Most Americans have little clue what’s going on in government. They just know they’re angry about things and blame whoever they perceive as being in charge.

At least PR doesn’t get its budget and local laws overturned. DC is like below colony status.

He’s very dependent on donations from the banking industry, it’s all there on OpenSecrets. Both NY senators voted to end cloture because that’s where wall street is. Gillibrand seems to be avoiding criticism for some reason but it’s the same exact story for her. Wall street was already suffering from the Trump tariff decline and couldn’t take any more from a shutdown.

No, it’s better. Because they people who are doing it don’t suck.

No more DEI! (Dogs Eating & Ingesting)

The fact that this guy posts this on X with a paid-for blue checkmark tells you everything about why Trump won and why he’ll keep winning. The left has made almost no effort to win the information space. They just lose and then celebrate when some of the harm falls back on MAGA.

How about his for a change: Win. Try to win. Stop kowtowing to right wing information propaganda spaces that stifle the left like X, Fox News, and Rogan. Fight them like the right fights the left in the information space. True, you won’t get to celebrate when your neighbor suffers from Trump, but it’ll be because he didn’t vote Trump in the first place.

Maybe it should. Why let Russia be the only country that gets to weigh in on foreign elections?

Interfere themselves. The US media landscape is dominated by right wingers, backed by Russia. Canada could help the other side.

So

1. this comment adds zero value to the discussion because you’re not even being specific about what your insults are referring to, it’s just insults with zero context
2. I’m pretty sure you misread what I said, but I’m not sure because ^
3. Yes, I do believe this and I think it’s a pretty obvious thing to believe at this point.

To be honest, Canada partly has itself to blame. They let Russia interfere in US elections for a decade at this point but didn’t lift a finger to interfere for the other side that respects them. That attitude needs to end.

Edit: People seem to be misreading this? I’m saying Canada should interfere in US elections. Everyone who hates democracy is already doing it and Canada/Europe is letting them win.

Honestly to avoid another Borat incident they should just make Livin’ La Vida Loca the national anthem

There’s a million things you could do with that. The musk of kleptocracy? I dunno.

Or you could do a bunch of other Elon refences - Don’t buy from klepto-guy, gimme a Model FU, Elon owes a horse by now, etc.

Probably more Americans support being annexed by Canada than annexing Canada.

It’s interesting that no one in the media talks about how Fetterman was one of the most progressive politicians, then he had a stroke and started taking the maga side on a lot of things.

It tracks with a lot of other anecdotal evidence (e.g. Tila Tequila becoming a nazi after an aneurysm, some lady in a recent Channel 5 video said she became pro-Trump following a head injury in a car accident, a couple of people in my personal life, RFK Jr. obviously). I’m not saying all magas are brain damaged - there’s many different reasons I’m sure. But someone’s gotta at least start asking the question. There is at least this study which ties brain damage to religious fundamentalism, which isn’t exactly politics but it’s pretty darn close.

“What, just because my party and I shit on this city 24/7 and just robbed you of your jobs and your children of a decent public education, you boo me? I thought this was America!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

The holocaust, like all slave labor, inevitably was exploited by capitalism.

It’s bullshit to cover up for the fact that his corporate donors like Blackstone can’t handle any more stock market pain.

If this happens the government MUST be overthrown. If your tax dollars are being used to fund the unjustifiable murder of innocent people, you’re just as guilty as the ones doing the shooting. It would be better that we lose millions in a nuclear civil war than become the new Nazis.

I’ve often been a defender of Democrats being realistic, but Schumer is on some bullshit here.

It’s unclear what, if anything, Schumer got in return for his decision to allow the House bill to proceed

Says it all right there. The Republican bill was just a list of laughably insane things they knew Democrats would oppose so they could blame the shutdown on them. It actually cuts funding of DC’s local budget forcing them to fire teachers and even cops. Again, nothing to do with the federal government. It just grabs power from a local government and says that they can’t use their own local tax revenues to educate kids and fight crime. It’s complete rabid insanity that has no point other than to bully a blue city. And Schumer’s like “Sure, ok. whatever.”

But when he attempted to pull Tsukahara from that same window, Riordan testified, “I grabbed her arm to try and pull her towards me, but she retreated because of the fire.”

Remember that the right wing media rushed to blame this on speeding and intoxication without mentioning that they were still alive and able to move when the vehicle was on fire. They were cooked alive inside, foreseeably and preventably, and that was covered up in a way that maximized the shame the victims’ families felt. Deplorable.