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How you respond to the Nazi tattoo candidate is how you would have responded to "grab them by the pussy" if you were a Republican.
Democrats have spent the last ten+ years bemoaning the evilness of Republicans who acknowledge Trump's flaws, but support him anyway because "the alternative [ie, the other side being in power] is worse."
Then along comes misogynistic racist Nazi tattoo guy, and every single Democratic politician is obligated by the base to support him because... drumroll.... "the alternative [ie, the other side being in power] is worse."
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Even if you keep daylight savings all the time it will eventually get dark by 6 pm everywhere in the continental US. People seem confused by this for some reason.
My guess is it's the exact opposite, it's just that libertarians like crime
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There was an unprecedented level of internet-driven brain rot in 2024 that turned everyone into barely sentient potatoes
Jordan Klepper interviews a two-time Trump voter who regrets voting for Trump after his fiancée was deported.
"I thought he would be a businessman. I'm disgusted. He's a piece of shit. She's Cuban and they deported her to Mexico like trash. I didn't think anybody could be that cruel."
He's now registered as a member of the Democratic Party and says he's owned up to his mistakes for voting for "scum".
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I'm not sure there is a precedent for what seems likely to happen in Israel, a state which was 75% secular and 6% orthodox on founding and is on track to be majority orthodox by some time in the second half of the century. And not via persuasion, but just birth rate differences
-20% of Israel’s workers supply 93% of all income-tax revenue
-50% of Israelis pay no income tax at all.
-The ultra-Orthodox go to schools that don’t teach math, science, English or civics.
-Their pop doubles every 25 years
nytimes.com/2026/10/26/world…
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what an incredible exchange.
i have my issues with Yglesias but he comes across as an incredibly informed, nuanced thinker compared to Hasan's almost complete lack of familiarity with US history. Hasan sounds like he watched maybe one far left podcast on the subject and figures he's now an expert.
(and, hilariously, at the end he jumps to say "this reminds me of gaza!" of course it does, Mehdi. of course it does. what doesn't? you unfathomably provincial foreigner.)
“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.”
I thought this was one of the more fascinating and important exchanges with @mattyglesias, where I challenged him on how far politicians should defer to polls on huge moral issues, and he pushed back on my analogy.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mehdi conflates bill approval with protest approval. "This civil rights bill" was popular in '63. It had +16 approval (54-38) by Aug. '63 & +30 (61-31) in Jan. '64 before its June passage. Desegregation was generally popular w/ >+30 support for SCOTUS anti-segregation rulings
news.gallup.com/poll/3427/most…
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I used to be a strong supporter of public roads, but then I realized that paved roads might at some hypothetical point in the future be used by an authoritarian government to repress people.
We need to go back to dirt roads that are too narrow for tanks.
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If I spent months actively hyping up a Nazi tattooed rapist as someone who was 'ready to remake the party' and 'meet the moment', and then when it predictably came out that he was accused of rape, I literally did not acknowledge it a single time, I would not be going around lecturing people on 'reflecting.'
But that's just me. I have shame. And some decency.
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Feel like there’s a media story somewhere about former MSNBC hosts who started out relatively normal and went completely off the deep end because of audience capture: Ed Schultz, Cenk, Medhi Hassan, Joy Reid…
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Conservatives will say that liberals have Trump Derangement Syndrome for posting about blatant corruption and then drive 40 minutes to their nearest big city galleria mall to pull up to the Cheesecake Factory for a selfie to protest a random Barack Obama joke they misunderstood.
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Matthew Yglesias supporting the Iraq war in college is simply not as relevant as professional journalists who said that Syrians were actually gassing themselves over and over to frame Assad.
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I agree. We should never listen to Bernie's political advice ever again. Glad we can agree.
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Yglesias is just correct here. Hasan is quoting a bunch of stats about how elements of the civil rights *protest movement* were unpopular, but the actual law was not.
“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.”
I thought this was one of the more fascinating and important exchanges with @mattyglesias, where I challenged him on how far politicians should defer to polls on huge moral issues, and he pushed back on my analogy.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mehdi conflates bill approval with protest approval. "This civil rights bill" was popular in '63. It had +16 approval (54-38) by Aug. '63 & +30 (61-31) in Jan. '64 before its June passage. Desegregation was generally popular w/ >+30 support for SCOTUS anti-segregation rulings
news.gallup.com/poll/3427/most…
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The Boomer conservatives apologizing for this are so obnoxious.
Old people also want zero property taxes. They basically want to contribute nothing at all to society and it’s eating a bunch of developed countries alive.
Observation: A lot of these "social conventions/etiquette are lame and dumb so make your birthday as important as a wedding if you want to" takes always center around stories of relational friction and people never seem to put 2 and 2 together
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this is some of the most openly pathetic behavior I've ever seen from a manchild before, he's actually so shameless with the "ISLAMOPHOBIA" claims
Everything you need to know about American politics is that literally no one will accept that it was the *2020* emergency measures that baked inflation into the pie
Tim Miller of The Bulwark suggests inflation from stimulus checks may be more at fault for Dems loss in 2024 than Gaza:
Tim: "Are you ready for a disagreement I'm not gonna paper over? The Biden stimulus was way too big and juiced inflation and did not help at all. So, oops."
Kyle Kulinski: "I mean, it was people's only lifeline. That's how people survived during COVID."
Tim: "Yeah but it lead to a lot of inflation that people really didn't like in the end. So, anyway..."
The more clips of this get released the more both of these guys are exposed as people you really shouldn't take that seriously
“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.”
I thought this was one of the more fascinating and important exchanges with @mattyglesias, where I challenged him on how far politicians should defer to polls on huge moral issues, and he pushed back on my analogy.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mehdi conflates bill approval with protest approval. "This civil rights bill" was popular in '63. It had +16 approval (54-38) by Aug. '63 & +30 (61-31) in Jan. '64 before its June passage. Desegregation was generally popular w/ >+30 support for SCOTUS anti-segregation rulings
news.gallup.com/poll/3427/most…