Sam - the last shofet

A visual of how his brain is rotting by the minute.

Exhibit: 168368493

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Luckily for our troops, they have the option (and obligation) to refuse to commit war crimes. Their victims don’t seem to have the option to not get killed with a strike that came from nowhere.

As the saying goes, “for a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”.

Not a surprising take from a man who has a fighter jet as his profile picture.

Aaaany day now

Which is what the Republican of justices on the SCOTUS have explicitly said is okay to do.

Nothing short of a revolution can fix the mess created by the US constitution.

there is no legitimate definition of the term "democracy" under which maps like these are "democratic." this level of stovepiping is banana republic shit. this is effectively no different from stuffing a ballot box

It’s higher than that on average. And 2025 is on track to be the highest since the pandemic. But what’s the monthly average hiring? Layoffs alone don’t tell you how tough the job market is. Plus, large employers announcing mass layoffs creates anxiety even for those who still have a job.

This is all true but

1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law

2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up

The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.

That screeching sound you hear is the ladder being pulled up behind Habba by Habba.

That’s right. But in his first two years when Dems had large majorities in congress, imo he didn’t use his popularity & bully pulpit to get his party to make bold & lasting economic policy change. Many reasons for this, but a big one is he surrounded himself with the Rahm Emanuels and Larry Summers.

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It’s amazing to see the disconnect between the first and 2nd paragraphs. He had an inflated sense of his accomplishments. At best, he tinkered around the margins. Granted he was a Black man with very little latitude to maneuver, and was in charge of one of the two parties full captured by capital.

Moreover, I would argue that three important concepts that are especially poorly captured by standard economic numbers underlie people’s perceptions of affordability: economic inclusion, security, and fairness. By economic inclusion I mean the ability to purchase the goods and services that allow someone to feel like a member in full standing of American society. By security I mean a feeling based not just on current real income, but also an assurance that severe hardship isn’t just a stretch of bad luck away. Lastly I would also argue that perceptions of affordability are often intertwined with perceptions of fairness: people are especially upset about high prices when they feel that they are being taken advantage of.

The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates

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I’ve been struggling to articulate perception about the economy is partly about how people feel how they are doing in relative terms (relatively to people they consider their peers). This framing from Krugman comes very close to articulating it. Not measured by PCE. I hope Will Stencil reads this.

You seem to have totally ignored the “security” part of the points Krugman makes in the screenshot. At a time laying of 20k, 30k employees gets announced by giant employers every other quarter makes people insecure. This is not just about how the politics works.

Did Mamdani have a slogan?

No.

WE DON’T NEED A SLOGAN!

Certainly not one that is stolen from some NYC grifter’s book title.

Just communicate what you stand for.

This is what I mean about “trust”. In this case, earned trust because Mamdani is not someone who changed his tune days before announcing his candidacy.

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Lol. I think if the people trust your true motives (and your politics), if they think you’re for the people, then they give you some latitude and listen to your reform proposals. But if you’re suspected as a corporate stooge, anything you propose, no matter how benign, will be suspect.

The primary driver for small and big businesses is profit - the more of if the better. The major difference is that power is decentralized with small businesses and they can’t break a town/society. But big business can/will break a town to get more profit - & eventually take over government itself.

I wish this was true. History shows mass murderers from powerful countries die a natural death and get a hero’s funeral. We just had one of these for Dick “so what?” Cheney.

Is this for real? We are killing people we just suspect of drug trafficking and pardoning convicted drug kingpins?!

A screenshot of a tweet from “Politics & Poll Tracker” reporting that Indiana Senator Greg Walker declined an Oval Office visit and accused the White House of violating the Hatch Act. Below is a photo of a man seated at a table with a microphone, holding a water bottle, with blurred figures in the foreground.

Six Indiana state senators who have refused to go along with Trump’s redistricting scheme have been subjected to swatting incidents. This is mob rule and it has to end.

A grave historical mistake that the leaders of the Confederacy were not tried and hanged.

This is what Elon Musk has been calling for for a while now. They will use every incident to make the case for “remigration” (deporting all non-white people, including 2nd and 3rd generation American born citizens)

Native American actor says she was detained by ICE officers who said tribal ID ‘looked fake’ Elaine Miles of Northern Exposure was stopped by four masked men in Seattle while walking to bus stop

The American Gestapo continuing the white supremacist tradition of their forefathers and abusing native Americans. Masked thugs on the street.

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Walmart’s Marie Antoinette: let them eat cake but not on company time - maybe after their 16 hour shift is over.

Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."

Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?

When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?

You, of all people, should not speak!

You served a president that VIOLATED US law and provided a genocidal regime 2000 lb bombs so it can kill as many civilians as possible in one fell swoop.

STFU, Pete! STFU!

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.