August J. Pollak
@augustjpollak.bsky.social
Your face is good. I am a Soos.
Warning y’all all right now, I am legit going to spend three solid years openly laughing at every single utterance of “you don’t care about marginalized groups” from the party that wouldn’t even let a single fucking Palestinian speak at their last convention.
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Warning y’all all right now, I am legit going to spend three solid years openly laughing at every single utterance of “you don’t care about marginalized groups” from the party that wouldn’t even let a single fucking Palestinian speak at their last convention.
I have said this many times before, but it will continue to be the unresolvable problem: these people don’t want to win the election, they want to win the 2016 election. And they will sit there in the tattered wedding dress, watching the cake rot, insisting it will happen.
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I have said this many times before, but it will continue to be the unresolvable problem: these people don’t want to win the election, they want to win the 2016 election. And they will sit there in the tattered wedding dress, watching the cake rot, insisting it will happen.
What you all need to understand is for many libs, especially Twitter obsessed ones, they love that Newsom sucks. He embodies what they really want, which is to just keep having the 2016 election over and over again until their shitty candidate wins and proves them right somehow.
February 11, 2026 at 10:24 PM
What you all need to understand is for many libs, especially Twitter obsessed ones, they love that Newsom sucks. He embodies what they really want, which is to just keep having the 2016 election over and over again until their shitty candidate wins and proves them right somehow.
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February 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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While I'm on this, a reminder that even as they win elections with record leftward vote shifts, Democrats currently have the highest disapproval ratings in history. Imagine what they could be accomplishing by doing anything other than coasting on how awful Republicans are
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Voters Give Democrats In Congress A Record Low Job Approval
But Still Might Vote For Them In 2026,
Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds;
Majority Think Trump's Use Of Presidential Power Goes ...
"A family squabble spills over into the holidays. Democratic voters want their party to hold the reins of the House but are not the least bit happy about what they are doing at the moment," said Quinn...
poll.qu.edu
February 11, 2026 at 8:31 PM
While I'm on this, a reminder that even as they win elections with record leftward vote shifts, Democrats currently have the highest disapproval ratings in history. Imagine what they could be accomplishing by doing anything other than coasting on how awful Republicans are
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
In reality, these are the people DESPERATELY trying to make you understand, with literally YEARS of time to course-correct, that you are simply not going to brute-force an electorate into voting for the Trolley Problem again. "I'm not voting for Newsom" isn't a threat; it's a warning.
February 11, 2026 at 7:53 PM
In reality, these are the people DESPERATELY trying to make you understand, with literally YEARS of time to course-correct, that you are simply not going to brute-force an electorate into voting for the Trolley Problem again. "I'm not voting for Newsom" isn't a threat; it's a warning.
These people truly believe there is no function to political activism than setting an alarm, having a nice breakfast, and going out to get an "I Voted!" sticker once every two years just like Beyonce told them to. So when faced with ANYONE who suggests "yeah I need more than that" they snap.
February 11, 2026 at 7:48 PM
These people truly believe there is no function to political activism than setting an alarm, having a nice breakfast, and going out to get an "I Voted!" sticker once every two years just like Beyonce told them to. So when faced with ANYONE who suggests "yeah I need more than that" they snap.
Libs on Twitter are obsessed with pretending leftists like Hasan Piker or the Chapo guys have election-altering influence because to acknowledge those peoples' insignificance in the overall scheme of electoral politics means they have to acknowledge their own.
February 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Libs on Twitter are obsessed with pretending leftists like Hasan Piker or the Chapo guys have election-altering influence because to acknowledge those peoples' insignificance in the overall scheme of electoral politics means they have to acknowledge their own.
"A state violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution whenever it makes the affluence of the voter or payment of any fee an electoral standard. Voter qualifications have no relation to wealth."
-Harper v. Virginia, 1966
-Harper v. Virginia, 1966
February 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
"A state violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution whenever it makes the affluence of the voter or payment of any fee an electoral standard. Voter qualifications have no relation to wealth."
-Harper v. Virginia, 1966
-Harper v. Virginia, 1966
I genuinely don’t understand how so many people refuse to acknowledge or accept how requiring paying literally any amount of money to the government in order to vote is one of an incredibly small group of things EXPLICITLY detailed in the Constitution as not being legal
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I genuinely don’t understand how so many people refuse to acknowledge or accept how requiring paying literally any amount of money to the government in order to vote is one of an incredibly small group of things EXPLICITLY detailed in the Constitution as not being legal
Hey man genuine question do you consider homeless people among “the most vulnerable members of society” because 3 years before the election you’re demanding we all commit to vote for a guy we have 4K video of gleefully stealing everything they own and tossing it into a garbage bag
February 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Hey man genuine question do you consider homeless people among “the most vulnerable members of society” because 3 years before the election you’re demanding we all commit to vote for a guy we have 4K video of gleefully stealing everything they own and tossing it into a garbage bag
I don’t want my elected representative to be buddy-buddy with people who literally want to hurt me and my loved ones. I want them to think they are vile assholes, because that’s what I think! I have absolutely no problem if any Republican feels the same way about me. I wouldn’t expect anything else!
February 11, 2026 at 12:14 PM
I don’t want my elected representative to be buddy-buddy with people who literally want to hurt me and my loved ones. I want them to think they are vile assholes, because that’s what I think! I have absolutely no problem if any Republican feels the same way about me. I wouldn’t expect anything else!
Not joking here: it is without question productive and a thoroughly more accurate representation of their constituents as the framers intended that Congress is abandoning the “my esteemed colleague from the loyal opposition” bullshit and just being honest about how they (rightfully) hate each other.
February 11, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Not joking here: it is without question productive and a thoroughly more accurate representation of their constituents as the framers intended that Congress is abandoning the “my esteemed colleague from the loyal opposition” bullshit and just being honest about how they (rightfully) hate each other.
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“Please put this pedophile issue to rest so we can work with you“ is mealy, good-faith garbage that would be shocking from anyone but the guy who said “Let’s stop this impeachment proceeding because I want to go home for Valentine’s Day.”
Sen. Coons to Howard Lutnick: “You said casually, ‘Well, I looked at my name and how it appeared in them, as does everyone.’ No, everyone isn't worried about their names being in the Epstein files.”
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
“Please put this pedophile issue to rest so we can work with you“ is mealy, good-faith garbage that would be shocking from anyone but the guy who said “Let’s stop this impeachment proceeding because I want to go home for Valentine’s Day.”
Boy he got bored with the Greenland thing really quick didn’t he
February 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Boy he got bored with the Greenland thing really quick didn’t he
Long time followers on my various socials can attest how my constant and most recurring pain comes from almost never being wrong about things that happen in politics and you need that context to understand how overjoyed I currently am at the magnitude of how wrong I've been about all of this
Tillis will probably stay in and Kemp will probably still go for the Senate seat since they’ll both still like their odds but Collins has to know it’s over
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Long time followers on my various socials can attest how my constant and most recurring pain comes from almost never being wrong about things that happen in politics and you need that context to understand how overjoyed I currently am at the magnitude of how wrong I've been about all of this
I don't want to jinx this but we are genuinely entering what might go down in American history as the most absolutely hilarious election year of all time
February 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I don't want to jinx this but we are genuinely entering what might go down in American history as the most absolutely hilarious election year of all time
Thirty years of Democrats setting space programs' worth of money on fire to prop up some can of unflavored yogurt she can eke a win over and after all that Collins has decided to linger around so she can ultimately lose by 8 points to a fisherman who survived a racism scandal by being too stupid
February 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Thirty years of Democrats setting space programs' worth of money on fire to prop up some can of unflavored yogurt she can eke a win over and after all that Collins has decided to linger around so she can ultimately lose by 8 points to a fisherman who survived a racism scandal by being too stupid
Okay all jokes aside there’s no chance Collins isn’t retiring now right, like there’s no way she wants to go out like this next year
February 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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We live in a moment when so many people in this country share the moral clarity that ICE endangers us all—only for the heads of the “opposition” party to try to quash this clarity with meaningless reforms, and to give ICE more money and power. 2020 never ended.
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
We live in a moment when so many people in this country share the moral clarity that ICE endangers us all—only for the heads of the “opposition” party to try to quash this clarity with meaningless reforms, and to give ICE more money and power. 2020 never ended.
Yes, that's exactly my point. She's asking Trump to do a thing that is quite overtly a crime, which Trump could quite easily be immediately be investigated and impeached over, and even if he teflon'ed that as usual, would be a nightmare for every House Republican with a vote lean lower than +15.
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Yes, that's exactly my point. She's asking Trump to do a thing that is quite overtly a crime, which Trump could quite easily be immediately be investigated and impeached over, and even if he teflon'ed that as usual, would be a nightmare for every House Republican with a vote lean lower than +15.
I'm starting to get really frustrated with how "why won't China stop Trump" is starting to become leftists' version of when liberals go "we just need four Republican Senators to gain a conscience" or "we need a left-leaning billionaire to buy something for us"
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I'm starting to get really frustrated with how "why won't China stop Trump" is starting to become leftists' version of when liberals go "we just need four Republican Senators to gain a conscience" or "we need a left-leaning billionaire to buy something for us"
I'm just FLABBERGASTED her lawyer would say this in the way they did. They're just openly saying "give me immunity the prosecutors wouldn't and I'll keep this story in the news even longer." Yeah good luck with Mr. Art of the Deal on that one.
February 9, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I'm just FLABBERGASTED her lawyer would say this in the way they did. They're just openly saying "give me immunity the prosecutors wouldn't and I'll keep this story in the news even longer." Yeah good luck with Mr. Art of the Deal on that one.