What the Trump campaign thinks it’s doing: keeping the conversation on immigration, making a photo op in a city at the center of the conversation.

What the Trump campaign is actually doing: keeping the conversation on Trump’s lunatic false claims, spending time campaigning in a state he won by 8 points last time.

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Yeah that’s not even enough for me to know if it’s controversial. I, also, think SCOTUS will have different opinions on separation of powers.

This sort of story is dumb. Is that really the reason you wouldn’t vote for someone? There must be more compelling points. So who is this for?

I think it’s just circle-jerky “the team I hate also smells icky” stuff, like when Alex Jones said Obama and Hillary literally smelled like sulfur.

Not everything has to be 18D chess. Maybe they just hate Trump.

This thought terminating cliche is used on the right as well. It makes no sense (so…Trump is the one who “became black?”) and just exists so people can reinforce their world view uncritically.

If you have an opinion, back it up with evidence and say that.

It’s actually kind of smart for the presidential campaign to push for a government shutdown. Republicans will get blamed, but not Trump specifically.

And everyone looks bad in a shutdown to median voters. The immediate reaction is “just make a deal” which means Biden-Harris admin looks bad too…not as bad as Congressional Republicans but also bad, surely there are people who will (incorrectly) not think Voter ID laws are important enough for all this fuss either way.

Of course, the problem is that the Trump team are being too obvious with it so they WILL be blamed if it happens, now.

Same thing happened with the border bill…would have been genius if it failed without Trump meddling.

I don’t think she started it. Very well could have popularized it.

Still gross to make that accusation about someone as reprehensible as Loomer. And it let’s Trump off the hook. She’s not traveling with him because of sexual favors, she’s traveling with him because he supports her insane views.

I think it will, but people won’t think it did. Harris was dropping slightly in the polls, Polymarket odds were up to 52/46 Trump. The betting markets being the most responsive item to check, it’s currently 50/49 Trump, back to tied. I think polls will look similar, back to essentially tied, but that’s where things were a couple weeks ago so it might just erase the mini slump from everyone’s mind.

This article is written monthly and read exclusively by people who agree with it. Not sure the purpose of it.

The CEO was just conspicuously spotted with one of these a couple weeks ago, looks like it was a marketing scheme as we suspected.

It’s raising a minimum wage.

So annoying that Democrats propose something, the Republican majority opposes and entirely quashes it, and the “take” is that we should blame Democrats for not getting it done.

Republicans control the House and even if they didn’t, there is nothing close to a majority vote of the House that want to impeach members of SCOTUS.

It’s wild how much the slowness of the judicial system distorts society. Rich people delay forever and evade punishment…this was a crime from 2016, 8 years ago, he was found guilty in May and won’t even get his sentence until late November, let alone start serving it.

But, this is also a cause of some of the major issues at the Southern border. The immigration system is so bogged down that it can’t process the volume, judges are doing bulk decisions with seconds reading each case, people are being released into the US until their case can be heard which can be a long time, and that process is so politically toxic that both parties have switched to flatly illegal methods of rejecting legal asylum seekers or other legal immigrants.

I’m not a legal expert but can we get some proposals to speed this all up? Do we just dump resources at it, get more judges so they can have fewer cases? Change the laws? Something needs to happen here.

Reddit is like this too on the app. Some of the worst algorithm recommendations I’ve ever seen. “You like (your local city subreddit), you might also like (some city you don’t live in subreddit).” Why?

The worst is that is has ruined my porn account because it doesn’t recommend NSFW subs so I have to scrape past random unrelated garbage like the Pokémon card valuation subreddit and /r/cement, I counted and it went 40 posts between NSFW posts once. On my account that is exclusively subscribed to NSFW subs.

Threads was because if you had an Instagram account it ported over.

Bluesky was the Twitter clone made by the old Twitter CEO.

Most people didn’t have a problem with Twitter being a corporation, they had a problem with the new owner of the corporation making the experience terrible with his new changes.

They weren’t, it was just the example at the furthest end of the spectrum. But your framing of “if it was REALLY bad, Twitter would ban it” can not be the solution. We have legitimate governments tasked with governing based on the will of the people, it’s not better to just let Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg decide the law.

We don’t dislike government censorship of CSAM. it’s all a spectrum based on the legitimacy of the government order and the legitimacy of the tech billionaire’s refusal to abide.