right wing think tanks are making thinly veiled threats of political violence, the Supreme Court has neutralized the regulatory power of broad swaths of government, and the fate of the executive branch depends on whether the 81 year old atop it can learn to breakdance or something. Happy July 4th
This isn't going to stop. This isn't one news cycle but now the tone and tenor of the entire campaign as long as Biden is on the ticket. Things can only get worse.
I also hate fireworks so what if like I just rented a ranch in a remote place and all the dogs and people with PTSD could go hang out somewhere together
One of the lesser-noted things Trump did as President that always struck me as strange was, in December 2020, declare Classical Greco-Roman architecture to be the official architectural style of the US government and condemn modernist or brutalist buildings in DC
This was a thing in Nazi architecture. The idea was that the buildings would continue to convey the aesthetic value of Reich for thousands of years.
Speer: Hitler liked to say that the purpose of his building was to transmit his time and its spirit to posterity.
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Years ago when I confronted a creep for being a creep (threatening, stalking, etc) he immediately called all of our mutual friends and said "I'm really worried about Gillian, she's saying some really crazy stuff. You know her childhood was rough etc etc"
oh this is disgusting. using the typical "she made it up for revenge" and "she's too mentally ill to believe" BS.
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Here's my Sorkin pitch--the meeting with the family, WH staff, campaign staff, Hill leaders, and governors was to tease a drop out. But, they can't get ahead of an official announcement so everyone's putting on a show
If Dems are going to switch it needs to be clean and bloodless. The idea of a "mini-primary" crammed into 5 weeks is madness and would look like madness
Anne Applebaum here is arguing that 1. Trump is a senile gibbering idiot so therefore 2. the Democrats must distract the public from paying attention to him
Just realized that alongside the challenge to TN's ban on medical care for trans youth the other big SCOTUS case next term is a challenge to age verification laws for online porn so that should be fun
I've said it before but I'm genuinely grateful for JK Rowling as a very public example of how trans misogyny rots both your brain and your soul. She's like those anti-drug ads that were just photos of meth users' mouths
Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
February 2023. This is the moment they decided to ignore popular will and hold a coronation of a damaged and declining candidate. They depended on Trump being worse to manufacture consent for a historically unpopular candidate.
I keep thinking through all the arguments to keep Biden on the ticket and they all seem to concede that he shouldn't have run in the first place, which means I was right when I accused Dems and the White House of having zero strategy other than saying "it's still early" until it was too late.
I keep thinking through all the arguments to keep Biden on the ticket and they all seem to concede that he shouldn't have run in the first place, which means I was right when I accused Dems and the White House of having zero strategy other than saying "it's still early" until it was too late.
"Now isn't the time for finger pointing" I don't care. I'm so angry and they've risked so much and will probably face no consequences for it so I'll just point fingers for the rest of my life. I'm sprouting new fingers because I enjoy it so much.
Carl Bernstein on CNN saying Biden has had "15-20" episodes in the last year like the one he had during the debate with a noted increase in the last six months
