The other thing with the premature settle for newsom stuff that I bring up every time is that people are always explicitly or implicitly saying that he’ll be running against Trump, which is Trump’s own fantasy he’s apparently fully sold them on.

It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.

It is crazy that it is not talked about more frequently as a corrupt vehicle for Trump to channel foreign money into his own pockets in order for Western colonization of Gaza. It will only serve as a vector of extremism, probably for generations.

Also, please miss me with this "transformational politics" nonsense about allowing people who have made mistakes to lead. We are a nation of 300 plus million people. Pretty sure we can restrict our top 500 politicians to people who have never had Nazi tattoos if we have the willpower.

It's a bit disturbing to think that Jeffrey Epstein may have been in touch with the head of the Secret Service Dallas Field Office as late as 2009, after Epstein had already been convicted in 2008.

Prediction markets are going to become a real problem for society, aren't they?

Yeah, it sounds extra unsavory when you put it that way

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it