Andrew Hielscher

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Because people.

OMG. The site is literally called the Dunning Kruger Times.

Put your ring away, Sonic. Nobody needs to see that.

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

He thinks making grand, sweeping statements like this is how to convince people. Instead it makes him look like a moron and poor liar.

Folks - let them think this. I’ve spent 25 years doing campaigns - when you think like this after a loss like last night, you are doomed to lose again.

“We won because we insisted that politics is no longer something that is done to us. Now it is something we do.”

Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.

Trump is incapable of learning. Other GOP incumbents seeing tonight's results will draw the correct conclusion that everything Trump does is turning to shit at the ballot box. The question becomes how do they react: reject Trump or double down on rejecting democracy?

California passes proposition 50, which will mean multiple anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congress people will likely lose their seat.

A continual bloodbath for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans tonight.

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

It’s Election Day with critical races in several states. This is the first general election where voters get to tell Donald Trump what they think of him so far. Don’t miss your chance to make your voice heard! Vote like your country depends on it. Because it does.

Trump thinks that political asylum means the people who request it are coming from insane asylums. Yes, the president of the United States is that stupid.

Anyone else look at this guy and see Willem Dafoe in Spiderman (2002)?

My god, WHAT is in those Epstein files that has him so terrified of swearing in Vote Number 218?

“I will not bring the House back to session until the Congress negotiates a budget that it needs to pass” is pretty much a pure pi-r-squared circle.

The "let them eat cake" attitude of Trump is really on display. Three theories: 1) he has no idea what his policies are doing to millions of Americans; 2) as goes with authoritarians, nobody inside will tell him this is a bad look; 3) he has stopped caring because he rules as an authoritarian.

Don't we all?

My kids’ school is on lockdown. Because of ICE. On fucking Halloween.

A 3D Homer Simpsons walking past the library model from the original a993 Myst game, from "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VI"

30 years ago today, The Simpsons premiered the "Treehouse of Horror VI" Halloween special, in which Homer enters a 3-Dimensional world and crosses paths with the library from Myst island!

https://youtu.be/-cyf4RnjzTY?t=112

I remember this gif being frequently posted on forums back then. I heard people saying Steam would be the death of PC gaming. Oh how times change.

Screenshot of a tweet by Senator Ed Markey that says, “Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.” Below is an NBC News screenshot with the headline “Measles spreading beyond the center of the Utah-Arizona outbreak.” Two news anchors appear on screen.

Put a quack in charge, expect to be royally ducked.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.

The 4th time I summoned my motorcycle and it spawned inside a nearby car causing it to explode is when I gave up on it. I hear it's a nice polished game now after all the patches but my hype is long gone. I just don't want to play it anymore.

Trump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits As Trump’s anger grows amid another poll slide, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg explains why Trump’s deep unpopularity should give you solace—even if beating him long term will be a brutal slog.

Trump's deranged threat to fire federal workers and his killing of NY-NJ project are backfiring: Both are now big issues in VA-NJ gov races!

And new CNBC poll shows indys blaming Trump/GOP over Dems by 58-21.

On the pod, @simonwdc.bsky.social explains all this well:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...

“Republican Party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes… today, I quit allowing my complacency to destroy 🇺🇸, and urge you to quit too…”

GOP insider Miles Bruner writes in @thebulwark.com he wishes he did it sooner

www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

I'll say directly what all media outlets should be screaming: The president of the United States posted a video showing himself dumping poop on Americans.

But the wildly successful "No Kings" protests proved he's not shit.

My column on our disgraceful president:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...