they’re gonna cheat and everyone needs to figure out what they’re gonna do when that happens

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

As you can tell from my earlier post, I uhhhh have some aesthetic issues with Payne that I think overshadow if he’s actually a better pure 1.

The other thing too is that I just really love how Q plays, he’s so fast and has a ton of grit/energy. He’s just so *spiritually* a Pacer it hurts.

Morris: okay this guy is probably a bit too old but he can set guys up well

Wright: okay this guy is probably a bit too old but he can play okay defense even if his scoring is gone

Payne: okay this guy is probably a bit too old and why is his hand on the wrong side of the ball when he shoots

I have been very convinced by your rationale of why you’d want a Monte Morris or Delon Wright style veteran at the PG given how much they impact the performance and development of everyone else, but Cam Payne (to me) has crossed the threshold where QJax seems like a real upgrade at the position.

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

You cannot be fucking serious

We literally just tested voter preferences on this and they overwhelmingly rejected the rejection of neoliberalism.

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

Every day, in cities across this country, brave ICE agents and a bunch of random other guys in tactical Under Armour dri-fit gear mask up and do the "dizzy bat race" version of the border shootout scene from Sicario. This is the only way to ensure the safety of the homeland.

It is genuinely wild just how much damage Shor-ism has done to the country.

going to start using the trad buzzword of "false ecumenism" but to describe reactionary Catholics who make common cause with Evangelicals over their mutual bigotries devoid of any theological substance

Most Americans did not know who Kirk was, and when they found out it was often through unsavory ways (Kimmel’s cancellation), and when they learned more about how who he was, they didn’t like him.

Insane they thought he’d become some saint.

One of my favorite genres is definitely "online trads who have clearly never taken their faith seriously being owned by the Pope espousing basic Christian ideas"

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

People complain about cancel culture but this is the exact reason it's so important to run wife beaters out of public life

After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

Everyone in the kill chain should be prosecuted but we have an opposition leadership that thinks this is a distraction from funding rural hospitals in +70-80% trump country

Broadview police investigating ICE while Hakeem Jeffries fights to save rural hospitals lol

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

i also think that the argument that klein is implicitly making — that there are people whom we must throw over the side to win, even if the consequences are dire — is genuinely a lot more cynical than people typically attribute to klein

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.