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Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

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the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

submitted 8 hours ago • 447 comments

The argument is “we started a war because we felt like it” because they know the servile Republican Party will defend literally anything they do

submitted 7 hours ago • 56 comments

A reminder of how the number of centrifuges in Iran soared after Trump’s 2018 JCPOA withdrawal. @brendannyhan.bsky.social

submitted 7 hours ago • 34 comments

Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out. They’re scared.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1034 comments

I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.

submitted 7 hours ago • 78 comments

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

submitted 7 hours ago • 359 comments

It’s like that old Mitch Hedberg joke: “I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”

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I've been screaming this for days. Why in the world would anyone trust us ever again after this? Why would anyone negotiate with us at all??

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I know you are but what am I.

submitted 6 hours ago • 48 comments

as someone old enough to remember the ruin of the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crash, the fact that we bombed Iran and advanced the Genius Act this week has been pretty wild and makes me doubt that a critical mass of American elites are capable of learning anything

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

Also, surely this should be the core media narrative about this war - they’re not doing it for any reason they can articulate! There’s no intelligence supporting their claims, Trump himself seemed to think it was a bad idea a week ago, but no one’s in charge and Trump is an easily-pressured fool

submitted 7 hours ago • 80 comments

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

submitted 8 hours ago • 34 comments

I dunno, man, if I were a candidate for office but my biggest flaw were that I had once tried to assassinate an Archduke, I wouldn't try to get an endorsement from Gavrilo Princip.

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

submitted 7 hours ago • 106 comments

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

submitted 18 hours ago • 371 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

every five to seven years this country bonks itself on the head with a big cartoon mallet, causing total retrograde amnesia and also little birds to fly around its head

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

This is such an important point. Cuomo isn’t just any centrist. He’s known to be corrupt and an all around political liability to the party. But because Mamdani has the audacity of having new ideas, they showed their cards by backing the Democrats’ Ken Paxton just to protect the status quo.

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

The pandering is funny, but way funnier is the laziness -- like he knows he has to say some shit about Jesus in order to keep the coalition of Christians on his side, but he doesn't bother to take two seconds to learn a single phrase or piece of scripture they actually use.

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Did these stupid morons think they could just start bombing sovereign countries with no repercussions whatsoever?? That they could just say "it's not a war" and the people they bombed would shrug it off? Just inconceivably stupid and arrogant.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

submitted 4 hours ago • 325 comments

"a pre-recorded press conference"

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I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

submitted 18 hours ago • 459 comments

Yeah, if some nation bombed our nuclear facilities and then said it was not at war with us, I’m sure we’d accept that.

submitted 9 hours ago • 59 comments

Word for word the same argument that got us into the Iraq War: "Look how bad this country is"

submitted 10 hours ago • 87 comments

Japan’s Taco Bell mascot, Taco-Man

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

We could have just arrested him after January 6. Imagine the number of people who would be alive today. Who wouldn't die as this continues to unfold. The best case scenario is that we'll remain enough of a country to reckon with this mistake later.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

One thing the Dem establishment never really got over was the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 nomination because she supported the Iraq War. Denial and anger followed rather than learning from that decision.

submitted 19 hours ago • 44 comments

By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

submitted 9 hours ago • 97 comments

Somehow the man makes Dick Cheney look like a reasoned, dignified and competent statesman, which is not something I thought anyone else would have the ability to do in my lifetime.

submitted 8 hours ago • 60 comments

This is a defining moment for the Democratic party. We need to stand against war with Iran. I am sending a Dear Colleague letter tonight asking every House member to sponsor my & Rep. Thomas Massie WPR to stop this war.

submitted 18 hours ago • 154 comments

The JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 21st century. Multiple nations, several powerful blocks, a ton of oversight and the entire time diplomats were working it out domestic American media & politicians were demonizing it, lying about it, and trying to sabotage it. They won

submitted 18 hours ago • 32 comments

Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama) Feels pretty relevant in this moment.

submitted 22 hours ago • 61 comments

My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.

submitted 19 hours ago • 41 comments

I think the brave masked patriots of ICE should be the first group given the privilege of suiting up and going off to fight Trump's new war

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Amy Klobuchar is going to say something identical to this the next time she’s in front of a TV camera.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

My kingdom for anyone with the power and willingness to enforce the law.

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Don’t worry, everyone! Chuck Schumer is writing a sternly worded letter as we speak!! Then it’s off to another billionaire’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.

submitted 21 hours ago • 177 comments

My very apolitical friend just said to me ‘No one f*cks with North Korea. Why do you think that is?’ Yep. There’s a clear message for a lot of Global South and Middle Eastern countries tonight. Sadly. And it isn’t a nonproliferation message.

submitted 21 hours ago • 125 comments

"Where are the leaders of the land? Where are the swells who run this show?"

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey check out this fucking loser

submitted 23 hours ago • 15 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 23 hours ago • 123 comments

Maybe another book about Biden will fix this. Perhaps the PodSave folks can help.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments