Pattern Ignorer

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

still sorting through the wreckage of the Cola Wars.

does trump have a food taster yet? or are we one bout of diarrhea away from maximizing his paranoia

feels like palace intrigue should be easier against the one guy who will eat your gross fast food platter while everyone else has the grown-up food.

contrast: mattyg’s “abandon all unpopular policy positions to win elections!” vs. the hell-bent entitlement of a party of a party that knows it’s not winning elections without criminal conspiracies

working on a theory:

dems believe in gaining power but not using it.

republicans believe in using power but not gaining it.

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government of, by, and for violent criminals

i’m willing to say the dems should moderate on social issues and let rich people exist undisturbed, in exchange for $9,999,999 dollars

i’m gonna spend years thinking about chris rufo failing to come up with an explanation for why the cracker barrel logo change was a conservative issue but still saying “we must break the barrel”

Gallego, a Marine veteran, gets it, and it's pretty simple and very clear.

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

et tu, Altria, the baggage-free rebrand of Philip Morris??

that’s a fair stance to take.

Screenshot of live video feed from the end of Mamdani's press conference. Mamdani stands before microphone in dark suit and tie, lips pursed, with heartfelt expression.

Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."

yes, yes, we all agree establishment dems are hypocrites. there was no good-faith arg that he displayed poor judgment by making rude old reddit posts. a totenkopf tattoos is a little different. it calls for a very clear response, and that is lacking.

just got to avoid some obscure pitfalls like “has a nazi tattoo” and you’re good to go.

i’m not that hard to win over. if a candidate can credibly say “i’m bernie but younger” then i’m already halfway to sending them a donation. i believe i’m one of many such cases.

and right on queue we move from trying to ratfuck Mamdani out of being elected to trying to sabotage his mayorship before it gets started

sorry i’ve made this joke before and it’s so crude but i crack myself up at the idea of mayor pete using focus group-tested slurs

democrat triangulation will take a hard look at this moment and send out someone like “post-left pete” buttigieg to say “donald trump is a retarded fag”

this guy might be useful but you can’t depend on anyone with this kind of median-ness to never go the way of Fetterman’s stone age regression. it’s practically guaranteed

real median voter hours

we might have all been wrong, but that doesn’t make them right

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i also still tell people about the DVD thing. Brits don’t understand because they think “old wood” is the greatest gift of all

1) i was right that bernie was too old in 2020 and needed to find a way to gracefully exit
2) i was right that biden was too senile to hold it together in 2019
3) i do not like being right

sad risk with amateurs. someone like Nixon could do the judo maneuver with Checkers. nothing i’ve seen says Platner can do anything remotely close to what’s required.

Do marbles roll on shag carpeting? No. But you gotta try to make it work regardless