the irony of selling $10 ice cream bars so that people can symbolically eat the rich.

Instead it delivered the first republican popular vote majority since 2004 and the second only in 30 years Instead of some introspection about that, they’ve decided to run it back, add antisemitism and a myopic focus on Palestine, and use Biden as a sin eater

Shipping traffic of all vessels through the Strait of Hormuz 👇🏼

I'd love to introduce "based" Mike Lee to the concept of liberalism, a battle-tested guarantor of the interests of minority faith groups, as an alternative to pleading with the sectarian plurality to let him into the in-group.

There is a common pejorative attack on rwers, hinted at here, which boils down to “they’re just bitter that their liberal friends think they’re scum.” And sure, there is something very funny and self-defeating about “owning the libs to get them to like you”. Moreover, the typical response pattern is often full of vice-signaling, commons-plundering, and all manner of “I don’t care if this hurts me, just so long as it hurts you more” behavior that simply validates those same negative labels to which they so strongly object. It’s childish. It’s grotesque. It’s counterproductive and negative-sum. It is ignobility at its most ignoble. And perhaps most of all, it’s just plain embarrassing. HOWEVER. I think that the widespread appeal of this reactionary behavior ought to serve as a damning indictment of the overall “theory of change” that the 2010s woke movement represented. The theory that, if you leverage cultural power to shun, shame, and banish wrongthink from the domain of acceptable discourse, that this will somehow engender a form of lasting moral and ideological victory—that by making certain viewpoints unacceptable, you would make them unthinkable. This theory of change, misguided as it was to begin with, culminated in a mass cultural backlash, the first and second term of Donald Trump, and a reactionary movement so hellbent on revenge that they have willingly destroyed an immense amount of valuable institutional capital just for the chance to inflict a similar degree of anguish upon what they see as their oppressors. By any reasonable metric, this must be considered an abject failure. This failure should have been foreseeable. In a political system in which everyone’s vote is equal and private, and a new media landscape that eschews top-down enforcement of norms, instead rewarding self-radicalizing echo chambers and simclusters, this strategy is predictably disastrous. Ideologies which are not allowed to participate the light of open debate will merely fester in the dark. Ancient societies that committed wholesale massacre of the defeated, brutal as they were, at least understood this simple principle: if you want lasting victory, your enemies must either be captured, convinced (i.e., integrated), or killed. Silence is not an option. They will not go quietly into that good night. Slaves without shackles will always revolt once they locate the power to do so, and in doing so they will rarely take care to maintain the prudent constructs of their former masters. They will simply burn it all to the ground. My current theory of politics is that the #1 problem with our system today is the hollowing out of the conservative movement. In a way, the memetic power of wokeness did succeed in vanquishing traditional conservative ideas from the domain of elite discourse. But if conservative ideas are universally treated as vile, stupid, and evil, then the only men who will remain to champion them will be those who embrace such labels. And in the absence of a Reagan or Friedman or Romney to root for, the shunned masses will search for salvation in men like Trump. If they cannot see themselves in Captain America, they will simply embrace Homelander.

egalitarianism is quintessentially American. the notion that we should hold someone like Platner to a lower moral standard because he represents blue collar folk is the opposite of that.

progressives really do fetishize and degrade working class men as wokes do to racial minorities.

OH GOT IT SO IT DOES WORK LIKE THAT

i know it's only June 1, but I'm very confident this is the best video you'll watch all month.

The fact that he's ((( ))) hurts him among far-left nutjobs who use the Gaza War as a fig leaf for their antisemitism, but Shapiro is one of the Dems' best bets for 2028. But I don't care anymore if the people who will get hurt the most by the GOP shoot themselves in the foot.

i don't ever want to hear the GOP described to as believing in law and order ever again.

Trump has won this war 7 times. He’s negotiated a peace settlement 12 times. And he’s opened the Strait of Hormuz at least 4 times. What more do you want from him?

"keep rebuying the same house every year through property taxes" is one of those characterizations that some people seem to think sounds rhetorically compelling, but actually marks those people as nincompoops.

44% of US homeowners are older than 60 She is effectively asking you to put 100% of the local county services tax burden on 56% of the people—people who are also still in the workforce paying income taxes, mortgages, and daycare tuition This is horrible policy

one of the best tweets of all time

maybe there is one and i just can't find it, but it seems wild to me (especially as I'm 5 miles from it this weekend) that there's no @Polymarket or @Kalshi on where the GKN chemical tank in OC will explode.

the realities of populism.

I really can't think of a less enviable group of people than those who can afford own MULTIPLE homes to leave EMPTY. And cry baby tears over the idea of paying to continue to do so. They could always sell their empty, unused properties.

no, we're not, actually. and both factions of you extremist fucks are going to have to come up with something better than "the other extremist fucks are even worse than we are"' if you expect to gain our support.

the best comedians in the world aren't this hilarious.

run-of-the-mill internet leftist, confidently declaring that the average teacher works "far harder" than Jeff Bezos (who "just got lucky") ever did. i don't even like Jeff Bezos, but I'd take him 1,000 times out of 1,000 over this smug leftist trash.