First they’ll collapse slowly, then all at once.

People have been predicting in imminent collapse of various tech firms for what feels like decades

Half the joke of that movie was how it’s a total mystery what his job is

Taxing: Wicked, Theiving, Irrational, Unconstitutional

Rent-Seeking: Beautific, Generous, Sane, Magna Carta-esque

“If voting had any effect, it’d be illegal!”

The joke of that is voting is illegal, for quite a few people.

Voters are segregated, consent is manufactured, seats are gerrymandered, populists are vilified… But when all else fails, the elections don’t matter and industry does as it pleases.

Democracy exists as an illusion of majority governance, so individuals in opposition feel alienated and at odds with unknown neighbors. The policy outcomes are put at the feet of popular majority, whether or not people actually want them.

Come down here and give it your best shot

Your Texas Tax Dollars At Work

Why not just build all these overseas?

Iran keeps having a say in their operation

American Democracy in a nutshell

They’re salesmen.

What they’re saying is only “crazy” if it fails to move units. And this guy seems to have been very successful at moving merch

Is there anything more Protestant than worshipping a golden calf, then getting mad when someone suggests that might be heresy.

you wont have full and fair elections next few election

Show me the last time Americans had a full and fair election. Any year.

Reminds me of Brett Farve suing Pat McCafee for mentioning his Mississippi swindle

democrats had no choice but to follow suit

Democrats had a number of opportunities to outlaw gerrymandering at the national level. They also had a number of opportunities to pack the SCOTUS, admit several more states (DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa if they were feeling really feisty) guaranteed to put more Dem House Reps into Congress. They even had opportunities to just turn out more liberal voters by dumping financial resources into highly successful GOTV organizations like ACORN.

At every turn, they balked and made excuses and complained about optics. “When they go low, we go high!” was always just empty rhetoric. Dems never went anywhere.

Newsom ain’t gonna be president

I remember people saying the same shit about a low-rent NYC real estate tycoon.

She’s a prodigious fundraiser and a fantastic “this left and no further” stalking horse

two decent candidates in the last election on the Democrat side: Gavin

decent candidate

Gavin Newsom

Clickbait headline is Clickbait.

News at 11

He’s never going to get reelected at this rate

Thanks for that and falling for the right-wing spoiler

Funny how that was actually RFK Jr, but he got so much traction with liberals Trump just on boarded him to his own campaign.

But the variant people are worried about is capable of spreading directly from person to person.

Based on early investigations by health officials in May 2026, passengers on the cruise ship likely contracted hantavirus (specifically the Andes virus) through an initial, pre-boarding exposure to rodent droppings in South America

The ship itself is not seeing any cases between passengers, at least as far as I’ve seen in reports