Conservatives have been inching away from “Don’t trust those liberals, they’re all a bunch of Epstein pedophiles” and towards “Actually, impregnating 14 year olds is necessary for the salvation of the white race” for some time.

Epstein wasn’t just some post-Soviet Pimp, running teenagers from the collapsing Eastern Bloc into the bedrooms of Wall Street sex pests and pedos. He was a leading intellectual and eugenics financier, bankrolling all sorts of propaganda efforts to normalize rape of children and the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East.

That’s just the efficiency of the free market. Mamdani would ruin a perfect system.

The democrats are either corrupt or DUMB AS FUCK.

One facilitated the other. Shallow, dim witted, venal, horny, unloveable losers are much easier to control

If Communism is when wages go up and cost of living goes down, what is Capitalism?

‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump

More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.

Democrats are self-critical of their inability to take positions distinct from their Republican colleagues without splintering off conservative support? Democrats must be right-wingers.

Would be a great time for the bigger states to start vacuuming up federal agency workers and reduplicating their work inside the state university system.

Not that California, New York, Illinois, or Pennsylvania would actually do this. But it might be nice of they considered it.

It’s such a bizarre hill to die on. I only wish I could hinge my entire political life on the gossip around some random celebrity pimp’s murder.

You know, if you’re holding a big GOTV drive in Houston and you want to bring their home town girl in to sing a few bars as part of a state convention or mobilizing event, I wouldn’t begrudge them that.

But Beyonce showed up at a big Harris event and didn’t perform any music. Literally paid to wave at the crowd and not do the thing for which you’re famous.

checking under the hood of the DNC

Curious, all I’m seeing is more consultants.

Mid Tier JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure character

According to the National Registry of Exonerations in the United States, 27% of those on the registry who were accused of homicide, but were later exonerated, gave false confessions. However, 81% of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities also confessed when accused of homicide.

Can you cite a source on that?

With a bunch of time spent digging around in old Internet archives maybe.

they admitted they did it because they wanted to discredit Bush.

He sounds trustworthy so I guess we’ll take that at face value

schiff is as far left as the majority of this country is willing to go

He’s not even the most left leaning in his city. LA has four different DSA city councilors

Rather used documents that turned out to be false.

Rather used copies of real documents that had their kerning adjusted to appear false.

you’re omitting a hugely important piece of those events.

It was a strategic ratfuck by the administration and one Karl Rove was celebrated for in the White House.

But CBS execs went along with it, because they were more concerned with next quarter’s ad revenue than their broader reputation or their duty to the public as a broadcaster.

Twenty years later, the company has been fully picked apart. Their best journalists are gone and replaced with hacks. They’ve fully lost the youth audience and the public trust. The Ellisons are picking the last meat off the bones.

is there any clearer sign of what’s happening than some of the most prominent left leaning members of the “opposition” party posting their concerns on a right-wing platform?

Adam Schiff is “left leaning” in the same way that Elon Musk is a socialist.

But yes, it is abundantly clear that the Ellisons are buying out Sumner Redstone and the Viacom shareholders in order to impose a more modern Silicon Valley tech sector politics on a network that’s long been a thorn in the side of the Republican Party. Just like when Murdoch bought up National Geographic and the Moonies took control of the Washington Times and Bezos seized the Washington Post. Hell, just like when William Randolph Hearst bought up the San Fransisco Examiner and the New York Journal.

only a matter of time …

Back under the Bush Admin, Phil Donahue got axed for opposing the Iraq War and Dan Rather was forced out at CBS for revealing Bush’s embarrassing Texas air national guard service. Or just the massive exodus of professional journalists following media consolidation during the 80s and 90s.

We’ve always been living in this moment. Now we’re just at the point where a late night comedian is the last vestige of broadcast media still critical of a sitting President.

Just look at the list of journalists shit-canned in 2024 alone.

This wave of journalism layoffs shows no signs of receding. Since we first published this list, The Intercept, Vice, BDG, WAMU, Engadget, NowThis, and Law360 have let more than a hundred media workers go. With the help of former staff at each, we’ve managed to gather 119 new names. We also heard from many readers that we’d been too conservative in placing the start date of this wave on January 1. The pre-holiday cuts at Wired, The New Yorker, PopSugar, The Washington Post (where former employees hastened to point out that they’d taken buyouts rather than suffering layoffs), Vox, Vice (in a separate wave from this latest one), and Popular Science were too brutal to ignore. So we’ve moved the start date of this list back to November 1 — which is closer to right but is, nevertheless, somewhat arbitrary, given how often media layoff waves tend to crash.

Since we first published, we’ve added more than 250 new names to the list of 354 we had before. We’re under no illusions that this represents everyone affected by mass layoffs in media.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops”

~ Stephen Jay Gould

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-donald-trumps-net-worth-2014-2024/

My man is at the beating heart of an absolute octopus of scams and flim-flams. He’s making money hand-over-fist and will likely leave office several times wealthier than at any point in his life prior to the second term.

So much of this wealth is rooted in his ability to access near-infinite credit, to lose billions of dollars, to declare bankruptcy, and to start over again with fresh new lines of borrowing capacity. He can do this, seemingly forever, because he’s such a well-known and well-insulated conduit for dirty money. If you need to bypass US sanctions or move liquidity through the NATO-aligned banking system, you’ve got a fence who can turn over god only knows how much money without being bothered by federal investigators.

He’s been doing this since he took over the business from his father, who was deeply embedded with the east coast mafia families and their corrupt government counterparts. It’s the reason he’s so close with Rudy Guliani (who made his career at the SDNY by shielding one half of the mafia in order to prosecute the other half).

If not for the licensing and the apprentice

Tip of the iceberg. He’s got friends at every major financial sector on the Atlantic. My guy has likely laundered trillions in his lifetime.

You can’t tell me that many voters only voted for the President and ignored all the other Republican candidates.

If you actually interview the voters themselves, its very easy to see why they loved Trump and hated the rest of the party. Like, their social media routinely says as much. Their favorite news and entertainment channels say as much. They say as much. This is a cult of personality, not unlike with Reagan in '80/'84 or Nixon in '72, where split-tickets and blank bottom ballots swept both Republican Presidents and Dem House Majorities into power.

Besides all the legal voter suppression there was likely some tabulation machine manipulation.

Oh absolutely. But that’s been fucking liberals over since Operation Eagle Eye. Democrats simply don’t seem to care. From Michelle Obama to Stacey Abrams to Pete Buttigieg, when they’re asked what they can do to resist voters disenfranchisement, the answer is always “Vote Harder”.

The “when they go low, we go high” strategy appears to be little more than wishful thinking, as democrats chant “demographics is destiny” in states where more and more of the residents are cut off from the elections process.

George Washington would be super happy to see what we’ve become.

Washington was the wealthiest man in America at the time of his death. He might abhor the low rent crassness of this particular iteration of benediction. But I don’t think he’d mind the 250 years of dogmatic ass-kissing that brought us to this moment.

Dude would be quite happy to hear his face is on money and his name is branded into the country he helped plunder, from sea to shining sea.