Peter Cortessis 🥑🔰🏗️🪩

this is the funniest synopsis of The Last Church i have ever read

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We shouldn’t be punishing property that is valuable with increased tax burdens, imo. If something is generating value/utility, it’s good. Neglecting to utilize the limited real estate someone owns is bad, and we should discourage that by taxing the underlying value of land instead.

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Land value tax solves this.

the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

What last night proves, above all else, is that centrist Democrats like Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC can work together with moderate Republicans like Abigail Spanberger and Gavin Newsom to push back on MAGA fascism.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

I will never surrender this nation to the fascists. I will never surrender this nation to those who hate what it *truly* represents. I will never surrender this nation to those who seethe at the torch besides the golden door. I will never surrender this nation to the heirs of its treachery.

lesson of jay jones (likely) win is that democrats must [redacted]

Trans rights are human rights. Immigrant rights are human rights. Muslim rights are human rights. Jewish rights are human rights. Queer rights are human rights. Children's rights are human rights. Homeless rights are human rights.

Maybe the flame will never burn for everyone. But we must try.

Fuck. I love America.

It is hard to do so. Often. This country has so much blood on its hands. This country has done so much harm in the world. It was founded by slave owners writing of freedom. Its people can be shallow, insipid, selfish.

But the promise at the core of America still burns.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

please god can we be lucky enough for him to step down from leadership ahead of the 120th congress and let (almost certainly) Schatz replace him

Call him a sand n-word. I know you must want to soooooo bad. Just rolling it across your tongue and snickering to yourself all the while.

It’s not “Mamdani alone” it’s “this is a big deal because the baseline expectation of party leadership is to support the candidate that won the primary”.

If someone else had won the primary and Schumer refused to endorse them, it’d be just as fucking terrible!

for the record I was wrong. fuck schumer, impossible to read this as anything but pathetic boomer racism.

You can simply say “I voted for my party’s candidate.” It is that easy.

Get your head checked man, you’re hearing voices that aren’t there.

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It’s not the only thing that counts, no one is saying that, but Schumer’s *extremely public and repeated refusal to do the bare minimum of what is expected of party leadership* is harmful to the coalition.

“I voted for the democratic candidate”. How does that harm things? Walk me through it, you vile, racist piece of shit.

Buddy. Just say “sand N-word” at least be honest to yourself.

he won a Democratic nomination; his opponent murdered old people in nursing homes, sexually harassed his staff, and ran a viciously racist campaign while coordinating with donald trump.

if you can't take a stand here, what use are you? you're harming the coalition; your alienating voters.

also, like, why the fuck doesnt he just lie. say "i voted for the democratic candidate" to the press and know you voted for cuomo in your heart because you're a racist pos. the fact that he refused to endorse, refused to vote for him, and ALSO refused to lie to let it die, is so fucking bad.

I think the refusal to say “I voted for the democratic candidate my party duly nominated” makes his position as a figurehead of the democratic caucus in the senate utterly untenable.

Just say “sand n-word” dude, it’ll at least be honest rather than dancing around with this “Sultan” shit.

Do you believe a political party exists to get its members elected?

I got blocked for stating that Schumer should face consequences for betraying the trust of the party, jfc.

This move validates every dyed in the wool leftist’s objection that Vote Blue No Matter Who is a cynical canard and it enrages me to no end, because trust, once broken, is a fucking nightmare. Schumer needs to be made an example of and expelled publicly for his refusal to back Mamdani.