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I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien

I've noticed that Americans assume it's merely Trump the rest of the world sees as untrustworthy and I think it goes much deeper. By electing him again, the American *electorate* obliterated this country's credibility. We demonstrated a collective and enduring untrustworthiness.

KAMALA HARRIS: you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree... MEDIAN SWING VOTER: yes I fucking did how dare you

Wake me up when it's ice pick time.

Since the next step for people like Trump is to blame the consequences of his actions on others, the most effective response to people like this is "It sounds like they lied to you." You can't turn these people into overnight liberals; you *can* shake their trust in the people who deceived them.

If the legitimate press just permanently stopped attending these events and were replaced by propaganda outlets, that would be both optically clarifying and improve actual journalism.

Basically it's Narcissus becoming transfixed by his own reflection and dying but while wearing an Uncle Sam costume.

when Senators skip town does that run clock or not

If you need someone to express deep, visceral, unmitigated hatred that somehow no one feels is uncharitable, get yourself a Midwesterner.

Socialism without solidarity is definitely a... choice?

Axios articles shitting on congressional dems are like a marshmallow test specifically designed for this website

the United States *gets* to destroy the Russian military at a rate so discounted it would give every Cold War military leader a stroke

i’m sorry, but you can’t pretend to be a cynical, savvy politics-watcher while simultaneously insisting that you don’t understand why the political press wants to ask democrats instead of republicans if they’re going to trigger a shutdown. stop being stupid.

NEW: Kash Patel was paid $25,000 by a Kremlin-linked filmmaker to promote anti-western propaganda. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I'm using "senator" as a pejorative for someone who's simultaneously naïve, cynical and self-aggrandizing.

We all need to add the term "agent provocateur" to this week's vocab list.

Republicans' messaging is best thought of as the rhetorical pity fuck.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

yeah that’s because it’s a lot easier to tear everything down than build durable government programs that help people

i would also ask the Libyan people what happens to foreign mercenaries who try to shore up a tyrant's rule, because 2011 had a bunch of ditches full of the answer

lol. lmao. lmfao.

I don't hate this joke.

That week's mass attendance would be *bonkers*.

Red America is going to get a rather harsh lesson in what actually drives their economies.

[applauds in Luxembourgish]

Okay, but only the ones that read something in addition to Howard Zinn.

"do Canadian liberals know half the country didn't vote" In normal societies, this is considered an indictment, not an excuse.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

"Let me put it in words you might understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off."

like we don't have to wonder. scotus struck down student loan forgiveness, a ban on new drilling permits on federal land, federal vaccine mandate, the eviction moratorium, mask mandate on public transit the list goes on

I do think there's something about the Chinese company knowing exactly how to operate in the environment that really brings home where we have arrived.

I need the second part of this on a T-shirt, tbh.

I, too, think it’s a failure that Apple hasn’t yet come up with a Twitter clone where you can express your anger about Mr. Clean and the Brawny man have gone woke