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I....just got an idea.

No matter who you are and where you are running, just don’t be a politician. People don’t like politicians. Sometimes because they act like dorks, but mostly because they don’t do crap for us.

Run against the establishment and be a human about it.

As somebody that was deeply annoyed that the pundit class was fawning over Cuomo in 2020, this is a big night for me on a deeply personal level.

Oh, he gave a press conference? Everybody gave a press conference! We were bored out of our minds!

High paid consultants toughest hit by this fact.

It’s lol’s biggest night

Looking like a....

Facing the choice of trying to be cool about the results and not overinterpreting them, or just giving in and letting reality bring me back down later.

So…vibe shift? Are we vibe shifting? You guys want to declare a vibe shift?

The “Find My” app has easily saved me a solid 60 hours.

'Bugonia' and the Movies of Our Moment Plus: What does it mean for Taylor Sheridan to leave Paramount+?

Talked BUGONIA with Peter and Alyssa, who both seemed vaguely horrified by my take on the end of the film. But like. The text of the movie is the text of the movie! movieaisle.substack.com/p/bugonia-an...

‘Predator: Badlands’ Review The original is perfect. The new one is a pretty good creature feature.

This is a review of PREDATOR: BADLANDS (it's an entertaining creature feature but only barely a "Predator" movie as we understand them) and an explainer of what I mean when I say "PREDATOR is a perfect movie," a phrase I utter with startling regularity. www.thebulwark.com/p/predator-b...

Cripes! If somebody had lit a match you would’ve looked like Johnny Blaze!

Once again, we have learned that prohibition never works. Theaters started selling booze, and this low-level deviant behavior evaporated.

YouTube video by ThePiemmebi The Insider (Michael Mann) - Ending

When it comes to 60 Minutes, I don't think anybody can say it better than Michael Mann and company said in The Insider back in 1999:

"What got broken here. Doesn't go back together again."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=miQn...

“Republicans will tie the entire Democratic Party to Zohran Mamdani if he wins…”

Oh no! The Democratic Party, which is in desperate need of a rebrand, will be tied to a charismatic and energetic person that wants to tax billionaires to help the working class! Please don’t do this!

YouTube video by The Bulwark Rounders Bombed—Then Became a CLASSIC | Bulwark Movie Club

There was some gambling news last week, which finally gave me an excuse to do something I've wanted to do for a long time: talk about ROUNDERS on a podcast with @jvl.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE62...

9 of those views are White Staffers who have it on but are away from their computer.

Listen, if you can't use the juxtaposition of people lining up for food while a corrupt billionaire builds a ballroom to be the entire plot maybe find a new line of work.

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

I never bought into the whole Whitmer thing, and here you see it. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

“How many families could the ballroom feed?”

“He’s worried about his ballroom, you’re worried about the rent.”

“He’s tearing down a house you paid for.”

How difficult was that?

If Dems can’t come up with a “Pocahontas” equivalent on this one .. 🙄

Like I said, the second worse decision Bob Iger made this year.

Delroy Lindo Deserves a Dang Oscar The Ankler's Katey Rich and Christopher Rosen preview awards season.

I previewed the awards season films with Katey Rich and Chris Rosen while also discussing Oscar predictions and Ankler Pundits. But the real takeaway from this episode should be "GIVE DELROY LINDO A DANG OSCAR NOMINATION." The man deserves it! www.thebulwark.com/p/delroy-lin...

Those who'd sneer at outrage over the White House fancy themselves slick. Ears to the ground. They don't concern themselves with frippery when there's a war to be won. Well they don't know a goddamn thing. Symbols are powerful, and politics is a game of using them to your advantage.

Wow, okay money bags.

Time was this would get a fella impeached.

Did the campaign shoot this, Dave? I’m purely asking because side the Friday Night Lights style is interesting.

A rare “both sides make good points.”

Try not to be weird about this, everybody.

That’s my point - it seems to more of a glorified Clippy than Jarvis.