dick cheney is brat

My memory of that time is that a lot of partisan Dems (normal people not electeds) became anti-Netanyahu specifically. Lots of memes making fun of his bomb diagram when he came here etc.

Becoming openly partisan against Obama (and Kerry) was a major strategic error in the long term

He and Harris are very much in the same boat in that regard (although she is occasionally genuinely funny in a way I've never seen from Newsom)

Adam needs to step in here. I'm sure it's not covered directly by the CBA but this is an insane conflict of interest.

There's another bit about how weak, failing regimes cling tightly to the trappings of power that's been welded to my brain since I was 16

I think a lot of Republicans have suddenly started thinking about the post-Trump era too, not just 2026 (see Ted Cruz leaking anti-Trump shit, Britt planting stories about how ICE makes her sad etc)

when Palantir pivots will be the death knell I think

When Newsom had his press conference to announce Prop 50, Bovino and BORTAC showed up to harass people outside the venue.

A few weeks later, Prop 50 outperformed Kamala Harris in LA County by 25 points.

They're going to fuck this up by doing it at early voting precincts and letting it be a news story for 3 entire weeks before the actual election

This is why I think an attempted suspension of habeas corpus is inevitable

the feds have unlimited *financial* resources but they certainly do not have unlimited attorney hours

congrats to the new Huntington Beach Harbor Seals

I think he's narrowly right in the sense that the 2028 Dem primary will be a referendum on Biden's *Israel* policy

they're not even reducing the cost! trump wants more defense spending!

In the interim precious metals go brr

People just go back to USD in 2030 like George Costanza going back to work

I think there's two angles here

1. This establishes a much stronger constitutional basis for state laws that attempt to ban fed agents from masking in their state by removing supremacy issue

2. Future impeachment of Noem + Trump in 2027 for defying a law passed w/ R votes

I think people are really underestimating how valuable it would be to have a *bipartisan* law enacting all of these things

Yes, ICE/DHS will ignore the law. That makes a lot of things like impeachment and prosecution easier for us later!

Putting this in a funding bill means R votes. Now we have it on paper that "ICE agents can't wear masks" is bipartisan law enacted by Congress. Much easier sell to impeach her if she defies.

I was talking about Noem but yes him too.

Builds stronger cases for impeachment though

this is a setup for impeachement proceedings later, yall gotta think more than 1 day in advance

probably bacon grease or some shit like that

it is very lucky for our side that the DHS funding happens to expire this week

Jamie Lee Curtis should be disqualified from her Oscar for violating the "you are in all the worst scenes of the movie" rule

(see also: RDJ in Oppenheimer)

unfortunately I think "I hate Trump because he's not Hitler" is going to be the takeaway for a lot of the White Birthrate Googlers

going to be a lot of insane sephiroth posting on twitter tonight

I think a lot of them have done stupid venal crimes that will be easier to hold them to account for (Noem self-dealing, Homan taking bribes etc)

And these are people who speak my language and in theory could easily understand my cultural context.

I can't even imagine how much bigger that gulf of understanding was when dealing with populations in distant Asian countries.

important to take the W even on symbolic victories. raises the morale of our side (and lowers the morale of theirs)