He has lost a lot in courts. The problem is that even 1% of his obviously unconstitutional bullshit winning in courts is disastrous.

A glass of water with 1% shit in it is almost entirely water. But it’s still shit water.

Condemned antisemitism in the wake of a the Boulder, Colorado attack and expressed gratitude to all law enforcement, including ICE (explicitly).

Im guessing many of them were indifferent about the verbiage singling ICE or they didn’t want to be against the condemnation and gratitude in spite of it.

Genuine question, is it antisemitic for ADL to suggest that opposing genocide is antisemitic? It kinda feels like ADL, IDF, and other political figures want to treat warmongering as an inherently Jewish trait or a Jewish right or something.

It honestly feels like they’re painting Jews with this image. Kind of like how Republicans have painted a picture of America that is antithetical to American values as laid out in the constitution. But they will still claim that you hate America if you oppose them in any way.

He’s shining a spotlight on what MAGAts have ignored.

“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union […] promote the general Welfare […] do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Promoting the general welfare is literally stated in the constitution as one of the purposes of the United States. Anyone disagreeing with that hates America.

So far, citizens have been deported. But not sent to the torture prison. Having said that, the way that they have sent people away means they absolutely could send a citizen and there’s no extra protection.

In other words, without due process we should assume every single one of them are innocent citizens (not that an immigrant deserves to be tortured any more than a citizen).

What’s crazy is that he was just bragging about having a deal with them. He’s so stuck on his tariffs that he’s forgetting about “winning” or the appearance of winning. It he just finds an excuse to claim victory and end the tariffs, the average low-information American would believe him.

So he went back on having a deal. But now they have a deal again.

Now he looks like a weak loser.

The U.S. has become Russia-lite. Literally any non-citizen can be sent off to a torture prison forever for zero reason and with no recourse. (Citizens can too, but it hasn’t happened yet.)

I thought they made a deal or something.

Because they’re already not claiming those. So this does nothing. Except if people starting claiming tips and they get rid of the bill, it will make auditing easier.

A small correction, they pay a fee on that amount. But the full amount is just a highly volatile investment. So, that’s the amount it could cost them.

The Democratic Party is just a vessel. It used to be the right wing (relative). Now it’s the left wing (relative). Bernie and AOC don’t really fit in with the Dems, but they can. Same with Manchin.

There was a time where I thought a Musk type could rally many behind a weird Libertarian version of the DNC or RNC and shift the landscape. But he just went hard fascist as soon as he publicly aligned with the right.

The mayor refused to leave because he was where they authorized him to wait. And then he did leave.

That arrest is no better.

So is the 30% on top of the old 20%, or is this a small parcel specific thing?

I love the callout for antisocial personality disorder. People think that it means unsociable, but it’s really the abuse of society.

So 1/3 of Americans are in a cult of hate and idiocy whether they know it or not.

The difficulty is getting 75% of the remaining population on board. 75% of a wide range of ideologies to agree that freedom and investment in America are better than submission, oppression, and chaos.

So, convincing 75% of people that allowing the government to deport innocent people (innocent until proven guilty and we know many of them are actually innocent) is actually really fucking bad.

The Democratic Party is centrist between moderate ideologies. Fetterman is centrist between the two parties.

That’s worse!

The whole point was to trim excess. If they really had fired almost nobody, that would mean they’re doing maximum damage with very little “benefits”.

Now, obviously doing damage is what Trump and co. want. But the initial claim was efficiency.

Just like the polls that show McDonald’s, Taco Bell, or Chic fil a as America’s favorite restaurant in X state. It doesn’t take too many idiots to outweigh everyone else.

A couple reasons.

Bernie and the Democrats are going to align 90% of the time (just like with Manchin on the other end of the spectrum). Basically, the other party is anti-America. So being pro-America makes you a de facto Democrat.

Since we don’t have Ranked Choice Voting or any other system that is conducive to multiple parties, primaries allow directionally aligned candidates to decide who is most popular to avoid splitting the vote. This isn’t necessary if a candidate has enough support for it to not matter. (Bernie is an independent in congress, but he ran as a Democrat in his presidential runs.)