Idk, sounds like Tankie Talk to me

A kind of Third World, independent of the dueling hegemony, as it were?

DHS spending bill passed 220-207

7 Democrats voted in favor:

• Henry Cuellar
• Don Davis
• Laura Gilles
• Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
• Jared Golden
• Vicente Gonzalez
• Tom Suozzi

Massie voted No

Andy Harris didn’t vote

Might not have passed if every Democrat voted No, but leadership wasn’t whipping them to do so

Please note that Henry Cueller is the senior house rep on the Appropriations Committee. If Dems retake Congress, he will be the chair of the committee in the House that controls all the money

I’m not going to pretend that people voting against their own self interests isn’t a problem

The problem with “lesser evil” politics is that neither candidate represents your interests.

You had a corporate Democrat running against a fascist Republican. This after four years of liberals breaking their campaign promises, fattening the wallets of Techbro AnCaps, and beating up civil rights protestors on national TV.

It’s stupid to pretend we don’t live in a first past the post system where most voters are going to vote straight D or straight R.

It’s stupid to close off your primary so an unpopular incumbent in a dementia spiral doesn’t have to campaign against another wave of progressive outsiders.

When Henry Cuellar or Jim Justice or Kristen Sinema are the Ds on my ballot, it isn’t even FPTP. It’s a forgone conclusion I’m getting fucked from either side.

Wait till you find out how many states Bernie Sanders won in 2020.

Voter Turnout Highest in Half Century as Mamdani Phenomenon Galvanizes Electorate

Still waiting to hear about all those voters who stayed home because Sliwa wasn’t conservative enough.

He’s a very British kind of racist who panders to a particularly British kind of white nationalism.

Naturally, the liberal response is to blame his existence on evil foreigners, while trying to outflank him on the right.

British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

Hard truths. New Labour only ever knows how to run to the right of the opposition and the old Conservatives can’t campaign their way out of a paper bag. So it’s Reform UK in the next election, strictly due to liberal incompetence.

He gets in the news constantly by issuing the most reactionary takes. He’s got tons of friends in the corporate sector, because he knows exactly which assholes to lick. And his opposition is physically incapable of turning left, so he can periodically outflank Starmer on real bread-and-butter issues by saying “I’ll expand the NHS! I’ll be tough on the Bad Businesses! I’ll fight for the working class [white people]!” while Labour just stutters and tuts and replies “That wouldn’t be sensible.”

the left doesn’t vote

Terrible news for the Mamdani campaign.

The only way to fix it is to go further right

Can’t wait for Pete Buttigieg to campaign on doubling the ICE budget.

Harris adviser says VP ran ‘flawless’ campaign, GOP campaign managers candid on primary missteps

Damn, I guess people were just too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate to ever run for office and the country deserves what it gets. Maybe four more years of fascist tyranny will teach people to vote correctly next time. Or maybe we just won’t have elections anymore, because stupid idiot Americans aren’t responsible enough to manage their own country.

The important thing to remember is that it’s never the fault of the people in power. It’s always the gross, dumb, smelly voters who can’t pick the Lesser Of Two Evils often enough.

You’re not going to believe this, but…

Any suggestion that there’s something questionable or unreliable about the American democratic process is a trick by the Republican Party to suppress liberal voter enthusiasm. And if you mention it you are helping the Republicans win. Also Russia.

If you’re still in line, stay in line. Our elections are secure. The midterms is winnable if you vote in it. Shut up and do what we tell you or you’re an enemy.

blasts

Only took them ten years to notice.

Israeli arms sales break record for 4th year in row, reaching $14.8 billion in 2024.

Billing one half of Iran to kill the other half.

Didn’t NATO just agree to hand over a bunch of Greenland real estate for new American military bases?

Most simply contribute to their Roth or IRA or whatever and let the market play out over decades, just as we were taught.

Long term, it has been a smart play. Very hard to find a historical milestone where a $1 invested in Year X is worth less than year X+10, much less X+40

would like your take on the Buffett Index topping 200% for the first time (total stock market value vs. GDP). It was around 130% in 1929 and 2008.

I mean, Berkshire itself is trading at 15 p/e. So if you take the index seriously, it’s a good place to shelter your money when the storm hits.

But Buffet was a value investor and we’re in a growth investor economy. I wouldn’t say the index is a good indicator of a pending crash any more than it was three years ago.

Considering the disproportionate amount of stocks in AI, and, so far, no clear path to investors seeing a return, I’m scared shitless.

Bulls make money

Bears make money

Pigs get slaughtered

Diversify your portfolio, understand why you think an investment has a bright future (and when that future has dimmed), don’t try to time the market, and don’t beat yourself up if you’re wrong.

I don’t see anything in this market to be afraid of. I see a plethora of opportunities to generate healthy returns long term.

I’m not a fan of the guy but I don’t understand what he’s supposed to do here