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@Hoss Apparently preferring congressmen who aren't bought and paid for by a foreign government is enough for some right-wingers with really, really big brains to accuse you of being a Communist

I noticed something similar happening to Jon Hamm. He got memed from Mad Men as a based misogynist and since then he's gotten a lot of roles tearing him down; in Black Mirror he gets fucked over with Orwellian technology and in Fargo he gets prison raped. Basically any White man who gets attention as a symbol for other White men gets the dehabilitation treatment. (Except for Mads Mikkelson, I don't know how he does it.)

Too late for a sensible Libertarian.

America needs a carbon copy of what Nayib Bukele has done for El Salvador.

Sadly, that was the promise of Trump. What could have been..

Seeing that he is a human bean, I wouldn't blame him for walking away from the cesspool of Washington to his farm.

More likely, he'll end up at a "think tank"

the GOP has left Susan Collins untouched since 1997, but decided that Thomas Massive justified the most expensive advertising blitz to eliminate him

How do you account for joblessness in this rating?

If the avg Joe at a median income can afford two big Macs, but his neighbors on the left and right lost their job to ai, what does that say?

Fun Fact: the Restaurant was invented in 2006 and it's use by millenials caused the 2008 financial crisis

-t. Boomer

50K wouldn't last most nogs a month.

> Why did the founders engineer such a division, over whether the federal government or states should be stronger?


They didn't. They could not have been more explicit with the 10th amendment:


"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

But people wanted more power, so they did it anyway

@Phil @realcaseyrollins @wjmaggos @billybon3s @eriner @klaatu @threalist

> he voted against bills because there was something in them he didn't like

Imagine if more Congresspeople voted this way. Imagine how much less pork and fraud would make its way into these 10,000 page bills.

Maybe the problem isn't one person voting what he thinks is best for his constituency. Maybe the problem is the other 434 voting the way their party's hivemind demands.

I have a friend who makes a living setting up SquareSpace sites for people. This is how I know that AI isn't going to put everyone out of work.

So it never was about helping the Iranian people to gain freedom from their oppressive regime?

(Possibly paywalled) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

New York Times:

Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader

An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

From the above, we could surmise that the Baby Boomers are the TV generation, and will do whatever the screen tells them to do.

Maybe that's the simplest explanation of what happened.

"By May 17, ad spending exceeded $32 million, with pro-Israel interest groups accounting for over $9 million of the spending against Massie. Massie described the primary election as a "referendum on whether Israel gets to buy seats in Congress"

I'm seeing comments that this was the most spent in American history for a house seat.

Also, baby boomers voted for the Trump candidate.

Somebody please go find out why Republicans voted against . I really can't understand it unless they still just love Trump blindly or were tricked by the advertising. He's like a perfect Republican with integrity.

cc @ryan @eriner @billybon3s @klaatu

Sure am glad to be living in France. It does seem to be slowly getting worse - but since every other country is RAPIDLY getting worse, France is becoming a paradise by comparison.

It's not a thoughtful insight. It's a copy-paste from an AI.

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