Josh Zingher

Are Jews in the United States invested in and dependent upon liberal pluralism? Who can say?

This was my thought, too.

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The idea that, like, 1986 was the peak year for American society speaks to the lead poisoning.

Catch 22: The Trump Admin faithfully implemented Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 once they got in office, and there is no way they'd get someone that could 1.) win, and 2.) be willing to implement it w/o Trump. Now, Trump is going to undo all their efforts because he can't help but be himself 1/2

In 2016 primary debate when Rand Paul was complaining Trump was attacking people for their looks "I haven't said a single thing about your looks, and believe me, there is plenty to work with there"

When he was speaking to the widow of Corey Comperatore (dude who died in the assassination attempt) and was like "it was very tough, with all the bullets" i almost died.

In short, you need a big dumb guy to make your goals a reality, but you're also throwing your lot in with a big dumb guy and all that goes with it. The backlash to all this is going to erase all their progress and then some, I'd guess.

Heritage needed a guy like Trump, someone with no interest in public policy or accountability to voters to get project 2025 to work, but Trump is so fatally flawed as a person and president that he inevitably self-sabotages. They could have consolidated authoritarianism but instead we've got wars.

Catch 22: The Trump Admin faithfully implemented Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 once they got in office, and there is no way they'd get someone that could 1.) win, and 2.) be willing to implement it w/o Trump. Now, Trump is going to undo all their efforts because he can't help but be himself 1/2

Honestly, our Iranian adventure is a perfect parable for Trump's governance at home: build nothing and wantonly destroy everything, all the while skimming as much off the top as possible.

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Things are starting to spiral. We managed to go a full four years during Trump 1.0 without a major foreign policy crisis, but no chance we'd dodge that bullet twice in a row. Dems need to have real campaigns everywhere possible because it's impossible to know what things will look like in Nov.

absolutely. the ground is shifting under our feet and whatever is coming it will not be like before.

where is the Ulbrich kid lol?

Think how bad the COVID response was with Trump in charge, and that's when we still had real public health people in charge of the CDC. We have a war halfway around the world against a country of 90 million being led by a weekend Fox News Host. We're going to get what we voted for good and hard.

Famously, no one who has ever claimed "to have a Black friend" has ever gone on to immediately say something extremely racist.

sorry people are insane and have the reading comprehension of acorns.

A man was slurred following an interaction with a Republican.

yeah, i mean, there is just no way to escape a president that is both malignant and dumb.

Think how bad the COVID response was with Trump in charge, and that's when we still had real public health people in charge of the CDC. We have a war halfway around the world against a country of 90 million being led by a weekend Fox News Host. We're going to get what we voted for good and hard.

Things are starting to spiral. We managed to go a full four years during Trump 1.0 without a major foreign policy crisis, but no chance we'd dodge that bullet twice in a row. Dems need to have real campaigns everywhere possible because it's impossible to know what things will look like in Nov.

It's only a matter of time before Kash Patel gets way too excited to take a long car ride.

Folks, I have it on good authority that Noem isn't being "fired," she's being sent to a nice farm upstate where she'll get to run around all day.

"Is thinking good? Who can say?"

that haircut...

Trump hates democracy and MAGA is a fundamentally anti-democratic movement. The fact that he doesn't think people in other countries should have the right of self-determination completely gives away the game as to his attitudes about democracy at home.

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I observe my Gen Z students' wild assed gender politics like an anthropologist trying to observe an alien species and struggling to comprehend.

"So you want to have 12 kids and live on a farm...?"