People Are Starting to Notice That the Alleged "Working Class Populist Socialist" Uprising on the Left Is Made Up Exclusively of College-Educted Rich Leisure-Class Nepo Babies and NGO Sucklers

The Claim: Democrats are electing "working class populists" who just happen to be socialists

The Reality: Democrats are electing rich-bitch children of privilege who are socialists because they've never done a day of work in their lives.

Batya Sargon-Unger:

Progressives want you to believe socialism is on the march because working-class people have had enough. They want you to believe they are "fighting the oligarchy!" and they are taking on the billionaires and the "Epstein class" and bringing back an agenda focused on labor. But it's all nonsense.
You know how I know?
Because it's rich people who vote for them, and working people voting for their opponents.
This was wildly apparent in the New York elections last week, in which rich, over-credentialed gentrifiers voted out candidates preferred by working-class New Yorkers, as I explained in a piece called "Stop Calling Them 'Socialists.' They're Over-Credentialed White Gentrifiers Driven by Resentment Ousting Working-Class Candidates."
But the latest evidence of progressives and socialists pretending to fight for the little guy while actually winning with the credentialed caste at the expense of the desires of working-class voters comes out of Maine.
Platner is polling ahead of Republican incumber Susan Collins by two points. But he has absolutely cratered with working-class voters.
Susan Collins has a 21 point lead against Platner with working-class voters.

Shane Goldmacher
@ShaneGoldmacher
Graham Platner is ahead of Collins by 2 points in new NYT poll.
One of the most intriguing details: She has a 21-point lead among non-college voters as Platner has made centering the working class the center of his campaign.

So how is Platner winning?
With college educated voters!
Platner is demolishing Collins with college-educated voters--by 34 points.
51% of working-class white voters say that Platner is "too far to the Left"--while 61% of working-class white voters say that Collins is "not too fair either way."
Platner is also cleaning Collins' clock with women, leading her by eight points.
So much for solidarity! College-educated women, those very HR ladies the pundits were delighted had been vanquished, looked at Graham Platner, who shoved and manhandled his ex girlfriend and locked her in a room, according to the New York Times, and thought, "Me, too."
Platner's handlers and supporters sold him as a working-class hero, an "oysterman" and veteran with rough edges who has tattoos and wasn't developed "in a vat." This, like all their socialist frippery, turned out to be cosplay: The oyster farm is fake, a vanity hobby that makes no money apart from $6,000 Platner's mom gives him to sell the oysters at her restaurant. His VA loan turned out to be fake; his dad bought him his house for $200,000. He went to a fancy prep school. His farm is on a private island owned by a friend.
This working-class cosplay was just enough to convince college-educated women that he was a real man--though not, it seems, good enough to convince working-class men, who can smell a faker a mile away. As my friend Ryan Girdursky aptly put it, "Graham is what a college educated person thinks a working-class person is supposed to act like and working-class people can see he's a fraud."

Even old lefty Thomas Edsall at the communist New York Times notices that the new "Workers Party" of the left contains almost no actual workers, writes John Sexton.

Thomas Edsall takes a break today from attacking President Trump and instead turns his attention to the extreme left-wing of his own party. Like all good Marxists, the Democratic Socialists of America present themselves as a party for the working class. But it turns out there are almost no working class people in the party.

Candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America are surging to victory on the claim that they are proponents of "a government by, for and of the working class" that will wrest power from both "far-right Republicans and corporate Democrats."
Here's the problem. Most of the leadership of the D.S.A. and a majority of voters who back its candidates are in no way working class. Instead, an elite made up of well-educated professionals dominates this insurgency...
In 2021 the D.S.A. surveyed its members and found that 85 percent were non-Hispanic white (far more than the national population, which was 57.8 percent white in 2020, according to the census)...
Four percent of the members held blue-collar jobs, according to the survey, the most recent publicly available...
More than 80 percent of members who were 25 years old or older had college degrees (just more than double the percentage for the United States as a whole), and 35 percent had a master's degree, a doctorate or a professional degree (again, more than double the American average). Sixty percent identified as agnostic or atheist (with the American average, taken at its most generous, at less than half that).

The DSA isn't the party of the people, it's the party of the white, atheist college grads almost none of whom hold blue collar jobs. When asked about this, the DSA communications person said the group's policies were working class even if their members aren't. But that's not true either. For instance, the DSA is hard left on trans rights while America in general and working class people in particular are not.

...the D.S.A.'s March 31 declaration, "We Will Not Be Erased," would be met with some skepticism if not hostility by working-class voters disdainful of the D.S.A.'s commitment of support for "bodily autonomy, for moving past arbitrary restrictions and conservative norms around gender and family and for the right of all to obtain medical care."
The same is true of the DSA's stand on immigration. It's not the position held by actual working class people.

See the link for that.

The left is trying to claim that the Democrat Socialists are sick of woke politics, too, that's why they focus laser-like on breadbasket issues like health care and rent.

But that's all bullshit-- what they focus on is open borders and transing children. Just like all other lefties, only more dogmatic and authoritarian about it.

People are sick of Leisure Class Leftists telling the rest of us that we have to waste our money on their sick priorities:

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.

We have to fucking fuel up the ambulances in Liberia?!

Coddled Affluent Professional
@feelsdesperate
I'm supportive of international public health aid when it comes to cheap interventions like dispensing HIV and TB and malaria meds. (I am a lib 🤷‍♂️ .)
However, Kristof is just making everything worse.
First, you can't hysterically crybully Americans into supporting these programs and trying to do so instead of making a calm, measured case just makes people reactive and oppositional because it's so obviously a cynical, manipulative tactic.
Second, it's not our responsibility to fill up anyone's gas tank. All of these initiatives have to be completely reconsidered and our obligations need to be clearly defined. That Kristof can't intuit that Americans would oppose filling foreign gas tanks demonstrates just how out of touch he is and that he's bound to do more harm than good in attempting to propagandize on behalf of international public health.
Third, none of these vignettes meet even the most basic evidentiary standards to support his assertions. Furthermore, this isn't how it's done - big programs need to be supported by population level data and Kristof is obviously trying to be emotionally manipulative with anecdotes rather than addressing the policy questions in the right way with the right type of data.
Fourth, it's lazy and cynical to try to lay this all on Musk. Maybe you shouldn't have billion dollar 'managed democracy' and leftist NGO dark money sinkholes wearing the skin suit of true humanitarian programs. Maybe the people who designed these programs as such deserve a little more (or a lot more) of the blame for intentionally putting them in proximity to legitimate political targets.
Every time I read a half-informed journo trying to do advocacy for foreign health aid I cringe because it's clear they don't know what they're talking about and are making lazy, motivated assertions that are bound to backfire and make things worse. If journos really cared about these issues and weren't just scrounging for cheap partisan artillery they'd be a lot more carful, thoughtful, and reserved in what they're arguing.

Update: Ro Khanna, the guy who got rich by knocking up an heiress, wants to end capitalism all of a sudden.

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Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 03:40 PM (6wpGE)

2 working people are just the cannon fodder

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 01, 2026 03:41 PM (CWTWj)

3 Meet the new boss....

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:41 PM (ouWD3)

4 how many of these countries are broke because of incompetent marxist rulers?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 01, 2026 03:42 PM (CWTWj)

5 Piper, I once watched a college student use his chemistry textbooks to pad the jacks so he could raise his Miata to work on the forward suspension. Of course those were hardbacks.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 03:44 PM (rbvCR)

6 Can we please replace "college-educated" with "college-indoctrinated?"

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 01, 2026 03:45 PM (bNf8H)

7 I thought a Liberian ambulance was a donkey with a cart.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 01, 2026 03:45 PM (TNnZH)

8 Happy Canada Day!

The lines to your favorite places will be long--have you thought about ending it all?

Posted by: Canada at July 01, 2026 03:45 PM (Fi81e)

9 We have to fucking fuel up the ambulances in Liberia?!
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I wonder if any of the hundreds of billions siphoned to Somalis and other Fake People might have been enough to pay to fuel an ambulance in Liberia. Probably not bro

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:45 PM (ouWD3)

10 The Reality: Democrats are electing rich-bitch children of privilege who are socialists because they've never done a day of work in their lives.
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Just like Marx and Engels.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

11 My sister graduated with a Masters in Philosophy from one of the Premier western Canada liberal colleges, and no one, bar no one is more capable of running the world than she. Too bad she mostly did work like bartending and painting houses while being an alcoholic. She now lives in an RV in a trailer park and I give her money for cat food.

she is, after all, my only surviving blood relative.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 03:46 PM (rbvCR)

12 From Quora:
Karl Marx had several jobs, primarily as a journalist, editor, and political writer. While he never held a traditional waged corporate job or an academic professorship, his professional life involved continuous, albeit often unstable, employment in the publishing and media industry

So they're just emulating their Founding Father.

Posted by: weew at July 01, 2026 03:46 PM (9TspW)

13 This gets really old. Not the thread. But the same "oh my, this is exactly opposite" shit that still runs deep in some parts of the population.

Because everyone that is street smart has known this for decades. The Democrats don't give a fuck about Democracy. Of course, the Republicans don't give a shit about a Republic either.

ANTIFA is the Fascists. Diversity is anything. Progressives ain't. Liberals are not. And on and on and on and on.

I'm all in on Nationalist Populist. And let the chips fall where they may. Or the heads. Either way.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at July 01, 2026 03:46 PM (jqWss)

14 "Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village."

1. Yea, this totally happened. Totally.

2. Idiots like Kristof think stories like this will help his cause? The vast majority of people will have the same reaction to this story as I did: why the fuck are we paying for fucking gas in fucking Liberia?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 01, 2026 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

15 5 Piper, I once watched a college student use his chemistry textbooks to pad the jacks so he could raise his Miata to work on the forward suspension. Of course those were hardbacks.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 03:44 PM (rbvCR)

Sounds like a great reuse and recycle project! 😂

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2026 03:47 PM (Wmg4n)

16 Nicholas Kristof is a douchebag. That is all

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 03:47 PM (HddY9)

17 We have to fucking fuel up the ambulances in Liberia?!
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I wonder if any of the hundreds of billions siphoned to Somalis and other Fake People might have been enough to pay to fuel an ambulance in Liberia. Probably not bro
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:45 PM (ouWD3)

Nigeria, a major oil producer, is just down the coast from Liberia.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

18 For the ME election wasn't the FNM saying the NAZI was up by double digits a few weeks ago?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

19 And, you know, FOREIGNERS.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 03:48 PM (4KUe5)

20 So I looked up Nick Kristoff's story.

The source of Nick Kristoff's story?

Nick Kristoff.

I'm just saying.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:48 PM (ouWD3)

21 Fun fact: Engels wrote Marx that the lady Karl was shacking up with was too "low class" for him.

Marxist are so often nepo-babies, it's not funny.

Including minor noble Vladimir Ulyanov.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (Fi81e)

22 Even old lefty Thomas Edsall at the communist New York Times notices that the new "Workers Party" of the left contains almost no actual workers, writes John Sexton.

Bernie Sanders was kicked out of his commune for being a lazy shiftless good for nothing...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

23 This is the Leninist deviation from Marxism. The need for an elite vanguard because the working class won't go all revolutiony on its own.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (XvL8K)

24 Where is it written that the US is responsible for starving children in Africa? Let Bob Geldoff organize another friggin concert.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (2UnvF)

25 "The Reality: Democrats are electing rich-bitch children of privilege who are socialists because they've never done a day of work in their lives."

If they ever get power, maybe they will not be devoured by the crocodile, they will become the crocodile. Of course they will have to team up with the Muslims and other gangsters, and get them to do the heavy lifting (of killing the normies).

But more likely, the Muzzies and gangs will kill them, in the end. Or maybe it would be like Mexico and South America, where a Castro like president manages to keep all the gangsters at bay, by giving them control of sex and drug trades?

Better to never give them the chance to find out.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (vbXSk)

26 *Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.

WHY DID NEVILLE SINGHAM FAIL TO TAKE UP THE SLACK!
WHY HAS LAURINE POWELL JOBS FAILED TO SAVE THAT POOR WOMAN, ALL SHE DOES IS CHARITABLE GIVING!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (rbvCR)

27 For the ME election wasn't the FNM saying the NAZI was up by double digits a few weeks ago?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

Be interesting to see what percentage of people in Maine they think are blue collar. Because normally having a huge lead there would mean you are winning.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)

28 I’ve seen this firsthand where people of privilege that have family money (usually women) are hard left.

My solution if you have kids or grandkids like this, cut them off. Let the wonderful government take care of them and see how they fare

Posted by: Maroon at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (7uIGM)

29 95° out. Just walked 3/4 to Stewart's and back. On way back big old thunderstorm hit. Still going on. Lights flickering.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (HddY9)

30 Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village."

Its funny, the thousands dead from the clot shot don't matter, because, uh some people did some things, but some rando dying in Liberia? Totally Musk's fault for not letting the CIA spend money through this particular cut out

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

31 We have to fucking fuel up the ambulances in Liberia?!
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I wonder if any of the hundreds of billions siphoned to Somalis and other Fake People might have been enough to pay to fuel an ambulance in Liberia. Probably not bro
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:45 PM (ouWD3)

Nigeria, a major oil producer, is just down the coast from Liberia.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)
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"Yea, but fuck Liberia."

-- Nigeria

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

32 WHY DID NEVILLE SINGHAM FAIL TO TAKE UP THE SLACK!
WHY HAS LAURINE POWELL JOBS FAILED TO SAVE THAT POOR WOMAN, ALL SHE DOES IS CHARITABLE GIVING!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (rbvCR)

Yeah, those guys!! *shifty eyes*

Posted by: Alex Soros at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (B0NCh)

33 Don’t care where “Ro” Knana was born, nor Tlaib, as they and their families have not assimilated.
As Ilhan Omar has pledged, they represent their ancestral homelands.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (4KUe5)

34 Marx, who came from a pretty good amount of money, lived off Engels considerable stipend, as Engels came from a lot more money.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (Fi81e)

35 Bernie Sanders was kicked out of his commune for being a lazy shiftless good for nothing...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

I'll bet you anything Mr Rape Fantasy was really kicked out for getting too handsy.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (ouWD3)

36 I think Collins wins Maine easy, every election cycle they try and psyche people out with polls and then “magically” she prevails and it actually wasn’t all that close

Platner is a train wreck and only the political junkies for now know the story

Posted by: Maroon at July 01, 2026 03:52 PM (7uIGM)

37 Yah Mo Be There >> Yamah Freeman

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 03:52 PM (YetvJ)

38 A lot of bad/sad news lately, I’m going to have to play some classic, patriotic music to cheer me up.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2026 03:52 PM (gIRws)

39 Bezos's ex is one of the richest people in the world yet somehow Musk is an asshole for buying twitter and fighting for free speech instead of just giving his money to people but she is not an asshole even though her only "charity" is funding antifa terrorists.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

40 This is the Leninist deviation from Marxism. The need for an elite vanguard because the working class won't go all revolutiony on its own.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (XvL8K)
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Boom.

Posted by: Gay Who Says Boom at July 01, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e)

41 These are almost always the people asking for a revolution: the upper-class children who have squandered the fortune of their parents and can no longer maintain the standard of living, let alone the power and influence, that they view as their birthright.
Paris was full of them in the 19th century. New York is full of them now.

Posted by: PG at July 01, 2026 03:53 PM (5tjvu)

42
Liberia... Liberia....

You border on the Adriatic

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:53 PM (ouWD3)

43 But more likely, the Muzzies and gangs will kill them, in the end. Or maybe it would be like Mexico and South America, where a Castro like president manages to keep all the gangsters at bay, by giving them control of sex and drug trades?

Better to never give them the chance to find out.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (vbXSk)

Even in places like Russia where all the conspirators were not in an intellectual bubble and had worked with "the people" ..well urban people eventually the thugs like Stalin pushed them all out or killed them.

The Nepo babies don't have a chance.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 03:53 PM (uhVAy)

44 You know what would be hilarious? Use AI to replace the actor that played Christian Gray in 50 Shades of Gray with Bernie Sanders

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

45 >>>We have to fucking fuel up the ambulances in Liberia?!

Of course we do. The UN is busy trying to create a world government, the WHO is busy trying to create a world governance, and the African development NGOs are trying to get in on the action because they want to run the world government.

We also have to fund the UN, the WHO and the African development NGOs because they have no money left after they have spent what they had to create a world government.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 03:55 PM (rbvCR)

46
How can anyone like Susan Collins?

There's a video of Chuck Schumer marching in a sparsely attended gay pride parade with a bullhorn telling people he was the first to march in one.

He gets booed.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 03:55 PM (Y8DZL)

47 Have they gotten around to explaining why:
A. We must provide them healthcare, food aid, etc in their native countries
B. We must also bring in infinity of their citizens into our country, and also provide their healthcare, food, housing, etc

Did we adopt, like, entire countries - entire continents - worth of people, unofficially but officially?

Where exactly does the American public’s responsibility for the world population begin and end?

Seriously, I’d like this explained.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 03:55 PM (4KUe5)

48 It's more than likely the (hypothetical) ambulance ran out of fuel because someone siphoned it off.

That's Musk's fault, too.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at July 01, 2026 03:55 PM (BGIIP)

49 Can we legislate an “oath to the constitution” requirement, where if you don’t sign, you’re denaturalized and deported, and if you do sign, you cannot abide by an ideology that would subvert the constitution? Doing so would also result in denaturalization and deportation.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2026 03:55 PM (gIRws)

50 But more likely, the Muzzies and gangs will kill them, in the end. Or maybe it would be like Mexico and South America, where a Castro like president manages to keep all the gangsters at bay, by giving them control of sex and drug trades?

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2026 03:50 PM (vbXSk)
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"The Weatherman" didn't care what happened to Americans once they were rightfully taken over by foreigners.

Destroying America was Bill Ayers game. What happens after was not his problem.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:56 PM (Fi81e)

51 Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village."

Its funny, the thousands dead from the clot shot don't matter, because, uh some people did some things, but some rando dying in Liberia? Totally Musk's fault for not letting the CIA spend money through this particular cut out
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

Nor the supposed billions dead from AIDS in Africa that were all the rage when the supply of drug using homosexuals ran out.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 03:56 PM (uhVAy)

52 So how is Platner winning?

With college educated voters!

Platner is demolishing Collins with college-educated voters--by 34 points.

51% of working-class white voters say that Platner is "too far to the Left"--while 61% of working-class white voters say that Collins is "not too fair either way."

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Oh, look.

Response bias in polling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 03:57 PM (hWfuL)

53 Nicholas Jerkoff wants to fuel up an am-ba-lan.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2026 03:57 PM (gIRws)

54 53 Nicholas Jerkoff wants to fuel up an am-ba-lan.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 01, 2026 03:57 PM (gIRws)

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He didn't pay for that diesel tank of gas.

He's guilty of murder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 03:57 PM (hWfuL)

55 Regarding the kids in Liberia.....not my problem.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 01, 2026 03:57 PM (2noDb)

56 The Reality: Democrats are electing rich-bitch children of privilege who are socialists because they've never done a day of work in their lives.

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Wasn't this The American Dream as envisioned by The Founders?

/The Founders of Communism ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 03:57 PM (t/lcw)

57 This is the Leninist deviation from Marxism. The need for an elite vanguard because the working class won't go all revolutiony on its own.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (XvL8K)
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That takes academiacs.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

58 This sort of blackmail is almost its own parody: give us your money or the puppy gets it.

Posted by: PG at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (5tjvu)

59 Yeah no, sorry, African countries can fuel their own fucking ambulances. Is it Imperialist and patriarchal to treat them like children?

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (YwEeS)

60 I would say the tide is turning against Platner. FOX poll today has Collins +2.

Platner has negative momentum it seems, and I doubt he has a lot of room to grow.

Ossoff (D-GA) is an awfully close Senate race for an incumbent.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (RCjYY)

61 Remember the anarchist movement?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (hWfuL)

62 Its funny, the thousands dead from the clot shot don't matter, because, uh some people did some things, but some rando dying in Liberia? Totally Musk's fault for not letting the CIA spend money through this particular cut out
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

Apparently not all the clot shot batches are equally bad, according to recent analysis of VAERS. And the distribution of the bad batches seems oddly targeted, if one were to have a conspiratorial mindset.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (rbvCR)

63 Have they gotten around to explaining why:
A. We must provide them healthcare, food aid, etc in their native countries
B. We must also bring in infinity of their citizens into our country, and also provide their healthcare, food, housing, etc

Did we adopt, like, entire countries - entire continents - worth of people, unofficially but officially?

Where exactly does the American public’s responsibility for the world population begin and end?

Seriously, I’d like this explained.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 03:55 PM (4KUe5)

It doesn't matter because precisely zero USAID money was going for hospitals, gas supply relief, food or anything like that. It was used for destabilizing governments and promoting leftist movements world wide, but mostly for being siphoned back to the US as welfare for the elite.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)

64 There was some other leftist asshole complaining the US was killing Africans through AIDS because it only costs $8k a year to keep them alive.

I look him up he was worth $200M and was sending $0 to these supposed charities...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

65 60 I would say the tide is turning against Platner. FOX poll today has Collins +2.

Platner has negative momentum it seems, and I doubt he has a lot of room to grow.

Ossoff (D-GA) is an awfully close Senate race for an incumbent.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (RCjYY)

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What if the polls in summer are just inaccurate?

"The summer polls are 100% accurate because the final polls last cycle were 60% accurate."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (hWfuL)

66 Liberia... Liberia....

You border on the Adriatic
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 03:53 PM (ouWD3)

This rings a bell. Some character on King of Queens composed a nonsensical and useless memory mnemonic? It’s not quite coming to me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (YetvJ)

67 Funny post at Twitchy where Bernie and Mamdani argue billionaires shouldn't exist. The Caitlin interviewing Pritzker who basically says "yeah I'm not like Elon, Trump or those other ones"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (HddY9)

68 This was wildly apparent in the New York elections last week, in which rich, over-credentialed gentrifiers voted out candidates preferred by working-class New Yorkers ...

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Who can argue with 17% turnout of Registered Voters, comrades?

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (t/lcw)

69 I'm old enough to remember when the radical left did this before to the Democrats in the time from the 1968 convention to the 1972 convention.

From the December 1972 article about that whole process in Commentary, “The New Politics & the Democrats” by Penn Kemble and Josh Muravchik.

"The fact is, however, that the purpose of the McGovern quotas was not to make the convention more representative of the Democratic electorate as a whole, but to favor the affluent liberals within the party and to diminish the influence of its lower-middle and working-class constituents.

Those who take up the vocation of politics, as Max Weber insisted, first must have an extraordinary amount of free time. Such time is readily available to the suburban housewives and the subsidized students who have provided so many second-level leaders and foot soldiers to the New-Politics movement—and who, in practice, are the “women” and the “young” singled out by the McGovern quotas."

Posted by: geoffb at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (OtD+j)

70 We have to fund _______ ? Fill in the blank for any foreign aid.

My answer is nope. And by the way if a country can't afford to fund $100 of diesel, they have their own priorities wrong.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (n5tGW)

71 Nick's story checks out. I ran it by my Egyptian cab driver and he confirmed it.

Posted by: Tom Friedman, another Important Thought Leader at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (B0NCh)

72 And just who are these alleged people you are allegedly talking about, allegedly just noticing the same shit sandwich we've seen on the menu for years?

Posted by: He who questions all of it at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (pcjfs)

73 @68 it was from Cheers. Coach with a pneumonic about Albania

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (HddY9)

74 Platner has negative momentum it seems, and I doubt he has a lot of room to grow.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (RCjYY)
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It's his tin-eared "Vote for Me Or I'll Treat You Like A Burglar and Rape You" slogan.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)

75
Fun fact: Engels wrote Marx that the lady Karl was shacking up with was too "low class" for him.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (Fi81e)

Another fun fact, if smelly. Marx had a notoriously casual attitude toward personal hygiene. That's a fancy way of saying that he almost never washed or bathed. Che Guevara had the same reputation, as it happens.

Anyway, Marx also had horrible skin rashes that kept him in misery, and likely was a factor in making him such a resentful asshole. Totally unrelated to his bathing habits. Totally.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (y9nCu)

76 Apparently not all the clot shot batches are equally bad, according to recent analysis of VAERS. And the distribution of the bad batches seems oddly targeted, if one were to have a conspiratorial mindset.

I have a suspicion that is actually the way the shot was administered. It has a very specific set of instructions to warm it up.

Well...let it warm up too long and the ingredients won't do ANYTHING

So if you got your clot shot from a temp in a sports arena or crap like that you were better off then getting it by a doctor in an office...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

77 Platner is also cleaning Collins' clock with women, leading her by eight points.

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Is there no destruction that the 19th Amendment cannot do?

/rhetorical, and * runs away from The Wifey and other 'ettes *

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:01 PM (t/lcw)

78 "The fact is, however, that the purpose of the McGovern quotas was not to make the convention more representative of the Democratic electorate as a whole, but to favor the affluent liberals within the party and to diminish the influence of its lower-middle and working-class constituents.

Those who take up the vocation of politics, as Max Weber insisted, first must have an extraordinary amount of free time. Such time is readily available to the suburban housewives and the subsidized students who have provided so many second-level leaders and foot soldiers to the New-Politics movement—and who, in practice, are the “women” and the “young” singled out by the McGovern quotas."
Posted by: geoffb at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (OtD+j)

This was also the job of the Superdelegates at the convention, to blot out any insurrections by the rank and file.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:01 PM (uhVAy)

79 Another point in all this when your LIV friends ask "why is everything so expensive" point them to stories like this.

Instead of spending money fixing the roads, or you know just not taking the money from you, the government sends it to some org to nominally pay for fuel for ambulances in Africa...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

80 "The Reality: Democrats are electing rich-bitch children of privilege who are socialists because they've never done a day of work in their lives."

Same as it ever was. Communism was invented and pimped by layabout deadbeat nepo losers. It was only later used by barbarically violent fascist lunatics to con the rubes into putting shackles around their legs and guns to their heads.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 01, 2026 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

81 Nick's story checks out. I ran it by my Egyptian cab driver and he confirmed it.
Posted by: Tom Friedman, another Important Thought Leader at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (B0NCh)

My four year old daughter asked me about it this morning while I was making cocoa for her breakfast. We cried.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 04:02 PM (rbvCR)

82 79 Another point in all this when your LIV friends ask "why is everything so expensive" point them to stories like this.

Instead of spending money fixing the roads, or you know just not taking the money from you, the government sends it to some org to nominally pay for fuel for ambulances in Africa...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

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"How many apartments do we have to give to people who came here illegally before you begin to understand supply and demand?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (hWfuL)

83 77 Probably a lot of wet granny panties thinking of getting ..uhmm...taken the Obergrupoenfuher...

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (YwEeS)

84 My truck died again, luckily at dealer and across street from.rental car. Might be emergency brake

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

85 What if the polls in summer are just inaccurate?

"The summer polls are 100% accurate because the final polls last cycle were 60% accurate."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (hWfuL)

That's assuming they were intended to be accurate in the first place.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (uhVAy)

86 Lenin, Mao, Zhou Enlai etc., were all what we would consider well-to-do middle class.

The list of well-off commie "revolutionaries" grasping at total power is long.

Posted by: 13times at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (6iKlf)

87 Understood, Oldcat; however, the demand has always been that We The People have to fund all of this stuff, either directly through our own government programs, or indirectly via the UN, NGOs, etc.

I’m am questioning the premise of the debate presented by Kristoff. I don’t want to argue about how it is spent, it’s ridiculous it’s expected at all.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (4KUe5)

88 Kinda wish Christians would vote as a single bloc like Muslims do, we would totally control American politics

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (UZCuZ)

89 85 What if the polls in summer are just inaccurate?

"The summer polls are 100% accurate because the final polls last cycle were 60% accurate."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (hWfuL)

That's assuming they were intended to be accurate in the first place.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (uhVAy)

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I will say that every single argument to believe polls now amounts to my quote above.

"The polls now are accurate because the last polls of the last cycle were kind of accurate."

It's the kind of thinking that should be beneath people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:04 PM (hWfuL)

90 lolgf, emt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:04 PM (dK+Kv)

91 Kinda wish Christians would vote as a single bloc like Muslims do, we would totally control American politics
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:03 PM (UZCuZ)

If the Emperor Constantine couldn't get them to do it, nobody else is likely to.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (uhVAy)

92 Working class white Dems have more or less abandoned Dems. Non whites vote D no matter what. Anyone expecting some massive defection by “working class” Dems is going to be disappointed.

It doesn’t matter who the messenger is. The left wants Jews to die and unlimited non-white immigration from the 3rd World. These DSAers are giving them what they want. If they’re aristocrats or grew up in the ghetto is irrelevant.

Posted by: Demographics Matter at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (HE7b3)

93 Educated? Degreed, maybe. They sure as hell aren't educated. They don't know anything but talking points and lack the ability to think.

Posted by: They're retarded but supremely assured of their righteousness at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (TbWk/)

94 Kinda wish Christians would vote as a single bloc like Muslims do, we would totally control American politics

Yep.

If every true believing Christian voted against the godless monsters on the left they would only win elections where they can print as many ballots as they want...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

95 88 But they agree in general even if they have internal disagreements. Christians are all over the place, lots and lots of David French "christians".

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (YwEeS)

96 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (YetvJ)

Coach, Cheers

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (ouWD3)

97 Nick's story checks out. I ran it by my Egyptian cab driver and he confirmed it.
Posted by: Tom Friedman, another Important Thought Leader at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (B0NCh)

My four year old daughter asked me about it this morning while I was making cocoa for her breakfast. We cried.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 04:02 PM (rbvCR)

100% bona fide!

Posted by: Jayson Blair, former NYT at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (q2NNn)

98 Radicals get a lot of education. But it never leads to an understanding of money.

One of the vast list of things they don't get is how money is "fungible".

Thus by withdrawing support, you are not "killing" people. If no other country steps up to fill the gap, you are just joining the crowd of all countries not funding that.

And if no other country steps up to fill the gap, then why was it on you, anyway?

If USAID was able to prove the people saved by "International Development", they would--or maybe should--have provided documentation to DOGE.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (Fi81e)

99 Just like Marx and Engels.
Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

Actually Engels was forced to work in his parent's textile factory. The were tired of him sponging off them.

Posted by: Back to Lurking at July 01, 2026 04:06 PM (nPp6w)

100 NGO Sucklers

Which appendage is being suckled?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Barack H. Soetoro at July 01, 2026 04:06 PM (0sNs1)

101 One of the vast list of things they don't get is how money is "fungible".

I disagree. Lefties are very knowledgeable about their personal finances and get how money works

This is one of the many cases where they pretend to not know something.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:07 PM (sKqQm)

102 Fun fact: Engels wrote Marx that the lady Karl was shacking up with was too "low class" for him.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 03:49 PM (Fi81e)

Another fun fact, if smelly. Marx had a notoriously casual attitude toward personal hygiene. That's a fancy way of saying that he almost never washed or bathed. Che Guevara had the same reputation, as it happens.

Anyway, Marx also had horrible skin rashes that kept him in misery, and likely was a factor in making him such a resentful asshole. Totally unrelated to his bathing habits. Totally.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (y9nCu)

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Marx was -- fittingly -- a classic parasite who refused to work for wages and relied heavily on financial support from his friend Engels, whose income was derived from the textile industry and factory profits.

He also mooched off his parents until they cut him off, lived in poverty despite being educated and capable of work, and neglected his family, leading to the premature deaths of four of his children and financial destitution for his wife.

Marxism writ large, Q.E.D.

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:07 PM (t/lcw)

103 92 Working class white Dems have more or less abandoned Dems. Non whites vote D no matter what. Anyone expecting some massive defection by “working class” Dems is going to be disappointed.

It doesn’t matter who the messenger is. The left wants Jews to die and unlimited non-white immigration from the 3rd World. These DSAers are giving them what they want. If they’re aristocrats or grew up in the ghetto is irrelevant.

Posted by: Demographics Matter at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (HE7b3)

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No one expects blacks to go 50/50, but black turnout will probably be down in 2026 (Crockett losing in the TX primary and the fact that these NY Dem upstarts got minimal black support indicate that).

A large bloc of Hispanics consider themselves white, and there's no indication beyond very suspect polling data (which has not manifested in any election over the last couple of years) that the Hispanic vote, which has been trending Republican for the last few cycles, is going to reverse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:07 PM (hWfuL)

104 Working class white Dems have more or less abandoned Dems. Non whites vote D no matter what. Anyone expecting some massive defection by “working class” Dems is going to be disappointed.

It doesn’t matter who the messenger is. The left wants Jews to die and unlimited non-white immigration from the 3rd World. These DSAers are giving them what they want. If they’re aristocrats or grew up in the ghetto is irrelevant.
Posted by: Demographics Matter at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (HE7b3)

Trump has made big inroads on black men and hispanics. The Dems have needed those votes in the past.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)

105 Evergreen.

30 Methods and Characteristics of Communism

by Roman Skaskiw

https://tinyurl.com/4wfev4e2

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)

106 250 years ago the founders got pissed off and decided to bulldoze the invaders and scumbags into the sea. Why did they do it? Because in the end its the only thing that works.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 04:08 PM (snZF9)

107 Anyway, Marx also had horrible skin rashes that kept him in misery, and likely was a factor in making him such a resentful asshole. Totally unrelated to his bathing habits. Totally.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Paul Johnson has a great chapter on him in Intellectuals where he gets into his disgusting personal hygiene. He also banged his housekeeper.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 04:08 PM (XvL8K)

108 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 03:59 PM (YetvJ)

Coach, Cheers
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (ouWD3)

Now I remember, thanks! Coach was hilarious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2026 04:08 PM (D2O3S)

109 As a more serious Christian then you let me tell you God clearly ordained that people should be taxed so that their betters could live well. Its in, uh, the Book of John, or Paul? Or...Ringo?

Anyway he also said we should wash tranny feet. Slowly and ideally while they are wearing a skirt

Posted by: David French at July 01, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

110 Pookette is currently practicing "If I Only Had A Brain" on the piano. How fitting.

Posted by: pookysgirl at July 01, 2026 04:09 PM (Wt5PA)

111 It's the kind of thinking that should be beneath people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:04 PM

Listen to me. I'll tell you what to think. Problem solved!

Posted by: Mika B. at July 01, 2026 04:09 PM (0sNs1)

112 250 years ago the founders got pissed off and decided to bulldoze the invaders and scumbags into the sea. Why did they do it? Because in the end its the only thing that works.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 04:08 PM (snZF9)

Everything old is new again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:09 PM (dK+Kv)

113 The same way the left still tries to convince people that every corporation is run by a soulless conservative, when the actual truth is that the vast, VAST majority of them at this point are run by left wingers.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 01, 2026 04:09 PM (setIA)

114 How did Norma citizens finally see the Cultural Marxists Seminaries have ramped up to government?
Maybe sucked into Propaganda kept them blind

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:10 PM (Ia/+0)

115 If USAID was able to prove the people saved by "International Development", they would--or maybe should--have provided documentation to DOGE.
Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (Fi81e)

Elon specifically asked for the agencies being cut off for any such people, so they could be kept supported. Very few if any were found. And of course some USAID-like programs were reserved from any cuts at all and were moved to other areas.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:10 PM (uhVAy)

116 Paul Johnson has a great chapter on him in Intellectuals where he gets into his disgusting personal hygiene. He also banged his housekeeper.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 04:08 PM (XvL8K)
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Is that the gal that Engels commented on?

German? Check.
Banged the staff? Check.

Arnie was more like Marx than he knew.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:10 PM (Fi81e)

117 Ha just noticed the CA high speed busses people were talking about. I thought it was a gag I missed. Man they love their boondoggles in CA.

But I was trying to imagine if it came into being, could you imagine going 100 mph or more in a bus driven by and unlicensed sikh while a bunch of muslim youts or cartel gang bangers are causing their troubles, plus the homeless dude taking a dump up front.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2026 04:10 PM (n5tGW)

118 A large bloc of Hispanics consider themselves white, and there's no indication beyond very suspect polling data (which has not manifested in any election over the last couple of years) that the Hispanic vote, which has been trending Republican for the last few cycles, is going to reverse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:07 PM

Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion man.

Posted by: Texas (D)emocrats at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (0sNs1)

119 Here's you a "political truth" that has more data than "party out of power loses the midterms:"

The party that wins the working class, wins elections.

Democrats didn't dominate American politics for over 100 years because they people were really motivated to "end racism."

From FDR to Trump, their dominance has been built on a large, working class base.

Why do the Democrats still think they are the party of the working class?
Because the rich, nepo-babies that are running for office pretend they are working class.

As the revealing question goes:
How many people do you know who own a pick-up for work?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (3cUTc)

120 Platner has negative momentum it seems, and I doubt he has a lot of room to grow.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 03:58 PM (RCjYY)
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It's his tin-eared "Vote for Me Or I'll Treat You Like A Burglar and Rape You" slogan.
Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)
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Hoping the Republicans are holding all the dirt on him till after the middle of July when the Dem party can no longer replace him.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (NpAcC)

121 The same way the left still tries to convince people that every corporation is run by a soulless conservative, when the actual truth is that the vast, VAST majority of them at this point are run by left wingers.

At my globo mega corp companies meetings are always funny.

There is always a question from some NPC about the latest leftwing narrative item. And they answer that tersely and with something that equates to "we care deeply but aren't spending a dime on that" right before they get into profits, cutting costs, and how much we should all care about the company's values...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

122 The same way the left still tries to convince people that every corporation is run by a soulless conservative, when the actual truth is that the vast, VAST majority of them at this point are run by left wingers.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 01, 2026 04:09 PM (setIA)

hence so many driving their own companies to ruin. You can't run a company by attacking your customers and not caring about expenses vs results. Not for long.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (uhVAy)

123 118 A large bloc of Hispanics consider themselves white, and there's no indication beyond very suspect polling data (which has not manifested in any election over the last couple of years) that the Hispanic vote, which has been trending Republican for the last few cycles, is going to reverse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:07 PM

Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion man.

Posted by: Texas (D)emocrats at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (0sNs1)

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Texas Hispanics love the Book of Thomas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:12 PM (hWfuL)

124 Update: Ro Khanna, the guy who got rich by knocking up an heiress, wants to end capitalism all of a sudden.

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"As of 2026, Ro Khanna's estimated net worth varies significantly by source, ranging from $27 million to as high as $232.7 million."

Because, of course, it is (fuzzy math FTW?) ...

We've got a bunch of Califzuela Carpetbaggers in our small Northern AZ city who've purchased City Council seats and are all-in on No-Growth NIMBY policies ... now that they've got theirs, like good ol' Commie Khanna.

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:12 PM (t/lcw)

125 120 Hoping the Republicans are holding all the dirt on him till after the middle of July when the Dem party can no longer replace him.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (NpAcC)

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There are indications that the DNC has already written him off as a loss.

The Maine Democrat Party had a graphic about taking back the Senate. It did not include Platner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:12 PM (hWfuL)

126 childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. "

"Carrying"?

What, they don't have the wheel there?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (XuXeR)

127 Hoping the Republicans are holding all the dirt on him till after the middle of July when the Dem party can no longer replace him.

It is funny, we know he worked for Blackwater, claims he committed war crimes, has a NAZI tattoo, like to masturbate in port a potties, cheated on his newlywed wife, and sexually harassed his staffers BUT we are waiting for the real dirt to drop.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)

128 *Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
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What guarantee do we have that she would have survived if she had made it to the hospital?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (gnNyN)

129
Why isn't Wakanda providing Vibranium fueled ambulances that run forever and don't pollute to Liberia?

It's like they hate Africans or something.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (Y8DZL)

130 This is what we have and it will grow until we deport the foreigners.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (JS6jE)

131 These white, college educated, mimes and urban gay professionals are in love with Marxism and have merged with the Islamists to gain power. Of course, as any rational person knows, the Marxists will start executing each other first, and then the Islamists will execute those who remain, before moving on to gay people, Christians, Jews, and, finally, either Shiites or Sunnis, depending on which branch gains power.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (FxwEV)

132 Yes, Christians are all over the map politically.

Interesting conversation between Vance and podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey about why evangelicals are more culturally conservative than Catholics. Vance thinks it’s because lapsed Catholics still themselves Catholic (in past, if not current). You don’t typically hear people identifying themselves lapsed Methodist/Lutheran/Evangelical. He speculated that a lot of the lefty supporters of things like abortion may be Catholic culturally, but lapsed?
Don’t know if I buy it, but it’s a valid argument…

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (4KUe5)

133 My piano teacher thought I was too negligent of my left hand by only playing chords, so she had me practice boogie woogie pieces too.
I haven't thought of that for years.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2026 04:14 PM (rbvCR)

134 the guy who got rich by knocking up an heiress

I can just imagine how that went.
"Oh YEAH! won't THIS annoy DAAAAAD" as her legs locked around him

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2026 04:14 PM (gKWVE)

135 Christians are too tied to the idea of a free conscience and liberty of belief as long as you cling to Christ, makes it hard to get us to agree on stuff like politics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:14 PM (UZCuZ)

136 Too many Americans are happy to vote for people who lie to them.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (KtOUo)

137
Texas Hispanics love the Book of Thomas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:12 PM (hWfuL)

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AKA "The Book of More."

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (t/lcw)

138 Why isn't Wakanda providing Vibranium fueled ambulances that run forever and don't pollute to Liberia?

I was watching some man on the street interviews where one question asked was "Name a country in africa" and quite a few people said Wakanda.

My favorite was some woman that said South Africa, got a high five from the interview and then admitted she was torn between answering South or East Africa...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

139 childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. "

"Carrying"?

What, they don't have the wheel there?

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (XuXeR)

They haven't stolen it back from the white people who stole it from Wakanda.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (dK+Kv)

140 Long ago read and see Mexicans like here have light and dark skin. And its same as was here decades ago to not sure racism but maybe like India class warfare.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

141
Be careful out there, I had this 2 years ago from contaminated food and it was awful. Lasted 4 weeks.
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Chef Andrew Gruel
@ChefGruel
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19h
I’ll bet it’s from contaminated fruit. The parasite referenced is bad. When I was a kid my mother got this from contaminated fruit served at a 5 star restaurant in NYC. Large event. Everyone was sickened except my father who says he only eats meat and hates fruit and veggies 😂. My mother suffered for months and ended up allergic to many foods after that. Now she only eats meat.

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Posted by: beckster at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (kX27y)

142 It is funny, we know he worked for Blackwater, claims he committed war crimes, has a NAZI tattoo, like to masturbate in port a potties, cheated on his newlywed wife, and sexually harassed his staffers BUT we are waiting for the real dirt to drop.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)
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And, despite all that, two thirds of white college educated people (mostly women), support the bastard. Retards.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (FxwEV)

143 "Over-Credentialed White Gentrifiers Driven by Resentment Ousting Working-Class Candidates."

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Ain't that the truth.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (frGWQ)

144 There seems to be a sudden surge in old democrats embracing socialism and communism today. They are as weak as we thought- no one, except Fetterman, who is a lot of hat and very little cattle, has the cojones to stand up and say this is crazy. The self preservation is off the charts. May as well cut to the chase and ask to be eaten last.

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (OoFl2)

145 This is one of the many cases where they pretend to not know something.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:07 PM (sKqQm)

I will never forget Obama lecturing Mitt Romney in 2012 that when the government pays for something it's really the taxpayers footing the bill.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (ouWD3)

146 I'll only put the head in.

Posted by: The Sperminator at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (KtOUo)

147 Dear Concerned Misinformationist,

You claim I never held a job. Well, I will have you know that one time, not too long ago, I took the garbage out to the receptical bin. AND, not everything in the trash bag was my own garbage. Others had contributed, and I STILL took it out. That's what Socialism is all about. We work together with a common goal in mind. Socialism is about creating, collecting and distributing garbage...no wait. That's not right. Ummmm.... Okay, bye.
Sincerely,
Katie Wilson, Mayor of Seattle

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske)

148 Griftifiers

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (DZ9Lv)

149 When I was old enough ( according to Texas law) to get a job, I went out and got a job. Sure it didn't pay much as it was part-time but at least I had some money in my pocket. Still in high school and working. I did not ask Mom and Dad for money. And they were proud of me for getting the job and keeping my grades up. They both done the same thing I did when they were my age. And they knew it was good for me to learn about the real world. I think rich kids miss out on the early lessons life can teach them. All they know is their parents will give them what they want. They grow up spoiled.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (IY9No)

150 132 Yes, Christians are all over the map politically.

Interesting conversation between Vance and podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey about why evangelicals are more culturally conservative than Catholics. Vance thinks it’s because lapsed Catholics still themselves Catholic (in past, if not current). You don’t typically hear people identifying themselves lapsed Methodist/Lutheran/Evangelical. He speculated that a lot of the lefty supporters of things like abortion may be Catholic culturally, but lapsed?
Don’t know if I buy it, but it’s a valid argument…

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM (4KUe5)

Catholics political differences vs evangelicals tracks with ethnicity/recency of immigration. I don't think there's a large contingent of lapsed self-identified white Catholics.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (okun6)

151 The Republicans need to nominate Ruy Texueria for a "Life Time Achievement Award" at the Midterm Convention.

Other than Trump, no one has done more to help the Republican Party grow.
His "Emerging Democrat Majority" convinced Obama et al. that they no longer needed the working class to win elections.
Of course, the premise of his book was KEEP the working class and grow the college-educated, minorities and LGBQT+.

But all they heard was "more people like us and we win forever and ever!!!"

Dems: We don't need the working class.
GOPe: Who put that turd on the buffet table at our County Club?!
Trump: Yonk!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (3cUTc)

152 Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
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You're a liar, Kristof.

Also fvck Yamah and her parents. Where is her husband to take her?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (YIpLe)

153 Christians are too tied to the idea of a free conscience and liberty of belief as long as you cling to Christ, makes it hard to get us to agree on stuff like politics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:14 PM (UZCuZ)

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It's really astonishing that, from what I've heard, less than 50% of Christians voted in 2024.

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (t/lcw)

154 A large bloc of Hispanics consider themselves white, "

Super White. Especially Colombians. And they'll tell you that.

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (XuXeR)

155 How Nicholas Kristof has a job is a huge mystery to me. Not kidding.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (FxwEV)

156 154 A large bloc of Hispanics consider themselves white, "

Super White. Especially Colombians. And they'll tell you that.

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (XuXeR)

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I wonder how they react to anti-white rhetoric from prominent Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (hWfuL)

157 Death to Yellowjackets!

I was down at the field doing some catcher drills and dropped a ball off in the dugout only to get stung in the freaking forehead.

Who does that?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

158 Long ago read and see Mexicans like here have light and dark skin. And its same as was here decades ago to not sure racism but maybe like India class warfare.
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

The ones with Indian blood are especially low on the Mexican class totem pole.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:18 PM (uhVAy)

159 And, despite all that, two thirds of white college educated people (mostly women), support the bastard. Retards.

You know what would be sexier then 50 Shades of Gray? If Christian was like a serious NAZI but my, sorry, the female character's magic vajajay made him a good person!

Oh...I'll be in my bunk...right after I find my Handmaid costume!

Posted by: Female Platner voters in Maine at July 01, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

160 159 You know what would be sexier then 50 Shades of Gray? If Christian was like a serious NAZI but my, sorry, the female character's magic vajajay made him a good person!

Oh...I'll be in my bunk...right after I find my Handmaid costume!

Posted by: Female Platner voters in Maine at July 01, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

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10% will die of old age by election day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:18 PM (hWfuL)

161 A large bloc of Hispanics consider themselves white, "

Super White. Especially Colombians. And they'll tell you that.
Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (XuXeR)
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because a large bloc of Hispanics are racially white.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:18 PM (FxwEV)

162 Democrats didn't dominate American politics for over 100 years because they people were really motivated to "end racism."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:11 PM (3cUTc)
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It was the Kennedy's who foresaw the future of the Democratic Party as reversing the racism they had long practiced.

I think part of it was he wanted to steal a Republican issue away from them.

The Heritage Foundation (partial spit) has a number of letters from Prominent people in Congress and elsewhere that show that the Democrats were about championing the White Working Class. That unions and the minimum wage was all about price controls suppressing black labor.

What "switched" in the 60s was when the Democrats felt they couldn't get by on just White Supremacy, they adopted a pandering stance that "Did more than the Republicans"

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)

163 How Nicholas Kristof has a job is a huge mystery to me. Not kidding.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (FxwEV)

Does he have a job? I mean, I could invent a web site and pretend I write stuff there too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

164 161 because a large bloc of Hispanics are racially white.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:18 PM (FxwEV)

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People descended from those who came from Hispaniola are white?

Who knew?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (hWfuL)

165 Catholics political differences vs evangelicals tracks with ethnicity and recency of immigration — how so?

I am not Catholic, so I have never understood why so many are radical leftists (the Jesuits?)?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (4KUe5)

166 It is funny, we know he worked for Blackwater, claims he committed war crimes, has a NAZI tattoo, like to masturbate in port a potties, cheated on his newlywed wife, and sexually harassed his staffers BUT we are waiting for the real dirt to drop.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:13 PM

pssst ... he voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, AND 2024.

Posted by: TheRealDirt at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (0sNs1)

167 Reminder:
Collins was down by 8 in every poll in a very bad Trump and R in general year of 2020.

Also:
Talarico will lose by 10, maybe even 20.

But that doesn't stop the local press from blaring, "Paxton seen out with his mistress!!"
You mean, his girlfriend? Or are divorce men banned from dating forever?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (3cUTc)

168 165 Catholics political differences vs evangelicals tracks with ethnicity and recency of immigration — how so?

I am not Catholic, so I have never understood why so many are radical leftists (the Jesuits?)?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (4KUe5)

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Boston. Maryland.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (hWfuL)

169
Paul Johnson has a great chapter on him in Intellectuals where he gets into his disgusting personal hygiene. He also banged his housekeeper.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 04:08 PM (XvL8K)

Yup. Johnson's book is where I learned about the details. I'd heard vaguely about his personal habits, but it was mentioned only briefly by others.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (y9nCu)

170 I think rich kids miss out on the early lessons life can teach them. All they know is their parents will give them what they want. They grow up spoiled.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (IY9No)

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The judges would have also accepted "entitled."

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (t/lcw)

171 Christians are too tied to the idea of a free conscience and liberty of belief as long as you cling to Christ, makes it hard to get us to agree on stuff like politics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:14 PM (UZCuZ)
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Cuz we kinda solved the problem of enforcing somebody's idea of Christianity.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)

172 161 A large bloc of Hispanics consider themselves white, "

Super White. Especially Colombians. And they'll tell you that.
Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (XuXeR)
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because a large bloc of Hispanics are racially white.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:18 PM (FxwEV)

The ruling class in Hispanic countries are largely though not entirely white. So there's a lot of tendency for people to identify as white. Like high cheekbones Warren but in reverse.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (okun6)

173 What "switched" in the 60s was when the Democrats felt they couldn't get by on just White Supremacy, they adopted a pandering stance that "Did more than the Republicans"
Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)

That and they had to compensate for when the Southern Dems ditched them in the 80s because the liberal wings were too leftist for them to tolerate.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (uhVAy)

174
Jeez, just saw Nina Totenburg on a video explaining her Alito screw up.

Her plastic surgeon belongs in jail.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (Y8DZL)

175 Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia

First, I'm going to posit that a super majority of people can't even find Liberia on a map.

Next, why is it the USA's responsibility to fund fuel for ambulances in Liberia?

Her death is a tragedy, no denying that. But how about looking at the sovereign country of Liberia and how it fails to take care of its own.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2026 04:21 PM (N39Ws)

176 167 Reminder:
Collins was down by 8 in every poll in a very bad Trump and R in general year of 2020.

Also:
Talarico will lose by 10, maybe even 20.

But that doesn't stop the local press from blaring, "Paxton seen out with his mistress!!"
You mean, his girlfriend? Or are divorce men banned from dating forever?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (3cUTc)

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Democrats are better at hoping than Republicans are.

I really think Cooper in NC and Ossoff in GA have real chances of being surprise upsets going the GOP's way.

But everyone else seems to just assume that the two Democrats will win so easily that it's not worth even thinking about the races at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:21 PM (hWfuL)

177 Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (IY9No)
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Right back at ya. Held all kinds of odd jobs and landscaping jobs as a kid. Put myself through college working for Conrail doing railroad demolition over the summer (working with prison work release guys which was hilarious)....and learned that manual labor, while lucrative wasn't a career I wanted. I would have felt guilty leeching off my parents or collecting entitlements. No accomplishment in that behavior.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2026 04:21 PM (dIske)

178 The ruling class in Hispanic countries are largely though not entirely white. So there's a lot of tendency for people to identify as white. Like high cheekbones Warren but in reverse.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 01, 2026 04:20 PM (okun6)

Similar rules in Brazil for merging in blacks with whites.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:21 PM (uhVAy)

179 Because everyone that is street smart has known this for decades. The Democrats don't give a fuck about Democracy. Of course, the Republicans don't give a shit about a Republic either.

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Perchance do you have a newsletter for subscription purposes, Spring Reverb? If only the above 2 sentences could be put on a bumper sticker...

"The Democrat and Republican Politicians Both Suck." Pithy!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 04:21 PM (qBdHI)

180 The ruling class in Hispanic countries are largely though not entirely white. So there's a lot of tendency for people to identify as white. Like high cheekbones Warren but in reverse.

The Spanish royal family comes from a French line.

And of course it was the remnants of the Visigoths that finally freed Spain from the Muslims

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

181 Wasn't Barry Obama supposed to be the next ruler of Liberia? He could build a really cool monolith there, and then he and Big Mike could talk all of the shit they want about how horrible America is.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 01, 2026 04:22 PM (fkjGs)

182 Someone on X asked Kristoff something like, "were any of those people also raped by dogs?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:22 PM (3cUTc)

183 I think rich kids miss out on the early lessons life can teach them. All they know is their parents will give them what they want. They grow up spoiled.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (IY9No)
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Andd become "harbor masters" and "oyster farmers" in tony seasonal vacation destinations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:22 PM (1ZMia)

184 Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia

First, I'm going to posit that a super majority of people can't even find Liberia on a map.

Next, why is it the USA's responsibility to fund fuel for ambulances in Liberia?

Her death is a tragedy, no denying that. But how about looking at the sovereign country of Liberia and how it fails to take care of its own.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2026 04:21 PM (N39Ws)

I'm not going to take Kristoff's word on anything in Liberia or much else.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:23 PM (uhVAy)

185 I wonder how they react to anti-white rhetoric from prominent Democrats"

Pretty much the same as their reaction to lumping "Hispanics" and "blacks" together...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)

186 "Hispanic" is an ethnicity. According to the fedgov one is either.
-Hispanic, or
-Not Hispanic

This is an addition to any racial identity.

If you are named Fujimori and you are from Peru, you are a Hispanic Asian

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (YIpLe)

187 But everyone else seems to just assume that the two Democrats will win so easily that it's not worth even thinking about the races at all.

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It does get hard to not feel beaten down all the time. But I've felt that way since The Dog Eater's presidency put America on the path to ruination and "fundamental change."

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (qBdHI)

188 >> 174

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Turns out Nina Totenberg has a lot harder time getting SCOTUS scoops when pillow talk with Potsy isn’t an option.

Sean knows how to piss off the NPR cadres - the comments are whaaaa!

Posted by: 13times at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (6iKlf)

189 But more likely, the Muzzies and gangs will kill them, in the end.
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More likely?

How about "will"

Just like the did the commines who help them take power in Iran.

Which, while it meant the mullahs took over, was deserved.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (3cUTc)

190 Next, why is it the USA's responsibility to fund fuel for ambulances in Liberia?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2026 04:21 PM (N39Ws)

It is not. It should not be. And by creating a welfare state, we are are dooming it (the royal it) to such misery and death and perpetuity. Just look at Chicago.

>>>Her death is a tragedy, no denying that.

I am not convinced.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (dK+Kv)

191 185 I wonder how they react to anti-white rhetoric from prominent Democrats"

Pretty much the same as their reaction to lumping "Hispanics" and "blacks" together...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)

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To be fair, black Democrats don't do that.

They make it very clear that Hispanics are not nearly as oppressed as Blacks in America and that Hispanics need to cede all political authority and power to Blacks to fix the lack of political power that Blacks have because of racism and slavery, which was caused by everyone who's not black.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (hWfuL)

192 Death to Yellowjackets!

I was down at the field doing some catcher drills and dropped a ball off in the dugout only to get stung in the freaking forehead.

Who does that?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

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Yikes!

You're gonna need one of those hockey goaltender masks that the MLB catchers wear ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (t/lcw)

193 165 Catholics political differences vs evangelicals tracks with ethnicity and recency of immigration — how so?

I am not Catholic, so I have never understood why so many are radical leftists (the Jesuits?)?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (4KUe5)

You can breakdown why a group votes a certain way by various factors, like age, income, education, etc.

Otherwise identical evangelicals and Catholics vote the same. At larger scales protestants and Catholics of similar cultures(such as Austria and Germany) are nigh identical across a variety of metrics.

Frankly most people don't know or think about the finer theological distinctions, so it doesn't generally impact how they vote. Church attendance is by comparison a very strong predictor.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 01, 2026 04:25 PM (okun6)

194 Non whites vote D no matter what.
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No, we do not.

Some of us have some sense.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 01, 2026 04:25 PM (St1MS)

195 You're gonna need one of those hockey goaltender masks that the MLB catchers wear ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (t/lcw)

I might have one around here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:25 PM (dK+Kv)

196 I think rich kids miss out on the early lessons life can teach them. All they know is their parents will give them what they want. They grow up spoiled.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2026 04:16 PM (IY9No)

There's an old saying 'Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves in Three Generations' -- grandfather builds, father lives and maintains, kids blow it all.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:25 PM (uhVAy)

197 Well, I don't like the sound of these here "boncentration bamps".

Posted by: Sathar at July 01, 2026 04:26 PM (G+QR7)

198 192 Death to Yellowjackets!

I was down at the field doing some catcher drills and dropped a ball off in the dugout only to get stung in the freaking forehead.

Who does that?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

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Yikes!

You're gonna need one of those hockey goaltender masks that the MLB catchers wear ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (t/lcw)
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Yeah, a shame we aren't hovering around Halloween. You'd have a solid John Fetterman costume.

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2026 04:26 PM (dIske)

199 TJM

I agree in part & disagree in part.

Ossoff (D) in GA could well lose.

NC is GONE. DEM pickup.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 04:26 PM (RCjYY)

200 As others have noted, this surge of socialism is the tantrum of the rich and pampered suffering from downward mobility.

An anger at seeing those with lesser credentials make more money than them.

That can only mean the system isn't fair.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:26 PM (3cUTc)

201 Anyone who believes that Nazi Graham Platner is "polling" ahead of Susan Collins should have they head examined.

Posted by: deadrody at July 01, 2026 04:27 PM (vgB0v)

202 >>> Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.

Clear cut case of suicide -
A rational person would have camped out within walking distance of the hospital when they knew they were pregnant.
Even sharper would have to wait in the halls.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2026 04:27 PM (/lPRQ)

203 Death to Yellowjackets!

I was down at the field doing some catcher drills and dropped a ball off in the dugout only to get stung in the freaking forehead.

Find the nest. Probably in the ground somewhere. Add a little "boy scout juice" and a match. Listen for the snap crackle and pop noises as those little bastards burn.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2026 04:27 PM (N39Ws)

204 I'm 100% convinced that USAID and other multi-billion dollar scams made NGOs, hedge fund managers and other cantillionaires from largely grifting the tens of trillions of dollars in tax payer gifts to everything from QE-ternity, foreign aid, to "research" to every damned Learing Center that the Left could emotionally extort the taxpayers to underwrite.

Then they took their huge compensation packages and invested heavily in the market — after all, they are playing with the casino's money. They were in at the head of the line for receiving government handouts and thus were able to invest before the consequences of inflationary spending hit those further down the line. Basic Cantillion Effect

This largess has driven insane P/E ratios, record new DJI and S&P records and massive inflation.

Their trustafarian spawn are spending our money to destroy our way of life.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 01, 2026 04:27 PM (+4Cf6)

205 Sean Davis
@seanmdav

Turns out Nina Totenberg has a lot harder time getting SCOTUS scoops when pillow talk with Potsy isn’t an option.

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Wait, Totenberg jumped from Notorious RGBs bed into Benedict Roberts'?

/Have they adoped any White Irish children lately?

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:28 PM (t/lcw)

206 What do we want? Out of our Mom's Basement?

When do we want it? Now!

What do we want? A Free House Bong!

When do we want it? Now!

What do we want? No more calling me a "Barista"!

When do we want it? Now!

Posted by: DSA Chants By The Overly Educated White Layabouts at July 01, 2026 04:28 PM (og9zY)

207 Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Posted by: John Adams at July 01, 2026 04:28 PM (q2NNn)

208 They make it very clear that Hispanics are not nearly as oppressed as Blacks in America and that Hispanics need to cede all political authority and power to Blacks to fix the lack of political power that Blacks have because of racism and slavery, which was caused by everyone who's not black.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (hWfuL)
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When I went to MSU, there was a letter posted in the school paper out to explain why all the money set aside for Rainbow events should almost exclusively be spent hosting parties black people wanted to go to. Because diversity was served best by ghetto parties, y'all!

Not frickin' Asians thinking they need the money for Asian-themed events!

Racist much?

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:28 PM (Fi81e)

209 Death to Yellowjackets!

I was down at the field doing some catcher drills and dropped a ball off in the dugout only to get stung in the freaking forehead.

Find the nest. Probably in the ground somewhere. Add a little "boy scout juice" and a match. Listen for the snap crackle and pop noises as those little bastards burn.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2026 04:27 PM (N39Ws)

Oh they're dying. I already threw Wasp and Hornet Spray in the truck.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (dK+Kv)

210 199 TJM

I agree in part & disagree in part.

Ossoff (D) in GA could well lose.

NC is GONE. DEM pickup.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 04:26 PM (RCjYY)

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The last time Cooper won statewide was 6 years ago. There were 400,000 more Democrats registered than Republicans, and he won by 250,000. That was also for a governorship where partisanship is often less of an overriding issue (think Hogan being a popular governor of MD and then losing by double digits in the Senate election).

Since, Democrats have completely (completely) lost the registration advantage. There are now 10,000 more active Republicans than Democrats.

And Cooper is of the wrong party...could be a Hogan.

Still, midterm turnout differential should prefer Democrats over Republicans, but that math doesn't quite math for him. We'll see, but there's no way he wins by more the 2-3.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (hWfuL)

211 Re: the unfortunate death of the expectant mother in Liberia. One incident is not enough information to determine if Elon is a murderer. How many pregnant women in Liberia died IN hospitals? How many pregnant women never even heard of a hospital, we've been giving birth at home for thousands of years! How many pregnant women die in hospitals IN THE US?? Giving birth is dangerous, even here. (And yes, I feel no obligation to fund anything in Liberia. Even diesel for ambulances.)

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (PHjsi)

212 94 Kinda wish Christians would vote as a single bloc like Muslims do, we would totally control American politics

Yep.

If every true believing Christian voted against the godless monsters on the left they would only win elections where they can print as many ballots as they want...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

This gets into No True Scotsman real quick, same as with Jews. No real Christian/Jew would ever vote for Chuck Schumer, etc. etc. It's a definitional quagmire that's difficult to resolve, especially since both religious groups have all manners of internecine fights on this very topic.

Posted by: Don't have a good answer. Sorry. at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (TbWk/)

213 Yup. Johnson's book is where I learned about the details. I'd heard vaguely about his personal habits, but it was mentioned only briefly by others.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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He says that at one point Marx pawned virtually everything, including the family's clothes, and "Marx alone was in a position to leave the house, retaining one pair of trousers."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (XvL8K)

214 I am not Catholic, so I have never understood why so many are radical leftists (the Jesuits?)?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:19 PM (4KUe5)

Catholics have a larger and deeper 'command structure' then most other divisions and thus are more prone to issues with out of touch insiders. Jesuit types are often shipped off for missionary work where they don't bother the staff.

But the issues aren't unique to Catholics - the Anglicans in England are virtually extinct aside from imports from abroad due to the same infiltration of leftist values that the administration did not reject.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:30 PM (uhVAy)

215 208 When I went to MSU, there was a letter posted in the school paper out to explain why all the money set aside for Rainbow events should almost exclusively be spent hosting parties black people wanted to go to. Because diversity was served best by ghetto parties, y'all!

Not frickin' Asians thinking they need the money for Asian-themed events!

Racist much?

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:28 PM (Fi81e)

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The black Democrat electorate knows it has supreme power within the Democrat party and its save havens like universities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:30 PM (hWfuL)

216 Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Posted by: John Adams at July 01, 2026 04:28 PM (q2NNn
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And yet, we're there.

I was mulling Schlichter's editorial over the evening, and driving into work, I summed it as so: Who cares if the Supreme Court has become the superlegislature that invalidates its reason to be! We can get more seats on that legislature to vote for things WE want!

Through the least-representative, most powerful legislative house in the US.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:31 PM (Fi81e)

217 Anyone who believes that Nazi Graham Platner is "polling" ahead of Susan Collins should have they head examined.

Posted by: deadrody at July 01, 2026 04:27 PM (vgB0v)

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Yup. Historically, Collins is always trailing 8-10% in "the polls" and ends up winning by 8-10%.

/Unexpectedly!

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:31 PM (t/lcw)

218 He says that at one point Marx pawned virtually everything, including the family's clothes, and "Marx alone was in a position to leave the house, retaining one pair of trousers."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (XvL8K)

*considers*

OK, he can come to the Book Thread.

Posted by: Unofficial AoSHQ Pants Monitor at July 01, 2026 04:31 PM (B0NCh)

219 194 Non whites vote D no matter what.
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No, we do not.

Some of us have some sense.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 01, 2026 04

I am doing my best to be amused by the broad brushes instead of looking at them sideways. It’s working only some of the time. Hi friend!

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2026 04:31 PM (OoFl2)

220 196

Trusts and Estates lawyers:

The first generation creates the forune. The second enjoys it. The third wastes it.

Also, first generation is proud of their wealth. Third generation is embarrassed by it.

Posted by: mnw at July 01, 2026 04:32 PM (RCjYY)

221 Why isn't Wakanda providing Vibranium fueled ambulances that run forever and don't pollute to Liberia?

This is kind of meta and geeky but... there's a reason some topics should be avoided in comic book stuff. You do not ask some questions or deal with some ideas because they ruin the genre. Its an essentially silly and childish genre, which is perfectly fine, so is football.

Its okay to have a story about how there's a black wonder-country that does everything right, you use it for the superhero's origin. But when you take that story to the real world and say black people are mistreated everywhere and its wrong to have any African artifacts and Wakanda will now start to fix everything, you RUIN IT because now it brings up questions exactly like the above.

Wakanda let Arabs and black tribes enslave black people for 1000 years and did nothing? They sat back and ignored all the horrific wars and massacres? They let everyone live in dirt huts and die from diseases they could have prevented? They left the rest of Africa to be a crap hole? They did nothing to stop the cruel mistreatment of their people by colonists?

This ruins the immersion and heroic genre.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:32 PM (UZCuZ)

222 “No more calling me a barista “

Fun fact: the young Socialist who just beat Rep. DeGette in the Co primary is a trained lawyer, but has been working as a barista while running for office. She’s here because she was fired from her big NYC law firm for by a very vocal supporter of Palestinians and the 10/7 attacks.

A real woman of the people, you guys!
She belongs back in NYC.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (4KUe5)

223 Socialism and Communism is great if you read it in Leftist books but......

Once they live it, they will know they have been lied to, and it will be too late...

Enjoy living in Mommy and Daddys Basement for the rest of your life... Do not complain your friends who has a real college degree or the electrician/mechanic/HVAC Tech that has a nice home, no debt, nice family, nice car and NO DEBT !!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (G5jnN)

224 Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.

Why didn't her parents and sister arrange for transport. More BS from BSers. Good riddance.

What's for dinner?

Posted by: Not My Circus, Not My Clowns at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (og9zY)

225 Biography of Marx is a read, he was a scammer , bastard and did nothing for his family. Couldn't even take care of himself.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (Ia/+0)

226 If your professor knew how the economy--any economy--worked, you couldn't afford to hire him to teach you.

But not one socialist will ever understand why.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (3cUTc)

227 They make it very clear that Hispanics are not nearly as oppressed as Blacks in America and that Hispanics need to cede all political authority and power to Blacks to fix the lack of political power that Blacks have because of racism and slavery, which was caused by everyone who's not black.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:24 PM (hWfuL)

But blacks are not as oppressed as trans people, or illegal immigrant criminals! and worst of all, the most oppressed are leftist kids of powerful Democrats!!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (uhVAy)

228 Christians are too tied to the idea of a free conscience and liberty of belief as long as you cling to Christ, makes it hard to get us to agree on stuff like politics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:14 PM (UZCuZ)

My belief is simple. He's up there, we're down here dealing with satan's minions. If he wants to help, fine. If not, get out of the frigging way and we'll deal with it as we see fit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (snZF9)

229 This gets into No True Scotsman real quick, same as with Jews. No real Christian/Jew would ever vote for Chuck Schumer, etc. etc. It's a definitional quagmire that's difficult to resolve, especially since both religious groups have all manners of internecine fights on this very topic.
Posted by: Don't have a good answer. Sorry. at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (TbWk/)
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I believe that God's going to screw you up really quick and put somebody voicing different opinions on the opposite side. Because you'd be looking for guidance from human doctrine and organizational principles.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (Fi81e)

230 I am doing my best to be amused by the broad brushes instead of looking at them sideways. It’s working only some of the time. Hi friend!
Posted by: Piper
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Hey girl!

Just wanted to remind some folks that not all us darkies reside on the plantation.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (St1MS)

231 227 But blacks are not as oppressed as trans people, or illegal immigrant criminals! and worst of all, the most oppressed are leftist kids of powerful Democrats!!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (uhVAy)

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"Fuck you!"
-Dave Chappelle, to clapter

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (hWfuL)

232 >>> I'm 100% convinced that USAID and other multi-billion dollar scams made NGOs, hedge fund managers and other cantillionaires from largely grifting the tens of trillions of dollars in tax payer gifts ...

Those taxpayers haven't been born yet.
Could say that they grifted with the pols using counterfeit dollars they churned out be the trillion$...

But they didn't even waste the expense of printing the dollars and just moved a decimal place in some fed reserve accounting software.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (/lPRQ)

233 In many parts of Africa, slavery is still legal.
I can't imagine the replacement cost on a Liberian baby is higher than the costs of providing Liberian Ambulances with Diesel Fuel

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (v9lAB)

234 Re: the unfortunate death of the expectant mother in Liberia. One incident is not enough information to determine if Elon is a murderer. How many pregnant women in Liberia died IN hospitals? How many pregnant women never even heard of a hospital, we've been giving birth at home for thousands of years! How many pregnant women die in hospitals IN THE US?? Giving birth is dangerous, even here. (And yes, I feel no obligation to fund anything in Liberia. Even diesel for ambulances.)

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (PHjsi)

One is a tragedy, one thousand is a statistic.

Narrator: It is more than one.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (dK+Kv)

235 I've come to the conclusion that in today's world, most people want to be ruled. They don't don't want the responsibilities of freedom. And they'll glom on to anyone that will dictate every aspect of their lives. The comfort zone must be maintained/

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (g8Ew8)

236 "Turns out Nina Totenberg has a lot harder time getting SCOTUS scoops when pillow talk with Potsy isn’t an option."

She certainly ain't bedding the Fonz.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (DZ9Lv)

237 Biography of Marx is a read, he was a scammer , bastard and did nothing for his family. Couldn't even take care of himself.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (Ia/+0)
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He couldn't even change his own diaper.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (Fi81e)

238 Ugh, the Anglicans are such radicals!
Prince Charles didn’t even bother putting out an Easter statement this year, but did recognize EID, iirc.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (4KUe5)

239
The black Democrat electorate knows it has supreme power within the Democrat party and its save havens like universities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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They seem less supreme in these days of intersectionality ( = "share the victimhood") and these new grievance groups.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (XJ22o)

240 How many pregnant women are killed by illegal aliens?

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (MWfyi)

241 One of the best amusing things is seeing the supporters of these marxists attack "normal" dem politicians.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2026 04:36 PM (n5tGW)

242 I have twice heard how DOGE cuts eliminated important services and the staff who performed them. The people telling me how they were impacted have NO CLUE that the institutions involved cut the services that were their reason for existing in the first place and kept their bloated administrative do-nothing paycheck collectors.

Posted by: Emmie at July 01, 2026 04:36 PM (lP31d)

243 Some of us have some sense.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 01, 2026 04

I am doing my best to be amused by the broad brushes instead of looking at them sideways. It’s working only some of the time. Hi friend!
Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2026 04:31 PM (OoFl2)
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*waves*
-All da jooz who vote Democrat except Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:36 PM (YIpLe)

244 One big problem for third world countries ... they are full of third world people.

Another problem, when "guilt ridden" Westerners decide to help, they get overrun/commandeered by NGO type criminals that steal most of the money to support their elite lifestyle (and drugs).

My nephew used to go to Africa every year (usually with wife and kids), as a doctor and a Christian. Last I saw him he said their "Christians" would go to witch doctors when the American doctors are not available. And with the Muslims invading, I'm not sure how safe they are. I guess those types do some good, along with those building wells (and teaching the Africans not to pollute their own water supply) ...

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2026 04:36 PM (vbXSk)

245 If your professor knew how the economy--any economy--worked, you couldn't afford to hire him to teach you.

But not one socialist will ever understand why.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:33 PM (3cUTc)

In Von Mises book on Socialism he adds in a footnote a serious Socialist thinker who claimed that road repairs would be done by dragooning teenagers and kids to work at night for no pay. As someone who had to watch Mom organize us kids to go anywhere even for fun I could tell that idiot had absolutely no sense.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

246 Some African Americans who pose a threat to pregnant women are more equal than others, I guess.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2026 04:37 PM (dK+Kv)

247 It's 97, with a dew point of 75. Fuck this. Even dogs don't want to go for walks. Gross.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 04:37 PM (BI5O2)

248 Modern Commie-crat Bernie Snadersmotto:

"Socialism for thee, but not me !!!!!!

Hunter Biden: "Money for nothing and chicks for free".....

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (G5jnN)

249 I've come to the conclusion that in today's world, most people want to be ruled. They don't don't want the responsibilities of freedom. And they'll glom on to anyone that will dictate every aspect of their lives. The comfort zone must be maintained/

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (g8Ew

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When you think about it, that played some role in Roberts and Barrett's concurrence.

Oh, if The Court has been ignoring a piece of text THAT long, it might be toooo much upheaval to start restoring what we can understand of it through textualism.

But the gall is that the left who actually spurn textualism and originalism are going to start telling us "That's in the Constitution!"

No, it's not.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (Fi81e)

250 239 They seem less supreme in these days of intersectionality ( = "share the victimhood") and these new grievance groups.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (XJ22o)

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Their peak of power was probably getting Joe Biden nominated in 2020.

If you replicate 2020 in 2028, complete with a new form of Bernie Sanders with the same prebaked in support, I don't think they can do it.

But, the rest of the Democrat electorate is simply too fractured to consolidate at the national level right now.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (hWfuL)

251 Wakanda let Arabs and black tribes enslave black people for 1000 years and did nothing? They sat back and ignored all the horrific wars and massacres? They let everyone live in dirt huts and die from diseases they could have prevented? They left the rest of Africa to be a crap hole? They did nothing to stop the cruel mistreatment of their people by colonists?

This ruins the immersion and heroic genre.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2026 04:32 PM (UZCuZ)
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One of the hallmarks of good worldbuilding is instilling the "willing suspension of disbelief" in your audience.

Wakanda fails in that regard because even a casual inquiry into that nation shows it doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

Asgard--also in the MCU and based on Nordic folklore--fails for similar reasons. Why didn't the Asgardians help Europe during the Dark Ages? The Scandinavians had encounters with them in their history.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (gnNyN)

252 How many pregnant women are killed by illegal aliens?

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (MWfyi)

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All of them, duh!

/You can't sex-traffic millions of women & children who are pregnant ... (courtesy of The AutoPen Empire, 2021-2024).

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (t/lcw)

253 Someone who made a poor living scamming and begging from friends is the father of Communism

Any wonder the likes of Antifa are his followers?

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

254 Ugh, the Anglicans are such radicals!
Prince Charles didn’t even bother putting out an Easter statement this year, but did recognize EID, iirc.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (4KUe5)

I think overseas Anglicans from Africa are still doing OK, and many split to Catholicism in the early 2000s, but European Anglicanism seems to be pretty much dead as a religion.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:39 PM (uhVAy)

255 It's 97, with a dew point of 75. Fuck this. Even dogs don't want to go for walks. Gross.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I'm wearing a light hoodie and my A/C (which I don't have) isn't on.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 01, 2026 04:39 PM (DZ9Lv)

256 It’s kind of funny to watch South American and Mexican fans in the stands at the World Cup. It’s mostly white people. Not exclusively but a significant majority.

Why? Because it’s expensive as fuck to attend these games and in S. And Central America the people with money are generally light skinned.

Something the American left pretends doesn’t exist. To them all “Hispanics” look like their gardeners and nannies. Those are peasant classes.

Posted by: Demographics Matter at July 01, 2026 04:39 PM (HE7b3)

257 In Von Mises book on Socialism he adds in a footnote a serious Socialist thinker who claimed that road repairs would be done by dragooning teenagers and kids to work at night for no pay.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)
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Thus, under Marx, the government can steal ALL your labor. Because, well, we all get Government Goodness out of it--equally!

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

258 In many parts of Africa, slavery is still legal.
I can't imagine the replacement cost on a Liberian baby is higher than the costs of providing Liberian Ambulances with Diesel Fuel

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (v9lAB)
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Always appreciate your sober analysis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:39 PM (YIpLe)

259 258 In many parts of Africa, slavery is still legal.
I can't imagine the replacement cost on a Liberian baby is higher than the costs of providing Liberian Ambulances with Diesel Fuel

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2026 04:34 PM (v9lAB)
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Always appreciate your sober analysis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:39 PM (YIpLe)

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I prefer garrett's drunk analysis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:40 PM (hWfuL)

260 It's 97, with a dew point of 75. Fuck this. Even dogs don't want to go for walks. Gross.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

My AC is on the Hoth setting. I'll be riding my tauntaun around the house.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2026 04:40 PM (snZF9)

261 Section 8 Housing in Gangbanger land, Medicaid wait list for 6 months, No car, public transportation, SNAP, Welfare Checks ........

AOC Utopia !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 01, 2026 04:40 PM (G5jnN)

262 King Chuckles, defender of the faith! ummm... defender of multi-faiths!... Especially islam... defender of islam! That's the ticket.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)

263 "I see we've budgeted zero dollars for fuel. That seems kinda low for an ambulance service."
"Elon cut our money."
"Well, maybe we should cut some administrative costs and move that money to..."
"ELON CUT THE FUEL MONEY! Don't you understand how NGOs work?"
"Not like a business, apparently."
"Now you're getting it."

Posted by: Wally at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (0e5Te)

264 The Justice Democrats group was initially called “Remake 538.” Their goal has always been to replace every Congressman with one of their young radicals. They’re simply starting with picking off the lame, calcified Democrats first.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (4KUe5)

265 The phrase you're all looking for is ":Vanguard of the Proletariat."

The core tenet of Leninism is:

Marxism presumes that :"the working class" will rise up to overthrow the capitalist system. But the problem is: They don't. The working class (a.k.a. "the proletariat) is too stupid, lazy and complacent to do it on their own.

So what we need ,to get this revolution jump-started, is an elite cadre of super-smart activists to lead the charge - -and only then will the working class wake up and follow the banner.

We call this elite squad, "The Vanguard of the Proletariat."

An that's exactly what happened in Russia in 1917, Cuba 1959, etc. etc. -- it really was a small group of extremists who kicked things off, and then the masses jumped on board.

So, fast forward to 2026: The Democratic Socialist of American consider themselves "The Vanguard of the Proletariat." But there's an even bigger problem now: Every single young left-winger is part of the "Vanguard." There is no "working class" behind them. Theri entire movement is nothing but the elite squad at the front.

They're all special. They're all the cool kids. But they have no mass support.

Posted by: zombie at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (Av6i5)

266 You youngsters have no idea, but the descendants of slaves from America ran Liberia like a fiefdom for over 100 years until they were tied to posts on the beach and executed en masse in 1980.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (YIpLe)

267 *waves*
-All da jooz who vote Democrat except Franpsycho
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Hehe!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (St1MS)

268 Asgard--also in the MCU and based on Nordic folklore--fails for similar reasons. Why didn't the Asgardians help Europe during the Dark Ages? The Scandinavians had encounters with them in their history.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (gnNyN)

Well Asgard in Norse was the abode of Gods, and humans were only of interest for creating foot soldiers for fighting the 'end of the world' battle against monsters and such. Charity on earth was not a selling point.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)

269 How many ~~pregnant women are killed by illegal aliens~~ gestating people are permanently enriched by unhoused and undocumented people of Aztec?
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (MWfyi)

FIFY, bigot.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (BI5O2)

270 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (gnNyN)

The Prime Directive

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (KC5Lt)

271 243 Some of us have some sense.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 01, 2026 04

I am doing my best to be amused by the broad brushes instead of looking at them sideways. It’s working only some of the time. Hi friend!
Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2026 04:31 PM (OoFl2)
=====

*waves*
-All da jooz who vote Democrat except Franpsycho
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:36

We have more than our fair share of exceptions making the rule. 😂

Posted by: Piper at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (OoFl2)

272 252 How many pregnant women are killed by illegal aliens?
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2026 04:35 PM (MWfyi)

You H*TERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How many Transgender Pregnant Men are killed by Illegal Aliens should be the question !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (G5jnN)

273 A working class hero is something to be.

Posted by: the other Lennon at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (QaH55)

274 I wouldn't put it past King Chuck to have a prayer rug

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (Ia/+0)

275 In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:38 PM (hWfuL)

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BREAKING: Dan "One-Eyed McCain" Crenshaw Announces His Candidacy For the Democrat-Communist POTUS Nomination After Getting New Totenkopf "Nazi SS Death Head" Tattoo. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (t/lcw)

276 Yes, the African Anglicans are conservative, and it’s there where the Episcopal church is seeing its growth.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2026 04:43 PM (4KUe5)

277
>>Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia.

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Did he cut off the supplies? Did he confiscate the ambulances? Did he bomb the fueling stations? No? So everything was there except the free money, which somehow couldn't be found anywhere in the entire Liberian national budget or GDP. Great country, Liberians. Maybe you need to do better. Dead young mother should be a wakeup call to work harder, not beg harder.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 04:43 PM (XJ22o)

278 Ask one of these Socialism Lovering College Grads to name a successful................

"SOCIALIST COUNTRY or SOCIETY" ?????

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 01, 2026 04:43 PM (G5jnN)

279 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (YIp

I like that they continued with American names.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2026 04:43 PM (KC5Lt)

280 23 This is the Leninist deviation from Marxism. The need for an elite vanguard because the working class won't go all revolutiony on its own.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Bingo. You beat me to it by 200 comments.

Posted by: zombie at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (Av6i5)

281 Re: the unfortunate death of the expectant mother in Liberia. One incident is not enough information to determine if Elon is a murderer. How many pregnant women in Liberia died IN hospitals? How many pregnant women never even heard of a hospital, we've been giving birth at home for thousands of years! How many pregnant women die in hospitals IN THE US?? Giving birth is dangerous, even here. (And yes, I feel no obligation to fund anything in Liberia. Even diesel for ambulances.)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at July 01, 2026 04:29 PM (PHjsi)
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Liberia has diesel fuel. Why did they not make certain ambulances had some of that fuel?

In other words, neither America or Doge, and certainly not Musk, had anything to do with Liberian decisions on fuel use. To even imply America should decide fuel use in Liberia is racist and colonialist, because it is based on an inference Liberians can't decide simple fuel allocation for themselves, and instead need their traditional American masters to do it for them.

Kristoff is a racist, a colonialist, and he should be drummed out of Herald Square for his crimes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (1ZMia)

282 An that's exactly what happened in Russia in 1917, Cuba 1959, etc. etc. -- it really was a small group of extremists who kicked things off, and then the masses ~~jumped~~were pressed on board.

Posted by: zombie at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (Av6i5)
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FIFY

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (Fi81e)

283 Ugh, the Anglicans are such radicals!
Prince Charles didn’t even bother putting out an Easter statement this year, but did recognize EID, iirc.
Posted by: Lizzy

Word has it, he's a goatraper convert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (wOO3z)

284
So, fast forward to 2026: The Democratic Socialist of American consider themselves "The Vanguard of the Proletariat." But there's an even bigger problem now: Every single young left-winger is part of the "Vanguard." There is no "working class" behind them. Theri entire movement is nothing but the elite squad at the front.

They're all special. They're all the cool kids. But they have no mass support.

Posted by: zombie at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (Av6i5)

One of Lenin's key insights in his successful takeover is that the masses can be bribed. And bribing the solders is also really important.

He printed lots of money and created massive inflation to do this, but it did allow him to take power.

In some sense the Democrats offering to hand out money to everyone are pursuing a more effective political strategy.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (okun6)

285 The Democratic Socialist of American consider themselves "The Vanguard of the Proletariat."

In The Principles of Communism, they (Marx and Engles) describe democratic socialists as either "proletarians who are not yet sufficiently clear about the conditions of the liberation of their class" or "representatives of the petty bourgeoisie.

Posted by: per wiki at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (MWfyi)

286 I wouldn't put it past King Chuck to have a prayer rug

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (Ia/+0)

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Do the Muzzies have an issue with Bloody Tampons praying to Allah?

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:45 PM (t/lcw)

287 They're all special. They're all the cool kids. But they have no mass support.
Posted by: zombie at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (Av6i5)
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The other major problem they have is 100 years of solid history of failure time and time and time again with tens of millions of corpses in their wake.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2026 04:45 PM (gnNyN)

288 282 An that's exactly what happened in Russia in 1917, Cuba 1959, etc. etc. -- it really was a small group of extremists who kicked things off, and then the masses jumpedwere pressed on board.

Posted by: zombie at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (Av6i5)
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FIFY

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (Fi81e)

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Populations living in abject poverty allowed for easier mob creation mechanics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 01, 2026 04:45 PM (hWfuL)

289 No nation in Africa had a better head start than Liberia.

Freed slaves, many well-educated, given nearly $3 million from the US in today's dollars for the 12k to 16k to start out.

And they devolved into just another slave-owning, African kleptocracy within a generation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2026 04:45 PM (3cUTc)

290 NOOD Wheaton

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 01, 2026 04:46 PM (t/lcw)

291 Look Wakanda has a "plot hole" only if the whole point is Unequivocally Virtuous Wakanda.

It's not a plot hole if the Wakandans go "Yeah, we saw those people dying in their mudhuts--what makes that our burden?" And then some serious drama can ensue.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2026 04:46 PM (Fi81e)

292 Nood - Hollyweird twinks Wil and George call The Rock a "coward" for not being openly left-wing.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 01, 2026 04:46 PM (KKMoa)

293 I'm wearing a light hoodie and my A/C (which I don't have) isn't on.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 01, 2026 04:39 PM (DZ9Lv)
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Sunny 66 degrees in Civic Center right now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2026 04:46 PM (YIpLe)

294 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 01, 2026 04:44 PM (okun6)

Bread and circuses have been around for a while.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2026 04:46 PM (KC5Lt)

295 I wouldn't put it past King Chuck to have a prayer rug
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:42 PM (Ia/+0)

I doubt he believes in anything seriously. He has been chopping off the more raggedy bits of the Royals to preserve the core, which is more sensible than the UK government has done.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:46 PM (uhVAy)

296 Years ago, I ran a private cogen plant that put out more power than Liberia's entire grid. Lots of progress being made there.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 01, 2026 04:47 PM (fkjGs)

297 The other problem is they haven't and can't disarm us.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2026 04:47 PM (n5tGW)

298 I have a $200K College Degree from Harvard in Ancient Lithuanian Culture and only can find a job at Micky Ds serving burgers at $6/hour.

This is not fair that other people that work hard have nice things !!!!

Posted by: Purple Hair, Ten Nose Rings, Charles Manson Tattoo on my face transgender male at July 01, 2026 04:48 PM (G5jnN)

299 The myrtles and hydrangeas are drooping down like weary old people.

Muggy as it gets. You could chew on the air.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2026 04:48 PM (BI5O2)

300
They're all special. They're all the cool kids. But they have no mass support.
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And yet they're winning elections, which is what counts.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 04:48 PM (XJ22o)

301 I have a $200K College Degree from Harvard in Ancient Lithuanian Culture and only can find a job at Micky Ds serving burgers at $6/hour.

This is not fair that other people that work hard have nice things !!!!
Posted by: Purple Hair, Ten Nose Rings, Charles Manson Tattoo on my face transgender male at July 01, 2026 04:48 PM (G5jnN

I might hire someone who is an expert on ancient Lithuanian culture. Not one who is from XXX Studies.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:49 PM (uhVAy)

302 "But that's all bullshit-- what they focus on is open borders and transing children."

Don't forget the anti-semite (actually Jew hatred), pro-Hamas component which is the real glue of the organization.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 01, 2026 04:49 PM (oji8u)

303
And yet they're winning elections, which is what counts.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 04:48 PM (XJ22o)

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They win in little political monocultures where few people vote in primaries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2026 04:50 PM (O0L8i)

304 And yet they're winning elections, which is what counts.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 04:48 PM (XJ22o)

Someone is winning them, not sure its the front men in the cotton fields of the plantation. This one was a woman - old guard feminist going down?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:51 PM (uhVAy)

305 A little background on Bernie Sanders from American Thinker in 2016.

https://tinyurl.com/yk7nk3tx

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 01, 2026 04:53 PM (5xuJ/)

306 "But that's all bullshit-- what they focus on is open borders and transing children."

Don't forget the anti-semite (actually Jew hatred), pro-Hamas component which is the real glue of the organization.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 01, 2026 04:49 PM (oji8u)

That wing might be in decline with the end of UN rule in those areas and Iran under the interdict of the nations in the gulf. Sure we have local Jew hatred here but the finances are elsewhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2026 04:53 PM (uhVAy)

307 "Update: Ro Khanna, the guy who got rich by knocking up an heiress, wants to end capitalism all of a sudden."

I think we should give this a go. First, we confiscate the wealth and assets of Khanna's family, George Soros and son, Neville Roy Singham, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, and a few thousand other progressive Lefties (Commies). If that doesn't work, we may reconsider the idea.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 01, 2026 04:59 PM (oji8u)

308 They're all special. They're all the cool kids. But they have no mass support.
Posted by: zombie at July 01, 2026 04:41 PM (Av6i5)
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The other major problem they have is 100 years of solid history of failure time and time and time again with tens of millions of corpses in their wake.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2026 04:45 PM (gnNyN)

Many don't know that. History has been horribly convoluted or left out entirely in most of these snowflakes education/indoctrination.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2026 05:05 PM (g8Ew8)

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