Oliver Colander
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It’s an especially odd approach given the visible shift toward Democrats on generic ballots for upcoming cycles. If they don’t a) need your votes to win and b) believe it will strengthen their coalition otherwise, you’re effectively neutralizing yourselves. Saying nothing would actually be fine!
I feel like a lot of people don't realize that "I'm unwilling to credit anyone who delivers on my primary political ask" isn't priming those people to say "how can we deliver more to the holdouts next time"
Fine next time you'll get nothing
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s an especially odd approach given the visible shift toward Democrats on generic ballots for upcoming cycles. If they don’t a) need your votes to win and b) believe it will strengthen their coalition otherwise, you’re effectively neutralizing yourselves. Saying nothing would actually be fine!
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it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
Vis a vis opting out, I’d go further and say that the observable and often obscene financial benefit of holding and expressing strong views caused a lot of people to conclude that they were suckers if they didn’t at least try to benefit in some way from having an opinion about everything.
more seriously I think the main problem here is that mass media in general and social media specifically really, really broke the societal pressure valve of allowing the kind of latently prejudiced to sort of passively opt out of change. ragebait is fundamentally corrosive to social cohesion.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Vis a vis opting out, I’d go further and say that the observable and often obscene financial benefit of holding and expressing strong views caused a lot of people to conclude that they were suckers if they didn’t at least try to benefit in some way from having an opinion about everything.
“Don’t make them hit you. They hate when you make them hit you.”
The answer is no, it's not the job of journalists to never criticise the left in case it drives Joe Lonsdale to be more sexist. You could just as easily argue that leftwing over-reach caused that and it would be better if it had been inhibited by more scrutiny. Reality is more complex than either.
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“Don’t make them hit you. They hate when you make them hit you.”
Carlson has carried a chip on his shoulder since the early 90s when, despite his apparent pedigree, it was made clear that he’d never be fully accepted in the sort of right wing circles he felt he belonged. His entire life since has been one long revenge plot bereft of any actual principles.
it is incredible that tucker carlson, specifically, became an unambiguous nazi
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Carlson has carried a chip on his shoulder since the early 90s when, despite his apparent pedigree, it was made clear that he’d never be fully accepted in the sort of right wing circles he felt he belonged. His entire life since has been one long revenge plot bereft of any actual principles.
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guess whose wikipedia page has an 'allegations' section?
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
guess whose wikipedia page has an 'allegations' section?
To be fair, Jeffries is only continuing the longstanding tradition of Democratic leadership letting this guy do whatever the fuck in order to buy his votes.
OK yeah he's gonna switch parties.
Great job, Hakeem.
Great job, Hakeem.
Pardoned Democrat Henry Cuellar wants GOP to probe his prosecutors
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
To be fair, Jeffries is only continuing the longstanding tradition of Democratic leadership letting this guy do whatever the fuck in order to buy his votes.
It makes a lot of sense when you consider that Nuzzi works for a magazine and RFK works for people who are stealing children and murdering fishermen.
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It makes a lot of sense when you consider that Nuzzi works for a magazine and RFK works for people who are stealing children and murdering fishermen.
You have to know how to hate.
It's almost impossible to make me feel sorry for Trump, but the sheer depth of his brokeness, combined with his age, the utter humiliation involved in this farce was making me legit sad.
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
You have to know how to hate.
This is absolutely the objective of the modern Republican Party and we should all be saying it out loud.
If birth in the United States does not confer citizenship, and if all citizen immigrants can be denaturalized by executive order, then literally no one in America has a guarantee of citizenship.
Every American’s citizenship becomes merely the revocable gift of the god-king.
Every American’s citizenship becomes merely the revocable gift of the god-king.
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is absolutely the objective of the modern Republican Party and we should all be saying it out loud.
This is one of the few exceptions to my opposition to capital punishment. When you’re given control of the deadliest military in history and knowingly and maliciously misuse that authority to commit capital crimes, it’s as much about showing your successors what happens to them if they follow suit.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is one of the few exceptions to my opposition to capital punishment. When you’re given control of the deadliest military in history and knowingly and maliciously misuse that authority to commit capital crimes, it’s as much about showing your successors what happens to them if they follow suit.
You don’t get to be the Democratic candidate for President in 2028 if you aren’t promising to pack the court.
BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Texas Republicans in fight over congressional map. The new gerrymandered map will be used in the 2026 midterms. The vote is 6–3, with the Republican appointees siding with Texas.
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
You don’t get to be the Democratic candidate for President in 2028 if you aren’t promising to pack the court.
Joanne, is that you?
Oh, and feminists, you forgot feminists.
But, then, trans rights activists always neglect women, don't they?
Because they don't know what a woman is.
But, then, trans rights activists always neglect women, don't they?
Because they don't know what a woman is.
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Joanne, is that you?
I would ask how they function but lol
One thing I leaned as a congressional staffer is that 75% of Congressmen are pretty much perpetually drunk. Just absolutely stupefying levels of rampant alcoholism. They fucking reek of booze, every day, all hours of the day.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I would ask how they function but lol
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December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Prog slop: Just a little more deliverism bro, please bro
Mod slop: let’s find a bisexual college freshman woman at a liberal arts college and beat her to death in public to prove we are serious about law and order
Lib slop: if you criticize democratic politicians I will kill you and then myself
Mod slop: let’s find a bisexual college freshman woman at a liberal arts college and beat her to death in public to prove we are serious about law and order
Lib slop: if you criticize democratic politicians I will kill you and then myself
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Prog slop: Just a little more deliverism bro, please bro
Mod slop: let’s find a bisexual college freshman woman at a liberal arts college and beat her to death in public to prove we are serious about law and order
Lib slop: if you criticize democratic politicians I will kill you and then myself
Mod slop: let’s find a bisexual college freshman woman at a liberal arts college and beat her to death in public to prove we are serious about law and order
Lib slop: if you criticize democratic politicians I will kill you and then myself
Yes, he is.
The Trump they're getting isn't the one they voted for.
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yes, he is.
*Trump* told us he was going to do most of the shit he’s done. Excepting the rash of threats to invade foreign countries, none of this was kept a secret!
Walking around like 'oh wow but who would have told us' and its like 'literally Kamala Harris told you everything htat has happened under Trump in her debates. If you watched the debates, you were explicitly told.'
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
*Trump* told us he was going to do most of the shit he’s done. Excepting the rash of threats to invade foreign countries, none of this was kept a secret!
There should be a concerted effort to relocate people who don’t want to remain in these areas, but we’re under no obligation to care for people who vote to destroy themselves so that Republicans can punish people they don’t like.
How life changed in a rural town in Virginia that lost its sole health clinic after the passage of Trump’s megabill. The residents voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024, and now they’re suffering for it.
How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump’s megabill, even if the politics haven’t | CNN Politics
As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its only health clinic.
www.cnn.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
There should be a concerted effort to relocate people who don’t want to remain in these areas, but we’re under no obligation to care for people who vote to destroy themselves so that Republicans can punish people they don’t like.
Prominent military scholars On Here have posited that this would negatively affect the military’s trust in its civilian oversight and my counterpoint is that every officer remotely adjacent to these acts should be terrified enough of what’s to come to consider fleeing the US in the next 3 years.
If Trump pardons him then the next administration should extradite him to the country whose citizens he has murdered. Let them them put him on trial, convict, and sentence him to whatever they believe is fair for the execution of their people.
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Prominent military scholars On Here have posited that this would negatively affect the military’s trust in its civilian oversight and my counterpoint is that every officer remotely adjacent to these acts should be terrified enough of what’s to come to consider fleeing the US in the next 3 years.
I’m not saying Trumpism isn’t lousy with people who believe these things, but podcasts like this are basically pro wrestling promotions that profit from collective rage. It’s porn for people who like to get mad.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I’m not saying Trumpism isn’t lousy with people who believe these things, but podcasts like this are basically pro wrestling promotions that profit from collective rage. It’s porn for people who like to get mad.
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We have officially arrived at the “DSA candidates are just Democrats who want to do something instead of nothing” stage
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We have officially arrived at the “DSA candidates are just Democrats who want to do something instead of nothing” stage
85% approval rating among Republicans as of today while the rest of the country is in the low 30s. Someone explain what I’m supposed to feel for these people if not contempt.
So one of my political sins that I know I should get over is that I do have the problem of holding Trump's base in contempt and looking down on them, and part of it is that my image of who they are is heavily informed by the one MAGA guy who shows up regularly on my FB feed; I'll call him J.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
85% approval rating among Republicans as of today while the rest of the country is in the low 30s. Someone explain what I’m supposed to feel for these people if not contempt.
Giamatti performing a Secret Honor-style one man show as John Adams at the end of his presidency would go so hard.
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Giamatti performing a Secret Honor-style one man show as John Adams at the end of his presidency would go so hard.