Overheard

Idolizing a politician is like

convincing yourself

the stripper is really into you.

Wanna Talk About it?

Trump and MAGA are always going on about "left wing violence" - the reason they're always talking about it is how we know the opposite is true.

...beacause

Every accusation is a confession.

The man arrested after allegedly pushing through a crowd toward Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at the Canfield Fair has been identified as 38-year-old Patrick Havas. Authorities say he knocked two people to the ground and was carrying two handguns and brass knuckles, though investigators say the weapons were never drawn.

Havas is the brother of Andrew Havas, a Republican operative who resigned from Sen. Jon Husted’s campaign after scrutiny of a past criminal case involving a 15-year-old, according to local reporting.

Patrick Havas was taken into custody and faces two assault charges and a disorderly conduct charge. Acton was not injured.

A Christian Nation

... would never have done some of the things we've done.

THIS 👇🏽👇🏽 TRUTH 🔥🔥

I’ll join HIS CHURCH ASAP!! pic.twitter.com/98nP8RC7Pp

— Sheree’ Woke AF (@ShereeWokeAF) September 7, 2026

Surprise

It's very expensive to be poor in USAmerica, Inc.

Overheard

It took decades for Germany to regain its international standing after World War II.

It will take decades to rehabilitate the United States.

The world is boycotting US goods, and many countries will never buy anything from the US again.

And it's not just Trump. It's every Republican who failed to call him out.

It's the ICE agents who killed immigrants they labeled "illegal", and innocent American citizens who did nothing but stand up to protest authoritarian rule.

It's the contractors who built and operated concentration camps.

It's a nation that stayed quiet as Trump sided with the despots of Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and Japan.

It's watching service members come home in flag-draped coffins from an illegal war as their commander-in-chief called the whole thing "small potatoes".

It's not just Trump.

We have a lot to atone for, which is going to take a lot of work, and a lot of time.

When He's Gone

Erika Jordan

On the long history of how the rich and powerful are always fucking over the people who do the work.

On The Wrong Side

It's very interesting that groups of people are moving to disrupt the MAGA "juggernaut" - like the Tea Party dorks did in 2010.

But this may actually be grass roots and not astroturf.

We'll see.

Yippee Ki Yay

Oh, JD

So what we have to do here is figure out whether he's become just another delusional evangelical, or if he's pandering - trying desperately to get with the "Christian" right.

I mean the guy's got all the charisma of a damp dish rag, but if he's willing to actually - even cheerfully - court the end of the world, there's no fuckin' chance he's looking to do anything that might make your life better in any meaningful way.

JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’

Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’

The US vice-president made the comments during a Monday podcast interview with Bryce Crawford, a 22-year-old evangelical host with over a million YouTube followers and videos featuring sensationalist headlines including “Preaching the gospel in Chicago’s deadliest neighborhood” and “Debating a ‘gay’ pastor”.

Speaking about the Christian prophetic notion that the world as humanity knows it will end one day, Vance said: “Do I think we are in the end times? I don’t know.

“While I’m fascinated by it, I think that focusing on it too much can be very bad,” he said, adding that if his work “leads to the end times, OK, and if that leads to … us building a better world that thrives and survives for a very long time after I’m gone, that’s great, too”.

Vance, who published a spiritual memoir earlier this summer about his conversion to Catholicism, said: “I think you got to just kinda try and have an attitude of: the end times may be coming, in fact they are coming, it’s just a question of whether they’re coming thousands of years down the road, or a few months down the road.”

He said: “I think there are things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us.”

Vance pointed to artificial intelligence, using the example of an acquaintance who uses AI as a marriage counselor, which he described as “kind of satanic”. He said: “When you completely divorce the human from the social element that God made us for … that’s very bad.”

In response to a question about whether he had ever been in a room that was “spiritually dark”, Vance said he had “been in meetings with world leaders where various issues are being discussed, and somebody will say something or somebody will make an observation, and I’ll feel some darkness about it”.

“It sets off every spiritual alarm bell in my body,” he added.

Vance also defended Donald Trump’s controversial depiction of himself as Jesus in an AI-generated photo, subsequently deleted, that the president posted earlier this year, which Crawford said “made me upset”.

“The president didn’t mean any offense. Obviously, he loves Christians … Did Donald Trump mean to post a meme of himself as God? No. The president has a good sense of humor. He did not mean to mock or mimic God. That’s just not who he is,” Vance said, adding that Trump is “a backslapper” and “a bit of a ball buster”.

Following outrage from Christian supporters, Trump deleted the photo and insisted that the photo was “supposed to be me as a doctor making people feel better”.