broken sequitur

Corporations don’t care about anyone’s politics. They just want your money and brand loyalty.

@mtaibbi Carter was naïve and got played by Sadat. Leave it to Walz to think Carter provides an example of good foreign policy.

I thought this was a joke when I heard about it lol

@prestonstew_ That’s a great idea. Piss off everyone, international edition.

Iranian media is floating the suggestion of closing the Strait of Hormuz while the Houthis shut off the Bab al-Mandab Strait in response to the Israeli strike.

@evanwch @bungarsargon It’s Trickle-Up Economics. Importing workers depresses wages & pushes the working class out of the middle class. The credentialed benefit, lowering their cost of living. College grads bought into college=>good job. Now they’re enforcing it as barrier of entry to the middle class.

“What about the humanity of the American working class?!” 🔥 @bungarsargon is on FIRE tonight on CNN

@bungarsargon @TheFP Trickle-Up Economics: Import an underclass to depress wages for jobs that don’t require a college degree. This stimulates the economy by making it cheaper for the laptop class to hire people to remodel a house, mow their lawn, or get their nails done.

This is how the Democrats lost the working class: They put foreigners above the rule of law the American workers. They think the labor force in Home Depot parking lots must be preserved at all costs! Yet democracy relies on the difference between citizen & noncitizen. Me @TheFP:

@Resist_CBDC @ConceptualJames That’s not how you use a sword.

*because* he turned London into a sh!thole

@FarazPervaiz3 @jihadwatchRS Where in the world did someone from a country with no Jews learn to hate Jews so much?

🚨BREAKING: Pakistani national Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, extradited from Canada, is now in FBI custody for plotting a mass shooting at a Brooklyn Jewish center—on the anniversary of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre—inspired by ISIS. Antisemitism is cancer.

@ABC7 Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

There are more US troops in LA than in Iraq, Syria abc7.la/4jNIYRr

@KatieDaviscourt Too much technology. If the bean bags don’t work at a distance, switch to billy clubs.

Breaking: DHS police just fired endless rounds of crowd control munitions at Antifa rioters in Seattle. Several arrests have been made after Antifa launched an attack on the federal building.

@theserfstv So does that make Barack Obama, the Deporter in Chief, the professor of fascism?

So this is 100% an authoritarian power grab at this point - like fascism 101

@JustineBateman His sound guy moved to Atlanta.

Maybe it’s time for Newsom to make the CA film tax credits easier to get, so that good production stays in the state.

@MrReaganUSA Women have a strange fscination with The Handmaid’s Tale.

A girl I know in LA (Not MAGA) just wrote me: "If I had to choose between 1984 (leftist) and The Handmaid's Tale (Trump), even though I'm a woman, I would still pick The Handmaid's Tale, because that can be overthrown, but 1984 is the end of humanity."

@valentinavee That’s the trick, good everything. It doesn’t take much to ruin a movie.

This movie is among my favorites of the last decade and proves you can do a lot with a small cast in 1 location when you have a good script, good direction, good cinematography, and good acting.

@BridgetPhetasy Hey! You were stupid first.😡

What stupid fucking times we live in.

@anjewla90 Without white people as a common enemy, all these identity groups will wage war on each other. We live in the age of grievance & resentment.

This is the realest Chicago conversation I've ever heard. Team Raymond Lopez.

@christoaivalis Wow, so many borders. How many La Raza Mexican revolutionaries claiming California was stolen from them are descended from any of those NA tribes? Answer: 0 Damn, socialists always lie.

California before immigrants

@simonateba Deploying the President’s Nat Guard to the Capitol requires a request from the Sargents at Arms (effectively the majority leaders) & approval by the Prez. Trump couldn’t send them in on his own as a preventative measure. The President can use State Nat Guards, as in LA in ‘92.

Let me get this right. Trump wanted to send the National Guard to California, the governor refused but Trump sent them anyway. Trump offered to send the National Guard to protect the US Capitol including his VP, Pelosi refused, and Trump did nothing. Make it make sense!

@CoryBooker Trickle-up Economics: She’s talking about benefits of importing an underclass to depress wages so the laptop-class’s lifestyle is cheaper. Why would you post this??? This is how we hide inflation by decoupling working class wages from a money supply inflated by deficit spending.

Immigrants are essential to the backbone of our economy. Mass deportations and cruel policies against hardworking families don’t make us safer or stronger—they weaken us.

@NotRadix Some people post to alt channels 1st to see if videos get flagged by automated censors.

YouTube has literally just decided to destroy itself as a platform. Rumble has a lot of work to do on their user interface, they should stop throwing money at influencers and start investing in improving it. youtu.be/JOaeeLa41fQ?si…

@PawlowskiMario Ideologues think in stereotypes & cage their minds in a flowchart of other people’s opinions. They confuse this heuristic worldview w/ intelligence when it’s really just a lattice of prejudices that reduce cognitive load. I wonder if such people ever see another as an individual.

I live in a small MAGA town. I know MAGA people. I drink with them. I talk to them. I study them. They’re not the loud Twitter yappers, at least most of them. They’re quieter. Slower. But the delusion runs deep, just bottled up in passive smiles and soft voices. A few weeks ago, one of them tried to convert me at a bar. He knew I wasn’t into the Trump cult, but he started soft. Calm voice. Friendly tone. “Mario, you’re white. You can drink a lot, you eat meat, “he was just surprised that I was eating rare burger” and drinking vodka chasing it with Guinness. He also said, “You’re one of us. You should feel proud.” That’s their seduction tactic. Not facts. Not logic. Just subtle tribal grooming. “You’re white. You drink. You belong.” It was almost sweet, in a sad, culty way. Like a Jehovah’s Witness trying to sell you eternal life with a shaky brochure and cheap suit. But let’s talk about the whole ecosystem. The truth. MAGA men? Most are not warriors. They’re out-of-shape, insecure, jealous small-town boys who peaked in high school, still clinging to stories from when they “almost went pro” or “should’ve been in the military.” They’re proud of being able to drink a case of light beer, drive a truck, and scream about freedom while their knees buckle from sugar and rage. They’re easy to manipulate because they don’t ask questions. They don’t read. They react. They memorize memes like scripture and repeat them like gospel. They think being loud equals being right. They think the world is laughing with them. It’s not. The world’s laughing at them, when it’s not just ignoring them entirely. MAGA women? They’re caught in a brutal paradox, constantly screaming about how proud and strong they are, while reshaping every inch of their body to meet a fake beauty standard pushed by the very system they claim to hate. Plastic lips. Inflated cheeks. Eyelashes thick as windshield wipers. Trying to look rich while shopping clearance at Walmart. They scream about “natural family values” while injecting Botox and collapsing into MLM scams that promise empowerment through overpriced lipstick. They mock liberals for being “gender confused” while wearing more synthetic parts than a Barbie made in a Russian factory. Here’s the thing: MAGA America isn’t just backward. It’s boring. MAGA folks are simply subsimple. There’s nothing imaginative about it. No new culture. No innovation. No ideas. They don’t invent, they imitate. They don’t challenge, they chant. It’s the same five phrases over and over. The same flag. The same truck. The same outfit. Patriot cosplay. And that’s why the world doesn’t just hate MAGA. It forgets it. Because once the shouting stops, there’s nothing under the hood. Just cheap beer breath, fake smiles, and a belief that whiteness and loudness are still enough to matter. You want the brutal truth? Even without Trump, even without the cult, most of them would still be irrelevant. Not because they’re evil. But because they chose comfort over growth. Tribalism over truth. Imitation over imagination. They don’t want to understand the world. They want the world to stay small enough to understand them. And that’s the saddest, most humiliating part.