Dear God, before you know it, the DNC will be some kind of meritocracy, where the most charismatic candidates with the most popular ideals win! The horror!

Filings list Wiener as a candidate in 2028, and since launching an exploratory committee in 2023, he’s repeatedly said he would never challenge the two-time former House speaker from San Francisco. However, if Pelosi decides not to seek another term next year — a real possibility for the 85-year-old — then Wiener could simply form a new committee for 2026 and transfer the campaign funds.

Well, that’s disappointing. The Democratic Party doesn’t need any more spineless cowards waiting their turn. If you don’t have the balls to tell an 85-year-old to retire, you don’t have the balls to stand up to fascism.

The best advice I ever got was to play with your cat for thirty minutes an hour or two before bedtime and then feed it immediately afterward. It feeds into their natural rhythm of hunt/eat/bath/sleep. Ever since I started doing that my cat stopped harassing me in the night.

Well, if your plan is to defend you home from a fascistic government’s intrusion, you’ll be killed in a hail of gunfire. But if your plan is to take up arms against a fascistic government, you’ll be killed by predator drones the first time you step into the open.

I know it’s not rational, but the more fascistic the government gets, the less interested in gun control I am.

Yeah, it’s important to remember that Hogg has only talked about his desire to see younger voices, which doesn’t necessarily equate to progressive, and the only issue I know he has strong beliefs on is gun control. Thar doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give the DNC hell for the rat-fucking they have time, but we should be cautious in case he endorses any young Abundance Dems.

These days he looks more like this:

Uh, you OK? That was a borderline SI statement.

Yeah, I do remember that the series ended with him being given the opportunity to become God (AKA the narrator of the show), and him turning it down, creating a universe without God, which appeared to make everything the same but without narration. I assume that was related to the cosmic energy? Fun idea, but, to bring it back to Theseus, his continued consciousness despite his physical transformation into energy implies the existence of an intangible part of his being (AKA a soul) that continues beyond his human brain. If we ever prove that transporters are teleporting our souls, I’ll happily use one. Otherwise, they are 100% suicide booths.

I don’t know, but I know destroying every cell in your body at once is called suicide.

I did, and I remember enjoying it, but that was 10 years ago and I don’t remember it that well. Did they have a teleporter?

Yeah, but you didn’t shed them all at once. If the ship of Theseus exploded, and then they built a new one, the question wouldn’t be, “Which is the true ship of Theseus?” it would be, “Hey, did you guys see Theseus’ new ship?”

I don’t really see how. Trump could be playing it up a little to distract from the Medicare cuts, but I imagine he’s genuinely pissed about the Epstien thing. That probably played really badly with his base. There’s also no way Musk is doing this as a distraction; Telsa’s stock is imploding because of this.

I think you’re giving them too much credit. I’m pretty sure this really is just a senile old man feuding with a ketamine addict.

The problem is that he’s always been a stupid, self-important blowhard that tells rambling, pointless stories, so his incoherence is less pronounced. Biden, for all his faults, was a great orator and debator, even around 2016 to 2018, so his drop-off in the last five years was a stark shift.

Kinda frustrating that Musk managed to decimate all of the government agencies that regulate his businesses through an illegal, extrajudicial agency, but because he didn’t achieve the $2 trillion in cuts he never intended to make, there are now all the articles about Musk’s, “flops,” or, “failures.” The guy got everything he wanted, and everyone else is worse off for it. Stop trying to spin this as a win.

Oh, I didn’t pick up that they were all Jeffrey Combs characters. At a distance, I thought that was Quark.

Bold choice not picking Kahn for Wrath.

Yeah, but Ezra Klein wrote a whole book about it. It would be rude not to use it for a few election cycles, even if we lose!