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[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit.

The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here.

Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice.

You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action.

"Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism.

But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.

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@EWErickson Why give Iran money to maybe buy ag products from the US? Why not just use that money to actually buy the ag products and then give the product to Iran? Guarantees money is spent correctly…

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@MohammedAlo Suddenly stopping a statin can lead to a sharp rise in LDL and reduce plaque stability. https://t.co/1pS5979K4j

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

https://t.co/x6lbzvvN1X

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@Acyn What is the point he is making? I’m king so I can shit on Americans?

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

☀️AM: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR POLITICS?

The assassination of Charlie Kirk, the hugely popular 31-year-old conservative star, is gutting, shocking and horrific. The close ally of President Donald Trump leaves behind a wife who’ll never see her husband again and two young children who’ll grow up without their father.

We don’t like to tell you what to think and certainly have no business to tell you how you should feel.

But let us tell you what we’re thinking this morning: What are we even doing here?

Kirk’s brutal murder during a college program at Utah Valley University is the latest tragic chapter in the rapidly deteriorating political discourse that’s come to dominate our nation. The failed assassination attempts against Trump in 2024 deeply rattled the country. Yet nearly every pol in either party can recount multiple stories about the violent threats — or even attacks — they face on a regular basis.

Perhaps the scariest part of all is that no matter how much security there is, no matter how thorough the precautions are, more American politicians and political figures will be threatened, hurt or killed in politically-motivated violence in the near future. It’s horrible to say. But this is our reality. ...

Speaker Mike Johnson said last week during a G7 event in Canada that the United States Capitol Police has tracked a stunning 14,000 instances of threats made toward members of Congress this year alone. That’s a 55% increase over last year.

Much of the behavior that we see from national political leaders themselves would be deemed unacceptable for grade-school children.

Many – if not most – members and senators see the other party as their mortal enemies out to destroy the country, not just good-hearted yet wrong-thinking political rivals. That mindset makes each day an existential struggle between good and evil rather than a contest between competing political ideas or policies.

Fundraising emails are often filled with violent rhetoric. Angry, unhinged outbursts on the House floor have become commonplace. All in the pursuit of the next political buck or viral moment.

The rise of social media has fed into growing extremism on both sides of the aisle. Passing legislation or making bipartisan deals is seen as far less valuable than someone who can pound their opponents on TikTok or X. In fact, bipartisanship is a sign you’ve been compromised and fallen prey to the other side’s malevolent machinations.

The media plays a major role in all this too. Cable TV makes stars of those who engage in conflict and confrontation. If it bleeds, it leads – 24 hours per day, 365 days a year across every channel.

Here’s the truth: We all have play a part in creating a political discourse that we’re proud of for a country that most of us deeply love. This is something we should all keep in mind as we deal with the fallout of Kirk’s murder in the days and weeks ahead.

https://t.co/i6xHd0hWh5

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

How is an economic meltdown the one thing Republicans are suddenly all chill about?

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@Atticus59914029 Same. I think going forward messaging should be framed around protecting our FREEDOMS.

Let freedom ring.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

A century ago, Germany’s democracy was hijacked by a bombastic and charismatic tyrant — and in this five-minute video, you’ll learn how he did it. Why did I produce this? Because I believe that history is speaking to us, and all too often, those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

As you watch, imagine filling out a Bingo card filled with Germany 1933/USA 2024 parallels: big rallies, rage-filled and hateful rhetoric, simple answers promising quick and easy solutions to complicated problems, empty promises of a great-again future, scapegoating outsiders, and political enemies silenced on day one. And notice the caring wisdom and concern from my German friends as they share these lessons from their dark history.

It’s hard to understand how Trump could, on the eve of a tight election, paint a picture of Liz Cheney before a firing squad by actually saying, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face.” You can’t get into the mind of a dictator with an insatiable appetite for power — but you can recognize the playbook they all seem to follow.

Just watch this clip. It’s excerpted from my hourlong public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe,” which is streaming free (and ad-free) at https://t.co/YA10kVH0V8. If you care about our democracy and love our country, it’s hard to stop watching.

When I produced this in 2018, I hoped this day would never come in our country. But November 5th is upon us. Please share this with anyone in your life who might need a reminder that the stakes are high...and this is very real.

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@ronrule 1) Social Media
2) Obama
3) Trump

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

HOLY LORD, every Christian must see this!

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@DC_Draino Can you tell me about the GOP presidential primary in 2020?

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@DrunkRepub Biggest problem is the we don’t listen each other. I could offer a rebuttal, but the only response I’ll get is cry harder libtard.

Both sides have some good ideas on how to run this country. It all gets lost in the noise and the hyperbole.

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

Either you believe that puppy-murdering Dr. Fauci helped build a fake harmless virus that the world overreacted to and shut down all the world's businesses so that all the Democrats could get mail-in voting set up so that they could steal the election and then stage an insurrection to make Trump look bad and then had five different court systems from judge to jury stacked so that they could convict Trump of 34 felonies and find him guilty in 3 different civil judgements and also tried to run an FBI assassination of him by raiding his house for documents that were ok for him to have because of the Presidential Records act and he declassified them with his mind so it really shouldn't matter and it's OK that he tried to install fake electors and incite a riot because the Democrats stole the election and besides the President has absolute immunity...

...OR...

...You believe that Donald Trump is guilty.

At what point does Occam's Razor kick in?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

It’s worth watching every second of this video exposing Katie Britt’s dishonesty

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Well it looks like Jonathan M. Katz has caught @SenKatieBritt in a pretty significant lie.

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@WazzuBound Kojo Mensah-Bonsu

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@SwiftieTilliDye @CodyBrownBets So it’s your fault they all lost 😞

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@ProsserHoops Krebs- West Valley

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@glutneyGG @CodyBrownBets Evans will ruin it