Okay, fine ephebophilia.

Still rape. Still illegal.

He already lost the primary and now he gets to lose the general where Mamdani’s least embarrassing opponent is the guy who wears a red beret that he hasn’t taken off since the 80s.

The Epstein powder doesn’t need to be fired.

I know there’s been a lot of talk of ‘peasant mindset’ lately, but can we not do a new corpse synod?

It’s happening again

Redraw California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, and Oregon districts to overwhelm the handful of Republican districts there.

Then

Take full advantage of the fact that the R’s are pushing a very unpopular agenda and will have to weaken their advantages in red districts (making them a bit swingier) in order to get rid of blue districts.

Fuck. Q was right. There is an elite network of child rapists and those who protect them. It’s the GOP.

Obviously, they’re nothing centrist about this guy (besides, perhaps, his perceived position in the universe). They are, in fact, reactionaries, so definitionally right wing. But they believe they are splitting the difference between the Stalinist left (exemplified by the NYT) and the fascist right (unbeknownst to them, them).

The Dems who, since the shock of the Reagan revolution, swore off having a political project beyond “don’t make it worse” but accidentally foreclosed on making things better in the process. More recently, they’ve been heard saying things like “nothing will fundamentally change” in the face of a political situation that is very different from 40 years earlier.

Basically all the powerful Dems since Bill Clinton. Groups like the Democratic Leadership Council. They’ll poo poo ideas that regularly poll at 80% support across all parties, then spend all their political capital barely carrying a compromise position with 48% support across the finish line.

I really hope that we’re reaching a tipping point where people who believe in a better world and pursue policies to bring it about can have sustained political success

I’ll gladly accept a reactionary centrist spoiler party into the mix. Especially if it coincides with the Clinton wing of the DNC losing its ability to maintain its grip on power.

What does he care about a tax break? He already doesn’t pay his taxes. Is he just gonna not pay less?

…to avoid fascists calling you a commie.

Which they will still do.

Were the LA protests not something? Was the Portland protest that breached a holding facility not something?

People are taking action against the Trump administration. Not enough people, and not enough action, but three weeks ago, immigration was his strongest polling policy issue, and now he’s underwater in polling on it.

People who recognized the threat when the Trump Campaign handed out their ‘Mass Deportations Now’ signs at the RNC have forced the mushy middle to understand (in their bones, not just intellectually) what that meant all along.

He wants all holidays to be treated like National Cheesecake Day. Something that the radio DJ announces as the peons drive to work.

From bosses and business owners (i.e., the only kinds of people he talks to or recognizes as people)

How incomprehensibly long is this backlog of unaddressed matters going to be?

If we protest he’ll send in the troops so that he can have his goons grab people off the streets.

If we don’t protest, he’ll have his goons grab people off the streets.

Seems like protesting puts an obstacle and the goons grabbing.

Jon Stewart and getting fascists to change their neckwear. Is there a more iconic duo?

On one hand, it’s useless performative bullshit. On the other hand, Trump seems to be exactly the kind of guy to get really upset about that sort of thing.

Unfortunately, back in the Bush years, a little while before the second gulf war, they passed a bill to invade the Hague if Americans got tried there. Folks will have to seek justice through other channels.

It’s a per curiam decision, we don’t get to know.

We do get to know that Coney Barrett recused herself, which is what allowed an even split (and by extension the upholding of the lower court’s decision).