Martin Concagh

The Biden Admin‘s policy towards Canada in general was appalling and one of Trudeau‘s most egregious failures was its total deference to Washington from
2021 onwards

Likudnik/Kahanist is probably more accurate.

Zionist is a sorta worthless label. Like being an anti-disestablishmentarian.

The Church of Wales no longer exists, and the state of Israel does.

All the “Kamala will start a war“ was just an acceptable-for—progressives way of going “what happens when a woman president gets her time of the month“

I think a lot of that stuff was just finding an acceptable way to say that you don’t think a woman should be president

Canada created more jobs in 2025 (! year of the economic attack!) than the U.S., tho the U.S. job market is 7.5 times bigger.

"Health" generated 41% of the new jobs. "Care" (incl educ) almost 1/2.
Demographics guarantees that this job juggernaut will continue to dominate. Demand>supply everywhere.

One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead

this isn't just a MAGA thing, it's a cross-American one and *especially* a lot of people who came of age in politics or punditry in the 1990s. the idea that the news could happen to them - that the world might not be all going their way - is genuinely brain-breaking to a lot of them

It is an unknown unknown how Platner conducts himself in a debate setting. But we can say that he has a massive chip on his shoulder, instinctively tells easily disproven lies and gets irritable under cross-examination

I am more optimistic about the UK than I think it is fashionable to be here, at least partially as I think most people here are much more tolerant than our increasingly spineless elites

I think the biggest mistake outsiders have about Israel and Palestine is assuming everyone in or connected to the region hates each other for stupid reasons when in fact they hate each other for pretty good ones that are very hard to undo.

I think if he won his senate race in 2010 or 2016 he absolutely tries to run in 2016 or 2020

I’d completely forgotten about him, yeah he’s way more likely than anyone else mentioned here

The counterfactual I’m thinking of is if she wins the gubernatorial election in 1990, because if Bush Sr wins in 1992 Governor Feinstein is absolutely one of the front runners in 1996

I accept that there’s a lot of “ifs” there

Dianne Feinstein is the other one that comes to mind but that requires a proper counterfactual where her career goes a bit differently than it did IRL.

The obvious candidate is Paul Wellstone but I think his health mean that he’d never seriously consider running for president.

this entire article uses the word “readers” when it really means “people skimming on their phones.”

those are not the same thing. there are plenty of studies showing that skimming isn’t reading. if you don’t want readers, fine: the solution is to make videos and podcasts.

let readers read.

Carney, please double/triple the Chinese EV cap so we can import those bad boys

how it feels taking public transit rn

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

Saw someone describing “The White Lotus genre” as “things that attack the 1%, marketed to the 5%” and boy does that sum up way too much progressive economic policy and messaging output the past several years tbqh

Did Chalamet steal the Fauxmoi editor‘s reserved parking space or something

I have witnessed this in real life but a lot of middle class / wealthy people are very desperate for an overtly masculine / working class man to like them, I don’t know if Sigmund Freud or Judith Butler would be better placed to explain it

If Keir Starmer stood up in the Commons and said ”don’t drink bleach“ Kemi would be flooring it down to the nearest B&Q

Oh my god this is literally just the plot of Being There

This might make sense in a country other than America, where the reality of the death penalty is that a death sentence means at least fifteen years of appeals before there’s even the slightest chance of an execution

For decades environmentalists were lectured by right-wingers that they should forget it as people aren't willing to sacrifice their standard of living, now it looks like right-wingers are willing to sacrifice their standard of living and it's for Benjamin Netanyahu of all things.

Because that’s the reason why Platner’s supporters are constantly litigating his Nazi tattoo and the disingenuous presentation of his personal background, because there’s nothing else to talk about! Because he hasn’t fucking done anything!

I would say “recent experience working with or alongside working class people” doesn’t actually outweigh having literally no record or accomplishments in politics, business or civil society that would give any indication that he’d be remotely competent in the position of United States Senator

See how the goalposts have shifted again, now it’s *recent* experience. What‘s the threshold, five years? Ten years? Twenty?

It is messed up how many obvious wreckers and grifters managed to parlay having supported Bernie Sanders into actual progressive credentials