A photo taken during the summer of 2022 shows a grinning former president Donald Trump flashing a thumbs up gesture while posing with John Alite, a podcaster and motivational speaker who was once a hitman for the Gambino crime family.

Idk, sounds like Tankie Talk to me

A kind of Third World, independent of the dueling hegemony, as it were?

DHS spending bill passed 220-207

7 Democrats voted in favor:

• Henry Cuellar
• Don Davis
• Laura Gilles
• Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
• Jared Golden
• Vicente Gonzalez
• Tom Suozzi

Massie voted No

Andy Harris didn’t vote

Might not have passed if every Democrat voted No, but leadership wasn’t whipping them to do so

Please note that Henry Cueller is the senior house rep on the Appropriations Committee. If Dems retake Congress, he will be the chair of the committee in the House that controls all the money

Where’s the militia meeting up?

Your community is your best defense against fascism. Giving up friends and family, especially right now, is a real gamble.

Real Inbox Zero hour, who up?

They tried to warn us.

We didn’t listen

Sure, but you can control for that in your sampling.

In the 1980s, the Kenyan government tried to launch its own locally made car brand called Nyayo, but it never went into production due to funding issues. Another homegrown company called Mobius Motors did successfully launch in the early aughts, but folded last year because it couldn’t compete with cheap imports.

Plenty of money in automotive construction, but it’s a cut throat market that requires a very friendly local government.

Idk if Kenyans really do want to localize production. Historically, they’ve been content to import.

I’m not going to pretend that people voting against their own self interests isn’t a problem

The problem with “lesser evil” politics is that neither candidate represents your interests.

You had a corporate Democrat running against a fascist Republican. This after four years of liberals breaking their campaign promises, fattening the wallets of Techbro AnCaps, and beating up civil rights protestors on national TV.

It’s stupid to pretend we don’t live in a first past the post system where most voters are going to vote straight D or straight R.

It’s stupid to close off your primary so an unpopular incumbent in a dementia spiral doesn’t have to campaign against another wave of progressive outsiders.

When Henry Cuellar or Jim Justice or Kristen Sinema are the Ds on my ballot, it isn’t even FPTP. It’s a forgone conclusion I’m getting fucked from either side.

Wait till you find out how many states Bernie Sanders won in 2020.

My thought is that turning up in Boulder, Colorado and asking the first person you see if they like chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry ice cream then claiming everyone in the city likes vanilla is misrepresentative.

You don’t ask the first person you see. You ask fifty or sixty people, get their demographic data, and then feed that into a big pot. Then you pull some of them back out again based on the statistical norms across the whole country.

The principle being that you’re not trying to get the “average” person in Colorado. You’re trying to get the “average” person nationally, with a random sample of Colorado residents feeding that model.

I’m not holding my breath

Hard out there for a satirical newspaper. They’re reduced to the TDS business model of just reporting the news while making a silly face.

Any guesses as to where Kenyans can obtain a steady supply of cheap, high quality EVs?

That could be anyone’s funeral.

Don’t hate the Artist, hate the Algorithm

A Century of Folk Musicians: “Are we a joke to you?”

Dude is going to find a spot in the ICE brigades overnight.