If she caught a head injury from that bus it’s possible the behavior that led to her conviction was related

This podcast (arc) has an absolutely fascinating interview with a Latino Trump supporter who used to vote for Dems because he wanted them to give amnesty to undocumented immigrants but when that never happened he became disillusioned, and in the meantime businesses in his neighborhood were illegally dumping their trash and the Democratic city government just picked it up and never tried to ticket the owners owners, so this guy convinced himself that we needed a Republican government because he believed they were a tougher political party that would hold those businesses accountable.

I don’t think the Trump administration really cares if they sell anybody on what they’re doing

I’m pretty sure Massie is just upset that another Latino entered the country when Maduro got kidnapped

“levers of leverage,” running 32 separate instances of euphemism.exe simultaneously is making Marco-bot glitchy

The NY Post is absolute fucking trash published and read by the sort of subhuman scum that revels in this news, read about it in a better publication - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/02/kentucky-woman-arrest-abortion

Crazy how Venezuela’s laws apparently say the line of succession is just whatever Donald Trump wants, no wonder they’re a failed state /s

“Let’s roll”?

You can’t even run this one dumbfuck

But yeah, sure, whatever, occupying a country is super easy, that’s definitely what we learned in Afghanistan and Iraq /s

Yeah, it’s really hard to talk up our candidate’s anti-war bonafides after throwing anti-war protesters out of our convention and having her hit the campaign trail with the Cheneys

Y’know what, fair enough, I phrased that poorly

Get absolutely apoplectic at both, but recognize the fact that until we fix the Dems there’s no way we’ll be able to neutralize the Republicans

I would say about as big as LBJ finding out like a month before the 1968 election (which put Nixon in power) that candidate Nixon had been illegally coordinating with his friend Henry Kissinger at the State Department to undermine peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War and decided to just sweep that little bit of treason under the rug rather than deal with the headache of arresting the GOP’s candidate for president right before an election

The Republicans are in power and actively tearing down the structures of our democracy because the Democratic party allows them to. The Republican party can only be dealt with through a more effective Democratic party. Any conversation about what the Republicans have done and stopping them from doing more absolutely must reckon with how we are going to fix the Democratic party first or it is going to inevitably be a complete waste of time and effort that puts us in an even worse place than where we are at now (see; 2024, 2016, etc.).

And the only way they will ever be dealt with is if we remove the useless shitbag Democratic party members who refuse to hold them accountable from office

Don’t get mad at the bank robbers for robbing a bank, get mad at the do-nothing sheriff who only ever wants to talk about how we all need to vote to rebuild the bank

Even bigger than the last Democratic administration failing to send anyone to prison for the Iraq war, illegal torture programs, illegal assassination programs, or the 2008 financial crisis

If we ever want to get this country to stop being a shithole the Democratic party is the one that needs to be fixed

Yeah, bigotry is basically an autoimmune disorder of the body politic

Incubate Debate

That rolls off the tongue like a tool box falling down a staircase and, like, I don’t want to be thinking about the word “incubate” in the context of this story at all, ew ew ew

I mean, who do I vote for if I want the country to learn from history and hold all of our war criminals and torturers and traitors accountable? Obama didn’t hold anyone in Bush’s administration accountable like he should have, Biden appointed Garland to make sure Republicans would be protected (and, like, he’d been mister forget and forgive going all the way back to Strom Thurmond), etc. This country desperately needs to reckon with its history, but there are no influential voices in either party really interested in doing that.

e; Yeah, just had to double check but both Hillary and Joe voted for war with Iraq in 2002. If we learned anything from history scumbags like that couldn’t get a volunteer position with their local United Way, let alone be presidential nominees.

Eh, it’s a lot of “If you stupid hippies keep complaining about Palestinians being mass murdered and taxpayer money being thrown at for profit companies then we’ll let MAGA beat the everloving shit out of you and everyone you care about for a few years and see if you’re more agreeable,” a little “Holy fuck that is depraved and we need to kick you out of our party somehow,” and a lot of “Yeah, look, that is depraved, but we currently don’t have the votes to do anything about them, and organizing those votes would be a lot of time and effort, so please just shut up… but, uh, don’t forget to vote!”

Yeah, also they probably spent a ton of time trying to figure out which FBI agents they could trust to cover up their dirt for them. Also, just generally speaking, I’m pretty sure Kash Patel is even stupider than he looks.