usually, the vice president is lucky to be even involved

Well, they tried flanking him, but it’s unclear in which direction. By the numbers, Biden is the most pro-immigration President since the Ellis Island era, but then in his last year the admin did a hard pivot and tried to sprinkle in a few “secure the border” ads 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

Apparently, insulting the press, suing them, even inciting violence against them, is all perfectly fine…so long as you throw them an interview every now and then 🤷

There’s the related trend where people then become skeptical of medicine that’s free…almost suspiciously free, like Covid vaccines.
“Oh, the government just wants to make sure everyone is healthy”
“🤨oh really?🤨since when?🤨”

There was a brief moment in the early ‘10s where it seemed like things were always going to keep getting better. Can’t pin it down precisely. Frankly, now the “before times” just feels like a hallucination. But whatever optimism we had simply lulled us into letting our guard down.

Not to defend their policies but their far-right party has bucked the continental trend and lost electoral strength. I don’t know if it’s total vindication of their center-left’s strategy, but it is a noteworthy counterpoint www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

I think in the UK context there’s a particular panic right now about “the boats” — irregular immigration which is not subject to the NHS surcharge. This current wave of hysteria about asylum seekers is far stronger than the generic backlash to immigration which has receded from its peak.

Absolutely right. Now over to the media to see if they follow-up with as much interest as they did with Angela Rayner 🤔

“If they’re not going to be jailed, the only moral option is that they remain in power indefinitely and their actions are legitimized by consecutive electoral victories” 🤔

Not to mention there was a ceasefire when Biden left office. Trump unravelled it when he greenlit Netanyahu’s “Trump Tower Gaza” plan

President Truman was woke in 1947, you heard it here first

Ironically she looks like a smooth criminal

They made such a big deal about removing Saddam, it must’ve been one hell of a mindtrip to then see their party elevate an American Saddam to the WH, right down to the same taste in tacky gold furniture.

In this context it is made up. Democrats “codified” gay marriage in 2022, but it can still be overturned by the Supreme Court. Just like they overturned the Defense of Marriage act in 2015 when they legalized gay marriage. SCOTUS can strike down laws passed by Congress, that’s its job.

“Codification” isn’t a real thing, it’s cope invented by those who want to justify not taking notice in 2016 when 3 SCOTUS seats were up for grabs. Supreme Court rulings take precedence over Congress. If they deem it to be a matter for the states, nothing to be done but take control of the Court.

Neocons started out as Trotskyists and it appears some are reverting back as they age. I don’t know what to make of it.

People will uncritically believe this front page while claiming they’re immune to propaganda.

Introducing is pretty easy. But getting a vote on it, when you don’t have the gavel, and then getting a 2/3rds majority, is a matter of science-fiction in today’s Congress.