To that end, he will say or do anything for the win and then renege if the opportunity allows. Once he's in the White House, he's in. We should expect nothing better from a guy who refused to pay his contractors, or who said he wouldn't involve America in any more wars and now ramps up the military.

For Trump and his most-loyal followers (including the voters who argue for mid-decade redistricting), democracy is not a non-stop process, but rather, something that only happens during elections. Once elections are over, Trump believes people's legislative fates are sealed until the next election.

It appears Marjorie Taylor Green has received the memo. I'm not sure what it means when one of the loudest voices in the GOP is the first to go: either the midterms are going to be that bad for Republicans, and/or maybe a lot of her schtick was just acting/marketing/pandering/ass-kissing/grifting.

Neither syndicated TV, nor sports will move policy. Cable and network TV news are only good at parroting the synopses from news stories that long-form and investigative journalism write.

If Americans stopped distracting themselves with entertainment, they might be surprised how much they can learn.

If the goal of learning something is to complete a task and move on, then a LLM summary is probably appropriate since there wasn't really a desire to learn out of appreciation anyway.

If someone really wants to learn something out of appreciation for the topic, they can read a book.

At the 2028 DNC convention, I hope someone begins their podium speech with:

"Oh look: it's another episode of 'Republican voters elect Republicans, Republican voters get f-cked over by Republicans, and now it's time for Democrats to save their asses so they can vote Republican again next election'.

I wonder how many of the ~70M who voted for Trump in 2024 would answer "yes" to that question.

It means a picture of the swastika being hung dead from a noose connected to gallows is "potentially divisive".

"Divisive" in that it separates Nazis from anti-Nazis.

People who vote for Trump that many times should walk out their front door, wave to a neighbor, and get the middle-finger back. They should stop getting invited to neighborhood cookouts. They should hear conversations go quiet the moment they walk in a room, so that they know they're the problem

If people vote for Trump 2-3 times & can walk out their front door, wave hello to a neighbor and get a friendly wave back - even while our economy strains, inequality grows, human rights are abused and constitutional norms are broken - then they won't understand the consequences of their decisions.

This country will never have the reckoning it deserves, as long as the only people who get alienated and ostracized are Trump, Vance, et al. The people who voted for Trump 2 - 3 times need to feel the sting of economic & social abandonment. They need to feel what it's like to be treated as pariahs.

We got to this point in the depravity of our government, specifically because of people like that individual. The voters taking it seriously here in America are outnumbered 2:1 by people who want to undermine democracy, and people who can't be bothered to care about it one way or another.

Thank you

Shutting the door on others after you get in is greed. This is even worse than greed. It's the belief that future generations should have it as bad, or worse than you, but not better. I think about that every time a non-citizen who obtains their citizenship decries anyone looking for a simpler path

A better-worded version (in my opinion) from Tom Hanks, in A League of Their Own:

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."

In the same post, he calls the Epstein files a hoax and then announces an investigation into it.