The goal of today's police is to control & contain a threatening situation, not protect the people caught up in it. The will to control could never inspire the bravery that the desire to protect would. Are they not trained to protect themselves before any they were supposedly hired to protect?
it wasn’t just the leftists - I think there were a lot of middle of the road white men and too many white women who were vocally whiny and pointedly unenthusiastic about the women Dem candidates out of unexamined misogyny and bias.
Tell them to reverse the redesignation of National Airport while they are at it. Then add back the BLM street. Finally to make it harder to the GOP to mess with DC going forward, make it the 51st state.
Once again, deludedly self-confident tech bro who lacks first-hand familiarity with source material tells on himself.
The normal human blink rate is about 15-20 blinks per minute.
In this interview with Kash Patel, his blink rate starts off much faster and only accelerates. It's well over 60 per minute. This man is utterly terrified. Were he not in a position to do so much harm to us all, I would pity him.
I'm a sucker for witty alt-text.
Dems need to learn their lesson about permitting the WhinyBabyBro coalition to kneecap their own candidates, particularly if they are women.
If I were in that room, I would be standing and cheering what Cory Booker is saying, too.
Hard disagree that that's what's happening here.
In 2016 and 2024, Democratic women mostly bit their tongues while the Bernie Bros, Podbros, and ObamaBros endlessly undermined Hillary and Kamala.
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.
Apparently like every day.
And the Emmy for "Outstanding Music Supervision" goes to the music supervisor of short film "Mamdani vs NYC Rats"
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Children's book cover by FBI director cash Patel titled The Plot against the King.
Is it possible the writer of this embarrassingly hagiographic fairy tale about Trump might be out of his depth as the kingdom's, I mean, the country's FBI director?
And by "can have a beer with" they mean: can be counted on NOT to ever call them on their misogynistic and homophobic shit talking.
Guess I'm never gonna learn how to tell the black woman and the gay man sit down and hush just so that Dems can comfortably nominate yet another mediocre straight white guy that other mediocre straight white guys think they might want to have a beer with.
Example of a cowcatcher, an appartus appended to the front of a train to push aside obstacles in the way of train tracks (eg. a cow), for the safety of the train and of the obstacle. Old Timers (train engine) at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, Duluth, Minnesota CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo credit: kitmasterbloke - https://www.flickr.com/photos/58415659@N00/4975099294/
Do these come with cowcatchers?
We're getting what we paid for, that is, less than nothing.
Meanwhile the corporate overlord class are making exponential returns on their investments at the direct expense of their employees and customers.
finally! The dead man walking phase of Swalwell's campaign seemed to go on forever. Now California democrats can focus on figuring out who they want to coalesce around in the primary.
...and Swalwell
Enough! The societal and institutional corrosion that made Trump 2024 possible and is greasing the wheels of our countries current devolution was decades in the making, and it was because the electorate had been groomed to view misogynistic sociopaths as having leadership qualities
It's extremely sus when people vaguely allude to 2024 being Kamala's fault for not being inspiring enough, leaving the "a woman!" and "too black!" part unvoiced. It colludes with the malign default to the increasingly sexist heterosexual white guy norm that brought us Weinstein, Epstein and Trump.
Give both Pete and Kamala a chance to run in 2028, and silence the self-appointed voices of doom pre-judging the decision of our admittedly flaky electorate.
I pray the country has learned from its experience in 2024, and the currently unfolding aftermath of chaos. That is truly its only hope.
Plus she was a child of immigrants. And she couldn't run against Biden because that would've seen as unforgivable disloyalty. And she was personally too loyal for that as well.
Pete will face a tiny fraction of the societal narcissism that kneecapped the already truncated race Kamala had to run.
I really thought 2024 was too important to risk, and that enough people would understand that to sweep Kamala Harris into office.
In Kamala's case, she had to overcome sentiments that were anti-black, anti-woman, anti-Asian, and anti-prosecutor against sex crimes. It was all too much.
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
I add to that a commitment to making DC the 51st state in order to keep the GOP's grubby hands off of its citizens.
Why not just say you think America is not ready for a black female president because that's exactly what comment that comes down to. Or bc a badass AG best known for taking on and taking out sexual predators as the US becomes increasingly desperate to impeach one somehow doesn't inspire you?
Foccacia, perhaps?
Credit where credit is due: Congressional Democrats showed up during recess - they came back early - to introduce a war powers resolution. Republicans blocked it.
The most distressing moment of the egg apron video was the deeply unhappy happy dance afterward - has there ever been a more forced, unfelt performance of joy?
And they need to come collect their guy, and pay for the damage he did.
