wildcat09

*Reads Verhoeven quote* *Reads WWS posts* *Walks into ocean*

The way it works in Russia is the leader threatens to have them thrown off a roof if they don't stop bucking then, if they don't stop bucking, he has them thrown off a roof. We'll see something similar here.

They're going to use unilateral executive authority to refuse to comply with duly passed Congressional legislation. Noted opponent of executive authority Anastasis thinks this will be a good thing.

Man, you don't need to post Ben Wittes "here's why one of my best friends didn't horribly imperil American democracy" nonsense. At least post Marcy Wheeler's weird defenses, which are more substantive (even if the substance is clearly cover for some weird emotional attachment).

Probably time to stop drinking man. “What if the GOP does Medicare for all?” is an obvious cry for help.

I see Ana has switched happy hour from Thursday to Tuesday.

Ukraine has the chance to do the funniest thing.

I think periodically unplugging completely is good for mental health and there's not much to be gained by being constantly plugged in reacting to every day's outrage. Besides, most of us know what's coming and there's not much we can do about it. But there can still be value in following the news, if only so you can disabuse other people of some of the flood of bullshit that's coming for all of us. But you should be selective in where you get your news. Nobody here should watch CNN, MSNBC or any Sinclair local news, or read the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, or USA Today (or anything else owned by Gannett). They are fascist collaborators and controlled opposition. Don't reward them with your views or your subscriptions. This list will surely need to be updated quickly once Trump takes power.

Bookmarking this for your future post 2-3 years from now where you're like "yeah everyone knew or should've known that political prosecutions would be shockingly fast."

Someone who supported Assad dropping barrel bombs and chlorine gas on his own citizens isn’t a warmonger because…?

Ana stanning for Tulsi is pretty on brand.

I’m gonna start negging every poster that quotes the troll.

Man, we can all see that without you assholes quoting every post he makes for fucking pages.

Would you fucking morons quit engaging with someone who is obviously either a troll or an 8 year old with a learning disorder?

Naw, they'll just find a way for Roberts to render it ineffective. Congress never passed any enabling legislation seems like a slam dunk argument.

Look at brisket being optimistic. Those jobs will be unpaid internships.

You need better friends.

3putt's twitter follows are bleak.

The thing is that all that money shouldn't be spent on political campaigns. It should be spent on setting up new social/media institutions that work constantly, like the right has done. That money needs to be spent on the culture war, not saved for the last month of every campaign season.

They literally could've thrown him in jail pretty much immediately after he left office. All they had to do was indict him for the shit that was already in the Cohen prosecution in which Trump was an unidentified co-conspirator. They could've in short order quickly added indictments for 1/6 based solely on the publicly-known evidence and continued to gather evidence to support more charges. We can't know for sure the courts wouldn't have sabotaged the cases in that scenario as well, but it would've been a very different environment. Instead they gave him more than 2 years to reassert control over the Republican party, to reshape the public's view of 1/6, and to rehab his image. They pussyfooted around and at every crucial decision they wavered and this is what we got. Stop fucking saying nothing else would've mattered, that's just fascist propaganda. They're not unbeatable, they're fucking losers who depend on people like you convincing enough other people that they're unbeatable.

Nope, they're fascist collaborators. That doesn't mean there aren't people at those institutions that do good journalism, but their ownership have fully committed to collaborating with fascism. This is why they sanewashed Trump before the election and buried stories about him loving Hitler in the 25th paragraph in a story on A12 while front-paging Biden's "garbage" line for days. This is why Bezos pulled the op-ed board's Kamala endorsement. Hell, it's why they put stories about Claudine Gay on the front page like 10 times in one month last year, and why they heel every time Chris Rufo orders them to do so. They thought a Trump presidency would be good for their businesses and invested in him accordingly. And this isn't "for the first time in this nation's history," he's been the Republican candidate the last 3 fucking elections. They didn't do a better job of covering him because they didn't want to. Because they're collaborators. Sure, once he takes office they'll pretend to be all about checking him again to try to get those subscriptions back, but they're no more than controlled opposition and should under no circumstances be trusted and certainly not financially rewarded by liberals for their collaboration.

I don't think CNN's ratings or NYT's or WaPo's subscriptions declining will necessarily be indicative of people tuning out. I think people realize those institutions are fascist collaborators and want to get their information elsewhere. I do think a lot of people don't want to repeat 2017-2020 and want to figure a different way to approach things this time and that may look different from obsessively following mainstream media.

I seriously think they're angling for the Senate to reject several of their nominees.

Let's be real here, everyone knows brisket is a messy bitch who says a lot of shit he doesn't totally mean.

I remember when I used to post on message boards kinda like Seed likes to do. I was 15.