No one is going to try and primary him.

He’s survived two primaries already, in large part thanks to Pelosi bailing him out.

it’s tankie to deny legitimate criticism

All this time, I thought “Tankies” supported military intervention by Communist states.

Turns out any disagreement with a capitalist criticism qualifies.

No wonder there are so many Tankies in here.

You can’t say those words. Those are Tankie words

Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.

All the “Maduro cheated to win the election” stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.

Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.

Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?

Conservatives do love self-owning with the anti-Castro rhetoric

Most people aren’t cheering that we are rearming, but they understand that it is a necessary evil.

Plenty of people are chomping at the bit for a Glorious New War we can all watch on the TV.

Russia is right at our doorsteps

That hasn’t been true in over 40 years. And even when it was true, Europeans suffered far more under the paranoid police states of their own governments than any cross border conflict.

Personally I prefer the first option.

Not like any of us have a material say, but enjoy conscription I guess.

Biggest global rearming since WW1 and people are cheering about it like they don’t understand what happens next.

But what about those on the left?

Idk about the rest of y’all, but I’ve been volunteering with the Houston Chapter of Food Not Bombs at every opportunity.

There’s far fewer of us than cops, and we’re more focused on keeping our impoverished neighbors alive than getting in gunfights with the police.

But maybe that’ll change. I guess we’ll see.

Who wants to be the first to martyr themselves getting turned into Swiss cheese after firing the first shot?

Thomas Matthew Crooks tentatively raising his hand

Where are the bearers of arms who bear arms in case of government tyranny?

They’re the guys in the ICE uniforms, more often than not

She could file charges attacking a member of Congress

Against whom? They were masked and otherwise unidentified.

her bodyguards

Did she have bodyguards at the scene?

Then use your powers in Congress to do something about it!

Is she not doing exactly that?

shrug

“Congressmen should just be able to profit off fluctuations in the market based on their legislative insider knowledge” seems pretty nonsensical and easy to dismiss outside of the US Capital Building.

But inside the building, its wildly popular.

Whatchagonna do?

Principal–agent problem

If you’ve solved it, please let us know. Nobel in Economics is in your future.

You can run for office for a maximum of 12 years and then you’re summarily executed.

I guess anyone dumb enough to try and plant a pipe bomb like this would be dumb enough to yap their yaps when the FBI pick them up five years later.

Sure, some leave, but it is usually just a handful who do.

I mean, back in the 1980s, there really was a big exodus of fossil fuel companies from the Northeast (NY / NJ / CT) down to the Gulf Coast. My dad was part of that transition, forcing us to leave our beautiful garden state home and decamp to the armpit of America, Houston TX.

But this was a decision made at the executive level largely due to the Nixonian Southern Strategy combined with a national reorganization of Republican and Democrat aligned business interests. The downturn in the O&G economy made real estate in the Gulf Coast dirt cheap, while land prices in the New England area stayed relatively high. And the reorganization helped Reagnite voting coalitions finally flip states like Texas and Florida after decades of entrenched Dixiecrat control.

Nothing like that is shaping up in lower Manhattan specifically for the year 2026.

Not even sworn in yet and Mamdani is already failing to deliver on his promises of lower Manhattan rental prices.