find a way to not interfere?) Do you think the MSM would lead their newscasts with “yes, you should panic” or continue with tortuous “increased polarization on both sides makes it hard to know where the truth lies as new Congress seated without several states’ Democratic delegations”

What if Trump declares the elections in CA, WA & CO “fraudulent” because of mail in ballots and sends loyalist FBI agents to detain winning Dem candidates? Don’t tell us “outrage” from the gen public will stop it or that SCOTUS would step in (do you really not think Calvinball Roberts couldn’t /4

there’s no possible way for Trump to stay. But they sent slates of alternate electors! If Pence hadn’t stood up to it, do we really know how it plays out? Does SCOTUS see an opportunity to assure the American people that akshully Trump is right, no need to panic & throw the election to the House? /2

But there is space talk about the opportunistic chaos that Trumpland likes to try, yes? After 2020 election, when Trump started screaming about a stolen election, a lot us started waving our arms about how this was an attempt to stay in power and we were told to calm down, it’s just for show 1/3

The point was simply to generate the headlines. That’s all. It allows their base to handwave the whole thing away “GOOD TRIED TO MURDER HIM”, and give them screenshots with a “real” news outlet for their memes. All that helps bothsides it with non-political-junkies as well

Come on surely that’s an AI fake

…please tell me that’s an AI fake

Man I hope this is right. Still worried that there won’t be an appetite in the broader public for the kind of things (SCOTUS packing, break up social media monopolies, etc.) needed to actually fix things, just for “change”. Because otherwise the GOP comes right back in 2030

Curious abt the full clip. Rogan often couches this stuff in "bad apple" terms. Like is he saying ICE is great, but things escalated in MN, ICE took things too far up there, they need to knock it off...

Or is he calling out ICE more broadly, like they are doing this everywhere and its all bad?

But what if it means doubling down on the bad timeline?

Exceptions to every rule AND even if a story breaks thru it can be seen as isolated or actions of a bad apple, etc. Key is that RW media has been telling ppl (*literally* telling them via how they frame & report stories) that civilization is crumbling around them, while MSM sanewashes & bothsides

Key thing is the normies are barely registering the constitutional crisis; MSM new sanewashing means they think the only real political problem is “extremists”. But they don’t need to be told that inflation is bad, that’s a lived experience

They were just fine with raking in profits then saying there's nothing they could do, if only Biden and the Dems weren't so bad at this econ stuff. But with Trump and the GOP they have bent over backwards to keep Trump happy. 2/2

Saw a headline on CNN a few weeks ago: "80% of companies have eaten the tariffs, but that's about he end" and it just reminded me that when supply shocks started, they *instantly* raised prices and kept them there even as much of they bulk costs dropped within a few months. 1/2

Trump (well, Miller, ore likely) wants to get "Shooter cleared by FBI investigation / Lesbian wife arrested for domestic terrorism" headlines by late summer, because he thinks Minneapolis will explode in riots and he can crackdown on it like he wanted to do when George Floyd was killed.

But... but... they were the Los Angeles Rams *before* they were the St. Louis Rams.

First saw Dr. Strangelove when I was a teenager, maybe 14? It was Reagan's first term, and they were talking about being able to "win" a nuclear war, that people could just evacuate to the country... I remember just laughing a LOT during the showing, like a nervous, giddy laughter. It was cathartic.

Is he wearing his NBA Championship rings on the court?

I mean, it's no Wasp, but probably the best he's gonna do.

OMG pls Baltimore take him. Chiefs get the chance to havea real offense again (Mike McDaniel? Kliff Kingsbury?) and Baltimore would suck for the next three years at least. Two birds with one stone!