Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
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SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
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Angriest I've seen Jon Stewart...
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Angriest I've seen Jon Stewart...
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who is this guy talking to
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
who is this guy talking to
It's a funny joke but in 1970 only about 4% of the entire 25-34 year old population lived alone.
What planet do you live on?!
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It's a funny joke but in 1970 only about 4% of the entire 25-34 year old population lived alone.
Okay I'm going to flag this not to dunk on Sandra but because I want to point that one major driver of increased housing costs is that young people today are MUCH more reluctant to have roommates than in the past. I personally know a number of folks who just refuse to consider it!
A loan and because I was a young woman my dad had to co-sign and the car was $2500. My apartment was $200, my share $100, heat and electric included. No IPhones, computers and other must have expensive tech. Once the gas went crazy high from .35 to over .52 sold the Mach and bought a VW bug.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Okay I'm going to flag this not to dunk on Sandra but because I want to point that one major driver of increased housing costs is that young people today are MUCH more reluctant to have roommates than in the past. I personally know a number of folks who just refuse to consider it!
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AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL YOU FORGOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
President Trump has again floated giving out rebates from tariff funds, but sending direct payments to Americans would be difficult and ultimately unlikely.
Here’s what’s going on with tariffs and the pledge of dividends:
Here’s what’s going on with tariffs and the pledge of dividends:
Trump floated tariff rebates for Americans. That faces many challenges.
President Trump's plan to give Americans tariff rebates faces significant challenges and may not happen.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL YOU FORGOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
It's bizarre to concede Democrats were "winning the politics of the shutdown" but "didn't have a strategy." The strategy was to win the politics.
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's bizarre to concede Democrats were "winning the politics of the shutdown" but "didn't have a strategy." The strategy was to win the politics.
It's just how a large portion of the left acts on this site, and it persists because bigger tastemaker accounts will say absolutely nothing about the political culture they're stewing in. Same social media dynamics have taken over the right, too. It is what it is.
I don't understand them at all. This gleeful viciousness is very scary to me. Even if I thought it was a response in kind, which this isn't, and if it was the heat of the moment, I'd then be appalled at myself pretty much right away, especially if it happened as part of a swarm. They seem proud!
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It's just how a large portion of the left acts on this site, and it persists because bigger tastemaker accounts will say absolutely nothing about the political culture they're stewing in. Same social media dynamics have taken over the right, too. It is what it is.
Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.
Nostalgia is a fundamentally fascist impulse. The left should never traffick in these tropes because when the we cannot bring the 50s back through science or magic, the far right will be offering a much more twisted version of the same vision.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.
This is certainly true with regard to America's political culture, but I don't think it's true in terms of any economic indicator, at least at the population level. People in every economic strata can afford a better lifestyle now than then, thanks to much higher total economic productivity.
Things are objectively worse now than the 80s or 90s.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is certainly true with regard to America's political culture, but I don't think it's true in terms of any economic indicator, at least at the population level. People in every economic strata can afford a better lifestyle now than then, thanks to much higher total economic productivity.
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you are correct when you say we are winning this shutdown fight currently but what you have to imagine is, what if we werent?
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
you are correct when you say we are winning this shutdown fight currently but what you have to imagine is, what if we werent?
I think this site would be significantly more popular if the people who talked like this would just get banned once in a while, even if (gasp) they identify as a leftist
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I think this site would be significantly more popular if the people who talked like this would just get banned once in a while, even if (gasp) they identify as a leftist
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If you think the world is worse than it used to be, one would logically conclude you want to go back (RETURN) to the way it used to be, i.e. trumpian revanchism
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If you think the world is worse than it used to be, one would logically conclude you want to go back (RETURN) to the way it used to be, i.e. trumpian revanchism
In which Trump says "The Great Big Beautiful Bill" is "the greatest piece of legislation ever passed in the history of our country," a deranged statement that no one will even mull over for a single moment, because deep down 100% of Americans know he's a narcissist who thinks he's a demigod
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In which Trump says "The Great Big Beautiful Bill" is "the greatest piece of legislation ever passed in the history of our country," a deranged statement that no one will even mull over for a single moment, because deep down 100% of Americans know he's a narcissist who thinks he's a demigod
One thing we need to be very careful of is that a lot of people want to use Democratic discontent to build power for themselves rather than to strengthen the left-of-center opposition for Trump. If someone proposes a new party, this is probably what they're doing.
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
One thing we need to be very careful of is that a lot of people want to use Democratic discontent to build power for themselves rather than to strengthen the left-of-center opposition for Trump. If someone proposes a new party, this is probably what they're doing.
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The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
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Cait, you're an aggressive bully who appears to live for the thrill of abuse, and encouraging your vicious followers to do the same. Even the replies to this post are full of absolutely deranged stuff about me. And then if anyone dares point that out, you go "omg why are you so obsessed with me??"
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Cait, you're an aggressive bully who appears to live for the thrill of abuse, and encouraging your vicious followers to do the same. Even the replies to this post are full of absolutely deranged stuff about me. And then if anyone dares point that out, you go "omg why are you so obsessed with me??"
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Everybody hates inflation and thinks they would prefer deflation (they do *not* actually want to see deflation).
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Everybody hates inflation and thinks they would prefer deflation (they do *not* actually want to see deflation).
Yeah home prices increasing is kind of a mixed bag in terms of economic prosperity. It means a lot of people are getting richer and also, it’s harder for a lot of people to get a house. Home values collapsing would be pretty bad for a lot of folks even if housing affordability would go up in a sense
Large run ups in housing prices historically weren't always covered as an unalloyed negative because lots of Americans are home owners and a run up in home prices means those Americans are getting wealthier. When coupled with wages keeping up, it means mortgages are getting cheaper in real terms...
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yeah home prices increasing is kind of a mixed bag in terms of economic prosperity. It means a lot of people are getting richer and also, it’s harder for a lot of people to get a house. Home values collapsing would be pretty bad for a lot of folks even if housing affordability would go up in a sense
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This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
I’m sorry, but this doesn’t really explain why everyone is suddenly fixated on the economy being terrible and thinks nothing is affordable. It’s true that services+housing are increasing in cost relative to goods.
BUT this is a long-term trend, and until 2021ish, everyone seemed pretty optimistic!
BUT this is a long-term trend, and until 2021ish, everyone seemed pretty optimistic!
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I’m sorry, but this doesn’t really explain why everyone is suddenly fixated on the economy being terrible and thinks nothing is affordable. It’s true that services+housing are increasing in cost relative to goods.
BUT this is a long-term trend, and until 2021ish, everyone seemed pretty optimistic!
BUT this is a long-term trend, and until 2021ish, everyone seemed pretty optimistic!
Schumer is really an anti-leader, a vacuum of leadership, and as far as I can tell he draws his support from that. He doesn’t ask anything of anyone, he never squeezes anyone on a hard vote, he’s always the first to cave.
He’s the substitute teacher the kids love having because they can goof off.
He’s the substitute teacher the kids love having because they can goof off.
Every day a majority of Democratic Senators wake up and decide to continue supporting Chuck Schumer as their leader
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Schumer is really an anti-leader, a vacuum of leadership, and as far as I can tell he draws his support from that. He doesn’t ask anything of anyone, he never squeezes anyone on a hard vote, he’s always the first to cave.
He’s the substitute teacher the kids love having because they can goof off.
He’s the substitute teacher the kids love having because they can goof off.
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Every day a majority of Democratic Senators wake up and decide to continue supporting Chuck Schumer as their leader
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Every day a majority of Democratic Senators wake up and decide to continue supporting Chuck Schumer as their leader