You may have noticed: American politicians are really old. You, and everyone else who follows American politics.
But you may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
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“Imagine he worked in a bank. Or as a British Airways pilot. Or as your local solicitor or GP. In none of these roles would he be allowed to keep working.”
After Uvalde I got into some twitter fights with cops because I said
“six rifle platoons worth of cops all jerking each other off because they were afraid of going after some dipshit teen with a rifle? Smells like bitch to me”
They were very upset.
"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"
This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.
Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.
What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …
Here's Trump on Jan 13, 2021, after he'd been impeached, but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict and bar him from office for life. "There's never a justification for violence ... Those who engaged in attacks last week will be brought to justice."
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
A policy choice by Republicans.
Conservatives' brains are so broken. Thomas is one of the most powerful people in the country and he lives like a billionaire, vacationing on private yachts and private ranches.
But he is still filled with resentment over "liberals" making his life miserable back when he was a baby in 1948? Wut?
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
thanks again joe manchin!
So the media is a bunch of villainous Jews and Trump is Jesus. I fully expect the NYT to sanewash this antisemitic lunacy. So far, they’re ignoring it.
Hey man what if you tried talking like a normal person
7. Notably, Erika Kirk has endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028. Turning Point PAC’s aggressive fundraising could signal a push to provide Vance with a shadow political infrastructure in advance of a formal campaign.
1. For $500,000, you can have a one-on-one meeting with Trump tomorrow, according to an email solicitation obtained by Popular Information.
Follow this thread for details.
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1) Influential right-wing figures say "they're the enemy, hate them" using lies, cherry-picks, and exaggerations
2) Followers believe them, get increasingly riled up
3) "The people don't trust the institutions, it's the institutions' fault"
4) Repeat 1
Worked on elections, higher ed, and more.
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"Batra, who is Sikh, left India after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs in...1980s....she missed a one-year application deadline and her chance to become an asylee."
"Agents posed for photos with her handcuffed, which they said was for 'social media.'"
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
Trump, Musk & Co. killed the beloved IRS "direct file" aid for taxpayers, and then — "You will never guess who also proposed an IRS app to help for Americans file their taxes." Follow Musk's $. Absolutely maddening, for #TaxDay, from @donmoyn.bsky.social. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
It’s been wild to read the News side of the Wall Street Journal alongside the Opinion side during this war. These people are watching two different wars.
If there was a really a fair and balanced corporate media - the reporters would be following up all Catholic Churches in America who denied Biden communion or shunned him any way for his support for abortion rights - after how Vance has attacked the Pope.
He's right
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Per the usual, Douthat is a self-serving propagandist and reminder that much of the “legacy media” chooses to entrench voices that would have been completely comfortable in antebellum times.
conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences
After adjusting for inflation, the IRS budget is 40% below its 2010 level, even as it has taken on more responsibilities and serves more taxpayers. And to be clear, this does not save America money: it blows a hole in the deficit. According to the Yale Budget Lab: The IRS reductions from funding and layoffs have likely resulted in about $861 billion in decreased revenue. The layoffs from actions like DOGE alone have likely resulted in $597.8 billion in decreased revenue over the 2026-2035, and the clawback in IRS funding of $20 billion has likely resulted in $262.8 billion in decreased revenue over the same period.
The assault on the IRS will blow up the deficit. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.”
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