Delirious Quips

The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA A new national survey conducted by the Manhattan Institute examines today’s Republican Party and the coalition assembled by Donald Trump in 2024. It is one of the most exhaustive studies to date of th...

54% of male Republicans under the age of 50 believe "the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe." manhattan.institute/article/the-...

"I feel like stealing from Whole Foods is my artists' subsidy" and "redscare podcast listener" venn diagram is just a circle

For 2024, the *household* income quintiles were
Top: 175k+
2nd: 105-175k
3rd: 65k-105k
4th: 34.5k-65k
Lowest: 0-34.5k

Obviously somewhat subjective to living area, but most upper-income folks have very little sense of where they sit.

I remember this one from property law. I think it ends with King Solomon demolishing your neighbor's home to prevent unjust enrichment.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

When the expanded Child Tax Credit was a thing under Biden the cool kids on twitter claimed it was worse than useless and insulting to the poor because it required some form of valid address to send your free government money check to.

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

Everyone *says* they want beautiful clothing that is made to last in factories that where workers make a living wage; but vanishingly few people are willing to actually pay for this stuff.

Private equity didn’t kill Toys R Us, Amazon did.

The most obvious problem is that this war is flatly illegal under American law. But everyone involved is involved in a continuing crime against peace. Fortunately for them, international law has no sovereign to enforce it

Senior officers involved in planning are guilty of plotting a war of aggression. We executed nazi and Japanese officers for that.

True liberal internationalism has never been tried

It's kind of interesting that in FDR's original vision, global peace would be guaranteed by four hegemons exercising power seemingly fettered by the UN at large.

Trianon Cucks

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

The New MAGA NAZI ICE leader 🥴

U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin HIDES behind a chair in the House chambers as rioters enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 PROVIDED/C-SPAN

The MAGA PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR was there TO OBJECT to Joe Biden being the duly elected President of the United States

The Trump regime has abandoned the constitution:

- declared war without Congressional authorization

- ignoring multiple court orders

- impounding Congressional authorized funds

- ignoring the freedom of speech and assembly

It’s a lawless regime that has no legitimacy.

Is that what happened?

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Also you'd think Crockett is Voltaire or something

Redistricting resulted in Crenshaw suddenly needing to compete for a far greater share of neonazis and it didn't work out for him

The fuck is a bundler

Makes sense

Genuinely funny that Crenshaw got redistricted to have way more crazy people (Montgomery County etc) and is getting his ass beat by a homegrown Montgomery County crazy person

What proportion of global Shia is Twelver?

this is the sound of panic setting in

We also simply do not have the military forces to invade and occupy Iran. Maybe we could seize the coast (with way, way more assets than are in theater right now), but there is no world in which we can occupy an urban nation of 90+ million

It's a genuinely baffling strategic blunder. This administration is evil, sure, but we've had evil administrations many times. It's the rank stupidity that is shocking.

This is the core problem with American strategy here. There is no offramp for Iran. We're fighting a total war with them and we should expect them to do whatever they think will either help them survive or inflict pain on us

New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.

When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?