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  1. All of Trump’s gripes about Zelenskyy and ideas about how Ukraine should behave are simply reflections of how Trump himself thinks and behaves. And bad news, it reveals how Trump can (and does) treat America. Trump is frustrated when Zelenskyy says the Ukrainian constitution won’t allow him to surrender land because he has never viewed the American Constitution as a binding commitment he has to adhere to and can’t imagine why Zelenskyy would. He can’t understand why Ukrainians would fight against a much larger and stronger enemy at great cost to themselves because he would never do anything but surrender. He cannot understand why Ukrainians would refuse to surrender towns and cities to brutal Russian occupation in exchange for self-preservation because he does not care about America and would gladly hand over American land and souls to Russia or anyone if it meant he came out ahead. it’s all just a mirror of his own personality disorders. Someone for whom literally everything is transactional.
  2. The DC circuit has ruled that even though Congress has the power of the purse, there’s only one person in the entire United States who has standing to actually seek relief over illegal impoundment (the head of the GAO). So if he or she doesn’t, everyone else can just get fucked. Oh, and the head of the GAO is appointed by the president and the current one will see his term expire this year. America sure was a decent idea. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/13/humanitarian-groups-cannot-challenge-trumps-impoundment-of-foreign-aid-grants-appeals-court-rules-00507106
  3. That time period was when things were coming to a head on integration; courts were ordering districts to enforce the “equal” part of separate but equal; and the entire trend nationally was away from Jim Crow and segregation. The naming was nothing to do heritage, it was an extremely savvy and pointed political message about who the schools were for and what the political class believed. You couldn’t name a school “we hate integration middle school” so you named it “Stonewall Jackson.”
  4. All through Texas you can pinpoint when schools named after Confederate leaders were opened and it’s almost always going to be in the 1950s-60s.
  5. Pelosi was a Tip O’Neil type talent in the House and in truth Mitch was too just for evil most of the time. Schumer is not on the level of those two but I don’t see anyone on the D bench in the Senate with their type of talent. The Dems have a lot of issues but he’s well down the list.
  6. The Senate majority and minority leader is not someone you select for bold and inspirational rhetorical and ideological leadership; it’s someone who needs to win legislative knife fights and wrangle the party. When you’re a minority leader coming off a presidential election, job one is literally to not get in the way of the incumbent’s party fucking things up. The most politically successful senate leader in the past century was LBJ and let’s not rewrite history: the left wing of the party fucking hated him and he got the VP nod in a bid to appeal to racists. Much like Biden, he passed some of the most progressive legislation we’ve seen by running from the center. You know what other senate leader polls dismally from his base? Mitch Fucking McConnell. He’s RINO number one, most hated swamp creature and yet Mitch Fucking McConnell is the man most responsible for all the horrible fucking GOP wins we see. The Dems need their own creatures like him.
  7. A record number of confirmed federal judges and a remarkable record of getting Biden’s agenda passed in a 50-50 chamber.
  8. If I had to choose between a grizzly bear and big spiders, I’d choose the spider but would for sure pause a minute.
  9. Loomer: Lots of people are telling me that Lindsey Graham is gay. Lawyer: We actually haven’t started asking questions but ok.
  10. I don’t disagree with you here but it’s wild to get up in arms at him for what he’s been doing to win elections since 1980. I wouldn’t back him for a national election but the Democrats could do much, much worse. He and Mitch both have been a bit of a firewall against some damage in a way people don’t appreciate if they don’t geek out on beltway shit.
  11. More HRC than Bill. Schumer is a retail politician par excellence. And a sophisticated Washington legislator. He’s not the face of the national Democratic Party and doesn’t want to be.
  12. The guy wants to be a Senator from New York and he’s wildly successful at that and delivers for his constituents. The entire gripe here from John Oliver is that he tries to triangulate what he should do based on where he needs votes.
  13. Chuck Schumer has been winning elections to the U.S Senate for 26 years and elections to the House since before I was born, so I’ll need another argument for how his political instincts suck. It’s really bizarre to me how much shit Democrats shovel onto their most successful representatives.
  14. NYC is the textbook example of a place that it is rich enough and deep enough with human capital that it’s almost impossible to fuck it up unless you’re a committed ideologue. All you need is “good enough” and things will buff out. Eric Adams is a super corrupt moron and he’s managed to make NYC mostly better by confining himself to grifting off of Erdogan.
  15. It is honestly difficult to imagine a better scenario for the GOP than the Dems debating “who is correct on Palestine” as part of 2028, FFS. Foreign policy in general is a big loser for generals and this one in particular is the biggest loser.
  16. This one and the “who goes Nazi” essay are required reading. https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
  17. The British lost the war after a Prussian turned the Continental Army into a real fighting force and the French blockade and assistance. Most engagements were with line infantry. The citizen soldier in the bushes is mostly a myth.
  18. Imagine asking your daughter to plunge into the “is my mom a a skank” debate on the internet.
  19. Here’s Samuel Samson’s “free speech only for me” essay. Please internalize that this person is a Senior Advisor on Democracy and Human Rights and gets personal veto policy on what we say about the UK, Israel, and Ukraine. He’s a 2021 college grad who is a Catholic theocrat. I cannot overstate how many completely unfuckable weirdos are roaming around DC. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/elon-musk-and-the-free-speech-lie/
  20. The bureau that pulls this together was especially hard-hit by recent firings. The HRR is something that pisses off authoritarian nations and complicates transactional diplomacy. Samuel Samson is getting custody of the new office to promote “Civilizational Values” which is code for support for European populists. That’s why he gets to review these countries; he has a special interest in casting Western Democracies as hellholes of repression. He has openly written that free speech should not exist for non-conservatives at The American Conservative. Also, as an Aggie who rarely gets to say this: you’re welcome to him.
  21. The anti-Commie party elected Maoists.
  22. This shit is absolutely downstream of how RFK Jr and the MAGA movement talks.
  23. Legit lol’d at the phrasing “ordinary people’s intolerance for military invasions” WRT Ukraine. Perhaps the clearest example of normal people getting something that weirdo conservatives and lefties can’t. Roger Waters is not erudite on NATO or anything else, he’s a person who is basically only ever right on accident.
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