Enlightened Despotist in Name Only

Reading that was a short but very dramatic roller coaster experience. Like reliving Kingda Ka (RIP).

To me he looks like Wolverine.

republicans: it’s inappropriate to call your political opponents nazis

republicans in group chats: hey guys jim “the nazi” hitler here and yes i do have the mustache

“You confessed to the police officer that you had just robbed the bank.”

“That was off the record.”

I’ve said this before but it’s just going to be the most depressing shit in the world in early 2030 when President Pritzker (or whoever it is) has so-so approvals bc even though he has restored democracy, like 62% of Americans say they trust republicans more on the economy

They understand that there are larger geopolitical forces at play. For instance, Trump needs to cause millions of deaths in the developing world by eviscerating USAID, bc those aren’t white people.

Yes but you can still sell them safely to the grey fox

Philip one does not simply forego an hour of free cocktails in the Chase Sapphire lounge.

It’s fine Don, you just have to report to him that if you were treated fairly as a minority, that’s unfair.

A lot of idiotic shit appears in the NYT, to be sure, but, it’s not going to be easy to find an example of an NYT editor saying something dumber.

I genuinely don’t believe this guy could think this unless he’s been intentionally brainwashing himself by deliberately limiting his info diet. It’s just too fucking stupid.

Exactly this. Implying that “can stay on parents’ plan to age 26” was the *most significant* provision of the ACA was a deliberate choice. He knew it wasn’t true, and he wrote it anyway, bc he wanted to criticize the law and was being intellectually lazy.

A politics without fun has ZERO hope of ever being successful. You might as well argue that there shouldn’t be music at rallies.

There’s an extremely obvious demand: make the president obey the law!!

The implicit assumption of the video is that if something is fun it thereby cannot be a “real” form of organized resistance in itself, nor can it generate more organized resistance in the future. That’s obviously false.

“Hey I heard you guys went to the ICE facility protest last weekend, but maybe we shouldn’t discuss in the office…do you want to grab a drink after work and talk about what else you’re doing? Might be fun?”

“No, fun is bullshit that prevents organizing. You need real demands.”

The desire of the person who made this video to be miserable and to make everyone else miserable too is extremely unhealthy in itself, but setting that aside it also demoralizes and demotivates people from fighting for change. The “argument” is not only stupid, it’s self-undermining.

That might explain it, but obviously if you’re a reporter for the NYT you should acquire the information you lack before you tweet horseshit like this.

You do not need a PhD in advanced modal logic to understand that while the ACA is highly imperfect, it would be extremely bad if it were repealed (there is no republican “replacement”), so, yes, we should be grateful to people that contributed to preventing that.

This guy is an editor at The New York Times. He's not some finance bro or suburban, "socially liberal and fiscally conservative" wantwit. An editor at The New York Times. This betrays a total disconnect not only from the population at large (and especially his readers) but from reality itself.

Honestly it’s so fucking ignorant while simultaneously so fucking pretentious that’s difficult to believe someone in his position could have written it. I had to look it up to see if it was real. It is. Wow. What a hall of fame level dipshit.

tuffy is related to philip rivers, or just *is* philip rivers?

most normal nc state fan

Are you a game geek, starfish?

Are republicans on the talk shows today going to be shown the video Trump posted and asked for comment, or nah?

No stapling your ballsack to a wolverine’s face.

all my homies hate the president of the united states

Poasting

Drugs? By the sea???? Come on now.

Senate *Democrats* fail?

CBS News reporting on Fox News framing under new news director Bari Weiss.

Senate fails, sure.

Senate GOP majority fails, sure.

But Senate Dem minority fails... wow.