A Democrat has a scandal: Everyone on the right and left attacks them.
A Republican has a scandal: Everyone on the right defends them. A few on the left attack them.
This is a huge problem.
Never forget - inflation was TRENDING DOWNWARDS, trending towards the Fed’s target rate of 2%, and THE US ECONOMY WAS TRENDING TOWARDS NORMALIZATION FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2019
And the dumbest fucking people in the world voted for a guy who has completely single-handedly reversed those trends thru his own domestic and foreign policy decisions
Men don’t want abortion.
Men don’t want condoms.
Men don’t want vasectomies.
Men don’t want child support.
What they want is consequence-free access to women’s bodies.
ZETEO: “A Marine who served with Graham Platner in Iraq and got matching tattoos: ‘No, we did not purposely get hateful fucking shit because we’re racist people. We got matching tattoos because we were in our 20s, drunk in Croatia, and that’s it.’” https://t.co/CRtF3EC3KR
The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."
Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."
The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.
The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."
This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.
MIKA: Given your sexting, can you call for the release of the Epstein files and not be conflicted in any way?
PLATNER: Yes, of course. I engaged in consensual romantic activities with adults at an earlier part of my life. That seems like a fairly normal thing most people do. Going to an island with billionaires to possibly assault children is a vastly, vastly different thing.
This is as close as you’ll get to a right-winger just admitting that they are totally uninterested in what is true or false; they simply demand to be assuaged.
They must *feel* calmed and satisfied. In their view, we all exist only to serve their feelings.
The left has one job right now: stop treating authoritarianism like a debate club topic. It is here. It is funded. It is organized. It is wearing a flag pin and thumping a bible.
It’s another level of fucked up that myself and millions of other people are now having to rethink our entire lives because of AI technology that we didn’t want or ask for.
Fascism does not arrive saying “I am fascism.” It arrives saying “law and order,” “border security,” “anti-woke,” “election integrity,” and “national emergency.”
Read the replies. There are literally thousands — all insinuating that Nithya's second-place result is due to voter fraud. Los Angeles has quickly become a political testing ground for Trump's terrifying 2028 plans. It's time we prepare for what is coming our way.
Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.