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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.

Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

the idea is that moral clarity or certainty is somehow dangerous. of course, everyone who argues this is also morally certain, just about different things. this is just a way of devolving the debate into abstraction.

legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle

this whole paragraph is an exercise in the pose of knowingness, and illustration of how making being "more reasonable than the extremists" the whole core of your intellect leads inexorably to believing in nothing at all

one thing i hate is when the president is a pedophile

99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

AI generated chapter of IBCK’s “Of Boys and Men” episode titled “The percentage of boys back in town”

the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

lol

Saving "DON'T GET ON YOUR EZRA KLEIN NONSENSE" to use as a reaction quote forever

That's how ezra klein deserves to be remembered: as a meme of being owned. It's practicing politics the right way

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

3 rows with each NYC mayoral candidate: (blue bar) Zohran Mamdani (yellow bar) Andrew M. Cuomo (red bar) Curtis Sliwa (wearing a red had)

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

Just spectacular

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

We in America uniquely love to design individual solutions for what are clearly societal problems. Put a yellow vest on when you ride your bike on a car sewer. Buy your child a bulletproof vest for school. Take questionable supplements so you're not crippled by a medical bill.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.

The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

The other thing that's happening is that homeless centrists and non-MAGA conservatives are trying to co-opt the Democratic Party for themselves because they have no other reasonable alternative. What they lack in numbers they seem to be making up for in institutional power.

Bari Weiss' most underappreciated quality is that she is dumb.

Literally.

Following three years of significant investments in addiction services, opioid overdoses have declined by 32% in the last year.

We’re saving lives and showing what’s possible when we meet this crisis with compassion and action.

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

Do you know how to read a chart? Because the largest category is "I do not know this man" you can't just look at that his favorability is the lowest and say that. If you're going to work this way I can say he's the most popular because his unfavorable rating is the lowest. This isn't journalism.

And the good news is that “fight oligarchy” is going to be a lot more exciting and appealing to the 12 year old mind than “I’m a pro-life democrat and I’m scared of trans and Muslim people”

‘Everyone is 12’ is a very useful theory because Ezra Klein will tell you that you need to to be centrist/conservative to be more popular with the median American voter, but actually the median American voter is not ideologically centrist or conservative, they are a 12 year old boy.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

the basic story here is simple: just over a decade ago the media frantically covered a story about the Obama IRS targeting conservatives. now, it looks like the Trump administration is doing everything conservatives pretended Obama was, and it's a non-story.