The biggest lesson from '24 - and a lesson I have seen no pundit touch - is that lying works. "They are eating dogs and cats" did not hurt Trump a bit in the end. Amazing this goes undiscussed.

Joking aside, I think we should all be genuinely freaked out right now that the president-elect is calling for a *pollster* to be investigated because she released a bad poll

Just for the record, birthright citizenship is one of the greatest things the United States ever did for itself. Truly a gift that has done nothing but give and give and give.

Land acknowledgement where we laugh at the French for selling us the whole Louisiana territory for 3 cents an acre.

“the older you get, the more conservative you get” yeah if you’re a little bitch

As they used to say in my day, no shit Sherlock.

The granolafication of the right is due to high/low trust polarization. If you're the type of person who thinks The Man is putting poison in food for reasons that are never really clear, you're much more likely to be a Republican now.

People just uncritically blame NAFTA for things that predated NAFTA by wide margins, like the deindustrialization of the Rust Belt during the 1970s and 80s, or weren't related to NAFTA at all, like job losses due to aggressive manufacturing automation and consolidation later.

I've never stopped being annoyed about Letterman having to do a groveling apology to Oprah when he was clearly right about her in ways that should have been much more widely recognized

This is basically every Trump cabinet pick so far

We need political leaders who openly mock and demean voters who see stuff like this as important

When Trump fired James Comey in 2017, it was a nearly impeachment-level scandal because it was (rightly) regarded as an egregious abuse of power. Now he's going to fire Comey's successor, again for no legitimate reason, but no one cares because Trump has normalized abusing power

The inflation reduction act funded 146 projects in West Virginia, representing thousands of jobs and millions of dollars but sure democrats “abandoned” it.

I’ve been consistent in my belief that if TikTok divested itself of CCP control it should be allowed to stay, but the fact that they prefer to shut down entirely and that they are actively pushing people to an app named after MAO’S LITTLE RED BOOK has certainly raised my eyebrow

I've been thinking a lot recently about starting a substack. Would any of y'all read it if I did?

Does this site still work?

My freakin Oldsmobile is getting a bunch of attention on TikTok and the dopamine I'm getting from this will last me the rest of my life tiktok.com/t/ZTjp4hQd1/

there is not a single policy issue on which the Democratic Party is to the right of Ronald Reagan