Eh, I think they can win one round of elections by doing that, but only one. To get reelected they actually have to do something once they’re in office.

There’s some inaccurate initial reporting that keeps getting circulated, to wit - Renee was not a single mother, she was married, and her middle name was not Nicole.

And scumbag liberals who ought to know better but keep compromising and collaborating with the fascists because they think it will get the angry assholes on their side

There’s a lot of money and power in looking like you’re solving a problem

If the Harris campaign cared about law enforcement violence they did a dogshit job of communicating it to anyone

Here’s to hoping at some point in the future we get candidates that won’t blow winnable races like her team did

Who does the New York Times work for? Not regular Americans!

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2026/new-york-times-washington-post-held-off-on-reporting-venezuela-raid (arc)

Nah, I think if there are remotely fair elections in '26 and '28 they’ll clean house no matter what they do, just like they did in 2006/08 or in 2018/20, because lots of people hate everything Trump is doing.

I also think that unless a bunch of important Dems get removed from office and the party they will completely waste this political power again, refuse to hold any Republicans accountable for their crimes or undo most of the damage they’ve done, throw tons of money at the police and military and big businesses, scream at everyone we ought to be grateful for the whole bunch of nothing they’ve given us, and put a Republican back in the white house by '32 with a fully powered police and military and army of oligarchs at their backs.

So they’re going to have Maduro under armed guard in a courtroom before Congress even starts the discussion about whether or not they’re allowed to do any of this, super cool super legitimate government stuff going on here /s

Also, I’m pretty sure this is like their sixth “attempt” at banning insider trading, kinda makes you wonder if our lawmakers’ hearts are in it

Convict and pedophile* Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the House from 1999-2007

*Not a convicted pedophile because the DOJ only ever went after him for trying to hide payouts to his victims after the fact and actually tried to keep the reason he was making those payments under wraps until some journalists got the story

“Today, the full list of actors the U.S. military is fighting or believes itself authorized to fight under the 2001 AUMF is classified.”

Multiple decades of absolutely clownshoes governance, love to be in the land of the free /s

Yeah, it’s really hard to talk up our candidate’s anti-war bonafides after throwing anti-war protesters out of our convention and having her hit the campaign trail with the Cheneys

Imagine if we could just shitpost some nonsense about an oil company CEO and have a Democratic president just nuke all their subsidies within a day or two

Yeah, bigotry is basically an autoimmune disorder of the body politic

Donald Trump is probably the only human being in the world that could make Bill Clinton temporarily seem honest and decent in comparison

Absolute nonsense, anyone would have beaten Trump in 2020, and the four years of Biden failing to hold Trump accountable or help the working class at all (while braying like a jackass about how great the economy was) totally handed the White House back to the orange asshole. He is without a doubt one of the worst presidents we’ve ever had.

Yeah, but will any of the police officers involved in this disgrace lose anything? Or is it just going to be taxpayers signing a settlement check again?

All of this, but also I hate hate hate how the media implicitly equates being a moderate/centrist with being good

Being willing to compromise is one thing but making compromise your whole ideology is really just telling your constituents “If you believe what I campaigned on when I asked for your vote you’re a sucker, the only thing I really believe in is being on the winning side of every fight”

“If you don’t want another strongly worded letter about this you better shape up mister! … Anyway, please find out check for hundreds of billions of dollars enclosed.”

Could it be because their constituents will fuck them up if their healthcare premiums skyrocket?

Doubtful, since open enrollment already closed and this bill is DOA in the Senate if it manages to make it out of the House anyway. They’re just taking the opportunity the Dems who voted to reopen the government handed them to pretend to care about this issue without actually doing anything about it that might threaten their donors’ taxbreaks.

I give it 90 seconds after that moment until their searching for the old reference lands them on some new and better reference they’d rather use instead