Congress: “You have to release these files”

Trump: “No”

Congress: “Okay”

Like, you want to be a little annoyed at the vulgar populism of “You deserve to buy more burger”. But it’s hard in a state that’s run by folks who are effectively trying to price gouge the price of beef, then blame people who flinch at the price

He lost nothing

He lost a marginal amount of credit worthiness. $80B is twice the purchase price of Twitter, as a point of comparison. But it’s after a $400B bull run.

What he’s lost today is dwarfed by what he gained over the last ten years.

Trillionaire loses $80B credit card in couch cushions. Nation celebrates as oligarch experiences rounding error shift in status.

NASA has it as five

If you count dwarf planets, that puts our count at 13.

And we can’t do 13 planets. It’s unlucky.

This is what they took from us

Eh. Loomer has been advocating for mass deportation of Muslims for her entire career.

The shoe fits.

There’s a documentary called “Feels Good Man” that talks about how this meme was co-opted and corrupted from a college kid’s goofy self-published 'zine.

It’s had a lot of mileage, coming and going.

Democrats didn’t “win”! Trump just sabotaged the GOP.

Democrats have been building momentum in the state since the disaster of 2014. Dem turnout has climbed from the 1.4M low water mark that year. An enormous part of that was driven by the Beto engagement strategies and permanent campaign apparatus begun in 2018.

By comparison, NY Dems turnout out 3.4M voters in '26. California turned out 5.1M. Texas Dems turned out 5.4M.

Compare Texas to Florida, Virginia, Ohio… Nobody came close. This was as dramatic a swing as the elections in Hungary and Serbia. And all credit goes to Texas locals, who organized cadres fully independent of the national party.

purple coats

Not purple. It’s more blue and white.

🇮🇱

Schumer backed almost as many losers in the Senate as McConnell did this year

You’ll need around 900,000 signatures. For the low low price of $8/signature you too can tantelize Californians with some silly bullshit

This is the exact kind of neoliberal corruption and collusion with capital that needs to be destroyed and criminally prosecuted, to prevent fascism and safeguard the future from psychopathic and sociopathic control.

It’s the kind of neoliberal corruption that gets plowed right back into the campaign war chests of rank and file Democrat Party campaign coffers.

I’m sure how it ends when it wins elections with 57% of the vote. You’d need a court to get involved and stop it, at a minimum. Good luck with that.

If Trump is so disliked, why do so many people still drive on public roads and send mail via the USPS?

A giant wealth tax would have been better than a thin veneer of campaign finance reform.

The initiative prohibits what it describes as “artificial persons” — which includes corporations, nonprofits, trusts, partnerships, and trade associations — from giving money to political campaigns.

I guess that’s fine. But it doesn’t do anything to prevent these organizations from advertising and voter mobilizing independently of a campaign.

SuperPACs are functionally unaffected

Alabama was 49th in everything, thanks to Mississippi being 50th.

Oklahoma has been plumbing new depths of late.

However, I think Mississippi is having a moment in large part because the systems of disenfranchisement have been breaking down. And unlike with Alabama and it’s large cadre of wealthy white German expat rocket scientists, the white upper class in the state has been fumbling their bag for decades.

Apartheid systems struggle when there’s no economic benefit to being in the “superior” cohort. Not unlike with Texas and Georgia, where the suburbs have melted back into the urban core and people have lost sight of themselves as racialized factions.

The GOP just died.

The GOP isn’t any more dead today than it was in 2008 or 1992. No more than the Dems were dead after 1994 or 2016.