no no you misunderstood. I said YOUR voters live in a Republic, not a Democracy. OUR voters are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

it really speaks to the double standard pervasive throughout all of politics that even when Democrats play dirty they put it up to a public referendum and still get harsher media coverage

Deterrence via mutually assured destruction is messy but it works

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

if there’s one thing i expect a CIA officer to know, it’s whether or not a given election is gonna be fair #voteyes

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

I have never forgotten this person - who said “I feel as though the weapon I built I built is coming to kill me and my people.”

She wanted that weapon to kill other some ‘other’ people.

I will not forgive a single one of them. I will not even try.
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No censure

This is a good thread. I mean it's bad, but it's a very good point about the bad thing

Fuck it, that credential gets you a follow

The "we know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs" note below the chart is hilarious - poor @dhmontgomery.com trying desperately to head off the wall of angry emails insisting on the point.

Unless you have both houses and 2/3 to convict, it's counterproductive. They will paint it as petty, a third bite at the apple. And as far as public opinion goes it's not needed to swing anybody.

Nixon knew it & compensated by making himself a LBJ, FDR, TR-class politician. He was a good practicing lawyer, a realist in foreign policy, & had the HOF skill to be what the public wanted before they knew it. Vance has none of this. He calculates by rubbing the same sticks at different angles.

I means ant-man in addition to just being fun to say

It takes a very skilled diplomat to tell the entirety of US media to pound sand and make it sound like an invitation to a picnic

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

the most important thing here is that Hungary has elected a guy whose name translates to Peter Hungarian. The Democratic Party must find a guy named Steve American and run him in 2028

Streaming is really just talk radio for millennials and zoomers, and basically just as maladjusted

He ran for president in his 30s. If he really wants to be president, he has another 20-50 years to do that. Biden losing in 88 was hardly career ending and neither was Pete losing in 2020. As long as he doesn't get cocky, it's a foundation for future wins

So he's out of Indiana, and when he's done, he moves some place where he might actually win a statewide office, let's say Michigan. When he next runs, he's not running as an obscure former mayor from a different state. He's running with better name recognition than most opponents, better connections

So he runs for President. If he wins, awesome, he's President. But he's probably not going to win and he knows that. What he can gain is national exposure to press, donors, voters, and the people who do win and need to staff the admin. That gets him to DC. And it worked, in fact

I'll war game it for you. Buttigieg is talented, he's smart, he's ambitious. But he's a gay Democrat and he lives in fucking Indiana. He needs a political career path that gets him into higher office and congressional races in Indiana aren't it.

Absolutely this

And I think the direct consequence of that is that people do not understand or value professional standards in journalism because they think everybody is Hannity, just with different politics sometimes

This is true and should be true, but we've spent decades undercutting professional journalists in favor of some dude or overt propagandists who are misrepresented as journalists.

The must prominent people at any news organization are almost never journalists, but opinion or entertainment

interesting watching the left’s reaction to one of their own being accused of sexual assault (immediate banishment) and comparing it to how that same situation was handled by the right (elected him president twice)

I complain about dem leadership but no, both sides are not the same

"Atmosphere piece"

Rare image of a stork delivering a baby!