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Feel like there's a non zero chance that Pritzker loses a bunch of weight ahead of his presidential run, kinda like Mike Pompeo

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

you could not parody this

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

So uh, update to this story. Her wife is currently the prime suspect and also that wife had previously served 13 years on prison for stabbing her first spouse to death in 2000.

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

A lot of baffling arguments in this thread, but I think what it all comes down to is trying to litigate geopolitics via the lens of American intra-coalitional identity politics signalling. Same frame that leads to deciding that Ukraine is doing imperialism against Russia by not surrendering.

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

If Trump had never existed and Biden had still become president after Obama, I think he'd have been one of the more effective modern presidents thanks to his experience navigating the legislative process. But Trump exists, and Biden was totally unequipped to operate in the world he created.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Follow up thought, picture this V-E Day fete in the ruins of the Reichstag someone blasting Not Like Us over some hastily set up speakers as Allies of every nation bust a move

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

People make excuses for this, but there's an extraordinary lack of civic virtue in this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

This is a great way of putting it because by the standards of presidential success that Biden himself understood (from the 1970's-90's, predominantly), he was a *tremendously* productive and successful president. The problem is that those metrics for success completely missed the moment.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

This is what happens when you build a political movement on lies. Claiming that the VA is "in charge of payments for illegals" works on dumb people, but only when you're in opposition and can claim that the government is hiding the evidence. Once you're in charge and can't back it up, you're sunk.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

They're gonna run away from their town halls so quick

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Everything is trade offs I mumbled as I go completely insane

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Biden shows the extreme good and extreme bad that an old hand President can achieve

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

biden was a great president except when it came to what he imagined to be his area of expertise (foreign policy), his electoral proposition (he is a white guy everyone likes), and the most important thing he was called upon to do (permanently incapacitate donald trump)

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

i think the major weakness of a fascist movement whose vanguard are almost entirely elite lawyers is that they conceive of certain things (such as, e.g., the size of the supreme court or the unity of the executive) as being fixed points when in fact they are variable

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

another fun fact is that the PSL runs almost entirely on billionaire money

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

Hoover just hated FDR so much for kicking his ass in 1932 that he was negatively polarized into explaining away Japan literally attacking America

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

there is no one in Trump's inner circle who has a view of politics as being constrained by polls.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments