Obsolete Dogma

If you don’t think you can make people care about the president demolishing part of the White House so he can build Small Dick Versailles with bribes he got from tech billionaires, then maybe politics isn’t for you.

There’s more to life than the price of eggs.

This is how Orban killed the free press in Hungary without officially having to kill freedom of speech: forcing media companies to be sold to friendly billionaires who happily them into propaganda machines

Trump packs more corruption into 4 hours than any other president has in 4 years www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

My most normie, 100% sincerely held opinion is that, setting aside all the corruption, abuses of power, and fascism, posting a video depicting himself as a king shitting on the country is more than enough reason to impeach Trump.

It’s unhinged and un-American.

Rule #1 of Politics: Don’t get a Nazi tattoo

Rule #2 of Politics: If you did get a Nazi tattoo, get it removed before you run for office

It is un-American to be such a pathetic bootlicker

My churlish opinion is that AI acting and screenwriting will be almost indistinguishable from what Netflix is already churning out, so it will be even harder to get studios to pay for actual good, human-made movies (which will be better but not lucrative enough)

These craziest thing about this shutdown is that Democrats are doing their best to make Trump more popular—by stopping health insurance premiums from going up for tens of millions of people—and Trump is just refusing.

What's wild here is Democrats are begging Republicans to please not let premiums skyrocket under Republican watch when Republicans would be blamed, and Republicans are like twirling their mustaches saying "no the premiums will go up under our tenure"

It's like John Roberts is trying to save Trump the way he wishes someone had saved Nixon. That's by legalizing Watergate and stopping the president from meddling with the Fed.

John Roberts is trying to help Donald Trump destroy our democracy but stop him from destroying our economy, because he wants Trump to be popular enough to become a dictator

“I don’t think the Democrats want to shut down either,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. “Their concern right now, and it’s a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we’re not going to spend them there?”

“If you’re a Democrat — even just like a mainstream Democrat — your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism,” said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. “Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?”

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

Well, at least a J6er isn’t going to be in charge of faking the jobs reports

Forget the American Revolution. The Roberts Court is trying to undo the *English* Revolution.

They want to go back to a monarchy where they’re the only check on the king’s power.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Democrats need to start using clear, moral language when it comes to Trump: this is evil

The only TV show Trump wants you to be able to watch

Democracy is dying in daylight because elites are so scared of losing their second vacation home that they’re selling out everything that makes this country great. Traitors and cowards.

New York, November 22, 2006-The Committee to Protect Journalists marked its 25th anniversary by honoring four journalists with its 2006 International Press Freedom Awards in a ceremony Tuesday night which highlighted record-setting attacks on the press in Iraq. More than 850 people attended the benefit dinner which raised $1.3 million. It was co-chaired by Robert A. Iger, president and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, and John S. Carroll, the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent and CPJ board member, hosted the dinner.

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

It’s disgusting to see how many elite institutions—media companies, law firms, and universities—are willing to go along with the destruction of our democracy if it will save them some money. They all need to prosecuted for bribery.

Turns out the First Amendment is meaningless when the government can just blackmail people into not saying things it doesn't like.

Too bad there aren't courts that could stop these kind of obviously illegal abuses of power. Founders really should have thought of that, right John Roberts?

How to be a Professional Centrist in 2 steps:

1) Cancel culture by college students is an existential threat to our democracy

2) Cancel culture by the most powerful person on the planet is something you don’t even mention

First they came for Colbert, and I said nothing, because I don’t want watch CBS…

The greatest threat to the rule of law is Trump. The second-greatest is the Roberts Court.

There is simply no value to Democrats in helping with passing budgets or CRs when the administration claims limitless arbitrary impoundment and rescission powers.

Can’t say the fascists are fascists or they might try to extort you next.

The leaders so many media companies, universities, and major law firms have completely failed and deserve to be prosecuted for bribery.

Almost seems like a Seinfeld subplot. Can just imagine George refusing to tip because he's pretending to be a communist.

The university surviving an existential lawsuit isn't front-page, push notification worthy news the same way the president of the university having some sloppy citations in her graduate thesis was