Plus he fucked his secretary when he was mayor of Sam Francisco.

The Democratic party really seriously doesn't need to saddle itself with another Bill Clinton.

That 30 million isn't the amount of "illegal immigrants." It's a lot closer to the number of Mexicans in America, though, in case you're wondering who Vance thinks is "illegal."

'the apparatus of power is mourning him, therefore he must be someone worth mourning.' this is made funnier by that the right was able to keep this up for all of a week before forgetting about Kirk.

Klein's "Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way" line is particularly telling here. It had nothing to do with the facts of Kirk's life and actions, and everything to do with belief. If Kirk *wasn't* doing politics the right way, Klein's own interactions with him seem naive and foolish.

If the GOP endorses racism, or transphobia, or dictatorship, they believe that these ideas must be, at least in part, acceptable ones - because to recognize them as unacceptable calls the whole process of power into question.

at that point even if some buckaroo was like 'hey check out this HILARIOUS BIT where i had where i wrote 400 books of surrealist erotica over 10 years' everyone would just be like 'bud... i am not sure what to tell you. i dont think thats a bit.'

here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...

and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc

This is not true. Most of the expansion happened in the Republic, and expansion completely stopped by the early 2nd century.

The means by which Pax Romana was established were brutal but the prosperity it brought to the average person was real.

Trump doesn't need an enabling act as long as he has SCOTUS. And what you downplay as "suboptimal" is really "won't do anything about a lawless, fascist SCOTUS".