Politics

Political Spectrum

• Pro-Social Correlates to Intelligence
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1bzl1dc/leftwing_politics_associated_with_higher/
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289624000254

US Politics

• Literally Idiocracy: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1e6rxii/were_literally_in_idiocracy/
• Thomas Crooks Donation: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/fe91e6ba36695009/ac182c3a-full.pdf
• China Buying Trump DWAC SPAC Truth Social: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1bl0z51/trump_social_media_company_will_go_public_as_dwac/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pyipmm/the_future_belongs_to_us_nextgen_america_launches/
• Toxic Nationalism: https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16abh7z/sign_number_one_powerful_and_continuing/
• Cheney on Trump: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/16d86lm/and_i_should_know_i_was_the_previous_greatest/
  • "In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump" - Former VP Dick Cheney
• Trump Fan Recants (Danny Collins): https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/16f1oh6/danny_collins_former_trump_supporter_made_news/
• Hillary: Primary Victims of War: https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/16e3pgt/title_is_finding_victim/
  • "The experience that you have gone through is in many ways comparable to what happens with domestic violence. Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children. Women are again the victims in crime and domestic violence as well. Throughout our hemisphere we have an epidemic of violence against women, even though there is no longer any organized warfare that puts women in the direct line of combat. But domestic violence is now recognized as being the most pervasive human rights violation in the world. Here in El Salvador, according to the statistics gathered by your government, 1 in 6 women have been sexually assaulted and the number of domestic abuse complaints at just one agency topped 10,000 last year. Between 25 and 50 percent of women throughout Latin America have reportedly been victims of domestic violence." - HRC, post civil war in El Salvador, 1998
• BidenBurisma
• Dark Brandon Mug: https://shop.joebiden.com/dark-roast-mug/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1758opv/omg_a_coffee_mug/
• Dem Old Guard v. Progressives
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/187s7m1/aoc_says_her_life_completely_transformed_for_the/
• Home Depot: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/186igpg/if_trump_convicted_home_depot_billionaire_says/
• Pence's Son Stopped Him: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1868ztp/mike_pence_my_son_had_to_remind_me_not_to_let/
• Amygdala Size & Politics: https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/18oetlh/get_owned_libs_science_has_shown_were_more_likely/
  • 2011 kanai amygdala: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/
• Fixing Corruption: https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1ch4lg4/here_is_your_solution/
• Alito Can't Compromise: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dcpp77/justice_alito_caught_on_tape_discussing_how/

Jan 6 and The Declaration

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/15j9i61/john_eastman_comes_clean_hell_yes_we_were_trying/

"Our Founders lay this case out,” says Eastman. “There’s actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable. At some point, abuses become so intolerable that it becomes not only their right but their duty to alter or abolish the existing government.”

Perhaps, Mr. Eastman, but you're missing a critical piece. You have to win.

You can't just do it for a few hours then decide it's hard and go home. That is not "altering or abolishing." Doing it for one afternoon, then going home because it's hard, is "suffering abuses while they remain sufferable."

Because you're not oppressed by Biden and the majority of you know it, deep down. When they actually stopped and thought, "Would it be easier to really fight for what I believe is right, or to go home and accept this thing I'm angry about? Is this really worth it?", they chose to go home after 6 hours.

Compare that to BLM, which lasted for weeks, through much more violent suppression. That's closer to what "alter or abolish" looks like. Running along with a rioting crowd for one afternoon is not "alter or abolish".

• Romney Told McConnell on Jan 2: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/16hxutx/they_all_knew/
• National Guard was Held Back: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/national-guard-capitol-riot/

Lies

• Crime is Falling:
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/30/trump-crime-fbi-data-murder-statistics/73443631007/
• Exxon Acknowledges Global Warming 40 Years Ago
  • https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1chvln6/democrats_say_big_oil_misled_public_for_decades/
• Undocumented Immigrants Crime Less
  • https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate

AZ Politics

Kyrsten Sinema

• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pyhkap/draft_ruben_gallego_effort_launches_as/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pxt5gt/activists_who_helped_elect_kyrsten_sinema_launch/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pvhlpd/arizona_dems_promise_to_disavow_kyrsten_sinema_if/

Religious Right

School Food

How is not feeding children at public schools part of the religious party's platform? I'm guessing school lunches are one of the first things missions do when they start building up the infrastructure in a third world village. How can we not have everyone chip in to do it here?

Can you imagine Jesus on a picket line with a megaphone demanding that we stop paying for school lunches?

Talking Head: I'm here talking to folks who have turned out to oppose the city council's vote on paying for school lunches throughout the city's 9 school districts. Mr. Christ is the son of a local carpenter and taxpayer, and is concerned that his dad's money is being poorly allocated. Mr. Christ?

J. Christ: It's not that we couldn't afford this, either personally or as a society. It's that the implementation is problematic. Not all of the children need free food, and we don't want kids just eating for free because they can. We need to show these kids from the beginning that eating is a privilege for those who can afford it. If they can't afford it, we have solutions, but they have to prove they're poor and recognize that it's charity that they haven't earned.

Quotes

• "I'm not getting in the car, Tim. I trust you, Tim, but you're not driving the car. If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I'm not getting in the car." - Vice President Mike Pence, Jan 6 2021, to the Secret Service regarding a car being driven by the Secret Service
• "I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." - Ronald Reagan, regarding Iran-Contra

Israel / Gaza

• 100 - 200,000, not 2 million: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-31/ty-article/100-200-000-not-two-million-israels-finance-minister-envisions-depopulated-gaza/0000018c-bfe8-d6c4-ab8d-fffc0b910000
• Love Your Oppressor: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMajorityReport/comments/18vk2ng/love_your_oppressor/
• Watermelon Erasure: https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/18y966s/teenager_with_a_watermelon_symbol_t_shirt_is/
• Penn, MIT, Harvard
  • Got on AIPAC's wrong side, got microscoped, PhD plagiarism resulted in Harvard(?) president finally getting ousted, might be showing blowback as other PhDs getting scrutinized. Glorious shit-show.
  • Bill Ackman
    • MIT Bill Ackman's Wife Plagiarism: https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/18zkoe0/looks_like_neri_oxman_wife_of_bill_ackman/
    • https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/191727d/harvard_doxxer_bill_ackman_flip_flops_on/kgt9rpy/
    • https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/191727d/harvard_doxxer_bill_ackman_flip_flops_on/kgtuzwf/
    • Ahhh, full circle. His wife (the one who attacked Gay and was subsequently exposed for plagiarism) is Israeli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri_Oxman
    • https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/business/neri-oxman-bill-ackman-mit/index.html
    • Ackman Pushing Agents for Harvard Board: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/investor-ackman-backs-bid-by-dissidents-harvard-board-seats-2024-01-09/
• Justice Kids Throwing Stones: https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1ahtam0/to_create_a_fair_justice_system/
• WSJ Editorial, Biden Security: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ajjm0k/dearborn_ramps_up_police_patrol_after_bigoted_wsj/
• Second Israel Using Human Shields Video: https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1dthg80/leaked_footage_obtained_by_al_jazeera_shows/

Trump

• Epstein Falling Out: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/18ybh5m/donald_trump_named_in_newly_released_jeffrey/
  • 13 Year Old Rape, Possible Cause: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.646485.1.0.pdf
    • "Or... maybe they had a falling out because they couldn't decide who would be the one to "pop the cherry" of the 13-year old they were about to rape and Trump called Epstein a "Jew bastard"?"
• Trump Financial Backers: https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1by2vm2/if_you_want_to_know_who_trump_will_fight_for_just/
• Stormy Daniels Accusation: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1cmg72i/the_cruelty_is_the_point/
• 91% of Trump's Cabinet Does not Endorse Him: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1dcx4g5/we_cant_say_we_werent_warned/
• Shark Word Salad: https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/1de6f4b/the_stable_genius_at_work_in_las_vegas_rally_june/l8b698t/
• Immunity
  • "(3) Presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. On remand, the District Court must carefully analyze the indictment’s remaining allegations to determine whether they too involve conduct for which a President must be immune from prosecution. And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct. Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial. Pp. 30–32" - https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1dsue93/supreme_court_holds_63_in_trump_v_us_that_there/lb4rkjm/
  • That last sentence is interesting because of a recent question about the admissibility of notes regarding Trump's discussion with his attorney about hiding his retention of classified documents from an active investigation.
  • That means Canon can (must, in fact) make a determination whether the indictment can be supported without that information. IE: She can dismiss the indictment without ruling on the crime.
• Threatens Zuck, Zuck Folds: https://old.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1e1w55g/if_they_dont_say_anything_about_it_now_they_wont/

The Billionaires

• Buttigieg on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XuIEg_Y4fM
• 60 Bios: https://medium.com/@hrnews1/over-60-billionaires-are-backing-donald-trump-for-president-who-is-running-as-anti-establishment-319c2e4644e4
• Musk
  • Why?
    • https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1e8n7sq/literally_no_one_was_kungfu_fighting_on_the_island/
    • https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1e8knod/concerning_looking_into_it/

Immunity

• Ruling
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1dsue93/supreme_court_holds_63_in_trump_v_us_that_there/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1dsue93/supreme_court_holds_63_in_trump_v_us_that_there/lb4rkjm/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dsupsh/megathread_us_supreme_court_finds_in_trump_v/
  • Roberts' Reasoning: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1duexno/the_scotus_immunity_ruling_violates_the/lbgq5s1/
• Heritage Foundation: https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/heritage-foundation-president-celebrates-supreme-court-immunity-decision-we-are
  • "But number three, let me speak about the radical left. You and I have both been parts of faculties and faculty senates and understand that the left has taken over our institutions. The reason that they are apoplectic right now, the reason that so many anchors on MSNBC, for example, are losing their minds daily is because our side is winning. And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1du49t4/still_think_project_2025_is_conspiracy/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/Defeat_Project_2025/comments/1du4eft/we_are_in_the_process_of_a_second_american/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dudhc8/man_behind_project_2025_just_said_the_quiet_part/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ducl6s/absolutely_chilling_conservative_behind_trump/
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dudwpn/project_2025_leader_promises_second_american/
• SCOTUS Rulings
  • Anti-Corruption Repeal: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1dp2d5q/supreme_court_wipes_out_anticorruption_law_that/
    • Panama Papers: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1drk0z5/panama_acquits_all_defendants_in_panama_papers/
  • Outlawing Homelessness: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1dqkiao/supreme_court_allows_cities_to_enforce_bans_on/
    • Capitalist Housing: https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1dr9v4s/capitalist_housing_plan/
    • Housing Surplus (for the rich) / Shortage (for the poor): https://fortune.com/2024/06/26/housing-market-surplus-affordability-real-estate/
      • https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1dttsqz/believe_it_or_not_theres_a_housing_surplusbut_not/
      • https://old.reddit.com/r/REBubble/comments/1dpqotf/believe_it_or_not_theres_a_housing_surplusbut_not/
  • Federal Regulations: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1dqlbq9/the_supreme_court_weakens_federal_regulators/
  • Jan 6 Touch Papers: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-obstruction-2cdba47baa5cea8177d651de751760a6
• The Final Stretch: https://old.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1dspmle/now_ive_got_to/
• John Deere Leaving: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1dsl3zj/john_deere_announces_mass_layoffs_in_midwest_amid/
• Manhattan Sentencing Delayed: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1dtp817/there_it_is/
• Republican Glee: https://old.reddit.com/r/inthenews/comments/1dub3cb/republican_glee_over_immunity_decision_shows_they/
• Berkeley on Rule of Law: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dtu0mo/high_court_ruling_on_presidential_immunity/
  • https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/07/02/high-court-ruling-on-presidential-immunity-threatens-the-rule-of-law-scholars-warn/
• Textualism / Originalism: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-v-united-states-opinion-chief-roberts/678877/
• Ten Impeachment Republicans: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956621191/these-are-the-10-republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-trump
• Things That Won't Happen
  • AOC Impeachment: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dt3160/supreme_court_impeachment_plan_released_by/
  • Strong Biden Comic: https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1dtzq0t/presidential_immunity_oc/
  • Hail King Biden?: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/01/supreme-court-decision-trump-presidential-immunity/74268851007/
  • Expand SCOTUS?: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dtn3qa/democrats_move_to_expand_supreme_court_after/
• The Die is Cast (Alea Iacta Est); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_iacta_est
• Contemporary:
  • $40 Hold Your Child: https://old.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/1dubkjg/40_bucks_to_hold_your_child_is_crazy/
  • Belief in a Christian Nation: https://old.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/1dtb4a7/well_done_you_godless_heathens/
• Biden
  • "If you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?" Stephanopoulos asked Biden.
  • "I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about," the president responded.
  • "gave it my all" - that necessarily includes what the US government has defined as your authority.

Caricatures

• Lauren Boebert: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/190w59v/lauren_boeberts_ex_called_the_cops_after_physical/kgqzr2j/