Ironically, Trump is one of Mamdani’s biggest fans.

Feels like I’m watching Mussolini put on a Che Gueverra tshirt

two guys who are very much not “symbolically” Democrats

The minority leaders for the parties aren’t symbolic?

Are you high?

Look at Florida. Democrat establishment loves to run Republicans under a Dem banner

For Senate? That was Schumer.

Return on Investment

You said there wouldn’t be pressure.

Once a party actually wins the presidency, pressure drops.

m certain this will accumulate into something so damning that their hand will be forced.

You can’t force the hands of the controlled opposition

Schumer and Jefferies exist to protect the Republicans, not to oppose them

Paranoia of an outside aggressor shields insider malfeasance

feudalism never really went away

Eh. There’s a real difference between an intergenerational perpetual land endowment and a couple of cousins who got rich in the same high growth industry at the same time.

Capitalism killed feudalism, often in the literal sense. A bunch of the folks dropping guillotine blades on French nobles’ heads were members of the bourgeois.

Just shop carefully and you’re golden

I mean, easier said than done. There’s a ton of scammers preying on the secondary market.

Buy used, people

Buying used people is how the Israelis do it

This is like when Darlynne Graham ran for Senate

they get sued into oblivion

Microsoft spends a metric fuckton on legal to protect against this kind of risk.

Nobody is bankrupting them through the courts.

My bet is the “outage” was actually a cyber attack

Never attribute to maliciousness what can be more easily attributed to incompetence.

“We need more defense spending” is where the reflective assumption that we’re under attack inevitably leads. And after throwing hundreds of billions at the NSA, if you believe we’re still easily suseptible to a national grid failure, what will another billion towards state security achieve?

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It’s a recurring pattern in politics. People win and then just forget it’s even possible to lose, until it’s too late

Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then?

There’s plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction you’d prefer.

The GOP doesn’t have one “master plan” to rig the electoral college. Instead, lawmakers are considering a couple of different versions of a plan that would tie electoral votes to congressional districts.

This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red states… leading to the Dummymander of 2026.

There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.

But the bottom line is that when you’re winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) there’s no big incentive to change the rules.

And when you’re losing, there’s no opportunity to change them.

Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.

You’d need a Democrat in the White House to do that. At that point, there’s no longer pressure to reform the EC.

Buc-ee’s is the height of MAGA brain rot culture.

The place college kids stop at in between home and college? The venue all those city kids eat at on the way to a camping trip or summer vacation? The spot RV driving liberals fill up at while visiting all the national monuments they can find on a map? The physical embodiment of urban gentrification of rural neighborhoods?

This Buccee’s?