For context:
Libre is a third party that was formed in 2011. They’re a coalition of leftist groups, and are democratic socialists.
In 2012 and 2013, at least 18 of their pre-candidates, candidates and staff were murdered.
In 2013, they lost the almost certainly fraudulent presidential election to the right-wing National Party candidate - Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, the narcotics trafficker who was just pardoned by Trump.
He’s an unqualified, paychopathic piece of shit and a fucking war criminal and the best the US media can do is speculate that maybe the deranged toddler-in-chief might maybe not support him quite as much as he used to because maybe a few of the brazenly traitorous Republican scumbags in Congress might actually take issue with him.
2025 is going to go down in history as the year that the US dropped all pretense of being rational or legitimate and went full bug-eyed insane.
And it’s not as if it was written by some schlub in a trailer park or something - the division of CNN responsible for that undoubtedly has a budget in at least seven figures and dozens of employees who are by definition professionals.
And that’s the best they could do? How is that even possible?
On a related note - I kept thinking, reading through that - how can something from CNN be that poorly written? It’s not as if it’s a jetliner or a bridge or a skyscraper - it’s an article and an accompanying set of news briefs that a high school English student could’ve knocked out in an hour, and the student would’ve done a better job.
How many employees does CNN have? And how is it that none of them could manage to make sure that that didn’t go out until it was competently written?
One would think that CNN could at least afford a proofreader.
How perfect.
This is a great example of how it is that the right is always wrong, but always has followers anyway. It’s because they live in a doggedly self-affirming fantasy world in which they blithely believe unsupported nonsense like QAnon while just as blithely disregarding simple fact like the Epstein files, all based not on evidence or logic, but just based on whether or not it fits their preconceptions.
It’s a perfect little delusional universe where they’re free to be told whatever they want to believe and ignore whatever they don’t want to believe.
This is a large part of why Republicans love “privatizing” government services - so they can then collect bribes and kickbacks from the often nepotistic contractors who get the no-bid contracts.
And as always, the Trump regime does it more and bigger than anyone ever.
So doesn’t that mean that the next step is for Trump to call TruthAI mean and nasty, then sue it?
Because he’s a corrupt piece of shit, owned by the same moneyed interests that own the Republicans.
So the message to poor Americans from Trump and the Republicans is “If we can’t take away your health insurance assistance, we’ll take away your food assistance.”
And all so that they can pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
They’re psychopaths. They really are - they are, and rather self-evidently, entirely unconstrained by morals, principles, empathy or conscience, so meet the DSM standards.
That don’t just need to be voted out of office - they need to be institutionalized.
Huh… that sounds about right.
Alito, for instance, was always a demagogic piece of shit, and Thomas was always a corrupt piece of shit, but for a while there, Roberts was a relatively decent justice, all things considered. But no more - now he’s at least as corrupt/compromised as the rest of them. But I was never quite sure how that happened, and that’s a plausible explanation.
They could - Congress has the exact same authority to impeach a supreme court justice as they do a president (or any other federal office-holder for that matter).
But they won’t.
A Dem majority wouldn’t be enough, because Schumer and Jeffries and all the rest of their neolib hack allies would still be there, and they’re owned by most of the same big money donors that own the Republicans.
The only way there’s any chance that Congress would actually exercise its authority is if all of the corrupt shitweasels are primaried and the Dems end up not just with a majority, but a majority of actual leftists with actual principles and integrity.
And that’s terribly unlikely, since both the Republicans and the Democrats would fight it tooth and toenail.
Though he likely won’t hold public attention, I suspect that Roberts will, in the analyses of professional historians and political scientists, be judged second only to Trump in responsibility for the coming collapse of the US.
More precisely, since it’s an honor system, Trump, who possesses no honor whatsoever, is immune.
lol
Okay, so usually an instant self-own.
“Do you know who I am?!” is an instant self-own.
Since knowledge is woefully inadequate, this would necessarily boil down to “treat others as you assume they treat others,” which is exactly the moral standard already followed by trigger-happy cops, ICE agents, MAGAs and bigots in general.
Is that really the best you can do?
As far as the Golden Rule goes, it’s immensely improved by framing it negatively - do not do unto others as you would not have done unto you.
Maybe a “subsidence” - it’s not so much that it collapsed as that it settled to its natural level.
Wait, what?
DeSantis taking a stand against governmental abuse of authority, and against the Trump regime specifically?
How the hell did that happen?
More accurate headline:
White House announces blatantly unconstitutional plan to allocate tariff revenue without Congress
But since the Supreme Court no longer enforces the Constitution, it’s anybody’s guess what will come of it.
Of course they’re not releasing the autopsy - they’re already planning to continue using the same failed strategies.
The single most important thing to understand about the DNC is that their first priority is collecting enormous piles of soft money from corporations and billionaires. That’s more important to them than any other consideration, including winning elections.
Their primary purpose is not trying to ensure that Democrats win, but trying to ensure that leftists do not, because that’s the exact service their corporate and billionaire donors are buying from them.
And if that means running corrupt neolib hacks who can’t gain enough voter support to win, then that’s just the way it goes. They’ll just fold the fact of their loss into their future donation pitches - they’ll point to the harm the Republican winner has inevitably done, and say that that’s exactly why “we need your support now more than ever.”
So what the autopsy certainly points to as their failures are not, from the DNC’s self-serving viewpoint, failures at all. They’re strategies that they not only very deliberately pursued, but that they have every intention of continuing to pursue. Even if that means they’re going to keep losing elections. Just so long as the soft money keeps flowing.