elias isquith

it remains extremely funny that trent lott had to resign as senate majority leader for saying something that by the standards of today's GOP would be deemed insufficiently based and evidence of squishiness

it’s pretty pretty pretty grim to have the vice president literally repeat the rhetoric of white nationalists and then have the most powerful newspaper in the country say “he’s trying to split the difference” because he chose not to enunciate the 14 words.

i just realized that trump is absolutely not the type of guy to get a really bad medical diagnosis and out of a sense of responsibility tell his cabinet, much less announce it to the public. if something like that happens it’s not going to he an elaborate coverup; the cabinet will genuinely not know

this man is absolutely deadset on destroying the republic because people are mean to him when he goes to martha's vineyard. we're all used to it but when you're reminded of it like this -- it's just shocking. Exclusive | Trump Told by Alan...

reading this garbage compact piece from a ticket-scalper in which he grants anonymity to his friends so they can claim the reason they don't have the job they think they deserve is because of woke and remembering arendt's writing about how totalitarianism is an alliance of loser-elites & the mob

i think the media needs to internalize something that is glaringly obvious but also weird and disorienting in a way the media is completely unequipped to handle: trump is not trying to be popular anymore. he is not doing politics anymore. he does not care. he just wants to rule until the music stops

i dont understand why so many of these guys wanna live forever when it's clear they don't actually enjoy being alive

sometimes i think human history is just a constant cycle of insecure men thinking wealth and power would address the void in their souls, then getting increasingly rageful/reactionary/nihilistic as each passing year shows this is not true and as the threat of death becomes increasingly less abstract

still poleaxed by the idea that you could oppose birthright citizenship and still think of yourself as a liberal in any sense of the term.

people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?