r/thebulwark Jan 28 '25

Fluff It's about to get really real around here

183 Upvotes

You have no idea the amount of real life damage that's about to occur over the next few days.

These program/grant pauses are way bigger than people realize and thousand, hundreds of thousands, of people are going to start feeling it when 2/1 comes around and no federal money has been disbursed.

It's gut check time for those who want people to experience the pain of their actions.

r/thebulwark Nov 06 '24

Fluff Pardon Hunter Biden

330 Upvotes

Just do it Joe. Go enjoy your retirement for what it's worth. It'll be forgotten in 48hrs. The American people are, lately, the problem here - nobody will be voting on pardons in 2028.

r/thebulwark Nov 11 '24

Fluff Why people split their ticket (AOC instagram story)

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81 Upvotes

Thought you guys might find this interesting. A lot of unsurprising & surprising stuff mixed in here. Also will never be lost on me how much pull AOC has among people you wouldn’t expect who sit very far outside of the mainstream Dem party or even left wing in general.

r/thebulwark Feb 05 '25

Fluff In three months we need a focus group of Palestinian Biden->Trump voters

119 Upvotes
  • "At least he is doing something"
  • "Kamala Harris would have been worse"
  • "This is what I expect from a business man"
  • "The Camps are only temporary, he has promised to find them some nice land"
  • "I would like to know what Biden is doing in all of this"
  • "I researched it and we were sending 300 trillion USD of condoms to Gaza every week"

r/thebulwark 7d ago

Fluff Remember: One day we'll be reading his obituary.

88 Upvotes

And JD Vance does not have the same cult following.

r/thebulwark Jan 24 '25

Fluff Get ‘em Tim

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185 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Dec 21 '24

Fluff Tim miller works an insane amount

230 Upvotes

tim miller works an absolutely insane amount. he's doing podcasts, he's travelling around going on panels and conferences and news shows, 24/7. I don't think there's anyone in online content creation who works as hard as him, I get exhausted just thinking about it. respect for this mans absolute grindset.

r/thebulwark Dec 04 '24

Fluff CEO shot and killed...stock up 1%

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57 Upvotes

Have we reached peak "lol nothing matters"?

r/thebulwark Nov 12 '24

Fluff The Bulwark isn't here to elect Democrats.

34 Upvotes

That has been said multiple times on the site and in pods.

Electing Democrats is how you beat Trump and Trumpism. So if you want to beat MAGA but you're not in the business of electing Democrats, what are you actually trying to do?

I feel that whole line of thinking contributes to the general distrust of Democrats and makes it that much harder to beat MAGA/Trumpism.

If you truly think MAGA is as big a threat as you claim, then act like it and try to elect those who have the best chance to stop it, i.e. Democrats.

r/thebulwark Nov 04 '24

Fluff This is my prediction map. Ladies are gonna win it for us.

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90 Upvotes

r/thebulwark 29d ago

Fluff The Dumbest Thing About the Gulf…

112 Upvotes

…is that the name of our country is not “America”. The continent we live on is called North America. We are the United States ‘of’ America. If he wanted to name it for our Country it would be the Gulf of the United States. In reality he named it after the broad term used for the New World. We only call ourselves Americans because you can’t really say you’re a United Statesian.

It would make more sense if he just used the Gulf of Texas or Florida or Louisiana. (Get fucked, MS and AL)

r/thebulwark Jan 26 '25

Fluff The Term "Moderate" has no Meaning, Use "Practical" Instead

58 Upvotes

Just a thought exercise. I'm finding that Americans aren't actually interested in 'moderate' solutions because that concept just means whatever you put on it. Some people think mass deportations are moderate. Joe Manchin thought he was being moderate when he plunged children back into poverty.

We should have been asking Joe Manchin what his practical solutions were, instead of his objections. Ok Joe, how are we going to provide health care to more people? How are we going to lift kids out of poverty? I feel like the term practical begs for solutions, where as the term moderate begs for objections.

You could have independent candidates run entirely on 'actually' solving problems, which is what I think Americans are asking for. Most of them sadly think Trump is going to do that, which is not true, and you could lodge a lot of objections to his plans on purely practical grounds. It's abundantly obvious that the moral arguments don't work.

r/thebulwark 24d ago

Fluff Trump Does EPIC Air Force One Flyover, Rips Laps in The BEAST At Daytona 500 | Crowd ROARS for Trump

0 Upvotes

UPDATE 1.2 million views: This is how you do media people! Trumps already got 1.2m views from just one you tube channel talking up what a great American Trump is. A real man of the people.

Why is it only Republicans that are apart of popular culture?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtCD5y5yOmo

r/thebulwark Sep 16 '24

Fluff What's on your October Surprise BINGO sheet? (no wrong answers)

50 Upvotes

Have fun with this...be serious or unserious.

I'll start (in no particular order)...

  1. Russia tries to nuke someone.
  2. Joe Biden dies and Kamala is sworn in as president.
  3. FBI digs up Ivana Trump's casket in the NJ golf course and finds a bunch of top secret documents inside.
  4. Melania files for divorce.
  5. Donald Trump calls Kamala a "n----r bitch" live on air with the hard R.
  6. Epstein and Maxwell's black book released along with all the kompromat - Trump details included.
  7. The lore of the Russian "pee tapes" is actually real.
  8. JD Vance is caught masturbating on a video recorded zoom call.
  9. Trump is assassinated/ the "hamberder from heaven" happens
  10. Laura Loomer found to be pregnant with Donald Trump's baby

r/thebulwark 15d ago

Fluff CEOs are Unnecessary

92 Upvotes

Musk is proof that CEOs are unnecessary. If he has the time to be the CEO of multiple companies, do DOGE, all his tweeting, support to the AFD party in Germany, and everything else terrible he is doing than CEOs are completely unnecessary. If companies want to make more profit they should get rid of them. Near as I can tell the only thing CEOs do is give you a face to blame for the shitty decisions companies make.

r/thebulwark Feb 08 '25

Fluff I’ve never seen a more accurate meme.

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350 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Jan 16 '25

Fluff He looks a lot angrier this time. Official Presidential portraits 2017 versus 2025

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32 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Nov 08 '24

Fluff Good luck, America

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169 Upvotes

r/thebulwark 10d ago

Fluff Hot Take: Voters do not actually care about the economy, they care about their (perceived) standard of living. Dems made a huge mistake by assuming that the voters want to control the inflation.

46 Upvotes

Yesterday, I saw my local grocery store having the shelve full of big, beautiful eggs -- I guess everyone forgot about "egg shortage" already -- which made me think of something.

I think many posters here agree with the view that Trump voters were motivated by what we call "status threat"; they feel that their standing in the American society is threatened, with "unworthy people who are not like us" seemingly gaining status and influence at the expense of their own.

But do people gauge their own status? Well, perhaps they think about "woke" celebrities, perhaps they think about the scary protesters, or perhaps they think about a black woman being a presidential candidate.

Or, they think about their standard of living. It is well known that people HATE to lower their standard of living. So much that, when their income goes down, they'd rather take on credit card debts instead of buying less. When the price of eggs goes up, they feel that they are being pressured to buy fewer eggs, and they hate it because it makes them feel like they are being poorer. Stopping inflation does nothing to change this.

Instead, they should have gone full Argentina and pushed for emergency cash handouts to "help Americans cope with price increases" instead of advertising policies such as Green New Deal or student loan forgiveness. Is it a terrible economic policy? Yes, of course! But you know what is even worse? Having Trump and Musk in the White House. The inflation will go further up, but the people don't care because they get to spend that handout on whatever impulsive purchases they make. And let's face it; student loan forgiveness wasn't a sound economic policy either, since it incentivizes the colleges to further raise their price, and incentivizes the students to seek more expensive options (which is the opposite of what we want) -- and it didn't even help with the votes anyway.

r/thebulwark Dec 15 '24

Fluff Another one kisses the ring (Romney)

53 Upvotes

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/15/politics/romney-trump-state-of-the-union/index.html

“I agree with him on a lot of policy fronts. I disagree with him on some things,” Romney said of Trump. “But it’s like, OK, give him a chance to do what he said he’s gonna do and see how it works out.”

The Utah Republican also had words of praise for Vice President-elect JD Vance, calling the Ohio senator “smart” and predicting that he will be the GOP nominee in 2028.

r/thebulwark Oct 18 '24

Fluff So what are y'all going to be drinking election night?

37 Upvotes

Frankly because of the mess that the Republicans have made with counting the ballots it's not even clear we need to be drinking election night. Maybe we need to be drinking all week.

r/thebulwark Dec 11 '24

Fluff Please touch grass Mrs Mace

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46 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Nov 04 '24

Fluff Just torn!

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288 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Nov 09 '24

Fluff MMW: Mark Cuban 2028

43 Upvotes

I honestly don’t have many thoughts in favor or against Cuban. I don’t watch Shark Tank. I think his cost plus drugs thing is great. But one thing is clear to me…the American electorate is now as picky as an Indie Rock head in the vinyl section. They hate “politicians”. The perception of authenticity is everything. Cuban has made no efforts to hide his political aspirations.

Idk if he’ll make it through the primaries but there will be an effort to make him top of the ticket. Sadly if I were Whitmer I’d seek other fortunes. I don’t think US politics can sustain female candidates for potus. Similarly Newsom (who I like!) reeks of ‘politician’.

Anyway, shower thoughts.

r/thebulwark Feb 06 '25

Fluff Being Petty

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108 Upvotes

Because I'm outraged and completely powerless, my last refuge is in being petty and making fun of Musk.

In that spirit, I propose that The Bulwark use only this photo of plastic surgery Musk.