US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

Okay I do need to hear her hoops opinions

Hopefully she comes out in favor of codifying the hand check ban in the constitution.

A late add to the Nuzzi dunkin'

There were signs pic.twitter.com/IaTzSyHkbO

— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) September 24, 2024

The process of blocking her on your social media is Denuzzification

remember when NRO lost its mind a decade ago when Rick Perry started wearing glasses

I would have thought a 21 year old woman attracted to guys like Keith Olbermann and Rick Perry would only exist in the minds of the House of Cards writers.

I think that was the plot of a family guy episode

Rick Perry is dreamy in that "Every time I think of him I dream he fell into molten lava" way.

Is Nuzzi's kink the worst American Men in the World?

Trump is her Final Boss, obv

shes just a star fucker her writing is like that too she finds famous people very interesting

oh no

https://i.imgur.com/p0ztnNN.png

journos aren't exempt from being weird people

some people like to see and be seen by the people they like seeing

This interview with a Haitian community leader in Springfield, Ohio, is well worth reading, but one point that stood out to me is that he points to the expiration of COVID-era social insurance programs as a moment when bigotry against the Haitian immigrant community increased. https://t.co/3lSqbn7gfn pic.twitter.com/ku6OPzHrA7

— Joel S. (@jh_swanson) September 25, 2024

New Yorker interview with a Haitian community leader in Springfield that had some worthwhile bits:

What was the response when you first arrived in Springfield almost four years ago?

It was a peaceful community where everyone was paying attention to their own business, going to work and things like this. But when the Haitians started to arrive, some of the citizens were concerned. The worst of it was that, in 2020, many Americans were given free social assistance, whether cash assistance or food assistance. It was free for them during covid-19. But in 2023 and 2024, Americans had to reënroll in programs, and they were no longer free. Now they believe that the government took the money from them to give to the Haitians. This is where the tension started to rise against the Haitians, with people saying that the government gave Haitians cash, which was a false claim. Some people do not understand that at some point in time after covid, the benefits that they used to receive for free were going to stop. But instead of looking for the truth, they just put it in their minds that those benefits that were taken from them were going to us Haitians. And they started to hate us. People started to say bad things toward us.

[…]

I gather that business groups within Springfield had wanted more residents because they needed more people to fill jobs there.

I am not sure of that, because, in my experience, I came to Springfield through the word of mouth of my nephew. And I got two of my little brothers here because I told them to come here. I don’t know how much of that is true in terms of employers bringing workers to Springfield, or things like this. What I know is that people came to Springfield through pure word of mouth. That’s what I know. That’s the reality for me, for folks that I know. So I don’t know if what you stated earlier is right, or if there is somebody else that can check the veracity of it for you

One of the key takeaways being that, unsurprisingly, neoliberal horseshit and austerity motivations removing key public support programs by the Biden Admin made everything that much worse.

finally, polls you can trust

I’m proud to launch the 2024 Forbidden Forecast! This forecast is based solely on unscientific polls, superstitions, spurious correlations and other wacky ways of predicting the outcome of the election.

Make sure to follow for (hopefully) weekly forecast updates! pic.twitter.com/Cv3uk5bvME

— The Forbidden Forecast (@4bidden4cast) September 25, 2024

noticed a trend online that seems like its a descendant of complaints about bernie bros and dirtbag leftists, except these liberals have since been radicalized and identify as at least leftish, but they still retain a lot of liberal mores and in general are kind of normie, which is all fine and good thats what you want right people coming around to your way of thinking, they still dont like rudeness which whatever thats reasonable, but the thing thats notable is it seems like they think theres some sort of conspiracy of lefty rude dudes online, it has a paranoid aspect to it

do u have an example

GOP in a tizzy over the Zelensky visit.. poor guy often gets unwittingly pulled into the American shitshow

haha

Ex-Porn Shop Employees Say Mark Robinson Was A Regular. He Denies It.

do u have an example

― jaymc, Wednesday, September 25, 2024 7:18 PM (twenty-seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

a guy accused me of dogpiling today because i made a rude reply to a terrible post and he called me an edgelord keyboard warrior said i was hiding behind anonymity, it felt all pretty canned the language but also his whole theory behind it, i went back and forth with him a lil and it seemed like he was really on 11 about all this stuff, he said i was on a leftist discord which is not true, idk it got me thinking and i feel like ive seen this sort of idea and behavior around generally

i wonder if its because if youre a liberal politics poster you have more of a formal framework where theres a lot of media people who you can listen to and disseminate their work, there are even formal conspiracies where people are all lets get together and post about this, where a lot of the online left is just a throng of disagreeable people, and then liberals entering that space assume it works the same as liberal spaces idk

liberals entering that space assume it works the same as liberal spaces

that sounds about right to me

a throng of disagreeable people

HoF epithet

he started researching my timeline but i dont even post about politics that much or post that much at all for that matter, bad subject for proof of a rude leftist conspiracy, he started saying i like the restaurant bot too much

how dare he

why are you posting elsewhere? What have they got that we don't got?

not much apparently lol

how dare he

― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, September 25, 2024 7:38 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i know i was like google maps is a pretty cool site i dont think thats an unusual opinion

what does harris think of what's happening in lebanon?

she's concerned yet optimistic

we're at an inflection point with the possibility for lasting change

She feels unburdened by the genocide that has been taking place in gaza

i get how it's not a winning issue for her but it's kind of odd to say nothing about it

Harris hopes that Israel continues their policy of overall restraint, while still preserving their domestic security options

She believes all players should come to the table, authentically, and with long term stability as the guiding goal

(she may very well be planning a major speech on it tomorrow or something - i honestly have no idea)

but also, did she say anything about the pagers exploding? (fetterman did - “In fact, if anything, I love it.)

jfc

she's monitoring events on the ground, and hopes to make some remarks shortly, but urges all players to adhere to the international rules of law, while preserving innocent civilians' sense of dignity and self-determination

guessing she does not believe in lebanon's right to defend itself

VP Harris urges restraint, but reminds us that we must not be shackled by what has come before

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYRgGdsXQAAsKJY?format=jpg&name=medium

disappointed that the poll didnt literally ask if the usa is dying empire lead by bad people

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2024/a-dying-empire-led-by-bad-people-poll-finds-young-voters-despairing-over-us-politics

"Do you agree that Jonah Hill has outlived his usefulness?"

semafor article linked above:

Updated May 29, 2024, 3:38am PDT

those numbers could still be totally valid, but indications are that the vibe has shifted somewhat since last May.

yeah idk

dont know if you guys have been following the saga of this freak but looks like the inevitable is upon us

NEW: NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted. https://t.co/e6qytFDbqk

— Michael Rothfeld (@mrothfeld) September 26, 2024

people been predicting this is how it would end for him before his first day on the job

not everyone

It's probably foolish to think a NYC mayor will successfully translate into being a national political figure, but I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for "who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?".

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 3, 2022