stone vanderpump

You must, in fact, stand in front of the public and god and obliterate yourself.

[Emerson Green @waldenpod]

There’s just no way around the fact that this is the funniest video of the entire year

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

holy shit this is literally just a nonstop revenge election huh

[dot @dotNoso]

Mamdani and the entire Morning Joe crew laugh at JD Vance for trying to take credit for lower crime in NYC 🤣

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Wave so blue that Democrats who dropped out and don't even want to be there are still getting elected

[TEZ @montezology]

Texas, Georgia and South Carolina

[sk @chairmanmeow42]

The Mississippi Senate race is an extraordinary story. If you dig up the history between the two Scott Colom (Dem) vs Cindy Hyde (GOP). This guy Colom was minding his own business and was on track to be a district judge (local bi partisan choice btw) under Biden.

But Hyde Smith the current Senator wouldn't give her approval, she blocked Colom's nomination and that was the end of his district judge path. So last year Colom decided to run against Hyde Smith. He is within striking distance of becoming the first black Senator for Mississippi since 1871, and the first Dem Senator since 1989.

[Gabe Fleisher @GabeFleisher]

Uhhh Vance basically breaking with Trump on inflation, the Iran war, and the US relationship with Israel here

Throwing the president’s policies under the bus WAY more quickly and publicly than I would have expected

This X post is the start of Trump’s lame duck era.

[🫥 @sybil69420]

we're changing the national anthem to melatonin by tinashe

[brandon* @brndxix]

make sure you open that bitch up on sundays from here on out @ChickfilA

[stone vanderpump @booboolafool]

. @SpeakerJohnson vacate your office

[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

Republicans are going to have a terrible night, and the simple reason why is that Trump has put up perhaps the worst *performance* this term of any president in a century or more.

Remember that he entered with an actual mandate: the House and Senate, a popular vote victory and a swing-state sweep, and 6-3 Supreme Court. Democrats were afraid enough to vote for mild but real immigration restrictionist legislation in the Laken Riley Act. Everyone wondered how far the "Vibe Shift" would go.

Trump managed to turn that into essentially zero durable wins whatsoever. He personally *hates* the very idea of legislation, the notion that he would have to spend time going back and forth with Congress, learning details and making compromises. So he simply didn't do it! He didn't make a compelling case for abolishing the filibuster. He didn't try communicating clearly to the public in support of popular bills to get to 60 votes. He just decided not to do it at all.

So they passed an unpopular tax cut, some funding for ICE, and a sop to the crypto industry, and that was basically it. Least productive Congress in decades, due to the tastes of one man.

Trump adopted one of the worst macro policies we've ever had: high deficits, high tariffs, and attacks on central bank independence. We managed to pay higher interest rates while still having high trade deficits AND weakening the dollar. Just a total failure.

On immigration, perhaps THE signature issue, Trump essentially min-maxxed effectiveness and backlash. Instead of trying to leverage the political moment for new laws and a self-deportation agenda (that is, walling off the economy to remove the benefit of irregular presence in the US), he opted for a maximally aggressive approach. The administration spent attention, funds, legal manpower on stunts like deporting random people to Salvadoran prisons with essentially no due process. ICE and Border Patrol were encouraged to be aggressive and confrontational, which helped contribute to the shooting deaths of American protestors. It turns out, that's extremely unpopular!

What about the approach of going after employers? The obvious vector? Trump hated that idea! He repeatedly has said he doesn't want to target businesses (especially farms) that use large amounts of illegal labor. This is just an incomprehensible position. Instead of charging a few dozen businessmen and removing the incentive for millions of illegal workers to be here, you arrest people off the street one by one at the cost of thousands of dollars in manpower per each, while their crying wives and kids post TikToks about it.

Upshot on immigration: electoral strength turned into a crippling electoral weakness in exchange for deporting maybe 6% of the illegally present population.

The tariffs were a total shitshow. Embarrassing rollout, no underlying theory of action at all. No targeted focus on key industries. Our country tariffed products we can't grow. We tariffed *inputs* of our own valuable exports. The schemes and amounts changed constantly, sending the stock market reeling and presenting scenes of chaos to the world.

Trump's messaging throughout has been generationally bad. While facing nearly 2:1 unpopularity, he spends his days posting AI slop, saying he'll rename New Mexico or invade allies, among other bizarre remarks. He brags about a ballroom and a pool repainting while gas hits records. At no point has he ever attempted any kind of message discipline.

Then there are the deeply unpopular attacks on rule of law, his "game-recognize-game" pardons for all manner of scammers and criminals, the crypto schemes that he and his family engage in, the evilly conceived and embarrassingly executed legal attacks on Comey, Jerome Powell, and others. With his monthslong stand on NOT releasing the Epstein files, he became maybe the first president ever to stake out a 99-1 issue on the 1% side.

That's not even getting into Iran, DOGE, his candidate recruitment choices, or countless other things. Simply put: Trump has managed to royally screw up virtually every single facet of his presidency. It's been undeniable, voters have noticed, and there's really no escape from it. This is what the GOP base chose in early 2024, and this is the world they're living with now. Where they handed the reins of history to a fat, vain, washed-up old man and let him drive.

[tytacobell @tytacobell]

How I’m gonna open the work meeting tomorrow

[Jon Aguiar @JonAguiar]

Trump got regime change in Texas before Iran

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

If you can name a Morgan Wallen song you're getting sentenced to 5 years of hard labor in January.

[sy’rai @rxynextdoor]

Voted Blue in New York City

[union person @CantEverDie]

onion article from 3 hours ago

[Doran Schrantz @DSchrantz]

Ohio has a law (supported by Husted as SOS) that there can be only ONE early voting site per county regardless of population. Ohio has some of the most anti-voter laws in the country. This is atrocious and should be rejected entirely by the voting public. Let us f-ing vote.

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

This is purposeful voter suppression by Ohio Statehouse Republicans

They passed a law allowing only ONE early vote location per county, no matter the county size or population. They knew this would create lines in places like Cbus, Cincinnati, & Cleveland, but not rural areas