TheSickness

I think something uniquely corrosive to the US, and not other countries, is that their legislature *effectively does not pass new legislation anymore* and the electorate has spent the last decade plus going absolutely stir-crazy from that fact.

And the renovation was carried out by a commission authorized by Congress and staffed with appointees of the president, House and Senate.

The president didn't just ring up a contractor one morning to have them tear things down.

Because it's not the president's goddamn house.

The biggest renovation of the White House -- the so-called Truman Reconstruction of 1949-1952 -- came about only because the building was in such a state of disrepair that inspectors decided it was unsafe for occupancy.

Not because the president just decided he needed a big fancy ballroom.

About this time last year, the Biden administration dispensed $250 billion to develop 30,000 affordable housing units.

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

How long under bricks and debris are sold through a website of his as commemorative rubble?

What do any of the front line grunts tell themselves. "Another day at the office, shackling moms so they can be deported" "ho hum, just taking down the signs at usaid" "blew up another fishing vessel today, ngl kinda getting bored of all the murder"

Small thing maybe but I really wonder what goes through the mind of the workers. "Yeah I'm showing up to tear down a bunch of the white house. Normal stuff"

The 2024 election was basically a referendum on which candidate seemed more likely to *do things*, regardless of how insane and damaging those things would be. The American people are desperate for a government that they perceive as actually acting in someone's interest.

Congratulations to every Democratic House and Senate candidate for the next two years for this photograph.

fascism trojan-horsed its way into power by talking about "freedom of speech" and it's trojan-horsing its way out of being opposed by talking about "big tent politics"

“ why did trump, a man who promised big, sweeping reforms and to make groceries free, even if he was lying about it, win against the guys who wanted to keep things the same” asks very smart New York Times journalists

taking an actual wrecking ball to the White House is a little on the nose as far as metaphors go

My problem is that these centrists positions want to show us all of the ways the electorate is messy, while also trying to find a politics that doesn’t cost people anything in terms of trade offs.

That’s impossible

News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does

www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

just to break down the profoundly degraded discursive state we're in
PROTESTORS: the president is not a king! no kings in this country!
PRESIDENT: [posts video of self in crown, shitting on citizens]
PRESIDENT'S FRIEND: there is a king. King Jesus
NOBODY IN PRESS ROOM: you've missed the point

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

These protests are proving to be pretty popular as far as protests go. I do wish less of our conversation was we said/they said with Republicans and more of it was "y'all are the minority, shut up and think about your choices"

today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

One way that social media has driven people insane is by convincing them that political outcomes are shaped by the net allocation of care points and so politics consists in attempting to shape the amount of caring everyone dedicates to your pet issue.

bluesky is an even weirder place than twitter. does my post say we should repeal Obamacare no does it say that the institutionalist instinct to devote so much emotion to defense of it rather than sympathizing with what it didnt/still has not fixed (for many) is misplaced? yes. and i stand by that

Not trying to add to the pile on, but this way of understanding politics is totally mysterious to me. What is the appropriate amount of emotion to dedicate to any given issue and how do we know when that threshold has been met or exceeded.

Good to get official confirmation — basically everything happening in Chicago right now is being coordinated by Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol Chief who started doing indiscriminate raids even before Biden left office, because he knew he could get away with it.

I asked Andrew Cuomo some questions On "Morning Joe," I asked the mayoral hopeful if his #MeToo scandals had changed him, and what he missed about Zohran's appeal. Also, I tried to teach him how to say "Mamdani"

What did Andrew Cuomo learn from his #metoo experience?

That kids these days are "hypersensitive" and he did nothing wrong.

jesus hated the regulatory state and wants Exxon to be able to indiscriminately pollute the water table

Good choice btw.

I don’t really understand the pout of saying “everyone will be shocked at who is playing the voice of the Cowardly Lion” and THEN revealing that voice like three days later? COME ON! Either a thing is a surprise or isn’t. Get on the same page Universal marketing.

Pretty much sums up the right’s political relationship with Jews

The Tea Party was a totally contrived astroturf psyop that dominated American politics for years. It was even obvious at the time, and yet we all had to talk about it seriously.

also see:

"the media has a liberal bias"

"conservative censorship"

"cancel culture"

the appropriation of "woke"

propaganda works