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Would Jack Smith be a good Attorney General in 2029? Do people have strong thoughts?

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A good political system is one where a person like Trump can never be anything more than a forgettable back bencher representing a minor party that's on the verge of being banned.

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Chud media can do this not just because its readers are horrendously stupid people, but also because they judge truth by whether it confirms their ideological priors.

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It would be a monumental improvement for America, but especially for the Republican Party, if we elected the President through a plurality vote.

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My first exposure to this guy was hearing him on Ezra Klein's podcast and being surprised that a computer scientist would say such things. Then, I googled him and learned he was not only *not* a computer scientist, but had never finished high school. Everything made a lot more sense after that.

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The corollary to Republican voters being stupid people is that the type of person who gets hired as a Republican staffer is even more so.

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"Yours of this date proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works. I am, sir, very respectfully Your ob't se'v't U. S. Grant"

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If you live in San Francisco, you can vote to send this guy to Congress or you can vote in some B rate Democratic Party barnacle who is only competitive because Nancy Pelosi is mad that she couldn't give her old seat to her daughter.

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I agree with this sentiment, but I don't want a South African style Truth and Reconciliation Committee. I just want criminal prosecutions for those who merit that and the names of everyone else on a blacklist that will follow them for the rest of their lives.

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It is OK to think that people who vote Republican are stupid.

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I've always wanted to ask @audacityofdespair.bsky.social if he had a nationality in mind for the Greek because there's a Croatian passport in the opening credits that doesn't tie into the season at all.

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Once again, Trump is bankrupting this country so rapidly that the Democrat who takes over in 2028 will need to deliver wins that don't cost much money. This is best achieved through using the power of the state to attack oligarchy and corruption--two things both high and low info voters hate.

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Michigan has about 160k people working in car and car parts manufacture but the next four states down the list are solidly Republican. It's probably worth just piling a bunch of money into MI specifically and then letting places like OH and AL kick rocks.

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Allowing the Republican Party to fester in its current form is just asking for a major constitutional crisis that will likely turn violent sometime in the 2030s when people sour on the Democrats. Our priority must be to dissolve the GOP so that non-illiberal conservatives can form a replacement.

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Chris Rufo's insight that put him above all of his Nazi contemporaries was that focusing on "DEI" could attract status conscious top 10%ers worried about an ever dwindling set of high-status jobs and elite university slots.

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Further evidence for my crank theory that chud men are cooking their brains with steroids.

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It's really an issue that I much prefer the world where you support art by purchasing physical media but dislike having to own physical media.

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"Do you really think that voting for Democrats is going to make any difference? Lmao."

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Being a Broncos fan is stupid. What am I doing with my life?

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There are plenty of columnists who are stupider than Megan McArdle, but in the last ten years, there is no one in the business lazier than she.

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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government

Sometime very soon, there will be people jockeying for a position as Attorney General in the next Democratic presidential administration and I think the job should go to the person who can present the most solid RICO Act case against the entire Republican Party.

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It's not something I feel like doing myself, but it would be really cool to break down total water rights in California by partisanship of the owners. It might really shift perspectives to learn that we're turning our state into a desert when 70% of acre-feet are owned by Republicans.

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Congressional salaries should be higher and staffing levels should be increased for many reasons, not least of which is to diminish the appeal of higher office for goons.

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I am really being forced to learn about all of this against my will, but do I have it right that the majority of those at the top of America's AI industry are also part of a rape cult led by a dude whose highest education is middle school and whose claim to fame is writing a Harry Potter fanfic?

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I wonder if anyone has tried to estimate how many Trump 2016 voters just aren't alive anymore to vote in 2026? Seems like this is an inevitable downside of the GOP targeting the voters with the highest mortality risks in the US while not replacing them with anyone else.

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Liberal democracies do not need to bend over backwards to accommodate political movements who seek to undermine liberal democratic governance. You can just outlaw them and be done with it.

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The next Democratic president/Congress should just allow Chinese EVs to be imported. Our auto industry is beyond repair and deserves to fail. Plus cars just get made in chud states now so who cares?

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Went hiking today up in the Angeles Forest and every car on the Angeles Crest Hwy was doing stuff that would get your license revoked. And when I got to the trailhead, there was a LASD deputy in his truck screwing around on his phone.

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It's not just in the sense that the law must apply equally to all people and in the sense that many who committed similar crimes will walk. But it's imperative we make several prominent examples of Trump officials for no other reason that their lives will serve as a warning to others.

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Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.

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New York is such a viscerally unpleasant place to be because, aside from most things being a scam, your senses are also under constant assault. It's why Stockholm Syndrome became the city's identity.

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Because the Democrats who take over in 2029 will inherit a bankrupt country, anti trust and anti corruption should be the circuses performed for voters. There's no bread to offer.

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Been using Claude's voice interface to refresh my Spanish conversation skills and I'm looking forward to being the first person to develop LLM psychosis in their second language.

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God must be American because how else can you explain our blessing of having both the stupidest and most juiceless fascists of any nation on Earth?

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Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections? (Gift Article)

Absolutely incredible that Jeff Sessions' former spokeswoman who spent her time in that role defending separating migrant children from their families is now talking about election security as a NYT opinion writer. The barrel has no bottom.

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And how we learn to trust elections again.

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