Eoin Higgins

Maybe, I'm skeptical

I understand where he's coming from but given that policy is a nonstarter I'm not sure how "good" it is yknow?

Dem Senator Says He'll Vote To Fund Iran War Just 1 Day After Calling It 'Dumb' While the Arizona Democrat said the conflict wasn’t in America’s “best interest," he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins he'd have the Pentagon's back.

If you vote to fund the war, you support the war.

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Fetterman is a rich kid who's never needed to work in his life, he does this for attention

I can't overemphasize how irresponsible and stupid this video is.

Bernie goes and sits down with MIRI, asks them to imagine a hypothetical worst case scenario, then presents this science fiction as a terrifying future. Not reality! Fantasy!

not the main point but for fuck's sake try to dress like you're taking your job halfway seriously

It’s no “many are saying”

Can’t wait for this guy to be gone from baseball

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

he outlines this massive surveillance society under the pretense that ethical, responsible people will be in charge, undermined by his effort to cement a permanent zealot kakistocracy in a country too corrupt to have working regulators or corporate accountability of any kind

When your lawyer starts letting it loose in the prose, you should know your case is on its death bed. This is what people do when they don’t have any evidence to back themselves up, they just start repeating themselves and trying to dress it up

it's wild how Trumps dementia has reached Brandon point now, no longer at the angry dementia level

in Bill's case barely, he's looking rough

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And we’re back, folks

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some people might pretend that qualifies as defending Platner and not mocking plagiarist Kevin Kruse for a bad take, but those people shouldn't be taken seriously

the impression I get is that a lot of voters aren't in agreement with your interpretation—I'm ambivalent about him but find a lot of the takes on social media, like comparing him to KKK leader Robert Byrd, to verge on the absurd

cmon get over yourself

this is my bad for not being clear about that

okay I see, sorry, they did cover it but it's not getting enough pick up and attention to lead the news or be a continuing story

a man in a military uniform is holding a stuffed animal and saying these are my awards mother from army ALT: a man in a military uniform is holding a stuffed animal and saying these are my awards mother from army

This is who is running our military right now, basically

at any rate I'm not interested in defending a politician from criticism, I'm trying to make the point that this stuff just doesn't have legs in the state, it's not catching on

this was debunked, it's part of a Trail Crew Association tattoo

it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.

multiple? I was only aware of the one

I think your read of the Maine media environment is off

do you really think the newspapers in Maine are conducting an operation to support a little-known veteran running a populist campaign against a member of a statewide political dynasty who's been the governor since 2019?

One of us has had explicit death threats from actual neo-Nazis due to their activism and confronted violent white nationalists in the street. The other one is demanding social media posts. Take a walk

Take a walk, get some air

Functioning brain