♫ Will the circlejerk be unbroken, by-and-by OP, by-and-by? There’s a better joke awaitin, in the replies, oh in the replies ♫

e; no for real tho, I love how each generation finds their own way to be dumb

I mean, money they’re spending in a primary is money they aren’t spending in a general, but there’s definitely way too much money in politics overall

She also talks about wanting to mass castrate pedophiles and attacked the San Antonio Current for basically just reprinting what she said, and the amount of money that got thrown at her primary campaign out of nowhere by an organization that set things up so they won’t have to report their donors until after the election is really strange at best, so I really think she’s a bit crazy and her campaign is going to implode no matter what at this point,

But what a fucking fumble from the Dems. With a little bit of support from the party maybe we could’ve toned down her weirdest shit and run a good campaign here, but no, we’re just going to hand a house seat to the Republicans I guess.

I don’t see her saying anything about wanting to persecute Jews. I see her saying that she wants to imprison American Zionists, but like half of those are evangelical Christians.

I definitely don’t like how she’s now blaming a local journalist for her getting death threats when that reporter just reprinted what she said, and who knows who is behind her with American campaign finance laws being what they are, so I would be very surprised if her campaign doesn’t collapse in the general,

But the fact that the Democratic party couldn’t work with this lady and teach her a little bit of messaging discipline before things got to this point is a mistake that’s now going to haunt us all summer. She has some questionable judgment but seems like somebody who could have been worked with, but now instead we’re just going to give a House seat to the GOP because of a moderate purity test.

I want to live in a world where Drake is irrelevant

Fair enough, this article might be more of what you’re looking for - https://poprant.indiatimes.com/trending/spotify-under-fire-as-streaming-platform-accused-of-inflating-drakes-streaming-numbers-over-bts-for-biggest-2026-song-debut-army-refuses-to-buy-the-apology/articleshow/131157267.html (arc)

Yeah, doesn’t look like a punch to me either, but just looking up the IG account that’s tagged on here I kinda wouldn’t be surprised if they did post an image of a woman getting punched given all the other right wing stuff there

Fwiw, I think yoinking a good pun off a bad account on a bad website and posting it to a better website makes the world a better place

Hard to say anything for sure anymore given how we’re all several layers of irony deep at any point, but I think that may in fact be the joke (or part of it anyway)

“I kind of swindled her into saying Kalshi was like stocks,” he said – not so difficult a sell, considering Kalshi describes itself as operating “like a stock exchange for events”.

Also, it’s not regulated by a gaming commission, they report to the SEC. So the authorities treat it like a market too.

e; There was a 2013 email thread between Jeffrey Epstein and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick where they talked about how adding micro transactions to games could help with “indoctrinating kids into an economy,” and I think about that a lot these days. This guy’s a little old for it, but gambling addiction being so common among gen z-ers totally makes sense with how the last twenty years of AAA gaming has gone.

Speaking to Emerge, Harris raised the idea of Supreme Court reform “including the notion of expanding the court.”

That’s coming out swinging? Maybe if she releases a signed public statement saying she supports court expansion and if she thinks an un-filibuster-able bill would be an appropriate way to do so regardless of what the Senate Parliamentarian says I’d believe it, but this seems so vague it’s meaningless.

Seems like that lawsuit was mainly about Drake accusing Kendrick’s record distributor of defaming Drake by publishing that song, and that lawsuit got dismissed on free speech grounds

How he addressed it was by cutting enhanced unemployment insurance and dropping plans for stimulus checks. edit - while also pursuing an infrastructure bill that pumped a ton of money into businesses

Not to mention, the affordability crisis were facing is… a consistent systemic issue with both.

No kidding, and yet here we are arguing underneath an article pretending the Democratic party doesn’t have this policy problem

He has been accused multiple times and there have been a couple of lawsuits against Spotify for allegedly letting it happen, but as far as I can tell nobody has been able to definitively prove anything because Spotify just waves their mandatory arbitration clause around and shuts down lawsuits before discovery can happen

The real story here is Spotify almost definitely got caught frauding streaming numbers to prop up Drake’s career, but since we don’t have their CEO confessing to literally doing that in 8K everyone’s going to run with Spotify’s “oopsie” story about this and get distracted watching k-pop and hip hop people bicker with each other

McDonald’s employees never get the reward in this world

was probably more tied to inflation than anything else

“It wasn’t the boat sinking that made all those people drown, it was the water rising.” - captain shortly before mutiny

We had a real chance to start building an economy that works for most people by building on top of the emergency anti-poverty measures COVID forced governments to put in place, but as soon as a Dem moved into the white house again Republicans all suddenly remembered they hate that stuff and Dems figured they’d get applauded for being “responsible” or some bullshit by doing exactly what they wanted (because that worked out so well for us when Obama did austerity, or when Clinton cut welfare, or etc.)

Except household hunger measures started to improve in 2021 (arc) but then they reversed course and got worse every other year Biden was in office, in large part because he terminated enhanced UI and killed stimulus checks and a bunch of other pandemic aid that never should have ended. Americans didn’t suffer under Biden because of COVID, it was intentional policy choices his administration made because they wanted to say things were “back to normal”.

Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.

Meanwhile, in reality (arc)

the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Household Food Security in the United States report, assessing that 13.7 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2024, marking the highest prevalence of U.S. food insecurity in nearly a decade.

Biden’s “perhaps not firing on all cylinders” economy was crap for poor people. “But whatabout the Republicans” will get you 2-4 years in office to leave your constituency twisting in the wind while you tell them things are actually good, and then your campaigns will collapse just like Harris did and Republicans will win by default yet again.

If you really want to break that cycle, we need better policies and we need to communicate the fact that we understand that Biden’s economy was crap. Arguing with the voters that it was actually pretty good is just a ticket out of office.

Insane and outrageous attempted corruption, but if there isn’t at least a lawsuit filed about this by the end of the day bringing this whole thing right back to the judicial scrutiny they’re trying to worm out of I will be amazed

Not that I have much more faith in federal courts than I do in the executive branch at this point, but hopefully the optics of this are too toxic for even them