russ

hear me out

[Candace Owens Trying to Read (Parody) @candaceReading1]

Botched idioms and malapropisms pt 2

[russ @_walruss]

@notthefakeswede The lot’s been abandoned for 24 fucking years. What’s the “something else” you think is just waiting to be built?

[russ @_walruss]

How many jobs is the dilapidated parking lot creating? These people are retarded.

[sŵëðě @notthefakeswede]

@Ecstasyltc @_walruss The landlords are BlackRock and Blackstone. Sometimes Apollo and Ares. That money doesn’t stay in the community.

All construction jobs disappear after a year or so and then you’re left with 20 ftes. That’s it.

No tax revenue as most are given abatements.

[russ @_walruss]

@notthefakeswede Hey dumbass, know what’s worse than a temporary job? No job, because you didn’t do fuck-all with the dilapidated parking lot.

[russ @_walruss]

An obese idiot proudly saving their local abandoned parking lot from being turned into a local money-printing machine is a perfect metaphor for what the country did last Tuesday.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.

[russ @_walruss]

@notthefakeswede For the local builders and welders and plumbers and electricians? For the local property owners who could have their property tax burden lowered, because megacap tech companies have doubled their city’s tax revenue? Ok.

[Claire @Claire_V0ltaire]

This is such a blatant and easy to dispute lie. If democrats were serious about curtailing antisemitism and lies that lead to and inflames antisemitism, they would discipline this man who should know better. If you have to lie, and do PR stunts, and continue to distort reality, you are damaging any meaningful credibility you have pursuing accountability against Israel.

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

Megyn Kelly: "If Russell Brand had sex with a 16 year old in his 30s, I'm done with this scumbag."

Russell Brand to Megyn Kelly: "I had sex with a 16 year old in my 30s."

Megyn Kelly: "I think he's really charming!"

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

This is tragic.

Harmeet has been a champion for the civil rights of young white Christian men. No one has done more than her to crush the DEI regime that targeted them.

And this is how she is repaid by the very people she fought for.

These young fools—ignorant, arrogant Nick Fuentes acolytes—are trying to make the Right a “Christians only” party while simultaneously making Christianity look as repulsive as possible. It’s electoral suicide.

[Tony Kinnett @TheTonus]

Hahahahahahaha every single one of them.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Gov. Ron DeSantis: "My budget's $117 billion. New York State's budget's $268 billion. That's more than twice the budget. Obviously, they have heavy taxes. The question is, are you getting twice the services living in New York?"

[Mark Goldfeder @MarkGoldfeder]

Dear @JDVance,

You warned on Wednesday that the next few months would bring a lot of gaslighting. Then you wrote the first draft.

Your post says any honest conversation must start with the war. Great. Since April you have been the administration’s lead negotiator, which makes you the owner of the track that turned a seven-week bombing campaign into an eight-month stalemate. Every week of ceasefire that was not a peace kept the Strait a question mark and kept diesel where eighty-seven percent of voters said they could feel it. Had you spent the spring arguing for the one hour the President says it would take instead of extending the stalemate, the war would have been over by summer, the pump would have said so, and you would be writing a different post. You promised no forever war. You then built a ceasefire with no exit, and sat on it for seven months. Tell voters what settlement you believed was achievable, what deadlines mattered, and what the administration planned to do if negotiations failed.

You say you know a great many of the smartest people in politics, but not one of them has a name. (Tucker?) At least one of them cannot count (also Tucker?), because on your list of four things, items one and two are the same item, and item three is a bumper sticker. Item four is the only entry that names a country, and it is not the country we are at war with.

(BTW I can guess where item four came from. Days ago @TuckerCarlson wrote that the administration was considering striking Pickaxe Mountain under pressure from Netanyahu, on the strength of Israeli intelligence. That is your fourth item, written out in full. No one had to poll for it. It was posted.)

The poll itself. “Change our relationship to Israel” is broad enough to mean several incompatible things. What did those voters actually say? Did they spontaneously mention Israel? Were they offered a list? What percentage selected that answer? Were they objecting to this war, particular Israeli policies, American assistance, or the alliance itself? Why not publish the questionnaire, the sample, the percentages, and the crosstabs.

By contrast, the networks published their exit polls. The issues voters were asked about were the economy, democracy, immigration, corruption, the Iran war and artificial intelligence. Israel did not need a column, because voters were not voting about Israel. The sole evidence that the American electorate rendered a verdict on Israel is a phone call between you and a man you will not identify.

Contrast your response with @realDonaldTrump’s. Asked about your post, he acknowledged the war’s electoral cost and said he would make the decision again because long term it's the only answer. Agree or disagree, he defended his decision.

In July, you yourself said America would have fought this war without Israeli influence. You explained that the president independently opposed an Iranian nuclear weapon—and that you agreed.

Now your post finds room for an unnamed pollster’s undefined grievance against Israel, but none for an accounting of your own decisions as the administration’s lead negotiator.

Name the pollster. Publish the questions and the results. Tell voters which decisions you supported, which you opposed, and which you would reverse.

The President answered for his decision. That is leadership. If you want to be a leader, you need to be able to answer for yours.

[Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX]

Watch Rep. Raskin unravel when I point out what the GOP should have been doing all along: telling the truth. Democrats BLOCKED bipartisan legislation on data centers (force them to pay for their own power), and BLOCKED bipartisan legislation to stop stock trading. Why? Because they wanted to RUN ON THESE ISSUES IN THE MIDTERMS. Yes, it’s a classic cynical political ploy, and the public almost always falls for it.

Smart politics? Yes. Ethical governance? Hell no.

Raskin even admitted that he believed good policy should take a back seat to good politics. That mentality disgusts me.

Doing what's right for the country matters more than winning elections. My insufferable democrat colleague disagrees – or maybe he understands it perfectly well and just doesn't care.

I'm not going to apologize for defending President Trump and American national security. And I'm not going to pretend that losing an election suddenly makes those policies wrong.

And Republicans? Learn the right lessons. Yall f***ed up. Badly. You spent hundreds of millions of dollars on transgender ads instead of explaining why Democrats caused high prices and how Republican policies saved people money on their taxes and reduce costs in the long term.

I’m defending Trump because his policies are good for the long term, not designed for short term popularity.  Perfect? No. But a hell of a lot better than the alternatives.

Double down on your agenda, Mr. President.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

There was one guy who dedicated his time to going to college campuses to talk to these guys, and they took care of that inconvenience, didn't they?

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Every freakshow podcaster on the “Right,” from Tucker to Candace and everyone in between spent the last two years demoralizing their 10s of millions of listeners with the message that the GOP betrayed them, Trump is controlled by the “Epstein class,” that their vote doesn’t matter, and that they have no agency or sovereignty over their lives or their nations politics.

So millions of demoralized people on the Right stayed home. That’s what happened. The base didn’t show up because they were told it didn’t matter. And they’re about to spend 2 years re-learning why it did matter.

[Kimberley Strassel @KimStrassel]

This is a total hoot.
About the only thing it gets correct is that 2024 Trump voters were "pissed." As the polls spell out, very clearly, they were angry about tariffs--a word weirdly not found in this post, but which exit polls showed 65% of voters dislike. There's a straight line between those punishing costs and Senate losses in Kansas, Iowa, Ohio (farm areas) and beyond.
Angry the WH instead spent this past year talking about ballrooms and the Kennedy center. Frustrated by the complete absence of a next-two-year agenda (85% are concerned by healthcare costs. Where is the GOP plan?)
They are also unhappy about the war, though the numbers might be different if the president been clear about an exit strategy. And not sure where the "smartest" (and most anonymous) pollster in the world got the Israel argument. Exit polls show that of the 51% of voters who said our support for Israel was "too strong," only 19% of even that subset of respondents were Republican. The vast majority of GOP voters said our support for Israel was "just right" or "not strong enough."
Amusing to claim the problem here was traditional conservatives, as they were sidelined. Tillis was run out of the party, dooming NC. As was Cornyn. The WH had a pure expression of its second-term Trump/Vance agenda and loyalty in its chosen candidate of Ken Paxton. That would be the smoking carcass sitting on a 12-point loss in. . . Texas of all places. Meanwhile, who exactly is even talking about "asylum"? That's just a smear-y effort to preemptively shut down valid criticism.
The GOP strength has always been in its coalition--free-marketers, defense hawks, cultural conservatives. Trump's first-term success came from largely following that Reagan playbook. The second-term leaned into me-too progressive populism--at the veep's urging--and it ain't working.
The weird thing is that the veep remains more obsessed with remaking the party than with winning. Winning will require a lot better understanding of what happened yesterday than what is on offer in this alternate-universe view.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

This is so awesome

[Caleb Hull @CalebJHull]

Well here’s the thing. They’re not French people. They’re migrants you imported into your own country who have zero interest in adopting your culture.

[russ @_walruss]

I don’t think the revolutionary communist Palestinians give a shit about “rising living costs and poor school conditions”

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

Paris woke to shattered storefronts, burned cars and a massive police presence after violent clashes erupted across France during nationwide protests over rising living costs and poor school conditions.

Police reported 1,800 arrests nationwide, including 855 in the Paris region alone. Masked groups fought with police, looted businesses and set fires in several cities. In Limoges, fire tore through the city's historic town hall — built in 1883 — collapsing the roof and destroying roughly two-thirds of the building's exterior. The local prefect called it "a catastrophe for heritage."

President Trump weighed in Sunday, blaming immigration for the unrest and urging France to close its borders. "The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country," he wrote on Truth Social. "Close your borders and take control, before it is too late!"

Full story here https://t.co/7Xyc2pSpgh

[GimpelTheMaccabee🎗️ @MaccabiGimpel]

The Omani pilot asked the Indian pilot if he could leave his seat to pray and after being granted permission, he attacked the Captain with the axe from behind.

This is actually a great metaphor for the west.