IOW, it's down to pure, bloodless Games Theory. And people want to try and change that by putting the cart before the horse, trying to brute force a third party ascendance and then reform electoral system, when the games theory won't change until the reform comes first
You have to gain power to exercise it, and it's going to take a lot of power and effort to undo all the damage. Some folks don't want to accept that there's no One Weird Trick, no matter how they want to pretend there is because Trump keep selling his power as if he himself uses the One Weird Trick
He's the same kind of know-it-all nitwit that the Art of War was actually written for, precisely because of how many egregious own goals he keeps committing by trying to run on Army on pure empty machismo
Biden indicted Trump. Twice. Despite the GOP's best efforts.
It was voters, not Biden or Garland who let Trump go free.
It was voters who decided "I will be a dictator" wasn't worth voting against. That "I will pardon every Jan 6th conviction" was an acceptable outcome.
No one else is to blame.
Maybe blame the Supreme Court. They stopped states from removing Trump from the ballot on the basis of his indictments and convictions because, according to them, he hadn't been convicted specifically of "insurrection" (which isn't even really a specific statute to charge under)
The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.
Neither does the word "decade."
"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
The amount he managed to get done with the literal 50-50 Senate was nothing short of remarkable, and folks managed to turn that into a disaster of will and proof Biden and Dems didn't want good things, and I still feel like flipping tables over that shit.
Perhaps the only time you'll ever hear a mummy described as "juicy" and "gooey"
Oh, I don't know, how about ALL THE PROGRESS THEY'VE MADE OVER THE YEARS AND DECADES?
Biden/Harris alone took the largest action on climate, were the most pro-union Administration in history (in deed, not just word), codified same-sex marriage, expanded healthcare, forgave student loan debt, etc!
We live in the information age, and yet people like this are still so willfully ignorant, to the point they are cutting their own throats along with the throats of every vulnerable person out there... all because they can't be bothered to pay any attention or look up a single fact.
Very hard, apparently. Folks at all levels seem allergic to ever giving Dems credit for things, which leads to the constant impression of "Dems do nothing right, and everything wrong", even when confronted with proof otherwise
I keep having to repeat this, because it keeps getting truer and truer and is a huge reason why we're in our current death spiral
When you declare "both sides same thing", you not only treat the folks on one side with the same contempt as your abusers, but leave yourself open to cons that nominally are "different" but are often in service to the same folks abusing you from before, just slickly repackaged
I call out the media companies specifically because they're the ones who helped normalize this in the political atmosphere, even if it'd get you shitcanned in any other non-political professional setting
I see what Jeffries is doing here, but it's also very telling that in response to Jeffries calling out the Republican majority for confirming these noms, just about every vote passing the 50 mark if you count just the GOP votes, nearly all the replies demand smoke only for the handful of Dem votes
I think the problem here is we have seen just how many companies ARE "MAGA handmaidens", and that includes at least 80% of the major media companies.
"Free speech supporters" giving both material and de facto support to folks actively suppressing and criminalizing speech now, because "don't report lies" and "not every idea is an actual debate" were considered the real threats to the 1st amendment...
Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
It's cleek's Law, applied to the entire political atmosphere writ large.
I keep coming back to Biden's Philly speech on fascism. Folks who want to see more of that kind of thing need to search for stuff and talk it up for themselves, or otherwise media blackouts and de facto blackballs will mean Dems won't bother w/things folks refuse to credit them for
This event was tweeted by the widely followed POTUS account but never got retweets or went viral.
Content going viral depends on a huge host of factors, a lot of it not controlled by the creator themselves. Just because Zohran is a superstar doesn’t mean everyone can imitate him easily!
I'm more thinking about accounting for any junior Senators coming out of this class turning around to follow Fetterman's example. I know Trump would ride the veto for two years but I'd rather have that then another Manchinema situation for folks to bludgeon us with
Whenever people claim “Dems need to sell what they did!” I always bring up the is photo of Biden an McConnell celebrating infrastructure investments in Kentucky and NO ONE is aware this happened.
Because media and social media influencers don’t actually spread positive Dems news.
It'll give us some breathing room to account for any Fetterman-esque poison pills, at least
"Bill of attainder" is calling.
And many who believe they're phenomenal at telling the difference are often the ones most easily snowballed.
When you're such aq coalition vs. a distilled fascist movement with power, you can't afford many redlines. I can think of only 3 valid ones: 1) fascist policies/symbollsm to "fight fire with fire" 2) dialing back civil rights to court white votes, 3) shitting on the party as a whole for image's sake
Tim Curry as Wadsworth in Clue is one of the all time great comedic performances. The last 20 minutes of the movie is just Curry chewing scenery in the most delightful possible way. It’s like watching prime LeBron or MJ take over a game.
I genuinely think Michael McKean runs a damn close second to carrying that movie, and the moments between his Mr. Green and Wadsworth are some of the best.
But also...
I mean, it remains a huge part of that paradigm shift that the civil rights movement happened, and even LBJ knew that it released a genie on the loose to this day because the only way to cork it back up would be to undo all civil rights gains just to court the white male vote again