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I feel like they’re proving to be a pretty good defence against Trump. Judges may be easier to capture over time
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Want to buy in at a $230bn valuation?
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Is the answer fascism?
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Yeah. It’s not that.

The vote is happening regardless and it’s not that important. It will still need senate to vote on it too. And Trump to sign it. And for the DOJ not to come up with some bullshit reason for only releasing some of it.

This is something to do with IT infrastructure. Boring
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Are you sure it's not rogue AI's accumulating resources to manufacture paperclips with?
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If they can do it in a democratic and constitutional manner then good for them. They remain intellectually consistent.

I think MAGA leads to AOC and then I have no idea how the Republicans reorganise. I saw David Cameron (temporarily) move the right back to the centre in the UK. It's possible.
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Bill Kristol sure. Anyone else though?
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Centre right people aren’t my enemy.

If they disagree with me on the size of the state I’ll happily drink and argue with them for hours and then we can all have a nice clean election and see who won.
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I think he’s trusting his audience to know that. It’s such a staple of the Bulwark to be angry about the tech bros
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I trust nearly everyone who works at the Bulwark.

They’re in a desert because they chose to stick to their values when the rest of their party didn’t.

They ostracised themselves and have used it to slowly build something that isn’t left or right but anti-authoritarian.
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
My only value atm is no fascism. All non-fascists welcome
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
.. Immigration stuff is just to get elected. But once he’s elected it will be Trump 1.0 with extra subsidies for me”

Bill isn’t excusing that imo. He’s acknowledging it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I heard The Bulwark saying this louder than anyone else.

It’s fair enough to distrust Bill Kristol he’s been involved in some really bad shit.

But there were loads of people (some smart) that convinced themselves they’d get everything they wanted from Trump and none of the bad stuff. “The ..
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
As someone else said. They are discussing the different priorities of different groups. Trump did build a coalition around different issues.

The main problem though is that you are describing exactly what The Bulwark consistently doesn’t do. They despise the business people who excuse fascism
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Unrelated Simpson’s nerdery, have you seen Fortnite this month? Amazingly well done Simpsonsverse
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
He’d already finished his prison term before the pardon.

And there’s no real need to involve Binance in a crypto payment (unless laundering for hamas).

But apart from that it was very corrupt
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Extra points received for pronouncing farage correctly
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Got to try and shake them down a bit first
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Hard to imagine he won’t get some success from the tech. Humanoid robots might be a dud but China is already showing general manufacturing robots work. Maybe he has to pivot at some point
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
They’re listening to you and now trying the not exactly a lie, but sort of irrelevant, and definitely enraging approach

bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: Food prices are still going up. Grocery prices are still going up. How do you respond?

MIKE JOHNSON: All of the economist have shown that food prices always go up. There's an inflationary level that's built in to grocery prices.
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Yes. Everyone saw what happened with Carney and others. But if you’re going to do that you’ve got to time it right
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The new Cat Burns album comes out tomorrow. I’m sure there is some signal in that but no active Polymarket to test it out
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
There’s a theory that it was the backlash to her saying Dumbledore was gay. Suddenly all these liberal elite types that loved her were criticising her and she doubled down and down and down
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I think it's just because the statements were so outlandish it assumed they were wrong and didn't do the web search to verify
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM