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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

submitted 36 days ago • 280 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 43 days ago • 430 comments

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

submitted 44 days ago • 127 comments

The weirdest part of the “let’s run the government like a business” nonsense is that the idiots spouting it always tend to take a dim view of the “bringing in money” aspect, which I’m told is actually a pretty big goal in business

submitted 44 days ago • 52 comments

"There's more to life than being able to buy cheap garbage," sagely intones the man who had a complete mental breakdown from which he has never recovered because he couldn't go to big box stores and chain restaurants for 3 weeks in 2020.

submitted 48 days ago • 26 comments

"A desire to capitulate in search of an excuse" sums up a lot of what's happening right now, and it's where Trump gets the bulk of his political strength

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

submitted 78 days ago • 3639 comments

No country in their right mind should ever buy weapons from the United States again if our president can just shut them off as an act of treason or manipulation.

submitted 78 days ago • 35 comments

It’s more than a little concerning that 4 Supreme Court justices don’t think judges have the power to enforce contracts.

submitted 78 days ago • 29 comments

@beyer.house.gov ; @markwarner.bsky.social ; @kaine.senate.gov

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

submitted 80 days ago • 823 comments

Perspective.

submitted 82 days ago • 107 comments

republican governments thinking the "department of energy" is about oil drilling and installing solar panels and not the agency that controls the nuclear weapons stockpile is one of the funniest running subplots in american politics

submitted 97 days ago • 25 comments

Inside a chaotic 48 hours of firings and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 97 days ago • 13 comments

Hey, folks, what if we had Catholicism, but without the Pope being in charge? I bet no one has thought of THAT! And what if - stay with me here - our political leader were also the head of the religion everyone had to belong to? If England had been like that I bet we never would’ve rebelled!! s/

submitted 96 days ago • 13 comments

Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

submitted 98 days ago • 142 comments

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

submitted 113 days ago • 566 comments

Philadelphia has Fangio, who is a great old defensive mind. On the other hand he will have to reckon with the fact his men cannot hit Mahomes, and the chains on the Kansas City side have an extra link.

submitted 116 days ago • 14 comments

where does the new york times even find these people

submitted 136 days ago • 729 comments