McCain being tortured in Vietnam and then voting against torturing prisoners is one of the rare moments of a Republican actually experiencing empathy. Good on McCain. I kind of liked him.
the whole point of joey chestnut is that he can eat like 35 hotdogs in ten minutes. anyone can fit an entire hotdog in their mouth at once, it's not hard
“the existence of white people and a future for white children” the fact people can just quote the fourteen words on this website with zero consequences is insane
He’s also a kid who has no skills or nuance to his game and he’s going to look like a traffic cone. Unless your HS team includes Kobe, they’re going to get cooked.
romney was at least a normal ultra-rich businessman. trump is famous for 1. going bankrupt six times and never paying his contractors, and 2. being a slumlord
I’m beginning to think that most governance in safe states (both sides) is dogshit and when they get an actually good governor they go batshit crazy for them
I would argue it’s more because people don’t think of them that way because of their style of doing public outreach. The average person’s concept of the Amish is those guys in funny hats who make good furniture and great donuts. Compare to the Mormons, who everyone hates.
the short clip of him cleaning up the mess he made for the ad is unironically the best part of this. this is not A Politician this is your fun uncle who taught you to play pool. he's going to be president
this is what happens when you give consultants jobs (no offense). Campaigns should be 100% unscripted. If the candidate can't handle that heat, they should get out of the kitchen
the last two guys to invade Russia were Hitler (still got dogwalked despite having total dominance for a year) and Napoleon (lost half of his army on a leisurely stroll). i wouldn't step to Stalin
Power and telephone lines and water pipes are owned and maintained by county and city governments, and when they’re sold to private corporations they immediately become much worse. Apply the same principle to houses.
It was too subtle for a lot of people when one of the main villainous characters was LITERALLY A SOLDIER OF THE THIRD REICH. It doesn’t get any more obvious.
It's the capital of the world. Broadway, UN HQ, the headquarters of a ton of important companies. Other cities are bigger but if you want to do business you go to New York
He’s got an accurate read of the national mood. It’s very 1850s- I’ve been saying this for ages. We are steadily building up to one great and final conflict between two groups who cannot coexist. One will be annihilated and one will remain. We don’t know which is which yet.
The Republicans created the environment we have now specifically to avoid being humiliated like Nixon was ever again. It’s the same reason Democrats are incapable of running to the left on any issue- they’ll be haunted by 1972 and 1988 until they die
it's incredibly remarkable that for the first time in my entire life we say "we are the voters and these are the policies we would like you to implement" and a major party candidate actually says "ok sure"
This is because it’s very easy to get conned by a person who makes outrageous promises and has no (political) record of failing to deliver, and not at all easy to get conned by a guy who failed for four straight years and then incited a rebellion to avoid losing
No. Where people went at what times in what order is still totally disputed but Homo sapiens originating somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa is a universally accepted fact
okay but that Senate majority included Joe Lieberman, Ben and Bill Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mark Pryor, and Blanche Lincoln. Believe it or not, the Democratic Party of today is by FAR the most ideologically purified it has been since before the civil war
Beto wanted to be President and now he's nobody, Aaron had a career and is now also nobody, and Tulsi is in a make-work job for an administration with a president with dementia and a vice president who is the reincarnation of Mussolini
Vaccines became universal because people had to watch their children die. If RFK pulls the polio vaccine (and others- MMR? tetanus?) the antivax movement will collapse when they have to start doing iron lungs again.
The stock market always goes up. That’s the problem- in an economy based on reality, stock prices would be falling roughly 50% of the time over a long period.
My theory is that these polls are primarily an expression of discontent with FG-FF and then when voting time comes around they realize they actually have to vote for Sinn Fein and they don't want to do that
The only difference is, of course, if a bunch of Democratic House reps go visibly senile or die, nothing bad happens to the DNC chair for it. If a surgeon pushing 80 makes a lethal mistake, people beyond him are punished. It's about self-defense