grapesmoker

look at my elites dawg

well obviously he has a unique set of qualifications which just happens to be the exact set of qualifications you need to have in order to do his exact job (posting bad charts). fortuitous!

why does everything have to be simultaneously horrifying and stupid, we do not have to live like this

take a swim in a volcano

every interview with biden dead-enders just shows that none of them have meaningful thoughts or commitments to anything beyond themselves. these are the most hollow people you can imagine, sucking moral and intellectual voids

am i better than the gods? very well then, i am better than the gods

i could easily survive an interview with isaac chotiner because frankly i'm a perfect angel who has never done anything wrong and also all my takes are correct

don't sleep on david broockman, he's the guy they all cite when asked where they get their supposedly ironclad academic evidence that "rich donors move the party left". if you read the actual paper it's basically junk data that absolutely does not show this

not saying it was produced on spec for the purpose of providing ammunition to centrists who desperately want "evidence" that a bunch of rich dipshits don't entirely own the democratic party, but if it were the case... how would it be different?

of course broockman of the "anyone who donates $200 to a candidate is a Big Donor pushing the party left" junk-ass paper is here, very fitting

heard there was a new group of centrist dems in town dedicated to the proposition that rich assholes should get to do whatever they want all the time, let's see how this iteration of the same dumb bullshit works out for them

odessa is the dublin of ukraine and new york city is the odessa of america. hence by the transitive property qed

i have always actually been irish

the very concept of a functional government is inimical to the people who actually run the party, which is why they've coalesced behind a literal wrecker

the problem is much more basic actually: there is no party in American politics that wants to make life better. there is a party of managed decline and letting the rich loot whatever they can, and a party of ripping to copper wiring from the walls and letting the rich loot whatever they can

they would say that it's good that he did that

temu david shor but somehow even pettier

republicans are the party of "rich assholes get to do anything they want," democrats are the party of "rich assholes get to do anything they want as long as they're polite about it"

but what if the asshole has a lot of money

what then

i am prepared to interrogate some new york state democrats. just leave me in a room with them for 30 minutes

shut down every silicon valley start up until we figure out what's going on. put every vc in a sealed vault at the bottom of the ocean.

this is the kind of important innovation that centrists keep telling us is key to maintaining international competitiveness

anyway, this is why sortition is the only legitimate approach to democracy and i will fight anyone who says otherwise

both of these very significant gates breed a kind of tunnel vision about what is politically possible or desirable. it should be possible for someone who doesn't come from either background to be a competitive candidate but all the conditions militate against it

i support finding More Guys but i do think it's kind of a problem where the only people who can afford to not do their jobs so they can run for office are either people with a shit-ton of money or people who are already in the politics pipeline

we invented the smart pipe from the satirical comedy sketch "do not invent the smart pipe"

yeah it's a dog shit party run by stupid cowards, what's to like exactly

thirst thesis vindicated yet again

furthermore data in any form can be good or bad quality, doesn't make it not data

it's literally data