Hillary won.

Not in November, she didn’t

Quit acting like your democracy is forced on you.

American democracy is the laughing stock of the free world.

The magic of the Trump machine is that he always finds a way to say the quiet part a little louder.

Executing a wheelchair bound man as a media spectacle would be one more exclamation point on how American criminal justice functions.

I don’t see any of this actually ever happening even in primaries.

I mean, I do see it happening from time to time. Bernie was a recent example. Jesse Jackson also a big one during the 80s. Even Obama had his moment in the sun, back in his 2008 run.

They never last, either because the party snuffs it out or because the candidates themselves turn milquetoast and lame by the time they get to office.

But, idk. Would Ralph Nader have governed any better or worse than Al Gore? Really hard to say without giving them both a shot at high office. But neither landed. Instead we got Bush and Clinton.

The Crusades were a catastrophe for Europe and mostly a nuisance for the late Byzantine Empire. The victory of the First Crusade was almost an accident and that was the only one that might be considered successful.

Meanwhile, the Moorish conquest of Southern Europe began in 711 AD and lasted until the Columbian Era - practically the year European Colonialism began.

And The Golden Horde dominated Eastern Europe for 200 years, starting in 1240, after wrecking their way into Poland and turning back when they ran out of anything worth conquering.

Hell, west Rome fell to other Europeans. Viking Age, Europeans.

Because all the action was in the Eastern Empire. The West was functionally abandoned by the time it fell.

And that was after centuries of humiliation, all the way up through what would become France, England, and Spain.

In fairness, Europe was the punching bag of its neighbors for the 1000 years prior.

But otherwise, I gotta say, I’ve been hearing a lot more about global geopolitics as a matter of public interest generally speaking. All the Latin American elections are big news, especially with Brazil being the latest pink-tide domino to fail. The Pacific Rim states regularly make headlines. Everyone who has even a casual eye towards global affairs is keyed up on the BJP anti-democratic turn on the eve of India’s general election. Americans are watching with bated breath on every election from the UK to Hungary, given how they threaten to shape the Ukraine/Russia war.

If anything, American politics hasn’t been getting as much coverage by comparison. It’s weird not to have the entire month of October be one Surprise after another, during an election year. Hell, we skated right through prime Silly Season in August and everyone was too fixated on diesel prices and AI stocks to notice political bullshit.

Y’all got off easy this time.

It’s weird to me that so many people are still convinced there is a peaceful way out of fascism.

It’s not a matter of conviction, it’s a matter of impotence. Fascists are mobilized, organized, and well-financed by their oligarch allies. Antifascists are untrained, scattered, and overwhelmingly working class or outright lumpen.

Conservatives are truly, deeply evil and cannot stop harming everyone around them. They must be forcibly stopped or they will only get worse.

Well, you seem like you’ve got the Will to Power. Get out there and get to it, then. Wave your sword around. Slay the dragon. It should be easy.

Keith Ellison’s the AG. Last I checked, he was a Progressive Dem.

Keith Ellison’s the AG of Minnesota. He was supposed to be one of the Ultra Far-Left Super Socialist Antifa Progressives. Is he planning on pressing charges on… anyone? Idk, maybe write him a letter and ask.

Reactionary Media is the UK’s largest international export. Everyone loves to throw a fit over Vladimir Putin. Nobody wants to acknowledge Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell, Jonathan Harmsworth, or Paul Marshall.

Same with the damned yankees. You’re choking yourself to death on home grown AI slop fresh off the Mark Zuckerberg Shrimp Jesus Machine, but it’s evil foreigners who are to blame when you elect a new Ronadl Reagan.

Vibes-Based Voting is how we got Trump in the first place.

If you have shit politics, please STAY THE FUCK HOME. I’ve had too many fucking Redcaps showing up in election booths for the last ten years, thank you very much.

Europeans spent 40 years trying to ignore American politics, and look where it got them.

How can it literally be settled if people are still arguing about it?

Same way people can wave a Confederate Flag 150 years after the war is over.

Because both meanings are opposites

“really” -> “extremely” is not the opposite of “really” -> “factually”.

the literal use of literally is functionally lost

It isn’t functionally lost any more than “really” has become functionally lost. It’s contingent on context.

“It’s really hot outside” and “He’s really the murderer” have two very coherent and distinct interpretations.

In the same vein, “It’s literally as hot as the sun out here” and “This Christian extremists are taking the Bible too literally” have distinct and non-interchangeable meanings.

But the term has (ahem) LITERALLY been used as an intensifier since 1769. You’re far too late to the party on this debate. It’s LITERALLY been settled for centuries.

And yet the race is still competitive.

I mean, we’ll see what the polls say when the last vote is tallied.

But, as has been pointed out a thousand times in Texas, this isn’t a Red State or a Blue State. It’s a Non-Voting State. Texas regularly posts loosey turnout even in wave years, and that’s by design. Voting is deliberately made frustrating, confusing, dangerous, and meaningless through a variety of mechanisms ranging from felony disenfranchisement/police harassment to broken voting machines/obnoxious mail-in ballot rules to truly henous gerrymandering to outright state takeovers of municipal bodies (Greg Abbott seizing the HISD board and rushing it through privatization being a textbook example).

Idk what’s going to happen in 2026, but I guarantee we’re going to see some extreme fuckery by election day. Whether that rises to the level of Brooks Brothers Riot mostly boils down to how badly the GOP performs. But I only think this state is competitive because of generations of disenfranchisement and voter caging. Absent that, it would look at lot more like North Carolina or Maine.

America is a nation of, by, and for mass murderers.

By September 2025, Zacharia had worked as legal advisor for Fix California, a political organization; had served on the board of advisors at White Rose Resistance, an antiabortion advocacy group; and was a member of the Pepperdine University School of Law’s dean council. She had additionally served as director of development for special projects at Pepperdine University.

Pepperdine University is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ

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Zacharia became deputy assistant secretary of homeland security for public affairs in February 2026. She announced her resignation the following month. According to CNN, Zacharia, who lived in California, told an associate that commuting to the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., was not sustainable. In June, Zacharia became a communications advisor to the Trump Media and Technology Group.

Classic case of failing upwards.

/r/conservative went silent

The sub has purged itself so many times, I don’t even know who still has the rights to post there.

Nevertheless, I’m seeing new content as recent as 47 minutes ago. Plenty of posts in the last two hours. The same meager activity from a community that has kicked itself in the dick so many times that it no longer has a user base to speak of.

I mean, unironically.

This is Righteous Gemstones behavior.

Anyone else feel like Republicans dangle Paxton out there to see if they can figure out just how much disgusting behavior they can get away with?

Paxton’s part of a new wave of white nationalist Texas Republicans that have broken away from the old Bush coalition of the 90s. He represents a wedge between more traditional business-focused oil money ex-Dixiecrat conservatives and the Millennial-Era internet-poisoned fascist radicals that are taking over the party.

We’ll see how much more bullshit GOP voters will swallow for a white guy.

I mean, they’ve lost Karl fucking Rove. But it helps to remember that Rove worked for Pappa Bush, who was a liberal Republican from Connecticut before carpet bagging down to Houston in the 60s.

Modern Democrats are more than happy to let you turn a national park into an oil well, just so long as you remember to hire a few of their constituents and kick back a few bucks along the way. Modern Republicans want to deport 100 million people, because they saw someone unseasonably tan celebrating at a college football game.

But past that, voters will buy whatever bullshit being sold. It’s a two-party system, after all.

Paxton is being dangled as red meat for a new kind of GOP base. It’s not a question of what the voters will get away with. Paxton beat John Cornyn with this strategy. The base clearly prefers him. It’s more a question of how many GOP voters Texas will have left, once they’ve finished purging themselves of anyone who fails the Paper Bag Test.