Sal Gentile

if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test

as someone whose mother still calls him “salvatore” and who ate braciole multiple times a week as a child I feel I have the credentials to say Mamdani is right, fuck Columbus. he should be replaced with someone like Scorsese, Italo Calvino, Giada De Laurentiis or my personal preference, Mike Piazza

everyone is being unfair to mister trump. he finally found a new best friend after his previous best friend died in prison under mysterious circumstances a few years ago. he’s moving on and i for one am happy for him.

jeffries waiting until now to endorse is really the perfect microcosm of elite Dem futility: doing the right thing but too late and getting no credit for it

this is probably an unpopular take but I don’t think calling trump a “wrecking ball” or talking about the history or sanctity of the white house is gonna matter to people. it’s not that trump is “wrecking” politics (many want it wrecked). It’s “why?” And “for who?” He’s doing it for himself.

trump is literally doing what alien invaders do in movies to make clear they are evil: destroying the white house

if toronto wins the world series america becomes the 11th province

as a comedy writer something I love about these protests is how many genuinely creative and funny bits there are. the cava bags, this text chain. even a sign as simple as “honk if you’re not in the epstein files” really tickled me. very good stuff all around.

the parallels to 2003 are oddly very hopeful to me right now. there were massive outpourings of direction action on the streets, and a lawless authoritarian regime called anyone who participated in those rallies “traitors” who were against “the troops.” we all know who won in the end. #nokings

this is clearly the work of Antifa Central Command and their Elite Graphic Design Unit

this was basically the entire thrust of a piece I wrote for @newrepublic.com in july. The lesson for Democrats from Zohran’s win is actually not super complicated or even all that radical. it basically just boils down to “be normal” newrepublic.com/article/1979...

(ezra klein voice) democrats should try to win in red states by adopting a more moderate position on the question of whether democrats should or should not be arrested in military style round-ups

chuck schumer (as secret police put a black hood over his head and drag him into an unmarked van): “here’s a thought: instead of disappearing ME, maybe the president should be disappearing HIGH PRICES!” (door slams shut, van speeds away)