Dave Parisi

you'd think nine months in reality would have set in but i still can't believe people fucking voted for this

PROUD BOYFRIEND OF AN ICE AGENT'S WIFE

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OPINION THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

I just did a jump scare and @joshgondelman.bsky.social asked me what was wrong.
Behold:

This is definitely one of those things that people would’ve called you hysterical for predicting a year ago.

Trump is going to destroy the East Room of the White House without even asking Congress and build a ballroom with funds from private companies that are seeking favors? Settle down, lib.

Waking up every morning and checking the kidnapping report alongside the weather is not a thing anyone should have to do.

The ballroom addition/destruction of the White House is expressly illegal and would stand as independent grounds for impeachment and removal if we had a functioning government.

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

...that allow his supporters to avoid confronting the naked fact that they voted for a rapist, and allows us collectively to avoid confronting what that says about us as a culture, when someone can be a proven rapist and still be elected to the highest office in the land.

Yeah I hate how much Trump took advantage of the right's decades-long working of the ref, which effectively convinced the MSM to overcorrect in their favor.

But: it's also super offensive for them to say "rapist" or "grab them by the pussy" on air or in print! So they end up with euphemisms...

There's power in an image. To wit, I'm not precisely what you call "patriotic" but I had a physical reaction (face hot, heartbeat a little quicker, hand clenched) to the photo of the White House being torn apart. I suspect that if I feel like that the normies will feel stronger.

77m people voted for a rapist who was caught on tape bragging about how brazenly he could commit rape. But that label was rarely applied to him by the press, out of fear that the labeling itself would be offensive.

Yeah I was kinda shocked by my own reaction, def looks like a cinematic image.

This is similar to their refusal to label Trump as a rapist or discuss the Access Hollywood comments in explicit terms: the behavior itself is so offensive that you can't discuss it without also being offensive. So they either use sanitized terms to do so or just refuse to cover these incidents.

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

In the immortal words of John Maynard Keynes "Anything we can actually do, we can afford."

Bonus: he was literally talking about building new universities.

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Remember when “basket of deplorables” was a campaign ending faux pas? Anyways the brown liquid could be anything, could be coffee

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing MONTECITO, CA—Signaling a new chapter in her career, pop star Katy Perry released a new single Monday about the superiority of Canadian manufacturing. “When I learned about the strength of Canadian au...

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

Total game-changer for folks who routinely travel on this line/decide between driving and taking mass transit.

I've never seen a word-to-insanity ratio like this before

They won’t even give the movement a name as they did the Tea Party.

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

Even if these people are drug smugglers, there are international rules for intercepting them.

But if they really ARE fishermen … holy shit.

Oh wow

Is it good when even judges are saying you can’t trust the government anymore?

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens.

Yes, we are the baddies.

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.