I mean, that's progress I guess, but it is chilling and horrifying that we've only got a bare majority on the right side of "Should people who've been convicted of no crime be renditioned to a Salvadoran torture prison without due process?"

I think in that hypothetical the impeachment would be quick AND bipartisan

Thousands of Afghans with Temporary Protected Status are people who helped US forces and who risked their lives to work with the Coalition. Now Trump is going to toss them aside, strip their legal status, and maybe even try to deport them back to the Taliban. It's unconscionable.

In related news, Kim Jong-un successfully drove a car at the age of three, and his father Kim Jong-il invented the hamburger.

I'm currently halfway through Kurt Andersen's "Fantasyland" and it's been a helpful lense to understand the long strain of hucksterism and magical thinking (not exclusively from the right) that's permeated our history

I don't wanna put words into his mouth, but I'm guessing @radiofreetom.bsky.social would also (accurately) apply this generic description to a good chunk of the voters who put these types of guys in power

You can probably guess who this is referring to if you have been online today, but it is also a fairly generic description of a certain type of guy who now holds a lot of power

Even Putin would be like, “Might want to dial it back a notch.”

I feel like there were elements of this religiosity pre Trump on the populist right (although it's def in overdrive rn). Rush had his "ditto heads" for example, and I know nominally Christian but non churchgoers who've followed the infotainment slop with religious fervor for decades.

"These tariffs are killing our US manufacturing operations, but Trump should KEEP tariffs on my competitors' products and only REMOVE tariffs on my inputs."

Classic move. Almost makes me want to root for the tariffs. 🤬

I didn't want this. I said something like it would happen, and implored America to take a different path.

But a plurality of voters wanted this.
Finance and business wanted this, and backed it with money.
SCOTUS wanted this, so badly they twisted the Constitution to get it.

This all was a choice.

This is keeping the buyer from leaving the dealership to think about it energy.

Whatever sociological phenomenon that caused islamists to celebrate martyrs and Germans to stick with Hitler during the battle of Berlin seems to be at play with the hardcore base (see covid deaths). I suspect apathetic swing voters and chamber of commerce types will end up accepting reality though

Yes, the captain intentionally piloted the ship into a huge iceberg, cracking the vessel like an egg.

But the officers insist we'll all greatly benefit from an invigorating midnight swim through Arctic waters.

same people who wanted Biden tried for treason over egg prices will watch their retirements evaporate and still vote Trump a third time and I think there’s a religious component to that

Who did this?

every single voter was faced with a basic intelligence test and unfortunately 49.9% of them failed it

Despicable propaganda meant to lay the groundwork for burning the world to buy the mad king a single second longer.

FWIW, this is what your Republican uncle is seeing right now.

More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Truth Social is where the man who thinks he runs the country announces his latest move. X is where the man who actually runs the country gets his ideas for the president's next move. Threads is where people proudly resist both of them by patronizing a different billionaire who agrees with whatever the president says. Bluesky is where people are absolutely furious with the president's latest move and know exactly who to blame: the headline writers at the New York Times. Facebook is where people think the president's latest move was opening a casino for dolphins in Gaza with Jesus and they love it.

who's on what platform, 2025 edition

Similarly during the height of the pandemic it always struck me as obvious that pharmaceutical companies would make more money treating someone hospitalized with covid than they would from a vaccine dose. I hate the post truth era.

When the govt calls someone a criminal, you shouldn't automatically believe it. That's what charges and trials are for.

Always been true, but especially with this govt.

How stupid and/or bigoted do you have to be to take the "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" liars at their word?

It seems as if half the people in the MAGA/America First movement express open regret that Hitler didn't win World War II - and the other half don't know that if we'd listened to the America First movement of the day, he would have.

Toward the end of his historical analysis of fascism in Europe, Robert O. Paxton muses on what an American-style fascism would look like. Writing in the early 2000s.

"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance Much ink has been spilled about "polarization." Most of it ignores a major cause: the widespread, misplaced faith that we already know that which we do not know.

Brian Klaas - One of the strangest dynamics of modern politics is that the richest man in the world chooses to get his information from grifting ignoramuses on social media.

open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

So messed up how “if a rich, famous criminal is held legally accountable for crimes he definitely did, they’ll come for you, who did no crimes, next” resonates with more of the US public than “if a legal resident who committed no crime is disappeared without notice, they could come for you next.”

Seen at the Don’t Abandon Ukraine demonstration today.

The U.S. literally would not exist without the help France provided in the Revolutionary War. To say nothing of help in more recent times, like post 9/11.