Ben Thessen

Your local bisexual wünderkid. Scotch-tape enthusiast. I write video game music sometimes. Hate nazis? Let’s be friends.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Stock buybacks were considered illegal market manipulation. That is until, you guessed it, Ronald Reagan.

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

@SenWarren Lindsey Graham was an objectively terrible person. You didn’t have to post anything, like you won’t lose voters for saying nothing. I’d argue you will lose voters for this post though

[JB 🐻✨🍉 @JBfromDC89]

apparently yes!!!

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

This is why she shouldn’t be a serious candidate for 2028. Lindsay Graham was openly a terrible POS, and spent his career supporting racist and sexist legislation and mongering repeatedly for senseless wars.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I am saddened to learn of the passing of my former colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham. He was full of wit, energy, and charm, and he cared deeply about the Senate and the people of South Carolina. Doug and I are sending our thoughts and our prayers to his friends and loved ones.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Breaking: Lindsey Graham is dead at 71 after a brief and sudden illness.

He spent the final years of his life advocating for war, genocide, and dropping a nuclear bomb on the Palestinian people.

Good riddance. The world is a better and safer place without this lunatic in it.

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

If you work for ICE, then you don’t have the capacity to love your family, nor do you deserve their love. Every employee of ICE are genuinely awful human beings who deserve to lose their American citizenship and should spend the rest of their lives in the worst prison we have

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Mexican Man Killed by ICE in Houston Wasn’t the Intended Target — NYT

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

Neighbor’s dogs barking at 1am, good thing I went to bed early. Can’t wait until I move away from these irresponsible, inconsiderate neighbors in a month. I genuinely have had less than 10 days since last August where I got 8 hours of sleep because of their noisy bahavior

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

@tedcruz Based on this post, either you are insanely stupid or you think your constituents are. Imagine having a senator who is as dumb/disrespectful as you

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

Okay Platner discourse aside (he should step down) we can all agree that this is a ludicrously stupid statement from McCarthy, right? Like, seriously bro? Go fuck urself

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kevin McCarthy on Platner Allegations: That one thing I know about Republicans is when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away.

[JulesNader386 @Julesnader386]

Literally ALL of Zohran Mamdani’s policies are popular NATIONWIDE.

The people want leftist policies, which is why Leftists are the most electable option, especially in swing states.

Pushing moderate candidates in this moment is the riskiest option.

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

@karolineleavitt Says the fucking Nazi

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

Imagine if Zohran Mamdani had misquoted the Declaration of Independence in his 4th of July speech. We'd get a hundred threads about how this proves yet again that immigrants aren't real Americans and shouldn't be elected to public office

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

I mean she’s clearly just talking about herself but okay

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Karoline Leavitt says Gen Z has been born with “silver spoons in their mouths.”

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

Karoline Leavitt went to an expensive private high school, then worked in the White House immediately out of college, then married a billionaire her daddy's age. What kind of spoon is that?

[Socialist News Media @Socialist_Wins]

Under a Socialist mayor, New York City has reported its fewest shootings and murders in its recorded history.

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

I think the fact that most major American cities experienced rainstorms today is an interesting omen for America’s “250th Birthday”

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

If you display the confederate flag at any time during the year, you should not be celebrating July 4th because you actually support the traitors that tried to prevent this country from existing.

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

I am seeing a lot of centrist dems shitting on DSA candidates for calling them out... but I'd like to remind everyone how we had all branches AFTER TRUMP'S FIRST TERM...

And what happened? Centrists KILLED EVERY FUCKING THING.

[Ben Thessen @ThessenBen]

No shot the band just played THE LICC during the opening to a cover of Life is a Highway at the Trump speech thing at Rushmore. Fucking hilarious

[Joel Braunold @braunold]

So ask yourself this question. Mamdani is not just a phenomenon of a political talent but he has learnt from Obama that patriotism is the life blood of leadership. As is joy and hope. Any National Dem could have chosen today to make a speech to the nation. Where are Jeffries or Schumer? Newsom, Shaprio, Pritzker, Ossoff et al. Nature abhors a vacuum and the mayor of NYC has taken the leadership of the opposition to the administration and will hold it until someone else does so. He is using his legal inability to run for the highest office as an advantage to be the national voice of the party through influence rather than ambition. He’s exceptionally good at it.