Carthaged

Lol, we don't have a bourgeois society.

We have one of petty financial aspiring lords.

Oh, if only we had a bourgeois democracy, and not a rentier gentry seeking to turn things into an aristocratic oligarchy.

i’m sorry but you don’t get to pretend you’re just advocating for a return to the obama era version of politics while also arguing against birthright citizenship.

This is a lawyered sentence, and implies they’ve been trying to fire her for several days at minimum

the pmc is achieving self-consciousness as a world-historical class

Ronald Reagan had insights into the intent of the founders that no one mere human with a normally functioning brain could comprehend

California's Prop 13 is faithful to the intentions of the Founders

he doesn’t have the juice, he isn’t going to be president.

a man in a hospital gown is smiling with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him ALT: a man in a hospital gown is smiling with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him

Founding Fathers: Democracy!

Also

We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Probably gave me too much faith in the perspicacity of journalists

Yeah, they fed generations bullshit beginning in the 70s and by the 2000s and by hurricane Katrina Iraq and GFC were already thinking they’d maybe fucked up a little. But it was way too late. The idiot children they raised to believe fairy tales are today’s American gentry.

Funny thing tho, had to buy them on Amazon prime and my kids adore them. Belly laughter like nothing else. I kinda love that their watching something from 1947

I’m still mad about it

Root and branch. The 9 dictators thing is tedious now. it’s too soon to say Trump is a sideshow and SCOTUS remains the big bad, but I don’t think the founders intended us to be ruled by a buncha fucking lawpriests. Sure Congress let it happen, but it happened and it sucks

I gotta admit, I detested being a young man. Worst years of my life were 19 to 24. No one warns you they can be hard! All the messaging is about how awesome they are meant to be

If they do, it's a 1 way cool zone ticket.

This is "consent of the governed" shit we're playing with.

Accepting the Texas map is already pretty damn risky.

Rejecting California's is just outright declaring your intent to make Taney look like a unifier.

It’s a really sick children’s science museum tho

Oh I gotta get that one

it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

Are they younger than millennials? Would be funny if zoomers restarted litter

That’s a better description for sure

In fairness, in our day, we solved littering. Anyone know any millennials who litter? In hindsight the anti bullying stuff may have been more useful than convincing millions of children that littering was a moral crime

also we really slashed teen pregnancy and now the right is mad that we did.

I legitimately love to hear that your kids had an ok experience, it’s moronic for conservatives to attack it out of boredom and malice

I have been thinking and talking about Israel my whole life, and have taught about Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East since 2008, well before TikTok existed. I can attest that young Americans’ opinion of Israel has gotten more negative over that time, and the main reason is Israel’s actions.

By swimming real good? And dragging the drugs behind them?

Admiral Holsey, former head of U.S. Southern Command, who resigned before these drug boat strikes started

when you dodge becoming the fall guy

That’s cool. Fuck Chuy Garcia, what he did was unamerican.

“unitary exec theory - but for good” is going to be a persistent feature of discourse for the next three years. People are going to put their mental energy into imagining a democratic administration that uses the current Presidential tool kit. They are not going to plan for it being 2012 again.