If more congressional republicans would’ve went along with the fake electors, then yes maybe.

The problem with American democracy is that half of your allies are just in line for your job. Especially in the Senate.

They weren’t going along for the ride because they weren’t interested in the destination.

Still scary with how far/close it got.

I’m still not clear what would have happened if rioters had actually beaten Congressional Reps to the door.

Let’s say Mike Pence really did get lynched. And Nancy Pelosi had to watch her desk get crapped on. And then the capital building is surrounded by the DC police. And there’s a high profile hostage crisis, while whomever did get out reconvenes to decide what to do next.

Does anyone believe Joe Biden doesn’t still get sworn in?

This is the Presidency not a game of tag. Who is still going to take orders from a Trump admin on these terms? Everyone - Republicans included - wanted that asshole gone by the end of 2024.

Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads

When you’ve gerrymandered all the districts and you’re threatening to federalize state elections? When Silicon Valley owns all the venues those oppo ads would run? When your response to every defeat is to deny it is happening and double down on the military?

I just don’t think Scary Voice Ads during the Late Show With Not Steven Colbert Cause He’s Fired are going to make a huge difference.

Like, I’m not a doomer. I don’t think “Democracy is Over!” Because, if Trump had the means to make Democracy Go Away, he’d have done it during the 2025 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. But it’s crazy to think Ad Buys are going to be what decide the next election cycle.

When he’s not that into you

It’s very funny to see Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines complain about China, given that China’s not the one that had a boot on their necks for the last 80 years.

Because I need oxygen to live and they’re the ones selling it.

is Chinese

I immediately crapped myself and fainted when I read this

I’m a Chinese American

It is very funny to see a man who is going to be lined up against the wall under the current administration defend it so adamantly.

Before you laugh to hard at the Spaceballs, consider that they did very nearly asphyxiate an entire planet.

The planting season is happening right now

Which means the planting supplies were lined up months ago. This will be a next-year thing if it cannot be corrected for in time.

The LNG plants are going to take years to repair

One section of one country’s exports in a global economy. And that’s ignoring the fact that the Straight isn’t shut down for everyone. The IRGC is negotiating passage for a bunch of unaligned states. Pakistan is going to get their fertilizer. China and Russia will get their supplies. Italy and Spain will be fine. It’s the US-Israel block that’s in trouble. And given how much fertilizer the US produces domestically, not even that much trouble.

However, some developing countries will have genuine shortages.

The biggest threat to developing countries is western intervention. The famines happening along the Horn of Africa are the direct result of US, Israeli, and Qatari backed military interventions.

There’s almost certainly going to be a farming crisis

Over a long enough timeline, sure.

We’ve already seen egg prices skyrocket thanks to bird flu and beef production sag due to drought and Texas Cattle Fever. I have no doubt we’ll continue to see agricultural productivity drag as ecological conditions worsen.

But the fixation on the Straight of Hormuz as a but-for cause to a global agricultural crash jumps the gun for a host of reasons. The most notable of which is that we heavily overproduce agricultural goods and end up subsidizing their wholesale prices. The biggest problems populations have with famine in the modern era is of storage, distribution, and financialization, not raw productivity. A hiccup in the supply of nitrogen rich fertilizer isn’t going to empty anyone’s shelves.

dissentdaily.com

Just looks like a click farming site that targets left-libertarians.

She stands in a supermarket aisle, looking at the price of baby formula.

A notification flashes on her phone. Headlines about Trump. Iran. Threats. Escalation. She reads it quickly, almost without thinking.

Then she looks back at the shelf.

Her mind starts connecting things.

Like, this isn’t journalism it’s prose

MGT is the voice of reason

She’s a contrarian. Don’t mistake Tucker Carlson tier reactionary hot takes for reasonable analysis

US Politicians React

American politics in 2026 sounding like a third string influencer YouTube stream from 2012.

A bit more complicated than that. But, yes. They did a mass implementation of a technology they didn’t understand and then bungled it’s use.

Glances at AI

I’m sure nobody will make that mistake again.

Idk, did they list their pronouns or open the briefing with a reading from Marcus Aurelius?

groups of demographically and geographically similar kids often grow up to have similar worldviews to their parents

But then you leave your home and co-mingle with other demographics and your worldview changes.

His kids will be raised to be just like him though

Is that what normally happens with kids? Not my experience

fuck yo dumbass little oversized sperm cells.

Hey, let’s not bring the kids into this. You’re not the one who has to live with this thin skinned fascist.

But if Mom wants to lend her little guys to me for a crash course in gender theory, I’m happy to provide.

Don’t think that plane is going to rise again in three days.