Yemeni activist also lambasts UN:

https://unwatch.org/yemeni-activist-asks-un-why-is-it-when-arabs-kill-millions-of-arabs-no-one-bats-an-eye/

You think?

Syrian activist yells at UN that "Israel is not the problem" to bunch of stunned diplomats as she calls out different nations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exm7JVhI1Mk

Doesn't like women bearing their breasts in public either.

The West Wing watchers do not want bipartisanship in my experience but want more of a Warren type to take on Trump. Partisan but also with the bougie educated liberal aesthetics. The people who want a leftist pro-wrestler tend not to be in the Democratic Party at all.

One of Trump's instinctive political skills is that he attracts low propensity voters. One way that Trump does this is by making politics entertaining for people who normally find it a snooze fest. The liberal-left spectrum really doesn't have any counter to this because the entire idea of both liberals and leftists reduces down to make people more political than they want to be but a lot of people really hate thinking about politics and don't want to. But parts of the left have this idea that we can bring back the union hall while liberals think we can turn everybody into an NPR/PBS food, festival, and fabrics multicultural liberal by the right education. Neither are going to happen.

I forgot the evidence:

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2417027b32fd5fefeefa2e44c3abd38b4ddc7dae46341c19e4f72b3c307fc06.png

Trump calls Justin Trudeau, the Governor of Canada:

In today's I can't see what can possi-bly go wrong, DOGE is trying to close a federal office that directly manages a nuclear waste sight.

https://www.notus.org/health-science/doge-field-office-lease-termination-nuclear-waste-site

The pain is going to come. The only question is whether it will impede or aid Trump's authoritarian project.

I didn't say all of them were but I think the evidence definitely shows that most non-voters lean way too the right rather than the left politically but either find politics distasteful or did not have a Republican willing to be as obviously far to the right as Trump. The evidence that a further left ticket could win in the United States is basically non-existent.

We started being in uncharted territory even before he was sworn in again. I know that every fiber in your body but everything that is happening in the world shows that we are in for some real big serious trouble that will cause billions of people immense suffering world wide.

Trump's Federal DOJ is looking into a state court conviction despite federalism and all that:

https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3ljjhqtrw5s24

I have a much more pessimistic take on this than you do. Trump said there would be a pause to March. It's March and now the tariffs begin. He also announced an external tariff on farmers. He is intent on dictatorship.

Ever the optimist I see. This isn't Trump's first term. He is determined to be a dictator and serious about everything he says. Not taking him literally will be stupid.

I will believe it when I see it.

Blue City governance isn't exactly a disaster that Republicans paint it to be but it leaves a lot to be desired. Keep in mind that most of the booming cities in Republican states are Democratically run.

This is from late February 2025 but the favorability of the Democratic Party is low among the general electorate. The problem is the polling doesn't tell us why and several things could be true and not provide a clear way out.

1. Republicans hate the Democratic Party because they are Republican.
2. Normie non-Republicans, some Democratic and some not, hate the Democratic Party because they see it as too beholden to progressive activists and taking on unpopular policies because of that.
3. Progressive activists, some Democratic and some not, see the Democratic Party as not left enough and appeasing the normies way too much.

https://gazette.com/news/wex/democratic-party-favorability-hits-record-low-while-trump-soars-through-first-month/article_faabfc88-24ee-51a0-8691-5127a9920dbd.html

Center left and center right parties are collapsing globally and while there are country specific causes, I think there are three universal elements that ultimately come from the Internet and social media.

1. Center left and center right politicians perceive themselves as serious and electoral campaigning in the age of memes and social media is fundamentally unserious and involves a lot of mocking and trolling. Politicians who see themselves as serious do not know how to campaign under these circumstances.

2. Politics always involved politicians saying one thing to one audience and another thing to another audience. This is a lot harder to do in the age of social media and the Internet. Besides the fact that it is easier to track down the different message, it is also easier to call out politicians for inconsistent messaging.

3. Big tent parties have always been easier to fracture than small tent parties but they are especially easy to fracture now because each faction in the big tent party is more aware of what is being said behind their backs by their alleged allies in the big tent. There is no more plausible deniability.

The Far Right is surging globally because there basically political style has always been based on outrageous ridiculousness, they have no issues being dishonest, and they don't have to worry about fragmenting the big tent. They don't have to massage and message different audiences who want to hear different things like center left and center right politicians. The Further Left can theoretically do well under Internet electoral campaign conditions but are hobbled by the fact that they are much less organized than the further right and also that their message isn't popular with enough people or that many of them are content of being the tribunes of oppressed minorities against hoards of normies rather than leaders of a majority.

Considering that the further left candidates keep losing primaries, I don't see why the further left believes it is a way forward. Americans have voted to go further right. Trump has gotten millions of people who hate politics but have very right leaning sympathies out voting. The further left has maintained that there are tens of millions of dark socialists out there and basically 2024 disproved that thesis by a long shot. The further left is confusing internet popularity and district popularity with universal popularity despite all evidence to the contrary.

Jewish law makers in California, basically Democrats to a person, are advancing legislation to combat the Pro-Palestinian teach-ins in California schools:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/02/california-lawmakers-seek-to-rein-in-ethnic-studies/?utm_email=E44C64529562B4517574F44E7F&lctg=E44C64529562B4517574F44E7F&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f2025%2f03%2f02%2fcalifornia-lawmakers-seek-to-rein-in-ethnic-studies%2f&utm_campaign=bang-multi_pubs-pm_report-nl&utm_content=curated

DHS seeks information from the IRS on the addresses of undocumented tax payers despite this being specifically against the USC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/irs-immigrants-addresses.html

In today's stupid battle of the Culture War, the Lt. Governor of Texas rallies against the NY Strip Steak because it is wrong to name a cut of beef after liberal New York.

https://www.chron.com/food/article/dan-patrick-new-york-texas-20196231.php

We can make educated guesses at what is going to happen based on the ideology of the Trusk people and their current actions. You might call it a rumor, I call it an educated guess.

I'm still wondering what the breaking point is that will cause the bigger and wealthier blue states to start taking on responsibilities previously done by the federal government.