John Lakeman

This is a tough one to follow.

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?

Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.

1/ A🧵on the danger.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

A photoshopped picture of a woman looking under a bathroom stall with “Jean is focused on potties” above a photoshopped picture of a man next to a pothole with the caption “John is focused on fixing potholes”

just a reminder that the dem who ran this campaign unseated a 3x gop incumbent who had never won by less than double digits

This is so performative and silly. “They got what they voted for” doesn’t even imply you’re happy it happened to them. It’s simply a statement of fact.

She’s an insane person.

There are a disturbing amount of people here who DO rejoice over killing random Jews though.

You RT Taylor Lorenz you weird fuck

Pardon?

a worrying number of people in the replies whose brains have been utterly cooked

Oh wow. Bluesky is like DERANGED deranged.

Really cowardly of you to pull out of the Pangburn event, David.

your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it

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@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social lied about the whole thing. What an actual loser.

That’s a strapping young lad

Tbf, Hasan definitely should shut the fuck up. We’d all be better for it.

The KEYSSSS

The dumbest messaging Democrats will never let go of is gun control.

You've seen the potential trajectory Republicans have put this nation on and you want to be disarmed?

Yea, Simon was telling us they were panicking all election season. Hard to take what he says at face value anymore.

FDR united Democrats under the banner of ‘liberalism’ − but today’s Democratic Party has nothing to put on its hat Republicans have a leader, Donald Trump; a banner, MAGA; and a song, ‘God Bless the USA.’ Democrats have nothing like this.

Stop running from the word liberal, liberals. It’s a good strong word. Use it. Defend it. Or let your enemies define who you are.

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MAGA is the enemy. But the left is no friend either. Leftists used to be constructive critics. No longer.

Something I've wanted more of for a long time are "Easterns" - movies set in the 1860s-1890s but in the Eastern United States. We have like 50,000 Western movies and 3 Eastern movies. It's a great and fascinating time period in America!

the entire message of Christianity is that God Himself died in an act of suicidal empathy with his wayward, undeserving creations and that you yourself have a personal obligation to emulate this. american protestantism is literally satanic

I think it is legitimately a problem that this website convinces people that very niche views (normie liberal Dems are genocidaires) are common or even legible to most voters

No not really, besides the little blunders I’m sure you’re aware of. He has bad political instincts. They don’t have to be equivocally bad, they’re just not people who I want on the team.